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IT WAS EXACTLY II :45 a.m. Italian time on Pope John Paul's wristwatch when the pontiff present~:d gifts to Bishop Sean O'Malley on the occasion ofthe latter's ad limina visit to the Vatican. (Fdici photo)

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1870 to 1929, when the Italian Fresh from his third "ad limina" government seized it as part of the visit to Pope John Paul II, Bishop former Papal States.

"While we waited for things to Sean O'Malley concurred with other New England bishops in say- happen, we enjoyed a leisurely ing that the fact they met with the breakfast [at Castel Gandolfo l," pope at Castel Gandolfo made for' said Bishop O'Malley. "It amounted to a regional meeting of the a relaxed atmosphere.

Castel Gandolfo, 13 miles south- New England bishops."

As with other groups of U.S. east of Rome, has been the papal bishops visiting him this year, the summer residence since the 17th pope expressed gratitude for their century except for the period from

part in preparations for World Youth Day, noting especially the contributions of host Archbishop Francis Stafford of Denver, delayed by Youth Day wrap-up duties, who joined the New England contingent. .

In his formal address to the bishops, the pope reminded them that "the youth of America look to you to lead them to Christ, the only adequate response to the de. Turn to Page 13

With the theme"Many Pilgrims, One Family of God," the Fall River diocese will observe National Migration Week'on Saturday Nov. 6, with a multicultural Mass at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River. The Mass, to be offered by Bishop Sean O'Malley, will be at I:30 p.m. and will be followed by a social hour featuring pastries of various countries and entertainment by groups representing the Portuguese, Polish, French-Canadian and Cape Verdean communities. All are welcome and there will be no refreshment or entertainment charges.

"This is the first time that the diocese will have celeb.rated National Migration Week so extensively," said Father John J. Oliveira, a chaplain at Charlton Memorial Hospital and parochial vicar at St. Anthony of Padua parish, both in Fall River.

Father Oliveira is diocesan coordinator of the Migration Week program, at which the Mass will mirror the cultural and linguistic diversity of the diocese in its music and at the Prayer of the Faithful, which will be in Portuguese, Spanish, French, Polish, Crioulo, italian, Lebanese, Ukrainian and English.

The priest said the offertory procession will have as gifts breads from the various, nations represented. The bearers will be children from New Bedford Catholic schools and hymns in English and Portuguese will be by members of the choirs of Mt. Carmel, Immaculate Conception and 5t. John Baptist parishes of New Bedford; and in Spanish and Crwulo from Our Lady of Guadalupe and Our Lady of the Assumption parishes, also in New Bedford. .

Entertainment following the liturgy will be by Portuguese and

Polish folkloric groups in the Connolly auditorium and by FrenchCanadian ar.d Cape Verdean musicians in the school's cafeteria.

Also a component of Migration Week will be presentations in all diocesan Catholic schools on the rich diversity of the many nations that are represented in and contribute to the diocesan community.

In the planning since last January, arrangements for the observance have been made by a large committee drawn from all participating ethnic groups. said Father Oliveira.

He said the event will celebrate the roots of all diocesan Cathoilcs, highlighting the gift of faith which has come to them through many cultures and languages. It will also be a gesture of welcome to the most recent refugees and immigrants in the area.

Father Oliveira said he feels the Migration Week program will emphasize that in a national environment ir,creasingly hostile to newcomers from other lands, the Church continues to insist that all people are to be received with respect.

"God himself came to us as a pilgrim and refugee," declared the priest.

He no!ed as signs of a positive attitude within the diocese the welcome extended to several Polish seminarians who worked in parishes this summer and the fact that two re::nained for a year of pastoral ministry. On Cape Cod a large number of Brazilian immigrants are served at St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis, where Father Freddie Babiczuk and Tom Loughlin, a member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, minister to their needs. (See picture on page 13.)

LED by the statue of Our Lady, over 2,000 persons participated in the annual Columbus Day diocesan procession and Mass for world peace. Marchers walked from St. Mary's Cathedral to St. Anne's Church, Fall River, joining worshipers already there for the Mass.

Bishop Sean O'Malley headed the procession and was principal celebrant and hOinilist for the Mass. "What a wonderful thing it would be if the whole world observed the 10 Commandments for 24 hours," he said, citing as a model the absence of any disorder at World Youth Day because of the commitment of participants. There is no peace without justice, he declared, but people are reluctant to accept God in their lives because he makes too many demands. (Kearns photos) .

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N CEA head in Moscow during parliament tumult WASHINGTON (CNS) - Sister Catherine McNamee, head of the National Catholic Educational Association, thought she'd need to see the Russian parliament building, known as the White House, just one time during her stay in Moscow.

Then army troops loyal to Russian President Boris Yeltsin stormed the building and bombed it to rout hard;line members of Parliament who barricaded themselves inside after Yeltsin dissolved Parliament.

"From the outside you could see these big black gouges in this beautiful white building," said Sister McNamee, a Sister ofSt. Joseph of Carondelet. After Yeltsin loyalists forced surrender of those inside the White House, she asked her chartered bus driver to drive past the government building. "He refused to do it: '1 don't have my bulletproof vest. I don't feel safe,'" she said he explained.

Sister McNamee was leading a citizen-ambassador delegation of Catholic educators through Russia and Lithuania. She spoke to Catholic News Service in a telephone interview from St. Peters. burg, Russia, the second' stop on the trip, which was to go on to Vilnium, Lithuania, before ending yesterday.

Their Moscow hotel, which simultaneously housed two other citizen-ambassador delegations, was less than two blocks from the television tower, another critical battle area in the Oct. 3-4 disturbance.

Delegation members whose hotel rooms were in view of the tower "were able to see some of the flares" fired in the battle, she said.

S he amended her remarks to add that she never felt the group was threatened in any way.

Despite the rising tension emanating from the standoff, which began Sept. 22, not one in the group of 37 begged off the trip, Sister McNamee said.

They had heard Russian churches Oct. 3 pray for a peaceful end to the standoff, and were then of the understanding that Yeltsin had given an Oct. 5 deadline for the hard-liners to move out of the White House.

They were surprised, then, to be told at the Moscow Circus that night that the army had moved into town to take over the White House, and that circus patrons were to go home in an orderly manner.

However, when it was learned the group's hotel was two blocks from the television tower, they were instructed to stay put until. their safety could be assured.

Sister McNamee said the disturbance settheir plans only slightly awry. Whenever phone lines weren't jammed, she said, group members called home to assure loved ones they were safe. Lesscrowded fax lines were also used to notify folks .back home.

One meeting between Sister McNamee's group and the Russian Academy of Educators, a research-oriented think tank, started an hour late when both groups' buses had trouble making their way through the streets. .

She said the Russian group was

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"favoring Yeltsin and believed the country couldn't go backward."

Russian people she saw at the hotel, Sister McNamee added, were "wondering what happened, where do we go from here. But I didn't get any sense of panic."

During the official business of the visit, the Russian educators let on that they ~'needed to include an element of spirituality in their program, which had been lacking for so long. We were quite interested to hear them," Sister McNamee said.

"The lack of spirituality on the part of the students, because of the kind of lift; they've had to live," is at the root of it, she added. The Russians told her they were using the" Bible in their schools. "You don't see that in a public school in the U.S.A.," she said.

Community issQes lecture series set

by St. Anne's Bishop Sean O'Malley will be the kickoff speaker for a four-part educational lecture series to be sponsored by the Multicultural Health Committee of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River.

With the theme "Caring for our Community," the lectures aim at building an atmosphere of improved communication and shared appreciation for the diversity of the Fall River community. All are free and open to the public.

The series will begin on Wednesday, Oct. 20, with Bishop O'Malley speaking from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.

The bishop will address broad community, ethnic and cultural issues facing Fall River. Subsequent presentations by speakers from the Azorean, Cambodian and Latino communities will focus on specific health care issues facing minorities and will be held at Saint Anne's Hospital, Middle and South Main streets.

"From the start, Saint. Anne's mission has been to serve everyone in our community. We need to face the new reality of our expanding diversity, and become more appreciative and tolerant of our differences. This lecture series is a step toward doing this;" said Father John J. Oliveira, parochial vicar of St, Anthony of Padua church, Fall River, and cochair of the Multicultural Health Committee.

"Educating ourselves and one another about the unique needs of cultural minorities is chal)enging but necessary if we ultimately want better communication, and a stronger, more cohesive community in Fall River," said the priest.

"During the past nine years, we have worked to improve minority access to quality health care by eliminating linguistic and cultural barriers of minorities through the Multicultural Health Committee.

We want to reach out to all mem- . bers of the Fall River community with this lecture series," he added.

Additional information on the lecture series or the work of Multicultural Health Committee is available from Curt Wilkins, director of Community and Social Work Services (508) 674-5600, ext. 2270.

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DOMINICAN ACADEMY ALUMNAE BRUNCH planners include, from left, Geraldine Saucier, Sheryl Nowak and Sister Joseph Marie Levesque. The brunch, themed "Memories to Share," will follow a 10:30 a.m. Mass Oct. 24 at the Dominican convent chapel, 37 Park St., Fall River. A business meeting will include election of officers and a proposed change to the association bylaws. Participants are encouraged to bring photos and mementos to share with the group. For information on the event contact Estelle Roach, 673-6023, or Pat Ramsey in the school's development office at

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Schools must foster moral literacy, says prelate ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) Archbishop John R. Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis would like schoolteachers to add one more assignment to their lesson plans for the year: erase "moral illiteracy."

"I refuse to believe that e.ducation does not have some responsibility to enforce within students a notion of the difference between good and bad, right and wrong," he said in a recent column in the Catholic Bulletin, archdiocesan newspaper.

Although the archbishop said he did not want to take any responsibility away from parents, families, churches and the judicial system, he said the U.S. school system has "failed to introduce the traditional moral values that bind Americans together as a society."

The archbishop, who began his career as a teacher 47 years ago, said he was in the "school business" when there were changes in the "responsibility schools assumed for the character development of students."

At that time, he said, educators began deciding that 12-, 14- and 16-year-olds were "capable of totally independent judgments about what is right and wrong."

He said Catholic educators were influenced by that approach, but they "never bought the whole package" and "did not abandon the responsibility to teach a moral code."

Archbishop Roach warned that the failure of education systems to provide moral guidance would have "devastating effects" on today's youth.

"The heart of the problem is that kids today are given the obligation of decision making without the tools to be confident of their decisions. We ask young people to make profound judgments about values without the experience to make sound judgments," he said.

The archbishop referred to a recent news account of a 19-yearold murdering a 15-year-old "before the 15-year-old got him."

"There was no argument; there

was no fight; he just shot him.

That is a prime example of moral illiteracy," wrote the archbishop.

In response to this incident, Archbishop Roach said that 'in too many cases [schools] simply don't provide [students] with the tools to understand that some things are indeed, immoral and no subjective judgment can change that fact."

He sai'd people should demand "some moral responsibility" from the school system, because the time is ripe "to caB for honest accountability."

Wareham youth group will attend national convention Youth and their adult leaders from St. Patrick's Church, Wareham, will be among 6,000 teenagers and adults gathering in Philadelphia Nov. 11 to 14 for a Catholic youth ministry conference.

The National Catholic Youth Conference will include liturgies, general sessions and workshops as well as dances, concerts, exhibits and tours. Discussion topics will include music, African-American gifts to the church, Native American spirituality of the land, stress, and communication. Participants will also hear witness talks by youth who attended World Youth Day in Denver in August.

Six Wareham youth will participate in a service experience, working at Tindley Temple Soup Kitchen in Philadelphia.

St. Patrick's youth attending are Dawn Souza, Jessica Caron, Everett Johnson, Bridget Joynt, Andrea Hall, Marie Rodriguez, Robin Rider, Peter Zine and Joshua McKiernan.

Leading the delegation are parochial vicar Father Daniel Lacroix, religious education coordinator Sister Maria Therese Mulieri and youth ministers Maureen VanderStaay, Diane Zine, Carol Ducey and Marie Vicino.

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, ANNIE SWEENEY, Kellie Farley, Michaela Bruzzese and Kelly Wanser, from left, enjoy dinner together. (Hoyt photo)

Y«lung Americans serve in Belize Belize City on a Saturday night: Firecracker pops punctuate the evening air. Music from the local disco pierces the Caribbean calm.

Young people laugh and hang out with friends on st 'eet corners.

I nside the two-sl ory house across from St. Martin de Porres parish in this Central Arr.erican city, four young American 'Nomen sit down for supper. Joinirg hands around a meal of chicken 10 mein, they pray for those who prepared the food, for those who have nothing to eat, for one another.

Across town the same sounds of night provide the background noise as two youn,~ American men sit down to a meal of Mexican burritos.

These six Americans are· part of a dozen young people from the Unites States wh,) have come to Belize in Centrall\merica to serve the Church there for two years as part of the Jesu,t International Volunteer Program.

