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Gulf war simplistic solution says Archbishop¡ Roach

MIRROR IMAGES: Rev. Arnold R. Medeiros finds something familiar about decorations honoring his 15th anniversary as chaplain of Taunton Catholic Middle School. Students Paula Fernande and Keith Mack were among those who conspired last week to deck the walls with 1,,000 photos of the school's spiritual director. (Marc Vasconcellos photo courtesy of Taunton Daily Gazette)

Pope, Jewish leaders meet at Vatican VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II and international Jewish leaders, meeting for the first time in three years, promised to continue the dialogue begun with the Second Vatican Council and outlined areas of continuing concern.

During last week's meeting, Jewish leaders asked the Vatican to establish diplomatic relations with Israel.

The pope, meeting the 30 me'mbers of the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations, called for peace among Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Holy Land.

Seymour D. Reich, committee chairman, asked the pope to con-

tinue speaking against anti-Semitism, especially in his native Poland and other East European countries.

Sponsored by the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, the meeting was a celebration of the 25th anniversary of"N ostra Aetate," a Vatican II document on relations with nonChristian religions. The document was promulgated Oct. 28, 1965.

Vatican meetings with the international Jewish group, the church's official Jewish partner in dialogue, broke off in 1987 after several incidents that Jews felt displayed Catholic insensitivity.

The incidents included the presence of a Carmelite convent at the Turn to Page II

WASHINGTON (CNS) Those who say war in the Persian Gulf is inevitable are giving "much too quick a judgment and far too simple a solution," said the chairman of the U,S. bishops' Commit-, tee on International Policy in testimony last week before the Senate' Foreign Relations Committee.

Archbishop John R. Roach of St. Paul-M inneapolis, in oral testimony. added that "non-military options should be given a much longer time to work."

The international embargo against Iraq. which triggered the Gulf crisis with its Aug. 2 takeover of Kuwait, "needs time to be effective," Archbishop Roach said. "The embargo cannot be dismissed before it has had the time needed to achieve its legitimate objectives."

U.S. objectives in the Persian Gulf have included punishing Iraqi aggression, liberating Kuwait, defending Saudi Arabia, freeing foreign nationals detained in Iraq, access to oil, and derailing Iraq's potential for making a nuclear bomb.

"The longer the list of purposes is, the more difficult it is to achieve either clarity or success" in the Gulf, Archbishop Roach said.

"Some turn this extended list of objectives into a series of tests, where all tests ... become the minimum the United States must achieve in the Gulf," he said.

"This analysis almost inevitably leads to the conclusion that the use of deadly force is absolutely necessary for the United States. This multiplication of objectives is troubling, both politically and

do not believe the principle of last resort has been met."

In response to committee ques~ tioning, Archbishop Roach said, "many other options" were available before resorting to war.

He told Catholic News Service after his testimony, "We have not explored the economic or political options long enough .... A few months" of an economic embargo "it seems to me is not enough."

The test of proportionality is met by proving the objectives sought in war to be "proportionate to the damage to be done and the human costs to be incurred," Archbishop Roach told the Senate committee.

"Will this war be as swift, neat and clear-cut as some suggest, with more than 400,000 allied forces facing over 600,000 Iraqi forces?" he asked.

"Air warfare would be waged against -an industrial and populous society," the archbishop continued.

"Many military targets are located in cities and populated areas. Can we adequately discriminate between civilians and aggressors?"

The U.S. response "will set an important precedent for international order," Archbishop Roach, said. "This is why we are so insist-

ent that political and nonviolent means be fully pursued in order to deter and reverse aggression."

To meet U.S. objectives without resorting to war, he said, "would be a resounding achievement for U.S. policy and for international order. It is this outcome which I believe should be strongly desired" effectively sought and fervently prayed for."

But to use force now "could well violate traditional moral criteria, undermine domestic unity and global solidarity against Iraq and bring about an exceedingly dangerous, divisive, bloody and unnecessary war," Archbishop Roach said.

The archbishop was one of a panel of religious figures appearing before the Senate committee.

Others testifying were: t~e Rev. Jesse Jackson; Dale L. Bishop, director of the Middle East office of the National Council of Churches; Sidney Kwestel, chairman of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America; and ,Bishop Albion W, Knight Jr., presiding bishop of the United Episcopal Church of North America, which he said was a "traditional Anglican" denomination with 2,500 member churches.

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Archbishop Roach highlighted tests outlined in Catholic teaching on the just war theory.

Noting the necessity that a "proper authority" determine that war needs to be waged, he said, "we all have an interest in shaping a decision which benefits from the widest range of insight, wisdom and judgment.. .. Our national interest will best be served by defining'proper authority' broadly, not narrowly."

The test of last resort insists that a nation "fully pursue all reasonable political, diplomatic and economic means to resist aggression," Archbishop Roach said.

Noting the brief time the embargo has been in effect, he added, "I

Anniversary ( Sunday is the 20th anni": versary of Bishop Daniel A. Cronin's installation as Ordinary of the Fall River diocese. Ad multos annos!

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A PROUD Father Francis L. Mahoney leans forward to give his mother, Mrs. Francis C. Mahoney of St. Lawrence parish, New Bedford, a congratulatory kiss as she receives the Marian Medal from Bishop Daniel A. Cronin at Cathedral ceremonies last Sunday. She was among 98 persons to receive the award, presented for outstanding parish service. (Gaudette photo)

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Right-to-die bill passes Michigan legislature LANSING, Mich.(CNS)- The Michigan legislature has passed so-called right-to-die legislation expected to be signed by outgoing Democratic Gov. James Blanchard before he leaves office in January. . Right to Life of Michigan withdrew opposition to the bill when a compromise was reached on its provision for a patient's rights advocate that focuses on durable power of attorney.

The provision states that the advocate cannot decide to withdraw treatment and allow a patient to die unless there is "clear and convincing evidence" the advocate was authorized to do so by the patient, and that the patient realized, while mentally competent, that withdrawing treatment could . lead to death.

Any adult age 18 and up can sign the power of attorney document. Food, water, and intravenous nutrients are among forms of treatment a patient may wish withheld.

Paul Long, spokesman for the Michigan Catholic Conference, public policy arm of Michigan's Catholic bishops, told The Michi-. gan Catholic, Detroit's archdiocesan newspaper, he was pleased with the legislatioJ!' "We've been trying to work out language that protects patient rights ... while respecting the moral values and teachings of the Catholic Church," Long said. "We felt that language must be drafted to en-

Sf. Anne's Hospital gratefully acknowledges contributions that we have received to the Remem· brance Fund during November, 1990. Through the remembrance and honor of these lives, Sf. Anne's can continue its "Caring With Excellence."

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compass all of those objectives."

Long said the bill states the advocate must know exactly what the patient wants done under specific medical conditions. The bill also provides for a successor advocate if the first one is unable to serve.

If a patient's family members do not think the advocate is acting in the patient's best interest, Long said, the bill allows them to sue to have him or her removed.

The bill creates "a mechanism by which people can be assured that their health care decisions are carried through," said Kathleen Mantila, spokeswoman for state Rep. David Hollister, a Democrat who first introduced right-to-die legislation in 1975.

Right to Life of Michigan president Barbara Listing said her group's concern had be"en that "some people will use it to speed up the dying process, and that's what we were safeguarding against."

According to Ed Rivet, Right to Life of Michigan legislative director, about 41 states have some type of law allowing a durable power ofattorney, sometimes known as a DPOA, or a living will.

Rivet said the difference between the two is that a living will is "a written instrument that becomes the basis for decision making [whereas) with a DPOA you select a patient advocate who will make medical decisions on your behalf."

Right to Life of Michigan opposes living wills because they do Qot take into account medical advances that may be made between the time a person signs the document and the person becomes incompetent.

Durable power ofattorney, Rivet said, "is more of a safeguard because a living will could leave instructions that may not be what the patient really would want."

Jim Crawford; spokesman for Republican state Sen. Fred Dillingham, a leading opponent of the Hollister bill, said durable power of attorney would be treated like a will, except that it would not be legally binding in another state.

"If you fill out a'DPOA in Michigan and move to a different state, your wishes [may not be) upheld," Crawford pointed out.

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Training for youth The Diocesan Office of Catholic Youth Ministry will sponsor phase two in the 1990-91 Youth Ministry Training Program in January and February..

The program consists of three sessions: "Teens, Stress and Substance Abuse," presented by Mary Hooben, LCSW, CAC, of the New Bedford Department of Social Services; "Cults and the Occult," presented by Rev. Paul Desmarais, director of cult awareness for the Providence diocese; and "Planning Retreat Experiences for Youth," presented by Peggy Fromm of St. Peter-Marian Junior-Senior High School, Worcester.

Sessions will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. at the following locations: SOME OF 67 nurse's aides at Marian Manor, Taunton, Espirito Santo, Fall River: Jan at .recent pinning ceremony signalizing their certification as 17, "Teens"; Jan. 24, "Cults"; Jan. aides.

31, "Retreats."

"Cathedral Camp, E. Freetown: . Jan. 17, "Cults"; Jan. 24, "Retreats"; Jan. 31, "Teens."

In the context of a Mass at 11:30 rate of Msgr. Henry T. Munroe St. Mary, Norton: Jan. 31, a.m. Sunday, Bishop Daniel A. and continued when Msgr. John J. "Cults"; Feb. 7, "Retreats"; Feb. Cronin will dedicate a new parish Smith succeeded him in June 1989.

14, "Teens."

Msgr. Munroe, diocesan vicar genAll three topics will be preslife center at St. Pius X Church, South Yarmouth. Ground was bro- eral, is now pastor of St. Thomas ented in a 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

More parish, Somerset. ken for the project on Sept. 30, session at St. Pius X parish, South Full coverage of Sunday's dediYarmouth, on Jan. 26.

1989. . It includes a large meeting room cation will appear in the Jan. 4, Information on registering may and two small rooms (or family1991, issue of the Anchor, since be obtained from the Office of Catholic Youth Ministry, 763-3137. oriented activities as well as a next week's issue will have a Christmas theme and the newspaper is youth ministry office.

