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AT ANNUAL Columbus Day Candlelight March and Mass for Peace which took thousands of participants from St. Mary's Cathedral to St. Anne's Church in Fall River, Bishop O'Malley, reflecting on the International Year of the Child, underscored the role of the family as a "school of peace where children must be taught to love, to forgive and to reject violence, racism and individualism." Parents must "learn patience and be instruments of peace," added the bishop. Top., he participates in March, as does a little girl (bottom). (Kearns photos)

Bishop Sean O'Malley has an- Father Coleman are heads of . nounced an organizational restruc- diocesan secretariats. Their names turing of the responsibilities of and appointments follow and phodiocesan officials in order to bring tos are on page 9. the Fall River diocese into comRev. Joseph M. Costa, Secrepliance with directives ofthe Code tary for Community Service. of Canon Law in this regard.

Rev. Edmund J. Fitzgerald, In a letter to priests, the bishop Secretary for Health Care. said he had approved a diagram Rev. Msgr. Thomas J. Harringrepresenting the administrative ton, V.F., Secretary for Spiritual structure of the diocese that was Development/ Apostolates. developed by a committee chaired Rev. George E. Harrison, Secreby Msgr. Henry T. Munroe. tary for Youth.

The diagram, rep rod uced on Rev. Michael K. McManus, Secpage 9, lists diocesan officers and retary for Temporalities. bodies reporting directly to the Rev. John F. Moore, Secretary bishop and those reporting to Very for Communications.

Rev. George W. Coleman, vicar Rev. Msgr. John J. Oliveira, general and moderator .of the V.E., Secretary for Education/ diocesan curia.

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The Code of Canon Law defines Very Rev. John A. Perry, V.F., the curia as "those institutions and Secretary for Ministerial Personpersons which furnish assistance nel. to the bishop in the governance of The intent of the restructuring, the entire diocese, especially in said the bishop in his letter to directing pastoral activity, in pro- . priests, is to facilitate diocesan viding for the administration of administration, "thus enabling all the diocese and in exercisingjudi- of us to devote greater attention to ciaI power." the pastoral mission of the Church.

Reporting to Bishop "We not only need Christ, but Reporting to the bishop are the also one another, to carryon His judicial vicar of the Diocesan work ..... [all priests] contribute to Tribunal; the diocesan chancellor, the same purpose, namely the who also supervises the Diocesan building up of the Body of Christ, Archives; and Rev. Michael K. and this, especially in our times, demands many kinds of duties and McManus, finance officer.

Also Father Coleman, the epis- fresh applications,'" explained the bishop, quoting the Second Vaticopal vicars for the five diocesan can Council decree Presbyterorum deaneries, the deans of those Ordinis. deaneries and all members of the Prayer Asked clergy.

Consultative bodies reporting In conclusion, Bishop O'Malley to the bishop are the college of wrote, "let us pray for and support consultors, the presbyteral, finance one another, particularly as we and pastoral councils and the approach our Emmaus convocadiocesan review board. tion, that we will recommit ourReporting to Moderator selves injoy and peace to the Lord Working in conjunction with who has called us to service."

Synod speakers call for dialog, understanding of consecrated life VATICANCITY(CNS)- Respectful dialogue and a clear understanding of consecrated life are the keys to dealing with modern tensions in religious life, said members of the world Synod of Bishops.

Declining numbers of religious in North America and Europe, new ways of living in community and changing mini!.tries have raised such tensions within religious orders and between the orders and church authority.. speakers said during the first week of the Oct. 2-29 synod.

Synod members and observers and experts from women's and men's religious communities and secular institutes are discussing the role in the church and world of the 1.1 million Catholic men and women who havl: taken vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.

With more than 100 synod participants making speeches the first week, topics ranged from the mean-

ing of the vows to the wearing of religious habits.

Midway through the synod, members were to gather in small groups to formulate proposals for Pope John Paul II, who has been present for most of the speeches and is expected to write a document based on the proposals.

BishopJames C. Timlin of SCI'anton, Pa., told the synod the church must leave room for diversity in consecrated life, but also be clear in what it expect$ of religious.

"Some people think their actions are clothed in Gospel values or Gospel freedom when they withdraw from eucharistic life or are absorbed in extreme feminism or when they publicly question magisterial teaching," the bishop said.

"How can one claim to be a loyal son or daughter ofthe church and not participate in the Mass?"

Bishop Timlin asked. "How can one be a Catholic in good standing

and take positions in opposition to the teachings of the church?"

Commenting on Bishop Timlin's speech, Sister Andree Fries, president of the leadership Conference of Women Religious, said it was "unfortunate that the synod has become a forum for unsubstantiated rumors." She noted that the bishop had not claimed any personal experiences with the pr~b­ lems he cited.

"It's hard to refute something for which there is no documenta: tion," she added.

"The only solid data we have -and maybe it's not that solid is the L.A. Times survey of women religious, which showed a high level of satisfaction among them and a high level of loyalty to the church," said Sister Fries.

She said her personal experience was that V.S. women religious support church teachings, even when they might "try to dialogue

with the church" about how those teachings are implemented.

Cardinal James A. Hickey of Washington asked religious to strengthen their commitment to respect for human life.

"While we rejoice that individual religious and others in consecrated life have become active in pro-life work," he said, many congregations have not committed themselves collectively to the effort.

"For example, in some congregations which actively advocate 'justice and peace' issues, it is not always clear whether 'justice' begins at conception or only at birth," said the Vatican-released summary of his talk.

"There are also some in consecrated life who advocate 'prochoice' positions, thus denying church teachings in the moral order and causing scandal to the people of God," Cardinal Hickey said.

But Sulpician Father Gerald L.

Brown, president of the V .S. Conference of Major Superiors of Men, told Catholic News Service that disloyalty to church teaching and practice "is not my experience of women religious in the V nited States."

"You do hear rumors" about such attitudes, but women religious overall "are carrying the burden of much of the church's ministry," Father Brown said.

Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin said that while bishops have the authority and responsibility for watching over consecrated people, religious are called to a particular way of life and of ministry, the cardinal said.

"Respectful dialogue and prayerful discernment" are needed to sort out what is authentic amid the diversity in consecrated life, he said.

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Pope: 'mis'sionary s'pirit taug:ht in family

COMPLETION of the school self-study process isacknowledged at St. Mary's, New Bedford, by (from left) J~mes McNamee, diocesan school superintendent; Bishop O'MaBey; principal Angela Stankiewicz and pastor Father JOh~1 F. Moore; and Father Richard W. Beaulieu, director of the Diocesan Department of Education. Bel'ow, students carry offertory gifts of flowers. (Kearns photos)

St. Mary's completes school ,self-study process St. Mary's School, New Bedford, marked completion of the diocesan school self-study program at a Sept. 22 liturgy. Bishop Sean O'Malley, with Father Richard Beaulieu, director of the Diocesan Department of Education, and James McNamee, superintendent of schools, presented a certificate

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Music for the liturgy was provided by the children's cHoir, directed by Jackie Vardo. The offertory procession included students, parents. alumni, staff and faculty, who carried flowers which were placed in the sanctuary.!The eucharistic gifts of bread and wine were presented by Jane MahinFortin, Susan Costa and D~bra Letendre, members of the $elfStudy Steering Committee.

The school evaluation process, designed by the Diocesan De~art足 ment of Education, is a th1reephase project. It begins with a ~elfstudy, during which the scHool examines its philosophy and gdals.

The second phase involves evaluation of the school's strengths knd weaknesses by a visiting teant of educators who then make recbmmendations for future planning.

Faculty and administrators drefully consider the recommeridations and the self-study report knd then, in the final phase of the process formulate goals and implement them.

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v ATICAN CITY (CNS) - A missionary spirit is learned in the family through its example of love for others and the sacrifices it requires, Pope John Paul II said.

In his annual message for World Mission Sunday, which most dioceses, including Fall River, will celebrate Oct. 23, the pope focused on the family as the seedbed for missionary activity.

"Christ himself chose the human family as the environment for his incarnation and his preparation for the mission entrusted to him by the heavenly Father," the pope said in his message.

"In addition, he founded a new family - the church - as the extension of his universal saving action," he said.

The love of Christ which blesses a marriage is the same love which leads the church to preach salvation to all peoples of all times, the pope said.

"It is this love which pushes missionaries to announce the Good News to the nations with zeal and perseverance and to give witness to it with the gift of themselves, sometimes even to the point of the supreme sign of martyrdom," he said.

The pope said missionary activity is aimed at bringing people to Christ, building his family and promoting the highest human values.

"W orking for Christ and with Christ, the missionary works for justice, peace and development

which are not ideological, but real, contributing to the building of a civilization of love," he said.

Many of the church's missionaries have spoken or written about how the generosity, loyalty and religious strength of their early family life set the foundations for their commitment to bring others to Christ, the pope wrote.

"The family is missionary first of all with its prayers and sacrifice," he said. "To pray with a missionary spirit involves various elements, among which the first is contemplation 'of the action of God, who saves us through Jesus Christ."

That type of prayer, the' pope said, includes thanksgiving for the evangelization work already com.pleted as well as prayers that "the Lord make us docile instruments of his will, giving us the indispensable moral and material means for the building of his kingdom."

"Completely inseparable from, prayer is sacrifice, which is more effective whel1 it is more generous," he said.

"Of inestimable value is the suffering of innocent people, of the ill and the sick, of those subject to oppression and violence, of those who are specially united to Jesus on the Way of the Cross," the message said.

The pope urged families to pay particular attention to the mass media and its potential missionary influence, both as a means of informing Catholics about places or events which require their pray-

Bible school was fun, so ,they started their ,own CHAM PUN, Minn. (CNS) They're back in regular school now, but two young friends so enjoyed going to Bible school this summer that they started their own for neighborhood youngsters. , Erin Phillips, 9, and Amanda Peterson, II, hand-delivered flyers 'around their neighborhood, inviting other children to their three-day school. Ten showed up the first day, said Shawn Phillips, Erin's father.

The girls used puppets, songs, crafts and stories to bring Scripture lessons to life for their 3 to 6-year-old charges.

Amanda had been in a summer Bible program at a Lutheran church and Erin helped make Bible school exhibits at Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church in Medina, where her father is youth minister.

Erin told the Catholic Bulletin, St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocesan newspaper, how the idea started.

"We were just playing with each other and we thought we wanted to do something interesting, and we thought, 'Why don't we do a Bible school?," she said.

The girls used Jesus' call to "Follow me" for the first lesson.

"We picked it because we had crafts to go with it," Erin said.

They helped their pupils make cardboard sandals and decorate them with sequins.

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Erin said working with the younger children was "easy," but she acknowledged that "it's only 'for a couple of hours" and it was good to have adults around to help.

Her mother, Vicky Phillips, said she was merely a consultant. "They came up with the craft things on their own," she said. "And they looked up Bible stories they liked and picked songs they knew."

She said the girls learned an extra lesson along the way. As they were handing out flyers another girl in the neighborhood said she was going to do her own Bible school, and it would be bigger and better.

"It was an' opportunity for them to hear the story of Paul and Apollos," Mrs. Phillips said.

In his first letter to the Christians of Corinth, Paul scolded them for quarreling about who followed which teacher. All are followers of Christ and who the teacher is does not matter, he said.

ers and action and as a ml:ans of spreading the Gospel message.

"The highest expression e,f generosity is the total gift of oneself," he said.

The pope asked young Catholics to consider committing themselves to mission work. "The Lord has given you an open hemt and great horizons: do not be afraid to commit your whole life to the service of Christ and his Gospe!."

He asked parents to have open and faithful hearts "when the Lord would bless you by calling a son or a daughter to missionary service."

He urged families to help prepare their children to answ(:r such a call by family prayer, education focusing on service and the daily setting of an example of attention to others.

OBITUAR Sister Tremblay The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Tuesday at the Dominican Convent on Park St., Fall River, for Sister Jeanne d'Arc Tremblay, 90, who died Oct. 9.

