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Msgr. George W. Coleman elected diocesan administrator ~ He will lead the. day-to-day

bishop) period. I am gratefulJor the confi- ,and 'foundation of the responsibilities we minds with the trust of the Gospel,''' he dence and trust they have placed in' me." , hold, but also of the priesthood we share," added.

The College of Consultors are directed According to the norms of Canon Law, ' Msgr.Coleman said. , the elected administrator ,had' to make ',~I would appreciate your prayers that I by Canon Law to convene within eight " be,a conscientious and faithful adminis- days after a bishop's see is vacated. To be .profession oUaith.

"As I made the Profession of Faith '.in trator: 'And 'let us all pray for a shepherd validly chosen, the diocesan administrator

By DEACON JAMES N. DUNBAR , the presence of the consultors; I was' con'- .'who' will.be an ¢xample of goodness to "must be a priest of at least 35-years of FALL RIVER - Msg'r. George W. scious of how this Faith is not only the core God's people and will fill our hearts and age ... who is outstanding in doctrine and Coleman, vicar general and r----~~-~--....,.-------------------------------___, prudence...." moderator of the curia, has ' " "In general and with been elected to serve as the ~' -some sacramental excepadministrator of the Diocese '. tions, for instance, ordinaof Fall' River until a new ~.'

0l.:i~ tions, the diocesan adminis' -.trator can do almost everybishop 'is installed. " .;;, ~·,c;':; ~ thing a local bishop can do," , Msgr. Coleman, 63, was elected October 22 by his ~ eRxp~ainedOFacther ~adu" .F· obmson, . arm.,Ju ICI al peers on the College of ConsuItors to administer the diovicar of the Diocesan Tribucese after Bishop Sean P. nal.

O'Malley, OFM Cap., who Msgr. Coleman is well had served here for 10 years, experienced in running the assumed leadership of the· diocese.

Named to the position of Diocese of Palm Beach, Fla., on October 19. vicar general and the first The College of Consulmoderator of the curia on tors, of which Msgr.

September 15, 1994 as part Coleman is a member, inof an extensive reorganizaeludes Father Paul E. tion of the diocese by Canuel, Msgr. Edmund J. Bishop O'Malley, Msgr.

Fitzgerald, Father Edward J. Coleman has continued fulltime in those capacities ever Healey, Father Michael K. McManus, Father John J. since.

Oliveira and Msgr. John A. A native of Fall River, Perry.

Msgr. Coleman graduated Msgr. Coleman told The from Coyle High School in Anchor that the consultors Taunton in 1957 and at"elected me to serve as diDIOCESAN CONSULTANTS met recently to elect a new administrator of the diocese. From left: Msgr. tended Holy Cross College, ocesanAdministratorduring Edmund J. Fitzgerald, Father John J. Oliveira, Father Paul E. Canuel, Father Michael K. McManus, Msgr. Worcester. the 'sede vacante' (vacant John A. Perry, Msgr. George W. Coleman and Father Edward J. Healey. Msgr. Coleman was named adminTum to page J3 chair or see of the local istrator and will oversee the diocese until a new bishop is seated. (AnchotiGordon photo) Administrator

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Election 2002: Challenges and opportunities Editor's note: Thefollowing statement was released by the Catholic bishops of Massachusetts in reference to next Tuesday's elections: "We are called once again, as free citizens in a democracy, to exercise our right and duty to vote on November 5,2002.

The General Election arrives this year amidst uncertainty, turmoil, and discontent.

The terrible attacks of a year ago on September II shattered our sense of security.

The threat of expan~ed war in the Middle East and continued acts of violence in our country and around the world sustain the tension. Our economy is sputtering, causing an increase in unemployment and forcing cutbacks in both public and private aid to the poor. The news of financial cheating only adds to the distress. Furthermore, for us in the Church, the revelations about . the abuse of children by priests have been : profoundly distressing.

As difficult as these circumstances may be, however, there is no off-season for'our obligation to speak to certain basic truths, especially at election time. Elections challenge us as a people to remember the principles that l1)ake our country strong and compassionate, We must not only exercise our right to vote, but must exercise our 'judgment in line with these principles, when consid({ring which candidates to support: . First, every human being born and unborn should,be the subject of the law's protection, and the right to life' is funda- . mental, as evidenced by its place of promi, nence in our Declaration of Independence.

Like a foundation to a home, the protection ,of life is not only connected' to, but, proVides the necessary support for all other human rights. In this sense, the right to life Turn to page' J3 - ELe'ctions

Msgr. Ferris to become chorbishop Sunday FALL RIVER - Msgr. Norman J. ,Ferris, pastor of St. Anthony of the Desert Parish here, will be elevated to the rank of chorbishop in the Maronite Rite of the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday at,a 3 p.m. liturgy.

A banquet will follow at the Venus de Milo Restaurant, Swansea.

The term chorbishop comes from the Greek word "chora" meaning countryside, the tradition of Christianity being its early popularity in urban communities.

Although the chorbishop has disappeared from the hierarchy ranks in many churches, he has remained in the Maronite, Chaldean and Syrian

Catholic Churches.

The Maronites are Roman Catholics in full communion with the Holy See of Rome. The Church is comprised of several Eastern and Western Rites and the MaroniteS belong to the Syro-Antiocqene Rite.

Ordained a priest in May 1953, Msgr. Ferris served for 17 years at St. Mary's Parish, Taunton. He was appointed the administrator of St. Anthony of the Desert Pari.sh in 1970, and five years later became its pastor.

Invested in 1982 asa monsignor by the Diocese of St. Maron, he was named a Prelate of Honor to His Holiness Pope John Paul II in 1996.

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., November 1, 2002

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WASHINGTON - The National Catholic Office for Persons with Disabilities has changed its name to the National Catholic Partnership on Disability to reflect an expanded missi.on'and outreach. . '.

"Our name change re{lec'ts our ongoing commitment to create partnerships with all, Catholic organizations apd people who seek to 'expand outreach and evangelization/to the ov~r 14 million Catholics who li~e with various disabilities," said Mary Jane Owen, executive director, in a statement. .

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and daughters whq live with physical, cognitive, sensory or emotional disabilities, it is essential that the circle of concern be expand.ed," 'she ad.ded. :'~ . Th~' Washfngtori-ba.s'ed organization was created i'n' 1982 to promote the U.S. bishbps' 1978 pastoral st'atement on the disabled, which expressed a commitment to work for "a deeper understanding of both the pain and the potential of our neighbors who are blind, deaf, mentally retarded, emotionally impaired, who have special learning problems or who suffer from single or multiple physical handicaps - all those whom disability may set apart."

Kent Peters, chairman of the organization's board of directors, said the partnership would highlight "the growing number of people who are surviving the early deaths expected several de.cades ago.", "Our parents and grandparents lacked the services which allow .lndividuals with significant impairments to return from hospitals and rehabilitation facilities, ready and willing to assume an active role in their communities and parishes," Peters added. "Their need to be fully included calls for a part~ership effort."

PROVINCIAL COUNCILORS of the New York Province of Sisters of the Good Shepherd are, front, from left, Sisters Rose Behrend of Harwichport, Mass.; Yvette Arnold, Jane Amirault of Marlborough, Mass.; Agnes Richardson and Helen Lussier; and back row, Sisters Ellen Kelly, Judy Mannix, Sheila Kelly, Edith Olaguer and Carol Seig·el.

Good Shepherd Sisters elect new Province Leader

OSSINING, N.¥. - Gathering for a recent chapter here, Sisters of the Good Shepherd of the New York Province elected Sister Yvette Arnold as their new Province Leader.

The Good Shepherd Sisters have an active religious community at 88 Bank Street in Harwichport, and one of its local contemplative members, Sister Rose Behrend, was also elected as a provincial councilor at the chapter meeting:: She and six other colleague sisters will serve for the next six years on the Council, dedicated . to the chapter theme, "Life-bear. ers for the Poor of. Our World."

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Nov 9 PRACTICE THE DEVOTION OF THE FIRST SATURDAYS, AS REQUESTED BY OUR LADY OF FATIMA I

On.December la, 1925,Our Lady appeared to Sister Lucia (seer of· Fatima) and spoke these words: "Announce in my name that I promise to assist at the hour ofdeath with the graces necessary for the salvation of their souls, aU those who on the first . Saturday of five. consecutive months shaU: 1. Go to confession; 2. Receive Holy Communion; 3. Recite the Rosary (5 decades); and 4. Keep me company for 15 minutes while meditating on the 15 mysteries ofthe Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me."

In a spirit ofreparation, the above conditions are each to be preceded by the words: "In reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary:' Confessions may be.made during 8 days before or after the first Saturday, and Holy Communion may be received at either the morning or evening Mass on the first Saturday.

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mE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., November '1,- 2002

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LOS ANGELES - John E. Kearns Jr., assis- done on the international level, that is bringing TAUNTON - More than opportunity to view vintage tant director of the Office of Communications for Unda people, those involved with Catholic radio the Fall River diocese, has been elected a repre- and TV. broadcasting and diocesan' communica- 200 parishioners and guests en- parish photographs and memosentative at large for the Catholic Academy for tions and public relations for Catholic entities, and joyed a gala evening recently as rabilia. part of St. Anthony Parish's onCommunication Arts Professionals. merging them with the Catholic group for films," going events marking its cenFormerly known as Unda, the name change Kearns reported.

OUR LADY'S came about at the recent annual He added that anyone who tennial celebrations that will .--------~.,..-...,..,....,..,....,.,..----....., assembly of media members does communicatfons, "who wind up next year.

RELIGIOUS STORE The parish's Prayer Group who voted to combine two inshares our Catholic values with Mon. - Sat. 10:00 - 5:30 ternational media groups: us, is now invited to join with prepared the dinner which was PM , Unda - the group for Cathous. One doesn't have to work served by'the Youth Group.

GIFTS Pastor Father Heiuy S. Arruda licsin radio and television in a Church communication's CARDS and the International Catholic job to be part of the new orga- gave the welcome and Gilda Pedro and Deacon Jose H. Organization for Cinema. nization."

'BOOKS The new international orgaIn the new configuration of Medina 'we~e in charge .of arnization is called Signis. Its ' the organization, board mem- rangements.

508-673-4262 Those attending were enterU.S. affiliate chose to be known !'" bers will be .representatives of 936 So. Main St., Fall River instead as the Catholic Acaddifferent affinity groups, com- tained by a D.J., and had the emy for Communication Arts prised of people who share Professionals, Kearns exsimilar jobs as well as three at Salette Retreat Center plained. large representatives, of which Kearns, who was appointed Kearns is one.

947 Park Street to the diocesan post in 1984, The others are Kathryn Attleboro, MA 02703·5115 has been active with Unda for Johnson, associate director of about 16 years, serving as a re'communications for the Seattle' 508·222·8530 gional r,epresentative and also Archdiocese; and Wilfred as its treasurer.

Raymond, national director of JOHN E. KEARNS JR. Nov. 15-17 Women's Retreat - Anna Marie Kane, S.S.J. "I found it very helpful to be Family Theater Productions.

Fr. Dan Bradley, M.S. able to meet with people who K;earns said his new respondo similar work in various parts of the nation and sibilities include attending board meetings and Nov.l7 Afternoon ofRecollection it was very affirming and the network built as a bringing the concerns of members to that panel. It - Fr. Fern Cassista, M.S. - God is Love result is always helpful to us in small communica- , also will involve working with his board colleagues Life is a Journey -: Pat McKenna Dec. 6-8 tions offices," he said. in directing the movement of the Organization, Afternoon ofRecollection Dec. 8 ,"In Los Angeles, the U.S. followed what was planning assemblies, and outreach to all members.

