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Bishops pondering post-communist Europe VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The special Synod of Bishops on Europe, which began yesterday at the Vatican, will offer the church hierarchy two weeks for reflection and planning in the wake of communism's collapse. Unlike previous synods dealing with internal church matters, this one comes in direct response to the recent political metamorphosis of Eastern Europe. It is an unusual ·example of the Vatican moving quickly to take advantage of changes in the secular world. Pope John Paul II strongly believes that local churches in Europe's two halves have much to give each other - the West in organizational talents and ed ucation, the East in tenacity and strength of faith. He announced the synod in mid-1990, as soon as it became apparent that the continent was entering a post-communist era. The pope's vision of Europe is a mixed one. He sees a strong-Christian heritage that needs to be recovered, in the East and the West. He sees the continent moving toward greater political and economic cooperation an4 wants the church to be a dynamic force for unity, The present moment seems to offer that opportunity, but already new threats are forming: ethnic strife, vast internal migration, economic disparity and the spread of materialistic values. The synod's working document reflects that mix of optimism and realism. The assembly certainly will be a moral celebration of the fall of communism, but it will a·lso have to face the fact that on both sides of the former Iron Curtain, Christianity has been'pushed to the sidelines of people's daily lives, it said. The official theme of the synod is "Let Us Be Witnesses to Christ Who Has Set Us Free." Morethan 130 bishops, about one-third from Eastern Europe, will attend the special assembly, which ends Dec. 14. About half of the delegates are from Western Europe, with other continents only sparsely represented. Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, will represent U.S. bishops at the assembly.

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The pope will be there primarily to listen. He also will preside over an eClJmenical prayer service Dec. 7. The pontiff wants the synod to help bridge the historic gap between Christian churches in Europe, and he has invited 15 Orthodox and Protestant churches to send representatives as "fraternal delegates" to the assembly. The synod will follow the usual pattern of individual speeches, group discussions and reports, and voting on final proposals. The pope is then invited to issue his own document on the topic at a later date. The synod's working document, summarizing reports from European delegations, outlined several areas of opportunity and challenge, including: - The demise of communism. This has given East European churches a new chance to rebuild and catch up to the West in areas of lay and clerical ed ucation, _pastoral programs and social services, but they are facing tremendous material difficulties. Avenues of Western aid will probably be explored at the synod; delegates include members of aid organizations which channel help to financially strapped Eastern churches. One factor that will quell triumphalism over communism's defeat is the recognition that five decades· of atheism have taken a toll on the spiritual healt·h of the people of the region. Another is the fact that serious social inequalities still exist on the continent; the pope has warned of the danger that Europe will remain a house divided into "haves" and "have-nots." - The "problem offreedom" in Europe. With the collapse of totalitarian states, will freedom be understood in a selfish way or as freedom to help others? The church proposes the latter, but not everyone is in a mood to hear its message. In fact, because the church insists on certain unchanging truths, it is sometimes considered "anti-democratic" in the new European context - for example, in its opposition to abortion, which is still widely practiced on both sides of the continent. -A "new evangelization" of Europe. The moment seems ripe for an infusion of Christian values into European societies, as an antidote to the "de-Christianized mentality" that has evolved in many places. In the East, the church's record of resistance under communism has earned it esteem and the opportunity to influence social decisions. But here, as·in the West, there appears to be a gap between the faith and pepple's daily lives. How to bridge that gap is expected to be a central question for the synod. . - Re-emerging nationalism. The Turn to Page 10

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Beloved pastor, Anchor founder dead at age 80 By Pat McGowan On June 17, 1987, after more than 20 years as pastor of Holy Name parish, Fall River, Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo retired. Last Saturday he was back at the parish he served so faithfully, visiting its annual fall bazaar and chatting with longtime friends, many of whom remarked how well he seemed. At 6:30 Saturday evening he suffered a massive stroke a·nd was taken to St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, where he died the following afternoon. News of the beloved pastor's death struck his native city like a bombshell. Ordained in 1937, he never served outside Fall River, going as a just-ordained 26-year-old curate to Immaculate Conception parish for five years and from there to St. Joseph's for 19 years, also as a curate. His first pastorate was at St. Louis Church, where he was assigned from 1961 to 1967. He was at Holy Name from April 12, 1967, until his retirement from active ministry. Msgr. Henry T. Munroe, diocesan vicar general, conducted a wake service for Msgr. Shalloo Tuesday night at Holy Name Church. His funeral took place Wednesday with Turn to Page 10

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'George Mendonca The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Nov. 19 at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, New Bedford, by pastor Msgr. Luiz G. Mendonca for his brother, George G. Mendonca, 67, a former city councilor and state legislator who died unexpectedly Nov. 15. The widower of Shirley N. (Martin) Mendonca, he served 17 years as an elected political figure and during his career was also assistant sergeant-at-arms of the state legislature and administrative assistant to former New Bedford Mayor Brian J. Lawler. Born in New Bedford, the son of the late Luiz and the late Maria (Almeida) Mendonca, he was a lifelong city resident and member of Mt. Carmel parish. Mendonca was a fourth degree Knight of Columbus with McMahon Council 151 and a member of the St. Vincent de Paul and Holy Name Societies at Our Lady of

Mt. Carmel. An usher and .a member of the parish renovation committee, as well as active in many other parish affairs, his dedication was recognized in 1980, when he received the diocesan Marian Medal. He is survived by two daughters, Mary Lou Hotte of North Dartmouth and Tammy Daigle of New Bedford; three sons, George G. Jr. of New Bedford, Paul of South Dartmouth, and Dennis of Oaklawn, Calif.; two sisters, Mary R. Mendonca of New Bedford and Alcina Spindola of South Dartmouth; three brothers, ~sgr. Mendonca and James of Tewksbury, and Edward of California; and seven grandchildren.

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Propagation collection aids in spreading Jesus' love "Peace on earth!" It is a cry characteristic of the Christmas season. The message of peace is appropriately associated with Christmas, the birthday of Jesus, the Prince of Peace.. We read in Isaiah's prophecy of Christ's birth: "The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. .. For a child has been born to us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." Although short, the war in the Persian Gulf, an area so close to the land of Christ's birth, certainly made each of us in this nation pray more for peace in our own lives; in our land and in the world. In many areas of the world today, however, there is no peace. • In the Sudan, a country in East Africa, the people have known civil war for the past 35 years, leaving thousands of children homeless orphans. . • In Haiti, an ocean away, the people have had eight leaders in the past three years. The byproduct of this turbulent political history is extreme poverty. In CapHaitien, the second largest diocese in Haiti where the people are considered "better off," there are shacks that house five families and close to 20 children. Many youngsters are homeless and alone, often the primary care-givers to much younger siblings. • In Liberia, a nation in West Africa, a year-long civil war claimed the lives of more than 20,000. leaving many more suffering from starvation and disease. There, too, "N,cw England hos!'ltaliry WIth a European Flair"

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OLYMPIA, Wash. (CNS) Washington state's abortion initiative, which guarantees abortion rights now in place should Roe vs. Wade be overturned, has won by a slim margin, according to unofficial vote tallies. The unofficial final vote - certified Nov. 20 by the state's 39 counties and sent by fax to the state elections office in Olympia -was 756,554 to 752,240 in favor of Initiative 120, a margin of 4,J 14 votes out of more than 1.5 million cast. The official final vote will not be known until mid-December, when a mandated statewide recount is complete. Because the initiative won by less than 0.5 percent of the total, the recount is required. Elections director Gary Mcintosh said he expected his office to certify the unofficial results Dec. 5 and that the recount would be completed about a week later. Prior to the Nov. 5 elections, an easy win had been predicted for Initiative 120, the Reprod uctive Privacy Act, which pro-life leaders had said would give Washington the most permissive abortion law in the country. Initiative 120 would adopt as state law the Roe vs. Wade ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision legalizing abortion. It would replace a 1970 state law that allowed abortions through four months of pregnancy. The measure would also eliminate requirements for a 90-day residency period .and spousal and parental consent. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

In Liberia, in Haiti and the Sudan, the Church is the hope of the people, the witness of the peace and love of Christ. At Christmas more than ever we should support the priests, religious and laypeople who serve in those young mission churches and bring the light of peace to suffering people. We can help the suffering poor of the missions at Christmas and throughout the year through the Propagation of the Faith. We can offer our support so that those mission children can see light in the darkness, and be comforted with the knowledge of a loving, peaceful God. Those in the missions count on your prayerful support and financial help. A village mission with primary school, chapel and clinic needs support of $100 a month. A sister- or brother-novice is trained for one year in preparation for a lifetime of service and loving witness for $300; a seminarian, for $700. $15 supports a catechist for one month as he or she shares the Gospel, helping others to know the love of the Prin'ce of Peace. So at Christmas this year pray that the children of the world may live in, to use the words of the prophet' Isaiah, "endless peace." And also please add the Propagation of- the Faith to your giftgiving list. Give generously in support of the priests, religious and hiy people who share Jesus' love with those in the missions. 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111I1111111111111111

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Ball decorations, souvenir booklet now in preparation Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong, St. Louis de France parish, Swansea, has been appointed to head the decorating committee for the 37th Annual Bishop's Charity Ball by Rev. Daniel L. Freitas, diocesan director of the Ball. Sister Gertrude Gaudette, OP, of Fall River will assist her. The ball will be held from 8 p.m. to midnight Jan. 10 at White's of Westport. The traditional ball souvenir booklet has six categories entitling participants to a varying number of tickets. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the Diocesan

Council of Catholic Vv omen, honorary ball co-sponsors, ask that names . for the booklet be submitted within the next two weeks. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be the ball guest of honor' for the 22nd time. Proceeds support summer camps for underprivileged and exceptional children of the Southeastern area of Massachusetts and other charitable apostolates of the diocese. Father Freitas requests that pastors of the 38 parishes designated to select presentees for the 1992 ball submit names to M iss Claire

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the moorin&-, Another Tea Party Every now and then, it's good to look at how our government is spending our tax dollars. As you read the following list, keep in mind the plight of our homeless, neglected andjobless in light of our budgetarY'priorities. Ferreted out by the National Taxpayers' Union and Citizens Against Government Waste, here are some federal expenditures over the past two or three years: • $500,000 to study the effect of cigarette smoking on dogs • $107,000 to study the mating habits of Japanese quail • $160,000 to study food-gathering habits of a Paraguayan tribe ' • $219,000 to teach college students how to watch television Those are among small-cost projects: Take a look at some !>ig-budget items: I • $2 million to construct and sail an ancient-style canoe to retrace migration routes of native Hawaiians • $49 million for a rock and roll museum • $15 million to Dartmouth College as part of a jobs creation scheme which developed 39 jobs at a c~st of $324,685 each If this litany of fiscal waste has you upset, look what Congress did for itself in the 1991 budget: • $25,000 to search for the best location for a new House gym (what shape are they in?) • $2 million to renovate the House restaurants (are they underfed?) • $350,000 to renovate the House beauty parlor (they need this?) • $100 million forfranked mail to constituents (think of this when you buy a stamp) All this is being appropriated while over 300 congresspersons are eligible for retirement benefits in excess of $1 million. How is your retirement fund? Congressional salaries were increased by 25 percent last year. What about the budget deficit? To be fair, there are many good elected officials who have worked hard to give Congress an honest face; but they are in the minority. The Defense Department overruns and the criminal behavior of those involved in the Keating-sweetheart deals are but two areas of fiscal corruption that cry for a taxpayers' revolution. If we are to straighten out America, we', like the citizens -of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Russia, must say "enough." Millions of Americans are facing financial ruin, people are being evicted from houses they can no longer afford to pay for, while others are moonlighting to make ends meet - all this while Congress plays the fiddle as the nation burns. On December 16, it will be 218 years since a tax revolution began with the Boston Tea Party. Previously it had been proclaimed that taxation without representation was tyranny. As it turns out, taxation by tyrants is no more palatable. In these days when students are asked to fund many of their educational expenses, even in some public schools, when people's life savings are wiped out by the medical greed machine .and when tax moneys are siphoned into back pockets, we must confront serious questions about the real state of the nation. As all know, it is extremely difficult to change the system; .but it should not be seen as impossible. Citizens must watchdog their electe~ dfficials and demand 'their constitutional right to not only responsible but accountable representation. The Editor In short, we need another Tea Party.