A Fall River native, she was the daughter of the late George and late Marie Bertha (Audet) Tremblay. She was an educator for 50 years, serving at several elementary schools and then, from 1936 until her retirement, teaching business courses at Dominican Academy and the former Bishop Gerrard High School, both in Fall River.

She is survived by Mr. and Mrs. Normari Valiquette of Fall River and by grandnieces and grandnephews.

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LOS ANGELES (eNS) - The movie i'Schindler's List," the NBC series "Frasier" and an album of Benedictine monks' Gregorian chants recorded 20 YI~ars ago have been named winners of 1994 CI MA Awards from Catholics in Media Associates.

The awards were given at an Oct. 9 brunch preceded by a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles.

It is the second yt:ar the group has bestowed awards. Last year's winners were the film "Be'1ny and Joon," the CBS show "Picket Fences" and the Disney Channel's remake of "Heidi."

"Schindler's List" was cited as "an extraordinary film which brings a spirit of reconciliation to a divided and wounded world," said a Catholics in Media statement.

Already this year, it has won a Christopher Award, three best picture awards from film societies, seven British Academy Awards and seven Oscars. including best picture and best director, "Frasier" won "for not only making us laugh but for treating

age and physical li,mitation with dignity, for celebrating family loyalty in an age when 'self-sacrifice' is a dirty word and, above all, for giving us characters of conscience," the statem,ent said.

For its debut year, "Frasier" won awards for be$t TV comedy from the TelevisionCritics association and the 1994 Banff Television Festival. It also picked up five Emmys, includi~gbest comedy.

"Chant," by the Benedictine monks ofSan~o D,omingo d~ Silos, Spain, debuted at the top position of -Billboard magazine's classical chart and peaked at third on Billboard's pop chart. It has sold over I million copies.

"We are honoring them for the extraordinary contribution they have made to the contemporary music world," Catl,lolics in Media said.

"The success of 'Chant' reminds us that music has a healing power, The beauty and simplicity of this ancient musical form speak of the quiet inner joy that comes from faith."

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Communication: An Interesting Viewpoint In a recent article in America magazine, the noted Jlesuit scholar, Avery Dulles, took a new approach to tensions between the church and the media. Father Dulles pointed out that from a theological viewpoint there is what might be termed a built-in tension between the message of the c~urch and the methodology of the media.

In some cases, the church has positioned itself on an in titutional level which does make it appear as simply an9ther corporate power, similar, in fact, to the media which themselves make up a cras~ industry specializing in commuhications. When the church cloaks itself in this secular dress, itlis no match for the corporate powers of the media industry. It loses the battle at all levels and in many ways it should.

I Indeed, those who work in the world of church communications have too often viewed their job as just that, simply ~ job.

There are numerous examples of people running froml one diocese to another in the search for increased power. For all practical purposes, they have lost any sense ofthe church'~, true mission of presenting and witnessing to the mysteries of faith.

Somehow the lure of compromise has bewitched manylwho present the church's.st.ory. B~t compromi~e is always doo1med to failure. Such a mInd-set falls to recogmze that the con~tant message of the church is the permanent, unchangeable Gospel.

The secular media are driven by novelty and sensati(jn~lism and viewing the church in this frame of reference often tloes portray a church in turmoil. But the true message of the ch6rch is one of unity, healing and reconciliation, subjects that d6 not rate headlines, whereas the media thrive on dissent, fracti6nalism and conflict, all of which sell and help ratings.

The world of the spiritual is far from a salable product. The church by its nature is in constant spiritual renewal, but tois is not grist for the media mill. The media need stories on tdpics that lend themselves to tabloid treatment, which of co~rse means sex, power and politics. God help the church whed she offers a moral reflection concerning these areas of life. I Authoritative teaching of the Good News is not appreciated in a psuedo-liberal democratic society. When someone irl the church begins to disagree with theological teachings, that becomes news. It is especially agonizing to see so many dissident Catholic members of the media taking their persbnal .

I grievances out on the church in their writing and reporting.

Sorry to say, many in the church have failed to underst~nd that the church cannot rely on the secular media to spreadl the Gospel message. Religious news must be communicated by religious media outlets. Whether one agrees with her or bot, Mother Angelica has proved this point.

I Nevertheless, whatever the difficulties, the church should not be intimidated by the secular media and indeed shduld • I cooperate With them. The church should never have a rno comment" attitude in sharing" worthy and necessary new information. It must be willing to help secular news reporters by frank and open discussions, even on sensitive issues.

One point well made by Father Dulles is that "the news media should take more care to put bad news in proper con~ext and to give greater emphasis to the elements thatjournalisrh is inclined to neglect. As many critics have pointed .out, m'ost newspapers and magazines:have no professionally qualified reporters in the field of religion. Such ignorance would not be I tolerated in areas such as politics, sportsor business."

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Church, media need intercommunication WASHINGTON (CNS) - The church needs to understand the media better, and vice versa, said panel members at the recent second Religion and the Media Commonweal Forum.

Because church and media do not fully know what each other is about, they suggested, church leaders get rankled by media coverage of religion. and stories that offend religious believers and leaders get published.

"There's a fundamental conflict between the definition of truth as used by journalists and the definition of truth as used by people of religious faith," said panelist E.J. Dionne J r., editorialist and columnist for The Washington Post. He is a Fall River native and his mother, Mrs. E.J. Dionne, is a member of Holy Name parish in that city.

"Contemporary Americanjournalism is the quintessential Enlightenment profession," Dionne said at the forum, held at Georgetown Universily. Its patron, he said, would be St. Thomas\' the "doubting" Apostle who coulo not believe Christ had arisen from the dead unless he sa w Jesus' wounds believe Christ had arisen from the dead unless he saw Jesus' wounds. ",Whatever the religious proclivities of journalists," Dionne said, there is the matter of "confining coverage of religion to a ghetto," usually a page or two on Saturdays.

Reporters may not cook,Dionne said. "but they "know the wisdom of having recipes in the papers.

Some reporters may know sports better than others, but they do nol question the wisdom of having a sports section." .'

Cokie Roberts of ABC News. while sympathetic to the lack of regular religion coverage, said marketplace economics dictate what kind of stories get reported and how they are packaged .. . Ms. Roberts cited CNN and The New York Times as two media

outlets whose coverage of religion once had been poor.

She took CNN to task for its coverage of the sex abuse lawsuit last year against Cardinal"Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago. The suit was later withdrawn'.

"The New York Times has improved," Ms. Roberts said. "They found an economic reason for it.

Catholics had improved [their standing) in the marketplace and they were moving into the neighborhoods where people read The New York Times, and they weren't reading it."

Its improvement, she hinted, has not been consistent.

"They found the one Catholic priest in America who approves of killing the doctors at the abortion clinics" and profiled him, she said.

She referred to Father David Trosch of Alabama, who has been stripped of his. priestly faculties by his bishop,' Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscbmb'of Mobile. ' John Dart, religion writer for the Los' Angeles Times; said, "Religion is a weak, spot in the coverage of most newspapers," not because of bias, but lack of expertise.

"I have not seen religion articulating itself' in very sophisticated, compeiling, ways" but instead as "doctrinaire," Dart said. "Religion, if it wants'to be covered as a serious news subject, cannot get by with its pat answers."

Terry Eastland, editor of Forbes Media Critic, outlined what he saw as three problems of religion coverage: -A reduction of religion to politics: or reading a religi9us event "strictly in political terms." ..:... A \endency to re~d rdigious motivations into the political positions of people who profess religious faith.

- A failure to cover the legal aspects of certain 'religious-politicai disputes: Passage of the Religious Freedom Rest()raiion Act was under-

covered, Eastland said, as was the issuance of Pope John Paul II's encyclical "Veritatis Splendor" last year.

Helen Alvare, director of prolife information for the U.S. bish'ops, called "the abortion distortion" responsible for the worsening "level of civility between the c;~urch and the media."

She said she has been told by journalists, among other things, "You don't represent the ch':Jrch" and "They're [the U.S. bishops) just hiding behind your skirts" because of her high profile in the pro-life movement.

Simple things such as offering to supply background information to reporters, praising thenl for well-written stories that don'!: concern life issues, and 'apologizing for not meeting reporters' deadlines can "improve the quality of the reporting as well as improve the quality of the relationship between the religionist and the member of the media," Ms. Alvare said.

Participants also tackled f1~cent stories where some said reEgion coverage made some headway, including t~e Boston Globe a!;king Sen. Edward Kennedy about women priests and the VfI~ica~'s role at the U.N. International Conference on Population and Development. . Dionne said that, while not knowing beforehand the context oehind Kennedy's comment, "as a consumer of news I was kind of glad they asked him the question."

Russell Shaw, public relalions director for the Knighls ofColumbus, said he had recently read a Washington Post columnist dismissing the pope's "irrelevance" relative to theconference inCairo.

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"I wondered if it was the fifth or the 50th or the SOOth time I had read something about the pope's irrelevance," Shaw said. "If this is what irrelevance is like, what must relevance be?"

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Q. Can you provide us with information about the followers of Jesus? I was under the impression that Jesus and the apostles were alone, walking from town to town.

In Bible courses we have taken, . however, there are references to other followers, induding some women. You've lit many candles in the past. Can you dispel some of our darkness abolJlt who these people were? (North Carolina) A. The answer is not that complicated. First of all, many of Jesus' "followers," or disciples, did not accompany him on his travels from one town to another.

They stayed home" pursued their daily business. but supported and cared for him when he came around. Among many examples in the Gospels, perhaps the most obvious is the familll of Martha Mary and Lazaru~ in Bethany: They were close friends of the Lord, but seemingly not in his entourage.

Another group took personally and literally Jesus' invitation to "follow me" and traveled with him.

Luke (10: I) speaks of at least 72, though likely not all of them were with him all the time.

Among these companions were a number of women. Contrary to Jewish traditions of the day, Jesus related to these women personally, taught them and, according to all the Gospels, used some of them to convey the news of his resurrection to the apostles.

Finally, of course, there was the core group of the Twelve, the ones the Gospels speak of as a specially chosen inner circle. That the number was symbolically important is indicated by the faclt that, after the death of Judas, the remaining II felt obliged to choose someone to take his place (Acts 1:26).

Q.I attend Mass on occasion at a university chapel where the celebrant stands in front of the altar and recites the Gospel from memory, rather than read it from the Lectionary.

It is well done, but I have a strange feeling abolUt whether this is correct. I'm not sure why he does it, but it is distracting.

It calls too mu(:h attention to the priest and seems too personalized. For one thing, I am never sure whether he is sl!ying the words

Daily Readings' Oct. 17: [ph 2:1-10; Ps 100:2-5; Lk 12:13-21 Oct. 18: 2 Tro 4:9-17; Ps 145;10-13,17-13; Lk 10:1-9 Oct. 19: [ph 3:2-12; Is 12:2-6; Lk 12:39-48 Oct. 20: [ph 3: 14-21; Ps 33:1-2.4-5,11-12,18-19; Lk 12:49-53 Oct. 21: [ph 4:1-6; Ps 24:1-6; Lk 12:54-59 Oct. 22: [ph 4:7-16; Ps 122:1-5; Lk 13:1-9 Oct 23: Jer 31:7-9; Ps 122:1-6; Heb 5:1·6; Mk 10:4652

By FATHER JOHN DIETZEN ofthe text or his own interpretation.

What do you thhlk? (Ohio) A. At our parish we tell the lectors that if they are well prepared they should know at least the key verses of the readings almost by heart, enabling frequent eye contact with the congregation.

Plenty of opportunities present themselves for thiS personal element without making an obvious point of not referring to the text at all.

I, too, have experienced what you describe and, while the practice certainly is not illegal, for the reasons you mentipn my feelings are the same as yours.

As the Foreword to the Lectionary says, "In the readings, God speaks to his people of the mystery of salvation and nourishes their spirit; Christ is present through his word" (33).

Certain actors present the words of Scripture, from memory, powerfully and effectively on the stage.

