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U.8. must pursue global responsibilities WASHINGTON (CNS) - Urging Americans to resist the temptation of isolationism, a committee of U. S. bishops said this election and the coming months present an opportunity for global involvement that comes along only once every two or three generations.

"Choices made and policies set in the months and years immediately ahead may well determine whether or not the people of the world can meet the challenges of the 21st century," said the statement from the Committee on International Policy of the U.S. Catholic Conference.

"It is urgent that American Catholics, as citizens of a powerful democracy and members of a universal church, reject the' temptation to isolationism or indifference and take up the challenge ofpursuing peace and securingjustice both in our nation and in a new world," the bishops said in the statement

"Lazarus at the Gate: American Responsibilities in a Changing World."

New opportunities for cooperation and progress in the wake of the crumbling of the Iron Curtain and resolution oflong-Iasting conflicts in Central America, Asia and Africa are being undermined by old hatreds, debt and underdevelopment, they said.

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"Today more than ever our world needs an ethic of solidarity and a vision ofthe global common good," they continued. "This is a moment that requires boldness and vision on the part of political leaders and of citizens. Our country still has a vital role to play in building a more just and peaceful world community."

Among the challenges of a uni-

versa I church and the nation listed are: - The strengthening of peacemaking and peacekeeping institutions.

- Social and economic development in the poorest nations.

- Support for refugees and migrants fleeing oppression and seeking a new life.

- Collaboration on global environmental protection and restoration.

- The protection of human rights and the advancement of democracy.

- Help for economic and political transformation in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

- Restraint on the arms trade.

The statement referred to Pope John XXIII's encyclical "Pacem in Terris," (Peace on Earth), which acknowledged the inability of the Turn to Page II

Historian Msgr. Ellis dies at 87 WASHINGTON (CNS) Msgr.' John Tracy EIlis, one of America's leading church historians, died Oct. 16 in Providence Hospital in Washington at age 87.

He had been hospitalized for two weeks after suffering a hip injury. The cause of death was gastrointestinal bleeding from a chronic ulcer.

A funeral Mass was scheduled for Oct. 20 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington with Cardinal James A. Hickey of Washington as the main celebrant.

In an Oct. 19 statement, Cardinal Hickey said the priest would be greatly missed by many. "I was always impressed by his love for the church he observed so keenly, by his common sense and by his uncommon wisdom."

"His knowledge was legendary, his writings were rich, he was unsurpassed as a speaker and he was an inspired teacher to generations of students," said Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. "A deep love for the church he knew so well shone brightly through his priestly life."

Born on July 30, 1905, in Seneca, Ill., Msgr. Ellis for 42 years taught church history at The Catholic University of America in Washington. He was there from 1935 until 1964 and from 1977 to 1989, when he retired. From 1964

"Out of an understandable desire and clear need to face neglected problems at home, then, many Americans may be tempted to shut out international problems and to shun global responsibilities," the bishops said. "Yet as pastors in a universal church, we appeal to the American people not to turn away from the cries of a still-suffering world beyond our shores."

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PRISONERS OF WAR: Muslims and Croats sit in a prison near the northern BosniaHerzegovina town of Banja Luka, where occupying Serbian forces have effectively wiped out organized Catholic life, according to a local priest. (CNS/ Reuters photo)

Massachusetts bishops'statement on political responsibility The four bishops of Massachusetts have issued the following statement regarding the Nov. 3 general election. The message was issued through the Massachusetts Catholic Conference.

On November 3rd, citizens of the United States go to the polls to choose our national and state leaders. Freedom, justice and peace in a democratic society depend on the active participation ofits citizens. Every citizen of voting age has a moral obligation to exercise that franchise in an informed and responsible way.

Choosing leaders should involve more than party loyalty or personal preference. Informed voting means knowing the candidates, the positions they espouse and the proposals they offer for buidling the society in which life is affirmed, in which freedom is protected, and in which justice, based on the equal dignity of every human being, is pursued.

Citizens must examine the candidates and the issues not

from a selfish personal perspective but from a commitment t() the good of every person, the common good of city, state and nation and the ultimate good of all humankind. Such an outlook says "no" to abortion, to euthanasia, to violence, to injustice and to those policies that are contrary to sound family life.

Such an outlook says "yes" to life, from conception to natural death, to educational choices and reform, to accessible health care, especially for the poor, and to a responsible national economy. With the kind of leadership which builds a nation ofsound character, good moral life and just practices, our country will then be able to make its proper contribution to world peace and help build a better world for the generations to come.

A commitment to truth is incumbent on the candidates, on the media and on all who have the task of bringing the issues to the people. On the part of the voting public, it is our duty to vote on November 3rd in an informed way. It is our personal responsibility to make our choices based on an appropriate vision of the person and society.

Bernard Cardina'Law A rchbishop of Boston + Most Reverend Timothy Harrington Bishop of Worcester + Most Reverend John Marshall Bishop of Springfield

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ZAGREB, Croatia (CNS) Organized Catholic life in Banja Luka. about 150 miles northwest ofSarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. has been effectively wiped out by Serbian occupation forces, according to a local priest recently allowed to visit Croatia.

The priest, who asked not to be named, confirmed that 40 percent of Catholic churches in and around Banja Luka had been totally destroyed, while virtually all the rest, including the citY's S1. Bonaventure Cathedral. had suffered heavy damage.

He said Catholics in Banja Luka, now part of the self-proclaimed "Serbian Republic of Krajina." had faced constant harassment and intimidation. Most Catholic parishes are without priests. while in those where priests still lived, lay people were usually barred from attending church.

At least 150 Catholics had been killed in their own homes after the fighting had stopped. the priest added.

"Many have been hiding in the forests for months, while their homes and possessions were looted," he said. "Most Catholics outside Banja Luka would prefer to leave everything and go abroad."

The priest, who was permitted to cross the border earlier this month on a humanitarian mission, said church authorities in Banja Luka were still completely cut off from the Sarajevo archdiocese.

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U.8. bishops to elect new president in November WASHINGTON (CNS) When the U.S. Catholic bishops meet in Washington Nov. 16-19, they will elect a new president and vice president.

They will also elect delegates and alternates to the 1994 world Synod of Bishops and new chairman for nine committees of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and two of the U.S. Catholic Conference.

Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati will end his threeyear term as NCCB-USCC president. Under conference rules he is not eligible for re-election.

Archbishop William H. Keeler of Baltimore will end his threeyear term as vice-pr.esident. His name is on the list of 10 presidential candidates, and past practice indicates that he is the most likely to win.

The other presidential candidates are: Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Philadelphia; Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly of Louisville, Ky.; Archbishop William J. Levada of Portland, Ore.; Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb of Mobile, Ala.; Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles; Archbishop Adam J. Maida of Detroit; Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick of Newark, N.J.; Archbishop Thomas J. M urphy of Seattle; and Bishop Anthony M. Pilla of Cleveland.

Under NCCB-U SCC rules, election is by simple majority of those present and voting. If none of the 10 receives a simple majority on the first or second ballot, the third ballot is a run-off between the two with the most votes in the second ballot.

After the president is elected, the same procedure is followed to elect a vice president from among the remaining nine candidates.

The outgoing vice president has been elected president in the last four elections.

For the 1994 synod, a meeting of bishops in Rome to discuss religious life, the NCCB is to elect four delegates and two alternates.

Standing NCCB-USCC committees get new chairmen every three years. A few committees elect a chairman-elect, who serves in that post for a year before succeeding the current chairman.

Archbishop Daniel A. Cronin of Hartford and Cardinal Mahony are candidates for chairman of the NCCB pro-life committee.

Other committees to elect chairmen are: migration, missions, pastoral research and practices, permanent diaconate, vocations, wo'men in society and in the church, ecumenical and interreligious affairs, and liturgy.

Among the USCC committees, in addition to two chairmen there are two membership slots to be filled by election. The bishops elected to USCC committees also serve on the NCCB Administrative Committee and USCC Administrative Board, the highest decision-making bodies of the NCCBUSCC after the general assembly.

USCC posts open are: domestic social policy chairman, C~mpaign for Human Development chairman and member, and education member. ' The bishops will also elect new members to the boards of the Catholic Telecommunications Net.. work of America and Catholic Relief Services.

N CCW will meet in Salt Lake City WASHINGTON (eNS) - The National Council of Catholic Women will meet in Salt Lake City Oct. 29 to Nov. I for its biennial assembly.

Attending from the Fall River diocese will be Mary Mikita, president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women; Joanne Quirk.

Boston Province director for the NCCW; Dorothy Curry, a member of the NCCW national nominating committee; Helen Stager, DCCW treasurer; Claire OToole, DCCW recording secretary; and Claire McMahon, an observer.

Mrs. McMahon, a past president of NCCW Associates and long active at all levels of the DCCW, contributed an article to the current issue of Catholic Woman, official NCCW publication, explaining how the Associates assist and support the parent organization.

Clarice Flagel of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will deliver the keynote address ()n "A Time for New Beginnings." , Ms. Flagel, a former archdiocesan family life director, has 20 years experience addressing groups on personal growth, spirituality and parenting.

Whitney Tilt. project director for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, will give a presentation on" A Responsibility for Stewardship" with reference to NCCW's new initiative on environmental awarce.IleJis and action.

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Marsha Whelan, director of the office of evangelization in the archdiocese of Miami, will address "The New Evangelization" called for by Pope John Paul II. The 1992 general assembly is being hosted by the Salt Lake City Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. Salt Lake City Bishop William K. Weigand will be celebrant and homilist at the assembly Mass.

NCCW is a .federation of 8,000 Catholic women's organizations.

It encourages social action programs throughout the U.S. and represents American Catholic women in national and international organizations.

Time changes noted for religious retreat day Time changes have been announced for a day of recollection for religious to be offered Oct. 31 at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown.

The day will be conducted by Bishop Sean O'Malley, who will speak at 10 a.m. and again during an afternoon session. Registration will begin at 9:30 a.m. and Mass will be at II :30 a.m., followed by lunch at 12:30 p. m. The day will conclude at 4 p.m.

Preregistration is requested by Oct. 26. For information contact Sister Mary Noel Blute, RSM, at the diocesan Office for Religious, 992-9921.

WASHINGTON (CNS) - Sister Josephine Contris is in the money.

The 71-year-old Sister of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity has lived under a vow of poverty for most of her life, but she just won $1 million from California's state lottery.

As her order's provincial treas75th ANNIVERSARY: Father Charbel Semaan (right) pastor of Our Lady of Purgatory Maronite Church in New urer, she is used to working with Bedford, arrives at the parish's diamond jubilee banquet with money, but she is not accustomed to the fame of riches.

Bishop Sean O'Malley and Archbishop Francis M. Zayek of "If only my phone would stop the diocese of St. Maron, USA. ringing," said the former elemenThe banquet at the Venus de Milo in Swansea, attended tary school teacher who has been by some 400 parishioners and friends, followed a Mass called by friends, family and reportconcelebrated by diocesan and Maronite clergy at Our Lady of ers since her instant earnings on Oct. 17.

Purgatory. Music for the celebration was provided by the Her luck started when she purparish choir, led by Elizabeth Grenier. chased a winning lottery card in , In addition to those pictured, head table guests were: Redwood City, Calif.

"Every now and then I buy two Nazera Attallah Drouin, general chairperson, and her husband Raymond; Margaret Abraham Thomas, cochairperson; her or three cards when I'm at the deli," said Sister Contris in a telehusband Anthony; and New Bedford Mayor Rosemary phone interview with Catholic Tierney.

News Service. She lives in the Clergy guests were: Msgr. Joseph Lahoud, protopresbyter Mount Alverno Convent, just south of region I (New England) of the St. Maron diocese; Msgr. of San Francisco.

At first, she put the winning James Naimi, secretary of Archbishop Zayek; Msgr. John J. Oliveira, diocesan chancellor; and Father Michael G. Thomas, ' card in her purse and forgot about it. Later she thought she should who was ordained from Our Lady of Purgatory parish. "send it in" which gave her a chance to play the televised Big Spin game in Sacramento.

At the television studio, cheered on by fellow sisters, her luck conYouth are expected to register as Youth and their ad ult advisors tinued. She picked two numbers parish groups, but individual regfrom around the diocese will gather that gave her the choice of$40,000 istrations will also be accepted. at Bishop Connolly High School, or an opportunity to try for more The registration deadline is Oct. Fall River, I to 9 p.m. Nov. 8 for money by spinning the wheel. the annual Diocesan Youth Conven- 30. For more information call the "The sisters told me to go for it diocesan Office for Youth Ministion. because I'm always so lucky," SisThemed "Live the Faith... Share try at 763-3137. ter Contris told CNS. the Story!," the convention will She took the chance and now focus on Pope John Paul II's chalhas $1 million that she is giving to lenge of evangelization to young her order. She has requested that people: "You must have the courthe funds be used to support the age to speak about Christ to your order's retirement home. families and in your environment She said she feels wonderful of study, work or recreation. The about her winnings. "I'm glad to energy and enthusiasm which you, The National Catholic Educadear young people, can offer the tional Association and the U.S. be able to give something because the sisters have cared so much for Church is indispensable. To be a Catholic Conference are cospon- me." disciple of Christ is not a private soring the second annual national She acknowledges that one day fact. .. on the contrary, the gift of marketing campaign for Catholic she may be in that retirement faith must be shared with others." schools with the theme "Choose home, where 27 sisters live. "I'm The schedule of youth day events Catholic Schools: the Good News getting there," she said. includes a dialogue forum between in Education."

Sister Antoinette Navarro, adyouth and Bishop Sean O'Malley.

