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Catechists to convene "Proclaiming Lasting Wealth" is the theme for the annual Religious Education Day, to be 'held Sept. 26 at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth.

Keynote speaker will be Rev. James F. Hawker, director of religious education for the Boston archdiocese and a director of the Catholic Television Network and of the board of trustees of the Boston Catholic Television Center.

Ordained in 1963, he holds mas-

ter's degrees in religious education from Catholic University, Washington, DC, and in theology and psychology from St. John's Seminary, Brighton. He has written articles for Catholic publications and books, including Go Teach in My Name: Catechetics in the Catholic School, for the National Catholic Educational Association. He was previously director of religious education programs for Catholic schools in the Boston archdiocese and is a consultor in the Holy See's Congregation for the Clergy.

Convention Schedule Religious Education Day begins with 8 a.m. registration and a 9 a.m. liturgy, celebrated by BishOp Sean O'Malley. Father Hawker will speak !it 10 a.m.

Workshops will be held from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.; 1:15 to 2:05 p.m.; 2: 15 to 3:05 p.m. Lunch will be served and exhibits may.be viewed after the first session.

A listing of workshop topics and presenters follows.

Session I Adolescents and Chemical Dependency: Brenda Austin, Alcoholism Council of Greater Fall River. What They Are Saying About Confirmation: Rev. Freddie Babiczuk, St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis. Legal Issues in

Religious Education Programs: Mdnllre's Studio photo

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Fa-, ther James Hawker.

Rev. Richard W. Beaulieu, diocesan director of education.

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As an example, she said that WASHINGTON (CNS) - For Among the main elements in the when she recently gave a talk to religious orders to survive and three-year study were: thrive, they need to be faithful to - A lengthy mail survey of the National Assembly of Relitheir founding purpose and respon- nearly 10,000 U.S. men and women gious Brothers, "I used as an example the Alexian brothers. sive to real human needs, accord- religious. 'ing to the findings of a three-year - Studies comparing typical "They're a small group. They study of U.S. religious orders re- leaders of religious orders with were founded to assist victims of leased Sept. 16. those identified by others as "out- the plague in the Middle Ages.

While some orders have increas- standing" leaders.

And recently they claimed as one ingly shifted members into indi- Studies of religious identified of their focal points working with vidual and parish-based ministries, by others as exemplars of the "car- persons with AIDS." their loss of "corporate identity" ing" person.

She was simply citing the order and "corporate witness" has meant - Experimental workshops with as an example of a community a loss of their vitality as a religious religious identified by others as reclaiming its founding purpose community, the study says. "visionary" in the sense of having a and applying it to need today, she The study was conducted by creative, articulate vision of the said, but after her talk an Alexian two psychologists, Vincentian Fath- future of religious life.

Brother who was in the audience er David J. Nygren and St. Joseph - Interviews with recognized came up to her. "He said, 'I hadn't of Carondelet Sister Miriam D.. experts and national leaders on thought about it before, but we Ukeritis. They describe it as the various aspects of religious life. had not had men entering our The researchers were at Boston community for a long time - but first in-depth investigation that encompasses both men's and wo- University when they began their , this summer we had two first promen's orders. study, but both are now at DePaul fessions [of vows], we received five One major tension the study University in Chicago. The Lilly people into the novitiate and we uncovered was "the alienation of Endowmment in Indianapolis, a had six [other] candidates.' " members of religious orders from major contributor to relgious re"There's an impulse to generosthe hierarchy and related aspects search, funded the project. ity among people," Sister Ukeritis of the institutional church."

In an 'interview with Catholic commented. "As communities clarAnother key problem it found News Service, Sister Ukeritis said ify what they're about, especially was a gap between self-description the two elements identified in the in addressing unmet needs, people and practice. While religious life is study as crucial to dynamic reli- ' will find a way to channel that increasingly being defined in terms gious communities - fidelity to impulse." of a "commitment to serving absopurpose and responsiveness to unPut another way, she said, many lute human need," it said, "in the met human needs - might appear people are looking for something general population of orders, a obvious. significant percentage do not intend "But it was striking to us because they would be "willing to put their to devote their energies to serving it also came up when we weren't life on the line for," but many relthe poor directly." looking for it," she said.

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Women's pastoral draws varied reaction

WASHINGTON (CNS) - The new draft of t,he U.S. bishops' proposed pastoral letter on women drew strong but varied reactions from some of the men who are supposed to vote on it this fall.

"I am alarmed that it is more sexist than previous drafts," Auxiliary Bishop P. Francis Murphy of Baltimore told Catholic News Service.

Auxiliary Bishop John R. Sheets of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., said he thinks the new draft is considerably improved, but he will vote against it unless it does more to address' the¡ problem of"radical feminism."

Bishop R. Pierre DuMaine of San Jose, Calif., said he continues to doubt the wisdom of eveQ trying to issue a pastoral letter OjIl women's concerns. "This is not a d'ocument that's being sought or welcomed by any segment of the Catholic community that I know," he said.

When he was contacted he had ' not yet read the fourth draft, but he questioned whether the bishops should try to put out "any magis-

terial document" in an area where they still differ among themselves on some "fundamental issues."

"The fourth draft is not an improvement. We've regressed," said Bishop Raymond A. Lucker of New Ulm, Minn.

The latest version has eliminated numerous references to sexism in the church that were contained in earlier drafts, Bishop Lucker said.

"Therefore the pastoral itself becomes an example of sexism in the church because of its refusal to recognize how sexism touches our 'Iives, its refusal to recognize our need change and grow," he said.

Auxiliary Bishop Austin B. Vaughan of New York, who had opposed the special focus on sexism in the third draft, said the new version "made a lot of improvements."

But he added, "I won't vote in favor of it" because "I've still got a lot of objectio'ns to the document."

The wide spectrum of opinions that various bishops expressed to CNS in interviews indicated that the floor debate will be lively if the

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bishops vote on the pastoral this November as expected.

And ultimate approval of the document seems far less certain than for any other pastoral letter that has come before the bishops for final action in the past quartercentury.

Many - both bishops and outside observers - have questioned whether it will garner the twothirds majority of votes needed for approval. With 286 bishops currently eligible to vote, nearly 100 bishops would have to oppose the pastoral to defeat it. , No previous past.oral ever to come before the'National Conference of Catholic Bishops has been voted down.

The fourth draft of the women's pastoral was distributed to the nation's bishops in late August.

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2 THE ANCHOR -

Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., Sept. 18, 1992

Hospitals collaborate to plan cancer treatment center

Democrats may lose Catholic votes, say commentators

St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, and St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford, have received approval from NEW YORK(CNS)- Catholics Steinfels wrote that he has long Department of Public Health the been convinced Democratic cantend to vote for Democrats in conto construct a 6,400-square-foot gressional elections, but the party didates are more likely to bring radiation treatment center on or is losing out by ignoring Catholics racial equality and economic jusnear 51. Luke's campus. as a group, contends Father An- tice at home and freedom and "There is a growing need for this drew M. Greeley, a sociologist. peace overseas. But despite that, type of service in the Greater New "The Catholic vote continues to he said he feels exiled by the parBedford area," notes John B. Day, be Democratic whether the Demo- ty's recent adamant abortion plank. pr~sident and CEO of S1. Luke's cratic leadership wants it or not," Because the "pro-choice" posiHospital. Currently, area residents said Father Greeley in an essay in tion has been so closely linked must travel to S1. Anne's when the fall issue of Church magazine, with "pro-Clinton," Steinfels wrote, radiation treatment is required. a quarterly journal published by "it has become very hard to cast a According to James Dawson, the National Pastoral Life Center vote for one without very explicpresid~nt and CEO of St. Anne's, in New York. "But the Democrats itly casting a vote for the other. It the two hospitals have been workwill never win another presidential has become very hard not to feel ing on the joint venture since 1987. election unless they recognize how exiled from a party that would not "The radiation therapy facility in important that Catholic vote is." allow someone of my views to the New Bedford area will be an In the same issue, Peter Stein- speak at its convention - which extension of our own facility in means, for me anyway, very hard fels, senior religion correspondent Fall River," says Dawson. "This for The New York Times, com- not to feel exiled from politics will relieve the difficult commute mented that despite his inclination altogether." many of our New Bedford patients Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey to support the Democratic presimust undertake to obtain the care dential ticket, he feels alienated by sought and was denied a chance to Bookbags on shoulder, lunchboxes packed, uni, they need." the party's explicit insistence that speak at the Democratic convenforms pressed - kids in kindergarten through eighth St. Luke's Hospital plans to abortion should be unrestrict- tion in July. Casey, a Catholic, con'struct and equip a new center grade looked ready to tackle another year of studies at St. ed. advocates moderating the party's which will be leased to St. Anne's Father Greeley said even with support for abortion to allow some Stanislaus School, Fall River; on Sept. 9. Except...aren't Hospital. 5t. Anne's will manage, the increased emphasis on support restrictions such as parental conthey going the wrong way? staff and operate the service as an for abortion as a part of the Demo- sent requirements. extension ofits own radiation treatcratic platform, Catholics don't Steinfels said only this year has ment program. tend to vote on the basis of that the Democratic Party made "the ,.!IFihancially, this arrangement issue. The priest is a professor o'f presidential campaign a referenworks 'well for both hospitals," sociology at the University of Ariz- dum on pro-choice politics. Demoadds Day. "By collaborating on ona in Tucson and a research cratic leaders are apparently free associate at the路 National Opinion to disagree about tax cuts. deficit this project, thousands of dollars in development and operating exResearch Center in Chicago as reduction and a half dozen other WARSAW. Poland (CNS) rupt Pope John Paul II's 1983 trip penses can be saved. The cost of well as the author of a series of important topics. On abortion there Poland's most senior communist to Poland. best-selling novels. building and equipping the new is no room for dissent." , leaders were involved in the 1984 Two weeks before the murder, center is estimated at just under "The national media each year murder of an outspoken priest, Piotrowski and the three other $2.5 million. There would, howat election time become worried said a witness in the trial of two convicted officers were interrogated ever, be an estimated savings of about Catholics voting the way former secret police generals by a special Interior Ministry unit over $400,000 by using 5t. Anne's their church tells them to vote on charged" with路 c'omplicity 'in"the to' check their:reliabilit路y::rhatonly : treatment' planning' services and the abortion issue,'" he \\;rote. "I n murder.' '.:,.;.: :."', ".;.; could have been ,alith,orized 'by the路- by'consolidatrng 'billing; adminisfact, as the first Mayor Daley [of Grzegorz Piotrowski, one offour interior minister, Piotrowski added.

Chicago] remarked, 'They don't tration and other functions. Most former secret police agents prevote on that issue' and never have, importantly, this partnership with He said that when the Supreme The Mass of Christian Burial viously convicted of the murder of but the myth does not die." cancer treatment experts from St. was celebrated Sept. 12 at Our Father Jerzy Popieluszko, made Court confirmed his sentence in In fact, Father Greeley said, Anne's and the Joint Center for Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, New the accusation as a witness in the 1985, Ki~zczak came to visit him in "Catholic church leaders generally Radiation Therapy at Harvard Med, his prison cell.

Bedford, for Sister Adelaide Furtrial of Gen. Wladyslaw Ciaston could not deliver a pack of hungry ical School ensures the highest tudo, SSD, 66, who died Sept. 9 at "He said, 'It's precisely people and Gen. Zenon Platek. vampires to a blood bank." quality of care for our patients."

Morton Hospital in Taunton after Piotrowski, a former member of like you we most needed after the Currently, 45 percent of the Still, the "liberal myth about the a long illness. She was retired and he thanked me for not war,' a special department that monipatients treated by 51. Anne's blue-collar, white, ethnic, racist, principal of Our Lady of Mt. tored and harassed church per- divulging information that could radiation therapy program are from is so strong chauvinist Catholic Carmel School.

Int~rior Minisbe used against the sonnel, said it was' "technically' New Bedford. that the possiblity of Catholic Born in West Warwick, RI, she impossible" for Ciaston and Platek, try," p'iotrowski said. The interior Additionally,as part of the voters as part of a winning Demo- was the daughter of the late also said Piotrowski's minister not to have known of the murder application to the state, each hoscratic coaltion does not even occur Michael and the late Maria plot "since in our department every family was being well cared for in a pital will allocate $100,000 in its to the kinds of people who run (Medeiros) Furtado. apartment, Piotrowski told new decision was invariably made with own community for cancer outelection campaigns," he said.

She entered the Sisters of St. the court. the bosses' knowledge." reach services, screenings and Catholics tend to vote DemoDorothy in 1953 and professed _ "I replied that I would stay He also said a crucial document ed ucational programs for those cratic because of history and social perpetual vows on Sept. 22, 1962. detailing illegal "special methods" silent for five years, but than after who might be underserved in access issues, according to Father Greeley.