Preparations for construction not published the week between of the hall began during the pasto- Christmas and New Year's Day. HONG KONG (CNS) - A year after China's underground bishops' conference was founded to The Christmas season is in full performances of the Christ Tem- strengthen pro-Vatican Catholiswing at the four diocesan nursing ple Men's Chorus and the West- cism in the country, three foundhomes, where residents are enjoyport High School Band. ing bishops and many clandestine ing festive decor and holiday A Christmas party for children clerics remain in prison. More activities. of St. Vincent's Home and resi- than 3.0 clerics and lay people, The newly renovated lobby at dents participating in an Adopt-a- including nine bishops who are Our Lady's Haven, Fairhaven, Grandparent program will be held not recognized by the Chinese govfeatures a 7-foot Christmas tree at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 18, and at 5 p.m. ernment, were apprehended in the with decorations handmade by the Disabled American Veterans' two months following the Nov. 21, Fairhaven resident Ethel Frates, Women's Guild will host a dinner 1989, inaugural meeting of the the home's personnel director. conference in Zhangerce, northfor residents.

Ms. Frates fashioned more than The Henry Lord Middle School western China.

100 Victorian-style white and peach band and orchestra will perform satin hearts and lace fans with on Dec. 19 and gifts from St. John green satin and pearl accents, ex- the Baptist parish, Westport, will plaining that the lobby's new green be distributed on Dec. 23. and peach docor would have clashHoliday decorations at Madonml" ed with the mauve ornaments she Manor, North Attleboro, are pink, made last year. complementing recent renovations.

As part of home Christmas prep- The home's recreation room, once arations, free Christmas cards, the ballroom of the former Hixon stamps and gift-wrap were availHotel, has been painted and able to residents during Wednes- papered in tones of pink and ivory day's Postal Day. Also planned and new lighting fixtures reflect are holiday songs and cider Dec. the room's original Victorian style.

19 and a residents' Christmas party Contribllting to the holiday atmosDec. 20. phere are a IS-foot Christmas tree, At the Catholic Memorial Home pine garland swags and pink ribin Fall River, Cub Scouts will bons and bows. carol tomorrow morning and on A Christmas celebration for resSunday the home will host a Fam- idents and their families was held ily Christmas Day beginning at 10 last Saturday with Mass followed a.m. with the arrival of Santa by by dinner and a visit from Santa.

LEe" W ALES A, once an Fall River fire truck.

A potluck calendar luncheon SS. Peter and Paul parish con- will be served Dec. 17, with each unemployed electrician, is now firmation students will visit resi- month of the year represented by a president of Poland. A devout dents and the Special Occasion decorated table.

Catholic and close friend of Brass Quartet will perform at 2 Marian Manor, Taunton, will Pope John Paul II, one of his p.m. ." host Breakfast with Santa for young Christmas caroling will be prorelatives of residents and staff and first post-election acts was a pilgrimage to Czestochowa to vided by Girl Scouts in the after- children from the community from noon and by residents' family 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. tomorrow. The pray before the Black Madonmembers in the evening.. guests may have pictures taken na, Poland's patroness, whose On Dec. 17, the home will host with Santa.

Parish life center dedication Sunday

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Peace prize winners ask for Gulf talks ROME (CNS) - Seven international religious peace prize winners have asked for a negotiated solution to the Persian Gulf crisis.

"A shooting war could turn into a longstanding North-South war as devastating as the East-West Cold War," said a joint statement issued Dec. 10.

Avoiding military action to dislodge Iraq from Kuwait gives "time and space for compromise and negotiations for just solutions," said the seven winners of the Niwano Peace Prize.

The peace prize, a cash award offered each year by the Japanbased Niwano Peace Foundation, which has a $26.3 million endowment, is given for fostering world peace through interreligious cooperation.

Among signers was Brazilian Archbishop Helder C~mara, retired head of the Archdiocese of OlindaRecife. In 1983, he was the first winner of the Niwano prize.

The statement favored a greater United Nations' role in solving the crisis and sees the crisis "linked to a host of other political issues" in the Middle East.

These include "mutual recognition between the Arab states and Israel" and a "national state for the Palestinians," it said.

"Also the creation of a chemicalweapons-free zone and a nuclearweapons-free zone in the Middle East is necessary," it added.

Different approach WASHINGTON (eN.S) - The lack of AIDS education and the cultural diversity on many Catholic college campuses are among topics the National Association of Students at Catholic Colleges and Universities will focus on in 1991.

Catholic schools must approach such issues differently from secular colleges because of church teachings, said Kristi Kerscher, organization president and a senior at the University of Dayton, Ohio.

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FRANCISCAN Missionary of Mary Sister Rosemary Sullivan has been named a general councilor of her congregation, which serves in 77 countries. In the Fall River diocese, members teach in Espirito Santo School and serve in Our Lady of Angels parish, Fall River, and at LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro.

Sister Sullivan will serve at her congregation's motherhouse in Rome for six years, traveling widely to community foundations. A native of Rochester, N.Y., she has been director of religious education in the archdiocese of Singapore, director of a day center in Woonsocket, and an associate pastor in Christ the King parish, Hamilton, Ga. She has also held several leadership positions in her congregation, most recently as United States provincial superior.

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Hospitality committee members are: Fall River area: Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong, Mrs. Raymond Boulay, Mrs. Roger Dube, Mrs. Eugene Gagnon, Mrs. Raymond lavoie, Mrs. Manuel Nogueira, Mrs. Raymond Poisson, Mrs. Richard Waring.

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Cape Cod and Islands: Mrs. George Bauza, Mrs. Albert Jackson.

Ball ushers are: Fall River area: Michael Arruda, Raymond Boulay, Henry Desmond, Arthur Gauthier, Joseph Gromada, Raymond lavoie, Antone Pacheco, John Sullivan, Honore Vaillancourt, Roger Vezina, Fred Vitullo.

New Bedford area: V. Vincent Gerardi. George Mendonca, Victor Rebello.

Taunton area: Horace Costa, Daniel Couture, Richard M. Paulson, Charles Pine, lice Osiecki.

Cape and Islands: Frank Miller.

The Charity Ball benefits diocesan exceptional and underprivileged children served in summer camps.

Persons or organizations wishing to be listed in a souvenir Ball booklet may contact committee members or members of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women or St. Vincent de Paul society.

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Children of God The Lord asked us to bring the little children to him, but for the last decade we as a society have responded very poorly to that request.

Indeed, we have tried very hard to separate children from their God. We've not only banned prayer in schools but we've banished from the classroom any mention whatever of the deity. In our headlong dash towards 'secularism, we have offered our children the false gods of materialism, in effect robbing them of their childhot>d. We simply refuse to let children b.e children.

The results have been evident from schoolroom to courtroom. Our children have become victims, with child abuse, incest and homelessness our legacy to far too many of them.

How many children have fallen through the cracks when parents divorce or separate? How many are neglected as their parents strive for material success?

Whatever happened to the instruction that we adults are to become as little children if we hope to gain the kingdom of heaven? Who recalls the reminder of the psalmist that the Lord is the keeper of the little ones?

However, there seems some glimmer of hope that the tide is turning. Recent reports indicate that more and more parents' are manifesting increased concern for their children, much of it sparked by their justified fear of such social disorders as drug and alcohol addiction, sexual abuse and the negative effects of day care.

The concern translates into efforts to devote more time and energy to one's children, rather than entrusting them almost wholly to schools, day care and babysitters.

Another ray of hope for the future comes from psychiatrist Robert Coles of Harvard University. He has devoted three decades to the study of children and has just published "The Spiritual Life of Children," in which he shatters the myths and glib theories about children's spirituality that have persisted for generations. He conclusively demonstrates that young people are surprisingly deep thinkers, quite capable of pondering complex moral and ethical issues.

Most significantly, he has documented that children, whether brought up in believing or atheistic homes, think seriously about matters of faith. The psychiatrist faults his own profession for down playing the important role of religion for children, writing, "We talk about sex in the lives of children, we talk about anger; and we are forever dealing with delinquency.

Why don't we talk about religion in the lives of children?"

For those who doubt the existence of God, Dr. Coles' findings may be surprising. But to those who firmly believe that the.

Lord has hidden things from the so-called wise and prudent only to reveal them to the little ones, his data confirm the路 intuition that children have much to teach their elders.

They also remind us that children are a priceless treasure, .deserving protection and nurturance from society as well as guidance in the important first steps of their lifelongjourney of faith.

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A Catholic response to addiction

By Father Kevin J. Harrington

'Iics are not noted for their avoidTo consider the possible consebefore drinking impairs quences of the sins of gluttony and ance Nowadays, Catholic morality is an often-neglected depository of drunkenness. Although it is not one's judgment is an important wisdom when it comes to con- for us to judge our neighbors be- moral decision. Too often the fact fronting problems. Too frequently cause chronic conditions may pre- that one was under the influence of ignored is the respect for the human dispose their choices, I have list- alcohol or other drugs is used in an body that played such a crucial ened to too many tragic stories of attempt to evade the legal conserole in the lives of our ancestors in alcoholics and of teenage girls who quences of criminal behavior. But the faith; while the exhortation .either starve themselves into ano- what may work for ajury is unlikely found in Paul's first letter to the rexia in hope of attaining the p'er- to exculpate one in the eyes of Corinthians seems tragically out fect figure or manifest the bulimia God. Ask any adult child of an alcoof fashion: "You must know that syndrome of "pigging out" and your body is a temple of the Holy subsequently vomiting to believe holic the toll this disease has Spirit, who iS,within - the Spirit that people start out deliberately exacted. First and foremost is that it fosters an inability on the part of you have received from God. You to profane the body.

