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Did Supreme Court do Catholic press a favor?

WASHINGTON (NC) - The Supreme Court pr.ovided a stirring endorsement of the First Amendment and may have done the nonprofit press a favor when it ruled in favor of a pro-life group and its election edition newsletter.

In a 5-4 decision, the high COlm ruled Dec. 15 that applying a law forbidding corporate campaign activity to Massachusetts Citizens for Life was unconstitutional because it "infringes protected speech without a compelling justification for such infringement."

Although the decision involved corporate law, and a pro-life group, not a religious newspaper, the high court might have done the nonprofit press a favor, according to James Doyle, executive director of the Catholic Press Association.

"This is a really ringing affirmation of the First Amendment free speech rights of a non-profit corporation," he said. "I think it's important. It may be useful as a precedent" for any future dispute involving the religious press, he added, underscoring the words "may be."

Internal Revenue Service rulings have forced newspapers published by organizations with tax-exempt

status to avoid editorial endorsements of specific candidates and refrain from offering candidate surveys and voting record compilations in a manner that could be perceived as biased.

For example, according to the U.S. Catholic Conference, voting record compilations "must deal with a wide range of subjects," refrain from stating if a politician agrees with the church's or organization's position, and not reveal whet-her the church or organization agrees or disagrees with the legislator's vote; newspapers must exert similar _care in candidate surveys.

Nonetheless, "although a Catholic newspaper may not endorse any candidate, it may report election and other political news in an ' unbiased manner,"the USCC told diocesan newspapers in a 1984 memorandum.

In the Supreme Court case, Federal Commission vs. Massachusetts Citizens for Life Inc., the pro-life group got into trouble over a special election edition of its newsletter. While not endorsing candi-. dates, the special publication listed voting records, highlighted with photographs those politicians with

especially good pro-life records, noted whether candidates' records complied with the anti-abortion group's beliefs, and urged citizensto "Vote Pro-Life."

The Supreme Court unanimously refused to accord the newsletter's special edition the exemption

granted to the news media, such as daily newspapers, to publish political advocacy and editorials.

Furthermore, it said Massachusetts Citizens for Life broke the law, as a corporate entity, by making what was in effect a contribution on behalf of certain candi-

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THE ANCHOR -

Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., J,an. 2, 1987

A welcoming parish is model for society WASHINGTON (NC) - The parish that learns to welcome the immigrant and still function smoothly can become a model for U.S. society, which must do the same, said a U.S. Catholic Conference official.

If "we can create' a viable new type of parish in which stereotypes are broken down and newcomers are welcomed, we can show society how it can function" while accepting waves of new immigrants, said Scalabrinian Father Silvano M. Tomasi, USCC director of pastoral care of migrants and refugees.

He was interviewed in connection with National Migration Week, Jan. 5-10.

Welcoming new immigrants to parish life is no easy task, Father Tomasi acknowledged. Due to language difficulties, immigrants , are usually "not brave enough" to take the initiative injoining parish life, he said, so priests, nuns and lay persons who form parish teams must actively recruit them.

Father Tomasi suggested concrete steps for parishes to welcome newcomers: - Planning an evening to celebrate the different cultures of new immigrants and inviting newcomers to tell stories about why they came, their exodus experiences, the churches they left behind, and their expectations.

- Inserting the language of the newcomers in certain parts of the Mass.

I - Initiating a scholarship program to open the doors of the parish school to immigrants whose parents cannot afford to pay for a Catholic education.

- Teaching children about immigrants in the parish by including study of their countries of origin in the parish school curriculum.

In a pastoral statement on mi-

grants and refugees called "Together, A New People," approved by the U,S, bishops"Administrative Committee in September and released in early December, pastors and parish teams were urged to be sensitive to the presence of immigrants so that parishioners will realize "there are no aliens in the church."

The statement said that "the biblical injunction to extend hospitality to the stranger overcomes the tendency to see newcomers as a threat to our comfort, institutions, culture and lifestyles."

It encouraged parishes to welcome immigrants and refugees by: - Organizing Bible study groups where the meaning of migration and exile in the history of salvation is highlighted.

- Sponsoring leadership teams that "visit, seek and catechize" those who do not come to church because of language and cultural differences or lack of mobility.

- Offering programs for youth that take into account they are often caught 'between the traditions and culture. of their immigrant parents and their U.S. peers.

- Appointing an immigrant or refugee representative to the parish council.

While "hundreds" of parishes' have already taken steps to open their facilities to new immigrants, other parishes where all decisions seem to be made by one select "clique" of parishioners would profit by changing course and welcoming newcomers to participate, Father Tomasi said, since they "forcethe parish to become catholic with a small'c' "by making everyone aware that "the world is a big place."

Knowing the language of the n,ewcomers to the parish, while important, is "secondary," accordingto FatherTomasi. What's more

important,he said, is "communication of the heart."

When immigrants feel they've been given the "cold shoulder" at the parish, the priest said, they look elsewhere, frequently joining fundamentalist sects.

He said the new immigrants, most of whom come from Asia and Latin America, bring to the United States "language, culture and devotional life that are radically different" than those to which many U.S. citizens are accustomed.

This, he said, makes "building bridges more difficult."

Church to extend helping hand to illegal aliens WASHINGTON (NC) - Parish volunteers may help as many as I million illegal immigrants to legalize their status, said a church official.

Parishes have been chosen as SISTER CHOUINARD the basic church unit to work with illegal aliens seeking legalization since "these people live in parishes," says Msgr. Nicholas DiMarzio, director ofthe U.S. Catholi<; Conference's Migration and Refugee Services. said Dennis R. Poyant, St. Mary's Sister Louise Angele Chouinard, A new federal immigration law principal. "She has dedicated over SSJ, a teacher at St. Mary's School, passed by Congress in October 50 years to the service of Catholic New Bedford, is among 1986 reciallows immigrants who arrived in pients of the Miriam Joseph Far- elementary educat~on. For the past the United States before 1982 and rell Award for distinguished teach- nine years she has served as relihave resided here illegally and congion teacher and librarian at St. ing on the elementary school level. tinuously to apply for legalization.

Mary's school. Her love of childThe award is presented annually Church agencies will be among ren and her service to others always to 12 outstanding teachers across those helping illegal aliens detertake precedence over her own the nation by the National Catholic mine if they are eligible. needs.

Educational Association. Sister While the number of aliens eli"She epitomizes the qualities so Chouinard is NCEA Region One necessary in Catholic education gible for legalization is unknown, recipient. She will receive the award today. Her colleagues regard her Msgr. DiMarzio said that accordat the NCEA annual convention, as an educator of unparalleled ing to "soft figures" based on the to be held this year in New Orleans ability and have nothing but praise 1980 census, 3 million illegal aliens in April. may apply for legalizatio~ and for her contributions to the school "possibly I million will be assisted "Sister Louise is more than deserv- environment and educational proby Catholic Church structure." ing to be honored by this award," grams."

Nearly 160 of the 183 U.S. dioceses have appointed legalization directors to work with parishes on the project. Msgr. DiMarzio said.

WASHINGTON (NC) - An implants itself in the wall of the He said Migration and Refuexperimental pill found to cause uterus. Essential to the maintegees Services offices in New York, nance of the tiny boy or girl's life is early abortions for about 85 perWashington, San Francisco and cent of the women who take it is progesterone.

EI Paso, Texas, will coordinate "ch~mical warfare" agai~st unborn "A progesterone antagonist (like church involvement in the legali?ables says, Dr. .John ~Illke, pr~sR U-486) prevents progesterone zation program, Ident o~the NatIOnal Right to LIfe from being used by the baby and it Training materials for volunteers CommIttee. simply withers on the vine. The are being developed, he said, and Its proponents consider it a little tyke dies and drops off. The the program will be explained in breakthrough which will allow effect in a hormonal sense is to detail in late January to diocesan women to have abortions at home. starve it to death. It is an abortive personnel through a nationwide Developed in France, the new agent." teleconference arranged by the pill, R U-486, serves as a contraR U-486 is "chemical warfare Catholic Telecommunications Netceptive or abortifacient by block- against unborn babies, The other work of America. ing cells in the uterus from receiv- is surgical, this is chemical," he Parish workers will need to be ing progesterone, a hormone need- said. fluent in Spanish and' English, Willke also questioned how safe Msgr. DiMarzio said: because ed b~ the uterus to prepare for and about 75 percent of immigrants contmue a pregnancy. the pill would be for women. eligible to apply for legal residency Frances Kissling, president of A report in the Dec. 18 edition are Hispanic. of the New England, Journal of Catholics for a Free Choice which He said the parish volunteers Medicine said that in 85 percent of opposes church teaching o~ aborwould help applicants complete ~omen te~ted the dru.g. prevent~d tion, said the ,drug was s'o promisforms and gather necessary docuImplantatl<,:>n of a fer~lh~ed egg 10, ing that it warrants further testing ments. He expressed hope that the womb If taken wlthm 10 days in the United States. agencies assisting aliens would be after a missed menstrual period which often signals pregency.

So~~ observers s~y stron,g permitted to file applications on . . oppOSitIOn to the new pill by antltheir behalf with the federal immiThe 1Ove?tor of. the pili, D:. abortion groups and the reluctance gration department.

Etle~ne-Emll~ Bauheu of,the l!mof drug companies to produce a verslty of Pans, has descnbed It as new contraceptive because of lawWhat We Can Do "a, w~y to fool" the uterus into suits against others will keep it , reJect10g an egg. from being tested and distributed "Few of us will hav.e the greatWillke said in an interview his in the United States. ness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small otganiz~,tio~ is "unalterably According to the French reportion of events and in the total opposed to It. searchers, the pill is now being of all those acts will be written the "Let's be honest about the ter- tested in several parts of the world history of this generation." minology. It is a classic abortifa- and is about to be marketed in Robert F. Kennedy cient," he said. "The tiny new baby several European countries.

New Bedford teacher receives national award

"Chemical warfare" against unborn

CHA to study frail elderly WASHINGTON (NC) - A task force of the Catholic Health Association has begun aone-year study of health care needs of the nation's frail elderly and the role of families, churches and communities in financing such care.

The 12-member task force, established by the association's board of trustees, is headed by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan of Brooklyn, N. Y. It held its first meeting last month in Washington.

William Cox, vice president of government services in CHA's Washington office, said the group's goals are:· - Articulating the theological and ethical basis for the Catholic Church's concern for health care for the frail elderly.

- Ass~ssing the burdens of such health care.

- Examining ways to initiate services and coordinate existing church services, offered by national church organizations, bishops, pastors, diocesan health coordinators, charities, religious institutions, families and health care providers.

- Looking at the responsibilities of the larger community to provide services.

- Studying private and public mechanisms for financing longterm care and how to develop new financial resources.

"It is the frail elderly who need the support networks to get them through life. They're unique in many respects and the support mechanisms are not always there," Cox said. .

FATHER COLLARD

Father William Collard

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin was principal celebrant and Father Roger D. LeDuc was homilist at the MassnfChristian Burial offered Dec. -27 at Sacred Heart Church, North Attleboro, for Father Wil"There has been dramatic growth liam E. Collard, 81, who died Dec. in the population of the elderly.

