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New, Our Lady of Lourdes Church planned for Wellfleet ~ Parish boundary lines and

administration of mission churches will be modified.

WELLFLEET - In response to growing communities of parishioners in the towns of the lower Cape Cod area year-round and in summer months, Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., has announced his intention to build a new church in Wellfleet for use by Our Lady of Lourdes Parish.

The official" announcement was made to parishioners this past weekend at all Masses.

The new house of worship, along with some changes in parish boundaries in the lower Cape area, will provide better pastoral care for the faithful there and help the diocese meet the challenge of fewer available priests for parish ministry.

In the lower Cape, the Fall River Diocese ministers to the faithful in three parishes: St. Peter the Apostle in Provincetown, Our Lady of Lourdes in Wellfleet and St. Joan ofArc in Orleans. The latter two parishes are also responsible for ministry at smaller mission churches established some years ago to offer

additional worship space.

Information from the U.S. Census Bureau as well as from the Association for the Preservation of Cape Cod and the Cape Cod Commission, indicates an overall growth trend in these towns through 2013. Additionally, the summer population in these areas grows dramatically.

In the late 1980s, the diocese purchased a 10-acre piece of property located on Route 6 in Wellfleet in projection of what Our Lady of Lourdes Parish might require for expansion. The parcel is approximately equidis-

tant from the town borders of Provincetown and Orleans. Following consultation with Msgr. Ronald A Tosti, director of the diocesan Office of Pastoral Planning, and the diocesan Priests Council, the bishop has decided that it is time to begin planning for a new church on that site which will provide better facilities and greater and easier access for both the residents and summer populations.

In the overall plan for providing parish ministry to Catholics in the lower Cape, none Tum to page ~ 3- Wellfleet

Diocesan clergy hear update on '(n Support ofLife' plan

By JAMES N. DUNBAR

GIVING WITNESS - Participating in a prayer service for the people of East Timor were, from left, The Rev. Edward R. Dufresne, executive minister of the Interchurch Council of Greater New Bedford; Father Marc H. Bergeron and Father Victor Vieira. (Anchor photo).

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Ecumenical service at Sf. Mary's Cathedral on Tuesday night draws many from the Portuguese community.

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FALL RIVER - Even as United Nation peacekeeping forces enter the embattled, former Portuguese colony of East Timor, hundreds of people from across the diocese joined with Bishop Sean P. O'Malley and other clergy on Thesday night to pray and voice support for the island people in their quest for peace and justice.

Bishop O'Malley and other speakers at the service at St. Mary's Cathedral spoke in English and Portuguese as they urged continued prayers for the suffering East Timorese.

Many attending were from Portuguese communities in the diocese, and the choir, led by Osvaldo Pacheco of the music ministry of Santo Christo Parish, also sang in English and Portuguese. .

Besides Bishop O'Malley, other speakers included Father Victor Vieira, pastor of St. Francis Xavier Parish, East Providence, R.I., and Father Marc H. Bergeron, ecumenical officer for the Diocese of Fall River.

The Rev. Edward R. Dufresne, executive minister of the Interchurch Council of Greater New Bedford, gave a reading, as did Maria Peixoto of St. Francis Xavier's. Deacon Eduardo Pacheco of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish, New Bedford, proclaimed the Gospel.

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NORTH DARTMOUTH - Concerned that Catholics don't understand nor have a realistic response to questions about care for the dying, the Massachusetts Catholic Conference is sending teams to dioceses across the state to talk with parish priests about their critical role as facilitators of the initiative in their own communities of faith.

Maria Parker, project director of the In Support of Life plan, met with clergy from the Fall River Diocese last week at St. Julie Billiart Church and talked about the urgent concerns of people and the MCC's goal to educate all Catholics on the evils of physician-assisted suicide and the morality involved in end-of-life issues.

Parker put it succinctly: "Many people argue that they should have the right to determine the time and manner of their death and advances in technology have given physicians the capability to extend life.

"What is the initiative? It is a Catholic one, calling for comfort and hope for the dying and a response or alternative to the issue of physician-assisted suicide."

"We as Church can help to provide patients with the physical, emotional and spiritual care necessary for people to face death and die in peace and with dignity so that physician-assisted suicide is not the preferred choice to a natural death."

Parker said that pressure continues to grow in Massachusetts to transform assisted suicide from a crime to a personal right.

Our culture, which supports the absolute right to self-determination, lends itself to the idea that physicians should be allowed to end a suffering or a dying patient's life if the patient requests it, said Parker.

"They do not question what is being chosen or judge that the choice may be right or wrong," she said. "What matters is the right to choose is exercised."

In 1997, a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide surfaced in the Bay State. When

polled on the issue, our own Catholics seemed to fare no better than the general population on the issue.

So, with this bill serving as a catalyst, the four bishops of Massachusetts, include Bishop Sean P. O'Malley of the Fall River Diocese, realized the need for a response by the Church on the issue and requested the MCC to produce a strategic plan on end-of-life issues. '''The clergy in the Fall River Diocese were excited about getting the update on the ideas and the quality of the materials that were furnished them," said Parker. Also addressing the ·assembly was Father James O'Oonohoe ofCovenant Health System.

The plan, called ''In Support of Life;' was inspired by the Holy Father's call to "Walk as children of light bringing about a transformation of Tum to page 13- Life

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FALL RIVER - Bishop Sean P. O'Malleywill present five members of the justice system with St. Thomas More Medals at a'Mass Sunday in St. Mary's Cathedral at 3 p.m. ; The recipients are Attorneys David and Mary Alice Mctaughlirt of New Bedford, retired Juvenile Cou~ Judge Ronald D. Harper, retired Chief! Probation Officer Thomas M:McGovern and Superior Court Judge John M. XifaraS. .

Jesuit Father Walter Burghardt of the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University will be the homilist at the Mass. I • At a dinner and reception to be held at White's on the Watuppa following the Mass, the keynote speaker will be University of Massachusetts President William M. Bulger.

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FALL RIVER - Holy Union SisHoly Union Sister Virginia ter Carmen. Joseph Casald.uc, 87, Sampson will be the presenter. formerly a member of the Sacred The enneagram is an ancient Hearts Convent Community, died at method of determining personality The Catholic Memorial Home here' types that leads to a thoughtful, mul- ' on Tuesday. ' tifaceted understanding of others.

Born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, the The program is open to the pub- daughter of the late Dr. Jose Lorenzo lic. For more information and to Casalduc and the late Carmen register, call the Pastoral Care (Fernandes) Casalduc, she received Department at Saint Anne's Hos- her elementary and high school edupital, Fall River, at (508) 674- cation at Colegio del Sacgrade 5600, extension 2060.

Corazon in.Santurce, Puerto RiCo. Sister Carmen Joseph entered the Holy Union Novitiate in Fall River on March 19, 1944, and made her first profession of vows on Aug. 15, Sales And Service 1945. She made her final profession

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His Funeral Mass was celebrated Besides his wife, father, and priest Monday in St. Mary's Church, brother, he leaves a son, Michael Mansfield. Burial was in St. Mary's .Perry ofAttleboro; a daughter Karen Cemetery, Mansfield.

MEMBERS OF the Fall River.

Diocesan Council of Catholic Women who will attend the National Council in Kansas City next week, include, from left, President Lillian Plouffe, Parliamentarian Claire McMahon, .past President Terry Lewis, District 1 President Lynette Ouellette, Community Concerns Chairman Joanne Quirk, Fourth Vice President Marguerite Ronan and First Vice President Betty Mazzucchelli. Lewis will be installed as Boston Province Director and serve as a liaison to the dioceses of Fall River and Springfield in Massachusetts and the dioceses of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.

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tolate in New Bedford; in Clinton; and in the Diocese of Springfield. In Springfield, she was also a residential day-care assistant.

After retirement, she remained at Sacred Hearts Convent in Fall River until 1995 when she became a resident of The Catholic Memorial Home.

She leaves nieces and nephews, among whom is Gloria Lopez of Roswell, Ga.; and by her Holy Union Sisters.

Her Funeral Mass was celebrated 'Thursday in Sacred Heart Church on Linden Street, Fall River. Burial was today in St. Patrick's Cemetery, Fall River.

on March 3, 1951.

Continuing her education in the United States, Sister Carmen Joseph received a bachelor of arts degree from the College of the Sacred Hearts in Fall River, and a master's degree in Spanish from Middlebury College, Vt.· She taught at Sacred Hearts Academy for three years and then ministered in Argentina for 12 years. Mter returning from Argentina, she ministered at Holy Union Preparatory School, Tiverton, R.I., and again at Sacred Hearts Academy.

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Sacred Hearts Sister Claire Dumont marks golden jubilee NEW BEDFORD - Sister Claire Dumont formally marked her 50 years of dedicated services as a religious Sister of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary on Sunday at a 2 p.m., Mass celebrated by Father Stephen Furtado in Our Lady ofAssumption Church here.

A reception followed at White's of Westport.

The actual anniversary date was August 7, and that day did not go by unnoticed. After the morning Regional Assembly, in which Sister Mary Jenkins, provincial superior of the sisters in the East Coast Region and Hawaii, led a business meeting, the tone of the day quickly

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changed to thanksgiving, celebra- Province where she proved adept at tion and fun. tending the ill of the community.

A festive meal was prepared by So great was her talent for and love Sacred Hearts Sister Muriel of pastoral work, that when she reLebeau, and gift opening and remi- turned to the U.S. mainland, she niscing followed. At 5 p.m., Sister continued in that field in Boston.

Claire, colleagues, friends and resiSister Claire now lives and serves dents joined for Mass celebrated at Medeiros Towers, where she is by chaplain Father Furtado at Car- always on call to assist the elderly dinal Medeiros Towers in Fall and infirm in many ways, includRiver where Sister Claire is in min- ing helping them with Social Secuistry. The liturgy was directed and rity and health insurance problems. accompanied by Sister Regina She also performs her ministry at Mary. Among those attending were various Senior Centers in the area.

Sacred Hearts Sister Claire One of Sister Claire's innovative Bouchard, currently ministering in ministries was installing a teleRome as general vicar and coun- phone line from her apartment to cilor, and Mercy Sister Mary Noel other apartments, by which she kelJt Blute, former diocesan representa- aware of shut-ins, their needs for tive for religious. Later the . cheer, consolation and help. In the jubilarian was taken out to dinner. winter of 1995-1996, when a severe Sister Claire enrolled in Sacred snowstorm prevented the Meals on Hearts Academy, Fairhaven, in Wheels service from arriving, a 1936 and upon graduation on June former chef prepared the ~eals and 25, 1947, joined the apostolic and Sister Claire delivered them. For her missionary congregation of the Sis- outstanding service, she received ters of the Sacred Hearts. Perpetu- the State's Silver Dove Award in ally professed in 1952, she earned 1996 in Boston, and was honored a bachelor's degree and thereafter at the Senior Senate banquet. a master's degree. She then began Currently, Sister Claire is inteaching in the first and second volved in a ministry close to her grades and also assumed adminis- heart, preparing for the weekly Mass trative roles. at Cardinal Medeiros Towers. She In her younger years, even while sets up the altar, selects the music, still teaching, Sister Claire demon- leads prayers and singing and acts strated a vocation for aiding the as eucharistic minister. On occasick and working in the infirmary. sions, in the absence of a priest to In the early 1970s, she was trans- celebrate Mass, she has conducted ferred to the Sacred Hearts' Pacific a prayer service.

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A guiding word At this time of year a great amount of space is reserved for the "back to school" news. Much reporting centers on what's happening on the elementary and high school levels. Little is focused on our Catholic colleges and universities. There can be little doubt that many of our institutions of higher learning have been rather restrained. In fact, some of our colleges and universities have been rather vague in their adherence to the full meaning of "Catholic." Secularization has had a tremendous effect on these schools. The concept of a'good Catholic education has indeed been undermined by the notion that we must be all things to all people in a pagan society. Many of our major colleges and universities are indistinguishable from their colleague state institutions.

Catholicism makes little difference to many people and this indeed is more than tragic.

There is a sincere effort in the Church to effectively bring things into focus.

In a recent address to the Jesuit Education 21 Conference at St. Joseph University in Philadelphia, Archbishop Guiseppe Pittau, S.1., secretary ofthe Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education, asserted: ''A university which is not recognized as a good university in its own cultural context cannot evangelize the world ofculture." He added, "as, clear as we should be on the requirement that a Catholic university be a good university, we should be no less clear in the university's obliga. tion to be Catholic."