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Post-Thanksgiving thoughts By Father Kevin J. Harrington Thanksgiving is over but it is a holiday worth pondering. It is hard to underestimate the value of the virtue of gratitude in our contemporary society. One sage put it best: "Gratitude is the least of the virtues; the lack of it is the worst of the vices." Americans are so richly blessed by their abundance of natural resources and their inheritance of political liberties that anything less than a profound spirit of gratitude would ill become us as a nation. Thanksgiving is a day for families. It reminds each of us that in spite. of our own' individual concerns there is nothing' more delightful than the time spent surrounded by loved ones enjoying a good meal. Such moments of selfforgetfulness help us transcend the mundane problems that so often preoccupy us. Thanksgiving is of course also a national holiday that challenges us to look beyond our families to fellow Americans who may not share our good fortune. Although a public holiday, Thanksgiving is religious. People may have drifted far from organized religion but few families gather on that day without saying grace before meals. The word "grace" is derived from the Latin word "gratias." The word literally means a favor, which, of course, is anything done to or for you for which you are grateful. In ancient Rome, giving thanks was unheard of. They "did" their thanks, "gratias agimus." Hence, they would have had to call our national holiday "Thanksdoing Day!"

Interestingly, Thanksgiving falls on the last Thursday in November, while it was also on a Thursday that Jesus is described as "having given thanks" at the Last Supper. One of the most notable rituals of Christianity, the Eucharist, derives its name from the Greek word for thanksgiving. Indeed, November seems to be. the month in which Christians are always looking back, from its beginning, when we celebrate All Saints Day and All Souls Day until its end, when we mark the end of the liturgical year with the Feast of Christ the King. Thanksgiving conjures up mixed feelings of ~orrow and joy as we gather around our family tables. Annually it is for many families the first time to gather sinc~ the death of a loved one. For others,

Prayer~ '(I Box For the Church o gracious Father, we humbly beseech thee for thy holy Catholic church that thou wouldst be pleased to fill it with all truth, in all peace. Where it is corrupt, purify it; where it is in error, direct it; where in anything it is amiss, reform it. Amen.

like the returning hostages, it is a time of incredible rejoicing. There is something primevally religious about this whole business of gratitude. As a nation, we may experience periods of prosperity and poverty but as a people we are never richer than when we are graced by a grateful spirit: I know of no other virtue so contagious as gratitude. A gra-_ cious attitude Often begets emotions that manifest themselves in practical deeds. When I am caught in a web of cold bureaucracy the simplest act of gracious kindness by'a stranger is like a refreshing breeze on a stifling day. It makes givers out of receivers. When a stranger opens a door for you, . don't you find yourself inclined to do the same for the next person? Despite its abundance of natural resources, our nation has more than its share of problems as it attempts to meet the needs of'our people. In this situation we must begin to think of ourselves as a family and start pondering the common good more than fulfillment of our individual wants. Too often the quality of a person's housing, nutrition, education and health care is in direct proportion to that person's financial resources. When one's wealth deter. mines one's destiny, the American dream of a better tomorrow that attracted so many to our shores is endangered. A materialistic person sees prosperity as if it were If national lottery prize and does everything to insure his victory. A spiritual person works for a system that empowers each person in accordance with his or her inherent dignity.

Whatdid Jesus fulfill? Jeremiah 33:14-16 I Thessalonians 3:12-4:2 Luke 21:25-28,34-36 Concerning today's Jeremiah pericope, the New American Bible footnote commentator writes, "The prediction of an eternal Davidic dynasty ... and of a perpetual priesthood and sacrifice was not to be realized in the restoration of the Jewish nation. It finds its fulfillment only in Jesus of Nazareth. , ," Many Scripture scholars regret such comments. During the 35 or 40 years since this footnote was composed, we have finally begun to regard these writings as valuable in themselves, and not as just fulfillment texts for Christianity. The recent practice of using the term "Hebrew Scriptures" instead of the "Old Testament" is one way of showing their worth, independent of the "Christian Scriptures," We Christians feel that Jesus fulfilled many of ancient Judaism's deepest hopes and desires. Yet because the Lord basically was a reformer, there had to be something important and fulfilling in Judaism itself, else he would have had nothing to fall back upon for his reform, If we think the Hebrew Scriptures are totally completed in Jesus, we are viewing them far differently than he did. Worse yet, we are conveniently forgetting that no religion, even Christianity, ever reaches absolute fulfillment. Jesus' frequent use of parables seems to convey a view that no one ever "has it all together." Since parables constantly call people to . go beyond their present state of belief, we can speculate that the Lord was disturbed by any opinion which taught that the present contained total fulfillment. The Lord's first disciples clearly believed that no matter how well they were expressing and living their faith, they could always express and live it better. There was always something more to do. Notice how Paul addresses his Thessalonian community in today's second reading: "May the, Lord increase you and make you overflow with love for one another and for all, even as our love does for you... You must learn to make still greater progress. .. The Apostle presupposes continual growth in Jesus' followers. Though they already believe in him, they are not yet complete. (These'thoughts are even more significant when we remember that I Thessalonians is the earliest Christian writing we possess.) Luke is the first Evangelist to believe that all in his community would probably die before Jesus . returned in the Parousia. He encourages his readers to concentrate on living their faith day by day, instead of anticipating the "big bang" of the Lord's Second. Coming. Yet even he includes an "apocalyptic" section before beginning his Passion/ Resurrection Narrative. He still has faith that Jesus will return one day to check on his followers. And even though that event will not happen soon, Christians only live their daily lives correctly· when they live in anticipation of it.

By FATHER ROGER KARBAN "The great day will suddenly close in on you like a trap," Jesus warns. "The day I speak of will come upon all who dwell on the face of the earth, so be on the watcn. Pray' constantly for the strength to escape whatever is in prospect, and to stand secure before the Son of Man." Do you now understand why modern Scripture scholars can see more in our Jeremiah text than just "Jewish prediction - Christian fulfillment," Though we believe Jesus to be the "just shoot" which Yahweh raises up for David, things are still not "right and just in the land," No country on earth, not even Judah, is "safe," No city, especially Jerusalem, "dwells secure." No town would dare name itself "The Lord is our justice." So what did Jesus actually fulfill? Maybe the Lord's most important gift to us was not that he went around completing everything, but that he simply inspired a small group of followers to begin working toward such fulfillment. May we always strive to acquire the mentality of that original small group.

Charismatics go back to roots PITTSBURGH (CNS) - The Catholic charismatic movement will return to Pittsburgh, the city where it started 25 years ago, for its 1992 national renewal conference. The June 5-7 confereitce at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena will mark a quarter century since the charismatic movement started with a . small group of students and faculty from Duquesne University, said Bishop Sam Jacobs of Alexandria, La., chairman of the service committee sponsoring the event. Scheduled for the conference are some 50 speakers from around the world, including Bishop Paul Cordes, vice president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, and Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, official preacher of the pontifical household at the Vatican, Bishop Jacobs said that already about 5,000 people from across North America have registered for the conference and that it is hoped it will draw as many as 15,000 Catholics from around the world.

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After Christmas last year, I asked a friend how her seven-year-old enjoyed the holiday and she said, "He got Ninja Turtle games, shirts, 'toys and sleeping bag. He's all turtled out." She sighed. "I think he got to the point where he would have liked a simple baseball instead. Why do we always have to overdo these things?" It reminded me of a series of

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can only come from experience, which she doesn't have very much of. What do you think? (Iowa) What a good question! You and your daughter are arguing about when a person is grown up. That's a very appropriate issue for a parent and a 16-year-old to consider. When is one an adult? At l8? At 21? After certain experiences.? '," Legally, one is declared an adult in our country at 18. That also ordinarily coincides with high school graduation. But although age and graduation are reasonable developmental milestones, neither guarantees ma-

turity. Nor is life experience a' surefire answer. ' The problem is that some peopIe never learn. Although experience may be the best teacher, its lessons don't aiways find fertile ground. The simplest and best answer for a teen is: Being an adult means more than just setting Your own rules. It means you can pay ,your own way, fend for yourself. Here are a few other definitions of maturity: - The ability to wait, to have patience. Maturity is being able to delay gratification, to pass up the immediate joys of today for

some bigger, long-term life rewards. ' - Sensitivity to the needs of others. Maturity is the capacity to see another's need and pain as your own. You are mature when you have outgrown the developmental selfishness inherent in adolescence and can truly love another. - Self-acceptance. Maturity is the capacity to accept yourself, flaws and warts and all. No longer needing to look primarily to others for approval, the mature person is more able to laugh at his or her mistakes and take what lifesends 'with some equanimity. Basically, your daughter is argu-

ing with you about what it means to become an adult. Maturity is a never-endingprocess, moving away from the preoccupation with identity and self that is so much a part 'of adolescence, and slowly replacing this with a reaching for patience and love self and acceptance. All this, however, may be too much to explain to a 16-year-old. If she can pay her own room and board, then she may be old enough to set her own rules. Until she is ready to care for herself in this elemental way, she still must follow the rules set by her parents. Questions are invited by the Kennys; 219 W. Harrison St.; Rensselaer, Ind. 47978.

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comic strips in which Crankshaft, an old man, went to buy his grandson a game of checkers for Christmas. Nobody in the toy shop knew what they were. They finally found a dusty g'ame on the top shelf and had to call for a price on it because it was so old.

I know what she means. As I've written before, I collect nativity sets but not just for quantity. I like the folk art ones, those that are indigenous to a certain' culture. So once I have an African and an oriental one, I don't want another. .

I don't know why we,overdo a popular idea until we grow weary of it. A few years ago, everything was Cabbage Patch, then Batman, and then Ninja. Because a child likes one, we presume that's all he likes and in so doing we stifle his pleasure. Adult collectors have the same problem. "Please, no more cookbooks," a friend said, who got five for Christmas. "I like them but they're not my whole life."

Ten years ago, on my first trip to Ireland, I was disappointed that I couldn't find any folk art Irish nativities. I didn't want a Renaissance creche merely because it was made in Ireland. I wanted a thatched roof cottage with Mary in Donegal tweed and Joseph in an Aran sweater and a turf pile in front. After expressing my disappointment to a creative Irish cousin who knits, she surprised me with a similar nativity she designed but added

a St. Brigid's cross, sheep, donkey and other symbols.