She held a bachelor's degree in for use against priests had been that I would talk," Piotrowski to health care, such as non-EngNew Catholic immigrants to the education from Catholic Teachers studied and approved by more said. lish-speaking populations and United States found the Republi- College in Providence and underIn a Sept. II interview with the senior Polish leaders, including people with limited or no health can Party, the bii-city bosses and took advanced studies at the Unithe former communist ruler, Gen. Polish daily, Gazeta Wyborcza, insurance coverage.

Protestants linked together and versityof Detroit in Michigan.

Wojciech J aruzelski, and his inte- , Kiszczak denied the testimony and standing in their way, while the Her teaching assignments were rior ininister, Gen. Czeslaw Kiszc- said he was ready to testify that his Democratic Party took their side at schools in Detroit, New York ministry had "never really taken zak. and responded to their needs, he 'and Rhode Island before she bev ATICAN CITY (CNS) against Polish priests. actiOil" of Father PopieThe murder said. Catholic opposition to Pro- came principal at Our Lady of Mt. Pope John Paul II is "perfectly luszko "conformed to the whole "We never struggled with the hibition also was vehement and Carmel School. well, full of health," and planning conception of Interior Ministry church - we only forced those many Catholics were driven to the She is survived by three brotha heavy travel program for 1993, work," Piotrowski said. wearing habits to obey the law," Democratic Party in protest ofthe ers, Manuel and Anthony Furtado said Joaquin Navarro-Valls, papal In October 1984 Father Popie- Kiszczak added. "During the nine nationwide ban on alcohol. of West Warwick and Peter Furspokesman. Four trips outside Italy luszko's body was found, bound, years I spent at the Interior MinisCatholics also are more sympa- tado of Providence; two sisters, already are scheduled, he told Vatthetic to Democratic social and Alice Wagner of East Greenwich, and gagged, in the Vistula River.. try, I was never responsible for the ican Radio. The August trip to arrest or detention of any priest, political issues, according to Father RI, and Pauline Little of AlexanThe priest had been an outspoken Denver for World Youth Day is Greeley, as the result of the "com- dria Bay, NY; and nieces and opponent of government repres- even though I was often under "close to the heart of the Holy strong pressure. munal" Catholic world view. nephews. sion and a supporter of the thenFather," said Navarro-Valls. The "I had my own way of saying, outlawed Solidarity trade union other trips are to Uganda, Spain, 'Yes, put .. .' against this pressure," movement. and the Baltics - "above all Kiszczak said, "but I never actuPiotrowski, who claims to have Lithuania with its Catholic majorundergone a religious conversion ally agreed." ity," he said.

The diocesan Office of Communications has announced the during his time in prison, said 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 following schedule of times at which cable channels within the Kiszczak had thanked him for an ' Correction TH E ANCHOR (USPS-545-020), Second diocese will broadcast tapes of Bishop Sean O'Malley's Aug. II earlier "provqcation" against The 90th anniversary banquet Class Postage Paid at Fall River. Mass. installation at St. 'Mary's Cathedral. ' Father Popieluszko, when planted and dance at Blessed Sacram.ent Published weekly except the weck of July 4 ammunition was "discovered" at parish, Fall River; will take place and the week after Christmas at KK7 HighEaston & Raynham Somerset, Swansea, Norton the priest's Warsaw flat early in at I p.m. following the II :30 a.m. land Avenue, Fall River. 'Mass., 02720 by Continental Cablevision, ch. 2 Rhode Island State Interconnect 1984. Piotrowski said the interior anniversary Mass Oct. 25. The the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall September 18,5 p.m.

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Protesters arrested HA v AN A (CNS) - Two Cubans who shouted "Free political prisoners!" during a Mass in honor of Cuba's patroness were seized and dragged out of the service by plainclothes police and government supporters, witnesses said. The man and woman were hustled roughly to waiting police cars outside the church, a shrine to the Virgin Mary in the Havana port neighborhood of RegIa. Plainclothes police officers and government supporters beat and pushed the man. One hit him repeatedly over the head with a plastic strap, witnesses said.

At a morning prayer service' in St. Stanislaus School auditorium, pastor Father Robert S. Kaszynski asked God's blessing for a productive school year and courage for new students facing the unknowns of kindergarten - or those increasingly tougher grades of first through eighth.

"It's going to be a good year," he assured the student body.

Good - but not ordinary. Because while St. Stan's present school building under~ goes renovation and addition of a church to replace the previous one destroyed by fire in 1991" classes will be held, at the former St. Patrick's School,seven blocks away...

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ABA over abortion stand WASHINGTON (GNS) .,......Mark· Chopko, general: coun~el for the National Conference of: Catholic, Bishops and its twin agency, the U.S. Catholic Conference, has dropped his membership in the American Bar Association because of its recent decision to back laws favoring abortion.

More than 1,500 lawyers have left the bar association over the issue. .~'J, find, m~· conti(l.I,I~4 ij1e)llher.~· shi~, ineompatible.;wit-h· .my" own" principles and strong beliefs," he wrote in a Sept. 8 letter to J. Michael McWilliams, president of the Chicago-based ABA. He said he made the decision not to renew his membership "with great regret and a strong sense of personal sadness."

In August, during its annual conyention, the ABA:s,H:ous~.of Delegates by a 276-168, vote ap-' proved a resolution to oppose state and federal restrictions on abortion. The vote affirmed a 659-340 vote taken a day earlier of the general membership attending the convention.

In 1990 the ABA rejected asimilar effort to endorse a right to abortion in favor of an official stance of neutrality.

Chopko said in his letter that he had worked "quite hard" for the ABA's policy on abortion neutrality and was "comfortable with that policy because neither side could claim' that the organization was supporting his or her own political or moral viewpoint."

He said the ABA's reversal on its abortion stance was "both regrettable and erroneous" 'and added that the organization "staked itself to the most extreme position possible in the abortion debate in this society."

"As a commentator on constitutional abortion, I have concluded that Roe vs. Wade set the nation on an erroneous course," Chopko wrote. "It interrupted political processes already then occurring in the states. It judicially imposed a solution giving one side an absolute advantage over the other. Over the last 20 years the public policy debate through which the people, ultimately, decide important and controversial issues has been truncated."

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Richard Collins, spokesman for the bar association, told Catholic Sunday, September 20, 1992 News Service, that the 1,500 resignations 'was the largest number he 12 Noon to 7:00 p.m. had seen in the 16 years he has worked there. .

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"Obviously we regret the loss of members," he said, but he added that the number was a small percentage of the organization's 370,000 members.

Collins pointed out that ABA has 750 policy positions and "no one agrees on all of them." He said the organization has received many letters from those who believe the ABA should be neutral on the abortion issue, but are not resigning because they want to "continue to work with other policies."

"Possibly another motion would come up to bring the organization to return to a position of neutrality, but I have not heard of any such movement underfoot," he added.

In a related action, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has called on Attorney General William Barr to end the role the ABA has in the judicial selection process.

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路the moorina-, Educational Authenticity During political campaigns should Catholic colleges and universities extend invitations to candidates who espouse causes and platforms that are opposed to church teaching?

More and more we find' politicians invited to churchsponsored campuses proclaiming ethical and moral values opposite those that the college should promote. For the sake of recognition, many Catholic colleges eagerly seek out candidates who might give the school a moment of national broadcast time. Value concepts receive little consideratio'n in such , decisions.

There are many who feel that they should. However, in a mad dash. for relevancy, church schools ignore what should be a paramount concern. Such positions are contradictory when one considers that a Catholic school should be just that - a , reflection of church. Not simply a place where lessons are taught, a Catholic school should operate with an attentiveness to student's needs guided by the Gospel message.

There are some in Catholic school circles who would ignore this reality. They would, argue that personal freedom and individual choice have been hampered by moralistic religious attitudes in education.

To be sure, the history of Catholic schools has had its share of Jansenism. Individuals have been rejected because they did not fit the mold. Excesses of formalism and conformism have indeed had a limiting effect on many church educational institutions.

Faults and fables do have to be surfaced and confronted.

However, this does not mean we must throw the baby out with the bath water. Many have done this for social acceptance and secular approval. There are Catholic colleges and universities where theology has been reduced to a mere civic survey.

Valued education is equated with monetary success.

In such schools a hostility to church structures has evolved and a crisis of conscience regarding the truths offaith and their related moral values has developed. The result is a form <;>f total religious indifference. If a Catholic school is excellent academically but does not witness to authentic values, then something is really amuck.

In times of political decision making there is little question about the need for an open forum on issues that affect our society. Yet, it seems that we do a disservice to the word "Catholic" when we deliberately turn our hearts and minds away from the fullness of truth contained in the Gospel. A Catholic school should be rooted in Christ and His Word. This is not easy to accomplish if Catholic schools are made to function as civic institutions. The task is to achieve harmony between a serious effort to trans.mit culture and an honest witness to the Gospel.

To do so it would be well for us to remember that while faith is not to be identified with anyone culture and is independent of all cultures, it should inspire every culture. Pope John Paul in an address put it this way: "Faith which does not become culture is faith which is not received fully, not assimilated entirely, not lived fully." Let this be a reason for educational authenticity.

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ST. STANISLAUS EIGHTH-GRADERS BEARING A CRUCIFIX AND PORTRAIT OF OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA LEAD THE WAY DOWN ROCKLAND STREET. AT LEFT IS THE FORMER ST. STANISLAUS CHURCH, DAMAGED BY FIRE IN APRIL 1991. MANY OF THE SCHOOLCHILDREN HAVE BEEN SAVING THEIR ALLOWANCES AND CHANGE TO AID THE PARISH'S REBUILDING EFFORT.

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By Father Kevin J. Harrington One of my pet peeves is efforts by scholars to rewrite the Bible in order to remove sexist references to God. However politically incorrect tbese references may be perceived by contemporary society, history has proven that there is little value gained by reinventing language for the sake of being relevant.

What we need to understand is that all God-talk is analogical. A simple story concerning a fifth grade girl's letter to God illustrates that some people fail to understand this. She writes: "Dear God, are boys really better than girls? I know you are one, but please try to be fair."

True, Jesus was a male but God is not - at least not in traditional Judaeo-Christian theology. True, the Bible speaks of God as Father, King, Master, Shepherd and in Letters Welcome other masculine terms. But let us not forget that it also refers to God Letters to the editor are welcomed. All letters should be brief and the as a rock,living water, a whirlwind. editor reserves the right to condense any letters if deemed necessary. All The great Angelic Doctor, St. letters must be signed and contain a home or business address.

Thomas Aquinas, taught in the 13 century that nothing can be said simultaneously of God and of a creature in a univocal (identical) sense, not even that he "exists."

Aquinas was well aware that our finite minds would never be able to know God fully but he posOFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER sessed a great respect for language Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River as metaphor when he probed the mystery of the deity. Not surprisP.O. BOX 7 887 Highland Avenue ingly, scientists who probe the Fall River, MA 02722-0007 Fall River, MA 02720 - outer limits of our knowledge of Telephone 508-675-7151 the created order share that respect FAX (508) 675-7048 Danish physicist Niels Bohr once Send address changes to P.O. Box 7 or call telephone number above asserted: "When it comes to atoms, language can only be used as po'etry."

GENERAL MANAGER EDITOR From a Christian perspective, Rosemary Dussault Rev. John F. Moore ~ Leary Press-Fall RIver the historic Jesus gives us the best understanding of the nature of

God. Jesus did not hesitate to refer to himself in maternal terms - as when he longed to gather the people of Jerusalem to himself as a hen does her chicks.

Jesus stood in sharp contrast to his contemporaries who downgraded women. His compassion and sensitivity as witnessed in his encounter with the woman caught in the act of adultery' as well as in the case of the Samaritan woman at the well testify clearly that he was not a product of any arbitrary cultural prejudices.

His close friendship with Lazarus extended to Lazarus's sisters, Martha and Mary of Bethany. He chose to reveal himself in his risen state first to Mary Magdalen, in spite of the fact that her testimony as a woman would by male-dominated Jewish law never be considered valid.

Efforts to expunge biblical sexist references to the divinity seem

prayer~BOX Prayer for Life Lord, God, hear myprayers on this day, Warm those whom life leaves cold, illumine those who are ignorant ojlife's true dimensions, and inspire allpeoples with the vision oj eternal life. I ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

to ignore an important lesson taught in the Jewish tradition. In the Old Testament or in the Hebrew Scriptures God is represented as saying: "Would that you would forget me and keep my commandments."

This is good advice for any age.

God seems to be saying not to worry so much about my proper name but be more concerned about being just, merciful and humble.