The campaign logo, a blackboard ministrator of the order's Santa Keynote speaker is sister Carol with the theme, is a reminder that Maria retirement home in central Wagner, OP, evangelization coor- the stress of Catholic schools on California, said the home may not dinator for the Providence diocese. basics and on values-based educa- ' receive the money because it will Also featured will be 15 youth tion is the key to their success. be the decision of the congregation. and adult workshops on such topParticip'ating schools will have ics as relationships, the Mass, billboards, posters, camera-ready making choices, junior high youth ads and a 4 by 12-foot banner ministry, and conflict management. available to them, in addition to a Many of these sessions will be led marketing handbook which inby youth. Most will offer group cludes suggestions for celebrating interaction and practical appli- Catholic Schools Week (in 1993 I cation. from Jan. 31 through Feb. 6). Also The concluding prayer service, supplied will be T-shirts, sweatobserving the fifth centenary of shirts, flags and buttons. ,The Mass of Christian Burial the evangelization of the AmeriThe campaign conveys the mes- was offered last month in the chapel cas, will celebrate both unity and sages that children in Catholic reconciliation, highlighted by mul- schools are most likely to graduate ofSt. George Manor. Manchester.

NH. for Sister Laurette Lapointe. ticultural prayer and song. and score better on standardized CSc. the former Sister Estelle Closing the day will be a youth tests and that the schools are not Martyr, who died Sept. 22. dance with OJ John Borges of for a chosen few. It is also noted A New Bedford native. the Wesport. that about 17 percent of Catholic daughter of Ambrose and Estelle Each parish has received regis- high school students receive ~ome (Laroche) Lapointe. she entered tration forms and information. form of financial aid. the Holy Cross community in 1929.

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A SKELETAL mother tries to bathe her equally emaciated daughter at a feeding center in Somalia. Catholic Relief Services says response to appeals for aid to the stricken population has been "nowhere near" donations received at the time of the Ethiopia famine. (CNS/ Reuters photo)

"Walking skeletons" everywhere in famine-stricken Soinalia' WASHINGTON(CNS)- Lack of security in the chaotic climate of Somalia is hampering the effort of relief agencies to fight famine in the strife-ridden country, said Lawrence Pezzullo, executive director of Catholic Relief Services.

In other war-torn countries such as Angola, Liberia or Ethiopia - where CRS has worked. "there was some sense of at least pockets of order," said Pezzullo, who recently returned from a ·trip to Somalia. "In this country, that is absent.

"You rent cars, and the cars come with guards," Pezzullo said.

His comments echoed those of other relief agency officials, who have described the situation in Somalia as anarchy since the overthrow of dictator Mohammed Siad Barre in early 1991. Although a U.N. negotiator is working with rival warlords, "even they do not command the loyalty of the people running around with the guns," Pezzullo said.

In a telephone interview with Catholic News Service, Pezzullo said Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishop' overseas relief and development agency, has two staff members in the Somalian city of Baidoa, where between 200 and 400 people are dying daily. CRS has a support staff of more than 100 local workers but their mobility is hampered by the insecurity, he said.

On Oct. 14 and 15, about 25 of the 50' staff caring for the 250,000 sick and starving in Baidoa were pulled out in case fighting over the town of Bardera to the south spilled into the region.

Aid workers call Baidoa the City of Death. Jacob Akol, World Vision's communications director

for Africa, said foreign relief organizations have managed to bring the daily death toll in Baidoa down from 500 to 200 in the last two months, "but still 200 is unacceptable." He noted that was about four times the number dying in Korem, Ethiopia, in 1984.

Another spokesperson for World Vision, an ecumenical agency, said it had cut its staff from eight to three, but that feeding operations were continuing.

Catholic Relief Services was keeping its two international relief workers - one French and one Irish - in Baidoa, and trying to get two other African staffers into the city, a spokesman said.

CARE International withdrew about half a dozen staffers, leaving three or four, and Irish Concern withdrew 10 of its 15 people. Other groups in the city include the Los Angeles-based International Medical Corps and the French-based Doctors Without Borders.

The relief workers, mainly women, would return as soon as it seemed safe, aid workers said.

The rainy season has started, flooding main rivers, and Baidoa is at risk from epidemics such as cholera and typhoid as well as respiratory infections contracted by weakened Somalis sleeping in the bush in rain and cold.

World efforts to turn the tide of famine in Somalia have been constantly under threat from war and banditry.

For instance, currently LRS is providing mostly sorghum to four villages outside of Baidoa because the corn-like grain is the "safest food to transport," since it is the least appealing to armed bands that steal relief supplies. The amount of looting "is unprece-

dented from anything I've ever seen," Pezzullo said.

Some aid officials say as much as half of the estimated 181,500 tons of food delivered to Somalia has been stolen.

Once the CRS program is "secure in its capability," Pezzullo said, it can begin offering food like highprotein biscuits or rice, beans and vegetable oil.

For now, however, Pezzullo said he did not think he had "ever seen so many distressing sights. You see walking skeletons all over the place.

It's disconcerting, to say the least."

M ore than 100,000 Somalis have died from the famine, caused by a combination of drought and War.fare. Relief officials say up to 2 million more are at risk.

"What makes it even worse is that all the predictions are that things are going to be worse," Pezzullo said. With seasonal rains, excrement is washed into rivers, spreading disease into the people's water supplies, he said.

Baidoa had five or six wells, but thieves stole the pumps and, in some cases, poured cement into them, CRS is trying"to keep any more people from flooding into Baidoa" by targeting area villages, Pezzullo said. Earlier this year, Baidoa was a town of 15,000 to 20,000; it now has an additional 30,000 to 40,000 refugees, he said. The refugees are in bad shape by the time they have walked to the city.

"The rural areas are being ignored because they are so hard to get to," he said.

When the village feeding programs are fully operational, they should reach 80,000 to 100,000 people, he said.

CRS also will work with international health agencies to provide medical services in the area, he said. It does not do any good to feed children who then suffer from ailments like diarrhea, he noted.

In addition, the agency has food stored just across the Somalian border, in Mandera and EI Wak, Kenya. There it is safe from bandits and can be shipped into the countryside as agreements are reached with warlords, he said.

Pezzullo noted that in the two months since the famine tragedy has been spotlighted in the media, CRS has received about $1 million in donations, "nowhere near the response we got in '84-'85 for Ethiopia." In a 6-12 month period then, CRS received "well over $35 million in donations." he said.

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themoorin~ The Gift of John Tracy Ellis I t would be more than an oversight to ignore the death of

M sgr. John Tracy Ellis. As this century's most outstanding student of American church history, Tracy Ellis, as he was called, brought honesty and validity to Catholic scholarship, using the bare bones of dates and facts in a way that achieved international scholarly acceptance.

But he was not without his critics and, sad to say, many of his put-downs came from within the church family. Nevertheless, he told the story of the church in the United States in an open and exciting manner.

On the surface, he might have seemed superficial because he was a real storyteller-and what stories he told! Skillfully using the tools of documentation and research, Tracy Ellis avoided the pedantic with an often disarming wit. He seemed always to have a twinkle in his eye and he needed it in order to survive the harsh reactions of many of the church to his work.

The truth may hurt, but it also sets us free; and it was this proclamation of truth in the real tradition of Catholic scholar-' ship that set many influential American church leaders at odds with Tracy Ellis. Before Vatican II, it must be admitted that intellectual life on Catholic campuses and in seminaries was rather narrow and parochial. Somewhat self-righteous and self-justifying attitudes were the norm whenit came to defending the faith. For the most part, our universities were like medieval castles, self-contained, always on guard and ready to hurl maledictions at those who dared challenge the status quo.

Theologically related courses were never to be questioned, even if the presenter was obviously in error. As a result, real scholarship suffered; indeed, many pre-Vatican II Catholic colleges chained minds rather than freeing them to question and ponder. The attitude was not so much an avoidance of truth as that of a contentment that did not rock the proverbial boat.

The Council Fathers, however, 'challenged this mind-set, courageously declaring that "everybody has the duty and consequently the right to seek the truth in religious matters so that through the use of appropriate means, one may prudently form judgments of conscience which 'are sincere and true.'"

Although it did not make him popular with those who relied on myths rather than facts to justify their positions, Tracy Ellis used the council declaration as his premise in researching and teaching Americap church history. He was acclaimed far beyond scholarly circles, making him very hard to suppress.

And let it be said that his search for truth was always conducted in a manner appropriate to the dignity of the human person. He recognized well that modern man is subjected to a variety of pressures, some of which may prevent him from following his better judgment. At the same time, he never forgot that many under the false pretext of freedom seem inclined to reject any form of obedience or submission to lawful authority. Tracy Ellis loved history but above all loved his church. He was a faithful student, an honest teacher and a wonderful churchman.

This witty and humorous scholar gave much to our church and lived his beliefs. Vatican Council II urged Catholics, especially those responsible for educating others, to strive to form people with a respect for the moral order, obedient to lawful authority, yet lovers of true freedom; people who would form judgments in the light of truth, direct their actions responsibly and strive for truth and justice.

John Tracy Ellis lived those ideals and they are his legacy.

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How FOCA faded WASHINGTON (CNS) - Back The change in timetable is var- reach the floor was "that the Clinin JUly, the Freedom of Cho.ice iously attributed to pressure from ton people didn't want it to路come Act looked like a surefire weapon voters; new enlightenment about up this' year." in congressional efforts to curry the issue for previously undecided "So far, Clinton has not had to members of Congress; the Demo- .defend the extreme effects of the favor with supporters of legalized abortion, a group some candidates crats' wish to smooth a path to the bill," said Johnson. "If he had to thought would be a key to the White House for Clinton; or a case he'd be in trouble." of abortion supporters "shooting November election.

During the Democratic convenBut just a couple of months themselves in the foot." tion, Clinton said he'd sign the later, the bill to prohibit any reMaggie Wynne. director 01 the Freedom of Choice Act, although Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, in Arkansas he has supported state strictions on abortion was shelved until the next term. said efforts to explain what the regulations such as parental conOpponents of the Freedom of Freedom of Choice Act would do sent for abortion.

Choice Act believe the decision to have succeeded with voters, who Johnson also believes more in turn have lobbie9 their senators members of Congress are backing delay a vote reflects the success of a grassroots campaign to persuade and representatives. away from the bill because of conmembers of Congress of the bill's The National Committee for a stituent pressure.

Human Life Amendment said it extremism. Others attribute it to Even if Clinton is elected presiDemocratic efforts to avoid public tracked as many as a quarter mil- dent, passage of the Freedom of debate that could hurt presidential lion letters to Congress on the Choice Act may still not be assured.

Freedom of Choice Act and other candidate Bill Clinton's chances of "I wouldn't take it as a foregone winning. President Bush promised pro-life issues. conclusion if Clinton is elected," Ms. Wynne said public response to veto the bill and there were clearly not enough votes in either led to amendments proposed by Johnson said. One factor is how different the makeup of Congress house to override a veto. abortion-rights supporters in Concould be in January, he said.

Supporters describe the Free- gress who were trying to create At least 95 House and Senate dom of Choice Act as "codifying roomJor some state regulation of Roe vs. Wade." The American abortion in the bill rather than seats will have new occupants after Civil Liberties Union, which backs alienate voters who consider the the election, based on resignations, primary defeats and several recent it, says the measure would pro- bill too extreme.

S e~. Warren R u d man, R- N. H ., deaths. Even if rio other incumhibit any state or local law affectingabortion. Opponents stress that for instance, proposed adopting bents are defeated, that will account such abortion restrictions as in- the provisions of the Supreme for the largest group of freshmen in Congress since World War II. formed conSf:nt and parental con- Court's Planned Parenthood vs.

Ms. Wynne and Johnson said sent would be invalid. They also 'Casey ruling, which upheld provisay S.25 would prohibit private sions of Pennsylvania's abortion the tally of votes in Congress for hospitals from refusing to perform law including parental notification, the Freedom of Choice Act could abortions and make it illegal for waiting periods and informed be dramatically different, or approximately the same after the medical workers to refuse to assist consent. in abortions.

But many Freedom of Choice election.

While it's too early to sound a During the Democratic Nation- Act backers. such as the National al Convention in July, candidates Abortion Rights Action League, death-knell for the Freedom of for all levels of office proclaimed Planned Parenthood and the Choice Act, passing it even if Clintheir support for the Freedom of ACLU, had decried the Pennsyl- ton is elected will probably take a Choice Act. Senate Majority Lead- vania ruling and couldn't accept concerted lobbying effort from him as president, according to Richard er George Mitchell, D-Maine, amendments.' vowed to bring the bill to a vote Douglas Johnson, legislative Doerflinger, associate director for before the summer recess. director of the National Right to policy development for th~ NationBut by Aug. 4, Mitchell backed Life Committee, gives less credi- al Conference of Catholic Bishops' away from that pledge. acknowl- bility to the argument that the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities.

"They'll need not only a presiedging he lacked the 60 votes amendments created problems for needed to bring a vote without dis- all-or-nothing supporters. He said dent who'll sign it, but who'll prescussion or amendment. a stronger reason the bill didn't sure Congress,:' Doerflinger said.