Collectors and others who love Ireland asked how they could get one so each year I come back with nativities for them. Like me, they aren't interested in nativities for quantity but quality. And I believe that's how we need to respond to our children's and frien,ds' interest in a particular subject or item. When we flood them with paraphernalia, it b-ecomes overkill and they get "turtled out." What they liked becomes, "Oh, no, not again." , I have a friend who, with her husband, has established one of the top Holstein herds in America. For the uninitiated, Holsteins are the white cows with black spots

currently very popular in gift items. , For the past few years, she has received Holstein cards on every occasion, tablecloths, mugs,jewelry, towels, and slippers for gifts. What she wants now is something - anything - "Yithout a cow on it. Promotion holds great power over us as a consumer society, but we can't be hooked without our cooperation. Regardless of what current advertising tells us is popular and necessary to be happy, we're still the ones who make the choices, spend the money, and wonder why we did. Maybe we need th~ wisdom and tenacity to search for other things 'in life besides turtles and batteries. Maybe we need to buy more checkers.

Emotions are as contagioQs as "Mary 'Poppi~s" tunes By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

One of the happiest memories I have of my children in their elementary school years was taking them to see "Mary Poppins." I remember leaving the theater, all of us singing "Just a Spoonful of Sugar," then switching to "Chim Chim Cher-ee." The movie's happy tone was decidedly contagious. It was a, perfect moment for conveying to my children an ele-

mentary tnfth about human relations. What you project from the inside out affects others - positively or negatively. , My mother used to say that if you want to give someone a really good gift, give them a smile. If you want to ruin a person's day, give" them a scowl. This basic truth was spoken years ago by Swiss psychoanalyst Carl J ung'. He wrote, in lean, effective style, "Emotions are contagious." Apparently a number of researchers are now coming to the same conclusion, -telling us something we all know because we have experienced it. If someone is "in a mood" and we have to interact with that per-

DIETZEN Q. In a recent column in our local paper, the author says that most New Testament scholars do not believe that Jesus rose bodily from the dead. According to him, "One Catholic seminary instructor says he does not know of any credible Bible scholar who would hold for a bodily resurrection of Jesus." I believe many people would like to know if this is true. Whatever yoil could do to clarify this would be appreciated. (California)

Any Christian is aware that the -resurrection of Jesus from the dead is the core of our faith. As St. Paul says, if Jesus has not risen, we Christians are to be pitied. On the other hand, any thoughtful reader of the Gospels is aware of several major puzzles presented by the different stories we are given ofthe resurrection and events which followed. Clearly, our Lord's resurrection was not simpl,y a "return to life" as he possessed it in human form before his death. He was seen and not recognized by his closest

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I can relate to that, particularly in t.he workplace. It has always amazed me how some people seem to pour all their energies into being miserable and making everybody else miserable, too. '

'It's often demonstrated in offices with small quarters where people have to really work together. While researchers are now able to affirm scientifically what all of us learn early in life - that other people's moods are contagious it was a bit disturbing to read that their studies also shQw that people's moods affect how they foresee their futures. An Australian study found that people who had just seen the comedy"Back to the Future" made

Did Jesus rise from the A. People who make these kinds of accusations may be operating out of thoughtles~ness or a superficial knowledge ofthe subject, but they are certainly totally mistaken. Sometimes they have not even read the writings they condemn.

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son, we're going to catch that mood, and fast. ' "Emotional contagion happens within milliseconds, so quickly you can't control it, and so subtly that you're not really aware it's going on," said Elaine Hatfield, a psychologist at the University of Hawaii, quoted recently in The New York Times. She is one of a number of researchers now doing scientific studies on "the subtle interplays of moods as they are passed from person to person." The new data, says the Tjmes article, see moods "akin to social viruses, with some people having a natural ability to transmit them while others are more susceptible to contagion."

friends, and then recognized (In 20:14). He' appeared and disappeared instantaneously (e.g. Lk 24). And the Gospel stories themselves differ considerably with each other on many details of the events on the first Easter Day and the days following. St Paul, who tells us he had seen the risen 'Lord, in comparing our resurrection to that of Jesus says that what dies is a physical body, but what is raised, is a spiritual body, imperishable, glorious and undying (I Cor 15). One of the obvious tasks of biblical scholarship is to compare and analyze in every way possible all of this New Testament information and theology, and develop possible explanations of that information in the context of traditional Christian faith.

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positive judgments about such things as how good their jobs and marriages were. . But those who had -just seen "The Killing Fields" tended to make,more gloomy forecasts about their lives. My reaction t,o that was, bring back "Mary Poppins'" Not to end on a negative note, it seems to me that what the research on emotions tells us is that we have a responsibility to be aware of "what we are transmitting to others. It is within our power to bring a smile, some hope, some encouragment to others. There is a banner around that says, "Joy is the sign of God in a person." How many of us spread joy by the smile on our face that comes from the peace in our heart?

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With very rare exceptions, those solutions in our century do not include denying the bodily resurrection of our Lord. As one of numerous possible illustrations, we might refer to what is ~robably the most prestigious and scholarly one-volume English commentary on the Scriptures, the Ne~ Jerome Biblical Commentary, compiled by major Catholic Scripture scholars in the English-speaking world. In a brief but weighty section on the resurrection of Jesus, four of these theologians, whose' names are familiar to any serious student of the Scriptures, clearly defend the bodily resurrection of Jesus. Among some circles it is considered cute and "with it" these days to discredit genuine scholarship of any kind, including biblical studies. Unfortunately, sometimes

honesty and truth get buried in the process. When you see th~se extravagant kinds of statements, don't panic. Try to check them out at least a bit. "Don't believe everything you read" is still' good advice. A free brochure answering questions about Mary, the mother of Jesus, is available by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to_him at the same address.

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She also took issue with the brand name Safe Play and said it was "irresponsible to advertise condoms as 'safe'." since they merely red uce the risk of HIV transmission and infection, Ms. Whiting said. HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus. leads to AIDS. The Safe Play marketing strategy also includes boxes with dayglo lettering, offering a free condomholder key chain inside and saying in big letters on the package that the condoms are "for young lovers," Key said. In the wake~ of the Fox policy change, NBC announced it would review its ban on condom ads and "continue to conduct research on matters relating to viewer receptivity to condom advertising." It also said it planned to review the matter with its affiliate board in December. CBS spokesman Michael Silver

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said CBS is also reviewing its policy on condom ads, but ABCs'ban on such ads has not changed, said spokeswoman Janice Gretemeyer. "Contraception is for many people a deep-seated moral and religious issue," Ms. Gretemeyer said. "We don't believe it's appropriate to accept revenue-driven advertising dealing with those kinds of issues." --Controversial issues are "better HUNGER AWARENESS: dealt with in news programs" where University of Dayton student both sides of an issue can be presDominic Jones holds upa Tented, she said. All three networks already air shirt during the Ohio univerpublic service announcements and sity's Hands Across the Ghetto neWs programs on the AIDS crisis. event, one of the activities of Ms. Whiting, in a separate state- its annual Hunger Awareness mentissued Nov. 20, said four Week leading up to Thanksyears ago ABC, NBC and CBS . giving. (eNS photo) "considered but wisely decided not to carry cond oltljld vertisementL -..-_IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII---..-----------~ "These-three networks would bes.t serve the p.ublic b~ ~ontin~ing NEW DELHI, India (CNS) _ theH longstanding tradition against A h' hid' . t ffi . I broadcasting such ads and Fox Ig ~ Ian g?vern?1en 0 ICla . has promised. to IOvestlgate reports s h ou Id reexamme I't s d ecl's'on" I , . 'd of human nghts abuses agamst h s e sal , Ch" b h'" nstians y aut ontles m t h e Key ca IIed bans on co nd 0 m ads 'S f "hypocrisy." northeast Indian tate 0 ',ArunHollywood's shows, movie stars, achal Pradesh. DestructH~n,of and arrests of Chnstlan ro Ie mo d eIs, scand a I sheet s, Sl't- churches ' . " II d I 'th leaders and pastors have become d- '1 ., h ' T' corns an d TV movies a ea WI " K 'd "W f I' 't' hy路poc al y routme e ee I s - D' . UCAm Ntestate s A Hap . sex, eysal. Istnct, ews~ a~ sian risy to use all these to stimulate "t d k 't ttra church news agency based 10 Hong sexua I act IVI yan rna e I a c. , .h . f .. h Kong, quoted sources as saYlOg. tive Wit out 10 ormlOg viewers t at A t ' . N D Ih' , . '1 bl be t a recen reception In路 ew e I there s protection aval a e cause for Ch' ns t'lanmembe rsofth e I nd'Ian " .. ter 0 f st a t e r10 .today .. s market condoms save parI'lament , fi路--' cuera1miDIS IV~~mses was "targeting teens" forhome(do~estic)affairs, M.M. because its sur.veys showed that of !.ac.o~, proml,se~ to study th.e eXisting d " an es t'1mat ed 67 . f drestnctlVe ,,' h law on rehyou th s po IIe, percent claimed to have had sex by glOus ree om 10 testate. the age of 17" and that "less than JO percent of that 67 percent Nobility claimed that they'd used protec"Gratitude is the sign of noble tion," Key said. souls." - Aesop

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WASHINGTON (CNS) - No immediate barriers were seen to enforcing a prohibition on usi,ng federal family planning funds to counsel about abortion, after the dential veto of a bill that would have blocked the ban. The 276-156 vote was 12 short of the two-thirds necessary to override the president's veto of the appropriation bill that would have stopped enforcement of the administration's restriction on counseling for abortioQ in clinics operated with federal family planning funds under the Title X program. Although the regulation was imposed under the Reagan administration, the Department of Health and Human Services has refrained from enforcing it while supporters of abortion rights pursued judicial and then congressional efforts to get around the ban. In May, the Supreme Court upheld the government's right to dictale how funds it provides may be spent. "I think enforcement is literally right around the corner," said Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J.,leader of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus and principal organizer of House opposition to efforts at overturning the regulation. The assistant secretary of Health and Human Services, James O. Mason, told The Washington Post that implementing the rule would involve a lengthy process including requests for letters from Title X recipients affirming their compliance. Clinics also will be given further details about what the rule means, he said. Those guidelines have not yet been written, according to Mason. Other legislative efforts to set aside the rules are in the works, but Smith told Catholic News Service it seems unlikely they will make it out of committee until after the first of the year. Even then, there are not likely to be .the

"The LontOod will wipe away the terlrs from all· faces." The holi"-.Pare particularly diffi~1w those who have recentlylDSt a loved one. Can , . include the lonely or the ",",ing in your holiday pr~ations and celebrations ?

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"Open up the gates to let in a nation that is just, one that keeps faith."

Does our nation truly guarantee justice for all - the poor, minorities, the elderly, the unborn? Christians are called to act for social justice. Is :your parish sponsoring a holiday food drive? Can yOU volunteer at a shelter or soup kitchen? Can you assist the diocesan pro-life apostOlare, directed by Father Stephen A. Fernandes at Christ the King Parish, The Commons, P.O. Box 1800, Mashpee 02649?