23 at the Catholic Memorial Home, the very elderly, those 85 and over, Fall River. are growing faster than any other Father Collard was home cogroup and are in the greatest need chaplain from 1972 until 1980, of community, and social, psychobringing holy communion to resilogical and spiritual care." dents even when confined to a Cox said the task force will meet wheelchair. In 1980 he retired from several times over the next year to active ministry but continued in produce a report for the trustees, residence at the home. who, if they accept it, will present Born in Fall River Dec. 8, 1905, it at the CHA's 1988 assembly. the son of the late Arthur D. and Zoe (Boule) Collard, he prepared' CHA represents more than 900 for the priesthood at· the minor U.S. Catholic hospitals and longseminary in Montreal and at St. term care facilities.

Mary's Seminary, Baltimore. He was ordained June 10, 1933, by Bishop James E. Cassidy in St. - Mary~s Cathedral.

The Mass of the Resurrection Father Collard's first assignment . was offered Dec. 20 at Presenta- was at Notre Dame parish, Fall River, where he was associate pastion Church, North Providence, torfrom 1933 to 1941, then serving for Sister M. Angeline Bernard, RJM, 81, who died Dec. 17. until 1943 as an Army chaplain A native of St. Gervais, Quebec, during World War II. and the daughter of the late Michel Returning to diocesan service, and Eugenie (Lantagne) Bernard, he was associate pastor at St. she was professed as a Religious of Roch's parish, Fall River, until Jesus and Mary in 1927. During 1950, then was again at Notre her active career she taught ele- Dame until 1955. mentary grades and religion, art He was administrator at Holy and French in the Providence and Fall River dioceses, retiring in 1969.

Sister Bernard

She is survived by three sisters, Sister Marie Ange Bernard, SCSH, of Beauport, Canada, and Ida Vermette and Leone Bernard, both of Nashua, NH; and three brothers, Adrien Bernard of Nashua, Brother Michael Bernard, S M, of Lawrence, and Brother Aime Bernard, SSC, of Chertsey, Canada.

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Father Collard is survived by a brother, Raymond L. Collard, and a sister, Regina Carley, both of North Attleboro. 10. nieces and nephews include Rev. Bruce W. Collard of the Manchester, N.H., diocese.

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themoorin~ The Challenge of Moral Leadership As we enter 1987 and move closer to the turn of the century, one finds it difficult to discuss the status of moral leadership in a secular America.

For all practical purposes the notion of separation of church and state in this land has come to mean to many people the separation of religiously-based values from public policy. But it seems that the period is past when it was assumed that moral -issues could be resolved simply by removing one side of the debate from the marketplace. The signs of the times indicate that in a profound way we are entering a new phase of this so-called separation.

Today the role of religion in public life has dramatically changed. The evolution of the religious New Right, the Moral Majority and Christian Action groups of all descriptions has catalyzed this change, ·probably occasioned by the collapse of . mainstream Protestantism, creating a vacuum filled by the more fundamental and energetic factions of American religion.

The Protestant ethic, which since Puritan days has dominated American culture has abdicated its formative role, thereby raising the question of which new religious communities will provide moral leadership to today's public.

What has happened with remarkable speed is that mainline Protestantism has succumbed to the charisma of the secular society. The rapidly' declining membership of Protestant churches is a clear testimony to dissatisfaction. In general, they have failed quite miserably to bear witness to ethical and moral religious values.

These are the churches that are in the doldrums, in institutional trouble, out of touch with their members. They have substituted sociology for the Gospel, running all kinds of programs and issuing pronouncem..ents on every conceivable subje.ct but lacking a believable connection' to the doctrines and re'velation of the Christian faith.

Into this chaos have journeyed the new groups who are prepared to assume moral and ethical leadership. They have recognized the power of the media and have used them with unprecedented success. Many who were wandering in the desert of the secular society hav~ found meaning in this new religious dynamism. The rise in the number of adherents to Jewish orthodoxy, for instance, cannot be overlooked by those . who have watered down the rich Judaic tradition to meet the standards of American secularism. There can be no doubt that the Jewish community as reflected by this trend will playa vital role in any reconstruction of a public ethic.

Above all, there is the Catholic Church. In many ways, this should be the Catholic moment in America, the time when Catholics, with their rich intellectual tradition, with their understanding of the city of man and the city of God, should play the culture-forming role denied them in the past.

But the Catholic Church will not rise to this challenge if its leaders imitate mainline Protestantism. Catholics will play their part on~y if they are true to the Church in every sense of the word.

The task will not be easy. It will be burdensome and even severe. But the contributions that can be made by the Church in the areas of public ethics and social morality are potentially enormous.

We are, in short, challenged to greatness not only for this New Year but for all the years leading us to the third millennium.

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Thoughts on the pastoral

By Father Kevin J. Harrington

With publication by the U.S. bishops of "Economic Justice for All," their book-length pastoral letter on the economy, a new understanding of the Church's moral authority is emerging.

Ironically, the method of argumentation used by the bishops in arriving at their conclusions is proving as instructive as the conclusions themselves. But time alone' will tell whether the pastoral will significantly influence not only the 53 million American Catholics but the American political community as well.

Sacred Scripture has much to say about poverty and justice. The bishops, however, are aware that it does not provide us with specific answers to today's questions. Therefore, as well as consulting specific church teaching throughout the centuries, they took the less usual step of initiating painstaking consultations with experts in the fields touched on by the pastoral. I am sure many bishops learned more about theories of social justice, economics and political science through their involvement with the letter than they did as students.

Prominent Catholiclaymen such as former Treasury Secretary William Simon and theologian Mi-.

chael N.ovak have persistentlychalenged the letter. Neither faults the bishops' emphasis upon Scripture and tradition but they differ radically on the merits of capitalism.

Such dissent is healthy and an important element in the ultimate influence the letter will exert.

Archbisttop Rembert Weakland,' chairman of the pastoral commit.tee, delights in the debate it has engendered. Its purpose, after all, is not to end debate but to challenge people to develop their moral thinking.

Pluralism in certain areas of Church teaching should be considered desirable. The relationship between ethical pluralism and the authority of the Church has been and should. be complex. Christian tradition has developed through the gradual resolution of tensions between Christian communities and other cultures to whom they have preached the Gospel. Indeed, it has become ever more obvious in recent years that care must be taken to avoid identification of Christianity with any particular cultural setting.

The bishops apply natural law means in reaching their conclusions. S t. Tho mas Aq uinas pointed out in the 13th century that the more detailed a problem, , the less clear it will normally be as

to how the natural law applies to it. It must be admitted that the study of human nature and the -attempt to interpret it in moral terms are difficult and not likely to produce neat and easy solutions to our moral dilemmas. That there should be a certain pluralism in the views we may defensibly hold on ethics is an inescapable consequence of the inadequate evidence available to us as we form our moral beliefs.

It is inevitable that there should be a wide diversity of opinion on how we should help the poor in our country and in the Third WorId. Our knowledge ofeconomics, sociology and what one might call political psychology is as yet so inadequate that no one can guarantee success in addressing the issue.

Nevertheless, we can unequivocally state that the fruits of morality are happiness and justice. Their relative absence in the lives of so many Americans is what has motivated the bishops to suggest another direction for our economy.

In an imperfect world, our bishops have challenged us to strive for perfection and not to be content with the status quo. Compassion, they tell us, must be translated into specific policies initiated by people who have a vision of ajust society.

Our parent-sages With all the books, authorities and wo,rkshops on parenting, I believe we've missed the best resource of a'll - parents who have finished the job and can evaluate what they did right and what they would change' if all were to start over again. I love it when I have older parents in my workshops because they have so much wisdom to share.

Yet, how rarely we look to these sages f9r expertise. As we struggle with recalcitrant toddlers and rebellious teens we ignore the fact that in our neighborhoods, families and pews sit parents who have gone through it all and survived.

One of the questions I ask these graduate parents is, "If you were to parent all over again, what would you do differently?"

The most familiar response I hear is, "I would take more time to enjoy my children. I would be less concerned on how they might turn out and more relaxed with them. I wouldn't worry so much about thumb-sucking or dirty rooms."

There's a message for us here.

Why aren't we listening to it? In a time when renewed pressure on children is making itself felt, it is an important message. We're seeing parents who are determined that their children will swim at 18 months, read at four, and be prepared to choose a college and lifetime work by IS. These parents are so bent on turning out a successful product, they disallow their 'children an

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opportunity to be children. Let's listen to our sages who tell us they DOLORES wish they had relaxed instead of pressured their children. They have the grown product to evaluate, CURRAN surely the best research around.

Other parents indicate that they would be less protective. "I would let my children risk more," one She continued, "I cringe when I said. "I was always trying to protect them - their physical health think how miserable I made them and safety, their friendships and during toilet training." She turned their fun. Today, they seem so cau- to the young mothers present. "Ask tious. They want to be assured of yourselves. How many 21-yearthe successful outcome of any new olds are walking around in diventure before they risk trying it." apers? Don't worry about it so "I would make my children take much."

"I wouldn't fight with my chilon more responsibility for themselves," one father,said. "Let them dren so much," said a mother. suffer the consequences of their "When I think of the many nights behavior instead of stepping in that we went to bed u'nhappy with and rescuing them. Like the time one another over their clothing or one of ours got into minor diffi- homework, I regret it. I would culty at school. I should have let have put up with more and not him suffer the results instead of said as many hurting things."

"If I were rearing my ch'ildren trying to soften the punishment."

He speaks for many older par- again, I would never, never spank ents who rushed in to rescue their or hit them. I dearly wish I hadn't. children from teachers, coaches, I don't understand how I could hit police and other authorities. If the people I loved so much," said ki'ds are forced to deal with conse- . another parent. quences of their misbehavior, they I suggest that when a parish learn far more than if they're con- considers a parenting effort, instead stantly rescued by parents. of looking around for a name "I would throwaway all those speaker or the newest guru in child books on when a child should psychology, they look around their walk, talk, and be toilet-trained," pews, collect some of their grandsaid a sprightly grandmother. "I parents and offer an evening on, was so terrified that my children "What I Would Do If I Were weren't normal, I put terrific pres- Starting My Family All Over sure on them to develop acc,ording Again." It's likely to be the wisest to the charts." advice around.

The danger point How high are emotions ridInstead of ultraliberals meeting ing over recent controversies with ultraliberals, or ultraconserin the church? If the reports vatives with ultraconservatives we've been hearing on this are each side taking potshots at the only half true, it's time to become other from a distance - the time has come for dialogue between the very concerned.

There have been reports in the different sides.

If a newspaper constantly is last few months ~n meetings of running down certain liberals or various Catholic groups that seemed a far cry from the Christian certain conservatives, perhaps the charity and unity Catholics are time has come for its editorial staff supposed to embody. Possible dis- and those it criticizes to meet each other in the flesh, to, sit down and turbances during the pope's 1987 visit to America were the subject hash things out until some unity can be found. ~ of another report.

Re~ently a the,olo~ian whose As a result of current tensions, even some theologians and lecturers regarded as agitators for change in the church have implored audiences to calm down and work GUADALAJARA, Mexico toward unity. .