Perhaps some liturgical ministers are able to do the same in an appropriate way.

But effective personal contact between the Scriptural word of God and the hearer of that word is the essence of the Liturgy of the Word at Mass. Anything that threatens to come between them, or distracts from that hearing, needs to be carefully avoided in every way possible.

St. Peter's opens new church hall Hundreds of parishioners turned out for an open house ·Iast month at St. Peter's new church hall in Dighton. The hall"purchased from Congregational Church, has an auditorium and stage, kitchen, and basement classrooms which will greatly enhance the parish religious education program.

Previously religious ed ucation coordinator Janet Martel and CCD teachers traveled from house to house. sometimes holding classes with two or three children around an available kitchen table. 120 students are enrolled in this year's program, and Mrs. Martel now seeks donations of chalkboards and bulletin boartls.

Most of the hall renovation was done by men of the parish under direction of buiiding committee members William Mendoza, Harold Gracia and Joseph Pavao and pastor Father Francis Allen. Volunteers refurbi~hed walls and floors, repainted ceilings, constructed a new stairway and created the five classrooms and an office for the religious education program. A library, conference room and handicapped-accessible rest.rOom .remain to be-CQffipleJed.

ECHO retreats to mark 25th year

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A Mass celebrating the 25th anniversary of the ECHO program of youth retreats will be offered at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 27, at St. John the Evangelist Church, Attleboro.

ECHO, Encountering Christ in Others, was launched in the Fall River diocese in 1969 by the late Father Thomas Mayhew, originally as a retreat for senior boys at the for'mer Msgr. Coyle High School in Taunton. However, by the time the fourth such retreat was held, in February, 1970, the program was accepting students from other high schools.

Since that time hundreds of ECHOs have been held throughout the diocese, participated in by thousands of young men and women. It is hoped that many of them will be present at the November Mass, which will be followed by a social hour.

A letter announcing the event, signed by Rev. Richard L. Chretien, pastor of Our Lady of Grace parish, Westport, and Robert Gay of the arrangements committee, notes that "although Father Tom Mayhew passed away almost three years ago, the program he piloted lives on in the many that it touched.

Inscribed on the back of the crucifix which every ECHO participant receives is the statement, 'Christ is counting on you.' Hopefully the 25th anniversary Mass will help rekindle the enthusiasm of ECHO in our hearts and help strengthen our dedication and commitment in Christ."

All are welcome at "Embracing the Mystery," a service' of prayer and healing for persons with HIV / AIDS and their families, friends and loved ones. It will be

Stonehill College The following events are scheduled to be held at the Joseph W. Martin Institute for Law and Society on the campus of Stonehill College, North Easton: Atty. Marcia Boumil and Dr. Joel Friedman, co-authors of"Sexual Harassment: What It Is, What It Isn't," will speak on that topic at 4 p.m. Oct. 17. Information: 2301311.

The Honors Program will present a slide presentation and a lecture by Boston College classics professor Charles Ahern on "The Roman Forum and the Roman Peace," a critical examination of the fabled Pax Romana, 7 p.m.

Oct. 19. Information: Professor Richard Capobianco, 230-1243.

James Braude ofthe Tax Equity Alliance and Barbara Anderson of Citizens for Limited Taxation will debate the graduated income tax constitutional amendment 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26; Professor James Millikan of Stonehill's political science department will moderate. Information: Professor James Kenneally,230-1128.

Also on Oct. 26, at 7 p.m. in Alumni Hall, the Honors Program will present a discussion of "History and Fiction" with Professor John Golden of the foreign languages department. Information: Professor Capobianco, 230-1243.

Admission to all events is free and open to the public and both buildings are handicapped-accessible.

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Moral-cultural malaise

By Msgr. George G. Higgins A study conducted by the Free Enterprise and Media Institute examined television's treatment of economics and concluded that the major networks are biased against business.

Burton Yale Pines and Timothy Lamer have collated and analyzed the information gathered in the institute's study in a new book titled "Out of Focus: Network Television and the American Economy" (Regnery). The institute's staff analyzed every minute of economic reporting the three major broadcast networks and CNN (;arried during 1992 and monitored 12 weeks' worth of entertainment programming for anti-business bias in plots and character portrayals.

This is a familiar complaint about the media. Leading neoconservatives have argued for some time that a so-called "new class" ofliberal intellectuals, alienated from family and religious values, are using their alleged control over the media to wage a class struggle against the corporate structure.

They argue also that these intellectuals are using the media to corrupt American culture by denigrating religion and family values.

In recent months several scholars have questioned this line of argument. Three examples will suffic'e to suggest that although the neoconservative criticism ofthe media is not without merit, it is much too simplistic.

Father Gary Dorrien, an Episcopalian priest-scholar, has pointed out, for example, that the media is itself part of the corporate establishment. The television networks, he says, are commercial enterprises' dependent on advertising revenue.

Media images of reality are fashioned primarily by the media's own institutional need to stimulate consumption, according to Father Dorrien. The moral corruption that neoconservatives condemn in American society, he concludes, owes more to commercial imperatives than to the failures of some fictionally autonomous "cul-. ture." ("The Neoconservative Mind," Temple University Press).

Jesuit Father John Langan, Kennedy professor of Christian ethics and senior fellow at the ;Woodstock Theological Institute,

makes substantially the same point in "Ethics, Business and the Economy," published in the March ~ssue of Theological Studies.

I Noting that leading neoconservative proponents of demodratic ~api~al~sm maintain that ca~ital­ Ism IS mdependent 'of the moralcultural order and the political order, Father Langan point~ out that life is not that simple. Car/dol', he says requires that we con~ider the possibility that some aspeots of our moral-cultural malaise'!may originate in the economic sYitem itself.

"For the institutions of the moralcultural system," he points lout, "are themselves economic entities; indeed in some cases ... the~ are very large and profitable econ~mic entities.".

I British author Jere.my Seabrlook comes at the same pomt by analyzing the influence of advertising on cultural and moral values. A member of the so-called "green" political movement, he argues that jthe spreading of market values "by' incessant advertising is leading to sodaI disintegration in the West and, in the Third World, to Ithe disruption of indigenous cultures that are the only surviving ex~m­ pies of how people can truly liVe in I . h t h ell' . environment." . harmony Wit In my opinion, Seabrook's ctiticism is rhetorically exaggedted and for this reason counterproductive.

I Yet, as John Leo pointed out in his syndicated column, there lare many corporations that use ad~er. tising - some of it sleazy and sLbtly suggestive - to exploit the growing weaknesses of sociJty, pushing impulsiveness, self-obSession and aggression.

It makes no sense to blame this kind of advertising exclusively!on a new class of allegedly alienated liberal ad writers and graphic artists. These ad writers and g'raphic artists don't work on t~eir own. They work for and do the bidding of their corporate spbnsol's. In short, he who pays the pipt:r calls the tune.

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By Any Other Name "Only a fool could deny the fact of sin, though we may choosel to call it by another name." - Gerald Vann, OP

It's amazing how securely we get locked into schedules and regimentation as we get older. My mother, 86, gets quite upset if her routine is changed. I have called her at times to say hello, only to be reminded that this is the time she has her snacks or takes her walk.

I n the past, I was critical. I thought it was silly to be so locked into set ways of doing things. Now I understand better.

There's a logic to this. As we get older, we learn that, despite how hard we try to keep our lives ordered and comfortable, most of us won't achieve this according to our expectations.

Life brings its own agenda illness, family troubles, weather disasters, accidents, marriage breakups and, yes, the deaths of loved ones. We aren't in charge of life, only how we handle it. . By the time we're older we've usually been buffeted so much that we try to hang on to whatever sense of order we can. We begin to lock into routines that make us

comfortable. We seek to control our days, even if only in relatively unimportant matters.

You can be surprised the first time you realize that you've become "a creature of habit." This happened to me recently. I had to take a bus to New York City, and there was an announcement that the bus would be late. No problem. I would do what I always do when I have unexpected time: write. I whipped out a note pad and reached for my pen.

To my surprise, I couldn't find one. I was in shock! To be more honest, I was in stress. Suddenly I was upset that the bus was late because I could n't write.

It occurred to me that my reaction was no different from my mother's reaction when she can't take her nap or eat on time. Without my pen I had lost control of my time, and I felt uncomfortable.

There's a way to avoid falling into this control trap. We all need to learn to surrender to the agenda

Stop drinking?

Dear Dr. Kenny: I have a problem with alcohol. I was just arrested for my second "driving under the influence." Must I stop drinking entirely? I think I can set limits and stick to them. Is this possible? New Jersey Limiting drinks is probably harder to do than stopping drinking entirely. As an old Alcoholics Anonymous bit of wisdom puts it, "One drink is too many and two is not enough."

The best way to find out if-you can set limits to your drinking is to try it. Set a quota, and see if you can honor it.

One l2-ounce beer and a fiveounce glass of wine each contain one ounce of alcohol. A mixed drink contains about one and onehalf ounces of alcohol.

The usual rule of thumb for determining your body's maximum is to allow one ounce of alcohol for every 50 pounds of body weight.

But research shows that with this amount of alcohol you stand an almost 50-50 chance of failing a

Breathalyzer test. In other words, this amount of alcohol is almost enough to make you legally drunk.

Be realistic about setting your quota. To stay on the safe side, to avoid even being close to drunk, you should stay at least one drink under this maximum. In other words, a ISO-pound person should limit himself or herself to two drinks, a 200-pounder to three drinks.

Being drunk means you are suffering some'minimal brain damage. The obvious signs are eupho~ ria, loud laughing or angry tone, slightly slurred speech, lessened good judgment and unsteady gait.

You, the drinker, are usually unaware,of these signs.

However good you may feel, you have the equivalent of a chemically induced concussion. Stop short of that state.

Set your limit, depending on your weight, and follow these other two rules: I. Always eat something before you drink.

Teen room ambiance A Parent's Digest article focused almost motionless in front of his on "honing strategies to end the door. "Speak to me, honey."

"B-b-b-bulldozer," she stamstruggle" of living with and raising mered. teenagers.

Luckily. the Digest writer had I love these articles because they further advice: "If the messy room are so full of really good advice I really bothers you, try this - 'I have always wanted to follow, but will help you clean up your room if to date I haven't been able to you will help me clean up mine,''' coerce any of our teens into readShetried. Mr. Room of Horrors ing them . smiles. "Really? I thought you Like Scripture, the article knockdidn't want me in your room." ed nagging. On teen room am"That's not the issue." she repbiance, for example, it advised. lied.

"You are supposed to be "The best tactic may simply be to realizing that adolescents appreaccept the mess and close the door." ciate an invitation toa cooperative I particularly enjoyed this beeffort, rather than an ultimatum. I cause here a person with a doctoam focusing on the goal to be rate in behavioral sciences was accomplished ratherthan on the teenspooning out advice in almost the ager's - that's your - character same words I've used with my or personality." wife. "Honey, let's just shut the "I don't see what the big deal is." door, and sooner or later he'll he ventured. "!t's my room and it move out and we can rent a bull- doesn't bother me. I know where dozer for a couple hours." everything is."

My wife tried. She went almost "You have a point," she said. three days without looking in teen "You've given me a great deal to son's pit, uh, room. But in a weak . think about. For instance, I think moment, she peeked. about the pencil appearing to grow "Apoplexy?" I asked this poor fro!TI a modulating wad of gum on woman with glazed eyes standing your headboard. and I think about

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that we can't escape - from the serious, like illness, to the uivial, like losing a pen.

We can learn to trust the Father more, believing that every time we pray for bread and get soffit~thing that looks more like a pickle or a st~ne or a crown of thorns, we should be patient and look again.

For it's really bread. Wejust don't recognize it as bread because it doesn't fit our image of what we need for nourishment.

And so we try to stay in some kind of control, even if it's 10 say that at 8 a.m. each day I read a newspaper. Or that 1 spend free time with pen in hand!

I bet God understands, and smiles.

By Dr. JAMES& MARY KENNY 2. Don't drive if you have: had anything alcoholic to drink.