Ask any Catholic to list the sins . the adult child to maintain an are not your own. You have been purchased, and at a price! So glor- of the flesh and he or she thinks intimate relationship. Indeed, alimmediately of sexual immorality. cohol is often the drug of choice ify God in your body." and drunkenness finish a for those seeking to avoid intiGluttony Doctors hold in high regard the power of the human body to heal poor second or third. Yet how macy. It is hard to distinguish many times have lives been snuffed between a genetic predisposition itself. When appropriate, responsible physicians usually recommend out in auto accidents or new lives to alcohol abuse and the deletethat a patient eliminate a counter- been conceived in an alcoholic rious effects of a childhood enviproductive practice such as smok- haze by partners who are relative ronment disrupted by an alcoholic parent. Food can wreak similar ing, eating or drinking to excess or strangers to each other. havoc in lives, which explains the failing to exercise and let the body large membership of both Overheal itself. But human beings are eaters Anonymous and Alcoholics weak and often a physician must Anonymous. Friendships forged resort to medication to return the through such'self-help programs body to a state of equilibrium. can play a powerful role in an And advertisers exploit that weakaddict's recovery. ness by helping us rationalize what A Catholic response to addicGod in the F amity may well be sinful excesses. tion should balance a strong belief Smokers, for instance, are deGrant,O Lord, to each in a person's power to choose with picted as glamorous women or member of the family the grace of God a path that macho men, while products that born through the Iifehonors the body as the temple of relieve the symptoms brought on the Holy Spirit with an effort to giving waters of Baptism by" gluttony or drunkenness are befriend an addicted brother or inoffensively introduced as aids and sustained by the sister with the healing power of for times when we may have overnourishment ofthe Most unconditional love. indulged.

Holy Eucharist, the grace Such a love can be gentle yet Within this cultural context the to live a life of truth, distough, like the Holy Spirit, which Catholic church needs to stand up cipline and sanctity in can come as a consuming fire or a for the value of the human body in gentle breeze. Teaching the hurtthe home of the family, a way that reflects its age-old afing how to forgive themselves and firmation of it as a sanctuary that the domestic Church. others is usually the first step on should be a fitting dwelling place Amen. (Rom. Brev. 4th the road to trusting in the healing for its sacred guest.

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Handling an aged pa'rent Dear Dr. Kenny: I visit my 84year-old mother in the nursing home every day. She orders me to buy her shoes, then finds fault with them and tells me to take them back.

I work full time and run a household, but I still manage to stay about an hour. Is she appreciative? Hardly. When I leave, she is never satisfied. She tells me if I loved her, I'd stay longer. When I mention my family, she says they would understand, that I am just being selfish. I'm tempted to stop visiting. Help! (Ohio) The attitude you describe is all too common. Older elderly are prone to become crabby, bossy and self-centered.

Some of the reasons may be organic, the result of brain deterioration. Other reasons include frustration and just plain not feeling good. Whatever the reasons, loving them is not always easy.

Your mother is obviously totally focused on herself. Criticizing her for that or treating it as if it were a moral failing on her part is not likely to straighten her out.

Scripture scholars tell us that this situation ·is the primary occasion for the Fourth Commandment. "Honor thy father and thy mother!" is intended to remind us of the respect due our parents when they become old.

We need reminding. Your letter

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The Anchor Friday, Dec. 14, 1990

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK

Will the time ever come again when priests are seen walking the neighborhood, visiting stores and' familiarizing themselves with their parishioners' environment?

That question was raised by a social analyst friend, who is search-

Priests "on the beat" learn about parishioners' lives ing for ways to increase a priest's . effectiveness in big parishes.

Often priests spend their time performing sacramental duties, tending to parish buildings and working in rectory offices. Necessary as these tasks are, they can restrict a priest's vision of ministry.

If priests could periodically get out of the rectory, walk the neighborhood and visit parishioners' workplaces, it would broaden their awareness and enable them to see more of life's variables, said my friend.

It would also "change a priest's spatial relationship to his people," he continued. Often priests are seen "up there" on the altar, sup-

porting parishioners at times of need.

Seldom is the priest seen "on a level where he can fully appreciate the daily life of his parishioners.

One must wonder how, much more contemporary homilies would be if priests did this!" he said, adding "It also would be healthier for them."

1concur. The pastor I help periodically holds a luncheon for parishioners in a downtown area where they work. After attending these luncheons, I saw many parishioners in a new light. I found that I had never fully appreciated their work or working environment and I fine-tuned my homilies in light of the experience.

Every so often 1 have the opportunity to be the "priest on the beat," and walk through an urban parish neighborhood. It is a delight!

A neighborhood's spirit really comes through. The architecture of the homes affects life, creating space and light. Loc.al storekeepers usually represent a collage of languages and accents. There are people old and young and of every personality type.

During such a visit, you 'learn much about religion just by listening as people communicate their life experience~ to others.

All this is valuable in enhancing a priest's understanding of parishioners' lives, if he envisions his

ministry as something that reaches beyond the boundaries of his rectory and church. But good planning路 is essential. The priest must feel that it is a.1I right to get away for awhile from incoming telephone calls, for example.

Finally, a priest can walk the beat or have lunch in his parishioners' working environment only if he has the necessary路physical energy. In a way he needs to "train" to become the priest on the beat.

My friend gives us much to think about. Taken seriously, his ideas might give priests and those they serve a deeper understanding of each other.

Controlled environments: whose world is it, anyway?

By DOLORES CURRAN

They called it The Great Popcorn War. It began when employees in a corporate office building brought popcorn to microwave during breaks. One employee complained about the odor, claiming it irritated his allergies. Others joined him.

Soon it became a tiff in which the popcorn lovers and allies who saw it as a way of addressing fancied hurts from coworkers doubled their popcorn consumption.

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN

Q.I am writing to you concerning organ donations and your answer to the person who expressed hesitation about donating.

It is a concern I have heard often, and your response was wonderful!

I am a retired naval officer living in the Orlando area. When my wife was 50 years old, she was told she needed a liver transplant.

Finally, the issue surfaced at an employee meeting where a No Popcorn vote prevailed. Popcorn lovers swore retribution and proceeded to microwave odoriferous edibles like garlic bread and Polish sausage.

"I never studied this in business school," the manager said. "But I learned something from this whole crazy business - that people bring all kinds of unresolved issues into a specific confrontation. Unspoken angers surfaced with unbelievable ferocity."

Not long after I laughed over The Great Popcorn War, a restaurateur told me that diners are beginning to ask, "Do you have a No Children section?"

"People are saying that they don't want to go out for a nice

dinner:' he said, "and then have their meal disrupted by unruly路 children. I understand their feelings but what am I supposed to do - set up a Children and No Child-' ren section along with Smoking and Non-smoking?"

I became uneasy over his question. Popcorn odors don't bother me but squealing children in a restaurant do. The question comes down to how much we can and should expect to control the environments outside our home.

Our senses are offended in a world where Other People seem bent on disturbing our complacency. They disrespect our comfort, our controlled environments.

So we attempt to eliminate behaviors disagreeable to us to mold a world more to our liking.

A friend who moved into a senior housing development told me that she no longer enjoys her grandchildren's visits because other residents disapprove when the kids run and play.

Should we be forced to work I am saddened by these restricalongside a perfume or garlic addict? Sit near a piercing whistler , tions, but more so, I fear we are moving toward a society so deterat a ball game? Endure a teen with mined to control our comfortable a dual-stereo box on a bus? See a lives that we miss the point that wretched derelict outside the fine human interaction implies discomrestaurant we're entering?

fort at times. And human relationships are necessary for enjoying life.

People display behaviors and frailties others cannot control. Our only option is to isolate ourselves, which many do .. "1 don't like the noise," or "the smell," or "the scene," they say, and wonder why they are lonely. They have become so demanding in controlling their environments that they are sidestepping life.

Perhaps they could learn to be more accepting of others' behaviors, to relax -and enjoy others, even those with peCUliarities and annoyances, like eating popcorn - those who are not made exactly like us.

Thanks given for organ donation success story She had about two months left, the doctors said, when she received the liver of a young adult from Virginia. Carol will be 55 this year and has had five wonderful years because of the love and generosity of a person and family we will never know.

We thought you might be interested to know that Carol and I, along with 25 other volunteers, have founded a charitable organization called the Organ Transplant Foundation of Central Florida.

We help patients and their families waiting for organ donors with person-to-person support, and money for expenses when we have funds.

We have helped nine families so far and have four patients at pres-

ent with whom we are working.

Our other involvement, and the most important area of trl!nsplantation, was the subject of your answer. There simply are. not enough donors.

Last year almost 25,000 Americans died who could have been donors. Only about 4,900 individuals or families. agreed to donate organs. For their own reasons, approximately 20,000 declined or were not aware ofthe opportunity.

You are welcome to refer to us anyone in need of information on this subject. We have a support group that meets monthly at a Florida hospital medical center.

Our whole family is thankful to our donor family for the time they have given Carol. They will always

have the consolation of knowing that their loved one's tragic death resulted in continued life- for someone else. (Florida) A. Thank you for writing and sharing this information. Most readers of this column around the country will not be able to join you personally, of course. The information and experience 路you are willing to share, however, might encourage others who, like you, wish to spre~d the kindness you received.

As I indicated in the previous column, thousands more organs could be used in our country than are presently available.

Within the past several months

Pope John Paul II pointed out organ donations as one of today's most needed acts of charity toward our fellow human beings.

Those interested may write to the Organ Transplant Foundation of Central Florida, 1651 North Semovan Blvd., Orlando, Fla. 32807, or phone their office at 407-380-6900.

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Officer takes unborn baby into .protecti.ve custody By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

I am immensely proud of my granddaughter, Julie, a police officer in a town south of Chicago.

But nothing matched the pride I felt the day she took custody of an unborn baby.

The incident began with a call about an apparently abandoned 2year-old. Julie, her partner and her lieutenant responded and found a little girl dressed only in a large T-shirt, filthy and unkempt.

The child had been wandering the apartment complex for three or four hours, neighbors said. She led the police to an upstairs apartment and as Julie tells it, "we walked in and saw a bare apartment with rotten food and mold and bugs and dirty clothes thrown everywhere. It was sickening."

The child's mother was sitting on a bed, the mess all around her.

She had a blank stare and was seven or eight months pregnant.

She appeared to be from India and may have had a language barrier.

Her response to everything the police asked was, "my baby."

It was evident the officers had to take some action. As Julie related it, "Acting as the law, we have the right to take into custody for the

state any child we believe is abused or neglected or abandoned." They could make the decision to get the child to a hospital to be checked out, and they did this.

Before leaving they tr'ed t t l the mother to agree to go :f:h them Tor medical treatment, too, but she screamed and cried and pulled away. The lieutenant said, "Julie, we can't force her to go if she doesn't want to " .