In the New Testament, the crucified Jesus stands for all history's innocent victims. In this context, St. Paul spoke for Christ when he preached: "There does not exist among you slave or free, male or female ..." In view of the sexual violence inflicted on women, the discrimination practiced against them, the multiple sorrows of mothers and wives, womankind is rightly linked with Christ' crucified. The female contemporaries of Jesus were no strangers to suffering; indeed, it was mostly women who wept for him beneath the' cross.

Controversy about perceiving Goa as a man or a woman would dissipate if we all worked harder at being better persons. God is the creator of an. things; therefore he embodies, in his own unimaginable way, the positive perfections and none of the imperfections of things created.

This is why it can be said that God can be father-like without lacking the advantages of being mother-like. This is why the Hebrew prophet Isaiah had no problem representing God as saying: "Even if a mother forget her child, I will not forget you."

Our per.ception of God has more to to do with our love for one another than it has to do with our language about God.

• give Amos 8:4-7 I Timothy 2:1-8 Luke 16:1-13

By FATHER ROGER

True followers of God approach KARBAN life from a completely different direction than those who do not rich lived to make money. They follow God. Whether Christian, couldn't wait until religious celeJew, Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist, brations ended so they once again the orientation of believers is not could rig their scales, buy their only the same, it also distinguishes way to power (a "pair of sandals" them from those who just nomi- is a biblical idiom for a bribe) and nally profess such beliefs. This cheat their customers. tendency transcends all religions, Amos, not impressed by their uniting people far more deeply determination, lays an everlasting than any individual denomination curse on them. "Yahweh," he procould. claims, "has sworn by the pride of True followers of God are much Jacob: Never will I forget a thing mor~ concerned with others' wellthey have done!" The Lord will always remember how they used being than their own.

At a time when many of this their neighbors instead of loved planet's wars revolve around reli- them.

More than any other evangelist, gious issues, we must remind ourLuke is concerned with wealth's selves that those who truly follow God never use their faith as a rea- proper function. He believes God son to kill others. Whether Jew or only enriches us so that we have Muslim in the Holy Land, Ca,tholic so~ething to share with others. or Protestant-in Northern Ireland;,' N-o:matter how we 'explain Jesus' Orthodox, -C:athoiic·or. Muslim in:' sto'rfofthe·unj:list mahager, Luke' _ Yugoslavia, Hindu, MusIimorSikh . 'narrates it for one simple reason. in India, our beliefs should join us "Make friends for yourselves together, not tear us apart. through your use of this world's Almost every author of our own goods," Jesus teaches, "so that Scriptures attacks the human drive when they fail you, a lasting recepto be number one. Page after page, tion will be yours." The money century after century, Jewish or with which we have been entrusted Christian, the theologians who is actually "someone else's." constructed our Bible hammer Luke's solemn warning echoes away at this truth. True happiness, . down the .ages: "You cannot give both here and in eternit'y,-'consists yourselfto God and money." Only only in giving ourselves for others. the outward driven can be true True love is never give and take; it God-followers. is always give and give.

The author of I Timothy even , The prophet Amos makes this carries this basic generosity into . truth one of his main themes. the realm of prayer. "I urge," he There were many poor in 8th cen- writes, "that petitions, prayers, tury, B.C., Israel - and many intercessions, and thanksgivings rich. Because the poor had no be offered for all." clout, the rich could basically do He insists on such behavior what they wanted to them, with- because of the way he conceives of out any fear of retaliation. The Jesus relating to his Father and to

us. "For there'is one God," he teaches. "There is also one mediator between God and the human race, Christ Jesus, himself human, who gave himself as ransom for all." Jesus' whole ministry revolved around bailing us out of our problems. If he is - through his dying and rising - the go-between for God and us, should we not work, through our prayers, at being the go-between for God and others?

We should imitate Jesus whenever, and however, possible.

All sacred writers and teachers base their belief that we should spend our lives in concern for others on their profound experience of a God .who is deeply concerned for each of us. Believing their students and readers long to be happy and fulfilled people, they encourage us to be like God. Only when we begin to realize that real divinity consists in total and complete love, and not total and complete power, will we also begin to realize how sad and unfulfilled we are when we try to conquer, kill and control others in the name of religion,

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One of his new acquaintances, Matthew Perry, had offered to share his Devil Dog with the pastor. Father Kaszynski could have half, said Matthew, and tomorrow he would bring the priest his own Devil Dog. It was a deal he couldn't refuse, said Father Kaszynski, who admitted a fondness for the snack. He told of the incident at the prayer service to encourage all the students to demon~ strate the same spirit of generosity so that Jesus' presence would always be felt at their school.

ST. LOUIS (CNS) - The Catholic Health Association of the United States has launched a nationwide immunization program to respond to sharp increases in vaccine-preventable childhood diseases.

The program, called "Immunizations: Building Blocks for Healthy Children," is designed to help Catholic health care facilities to work with public. private and other ,church groups to improve the immu'nization status of preschool children in their local communities.

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By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN Q. If the pope's blessing can be obtained by all who follow the ceremony on television or radio, why can't the obligation of Sunday Mass be fulfilled by watching the Mass on television on Sunday morning?

F or that matter, why can't we go to confession over the telephone?

(Pennsylvania) A. As I have explained pre-

Why go to Mass when it's on television?

If one cannot be present for viously, the Mass is not a private prayer. A blessing is different, even Sunday Mass, a TV or radio Mass though there are always public may assist in uniting one with it in and communal aspects to any spirit or in enhancing our desire blessing given in the name of the for union with Christ in the Euchchurch. arist.

Such listening or viewing, howThis would be true, for example, of a blessing given to the world ever, is never a substitute for being by the Holy Father. there.

The sacrament of penance is Some Catholics still do not much the same. It is a personal realize that the obligation concerning Sunday Mass, which con-, dialogue and presence with Christ tinues tradition goil)g back to the and the Catholic community on earliest days of the church, is not earth as represented by the priest. to hear or watch someone else do This personal encounter is essensomething but to be there to do it tial; telephoned confession, could oneself and share it with our fellow not fulfill the requirements for the Catholics. sacrament of forgiveness of sins.

The Eucharist is an action, a Q. Recently you wrote about celebration of the Catholic com- the Latin Mass. I don't agree with munity. It cannot be substituted , all the reasons, but I am happy , for by seeing a television program. because everything is in English. I

would go to a Latin Mass and not understand. So much seemed like a mystery.

Now so many things are different, and I like the changes.

It is great that the lay people... help sing and teach the songs from the altar, and everyone gets more out of the Mass.

I hope it stays like it is because I feel closer to God. (Missouri) Q. lam old enough to miss the near silence of the "Latin Mass."

I've always assumed that while the 10 percent of us, who knew the Latin Mass find the vernacular less favorable for worship, the 90 percent who used, to attend in bored silence are now participating in the vernacular. That is a major gain for the church.

(California)

A. I usually do not use letters like this in this column since they are more comment than question.

Of the constant flow of similar sentiments which I receive, however, these (considerably shortened) letters are a reminder of the immense gifts the Holy Spirit has given to us through the church in our lifetime.

For most Catholics (90 percent10 percent is probably about right) I know the words will touch home.

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,What can we do to correct his "mouth?"

Dr. JAMES&, As a psychologist, I amreceiving more and more parental complaints of"mean mouth" and "foul MARY mouth." I think we have an epidemic of bad, manners.

KENNY Where does it start? Typical teenage 'rebellion has found a new Dear Dr. Kenny: My ll-year- , mode of expression in the lanold son has suddenly begun to guage of comedians like Eddie treat his stepmother outrageously. 'Murphy,and in rap. Teens are He tells her quite bluntly, "I don' using language to outrage elders. have to do what you say."

You are correct in appreciating He has even called her a "bitch" that the lecture-yell-punish method among other things. I have given of discipline does not work for him stern lectures, ,yelled at him "mouth." The reason is such lanand punished him severely' with guage is intended to get your spankings and grounding. ' attention by upsetting you. When you react verbally with a lecture Nothing seems to work. Infact, , it's getting worse. He has a tanand punishment, you are playing' trum and starts throwing things. right into the game.

By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

I have been a hungry reader ever since I first discovered that a word on a page is an image and an idea.

I mention this to explain why in my early teens I was reading, books about mysticism.

I was fascinated by the extraordinary religious personages who were so drenched in the love of God. They had a connection with

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tions, which kept us from seeking 'woman who lived in England in solidarity with all humankind is God that we ordinary mortals can hardly imagine. total completion with God. the 14th century. She lived alone , what is most needed these days and probably was not a nun. But when we are plagued with actions By the time I was,14, I had gone That approach to mysticism was she was an educated' woman, un- of man's inhumanity and isolation. through so many books that I usual for those times.

Reminiscent of Christ's plea after wanted something new and excit- a good way to fall into masochism.

I even.tried to relate to Jacopone Julian had a series of visions the Last Supper, "Father, that ing, and I found it ip. the writings DaTodi who said, ' . . unng a hme wh en s h e wlisvery ',they maybe'one," is Julian's reve. !'Send me illness, d of people -like St. John of the n Lord, .. , chillS· ~¥erydayand 'ill: 'She'wrote 'them-down in'What .: 1,ation" thli "'in'the"sight of God Cross. swollen 'drop,sy, GI,ye m,e tooth- she,cal'~A "Sl'x'teen of )"J' ":," • !",.• , "''';'',.!,)' '" ,,' 'd ,,.,," , ' " " :, ' , ' ... , ' < . ,- "", t' _' , ,.~,.,. , {Rev.elat,l·,rm'~ ,,' ,_~"'1' ' eveJ;'yman IS on", 1l1an, an one Of course I didn't know at the ache; h~~dache and ~tomach " Divine'Love." , ' ~,.' I. ·,'man is everyman." time what the writings of the mys- crlamps.... And t~lese Pleasforha 'Juliansawthattherelationship' 'Juiian is a'remarkably modern tics were all about. My mind swal- p ~gue ~~, on unh we get to t e between God and man is not shat- woman worth knowi~g. I think lowed them'with a kind of roman- ,clIncher. For you created me as te,red by, human failure and sin. that as we approach the third milticism. your beloved. And I, ungrateful "There is no wrath in, God" she I' . , C th r h Id b wretch' put yo'u to death." " ' t· , " ", enmu.m, a. 0 I~S~; o~ . eC0!De As an immature teenager might t' "," ".wrote.,., : " , , ' ,. " acquamtedwlthourmcredlblynch conclude, I thought the mystics ,: I wish I had'discovered Julian of ". Spe ~as. ~n~ ,qf th~ first !9 ~xpe-, ,Ch~i~ti~n, my~~i_ca1~~:!tage, ~nd were telling me it was noble; to Noiwich at that time, for she'would n~nce the f:mm,n~s!~e0,( G?d, as i,';,Juhan would'begood to start With. despise our lowly human condi- have- helped' me clear up some of .sheyvrote, As ~ruly ~s God IS our ' ': I' am ,happy, H~at • eventually tion. I thought they were saying we my misunderstandings. . Fatller, so trulY',ls God our, . grew up enough ~o glean the prowere on earth only to purge o~r­ " Mother.", ' , " . ' f()undwisdom and inSpiration in We don't know much about this J. Julian'.s r~affirmatio1'). of Christ's .. 'the works of the mystics. selves'of our despicable imperfec,"l

Fighting the good fight.: a few ground rules

I know a couple who got into a terrific argument over the dirt on the top of their refrigerator. It seems that,a very tall friend rested his arm on top of their refrigerator. When he withdrew it, his shirtsleeve was grimy - an embarrassing moment for ali three.

they ended up not speaking 'for. days, I don't know about you readers but I haven't cleaned the top of my refrigerator in months, and I'm not about to apologize for it. Who cleans the top of the refrigerator?

What intrigues me about this true story, though, is the reaction of the couple. If it happened in my kitchen, I think all three of us would laugh. My husband and I save our fights for the real stuff.

Oh, we have fights all right, but we don't enjoy them so we try to keep them at a minimum.

When their friend left, the husband lit into his wife for her shoddy housekeeping standards, recalling her past failures as well. She reacted defensively, the fight escalated, and

After thirtysome years of living together, we subscribe to a few rules on fighting. We never sat down and brainstormed these. They just sort of came into being.

DOLORES CURRAN

1. Make sure the fight is worth fighting. Sure, I get irritated when he uses my good scissors to cut cardboard and he gets 'irritated when I park too close to the trash cans but it's easier to hide the scissors and move the trash cans than to bare our teeth at one another and say hurtful things which we regret.

2. Realize we can disagree and still love each other. It's not my failing if he backs a political candidate who's a jerk or his failing if he can't get excited about my sundry causes. I can always cancel his vote and he can ignore my causes.

