VOL. 46, NO. 44
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Red Mass pays tribute to four in justice system FALL RIVER - Four members of the justice systcm whosc colleagues contend are outstanding role models, received the prestigious S1. Thomas More Awards at the Fall River diocese's annual Red Mass on Sunday. Msgr. George W. Coleman, administrator of the diocese, and vicar general and moderator of the curia, was the principal celebrant and homilis1. The Stonehill College Choral under the direction of Denise Gagnon, sang the Mass. Msgr. Coleman presented the individual awards that traditionally are given to a lawyer, judge, court official and ecumenical recipient to, Attorney Irene B. Sch.all of.New Bedford, Jtidge Joseph J. Reardon of Centerville, Clerk Magistrate and Attorney Peter B. Andrade of' Taunton, and Retired Superior Court Justice Chris Byron of Rochester. The medals are named after St. Thomas More, a 16th-century English layman, who was a lawyer and martyr. He opposed the divorce of England's King Henry VIII and refused to renounce papal authority in the matter and subsequently incurred the king's wrath. In his homily, Msgr. Coleman alluded to reflections by Cardinal Francis George of Chicago on Oliver Wendell Holmes' ''The Path to Glory."
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WASHINGTON - Back from the nation's capital and the four-day meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, The Anchor's executive editor reported "it was a very good enforcement, as well as a refinement of what was begun in Dallas in June." Msgr. John F. Moore, who is also the director of the Fall River diocese's Office of Communications, covered the November 1114 meeting daily from the press section on the floor of the convention. Participating in the conference was Msgr. George W. Coleman, chancellor and moderator of the curia, in his role as administrator of the Diocese of Fall River. Also attending was John E. Kearns Jr., assistant director of the Office of Communications. "As we all now know the central issue was certainly clergy sexual abuse of minors but a great deal of other interesting matters were also at play," Msgr. Moore said. The bishops revised their charter to protect children and young people, and approved
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as biblical roots. By DEACON JAMES N. DUNBAR FALL RIVER - As the Diocese of Fall River readies to celebrate the anniversary of its first century of faith commi~ment in 2004, an interesting and most fitting logo designed by a religious sister has been unveiled. The work of Mercy Sister Gertrude Gaudette, the official logo, which shows the vast expanse of the diocese including its Islands communities; its heraldic shield and the dates 1904:-2004, are pertinent. " .. . Sister Gaudette; who th~ records note is retired, is an outstanding artist and woodcarver who con- ' tinues to teach at her residence at The Lani:lmark in downtown Fall River. Contacted recently just after giving an' art ' class, the religious sister humbly played down .. the design. "It's very, very simple," she said. "Thet:e's the . diocese's identifying crest, there's where the people are, and those, are the years we are celebrat- " ing." At age 80, Sister Gaudette acknowledged that. her lifetime,covers most of the years the celebrations are all about, . and that,she spent most of her life in the diocese. "So I feel very much a part of what's happening and .consider it an honor to have been asked to design a logo - and that it was accepted.~' . ' " Theresa Dougilli" president of Bishop Stang High School in North Dartmouth, and a member of the Centennial Celebrations Committee, said
that while several artists' names were mentioned, she suggested Sister Gaudette be asked to create the design. "Sister Gertrude and I knew one another because she had been an art teacher at Bishop Stang for 10 years," Dougall said "Because Sister Gaudette has been so active in the field of art in the diocese for many years and is known by so many people familiar with her work, she was a natural choice," Dougall explained. She said Sister Gaudette submitted several designs and the committee suggested inclusion of the diocesan crest and an inscription 'The Spirit Gives Life,"taken from the Scriptural passage John 6:63. That text "was the fruit of the committee's discussions on several proposed themes," reported Father Barry W. Wall, diocesan archivist. That quotation will be the theme of the centennial celebrations, Father Wall and Dougall reported. , The diocesan crest has a cross which symbolizes the Faith. It has a six-pointed star, a reminder that the diocese is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary particularly as Our Lady, of the Assumption. There is also a wavy river running across the shield which symbolizes the Quequechan River, which at one time flowed from the eastern quarter of Southeastern Massachusetts through the City of Fall River and empq 2~OO tied into the Taunton River. , "Quequechan" which in the language of the Native-Americans residing in this region, means • "falling river," suggested a more fitting name for , the city once called Troy, because of the panoramic Tum to /JlIKe J3 - Logo
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Papal nuncio warns of contradictions in secular society WASHINGTON (CNS) - U.S. bishops must be strong in proclaiming the Church's saving message "amidst the contradictions and tensions that are often generated by a secular society." said Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, papal nuncio to the United States. Growing secularization has produced a widespread deChristianization of modem life, he told the U.S. bishops on the opening day of their November 11-14 meeting. "Countries that were once strongly Catholic now have large numbers of people who have lost
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taught at Dominican Academy during hedree time. and was mistress of novices, and She leaves two sisters, Sisin 1946 was elected prioress of ter Isabelle Bouchard, PM, of St. Catherine's Convent, all in St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, Fall River, serving there for 18 Canada, and Cecile years. Beauregard, also in Quebec. Sister Bouchard taught in She was also the sister of the Plattsburg, N.Y., later again in late Bernard, Adelstan, Fall River, and after retirement Charlemagne, Jean, Christine, in 1992 assisted in the library at Marie, Agatha, Bernadette and Dominican Academy and volun- Francoise Bouchard. teered other services. Her funeral Mass was celIn May, 2002, just prior to the ebrated Thursday in the main closing of the Fall River Center chapel of the Newburgh Center of Hope, she moved to Siena of Hope. Burial was in the DoHall at the Newburgh Center of minican Sisters of Hope CemHope. etery there. Sister Bouchard, well reThe Perott-Berardinelli spected for her leadership quali- Home for Funerals, Inc., ties, her gentleness and kind- Newburgh, N.Y., was in charge ness, loved to knit baby clothes of arrangements.
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a bachelor's degree in psychology. He received a master's degree in theology from St. John's Cemetery in Brighton, Mass., and was ordained a priest in 1976 by the late Cardinal Humberto Medeiros. Father Bourgeois' service included choir director, as a member of the Monastic Formation Team and retreat staff at the abbey, and as music director at St. Paul's Church, Hingham. His life-long interest in the fine arts resulted in many professional and ministerial assignments that took him around the world. . He received a licentiate in theology from the Pontifical University of Santa Anselmo in Rome, where he subsequently served as registrar and director of the Theology Renewal Pro-
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In Your Prayers Please pray for the following priests during the coming week Nov. 25 1946, Rev. Philias Jalbert, Pastor, Notre Dame de Lourdes, Fall River 1971, Rev. Dennis Spykers, SS.Cc. Nov. 26 1945, Rev. James R. Burns, P.R., Pastor, Sacred Heart, Fall River 2000, Rev. Charles Porada, OFM, Our Lady's Haven, Fairhaven Nov. 27 1948, Rt. Rev. Patrick E. McGee, Pastor, St. Mary, North Attleboro Nov.· 28 1959, Rev. Adrien A. Gauthier, Pastor, St. Roch, Fall River Nov. 29 1965, Rev. Francis A. McCarthy, Pastor, St. Patrick, Somerset
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receive Marian Medals FALL RIVER - Diocesan Administrator Msgr. George W. Coleman, will award .Marian Medals to 86 lay persons from across the diocese during a ceremony at St. Mary's Cathedral Sunday at 3 p.m. The annual award recognizes members of diocesan parishes nominated by their pastors as outstanding for devotion and service. The award was first presented in 1968 by Bishop James L. Connolly. The Marian Medal is made of sterling silver and is embossed with a Miraculous Medal on one side and the Fall River Diocesan coat of arms on the other. The Marian Medal recipients for 2002 and their parishes are:
South Yarmouth: Edward Murphy, St. Pius X Parish. Wellfleet: Sally Monahan, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish. West Harwich: Margaret Clemente, Holy Trinity Parish. Woods Hole: Mary Buckley, St. Joseph Parish. FALL RIVER DEANERY
Attleboro: Leticia Balcarcel, St. Joseph Parish (Spanish Ministry); Richard Castro, Holy Ghost Parish; Rosalie Hebert, St. Joseph Parish; Leo N. Lapierre, S1. Stephen Parish; Ralph I. Sears, St. John the Evangelist Parish. . Attleboro Falls: Ruth P. Spinale, St. Mark Parish. Mansfield: Ellen Thomas, S1. Mary Parish. North Attleboro: John W. Burke, Sacred Heart Parish; Laurette J. McAfee, St. Mary Parish. Norton: Maureen G. Kelly, St. Mary Parish. Seekonk: Edward F. Olean, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish. South Attleboro: Vincent J. De Quattro, St. Theresa Parish.
Assonet: Paul D. Ouimet, St. Bernard Palish. Fall River: RitaAmiot, Notre Dame Parish; Maria Capela, Our Lady of Health Parish; James F. Cleary, Sacred Heart Parish; Denise Coulombe, Holy Name Parish; Laura R. Cousineau, Holy Rosary Parish; Alma E. Foley, St. Joseph Parish; Joao Jacob, Espirito Santo Parish; Norine Jean, Immaculate Conception Parish; Margaret R. Mello, St. Michael Parish; Manuel T. Silva, St. Anthony of Padua Parish; Mary E. Sullivan, St. Mary Cathedral; Lola Valcourt, S1. Anne Parish; William Whalen, Parish of the Holy Trinity; John Wilding, SS. Peter and Paul Parish; Wanda M. Wrobel, St. Stanislaus Parish. Somerset: Eileen Amar~lo, S1. John of God Parish; Edward R. Cote, S1. Thomas More Parish; Janet C. Rausch, St. Patrick Parish. Swansea: Joseph H. Belanger, St. Louis de France Parish; Mary Hogan, St. Dominic Parish; Helen Roberts, S1. Michael Parish. Westport: Lucille Bernat, St. John the Baptist Parish; Susan M. Santos, Our Lady of Grace Parish.
& ISLANDS DEANERY Brewster: Anne Mason, Our Lady of the Cape Parish. Centerville: Richard T. Farley, Our Lady of Victory Parish. Chatham: Herbert Keller, Holy Redeemer Parish. East Falmouth: John J. Michaels, St. Anthony Parish. East Sandwich: Dante Gallerani, Corpus Christi Parish. Falmouth: William A. Tynan, St. Patrick Parish. Hyannis: Kathleen Lovelette, St. Francis Xavier Parish. Mashpee: James J. Hannan, Christ the King Parish. Nantucket: Gordon Vincent Gallagher, St. Mary-Our Lady of th~ Isle Parish. North Falmouth: Christina Bagarella, St. Elizabeth Seton Parish. Oak Bluffs: Alfred C. W. Daniels, Sacred Heart Parish; Patricia Lawrence, Sl. Elizabeth Parish; Kathleen Paive, St. Augustine Parish. Orleans: Joseph Conlan, St. Joan of Arc Parish. Osterville: Patricia M. Finn, Our Lady of the Assumption Parish.