If you can follow these rules regularly, then you have proven that you can control your drinking. If you cannot, if you c(lOsistently. go over your quota, then You; must stop drinking compl,~tely.

You must be honest with 1fourself. People with alcohol prot1lems are notorious for denial, for making excuses.

If you find that you must stop all drinking, the best treatmÂŤ:nt is AA. In AA you share the wisdom and support of others who have honestly faced their addiction and are trying to De alcohol-free.

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fuming soccer socks crawling into expensive slacks pockets ullder your bed.

"And I think about stopping payment on the check for your driver's education class so you can get your license."

I'm thinking about sending along my wife's technique for evalual ion by the Digest. It seemed pn~tty strong-armed. But it was sure cheaper than bulldozer rent.

Tfrm limits onlyfix Dear Editor: .

Having friends with friends in your diocese, we just came into possession of your August 26 edition. You have a great little paper.

We read it through and were impressed, especially so with the letters to the editor. You have one M D who is really upset with our boy president, DITTO. There were two letters from people upset with [proposed health care reforms) DITTO. We would like you all to know that those feelings magnified several times are held by thousands if not millions of Americans throughout this country.

Term limits is the only fix open to voters to get rid of those longterm liberal socialists. They have been in office so long. they begin to think themselves as the government. not we and you! This country has a very large problem when it comes to socialism, with the likes of Rep. Studds and Sen. Kennedy, who is on his 6th term among others.

All Americans should arm themselves with a copy of our Constitution. It makes vt:ry interesting reading. Remember, it is how YOU interpret this document that makes your vote so important. Don't let someone else interpret it for you.

The Supreme Court has found "a wall of separation between church and state"; it's not in there, folks!

It is in, word for word, the old Soviet Union constitution!

We plan to vote for term limits in our state when we get the referendum right to vo'~e.

James E. Halphin King George. Va.

Mariologists to meet Members of the New England region of the Mariological Society of America will hold their annual meeting beginning at 9:30 a.m.

Oct. 22 at SI. P10mas Aquinas Priory at Providence College.

Providence, R I. Rev. Paul Mouawad. pastor of HolyTrinity-St. George Maronite parish, Pa wtuckt:t, R I. keynote speaker, will discuss Mary in the Eastern Churches and he and Rev. G. Adrian Dabash, OP, will concelebrate Mass. with Father Dabash giving the homily on Mary as Icon of the Church. A luncheon and business mCl:ting will follow.

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

Oct. 17 1984, Rev. Gerald Lachance, Missionary Fathl~r

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Diocesan educators to attend parley Rev. Richard W. Beaulieu, Diocesan Director of Ed ucation, James McNamee, Superintendent of Schools, and SiSter Elaine Heffernan, RSM, Director of Religious Education, will join members of Chief Ad ministrators of Catholic Education (CACE) Oct. 16 to 20 in Newport, RI, for their annual meeting sponsored by the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA).

Hosted by the II New England dioceses, the meeting will attract more than 250 secretaries, directors and vicars of education, superintendents of schools and diocesan directors of religious education.

Father Beaulieu has been Director of Education since 1983, and has also overseen all catechetical programs in schools and parishes.

McNamee has been in the Education Department for two years while Sister Heffernan has been in her position since 1985.

This year's program, "Shaping the Vision Together," will highlight the unique position of Catholic educational leadership in forming a comprehensive vision of education.

Keynote speakers will be Father Michael J. Himes, associate professor of theology, Dr. Thomas H. Groome, professor of theology, both at Boston College, and Father James Walsh, executive director, NCEA Seminary Department.

Father Himes will explore various issues in Catholic education and the inspiration needed byeducators in order to shape an educational vision for the future. Dr. Groome will discuss creation of a partnership between parish, family and school, focusing on the best characteristics of Catholic education with special emphasis on the role of the whole community in human and faith formation of students. Father Walsh, as the final keynoter, will reflect in his address and in prayer on the challenges presented during the conference.

Additional speakers include Dr. Greer Gordon of the theology department at Regis College. Keynote speaker at the recent Fall River Diocesan Education Convention at Bishop Stang High School, she will discuss development of and appreciation of the heritage that minorities and other ethnic groups bring to the church community in helping shape "the vision for the future."

Father Beaulieu noted his pleasure that CACE chose Newport for its 1994 meeting, recalling that the group met on Cape Cod in 1983.

"This is always a great gathering of people from across the country.

Sister Elaine, Mr. McNamee and I look forward to joining the Providence Ed ucation Office staff in making our guests feel welcome in our neighborhood."

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Below, center, Edward Blute Jr., great-grandnephew of one of the university's original incorporators, presents a copy of the college charter to its new president. (Hickey photos) .

MORE WELL-WISHERS: Sister Rosellen Gallogly (left), director of Market Ministries of New Bedford, and Sister Barbara Riley of Fall River (right), vice president of the Sisters of Mercy regional community of Providence.

MERCY TRADITION: Greetings are offered to Sister Therese Antone by (from left) Sisters Sheila, Patricia and Kathleen Harrington.

Salve Regina U Jiversity inaugurates new president

By Marcie Hickey the development of an intellecJal At her inauguration as sixth state of mind, a preparedness fhr president of Salve Regina Univer- change and a commitment to a s~t sity, Sister Therese Antone, RS M, of ethical principles and values.'[ was charged with guiding the NewStudents, she said, must "underport, Rl. university into the next stand that learning .is integral '0 century. She vowed to do so with the development oftheir own human"the pioneer qualities of risk-taking, ity and that the life ofthe mind add courage and confidence and a grea't the life offaith are richly interc06-. hope inspired by faith." nected...

I Sister Antone herself a 1962 "This is our heritage; this is our graduate of Sal~e, chose as her futu.re."

Sister Antone, formerly a teach~r inaug'ural theme "The Endurinl' Power of Vision' Pathway to th~ at Bishop Feehan High School, Future," noting ~hat the universi~ Attleboro, and its principal fro~ ty's strengths arise from the firm 1969 to 1973, began her cartEer at intellectual and spiritual founda..

Salve Regina in 1976 as directorAf tion laid by its forebears and the ~evelopment and a mathematl9s ability in the tradition of the Sis., Instructor. She subsequently held ters of Mercy, who founded the ~evera~ adminis~rative position~, college to evolve with a cha . g including executive vice president society: ngIn for institutional advancement. · hi' She succeeds Sister Lucille McR e fl ectIng on er ear y mormng . . I Ik' h' h h h KIllo!', RSM, who was Salve's cam~~s ~~'Ss IIn : I~ ~ e. as president for 21 years and is noW C~>nSI edre adve egIna ?,Ivehrpresident of the Sisters of Mercy slty to ay . -I commumty. . 'd...an . .tomorrow d h '. teCh'Icago reglOna new e umverS'Ister A ntone ,s .inauguratIOn . . presl ent. inVite". t. . slt~k~,om~umtYhto Jtl~h"}e In a capped a week of cultural event~ sponsored by the university, int wa on ~ pat way 0 e uture. .Ahead ,lIes .the chal~enge, she cluding concerts, a poetry reading said: of.prep~nngto~ay s students and art exhibit, academic sympol for lIfe I? an Increa.sIngly ~omplex sia and campus tours.

I and ra'p!dly-changIn~ society and The inauguration itself, staged of devI~Ing an edu~atlOn for those by the university's theater depart1 who wl.1I be born !n the 21.~t ce.n- ment, began with an impressiv~ t~~~, With emphaSIS on the holIs- and colorful procession that feai tiC development of the student. tured nags from the II nations and "~ducationfocused on ~na~cum- 24 states represerited in Salve'~ ulat!o~ of..rac~s and skills IS ~ot student body. Foll~wing were 501 ~ufflclent, .Slster Anton~ said. delegates repr~sentl.n~ other

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Dr. William Truehart, president A native of Cumberland, RI, of Bryant College in Smithfield, Sister Antone was joined at the RI, said he and Sister Antone were celeb~ation by her parents, sister "kindred spirits" whose careers and five brothers, one of whom, have had many parallels along the George P. Antone J r. was among way to becoming sixth presidents speakers. A professor at Appal- of their respective institutions. He achian State University, he an- called Sister Antone "a leader with' nounced the establishment of a vision" and an "abiding commitpresidenti~1 scholarship f~nd at ment to service" who sets "high Salve Regina named for their bro- standards of excellence for herself, ther Peter Antone. and others."

S~udent~ pres.e~ted the n~w . Sister Joan~e Bibeau, RSM, pr~preSident with a GIVing Well, which sldent of Manan Court College In' will collect contributions to be Swampscott, brought greetings donated to charities on behalf of from the association of 17 Mercy the university. colleges and two ~ercy universiAlso pr~sented were ~rtif~cts ties, of which Salve Regina was the from the history of the umveTSlty, first. which began as a college in I~47. A "In Sister Therese Antone you copy of the college charter, Issued have indeed chosen a winner" she b yt h estateof Rh 0 d e I san I d tot he said. . ' Sisters of Mercy in 1993, was presSister Barbara Riley of Fall ented by Edward Blute Jr., a des- River, vice president of the Sisters S 'Ister Tereslta h' .

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P ' d ence, urge d S'Ister A ntone orngan, rovi versity's original incorporators. A to continue the Mercy tradition of West Harwich native, he is also a "connecting the powerful with the nephew of Sister Noel Blute, a powerless." As a leader in educamember of Salve's board of trus- tion, Sister Antone is "in a unique tees and episcopal representative position to effect change" in society, for religious in the Fall River Sister Riley said. diocese.

• Daniel Ludwig, art department Other artifacts included the seal chair, presented the new president of the college, its oldest records with an inaugural painting titled book, .and the presidential medal- "Pathway." The scene, a walkway lion. on Salve's campus that passes a Sister Antone received greetings statue of the Blessed Mother and from representatives of the presi- leads to the ocean at the horizon,

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T~e ~ork IS ~ reminder, he ~ald, t~at It IS essential tha~.the umverslty teach knowledge, but also an appreciation of mystery." . . Challeng.ed by Harvard U m~erslty educatIOn professor ementus ~avi.d Kuechle to lead Salve R~,g~.na Into the ~e.xt centu~y with courage, tradition and Innovation," Sister Antone pledged to "mobilize th~ int~llectual res~ur,~ ces of the umverslty commumty s~ t~at it will ':Iiv~ and ~ourish w.lthl~ th~ co~tInUlty of ItS o~n hlstoncalldentlty, and by so dOing ~ill meet i~s destiny as an in~uentlal force In the future of hlgh~:r education."

She recounted thefable of"Stone S ' " InW h'IC h two h ungrystranoup, gers, unable to procure food frorn wary villagers, set up a large iron ' b 01'1'Ing pot 0 f water an d b egIn ..Ingre d'lents f or stones. Th ey so I'IClt their "stone soup," and with contributions from the villagers, :l nourishing meal is produced.

In the same spirit, Sister Anton,~ asked for contributions to tho: "stone soup" of Salve Regina';; future: such ingredients as intellec· tual curiosity, love of learning, commitment to the teaching mis·· sion, dialogue, and innovation.

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The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is conducting an ad campaign in Boston's subway system criticizing condom distribution in public schools. Some 200 ads will appear for several weeks on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority'S Orange, Red, and Blue lines. The ads emphasize the inconsistency, irresponsibility, and hypocrisy of educators, health officials, politicians and homosexual activists who urge students to abstain from drinking, smoking. and taking drugs, but who refuse to give the same advice about sexual relations.

Catholic League Operations Director c.J. Doyle stated: "It is not the lack of condoms, but the absence of values that threatens students. Condom distribution programs in schools, most of which are carried out without parental consent, usurp the right of parents to control the moral and religious upbringing of their children, undermine the integrity of families, and foster the very behavior that condom proponents purport to be concerned about. The religious freedom rights of parents and students are violated as the state encourages students, against the wishes of their parents, to engage in behavior contrary to their religious beliefs.