My granddaughter felt there was much more involved, however, because of the mother's advanced pregnancy. She looked up the child-abuse laws in her criminal statute book and came up with a rationale. She said, "If the mother were to have the baby today, it

would probably live. So that means it is a child." ~he continued her argument by saying they all knew the mother was neglecting that unborn child; if she were to have the baby sometime lat~r.and th~ baby didn't live, wo~ldn t It b.e fair to ask why the polIce, knOWing she could not care for herself. left her there to die?

Then she got to her bottom li~e.

If anyone were to blame the polIce for forcefully taking this woman to the hospital, their answer would be, clearly, "We are taking custody of an unborn child." That point convinced the officers that this was what they should do, and they went into action.

The idea of taking custody of an unborn baby was unusual enough

to make the newspapers. As for the outcome of the case, relatives were located and the father, who had left the family six months earlier, returned saying he wanted to care for the children. The little girl was pl~ced i~ a foster home until the SOCIal servIces department could check out the homes the father and other. relatives might pro.vide.

JulIe not only ma~e me proud; she also gave me the JOY of knowing that a police officer can see her job as one so totally in the service of life.

Love "Love is never rude, it is not selfseeking, it is not prone to anger; neither does it brood over injuries."-I Cor. 13:5

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((Wisdom o{Women" parley explores women's chuTch Tole

ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) Atty. Helen Alvare, the U.S. bishops endorse candidates for The U.S. bishops'proposed bishops' chiefspokesperson on abor- public office, ·'it's not because they pastoral letter on women's contion issues, said at the"Wisdom of haven't received thousands of Women" symposium that being memos" from the bishops' office cerns is "alive and wen," pro-life and feminist was consist- oftegal counsel advising against it. declared Bishop Joseph L. But she said bishops may try to ent, not contradictory.

Imesch of Joliet, III., chairShe also said that if individual influence legislation. man of the bishops' writing committee for the pastoral.

"It may be on a life support system bul it is alive and well.

The plug has not been pulled.

The doctor has said, 'Let's see if we can save it,'" Bishop Imesch said, Bishop Imesch commented .t "The Wisdom of Women," a symposium held Nov. 29Dec. 2 in Arlington and sponsored by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on WO!Den in the Church and in Society.

A scheduled vote during the NCCB fall meeting on the pastoral's second draft was dropped after the Vatican indicated the pastoral should be subject to consultalion from other nalional bishops' conferences.

Bishop Imesch said he would ask NCCB president Archbi.shop Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Wishing you joy now and forever.

Cincinnali for time during Ihe next NCCB meeting 10 dIscuss the women's pastoral.

"And then, God willing," he said, by June or November 1992 "we will have found a a JNSmUCTION draft that will be available for AUBURN CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. the bishops 10 vote on."

P,O. Box 287 • 1207 Auburn Street. Whitman, MA 02382 It would not be right, he Telephone: 617/857-1220 • FAX: 617/857-2814 said, if after the seven years of drafting a pastoral. the bishops had nOlhing to say, "The bishops have not spoken to women in any way but their silence," It...

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A pastoral, if approved, would be "a baby step, but a ,Luke 2:10 step,"Bishop (mesch said. "We Warm holiday wishes to all. feel we need a basis for discussion and the pastoral allows that."

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Sense ofinequality Predominant among three speakers at a symposium session was their sense of inequality.

Tara Seeley, social concerns minister at St. Rose of Uma Parish in Gaithersburg, Md., "reminds me that she's a junior partner" in the collaboration, pastor Father

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and Maureen Kelly, a religious education consultant to the parish, spoke of the pains and hopes of their ministry.

Ms. Kelly said she was often asked for:.her credentials. with the questioner skeptical of her educational background and ministry experience.

Father Duggan said the parish's lay business manager was often rebuffed "and I have to come in and rescue the situation with my status:'

He recounted when he and Mrs. Seeley were caught in the same

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Teaching offices that may be assumed by Jay people with ecclesiastical authorization include assisting the pastor in catechetical ministry, serving as a catechist in rnlssionary lands. and teaching sacred sciences in higher educa~ tion institutions, Sister Euart said.

Women, she said, may also serve in liturgical roles as lector, com. mentator, cantor or special minis~ ter of the Eucharist, but only a layman may be formally installed as a lector or acolyte.

In the church's governing office, women' may serve as auditor, assessor, promoter of justice and defender of the bond in diocesan tribunals; chancellor and notary -t'orcas=' nut"invo!ving- cleries;diocesan financial officer; member of a parish pastoral team; and general secretary of the episcopal conference, Sister Euart said.

Laywomen may also exercise official ministriesln their own dioceses which would be open to women, she said.

J urisdietional ministry "traditionally has been reserved for the ordained:' Sister Euart said.

She mentioned "ambiguity" in apparently contradictory provisions in the 1983 code. One canon says lay people may hold ecclesiastical office, while another states only clerics can hold offices for which the power of orders or governance is required. "Time will tell how this is worked out," she said.

While priests and deacons are given the "faCUlty" to assist at weddings and to preach, lay people may be "delegated"' to assist at weddings and "admitted" to preach in a church, but "no mention of faculty"' for the laity is made in canon law, Sister Euart said. ""Can the church continue to rely on women and laymen for pastoral service and at the same time deny them an active voice in the governance of the church?" she queried.

"How long \\'iIIlay people continue to accept positions in the church which do not recognize competence, ability, and experience?"'

Noting that canon law is not the sole source of church law, "It may be necessary at times to look

speed trap, with Mrs. Seeley getting a ticket, while he, driving at a higher speed, got away with the police officer saying, "Next time, slow down, Father."

On other occasions, he said, "rve heard many directors of religious education say, 'Yes, but Father won't let us,''' underscoring their own lack of authority.

Mrs. Seeley said that perception

is shared by the laity. She said some parishioners valued her word

less than that of Father Duggan, "If I had been 'Father Seeley' and I were associate pastor," that would Dot have ha~Rl;!t~h~ ~aid.

Priests are reluctant to address issues of church equality and partnership, she added, saying that she has been told by then "who have positions of power and privilege" that "I am in pain, but 1 cannot do anything about the system."

Declaring she hoped for change,

Ms. Kelly said that many people not involved in ministry are saying, "This is our church. We will walk with our feet. We will talk with our paychecks. We want our spirituality. We want a church that is credible."

Father Duggan said one reason he stays is that "I truly believe that the forces of oppression and resistance to renewal in our church, which are mounting in savagery"' are "the death throes of a corrupt system."

Possibilities exist The 1983 Code of Canon Law "has a lot more possibilities than people realize" for women in church ministries, Mercy Sister Sharon Euart told "Wisdom of Women" participants.

The associate general secretary for the National Conference of

Catholic Bishops-U.S. Catholic Conference, said the "positive representation" of women in the 1983 code "is due primarily to the enhanced position of the laity in the revised law."

Acknowledging a "proper role

for the laity," she added, "has helped, if only minimally, to advance the role of women in the church:'

beyond the code for a full picture of human rights recognized and proclaimed by the church," Sister Euart said.

She said the 1983 code "represents a shift in the church's perspective on the role of women," who were given "a passive and inferior

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role" in the 1917 Code of Canon Law. She outlined areas in common ministry, public ministry, and jurisdictional ministry in which women can now participate.

In common ministry, Sister Euart cited "proclaiming the Gospel especially in instances where only the layperson can effectively do so, transforming the temporal order' with the spirit of the Gospel. and promoting the upbuilding of the church through marriage and family'" These areas, she said, are "proper to lay women and men."

Many kinds of public ministry - in the church's teaching, liturgical and governing ,offices - are available to women, Sister Euart said.

Some ministries require "some type of designation from ecclesiastical authority,"' she said, including religion teacher. religious education director, eucharistic minister, parish council president, and parish visitor of the sick.

ARLINGTON, Va, (CNS) At the "Wisdom of Women"' symposium, Rochester, N.Y., Bishop

Matthew H, Clark, chairman of the bishops' committee on women, urged the church to explore "fully and courageously": tough questions facing Catholics, including those related to birth control, abortion, ordination of women to the priest-

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The bishop, symposium keynote speaker. also said that in his view the local church should have some say in selecting its bishops.

The church is at its best when it "finds room for all manner of diversity, disallowing only those points of view or directions which deny central mysteries ofour faith." he said. adding that it should be "slow to draw lines defining the spiritual condition of its members or to exclude people fforn its com_munion."

Nor should the church "decide complex issues before it has heard

all appropriate voices in the community or before the issue at hand has come to maturity," he said.

Bishop Clark said that it was his understanding that "the practice of large numbers of Catholic people" is not in accord with official church teaching on birth regulation.

He said he was afraid the "gUlf' between church teaching and popular practice "depresses our capacity to address credibly other topics in the afea of sexuality."'

"People say more" often than I would like to hear: 'you do not understand sexuality in marriage' or 'we cannot possibly live up to that:" he said. Then there are oth~ ers who will simply no longer talk to---church representati-ves-on---thesubject, he said.

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"On backs of dead children?"

At the "Wisdom of Women sym~ posium, Atty. Helen Alvare, the U.S. bishops' c~ief spokesperson on abortion issues, said, .. It demeans us as women to cry out for abortion rights."

Opting for abortion "presumes

that women can't cope," she declared, querying "Do women wish to seek equality on the backs of dead children?"' and pointing out that Christian freedom is "freedom to do good, not freedom to shed responsibilities."

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Bishop Clark lauded Archhishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee for his archdiocesan meetings with wom·en on the subject of abortion.

"My particular hope is that we will do a better job than we have done in hearing the women and men of our church on this issue:' he said.

The requirement of lifelong celibacy for ordained priests "is yet another issue where the church needs to be open to hearing the concerns and questions of her people," he said, adding that a clergy shortage may result in a change in the eucharistic nature of Catholicism.

The queslion of women's ordination to the priesthood "is without question a lively one among very large numbers of Roman Catholics," the bishop said.

He said it was clear church arguments for the ban on women's ordination "are not persuading many of our faithful people nor are they finding wide support in the community of scholars.'"

Bishop Clark said the church has experienced "great loss in morale and in members" due to Catholics' reaction to the church position on women's ordination.

"For that reason and several others. I hope for a fuller ecclesial discussion of this question:' he said.

"In my opinion, until we have it our problems will only increase.

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With regard to choosing bishops.