How boring it would be to have to agree on all fronts just to keep peace in marriage. Being able to take different sides on issues which

don't affect our marriage keeps' spice in the relationship. We've learned that our differences over the Gulf War didn't mean a hoot one year later, 3. Compromise, negotiate, collaborate. When we have differen- , ces affecting our married life, like do we send money to the kids or do we send them our bills, compromising is better than fighting. The main reason it's better is because the loser in an all-out fight can always punish the winner. The loser can buy something we can't afford, withhold intimacy, and just generally make life miserable, 4. Stick to the issue. I know how tempting it is to recall what he said about the size of my feet 20 years ago and to mention the last 12 times he forgot something I consi-

dered important. But unless it has bearing on the issue at hand, I clamp my teeth on my tongue. So does he; so after a good fight, we talk tenderly. ' 5. Finally, never fight about the top of the refrigerator.

Marian conference HOUSTON (CNS) - A Marian conference for the Queen of the Americas Guild is to be held Nov. 12-16, in Mexico City, and clergy and participants are expected to attend from all over the United States. The guild's 14th annual conference will be held at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe and will commemorate the SOOth anniversary of the evangelization of the Americas.

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Father Norton's sharing of the difficulties involved in trying to meet the needs and expectations of Catholic Charitable organization serving the people with diverse opinions should ATAMBUA, Indonesia (CNS) Father Makarius Molo, 40, the be a source of encouragement. He _ Catholic aid in western Timor project head, said that the diocepoor in the third world and the U.S.A. desires reminds us that we are all members has joined the effort to beat chronic san commission gives priority to of the Body of Christ, and our drought by helping build a series dam construction because "the vilregional representatives, full and part time, to lagers in most parts of the diocese vocation is to love each other and of dams. help each other, while recognizing The hilly, barren island - part . really need water." work in a marketing, promotional and public . - WIt . h on Iy a few that we each have our faults. of I nd onesla Overseas funding agencies, relations capacity. Fair pay, expenses covered I hope that we will continue to sJ:11all scattered woods, has been Father Molo added, "are happy find articles of this quality ,in the unable to 'store enough water dur- with our activities and are willing Anchor.' , ' and car allowance. , ' ingthe December-March rainy sea- to finance more dam construction· . the year.

Marie H. Leavens son to last projects."

Write Walt Campbell, CFCA Teaticket With the aid, villagers built 22 He said that villagers eagerly - - - - - - - - - - - - small dams across rivers and participated.

206 Fawn Court streams that usually dry up after the rains leave, reports UCA News, "They collected materials such Pittsburgh, PA 15239 an Asian church news agency based as stones, sand and timbers. Groups ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNS) in Thailand. They hope to check took turns helping construction or call 1,800,862,6935 ' - A Catholic member of the Pun- runoff and save groundwater for workers while the government jab Provincial Assembly is pro- households, livestock and farming. he.lped bulldoze excavations," he posing legislation to .ll1ake p,~se- . " The project is. fu.nde~1. by sal~. . . ' ' .' , . cration ~o.f~Chr,js.tian.cbuI.ches~-~CI!:IlliMQra.gut&hCath9Iicagen-.. _.. _p'eopl.e Jlvl!1g ~round th~ dams illegal. Johnson Michael said he cy that provides development are now begmmng ~o enJoy the will demand legal shelter for funds, and Catholic Relief Serv- benefits. of the proJects, Father Christian property and respect for ices, the U.S. bishops' interna- Molo saId. "Thanks to the dams, areas the sanctity of holy places. Michael tional relief and development proposed the legislation in the agency' which formerly were barren now wake of charges that the Punjab In Wanibesak village, the Atam- look green with grass, newly plantTHE police had destroyed property be- bua diocese's economic commis- ed trees and farmers' vegetables," longing to St. Anthony Catholic sion helped villagers build a dam the priest said. "Rivers and springs CHILDREN••.

Church in Lahore, 180 miles south that supplies water to more than no longer dry up. New springs ofthePakistanicapital,Islamabad.

1,000 people. even emerge here and there."

For about $25 a Father Andrew Francis, parish pastor, said while he was away last week, village May, officers from the adjacent missions provide district police headquarters "forcibly destroyed an existing bounhelp and hope for dary wall, encroached about three Patricia Crane Ramsay has been A 1964 graduate ofthe Academy, many, especially feet (on parish property) and built appointed development director Ms. Ramsay has previously served a new 'boundary wall.''' children. for the Dominican Sisters of St. as alumni affairs director at ForCatherine of Siena and the Do- syth School for Dental Hygienists minican Academy, Fall River. in Boston. Most recently she was It takes the love and During the next few months, employed as a dental hygienist.

Ms. Ramsay will work with the dedication of priests, A past president of the Dominicongregation leadership to develop can Academy Alumnae AssociaReligious and lay long-range plans which will be Sept. 19 integrated into an overall devel- tion, Ms. Ramsay chaired the ascatechists in the 1859, Rev. Henry E. S. Henniss, opment program. She will also sociation's reorganization comMissions to support Pastor, St. Mary, New Bedford coordinate special events includ- mittee, and most recently chaired the DA Centennial Fund Com1985, Msgr. Arthur W. Tansey, ing the upcoming Festival of Joy. a village mission. mittee.

Retired Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Fall River But it also depends on YOU. As president of the American Dental Hygienists Association, she Sept. 20 chaired a 13-member board of 1918, Rev. Simon A. O'Rourke, trustees which governed a 30,000 I , . The Society for THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH I Chaplain, United States Navy member organization and admin- I 1958, Rev. Orner Valois, Pastor, .. .. .all of us committed to the worldwide mission ofJesus I istered a $3.5 million budget. She Sacred Heart, New Bedford • Reverend Monsignor John J. Oliveira, V.E. . .

I I also served as liaison to other pro. 410 Highland Ave~ue. Post Office Box 2577 Fall River, MA 02722 I Sept. 21 fessional health organizations, I 1882, Rev. George Pager, Foungovernment agencies, and corpo- I Accept my offering for a village mission of: I der, Sacred Heart, New Bedford rations. During her administration, 0 $10 0 $25 0 $50 0 $75 0 $100 I I 1938, Rev. George Jowdy, Pasthe corporate funding base of tor, Our Lady of Purgatory, New ADHA was greatly expanded.

I Other $ I Bedford Name I I Ms. Ramsay replaces Sister 1988, Rev. William H. Crane, Donna Brunell, OP, who was the SM, superior at National Shrine I Address I first Director of Development apof Our Lady of Victories, Boston State Zip I pointed in 1986. Sister Brunell has I City accepted the position of commun- I 0 Send information on becoming a monthly donor! I Sept. 24 ications director for the collabora1955, Rev. Joseph E.e. Bourque, ANCH.9/18/92 tion of the Fall River, Ossining Pastor, Blessed Sacrament, ·Fall l.j~~ - - - Your gift is tax deductible! -- - River PATRICIA CRANE RAMSAY and Newburgh Dominican Sisters.

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RI bishop criticizes politicians who favor abortion PROVIDENCE, R.I. (CNS)Providence Bishop Louis E. Gelineau said political candidates who support laws favoring abortion "give evidence of a potential disregard for the whole range of human rights when it may be expedient or convenient for them to do so."

His comments came in an election-year letter that was carefully worded to avoid any endorsement of politician or party. The letter was released Sept. 10.

He accused candidates who favor abortion as those who "mask this position under many guises - a woman's right to choose, the separation of church and state, constitutional guarantees, health and safety concerns, the desires of constituents, and the list goes on."

Bishop Gelineau said few candidates seem to be addressing the abortion debate for what it is - "a decision about who lives and who dies."

He criticized those politicians who say they're not opposed to abortion in specific cases, such as rape and incest, and said that was "an attempt to take the focus off the moral and human horror of abortion."

"But make no mistake, these rare cases are not what the political and legislative debate surrounding abortion is all about," he said.

"The true debate is about the proper and just use of power - the power of the living to deny life to the flawed or the inconvenient, the reasons for the vast mmajority of abortions performed in this country,:', ; , ;' . ; ~ I,,;, I', ...,', ; .,;,; ..,;, The bishop said he issued the . letter because of numerous inquiries from Catholics in the state

Down Broadway... A police escort paved the way for the St. Stan's contingent, which drew curious glances from other morning commuters. about balancing politicians' stands on abortion with their stands on social issues. The letter acknowledged that this was a real dilemma "this year, in particular, when abortion rl}eto~ic se~ms JO be oc~uPy-, ingsq m..u,ch,pf.tbF p'pVtifa},%b~te,!;~ I'i Bishop Geli'neau conchided his letter by urging Catholics to vote.

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particular office, politician or party.

The bishop also avoided telling Catholics to choose candidates only on the basis of their abortion voting records.

"Choose with care.and attention to ~Jt.at is,figh.t.,)F,9!JRw~:y;oupye!I"1~ formed conscience and look for candidates who will do the same," he wrote.

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Among marchers was J oao Amaral (center in left middle photo), the only living founder of the New Bedford feast. Born in 1905 on the island of St. Michael, Azores, he was one of 10 Azorean emigrants who brought the feast from their homeland to Immaculate Conception parish, New Bedford, in 1929.

Right: the Senhor da Pedra statue.

Bottom photo: Dr. Jorge Serpa, Consul of Portugal in New Bedford, addresses the Society. Seated are, from left: Jose E.P. de Melo, mayor of Vila Franca do Campo, St. Michael, Azores; Father Evaristo Tavares, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church; Horacio B. Tavares, president of the Society of Senhor da Pedra, Inc.; Oliver M. Cabral, feast committee chairman.

LIMA, Peru (CNS) - Peru's of invincibility had grown up primate has called on the public to around Guzman. celebrate the capture of terrorist In 1991 a series of police arrests leader Abimael Guzman Reynoso, of top members of Shining Path whose Maoist "Sendero Luminoso" shocked the nation when it was [Shining Path) organization has revealed some members of the terplagued the country for more than rorist hierarchy were also part of a decade.

Peru's economic, intellectual and religious elite.

"We Peruvians. have路 to make good use ofthis special moment of Two former nuns were captured happiness and renewed hope in in raids early that year. One was order to ~uild a united country," Nelly Evans de Alvarez Calderon, said Archbishop Augusto Vargas a member of an upper-class family Alzamora of Lima. who had graduated from one of Guzman was arrested Sept. 12 the country's most exclusive girls' at a rented house in the middle- schools. Police said they believed class Lima neighborhood of Surco.

Ms. Evans was the movement's The house had been disguised as a treasurer. ballet school.

The other was Ana Maria OriA special police force, the Na- huela. A third former religious, tional Directorate against Terror- Rosalia Tami Puell, was said to ism, had the hideout under surveil- remain at large. lance for several weeks before a The two women were caught in force of 100 officers was given the a police sweep which also netted order to raid it. videotapes of Guzman meeting with Guzman was caught with seven members of Lima's elite in the capother members of Shining Path's - ita I. One tape was said to have leadership" including the person shown the bearded guerrilla leader considered second in command, attempting the dance that Anthony Yanila Iparraguiree Revoredo, Quinn made famous in the movie whose alias was Comrade Miriam. "Zorba the Greek."

The 57-year-old dedicated MarxSendero Luminoso has been ist and former professor of philoblamed for 25,000 deaths and more sophy at the university in the than $22 billion in losses in the Andean city of Ayacucho was called economically troubled nation. by his followers "President Gon- Among those killed by the guerrilzalo" and the "Fourth Sword of las are police officers, community Marxism," after Karl Marx, Vla- leaders, foreign missionaries and dimir Lenin and Mao Tsetung. others the rebels considered rivals During the past 12 years of Sen- for the public's loyalty. dero Luminoso operations, a myth Archbishop Vargas Alzamora

and his predecessor, Cardinal Juan Landazuri Rickets, while condemning the guerrilla movement have also said that it feeds on widespread social injustice and poverty.

Sendero Luminoso has thrived in Peru's large and impoverished Indian population where there is widespread resentment of the rulIng classes who are descended from the Spanish conquerors and colonial rulers.

The churchmen have challenged the government to move to end social injustice as one step toward bringing the guerrilla war to a close.

Help for families CHICAGO (CNS) - Reflecting on his own experience of growing up in a single-parent home, Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago announced an archdiocesan plan to assist children and families. The plan includes parishbased parenting programs, locally produced television programs designed to help families manage problems, a series of hearings with children as "expert" witnesses, and greater advocacy on the part of legislators. The plan is a response to the statement issued in January by the U.S. bishops titled "Putting Children and Families First."