The archbishop's reflection made it clear that it is not easy to be a coherent responsible Catholic today, nor is it easy to be an unambiguously Catholic university. It follows that we should be rio less clear of the university's obligation to pe Catholic. Academic excellence and demanding standards do not make a university Catholic.

It should be obvious t6 those who have sacrificed Catholic beliefs for intellectual acceptance that our schools cannot serve both God and man at the expense of either. A Catholic university should have a very clear vision of what it means to be Catholic. All in the university's system, its administration, professors and students should know exactly what characteristics are essential to a Catholic university. This means ," and correctly so, that catholicity cannot remain in the private sphere or 1:~:~~~~;.roUP'Of ,so~~ reli'~i~1\re()ple. It h~stopetn.1eate the ~n~re ~

. In the past generation we have somehow failed to realize that in a Catholic university there must exist a core of committed Catholic professors who can demonsnnite that to be a scholar, and at the same time a Catholic, is not a contratdiction in terms. Recently, in our attempts to compromise, to be accepted and to, be successful, we have allowed ,people to teach in our schools who have been a complete embam~ss­ ment to our faith beliefs. In attempts to save face in the world of the •university, many institutions of higher learning have put "Catholic" on the back burner.

Archbishop Pittau also offered guidelines to his own Jesuit community that should not, cannot be ignored. ''A university or a college may call itself a Jesuit university or a Jesuit college only if it is-faithfully and visibly Catholic," he said. "Jesuit or Ignatian are adjectives, which cannot hide ordisguise or even deny the Catholicity ofour universities, A Jesuit school should be of its very nature a Catholic school."

These reflections are indeed timely. Today's young people are searching for meaning in the way they live. Many have experienced the lure of promising careers and the downs of failed ambitions. They want something more than a bull or bear market; they want meaningful lives. If the leadership in our universities realize this they can offer students not only the challengeof faim, l;>Ut also the me~ingful joy of hope that will indeed change the young people's vision and their lives as well.

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The Church and the Internet

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

Each year the IS. Paluch Company conducts seminars for vocations directors in Chicago, and each tiIDe I attend one of them my mind is boggled. ....

I was intrigued dUring this year's seminar, "Vocations: Marketing, Image and ¥edia for 2000 and Beyond;' by discussions <:>f the Internet's role in the Church's vocations work.

The Church is learning how to use this new tool ofthe Internet in its mission. But it is very important, I believe, to use it well.

Bill Gates, Microsoft's director, has said that'within adecade mostAmericans and many other people around the world will be living the Web lifestyle. It will be a reflex for these people to tum to the Web to get news, to learn, to be entertained and to communicate.... The adoption of technology for Web lifestyle is happening faster than the adoption of electricity, cars, TV and radio."

Some 70 million people are on the Internet, I learned during the seminar; 20 million users log on in order to obtain news they used to get from print

or broadcast; more than five million tions of importance? Is this person albusiness sites are on the Internet, and lowed to tell his or her story fully? Is 2,000 neW business sites are created personal dialogue encouraged, thus giving a personal touch to an othereach day.

In conversations with vocations wise impersonal Web site and makdirectors, I discovered that most of ' ing it special? them have a Web site and receive nuI also think that the breadth of vimerous iriquiries about priesthood or, sion underlying a Web site's message religious life electronically. ' on vocations is critical to its reputaOne seminar talk really caught my tion. The same old pictures of priests attention. It challenged ,vocations di- or sisters yvorking with children or rectors to focus on the quality ofWeb ministering to the sick, even though sites and to see how important this is. they are meaningful, do not give the The challenge cuts to the core of suc- full picture ofreligious life and priest• ceSsful recruiting oil the Internet. The hood today.' fact is that a vocations office can be . And.J would ask whether those reequipped with the most modem Web sponsible for a Web site demand qualsite available, but without real qual- ity. Are words carefully crafted for clar. ity, impact and inspiration?Whatabout ity it is- i'neffective. ' ,' But what does it take to create a the design of the site? And are photos meticulously chosen for the message reputable Web site?

First, vocations offices must know they convey? Does one get a sense of as much as possible about the reasons freshness in the message encountered why individuals are attracted to the upon entering this Web site? priesthood or religious life. Why has Thanks to the electronic age, the a vocation of this type become im- Church has a new friend to help culti. portant to the person who now is in- vate vocations. But like all friendships, quiring? care is most essential in establishing a When someone contacts a voca- successful relationship. To employ the tions office via aWeb site, is he or she Internet effectively, we're going to given the opportunity to discuss ques- . have to communicate very well.

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ABOUT STEWARDSHIP - Keynote speaker Sharon Hueckel is flanked by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley and Father Marcel H. Bouchard at Cathedral Camp where she recently addressed a gathering of clergy and also a group of parish lay leaders.

Lay leaders, clergy, hear talks on stewardship EAST FREETOWN - The first task of stewardship education is to bring the choice to the surface and make it more intentional, says noted author and lecturer Sharon Hueckel. The former director of Stewardship for the Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana, Hueckel spoke in separate sessions recently at Cathedral Camp with Bishop Sean P. O'Malley and a few dozen priests and with more than 115 parish stewardship lay leaders..

"The invitation is to move from sacrificial giving of one's income to sacrificial living of one's life," she said. In reviewing material from around the country, Hueckel commented that her favorite was from Baton Rouge. "It asked people to commit first to prayer, then to ministry and finally to offertory ... to turn Scriptures around; where your heart is there your treasure will follow."

The gathering was an opportunity for attendees to meet other stewards from the diocese who

are living stewardship as a way of life and ask them how they are spreading the Word in their parish. The secret, as Hueckel put it, is "knowing and naming one's gifts. Everyone has a gift, and among us we have all the gifts we need to carry out the mission entrusted to us. Not alone, but together. All of us are stewards, some of us are good stewards and some no so good."

Hueckel concluded that "I really believe that stewardship, in some sense, is the measure of our d.iscipleship. Our stewardship is the tangible, visible result of our desire to give back to God. The stronger the relationship the more of ourselves we are giving."

Father Marcel H. Bouchard, Director of Stewardship for the diocese, said that he was pleased that 30 parishes were represented during the two evening talks; and that there were a number of parishes that had not participated previously.

Lay members of the diocesan

committee were impressed with the number of priests and that several attended both sessions. . "I especially enjoyed her example of the little child who asks her parents for money to buy them a birthday present," said James M. Riley, a diocesan committee member. God, like good parents everywhere, is pleased when we used his gifts to prepare a gift for him. "This comment gave me cause to reflect on not only' the gifts I share each day through our Church, but in my work and home as well."

The presentation was the latest in the stewardship series presented by the Diocesan Stewardship Committee every year-and-a -half.

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The difference between aging and getting old Hardly a day goes by that I don't come as: What is successful aging? Is old age characross something about how the face of my acterized by loss? Do families, in fact, reject nation is changing, showing more and more their old? Do the old fear death? Are they wrinkles. The latest statistics are that some 70,000 Americans today are centenarians, a number expected to, increase because the fastest growing population group is 85 and older. , I'm not at all surprised by this.

Back in the late '70s, when I worked

By Antoinette Bosco at the State University of New York ~-L-:-...;.--.J-I at Stony Brook, I, with a friend who was a gerontology major, Jane Porcino, designed a program and wrote a book we called "What Do We Really ignored by the community? In a society Know About Aging?" After bringing many which places its highest value on productivof the nation's gerontology experts to the ity and power, can the old live with dignity university to share what they were learning when they are outside the mainstream of from their research, we found an answer to work?

From the start we were getting surprising that question, summarized in two words. We knew a lot ab.out aging, but the news hadn't new images of aging. Dr. Eric Pfeiffer, professor of psychiatry at Duke University, spoke gotten out.

We started with some 50 questions such of the "very exciting older people" he was

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meeting. He said: "There did seem to emerge a set of common characteristics for all or almost all these persons. It struck me as though the successfully aging person was someone who somewhere along the way had decided to stay in training - physically, intellectually, emotionally and socially."

Clearly, these were the people who had also gained wisdom along the way, keeping a joy of life churning in their spirit.

Very prophetic was the contribution of Bernice Neugarten, then professor of human development at the University of Chicago.

She dispelled the negative images of aging that indicated old age can be "summed up by the words 'illness,' 'poverty,' 'isolat~on,' 'desolation' and 'depression' - views of old age based largely upon the observations of social workers who serve the poor and the lonely."

Neugarten reported that her long-time work with the aging showed most of the elderly are not necessarily lonely, and only a few show signs of senility. Nor.are they iso-

lated from their families. "They are not being dumped into nursing homes by cruel and indifferent children."

Looking into her crystal ball, the researcher said that by the year 2000 it would be awkward to call anyone age 65 "old."

"Middle age might be the term we use right up to age 75," she said, adding, "We'll be in an era characterized by the 'younging' of older people." She predicted we'l\.call people from 55 to 75 the "young old" and those more than 75 the "old old." Everything I'm reading and seeing today shows Neugarten was right on target.

It is crucial in later years to maintain an optimism about life if one chooses not to grow old. Dr. Henry A. Bowman says the key is good mental health. If one continues to work for human betterment, retains religious values, is not steeped in self-pity and looks to the future, not the past, good mental health can be retained till the end of life.

Aging: We're all on our way. It's the natural rhythm of life. But let's never get old.

We do chicken right: Notes on parish picnics In the interest of building up the parish which I won't mention but it includes a state's communities of this great nation of ours, I name that reminds you of horses (not chickwant to publicly state something to the bish- ens).

These people put this chicken in their ops ofAmerica (and hope the Canadian ones are listening) in no unequivocal terms and own Corning Ware or their greatwith full understanding that this column grandmother's "serving bowl" with their might be sent to the Vatican for scrutiny names masking-taped to the bottom and try and translated into Latin and held against to pass it off as their own.

Remember when magazines like People me when the IRS questions the mileage I claimed driving to and from Mass as de- and Tzmeused to run pictures of people with their parish picnic food, and they would look ductible.

I want to state that it would be good for alike? Wait, maybe that was dogs.

Doesn't matter. It's gotten to the point that building up parish communities if the bishops would issue a pastoral letter on parish at many parish picnics you cannot tell anypicnics. more who brought what because some don't How's that for courageous and forthright even hide the franchise boxes. Of course, and four score and seven? these are the ones the kids eat first because I say you gotta stand up for what you be- they are always first in line ahead of us adults, lieve, and I believe that parish picnics in way and this is something the bishops should too many parishes - I am not going to men- address·too. tion Washington state or California just beAt our last All Saints Parish picnic one of cause they are prone to earthquakes and are the games was to guess which part of the populated with many people who say, "Feel chicken you were eating. Fried-chicken franthat?" to strangers all the time - have al- chises have nearly mastered the art of dislowed people to bring fried chicken to pic- .guising what part of the chicken you are eatnics from a certain fried-chicken franchise ing. This is not an accident. They do not

want you to know.

This is definitely something the bishops They want you to thivk that the top part might mention in passing in their pastoral of the wing dunked in a pound of secret herbs letter. They could hint it would be good for and spices and deep-fried to. the size of a' the truth in advertising federal agency to send its highly trained and armed agents to headquarters of the Fried Chicken Cartel and insist they accurately advertise and label their deep-fried poultry.

Thus, instead of "eight-piece" bucket on reader boarCls, you'd see "eight chunk bucket" or "eight batter-wad box" or "eight or so conBy Dan Morris glomerated-hunks tub." Who knows, maybe we'd see new chicken parts created - chicken golden softball is really the drumstick of a "thwackies," chicken "limbs," chicken "body corn-fed chicken. cavity segments," chicken "skin wads," Give them their due. Those globs of chicken "mystery fragments." poly-wanna-cracker-unsaturated-fat batter I don't want to presume to suggest what that encase the chicken hunks are darn the' bishops would title this pastoral, but "We tasty. A wag friend of mine claims the local Do Parish Picnics Right" almost suggests itfried-chicken outlet was out of chicken for self, don't you think? . a week, so they battered-and-breaded Your comments are welcome always. chunks of peat moss and no one knew the Please send them to Uncle Dan, 6363 difference .

