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By GAIL BESSE

Laura Hope Smith, 22, of Sandwich, died apparently during an aborHYANNIS - Abortion generally tion at the Women Health Center, as leaves one dead and one wounded, did the 13-week-old child in her but here on September 13, it left two womb. dead.

This tragedy adds two more victims to the hundreds of women and millions of unborn babies who have died from legal abortions.

Ironically, the clinic at 68 Camp Street is just 150 feet from the crisis pregnancy center A Woman's Concern, which would have cared for Laura and her child.

More than 600 mourners attended the funeral at Christ Chapel in Centerville. At least one young woman decided against a planned .abortion, said Laura's mother Eileen Smith.

The local media did not report on the clinic death, although Mrs. Smith

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New Representative for Religious finds another side of pastoral care

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NORTH DARTMOUTH She didn't immediately say yes when offered the job of Episcopal Representative for Religious in the Fall River Diocese as leaves began to fall.

"But after a time of discernment it seemed timely - as well as life-giving for me," said an obviously pleased Mercy Sister Catherine Donovan, who took over September 12.

Just three weeks in the new post, the nun with the warm smile said she's "humbly learning what the greatest needs are" of the approximately 340 religious Sisters, Brothers, and members of communities of religious congregations throughout the diocese, most of whom are retired. ''I'm still finding out many things by visiting with them to talk about how they see things and

what they acknowledge they need most, and to respond ... and advocating for them when warranted. It means I have to acquire a better listening ear," she said smiling.

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VOICES FOR THE VOICELESS - Pilgrims from the Fall River Diocese, including those from Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, and Corpus Christi Parish, East Sandwich, attended the annual March For Life in Boston with Bishop George W. Coleman and Father David A. Pignato October 4.

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BOSTON - "Abortion is a great evil," remarked Alfred Silvia, a 15year veteran of the Respect Life

Walk and member of the ::diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate. For many years, Alfred and other committed Pro-Life advocates have been making the trip to Boston to celebrate

life and to continue the drive to protect life in all its stages.

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ORDINATION DAY - The Permanent Diaconate Class of 2007 was ordained at Corpus Christi Church

by Bishop George W. Coleman October 8. The new deacors are, front, from left: Alan J. Thadeu, John W. Foley, Joseph A. McGinley, the bishop, Msgr. John J. qliveira, diocesan director of the Permanent Diaconate Office; Richard G. Lemay, Victor K. Norton, and Joseph K. Kane. Rear: Michael T. Zonghetti, Daniel M. Donovan Jr., David E. Pierce, Karl G. Buder, Adelbert F. Malloy Jr., Steven F. Minninger, and Peter A. Cote. (Photo by Matt McDonald)

Bishop ordains 13 men as permanent ~eacons

By MATT McDONALD

them to "exhort believ~rs" and unEAST SANDWICH - Bishop believers alike" and to "do the will George Coleman ordained 13 men of God from the heart."

Several hundred people attended as permanent deacons for the Diocese of Fall River this week, urging. the ordination Mass at Corpus

Christi Church in East Sandwich this past Monday, which lasted about two hours and 25 minutes.

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Pope ordains new bishops, asks them to serve as 'gua~dian angels'

By CINDY WOODEN CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY - Ordaining new bishops for the first time in his pontificate, Pc>pe Behedict XVI called six men to be "guardian angels" of the people entrusted to their c.are.

Celebrating the ordinations in St. Peter's, Basilica September 29, the feast of SS. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, archangels, Pope Benedict told the new bishops that, like angels, their entire beings must be oriented toward God, and their mission is to be messengers of God. The new bishops - a native of Poland and five Italians - included archbishops for Ukrainian and Italian archdioceses, a Vatican diplomat and three other Vatican officials.

Pope Benedict first laid his hands on the head ofCoadjutorArchbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki ofthe Latinrite Archdiocese ofLviv, Ukraine; he had been the assistant personal secretary ofPope John Paul II and served as Pope Benedict's assistant secretary for the past two years.

The others ordained were: Archbishops Francesco Brugnaro of Camerino-San Severino Marche,

Itilly; Gianfranco Ravasi, presi~nt of the Pontifical Council for Culture; Tommaso Caputo, nunCio to MaIta and to Libya; and Bishops Sergio Pagano; prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives, and Vrncenzo di Mauro, secretary of the Prefecture for the , Economic Affairs of the Holy See. In his homily, Pope Benedict said . a bishop. "must be one who prays, who intercedes for people before God. The more he does so, the better he will understand the people who are entrusted to him, and he can become an angel for them - a messenger of

God." Like St. Michael, a bishop's task is to defend the truth about God's existence and "to create space for God in the world," which always is tempted to deny him, the pope said.

Only by acknowledging God and seeking tQ fulfill his will can human beings become all that God created them to be.

Like St. Gabriel, the pope said, a bishop must initiate contacts with people that will prepare them to accept Christ into their lives.

And, he said, like St. Raphael, a bishop must be a healer, promoting unity and restoring people's sight so that they can see God.

A GOOD FIT - Pope Benedict XVI places a miter on Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki during an epi~copal ordination in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. (eNS photo7D'~tio Pignat~lIi, Reuters) 1Ui

Pope says Jesus' promise to remaip with believers gives them ~trength VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The fact that Christ is both human and divine, that he existed from all eternity and has promised to stay with believers until the end of time, gives Christians the strength they need to live meaningful and upright lives, Pope Benedict XVI said.

"This is important: The eternal God was born of a woman and remains with us each day. Trusting in this, we live. And trusting in this, we find the pathway for our lives," the pope said October 3 at his weekly general audience in S1.

Peter's Square.

In his main audience talk, the . pope discussed the teaching of St. Cyril ofAlexandria, the fourth-cen-

tury b~shop and doctor of the Church known especially for his defense of the teaching that Jesus Christ was both human and divine, one person with two natures.

St. Cyril's strid~nt insistence on the unity of Christ eventually led to the ouster of Nestorius as bishop of Constantinople, the pope said.

But after the Council of Ephesus, St. Cyril elaborated "a theological formula of compromise and reconciliation" with those who held the Nestorian position.

"St. Cyril was a firm and untir~ ing witness of Jesus Christ, incarnate word of God, underlining his unity most of all," said the Holy Father.

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HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU KID - Dr. Kenia Mansilla examines a child's eyes as the mother looks' on at St. Francis Center of Hope in Newark, Del.. earlier this year. The center provides primary health care to medically underserved people in the area. An official with the Pontifical Academy for Life told a recent Rome conference on health and technology that there exists an obligation for healthy members of society to assist those who are sick. (CNS file photo/Don Blake, The Dialog)

Too much medical technology can hurt patients, says Vatican official

By CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROME - While progress in medicine and technology holds great promise for humanity, relying too heavily on biomedical technology runs the risk of hurting the very people meant to be helped, said a Vatican official.

Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, head of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry, said state-ofthe-art equipment, medical procedures and medicines. "are only part of the health care system, and undue insistence on their capabilities" may place more emphasis pn meeting the . demands ofhealth care providers than' on the needs of the patien~. \ The cardinal made his comments during a recent conference on "Health, Technology and the CommonGood."

The conference, which drew scholars and experts from the field of health care, genetics arid pharmaceutical industries, was sponsored by the conservative U.S . ..think tank the Acton InstitUte and had the support of the Vatican health care council.

Cardinal Lozano said the ultimate goal of all technology rhust be that it is used for the good of all people, and he warned that "everything technologically possible need not be ethically permissible."

Even though scientific developments can appear to be "the most advanced and the most marvelous" ever seen, "technology in itself is blind" and can be used to either destroy or edify human life, he said.

Ethical guidelines are needed to establish "rules of behavior in the area of health and life," he said.

The cardinal criticized a new "para-

digm shift" in ethical definitions being furthered by certain intemational, national and grass-roots groups, including the United Nations and its World Health Organization. He said the World Health Organization's value-based Health for All framework establishes rights only "for the person, not for the human being."

This means as long as an individual can meet the definition of a person and interact with his or her environment either through sensory, mental, social or conscious experience, he or she is a person with basic human rights, Cardinal Lozano said. Human beings such as embryos who are not capable of such interaction do not fit this definition of person and are therefore "deprived of any right that could be described as (a) human right," he said.

"Authentic bioethics" seek to improve all human lif~ from its conception to its natural end, he said.

Such bioethics make room for the transcendent, he said, and recognize "the dignity of the human person is inviolable" and life, as a gift from God, is not property that can be

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Another conference speaker reaffirmed that life, not health, is God's gift to his children. Health isjust one of many qualities of life, said Msgr.

Jean Laffitte, vice president of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

Illness, according to Christian thought, is not automatically seen as something "foreign to the integral development of the person or an obstacle to that development," he said. Sickness may be debilitating but it can also "offer an occasion for the moral and spiritual growth" of the person, Msgr. Laffitte said.

He said everyone has a duty to safeguard, respect and care for one's health, while at the same time helping those who are ill.

There exists "an obligation for healthy members (of society) to assist the sick," which can include financing public health care systems and doing charitable and volunteer work, he said. Governments and political leaders are ethically obliged to support medical research and the maintenance ofhealth care facilities, he added.

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Indian priest says his cure was niiracle through Mother Teresa GUWAHATI, India (eNS) The sainthood cause of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta could cross its last hurdle if the Vatican approves an allegedly miraculous cure a priest claims he experienced on the 10th anniversary of her death.

Salesian Father V.M. Thomas says Mother Teresa's intercession was responsible for the disappearance of a half-inch kidney stone in his lower ureter, reported the Asian church news agency UCA News.

The stone disappeared in an unexplainable manner after Father Thomas celebrated Mass and prayed to Mother Teresa September 5, the day before he was scheduled for surgery.

UCA News reported that Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil of Guwahati gave the agency a copy of the priest's files and medical records and, according to the priest's notes, the surgeon affirmed "the dis.appearance of the calculus (stone) was beyond medical explanation."

Father Thomas, 56, was associated with' Mother Teresa from 1979 until her death in 1997.

The priest had been suffering from severe abdominal pain since February 13. Medical examinations in a Guwahati hospital revealed he had renal colic and calculi, and doctors advised him to take medicine to help dissolve the

kidney stones. But recurring pains took him to at least four other hospitals elsewhere.

On July 26, surgeons in Guwahati advised surgery, but Father Thomas wanted to wait. On August 27, he met doctors again after he said he was overcome with "excruciating" pain.

He was admitted to a hospital in Guwahati September 4. Tests confirmed the presence of the stone, and doctors set September 6 for its surgical removal.

Father Thomas said that on the morning of September 5, before preparations for his surgery, his doctor allowed him to leave the hospital to celebrate Mass at Shishu Bhavan, a home for abandoned children Mother Teresa started in Guwahati. At the Mass, he asked those present to pray for him, especially through the inter- . cession of Mother Teresa.

The priest later affirmed his belief that Mother Teresa's miraculous intercession caused the stone to disappear.

Surgical preparation began late September 5, but on the afternoon of September 6, when the final presurgical ~-ray was taken, the doctors could not locate the stone.

A repeat X-ray also proved negative. The chief surgeon then ordered another ultrasound by the same radiologist who did the previous, but that also proved negative.

Subhash Khanna, the surgeon who treated the priest, said in his case summary that Father Thomas was under his treatment for three months. He was diagnosed as having lower ureteric calculus with diabetes and hypertension, the records showed.

The surgeon further noted that . on September 5 the priest went to Shishu Bhavan to celebrate Mother Teresa's feast day. On his return, the priest had a feeling of wellbeing and slept peacefully, Khanna reported.

Repeated investigations prior to the scheduled surgery left the doctors surprised, because "the calculus was no longer there in the ureter, and moreover he had not passed out the calculus in urine," the doctor confirmed. "So the operation was canceled."

In the case summary, which the surgeon signed September 11, he stated: ·'It indeed seemed like a miracle and unique incident as the stone, which could not be dissolved with medicine, just vanished on that particular day."

According to standard Vatican procedure, a miracle that occurred following Mother Teresa's beatification Oct. 19,2003, would be required for her to be canonized, or declared a saint. In cases of alleged medical niiracles, the Vatican has a commission' of medical specialists review the case.

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War cannot be means to promote natio~al interests, Vatican tells U.N. UNITED NATIONS (CNS) War and armed conflict are no longer sustainable means for promoting or protecting national interests, the Vatican's top foreign affairs official told the U.N. General Assembly.

U.N. agreements concerning disannament and the nonproliferation of weapons and plans to create "a standing team of expert mediators" to prevent conflict should receive increased support, Archbishop Dominique Mamberti said October 1 at U.N. headquarters in New York.

Speaking during the general debate marking the op~ning of the 62nd session of the U.N. General Assembly, the archbishop said the values upon which the United Nations were founded should be reaffirmed so as to "deliver a forceful 'no' to war and an equally forceful 'yes' to human dignity."

He said respect for human dignity "is the deepest ethical foundation" upon which peace and fraternal relations between nations are built. ''Forgetting, or partially and selectively accepting" this principle of respect "is what lies at the origin of conflicts, ofenvironmental degradation and of social and economic in-

justice," he told assembly members.

A nation's interests are never absolute and must never be defended in a way that harms ''the legitimate interests of other states," he said, adding that nations have a duty to promote the common good around the world.

Archbishop Mamberti said, "In the difficult crossroads in which humanity finds itself today, the use of force no longer represents a sustainable solution."

He urged nations to save the UN. Conference on Disarmament from a decade-long impasse and ease the "severe strain" on its treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. He also urged nations to give added support to a nuclear test ban treaty and other measures for ~ control. . He called for renewed commitment in bringing peace arid moral, political and economic reconstruction to "long-suffering Iraq." He also asked for concerted efforts to bring peace to the Darfur region of Sudan, bring stability to Lebanon, and bring Israelis and Palestinians to negotiations that would result in a solution that recognizes "the legitimate expectations of each side."

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Forum views how U.S. universities help to solve global health issues

By BETH GRIFAN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

THE POWER OF PRAYER - Bishop Samuel J. Aquila of Fargo, N.D., center, leads people in praying the rosary recently in front of the Red River Women's Clinic in Fargo as part of an ecumenical campaign called "40 Days for Life - North Dakota." The campaign, which began September 26, includes prayer and fasting, community outreach and a 40-day, 24-hours-a-day prayer vigil in front of the clinic.

(CNS photofTanya Watterud, New Earth)

Supreme Court rejects appeal of law requiring contraception coverage WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Catholic Charities of Albany, N.Y., October I, letting stand a state court ruling that said Church agencies cannot be exempt from a law requiring coverage for contraceptives in drug benefits for employees.

The NewYork State Catholic Conference, which represents the state's Catholic bishops in public policy matters, said the bishops will now consider what alternatives have been left to them, "including the painful possibility of a loss of prescription drug benefits in employee health plans."

In the meantime, it said in a statement, ''Catholic ~titutions will continue for the immediate future pr0viding the contraception coverage under fQrmal protest."

The conference's executive director called it "a sad day for religious liberty" New York and in the U.~.

In orders issued the first day ofthe 2fff/-QS term, the court without comment let stand aNewYork State Court of Appeals ruling that said religious groups may not be exempt from pr0visions of the Women's Health and Wellness Act of 2002.

The state law requires employers who offer prescription benefits to em-

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ployees to include coverage for birth control pills. The law also requires health plans to cover other services for women including mammography, cervical cancer screening and bone density tests.

