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Educators' theme to be compassion Notre Dame de Namur Sister Marie Augusta Neal, a sociology professor at Emmanuel College, Boston, will give the keynote address, "Catechesis: Forming Communities of Compassion" at the sixth annual diocesan Religious Education Day Sept. 29 at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth.

Sister Neal has taught sociology at nine colleges and universities in addition to Emmanuel College, where she has been sociology department chairperson from 1963 to 1973, in 1980, and from 1988 to the present. Since 1955, she has published nearly 80 articles and books on subjects including women religious, the role of women in the church, social justice, Christian living and social change.

Religious Education Day will begin with registration and coffee at 8 a.m. A liturgy will be celebrated by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin at 9 a.m. Sister Neal will speak at 10 a.m.

Three hour-long sessions will follow, beginning at II a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Each will offer a variety of workshops. Lunch and an opportunity to view exhibits are scheduled from noon to 1:30 p.m.

Advance registration may be made at the Catholic Education Office, 423 Highland Ave., Fall River 02720, 678-2828. Those wishing to make lunch reservations must register by Sept. 25; others may register Sept. 29.

A listing of workshop presenters and topics follows.

Workshop I Rev. Fred Babiczuk, Espirito Sant.o parish, Fall River: "Confirmation From Past to Present"; Janet Barbelle, Birthright regional consultant: "Birthright: Reaching

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Out In Love"; Carol F. Bedard, hospital administration: "Death and Dying," emphasizing euthanasia, feeding and hydration, coping with grief and loss; Rev. Marcel H. Bouchard, Sacred Heart, North Attleboro: "Compassion: God's Graciousness in the Old Testament; Michaela Burke, Sadlier representative: "Practical and Creative Methods of Teaching for New Catechists."

Sister Mary Golden, diocesan youth ministry associate director: "Confirmation Retreats"; Rev. John A. Gomes, Our Lady of Angels, Fall River: "Cooperation between Pastor and Religious Education Coordinator"; Rev. Msgr.

Thomas J. Harrington, St. Joseph's, Taunton; Religious Education From the Pastor's Perspective"; Joan Cuttle, elementary music specialist, Dartmouth: "Let the Children Sing," on use of music in religious education and liturgy; Rev. Gerard A. Hebert, diocesan marriage tribunal: "Annulments: What Can I Tell Parents About the Process?"

Kathleen Killion, Bishop Feehan High School religion teacher:, "Spirituality for the Frenzied," on nurturing spirituality in a hurryup society; Denise Laverdiere, RN, New Bedford Communicable Diseases Coordinator: "Catholicism - What is the Message to God's Children about AIDS?"; Sister Jeannette Serra, Edmundite Apostolate Center, Mystic, Conn.: "The Call to Compassion" in church ministry; Rev. Joseph Viveiros, Barbara Domingue and Debra Polselli, diocesan Apostolate for Persons With Disabilities: "Meeting the Unique Needs of Children With Special Needs," offering Turn to Page 10

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AT AN OPEN-AIR Mass in Tanzania, Pope John Paul II gave first communion to some 50 African children. (eNS/ UPI-Reuters photo)

Pope has upbeat view of Africa KIGALI, RWlj.nda (CNS) Midway through his latest trip to Africa, Pope John Paul II made a simple observation. He said that "economic indicators alone cannot translate the virtues of a peo- ' pIe or the sum of its creations."

There are human riches, he said, that "cannot be' converted iJ)to money."

Those words, spoken to a handful of diplomats in Burundi, help explain why the pope's view of Africa is so much more hopeful than the rest of the world's.

At a'time when Africa's obituary is being written in the West -as a "lost continent" of permanent poverty, failed investments and political malaise - the pope considers Africa to be in many other ways a success story.

And in areas where Africans are really hurting, such as health care and education, the pope declared that the church intends to keep up its contributions. Its interest, he seemed to be saying, goes far beyond the financial "bottom line."

The pope's September 1-10 trip took him to three of Africa's worst-off nations: Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda, where average per capita income is under $300 a year and where dismal living conditions are apparent even from a papal motorcade.

The'pope did not skirt the issue of poverty, but he turned a new . light on it.

In a sermon in central Tanzania, for example, he told the people: "When the world sees your spirit of prayer and adoration of God, your solidarity with others, especially the poorest and neediest, your courage in times of suffering and difficulties, your self-control in the face of violence and injury,

and your temperance in all things, then the world will ask: Why are they so? Who inspires Tanzania's Christians to such great love?"

The pope also came to affirm what he called "a special hour of grace for the church on this continent."

He said that after "the long planting of missionary labor, we are witnessing the beginnings of a harvest rich in promise." Africa's church, he said, has the "freshness, confidence and enthusiasm of youth."

The pope's ordination of 103 priests in the three East African

Mother Teresa stays at helm VATICAN CITY (CNS) Mother Teresa of Calcutta, 80,' who earlier this year resigned because of age and poor health, has been reelected superior ofthe Missionaries of Charity and her election has been approved by the Vatican.

Reelection of the Nobel Peace Prize winner took place Sept. 8 in Calcutta, India, at a general chapter meeting of the religious order.

Vatican Radio quoted Mother Teresa as accepting her reelection as the will of God and pledging to carry out her responsibilities to the best of her ability.

Last December, doctors in India implanted a pacemaker in Mother Teresa, who had been suffering from heart problems.

Her community has- more than 400 centers in 92 countries, including Cuba and the Soviet Union. It works with the terminally ill, abandoned children, the homeless, lepers and AIDS 'patients.

countries underscored that point.

So did his praise of burgeoning religious orders who run many of the schools and health clinics in the region.

One reason for the pope's great interest in the African church is that it has grown up largely under his pontificate. In numbers, it has increased by more than two-thirds.

Its pastoral force has swelled. In the pope's view, the African church is on the threshold of maturity, and that is one reason he has called an African synod for the mid-1990s.

The African church is a building church, and the pope blessed no fewer than 10 cornerstones for new churches, social centers and seminaries along his itinerary. Next to many altars were piles of additional stones for future projects, which also received a papal benediction.

The pope spent a good part of his time greeting the sick, the aged and the handicapped. For those who figure Africa's ledger in investment terms, these people are merely part of the debit column.

The pope's confidence that it is otherwise was clear when he told 26 sick people, "Your sufferings. will bear rich spiritual fruit for the good of the church and of the entire world."

He visited two AIDS wards in Burundi and left $10,000 toward their care. It was a symbolic gesture that said: These people represent more than a drain on health care resources.

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Prayer, fasting set for Oct. 7-13 BALTIMORE (CNS) - An interfaith national week of prayer and fasting to end abortion and "to bring the United States to spiritual conversion" has been set for Oct. 7-13 by the Movement of Marian Lay Organizations.

John Downs of Baltimore, movement chairman said that a "Week of Atonement" would begin Oct. 7, opening with a rally on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. He said however, that local participation was being emphasized.

"YoU cannot cha'nge the abortion laws until people change," Downs said in a statement. "You're not going to end legalized abortion until there's been a change of minds and hearts which only the grace of God can bring about."

The organizers asked that families turn off their television sets for a week and pray together.

He said the .week of prayer was supported by Mother Teresa of Calcutta and by New York Cardi'nal John J. O'Connor.

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CHRISTINE WILSON holds her controversial T-shirt as she stands in front of U.S. West headquarters in Omaha. (eNS photo)

Pro-life button, T-shirt lead to job loss JEFFREY E. SULLIVAN FUNERAL HOME

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Rose Aliff Myrtle Bell Roland Bock Pauline Botelho Eleanor Brown Romeo Cipolini, Sr. John S. Couto, Sr. Richard H. Cunha Wilson W. Curtis Robert W. Fields John Gil Fonseca Claire Forczyk Mary V. Galvin Blanche Hammond Norman F. Herreshoff Dr. Wilson Hughes Richard King Laurent Lussier Arthur Mattos Dina Nasser Andrew & Valeria O'Grodnik Josephine Parise Bertha Rapoza Conrad Robitille Horace Romagnolo Joseph C. Saulino.

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OMAHA(CNS) - An employee of U.S. West in Omaha who was ordered off her joofor wearing a pro-life button and T-shirt to work has filed a lawsuit claiming the communications company violated her rights of religious freedom and free speech.

Christine Wilson, 39, a design .information specialist who would have marked 20 years with the company Oct. 9, and her lawyers filed a $1 million lawsuit in federal court in Omaha.

The Catholic mother offive told The Catholic Voice, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Omaha, that' for two months prior to being dismissed Aug. 23 she had worn a button showing an unborn baby at approximately 18 weeks development with the words: "Stop Abortion" and "They're Forgetting Someone.': ' She said she wore a, T-shirt showing an unborn child and the words "Operation Rescue" and "Fearing God More Than Man," to work only twice, including the day she was ordered to leave.

AI Bergman, a V.S. West spokesman, told The Catholic Voice that Mrs. Wilson's wearing of the T-shirt and button did not necessarily constitute a violation of the company's policy on attire for work.

"The overriding issue is when it begins disrupting the workplace," he said.

The status of Mrs. Wilson's job

was unclear. She said she felt the order to leave work was a suspension, but said she has received a hand-delivered letter signed by a V.s. West manager stating her "unexcused absence constitutes job abandonment."

The letter said Mrs. Wilson could return to work "wearing appropriate attire" or consider her time away as part of personal and vacation time she had accumulated.

She said she wi.!1 not return to work unless she is allowed to wear the button. Her lawsuit seeks a preliminary injunction to allow her to wear the button to work.

Mrs. Wilson's husband, Roger,

said he believed U.S. West would "back down" when officials witnessed the depth of his wife's commitment.

That commitment includes a vow Mrs. Wilson said she made to the Blessed Mother to wear the button. Fasting, daily prayer and daily Mass are also part of it, said Mrs. Wilson.

She added that if she received money from the lawsuit she would donate 10 percent to the pro-life movement.

If she loses the lawsuit and her job, Mrs. Wilson said, "it's God's will."

Lilly Endowment a leader in U.8. Catholic research INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) Some of the most significant research in U.S. Catholicism over the past decade has been sponsored by a non-Catholic philanthropic trust, the tilly Endowment.

The massive Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life was funded

by Lilly.

In the 1980s Lilly sponsored major research projects on the Catholic priesthood, lay ministries, seminaries, vocations, youth attitudes and the changing ministries and growing financial needs of V.S. nuns. (~ In 1989 Lilly granted over $2

CCA appointments made Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has announced the following appointments: Reverend John J. Steakem, pastor of St. Mary's parish in Norton, as Attleboro Area Director of the Catholic Charities Appeal.

Reverend William L. Boffa, parochial vicar of St. Joseph parish in Taunton, as assistant to the director of the Taunton area of the Catholic Charities Appeal.

Reverend Maurice O. Gauvin, parochial vicar of Immaculate Conception parish in New Bedford, as assistant to the director of the New Bedford area of the Catholic Charities Appeal.

million to Catholic programs, representing 14 percent of its grants to all religions and 2.8 percent of its grants for all purposes, which totaled well over $76 million fqr the year.

Three grants worth $614,531 went to the V.S. Catholic Conference in Washington.

Those were $166,646 to finish research on trends in the U.S. priesthood, $228,662 for research on non-ordained pastoral ministry, and $219,223 for a study of portability of pension benefits for lay employees.

Three non-Catholic universities received grants for research connected with the church.

Boston University got $573,004 for research on the future of religious orders in the United States, Purdue Research Foundation received $55:261 to study social and cultural pluralism among V.S. Catholics, and George Washington University got $53,600 for research on priestless parishes.

The Catholic University of America was granted $187,145 for a study of Catholic "baby boomers," Regis College in Weston, Mass., got $136,680 for a study of Catholic philanthropic tradition in America,and Catholic Theological Union in Chicago got $89,000 for research on Hispanic ministry.

WASHINGTON (CNS)-Catholic relief agencies are spending $105,000 on tents for some of 28,000 refugees living without shelter in a camp in Jordan near the Iraqi border. ' Catholic Relief Services, according to officials at the agency's headquarters in Baltimore, has wired $25,000 to Jordan to buy tents.

The Pontifical Mission for Palestine, based in New York and funded by the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, has also used $25,000 of its $1.18 million annual budget for Jordan to buy tents for the refugees.