Acushnet: Lillian R. Comtois, Sl. Francis Xavier Parish. East Freetown: Robert Roy, Sl. John Neumann Parish. New Bedford: Helen Arabasz, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish; Jeanne Rita Bowden, St. Anne Parish; Ann Callanan, St. James Parish; Dorothy Ferreira, Sl. Kilian Parish; Jose L. Ferro, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish; Maria Freitas, Our Lady of the Assumption- Parish; Teresa M. Gaffney, St. John the BaptistParish; Maurice Galipeau, Sl. Joseph-St. Therese Parish; Mary Jardin, Sl. Mary Parish; Joseph George Jussaume, Our Lady of Fatima Parish; Dorvalinda Fari Medeiros, St. Anthony Parish; Mariana Pereira, Immaculate Conception Parish; Bernard G. Silva, Holy Name of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish; Ann Touhey, Sl. Lawrence Parish. North Dartmouth: Lillian Perron, St. Julie Billiart Parish. South Dartmouth: Janice Monte, St. Mary Parish. Wareham: Frances Walsh, St. Patrick Parish. Westport: Lynette Ouellette,
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An affirming reflection Sad to say, many of the tremendous efforts that are being accomplished by the Catholic Church in America have been ignored due to the ongoing controversy regarding the current sexual abuse scandal. The good works that are the daily fabric of life and living very rarely surface in our secular media. In fact it would seem that only controversial realities are worthy of headlines. The implementation of the Church's mandate for living in conformity with the Beatitudes is for all practical purposes not a newsworthy subject. In such a media atmosphere it is important that we be assured that the Gospel message is really alive in the apostolate. The reporting of the secular media must not be a cause for ignoring the wonderful ministries that are evident in the daily life of the Church. The current Church scandals and the fallout throughout our social order have been indeed a very bitter pill to swallow. Yet, we must not let the crisis of the few blot out the ministry of the many. Let's take a look at some of the facts given to us by the 2002 "Source Book" of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: Social Services - More than 1,640 local Catholic Charities agencies and institutions provided services to 7,017,845 individuals in need of help. These include reaching out to those in need of food services; basic needs (clothing, medical), disaster response, community assistance, refugee resettlement and housing; Health Care and Hospitals - 597 hospitals treated 83,395,935 patients. Other health care centers treated another 5,000,000 patients; Catholic Education: Elementary Schools - 6,946 schools are educating close to two million students. High schools are educating a million students. In this category the five million public school stu- , dents formally enrolled in religious education are also included. . Now add to this list some of the other outreach programs sponsored by local churches. The list is endless but some indeed should be mentioned: campus ministry, Catholic Scouting programs, youth ministry services, prison ministry, immigration apostolate and family life endeavors are but a few of Church community efforts that often go unnoticed by the public secular media. All these efforts and more must not be dismissed by the controversies of the times. In their anger, some want to withhold contributions to these important Church ministries. Because of their own agendas and often their various subjectiveness, they would in fact place a heavier burden on those truly most in need. The spiritual motivation of the Beatitudes takes second place to personal causes. This is simply a wrong way to resolve issues that are an embarrassment to all in the Church family. It is imperative that the Church community affirms its vocation By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK to the Beatitudes. They are at the heart of Jesus' teaching. They CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE express the vocation of the faithful; they shed light on the actions During a meeting at St. and attitudes inherent in Christian life and they are the hopes that Vincent's College in Latrobe, Pa., sustain many in their tribulations. Also, they tell us all that true hap- when we were discussing its plans piness is not found in the arrogance of our time, but in the beauty of to establish a school of fine arts eternity. They confront us with decisive chances and set standards .and humanities, I wondered why, in this age of technology, a colfor pragmatic discernment. The fallout of our Church situation is not going to evaporate over- lege would want to move in this night. The effects of our current challenges are going to be with us direction. Why encourage students for some time. We simply must face the reality of our times. Yet, we to concentrate on subjects like hismust also rise about the hurt and derisions that are inherent in nega- tory, English, religion, music, philosophy and art? tive reactions. The contributions of the Church are many. They must As I drove back to Washington be continued and expanded so that when the darkness leaves us, as it 'over the Pennsylvania mountains, will, all will indeed walk as children of the light. I received my answer.
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As the road twisted and turned, it provided breathtaking vistas of valleys below in which groves of trees in autumn color contrasted with the rolling green fields. The famous American painter Thomas Cole would have been in his glory seeing this._How he loved to picture large panoramas of our finest mountains and valleys. To add to the enhancement of this rich scenery, I just happened to be playing the "Gayne Suite" of the Russian composer, Aram Khachaturian. Its passionate melodies matched the passion I was It had rained the night before, feeling at the moment. and then temperatures dropped Whenever I am awed like this, below freezing, turning the trees my thoughts turn to God. Who, but and shrubbery along the road into God, could produce such magnifia crystal forest. How I wished I had cent colors and nature at its best? some oils and a canvas to capture As these thoughts coursed this magnificence! No doubt the through my mind and soothing famous French painter Monet melodic music touched my inner would have had a field day trans- being, I remembered my violin lating the crystal atmosphere and teacher once telling me that Rusintermittent fog into one of his' sia would never become our endelightful post-impressionistic emy because people who can propaintings. duce the music of that nation have As I continued down Route 30, a soul. Ah yes, music, art and reliI came upon a detour. The ice'had gion not only go together, but are brought down several trees that the basis of sound humanity. were blocking the road ahead, Once out of the mountains and causing us to be rerouted to High- into Maryland, I passed the Civil way 31. War battlefield of Antietam. SudWhat a blessing in disguise! denly my thoughts went from
music, art and religiun to histOlY. What must it have been like during years of bloody fighting in which brothers fought against brothers? What did it look and sound like in those fields covered with cavalry, throngs of marching troops, and the sound of artillery and rifle shots? What cause did these young fighting men act.ually believe in, and what prayers issued from their hearts? Now, my sensitivity to and appreciation of beautiful vistas, music, history and God's role in all of this did not j!:!st happen. During my seminary days we had wonderful history teachers, a good grounding in music and art appreciation, and of course theology. Add to this, courses in Engli.sh, and the never-ending requirement of writing papers. I learned from a young age . what-the advan,tages of the fine arts and the humanities are. These fields have a way of opening us up, teaching us to think, deepening our appreciation for the world around us and alerting us to the threats imposed upon it. . I believe one of the greatest gifts I ever received was my education in the fine mts and humanities. No doubt many others who have had this education will agree.
THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., November 22, 2002
Thanksgiving activities abound across the Fall River diocese By MIKE GORDON ANCHOR STAFF
FALL RIVER - Many parishes throughout the diocese have been planning Thanksgiving Masses and activities including many food collections for the needy. Here is a sampling of what's going on this Thanksgiving season. Our Lady of the Assumption Church, New Bedford will hold a 7 p.m. family OI;ented Mass the night before Thanksgiving. The altar will be decorated with handmade quilts, pumpkins and sunflowers and pastor Father Stanley Kolasa, SS.Cc., said "our focus is on gratitude and it will be special." The parish has been collecting
food over the past few months for the needy although Father said he "wishes it could be more." At St. Mary's Church, Norton, fourth-graders will be dressing as Pilgrims and Native Americans for a Thanksgiving Mass tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. Each grade of the religious education program has been collecting food along with the parish to donate to the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the St. Joseph's Food Pantry in Attleboro. The children will do the readings, the prayerofthe faithful and bring up the gifts to the altar. Religious Education Coordinator Rose Collette said the children have been decorating food boxes for Thanksgiving and each grade has
brought in a specific food item for the baskets. "It's great," said Collette. 'They are learning about giving and helping others." St. Anne's, Fall River, will host a 10 a.m. liturgy Thanksgiving Day in the upper church. Janice Heinig, school secretary, said that students from the parish religious education program and school will be dressing as Pilgrims and Native Americans at Mass. Students have been collecting food during the past month and it will be disttibuted via food baskets. A designated family will be involved with the readings and presentation of the gifts. "It's a nice Mass," said Heinig. 'The children make posters of what they're
thankful for and really enjoy helping others." The food collected before Thanksgiving fills about 20 baskets according to Heinig and each contains a certificate for a free turkey. A 7 p.m. Mass will be held on
the eve of Thanksgiving at the St. John the Ev~ngelist Church, Attleboro, with a reception to follow. Students from the school and religious education program chose the Mass readings and will be inTurn to page J3 - Thanksgiving
What to do? and B) the spread will begin at a time when I'm normally slapping together post-feast turkey and stuffing, turkey and cranberry sauce, and turkey and mashed potato sandwiches for snack time. If the post-feast snack time is pushed back, consequently the post-snack snack time, consisting of pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce and turkey, mashed potato and turkey, and stuffing and turkey finger foods will also be pushed back. And so on, and so on, until ultimately, my post- Thanksgiving breakfast of turkey and By Dave Jolivet whatever is left will end up on Friday afterit wouldn't be the same. It would noon! There is always the option to be tasty, but not the same. But on Thanksgiving Day tape the game, and watch it later 2002, a dilemma faces this New on without knowing the outcome England sports fan. The Patriots beforehand, but that NEVER travel to the Motor City to play works. This is going to take some deep the Detroit Lions at 12:30 p.m. that day, and I don't know what thought, and fortunately the Pats are off on Christmas Day so this to do. There is no way I'll be able to plot won't replay itself one, month share attention with my beloved later. But despite my holiday turPatriots and my beloved bird at the same time. To fully appreci- moil, I am most grateful to be able ate the aromas, flavors and sen- to have this ridiculous dilemma. sations only a Thanksgiving Day I am grateful for Thanksgiving turkey dinner can bring, one must football and feasts. I thank God for my family and friends - my center all attention on the meal. And, to fully appreciate all the job and my home - my faith and pain, frustration and disappoint- my country. And I thank the readment the other turkeys can bring, ers, who E-mail me, or greet me one must devote complete regard after Mass to say "nice job," evto the gridiron on the small ery now and then. And no matter what time the screen. I suppose the feast could take bird alights the dining room table place before opening kickoff this year, I will think of those who shortly after noon. But that would don't have what I have, and I will mean eating should commence ask God to bless them in a spearound 10 a.m. for me to finish in cial way. Here's wishing everyone a time. And the thought of a fullblown turkey brunch holds little blessed, peaceful,joyous Thanksgiving 2002. appeal. Dave JoUvet, editor of The AnConversely, the bird banquet could begin after the game, but chor, is afonner spoTts writer/edithere are two problems with that tor, and regularly gives one fan's scenario. A) Should the Pats' "B" perspective ofthe unique world of team show up that day, the meal sports. Comments are welcome at will begin with my having a football-induced case of indigestion; dave;olivet@allchornews.org.