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FALL RIVER Mayor John R. Mitchell presents a videotape of a local forum on hate crimes, bigotry and genocide to the Fall River public library, represented by library administrator Regina Slezak. The forum, "Holocaust: Can It Happen Here?", was held in May at Bristol Community College. The Fall River diocese was among the sponsoring religious and civic organizations. Others were the Fall River mayor's office, school and police departments, Jewish Community Council and the Interfaith Council and Council of Churches of Greater Fall River. The videotape is now available at the North Main Street library.

Also pictured, from left: Rep. Joan Menard, a forum panelist; Dr. Irving Fradkin, forum cochair; and panelist James Wilcox, a Holocaust expert and history teacher at Fall River's BMC Durfee High School. Representing the diocese as a panelist was Father Robert S. Kaszynski, pastor of St. Stanislaus parish, Fall River. (Hickey photo)

NFP reliable if used properly BALTIMORE (CNS) - Natural family planning, also known as NFP: mention it and you're likely to get a puzzled look or a skeptical snicker. Few scientists have re-

od is that NFP advocates often vered more reliable ways to deterhave several children. mine fertility, ways in which a But Michelle and Tim Hill, with woman monitors herselfbycheck-. five children ranging in age from I ing changes in cervical mucus to II, say the fact that they have a . and/ or temperature and cervix. If search'ed'-t1ie':fu~lfiod';ai'ldieven"~ large'ra'riiil}ns'iio1"pr'oof'th'a"t ilief' , she is in a fertile perioa, she and: fewer gynecologists advocate it. method doesn't work. Rather, it her husband abstain from sexual However, supporters say it's helped them space their children intercourse if they wish to avoid more natural, less expensive and two to two and a half years apart. pregnancy. just as reliable as other forms of The real point of NFP is "openCouples who practice NFP say birth control - if used properly. ness to life," Hill told the Catholic its side benefits make commitment For some, that's a big "if." So Review, newspaper of the Balti- to the method worthwhile, openbig, in fact, that only 4 percent of more archdiocese. ing lines of communication and married Catholic women in the And it has helped their mar- improving the marriage relationUnited States rely on any method riage. "It has a lot to do with ship. involving periodic abstinence, the communication," he said, "and livDespite such benefits, artificial only form of birth control approve,d ing your married life in accord contraceptives are widely accepted by the Catholic Church. That num- with God's teaching." and available and many couples Today's NFP is a far cry from are not eager to abstain about one ber is down from 32 percent in 1965. the rhythm method of the 1930s. week a month. Also, many physiOne argument against the methIn the mid-'50s scientists disco- cians do not advocate - or even suggest - NFP to their patients.

Dr. John Bruchalski is an exception. Based in Laurel, Md., he is one of the few obstetrician/ gynecologists in the country who deals only with NFP. His secretary tells prospective patients up front that he doesn't prescribe any artificial contraceptives.

"If a woman is only fertile 100 hours per month, why use hormonal contraceptives every day of the month?" said Bruchalski, a Catholic. He and his wife practice NFP. "I tell people, with the proper education, the method has an effectiveness rate documented at 90 to 98 percent, he said. "Usually when you get pregnant [while using NFP methods], it's when you cut a corner somewhere and you know when you cut the corner. It's just like when a woman forgets to take her [birth control] pill one day.'"

He said many of his patients practice NFP for religious reasons but added that many others consider-the method as a no-side effects alternative to artificial contraception.

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Women's pastoral Continued from Page One fourth draft engaged in a theological defense of that position.

Bishop Lucker said the theological argumentation in the new draft for an exclusively male priesthood was weak and at one point, in his opinion, contradictory.

Bishops Sheets and Vaughan told CNS that the new draft's theology on a male-only priesthood was correct as far as it went, but they thought it still needed to be expanded and strengthened.

On the issue of sexism as an evil affecting women, Bishops Sheets and Vaughan had argued at the bishops' meeting last June that the third draft focused too narrowly on sexism.

Both told CNS that they considered the new draft's expansion to other issues an improvement, but they did not believe it went far enough yet in addressing those other issues.

Some strains of "radical feminism," Bishop Sheets said, form a fundamental challenge to basic church teachings and practice, such as the repudiation of traditional language for God and the refusal to celebrate Eucharist with a male priest.

He said such views present a "potential for division in the church" that is without precedent in Chr!stian history, and it would be "naive" to issue a pastoral on women's concerns that ignores such issues.

On the other hand, Bishops Lucker and Murphy thought the newer

version constituted an unacceptable weakening of the critique of sexism contained in earlier drafts.

Bishop Murphy said that should the bishops approve the document in its latest form, it would "further anger and alienate significant numbers of women and men who serve with us in the ministry of the church."

Bishop Lucker found it "puzzling at least" that the new draft has added several pages of commentary on sexual morality.

"These issues are just as much a concern of men as of women" and had no special place in a pastoral letter on women's concerns, he said.

He said he thought the new draft's argument against ordina-_ tion of women fell into contradiction when it suggested a priest must be male because he is, in the words of the document, "a sacramental symbol of Christ, who in his humanity stands among us as our mediator and high priest."

Bishop Lucker pointed out that the draft used the word "humanity," not masculinity or maleness.

"The point is that Jesus is not a priest as a male, but a priest as a human being," Bishop Lucker said.

Bishop Lucker, who in June urged the bishops to drop the pastoral and substitute a short statement of their agreements and differences, said he thought the new draft "has a chance to pass" because it has been changed to "satisfy the concerns of the conservatives."

"It would be close," he added.

Religious orders Continued from Page One gious orders today "are ambivalent about saying, 'We want you to put your life on the line.' " In the words of a 55-page draft "Executive Summary" ofthe study, "Lack of clarity regarding the group's mission offers little to attract the commitment or capture the passion of potential members."

Another immediate implication of the study for religious orders, Sister Ukeritis said, is that the analysis of leaders suggests ways to improve the leadership of religious orders through training programs for new superiors.

The "Executive Summary," cowritten by Father Nygren and Sister Ukeritis, said that both members and leaders of orders see leadership as an "increasing concern."

"The most striking weakness among current leaders is their inability to formulate a strategy to achieve a purpose or mission," it said.

The report said the study showed that those identified as outstanding leaders "have a firm awareness ofthe presence of God and of their relationship with God. They also have a strong need for achievement and tend to use their power for the good of the group."

Average leaders, on the other hand, "are motivated more by acceptance than achievement and are more inclined to act on behalf of individual members" than for the common good, it said.

A report by Father Nygren and Sister Ukeritis will air from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Oct. j on Catholic Telecommunications Network of America. Religious may view the broadcast at Bishop McVinney Auditorium in the Providence Diocesan Center. Also, the Fall River diocesan Office for Religious will have available a videocassette detailing findings of the study.

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Catechists to convene Sept. 26 Continued from Page One

Methodology: Michaela Burke, Sadlier representative and consultanto The Dynamics oj Prayer: Marge Copeland, coordinator of confirmation and youth ministry.

Cassidy, founder and director, M.E. Alcohol-Drug Education.

the essential role oj humility and obedience in the spirituallije: Dr.

Your Children Jor the Big Decisions: Sister Ann P. Stankiewicz,

Wilfred Varieur, family psychotherapist. Enriching and Enliven-

OP, assistant professor of philosophy, Providence College.

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Jacqueline Dubois, SSA, chaplain, - The Wealth Containedin Vision, Charlton Memorial Hospital, Fall . Story and' Skills: Sister Elaine River.' . . . . .: Scully, RSM, assistant professor Diamonds in the Rough _ Ad_Pro-LijeEducation-Compas- of theology, Providence College. dressing DysJunction in the Fam- sionJor the Unborn Child: Linda A n A dventure. in :A dolescence: ily: Rev. Joseph Costa, executive R. Thayer, education consultant, Kathleen Simpson, principal, director, St. Vincent's Home, Fall Boston archdiocesan P·ro-Life Of- Taunton Catholic Middle School.

Ethical Readiness - Preparing River. fice. "I Will Not Obey": Satan -

A Wealth oJCreativeActivities:

Elizabeth Sinwell, Sadlier cons~ltant. "Th.ose Who Teach '!:rll

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ing the Junior High Experience:

mond, CP, of St. Anne s School, Fall River. Tea~hing Sexualitr in Grades 1-3: Mlldr~d I. Gedn~es, U Mass CooperatIve ExtenSIOn System and 4-H Youth Development.

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s~ep-by~step lesso.n for new .reh-:· ''''Sist'el"' R'obe'rta·qianpa9Ii:pastoral,; glOn teachers): SIster ~ary Du- . assistant, St. Raymond parish,

Pro-Lije: More than One Issue - The Dilemma oj Euthanasia: Father Mark Hession, parochial vicar, St. Mary's Church, New Bedford. Coping with Stress: Kathleen Killion-Legg, religious studies teacher, Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro. Children oj Passover (Christian Seder experience for grades 4-8 catechists): Sister Muriel Lebeau, SS.Ce., principal of St. Joseph's School, Fairhaven.

Annulments _ What, Why and How: Rev. Jay Maddock, diocesanjudical vicar. "•. .A ndto Some the Gijt oj Teaching" (practical and inspirational aspects of the gifts and. challenges of teaching): Irene Murphy, Benziger Publishing Co. Discovering Riches in the Family: Sister Christopher O'Rourke, RSM, guidance director, St. Anne's School, Fall River.

Sacraments, Scriptures and"the Screen" (videos for 5th and 6th grade religious education curriculum): Patricia Pasternak, director of religious education, St. Thomas More parish, Somerset. Music Alive: Nancy Owen Quinn, Silver Burdett Ginn consultant. Members

'oJ One Body - Welcoming Children with Disabilities: Barbara Domingue, coordinator, diocesan Apostolate for Persons with Disabilities.

Session II World Mission Sunday is Oct. 18

JoyJully to the Lord: Joan Cuttle, elementary music specialist. Coping with Loss and GrieJ: Sister

Understanding Children Jrom Troubled Families: Karen Cassidy, founder and .director of M.E. Alcohol-Drug Education. Sing

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R. Thayer. Lesson Planning Jor Beginning Teachers: Dr. Doris

Critical issues Today's Youth AreDealing With: Peg Hannigan, health teacher. What is an Annulment?: Rev. Gerard A. Hebert,

Thibault, religious education coor.dinator. "I Will Not Obey": Satan

diocesan matrimonial tribunal.

Dr. Wilfred Varieur.

"...A nd to Some the Gijt oj Teaching:" Irene Murphy.

Creating Sacred Space (how to

Drawing Closer to God's True Image: Kathryn E. Wrobel, retreat

bring a sense of the sacred into daily life and share it with family and students): Paulette Normandin, adult education coordinator, St. Louis de France parish, Swansea. Are You "Burning Up" or

"Burning Out" Jor Christ's Sake?

The Freedom oj Jesus' "AJfirmative No!" (dealing with burnout in ministry and how to say "no" in the example ofJesus): Rev. Robert A. Oliveira, diocesan continuing formation director. Sacraments, Scriptures and "the Screen": Patricia Pasternak.

How DREs/Catechists Can Work with A dults (teaching adults who have family difficulties): Sistcr Christopher O'Rourke, RSM, guidance director, St. Anne's School, Fall River. Exploring the

Richness oj the Lectionary Jor Classroom Use: Dr. and Mrs.

Patrick Reid, associate professor of theology at Providence College and music director, St. Thomas parish, Providence, respectively.

AdvanceDirectives- The Health Care Proxy: Diane Santos, RN, BSN, director of education, St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River.

Session III

- the essential role oj humility and obedience in the spirituallije:

director, LaSalette Center for Christian Living, Attleboro. Criti-

ca/lssues Today's Youth A reDealing With: Peg Hannigan. Flesh and Blood People oj the Bible: Richard F. Kless, religious studies lecturer, Providence College.

Empty Your Backpack -Share Your Wealth: (art activities) Jeanne Nadeau, religious education director, St. Dominic's parish, Swansea. Moving Against the Grain (society's values and peacemaking): Debra Polselli, grade one teacher, Espirito Santo School, Fall River, and co-coordinator of Pax Christi of Southeastern Massachusetts.

Exploring the Richness ojthe Lectionary Jor Classroom Use: Dr. and Mrs. Patrick Reid.

Focus Sessions These sessions cover two workshops sessions and run from I: 15 to 3:05 p.m.

As Creative As I Can Be (fun ways to enhance lessons, with emphasis on materials for liturgical seasons, grade level themes and sacraments): Jane E. Arsenault, principal, Holy Name School, Providence, RI.

To Teach or Not To Teach.That Is the Question! (tips on

planning, discipline and expressing faith for beginning teachers): Sister Theresa Sparrow, RSM, director of religious education, St. Julie's parish, North Dartmouth.

For further information on the Self-Esteem andSelf- Worth in the convention, call the Diocesan DeClassroom - A Tool Box: Karen . partment of Education, 678-2828.