(N C) - Hundreds of thousands of I am worried that divisions Mexicans illegally seeking work in among Catholics are at the danger the United States need sympathy point. ' ,and help, said a Mexican ~ishops' There is the split between those conference official. While the U.S. who stress that the church isn't a government has the right, to condemocracy and those who feel the trol its borders, any larg~-scale.

American church should become deportation of illegal alie'ns creates more democratic since its people great social problems on both sides have imbibed a democratic apof the border, said Bishop Emilio proach to problems through their C. Berlie Belaunzarim 6f Tijuana. culture.

Northern Mexican and California There are those who feel Vatibishops meet regularly to explore can II was a disaster, and those ways of ministering to the massive who feel the truths of our faith floating migrant population, 'said would have lost their appeal had the bishop, who heads the Mexinot Vatican II urged renewal. can conference's commission on The pros and cons of certain migration and tourism. disciplinary actions by Church officials have charged emotions to 1I11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111t1111: a point at which people are explodTHE ANCHOR (USPS-545-Q20), Second ing. Energies the church should Class Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass, direct elsewhere are being focused Published weekly except the week of July 4 on internal battles. and the week after Christmas at 410 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mass. 02720 by The time has come to consider the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall how best to heal these rifts, Many River. Subscription price by mail, postpaid feel that more face-to-face dialogue , $8.00 per year. Postmasters send address between conflicting parties is needchanges to The' Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall ed.

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By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK

teachings were censured by the Vatican took part in a TV presentation with a Vatican official, a prominent archbishop. Television provided the public an opportunity to hear the arguments from those directly concerned with the issues. .

Not only was the veracity of what they were holding easier to judge but, more important, each individual's character and intent could be better understood.

We in the church cannot go on beating on each other or we may find that all of us have lost in the

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How easy, it would be for the church'in the United States to lose its balance. How quickly we would learn that it is hard to regain lost balance.

I believe that there must be a physical coming together, a concentration on who is speaking rather than merely what is said.

The personalities involved in conflicts must meet.

The time has come to move quickly into ways of heading off the growing cynicism, antagonism, unfair labeling and devilish tactics we human beings use on each other.

When people meet' firsthand, the role of second guessing is undermined. It brings the real truth out and short:'circuits the kind of prolonged battle in which each side moves into its garrison to shell the other with an artillery of words.

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Rules for Communion fasting Q. I am a Sister working in a parish taking care of the sick. Can you tell me who is exempt from fasting an hour before Communion? (Louisiana) A. Generally speaking, anyone is excused from the required fast before Communion if there exists a relatively serious reason. The regulation concerning the fast is not placed by the church to keep people from Communion but to assist them toward a reverent approach to and preparation for this sacrament.

Thus no one is expected to stay away from Communion if it is necessary to eat or drink in order, for example, to keep from becoming ill. This is clearly the intent of the ch.urch, as indicated in the following. Certain other situations might enter the picture but I imagine you are most concerned with the sick. ' As you know, the present rule of the church is that we fast for one hour from food and beverages with the exception of water before going to Communion. This practice continues the ancient tradition of the church which it is hoped will express and increase our devotion in receiving the Eucharist.

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exaggerated and twisted what they saw into faults, and ran to their superior to tell on others.

Does anything which hurts or destroys a person or reputation in some way flow from some kind of evil?

Yet it seems that the church places these sins in lesser consequence. To me they are worse.

I also have known very good, upright Catholics who are cruel in little ways. They gossip, down others, are arrogant when dealing with less important people, humiliate others and so on. Yet they consider themselves good Catholics because they apparently have come to believe that these things are not as important. I question this.

I am single and believe I am living in a chaste way, so I am not trying to justify a way of life. But I do question a lot of things like this that I think are upside down, but which many Catholics believe the church has taught them. (Ohio) A. Sometimes people speak to, me of someone else, making a Because of their special needs, this discipline is considerably re- remark such as "She (or he) is an laxed for the sick and the aged, immoral person." If I'm feeling and for people like yourself wlio more than usually cantankerous, I reply, "You mean she gossips a take care of them.

Thus the period of the eucharis- lot?"

The reaction is usually an extic fast is reduced to "about a quarpression of dismay which seems to ter of an hour" for: I. The sick in hospitals or at mean, "What in the world has that home, even if they are not con- to do with what I said?"

I would phrase some of your fined to bed.

2. Those of advanced age, even statements a little differently and in such matters we need to be cauif not bedridden, who are confined to their homes or a nursing home. tious about falling into intolerance and rash judgment. But you make 3. Sick or elderly priests.

4. Persons who care for the sick a good and important point. Thank you for writing. or aged and any family of the sick A free brochure, "Infant Bapor aged who wish to receive ComCatholic Practice Today" is tism: munion with them when they canavailable by sending a stamped, not conveniently observe the oneself-addressed envelope to Father hour fast.

John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Par(Rite for Holy Communion and ish, 704 N. Main St., BloomingWorship of the Eucharist Outside ton, III. 61701. Questions for this of Mass, 24.) . , column should be sent to Father The Code of Canon Law simply Dietzen at the same address. says that the sick and aging, and those who care for them can receive the Eucharist even if they have consumed something during' the preceding hour (canon 919).

Obviously the intention is that Jan. 4 the 'sick should be given every pos1961, Rev. Eugene L. Dion, sible opportunity to receive Holy Pastor" Blessed Sacrament, Fall Cbmmunion. .

Medicine never breaks the com- River munion fast for anyone.

Jan. 6 '1906, Rev. James F. Roach, Q: I read your column regularly Founder, Immaculate Conception, and must say something that has Taunton puzzled me a long time. If I sin I I

would rather sin by loving too Jan. 7 much than by not loving enough 1970, Rev. Alfred R. Forni, Pasbecause God is Iove:1 don't under- tor, St. Francis of Assisi, New stand the church's stance on cate- , Bedford gorizing sins.

Jan. 8 Sins of sex, we are told, are very 1940, Rev. Alfred J. Carrier" wrong in comparison to lying, gossiping, criticizing. Often sins of Founder, St. James, Taunton 1885, Rev. John Kelly, Founder, sex are the outcome of love which St. Patrick, Fall River has become inordinate when human 1944, Rev. Arthur C. Lenaghan, weakness and frailty enter.

I have known religious who were Chaplain, United States Army pure as angels, yet displayed a Jan. 9 streak of meanness, jealousy and 1982, Rev. William F. Morris, dislike of a particular person, and Pastor, Corpus Christi, Sandwich

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,The Anchor Friday, Jan. 2, 1987

Bishops' building gets donation WASHINGTON (NC) - The Catholic Order of Foresters, a family-oriented Catholic fraternal insurance society, will donate $250,000 to a new building fund for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and U.S. Catholic Conference. .

Groundbreaking for the new building took place last August and construction is expected to begin by late March.

Francis X. Doyle J L, associate general secretary for the NCCBUSCC, said construction had been slated to begin in October but delays arose when the bishops' conference, influenced by cost considerations, decided against having the firm which handled the preliminary work do the actual construction. .

Four other general contractors; have been asked to submit bids and are expected to do so by the end of January, he said.

Construction has been estimated as taking about 20 months.

Several foundations and organizations have donated to the $20 million project, which is also being financed through the sale of the current headquarters. Donors have included the Knights of Columbus, the John McShain Foundation, the Catholic Golden Age - Foundation, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, the Pallottines'lmmaculate Conception province. the DaughterS oflsabella and the Laffey-McHugh Foundation.

Contraceptives

MEETING WITH Very Rev. John J. Smith, diocesan director of vocations, third left, and Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, fourth left, at annual Mass and dinner are seminarians Daniel LaCroix, St. Mary's parish, New Bedford; Craig Pregana, St. Louis, Fall River; Michael Kelley, Sacred Heart, North Attleboro;George Scales, Our Lady of Assumption, Osterville.

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Did Supreme Court do press a favor?

Dear Editor: I was shocked and astonished at the proposal and at the proponents of a recommendation of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, that increased access to contraceptives be made to teenagers. (Boston Globe 12/10/86) You must understand, there is no consent of the parents required!

People of every persuasion should protest this unconscionable proposal with every means possible.

Write, telephone, telegraph, buttonhole federal, state, city and town representatives, especially school boards and committees. Discuss this with your priest, minister or rabbi and at meetings.- Fight this iniquitous thing!

What of the moral aspects of the widespread, indiscriminate distribution of contraceptives to grammar and high school children?

Why not free alcohol and cocaine?

Do these academicians have teenage children or grandchildren? If they have and truly love them, how could they possibly support such a godless method, devoid of all moral concepts?

For a nation founded and nurtured in a basic belief in God, morally we have come a long way.

DOWN. If the sexual morals of our teenage youth are downgraded, in what area of morality do you then expect teenagers to maintain any standard of decency?

Why not lie, cheat, steal, drink . or snort?

Oh, the "arrogance of the intellect"!

God Bless America? God Help America!

Robert E. Liddell North Falmouth

to speculate when you've got difThe USCC and its twin, the ferent kinds of statutes." .

National Conference of Catholic Bishops, are fighting subpoenas as From a strict, legal standpoint, third parties in a suit brought the ruling does not affect the IRS against the IRS by a pro-abortion issue at all, Doyle concurred. "It group seeking to have the church's really does not change the IRS tax-exempt status removed. (position), or the way Catholic One Washington lawyer famil- diocesan papers should operate iar with various religion-related against the background of that," court battles recommended against he said. "There's still the need to be trying to link the Supreme Court . careful." _" _ More Important decision too 'closely 'to the church The court majority itself pointed "Our Lord does not care so press's concerns over the IRS re- out the narrowness of its decision, much for the importance of our strictions. and, in a footnote, cited its ruling works as for the love with which "It certainly involves a different in a 1983 case in which it deterthey are done." - St. Teresa of kind of statute," the lawyer said, mined that a tax exemption is a Avila requesting anonymity. "It's hard subsidy and "there is no right to have speech subsidized by the government. " "It may 'be that the class of organizations affected by our holding today will be small," the court said in the Massachusetts Citizens v AT1CAN CITY (NC) - Pope for Life ruling, "That prospect, John Paul II has reiterated hopes Honor the Immaculate Heart of Mary however, does not diminish the that Catholic-Orthodox dialogue significance of the rights at stake. .will bring full unity between the Practice the devotion of the five First Saturdays " ... We must be as vigilant two churches. ~ against the modest diminution of Successful dialogue "would proThis devotion was requested by Our Lady of Fatima on July 13, 1917, when at speech as we are against its sweep- gressively eliminate that which still sh,e said: "God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. ing restriction," it added. remains of past attitudes of reDoyle said the court's comment serve," he said in a recent message "I sholl ~ome to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart regarding the First Amendment to Greek Orthodox Ecumenical and the Communion of reparation on the first Saturdays. If people listen to my may offer the most long-term sig- Patriarch Dimitrios I of Constanrequests, Russia will be converted and there will be peace." nificance of the case. tinople.