I love Thanksgiving Day. Aside from hamburgers, pizza, Bedford Street grinders, and all seafood, turkey is my most favorite of foods. Add to that the fixings like stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, veggies, rolls, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie, and there exists the perfect meal. I could have the same array of delectables on any other day of the year (except Christmas), and
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ATTLEBORO - The annual Christmas Festival of Lights at the La Salette Shrine begins at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, November 28. The illuminations will continue daily through January I from 5-9 p.m. This year's theme is "Precious Gift," and the display includes over 250,000 lights. Bus groups can make a reservation by calling 508236-9068. For general information call 508-222-5410. The last healing service of 2002 will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. La Salette Father Pat will lead it. The Shrine's annual Bazaar will be held November 29 and 30 from noon to 9 p.m. and December I from noon to 8 p.m., in the former chapel.
the needy. For more information call 508-993-3547. NEW BEDFORD - The Legion of Mary from St. Joseph-St. Therese Parish invites parishes throughout the Fall River diocese to add their recited rosaries to the year-long rosary drive. For more information call Therese Beaulieu at 508-995-2354. NEW BEDFORD -A Christmas concert by the Saints and Singers Group will be held December 13 at 8 p.m. at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. For more information call 508-992-7810.
Are some Church beliefs not in the Bible? Q. Can you give me the Bible passage that says Mary was born without original sin? Or that she never had other children besides Jesus and that she was assumed into heaven? I am a Catholic, but I wonder about my faith when I have Christian friends who tell me Mary had other ch.ildren and we should believe only the truths that are found in the Bible. (Wisconsin)
that the Bible is the word of God. We believe the Bible is the norm of our faith; nothing we believe as revealed by God can contradict or deny the Scriptures. That is significantly different from believing that everything in our faith must be in the Bible. The Holy Spirit can guide us to ttuths that go beyond what the Bible's authors have written. I said all Christians hold beliefs that are not in the Bible. For example, when "Bible A. Many Catholics, inChristians" tell us we must deed many other Chrisaccept the Bible, and only the tians, find themselves conBible, because it is the word fused and embarrassed of God, we may rightly ask, when aggressively conHow do you know that? fronted with the question They may respond: you were asked, and feel Scripture itself says so in so challenged in their faith. By Fa~her They panic and tun to many words; what is in the John J. Dietzen their priest, or to me, worBible comes not from the rying, "We must be will of men but from the guidance of the Holy Spirit (see 2 Peter:2 I). wrong, or it would be in the Bible." ,There is nothing to panic about. As a start, the ttuth With all reverence, anyone can write a book and is that all Christians hold impOltant ttuths that are not declare in it somewhere that it is the word of God. But found in the Bible. Jesus did not write a book to list that doesn't make it so. Even for Christians who "aceverything he expected from his followers, nor did he cept nothing that isn't in the Bible," evidence for the tell his apostles to wlite such a book. most basic of all their beliefs; that the Bible is the word Rather, he established a community of believers, a of God, had to come from somewhere else. church, to which he promised his Spirit and with whom It must be authenticated by someone, or some group, he promised to remain until the end of time. (See Mat- outside the Bible that can point to it with authority and thew 28 and John 15 and 16~) Decades later, out of say: This is God's word, accept it and believe it. For that community and its leaders came the books we us, and ultimately for all Christians, that group is the call the New Testament. Thus the Bible is part of the community of faith, the Christian faithful, the Church. community, part of Christian tradition. I'm not dodging a discussion of the doctrines you Isn't it interesting and significant that thousands of mention. I've dealt at length with them more than once. Christians were born and died before the New Testa- I'm just saying that I cannot try to defend my Chrisment was even wlitten? They received their faith, their tian faith with an approach about the Bible that I don't knowledge of Jesus, very much as we still do, not from accept in the first place. a book but from men and women who became Christ's Neither should you. As you've discovered, discusdisciples during his life here and after he died. sions can easily become frustrating when we and our To put it bluntly, we do not affirm that all our doc- dialogue partners are on such radically different tracks trines are in the Bible. We do believe wholeheartedly about what the Bible is and how we read it.
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NORTH DARTMOUTH - A FAIRHAVEN - A First Fri- Diocesan Separated-Divorced Supday Mass, sponsored by the port Group will meet November 25 Fairhaven chapter of the. Men of , from 7-9 p.m. at the Family Life the Sacred Hearts, will be held Center, 500 Slocum Road. For December 6 at 7 p.m. at St. Mary's 'more information calI Joanne Church. A holy hour and Benedic- Dupre at 508-993-0589. tion of the Blessed Sacrament will ORLEANS-A Separated-Difollow. Refreshments will be vorced Catholics Support Group served afterwards. will meet Sunday at 3 p.m. in the FALL RIVER - Dominican parish center of St. Joan of Arc Father Pierre Lachance invites you Church. Guest speaker Dorothy to join him for the Novena to Saint Levesque will address the topic Anne every Tuesday from 2-2:30 "Darkness Into Light: Why it is so p.m. at the Shrine, 818 Middle Difficult.': A pot luck supper will Street. It will include hymns, prayer, follow and attendees are asked'to a spiritual talk, vene~ation of the bring a covered dish, salad or desrelic and the opportunity for recon- sert to share. For more information ciliation. ' ~ r; _I: '~~'::;. 'tal1liather RicliafdiR'oy nt'508;255~./ . .../ " 0170. FALL RIVER - Father John SOMERSET - The Parish J. Oliveira from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. New Bedford, will Nurse Ministry Program of St. celebrate Mass for the Fall River Patrick's Church will offer a proIn the season of Thanksgiving seven and five. She too shook her when something happens that is Area Men's First Friday Club De- gram entitled "Health Care Proxy," we focus on impOltant values, those fist at God. Remarkably, it was, "so bizalTe, you could never have cember 6 at 6 p.m. at Sacred Heart December 4 from 6:30-8 p.m. in the offamily, friendship and good food. perhaps, because she had still more imagined it." She calls this "bewilChurch. It will be followed by a parish center. Refreshments will be There's a Iighthealtedness about heartbreaks ahead that she was dered rage," what we're left with catered supper at which Father served. 'For more information call our celebration, and rightfully so. able to "transform" her life, to use when "the underpinnings of life Oliveira will be guest speaker. For Claire Stevens at 508-678-3831. For when we contemplate all that her own words. are snatched away." But from this more information call Norman has been given to us to get through I've had many a talk with place of despair, we can be transLaliquette at 508-672-8174. TAUNTON - Hospice Care of Greater Taunton is sponsoring an life with a good measure of com- Bartocci. That's because we have formed, Bartocci maintains, findFALL RIVER - The "Seniors Interfaith Memorial Service De- fort and joy, we should be smiling so much in common. We're both ing inner joy again. But this is not in Motion" program helps seniors cember 3 at 6:30 p,m, at Immacu- and maybe feeling a bit lifted by writers who have chosen to tell our instantaneous or easy. "Part of transforming and handicapped individuals obtain late Conception Church, 387 Bay : angel wings. grief into joy. includes a mobility equipment including mo- Street. It will remember and honor . I say this, knowing that torized and manual wheelchairs and loved ones who have died and will some immediately wilI willingness to surrender is usually available at no cost. For be followed by an informal social take issue with what I your ideas of what life more information call 1-800-594- gathering. Refreshments will be have said, pointing out should be like," she writes. 1225. served. For more information call that, from their experi"Growing spiritually 508-822-1447. ence, life is tough, tragic means gradually altering FALMOUTH "Schola your view of God." She had and un fair. Calltorllm" presents its first concert TAUNTON - Theology on By Antoinette Bosco to give up a God who was I spoke at a miniretreat of sacred choral music tonight at 8 Tap, a monthly social and educa- recently, mentioning that "aspirin" or a "fairy godfap.m. at St. Patrick's Church. The 14 tional gathering sponsored by the Thanksgiving Day was ....----------i.....:.__....;.._1-' ther" or "bearded judge." member a capella choir specializes Young Adult Ministry Office, will coming soon and that we all had stories of sudden and serious She writes: "Gradually, I began in Gregorian Chant and will perform be held December 12 at 6:30 p.m. much to be grateful fo'r. One losses in the hope of helping some- to have a different view. It was a works by several Renaissance com- at Muldoon's Saloon Restaurant, posers. Admission is free. For more Route 140. It will include a presen- woman jumped practically off her - one else who is hurting badly not life-encompassing view in which information call 508-548-4428. tation by Father Roger Landry en- seat to counter what I had said. She to despair. We both write for reli- God, not I, lived at the center. I titled "Everything You Ever responded angrily that there would gious and secular audiences, often stopped getting angry when life NEW BEDFORD - The New Wanted to Know About the Catho- be no more Thanksgiving days for on the theme of spirituality and our didn't happen exactly as I ex' pected. My losses became, instead Bedford Catholic Women's Club lic Faith but Were Afraid to Ask." her. Her husband had died suddenly thankfulness to God. Bartocci's latest book should be of punishments, a natural weaving will meet December II at 7 p.m. at For more information call 508-675- and she was never going to forgive God for taking him away from her. on the "must read" list of any hurt- of joy and sorrow." the Wamsutta Club for its annual 3847. I feft her pain, and I understood ing person. It is titled "From HurtHer inner joy came, Bartocci Christmas Program. For more information call 508-995-9319. WEST HARWICH - Come the dark place where she was tem- ing to Happy, Transforming Your s~ys, when she finally found peace Life After Loss" (Sarin Books). and' a trust in God's presence and celebrate Advent at a gather- porarily stuck. NEW BEDFORD - Holy ing of the Cape Cod Prayer I was reminded of a friend, Bar- The strength of this book lies in in all circumstances." Family-Holy Name School will Groups December 5 at 7:30 p.m. bara Bartocci, who had also lost its wisdom and honesty, learned This is the place where prayer hold its annual Breakfast with Santa at Holy Trinity Church. Father her faith when her husband, a not by Bartocci alone but by the becomes a thanksgiving to the December 7 from 8:30-10:30 a.m. Marek Chmurski will be guest Navy fighter pilot, was killed in many others she interviewed. Lord. When we who are grieving at 91 Summer Street. Attendees are speaker. Refreshments wilI be Vietnam,leaving her a widow I was struck by the expression come to this place, our new life asked to bring a canned good for served. with three young children, nine, she used to describe our feelings begins.