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cese. "I enjoy that interaction with the rections. He's a good head coach.'" aroun,d 1J Prpl., mear$g hegytS~ome Palmer works hard players. Of course, I enjoy game: day Palmer's work day usually ends cl~se ~o J!liq~wt , " too." ," .

Hy'~known,to.go making time to , As tltepractice to church as often as practice his faith.· continues, Palmer possibl,e, parti<;:ucommands the play• • •: larly Sl!ndays :aJl~

By NANCY ERIKSO":! . ing field. When· holydays. !ie's ll13de CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE players do well, he .sure that memberSof BEREA, Ohio-:.!t's only 8:30am.-. applau~s them. the team who' are ,and already coach' Chris Palmer has When they commit Catholic' have 'the had a long day. what hejokingly reoppbrtJni~ ,to, celHe arrived at Cleveland Browns' fers to as "a venial ebrate Mass 'to.headquarters about 5:30 a.m. to study ,sin;'hesays: "Come gether. And the perfLlrns ofprevious team pr~tices and to on, I know you can sdn he'd most like to meet with the assistant coaches about do better than thaC' meet someday i~ Iwhat they need to work on that mom-. But when they PbpeJo~nP~ulJ;I. ing. 'make what he calls ,': Father . John' , As the players take the practice field, a "mortal sin," he Gairity, pastor lit St. .Palmer is jogging right beside them, rides them.

Mary Church in with football-starved fans cheering him "He's been a Berea, said that earon and countless journalists watching teacher to us;' said lier this year Palmer his every move. used to attend Mass quarterback Ty He has been working virtually non- Detmer. "He takes every Sunday at St stop since he was named the Browns the time to explain .'" Mary with his famI head coach in January, and this life- things. He's in con;""';;'_:---1 ily. "He's such a long Catholic works equally hard at trol. Some guys on CLEVELAND BROWNS head coach Chris Palmer con- gentleman;'hesaid. making time in his busy schedule to other teams are out suits with quarterback Tim Couch on the sidelines. Players "I know he's got to practice his faith. there ~elling and say Palmer brings a straightforward nature, a sense of hu- be tough on those "I enjoy teaching on the field," Palmer told the Catholic Universe Bul- ~:~~~~~~k~,~ mor and a deep Catholic faith to his job. (CNS photo by ~~s:u~eafi;~~~~~ , inan.I'dbe'proudto letin, newspaper ofthe Cleveland Dio- takingusingooddi- Dennis ~adowski, Catholic Universe BUlletin) !

have him in this parish."

Since being hired as head coach for the Bro~s, Palmer has been on a tight schedule..Between meetings and choosing players for the f1I'St:y~ team, there hav~ been minicamps~ you,th clin.ics and cominercial shoots to attend, " . In his spare time, he enjoys reading ,and playing goIfbut he's also been out 'and about doing works of service in the cornrnuJ.lity. In JiliJe, shoppers at a Ilocal SUpermilfket were delighted to fmd the h~coach bagging groceries for c~arity., .

His willingness to help good causes d~ not suiprise the folks at the football team's headquarters. Carmen Policy, . president and CEO of the 'Browns, has said Palmer is not only a good coach but a "really good guy. He is a man of substance. He is a real person."

During the football season, Palmer and the team attend Mass together before games. However, Palmer is also a humble and private man when talking about his faith, seeming to not want to be held up as an example for others. ''I go to church a lot and I pray," said Palmer, 50 years old this Sept. 23. "I could go to church everyday."

The salvation of extraterrestrials Q. In 1947 an incident occurred in Roswell, N.M., that was officially declared to be the crash ofa weather

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By Father John J. Dietzen balloon. Since then there have been rumors that it was the crash of a flying disc with extraterrestrial biological entities, living beings from somewhere else in the universe.

I don't ask in jest or delusion; I really would like to find some answers. It is said that UFOs are the second most popular subject on the Internet these days - second only

to sex. The n JIDber of people who believe life exists in the universe beyond our earth grows significantly with each of our scientific and space advances.

The controversy goes on, but my question is: How would a discovery that there are rational beings somewhere besides on earth impact Christian faith and current Catholic theology in particular?

Has any Catholic group undertaken a study of the subject and its doctrinal consequences?, Could Jesus Christ have come to'them also? (Missouri)

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for wondering how much rational life there is now even on this earth.

That aside, it seems to me the only claim we can make for sure in such matters is that nothing in Catholic faith or tradition would rule out the possibility that reasoning, conscious, "humanlike" creatures exist in other parts of creation.

If we intelligently believe in a divine being, can we suppose that God's creative imagination and power is exhausted by the human realities we know? Can we presume that God has "done it all" here, in us?

Countless other life forms, with faculties necessary to relate to each other and the Creator in a conscious way, are surely possible. What "salvation" (from what? to what? how?)

might mean for these creatures we have no clue.

Considering the exuberant imagination and generosity with which God lavishes beings and life of all kinds on the planet around us and on the rest of the cosmos we do know, one might strongly suspect that this divine extravagance is not limited to here. Any theory about how or whether that happens, however, is pure speculation.

Some people claim it is typical human arrogance and narcissism even to question the existence of other humanly conscious life. We cannot be, as they say, the only fish in such a big pond.

That's not a very persuasive argument. It pretends to know much more about what God expects and receives

from his creation, including ourselves, than we will probably ever know this side of eternity.

Again, conjectures are fun, but we need to remember that's all they are, unless and until some of our descendants, hundreds of years from now,. somehow find out for sure.

A free brochure answering questions Catholics ask about ecumenism, intercommunion, and other ways of sharing with people of other faiths, is available by sending a stamped, selfaddressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Box 325, Peoria, III. 61651.

Questions for this column may be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address, or e-mail iidietzen@aoI.com.

A. With all the insanities and evils the human race is inflicting on itself these days, one might be forgiven

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Making promises COOle true for adoptive foster children Dear Dr. Kenny: I am writing in response to your recent column on foster parenting as an alternative to adoption. I am the director of child welfare services for Catholic Charities. I strongly support preadoptive foster care and often recommend this alternative to couples seeking information on adoption.

Unfortunately, your article contains misleading information....

"The recent Adoption and Safe

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Talk With Dr. James & Mary Kenny Families Act enacted in Washington and the companion enabling legislation passed in NewYork state have as one of their goals moving children more quickly into permanentadoptive homes when they cannot be reunited with their biological families. Your article leads the reader to believe that no child will remain in foster care for more than one year. Unless the child is voluntarily freed for adoption by hislher parents, court action, subsequent placement with or without subsidy and fmalization will still take from two to three years." (NewYork)

The Adoption and Safe Families Act has made changes in the law to minimize foster care drift, and for foster children to find permanent homes within 12-18 months. Unfortunately, laws do not change bureaucracies.

ASFA makes it possible. Only we can make it happen.

Children have a right to a permanent home. One year is already a long time in the life of a child, too long to wait for us to tolerate systemic delays.

If we truly believe that the child's rights are paramount, then we need to get busy and find quicker ways through the maze of the twin bureaucracies ofchild welfare and court systems. Here are some things we can do

to make ASFA's promise come true.

1. Child welfare workers should have a case plan for reunification within 10 minutes after they remove a child from the home. The caseworker certainly knows why the child is being separated from his parents. What must the parents do to get him back?

Parents and child deserve an immediate checklist that might include parenting classes, medical checkups, drug screens, change of residence, employment, moving out an abusive boyfriend, etc.

2. If after six months no appreciable progress has been made toward reunification, hold a review hearing. If appropriate, the permanency plan can be changed to work toward adoption.

The welfare system blames the courts, and vice versa, for the delays.

Caseworkers and concerned judges can find ways to work together and speed the process. Los Angeles has new special adoption courts where 400 children were adopted in a single Saturday.

3. Grants can be obtained for special courts whose sole function can be foster-child permanency hearings, TPR (termination of parental rights) and/or adoption. A grant was obtained in Gary, Ind., for a TPR court.

Special courts have been used to address the intricacies of tax law and the backlog of drug cases.

4. Introduce legislation to give long-term foster parents (one year or more) legal standing as they advocate in behalf of the children in their care.

Most foster children who are adopted are adopted by their foster parents.

Long-term foster parents have the most to offer in terms of day-ta-day knowledge and the possibility of a permanent home. Indiana has introduced such legislation.

Laws like ASFA may enable us, but to achieveASFA's promise, agen'cies and courts must also change their policies and systems.

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Court rules consecutive sentences imposed on priest, nun, and laymen were errors on part ofpresiding judge.

lumbus, Ga., near Fort Benning, has been lobbying for the closure of the School of the Americas. Graduates of the school, which trains Latin American military officers, have been implicated in atrocities and human rights abuses throughout the region.

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE SOA Watch organized the protests at which the five were ByTRACY EARLY you but your head." And he joked ATLANTA - The II th U.S. CircuitCourtofAppeals in . arrested.

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE that New Yorkers had known that Atlanta has overturned the sentences of five protesters conDuring a Nov. 16, 1997, prayer vigil at Fort Benning NEWYORK-CardinaIJohn1. "for a long time." victed in two separate 1997 actions at the U.S. Army's School irivolving several thousand protesters - they were among But the operation to remove ofthe Americas at Fort Benning, Ga O'Connor of New York, recuperat. the 25 people arrested for ''unlawful re-entry" onto the base. ing from removal of a brain tumor, the tumor was "extraordinarily The three-judge panel has ruled that U.S. District Judge Following their conviction, all 25 were sentenced by Elliott resumed public activities at the an- successful," and the doctors as- 1. Robert Elliott, who presided in both trials, had erred in . in January 1998 to six-month prison terms. nual Labor Day Mass at St. Patrick's sured him any remaining prob- ordering conEarlier, on Cathedral last week, eight days af- lems could be handled with ra- secutive instead Sept. 29, 1997, ter his release from Memorial diation, he said. the five also had of concurrent Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Cardinal O'Connor also drew sentences after' gone to the base, He announced a joint project on this experience in a serious the protesters' where they took of the Archdiocese of New York· way for the homily, reporting that second convicmetal letters off and the New York City Central the doctors dealt with him "as a tion. the Fort Labor Council (AFL-CIO) to deal person" rather than as "a comBenning sign, By the time with problems of discrimination modity," and calling on the labor the ruling was replacing them and exploitation faced by immi- movement to help the nation be- handed down, with a stenciled grant workers. come a place where all people all but one ofthe message: Auxiliary Bishop Patrick J. treat each other as persons.

"Home of five had served The doctors at Sloan- more than the Sheridan of New York presided at School of the Mass. But Cardinal O'Connor, Kettering, whom he did not know time stipulated Americas wearing his red cardinal's robe, personally, spoke to him about the in the new rulof School delivtest re- ing.

Shame" and ered the suits and "SOA = torture.'"

Three of the ho mil y When he climbed possible prisoners They were had aland apinto the pulpit, he re- t rea t - ready been reconvicted of marked, 'This has ment "as leased. They are: peared to "destruction of have re. been a trulv marveltho ugh government.

Frang a in e d J they re- ciscan Sister property with . . .. much of ous funeral, and I a I I Y Mar g e MARY TROTOCHAUD, of Atlanta, shown In thiS file phot<?, malicious inhis norhave enjoyed every car e d " Eilerman, 61, of was one of five jailed School of America protesters to have their tent," a felony, m a I bit of it." a n d Booneville, Ky., sentence overturned.' (eNS photo) . and a misdestrength. _ Cardinal "wanted who was servmeanor charge.

H e m e to be ing 14 months in a federal prison in Lexington, Ky.; In July 1998, Elliott gave the five protesters sentences rangJohn J. O'Connor part of was able - Mary Trotochaud, 48, ofAtlanta, who was serving 14 ing from eight to 12 months, to be served consecutively to stand AnchodJolJvetfilephoto of New York with the earlier six-month prison terms. for a LwIsthei 0deciIi - monthS in a federal prison in Alderson, WVa; They also received fines and restitution ranging from - Ed Kinane, 54, ofSyracuse,N.Y., who was serving 16 homily making months in a federal prison in Pennsylvania $1,000 to $3,050 and two years supervised probation. of the usual length, delivered in process," he said.

SOA Watch officials said they expect more than 10,000 JesuitFatherWilliam Bichsel, 71, ofTacoma, Wash., was Cardinal O'Connor recalled to be released Sept. 27 froin a federal prison in Sheridan, people at Fort Benning for a Nov. 20-21 demonstration to normal voice, and knelt at a priedieu for extended periods during that his father was "a uniori man Ore. He had been sentenced by Elliott to atotal of 18 months. mark the anniversary of the 1989 massacre of six Jesuits, the eucharistic prayers and dur- all his life," and that the union.

