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Bishops ask voters to exercise rights Through the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, the four Catholic bishops of Massachusetts, Bernard Cardinal Law, Archbishop of Boston; Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River; Most Reverend Timothy J. Harrington, Bishop of Worcester; and Most Reverend Jo-

seph F. Maguire, Bishop of Springfield, have issued the following statement regarding the N 0vember 4th General Election: A hallmark of our great nation is the right of the people to govern themselves. Enshrined in both the Federal and State Constitutions is the principle of representative democracy: government for, of and by the people! We

most vigorously protect this principle when we exercise our right to vote.

Sad to say, all too many citizens fail to exercise this fundamental right':" perhaps because of cynicism or complacency. While no system is perfect, our form of government will function and improve only to the extent that as voting citizens we participate in it. To the degree we are involved, we shall receive the government we deserve.

As Catholics, we are called

by Christ to love our neighbor, respect all human life and seek justice for all. The Church's ministry and mission require us to relate positively to the political order. We must assure that the actions of government promote social justice and protect human rights.

As citizens ofthe Commonwealth, all of us are pledged to work for a society where the common good is promoted and where each person's rights and freedoms are respected.

One ofthe most effective ways

in which we as citizens can work for a better society is by making sure we always cast a well-considered and conscientious vote.

There are eight important statewide referenda questions on the November 4th ballot.

Each deserves our careful attention. Of particular concern to us are Question #1 and Question #2, because they involve human rights and basic social justice. Question #1 is concerned with stopping taxTurn to Page Six

Religious leaders join in Assisi peace summit The day, which began with a ASSISI, Italy (NC) - Worldwide religious leaders joined Pope welcoming talk by the pope, conJohn Paul II in Assisi Oct. 27 in a cluded with a joint service and a common call for peace, while some common meal that broke several warring factions heeded a papal hours of fasting by the estimated call for a day-long truce. . 150 Christian and non-Christian Sixty government leaders - in- representatives.

The following day, Oct. 28, a cluding President Reagan - expressed support for the peace sum- Japanese interfaith group participating in the event said it plans a mit, the first event of its type.

In the Italian hill town of Assisi, religious summit meeting in Japan where St. Francis preached his next year to which the pope would peace message 800 years ago, be invited.

In between, in a rich display of churches and civic halls overflowed with the sounds and sights of some the world's faiths, were separate peace prayers by Christians, Mos15 major religions.

(ems, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, African animists, American Indians and several other groups.

Throughout, the pope was a host who madea point of respecting the various beliefs of his guests, while underlining their united concern for peace.

He welcomed the delegates, male and female, individually as they entered the Renaissance Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels. There, gathered in a circle next to St. Francis' monastic cell, they shared a minute of silence.

The purpose of the meeting, the

AT· ANNUAL celebration of wedding anniversaries at St. Mary's Cathedral, 71 parishes were represented with over 120 couples marking significant anniversaries. At 65 years, the longest married couple were Mr. and Mrs. Albert Shovelton, St. Thomas More parish, Somerset, shown with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and their priest sons, Fathers William and Gerald Shovel-

pope told them, was to invite the world to "become aware that there exists another dimension of peace and another way of promoting it which is not a result of negotiations, political compromises or economic bargainings. " "It is the result of prayer," he said.

The groups spent the next twoand-a-half hours demonstrating that idea in separate prayer ceremonies.

In the medieval church of St. Rufino, the pope joined other Christian leaders and reminded

them that the search for full Christian unity was a part of peacemaking.

Sitting be~ide him were Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canterbury, head of the world's Anglicans, and Orthodox Archbishop Methodius, a delegate of the Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I. "We must be true peacemakers ... in today's world, scarred by the wounds of warfare and division, indeed in a sense crucified," the pope told the Christian leaders.

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ton. At left, permanent deacon candidate John deA. Moniz, celebrating with his wife their silver anniversary, was lector for the Cathedral Mass. There were three diamond anniversaries, 40 golden, 14 couples marking 40 years and 50 silver jubilarians. (Gaudette photos)

Vote your conscience on November 4

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Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., Oct. 31,1986

"I touch the future, 1 teach" At the annual diocesan Catholic hoped the convention "would make cators," the Mercy Sister said.

Education convention, held Mon- each teacher and administrator a "We have all ofthe correct credenday at Bishop Connolly High better educator and a better per- tials." She noted that an educator School, Fall River, elementary and son." may be defined as "that person secondary educators participated Plaques were then presented to who calls to life" or "an evoking in a liturgy with principal cele- six veteran lay teachers by Bishop presence." Those are impressive brant Bishop Daniel A. Cronin.

Cronin and Father Richard W. descriptions, she noted, but asked Taking note of the day's theme, Beaulieu, diocesan director of edu- "How do we do it?"

"I Touch the Future, I Teach," the cation.

A person brings his o~ her indibishop asked the teachers to "act Father Beaulieu said the teachers vidual background to a teaching out" what they believe. represented the commitment of position, she said, "and all the fac"There has to be a logical con- • lay persons to the diocesan educa- tors come together in those monection between what we say and tion apostolate. Collectively they ments in your classroom. how we live," the bishop said. "We have given over 150 years of serv"The building of an environbelieve that He is Lord, and we act ice to schools. ment for critical thinking and critthat way.

Recognized were Therese Le- ical conscience formation" is a "You do it in the formal setting doux, St. Francis Xavier School, priority of utmost importance, she . of the Catholic school," he told the Acushnet; Katherine A. Tracey continued, explaining that schools teachers and administrators. "It's and Therese Lavallee, St. Joseph, respecting this priority develop stuabsolutely necessary that as you New Bedford; Solange Sullivan, dents who are thoughtful. stand before the young ones enSt. Mary-Sacred Heart, North AtI I workshopsforsecondaryedutrusted to your care that they see tleboro; Virginia Mercer, St. Mi- cators focused on such topics as Christ in your lives." chael, Fall River; and Leah Leo- teenage pregnancy, use of compuBishop Cronin asked his listennard, Our Lady of Lourdes, Taun- ters, writing skills, occupational ers to imagine "the extraordinary stress, theatre techniques and grief ton. opportunity" they have to make For the remainder ofthe day the issues.

Jesus Christ known, noting that secondary and elementary educa14 workshops for elementary they were more than just profestors attended workshops, depart- teachers included discussion of sionals doing their jobs, that they ment meetings and grade-level I children's leadership skills, use of could instill in students values such sharing and swap sessions. storytelling to teach religion, visas morality, loyalty, respect for life Secondary teachers also heard ual and depth perception weakand love.

Sister Mary Brian Costello, RSM, nesses, creative art ideas, composi- Welcoming the school staffers superintendent of schools for the tion writing and stresses faced by to Connolly after the Mass, Father Chicago archdiocese, at a general single-parent families.

Stephen F. Dawber, SJ, the school's session on "Thinking Skills."

Dozens of exhibitors displayed associate principal, said that he "We think of ourselves as edu- materials and services.

Court nixes Catholic internships for public college student~ KATHERINE A. TRACEY accepts a plaque in recogni-

tion for her years of service from Bishop Daniel A. Cronin.

(Motta photo)

Charismatic leader urges evangelization NEW ORLEANS (NC) - A new surge of evangelization is vital in the last decade of this millenium, a charismatic renewal movement leader told a national meeting in New Orleans.

"In the year 2000 we're going to give Jesus the birthday presents he wants," said Redemptorist Father Thomas Forrest, former director of the International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Office in Rome.

"And he doesn't want new sneakers. He wants new Christians."

The October gathering of more than 7,000 people was a preliminary to a major ecumentical charismatic renewal congress set for next July, also in New Orleans. It is expected to be similar to a 1977 congress that drew more than 50,000 to Kansas City, Mo.

tral Church in Seoul, South Korea; and John Wimber, pastor of Vineyard Christian Fellowship.

Father Forrest noted last July's celebration of the rededication of the Statue of Liberty. "When that day came, the whole nation was focused on the birth of a statue.

We almost made it a goddess, referring to it as 'her' and 'Lady Liberty.' " "If we can do that for a 100year-old statue, what can we do -what must we do for the 2,000th birthday of Jesus? We can make sure everyone on earth is thinking of him. We can present him a world where the majority of people are Christian," Father Forrest said.

Father John Bertolucci of the Franciscan University of Steubenville, opened the first Catholic ses~ Speakers at the preliminary sion by speaking on world evangemeeting included evangelist Oral Roberts, founder and president of lism from a Catholic perspective.

"God commissions us to make Oral Roberts University; the Rev. disciples of all nations," he said.

Paul Yonggi Cho, pastor of the 500,000-member Full Gospel Cen- "It's up to us to go out and bring others into a loving relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ," he said. "Whom do we evangelize?

Remember To Vote Anyone who doesn't know Jesus Up to 8,500 abortions per year as Lord and Savior - in and outare paid for with our tax dollars. side the church.

That is about one abortion every "The disunity in the Catholic 15 minutes of every workday. Every Church and the whole church is a Massachusetts taxpayer is forced scandal," he said. "It impedes the to support this destruction of work of God. We must be united unborn human life. On Nov. 4, a to get on with the work of winning "Yes" vote on Question #1 would the world for Jesus." allow our state legislature to stop "Announcing the good news of tax:funded abortion. Please con- Christ is not only our duty, " Father sider this when voting.

Bertolucci said, "it's our salvation."