The Catholic conference and other Church-affiliated agencies had argued that the law is an unconstitutional violation of religious freedom for religious employers who hold the tenet that contraception and abortion are immoral. They had argued that the law ceded to government the power to define religious faith and practice.

NewYork's law Was challenged by a vanety of Catholic and Protestant .churches, schools, health care organizations and social service agencies. ''This is a sad day for religious liberty in our state and nation," said Richard E. Bames, executive director of the New York State Catholic Conference, in a statement.

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dures the Church considers immoral.

"The Church's unpopular teaching on contraception was an easy target for the Church's detractors," said Bames. "But as the state's attorneys have concededin open court, the principle they were defending would have been exactly the same if the issue was abortion rather than contraception."

He went on to say that "an abortion mandate will now become a frontburner issue for the same advocates who promoted the contraception bill."

In the last several sessions ofthe state Assembly, bills have been introduced that would mandate abortion coverage in all insurance plans, he said.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer earlier this year offered his own legislation that would require all insurance plans to cover abortions and require even religiously affiliated hospitals to allow abortions to be performed on the premises.

California's law applies to insurance companies, so some dioceses have gone to a self-insurance system that is not subject to the requirement about contraceptives. Hogan said some Church institutions remain exempt because of provisions in the Califoinia law covering organizations that exist primarily to inculcate religious faith. .

NEW YORK - 1\vo American universities, working with international partners, are making advances in disease prevention and treatment that affect the lives of thousands of people in developing countries.

Representatives from the University of Notre Dame and Purdue University described their efforts to representatives of nongovernmental organizations at "Global Health in Focus," a panel discussion held recently at the Church of the Holy Family in New York.

The forum was a side event to the opening of the 62nd session of the U.N. General Assembly. Itwasorganized by the Holy See's U.N. mission and co-sponsored by the Path to Peace Foundation, Notre Dame and Purdue. Both universities are in Indiana.

In welcoming participants, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican nuncio to the United Nations, said the idea for the event came to him when he Was a speaker at Purdue University.

"I was fascinated to discover the important strides being made in research .and technology at Purdue, as well as the incredible work being done in some of the farthest parts of the world by the University of Notre Dame;' he said.

"I thought it would be a good idea to invite these very dedicated and gifted professors to NewYork to shed some light- on their important work and to raise awareness for the po~n颅 tial that these universities possess;' he said.

Ten speakers described the universities' ongoing projects and planned initiatives to harness the energy and expertise of their combined faculties and student bodies to promote global health.

Dennis Jacobs, vice president and associate provost ofNotre Dame, said students work alongside faculty in projects in Benin and Uganda. In

Benin, the focus is on combining advanced analytical techniques with low-tech monitoring methods to help villagers preserve water quality.

In Uganda, Notre Dame works with Uganda Martyrs University on a long-term project to promote human development and alleviate poverty. Holy .Cross Father Bob Dowd said that Notre Dame is also a partner in a project there called Millennium Village.

Millennium Village is a concept developed by scientists at Columbia University and the United Nations. Its goal is to end extreme rural poverty in 12 African villages by working directly with affected communities, nongovernmental organizations and national governments.

Father Dowd said Notre Dame supports a "multidisciplinary, holistic approach. We want to appreciate the religious and cultural factors that affect human development." . He said the Notre Dame partnership with Uganda Martyrs University helps that Catholic institution expand its outreach. ''Now, they are promoting agricultural productivity, but they hope to expand into health care and water projects;' he said.

Jacobs also described a Notre Dame program which addresses common, debilitating parasitic diseases in Haiti. One such disease is elephantiasis, which affects the lymphatic system and causes grotesque and irreversible swelling ofthe limbs, breasts and genitals. ''Mass distribution oflow<OSt tablets has already reduced the incidence of disfiguring elephantiasis by 40 percent," he said, "and we t:hink it can be eliminated in anotlier six years."

Holy Cross Father Tom Streit is the director of Notre Dame's Haiti program. He said that the active ingredient in the tablet can also be added to table salt, giving the drug more widespread distribution. Notre Dame is also advocating adding iodine to salt to promote healthy brain development in children.

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GRATEFUL RECOGNITION - Cardinal Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk of Seoul, South Korea, blesses'a memorial to Maryknoll's Korean mission work at the Maryknoll headquarters in Maryknoll, N.Y. The granite replica of the gate to the city of Pyongyang was a gift from the Korean Catholic Church. It contains the names of the many Maryknollers who have served there during the past 80 years. (CNS photo/Chris Sheridan)

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IT'S ALL ABOUT LIFE - Sister Helen Prejean, a Sister of St. Joseph of Medaille, talks about the death penalty during a recent interview at St. Pius X Church in Baltimore. (CNS photo/Owen Sweeney III, Catholic Review)

Sister Helen Prejean calls on Maryland to end death penalty BALTIMORE (CNS)-Standing beneath a large crucifix in the sanctuary of a Baltimore church, Sister Helen Prejean, internation~y acclaimed death penalty abolitionist, stretched out her arms and intently fixed her gaze on the hundreds of people who filled the pews.

"The cross has become a symbol of the suffering caused by murderers and capital punishment in America," the Sister of St. Joseph of Medaille told the crowd at St. Pius X Church.

"On the one arm of the cross are ' the murderer and the murderer's family. On the other ... are the victim and the victim's family;' said Sister Helen, whose book inspired the movie "Dead Man Walking."

Speaking with the nun at the church September 20 were Chris Conover and Kirk Bloodsworth, ' whose death-row convictions were overturned when DNA testing exonerated them years after their murder conviction.

Sister Helen has firsthand experience "entering into the mystery" of the cross, she said. She was the spiritual adviser to Patrick Sonnier in Louisiana. She accompanied the convicted murderer to his.execution by electrocution, which she recounts in her book, and later accompanied five more men to their deaths.

Sister Helen also founded Survive, a group that provides counseling and support for the grieving families of murder victims.

The time has come to help bring healing by abolishing the death penalty in America, Sister Helen said.

Marylanders can take the lead by making their state one of the first in the country to do away with ,capital punishment since it was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976, she said.

Calling the death penalty nothing more than "legalized vengeance," Sister Helen said the gift of being a Catholic is embracing the "seamless garment of life" - respecting the dignity of life from conception until

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"We don't cause life, so is it our job to take it away?" Sister Helen asked. ''Is it our right to trust a human, fallible system of capital punishment to take it away?"

Sister Helen said she believed two of the men she accompanied to their deaths were innocent.

Since 1973, more than 120 men and women have been freed from death row after evidence demonstrated their innocence, according to Maryland Citizens Against State Executions.

Conover, a former parishioner of St. Pius X who received his first Communion there, stood in his hometown church and explained how he spent 18 years in prison for a double murder he didn't commit. He was freed on the basis of DNA evidence.

Bloodsworth, an Eastern Shore native who was the first death-row inmate to be released as a result of DNA testing, told the audience that he and Conover are living reminders that innocent people will inevitably get swept up in the capital punishment net.

"If it can happen to an honorably discharged Marine like me, with no crimimil record, it can happen to you," said Bloodsworth.

In an interview with The Catholic Review, Baltimore's archdiocesan newspaper, Sister Helen said Catholic attitudes about the death penalty are shifting. Recent polls showed that only 41 percent of young Catholics under age 30 support the death penalty, she said.

Sister Helen said ending the death penalty isn't about letting murderers off or making society unsafe. Quoting Pope John Paul II, she pointed out that prisons in modem s.ociety can safely keep convicted murderers off the streets.

"Even those who have committed terrible crimes have a dignity that must not be taken from them," she said.

HARTFORD (CWNews.com) - After fighting against the passage of a new state law requiring hospitals to provide the "emergency contraceptive" Plan B pill to rape victims, the Catholic bishops of Connecticut announced that Catholic hospitals will comply with the law that went into effect last week.

The Connecticut bishops had lobbied energetically against the legislation, pointing out that the Plan B pill can cause abortion if a woman has conceived when the drug is administered. In a May 2007 letter to Governor Jodi Rell, pleading for a veto of the bill passed by the state legislature, the Connecticut bishops noted that the pill "can only act as an abortifacient" if conception has taken place.

Proponents of the Plan B protocol argue that the drug does not cause an abortion. That argument is based on the premise that pregnancy does not begin until the fertilized ovum is implanted in the mother's womb; the "emergency contraceptive" prevents that implantation, causing the destruction of the embryo. In their May appeal to the governor, the heads of the three Connecticut dioceses Archbishop Henry Mansell of Hartford and Bishops William Lori of Bridgeport and Michael Cote of Norwich - said that the proposed legislation would cause a "direct opposition to our religious belief that life begins at the moment of conception and as such is a serious violation of a basic tenet of the Catholic faith."

Governor Rell signed the bill into law despite the bishops' pleas.

On September 28, however, the bishops joined with the heads of Connecticut's Catholic hospitals in announcing that the institutions would comp'ly with the law. Barry Feldman, a spokesman for the Connecticut Catholic Conference, explained that the bishops had undergone "an evolution in thinking."

The bishops' decision reduces the likelihood of a legal confrontation over the Connecticut law.

In earlier public statements the bishops had said that the law, as written, imposed unacceptable burdens on the religious freedom of Catholic insiitutions - an argument that hinted at the possibility of a court challenge. Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport said that he still hoped for changes in the law. And the bishops, in announcing plans to accept the legislation, said that their decision might be reconsidered, in light of further studies on the effects of Plan B and the arguments for administration of an ovulation test

to women taking the pill.

Prior to their sudden reversal, Church leaders in Cohnecticut had said that the hospit~ls would offer Plan B only after administering an ovulation test. If ovulation had not occurred, the pill would not cause an abortion.

The bishops now sa~ that ethicists are divided on thelimoral requirement for such a test. Catholic hospitals will be expected only to administer a pregnancy test, and under the terms of the state law they will not l administer Plan B if the woman is pregnant. However if the wbman has ovulated, conception could occur - and thus the drug would have an abortifacient effect - after the administration of the wegnancy test.

Most Catholic ethicists argue that the pill should not ,be used if ovulation has occurred. Although

moralists disagree on that point, the Connecticut bishops, in their May letter to Governor ReB, had argued that the requirement of an ovulation test was based on the "more probable teaching." The bishops now emphasize that the Church has not rendered a definitive judgment on that issue. . "To administer Plan B pills without an ovulation test is not an intrinsically evil act," the bishops said in a statement released through the Connecticut Catholic Conference. "Since the teaching authority of the Church has not definitively resolved this matter and since there is serious doubt about how Plan B pills work, the Catholic bishops of Connecticut have stated that Catholic hospitals in the state may follow protocols that do not require an ovulation test in the treatment of victims of rape."

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There is much being made, inside and outside the Church, about PresidentBush's October 3 veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCRIP, pronounced S-Chip) and the Congressional vote scheduled for next Thursday to attempt to override it.

The SCRIP program was first passed a decade ago by a Republican-controlled Congress and signed by President Clinton. It provided federal money to the states in the form of block grants to ensure that children whose parents were ineligible for Medicaid because they were above the poverty line but below twice the poverty line and thus often incapable ofaffording family insurance, would be covered. The 1997 version of SCRIP covered 6.6 million children, ''from conception until age 19."

Back in 1997, it was passed and budgeted for a 1O-year trial period. It needed to be reauthorized by the end of September.

President Bush was on record in favor of reauthorizing that original bill and expanding its funding.

But the Democratic congressional leadership tried to take advantage of the almost universal desire to make children from poor families have access to adequate health care to try to add to the reauthorization bill unacceptable items for which President Bush was right to veto it and for which congressmen and senators should vote not to override the veto until these unacceptable elements are stripped from it.

The secular media has focused most of its attention on the economic changes that the Democratic leadership added to the SCRIP reauthorization bill about which President Bush objected. They wanted to ensure children of families UM?: ~ times the poverty line, and President Bush wanted it remain at twice the poverty line. Democratic leaders wanted to increase funding by $35 billion by adding a 61cent federal cigarette tax while President Bush wanted to increase it by $5 billion with no tax. Democrats view their bill as a means by which to care for lower middle Next Wednesday the Church class families who can no longer afford skyrocketing health insurance payments; Bush and Republican leaders see it as the beginning of socialized medicine, by celebrates the feast of one of the giving middle class families an incentive to leave private insurance for government .most heroic, influential and insurance. These are all economic issues upon which Catholic citizens can legiti- important saints of all time, St. Ignatius of Antioch, who was mately disagree about which is more prudent overall.

But the reasons why President Bush vetoed the reauthorization bill go beyond martyred in Rome in the year 107.

He is probably the greatest saint concerns about money, taxes and the role of government The reauthorization bill adds and deletes items that Bush says change and exceed the original SCRIP man- of the first generation of Christians date. . after the Apostles. As a young boy, Among other things, the rewritten SCRIP pays for contraceptives to be distrib- he learned the faith at the feet of uted to teen-agers without parental permission or even knowledge. It authorizes the St. John the Evangelist. As a diversion of previously allocated abstinence education funds to condom pushing young man, he was chosen to campaigns. It permits tax dollars to be used for sterilizations according to individual succeed as bishop of Antioch St. Evodius, who himself state policies. And worst of all, it promotes and funds abortions.

In the original SCRIP passed by a Pro-Life House and Senate, the bill provided took over for St. Peter. It funds for children ''from conception to age 19." In order to help children, various was in Antioch, we read programs for poorpregnant women over 19 were covered as well. In the new SCIDP, in the Acts of the the reference ''from conception to age 19" is excised and among the ''reproductive Apostles, that the care" covered for poor women - in 17 states that allow it - will be tax-payer disciples were first called Christians, and funded abortions.

This means that in the very bill that is supposed to provide at-risk children with under Ignatius' 40 years as bishop, the disciples health care will also be promoting the death of the most vulnerable.

President Bush has used his veto only four times in his almost seven years in grew in faith, charity, office. One occurred when he vetoed what he called an artificial pullout time-table and courage.

In 107, under the emperor for the troops in lraq. On both other occasions, he vetoed funding to expand the destruction ofhumanlife through embryonic stem-eell research. The veto ofSCRIP Trajan, he was arrested and sentenced to death for the crime of was another Pro-Life veto.

It is obvious that children from poor families need access to good health care. being Christian. The Roman This is something that almost all citiZens and legislators support For this reason it is authorities desired to obtain the particularly nefarious that pro-abortion Congressmen and Senators have tried to maximal deterrent value from his manipulate the SCRIP reauthorization process to use it as a vehicle to advance death, so they decided to bring hirp. immoral ends. Just as one rotten apple can spoil the cart, so pushing the destruction to Rome to be devoured by beasts in the Colosseum; along the way, .of babies can vitiate a bill that is supposed to care for them. .

If the attempt to overturn the veto fails to gamer a bicameral two-thirds majority they would parade him to ports in on October 18, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promises to ~ri~ it up again for a vote Asia minor where Christians were and send it to the president's desk again. ShoUld that hap~;'it should b¢,stripped in great numbers, to dissuade them first of its morally objectionable aspects; otherwise the p~j<lent wouJd be right to from following him along the same deadly path. Needless to say, veto it again. . .•)1\, There's one last item that needs to be mentioned candidly with regard to SCIllP. their effect of their plans backfired.