The last of the five who appealed - Kathleen Rumpf, their housekeeper and her daughter in El Salvador. Nineing distribution of Communion. movement was "in my blood."

48, also of Syracuse, who served 12 months in a federal teen of the 26 Salvadoran officers cited by the UN. Truth The archdiocese did not disBut in reference to the new prison in Texas - was released in July before the appeals Commission for the massacre were SOA graduates, accordclose which day "the surgery was project for aiding immigrants, he decision was handed down. . ing to soA Watch. performed. The cardinal entered went on to recall also that his faThis past July. the U.S. House of Representatives voted After the ruling, attorney PeterThompson ofMinneapoSloan-Kettering, one of the ther was part of an immigrant fam. lis, who represented the five, said in a statement from SOA 230-197 to cut $2 million from the budget of the School of nation's foremost cancer centers, ily, and the only one of the chil- Watch, 'The courts are finally joining the people on this the Americas that is included in the U.S. government's forfor tests Aug. 25, and was released dren born in the United States. eign operations budget. The balance of the school's fundissue."

It seemed strange to make a . SOA Watch, with offices in Washington, D.C., and Co- ing is included in the defense budget Sept. 4. . Cardinal O'Connor, who will sharp distinction between his fabe 80 Jan. 15, joked in character- ther as a native and the rest of his istic fashion about his medical father's family as immigrants, he condition. After being welcomed remarked. "We are all immiwith enthusiastic applause at the grants." beginning of the Mass and again Brian M. McLaughlin, presiwhen he climbed into the pulpit, dent of the Labor Council and he remarked, "This has been a credited by Cardinal O'Connor

By JERRY FILTEAU truly marvelous funeral, and I with initiating the project, said in methods as approaches to understand- time. The group discussed similariCATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE have enjoyed every bit of it." a press conference after the Mass . ties and differences in Catholic and ing Scripture. .

For ·the benefit of the many. that the work of the commission . WASHINGTON - Catholic and It also includes agreed statements Baptist approaches to Scripture in union officials and members' would be launched on Columbus Baptist leaders met in Washington last on how fundamentalism, literalism 1995-1997 and began its discussions present, he also reported giving Day, taking note of the symbolic week to discuss how Jesus Christsaves and historicity should be defined. ·of soteriology in 1998, while workdirections that his casket should significance of the day for the be- people. .

Christian BrotherJeffrey Gros, as- ing on' a report on the Scripture dishave a union label. ginning of immigration.

Soteriology - the field of theol- sociate direCtor of the Catholic bish- ·cussions.

Making his first public comThe council, which reports a . ogy that seeks to understand what sal- ops' Secretariat for Ecumenical and For this year's meeting, hosted by ment on his surgery, Cardinal . constituency of more than 400 lo- vation in Jesus Christ. means -:- was Interreligious Affairs. said the report the Catholic side, discussions focused O'Connor said the doctors exam- cal unions with more than l.5'mil- the main topic ofthe three-day South- will help dispel erroneous perceptions on questions ofjustification, sanctifiined him "from head to foot, lit- lion members, will staff the com- ern Baptist-Rom~ Catholic Conver- that Southern Baptisti;and Catholics cation, conversion, aSsurance of salerally" and "inch by inch." . mission, but draw on the aid of sation. . . have of each other. vation, baptism and original sin.

He said they then caQ1e into his the immigrant services staff of the Participants also completed a writThe meeting was held at Centro ''We're the two larges~ C~stian room with smiles to report that archdiocesan Catholic Charities, ten report to their respective sponsor- denominations in the United States," Maria, a religious house near The there was "nothing wrong with McLaughlin said. ing bodies on the Bible. he said. ''To say together how we talk Catholic University ofAmerica It inThe group plans to publish that about one another and about our com- cluded a luncheon at the university report, reflecting three years of con- mon Bible is important progress." with its religious studies faculty, versations about differences and simiHe added, ''It should also lay the hosted by the university president, larities in the way their traditions un- common ground for witness together Vincentian Father David M. JESUS DID NOT COME TO EXP~ derstand the authority. of Scripture. and help those already engaged in O'COnnell.

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PARISHIONERS AT Prince of Peace Church in Plano, Texas, walk along a labyrinth as a contemplative form of prayer. The 36-square-foot canvas is modeled after a labyrinth on the floor of Chartres Cathedral in France. (CNS photo by Robert Bunch, Texas Catholic)

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By MARK ADAMS CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE DALLAS - As Maggie Herrod walked the prayer labyrinth at Prince of Peace Church in Plano, she found the path moistened by her own tears. The way the labyrinth forced her to slow down and the pain she saw in others who walked with her made this a moving form of prayer.

"The labyrinth was much more powerful than I thought it would be," she said.

Herrod is the director of adult formation and community life at Prince of Peace. She worked with fellow parishioner John Ranello to bring his 36-square-foot canvas

labyrinth to Prince of Peace.

According to Ranello, the labyrinth is divided into three parts.

The walk to the center is the first part and is to be spent as a time of cleansing.

One reaches the second part, the middle of the labyrinth, to encounter God. "In the center you realize that God is the center of your life," he said. "It is a time of illumination."

The walk out, the third part, is a call to respond to what has been learned.

"Walking out represents union with God and taking action," said Ranello. "The labyrinth is good for

UN's respectfor confidentiality ofconfession remains in doubt UNITED NATIONS (CNS)- Respect for confidentiality between priest and penitent in proceedings of the International Criminal Court appeared in doubt as the Preparatory Commission for the court began a session July 26 at U.N. headquarters in New York.

Vatican officials thought recognition of the confidentiality of the confessional was secured in Rome last year.

But Vatican representatives at the United Nations expressed concern that a discussion paper introduced in the commission's Working Group on Rules of Procedure and Evidence did not mention clergy in connection with confidentiality privileges.

The proposed language in a paper presented by the coordinator of working group negotiations made communication with legal counsel privileged. But it referred to "other communications" only in general terms, and gave criteria for the court to use in deciding when to .grant the privilege.

Msgr. George Panikulam, a staff member at the Vatican mission to the United Nations who was heading the Vatican delegation to the commission, (old Catholic News Service that

specific language recognizing the confidentiality of priest-penitent communication was in official documents published las.t year and this past Jan. 26. ''That the question is reopened now with a cancellation of the relevant element of confidentiality is a surprise," he said.

Msgr. Vincent R. LaRocca, a priest of the Brooklyn Diocese who is a lawyer, has served on the Vatican delegations to all the meetings related to the new court, and was acting as its principal negotiator in sessions of the Working Group on Rules of Procedure and Evidence.

Msgr. LaRocca said he thought he would be able to get the reference to clergy reinstated by the time the current session ended Aug. 13.

But he acknowledged, "We're having a tough time in there."

At the Rome meeting last year, he introduced and won approval of a provision regarding clergy, and he was surprised to find it had subsequently been "tossed out," he said.

The Preparatory Commission is scheduled to ha~e another session Nov. 29-Dec. 17 and to conclude its work next year, Msgr. LaRocca said.

people going through transition and a beautiful way of healing yourself."

Prince of Peace parishioner Lisa Morris said the labyrinth reminded her "that we just need to be with ourselves and with God." Most labyrinths look like a large circular maze. However, unlike mazes, only one path can be taken in a prayer labyrinth. There are no cul-de-sacs to get lost in or wrong turns to take. When someone "walks a labyrinth," they are engaging in a meditative form of prayer.

Rather than reciting formal prayers, many use the time to hear from their Creator.

"I focused on just listening to God," Morris said. "I didn't think it would allow me to reflect as much as it did."

The most famous labyrinth is found on the floor of Chartres Cathedral in France, built in the 1200s.

It is unknown if it was used as a prayer tool or for decoration.

Most of those. at Prince of Peace were walking a prayer labyrinth for the first time. For many, the intensity of the experience was unexpected.

Herrod once walked a prayer labyrinth by herself, but this was the first time she shared the experience with others. She agreed that the communal aspect gave the walk a new dimension.

Morris saw parallels in walking the labyrinth .and her spiritual life.

"I kept thinking I was almost in the center which is what I always do," she said. "I think too far ahead instead ofjust realizing where I am at the moment."

Some have criticized the use of the labyrinth as a prayer tool, saying some of its supporters express beliefs that could easily mislead well-meaning Catholics.

Ranello said the labyrinth, when used within Catholic theology, can be an excellent tool. "The power is not in the labyrinth, it is in the transforming power of Christ," he said.

"We must center our lives on Christ."

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'Young and Restless' star Victoria Rowell is a foster child herself.

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Rowell later taught classical dance at several schools in New 'England, and then her striking grace and beauty led to television, first

By Lou BALDWIN through the advertising medium CATHOliC NEWS SERVICE with commercials.for Ford, Burger PHILADELPHIA - Foster chil- King and AT&T, just to name a few. dren have a friend on television. This was followed by film and teleShe's Victoria Rowell, formerly of vision work with Bill Cosby, then the popular soap opera "The Young 'The Young and the Restless" and and the Restless," and now the as- ultimately "Diagnosis Murder" tute forensics expert, Dr. Amanda with Dick Van Dyke.

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She will do whatever it takes to workers and foster parents who recmake the life of children in foster ognized her talents and went the extra mile to help Rowell achieve care more pleasant. her poten"Th e y do need a . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , tial.

"I still voice and remember after all, I'm my social a former workers. foster youth They just myself," did 'so said Rowell, many bewho renevolent cently was things outphotoside of the graphed for profile of a promowhat would t ion a'i -be for a soposter for cial worker, 't h ' e' really archdiocesan Christian Catholic acts and a Soc i a I 'lot of outService's of-pocket Foster Care service so I Program. could re"I'm interc e i v e ested in helping the . ACTRESS VICTORIA Rowell of things withadvance- "Diagnosis Murder," in an interview out waiting mentoffos- talked ,about her childhood in foster six months ter family homes and her contil")uing interest in for a purlegisla- helping children in the foster care sys- chase order.

Rowell, tion." tem. (eNS photo by D'Mont Reese, who now Posing makes her for the Catholic Standard and Times) . principal poster is a natural fit, because "I'm Catholic home in the Los Angeles area, dotes and I work with children, especially. on her own two children, Jasper, 2, foster children, so it makes a lot of who "loves trains," and Maya, 10, sense," Rowell said. who "loves horses and just made She spent her childhood - from her first Communion. They are infancy until age 18 - in foster great," she said. care in Maine and Massachusetts While at this point in her life under the supervision of the Maine and career Rowell is not a foster Department of Social Services. For parent herself, she is heavily inRowell, it was a positive experi- volved in both advocacy and philence. anthropic work for children in fos"I've been blessed with wonder- tercare. ful fortune and good support For the past 10 years Rowell has throughout my life," she said. "But also headed a foundation she crefoster care, in the best of circum- ated, the Rowell Foster Children's stances, is a fairly difficult exist- Positive Plan. The foundation ence for a child. Usually you Me funds participation for foster chilseparated from your siblings and dren in fine arts programs, includdon't know if you will ever see them ing her continuing love, ballet. again. And you are separated from Uniting brothers and sisters 'in your own mother and father even if foster care is important to Rowell. you had a chance to know them in While there were six ~hildren in her the first place." own natural family, she was united From the time she was very with only two of them a child.

"I did a search about 10 years young, Rowell loved classical ballet, and her foster mother enrolled ago and reunited the family," she her in a ballet program for inner- said. "Now we have a family recity youth in Cambridge, Mass. She union every two years. I believe' a stayed with this program for eight search is wonderful. If some family years and ultimately won a full members aren't receptive, that's scholarship to'the American Ballet OK. You've done youq;art."~··:'

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on the project," Weigel said in an interview with Catholic News Service. ' 'He said the pope assured him they would meet as ' WASHINGTON - What's an author to do when the pope invites him to dinner and asks him to write the often as necessary, and the author would get any needed materials and have complete editorial control. pope's biography?

Weigel said that arrangement allowed him to write For George Weigel, the answer was easy - not only because' Pope John Paul II asked him but because the "the first full-scale biography that presents the pope's life from 'inside' the convictions that have shaped that author had long wanted to write such a book. life."

