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Synod enters final days

MORTGAGE BURNING: Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and Father Edward J. Burns, pastor of S1. Mark's parish, Attleboro Falls, burn the parish mortgage as Msgr. John J. Oliveira and altar server Eric Stockwell look on. (Breen photo)

Social, liturgical, financial issues await U.S. bishops WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. bishops face a heavy agenda for their Nov. 12-15 national meeting in Washington with action pending on 20 items, among them guidelines for sex education and catechetics and statements on substance abuse, social justice, evangelization, family ministry and Catholic schools.

The document "H'uman Sexuality: A Catholic Perspective for Education and Lifelong Learning" takes up two-fifths of a 462-page book of action items sent to the nation's bishops a month before the meeting.

Money issues on the agenda include proposals to start a special national collection for the church in Eastern and Central Europe and to allocate one-fourth of future increases in the yearly Latin America collection to U.S. Hispanic needs.

The bishops will be asked to approve criteria for use of inclusive - non-sexist - language in liturgical texts.

They also face action on whether bishops should be authorized to permit lay people to preside at a funeral liturgy if no priest is available.

One major item originally on the agenda will not be: the proposed pastoral letter on women's concerns, delayed because of a Vatican request that the bishops consult with other bishops' conferences before issuing the document. During the meeting they will, however, hear a progress report on the pastoral.

About 300 bishops are expected

to attend this year's meeting of the offers eyangelization suggestions National Conference of Catholic in conjunction with the approachBishops and U.S. Catholic Con- ing 1992 quincentennial of Columference. bus' arrival in the Americas.

The proposed "human sexualA pla~ for a limited-duration ity" document, update 1981 guide- national collection for the churches lines, with the aim of fostering in Central and Eastern Europe "respect for the precious gift of reflects their current financial human sexuality." needs.

A statement on Catholic schools A proposal to shift to the plans for their future, including domestic Hispanic apostolate 25 funding to help establish "dioce- percent of future Latin America san, state and national organiza- collections above $3.8 million tions of Catholic school parents" the estimated 1990 revenue - is by 1992. coupled with Ii ple'a for more dioNational catechetical text guide- ceses to participate in the collection. lines spell out what they should The analysis accompanying the contain in the central areas of proposal suggests that the change Catholic teaching and life. will not cut into the collection's Criteria for "inclusive language allocations for the Latin American translations" of Scripture readings in the liturgy seek to deal with the church and could even increase problem that many masculine terms them, because adding U.S. Hisonce considered generic are now panic ministries as a beneficiary will lead to wider interest and "seen to exclude women."

A separate proposal offers prin- higher contributions. ciples for liturgical adaptation of The proposed pastoral message Scripture texts. In addition to the on substance abuse calls for a inclusive language question, prin- comprehensive program of educaciples are outlined for language tion and action and, while focusconcerning people with handicaps ing mainly on illegal drugs and and adaptations of translations .alcohol abuse, also notes abuse of for public reading. prescription drugs, particularly by The proposal for permission for the elderly. lay people to preside at funeral litAnother pastoral message to be urgies in the absence of a priest is voted on summarizes basic social one of four other liturgical issues teachings ofthe church since 1891, before the bishops. The others are when Pope Leo XIII issued the proposals to add to the U.S. liturfirst papal social encyclical, "Rerum gical calendar optional memorials Novarum," on the social condifor Blessed Miguel Pro Nov. 23, tions and rights of workers.

Blessed Juan Diego' Dec. 9 and St. Other agenda items include: Paul of the Cross Oct. 20.

'- A proposed statement on A proposed pastoral letter on Turn to Page 16 evangelization in the Americas

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The , world Synod of Bishops received a report on the worldwide vocations' picture and continued discussing celibacy as participants prepared to make final proposals on priestly formation to Pope John Paull\.

Archbishop Pio Laghi, head of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education, told the synod Oct. 20 that while the total number of priests worldwide declined by 313 between 1988 and 1989, gains were experienced in Africa, Asia and the Americas.

Although the celibacy requirement for Latin-rite priests was not an item up for vote at the synod, scheduled to end on Sunday, it did receive a great deal of attention on the synod floor and in the small working groups.

The synod's Oct. 18 press conference was devoted almost entirely to the subject of celibacy after the Vatican confirmed that the pope allowed two married Brazilian men to become priests after they agreed to give up living with their wives.

At the press conference, Cardinal Christian Wiyghan Tumi of Garoua, Cameroon, said each of the synod's 13 working groups

affitmed "the importance of priestly celibacy for the church in the modern world."

The small groups made, their initial r~ports to the synod Oct. 17-18. The reports are used by the synod leadership in drafting a set of proposals that may be amended by the small groups before being voted on by synod participants.

The proposals may be used by the pope in preparing a post-synod document on priestly formation.

In addition to supporting celibacy, most of the reports called for increased efforts to improve the spiritual lives of priests and sup:ported a special year of spiritual formation for seminarians.

Synod participants also sup~orted a callfor published guideItnes on the continuing education of priests and urged greater respect for local cultures when designing formation programs..

A'nother recurring theme was the need to integrate candidates from lay movements into seminary life and prepare them to serve their entire diocese, not just members of their group.

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U.S. choir will sing at last synod Mass

JOLIET, l1l. (CNS) - The world cert in the evening at the Jesuit Synod of Bishops in Rome may Church of St. Ignatius in Rome. seem a far-away event for many "It's extremely rare and a great Catholics, but not for a 42-member honor that a choir has the opporparish choir from the diocese of tunity to sing in St. Peter's twice Joliet selected to represent the and on the same day," Mrs. Anello United States at the synod's clos- told the New Catholic Explorer, ing Mass on Sunday.

Joliet diocesan newspaper.

The choir is to end its trip by Therese Anello, director of singing for Pope John Paul II durliturgical music at St. Isidore paring his weekly papal audience Oct. ish in Bloomrngdale, Ill., near Chicago, said that the parish choir 31.

The choir will sing selections in received a special papal invitation Latin, English, German and Polish. to sing at the Vatican from James Mrs. Anello said that while no Goettsche, an American who is Italian songs were on the agenda, . music director at St. Peter's Basilthe choir members were "definitely ica. (A story on Goettsche appears boning up" on some basic Italian. on page 12.)

"We may not be able to speak it The invitation came last October fluently," she said, "but we do after Mrs. Anello sent in a demo want to be able to order a good tape of one of the choir's perItalian meal while we're there.... formances.

And we'll probably want to ask Choir members, who left Chi- where the bathrooms are!" cago yesterday for Rome, planned Mrs. Anello said they had been to perform several times during practicing since last January for their weeklong trip. . the trip.

The choir had planned the pilTheir first performance is schegrimage to Rome, and the invitaduled for St. Peter's Basilica Oct. 28 for the papal Mass closing the tion to sing at the synod was a much later surprise, she said, monthlong synod. Later that day adding, "We couldn't believe it, they will sing another Mass in St. Peter's, followed by a public con- we're just so thrilled."

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Middle East policy grows WASHINGTON -(CNS)'Criticism of the U.S. response to the Persian Gulf crisis continued to grow in October among Catholic leaders.

Twenty-six U.S. bishops signed

an Oct. 19 statement by Pax Christi U.S.A., the U.S. branch of the international Catholic peace organization, deploring the U.S. military buildup.

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Fund to benefit Romania's nameless orphans ST. LOUIS(CNS)- TheCatholic Health Association has started a fund to provide care to thousands of Romanian orphans who have no names and live in squalid conditions at government orphanages.

The fund hopes to raise $1 million by next spring, said David J. Sauer, the St. Louis-based association's vice president for administrative services, in a recent telephone interview with Catholic News Service.

The money will be used to take the orphans out of governmentrun orphanages and place them in homes modeled after one established in May by Mother Teresa of Calcutta for Romania's AIDS babies.

Caritas Internationalis, an umbrella Catholic aid organization headquartered in Vatican City, will distribute the funds, and is organizing Caritas chapters in each of Romania's seven dioceses so Ro, manians may look after the children.

About $17,000 had been collected in the first month of the drive, Sauer said, despite the lack of an organized campaign.

Sauer and Dr. Robert Fredricks, senior vice president of l1!edical affairs at St. John's Hospital and Health Center, Santa Monica, Calif., went to Romania in August at the invitation of Caritas Internationalis officials.

They visited numerous orphanages for both the nameless orphans and children with acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

Fredricks, who chairs the orphans' fund, told CNS "The kids with AIDS that we saw were the healthiest children we saw." ,He told of one institution where 200 nameless orphans and 220 adults were cared for by a 'staff "largely made up'of peasant women" who had no training. ; At another institution, they

found 300 malnourished children "naked, and living in a fecessmeared environment," too weak to brush away the flies that landed on their eyes, face and mouth, ,Fredricks said. ' He said he was told that in 1989, 170 children at the orphanage died for a lack of powdered milk - the only food 'given them.

The orphan children are called "irrecuperable," having their fate' decided by age 3 for ailments as innocuous as clubfoot, Fredricks said.

The Catholic Health Association launched its first-ever fund drive, Fredricks said, because the association board of directors "felt it was such a special need," he said.

"It was something we couldn't turn our backs on," he added.

"Starving children is always a disgrace. But anywhere else, you have a parent, a family, or a tribe that's interested in helping them, loving them."

For the nameless orphans, "that deprivation is kind of extreme."

Sauer said blankets donated earlier in the year when the Romanian orphans' plight received worldwide attention were used for the first time when the Caritas Internationalis delegation visited.

"These places are unsalvageable,~' Sauer said. "They don't give a rip about what people are giving to these kids."

The biggest obstacle thus far to establishing an alternative orphanage system is convincing Ro'manians to work in the private sector, Fredricks said.

"They're very suspicious, very paranoid people," he said, "unwilling to quit a government job with a government pension."

Contributions may be sent to: Nameless Children of Romania Fund, c/o Catholic Health Association, 4455, Woodson Rd., St. Louis, MO 63134-3797, Attn. Finance Department. For further information call (314) 427-2500.

Sisters' general assembly in Maryknoll, N.Y., sent letters to President Bush and United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar seeking "peace with justice" in the Persian Gulf.

The National Federation of Priests' Councils also issued a statement saying "the continued military buildup in the Persian Gulf lessens the possibility of a peaceful resolution of the conflict and escalates the danger of armed conflict."

The Pax Christi statement also voiced concern over U.S. military hardware.

"It seems clear to us that the size and nature ofthe weapons systems being deployed go far beyond deterrence and pose an offensive threat to Iraq," the statement said.

"We are concerned that the call for withdrawal of Iraqi troops (from Kuwait) is so unconditional that it does not leave room for addressing the legitimate grievances between Iraq and Kuwait that existed before the invasion," the bishops said.

The statement quoted from the U.S. bishops' 1983 pastoral letter "The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response" to support its positions.

In calling for a national energy policy, the statement quoted the pastoral, "If future planning about conservation and use of resources is relegated to a pure struggle of power, we will guarantee conflict in the future."

The Maryknoll Sisters' letter to Bush told the president, "We strongly protest even the consideration of offensive military action," and recommended a military commitment in the Persian Gulf proportionate to that of other nations.

Roughly 200,000 U.S. troops 'have been deployed in the region since August.

'While the Maryknoll Sisters supported a sea and air blockade against Iraq, they said they were opposed to "covert activities, including any attempted assassination of Saddam Hussein," Iraq's leader, and "a projected long-term presence of United States military forces in the Middle East."

In another development in the Persian Gulf crisis, two Republican members of Congress have asked that Nov. 2 be declared a national day of prayer for U.S. armed forces and hostages in the Middle East arid for their families.

Bill supported WASHINGTON (CNS) - A, U. S. Catholic Conference, official has praised a major immigration bill passedbytht; House of Representatives 'which would' increase immigration li~its by 235,000 people a year. The legislation also,. is aimed at uniting families, bring-, ing in,skilled workers and allowing, more religious workers, to enter, the country easily. "The confer-' ence strongly supports this bill," said Michael Hill, assistant direc= tor of the U.S. bishop's' Office of Governme,nt Liaison. '

Correction

AN AMELESS RO'~~nian orphan, confined to his crib at a' government orphanage iitPlatarouch, reaches out a frail ,arm. (CNS'photo) , ' ",'

In the Anchor for- Oct. 19, a Catholic News Service story incorrectly reported that the li .S. bishops' June 1991 meeting would be held at St. John's University, Collegeville, ~1.inn, It will actually be held at the Radisson Hotel in St. Paul, Minn.

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CARLOS de SOUSA, third left, secretary for Fall River.'s annual Holy Ghost feast, presents $1,000 of feast proceeds to the Hudner Oncology Center of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, represented by, from left, Sharon Danosky and Sister Dorothy Ruggiero, OP. $500 went to the city's Red Cross chapter, represented by Robert Thibault and Joann M. Imbriglio, center; $1,500 to St. Anne's parish and school, represented by principal Irene Fortin, second right; and $1,000 to Catholic Charities, accepted by Father Daniel L. Freitas, director.

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This priest serves biggest parish in the world ROME (CNS) - When Father Pavel Bytautas volunteered for his first pastoral assignment, he ended up with what could be called the biggest "parish" in the world: the entire Soviet region of Siberia.