Along his way, Ignatius 1\\'0 prominent Catholic organizations, the Catholic Health~ociation and Catholic Charities USA (which is totally independent of our Cath6llc Charities Appeal), strengthened the Christians in have come out publicly in favor of overriding President BuSH's veto. Their leaders every community he visited. He have been much quoted in the Catholic and secular press and featured prominently also wrote letters to those Christian in the mobilization ale(ts of SCRIP supporters. Both organizations have energeti- communities he couldn't visit, cally encouraged Congress to pass the new SCRIP and override the president's instructing them in the truths of the decision. They've stated that American children need the president's help, not his faith and imploring them to be veto. faithful.

The seven letters that have While both organizations do a lot of good, they are both scandalously wrong on this issue. It should be safe to assume that their leadership is well-informed about all come to us are real treasures, the aspects of the SCRIP reauthorization bill. While there are many laudable as- especially for Catholics who are pects to the bill, and the CHA and CC-USA are right to praise those aspects, no trying to bring their Protestant amount of immunization shots and free doctor's visits can outweigh the tax-payer brothers and sisters to the fullness funded destruction of innocent human babies through abortion. Catholic organiza- of the faith, because they show . tions should not be able to be bribed to look the other way on intrinsically evil clearly that in the year 107 actions by the promise ofgood things of a lesser order. within a generation of the death of The SCRIPdebate makes clear that the leadership ofboth organizations need to St. John - many teachings that realign their hierarchy of values with that of the Catholic Church they claim to Protestant Refonners rejected were represent Pope Benedict teaches in his latest apostolic letter, Sacramentum Caritatis, already firmly held.

Ignatius taught clearly about that there are issues, like abortion, that are non-negotiable, no matter how many praiseworthy enticements are added to the negotiations. Until such a realignment of the belief in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. He calls their values takes place, Catholics should be wary to follow their endorsements.

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FAITHFUL ATTEND A DIVINE LITURGY AT THE UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION IN PHILADELPHIA RECENTLY TO CELEBRATE THE

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"As A BODY IS ONE THOUGH IT HAS MANY PARTS, AND ALL THE PARTS OF THE BODY, THOUGH MANY, ARE ONE BODY, SO IS CHRIST. FOR IN ONE SPIRIT WE WERE ALL BAPTIZED INTO ONE BODY, WHETHER JEWS OR GREEKS, SLAVES OR FREE PERSONS, AND WE WERE ALL GIVEN TO DRINK OF ONE SPIRIT" (lCOR:

12,13).

A Christian in fact and not just in name the Eucharist the "flesh of Christ," and denounces the docetist heretics who "do not confess that the Eucharj.st is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ."

He also describes a Catholic understanding of the structure of the Church and the sacrament of holy orders. "He who acts independently of the bishop, priests and deacons," he wrote to the Trallians, "is not pure."

He even gives us the earliest

example of the expression "Catholic Church," when he links it to Christ and to the person of the bishop. "Wherever the bishop appears," he told the Smynaeans, "there let the people be, even as wherever Christ Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church."

While I was in college I printed out a copy of these letters and gave them to a Protestant friend with whom I used to debate the truths of Christianity. After reading St. Ignatius and recognizing that Christians from the first generation have·believed in the Catholic understanding of the Eucharist, the Church and holy orders, he became a Catholic the following Easter. I would encourage you to read them and pass them on to your Protestant friends as well, St. Ignatius' mosrfamous and influential teaching, however, comes from his letter to the Romans. It is an unforgettable testimony of burning love for God, of faith-filled courage in the face of the greatest of human fears, and of a desire for the things of heaven that orders all earthly choices.

While on his slow journey to Rome, he got word that some Christians were trying to use political connections to try to save him from execution. Ignatius appreciated the gesture, but

begged them to desist.

"I am writing to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way. I plead with you: Do not show me any worldly kindness. Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God. I am God's wheat and shall be ground by their teeth so that I may become Christ's pure bread. Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God. "He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire. The time for my birth is close at hand. Forgive me, my brothers. Do not stand in the way of my birth to real life; do not stand in the way of my birth to real life."

He saw his death not as an end, but as a beginning.

"Now I begin to be a Christian.

May nothing visible or invisible stop me from attaining Jesus Christ. Come fire and cross, gashes and rendings, breaking of bones and mangling of limbs, the shattering in pieces of my whole body; come all the wicked tonnents of the devil upon me if I may but attain Jesus Christ."

Then he made one final appeal, one dying wish, to the Roman Christians: ''Therefore, you cannot do me a greater favor than to pennit me to be poured out as a libation to God while the altar is ready; that, fonning a choir in love, you may give thanks to the Father by Jesus Christ that God has chosen to bring me, a Syrian bishop, from the east to the west to pass out of this wqrld, that I may rise again to him.... Only pray for me that God may give me grace within as well as without, nqt only to say it but to desire it, that I may not only be called but be found a Christian."

May St. Ignatius intercede for us to obtain the gift of true Christian courage, that we may all prove to be Christians not just in name but in fact as well.

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walk a tough road. His mother, too, continues to ask for God's intervention in her son's recovery.i She takes him to the hospital in the Capital, first I was surprised that she speak. Now he has much better U$e Tegucigalpa, regularly foJ his remembered Danilo since I had of ltis hands, is able to talk, and can treatments and doctors' appointtake a few steps while holding on to written about him last year. She ments. Together with an aunt, the explained that she had been praying something. He doesn't like his three of them board the bus, with for him since she reading the article wheelchair but he enjoys it when his Pilo's wheelchair, for the bore than friends wheel him around two-hour ride to Tegucig~pa. If we town, which is difficult on are not traveling to a village for the dirt roads! He comes to .

Mass, we take them in the pickup Mass regularly and truck to avoid the challenges of the positions his wheelchair bus.

Ii near the benches where the At a recent appointment, the altar servers sit for Mass. doctors explained to Pilo'~ mother He hopes one day to serve that they are recommendihg an again at the altar. operation on his legs to allow him to Cancer treatment can be walk. The family is consi!~ering the a long process, which can drain a in The Anchor. She said that his operation but have yet to make the picture is on her refrigerator. .: person physically, as well as ·· II. decISlon.

Danilo, or ''Pilo'' as he is known emotionally. However in Pilo's case, Although we hope to dssist the he has been an example of patience, around the parish, has made a remarkable recovery from last year's joy, and resilience, to all of us in the cancer surgery. He returned home parish. He reminds us that the from the hospital with very limited . power of prayer can do wonderful motor function and barely able to things, especially giving strength to

cross This summer I visited a few parishes to preach for the Mission Cooperative. I was swprised by the number of people who had not yet learned about our DioCesan Mission in Honduras even though next month will mIDic the seventh anniversary of the Mission. The connection with St Rose of Lima fl Parish in Guaimaca has been a blessing to the poor who live there, as well as a blessing to the people of the diocese. A number have visited and realized how we are truly blessed, and in turn have shared their bounty with their brothers and sisters in Honduras.

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Everyone's life comes with a cross, at times a cross that seems unbearable. However it is a comfort to know someone is praying, even someone far away. Pilo was comforted to hear that there are folks in the diocese who are praying for him, and he promised prayers, too.

We can't always carry the cross of another, but we can help to lighten it Let us remember in prayer all who are bearing a heavy cross; it's a reminder that we are all brothers and sisters in Christ.

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Buddhism's many flavors After the death of Gautama the Buddha in 483 B.C., his disciples tried to organize his teachings, or dharma., within a system of doctrines on which they could agree.

These teachings were then orally passed down to future generations of monks within various Buddhist communities in India In the first century B.C., scribes compiled-the dhanna on paper; these scriptures were written in PaJ~ a derivative of India's sacred language, Sanskrit, and are known as the Pali Canon.

The Pall Canon is also called the Tl{Jitaka ("Three Baskets") because of its three parts: the Sutras, discourses of the Buddha; the Vmayas, . ethical precepts and rules of monastic discipline; and the Abhidhannas, commentaries on the Sutras.

Some traditions of later origin have also been ~ in Sanskrit Beginning around the second century B.C., Buddhism suffered periods of fierce persecution in the land of its birth - first by Hindu rulers, later by invading Huns (nomadic Mongols), lastly by Muslims. After fifteen eentmies, Buddhism was virtually wiped out from India Nevertheless, it had already spread to other parts ofAsia, absorbing local traditions along tilt? way and developing many different schools and branches. Today most of the world's 375 million Buddhists follow either the Thernvada or the Mahayana traditioJi. Theravoda (Pall for ''the Way of the Elders") is the oldest surviving Buddhist tradition and predominates in Sri Lanka and most of Southeast .

Asia It is intensely individualistic: each person must make his own arduous way to enlightenment, without the help of the gods or God. This is a fulltime work if taken

seriously, and therefore best undertaken as a monk. Theravadins revere the Buddha as great ethical teacher but do not venerate him as a god or savior, as do many Mahayana Buddhists.

Mahayana (Sanskrit for "Greater Vehicle;' implying a better way to enlightenment than Theravada) is strongest in Nepal, China (including TIbet), Mongolia, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. It is not a single group but a ·collection of sects: TIbetan, Pure Land, and Zen are all strands of the Mahay~a tradition. Whereas Theravadins use the complete

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According to the Mahayana school, when the Buddha attained enlightenment, he did not enter nirvana but, moved by pity, returned to the people and helped others to reach nirvana In contrast to the Theravada ideal of the arhat, the one who attains nirvana through selfeffort, the Mahayana Buddhist strives to become a bodhisattva, one who forgoes entrance into nirvana so that he may remain in this world as long as there are creatures to be saved. The head monk of TIbetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama, is believed to be the reincarnation of a past bodhisattva.

Zen Buddhism originated in China in the sixth century and spread from there to Korea and Japan. (Zen is the Japanese equivalent of ch'an, the Chinese pronunciation of the Sanskrit dhyana, .

"meditation.") Legend has it that one day the Buddha held up a flower and studied it for a long time without saying a word. A young disciple began to smile and the Buddha lookOO at him approvingly. Without hearing a word or studying scripture, the disciple gained enlightenment. .

Liberation, in Zen, is achieved not through words and concepts :.- Try describing color to a blind man but through the profound realization, borne of long hours in silent meditation, that one is already an enlightened being.

For those who cannot handle the subtleties of meditation, there is Pure Land Buddhism. This sect originated with the Japanese monk Honen (1133-1212) who taught that most people,' himself included, could not achieve liberation on their own, but only through the help ofAmitabha, a bodhisattva who lived eons ago (Gautama spoke of him). Amitabha 'vowed that when he attained buddhahood, he would preside over a realm of ultimate bliss (the existence of which was revealed to . him by his teacher), where there would be no evil and no obstacles to attaining nirvana Honen taught that whoever invokes the name of the Buddha Amitabha with complete trust will, after death, be reborn in the Pure Land and thus much closer to nirvana Perhaps you've already detected in these various forms of Buddhism bits and premonitions of the truth fully revealed by God in Christ Our task now is to identify these seeds of the Word and to spotlight their fullest flowering in the Catholic Church.

Father Kocik is a parochial administrator at Santo Christo Parish in Fall River.

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Remembering and giving thanks Many of us learned the importance of a hand-written thank-you note from our parents, primarily our mothers.

We were taught that a note written promptly and sincerely is an important ritual in our human connectedness and dependence on others. In today's world of cell phones and computers we are apt to think, "Why write something when I can call or email?"

Certainly we have a lot of technology at our fingertips, but having it doesn't mean we should always use it. There is something special about the hand-written thank-you note.

Outplacement resource companies are quick to remind their clients of the special importance thank-you notes have in securing a new job or making a career change.

Indeed many people believe that thank you notes helped elect George Bush, the first

one, to the U.S. presidency. He carried a box of cards with him everywhere he went on the campaign trail and jotted a note immediately following each event to the volunteers or hosts. Many believe the personal touch of these notes is what propelled him into the White House.

John Buchanan in his writings on spirituality reminds us that our journey in life is a pilgrimage from "mine" to "thanks." The first two words that most babies learn to speak consistently are "no" and "mine."·Some of us go through our entire lives uttering those two words over and over: ''No, or I don't want to. I don't have to. I can't. I won't." Or "Mine, It's about me: my feelings, my needs, my success, my happiness, my relationships, my spirit." But growing up is

really about learning new words: "yes, ours, yours, please and, what may be the hardest words to learn and mean, "thank you." Thank you for caring about me. Thank you for worrying about me.

Thank you for being my

friend. Thank you for loving me - despite myself. To say thank you is to realize that I am not the center of the universe. To say thank you is to realize that what I am and what I have are the results of a goodness and beauty beyond myself. To say thank you is to be both humbled and elated

that I am so loved. To say thank you is the beginning of faith. To say thank you is the last step of childhood and the first step into adulthood.

In today's second reading, the letter from Paul to Timothy, Paul is coming to the end of his life. In his old age while in prison he gathers to his mind these three words: "Remember Jesus Christ." He reminds his young protege Timothy to "remember Jesus Christ" who suffered died and was raised for Timothy's sake and for ours too. And in today's Gospel Jesus himself reminds us it is all about thanks to God. When he cures the 10 lepers, he says "has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?" Remembering and saying thank you are the basic building blocks of our relation-

ship with God who gives us everything we have and are.

Remembering and saying thank you is a milestone towards maturity in our relationship with God. In a few moments we will begin the great Thanksgiving prayer, the eucharistic prayer, the prayer in which Jesus reminds us to do this in his memory, the prayer that is our ritualistic personal thank you note to God today for the very life God has given to us as individuals in this community of believers It is our thank you to God for this community of believers, a community in which God lives in and through our members.

Today and every day let us remember Jesus Christ and say thank you to our God who lives with him in the Spirit for ever and ever. Amen.

Father Morse is pastor at St. Stephen's Parish in Attleboro.

UpcomingDai1yRea~: Sat., Oct.!3, J14:12-21; Ps 97:1-2,5,-6,11-12; Lk 11;27-28. Sun. Oct. 14, Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2 Kgs 5:14-17; Ps 98:1-4; 2 Tm 2:8-13; Lk 17:11-19. Mon., Oct. 15, Rom 1:1-7; Ps 98:1-4; Lk 11:29-32. 'files., Oct. 16, Rom 1:16-25; Ps 19:2-5; Lk 11:37-41. Wed., Oct. 17, Rom 2:1-11; Ps 62:2-3,6-7,9; Lk -11:42-46. Thurs., Oct. IS, 2 Tm 4:10-17b; Ps l45:10-13ab,17-18; Lk 10:1-9. Fri., Oct. 19, Rom 4:1-8; Ps 32:1-2.,5,11; Lk 12:1-7.

Why cooking counts My first adventures in the culinary arts took place in Toronto when I was doing graduate work in theology. The technical conditions were not optimal: the ancient electric stove in my third-floor garret apartment had two heat levels - hot and Gehenna - so that "simmering" meant standing beside the stove, turning a burner on-and-off, over and over again. Yet somehow tbe fun of cooking stuck, not unlike a sauce or two best left forgotten. At the same time, I discovered the romance of cooking - the theological romance, that is.

Here, my mentor was Anglican priest and author Robert Farrar Capon, whose book, "The Supper of the Lamb" (Modern Library) was aptly described by New York Times food maven Craig

Claiborne as "one of the funniest, wisest, and most unorthodox cookbooks ever written." As both Christian and cook, Capon takes Genesis I - "God saw that it was good" - with utmost seriousness.