Youth in the Grieving Process;

Carole Bedard, hospital administration. Establishing Family Values (faith growth of the child): Sister Ann Boland, SUSC, Silver Burdett Ginn consultant. Enhancing

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ABC-TV to air Merton documentary

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Sept. 18, 1992

NEW YORK (CNS) - The Trappist monk whose life and writings inspired many in the troubling times following World War II is profiled in "Merton: A Film Biography," airing Sept. 20 on ABC. Boston's ChannelS will carry the program from I to 2 p.m. and Providence's Channel 12 from 2 to 3 p.m.

Originally aired by PBS in 1984, the documentary follows the spiritual journey of Thomas Merton from his youth and secular education to his conversion to Catholicism and the work he accomplished as a monk of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky.

Merton was a precocious child, the son of two artists. Orphaned at the age of IS, he is remembered by a school chum from Oakum in England as a "cheery fellow who thought deeply," but who was "inclined to go off the rails and do , mad things as well."

As a result of his extracurricular activities at Cambridge, his grandfather summoned him to America where he conti~ued his education at ColumbiaUniversit'y. A s'pirit~ ual bent, which had emerged only intermittently in the past, began to take strong hold. At 27, Merton, FAT~ER THOMAS MERTON isprofiled.in a docuwhom his friends thought some- ment~ry: ai,ring on ABC-TV this Sunday. (CNS photo) day would be a,well:kqown,Writer,·, .' " , . , ' . '.. ,. chpseiJt~ ..abso'lutely"unexp~~ed pheti'c and ii:tmoral perspective Rober! Giroux, poet Lawrence - he entered the,Trappist' inonas- . ,rpore widely apprecia~ed today Ferlinghetti and Sister of Loretto ' than then. ' Mary Luke Tobin. ' tery at Gethsemani.

Coproduced by Paul Wilkes and The extraordinary skill of the Seven years later, in 1948, Merton publi~hed his first major book,' . Audrey Glynn, the documentary camera work by Thomas Hurwitz The Seven Storey Mountain. The. portrait succeeds remarkably well deserves mention. Its many beauautobiog~aphybecame a phenomin bringing to life,the complex per- tiful images of nature provide pasenal bestseller among a post-war sonality of Father Merton and his sages of visual poetry and interior public searching for values beyond multiple contributions as priest, silences entirely appropriate to those of a consumer society. author, poet, social critic,' con- nature of the subject.

Tho!lgh ~he book has become a' ,templative and sP.irit~al ~ach«r. , . "Merton: A Filmaiography" is ,A~~9~~:Wir~WiL\~~, itJH1(;;2Ig~;iYj~P~~i3(!'~~W~qfl.1mself-rl,.~IQSed-Q<l.Ption!XIi a q-d.M'!ls-fpn4ed is upon his later works that Father, ,: il~C::. limited" to, still p~wtographs tin part'by the Catholic CommuniMerton's stature as thinker and and some amateur film footage of cation Campaign. It is one in the teacher rests. his ordination and of the 1968Iec-' four-part "Visions and Values" His writings on Christian mysti- ture he gave at a Buddhist-Christian series on con,temporary religious . cism and the contemplative life: conference in Bangkok, Thailand, topics which is sponsored by the began increasingly to be inter- hours before his death.

Interfaith Broadcasting Commistwined with his conC,erns about Part ofthe reason the documen- sion. social justice, political authoritar- tary works so well is th~t much of ianism and the rift between the it is told in Merton~sown words as " voiced ,~ith" feeling, by .Gregory sacred and the secular. " Montle!~lumbing :But s,ome oLFl!-ther.'f>.1ert?n's':'oIAp'~lsr·:' ',~; lu j " ' I ; ' , ',ii"j &,:t:I~Qfi~g yle",s sp.f!ed,:<;oruroxer~Y(p~r~!Cu-J'ii!' '. ;rht; cQIIlP~ct"J'"iell.,orga,nized.1 larly his unreserved critici~m. na.rration w~s written by ,Wilkes .

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Detroit Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton and Raymond Plankey, director of Cuernavaca Center for intercultural dialogue on development in Mexico, will be the main speakers at a conference titled "Central/ Latin America: 500 Years after Columbus," to be held from 9:30 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro. Mass will follow the conference.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) Twenty feet beneath a Vatican City courtyard, in a room that resembles a mausoleum, a few million secrets are waiting to be told.

Written on parchment and paper, filed in ledgers and countless boxes, intriguing scraps of history have settled here - at last glance, they filled 60 miles of shelf space.

Welcome to the Vatican Secret Archives, home to several centuries' worth of central church documents, the end of the pontifical paper trail. Hidden under a wing of the Vatican Museums, the collection might be the Holy See's most overlooked depository of riches.

The outside world knows the archives by its "showcase" items: the papal bull by which Martin Luther was excommunicated, love letters penned by Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, or the intricate gold seals by which popes, kings and princes marked their edicts.

But for the 70 or so scholars who file "into the archives' reading room every day, the best secrets are hiding in the approximately 30 million "minor" documents minutes of curial meetings, confidential correspondence and piles of Vatican contracts, inventories and diplomatic reports. Many of them are still loosely bound and have never been fully studied.

"The term 'secret archives' is often mis)Jnderstood. What it really means is 'private' as' opposed to 'public,'" said German Father Josef Metzler, archives prefect.

Since the 1880s, when Pope Leo XIII opened the unique collection to scholars, the reading rooms have been full and the clerks have ~ been busy refri~ving vohlmes frorft the stacks for consultation.

But at the Vatican, history needs tim'e to settle - a few decades, maybe a century. So the archival material of each pontificate is offlimits until it is officially "opened" by a later pope; Pope John Paul II has been generous, opening the documents of three papacies, up to the year 1922.

Like most Vatican offices, the archives operates on a limited budget with a small staff. That means restoration work lags way behind; some ofthe worn volumes are now farmed out to an order of cloistered nuns in Rome for repair.

"We have only 34 people working here. Any other archive of this magnitude would have a staff of 300. We're always asking for more help, but Vatican resources are limited," said Father Metzler.

At least the archives' space problem has been temporarily solved.

In 1980, the pope inaugurated the , underground vault, in effect doubling the storage area. Built of poured concrete, it has all the charm of a parking ramp. But charm is not the point. , "The climate is controlled, the light does not enter and the sprinkler system is in place," Father Metzler said proudly. Even at-today's increasing rate of archival deposits, there is shelf space here for another 30-50 years.

Unfortunately, half of the archives remains in the old section - which' is of wooden construction, exposed to daylight and without even a fully working fire alarm.

"This is terrible," Father Metzler admitted.

That's one reason the archives began microfilming the more im~ portant documents in the collection years ago.

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dents are allowed into the reading rooms, where they can either consult the original document or order a photocopy. On a recent afternoon, one scholar pored over a medieval text, taking notes on his lap-top computer.

For historians, valuable nuggets of information can be mined from seemingly insignificant volumes.

Father Metzler favors the collection of "papal supplications" petitions for special permits, indulgences and pardons that have provided a wealth of detail about the leading families of all ages.

Students of papal politics would do well to open a dusty volume from the four-month-long conclave of 1774-75, one of the longest papal elections in history. The record shows that in vote after vote, Cardinal Marco Antonio Colonna fell just short ofthe twothirds majority needed.

The deadlock continued deep into winter, but no alternative candidate emerged. Finally and suddenly, on the morning of Feb. 15, 1775, Cardinal Giovanni Braschi - who had received only a stray vote or two in the previous ballots - garnered all 43 votes.

"ObviOUSly, the Holy Spirit was at work," Father Metzler said with a smile. ' Cardinal Braschi, who became Pope Pius VI, was considered a weak compromise candidate by the electors. Ironically, llis pontificate was the longest lmd most influentiiil of the century, but ended tragically when he was captured

by Napoleon's army and marched to France.

That marked a turning point for the Secret Archives, too. Napoleon eventually carted off every papal document to Paris. Only five years later did he agree to return the archives - but the Vatican had to pay for transportation.

The pope at the time, Pius VII, told his Paris nuncio to cut costs and destroy all unnecessary material.

About one-third ofthe archives was lost, Father Metzler said, still wincing. Today, no original document is allowed to leave Vatican City.

The prize ofthe Vatican archives is a collection of 81 gold seals, which adorned weightier pronouncements in centuries past.

Only 200 such seals exist in the world, and a few years ago the Vatican published a handsome catalogue of its own pieces.

Jerusalem must be joint capital, patriarch says

Father Metzler recalled that when he showed the catalogue to Pope John Paul, the pontiff was impressed but seemed 'a little apprehensive about the impression of wealth it might leave.

"Are all these seals of popes?" he asked in a worried tone. The pope was assured thatonly one seal was papal- t~e rest ,were of Icings an4 emperors.

"Thanks be to God," the pope replied'. . :Today', of course, gold seals are no longer used; more and more archival material is computergenerated printouts. No doubt they, too, will divulge their secrets, sometime in the next century. o

around the church world with catholic news service . AN AMERICAN missionary in the Philippines has been jailed for alleged involvement with farmers who broke into a government warehouse and seized relief goods they said officials had been embezzling.

Father Peter Geremia, a member of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, was imprisoned at the end of July when he visited the 18 farmers jailed in Insulan, located in Sultan Kudarat 600 miles southeast Manila, reported UCA news, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.

In July, trucks <:arrying 2,500 sacks of rice and protected by armed escorts broke through a farmers' picket line to the National Food Authority warehouse in Sultan Kudarat. The farmers forced their way into the warehouse and distributed the rice among themselves.

The farmers promised to compensate the government for the rice, but authorities jailed them on charges of robbery.

The region had been declared a disaster area following a ninemonth drought and government agencies were to distribute rice and help farmers restore their farms.

But the promised aid never materialized and farmers began picketing the government warehouse.

Sultan Kudarat Gov. Nesthur Gumama admitted the possibility that a syndicate of rice traders and warehouse officials were stealing and then selling the rice.

Bishop Carmelo Morelos of Butuan, president of the Philip-

pines bishop's conference, said In support of the jailed priest "this is what is meant by the church [being in solidarity with] the poor."

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RELIGIOUS LEADERS inthe former republics of Yugoslavia must insist that their people renounce any form of nationalism that denies the rights of others, said the Conference of European Churches.

The message also asked religious leaders in the region "to desist from any form of blessing of weapons," an activity allegedly per- ' formed by at least one Serbian Orthodox bishop.

The message was composed during discussions between Serbian Orthodox and Swiss delegates to the CEC assembly Sept. 1-11 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

When Bosnia declared its independence, war broke out pitting the former Y'ugoslavian republic's mostly Orthodox Serbs against Slavic Muslims and the mostly Catholic Croatians.

While not using the term "ethnic cleansing," the CEC's statement denounced efforts to force members of one ethnic group from their homes in order to create zones of only one culture. :The message also asked the churches "to do all in their power to secure free access for the International Committee of the Red Cross and humanitarian aid, so as to relieve suffering, particularly in the prison camps."

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\ LEUVEN, Belgium(CNS) - A As long as Israeli officials do formula has to be worked out to not understand that our language make Jerusalem the capital for is evangelical, "we'will always have Israelis and Palestinians, said Latin misunderstandings," he said.

Patriarch Michel Sabbah of JeruWhen asked if he would criticize salem. injustices of Arab leaders in talk"Jerusalem must cease being a ing with them, Patriarch Sabbah cause for war. It belongs to two answered: "I say tlie same to evepeoples and three religions," he ryone. If they understand the Gossaid. pel they understand me."

Patriarch Sabbah discussed the possibility of a "shared governPatriarch Sabbah said Palestithe. recent ment" during a news conference in nians . generally . regard .

Leuven, 12 miles east of Brussels, establ~s~~entofan?f~cJalYatlcanwhere路he was;atten<ling a tonfer-;.路 ~}~~.~~I~?()In.t.~omq:l'.ssl.on ~s,some颅 erice on religion and wofId affairs. ,t 109 pO,sltlve for peace.

Noting the proximity of the conPalestinians understand that the ference to the Belgian capital, he commission is to start talks toward said that Brussels is the capital of diplomatic relations and that the two ethnically different ,people, commission allows the Vatican to the French-speaking Walloons and spell out its criteria for such ties, the Dutch-speaking Flemish. pinpointing problems for discus"A formula must be arrived at. sion. for Jerusalem," said the patriarch, Arab Christian emigration from a Palestinian.. : the Holy Land has begun slowing 1:J;;IGne day;it;Jw.iWt::.e{!nliiib uiriiteij down'sincebthe,:starlt> df tilre;UiS.so all can feel' at home,'; he said, mediated peace talks between Israel without giving specifics as to how 'and Arab governments, he said. such a "shared government" would The patriarch attributed this to work. rising hopes for greater security in The patriarch said there are the region. "always some tensions" in his relations with Israeli officials. He "But people are still leaving" blamed it mostly on politicians because life continues being diffi"who do not understand our Chris- cult for Christians native to the tian language" regarding the need area, he said. to proclaim justice.