Michaela BruZiese from. Albuquerque explains her decision to come to Belize this way: "Being here is the essence: of the Gospel, reaching out to others. It is also the very heart of my faith."

Her roommate, Kelly Wanser, agrees. "I always had a lot of questions. 1 wondered, 'What is essential? Where does happiness come from?''' The Salt Lake City resident feels her time in Belize is helping her to' answer some of those questions. "I am learning to live a simple life. I feel my own faith becoming stronger," she explains.

Michaela and Kelly share quarters with Annie Sweeney from Baltimore and Kellie Farley from New York.

Part of the JIV experience is to live in community; inherent in that are household budgets and chores.

Donal Ryan from New Rochelle, New York, splits those chores with fellow New Yorker Dennis Heffern. Involved in service work in his hometown of Buffalo, Dennis feels that only humanitarian concerns motivated his efforts then. "I wasn't sure where my faith came in, if it did at all," he said. "But being here, even for these few months since the summer, I can see the faith connection."

Three ofthe four young women, Kelly, Annie and Kellie, teach as

do both the young men. All five have gotten to know their students will with an important assist from basketball.

Annie Sweeney says letters to her mother "speak of my frustrations, the lack of supplies, the exhaustion of teaching, but those letters are also filled with the joy that comes from just getting to know my students." Dennis, too, speaks of his relationship with his students. "They come to trust me, while I come to trust them."

Kellie and Annie coach a high school basketball team; they beamed with pride as their students reached the 1992 playoffs.

Many of their students come from troubled hom·es. "It's nice to see these girls make it, win at something," Annie says.

Like her roommates, Michaela is also involved with education, working with local Belizean Sister Barbara Flores who is in charge of religious education for Belize City.

Being a missionary, even if just for two years also has its negative side. For Kelly, there are some definite drawbacks: giant spiders, the

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"Y ou have to !:rust that if you're doing God's work, you'll be taken care of," she says.

The experience of the JIVs will, no doubt; be with them for a lifetime. Kellie Farley speaks about one of her studf:nts, a young girl with no money for school fees or bO'oks, who brings her own bit of food when others go to buy snacks.

When Kellie asked her students to write a letter to God, this girl wrote, "Dear God, I have a lot of problems in my life .... But because of you, I know I can get through it all. I love you God. Thanks for being there for IT.e." Kellie says, "I won't ever forget the things that little girl taught me about faith and about what makes happiness."

Donal will leave Belize with a faith he says he has made his own.

"When 1 go home, 1 won't be so inconspicuous about my faith," he explains. "I want to share my faith with others, my renewed faith, and 1 want everyone to know of my time here in Belize."

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The American Religious Debate The perennial church-state confrontation continues. Americans in general accept our unique diversity; but as we see an expanding forum for racial and ethnic dialogues, we view a narrowing mentality on religious issues. We do not seem to realize that we owe much of our pluralism to the longstanding religious traditions that have contributed so greatly to our nation. Today many ignore this richness in favor of socially acceptable or, at the other extreme, esoteric faith communities.

Some blame the separation of church and state debate for this situation but most agree that the root cause is political. It's. hard to believe that a nation which amended the Constitution to assure the free exercise of religion is now attempting to eradicate that freedom for the sake of political expediency.

Commentators and writers zero in on the Roe v. Wade abortion decision as the cause of the anti-religious sentiment permeating liberal' politics.

To be sure, this attitude has been reinforced by the antics of fanatics. So many who claim to be acting in the name of religion have abandoned the truism that virtue is neither right nor left, but lies in the middle. Both sides can reach audiences far beyond the confines of an oldtime revival tent. Religious use and abuse of the media, especially television, have greatly increased the ability to divide, influence and arouse extremists of all persuasions.

No group has been more politically active in dividing Americans on the religious issue than hasthe liberal avant-garde. Its political track record since Roe v. Wade has been nothing less than insidious. Using fear as a tactic, it has ridiculed all religious concepts it deems irrelevant to its secularist mentality, accepting only those teachings it considers compatible with what it terms socially progressive legislation.

Because the Catholic Church has spoken out strongly on basic ethical and moral issues, she has become the chief target of liberal scorn. But those who deride her position on life and death matters fail to recognize that in season and out of season she has championed such issuesas the nuclear freeze, the rights of voters and immigrants and civil rights in general.

Throughout the world, the Church has called for free elections and has been a catalyst in the downfall of Communist dictatorships. Indeed, the litany of her humanist concerns is well-nigh endless. Nevertheless, her attackers refuse to acknowledge the true liberation that she teaches and preaches.

It is true that the world and religion will always be at odds; yet we need but look at our newspapers to realize that the "liberal experiment" has had little impact on issues of behavior in our nation. It cannot provide true commitment for it does not go beyond the pragmatic and reasonable.

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A matter of missing matter

By Father Kevin J. Harri!lgton

There is a great mystery in science that has befuddled the best minds of the world for almost 60 years. Cosmologists, scientists who dedicate themselves to studying the origins of our universe, theoThe real disciple knows that religion is not a pick-and- rize that 90 percent of our universe choose option of values and mores. It places demands on its consists of "missing" matter. This followers that go beyond the altar and pew and more fre- mystery is all the more frustrating for scientists, who rely upon light quently than not do not conform with secular thought. waves as a means of gathering information about the distant Unfortunately, many who claim to belong to a religion are not religious. This is among difficulties with which the Church reaches of the cosmos, since the in America must cope. But as she strives to help and heal her missing matter is theorized to be both nonluminous and transparmembers, she can be comforted by the thought that over the ent. This so-called dark matter millennia she has survived many a political regime. mystery is 路an opportunity for scientists to make one of the truly great The Editor discoveries of this century. Where is 90 percent of the mass of the universe?

The first clue in the mystery, perceived as early as the 1930s, is that clusters of galaxies do not appear to contain enough mass to hold them together. Scientists OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER therefore theorized the presence of Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River a binding dark matter.

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date for understanding dark matter.

It is becoming possible for computers to simulate billions of years of galaxy formatio)1. The so-called hybrid model suggests that no object more than 1000 times the mass of the Milky Way should have existed from the beginning.

The latest observations seem to bear out the validity of this theory.

At a conference in Italy last month, scientists reported observing what could be the first evidence of the dark matter assumed to exist in abu路ndance out at the fringes of galaxies. Even the existence of dark matter in such phenomena as galactic halos would represent only a small fraction of the invisible mass that makes up the universe.

However, it has to be a source of encouragement to astrophysicists that their computer models are not contradicting the latest observa-: tion.

'If anything can be learned from a religious perspective in this latest quest it is that the mystery of the missing matter is another indication of the grandeur of our Creator. Perhaps our greatest accomplishment as a civilization this century will be the inroads that have been made in better understanding the origin and fate of the universe.

The discoveries of science should only deepen our sense of awe and wonder at the' created order we continue to encounter in new and surprising ways.

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God's Isaiah 45: 1,4-6 I Thes. 1:1-5 Matthew.22:15-21 Today's liturgical formulary presents us with three of the most significant passages in the Bible: Deutero-Isaiah discloses the Messiah's name; Paul dictates the first lines of the oldest writing in the Christian Scriptures; and Jesus tells us not to divide the world into "church and statl:." . As frequently happens, Paul pro~Ides the basic insight to help us Integrate the other two readings.

Writing just 20 years after the Lord's death and resurrection, he begins the first of his "canonical" letters by praisinl~ the members of the Thessalonikan community for turning their faith into action.

Having heard God's word for thou~a~~s o~ ye~rs, w~ know how easy It IS Just to listen to the proclamation, store it awa:' in our memory, then go about doing the same things in the sC:.me ways we've always done them. The Apostle is both amazed and thankful that this hasn't happened in Thessalonike. "We constantly are mindful before our God and Father," he writes, "of the wa:r you are proving your faith, and laboring in love, and showing con:;tancy in hope in our Lord Jesus Christ."

Though he will eventually ta~kle s?me of this young church's questIOns and problems, Paul believes that any community which lives its faith " ... in the Holy Spirit and out of complete conviction," will always be able to work through its troubles. For such Christians, faith- is never merely a "natter of words" but the "power" to do whatev~r faith demands.

Faith always demands that we experience reality in a completely new way. It speci fically calls us to permit God to be part of those areas of our life f'om which we've restricted him/ her. Both DeuteroIsaiah and Jesus leach this principle throughout their mi nistries.

And in today's fir:;t and third readings, we ,see them startling "the religious folk" Ofl heir day and age by showing they experience God in "forbidden rea: ms."

Many of us miss the impact of Deutero-Isaiah's oracle because we're not listening to it in its origi-

DAilY RE:ADINGS Oct. 18: 2 1m 4:9-17; Ps 145:10-13,17-18; lk 10:1-9 Oct. 19: Rom 5:12,15,1719,20-21; Ps 4·0:7-10,17; lk 12:35-38 Oct. 20: Rom 6:12-i8; Ps 124:1-8; lk 12:39-48 Oct. 21: ROln 6:19-23; Ps 1:1-4,6; lk 12:49-53 Oct. 22: Rom 7:18-25; Ps 119:60,68,76-'77,93-94; lk 12:54-59 Oct. 23: Rom 8:1-11; Ps 24:1-6; lk 13:1-9 Oct.· 24: Ex 22:20-26; Ps 18:2-4,47,51; 1. Thes 1:5-10' Mt 22:34-40 '

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nal Hebrew. Those who hear and understand the prophet's actual message know "his anointed" really means "his Messiah." Going counter to all popular wisdom, Yahweh has chosen Cyrus - an uncircumcised, Gentile, Persian leader - to bring the Israelites out of Exile!

In a reversal of the Babylonian king's practice of grasping the god Marduk's right hand during his coronation ceremony, the Lord grasps Cyrus' right hand and proclaims, "I have called you by your name, giving you a title, though you knew me not.. .. It is I who arm you ...so that toward the r'ising and the setting of the sun men may know that there is none beside me." Yahweh aids and abets Cyrus' advance thrQugh the Middle East so that he'll finally be able to conquer Babylon and free the Jews.

But Israelites of the 6th century, B.C., restricted as much by their concepts of Yahweh as they are by the Babylonians, do not know how to relate to a God who is deeply involved with Gentiles.

They'll eventually reject DeuteroIsaiah and put him to death, simply because he tried to free them more than their Exile.

Jesus faces a similar situation in today's gospel pericope. Caught between pro- and contra-Roman factions, he gets around answering their taxation question by reminding them that those who accept Caesar's coins must give them back to him upon request.

Having escaped their trap, he 'seems to be walking away when he looks back over his shoulder and reminds them of one of the most important messages of his ministry: "Give to God what is God's!"

In other words, Jesus insits we acknowledge that God owns everything: us, the coin, the pocket which holds it, and Caesar who wants it back. We must never divide the world into God's realm and Caesar's realm. We can always find God's kingdom in everyone and everything - if we just know what to look for.

Our faith was never meant to be a security blanket which we could throw over our heads feel safe from reality. On the contrary, the Lord's followers have always found faith to be the force which makes us throw the blanket away; something which only helps us when we're putting it into action.

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Letters Welcome NEW YORK (CNS) - CardiLetters to the editor are welcomed. All letters should be brief and the nal John J. O'Connor of New York recently joined members of a editor reserves the right to condense any letters if deemed necessary. All Bronx parish for a rosary march .letters must be si~ned and contain a home or business address. against drugs.

He walked with some 300 people from the predominantly Hispanic Our Lady of Refuge parish.

They marched behind a cross Over ::S Years and a banner that said in Spanish and English: "Drugs are death of Satisfil:~d Service GENERAL CONTRACTORS God is life." Prayers were led by a Reg. Master Plumber 7623 55 Highland Avenue woman with a loudspeaker in a JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. Fall River, MA 02720 bus at the rear of the procession.

432 JEFFERSON STREET Last year, the cardinal led a 678·5201 Fall River 675-7496 rosary vigil at a Manhattan abor- . tion clinic that was met with hostility by large crowds trying to drown out the prayers. The anti-drug procession drew few spectators and aroused littk reaction.

After a brief service at Our Lady of Refuge, the 30-minute procession took participants past a food market where there have been arrests for drug selling and drugs 7': have been confiscated.

Local precinct commander Capt.

Raymond Redmond said that while & he did not think drug sales were currently taking place at the store, he thought such marches were useful because they showed community concern.

A police car led the procession, and both uniformed and plain clothes officers accompanied marchers on foot.

Father John J. Jenik, pastor of Our Lady of Refuge, has organized prayer marches against drugs for about the last six years. He said that people who had been in the store reported drugs were still being sold there, and the parish has been promoting a boycott against the store.

At the church service, Cardinal O'Connor endorsed the concept of the boycott and encouraged people to support it. He added he would suggest other pastors in the New York archdiocese undertake similar efforts against drugs.