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An idea I have about motorcycles and the Church My love affair with Harley Davidsons has been a distant one. During the brief time I owned one, I kept as much distance between it and me as possible. You see, I did not obtain it for riding. Actually, I did not "buy" my Harley at all. It kind of showed up in my garage as part of a deal that involved the sale of an old fishing vessel known as a seiner (same vintage as The Ark only smaller and not as .... good in heavy seas). The "Harley" was the down payment. To be accurate, it was not a Harley in the sense that the Harley Davidson Company manufactured it. It was a Harley in the sense that many of its parts had Harley DNA. The engine at one time had been part of a real Harley. This was easy to verify. If I would wheel the hawg into my driveway and manage to get it to start, the engine would issue this incredibly, heavenly rumbling "Call to All Men of Any Age." It is an urban legend that Harley Davidson tried to have that sound patented. Within 15 minutes a half dozen men (passing FedEx drivers, neighbors, distant relatives, etc.) would be standing around the leaking old chopper with their hands in their pockets and grunting things like "Mmmmm" and "Oh, yeah, baby." Chopper? Yes, it was a chopper.
Think of Peter Fonda in "Easy Rider." Only "my" chopper's "extension tubes" (those long, chrome hummers in front which culminate
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in a tiny front wheel and tire) were so long that when I backed the monster kiddy-comer into a full-size pickup, the front tire would hang over the tailgate. I rode it twice: once with the engine off- coasting down the driveway into the garage with my legs stuck out like a man in search of training wheels; once with the engine on. When I let out the clutch in first gear, the machine seemed to think I wanted to go too fast really quick. My scream was barely audible several miles away. I was able to brake to a stop after doing very little damage to my favorite rhododendron. I rolled it back into the garage (the bike, not the rhodie). I bring this up because I have leamed about a new Catholic ministry which might have some outreach to the motorcycle-challenged
like me - the Knights of St. Michael the Archangel. It was formed by a Catholic psychologist biker, Keven Jandreau, who has been a leather-clad road warrior for almost four decades. I talked with the group's secretary, Charmaine MacVicar, on the phone the other day and am seriously thinking about applying to become the group's seventh member. Think of this: Not unlike the Knights of St. Michael just founded at St. Christine Parish on Detroit's northwest side, the Knights ofColumbus was launched from the basement of a Catholic church in Connecticut more than a century ago. Today the Knights of Columbus number 1.6 million members. You see where I am going with this, right? Given middle-aged men's (and women's) rediscovering of motorcycling and the need for motorcycle insurance, either a) the Knights ofSt. Michael might launch a fresh, international apostolic organization that could zing up membership numbers like crazy, or b) the Knights of Columbus might ap-
the parliamentarians gave him a two-minute standing ovation. One Italian problem he especially targeted was "the crisis of the birth rate," which he called a "serious threat that weighs on the future of the country." Italy has one of the lowest birth rates in the world - about 8.9 births per 1,000 inhabitants - and one of the oldest populations. He said the statistic foretells inevitable human, social and economic problems for Italy's future. For Italy's politicians, one of the most sensitive sections of the pope's text was his reference to the "distressing overcrowding" in Italy's prisons. It has been a subject of heated political debate since a recent government report warned that the country's prison system "will collapse within 30 months" unless action is taken. The pope proposed "a sign of clemency toward (prisoners) in the form of a sentence reduction," which he said "would be a clear manifestation of sensitivity" that would motivate detainees to reform and successfully reintegrate into society. In a welcoming speech, Pier Ferdinando Casini, president of the Parliament's lower house, said a papal visit to Italy's governing body was now possible because more than a century of divisions had been definitively overcome and Italy and the Vatican had developed a deep mutual respect.
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Pope keys o'n prisons, birth rate in speech to Italian Parliament ROME (CNS) - Pope John Paul II addressed the Italian Parliament, a historic first hailed as symbolically closing more than a century of sometimes-rocky relations between the Vatican and Italy. But his recent visit also betrayed lingering discomfort among some Italian lawmakers about what they see as potential Church interference in the political affairs of a country that until 1860 was ruled by popes. In his speech, which had been the subject of weeks of highpitched media speculation, the pope surprised many observers by weighing in on the hotly debated problem of Italy's chronically overcrowded prisons by suggesting a shortening of jail sentences. He also urged Italians to preserve the country's Christian identity, work for world peace, reach out to prisoners and the poor, and reverse the country's dangerollsly slumping birth rate. Italy's president and most of the country's 315 senators and 630 deputies turned out to greet the pope in the glass-roofed chamber of the Montecitorio Parliament building. Interrupted by applause two dozen times as he read his 50minute speech, the 82-year-old pontiff looked in exceptional form and spoke in a clear and animated voice. After he finished with the words "God bless Italy,"
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KITCHEN ANGELS of St. Peter the Apostle Parish, Provincetown, (top) celebrated Halloween with a'turkey dinner fund-raiser (bottom) that will help provide a Christmas dinner and presents for many of Provincetown's needy families. The'Angels are, f.rom left, Kathleen Gonsalve~, Maurice Gonsalves, Yvonne Cabral-Edwards, Pat Sullivan and Irene Joseph.
Kitchen Angels again targeting many needyfamilies on holidays PROVINCETOWN - The coming weeks are the busiest aJ;ld also the, happiest for that small 'group of disciples to the needy that call themselves St. Peter's "Kitchen Angels." "We held a special turkey dinner with all the trimmings at Halloween as one of our last,fundraisers to help'us through the many programs we offer those less fortunate at Thanksgiving and Christmas," said Yvonne Cabral-Edwards, one of the quintet that comprises the Angels. Although the Angels for years have been making sure the elderly and families who are hard pressed financially are fed and have gifts for the children at the upcoming holidays, the work never stops. Because Meals for Wheels, the program that feeds seniors and the homebound on the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter holidays, has holidays off, the Angels have taken over the responsibility of feeding those in the Provincetown community. "Our efforts are boosted by the generosity of many people and that enables us to do what we can," Cabral-Edward added. "We are always
ready to accept donations and it is never too late." For Thanksgiving, the Angels plan to bring turkey dinners "again with all the trimmings," Cabral said, to between 26, and 50 people who otherwise would not be able to have' a holiday dinner. . That done, the next task is to fund two separate Christmas programs. . The Angels will provide another full dinner for the individual elderly as well' as 52 families 011 Christmas. That also includes Christmas gifts and Christmas trees. "Families will receive dinners for everyone and a Christmas tree, and each family will be ableJo come in advance and pick out a free gift for each child, that they, the parents will wrap and give to their children," Cabral-Edwards explained. "This year there are 69 children among the families we will serye and we always make sure the parents have a wonderful, suitable gift that they, not us, can give to their children." she added.
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A CELEBRATION of their 20th anniversary of ordination as permanent deacons was held recently by'members of the diocese's historically second. class, with Mass at St. James Church, New Bedford. Msgr. George W. Coleman, administrator of the Fall River diocese, was principal celebrant. Concelebrants were pastor Father Edward Correia and Fathers Hugh McCullough and Herbert Nichols. The homilist was Deacon Lawrence A. St. Onge, who is ' assigned to St. James. A collation in the rectory followed the Mass.
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Israeli family finds asyluDl in Church of the Nativity By JUDITH SUDILOVSKY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE BETHLEHEM, West Bank An Israeli family sought asylum inside the Church of the Nativity in hopes of regaining custody of two of their children and emigrating to Europe. Haim Havivi, his wife, Violetta, a Catholic, and 17-year-old daughter entered the church last week. The couple said they wanted to be reunited with their two sons, who with the daughter were removed by Israeli child welfare authorities two years ago. They also want to be allo\Ved to go to the Netherlands or Italy. Until then, they said, they will stage a hunger strike. The unarmed family spent the night sleeping on the basilica floor and refused food offered by priests. "If people with blood on their hands were freed from this place and were given free passage to Europe ... we want the same thing:' said Violetta Havivi, 36, referring to the standoff last spring between Palestinian gunmen inside the church and Israeli forces. The siege ended with a number of the gunmen allowed to leave, for Europe. "I want my children and I want to leave this country:' said Violetta Haviv, a Polish-born Catholic. Catholic mediator Tony Salman, who was instrumental in ending the Palestinian-Israeli standoff at the Church of the Nativity, was called to help resolve the situation. "Up until now I don't know what we will do," Salman said. "But they can't stay inside the basilica. It was difficult with them. They don't want to leave the church." Inside the church, Palestinian
tourist police spoke pleasantly with the family and sY,mpathize4 with their story -.:... Israelis seeking asylum with the Palestinians are good public relations for the Palestinians. The police urged the daughter to eat, but the'teen refused. The Israel Defense Forces said it had had no contact with the couple and that the incident was a private matter rather than a security issue. The couple's children were removed a first time because Israeli authorities said the parents were unfit. The children were returned to their parents while the couple appealed the removals. The couple said their children were removed from their care a second time after the family traveled to Ramallah, West Bank. The two boys were placed in separate institutions, and the daughter was jailed for having been in Ramallall. After several Israelis were killed in attacks on civilians, Israelis were forbidden to enter Palestinian territory. The couple said they spent time in Palestinian National Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's compound during an Israeli siege in September. The couple later charged that the Israeli police beat and harassed them. A profile by a court-appointed psychologist described the parents as having "normal to low" intelligence with learning disabilities but said they were warm, loving, concerned and fit parents. Odelia Havivi, 17, said she had lived an idyllic life until the authorities took her from her home, and she wants to be reunited with her family. She escaped from the minimumsecurity prison November 10 and made her way to Bethlehem, where
she called her parents, she said. At once the parents left Ramallah and traveled to Bethlehem to be with their daughter. ' "My wife is Polish and Catholie; maybe the gope can help"her. This place is for her. Maybe she can get help here," said Haim Havivi, 41. "We don't want to live here. How could they take our family and home and destroy itT'
MEXICO CITY (CNS) - A Vatican envoy visiting Mexico has reaffirmed a suspension on ordaining indigenous permanent deacons in the southern state of Chiapas, saying the region already had too many deacons and should focus on ordaining priests. "Only the priest can represent Christ and act in the name of Christ;" Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, president of the Vatican's Pontifical Commission for Latin America, told a press conference during a recent visit, to Chiapas. "Our desire is that the vocation toward priesthood is born in the families of the deacons, from where many will choose to dedicate their lives completely to God and become priests," he said. There are currently 344 deacons in Chiapas, about five times as many priests in the area, and more than half the total of 664 deacons in Mexico. Almost all are of Mayan Indian descent and married. The deacons regularly witness weddings, perform baptisms and distribute the Eucharist in indigenous communities, but do not celebrate Mass. Most were ordained by Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia, who headed the San Cristobal de la<; Casas diocese for 40 years until retiring in 2000. Bishop Ruiz was 1}nown for supporting the incorporation of indigenous traditions into Catholic ritual and his sympathy for the underlying causes of the 1994 indigenous uprising led by the Zapatista National Liberation Army. . The pro-Indian deacon policy
was continued under Bishop Ruiz's successor, Bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, until Pope John Paul II ordered a' five-year suspension on more ordinations in February this year.. Some 40 deacons presented Cardinal Re with a letter appealing to the pope to reverse the ban. The letter said tpat the local Church needs more deacons, even though the region may appear to have too many.. "There are some places where we have to walk for two days to arrive and celebrate the sacraments with out broth'ers, and many deacpns are now getting old, and others are ill or tired," the letter said, according to the Chiapas daily Cuarto Poder. The cardinal's trip to Chiapas, immediately prior to attending the Mexican bishop's conference meeting in Mexico City November 11, was originally designed to underline the pope's commitment to indigenous people. It came less than four months after the pontiff's fifth visit to Mexico, during which he canonized Juan Diego, Latin America's first indigenous smnt, and beatified two Zapotec indigenous martyrs from the neighboring state of Oaxaca. These efforts to emphasize Rome's sensitivity to Indian rights are partly motivated by growing concern at the advance of evangelical sects in indigenous areas such as Chiapas, where 65 percent of the people declare themselves Catholic, compared to the national average of 85 percent.