ST. LOUIS (NC) - A federal appeals court in St. Louis has barred student-teaching in parochial schools by public university students.

The decision by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a lower court ruling that the practice violates the separation of church and state.

The court ruled 2-1 on a Minnesota case where St. Cloud State University had allowed students to fulfill internship requirements by teaching at two s'chools in the St. Cloud diocese.

The university's practice had been challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union. The case could still be appealed to the Supreme Court. .

U.S. Circuit Judge Myron H. Bright, writing for the majority, said, "We are forced to conclude that the university's policy impermissibly advances religion by creating a perception that the state endorses the institutions' religious mission.

"By designating the parochial schools as both recipients of state benefits and repositories of state trust, the university's program cannot help but communicate a message of government endorsement

of the parochial schools and their religious messages," he wrote.

The opinion quoted a brochure from one of the Minnesota Catholic schools which stated, "God is the center of all we do." The brochure, the court said, shows state university students benefit from religion even though they teach secular courses.

Judge Pasco M. Bowman, in his dissent, called the decision "insensitive and mechanistic," while in the archdiocese ofSt. Louis, where the appeals court is based, George Henry, an associate superintendent of Catholic schools, called it "very disappointing."

"I find it a very narrow decision and certainly it indicates the courts

are not aware of what goes on in non-government schools," he said.

In the many years student teaching and remedial education programs have been in effect, there never was a problem with churchstate entanglement, he said. "N 0body was proselytized, nobody converted. But the court is saying that because it might occur someday it must be struck down."

Anne Lally, director of the student-teaching teaching program at the University of Missouri at St. Louis, said that a related problem is that some students are nuns who wear religious garb. The new ruling prohibits them from wearing their religious garb or any religious symbol in a public school.

Prayer asked Members' of Lifeline, a New Bedford-based pro-life organization, are asking members of the Fall River diocese to observe Nov. 2 as a day of prayer and self-denial for the intention of passage of Question I at Tuesday's election.

The pro-lifers also note that the. annual statewide dinner of Massachusetts Citizens for Life will take place at 6:30 p.m. Nov. I at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. Boston Cardinal Bernard Law will be guest of honor and speaker. Ticket information is available from Mary Ann Booth, 636-4903.

tlO< . .. â&#x20AC;˘ bonandtlle Fall ioceseare rom left, Father Robert C. Yeager, NC~A vice-president of development; Father John R. FoIster, pastor o{ St. Anne's parish, Fall River; and StcphenVirgadamo, NCEA consultant and development director for the Wilmington, DeL diocese. Virgadamo discussed development guidelines used by the Hartford archdiocese. Some 135 school personnel, pastors, business people and parents' association members attended.

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Prelate opens Glasgow church GLASGOW, Scotland (NC)Rebel French Archbishop Marcel Levfebvre has opened a church for some 200 Scottish followers in Glasgow, drawing a complaint from Glasgow Archbishop Thomas J. Winning, who said he was sorry the French churchman "did not contact me and that he came to set up a separate altar."

Archbishop Lefebvre, 80, was suspended by Pope Paul VI in 1976 after ordaining priests against

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Vatican instructions. He was already in trouble with the Holy See for resisting liturgical and other changes of the Second Vatfcan Council.

He continued to ordain men at his seminary in Econe, Switzerland, where he established his Fraternity of St. Pius X. Anhe Glasgow church opening, Archbishop Lefebvre said that "many in the church have abandoned true altars to be like Protestants." Members of the archbishop's society celebrate the preVatican II Tridentine Mass.

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PRINCIPALS AT the annual corporate communion supper of the Taunton and Attle-. boro districts of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women are, from left, Attleboro moderator Father Francis L. Mahoney, Mrs. Francis Zellner, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, Mrs. James Brackett, Taunton moderator Father Paul G. Connolly. (Torchia photo)

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Cemeteries head asks All Souls prayers In observance of Cemetery Sunday, this year Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Henry. V. Kane, president of the National Catholic Cemetery Conference, has issued the following statement: Nov. 2 is the "other side" of Nov. I. On Nov. I the Church and its liturgy are very festive. Congregations tend to sing loudly and participate joyfully. Although the Feast of All Saints remembers all

those who live and have lived in Christ, we tend on that day to concentrate on "the greats," the giants of our faith. We call before our eyes the men and women who stand out in the long procession of holy ones, upon whose shoulders we "now stand.

In its quieter mood, on Nov. 2 the Church stands in sharp contrast to the day previous. On the Feast of All Souls, we celebrate all

RESPITE program to begin Members of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women are preparing to introduce the RESPITE program to the diocese.

Developed by the National Council of Catholic Women and in operation in 50 dioceses, RESPITE is an acronym for REnewal SPIritual TEmporal. As the name indicates, it provides brief respite care for handicapped and elderly persons living at home, thus enabling caregivers to shop, keep appointments or simply relax for a few hours.

Training sessions for DCCW members wishing to participate in this new outreach project are being directed by Mary Mikita, third vice-president of the council. Holder of bach~lor's and master's degrees in health science, she is a member of the faculty of Cape Cod Technical High School. A training session, funded by a grant from NCCW, which also provides personal liability insurance for trained volunteers, will be held tomorrow for Cape Cod residents and from 9 a.m. to I p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 15, at St. Patrick's parish center, Somerset, for members of DCCW District I. New Bedford District will conduct a session Jan. 10, Taunton Jan. 31 and Attleboro March 7.

NOTICE Tomorrow, the Feast of All Saints, is a holy day of obligation.

Vigil Masses this evening and morning Masses tomorrow satisfy the feast day obligation. Saturday vigil Masses do not.

Following training, volunteers will be able to cope with the disabilities of the elderly, to deal with emergencies and to move patients from wheelchair to bed. Those interested in the program should contact their district council president.

Diocesan Council officials arranging the program note that it provides an opportunity for members to put into practice the council motto, "Joy in Service."

TRANSPORTATION FOR THE ELDERLY AND HANDICAPPED TO:

who have gone home to God, but we focus more on ordinary people, those not recorded in world or church history, but in our hearts.

In earlier times, it was a pious All Souls' Day custom to pray especially for "nameless" people: the most abandoned soul in purgatory, the most forgotten sinner.

Today, we still have the nameless dead: peasants in Latin America, bag ladies downtown, young hustlers in New York City, disappeared prisoners in South Africa.

Mayall the Poor Souls be a link in the long chain of Christian memory and on the Feast of All Souls, especially, let us remember all who have died in the Lord and pray that they may rest in peace.

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Sister Albertine The Mass of Christian Burial was offered Oct. 25 at Dominican Academy Chapel, Fall River, for Sister Albertine Durocher, OP, 81, the former Sister Agnes of Jesus, who died Oct. 22.

The daughter of the late'Charles and Albertine (Godin) Durocher, she was a native of Plattsburgh, NY, and had been a religious 54 years. Before her retirement last year she had taught in Plattsburgh and at St. Anne's School and Dominican Academy, Fall River.

She is survived by two sisters, Sister Anita Pauline, OP, also of Dominican Academy, and Mrs. Rena Miller of Plattsburgh; also by several nephews and nieces.

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The very fact that Question 2 appears on next week's ballot is indicative ofthe prejudice and bias still permeating the mind of Massachusetts. The forces that have marshalled a rather deceptive power play to defeat the amendment have in their use of the media not only reinforced awareness of this bigotry but have risen to new heights of purposeful deception.

For example, campaign literature distributed by organizations such as the Massachusetts Teachers Association claims that if help is given to parochial and private schools, it would force a reduction in such local services as police and fire protc:ction. This claim is nothing more than a scare tactic.

The MT A has even told its members that monies granted to parochial/ private schools have the effect of curtailing assistance to the elderly and local health services. Such claims are unproved, inaccurate and dishonest, serving only to extend and support the deep-seated antipathy towards parochial schools that has been so disgracefully reinforced by our state constitution. .

The widespread attempt to continue the longstanding denial of legitimate aid to parochial and private school students has been supported by union activists. This is exemplified by some local public educators' associations which have taxed their members to fight such aid. For some groups the effort to discredit parochial schools under the guise of separation of church and state has become a veritable crusade.

Such tactics should make citizens of the commonwealth aware of the self-serving and self-righteous nature of the attitude that would deny educational aid to those who have legitimately chosen parochial school education for their children, thus effectively making such parents and pupils second-class citizens under Massachusetts law.

Indeed, one wonders how religious freedom of choice exists at all in Massachusetts. As it is now, it is certainly selective.

Another point that should be mentioned, which has been terribly misrepresented by many, is that among the services which the proposed amendment to the state constitution would permit are services to individual children, who are . presently being denied them.

It is absurd that for 130 years our so-called bastion of freedom and liberalism has inflicted grave injustice upon citizens who wish a Catholic or other private education for their children, denying them benefits conferred by the federal Constitution and commonplace throughout the other states. To support a positive response to Question 2 is to remove the inequality that has been such a blot on the state that calls itself the Cradle of Freedom.

This question, if approved, is not a tuition tax credit proposal nor a school voucher proposal. It is affirmation that children are the most important element in the education process.

In so many ways Massachusetts has been a trend setter in education. It is more than unfortunate that it is the last state to retain a legal bias with regard to students in Catholic and other nonpublic schools.