"It seems to be important because Then again, on December 10, 1925, Our Lady appeared to Sister Lucio, one International Catholic-Orthodox this ruling strongly supports First of the children of Fatima, and told her the following: dialogue began after a 1979 meetAmendment free speech rights of ing between the pope and the "Announce in my nome that I promise to assist at the hour of death with the non-profit corporations," hI': said. patriarch in Istanbul, Turkey. A "I think that is important because main obstacle to unity is theologigraces necessary for solvation, all those who on the first Saturday of five con路 anything that supports that right is cal disagreement over the role of secutive months, sholl . all to the good." the papacy. Orthodox do not be1. Go to confession and receive Holy Communion, lieve the pope is the supreme authority in the church or that he has oj 2. Recite the Rosary, control over a local bishop in the GLASGOW, Scotland (NC)- bishop's own diocese. , 3. And keep me company for a quarter of an hour while Catholic members of a top ScotThe papal message was delivered tish soccer team have been barred to the patriarch by. Cardinal J 0meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary from making the Sign of the Cross hannes Willebrands, president of after scoring a goal. David Hay, the Vatican Secretariat for Pro4. With the intention of making reparation to me." manager of Glasgow Celtic, a club moting Chris!ian Unity, who headI with a strong Catholic tradition, ed a Vatican delegation to IstanTo practice this devotion, you must fulfill the requests of said the move. was prompted by bul for ceremonies marking the tensions between the team and a feast of St. Andrew, Nov.. 30.

Our Lady, doing so in reparation for the offenses committed Protestant-backed rival club. "The St. Andrew, brother ofSt. Peter, against the Immaculate' Heart of Mary. Confession r:nay be nature ofthe Scottish way oflife is is patron saint of 'the Orthodox made during eight days before or after the Communion. .. such that this gesture can be in- Church. flammatory," said the team manEach year an Orthodox delegaager, who added he had been wor- tion visits the Vatican Jun'e 29. the. ried by chants from supporters feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, and a urging players to make the Sign of Catholic delegation visits Istanbul the Cross. . for the feast of St:路 Andrew.

Continued from Page One tion like the pro-life group was in itself an unconstitutional violation of First Amendment free speech rights.

"Freedom of speech plays a fundamental role in a democracy" and "is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom," the court said.

Attorneys for the U.S. Catholic' Conference, who have ad'vised diocesan newspapers and organi- . zations regarding acceptable and non-acceptable election-year activity, declined to comment on the Supreme Court case.

Orthodox, Catholic unity sought

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THE ANCHOR - DioceSe of Fall River - Fri., Jan. 2, 1987

Yvette Caron: St. William, Fall River

Embryo experiments criticized

"She gives the extra"

ROME (NC) ~ A leading French geneticist has criticized experiments on human embryos as well as efforts to decide through legislation when such experiments are permissible.

The discoverer of the chromosomal anomaly which leads to Down's syndrome, Jerome Lejeune, also said "nobody knows" what experiments are now being conducted on human embryos.

Lejeune was interviewed in Rome while attending a conference on "The Anthropological Status of the Human Embryo" sponsored by the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family at the Lateran University.

He is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and a professor at the University of Paris.

Lejeune said he challenged the need for experiments on human embryos in commentary published in the London Times when the English government's Warnock Committee in 1984 recommended embryonic experimentation be allowed for 14 days after conception.

In response, the British science magazine Nature asked scientists to submit proposed experiments

By Joseph Motta

Yvette Caron has been the organist at St. William's parish, Fall River, for about 15 years. She plays each weekend at the church's 4 p.m. Saturday and IO a.m. Sunday celebrations and at all holiday Masses.

She and her husband Norman live very close to the Chicago Street church. They've raised four sons; Richard, Paul, Gerard and Francis range in age from 30 to 23.

Mrs .. Caron is a secular Franciscan, active in the fraternity associated with St. Louis parish, Fall River.

The pleasant woman isn't your average person. She's one of the rare breed who modestly describe themselves as volunteers.

Fall River's Kimwell Health Care Center brought her to the attention of The Anchor; she's been an activities department volunteer at Kimwell for over two years and an article' she wrote for the center's newsletter on the old Notre Dame Church in Fall River was quoted in The Anchor last fall.

A Kimwell staffer told The Anchor how pleased she was that Mrs. Caron was included in the story, adding that she thought the tireless lady was worthy of an Anchor profile.

Mrs. Caron explained that her association with Kimwell began when she was employed in its activities department. At the same time she was a volunteer at the Fall River Nursing Home, where she had assisted with novena'and rosary devotions under the direction of now-retired.Sister Irene Marie Caron, SUSC (not a relative): "Her faith was so strong," she says ofthe nun whose giving example she's followed. "She touched my life."

Mrs. Caron had previously worked, also in activities, at Fall River's Crawford Nursing Home, where she became "close with the residents, loving them." While at Crawford, she said, she often gave residents rides and invited them to her • home for dinner.

At Kimwell, Mrs. Caron felt she was "at home." Two years ago, after her sons completed college, she left her paid position but remained as a volunteer.

Lori-Ann Liiotte, Kimwell's assistant director of activities and director of volunteers, says that Mrs. Caron "is excellent with the residents: They all love her."

Mrs. Lizotte is, impressed, she said, with the fact that Mrs. Caron has never missed her Tuesday afternoon time slot as a volunteer.

"She's terrific," she concluded.

Mrs. Caron incorporates her faith and her Franciscan training into the'Tuesday afternoons. She spends time with residents, discussing their concerns and problems, and conducts a novena service. To gain expertise, she took a course in pastoral counseling with the Dominican Sisters ofthe Presentation at their Provincial House in Dighton.

94 percent of Kimwell's residents are Catholic, she said, but "Baptists, Episcopalians and Jewish persons all come to the novena."

The service is opened and closed with Mrs. Caron on piano. A group prayer to Yahweh ("one God for ever:.yone") and a novena

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YVETTE CARON to "the saint of the day" follow,.as, does rosary recitation.

Persons of religious traditions other than Catholic often finger the rosary beads while those around them pray, Mrs. Caron said, and some people have told her that "they listen because they're learning.

"The satisfaction is unbelievable," she said. "People in their 90s ask questions about religion."

Mrs. Caron writes a monthly column for the "Kimwell Kronic1e," the in-house newsletter for residents and their guardians. She often writes, she said, about interesting things that have happened to residents.

"There's just so much that could be done in a nursing home," she'll tell a potential volunteer. "Blind people need someone to read to them, and just listening is very important. People need someone who cares."

At St. William's Mrs. Caron directed the adult choir until two years ago, when music director Joseph Viera joined the parish staff. Berore he came on bclard, she had organized a children's choir to sing at holiday celebrations.

This season's group' had 18 voices.

A year-round children's choir is a goal.

Mrs. Caron plays the organ for weddings and funerals at St. William's as well as at the Fall River parishes of SS. Peter and Paul, St. Jean Baptiste, St. Patrick and St. Louis, and Somerset's St. John of God parish.

Father William J. Shovelton, St. William's pastor, ~hinks a lot of his energetic parishioner.

"She's a very dedicated person and she gives of herself all the time," he said. "She does much more than being an organist. She makes all the altar cloths, banners and decorations for the church.

She helps out in a lot of different ways that she doesn't have to."

Mrs. Caron also has been a volunteer with Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Greater Fall River for the past five year~. Her first little sister, Debbie, now 16, lives in Connecticut and telephones Mrs. Caron every month. Next came twins Michelle and Kelly, and now she spends time each week with seven-year-old Renee. ', "She really is one of our best big sisters," says Lynn Abbey, executive director of the organization's Fall River office. "She's very dedi~ cated, very creative. She gives the extra. I wish I could clone her and get 20 more like her."

New Rural Life head DES MOINES, Iowa (NC) The conference seeks to advance Archbishop John R. Roach of St. and defend rural life values, parPaul-Minneapolis, who in 1985 ticularly by advocating public polsaid the U.S. economy was "cruci- icies and Catholic or other private fying" family farmers, has been .activities which promote family elected to a three-year term as farming and wide distribution of president of the National Catholic land ownership.

Rural Life conference. He suceeds Archbishop Roach headed the Archbishop Ignatius Strecker of National Conference of Catholic Kansas City, Kan. Bi~hops from 1980 to' 1983, !

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in which only human embryos could be used, Lejeune said. The magazine promised to publish the best ones. ~ore than a year has passed, Lejeune added, "and they have not published one."

Claims that embryonic research would help solve such problems as Down's syndrome, muscular dystrophy and hemophilia "were not based on science," he said.

To study such diseases scientists would need to experiment on human fetuses, not embryos, he explained, The term embryo applies to the first two months after concepti'on.

Fetus applies to the remaining seven months of life in the womb.

Lejeune criticized legal efforts to permit experimentation for limited periods of time; because the implication is that the only respect due the human being is that assigned by the state.

Lejeune also said abortion supporters are concerned about efforts to ban embryonic experimentation because "if you cannot play with the human embryo but mustrespect it, then you cannot kill the human fetus." '

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1986 highlights in religion JANUARY Pope John Paul II invites world's religious leaders to join him for peace prayer summit in Assisi, Italy, in October.

- Excommunication of Mary Ann Sorrentino, Planned Parenthood directo'r in Rhode Island, is made public.

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tional Conference of Catholic Bishops, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Conference of Major Superiors of Men. - Eight church workers, including two Catholic priests and a nun, are found guilty in Tucson, Ariz., of aiding illegal Central Americans.

- Pope issues encyclical on Holy Spirit, the fifth encyclical of his pontificate.

- Cardinal Jai'me Sin of MaJUNE nila leads his country's bishops in - A sharply divided V.S. Sucriticism of February elections and in support of a non-violent move- preme Court rules 5-4 that a Penment to overthrow President Fer- nsylvania law requiring informed dinand Marcos and bring Corazon consent for all women seeking an abortion is unconstitutional.

Aquino to power.

- V.S. bishops meet in Col- - Pope travels to India, his first 'legeville, Minn., to discuss church路 extensive visit to a country where the Catholic Church is a tiny need for vocations.

- Msgr. Bismarck Carballo, minority. top aide to Nicaraguan Cardinal MARCH Miguel Obando Bravo, refused re- Father Charles Curran, con- entry to Nicaragua. troversial monll theologian, anJULY nounces he has rejected Vatican - Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega, order to retract dissenting views, vice president of the Nicaraguan faces loss of his.right to' teach bishops' conference, expelled by Catholic theology.

Sandinista government. ' ' - Cardinal Sin says church Servite' Father Lawrence involvement in Philippines' postelection crisis prevented widespread Martin Jenco of Catholic Relief Services freed after, nearly 19 bloodshed. months in captivity in Lebanon: APRIL -=- Pope travels to Colombia, - Vatican announces lifting of his fourth trip to South America. silencing of Brazilian theologian AUGUST Franciscan Leonardo Boff.

- Father Curran told by Vati- Congregation for' the Doctrine' of the Faith issues major can he can no longer teach as a Catholic theologian. document on liberation theology.

- Father Smangaliso Mkhat- Pope makes unprecedented shwa, prominent South African visit to Rome's main synagogue. ' priest, reports he was tortured when detained by government MAY officials.

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- V.S. bishops announ'ce they will form task force to assess how church should address food and agricultural issues.

OCTOBER - French Catholic hospital announces successful use of in vitro fertilization method to help sterile married couples give birth.