SATURDAY

Solemnity of the Feast of St. Nicholas(i Immaculate Conception Is 29:17-24

Mt 9:27-31

Gold-wrapped' chocolate coins exchanged today recall the great generosity of St. Nicholas, a fourth-century bishop who gave gold coins to young women lacking dowries. As we shop this holiday season, let us not forget the reason for our giving.

votes in Congre~s to withstand the veto Bush promises to any law that makes abortion~ easier to obtain. "This was ou~ low-water mark. Clearly we will gp up [in number of supporters] fromihere:' said Smith. When the $20~ billion spending bill is reintrod.IJced without the change in Title X, opposition will disappear, Smith predicted. Representati~es of National Right to Life, the American Life Lobby and the U.S. Catholic Conference called Bush's veto and the House vote a vi¢tory. The bill wo~ld have allowed federally funde4 family planning clinics to bec0"1e referral centers for the abortiqn industry, said Richard Doerf inger, associate director oflhe S cretariat for Pro-

Life Activities for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. "The vote also reaffirms the fed- . eral government's consistent policy of declining to subsidize abortion activities," he said. Douglas Johnson" legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee reported that Health Secretary Louis Sullivan sent a directive to his administrators to follow guidelines set by Bush Nov. 5. The order would allow physicians at clinics that receive federal funds to discuss abortion with clients, but prohibit non physician counselors from engaging in such discussions. "Patients and doctors can talk about absolutely anything they want," Bush said of the directive at a Nov. 8 press conference.

On 3:9-15,20 Ps 98:1-4 Eph 1:3-6,11-12 LIe 1:26-38

"I am the servant of the Lord." Do we say yes to God as Mary did, tTusting in him to guide our paths? Say the rosary today for preborn children in danger of abortion.

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Lay lea. ers must share church values says Catholic health system CEO NEW YORK (CNS) - A Daughter of Charity who heads her order's Nat~onal Health System has called for programs to help lay admini~trators in Catholic hospitals undetstand the values underlying the Iitealth apostolate.. "Sponsors nebd to define for the laity what are tie expected behaviors, what com etency is expected and what are t e mutual expectations," she said j In a time when some executives in Catholic hospitals do not know what a sacrament is, she said, orders that sponsor hospitals must set up programs of instruction in matters such as church symbols, canon law, significance of the Second Vatican Council and the church's teaching on social justice. Sister Irene Kraus, who heads the largest pri\\ate nonprofit.systern of health dare institutions in the country, sp~ke at a recent program for hospitlal admninistrators

at St. John's University in Queens, NY. She is CEO of a system with 12,270 beds in 55 institutions and a net annual revenue of $3.1 billion. She said her organization, based in St. Louis, was l;urrently "piloting a management continuity program" to educate lay t(xecutives who desire a continuing career within the Catholic system. Against proposals for turning hospitals completely over to lay boards, Sister Kraus argued for sponsors to keep the measure of control needed to assure continuing commitment to their basic values. "Sponsors are stewards of a philosophy and mission, as well as the history and rootedness and the charism of the order," she said., !

Believing "It is in believing in roses that one brings them to bloom."French proverb

"Stop the Church" airings criticized WASHINGTON (CNS) - The decision by several PBS stations to air a program about AIDS activists who disrupted Mass at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral drew sharp criticism from Catholic editors and at least one daily newspaper. The program, "Stop the Church," was broadcast by public television stations in Boston, San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles despite a decision by the national Public Broadcasting Service to withdra w it because of its "ridicule" of the Catholic faith. The film documents the planning and execution of a 1989 protest at St. Patrick's by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, also called ACT-UP. "Like all hate films, 'Stop the Church' has only furthered polarizing groups of people into camps that have little to do with the supposed productive intention of the [ACT-UP] group,"said Alfred Doblin, editor of The Tidings, Los Angeles archdiocesan newspaper, in a recent column. If ACT-UP wants to bringattention to the desperate need for America to wake up and look at AIDS as a killer and spreading disease and not some distorted 'punishment' on a particular group of people, 'Stop the Church' is not the way," Doblin added. "1f'Stop the Church' was an opportunity to manipulate the media into a Catholic bashing frenzy, to direct past frustrations and hatred at the Catholic Church ... - well, then ACTUP did very well for themselves indeed. In Boston, where PBS station WGBH aired the show in' late August, an editorial in The Pilot archdiocesan newspaper described "Stop the Churcn" ~n outrage" and said it was "a slapin the face to the numerous Catholic. agencies and many individual Catholics who assist the victims of AIDS."

"Public television is not a proper forum for this kind of inflammatory- provocation that does violence to religious beliefs. of a portion ofthe community they serve," The Pilot added. "Bigotry from whatever source has no place on television." Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles had urged viewers of Los Angeles public television station KCET to reconsider donations to the station to protest the broadcast. A similar call came from Catholic New York, newspaper of the New York Archdiocese. in an unsigned editorial after station WNET recently aired the program. Saying that the station had made "a deliberate decision to insult Catholics," the editorial said Catholics can protest by writing to the station or "better yet, they can turn a deaf ear to Channel l3's pleas for financial support." "At t.he end of a long summer in which the strings that hold the city together have been stretched nearly to the breaking point by religious and racial tensions, Channel 13 could have made a contribution to harmony by simply refusing to air a production that so deeply offends the church and those who believe in it," the editorial said. "Instead it caved in, choosing to incite the forces of bigotry rather than rebuff them." ~ Editorial reaction also came from two other local Catholic newspapers and from the New York Post, which called the show "bigoted propaganda." "We can't sympathize with the decision to air the film," said the Post editorial. "We're certain Channel 13 would never lend its airwaves to a film aimed at mocking, say, Jews or blacks or any other social group. Why don't practicing Catholics merit parallel consideration?" An unsigned editorial in The

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Tablet, Brooklyn diocesan newspaper, linked the national PBS decision not to air "Stop the Church" with another church-related controversy - the decision by major TV networks not to accept advertisements for the Miramax film, "The Pope Must Die." In both cases, "the media representatives are affording Catholics the same respect and protection afforded other groups," the editorial said. "They are recognizing decent limits to free speech and, clearly, their right not to advertise or promote what they see as overstepping the limits of responsibility... Msgr. Francis J. Maniscalco, associate publisher/ editor 'of The Long Island Catholic, newspaper of the Rockville Centre Diocese, said in a column, "I don't see anything courageous or daring in showing this film" adding that the stations that aired the program "would ha ve shown themselves better friends of the First Amendment and even of the gay community by using their freedom to say no to hate." The PBS controversy even drew editorial comment in areas where the program was not aired. The Catholic Bulletin, newspaper ofthe St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese, in a recent editorial backed a suggestion by the Los Angeles chapter ofthe Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, which urged people to watch the show "to see firsthand that anti-Catholicism is alive and well in the United States." "Catholic values can have much more impact on a host of social programs if we can be seen presenting rational arguments rather than perpetuating stereotypes about Catholics being narrowminded," said the editorial, signed by editor Bob Zyskowski.

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Bishop Daniel A. Cronin as principal concelebrant and Father John P. Driscoll, his longtime friend, as eulogist. A 1987 retirement testimonial for Msgr. Shalloo was attended by nearly 1,000 friends and brother priests and it is a measure of the love felt for him in Fall River that 5,000 memorial cards were prepared for distribution to mourners. After Msgr. Shalloo's death, person after person related how he had touched their lives at a time of tragedy with comforting words, with a promise of prayers and Masses and, in many cases, with regular visits, both to patients with long-term illnesses and to their agonized families. Not only did he share the joys and sorrows of his people but he served the diocese in a myriad other ways, most notably as founder of The Anchor, which he shepherded from 1956, when he was asked by the late Bishop James L. Connolly to begin planning a , diocesan paper, through the first issue of that paper, dated April II, 1957, until August 21, 1975, when after 18 years he relinquished his post as general manager. His was a hands-on role, recalled Rosemary Dussault, present Anchor general manager. "He wason top of everything," she said, often even acting as a messenger to -bJ"ingstMies to the pfintet" and keeping-a-.shat"p.eye.on accounting, clerical andcircula-m tion activities as well as the news side of The Anchor. But parish responsibilities were never slighted, she added, saying that they often followed him to his Anchor office, where people with problems were frequent visitors. Always on the agenda were visits to the hospitalized and to nursing homes, which became a particularly time-consuming activity in Holy Na~e parish, where for years Msgr. Shalloo was responsible for two hospitals and eight nursing homes in the days before hospital chaplaincies and when the sacrament of the anointing of the sick was administered onlywhen death seemed imminent. It made for many middle-of-the-night trips from the rectory, said Miss Dussault. Over the years, Msgr. Shalloo was chaplain for various organizations, served in the diocesan marriage tribunal and in 1963 spearheaded the fund raising campaign for Bishop Connelly High School in Fall River. He headed the Fall River deanery of the diocese for 20 years before his retirement. Msgr. Shalloo, 80, was born Nov. 7, 1911, the son of the late Daniel F. and Katherine (Mara) Shalloo. A native of St. Joseph's parish, where he was later to serve, he graduated from its grammar school, BMC Durfee High School and Boston College; He prepared for the priesthood at the 'Sulpician Seminary, Washington, DC, and was ordained May 22, 1937, by the late Bishop James E. Cassidy. In the same year he earned a master's degree in education from Catholic University in Washington, DC. Msgr. Shalloo was named a pre~te of honor in February, 1964, by Pope John I

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Following his retirement, he resided at St. Joseph's rectory, Fall River, later moving to the Priests' Hostel, also in Fall River. He is survived by a niece and two nephews. Like his hu'ndreds of other friends, we at The Anchor will miss him.

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Amnesty asked WAS HINGTON (CNS) - Amnesty for conscientious objectors to the Persian Gulf War "would reflect the best of the American spirit of generosity and reconciliation." said the head of the U.S. bishops' International Policy Committee in a recent letter to Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and key members of Congress. Archbishop John R. Roach ofSt. PaulMinneapolis also asked for stronger legal protection for conscientious objectors, as well as expanding such protection to selective conscientious objectors. The archbishop called his requests "opportunities to offer some measure of justice and healing for those who believed it morally wrong to fight in the Gulf War."