As the only Catholic priest in Siberia, the 32-year-old Lithuanian travels by plane, train and car to visit cities and villages where often only a handful of faithful remain.

When he arrives, the priest said in an interview, "some people run up and kiss my habit. The older men say I'm the first priest they've seen in 70 years."

Father Bytautas, a Franciscan from Telsiai in northern Lithuania, spoke while attending a Franciscan study week on Eastern Europe, recently held in Rome.

He was completing post-ordination studies at Lithuania's seminary at Kaunas when a group of Siberian Catholics from Novosibirskapproached his bishop in 1986, asking if he could spare a priest.

The bishop said no, but Father Bytautas volunteered anyway, saying: "I wanted to ,go where there were no priests."

The previous pastor in Novosibirsk was a Ukrainian who was sent to prison after only two years of active ministry, he said. At first, , Father Bytautas also had problems.

"I had to register my daily movements in advance arid ask permis,', ' sion to travel," he said.

Rut, after, the first year, local people began speaking well of the' Catholic community and harassment dropped off, he said. Novosibirsk is an academic city, and Father Bytauias was allowed' to 'give' 'university lectures on religion and 'has been interviewed by local neWSpapers,' radio and TV.' . "

charity center for orphans and the elderly. Four of Mother Teresa's Missi.ona~ies of ~harity a~e now work1Og 10 the Clty~ h~ saId, ~nd the church commu~l1ty IS grow1Og. Last year he baptized about 100 adults, he said. . . . .

Many Cathoh.cs 10 ~IbeT1a.are descendants of~ohsh, Llthuaman and German exrles, Father Bytautas said. I!1 Tomsk, forexamI!I~, about 500 mIles nort~ ofNovoslblr~k, he u~es a ~atho.hc ~hurch .bullt by Llthuaman eXlle~ 10 the I~l1d-.1800s.

Other Cathohcs are 10 VIllages around the Siberian countryside, he said. In those he celebrates Mass in homes or in a field.

Father Bytautas said he ha~ asked the Franciscans to send fflars to Siberia, and the order is considering it. There is enough work for 100 priests, he said, but in the meantime, he continues his grueling one-man job.

"I'm happy because I have lots of work to do," he said.

Penance series set for Taunton area

The Diocesan Office of Adult Education will present a four-session program on the sacrament of reconciliation at Immaculate Conception parish, Taunton, from 7 to 9 p.m. Nov. 12, 19'al!d 26and Dec. 3. ..

Open to all in the ,Greater Taunton area;'l'twill be j:lh:sented by Father Robert J: Oliveira, diocesan director of'contimiing education for clergyand'laity. His topics will 'be Sacrament' of Penance: Burden or' Promise?; Siri:, Denial ofOue Human Vocation; Reconciliation' of'R,Uptured Relationships; and What' RecbnCiliation Cali 'Be. " , The 'TV station is currently d'oing Registration forms for the series a documentary on the m~dgling ~ are available at area' pai-ishes.

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Bishop 'urges' action against • sexism ALBANY, N. Y. (CNS) - Catholics don't need to wait for a U.S. bishops' pastoral letter to bc!in fighting the evils of sexism, Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany said recently.

In a statement in his diocesan newspaper, The Evangelist, he said that "it is imperative ... for the church in our diocese to react immediately" against the.forms of inequality, discrimination and "patent abuses" women suffer in society and in the church.

In a separate statement he urged serious, prayerful study and dialogue on issues of women in the church that "are beyond the capacity of anyone bishop, diocese or group of persons to resolve" because they involve questions of universal church teaching or law.

Bishop Hubbard issued the two statements following an announcement in September that a proposed national pastoral letter on the concerns of women, originally slated for debate and vote at the bishops' mid-November meeting, would be delayed.

While the eventual outcome of the national project is up in the air, he said, "I believe that there are certain findings that have emerged ... which are irrefutable and certain specific recommendations (in the latest draft of the document) which must be implemented."

Among findings he cited the "employment and educational inequities" that fall disproportionately on women, especially minority women, and the degradation of women "by physical abuse and incest in the home, sexual harassment in the workplace and rape and pornography in the wider society."

Society's sexism is "all too frequently mirrored in the church," he added, and "many women relate how often they feel patronized, undervalued and trivialized by church leaders."

Without waiting for a national statement from the bishops, Bishop Hubbard said, church officials and people of the Albany Diocese can: - "Promote the equality of the sexes" in preaching, teaching and church practice.

- "Sensitize our priests" and other leaders to women's "unique needs, gifts and charisms" and make an ability to work well with women "an essential qualification for ministry within our diocese."

- "Open to women" all "ministries not requiring ordination."

- "Adopt inclusive language" wherever it is appropriate.

- Advocate "church and societal policies which support just remuneration for women."

- Work for "affordable daycare centers, shelters for the victims ofdomestic violence and guaranteed alimony payments fora woman and her children when a marriage has failed."

- "Mobilize to condemn por~ nography and the exploitation of women in the media."

- Promote sound marriage and family values "in all of our churchrelated programs, services and policies."

- Do more to "provide alternatives to abortion, post-abortion counseling and support groups for the separated, divorced and widowed."

- Work more closely with wo-

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.8 PLANNING FOR the 1991 Bishop's Charity Ball, to be held Jan.. 11 at White's of Westport, are ball cochairpersons Mrs. Theodore J. Wojcik, Sr., ofSt. Joseph's parish, Taunton, and Daniel Couture of St. Ann's parish, Raynham. (Gaudette photo)

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men religious and "continue our superb commitment" to support retired nuns.

"All of those thrusts are possible and indeed encouraged within the framework of present church teaching and discipline," Bishop Hubbard said.

He said in his second statement that there are "three other major concerns of many women" which the church in Albany cannot resolve on its own, but which need to be "addressed in an open, candid and constructive fashion.

These', he said, are: - "The exclusion of women from ordained ministry."

- "Certain aspects of the church's teaching on human sexuality, in particular its teaching on birth control."

- The ordination-jurisdiction linkage in church law, which excludes women from "certain administrative or decision-making responsibilities" because they are not eligible to be ordained.

Those issues, Bishop Hubbard said, can only be settled "through the leadership of the Holy See and the bishops ofthe universal church" after thorough study and consultation.

He said a "credible, persuasive, healing and growth-orientated" resolution of those issues is possible only if they are studied and discussed "in an atmosphere of civility, mutual respect and trust, prayerfulness and confidence in the guidance and inspiration ofthe Holy Spirit."

He urged his people to "pursue the concerns of women with the seriousness they deserve and with the sincere willingness to allow the spirit of God's wisdom to break -down the sexism which has shackled us."

Vincent de Paul Society, met recently to plan the 36th annual program of the social and charitable event, to be held Jan. II at White's of Westport.

The ball benefits summer camps for underprivileged and exceptional children and other charitable apostolates of the diocese.

Rev. Daniel L. Freitas, ball director, named as committee chairpersons: decorations, Mrs. Claudette Armstrong, Fall River, assisted by Sister Gertrude Gaudette, OP, Fall River; hospitality, Mrs. Michael J. McMahon, Fall River, assisted by Mrs. Richard Paulson, Taunton; presentees, Mrs. James O'Brien Jr., Fall River.

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Benefactor, $100, two tickets; Booster, $75, two tickets; Sponsor, $50, one ticket; Patron, $25, one ticket.

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Memorial and Very Special Friend categories have a special listing in the boo·klet. Guarantor and Benefactor listings will be printed on gold pages, Booster and Sponsor listings on silver and Patron listings on white.

Subscriber cards for the ball booklet were assigned to area ball directors. They are, for Attleboro, Rev. JohnJ. Steakem ofSt. Mary's. parish, Norton, assisted by Rev. Ralph D. Tetrault, St. Mary, North Attleboro; Cape Cod and Islands, Rev. John F. Andrews, St. Joan of Arc, Orleans; Taunton, Very Rev. Gerald T. Shovelton, St. Ann, Raynham, assisted by Rev. William L. Boffa, St. Joseph,Taunton.

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How can a small group of oil barons control our nation?

There is little doubt that those who own cars or heat homes with oil feel powerless to rectify the plague of price gouging.

Statistics testify to a surplus of oil and adequate reserves; it is the gree~ of international politicians that has. brought about the present robbery at the pumps.

Although furious at soaring prices, consumers fatalistically pay them, unwilling or not realizing that they can do something about the situation. But it's consumer silence that allows gougers to have a field day. _Higher prices alone do not constitute gouging; retailers are justified in making adjustments to reflect wholesale costs. But there is no justification for robber barons to increase the cost of a :vital product purely to profit from consumers in a time of hardship. The word for that is stealing.

The practice has inspired a ground swell of public demand for laws to curb gouging and investigate its practitioners.

Investigations, however, can easily become entangled in legalisms and by the time cases go through the courts, consumers may well have been placated by token price rollbacks.

The solution does not lie in differing state statutes but in uniform federal laws for the 50 states.

However, few in Congress are willing to push for such laws; and of course it m,ust be realized that the present occupant of the White House is no innocent stranger to the robber barons, having himself made a fortune in Texas oil.

It is -naive to think that George Bush has divorced himself from the interests that bankrolled his political career. The pretense 'that he is unable to prevent his friends from gouging struggling home and car owners is unconscionable.

Let's not forget tha\ for eight years he was Ronald Reagan's ally in determining deregulation policies that benefited the few while creating suffering for the many.

In the wake of deregulation, big business goes unchecked, gouging continues and the consumer is told it's the American way. In truth, it 'is legalized plunder and B'ush cannot claim neutrality in the fleecing of the nation. Although he is hiding' behind the flag in the current Gulf crisis, let's not be tricked into believing that he is powerless to control the oil lobby.

As for ourselves, we must,not despair. Nor must we cave in to political pressures. We must and should flex our own political muscle if we want to stop shelling out our hard-earned money to support the excesses of the wealthy.

We must support efforts to end price gouging and if it means throwing out the rascals and beginning all over again, so be it.

The current recession has shown us that gouging is the result of capitalism run amuck. We are far beyond Band-Aid measures; the system needs a complete overhaul.

Gougers must go.

The Editor Letters Welcome Letters to the editor are welcomed. All letters, should be brief and the editor reserves the right to condense any letters if deemed necessary. All letters must be signed and contain a home or business address.

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IF MICKEY THE CAT AND MAYDIE THE HOUND CAN KISS AND MAKE UP, WHY CAN'T PEOPLE? '

"Love one another." John 13:34

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By Henry Hen NEW YORK (CNS) - The movie industry's decision to substitute NC-17 for X in its ratings system has opened a Pandora's box, and the consequences may be disastrous for the family.

What's at stake is whether or not sexually explicit material will become a regular part of mainstream movie viewing.

There's more here than just giving adults-only films a new name, though that's how the Motion Picture Association of America explained its move. The MPAA, in fact, told the public that nothing had changed except the label, which now specifies "no children under 17 admitted" to adults-only films.

The reason for awarding a movie an NC-17 rating, the MPAA says, is the same one the M P AA used fo award an X-rating - "that most parents would agree that such a film should not be made available for viewing by youngsters."

The statement doesn't spell it out, but that means that under MPAA guidelines, NC-17 movies will be those featuring graphically explicit sex acts, sadistic violence and/ or indecent language.

So why the change in label if the contents remain the same? The answer, unfortunately, has nothing todo with protecting young view-_ ers and everything to do with making money.

The NC-17 rating aims to circumvent commercial limitations facing X-rated movies - responsible newspapers would not adver-: tise X-rated films, nor will responsible theaters exhibit them. ' Filmm~kers wanted the change to find a way to distinguish between sexually explicit "adult movies" (read soft porn) and those that are

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patently pornographic (read hardcore trash).

Their call for a euphemistic label for soft-core porn has been couched in the name of artistic freedom and First Amendment rights, The MP AA apparently expects the major theater chains which once rejected X-rated movies to now accept them given that they're wearing a more "respectable"labeI. It's reasoning based on dollars, not sense, and will cost families a lot.

Parents, already troubled about the amount of sex and violence in R-rated movies, now have more to worry about thanks to NC-17. The change in rating concerns every family which worries about_ how its local movie theaters enforce MPAA age restrictions.

With this NC-17 rating, it also may be that soft-core porn movies are going to be around for a long time via the video shops and cable movie channels.

The slick manipulation which thrust this ratings mess upon ordinary citizens is shocking: The MPAA, which initially had rejected

praye~BOX Prayer For Mercy I believe in Thee, I hope in Thee, I love Thee, 0 Blessed Trinity!

Have mercy on me now, And at the hour of my death, And save me. Amen.

efforts to scuttle the X-rating, knuckled under in closed-door deliberations with its member companies.

Somewhere outside the public view the MP AA, which was founded to guide parents and protect young viewers, did a quick reversal - and just in time for megabucks Universal to release the already X-rated "Henry & June" as the first NC-17 movie.

The MP AA's giving in on such a transparently commercial issue makes one wonder how much credibility it deserves.

What the ratings change means is about to be seen. The first test of how theater, advertising media and the public would accept the new rating came on the weekend of OcL 5-8 when "H~nry & June" opened on 76 screens in some 20 cities.