- Vatican issues new document on homosexuals.

- Results of Vatican study on V .S. seminaries rdeased, cite some confusion in seminaries about authoritative church teachings in moral theology.

- About 150 worldwide religious leaders join pope'in Assisi, Italy, for prayer summit.

- Pope visits France.

NOVEMBER - V .S. bishops, at general meet-

ing, spend unprecedented time in closed session to discuss Archbishop Hunthausen case.

- V.S. bishops overwhelmingly approve final draft of pastoral letter on the economy.

- Report on Vatican study of V .S. religious orders says in general religious life is in good condition but cites some areas of concern.

- Pope visits Australia and five other nations in his longest pilgrimage outside Italy.

- Plans confirmed for pope's trip to the V nited States Sept. 1018,1987.

DECEMBER :- Bishop Joseph L. Imesch of Joliet, Ill., chairman of panel drafting pastoral letter on women's concerns, says four chapters of proposed pastoral are finished but "miracle" needed to get first draft to bishops in 1987.

- Catholic Theological Society 'of America's board of directors says Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's view of theological dissent involves "dangerous" blurring of distinction between infallible and noninfallible teaching.

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Information on the module is available from CFM at The Christian Family, Box 272, Ames, Iowa 50010.

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NEW YORK (NC) - Four Jewish mothers trying to get Soviet approval for their children to join them in Israel have found a sympathetic ear at the Archdiocese of New York. "We will do what we can," they were assured by Auxiliary Bishop 'Joseph T. O'Keefe, archdiocesan vicar general. He said the archdiocese probably could not approach the Soviet government directly, but he said that increasing general awareness of the problem could be "sensitizing" for V.S. Government officials.

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Theologians rap cardinal WASHINGTON (NC) - The board of the Catholic Theological Society of America has said Cardinal Joseph ,Ratzinger's view of dissent in the case of Father Charles Curran creates a "dangerous novelty" that could destroy "theology in any traditional sense of the word," In written testimony submitted to the Academic Sen'ate of The Catholic University of America in December, the to-member board strongly backed Father Curran, a moral theologian, in his fight to retain his teaching post at the university.

Monika Hellwig of Georgetown University, president of the 1,300member theological society, said after the five-page document became public that it was not meant to provoke confrontation. It was carefully worded, tightly reasoned document submitted in a formal academic proceeding and should be understood in that context, she said.

Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, last summer ordered the withdrawal of Father Curran's license to teach on the un,iversity's theology faculty.

The order, approved by Pope John Paul n, declared that Fat'her Curran's dissent from certain church teachings made him "not suitable nor eligible to teach Catholic theology."

Father Curran said that he dissents only in limited areas where it is legitimate and that he carefully adheres to accepted norms for such dissent. He has appealed the Vatican's dismissal order to the Academic Seriate, which has begun forming an inquiry committee to hear the appeal, as provided under university statutes. . The Catholic Theological Society of America board's testimony, filed under the appeal procedures, said that "the issues of the nature of Catholic theology and the role of the theologian are at the heart of" the Curran case. .

The group of theologians said Cardinal Ratzinger's view oftheological dissent, expressed in two of his letters on the Curran case,' involved a "most dangerous" blurring of "the distinction between infallible and non-infallible teaching and between the assent of faith and religious respect of intellect and will."

"Occasional ;esp-onslbie dissertr' from authoritative but non-definitive church teaching," the theologians said, is "one of the chief ways in which doctrine has developed."

Such dissent has helped. the church revise erroneous official teachings on slavery, discrimination against Jews, methods of Scripture scholarship, and a number of other issues,' they said.

But even that kind of dissent is ruled out by the 'Ratzinger approach, they said. "If it [the cardinal's position] were widely accepted, theology's contribution to faith seeking understanding would dry up altogether. It is not possible to do theology in any traditional sense of the word under the conditions set down in the letters to Charles Curran."

The theological society board distributed the testimony to its members in early December, with a cover letter by Ms. Hellwig. The society did not make the documents public, but sources gave them to reporters in mid-December.

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CARDINAL RATZINGER In her letter Ms. Hellwig asked other Catholic theology faculties around the country to join with the board's document or to submit their own testimony for consideration by the inquiry committee hearing Father Curran's appeal.

Such testimony, under the rules of the Academic Senate's inquiry, must be considered by the committee and is part of the formal record of the inquiry.

The board's testimony called Father Curran "an eminently competent Catholic theologian, suitably engaged in research fitting within a university setting, and making significant contributions to the field of moral theology."

It added that such contributions were "needed" in the current "difficult period of massive cultural changes" and that in the few areas where he dissents from some aspect of church teaching, his positions "are found in the middle, moderate, nuanced, shared by a majority of well-known scholarly moral theologians in this country."

Dismissal of Father Curran, the board said, would threaten hardw0t:\ gains in academic freedom among U.S. Catholic colleges and universities and could bring those institutions to be viewed "merely as catechetical arms of the universal church."

The theological society's testimony was made known as another key phase in Father Curran's case was coming to a head: a decision whether or not he would be able to resume teaching in January.

Father Curran was on a oneyear sabbatical last summer when the order came to withdraw his teaching credentials, so he had no classes to teach during the fall term. His sabbatical ended Jan. I, and the spring term resumes Jan. 15.

When the spring academic catalog was released this fall, courses Father Curran was to teach did not list a teacher's name.

In a telephone interview, Father

Curran said colleagues had told him that "the rumors are very strong that they're going to suspend" him from teaching until his case is resolved.

He said Archbishop James Hickey of Washington, chancellor of the university, would have to notify him soon if he was to be suspended before the new semester begins, but he believes the archbishop has already taken'the first step in that direction by seeking the agreement of the bishoptrustees of the university. . A spokesman for Archbishop Hickey said the archbishop "cannot make any comment" on the case because "the situation is so delicate. " University statutes provide that, in cases judged sufficiently serious, the chancellor, "with the concurrence of the episcopal members of the board (of trustees), may suspend ... from teaching" a theology faculty member facing dismissal proceedings.

Once the bishops concur, Father Curran said, the statutes then require the chancellor to: - Notify the professor of the intention to suspend him, explaining the reasons for the action.

- Give the professor "opportunity to respond in due time,"with reasons why the action should not be taken.

- Consult with the president of the university, the dean of the school of religious studies and the chairperson of the theology department, "explaining his reasons" for the action and "seeking their opinion" on it.

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2. Denying Mary's Virginity' 3. Denying Mary's Divine Motherhood (refusing at the same time to recognize her as Mother of men)

Common Sense "Ev.ery year remarkable advances in prenatal medicine continue to provide dramatic proof of what common sense has always told us; that the child in the womb is simply what each of us once was -a young, small, vulnerable member of the human race." - President Ronald Reagan

4. Teaching children a hatred and contempt of Mary and an indifference toward her.

5. Dishonoring Mary's holy images You can make reparation for these insults to Our Lady by practicing the devotion of the five first Saturdays of the month.

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Dateless daughters depress Mom

By Dr. James and Mary Kenny

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DOMINICAN SISTER Beth Butler, the first woman chaplain in the Miami police department, confers with her police dog Murphy, also known as Monsignor. One of eight chaplains of different denominati~ns serving the Miami police, she holds a degree in criminology from Florida State University. (NC photo)

Genetic testing called out of hand yATICAN CITY (NC) - A pro-life member ofthe British Parliament said he is drafting legislation to restrict genetic experimen-, tation in England because the practice has gotten "out of hand."

Describing himself as "very, very worried" about such experimentation in England, Member of Parliament Jerry Hales said "we want ~o see that the unborn child, the fetus, has some legal protection and legal status." . "Experiments are being carried on with fertilized eggs, with young embryos," the Conservative politician said.

Hales made his comments during an interview in Rome broadcast by Vatican Radio. He was in

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Hales said his legislation would call for some form of parliamentary monitoring for experiments designed to treat genetic diseases.

"What I'm against is experiments on living embryos, on living human creatures," he emphasized.

Embryonic experimentation in England received a boost when a 1984 government report recommended allowing experimentation on embryos up to 14 days after fertilization.

The British bishops criticized the recommendation, urging a ban on any such experiments likely to dama~e or endanger the embryo.

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As the mother of eight sons, I Dear Mary: My oldest daughter have '!;een my wonderful boys hurt dated someone for four years and by girls who called it. quits. I have loved him dearly. He seemed to wondered whether there are nice love her, but then wanted to call it girls out there for my sons to quits. She was hurt so bad it was marry (now that two sons have almost suicidal for both of us. She found terrific wives, I am someis now 23 and married, but at the what reassured). Mothers of daughtime depression and loneliness hit ters have no priority on worrying a.bout their children. almost too hard.

Do I believe in matchmaking?

Now I have a 19-year-old and a 15-year-old daughter at home. I Absolutely. I always introduce nice am so anxious for t~em and so girls to my sons. Beyond the iptroupset with them (especially the 19- duction, though, it is all up to the year-old because she doesn't have young couple. Not one of my a boyfriend) that I cannot func- matchmaking efforts has worked, tion. I do not care about the house, but I'll certainly keep trying.

Your daughters are quite young. the meals, the yard, clothes or anything. Do other mothers go through Most parents would be relieved this anxiety? I have wished over that a l5-year-old has no regular and over for boys. It seems girls' boyfriend. Your anxiety about their marrying seems premature. are always hurt and lonely.

I suspect most people meet their Do you have any suggestions where girls can go to meet nice spouses while engaged in a comguys? I know a lot of really nice, mon activity - school, work, clean, pretty girls who would love sports, leisure pursuits. Encourage ' to have a nice boyfriend. Nice guys your girls to be active, to develop don't seem to exist anymore. They their interests and activities. Apwant to patt.y, drink, act crazy, be plaud their efforts. The wider their' circle of frineds, the greater their sloppy.

What is your opinion of match- chances of meeting nice young men. makers?

Your own depression seems to be immobilizing you. Stop worrying about your daughters and start some small steps to overcome your inertia. Each evening plan o,ne small activity for the following day: try one new recipe for dinner, weed one section of the garden.

Keep a record to show how well you achieve your goals. ' If you cannot get over yo~r anxiety by your own efforts, you might want to seek a therapist or join a group of others with similar problems. Contact a mental health center or a family-living center and inquire about discussion groups or therapy groups which might meet your needs. Consult a certified social worker or a clinical psychologist if you wish to talk with a therapist llbout your concerns.

In our society, each person chooses his or her own spouse.

Parents can introduce, support, pray - and hope.

Reader questions on family living and child care to be answered in print are invited. Address the Kennys, Box 872, St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Ind. 47978.

The church and AIDS: an example to follow

By Antoinette Bosco The church is showing a true example ofcompassionate concern in its 'efforts to help AIDS victims.

Shortly before his death in 1983, Cardinal Terence Cooke launched a comprehensive campaign in the New York Archdiocese to care for people afflicted with AIDS, calling this "an'opportunity to serve."

In 1985 Cardinal John O'Connor of New York put a concrete plan into action, beginning with a research center at the New York Medical College, a shelter for AIDS victims and a special AIDS unit at St. Clare's Hospital.

As the epidemic worsens, the church's commitment to helping the victims, through service and educational programs, is growing.