"Being a native Christian in the "I am asked to intervene when Holy Land is a vocation," the there are injustices," he said. patriarch said.

"When people ask you where you go to school, you tell them, cI go to the St. Stanislaus annex,'" Either Kaszynski instructed students, here entering St. Patrick's School. All from the eighth,graders to the tiniest kindergarteners learned to spell the new word. ("Annex," that is. "Stanislaus" will probably come later for the kindergarteners, when they have the alphabet down pat.)

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By Ed Parr -Asked if she' could recall 'orie memorable moment from her first year at St. Vincent's Home, Fall River, special education facilitor Martha Ann Edminster let out a raucous laugh, "Sure, I can recall one, but I wouldn't want it in print!"

Martha can make you laugh, and she's been injecting her own special brand of humor into her work at St. Vincent's since she was hired in October 1991 as a special education teacher for boys ages 13 to 16.

"I teach from a wicker rocking chair," she said. "It's comfortable, but it's also therapeutic.

"If I get upset, I just start rocking faster and faster. Now I even have staff coming in and asking to use my chair!"

Humor is one of her most effective tools. It gets her through the long hours she puts in at St. Vincent's, teaching resident adolescents and supervising students who attend public schools. But it's hardly her sole credential.

Trained in classical music opera singing is one of her hobbies - Martha earned a degree in music therapy from the University of Georgia.

A registered music therapist, she has worked with physically and mentally handicapped children. She also holds a master's degree in special education from Trinity Col-. lege in Washington, D.C. "Last year, with both of my children in high school, I decided it was time to get back into the work force. I had already worked as a music therapist, but never really used my special education training. I heard about St. Vincent's, found out they were hiring teachers, and the rest is history," Martha said.

Martha's academic and therapeutic ;background· and· the fact that she is a mother of two teenage boys combine to make her a dynamic addition to the St. Vincent's education team.

Sports playa central role in her classroom. In math, batting averages are the context for teaching multiplication, division and percentages. Hockey games become· the focus for discussions about the "negative behavior."

She even manages to bring sports into persuasive writing assignments: Should players be expelled for fighting during a game?

"Keeping up with sports is important," Martha said. "It gives me something in common with the kids."

Her love for music also gives her something in common with her students and her training in music· therapy gives her a good positive reinforcement tool.

"Hey," she asks rheto~ically, "how many people will offer to teach you how to play the guitar or the dulcimer if you measure up?"

But offer she does, "She's a great teacher," unit director Mark Browne said, "Everybody goes to Martha with their problems, She loves the kids. She puts in long hours. And there's always a smile on her face."

Martha says she'll be at St. Vincent's for 15 years.

"15 is just a good number," Martha said with a smile, "No day is like another day. I have a good relationship with the kids: They know I care about them. What more could you ask? I'm just rea~ happy to be here." ..

Judging from the smiles on the faces of her students and the staff members, a lot of other people are happy too.

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The Provider, newsletter of St. Vincent s Home.

WASHINGTON (eNS) - The new president of The Catholic University of America said he will be persistent in advocating that all levels of government make higher education possible for young people who want to go to college but can't afford it. .

At a press conference, Christian Brother Patrick Ellis called federal aid to students "an investment on the part of the government, not charity."

He said tough economic times have not only affected student aid, but they have turned each university into "a buyer's market" where "students are customers."

Brother Ellis called this phenomenon "a revolution going on under our noses" that gives young people a false sense of reality, making them think they are "very good when they might just be good." He indicated that some schools in an effort to get and keep enrollment have lowered their academic standards.

"Today's high school students are courted by so many institutions," he said. And because the university must have "happy customers, staff members have no choice but to be terminally nice."

Brother Ellis said an unfortunate result of this trend is often grade inflation. "If school is so comfy and unchallenging that we don't lose any students, then the degree is meaningless," he said.

He suggested that schools offer programs to help prepare incoming students, instead of giving good grades to retain them.

The students of today's "MTV generation'often have a negative attention span," he said, because they are more accustomed to images than the written word.

Brother Ellis, who became president in August, is a Catholic University alumnus. For the last 15 years he was president of La Salle

University in Philadelphia, which is run by the Christian Brothers.

While president at La Salle, he also taught Shakespeare courses.

And, during his tenure, the school received university status. He has been a leading spokesman for Catholic;: higher education and was among a select group of delegates who met with Pope John Paul II in 1989 to discuss the Vatican's role in worldwide Catholic higher education.

As president. of the national university of the Catholic Church, he succeeds Jesuit Father William Byron, who was president of the school for the past to years.

Brother Ellis said the school is "in good shape for the long hauL" He hopes to 'teach Shakespeare again and says one evening he'd like to drive the student shuttle bus.

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For Father Kaszynski, the scene was reminiscent of a similar trek 27 years ago when the student body relocated to the third floor of St. Anne's School while the current St. Stanislaus School was being built.

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has decided men are "all the ' same." Yet the guy currently wanting her in his life reminds the woman that "I'm called by another name." He promises her: "There ain't nothing going to take this heart away."

The song reminds me of several individuals I have worked with in counseling. Once hurt in _ _ • a relationship, they believe that there are no trustworthy men or

By Charlie Martin women: I try to empathize with the TAKE THIS HEART painful experiences' they have encountered, but I also gently I've been where you are before challenge their assumption. InNo one understands more deed, our world is full of faithYou fear every step you take ful, gifted and loving men and 'So sure that your heart will break women, many of them seeking It's not how the story ends life partners.

You'l be back on your feet again The first step for the woman .. ' ,Baby, this time in the song, as for the people I counsel, is to face and ,release :There ain't nothing going to take this heart away , No more :goodby~s' her grief. This means externalThere ain't' nothing gQing to take my heart away. izing the anger, disappointment " and feelings of hurt to someone , The taste is stillalive in you , FQr what one man put you through whom she trusts. . , You say that we are all the,saDie .' ,, There are no quick fixes for those times when our hearts get , ButI'm called by,another ~ame" " We all need Ii place to run .' broken, but the process of heal:-Won't you let'~e be th~.one .. ing happens when -we 'tell the Don't keep.on dreami~g you're truth about how we feel. ,Locked outside your door Without taking the time and Just believe in yourself. effort to do this, the pain will , A,nd don't, j)e afraid; anymore become a burden for, and maybe I need you to please be strong, a block to, wholeheartedly enI've waited for you too long, tering a new relationship.

As for the guy in the song, I Written and sung by Richard Marx (c) 1992 by Capitol Records Inc. , would advise him to back off THE "TAKE This Heart" . , is about a woman trying to awhile. The woman is not ready for a new romance. Instead, try video caught my eye. Big base-, learn to trust. ball fan that I am, seeing Richard She has been hurt in the past, being a supportive friend, helpMarx dressed up like a Chicago " ,but now someQne ~ew wan~s to ing her rediscover that life and Cub was a real attention-getter. enter her life. Maybe the video love can be trusted: is trying to say that you have to Perhaps this, song and'video When he hit a home run off the best relief pitcher in basekeep on trusting' if you want are actually about dreams. They ball, my attention grew to good things to happen. . affirm an important truth: 'amazement. No offense to The wom,liln is blocked from Whether it be baseball, work, Cubs' fahs;'b\W this video' may; a:~¢hFng ~ii.!:\\i~Jiiy'e .. by _h~L~£·. school; rQfflanc~' 0r:a:py"ot!ler-," be the ,place their fantasies ,memoryofwhat priNiouslyhap- ' aspect of life; dreams do come true. Keep on trusting in yours. come true. pened. As the song says, '~the I've been wondering how the taste is still alive in you for what Your comments iue welcomed video fits together with the one man put you through."

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By Christopher Carstens teacher mad. 'If you pour all the Lots of kids think their teachers lab 'chemicals into a wastebasket are out to get them. Somehow they and fill the hall with green smoke, get it in their heads that teachers it's really hard to give y'ou even a get some sort of sick thrill out of B, especially if you do it twice.

- Similarly, calling your teacher proving that students are dumb.

Teachers don't want thdr stu- stupid will almost guarantee a C or dents doing badly. Frankly, they lower grade. So avoid that kind of look, better when you do better. stuff.

-.: Remember that teachers like' I've spent years as ;a consultant to teachers and school systems. There' students who are active and'inter-" are good teachers and bad teachers; ested in class. You' doli't need t~ but I never met 'onewho wanted monopolize the discussion, just ' s h o w interest. students to fail.

I've figured out a basic secret; You can do that by simply askWhoever youa're, whatever your ing even· one question a week .in ,. . record has been,up to .'now, your' ~ach class you tak",. The acto~ rals- . teacher would really 'like to give ,I~g your ;~and" an,d. ~eques.tl~g a ' you at least B, if notan A. ' httle more.1Oformatlon makes you stand out 10 the teacher's memory . " ," Of course, teachers can t ,gIve . as 'a kid who is trying. _ Make it. even 'easier to 'get everybody As, a~. least not for long. When I was 10 college there . that A or B by going in 'once a was a youn~ pr~fessor w\to g,ave ,semester for extra help.·You might everybody 10. hIS, cl~ss As, J.ust : meet with the teacher'during'study because he dldn. t. hke . gra~Jng . hall, or simplystay after cl!lssfor a p~pers. The adm101stratlon fired minute or two to ask about' 'the hIm after a semester. , problems that were 'on the, test.

Although your teachers can't If you're on the borderline ~u~t hand you an A, th~y like..giv- . be,tween a B and a C, YQur teacher 1O~ good g~ades. An F IS ~'mlsery is ,likely to, remember" that·, you' for everybo~y, Ds are.a bIt bett~r, wl?re interested enough to, come in , bU~ they stili leave people dlsfor assistance. Often a single. visit satIsfied. will be enough to move you up to A grade of C is an improvement . the next category.

'- Finally do your homework, but the B level is where people start feeling good. Your teachers ideally all the time but at least feel like' you've been rewarded, most of the time. 'y ou may not get and they can feel successful about all the'right answers, but you need having taught you well. to do 'the work as well as possible.'

You probably won't mind'the B Teachers "pay attention to who

By Dan Morris and your parents can't get grumpy does homework and who doesn't.

I just had a conversation with about it. So the trick is to make it Kids who regul~rly turn in their my youngest son that I truly believe easy for your teacher to give you homework tend to get the benefit my father would have paid good that B, if not that A. of the doubt at grade time. money to hear in 1966.

Here are some steps you can And if your teacher has a chance, "I need a haircut," he said. That take. he or she will give you that.A or B. phrase alone would have brought - First, don't do outrageous It's what he or she really wants to tears of gratitude to my paternal things guaranteed to get your do.

King of Flattop's eyes.

I lo.oked at the kid. Yes, his hair needed something. "Cut" didn't seem to be the right word. The bottom half of his skull was buzzed from the ears down - the hair about the length of a 5 o'clock shadow. It couldn't be cut, only shaved.

The top half began with a signif,icant ridge at ear level, topped off with a wild weeds kind of look.

The weeds had been tortured into nature-defying screams of directions by application of "styling gel."

Styling gel is a direct descendent of the star of the movie "The Blob." The consistency of honey, it comes in heavy-duty plastic containers outfitted with hydraulic pumps and an ingredient list similar to asphalt.

The top half couldn't be cut, only melted down.

ARE WE HA VING FUN YET? These kindergarActually, this rigidity of styling appears to play an important role teners seem unsure of what these unfamiliar classrooms in early teen life. might hold in days to come. For one thing, they're furWhile it is tantamount to a decnished with "desks, chairs' and equipment transported laration of war when a brother from St." Stan's on 12 trucks by more than 100 volunteers rumples his hair, it is entirely within ,who helped prepare the temporary school. the logic of the 14-year-old to invest considerable energy, mirror

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"Didn't you just' have your hair cut?" I asked.

"Yeah," volunteered his sister, "by Edward Scissorhands during a coughing fit."

"Yuck, yuck," retorted the King of Comb.

"Why worry about it when all you do is comb it and then shmoosh it into your baseball cap anyway?"

I asked.

He looked at me as if I were clueless. It strangely reminded me of a look my father and I shared a generation ago. . ..

"Hey," my father's grandson explained, "it's just getting way too long. Anyone can see that."

He was wearing his cap.

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FATHER MARCEL BOUCHARD accepts flowers, symbolizing friendship, from Sarah Coughlin and Megan Connors during an opening of school Mass at S1. Mary-Sacred Heart School, North Attleboro.