God can't be bribed Sirach 35:12-14,16-18 II Timothy 4:6-8,16-18 Luke 18:9-14

By FATHER ROGER In a recent HBO movie on the KARBAN life of controversial figure Roy Cohn, a friend is befuddled by the about "justification," had no fear dying lawyer's last words: "What's of meeting a God who was "in the name of the judge?" Those who their pocket." Tax-collectors, on saw the entire movie understood the other hand, were not even in the question's significance. Wheelthe game, no matter how they ing and d~aling his way through prayed or what they did. Until the American legal system, Cohn they stopped working for Gentiles had discovered early in his career and returned to Judaism, they that knowing a judge's name was were enemies of the Lord. an essential step in attaining a Jesus' final words rock the favorable decision. structure which popular Pharisaic Though we smile at Cohn's atJudaism has built. "Believe me," tempt to control his final "court he proclaims, "this man [the taxappearance," many of us still fall collector) went home from the into the same trap. We just don't temple justified but the other did employ such blatant maneuvers. not. For everyone who exalts himWe've learned more subtle ways to bribe God. Jesus constantly exposes the tactics which religious systems bring to our relationship with the Lord. Parable after parable, in- .

The International Confederation struction after instruction, he of Christian Family Movements hammers away at those who can will meet Oct. 29 to Nov. 2 in Meronly connect with a God they can ida, Mexico for an "earth summit" control. His experience of the conference reflecting the concept Father is so intense and unique that care for earth for the sake of that he bristles whenever anyone its children is a part of family presents him with an image of God values. based upon any principle but love.

To be considered are various Today's gospel pericope contains nations' environmental problems, one of the Lord's most famous world ecology in the light of scripassaults on those who regard God simply as a judge to be bribed, or, ture and suggestions for grassas Luke puts it, "Those who believe roots actions. in their own self-righteousness Heading the conference's planwhile holding everyone else in con- ning committee are Wayne and tempt." Like many of us, the Pha- Sue Hamilton of Ann Arbor, risees had mastered a syst~m­ Mich., ICCFM presidents. They forgetting that God deals with said that assembly speakers from people, not systems. the Philippines, the United States I still remember my first grade and Mexico will discuss environteacher, Sister Catherine, going mental degradation, social justice over to the huge tripod in front of with regard to Earth and saving the room and turning the Bible Earth for future generations. Tours story pictures· on - it to the one to a salt marsh being polluted by depicting the Pharisee and the taxpoverty-stricken families; a Mayan collector praying in the temple. I archeological site from which hemp understood few of the religious farmers were ousted; and an area nuances surrounding the parable, of enriched farm land created by yet Sister Catherine did an excelrecycling will illustrate both sides lent job conveying its basic meanof the ecology issue. ing. No matter who we are, or Further information on the conwhat we do, God just wants us to ference is available from the Hamilbe honest with him. Our openness tons at (313) 747-8822. means much more than all the good acts we perform.

Later I found out about Pharisees and tax-collectors. The one group followed every Law of Moses to the letter, while the other's occupation forced them to live . "The Right to Life: Inalienable complcrtely outside the Jewish or Expendable?" will be the keyreligious system. Pharisees, believnote topic of internationally reing their strict observance brought nowned pro-life speaker Dr. Caro--DAilY READING"s--.., lyn Gerster, M 0, at the Massachusetts Citizens for Life annual dinner tomorrow at 6 p.m. About 600 will Oct. 26: Eph 4:32-5:8; Ps attend the gathering at the She1:1-4.6; lk 13:10-17 raton Tara Hotel in Framingham.

ICCFM to meet in Mexico

Dr. Carolyn Gerster to address M CFL.

Oct. 27: Eph 5:21-33; Ps 128:1-5; lk 13: 18-21 Oct. 28: Eph 2:19-22; Ps 19:2-5; lk 6:12-16 .

Oct. 29: Eph 6:10-20; Ps 144:1-2.9-10; lk 13:31-35 Oct. 30: Phil 1:1-11; Ps 111:1-6; lk 14:1-6 Oct. 31: Phil 1:18-26; Ps 42:2-3.5; lk 14:1,7-11 Nov. 1: Rv 7:2-4.9-14; Ps 24:1-6; 1In 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12

Dr. Gerster, who specializes in internal medicine and cardio-pulmonary diseases, is vice president in charge of international affairs for the National Right to Life Committee, the nation's largest pro-life group. She was a founding . member of NRLC in the early 1970s and has held the posts of vice president, chairman of the board and president.

She was also co-founder and first president of the Arizona Right to Life Committee.

'self shall be humbled while he who humbles himself shall be exalted."

In other words, we can be proud as punch about our religious systems.

But no system can ever guarantee we are doing what God wants.

Only an honest personal relationship with him can bring that about.

Our 2 Timothy author approaches the same concept from a different direction. What appears as failure in Paul's life is a victory.

"At the first hearing of my case in court, no one took my part," he writes. "In fact, everyone aoandoned me." But in the end, "The Lord will continue to rescue me from all attempts to do me harm and will bring me safe to his heavenly kingdom." No matter how others view it, the Apostle can die in peace, assured of eternity, because he has constantly worked on building a deep relationShip with the Lord.

Centuries before, Sirach had also cut through appearances to reach the heart of discipleship. "Yahweh is a God of justice," he pens, "who knows no favorites ... He who serves God willingly is heard ...The prayer of the lowly pierces the clouds; it does not rest till it reaches its goal." Yahweh cannot be bribed because he always sees our hearts.

If we heard Scripture correctly, we Catholics would worry much less about "bribing" God with Masses said for us after we die, and much more about building a relationship with him in this lifeas Jesus did.

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DOLORES CURRAN

I didn't know the man but he met my plane and announced he was my driver to the diocesan religious education convention an hour away. We made small talk until we hit the freeway and then he turned to me and asked, "Are you a Christian?"

Startled, I replied, "Yes, I'm Catholic. I thought you knew that."

"Yes, but are you a Christian?"

"Most Catholics are," I replied a

What's your brand of Christianity?-' bit too lightly, dreading the miles and scenario to come.

"I disagree," he said, going onto explain that while most Catholics are baptized in Christ, they aren't Christians until they come to accept Jesus in the same, way he did. I attempted to change the subject, but he held me captive and wasn't going to waste time chatting when he could spend it converting me to his brand of Christianity.

It happened to be an evangelistic brand promising, along with daily joy and eternal life, worldly success, financial security and power. He recounted his climb up the ladder of affluence since he discovered Jesus a few years back.

Before then, he said, "we had a hard time paying the rent. Now I own four homes, two businesses, three cars, anda boat, praise Jesus."

The words of - was it George

Bernard Shaw - "It is doubtful than Jesus Christ would be a Christian today," leaped into my mind but I clamped my teeth to my tongue and decided to offer up the remaining miles as a preface to Lent.

His is one brand of Christianity but there are others: political agenda Christians (on the right and the left), theological supremists, obligation meeters, and so on.

I'm weary of those, Catholic or otherwise, who determine others' membership in Christianity by judging their stands on the right to affluence, free enterprise, political candidates, women, Sunday Mass attendance, abortion/ capital punishment, peace, school vouchers, patriotism, protests, higher taxes, lower taxes, the Elvis stamp and Murphy Brown.

I envision an ultimate checklist entitled The Christian Litmus Test, which lists 500 fori against items which are then scored like selfhelp articles: if you marked 400 or more "fors," you are Saved~Like足 Me; 200-400: Can-Still-be-SavedIf-You-Change-Your-Attitude; under 200: Beyond Salvation.

A priest once remarked in a sermon, "If you choose to be God, you must live with what you create."

When we judge others spiritually, we stoop to the level of the pharisee who said, "Thanks, God, for not making me like everyone else - grasping, unjust, adulterous and particularly like this publican here."

Asking people if they are Christian is not only an invasion of privacy, it's contempt for a God who has warned us over and over that He alone is the judge. I need answer only to Him and my answer today would be, "Yes, God, I am a Christian because I love and believe in your Holy Trinity and what You teach. I don't always live and love like a Christian, though. Like the publican, I pray, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner.' I want to be better. Make haste to help me."

How can we nod in agreement to those words in Luke while righteously proclaiming who is and who is not a Christian? I thought about asking my driver for his interpretation of this Scripture passage but just then he asked, "If you are a Christian, have you been saved?"

I looked out and saw the convention hotel. "Yes," I replied as honestly as I have ever spoken in my entire life. "I've been saved."

Health care volunteers show how to help poor By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

I have written many stories about the poor and the homeless, decrying the tragedy of poverty which denies people basic necessities of life, including health care.

Understandably, I was touched when I received a letter from Mary Ann Wyand, assistant editor of the Criterion, newspaper of the Indianapolis archdiocese.

Ms. Wyand asked me if I'd be interested in knowing about a

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN Q. I have three questions concerning annulments.

Can an annulment be processed by one party with opposition from the other? For example,if -'one partner simply refuses to respond, does that end the procedure?

Since an annulment is a judgment, can it be appealed? Has an

By, Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY Dear Dr. Kenny: My daughter seemed lazy and unmotivated, and was barely getting by in school.

She seemed to have an "attitude."

Luckily, a teacher suggested having her tested for a learning disability. We found that she has an auditory and memory disability.

She had learned to hide her problem through avoidance to fit in with her peers. She would rather have her peers think that she chose to do poorly instead of knowing that she couldn't keep up with the

medical care project for the poor which has been operating in Indianapolis, since 1988. I was, indeed.

She told me about Dr. James Trippi, an Indianapolis cardiologist who apparently had seen too many homeless and sick people standing in food lines. "We could be doing more," was the thought that struck him.

Rallying some fellow physicians 'and nurses, Trippi organized a free clinic that provided medical care one night each week for the homeless and the indigent.

He called it Gennesaret Free Clinic, naming it after a fertile plain along the Sea of Galilee where Christ healed the sick.

"Perhaps the use of this ancient name," Trippi said, "will remind us that as we touch some of the

members of our society who are on the fringe, we too are hoping to become healed by them. Sometimes it is hard to tell the healer from the healed."

There now are six free clinics operated by volunteers at Indianapolis shelters. And a mobile medical van serves people who cannot get to the shelters.

Trippi's work is becoming recognized as a model for medical staff and volunteers in other parts of the country where such health care is needed.

Recently the Gennesaret Free Clinic, the Indiana Department of Health and the Methodist Hospital of Indiana jointly conducted a conference on health problems afflicting the poor, which include hypertension, sexually transmitted

diseases, mental illness, nutrition deficiencies and alcoholism.

They hoped to stir in health care professionals and volunteers in other parts of the country the kind of commitment and caring that was begun at Gennesaret.

"The people;" Ms. Wyand said, "are so selfless in their concern" while working with the clinic, adding that Trippi, a local parishioner, keeps up a busy practice "but lives his ministry." Trippi said: "Volunteering as medical caregivers to the poor has forced us to see their plight."

Ms. Wyand said that the homeless in Indianapolis increased 9 percent last year, and families made up about 60 percent of the homeless in that city.

Trippi said that government,

the insurance industry and the medical community now must "address the tough issues of indigent health care and not leave it to bands of good-hearted volunteers."

The people of Gennesaret, with Christlike motivation, have reached out to the poor and sowed a seed that is taking good root. What volunteers - now numbering about 400 - did in Indianapolis, other motivated volunteers can do elsewhere: The Gennesaret Free Clinic .offers free manual with detailed instructions on how to set up a health care ministry to the homeless and poor.

For information, contact Mary Ann Wyand, The Criterion, 1400 North Meridian Street, Box 1717, Indianapolis, IN 46206; tel.

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Annulment may proceed without consent of partner annulment ever been granted and the decision reversed? (Tennessee) A~An annulment proced ure may always continue even if the respondent refuses to participate in any way. Both partners in the previous marriage are invited to have their say about what happened in the relationship. \ Sometimes one of the partners cannot be located. Other times. for reasons such as revenge ,or simply wanting nothing to do with the case, the partner will not answer correspondence.

When this happens, the case normally proceeds with whatever information is available.

By church law, all affirmative

annulment decisions are automatically appealed to the appellate court or tribunal for that region.

If the first decision is negative, either the petitioner or the respondent may appeal that decision to a higher court. By far most of the time the appeals court upholds or ratifies the first decision.

If the appellate court reverses the decision of the original tribunal, the case may be appealed (by the petitioner or the court's defender of the bond) to a third court" usually the Roman Rota.

Occasionally affirmative decisions have been overturned. As far as I can d'etermine, however, it is far more common that origi-

nally negative decisions are reversed.

I hesitate to become so technical, but I know that for individuals who are involved in such a case, and for their friends and relativ.es, such details become important and personal. ' Your own diocesan tribunal can offer inore specific information.

Q. Some time ago you wrote about the entrance procession and opening song at Mass. You showed that in the church's explanations this part of the Mass was not to "greet our celebrant" but to draw the people together and begin our worship of God. I've used words like that through

'Le~rning disability class. Please explain to your readers about learning disabilities. ~ Kentucky A child who possesses normal or above-average intelligence and is two or more years behind academically may be "learning disabled." This definition of learning disability covers every learning handicap except below-normal intelligence (mental retardation).

Lack of motivation and laziness 'are often given as reasons for poor school performance. As you mention, such an "attitude" may be no more than a cover-up for a learning disability. And when the teacher or parent "blames" the child for not working up to her or his potential, the situation does not improve.

Hyperactivity is one variety of learning disability. Some children

the years I've been cantor, but never realized before how strange and incorrect they sound.

What are the correct opening remarks for a cantor? (New York) A. There is no one correct way.

But !low about: "Our opening song is "Here I Am, Lord, on Page 50.

Please stand to begin our celebration."

A free brochure explaining Catholic teaching and practice on annulments is available by sending a stamped-self addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to the same address.

or bad attitude?

have trouble learning because their tual style. Albert Einstein apparmind is "too quick" or they have ently failed eighth-grade math, but problems controlling their impulses was able to give us the theory of relativity, a concept which no and behavior.

Other common learning disabil- ordinary mind could fathom.