"Through the use of public funds and public facilities, taxpayers are forced to subsidize behavior many find morally objectionable. It is not anxiety over student health risks, but interest group ideology, that is driving this deplorable public policy."

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WASHINGTON(CNS) Pope John Paul II praised the "profoundly Catholic spirit" of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate in a message and blessing marking the center's 30th anniversary. .

CARA was established in Washington in 1965 as an independent national Catholic research agency.

Since 1989 it has been affiliated with Georgetown University.

It has provided professional planning and research services to dioceses, religious orders and other church institutions on a wide range of issues, from planning for future religious life to tracking U.S. seminary enrollments, from analyzing new developments in lay ministry to assessing changing patterns of parish life.

One of its best-known national projects is its quarter-century old annual collection and analysis of data on U.S. Catholic seminaries.

Since 1988 it has also collected data on formation programs and candidates from all U.S. men's and women's religious orders.

In addition to studies on church trends, planning and policy, it has done over 100 research projects tailored to the needs of particular dioceses, religious communities or Catholic organizations.

CARA executive director Gerald H. Early said current CARA projects include "a study on alcoholism among men and women religious and a directory of programs fortraining lay people."

Options for retirement

11 SUSAN L. CALDWELL has been named administrator of Madonna Manor, North At1.leboro.

She has served as the nursing home's assistant administrator for the last two years and was its personnel director for five years.

Mrs. Caldwell received her Massachusetts nursing home administrator license in December 1992 after having completed an administrator-in-training program at Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River.

Mrs. Caldwell sees herself as part of a very dedicated, caring and competent team. She plans to lead her team "in continuing the quality care that Madonna Manor has always provided as well as meeting the ever-changing needs of our residents,"-she said.

AN orth Attleboro resident, she is currently enrolled in the graduate program at Bryant College, where she is pursuing a master's degree in business administration.

Madonna Manor's services include skilled nursing care, rehabilitative programs, physical, occupational and speech therapies, hospice care, pain management services and therapeutic activities.

If your 65th birthday is drawing near and you haven't decided whether to retire or to keep on working, you may want to consider how your Social Security benefits will be affected by your decision. There are three options you'll want to keep in mind. , Option One One option is to retire and begin collecting monthly benefits immediately. If there is a cost-of-living adjustment, your benefit amount will increase each December and be reflected in the January checks.

MADONNA MANOR'S new administrator, Susan Caldwell, enjoys the outdo6rs with resident Paul Hutton.

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•••• BILL NEVES, owner of Whaling City Tours, offered a bus tour of historic sites in New Bedford and Fairhaven for residents of Our Lady's Haven, Fairhaven.

Neves contacted the nursing home with the offer because he "wanted to give the tour to people who would really enjoy it," he said.

The hour-and-a-half bus tour took a group of residents to the historic New Bedford waterfront, the Ernestina, the Fairhaven fishing docks, Fort Phoenix, Poverty Point, Riverside Cemetery and Dorothy Cox's Chocolates. Neves' godmother, Marguerite Canastra, narrated the tour and described each site's historic significance.

• • • * LORIJ.B. MAHONEY has been named the Manor's new personnel director..

Ms. Mahoney will be responsible for recruiting, screening and orientation of new employees. She will also administer compensa,tion and benefit programs, maintain employee files and assist department heads in handling employee relations issues as needed.

She has had sev<;ral years experience in various human resources agencies. At Family Resources, Woonsocket, she was human resources administrator. Ms. Ma-

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A: Families today are often ty for Human Resource Manageseparated by many miles, but long ment as a professional in human resources (PHR). Ms. Mahoney distances don't have to become serves on Mado'nna Manor's safety barriers to arranging for care. Regardless of where you live in Mascommittee. sachusetts, you can call the ElderLine toll-free at 1-800-AGE-INFO (1-800-243-4636). The ElderLine will locate the Area Agency on Aging (AAA) that serves the parsupervisor and assistant director ticular city or town about which of nursing. you are calling, in New Jersey or Having a Party any other state: In fact, the ElderSacred Heart Home will celeLine often responds to Massachubrate the birthdays of Alphonsine setts callers who have relatives in Ross and Laura Bessette at an Oct. another part of ttie state.

21 gathering. Miss Ross, who turns The ElderLine now offers a new 109 on Oct. 29, is New Bedford's service, called "Direct-Connect," that connects you immediately and oldest resident. Mrs. Bessette celedirectly to that AAA which serves brated her 100th birthday Oct. 3. your parents' home town. The call Miss Ross came to the United to the ElderLine is free, and so is States as a child and lived in the "Direct-Connect."

LaCrosse, Wis., before her family For example, if a son living in settled in New Bedford. She was Springfield wants to find out about the fifth of seven daughters, all Rest Homes for his mother living muscially talented, who formed an in Fall River, he can make a tollorchestra. "The Seven Ross Sisfree call to the ElderLine, which ters" performed at ma,ny church will "Direct-Connect" him to Brisand other functions. tol Elder Services, Inc. (BES) Mrs. Bessette, a New Bedford native, is one of four children of and the long-distance phone call Paul and Eliza (Dext~aze) Casa- will not appear on the son's telephone bill. BES' Information and vant, who owned a drugstore and Referral Department will then re. sporting goods shop.

She married George Bessette, a view with the son the appropriate pharmacist she met through the facilities in Fall River, and can offer alternatives for Home Care family business, in 1928.

She was long an involved mem- as well.

Q: Can the ElderLine help me ber of St. Anthony's parish, New Bedford, and the Dames Patron- even ifl'm not sure what I'm looking for? nesses of Sacred Heart Home.

A: Yes - especially if you don't Mrs. Bessette's closest friend, Yvonne Dube, who resided with know where to begin. AC,cording her after Mrs. Bessette's husband to national consumer surveys, the died in 1955, also now lives at elder care service'most wanted by families is access to information Sacred Heart Home.

OUR LADY'S HAY, EN activity assistant Wanda Hardy welcomes resident Cecilia Serpa back from a bus tour of local historical sites.

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I Sister Lafrance, who was the first president of the New Bedford shapter of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses, is currently president of the diocesan and New England Councils of Catholic nutses.

Born in Nashua, NH, she ent!ered religious life in 1944 and earn1ed a nursing degree at Laval Univehity in Canada and a psychology de1gree from Rivier College in Nashua.

She worked in Canadian hdspita:s until 1962, when she Iwas assigned to Sacred Heart Home for a year. Then, for 18 years,\ she was a nurse at the Franco American School in Lowell.

She returned to Sacred Heart Home as nursing supervisor ~nd then patient care plans coordinator. She is also the home's eutharistic minister and writes forjthe newsletter.

Julia A. ,Wilkinson, RN, c., succeeds Sister Therese Berge lon, who retired recently, as director of nursing.

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Option Two A second option is to delay your retirement. If you do, you'll be increasing the amount of the Social Security benefit you will eventually receive. If you continue working beyond age 65, you'll increase your benefit in two ways: • First, each additional year you work adds anothe'r year of earnings to your Social Security record. Higher lifetime earnings may result in higher benefits when you retire.

• Second, your benefit will be increased by a specific percentage (that varies depending on your year of birth) for each month that you delay retirement and don't collect Social Security benefits.

For example, if you were born in 1929,4.5 percent will be added to your benefit amount (3/8 of one percent per month) for each year you do not collect Social Security benefits.

Option Three Under the third option, you might decide to continue working and you could still get all of your Social Security benefits as long as your earnings don't ex ceed the limits established by law. This year, for example, a beneficiary between ages 65 and 69 can earn as much as $11,160 during the year and still collect full Social. Security benefits.lfyouearnmorethan$II,160, $1 in benefits is withheld for every $3 in earnings over that amount.

Therefore, even if you have relatively substantial earnings, you can receive some Social Security benefits. The amount you can earn without having benefits withheld increases each year. Wt.en you reach age 70, your benefits will not be reduced because of ,your earnings. And, because the amount of your accumulated earnings increases while you're working, your benefit will be recomputed periodically, generally resulting in an even higher benefit.

A Personal Decision Deciding when to retire is a very personal decision - one that usually takes a lot of thought. To help you decide, you may want to call social security's toll-free number, 1-800-772-1213, to get a written estimate of the benefits you're eligible to receive. You also can call that number to set up an appointment to talk with a Social Security representative at your local Social Security office.

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that will help them make informed decisions about the service:s they need. The ElderLine is a nonprofit information and referral hotline for Massachusetts conS'llmers, but it does not sell services, and does not require purchases or any membership. The ElderLint: helps families get the information they need - and simplifies an other:-vise time~consuming·and frustrat109 process.

For example, you may have heard about Assisted Living Residences (ALR), and would like more information about them and. their locations throughout Massachusetts. There are at least 45 A LRs which combine housing with personal care services for individuals who do not need a nursing home, but who are also no longer a':>le to live independently at home. They are not government regulatl~d or licensed, so consumers should visit several before deciding on anyone in particular.

Still, the ElderLine can "D::rectConnect" you with the AAA serving the cities and towns in which you are most interested. YOll can then learn differences between ALRs and other housing or t.ome care alternatives, address any specific concerns you may have, and obtain a list of ALRs as well as other relevant agencies and :;ervices in that area.

For information on other elder issues and programs, contact the BES Information' and Referral Department at either (508) 6752101 or 1-800-427-2101.

... '. TH{ANCH6'R:'::"':Dioc~s~ of }:fail River~Fri., Oct. (4, 1994'

St. Vincent's Home festival set St. Vincent's Home, Fall River, will hold its fourth annual Children's Festival beginning at 9 a.m.

Oct. 23. The day of family entertainment will feature games, roving performers, refreshments and a "Grandma's Attic."

Also included will be the "For Kids' Sake" walk-a-thon beginning at II a.m. and benefiting St. Vincent's, We Love Children, and local Catholic schools and agencies.

Boston Red Sox pitcher and Seekonk native Ken Ryan will be the walk's grand marshal and will sign autographs a(erward.

Joe Cassidy, founder of We Love Children, will walk the first 500 feet with Mayor John Mitchell, who will complete the walk for Cassidy. We Love Children is an organization which assists seriously ill children.

Registration and sponsorship forms will be available at the walk.

For more information, contact St. Vincent's Development Office at 679-7994.

usee joins drive for parents' input in education WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. Catholic Conference is joining U.S. Education Secretary Richard Riley in his campaign to encourage parental involvement in childrcn's education.

The campaign, still in the planning, will involve a broad-based partnership of his department, the National Coalition for Parent Involvement, the usec and several other organizations.

In announcing the partnership, Riley also released an Education Department report, "Strong Families, Strong Schools." Based on 30 years of research, it shows the link between children's learning and increased family involvement.

Riley said the report reveals that parents can make a difference in their children's success in school by making sure their children go to school each day, reading with them and limiting their television viewing.

He also stressed that parents should spend time with their children by establishing a daily family routine, talking with them about the dangers of drugs and alcohol, checking thcir homework and overseeing their after-school activities.

"This is homework in the true sense of the word. It is also preparation for life," he said.

Riley has been urging parental involvement since his "State of American Education" address in February. Such involvement is also included among the Goals 2000 initiative that outlines what students should be a ble to achieve in English, math, science and other subjects by 2000.

Mercy Sister Lourdes Sheehan, education secretary for the U.S. bishops, told Catholic News Service that Riley does not see parental involvement so much as a "program, but an awareness that something needs to be done."

She stressed the importance of Catholic participation in the campaign, saying that the key to success of Catholic schools has been parental involvement. But she noted that "(I lo'c of Catholic kids are in public schools, so I feel it's a responsibility to he a part of this."

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LES MIS BENEFIT: Pictured after a performance ofLes Miserables at the Providence Performing Arts Center are St. Vincent's Home unit directors Mark Browne and Rita Capotosto, left and right; executive director Father Joseph Costa; and Bishop Sean O'Malley. St. Vincent's sold tickets for the performance and a following reception with the bishop to benefit the children of the home.

Synod speakers Continued from Page One Father Brown, in his speech to the synod, outlined some characteristics of strong organizations of consecrated life.