Bishop Clark said that in the history of the church many methods have been used. "from acclamation to our present system which is not highly participatory.

"I am not exactly sure how episcopal selection might best be done

butlthink it would be good for the health of the church were we to reform this process," he said.

In addition, Bishop Clark said, it was his hope that local churches "continually become freer than they presently are"' in making pastoral ~ judgments.

He said the church should allow people "to be full active participants in the life of the church."

Currently. he said, the "people's practical understanding of the official magisterium of the chutch is often that it is embodied" only in bishops. The magisterium is the teaching authority of the church.

There is a feeling, he said. that the bishop, because he is "called to be the first teacher in the local church," is somehow the "best informed and most faithful member of the community:'

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Take a few minutes from your generous people and parishes with Christmas preparations right now needy families and missions, mostly to meet a matchmaker who lives in the South. Then she Iauncbed by the road side in rural Minne- Operation HOPE as a non-profit ..... 1111111 1'1• • N . .,I. .,II _.,._ _ __ sota and wants you to" get to corporation as her idea blossomed, Heaven. then exploded. the people before whom Verona Devney, 74, widow of a "There was a time," she said, corn and soybean farmer, calls "when we gave out [the names of] kings shall keep silence and herself a "wheedler," "pest" and as many as 10,000 families a year:' unto whom the Gentiles "beggar," but her genius and dediin this far more to shake up shall make their SUPPlica-l~ cation have made "Operation the"I'm rich than to help the poor," she tion: come to deliver us and HOPE" a catalyst for people of said. "I mean, how can you get to tarry not. every faith to practice what they heaven otherwise? I don't think preach. you can make it without charity:' "If I were to ask if you love Mrs. Devney has had to slow God:' she said the other day in her down a little-not because she will sunlit dining room, "you would tell me that you do. But that is not be 75 next May 21-but openDECEMBER 20 heart surgery in 19-83 began to sap enough. You must prove it."

Mrs. Devney didn't say that her remarkable energy.

KEY OF DAVID and first. St. John Vianney, the Cure .For 15 years sh.e w~o~e a~d disBEGINNING Monday Sceptre of the house of d'Ars did she admitted but that's tnbuted a chatty msplflng newsthe Church uses the ancient Israel, who openest and no what Ope;ation HOPE i~ all about.--- __ !:!t_~~~[~!!_!?~_~~_l~ o!_need __ a~~ ·Oantiphons~so -inin-sliuttetn,wno shuttest She matches those of us with too Ideas for helplOg offiers. That s

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Ne.. Bedford area Meets 7:30 p.m. second Mondays, St. Kilian rectory, New Bedford. Information: George and Imelda Vezina, 998-3269.

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She was delighted and told me the following day she had practiced bot~ responses and couldn't wait to visit her grown children again.

1 had no response for the third woman. "My two sons have been estranged for yean and it tears me up inside," she said. "If one attends a family affair, the other won't. I think it's because their wives don't get along. 1 keep telling them we're family aid that it isn't right but they won't reconcile."

grandson doesn't want to hug or kiss me anymore because I have too many wrinkles in my face:' Teary, she added, "The worst part is my daughter thought it was She b'gan crying openly and, funny." hoping t() reassure her that estran~ I was able to convince her that gement ii usually temporary beII-year-old boys don't want to tween grown siblings, 1 asked her hug or kiss anybody, wrinkled or . the sons' ages. "52 and 57," she otherwise. She admitted he had said. ceased hugging his mother. too.

My hoodled. If brothers ofthat ·'That's probably why she laughed age with married children of their when she told you about the wrin- own refu:ie to get along, there's lit~ kles. Next time you see her, ask her tie she can do. what reasons he gives for not hug.... kno'\1 it hurts terribly,~' I said, ging her - too fat, too much per- "but they have made a decision fume, too freckled?" you aren~ likely to change. Call it

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~ther People Everywhere. .~he ~ld three a year, and her mal!mg Itst touched people of every faith.

Wh~t turned out "best of al.1:' she said, "was that we worked with churches of every kind. It's real ecumenism." When people are busy cutting, sewing and packing, she said, "they don't have time to argue about religion."

Although Operation HOPE doesn't hand out money, Mrs. Devney doesn't turn it down.

Delivery costs are enormous, and so is her phone bill as she checks up- on those seeking aid. When

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people ask how to pay their mail costs, she said, "I tell them: <Give up a meal'" "I've been doing this for 25 years," she said, ~and the most fUD is getting, those tbank-you letters ...People get thank-yo·us; therefore they know it's working." Pri_csts and sisters at the missions "tell me

that mothers cry when they get something new."

The ne,d for baby garments ancl children's clothing is enormous. '~ohlDteersaw a motber car. rying her newborn in a newspaper!"

Some children have never gotteD Christmas presents with their OWD names on them.

When !ou see the bulging card files and folders full of letters jammed into her spare bedrooms,

you would think the task of match· ing givers and receivers an impos· sible dream. But Verona Devney, the Minnesota matchmaker, is wi)·

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the sick, the needy, and the hungry all around us.

It began at Christmas time, 1965, when she heard a missionary's appeal for the poor in the missions of the South.

She brought material, invited friends in, and soon boxes of clothing were southbound. She ran out of cloth, so she wrote to some New York textile firms, enclosing $5 and begging for remnants and spare goods. Semitrailers unload boxes of surplus goods into her double garage to this day.

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went away relieved. Another woman told me that when she visits her grown children, they bring up past hurts and childhood events

which she recalls much differently.

"I know it wasn't like they insist it was," she said, "so 1 get upset and we end up arguing the same old issues-."

Well, children rewdte history.

There are seven in my family and we have seven different versions of memorable childhood events. But it's her reaction, not their revisionism, that must change.

AA has a saying, "If nothing

changes, nothing changes." If she just smiled indulgently and said, "Yes, we remember things differently," and refused to get sucked into an argument, what would

they do. I asked her. Or if she sighed and said, "Yes, 1 made mistakes. Will you forgive me so we can put this away?"

the legacy of Cain and Abel but most of IS grow up closer to one sibling than others.

"I suggest you stop trying to get them to reconcile, tell them you

realize y.ur impotence. and are turning itover to them. If you butt out, they nay recognize and accept their resJlonsibility in reconciling

but don't count on it. They maybe satisfied with a Hfetime estragement....

I felt cruel but I didn't want to give. her Ialse hope. I encouraged her to let each son know how pain· fuJ their tlienation is to her but if they refn.e to reconcile, she will accept an:! endure her sorrow.

I don't know if my adviCe was

good. It'seasy to give when I don't have the Iroblem myself. Alienated grown cli1dren instill much pain and guilt in parents. But we have to recognife the limits ofour power.

When "ids are little, we can say.

"Stop th&l fighting," but if they want to fight at 30 or 50, they want it that waf and our intervention is rarely successful. It's an occupational ha;:ard of parenting - we neVer stop carin~, even if they do.

Disappointing defeat PHOE'lIX (CNS) - Catholic leaders in Arizona were disap-

pointed at the November defeat of a proposition which would have

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established a paid holiday in honor ofthe Re,. Martin Luther K.ingJr. A ballot question to establish .. paid holiday for state employees on tbe third Monday in January lost by some 17,000 votes out of more thai I million cast. "Naturally I wa. disappointed to leaJrt that Pro~ositlon 302 had been

defeated,' said Phoenix Bishop Thomas J. O'Brien.

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Pope, Jewish leaders meet at Vatican Continued from Page One â&#x20AC;˘ of Christians and Muslims and has former Nazi death camp of Auschinsisted on their right to a homewitz and Pope John Paul's meetland.

Rabbi Jack Bemporad, a member ings with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat ofthe Jewish delegation and chairand Austrian President Kurt Wa:ld- man of the Interreligious Affairs heim, who has been accused of Committee ofthe Synagogue Council of America, said the church has participating in Nazi war crimes.

At the December meeting, a shown it is beginning to underVatican official announced that stand the religious significance Jews Pope John Paul had approved a give to Israel as the land promised $100,000 Vatican contribution to to their ancestors.

"Why not go all the way and help build a new Carmelite convent and prayer center outside establish relations?" he asked during a Dec. 5 conference held in Auschwitz's boundaries.

Reich said the Jewish leaders conjunction with the dialogue. .

Recognition would "not imply met with officials from the Vatican Secretariat of State and "estab- an agreement" with all Israeli govlished a mechanism for communi- ernment policies, he said.

"Startling changes have taken cation" about papal meetings and place" in Catholic-Jewish relations statements of ~political matters since the Second Vatican Council, which are sensitive to the Jewish Rabbi Bemporad said. community."

The future of those relations The pope said the 25th anniversary of "N ostra Aetate" is a cele- should include working together bration of"the divine mercy which is guiding Christians and Jews to mutual awareness, respect, cooperation and solidarity."

He prayed that the anniversary celebrations would bring '~fresh results of spiritual and moral renewal" and "above all, the fruit of cooperation in promoting justice and peace."

In his only comment on Israel, the pope said the city of Jerusalem is holy to Christians, Muslims and Jews.

"I should like you to join in praying daily for peace, justice and respect for the fundamental human and religious rights of the three peoples, the three communities of faith who inhabit that beloved land." , Reich told the pope, ~'Now is the time for the full ripening of relations between the Holy See and the state of Israel."

He said such recognition could "advance the cause of peace" in the region by sending "a strong signal to those nations still committed to the desrruction of Israel."

Reich said Secretariat of State officials reiterated the Vatican position that three issues prevent Vatican recognition of Israel: - Israeli borders. Israel and Jordan must sign a treaty defining their common border.

- Jerusalem. The Vatican insists that it be internationally protected as a holy city for Jews, Christians and Muslims.

- Palestinians. The Vatican is concerned about Israeli treatment

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to meet "our common responslDuity for the destiny of the earth and its population," the rabbi said.

"There is out there a world that is crying for redemption."

I The December meeting with the pope followed a September meeting of the Vatican and Jewish delegations in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where work was begun on a Vatican document on the Hofocaust.

The pope praised the work of the September meeting, which included a statement calling antiSemitism a sin. The statement was prompted by recent incidents of anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe.