Three-and-a-half He said writing a biyears in the making, ography from the outside "Witness to Hope: The is a little like writing a Biography of Pope John biography of Einstein Paul II" will be available and ignoring or in bookstores by middownplaying the physOctober from ics.

HarperCoIlins Publish''With John Paul II, the ers. theology, the Christian An imposing yet commitment that makes highly readable volume him the man he is, that that runs nearly 1,000 shapes his thinking, his pages, including footactions, his decisions, notes, the biography is and his encounters with the work of Weigel, a others, has to be the startCatholic newspaper coling point," Weigel said. umnist and senior fellow Regarding meeting at the Ethics and Public with the pope, Weigel said, Policy Center in Wash"We met 10 times, forington. mally, over meals, and had Weigel has written or several other more ~nfor­ edited 15 books, includmal encounters, amounting 'Tranquillitas Ordiing to about 20 hours of nis: The Present Failure , conversation in all. and Future Promise of Weigel said that a American Catholic year before the pope Thought on War and asked him to write the P.eace" and "The Final papal. biography, he Revolution: The Re~;is­ stated'in a column that tance Church and the historians would someCollapse of Commuday refer to the pope as nism."

'Pope John Paul II the He said the idea of Great. producing an in-depth "If that does become biography of the pope first came up in May 1995 in informal conver~ations . the case, it will be because, like Leo the Great and Gregory the Great, John Paul met the challenge of the with Joaquin Navarro-Valls, the pope's spokesman.

For several months afterward, Weigel suggested barbarians of his time," he said. "He has championed ideas by mail and fax to Navarro-Valls on how he Christian humanism and defending the inalienable rights of human beings made in the image and likethought such a biography should be written.

Then in December 1995, Weigel was back in Rome ness of God. 'This 'pope from a far country' has changed the to give a lecture when, to his surpr~se, the pope invited papacy and the course of 20th-century history, and set him to dinner.

"In the course of the evening he made it clear, quite the course for world Catholicism well into the third vigorously, that he would be grateful if I would take millennium," Weigel said.

CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

Family film drought continues NEW YORK (CNS) - The following are capsule reviews of movies recently reviewed by the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting.

"American Beauty" (DreamWorks) Nihilistic black comedy in which a husband (Kevin Spacey) lusts after a blonde teen-ager (Mena Suvari), his shrill wife (Annette Bening) has an affair with a business rival (Peter Gallagher), and their teen daughter (Thora Birch) finds solace with a drug-dealing classmate from an equally dysfunctional family. Director Sam Mendes paints a corrosively bleak portrait of family life in which the increasingly desperate behavior of self-absorbed characters' culminates in murder. Briefgory violence, sexual situations and nudity, some profanity and recurring rough language. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is 0 - morally offensive. The Motion Picture Association ofAmerica rating is R - restricted.

''B. Monkey" (Artisan) Violent tale in which a punky London thief (Asia Argento) tries to retire from a life of crime after she and a schoolteacher (Jared Harris) fall in love, but her criminal colleagues track the couple down to their rural hideaway with deadly results. The lovers in director Michael Radford's morally ambiguous tale of redemption seek a new life l:!ut ignore taking responsibility for criminal acts. Some violence, sexual encounters with full nudity, drug abuse and much rough language. The U.S. Catholic Confer-

Movies Online Can't remember how a recent film was classified by the USCC? Want to know whether to let the kids go see it? Now you can look film reviews up on America Online.

Once you're connected to AOL, just use the keyword CNS to go to Catholic News Service's online site, then look for movie reviews.

ence classification is A-N- adults, with reservations. The Motion Picture Association ofAmerica rating is R - restricted. ''Breakfast of Champions"

(HoUywood) Surreal satire in which the American dream becomes a nightmare for a crazed car dealer (Bruce Willis) who turns to a cranky pulp fiction writer (Albert Finney) for a coherent philosophy of life when he can't relate to his spacey family and bizarre co-workers. As directed

by Alan Rudolph from Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s 1976 novel, the film's social commentary soon gets lost among many eccentric characters who become tiresome well before the gooey upbeat ending. An extended sexual encounter, brief violence, intermittent profanity and minimal rough language. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-III - adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted. '

Architect criticizes 20 years Priesthood a life of • of Church architecture JOY, courage, says lHEANCHOR-DioceseofFaIlRiver-Fri., September24, 1999

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Called a 'culprit'in the issue is a 1978 booklet published by the U. S. bishops Committee on the Liturgy.

new document on the topic, which the bishops are expected to discuss this fall and vote on next year, will overcome the limitations of the 1978 text.

Stroik's critique appeared as a five-page article in the summer issue of Sacred Architecture.

He said the 1978 booklet's '''authority has been invoked to require theater-shaped interiors, removal of tabernacles from sanc-

and environment text, acknowledged weaknesses and limitations in the 1978 booklet. But sIle said the 1978 text has also been blamed for saying things that it doesn't really say. "What the document says. and how people used it to build buildings are two different things,"

By JERRY FILTEAU she said.

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE She noted that the document WASHINGTON,- In a critistresses simplicity, for example, cism of the current state of U.S. "but what some people consider Catholic Church archi: simple, others regard as tecture and art, architect stark."

Duncan Stroik has She said one major In its approach to architectural blamed the booklet "Enweakness of the 1978 style, he said, the booklet "is for all vironment and Art in text was in the appended Catholic Worship" as photographic examples intents and purposes a paean to one of the culprits. used to illustrate the modernist abstraction. ... In an Stroik, an associate principles spelled out in EACW church there is no complexprofessor of architecture the text. Nearly all are at the University of ity: There are no columns to sit next drawn from the same baNotre Dame and editor of sic style, employing drato, no shadows for a penitent to kneel the magazine Sacred matic, simple uses of in, no places for private devotion, Architecture, said the starkly angular wood and no mystery and no images of the 1978 booklet, produced stone surfaces, almost by the U.S. bishops' devoid of curves or artisheavenly hosts."

Committee on the Littic embellishment. urgy, "has been used in She said another weakdioceses across the ness of the 1978 text was United States and Canada as the tuaries, removal of religious im- a lack of footnotes. The proposed new document will be extensively 'bible' for new church design agery and a puritanical style."

He said he hopes that "in writ- footnoted, she said, so that the and renovation."

In its approach to architec- ing the new document the bish- reader can refer back to Vatican tural style, he sai~, the booklet ops will re-evaluate the 'low documents, Scripture passages and "is for all intents and purposes a church' style that has character- other resources behind the text. paean to modernist abstraction. ized many post-Vatican II buildThe 1978 text was simply a ... In an EACW church there is ings and recommend principles committee document. Sister no complexity: There are no col- which will promote the richness, Rehrauer said the new text is to umns to sit next to, no shadows diversity and ingenuity inherent be a document of the full body of bishops. Its last chapter addresses for a penitent to kneel in, no in Roman Catholicism."

Franciscan Sister Ann Rehrauer, the role of art and the artist in the places for private devotion, no mystery and no images of the associate director of the bishops' building process and the use of Secretariat for the Liturgy and liturgical and devotional art in heavenly hosts."

He expressed hopes that a staff coordinator for the new art churches, she said.

'Assisi' phone cards calling attention ·to basilica restoration

By CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

700-year-old basilica complex and other religious WASHINGTON - Prepaid phone cards are now monuments. available in the United States to help raise awareness Earlier this year, CNS reported that the seriously damaged upper 'basilica was expected - and funds - for the restoration to be re-opened this Christmas. of the earthquake-ravaged .The lower basilica and Basilica of St. Francis crypt, containing the in Assisi, Italy. ......

The "Treasury 'fI~ • tomb of St. Francis, re. mained open throughof St. Francis of l out the restoration, Assisi" cards picture ....,. . which is' costing about medieval artifacts, \~, ;}'! $30 million. . frescoes and paintings " , The sale' of the cards is from Assisi, as well as tied in with an exhibition photos of Pope John Paul of 70 'medieval master.

II visiting Assisi. . pieces' ~ titled "The TreaThey are sold in two sury of St. Francis of Assisi" sets caIled the Giotto and - currently on display in San Siena collections, and each Francisco. Previously, the exhiset has five cards. Each card bition was shown in Paris and contains 33 prepaid minutes of New York. domestic U.S. long distance When the show opened at New time, totaling 165 minutes per set.

York's Metropolitan Museum 'l., Nicola Chichi is handling U.S. and Canadian PREPAID PHONE calls are now avail- of Art in March, Franciscan distribution of the limited- able in the United States to help raise Father Pasquale Magro, director of the museum treaedition cards through awareness and funds for the restoration of sury and library of the Assisi Y GB!otto/ASSisFi ILLCHin tKeld the earthquake-ravaged basilica in Assisi, basilica, said the financial Iscayne, a. e 0 b W' h ) restoration picture was "terCatholic News Service Italy. (eNS photo y Nancy lec ec rible." that 10 percent of the volHe said he hoped exhibiting the art would help ume of calls made with the cards is being donated to raise funds. The director also noted the number of fIthe basilica restoration fund.

On Sept. 26, 1997, two major ea~thqua~es ca~s~,d nancing initiatives in connection with the exhibit.

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By CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE DENVER - The priesthood,like married life, "is not merely Iife-changing but life-giving," Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said in a new pastoral letter. ''When genuinely given over to Christ, priesthood is a life ofjoy, courage, freedom and fraternity, a life of fruitfulness and meaning," he said in his fourth pastoral letter since becoming archbishop of Denver in 1997.

"And these things far outweigh its challenges."

Archbishop Chaput issued the letter recently to coincide with the inauguration day ofSt JohnVianney Theological Seminary and the Our Lady of the New Advent Institute in Denver.

The letter, which carries the same title as Archbishop Chaput's episcopal motto, "As Christ Loved the Church," encourages present and future priests to "image" Christ and give joyfully of themselves. It also asks families to support priests and foster future vocations in the home. ''As with married life, priesthood is a serious choice in response to God's call," he wrote. "It has lifechanging consequences."

Archbishop Chaput describes the priestly call to celibacy a "positive choice to be spiritually life-giving for the larger family offaith." He also said that living a celibate life demonstrates to others the radical love God asks of them.

Classes began Aug. 30 for the 55 students at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary who are studying for ministry in the Archdiocese of Denver and four who are studying for the Diocese of Fargo, N.D. "We live in a unique moment in the life of our local Church," Archbishop Chaput wrote in the letter.

"The institute and seminary we inaugurate this fall offer us the opportunity to bring the 'new evangelization' alive in a fresh and dramatic way."

In his homily at the dedication Mass Archbishop Chaput thanked all who made the seminary possible, beginning with Cardinal J. Francis

Stafford "who dreamt the dream that has become a reality today."

Cardinal Stafford, former archbishop of Denver and now president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity at the Vatican, purchased the 40acre site of the Vincentian-operated St. Thomas Seminary after it closed in 1995, hoping that it would someday house another seminary.

During the Mass, Cardinal Stafford noted that the chalice and paten he used to consecrate the bread and wine belonged to St. John Vianney, the 19th-century parish priest after whom the new seminary is named. The saint, who is the patron ofparish priests, was known as a powerful confessor who encouraged people to lead holy lives.

"Seeing the cardinal with the chalice that St. John Vianney used was very powerful, overwhelming," said seminarian DerekAdamczewski, 26, who sang during the Mass as part of the seminarian choir. "I'm just thankfu to God for bringing me here and letting me be a part of this."

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Bulgarian court overturns conviction ofbeatified bishop executed in 1952 ~

Bishop Eugen Bossilkov of Nicopoli refused to form national church without ties to Vatican.

nothing other than a manifestation of the repression of those who thought differently."

A copy of the court's decision was sent in early September to Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, prefect of the Congregati'on for Eastern c

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CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE The Rome headquarters of the ROME - More than a year after Passionist Fathers, the order to Pope John Paul II beatified a which Bishop Bossilkov belonged, martyred Bulgarian bishop, the was informed of the decision by country's Supreme Court of Ap- Cardinal Silvestrini and published ,. ~peals overturned the communist- the news. or.. ." ~ The Bulgarian government, the era conviction which led to the .bishop's death. country's bishops' conference and After refusing to join the Ortho- Passionist priests in Bulgaria are EAST TIMORESE children pass an Australian solider on patrol in Dili, East Timor, Mondox Church or form a national contiJ)uing a common effort to idenday. (eNS photo from Reuters) Catholic Church without tics to the tify the place where Bishop Vatican, Bishop Eugen Bossilkov Bossilkov was buried. of Nicopoli was shot by a firing The bishop's relatives were told squad in 1952. He was convicted about the execution in late 1952 of espionage and of leading an il- and were given his personal effects, legal qrganization that aimed to but they were given no i~formation about his burial. In fact, the Buloverthrow the government.