"They' select outstanding leaders with realistic and compelling vision," he said. !'They address critical needs that would otherwise remain un met. They are focused with distinct boundaries. They are faithful to their charism and mission, and they live with spiritual intensity."

Many of the bishops emphasized the need for religious to be prophetic through the strength of . their witness to' Gospel values and their involvement with the poor and oppressed.

"Religious life will only continue to have meaning, and therefore a' future, if it is clearly experienced as being directly involved in the truly critical issues of our time," said Bishop Kevin Dowling of Rustenburg, South Africa.

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praye~BOX Prayer for the Pope Father, we pray for your protection a~d guidance over our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II. Give him strength and wisdom to stand as a prophet for our times. May hie be a light in darkness around which we gather in hope. We ask you to bring about reconciliation througl;t his faithful teaching of peace and justice. Grant him compassion and care to live the Gospel in love and service to all people, Let him follow in the path of Peter and Paul who, filled with the Holy Spirit, preached that the Lord saves all who call upon his name (Acts 2/21; Rom. 10/13). Amen,

said, "the single option of the consecrated person is for Jesus himself."

Women Cardinals?

Bishop Ernest Kombo of Owando, Congo, told the synod he hoped it would be inspired with "a prophetic attitude, which could lead to the nomination of women to positions of responsibility, including to the highest posts in the hierarchy, as lay cardinals if possible."

Actually, until this century, lay men could be named cardinals, and some who held high Vatican posts, received the honor. They often were named for their expertise in dealing with church temp.oral affairs.

One of the last was Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli, the Vatican secretary of state under Pope Pius IX. He attended the Rome seminary and was ordained a deacon before embarking on a long career of resolving difficulties with church finances and tense relations with various governments. He was named a cardinal in 1847 without being ordained a priest or bishop and was secretary of state until his death in 1876.

After 1918 only priests could be named cardinals. Later, Pope John XXIII decreed that if a priest was named to the College of Cardinals, he had to be ordained a bishop before he could be installed.

That rule was incorporated into the 1983 Code of Canon Law, but Pope John Paul II has permitted several elderly priests he has named as cardinals to forgo episcopal ordination.

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Jury still out DETROIT (CNS) - The Vatican-appointed commission examining the views on homosexuality of Father Robert Nugent and Sister Jeannine Gramick reported recently that it has met three times so far and is "currently formulating its findings in writing." Archbishop Adam J. Maida of Detroit is head of the commission. Father Nugent, a Salvatorian priest, and Sister Gramick, a School Sister of Notre Dame, have been engaged in a special ministry to the lesbian and gay community since the 1970s. A one-page statement on the commission's examination described the process so far but gave no hint of the commission's findings. It was released by the Detroit archdiocesan Department of Communications on behalf of the commission.

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The Oct. 8-9 ceremony, the culmination of the International Year of the Family, was marked by a festive mood as more than 150,000 pe'ople from 130 countries packed St. Peter's Square for an evening of singing and dancing and for Sunday Mass the next morning.

The pope, looking refreshed and buoyed by the crowd, joked about his age and spoke off-the-cuff about a topic dear to his heart: the family in modern society. Despitl: the good efforts of many, he said, "today's family is seriously threatened. And how could the church not be worried?"

In his evening talk Oct, 8, the pope said the church was working to protect couples from a "hedonistic selfishness"· that drains the vitality of families.

He criticized a tendency, which he said was evident at the recent U.N. conference on population and development, to distort the meaning of the family by removing it from the context of marriage.

All this represents a great danger for humanity because of the family's role as the basic cell of society and the first place offormatiol1 for individuals, he said.

"Faced with the cultural and social decay presently taking place, in the presence ofthe spread of ills such as violence, drugs and organ-

TENS OF THOUSANDS of families holding candles pack St. Peter's Square during last weekend's internationall festival for families. Some 130 countries were represented at the two-day event. (eNS/ Reuters photo)

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ized crime, what better of prevention and liberation is there than a united family, m9rally healthy and socially involved?" he said. , .

I Lookmg out on the tens of thousands of families in St. Pkter's Square, the pope said that rtever b,:fore has the "heroism of ehryday life" been so require~· of believers, who are askedt? go "against the current with regard to the worl?'S way of thinkin g:"\ He said he would ildd his own

contribution in publishing an encyclical on human life, dealing with abortion and other pro-life issues, expected toward the end of the year. , The pope improvised much of his speech, and as he worried aloud about exceeding his time limit, two small children interrupted the ceremony by walking up to his chair. The pope, smiling broadly, hugged them and asked them where they were from, and said his speech could wait.

The program included testimonies from several couples, who explained in simple terms some of the everyday problems they faced in ~aisin~. ~hildren and keeping their famlhes together.

One couple that did not make it to the platform were Cyprien and Daphrose Rugamba, who were killed along with six of their 10 children in Rwanda last April. The Rugambas had been scheduled to s~are t~eir reflec~ions on raising.a big Afncan family. Two of their

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As darkness fell, tens (if thousands of candles were lit for an unusual "Ave Maria" pelformed by a Jewish singer from Israel, Achinoam Nini, better known as Noa. The pope, wrapped in a red cloak against the evening cDld, listened attentively to the words, which were written during the Persian Gulf War: "Mary, I know you hl:ar the sounds of war. Look at the torches we're lighting in the search for peace and freedom."

In a Mass broadcast to some 30 countries the next morning, the pope led couples in the renewal of their marriage vows, then greeted families in 31 languages.

Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, whose Pontifical Council for the Family sponsored the event, announced at the Mass that the ,:hurch would try to sponsor the building of three major children's centers to help street kids and orphans around the world: in Sao Salvadore da Bahia, Brazil; in Manila, the Philippines; and in Rwanda, where recent ethnic fighting has left many young people without parer..ts.

The Vatican ceremonies were preceded by an international congress on the family at Rome's Lateran University. Several participants said that while lip s,~rvice is paid to family values in their native countries, anti-family policies continue.

Participants in the Vatican meetings suggested that the pope's encounter with families from around the world be establisbed as a regular event, perhaps every three years.

Two Vaticarits: the real and the mythical .VATICAN CITY (CNS) _. At VI died of a heart attack sbven acy, it even offered a couple of can~idates: ,It~lian <;ardinal C:arlo times this fall, i~ has seemed there years later, at age ~O. must be two ~atlc~ns: one real,. the Pope John. :aul s health Pfob- Mana MartlOl.of Milan a!1d N~gerother largely Imagmary. lems, accordmg to the Vaqcan ian-born Cardmal FrancIs Annze.

Longtime Vatican watchers,.

The Vatican ofjournalistic myth-. spokesman, are limited ~o the t~igh however ology was a buzzing hive of appre- bone he broke , last Apnl. Rumors , t ' know another age-old more senous papal ailments, adage about the fate of papal hension , political scheming and of . . , I maneuvering for the next papal whIch. the Vatican has demedI sev- favorites' "Whoever enters a con' conclave . Top cardinals were al-· eral times, make the rounds of curclave a pope comes out a card i, " '. ready said to be drawing up· short : lal offices,. too, but Without fmdmg nal " Whatever Cardinal Martini's . \. chances in the future , they were lists for a successor to the ailing ma.ny behevers.

Pope John Paul II, while most of M?st .figure ,that as .Iong as th.e certainly not helped byThe Guardthe Curia moped in an "end-of- po:ntl~f IS out I~ public, - al~elt ian article, which praised his "relatiregime" gloom. hobbling - things can t be that vist approach to the faith" and called him "the chef of a la carte The real Vatican didn't live up bad. But they also r~member Ith.e Catholicism." to such dramatic scenarios. In fa.ct, age:old ad~g.e reflect 109 the VatlAnother frequently mentioned it was a place where people went C~Jl s tradltl.onal rel.~ctancel to about their business as usual. Yet, d~vul.ge p~palillness~~: Every pope candidate is Brazilian Cardinal .

I Lucas Moreira Neves, well-seathey were concerned about the dies In good health.

A few step~ from. St. Pe~f~'s soned in the Rome Curia and suppope's slow-healing leg, but most gave credence to his doctors' state- Sql~are: a s~Olor Va~lca~ offl?lal posedly the conservative standardments that the 74-year-old pontiff sat In hiS office and .d~s~lssed talk ·bearer. He's already 69, though, of.~)re-eoncl~ve ~os~tIOOlng..

Cardi?al Arinze, the Nigerian ~ho would bounce back.

Any suggestion that curial mon.The Vatican IS h.ke ~ u~lver~e c~ordlnate~ the, church relatlO~s signors a'nd their bosses were ofhttle planets all splnOlng 10 tHeir With Mushms, IS only 61 and IS already jockeying to pick the next own orbit. I don't know wh~n ~e'd often named as the leading Afripope was either vehemently denied get together to do all thiS plr t - can contender. or greeted with hoots of laughter. ting," he said.

I But Vatican insiders know it's "It's just not a topic here. People The n~xt ~ope is a topic of e?d-. too early to pick favorites. For one would look at you and say, 'What, less .fasclnatlOn to many on the thing, the pope is expected to are you crazy? He could live another outSide,. however. A number lof name a new batch of ca.rdinals 20 years,'" said one employee in repor~ers recently came to Ro~e before the end of the year, mcludthe Apostolic Palace. to wnte ab.out the pope and hiS ing 24 new potential electors in a "W or k'109 here over t he years, expected . ."tnp - later canceled I conclave . to the UOlted "That's going to mean a .whole ., . Nations and. severa I you hear so many rumors th a t you .

'1 thO II U.S. CitIes. Many of their quesnew landscape" as far as any ten d to walt untl lOgS rea y . . tlOns looked past thiS papacy to potential conclave is concerned happen. Th ere ' s no rea It a Ik a b ou t the , . . . ' next one said one Vatican offiCial. successors. It's rather blah, b u t ' that's the way it is," said a member An article in th~ London ne"1'sof a Vatican congregation. papt:r, The Guardian, was notabllY One Curia veteran laughed and blunt.. recalled that when he was leaving "The intimations of mortality for studies in Rome as a seminall'- are t:verywhere," it began, bef9re ian in 1971, Pope Paul VI had jmlt sketc:hing the qualities it considered had prostate surgery. Everyone needful for Pope John Paul's sJctold him, "It will be so exciting for cessor. After calling for a mo~e JOU • .Y.ou'll.see•. ~"c~m~I{l,y~.:'J~~1Al ~cj).H~gi.aJ ... J~ss auth<;>ritarian pap:- ','

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At times there is talk about posSl'ble papa I re t'Iremen.t P 0 I'IS h sour. I" ces c Iose t 0 th e ".lOner clrc e say th'd e I ea has no t b eenirud e ou t as a h'IS t onc . s t ep I'f th e pope were t 0 b tl ecome ru y'mcapaci't a ted a t some . t pOlo. .

But Pope John Paul has made It

clear that he's not ready for retirement yet, and on the contrary expects to ~e the pope. who !eads the church mto the third 'mlllen. nium. Alr~a~y he's laid plans to travel to blbhcallands . . to mark the . event and IS prepanng . ,. an apo:>tohc f letter on, the slgOlflcance 0 the . . millenmal anOlversary for the church. " The pope s looking ahead to the ~uture and he plans to be a pmt of It.

Forget supplies, end war, says prie:st ZAGREB, Croatia (CNS) if we have food in Split and no Father Pero Pranjic spends large . money, it's useless to send it. Many amounts of time dealing with the areas are occupied by Serbs, and frustrating bureaucracy that has truck·s don't have free passage." grown up around the effort to get He said Caritas, the international basic supplies to refugees, umbrella group for church aid When asked how Americans agencies, pays the truck drivers, could help, he said the best assist- and Catholic Relief Services has ance would be not food, but help donated food and the money to with gaining peace so relief flights transport it. wouldn't be needed.