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"Personal Velocity" (United Artists) Raw. provocative, ultimately hopeful drama examines the lives
of three very different women (Parker Posey, Kyra Sedgwick and Fairuza Balk) in various stages of personal crisis and transcendence as they deal with promiscuity, violence, ambition, infidelity and the search for self. Writer-director Rebecca Miller shows the deglamorized women as flawed, but striving for a better life as they find strength from within and through family. Numerous sexual encounters, brief violence, recurring rough language and some profanity. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-IV - adults, with reservations. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted.
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Armenian considered by many as one of the pioneers of abstract exNEW YORK "Ararat" pressionism. Before emigrating to America, (Miramax) is a powerful tale of a contemporary Armenian family's Gorky survived the Armenian journey from dysfunction to heal- genocide, which resulted in the exing, as family members come to termination of two-thirds of the grips with the ghosts of their col- Armenian population, a crime still lective cultural past - the geno- denied by the Turkish government cidal extermination of Armenians (Hitler himself quelled his officby Ottoman Turkish forces in ers' hesitancy to proceed with their 'final solution' by asking, "Does 1915. Acclaimed Canadian writer-di- anyone even remember the Armerector Atom Egoyan masterfully nian genocide?"). Ani's knowlweaves past and present, subtly edge of Gorky's life and work fashioning a tapestry of the human lands her a position as a consultcondition, as well as a provocative ant on a film about the tragic indictment of man's capacity for events of 1915 by legendary (but cruelty. Divergent storylines blend fictitious) director Edward searplessly in this compelling ex- . Saroyan (Charles Aznavour), who ploration of the nature of truth, and lost his 'own mother in the massathe repercussions of denial on both cre. This "fiIm-within-a-film," a grand and an intimate scale. Raffi (newcomer DavidAlpay), based on the historical eyewitness an idealistic young Armenian liv- account written by an American ing in Toronto with his estranged missionary, is the nexus used by mother, Ani (Arsinee Khanjian), Egoyan to link past and present. cannot escape the shadow of the Forced to confront the painful death ofhis Armenian nationalist legacy of these atrocities, Ani and father, killed while attempting to Raffi find the resolve to exorcise assassinate a Turkish official. the personal demons that have torRaffi's romantic involvement with mented .their relationship. his disaffected stepsister, Cecilia While capturing the barbarity (Marie-Josee Croze), has created inflicted on the Armenian people an emotional rift between him and with disturbingly graphic effecAni. Ani, an art historian at the uni- tiveness, the film fails to plumb the versity, finds solace in her near- profundity of the enigma of evil. religious obsession with a paint- Egoyan seems content to hold a ing, "The Artist and His Mother," mirror up to man's darker nature by Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), an rather than offer any illumination
of the mystery of suffering, though in the face of such unspeakable horror any exegesis admittedly would be woefully inadequate. Religious references and iconography permeate much of the film, yet the"divine element of the mystery of suffering is noticeably absent. Several characters pose the eternal existential question "why?" but the filmmaker embraces a somewhat humanistic view, lowering their gaze from the heavens to each other. Egoyan's choices suggest that we must find or make our own answers by sheer acts of will or creativity when confronted with such senseless evil, and not search for any transcendent or redemptive value in suffering. Though several sequences are difficult to watch, Egoyan, who is himself of Armenian descent, deserves credit for bringing attention to a dark - aJ1d, unfortunatcly, ncglected - chapter of 20th-century history and for reminding us that "what is destroyed in genocide are not only human lives, but the very imprint of humanity in us." Due to explicit violence, depictions of torture and a rape, a sexual encounter, nudity, sporadic profanity and some rough language, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-IV - adults, with reservations. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted.
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NEW YORK (CNS) - The following are video capsule reviews from the U.S. Conference ofCatholic Bishops' Office for Film and Broadcasting.
"Baran" (2002) Moving drama about a teen-age boy (Hossein Abedini) working on a construction site who loses his cushy job to an illegal Afghan worker (Zahra Bahrami), but his bittcmess unexpectedly gives way to compassion when he discovers the worker's secret. Despite slow pacing, director Majid Majidi probes the difficulties of Afghan workers in Iran by setting his lyrical film against a romantic backdrop with beautiful visuals. Fleeting violence and crass language. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification isA-
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"Spider-Man" (2002)
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Enjoyable fantasy action tale about a nerdy high school senior (Tobey Maguire) who, bitten by a genetically altered spider, gains superhuman strength and uses his amazing new abilities to fight crime, ultimately facing his evil nemesis, the Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe). Director Sam Raimi's fun adaptation ofthe Marvel Comics superhero doesn't have much of a story line, but is buoyed by colorful personalities played with heart by the cast, an energetic pace and lively visual effects that come together for a diverting good time. Stylized action violence and menace with fleeting crass language. The U.S. Conference of
Frothy 18th-century romantic comedy in which a fetching princess (Mira Sorvino) gets around a stcm brother and sister (Ben Kingsley and Fiona Shaw) protecting thc young man (Jay Rodan) she loves from the fair sex by pretending to be a man, but in the process she becomes engaged to all three of them simultaneously. Clare Peploe directs the tasteful sex farce with zest, anchored by' ${}rvino's saucy performance and spry comic tums from Kingsley and Shaw. Brief rear nudity and romantic complications. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-II - adults and adolescents. (Paramount)
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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., November 22,2002
MSGR. GEORGE W. Coleman, left, current administrator of the Diocese of Fall River,路 reunites with former diocesan Bishop Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap., at the bishop's meeting in Washington, D.C. last week. (Photo by John E. Kearns Jr.)
Quick look at U.S. bishops' fall meeting in Washington By
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WASHINGTON - ' At the November 11-14 fall general meeting in Washington of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the bishops: - overwhelmingly approved the revised norms on clergy sex abuse drawn up by a mixed Vatican-U.S. commission in October; - made slight changes to their "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People" to adapt to the revised norms; - apologized for past mistakes in dealing with sexually abusive priests and spelled out what they will do if a bishop engages in sexual misconduct; - agreed to begin a deliberative process that could lead to a plenary council for the U.S. Church; - approved a historic joint pastoral letter with the bishops of Mexico calling migration between the two nations "necessary and beneficial"; - urged the U.S. government to "step back from the brink of war" with Iraq, saying current circumstances do not justify the use of military force; - recommitted themselves to fighting poverty here and abroad with the same' urgency devoted to terrorism and other threats; - updated their lO-year-old document on domestic violence against women, reiterating that such actions are sinful and often criminal; - marked the upcoming 30th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade with a pledge to continue to work to overturn the Supreme Court decision on abortion "no matter how long it takes"; - approved a new program to
strengthen ministry among the 25 million Hispanic Catholics as they move toward becoming the majority of U.S. Catholics; - heard an appeal from Cardinal Lubomyr Husar of Lviv, Ukraine, for the bishops to help the United States to regain its role as a moral leader in the world; -expressed solidarity with the Colombian bishops following the kidnapping of Bishop Jorg-e Jimenez Carvajal of Zipaquira, president of .the Latin American bishops' council; - agreed to start a review process to assess the strengths and weaknesses of their five-year-old Lectionary; - approved the General Instruction of the Roman Missal and the rites of ordination for bishops, priests and deacons for U.S. use; - OK'd an updated preface for the 10th anniversary edition of their pastoral letter on stewardship and authorized development of a statement intended for young people on the principles of stewardship; - adopted new national norms for Church fund raising and the sale or lease of Church-owned property; - approved a lengthy new handbook on diocesan financial concerns; - authorized the Committee on Education to update a 1990 statement in support ofCatholic schools; - approved a $53.1 million USCCB budget for 2003 and a 3.5 percent increase for 2004 in the assessment on dioceses to support the conference's work; - agreed to budgetary excep,tions that included more than $3 Imillion in spending related to its national child protection office and other abuse-related matters over the next three years.