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FALL RIVER - The November schedule for the Women's Health Network outreach of breast and cervical cancer medical services as well as a diabetes education event on November 8, are announced

by Saint Anne's Hospital.

For the screening involving Pap tests, physical exams and breast and cervical education, appointments are necessary and can be niade by calling the sites listed below. The schedule is:

- November 5, 8:30 a.m.3:30 p.m., SSTAR Family Health Care Center, 400 Stanley Street, Fall River: 508675-1054; - Novemb~r 9, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., 'FIRSTFED Center for Breast Care at Saint Anne's Hospital, corner South Main and Middle streets, Fall River, 508-675-5686; - November 14, noon-3 p.m., Healthfirst Family Care Center, 102' County Street, Fall 0

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For more information contact Maria Cabrales', RN, at 508-675-5686.

To celebrate National Diabetes Education Week, Saint Anne's Hospital will .host its second annual, free "Decoding Diabetes" education and activity event on November 8 from 10 a.m. to I po.m., in the hospital's main lobby.

Cosponsored by Lifeline Medical and Diabetic Supplies of Swansea, the Caritas Diabetes Care Program at Saint Anne's, and 1480WSAR radio, the day is designed to meet the growing needs of area residents who experience a higher-thanaverage incidence of diabetes.

There will be information on diabetes-friendly foods and demonstrations; blood glucose screenings, exercise, insurance coverage, equipment used in treatment· and monitoring, as well asindivi.dualizedassess~ ment by a diabetes educator and nutrition counselor.

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Challenging the parties Fortunately the end of the political campaign in the Commonwealth is in sight. All in all, it has be.en a dull and futile 'political exercise. The trite and tired have been employed to a fare-thee-well. The certainty of death and taxes has been buried A YOUNG WOMAN READS in rhetoric of promises and assurances. The same old slogans' DURING MASS AT A CATHOand banal phrases have buried any real hope of a tru~ political LIC CHURCH OUTSIDE OF THE renewal. Of course, could one expect such a happening in this .CITY OF XI' AN IN CENTRAL state? Dominated by the dictatorial entrenchment of the Demo-·. crats,' does anyone have a reaJopportunity to new infused ex~ CHINESE PROVINCE OF press ions and new ideals into a very tired donkey?'On the other .. SHAANXI. CARDINAL hand, the trembling voice of Republicans has certainly not been CRESCENZIO SEPE, HEAD OF a dynamic or direct call for real change. Big money' and power THE CONGREGATION FOR THE politics still are the measure in Massachusetts. .., ' EVANGELIZATION OF In these endless days. of the same ol~ thing, the onlyglimmer of good politics came when the minority· party candidates PEOPLES, SAID THAT CHINA forced t~emselves into the debate. Even then they. were viewed HAS GREAT POTENTIAL FOR as some other force out to spoil the plans of the establishment.

EVANGELIZATION BECAUSE This perhaps will not happen, but at least we were all,?wed toCHINESE HAVE HISTORICALLY hear some different and in some situations refresning opinions.

SHOWN AN OPENNESS TO The appalling political situation should help l;Is all to rememCHRISTIANITY. (CNS FILE ber that "where there is no vision, the people perish" (Proverbs 29: 18). Truly great leaders are not' good executives and deci- .

PHOTO BY SEAN SP~AGUE) sion makers, but 'are people of vision. What does this really mean? Namely, they are people who have 'gifted insight into \ what is possible: how to formulate goals and above all how to "SING, TO THE LORD, motivate people to successfully attain those goals. It should be 'BLESS HIS NAME; PROobvious that good leaders are good planners; people who are CLAIM GOOD TIDIN'GS OF not subject to every political whim that encourages the easy , way..

HIS SALVATION FROM One of the goals of leadership vision is 'to encourage creativDAY TO DAY" (PSALMS ity and innovation. Too many of our leaders give only lip ser96:2). 'vice t~ innovation. They simply' fail to create the climate to encourage and foster it. Important in this pro.cess is taking a, long-range view of organizational structures. -Many people who are on the political bandwagon' live in the now, promising ev, . eryone everything. This type of politics simply c::annotmeet new challenges or create new opportunities. They are bogged down . in the mire of party politics as usual. No one leaves the prepared script unless you can .pocket the vote. In the attempt to keep everything in-house they lose the true vision that a good politician needs if he or-she is to be an effective leader. They become so rigidly loyal to the party that they. are unahle to serve well the body politic. . .

We are in desperate nee<;L of good,.effective and visionary p6liticalleaders. How long have we suffered the same old stuff? much alive in our Church despite ters; organizing programs;' beBy FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK the lack of priests, something that coming soul brothers and.·sisters Why can't we truly encourage new young visionaries to bring CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE new life to political parties? Why do so many simply'refuse to is resulting in parishes without. to people in need; most important what it would be like .pastors and fewer Masses in many of all, bringing Christ to others in Imagine serve the needs of people while they serve themselves? vibrant ways. . Politics is itself a 'noble profession. It is those who seek. po- . to live in Washington, D.C., with areas. its cultural activities, and then to The Spirit is alive in layper.Unless you keep up with the litical power that often degrade that calling. As we continue to move your family to a poor, small sons who step forward, exud.ing missionary work of The Catholic be mired in the political reaiities of Massachusetts, let's look town in 'Mississippi.

Imagine fura missionary spirit --"":'laypersons Church Extension Society and beyond the now and work for the tomorrow by encouraging men ther what it would be like to be a who are determined to spread other such organizations that sup~ and \yomen of vision, focus and imagination to enter this pro. woman starting a Catholic parish God's kingdom despite over- port this work in destitute areas, . fession. not for self-serviCe,· but to serve others. This current in a tOWI1 that is' only one percent whelming odds against them and you don't hear muc.h aboiIt it. election experience should be a call to open the system 1 review Catholic and, while doing this, to to make great personal sacrifices Not only do these people exand vitalize it, so that ideals will flourish and creativity is nur- have another child. to keep the Church's evangeliza- ist, however; their spirit and latured. Our political systems need this challenge.

That IS the situation 'partici- tion efforts vibrant. Within that bors are marrow of the Church's .pants were asked to imagine dur- spirit can be found an awesome backbone. Like the unceasing prayers of religious-order The Executive Editor ing. a recent se'minar in Washing- faith, It is moving mountains. ton titled "The Parish Ministry of Imagine s~tting out for an un- contemplatives in hidden-away Administration," hosted by the known environment in which the monasteries, their service is a Washington Theological Union. culture is totally unfamiliar: most powerful praye~ that is sustaining Four lay panelists who are par- of the 'people you meet are not of the Church. ish administrators discussed ques- . your -faith, ·not. 'of your way of The abundant numbers of tions such as: What- it is like to . thinking; the luxuries you took for priests we were accu.stomed to a have a fam'i!y and run parish at granted are virtuaUy nonexistent. few decades ago will not be .seen OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER the same time? What is it like to Not,only are the climate and ter- again in my liJetime; we defiPublished weekly by the Catholic Press of the Diqcese of Fall River do this In a non-Catholic area or rain different, but so is everything . nitely will see more parishes with887 Highland Avenue P.O. BOX 7 when working with minimal re- else around you. . out pastors..This will create many Fall River, MA' 02720 .

Fall River, MA 02722-0007 sources? What frustrations and These ministers move from a disappointments. Among them: Telephone 508·675·7151 FAX 508·675·7048 satisfactions are encountered? comfortable setting to the un- "Father is not here to celebrate .:' ' .. E-mail: TheAnchor@Anchornews.org ,As I listened to the first panel~ known; from security to the lack Mass, or weddings, or funerals, S~l'!d address changes to P.O. Box, call or use E·mail address ist discuss how ~he and her hus- . of it; from certainties to uncertain- or to. lead other ·fes'tivities." band moved to Mississippi and ties.All looks so dim until we take EXECUTIVE EDITOR became affiliated with Glenmary, Bl]t once they oecome estab c another look and spot the new lay Re~. Msgr. John F. Moore a religious order dedicated'to min- . lished, these people themselves' . parish ministers who exude faith, . EDITOR NEWS EDITOR .

OFFICE MANAGER istering to the poor, I felt that the· move mountains --' building determination, self-sacrifice and a . David B. Jolivet James N. Dunbar Barbara M. Reis power of the Holy Spirit is very . chL!rches, schools and parish cen- spirit mirroring the Holy Spirit. .

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FALL RIVER - Four members of the justice system will be given the prestigious St. Thomas MoreAward fortheir distinguished service at the annual Red Mass to be celebrated November 17 at 3 p.m., in St. Mary's Cathedral.

The names of the honorees were released this week by Father Mark R. Hession, liai.son to the Red Mass Planning Committee, and Atty. Joseph P. Hanington, chairman of the committee.

They are: Attorney Irene B. Schall of New Bedford, Judge Joseph J. Reardon of Centerville, Clerk Magistrate and Attorney Peter B. Andrade of Taunton, and Retired Superior Court Justice Chlis Byron of Rochester.

Following tradition, a lawyer,

judge, member of the court system & Schall since 1981. She graduated and an ecumenicai recipient are, cum laude from Clark University honored at the Red Mass. It is so in 1975, received her doctorate in named because of the Red Vest- law in 1978 from Buffalo School ments worn during the Mass ofthe of Law at State University of New Holy Spirit, whose blessing will be York, and a degree in Graduate Tax invoked upon the medal recipients. Program from Boston University Msgr. George W. Coleman, ad- Law School in 1979. She has ministratoroftheFallRiverdiocese , served as general counsel to the and vicar general and moderator of 'New Bedford Harbor Development the curia, will be the celebrant and Commission, as treasure and tax homilist ofthe Mass. The Stonehill collector for the City of New College Choral under the direction 'Bedford, and is a member of the of Denise Gannon, will sing the Fall River diocese's Sexual Abuse Mass.

Review Board. She has been an A reception and banquet will instructor at the Southern NewEnfollow in White's of Westport. gland School of Law. The awards are named for St. Schall is a member of many 01'Thomas More, a 16th century En- ganizations including the Massaglish layman who was a lawyer and chusetts Horticultural Society, the m~rtyred for opp0sition to the diMuseum ofFine Arts, and is a Lady vorce of England's King Henry of the Equestrian Order of the Holy , VIII and for refusing to renounce Sepulcher of J,erusalem. ' papal authority.

She is married to Attorney Schall, who will received the Roger Stanford and they have two honors given to an' attorney, is a sons, Michael Stanford who attends member of St. James Parish, New UMass-Dartmouth, and Matthew Bedford. She has been a partner in Stanford who attends LaSalle the New Bedford firm of Stanford Turn to page 13 - Red Mass

E.asy as A-B-Sea Can you believe how sudden and frustrating the New England Patriots' fall from grace has been?

Surely mO,st of us expected a tough season ahead being the defending world champs and all.

But to be on the verge of playoff elimination less than halfway through the season - total shock and dismay. Add to that the resurgence of the Drew Bledsoelead Buffalo Bills (a game-anda-half ahead of us in the stand-

My View From the Stands

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ings) and we have the ingredients for a Red Sox-like disappointment.

Watching the Anaheim Angels ,win the World Series last week resurrected fond memories of this February past when we were the revelers. I pondered, "Now how did these Angels shake their choke-laden past and become winners?" And it came to me. It was the name change from the California Angels to the Anaheim Angels.'

So, I propose the Patriots switch identities PDQ - and I have the perfect alia~ - one that easily rolls off the tongue and has a familiar ring - the New England Aquarium. "Why?" you may ask. Allow me to explain.

After seven games, what's one of the first things you think about when you say.the word Patriots?