Drivers often must take cin:ui"We don't need your food and tous routes, he said, and even open your medical care. We need peace," roads can be dangerous. Sometimes Serbs and Muslitns who stop said Father Pranjic, vicar for refugees in the archdiocese of Sarajevo, the trucks take the contents, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. occasionally kill the drivers, he The priest, formerly a canon said.

"One time, Muslims took 15 lawyer at Sarajevo University, has spent more than 18 months in trucks, and we never got them Croatia, helping refugees and actback," he said. "No trucks, no ing as a liaison between Bosnian food, no drivers - nothing. Each bishops and the Vatican, truck charged $850 [in advance] to He spoke of his frustration with transport goods and supplies into Bosnia." a system that requires permission from Serbs, Muslims and the UniIf supplies finally do arrive after ted Nations to move supplies. a perilous journey, sometimes dates Often"supplies for Sarajevo are on food and medicines have t:xtaken to Split, Croatia, for truck pired, he said. transport, Father Pranjic said, "Don't send us any more cans," "From January to June we spent Father Pranjic said, because when $400,000 for transport of supplies the dates have expired, "we must , he said. "We dt:m'tlWY.t<,\l.W,ll:t;y,.s.o•. " t.h.r.~,~.~~.~.'!1 a,lI,~~.l.lX:~~.: ,

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Alll01zg tIle hierarchy POPE JOHN PAUL II has named Bishop Francis X. Dilorenzo as bishop of the diocese of Honolulu. He has been apostolic administrator of the diocese for the past year.

The appointment was announced Oct. 4 in Washington by Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan, papal pro-nuncio to the United States.

Bishop Delorenzo, 52, is a native of Philadelphia. He was an auxiliary bishop in Scranton, Pa., before his transter to Hawaii.

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BISHOP VINCENT M. leonard, head of the Pittsburgh diocese from 1969 to 1983, died Aug. 28 at the little Sisters of the Poor Home in Pittsburgh. He was 85 years old. His funeral Mass was celebrated Sept. I at St. Paul Cathedral.

Born in Pittsburgh Dec. II, 1908, Vincent Martin leonard was ordained June 16, 1935, after studies at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where he did graduate studies in psychology, and St. Vincent Seminary in latrobe.

He was named auxiliary bishop of Pittsburgh Feb. 28, 1964, and ordained a bishop April 21, 1964.

Five years later he was made ninth bishop of Pittsburgh, succeeding Cardinal John Wright, who had been transferred to Rome as head of the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy.

•••• CARDIN AL ALBERT Decourtray, the French primate regarded as a broad-minded conscience of the church, died Sept. 16 after a cerebral hemorrhage.

I n a telegram expressing his condolences, Pope John Paul II called the late cardinal an "impassioned pastor" who was "attentive to the poorest, fervent in the search for unity among 'believers and generous in promoting solidarity."

Cardinal Decourtray, 71, was an outspoken leader of French Catholicism, although his voice was frail from throat cancer.

Cardinal Decourltray was president of the French bishops' conference from 1987 to 1990. During that time, he supported a Palestinian state as a solution to the violence in Israeli-ocl:upied territories and favored security for Israel.

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He became head of the lyons archdiocese in 1981 and PopeJohn Paul made him a cardinal in 1985.

H is death brings to 98 the number of cardinals eligible to elect a pope.

•••• A FUNERAL MASS was celebrated Sept. 13 for, Bishop John M. Bilock, admini~trator of the Byzantine archdiocese of Pittsburgh since 1993, at St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Munhall, Pa. Bishop Bilock, 78, died Sept. 8 at St. Francis Medical Center in lawrenceville, Pa. A priest since 1946 and a bishop since 1973, he was elected administrator of the archdiocese in April 1993 after Archbishop Thomas V. Dolinary died.

The Pittsburgh archdiocese serves some 100,000 Ruthenian Catholics of the Byzantine rite, mainly in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio.

It is one of four ByzantineRuthenian dioceses in the United States.

John M. Bilock was born June 20,1916, in McAdoo, Pa. and was ordained a priest by Bishop Basil Takach of Munhall.

Funding Qpposed SANTA FE, N,M. (CNS) New Mexico's Catholic bishops affirmed their opposition to a proposed change in regulations that would expand state funding of abortions to cover those deemed "medically necessary." In a statement at a public hearing, the bishops said as citizens and religious leaders they "decry the use of our tax dollars for the 'taking of innocent human life." New Mexico's Department of H'uman Services has proposed expanding its medical coverage for the poor to pay for abortions deemed medically necessary. Currently the state covers only abortiorts to save the mother's life or when the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest.

That amounts to fewer than a dozen abortions p,er year, according to state authorities.

Indian clerics slain

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Oct. 14, 1994

RANCHI, India (CNS) - Unidentified armed men killed two priests and a seminarian in Bihar state in a bloody midnight attack.

The assailants forced their way into the priests' residence in Karondabera parish, about 770 miles southeast of New Delhi, and "brutally murdered" the three, Archbishop Telesphore Toppo of Ranchi told UCA News, a Thailand-based Asia church news agency.

The attackers reportedly stabbed Father lawrence Kujur, 69, to death and beheaded Father Joseph Dungdung, 43. Seminarian Anup Amar Indwar, 25, was found with . his skull blown off.

According to reports received in Ranchi, some 15 unidentified people in a jeep and van appeared about midnight and apparently attacked people indiscriminately.

Neighbors told reporters they heard the priests pleading with the attackers to take whatever they wanted from the parish and spare their lives.

Archbishop Toppo said police took two persons into custody.

One of those detained is Ajit Kiro, a former student of the school run by Father Kujur who had been expelled for misconduct. Police sources in Gumla said they suspect the motive for the murders was vengeance.

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I autographs for students at Holy Family-Holy Name Scnool, New Bedford, Sept. 30; at right, the former' football pro fields questiops from stude~ts at Taunton Catholic Middle School. Now a lawyer, Godfrey was a profeSSIOnal .

Merit progratrl'commended students named Seven diocesan high' school students have been recognized as commended students in the 1995 National Merit Scholarship Program.

Two of the students. JodieR. Pietruska of Westport and Melanie A. Poisson of Fail River. attend8ishop Connolly High School', Fall River. Commended students from Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, are Megan Collins and Theresa Gordon of Wrentham, Robert Cox of Seekonk, Ellen .Woo~s of Mansfield, and Martin . Wyspianski of Aftleboro.

Each of the·students receives a letter of commendation, from the National Merit Scholarship corporation.

Commended students are those who placed among the top five percent of the more than one million who took the 1993 Pr.eliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The test scores of these 35,000 students were excellent, but slightly below the level required to continue in competition for 1995 National Merit Scholarships.

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football player for nine years, during which he played in the 1987 Superbowl for the New York Giants.

His visit to the diocese, coordinated by Marian Desrosiers (at right in left photo) of the Diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate, also included stops at SS. Peter and Paul School~ Fall River, and St. Joseph's S~hool, New Bedford.

. dia1meter, and shell thickne~s. She then summoned skills frob this exercise in English class. .

She gave each student a potato "to get to know." After noting distinguishing characteristics, students had to wri!te "precise descriptions" of their potatoes - which wde put to the test. All the potatoes 'were placed ina pile 'and each student, one, by one, read his or her description alobd, while another student had to pick out the potato beihg described. ",Besides having a lot of fun with the lesson, the class learned that simple descriptive words sometimes are not endugh to distinguish one thing from another," Ms. Ri9uX commented. "They learned the value of tools like figures of speech, specific dimensions, and how impor~ tant word choice can be. Even in English class, the 'scientist! must be present."

and Tracy Jackson took the opportunity to practice basketball during the summer· as members of Amateur Athletic Union teams.

Miss St. Martin, iii her second year of AA U com petition, traveled to Shreveport, La., as a member of th(: Bay State Magic 15~and~under team. The 5'9" guard, who averaged 19.5 points per game for Stang last winter, helped her team to If 4-4 record in the tournament.

Carrier, who averaged 14 points per game as a freshman forward for Stang's boys' varsity team, participated in his fifth AAU competition. The New Bedford Buddies traveled to Oklahoma City and finished tenth.

Miss Jackson had no sooner kicked the dirt out of her state championsoftball'spikes when practice for th'e 14and-under Bay State Magic AAU team commenced. In her second year of AA U play, the shortstop-turned-point guard helped her team to a ninth place finish in the national finals in Cocoa Beach, Fla.

Coyle and Cassidy High

St. James-St. John NEW BEDFORD - Developing· team play, encouraging good sportsmanship and bringing boys and girls at different grade levels together for some healthy athletic· competition are the goals ofSt. James-St. John intramural after school sports program, directed by principal Ed Borges. 128 boys and girls, nearly 80 percent of those eligible to play, signed up for either volleyball or floor hockey. The junior division includes grades two through four. Grades five through eight make up the senior division.

St. James-St. John students are getting a taste of the Bard and a bit of bah humbug this fall at the Trinity Repertory Company. Grades seven and eight plan to follow up an Oct. 12 theater outing to Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale with Charles Dicken's a Christmas .Carol on Dec. 13.

Grades five and six from St. James-St. John joined· nearly 200 other students Sept. 30 for a drug education program presented by a profc:ssional learn from St. Luke's Hospital. Titled "Life, Drugs, Death - Treatment by Emergency Medical Services," the program offered several perspectives on the problems associated with drug use. In addition to a skit demonstrating how to say no to drugs, physicians, ambulance personnel, counselors and a chaplain talked about the dangers of illegal drugs.

Contingents from three other schools also attended the hour-long program, held at Holy Family-Holy Name· School.

A science class on Charles Darwin's theories evolved into an unusual lesson in descriptive language for the sixth grade students.

To introduce the idea of the scientific: investigation, which led Darwin to his theory about the development of new species, teacher Jane E. Rioux asked students to classify 20 peanuts by their shape, mass, color, length,

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BiSHOP STANG student council officers are, from left, 1ecretary Jennifer Lussier, treasurer Charlie Green, vice Ipresident Michelle Neves. and president Colleen Carn'ey.

Bishop Stang High N0RTH DARTMOUTH - Stude~t council officers for 1.994-95 are president Colleen Carney, vice president Mich1elle Neves, secretary Jennifer Lussier, all seniors, and t~easurer Charlie Green, a junior.

M i~s Carney, a South Dartmouth resident, is also cocaptaiin of the soccer team and;a member ofthe tennis and ski teams, Students Against Drunk Driving (SADD), camp1us ministry and the chess club.

Mi~s Neves. who resides in Fairhaven, is a participant in StDD, campus ministry, Amnesty International, drama club and the yearbook cOinmittee. A talented ~inge+ s~e performs ~or various local audiences, includIng nursing home·resldents.

Misk Lussier resides· in Fall River, where she is a membbrof St. William's youth grou·p. At Stang she participatbs in the National Honor Society, SADD, yearbook bommittee, Citizen Bee Club, Amnesty International.l volleyball and basketball.

Green, a Fairhaven resident, is co-captain of the cross I countrlY team and a member of the hockey team and Outin Club. This is his third year on the student council.

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TA~NTON - Midway through the fall sports season, many Coyle and Cassidy teams and athletes are enjoying success.

The Lady Warrior volleyball team is enjoying its most successful season in many years with a 8-5 record heading into the final weeks of the regular season. The CC wo men -are coming off a big upset win over previously undefeated Bishop Feehan.

In girls' soccer, the Lady Warriors stand in second place in the Eastern Athletic Conference and have a big victory over perennial powerhouse Bishop Stang to their credit so far this season. Freshman Shaina Zamaitis of Middleboro is the team's leading scorer and the conference's fourth leading scorer with six points.

The boys' soccer team is having its best season (:ver with the Warriors currently in third place in the EAC. Junior Eric Hager of Middleboro is the league's sec,)nd ·best scorer with 10 goals and two assists.

Senior Rick Thomas of Middleboro has a goalsagainst average of 2.00 in the net for the Warriors.

In boys' cross-country, juniors Rich Aaron of Middleboro and Art Silva of Raynham are among the lop runners' in the conference at this-juncture of the season.