The careful diagnosis of a learnities are dyslexia (impairment of reading ability or difficulty with ing disability should specify exactly letters) and dysgraphia (impairment where and in which function the .deficit lies. Saying merely that a in writing).

Still another way to understand child has a learning disability is learning disabilities is to think in useless. The teacher or parent must terms of input, retention and out- know the precise problem. put. A child may hear or see things At the same time, the clinician differently than his or her class- must be careful to pinpoint the mates; a child may have memory child's strengths. Nature has a way problems; or a child may have a of taking in one area and giving . specific problem with writing or back in another. For example, speaking. An overall normal intel- several children who had trouble ligence may cloak or cover one of keeping letters in the right order these specific disabilities. have taught me how to turn each Many great theoreticians and - word into a picture which they philosophers have also "suffered" find easier to remember and use.

Once a proper diagnosis is made, from such difficulties in percep-

the real work can begin: designing art educational program to compensate for the disability and take advantage of any specific skills.

The best place to start is to learn and build on the schemes that the learning disabled child has already developed.

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A n open letter to Catholic Democrats Dear Editor: The following is an open letter to Catholic Democrats: "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them" is a well-known comment on shortsightedness. This letter suggests Catholic Democrats should consider the consequences of supplying their votes to Bill Clinton and party.

A non-partisan study proved beyond question that Catholic inner-city schools far outperformed their public school counterparts.

Over the years, Catholic inner-city schools have provided the tools for hundreds of thousands of children from low-income families to achieve a productive and happy life. Unfortunately such schools have been closing because of finances. The voucher plan (allowing parents to send their children to the school of their choice) would help keep those schools open. Clinton and party are opposed to the voucher plan.

Clinton is in favor oflegislation to guarantee abortion-on-demand and to prevent the states from protecting the unborn child even in the minimal ways permissible under current Supreme Court decisions.

Clinton actually has made a campaign pledge that he will appoint asjudges only individuals who will commit in advance to supporting abortion rights. Apart from the impropriety of requiring people to commit on how they would rule on cases as a condition precedent to their appointment, Clinton's campaign pledge is a pledge that no practicing Catholic will be considered for appointment to the Federal Bench.

Some years ago it was said that anti-Catholicism is "the one form of bigotry which liberalism still curiously seems to tolerate." Today, it may accurately be said that antiCatholicism is "the one form of bigotry which liberalism unmistakably encourages".

This is no longer the Democratic partyof JFK and AI Smith.

The 1992 Democratic party platform is not simply indifferent to Catholics and Catholic values. It is hostile to them.

(Atty.) Richard M. Coleman Los Angeles (Former diocesan resident)

His answer: yes Dear Editor, I strongly support Question I, the American Cancer Society sponsored 25-cent tax on cigarettes to fund health programs for children.

As a physician, witnessing the human suffering and carnage brought on by cigarettes, I can not be quiet while the tobacco industry tries to condemn our children to nicotine addiction and the subsequent deadly diseases.'

Nicotine addiction is a disease that begins in childhood. Over 90 percent of smokers start in their teens or younger, and in Massachusetts the average age to start smoking is 10. By the time these children have grown up enough to make a decision about using this deadly drug, it is too late, they are already addicted. This disease has to be stopped before it starts.

The most effective and proven method to stop children from start-

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Ball Committee heads named Planning is underway for the annual Bishop's Charity Ball, to be held Jan. 15 at White's of Westport. The event benefits summer camps for underprivileged and exceptional children and other charitable apostolates of the diocese.

At a recent meeting with members of the ball's sponsoring organizations-the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and the St. Vincent de Paul Society- Ball director Father Daniel L. Freitas named the following committee chairpersons: Decorations: Mrs. Aubrey M. Armstrong of Somerset, assisted

by Sister Gertrude Gaudette of Fall Rive路r. Hospitality: Mrs. MichaelJ. McMahon of Fall River, assisted by Mrs. Richard Paulson ofTaunton. Presentees: Miss Claire O'Toole of Fall River, assisted by Miss Dorothy A. Curry of New Bedford. Ushers Coordinator: V. Vito Gerardi.

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ing to smoke is to raise the price of cigarettes. Similar to Question I, a 25-cent cigarette tax in California in 1988 led to a 17 percent overall decline in smoking, with a greater reduction amongst children.

Booklet were assigned to area Ball directors. They are: Attleboro: Rev. John J. Steakem, St. Mary's parish, Norton, assisted by Rev. Ralph Tetrault, St. Mary, North Attleboro.

Cape and Islands: Rev. Stephen A. Fernandes, Christ the King, Mashpee; Rev. Fred Babiczuk, St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis. .

New Bedford: Rev. Maurice O. Gauvin, Immaculate Conception, New Bedford: Rev. Daniel W. LaCroix, St. Patrick. Wareham.

Taunton: Rev. William L. Boffa, St. Joseph, Taunton; Rev. John P. Cronin, St. Joseph, North Dighton; Rev. Paul A. Caron, Immaculate Conception, North Easton.

Fall River: Rev. Daniel L. Freitas, St. John of God, Somerset; Rev. John F. Andrews, St. Bernard, Assonet.

The Ball Booklet has six categories: In Memoriam, Very Special Friend, Guarantor. Benefactor, Sponsor, and Patron.

Persons or organizations wishing to have their name in the booklet may contact area committee members, or call or write to Bishop's Charity Ball Headquarters,410 Highland Ave .. P.O. Box 1470, Fall River, MA 02722; tel.

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Tickets are distributed according to the category desired in the booklet.

Massachusetts voters are about to be inundated as the tobacco industry's multi-million dollar media machine comes rolling into the state in an attempt to defeat Question I. This industry will stop at nothing to increase their deadly profits. They will try to convince you that this is an economic issue while ignoring the 1.5 billion dollars in lost wages and health care costs that Massachusetts taxpayers are already paying each year due to smoking. They will try to convince you that it is not fair, but there is nothing fair about lung cancer or addicting children to a deadly drug. They will say anything to stop Question I because if it passes their profits will decrease.

A vote of yes on Question I will result in 20,000 fewer premature deaths among children alive today.

Because I have never mct a smoker who wanted their children to smoke, I encourage all voters, including smokers, to help save our children from this deadly addiction by voting yes to Question I. Josiah D. Rich, M.D., M.P.H. Fall River

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AT HOLY ROSARY Church, Taunton, Bishop O'Malley blessed a statue of St. Maximilian Kolbe presented to the parish Oct. 10 by the Men's Guild in honor of the 10th anniversary of the saint's canonization. The saint, who died in 1941 after offering his life in place of a fellow prisoner at Auschwitz, is depicted in Franciscan robes and a concentration camp jacket.

Men's Guild committee members are, from left, Fred Kulpa, Kaz Mach-

nik, Walter Bredak, Ted Dykas, Gilbert Levesque, George Straub, Kevin Kiernan and John Kearns with bishop and Father Cyril Augustyn, OFM Conv., pastor.

At right, Susan Kanabay presents flowers and Michael Kanabay Jr. presents bread to the bishop as Father Dennis Mason, vicar ofthe Conventual Franciscan Friars of St. Anthony of Padua province, looks on. (Kearns photos)

HOLY CROSS parish, Fall River, was the site of a Polish Heritage Month (October) Mass for the Polish Business and Professional Club of Greater Fall River. Pictured, from left: Father Charles Porada, OFM Conv.; Bishop O'Malley; Deacon Frank Mis; Father Roman Chwaliszewski, OFM Conv.; and guest Father Richard Hincken, pastor of Blessed Virgin Mary Polish National Catholic Church in Fall River; Msgr. JohnJ. Oliveira. At banquet at the Polish National Home, from left, Msgr. Oliveira, Albert N. Cartier, bishop, Father Walter Mruk, OFM Conv., Mrs. Julia Beben.

AT ST. STANISLAUS parish, Fall River, the bishop with pastor Father Robert S. Kaszynski and costumed youngsters; parishioners present bishop with a portrait of Our Lady of Czestochowa obtained from Poland and blessed by Pope John Paul 11.

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REUNITED: Committee members for a recent reunion of all classes at St. Francis Xavier School, Acushnet, included Mrs. Theresa Ledoux, principal Joanne Riley, Sister Louise Place, OP, and, seated, Sister Beatrice Lapalme, OP. , Sister Lapalme was a member of the first graduating class in 1926 and has taught for 50 years at the school, where she is reputed to be able to "name every kid she's ever taught."

A committee of 12 worked for two years planning the event, which saw the reunion of four members of the Class of 1926 and representatives of almost every other class. (Gaudette photo)

Is there a sign outside your parish church?

EAST ORANGE, N.J. (CNS) It was back to basics when Archbishop John P. Foley, the Vatican's top communications officer, talked to nearly 150 priests about communicating the Gospel.

He told the, priests to look at their own parishes and ask themselves how effectively they are using the basic communication tools around to get out their message.

Archbishop Foley, formerly a Philadelphia Catholic newspaper editor and now president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, spoke at the National Institute for Clergy Formation at Seton Hall University, East Orange.

"Do you have a sign outside your parish church which identifies it as a Catholic church, notes the times of the services, gives the names of the clergy and offers an invitation to all to attend?" he asked the priests.

"This may seem rather basic," he commented, "but I recall driving through New Jersey many times in which the only sign outside Catholic churches was a sign that advertised bingo."

When the first thing people approaching the church see is "an invitation to gambling," he said, it is "a countersign to effective and credible evangelization."

He asked the priests if their parishes "have teams in every neighborhood alert to new arrivals and ready to welcome them," or if they get "advance telephone listings of new arrivals in the area" so that they can systematically reach out to welcome all newcomers.

"Does the weekly parish bulletin, one of the most basic forms ofcommunication, express a welcome to newcomers and to visitors?" the archbishop asked. "Does it suggest that newcomers register and does it tell them how to do it?"

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structure for that most basic form of communication, personal contact, whereby visitors are met and welcomed at the doors of the church before and after Mass."

He suggested they review how well they use area newspapers not the large metropolitan dailies, but the smaller dailies or suburban and neighborhood weeklies.

Those papers "are usually hungry for news" and glad to run stories about parish events such as confirmations and first communions, which can be used to explain what those sacraments mean to Catholics, he said.

Archbishop Foley said he dreams of a many-faceted evangelization program making extensive and creative use of the media to inform people about Catholicism, draw them to the church and deepen their faith.

Among elements of such a program he suggested: - An Advent campaign aimed at Catholics on the theme, 'Come Home at Christmas,' with radio spot announcements, newspaper advertisements, billboards and public relations releases inviting inactive Catholics back.

- A Lenten radio retreat during Lent, promoted in parishes and aimed at deepening the faith of Catholics.

- A Holy Week series oftelevision programs on what Catholics believe.

- A series of radio and television spot announcements between Easter and Pentecost supporting a massive program of home visitation inviting everyone to the nearest Catholic church on the afternoon of Pentecost Sunday to learn about Catholic faith and life.

Man-Made "God made time, but man made haste."-Irish proverb

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican has denied that 72-yearold Pope John Paul II plans to retire in three years.

The denial was issued after an Oct. 18 London Sunday Times article said there is "serious speculation" in some Catholic publications "that, for the first time in 700 years, a pope may retire from office."

The article said that the pope might be too ill to continue in office beyond the age of75 because of his July surgery to remove an intestinal tumor.

The retirement report is "foolish and ~ithout foundation," said Msgr. Piero Pennacchini, Vatican spokesman, Oct. 20.

The Sunday Times article also said that "the pope is rumored to have been keen to add that, in the bread and wine of the Eucharist, there was the real presence nOt only of Christ but also of the virgin."

The article said the pope was prevented from making an infallible pronouncement on Mary's real presence in the Eucharist by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The article cited no source by name and was highly speculative in nature.

Church law allows a pope to resign, and there has been at least one pope who did.

"If it should happen that the Roman pontiff resigns his office, it is required for validity that he makes the resignation freely and that it be duly manifested, but not that it be accepted by anyone," says the Code of Canon Law. To fulfill the requirement, a pope must freely make the resignation in writing or orally before two witnesses and communicate the decision to cardinals eligible to elect a new pope.

Th.e resignation takes effect at the moment it is communicated to the cardinals as no one has the power to accept or reject a papal resignation. There is no age criteria for a papal resignation.

Pope Celestine V resigned in 1294 after five months in office and died in 1296.

usee helps reform WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. Catholic Conference has joined with two other major religious agencies to work together to help reform the country's social welfare policies. The USCC, the National Council of Churches and the Synagogue Council of America are spearheading an effort called "The Common Ground for the Common Good." Early stages of the project, launched this fall, will be supported by a $152,000 grant from the Ford Foundation.

Justice sought SAN SALVADOR (CNS) - A former Salvadoran catechist said she hopes an investigative commission will bring the army officer responsible for the murder of members of her family and others to justice. "We don't want this man tojust be removed from the army," said Sofia Hernandez. "but we want him to be taken to court. It's not only my family he has wronged, but many other people have also suffered at the hands of troops under his command," she said.

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No more "This is" Effective immediately, lectors, deacons and priests may conclude scripture readings used at Mass with "The word of the Lord" and "The Gospel of the Lord," dropping the prefatory words "This is."

The Vatican-approved change came at the request of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

who thought the new translation a more accurate rendering of the previous Latin conclusions.

The new translations become mandatory Feb. 28.1993. the first Sunday of Lent.

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By Monica and Bill Dodds But that can be the message that Why would elderly people back each appears to be sending. an euthanasia initiative?