Joseph Donnelly of New York, spokesman for Catholic Near East Welfare Association, told Catholic News Service that, altogether, $105,000 was being used for tents in a collaborative effort with Caritas Internationalis, an international Catholic charity and relief organization.

Another $15,000 has gone to buy food for thousands of Egyptians arriving in the port of Nuweba, Egypt, CRS said.

Since Iraqi President Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait Aug. 2 hundreds of thousands of people, mostly Arabs, have fled for safety.

Of those, more than 100,000 Indians, Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis, Thais and Filipinos are believed stranded in desert camps with little food and water and almost no shelter. People are reported dying of exposure.

Other reports have as many as 420,000 refugees entering Jordan since early August.

Conditions in the camps were criticized Sept. 4 by Prince Hassan, brother of King Hussein of Jordan, after he visited some of the camps.

"The plight of these people," the prince said, "has only evoked the faintest of responses from the world community and from a world press more interested in war scenarios than in humanitarian relief."

Outbreaks of typhus and cholera were feared because of bad sanitation.

Donnelly said the eight-person staff of the Pontifical Mission of Palestine in Amman had made 2,000 sandwiches for refugees waiting at the Amman airport, had bought 500 blankets for distribution, and was housing some refugees in its basement: CRS spokeswoman Karen Donovan said the agency was buying food packages containing juices, biscuits, bread and cheese for distribution at the port of Nuweba.

Donations for refugees can be sent to the Pontifical Mission for Palestine, c/o Catholic Near East Welfare Association, 1011 First Ave., New York, NY 10022, or to Catholic Relief Services, 209 W. Fayette St., Baltimore, MD 212013403.

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Retain abortion limits say USCC, White House WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. Catholic Conference has urged the Supreme Court to support regulations that withhold federal funds from family planning programs promoting abortion.

In a friend-of-the-court brief filed Sept. 7 in two cases scheduled to come before the court this term, Rust vs. Sullivan and New York vs. Sullivan, the USCC said regulations for the Title X government family planning program do not infringe on constitutional rights nor contravene th-e intent of Congress.

"Congress intended to fund a program aimed at providing contraceptive services but, at the same time, wished to ensure that Title X funds would not be used to promote or encourage abortion in any way," said the USCC brief, referring to Section 1008 of Title X of the 1970 Public Health Service Act. A separate brief filed in Rust vs.

Sullivan by U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth W. Starr asked the Supreme Court to overturn its 1973 abortion decision, Roe vs. Wade.

"We continue to believe that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled," said the Bush administration brief.

The cases before the Supreme Court arose from challenges by various groups to the 1987 regulations proposed by the Reagan administration. Dr. Irving Rust is a Massachusetts physician and Dr. Louis Sullivan is secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

According to the rules, a family planning project "may not receive funds ... unless it provides assurances satisfactory to the (Health and Human Services) secretary that it does not include abortion as a method of family planning."

The USCC brief said those challenging the regulations "would force the federal government to

grant them Title X funds for use in programs contravening the only specific prohibition set forth by Congress - that abortion not be employed as a method of family planning."

The rules do not infringe on First Amendment rights, the USCC added, because their objective "is not to suppress abortion-related speech, but t.o protect public programs from private corruption."

The Bush administration's brief, also filed Sept. 7, marked the first time that the federal government; as a party to an abortion case, has asked that Roe vs. Wade be overturned. Previously the government has asked that the Roe decision be overturned in friend-of-the-court briefs in state cases to which it was not a party.

"The court's conclusions in Roe that there is a fundamental right to an abortion and that government has no compelling interest in protecting prenatal human life throughout pregnancy finds no support in the text, structure or history of the Constitution," said the government brief. "If Roe is overturned, petitioners' contention that the Title X regulations burden the right announced in. Roe falls with it."

Among other groups filing friend-of-the-court briefs in the cases were the National Right to Life Committee; 55 pro-life members of Congress; and a coalition of religious pro-life organizations including Catholics United for Life.

Unique "N 0 matter how 'useless' or 'insignificant' my life may appear to be, I am the only person in the world who can really accomplish what God has in mind for meand here lies the essence both of my own personal happiness and of my vocation to sanctity."-Robert J. Kreyche

HUNDREDS GATHERED at White's of Westport last Sunday for a retirement testimonial honoring Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, former pastor of Our Lady of Angels parish, Fall River, director of the Catholic Charities Appeal and the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. Representatives of all groups joined friends and reiatives in honoring Msgr. Gomes.

Tributes included the key to the city of Taunton, where he is residing with his brother; an autographed football from the University of Notre Dame, where he is football team chaplain; and a maxi-album of Notre Dame clippings presented by Fall River Mayor Carlton Viveiros on behalf ofthe city. From left, Manuel Gomes, his brother; Msgr. Gomes; Very Rev. John P. Driscoll, guest speaker. (Studio D photo)

Appointed pastor of St. Francis of Assisi parish~ New Bedford, in

1929, he was named to the Holy Rosary pastorate in 1948.

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Msgr. Pannoni marks 65th • anniversary Wednesday will mark the 65th anniversary of priestly ordination for Msgr. Joseph R. Pannoni, who retired in 1971 as pastor of Holy Rosary parish, Fall River. He now resides at Catholic Memorial Home in that city.

The son of the late Louis Pannoni and the late Beatrice Zarenga Pannoni, Msgr. Pannoni was born in Fall· River on Feb. 4, 190 I. After attending St. Mary's parochial school and B.M.C. Durfee High School in Fall River, he studied for two years at St. Charles Seminary in Catonsville, Md. He prepared for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome, Italy, attending classes at the Propaganda Fidei University.

After six years at the Vatican seminary, he was ordained to the priesthood by the Most Rev. Daniel F. Feehan at St. Mary's Cathedral on Sept. 19, 1925..

On April 21, 1964, Most Rev. James L. Connolly invested the Fall River pastor with the robes of a domestic prelate.

Msgr. Pannoni was parochial vicar at Sacred Heart parish, Taunton; Corpus Christi parish, Sandwich; and St. William parish, Fall River.

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From Fall River, Taunton and West: On Interstate 195 get off at Exit 16 (Washburn Street).

At Stop sign makean immediate right. At traffic lights take a left on Coggeshall Street Second street on Right make a right hand tum on North Front Street.

The Church and Parish Hall are fifty feet from the comer.

From Fairhaven, Wareham and East: On Interstate 195 get off at Exit 17 (Coggeshall Street) Ample Parking Available After Traffic lights continue for two blocks Second Street on Right make a right hand tum on North Front Street.

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Saying No to Guns and Butter As we become more immersed in the caldron of Mideast politics and factionalisms, it is imperative that America recall some of the devastating lessons of Vietnam.

Aside from the tragedies of that war that are still affecting many, there was an attitqde that'seems to be reemerging today: a false sense of security commonly labeled "guns and butter," meaning that we could wage war abroad while remaining in the lap of luxury at home.

In other words, our propagandists sought-to lull us into a false view of both reality and security. The thinking seemed to be that as long as the public could continue pursuing the good life, it would not question the horrors being experienced by fellow Americans in Vietnam. The war seemed to be presented as a mere military exercise, one of benefit to the material well-being of the nation. With industry in full production, there would be plenty of paychecks to boost the economy and no one except for the dead and dying on the killing fields of Southeast Asia would have to change his or her life.

Well, those who have lived through war know the real truth: that guns and butter just do not mix. Returning GIs could not believe that those at home had been led to believe that Vietnam was not a war, but a mere "encounter." Even today the country stares blankly at that tearstained black monument in Washington, trying to understand the forces that twisted the American mind at that point in history.

Now, as we once more send American men and women to a distant place to confront the terror of an unfathomable enemy, it is more than necessary that each person in the nation remember the lesson of Vietnam: that the guns and butter philosophy is simply not viable. We neither can nor should have both.

If the Saudi affair is a mere military exercise, it should be presented in those terms; but if there is a real expectation of conflict, games must not be played with the law or the nation.

As billions of dollars are expended in the current action, taxpayers must realize that they will be paying the bill- but it should be a just bill. To date this has not been the case.

All one need do to prove this assertion is to visit one's gas station. With stockpiles of petroleum at an alltime high, does it not seem odd that gasoline prices are, to put it bluntly, a ripoff.

There has been no interruption in imports, yet the public is being victimized by profiteers. Questions have been asked; answers have not been forthcoming. The Reagan philosophy of decontrol is still at work in the oil industry, so fumiliar to President Bush, and the public is being made to feed the greed of those who profit from the heartbreak of war.

No responsible party has as yet come forth with an honest response to the situation.

Whatever the future may bring in our tense international situation, we should realize that it is time to put controls into place. Those who would take advantage of what is happening should be restrained by a government seeking to safeguard the common good.

If we must return to price controls, economic restrictions and wage freezes whil~ freedom is being challenged on the sandy desert, while Americans are standing guard on our behalf, certainly responsible behavior in the marketplace should be expected and exacted from those controlling our economy.

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JET FIGHTER PILOT ALEX WILKINS SMILES WITH HIS SON PRIOR TO THE FATHER'S DEPARTURE TO SAUDI ARABIA

"Better is wisdom than weapons of war." Ecce. 9:18

Parish viability criteria listed SIOUX CITY, Iowa (CNS) Parish physical and financial condition, growth capacity, programs and commitment to service are among criteria to consider when evaluating parish viability, says a study of parish life done for the' diocese of Sioux City.

The criteria were developed by Neil Meitler and Associates, a Milwaukee-based firm, with input from Sioux City diocesan leaders.

The study recommendations come at a time when numerous dioceses nationwide have taken steps to close or consolidate parishes and schools.

It focused on II parishes, six Catholic elementary schools and . one Catholic high school in the greater Sioux City area.

The Meitler study recommended that the diocese close a Catholic elementary school with low enrollment and construct a new school and religious education facility in one of the area's major population centers. In certain cases, it urged movement of Catholic school students across parish lines.

It urged that Catholic elementary school tuition in the diocese be gradually. increased in future. years.

Viable parishes, according to the Meitler study, meet certain "physical condition" criteria: - Parish property and facilities are adequate for present and anticipated needs of the parish, are maintained in good condition, with provision for future maintenance.

- Facilities are without major structural weaknesses, which would limit their life expectancy or endanger occupants.

- Major repairs, replacements

or capital outlay are not needed within the next five years, according to a professional evaluation, or a five-year plan exists to accomplish and' fund those which are needed.

To be termed viable, parishes should also meet certain financial criteria: - The parish should have financial stability or a plan to achieve it.

The plan should include.parish or school endowment.

- Parish debt and capital outlay funding should not exceed the realistic potential of the parish.

- The average contributions of parishioners should be comparable to those in other area parishes.

- Program, pastoral and liturgical activity should justify the number of clergy and efficiently utilize their talents.

- Sunday liturgy congregations should be large enough to provide

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a community experience of faith and worship.

- Parishioners should include sufficient young families with children to ensure potential long-range growth.

- There should be a structured outreach program to non-Catholics.

- Geographic proximity to another parish should not inhibit the growth of either parish nor create unnecessary duplication of services.

- Pastors and staff should invite and assist the growth of lay leaders in a manner reflecting parish makeup.

- There should be an active and effective parish council, finance council, education board, peace and justice committee and any other committee required by the diocese.

- Sacramental preparation programs should be provided for candidates for sacraments and for their parents when 'appropriate. . - Catholic schooling and religious education should be provided for elementary, middle and high school youths.

- Ongoing faith enrichment opportunities should be provided for adults and various groups with special needs..

- There should be awareness and concern regarding community needs and involvement in efforts to meet those needs.

The study also listed criteria for assessing Catholic school viability, including evaluation of schools路 Catholic character, academic programs, physical condition, enrollment, growth capacities, financial status, involvement and commitment to service.

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By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Mary: I find your suggested solutions to family problems helpful and practical. I was, however, distressed by one suggestion you have made.

You suggested that parents use a food treat after settling differences between brothers and sisters.

Please don't advise parents to use food treats. How about a walk outside to use up the adrenalin? Or a singing session? Or playing the "Ungame''?

As a recovering compulsive eater who learned to stufffeelings, especially the angry ones, with food, I

By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY see this suggested food treat as a bad habit to start.

Through the grace of God and Overeaters Anonymous, Inow am abstinent from compulsive eating one day at a time, but I am still, after eight years in the program, dealing with the feelings I never expressed since I could eat instead.