In California, the church has established an AIDS hot line and an ecumenical support program; and programs for the sufferers in Catholic-sponsored health care facilities across the country are increasing.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta is a major figure in the church's campaign. Her Missionaries of Charity are caring for homeless patients in a Manhattan hospice, and she asked eresident Reagan to help find land where they could establish a center. Speaking to the National Council for International Health, she urged that people see AIDS as "a sign that God wants us to open our hearts and love one another."

Jesus was a healer. He went to the lepers, the untouchables of his day. The AIDS victims of today are like the lepers of Jesus' day, cast out by society and treated with fear and contempt. But Jesus' teaching is clear. He wants us to treat these sufferers with unconditional love.

Often people looking at the history of the Catholic Church see only the negatives - the crusades, the Inquisition, the ambitious popes. But that is only one side.

In its commitment to support AIDSvictims~ the church is reaf· fi'rming what it was set up to be, the institution of love that works

out Jesus' message in the everyday realities of our world.

The church is working with special urgency to counteract the hysteria regarding AIDS. We know· the disease is spread through sexual contact or the injection of contaminated cells directly into the bloodstream th~ough shared hypodermic needles or blood transfusions. But there is virtually no chance of contracting AIDS by associating with victims in the workplace, in schools, restaurants, health clubs or homes.

The fear of contagion is vastly out of proportion and unfounded.

"What is more contagious than AIDS is the bigotry and misinformation that surround it," said Archb'ishop Roger Mahony of Los Angeles.

Church leaders have repeatedly denied and rejected allegations by some people that AIDS is divine vengeance for immorality.

"While the church remains firm in her teachings against sexual activity between homosexuals, whereby some victims may have contacted AIDS," wrote Bishop Phillip Straling of San Bernardino, Calif., "we must continue to show concern and love for the person."

It is noteworthy that an institution as powerful and well-respected as the Catholic Church has taken such a clear stand on AIDS. Given the church's authority and credibility, other institutions and the whole Christian community should be encouraged to follow suit.

A tooth fairy's discovery

By Hilda Young I carefully slipped my hand under Joey's pillow, trying not to disturb his sleep as I felt for the plastic sandwich bag I knew held his tooth. It was an eye tooth and it had fallen out dramatically as he chomped a corn chip while we were all watching Cosby.

After we all had had a chance to inspect i't closely, Joey asked what. he should 'do with it. "Put it under your pillow for the fairy," was the unanimous answer.

While the tooth fairy's secret identity has been family knowledge for some years, her mystique somehow has not faded. It's still a thrill to leave that pearly little tooth under your pillow and awake with a surprise in its place.

Soft light from the hall fell across Joey's face. I don't know why this time, of all the fairy duty I have served, I was struck with the wonder of it all. ..the trust. .. his face wearing the deep sleep only a child sleeps...the realization that these days of the children are a transitional time of joy.

I managed to gently tug the sandwich bag and its treasure without waking Joey. In its place I pushed a silver dollar I had been

saving under the handkerchiefs in my top drawer for some reason.

In the dark I could just make out the faces of his brothers, John and Michael. I knew they'd be after Joey first thing to see if the fairy had left anything. She has a reputation for missing the tooth sometimes on its first night out.

I sat down on the edge of Joey's bed and stroked his hair for a moment, overwhelmed by love and wonder. Tooth fairy tears plinked onto his pillow, just missing his ear.

God makes himself manifest in the simplest and most unexpected ways at times.

NFP groups warned WASHINGTON (NC) -Catholic natural family planning agencies seeking government grants should only assist married couples and marriage,preparation programs and avoid links to contraception, sterilization and Planned Parenthood, say guidelines recently issued by the U.S. bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities. The guidelines 'also warned NFP agencies against ties to programs seen as even subtly coercive.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Jan. 2, 1987

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By William Ryan "Today, the wound of addiction cuts deeper in its form and its manner than most could have dreamed;" said Pope John Paul II in a 1984 address to the 8th World Conference of Therapeutic Communities.

The statistics bear this' out.

Alcohol is second only to cancer as the leading killer in the United States. It is involved in between 60. to 80 percent of all child-abuse cases, teenage highway fatalities, murders, drownings and fire deaths.

One out of every eight adults is an alcoholic. 31 percent of high school students are considered alcohol misusers.

ALAN KNIGHT, right, president .of Fall River's St. Anne's Hospital, accepts a check from Edward Brault of Blessed Sacrament parish, Fall River. The parish sponsored a dinner dance and raffle to benefit the hospital's Hudner Oncology/ Radiation Therapy Center.

Charity Ball presentees named 35 young ladies will be presented ' the Assumption, Osterville; Victoria to Bishop Daniel A. Cronin at the Ben David, Sacred Heart, Oak Bluffs; 32nd annual Bishop's Charity Ball Stephanie Gomes, Holy Trinity, West on Friday, Jan. 16, at Lincoln Harwich; Nora Harrington. St. AnPark Ballroom, North Dartmouth, thony, East Falmouth; Susan Sayle.

St. Mary, Nantucket. in one of the many outstanding New Bedford area: Martha Bour,events to take place at the most que, St: Mary, NewBedfcird; Marie widely known social and charita- Chaberek, Our Lady of Perpetual ble affair in New England.

Help, New Bedford; Mary Beth DeBishop Cronin will be the honor- Cofre, St. Anthony, Mattapoisett; ed guest for the 17th consecutive Nicole Marie Fleurent, Sacred Heart, Fairhaven; Lisa Francis, St. Hedyear.

"The presentees represent par- wig, New Bedford; Ann Lacasse, St. ishes from all diocesan deaneries," Joseph, Fairhaven; Anne Marie Medeiros, Immaculate Conception, said Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. New Bedford; Anne Rivet, St. FranGomes, diocesan ball dire,ctor. cis Xavier, Acushnet.

"Every year, one third of the 114 Taunton area: Celeste Pina, St. parishes in the Fall River diocese Anthony, Taunton; Susan M. Tracy, participate in'the ceremony."

Immaculate Conception, Taunton; Mrs. James A. O'Brien Jr. of Lisa Whittemore, St. Ann, RaynFall River heads the presentation ham; Kimberly J. Zarella, Hely committee. She has announced Cross, South Easton. that presentees, and their escorts will rehearse Mle ceremony at 6 p.m. Jan'. II at the ballroom.

WASHINGTON (NC) - The The ball benefits summer camps National Conference of Catholic for underprivileged and exceptional Bishops' Committee on the Laity . children and other diocesan apos- has published a directory listing tolates.

200 diocesan programs that preThe 1987 presentees are: pare lay people for pastoral minFall River area: Cheryl Bigos, istry.

Holy Cross parish, Fall River; MiThe volume, "Preparing Laity chelle Claire Cyr, Blessed Sacrament, for Ministry," covers programs in Fall River; Kathy Farrelly, St. 123 U.S. dioceses that train lay Thomas More, Somerset; Wendy people asfulltime professionals or Forsee, St. Elizabeth, Fall River; Jennifer LeComte, St. Louis de as volunteers.

According to Suzanne Elsesser, France, Swansea; Stephanie McMahon, St. John the Baptist, West- researcher and editor for the publication, programs include theolport.

Christine Mendoza, SS. Peter and ogy, Scripture, spirituality, ChrisPaul, Fall River; Amy Elizabeth . tology and ecclesiology, communiO'Connell, St. Joseph, Fall River; cation, group dynamics and colMarianna Rebelo, St. John of God, laboration skills.

Swansea; Pamela Reid, St. ,StanisThey require two to three years laus, Fall River; Lina Maria Sousa, to complete and typically combine Espirito Santo,' Fall River; Shelli academic' study, ministerial路 skills Sousa, Holy Rosary, Fall River. develop{llent, spiritual formation, Attleboro a'rea: Mary Kathleen ,Burke, St. Mark, Attleboro Falls; and supervised field experience.

Linda Furtado, St.. Theresa, South Nearly half offe!: academic degrees, Attleboro; Elizabeth Susan ~egare, the rest certification.

The directory is available from St. Mary, Seekonk; Kimberly Ward, St. Joseph, Attleboro. the NCCB Office of Publishing Cape & Island~ area: Karen An- and Promotion Services, 1312 tonucci,St. Elizabeth Seton, No. Massachusetts Ave. N.W., WashFalmouth; ,Fr.ancine E. Camacho, ington, D.C 200Q5. The office's Our Lady of, the, Cape, Brewst~r; toll-free "phone number is (8QO) Mary Elizabeth Curley, Our Lady of 235.-USCC" '

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ThePresident's Commission on Organized Crime reported in March 1986 that it had found an overalJ dangerous increase in the amount of drugs used, deaths from overdoses, simultaneous use of dangerous drugs and their usage by middle-class Americans. The commission found marijuana use "firmly entrenched in American society." It also reported a new phenomenon: middle-class heroin users who began to use the drug because of their dependency on cocaine.

According to Father Terry Attridge, head of the drug program of the New York archdiocese, "the target in the 1980s is children and young people ages six to 16. One of the drug industry's top operators says this was an industry decision. " Why do people drink too much or otherwise overindulge? Dr. James Kenny, a psychologist, says that the answer is in some ways deceptively simple: "It feels good, and we are dishonest if we pretend otherwise." Where kids are concerned, he points to other reasons: curiosity, peer pressure, rebelJion, the desire to fit into a certain subculture "and the fact that some of us are set up chemicalJy, a physiological addiction which is in good part hereditary, which makes a. person an alcoholic. " Dr. Kenny also added a jarring note for his co-religionists: "More than any other religious group, Catholics have problems with alcohol, and are the most likely to become addicted. This is a blunt statistical fact." The doctor believes this is because Catholics often grow up being told that alcohol is aJl right for adults but wrong for them. This tends to foster extremism rather- than moderation.

Moreover, according to Dr. Kenny, "research makes clear that alcoholics generalJy come from two types of homes, those where alcohol was abused and those'where it was forbidden. Learning how to drink moderately and maturely while growing up in the home is one good way to prevent alcoholism."

A number of church programs in education, training and treatment are beginning to spring up around the country. But there is one thing many of us could do to help with the substance abuse problem. We could stop being part of it.

Also, efforts to combat the problem will probably be unsuccessful - or less successful than they might be - if prayer is forgotten.

"The secret of eradicating the poison of drug addiction is to cultivate intensely spiritual values," Pope John Paul says. Father Attridge adds, "Our hope lies not in our ability to save ourselves, but in the power of God to bring life out of death."

William Ryan is associate secretary of the public affairs office of the U.S. Catholic Conference.

U .8. priest to Vatican religious post , WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope resolve them through regular meetJohn Paul II has named Msgr. ings.