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tightened-up legal norms designed to bind all U.S. bishops to implementation of that charter. They also adopted a statement apologizing for their own role in the scandal and setting a new reporting standard for bishops who engage in sexual misconduct. And they opened discussions of a possible plenary council in the future to deal with deeper Church issues behind the scandal. The four-day national gathering of more than 250 bishops provided an occasion for groups like Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, LinkUp, Soulforce, Rainbow Sash, FutureChurch and Voice of the Faithful to converge on Washington and voice their views on clergy sex abuse and a variety of Church issues that are s.ometimes linked to the abuse problem. Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of Belleville, Ill., USCCB president, said in his opening address that the unity of the Church has been threatened by "the criminal and sinful sexual abuse of children and the mismanagement of those violations by some Church leaders." "We will not step back from our compassion for those who have been harmed or from our determination to put into place policies that will protect children," he said. At a final press conference he said the Church is "in a much better place" today than it was' when the scandal erupted last January. "The first thing that was quite obvious was that the massive intervention of the secular media was certainly a real presence," Msgr. Moore commented. "However, it was also quite obvious of the massive' misunderstanding by them of what it was all about. The secular media gets their word out much quicker than we in the Catholic press," he pointed out. "One of the basic confusions the secular media have is the differential between British common law, which is followed in America, and Napoleonic or Roman law which is really the basis of cannon law. These are two separate systems." So when the secular media says the bishops are trying to bring such and such a thing to Rome or that Rome is doing this or that, "they fail to distinguish between the two systems of law which must be reconciled," he said: "Another facet 9f the meeting which I found interesting was ,that there was no watering down of the Dallas Document, (which came out of the U.S. bishops in Texas in June at the height of the clergy-abuse scandals). What I saw was a reinforcement of that document, by refining definitions and safeguarding especially the area of those who had been falsely accused. The latest action really reinforced the rights of all concerned. I think the new docu-
ment is much more inclusive than exclusive. I think that is very important, because in the beginning - in the haste to get to some point - this whole concept was not really seen in its fullest, and now it is. This recognitio from Rome is really a refinement of the Dallas Doctrine." The revised norms, adopted by a vote of 246-7, call for a prompt investigation of any allegation that a priest or deacon has abused a, minor. If there is sufficient evidence that the allegation is true, the bishop is to notify the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and take the necessary steps to remove the alleged offender from ministry. "What it did was complete the work done in Dallas," Msgr. Moore asserted. "No matter how the media tries to slice it, that is exactly what it was." Revision of the norms by a mixed commission of four U.S. and four Vatican bishops just two weeks before the bishops' meeting had provoked wide speculation that the Vatican concern to protect due process rights of accused priests would undercut the bishops' decision last June in Dallas to remove permanently from ministry any priest who has sexually abused even one minor. Instead, the revisions pointedly affirmed the bishop's obligation and authority "at all times ... to ensure that any priest who has committed even one act of sexual abuse of a minor ... shall not continue in active ministry." What was very interesting, Msgr. Moore said, "was that the bishops were obviously very concerned about their role in the Church with their priests. They basically came out with a document for themselves, for episcopal self-accountability. That selfaccountability was not present in Dallas." . He said that "now reinforces a better relationship between bishops, priests and deacons. It holds bishops accountable to the same norms. It is a very important factor." An outstanding facet of the bishops' meeting was the suggested methodology of setting up the practical means of developing diocesan review boards. "Of course in the Fall River diocese, we have everything already in place," Msgr. Moore said. "I thought to myself: 'the bishops should come to Fall River and see what we have in place here.'" Msgr. Moore also reported that the U.S. bishops are readying to set up tribunals within the' dioceses to judge particular cases if needed. He called that, "another safeguard. The bishops are not trying to protect a person who is accused, but prorect the rights of people, and that certainly is our understanding of the rights of law too, that you are innocent until proven guilty unless there is a self-admission or unless the bishop has suffi-
cient evidence." On a personal note, Msgr. Moore said that one of the strongest interventions came from former Fall River Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., currently the bishop of Palm Beach, Fla., who rose and spoke to the assembly.. "It was so powerful," Msgr. Moore said. "The house of bishops warmly received him, not just by their words but by a deafening applause. 'I did not see it reported in the secular media, but Bishop O'Malley's presentation was very noticeable; it turned heads. He probably made the most powerful intervention from the floor on the whole issue. He urged that the new document be passed as soon as possible and sent to the Holy. See and he was very warmly received. And the issue was approved." Chicago's Cardinal Francis E. George, senior prelate on the U.S. side of the mixed commission, led the bishops' debate over the revise'd norms. He said that when the bishops first adopted . them last'June in Dallas they focused only on administrative acts by which a bishop could remove ' a man from ministry if he sexu- . ally abused a minor. . The Vatican-initiated revi- . sions addressed the role of the ' Church's courts in imposing a permanent removal from ministry or even dismissal from the clerical state, he said. In their revised form the norms offer the possibility of lifting the statute of limitations, on a case-by-case basis, for those sexual abuse crimes by clerics' that would otherwise be too old to prosecute in a Church court. For many years the Church's statute of limitations for prosecuting clerical sex crimes against minors was three years after the crime was committed; recently the Vatican extended that to 10 years after the victim turns 18. The revised version of the "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People" retains its language requiring Church authorities to report to public authorities whenever they receive "an allegation of sexual abuse of a person who is (still) a minor," even if local civil law does not make Church authorities mandatory reporters of child abuse. A national study released the day before the bishops met reported a significant drop-off in contributions by Church-going Catholics because of the clergy sex abuse crisis and a lack of trust in the way the bishops have handled it. Bishop Gregory said at the meeting's final press conference that a restoration of trust "will Qnly be possible when we are op~n in our stewardship." The revised norms are posted on the USCCB Website at: www.usccb.org/bishops/ normsrevised.htm; the revised charter is at: www.usccb.org/ bishops/charter2.htm.
Thanksgiving volved in all its aspects. They will be unveiling a large banner during Mass showing what they are grateful for according to Religious Education Coordinator Margaret Keenan. In recent weeks the students have toured the St. Vincent de Paul food pantry and learned who St. Vincent was. Fifth-graders have been filling bags of grocelies from the shelves of the food pantly and seeing first-hand how it works. "The children get a lot out of it," said Keenan. "We're very proud of them and their involvement. They're velY enthusiastic and it's a wonderful way to share Thanksgiving," she added. A liturgy committee will decorate the altar with mums, pumpkins and comucopias. Food will also be collected at Mass and a prayer card and small loaf of bread will be given to all to share at their own Thanksgiving dinner. At St. Peter the Apostle Church, Provincetown, a 5 p.m. Mass will be held the night before Thanksgiving and at 9 a.m. the holiday. Confirmation candidates will be doing the readings and blinging up the gifts as well as presenting baskets of food they collected to be distlibuted to needy families. The town will illuminate a Pilglim monument at 6 p.m. November 27. A reception featuling apple cider, hot chocolate and goodies will follow at the pal;sh. "It's really gorgeous and you can see it for miles," said religious coordinator Cathy Henrique of the statue which stands on a hill near St. Peter's. She added that the students have been busy getting ready for Thanksgiving and they "did a great job of gathering food." Tenth-graders will help distrib-
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ute baskets of food at Our Lady of the Cape, Brewster. Food is being collected through the St. Vincent de Paul Society and a Thanksgiving Mass will be held at 9 a.m. The altar will be decorated with fall flowers. Religious education students at St. Anthony Church, Taunton, will be attending a 9 a.m. Thanksgiving liturgy Mass on November 24 instead of their regular classes. "They will be doing readings, the prayer oT the faithful and blinging up the gifts," said Father Jeffrey Cabral. The youth group is having a food dlive to help support the St. Vincent de Paul Society of the parish. "It's a good thing for the children to get involved and help others," said Father Cabral. "They're learning that there are others in need." He added that the children are looking forward to the day and the altar will be decorated with autumn flowers. Christ the King Parish, Mashpee, will host a 8:30 a.m. Thanksgiving Liturgy and is asking palishioners to bling grocelies to stock the parish food pantry. "We have a tremendous outreach at our palish through the food pantry and volunteers put together 200 meals for Thanksgiving," said pastor Msgr. Ronald A. Tosti. "I'm very proud of the efforts of the palish," he added. Each basket distJibuted includes vouchers for turkeys and the parish youth ministry team was involved with packaging the food. Confirmation students are also involved. Msgr. Tosti said the palish does a lot every week of the year to help feed between 30 and 50 families. "There are more than 200 people involved in the St. Vincent de Paul
Society here," said Msgr. Tosti. He added that it's important to remember "people don't just eat on Thanksgiving." At Holy Trinity Parish, Fall River, a Thanksgiving Mass will be held November 27 at 7 p.m. Food collections have been ongoing with the St. Vincent de Paul Society and a "Sharing Loaf' will be given to those who attend Mass according to Kathleen Barboza, plincipal of Holy Tlinity School. "It's a nice thing," said Barboza of the sweetbread. "We give people the bread and a prayer card and ask them to break bread together." She also said students will be involved in a project for grandparents on November 26 called "Thanksgiving Soup Day." They will cook soup and grandparents will come into school to share a meal with their grandchildren. When asked if the students were excited about it Barboza laughed and said "the grandparents are excited. They keep asking me every morning when they drop their grandkids off when it's going to be." The students and palish have been collecting food for the S1. Vincent de Paul Society to distlibute and Barboza said "its been a good thing for the children to be involved in helping others." On the night before Thanksgiving at the Raynham Congregational Church, Deacon John Welch of St. Ann Parish, Raynham, will be preaching at an Ecumenical service. It will be held at 7 p.m. and they have alternated between the two parishes for the past 10-12 years according to parish secretary Mary Jo FoleY: The St. Vincent de Paul Society has been collecting food and donations and hopes to distlibute 40 baskets for this Thanksgiving.
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religious establishments is that government can be bad for religion, not the other way around." On the issue of lawyers who hold public office or promote public causes, (who are often targeted by separationists) Garvey says, "it is OK for lawyers who serve in public life to follow their religious principles." He added: "Asking me to act without reliance on my religious convictions is like asking me how I would decide if I were someone else." On the issue of zealous defense of a just cause, Garvey called that "admirable" but noted that the law "is not war." He said there comes a time when the virtue of forgiveness is needed in order to heal "the relationship that a wrong has disrupted." He said that the possibility of forgiveness must always be there. "If it is not, we may so poison an already stained relationship that it becomes impossible to heal." Citing the forgiveness mode prevalent in the Church's proclamation of Jubilee Year 2000, Garvey asselted, "we are all God's people. We should contend with our brothers and sisters with that thought in ' mind. Justice is a cardinal virtue. But forgiveness is divine."
ful," said Deacon Madore. Each church is given a list of things we need and people sign up to bling something. "Volunteers pick up people who cannot drive. It gives people a place to go and it's a good thing for the community," added Deacon Madore. An Ecumenical Service will be held at 7:30 p.m. the night before Thanksgiving at the Chatham Baptist Church. Throughout November the St. Mmy School, religious education program and parish of St. Mary's Taunton have been collecting food. A Thanksgiving Mass will be held at 10 a.m. November 26 involving students from the school. The children will be involved with many aspects of the Mass including the readings according to Father Frank Zlotokowski who said "our hope is that it leads to more spirilUal growth." At 7 p.m. November 27 the youth ministly group is sponsoling a Mass at the Dolan Center. They are involved with planning the liturgy.