This type of dysfunction exists in families that pretend "we don't have any bad feelings; let's have

Diocese to host regional conference of separated and divorced Catholics The Diocesan Office of Family Ministry will host the New England Regional Conference of Separated and Divorced Catholics from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 6 at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m.

Themed"Journey Toward Wholeness," the conference will open with a prayer and welcome by family ministry director Rev. Horace J. Travassos, Separated and Divorced Catholics regional president Ruth Rezendes, and conference coordinators Scottie and Jerry Foley. r Keynote speaker Charles T. Gruszka, MA, CAGS, will present "Developing and Preserving SelfEsteem," a discussion of the connection between self-esteem and emotional health in parents and children. The principal of Paxton Center School, Paxton, Gruszka holds degrees in psychology and guidance and is a popular workshop and conference presenter.

Participants in the conference will have the opportunity to attend two workshops, at II: 15 a. m. and I:45 p.m., with lunch in between.

Registration forms may be obtained from the Office of Family Ministry, 500 Slocum Rd., N. Dartmouth 02747, tel. 9,99-6420.

A listing of workshop topics and presenters follows.

My Body Doesn't Lie, Dr. Donald Favreau, psychologist, pastoral counselor, marriage and family therapist, Worcester: an examination of pain, woundedness and hope in the journey toward healin~ and wholeness.

Which Hat Am I Wearing Now? Janet R. O'Connor, Human Development Resources, Worcester: reducing stress in the many roles ' one must assume.

Dreaming New Dreams, James J. Greer, Jr., Passionist Retreat House director, Springfield: rediscovering the passion within us in the face of loss.

Fear of Being Yourself, Judy Haskell, Counseling and Psychotherapy Center, Conn.: being yourself in a society that promises happiness only if one obeys its norms.

The Journey to Oz Leads to Me! Dorothy R. Levesque, family ministry director, diocese Providence: After divorce people seek a

"wizard" to provide what's missing in their lives.

Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families, John A. Murphy, family counseling director, New Haven, .

Conn.

Help! My World is Upsidedown!

Patricia Staebler, director Attleboro Catholic Social Services: reactions of schoolage children to separation or divorce.

The Silent Hurt, Patricia Loughlin, Fall River Catholic Social Services: parenting and living through divorce with teens and young adults.

Annulment- What Is It All About? Rev. Gerard Hebert, JCL, Fall River matrimonial tribunal.

Letting Go of the Past, Moving Into the Present, Helen F. Carpenellis, SUSC, Fall River interfaith Counseling Center: experiential workshop based on the ideas of Anthony DeMello, SJ. Forgiveness Heals, Mary Rose Zaccari, M PV, associate director of religious education, diocese of Worcester: forgiving, accepting forgiveness and becoming healed.

Financial Transactions, Anne F. White, vice-president, Shawmut Bank: discussion of credit accessibility, service alternatives and investment options for establishing financial independence. (Afternoon only) Anger- The Shadow Side of Love, Cynthia Villari, founder and president, Rolfe Square Center: examining anger and fear and rediscovering the significance of "loving our enemies." (Morning only)

anger feels awful. Let's run around the block to help our body get rid of it, and then talk over a glass of orange juice."

I realize there are all kinds of extremes, but please, no more "treats" for emotional solutions.

- Delaware Thank you for your letter and for your suggestions as to alternatives to food treats. Your letter reminds us that parenting is an art.

A suggestion which works in some cases may cause problems in others.

However, I would like to offer a few words in defense of food.

I regret that the term "treat" automatically implies sugary sweets. It is a connotation I have fought throughout the years I have raised children. You seem to agree, as you indicate in your example of a run followed by orange juice.

I think there are many nonsugary food treats. Make popcorn in an air popper. Even little ones can make it with adult supervision, and they are so adept at chasing the kernels that fly around the kitchen.

Fruit treats come in all shapes and sizes. Puree fruit in a blender and freeze into a slush. Combine naturally sweet juices with low-fat milk for ingenious milkshakes. Or just splurge on an out-of-season fruit the family has not enjoyed for some months.

As your letter indicates, some activities acceptable in one circumstance become unacceptable in another. Drinking alcohol, gambling and even shopping become addictive in some people. On the other hand, these activities are acceptable and enjoyable for the majority.

Food treats seem to be in the same category: acceptable and fun in most families. Families who see a child seeking food as a solace or who have problems with obesity need to consider the problems food presents in their circumstance.

You interpret a food treat as a

THE ANCHOR' ~ Diocese of'Faii'River'~Fr{,'Sept. 'i4, 19905 substitute for expression of feelings. Yet feeding a baby is one of the first ways love is expressed.

Eating together could equally well represent a celebration and bonding experience after feelings are expressed and differences resolved.

Eating accompanies and promotes reconciliation, friendship and celebration. Jesus is often picutured at meals furthering just these ends. .

While I believe that celebrating with food and food treats is here to stay, I agree with your idea of promoting alternatives. Special games or activities are good possibilities, although I doubt that I'll ever get a kid to run around the block with me as a treat.

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JUNE 1991 PILGRIMAGE OF DISCOVERY TO POLAND For 25 years Father Robert Kaszynski (Father UK") has led literally thousands of pilgrims to Poland, many of them returning several times. Folks of all national backgrounds are discovering Poland, the spiritual catalyst for change in Eastern Europe.

• The nation is a shopper's paradise where bargains abound.

• Pilgrims will stay at four-star hotels, with most meals included in cost of tour.

• Holy Mass will be offered daily and there will be visits to famous Marian shrines. .

LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL TOUR Join Father Kat 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23 at St. Stanislaus School, 37 Rockland St., Fall River for a 55-minute video on Poland's history, culture, natural beauty and spiritual treasures.

Also available will be information on a special pilgrimage Aug. 12-27,1991, to a World Rally for Catholic Youth to be conducted by

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There was a story in the paper a few years back about a couple who wanted a child and before conception contracted with a respected day-caregiver, to take care of the as yet unconceived offspring for his or her first four years. Their reason: "We aren't going to bring a child into ,the world and give him or her potluck care." An admirable sentiment, but the reality is

Day-care: does anybody care? that they could afford the best care possible. The bottom line is money, as always.

Unless there's a loving grandmother around, the less one earns, the poorer the child-care available. Two-career couples interview live-in nannies while single, minimum-wage mothers pray their kids won't get abused.

The outrage is that day-caregivers are near the lowest rung on . the earning ladder. "If you can't do anything else," popular belief implies, "you can always do day-care or nursing home work." Interesting that we economize on both ends of life.

Day-care is tough work. Ask any mom. Then add the task of caring for five to 10 children not her own. How long does toddler burnout take?

Thank God, there are loving women who nurture others' children. But how do we esteem them?

By paying them minimal wages.

We are a nation that proclaims love for children, especially at election time, but demeans the childcare profession, the quality of which, incidentally, is the chief concern named by working parents today.

If workers are distracted by anxieties over the quality.of care their children are getting, their productivity suffers. So it makes sound economic sense to pay good childcaregivers to stay in the field.

I know a young woman, a college graduate in early childhood. development, who went into childcare and loved it. But she couldn't live on her salary of under $9,000 a year so she left to run a computer,

which she hates. What a loss, to her, the children, and us as a society. Basically, we're telling her that she's worth more working with insurance forms than with children.

To attract and keep good caregivers, we must pay them decently and give them higher status. This means we have to subsidize parents or centers. But these parents' productivity will increase, so we can view it as a sound investment.

I would like to see child-caregivers -receive the same pay as teachers. They work with children even more hours daily during a crucial time in their development.

They hug their hurts away, potty train them, and nurture them when we can't.

Poor pay - averaging $5.35 an hour nationally ---: creates high

turnover. In my state, 50 percent of child-care workers leave the -field within a year of entering' it. "I never know who is going to be at the center when I pick up my children," said one dad.

Carol Pemberton, associate director of a nonprofit advocacy group for child-care workers, said, "Day-care workers are leaving their jobs. That's devastating to kids, who are constantly being exposed to strangers. As soon as they adjust to a new person, and get comfortable in a routine, that person leaves."

A report entitled, "Who Cares?

Child Care Teachers and the Quality of Care in America" can be obtained from the Child Care Employee Project based in Oakland, Calif. But I warn you, it's depressing reading.

Everyone should have an Uncle Augie By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

In each of our lives there are a few people who stand out because of the extraordinary impression they made upon us. It can be because they were exceptionally kind, or sensitive, or caring, or intelligent, or helpful, or wise, or understanding or mature.

In my life that person - for all

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN

Q. Some priests and special ministers of holy communion use the name of the communicant before saying "the body of Christ" or "the blood of Christ."

I have done this myself at retreats where I know the names of everyone. I do not feel it is pastorally appropriate at a parish Mass where the priests or ministers do not know the names of all who' will receive communion.

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK

Some people see increased U.S. dependence on foreign automobiles as a hopeful sign of the future when the world's peoples will be more interdependent. Others see the trend as a fearsome threat to U.S. manufacturers.

Similar examples could be cited in the fields of science or health care or education. From one vantage point a trend is positive, from another it is largely negative.

those reasons and more Uncle Augie.

is my

I used to think it curious that my grandmother had named her fourth _child August. It did have a logic to it, as he was born on the feast of the Assumption.

While I am sure that my grandmother, a very religious woman, had her reasons for naming him August, I thought for years she did this so no one would ever forget his birthday!

This year, Uncle Augie turned 80, though no one would believe it.

He is, as always, trim, handsome, youthful, outgoing. In fact, the evening of his birthday he was singing with his barbershop group,

looking every bit the dapper young man.

I recalled that he was the first man ever to sing to me. I was no more than 5 or 6 years old when Uncle Augie, then about 23, bought a guitar.

I have always felt that everyone should have an Uncle Augie. Truly he has been the most influential relative' in my life. My attachment to him goes back tp when I was a tot.

He lived at home with my grandparents because he helped support them and his three younger sisters.

Whenever we visited them, Uncle Augie would be waiting for me to arrive.

Not only did he sing to me, but he would pick me up and put me' on his shoulders, walking me through the house, telling me to duck at each doorway. He called me button nose and poker face and made me feel like a princess.

When I was an adolescent, it was Uncle Augie who drove meto see parks and forests and fish hatcheries, passing on to me his \ love of nature and beauty.

In the early '40s, after Pearl Harbor, he joined the Coast Guard.

I was his pen pal and the letters he wrote to me throughout my high school years were treasures of prose describing the South Seas and the daily life of a guardsman.

Most important, Uncle Augie gave me the confidence of knowing that if ever I needed help he was there for me.

I want to model myself after Uncle Augie because to me he represents a solidity rarely found in people, and he radiates something I call genuine goodness.

My love for Uncle Augie has deepened with time, for this man, has touched not only his relatives, but also the people he has worked with, through his gentleness, his maturity, his caring and beauty.

I thank God for the gift of my Uncle Augie, one of the greatest teachers - by example - that a child, an adolescent, an adult could nave had.

Should priests use communicants' names?

It seems to create an "in group" and an "out group" and thus to be divisive at the very time we should be most united.

What is the official stand on this?

If at any time we ought to be treated alike, it is at communion.

I have also seen priests carryon conversations with people who approach them for communion, even get down on the floor to shake hands and fool around with children while holding the communion plate in the other hand.

Any comment on that? (Indiana) A. Apart from the general and specific liturgical principles concerning integrity of the liturgy text, I know of no regulation that would directly govern the situation.

Some feel these principles are broad enough to accommodate the practice you speak of; others do not.

As I have noted in the past, directives which guide our behavior as liturgical ministers indicate that we are not to minister the sacraments like robots. Sacraments should be administered in a human, friendly, warm and responsive manner, consistent with that sense of dignity, reverence and impartiality which should always characterize any minister of the liturgy.

It seems to me the practice of giving names at communion demonstrates inappropriate familiarity and camaraderie at communion time. Certainly it often goes over the edge of inappropriate partiality.

It may perhaps be appropriate on' certain special occasions. As you indicate, however, the wrong impression can easily be conveyed.

Nothing should happen during Mass, particularly at communion time, which appears to give recognition and affirmation to one group to the exclusion of others.

Almost inevitably this is what happens when peoples' names are used at communion, particularly in a parish or other community Mass. This is the main reason I never do it, and appears to be the reason you as a pastor are also sensitive and concerned about the practice.