"The government hasn't solved the problem and the police haven't," & he said'. "The people have to do it."

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Minimizing erroneous beliefs

The Anchor Friday, Oct. 15, 1993

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN Q. Thank you for setting the record straight on the presence of all the characteristics of bread and wine in the Eucharist, in response to someone who said, "We cannot get germs from drinking the communion cups; it is the blood of Christ. "

By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY Dear Dr. Kenny: I have three small children and I feel that I'm losing control. Not of them but of me, of my own temper.

I came so close to hurting them yesterday that I had to call a baby sitter and get away for an hour.

I'm already stressed with some personal problems, financial prob lems and fatigue; then I catch myself snapping at the children for minor things.

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Along the same lines I know a man who told his wife that she had lost her faith because her eyes had become too poor to read her prayer cards. And she believed him!

There is another dimension to your answer which, I believe, merits consideration.

Lately we have been blessed with some young priests and teachers of religion who emphasized the Real Presence, but don't seem to know how to fit in language about thll bread and wine.

I know priests who avoid communion hymns in which the host is referred to as bread.

You wrote that you were as-

tounded by "the misconceptions held about this (presence of the 'accidents' of bread and wine in the Eucharist)...

Uitfortunately, this kind of misunderstanding persists. What can we do to minimize such erroneous teaching? (Indiana) A. Such people certainly displaya profound lack of knowledge about the church's centuriesold tradition in speaking of the Eucharist, but I'm not sure there is much you can do about that.

How can they miss the multiple ways the church uses that very terminology in its own official documents and liturgical rites?

Or the writings of great saints and theologians, through Thomas Aquinas back to the early Fathers?

Do they use the Eucharistic Prayers at¡ Mass? Three of the major Eucharistic Prayers (prayer Number 3 is the exception) speak of the consecrated host as "bread."

One of the approved acclamations we use says, "When we eat this bread .....

In all these instances, and in all the eucharistic hymns I know of, the context makes quite clear that there is not even a hint of anything contrary to the Catholic faith.

In fact, this terminology only emphasizes the reality of the great

mystery of our Lord's real presence under the appearance and characteristics of bread and wine.

I receive a number of letters wondering why some Catholics feel compelled to dissent from the wisdom and insights of faith and practice handed down to us by the Catholic faithful and magisterium, often, as in this case, in the name of some orthodoxy which in fact never existed. A brochure on the sacrament of penance is available by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, 704 N. Main St., Bloo.,-.ington, III. 61701.

Questions for this column should be sent to the same address.

How to keep stress from getting you down Stress is universal. The per- times parents have little energy left to give to their children. son who does not suffer from stress is a person who does not "Loving and Learning" details interact and does not accomplish four major ways to deal with peranything. Most poor parenting sonal parental stress. Phase I is takes place when parents are un- concerned with staying physically der stress. fit. "A sound mind in a sound As a parent, you are your child's body" is a wise insight that exNumber I resource. For that rea- presses the importance of balancson, you must first take care of ing mental health with physical yourself. In our recent book, â&#x20AC;˘ well-being.

"Loving and Learning" (St. AnEat breakfast. Starting a day thony Messenger Press, 1992), the without food is like running a car entire first chapter is devoted to engine without oil. And avoid foods helping parents deal with personal which increase tension, particularly stress. foods with sugar and caffeine.

Exercise daily. Twenty to 30 In a survey of parent's problems, problems with children were minutes of aerobic exercise will lower your heart rate and your lis~ed fourth. Ahead came money, blood pressure. employment and marital difficulGet rest. Fatigue adds to stress. ties. As you succinctly state, some-

However you have to arrange it, get some sleep.

Phase 2 involves addressing the problem directly. Some matters, like money problems, may have some partial solutions. Brainstorm possible solutions.

Use your friends. Talking with a friend or meeting with a parent support group can be a big help.

You may learn of other resources in the community.

Phase 3 involves the judicious use of timeouts. Don't be guilty about taking a break. You need daily breaks, regularly scheduled evenings out, and vacations. You must find a way to refresh yourself.

Phase 4 includes psychological techniques for learning to relax.

Prayer can help. So can a good sense of humor. Sometimes things are so bad, it's funny.

"Imaging" is a simple but quite effective relaxation technique. Recall a scene from your own past that was pleasant and free from stress. Then use all five senses to examine it.

What does it look like? What do you hear? What do you smell?

How does it taste? How does it feel? Let the overall good memory flow through you.

Take care of yourself first, and you'll be a better parent.

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Words of consolation surface in loved one's journal By ANTOINETTE BO~CO

Some people keep a journal of the thoughts that come from the soul. My daughter-in-law, Nancy, kept a notebook of the values and philosophies that determined how she would live her life.

They weren't original, but oh so very carefully gleaned from the many volumes she read.

It's been nearly two months since Nancy, 32, and my son John, 41, were murdered in their home in Bigfork, Mont. I recently found her cherished b.ook of the words she collected that touched her deeply and have felt consolation as I read them.

Nancy had shown me the notebook once and we laughed over how much we were attracted to the same somewhat homespun beliefs.

She was, after all, a woman from a South Dakota farm. The week prior to her death she had been making raspberry jam with her neighbor Doreen.

These beautifully packaged jars were to be Christmas presents, for our family. We shall put them under our tree and remember her love.

When I read the words in Nancy's notebook, all perfectly printed in her artistic handwriting, I was drawn to those she had starred.

One entry was called simply, "Recipe for Happy Living": "Smile - it's the melod'y of the soul.

"Work - it's the sevice of the spirit.

"Play - it's the secret of youthfulness.

"Read - it's the source of wisdom.

"Love ---'-- it's the gift of the heart: "Pray - it answers every need."

So many of her entries are about the wonder, the blessing, the necessity of love. I am not surprised. She was one of the most loving persons I ever met. She starred some words of Thornton Wilder that are well worth reflecting upon: "Love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love.;' Also not surprising was her love of flowers. She had planted a garden this past spring and had great plans for how she would embellish her garden in the future.

I was overjoyed when my daughter Margee, who had'been asking God to let her know that John and Nancy were happy, had stunning dream.

She found herself digging in a garden when her hands suddenly found an unusally large bulb.' It was encased' in a protective glass vase. As Margee brought the vase to the surface, the bulb flowered gorgeously, and suddenly flowers in many colors were all around her.

It was the sign of rebirth, with the symbol Nancy and John would have personally chosen - flowers!

The first poem that Nancy starred is most appropriate for what has happened. I read it with tears and smiles: "When I must leave you for a little while, "Please don't grieve and shed wild tears,

'.' And hug your sorrows to you through the years, "But start out bravely with a gallant smile, "And for my sake and in my name, "Live on and do all things the same.

"Feed not your loneliness on empty days, "But fill each waking hour in useful ways, "Reach out your hand iri comfort and in cheer, "And I in turn will comfort you and hold you near.

"And never, never be afraid to die, "For I am waiting for you in the sky."

Thank you, Nancy, for assuring me that at the end of my journey, I will have such a glorious reunion.

A memorable success in parenting By DOLORES CURRAN

A mother of elight wrote me that she and her husband raised their children with the mandate that as long as they lived in this house they would go to Sunday Mass. When they left home they left the church with bitterness, resentment and/ or indifference.

"When the last turned 16 we told her that we had done all we could toward her religious upbringing and from then on her relationship with God was her

responsibility. She hasn't been to Mass since, except for Christmas and Easter, but her faith in God, and her prayer life leave us in awe.

"Last September we took her off to college. A fe'w days before she left. Joanie wrote us the following letter. Reading it. we experienced our most memorable success as parents."

Joanie's Letter Here I sit with the very first "college tears" brimming in my eyes. What pwmpted , these? Thoughts of my parents did. There are no adjectives fitting,of these incredible people. To say I am appreciative of them is inadequate. When I was a child, I used

to brag of them, saying, "I ha ve the best parents in the whole world, and I was convinced that, indeed, I did, Oftentimes their religious conviction embarrassed me. I was so needlessly concerned of what others thought.

I grew a bit and became one of those strange species '" a teenager. You might say that I was typical. I beeame moody, cranky and depressed. I spent more time slammingdoors than holding conversations.

Yet there were a few things that set me apart from the typical. terrible teen. It was my parents who made me different. Through my mo-

ther's incredible knowledge and insightfulness, I became wise. She also gave me endurance and the ability to cope.

All of the time I was watching her, I learned. From my father, I got a permanent twinkle in my eye, He gave me the gift of laughter and of serenity. In his own uninhibited, quiet way, he taught me to be appreciative. My dad taught me the joy of giving.

And it was in these tumultuous years that myembarrassment at my parents' beliefs turned to a we and respect. I learned to pray. And to love God. And now he is a part of me. I'm not sure who

to thank more ... him for giving me my parents or my parents for giving me him.

The years have seemed to race by and now I begin' a new life.

Thank you. I love you both so very much.

What can I write after such a tribute? I hope parents realize that even though their children may never pen such a letter, they may be thinking similar thoughts. It's difficult for some young adults to express themselves so openly.

But if any young adults are reading this, let me say that a letter like J oanie's is one of the best gifts parents can receive. Forget the cologne and fishing gear and write a letter instead. I promise you, your parents will treasure it.

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St. Louis, Mo., says thanks Dear Editor: Last summer [Taunton Catholic Middle School) conducted a successful flood relief drive for the victi ms in St. Louis. Our drive lasted for one \\eek and our success was due largely to your cooperation in spreading the ~essage.

Many people told us about the articles that appeared in The Anchor. We appreciate your assistance and want to share the letter we received from Sister Mary Ann Eckhoff.

Thank you for your continued support of Taunton Catholic Middle Schoo!. : t is always a pleasure to work with you.

Gail P. Chalifoux, Development Taunton Catholic Middle School Sister Eckhofrs Sept. 24 letter follows.

Dear Gail, H ow can we ever thank you and your students for your wonderful generosity! I received the $3,262 check just as 1 was organizing all the requests for :uition assistance from families thlt have been displaced by the flood. I shall share the wonderful f,ictures that you sent, showing the organization of the truckload of supplies that you sent here to Catholic Charities. I wish we were able to reciprocate with pictures tha': showed the,gratitude of the man) people who were the recipients of your goodness. I will indicate to tt ose receiving tuition assistance from this'. $3,262 that the community of Taunton Catholic MiddleSchool wasresponsible for the help that they are receiving.

The hardship!~ created by the flood are far from over. U nfortunately the media attention is gone, but the disaster remains. It still rains several timl:s a week; so that waters go down ~,nd then come up again to cover roads and re-threaten homes that have just begun to be cleaned up. It is quite traumatic for people to walk into homes and find six inches of muck and almost everything destroyed. What has become so diffi('ult for so many people is the fa('t that they have lost not only hor.les but their livelihood, since so many of those affected by the flood are farmers who lost both 1heir homes and their crops. In addition more than one thousand 'JUsinesses were flooded and tht:refore all those employed by those businesses are also out of work People across the country, like yourselves. have :,een wonderfully generous. It mak ~s us realize once more what a great community we have in Catholic education.

We plan to publicize what your school did in our newsletter; I will send you a copy of it. Thank you again for all your efforts. Things like this do not happen without leadership. God'!: blessings on all of you involved in this generous response to us in St. Louis.

Gratefully, Sister Mary Ann Eckhoff.

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Giving "We must not only give what we have; we must also give what we are."-Cardinal Mercier

GIFTED EDUCATOR: Michael Donly accepts tokens of appreciation from Thomas J. Whalen and with his wife Irene shares one of many laughs during Saturday night's "roast" of the Coyle-Cassidy High School headmaster. (Breen photos)

"Payback": Coyle-Cassidy High hlonors headmaster Donly for 25 years service After an hour on the hot seat being roasted by his colleagues, it was time for Coyle and Cassidy High School. headmaster Michael J. Donly to plot revenge. He took the podium and told the packed Venus de Milo ballroom, "To get you all back for this night, I am going to give you another 25 years!"

More than 400 friends of Donly and Coyle-Cassidy gathered Saturday night in Swansea to celebrate his 25 years of service to the Taunton school and to area youth.

It was an evening filled with remembrances and a lot of fun as Donly's friends shared their "insights" into the life of. this North Attleboro native with the audience.

Donly was honored by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley who, through a letter, thanked him for dedication to Catholic education. Taunton Mayor Robert Nunes and the' Taunton City Council cited him for his outstanding work at Coyle I and Cassidy.

On hand was state Representative James Fagan, a member ofthe Msgr. Coyle Class of 1965, who said 'that "no one more exemplifies what a Coyle man is than Mike Donly. He lives the life of a Coyle man and is an exemplar of the Christian way of life."

State Senator Marc Pacheco added, "The words honesty and integrity come to mind when we think of Mike Donly.. .I can't think of a better role model for young people."