Aar-on has two wins in the season and recently broke the course record on CC's home turf.

Junior Patricia Murphy of Lakeville c.ontinues her outstanding running on the girls' cross-country squad.

Murphy owns two first place ribbons thus far.

The football team has players among the conference leaders in various statistical categories. Junior Kem Nwosu of Bridgewater has scored five touchdowns and has averaged 75 yards rushing per game, good for third place among the leaders.

At quarterback, junior Steve Rivers of Berkley is the conference's third leading passer, Senior Rob Kinner of Middleboro is the leader in receptions with 14 The Warrior football underclassmen have been making great strides. The junior varsity team is currently undefeated with a 4-0 record while the freshman team boasts a 3-1 at the halfway mark.

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WILD NIGHT As )'OIJI brush your shoes And stand before your mirror And you comb your hair And grab your coat and hat And walk the streets Trying to remember All those wild nights Breeze through your mind And everything looks so complete When you're walking out on the street And the wind catches your feet And slmds you flying, crying Ooh, oo-ooh wee The wild night is caIling All thll girls walk by DreSSlld up for each other And the boys do the boogie woogie On the corner of the street And the people passing by Just stare with the wild wonder And ill1side the juke box Roars just ·like thunder . The wild night is caIling Come on out and dance Come on out and make romance Come on out and dance Come on out and make romance Produced by John Mellencamp, Michael Wanchic. Sung by John Mellencamp/Me' shell Ndegeocello (c) 1977 by Wb Music Corp./ Callendonia Soul Music (ASCAP), 1994 by John Mellencamp "WILD NIGHT" is John and says: "Come on out and Mellencamp's latest hit. My regdance. Come on out and make ular readers know that Ilike his romance." music.

Teens look forward to such The song describes a night out'· opportunities as times of advenon the town. In wday's enterture and fun. One may not be tainment scene, the juke box sure what the night will bring, that the song mentions has been but looking for a good time replaced by high-tech sound and with friends is of)e big ex peclight effects. Yet the feeling of tat ion. such an evening still reaches out As a young perSon begins an'

INITIAL STEPS Rachel Forrester leads the offertory procession at a Mass introducing St. Joseph's parish, Fairhaven, kindergarteners to religious education.

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ity prayed for the children and theirfamilies, Masscelebrant Father Leo King, SS. Ce., blessed each kindergarten student and distributed his or her religion class texts and supplies.

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evening out 'wIth friends, it helps to keep these guidelines in mind: I. If you want to be out late, discuss this with your parents.

Don't turn your evening into an episode of surprise and worry for those who love you. Establish a curfew that is acceptable to both you and your parents.

Such a negotiated understanding demonstrates that you respect your parents.

2. Remember that having fun doesn't depend on alcohol consumption. Alcohol is readily available and likely to be pushed upon you. Make up your mind ahead of time how you will handle peer pressure to drink.

Do not drive if you drink or ride with a driver who has been drinking. Too many fun nights have ended in tragedy because of alcohol.

3. Part of the fun is meeting lots of different people. However, not everyone holds values similar to yours. So be clear about what behaviors reflect your value system. Be strong enough to say no when someone asks you to do something that goes against your beliefs.

Don't ruin your fun by realizing the next morning that you feel guilty about failing to be the person that you want to be.

4. Finally, be true to your friends. Don't dump them because you meet a girl or guy that interests you. Sure, get a phone number or arrange to meet new acquaintances at a different time. But hurting peoples' feelings is not the path to fun and eventually will be an act that you regret.

Have fun, yes. But also be sure to have your thinking clear and straight about what kind of fun will leave you with a good feeling.

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, IN 47635.

At the end of the celebration, a large helium balloon, inscribed with all the children's names, was sent aloft from the front steps of the church.

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But you need not and should not run from everything you fear.

There are times when courage must take over and help you control the emotion of fear.

Maybe at school one of your assignments is to give a speech -and your stomach has at least a thousand butterflies. Fear may tell you to run, to stay home "sick" on the day of the speech. But courage urges you to grit your teeth, clench your fist and find a way to go through with the speech.

The truth is you can't really develop courage and become brave unless you experience fear - and conquer it.

But to ignore the dangers that fear warns you about, and to act in a spirit of reckless daring is not courage. It's foolhardiness. and it ean lead to injury or death.

Indeed there are times when courage has nothing to do with reckless daring. For example, it can take a brave spirit and stout heart to stick with and finish a long homework assignment. Sometimes it can take immense courage to say no to alcohol or pressures to have sex.

Our pop culture sends us many messages such as "no fear." It's good to examine them all critically and to accept none of them blindly.

For some could mess up your life badly.

By Tom Lennon I'm not afraid I'm not scared I'm tough I'm an animal And I will eat you If I have to NO FEAR That T-shirt message is loud and clear. The guy or gal who wears such a shirt claims to be absolutely fearless. A closer look at the T-shirt reveals that it was manufactured by an outfit known as No Fear Gear.

Another of their T-shirts offers this bit of bravado: Bottom of the ninth Down by three Bases loaded Full count. two 'outs NO FEAR Presumably these messages and some others are a bit tongue-incheek. Yet, they might brainwash the wearer and the viewer of the shirts with some eroneous ideas.

A person might get the notion that any trace offear in one's emotional makeup is a bad thing. The second message seems to suggest that a person should be able to . face all desperate situations and not be afraid in the least.

But is life really that way? And is it even a good idea to be totally without fear, to be filled with a spirit of utter reckless daring?

When there's a tornado alert, doesn't it make sense to take certain precautions instead of shouting "no fear"? Isn't it healthy and common sense to avoid occasions of sin and even to run from them if

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ST. PATRICK, FALMOU~H Respect Life program 7 p.m. Mondays in October includes Mas~, guest speaker and refreshments. AI retirement party.for Father Francis X. Wallace will be held following 11:15 a.m. Mass Oct. 23. Registration is now being accepted for Bibl~ study which will continue through Dec. II; information: rectory, 548t1065.

SAINT ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FR Winter junior volunteer ptogram is open to students in grade~ 9-12.

Volunteers will work 3 to 5: I~ p.m. one afternoon a week or 8 td II :45 a.m. Saturdays November tHrough May. Application deadline ~s Oct. 21. Information: volunteer department,674-5741.

CATHEDRAL CENTER of I[{[NEW AL, E. FREETOW~ Cathedral Center of Renewal at Cathedral Camp will offer e~ening of prayer with scriptural rosaty and e:xposition of Blessed Sacrament 7 t09 p.m. Oct. 18, Assumption thapd, Cathedral Camp retreat !house grounds. Information: 763-3994.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA Ladies of St. Anne's Sodality will ,host living rosary 7 p.m. Oct.119 in the church, followed by presenration on the decades of the rosary'by Dr. Owen McGowan. Refreshmen'ts will

SCOUTING, CAPE &.ISLANDS Cape Cod Catholic Committee on 'Scouting and Cape Cod Councils of Knights of Columbus will sponsor Mass for health of the Holy Father 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21, St. Pius X Church, S. Yarmouth. Retreat for Cu b Scou ts and Webelos of Cape and Islands 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 5, Camp Greenough, S. Yarmouth. Information: Joann Cabral, 548-6236.

Informational meetings on Catholic emblemprograms for Boy Scouts of all ages will be held 7 p.m. Nov. I, Christ the King parish, Mashpee; 7 p.m. Nov. 3, St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis; and 7 p.m. Nov. 6, St. Joan of Arc parish, Orleans.

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Dr. Fleet, aJormer member .of the LaSalette counseling center staff, is pastor of Edgewood Congregational Church in Cranston, R I. be served.

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O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Commissioned eucharistic ministers are needed to give communion to residents at Brewster Manor Nursing Home once a month; information:Bill Dowling, 896-3653. Ultreya meeting 7:30 tonight, parish center.

Altar Society at Immaculate Conception Church seeks volunteers to work a couple of hours a month to keep the church clean; information: Frances Malone, 896-2360.

Oct. 16. St. Pius X parish c. nter, Barbara St., S. Yarmouth. ~ideo, "Surviving Difficult People," will be shown. Newcomers welcomed a!t 6:30 . p.m. Information: 362-9873 ort 3852693.

SACRED HEART, NB Bishop O'Malley will celebrate parish's 120th anniversary M~ss 10 a.m. Oct. 30; brunch will foillow.

Reservations: Jeannine Sassdville, 992-6583, or'rectory, 993-1201, by Oct. 23. Vincentians are collecting nonperishable foods for holiday season in baskets at front and back of church and seek donations of c'oats, hats, gloves, and warm clothin1g for children in need; items may be lert at the rectory weekdays between 8\a. m. and 3 p.m.

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Dave Dumaine invites all young Oct. 26, parish ceriter; to register call people, including those not involved parish center office, 888-0209. Cathin a youth group or who feel aliolic Daughters of the Ameri,:as lunenated from the church. Those who cheon and meeting noon Oct. 24, play an instrument are invited to be parish center. ~art of th~ music .group for the ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON lIturgy: For mformatlOn call Brother Calix group for persons recoverDumame at 222-5410. ing from addictions will me:et 6:30 MARIAN MOVEMENT OF p.m Oct. 16, church hall. Bob O'Byck PRIESTS of Blue Cross and Blue Shidd will Father Stephano Gobbi of Milan, speak at Westside Seniors meeting Italy, founder of the Marian Move- 1:30 p.m. Oct. 20, church hall. ment of Priests, will speak on "What ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Our Lady is Saying to Her Church" Mass of anointing 2 p.m. Oct. 16.

7 p. m. Oct. 25 at SS. Peter and Paul Used sheets, pillowcases and blankets Cathedral in Providence, R I. Mass are needed by cancer pad group for and rosary will be included.

Rose Hawthorne Home; they may be dropped off at the rectory any CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE time.

Respect Life Committee is beginning a' "Rose Project" whereby a rose will be placed in front of the Blessed Sacrament by different volContinued from Page Eight unteers each weekend. The activity munity of learning where scholars will involve a commitment to prayer for unborn children throughout the and students gather to learn from week. Volunteers may sign up after one another. All else, however important, is secondary."

Masses this weekend. Information: Patricia Devlin, 477-0719. PresentaIn conclusion, she quotl:d the tion on vocations for women by Siswords of twin Sisters of Mercy ter Rosemary of the Sisters of the Eloise and Jean Tobin, Salve proResurrection 4 p.m. Sunday. fessors emeritae, who wrote a poem on the inaugural theme. Ii: conST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Bishop Sean O'Malley will lead cludes: annual Diocesan Council of CathoThus a pathway is laid open lic Women living rosary 7 p.m. Oct. to us, 17. Many area priests will also parThe far horizon beckons us ticipate in the rosary, which is dedibeyond these shores. cated to the priests completing the Let us then far~ forward Emmaus process. Participants should' arrive at the church by 6:30 p.m.; with faith as our compas:l DCCW meeting will follow rosary. and love as our lodestar.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS St. Francis of Peace Fraternity, West Harwich, annual mini-retreat 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 22, Sacred Hearts Seminary and Retreat Center, Wareham, with director Father' Larry Morrison, SS.CC.Information: Dorothy Williams. 394-4094.

K. of c., S. ATTLEBORO S. Attleboro Knight of Columbus will present a fall concert featuring Christian recording artist Nancy C. Benetti 7: 15 to 9: 15 p.m. Oct. 24, K. of C. Hall, 304 Highland Ave. (off Rt. 123), S. Attleboro. Accompanists will be Paul Cox, 'Kathy Rainville, Steve Turner and John ZanninL Free admission and refreshments. Information: 761-7441.

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BOY SCOUTS break camp after a weekend retreat for Boy and Girl Scouts last month at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown.

Themed "A Scout is Friendly," the retreat included Mass celebrated by Bishop O'Malley followed by.a dinner, a camporee program emphasizing Scouting skills,a campfire gathering with songs and skits, talks by seminarians Mike Racine a.nd Mike Coon, and awards. (Studio D photos)

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