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ST. LOUIS(CNS) - TheCatholic Church must identify itself by its Gospel message and not by its c~ltural system, said a Jesuit theologian at a recent conference ofthe U.S. Catholic Mission Association. "The spirit of Vatican II Winter Silences reminds us that a mission church "Winter silences have their' should never tire of learning the appeal to the reflective mind. Glid- true genius of a native people," ing cross-country on skis into a said Father Carl F. Starkloff. who lonely grove of trees, then stand- has worked many years with Native ing still and quiet until the palpa- Americans. Ceremonies are exble quiet makes itself felt is, in a tremely important to native peodeep sense, to be at one with the ples and the church must not essence of life." - Norman Vin- impose its Latin cultural system on them, he said. cent Peale

"'" A WOMAN stands beside her personal shrine to the Black Madonna of Czestochowa outside her home in Zakopane, Poland. After emerging from over 40 years of ~arxist rule, East European Catholics can offer the We.st the wltne~s of a church that has maintained its faith despite persecutIOn. How Eastern and Western Europe can support each other in the post-communist world is the topic being considered at the Vatican by the Synod of Bishops on Europe. (CNS photo)

Kentucky Catholics collect church supplies for Soviet Union LOU-lSVILLE, Ky. (CNS) No matter how the winds of political cliange sweep through the Soviet Union, Fran Brown and members of her Louisville parish prayer group will continue to collect religious goods to send to Soviet Catholic churches. The drive, which has been extended throughout the Louisville Archdiocese. sends the collected goods to Dallas, where they are then shipped to Poland for delivery to the Soviet Union. Among the items sought in the drive are vestments, albs, surplices, altar linens, chalices, monstrances, incense burners, candleholders, cruets, crucifixes and rosaries large enough to hang in a church. "They definitely can use anything we send because they have nothing," Mrs. Brown told The Record, Louisville's archdiocesan . newspaper. "It's a privilege really," she added, "to help serve those people, and, yes, we are making a difference. It's a very small thing, but it's something." Rebuilding the church in the Soviet Union, Mrs. Brown said, will require many small-scale efforts like hers. Mrs. Brown said one prayer group member suggested putting notes with the supplies to let Soviet Catholics "know that we care about them." She said she got involved in the effort after seeing a video from The Way Home, Dallas' Catholic charismatic services organization. "It'sjust really an effort to reach out to the Catholic churches, primarily in these (formerly) communist-run countries where they need some help," said Father John Gep-

hart, who is aiding the ettort. Parishes, he added, can "do a little housecleaning" to share with those in need. Mrs. Brown said she feels communism has crumbled due to prayer, especially prayers of intercession to Mary. "I feel like the Lord is making it easy for us ... he's opened doors up," she said. "It's nothing that we're using all this energy. He really has opened the door up."

Three big issues OMAHA, Neb. (CNS) - Advances in medical technology are forcing people to deal with challenging ethical issues, says Joseph Allegretti, an ethicist at Creighton Universit y's Center for Health Policy and Ethics. Speaking at a regional convention ofthe Catholic Press Association, he said the 1990s battlegrounds will involve three issues: reproductive technology, maternal-fetal conflict and the right-to-die issue. In a world of test-tube babies and surrogate motherhood, he said. "we are being fOrced to rethink our notion of family:' '

Bishops Continued from Page One church views positively the growing awareness of nationhood and defends the principle of self-determination, but it must criticize exces-_ sive forms of nationalism that threaten the rights of others and give tfie nation the status of a god. The current nationalistic fef/nent in Yugoslavia, Czecho~lo"akiaand the Soviet Union wiII no doubt provide the路 synod with plenty of practi~a.1 examples.

Hunger rally spotlights children"s· needs WASHINGTON (CNS) - SayIng charity is not enough to meet the growing needs of America's hungry children, Catholic Charities USA last week led a rally on Capitol Hili to support legislation designed to ease the plight of. the hungry, The Childre'n's Thanksgiving Rally Against Hunger included presentation of a shopping cart full of 10,000 letters in support of the Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief Act to the key House sponsors of the bill, Reps. Leon Panetta, D-Calif., and Bill Emerson, R-Mo. , "Charitable donations alone fall profoundly short in meeting demands of hungry families and children," said Father Thomas J. Harvey, president of Catholic Charities USA, at the rally. "We now must divert America's energies to our future - our children - instead of military might," he added. "Hungry children can't learn. Hungry children cannot grow into a productive work force. Hungry children are getting sick while the defense budget remains as bloated as ever. We exhort Congress: fund the Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief Act." The legislation, which would raise food stamp benefits and allow more people to qualify for them, is named for the former Texas Demo- , crat who died in 1989 while on a fact-finding mission to Ethiopia. As a member of Congress, Leland, had made fighting hunger in the United States and abroad a special priority. At the rally, which attracted some 100 students from Catholic high schools carrying signs with such slogans as "Broccoli Now" and "Hungry Kids Can't Learn," Catholic Charities presented its annual survey of income and expenses for its 1,200 local agencies. The survey showed that although

10 years ago only 20 percent of Catholic Charities clients needed emergency shelter or food, in 1990 more than 60 percent of those who came to the agencies for help needed emergency assistance. "The United States cannot relegate hunger to charity," Father Harvey said. "Adequate nutrition is a basic human right. The massive demands to feed and shelter more and more people are forcing our agenCies to pour resources into helping people survive in povTHE POSTCARD deerty - rather than help them above, showing an impicted overcome poverty." The annual survey showed Cath- prisoned 17th-century English olic Charities agencies aided 8 ,mil- Baptist preacher helped former lion people in 1990 at a cost of$I.6 hostage Terry Waite keep up billion. Also released at a rally was a his spirits while held prisoner' national opinion poll by the Food in 'Lebanon. Research and Action Center which' The card, showing imprishowed 95 percent of Americans soned preacher and writer believe childhood hunger is an John Bunyan, got through to important social problem and 91 Waite after he had been held percent favor increased government captive in Lebanon for four spending to solve the problem. "The public knows there is a real years. Waite was released by problem with childhood hunger in his captors Nov. 18. this country and they are calling "I looked at that card and I on the government to increase its commitment to ending this tragic thought, 'My word, Bunyan, and, unnecessary suffering," said you're a lucky fellow. You've Robert J. Fersh, food center exec- got a window out of which utive director. you can see the sky and here During the 1980s, too much of the responsibility for feeding hun- am I in a dark room," Waite gry people was shifted to the pri- told reporters after being vate sector," he said, "Now, des- flown to an air base in Lynepite their heroic efforts, those who ham, England. He had reprun soup kitchens and food panresented the Church of Engtries are overwhelmed. The scope of hunger is beyond the available land in negotiating hostage releases when he was taken resources of Catholic Charities and other private groups." captive. Panetta said at the rally it may The postcard, sent by somebe difficult to find funds for the one he did not know, carried Leland bill - an estimated $700 million in its first year and $5 bil- the message: "We remember, lion over five years. But he pre- we shall not forget and we dicted its passage next year, "along , shall continue to pray for you with companion legislation to pay and work for all people who for the additional benefits."

In vitro process minimally successful, morally wrong NEW YORK (CNS) - John M. McLean, a physician who is a medical ethics adviser to the British hierarchy, says in vitro fertilization has a low success rate and brings many physical as well as moral problems. "In vitro," literally "in glass," is the process offertilizing a woman's egg outside her body, and placing the resultant embryo in a womb for development, producing what are sometimes called test-tube babies. "From the medical point of view, in vitro fertilization does not appear to me to make very good sense," McLean said in a New York interview. However, he said that couples suffering from tubal infertility might be helped through implanting the egg medically in the uterus, but letting it be fertilized naturally. McLean, who practices genitourinary medicine and teaches anatomy in Manchester, England, delivered the annual Terence Cardinal Cooke Lecture at the Cooke Health Care Center in New York. The lecture, named for the former archbishop of New York, is cosponsored by the Pope John XX III Medical-Moral Research and Education Center in Braintree, Mass., and the Institute on Human Values

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in Medical Ethics of New York Medical College, an institution of the New York archdiocese. The church deems the in vitro process unacceptable because it separates procreation from the union of husband and wife. Attendant factors contrary to church teaching include securing sperm by masturbation and, in many cases, using sperm from someone other than the husband. McLean said physicians should not use procedures that violated church teaching and also outlined medical problems c'onnected with in vitro fertilization. He said the process involved stimulating production of an abnormal number of eggs, and that this could have detrimental effects on the woman; also, he said, many more embryos, viewed by the church as human beings, are produced than are implanted and brought to birth. Early embryo loss occurs at "horrendous" rates, he said. Among children born through the in vitro process, McLean said, abnormalities and other problems occur at higher than usual rates. There are also more cases of multiple births, which he said are riskier than other births,

are detained," Waite said. Bunyan was imprisoned from l660to l672forespousing beliefs in conflict with the Church of England and its head, King Charles 11. During his imprisonment he wrote prolifically, including "Pilgrim's Progress," a famous religious Classic. Waite said receiving the card

renewed his feeling of connection to the world. "I can tell you that thought sent me back to the marvelous work of agencies like Amnesty International and their letterwriting campaigns," Waite said. That one postcard would find its way to him encouraged Waite about the good of such efforts. "Something in some way will get through to the people you are concerned about," he said. "It goJ through to me

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Slow, Anglican-Catholic dialogue response indicates its importance VATICAN CITY (CNS) Vatican officials have been saying' for months that they had finished the Catholic Church's official response to the final report of a dialogue with the Anglican Church completed some. 10 years ago. Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, said in May that the document was completed and should be published in late summer or early fall. Although there were reported sightings of copies of the response to the Final Report of the First Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, it has not yet been officially released. A Vatican official said in midNovember that it was wrong to assume there were proble'ms with the response, or with the dialogue, just because of the length of time involved. Even without an official response to the first commission's work, a second commission was named in 1982 to continue working toward unity between the churches. Once finishing totIches were put

on the official Catholic response last spring, it had to be approved by the pope and printed. The Vatican also is writing and editing background and educational arti~ cles to accompany it. Besides all that, "the reception of ecumenical documents is still a new experience," said Msgr. John A. Radano, an American official at the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. . "We have more experience in dialogue than in reception at this point," he said. "Reception" refers to an official process of receiving, studying and responding to ecumenical documents and toeducating church members about the results. . The response to ARCIC I will be only the second official response of the Roman Catholic Church to a modern ecumenical document, Msgr. Radano said. The first was the 1987 response to the 1982 document, "Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry" issued by the Commission on Faith and Order of'the World Council of Churches. Conducting the dialogue, drafting statements about its results

and formulating an official re- papers between sessions. Additionsponse is more than a lengthy pro- al meetings were held by various cess, it is a reflection of the sub-commissions of the dialogue seriousness with which the churches team. The 20 members of the dialogue involved search for unity. "Our faith is the most important were appointed by the highest and basic thing we have," Msgr. authorities of their respective Radano said. "We have a respon- churches. But their work "is only sibility to pass on the faith we have one step," Msgr: Radano said. The final report is an important received from the Apostles." Dialogue is nothing like a polit- document reflecting the experience ical process of finding comprom~ of a limited number of people, ises people are willing to live with, "but it must be submitted to the nor of finding such elastic ways of church at large" through official describing the Christian faith that channels. "Dialogue points the way," in real differences are hiddel1. "We are seeking common ground effect saying to the churches, and we think we've found a lot of "perhaps we can find reconciliation using this language." it," Msgr. Radano said. After hundreds of hours of The Christian churches are not putting aside theological differen- 'studying, talking and listening, the dialogue members gain a unique ces in the name of unity. "What we have to put aside are perspective on the topics involved. misunderstandings and prejudices In their final report, "they must - which are many - not our show the churches how they arrived faith," he said. at the conclusions; how they can The ARCIC I dialogue brought say something in the light of our together 10 Anglican and 10 Roman understanding of the Christian Catholic bishops and scholars who faith." Just as the Anglican Communheld 13 weeklong meetings from ,1970 to 1981 in addition to re- ion did before making its official searching, writing and exchanging response to ARCIC I in 1988, the