And to a nation that, despite chronic obesity, retains deep puritanical instincts about the good things of life, he says, in effect, "Get a life."

Or, as he puts it in "The Supper of the Lamb" (and with considerable theological 0-1 insight): "Fpod and cooking ... are not low subjects. In fact there are no low subjects anywhere in the physical universe. Every real thing is a joy, if only you have the eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it.

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Food is not just some fuel we

need to get us going toward higher things. Cooking is not a drudgery we put up with in order to get the fuel delivered.

Rather, each is. a heart's astonishment. Both stop us dead in our tracks with wonder. Even more, they sit us down, evening after evening, and in the company that forms around our dinner tables, they actually create our humanity."

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Like Robert Farrar Capon, Get one yourself if you're . Adam Chrzastowski thinks and reaching into the freezer for cooks vocationally. And so he frozen pizza more than once a knows that the goods of month. cooking and eating come in Two people who don't need both simple and complex Capon's book are Robert forms, like "weekdays in Radzimski and Adam ordinary time:' and '·solemniChrzastowski, owner and chief ties." To enjoy both is to meet chef of "Ancora," a spectacular God's astonishing prodigality new restaurant in Cracow. in creating and sustaining the They may seem, at first blush, world. an odd pair of restaurateurs.

"Ancora" is across the street One spent four years testing a from Cracow's Dominican Dominican vocation. The other basilica, to which thousands of wrote an academic thesis young people flock every comparing the social teaching Sunday night. Go see them and of John Paul II to "conservabe assured that, with Benedict tive liberal" thought in the XVI, that, "the Church is United States. Their bond is a young." Then go to "Ancora" commitment to great food, and get a foretaste of the great wine, and great service, Supper of the Lamb. at affordable prices.

George Weigel is a senior Poland is, as historian fellow of the Ethics and Norman Davies put it, the Public Policy Center in "heart of Europe." Adam Washington, D.C.

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My grandmother was a shriner Friday 5 October 2007 - at home on Three Mile River, the Dightons - "Literally, A Haunted House" fund-raiser at Culbertson Mansion, New Albany, Ind. My Irish-born grandmother was a shriner. No, she didn't belong to the Ancieot Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Not being a master mason, she didn't qualify. My grandmother was a shriner because she built shrines domestic centers of devotion.

There was a small table-top shrine. This consisted of a series of wooden steps reminiscent of a sanctuary, a crucifix, two candles, prayer cards, and

statues. She called it her "altar."

She also had a wall-shrine.

This featured a plaster statue of Michelangelo's Pieta. Underneath 'was a framed reproduction of DaVinci's "Last Supper."

Behind the "Last Supper" was

hidden all one needed for the administration of the sacrament then known as "Last Rites."

I was chatting on my back steps today with Beth Lee (a consecrated virgin living in the

Dightons). The conversation turned to International Marian .

Shrines, and in particular to the Shrine of Out'Lady of Guadalupe. Beth mentioned she had been in Mexico City during the celebration of the Day of the Dead. She found the festival puzzling. I proceeded to enlighten her on the prehistoric . origins of festivals honoring the dead, the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican customs, and the melding of Catholic celebrations of All Souls' Day into Mexican folk-religion. "Father, you know so much about the Day of the Dead. Have you studied the subject?" "Studied it? Heavens no, I haven't even taught it!"

Mary and the World Series According to an article Yes, for many people, are the Red Sox. Something will baseball is almost a "religion." go wrong." written by Father Matthew R. Sure enough, the Yankees路 Mauriello in 1996, the practice There is talk of faith and belief, of dedicating the entire month of of good and evil, of suffering started coming back. "Why don't they just take Pedro out?"

October to the Holy Rosary and redemption. And it couldn't occurred toward the end of the be more true than here in Red Even I, the rookie fan could 19th century. It was during the Sox nation. When the camera figure this one out. I was incredupapacy of Pope Leo XIII (1878' pans the audience, we often see lous, screaming at the T.V. -1903), who strongly proRed Sox fans with hands The T.V. was not listening. moted the increase of devotion clasped together, fingers resting I remember the next day we to the Blessed Mother, gently against their mouths, lips went to Boston. A dark cloud Interestingly enough, it was moving silently in prayer. Red over the city; sad faces every,on Oct. I, 1903 that the where. tradition of the World I"!"!'.'."'1."J" .~.,~...""",",!"J""!!l'\\"'~''!'''''r'''''\:,'!''''~,'''~-l,-.-''''''~'!!'lf'--:~~-''''I My chest was heavy. I Series began. Post;1. was fighting back tears "I, 1.1. ;,r -i\ ~ all day. Is this the price season play and the World Series generally \\:~X.~li\ ~o~rney one has to pay to be a take up the entire' ,,,I ;rJ\.!

O. Red Sox fan? ,. : .Mil ' I ,~.1' Baptized and conmonth of October.

W~y 61~,'M~;KO!JI firmed in one season.

Why, here in Red Sox nation, it's even called Then in 2004 ...

"Soxtober." So it's safe resurrection. to say that for more than 100 Sox fans have been "baptized" I felt guilty that I had not years Mary has been sharing by their tears and "confirmed" suffered long enough. in their undying faith and love Wait, there is some commu"her month" with well, you know, baseball. for their team. nication being sent our way.

I wonder how Mary feels I am a "convert" to the Red Mary, our Blessed Mother is about this. Did she ever have an Sox ''faith.'' When I was sending an email.

Dear Red Sox fans, opinion about the decision to growing up in California the have a World Series in the only "red socks" I knew were I received a pink Red Sox month of October? Did she ever the ones I wore at Christmas hat, and many prayer requests say, "Hey, cut me some slack. time. Then, when I married a for the Red Sox for this World I'm the Mother of God!" Massachusetts native, I began to Series. My dear children, I will Probably not. Doesn't sound know more about the team. But pray for the Red Sox this year, like Mary at all. In fact, if we it wasn't until after we moved to but only on one condition. Pray imagine that day in history, Oct. the East Coast six years ago, that the rosary, and not just for your I, 1903, this is what might have I "converted." team. Pray for peace, for the happened in heaven. .

It was the 2003 playoff children, and for those who have Jesus: It looks like they're season, when Red Sox fans no one to pray for them. starting a World Series for witnessed yet another unfortuAnd if your team doesn't baseball on earth today. nate loss. Up until then I had . win, just remember, it's only a Mary: Well Jesus, as much as only heard of these sad events; game. My Son arid I, we will I would like for those on earth to now I would live through one. live on, long after the game is remember you and your life We were ahead of the played, yes, long after the game is played. through the prayers of the rosary Yankees and everything was and to remember my message, going great and then my And my dear children, you one thing is for certain. We will husband said, "I don't know, can too.

I've got this sinking feeling."

Greta and her husband definitely receive many prayers during the month of October.

"What do you mean, this George, with their children are Jesus: Yes, Mother, this is feeling? We're going to win!" members ofChrist the King true.

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After the celebration, the goods the year - the beginning of a are distributed to the living. new year, the changing of a There is sometimes a chair in season, the solstices and equicase the visitor wants to rest noxes. At those times, the veil awhile. Not too comfortable a between the two worlds was lifted. Day of the Dead Occurs at a chair, though - one doesn't "soft time" - the turning of the want the visitors to linger. The season. For a short period, the dead, they say, are fond of the dead can slip into this world. aroma of marigolds. The exit route is sprinkled with marigold Carpe diem. It's a family homecoming. The living have the pedals to facilitate their timely responsibility of offering hospital- exit.

Graves are festooned with the ity to their deceased relatives. same accoutrements as the homeThe Day of the Dead centers on three sites: the home, the. shrine but with more candles for the all-night vigil and sometimes cemetery and the chur<;h. In the the addition of a band of musichurch, the Masses of All Saint's Day and All Souls' Day are cians. On Day of the Dead, cemeteries are filled with the solemnly celebrated. living as well as the dead.

If a priest is available, he's Shrines are even set up at the allowed by internation~l Church graves of those who sadly have law to celebrate thfee Masses on All Souls' Day. This is a rare no one to.remember them. permission. Normally a priest is The Day of the Dead is also restricted to celebrating one an occasion to poke fun at those Mass per day, two on weekends. . who foolishly consider themselves immortal. Images of Three Masses on week~nds are allowed, but only in the case of kings, clergy~ politicians, brides, . pastora1 neceSSIty. II. W'Ith movie stars, etc. are available. genume The figures, dressed in their the current shortage of :priests, finery, are all skeletons! Meour weekends are spent in a mento mor; (Remember death). perpetual state of pastoral emergency, with at least three I'm suddenly overcome, dear Masses being routinely celreaders, with an uncontrollable ebrated by one priest and often urge to set up a home-shrine. more.

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FALL RIVER - It's a story much like those one reads in books about saints: how a successful manager in a large supermarket chain puts that all be,hind to answer God's call to serve as a layplan in a way most people in today's world think is below one's dignity and can't unders,tand.

But after meeting Albert W. "Bill" Jalbert, it becomes very clear that indeed God calls and to those who ~wer,lifebecome more meaningful and happier in his service.

"It was almost like a calling, a strong, deep, enligh~ning feeling to take

B'll Jalbert andelg ' .h t 0 thers - ' rangmg . .mage 1 from 19 to the mid-70s - answered the sumnions.

"After working at our jobs in the day we would ' meet at 6 p.m., and work often until after 11 0' clock or when we got tired," Jalbert recalled. "One thing led to another and after we finished the entranceways, we did the sides; and seeing what was undone we realized we had to paint the entire church.

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Jalbert's service to.his whenever there have..... parJ~h' began to exbeen problems I prayed / 'pando Besides dQing to her and she resolved , painting, carpentry and them," said Jalbert, who electrical work and is also the custodian. at grou'ndskeepirig, he is an Notre, Dame Paris,h extra9rdinary minister of .

School nearby, named holy ComIil.Unio~ at for ,Our Lady. , Mass and has ministered "I think the call was" also as a lector and collector. to take care of her Son's., house, which has,.b~:..; , He has also has'led come, my. home away retreats for young.people from home, in. ,many in the CCD program and ways, my hO\~se too, and coordinated' three-day I care for it," said Jalbert, fairs and suppers as parwhose broad smile and ish fund-raisers. happy demeanor attest to "We called ourselves the truth of his words. the Social Activities In 1982, Jalbert was Committee and I have the produce manager plenty of helpers - alwith the former Almac's ANCHOR PERSON OF THE WEEK - Albert though we were, always Supermarket on Presi-' "Bill" Jalbert. (Anchor photo) , the same group," he dent Avenue, and had I . noted. He also coordialso serve,d in that capacity at its former ;store on nated Bingo nights "until Foxwoodslured the people Griffin Street as well as its lOCations in Barrington away." ' and Newport in Rhode'Island.

Bill;s other ,remarkable personal skills also be"Yes, I took a very deep cut in pay to become a gaD to show. :He sang bass with the Festival Singers church sexton, but it has been very much well wortti' as Well 'as the Allegro Glee Club as they performed it, because it has been for the good Lord," he ,added. parish benefits.

"One never gets tired because'it offers tim~ for con.Father Richard L. Chretien,pastor of Notre Dame ' templation ... even when working at the jqb." and Immaculate Conception parishes, agreed that .

A look back shows the "call" is a pro~ssion of Bill Jalbert "is indeed a man for all seasons and then the gift of faith Jalbert received at his baptikm in the some. He is very talented, c~pable of doing many former Blessed Sacrament Church in Fall River's things, arid he's not afraid to tackle any job because South End where he grew up. Later he att~nded the .he is so skilled. He's a wonderful man and he works former St: Roch's Church on Pine Street ~d at age hard at the church and at the school ... as well as in 12 moved to Bardsley Street just down frQm Notre everything he does."

Dame Church, which became his parish., : E: Christopher Myron,principal of Notre Dame "I married my wife Nancy in 1967 in lmmacu- School agreed. "Billis an ,exceptional human b~­ late Conception Church where she was a parishio- ing,~' Myron told The Anchor. "He exemplifies faith ner lpld we celebrated our 40th anniversary last year, in God and he has a strong commitment to the Cathoand we have two wonderful children." lic faith.

"He is a man of many talents and he shares freely Nancy is one of the secretaries to Bishol? George W. Coleman, and has been active in the pari,sh, more with everyone. He is an artist. The students and staff recently again as a teacher of Religious Equcation. look up to Bill Jalbert. We're very fortunate and But the actual "call" to Bill came when Immacu- blessed to have him at Notre Dame." late Conception was to celebrate its 100th:anniverTheAncltorencourages readers to nominate oth· sary in 1982. Then pastor Father Terence Keenan ersfor the Person ofthe Week - who and why? Subput out a notice in the parish bulletin for help to paint mit nominations to: theanchor@anchomews.org, or the church's entranceways. write to TheAnchor, P.O. Box 7, FaIl River, MA 02722.

WHERE'S THE ARC? - Parishioners and friends gath,ered recently at St. Joseph's Church, North Dighton, for a blessing of pets in.honor of St. Francis of Assisi. Upper left, Father R,chard Furlong WIth greyhound Brady. Center: Father Tim Goldrick with greyhound Cleopatra.

Something eerie from Lake Erie Be careful what you ask forfor you may tnily get it.

TholJSands across Red Sox Nation breathed a sigh of relief Monday night when the Evil Empire was eliminated from the Major League Baseball playoffs myself included.

While some wouJd have preferred a trip through the Bronx on the way to the World Series, many of us cringed at the mere thought. As for me, I'm tired of Yankee Stadium in October, pinstripes, taunting, A-Rod, Johnny Demon, et al. That and the fact the 'Yanks had our number for the last halfof the season.

Besides" if we're going to .lose, and that's a big if, I'd rather fall to the longsuffering 'Cleveland Indians. We . know their pain.

Back to the ,Yankees, though., I find.it mcred,"ibly amazing that the Big'Apple juggernaut was brought down by a tiny insect. But from my view from the stands, that's exactly what happened. . . As most of uS witnessed on television, Yankee ace Andy Pettitte had stymied the Indian offense for :six-and-one-third innings in Game 2 of their series. Heading'into the eighth inning with the slimmest of ,leads, 1-0, Yankee fireballer, Joba Chamberlain took the mound: So did thousands of "Canadian Soldiers," small flying insects that swarmed the infield. The pests were everywhere. They didn't sting, but were a definite distraction to the ,players, particularly Chamberlain.

The soldiers, or midges, flew into eyes, noses, mouths, attached .to sweat and flew haphazardly .whereever they pleased. Young Chamberlain, who usually had :good control of his pitches, was flustered by the attack. The Indians ultimately scored the tying run and

went on to win in extra innings, putting the Yankee~ in a two games to none hole, from which they couldn't dig out.

There's no question this game will go down in the annals of baseball history - joining such memorable momentS as Bobby Thompson's "Shot Heard Round the World" in 1951; Enos Slaughter~s "Mad Dash" in 1946; the 1969 ''Amazing Mets"; and,the 1967 "Impossible Dream" Boston Red Sox.' ' PuDdits across the country have already had a field day with the' "Bug Game" of 2007. Here's my two cents to'identify this unique moment iil baseball history:

, ~'The Flies and ~all of the Evil Empire"; "The Sultans of Swatters"; "Insects Put the O~ , in Playoffs"; "Cleveland Swarmsto the Task"; "Midges Make Chamberlain Wilt"; 'The Gnatural"; "Something Eerie from Lake Erie"; "Canadian Soldier SortiesTake OutBronx Bombers"; , "Indians Tried With All Their Mites"; and my per:sonal favorite, "Infield Flies Rule."