The same ideas are relevant to the last part of your question. This type of interplay does nothing for

the sanctity of the communion rite.

In an increasing number of parishes and dioceses in the country those who are not receiving com- . munion, may approach the communion minister with arms crossed over the breast to receive a brief blessing. This ceremony should be brief and straightforward. It should never degenerate into the kinds of things you describe.

A free brochure explaining Catholic teaching on cremation and other burial policies is available by sending a stamped, selfaddressed envelope to: Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to him at the same address.

Evaluating the trends that affect our lives So it is with many trends in the church. Take parish closings. Some view the closing of parishes no longer regarded as viable as a step toward stronger parish communities in the future. Others regard parish closings as a sign of a less compassionate, less committed church. .

Or take the pastoral letters the U.S. bishops produced on topics like the economy or war and peace.

Many applaud these pastorals as signs of a contemporary, concerned church, while others complain that the church is jumping into areas that are none of its business.

How should a Catholic react to the news of unsettling trends? Here are some guidelines researchers employ:

I. Take account ofthe timelines.

How long has the trend existed?

In the late '60s we saw a major increase in the number of priests resigning from the priesthood. But studies now confirm that the number of resignations has been declining over most ofthe past two decades. This is a long timeline for those evaluating the direction resignations are taking.

2. Look to see if one trend is countered by another balancing trend.

But there is a counter trend. Lay people are now becoming involved in ministries closed to them before.

One trend is balanced to a large extent by another.

3. Be realistic about the reversal of trends within a certain time frame.

As much as we hate to see fewer priests, we will not see the priesthood as it was in the near future. It takes time to build numbers and devise new systems of recruiting and formation.

Time is a strong determining factor in reversing trends.

4. Lookfor the ultimate meaning behind a trend.

If the declining number of priests suggests that eucharistic celebrations could become fewer in the future in many places, this is serious. Seeking the ultimate meaning behind the current priesthood

statistics means people need to clarify why they would consider such a development serious - to define what it is they really believe about the importance of this.

At the same time, the trend means we all will need to work at making the most effective use possible of the priests we have.

This all leads to a final principle - one usually forgotten: Don't panic, and don't become blase.

Those are the extremes in dealing with trends.

Prudence is needed, dictating that we work for the best outcome and do this by taking counsel.

Prudence also admits that often there is no fixed way of obtaining a desired end.

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Simple logic,

Also, what is to be thought of those who actively campaign for such politicians? Are not they also Dear Editor: Several months ago, Bishop to be condemned?

Now, although any abortion is Austin Vaughan remarked that Mario Cuomo, governor of New intrinsically evil, in this country York, risked going "straight to due to the so-called pluralistic hell" for his blatant pro-abortion society one has to be politically statements and the bishop of course realistic. Although a majority of was on solid moral ground in his the citizens are opposed to unresadmonition to the governor. Actu- . tricted abortion but are in favor of ally, since abortion is the crime of limited exceptions, a complete ban murder, the warning applies not would not be possible at this time o.nly to Cuomo or Catholic politi- but with stringent safeguards 95 cIans alone but to those of any (or percent of the unborn children no) religious persuasion even could be saved and it should be licit to vote for a politicia'n with though it may fall on deaf ears. such a platform.

How.ever, in my opinion, the John W. Corbett good bIshop did not go far enough Yarmouthport because Cuomo did not go up to Albany and forcibly seize power but was duly elected by the voters who now have a share in abortions Dear Editor: performed in New York because For the eighth year, the Bread of without their approval he would Life Prayer Community will offer be just another private citizen and the Little Rock Scripture Study in no position to advance his Courses at Blessed Sacrament unrestricted abortion stance.

So simple logic would dictate Church, Fall River. This year's that those who are aware of the first topic is the Acts of the Apos"gung-ho" pro-aborion position of tles, which will be studied with the a politician and still vote for him use of either the New American Bible or the Jerusalem Bible. are as much to blame as he. One Participants read an assigned who hands another a gun which he section ofthe text daily and answer would otherwise be unable to acquire, knowing that it would be three questions on it. At weekly meetings the questions and answers us~d to commit a crime, is just as are discussed and an audiotape is g~llty as the one who pulls the heard. The course begins at 7 p.m. trIgger.

Oct. 10 at Blessed Sacrament and continues for 10 weeks.

Reservations for the course close Sept. 28 and are necessary so that needed materials can be ordered. .Further¡ information is available Sept. 15 from Father Rene Levesque, tel.'

1934, Rev. Henry J. Mussely, 672-5473, or Fred and Mary DemePastor, St. Jean Baptiste, Fall River trius, tel. 644~2375.

1958, Rev. Brendan McNally, Fred and Mary Demetrius S.J., Holy Cross College, WorcesAssonet ter, MA .

1969, Rev. John J. Casey, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, North Dear Editor: Easton In working for our pro-life canSept. 16 1925, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Jean A. didates this year, I have become Prevost, P.A., P.R., Pastor, Notre aware that about 60 percent of our registered voters are described as Dame, Fall River independents.

This usually means Sept. 17 1983, Humberto Cardinal Me- that they do not vote until the deiros of the Boston Archdiocese ~ovember election.

I would like to urge all pro-life 1970-1983 independents of Massachusetts to 1954, Rev. Thomas F. McNulty, come to the voting booths for the Pastor, St. Kilian, New Bedford primary election on Tuesday, Sept.

Sept. 18 18. There they can choose the bal1945, Rev. Luke Golla, SS.Ce., lot from either party, and endorse Seminary of Sacred Hearts, Ware- the pro-life candidates on that ham ballot.

1964, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edmund By voting pro-life in the primarJ. Ward, Pastor, St. Patrick's Fall ies, local independents can make River ' the big difference in helping to get Sept. 19 the best candidates on the ballot in 1859, Rev. Henry E. S. Henniss, November. Your vote is needed!

Pastor, St. Mary, New Bedford Every vote counts! Let us pray sin1985, Msgr. Arthur W. Tansey, cerely for the pro-life movement!

Retired Pastor, Immaculate ConM.A. McCartin ception, Fall River Lowell Sept. 20 ,1918, Rev. Simon A. O'Rourke Chaplain, United States Navy .'

1958, Rev. Orner Valois, Pastor, Sacred Heart, New Bedford Despite its name, the Fall River Sept. 21 1882, Rev. George Pager, First Friday Club will convene Founder, Sacred Heart, New Bed- Sunday, Sept. 23, to attend 9 a.m. ford Mass at Sacred Heart Church.

1938, Rev. George Jowdy, Pas- Msgr. John J. Oliveira, diocesan tor, Our Lady of Purgatory, New chancellor, will be homilist and celebrate the Mass and will address Bedford 1988, Rev. William H. Crane, club members at a following comSM, superior at National Shrine munion breakfast in the parish of Our Lady of Victories, Boston hall.

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Irene Dunne dies at 88 LOS ANGELES (CNS) Irene Dunne, 88, a longtIme supporter of numerous Catholic causes, died Sept. 4 at her home in Los Angeles. She had suffered from an irregular heartbeat.

Popular in the 1930s and 1940s she lent strong support to Catholi~ charitable activities both at the height of her career and afterward.

In 1949 she was awarded the University of Notre' Dame's Laetare Medal" annually awarded to an outstanding Catholic. . She was one of the first Hollywood stars to support efforts by Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton, founder ofthe Family Rosary Crusade, to promote family prayer through media.

In a telephone interview with Catholic News Service, Father Peyton recalled meeting the star in 1945, at Good Shepherd Church in Beverly Hills, Calif., and asking her and other entertainers to perform on his weekly radio series.

Miss Dunne thought the priest was asking her to play the part of the Blessed Virgin and protested that she "wouldn't be worthy of it," Father Peyton recalled.

When she learned he wanted her for other roles, she agreed and "appeared often and with joy in our program," he said.

"She was a dignified woman with the air of a queen," said Father Peyton. Afterward, he said, she became not only a performer on the series but also a regular benefactor to the now international organization.

Miss Dunne's performing ca~eer began when she was 5 with the role of Mustard Seed in a stage performance of .. A Midsummer Night's Dream." She went on to play in road shows and movies and occasionally on TV. She received Oscar nominations for roles in "Theodora Goes Wild," "Cimarron," "I Remember Mama" "The Awful Truth" and "Lo~e Affair."

Active in politics, she was often a delegate to Republican national conventions. She also succeeded Eleanor Roosevelt ina U.N. General Assembly position. .

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Rural community has "field: of dreams" GRANDE RIDGE, 111. (CNS) - Bordered by a two-lane country road nicknamed "Ron Santo Drive" and acres of corn as far as the eye can see is a rural Illinois community's own "field of dreams."

Bob Durdan likes to call it "the field that kids built."

"They keep it up and chalk the baselines," said Durdan, a central Illinois corn and soybean farmer, and member of St. Mary's parish in Grand Ridge. "June's a big month. There are games almost every night."

Durdan is talking about the baseball diamond that 20 years ago - long before the film "Field of Dreams" was popular - he carved out of the fields across the road from his home at the request of neighborhood children who didn't have a place to practice.

A sort of rural sports mecca for T-ball, youth baseball and adult softball enthusiasts, the neatly trimmed and weeded field rivals the turf of many minor league ball parks.

The fenced-in baseball diamond boasts. a right field scoreboard, bleachers and backstop, a barbecue grill in a picnic area, and a concession stand. The center field flagpole proudly flies the U.S. flag.

And "Ron Santo Drive" memorializes a former star third baseman for the Chicago Cubs.

Building a basebalI diamond for children may seem a bit unusual in an era when the television set is used by many as a babysitter, but not in Grand Ridge, where Durdan says family comes first.

"There are -good parents in this area. They realIy take an interest in what their kids are doing," said Durdan. "You've got to make time for your family. All our neighbors are like that."

Free time is hard to come by for Durdan, a farmer who runs a weekend- catering business and an electrical company with the oldest of his five children.

"That's what makes it tough farming," Durdan said. "You can neglect your family if you're not careful. I can always harvest, but if I miss a football or volleyball game ~ it's history.

"That's why I don't work on Sunday. That way we can make plans. I might combine beans if I'm really pushed but I don't like

to. It could become a habit."

Durdan and his wife, Cheryl consider themselves partners on the family farm. While Bob works the fields, Cheryl is bookkeeper, payroll clerk, dispatcher and homemaker.

"We have a lot of faith in God. That's the way we were both raised," said Durdan, who lives less than a mile from the church his grandfather helped build. "Faith and farming. It's just got to be there.

"You can't help but think of God every morning when you get up at sunrise, sometimes before, or drive by the church and pray for good crops," he said. "Whenever we've needed God, he's always been there."

Bishop's also professor PITTSBURGH (CNS) the Pontifical University of St. Bishop Donald W. Wuerl of Pitts- Thomas, also in Rome. burgh has been appointed a parttime distinguished professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los a post the school said was the only Angeles Archbishop Roger M. one of its kind in the United States.

The bishop will take part in Mahony has written to some Los courses, colloquia and lectures, Angeles prosecutors and judges with his first public lecture coming asking for a review of abortion next Feb. 21 to mark the centen- protesters' arrest records and sennial of the papal encyclical "Rerum tences. The archbishop said he beNovarum." lieved sentences s~emming from Bishop Wuerl holds bachelor's pro-life demonstrations and sit-ins and master's degrees from Catholic were "unusuaIly harsh" compared University of America, a licentiate to protests for other causes. Jusin theology from the Pontifical tice, Archbishop Mahony wrote, Gregorian University in Rome, "must not only be fair; it must be and a doctorate in theology from perceived to be fair."

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Mother Teresa's nuns to open Denver AIDS home DENVER (CNS) - Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity will open a home for AI DS patients in Denver this autumn.

The home, a renovated 69-yearold convent that had been vacant and was damaged by vandals, was blessed last month by Denver Archbishop J. Francis Stafford, who called its conversion a "transfiguration. " Seton House, as the home will be known, is the 25th home opened in the United States by the Missionaries of Charity. It will be the fourth to minister to those with AIDS. A standing room only crowd

came to Seton House to celebrate the occasion. Among them was Colorado Governor Roy Romer.

"I am absolutely in awe of the service you have given," Romer said. "Y ou do good directly but you may do a greater good by being a role model of love for the rest of us."