Vatican asks special status for city of Jerusalem

Vatican backtracks on Italian wine

UNITED NATIONS (CNS)- tion of the rights of the Palestinian The Vatican, taking note of the people." Middle East negotiations begunin "It has long been the Holy See's Madrid, reaffirmed in a statement policy to defend consistently and Nov. 19 its position that Jerusalem equally the rights of two peoples should be given a spe"ial status. - Jews and Palestinians - to a Archbishop Renato R. Martino, homeland," he said. the Vatican's permanent observer He said Jerusalem must be preto the United Nations, cited "the served as "a unified, historical and general spirit" of U. N. decisions in cultural entity," without any the late 1940s "regarding the inter- attempt to separate the holy places nationalization of Jerusalem from the city as a whole. decisions that have never bet;n "As we all know," the Vatican officially resci nded." nuncio said, "the present situation In that spirit, "the Holy See of Jerusalem is that of an occupied maintains that the city must enjoy territory and, as such, must not be a special, privileged status with subjected to changes in it-s status international guarantees," he said. before a negotiated settlement is A MAN prays for peace in Croatia at St. Stephen's Archbishop Martino said the reached, as the international comspecial status of Jerusalem had to munity and the Security Council Cathedral in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. (CNS photo) include guarantees of equality of itself have stated." Israel, which gained control of ' rights, including freedom of worship and access to the holy places, the Old City of East Jerusalem and VATICAN CITY (CNS)- Pope and face disagreements "with new for "the three monotheistic reli- anriexed it following the 1967 War, John Paul II said Nov. 17 he was attitudes, to not .repeat the errors enacted a law in 1980 declaring gious communities." renewing a "grief-stricken appeal" of the past," which included the Guarantees must also be given, Jerusalem the eternal capital of for ari end to the war in Yugoslavia. building up and feeding of resentIsrael underfulllsraeli sovereignty. he said, that the Jewish, Christian He asked that there "finally begin ments. However, the United States and and Muslim communities can "cona sincere negotiati'on for a global "We must act in a way that the tinue to exist and live in peace, other countries have refused to solution to this current tragedy." barriers of hate are overcome, pursuing their religious, cultural, recognize that 'action, and have The pope spoke before praying opening hearts" to love for one kept their em~assies in Tel Aviv. civic and economic activities." the Angelus on a day the diocese of another, he said. The question of sovereignty over Rome set aside for asking God Three days later, at his weekly Jerusalem, Archbishop Martino "for the gift of peace for Croatians . general audience, the pope greeted said, is "important and delicate," and the other peoples of Yugosla- Croatian refugees, some of them but a "subordinate consideration." via." wounded, and said Catholics would "Whatever concrete solution WASHINGTON (DC) - Some Joining the prayers, he said, "we continue praying for peace in might be found for that i~liue," he 200 manuscripts, rare books and ask peace and justice for all with- Yugoslavia. said, "it will haveto be in confor- cartographic treasures from the out distinction of nationality or The 100 Croatians and Sloven. mity with the principles of justice Vatican'Library, most never before religion.!' ians at the Nov. 20 audience inand brought about by a peaceful exhibited to the general public, Pope John Paul said that before cluded 15 refugees from Vukovar, agreement which assures that the will be on display in Washington and after fighting began in "this a Croatian city bombarded the above mentioned guarantees will at the Library of Congress in Janunjust and ruthless war," the Vati- previous week. be met and safeguarded." uary 1993. can has shown its concern for all "I am touched in greeting the The archbishop' delivered his In announcing the exhibition, sides in Yugoslavia. delegation of refugees from CroaNov. 19 remarks to a special polit- the Library of Congress described "With insistence the Holy See tia present here, particularly the ical committee of the General Assem- the Vatican Library as "the protoasked for the respect of the rights 'injured who have come from the bly reviewing the activity of the typical humanist research library and legitimate aspirations of all; it tormented city of Vukovar," the U.N. Reliefand Works Agency for of the Western tradition." begged the parties not to give in to pope said. Palestine Refugees in the Near The exhibition, in planning the temptation to use force, but to "Dear brothers and sisters," he East. The U. N. agency was created stages for five years, marks the persevere in seeking coexistence; it told the group, "you know that the in 1949 to deal with the refugee beginning of a series of exhibits at pleaded against resorting to armed pope is near you with prayer and situation resulting from the Arab- the Library of Congress on great violence; and it searched in every affection and also is close to those Israeli war that followed' estab- , libraries of the world and their way to break the terrible spiral of who still suffer because of this lishment of the State of Israel. contributions to the, advancement fratricidal hatred," he said. absurd war in your beloved land. Referring'to the Madrid confer- of knowledge. "How can one remain silent "We will not cease invoking the A catalog for the exh,ibition will ence, Archbishop Martino said before the persistence of this war Lord so that such suffering ends the Vatican hoped' for "a long- be jointly published by the Vatican which sows so many deaths on the soon and so that international term resolution for the security of Library and the Library of Condear Croatian land?" he asked. solidarity comes to the aid of those the State of Israel and the recogni- gress, The pope said it is time to live beloved populations," he said.

Pope asks end to Yugoslav war

Rare Vatican books to be seen in DC

Catholic Church sent the final report to its bishops throughout the world for their reflections. ' Accompanying the request for reflection was a 1982 set of observations about the report made by the congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. It takes years to produce, analyze and synthesize the work of the scholars and Vatican officials together with the reflections by the world's bishops and the doctrinal congregation. But that is what makes the response the official position of the entire Roman Catholic Church. The dialogue with the Anglican Communion is aimed at uniting two churches that split more than 400 years ago, so, historically speaking, 10 years is not an excessive amount oftime to formulate a response to the ARCIC I statements on Eucharist, ministry and ordination, and authority in the church. "Looked at in a historical context, the importance will be that it was done seriously, because the matters are serious," Msgr. Radano said.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A Vatican congress on drug and alcohol abuse has caused some sour grapes in Italy's wine industry. The controversy surfaced Nov. 19 during a Vatican press conference which kicked off a three-day meeting of experts on the theme: "Hope Against Hope, Drugs and Alcohol Against Life." Cardinal Fiorenza Angelini told reporters the meeting would take aim, in part, at unjust fortunes reaped by the "market of drugs and alcoholic beverages." That wording bothered Quinto Scarapellini, a reporter from the Italian trade newspaper The Wine Courier. On behalf of the country's wine producers, he blasted the event as unfair to the millions of people who take a glass or two of "vino" with their meals. "We in the industry are truly saddened, and somewhat irritated, by the fact that drugs and alcohol are being linked at this congress," said Scarapellini. "All the more so because when people talk about alcohol, they think of wine - and Italy has an important place in wine production," he said. Cardinal Angelini, whose pontifical council hosted the congress, tried to calm fears that wine was being targeted as a social evil. He noted that a Vatican statement on the meeting should have said "alcoholism, not alcohol." "We're not talking here about a modest consumer of alcoholic beverages," the cardinal protested. "We have nothing against wine. Don't worry, you'll see it receives fair treatment," he said. 'To prove his point, when the press conference was over, Cardinal Angelini invited journalists to join him ill a reception - for hors d'oeuvres and a glass of Italian spumante.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Nov. 29, 1991

Six reasons why Catholic schools are the best educational choice

The following column by Mike Tighe, managing editor of the Catholic Bulletin, newspaper of the St. 'Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese, was Academic excellence. College-bound. distributed by Catholic News SerCatholic school students 83~ of Catholic high lead the nation on U.S. vice. school students I~ on to ~parbnentofEducadon college. Dear Magic: tests In reading. math and I think your idea that the best science. "safe-sex" offense is a good defense is out of bounds. Values-added I probably can't convince you to education. change your game plan for moral An education rich in reasons. So I'll approach it from Christian values Is the an economic perspective. Magic, foundation of all Catholic Parental you could be sued if you persist in schools. involvement preaching "safe sex" instead of Catholic schools proabstinence and! or fidelity. And mote I'arentallnvolvethe millions you have made during ment. [n fact, 9"1 ~ of your basketball career and conCatholic high schools say , parents Ire aetlve In tinue to make through endorseschool actlvltie:s. ments would make some lawyers mighty happy. The vision. If you don't believe me, just ask A recent study by the the cigarette companies. People Rand corporatl,)n says sue tobacco firms when they get Catholic schools succeed cancer, even though those people Graduation rate. becaule they are focused have seen and heard warnings that 95" of Catholic seconon student outcomesnot on bureauo·atic smoking can kill them. dary school students duties. People don't take responsibility graduate. for their actions any more. They'd rather blame others, and sue them. Magic, the main problem is that To leam more about why Catholic our young people will believe your schools are Ule best schools of choice, safe-sex crusade. They don't realize contact your local Catholic school or • v that your foot is way over the foul write the National Catholic Educaline. tional Association, 1077 30th ~treet, • Condoms are not 100 percent NW, Suite 100, Washington, DC ~ • • ., effective, either to prevent preg20007-3852 or call (202) 337-6232 ~ , nancy or to prevent infections with the H IV virus. . Unfortunately, you're giving our youths a doubly wrong message: - Indiscriminate sex is OK. - Condoms will protect them. Magic, you have captured youths' ears as few other - perWASHINGTON (CNS) - The - "We will guarantee opporhaps no other ~ people can. Please National Catholic Educational As- tunities for ongoing spiritual fordon't squander this attention. this sociation has released the list of mation for Catholic school faculte~ching moment. goals that the National Congress ties, staff and leadership." You noted in your Sports lIIuson Catholic Schools recently deve- "We will educate students to trated story about your contracting loped to help strengthen Catholic meet the intellectual, social and H IV through sexual" contact that schools. ethical challenges of living in a God "is now directing me to become About 250 ed ucators, business technological and global society." a teacher, to carry the message of leaders, politicians, bishops, par- "We will challengt: the U.S. the dangers of AI DS to everyone. ents and community leaders were bishops to implement their Novem.... : Now God has said to me, delegates to the National Congress ber 1990 statement on Catholic 'You've got to let the world know on Catholic Schools, which was schools, since their leadership is that Al DS is about to become an designed to develop guidelines and critical to the future of Catholic even bigger epidemic, and you're goals for Catholic ed ucation in the schools." The bishops in a stategoing to have to teach again: 21st century. ment they approved at their annual "In everything I've done, He's The congress, sponsored by the fall meeting in 1990 called for directed me. This is just another NCEA, was held Nov. 6-10 in more support from th,~ bishops Washington. It was the first time way ...." through fund raising and creating You also wrote in Sports lIlusCatholic educators had worked ways to help,schools budget/wisely trated, '·'1 did my best to accomtogether on a national basis for and increase parental involvement. modate as many women as I could such an undertaking. - "We will aggressivdy pursue - most of them through unproDelegates developed 25 direclegislation enabling all parents to tected sex." tional statements, or goals, based choose the education appropriate Chances are. that wasn't at God's on five major themes - Catholic for their children with their share direction. So maybe he's not directidentity, leadership, the school and of the education tax dollar." ing you just to give the safe-sex society, finance and governance, - "We will challenge the entire line, either. and public policy.. Catholic community and others to Consider the possibility, Magic, The top five goals under the five make a radical commitment to that God is asking you to teach different themes were: Catholic schools and generous inyoung people about sexual absti- _ 1I1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.!l!1I1111111 vestment in them." nence and! or fidelity. doms because you said they will The directional statements were Maybe God figures some young protect them from H IV. based on discussions at the con-· people won't listen to "just say no" Then some of them will find out gress and information gathered from a religious figure. So God that the correct answer to "do you from 20 regional meetings held in picked somebody special, some- believe in Magic" is "no." Some the past year to preparl~ for the body young people almost idolize will get Al DS. And some will sue congress. More than 5,000 partic- somebody like you, Magic - to you, or your estate, just like some ipants attended the regio:nal meetdeliver a message. have sued the.cigarette companies. ings. Magic, they might listen if you Because you said random sex is Sister Catherine T. McNamee, told them "just say yes - but wait OK, and safe, if you use condoms. NCEA president and a Sister of for the right time, place and per- It won't be their fault, Magic, it'll St. Joseph of Carondelet, said the son to share God's tremendous gift be your fault. next step in the congress process is of sex." • to present the directional stateSo Magic, if the moral arguBut if you won't advocate a reli- ment won't change your mi'1 d , ments to all the diocese:; around gious tack, consider making your consider the financial ramifications the country in follow-up meetings message: "Avoid the fast lane, be- of fouling out in court. where strategies to implerr..ent them cause it can lead to a dead end."· Please ask God again how he will be developed. If you don't, watch out for law- might be directing you. And listen "Thousands of supporters desuits. Because many young people to him. signed the blueprint for th~s who are listening to you now will Our prayers are with you, Magic. 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Statesman urges Irish to work for peace PHILADELPHIA (CNS) People in both the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland'must work together to ·remove all barriers to peace, said J .. Gerard Collins, the Irish Republic's foreign minister. "There is a serious obligation for all of us in Ireland to do something about the situation," he said in a talk at a Philadelphia Catholic college. "We cannot pretend it isn't there. We have to face up to it." More than 3,000 people have been killed and 40,000 injured in battles between Catholics and Protestants in the past two decades in Northern Ireland. The Catholics want reunification of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, while the Protestants want to remain as part of the United Kingdom. "I think now there is clear acceptance of everybody, North and South, irrespective ... that none of us can afford to have the next 20 years the same as the last 20 years," Collins said during a recent speech at Philadelphia's Holy Family College. , Collins, who has been foreign minister since 1989 and a member of the Dail, the Irish -parliament, since 1967, said the Irish Republic government wants reunification. "We are talking about the reunification of the peoples, breaking down barriers that exist between the peoples and letting the people decide for themselves how this can best be done," Collins said. I