Joseph A. Galante, vicar for reliMsgr. Galante, 48, a native of gious in the Phi.ll!-delp'hia Archdi- Philadelphia, was ordained a ocese since 1979, to be undersecre- priest there in 1964. After a year of tary of the Vatican Congregation parish work in Philadelphia he for Religious and Secular Institutes. studied three years in Rome, earnMsgr. Galante in a telephone ing a doctorate in canon law from interview said he is not replacing the Lateran University in 1968. the current undersecretary for ReOn his return he was loaned to ligious, Claretian Father Jesus the 3-year-old diocese of BrownsTorres Llorente of Spain, but that ville, Texas, where he was founder Msgr. Galante is being added to of the diocesan tribunal, editor of the staff alooside him. A Vatican the diocesan newspaper, vicar for congregation undersecretary is religious and master of ceremonies. third in charge, under the prefect In 1972 he returned to Philadeland the secretary. phia, where he worked on the "I hope I can really be a bridge archdiocesan marriage court, was between the Congregation for Reli- assistant vicar for religious and gious and American religious," taught canon law at St. Charles Msgr. Galante said.

Seminary.

He said he expected "to deal a He has served twice as president lot with American religious" in the 'of the National Conference of new post. "I presume that's why , Vicars for Religious and master of they made this appointment." ceremonies.

During the past decade U.S. In 1972 he returned to Philadelwomen religious and the Vatican phia, where he worked on the congregation have had numerous archdiocesan marriage court, was tensions. The congregation and assistant vicar for religious and the U.S. Leadership Conference of taught canon law at St. Charles Women Religious have tried to Seminary.

He has served twice as president of the National Conference of Vicars for Religious.

Third Order Franciscan Father Roland Faley, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Major Superiors of Men, said that the role of U.S. religious in the church "is seen as pretty important in Rome," and the appointment seemed to indicate the importance Rome attached to ','strengthening ties" with Americans.

Father Faley said the men's conference "has good relations" with the Vatican agency.

Sister Janet Roesener, a Sister of St. Joseph and executive direc- ' tor of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, said Msgr. ' Galante called the morning he was appointed to ask for a meeting before he leaves for Rome. The conference plans to meet with him "to see how we can collaborate,'" she said..

Sister Roesener called it "very encouraging" that the Vatican appointed "an American who is familiar with American religious life" to the congregation post.

Blacks prepare for May congress EAST ORANGE, N.J. (NC) The National Black Catholic Congress in Washington next May will face problems and challenges that confronted the first such congress 97 years ago, Auxiliary Bishop Eugene Marino of Washington said at a preparatory' meeting in the Newark Archdiocese. ~ishop Marino, one of 1.0 black Catholic bishops in the United States, said black Catholics today are "still in a minority position" and are still powerless "as the world understands power." ' , Today, as then, he said, their basic challenge, is Christ's call to "proclaim the Good News to the poor." ' ' , , Bishop Marino was keynote

speaker at the preparatory meet- of the,candle that can illumine the ing, a day of reflection sponsored . entire room and cast out the darkby the Archdiocese of Newark, ness," he said. which drew about 300 people.

"This time, along with the black Bishop Marino noted that the lay men and women, black sisters first national congress of black and priests will cOllle, and for the ~atholics in 1890 was almost enfirst time black bishops, to share tlrely a lay event. The one black the mandate that Jesus gave the priest there, he said, was the only apostles," he said, noting that now one in the country. Those meeting, there are some 1.3 million U.S. he said, were convinced "that God black Catholics. was moving them to share their gifts with, the Catholic Church, Ar9hbishop Theodore' McCar.,. with the larger Christian com- rick of Newark called vocations 'munity." ,one of the m.()st critical needs , He urged his audience to ap- among black Catholics.

In small-group discussions, parproach the 1987 congress with the" same sense of faith and challenge. ticipants selected as particular "You must be the yeast tl1at goes priorities for next May's congress about and affects the entire ma'sses. .education, social concerns, family You must bethe t~,in flame ~f light, - life,.evangelization and youth.,

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Who pays for papal trips?

VATICAN CITY (NC)- Pope figures but say the major expense John Paul II, after 32 trips outside , is transportation and ground costs Italy, has become a familiar world of sending technicians and announce'rs with the pope. Satellite, figure.

But who pays for the wide- telephone and Telex links are a bodied jets that ferry him and his tiny fraction of the cost, they add.

Expenses-per person run about entourage? Who picks up the tab for the 100-foot-high stages with the same as those of independent altars surrounded by brightly journalists traveling on the papal colored banners and flowers? plane" say officials.

This would mean that on the Where does the money 'come from to house the pope- and his party pope's Nov. 18-Dec. I trip, the and to pay for the security forces longest of his pontificate, the cost came to a minimum ofabout $8,000 necessary to protect him?

Papal officials say very little , for each of the 15 Vatican Radio comes from Vatican coffers. Most personnel who made the entire of the costs are absorbed by the trip.

Most ofthe personnel are broadlocal church and the host governcasters, reflecting the station's ment, they say.

But there is no hard and fast multilingual broadcasting. The stadivision of the expenses. The situa- tion also sent two additional peotion varies from country to coun- ple just to cover the pope's first try depending on church-state laws stop in Bangladesh.

Regarding the pope's entourage, and the overall tone of churchstate relations, said Joaquin Na- the Vatican is responsible for air varro-Valls, Vatican press spokes- travel expenses but not on-theground costs, said Navarro-Valls. man, after the pope's latest trip.

In practice, this often means Air fare is set by the carrier, he that local churches and govern- said.

"The only person who flies for ments measure their costs in millions of dollars - sometimes run- free is the pope," said Navarroning up large debts - while the Valls. Sometimes, as in India, the Vatican measures its outlay in tens host government picks up the cost of thousands or, on some longer of the domestic flights, he added. trips, in hundreds of thousands of Ground costs, such as room and dollars. board, are absorbed by the local Because the Vatican does not church or the government. give detailed breakdowns of its The government usually pays operating expenses and income, it for room, board and other on-thedoes not publish trip costs. But ground expenses connected to state officials say that the only expenses functions, otherwise it is the local the Vatican picks up are air fare church's responsibility, said Nafor the pope's entourage of Vati- varro-Valls. can officials, usually numbering Security costs are paid by the 16, and on-the-spot coverage of host government, except for the papal events by Vatican Radio, pope's personal bodyguards - four which broadcasts worldwide in 34 to six people. languages.

In most cases, the local church Vatican RadiQ's opera'tion is the pays organizational costs of the most expensive of the Vatican trip visit, said Navarro-Valls, but govoutlays. ernments sometimes contribute to Station officials will not give this.

These costs include construction of altars and 'platforms, decorations, press facilities and sound systems.

Whether these are elaborate or simple depends on the decisions and economic ability of the local church, said Navarro-Valls.

"The Vatican places only minimalliturgical conditions on Mass sites such as a crucifix and three candle~ on the altar," he said.

"The pope also asks that protocol events be kept to a minimum," Navarro-Valls added.

Yet local expenses often run into millions of dollars. National and diocesan church officials have tried to cover costs by holding special collections, selling papal visit souvenirs and collecting royalties from the use of official logos.

But these efforts are often not enough -leaving hefty local debts and sparking criticism that the money could be better spent if the , pope stayed home.

Pope John Paul emphasizes that these costs are worth it because they allow him personally to carry Christ's message of redemption to the world's people.

"I think that costs shouldn't be taken into account when we have been bought at an inestimable price" by the blood of Christ, the pope said on the return flight from Australia in December.

"It's something stupid to speak of costs. When people speak of costs they are trying to stop the pope" from traveling to spread Christ's message, he said.

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The'surgeon general's call for sex education WASHINGTON (NC) - Dr. C. Everett Koop's recent call for teaching grade-school children about sex has publicized two issues controversial in both society and church: sex education and attitudes toward AIDS; acquired immune deficiency syndrome. ' Koop, the outspoken U.S. surgeon general, has told Americans that in the 'intere&tof fighting AIDS they must talk more, openly about ,sex, promote' school sex education and teach children about AIDS. . . . .. .

AI DS, 'a fatal disel\.se: primarily afflicting 'sexually active homo:' sexuals and drug abusers, is generally contracted through sexual in~ tercourse or use ofunsterile intravenous needles to inject illegal drugs.

It can also be contracted through blood 'transfusions or prenatally from a parent. , .

Koop said that since it is presently incurable, AIDS must be combated by warning people against practices that could lead to contracting it. ' "Many people, e~pecially our' youth, are not receiving information that is vital to their future health and well-being because of our reticence in dealing with the subjects of sex, sexual practices and homosexuality," he said.

"This silence must end. We can no longer afford to sidestep frank, , open discussions about sexual prac-

tices - homosexual and hetero- tian communities and educators. sexual. Education about AIDS If sex education engenders hot should start at an early age so that debate, so does AIDS, which has children can grow up knowing the become a political issue from Calibehaviors to avoid to protect them- fornia - where a referendum on selves from exposure to the AIDS quarantining AIDS victims was virus." He suggested such educa- placed on the Nov. 4 ballot - to tion begin no later than third grade. Maine, whose legislature last spring Koop suggested that the fight . approved iegislation to assist AIDS against AIDS could unite groups victims and provide public educa~ of parents and educators with op- tion about the disease.

The proposal pitted the Diocese posing views about sex education.

Sex education in both Catholic of Portland, Maine, which backed and public schools has sometimes the l1}easur:e, against Protestant fun' , ' . damentalists, who attacked the bill been hotly contested.

The 'U.S: Catholic Conference, ~s hom'osexual rights legisiation. for example, in 1981 developed California's 20 Catholic bishops guidelines on classroom "Educa~ denounced the referendum proption in Human Sexuality for Chris-, osal for quarantining AIDS victians. "They were strongly rejectec;! tims, saying the measure would by conservative Catholics for alviolate· civil rights and divert legedly usurping parental rights. ' Other parental complaints sparked a controversy last August when Cardinal Edouard Gagnon, presi. dent ofthe Vatican's Pontifical CounVATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope cil for the Family, described as a John Paul II recently told a group "travesty of sex education" a text- of Christian artists that church pook series widely used in U.S. and art need each other, despite Catholic schools. ' "somewhat cooled" relations., But the Vatican itself, in a 1983 Between art and faith exists a document, "Educational Guidance in Human Love - Outlines for "wonderful possibility for collabSex Education,"like Koop rejected oration," the pope said, because both "exalt the grandeur of man silence on the subject of sex.

"Silence is not a valid norm of and his thirst for the infinite."

The pope spoke to members of conduct in this matter" considering other influences on the young, the International Society of Chrissaid the document, which urged tian Artists, an ecumenical organcombined efforts by parents, Chris- ization that recently met in Rome.

resources from educating people, from seeking a cure for AIDS and from helping AIDS sufferers.

Bishops, dioceses and religious communities have become increasingly active in helping AIDS victims, initiating ministries to patients and~ their. families and opening hospices including onein Washington, D.C., staffed by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity.

Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin ofChicago, in a recent pastoral statemeilt, told Catholics to care for those suffering from AIDS, not make moraljudgme'nts about them. ~nd t\r.chbishop ,Roger Mahopy of. Los ,Angeles, observed, "W.hat is mQTe contagious than AIDS is 'the bigotry and misinformation that surround it."

Art and churclt need ,each other "

Faced with the problems oftechnology and consumerism, artists "are called to serve as a witness to a profound love for the truth of the world and of humanity," the pope said.

Modern artists can help by supplying "the antidote to materialism and to the cult of modern idols," he added.

Christian artists in particular can communicate "the hope that does not die, the values that do not decline," the pope said.