FLUKE. I'm not suggesting last season's wonderful run was a

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AN EVENING ON THE PRECATECH UM ENATE with Dr. Joseph Sinwell Join other team members to learn more about the Preeatechumenate stage of the RCIA process by leading expert and renowned author Dr. Jodi Sinwell.

• Share I'leas ' . partldpate In a Q & A session • heat c~ve suggestions on praetlql how to's.......

The Precatechumenate involves evangelization anej invitation therefore, this evening will be an excellent resource for all people.

Tueeday, November 12,2002 7:00-8:00 pm St Julie Parish, N. Darlmouth Wed_day, November 13, 2002 7:lIO-;-8:00 pm Corpus Chrlatl;E. Sandwich

Please register by November 8, 2002 by calling the RCIA Office at (S08) 6782828 or by registering on-line @ http://rclafallrlver.com.

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stroke of luck. No, they're world let's remain on board, batten 'champs because of hard work and down the hatches, and ride this COFFEE HOUSE: SPIRIT outstanding execution. The fluke one out.

Saturday, Nov. 16 - 6:30 p.m. / Cafeteria And maybe, just maybe, the to which I refer is the FLATFISH variety. The champs are flat on of- Pats will start ~inning again, and JOHN POLCE: BETHANY NIGHTS , fense, flat on defense, flat on spe- we'll no longer be sUc;h CRABS Friday, Nov. 22 7:30 p.m.

Church cial teams and flat on intensity on Monday mornings. and emotion. Flukes.

Dave lolivet, editor of The AnGood-will donation FLOUNDER also comes to chor, is a former sports writer/edimind. Yes, flounder the flatfish, tor, and regulmly gives one fan's CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS but also meaning to proceed or act perspective ofthe unique world of Nov. 28 to Jan. I - 5:00-9:00 p.m. daily clumsily. That speaks for itself. sports.

Free Admission - Free Parking As does the Pats' resemblance to Comments are welcome at the ATLANTIC , davejolivet@anc!wrnews.org.

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ATILEBORQ - A day Qf char, ismatic prayer,'praise and teaching ,-,<ill be held Saturday from 10 a.m. t04 p.m, at the La Salette Shrine. It will be led

by La Salette Father Richard Lavoie.

For more infonnation call the Shrine at 508-222-5410.

An invitation to b,ecome a godparent

Q. How might a Catholi~ respond when as~ed to 'be a godparent for children of a Catholic who has left the practice of the faith? In this case, the former, Catholic has joined another (Presbyterian) congregation. I know this question will aris~ ,.' , . 0' d' .' in our family soon. (New York) ,' abou t savmgs on prescnp on rugs. , .'. . . . '., t' II 508 672 A. It IS the CatholIc understandmg ,,' " . . that godpar, For more mlonna Ion ca

Q. If a Catholic is married outside the Church and soon after obtains a divorce, why does she need an annulment to marry another man? My friend is puzzled by this since the Church does not recognize the first marriage anyway~ (illinois)

' e n t s should be members of the pansh or community in which the baptism is being celebrated. GodHYANNIS -.-:.'A' free e,xhibit of p'arents do not merely beunique Christmas mangers from come, at least partly, rearound the world will be held Sunday sponsible Jor, the, from II a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cape A. Anytime a Catholic 'child's Christian upBREWSTER-A Mass and heal- . CodderResort. It is sponsored by the has been married, even if bringing as a friend or ing·service will be held November 6 Cape Cod chapter ofthe national soonly a civil. ceremony, a . n;lative. They normally

By Father at 7 p.m. at Our Lady of the Cape ciety of Friends of the Creche. For formal declaration of nulrepresent and support the' John J, Dietzen Church, 468:Stony Brook Road. It will, 'more infonnation call St. Bernard's lity, an annulment, is neccommunity of faith into be led by La Salette Father William ,Church at 508-644-5585. essary before the Catholic , which the infant is being Kaliyadan. For more infonnation call may enter 'a subsequent marriage in the Church. . baptized.' ' MASHPEE ..:...- The Celiac Sup508-385-3252.

The reason is to make certain that the first marHowever, it is also Gatholic belief that every port Group will Il}eet Saturday at 3:30 baptism, regardless of the church or.::denomination riage outside the Church was actually invalid 'and EAST, FREETOWN St. .p.m. at Christ~e King Parish. For, in which it takes place, in'corporates a person into that the person is therefore free to enter another Mary's Church, Fairhaven, is sponsor- more infonnation call 508-477-2408..

Christ and creates the bond of unity ,that exists marriage. ' , ing a retreat entitled "Women in ScripThe process for this type of annulment is not ture," November 16 from 9 a.m. to 5 '- MASHPEE -:.... The Diocesan· ,among all who are reborn through this sacrament.

Because, of the baptism which we'share in com- lengthy or complicated. Basically it simply requires p.m. at.CatheClral Camp. It will be led Department of Pastoral Care is offer, mon with other Christians, a Catholic may serve as gathering relevant documents - that the individual

by Father Michael Rilcine and include ing its annual day of prayer and rewas baptized Catholic, that the,!?riginal marriage was Mass at 4 p.m. For more infonnation flection for eucharistic ministers and Christian witness to the baptism of a person in another Christian denomination along with a godpar- never validated in the Church and so on. call Kathy Boucher at 508-997-3019. al'l pastoral visitors to the sick in hos- • No lengthy statements by the petitioner, no compitals, nursing homes and the' ent of that denomination. In' this case, of course, plicated testimonies by witnesses about the previresponsibility for the Christian upbringing of the .

FALL RIVER - The Youth . homebound at Christ the King Parous marriage, are required. Therefore, the process Apostles Institute will host. its nex~ ish, Saturday from~:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. child falls on the godparent who is 'a member of the Christian community in which the infant is baptized. is nothing to be apprehen~ive about. Ask your friend Youth Ministry Seminar November 5 The fact that the parents of the child were for- to talk with the priest in her ,parish. He will guide at its residence at 42 Chicago Street.

MISCELLANEOUS - A mismerly Catholic does not change the rule. her through what needs to be done.

The topic is "Starting from Scratch: . sionary church iri .India is currently Likewise, a baptized person Who is a member A· free brochure on ecumenism, including How to Begin Youth Ministry at Y<?ur seeking, used Christmas cards, rosa, questions on intercommunion and other ways of of another Christian denomination (usually a relaParish," presented by Joe Sollecito and ries, sm'!-l1 statues, church articles and tive or close family friend) may serve as witness sharing, worship, is available by sending a Donna Marty'niak. Mass is at 7:30 p.m; stationary. They can be sent to Father stamped,self-addressed envelope to Father John at a Catholic baptism along with a Catholic godand the seminar begins at 8 p.m. For Paul Kocheekaran; Mount Carmel Camore infonnation call 508-672-2755. thedral, Alleppey- 68800 I, Kerala, parent. The practice of having one Catholic god- 'Dietzen, Box 325, Peoria, IL 61651~ parent with a Christian witness from another deQuestions may 'b~ sent to Father Dietzen at India. the sameaddress"or E-mail: jjdietzen@aol.com. nomination is common today in the Ynited :States , FALL RIVER - Dominican Fa- . .ther Pierre Lachance invites you to join him for the Novena to Saint Anne everyTuesday from 2-2:30 p.m. at the Shririe, 818 Middle street. It'will include hymns, prayer, a spiritual talk, veneration of the relic and the oppor~ t~nity for reconciliation.

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and other countries. , These provisions', are found in the Vatican's Directory for the Application of the Principles and Norms on Ecumenism (March 1993; Nos. 92-98), and in Canon 874. .

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MISCELLANEOUS--Theunage' of Our Lady of GuadaluPe will be atseveral pilrishes in the diocese in the next few weeks as follows: Sunday at St. Theresa's Church,' South "Dead Man Walking," an ac- pened to be my birthday present.

Attl~boro; November 7 at St. Mark's claimed movie with Susan . " The opening was a stunner, .

ChQrch, Attleboro, Falls; and Novelp- Sarandon an'd Sean Penn, was with haunting musiC, s~i~ging ber 10 at Holy Cross Family Minis- based on a book by Sister of St. into blues and jazz songs as the FALL RIVER - The Fall River tries, North, Easton. It will include Joseph Helen Prejean. Her "dead murder of the two teen-agers is, Area Men's First Friday Oub will meet prayer, rosary and adoration. For more man" was a composite of killers, ,depicted on ,stage. A sudden tonight at 6 p.m. for Mass at Sacfed infonnation call the parishes orEvelyn Robert Willie being one of ~hem. switch to Sister Helen's school, Heart Church, at the corner ofPine and ' Bolyerat 508-761-4017. , He, was on Louisiana's death row where she and another sister are Linden Streets. It will be followed by , for raping and killing a' 17-year- singing a happy Gospel tune with a catered supperand guest speaker. For' NEW BEDFORD-The Legion "old girl, and murdering her boy- children, changes the mood. Then . , ,more information call Norman of Mary from.st·Joseph-St. Therese friend.

Valiquette at 508-672~8174.

P,arish invites parishesthroughout the Sister Helen,. who , . . . - - - - - - - - - - - , Fall River diocese to add their recited, worked in a school for FALL RIVER - A Mass of rosaries to theyear~long rosary drive. childr~n, was WIllie's Thanksgiying for couples celebrating . For more infonnation call Therese spiritual adviser on death 25'h and.50'h wedding 'annivt<rsaries Beaulieu at 508-995-2354. row. Her book and the will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. at St. 'movie escalated the diaMary's Cathedral.' .

NEW BEDFORD-St.Anthony logue' and action .to end

By Antoinette Bosco Churcti'will hold its annual Holiday executions in the United VALL RIVER - The Fall River Bazaar Saturday and Sunday from States, .and she deserves 'Committee on Scouting will hold 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. There will be our everlasting gratitude. classes for Girl Scouts who wish to . crafts, games and 'food. FQr more in'In the fall of 2000, I attended the actiontakes"off, ,with Sister ear~ the "I Live My Faith:' medal fonnation call 508c993-1691. one of SisterHelen'~talks. I knew Helen meeting and trying to reach for Juniors, and the "Family of God -. her work now had been. set to the 'killer, Joe DeRocher, who Medal" for Brownies. Registration . NORTH DARTMOUTH - A music as an opera. When S!ster ask!, her to be his spiritual adviser. and first class will be held at St. healing service, led by Redemptorist Helen began talking,ihe opera, He refuses to acknowledge his Anne's School, Forest Street (caf- Father Edward McDonough, will be 'which had debutea in San Fran- guilt, and Sister Helen from then eteria entrance) on Nov. 5 from 6 held November 8 at 7 p.m. at St. Julie cisco, understandabiy Was on her on tries to make him understand to 7 p.m. Call 508-678-8667 for Billiart Churcl1, 494 Slocum Road. . ,mind. Clearly, she was moved by that "the truth will set you free." more infonnation. it, telling how music, "can open It is when the parents of the TAUNTON - Members of the up parts of our heartthat we don't murdered teens confron~ Sister FALL RIVER - The Ste-Anne Taunton District Council of the SL "eyenkn'Ow we have."

Helen with "We're Catholics, but Chapter of the Association Canada- , Vincent de Paul SocietY will sponsor I' man opera lover, and after , you never came to talk to us" that Americaine will host a reduced price Mass at' 7 p.m. November 4 in St. hearing Sister Helen I longed to 19ot emotionally devastated. The . prescription plan infonnation night, Mary's Church for the intention of the see this opera. Last month I did. music effectively brings out their November 13 at 7 p.m. in the parish canonization of Blessed Frederic The work was presented by the pain as they tell of theirli ves now hall of Notre Dame de Lourdes Ozanam and in memory of deceased -New York City Opera, and my and' ask the questioQs about why Church, 529 Eastern Avenue. This is members. The regularmonihly meet- daughter Mary, also an opera their children had to die. I lost it an opportunity for seniors, to learn , ing will follow in the school hall. lover, bought tickets for us. It hap~' then, Eelating so deeply to their

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anguish, rem,embering how I asked the same questions in 1993 when I got the news that my son John and his wife Nancy had been brutally murdered.