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NEW YORK (CNS) - Seven Catholic colleges and universities are among America's 100 best values, according to Money magazine's 1992 "Guide to the Best College Buys in America," Rankings were based on 16 factors including tuition, student-tofaculty ratio, average SAT scores, default rate on student loans, graduation rate and student services budgets, The Catholic-affiliated institution ranked highest on the 1992 list - No, 64 - was Bellarmine.

College, owned by the archdiocese of Louisville, Ky., and attended by more than 2,500 students, .

Other Catholic institutions listed were: - No. 76: the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, run. by the School Sisters of Notre Dame, which has more than 2,600 students.

- No. 81: St. Mary's University in San Antonio, run by the Marianists; more than 4,000 students.

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- No. 100: Marquette University in Milwaukee, a Jesuit school; approximately 11,000 students.

Rice University in Houston was top ranked among all colleges and universities for the second year in a row.

It's incredible LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony sayshe views a free trade accord between the Uniteq States, Mexico and Canada as a "incredible opportunity." But such an accord must be phased in gradually, he said. "I think everyone is going to benefit. If a country doesn't have free export of goods, 'it will export its people" as Mexico currently does, he told Catholic News Service.

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STUDENTS at St. Jean Baptiste School, Fall River, stand before the "identity quilt" for which each student made a poster illustrating his or her ethnic and religious heritage.

St. Jean Baptiste School marks 90 years A Mass of Thanksgiving marking the school's 90th year will be held at 6:30 p,m. Sept. 21. The versa~i~~;,9Q y;ea~~i of.e.~u.~!,\~io.I,1,M. . Kni~~~s ..of .f9Iulll.bu.s ,Q~in~e.~-.

Sf. Jean's and 500 years since the . tennial Cross will be displayed and all parishioners, school families evangelization of the Americas.

Students embarked on the evan- and friends are welcome. gelization project, themed "All The school opened in the fall of One People," with a multicultural 1902, a year after St. Jean Baptiste flag display and creati~n of an parish was established, "identity quilt" - a collection of Construction of a parish school, posters illustrating the religious and ethnic background of each a two-story wood building on Rodman Street, was the first enterprise student.

St. Jean Baptiste School, Fall River, is beginning the school year with a celebration of two anni-

of St. Jean's second pastor, Father Henri Mussely.

By 1909 the church and school were."n.o" 19!1gel. lJ.4eq!Jl!-t.e to accommodate the numerous parishioners and students, and a new hall and two new classrooms were opened in a building erected on Field Street.

Construction began on the present school building in 1937. It was opened and blessed by Bishop James E. Cassidy on Sept. 25, 1937.

Coyle-Cassidy High School Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton, began its 81 st year on Aug, 31. The school is close to record enrollment with 672 students registered for 1992-93,

Bishop Connolly Rev. John Murray, SJ, principal of Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, has announced additions to the school faculty for 1992-1993. Brother Daniel Caron, . FIC, chemistry teacher, and Brother Paul Pellagrino, FIC, religion teacher, were welcomed at the opening faculty meeting Sept.

I. Father Murray also announced the appointment of Rev. Donald MacMillan, SJ to the position of school chaplain. Father MacMillan is also director ofthe Connolly community service program, Joyce Costa will be moderator of the Connolly chapter of National Honor Society, which is very active in service programs, including toy drives for disadvantaged children and an annual Red Cross blood drive.

Ted Pettine will take over the duties as moderator of student government, composed of student officers who coordinate schoolwide activities for students and represent their classmates to the school's administration.

The freshman class has 203 members, more than any class in the school's history, Coyle-Cassidy also has a record number of staff members this year. this includes eight new teachers: Kristen DeMoura(Latinand English); Sister Elaine Twitchell, SND(French); Matthew Lanagan (math); Trevor Shaw (English); Kathleen Brennan (social studies); and Stacy Goyette (math), The school has also welcomed three new department chairpersons: Howard Waldron (social studies); Victor Augusto (foreign language) and Marie Angeley (math), Coyle-Cassidy freshman Michael Silva was the cadet division winner in the diocesan CYO golf tournament held at the end of August.

Also, C-C junior Howard Orloff of Brockton played in the International Maccabbi Games for young Jewish athletes, held in Baltimore in August. He played forthe Greater Boston boys' basketball team, which made it through to the semifinals, Fall sports are underway as the football team has its opening game under new coach Steve McGonigle tonight in Middleboro, Girls' soccer, new to CoyleCassidy this year, had its first game against Bishop Stang, also

the opponent in the boys' soccer season opener.

The volleyball teams started seasonal play away versus Dartmouth, while the boys' and girls' cross country teams opened upat home against Dartmouth, There is record participation in all of the school's fall activities.

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.,* The kindergarten class explores its new surroundings.. "There's plen.ty of room for everybody," Father Kaszynski assured them cheerfully. "Plenty of room."

And with construction at St. Stan's targeted for completion between Thanksgiving and Christmas, we might soon see this procession winding once more through the streets of Fall River - back home to Rockland Street.

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,teering pOint, HOLY CROSS, FR Bishop O'Malley will be principal celebrant and homilist for a 5 p.m.

Mass Sept. 26 observing Polish Heritage Month. A dinner-dance will follow at the Polish National Home.

Information: 673-3796.

ST. JEAN BAPTISTE, FR Raymond Burke, vice president of Medjugorje in Americ;1, will speak on the work of the organization 7 p.m. Sept. 30. He will discuss rosary prayer groups, youth ministry, eucharistic adoration and how people can become involved on a local level.

ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS Vincentians are beginning to collect food to prepare two-day food packs to supplement holiday dinners distributed by the Lower Cape Outreach Council. Items requested this week are beef stew, peanut butter, jelly.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, NB Bishop O'Malley will be principal celebrant and homilist of II a.m.

Mass Sunday, after which he will bless the new activities hall of the Society of Senhor da Pedra. Located on 81 Tinkham St., the hall will host social functions such as baptism and wedding receptions.

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Sunday, St. Vincent's Home, .Fall River. A planning session for fall events will follow. Masses and socials are signed for the hearing impaired.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE A clothing drive for refugees of the war in former Yugoslavia will be held 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday. Needed are winter clothing, hats, mittens, boots, shoes, underwear and diapers, as well as pillows and blankets. Items may be dropped off at parish center and will later be sent to Caritas Internationalis .for shipment to refugee camps..

ST. MARY, NORTON Information on Cursillo will be available in the rectory after 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and noon Masses·Sept.

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LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Bible study classes, taught by Father Joe Ross, MS, have resumed from 10 to 10:45 a.m. Thursdays in the classroom above the gift shop.

Alternating sessions will cover the Book of Proverbs and the Gospel of St. Luke. Each class is a self contained lesson, so it is not necessary to attend every week. Information: 2225410.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Adult Bible study begins 8 to 9 p.m. Sept. 30, parish center; interested persons should register with Father Bill Baker.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Holy hour for life 7 p.m. Sept. 27; prayers will be for the unborn, the. sick and the elderly. .

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THE FEAST of Our Lady of LaSalette will be celebrated Sept. 20 at LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro.

Providence Auxiliary Bishop Kenneth Angell will be principal celebrant and homilist for a 3 p.m. concelebrated outdoor 'Mass on the 146th anniversary of Mary's apparition at LaSalette in the French Alps.

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Founded by a married couple after World War II, the movement energized and expanded the role of the ordinary lay people in the church and throughout the world.

More than 2,000 families are currently involved in the movement which has its headquarters in Ames, Iowa. Although it lost much of its momentum in the late 1960s, it never quite disappeared and now it is making a comeback, particularly in Chicago.

"People don't know too much about us. We're starting from ground zero," Harry Opila of La Grange, a Chicago suburb, fold The New World, Chicago's archdiocesan newspaper.

The purpose ofthe movement is to develop a social consciousness.

Couples from a parish meet in small home groups and using the "observe-judge-act method," try to fight social ills such as homelessness and poverty.

Parish groups usually consist of five to seven families which often become like extended family members.

"It's a support system," said Betty Bauer of Our Lady of the Wayside parish in Arlington Heights, Ill., where 130 families belong to the movement. She said when problems arise, members are there to help. "If a husband loses a job, every Christian Family Movement member puts the word out."

Members at the parish help at a shelter, collect food and clothing for the poor and conduct special fund raising events.

Because strengthening the family is a goal of the Christian Family Movement, children are involved both in its social events and social justice activities.

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WIDOWED.SUPPORT, CAPE Meetings 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. fourth Sundays, education center library, Christ the King parish, Mashpee.

Sept. 27 topic: "If I Believe in God, \yhy Am I Still Afraid?" InformattOn: Dorothyann Callahan, 4287078.

SERRA CLUB, ~B Holy hour for Increase and perseverance in vocations 3 p.m. Sunday, St. Mary's Church, S. Dartmouth. All welcome.

CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB, NB Executive board meeting 7 p.m.

Sept. 23, St. Lawrence rectory,IIO Summer St., NB. ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Mark Vigorito, a freshman at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, is the recipient of the Women's . Guild Rev. Cornelius J. Keliher Scholarship.

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.OL PURGATORY,.NB A parish mission, "Rediscovering Family," will be held at 7 p.m. nightly Oct. 4 through 8 at Our Lady of Purgatory Maro)1ite Church, 1217 Pleasant St., with speakers including Fathers Robert Kaszynski, Robert Oliveira, Peter Casey, Stephen Avila and Edward Nedder.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Calix group afternoon of reflection with Mass and cookout Sept. 20 at St. Vincent's Camp, Westport; departing at 3 p.m. from parish center. Vincentian troubadours will entertain residents of Marian Manor I :45 p.m. Sunday; volunteers welcome to perform or serve refreshments. Representatives from Plymouth Bay Girl Scout office will Qiscuss Girl Scouting at a 7 to 8 p. m. meeting Sept. 22; it will be repeated 7 to 8 p.m. Sept. 29.

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CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN Post Cursillo Retreat tomorrow through Sunday.

ST. JOSEPH, NB RCIA begins Sept. 30; if you are, or know of, an adult seeking the sacraments of baptism, confirmation and/ or Eucharist, contact rectory, 995-5235.

SACRED HEART, NB Names are being accepted to form an RCIA class of adults who have not been baptized or confirmed; information: rectory, 993-1204.

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COLLEGE FAIR, N. EASTON Stonehill College will host a college fair 2 to 5 p.m. Oct. 4 in the Sally Blair Ames Sports Complex. Admissions officers from more than 225 public and private colleges and universities from around the country will provide information on topics including choosing the right college, SATs, and loans and scholarships.

Information: Stonehill Collegeadmissions office: 230-1373.

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Emmaus is a retreat program for young adults, ages 19 to 30, seeking to renew or deepen their relationship with Christ. The weekend-long retreats are held under the sponsorship of the diocese at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown. . Five retreats will be held in 1992-93. The registration dea'dline for the Oct. 16 to 18 weekend is Sept. 30. Retreats will also be held Dec. 4 to 6, Feb.,5 to 7, April 23 to 25 and June 18 to 20.

For information, contact Louise Demers, Emmaus coordinator, at 161 Suffolk Ave., Pawtucket, RI 02861.

"Our families in this country are falling apart. This is a way to keep them together," said Ms. Bauer.

Kay Atichison, executive director of the movement for the past II years, has been involved with the lay group since the 1960s.

She told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview that the Christian Family Movement, which has most often attracted young families, is growing slowly but steadily.

"It's not just about families coming together and building community," she said. "It's about families reaching out in service."

Bone marrow donors sought AI, All, B8, B35, DR2, DR3 -This is Sasha Marfignetti's lottery number. She isn't playing one ofthe State of Massachusetts numbers games - she's betting for her life.

Sasha has chronic myelogenous leukemia, a disease rarely found in children. Her only hope for a cure is to find a matching bone marrow donor. The odds of finding such a person is similar to the odds of winning the lottery.

The above string of numbers represents Sasha's bone marrow type. Marrow matching is much more complex than blood typing.

While there are only a few blood types, there are millions of marrow types, which is why the odds of matching can be one in a million., Sadly, no one in Sasha's family is a match. So she and her parents must join the other 9,000 individuals searching for an unrelated matched donor. Sasha is not only fighting against the odds, she is fighting against time. A simple blood test will allow you to offer hope and help to Sasha or one of the thousands of others in need. A free testing session is being held 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 20 at the Assawompsett School, Main St-reet, Lakeville. To become a potential donor you must: -Be between the ages of 18 and 55 and in good health.

-Be willing to give one tablespoon of blood for analysis -Be willing to join the National Marrow Donor Program through the HLA Registry Foundation of Boston.

For more information, contact . "For Sasha's Sake" at 946-0480 or the HLA Registry Foundation, (617) 268-9277.

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