Collins said Protestant leaders in Northern Ireland must not avoid talks over the status of Northern Ireland like they have in the p~"st. "We are never going to have a solution to the problem if the representatives of the largest community stay outside," Collins said. The V.S. government plays a key role in improving the political situation in Northern Ireland because it is friendly with Ireland and Great Britain and "can give friendly advice, when necessary, an opinion in a considerate way," Collins said, Both Ireland and Great Britain respect the "V niled States, he said. In an interview with The Catholic Standard and Times, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Collins said significant political and economic progress has been made in Ireland. Inflation has decreased to 3 percent fr~m 20 percent three years ago, exports and interest rates are stable and Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey and British Prime Minister John Major have formed astrong relationship, Collins said. "There is a very firm' understanding within the government of the United Kingdom of the difficulties iri Northern Ireland," Collins said. "There is every intention on their part th'at we get a peace and ajust solution to the problem." Ireland's 17 percent unemployment rate has resulted in the illegal migration of thousands of young people to the United States.

Why Duke lost NEWORLEANS(CNS)-Catholics, blacks and Jews were responsible for the defeat of David Duke in Louisiana's Nov. 16 gubernatorial run-off election, believes retired New Orleans Archbishop Philip M. Hannan. Duke, a former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan and at one time a proponent of Nazism, was defeated 61 to 39 percent by Edwin Edwards, a former governor whose three previous administrations were the source of criminal indictments and scandal. Although the Catholic Church took no stand in the election, the Louisiana bishops issued a statement in early November urging voters and candidates to "take the high ground" in casting their ballots. Archbishop Hannan told the Arkansas Cathulic, newspaper of the Little Rock diocese, that election results showed "the people of Louisiana voted their consciences." An ABC News exit,poll'reported 62 percent of white Protestants voted for Duke while the white Catholic vote for him was 48 percent. The Associated Press estimated 96 percent of black voters and 45 percent of whites supported Edwards. Archbishop Hannan believes Catholic opposition to Duke was even stronger than the poll showed. He noted Duke lost by a large margin in his home parish (county) of Jefferson, which is more than 60 percent Catholic and nearly 100 percent white. "It was Catholics and blacks and Jews who carried this," Archbishop Hannan said. The attention to both candidates'

past records made the choice a difficult one for many Louisiana voters. But Archbishop Hannan believes the shadow cast during Edwards' previous administrations, will force the new governor into running a clean office. "I think he'll be under the gun," Archbishop Hannan ,said. "Many people will be watching him." Alth'ough the bishops' Louisiana Catholic Conference has a policy against endorsing any candidates, Archbishop Hannan was outspoken in his opposition to Duke because, he said, the governor's race was not merely political but "a moral problem." "When you find someone who has been violently anti-Jewish and anti-black, then it becomes a moral problem,n he said. Archbishop Hannan now heads a New Orleans Catholic television station. He openly criticized Duke in broadcasts from the station as well as in sermons. The bishops' pre-election statement brought a- rush of phone calls - many supporting Duke - to the archdiocese of New Orleans. Tom Finney, archdiocesan spokesman, said one concern the bishops had about the statement was that it might cause some people to vote for Duke as an anti-Catholic reaction. "Don't think there isn't an antiCatholic sentiment out there, just as there is an anti-Semitic group," Finney said. Despite his crushing defeat, just two days after the election, Duke announced establishment of a committee to explore his possible entry into some of the Southern presidential primaries.

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ing may scare you, but here are a few tricks of the trade. Be specific! If you are a college-bound high "I enjoy the one-on-one challenge school senior and haven't started of wrestling" is more interesting on your college application essay than "I like sports," and tells more by now, I'm sure every significant adult in your life - from parent to about who you are as a person. .Try using an example to illuste.acher to hand wringing grandmother - has pleaded with you to trate what you mean. Be honest! That's really another way of saystart now! Of course, none understand how ing, "Be yourself," but sincerity intimidating that blank sheet of' and an understated modesty are paper can be and how immobiliz- more attractive than embellished ing it is to know that the direction credentials, boasting or a phony of your future depends on the voice. Be clear! Say what you mean. words you choose to write. Or at . Don't try to show off your vocabuleast it seems that way. lary, and remember to structure It's been a long time since I disappeared into my room for three your essay with a beginning, middays to finally write that fateful dle and end. When you.get to the personal essay that so often is end, be sure you've made your required, but I remember how point - whether it's that you worried I was that it wouldn't be learned the value of discipline at good enough. Time was running band camp or that you found out out, but like you, I waited·this long how to be a good friend when a to start (and finish), and if it's any . c1assmate's mother died. Check your local library for encouragement, I was accepted by helpful aids such as "Write Your all three of the schools I applied to. Way Into College: Composing a How do you start? Often what Successful Application Essay," by you need is an'idea or a focus to George Ehrenhaft (Barron's Eduorganize your essay around. Ask cational Series, Inc., 1987). yourself, "What do I like to do best? Least? What topics or attitudes are important to me? What event or occurrence has changed me and helped me grow?" If you're still stuck, jot down ideas or reflections for a week or two in a notebook":- they can give you something concrete to build on. Remember, you' want your personal essay to reflect something of yourself that isn't revealed by a teacher's recommendation or your grades. How do you make your essay stand out? The mechanics of writ-

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The world is collapsing Around our ears I turned up the radio But I can't hear it When I got to the house and I called you out .I could tell that you had been cryin' It's the same sing-song on the radio It makes me sad I meant to turn it off To say goodbye To leave in quiet That radio song I've everything to show I've everything to hide Look into my eyes Listen When I got to the show, yo, ho, ho I could tell that you had been crying' It's the same sing-song It makes me sad I tried to turn it off To say goodbye my love That radio song, hey, hey, hey The world is collapsing I Around our ears I turned up the radio But I can't hear it I tried to sing along But damn that radio song Hey, hey, hey I've everything to·show I've everything to hide Look into my eyes Listen to the radio I turned up the radio N'ow I can't hear it, now I can't hear it What are you saying' .' What are you playin' Who are you obeyin' Day out and day in? Baby, baby, baby, baby That stuff is drivin' me crazy. Teachers communicate to masses To sex and violent classes' Now our children grow up prisoners All their life radio.listenin' Published by Night Garden Music. Written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe. Sung by R.E.M. with KRS-I. @1991 by R.E.M./Athens Ltd. -.IS POP MUSIC corrupting are exposed to the .increasingly our moral values? _ negative and immoral messages Recently, I received a letter of pop culture. Our society is from a teacher in Philadelphia overly fixated, on the mass who believes the answer is media, in the form of movies, yes. television and the radio. As a He writes: "As'a Catholic result, we have become obIiv10us to the serious problem with social studies teacher, I am concerned about how our children which we are faced ..•·

He 'asked me to review R.E.M.'s "Radio Song." The song is off R. E. M.'s new and popular "Out of Time" album, and is a col1aboration with rapper KRS-l. The teacher believes this song confronts blind acceptance of what "emanates from corporate-control1ed radio and the effect of this on our society." I like the questions this song raises about music. In the song's words, we need to ask abol,lt the hits we buy and listen to. "What are you saying, what are you playing, who are you obeying?" Without considering ~uch questions, our purchase of a disk or a cassingle also buys into whatever ~fllues the song may present. ' Several times, I have witnessed an individual humming a catchy pop tune and asked whether she or he real1y believes what is being sung. Most times, the individual responds that he or she hasn't thought about the lyrics. The listener just likes the music. The fact that the song's words represent a value clearly outside what Christians believe never occurs to the person. The principal value motivating the music industry is money. Recording artists-and the companies producing the music will make what they judge will sell. Moral values often are not the top priority. . However, I cannot agree completely with the teacher who wrote to me. As I hope this column demonstrates, many pop songs support or challenge us to live Christian values. Further, many young people are quite reflective about what they hear on the radio or see on MTV. What we need are more opportunities to discuss what we hear or see. Some Catholic school classes, for example, are natural settings for this. I encourage teens to ask their teachers for opportunities to talk about pop music. Discuss whether the purchase of certain records violates an informed Christian conscience. .I thank the person who wrote for pointing out R.E. M.'s critique of pop music. If you have views on the same issue, I invite you to send me your opinion. It may influence a future column. Address comments to Charlie Martin, R.R. 3. Box 182, Rockport, Ind. 47635

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679·1300 YOUNG NOVICES profess their vows d'uring a religious service at a Franciscan cloister in Opava, Czechoslovakia. Now that restrictions on religion have been removed vocations are on the rise and interest in the church is high throughout Eastern Europe. (CNS/ KNA photo)

The old Advent wreath By Dan Morris As I walked into the kitchen I noticed it perched on top of the garbage pail- an old green board covered with a brown evergreen bough shedding needles. No mistaking it. The makeshift aluminum candle "holders" and the bright red pine cones were a dead giveaway. It was our Advent candle "wreath." "What's this doing on the garbage," I asked spouse. "I think that thing has seen its last days," she answered. She was probably right. We have jury-rigged it for the past couple of years with rubber bands and coat hangers. The candles never did stand quite straight. I suspect. the kids have spent as much time watching the candles drip wax onto the table as they have listening to the prayers we've recited around it. "What's the Advent·wreath doing in the garbage?" yawned our daughter as she walked into the kitchen. "It's about had it," I said. "Maybe we can make a new one as a family project." She looked at me shocked. "But that's how we made that one. It

still has the burn marks on it from when I tried to light it when I was 5." I pulled it off the pile and set it on the counter. What stories it could tell. It has heard prayers for everything from battery-operated robots to world peace. I thought back to the evening we let the kids paint pine cones and how we had to refinish part of the dining room floor as a result. I could see their faces in the soft light of its candles as we lay around it on the floor one Christmas and read the Nativity story by its light. "It's my turn to light the candles this year," stated Michael, our youngest, as he came into the kitchen. It dawned on me: That wreath was created the year he was born. It had always been there as far as he was concerned. "You can light candles on a new one," spouse pointed out. "But that won't count," he protested sadly. His mother looked at me. I nodded. We'll just have to be careful about not melting the rubber bands again this year.