Donly is a member of the Coyle Class of 1964 and began teaching at Coyle High School in 1968. He taught sociology before becoming dean of discipline, principal and then headmaster. He is the New England regional associate of the National Catholic Educational Association and has been associated with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

One ofthe greatest triumphs for Donly was the recognition of Coyle and Cassidy as a school of excellence by the United States Department of Education in 1991.

The appreciation event was coordinated by CC development di.rector Michael J. Tabak, and diocesan education director Rev. Richard Beaulieu was master of ceremonies. The priest was principal at CC in 1972 just after the merger of Bishop Cassidy and' Msgr. Coyle high schools. Father Beaulieu offered congratulations to the honoree as well as a $1000 check from the diocesan education office in Donly's name to the Coyle and Cassidy Financial Aid Fund.

He also declared there would be no school at CC Nov. 12, to be

observed as "Mike Donly Appreciation Day." One .of the evening's most moving moments came when CC Leadership Assembly president Ken Wong presented the headmaster a check for $369.80 from the student body for the Financial Aid Fund. It was calculated that, from the Class of 1969 to the current freshman Class of 1997, he has influenced the lives of 3,698 students. The check represents a dime for each of these students.

"Thankyqu, Mr. Donly," Wong added, "for touching the lives of so many of us and for being a friend."

One of the gifts Donly received was a souve::lir program with messages of best wishes and congratulations. The proceeds from this program totalled $4500 for the Financial Aid Fund. In all, the gifts made to the Financial Aid Fund in Donly's name during the evening totalled $6000.

Representing the National Catholic Educational Association was executive director Michael Guerra, who flew in from Washington, D.C. for the event. He thanked Donly for "opening minds, enlarging hearts, bringing the truth to all with whom you come in contact."

He added, "Mike Donly brings energy, wisdom, generosity, and common sense to the job."

Academic principal Dr. Donna A. Boyle, on behalf of the CC faculty, thanked her boss for "giving us the opportunity to be our best selves. You've allowed us to give our gifts to the Church and to the schoo!."

Donly's long-time friend and colleague Thomas J. Whalen, now CC guidance and admissions director, helped to present Donly numerous gifts, including a leather briefcase and a desk clock.

Well-Versed Sister Vera Herbert, SUSC, a teacher herself for more than 60 years, paid tribute to Donly with an original poem, which follows: a modern poem (with apologies to e e cummings) for most this amazing day we, here present, thank you God, for the leaping greenly spirit of michael j donly: for the blue-true reality of his love for coyle and cassidy translated into untiring efforts to give of himself to the compassionate work of the Christian education of youth... and we thank you, God for that glimpse of Yourself that mike sees in each of us, his c-c family:

students, faculty, graduates, friends, ' for the Christ in mike recognizes the Chr;.st in us; and we thank you, God for everything that is human in mike... yes, sometimes we get mad with him! for everything that is infinite in mike... his contemplative reflective spirit, for through his prayer, God has wedged mike's heart open and ready for his life's work. for everything that is yes in mike, for, as in a recent convention he consented to bend over to carry the heavy processional cross, so does he choose willingly to teach as Jesus does the youth of 1993; to sponsor the poor and the abused; to k{:ep close to his heart the conc:erns of his family: irene; billy, kerry, christine, sheila, isabel, how could any of mike's titles -headmastei路, principal, director, presid.ent, chairman, accreditor, evaluator, secretary -- how could any of these titles mean a drop-ofthe-hat compared with the cherry-red fin:s ofjoy michael j donly has found, this christian gentleman has found in this title:

At"age 84, Sister Herbert teaches creative writing at Coyle and Cassidy.

At the end of the program, Donly was allowed .payback as he was given his chance to speak.

"If this were a testimonial," Donly charged, "you could have held it ic. a phone booth, and maybe my wife would come. However, call it a 'roast' and, you couldn't beat them off with a stick ... They're lining up at the podiumju5t waiting for the microphone!"

After he finished making his peace with those who had poked fun at him throughout the evening, he said, "In all seriousness, you're only as good as the people who surrcund you.. .I love what I'm doing, that is touching the lives of kids every day."

He especially thanked his mother, Mrs. Isabel Donly,and his wife, Irene, along with the members of his family for their support and love.

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The Dominican Sister ofSt. Catherine of Siena visited each classroom, receiving cards made by students, all of whom wore pins inscribed with the school's theme for the year: "That They Might Have Life." Three generations of students, parents, alumni and friends gathered for a noontime Mass of Thanksgiving. A letter of appreciation and blessing from Bishop O'Malley was read aloud by pastor Father Ambrose Forgit, SS.Cc. Sister Lapalme was presented with class gifts and principal Joanne N. Riley read aloud letters from parents and former students.

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Strong family life k'ey to countering society's ills, says conference speaker PROVIDENCE, R.I. (CNS) Strong family life is key to preventing "the legacy that we are developing today" of crime, drug abuse and teenage suicide, a speaker told a national meeting of 350 Catholic family life ministers.

"Our homes have to be havens where the atmosphere is peaceful and the support is positive and self-esteem building." said Nick Stinnett. a keynote speaker at the recent National Association ofCatholic Family Life Ministers 1993 conference in Providence, "They should be a place to become regenerated and refreshed." said Stinnett. a professor in human development and family studies at the University of Alabama and author of two books on families and marriage.

A good support network within the family helps to make stronger individ uals who are better able to deal with everyday stress. he said.

The conference. with the theme "Heritage. Healing. Hope: Pilgrims on the Journey." zeroed in on specific problems Catholic family ministers are facing.

About 30 Fall River diocesans attended. including Office of Family Ministry director Father Ho-race J. Travassos and program directors Scottie and Jerry Foley. Others represented ministry to the separated and divorced and to the widowed. marriage preparation.natural family planning and parish family ministry.

The annual conference is an enriching experience for volunteer ministers who often do not see the "seeds" of their ministry "coming to fruition." said Mrs. Foley. The convention gives partiCipants the opportunity "to see the difference some of their work is making."

Workshops covered such issues as identifying and treating sexual abuse; dealing with loss; nurturing Hispanic families; recruiting parish volunteers; helping families make moral decisions; helping divorced. remarried and single parents; producing healthy families for the '90s; add ressi ng H I V's

effects on patients and their families; and utilizing resources at local universities to gather information on marriage, children and family life.

Strong Families In his speech Stinnett outlined six criteria that a recent national study of 6.000 "strong" families have in common: appreciation. commitment. communication. time together. spiritual well ness. and the ability to deal with stress and crises as a unit.

Emphasizing that strong family life can prevent society's legacy of crime. drug abuse and even teen suicide. Stinnett pointed out that: - "The greatest percentage of .our prison population is young people."

- "The incidence of sixth-grade students using drugs has tripled in the last 10 years."

The suicide rate among teenagers - "the most tragic statistic of all" -has quadrupled since 1950.

A separate study shows that those who commit suicide have a higher incidence of day-to-day stress and they feel less hope. Stinnett said. Providing that hope is where the family comes in. according to the speaker.

"It is important that we bequeath hope to the next generation and we can do this in our homes. our parishes. our places of work." he said. "Building strong families is vital to the bequeathing of hope."

Included in the study of 6.000 families. Stinnett noted. were oneparent families. those with parents who had remarried and those that may have not started.out as strong units.

He asked conference-goers to close their eyes and think of happy memories from their own family history and share them with the group. Many recalled sledding. times at the beach. walks through the woods. Sunday dinners and singing songs.

The common theme running through them. Stinnett said. "is

the quality of time together. Strong families appreciate each other and' value time spent together. They offer each other sincere compliments. They talk to each other."

The biggest problem for families is not spending enough time -together. he explained. The 6.000 families studied were"no less busy than you or I, but they made time to be together. to communicate with each other. Most families today communicate through rumor."

Family members. he said. need good communication skills. need to' be good listeners. and need to know how to argue. focusing on the issues and not on 'each other.

"They identify the problem. look at alternative courses of action and select the solution that works best for everybody." Stinnett said. stressing that members of strong families have a loyalty to one another.Though some strong families do not necessarily belong to a particular church or religion. they still consider themselves strongly religious. according to Stinnett.

"God hasa purpose in their lives and God is a source of strength in their 'families." he said. adding that awareness of God from day to day helps people be more caring and less petty.

In times of crises. strong families pull togeth,er and can see what is positive in a bad situation "no matter how dark it may be and how small the silver lining." Stinnett said.

The Lost Sarducci Also making an appearance during the conference was a speaker who declared himself to be Father Dominic Sarducci, brother of the more widely-known character Father Guido Sarducci.

Father Dom, attired in the familiar broad-brimmed hat and robes of his "brother," explained on the second day of the conference that the scheduled speaker had reneged, and a fax from the Turn to Page 13

Jordan Chicago kids' idol, role model, says priest

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MICHAEL DURANT

His pari:sh prays for captured pilot WASHINGTON (CNS) - Although they are worlds apart, the parishioners at St. Kieran parish in Berlin, New Hampshire, have been drawn into the war and political upheaval in ~:omalia.

In their small mill town near the Canadian border, they pray regularly for a former parishioner Army Chief Warrant Officer Michael J. Durant, a U.S. helicopter pilot held captive in Somalia.

The pilot's hometown church, decorated with yet ow ribbons, was overflowing with <.bout 700 people Oct. 8 during a i:pecial Mass to pray for Durant, clptured after his Black Hawk helic:opter was shot down during a ra~d against fighters loyal to Somalia's warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid.

Durant, 32, hai: spoken with a Red Cross official and a British reporter since his captivity. He has also been shown in a videotape filmed by his captors. On it, his face was cut and he appeared dazed as he answered questions.

When the townspeople of Berlin saw Durant's image on their television screens, th(:y put out flags and hung yellow r~bbons.

"In situations like this, people don't know what 10 do," said Jim Brannen, who graduated with Durant in Berlin High School's class of'79. Brannen, who is on St. Kieran's parish cour.cil, decided to organize a Mass.

"Mass provided a focal point for everyone," h(' told Catholic ~ews Service in a ':elephone intervIew. St. Kieran's past'Jr, Jesuit Father Arthur Pare, agreed, calling the Mass a "spontaneous outpouring of support and pra:{ers for Michael and his family."

Durant's parents, Louise and Leon, parishioner:; of St. Kieran, were not at the MLss because they were in Clarksville, Tenn., at their son's home with his wife and son Joey, born last yea.

The day after the Mass, the family was getting together for the wedding of one of Durant's sisters.

Father Pare, who said the Somalia situation "hit home" in Berlin unlike any other conflict since the Vietnam War, called it "heartwarming to see people come to the aid [of Durant's fa mily], supporting them in a diffil:ult time."

Although Durant left Berlin 14 years ago when he graduated from high school, he is fondly remembered.

"We all looked up to·him. His house was the base of operations while we were grc,wing up," said Brannen. "He really is a quality individual."

CHICAGO (CNS) - When Michael Jordan, widely considered to be the greatest basketball player ever, announced that he was retiring frbm ba~ketball Oct. 6, Catholic school students in Chicago's West Side were glued to TV sets to watch his announcement.

"Jordan is almost a saintly figure to these kids," said Roman Borowych, it teacher at St. Malachy Catholic School.

"Every kid who throws a paper in the wastebasket - from the first grade up - they say, 'Jordan."

That's how much he's permeated their life," he added.

Posters of Jordan hang in nearly every Catholic and public school on the West Side, home of the Chicago Stadium and the Chicago Bulls, the team Jordan led to a third successive N BA championship last spring. .

In many schools, the basketball player, who also has won two Olympic gold medals, is hero-worshiped as an athlete and a person.

And that's just fine with West Side priests and principals who see J 01'dan as an outstanding role model.

"The most important thing about Michael Jordan is that the man can be proud of himself," said FatherTom Walsh, pastor of Presentation B.V.M. "He's worked hard and achieved his dreams. That's what we try to teach our children."

The West Side includes many impoverished, all-black neighborhoods. Children see few black doctors, attorneys or other successful black role models.

"Our kids are intelligent. They don't chase after [Jordan] just

because he's a good athlete," Father Walsh told The New World, the archdiocesan newspaper of Chicago. "Jordan showsso much pride.

There hasn't been a day he didn't stand tall."

Frank Todd, an eighth grader at Our Lady of Sorrows School, said Jordan "shows us there;s more to life than basketball."

An irony of Jordan's popularity was that the children's chance to watch the Bulls play at the Chicago Stadium had been diminished.

Years ago, in the pre-J ordan era, pefore the stadium was a regular sellout, the Bulls agreed to give away tiCKets to schools in poor areas.

Yet the Bulls have remained immensely popular with the students. At a sports expo at Our Lady of Sorrows, team mascot Benny the Bull was the special guest. One of the prizes was a poster of Jordan.

Daniel Antosz, principal of Our Lady of Sorrows, said Jordan transcends his sport. "He's not just a sports guy. He does a lot for the community."