If you are considering a yes vote on Question 2, you are also voting to eliminate from our present state constitution all remnants of religious prejudice. It is time for Massachusetts to remove all strictures and to conform with the federal Constitution, thereby eliminating the discrimination reflected by the' current penalizing of students in Catholic and private schools.

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"Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touchetl me." Job 19:21

A call for insurrection CHICAGO (NC) - It will take an "insurrection of consciences," and not just an end to abortion, for pro-life views to triumph in society, a theologian told abortion opponents in Chicago earlier this month.

Addressing the Americans United for Life national forum, Holy Cross Father James Burtchaell said abortion is not primarily a legal or medical problem and won't go away even if the Supreme Court's 1973 decision legalizing it is overturned.

The forum in Chicago celebrated the 15th birthday of Americans United for Life, a pro-life group specializing in legal expertise.

Abortion issues "must be settled not just in the law but in terms of justice," said the priest, who teach~s theology at the University of Notre Dame. "The law really cannot reach the roots of civil disorders, whether it's larceny, child abuse...or abortion. Moral conversion is required.

"We need an insurrection of conciences, an inspired alliance of men and women who love their children, and a total change of heart in law, injustice and in love," he said.

Reversing the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade abortion ruling may save a million unborn lives a year, he said.

Yet, he added, changes in law alone will not change backers of legal abortion, who he said are characterized by renunciation of kinship bonds, the inability of spouses to develop as a family, bad relationships with spouses or par-

ents, and the belief that "children exist to destroy hopes."

"We must go beyond the reversal of Roe vs. Wade and transform the level of debate," he said. "All of us must preach welcome for the helpless...

Nat Hentoff, a columnist for the Village Voice newspaper in New York City, praised the U.S. bishops' position seeking protection of life from conception until natural death.

The bishops"'consistent ethic of life" links abortion to other threats to life, including nuclear war.

Hentoff contrasted the bishops' ethic with what he termed the "inconsistent perspective" of Protestant fundamentalist Christian leaders who oppose abortion but favor a continuing nuclear weapons build-up and fail "to recognize the poor or work to help them."

Other speakers at the conference included Dr. C. Everett Koop, the U.S. surgeon general, and Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a former abortion physician who is now a pro-life advocate.

Koop warned that euthanasia is now "on the upswing."

"The elderly may be the next class of Americans to be disenfranchised of life," he said.

At the same time, Koop suggested the tide is turning against abortion. "The only people who talk about it are those who are changing to a pro-life stance," he said, citing Nathanson as an example of "heroism."

Nathanson strongly criticized the June Supreme Court ruling striking down provisions of a Pennsylvania abortion control law.

He said the decision was full of "inconsistencies, paradoxes and hypocrisy" for rejecting a provision intended to ensure women are adequately informed .about abortion.

He also repudiated the court's idea that abortion is a matter between a woman and her physician. "In an abortion situation the only thing discussed by the woman and her doctor is money," he said.

Dennis Horan, a Chicago attorney who is chairman of Americans United for Life, predicted the Supreme Court's 1973 ruling would be reversed.

He described difficulties abortion opponents face in federal courts, which, he said, are currently operating under the "umbrella of Roe vs. Wade" and are "antagonistic and fearful."

In other forum activities, Koop presented Hentoff with the Surgeon General's Medallion, for the columnist's support for the civil rights of Baby Jane Doe, a severely handicapped infant born in New York.

Horan presented the Americans United for Life Guardian of Life Award to Dr. Eugene Diamond, professor of pediatrics at Loyola University, founder of Birthright in Chicago, and long-time member of the Americans United for Life board.

Unsung ministries Once when I was working in family ministry in a parish helping to link accountants with elderly who needed help with their budgets and taxes, an accountant said to me, "I never considered my work ministry. I always thought ministry meant to preach, teach, usher and sing."

Yet, he was giving a couple of hours of evening time weekly, working patiently with people who were uncertain about their financial lives and who trusted and loved him for his caring.

I've often thought about him and how limited our view of ministry is. We reserve it to church functions rather than personal giftedness. In the intervening years, I've noted categories of ministry which go unsung but which make our lives richer.

First, there's the ministry of the convener. This is the person who calls others and says "Let's go on that retreat or to that workshop."

When I was teaching at Creighton University in Omaha, a carload of women from Lincoln, an hour away, attended both days.

When I remarked on their traveling to another diocese for nourishment, one laughed and said,' "We do it all the time because Dotty here reads about things going on and calls us. Otherwise, we would never go to anything."

I've met "Dottys" all over the country and they share a rare and valuable ministry - gathering

others to join a scripture class or work a Peace and Justice yard sale. We need them and honor them for their convening ministry.

Then there's the ministry of the reminder. This is the one who takes the time to call another and say, "I didn't want you to forget about that meeting or party tonight." In our busy lives, this person is a treasure. I've benefited numerous times from this ministry and I don't resent the reminder because I'm one of those who frequently thinks, "I want to go to that," and promptly puts it out of mind.

The ministry of collector is another unsung one. This is the one who collects old clothes, food, coupons et al for various causes. I know a woman who goes to the candy stores and collects their leftovers for a treat for the needy's children.

When I work at our local soup kitchen I am deeply aware of this ministry as people come in with produce and bread collected from grocery stores.

People who collect clothing become known and others drop sacks by their homes weekly. These collectors then see that clothes get to the shelters and migrant camps.

But they give up a neat garage permanently. My mother was the parish collector and I remember our side porch as a constant repository of old clothing.

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Cracking down The year 1986 has been a year of crackdowns for the Catholic Church. We have seen members of religious orders, theologians, an archbishop and others warned or disciplined by higher authorities.

Such actions, however, are not limited to the church. Universities, the government and the military are among institutions of society that are calling for greater restraints and conformity.

I asked a friend of mine how he interpreted these crackdowns. "I don't believe they will have the long-range effect those responsible for them want," he replied.

"The real problem is that we are in a unique age which no one yet knows how to handle. When you are at a. loss on how to solve a problem with new methods, you revert to old ones that once worked.

"The history of cracking down has a long track record, sometimes successful and sometimes disastrous," he said. My friend then blurted out, "Don't ask me to define what is exactly new in our age. I don't know."

What is new? For one thing we're living in an electronic age.

Our minds are bombarded electronically with ideas our grandparents could never have imagined.

We are living in an age of expanded imagination.

This electronic age did not just happen. It was created. Leading businesses, for example, attempt to foster "idea power" among staff members, viewing it as a means to success. Creativity is viewed as necessary for competing against foreign markets. An entrepreneurial spirit is encouraged - a spirit always of moving beyond the limits.

. It seems that a special respect for creativity is developing in society. Creative thinkers, of course, tend to move beyond the standard ways of thinking or acting. Consequently they often seem out of step with the ordinary procedures of , everyday life. With luck and hard work, this creativity leads to worthwhile breakthroughs.

Understanding legitimate creativity is a challenge those in authority face today (I say "legitimate" because it does happen at times that persons claim to be creative and really are frauds). As we move into the 21st century, all of us in one way or another are

November 1 Rev. William H. McNamara, Pastor, 1924, St. Mary, Mansfield Rev. Louis N. Blanchet", Assistant, 1927, St. Jean Baptiste, Fall River .

Rt. Rev. John F. Ferraz, Pastor, 1944, St. Michael, Fall River Rt. Rev. George F. Cain, Pastor, 1953, St. Mathieu, Fall River November 2 A memento for the repose of the souls of our priests not on this list.

Rev. Joseph S. Fortin, Founder, 1923, St. Jean Baptiste, Fall River Rev. Michael V. McDonough, Chaplain, 1933, St. Mary's Home, New Bedford November 6 Rev. Patrick S. McGee, Founder, 1933, St. Mary, Hebronville November 7 Rev. J. Edmond Tremblay, Retired Chaplain, 1985, Sacred Heart Home, New Bedford

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itual is another gift. They often do not see their steadfast faith and prayer presence as a ministry but after being around one, the rest of us come away with renewed hope and spirituality. We ought to declare these unassuming people ecclesiastical treasures.

The reconciler is another precious minister. This is the person who steps into breaches in families and parishes, bringing wisdom and love to conflict and tension. These are true healers and blessed are we around them.

Finally, there's the ministry of the optimist, the person we need around when we're feeling depressed, when life seems to be without meaning or hope. Their spirit raises ours. We all need such persons in our lives, ones we can call upon to cheer us up and on.

And they do. Thank you, God, for optimists in a world so often pessimistic.

If we know any of these ministers, let's take a moment to thank them. They get little recognition for what they do and many don't realize they are actually ministering to the rest of us. But we know.

Let's tell them.

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being influenced by the surge toward new creative ideas.

What should those in positions <;>f authority do when faced with the challenge of creative ideas?

When confronted with the confusion creativity often causes do they rely on old methods by cracking down or do they come up with creative methods for responding in an age that is moving by leaps and bounds toward the 21 st century?

Do they condemn, discipline and limit, or do they turn to the best methods of pursuasion, encourage new and constructive resolutions of problems and find ways to work with the fact that society speaks much more of going beyond limits than of holding them today?

Each Life , To respect life means to acknowledge each and every human life, from conception to natural death, as a marvelous and wonderful act of God. Each life is an indescribably sacred and fragile mystery.

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Teaching about the Jews Faculty and students at Catholic educational institutions have developed "a deep appreciation of Jews and Judaism" in the 20 years since the Second Vatican Council's "Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to'Non-Christian Religions," according to a recently published study.