It isn't easy being old. It isn't A year ago Washington-state easy facing the losses that can voters .rejected a measure that come so fast and from all sides. would have legalized physician- Loss of good health, loss of good assisted suicide. This November friends, loss of long-time home Californians are facing a similar and familiar lifestyle and, hardest proposition. of all, loss of spouse. . Some supporters of the bills do Coupled with that grief is a not hesitate in admitting that such dwindling of one's self-esteem. a law would be only a first step Who am I now? I used to be a toward the long-range goal of making active - and even invo- husband. I used to be a wife. I used luntary - euthanasia legal in the . to be a homemaker. a doctor. a mechanic. My children are grown United States.

Why then have there been senior- and on their own. Now I am alone. citizen groups among the backers And that isolation can lead to a of the initiatives? depression so overwhelming that I As members of the pro-euthana- can find myse(f thinking what sia movement continue to push before would have been clearly forward the debate in the political unthinkable. I can find myse(f arena with arguments centering on considering it. Coming to embrace "quality of life" and "right to it. choose," society is in 'danger of Now add to the mix fear and further closing its eyes to the value guilt. I have seen how my friends of human life. All human life. suffered - I have witnessed their Human worth is being further pain - and I do not believe I can confused with productivity, wealth, endure that. I am afraid. youth and power.

And I know how those final It is frightening to think th~t an elderly parent might come to believe years. months or weeks can eat that his or her life means so little away at a family's savings. how hard they can be on other family that the world - and the familymembers. and I do not want to be would be better off without that a burden. person.

Drug companies get rich by overcharging you

By Ron Pollack Americans like to think of ourselves as wise consumers. We shop and compare, clip and save and buy on sale. Yet we're paying a whole lot more for the same old medications.

We're getting a raw deal when you compare what we're charged with what Europeans and Canadians pay for the same drugs.

The U.S. Senate' Special Committee on Aging found that, between 1980 and 1990, the price of prescription drugs shot up almost three times as fast as prices in general. The Committee, chaired by a real consumer advocateSenator David Pryor from Arkansas-found that while general inflation drove other prices up 58 percent, drugs sky rocketed 152 percent!

Your local pharmacist isn't getting rich on these price increases.

The drug manufacturers are. The big drug companies reap profits three times as high as other big corporations.

Billions for Lobbying Drug companies say they need the money for research and development. But the shocking fact is that the drug companies spend a billion dollars more on lobbying and advertising every year than on research!

To really get a perspective on how badly inflated American prescription drug prices are, just compare them with drug prices in other countries. The Italian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association found that Americans pay more than three times as much as the average European pays for prescription drugs.

One example is Ativan. This prescription drug is made in the United States, but Senator Pryor's investigation found the average U.S. price for 100 one mg. tablets was $48.96. In Canada, the average price was $7.18.

Tylenol with codeine was also vastly more expensive in the U.S. than in Canada.

Costly Medications Cost Lives The fact is, the·drug companies are simply overcharging the American consumer, and senior citizens are getting the worst of it.

Prescription medication for senior citizens is often a matter of life and death. But many seniors just can't afford to fill prescriptions on a regular basis. Some older Americans wind up skipping pills, and endangering their health by taking their medicine less often than they're supposed to. Others cut down on food or turn the heat way down.to pay for their medicine.

It is wrong that our parents should have to face these hard choic.es. The big drug companies are making higher and higher profits, while the elderly cannot afford to buy the prescription drugs they need. For older Americansfor all of us-this is bitter medicine to swallow.

Ron Pollack is executive director of Families USA Foundation

Parish handed over ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNS) - When Archbishop Francis T. Hurley of Anchorage once again visited his archdiocese's outreach mission in Magadan, Russia, he "handed over" a Catholic parish to the region's new bishop, Bishop Joseph Werth. Bishop Werth, apostolic administrator of Siberia and eastern Russia, was appointed 15 months ago. But'this visit to Magadan, in the Russian Far East, was his first. According to Archbishop Hurley, Bishop Werth is "bit by bit traveling to the extremities of his responsibility." The bishop resides in Novosibirsk 4,000 miles from Magadan.

Basis of Morality "Compassion is the basis of all morality." - Arthur Schopenhauer

Maybe it would be better for everyone (r.oo.

It would be more than a disgrace if members of society today' were remembered as the people who fought so vehemently to preserve endangered species and oldgrowth forests but destroyed their own elders - if there was more concern and more action and more money for maintaining a safe environment for owls and snails and baby seals than for the senior members of our society.

At the same time, the environmentalists make a valid point. How an animal lives - if an animal survives - depends a great deal on the conditions under which that animal is forced to exist.

The question then becomes, How are we forcing our elders to live that some would become advocates for their own deaths?

We are forcing them to live in an environment with skyrocketing health care costs, an environment with inadequate information on pain control and a lack of resources for the variety of particular needs the elderly face.

It is an environment where poverty and isolation are not uncommon, an environment that can at best seem indifferent and at worst hostile, an environment that soon may become predatory..

Monica Dodds is a social worker with Catholic Community Services in Seattle. Her husband Bill is a writer.

CATHOLIC MEMORIAL HOME resident Annette Sylvia receives assistance from Veronica Almeida, a senior at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth. Miss Almeida, who plans a career in nursing, was one of 10 teenagers who volunteered at the home during the summer through the Bristol County Training Consortium.

Rosary month Did you know that of all new laws passed by Congress last year, nearly one-third named a day, week, month or decade to celebrate? lowe that useless bit of information to the May 1992 issue of the Bottom Line newsletter, but I should have suspected it because of the long list of events suggested each month by the Minnesota Newspaper Association.

National Newspaper Month is prominent for October in this list, naturally, but would you believe Dictionary Day, Pickled Pepper Week and National Kitchen and Bath Month? It's not surprising, I guess, to see no mention of Rosary Month.

None of the October events go as far back as the Month of the Holy Rosary, which started in 1571, The actual date was October 5, 1571, when the Christian navy defeated the Muslim Turks at Lepanto while Romans offered rosaries to the Mother of God. The feastday was first called Our Lady of Victory, then Our Lady ofthe Rosary; then the entire month was dedicated to-the rosary.

Gradually the calendar became loaded with Mary's feasts.

Her influence is not limited to the Church. Did you know she has appeared on the cover of Time more than any other woman?

The popularity of the rosary has ebbed and flowed along with devotion to Mary, but its power is so great that sooner or later Catho" lics return to the practice so simple yet so profound.

History is full of events in which "saying the geads" made all the difference. St. Dominic is credited with converting some 100,000 Albigenses by teaching them the rosary. In 1683, Our Lady of the Rosary was thanked for saving

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Have you noticed how often the favorite prayer.

Rev. Patrick Peyton, CSC, the The popularity of this ancient prayer form comes in part from its "Rosary Priest:~. was also seen flexibility. It can be said aloud in with his beads in hand? Nearly a great public crowds, privately in . decade before his death I asked car, chapel or bedroom, and si- him to explain the post-Vatican lently in public while the person decline in saying the rosary.

"Confusion," he said, but the praying is otherwise engaged.

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Sisters in Mother Teresa's community "go about the city always with rosary in hand," she wrote, "for so much is our habit of praying it. We never approach anyone without prayer, and the rosary has

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Banja Luka Continued from Page One The only contacts with neighboring Croatia, he said, had come via the church's Caritas relief organization, which had secured Serbian permission to import foreign-donated charity items. In late September, Caritas successfully negotiated the arrival of 10 truckloads of aid to the city. .

Many priests from the Banja Luka Diocese needed medical treatment after spending time in Serbian prison camps, he said. He said he could only confirm the dIsappearance of one priest but added that there had been persistent rumors. denied by the Yugoslav National Army, that several priests had been killed in remote parts of the diocese.

Bishop Franjo Komarica of Banja Luka, isolated from the outside world for most of this year, had been permitted to travel out of the city under military escort, the priest said. The bishop had urged

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MSGR. JOHN TRACY ELLIS

international system of 30 years ago to meet the increasingly global problems of the world community.

Peacemaking and creating susrian as distinguishing what is true tainable development are vital in Continued from Page One from what is not true. pursuing Pope John's vision of a to 1976, he taught at the Jesuit-run "I tell it [history] as I know it to universal common good, the bishbe, as the doctrines and facts dicUniversity of San Francisco. ops said.

He received more than 20 hon- tated it happened, and I portray it "The need to strengthen peaceorary doctorates and a papal honor as real as I can," he said. keeping and peacemaking instituknown as "protonotary apostolic," Father Robert Trisco, editor of . tions, both through the United which had been given to the first the Catholic Historical Review and Nations and through regional church historians who recorded professor of church, history at groupings, is a central priority fOr the lives of early Christian martyrs. Catholic University, praised Msgr. our time," they said.

He wrote more than 400 schol- Ellis for his truthful presentation The U.N. Conference on Enviarly essays including, "American of church history. "He .had a will7 ronm«nt .and .Development held Catholics and the Intellectual Life," . ingness to tell the whole truth last June in Brazil "highlighted for a 1955 essay credited for influenc- without concern of embarrassment all the world the connection being the nation's Catholic colleges for the church," he said. tween environmental integrity and In classroom lectures he spoke equitable development for the poor and seminaries to develop higher truthfully of both heroes and vil- nations of the world. The presereducational standards.

Of his nearly 20 books, the most lains in church history. vation of the earth's ecology deIn lectures across the country, mands finding ways for the poor esteemed is a two-volume biography, "The Life of James Cardi- he called on Catholics to be true to to improve their lives without placnal Gibbons, Archbishop of Balti- their faith, noting that many have ing further stress on fragile ecologmore." . forgotten the importance of the ical systems."

Over the years he served as con- Mass and sacraments and become The statement also cited writsultant to the U.S. bishops' Com- caught up in materialism. ings by Pope John Paul II onobliHe criticized Catholics for fail- gations to the poor arid the "crisis mittee on Priestly Life and Ministry. ' ,ing to have positions of leadership of solidarity" discussed by Pope On Sept. 30 he received the in intellectual and public life and Paul VI among nations.

Alumnus Lifetime Service Award said it stemmed from a lack of Pope Paul, in his encyclical from Catholic University's Theo- emphasis on higher education., "Populorum Progressio" (The PrO"He would not hesitate ina pos- gress of Peoples), 'anticipated the logical College. The award was presented to him in his room at the itive way to be critical," said Msgr. day when, through generous initinursing home where he lived be- Thomas Duffy, a Washington atives, "the poor man Lazarus can cause he was too frail to attend the priest and close friend of Msgr. sit down at the same table with the ceremony. A videotape of the Ellis. He said his friend particu- . rich man." Since that encyclical, presentation was made and then larly despised hypocrisy and shams, "the story of Lazarus has become shown at an Oct. 2 luncheon "but he was always a gentleman, central to the church's interpretaliterally and figuratively." honoring Msgr. Ellis. tion of the crisis of solidarity in Jesuit Father William J. Byron, world affairs," the bishops said.

Upon receiving the award, Msgr.

Ellis commented, "The p'ursuit Of president of Catholic University Pope John Paul "has explicitly intellectual, life has always been from 1982 to 19'92, 'called the urged American Catholics to take my major goal. My addiction to c1)urch historian "tough-minded, this parable into account in shapintellectual life has yielded some but always courteous." The most ing our national response to desevere criticism he ever heard from veloping nations," the statement real benefits and real returns."

The award presenter, Father the priest was: "That per~on must said.

Howard Bleichner, who is rector have stopped reading."

Times are ripe for American Msgr. Ellis, however, never stop- Catholics to pursue peace and jusof the Theological College, told Msgr. Ellis, "You are one of the ped reading, said Father Byron. tice in the United States and in "a people responsible for giving the Even in his hospital.bed he was new world," the bishops concluded.

American Church a sense of its reading a biography of Frederick "The people of far-off lands are past." the Great. 'not abstract problems, but sisters Msgr. Duffy added that Msgr. and brothers. We are called to proAlthough he wrote and talked Ellis "also had a deep and almost tect their lives, to preserve their about the intellectual life, Msgr.

Ellis quietly lived the priestly life, childlike faith," Msgr. Duffy dignity, and to defend their rights. once telling a reporter that his added. "He spoke aboutJesus as if Our future in this shrinking world most prized moments at Catholic he were talking about his brother depends not only on our national University came in the quiet of and he was happy to go to God." achievements,. but also on global . progress." each morning when he celebrated Msgr. Ellis is survived by two Mass in a chapel below his apartnephews, who continue to operate Root of Evil ment. the hardware store the priest's.

"To the cynic, money isn't the A priest in the Washington grandfather opened i'.1 Seneca, III. root of all evil - evil is the root of Archdiocese for 54 years, he often His only brother, Norbert, died in all money." - Anonymous 1953. described his job as a church histo-

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Oct. 23, 1992

the diocese's inhabitants not to fight back, fearing an even greater bloodbath if Catholics retaliated against militant Serbs.

"He has been forced, unwillingly, to take a political stand, since the occupiers have banned all nonSerbian political activity," the priest said. "But for now, he remains the only person for whom the Serbs show any respect and who can conduct some kind of discussion with more moderate Serbian officials."

The priest quoted Red Cross sources as saying that Banja Luka's Serbian controllers now believed the region's "ethnic cleansing" was more or less complete.

"They aimed to cleanse totally all the non-Serbian population, deporting people to the camps and demolishing their homes. They now say that most Croats have gone, while others who still remain will soon follow, including those from areas which have always been up to 80 percent Catholic."

At the same' time, the priest insisted that local people had enjoyed peaceful relations before the war and said much of Banja Luka's Serbian minority had condemned what had happened.