In the final scene, DeRocher can at last admit his guilt, and 'then Sister Helen tells him she loves him. He responds by' saying he loves her too. The' parents of his victims are present as he is on the gurney to be killed 'by lethal injection, and he asks their forgiveness. He sings, "I hope my death wi II bri ng you peace.'" ' The opera falls short of being a masterpiece,' but it is impressive. Yet" I wonder if it will change any hearts about the· death penalty. Those who are opposed will see this as a dynamic force for underscoring the horror of killing, whether by a criminal or by the state. Those who believe-in the, rightness of the death penalty will feel assurance that the killer's death is, indeed, the way to bring' peace to the people who loved the victim.

I wavered and wept, but in the end all I could feel was the horror chill of unnatural death, reaffirining my unshakable belief that God would, in all cases, have us choose what God chooses -mercy and life.

A solid Catholic prayer" for cell phone users I used to think it slightly odd This cell phone thing has gone to withstand being dropped into to discover a man standing in the over the top. a 55-gallon barrel of sea cucumcold cereal aisle of the grocery As I keyboard this, I have at bers in 1989, an incident from store holding the side of his head my side my first cell phone. It which it still bears minor aromatic like he had a terrible toothreminders. However, if ache and talki ng to the r-----------,-~::::_:_..,hit were to have slipped Cheerios. out of my shirt pocket Likewise, not long ago in 2002, it sure as the I was concerned when I dickens would not have would pass a woman on the been able to slip befreeway who was driving tween the spaces of the with one hand and coverdock planks where I

By Dan Morris ing her ear with the other was working and end its journey with a polite while shaking her head ....-----------t~ back and forth. "splish" into 15 feet of No more. You and I both salt water. know these people are talking on was state-of-the-art in 1988. It (Side note: Both mishaps octheir cell phones, devices now the sets in a case just slightly smaller casioned spontaneous public persize of matchbook covers and no than the standard 1963 formances of the Tasmanian Madoubt soon to be designed into longshoreman's lunchbox. And niac Dock Dance Accompanied earrings (for men or women). it's the same color- black. It fea- by Professional Cursing, someMetal eyebrow rings will prob- tures a real telephone receiver. It thing which should be available ably be the "advanced antenna was great. on video and DVD to all cell option."

OK, it was not great enough phone owners.)

The offbeat world of Uncle Dan

Speaker says teens want to hear Dlessage that not having sex is OK

By JOAN KURKOWSKI-GILLEN CATliOUC NEWS SERVICE

FORT WORTH, Texas Young people won't see the message on MTV or find it between the covers of Spin magazine, yet the words are ones Jason Evert says they long to hear: It's OK not to have sex.

"Adults always think teens are going to reject the message and challenge of abstinence," said Evert, a spokesman for Catholic Answers in San Diego. 'The kids I meet prove it's not only very much needed but embraced."

For the past two and a half years, Evert has toured the country giving chastity talks to junior and senior high students.

During the presentation, he encourages his listeners to reject the sexual images and pressures that fill their young lives. Instead, the 27year-old bachelor tells them, leading a chaste life and waiting until they are married to have sex is the better choice.

"Teen-agers are told by the world

that sex equals love. If that's what they believe, it's no wonder they'll risk getting pregnant or contracting a disease rather than live without love," Evert told the North Texas Catholic, newspaper of the Fort Worth diocese.

They don't recognize the difference between love and lust, he said.

"Only a chaste man and chaste woman are capable of experiencing true love," he continued. "With selfcontrol, you can make a gift of yourself and love someone without using them." .

Putting that message up against pop culture's "safe sex" mantra is not easy, but most young people seem to greet his words with a sigh of relief, he said.

Last year, Evert visited more than 100,000 teen-agers at 250 high schools. Dozens of questions and requests for private conferences follow each assembly, and his online mailbox is always full ofletters from students asking for advice. The Eternal Word Television Network's

Pope confers papal knighthood on Israeli ambassador to Vatican VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope John PaullI has confelTed a papal knighthood on Yosef Neville Lamdan, Israel's ambassador to the Vatican.

Lamdan said he was told by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state, that the award was a recognition not only of his personal service but also of his country.

"1 took it as an honor for Israel," he said. "These are not necessatily easy times in our relationship."

However, he added, it is a recognition that "the relationship is fundamentally sound."

The unique positions of the Vatican and the state of Israel also include "the element of CatholicJewish relations, and there things are really happening," he said.

For example, the ambassador said he received the insignia the same day he attended the inauguration of the Sisters ofSion 's library at Gregorian University. The library - a large collection focused on Jewish history, Scripture, liturgy and on Christian-Jewish relations - is part of the university's new Cardinal Bea Center for Judaic Studies.

Lamdan said there were questions about the appropriateness of a Jew accepting the "grand cross" insignia from the Vatican, but "it is not a pectoral cross. It is more like a star; it is not something which would make a Jew uncomfortable.

"I was proud to wear it. I was proud for Israel," he said.

"Life on the Rock" and "Abundant Life" series have showcased his efforts.

Evert, a graduate of the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, now spends most of his time on the lecture circuit, and about 10 months ago he was joined by fellow Catholic Answer employee Crystallina Padilla, 22.

She adds a new dimension to the chastity discussion because she is Evert's fiancee. Together they offer proof that a chaste relationship is possible.

Padilla, a former self-described party girl, shares with the females in the audience her past experiences with romance, drinking and late nights. It was a lifestyle that left her feeling empty and lost, she said.

She tells girls to "take sex out of the relationship and see if it's love or lust. Most teen-age relationships are based on lust.

"Kids are looking for someone to teach them right from wrong," said Evert, who is beginning to deliver his abstinence-only message to secular audiences around the country.

Waiting until marriage to have sex is the best choice for the body and soul, and there are different ways to get that message across to teen-agers, Evert said.

Using graphic slides of sexually transmitted disease and about pregnancy rates will scare some young audience members from engaging in premarital sex. But he and Padilla prefer to take a more positive approach: They talk about chastity as a virtue because you can't make someone virtuous with fear.

"You make someone virtuous by love," Evert said. "You motivate them through love, whether it's love of their future spouse, themselves, or love for God. Our underlying message is this: You're worth waiting for."

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., November I, 2002 The diving cell phone has now been replaced. It has either a Swedish or Japanese name. It is purplish. Instead of square keys in a nice square grid it has batwing shaped keys in some kind of V-like alignment. I had to borrow a friend's 250-rating cheater eyeglasses to read the "talk" and "end" buttons, which are each about the size of Tic Tacs. Above them are insy-winsy additional keys with slash marks on them that are supposed to mean something.

With my fat fingers, on average I am able to activate three of these buttons at a time. By doing this I discovered that somehow

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the manufacturer confused this wee telephone with a calculator, movie theater, pin-ball machine, fax machine, phone book, calendar, console radio and psychic hotline. At one point, I am pretty sure it took my temperature while giving me a stock market report as it signaled my whereabouts to the IRS. All I wanted to do was call my daughter.

Yes, we need a solid, down-to-earth Catholic prayer for cell phone users. Maybe we could start it, "Can you hear me now?"

Comments are welcome. Email Uncle Dan at cnsuncleOl @yahoo.com.

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Canadian bishops praise WYD,. despite $38M deficit ,By ART BAaYCH CATHOUC

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CORNWALL; Ontario - The Canadian bishops offered praise for World Youth Day ceremonies held in Toronto in July despite the $38 million (US$24 million) debt the event,geneJ:ated. '. "We: weren\'spending like dninken Sailors; wejust weren't colleeting.1!ke' weihought, and we cut back,": - Archbi~hop Anthony Meagher of. Kingston, Ontario, chairn1an of the Canadian bishops' WofId Youth Day committee, told bishops d~ring,their recent, annual plenary ~eetihg in,Cornwall.

'Earlier, the bishops had agreed . to underWrite any deficit incurred through World Youth Day based on the,Cathqlic population in each Canadian diocese. The bishops now fa~e the challenge of raising the funds through parish collections, loans, cashing in on investments or other means.

-- -_._, The July '23-28 youth event, hosted by. Pope John Paul II, drew the lowest number of registered pilgrims in its history.

Archbishop Meagher told th~ bishops that World Youth Day ex~ penses were actually less than originally budgeted, but revenue also was far shorter than expected, causing, the shortfall.

He praised Basilian Father Thomas Rosica, national director of "Wo.rli;I:YOi}tljpay, for9Qing an "out: standIDgjob'"with the media, which "certainly have never been proChurch." The suppOrt of the media was "absolutely phenomenal," the archbishop said.

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By JOHN NORTON Diani,receritly hin:Xl ~o:~esign the Italian bishops' Bishop Francois Lapierre of CATHOUC News SERVICE Web portal, said he,'haS received "informal contacts" Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, vice ROME;'~'Despiteyears of Church study and sug- from the Vatican,office 'respons,ible for designating pachairman of the bishops' World Youth Day committee, said the defi- gestions, 'the Internet is still without an official patron tron saints; the ,cbngregaiioh for Divine Worship and "" ' cit "is not a catastrophe" and that saint. .::, " ."', >'> ' . the Sacraments.

'They were trying to determine if this was someAn ItaIjan Web designer hopes to help things along the spiritual fruit ofWorldYouth Day thing serious or if it ,':' , ,was already evident in the dioceses. with an innovative was only a curiosity," While he said he also believed Web poll that already Diani said. "If they that a new trust between the bish- has drawn thousan~' ask me for informaops and youth was reaffirmed of votes for potential tion on the poll when through WorldYouthDay, "thechal- candidates and has it is finished, I will be attracted the atten,Ienge is the follow-up." happy to provide it." , Bishop Jacques Berthelet of tion of Vatican offi~' One downside of Saint-Jean-Longueuil, Quebec, cials. the poll from the The top selections president of the Canadian bishops' Vatican's point of conference, told the bishops that the so far, according to view, Diani said, is ,spiritual,fruits of World Youth Day statistics on the site in that it reflects mainly are much gtcil~rtha'n '''thedeficit of- late October,'include Italian, not global; , a few dollars" and that young people Sts. Alphonsus de popular support for from 174 countries also shared in Liguori', Don Bosco, potential candidates.

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For example, St. At a press conference earlier in gel, Clare, and Isidore of Seville, a the day, Bishop Berthelet said "not Maximilian, Kolbe. seventh-century F r a n'c esc 0 much" had been- collected so Jar theologian and encyfrom national newspaper appeals (ciT Diani, director of clopedia author funds to pay the deficit, but that he www.santiebeati.it. whose name has fredid not believe the poor response said about 15,000 quently been cited as was a forth of criticism of World people had registered Youth Day. _ a favorite for the title, , votes since the poll's barely registered in' "People are not ~y interested start in June. Most ST. ALPHONSUS de Liguori is one of 12 suggested Diani's poll, earning' in paying a defiCit," he said. 'They voterS have been Italcandidates for patron of the Internet presented by an just five percent ,of are much more interested in paying ians, but Diarii said for a- new project than covering ,a he also has received ,Italian Web designer. He is portrayed in a window at 9,516 votes in .the ,deficit." , ,feedback E-mails in ,OurLady Immaculate Church in Guelph, Ontario. (CNS first round. ,:' ' In March, mein- , In a recent report to the plenary . Spanish, French, and pho~o from' Crosiers) bers of the Pontifical , assembly, Bishop Berthelet said the English.