Pope John Paul beatified the garian government publicly acNEWYORK (CNS)-When the first ship ofUN. peace- is alive. Mother Matilde, who worked for Bishop Carlos '. bishop in March 1998 as "one of knowledged Bishop Bossilkov's keeping troops arrived in Dili, East Timor, at 4:15 a.m., it . Filipe Ximenes Belo, told the Salesian nuns that she was the many victims sacrificed by athe- death only in 1975. wakened nuns and refugees residing at a Salesian convent residing alone in a portion of Bishop Belo's house that was istic communism, in Bulgaria and The Passionist headquarters in "It's earlier than we normally get up, but everybody in not destroyed when militias attacked the residence in early elsewhere, in its program for the de- Rome said finding where the the house woke up smiling. Our lives have been saved;' September. bishop was buried "would be a suit- , struction of the Church." said Salesian Sister Marlene Bautista, the only U.S. nun Bishop Belo, apostolic administrator of Dili, said in PorThe justices of Bulgari21's ap- able conclusion to a process which who remained in Timor throughout several weeks of anar- tugal Sunday that he would return to Dili "when the UN. peals court, reviewing the condem- sought to bring new justice in the force is in all towns and cities (ofEastTimor) and when Dili nation, said, "Under the musk of truth to a situation in which vio- chy and violence.

The first batch of international troops landed at dawn is calm:' Bishop Belo was evacuated to Australia in early justice, the (bishop's) trial was lence and lies reigned."

Monday. The peacekeeping force, led by Australia, will September following a militia attack on his residence. eventually number about 7;500.troops from more than 20 Of the 10 priests reported missing, six priests, including nations. The force was created with a UN. mandate to use Father Barreto, were believed to be residing in the hiIIs "all necessary means" to assist distribution of humanitarian outside Dili. Father Francisco Tavares dos Reis was said to aid and to end the killing that began after 78 percent of be alive, while aFatherFrancisco Soares was believed dead, voters in EastTimor favored independence from Indonesia said a Church official.

As the troops moved in, new details emerged on the Bishop Basilio do Nascimento, apostolic administrator number ofcasualties suffered among the clergy and Church of Baukau, East Tunor, was also in hiding in the mountains workers. Father Francisco Barreto, the head of Caritas East surrounding Baukau.

Tunor, reported dead Sept. 9, is alive and residing in the hills Meanwhile, a ship carrying 1,200 tons of rice provided Oh adorable and Divine Will, behold me here before the surrounding Dili, said Sister Bautista. The announcement by Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops' international immensity of Your Light, that Your eternal goodness may open reduces the number ofconfirmed killings of clergy to four. relief and development agency, arrived on Tunor island, to me the doors and make me enter into It to form my life all in Sister Bautista ~d Mother Matilde, the 80-year-old bound primarily for the more the 60,000 refugees in the You, Divin~ Will. Therefore, oh adorable Will, prostrate before mother superior ofthe CanosSian Daughters ofCharity, also Atambua Diocese.

Your Light, I, the least- of all creatures, put myself into the little' gfoUp of the sons and daughters of Your Supreme FIAT. Prostrate in my nothingness, I invoke Your Light and beg that it clothe me and eclipse all that does not pertain to You, Divine Will. It will be my Life, the center of my intelligence, the enrapturer of my heart and of my whole being. I do not want the human will to have life in this heart any longer. I will cast it ~ U.N. Secretary-general come an ever mor~ effective instru- rights and freedoms of the human peraway from me and thus form the new Eden of Peace, of happiKofi Annan said the ment of dialogue and cooperation son;' the nuncio said. ness and of love. With It I shall be always happy. I shall have The presence of Cardinal assembly's within the family of peoples." . a singular strength and a holiness that sanctifies all things and Pope John Paul was also praymg . . .

O'Connor was especially welcomed conducts them to God. dISCUSSIons should be that the U.N. would remain ''faithful because he was resuming public acHere prostrate, I invoke the help of the Most Holy Trinity "suffused with prayer." to its mandate to foster world peace tivities after surgery for a brain turnor. that They permit me to live in the cloister of the Divine Will and , on the basis of respect for the inalien"I have never faltered in my dethus return in me the first order of creation, just as the creature NEWYORK(CNS):.-PopeJohn 'able rights ofindividuals and nations," votion to or my support of the U.N.," was created.

Paul II, in a message keyed to the open- Cardinal Sodano said.

Cardinal O'Connor said. But he noted Heavenly Mother, Sovereign and Queen of the Divme Fiat, ing of the 1999 General Assembly of The prayer service is sponsored that many people saw the U.N. as "a the United Nations, said that ''the eyes annually by Cardinal John J. large machine" that accomplished take my hand and introduce me into the Light of the Divine . of the world are rightly turned ~o the O'Connor of New York and Arch- very little. And he said what the U.N. Will. You will be my guide, my most tender Mother, and will U.N. for leadership and guidance in bishop Renato R. Martino, Vatican accomplished. would depend on teach me to live in and to maintain myself in the order and the meeting the challenges of the present nuncio.to the United Nations, and is . keeping the personal relationships bounds of. the Divine Will. Heavenly Mother, I consecrate my hour, marred by tension and violence held at Holy Family Church, whose central. whole being to Your Immaculate Heart. You will teach me the in various parts of the world." parish boundaries include the U.N. Amian, speaking briefly at the end, doctrine of the Divine. Will and I will listen most attentively to His message was sent by Cardinal building. acknowledged ''the fragility of our Your lessons.. You will cover me with Your mantle so that the Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of This year's service fell on a day work," and expreSsed regret for what infernal ~rpent dare not penetrate into this sacred Eden to en· state, to participants in an ecumenical when the U.N. was struggling to de- had not been accomplished in meettice me and make me fall into the maze of the human will.. ' ' . prayerService the day before the open- velop a response to the violence in ing world needs. But the secretary. Heart of my greatest Good, Jesus, You will give me Your · irig of the 54th session of th~ General East Tunor. general said that the international flames that they may burn me, consume me; and feed me to Assembly at UN..headquarters in New There was no reference to that Of community could see "signs of York. " any other ~ific situation, but Arch- progress" in such areas as increasing form in me' the Life of the Divine Will. . Kofi Annan, secretary-general of bishop Martino, who read· the papal life expectancy and literacy. "We do - . Saint Joseph, you will·be my protector, the guardian of illy the.United Nations, and other mem- message, said the end of the second move forward;' he said. heart, and will keep the keys of my will in your hands. 'You bers of the diplomatic community .millennium was a time to remember Annan, a native of Ghana with a will keep my heart jealously and shall never give it to me again, · were among the participants in the .the "great moments'~ of the U.N. and Protestant background, reiterated his that. I may be sure of never leaving the Will of God. service. . "to look back with regret and a spirit belief in the importance of prayer. He My guardian Angel, guard me; defend me; help me in evCardinal Sodano said the pope of repentance for the times when our said discussions of international iserything so that my Eden. may flourish and be the instrument ')oins alI of you in commending the efforts have falle1'lshort." sues should be "suffused with prayer;' that draws all men into the Kingdom ofthe Divine Will. Arrien.. work of the coming session to AICentral to all the'challenges of the and that members ofthe UN. commumighty God, and in praying that the .future is '\he task ofsecuring respect nity should "support our prayers with ( In Honor of Luisa Piccarreta 1865-1947 Child of the Divine Will) United Nations organiAltion wiII ~- fo~ human life and the fundamental good works:" .

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Wellfleet of the involved parishes would be merged orsuppressed. However, some modifications will be made to parish boundary lines and the pastoral administration of missions.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help mission in North Truro, now administered

by Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, will be turned over to the pastoral administration of St. Peter Parish in Provincetown for use as a summer mission.

The North Eastham mission, the Church of the Visitation, now under the care of St. Joan ofArc Parish, will' be turned over to the pastoral administration of Our Lady of Lourdes in Wellfleet for use as a year-round mission until the parish is ready and able to build the new church on the Route 6 property. Catholics residing in North Eastham, will be, according to parish boundaries, part of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Wellfleet. Those residing in Eastham will remain part of

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When a new church facility is built in WeIlfleet with the convenience of necessary space for year-round and summer parishioners, plans call for the current Our Lady ofLourdes building in the Wellfleet town center to be closed along with the parish mission Church of the Visitation in North Eastham. The buildings would be razed and the properties sold with the proceedings going to Our Lady of Lourdes Parish to assist with the costs of the new parish plant.

Items ofvalue in terms ofcost, condition or artistry from the church buildings to be closed would be saved for use in other places, possibly the new Our Lady of Lourdes Church or for some otherconstruction in the diocese.

The property ofthe former mission of Sacred Heart in Truro, which is a1ready closed due to structural deficien-

cies, will be sold to the benefit of Our Lady of Lourdes. An additional, vacant, 3.65-acre parcel on Route 6, owned by the parish, has been recently sold. .

The end result will be that one, worship site with appropriate worship space, modern amenities, easier access and ample parking will be opened and two, smaller worship sites will be closed.

Boundaries for the lower Cape parishes will be as follows: - St. Peter the Apostle Parish in Provincetown wiIl comprise the Town of Provincetown and that part of the Town ofTruro from Longnook Road to the ocean on the east, and from Castle HiIl Road to Corn Hill to the bay on the west; - Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Wellfleet will comprise the Town of WeIlfleet, the balance of the Town of Truro, and that part of the Town of Eastham north of Kingsbury Beach

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culture," Parker reported.

As project director, Parker said the challenge has been to create new structures and ways "of coordinating our efforts statewide. We are relying on the wonderful gifts and expertise of people in each diocese to ensure its success," The plan, she said, caIls for action on three levels: statewide, diocesan and parish.

'The MCC, which serves as the public policy voice for the Catholic Church in all four dioceses in Massachusetts, has assumed an enhanced role as statewide coordinator of the plan," she added.

Her hope is that in vibrant parish communities the call 'to serve one another, especially when one is vulnerable, will be taken seriously. 'The need for help arises more often than not from a person's sickness, disability or prolonged dying. PracticaIly speaking, the plan calls for those spiritual and corporal works of mercy at the parish level, to bring Communion to shut-ins, to cook a meal for a grieving family, to visit the sick," The hoped-for goal is to teach

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Catholics all about the Church's teachings on these issues so that they will be equipped to look at death from this perspective and also to join the societal debate as well.

"We don't want the initiative to be seen as just being against physicianassisted suicide," said Parker. "It is more a question of what is being done by

clergy at the parish level, to meet the needs, offering information on end-oflife issues and being the facilitators," "With such a challenge we need the help of every Catholic in the state to tum our culture around. Together we can do it," Parker asserted. "With the guidance of the Holy Spirit we will make a difference,"

Road for those west ofRoute 6. It will also include that area north of Nauset/ Doane Road for those east ofRoute 6.

- St. Joan of Arc in Orleans will comprise the Town ofOrleans and the balance of the Town of Eastham.

Bishop O'Malley said the he understands that with most change, there is some difficulty. Overall, however,

he hopes parishioners will look at this as an exciting time of growth for the parish. He added that he is pleased that the parish has Father John Andrews as pastor.

Father Andrews was pastor of neighboring St. Joan of Arc Parish during the construction ofits $1.5 million church in the early 19808.

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DECREE To address the needs of the people of the outer Cape area now and in the future, the Diocesan Bishop has consulted with the pastors of Saint Peter's Parish in Provincetown, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in WeIlfleet, and Saint Joan of Arc Parish in Orleans. After reviewing this matter with them and after consulting with the Presbyteral Council, the Diocesan Bishop hereby decrees that the parish boundaries of the aforesaid parishes will be as follows: ' Saint Peter's Parish in Provincetown will include the town of Provincetown, and that part of the town of Truro from Longnook Road to the Ocean on the East and from Castle Hill Road to Corn Hill to the Bay on the West; Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Wellfleet will include the town of Wellfleet, the balance of the town of Truro, and that part of the town of Eastham north of Kingsbury Beach Road for those west of Route 6 and north of Nauset/Doane Road for those east of Route 6; Saint Joan of Arc Parish in Orleans will include the town of Orleans and the balance of the town of Eastham.