Many of the children spend hours on end shooting baskets and dreaming of playing in the N BA, a prospect adults downplay.

"All the kids want to be basketball players," said Antosz. "We always tell them 'it's one in a million."

Jordan's retirement was a personal event for many people, according to Father Walsh. "Everybody thinks Michael Jordan is a member of their family."

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• The- young Liberian boy spoke often with Brother Tim Rice, O.F.M. Cap., who visited the war-torn nation for his Religious Order which is considering missionary' service there. "Just before I left, I ran into Eric," Brother Tim said. "As I said good-bye, he handed me a fish,. wrapped in newspaper, and I knew that he had given me his own evening's meal." • For Eric and the people of Libe'ria, missionaries are truly one of their greatest signs of hope, says Archbishop Michael Francis of Monrovia, Liberia. He expresses gratitude to all who, through the Propagation of the Faith, serve his people in Liberia, offering prayers and financial help.• This World Mission Sunday,

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IN THIS month of the Rosary, passersby on Fal] River's Second Street are admiring the newly-restored statue of Mary in the Cathedral churchyard. The project was made possible by George McCullough in memory of his sister, the late parishioner Mary V. Lancier, and of her "attachment to our Blessed Mother and that beautiful statue." Rev. Horace Travassos, Cathedral rector, said Ms. Lancier, who used a walker, came daily to the Cathedral, no matter what the weather, to attend Mass and pray at the statue. The rector said the city landmark was dedicated Thanksgiving Day, 1900, by Providence Bishop Matthew Harkins in the presence of 5,000 people. At that time Fall River was part of the Providence diocese.

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What happened to honesty?

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WHen the Wells Fargo wagon the U.S. Supreme Court o'nce came down the street in Meredith before it was resolved.

Willson's River City. lA, all the Because it involved freedom of BERNARD players in "Music Man" hoped the press, a last-hour political that it had something special just expose and two newpapers violatfor them, and they were ready to ing a pledge of secrecy, the case CASSERLY pay for it C.O.D. received lots of attention. I agreed That was 1957, but this is 1993. to testify for a very simple reason: When a Wells Fargo armored justice. Cohen had been unjustly Throat," 1 said, Watergate might truck came down the Long Island treated by two powerful newspapnever have happened.

Expressway in the New York ers .. Reporters from both had I said much more, of course, Borough of Queens last year it hit agreed to keep his name out of and when 1 finished, the attorneys a bump and spilled two bags with their stories in exchange for potenfor the dailies chose not to cross$311,000 in currency all over the tially damaging information about examine me. Cohen was victorroadway. a candidate for lieutenant gover- ious in district court. The jury Westbound traffic halted as rid- nor of Minnesota a few days before awarded him $200,000 for losing ers scrambled to pick up the money. an election. his job and $500,000 'in punitive Guess how much Wells Fargo got The reporters' promises of con- damages divided between the back. Roughly $3,500! That's about fidentiality were overruled by their papers. $1 for each $100 lost! editors, and Cohen's name was By the time the lawsuit ended, Whatever happened to honesty? published. The St. Paul Pioneer the cash settlement had been "Finders keepers, losers weepers" Press decided first to "burn" its whittled to $200,000 plus interest. seems to have more adherents than confidential source. When the No money was awarded for punithe Ten Commandments.

Minneapolis Tribune learned of tive damages. Dan Cohen's right As a parent, grandparent, writer the St. Paul decision, it followed to anonymity was backed by the and commentator I have done my suit. Cohen was fired from his highest court in the land, albeit by best to promote truth and honor in advertising agency job the day the a 5 to 4 vote . human relations, but I rarely have story appeared.

Much more was at stake, of In my brief testimony before the course, and the debate over the an opportunity to enforce them. six-member civiljury i talked about impact of this "landmark" deciJust such an opportunity arrived several years ago when a public . the importance of truth and honesty sion on press freedom will conand the value of keeping one's . tinue. One of the best comments relations man who had been fired word. This nation has a tradition on the case was made by a retired invited me to lunch. He wondered if I might help him in his lawsuit of making deals, big and small, I reporter on the Minneapolis papagainst the big daily newspapers in said, without written contracts, er's op-ed page. often just by shaking hands.

Minneapolis and S1. Paul. MN. As a result of the long litigation, Newspapers often go to court to he wrote, "one shining principle 1 accepted Dan Cohen's offer protect confidences, I declared, stands out ... 'If you make a promand got involved in historic litigaand many reporters have gone to ise, keep it.''' tion that was to take almost 10 years and crawl through the Min- jail to keep the names of their I think the folks in River City sources secret. Without "Deep would agree. nesota Supreme Court'twice and

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DEACON RAY CLOBES gives communion to Harriet Boase at P.A. Peterson Home in Rockford. (eNS photo)

Deacon, 91, ministers to sick ROCKFORD, Ill. (CNS) - At Bishop Arthur J. O'Neill gave 91. Ray Clobes is a little like the him special limited faculties which allowed him to take communion Energizer bunny.

A permanent deacon for the to his wife, who was confined to a Rockford diocese since 1976. nursing home for 32 months.

After her death in 1974. he apClobes just keeps on going and plied immediately for the diacogoing and going.

He may be the nation's oldest nate program and was accepted active permanent deacon. Deacon into the diocese's second class. He Digest magazine in its May-June was ordained in 1976. issue asked to hear from older "The bishop assigned me catedeacons, but couldn't find anyone chetical ministry at St. Peter's and also asked me to take care of the who beat Clobes' milestone.

"I only got two other replies," spiritual requirements of Cathosaid James AIt, publisher of Dea- lics at Rockford Memorial," he con Digest. "They were younger recalls. , than Ray." That was all the invitation he Clobes credits the combination needed. of a strong spiritual base and conAt the height of his ministry. tinued good health for his ability Clobes visited Rockford Memorto continue his ministry to the ial and another hospital, two consick. valescent homes. three nursing Although he has cut back in homes, and an apartment building recent years. he still spends 25 for the elderly. hours a week visiting Rockford To keep a balance in his life, hospitals and nursing homes. All Clobes takes time for socializing at Catholics who are hospitalized at the card table.

Rockford Memorial get his atten"When I retired 27 years ago, I tion each Thursday and Sunday. wasn't worried about myself physEvery Thl}rsday he has a commun- ically, because I still played golf," ion service at Willows on Main he said. "But I was worried about nursing home; every other Friday staying alert mentally." he holds a communion service at He found his solution with a the P.A. Peterson Home. . variety of card games which he "I'v.e had as high as III Catho- plays on a regular schedule. Wedlics in the hospital at one time," he nesday and Saturday he enjoys gin said. That number is closer to 50 rummy at Forest Hills Country now that he visitsjust one hospital. Club. Monday afternoon the game "I finish at 12. then go to York- is pinochle. He also has some dale ~ursing Home." he says of his friends who enjoy socializing with days at Rockford Memorial Hos- dinner and a game of bridge. pital. The home is located just What is the most gratifying across the street. "There are about aspect of his ministry?

20 Catholics there." he says. "About "Finding a patient in the hospia dozen receive communion and tal who wants to be reconciled the others I go and say a prayer with the church." he says. That over." happens every other month or so.

Clobes was one of the first eMra"The gratification of bringing ordinary ministers of communion someone back to the sacraments. in the Rockford diocese.

Just to know about it is consoling."

Nuns are subject of Alzheimer's study WILTON. Conn. (CNS) Nearly 100 nuns from Connecticut are participating in a new study on Alzheimer's disease that will include. among other things, the donation of their brain tissue to science after death.

The national study is the work of David Snowdon, a health researcher from the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky. More than $1 million in U.S. government grants is helping fund the research.

Human subjects for the study come from a nationwide pool of School Sisters of Notre Dame.

Volunteers include hundreds of sisters in the Notre Dame provinces of Dallas, Chicago, Baltimore.

Milwaukee and St. Louis.

"Our study will probably be the largest study in the world focused on older women." Snowdon told a group of sisters during a recent visit to the Notre Dame motherhouse in Wilton.

The Connecticut sisters underwent intensive assessment of their mental and physical functions last March. Such tests will be repeated annually for at least the next four years, to document the effects of aging over time.

The School Sisters of Notre Dame were chosen for the "Nun Study." as it has been called, because they have shared a common lifestyle most of their lives.

Living within their religious community, they eat the same meals. receive, equal access to education and health care, are non-smokers, and in most cases, have similar occupations as teachers.

In addition, information on the sisters' early lives is available in the Notre Dame archives. High school transcripts and autobiographies written shortly after the sisters . entered the convent are on file. and open to the researchers.

The Nun Study will try to

determine the correlation between access to good nutrition and health care in early life and the development of dementia in later life. the researchers claim.

"The major thrust of the study is to set norms on aging, because we don't know what normal aging is, and to try to find a cause for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia so that they can be prevented," said Sister Gabriel Mary Spaeth. a School Sister of Notre Dame.

About 700 School Sisters of Notre Dame, born in 1916 or before, have agreed to take part in the study.

Father.Erwin Matt. chaplain of the Notre Dame Health Care Center in Elm Grove, Wis.. said the N un Study gives the elderly sisters a sense of purpose.

"One of the reasons for depression among the aged is a feeling that they are not worthwhile ~ny足 more." Father Matt told the Catholic Transcript, the archdiocesan newspaper of Hartford. "All Notre Dames are workaholics. Some-

times they feel that they have nothing to do and old age is an exercise in futility."

He said ,the study has given the sisters a "sense of self-worth" because they think that they are accomplishing something. He also said a "psychological healing process" is going on as a result of their involvement.

About 65 .percent of all 'N otre Dame Sisters who are participating in the study have also agreed to removal and examination of their brains after death. The brain tissue will be examined for physical evidence of Alzheimer's disease.

Snowdon began the study six years ago as an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota. His first subjects were sisters from the Mankato, Minn.. province. Two years ago,' the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging showed interest in his work and soon after. the intensive study began.

The study, formally known as the School Sisters of Notre Dame Health and Aging Study. will take at least 10 morc years to complete.

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Eastham Mike O'Connor of Bird Watchers' General Store will speak at senior center 10:30 a.m. Nov. 5.

Dennis Chester Camoscio, insurance agent, will present "Protecting Your Assets" 2 p.m. Oct. 27 at senior center. Information: CO A, 3855067. Volunteer"friendly visitors" and grocery shoppers needed for

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The Big If "If there is no God, we have nothing to lose by praying, and if there is one, we have much to lose if we don't." - Blaise Pascal

Parish-based clinic helps poor fill health c:are gaps ERIE, Pa. (CNS) - The medical clinic opelling soon in the basement of the St. Paul parish youth center in Erie will have the simplest of acco unting systems its doctors and ~,taff won't be paid and its patients won't be billed.

The St. Paul's Neighborhood Free Medical Clinic will work to "fill the gaps" in health care coverage for residents of the racially and ethnically mixed neighborhood.

"This is to fili gaps. That's all," said Dr. Vincert Jenco, a retired obstetricianl gynecologist who grew up in the neighborhood. He and Dr. Henry Karpinski, also retired, plan to operate the clinic with a slew of volunteers.

"I'm not fond of the present two-tier system )f health care that we now have," said Jenco. "My contention has always been that the little guy doe~ n't get very much."

According to plans for the clinic, the "little guy" will get, at the very least, basic m.:dical attention.

Modeled after a successful program in Roano:'e, Va., the clinic will serve the uninsured and 'the underinsured.

It will not corrpete with existing health services. Patients who are on public welfan: and receive medical assistance will be referred to neighborhood clinics. Those adequately covered by insurance will be referred to n:gular health care providers.

Karpinski said the clinic will focus on prev,:ntive care and maintenance for Erie's portion of the 35 million pe )ple in the United States who have no or inadequate' insurance.

The two doct )rs, who worked together before retirement at Erie's VA Medical Center, have discussed for the past two years the idea of opening a free clinic.

"I think this [(ree clinic model) will go over the ;ountry shortly," said Karpinski. "The doctors are being bashed so much that they have to give something back to show they're not just money-' hungry."

So far, about 30 physicians, from pediatricians to oncologists, have either inqu red or signed on to volunteer at the clinic. Dieti c tians, nurses, p~ychologists, and maintenance and office personnel have agreed to p ,ovide help when needed. And discussions are under way with local hospitals to provide medical equipment and other support.

The overwhelning community support ofthe clinic concept points to the great need 'or it, said Frank Marucci, a retired pharmaceutical salesman who \\ ill be executive director.

"It's almost lik,~ a mandate that these two physicians have been given," said Marucci, who also grew up in the neighborhood. "The response has beer. absolutely awesome."

The clinic will operate from the youth center ba sement until a vacant building donated to the parish can be renovated. It will come rent-free.