World Youth Day festivities became , , Diani said his site, dedicated to saints' biogrnphies Council for Social Communications decided to suggest: "a "part of our saIVatj.otl_hi'story,for and patron designations, is among the more popular in St. Maximilian Kolbe as a possible patron saint of so-, :..?--...... .. .....y:...... _â&#x20AC;˘â&#x20AC;˘ tIme to come. ........ ~.,._~ ...__: cial commul)icati,ons, including the Internet. The proItaly; drawing about 250,0~)(l hits a day. , "True, we have',2~rtain'~,:bbiiga~ , 'The Poll includes 12 saints, who in a preliminary posal, drawn up by Luxembourg's Archbishop Femand tions to fulfill, but at the same time stage have been divided into groups of six for voting.. Franck, went to the worship congregation for study and we are creating a heritage that calls The top picks among them will proceed to a final stage has not yet been adopted. out to be implanted by way of new that Diani expects to begin around Christmas and finish The poll can be found at: www.santiebeati.itJ projects," he said. ' patrono.shtml. around Easter.

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spoke to more than 500 young adults pointed out. that have been termed Generation 'They are tired of the hedonism WASHINGTON - Two years X - those born between 1965 and that so enchanted their parents," she ago, when more than one million 1983. Her observations are summed said. youths descended upon Rome for up in the book 'The New Faithful: They often seek more traditional World Youth Day; Colleen Carroll, Why Young Adults Are Embracing worship and reject society's sexual a writer for the St. Louis Post Dis- Christian Orthodoxy," recently pub- promiscuity, striving instead to repatch daily newspaper, was asked lished by Loyola Press. main chaste until marriage. to write an editorial about it.

In the Catholic Church, this 'This generation craves mystery Her colleagues wanted to know and a connection to the traditions growing trend is apparent ,in the "what's going on with today's kids" that the modem world has stripped number of young adults who have - ' why they would travel great dis- away," wrote Carroll, who is Catho- formed study groups around Pope tancesand put up with a lack of lic.

John Paul II's encyclicals or have amenities to hear the words of an In a recent luncheon seminar in returned to the Latin Mas's and de~ging pontiff. , Washington about her book, Carroll votions such as eucharistic ado. Carroll, who was then 25, looked , told the audience,that the pro- ration. In her book, Carroll notes into what the World Youth Day par- nounced faith ofso many people she the popularity of eucharistic adoticipants were saying and found talked to during the year wast not ration in campuses across the them to be extremely e~thusiastic only countercultural to society, but country. about their beliefs and iilvigorated , also to the lifestyle in which many Yet in this balance, Carroll also by the pope's message that their faith of these young adults were rajsed at -' advises that Church leaders would home. ' coulq impact the world. "do well to listen to young orthoObserving the vibrant faith of 'Their fervor almost embarrasses , dox believers about what new inithese Catholics in a world that can their paren~," she said, noting that tiatives are needed." often be hostile to religion, was a many of them wonder why their Catholic leaders, in particular, she stepping stone for Carroll, who won children "feel compelled to evange- wrote, "should reassess the power a Phillips Journalism Fellowship in lize so bluntly" by wearing T-shirts and promise oforthodoxy for youth 2000 to travel for a year around the with messages such as " 100 Percent ministry. In an age when worldly country researching and writing Catholic" or "Life is Short - Pray values have largely overwhelmed , about what she saw as a trend among Hard."

Catholic identity among the young, young adult Christians who seemed These young people, with their orthodoxy accentuates that which is to be returning to traditional aspects return to tradition and rejection of most distinctive about Catholicism of their faith. society's "anything goes" attitude, - its rituals, tough teachings and In the course of the year she are essentially rebelling, Carroll traditions."

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., November 1, 2002 Christians have three different interpretations regarding the relation of James to Jesus, Lemaire said.

Catholics regard the word "brother" to mean "close relative."

Protestants believe James was the son of Joseph and Mary. The Eastern Orthodox Church regards James as Joseph's son from a previous marriage.

In addition to being inspected by Lemaire, the inscription was analyzed by the Geological Survey of Israel, which determined that the patina - a thin layer that forms on stone over a period of time - does not contain modem elements and adheres firmly to the stone. The patina has a cauliflower shape, which

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is known to develop in a cave environment, the report noted.

Father Murphy O'Connor said: ''What everyone wants to know is when can we see this? What is the secret?

"French TV and the BBC were permitted to photograph it, but the next thing is to get it out in public," he said.

The ossuary is one of few artifacts found that mention New Testament figures. In ]990, the ossuary ofCaiaphas - the high priest who, according to the Biblical account, turned Jesus over to the Romanswas uncovered, and some 40 years ago archaeologists found an inscription on a monument mentioning Pontius Pilate.

A FRENCH inscription scholar believes the writing fou"nd on this anciellt burial box likely refers to James, ~he brother of Jesus. (eNS photo courtesy Biblical Archaeology Society)

Scholars express interest, caution fraud, in studying ancient ossuary路

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was inscribed on the ossuary. a legal excavation, little is known "Adding a brother's name about its history, where and when JERUSALEM - Biblical would point to a famous brother. it was found, how was it excavated, scholars said they were interested As far as I know, it wasn't (a com- who were its former owners or in the ossuary linked to the brother mon practice). If authentic, it is the what has happened to the bones of Jesus, but cautioned against the .earliest biblical documentation for , that once were inside. . possibility of fraud.

The unadorned ossuary stands Jacob and Jesus and the earliest arThe limestone ossuary, a con- cheological confirmation:' he said. about 20 inches long, 10 inches tainer for the bones of the dead, Vanderkam said many believe wide and 12 inches high, with the surfaced in the collection of an an- that at the time "brother" was used 7.5-jnch-Iong, .33-inch-high intiquities owner, with little known to mean more than a sibling, an scription appearing along one side about the item's history. It is in- idea that arose as Catholics were of the box. It is made of Jerusascribed with "Jacob lem limestone.

(Ya'akov) son of Joseph "When an inscription ap(Yosef), brother of Jesus pears in the antiquities mar"Every bit of evidence is exciting. ket or in a private collection, (Yeshua)." Jacob is the HeIf it is authentic, the only significance as in the case of (this) exbrew version of James.

Dominican Father is that it is the earliest dated refer- traordinary inscription, the Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, ence to Joseph, James and Jesus first question an epigrapher a biblical archeologist at that we have," said Father Murphy- must answer is: Is it genuine or is it fake?" Lemaire wrote.

Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem, O'Connor.

"After more than 30 years said that, while the researcher who studied the of working with Hebrew, ossuary was a respected exPhoenician and Aramaic inpert, up to 60 percent of the arti- developing the teaching of "the scriptions, one develops a feel, a first reaction when inspecting a facts found in the illegal antiqui- perpetual virginity of Mary."

Andre Lemaire, a French in- new inscription," he said. ties market are fake.

The use of the ossuary was a "Every bit of evidence is excit- scription scholar and former stuing. If it is authentic, the only sig- dent and visiting professor at Ecole common Jewish burial practice nificance is that it is the earliest Biblique, concluded that the in- from the first century B.C. to about dated reference to Joseph, James scription found on the ancient 70 A.D. At the time of Jesus and and Jesus that we have," said Fa- burial box quite likely refers to the James, it was common among ther Murphy-O'Connor. 'The only apostle James, mentioned in the Jews to conduct two burials. A important thing is that date - the New Testament as a brother of corpse would be laid out in a burial inscription doesn't tell us anything Jesus who became leader of the cave until the flesh decayed. Then Christian community in Jerusalem the bones would be placed in an we don't already know." ossuary and reburied.

James Vanderkam, professor of after the crucifixion.

"It seems very probable that Lemaire said the cursive style Hebrew Scriptures at the Univer-. sity of Notre Dame in Indiana, said this is the ossuary of the James in used on three of the letters narrows that while a skillful fraud was pos- the New Testament," Lemaire the date of this particular ossuary sible it was likely that the inscrip- wrote in an article published in the even further to the last decades betion could have been done on a November-December issue of Bib- fore the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., the exact pepiece of limestone that dated to the lical Archaeology Review.

Lemaire, a researcher at the 'riod when James would have died. first century.

The first-century Jewish histo"We don't know exactly where Sorbonne in Paris, was permitted it comes from. Supposedly it was to study and photograph the . rian Josephus dates James' death removed from a cave by someone . ossuary, which surfaced recently to the year 62 A.D. Noting that the nameS .James who was not an archeologist, so in a private collection in Jerusawe lack context. It would have !em. He said the current owner. (Jacob), Joseph and Jesus were fairly common Jewish names at the wants to remain ~onymous. been nice to have that:' he said.

It is likely that the ossuary was time, and using various methods of He said that if the ossuary were authentic it would be a "nice find" found in or near Jerusalem, calculations, Lemaire estimated Lemaire said. that there were probably some 20 but "not earthshaking."

But since the ossuary came people who could be called "James, Vanderkam said the most interesting aspect was that the name of from an antiquities market replete son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" in the brother of the deceased person with stolen artifacts and not from Jerusalem at that time.

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EDUARDINA BLANCHARD, a resident of Our Lady's Haven, is surrounded by her children during her recent 100th birthday celebration at the Fairhaven home where she has lived since 2001. From left are Arthur Blanchard, Theresa Dubois and Ronald Blanchard. Many of Eduardina's friends and relatives attended the festivities, which included musical entertainment.

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eNS book reviews SPIRITUAL INNOVATORS: SEVENTY-FIVE EX路 TRAORDINARY PEOPLE WHO CHANGEO THE WORLD IN THE PAST CEN路 TURY, edited by Ira Rifkin.

Skylight Paths Publishing (Woodstock, Vt., 2002). 224 pp. A MONK IN THE WORLD: CULTIVATING A SPIRITUAL LIFE, by Wayne Teasdale. New World Library (Novato, Calif., 2002). 272 pp.

REVIEWED BY WAYNE A. HOLST CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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"There is great value in spirituality that emphasizes and supports withdrawal from society," writes Wayne Teasdale, author of "A Monk in the World." "But in our time, with its special needs, we require a spirituality of intense involvement and radical engagement with the world."

In the real multicultural and multifaith world where people actually live, the wisdom of monks and '\, other great \""l s p i ri t u a I 'II .f masters needs to be made more accessible.

These two books, each' in its own way, do just. thal.

Teasdale continues: "Perhaps one day we . will all witness the eventual emergence of a universal order of contemplatives or mystics from all traditions united in their awareness, their love and their dedication to the earth, humankind and all sentient beings."

The 75 leaders in "Spiritual Innovators" could be the beginning of just such a universal 01'der.They range from Father Hans Kung, the Rev. Billy Graham, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Joseph Campbell, to Black Elk, Seyyed Hossein NasI' and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Authorities from various' faith groups were asked to nominate individuals who brought the most change, excitement, innovation, creativity and vitality to the religious and spiritual lives of the world's people in the 20th century. Ira Rifkin edited those nominations to produce this inspirational collection of 75 brief profiles, along with book and Web links for further investigation.

During the last 100 years, spirituality has been transformed from particular traditions operating in cultural isolation to an unprecedented com-

mingling. Religions and their underlying philosophies were free to break out of their cultural constraints, giving rise to mutually transforming interfaith exchanges. "Interspirituality," a term describing the emergence and blending of the traditions, has now become a global reality.