Titled "Jews, Judaism and Cath, olic Education," the study is based on a survey of several hundred U.S. Catholic educational institutions. It was conducted by Dominican Sister Rose Thering of the Department of Education at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J., and published by the AntiDefamation League ofB'nai B'rith, the American Jewi!ih Committee and Seton Hall.

Sister Thering found broad awareness of the "teaching of contempt" that was partially responsible for the Holocaust. She attributes this awareness to the fact that Catholic educational institutions are teaching about Jews and Judaism.

The survey further discloses that Holocaust studies are offered in nearly two-thirds of high schools, some elementary schools and almost all Catholic colleges and universities, and that many Catholic institutions observe Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day - with special services to recall the genocide committed against the Jews during World War II. In a preface to the study, Rabbi Leon Klenicki, director of ADL's Interfaith Affairs Department, and Rabbi A. James Rudin, AJC's National Interreligious Affairs director, called the findings "both promising and encouraging. "They went on to say, however, that while "Jews and Judaism are no longer esoteric studies in Catholic schools, and there is growing interest in Judaism on the part of both students and faculty, much still remains to be done. Crucial issues remain."

Noting that "these issues are being faced and addressed by a growing number of Catholic educators and institutions," they commended Sister Thering "and others who have committed themselves to building a new and constructive relationship between Catholics and Jews - a relationship of mutual respect and understanding."

The survey expands on Sister Thering's 1970 study which sought to determine how Catholic institutions had implemented the Second Vatican Council's declaration on the Jews and Judaism. The current study surveys implementation of not only the 1965 statement but also includes the 1974 guidelines and suggestions for implementa-

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tion of the Vatican II document and the 1975 National Conference of Catholic Bishops' statement on Catholic-Jewish relations.

Sister Thering said the survey found significant improvement within Catholic educational institutions, but also indicated a need for improvement in such areas as presentation of the Pharisaic movement, an aspect of the Judaism of Jesus' time which the 1975' Vatican guidelines specifically said was in need of improved presentation in Christian teaching and preaching. Popular preaching and teaching, including Passion plays, have'often used Catholic devotion to Christ crucified as an occasion for anti-Jewish statements, Sister Thering said, despite the conciliar statement on the Jews that this is clearly not in harmony with either the truth or the spirit of the Gospel. :Sister Thering recommended that in accordance with the 1974 guidelines and suggestions for carrying out the Vatican II statement, Christians "must come to an understanding of Torah, people and land, three very important components of Judaism." Land refers to the land of Israel.

"Jews, Judaism and Catholic Education" is available from the publications departments of both the Anti-Defamation League, 823 U.N. Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10017, and the American Jewish Committee, 165 E. 56th St., New York, N.Y. 10022.

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Pope urges return to First Fridays ROME(NC) -Pope John Paul II has asked Jesuits to attempt revival of devotions to the Sacred Heart, including the practice of the nine First Fridays.

In a letter to Jesuit superior Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, the pope urged Jesuits to promote the Sacred Heart "with greater zeal," saying that it "more than ever responds to the needs of our times." He said traditional Sacred Heart devotions, such as first Friday communion, were still valid for contemporary Catholics.

The letter was made public during Pope John Paul's visit to a Jesuit chapel in Paray-Ie-Monial, France, as part of his recent trip to that country. The chapel is the 17th-century birthplace of the official cult of the Sacred Heart, which focuses on the physical heart of Jesus as the symbol of redemptive love.

In Rome, Father Johannes Gerhartz, Jesuit general secretary, said the pope's call was characteristic of his concern for Catholic devotions in general. He said the order agreed with Pope John Paul that devotion to the Sacred' Heart still has a place in modern Christianity but noted there was still a debate over the best way to practice such devotions.

"The question is how to do it today. That's a real question you can't just do what was done in the 17th century," Father Gerhartz said. He added that the order also agreed that "what's good for Europe is not necessarily good for Latin America" in terms of popular devotions.

"The church today is not 17thcentury Europe," he said.

In his letter, the pope said Jesuits should "promote this cult everywhere" by finding forms that correspond to the modern mentality.

But he added that traditional Sacred Heart practices of the holy hour of veneration and Communion on first Fridays should "still be offered to the faithful today."

Catholics who receive Communion on the first Fridays of nine consecutive months receive the promise of final penitence. The practice has greatly declined in recent years.

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It would allow our elected officials to determine policy.

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Once again our elected representatives would be able to consider providing textbook loans and certain limited health services for students attending Catholic and other nonpublic schools in accordance with the United States Constitution and already available to Catholic and nonpublic school children in many other states.

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CRS disputes AID audit NEW YORK (NC) - A V.S government audit has indicated Catholic Relief Services improperly handled some overseas funds and did not give government-supplied food to people who could not pay for it.

But officials for CRS, the V.S. bishops' overseas aid agency, disputed parts of the audit by the

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Agency for International Development, which focused on 1984 and 1985 programs in the African countries of Kenya and Burkina Faso, with references to other countries.

The report said the relief agency improperly handled funds generated by the AID-administered Food for'Peace program, used AID financial grants for unauthorized purposes, and failed to maintain adequate internal controls over its operations.

Auditors said CRS should return some money to the V.S government, including $544,000 it got by selling for animal food or other purposes food found unfit for human consumption and $321,368 of grants spent for unauthorized purposes.

CRS distributed $730 million worth of AID food in 1984 and 1'985.

In a statement Oct. 21 CRS said, "CRS can state categorically that its policy has been to deliver food tei the needy whether or not they had the ability to contribute.

That has been, and is, CRS policy.

If some local distribution centers, run by the church and other community groups, misunderstood or deviated from CRS policy, it was without CRS approval or knowledge."

Kenneth Hackett, CRS director for external affairs and Africa director until May 1985, said Oct. 21 that the' dispute would now go to another level at AI D,

SPOKANE, Wash. (NC) -Retired Bishop Bernard J. Topel of Spokane, 83, widely known for his humble lifestyle and ascetic practices, died Oct. 22 in Spokane.

Bishop Topel, who headed the Spokane diocese from 1955 to 1978, had been living at St. Joseph Care Center in Spokane for several years. His funeral Mass was celebrated Oct. 28 with Seattle Archbishop Raymond J. Hunthausen, his former student, as homilist.

Archbishop Hunthausen said Bishop Topel played a major role in his decision to become a priest.

"He was probably my dearest friend after my family," said the archbishop.

Archbishop Hunthausen said Bishop Topel had Alzheimer's disease, a progressive degeneration of brain cells. "In the early time of his suffering with Alzheimer's he spoke of giving everything to the Lord.

He said, 'If he wants my mind he can have it.' " Bishop Topel's simple lifestyle was the subject of a number of stories, including the CBS television program "On the Road" with Charles Kuralt. Time magazine and St. Anthony Messenger were among publications that reported on his life as bishop.

In 1969 Bishop Topel sold his episcopal mansion and moved into the Spokane cathedral rectory. Later he bought a small house in a low-income Spokane neighborhood, where he grew his own food in the garden.

In the late 1970s when the White House and many other homes lowered their thermostats to 65 degrees, he kept his home at its normal winter temperature of 42 degrees. "My reason for these low temperatures is to save money for the poor," he wrote at the time.

At his own request he received no diocesan pension, living on meager monthly Social Security checks. . In 1973, St. Anthony Messenger reported that "in ratio to the diocese's Catholic population, his programs for the poor are probably among the most extensive in the country. Yet he's managed to keep parish schools open. And the diocese remains financially solvent.

Bishop Topel has an outstanding record of fiscal management for the good of the poor and for all the people of his diocese." . ~e drew widespread attention wi'th a 1972 letter he sent his seminarians. I n it he said: "If it appears that you are not likely to practice .daily mental prayer in 路the priesthood, I l;lsk that you cease studying for the priesthood."

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Some churches have used stuffed owls to frighten the unwanted boarders. One newspaper reader suggested that "the regular and generous use of incense, besides being good liturgical practice" is effective against bats.

An Oxfordshire organist said that at one point, the residue on her organ was so thick she could not tell black from the white keys.

For Maj. Harry Porter, an Anglican church custodian, the job has been doubly frustrating. After he appealed to readers of The Times, London's prestigious newspaper, for advice, an environmental group

said driving bats from belfries was illegal.

Porter told Times' readers that his pews were showered daily with bat droppings and that the parish council had agreed to buy a stuffed owl to scare the bats away. He wanted to know which species would be most frightening.

A brown owl, readers replied, and one was placed in the church.

Then came the Nature Conservancy Council, one of Britain's leading environmental groups, which warned that "It is an offense' to use the stuffed owl because it involves trying to get rid of a protected species from its habitat."

However, Times readers continued to suggest means of banishing bats, including starting up a motorcycle in church and setting a falcon loose in the rafters.

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time at the Czestochowa Monastery in Doylestown, Pa. Father Stefanowicz is now principal guide for English-speaking pilgrims to Jasna Gora.

The monks' Fall River visit was prompted by the 20-year spiritual relationship between Jasna Gora and St. Stanislaus parish. F~ther Kaszynski noted that over half the parish families, including many who are non-Polish, have visited the monastery at least once.

Two years ago Father Kaszynski was received into the Pauline order as a confrater, a rare privilege which permits him to wear the community's habit without living in a monastery. The honor recognizes the activity of St. Stanislaus parish in promulgating devotion to Our Lady of Czestochow~.