It grossed a strong $1,032,942, ranking 14th in Variety's list of the week's top box-office movies.

However, in its second week, as it spread to 189 screens,in about 60 cities, the film'sgross was only up some $1.4 million, which probably indicates it was not playing to full houses. Maybe there's not a lot of appeal in a boring movie marked by simulated sex acts, lesbian as well as heterosexual.

While Universal is reportedly pleased with the box-office results, the film's longterm prospects are pretty much uncertain.

So too is the impact of the new rating.

The question now is whether or not the public will accept a proliferation of X-rated material under the guise of NC-17. The answer will be found at the box office.

Herx is· director of the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting.

Making learning fun Dear Dr. Kenny: My first-grader (actually, it's his second year in first grade) is having a difficult time. He has a short attention span, reverses his letters and makes up words when he reads.

The school has diagnosed him as "learning disabled" and is giving him special help during the day. We had a reading teacher come three days a week after school, but he resisted that. I know he has a handicap and want to help him, but what can we do? - Ohio Of course he resists another "class" after school. His learning disability undoubtedly causes him considerable frustration during the school day. To add another hour may cause more problems than it provides help.

Imagine if school were nothing more than learning to play basketball. Imagine further that after three or four years of basketball for five hours per day, you are still awkward and uncoordinated.

The other kids were making baskets and you had yet to hit the

By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY rim. If someone passed you the ball, everyone prayed that you didn't get your nose broken, as happened last year..

Your best effort at dribbling to date was to bounce the ball twice in a row before it caromed off your foot. All day long you felt, in fact you knew, you were lousy at basketball.

Then one day when you got home from "school," your parents had a surprise for you. They had hired a coach to help you with your basketball after school. How would you feel? .

If we wish to help children who have learning problems in school with tutoring after school, the program must be quite different. "More of the same" is not likely to work.

Here is a plan which has helped

Lutheran promotes praying rosary at pro-life event TRENTON, N.J. (CNS) - "I bet you've never had a Lutheran come in here and tell you to pray the rosary," Wayne Weible told the approximately 750 people who participated in New Jersey's first Rosary Congress Oct. 14 at St. Mary's Cathedral, Trenton.

The Trenton congress was one of a number of rosary events and other pro-life activities held around the country during Respect Life Month, including a Rosary Rally in the Diocese of Greensburg, Pa., and a 150 mile march across the Diocese of Corpus Christi.

Weible, a Lutheran journalist from Myrtle Beach, S.C., spoke after the congregation had prayed the rosary for global peace, the end of abortion and national conversion.

"I want all of you Catholics who've put this (rosary) away in a drawer somewhere to take it back out and begin to pray and begin to understand this is a prayer to Jesus," he said.

Invited to New Jersey by Apostolatus Uniti (U nited Apostolates) . and the Catholic Women of Zion, he gave talks at seven locations in the state, including Our Lady Queen of Peace Church in North Arlington, N.J. There Weible told a crowd of 1,200 people that Mary "has such an overwhelming love for us that no words, no gathering, no prayer, no song can really express it. It can only be expressed from your soul, in an energy that cannot be seen by anyone except God." Since a conversion experience' five years ago, Weible sold four newspapers he founded and a printing business to finance a ministry of tapes, books and articles about Mary and Jesus. He has taken his message to 46 states, including Alaska and Hawaii, as well as Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, England, Trinidad, Grenada, Australia, the Philippines and Singapore.

The fruits of Weible's efforts to spread the message could be seen in the 40 inmates of Southern State Prison in Delmont, N.J.,· who met with him Oct. 13. .

One member of the group said, "I'm 49 years old and have not practiced my Catholic religion for 30 years. I returned to my religion and now pray the rosary daily and feel my faith strengthening."

Weible attends daily Mass and said he plans to become a Catholic.

Currently he is waiting for an annulment from his first marriage, since he is now remarried.

"I have fallen in love with the Catholic faith, With Jesus, Mary and Joseph," he said. "I love Mary beyond words, beyond description.

I love her because she has filled me with a love for my Lord. She has taught me to be Catholic."

some handicapped youngsters learn to read. It utilizes more than one sense and has sight and sound helping each other. It ,teaches a youngster to make pictures out of words and sentences. And it is fun.

Get your first-grader to tell you a story. About his day. About monkeys in thejungle. About escaping from bullies. About 'a walk in the woods. About anything.

Prompt him if necessary.

Record his story_on your tape recorder. Ham it up a little if you . like. Pretend you are a radio announcer introducing this marvelous young storyteller.

Now 'you and he are going to make a book.

Type out his story from the cassette tape, one sentence to a page. Have your son draw an appropriate picture for each page with crayons or colored markers.

Put the pages together.

Now he has a "book" that he can follow as he listens to himself telling his own story. He can follow the words and see his pictures all at the same time.

If you wish to encourage his self-esteem, you might take his book to a color copying service and make several copies for your son to give as gi~ts.

This method is more than a fun game. It will teach your child to use one sense ability to enhance and fill in for another.

He can hear each written word . and see it pictured as he reads it.

He might even look forward to his

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The Anchor Friday, Oct. 26, 1990

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK

On weekends, I customarily go the monument area in Washington, find a scenic spot and write ,my column. Not so with this column, however, due to the government shutdown the first weekend in, October. The monument area was a shambles. '

Wanted: new codes of caring and return to the old Restrooms were locked and you couldn't sit on a bench because the stench of the overflowing garbage containers next to them was prohibitive. You couldn't even sit on the grass because it was strewn with litter that was being blown about.

Moments like these are cause enough to look again at that virtue which keeps us human: care.

When beauty is marred we are almost forced to reflect on how blessed we are to have people who care. For example, there is the National Park Service, which is responsible for maintaining Washington's monument area and our nationalparks as clean and orderly places of pride.

It is because of people like Justice William Douglas, President Theodore Roosevelt and others who cared about saving the wilderness that we have a Park Service and a tradition of caring for America's natural beauty.

properly. Why wasn't a similar code operating Oct. 7?

There is reason for concern, for it is very possible that budget cuts will lead to the discontinuation of many more public services. Bear in mind that the 1990 census indicates big cities are losing populaAs I walked along the monu- tion, leading to a loss of the city ment area I couldn't help wonder- revenues needed to support public ing why people would clutter it, ' services. knowing it wasn't being serviced In the face of this, two attitudes during the shutdown. Why didn't can arise; anger and non-caring. some rule of decency hold sway, Everyone but ourselves is blamed influencing them to care more and for the problem. We wade in garmaybe even to pick up some of the bage rather than dispose of it. debris and dispose of it properly?

The shambles the government shutdown caused should be a good It is the rule for backpackers that lesson for us. We all need to remind, they carry out garbage from ~ ourselves how quickly things can campsite that can't be disposed of

deteriorate if we neglect the practice of caring.

This is a good time to review rules of caring and to regenerate a code similar to that of the backpackers - starting at home. How seriously do we take recycling and avoiding waste? How careful are we to communicate these values to our children? Do we take pride in maintairiing the natural beauty around us?

The human virtue to be nourished is care. Its polar opposite has a dehumanizing stench. I realized that clearly at the monument area during the government shutdown.

New codes of caring must be created and old ones revisited.

Family ,conflict: creating' a fair standard By, DOLORES CURRAN

'When I work with groups of parents, I ask them to name the deadliest nonviolent nonverbal communication in the family. They always know路 the answer. It's silence.

"And why does a child or spouse retreat into silence?" I ask.

If we say, "You will be respect,When I ask parents, "Do your Eventually, they pinpoint the answer: because any other response , children have a right to be angry?" ful, young man," then we must ,can get them into trouble. I can, say they always answer yes; But when , also be respectful. If we punish I ask them how their children are their outbursts, then we cannot to my child who's rolling her eyes, "Don't look at melike that, young allowed to show anger these same have outbursts. If we' say, "You will not use those words with'me," lady," or "Don't slam the door on parents become quiet. , If there's one area calling for then we cannot use them. me, son," but I can't say, "Don't be I have found that we parents attention, it's helping parents to quiet." .

Children retreat into sullen si- teach children to show anger appro- want children to change but we priately, to deal with conflict open- don't want to change our own lence because they have no alterIy, and to express negative feelings behaviors that spark their negative natives. In some families, a child reactions. without feaT of consequences. can't even say respectfully, "I don't Nagging is a good example.

As parents, 'we know that if we thinjc that's fair," without incurdemand certain behaviors of our When we nag, we know that at a ring parental wrath or punishment. children, we must exhibit them certain point our spouse or childChildren will tell us, "Mom can get ourselves, but we don't deal very ren will erupt in anger. But we mad and Dad can get mad but I , well with expressing our own anger. keep doing it. can't ever get mad." ,

One child will cave in when we finally say, "If you loved me, you wouldn't do this." Another will blow up. And when they explode, we feel justified in our anger. Small wonder they retreat into sjlence.

There's a saying in the Twelve Step programs that ifnothing changes, nothing changes. If our behavior continues to result in behavior we dislike, why do we continue our behavior?

Because it's all we know. That's why parenting education and marital enrichment are so valuable.

They teach us ways of getting different results.

A brief history of married clergy By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN Q. A non-Catholic friend of mine is interested in our religion.

She told me that in earJier times priests, bishops and popes were married. I'm wondering if this is correct. She also asks when this was changed. Is this a law of God, or could it change? Can you help?

(Missouri) A. You're asking big questions.

I'll try to answer as directly and briefly as possible.

Many early clergy, including St. Peter himself, were married., One married pope" St. Hormisdas (d.

523), was the father of another pope, St. Silverius (d. 538).

The last married pope, as far as I know, was Adrian II, who died in 872.

The first general law obliging the clergy to a celibate life came in the fourth century 'under Pope Damasus(d. 384). During the next 700 years or so marriage of the clergy generally was considered valid but unlawful.

In the 12th century, at the first and second Lateran councils, marriages of clergy in the Latin rite were considered not only unlawful but invalid, and all clergy were obliged to celibacy with that understanding. '

In 15,63, the ~ouncil of Trent reaffirmed the law of clerical celibacy. The bishops of that council were under enormous pressure to declare that priestly celibacy was a law of God, not only a law of the church.

In spite of this, in its official canons Trent refers to celibacy as a "lex ecclesiastica," a church law, not a law of God. As such it is subject to modification by the church (Acts of the Council of Trent, Session 14, Canon 9).

The church altered its legislation on clerical celibacy at Vatican Council II when it instituted a permanent diaconate, including married deacons.

Q. Will you explain .the law of the church regarding going to communion more than once a day,? We

seem to get different signals from superstItious the-more-the-better different priests. (Ohio) . idea ,which grossly confuses our A. The present Code of Canon spiritual relationship with Christ Law says simply that anyone who in the eucharistic liturgy. has received the Eucharist may Thus, it is perfectly proper, for receive it again on the same day example, to receive communion only during a eucharisticcelebra- both times if one attends a funeral tion (Canon 917). in the morning and wedding in the In 1984, the Vatican Commis- aftern()on, or if one attends Mass sion for Interpreting Canon Law Saturday morning and a Sunday ruled that even at Mass commun- anticipation Mass on Saturday evenion should not be received more ing. than twice a day.

A free brochure explaining CathThe concern of the church here olic teaching on cremation and is twofold. First, communion should normally be received when- other burial policies is available by ever one participates in the Mass. sending a stamped. self-addressed It is an essential part of the liturgy envelope to Father john Dietzen, Holy Trinity Church, 704 N. Main of the Eucharist at Mass.

On the other hand, the church St., Bloomington, Ill. 61701. Queswishes to prevent people from "col- tions for this column should be lecting" communions, a kind of sent to him at the same address.

The dawning of a new day By ANTOINETTE

'I have a huge, tall and gorgeous blue spruce in my yard. Every day in the eight years since I' bought this property, I have looked out in the morning at this glorious,living gift of the Creator and said thanks.

I don't know who planted it or how long ago, but it is now a trea~' sure for the eyes to enj<;>y and the soul to relish.

One morning in early September I was up a bit earlier, as the sun was rising, and when I looked out at that blue spruce, which stands like a cathedral in honor of the Lord, I stared for a moment in

horror. The top third of the tree had changed color. No more bllie, it was a dull shade of orange.

My first reaction was that something had been killing the tree and I had not noticed. Almost in panic, I hurried to get dressed '~o I could go out and examine what had happened'more clo~ely;, But then I walked Into another room and looked out another window: The whole'outdoors looked differenCEverythin'g had a glow about it. The sky was incredible, with shimmering sheets of silvery white clouds unfolding, as if payin'g homage to the great burning' 'circle that had now:em,er.ged com- ' pletely. The sun', which had' been . hid'ing almost' continuously throughout a very wet month in my town, was now reigning again.

I went back to look at'my spruce.

It was fully blue again. And then I realized that the orange I had seen' had not been the sign of dying, but

the sign of rebirth as the sun shining and sharing its glow with touched the tree. ' everything in sight; glorious enough I suddenly remembered another to awaken the response of wonder time mOre thim20 years ago when in a child.