"The Catholic Church's effort to"-eradicate anti-Semitism, a sinful social pathology, must increase and intensify throughout the world, and this effort is especially needed today in newly freed Eastern Eur-

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ope," Reich said in his speech to the pope.

"No dialogue between Christians and Jews can overlook the painful and terrible experience of the Shoah," the Holocaust, the pope said.

He supported the statement's call for more efforts to overcome anti-Semitism, including frequent Catholic teaching and wider distribution of Catholic documents against anti-Semitism and other forms of prejudice.

"Let there be no confusion: if we priests don't provide the leadership within the institutional church, nobody will," said Jesuit Father Allan Figueroa Deck, assistant professor of Hispanic ministry at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, Calif. More than 150 Hispanic priests from throughout the nation attended the recent Albuquerque meeting, e.xpected to be an annual event.

Leadership needed

VAT1CAN CITY (CNS) - Humanity is at a social, political and spiritual watershed because of rapidly changing world events, said Pope John Paull!. "We seem to be on a decisive slope of history, at the point of passage from a 'before' to an 'after,' which gives the present important spiritual significance," he said at an Angelus talk.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (CNS) - U.S. Hispanic priests must pro.vide leadership in transforming U.S. church structures if concerns of Hispanic Catholics are to be addressed, Silid the keynote speaker at the first meeting of the National Association of Hispanic Priests.

At watershed

DAILY READINGS Dec. 17: Gn 49:2,8-10; Ps 72:3-4,7-8,17; Mt 1:1-17 Dec. 18: Jer 23:5-8; Ps 72:1,12-13,18-19; Mt 1:1824 Dec. 19: Jgs 13:2-7,2425; Ps 71:3-6,16-17; Lk 1:5-25 Dec. 20: Is 7:10-14; Ps 24:1-6; Lk 1:26-38 Dec. 21: 8g 2:8-14 or Zep 3:1, 4-18; Ps 33:2-3,1112,20-21; Lk 1:39-45 Dec. 22: 1 8m 1:24-28; (Ps) I 8m 2:1,4-8; Lk 1:46-56 Dec. 23: 2 8m 7:1-5,811,16; Ps 89:2-5,27,29; Rom 16:25-27; Lk 1:26-38

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Gulf crisis affects poor countries VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Persian Gulf crisis is likely to widen the gap between rich and poor countries because it is causing the price of oil to rise, said Bishop Jorge Mejia, vice president o(the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

Poor nations have "to -find the means to face this unexpected expense," he said.

Bishop Mejia was interviewed on Vatican Radio after returning from Paris, where he led the Vatican delegation at a V.N. meeting on ways to help the 40 countries designated by the V nited Nations as the world's poorest.

Progress has been made in easing the foreign debt burden as some developed countries, nota': bly Italy and France, have erased bihiteral debts with several poor countries, he said.

Remaining are "multilateral debts, those contracted with international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund," he added. , Another major problem is that the price of raw materials exported by underdeveloped countries continues to decrease while industrialized products they import are increasing, said Bishop Mejia.

"It's a constant imbalance between one and the other in the balance of payments in less developed countries," he said.

Poor countries also need "very radical reforms" in politics that improve democracy and respect for human rights, he said.

This should be part of an overall policy of developing human resources through education, health and programs that improve the status of women, Bishp Mejia said.

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A reading from the .Book of In the Book of Genesis. we are Ezechiel: Thus saith the Lord told of the tree ofthe knowledge God: I myself will take of the of good and evil. whose fruit our marrow of the high cedar and will first parents were forbidden to set it: I will crop off a tender twig eat. When Adam and Eve dis- from the top of the branches theobeyed God's command, they were reof, and I will plant it on a cast from the Garden of Eden mountain high and eminent. and they and their descendants On the high mountains of Israel knew sickness and death. will I plant it and it shall shoot For long years mankind suf- forth into branches and shall bear fered until Christ camt as redee- fruit and it shall become a great mer to die on tht tree of Calvary. cedar; and all birds shall dwell , Thus the tret holds a special under it and every fowl shall . place in the story of salvation and make its nest under the shadow is fittingly one of the most impor- of the branches thereof. tant symbols of the Christmas And all the trees of the country season. shall know that I the Lord have As our own tree once stood in brought down the high tree·and the dark forest, cold and un- exalted the low tree and have adorned, so was the world before dried up the green tree and have the coming of Christ. But now, caused the dry tree to flourish. I brightly decorated, it reminds us the Lord have spoken and have of the tree of Calvary, which doneil. brought us redemption.

A readingfrom the Book ofthe Let us now read God·s word.

Apocalypse: To him that overcometh I will give to eat of the The children in a family or tree of life, which is in the paradesignated persons in other groups dise of my God .... And he showed may read one or more of the fol- me a river of water of life. clear as lowing scripture selections: crystal. proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

A reading from the Book of In the midst of the street the-' Genesis: And the Lord God had reof and on both sides of the river planted a paradise of pleasure was the tree of life bearing twelve from the beginning: wherein he fruits. yielding its fruits every placed man whom he had formed. month and the leaves of the tree And the Lord God brought were for the healing of the nations. forth of the ground all manner of At the end of the readings the trees. fair to behold and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the leader says: Let us pray: Bless, we midst of paradise: and the tree of beseech thee. 0 God, our Christmas tree. decorated in honor of knowledge of good and evil. the birth of thy Son. May the A reading from the Book of light and beauty ofthis tree be reflected Psalms: The fields and all things in our lives that we mav share throughout eternity in the glory that are in them shall be joyful.

Then shall all the trees of the of the true Tree of Life. We ask woods rejoice before the face of this through Christ our Lord, the Lord because he comet,h: who redeemed the sin of Adam that came through a tree by his to judge the earth. death on the tree of Calvary.

A reading/rom the Book ofIsaiah: Amen.

You shall go out with joy and be The tree should now be lightled forth with peace: the moun- ed. All may join in singing one or tains and the hills shall sing praise more Christmas carols and, if before you and all the trees of the desired, refreshments may be country shall clap their hands. served.

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SAO PAULO, Brazil (CNS)Brazil's Catholic-Jewish dialogue group has asked the Vatican not to beatify Queen'lsabella, the 15thcentury Spanish queen who sponsored the explorations of Christopher Columbus. The resolution noted that Queen Isabella "signed . the edict for the expulsion of Jews and Moslems from the Iberian peninsula." Even ifher zeal for the Christian faith could be understood in the historic context, "she could not be considered a model of

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To direct directors WASHINGTON (CNS) - Neil A. Parent has been appointed executive director of the National Conference of Diocesan Directors of Religious Ed ucation. The staff representative for catechesis and adult religious education for the U.S. Catholic Conference. he was unanimously chosen by the diocesan directors' board.

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Iteering pOintl NOTRE DAME, FR Concert 7 p.m. Sunday. A star at right of the sanctuary is moving to the altar for Christmas and will be at the crib for Epiphany.

CATHEDRAL, FR Taping of Christmas TV Mass 10:30 a. m. tomorrow; all invited. No 9 a.m. Mass to allow for setup; participant asked to arrive by 10 a.m.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Men's Club meeting 7 p.m. Sunday, Kolbe Corner at school.

TAUNTON STATE HOSPITAL Volunteers needed in pharmacy, library, recreation program and as visitors and escorts at the psychiatric facility. The hospital also seeks service or church groups to assist in large group activities. Information: Sanford Epstein, 824-7551 ext. 127.

ST. ANNE, FR Christmas pageant 2 p.m. Sunday, upper church.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Children's Christmas party I to 3 p.m. Dec. 16, parish center. Advent prayer service with blessing of Christmas ornaments 4 p.m. Sunday. All gifts for parish Christmas dinner should be brought to the church by Sunday.

ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, FR The Council of Catholic Women will meet at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 18 in Father Reis hall. A Christmas party and gift exchange will be featured.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Christmas concert with parish choir, children's choir, and Concordia Brass Quintet 2 p.m. Sunday.

Calix meeting 6:30 p.m. Sunday.

First penance I p.m. tomorrow. Guild members will visit and distribute gifts at Marian Manor I p.m. Dec. 19. Bereavement group sponsored

by Hospice of Greater Taunton meets 3 p.m. Wednesdays, church hall.

HOLY NAME, FR Advent reconciliation night with individual confessions 7 p.m. Dec. 17. Christmas carolers leaving school 6:30 p.m. Dec. 19 for an hour of caroling followed by. refreshments.

School Christmas Mass rescheduled to 9 a.m. Dec. 17. Christmas tree trim open house 6 to 10 p.m. Dec. 21, rectory.

WIDOWED SUPPORT FR area meeting 7 p.m. Dec. 18, St. Mary's Cathedral School, FR; information: 999-6420.

ST. JAMES, NB Vincentians food drive this weekend. Altar boy instructions II a.m. tomorrow.

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Falmouth Council 813 Christmas party 4 p.m. tomorrow; all asked to bring item for potluck dinner. Adults may bring wrapped gifts marked for man or woman for gift exchange.

Children will break pinatas.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN LeRepos retreat with Father Joe Laughlin, SJ, today through Sun- , day. St. Elizabeth Seton youth retreat 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow.

ST.JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET "Toys for Tots" may be placed unwrapped under tree in church by Dec. 23. Mass and concert with Father Andre Patenaude 7:30 tonight.

ST. JULIE BILLIART, N. DARTMOUTH All invited to attend taping of Christmas TV Mass at the Cathedral in Fall River 10: 15 a.m. tomorrow.

Advent penance service 7 p.m. Dec. 19; visiting priests will be available for confessions.

ST. PIUS X, S. YARMOUTH Saints and Singers musicale, "The King - the Long-Awaited Promise," to be heard at 8 tonight. Admission free; free-will offering to benefit singers' scholarship program.

O.L. ASSUMPTION, OSTERVILLE Children's Christmas pageant following 8:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. Clothing for needy may be left in rectory garage.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Memorial Mass for deceased members 9:30 a.m. Sunday. Saints and Singers concert 8 p.m. tomorrow. Family Advent gathering 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, church hall. Youth group meeting to welcome new members and distribute 1991 schedule 8 to 9 p.m. Sunday; information: Charlie Murphy, 992-2195.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, HYANNIS Penance service (grades 3,4,5) 10 a.m. tomorrow, church. 6th grade students will participate in 10 a.m.