Denver Mayor Federico Pena proclaimed Aug. 5, the dedication day, as "Mother Teresa and Sisters of Charity Day" in Denver.

Sister M. Sylvia read a letter from Mother Teresa which said, "Let us accept whatever he [God] gives and give whatever he takes with a big smile."

Defends coverage.

GARY, Ind. (CNS) - Bishop Norbert F. Gaughan of Gary has defended the Northwest Indiana Catholic's coverage of the controversies surrounding resigned Atlanta Archbishop Eugene A. Marino. "First, what Archbishop

Marino did was riewsworthy. It was unusual, rare, uncommon, different - the elements that render an event 'news," Bishop Gaughan . wrote in an editorial. "Secondly, it is part of our Catholic history. In providing you with a weekly report of church news, this publication also serves on a historic record from which future generations WASHINGTON (CNS) - The may learn both the positive and U.S. bishops have praised a Cathnegative about their church." olic human rights agency that Bishop Gaughan said he hoped fought oppressive policies of Chile's those unbappy with the coverage 17-year military regime. Los Angewere praying for Archbishop les Archbishop Roger Mahony; Marino and Vicki Long, the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Atlanta woman whose affair with Committee on International Policy, praised the Vicariate of Solid- the archbishop prompted the resignation. arity, the human rights agency of the Santiago archdiocese. "We, Here and Now and people everywhere who share your concern to protect and defend "God does not ask of us the perhuman rights, have learned from fection of tomorrow, nor even of and been inspired by the pioneer tonii..ht, but only of the present work of the Vicariate of Solidarmomtllt."-St. Madeleine Sophie ity," the archbishop said.

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LONDON (CNS) - A prayer sevice launched a new ecumenical body in England which includes Catholics for the first time.

The Sept. I service was led by Anglican Archbishop John Habgood of York in London's Southwark Catholic Cathedral.

Similar services in Scotland and Wales the same day marked the start of national organizations to replace the British Council of Churches.

Twenty churches now form Churches Together in England.

The Scottish body is called Action of Churches Together in Scotland, and the Welsh group is Cytun, the Walsh word for "together."

The new groups were endorsed by representatives of virtually all Britain's churches at a 1987 conference capping a two-year ecumenical program, "Not Strangers But Pilgrims."

Delegates at the conference said in a statement that "as a matter of policy at all levels and in all places, our churches must now move from cooperation to clear commitment to each other in search of the unity for which Christ prayed and in common evangelism and service of world."

The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales was the first to respond to the proposal for a new council arrangement, and in April 1989 the bishops. agreed to join the new ecumenical organizations.

Archbishop Habgood told the 2,000 people at the London service: "We shall know that we are making progress when at every level in church life we are conscious of being partners in the Gospel and feel a sense of deprivation if we try to go it alone."

At the Scottish service in Dunblane, Elizabeth Templeton, a Church of Scotland theologian, told about 1,000 people how alien and irrelevant Christianity could appear to the majority of Scots.

"I think we have hardly begun to listen theologically to the actual questions the outside world is interested in answering, because we are too busy scolding and nagging people for not appreciating our prepacked vacuum-sealed message, for not filling our pews, for not paying our awful repair bills, for not seeming to need us," Mrs. Templeton said. . A Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland, linking British and Irishes churches, will be located in Liverpool, England.

The Catholic Church in Ireland will have observer status in the new body. The Presbyterian Church in Ireland will not join the group. The Church of Ireland (Anglican) and the Irish Methodist Church are members.

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Compassion is theme Continued from Page One strategies for religious education programs. _ Workshop II Christopher L. Adams, Benziger publishing: "Catechesis and Sexuality: Parish and School"; Dr. Ernest Collamati, religious studies department chairperson, Regis College: "Passion-Key to a Compassionate Church"; Rev. David A. Costa, Bishop Feehan High School chaplain: "Sacraments-;-A Parish Celebration," on' planning sacraments as a parish event; Rev. Joseph Costa, St. Vincent's Home, and Sister Mary Oliveira, SUSC, vocations director: "Pax ChristiInternational Catholic Peace Movement," focusing on history and local activities; Sister Dorothy Cotterell, pastoral care associate director, Providence: "Coping With Loss and Grief."

Joan Cuttle, "Let the Children Sing"; Peg Hannigan, Harwich schools health curriculum coordinator: "Touch Their Lives With Love and Humor," on providing structure, appreciation and consistencyforyouth; Rev. Mark Hession, St. Anne's Hospital ethics committee: "A Continuation: The Church, the Family and Health Care-The Ethical Dilemma of Scarce Resources"; Rev. Jay Maddock, diocesan judicial vicar: "Church Annulments Today."

Rev. John J. Oliveira, St. Michael's, Fall River: "Ministering to Immigrant Families"; Elizabeth Sinwell, Sadlier consultant: "Creative Catechesis, Elementary Level," on making stories of our religious heritage come alive for children; Rev. Jose M. Sousa, vice chancellor: "The Compassion of God: A Model for Human Compassion"; Rev. Joseph Viveiros, Barbara Domingue and Debra Polselli, diocesan Apostolate for Persons With Disabilities: "Beginning Special Education Programs."

education; Sister Patricia Cocozza, SND, LaSalette Center retreat director: "Blessed Are They, Blessed...Are You?", on challenging youth with Beatitudes' invitation to live our faith; Dr. Ernest Collamati, "Passion-Key to a Compassionate Church"; Susan Collamaii, Bishop Feehan High School Christian studies department: "The Call to Discipleship: Priesthood for All." Rev. Bruce Cwiekowski, St. Luke's Hospital religious ministry coordinator: "Good Grief," on the effects of grief and how to respond to it; Noel Dent, St. Anne's Hospital exercise physiologist: "Stress: What Is It, How to Cope With It"; Edna Legan Donoghue, diocesan youth ministry associate director: "Collaboration in Ministry-A Challenge to the Church in the 90s"; Peg Hannigan, "Touch Their Lives With Love and Humor"; Rev. Terence J. Keegan, OP, Providence College religious studies chairman: "Fundamentalism and the Incarnation, or How Not to Argue With Fundamentalists."

Sister Beth Mahoney, St. Joseph's parish, Taunton, pastoral assistant: "When Living Hurts," on prevention and intervention in adolescent depression and suicide; Rev. Robert Oliveira, diocesan director of continuing formation of laity and clergy: "Thorns and Roses: Reflections and Prayer on the Stations of the Cross," examining contradictions in life through the Stations; Dr. Patrick Reid, Providence College associate professor of religious studies: "Hosea: Prophet of Yahweh's Compassionate Love"; Kathleen Simpson, Taunton Catholic Middle School principal: "Creative Elementary Classrooms of Compassion."

Workshop III Jane E. Arsenault, religiouseducation director, St. Ann's parish, Cranston, RI: "Guided Prayer of the Imagination-A Vehicle Toward Christian Conversion"; Kathie Barboza, St. Jean the Baptiste 'School princip!lI: "A Clown Experience," on experiential religious

In USCCpost WASHINGTON (CNS) - Sister of Charity Elaine McCarron, a coordinator of parish and diocesan education programs, has been named representative for catechesis and multicultural concerns in the U.S. Catholic Conference Department of Education.-Sister McCarron most recently was a parish minister of religious education in Richmond, Va. '

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By Marcie Hickey At a general chapter meeting held in July in Montreal, the sisters of the Congregation of Holy Cross inaugurated a plan to restructure the community's leadership and regroup its members.

Representing Holy Cross Sisters of the Fall River diocese was Sister Beth Mahoney, pastoral minister at St. Joseph's parish, Taunton.

Until now, the Holy Cross Sisters, who serve at St. Anthony's School and parish and St. Theresa's parish, New Bedford, in addition to St. Joseph's, were organized according to territorial provinces, with all members reporting to a regional superior regardless of ,-their individual ministries.

The restructuring will dismantle that system, instead grouping sisters by "apostolic units" rather than geography. The units, with individual concerns such as education, parish work, internal community service or ministry to the poor, are meeting separately to discuss their missions and choose their representatives.

At one such meeting, Sister Ma:' honey was elected to the leadership council of her unit, composed of sisters working in parish and hospital ministry. The five-member

council will advise unit president Sister Carol Descoteaux, president of Notre Dame College, Manchester, NH, which Sister Mahoney attended.

During a transitional period, the units will organize and next July the changes will be evaluated at a general congregation meeting.

At that time, a council of unit leaders is expected to replace the former provincial leadership structure.

Community officials note that the restructuring will help the sisters meet the changing needs of church and soci!=ty. With nearly 1,000 of the community's 1,400 members nearing or past retirement age, the new structure is "a way for those in active ministry to connect with one another" and share their ideas and resources more fully.

"For the older sisters it's a really big adjustment," she said, but added that they will continue to support the community by way of a special apostolic unit, a prayer ministry.

Overall, by uniting sisters with similar backgrounds, talents and concerns, "We are hoping to enrich our ministries," Sister Mahoney concluded.

Upbeat'view of Africa Continued from Page One to know they are not simply providing labor or a market, he said.

And while the pop<,:: made yet more appeals for generosity from the developed world, he was realistic about the chances of that hap. pening. He said Africa is "increasingly called to find its own model of development" - one that makes better use of its cultural gifts and avoids outside exploitation.

To Rwandan youths, he urged a small-scale approach to development based on farming, microindustry and manual labor.

"From your land of a thousand hills and a thousand problems, make a country of a thousand projects," he said.

This trip was above all a sacramental journey for the pope and the 10 Catholic communities he visited, where he ordained priests,

blessed the sick, confirmed youths, gave first communion and led couples in renewal of their marriage vows.

For the pope, these things make up the "bottom line" for the church in Africa, the return on its investment.

Cardinal honored NEW YORK (CNS) - The New York-based Appeal of Conscience Foundation will honor Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, Vatican secretary of state, in October for "being in the forefront of the struggle for religious liberty." Rabbi Arthur Schneier, foundation founder and president, said the cardinal would receive the foundation award at an Oct. 29 dinner "for a lifetime of service in helping redeem religious freedom for millions of believers in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union."

DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) - A 56-year-old chain-smoking priest is a hit after 10 months on Irish radio, where he offers advice on everything from alcoholism to abortion. .

Father Michael Cleary, the "diala-priest" star of a Dublin commercial station, offers a down-to-earth approach that has endeared him to listeners. who range from prison inmates to teenage girls wondering what happens to the souls of aborted babies. For one hour every weekday evening he opens up the phone lines.

"It gives me a bit of a pulpit, not that I ever preach," said the lanky, balding priest. "I just share thoughts."

"There is a lot of loneliness out there, a lot of depression and a lot of ignorance about the most basic things," said "Father Mick," the name given Father Cleary by his listeners.

Whatever the subject - homosexuality, wife-beating, abortion or prisoners' rights - the gravelly voiced priest has three firm rules on the air.

"Always tell the truth. I won't have any confrontation on my show, and I always make the people feel they were treated as guests," he told the British news agency Reuters.

"Some prisoners have rung up to say they have bets on how many cigarettes I am going to light up on the show," Father Cleary said as cigarette ash tumbled onto his gray-and-ginger beard. "They even sent me a silent lighter."

Father Cleary smokes up to 70 cigarettes a day, but at the age of 56 he said he is not exactly overwhelmed with guilt over his habit.

"I already have throat cancer," he said, "so what the hell is the point in giving up (smoking)?

"They gave me three months to live in 1974, and I have buried the doctor since then and am still hale and hearty. I have had chemotherapy and an operation on my throat."

Father Cleary, the first priest to sing on Irish television, has recorded two albums, performed at the Stardust Club in Las Vegas, is a passionate horse racing fan and loves poker.

He was once asked what expertise can a celibate' priest offer on sex?

Heart specialists don't have to have a heart attack to understand the disease," he retorted.

He confessed to one major irritation as a broadcaster.

"You can say what you like about men, but you have to weigh every word about women," he said.

"I resent that. You have the good, the bad and the ugly with both sexes.

"My work as a priest over the past 32 years gives me an understanding that is rare for a radio presenter," he added.

On_ air, he tries to avoid using the show as a live confessional.

"My purpose is not to provide entertainment. The purpose is to reach out with hope, information and a bit of an uplift to people who need it," said Father Cleary, whose daytime job is conducting missions at parishes and schools, where he is a popular speaker.

After each evening show Father Cleary stays behind for an hour, making follow-up calls' to t'he needy and desperate who have phoned in.