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Father Abramek, an authority on history, Scripture and theology, was a professor for many 'years at his community's house of Jasna Gora, which means Shin- studies in Krakow, Poland. He has ing Mountain, is considered the been prior of Jasna Gora Monasspiritual capital of Poland and is tery for the past two years. Both he the scene of pilgrimages from and Father Stefanowicz have spent

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throughout the world, with millions of Catholics and non-Catholics visiting it annually.

The monastery and shrine, called the "national pulpit and confessional" of Poland, are served by some 100 hermit-monks. Especially during Poland's partition in the late 18th century, after which the country ceased to exist as an entity for 123 years, Jasna Gora became the focal point of hope for a better future. There the Polish language could be spoken and distinctively Polish spirituality could be expressed freely.

With the Fall River Mass, Fathers Abramek and Stefanowicz began a three-week pilgrimage of lecturing and visitations which will take them to Florida, California, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York with the purpose of acquainting Catholics with the meaning of Jasna Gora and its icon in today's church and world.

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October was marked as Polish Heritage Month at St. Stanislaus parish, Fall River, by a concelebrated Mass at which the principal celebrant was Very Rev. Rufin Abramek, OSP, prior of Jasna Gora Monastery in Czestochowa, Poland.

Concelebrants were Rev. Simon Stefanowicz, OSP, also a member of the Jasna Gora community; Rev. Janusz Jancarz, S.Ch., parochial vicar at St. Stanislaus parish, and Rev. Robert S. Kaszynski, pastor.

A reception at St. Stanislaus School followed the Mass. During the reception Father Abramek spoke on the icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa, Poland's most sacred religious symbol.

Fathers Abramek and Stefanowicz are hermit-monks of the ancient Order of St. Paul, the first hermit. The order, once strictly contemplative, came to Poland from Hungary in 1382 to assume guardianship of the Czestochowa icon at Jasna Gora Monastery.

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THE POPE AND CARDINAL RATZINGER

The men around the pope VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II is recognized as a strong leader in a church where power and authority are centered in the papacy.

Nevertheless, he relies on trusted assistants to provide advice on sensitive issues and to carry out assignments requiring tact as well as intelligence.

He is aided by over 800 staff members of the Roman Curia, the church's central administrative offices, but. many observers say he relies most on five key men.

They are Cardinals Agostino Casaroli, papal secretary of state

and head of the Council for the Public Affairs of the Church; Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; Jean Jerome Hamer, I)ead of the Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes; J ozefTomko, head of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples; and William Baum, head of the Congregation for Catholic Education.

They are the "movers and shakers" in the Catholic Church. Of them, Cardinals Casaroli and Ratzinger hold the most powerful positions. They may become involved in the affairs of other Curia agen-

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cies and, in some cases, overrule their decisions.

Cardinals Hamer and Tomko are Vatican veterans. Cardinal Baum is the only American in the inner circle.

Sources said the influence of the five powerful Curia figures is based on sharing with the pope the same overall view of the direction the church should take and holding powerful posts.

All stress strict adherence to the letter of the Second Vatican Council and think the church can help shape world affairs and social atti-

tudes by influencing politics and, culture.

Brief sketches of the Vatican's most powerful men follow.

- Cardinal CasaroIi, a 71-yearold Italian, conducts Vatican relations with both national hierarchies and governments.

The cardinal and the pope share the view that negotiating with communist governments is necessary to keep the institutional church alive, even if handicapped, in Eastern Europe and if Catholicism is to win the long-term ideological battle for the region.

Often, on important matters in which the pope takes a personal interest, Cardinal Casaroli signs the Vatican marching orders giving them more weight than the signature of the curial official directly responsible for the issue.

The pope and his secretary of state regularly conduct church business during unpublicized working lunches and dinners, according to secretariat staff members.

- Cardinal Ratzinger, the 59year-old son of a German policeman, has been the church's chief watchdog on theology, faith and morals since November 1981. As head of the doctrinal congregation, he is empowered to root out theological errors as measured by the yardstick of defined church teachings.

Congregation business is done in close personal collaboration with the pope. Except during summer vacations and papal trips abroad, . the cardinal and the pope hold weekly private meetings, usually on Friday afternoons.

Cardinal Ratzinger is the only Curia head with regularly scheduled weekly papal meetings. Other officials must request a papal meeting.

Congregation staff members say the pope and Cardinal Ratzinger share a view that misinterpretatiorl of Vatican II has led to many exaggerations and deviations in Catholic thought and practice, and these must be corrected.

The German churchman's freedom to be outspoken on such issues, in contrast to his predecessors, is interpreted by his staff as a sign that their boss has the pope's trust.

- Cardinal Hamer, a 70-yearold Belgian Dominican, keeps a watchful eye 011 the church's potent work force of 220,000 male religious and almost I million nuns.

Religious form the backbone of the church's educational systems and are the bulk of its missionaries.

The sharp drop in religious vocations since Vatican II deeply concerns the pope and the cardinal, and they see the temptations of the modern world hindering religious life.

Another major mutual concern

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is keeping religious within the parameters of church teaching and rules.

Cardinal Hamer has been a Vatican official for 20 years, starting as a consultant to the Secretariat for promoting Christian Unity.

- Cardinal Baum, 59, is the highest-ranking U.S. churchman at the Vatican. He was named to head the Catholic education congregation in 1980, after spending seven years as archbishop of Washington. He oversees the world's 38 million-student Catholic educational system.

During his six years at the Vatican, Cardinal Baum has become a trusted papal adviser on U.S. affairs, said a Washington priest now living in Rome.

"He is very informed of what is going on in the states. The Holy Father consults him. He has a lot of input into episcopal appointments," the priest said.

- Cardinal Tomko, as head of the church's missionary agency, holds an automatic position of power. His congregation administers about 900 missionary dioceses, distributing more than $110 million annually worldwide. It has a voice in the life of missionary religious orders and other church personnel in mission lands. It is responsible, with the Catholic education congregation, for missionary schools and seminaries.

A robust man who rises at dawn to exercise, Cardinal Tomko enjoys the pope's trust and friendship, Vatican sources say. They share similar views on the modern church and are fellow Slavs from communist-ruled countries.

A 62-year-old native of Czechoslovakia, Cardinal Tomko left his homeland to study for the priesthood in Rome in 1945. Religious repression back home prevented his return, and he stayed in Rome.

He stepped into the public eye in 1979, when the pope named him secretary general of the Synod of Bishops. In 1985, he was named head of the evangelization congregation.

Both men share a conviction that Christianity in Eastern Europe is of extreme importance for the church, as a unifying force for the whole continent and an inspiration to Western Christians.

A traveling companion on all papal trips, Cardinal Tomko sees eye-to-eye with the pope on the church's missionary role.

"Outrageous" PRETORIA, South Africa (NC) - The southern African bishops' conference has called "outrageous" the British Broadcasting Corporation's firing of a television researcher who also works for the bishops' s.ecular newspaper for singing the African national anthem at a memorial service. The researcher, Sarah Crowe, raised her fist in salute and sang "Nkosi Skelel'i Afrika" (God Bless Africa) at a recent service for 177 victims of a mining disaster. A BBC spokesman said the company fired her because it expects journalists to be "impartial and objective at all times."

The bishops' conference called the song a "Christian hymn" and a "prayer of petition" which is sung "at many churc.h services throughout South Africa." "We fail to see how this impairs journalistic 0 bjectivity - all the more since Miss Crowe participated in the Kinross mine disaster service while not on assignment," the conference said in a statement. . . .. . ....

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Concert a success Dear Editor: On behalf of Birthright of Greater Fall River, I want to thank you for your article on the Priests for Life concert (Anchor Oct. 3). It was very well done and many of those attending the concert said they had read about it in The Anchor.

The concert was a great success and the priests have already indicated th~ir willingness to do it again next year.

Janet Barbell Regional Birthright Consultant Swansea

A good neighbor Dear Editor: Doris Kittila Lamens and her family were our good neighbors on West Chester Street for many years.

Doris was a cheerful and helpful person. She worked for many years as an aide at Our Island Home where everyone loved her. She jo"ined the Church where she loved attending daily Mass and funeral services.

Then tragedy struck, and in o.ne year Doris lost her mother, her brother and her son. She was left " with nothing but her dogs and her cat, who followed her according to her wishes.

Please pray for Doris, and may she rest in peace.

Our Father Davignon is more than helpful. I can call him up any time and ask for a visit or prayers.

We are having an open house.

Wish you could drop in. I'll be at guestbook and wear my pretty hat I made with nylon net.

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By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Dr. Kenny: I have two daughters, a high school sophomore and an eighth-grader. They go to a lot of dances and now both want to date. This concerns me. I do want them to meet nice young men, but not so serious. It's a long way to being ready for marriage.

Even then I wonder what the best way to find a suitable partner is.

There are so many mistakes today, so many divorces. Do you have any ideas on what a parent can do to encourage situations where girls can meet and get to know boys without getting too serious? New Jersey. . What a nice way to ask your question. Instead of complaining about the youth of today and bemoaning"What's this world coming to ?," you ask what you can do.

Your question, "What's the best way to find !l suitable partner?" started me thinking in general terms. Our American custom is for boys and girls to go on dates before they marry. Is this the best way? It has one obvious problem.