Father Thomas Snyderwine, pastor of St. Paul parish said, "St. Paul's is in an innl:r-city neighborhood. [The clinic] is our investment in our neigh borhood as well as the Christian t ling to do."

Ignorance "Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot."- Haitian

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"He would say that their status The Anglican clergyman quoted what he had written on the matter has not b~en determined by Vatifor the Britis h newspaper the can 11.. .. There is a grey area there which ha~ got to be resolved," the Catholic Herald: bishop said.

"On the question of Anglican orders, those Anglicans who have taken part in the discussions have always recogni~ed that they have exercised them in isolation from SAN FRANCISCO (CNS) the universal church and that if . As California Gov. Pete Wilson they wen: to be accepted as Roman receniIy signed four new anti-immiCathqlic priests some action would grant bills into law in Sacramento, be needed." state and local religious leaders in Bishop Leonard wrote that Car- San Francisco urged humane poldinal Hume said that "while we icies and laws to protect immiwould need absolute ordination so grants' rights and dignity. New that there would be no doubt, this immigrants are being made the would however take place in the target of "fear and frust~ation" context of what the Decree on that stem~ from many social and Ecumenism of Vatican II said economic factors, Archbishop John about the ministries of separated R. Quinn of San Francisco said. churches."

At an inll~rfaith news conference Under the Catholic definition of religious leaders reminded Califabsolute ordination the acceptance ornians that their state and their of former Anglican clergymen into nation was formed by immigrants the Catholic priesthood would be from manv countries, cultures and the only ordination of those indi- religious traditions. Catholic leadviduals recognized by the church. . ers participating in the press conBut Cardinal Hume said that ference included Archbishop Quinn the rule does not deny the validity and Bishop John S. Cummins of of ministry performed by Angli- Oakland, president of the Califorcan clergy. nia Catho!ic Conference.

"The Second Vatican Council's Decree on Ecumenism made it very clear that sacred actions done AWIDE CHOICE OF SAVINGS by ministers in other churches were & INVESTMENT PLANS effective and gave grace and could lead to salvation," he said in a press conferencl~ at the end of the English and Welsh· bishops' meeting.

Asked what he thought of a Catholic canon lawyer's view that without Catholic ordination Anglican priests would technically be Banking Since lB25 laymen, Bishop Leonard said: MEMBER FDlC/DlFM "Well, I don't know because the EQUA L HOUSING e LENDER cardinal wouldn't say that, 1think.

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BISHOP JOHN J. Myers of Peoria, Ill., looks a little dubious as he exhibits his miter-shaped crash helmet, given him after he was involved in a minor traffic accident. (eNS photo)

Retired Anglican bishop plans to' switch faiths The Catholic bisnops of EngLONDON (CNS) - The former land and Wales said at an April Anglican bishop of London says meeting that they would welcome he plans to seek "reconciliation Anglicans on condition that they with the Holy See." . were not single-issue converts, but Bishop Graham Leonard, 71, would accept church teaching in who retired from the London see total. There has been talk of possitwo years ago, has been the Church ble large numbers of Anglicans of England's most prominent opseeking membership in reaction to ponent of women's ordination. He also has been engaged in discus- their church's decision to ordain sions with Catholic primate Car- . women.

Bishop Leonard told Catholic dinal George Basil Hume of Westminster about the possibilities open News Service he meant by "appropriate time" that in the discussions for Anglicans seeking to become he and other Anglican clergy have Roman Catholics.

The bishop's announcement sur- engaged in with Cardinal Hume faced in the Catholic newspaper there were a number of things still The Tablet, which asked the Angli- to be worked out.

"Not least, of course, the posican clergyman whether he had yet decided to become a Roman Cath- tion of a retired Anglican bishop," he said. olic.

Asked if he would seekordina"I intend to respond to the tion as a Catholic, the bishop said bishops' statement ~y seeking he had deliberately used the phrase reconciliation with the Holy See at "seeking reconciliation with the the appropriate time," he replied.

Holy See" in order to leave the "When that will be is a matter on which 1 will seek the advice of Issue open. ·Cardinal Hume."

He said the cardinal had talked about the fulfillment of Anglican priests' ministry through ordination as Catholic priests, but "I do not know what he has in mind for me."

Asked if he would be prepared to become an ordinary Roman Catholic layman, Bishop Leonard replied, "Not a layman, because that has been made clear right through."

He added that "one of the things that rejoiced my heart was when he said we do not have to deny our existing [ministry]."

"Certainly the cardinal has never "'How can you feel bener? Give generously on given the slightest indication that World Mission Sunday!' would be what would be required," Bishop Leonard said.

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HAVANA(CNS)-Cuba's bishops hit back at their critics, saying the Cuban press had slandered them after their call for political change and a national dialogue.

The Cuban bishops' conference said in a statement last week that the media had overreacted to a document which they said had expressed the truth about Cuba's problems in calm, sober terms.

The statement was the bishops' first public response to a series of articles in the state-run media that were highly critical of their pastoral letter.

The 17-page letter, released Sept.

14 and later re.ad from church pulpits across the Caribbean island, urged the one-party communist government to lift its monopoly of political power and start a national TOMORROW marks the fifteenth anniversary of the dialogue to save the country from economic and social collapse. election of Pope John Paul II. (eNS photo) "We reject totally, as slanderous, the serious accusations being made against us of betrayal of the nation, of favoring it 'bloodbath' in our country, of entering into alliances abroad, of wanting colonial times restored, or offavoring VATICAN CITY (CNS) - As tic ideology was responsible for an annexation [of Cuba] by the the 15th year of his pontificate "grave social injustices" - and United States," last week's statecomes to a close. Pope John Paul that Marxism's "kernel of truth" ment said. lay in seeing capitalism's faults.

II is adjusting his social message to "Indeed, this disproportionate As the'pope fine-tunes his teacha new world order and refining his reaction confirms our belief in the call for obedience among the ing on economic justice. he is also need for dialogue," said the state-' stressing the moral duty to respect faithful. ment by the conference's permaThese two tasks are at the top of the environment. This "greening" nent committee. comprised of Arch- ~ the 73-year-old pontiffs agenda as of Pope John Paul's message is bishop Jaime Ortega Alamino of he looks to the end of the second .Iikely to continue through the Havana and three other bishops. . millennium and beyond. wiih a 1990s.

The pastoral letter has not been War looms large in the pope's vision of a more doctrinally united published in the Cuban media. mind and prayers as he begins his church and a world more receptive although thousands of copies have 16th year in office. But unlike the to its teachings. been sold to the public by the 1980s. this is not the nightmare For the pope, the IS-year mark church. is a time to set new goals for what scenario of nuclear conflagration.

ArtiCles have accused the church Instead. it is the deadly reality of has been one of the most dvnamic leaders of being aloof from ordipapacies in history. . smaller ethnic or tribal wars that nary Catholic believers, of playing have flared up in places like the The global scene has changed into the hands of enemies of Cuba dramatically since the evening of Balkans. Africa and southern Soviabroad and of wanting to return Oct. 16. 1978, when the stunning et republics.

Cuba to pre-revolutionary social election of Polish Cardinal Karol The pope's challenge in the '90s injustices.

Wojtyla was announced - the is to help ensure that religion does The bishops' statement said the first non-Italian pope in 455 years not fuel these miniconfIicts. but press had tried to "destroy the and the first ever from a commu- acts as a reconciler. Further signifgood image of the church and of nist country. icant contributions could arrive the bishops" and so drive a wedge The pop~s crucial role in comwhen the Vatican completes docubetween them and the faithful. 'munism's demise. many believe. ments-in-progress on the arms They said",they had felt obliged will be the lasting legacy of his industry and nonviolence. to speak out about difficulties in pontificate. But today. with the When it comes to the church's Cuba "in the face of the seriousCold War over and the church in moral teaching. the pope will rely ness of the current situation, unin future years on two new. immensea rebuilding phase throughout derlined by shortages of essential Eastern Europe, the pope is shiftly important documents: the Catethings such as food and medicines." ing his moral spotlight to the chism.of the Catholic Church" and Despite the vigorous campaign shortcomings of Western society his' just-released encyclical. "Veriin the state-run media. there has and the imbalance of the global' / tat is Splendor" ("The Splendor of been almost no comment by governeconomy.

Truth"). Together, they form the ment officials on the bishops' letter.

The pope calls the economic foundation of a growing papal disparity the "N orth-South" probcrusade for morality in public and lem. and he has seen it up close private life. during frequent trips to the Third "Veritatis Splendor" is the pope's World. Warning that the poor are SANTIAGO. Chile(CNS) - A strongest answer to dissent within getting poorer. the pope is saying Chilean judge has charged 17 the church. insisting on the validthe West cannot keep-living in "an former policemen and one civilian ity of universal moral norms and island of abundance surrounded objective truth - particularly in in the 1985 slaying of a Catholic by an ocean of suffering." human rights official and two other such troublesome areas as human During a September trip to the men. After an eight-year investigasexuality - as spelled out in church Baltic countries. his first visit to a tion, Judge Milton J uica charged teaching. part of the former Soviet-Union. six of the 18 with kidnapping and But its wider audience is modthe pope was an unusually stern murder. The rest were charged ern society. which the pope sees as critic of unbridled capitalism. In a with crimes ranging from kidnapdangerously absorbed in self-gratifispeech that hinted 'of more to ping to complicity. Their alleged cation and increasingly comfortacome. the pope said capitalisvictims - Jose Miguel Parada. an ble with ethical relativism. It is a official of the archdiocesan human society, the pope has warned. that rights agency. the Vicariate of "denies the value of anything unless Solidarity. Manuel Guerrero Cait brings immediate advantage." ballos. president of the Santiago Many at the Vatican say this chapter of the Chilean teachers' encyclical is a prelude to a much association. and Santiago Nattino. more specific document on "the a painter -- were abducted on a prot~ction of life," which would crowded Santiago street on March treat the social policy aspects of 29.1985. Their bodies were found abortion, euthanasia, sterilization the next day. and other practices. The 1994

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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Hertaking food at the border," the zegovina (CNS) - Father Franjo Caritas director said. "We're also Tomic said the calculations on quite sure the Bosnians are taking food distribution filling the six feet their share too. It's war, but it's of adding-machine tape curling also economics." over his desk add up to this: They Caritas, like the other relief don't add up. organizations in Sarajevo, draws The 33-year-old director of Car- from a central pool offood brought itas in Sarajevo said U. N. officials into the city under the auspices of the United Nations, and on food "c1aim they're supplying 540 grams [about one pound] offood per day and other supplies obtained directly [per person], but we're only distri- from outside sources. buting 152 grams [about five oun'''Getting the U.N. to bring us' ces] of food per. day. everything we need has become a "Something is wrong," the priest dailv battle," he said. said.

Father Tomic said he is often at The continuing discrepancy be- odds with U.N. officials who "will tween food shipped and food delimake a new regulation or throw a vered is a problem that Father roadblock in front of you. I need Tomic said won't go away even the good nature of 1.000 men." after the last bomb is dropped or In the meantime, he said, Carithe last bullet fired in the siege of tas continues to struggle each day Sarajevo. with the problem of administering "There will be problems with to the needs of some 30,000 Cathfood here for long after peace is 'olics remaining in the Bosnian made," he said. capital.

Father Tomic said he has no "It's not only food, it's religious evidence as to where the food is education, counseling, medical sergoing, but speculates that elements vices, delivering mail and keeping within the Bosnian government families together," Father Tomic and military are siphoning off tons said. of food and reselling it on the A unique aspect of that minisblack market. try, he said, 路is that some of Saraje"Look, we know about the Serbs vo's Catholics are offspring of rel111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 igiously mixed marriages - EasInternational Year of the Family tern Orthodox, Jewish, or Muslim also will give the pope a yearlong and Catholic couples. forum for sharpening his attack on "We have to look after their what he has called the "culture of needs too," he said. "Many of death" that threatens the weakest those people are 路confused and members of society. look to the church for guidance.

In this most personal of pontifi- We need to be there for them." cates, Pope .I ohn Paul's age and Caritas in Sarajevo has few energy level will also help set the salaried employees, relying primtone in future years. The pope arily on more than 130 volunteers grabbed the world's attention in staffing eight offices throughout 1978 with his activism and youth- the city. ful charisma. Today his shoulders "We work in close cooperation are somewhat stooped and there is with 54 non-government humanless bounce in his step, but he still itarian organizations," Father has plenty of stamina.

Tomic said. as well as Jewish, Following the removal of an Muslim and Orthodox relief intestinal tumor in 1992, the pope groups. gradually resumed a heavy scheHe said that although the fightdule of meetings. speeches and ing in .and around Sarajevo had audiences at the Vatican. After 15 calmed down at the time of the years of grueling travel, however. interview, Caritas drivers still risked his foreign trips are shorter. and being shot. only two - to Belgium and Africa "Our trucks and drivers are under - arc currently scheduled for 1994. constant threat of being shot at by The calendar is being kept open Serb or Muslim snipers." the priest (and fingers are being crossed) for said. "Everyone hears about the a possible trip to Jerusalem, too.