I'm not quite sure any of these are Hall of Fame material, but the game sure was.

From now on, I'm going to think twice before flailing at a bothersome insect. You just never know the good it can provide mankind.

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While raising funds1for the CMH van, the Espirito Sant~1 faithful were unwittingly lending a hand to Alzheimer's patients., According to StoMa, many ofthe CMH residents who benefitfrom the van are Alzheimer's patients.

"Thanks to the.vari~ we are now I . ., able to take ow: pati~ts onregular trips for ice cream, .~ Pawtucket Red Sox games, on picnics andcookouts:' . staff here said Storino. ''The actiVity ..

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is a remarkable group and this opens up new doors for them. By having the van, the quality of life of our Alzheimer's patients has been enhanced.And that's what it's all about:', Storino also told The Anchor she hears a great deal of positive feedback from family members who notice how much the residents enjoy liv~ ing at Catholic Memorial Home. n seems to be a match made in heaven ---: EspirilO Santo Parish and Catholic Memorial Home. And because of that relationship, many Home residents routinely experience a small piece of heaven while living with a msease1hat can be so frustrating and frightening.

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By DAVE JOLIVri. EDITOR FALL RIVER - There's nothing sweet about the suffering experienced

by Alzheimer's patients, their fami~ lies and caregivers. But that doesn't mean efforts to raise funds to combat . the disease can't be sugar coated. .For t,he second time in less than a year, the generous and talented pa.rishioners of Espirito Santo Parish in Fall River teamed up with the . dedicated and tireless employees and volunteers at Catholic Memori;il Home for a food fest that satisfied the heartiest of appetites and generated some much-needed revenue for Alzheimer's care, support andre.search. .A Malassadas Sale at the Home and the parish on September 9sweetened the Alzheimer's Association coffers by $2,100. That sum, added to the $11,700 raised in· an Alzheimer's Memory Walk by the five diocesan skilled nursing and·re.habilitative facilities netted the Association nearly $14,000 from this diocese alone.

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derful people at Espirito Santo Par·ish beganlast year with a fund-raiser for a new van for residents at the . · Home," explained Mary Jean Storino, activity director at CMH. ·'We began a genuine friendship then, and have kept in touch and that resulted.in our · latest venture."

Last October, through the generosity and hard work of pastor Father , James Ferry and a core ofvolunteers, a Portuguese~style dinner raised more than $17,000 ,towards the purchase of the van. ''Father Ferry and his parishioners truly enjoy helping others," Storino told The Anchor. ''They're ready at a moment's notice and are a!.ways willing to help. They believe in whatthey do."

What they do"and what they do very well, is cook. Whenthe Espirito Santo folks learned about an upcoming Alzheimer's· fund-raising event involving tl,teir friends at CMH,. it didn't takelong to develop a plan of action. .'. .

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KNEADING FOR THOSE IN NEED - Four-year-old Madison Arruda and her grandmother, Maria Aldolfo, prepare ingredients for a recent malassadas sale to benefit the Alzheimer's Association.

Fall River ·area who can resist the sweet fried dough delicacies, and that is a recipe for success.

The parish, appropriately· so; has an expansive, highly efficient kitchen area, generous fi;iends in the retail sector, and cooks who can make fQ()d a work of art - the peifect ingredients for this venture. .

The kitchen workers, from four years of age to much more than that, and CMH volunteers spent many hours the night before the event weighing flour, sugar and eggs, concocting the mixture and then placing it in massive pans to sit and rise.

After heading home at midnight, the crew was back on the scene by . .

5:30.a.m. on sale day. ''We had a.pre-sale event at the Home," said Storino. "And the employees needed no prompting to place orders. We ended up with a pre-order of 36 dozen of the treats."

Storino and her crew climbed aboard their new van that morping and made their way to the Alden Street parish to collect the pre-orders for delivery. ''The women were so pleased . to actually see the van they worked so hard to help finance," added Storino.

M3J.assadas were sold following the 8, 9:30 and 11:00am. Masses that morning. By the time the flour dust had settled, thejoint venture netted $2,100. Credit for mUCll of that success goes to several local merchants who donated ingredients, supplies and resources, including ArrUda's Dairy in Tiverton, R.I., Acores Bakery in Fall River, Portugalia Imports, and Raul Benevides of Portuguese radio station 1400 AM, who has his finger on the pulse of the area Portuguese community.

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DVD/video reviews NEW YORK (CNS) - The fol- gious authority, but the broader lowing are capsule reviews of new themes oflove and self-worth should and recent DVD and video releases melt most objections. Some mildly from the Office for Film & Broad- rude humor and innuendo, as well casting of the U.S. Conference of as some menace and two frightening sequehces that may upset very Catholic Bishops. young viewers, but that are probably ''Fantastic Four: Rise of the OK for older children. The DVD Silver Surfer" (2007) The wedding of Mister Fantastic includes 'two new sequences (loan Gruffudd) and InvisibleWoman "Mumble Meets a Blue Whale" and (Jessica Alba) is interrupted by a cos- "A Happy Feet Moment" - a mic force set to destroy the planet, "Dance Like a Penguin" lesson with and the pair must join with the Hu- Savion Glover, two music videos man Torch (Chris Evans) and the and the delightful vintage cartoon, Thing (Michael Chiklis) to avert di- "I Love t() Singa." The USCCBOfsaster, trying to dissuade the evil fice for Film & Broadcasting classiforce's emissary, a silver man (voice fication is: A-ll - adults and-adoof Laurence Fishburne) on a flying lescents. (Warner Home Video) ''The Jungle Book" (40th surf board, from his dastardly misAnniverSary Platinum Edition) sion, while contending with an over(1967) bearing Army general (Andre Disney classic based on Rudyard Braugher) and duplicitous Dr. Doom (Julian McMahon). Apart from the Kipling's adventure-filled story of elements listed below, director Tun Mowgli,a boy-child reared by Story's superior sequel - with its obliging wolves in the jungles of personable leads, above-average spe- India, freely adapted for the screen. cial effects, and not-taking-itself-too- Using genial humor and the voices seriously tone - makes for an en- of Phil Harris as Baloo, a lovable gaging B-level adventure with a com- bear, George Sanders as Shere mendable message about making the Khan, a suave, menacing tiger and right choices in life. Some mild in- Sterling Holloway as an opportunuendo and crass expressions, mod- nistic python, director Wolfgang erate action violence and implied Reitherman's movie still delights nudity. The USCCB Office for Film four decades after its original re& Broadcasting classification is A-ll lease. This'DVD edition presents the - adults and adolescents. (20th Cen- film for the first time in its 1.75:1 aspect ratio, and the digital restoratury Fox Home Entertainment) tion looks, wonderful. There's op"Happy Feet" (Widescreen tional audio commentary from comEdition) (2006) Computer-animated fable set in poser Richard M. Sherman, animathe Antarctic about a young emperor tor Andreas Deja, Mowgli voice penguin (voiced by Elijah Wood) Bruce Reitherman, and others. whose inability to carry a tune and Among the numerous extras are a propensity for tap dancing gets him 46-minute' making-of documentary banished by the puritanical elders and featurettes on the Kipling adapwho blame him for the colony's tation anp the film's appeal to dwindling fish supply, prompting the Disney's' animators, plus a misfit to prove them wrong, get to storyboard sequence with a characthe bottom of the food shortage, and ter called Rocky the Rhino, a 21hopefully discover his "heartsong;' minute audio-only selection of seven the mating call unique to each pen- deleted songs, including a quite difguin that will help him find true love. ferent alternate version of the hit Director George Miller combiJ,les 'song "The Bare Necessities;' several terrific animation and voice talent , art gal1erie~, and the usual games and (that also includes Robin Williams, activities', like Baloo's Virtual Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman) Swingin' Jungle Cruise. All in all, but packs too many themes - tol- this is quite a package and highly erance, conformity, environmental recommendable family viewing. responsibility - into the sweet yet The USCCB Office for Film & slender story. There are some dark Broadcasting classification is A-I and intense moments laced through- general p~tronage. (Buena Vista out and an unflattering view of reli- Home Ent~rtainment)

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Survey: More Americans know Big Mac ingredients than Ten Commandments

By MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Commandments they remem- , neighbor's wife, nor his male .bered, so even though Cathoor female slave, nor his ox or lic and Protestant formulations ass, or anything else that beWASHINGTON - Quick. longs to him." , Name each of the Ten Comof the Ten Commandments difThe screenwriter of the "Ten mandments. OK. Now name, , fer slightly, responses from eiCommandments" film, Ed the ingredients in a Big Mac ther faith group would have Naha, a Catholic whose previhamburger sold at been declared correct. ous credits include "Honey, I McDonald's.

Here's a quick review of the Ten Commandments, as found Shrunk the Kids," said he According to a new survey, hopes the movie "will appeal the Big Mac wins the rttemory , in Chapter 20 of Exodus in the 1970 edition of the New to people who don't know the contest.

Bible;" In truth, the Big Mac has adAmerican Bible: vantages. There are only seven - "I, the Lord, am your Cindy Bond, president and ingredients to remember, and God, who brought you out of chief operating officer of the land of Egypt, that place of Promenade Pictures, said, they have a catchy jingle behind them. McDonald's Corp. has poured enough money into com- ". . â&#x20AC;˘. \,.. mercials that the decades-old jingle remains familiar today.

The survey of 1,000 Americans, by Kelton Research, was unU.S. respondents are more likely to know dertaken to help promote the new the ingredients for a Big Mac than the Ten animated movie ''The Ten ComCommandments. Percent of those who recall ... mandments;' which will open on 700 screens nationwide October 80% 19. Voice talents featured in the movie include Ben Kingsley as the narrator, Christian Slater as Moses, Alfred Molina as Ramses and Elliott Gould as the voice of 62% *60% God. The vast majority of those pickles Thou surveyed could easily name the shalt primary ingredients in a Big 45% Mac: two all-beef patties (80 not percent), lettuce (76 percent), kill Honor sesame-seed bun (75 percent), thy special sauce (66 percent), father pickles (62 percent) and cheese and (60 percent).

By comparison, "You shall thy not kill" was known to fewer mother than six in 10 respondents.

Less than half (45 percent) could recall the Commandment to "Honor your father and mother."

J" e fl Even those who said they go Commandments to church at least once a week had trouble naming all of the Commandments. Seventy percent recalled "You shall not kill" and 69 percent remem¡estimate'fci;>'fewer than1fki~ ten respOndents" :J bered "You shall not steal" but @2007CNS Source: TeA.'Ulltllnandments aM!inisslon;' r<eiion Research the Big Mac's all-beef patties ." and lettuce got more recogni"'The Ten Commandments' tion from the survey group (79 slaverY~l.You shalk not have was the movie he (Naha) was and 76 percent, respectively). other gods besides/me;" being called to write." Bond - "You shall not take the Survey participants also had added that it is the first in a name of the Lord; your God, an easier time remembering the series of 12 planned animated in vain;" names of the kids from the old "Epic Stories of the Bible."

- "Remember to keep holy TV series "The Brady Bunch."

"Noah's Ark: The New Bethe Sabbath day;" The least remembered of that ginning" is halfway through prosextet, Bobby and Peter, had a - "Honor your father and duction, she said. "David and your mother;" 43 percent recognition rate, Goliath" has just started produc- "You shall not kill;" better than the two least-retion. "We're looking at 'The - "You shall not commit membered Commandments to Battle of Jericho' as the fourth" adultery;" keep holy the Sabbath (34 perin the series, Bond added. cent) and to not have any gods - "You shall not steal;" Other Bible stories still in - "You shall not bear false besides God (29 percent). the discussion stages may inDuring an October 2 conferwitness against your neighclude Daniel in the lions' den, bor;" ence call to promote the movie, Samson and Delilah, the Book - "You shall not covet your Paul Lauer of Motive Marketof Genesis, and stories from neighbor's house;" ing said survey respondents - "You shall not covet your the New Testament. were asked to write down the

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''Fatima's miracle of the sun was visit from Mary and the child Jesus. one of the most spectacular public Our Lady was holding a heart enFALL RIVER - Catholics from miracles in history, said Robert . circled by thoms, which Jesus told throughout the state will join thou- Ritchie, executive director of Sister Lucia had pierced the heart sands nationwide tomorrow to pray . America Needs Fatima, in a Catho- ofhis mother by the acts of ungrate'\ ful men. public rosaries for peace and for lic News Agency report .

Our Lady promised to "help at ANF is an apostolate of the God to help our country. the hour of death, with the graces These rosary rallies will mark American Society for the Defense needed for salvation," those who the 90th anniversary of the Marian of Tradition, Family and Property. would keep a "First Saturdays" deapparition at Fatima, Portugal, Its Website (www.tfp.org) lists votion with the intention of makwhen the "miracle of the sun" state-by-state rallies.

Our Lady's message was univer- ing reparation for her injuries. She 70,000 witnesses. asked that on the first Saturday of Newspaper photos captured the sal.

"She outlined the grave conse- five consecutive months, people go cr~wd's upturned, incredulous to Confession, receive faces as they saw the holy Communion, resun spin, plunge to.• cite five decades of the ward earth, then stop Our Lady promised to "help at the hour of rosary, and keep her and return to its orbit. death, with the graces needed for salvation," company for 15 minFatima became the those who would keep a "First Saturdays" de- utes while meditating first Church-ap-\ on the 15 rosary deproved apparition of votion with the intention of making reparation the 20th century. for her injuries. She asked that on the first Sat- cades.

"God wishes to esPossibly less pub- urday of five consecutive months, people go tablish in the world liciZed than the solar to confession, receive holy Communion, remiracle has been Our cite five decades of the rosary, and keep her devotion to my Immaculate Heart," she Lady's urgent mes- company for 15 minutes while meditating on had told the young Fasage there: prayer, the 15 rosary decades. . tima visionaries earpenance,conversion. lier. "If what I say to The desire to spread that message has prompted lay quences in world events if men did you is done, many souls will be Catholics to organize more than 500 not convert, pray, and do penance. saved and there will be peace."

Father Samuel Leonard, IVE, public rosaries across the U.S., in- Russia would spread its errors cluding more than 50 in the state worldwide, causing wars and per- pastor of St. Kilian Parish in New secutions of the Church. Many Bedford, is encouraging parishioand at least eight in the diocese.

They're planned from 12-2 p.m. would be martyred, the Holy Father ners to participate in a public rosary.

His parish will host the United in Attleboro, Centerville, Eastham, would suffer, and a chastisement Fall River, Falmouth, and Wareham, would annihilate several nations," Nations International Pilgrim Virgin Statue during Eucharistic adoand beginning at II a.m. in Free- Ritchie said.

With the guidance of America ration after a noon Mass on Octotown.