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water falls then located at what is now Fall River's Municipal Building spanning Route 195 in the downtown. It is equally fitting that the "Spirit Gives Life" quotation as part of the centennial logo, follows the Quequechan winding across the heraldic shield, a river which brought new life by powering water wheels of the many cotton mills that subsequently located along its banks making the
area the acknowledged cotton empire of the world. It was those mills that lured immigrants from Canada and Europe in the 1800s to take up residence in the mill cities of Fall River, New Bedford and Taunton, looking to better their lives. IL was those faith-filled, struggling immigrant families that comprised the membership of what would in 1904 become the Diocese of Fall River.
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Cardinal George maintained important role in carrying out the that the book "helped to set Amet;- dialogue between faith and culture can Law on the wrong path a cen- and the law." Keynote speaker at the receptury ago in separating law from morality and truth, leaving law the tion and banquet that followed at plaything of forces purely politi- White's of Westport, was Boston calor the object of manipulation College Law School Dean John Garvey. He picked up the theme by pressure groups." Because the Holmes' ideal saying, "Our daily work is figurmakes a dialogue with law and ing out how to integrate law and church difficult, Msgr. Coleman the life of faith." Things were much easier in the said, "for that reason I believe our annual Red Mass becomes a re- 14th century when the Red Mass minder of the impOitance of that . celebration began, he said, because dialogue between law and culture, "there was no clean break between between law and the church. What the church and the legal system. we do here in southeastern Mas- They were part of the same entersachusetts, in all likelihood, will prise." Garvey added, "There is a lot not have the effect of an Oliver Wendell Holmes nor will it melit to be said for this setup ... we a plaque in the House of Repre- wouldn't have any trouble figursentatives. It will, however, con- ing out how to integrate the law tinue a centul;es-old dialogue that and faith. The legal system would has helped create, and we hope, do that for us." On the other hand, said Garvey, improve the circumstances in one problem integrating church which we live today." Msgr. Coleman tqld the congre- and state "is that the established gation, " I express gratitude for all church might not be ours." While the popular press conthat you accomplish as lawyers, judges, clerks and workers in any tends the Constitution erects a capacity suppol1ing our system of wall of separation between church law. It is noble work and indis- and state, it is misleading, said pensable for society. You are also Garvey. ''The reason we protect relimen and women of faith. IL is for this reason that you play such an gious freedom and worry about
A Thanksgiving Mass will be held at 8 a.m. Thanksgiving Day. Fifth-and-sixth graders in the parish religious education program have been collecting food and items like napkins, tablecloths and dinner pans for the needy. They also designed and decorated Thanksgiving boxes to hold those items according to Catherine Goudreau, director of religious education. "They did a good job," said Goudreau. "It gives them a sense of helping their neighbors and community. They leam that there are people who don't have as much as they do." Holy Redeemer Church, Chatham, will host a Town Thanksgiving Dinner in the church basement from noon to 3:30 p.m. Thanksgiving Day. They are also having aMass in the church at8 a.m. The dinner, an ecumenical event, is free. Deacon Joseph Madore said the annual event rotates between five or six churches and this is the second year Holy Redeemer has hosted it. "The response has been wonder-
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On December 10, 1925, Our Lady appeared to Sister Lucia (seer of Fatima) and spoke these words: "Am~OllilCein my name that I promise to assist at the hour ofdeath WIth the graces necessary for the salvation oftheir souls, all those who on the first Saturday of five consecutive months shall: I. 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 of reparation, 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 b~ received at either the morning or evening Mass on the first Saturday.
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Diocese of Fall River - Fri., November 22, 2002
FIRST-GRADERS Stephanie, Sousa, Martinho Correia, Raquel Ferreira and Cody Moniz of Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, New Bedford, work outside on a school project last month before the weather turned cold.
School news briefs Teachers named to Who's Who FALL RIVER - Two teachers from Espirito Santo School have . been honored in this year's edition of Who's Who Among America's Teachers 2002. Debra A. Polselli, a first-grade teacher and Jason P. Vaillancourt, a seventh-graae teacher were sdected by former students as the most influential and respected members in their school. This honor has also recognized each for educational excellence.
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THE STUDENT council of SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, was established to provide leadership experience to students in grades four through eight, and to allow student input to the school administration. The experience prepares students for future government service at the high school and college levels. The newly elected class representatives are, front row from left: Nathan Furnas, Tim Atkinson, Juliana Boutier, Nicole Cueter, and Kirk Murphy; and back row: Maureen Dorsey, grade five teacher, Courtney Fairs" Katherine Reney, Kayla Peckham, Erin Carlson and Father Stephen Salvador.
Stang announces AP Scholars NORTH DARTMOUTH - In recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level AP Examinations, The College Board has named seven graduates of Bishop Stang High School as AP Scholars. They are, Susana Aniceto of New Bedford, Timothy Flinn of New Bedford, Caleb Morgan of Marstons Mills, Michael Nanni of Little Compton, R.I., Samuel Reidy of Somerset, Elizabeth Taber of New Bedford and Ryan Ziccardi of East Freetown. Each achieved a grade of three or higher on the exam. Three graduates were named AP Scholars with Honor achieving an average score of 3.25 on all exams taken. They are, Andrew Carreras of Acushnet, Emilie Duclos of Westport and路Jason Ostrom of Forestdale. Only about 13 percent of the 700,000 students who took the AP examinations performed at a sufficiently high level to merit such recognition.
AP Scholar Awards given at Coyle and Cassidy TAUNTON - Four students at Coyle and Cassidy High School have earned the qesignation of AP Scholar by The College Board in recognition of their achievement on th.e 2002 college-level AP exams. Three students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP exams and earnin~ a grade of three or higher on each. They are, Nicholas Chmura, Timothy Jusseaume and Jessica LakS. Neha Ohri qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on the exams. More than 1,400 institutions award a full year's credit to students presenting a sufficient number of qualifying grades.
FORTY-THREE students of SS. Peter and Paul School were installed as postal carriers and clerks recently. The Wee Deliver postal program is offered by the U. S. Post Office to路 help students gain knowledge of the postal system as well as encourages students to write. Pictured, from left, Sue Hetzler, post office coordinator; Douglas Michaud, Fall River postal worker; Kathie Shulenburg, Fall River postal worker; Myles Brilhante, student postmaster; Daniel Doyle, Fall River postmaster; Jane Glover; and Pat Egan.
Coyle and Cassidy issues reunion notice . TAUNTON - Coyle and Cassidy High School will be hosting a .reunion to celebrate the following classes: 1952, 1962, 1972, 1982, 1986, 1987,1991,1992, and 1997. The reunion will take place at the Holiday Inn in the Myles Standish Industrial Park in Taunton on November 29. . If you are a member of the aforementioned classes and have' not received your reunion package in the mail please contact the Office of Development and Alumni Relations at 508-823-6161, extension four.
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THE STUDENT council of St. Margaret Regional School, Buz~ards Bay, held its third annual spaghetti dinner recently. It was deemed a success by organizers and the fund-' raiser helps support eighth-grade scholarships. From left are, Sean Gilmore, Danielle Gilmore, Sean Donovan, Colette Weeks, Barbara Lawrence, Candace Marks, Teresa McGinley, Nadia Shutkufski, Billy and Rachel Dickey, Kristin Berghane, Walter Butler, Maggie Glennon and Robert Caradimos.
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Group preparing student life guidelines for Catholic colleges WASHINGTON - Catholic dent affairs personnel were hired colleges should not only scrutinize based on their willingness to protheir academic and theological pro- mote the school's Catholic idengrams, but they should also pay tity. Linda McMahon, vice presiclose attention to what is happening on their campuses outside of dent for student services at the classroom, according to the Marymount University in Arlington, Va., stressed that even in postCardinal Newman Society. The organization, which pro- ing a job opening for a student afmotes the Catholic identity of fairs position, colleges should state Catholic colleges and universities, right off that the institution is is working on a document of stu- Catholic. In the interview process, those dent life guidelines they think would help colleges to clarify what in charge of hiring should "talk should and should not be happen- about student development policies and how they apply to Cathoing on their campuses. The document, in the works for lic Church teaching and tell the the past two years, is expected to applicant they might not be combe completed early next year and fOitable at the school if they are then submitted to the U.S. bishops. not comfortable with those poliMany of its topics - campus- cies." Mary Cunningham Agee, sponsored programs and activities, student conduct, hiring of student founder of the Nurturing Network, affairs personnel and promotion of a national charity that provides care a Catholic culture - were dis- for women in cri:;is pregnancies, cussed at a recent conference in told the group that the calls her orWashington sponsored by the Car- ganization receives from college women "should be a wake-up call dinal Newman Society. Following one of the to us aIr' She encouraged the represenconference's discussions on campus-sponsored debates, Patrick tatives from various Catholic colReilly, president of the Cardinal leges to find ways to support Newman Society, said that stu- women in crisis pregnancies. The drafted guidelines take on dents should be encouraged to debate issues. "The problem comes," substance abuse, sexual activity, he said, "when a university, in an counseling services and the need official capacity, provides the re- for spiritual formation and opporsources and funding to a group that tunities for sacraments. They urge promotes something contrary to Catholic college campuses to develop a zero tolerance for "illegal Church teaching." He also said that if a college drugs and alcoholic excess" and to wants to debate an issue such as "forbid extramarital activity by stuabOition it would be better to have dents on campus." Reilly said his organization the students debate it themselves, rather than to bring in outside does not expect this document to be "made into Church law;' but he speakers. One speaker stressed that cam- said "at the very least" he hopes it pus activities would not be in con- will start a "discussion about stutlict with Church teaching if stu- dent life issues."
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CHARLIE MARTIN • CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
OUT OF MY HEART (INTO YOUR HEAD) I feel fine Now the rain has gone, and the sun has come to shine Nothing can get me down today Head over heels Got my mind made up as I'm driving through the fields Nothing can get me down Refrain: Catch me if you can I've gotta make a getaway As the sun goes down, wakin' up my dreams And in my mind you're with me once again Out of my heart, into your head And inside my heart there's a place for you And in my mind I'm with you once again Out of my heart, into your head Chasing the sun Tryin' to get away From the rain that's gonna come Hope I make it all the way I'm lost in a crowd Tryin' to find my way But the rain keeps fallin' down Doesn't matter anyway (Repeat refrain.) Take a look at the sky Feel the sunshine In your heart In your head In your own time (Repeat refrain.) . Out of my heart, into your head. (Repeat.)