Dating is usually fun, recreational, play time together. Mar-

riage, while one hopes it has many fun times, is primarily a working partnership for dividing the labor and raising children. Is having fun together a good way to predict whether a couple will work well together in marriage? Perhaps not.

Sports, like bowling, mixed tennis, golf and age-group swimming are also popular. Boys and girls can relate more naturally and less self-consciously when the focus is not on the relationship but on the activity.

Promote common projects. A young teen couple might tackle the task of tutoring a handicapped child after school. A church group of mixed teens might decide to put on a regular entertainment night at the local nursing home. The list of possible mixed-sex projects is endless.

The focus is on the common task. Boys and girls come to know each other, not just in recreational moments or as sex objects, but while doing important tasks together. If you as a parent can help your Make boys and girls welcome in your home. Young teens enjoy . daughters find this larger possibility, you will be doing a lot to help table games like Monopoly, Risk them learn to relate comfortably and Trivial Pursuit. They enjoy sharing and taping one another's to men and eventually to find the albums, renting VCR's and watch- right partner, Reader questions on family living movies with homemade popcorn. Think of young-people activi- ing and child care to be answered ties that are not boy-girl focused, in print are invited. Address the Kennys, Box 872, St. Joseph's as are dances, but that boys and College, Rensselaer, Ind. 47978. girls can enjoy doing together.

More important and deeper than having fun together, boys and girls need to associate comfortably with each other, to learn to work together on common tasks of some importance. Here may be an area where you as a parent can help.

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"Eleni," a film about the true story of a Greek woman put to death during the Greek Civil War, makes a statement about mother love as powerful as any I have heard or read.

The story unfolds through the eyes of Eleni's son, Nick Gage, a New York Times journalist, husband and father. Gage had been haunted by memories of his childhoo<\, in wartorn Greece and the knowledge that his beautiful mother (played by Kate Nelligan in the movie) was executed by a firing squad after she engineered the escape of four of her five children to the United States.

Remembering but not comprehending the infinite depth of love his mother felt for him and his sisters, Gage is compelled to return to Greece to investigate the events surrounding his mother's death 30 years earlier. Through a series of interviews and flashbacks, the truth about Eleni's ordeal and courage is reconstructed.

The Greek Civil War took place in the 1930s when rebel forces, aligned with communists, took up arms against the king in a bloody battle pitting brother. against brother. The rebels took Eleni's village, set up headquarters in her house, stole her family's food and conscripted her l5-year-old daughter to fight with their army.

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the rebels requested that all mothers "volunteer" to ship their children to communist bloc countries, probably never to be seen again.

One outspoken mother who openly refused was swiftly taken out and shot.

Eleni realized that the only way to save her children was to arrange their escape to join their father in America. Eleni could not go because the army had called her for an extended work detail.

When the escape was discovered, Eleni was dragged by horses back to town, tortured, tried for treason and ordered shot the next morning.

Throughout the film Eleni's·love for her children is paramount. She has no political sympathies. "My only sympathies are with my children," she says. She is determined to protect her children with every ounce of her being.

The final image of Eleni is unforgettable. Standing in the line of prisoners before the firing squad, as the rifles are lifted, trembling with clenched fists, this brave woman raises her arms in defiant victory and shouts her last words for the world to hear: "My children!"

The blast of the guns follows, killing her.

Eleni's sense of victory is the film's most powerful image.

But the most interesting message comes from the emotional and spiritual journey of her son.

Gage's intention in returning to Greece was not only to investigate his mother's murder but to avenge it. He had planned to put a bullet through the head of the unpunished war criminal who had ordered the execution: In the end, with his gun to the judge's face, Gage couldn't pull the trigger. He realized that there was not enough hate inside him to kill another human being. He understood then that Eleni had left him the legacy of love, not hate, and it was time to return to America to pass the same legacy on to his own children.

"Eleni" is the kind of film that moves a viewer to tears. For amid all the suffering and cruelty, the beauty and nobility of the human spirit shines through as a beacon of hope. We come away knowing that love is our greatest legacy and the most enduring force on earth.

It's Halloween again

By Hilda Young I made a bet with my husband last night. I wagered that by the end of the week I would be called to help with my 10-year-old's infamous class Halloween party.

You see, I've earned the reputation of being able to look a flaming jack-o'-lantern in the eye and get it to the trash can before it has a major meltdown.'

But what they don't know is that inside I'm jelly. I cringe when some kid runs around the room with candy corn in his nose trying to make the girls squeal. My stomach knots at the first scent of scorching pumpkin.

I'm going to put my foot down this year. Let someone else endure Rachel's screaming when she loses an eyetooth in the apple dunking tub.

1 get sweaty paJms just thinking

about the year I stepped on a piece of carrot cake, did a double axle and gave myself a bruise that lasted until New Year's. Some kid in a Darth Vader mask looked down on me and said my expression was good but my technique needed work.

I've served my time, done my duty, stood my watch. I'm eligible for the VFW (Veterans of Fairies and Witches). So let somebody.' else earn a Purple Heart (and other parts) playing pin the tail on the ghoul.

I'm ready to sit back.

"I'll bet Mrs. Gibson has tried to call but couldn't get through." I told my husband.

I decided to call her. "Sure. I'd be happy to help." I heard myself telling her.

I can't figure my husband out.

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WASHINGTON (NC) - The superpowers must eliminate nuclear weapons by the year 2000 or the next generation is doomed, said religious leaders who have endorsed a petition for disarmament. "Nuclear war is inevitable. We can't escape the horror," said Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit as he and other religious leaders met recently in Washington to sign what they called a citizens' declaration. The declaration says nuclear deterrence is "morally unjustifiable" and calls use of nuclear weapons disproportional to "reasonable military objectives."

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SISTER DOROTHY McLAUGHLIN, secretary for S1. Raphael province of the S of Pr ce, with provincial headquarters locaall at right in picture above. It was taken at James P. McLaughlin Family Day, declared by the Sisters ofProvidence at their motherhouse in St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind., to honor Sister McLaughlin's and mily, who have contributed genero c ty.

Parcel Service, McLaughlin, retired president of is chairman of the Providence co tion's . nal Development Council. Family Da Mass and luncheon v evie McLaughlin and his wife are the couple's sons James Jr. ( daughter Jean.

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"I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of reparation on the first Saturdays. If people listen to my requests, Russia will be converted and there will be peace."

Then again, on December 10, 1925, Our lady app~ared to Sister lucia, one of the children of Fatima, and told her the following: "Announce in my name that I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, shall

1. Go to confession and receive Holy Communion,

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Recite the Rosary,

3. And keep me company for a quarter of an hour while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary

The move was opposed by some ofthe centuries-old dioceses which are to be merged. Most have maintained their own curias, even without resident bishops.

Before the new streamlining, Italy had the largest number of dioceses of any country in the world. The number wiII now be reduced from 325 to 228, leaving Italy second to Brazil in number of dioceses.

4. With the intention of making reparation to me."

To practice this devotion, you must fulfill the requests of Our Lady, doing so in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Confession may be made during eight days before or after the Communion.

(Courtesy of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi, St. Hedwig parish, New Bedford, Mass.)

Natural Expression "Self-sacrifice is love's natural expression." - William Temple

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This devotion was requested by Our lady of Fatima on July 13, 1917, when she said: "God wishes to establish in the wor!d devotion to my Immaculate Heart.

Italian church is streamlined VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican has announced an organizational streamlining of the Italian church that wiII eliminate nearly 100 dioceses as individual sees.

The former dioceses, all without resident bishops, wiII be merged with neighboring ones by which in recent years they have been administered.

The new list of dioceses was required by the 1985 concordat between Italy and the Holy See, so the Italian state could have an accurate picture of the church's organization for legal purposes.

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IN 1985, the pope ordains a group of ~oun~ Af~i~a~~ to the priesthood.; Altho~gh the pontiff believes the post-Vatican II. "priest~y Identity cnsls IS over, the proportiOn of pnests to the growing number of lay Catholics contmues to lessen. (NC photo)

Is priestly identity crisis over?

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Have the pope's clear definitions of priesthood ended the priestly identity crisis, or are the practical realities of the Catholic world keeping the issue at the center of church debate?

Pope John Paul II thinks the post-Vatican II identity crisis is over. He feels he has brought it to an end, eight years after his election to the papacy, through clear definitions of priestly life enunciated at the Vatican and during

his 31 trips outside Italy.

But the bottom line remains: There are fewer priests for the growing Catholic population.

For the pope the priest's identity is pretty much what it was before Vatican II: male, celibate (for

Supporters of the pope say the Latin-rite priests), primarily concerned with people's spiritual well- crisis is over. They cite Vatican being, and clearly distinct from the figures showing that the drop in ministerial role of the laity en- . the worldwide total of priests has couraged by the Second Vatican bottomed out and is slowly starting to rise as fewer priests are leavCouncil.

For the pope, the winds ofchange ing the active ministry and more brought by Vatican II meant that students are entering seminaries.

Yet the same Vatican figures priests should strengthen their traditional identity as a prerequisite show that this rise is far behind the for grappling with the problems of rise in total Catholic population, a rapidly changing modern world. meaning the priest shortage is inIt did not mean a blank check for creasing. In 1979, there was one priest for every 1,086 Catholics. restructuring priestly life.

In the tiny French rural town of The figure jumped to one priest Ars-en-Dombes, population 700, per 2,069 in 1984, the latest Vatican figures available. he drew his bottom line Oct. 6.