Famed Lutheran pastor converts to Catholicism NEW YORK (CNS) - The Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, a nationally prominent Lutheran minister and writer on issues of church and society, converted to Catholicism Sept. 8 at ceremonies in New York.

He was received into the Church

by Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York in the chapel at the cardinal's residence behind St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Bishop William H. Lazareth of the Metropolitan New York Syriod ofthe Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, who accepted Neuhaus's resignation as a Lutheran pastor on Sept. 10, said he did not think individual conversions helped bring church unity. But he said that "Cardinal O'Connor and I conferred about this personally, and it was with our full common understanding that it took place."

In a statement Bishop Lazareth said, "Lutherans and Roman Catholics have not yet arrived at their common goal of official agreement in the doctrine of the Gospel.

Ecumenical gridlock results whenever this church consensus is replaced by personal conversions in either direction."

However, he said, Neuhaus has been "a trustworthy pastor" for three decades "despite his ongoing personal polemics and ideological strife." He also said he wished Neuhaus "God's richest blessing in his pilgrimage of faith."

Originally a member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Neuhaus became associated with a small "moderate" group, the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches that split from the Missouri Synod in 1976. In 1987 this group participated in the merger with two larger Lutheran bodies forming the present Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

In the 1960s, Neuhaus became nationally known as a leader in the anti-war group Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam.

Subsequently, he became one of the more prominent neo-conservative voices of the religious community, and in his addresses and writings took a sharply polemical stance toward the liberalism of the mainline Protestant churches.

As a Lutheran clergyman, Neuhaus was a leader of the wing emphasizing "high church" and liturgical themes, and he has been closely associated with Catholics and the Catholic community in all his work addressing public issues.

In 1981 he gave the annuallecture sponsored by the Jesuits of America magazine in honor of the late Jesuit Father John Courtney Murray.

There, Neuhaus suggested that Catholics could take the lead in providing "moral definition of American life."

However, while suggesting the opportunity for Catholics, he also raised the question of"whether the intellectual and episcopal leadership of American Catholicism has not been weakened by its excessive zeal in' Americanizing' itself in the image of mainline Protestantism."

In a 1987 book titled "The Catholic Moment," Neuhaus argued that the Catholic Church was uniquely equipped by its tradition, size and resources to provide the moral philosophy needed by American society.

When Neuhaus established an annual lecture under the auspices of his center, he named it for Erasmus, who worked' to reform the church of the 16th century but refused to join Martin Luther in breaking with Rome. He later said he chose the name in part because Erasmus sought to bring polarized groups together, which was the aim of the center.

In 1988, Neuhaus invited Cardinal Jqseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to give the Erasmus lecture and follow it with a theological conference with Protestant, Orthodox and Catholic scholars.

Scholars at the conference agreed the cardinal had' erased 'a widespread image of him as rigid and authoritarian.

Singular Surprise "There are times when I am driven to my knees to pray,'I believe, Lord; help my unbelief."

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"I cannot begin to imagine what it will be like (bestriding clouds and gazing on God for all eternity fail to turn me on). I know only that it will be an ex perience of God without parallel this side of death, and that the experience will satisfy my deepest needs and longings."Walter Burghardt, SJ

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Not the solution VATICAN CITY (CNS) Population cqntrol is not the solution to Third World development problems, said Bishop Jorge Mejia, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. "It has not been proven that demographic growth harms, in itself, developmen~," he said. "Some pepple have very serious reasons for affirming the opposite," he added at a U.N.sponsored conference. Bi~hop Mejia criticized promotion of birth control methods "without any respect for the religious and cultural convictions of the people, families and societies concerned, as the necessary condition and sufficient prerquisite to solve underdevelopment problems." /

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Cardinal scores "ecclesial therapy ,of action" VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The church's human institutions need constant reform to remove the "superfluous scaffolding" that-obscures its divine mission, said Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Human structures are "necessary and indispensable" but "they grow old, running the risk of being presented as the most essential, thus deflecting our glance from what is truly essential," he said in a speech in Rimini, Italy, to Communion and Liberation, a Catholic lay group;' Cardinal Ratzinger asked for "an unlimited examination of conscience at all levels of'the church" to see what structures should be reformed so that "the authentic face of the church shows through once again."

In a question-and-answer period after his speech, the cardinal said the need for reform extends to the Roman Curia, the church's central administrative offices. Cardinal Ratzinger, in charge of monitoring theological orthodoxy, is one of the Curia's top officials.

"This examination of conscience is to be extended to the Curia.

How many agencies are really necessary?" he asked.

On other issues, he said: - Participating in church-sponsored organizations does not automatically make someone a good Christian.

- Democratic structures cannot be applied to church teachings because the faith is not subject to majority rule.

- Some moral theologians are eliminating guilt at "too cheap a price."

"The church will always have need of new human support structures so that it can talk to and operate in every historical era," he ' said.

But with the passage of time "these must always be taken away as superfluous scaffolding," he said.

The cardinal did not offer any new models, but eliminated democratic ones.

"Opinion substitutes for the faith" under majority rule, he said.

"The significance of the expression 'I believe' comes to mean no more than 'we think,'." he said.

"Everything decided by a majority can become abrogated by another majority. A church which rests on the decisions of a majority becomes a purely human church," he said.

Democratic structures would mean a church that develops from the bottom and "surges through discussions, agreements and decisions," he said.

Cardinal Ratzinger also criticized "the idea that a person is more Christian the more he is committed to church activities."

This is an "ecclesial therapy of action, of giving people something to do," which loses sight of what is essential in personal faith, he said.

"A person can uninterruptedly exercise church activities and still not be a Christian," he said.

It is possible to be a good Christian "without being on a church committee, without becoming concerned with the news of church politics, without having been part of a synod and voting in one," he said.

What "counts more" is that a person frequents the sacraments and "practices the love which comes from faith," he said.

Priests were told that "the church climate becpmes anguishing and suffocating if the bearers of the ministry forget that the sacrament is not a distribution of power" but a service in the name of Christ.

The cardinal criticized a tendency in moral theology to eliminate sin and guilt.

According to this view "morality should be outlined in such a way that the conditions for sin in a given person can never be properly verified," he said.

"According to these 'moral theologians' there simply is no longer any guilt," he added.

Instead, the aim should be to show people that there is "an effective way to overcome sin" through penance and forgiveness, he said.

Vatican raps Iraq invasion of Kuwait VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican daily newspaper has criticized Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and asked for a peaceful solution to the international crisis it has caused.

"What has become of the dignity and sovereignty of an independent state, a full member of the international community?" said the Page One editorial in L'Osservatore Romano.

Kuwait has "the right to negotiate any of its problems, regardless of its size and military power," said the editorial.

"At times one has the impression that the law of the strongest is still the principle often used in international affairs," it added.

The editorial noted that the invasion produced "a sequel of sanc- ' tions, reprisals, strategic alarms," causing political uncertainty and giving rise to fear that nations might use their military and economic might to intervene in the Iraq-K uwait situation.

International disputes "should be resolved through peaceful means, in a way that does not damage peace, security and justice," it said.

Government leaders must "respect the principles of international law and seriously evaluate the consequences of their decisions," it said.

This is "equally valid" for Iraq and for the countries threatening reprisals agaist it, added the editorial.

Am I the Enemy?

"The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ - all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover' that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy itself that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness - that I myself am the enemy who must be loved?" .

- Carl Jung

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THE POPE stands with members of an African family'outside their home in Burundi.

They are typical of the impoverished Africans he advised to increase agricultural production rather than violate church teachings on use of artificial contraceptives. (eNS/ UPI-Reuters photo)

Birth control: unchangeably immoral?

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - One rumor occasionally fades away but never seems to die: it says that Pope John Paul II will declare chur~h birth control teachings infallible.

Despite denials by Vatican officials, it has surfaced again with news that the pope is preparing a major document on moral theology for possible publication before the end of the year. Its genesis is hard to trace.

A punchy papal defense of the church stand that artificial contraception is wrong sparks news stories predicting an imminent papal decision to declare the teaching an unchangeable truth of the faith.

These in turn fan the anger of dissident theologians, who hit the headlines as they ask the pope to rethink the position before he wreaks havoc on the church. When the pope dramatically reiterates his stand, the process begins anew.

Many non-Rome-basedjournalists were disappointed at the 1985 extraordinary Synod of Bishops.

The rumor had gained such strength control teachings can be an obstathat they expected the pope to cle to receiving the sacraments. make his infallibility statement The teachings promoted by the during the synod, called to compope are found in the 1968 encycmemorate the 20th anniversary of lical of Pope Paul VI, "Humanae the end of the Second Vatican Vitae" ("Of Human Life"), which Council. opposes artificial means of conNow, as representatives of the traception as immoral. Although world's hierarchy begin packing the teaching has not been declared their bags for another monthlong infallible, it is official church docsynod this fall, the rumor has trine, requiring assent by all again picked up steam. On his Catholics unless it is modified.

African trip the pope did his part An infallible teaching, on the to help as he told some of the' other hand, is unchangeable, as it world's poorest people that the is considered a fundamental artiroad to development and a happy cle of faith established by God. marriage is not paved with conIn practice, popes rarely speak traceptives. infallibly. Most official teachings, During almost 12 years as head such as encyclicals, are part of of the church, the pope has by no what is called the church's ordimeans limited his teaching to the nary magisterium and are an effort Third World. He has enunciated to give doctrinal orientations and them at the Vatican and in the rules that are in keeping with developed heartlands of the V ni- Scripture, tradition and the living ted States and Europe, where dis- experience of the church. sent is often publicly and vigorAn infallible teaching is called ously expressed. In the V.S. in part of the church's extraordinary 1987, for example, he emphasized magisterium. The last such papal that dissent from church birth pronouncement was in 1950, when Pope Pius XII declared that Mary was assumed, body and soul, into heaven.

Serious theological ferment was stirred in November 1988 when the present pope said that the prohibition against artificial contraception is "written by the creative hand of God in the nature of the human person."

Disagreeing theologians said the pope was smearing the distinction between the ordinary and extraor, dinary magisterium by implying that the birth control doctrine is directly willed by God rather than being an application of divine revelation.

Dissident reactions ranged from The pope said Mary was responsible for giving Polish workers the a polemic statement by 163 Weststrength to maintain their nonvio- ern European theologians saying the pope was misusing his authorlent tactics.

"You were present amidst the ity to a call from moral theologian Father Bernard Haring that a striking workers," the pope said. church commission of bishops, "Mother of the Polish August, theologians and laity be established do not let the fountain of this to decide to what extent papal power dry up," he added. "Let a teachings on birth control should new Poland be built." be considered part of divine revelaAt the pope's private meeting tion.

What has been lost in much of with Walesa, the men discussed the current situation in Poland, the rumor-spreading and rhetoric where the Solidarity movement regarding papal intentions is one has split into a Walesa-Ied labor simple fact: Pope John Paul, while not declarwing and a political wing led by Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazo- ing birth control teachings infalliwiecki, a chief Solidarity theorist ble, has made it abundantly clear who was the movement's candi- that during his pontificate, the doctrine will be unchangeable. date for head of government.

Pope praises Solidarity tactics VATICAN CITY (CNS) - After his recent meeting with Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, Pope Paul II praised the nonviolent tactics used by Solidarity to overturn communist rule.

Nonviolence "was shown to be greater than violence," the pope said at his weekly general audience.

"It became creative. It cost a lot.

It changed many things." the pope said in Polish to about I,200 Poles at the audience.

The pope noted that Solidarity was celebrating its 10th anniversary, having been founded in a Gdansk, Poland, shipyard in August, 1980, by Walesa, an electrician.

Walesa was quoted by the pope as attributing victory to "a total rejection of violence."

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O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall Religious education teachers' meeting 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, parish ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET center. High school youth ministry Women's Guild Mass for deceased opening meeting 6 p.m. Sunday, members 7 p.m. Sept. 19 followed by religious education center. Five buffet for members and guests. ParReaders Branch Cape Cod Hospital ticipants are asked to contact Mary Aid will meet 10 a.m. Monday, parMedeiros, 673-3884, or Alice Medeiish center; Spiros Thomas, R. Ph., ros, 672-5069, and to bring a wrapped director of pharmacy and IV at Cape gift for a Yankee Swap. New memCod Hospital, will speak on medicabers are encouraged to join. tion and drug interactions.