Serbs in Sarajevo, but with tenBut a visit to R ussiais still blocked sions between Croats and M usby continuing Catholic-Orthodox lims rising, a number of our trucks tensions. the biggest ecumenical have been targets for angry M usob'stacle left on the horizon. lim soldiers."

Two synods, one on Africa and "I would lov.e to think that one one on religious life, will keep the morning all of Sarajevo, and for pope busy in 1994. Both'will underthat matter all of the former score new areas of development: Yugoslavia, will wake up and begin The church in Africa has more anew," Father Tomic said. than doubled in size under this But "1 know it's not going to pope. and the Third World is happen. Too much blood has been enjoying a boom in religious voca- shed," he said. "All we can do is tions. hope and pray."

The coming year. according to Vatican sources. is also expected to bring a papal decision opening the way to female altar servers WASHlNGTON(CNS)- More not a move the Vatican sees as than 150 charitable and activist major. but which could make many organizations are promoting a local churches happy. campaign to change the way the United States allocates its foreign Sometime during 1994. the pope policy dollars. The Many Neighwill probably name a new batch of bors. One Earth campaign calls car.dinals. When he does. Pope upon President' Clinton-to shift John Paul will have appointed foreign aid priorities to promote more than 80 percent of the cardisustainable development that can nals eligible to vote on a conclave. reduce hunger and poverty. The Combined with the pope's appoin'tcampaign has gathered 150 House ment of about half the world's cosponsors and 26 in the Senate, active bishops. it leaves no doubt said Kathy Selvaggio. who is that at age 15, this pontificate has directing the campaign for its set the church's direction for a sponsors at Bread for the World. good many years to come.

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Str(lng families the key Continued from Page Eight Holy Father appointed the second Sarducci to sub.

The assigned topic became garbled mid-fax, he said, but Father Dom interpreted it to be "How to Eliminate Family Ministry from Your Diocese and Parish." He offered many useful tips along these lines: "If you're serious about ending [family ministry], first you make sure that your diocese is having you do all of the marriage and family programs.... If you do have volunteers, dor.'t let them change any program tht:mselves. You write the program. Matter of fact, you write down what yo'u would have said if you were there. That's called quality control."

After he had revealed numerous ways to "get everyone mad at you," Father Dom was unmasked as Don Paglia, president of the

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FOLLOWING THE papal Mass at Castel Gandolfo, Pope John Paul II greets, from left, Bishop Sean O'Malley's father, Atty. Theodore J. O'Malley, the bishop, and the bishop's sister, Mary Ellen Alexsovich. (Arturo Mari photo)

Bishop reports on ad limina visit Continued from Page One sire in every hum:ln heart for goodness, truth and l:fe."

He scored "widespread misunderstanding of the role of conscience, whereb:, individual conscience and experience are exalted above or against church teaching" and described yo ung people of the Western world as "victims of educational theorie, which propose that they 'create' their own values and that 'feeling .~ood about themselves' is a primay guiding moral principle."

Clear teaching on these matters, he emphasized, is "an essential part of the neces ,ary return to the practice of the S,lcrament of penance"; and he pointed out that the thousands of c.)nfessions heard during World Youth Day "show that the young people know the value of this sacI ament."

It was the third ad limina visit for. Bishop O'Malley, who was accompanied to Italy by his sister, his father and his stepmother. "Ad

Catholic Family Life Ministers Association and co-director with his wife Chris of the Hartford archdiocesan Family Life Office.

To avoid the pitfalls of Father Dom's unfortunate ministry, said Paglia, family ministers must be armed with many skills, great agility, a body of knowledge, as well as a sense of humor and a deep love of the Lord and His'church.

The Paglias said that currently one of the greatest needs in family ministry is establishing support for newly married couples.

"It's a tough situation because we're talking about a group of people who are very mobile and who may not settle into one parish for quite a while," said Paglia.

"But these are the critical years.

We feel it's time to start a national effort to help these newly marrieds. We've recently begun a newsletter just for them."

limina," which means "to the threshold" of the tombs of SS. Peter and Paul, has come to designate the entire once-every-five-years visit that bishops of the world make to Rome. Bishop O'Malley said the visit to the tombs is always an especially moving moment for him as he reflects that he is follo,wing in the footsteps of scores of saints, including his patron, Patrick, (his baptismal name), and his father in religion, Francis.

Also a highlight of the bishops' visits, said Bishop O'Malley, is their meal with Pope John Paul, always marked by stimulating table talk, including discussion of the state of the church in various countries - "information yOl,! don't hear elsewhere."

Contrary to reports in various quarters that the pope has looked weary in recent months, Bishop O'Malley said he found the poiltiff exuding energy. He commented especially on his stamina during the hectic events of WorId Youth Day.

CHILDR EN'S FOLK group members of Our Lady of Assump~ionpa.rish, New Bedford, shown here at a 1992 multicultural observance in Rhode Island, will be among singers at the Nov. 6 Migration Week observance to be held at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.

"He's like the Energizer Bunny," he said. "Ht: just keeps going and going and going."

As it has during most bishops' visits, the question of when the English edition of the new Catechism of the Catholic Church will be published came up during the ad limina. ~ishop O'Malley noted that he has already received French, Spanish and Portuguese editions and hazarded the guess that the English edition holdup is due to the "war of the pronouns," concern over inclusive language.

When publi~hed, he said, the catechism will be "the touchstone" for catechetical endeavors, filling many gaps that exist in current materials.

"It will give us the chance to present the content of the faith cogently in CCD classes, Catholic schools and RCIA programs," he said.

The catechism will also complement the pope's new encyclical, "Veritatis Splendor," in that while the catechism presents Christian morality, the encyclical focuses on its underlying theological principles. In other words, the catechism tells what to do, while the encyclical tells why it should be done.

Speaking of diocesan matters, the bishop said he is happy with th~ progress of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, the new Hispanic parish in New Bedford, and that initiatives with Cape Verdeans at Our Lady of the Assumption parish, also in New Bedford, and with Brazilians at St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis, are also going well. There are also five diocesan parishes offering a weekly Spanishlanguage Mass.

He is also encouraged by the fact that several Polish seminarians preparing for the priesthood at Orchard Lake, Mich., are considering ministry in the Fall River diocese; and he noted that Richard Wilson ofSt. PiusX parish, South Yarmouth, is studying for the diocese at the North American College in Rome. Wilson accompanied Bishop O'Malley's party to the papal Mass at Castel Gandolfo.

NEW YORK (CNS) - Two juniors at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn who created a video interpretation of the Christopher theme "One person can make a difference" took first place in an annual contest sponsored by the organization.

The entry will be shown on "Christopher Closeup," the Christophel'S' nationally syndicated public affairs show.

Juniors Jl.!ngman Cho and Junsoo Yang titled their entry" A Tale of Michael," which follows the daily activities of a young blind man. They will. receive a $3,000 prize.

The video contest sponsored by the Christophel's is in its seventh year for college students throughout the United States.

Carlo Cerruti, a senior at Haverford Colkge in Haverford, Pa., won second prize and $2,000 for "Dad Makes a Difference." a visual essay about the positive and lasting influence fathers can have on their children.

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Fundraisers practice what they preach NEWORLEANS(CN.S)- Two New Orleans Catholic charitable agencies were the beneficiaries of a fund se't up to mark tne 25th anniversary of the National Catholic Developm.:nt Conference.

St. Philip Social Service Center and St. John the Baptist Community Center each received a gift of $16,00C during the organization's recent silver anniversary luncheon in New Orleans'.

"We decided that as Catholic fundraiser~, we should rise above a superficial and glitzy material celebration and reach out, even in our jubilee celebration. to touch the poor, often forgotten, suffering and needy" of New Orleans, said Capuc;lin Father Emmett Hoffmann. anniversary committee chairman.

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By Charlie Martin

RAIN

By Tom Lennon Your parents say, 'N 0, you can't stay out until I o'clock!" Your coach says, "No smoking. Not ever."

Your pastor says, "N 0, you can't have a beer at the teen night."

Your teacher says, "N 0, you can't wait another day to hand in your theme paper.:' At one point Nancy Reagan was telling you to "Just Say No" to drugs.

Even Jesus says no sometimes.

It must seem to you at times that the list of people who say no to you is endless. Not that they are always. saying it, but they say it often enough to aggravate you mightily.

Maybe it does much more than that. Perhaps your rebellion level soars to all-time highs, and you consider breaking every rule in the book and then running a way from home for good measure.

But hold on! Pause. Consider.

Think for a minute about all these people who say no to you. Round them up, so to speak. Make a list of all the adults and even peers who have the power to, enforce a command of "no" in your regard.

What are the feelings churning around in your heart about these people? Do you resent them all?

Do they threaten you? Are they the enemy? Do you feel angry at them most of the time? Do you feel they want to hurt you and frustrate your desires? Would you like to punch some of them?

Maybe by now you've worked up a serious case of hot temper. If

so, pause a moment and go from your heart to your head. Instead of being concerned about what you feel in regard to these people, examine what you think about them.

Do you think it is possible that most of them, in their own way, wants to help you get the maximum happiness out of your life? How might this be?

What do you think your life would be like if every adult and peer said _yes to you all the time from the moment you were born?

More important, what would you be like?

Finally, when the time is right, could you approach your mom and dad and ask them about the people in their lives who from·time to time say no to them? What do you think they feel whenthe sound of the word "no" reaches their: ears?

National youth ministry directors named WASHINGTON (CNS)-The National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry in Washington has hired two associate directors, Joseph Hager J r. and Kathleen Carver.

Hager is associate director for programming and resource development with the national federation.

Ms. Carver associate director for publications and operations.

The youth federation fosters development of youth ministry in the United States.

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The Diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate is sponsoring prolife essay contest on the topic "Why My Choice is Life" for Catholic school and parish religious education studentsingrades8-10(category I)and II and 12 (category 2). Entry deadline is Nov. 16.

First prize in each category will be transportation and lodging for the Jan. 20-22 vigil an9 March for Life in Washington, DC. A $50 U.S. Savings Bond will be second prize in each category.

Contest rules are as follows: -Entries should be 400-600 words in length, pref~ra­ bly typed and double-spaced, with text on only one side of the paper.

- Name, address, telephone number and grade of author should appear at end of essay.

-Essays will be judged on content (80%) and style (20%).

-Submissions may be made in person or by mail to the Pro-Life Apostolate, Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Rd., North Dartmouth 02747-2930, tel. 997-2290. The office closes at 3 p.m. daily. No entries will be accepted after Nov. 16.

The top 10 essays in each category will be sent to the Washington office of Representative Peter Blute for final selection of winners. Winners will then be notified and announced in the Anchor.

Feel it on my fingertips Hear it on the window pane Your love is coming down like Rain Wash away my sorrow Take away my pain Your love is coming down like Rain When your lips are burning mine And you take your time To tell me how you feel Then you listen to my words And I know you've heard I know it's real Rain is what the thunder brings For the first time I can hear my heart saying Call me a fool But I know I'm not I'm going to stand out here On the mountaintop _ Till I feel Then you looked into my eyes And you said goodbye Could you see my tears?

Then I turned the other way Did you hear me say?

I'd wait for all the dark clouds Bursting in the perfect sky You promised me When you said goodbye That you'd return When the storm was gone And now I wait for the light I wait for the sun Till I feel Here comes the sun Here comes the sun And I say Never go away Written by M. Ciccone and S. Pettibone. Sung by Madonna (c) 1992 by Sire Records for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world ~)Utside the United States The song concerns the hurt I LIKE Madonna's softer and sadness experienced in sepmusic. Her current release, "Rain," reminds me of her big aration. The woman in the song hit from last summer, "This looks to the rain to "wash away Used to Be My Playground." my sorrow, takeaway my pain."

For reasons not stated, her Both are done in a ballad style that highlights her considerable boyfriend has said goodbye, vocal abilities. though he promised to return

"when the storm was gone."

However, for now, the woman looks for something that will soothe her hurt feelings.

When we love each other, separation is never easy. Yet, separations occur for many reasons. A boy or girl may go away to college. Brothers or sisters may be separated when their parents get a divorce.

Some separations stem from emotional needs, for example when one person takes a timeout from dating a particular person in order to assess the relationship or to think things through.

Whatever leads to the separation, it is important to talk about how you feel. This. includes expressing any anger you might have toward the person choosing the separation.

Most often it is best to express your anger to someone 'other than the person who has left you, someone you trust, someone who can validate how you feel.

Behind anger is fear. You may be afraid that the person will not return, even if he or she has promised to return when the storm has passed.

Life may have taught us that not everyone keeps promises.

We need God's help when it comes to fear. Fear needs to be transformed and helped by God's love. Many times fear is leftover emotional pain from hurtfUl childhood incidents.