Mass Sunday; rehearsal 10 a.m. tomorrow. Advent prayer service for grades 6 and 7 and their families 7 p.m. Dec. 17. Hyannis Ultreya Christmas party 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, parish center.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE High School youth ministry Christmas dance 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Dec. 21, parish center. Parish council meeting 7:30 p.m. -Dec. 18; R.E. Center. Five Rivers Branch Cape Cod Hospital Aid Christmas meeting 10 a.m. Dec. 17, parish center; participants asked to bring wrapped gifts for County Hospital patients.

ST. THERESA OF THE CHILD JESUS, S. ATTLEBORO Scout Pack 24 monthly meeting 6:30 p.m. Sunday, church basement.

Volunteers to make cancer pads meet 9 a.m. Mondays. church basement.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Christmas dance (grades 5 through 8) 7:30 to 10:30 tonight, parish center. Youth group hayride 6:15 p.m.

Dec. 19.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Somerset Chorale Christmas concert 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

SACRED HEART, N.ATTLEBORO Children will hang symbols on Jesse Tree at a 3:45 p.m. ceremony Dec. 17.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Music ministry Advent Evensong 7 p.m. Sunday. Children's Mass 10 a.m. Sunday.

ST. ELIZABETH SETON, N. FALMOUTH Parish pre-Christmas celebration following 11:30 a.m. Mass Sunday.

Youth group trip to Edaville R.R. 6 p.m. Sunday.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLICS N'B area meeting 7 p.m. Dec. 17, Family Life Center, N. Dartmouth.

Cape and Islands meeting 7 p.m.

Sunday, St. Pius X parish center S. Yarmouth; Father Richard M. Roy will conduct an Advent service.

Information: Father Roy, 548-1065.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Teen Activity Group Christmas trip to LaSalette Shrine Sunday; bus leaving church at 3 p.m. Information: Mary Baird 428-0246.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM Cya Christmas caroling Dec. 18.

ST. JOSEPH, NB Christmas family gathering I to 4 , p.m. Sunday, church hall. Information: Rena Lemieux, 995-4299; Debbie Norward, 995-1882. Prayer meeting 7 p.m. Dec. 19, no meeting Dec. 26. CCD Christmas pageant 9:30 a.m. Sunday. Students' Songfest 6 p.m. Dec. 19. church hall. Adult advisors needed for youth group; information: Connie Levasseur, 995-9224. .

ST.STEPHEN,ATTLEBORO Children will present Christmas tree ornaments at II a.m. Mass Sunday.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT Youth ministry will host Christmas party for grades K through 5 from 6 to 9 tonight, church hall; call rectory for reservations. Cya girls' basketball team will host ice cream social for students ages 9 to 13 from 6 to 9 tonight, school hall; reservations: Henrietta DeMello, 636-8366; Paula Pedro. 636-5288. Women's Guild Christmas party 6:30 p.m.

Dec. 17, Venus de Milo.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA Family Adyent night beginning with 5 p.m. Mass Sunday. 8th grade students are collecting personal items for homeless at Fall River Family Resource Center; boxes at church entrances until Christmas.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NB Parish Girl Scouts will provide babysitting at North Dartmouth Mall for children ages 3 to 9 Dec. 14 to 16, 20 to 22; crafts, games and videos provided. Information: Pat Souza, 993-3510, Atty. Joyce Metthe, 9995068. .. ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT Advent prayer. and penance service 7 p.m. Sunday.

D. of I. Hyacinth Circle 71 Daughters of Isabella meeting and Christmas party 7:30 p.m. Dec. 18, Holy Name CCD center, NB. Sister Rose Ellen Gallogly, RSM, of New Bedford Market Ministries will speak; members asked to bring gifts for donation to the organization. A sing-along will follow meeting.

LaSALETTE CENTER, ATTLEBORO Mother-Daughter retreat (18 years and older) Jan. 4 to 6, directed by Rev. Gilles Genest, M.S., and Sister Patricia Cocozza, SND. Information: 222-8530 .

HOLY ROSARY, TAUNTON Children~s Christmas party Dec. 17.

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And I feel that you do inside Sung by Mariah Carey; .written by Mariah Carey, Rhett Lawrence ~c) 19~O_bY CBS Records Inc. CAN MARIAH CAREY the person in the song as she faces her .hurt, confusion and make it to two No,.1 hits in a :: row? '. " , longing. ' .'. . ..

Her·d.ebut.''release;'~Visiorro f " Like ttiis' indi.vid'ual,: most of '. Love," reached. the' top of the 'us need healing from life's hurts.

Life's disappointments and . charts. Now"LoveTakes Time" continues to gro~)n popularity .-losses inay cause us t.o w.onder and is surely' headed for hit· what promise life still holds for :status. , us. We 'Yait for life to change.

Ms. Carey's talent liesin how We waitfor hope to be reborn she can cre,!ite, a dept" ·llf.feeling in our hearts. . with her vocal. style. In "Love· It occurs to m~.thatJorany of :'Take~ Time"~e easily feel with. 'us who hurt, th~ time of Advent .

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The United States took Puerto Rico' from Spain in 1898 as part of the settlement of the SpanishAmerican War. Since 1952, the island has had commonwealth status, with Puerto Ricans given U.S. citizenship and the right to elect their governor and Legislature.

Cardinal Aponte said he avoided taking any position on the question of the island's stakJS, but he had criticized politicians for giving the issue too much attention.

The cardinal said a Puerto Rican survey had shown the people ranking it 10th among their concerns.

Of greater urgency to them, he sa'id, were matters such as crime, drugs, education, health and housing, and that politicians were not giving those priority.

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brings speciid meaning. This pre-Christmas season is a time for waiting, a time for healing.

Advent invites us to examine our hurts, and even in the presence of this pain, to choose life once' more.

Such a decision is especially difficult when the pain in our life seems to be our own fault.

This appears to be the case for the person in the song, who states, "I was blind to let you go."

Yet, no matter how or why we hurt, healing begins with a decision to reaffirm one's selfworth. We look within to see . the soul that God has created.

Healing touches and transforms the hurt as we feel the dignity of being forever a daughter or son of the Father.

If, indeed, our hurt stems from our own doing, to acknowledge this mistake is to know that we can choose to learn from the experience. We can take what we have learned and use it as a basis for changing our behaviors in the future.

The season of Advent emphasizes that the doors of hope remain open, even when they seem clouded over with emotional darkness.

Advent reminds us .that love is as close as our next breath.

Sometimes hurt steals away our hope, but Advent asks us to keep our hearts open. Something different is happening, if we Just hold on and keep reaching out to those who can help us.

Advent is a gift from. God, who asks us to realize that' we never wait alone.

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by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, Ind. 47635. . the U.S, church for its efforts to serve Puerto Rican immigrants, but said the church in both places was handicapped by a shortage of Puerto Rican vocations to the priesthood.

In his diocese, which dates to 1511 and embraces about a million Catholics, there is no major seminary, 'Of Puerto Rico's five dioceses, only Ponce has a major seminary, he said, The cardinal said he sends seminarians to Spain for training and has eight major seminary students, Although religious vocations in Puerto Rico are scarce, Cardinal Aponte said, the laity are active in such areas as the Cursillo and charism'atic renewal movements.

The Puerto Rican bishops' conference, which will meet Dec, 1-3, was working on an evangelization plan for the fifth centenary observance of Christianity in the Americas,

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You may be feeling as if your life has been turned upside down and there's nothing you can do about it.'

Try using the following questions to help assess your attitudes if you're getting ready to move across country or across to,..wn.

Maybe they'll even give you some ideas to spark your own plan of attack against the new-kid-on-theblock syndrome. ' , I. I'm afraid I won't make any new friends. I have decided to 0.

Learn the name of one person in each class each day and say hello to that person. b. Join at least one' group activity such as band or soccer. c. Concentrate on my studies and let mysocial life take care of itself.

2. I'm'going to view the move to a new school as a.' A n opportunity. . b. A challenge. c. The worst thing thar's ever happened to me. d. 'All of the above.

3. I feel o~er~helmed by the amount of schoolwork at my'new school. Some subjects are easy, but in others the class'is way ahead of what I was doing. I will: a. Talk to the teachers in the classes I'm having trouble in and askfor extra help. b. Ask a couple ofthe kids if we could study together. c. Cut classes since it S too hard, anyway.

4. To help me feel more at home in my new neighborhood, I could a. Explore the local stores and sites within bike-riding distance. b. Introduce myself to the neighbors by offering to babysit or mow the lawn. c. Join the youth group at church.

5. I really miss my friends, my old neighborhood and myoId school. To help I a. Call some of them every week even though the phone bilJ's outrageous. b. Write a newsy letter back "home" every week. c. Make a video of my new house _ including my room, my new school and new friends - to help my oldfriendsfeel /ike they're stilJ part of my life. "" 6. Which of the following ice bre~kers' wpuld, you .choose? a.

Throwing a pizza party and invit.ing thefirst 10 people whose names you learn. b. Or,ganizing a Christ- . mas. party. c. Suggesting a fundraiser.that worked wonders at your old school' to help with a school project at your new SCh901, 7. Of th'e following choices, which are the healthiest attitudes? Which is closest tll ~ow'you're feeling and acting? a. This situ.ation is good prac,ticefor whe~!go a}Vay to college or move away fr:om home. b.

It may be difficult adjusting to a new life, but I will find lean stilJ have fun-and make new friends. c.

My parents are d{Jing this because they hate me. I'm going to plug into the television and come upfor air when I'm 18. d. A little bit ofa, band c. It depends on the day.

Christmas-bundle Olympics

By Hilda Young One of the most common activities engaged in by Christmas shoppers is carrying packages.

Surprisingly, little formal literature exists on this topic, especially considering the tremendous mental and physical challenges for persons of all ages. " I h ave Iong th oug ht a compe t 1. . t h Id b d e evetlve ratmg sys em s ou ' I t' Iope d for t h IS popu ar pas Ime. ' f' d f I Th IS was con Ifme or me as watched my husband launch himself from the end of an escalator this week.

Even, as he !ee~ered forward, dramatically plckmg up speed be~ore lurching to a somewhat pamful stop when he slammed into the fine perfume counter, several categories suggested themselves,.