CATHEDRAL, FR SEPARATED/DIVORCED A fourth anniversary Mass for the CATHOLICS repose of the soul of the Most ReveNB area speakers and topics this rend James L. Connolly, fourth bishfall: Sept. 24, Rev. Bruce Cwieop of Fall River, will be offered 10 kowski, AIDS: Oct. 10, Kathleen a.m.

Sunday; prayers at Bishop ConGlynn of Bay State Centers for Disnolly's tomb in the episcopal crypt placed Homemakers, communication will follow. CCD Mass II :30 a.m. with children, former spouse and inSunday; all students should attend. laws; Oct. 22, open discussion. MeetST. STANISLAUS, FR. ings are held at 7 p.. m. at the Family Christian Living classes for grades Life Center, 500 Slocum Rd., N. I through 8 begin 4 p.m. Monday.

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Cape Cod and Islands first meet- . Confirmation students, parents and ing of season 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday, St. sponsors meet 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Pius X parish center, S. Yarmouth.

Sunday, school auditorium. 10th Dr. Joe Ryan will speak on the effect anniversary Mass of consecration of of divorce on families. Information: parish to Our Lady of Jasna Gora 771-4438.

7:30 a.m. tomorrow.

FR area support group will meet 7 APOSTOLATE FOR PERSONS p.m. second Tuesdays and fourth WITH DISABILITIES Wednesdays, Our Lady of Grace Sign language classes will begin in parish center, 569 Sanford Rd., October or November; information: Westport.

Louise Bollengier.

D. OF I. Companion animals will soon be Hyacinth Circle 71 Daughters of available for adoption at a companIsabella, will meet 7:30 p.m. Sept. ion animal shelter opening in West25, Holy Name CCD center, NB. ·port. The shelter also plans to offer a Members note change in meeting horseback riding program that would date due to state election on regular allow persons who use wheelchairs meeting night. to ride specially trained horses and participate in equestrian sports.

EMMAUS/GALILEE Information: Bill Connelly, 636-4272, Evening of prayer for beginning or write P.O. Box 3448, Westport of 1990-91 season 7 p. m. Sept. 21, 02790.

Cathedral Camp chapel, E. Freetown. FatherTom McElroy, SS.Cc., ST. MARY,NB from Sacred Hearts Retreat House, Confirmation program presentaWareham, will celebrate Mass. Emtion for ninth graders and parents 7 maus 85 retreat Oct. 26 to 28 with p.m. Monday, school gym. Comdirector Paul Neto, codirector Julie missioning of religious education Johnson and spiritual advisors Fateachers 11:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. ther Bob Charlton and Bruce NeyRCIA program begins 7:30t09 p.m. lon; application deadline Oct. 12.

Monday, rectory conference center.

Information: Claire O'Toole, 4 OliST. JOHN EV ANGELIST, via Lane, Freetown 02717.

POCASSET ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM Parish council meeting 7:30 p.m.

Sister Beth Henken will coordiMonday, parish center. CCD regisnate preschool through grade 6 CC D; tration after Masses this weekend; registration 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. anyone interested in teaching may Sunday. Babysitting during 10 a.m. contact Bette Songer, 563-5536.

Mass begins Sunday.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA' Ladies of St. Anne Sodality opening meeting beginning with 7 p.m.

Mass Wednesday; guest speaker will be Deacon Robert Normandin. Vincentians monthly meeting 7:30 p.m.

Monday at the Tremblay's home.

Father Ron Luka, CMF, will speak at all Masses this weekend on the work of the Claretian missions in Guatemala. Holy hour 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 21. Parish council meeting 8' COUPLE TO COUPLE LEAGUE p.m. Wednesday, religious education Natural family planning classes center. begin 4 p.m. Sept. 30, O.L. Cape ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO parish center, Brewster. Information: CCO teachers' meeting 7:30 p.m.

432-7192.

Monday; teachers needed for grades ST. JOSEPH, NB 8 and 9. Parish Center and Parish CCD registration 9:45 a.m. Sept.

Finance committees meeting 7:30 16; classes begin Sept. 23. Prayer p.ll). Wednesday, rectory CCD meetings 7 p.m. Wednesdays in Sepwing. The parish congratulates Sistember. Legion of Mary adoration ters Alice Menard, Adrienne and following II a.m. Mass until 4:45 p.m. Benediction Mondays; adorers 'Joseph Rita; celebrating 70 years in religious life this Sunday; Sister Alice needed. ' Marie, 60 years; and Sister Pauline HOSPICE ASSOCIATION, Louise. 50 years.

CAPE COD HOLY NAME, FR Volunteers from mid- and upper Holy Name School parents' group Cape needed to work with patients meeting 7 p.m. Wednesday, school. and families; information: 362-1103; The group will host a muffin social 1-800-642-2423. following 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Masses DCCW Sunday. Religious education regisDiocesan Council of Catholic Women District V first meeting of tration for new students following morning Masses Sunday, rectory. season Sept. 30. St. Elizabeth's parWIDOWED SUPPORT ish, Edgartown. Members meet 12: 15 Taunton area meetings resume p.m. at the Island Queen, Falmouth Sept. 30 under the direction of FaHarbor. ther Michael Nagle. Meetings will be O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER held '2 to 4 p.m. last Sundays, Religious education teachers' Immaculate Conception parish hall, meetings: Grades 5 and 7 Tuesday; 387 Bay St.. Taunton.

Confirmation II Wednesday; kinderThe Cape Cod Widowed Support garten and grades I and 2 Thursday, Group will begin monthly meetings all at7 p.m. Rite for Christian Jnitiafor the 1990-91 season on Sept. 30. tion of Adults program begins MonMeetings will be held 3 to 5 p.m. in day; information: 385-2115. Faith the education center library at Christ and Light Community meeting 3 the King parish. Mashpee. p.m. Sunday, parish ~enter., Ladies Meetings and topics through DeGuild will collect donations for cember are: Sept. 30, Looking for Access House. a shelter for abused the Way; Oct. 28, Establishing New girls, on Sunday.

Guidelines; Nov. 18, Getting Ready LaSALETTE SHRINE, for the Holidays; Dec. 30. LoneliATTLEBORO ness at Christmas and the New Year.

Triduum of prayer and celebraInformation: area coordinator tion marking 144th anniversary of Dorothyann Callahan. 428-7078.

Blessed Mother's apparition at ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON ST. JULIE BILLIART, LaSalette, France, today through Catechetical Sunday, Sept. 16: N. DARTMOUTH Sunday. Rev. Normand Theroux, catechists will be commissioned at Confirmation I teachers' meeting 8:30 a.m. liturgy; a coffee and donut MS, will be the main celebrant and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Family Life Center. homilist at6:30 p.m. Masses tonight social featuring a video on Mother Grade 8 instructional session 7 p.m. and tomorrow. He will speak on the Teresa will follow 8:30 and ,10:30 Wednesday, parish hall.

Rite for message of LaSalette. Bishop Daniel a.m. Masses:- Religious education Christian Initiation of Adults inquiry A. Cronin will celebrate a 3 p.m. classes begin for grades 2 and 3 at 9 session 7 p.m. Sept. 24. Family Life outdoor Mass Sunday. a.m. Saturday and for grades 1,4,5 Center. and 6 at 9: 15 a.m. Sunday. Calix CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE CATHEDRAL CAMP, meeting 6:30 p.m. Sunday, religious First meeting of new senior citiE. FREETOWN education center. zens group I p.m. Sept. 24; pariLeRepos retreat with Anna Marie shioners and non-parishioners 50 CATHOLIC NURSES Smidt Sept. 14 to 16. and over are welcome. Applications Cape-Islands chapter sixth annual for 1990-91 ECHO retreats for high Catholic Nurses Sunday with 10 O.L. ASSUMPTION, school juniors and seniors available a. m. Mass Sept. 23, Christ the King OSTERVILLE Church, Mashpee; non-members also at parish office.

CCD classes begin Sunday; parinvited. ents and students should attend 8:30 ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA a.m. Mass and a meeting to follow.

Commissioning of catechists 10 CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS OF a.m. Mass Sunday; teachers' meet, THE AMERICAS ST. JAMES, NB ing will follow. Testimonial for FaCape area group will be formally CYO council meeting 7 p.m. Tuesther Arthur Wingate Sunday; Mass in&tituted and officers installed folday. parish center. St. Jarnes-St. at5 p.m. followed by social in parish John School parents opening of lowing 9 a.m. Mass Sept. 24, Corpus Christi Church, San~wich. Recepcenter. Mass at Country Gardens school meeting 7 p.m. Monday, Nursing Home 2 p.m. Wednesdays; tion to follow in Father Clinton school hall. volunteers needed to bring residents Hall. Information: Mary Sheehan, ST. MARY, SEEKONK to chapel area. Mary, Queen of Religious education classes begin 888-2867.

Peace prayer group meets 7 p.m.

Sept. 17, 18 or 19, evenings, for ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, Wednesdays.

HYANNIS grades 3 through 8; Sept. 22 for ST.STEPHEN,ATTLEBORO Parish Panorama' following 9, 10 grades I and 2. Women's Guild Choir rehearsal 7:30 to 9 p.m. opening meeting 6 p.m. Monday, and 11:30 a.m. Masses Sunday; inThursdays, church; new members parish center; informatic;>n: Judy formation and displays on parish welcome. Teachers and others interHodge, 399-7418. Explorer Post I organizations, ministries and aposested in attending Religious Educa-' youth group back-to-school dance tolates will be set up in parish center. tion Day Sept. 29 are asked to regis7:30 to II p. m. tomorrow, parish ST. ANNE, FR ter with Sister Terri Croteau or center; leaders' meeting 7:30 TuesTheme for catechetical Sunday, Father Dick Gendreau. 222~641, by day, parish center.

Sept. 16, is "Forming Communities Sept. 23. of Compassion." Catechists will be SS PETER AND PAUL, FR ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT CVO registration for grades 8 commissioned at 10 a.m. Mass.

Religious education teachers' through 10, 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Classes begin Monday 3 to 4 p.m, meetings: preschool through grade 6 for grades I through 7 and 4 to 5 Father Coady Center.

7:30 p.m. Monday, church hall; conp.m. for grade 8.

ST.GEORGE,WESTPORT firmation 7 p.m. Tuesday, rectory.

Holy Hour 7 p.m. Fridays. Vin- LaSALETTE CENTER, Girls in grades 3 through 5 are centians have resumed meeting on ATTLEBORO invited to join Children of Mary to Family retreat, "Roots and second Tuesdays; new members welmeet once a month; information: Wings." Sept. 28to 30. No age limit. come. Confirmation retreat weekend religious education office, 758-3735.

Information: 222-8530. will be Sept. 28 to 30.

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ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Religious education teachers will be commissioned at 9:30 am. Mass Sunday. 349 students are registered for classes to begin the first week in October. Teacher planning sessions are scheduled this month for the 45 educators in the program. The confirmation class will join the Respect Life Walk Oct. 7 in Boston as part of their service project.

SACRED HEART, FR Women's Guild executive board meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday, church hall. Father Steven Baumbusch, superior of the PI M E Missionaries, will speak at all Masses this weekend.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHA VEN Children's Mass and commissioning of religious education teachers II a.m. Sunday; children's choir will rehearse 10 a.m. New American Bible Study program will begin 9:30 to II :30 a.m. Tuesday, rectory. Information: Deborah Osuch, 994-3405.

Religious education classes begin 9:45 to II a.m. tomorrow, St. Joseph's school.

ST. ELIZABETH SETON, N. FALMOUTH Youth group will meet for 5 p.m.

Mass Sunday with meeting and installation of officers to follow in church hall.

ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, FR Council of Catholic Women season-opening meeting 7 p.m. Sept.

18, Father Reis hall. Coming events will be discussed; new members welcome. Confirmation classes begin 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 24; sponsor forms must be returned by Oct. 15.

Men's Holy Name Society will meet for 8 a.m. Mass second Sundays; meetings will follow the Mass.

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It cuts both ways Our love is like a knife That cuts both ways It's driven deep into my heart each time That I realize How it cuts both ways Can't be together Cannot live apart We're heading straight into a broken heart But I can't stop 'Cause I feel too much to let you go I'm hurting you and it's hard I know To stay and fight for what we've got Knowing it will never be enough 'Cause you and I are dangerous We want too much and life ain't that way, Don't ask me for more Don't be a fool Haven't we already broken every rule It cuts both ways, We're in too deep for sorry alibis Can't have regrets or even question why We can't say goodbye Because it cuts both ways No more illusions of the love we make No sacrifice would ever be too great If you would just stay Sung by Gloria Estefan and'the Miami Sound Machine.