These changes in boundaries will result in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Mission Church being administered by the pastor of Saint Peter's Parish in Provinc~wn, and the Mission Church of the Visitation being administereCi by the pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Wellfleet.

These changes will be effective Wednesday, October 13, 1999.

LEADING THE In Support of Life meeting for clergy were, from left, Maria Parker, project director for the Massachusetts Catholic Council; MCC Executive Director Gerald D'Avolio; MCC Associate Director for Public Policy Atty. Daniel Avila; and Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap. (Photo by John E. Kearns, Jr.)

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Bergeron, Father Vieira, Father Steve Furtado, parochial vicar at Santo Christo Parish, Fall River; and Father Gastao Oliveira, pastor of Santo Christo Parish.

Father Vieira had served in East Timor for eight years - from 1967 until he had to leave in 1975 - when Indonesian forces forcibly and iIIegaIly annexed the former Portuguese colony of 800,000, of which 85 percent are Catholics.

Approximately a third of the East Timorese were slaughtered in the following months as Indonesia imposed its rule, Father Vieira said, telling of the terror.

Father Vieira said he returned to East Timor for the ordination of Bishop Carlos Filipe Xinienes Belo in 1988. "I went back two years later for a short visit and could see how terribly the people were suffering. Private homes were being used by the Indonesian forces for prisons and places of torture. People constantly lived in fear and were constantly persecuted for the past 24 years. But the East Timorese had never left their hope in God and for peace and self-rule, he said. They look forward to the day

when they will call their country reading from Isaiah, in which Israel "Tunor Loro Sae," he said. That trans- was consoled during the Babylonian lates into, 'Timor ofthe East, or a place .captivity, commenting, "Our God where the sun rises," he told the con- . does not abandon his peop~e in their gregation who applauded his homily. suffering. Do not be afraid, for I myFather Bergeron said 'The whole self, will help you,the Lord says." world is now, finally looking atthe geno- The bishop also cited St. ,Francis, cide that has occurred since the devas- who, upon seeing suffering, reminds tating Indonesian invasion in 1975. The us, "There is Christ."

"We feel ashamed ,that the world recent vote for independence has only exacerbated their plight It is the worst has waited so long to notice. It's been massiveslaughter, in proportion ofpopu- over 20 years and Ii quarter of a millation, since'the Nazi regime of terror lion people have died,", said the during World War II:' . bishop who recalled the parable of Bishop O'Malley said he and the Good Samaritan. "It teIls us that many others were proud of those in there is no such thing as an innocent the diocese who mobilized so quickly bystander; only guilty bystanders," While we close the 20tq century in response to the recent atrocities, and he 'cited the recent candlelight pro- with many achievements, it has cession in New Bedford. He also men- been a' century of great genocides: tioned a young group from Somerset the Holocaust, Armenia, the' Gulag, High School who have been advocat- Ruwanda - and East Timor, said Bishop O'Malley. "Shame on us ing help for the East Timorese.

"I am delighted that so many and our century. The new millencame here tonight to pray and hold nium, for believers, is a holy 'year ... up our bothers and sisters before the to proclaim the good news to the Lord and to ask God's help and mercy poor and liberty for captives and and justice in our world. But in the for freedom for the oppressed for midst of such tragedy and suffering, recognizing that God is the Lord of we are consoled by the Word ofGod," history ... and we must believe in Bishop O'Malley said. He cited the Him for we belong to Him."

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DECREE At the end of 1997, the pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Wellfleet closed Sacred Heart Mission Church in Truro due to the poor structural condition of the building. An analysis of the building has been done, and the cost to repair the building would be prohibitive. After reviewing this matter with the pastor and after consulting with the Presbyteral Council about the pastoral needs of the people of the outer Cape, the Diocesan Bishop hereby decrees that Sacred Heart Mission Church in Truro be closed and cease to exist.

This closure is effective Wednesday, October 13, 1999.

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Eighteen new staff members hired at Bishop Feehan , ATILEBORO -As students returned to school 'Amy Bostock, alumni director; Mike Byron, En'at Bishop Feehan High School Principal George glish; Amy Giammarco, math; John Doyle, SpanA. Milot announced that the school was welcom- ish. Rear, from left are: Joe Cuillo, and Jackie, ing 18 new staff members for the 1999~2000 school Briant, ,math; Doug Michaud, theology; Pauline year. Enrollment at the school is up to 914 stu- McKee, English; Shelly Ducharme, chemistry; dents and with the new teachers the school main- John Cossick, Chris Belanger, and Paul Dalpe, thetains a low, 19-to-one teacher student ratio. . ology; and substitute ~im Ares. Missing from the They are, front, from left: Sarah Keusal and Sao' photo is Ben Ryder, science; and Naomi Cordeiro, rah Simmons, English; Rhonda Laliberte, science; Spanish.

. FACULTY MEMBERS at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, New Bedford, are ready to educate students. They are, top row from left: Doreen daSilva, grade two; Philomena DoCouto, grade four; Trisha Paiva, grade seven; Janice Brightman, grade eight; middle, Joann Pereira, kindergarten: Sonia Klakus, grade three; Isabel Dean, grade five; Myrna Caballero, pre-school; bottom, Ann DeFrias, grade six; Rosemary daSilva, principal; and Margaret McCormick, first grade.

OLMC initiates school year.

NEW BEDFORD - Faculty and staff of Our Lady of Mount Carmel School were commissioned during an opening school liturgy recently.

Father Henry Arruda, pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, welcomed them back to school and .

gave each a pin and special blessing as they rededicate themselves to the education and formation of students. Three new members of the faculty were also welcomed. They are, Myrna C,aballero, pre-school; Joann Pereira, kindergarten; and Sonia Klakus, third grade.

Two new appointments at Bishop Connolly' " FALL RIVER - Two new ap- support the vital and wonderful . pointments were announced re- things,that are going on in Cathocently at Bishop Co.nnolly High lic schools," said Myron.

School by Principal Anthony McCarty, who holds a Master's Nunes. Christopher Myron WillS . from Fordham University, is a facnamed development director for ulty member in the social studies the school and Breda McCarty department and a graduate of the was named alumni coordinator.

1991 Connolly class. She has also Myron comes to Connolly served on numerous committees from Coyle and Cassidy High over the years. McCarty hopes to School, Taunton where he served increaSe alumni involvement at the as director of admissions, recruit- school and said that alumni would ment and public relations. He also really like what's going on at the taught English and drama arid school: ''Many enhancements have looks forward to serving the needs been made to the school and its proof students and alumni. "I hope grams over the years and I'd like to to raise awareness of people in bring back more alumni to see the regard to the tremendous need to school and grounds," she said.

WE~COME BACK - Students at St. Mary's School, New Bedford, opened their school year With a Mass celebrated by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley. Following the Mass the bishop and Msgr. John J. Oliveir~ visited students in their classrooms. Students, from left, Kate Darling, .

Matthew Magalhaes, Megan Pierce and Katherine 路Mederios welcome him with Principal Cathy LaCroix. '

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Our Rock

By CHRISTOPHER CARSTENS

By CHARLIE MARTIN • CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Life Will Pass You By Refrain: can't let no one get me down, Life will pass you by What I'm thinking of oh no In the twinkling of an eye Life's not that important Problems they come, probIf you don't, now you know If you don't have love lems they go You can't keep wasting time Sbivingforperfectioneveryday (Repeat refrain) We're getting older every day I must make it better Never willi be a fool There's more to life than just Than it was the day before And take blessings for granted today I know God's been on my side Our future's not that far away I've got three children And everything's going (Repeat refrain) To think about first To be all right I've got so much to do (Repeat second verse) Written by F. Evans, R. (Repeat refrain) Little time to work Lawrence, R. Frierson, S. I've paid my dues as Even though you may Combs D. Jones, M Keith, Q. you can see havetocry, Parker, M. Scandrick, D.J. It will be all right Been in all kinds of drama Rogers, C.Thomas, M. Walden, Put your faith in the one A. Bofill J. Cohen; Sung by In my life series Who makes you strong The world needs to know that Faith Evans.

The one who makes you Copyright (c) 1998 by Bad Boy Got to move on, got to be strong strong Records HOW DO you approach problems?

Faith Evans offers good advice in the song "Life Will Pass You By" off her second album "Keep the Faith." Young people facing problems might want to consider some suggestions from the song.

1. "Problems they come, problems they go."

Sure, we need to address our problems. However, we should not make them the focus of our lives. If we do, then we have nothing but problems! Acknowledge them, and work toward solutions. But also take breaks from facing life's difficulties.

2. "Never will I be a fool and take life's blessings for granted." Even when problems are numerous and significant, most likely good things are also happening. Don't let your problems keep you from recognizing your blessings. Remember to give gratitude to God for the good in each day.

3. "Even though you may have to cry, it will be all right." It is OK to show the hurt that problems cause. In fact, share your painful emotions with someone you trust. Another's love and understanding won't fix problems, yet knowing that you are cared about will give you energy so you can work toward healing. .

4. "Life's not that important if you don't have love." I disagree. Life, even when one is hurting, remains important. However, problems do not have to rob us of the ability to share love. The girl in the song adds, "I must make it better than it was the day before." We can make our lives better, no matter how many problems surface, by reacting to others with love and compassion.

5. "Put your faith in the one who makes you strong." Amen!

For those who follow Jesus, this "one" is our God. Problems, failures, disappointments, even despair, do not separate us from God's presence.

As you encounter life's challenges, share with God all that you feel in your heart.

God's love and strength help us cope, grow and eventually find healing so that we can trust life again. Make your relationship with God the center of your approach to addressing life's problems.

Don't let problems cause life to pass you by.

Your comments are always welcome. Please address: Charlie Martin, 7125 W 2008,' Rockport, Ind. 47635.

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Junior high kids are divided into two large groups, the popular kids and the regulars. You're either one or the other - and almost nobody crosses the line.

Popularity is unfair. The rest of us may look on with envy, but popularity appears to be granted at birth.

Popular kids didn't earn it; they just have it.

It's easy for regulars to resent the populars. You know who they are.

They're the kids sitting at the "cool bench" for lunch. It's like they met each other during second grade, and by junior high the popular group is locked up tight.

In fact, when a "regular kid" approaches the little knot of popular kids, a giant electronic pulse of rejection goes out. "What;' the silent vibration asks, "areYOU doing here?

You are Nar a popular kid."

Popular kids only talk to each other. If they're old enough, they only date each other. They wear the same clothes as other popular kids. If a popular kid tells a joke, they laugh.

If a regular tells the same joke, they smirk.

You can't make yourself popular.

Either you have it or you don't. It isn't all about money, because rich kids can be regulars, and poor kids can be popular. And race isn't the central issue.

Two major factors decide who is popular and who isn't. The first is simple good looks. If you're unusually attractive, you have a very good chance of being popular.

It isn't inevitable. My best school friend, Steve, was a handsome young man. Still, he wasn't popular. He refused to play by the rules the popular kids insisted on following. They kept inviting him to their parties, and he kept not showing up. Steve was an admirable fellow and the rare sort who walked his own way even when the rest of us

followed the crowd.

The second factor is a special kind ofconfident self-assurance. Kids who

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grow up popular have had this glow since they were little. While the rest ofus worry about our looks, our ability to get along, our capacity to make the right choice, popular kids go about simply assuming that everything will work out for them.

Sadly, in thejunior high years this often takes a nasty turn. Self-confidence which is so positive and charming in the very young morphs into conceit. The calm certainty that they are right bends into a nasty awareness of what's wrong with everybody else.

Vaguely aware of the power popularity gives them, they can use it to hurt, belittle and humiliate anybody who doesn't fit their ideal- because their ideal is other kids just like them.

Fortunately for everybody, including the popular kids, by the time junior high is over, popularity doesn't really matter much anymore. Somewhere in ninth or 10th grade, it dies out almost completely.

What happens? As we become more mature, the old social lines soften. We get better at seeing the person behind the face. The mean exclusivity of the populars softens, as older and somewhat wiser they stop cutting the really interesting people out of their lives.

Is there a message here for the vast majority of kids, the regulars of the world? There certainly is. "Remember that junior high isn't life." Hang in there, and life gets much, much better. It's only a matter of time.