"Many are very frightened about what has been 'done to the other nationalities. They know in their heart of hearts that it cannot pass unpunished," he added. "But most are afraid to speak out publicly . and are forced to identify with Serbian policy. Prominent Serbs who tried to stand against it have since disappeared. Meanwhile, most ordinary Serbs are living much better than their Croatian or Muslim neighbors, who have been ,thrown out· of th'eir jobs and can now obtain hardly anything."

While 'acknowledging that the Bosnian conflict had no religious

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basis, the priest' accused Serbian Orthodox leaders of sharing responsibility for communal breakdown.

"The communist regime always disliked the fact that we enjoyed good relations with the Orthodox Church, which had no reason in the past to see Catholics as any kind of danger. But while Serbs describe themselves as Orthodox, 70 percent are not even baptized.

"The Belgrade regime is using the Serbian Orthodox Church as an element in its campaign, accusing the Vatican of inflaming the conflict by forcibly converting Serbs to Catholicism," he said.

He added that many Banja Luka residents were shocked by the attitude of the international community and alarmed that no international monitors had been assigned to inspect their city.

With winter approaching, the priest urged Western Catholics to continue giving humanitarian help but also called on them to put political pressure on Western governments to be decisive in actions relating to the situation in the former Yugoslavian republics.

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RIGOBERTA MENCHU earned the Nobel Peace Prize for her leadership in the struggle for the rights of Guatemala's indigenous people, such as this family in the nation's highlands. (CNS/KNA photo)

Were Norwegians first to evangelize New World?

WASHINGTON (CNS) - Uff Ericson's mission: "He soon proda! Cancel the merengue music! claimed Christianity throughout Bring on the melodies of Edvard the land, and the Catholic faith, Grieg and pile your plates high and announced KingOlavTrygvesson's with lefse and lutefisk! messages to the people, telling A U.S. church historian is claim- them how much excellence and ing that Norwegians brought Cath- how great glory accompanied this olicism to the Western Hemisphere faith." some 400 years before Christopher . Msgr. Yzermans writes that after Columbus landed in the "new 100 years of colonization the Greenworld." landers had achieved political indeMsgr. Vincent A. Yzermans, 67, pendence' and were well enough of Marvin, SD, once director of established to think in terms of what was known as the U.S. bishops' their own local church. They Bureau of Information, maintains wanted to have their own bishop the oldest diocese in the hemis- . and diocesan curia, he writes.

According to what records are, phere is the diocese of Gardar, Greenland, established in 1126. available, he says, the first bishop Pope John Paul II visited the may have been Bishop Eric Uppsi, Dominican Republic Oct. 9-14 to "most probably ... a missionary celebrate what is commonly consid- bishop, sent from Norway or Iceered to be the 500th anniversary of land to Greenland to ordain and Catholicism's arrival in the Ameri- confirm in the church." The next cas. The nation's capital, Santo bishop, a priest who had been in Domingo, was chosen as a site for service at the royal"court of Northe trip because it is thought to be way, arrived in Greenland in 1126 the first diocese established in the after the establishment of the Dio"new world." cese of Gardar, according to the Ironically, says Msgr. Yzermans, historian. at the time Columbus was unfurling He writes that the census of the sails for the voyage which took Greenland at that time revealed a him to the Dominican Republic, church "in a flourishing condition," "the bishop of Rome was writing including a cathedral, 16 churches, in 1492 a letter to archbishop two religious comim,mities and a ' Gaute Ivarsson ofTrondheim'[Nor- seminary. way] about the 'new world.'''

He notes that the Norse church' The church historian, who lives in Greenland disappeared in the at Blue Cloud Abbey in Marvin, early 1400s due to severalfactors, haS written a 36~page booklet titleo including the Black Death;the rise "First Evangelizer o'f the First Dio- of the Hanseatic League and cese" that details the arrival of extreme' weather conditions. The Catholicism in Greenland. last recorded testimony ofthe Norse Funded by a grant from a Minne- church's existence there, he writes, sota council of the Knights 'of is a marriage certificate dated " .

Columbus and former Minnesota April 19, 1409. .

Gov. Elmer L. Andersen, the bookThe Catholic Church returned let has !:ieen distributed to all Cath- to Greenland in.1960 with the arriolic and Lutheran pastors in MInn- val ~f Oblate Father Mic.hael路W olf, esota. who esta,blished.aparish in GodIn it. citing history books and thab, ac(:ording to Msgr. Yzermans. papal letters, fy1sgr. Yzermans preMsgr. Yzermans said he became sents his case. interested in the Norwegian evanAccording to the historian. it gelizers shortly after b~ing orwas Leif Ericson, oldest son of dained, almost 42 years ago, by Eric the Red. who King Olav Tryg- li.st~ning to a fellow parish priest in vesson of Norway persuaded to the "diocese of St. Cloud? Minn .. accept Christianity and travel to expound on the topic.

Greenland in 1000 to proclaim The priest, who says he has no christianity there. Accompanying Norwegian blood, only"many good him was a priest.

Scandinavian friends," noted that Msgr. Yzermans quotes an Icelan- Oct. I0, the day after the pope . dic writer of the time, Snorre Sturl- ar'rived in Santo Domingo, is Leif . ason, who' gives this account of Ericson Day.

Nobel winner has fought for路 human rights since parents were killed SAN MARCOS, Guatemala (CNS) - At 3:51 a.m. Oct. 16, Rigoberta Menchu received the news that she had won the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize in the bishop's house in San Marcos.

Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri, who was in the Dominican Republic for the Fourth General Conference of the Latin American Episcopate, has been an advocate for the indigenous and peasant groups supported by Ms. Menchu.

Ms. Menchu, a 33-year-old Catholic, received the phone call from the Norwegian ambassador to Mexico confirming that she had won the prize.

"Thank you, Mr. Ambassador, the people of Guatemala are going to be very happy with this," she said before hanging up the phone.

The tears in her eyes reflected exhaustion, happiness and confusion.

Ms. Mencu hugged Vitalino Simlox, who headed the Guatemalan Support Committee promoting her for the prize.

"It's all yours, it's all yours," he told her. "And it is an honor of your father."

At a press conference more than an hour later, Ms. Menchu said she wished her parents could have been around to see her receive the prize, "because they could share the dream of the people of Guatemala."

She said she planned to use the $1.2 million prize money to establish a fund in memory of her father, Vincente Menchu, who was killed in a human rights protest.

Vincente M'enchu was a Catholic catechist who helped start an organization to protect farmers' rights when plantation owners began to take over land that traditionall'y had been worked by Indians.

In 1980 in Guatemala City, he and 37 other peasants were burned alive by the national police, who set fire to the Spanish embassy, which demonstrators had peacefully occupied to protest massa-

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RIGOBERTA MENCHU cres and land seizures in the Indian highlands.

Three months later, Ms. Menchu's mother was kidnapped, tortured and killed.

Ms. Menchu left for Mexico the same year and has only returned five times since to Guatemala. During a 1988 visit, she was arrested by security forces and released only after an international outcry.

As a young girl, Ms. Menchu worked alongside her parents as the Maya-Quiche Indian family made a living laboring on coastal plantations. Two of her brothers died on the plantations: one of malnutrition and the other of pesticide poisoning.

Later, she became a domestic servant in Guatemala City, the capital. She said she was expected to have sex with the family's sons and was treated worse than a dog.

'As a teenager, Ms. Menchu became active in social reform and women's rights through the church.

Outraged by peasant working and living conditions, particularly in the highlands, Ms. Menchu later joined and eventually became head of the National Coordinating Commission for the United Peasants Committee.

In her biography, "I, Rigoberta Menchu" published in 1983, she says she opted for the political path to advance indigenous and peasant rights.

Both of her younger sisters took the military option, joining the Guatemalan guerrilla movement.

International personalities, such as French President Francois Mitterand's wife, Danielle, and past Nobel Peace Prize winners Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Adolfo Esquivel, supported Ms. Menchu's nominaton for the prize.

Feelings in Guatemala toward the activist are mixed.

Indians love her and see her as a heroine.

The government, which in the past accused Ms. Menchu of being a guerrilla, appears to have warmed to her.

The military flatly denies that she deserves the Nobel Prize.

"She has sullied the good name of Guatemala abroad," said the military's spokesman, Navy Capt.

Julio Yon Rivera.

At celebrations commemorating 500 years of Indian, black and popular resistance held Oct. II, Ms. Menchu said that although she was happy to be in Guatemala it was sad to see the majority of Indians still living in inhuman conditions.

About 55 percent of Guatemala's 9.4 million population is Indian; nearly 45 percent is mestizo, of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry.

Before leaving for the Dominican Republic to attend the Latin American bishops' meeting, Archbishop Prospero Penados del Barrio of Guatemala City offered his support for Ms. Menchu as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.

"She represents the humiliated Indian race and now, with the commemoration of 500 years of suffering, this prize will be very important for the majority in our country," the archbishop said.

around the church world with catholic news service POPE JOHN Paul II's proposal of a new collaboration in the Americas and a synod-style meeting of bishops from throughout the continent has been greeted with enthusiasm.

Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles told Catholic News Service the collaboration would lead to "strengthening bonds" between North and South, and "e'nrich" the church in the United States, especially in terms of"helping us to learn methods of evangelizatio'n"praeticed in Latin America.

Bishop Emilio Berlie Belaunzaran of Tijuana, Mexico, told CNS such a meeting was particularly appropriate at "this moment in history when we are rf!-evaluating economic relationships between our nations." .

He said the estimated 20 million Hispanics living in the United States share similar hopes and concernswith many in Latin America and are a "natural link"between the nations.

The pope asked the bishops to consider the synod in his keynote talk at the Oct. 12-28 Fourth General Conference ofthe Latin American Episcopate in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Such a meeting, the pope said, would help the bishops "face common problems related to justice and solidarity between the nations of the Americas."

Franciscan Father Samuel Azcona, pastor of San Juan Evangelista Parish in Santo DomiJ;lgo, noted that the United States has always had interest in Latin America on the economic and political levels; Maybe, he told CNS, with the churches ofthe United States, Canada and Latin America working together, U.S. Catholics would become more aware of the injustices south of the border.

"Even though Christianity came to this part of the world 500 years ago, many injustices remain," he said. While Santo Domingo was cleaned and polished for the papal visit, a look beneath "the external varnish" reveals enormous inequities, he said.

* * * * THE VATlCAN has established diplomatic relations with the former republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

The Oct. 17 Vatican announcement said the decision shows the desire "to develop mutual friendly relaitons" with both countries.

Earlier this year, the Vatican established diplomatic relations with the former Soviet republics of Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan.

Meanwhile; Pope John Paul II called for prayers and negotiations to bring peace to the republic of Georgia. .The pope said Oct. 18 he had received the appeal for prayers and support from ,"His Holiness, the Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II, after the grave incidents that occurred in Abkhazia."

The predominantly Muslim Abkhaz are pushing for the independence of the province from Georgia.

Although they make up less than 20 percent of Abkhazia's population, the Abkhaz have sought to cut Abkhazia's ties to Georgia for years, even trying to become part of the Russian republic under the former Soviet government.

After a month of fighting, a cease-fire was signed in September, but hostilities resumed after several weeks.

Petra Kelly: symbol of the Greens

Beatification process opened NEW YORK (CNS) - The Vatican has approved opening the cause for sainthood for Cardinal Terence J. Cooke, the late archbishop of New York.

Cardinal John J. O'Connor made the announcement earlier this month at St. Patrick's Cathedral during a Mass to mark the ninth anniversary of the death of his predecessor.

Among those in attendance were members of the Cardinal Cooke Guild, formed eight years ago to promote the cardinal's·cause.

"We cannot begin to calculate the number of people who believe that through the intercession of Cardinal Cooke some wonderful things have happened to them," Cardinal O'Connor said during Mass. "Some even believe that miracles have taken place."

He also said that 'many people report "their lives have become holier, they nave become more peaceful, more serene ... closer to the church than they were before."

The official opening of the cause for sainthood means Cardinal Cooke may now be known by the title, "Servant of God." Cardinal Cooke, the son of an Irish immigrant who grew up in the Bronx, is beloved by New Yorkers as their native son. He was a priest for 38 years and is quoted as saying he "never wanted to be anything but a simple priest."

Cardinal Cooke died in 1983, at age 62, of cancer, an illness he had fought for 20 years and which was known to -few people outside his closest aides.

His 15-year administration as archbishop was marked by personal warmth, a low-key style and an· emphasis on reconciliation as he led the archdiocese during a time of turbulence and tension in society and within the church.

At his funeral in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Cardinal William W. Baum, then prefect of the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for Education, called Cardinal Cooke a "priest's priest" and a "valiant and effective" defender of life. "To be in the presence of Cardinal Cooke for any length of time was to be with a man who was always listening to and joining in that famous refrain, 'I love New York,''' he said.

Notification that the process for sainthood can begin came in a letter to Cardinal O'Connor from Cardinal Angelo Felici, prefect of the Congregation for Sainthood Causes; It was signed by the congregation's. secretary, ,Bishop Edward Nowak. " Cardinal O'Connor began laying the groundwork in I984",five months after. his own installation as archbishop of New York. At that time he informed Pope John Paull I of his intention, even though church law requires a five-year wait after someone's death before one can begin collecting eyewitness testimony and documentation.

"I did what many may consider presumptuous," the cardinal said, adding that he told the pope he knew formal action was five years away but he wanted to "spend the intervening years gathering all the data I could ... while people who remember were still alive."

The process leading to canonization involves three major steps.

First is the declaration of a per-

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CARDINAL COOKE son's heroic virtues, givirig him or her the title "Venerable;" second is beatification after which he or she is called "Blessed;" next is canonization. For a person to be declared a saint, a miracle attributed to him or her must be canonically proven to have taken place after beatification.