It can help to imagine that child who you were, speaking directly to that child with reassurance, love and compassion - telling the child inside you that you will not abandon him or her, no matter what happens in this current fearful separation.

The song also reminds me that the gifts of the Earth and of nature can help heal us. Maybe you would not enjoy standing out in the rain, but a walk in the woods, a stroll at sundown or enjoying any number of nature's gifts can help us heal the pain of separation.

Nothing can take away all the hurt as we live through separation. Yet, one day at a time, we can find the strength, courage and the trust to deal with whatever separation brings us.

Your comments are welcomed

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

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SISTER MARY DAVIDA Dunne, RSM, first grade teacher at SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, observed Mercy Day Sept. 24 by renewing her vows at a Mass celebrated by school chaplain Father James Fitzpatrick. At right, Father Fitzpatrick installs student council officers, from left, president Jillian Collard, vice president Jennifer Amaral, secretary Valerie Costa, treasurer Eric Copsetta.

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ST. MARY'S School, New Bedford, opened Respect Life Month with an Oct. I prayer vigil and eucharistic de~otions. A liturgy for stuc,ents, faculty, parents and parishioners included the Gospel of the Annunciation, petitions for respect for all human life, a:ld song, led by parish music director Jackie Vardo, above, St. Mary's pro-life and liturgy committees assisted in planning. Students continue to offer a daily prayer for life throug:lOut the month.

Coyle-Cassidy The Entertain:nent and Sports ProgrammingNelwork(ESPN) has announced that the Oct. 18 in'stallment of "S.;holastic Sports America" will feature the stolen base record-break,ing, Coyle and Cassidy High School baseball team.

Monday's show will air nationwide at 3:30 p.m. lnd will air again at 6 a.m., Oct. 23. The program will also be shown on the new ESPN 2 at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 24.

Last May, the Warriors broke the national high school stolen base record for a 20-game season with 120 steals.

Coyle and Cassidy faculty member Brian Nichol! is head baseball coach.

Senior Chris H. Colocousis of Middleboro has been named a Commended Student in the 1994 National Merit ~cholarship Program.

More than 35.000 Commended Students throughout the, nation are being honored for their outstanding performance on the 1992 "

PSAT I National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which was the route of entry to the 1994 Merit Program.

Colocousis is a member of the National Honor Society at Coyle and Cassidy.

The freshman class has elected officers. They are: president Melissa Chaves, vice president Steven Matos, secretary Kerrie-Jean Angeley and treasurer Kathryn Souza. All a're from Taunton.

The freshman class faculty moderator is Mrs. Virginia O'Brien.

St. James-St. John Students in Lisa Villeneuve's fifth grade class at St. James-St. John School, New Bedford, recently researched their family histories as part of a lesson on the many cultures which have contributed to the evolution of American society.

Each student wrote an essay on their ancestors' country or countries of origin and why the families . chose to come to the United States.

Students were also asked to bring an artifact from their family's country of origin or to draw something representative of the country, such as a flag, map or landmark. Among items presented were an Irish family history dating back to the potato famine and a 19th century Norwegian birth certificate.

The students shared their findings with the class and with principal Edmund Borges in oral presentations.

Bishop Stang High School seniors Selena Bates and Jason Carreiro have been named commended students in the 1994 National Merit Scholarship Program. Principal Theresa Dougall presented each of the students with a letter of commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, which conducts the program.

Miss Bates, a South Dartmouth resident, ranks fourth in her class and is an active member of her parish youth group. She plans to attend Brigham Young University next year and has been invited to spend a week at the university this fall.

Carreiro, a Swansea resident, is a member of the·school's chapters of Students Against Drunk Driving, Amnesty International and Habitat for Humanity and a participant in the drama, chess, outing and ski clubs. He is also a Boy Scout, currently working on his Eagle Award.

TCMS Students at Taunton Catholic Middle School have begun the school year with new banners representing each of the four grade levels.

The banners. proposed by teachers James Machado and Susan Lope!;, were designed and sewn by Mrs. Janet Sullivan, mother of TCMS students James and Brigette Sullivan.

The fifth grade banner depicts a sunrise and seeds, representing knowledge and faith.

The butterfly on the sixth grade banner signifies the rapid change and growth experienced by students at this age.

Symbols on the seventh grade banner are a rising sun and a cross, signifying anticipation and faith.

The eighth grade banner has a large central cross with four smaller crosses in the corners to represent the four eighth gradC classes at the school.

The banners and a school flag designed by the art club under direction of Mrs. Valerie Russell will be used at school assemblies.

Marian Desrosiers, diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate Assistant. will speak at the Home and School Association's fall general meeting 7 p. m. Oct. 12. Eighth grade religion students will attend and parents are also invited.

The drama club will present "Frankenstein Slept Here" at 7 p.m. Oct. 29. The club will also sponsor"Lascr Dramatics," a laser special effects show. at 7 p.m. Nov. 4 with an ice cream social following.

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Bishop Connolly High School The fall sports season is off to a fantastic start for the Bishop Connolly High School Cougars.

The girls' varsity volleyball team has a 6-1 (6-0 in the Eastern Athletic Conference) record under new head coach GrE!g Medeiros. The junior varsity squad is 7-0 under coach Beth Rodgers.

After a tough opening loss, 0-1, to Dartmouth, the girls' varsity soccer team recouped with four straight shutouts and a 5-2 victory over Coyle-Cassidy. They are now 5-1 overall (2-lin the EAC) under coach Tony Prlesto. John MacDonald coaches the JV squad, which has a record of 4-0-1.

The boys' varsity soccer team, 't . t SI s atop coac h ed b y D an A u d e, the EAC with a 3-0 league record -_ (4- I overa II) . J Ol~ R oc h a 1ea d s t h e v d tl 3 I I J squa , curren y - - .

Led by coach Tom Botelho, the girls' cross country team has posted a I-I mark, 1-0 in the EAC, while the boys are 0-2.

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Principal Father John P. Murray, SJ, has announced a number of new faculty a~'ld staff appointments.

Brother Walter Zwierchowski, FI C,joins the religion department faculty after teaching for 10 years at Mt. Assumption High School, Plattsburg, NY.

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Mrs. Elizabeth McElroy is the new main office secretary. She holds degrees in English from Bridgewater State College and home economics from Framingham State College.

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ST. ANNE, FR PRO-LIFE APOSTOLATE Annual St. Jude Novena Oct. 20 Attleboro deanery evening of to 28 with services 2 and 7:30 p.m. daily in shrine. Father Pierre La- prayer and discussion 7 to 9 p.m. chance, OP, will preach on "Facing Oct. 19, St. Mary's parish center, N. Attleboro. Information: John Mcthe Moral Issues of Our Time."

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PAX CHRISTI, CAPE COD EMMAUS/GALILEE A Spirituality of Nonviolence will Emmaus 99 takes place this weekbe discussed at meeting 7:30 p.m. end at Cathedral Camp, E. Freetown; Oct. 18 at rectory chapel, O.L. Viccommunity invited to closing Mass 7 tory parish, Centerville. p.m. Sunday, Neumann Hall.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER ST. JULIE BILLIART, Catholic Daughters of the AmerN. DARTMOUTH icas will collect baby items for Children may dress as their name Birthright this weekend. saints fur a family All Saints Day ST,'ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FR Mass 7 p.m. Nov. I. Fortl1coming programs at the hosSEPAR4-TED/DIVORCED, pital, all free and open to all follow: CAPE COD 6:30 p.m. Oct. 18, "Good Food for Katherine FUlham, CPA, and Johnny: Nutrition for the First 5 Judith Beatrice, MBA-MST, will years," Nannery Conference Room; present "Our Turn: Taking Control 4:30 p.m. Oct. 20, Jeff Austin, direcof Life and Money After Divorce" 7 tor of a home for adults with AIDS p.m. Oct. 17, St. Pius X parish cenin Providence, will speak on its proter, S. Yarmouth. Hospitality and gram, Nannery; 6:30 p.m. Oct. 25, welcoming of new participants be"Voices: Women Speaking to Women," on healthcare issues fac- gins 6:30 p. m. Information: 362-9873. ing women, Nannery; 6:30 p.m. Nov. 8, '.'Toys to Help Johnny Grow," Nannery.

SALT LAKE CITY (CNS) FORUS WORKSHOP, The Holy Cross Health System WARREN, RI has decided to sell its three hospiWorkshop on a study of the future of religious orders in the United tals in Utah, ending more than a States (FORUS) will take place becentury of health care provided by ginning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. women religicius in the state and 13, at O. L. Fatima High School, leaving it without a Catholic primRteo 136, Warren, RI and will be ary care facility. Holy Cross Sister presented by Sister Rose Clarisse, Patricia Vandenberg, president and SSA. Further information: Sister CEO of Holy Cross Health SysNoel Blute, RSM, tel. 992-9921. tem Corp.. based in South Bend.

SACRED HEARTS RETREAT Ind .. cited as the main reasons for CENTER, WAREHAM the decision an $80 million debt Women's re~reat, "Developing inc'urred by the Utah hospitals and Faith in Impossible Situations," Oct. future trends in health care that 22 to 24: information: Pat Turbitt, (40 I) 274-5522. will lead to incr~asing competition.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Oct. 15,1993

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CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Food pantry donations will be collected at Mass this weekend; paper grocery bags are in need in addition to food. Books and videos are sought for parish center library and may be left in bags or boxes at the center; information: Pat Stebbins, 833-8432.

LaSALETTE CENTER, ATTLEBORO "A Plea to Be Free," a retreat for compulsive eaters, will be led by Sister Mary Sullivan, LC., Dec. 1012. Registration required by Nov. 10. Information: 222-8530.

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Pope urges careful screen of seminary candidates VATICAN CITY (CNS) -One response to cases of sexual misconduct by clergy in the United States must be better screening of seminarians, said Pope John Paul

II. Speaking to a group of U.S. bishops, the pope also said Catholics must follow church teaching on marriage and procreation. This means not using artificial means of birth control and not supporting "domestic partnership" laws that recognize homosexual unions, he said.

He told the bishops from Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming that he shares the grief that allegations of clergy sex. ual misconduct have brought to U.S. Catholics.

"These failures are tragic for the victims and for the clerics involved," he told the bishops, who were making their "ad limina" visits, required every five years for all heads of dioceses.

Archbishop Robert F. Sanchez of Santa Fe, N.M., would have been part of the group meeti'.Jg the pope, but he resigned in Arril following allegations he had sexual relations with at least three young women several years ago.

In a March meeting with an earlier group of U.S. bishops, the pope urged compassion, understanding and prayer in dealing with the "painful" scandal caused by the allegations about Archbishop Sanchez.

All candidates for the priesthood in the Latin rite. said the pope, must know that the celibacy requirement is seen as being "profoundly linked" with a priest's sharing in Christ's care for the church and that the rule "is not just a passing legal norm."

The formation of seminarians. including their "healthy psychosexual development," should help them "to accept joyfully and live serenely" a celibate life, the pope said. r Because the local bishop calls candidates to the diaconate and priesthood, he must feel "personally responsible before the Lord and before the church for the decisions he makes in this regard," the pope said.

Training and forming priests in the United States must take into special consideration cases "where a culture of self':centeredness and self-indulgencee has made inroads," the pope said.

A "general crisis of values" has a harmful effect on Christian marriage as well as having a negative impact on the priesthood, the pope said.

Contrary to what some people may believe, he said, the family is not "just one of -many freely chosen and disposable institutions" through which people find self-fulfillment.

"This outlook gives rise to efforts to legitimize other 'so-called 'do-' mestic partnerships,' which claim rights that properly belong only to families," he said.

"The church continues to proclaim that authentic family values can only be built upon marriage between man and woman as ordained 'in the beginning,''' he continued.

The pope told the bishops that U.S. Catholics, especially young people and engaged couples, need a stronger sense of marriage and family life.

He suggested that a "rich and. 'demanding program" of marriage preparation, like that used in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, should be developed, along with foHow-up programs and support for newly married couples.

Stonehill College Kristen Robinson, a continuing ed'ucation career counselor at Stonehill College, North Easton, will offer three career related workshops, all at 5:30 p.m. in the college's Duffy Academic Center, room 135.

An Oct. 20 resume writing workshop will review resume types: functional, chronological and combination.

An Oct. 27 interview skills workshop is designed to prepare job seekers for employment interviews.

The topic for a Nov. 4 workshop is stress management. Ms. Robinson will teach a relaxation exercise and stress reduction techniques.

For information on the workshops contact the Stonehill office of continuing e.ducation, 230-1258.

Classical Concert "Benefit Street" will offer a classical concert featuring music of 1.S. Bach, including the complete "Musical Offering" 8 p.m. Nov. 2 in the campus Martin Institute.

Information: Sister Grace Donovan, 230-1487.