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Joseph P. Delaney of For~ Worth· one J~y missionary murdered in EI ' 'Archbishop Roberto O. said the seVen people sh~in Sept. Salvador in 1980, "and so many. Gonzalez of San Juan,PuertoRico, 15 inside Baptist chur2h in Fort. "ottiers were e.ngaged in the'·simple, 'former bishop of Corpus Christi, ; everyday ac:tixity of spreading the... WJlO is now its apostolic ad1l1inisWorth were ~artYrs..

In a statem~nt issued a day after.: ~ord of Chtjst when slain.~' , ..trator, added his own call for'gun" the shooting', Bishop Delaney' ' "We consider them qta~tyrs,l> ,Gbntrol in a Sept. 16 statement. "'.. noted that the Catholic monling Bishop Delan~y said. "So 'are tpey: ': He noted that Pope John Paul II, prayer of Sept. 16 honb~ed the third-. w~o were slaiJ;t}Q this senseless ~ag:. ' ,in his Jan. 22 post-synodal exhor~' century martyrs St. COTilelius and. edy,".' " : tation at the close of the Synod· for " :- " ' . " He said his prayers and thpse of the Americas, appealed "to all those St. Cyprian.

"These victims, slain in the nor- ,Fort Worth Catholics went out to, . holding authority in society" that .' mal pursuit of their faith, can be - 'the famj1i~s of,~lreight dead (rom as a priority, they do all in. t\:leir. considered martyrs as well," Bishop , the .shoo~ings, the Wedgewoo~. power to. alleviat~ the suffenng of : Baptistc~ngr.egation, and the children 10 Amenca." . .

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Seven other people were people of Fort·Wort/l.

"One Qfthe means qfsavmg chIl- ' wounded in the evening attack at Bishop J6sep~ A. Fiorenza of dren from violence would be adWedgewood Baptist Church. A Galve'ston-Houston, president of .equate gun control measures that group of about 150 young people the U.S. bishops, told Associated do not infringe ·on constitutional had gathered at the church for a teen Press the Fort Worth shootings were rights, but protect society from the prayer rally when a man identified "another clear indication that un- unlawful use of firearms," Archas Larry Ashbrook fired rounds from less we seriously address the cul- bishop Gonzalez said.

Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua two semiautomatic pistols and ex- ture of violence it is just going to ploded a pipe bomb inside the get worse," of Philadelphia, in a Sept. 16 sta~echurch before he turned a gun on He added, "God expects us to ment, offered prayers for the VIChimself. use both prayer and common sense. tims and their families. "I am very Bishop Delaney, in his state- I It seems to me common sense dic- .saddened by the terrible senseless ment, noted "recent Catholic mar- tatesth.at gun control wou!d go a tragedy," he said. tyrs,l' including Father Stanley long way to keep lethal weapons "I am very concerned for the

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THEANCHOR-- Diocese ofFall River- Fri., September24, 1999

Iteering pOintl ATILEBORO - The first coffee house of La Salette Shrine's fall season will be held on Saturday at 6:30 p. m. with the musical group Brethren. All welcome. . The 25th annual Portuguese Pilgrim. age Day at the Shrine will be held this Sunday beginning at 1:30 p.m. It will include processions, rosary, music and Mass. All services and music will be in Portuguese. All welcome. For more information call 222-5410.

A three-part series on the sacrament ofReconciliation, will begin on Sept. 30 at 7: 15 p.m. atthe Shrine: Entitled, "Can WeTalk?' the program will include a talk, question and answer period and an opportunity for one-on-one conversation with a.priest. Subsequent sessions will be held on Oct. 22 at 7:15 p.m. and Nov. .I3 at Warn. All welcome.

BREWSTER- TheLazaros Group ofOur Lady ofthe Cape Parish will conduct a series of eight grief semInars beginning on Oct. I from 7-8:30 p.m. for anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one- within the past year. They will be held in the Parish Center, 468 'Stony Brook Road. All welcome.

'FALL RIVER - The Greater Fall .River chapter of the MassachusettsCitizens for U fe is sponsoring two buses for walkers who will participate in' this year's Respect Life Walk-a-thon on Oct. 3 at I p.m. There are three pick-up sites: Sf Peter

and Paul's Parish at Holy Cross Church, St. William's Parish and at the Slades Ferry Bank, Somerset. For more information call 678-151 O. FALL RIVER - The Fall River Widowed Group will meet on Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. in the hall of St. Mary's School.

Paulette Normandin will be guest speaker.

All widows and widowers are welcome.

For more details call Annette Dellecese at 679-3278. :FALL RIVER - English as a second language and civics volunteer teachers and tutors are needed for the cities of Fall River and New Bedford. Volunteers may choose between teachillg a small group or on a one-to~one basis. For more_ information call Eva Cordeiro ofCatholic Social Services at 674-4681 or997-7337.

FALL RIVER - The Fall River Diocesan Choir will hold its first rehearsal of this season on Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. in St. Mary's Cathedral. Tenors and basses are especially needed. It rehearses on the second Thesday of each month and new members are welcome. For more information call Madeleine Grace at 678-1054.

country. Refreshments will be served.

All welcome. For more information call 674-4681. _ MASHPEE - Volunteer drivers are needed for ilie Elder Services of Cape Cod and Islands Meals on Wheels Program. If you have a free hour and an interest in helping seniors in the community you can volunteer to deliver meals.

For more information call BonnieOehme at 477-0919.

MASHPEE - Ayoung adult prayer group meets on the first and third Wednesday of each m~mth at 7 p.m. in the chapel of Christ the King Parish. All welcome.

For more information call Heather Kirby at 548-2364.

NEW BEDFORD - The Prayer' Group of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church will meet Sept. 28 at I p.m. for the recitation of the Divine Mercy Chaplet, rosary, prayer and reflection, aMarian talk and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. All welcome.

NEW BEDFORD - A Living Rosary, sponsored by the Legion o~ Mary

of St. Joseph's Parish will be held Oct. 3 at 3 p.m. in the church. The procession will include the Men ofthe Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary from Fairhaven and the area Knights of Columbus. The day will include prayer, rosary, music and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

All welcome.

TAUNTON - A diocesan Workshop for Lay Ministers will be held at Coyle and Cassidy High School on Oct. 3 from 9:30 a.m. to 2'p.m. The day-long event will include Mass, a keynote address and a variety of discussions on the role of laity in the liturgical life of the parish. For more information call the Office of Divine Worship at 823-2521.

SOUTH DARTMOUTH - St. Mary's Parish will hold a blessing of pets on Oct. 3 at 2 p.m. in the church parking lot in honor of the Feast of St. Francis 'of Assisi, the patron saint of animals. It will begin with a prayer service and will be rescheduled to Oct. 24 in case of rain. Dogs should be leashed arid other small pets should be in appropriate containers. For more information call 992-7505.

TAUNTON - St. Anthony's Parish, 126 School Street., will celebrate the annual feast of Our Lady of Fatima on Oct. 9 with Mass at 6 p.m. Father John J. Oliveira, pastor ofSaint John the Baptist Parish, New Bedford, will be homilist. A candlelight procession will be held after Mass and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will follow. All welcome.

SOUTH YARMOUTH - "Unmasking the True Face of Welfare Reform," will be the subject of a panel discussion sponsored by Pax Christi Cape Cod on Sept. 27 from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at St. Pius X Parish. All those searching for peace are welcome. For more information call'MaIjorieConway at 428-7630.

Pope to ·give New Year's Eve blessing to world's people

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FALL RIVER - Catholic Social Services will hold an adoption information program on Oct. 3 froni 2-4 p.m. at St. Mary's Parish hall for persons interested in adopting a child from a foreign

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TAUNTON - A Foster Grandparent Program is set to begin in the Greater Taunton area. The program, sponsored by Catholic Social Services, connects elders and families who would like to "adopt" one another for an enriching family experience. Training will be provided. All welcome. For more information call Debbie Crealese at 822-0751.

make a final push to prepare themselves spiritually forthe new millenVATICAN CITY - As revelers nium.

"In the intense days ahead, we all around the .world toast the new millennium, Pope John Paul II will bless must respond together to ,the question of,what image of the Church we the world's people.

The pope plans to give a special will pass on to new generations," said blessing ~'u;bi et orbi" (to the city' Archbishqp Crescenzio Sepe, secreand'the world) at midnight Dec. 31 tary general oftheVatican's Holy Year when he greets peqple in St. Peter~s committee. :Square to usher in the year 2000.

The goal should be ','a Church re~ The announcement was included newed in'valuing its Gospel origins" in a calendar:of,papal events pub- and "ready to spread,the true light of lished recently:by the Vatican.

Christ the Lord with greater energy," The "urbi et orbi" blessing usu- the archbishop said. ally is given only on Christmas, EasThe final days of preparation, he ter and during a'newly elected pope's said, should help people respond to 'Pope John Paul's -invitation to celfirst public appearance.

The papal calendar, which covers ebrate "the birthday party of Christ, more than three months of activities, which also is the'feast of all humanwas issued the same day on which ity.redeemed."

The Vatican's calendar of papal the Vatican's jubilee' coordina~or issued a note on flnal.preparations for events through Jan; 1,2000, included the celebration. his Nov.' 5-9 trip to India and GeorThe note' said that with, exactly gia, ,but made no mention of a pos'100 days left before the opening of sible visit to Iraq. The pope has said the Holy 'Door at midnight Mass on thai as part of a biblical pilgrimage .Christmas Eve, Catholics should before the start of the Holy Year, he CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

wants to visit the site of ancient Ur, birthplace'of Abraham, .the ruins of which are located in·southern Iraq.

In addition to several Sunday visits to parishes in Rome and the Oct. 1-23 Synod of Bishops "for Europe, the calendar included: - the beatification Oct. 3 of five Italian and one Belgian priest; and the Nov. 21 canonization of 10 Spanish martyrs and two Italian priests; - the opening of the Holy Door at St. 'Peter's· before midnight Mass Dec. 24 and an "urbi etorbi" blessing at noon Christmas Day; - the opening of the Holy Door atRome's BasilicaofSt. John Lateran at 6 p.m..Dec..25,followed by evening prayer; - evening prayer and prayers of thanksgiving for the -past year and past century in 8t. Peter's Basilica at 6 p.m. Dec. 31; - the opening ofthe Holy Door at Rome's Basilica ofSt. Mary Major and the celebration of Mass at 9:30 a.m. Jan. I.

'SoIindingan ,alarm: 'Second European synod will ta'ckle C'hurch's :decline

By JOHNTHAVIS CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY - When European bishops met at theVatican in a synod in 1991, they celebrated thefall of communism in the 'Soviet, bloc and the resulting 'opportunities for Church expansion and cooperation.

The continent's bishops are coming back to the Vatican for another synod Oct. 1-23: but this time their speeches may- be'less optimistic. By many measures, the Church has lost ground in Europe during the 1990s.

In-real numbers, 'Church membership throughout Europe has declined: by more than' four million people since 1989, the year. the Berlin Wall came down. Overall, there are'flve, percent fewer priests and 15 percent ,fewer, nuns. Seminarian· numbers' have also dropped, even: in places' like :Poland, where 18 percent fewer men are studying. for the priesthood.

-Europe today has fewer baptisms and Church marriages among its Catholic population than a decade ago, and its confirmation and first Communion-rates .are lower than any other continent.

Beyond the numbers, many pastoral leaders think

,Church influence has slipped in Eurqpean society - a reflection, they say, of the "superficial" way the faith is lived by Catholics on the continent.

The working document for 'the upcoming synod spoke frankly about the image of "an aging, lethargic Church" in 'Europe that makes evangelization difficult. Many Catholics seem to have lost their faith or limit it, to certain traditions, and, the continent as a '.whole appears to be "lost, confused, adrift," it said.

The fact that Pope John Paul II has convened the second'Europe-wide synod in less than a decade shows that he views the, problems as urgent and serious. It is the' last-in· a series of regional synods to prepare for the 'new millennium.

Some, have questioned why a :second Eumpean synod is necessary. at all. Does three weeks of speechgiving and, motion-passing have.a real effect on how people' live their faith?

Pope John Paul, however, is a firm believer in the value of these assemblies. He recognizes that the Europe of 1999 is far different from the Europe of 1991 and seems convinced that this synod will not simply .be a repeat performance.