In "A Monk in the World," Teasdale writes that interfaith encounter is a fixture of the new global culture. In an innovative and visionary chapter on the Church as matrix, he proposes that the Christian church in the THAN DIE NEWTON stars in a scene from the film "The Truth About Charlie." For a brief third millennium can become a review of this film, see CNS Movie Capsules below. (CNS photo from Universal Studios) welcoming place for alI the religions, reflecting a genuine, shootings. Although his film is offensive. The Motion Picture Asuniversal spiritual spaciousness thought-provoking, Moore tosses in sociation ofAmerica rating is R that allowsJor diversity without a racia1ly charged minicartoon and restricted. doing violence to her self-un''The Truth About Charlie" a grab bag of unrelated facts and derstanding and mission. He exopinions to build his case. Recur(Universal) plains: "Although the Church ring rough language and some inBreezy mystery-romance in certainly has a preeminent po-. tense images in video and newsreel which a murdered man's wife sition regarding the means of clips.

The U.S. Conference of (Thandie Newton) discovers he salvation, Catholic Bishops classification is had stolen a fortune, which asand she posA-Ill - adults. The Motion Pic- sorted dangerous strangers (in'.. sesses the IC~~ ~'I()viile ture Association of America rating cluding Mark Wahlberg, Tim fullness of is R - restricted.

Robbins and Lisa Gay Hamilton) those means ICallf)~Ulllle~ "Ghost Ship" (Warner Bros.) assume she now has. Loosely by virtue of NEW YORK (CNS) - The folGory tale about a salvage crew based on 1963's "Charade," direcher intimate lowing are capsule reviews of mov- (led by Gabriel Byrne and Julianna tor Jonathan Demme's genial, relationship with Christ, ies recently reviewed by the U.S. Margulies) struggling to remove somewhat convoluted tale plays she also has Conference of Catholic Bishops' cases of gold bu1lion from a de- like a minor valentine to Paris and a responsi- Office for Film and Broadcasting. crepit ocean liner inhabited by evil the French New Wave cinema of "Bowling for Columbine" spirits. A pathetic script with pre- the Sixties. Some violence, brief bility in our (United Artists) posterous developments should sexual innuendo and fleeting nuage to be a Specious documentary in which confine,director Steve Beck's car-, dity. The U.S. Conference of bridge for reconci Ii ng prod ucer- wri ter-di rector- inter- nage-filled horror flick to Davy Catholic Bishops classification is the human viewer Michael Moore uses guer- Jones' locker. Recurring violence A-III - adults.'The Motion Picri1la video journalism techniques to with excessive gore,路 sexual innu- ture Association of America ratfamily."

While it ridicule and blame the National endo with nudity, frequent profan- ing isPG-13 - parents are ha~ often .Rifle Association and an American ity and much rough language. The strongly cautioned. Some material been stated mind-set for the Columbine High U.S. Conference of Catholic Bish- may be inappropriate for children that spiritu- School massacre and other ops classification is 0 --,- mora1ly under 13. ality and mysticism unite diverse fai ths NEW YORK (CNS) - The following are video of America rating is R - restricted. (MGM) while relicapsule reviews from the U.S. Conference of Catho"Children of Heaven" (1999) gion and dogma divide them, lic Bishops' Office for Film and Broadcasting. TheatCharming story set in Tehran where a nine-yearboth books help readers probe rical movies on video have a USCCB classification old Iranian boy loses his little sister's only shoes, forcmore deeply into what this and Motion Picture Association of America rating. ing the two to take turns wearing his sneakers to school might mean. Pope John Paul II ''Beauty and the Beast" (1991) until he hears of a footrace in which the third prize is a has anticipated and reflected Enchanting animated fairy tale of a young maiden pair of new shoes. Director Majid Majidi spins a slenthese trend-setting developwho rescues her father from a ferocious beast only to der but sweetly evocative tale of genuine childhood ments through his interfaith fall in love with the creature's gentler qualities. Com- stress made bearable by bonds of love and their gengatherings at Assisi. puter graphics enhance classic Disney animation for erosity to an even less fortunate child. Subtitles. DeIt is enriching to discover that eye-pleasing visuals enlivened by rousing musical pictions of poverty and brief menace. The U.S. Conmany of the world's great spirinumbers and delightful characterizations from direc- ference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-IT tualleaders, though diverse and tors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale. Briefscary scenes. adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Associasometimes at seeming odds, can The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classifica- tion ofAmerica rating is PG - parental guidance sugalso' discover points of convertion is A-I - general patronage. The Motion Picture gested. (Facets) gence suggesting ways to help Association of America rating is G - general audi''Enough'' (2002) the earth's peoples find healing ences. (Disney) Mediocre drama about a woman (Jennifer Lopez) and renewal together. ''Big Bad Love" (2002) who thinks she's living an idyllic life with her wealthy While there will always be a Quirky drama about a struggling, alcoholic writer husband (Billy Campbell) until the husband turns into need for religious doctrine and (Arliss Howard) trying to regain control of his life a possessive abuser, and she must run away to save institutional maintenance, we, while dealing with his ex-wife (Debra Winger) and her life. Director Michael Apted tempers the film's at the beginning of a new cenher refusal to let him see their two children, one of revenge theme by giving the mousy housewife-turnedtury, seem to'be entering a time whom has an incurable disease. First-time director martial-arts-expert some heart, but the unrealistic pre- . of unprecedented spiritual Howard creatively uses visuals to capture what's in- sentation of spousal abuse and its repercussions rogathering. side the writer's mind, but the film is overlong, mantically concludes that every bad guy is punished Teasdale writes with vision: crammed with too many bizarre incidents and not and every good guy wins. Several intense scenes of "I don't think the world's relienough character development, despite,an ultimately domestic violence, bloody fisticuffs and brief crass gions and spiritual leaders realstirring conclusion. Some sexual encounters and sev- expressions with an instance of rough language. The ize how much influence and eral sexual references, a few disparaging remarks U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is power to change the world they about Christianity, fleeting rear nudity, brief violence, A-llI - adults. The Motion Picture Association of have if they work together." recurring profanity and sporadic rough language. The America rating is PG-13 - parents are strongly cauHolst is a writer who has U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification tioned. Some material may be inappropriate for chiltaught religion and culture at is A-III - adults. The Motion Picture Association dren under 13. (Columbia TriStar) the University of Calgary.

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In midst of sniper attacks prayer was also a binding force.

The arrests came about three for policies to fight crime "that are weeks after a sniper began a kill- more proactive and less reactive" ing spree that claimed 10 lives. and urged religious and commuThree others were hospitalized in nity'leaders to work closer toBy WILLIAM MURRAY critical condition; one of those gether.

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE victims was released a few days The religious leaders also ROCKVILLE, Md. - "When after being shot. . made it clear that they were prayprayers are multiplied, mountains The Interfaith. Conference of ing for law enforcement officers can be moved," Cardinal Metropolitan Washington and . who were working on the sniper Theodore E. McCarrick of Wash- District of Columbia Mayor An- case.' ington said. thony Williams' Interfaith Coun"My message is simple: we are In the days before two praying for you. We are men were arrested and praying with you," said charged in connection with Methodist Bishop Felton In the days before two men were the deaths of 10 people, he Edwin May. "Like you, I prayed that the tragedy of arrested and chargedin connection am a member of this comJives lost in a string of sniper with the deaths of 10 people, he munity. I see fear in shootings in the Washing- prayed that the tragedy of lives lost people's eyes." ton region would "bind us in a string of sniper shootings in the During a prayer service closer together." He said, Washington region· would "bind us after the press conference, "Together in the Lord, we closer together." He said, "Together Father Jack Macfarlane, are strong." pastor of St. Elizabeth ParCardinal McCarrick in the Lord, we are strong." ish in Rockville, read a list made the comments at an of the sniper's 13 victims, outdoor press conference including the three held prior to an interfaith prayer cil of Washington called on Car~ wounded victims. service at a United Methodist dinal McCarrick and other inter"God of mercy and compaschurch in the Washington suburb faith leaders from the Washing- sion, we stand with those who • of Rockville. ' ton area to gather together to pray have suffered," he prayed.

The press conference and ser- for an .end to the viblenc'e.

Other speakers included local vice came on' the same day the In his remarks, Cardinal Bahai, Christian, Muslim and latest victim in the sniper McCarrick noted that "the power Sikh leaders. A group of law enshootings lost his life and police of prayer is real power." He also forcement officers lighted a cerlater tied his death to nine others spoke of how prayer is "one of emonial candle on the altar as killed by the same sniper. the primary ways that leads to the did a group of public and civil Two days later, police arrested submission of our will to that of servants. , two suspects in the case - John God." Allen Muhammad, 41, and John . Referring to a Washington Pos.t Lee Malvo, 17 - at a roadside story about killing~ unrelated to rest stop near Frederick, about 50 the sniper attacks that began Ocmiles northwest of the. nation's tober 2, Rabbi David Schneyer of 'PTH SHOE capital. the Am Kolel Community called

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FOR ALL DAY Former Ohio first lady excommunicated for submitting to June 'ordinations' _ WALKING COMFORT CLEVELAND (CNS) A member of St. Luke Church Former Ohio first lady Dagmar in Lakewood,Celeste said she plans Celeste, now identified as one of to continue being a faithful Cathoseven women who claimed they lic even t;hough she is barred from were ordained priests this summer participating in any liturgical serin Europe, says she still considers vices. herself a devoted Catholic even "I haven't left the Church," she , though she has been excommuni- told the Catholic Universe Bulletin, cated, Cleveland's diocesan newspaper.

Father Ralph Wiatrowski, chan- "None of us have left 'the Church. celioI' of the Cleveland diocese, said We all love the Church. We want to Celeste is not pelmilted to receive be an integral part of it. That's why or participate' in the sacraments. we've followed this call."

She is not even allowed to attend At the time, Celeste used the Mass in a Catholic church, he added. name Angela White to protect her If she was discovered to be partici- daughter who was preparing for a pating, a priest or member of the September marriage. The other congregation could rightfully ask .' women who were ordained are from Celeste to leave.

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Celeste and six other women said It was ,explained that under the they were ordained priests June 29 decree of excommunication "an inabom'd a boat on the Danube River dividualloses all rights to attend any

by Archbishop Romulo Antonio liturgical action and is forbidden Braschi, an Argentine priest who from receiving the sacraments'ofthe founded the breakaway Catholic- Church until the decree of excomApostolic Charismatic Church of munication is lifted."

Jesus the King in 1970. The Vatican Father Wiatroski said if Celeste considers him "a schismatic" who wanted to be a member of the has "already incurred excommuni- Church again she would be recation." quired to petition the Congregation Shortly after the women went for the Doctrine of the Faith. "An public with their claim, the Congre- excommunication means she's not gation for the Doctrine of the Faith . allowed to participate in any liturat thi Vatican ruled the ordination gical celebration," he said. "She's invalid. The women were excom- lost her rights as a Christian, as a municated in August after refusing Catholic, as a member of the to renounce their ordination: ' Church.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) ~ Standing during the eu- . ''The General Instruction of the Roman Missal notes charistic prayer at Mass in U.S. dioceses is ~rmitted that the posture of the people 'ought to draw things too, "only on exceptional and extraordinary occasions ... and gether in such'a way that the entire celebration shines never on a regular basis," the U.S. bishops' Committee with.beauty and noble simplicity, the true apdfull meanon Liturgy said in its latest newsletter. ing of the different Parts of the celebration is perceived, The committee's September newsletter, made pub- . and that the participation ofall is e.ncouraged,''' the com: lie in mid-October, said "the only licit posture" during mittee said. the eucharistic prayer is kneeling, unless Catholics "are "Therefore, closer attention should be paid to the prevented on occasion from kneeling due to 'health, postures prescribed by the liturgical books th~ to 'prilack of space, the large number of people present, or vate inclination or arbitrary choice,''' it added, again some other good reason.''' The newsletter was -quoting citing the General Instruction. from the General Instruction of the Roman Missal.