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CAIRO, Egypt (CNS) - Boutros Ghali, chosen by the Security Council to be the next secretarygeneral of the United Nations, is a major international figure who keeps a low profile. He's also a Christian from a Muslim country whose wife is Jewish. . He is one of a handful of Christians holding high and highly visible posts in the Muslim world. Also among that number are Lebanese President Elias Hrawi and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz - both Catholics. As an Egyptian Ghali can also claim both Arab and African roots. rendezvous at a local museum, A member of Egypt's an<;ient park, mountain. Coptic Church, he is also academ- For the children. A gift of ically accomplished, author of 12 their own history. Write out or books, descendant of a long line of tape-record your memories of the high-ranking politicians and pubday they were born. Don't sweat· lic servants, and fluent in Arabic, the tape recorder,just ramble like English and French. you would over dinner. The Coptic Church split with the main Christian body in 451, - For friends with children, asserting that Christ had only a three gifts in one. Offer to baby-sit divine nature. That assertion is their children for an evening (Part now seen as more custom than I). Include fixing the kids' dinner doctrine. The Coptic and Roman (Part 2), so the couple can enjoy an Catholic churches established a evening to themselves without the joint commission in the early 1970s expense of baby-sitting or the to study common theological bother of getting the children ground. squared away. Treat the kids to a Under President Hosni Mubaliving-room picnic of hamburgers, rak, Ghali was the architect of soda and kitchen-made fries (Part Egypt's return to the center of 3). - For a shut-in or friend who finds it difficult to shop. A box of handpicked or, better yet, handmade greeting cards they themselves can send out. - For the family. Some oldfashioned time in front of the altar at church.

Creative gift ideas . By Hilda Young The current economic crunch threatens to make a clear difference in hundreds offamilies' Christm'ases. This might not be all bad. Families are facing the season of gifts with creative ideas for "presents of self' wrapped in love and caring. Here are a few of the low-cost and no-cost ideas. - For a son or daughter. Give him or her a bat and ball, then set a date when the child can gather all his or her friends for a game. You will drive, umpire and oversee a postgame feast of peanut-butter sandwiches, chips and Kool-Aid. - For the family. Buya dozen or so cheap picture frames and spend a family evening framing and discussing some of the children's best art projects. - For spouse. A set of duplicate car keys. - For spouse. A gift certificate for ajust-for-two homemade luncheon (breaa, cheese, wine, fruit?)

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Nov. 29,1991 affairs in the Organization of African Unity, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Islamic Conference Organization. He is Cairo's deputy prime minister responsible for foreign relations and minister of state for emigration and expatriate Egyptians. As an international law and institutions expert, he said his main ambition harks back to the ArabIsraeli conflict. This dominant issue of modern Egypt brought him into politics from academic life and journalism in 1977. His grandfather, Boutros Pasha Ghali, was assassinated while serving as prime minister in 1910. An uncle was foreign minister in the

1920s, and other ministers and parliamentarians figure in the family tree. Ghali was born in Cairo Nov. 14, 1922, and studied in Cairo, Paris and the United States. He taught international law and headed the politics department at Cairo university. He was a member of the political bureau of the ruling Arab Socialist Union party and president of the center for political and strategic studies at al-Ahram newspaper, where he had earlier helped to found and edit a weekly economic magazine. Ghali and his wife Lidia, his second, have no children.

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SUSC, campus minister at StoneConfirmation candidates' retreat needed for gift planning, dish washSOMERSET today through Sunday, Family Life ing, collating song books, decoratFamily Advent liturgy with blesshill College, will speak at Masses Center. Parish giving tree will benefit ing, etc. Information: 394-5870, or ing of Advent wreaths 4 p. m. tomorthis weekend about the annual col"Self Help" and the Rose Hawthorne R.E. office. 385-2115. Advent servirow. Youth ministry will sponsor lection for retired religious, to be Cancer Home; parishioners asked to ces 4 p.m. Sundays beginning Dec. parish giving tree; gifts specified on held Dec. 7-9. take an ornament and return speciI. tree ornaments will be donated to ST. STANISLAUS, FR fied gift by Dec. 15. . PAX CHRISTI Birthright of Greater FR. ParishHoly Rosary Sodality meeting I: 15 CATHEDRAL, FR Peace activist Gordon Zahn, a- ioners asked to take an ornament p.m. Sunday. Blessed candles to be First penance students' workshop retired faculty member from U Mass, and place specified gift under tree by used in home Advent wreaths will be 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, school; parents Boston, will continue a series on Dec. 22. Vincentians meet 7 p.m. distributed at 4:30 p.m. Mass tomorFranz Jaegerstaetter, a German farDec. 5, rectory. meet 2 to 2:30 p.m. Women's Guild row. Christmas party 6 p.m. Dec. II, mer beheaded for refusing to join CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH SACRED HEART, FR school; entertainment by Somerset Hitler's army in World War II, at 7 Catechist students grades I Women's Guild Christmas party, Senior Citizens Chorus 7:30 p.m. p.m. Dec. 8, St. Vincent's Home, through 4 will sponsor parish Giving 6:30 p.m. Dec. 9, Venus de Milo; Reservations: guild officers or recFR. All welcome. Tree project; parishioners may take reservation deadline Dec. I. tory by Dec. I. HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO tree ornament and purchase gift inHOLY NAME, NB ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Pre-baptism preparation I p.m. dicated for donation to a charitable "The Wonder of Christmas" perWomen's Guild Christmas dinner Sunday. Youth group meeting 6 agency. Unwrapped gifts should be formance by Saints and Singers Cho- Dec. 3, Benjamin's Restaurant, Taunp.m. Sunday; guest speaker on teenplaced under tree during Advent. rus 8 p.m. Dec. 5. ton. agers and suicide. Liturgy board Women's Guild bus trip to LaSalette CHRIST THE KI~G, MASHPEE meeting 7: 15 p.m. Dec. 3. Shrine Dec. I; leaving St. Theresa's ST. LA WRENCE, NB parking lot 2 p.m.; dinner at TheoThe ,concert chOir an~ chamber e~se.m.ble of Fal.mouth. ~Igh School "Mozart by Candlelight": the New dore's Landing, Plainville. InformawillJom the pansh chOir 10 concert 7 Bedford Symphony,Orchestra will tion: Mrs. John J. Donovan, 888p.m. Su~day, church; Fathers Ronald present a performance of Mozart's 3308. ' A: Tosti and Step~en A. ~er~andes final work. the Requiem, at 6:45 ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON 102 Shawomet Avenue Will. be guest artists. Llght~ng. of p.m. (the exact time of Mozart's Parish adult and children's choirs Chnstmas trees follows. GUlta~lsts death 200 years ago) Dec. 4 'in the will join Concordia Brass Quintet in Somerset, Mass. ne~ded ~or folk group. InformatIOn: church. To conclude the program performing a concert of Advent and Br~an Gilbert, 428-1680. I~strumenmusic director Dr. F. John Adams Christmas sacred music 2 p.m. SunTel. 674~881 tahsts needed for adult chOir; ~eh~arwill conduct Symphony #40 and day. Confirmation students will mind 3Va room Apartment youngsters ages 4 to 12 on Dec. 8 so sals. 7:~0 p.m. T~esdays. ParlShl~~ "Ave Verum Corpus." Joining the 4Va room Apartment orchestra will be the Greater New that their parents may do Christmas ers mVlted to tapmg of Channel6 Mass celebrated by Fathe~ :ernandes Bedford Choral Society and the Conshopping, etc; registration forms at Includes heat, hot water, stove reo frillrator and maintenance service. II a.m. tomorrow St. ~uhe s Chu.rch. cord Chorus. Information: 999-6276. church entrances. Vincentians dis-, N. Dartmouth. Pro-hfe Committee . HOLY TRINITY, W. HARWICH tnbuted some 60 Thanksgiving basmeeting8 p.m. Dec. 2. parish library. Junior Girls of Mary and altar kets and the parish sent 7,000 pounds boys' trip to LaSalette Shrine Dec. of clothing for the poor to Father 6. Ladies' Association ecumenical Mike Annunziato in South Texas. tea after I p.m. Benediction Dec. 6. ST. PIUS X, S. YARMOUTH HOLY CROSS, FR Women's Guild Holly Tea 2 to 4 "The Wonder of the Season" musp.m. Dec. 10, parish life center. A Christmas program featuring ical presentation of the Christmas story by Saints and Singers Chorus 8 song and drama on the meaning of Christmas 8 p.m. Dec. 7 and 2 p.m. 0 ec. 8 ,pans . h I'f I f p.m. O ec. 6 . I e center. n ormaSS. PETER AND PAUL, FR tion: rectory. 398-2248. Sister M. Davida Dunne, RSM, ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH will speak at Masses this weekend Confirmation II instructional sesabout Dec. 7-8 collection for retired sion 7 p.m. Dec. 4, church hall. religious. Home Advent wreaths will be blessed ST. ANNE, FR Sister Joseph Marie Levesque, OP, at all weekend Masses. will speak at Masses this weekend on ST. PATRICK, FALMOUTH the Retirement Fund for Religious Exposition and Adoration of collection, to be held Dec. 7 and 8. 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Sisters Mary Rosellen GalSJ. will be guest speaker. logly and Mary Noel Blute, RSM, IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, will speak at weekend Masses on TAUNTON upcoming collection for retired reliAdvent mission Dec. I to 6 focusgious. Men's Club meeting 7 p.m. ing on mysteries, of the faith and Dec. 3, parish center. Christ's love. Healing service 3 p.m. Sunday; mission services 7 p.m. nightly throughout the week. The public is invited. ST. MARY, NORTON Mini-Marian Mission 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. Dec. 9 to II with Father LawSales And Service rence P. Deery, OMl. ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM Advent retreat 9 to II a.m. Dec. 3, 10 and 17, conference room. First penance for CCD students Dec. 6 RCA· ZENITH. SYLVANIA and 7. 1196 BEDFORD STREET

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