In 1985 Cardinal O'Connor named Father Benedict Groeschel, director of the archdiocesan Office for Spiritual Development, as promoter of the cause.

Next came collecting all of Cardinal Cooke's published writings.

They were reviewed by a committee and sent to Rome. Also prepared was a biography revealing his "own personal spiritual life as a Christian and indicating situations where he practiced heroic virtue."

Father Groeschel said in a statement that the Cardinal Cooke Ouild receives letters from people who believe they were miraculously cured through the intercession of Cardinal Cooke.

One such report involved a 16yea'r::old'girl" i'n'a HostMiil iii 'HacKensack, N.J., 'who was in a coma and near death from leukemia and an allergic reaction to chemotherapy. The girl reportedly awoke from the coma, which family members attribute to prayers to Cardinal Cooke. Doctors were unable to give any medical explanation for her recovery.

Father Groeschel said there has been great interest in Cardinal Cooke's possible canonization, "not only among Catholics, but among people of all religious denominations who remember the cardinal as an extremely dedicated and kindly man."

His is the second cause for canonization that the archdiocese is conducting. On Dec. 5, 1989, Cardinal O'Connor launched the cause for Pierre Toussaint, the Haitian former slave who performed .works of charity in New York City during. the early·19th century.

Response needed . PHILADELPHIA (CNS) -:'SpciaI service~ Will continue to be growth industry unless political decisio~s made at national, state and 'local levels cha,nge, said the new president of Catholic Charities USA.' Jesuit Father Fred Kammer, whose installation was part of Catholic Charities' recent annual convention in Philadelphia, said 68 percent of social services provided by member agencies are now for basic food and shelter, compared to 23 percent a decade ago. "We are deeply concerned about a national response to this problem," Father Kammer said in an interview with The Catholic Standard and Times, newspaper of the Philadelphia Archdiocese.

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BONN, Germany(CNS)- Until her death, Petra Kelly was the symbol for most Germans of the Greens party that she helped found to become Europe's leading environmental party in the early 1980s.

Her companion Gert Bastian, whose body was discovered with Miss Kelly's Oct. 19, was a retired army major general she recruited for his stance against the Cold War arms race.

A spokesman for Bonn's public prosecutor said Oct. 20 the two died from gunshot wounds in the head, "We must assume that Miss Kelly was shot and Bastian shot himself afterwards," Hartmut Otto, a senior police officer, told a news conference..

The daughter of a German mother and Irish-American stepfather, Miss Kelly was brought up during I}er early years by her grandmother and nuns at a local convent in Bavaria.

She decided at an early age to become either a nun or politician because "either way I could change things."

Once described by a West German magazine as "a candle that is burning at both ends and always for other people," Miss Kelly had said she would eventually give up parliamentary politics to devo~e more time to campaigning for tiuman rights. .

Miss Kelly, 44, was one of the Greens party's three founding chairmen. She was a committed campaigner against nuclear missiles and pollution and for feminism.

She played a central role in forging the Greens from a coalition of peace riioveinent'ana 'environmental activists in the late 1970s in what was then West Germany.

After failing to enter Bonn's parliament in 1980 elections, the Greens swept in three years later on a wave of anti-nuclear and antipollution protest, the first new party in the West German parhament since the 1950s.

An impassioned public speaker and tireless activist, Miss Kelly staged demonstrations for civil rights in Moscow's Red Square and occupied Bonn's embassy in Pretoria in protest against South Africa's apartheid policies.

Born Nov. 29,1947, in the Ba\!-. arian town of Guenzburg, Petra Kelly was a sickly child and spent three years in hospital as a nellr invalid.

When she was 12, her family emigrated to the United States, where she completed her education, graduating from the American, University in Wa~hington in 1970. ' .

She wQrked o.n the. political staffs ol'DemocraticSens. Hubert Humphrey a~d Rqbert Kennedy before returning to Europe, where she .carried out postgr;tduate studies at the University of Amsterdarp.

Before entering politics,' Miss Kelly worked as Ii social poli<:y adviser for the European Community in Brussels. , One of Miss Kelly's early political achievements was to recruit Bastion, a retired West German major general. for the Greens.

Bast ian, 69, was Miss Kelly's closest political ally and the German press often linked the couple romantically.

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MERCY DAY: Sisters of Mercy Nathan Doherty, left, and Suzanne White of St. Mary's School, New Bedford, received blue and white carnations for Mercy Day, Sept. 24, The Sisters of Mercy have staffed the school since 1965 and continue the teaching tradition along with Sisters of St. Joseph and lay teachers.

Americans' still gi.ving despite·.recession

WASHINGTON(CNS)- Despite the rec~ssion, Americans are still giving to charities. but they are' giving less than in previous years, according to a recent poll.

The poll also showed that members of religious denominations give more time and money than other groups, but Catholics give and volunteer slightly less than other denominations.

Independent Sector, a non-profit group that promotes charity,gi.ving and volunteer work, commissioned the survey. '. "Membership in. religious organizations has a direct relationship to the proportion of the population that contributes and volunteers," said Virginia Hodgkin-. son, Independent Sector vice president for research.

"N ot just members, but ac'tive members, tend to give and volunteer more," she added.

The group's findings showed 78 percent of people active in religious organizations reported household contributions and 58 percent of them volunteered. Conversely, for those who were not members of religious organizations, 58 percent gave donations and 35 percent volunteered.

Giving patterns varied widely among various religious groups.

Catholic respondents said they gave an average of 1.. 7 percent of their "annual household incomes, compared to th~ 2':7 pe;cent given by Protestant respondents and 2.9 percent given by those in the category of "all other religjons." .

Fifty-one percent· of the Catholic respondents said they. :vplun,teer, corppared to 53 percent of Protestants and 56. percent from other religious .denominations.

The survey was conducted by the Gallup Organization, which interviewed 2,671 adults in their homes over a one-month period.

The error rate for the total sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

A previous survey was conducted two years ago.

The organizers of the survey did not seem disheartened by the slight decrease in charitable giving, because they attributed it to the Dangerous and Bad recession. "Those Americans who "A little learning is a dangerous are generous continue to remain thing, but a lot ofignorance 'is Just steady in good times and bad," as bad."-B. Edwards said Ms. Hodgkinson.

Brian O'Connell, president of Independent Sector, also supported this theory, saying, "There is a large core of Americans that views support 'of charitable activities as an essential responsibility in all 'economic times."

According to the survey, 72 percent of American households contributed lW average of $899 to charity in 1991, or 2.2 percent of the household income. This was down from 1989, when 75 percent gave an average of$978 per household or 2.5 percent of household lOCO me.

Volunteering was also down slightly. Fifty-one percent of the respondents said they did some volunteer work in 1991, compared to 54 percent who said they volunteered in 1989.

Many contributors are donating more to causes they perceive as negl~cted, such as human services, civil rights, health and community development. Contributions to the arts, education, and religion declined.

Respondents who have donated time and money seemed to have something in common. Most had given previously, had seen someone help others or had been helped themselves. Many of them had been members of youth groups or had been active in student governm.ent.

The only age group which showed an increase in giving was the group between 18 and 24 numbers rose from 54 percent in ·198.9, to·58 p,ercent.!n 199,1.

Ande'rson honored ST. LOUIS (CNSL- Former Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson will receive the 1992 Media Herald Award of the national Jesuit radio and television office.

Anderson, who has said he regained his Catholic faith during nearly seven years of captivity in Lebanon, will receive the award Nov.4 in New York from the 1991 recipient, TV sportscaster Joe Garagiola.

Anderson, who is writing a book about his experiences in Lebanon, recently resigned from The Associated Press, where he had been chief Mideast correspondent at the time of his kidnapping.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri.,Oct. 23, 1992

By Charlie Martin

THEONE

really good jobs are closed off.

College is the doorway to a solid middle-class life in America.

Some students think they don't Who knows and who cares? A need algebra unless they want to ,whole lot of teenagers wonder why be doctors or scientists. While it matters what x equals anyway. non-scientific professionals like Students have three basic argu- lawyers and English teachers rarely ments against taking algebra. use math in their work, they still -"It's boring." need a college degree to get those -"It's hard." jobs.

-"It breaks your brain."

Lots of kids these days who Teenagers ask, "What difference aren't planning on college ,think can it possibly make in your life if they'd like working with compuyou don't take algebra?" ters. That makes sense, but comIn lots of countries, like Japan puter programming is all math and Germany, they give pig nation- it's more like algebra than almost al exams late in junior high. Those anything else you could do for a tests sort out which kids get into living. college, which get spots iIi the Without algebra, the only com· good technical training academies puter work available is data entry, and which will be sorted into trade typing numbers into keyboards all school. day, ajob with low wages and little It's all decided before 10th grade. chance of advancement.

Here in America, we don't give Even factory work is demandtests like that. We think th,at would ing more and more skill and analybe undemocratic and unfair. Why sis these days. You may not need should some test.decide that cer- algebra to get in the door, but tain kids will never take the best you'll need math skills if you'd like classes a school Qffers? , to be a foreman or manager, someWe don't need a test - we have day. · algebra. Students who take alge,Let's take .another look at those bra and get a decent grade can three arguments against taking move into whatever courses inter- algebra. est them. But avoiding algebra "It's boring." True, algebra isn't leaves you stuck in the "low track" all that exciting, but it is, imporuntil graduation - and beyond. tant. As you -move through life, The kids who don't take algebra t'here will be lots of important can't take the more advanced math .things to learn and do that aren't class. They end up in "Math for particularly fun. Algebra is just Living" instead of geometry and one of them.

"It's hard." Algebra seems harder calculcus.

Kids who don't take algebra than it really is. Once you get usually can't master chemistry, and started and warm up to it, it isn't without chemistry the other lab r~ally that much harder than any other math class. sciences are out of reach.

"It breaks your brain." It doesn't If you don't take advanced math and chemistry, getting into college , really break your b.rain, but algeis hard. It can be done, but it's bra teaches you to think in some new ways. Those are exactly the , tough.

Students who squeak into col- thinking skills everyone will need lege without the basics usually to be a success in the coming years.

If you're dreaming of college spend their first year in college · catching up on things the other and a career, or just a really good job, don't work on your hook , kids took in -high school.

If you c~n't get into college, the shot. Work on your algebra.

By Christopher Carstens

If 2x plus 7y equals 16, and y equals 2, what is the value of x?

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School forgoes homecoming parade . to help hurricane victims "

KANSAS CITY, M.o. (CNS) The'student Dody of St. Pius X Catholic High School in Kansas · City sacrificed the' homecoming : parade this year to give the money .normally raised for the event to ··victims of hurricanes Andrewand '. . .

Iniki. , During the school's homecom.ing Mas,S in.early October, stu· dents presented a check for $729.73 'to a representative of the Ameri_can Red Cross.

"We hope it will make for a better homecoming f~)f the victims" of the hurricanes, said senior Matt Karr, president of the St. Pius X , Student Council.

Father Don Powers, who celebrated the Mass, praised the stu-

dents for being a "generation with the enthusiasm and spirit to try to resolve some of the world's p'roblems." , Students raised the money by holding an election to see which .faculty member would win the title "pork lover." The winner would get to kiss Penelope the Pig at the homecoming assembly. .

Students and faculty cast votes for a quarter' apiece. After the polls closed and the votes were tallied, organizers declared Principal Ned Carter the victor.

"The money is going to a good cause," he said, after smooching Penelope at the assembly. "We raised over $700, so it was worth it."

I saw you dancing out of the ocean Running fast along the sand A spirit born of earth and water Fire flying from your hands In the instant that you love someone In the second that the hammer hits .

Reality runs up your spine And the pieces finally fit And all I ever needed was the One Like freedom feels where wild horses run When stars collide like you and I No shado'ws block the sun You're all I've ever needed Baby, you're the one There are caravans we follow Drunken nights in dark hotels When chances breathe between the silence Where sex and love no longer gel For each man in his time is Cain Until he walks along the beach And he sees his future in the water A long lost heart within his reach Written by Elton John and Taupin. Sung by Elton John (c) 1992 by Happenstance Ltd. As I read through the lyrics, I I RECEIVE ideas for columns from several sources. This week's' was struck by the capitalization of the word "One" in several review comes from a suggestion parts of the song. by the record store manager I can't say if this is John's where I buy most of the tapes. used for this column. She keeps intended message, but this could an ear out for good material. be a reference tothe one, unify"The One" is the title song off ing and loving presence in our Elton John's new disc. Like world, God. 'many of John's songs, it bears a .' ·If we take the song's message this way, then it invites us certain element of mystery.

to discover God by loving another.

Such an interpretation reminds me of the church's teaching on marriage, namely, that marriage is such a sacred relationship that God's presence is made manifest.

This is why marriage is a sacrament. As two people commit themselves with love and trust to one another, all of us witness more of the One in our lives.

I realize that John is not trying to convey Catholic teaching on marriage. His clear focus seems to be the romantic. The person in the song looks at how his life has changed: "When stars collide like you and I, no shadows block the sun, you're all I've ever needed, baby, you're . the one.~ Yet, the song cQnveys the seriousness and wonder of such a relationship. It is within the power of this relationship that "a long lost heart" is now "within his reach." .

This relationship has allo'wed him to claim his own heart with its innate power to love others.

As you can tell, I like this song a lot. It speaks of marriage as it has been my privilege to experience it, that is, as a path to find more of the One's presence in my life.

As a teen, you are not ready to enter into such a relationship. However, when the time is right and love brings you to the possibility of a marriage commitment, may the gift of your hearts bring you and your future .spouse close to the One. - the holy God in your midst.