Another gathering from 8 a.m. Needs Fatima, Kathy and Ed ber 15. ''That was the closest date . . to 3:30 p.m. at the National Shrine Lamarre arranged for a rosary at to the 13th I could get. She's booked THE SKY'S THE LIMIT - Senate employees release a string of of Our Lady of LaSalette in Attle- Capron Park, near the water foun- allover the place:' he said. balloons shaped like a rosary in Manila, Philippines, October 3, in (Reporter Matt McDonald con- celebration of Catholic Church's dedication of October to the roboro will draw busloads ofpilgrims. tain on County Street in Attleboro. sary. (CNS photo/Romeo Ranoco, Reuters) The LaSalette celebration, ''The prayer is the rosary, and the tributed to this story.) which includes a noon Mass, is penance is doing it in a public '1 sponsored by the Third Order of the place:' said Kathy Lamarre. ''The I"I' Franciscans of the Immaculate. idea is that public sin requires pubI . ''This is a day of thanksgiving for lic repentance."

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Sweeney said. ''Our state is in desperate need of site, particularly targets the sins of prayers:' said Patricia McLean, who abortion, pornography and blasphemy.

Other diocesan rallies include: organized a BillericaTown Common HUB FelIe1herg 1'UsooaI ,• is proud to offer an rally. ''We've invited clergy and I Centerville at St. Francis Xavier unparaJleled array of personal services. We tailor hope they'll come. We need priests Cemetery on Pine Street; Fall River to be active in leading people away at Kennedy Park, near the pavilion effective solutions to your personal; ~ LIFE from the complacency of this death in the lower Section; Eastham on the insurance heeds to assure appropriate I ~ PERSONAL Town Wmdmill Green; Falmouth culture that surrounds us. " "It's time to take the message of on the Village Green, and Wareham protection for you. your family and, • BUSINESS Fatima and our faith in the Good at the Town Hall Common. your assets. ~ EMPWYEE BENEFITS News of Jesus Christ to the streets The Freetown rosary will begin .and stop hiding behind our church at 11 a.m. with Eucharistic Adoradoors afraid oftheACLU. Our very . tion at St. Bernard Church in lives and those of our children de- Assonet Village; it is sponsored by HUB .....rns".""" Fellelbetrl the Cenacle Prayer Group. pen(l on it." .

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, The Anchor news briefs Christian bookstore owner killed in Gaza (CWNews.com) - A prominent Palestinian Christian was kidnapped and killed by Islamic militants in Gaza this weekend. Rami Ayyad, the director of the only Christian bookstore in Gaza, was abducted as he closed his shop on Saturday evening, October 6. His body was discovered the next day, riddled with bullet and knife wounds. An active member of the Palestinian Bible Society, Ayyad had been threatened in the past by Islamic groups who charged that he was using his bookstore to attract Muslims, hoping to convert them to Christianity.

In April the bookstore was the target of an arson attack. Just before his abduction, Ayyad had reported that he was being followed by a car that had no license plates. The Protestant layman, who left a pregnant wife and two small children, was buried on Sunday, after a funeral conducted with protection by Palestinian police. Approximately 3,300 Christians live in Gaza, forming a tiny minority amidst a popu, lation of 1.5 million. ..................

• ...1 •.. Speakers say stewardship is about appreciating God's blessings PROOF POSITIVE - Nick and Paula Mueting are pictured with their three-year-old son, Andrew, J ·J'MlAMtBEACH, Fla. (CNS) - It takes money to operate the minisoutside their home in Dodge City, Kan. As an infant, Andrew was diagnosed with malign.ant infanti~e tries of the Church, but the message of the 2007 conference of the osteopetrosis, an exceedingly rare blood disorder that affects approximatel¥ 20 ~.S. babies a year In International Catholic Stewardship Council was that promoting stewardship is really about encouraging appreciation of God's blessings which children typically don't live past age 10. Thanks to a new ~rocedure uSing hiS father's stem ~ells, Andrew is expected to live a long, healthy life. (CNS photo/David Myers, Southwest Kansas Reg/stel) and a sense of gratitude. However, the pastor of a parish honored

Father's stem cells provides a new life for three-year-old son

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hospital," said Nick Mueting. "They CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE didn't know exactly what was DODGE CITY, Kan. - Three- wrong. They saw on a blood test he year-old Andrew Mueting ofDodge was slightly anemic. Finally they City is a bright, happy-go-lucky, en- took some X-rays and realized that ergetic little boy. But when he was all of his ribs were fractured and his four months old, doctors gave him a bones appeared very dense." bleak prognosis.

A radiologist looked at the films, Born with malignant infantile os- recalled a very rare disorder she teopetrosis, an exceedingly rare studied in school,and diagnosed the blood disorder that affects approxi- illness. mately 20 U.S. babies a year, AnBecause the disease is so rare, drew was expected to spend his few there are only a few facilities in the years of life fighting anemia and in- country that treat it. One is St. Jude fections, struggling with weak bones Children;s Research Hospital in and eventual blindness and deafness. Memphis, Tenn. It was there that Now, thanks to a new procedure Mueting learned of a machine crethat utilized his father's adult stem ated by a German scientist that cells, Andrew is expected to live a . would remove the T-cells from adult long, healthy life with few ill effects. stem cells. T-cells can lead the body The troubles began for Nick and to reject the new, life-saving cells.

Paula Mueting soon after Andrew With the new treatment in mind was born. He wasn't growing, it was - the only hope Andrew had for a a struggle for him to eat and he had cure - the Muetings moved tema bulge atop his head where most ba- porarily to Memphis. bies have a soft spot. ''Andrew had to go through eight "He spent' a week in a Wichita days ofchemotherapy to completely

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, wipe out his immune system," Mueting said. "During the last five days of his treatment, Hook a medicine that helped my body produce a lot of stem cells in my blood. At the end of that period ... I was hooked up to a machine for five hours as it extracted the stem cells from my blood. The stem cells ran through< this machine that pulled out the potentially harmful T-cells."

Andrew then spent more than 50 days in a medically induced coma and nearly another month in intensive care. The Muetings never left Memphis during those difficult days - days made much easier by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's unique ability to help families.

"St. Jude provided us temporary housing," Mueting said. ''They even have a 'parent room' with a couchlike bed right in the hospital.

That's where one of us stayed every night while the other slept in Andrew's room."

St. Jude also removes the stress of worrying about how families are going to pay the bills; the Muetings were able to concentrate entirely on their child.

It has been.more than two years since the Muetings brought their son home from the hospital. Since then, the family has made close to 20 trips back to Memphis for follow-up care, and has devoted much time to helping Andrew fully recover through physical, occupational, speech and vision therapies.

"Our families have helped us so much to make sure that Andrew didn't miss a beat," Mueting said.

"He's really a bright kid; it's truly amazing. He remembers just about everything. Ask him to sing a song and he'll sing it for you. He knows the alphabet, numbers, shapes and colors. He's known that for a year.

Intelligencewise, it hasn't slowed him down a bit."

during the. September 23-26 con~erence in Miami Bea~h went one better, saymg that even encouragmg a broader conception of stewardship is not the ultimate aim. "Stewardshipisnotthegoal;evangelization is the goal. Stewardship is the means to the end, the how of evangelization," said Father Andrew Kemberling, pastor of St. Thomas More Parish in Centennial, Colo. His 6,5OO-family parish re1<; ceived the council's Archbishop Thomas J. Murphy Award for the I·· parish that best exemplifies an all-round approach to stewardship.

Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Cincinnati received an honorable mention. Father Kemberling said he believes many priests resist embracing stewardship because they hate asking for money, but he also believes more priests would promote stewardship if they understood it as a means to "calling people to discipleship."

MiUerftSponds to criticism about poster; Christians among critics SAN FRANCISCO (CNS) - Miller Brewing Co. said it is reviewing its promotions policy after Christian groups expressed outrage Over a poster for a San Francisco street fair that mimicked Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" with a sadomasochistic theme. The company, whose logo was on the poster, said in a statement posted on its Website October 1: "We are conducting an immediate audit of our procedures for approving local marketing and sales sponsorships to ensure that this does not happen again." The company repeated an earlier statement saying that although it has supported the Folsom Street Fair for several years it objects to this year's poster and admits some people may find the image offensive. "We regret that our failure to adhere to our own policy led to an inappropriate use of our trademark and apologize to anyone who was offended as a result, particularly members ofthe Christian community who have contacted us to express their concern," the Milwaukee-based brewing giant said.

The Folsom Street Fair is< one of four annual "fetish events" in San Francisco produced by Folsom Street Events to support local chanties serving the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities.

Miller noted that the fair's marketing does not target the general publie and is aimed at the "adult alternative lifestyle community."

Missionaries of Charity give Ufe, love with adoptions in India CALCUTTA, India (CNS) - Life changed for Sonali and Sanjib Dutta after the Hindu couple adopted a girl with the help of the Missionaries of Charity after 12 years of marriage without a child. Dutta, a pharmaceutical salesman in Calcutta, said his wife "spends all her time looking after our daughter, and life is so cheerful now." Two of his friends also adopted baby girls from the Missionaries of Charity, he told Catholic News Service in mid September. The Duttas adopted their daughter in 2006. "It is a crime to abort a child. They do not know the craving the childless people have," Dutta said. Pointing to the children running around the "Sishu Bhavan," or Children's House, run by the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, Sister Marian said the children "are fruits ofthe Mother's (Mother Teresa's) crusade against abortion." Sister Marian is the coordinator of adoption services for the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Blessed Mother Teresa ofCalcutta. Since the first Sishu Bhavan was set up by Mother Teresa in 1955, the Missionaries of Charity have helped with more than 6,500 adoptions.

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Fall River Diocesan priest Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk exposes scientific hype

By RICK DELVECCHIO CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO - Market-driven medical technology applied at the beginning and end of life is a growing threat to human dignity, speakers for the National Catholic Bioethics Center told a conference in San Francisco October 3.

Catholics must counter with an uncompromising defense of Christian ethics that also encourages lawful innovation to nurture and sustain life, the speakers said, adding that Catholic teaching provides the most reasonable framework for decisions about human life in any clinical or research setting.

"I always encourage people that if you're ever confronted with a teaching of the Church you don't understand and that at first looks problematic, stop and ask yourself what dimension of human dignity the Church sees being threatened in this procedure that we . won't allow," said John Haas, president of the bioethics center.

The Philadelphia-based center is a scholarly institution that advises the Vatican and the nation's bishops.

Oakland Bishop Allen H. Vigneron told Catholic San Francisco, archdiocesan newspaper, that the main issues on which the Church finds itself "at odds with a lot of the trends in our culture" were in-vitro fertilization, embryonic stem-cell research and endof-life issues.

Attracting 200 Catholic educators and health-care workers from throughout the Bay Area, the conference took place in the city that hosts California's $3 billion stem-cell research institute.

Dr. Vincent Fortanasce, a neurologist and medical ethicist, expressed alarm about research involving human embryonic stem cells and cloning. He said ethical concerns are

being overshadowed by the potential economic benefits from the patenting of new technologies that involve creation, manipulation and destruction of embryos.

Twelve other states are following California's lead in supporting cloning and. embryonic stem-cell research, Fortanasce said, arguing that the trend is driven by economics.

"Scientists are no longer pure scientists," he said. "What they are is entrepreneurs."

Stem celJs hold great promise because they can po~;*ally:(;:urf chrpnic diseases by differentiating into the cells of any damaged organ. But Fortanasce said no one has been cured by a product of human embryonic stem-cell research and speculated that the research is a bridge to human cloning.

"Not only are we in charge of life," he said, "but we're the creators."

Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, the bioethics center's education director, said advocates for embryonic stem cells maintain that 100 million people could benefit in the United States alone. The claim is overstated, he said.

"There's a good deal of overselling, overbilling, overpromising and outright hyping that is occurring and has been occurring for so long that it is conditioning all of us whether we realize it or not," he said. "We need to distinguish the truthful claims from the incredible hype that is going on all around us."

Father Pacholczyk said it is a myth that Catholic teaching warns agliinst stem-cell research. The Church opposes research involving human embryonic stem cells but is not against using stem cells from adults, from umbilical cord blood and other sources.

"Of the different forms of stem-cell research, the Church could support nine out of 10 under the right circumstances," Father Pacholczyk said.

DESTINED FOR DESTRUCTION - Statues stand in the center of the empty St. Andrew Apostle Church in San Andres, Peru, recently. The church will likely be tom down because earthquake damage is too extreme to repair. An August 15 quake left tens of thousands of people homeless, destroyed several historic churches, and crippled the region's agriculture, fishing and commercial sectors. (CNS photo/Patricia zapor) II

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Weekend Scout retreat draws hundreds to Cathedral Camp

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friends. "My favorite fun activities we~ the obstacle course, which taught EAST FREETOWN - Tents agility, and Chicken Ball."

He explained that Chicken Ball was sprang up across Cathedral Camp as Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts like volleyball using a rubber chicken and Adventure Scouts gathered on the in place of the ball.

Eric Chaney, Ian's father, said, 'The September 28-30 weekend for the Scouts learned that they have to look annual Scouting Retreat.

Spcinsofed by the Diocese of Fall inside to know what God wants them River's Catholic Committee on Scout- to do with their life and to reflect on ing, this year's theme was ''Finding that during the retreat. At this age they Faith Deep Down Inside You." are not really talking about that but they It was a time for sharing faith and are thinking about it." fun, an opportunity that the Scouts On the girl's side of camp it was mostly talking about their faith. It was look forward to every year.

A Sunday vigil Mass was cel- dinner time but Jennifer Perry, 14, a ebrated on Saturday evening by Fa- member of Teen Troop 7, lingered a ther David C. Frederici, newly ap- bit and said, ''I met a lot ofnew friends pointed Diocesan Chaplain for Scout- and I can talk about my faith here." ing - and a former Scout. A service She confided that she cannot talk about for non-Catholic Scouts was also her faith at school or any other public held. place. "It'~ different to talk to my Eighteen-year-old Eagle Scout friends and family about my religion GeOIge Ramos, who has attended the and it's a lot of fun:' retreat every year since 1999, said, ''I Suzanne Gent, a parent with two would hate to miss this retreat. I even children attending the retreat, said, ''It took a day out ofcollege to enjoy this is really powerful to see a bunch of program:' teen-age boys and girls coming toA freshman at Lyndon State Col- gether for good and to learn about their lege, Ramos is assistant Scoutmaster faith. They were so inspiring at Mass. of Troop 93, which is sponsored by I'm surprised that the roof is still on St. Patrick's Parish in Wareham. He the Neumann Hall because they get so led the formal Retirement of the Col- loud when they were singing and praisors at evening military retreat ceremo- . ing the Lord." mes.

One of the program's organizers Kevin Meier, one of Ramos' asS<?;.. and 路life-lpQ-g Scouting .enthusiast,. ciates from Troop 93,. explaine4; Mary Powers, said, ''I've been involved "Scouts are given a special patch for in Scouting for a long time. I was a attending the retreat. Religious badges, Girl Scout myself and my daughter, medals, and awards must be eamed in now grown, was also a Girl Scout. It the Scout's community but some re- teaches leadership and that's why I still quirements can be met during this do it." weekend."

She added, ''Ijust wish more Scouts Meier, who is a senior Patrol would participate in the retreat. People Leader, took the opportunity to meet don't know how good it is. We have to two requirements toward badges while get the word out through the churches on retreat and we need to explain what a Scout For Ian Chaney, 13, from Troop 50 retreat is." and a parishioner of Holy Trinity ParPowers noted happily that ''Father ish in Fall River, the weekend was Frederici is into it, and he is going to about spending quality time with his promote it."