I lived in another place that had Peter ,helped me that day to bee~ saturated with rain for almost a month. I do not know if it was open my eyes to the miracle of a the gloom ofthe wetness dr simply new day and, .,through this, he helped me almost instantly to abandmy life circumstances at the time, on the emotio,nal路death I was enterbut I was ata low point. ltwas a Saturday morning arid I taining and to open my heart to the life around me. Yes, I was had begun the usual':housework.

My youngest, Peter, then about 5 ~ork}ng harda~d long, but it ws years old, had gone into the yard for my children and I was in the toplay:'Suddehly'he rushed into service of life - the'yeiIow days of the house and ex<;,itedly told me I our years on earth. Instantly I was had to go out 'with him to s'ee out of the torment of my depres, sion and lif~ was. goO? again. something. ' '.

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"Mommy!" he exclaimed. "Look, it's a yellow day!"

I looked around and stared again, and this,time I saw. The sun was

What'l have learned is that so often when we feel we are in the depths; 'losiIig our luster and life ~like a blue spruce turning orange ~ we 'are really at the end of the dark night, with a new, redemptive day dawning.

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Dear Editor: On a recent Eternal Word television pt;'ogram, the subject was the meaning of pain. Our Lord's dying question, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?", was discussed.

I feel this passage from Psalm 22 puzzles many; and I think Father

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1924, Rev: William H. McNamara, Pastor, St. Mary, Mansfield 1927, Rev. Louis N. Blanchet, Assistant, St. Jean Bl!ptiste, Fall River , . _ 1944, Rt. Rev. Msgr. John F. Ferraz, Pastor, St. Michael, ~Fall River 1953, Rl. Rev. Msgr. George F. Cain, Pastor, St. Matbieu, Fall River 1987, Rev. William E. Farland, Pastor, St. Joseph, Taunton 1988, Rev. William F. Gartland, CSC, Stonebill College, Nortb East,!n N..v,2 A memento for the repose of the souls of our bishops, priests and permanent deacons not on this list.

1923, Rev. Josepb S. Fortin, Founder, St. Jean Baptiste, Fall River 1933, Rev. Micbael V. McDonough, Chaplain, St. Mary's Home, New Bedford

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Ray is a very hardworking man, pleasant, helpful, courteous and a master of beauty with tbe grounds of Sacred Heart Churcb, rectory and parish center.

During the season of Advent he created a very large Advent wreath at tbe froill of tbe church, which was spectacular. In spring, summer and fall, Ray has very beautiful DR. M. THERESE Antone, arrangements of flowers to match RSM, Vice President for Inthe above seasons. _The arrangestitutional Advancement at ments are especially lovely at the Blessed MothUs statue at the side uS a lve 1tegma College, Newc-of the church. port, has been elected chair of He shapes the surrounding the board of trustees of Mcshrubbery as only a perfectionist Auley Institute, a low-income could and semicircles and borders housing development corpohere and there always contain lovely arrangements and coordioation ration that assists communityof colors. They "re simply beauti- based organizations around fulto behold. the country.

He is as well most accommodatThe institute, created in 1982 ing to those of us who use a room by the Sisters of Mercy of the to work on our Rose Hawthorne [bandage-making] project and in Union, works with the poor addition keeps our church spotless. and with nonprofit organizaRay never stops a minute but is tions to develop and control pleasant in greeting people as they enter ~nd leave the church proper- low-income housing in their communities. (Corbett photo) ties and always with a smile.

I would like to thank and acknowledge Rl/y for all the beauty he creates for the parishioners as well as the passersby.

Marjorie A. Kelly TlIJlnJon Editor's note: There mUllt be DUBLIN, freland(CN5) - The many other Rays making special Irish bishops say they want to contributions to diocesan~parisbes. upgrade wedding ceremonies in We ...ould like to kno... about the country thus are issUing-nuptial guidelines. them. Readers!

KThe church ceremony is 'not a romantic preliminary to the meal and entertainment to follow.... they said. "It is. in fact. the real Dear Editor: celebration....

Recycling is very popular today.

They said the quality of Catholic Collecting cans and bottles, for marriage ceremonies is not always instance, not only keeps our cities as good as it should be and that and countrysides cleaner but alsl) of~en music chosen is inappro~ raises money for worthy causes. pnate.

What about stamps? Cancelled The bishops said their guidestamps. cut off envelopes and sent lines will Kemphasize that a well~ to the Oblate Stamp Bureau, can planned wedding ceremony can be work miracles in the missions. We a moving and memorable expe· Oblates of Mary Immaculate can rience, not only for the couple sell cancelled postage stamps. themselves, but for everyone presespecially those from foreign coun- ent in the church. tries and U.S, commemoratives, "We a-Iso stress that getting to help support our missionary married is not just a matter for the work at home and abroad. couple. The church - its members If you save your stamps for us present, the officiating priest. the and get friends, relatives, class- .bridesmaid and the best man mates and fellow workers to save publicly witnesses to the committhem too, Christ's work.of preachment of love and fidelity of the ing the 0004 News to the poor can couple.... benefit. You may not be rich, but The bishops said couples should we are helped by poor people who avoid turning their backs on the send what they would otherwise congregation and that a more nat· throwaway to help other poor ural arrangement would be for the people start a beller life. bride and groom to face each other Please send your stamps to when addressing each other.

Charles Malachosky KThis brings out more clearly Oblate Stamp Bureau the fact that it is not the priest who 1669 Meriline St. 'marries' the couple. but it is they Cuyahoga Falls, 0 44221 who confer the sacrament on each Thank you. other," the bishops added.

Father Daniel E. Crahen, OMI Miami, Fla.

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By Marcie Hickey A recent New England Conference of Separated and Divorced Catholics drew 140 representatives of the II dioceses of the region to Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, for a day of prayer, workshops and discussions.

The conference, held in the Fall River diocese for the first time, was hosted by the Diocesan Office of Family Ministry.

Chiefconference organizers were Fall River resident Ruth Rezendes, president of the New England Re' gional Board of Separated and Divorced Catholics; Father Horace J. Travassos, family ministry direc1--- lOl, and JellY and Scottie Foley, Family Ministry program directors.

12 workshop. offered in two sessions at the conference developed the theme "Journey Toward Wholeness," while the keynote address of Charles J. Gruszka, MA, CAGS, principal of Paxton Center School, Paxton, focused on Developing and Preserving SelfEsteem.

Gruszka described wholeness as having physical, intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual components and said that self-esteem influences the health of these components.

Wholeness, he continued, is "tied into happiness:' "You can't be happy without support from other human beings in relationships where you feel loved and cared for, a;nd you can't be happy without reaching out to others with care and concern;' said the speaker.

Persons affected by separation and divorce can have their selfesteem "demolished" by the experience, Gruszka continued, noting that support groups can become effective tools in restoring that self-esteem in much the same way that parents can build self-esteem in children.

"We have tremendous power to build happiness in each other," he said, offering for parents a "productivity model" for fostering and preserving self-esteem in their children.

The model suggests that parents who properly balance love and support with discipline are most ~ffective in instilling self-wonh in their children.

"If we want to transfer our values to our children, we won't get anywhere by ramming it down. their throats;' said Gruszka. "High selfesteem comes from families with strong bonds· and warm, empathetic parents who also teach their children the difference between right and wrong, holy and unholy, Love is the balance between affection and discipline."

Effective parents combine warmth, trust and caring with firm expectations and consistency, he said.

Children wh:a grow up with "a feeling of being worthwhile" become healthy, productive ,adults, said the speaker, defining the healthy individual as one who is ··competent and caring'" Gruszka cited psychological studies which found that a common thread among successful people was a high level of self-esteem.

"Psychologists are telling us that to be emotionally healthy you have to be competent and caring. This is a message that was preached 2,000 years ago," he said; referring to the New Testament parable of the talents.

CONFERENCE PLANNERS, from left, Father Horace J. Travassos, Scottie Foley and Ruth Rezendes with keynote speaker Charles J. Gruszka. (Hickey photo) In the parable, two servants make a profit, while one buries what he has, said Gruszka. ··Here we are told that we all have different talents and were meant to use those talents....

Matthew 20:26-28 exemplifies the message of caring, the speaker continued. "He who aspires to greatness must serve the rest. Serve is the caring word:' "Jesus was not only'the greatest theologian who ever lived, he was the greatest psychologist;' Gruszka summed up.

The speaker also noted that "We must take great care to preserve as well as build self-esteem."

Self-worth can easily be destroyed by attacking a child with messages of no constructive value, he said.

"We get angry and frustrated because we care," he said, "but delivering messages like 'Why aren't you more like your sister?', 'What a jerk you were to do that; or 'What an idiot you are' only works against what we're trying to accomplish. The reality is that if you hear 'you're a jerk' often enough, you start to act like one because you believe it."

Parents need to know how to love their children ·'so that they know we love them'" said the speaker, noting that the"Magic Triadthe smile, the hug, the kind word - makes human beings feel worthwhile," Self-esteem and potential for happiness are highest when people know they can count on someOne for love and affection, he added. . The same principle applies to support groups, he noted in conclusion.

"The most positive aspect of the model is that you can jump into someone's life at any point, accept them, care for them, build their self-worth:' Children and Divorce Conference workshops addressed such concerns as single parenting, annulments, anger, forgiveness and healing after divorce.

In "Help! My World is Upside Down!", Patricia Staebler. MSW. director of Attleboro Catholic Social Services, discussed the grieving process in adults and chil. . dren after the breakup of a marriage: ,

•• D;vorce is a process of loss," said Ms. Staebler. who quoted from "The Pain and the Possibility," a book about coping with divorce: "No pers,on ever [completely1gets over a major loss; to ex pect that we will is to jeopardize the healing process," Ms. Staebler discussed the slages of d-enial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance that accompany any major loss, and how they may be recognized in children when their parents divorce. ,':'There are dif{...p~ees in ,h<\w different age children think. said Ms. Staebler, noting that young children will be confused about why the divorce happened, and will worry about where they will live and whether they will see the absent parent again.

Children under age seven are "straightforward and egocentric.

They think of separation and divorce totally in terms of how it affects them;' Ms. Staebler said, "They are the ones most likely to blame themselves...They need to be told it's not their fault," Problems sometimes arise because children don't understand what their parents are telling them.

"They do~'t have a vocabulary for separation and divorce. They want to know what the words mean," the speaker explained.

Children over age seven become "less self-centered" and can begin to "'understand a httte of what the parent is feeling," Ms. Staebler continued.

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Teens often harbor feelings of Finally, Ms. Loughlin said, guilt _ not because they think "'You're a survivor. You can pass those skills on." they've ca.used the divorce but because they feeI,they've hurt their To 0. and Back parents or ,don't want to show Dorothy Levesque, director of favoritism to one over the other. ministry to the separated, divorced No matter how- old a child is remarried and widowed in the when a divorce occurs, "it is not a Providence diocese, used "The one-time question," said Staebler.

Wizard of Oz" to explain the grief "Children think about the divorce process in adults after divorce in a many times, at many developmenworkshop entitled "The Journey tal levels in their lives." to Oz Leads to Me!" The single most important thing Divorce acts as a "great unbalancer" whlch forces a person to a parent can do is keep the lines of communication open, Ms. Staebler face a redefinition of roles and indicated.

DOROTHY LEVESQUE,' Telationships, said Ms. Levesque.

"Adults trying to 'survive' di, The healing process is one of self director ofseparated, divorced discovery and integration of "head, vorce don·t want to inflict the grief _",o.. n-,t~h'Ceci.r,-""ch",i...ld",r,,e...n"o'-"B,.,u,.,tO'i..,f-'.c..h..,il"'d'fr"en'"---_~a"n:cd-=-c=r.;.eim:ca:cr:crc.=i.::e,C;d-=m=in,,'::' s"tr"'Y'-i'in:::.::t;:h.::e_ heart and gut." don't know what's going on they Providence diocese and spir"Each person is a combination will try to interpret it in their own itual advisor to the regional of head, heart and gut and is way, It's important to take care of board of Separated and Disearching for balance." said Ms. Levesque. "'The grief that follows yourself, to be strong, but know that 'at times it is totally approvorced Catholics. (Hickey the loss of a loved one is the great priate to share your grief," photo) unbalancer."

The end of a marriage "crashes Children must be encouraged to talk about the divorce or have Parents need to maintain a sense our dream" and destroys the core of stability in the child's life, Conof one's life, said Ms. Levesque. some means of expressing their tinuing with set limits and normal Feelings of having lost control. feelings, said Ms. Staebler. She told of one mother who nightly discipline. "Don't introduce too result in an impairment of one's spoke to her children individually, many changes at once," said Ms. ability to make decisions and form encouraging each one to tell her Staebler. relationships. what he or she was feeling..

Staebler cited research which "Marriage was the core, no mat··She would tell them to share indicated that most children return ter who else was in your life. The their secrets and worries and guilts to normal developmental level main energy flow was between you and hand them over to Jesus while within a year, "sometimes recover- and your spouse," said Ms. LeveSthey slept," said Staebler.

109 more quickly than their parque. "Now that the marriage is ents." If they do not, they may over, the energy IS . stl'II t h ere. You Other activities which have provneed special counseling., t'll " b en therapeutic for children expeare s I glVmg ut t here•s no one Throughout the grief process there t ' you n eed . riencing loss ace reading and a receIVe; _ to receIVe children. must be encouraged to b u t t h ." drawing. ere's no one t here to give.