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Vatjean on the nearly 700 host'ages were ' situation. ,VATICAN CITY -::::- Col. Pius well audience in late September, Swiss military,. new recruiting The Vatican's representative to killed, and more than 600 others were hospitalized, 150 in intensive the Russian Federation, Arch- Segmuller, called by Pope John did not immediately name a new campaigns, new methods of cancare: ' bishop Giorgio Zur, recently took Paul' II to take command of the· commander ·of the Swiss Guard, didate screening and the estabThe pope said he,wanted'to ask up a new assignment il) Austria,- Swiss Guard following the 1998 a lOO-member volunteer force of lishment of a foundation in Swit-' Mary in a special way to protect and the Vatican has not yet named murder bf the corps' cOTJ1mander, ,·Swiss Catholic males who have zerland to support the guards. has resigned his post. ~ompleted service in the Swiss Russia in the wake of the violence. his replacement in Moscow.

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Football 50 years ago 'was whole different game, Catholic says AdIninistrator

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He preparedfor the priesthood overseeing the diocesan cabinet.

In 1989 he celebrated the 25th at St. John's Seminary in land quarterback Otto Graham and Chicago Rockets Brighton and at the North Ameri- anniversary of his priestly ordireceiver Elroy "Crazylegs." Hirsch. . h h But the American conference folded after the 1949 can College.in Rome, were e nation.

SUPERIOR, Wis, - Professional football hasn't alHe .had directed the Diocesan ways been a glamorous sport, with highly paid stars season, and the Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Colts and also earned a graduate degree in sacred theology from the Department of Education from performing in lavish stadiums as millions more saw them. San Francisco 4gers joined the NFL, while players from Gregorian University.

1977 to 1985 and was dean of the on national television. the remaining franchises were assigned to NFL teams He was ordained a priest at the Cape and Islands Deanery from Alex Wizbicki played in a different era, but he and . in a dispersal draft. , .

North American College on Dec. 1990 to 1994. other gridders from 50 years ago helped make big salaWizbicki was assigned to the Browhs. That squad 16, 1964 and served as a parochial In November 1994, Msgr. ries and celebrity status possible for today's won the 1950 championship in their first NFL season, vicar at St. Kilian's.in New Coleman was named to 'the rank players. 'and Paul Zimmerman of Sports Illustrated has called it Bedford, St. Louis in Fall River of Prelate of Honor with the title At 80, the former Green Bay one of the six best NFL teams ever. Wizbicki, though, and Our Lady of Victory in of Reverend Monsignor by Pope • ,was traded to Green Bay before the season.

Packer and Buffalo Bill is a courtly John Paul II. · Id" In Green Bay had no t yet Centerville. gentleman who doesn't begrudge the Lambeau FIe M C I . td Msgr. Coleman has" also ~ h d' b h sgr.

0 eman was appoIn e . current stars their salaries, or wish been bUilt, and lans a Just oug t more f St P tri k' P 'h' F II served as president of the Priest~' he'd been born laterto share in the than $100,000 worth of stock to save·' PR~stor? 19' 8~ ~ sl9~s hIn as Senate and was active in adult the franchise. "I didn't realize how Iver In . n .e, wa wealth.

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"We had our fun, and were th hak s y ey were, IZ IC Sal . h' Eas S d . h . h He currently resides at St. IS m t an WIC ,servmg t ere . 1950 "UT. lucky we got out with limited of the Pac.kersh'Inh h.i tne untJ'I appomte . d'm 1994 to h'IS pos ts Joseph's Rectory in Fall River. pIayed In a Ig sc 00 s ainjuries," said Wizbicki, a padium, The equipment rishioner at the Cathedral of wasn't the greatest."

Christ the King in Superior, in an interview with the Like many players , of the era, he took a .

Continued from pagefive Catholic Herald, Superior's slight pay cut in 1950. diocesan newspaper. He~s still vigorous and works two days But Wizbicki stressed Academy in Providence, R.I. membership in the Supelior Court a week as a wine consultant at that he enjoyed his year Judge Reardon, whose award is Clerks/Assistant Clerks Associaa local liquor store. in Green Bay as a Packel' de- ,that given to ajudge, is the first jus- tion and the Taunton Bar AssociaHe is a graduate of Boys High fensive back. tice ofthe Barnstable District Court, tion. in Brooklyn, N.Y. The school is also "People were extremely re- where he was, appointed in 1992.

A member of Holy Family Parthe alma mater ofbasketball Hall of Famers ceptive," he said. "You weren't He served on the District Court ish in East Taunton, he is a fOlw6r Lenny Wilkens and Connie Hawkins. just there for the season, you were Committee for Mental Health and collector of Special Gifts for the Wizbicki played college football at the part of. the community, I'll never Retardation and has readily taken Catholic Charities Appeal.

Jesuit-run College of the Holy Cross in forget the first time we went shop- special assignments to preside reguHe is married to Janet M. Worcester. Mass" working his play and ping. The superm~rket owner larly at Bridgewater State Hospital Andrade, a teacher's aide at Village studies around three years in the Marines dursaid, 'Here's the best meat, and and Corrigan Mental Health Cen- Fatima Pre-School, and they have ing World War II, where he served in the I'll throw in an extra pound. Good ter in Fall River. a daughter, Catherine Emma South Pacific and China.

IUc~ on ~un?ar;' You'd never 'get During his tenure as judge he has Andrade, a fourth-grade student at When he graduated from college, that m,a bIg cIty. , been instrumental in instituting Al- St. Mary's School.

Wizbicki was a beneficiary of the talent war ~esldes strong commumty sup- - coholics Anonymous programThe Ecumenical Award will be between the established National Football ~rt, the ~ackers ~ also known for. ming; introduced the "Changing presented to Retired Superior Court League and the upstart All American Football th,elr fierce nv~lry wl0 ~e Bears.,. " Lives Through Literature Program" Judge Chris Byron, an active memConference. During the 1930s, many NFL for men and women' as well as the ber of St. George Greek Orthodox 'That Bear nvalry Isn t all publIcIty, players eanled $100 or less per game. But after Wizbicki said. "Nothing could come close "Choices of Consequences" teen Church in New Bedford.

World War II the American conference caused to.the in~ensi~,ofthe rivalry program.

A 1948 graduate of Norwich salaries to soar. wIth the ChIcago Bears.

He is senior lecturer in Crimi- University, he is a decorated U.S. ALEX WIZBICKI Wizbicki was drafted by the NFL's Pittsburgh The first time we played the nal Law at the Western New En- Army veteran of the Korean 'War, Steelers, and recalled that the Steelers urged him eNS PHOTO FROM ~ears, yo.u felt the intensity gland College off-campus program, serving as a tank commander with to play for pride in the established league.

CATHOLIC HERALD In the aIr and ~ere enA 1958 graduate of Holy Cross the First Cavalry Division. His dar"I fought for honor in World War II," Wizbicki gulfed. You were I~tent to College in Worcester, Reardon ing leadership and having been said he told the Steelers."I'm not going to' play go out there as qUickly as served in the U.S. Navy aboard a wounded four times resulted in his for pride now." possible.'" '. . . , cruiser and destroyer and separated , receiving the Silver and Bronze Instead he signed as a running back with the AmeriAft~r one s~ason W1~ Green Bay, Wlzblcki ~g~ a from active. duty with the rank of Stars, the Purple Heart with two can conference's Buffalo, N,y', team for a better offer , career m sales In the ~lwaukee, are~. He and hIS WIfe, Lieutenant. He graduated with hon- Oak LeafClusters, theKorean Ser- $5,500 per year and a $1,500 signing bonus, ''That M~, moved to Supeno,r after his retJ~ment to b~ near ors from Boston College Law vice Medal with Four Battle Stars, was pretty good money in those days," Wizbicki said. theIr daughter, Glona LeIghton, and theIr grandchildren. School in 1964 and subsequently the United Nations Service Medal "Linemen were getting $3,500." .

Leighton teaches in nearby Poplar.. . , was involved in the general prac- and the Republic of Korea PresiHis Buffalo Bills teammates included former UniLike most football followers, WIZblCki s,aw the NFL tice of law. He served in many ca- dential Citation. versity ofNotre Dame quarterback George Ratterman rise to an undreamed-of level of prospenty over ~he pacities in municipal government Following nearly four years of and future Chicago Bears coach Abe Gibron. past 50 years. "It would never have grown to the s~ze and is a member of many bar asso- military service he studied at. Bos"Believe me, there were some great players who did it is (without television exposure) and they know It," ciations. ton University School of Law and very well in the NFL," Wizbicki added, citing Cleve- . he said. .

-A member of Our Lady of Vic- graduated in 1955. After serving as tory Parish in Centerville, he is mar- a law clerk to a Massachusetts Suried to Eileen Reardon and they preme Courtjustice, he went on to a Continued from page one have seven children. . law career serving the City of New Attorney Andrade, the first as- Bedford, and then as an assistant leaders.refuse to propose solutions traception mandates, providing sistant clerk/magistrate of the . district attorney and finally as a spe- . for debate in the public arena out for a living wage, and adequate Bristol County Superior Court, af- cial, assistant attorney general. of fear of reflecting their personal housing, health care and food for ter being named earlier this year, In 1974 Bryon was appointed monil convictions. If a candidate the poor. The stakes are high. will be the recipient of the award a district court judge and in 1979 is "personally opposed" to abor- Please vote, and vote conscien~ given to a member of the court sys- was appointed justice of the tion, for example, 'we may rightly tiously for those candidates that tem. He graduated from .Msgr. Southern Appellate Division of ask why, and then call that candi- best support our convictions and Coyle High School, Taunton in the District Court. The same year date to courageously share his or the principles of good govern- 1964; Boston College in 1968; and he was appointed associate jusher convictions in the public arena. ment. .

Suffolk University School of Law tice of the Superior Court. He re'Issued Friday, November 1, The debate will be enriched. in 1971. He practiced law with tired in 1992.

Those we elect this November 2002. .

A strong support of literacy, he Wynn and Wynn in Taunton from Bernard Cardinal Law, Archwill face a host of critical issues 1971 to 1978 and became an assis- has been at the forefront teaching at the federal and state ievels in diocese of Boston; tant clerk and magistrate of the Su- children how to read.

Bishop Daniel P. ReilIy, Diothe next two years. Likely to be Byron resides in Rochester with perior Court in 1978. included are debates on cloning cese of Worcester; He has been acti ve. in the his wife, Priscilla. They have two . ~ishop Thomas L. Dupre, Dioand embryo destruction, informed Taunton Girls Softball League as a daughters, Christina and Dimitra, consent to abortion, the death cese of Springfield; coach and also coached in the and three grandsons. . , Monsignor George Coleman, penalty, the definition of marByron is also the 2002 recipient Taunton Soccer League and golf riage, the freedom to conscien- Administrator, Diocese of Fall and swimming teams. He holds of the Clergy Laity Award. tiously object to abortion and con- River.'

By BILL KURTZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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THESE KINDERGARTEN students from Saint Mary-Sacred.. Heart SchOOl, North Attleboro,.display pumpkins they took home from a recent field trip to Ward's Berry Farm where they learned about the fall harvest and enjoyed a hayride.

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Madeline Sweet. Teachers Denise Flynn and Maria Stathakis . organized the event. .

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OCALA, Fla. - The most anxious time of a parent's life and also one of the most exciting for their teens got a blessing from Father Patrick O'Doherty at Queen of Peace Church.

The priest, who hails from Tipperary, Ireland, held a special ceremony at his Ocala church during a recent 9:30 a.m. Mass for 14 new drivers and their families.

"Well, well, well, God bless us all," said Father O'Doherty when, the teens lined up military-style in front of the altar to receive a blessing and an ornamental silver key with a host of saints to protect them.