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, In 47635.·

PRINCIPAL STORIES: Each week the nursery and kindergarten children of St. Mary's School, New Bedford, are sent to the prinCipal's office by their te'achers!

Believing that young children need a positive image of the princ'ipal and an enthusiasm for reading, Angela.Stankiewicz gathers her youngest charges in the office for the Principal's Story Time. During recent' visit~'the children have enjoyed stories of Clifford the' Big Red Dog and received Clifford bookmarks and pictures. StorY Time helpers hold a plush Clifford toy and everyone gets to give him a hug before they leave.

Pictured: Kindergarteners and Clifford; principal Angela StankIewicz with morning kindergarten students.

• THE ANCHOR-Diocese ofFall River-Fri., Oct. 23, 1992

in our schools

FOOLS' DA Y: Jeff Guimond and the Fountain Square Fools' Tom, backed by a not-quite cast of thousands, enact a reading from the Book of Numbers during a Mass that was part of the Fountain Square Fools Retreat Day at Bishop Connolly High School.

Bishop Connolly High School CONNOLLY Achievers: Tonya DeMelo, top, a senior at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, has been named a Massachusetts Advanced Studies Program Scholar. She was one of 200 participants last summer in the Advanced Studies Program at Milton Academy, where she took "Exploring the Essay" and computer programming courses.

In addition to financial aid from MAS P, she was able to secure tuition funds from area businesses. MASP director Charles M. Burdick told Miss DeMelo she was the first student to raise such a substantial amount through this approach.

Catherine M'. Torphy, also a Connolly senior, has been named a Commended Student in the 1993 National Merit Scholarship Program. The 35,000 students who placed among the top five percent of those taking the 1991 Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/ National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test are being honored with a Commended Student certificate.

Coyle-Cassidy More than 75 careers will be represented at. Coyle-Cassidy's annual Career Night to be held 7 to 9 p.m, Oct. 29 in the Taunton school's gymnasium.

Representatives from a wide range of careers and professions around the state will answer students' and parents' questions about their respective lines of work.

"It was a great day to reflect and bring everyone together," commented Sue Cote of the Bishop Connolly Class of '94. She was referring to a school wide retreat hosted by the Fountain Square Fools at the Fall River high school.

The Fools, who hail from St. Xavier's Parish in Cincinnati. Ohio. filled the school day with music. drama and humor in an effort to enhance the students' self-concept, generosity and spirituality. Their program engages the students' imaginations. emotions, and intellects while respecting and challenging their culture.

Many students found that their commonly held perceptions of religion and prayer were challenged. "The Fools really know what it's like to be a teenager." said senior Mike Donnelly. "They know how we feel. They made the day fun and at the same time they made you think."

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Amongcareers represented will be law enforcement. education. medicine. journalism and communications, engineering and science.

Guidance department member Beatrice Piche is coordinating the event. which is free of charge and open to all area middle and high school students and their parents.

Six new inductees to the CoyleCassidy Warrior Hall of Fame will be honored at a banquet to be held Nov. 27 at Venus DeMilo in Swansea.

The inductees. who graduated from Coyle-Cassidy or from the former Msgr. Coyle High School. are: Charles M. Boffettie. '40; Robert E. Flynn, M. D., '43; Capt.

Emily Larocque, VSAF, '84; Randy P. Lombardi, '78; Carlin Lynch, '52; and Alan F. Rich, '70.

The new members join Joseph Scanlon and James Burns. the charter members of the Hall inducted in 1991.

For information on' attending call the school at 823-6164.

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Let's hear it for police officers Cops may be getting a bad rap lately, but Father Thomas Nangle says that stereotypes about the men and women in blue aren't true.

In an interview in V.S. Catholic magazine, Nangle, a chaplain with the Chicago police department says: "The bread and butter of a police officer's day is crime, evil, suffering, and degradation-or to use a theological term, sin. After a while the officer starts to say that there has to be something more than just me and the police department.

This constant exposure to human evil pushes the officer against the wall and almost forces him or her to call out God's name."

"It makes me sad and furious to see people constantly attack the police department in the media," he says. Most people never witness firsthand the heroism, courage, skills, and gifts that it takes to do police work.

While police violence is a hot issue, especially in light of the Rodney King incident, Father Nangle ·says that not one police officer he knows thought the beating was justified and they were stunned by the verdict.

Police officers,~ays the chaplain, are exposed to a mixture of heroism and horror daily, yet somehow they integrate these experiences: When he went on a retreat with officers, he says, "When they began to talk about God, I was taking notes and I couldn't write fast enough. It was as if somebody opened the door to a gold mine and I didn'tknow where to begin."

break for lunch, small group activities and a liturgy brought the day to a successful conclusion.

"It was inspirational." said senior David Silva.

Mary Jane Keyes, athletic director. has announced the first Athletes of the Month for the 1992-93 season for the Cougars, Kevin According to a study by a CaliDonnelly, a freshman on the boys' fornia police-department psychologist, which Father Nangle cited in cross country team: for the Lady his V.S. Catholic interview, cops Cougars, Jennifer Osborn, a senior on the girls' cross country team. go through different stages in their The National Honor Society has relationship with God. The study kicked off a full slate of activities found that after about three years under new moderator, Joyce Costa. on the job, officers see only the Mrs. Costa is enthusiastic about bad side of police life; they develop level of participation of N HS stua "them-versus-us" view. After five dents. "The kids are really looking years, they begin to wrestle with for ways to be of service," she the meaning of life and try to noted. To date, members of the define good and evil.

NHS are working on the details of Questions about religion, God, a Mentor Program designed to faith, and humanity arise and provide enrichment activities for eventually lead into what can elementary school students. happen around the seventh year: officers view organized religion as The organization has donated 150 copies of The United States of a sham; they abandon religious practices and no longer believe in America - 200 Years of Libert)' God. However, after about the to Connolly's social studies departninth year on the force, cops seem. ment. This commemorative colto mellow and become what the lection of historic American docstudy calls "true law-enforcement uments will be used by juniors as professionals," rediscovering God, they study early American History. a sense of humor, family, and the The N HS has also set up an after-school "snack shop" for Con- . value of fidelity.

Father Nangle says that police nolly students on Tuesday and officers need to be reminded that Wednesday afternoons from 2:30their work is noble and sacred and 2:45.

Principal Father John P. Mur111111111111111111111111111111111I111111111111111111111111I1111111111111 ray has announced faculty class Laurie Leal, and Elizabeth Smith. moderators for 1992-93: seniors.

Tonya DeMelo is business manaAI Valcourt;juniors, Randall Ricbger. ards; sophomores, Anthony Presto, ''I'm really looking forward to Part I Peer Training instruction working with this staff." comwas held recently, with the followmented L'Heureux. "They're very ing students completing their trainenergetic and enthusiastic. It's also ing: Melissa Pilotte, Jen DeSimone, very unusual to have such a large John Bigos, Linda Aguiar, Sarah number of juniors workingas ediDesjardins, Chris Kiley, Jen Smith, tors. The experience they gain this Korey Doyle, Brendan Garrity, veal' will serve them well when it Tonya Cabral, Amy Charron, Pat ~omes time to work on their ~enior Meffert and Erin Smith. book."

Yearbook moderator Jim L'HeurThe Connolly yearbook has been eux has announced the appointrecognized consistently as a qualment of the 1993 editorial staff of ity yearbook by both Taylor and OPVS. Connolly's award-winning Jostens publishing and by the yearbook. They are senior David Columbia Scholastic Press AssociaSilva, andjun.iors Teresa Carreiro, tion.

that after all they are the only ones who stand between good and evil.

A police officer's job takes a big bite out of the human spirit, says the chaplain. "Police officers' sense of God, their relationship with the Lord has been so tried and so purified that if it's still there at the end of their careers-and it almost always is-it's better and richer than most."

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ST. STANISLAUS, FR RCIA meeting 7 p.m. Oct. 26, rectory.

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

Oct. 28, St. Lawrence rectory.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA A four-week workshop on centering prayer will begin 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, at the religious education center, continuing on subsequent Fridays. All are welcome. Further information: Deacon Bob or Paulette Normandin, 676-0029.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Parishioners Christina Kim and Dawn Costa were queen and a princess respectively in this year's Music Town festival.

DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN Fall River District I: International Committee will sponsor presentation

by Norwich, Conn., Bishop Daniel Reilly and Dr. Jeremiah Lowney on Haitian relief program, 7:30 p.m. St. Anthony of Padua parish, Fall River.

New Bedford District II: Family Commission Committee announces talk by Rev. Mark Hession on health care proxy forms and their use, 7 p.m. Nov. 12, Holy Name Church, New Bedford.

Taunton District III: Legislative Committee will present talk by Dorothy Levesque of Providence diocesan family life ministry, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30, St. Mary's School, Taunton. .

Cape & Islands District V: Community Commission will sponsor program on area homeless and displaced persons at 2 p.l11. Nov. 15, St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, EAST FREETOWN Youth retreat, O. L. Grace parish, Westport, tomorrow through Sunday; confirmation retreat, Immaculate Conception, FR, tomorrow.

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COMMUNION BRUNCH planners for the Dominican Academy, Fall River, Alumni Association are, from left, Geraldine (Nunes) Saucier, '58; Patricia (Crane) Ramsay, '64; and Patricia (Odynecky) Pasternak, '65. The brunch will take place Oct. 25 at the academy, following a 10 a.m. Mass in the convent chapel celebrated by Father Joseph Costa, director of St. Vincent's Home, Fall River.

Bernard Sullivan, editor of the Herald News, will be the brunch speaker. All former DA high school and elementary school students are invited. For a reservation, contact Ms. Saucier at 674-8387, or the DA development office, 676-3076.

ST. VINCENT'S HOME, FR Non-denominational healing service 7 p. m. Nov. 15 at home chapel for HIV infected and affected persons.

Information: Project Aware, 6795222.

HERITAGE SINGERS, FR New members sought for group that sings and performs in nursing homes and for organizations. Rehearsals 7 p.m. Thursdays, Dominican Academy. 37 Park St., FR. Information: Terry Paiva: 679-9754.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, ATTLEBORO Meeting 7 p.m. Nov. 6 St. Mary's parish center, Attleboro; Mass and potluck supper. All welcome.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, HYANNIS Eagle Scout candidate Brendan Bisbee will chair a Boy Scout fbOd drive at all Masses the weekend of Nov. 21 and 22 with proceeds going to St. Vincent de Paul Society for distribution to needy.

DIVORCED/SEPARATED Support group meeting 7 p.m.

Oct. 25, parish center, St. Mary's Church, Norton. Video on divorce's impact on children followed by discussion. Information: Carol, 2859445; Laurel, 285-3647.

New Bedford support group meeting 7 p.m. Oct. 26, Family Life Cen-ter, 500 Slocum Rd., N. Dartmouth.

Video on surviving failure and rejection.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Children of the parish and neighborhood are invited to a Halloween Mass and party Oct. 31. Children may dress as angels or saints and will march around and into the church for 7 p.m. Mass. A party will follow until 8:30 p.m., including judging of costumes.

SACRED HEART, FR Boys and girls ages 5 and up wishing to join Campfire will meet at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 26 in the parish hall.

Further information: Peg Leger: 678-6675 after 5 p.m.

DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA, ATTLEBORO Alcazaba Circle planning meeting 7 p.m. Oct. 29; regular monthly meeting with Mass for deceased members 7 p.m. Nov. 5, both at K of C Hall, Hodges Street.

ST. ANTHONY OF DESERT, FR Exposition of Blessed Sacrament noon to 6 p.m. Nov. I, with holy hour 5 to 6 p.m. All welcome.

WIDOWED SUPPORT GROUP, CAPE & ISLANDS Meeting I :30 p.m. Sunday, education center library, Christ the King Church, Mashpee.

ST. MARK, ATTLEBORO FALLS Prayer for Life 7 to 8 tonight before Blessed Sacrament to atone for disrespect for life in society. All welcome.

SI. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, is offering a "Learning for Life" cancer education series, designed to help persons with cancer and their families cope with issues that arise from the disease.

All programs are held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the hospital's Nannery' Conference Room, room 134 in Clemence Hall, and are open to the public.

Dates and topics are: Oct. 21: "The Treatment of Cancer: Chemotherapy and Radiation," presented by Susan O'Brien, RN, MSN, director of Hudner Oncology Center, and Lisa Dugal, RN,BSN, assistant manager, radiation oncology.

Oct. 28: "Nutrition: The Interrelationship between Diet, Cancer .and Your Treatment," Karen Corey, MS, R D, clinical dietician/ oncology.

Nov. 4: "Why Me? The Emotional and Spiritual Response to Cancer," Sister Linda Lambert, CSJ, pastoral care.

Nov. 10: "The Financial Impact of Cancer: Understanding Your Benefits," Donald Vineti, Social Security Department field representative.

Nov. 18: "When Treatment Stops: Re-Entering the Mainstream of Life," Fall River chapter of National Coalition of Cancer Survivors.

The Survivors group meets 7 to 8:30 p.m. second and fourth Wednesdays at the hospital.

For information on the series or on Survivors, call Susan O'Brien at 675-5688.

Disaster drill St. Anne's Hospital will be among seven organizations participating tomorrow in a citywide disaster drill simulating response to the crash landing of a 727 jet in Fall River.

The drill will take place from 9:30 to II a.m. at the Fall River Airport. Boy Scouts will portray crash victims. Other organizations participating are: the Fall River fire and police departments, NorfolkBristol Ambulance Service, Emergency Medical Service, Charlton Memorial Hospital, and the Emergency Management Agency including Search and Rescue Team with dogs.

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