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TWO FOR TWO + TWO + TWO + TWO -'Sisters of Mercy enjoy tea at Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro: seated from left, Sister Audrey Blake, Sister Patricia Harrington, Sister Margaret Heaney, Sister Olive Coupe. Standing: Anne Carroll, Mercy Associate, Sister Catherine Farley, Sister Rose Rocha, and Karen Brennan, Mercy Associate.

Sisters of Mercy honored with opening liturgy and tea ATTLEBORO - On September 20, the Sisters of Mercy. were honored at Bishop Feehan High School's first liturgy of the year followed by a traditional afternoon tea.

The Sisters of Mercy began instilling educational and spiritual core values 47 years ago that still

stand today as the foundation at Feehan.

After Mass, celebrated by Father Michael Fitzpatrick, each Sister was recognized with a Catherine McAuley rose - a yellow rose named after the foundress of the Sisters ofMercy. They also enjoyed a traditional tea, again symbolic of the Congregation.

When Sisters from all parts of Ireland gathered around Catherine on her deathbed in 1841, she said to one of the local Sisters, "Be sure the Sisters have a comfortable cup oftea when I am gone." Bishop Feehan, through the Sisters ofMercy, extends this legacy of warmth and hospitality to all who enter.

PROUD YOUNG SPOKESPEOPLE - Students at St. Mary's School in Mansfield recently celebrated their place of learning's 1O-year accreditation by the New England Association of School and Colleges.

St. Mary's School in Mansfield receives 10-year accreditation

A PYRAMID SCHEME - The retreat team at the recent Scouting Retreat held at Cathedral Camp in East Freetown takes a break from the action to show off their athletic and artistic prowess. (Photo

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MANSFIELD - St. Mary's School in Mansfield joined a select路 group of schools in September by receiving a 100year accreditation by the New England Association of School and Colleges. ''The accreditation process was a tremendous experience for ourschool," said Principal Joanne Riley.

"It brought every constituency together, working toward a common

goal of insuring quality and excellence in our programs. I appreciate .all of the support we received from our faculty, staff, parents, student body, and parish while going through the process. I look forward to the ongoing growth and improvement that the follow-up process will bring."

She added that to achieve this at such an early stage in the life of this six-year-old school is a credit to the

enthusiasm and commitment of so many individuals.

The accreditation process is a voluntary effort put forth by faculty and staff in an effort to take an objective look at the school. The review takes nearly to two years to complete, including a self study and four-day site visit from a committee comprised of several educators from around the state.

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WESTPORT - Veteran Boston sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy will be the featured speaker at the annual St. Mary's Education Fund Fall Dinner to take place on Thursday, November 8, at White's of Westport.

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TV meteorologist John Ghiorse will serve as master ofceremonies for the night.

Shaughnessy, who is a 1975 graduate of Holy Cross College, became a sports columnist for the Boston.Globe in 1989 after covering sports for that paper for eight years. He has been named Massachusetts Sportswriterof the Year seven times, and eight times has been voted amongAmerica's top10 sports columnists by the Associated Press Sports Editors.

Beyond his columns, he has also written 10 books, including "The Curse of the Bambino" and "Senior

Year: A Father, A Son and High School Baseball," and appears frequently on local and network TV and radio. ''We are very pleased he is able to join us," said Michael Donly, diocesan director of Development.

"He is a respected columnist and author and an often sought commentator on sports issues of the day," Donly said, and noted that Shaughnessy is a product of Catholic education.

Donly also expressed his gratitude to Ghiorse, who will return for a second year as Fall Dinner emcee.

Ghiorse, the popular area weather forecaster seen on Providence's NBC. 10, and his family were active members of Fall River diocesan parishes in Seekonk before their move to Rhode Island.

The Fall Dinner will begin with a 5:30 p.m. reception and will include, in addition to comments by the guest speaker, a video snapshot of Catholic schools, student entertainment, and a delicious multi-course meal.

It is one of only two yearly fundraising events for the St. Mary's Education Fund, which within the current school year alone is distributing more than $680,000 in partial tuition aid to more than more than 730 students; Fall Dinner chair E. Dennis Kelly and committees in four regions ofthe Fall River Diocese are taking reservations from businesses and individuals who want to host a table or purchase a ticket to support the St. Mary's Education Fund.

Anyone wishing more information should contact the diocesan De-

velopment OjJU;e at 508-675-1311.

By CHARLIE MARTIN - CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE HOW FAR WE'VE COME It was cool coo~ At the same time, the guy's focus I'm waking up at the start ofthe end it was just all cdol might actually be his personal world. ofthe world Now it's overfor!lme Perhaps circumstances are leading to But it'sfeeling just like every other and it's overfor you painful changes in his life. morning before Well it's gone, baby, it's all gone Whatever the song's intent, its Now I wonder what my life is going There is no one on the comer and emphasis is on recognizing what to mean ifit's gone there's no one at nome was achieved previously. Such an The cars are moving like a halfa Well, it w~ cool Joo~ assessment is helpful. It is important . wasJust . aII cop II I mile an hour and I to recognize the good that we've It .

Started staring at the passengers Now it's overfor rro/ and accomplished in the midst of life's who're waving goodbye it's overfor Y0':l adversity, and that both the good and Can you tell me what was ever really Sung by Matchbox Twe,qy the adversity have assisted us in special about Copyright 2007 by A.tlanik developing new skills and abilities.

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Yes, I thought they were Reviewing the past can be Refrain: delegated to the annals oti:rock especially valuable as we prepare to But I believe the world is history. And yes, I was wfung. Who take on new challenges. Consider burning to the ground do I speak of? It's Matchbox the situation that many college Oh wel~ I guess we're 1\venty, who this month is back with freshmen face. They have gone gonna find out their new CD ''Exile On ~ainthrough high school but now must Let's see how far we've come deal with a different level of stream:' Let's see how far we've come Actually ''new'' may be a bit of expectation. Many are living on their Wel~ I believe it all is an overstatement. The two-disc own for the first time. Most will . cpming to an end enjoy these changes even as they ask album offers versions of their bestOh wel~ I guess, known hits, plus six new songs, themselves, ''Can I really do thisT' we're gonnapretend including chart climber "iIow Far Consider what you did to form Let's see how far we've come friendships and values, what you We've Come."

II Let's see howfar we've come Followers of Matchbox 1\venty had to do to live as the person God I think it tumed 10 o'clock but I know that front-man Rob Thomas made you to be. Undoubtedly .don't really know started his solo career once the you've come far, and you can trust nrenIcan1rememberro~g~ran group stopped recording. Thomas yourself as you encounter the new hour or so environment of college life. states that he will continu~ doing Staned crying and some work on his own, bJt the No matter if your life is defined I couldn't stop myself by endings or new challenges, a group is out with ''How Fin- We've I started nmning but there's Come" plus a nationwide tour in constant source of love and support nowhere to nm to early 2008. is available to you: God is always I sat down on the street and took a ''How Far We've Come" presents with you! This is the same God who look at myself rejoices in how far you've come and an unclear message. Take? literally, Said where you going man you krww it seems to be a statement 'of will be there no matter what life 'I the world is headedfor hell hopelessness about our w9rld. The brings. Pause every day to share Say your goodbyes ifyou've got song's character remarks, ''I believe your thoughts, worries and joys with someone you ~an say goodbye to the world is burning to the ground."

God. (Repeat refrain.)

Yet, rather than get lost indiscourIndeed, you have "come far," but I It's gone, gone, baby, it's all gone agement about the world's current much adventure awaits you!

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Discover the way In the old story of the ship's ever, if we are unable or unwilling hard-headed ship's captain insisting to accept that the "lighthouse" is he's right even as he's asked to there to protect us from danger, we change his course by the lighthouse may very well, as the captain of the keeper, there's much to be learned. battleship did, ignore the warnings Sometimes we think we are on and sail a course that will ultimately lead to the right course, don't we? Somedestruction and loss. God times when we are on what we places those lighthouses think is the right course, we are often unwilling to listen to others or out there to help us steer to see things in a different way. if a safe course. But the lighthouse alone would this were not true, how do we not save the battleship. It explain why many people who are on a destructive path, cannot see it? took "someone" to do People in their lives tell them to that. "change your course," and yet they Many times we ignore the still keep on the course until they warnings .and run aground. run aground? If you're in a Sometimes we are able to get underway again and if we learned battleship heading toward a our lesson 'we could avoid other lighthouse, disaster lies ahead of groundings in the future. If not, you if you don't begin to see things differently - and not only will you eventually we lose our way and go down if you don't see things in a ultimately sink. We see this around new way, but you'll take the whole . us every day. Some people make ship down with you. what looks like constant bad . Fortunately for all of us there are decisions over and over again. many ''lighthouses'' in our lives. ~gs, greed and other vices may These 'lighthouses' are placed at all very well blind us to the dangers even though everyone knows that of the dangerous areas of life to . these are bad for you. I don't think help us steer around them. How-

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Hopefully, when they do go aground, someone is the~ to pluck them out of that sinking s!Up, and that too is us.

We all know we need to be there for one another. We need to help our fellow man discover the way.

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course and we've gone too far to steer out of the danger zone. We think we know what we are doing and we think we know the other light is another ship and we try to get them to 'change. It's only when someone like the seaman states," I'm in the lighthouse, you tum" that perhaps we ''wake up" and see where we are going and are able to steer clear.

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For October 28, the CLI grads are planning the Diocesan Youth Convention with the theme, "Discover the Way: Jesus Christ."

They have planned a day full of . prayer, workshops and fun for high school youth in our diocese. They have accepted the challenge to be people for others. They have built the event to provide each and every participant with tools to be active followers of Jesus Christ. Even a seaman needs to be prepared to be able to do the work they are called to do. Likewise, each and every one of us needs to be prepared so that we know what is expected from us.

But before we can help steer others on a course, we need to know the way ourselves.

I encourage all of our young people and their youth leaders, pastors and teachers to attend this convention. Considerit;seaman training. I hope to see you there.

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age there until she was adopted at age man said deacons are chosen by them that night.

Well over a week later, the abor- two-and-a-half by a Peimsylvania God to carry out his will in a spetionist contacted the family, Mrs. couple. That family was troubled, the cialway.

Smith said. She met privately for one adoption failed, and the Smiths finally "They are to be servants in the hour with him in a Boston hotel obtained custody of her.

Church in imitation of Christ, who "She told me at five years old that came not to serve but to be served," lobby; he refused to allow ~ven her I was 'the besi mother she'd had yet,'" husband to be there, she said. the bishop said.

A complaint has'been filed with said Mrs. Smith. "I explained that her He also said their mission rethe Massachusetts Board ofRegistra- biological mother's name had been flects that given to Jesus Christ by tion in Medicine against Esperanza'- Hope - and that she the Father. "A mission, if it is to Osathanondh in connection with only gave Laura up because she had be fruitful, must be imbued by love Laura'S death, according to an Op- hoped for a better life for her."

- God's love for us, and our love Trying to persuade society that in return for him, and for each eration Rescue spokesman. Board spokesman Russell Aimes said he "women deserve better than abor- other," Bishop Coleman said. could neither confirm nor deny that. tion" is one goal of Silent No More, Each man came up to the bishop Osathanondh declined two re- an awareness campaign ofPriests for and knelt before him to pledge quests to comment. A clinic spokes- Life and Anglicans for Life. It was obedience and respect to him and man said October 4 that ''privacy laws" begun by post-abortive women who his successors, while Bishop Coleprevent the clinic from even acknowl- realized, sometimes after years of : man sat 'and clasped each man's edging whether anyone was a patient. denial, that the silence shrouding hands iii'bis own.

Laura was a 2004 graduate of abortion only perpetuates the harm it Shortly afterward the candiUpper Cape Cod Regional Technical does emotionally, physically and dates lay prostrate on the floor in School, and had been an active mem- spiritually to its survivors. front of the altar while the assemWomen have been injured, in- bly prayed the Litany of Saints. ber of Calvary Chapel in Sandwich.

She was extremely upset when a fected, left sterile and killed - and Later each man approached friend underwent a past abortion, more than 48 million unborn children Bishop Coleman again and knelt .

Mrs. Smith said. have died - since 1973 when the . before hiin. The bishop put his "I cannot make sense of it," said U.S. legalized abortion. hands on each man's head and siAt least 347 documented mater- lently prayed over him.

Mrs. Smith. "We'll never know why she did it; her fiance was devastated. ' nal deaths from legal abortion are A deacon can't celebrate Mass, He was het first boyfriend in high catalogued online by Life Dynamics, give absolution in confession, or school." a Texas-based Pro-Life group that has , anoint the sick; but he can perOn her MySpace page, Laura exposed-abortion-linked cover-ups form many other functions, inidentified herself as "100 percent" such as child abuse and.the sale of cluding baptizing, presiding at Mayan Indian and "a born-again baby parts. The group says these weddings, proclaiming the GosChristian." documented cases represent "only the pel at Mass, preaching, conduct"My life is one of the many tip of the iceberg." ing burial services, and imparting miracles of Christ:' she wrote. '1 am In Massachusetts, the Woman's, blessings. in love and engaged to the most amaz- Right to Know bill has been "Now, you are not only hearers ing guy in the world." squelched for years by pro-abor- of the Gospel, but also its minisHer fiance, U.S. Army Pvt. Rob tion lobbyists. Sponsored by Rep. ters," Bishop Coleman said during LaBossiere, left in July for Iraq.

Elizabeth Poirier of North Attle- his sermon.

Laura's life, until September 13, boro for Massachusetts Citizens Unmarried deacons take a vow "really was a miracle," her mother for Life, H1687 would ensure that of celibacy, while married deacons said. She'd been abandoned as an in- every woman considering an abor- promise not to marry again if their fant in a Honduran hospital; her par- tion be given full information and wife dies. time to reflect on its risks and alents were despemtely poor.

Twelve of the 13 ordained as She'd been raised in an orphan- ternatives. deacons this week are married men 'With children.

The Diocese of Fall River had Continued from page one approximately 85 permanent deaOne of the marchers told how cons before the ordination this Family Values advocate C. J. Doyle, pregnant with quadruplets. The only who implored the Pro-Life commu- options .the doctor gave the couple she, along with 188 other people, week, along with 123 active diocnity to stop allowing persons who were selective reduction, killing a was put in jail for a weekend for pro- esan priests and 24 religious-order support abortion rights as their few of the children so that the oth- testing outside an abortion clinic. priests ~erving in diocesan parspeakers or to serve on their board ers have a better chance to survive, One of those jailed that day was to ishes.

Newly ordained peacon Del ofdirectors. He suggested we should or an abortion to rid them of the become the founder of A Woman's .Malloy held his grandson, Christos not be fighting a two front war with whole thing and "start over." Bereit's Concern.

Project Rachel acts as the front Dugios, two, in his arms outside pro-abortion rights activists: one in friend implored him to come down secular society and another within to the clinic to help see him through. line in helping women in crisis preg- the church afterward as he greeted our own Catholic communities.

Bereit was reluctant to do so, but nancies without resorting to the cruel family and friends. .'The recognition ofhuman life has decided to come down. That deci- practice of abortion. They have a Asked what made him want to no exceptions ... there are no small sion to simply show up inspired separate' number where men and become a deacon, Malloy said he murders:' said Cardinal Sean P. 0' Bereit's friends to keep their chil- women struggling with crisis preg- had no idea. "Over the course of Malley, relaying the pope's message dren. Four lives were saved by one nancies can call with complete con- three years, I couldn't get it out of concerning the sanctity of life. man getting in a car to support his fidentiality. They have many priests my mind. It just kept getting stronKeynote speaker David Bereit friend through a tough time. A year trained in pastoral care and can pro- ger and stronger," he said.