The d'IVorced person may at"reidentify themselves and their Ms. Staebler noted that there family." t are 'many books available to help empt unsuecess f u IIy t 0 su b· stltute Dating and remarriage ofa par- 0 therre Ia t'IOns h"'PS-Wlt . h ac, h'ld • children deal with emotions, nightent and formation of stepfamilies t 'bl' f' d f mares, stepfamities. and other paren , Sl tng or neD - or t h e creates a whole new set of con- one t hatwas Iost. ,.mo'hIe- ms·tes~-..k<,·ng from divorce. y' un cerns. Children must leain to see .

"Children don'tlike to talk about Restormg balance and achievsingle parent and stepfamilies as . h i' d fi ·t· themselves, :but you may get them 109 w 0 eness require re e tnt Ion If Ms, Levesque eontmue . d, different manifestations of their 0 f se, to talk about another child" by "real" family, Ms. Staebler said.

In conclusion, Ms. Staebler of. "'We have had so many roles reading' them a story. said Ms. Staebler, fered the following gqidelines for that self has been lost;' she said, Children may also find it easier parents based on research: younger "The job we have now is to find to express their feelings In drawchildren had a greater need for self, balance self, make the self ings, the speaker continued. showparental attention; and children shine." ing as an example a young girl's whose parents were engaged in Ms. Levesque used "The Wizard drawing of herself with a cat's paw continuing turmoil did worse over- of Oz" as a model for recovery in in her face. all, while children with siblings did which Dorothy's "journey home is The caption read, "Getting dibetter overall. a journey to self.... vorced is like getting scratched in Finally, she said, .. It is imporOn her journey to Oz, Dorothy the eye by a cat. You don't want to tant for children of all ages that the encounters the Scarecrow (head), cry but it hurts and you can't help non-eustodial parent have a con- the Tin Man (heart) and the it," Cowardly Lion (o.. t). ettnuing role in their lives."

A boy drew a picture of himself Patricia Loughlin, MS. of Fall When she finally returns home, River Catholic Social Services also Ms. Levesque continued, Dorothy suspended in midair and asking "What will happen next?" spoke on the parenting theme in has achieved a balance of the three, Counseling is also an'alternative the workshop "The Silent Hurt: although "her situation, her realfor children having difficulty with Parenting and Living Through Di- ity, has not changed," a divorce. vorce With Teens and Young What has changed is the self, "Sometimes they need to talk Adults." said Ms. Levesque. In the end, about the situation with someone "You are still going to be divorced.

She explained that teens and . other than a parent.... said Ms. You must learn to live with it.... young adults "often experience loss of the parental unit as abandonA return to health and wholeStaebler... It also helps to have outside role models." . parents ness means integrating head. heart ment'" and "failure of their to protect them," , and gut to regain control of one's As a result. the teen or young life, she summed up. adult experiences such feelings as "A healthy head is able to state shock, embarrassment, frustration reality; a healthy heart is able to in not being able to, control the name the feelings; a healthy gut is situation, and sadness, which can able to discover the choices/' in evol.ve into clinicl:\1 depression. order to make "healthy decisions," Healing the relationship between Ms. Levesque concluded. parent and child means "getting Other workshops offered at the organized, letting go, learning to conference were titled My Body live again,'" said Ms. Loughlin.

Doesn't Lie; Dreaming New She also suggested that divorce Dreams; Fear of Being Yourself; can sometimes force a mother or and Forgiveness Heals.

Also, Adult Children of Dysfather to become a belter parent. '·You can be honest, acknowl- functional Families; Annulment: edge your part in the situation," What's It All About?; Letting Go said Ms. Loughlin. "You can de- of the Past, Moving into the Presvelop real communication with ent; and Anger, the Shadow Side your child," of Love, The parent can also become a Following the conference closmodel of "acceptance, serenity, ing, all participants were invited to and prayer" for the young adult, a liturgy at St. Mark's Church. she said.

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The general election day is just around the corner, and the abortion holoctust is on the ballot one way or another in races for seats ranging fran the Congress to town and counh' boards all across this broad land.

Readers of this column, seniors for the most part, will vote more than any other segment of the population. In my home state of Minnesota. our September primary brougbt out only 23 percent of the eligibles.

That's hardly one in four, but the general election will attract ----mot'e My It3f e led the nation with 67 percenl voting in 1988, but that was a presidential year.

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BERNARD CASSERLY The Supreme Court's ~Webster decision put abortion back into the hands of the states·where it will stayuntiJ Roev. Wade is overturned. That makes voting for governors and legislators a serious obligation for those who believe in the sacredness of human life.

But is it right for us to decide on a candidate because -of his or her position on abortion? Cardinal loseph Bernardin of Chicago said it was in a talk ther.e last year.

Pope John Paul II spolce even more forcefully about those of us who do nothing about social evils becaUse otfcar, apathy Of<laziness: "It i~ a ca(e of the- very personal sins of those who cause or support evil or who exploit it; of those who are in a position to avoid,· eliminate 'or at least limit certain social evils but who fail to do so out of laziness, fear o~ the conspiracy of silence, through secret complicity of indiffer~nce;"of tbose who take refuge in the supposed impossibility of cbanging the world, arid also of those who sidestep the effort and sacrifice required, producing ~pecious reasons ofa higher order."

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it's because we're living , over..•• Since that time. they've shelved their hostilities in front of: longer. Maybe ifs because mari~al DOLORES ,conflict h41s come out Qfthe clo~et. her.

I don't know ,(,hy Older people woman who had given you subtle, Maybe ifs jus~ coincidental that sweet and strong instruction on several people have shared the feci free to be nasty with one CURRAN marriage which you did not even same frustration with me in the another. Perhaps it's because they would like to be out of a marriage realize until after you were married? last couple of years.

But my experience tells me a that has become a misery but feel How do you say goodbye to the woman who instructed your child- new family problem may be emerg- they're stuck in it for economic helplessness in a situation they ren on the intricacies of old maid, ing - the older couple who stay reasons.

Parenting responsibilities don't' cannot change. crazy eights, cribbage and penny married but live at war with one If older parents refuse to curtail another. All the concealed hostili- end with age. If grandparents ante poker?

How do you say goodbye to the ties of earlier years seem to en.Jpt choose to stay together, they have unpleasant behavior, then families woman who planned for Christ- as these couples age. It's as if a responsibility to their children have a right to limit contact. But mas 12 months a year and took so they're saying, "I put LIP witb you and grandchildren to put aside tbey should let their parents know the first half of our marriage but hostilities when they are together. why. "We love you but it's too much joy from others' joy?

When each corners a daughter painful for us and the children to How do you say goodbye to the I'm not going to do it any more." or son and says. ~If you know be ",ith you when you're hurting They can't exchange a civil word. woman who has taught you with example that pain and suffering They stop going places and doing what your fatber! motber was r..ny each other." should do it. Just as like:' it puts grown children in a children must learn proper social are not aoeidental, despicable things things together. tlley take nasty position of choosing sides, hearing behavior, so must we all. Age tbat God lets happen behind his digs at each other in front of famwhat iS'too personal to hear. and doesn't excuse rudeness. ily and friends. back, but simply part of life?

It's tough ,on their grown childHow do you say goodbye to tbe wt>man 'wnose name you whisper' ren and grandchildren. One woman without rail when you have a tough' told me that visiting her parents has become so unpleasant for her decision to make?

How do you say goodbye to tnis and her family that tbey deliberwoman? Maybe you don't. Maybe ately choose times when they know . you say, "Safejoumey, Mom. Save one will be out.

Another, an only child, said a place for me. OK?" family holiday dinners are a nightmare. "If Mom says. 'I tr-ied a new recipe: Dad snons and says, 'You ROCKFORD, \II. (CNS) ~ just keep proving you cari't cook: Mother Teresa of Calcutta has and she says, 'Why should I when I have to cook. for someone like asked an Illinois county state's attorney to dismiss C;harges against youT and tbey keep at it until all of 152 people arrested last year dur- us lose ou"r appetites."

Grandchildren seem to be chief ing abortion clinic profeSts'. HI re· quest you, in the name of God and victims, witnessing two people they love tearing each other .apart. as a fellow Roman Catholic, dismiss charges against the res- Grown children find themselves in THE RECREATION room of Madonna Manor, North C'uers, said Mdtber Teresa's letter a difficult place between keeping to Winnebago County State's At- the peace between parents and Attleboro, became a Caribbean island festooned with tropical explaming their behavior to the birds and palm trees for a recent "Cap'n Cook's Treasure torney Paul Logli. childTen. One woman told me she finally Island Luncheon." Resident Louise Garceau saluted the event took action. ~I was alone with my in verse: ·We decided on something different to do/Joined parents .and they started taking Long John Silver and his pirate crew! Had crocodile tails, hostile digs at each other until I whale and shark/ We found this to be a lark/The tropical birds couldn't stand it. I took out my caT did their share/ with pirate remarks and songs filled the air..... keys and said, 'It hurts me when you so this so I'll come back. Sporting buccaneer hats are, from left, Doris LeVasseur, Sisanother time when the fight is ter Yvonne, Eva Roy, Lea Arthur and Denise Waterman.

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By Hilda Youne How do you say goodbye to the woman who showed you how to put toothpaste on your brush, thread a needle. color inside the lines. wash between your toes, fold your pajamas. always say a bedtime prayer - and who sat with you for what seemed like endless days until you cOllld tie the laces on yOUf Buster Browns?

How do you say goodbye to the woman who used to snuggle up with you and share a bowl of Rice Kri,spies while you watched Buffalo Bob, Clara Ben and Howdy Doody? . How do you say goodbye to the ; woman whocommunicatoo so clearly that you never. never laugh at "people. but rejoice in the times you

Richard Nixon in 1968, be told a small group of political writers another tale. It was about singleissue voters, although he did not call them that. That label came later.

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Oct. 30 at the People's Chapel, LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro, as part of worldwide honoring of Mary by K of C councils. All welcome.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET CCD children's Halloween party tomorrow morning. Children should dress as their patrol1 saints: Prizes will be awarded. St. Patrick's Fellowship meeting 7 p.m. Sunday, parish center.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NB Men's League members will serve free coffee and donuts after 10 a.m.

Mass Sunday and meet at II a.m. in the lower church. ' ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, FR The choir and organist provide Portuguese hymns at II a.m. Mass each Sunday; rosary 5:30 p.m. daily in October; Santo Cristo statue in front vestibule may be venerated before and after all Masses.

DCCW,NB New Bedford District Council of LaSALETTE SHRINE, Catholic Women will hold a living ATTLEBORO Slides and talks on religion in rosary and slide show 3:30 p.m. Oct. China presented by Rev. Joseph 28 at St. Mary's Church. Tours of Gosselin, MS, Attleboro LaSalette the church will also be offered. community superior, 7:30 p.m. Oct. ST. STANISLAUS, FR 27. "Healing the Past" workshop 10 Exposition of Blessed Sacrament a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 3, led by Cynthia 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, folVillari of Rolfe Square Counseling lowed by holy hour. Bible study serCenter, Cranston, R.1. Especially ies, "The Truth about Christmas," intended for those grieving a marbegins 6:30 p.m. Nov. 4 in the school riage, spouse, friend, job, health hall and continues for three more problem or other loss. Both proSundays. RCIA program begins 7 grams in Good News Room adjap.m. Oct. 30 in the parish chapel. cent to People's Chapel. More inInquiring adults are welcome. formation: 222-5410.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH ST. JOSEPH, WOODS HOLE The Women's Guild seeks a silver A study group on St. Luke's Gos- or pewter tea and coffee set for the pel begins at 7: 15 p.m. Oct. 30. new parish center. Information: 888ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM 8930. Life in Spirit seminar will be Babysitting available during 10 , offered Nov. 3 and 4. Information: a.m. Sunday Mass in church hall. 775-7218. Child care offered during Catechists will be commissioned at 9:30 a.m. Sunday Mass at Father 10 a.m. Mass this Sunday.

Clinton Hall. Information: 477-6645.

MUSICIANS' WORKSHOP HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Diocesan chapter, National Assn.

Finance council open meeting of Pastoral Musicians, will sponsor weekend ofNoY. 3 and 4. All Saints' a workshop on Christian funeral Eve children's Mass followed by rites 2 p.m. Sunday, St. Patrick's party in church hall, 6:30 p.m. Oct. Church, Falmouth. Sister Nancy 31. Donations of wrapped candy Swift, RCE, will present the pro- and small prizes for a pinata may be gram. Information, registration: Joan left on rectory porch or in reconciliaCuttle, 673-3662. tion room. Cub Scout organizational meeting 7 p.m. Nov. I, church baseST. ANTHONY OF DESERT, FR Exposition of Blessed Sacrament ment. Vincentian meeting noon Sunnoon to 6 p.m. Nov. 4 with holy hour day. New Youth Group president is Steve Cabral. ' at 5 p . m . ' DolI, ATTLEBORO Alcazaba Circle, Daughters of Isabella, will meet at 7 p.m. Nov. I for a memorial Mass for deceased members to be offered by Father Paul Canuel at Kof C Hall qp HOdges' Street. . . , ' " ,: " CATHEDRAL CAMP, '' E.FREETOWN Emmalls weekend retreat tonight through Sunday.