So while papal supporters argue "The specific identity of the priest thus appears clearly," he that more people are being attracted preached to 5,800 French priests to the papally defined priesthood, opponents can say the definition is and seminarians on retreat. attracting a decreasing percentage "After the debate of the last 20 of the Catholic population. years, this is now discussed less Also, the current debates over and less," the pope said. priestly identity might not be as The task now, he added, is to abundant as they were in the heady attract more people to this clearly days immediately after Vatican II, defined priesthood because the ex- but they still exist. panded role of the laity cannot The stakes also have risen. include celebrating Mass and hearNow, the Vatican has to defend ing confession. not only celibacy, but its theologi"The limited number of priests cal prohibitions on women priests. and priestly ordinations in many Earlier this year, a survey in the countries could bring many faith- United States showed that about ful and even priests to resign them- half the Catholics favored a female selves to this shortage, under the priesthood. Many Western Europretext that it is better that the role pean countries show similar supofthe laity is rediscovered and put port. into practice," he said.

The particular realities of Third The pope also warned churches World countries also are keeping in countries like France, which pressure on the Vatican regarding have "priestless Sundays," not to political commitment in povertyconfuse these lay-led prayer serv- stricken societies, inculturation, ices with the priestly function at non-Christian forms of spiritualMass. ity, and celibacy in many societies "It would be ambiguous, under in which this is not considered a the pretext of realistically facing value. the near future, to organize ChrisFor the pope the definition of a tian communities, as if they could priest is clear, but time will tell if it largely take the place of the minis- ends the debate on priestly identity. terial priesthood," the pope said.

In France, however, two-thirds of the dioceses have parishes with priestless Sundays, making the problem of priestly identity - and the accompanying clergy shortage it has produced - more than ~ . - . something which can be solved by " . definition.

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U .8. bishops to discuss Abp. Hunthausen issue at annual meeting WASHINGTON (NC) - As the U.S. Catholic bishops prepared for their annual November meeting in Washington, they faced apparently growing pressure to take a stand on the recent Vatican disciplining of Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen of Seattle.

The Vatican decision to transfer some of the archbishop's authority to Auxiliary Bishop Donald Wuerl was announced in early September, but controversy over that action continued unabated through October.

Bishop James Malone of Youngstown! Ohio, president of the Natiorial Conference ofCatholic Bishops, said in a letter released Oct. 28 that. the matter would be discussed by the country's bishops at the Nov. 10-13 meeting in a session closed to the press.

Also released Oct. 28 was a four-page chronology of events leading to the archbishop's disciplining.

Sent to the bishops at the request of the Vatican Embassy in Washington, it said that "the Holy See considered him [Archbishop Hunthausen] lacking the firmness necessary to govern the archdiocese."

Regarding the specific areas in which the Holy See instructed the archbishop to relinquish his authority, the chronology said that

"his interpretation of the importance of these matters and the inadequacy of his response were the [Holy See's] principal concerns. " In a statement issued in Seattle Oct. 28, Archbishop Hunthausen disagreed with the embassy version of events, saying his own understanding on a number of points "differs significantly'; from what was stated in the document.

He declined "at the present time or in this particular forum" to spell out his disagreements. He said respect for the author of the chronology, Archbishop Pio Laghi, papal pronuncio to the United States, prompted him to reserve his "specific comments and judgments to other more appropriate forums." He indicated that the bishops' closed-door session next month might be such a forum.

Even before Bishop Malone revealed that the bishops would discuss the case, there was growing pressure from bishops around the country for more information on it and for some kind of action by the bishops' conference.

Bishop Michael Kenny of Juneau, Alaska, said at a press conference in Seattle Oct. 23 that he and other bishops of the Northwest were working to bring their concerns about the Vatican action

to the attenti'on of the full bishops' conference.

Complaints to the Vatican about Archbishop Hunthausen of Seattle "were occasioned by a vocal minority who didn't like his stand on the nuclear arms race," Bishop Kenny said.

Because the archbishop's pacifist views were "not of great concern to the Vatican," however. his opponents made an "orchestrated effort" to find other complaints about his ministry, Bishop Kenny said.

He said Archbishop Hunthausen was "publicly humiliated" by the recent Vatican order to relinquish his authority over the archdiocese in some areas, and the bishops of the Northwest feel the action was unjust.

But "this kind of martyrdom makes a person more credible," he said. "The goodness and holiness of the man are much more evident."

On Oct. 24. in Chicago, a column

by Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin in his archdiocesan newspaper, The Chicago Catholic, urged "a period of calm" and public disclosure of "as much of the factual situation as possible" behind the Seattle controversy.

Earlier that week National Catholic News Service obtained a copy of a private letter to bishops from

Archbishop Hunthausen's brothers, sisters and in-laws, asking the hierarchy to "take action" to see that the archbishop receives "some sort of due process."

The letter, dated Sept. 28, said Archbishop Hunthausen "has been accused of something, but it is not clear of what or by whom." It asked the bishops "to discuss and take action on this serious matter" at the bishops' Nov. 10-13 meeting.

A view that the Hunthausen case affects the. whole body of bishops was raised by Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee when he delivered a speech in New York Oct. 8. In response to a question after his talk, he said that the "deeper problem" in the case was "how collegiality is going to work."

He said collegiality means that the bishops' govern the church in union with the pope, but "we don't have the kind of forms needed" to put that principle into practice.

The H unthausen case was also a major focus of attention at three diverse national meetings in midOctober - one of church lawyers, one of liturgists, and one ofCatholics concerned about the role of women in the church.

- At the annual convention of the Canon Law Society of America in Denver, some 450 church lawyers passed resolutions sup-

porting Archbishop H unthausen and criticizing the Vatican decision to limit his authority.

- Representatives of diocesan liturgical commissions from across the country, meeting in Portland, Maine, overwhelmingly approved a resolution supporting the archbishop and expressing concern over the "confusion and division" caused by the Vatican action.

- At "Women in the Church," a Washington conference that drew about 2,500 Catholics concerned about women's rights in the church, hundreds signed a petition supporting Archbishop Hunthausen.

She's a winner STOCKHOLM, Sweden (NC) - The first woman member ofthe Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Italian-American biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, will share the 1986 Nobel Prize in medicine, the Nobel committee has announced in Stockholm. The 77-year-old cell specialist won the prize with U.S. biochemist Stanley Cohen. They collaborated in discovering the nerve growth factor, a mechanism regulating cell growth. Ms. LeviMontalcini, a native of Italy who also holds U.S. citizenship, has been a Pontifical Academy of Sciences member since 1974.

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Hundreds of onlookers listened as each group prayed for peace dox churches joined in the service including Metropolitan Filaret of then, holding olive branches, meditated briefly in silence. ~iev an~ Galic, who read a psalm In a concluding talk, the pope In RUSSian. Among the Catholics said the day had shown that "peace present were BishopJames Malone, is a workshop, open to all. " head of the U.S. bishops' conferHe expressed hope that warring ence, and a number of Eastern factions had heeded his call for a church delegates.

Monday truce to show that vioMother Teresa of Calcutta sat lence need not rule human affairs. in a pew with other faithful and According to news reports, the prayed the rosary quietly. LuthePhilippines, Angola, Nicaragua, ran and other Protestant comSudan and the Thai-Cambodian munities, as well as interfaith border were relatively quiet the groups, also were represented. day of the truce.

In a prayer that examined gloHowever, the Irish Republican bal trouble spots, Christians prayed Army, which had conditionally for Asians, Europeans, Latin and agreed to observe the truce, claimed North Americans and Africans. responsibility for a Northern IreA few blocks away, Moslems land bombing which damaged a from nine nations sat stocking- freight train. footed on Oriental rugs and chanted The I RA had said it would from the Koran, the Moslem holy observe the truce if British forces book, in front of an ancient Roman in Northern Ireland were confined wall, while in rooms of the Assisi to their barracks for 24 hours. town hall, a chieffrom Togo, West In EI Salvador, the army accused Africa, held a bowl of water and guerrillas of breaking a truce agreechanted a prayer that praised the ment with an attack on an army pope for his "strength" and asked post. spirits, invoked in the cause of J:>alestine Liberation Organizapeace, to enter the bowl. tion leader Yasser Arafat sent the More than 100 Italians lined up pope a long message saying the to enter a tiny chapel where Amer- peace call had a profound effect on ican Indians John and Burton Palestinians; but said nothing about Pretty, chanting in the Crow lan- a truce. Fighting between Palesguage, invoked "God, the supreme tinian guerrillas and Shiite Moscreator" to bless each indiVidual's lem militias continued in Lebanon.

Reagan and other government intentions.

Nearby, Rabbi Elio Toaff of leaders sent messages of support Rome read from the Talmud and to the pope. found links with St. Francis'teachOther governmental and world ing on professing God, finding leaders supporting the prayer sumgrace and spreading peace in the mit were Javier Perez de Cuellar, Jewish word "shalom."

U.N. secretary general, and PhilIn the Romanesque Church of ippine President Corazon Aquino.

St. Peter, Buddhist monks from Among governments expressing Tibet, South Korea and Japan led support were Japan, Senegal, prayers that blended musical Egypt, Australia, Lebanon, Israel chants, a bronze gong and wooden and most of the governments of Western Europe. blocks.