Written by Gloria Estefan (c) 1989 by CBS Records Inc. WHAT IS the record for the knife that cuts both ways." She number of chart hits from the believes that they "can't be same album? Gloria Estefan together," nor can they "live must come close to holding the apart." She also sees that "we're mark. Her album "Cuts Both heading straight into a broken ~ay:s" recently achieved its fifth heart but I can't stop." hit smgle, a release by the same This person seems to be using name as the album. her confusion as an excuse for The song describes a persoQ's not facing up to reality. She co~fu~io~ ~bout a. relat.ionship. seems more comfortable hiding 1,"hls lI~dlvldual lives 10 emobehind her ambiguity and untiOnal limbo. The love that she certainty than in taking steps shares with another is "like a that lead to a healthy decision.

Tornado-hit parish using public schools for class , PLAINFIELD, III. (CNS) Left withOlJt church or school, tornado-blasted St. Mary Immaculate Parish in Plainfield has accepted the hospitality of public schools to use their facilities for Masses and classes.

Although their school is a pile of rubble and their principal, Loretto, Sister Mary Keenan, and teacher Gloria Sanchez died there when a tornado hit, the pupils of St. Mary's began a new school year Sept. 6 in Central Elementary School in Plainfield.

Three Sunday Masses are being , celebrated in the gymnasium at a second public school in Plainfield, one of the northeastern Illinois communities in the eight-mile path ofthe devastating Aug. 28 tornado that took 27 lives and injured more than 300 people. ' Under an agreement with Plainfield school district officials, St. Mary's pupils use the elementary school building from 1 to 5 p.m., after public school classes are completed for the day, said Franciscan Sister Jeanette Zielinski, Joliet diocesan school superintendent.

Auxiliary Bishop Roger L. Kaffer of Joliet attended all three Sept. 2 Masses in the gymnasium

and expressed to the parishioners the concern of Bishop Joseph L. Imesch, who was out of the state.

Each Mass was packed, and many parishioners were wearing tattered work clothes, their only attire since the tornado struck.

For some it was all that remained of their personal property. Many wore bandages, and some had arm slings and crutches.

By an overwhelming vote, the parishioners decided to go ahead with a Sept. 9 parish picnic.

Like ~t'l of ~s, ~he needs' to accept responsibility for achieving her own happiness. .

What about you? How would you evaluate a dating relationship?

The following steps suggest a process. for living in a more responsible manner: I. Refuse to live in a painful status quo. Design a step-bystep process that will lead to either improving or ending the relationship. Healthy relationships' do not cut both ways.

They bring more satisfaction into both peoples' lives.

2. Seek out a trusted adult to help you evaluate the strengths and limitations of the relationship. Determine whether the weight of your evaluation prompts you more toward working on the relationship or ending this romance.

3. Set a firm deadline for reaching a decision. No one is helped by rash, impetuous decisions, nor is emotional' health enhanced by behavior that avoids what must be faced.

4. If the choice is to stay iQ the relationship, ask your friend if he or she is willing to put forth considerable effort to improve the situation. If not, it is time to end the relationship.

5. If the evidence of your evaluation leads you to move on without the other person, act on the decision. Neither of you will be helped by a delay.

Formulate a clear plan for informing the other of your decision.

All of us periodically get confused about what we want or how we feel. Examine the variety of messages coming from your feelings and then act in a way that takes you bey~md confusion. ' Trust in yourself and in your God that, given the situation, you are making the best decision possible: Your comments are welcomed

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in our schools Connolly kicks off 25th year A note of celebration marked opening activities at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, this week as the school began its 25th year, which coincides with worldwide observances ofthe 500th anniversary of the birth of St. Ignatius of Loyola and the 450th anniversary of the founding of the Society of Jesus. At Connolly, Jesuit traditions of academic excellence and preparation of youth for service to others are upheld.

New Connolly principal Rev. John P. Murray, SJ, welcomed freshmen and their parents at an orientation reception, noting that the freshman class is larger than last year's, representing 20 area cities and towns.

"This will be a special year at Connolly," said Father Murray, '''as we celebrate the school's silver anniversary. It is a time of great promise and a renewal of the spirit of excellence and of dedication to Christ which gave birth to the school a quarter century ago."

A number of staff changes and additions have been made for the new year. Ann Blumenthal is guidance director and Father James Mattaliano, SJ, chaplain, will also assist in the department. Father Robert Levens, SJ, is rector of the Connolly Jesuit community and will continue to teach religion and

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Sullivan and Randall Richard have joined the English department. Ms. Sullivan was at the former Bishop Gerrard High School and at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth. Richard has taught in the Somerset and Fall River school systems and worked in the Southeastern Massachusetts University Writing/ Reading Center. Sister Kate Gibney, SUSC, will assist the department as a substitute teacher. A

faculty member at the former Sacred Hearts Academy in Fall River, she was most recently assistant to the academic dean at Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. Robert Paradis, formerly at Portsmouth High School, Ports- , mouth, R.I., has joined the mod-' ern languages department.

Joining the religi~us education department are David Connelly and Sean Roper. Connelly was for the past year in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps as administrative assistant at a food bank in Oakland, Calif. Roper was in youth ministry in the Boston archdiocese.

Students and faculty will attend a Mass of the Holy Spirit today.

Father Murray will be main celebrant, joined by pastors of Connolly students. Music will be provided by the Connolly chorus under the direction of John Dacey and Jim L'Heureaux.

Also today, the COnI)Olly" AIUl~mi Association will host a golf tournament at Rehoboth Country Club.

A dinner and awards ceremony will follow.

The 1990 edition of the Connolly yearbook, Opus, may be obtained at the yearbook office.

St. Mary's School St. Mary's School, New Bedford, is planning a 25th anniversary celebration on October 7 with a Mass to be celebrated at 4:00 p.m. at St. Mary's Church and dinner to follow at 7:00 p.m. at White's of Westport. Alumni are invited. For more information, contact the school at 995-3696 or write St.Mary's School Alumni, 115 Illinois Street, New Bedford, MA 02745.

When campus physical improvements are complete, phase III, involving creation of an endowment fund for the future of Stang, will begin.

St. Joseph's School launches operation Brave Heart

St. Joseph's school, Fairhaven, is participating in Operation Brave Heart, a project sponsored by ,Cable .

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Yellow ribbons are displayed in each classroom, to remain until American hostages and military Students and faculty returning personnel return from the Middle to 'Bishop Stang High School, East. Students are also encourNorth .Dartmouth, this fall, are aged to display ribbons outside being greeted by results of the school's capital fund raising cam- ,their homes and on car antennas and to write to U.S. military per'paign. sonnel in the Middle East.

In renovations during the sumOthers wishing to participate in mer, new student lockers and hallOperation Brave Heart may send way wall coverings were installed letters to Operation Brave Heart, and the biology laboratory was c/ <5 Operation Desert Shield, FPO enlarged and fitted with new tables New York 09848-0006. and an efficient ventilation system.

These improvements, coupled Reputation with the new roof and boilers "A good reputation is an ornainstalled in 1988, mark successful ment to life and a preservative to completion of phase I of the capiour virtues, especia'Ily if they are tal campaign.

Phase II, about to get under- weak. The necessity ofliving up to way, will involve alumni and cor- our reputation, of being what we are esteemed to be; begets a generporate participation, with alumni ous courage and a gentle but powplanning to raise funds for the erful stimulus to act accordingly." renovation of the gymnasium and - St. Francis de Sales athletic fields.

Bishop Stang

F ATHER ROLAND Bousquet and the St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. Theresa's parish, New Bedford, recently hosted a cookout for New Bedford area, campers at St. Vincent's Camp, Westport. The cookout has been an annual event since 1984. Pictured are, top, from left, Val more Gonneville, Charles Jodoin, Father Bousquet, Herve Deprato and Roland Lemieux; below, from left, Eleanor Strong, Marsha Deprato, Joyce Jodoin, Rita Gonneville.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Sept., 14, ,1990

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By Mick Conway They went over the bridge all right. Down the embankment, through a barbed-wire fence and into the river. It seemed like a long way down, but the whole thing was over in a matter of seconds. ' The car wasn't discovered until morning, several hours after the accident happened. A search party, organized by the police and parents whose teenagers hadn't come home after a school dance, found the car upside down and partially submerged.

It took several hours to free it from its muddy resting place and another length of time to remove the bodies trapped inside. By some miracle, one of the four teenagers in the car was still alive. The other three, two girls and a boy, were dead.

The semiconscious young man, rushed to a nearby hospital, later said: "It was like a scene from hell.

We were flying through the air, crashing into trees and skidding down the bank all the same time."

He said one of the girls was screaming and crying; the rest of them were yelling and bouncing all over the car. "Then," he said, "we hit the ~ater really hard. I heard someone choke and it was suddenly quiet. The lights on the car had gone out and it was pitch dark.

"I tried to get the door open, but I couldn't budge it. My head was hurting'so bad, and all I could think of was that the water was rising, the car was upside down and we were trapped. I must have passed out because I can't remember much of what happened after that."

The investigation that necessar-, ily follows an accident of this kind

revealed that alcohol was present in the bodies of all four teenagers.

There were empty beer cans, as well as several unopened cans in the car. The teens were out "road = tripping" at the time of the accident -driving around the countryside as they drank.

The boy who survived spent many months recovering from the physical injuries he sustained in the accident. However, his emotional recovery took even longer.

The parish priest spent hours with him attempting to relieve his emotional anxiety. The priest's professional counseling skills were severely tested with this young man whose main problem was that he couldn't forgive himself.

The boy said many times that if he hadn't been drinking and driving on the 'night of the accident, his friends would not be dead. "I honestly didn't think I had had too much to drink. We were having a good time, just driving around listening to a tape on the car stereo.

"I' know better than to drive after drinking. I've been hearing about that for as long as I can remember. If I hadn't been so stupid, I wouldn't have lost control of the car like I did."

Three teenagers killed in a car accident is a tragedy under any circumstances. If alcohol is involved, the deaths are particularly hard to accept. We tend to think that those who died lost their lives unnecessarily.

"If only they hadn't been drinking. If only they hadn't been driving so fast. If only..."

The sad fact is that alcohol often does cause us to act in an irresponsible way. It's a deadly drug when abused.

What time is it?

By Hilda Young In the beginning there was time.

Caveman families measured time by the sun and the moon and the seasons.

If caveman children were a sunrising or two late for dinosaur hunting school, it was no big deal.

Students were often tardy, sometimes because they slept until the sun was higher than the local mountain, and sometimes because the dinosaurs had a hunting school of their own.

Still, you would hear caveman mothers say things like, "Piltdown, get off your sleeping rock, this sunrising instant, and get your dinosaur hunting clothes on."

"But Cave 'Mother" Piltdown would whine, "the sun has not yet touched yonder mountain valley. I have at least two mountaintops to sleep."

Thus, mountaintime was born.

"That's what your cave cousin Neanderthal used to say and look what came of him, a dinosaur burp," cave mother would snap, clanging two spearheads together to underscore her point as well as

generate sparks for _the breakfast fire.

Time marched on. As a matter of fact, it marched on a lot of things - rock clocks, sundials, hourglasses, cuckoos, Swiss movements and three-minute egg timers.

Today, families don't regiment time. It regiments them. It is not uncommon for each member of a post-dinosaur-era family to possess two or more instruments by which to monitor t,ime.

Ironically, this fact may be the reason time has not taken over entirely.

You hear modern mothers say things like, "Piltdown, get up this instant and get ready for school.

It's 7:15."

"My clock radio hasn't even gone off yet," Piltdown will whine, "my digital wristwatch with the light button so I can see in the dark, which it is, says it's only 7: II. I have four minutes to sleep."

"The clock on the stove reads 7: 16, Buster," modern mother will say.

"That's the one dad screws up when' he tries to set the timer,"

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Court in United Auto Workers vs.

Johnson Controls.

The case stems from a refusal by Johnson, a car battery manufacturer, to allow women who might someday bear children from holding jobs involving exposure to lead, harmful to fetuses.

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