ST. MARY, NORTON Those in need of raking, cleaning or other chores may cali 285-3237 to arrange for confirmation candidates to assist them at no charge.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON' The annual Halloween children's Mass will be, offered at 4:30 p.m.

Sunday, followed by a costume parade around the block and refreshments in the church hall.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, ATTLEBORO ' , ,.

The Attleboro area Widowed Support Group.will resume meetings at 7 p.m. Tuesday at St. Mary's Church, North Attleboro. Future meetings will be held at the same time each First Friday, beginning with Mass.

Father William Babbitt will moderate the group, which is open to both widows and widowers.

district council president; Mrs. Ralph Sasso, president of the host council; and Mrs. Manuel Ponte, arrangements chairman for the evening. (Gaudette photos)

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Parish ~ouncil meeting 7 p.m.

Oct.,30, rectory meeting room; slides, VCR, talks and question period on Medjugorje I p.m. Nov. 4, parish, hall, presented by Larry and Elaine Ferreira. ' , ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA Concert by Father Andre Patenaude, MS, 2 p.m. Sunday. All welcome. Men's recollection day I to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 18. Information on day: Deacon Bob Normandin.

OL VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Blood drive in parish center 2 to 7 p.m. Nov. 1. Appointments call 7756591 (evenings); 771-1614.. Drama coordinator needed for CCD program; call 771-1614. Anointing of sick at I p.m. Mass Nov. 4.

Refreshments will follow in parish center.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Canned goods for the needy will be collected Nov. 3 and 4 by confirmation candidates and distributed

by Vincentians. Paraliturgy and prayer group meeting 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8, church.

VOLUNTEER TUTORS, NB Volunteer tutors needed to help immigrants prepare for citizenship examination. Information 997-4511, ext. 3454. Annemarie Espindola.

DolI, NO. ATTLEBORO Benedict Circle Daughters of Isabella installation II a.m. tomorrow, St. Mary's Church, No. Attleboro, followed by banquet at Villa Capri.

ST. ANNE,FR St. Jude Novena 2 and 7:30 p.m. through Sunday. Cub Scout Halloween party 2 p.m. Sunday, school cafeteria.

ST. JOHN EV ANGi~LlST, POCASSET Applications for girls' Echo weekend Nov. 9 to II available in parish center. Women's Guild "penny or whatever" jars will be at church doors this weekend to "dress three live dolls-Ian. 5, Ryan, 3, April, 12-for Christmas," Parish mission Nov. II through 14 with Father Giles Genest, MS. ' 'ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT Parish budget meeting for parish leaders 7 p.m. Oct. 29. church center. , ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, HYANNIS Vincentians appreciate offerings of canned and nonperishable foods in the sanctuary baskets; contributions benefit the needy. Information , .classes for those interested in Catholicism are being organized. Lnformation:' 775-~;389; 775-6200; 775-0066.

ST. ANTHONY, ~ATTAPOISETT . , . $1900 donated by Women's Guild . members ~ill fund sliding partitions , for the church hall. Parish teelns will bake and sell cranberry breads Nov. 17 to benefit the homeless: .

SS. PETER & PAUL, FR School advisory council new members: Daniel Featherstone, David Duhancik. Susan Dias. School retreat with Fr. James O'Brien, SJ, Oct. 29 to Nov. 1. Finance council meeting 7 p.m. Oct. 31, recto~y.

ST. JAMES, NB A free walker is available. Information 997-4119. Vincentian food drive Nov. 3 and 4.

OL GRACE, WESTPORT Vincentian food drive Nov. 3 and 4. Council of Catholic Women will celebrate its 35th anniversary Nov. 7 with 6 p. m. Mass followed by dinner in parish center. Information 674-7177.

SACRED HEART, NB A toddlers' church program for 3 and 4-year-olds is under consideration to be held during 10 a.m. Mass during the CCD school year. Information: Eugene Sasseville, CCD coordinator. Vincentians request donations of canned foods which may be placed in baskets at church entrances.

CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE A breakfast celebration Nov. 25 will mark the parish's first anniversary. The parish food pantry is in need of canned vegetables, cereals and crackers. Adoration of Blessed Sacrament 8:30 a.m. Nov. 2 to 8:30 a.m. Nov. 3. To sign up for an hour, call 477-5475 or 477-7700.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA The youth council will host a Thanksgiving Day dinner II :30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for all wishing to participate. The diocesan World Youth Day celebration Sunday at Coyle~ Cassidy High School. Taunton, will be preceded by a 10 a.m. parish youth liturgy.

SACRED HEART, N. ATTLEBORO Women's Guild/Youth Groupsponsored Halloween party 6 to 8 p.m. tomorrow.

FRIENDLY SONS OF ST. PATRICK, NB New officers: Clement E. Daley, president; Kevin J. Finnerty, vice president; Richard T. Saunders Jr., treasurer; Edward L. Manley III, secretary. The Irish fraternal organization has 200 members and sponsors activities including U.S. vacations for' children from Northern Ireland and a scholarship program.

SACRED HEART, FR Women's Guild Mass for deceased members 7 p.m. Nov. 5, followed by meeting in parish hall where plans for Dec. 3 Christmas party will be made.

HOLY NAME, FR October devotions 3 p.m. each Sunday. Youth group-sponsored children's Halloween party 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 31. Retreat renewal meeting 7 p.m. Sunday.

CATHEDRAL, FR Respect Life prayer service 3 p.m.

Sunday, concluded by Benediction.

ST. MARY, NORTH ATTLEBORO Holy Union Sisters Pauline Louise, Paula Marquis and Estelle Maynard will celebrate golden jubilees at II a.m. Mass tomorrow.

OL CAPE, BREWSTER The "Dance of the Deacon," celebrating the diaconal ordination of Brother James Nunes, MS, will take place 8 p.m. to midnight Nov. 3, parish center. Admission: one bag of munchies per family.

HOLY ROSARY, TAUNTON Rosary prayed 7: 10 a.m. daily before Mass. Wednesday devotions 7 p.m.

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JAMES GOETTSCHE, organist for liturgical celebrations at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, poses at St. Cecilia's Cathedral in Omaha, Neb., during a visit home. (CNS photo)

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OMAHA, Neb. (CNS) - The . altered after meeting Fernando main organ at St. Cecilia's Cathe- Germani in San Francisco. dral in Omaha holds a' special "He was one ofthe greatest conplace in the mf;mories ofthe organ- cert organists in the world. After I ist who performs for Pope John played for him, he asked me to Paul II's liturgical services in' come to Rome to study with him," Goettsche said.

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"I even dream about this organ "I always read history books in Rome because the first organ about Rome when I was young, so music I ever heard came from it," it was a dream come true to live said James Goettsche, 48, who there," he said, adding that he was since September 1989 has been the 19 when he moved there. . organist for the principal liturgical . Goettsche studied organ in the celebrations at St. Peter's Basilica. conservatory in Rome for seven "I hope I can come back and years, followed by one year of speperform a concert at this cathedral cialization at the Vatican Institute some day," Goettsche told The of Sacred Music.

Catholic Voice, newspaper of the For 20 years, he was the organArchdiocese of Omaha. ' ist at the Santa Francesca RoIn Rome he performs at all mana Church at the Forum in papal services, including the pope's Rome.

Christmas and Easter Masses.

Goettsche also performed organ "It's a very rewarding job," he concerts in Rome as well as in a said. number of countries, including A native of Los Angeles, Goet- Germany, Great Britain, Switzertsche spent his formative years in land and Iceland. He said he Omaha, where he graduated from planned to perform some concerts St. Cecilia's Grade School and in Los Angeles before returning to Creighton Prep high school in the Rome. . "This is my first trip to the Uni1950s. .

"When I was in grade school, I ted States in 29 years. It's hard for was an altar boy and head server at me to get away from Rome, espeSt. Cecilia's Cathedral, so I spent a cially with my new responsibilities a lot of time here," said Goettsche at the Basilica of St. Peter, so this as he walked through the edifice trip is very short," he said. on his first visit to the cathedral in When asked about the pope, 29 years. "This place really brings Goettsche said he has yet to meet· back the memories." him, but he does know one thing: Those memories include "climb- "The pope has a good voice. He ing the bell towers," hearing the sings quite nicely, so I don't have cathedral's magnificent organ for any problems playing for him." the first time and serving Mass for Belief Archbishop Gerald Bergan, who headed the archdiocese from 1948 "Because of Jesus, I believe in to 1969. forgiveness... .I believe that nothWhile reflecting on his career, ing that is wrong need be permanGoettsche said his life was forever ent." - A. Herbert Gray

Vatican says' 1989' deficit' covered VATICAN CITY(CNS)- The Vatican announced a $54.7 million deficit for 1989 - far less than expected - and said it had managed to cover the shortfall through worldwide contributions and profits from its city-state operations. .The relatively good financial news was credited to better management and an "austerity" campaign at the Vatican. A statement also offered "heartfelt thanks" to bishops, priests, religious and lay people - and asked for their continued contributions.

A Vatican official, meanwhile, warned that the dollar's falling rate of exchange and the recent decline of world financial markets was clouding the budget picture for 1990.

The Vatican announcement was published following a recent fourday meeting of a council of cardinals that oversees Holy See finances.

The Vatican had operating expenses of $142.5 million in 1989 -slightly higher than in recent years and slightly more than anticipated in a 1989 estimate.

Income totaled $87.8 million, also higher than estimated, leaving the $54.7 million deficit - far less than the projected shortfall of$78.2 million. It was $11 million more than 1988, but less than the record $63.8 million deficit posted in 1987.

Most of the' 1989 deficit was. m,ade up by the worldwide Peter's Pence collection, a papal discretionary fund that has been applied to Vatican spending in recent years.

In 1989, Peter's Pence totaled $48.4 million - down nearly $5 .million from the previous year.

The remainder of the 1989 operating shortfall - $6.3 million came from the Vatican City State, which has a budget figured separately from the Holy See. The city state, which included the Vatican Museums, Post Office and technical offices, had a $12.4 million surplus in 1989, the statement said.

The Vatican statement also reported that an additional $15.2 million had been spent in 1989 to maintain its real estate holdings and make up for the effects of inflation on other assets. Those expenses were covered separately,

in part from other unspecified papal funds, a Vatican official said.

Cardinal Edmund Szoka, former archbishop of Detroit and now the Vatican's chief budget officer, attended the meeting, along with Cardinal John J. O'Connor of ·New York and II other cardinals.

Msgr. Luigi Sposito, secretary of the Vatican's buget office, said that the decline of the dollar and the Persian Gulf crisis had darkened this year's economic picture at the Vatican.

"The decline of the dollar has

greatly damaged Peter's Pence, and it will be much worse this year," he said. The U.S. church has traditionally been the biggest single contributor to the fund.

Over the last decade, the Vatican has struggled to stay ahead of its nagging budget problems. On several occasions, the Vatican has appealed for increased. contributions from the faithful, warning that it would otherwise be forced to cut into its patrimony of investments and properties in order to cover operating expenses.

Vatican telescope project in the clear PHOENIX (CNS) - Workers have cleared a one-fourth-acre site atop Mount Graham where Vatican astronomers intend to place one of the most powerful landbased telescopes in the world by next spring.

About 430 trees were cleared this fall from the mountain to make way for facilities that will house the Vatican telescope and one owned by the Max Planck Institute of Bonn, Germany, said University of Arizona spokesman Steve Emerine.

Construction preparations signal the birth of Mount Graham International Observatory, a $200 million project the university is spearheading.

Of the 430 trees, 300 were transplanted to other areas on the mountain. The larger trees were cut and hauled away.

Workers encountered resistance by environmentalists who had blocked entrances to the area. · Some individuals handcuffed themselves to trees.

Eight people have been arrested and charged with criminal trespassing since work began Oct. 2 on the mountain located northeast of Tucson, according to the Graham County Sheriffs Office.

Several environmentalists and ·conservation groups are opposed to putting the observatory on the mountain because they say construction will cause extinction of ·the Mount Graham red squirrel,

an endangered subspecies. An estimated 140 squirrels live on the mountain.

Additionally, environmentalists claim that Congress sidestepped the Endangered Species Act when the lawmakers voted in 1988 to allow the project.

Court rulings resulting from a lawsuit brought by the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund had left the university teetering on the project for months. Court injunctions had halted work on the mountain several times. But in late September the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the ban, allowing the university to proceed with work.

The suit; however, is still pending.

Emerine said that workers were removing tree stumps and then were to proceed with soil testing, but construction will have to wait until spring after the winter freeze.

Meanwhile the Vatican Observatory's c!lief scientist for the telescope said he is relieved that the project is proceeding.

"We're delighted to be able to do some work (on the mountain) this year," Jesuit Father Christopher Corbally told The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix.

Father Corbally said the Vatican advanced technology telescope is still going through engineering modifications at an undisclosed Tucson location and won't be ready for placement until next year.