He asked everyone receiving the new key to remember to say a special prayer for safety when they get in their cars. The silver key was embossed with St. Anthony, Mary holding her Son, the Infant of Prague and St. Christopher.

"It is the most anxious time of a parent's life when their chi ld gets their driving permit," said the priest during the ceremony. "You say, 'Jesus, Mary and Joseph - keep the child and us safe as well.'"

Father O'Doherty got the idea for the first-time ceremony from a daily devotional he read describing the angst of a mother with a new driver.

He told the teens that everyone is on a journey that leads to Jesus but now the teens will be moving around a little faster.

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them that driving is a great privilege and they should use their new ability to ferry their siblings to practice, take the sick to the doctor or run to the grocery store for their mothers.

"Be good drivers and use this gift to help others so you may do his will," the priest said.

Frankie Dinardi, a 16-yearold who attends Trinity Catholic High School in Ocala, joined his twin sister, Patty, who was an altar server during the Mass, for the ceremony.

"I thought it was pretty cool," he said. He promised his grandmother he would take his ll-year-old sister, Katie, to cheerleading practice.

The ceremony "makes you feel a lot safer driving," he told The Florida Catholic, newspaper of the Orlando ,diocese.

After the Mass, Hannah Ashford, 18, left to go to work at TJ. Maxx in Ocala, but her father, Bill Ashford, said he felt much safer now that his middle daughter had been blessed.

"We'll take any blessings we can get," said Bill Ashford, who added that neither he nor his wife go to bed until their teenagers return home at night.

When leaving the church, Mike Lewis, 15, thanked Father O'Doherty for the silver key and told him he had hoped to get a car to go along with it. He said he made a deal with his mom that if he attended the blessing she would let him drive to his girlfriend's house.

Lewis plans to apply for his license when he turns 16 in November.

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By CHARLIE SPIN I'd rather chase your shadow all my life Than be afraid of my own I'd rather be with you I'd rather not know Where I'll be than Be alone and convinced that I know Refrain: When the world keeps spinning around My world's upside down You and I wouldn't change a thing I've got nothing else to lose I lost it all when -I found you And I wouldn't change a thing No, you and I wouldn't change a thing Everything I know has let me down So I will just let go Let you turn me inside out 'Cause I know I'm not sure about anything But you wouldn't have it any other way (Repeat refrain.)

Spinning, turnil1g, watching, burning All my life has found its meaning Walking, crawling, climbing, falling All my life has found its meaning You and I wouldn't change a thing No, you and I wouldn't change a thing (Repeat refrain) No, you and I wouldn't change a thing Sung by Lifehouse Copyright (c) 2002 by Dreamworks Records

MARTIN â&#x20AC;˘ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Lifehouse's new disc "Stanley Climbfall" was written between tours. Some reviewers listen to their sound and hear echoes of Pearl Jam, while others focus on their softer songs and see Matchbox 20. Still others, including me, hear a spiritual quality in their music, possibly showing the roots of singer-songwriter Jason Wade's growing up as the son of

two ministers.

However you characterize their work, the group has been on a wave of rising popularity ever since the success of their debut CD, "No Name Face."

Off the new album is their current chart hit "Spin." The person in the song says, "Everything I know has let me down" and "I'm not sure about anything." Now his world is "upside down," yet he says, "You and I wouldn't change a thing.''The song invites us to consider what needs "change" in life.

Surely, when we look at the wider world, we who call ourselves today's disciples of Jesus can't say we "wouldn't change a thing."

Clearly there is much suffering in God's family because of a lack of effort or will to create

change. For example, 22,000 children a day die of malnutrition in this world. In southern African countries, Catholic Relief Services reports that 14 million of our brothers and sisters face starvation. Indeed, lifesaving change is needed.

Further, there is the immense suffering of the Iraqi people. Certain world governments, including our own, propose a new war on a people who have already seen 500,000 of their children die from treatable diseases. Perhaps by the time you read this column, American bombs will be bringing further death to the members of God's family below them.

Can the path of escalating violence ever be the way of Jesus?

Why can't we hear the anguished words of Pope John Paul II: "Today, the scale and horror of modem warfare - whether nuclear of not - makes it totally unacceptable as means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should tind no place in humanity's agenda for the future."

No matter how your own personal world seems to be "spinning," the sanctity of human life that God has created depends on today's disciples of Jesus insisting upon, and witnessing to, change. As our pope suggested, we must be bold in rejecting violence as a solution to conflicts.

We must remember Jesus' words about reaching out to the suffering, the hungry and the poor.

It is so important for God's family that we change many things!

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Your comments are always welcome. Please address: chmartin@swindiana.net.

When teens,and parents disagree about religion By

CHRISTOPHER CARSTENS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

The mom calls me because I'm a psychologist, and it's known in the community that I'm also a Catholic. She has a problem with her son, and she'd like my advice.

He's almost 16 and has already been confirmed. Recently he announced that he is an "agnostic."

He attends Mass but does not re'ceive Communion. His mom is afraid of making the situation worse.

There is not an easy solution, at least not one that will make everybody happy right away.

Little kids copy their parents' religious beliefs and practices without much thought -- when you're seven or eight you do whatever your mom or dad does.

However, teen-agers go through a process of figuring things out

for themselves. Often that comes doesn't matter anymore. Someoff as rejecting their parents' re- how, our culture says, because ligion just because it is their par- we're so scientific and sophistients' religion. "1 don't know who cated, we don't need to worry about God anymore. On televiI'm going to be when I grow up," they seem to say, "but it won't be anybody li~e my mom or dad!"

Young people often wander far from the faith of their parents.

Still, the list of people who rejected Christianity and returned later on is very long and includes many of the greatest Christian thinkers and writers of our time.

Adolescence is a time of spiritual exploration. Teens actively tryon new ways of thinking and sion and in the movies, religion being. It's only logical that their mostly doesn't exist at all, and religion would be part of that pro- those few religious people who cess of evaluation and re-evalua- show up typically are portrayed 'as backward, superstitious tion.

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spiritual path is open and alive to thinking about the place of God in his or her life. Whether that path takes them through Evangelical Christianity, Buddhism or Hindu mysticism, the quest remains a spiritual' one. Our loving God is more powerful than we can imagine, and he will find those searchers and often bring them back to his fold.

But young people who conclude religion does not matter face a more difficult journey home to God because they have stopped asking the sort of questions that God answers. Where do I stand in the universe? What is the purpose of my life? How am I supposed to live?

The mother who called me about her son must make clear that in her world God matters. She would not let her child make up

his own mind about driving without a license or dropping out of school because those are important decisions. As difficult as it ,might be,.1 urged her to say that ( dropping out of Church is not an option, at least until her son has graduated from tiigh school. . But all she can demand is that . he show up and listen. She can't force him to recite the creed. Demanding that a' self-declared nonbeliever receive Communion makes no sense. . He is free to think what he thinks. But in a world that is ready to dismiss God entirely, I believe a parent's message must be that God matters.

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Exhibiting and highlighting Church art ~hould not be hidden away in storage rooms, but these works is a good way for needs to be shown and' made local churches to engage in culknown' 'among the entire ,com~ tural dialogue, he said, He en: munity, Pope John Paul II said. couraged local Church .leaders The pope, speaking to mem- to cooperate with civil authoribel's of the Pontifical Commis-' ties in showing and protecting sion for the Cultural Goods of sacred art.

The pope said Catholic Ieadthe Church, said artistic works were one ofthe Church's great- ers need to have a productive ,est material assets and should dialogue with contemporary , not be locked up. 'artists, so that the Church can " fie said there was a growing , continue its age-old collaboraconsensus in society that "sa- 'tion with the world of art.

He said art was a good cred art, architecture, archives; , libraries,museums, music and means for the Church to 'project 'theater'do not represent merely its vision - offering through a heap of historical-artistic ar- artistic works a "germ of hope tifacts, but a collection of as- that overcomes pessimism and sets that can be used by the en- confusion."

THE VIRGIN presenting a rosary to St. Dominic is depicted in a stained glass window at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church in Medford, Wis. Pope John Paul II proclaimed the "year of the rosary" with the addition of five new mysteries reflecting Christ's ministry on earth.

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THIS EARLY 15th-century painting of St. Lawrence from the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, was shown in the United States in 1999 to heighten awareness of the 1997 earthquakes that 'hit Assisi and to underscore the need to pre"' serve artistic works. Pope John Paul II speaking to the POI1tifical Commission for the Cultural Goods of the Church, said artworks were one of the Church's greatest material assets and should be made known to the ,entire community. This tempera on panel,isattributed to Florentine painter Gherardo 'Stamina. (CNS file photo)

that "people who say the rosary get it."

Those who pray the rosary, he said, sh,ould also WASHINGTON - Pope John Paul II's addi- take to heart the pope's very words that the retion of five new mysteries to the centuries-old flection on these new mysteries was merely a sug-, , , tradition of the rosary did not come as a huge gestion., surprise to some l'ylarianist priests.

In the, document, he said, the pope continually "It has always been a developing prayer. Many stressed the need to look for different approaches, people have proposed' changes over the years," in saying the rosary, and even went so far as to said Marianist Father Thomas Thompson, direc- say, "Why not try it," about finding ways to make tor of the Marian Library at the University of Day- the rosary come alive for children. ton in Ohio.

Father'Thompson, who has published several The priest noted that the U.S. bishops sug- 'articles on the rosary, said the pope's apostolic , gested adding new myster' , letter about the rosary, and ies to the rosary more than its particular references to 25 years ago. today's troubled times, is As Father Thompson-sees it, similar to the encyclicals He was referring to the bishops' 1973 pastoral let- the pope called for the suggested on the rosary that Pope tel' on Mary, titled "Behold addition at this time because ''in Leo XIII began in 1883 Your Mother: Woman of when he called the rosary Faith." Pointing out that times of trouble and doubt, the "a remedy for the ills of the prayers and mysteries Church looks to Mary for assis- society."

"Just as popes have re, ofthe rosary are based on tance." The rosary is a "recourse sponded to perilous times the Bible~ the bishops sug- for troubled times." gested that Catholics "can in the past, Pope John Paul freely experiment" with has urged people to take to prayer, especially a connew forms of the rosary, includiQg new sets of mysterie~ such as ones deal- templative'type of prayer to give, hope and ing with the publiC life of Cnrist. strengthen the spirit,"he said. , As Father Thompson sees it, the pope called The priest'alsQ'noted that these particular mysfor the suggested addition at this time because teries of Christ all reflect Christ's power. When "in times of trouble and 'doubt, the Church looks people reflect on the actions of Christ, he said, to Mary for assistance:" The rosary is a "recourse they '!-re reminded that "goodness and life will foi-:tro6bled times,',' he told Catholic News SeF-,' prevail.'" ' vice in,il tecerit, interview. ' Marianist Father Johann Roten, director of the Called the "mysteries of light," the new rosary International Marian Research ,Institute' at the themes suggested by the pope in his O<;tober 16 University of Dayton, said "It's hard to invent an apostolic letter, "Rosarium Virginis Mariae" original and creative prayer and make it your ("The Rosary of the Virgin Mary"), focus on own," he said, noting that when people pray, the Christ's baptism, his firstmirade at Cana, his 'rosary they already have prayers in place. The ' preaching ministry, his Transfiguration and his' beads also give them something tangible to "hang onto." 'institution of the Euchatist.

In his document, the pope asks that, the "mys- . The rhythm of the prayers, he said, "fr~es you' teries of light" be recited especially on Thursq{lYs. . ~o' con~entrate on ~~eimport~nt messages of the Whenasked if Catholics might get confused about, mysteries Of Christ's life. It's like the melody of ' the day of the week they should reflect on,the new a song," he added. "It brings you a sen!!e of . C'ot A-f ..y",('Ot.oor;~~

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