A Zoroastrian prayed before a He's Better source of light, in this case a wood fire.

"A humble and simple man who Afterward, the groups, dressed serves God is better than a proud in a rainbow of colorful robes, and learned man ~ho gives no joined at the Basilica ofSt. Francis thought to the state of his soul." for an outdoor prayer service.

-Thomas Kempis

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As a Maryknoll nun, she cured the sick in Bolivianjungles, healed thousands of Korean refugees, ran an interracial hospital in Kansas City, Mo., and spent her retirement years in an old tenement building praying for the needs of the world.

Born in Milwaukee in 1903, she attended Marquette University's medical school and after making her first" vows in 1931, was stationed in Korea until 1940. From 1943 to 1950, she worked out of a one-room clinic that later expanded . into a hospital serving thousands in the jungles of northern Bolivia.

In 1951, with the permission of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Sister Hirschboeck returned to Korea in the midst of the Korean War; and in 1955 became administrator of Queen of the World Hospital in Kansas City, the community's first non-segregated hospital.

In 1958, she was elected vicar general of the Maryknoll Sisters, a position she held for 12 years.

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Stand up and be heard!

By Cecilia Belanger For more years than I care to remember, I've received letters from fellow Catholics and other Christians telling me that they're not allowed to speak as freely as others.

How long are we going to allow "the silencers" to get away with this? Have they some special authority? Who are they? Just how great do they think they are?

True Christians follow Christ's example and remain open to other people's insights and ideas.

We have too many fanatics among us who forget that the rest of us have opinions, too. They are always men and women of monologues; only they have the truth, the answers, the word.

I've always believed that when we sit together in a group, the encounter is one of equality. We all come from different sets of responsibilities and experiences.

And I think that unstructured listening points are the best; I like meeting people on the street, for example. We can hear each other without interruption, usually with time to talk without the stress of deadlines.

What's on your mind?

Q. Why do some kids always talk about sex? (Washington) A. Some teenagers talk about sex rather frequently for several reasons.

First, it's a fascinating subject and it should be noted here that some adults talk about this topic rather frequently, too.

The fascination comes partly from the fact that sex is so elusive.

Why is this girl attracted to this boy? Or to put it another way, "What on earth does she see in him?"

Sexual attraction does not readily lend itself to scientific analysis and neat categories. Nor do the differences between boys and girls.

Because sex is such an elusive thing, it makes for speculation and conversation.

Teenagers, because they are teens, usually are keenly aware of their emerging.sexual powers. So they want to talk about this new aspect of their life not only with adults but also, perhaps especially, with their peers.

A joking remark about sex\may really be an attempt to get the conversation headed toward a serious discussion of sexuality.

It also may be, in some cases, an attempt to turn the conversation into something sordid and demeaning, a conversation that benefits no one and may even seriously harm someone.

A person is justified in walking away when the talk takes a rough turn for the worse. This may take some guts, but such a person is likely to feel good later on about turning her or his back on such talk.

There are people who use the word "peace" without knowing its true meaning. They create havoc in the lives of others, assaulting them for their differing opinions.

They speak of dictatorships but they themselves are dictators. I don't see this as Christ's way.

Speak for those who are silenced.

When you do, you can be sure that Jesus stands behind you!

Decision praised WASHINGTON (NC) - Prolife leaders have praised a decision to lift a government regulation that had required federally funded family planning clinics to give abortion information to pregnant clients, along with information on prenatal care and delivery, infant care, foster care and adoption.

Pro-life groups had complained that the rule meant they could not participate in the $142.5 million a year federal family planning program because they could not comply with the abortion information requirement.

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FIRST GRADERS at Mt. Carmel School hold their homemade rosary beads, top, Inbottom photo, grade two students, from left, Giselle Tesouro, Rose Mach'ado, Jennifer Valente and Carolina Macedo prepare to join in prayer.

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Another reason many people discuss sex so much is that it occupies such a prominent place in our culture. Whether you're watching a soap opera or a commercial for some perfume or automobile, sex is likely to rear its intriguing head.

And some of the TV material can be highly erotic.

Even at a mundane supermarket, the paperbacks and magazines speak loudly ofsex to the passersby.

So do some bumper stickers, newspapers, rock music and movies. One can't walk far without being reminded of sex. So it isn't surprising that some people talk about it rather frequently.

Is this preoccupation with sex and the rather frequent conversations about it good or bad? Why not talk about that question with your friends sometime? Or maybe your religion teacher will let you discuss the question in class.

Finally you might wish to talk with your friends sometime about the following witticism: "If God invented sex, why do we turn to H'!gh Hefner for advice?"

Send questions to Tom Lennon, 1312 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.

Coyle-Cassidy Dave Simas, a junior at the Taunton school, has been awarded a $750 scholarship by the Sankaty Head Foundation.

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C-C soccer team members have won their first three matches this season. Not to be outdone, the cross-crountry team triumphed in five of its first six meets.

Students at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, New Bedford, recently joined with faculty members to commemorate the rosary month of October wih an imaginative "living rosary."

According to Sister Marie Gower, SS D, principal, each class, helped by its teacher, stuffed paper bags full of newspapers, closed

them and tied them together to form a very large rosary. Each child held a "bead" during the recitation, whic!t took place in the school's roomy auditorium.

While meditating on the rosary mysteries, the children expressed their faith and devotion in the traditional rosary prayers.

Culminating with a song, the children returned to their classrooms, Sister Gower said, with a better understanding of the power of prayer through the rosary and the unity that praying can bring, The experience was reinforced, she added, by the children's decision to share the candy surprise they found inside their "beads."

Monkeemania hits Chicago archdiocese CHICAGO(NC)-In the 1960s, the Monkees took the "Last Train to Clarksville" to the top of the pop charts and made believers out of rock music fans.

But that was then. Now three of the original four are riding a crest of renewed Monkeemania that includes an upcoming stop at a Catholic youth celebration in Chicago.

David Jones, 40, Micky Dolenz, 41, and Peter Tork, 44, will perform at "Shout! A Celebration of Catholic Youth," Nov. 2 at the Rosemont Horizon.

The threesome is midway through a seven-month V.S. tour.

The fourth of the original Monkees, Michael Nesmith, 42, a

film producer, decided not to join the tour.

Father John Horan, director of the Catholic Youth Office of the archdiocese of Chicago, said the event will show that "you can be connected with the church and you can have fun."

"Cardinal [J oseph] Bernardin is throwing a party for kids," he added.

The Chicago cardinal will lead a prayer service for the 17,000 youths expected to attend the celebration.

The young people will be asked to donate a can offood as they enter.

They will hear the Monkees, who had nine Top 20 singles from 1966 to 1968, perform such hits as "I'm

a Believer,''''Pleasant Valley Sunday" and "Daydream Believer."

Four of the group's albums have recently been reissued. A new single, "That Was Then, This Is Now," is an overwhelming success, and there are plans for a new TV show with a youthful Monkees foursome.

Right to Rights "V nderlying all other rights which we have as human beings and as American citizens is the right to life and the right to what is essential to the full development of human life. This right has been described as 'the right to have rights.' " - Bishop John Michael D'Arcy

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Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

Gen~ral. ratings: G-suitable for gen· eral vlewmg; PG·I3-parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PC-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and e~planation); O-morally offensive.

NOTE JEREMY IRONS, left, and Father Berrigan in a scene from "The Mission." (NC photo)

Fr. Berrigan, movie star?

WASHINGTON(Nq-Afteryears of antiwar activism, Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan is playing a new role - that of an actor in the new Warner Bros. Film "The Mission," which stars Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons.

Father Berrigan was an adviser and has a small part as a Jesuit priest in the film about 18th-century European missionaries in South America ordered by church officials to leave when mission lands were taken over by Portugal.

Father Berrigan praised the movie for addressing moral issues, but said it was hard to reconcile Hollywood affluence with Third World poverty in Colombia, where "The Mission" was made.

However, he said, the company which made the film "did its best to be just to the Indians" in the film,.and actors and crew created a fund to provide for medical, dental and educational help.

The V.S. Catholic Conference Department of Communication gave the film an adult classification and said it contained historical flaws and omissions, but Father Berrigan said it is accurate despite compressing 150 years of history into two hours.

"The Jesuits are portrayed accurately," he also said. "There's not a mean-spirited or narrow line in the whole thing. They lived that way.

They loved the Indians very deeply."

The cardinal who ordered the Jesuits to leave "was a very wonderful and principled man, but he was trapped," said Father Berrigan. "He chose an awful out to avoid a worse one. The treaty (in 1750 between Spain and Portugal, dividing the South American territory) had been signed and he figured if the Jesuits went out voluntarily it would blunt the edge of Indian resentment."

Father Berrigan, a pacifist, said the film does not examine the merits of violent and nonviolent resistance, presenting them impartially.

Mendoza, (played by De Niro), who chooses violence, and Father Gabriel (played by Irons), who chooses non-violence, both die and neither is seen as making the better choice, he said.

"The church is still wrestling with this" in Nicaragua, South Africa and Northern Ireland, he added.

The film, about which he has written a book, brought new friends to Father Berrigan. He later visited Irons at his home in Britain to baptize the actor's newborn child and give first communion to his 7-year-old son. Fathc;r Berrigan also continues to keep in touch with De Niro, whom he called a "very shy, withdrawn person."

In general, said the priest, a bond was created among cast and crew as they lived together in the jungle without outside communication.

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