BISHOPS FROM around the world await the start of another session during the monthlong Synod of Bishops at the Vatican, which concludes on Sunday. (CNS photo)

"Avalon" indicts'ln.ode"rl U.S. family life, says director WASHINGTON (CNS) - The current movie "Avalon" is an indictment. of today's modern U.S. family and its lack of reliance on any extended family structure, said Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Levinson.

People look on· extended families from the past and realize they "haven't even seen uncles, aunts, parents, whatever, in a long time" and have little communication with them, Levinson said in a telephone interview with Catholic News Service from Los Angeles.

It wasn't because of some giant breakdown in communication, he said, but just that the family "slowly came apart."

The movie recounts the pursuit of the American dream for three generations of a Russian immigrant family. The U.S. Catholic Conference classified it A-I general patronage.

Dolores R. Leckey, executive director of the U.S. Catholic Conference Secretariat for Laity and Family Life, said "people will be talking about 'Avalon' for a long time."

"The message is that you've got to work at keeping families to-gether," she said. She highlighted the film's stress on "intergenerational relationships, especially between grandparents and grandchildren." .

Levinson, who won an Oscar

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BARRY LEVINSON for his direction of the highlyacclaimed "Rain Man," wrote the script for "Avalon" and said he sought to "simply fashion a film that showed how slowly through time and by degrees a family ends up eating alone on Thanksgiving."

He loosely based the plot on his own family from Baltimore, he said, and added that "Avalon" s!tows that the U.S. family fell apart as people wanted more freedom from "restrictions and limitations" of the family scene.

"We've caused enormous damage" to the family, Levinson said, and today people "search for some kina of way to put something back together again."

In "Avalon," family disintegration coincides with the invention of television, but "you can't point to television as the one culprit," Levinson said.

Area Religious Broadcasting The following television and radio programs origina~~}r1 the diocesan viewing and iistening area. Their listings nOi1n~II)'~onbt. vary from week to week. They will be presented in the Anchofperiodi- .' cally and will renect any changes that may be made. Please clip and retain for reference. .

On TV "Spirit and the Bride," a talk .

Each Sunday, 8:00a.m WLNE, show with William Larki",6 p.m.

Channel 6. Diocesan Television Monday, cable chann,:})5: Mass. Those in the Gre'ater New On Radio ..

Bedford area who do not have "Be Not Afraid," 15ntinutes of cable TV see a rebroadcast of the music and Gospel message coorMass at II a.m. on UHF Channel ~inated by Father Craig A. Pre20 gana, parochial vicar at St. John Portuguese Masses from Our the Evangelist parish, Attleboro, Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, is heard at 8. a.m. Sundays' On New Bedford: 12:15 p.m. each stationWARA,I320AM/rbec;at....

Sunday on radio station WJFD- olicclergy of the Attl.ebo.l'oarea FM,7 p.m. each Sunday on tele- sponsor the program.' vision Channel 20.

"The Beat," Christian rock "Connuence," 10:30 a~m. each music'and information produced Sunday on Channel 6, is a panel by Building Block Ministries of program moderated by Truman Taunton, is broadca!lta~ 7 a.m.

Taylor and having as permanent Sundays on station ,WVtlFBos- , participants Father Peter N. Gra- ton, 105.7 FM, and may be heard ziano, diocesan director ofsocial in the 'Attleboro, FaURiver, services; Right Rev. George Hunt, New Bedfor" and Taunton deanEpiscopal Bishop of Rhode Island, eries. and Rabbi Baruch Korff. . Charismatic progqulls with· "The Beat," produced by Build- Father John. RandalIi,lrf~ired ing Block Ministries of Taunton from 9:30 to 19:30 a.m:,'Monday .. and aired on many cable systems through I:riday on station WRI a, in the Fall River diocese features 1220 AM; Mass is broadcast at I videos from and informatiOn on p.m. each Sunday. contemporary Christian rock art"Topic Religion," presented by ists. Check local listings for times two priests, a rabbi and a Protand dates. . estant minister, is broadcast at Mass 9:30 a.m. Monday to' 6:06 a.m. and i1:06 p ..in'.¢ach Friday, WFXT, Channel 25.

Sunday on station WEEl 80s"Breakthrough" 6:30 a.m. each ton, 590 AM. Programs of Catholic interest Sunday, Channel 10, a program on the power of God to touch are broadcast at the following lives, produced by the Pastoral times on station WROL Boston, Theological Institute of Hamden, 950 AM: Monday through FriConn. day 9, 9: 15, II :45 a,m,;12: IS, "Maryson," a family puppet 12:30, I p.m. show with moral and spiritual A Polish-language Mass is perspective 6 p.m. each Thurs- heard from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. day, Fall River and New Bedford every Sunday on station WlCE, 550 a.m.

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Children's TV Act to become law WASHINGTON (CNS) President Bush said Oct. 17 that he would let the Children's Television Act of 1990 become law without his signature.

The legislation, which limits advertising during children's television programming, had been backed by Msgr. Robert N. Lynch, U.S. Catholic Conference general secretary, in a letter to John Sununu, White House chief of staff.

"Children are particularly vulnerable to commercial pitches because they do not understand the purpose of commercials is to sell a product, not to entertain," Msgr.

Lynch said.

In announcing his decision not to veto the bill, which had been approved by wide margins in the Senate and House of Representatives, Bush nevertheless said he had objections to what he called restrictions on freedom of speech in the legislation.

"This bill is intended to increase the amount and quality of children's television programming for

children," Bush said. "I wholeheartedly support t,hese goals, but regret that the Congress has chosen inappropriate means of serving them."

The new law reverses the Reagan administration's 1984 deregulation of the commercial content of children's TV programming. It limits ads on children's programs to IO-and-a-half minutes per hour on weekends and 12 minutes per hour on weekdays.

It also requires that the Federal Communications Commission look at how well a station is responding to the needs of children when deciding whether to renew the station's broadcast license. It sets up a federally funded National Endowment for Children's Educational Television to subsidize the production of children's programs.

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Time for Letting' Go I've been holding back words Waiting for time Because there's a lesson here somewhere I know is mine - Though I remember the promise we made Promises don't justify feeling this way It's' time for letting go We can't have what we both know It hurts·so Every time I think it's over You've been keeping aO"your secrets inside I know the truth now baby you don't have to hide My mind wanders to the very first date What a shame things had to turn out this way No words to bring back your affection No lies to keep me holding on Holding on, holding on Now I know that It's time to realize That we're both just living lies Way down deep inside Something letting me know that It's time for letting go Let it go I keep telling myself over and over It's time for letting go But my love still is strong I just can't keep holding on Written and sung by Jude Cole (c) 1990 by Reprise Records for the United States and WEA International Inc. JUDE COLE'S "Time for Letting Go" is one of many recent pop songs about breaking up and separation. This release is a follow-up to his recent chart hit, "Baby, It's Tonight."

I like what the song says about promises. Apparently, a

promise has been made between' two people, but now one of them wonders if the promise should be kept. He states, "Promises don't justify feeling this way."

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The greatest promise we ever make is to ourselves. It is part of what God asks of us when he gives us the gift of life. This is the promise to appreciate, safeguard and develop the person that we are.

Sometimes we make promises to others too quickly. For example, two teenagers might pledge to go steady, or even get engaged, and only later realize how little they know each other.

Such a promise is a mistake and should be admitted as such.

They should not keep, themselves trapped in unhappiness because of an unfortunate pledge. Rather, they must remember their deeper promise to themselves, that of removing themselves from harmful situations and relationships.

At other times promises are made with deliberation and with as much knowledge as possible.

Yet change can occur in the relationship that could not be foreseen.

Such situations are often painful and confusing for a young person, who may feel trapped between facing the guilt of breaking his or her word, or remaining in a hurtful relationship that is not improving, despite sincere efforts.

This seems to be the case for the person in the song. He has looked "deep inside" and decided that "it's time for letting go."

If you know from "deep. inside" that it is "time for letting go," act on a plan to do so.

Make a stand for that original promise that' is part of being God's daughter or son.

Your comments are welcomed

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

Education secretary discusses values in. school with religious leaders WASHINGTON (CNS) - U.S. Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos told a recent gathering of Catholic and Jewish religious leaders they had "an enormous way to 'go" to bring sound values education into the nation's public schools.

Cavazos met for 40' minutes He said the U.S. Department of with the joint consultation of the Education could support a stress National Conference of Catholic on values education through reBishops and Synagogue Council, search, recommendations and calof America to discuss their recently ling attention to successful propublished" A Lesson of Value," a grams, but it could not impose a statement calling for massive efforts program on the nation's public to restore education in fundamen- .. schools. tal values"in U.S. pUblic schools.

Auxili'ary Bishop Willia.m C. The consultatIOn, composed Newman of Baltimore and Rabbi ~~inly of bishops and rabbis a~d Joel H. Zaiman,president of the JOI~tly spons~red. by the maID' Synagogue Council of America, co-' n~tlOn.al org~mzatlons of the two drafters ofthe statement, reported, to Cavazos that since its publicafaiths, I.ssu~d Its statement on values educatlon 10 June. tion the statement has drawn wide', It said that "Am~rican public praise from other religious leaders schools feel inhibited about teachand educators. ing mo.ral ~al~es," and the lack o,!

"The response has been remarked.uca!!on 10 core mor~l.~alu,~s ably wide and very supportive," raises the s~~cter o~a natIon with. Rabbi Zaiman said. . an Wh'l amoral citizenry.

"Theon Iy s k.eptlcl~m, .. "h ff t h b . e sal'd , I. e some e s av~ e~n has been about how the group .. made ~o ~~store moral 'pub!lc would, translate its' words into statement said, . affectmg . publIc . .schools. "ed.ucatIon, b t t' Ithe 'd ' . actIOn su, s an la, even rastIcsystemlc . . . change is still necessary if we as a ' In talkmg about eXlst!ng pro,nation are to salvage the moral, grams of values educa!lon .and ' ways to promote the.1f wld~r fiber of our children.""

The U.S. Catholic Conference development and use'm publIc recently pQblished the statement school systems, consultation in pamphlet form for· national dis- members were agreed that they tribution. should seek the support of other Cavazos agreed with the state- religious leaders as well. ment's argument that, fundamenThey also agreed, however, that it was more important to build U.S~SECRETARYofEdu­ tal moral values can be taught in cation Lauro F. Cavazos public schools without crossing interfaith coalitions for change at the forbidden line of religious the local and stateJevel than to go speaks to Catholic and Jewish indoctrination, but he said people after additional signatures on the religious leaders in Washing- tend in their thinking to "mix" or . statement from other national "overlap" the two. religious bodies. ton. (CNS photo)

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By Tom Lennon When the evil spirits of Halloween are banished, we find ourselves at the dawn of the feast of All Saints. But what does this day have to offer for young people?

It is a brilliant statement about who you can become. .

Unfortunately, sanctity is not the most popular of lifestyles and goals. Many people have the idea that the saints spent their lives in Du.Jlsvilie.

These people should illvestigate the life of an iptelligent, witty woman we know today as St. Teresa of Avila. True, she did have her days of boredom and for a long time even prayer was difficult for her.

She had been, by the way, a restless teenager. And she had loved'to read romances - the stories of knights and beautiful ladies.

Later in her life, people loved to come to the convent to visit with her. You probably would have liked her.

Teresa came to believe that the pleasures of the world could not even be compared with the pleasures she found in God. She wrote that she could not "describe what is felt when the Lord gives [me] an understanding of his secrets and grandeurs, the delight that so surpasses all those knowable here on earth.... I would find it revolting to have to try to make a comparison between the two delights, even if those of earth were to last forever and those

given by the Lord were only a drop of water from the vast overflowing river that is prepared for us."

Teresa's words do not sound like Dullsville. They suggest excitement and rare joy and deep happiness,. They remind us ~f St. Paul's' astonishing words, "Eye has not seen., ear has not heard, nor has it so much as, dawned on anyone what Ood has prepared (or those who love him" (I Cor. 2:9).

But the delights of which Teresa' speaks do not come the very instant a person decides to set out on the path of holiness. She prepared herself to receive such pleasures by struggling for years to purge her life of selfishness.

And she found that the road to great holiness was long and arduous, although always a happy one.

She walked steadfastly on that road fpr years, perhaps feeling as the French writer Leon Bloy did many years later that "the only tragedy in life is not to be a saint."

So in 1990 how might a young person make new efforts to walk the path of holiness? Here's one suggestion.

Write down on a small slip of paper this brief sentence from St. Paul's Letter to the Philippians: "Your kindness ,should be known to all" (4:5). Underline the little word "aiL" As best you can, try to live these words.

Good luck, and best wishes for the happiest of journeys on that long, arduous and royal road.

The rolling rock concert

By Hilda Young My hand is over my heart. I am telling the truth. My 17-year-old wants a car so badly he got a job.

Wait! That's notthe only breathtaking part. He walked in the front door yesterday after school lugging "its'~ first "parts.'~ "Let me guess," I said. "Those are either the world's largest earmuffs or birdbaths you made in shop.'~

"Speakers," he, grunted. "For my c~r."

"You don't have a car," I pointed out.