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him, this means really noticing the beauty of the world God created. You could also play some of your favorite music, call friends or take on a new challenge that pushes the limits of your abilities. There is no right way to take a break from emotional hurt. You have to know yourself and what will distract your mind from the pain. For a while, turn your focus to the spiritual practice of gratitude. Even when situations are not as you would wish, almost ~,.,I.I' ~ll of.us have .many other blessI( Ings In our lIves. Take an accounting. Tell God how grateful Dr you are for that which brings you &;JI. satisfaction. Look beyond your own feelings to others wh.o need support. How about servIng as a volunteer? If you do not know where to volunteer, contact someone on your parish staff or talk to a trusted teacher. As today's disciples of Jesus, there are many ways teens can make a positive • difference in others' lives. This is a sure way to take a break from all around. He says, "Take a look loss or disappointment. Don't allow the hurts in your at the sky, feel the sunshine, in your heart, in your head, in your life to consume you. Like the guy in the song, look for ways to own time." Staying positive in the face of draw temporary boundaries problems does not mean denying around emotional pain. This will the hurt. No one can outrun what open you up to the opportunities the heart genuinely experiences. life still offers. Then you can realize that even At the same time, it doesn't help to get lost in emotional pain. though you must face hurt to get Here are some suggestions on past it, these feelings have no how to be honest about heartache power over how your future will without allowing it to be your unfold. Your comments are always sole focus: Like the guy in the song, de- welcome. Contact me at cide for a day or maybe just for chmartin@swindiana.netorby an hour to focus your attention mail at 7125W 200S, Rockport, on other aspects of your life. For Ind. 47635.
BBMak? The trio of Christian Burns, Mark Barry and Ste McNally (B, Band Mak) released "Out of My Heart" on their new album "Into Your Head." The song is about staying positive in spite of problems. The guy in the song says "Got my mind made up as I'm driving through the fields, nothing can get me down." It appears he is separated from his girlfriend; the only place he can be with her is "in my mind." However he still sees blessings
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sin weren't attractive, we wouldn't get caught in it. Well, let's look at temptation Look on the bright side. Hope and add something to that recipe: for the best. Always be positive. the belief that everything will "be Sound familiar? Probably. Those arc phrases we've heard our all right" and that no matter what, whole lives. It's how we're encour- it will "be OK." Does that make it easier or aged to live our lives: Remember, evharder to do the right thing? elYthing will come out for the best. If you say "harder," you win the But will it? Sure, we need to be positive, be- prize. Most sin has some pleasure cause God has blessed us with a attached to it. It might be the obvibeautiful gift called life. Not only ous pleasure of sex or a drug high, would it be stupid to run around in or it might be the more mysterious gloom all the time, it would be pleasure that comes from insulting wrong, too. It would shut us off someone or feeling powerful befrom the great possibilities God has cause you've successfully tricked your parents into believing you in store for us. But is there a dark side to being were at a friend's house when you were actually out clubbing with positive? Could there be? If so, here's where it is: in the your fake 10. As we said, the prospect of that moment we're making hard moral pleasure is what makes temptation decisions. Temptation is rough, isn't it? If what it is.
But what helps us overcome that sexually with a girl you hardly death, so that now shc lives with know, and afterward you could no fingers and a face and head temptation? Seeing beyond the pleasure to hope for the best. But, then again, scan"ed with no ears, eyelids, lips the consequences of our actions. . the messing around could result in or nose. That's what happened outside What if we're living by the phi- a pregnancy, and everyone's life could be changed forever. Or, in Austin, Texas, in 1999, when a high time, the light could dawn that in school football player named doing this kind of messing around Reggie Stephey smashed into -1l'51 you had used another human be- Jacqui Saburido's car. He's in .. \ '-..,"" II • ing for your own satisfaction and prison, and she's endured 40 optreated another person as an object. erations and will spend the rest of of You could live with that the rest of her life in terrible pain, and the story is now being used by the state of your life. Texas in an anti-drunk driving camTake another example. You could have a few drinks at paign. That young man probably bea party, get in your car and drive losophy that everything will be all safely, home. Because, you know, lieved everything would tum out right and nothing bad can' happen? . "everything will work out." Or you OK, because, you know, most of Does that help us see the conse- could drive over the hill in your the time in the past it had. Not this quences more or less clearly? ' SUV, smash into a car carrying a time, though. Maybe that night, a Less, obviously. So it seems that bunch of young people, kill two of little realistic pessimism would when it comes to sin, a little pessi- them and seriously wound two oth- have made a difference. For more on Jacqui Saburido's ers, burning one young woman bemism might be in order. Sure, you could mess ar?und yond recognition, but not quite to story, see www.helpjacgui.com.
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,Letter urging Russia to protect religious rights ·praised by diplomat MOSCOW (CNS) - A letter' 'm9ve as part of "Catholic expan~ from U.S. lawmakers,to Russian sionism" and flexed their politiPresident Vladimir Putin urging cal muscle with anti-Catholic protection of religious rights can demonstrations in at least a dozen help the Church in Russia, a . Russi;m cities last spring. Vatican diplomatin Moscow said.: .. ' One of the exiled clergy; "I think this is initiative that 'Bish6p'Jerzy Mazur ofIrkutsk, can help usP:. sm.d.'me diplomat, .' ~ascatitious in his assessment of who asked nottobtmamed. ''This . the letter's possible impact. "We will pray," said Bishop is well done." . The recent letter, signed by 17 Mazur, who has been living in his members of the U.S. Congress, native Poland since being denied urged Putin to "take corrective re-entry to Russia in April. "I am measures to ensure the rights of bringing prayer support." all believers, including those from While grateful for the letter's minority faiths, to practice their appeal on behalf of Russia's relireligion without distinction, and gious minorities, a spokesman for see the end to discriminatory de- the Archdiocese of Moscow said nials of visas to religious work- the Church's situation was' un~ ers from select minority religious likely to improve' until a rapcommunities." prochement is reached with the Since April, four Catholic Orthodox. ~'With the bureaucrats we get priests and one bishop - all foreigners - have been expelled along well," said the spokesman, from the country. The Russian Father Igor Kovalevsky. "Our biggovernment has provided no ex- gestprob~em is our relations with planation for the expulsions, other . the Russian Orthodox Church." than defending its right as a sov-';' Although there has not been a ereign nation to control the Catholic' priest expelled since comings and goings of foreign- September; Franciscan monks in . ers. Moscow were the subject of sevLeaders.of Russia's estimated eral television and newspaper re600,000 Catholics hllVe little ports on an apartment they own doubt of the connection between which was being used as a borthe expul.sions and the rage of the dello. politically powerful Russian OrThe Conventual Franciscans thodox Church at the Vatican's called the sensational stories part creation, in February' of four new of an anti-Catholic smear campaign.. dioceses in Russia. The Orthodox regarded the
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Philip, sometimes called Pl1ilip'the Cautious because of his supposed hesitancy to fully ac.cept the truth of the Master, was the fifth Apostle ch!J~en by Jesus.' As Peter, James, John and Andrew followed the·Lordafter his baptism by John the Baptist in'the Jordan River. they approached 'Cana in GaliJee. ·It was on this journey Philip responded to the call of Jesus to "follow me" (In 1:43). The Apostle, a Jew bearing a Greek name, was probably named after Philip of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great who conquered Palestine and left behind a lasting Greek influence. It was not unusual for a Jewish male to bear that Greek name. After being called by Jesus, Philip, following the example of his friend Andrew to tell others about the Lord, went immediately to find his friend, Nathaniel. "We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph" (In I :45). Philip later introduced certain Greeks to Christ (In 12:20-33) so the Greek influence on his life and ministry was signifi-' cant. The only references to Philip are in John's Gospel, so it can be assumed that John, a fellow Galilean, who lived in the neighboring village of Capernaum, was a close friend. He is mentioned at the feeding of the five thousand (In 6:5-6) and again in the fourth Gospels' account of the Last Supper. . According to ancient traditions, after the ascension of Jesus, Philip traveled to Scythia and . remained there 20 years. Following his time in southern Russia he then went to Hierapolis in
Phrygia, where one account has him conf~ont~ ing a people who worshiped.a.n:tonstrou~eJrago~ : " , . god. Taking compas~ion'on th~m, Philip, with' a crossin hand, commanded the serpent, in the name of ,the :cross, to leave the people., The dnlgon glided out of the altar~ emitted a'pois~~m~' ous stench that killed many present, including the kiqg's son. ' , .. . , The Apostle, by the powerofChrist,.resto~e~ the life of the royal lad. This infuriated .the dragon priests who seized Ph~lip, bound him to a cross and stoned him to death. Be that as it may, there are many: historic'aLref, erence~ that place Philip . in Hie rap 0.1 is. Polycrates 'of Ephesus, at the end of the second century, confirrris what , , Papiashad,reported, earlier; that Philip had . died in Hierapolis and two. of liis daughters alSo died there. Several apocryphal writi'ngs have been attributed to the fifth Apostle, including the Gospel of Philip (found at the Nag Hammadi Library discovery) and the Acts of Philip. One strong body of tradition has , the Apostle traveling to Gaul. This would make him the only one of the 1\velve associated with France. Philip has been accused of less than wholehearted devotion to the kingdom because of accounts in John's Gospel where the Apostle was anxious about the 200 denarii needed to buy bread, while in the presence of the "Bread of . Life;" and his "show us the Father" (In 14:8) while the very substance of the Incarnation was already revealed to him. Yet amid all this human frailty was the great spirit to be a missionary and to take the Gospel to distant places. He possessed the spirit to unselfishly lead others to Christ, even at the cost of his own life. This is proof enough to answer his critics. Happy Digging!
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I have often been confused about Jesus' admonition, ''Blessed are the Poor in Spirit." Isn't this an undesirable trait? -Marge Dear Marge, The Greek "ptochoi toi pneumati" is misunderstood by the English translation. It is really best understo,od as "those who know their need of God." It does not mean "poor-spirited" or "spiritless."
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Dr. John Heird is a Bible historian and ar-' chaeologist. He is a writer and lecturer on biblical backgrounds and the development directorfor the Diocese ofLittle Rock. Write him at drdig@lampcom.com.