Malloy, the director of athleturged the audience to use their time, later Bereit was sent a photograph vide the sacmment of reconciliation treasure, and talents to promote the with four little children in bunny to those in need. While Project ics at Salve Regina University in Rachel is a Catholic outreach, their Newport, R.I., and a member of St. Pro-Life me~sage, citing his success suits. in kicking Planned Parenthood, the Among the hundreds of partici- serVices are for anyone of any faith John the Evangelist Parish in Attlenation's largest provider of and pro- pants in the walk were A Woman's or no faith. Their confidential phone . boro, said he is open-minded about pagandist for abortion, out of his Concern, Birthright, and Project line is 508-997-3300. Much like what his ministry might accomsmall Texas community.

Rachel, which provide counseling Sunday started out gloomy and anx- plish.

Bereit noted even the smallest, and support to post-abortive women, ious and became warm and sunny, "I just want to make a differseemingly insignificant act can save women with crisis pregnancies, and Project Rachel and other Pro-Life ence if I can, and I don't know the lives of the defenseless. He re- recovering men, women, and abor- services like it can make an anxious what that means yet," Deacon situation easier to bear. called a friend whose wife became tion clinic workers.

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was interviewed at length September 15 by the Cape Cod TImes.

The family was finally contacted September 27 by Operation Rescue in Wichita, Kansas. The Pro-Life Christian activist group publicized the news via its Website, www.operationrescue.org.

'1 don't want Laura's death swept under the rug:' said Mrs. Smith. "I don't want her death to be in vain."

She and her husband Tom adopted Laura, who was born in Honduras, when she was five.

In an email alert, Operation Res. cue called for the state to pursue a criminal investigation.

Cape and Islands DistrictAttomey Michael O'Keefe said September 28, "We review all deaths ofthat nature."

But, he said; he needs to wait for the state medical examiner to release Laura's autopsy report.

The Hyannis abortionist was Rapin Osathanondh, who left Brigham and Women's Hospital in路 Boston in 2001 following complaints that during a staff meeting he had threatened to "execute" five nurses.

The Thai-educated gynecolqgist was not prosecuted, according to a 2001 Boston Herald report.

Mrs. Smith said her daughter apparently died on the abortion table.

Hyannis firefighters found her nonresponsive when they answered the .emergency call, according to the report she saw. , Laura was brought by ambulance to Cape Cod Hospital. The cause of , death has not been officially listed, pending the autopsy findings.

The Smiths, who now live in New Jersey, did not know their daughter was pregnant or considering abortion.

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Deacon John Foley, 49, a Harwich resident who works in sales, said he felt a call to serve the Church.

"I wanted to serve the Lord more. He touched my life a while back," said Deacon Foley, a member of Our Lady of the Cape Parish in Brewster, adding that the experience has "been a life-altering event for me."

Deacon Mike Zonghetti, of St. Mary's Parish in Mansfield, said a deacon in the parish, Deacon Tom Palanza, and the former pastor, Father George C. Bellenoit, inspired him to pursue the five-year program to become a deacon.

"I had some service work in soup kitchens and the like, and it just felt like it was time in my life to give back. And it felt like I was being called to this ministry of service," Deacon Zonghetti said as he walked back into the church for a group photo with the bishop. "And giving back has been one of the greatest joys of my life."

Of his new ministry Deacon Zonghetti, a corporate bond analyst who works in Boston, said: "I hope to be helpful to parishioners and anyone I come in contact with in any way I can. be helpful to them. 1 hope to stay true to myself and true to the Church."

The other new deacons are Karl G. Buder, a former probation officer who runs a bed and breakfast with his wife, a member of Good .

Shepherd Parish on Martha's Vmeyard; Peter R. Cote, a nurse at Catholic Memorial Home in Fall River, a member of SS. Peter and Paul Parish at Holy Cross Church in Fall River; Daniel M. Donovan .

Jr., a retired Newton police detective, of St. Margaret's Parish in Buzzards Bay. Also, Joseph K. Kane, a manager in the Connecticut Department of Social Services, a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Wellfleet; Richard G. Lemay, a human resources specialist for the city of Woonsocket, R.I., a member of Sacred Heart Parish in North Attleboro; Joseph A. McGinley, director of sales training at Codman, a Johnson & Johnson company in Raynham, a member of S1. Mary Parish in Norton; Steven F. Minninger, a financial adviser, a member of Holy Trinity Parish in Harwich; Victor K. Norton, who works for Bird Machine Company, a member of Corpus Christi Parish in East Sandwich.

Also, David E. Pierce, a deputy director for the Massachusetts Division ofMarine Fisheries, a member of Christ the King Parish in Mashpee; and Alan J. Thadeu, who leads the production control and logistics team with Haskon Aerospace, a member of St. Paul Parish in Taunton.

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EASTON - Holy Cross Parish at 225 Purchase Street holds Bible study sessions at 7 p.m. Tuesdays and 9:30 a.m. Fridays at the parish center. They focus on St. Paul's letters to the Philippians, Colossians, 'and Ephesians. For information call Fran Long at 508-238-2255.

FALL RIVER - A Bible study of the Book of Genesi!>is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesdays at the Shrine of St. Anne's Church at 780 South Main Street. The meetings run until December 18 and will restart January 15.

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NEW BEDFORD - Eucharistic adoration takes place 7 to 9 p.m.

Wednesdays at Our Lady of Guadall,lpe at St. James Church, 233 County Street, with night prayer and Benediction at 8:45 p.m. and confessions during the evening.

NORTH EASTON - Easton Circle Daughters of Isabella will hold a Living Rosary followed by Benediction at Immaculate Conception Church, 193 Main Street, today at 7 p:m. For more information call 508-238-4824.

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" erly and homebound, it means Sis- dren at age three after having lost Our Lady of the Cape Parish in ter Donovan spends much time on ---her parents. Her only kin is a Brewster - the new vicar has comthe road. She acknowledged that her brother, Patric~ Donovan, a retired muted from there to jobs for the past visitations take her to many of the U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel 15 years.

"So traveling is not new to me, nursing homes in the diocese, the .who resides in Arizoria.

Landmark in Fall River, and even After 10 years at St. Vincent's and I love it," she said enthusiastito some hospitals. Her journey also she graduated from Mount St. cally.

More awaits. . takes her to residences of retired' Mary's Academy andl in 1959 enSister Donovan will motor to religious of the La Salette Mission- tered Mt. St. Rita's in Cumberland, aries, the Sacred Hearts Fathers, and R.I., the motherhouse of the Sisters New York to attend the November of Mercy in the Dioc~se of Provi- 13-15 regional meeting of the VicCongregation Holy Cross. ' ars for Religious she calls "a great What's remarkable is that this is dence. learning session - at least for me of the pastoral{:are Following her profession in a different phase Sister Donovan has been involved 1966 she stepped into the world of - to see what others are doing and in during her 48 years in religious education that took her to schools what programs they are offering life, the first phase including a com- in the Providence and the adjacent and what I can take away with me for use in our diocese," she exbined 29 years as an elementary Fall River dioceses. school teacher andlor principal.

She taught at St. Peter's in plained.

She's also at the helm planning "It's better to call it pastoral pres- Warwick, .R.I.; si. Mary'sence than pastoral care ... espe- BayView in Riverside, R.I., then at the October 13 annual Day ofReecially now, when' one's compassion MercyMount Country Day School olleetion for Religious to be held at means being present to those fel- in Cumberland; and ctossed to St. St. Julie Billiart Church in North low religious struggling with us on John's in Attleboro, Holy Family- Dartmouth.

"We will open with a talk by life's journey, whether their needs Holy Name and St M~'s in New are physical or spiritual," she told Bedford; back to St. John's in Attle- Holy Cross Father Thomas Looney boro; St. Margaret's in Rumford, at 9:30 a.m., followed by Mass at The Anclwr.

"It has been for me a celebra- R.I., and then as principal at II: 15 a.m., at which Bishop George .

W. Coleman will be principal celtion with young children as well as MercyMount. ' the elderly, a time of sharing with "After that I was Iback at St. ebrant and homilist."

It is expected that as many as 70 them whether it be in joy or sorrow Vincent's Home as director of Pas... but always being compassion- toral Care and Mission before be- religious will renew their vows at ate ... which is at the heart of pas- ing assigned to the Catholic Memo- the Mass. A lunch will follow in the toral ministry." rial Home," 'Sister Ddnovan said, church hall.

One can contact Sister For the last eight years she has catching her breath after the litany been director of Pastoral Care at the of jobs.

Catherine Donovan RSM, at the Catholic. Memorial Home in Fall Because she has resided with O.fJke for Religious, 500 Slocum fellow Mercy Sistef: Elizabeth Road, North Dartmouth, MA River.

"I love working with the eld- Doyle in Sagamore Beach in 02747-2930; or by calling 508-992erly," she noted. "Yet one brings all Bourne on Cape Cod -c and attends 9921; or by FAX at 508-999-2453. of one's experience to every part of I the pastoral mission."

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For over 1.35 years. families have tumed to the Waring-Sullivan service family of "Sister Heffernan isjust a phone compassionate profcssionals to guidc thcm through life's most challenging times. call away and she's still very busy 508-676-1933 t':"'~ and active and very supportive in 508-999·5100 ~ so many ways," the new vicar reported.

Homes of Memorial Tribute www.wnrlnc..utU.1\u.com Baptized in St. Joseph's Church ,\ SCJvk. f'lllllily Al1ili... (,e Arrs &. SCJvi", COIll"'&IiOlll_ionaI. 492 Rock SITe<\. roll River. MA 02720 SO!l-476024S4 in Fall River's North End, the young Catherine Donovan was living in nearby St. Vmcent's Home for ChilI

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EAST TAUNTON - Holy Family Parish at 370 Middleboro Avenue will hold a Mass followed by a spaghetti supper for the 90th anniversary of the apparitions of Fatima. The Vigil Mass is at 4 p.m., followed by.a living rosary'and Maria~ procession. .

FALL RIVER - A course on Christian spirituality is being offered on Mondays at 7 p.m. in the Shrine at St. Anne's Church at 818 Middle Street. The course runs until December 3.

FALL RIVER - Come and pray the rosary for the 90th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima's apparition tomorrow from noon to 2 p.m. at John·F. Kennedy Park off Middle Street. For more information contact Irene Pontes at 508-679-8732.

FALL RIVER - The monthly novena at Sacred Heart Church, 160 Seabury Street will be held SunJ:lay at 1 p.m. followed by Mass at 2 p.m., with Father Samuel Leonard IV~,~s cele~.'jW)t and ho.~!list. His topic will be "God the Father." .

SOMERSET - The Fall River DioceSan Coun"CH of Cathonc Women will hold'a Candlelight Procession for Peace:'Orl!Octobe'rbi6 -at St. John of God Church. Visitation of the Pilgrim. Statue of Our Lady of Fatima will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. There is a novena at 6:30 p.m. and Mass at 7 p.m, followed by an"outside procession with rosary.

For more information contact Bella Nogueira at 508-673-6145.

TAUNTON - Holy Family Parish at 370 Middleboro Avenue in East Taunton hosts an hour of prayer for families from 1 to 2 p.m. each' Wednesday.

TAUNTON - The Diocesan Service Committee is sponsoring an Old Fashion Prayer Meeting at St. Anthony's Church, 126 School Street, at 7 p.m. The guest speaker is Barbara Wright.

TAUNTON - St. Jude the Apostle Women's Guild will hold its first "Gingerbread Craft Fair" tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Church Hall'at 249 Whittenton Street.

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MASHPEE - The final meeting of a Bereavement Support Group for people who have lost loved ones is scheduled 10 to 11 :30 a.m. on October 17 at Christ the King Parish at Mashpee Commons off Route 151. Sister Dympna Smith is the facilitator. Call 508-477-7700 or visit the parish office to register.

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__ .In Ym:I!Pr~y_~rs , Please pray for these priests during the coming weeks

Oct. IS Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Considine, PA, Retired Pastor, St. William, Fall ' River, 1996

Oct. 16 Rev. Raymond M. Drouin, O.P., Fonner Pastor, St. Anne. Fall River. 1987

Oct. 17 Rev. Gerald E. Lachance, M.Afr.• 1984

Oct. 19 Rev. Manuel A. Silvia, Pastor, Santo Christo, Fall River, 1928

Oct. 21 Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward J. Carr, P.R.• Pastor, Sacred Heart, Fall River; Chancellor 1907-21, 1937 Rev. Francis E. Gagne, Pastor, St. Stephen, Attleboro, 1942 Rev. Walter J. Buckley, Retired Pastor, St. Kilian, New Bedford, 1979

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NEW BEDFORD - The fifth While the current listings in, clude the Legion of Mary, Sacred anniversary of perpetual eucharistic adoration at the Franciscan Fri~ Heart Men's Club, St. Vincent de ars of the Immaculate's Our Lady's Paul, Knights of Columbus, youth Chapel, 600 Pleasant Street, will be groups, and men's and parish observed with a special, all night women's groups, everyone is invigil on October 26. vited. , ,"While we mark ,a milestone that Adoration will begin with a day, the vigil is more to promote Mass on October 26, at 6 p.m., in perpetual eucharistic adoration," the chapel and adoration before the said Martha McCormick, coordina- Blessed Sacrament will continue tor of the observance. until 5 o'clock the following mornTo do that, she explained, "We ing. have invited and invite all associa-' Franciscan Friar of the Immacutions and organizations from across late Father Angelo Michael directs the Fall River Diocese to take part the eucharistic adoration ministry. as well as individuals," He can be reached at Our Lady's McCormick said.

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PRAYERFUL POOCHES - Father John C. Ozug, pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Parish in New Bedford, blessed animals in honor of St. Francis of Assisi recently at Mary's House in Sassaquin in that city. With Father Ozug are Rose L. Cabral, Snoopy, Daisy and Peanut. (Photo by Ron R. Cabral)

HAPPY DAYS - Deacon Ronnie Floyd of the Fall River Diocese was ordained a transitional deacon at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on October 4. In the top photo, Deacon Floyd, right, stands with classmate Rev. Mr. James McCarthy of th~ Archdiocese of Sydney, and Auxiliary Bishop Peter Eliot, of the Melbourne Archdiocese. Bishop Eliot was the celebrant of a Mass with Floyd and McCarthy serving as deacons. Below, friends from the Fall River Diocese were on hand for Deacon Floyd's ordination. From left: Father Richard D. Wilson, Seminarian Riley Williams, Father Karl C. Bissinger, Deacon Floyd, Father Arnold R. Medeiros, and Father Marcel H. Bouchard.

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KNIGHT CREW - The Knights of Columbus, Cross of Christ Council #12283, St. Bernard Parish, Assonet, recently held their Installation of Officers for 2007-2008. From left: District Warden Eugene Cabana; Father Mike Racine, chaplain; Dennis Morris, outside guard; Tony Branco, chancellor; District Deputy Ernie LeBlanc; Past Grand Knight Paul Levesque; Grand Knight Bob Richard; Richard Zopatti; and Rich Houghton, recorder. (Photo

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