"I'm buying parts for it as I go," he explained patiently. "It'll take awhile. I have a lead onsome used' amps and a good tape system that can handle CDs." "Oh ." I no dd ed sow I Iy. "A n d I bet Day-Glow windshield wipers are next on your list, or is it Ii license plate holder that says something that'll make your father's neck veinsbulgeT' He sighed. "Mom, a sound systern is the essence of fine driving.

It's the cornerstone of cruising. It's what puts the transport in transportation."

"It's what makes the windows and roof vibrate when you crank it up, right?" I ventured.

He grinned. "Oh yeaaaah. And if it's really good, there is so much

bass you feel the car coming before you see it."

"And where do you install those monsters - in the trunk of this mythical car, or do you seat belt them into the back seat? On the roof? You tow a trailer?"

"It depends on what design the acoustical designer at the car stereo shop comes up with."

"Just how much is this rolling rock concert going to put you backT' I asked cautiously.

He told me.

I tried to disguise my shock by stammering,'''Duh. Huh." The bad news is that the theoretical sound system for the mythical car would cost more than season tickets to the opera - for several seasons.

The good news is that spouse and I probably won't have to worry about Mr. Fine Driving making a . down payment on his mythical car until he's about 25. .

True Need "People are not just hungry for bread; they are hungry for love.

They are not just naked for a piece of clothing; they are naked of human dignity. They are not just homeless for a room made of bricks, but because of rejection."

- Mother Teresa

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Bishop Corinolly Recent activities at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, included a tour of the Harvard University Herbaria by 25 freshman biology students. Highlights were viewing plants collected and preserved by Henry David Thoreau and observing researchers studying a plant thought to pos·sess anti-AI DS properties.

Mathematics teachers attended a conference at the Groton School in Groton at which the topic was incorporation into curricula of standards set by the N'ational Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Public-relations director Father Paul Sullivan, SJ, reported that large numbers of parents met faculty members at a parents' night held last week; that a Spirit Week program also held last week was successful; that Elks teenagers of the month are seniors Amy Almeida and Phil Nadeau.

I n sports, the girls' soccer team capped a six-game winning streak by defeating Dartmouth, the volleyball team defeated Stang High and both boys' and girls' crosscountry teams defeated Wareham.

Halftime (.;eremonies will include announcement of the winning class. worn fo signify support for Gulf spirit project along with presentations by the Feehan marching band forces and for restoration of world order, while students were given· and cheerleaders. The day will addresses of service personnel conclude with the annual alumni memorial Mass at 4:30 p.m. on the overseas in order to send them school campus. messages of encouragement.

Relatives and friends of deceased Other events during the week Feehan faculty and students are were a College Bowl contest, a Green and White day during which invited to participate in this liturgy and the reception to follow. The school colors were worn and a student-faculty homecoming cele- week will conclude on Sunday bration including a bake-off com- evening with the traditional home" petition with prizes for the best coming dance in the Feehan cafeteria. pastries.

Today is Reach-Out Day, with students sending homecominggrams to classmates and collecting New Crusader Cheerleaders for donations for class and commun- boys' basketball at Taunton Cathity projects. olic Middle School are Paula CorStudents are wearing class colors: ·reia, Darcie Enos, Paula Ferfreshmen, white; sophomores, pink; nandes, Monica O'Brien, Kate Tenjuniors, blue; seniors, stripes. The ney, Christine Camara, Nicole annual homecoming rally will take Morey, Stephanie Reardon, Krisplace in the gym at I: 15 p.m. ten Riccio, Melissa Simas, Kellie The week will continue with Cambra, Julie Kelley, Shannon tomorrow's homecoming parade Murray and Meghan McCaffrey. and football game. Alumni, parAlternates are Nancy Cardosa and ents and friends are invited to the Lori Ferreira. They will lead cheers day's festivities starting with an for the boys basketball team at 11:30 a.m. opening ceremony at TCMS. the school. Lawrence Fitton, AttleLady Crusaders who will lead boro Town Crier, will open the cheers for girls' basketball are capprogram, followed by a homecomtains Kerry Mota and Jaime Thiing prayer by Sister Patricia Harbeaultand Amy DeVoe, Julie Eddy, rington; the National Anthem; welJodi Harrington, Angela McClelcome by senior Elizabeth Gilmore; lan, Christine Pacheco, Cara Pergreetings by principal Sister Mary sechino, Brianne Ruggiero and Faith Harding; introduction of dig~ Jessica Santos. nitaries; announcement of faculty The cheerleaders are coached by king and queep and crowning of Mrs. Kathy Ventura assisted by 1990 homecoming queen.

Katie Ventura, Natalia Fernandes After singing of the school song, and Vicki Thompson, all students Alan Kazarian, student council' and cheerleaders at Coyle and moderator, will direct a parade of Cassidy High School. To qualify students and class projects to Hayfor a team, a girl had to demonward Field for a I:30 p.m. football strate a cheer, a chant and a halfgame. time dance.

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Retired NFL star, now Ca.holic school coach, puts academics first DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (CNS) - Wes Chandler, a native of nearby New Smyrna Beach, Fla., grew to gridiron glory in a star-studded career in college and the National Football League.

Today, Chandler is back cqaching football and serving as athletic'· director at Father Lopez High School in Daytona Beach.

But even though school gets out at 2:45 p.m., the football field is vacant. The team is in study hall.

"Academics cqme first," Chandler told the Florida Catholic, newspaper of the Orlando.diocese. ''I'm more concerned about wellbeing outside of sports," Chandler said. "I want· the students to do well academically and have a good· impact on the' community.". .' .

The gridders.on the Father ,Lopez Green Waves admit t~eir grac,les' have improved. Chandler saic.l he, looks out for his players just as his mentors looked out for· him and kept him 'straight when" he· was, young. .

Chandler graduated from: New" Smyrna Beach High' S'chool in 1974 and went~on't01heUniversity of Floripa, where'he acc'omplished what he considers his gr.eatest career achievement - greater even than the ring he won in Super Bowl XXIII. "I graduated ,as an Academic All-American and I was more. thrilled about the academi,c: achievement," Chandler said. '''1

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On a World Peace Day, yellow shirts, ribbons and armbands were

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New facuity members at Stonehill College, North Easton, are David A. Almeida, assistant professor of education, who is a graduate of Holy Cross College, holds master's degrees from Assumption College and Harvard University and is 'a doctoral candidate at Harvard; Jeanne M. Aurelio, assistant professor of business administration, a graduate of the University of South Florida who holds master's and doctoral degrees in her field from George Washington University.

Also Stephen R. Banker, assistant professor of communication

St. James/St. John Sixth graders at St. James/ St. John School, New Bedford are participating in Operation Brave Heart, a campaign encouraging writing of letters to service persons in the Middle East. Many student letters noted that a yellow ribbon hangs on their classroom flagpole as a daily reminder of the soldiers.

The letters were mailed in yellow envelopes.

and theatre arts, who holds bache- ' lor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Indiana University; Andre L. Goddu, assistant.professor of history of science, who graduated· from San Luis Rey college and, earned master;s degrees at California State Univ.ersity, San Francisco, and Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and a doctorate at the University of California at Los Angeles; Daniel P. LeClair, assistant professor of sociology, who graduated from the University of Rhode Island and earned a master's degree at Clark University and a doctorate at Tulane University.

Also Wendy C. Peek, assistant professor of English studies, who is a graduate of Rutgers University and holds a master's degree from Cornell University, where she is a doctoral candidate; and Deanna F. Womack, assistant professor of communication and theatre arts, who did undergraduate work at the University of Houston and holds master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Kansas.

What they're thinking The following comments reflect thoughts of 7th grade confirmation candidates at St, Mary's Cathedral who were asked to complete various statements. Editor Completing the statement "I wish God would .. ." one honest youngster wrote "...make me the richest person in the' world." Another called on God to "come back to Earth and live with me," while a third wanted his grandfather brought back to life, and a fourth suggested that God stop making bad people.

Asked what worried him, a candidate succinctly replied "life." On what they found difficuIt, students' answers ranged from the global- "I find it difficult to be good" - to the particular ~ saying the rosary -

knew I had a God-given talent but trade to the San Francisco 4gers, I was glad he had given me acawhich won the Super Bowl in I989. He then retired. demic ability too."

He said he tells the Father Lopez During his summers, Chandler players that a sports career can came back to Daytona Beach to LONDON (CNS) - A promiend quickly while an education help with football training camps nent Anglican priest,is leaving the, can be an asset forever., at Father Lopez High. Now he's Church of Engl~nd to become a . there year-round.

Chahdler Was drafted in 1978 by C,atholic. the New Orlean's Saints: the third Back on familiar turf, Chandler The, Rev..,Denys 'lloyd hasTeplilyer chosen overail in the draft. is determined to use his talents to signed. his Ang.lican ,orders and He played two' and a half years help the students and athletes at asked,to leave the Community of' with the ·Saints - twice being Father Lopez High. "Sometimes I the Resurrection, one of the Church chosen to play in the' Pro' Bowl focus on what I did,in pro football of England's, best-known religious'· game at season's end ~'before because it seems tohelpshed soine being traded to the San Diego light for the kids I work with,? he ' orders.

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Father Lloyd, 51, has been he'iid' of .the-· community's ,-theological The wide receiver spent siX: sea- .

"I lived a dream most of the kids college in Miifield;'England; since' are dreaming." sons with the, Chargers' before a 1984. .... ,:

to the downright practical: "I find it difficult to pass 7th grade catechism."

Parents came across both as those "who really understand me" and as those "who rely on me and need me most," while a truthteller confided "I get angry at my parents sometimes."

"I am most afraid of hell," admitted one student; and a budding philanthropist, asked to complete the statement "I often think of. .. ," wrote "...sick and homeless people."

On balance, an encouraging group of young Catholics, concluded their teacher.

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"Experience shows that in time ofper.secution, married priests have had many more problems than those who were celibate" because they had to balance taking risks with responsibility to their families, the report said.

One English-language group said, "the goals of the synod must include ways of helping the priest prepare to live a celibate life in the circumstances of today's, wotld."

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Archbishop Laghi, in his Oct. 20 address, said the vocations picture can be illu'strated by "a new map in the geography of Catholicism in the world."

Areas of "mature Catholicism~' - Europe, North America and Australia - are undergoing a "laborious renewal" of vocations after hitting a low point in the 1970s. .

The "elJ1ergent Catholicism" of Africa and Southeast Asia is accompanied by the "constant increase" of vocations, and in countries of "consolidated Catholicism" Central and South America there is growth, the archbishop said.

For the church in Africa and Southeast Asia, he said, the main challenges are creating structures . and finding competent personnel to educate candidates for the priesthood.

The difficulty of finding voca- . tions in the countries of '~mature Catholicism" has meant that "for some years now new ordinations cannot keep up with deaths or defections, even less are they able to attenuate the growing disproportion between clergy and POP" ulation."

The countries of "consolidated Catholicism" have a "very heavy pastotalload and not enough pastoral people available, despite the continuous growth of vocations," Archbishop Laghi said.

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The annual decline in the number of priests worldwide has slowed, he said. The latest Vatican statistics, compiled Jan. I, 1989, showed that the total number of priests dropped' by 313.

But gains were made in the Americas, Africa and Asia. The numbers drop, which includes deaths and priests leaving the min-,. istry, came from Europe and Oceania.

The number of ordinations has increased in each of the last 10 years, he said. The latest statistics showed almost 402,000 priests in the world.

BENEDICTINE SISTER At the beginning of the synod's Frances Carroll, a nurse and third week, the Vatican published lieutenant with the Mississippi summaries of written reports submitted by participants.

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Only a trickle VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II thanked a group of French Benedictine monks for leaving excommunicated Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre to return to the Catholic Church and urged other followers of the archbishop to follow their example. But the call comes at a time when Vatican efforts to attract adherents of the schismatic movement are nearly at a standstill. The number of priests and laity returning "is a trickle," said U.S. Father Timothy Cloutier, a Vatican official involved in reintegrating the archbishop's followers .into the church.

U.S. bishops Continued from Page One "Promotion of the Spirituality of Priests in Pastoral Ministry."

- A statement reaffirr1'ling the 1980 "Plan of Pastoral Action for Family Ministry."

The bishops will also make their annual review of NCCB-USCC priorities and plans and will dis" cuss the 1991 conference budget anda 1992 diocesan assessment to help fund conference activities.

The proposed 1991 budget is $34.2 million, up nearly $2.7 million from 1990. Diocesan assess-

Members of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will wear white ribbons in observance of Pornography Awareness Week Oct. 28 to Nov. 4. The annual event serves to raise national public awareness of the problem of pornography.

The White Ribbon Campaign against Pornography(WRAP) isa Morality in Media project aimed at arousing community opposition to pornography and obscenity.

·······youthDay ... orld Youth Day, Oct. .' ", .. will be observed in the Fall .' River diocese with a .'y(juth convention sponsored by the diocesan Office of CatholiC YouthMinistry.

Themed "Building the Gity of God :-" Celebrating OUJ Heiitag~,"the convention will-be held from 1 to 8 . "; Sunday at Coyle':Cas. .. h School,l'aunton, . / shops, a

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The proposed 1992 diocesan assessment remains at 15.7 cents per Catholic - a level set in 1988 but it is to be reviewed next spring when the bishops hold a special meeting on conference finances in St. Paul, Minn.

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