Creativity scores extra points, such as the young man I saw toting several p,ackages in the traditional hand-grIp-and-underarm mode, who also managed to pack a coffee pot and clock radio connected by a bungee corQ around his neck. He ~eld a stuffed giraffe in his teeth by Its ear. Bravo!

"Escalator Riding" would probably be my spouse's best event. He would surely score style points for

his entrances, allowing the escalat?r to. clea~ off.potential crash victlms(lf~e IS gomg,down), a~d then dramatIcally. telhn~ the. 1m: of people for~mg behmd ~Im, I~ I. ~on t mak~ It, ~ell my WIfe the hfe msurance.ls paId and that I lov~d her, even I~,she broke my faVOrIte coff~e cup: HIS eXIts are fundamentally • , sound, but mIght be scored sltghtly lower for uncomely phrases or words he tends to blurt out under t s rTeshs.e "P ar k'109 L ot D as h" h 0 Id s t t 'I L'k b k' h grea. po entIa. I e uc I~g~ orse scorIng at rodeos, particIpants would earn higher marks if they draw difficult "mounts" such as a two-door compact pa~ked in 50. mph winds driving sleet icy conditions.' , On a scale of I to 10, it is almost an automatic 10 if the package carrier can manage to stack all the bags, boxes, etc. on the top, hood and trunk of a car without letting them fall into a puddle while searching desperately for car keys.

The possibilities are endless "Best Use of Ears," "Most Exciting Encounter With a Revolving Door," "Best Grimace," "Most Dramatic Scene Involvinga Crowded Restaurant," "Most Creative Restroom Survival Techniques."

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Bishop Connolly The community of Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, will join in a Christmas celebration on Sunday. Mass will be celebrated by principal Father John Murray, SJ, and followed by a dessert potluck.

- The school d~ama club opened its season with a presentation of the Moss Hart and George Kaufman comedy "You Can't Take It With You" on Dec. 7,8 and 9.

Faculty member Ted Pettine and 15 seniors attended a recent conference on the Bill of Rights at New England Hall in Boston sponsored by the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union Foundation.

Sophomore Ulysses Sallum participated in "Splash," a program of lectures, workshops and seminars at the Massachusetts Institute of Techology Dec. 8 and 9.

Sponsored by the MIT Educational Studies Program; "Splash" offered more than 50 topics and allowed participants to attend up to 12 hours of classes.. Subjects included computer science, study skills, martial arts, goyernment, college admissions, probability theory, calculus and performing arts.

In the spring, David Silva will represent Connolly at.:the 33rd

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annual Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation state seminar, a leadership program for high school sophomores. During the seminar two ambassadors will be chosen to represent the state at a World Leadership Congress in Chicago next July.

Silva is an honors student active in the Language Club, Amnesty International and Junior Achievement. He has received the Presidential Physical Fitness Award and will be listed in Who's Who Among American High School Students.

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Freshman class officers are Jeff Guimond, president; Matt Doyle, vice president; Amy Hess, secretary; Craig Gaudreau, treasurer.

Lisa Goss was elected president of the Language Club. Mary Johnson and Kate Raymond are covice presidents. ' The club organized a cultural display and iJ:}ternational cafe at the school open house in November and plans a Christmas party this month.

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Several fall athletes earned AIIBristol County team honors. Junior Mike Iacovelli was named to the second team in soccer and classmate Tom Botelho earned honorable mention.

Junior Aimee Reynolds was nominated to the second team for girls' volleyball and senior Mary K. Johnson received honorable mention.

Girls' basketball team members attended a jamboree last Sunday at Bishop Stang High School, while

Christmas preparations at CoyleCassidy High School, Taunton, include participation in a National Honor Society "Toys for Tots" drive to benefit needy children in the Taunton area and in poor regions of Kentucky.

The St. Vincent de Paul Society has set up a Giving Tree and the school community is assembling more than 60 food baskets to provide gifts and holiday meals to needy area families.

Seniors and sophomores tied Advent is observed by students for first place and shared a Spirit at St. John Evangelist School, Bowl trophy in recent Spirit Week Attleboro, with Monday morning .competition. prayer services at the school Advent Seniors took top honors in dec- wreath. Children are also decoratorating the. school and bought the ing a Jesse Tree, praying the 0 greatest number of spirit links. Antiphons and striving to "keep Sophomores created the best pos- Christ in Christmas." ter and were most active in Spirit Kindergarteners will perform a Week programs, including Hat play, "Bah, Humbug - Christmas Day, Blue and Gold Day, Clash Grump!," on Dec. 20.

Day and Sweatshirt and SweatA closing Mass for 1990 will be pan~ Dav. held Dec. 21, and that evening At a Thanksgiving football rally, grades 7 and 8 will hold a Christjuniors had the best decorations mas dance. ' and freshman presented the best Children in kindergarten through skit. Highlighting the rally was an grade 3 are leaniing about street electrifying faculty performance of safety and crime protection from the "Electric Slide."

McGruff, the Crime Dog. Lt. Dave Spirit Week's Homecomingkmg Holden of the Pawtucket police and queen were Keith Fernandez department, in conjunction with and Jennifer Dusseault. Elected the Attleboro police, addressed Homecoming King and Queen. the students Dec. II, and will The week was coordinated by return Dec. 18. the student council and was the Fingerprinting for children is last function for six-year council available through the program. moderator Jim Rusconi, who will All grades will attend a Dec: 19 be succeeded by Brian Dickinson. performa!,\ce of Dan Butterworth's Students Laura Watson and Chrismarionettes at the Knights of tian Lamarche will participate in Columbus Hall. an upcoming Southeastern MasWinners in a recent Edaville sachusetts District Music Festival.

Railroad essay contest for grades 3 Miss Watson will play the oboe in . and 5 were Carl Kazen, Brianne the district orchestra and Miss Pouliot, Sarah Rando, Sarah Lamarche the clarinet in the band.

Keane, Lindsay Pemberton and Junior varsity cheerleaders Kerry Grochmal. earned second place in the recent High honprs for the first quarter Massachusettes and New England were awarded to Kristen O'Keefe, championships. At the latter event grade 7, and Christopher Caruso, the squad qualified for national Kelly O'Brien and Martin Wyspicompetition Feb. 3 in Orlando. anski, grade 8.

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teacher John Travers, will feature students from other grades in a ch'orus and a Nativity tableau.

Kindergarteners recently held a kindergarten birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese's to celebrate class fellowship and spirit. Pupils made craft items anc) were served pizza and cake.

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Also on Sunday Connolly cohosted a hockey jamboree with Durfee High School. The Connolly icemen bested Xavierian and Somerset.

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A junior and senior Christmas semiformal will be held Qec. 29 at Independence Harbor.

A placement test will be administered at Connolly from 8 to 11:45 a.m. tomorrow for students applying for their freshman or sophomore year at the school.

SSe Peter and Paul School Each day during Advent, 6th through 8th grade students at SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, lead the school in prayer and lighting the Advent wreath. Also, students and friends may hang decorations remembering a loved one or a special prayer intention on a Christmas tree outside principal .

Kathleen Burt's office.

The Service Club, directed by sixth grade teacher Terry Rosseter, is coordinating a schoolwide service project of creating Christmas cards for clients of Bristol Elder Services. Students also made decorations for the Dec. 2 Catholic Social Services Adoptive Christmas Party held at SS. Peter and Paul parish.

Eighth graders have been paired with kindergarten prayer pals this month. The pals sit together at school functions, pray for one another and have written letters to Santa. The letters will'be read at a punch and cookies party hosted by the kindergarteners.

On Dec. 6, an eighth grade student dressed as St. Nicholas for a prayer service celebration of the saint's feast day.

Grades I through 4 performed a Christmas musical, "The Little Tree's Christmas Gift," on Wednesday and Thursday. A senior citizens' showing was held on Tuesday. Patricia Benoit was the program's musical director and M. Lynne Murray was the storyteller.

Students in grades 6 through 8 will present "Christmas Around the World'" to younger students on Dec. 21. Fifth graders remembered the foundation day of the Sisters of Mercy at a Dec. 12 schoolwide prayer service honoring the sisters who serve the school and parish.

School will close for the holidays with a birthday party for Jesus. Prayers, songs and the story of the first Christmas will be 'part of the festivities, and a giant birthday cake will be shared by all.

Stang graduate finishes fieldwork Peter D. Sleight of Acushnet, a graduate student at Springfield College, recently completed health/ fitness fieldwork at Fitcorp in Waltham.

An alumnus of Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, Sleight majored in health and fitness as a college undergraduate.

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The Bishop Stang student council will sponsor a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at 7 p.m. Dec. 18 on the school common. The mixed chorus will perform and lead the group in song.

Friends and alumni ofthe North Dartmouth school are invited to attend the celebration.

Bishop Feehan The music and dance departments of Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, will present"A Night in December" - an original musical production written and directed ,?y Alden Harrison, Joseph Taylor and Elaine Saulnier tonight and Sunday in the Feehan Theatre.

Taunton Catholic Middle School Taunton Catholic Middle School will present a Christmas musical, "He Came in Love," at 7 p.m. Dec. 18 at the school.

It will be performed by drama club members under direction of Daniel Thompson and by the TCMS Band, directed by Kristen Voccio.

The Home and School Association will provide refreshments following the show.

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Tuesday, Dec. 18 at 8:30a.m. and at 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 19 at 8:30 a.m.

7 p.m. - Penance Service - Immaculate Conception Thursday, Dec. 20 at 8:30 a.m.

7 p.m. - Penance Service - St. John's Church Friday, Dec. 21 - 7 p.m. - Penance Service Mt. Carmel Saturday, Dec. 22 from 4 - 5 p.m. and at 7 p.m.

Christmas Eve - Vigil Mass in English at 5:30 p.m.

Midnight Mass - Bilingual Ceremony.

Christmas Day - In English: 8:15; 11 :00; 5:30 p.m.

In Portuguese: 9:30 a.m. & 12:15 p.m.

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To all our Parishioners we wish A BLESSED AND -HOLY CHRISTMAS Msgr. Luiz G. Mendonca • Rev. Steven R. Furtado • Rev. Daniel O. Reis • Rev.- James Ferry Deacon Paul J. Macedo

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