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Guamanian priest honored by Japan

YIGO, Guam(NC)- An aging, blind priest in Guam has received Japan's second-highest honor for his long battle to build a peace memorial for Japanese ~soldiers who died in Guam.

In a recent ceremony in the session hall of the Guam Legislature, Japanese c9nsul general Yoshinobu Nagashiina awarded Msgr. Oscar L Calvo, 71, the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays.

In World War II Msgr. Calvo, then newly ordained, was one of two Guamanian priests whom the Japanese allowed to stay when they occupied the strategic Pacific island. Missionaries, who formed the rest of the Guam clergy, were taken to Japan and imprisoned.

CARDINAL Agnelo Rossi, The other Guamanian priest was 73, hea<;l of the Administra- beheaded July 12, 1944, for refustion of the Patrimony of the ing to divulge the whereabouts of an American who had eluded capApostolic See, a major Vati- ture by the Japanese. American can financial office, has been forces were then landing to liberelected dean of the College of ate Guam, and nine days later Cardinals. The largely cere- recaptured the island.

Following the war, with Guam monial position carries with it once again aU .S. territory, Father important duties at the time Calvo felt compassion for Japaof the death and election of a . nese who came to the island to pope. hunt for the remains of their dead Born in Brazil, Cardinal soldiers and pray for them.

In 1970, despite blindness and Rossi headed the Congregapoor health, opposition from the tion for the Evangelization of American Legion, and 12 years of Peoples from 1970 to 1984. bureaucratic red tape, Father Calvo As dean, he succeeds the late reached his goal. In Yigo, where "Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri. Japanese General Obata made his last stand before committing suicide, the priest dedicated a peace

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The memorial, a stylized sculpture of hands raised in prayer, has become a pilgrimage site for relatives of Japanese war dead.

At the ceremony honoring him Msgr. Calvo said, "It stands as a beacon to all nations and all people that war is tragic, that there is always a solution to a problem if people come together in peaceful dialogue."

Rhode -Islander heads IFCA BALTIMORE (NC) - Barbara Johnston of Providence, R.I., has been elected president of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnat;..

Also elected at the organization's fall convention in Baltimore were Ann Godfrey, Alexandria, Va., first vice president; Ruth Ruggerio, Baltimore, second vice president; Alice Spahn, Louisville, Ky., third vice president; Carol Saunders, East Providence, R.I., secretary; and Eleanor Risman, Collinsville, Ill., treasurer.

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What's on your

mind?

Q. Should a girl's parents always meet their daughter's date? (Indiana) A. In the interest of fairness to both sexes, let's pose an additional question: "Should a boy's parents alwys meet their son's date?"

Various parents have come up with various answers to these questions. ' The mother of a high schooljunior tells me that she and her husband insist on either meeting their son's date or on knowing her parents and what kind of background she comes from. They want to know something about her from sources other than their son.

Another couple has laid down the rule that iftheir children date a person more than once, then they must bring the date to the house so the parents can meet him or her.

Still other parents say they have made it a practice to encourage their children to bring home their friends of both sexes to enjoy the family's hospitality. .

Those parents report that almost inevitably they will have met the persons their children date. Ifthey haven't, they insist the child bring the date home sometime for a meeting.

It is likely that more than one reader is complaining now: "But I hate to bring my date home because I'membarrassed by my parents (or my goofy brothers, or the sloppy house, or the way mom drinks too much, or. .'. whatever)."

Take heart. It is not unlikely

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that your date also has at least one skeleton in the family closet. He or she may have goofy sisters, a mother who is obsessed with having a neat house, a dad who uses foul language, or. ..whatever.

Your date may be consoled to learn that your family, like his or hers, is not perfect. These imperfections may draw you closer together.

What is more likely is that your date won't care a bit about the things that are embarrassing to you. After all, your date is interested mainly in you. In his or her eyes you are the one that counts; your family probably doesn't interest him much at all.

If there is something that is acutely embarrassing (like your mother being on the verge of alcoholism), then mention this before you bring your date home. ' Explain how this situation not only embarrasses you but also that you worry so much about your mother and her sickness. Sharing such sorrow can bring you closer to your friend, and he or she can better prepare for facing the meeting with your mother.

For your part, you may get a good idea of how much tactfulness and sensitivity your date possesses.

You also may learn something about how' he or she' reacts to stresses and .problems.

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

Hope: a gift from Jesus

By Cecilia Belanger

BISHOP CONNOLLY High School religion department staffer John Leidecker directed seniors including, from left, Tom Rodriges, Susan Rebello, Maura McLaughlin, Rosana Resende, Lynn Serra and Eric Marcelino in providing over 140 Christmas gifts for needy children. Leidecker said that members of the Connolly community also donated hundreds of new and used clothing items to the children and their families, many of whom are refugees. 路Connolly students also helped assemble and distribute food baskets for the Fall River Salvation Army. (Motta photo)

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The most recent issue of "The Feehan Print," the student newspaper at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, 'included artides on the origin of slang expressions and the sacredness of the holiday season and an alcohol-use survey of students. Coeditors of the student publication are Darci O'Brien and Tim Sullivan. Staff writers are Chris Bentz, J on Braga, joe Grigelevich, Bill Murphy,Anth-

ony St. Ines and John Ship~la.

On Jan. 12, Feehan debaters will host another South Shore Debate league team. To be tackeled is ihis season's question: "Resolved: That the federal government should implement a comprehensive, longterm agricultural policy in the United States." Feehan's team consists of Elizabeth Cullen, David Dusseault, Ruta Kalvaitis, Paul Lambert, Luke Parker, Daniel

Pearson, Todd J. Piarttedosi and Elizabeth Sullivan. At its first two round meeting, Feehan scored three wins and five losses.

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The school's 25th anniversary alumni committee is planning a Graduate Recognition Night'next month. The parents' committee has launched plans for a permanent parents' association.

Jesus came to us with hope and forgiveness. But sometimes people have difficulty applying this fact to their lives; they lose hope and forget that they can find it again in Jesus and the life he sacrificed.

We cannot live without hope; everything that is done in the world is done with hope. What we hope for and accomplish is a sign of our maturity.

There are cynics who will tell us that "hope is an illusion," paraphrasing the words of the ancient playwright Aeschylus. But St. Paul wr9te,"Three things endure. Faith, hope and love."

One who hopes still recognizes the pain and suffering in life, yet remains confident that one day these will pass. Hope doesn't say there is nothing harsh or sad in the 路world. One who hopes rises from bad experience; he sees possibilities even in the midst of near,despair. He has Jesus to look to.

So often I've heard people say "Sometimes I lose all hope." No wonder they alwa~s look so sad. It .

is hope that heals and makes us see things in a new light.

The one who hopes is always looking for the dawn ofa路new day.

He does not take the day as it comes but looks beyond it to the things still to come. The poet Robert Louis Stevenson wrote, "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. " You begin a car trip with high hopes and they support you all the way to your destination. '

Bishop Stang Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, congratulates the queen and king of its recent homecoming celebration, students Heather Henriques and Brian Bednarek.

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Teen pregnancy report is deplored

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Willie Nelson music aids Seattle Catholic agency SEATTLE (NC) - Music by country singer Willie Nelson is fe.atured on a record album produced by Catholic Community Services of the Archdiocese of Seattle to help children in crises.

Proceeds from the sale of the country music album "Renegade Heart" will benefit children already on the streets and others who are headed there, said Rosemary Zilmer, director of development for the Catholic agency.

"Our agencies are working with the homeless, abused and neglected," she said. "We work with the children who are hungry, addicted to alcohol and drugs, handicapped, pregnant and abandoned.

These are all children we're talking about, and they all need help.

Nelson became involved in the album as a result of an earlier agency project for runaways. He and his wife, Connie, a Catholic, were executive producers of"Streetwise," a 1984 documentary film on Seattle street children.

In 1983 Steele, a former Seattle school superintendent, sang with Tammy Wynette on an album to benefit the city's schoolchildren.

The project raised $100,000 in scholarship funds.

"Renegade Heart" was previewed in Nashville last October by delegates at the national meeting of Catholic Charities USA, which has endorsed the project. The album is available on record or cassette tape from Catholic Community Services, Archdiocese of Seattle, P.O. Box 22608, Seattle; Wash., 98122.

Mother Teresa, film to air

WASHINGTON (NC)-"Mother Teresa," a documentary film on the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun who founded a religious order to work with the poorest of the poor, will be aired on public television Jan. 14 at 9 p.m. EST. The Nelsons also helped raise The film on the founder of the nearly $10,000 for two Seattle youth Calcutta-based Missionaries of homes by attending a premier show- Charity has been well-received, ing of the film, which showed how said'Jeanette Petrie. She and her runaway and deserted children be- sister Ann coproduced the fulltween the ages of II and 18 live in a length feature which made Variestreet environment. ty's list of 50 top-grossing films in In addition to the use of his December. song, "Those Healing Hands of The rapid jump from theater to Time," Nelson also assisted in the TV screen isjust one more unusual album's production. step in the history of the movie A local country singer, Don which the Petries filmed as the tiny Steele, helped develop the idea for nun in white sari helped victims of "Renegade Heart" and is the lead poverty in the slums of South performer.

Bronx, N.Y.,l~alcutta and other places around the world. .

In a telephone interview from New York, Jeanette Petrie said the filrri,"which premiered at the UniThe administration at St. Anne's ted Nations Oct. 26,1985, to mark School, Fall River, has announced the organization's 40th anniversary, that 113 students have earned a has done well in the 43 U.S. cities place on the honor roll for the first . in which it has' been shown in quarter of. the scttool year. 40 November and December 1986. youngsters earned high honQrs, 38 The film also has' had showing merited honors and 35 honorable in theaters in 25 countries, and was mention, shown in the U.S. Senate and at the 1985 world Synod of Bishops. . In addition, at least 45 nations have contracted for television rights The Parents and Friends Club to the film, Jeanette Petrie said. at Bishop Co~nolly High School, Fall River, will feature a slide presentation on "pysanki," Ukranian decorated eggs, at 7:30 p.m.

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WASHINGTON (NC) - A national.panel's recent recommendations to stem teen pregnancies through more abortion and contraception "are exactly the recommendations made over 15 ye~rs ago by Planned Parenthood," said Richard Doerflinger, assistant director of the U.S. bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities.

"Those proposals have been tried and have failed miserably," he said, and the panel has proposed only "more of the same."

The panel, the NationaLResearch Council, which is affiliated with the National Academy of Sciences, included among its recommendations in a lengthy report on teen pregnancy: - Widespread availability, free or at low cost, of birth control pills as "the safest and most effective means of birth control for sexually active adolescents."

- Easier availability of con'doms to teenagers, with efforts to distribute them widely in places where teenage boys gather.

- Easy.availability of abortion, without requirements of parental consent, for pregnant adolescents.

- Promotion of school-based fiealth clinics which provide contraceptive services.

Doerflinger particularly objected to the panel's recommendation to expand the school clinics, a project rapidly gaining attention across the country.

"If a school is put in the position of handing out contraceptives, it's going to undermine the message that the schools should be trans, mitting to children," he said.

"Teenagers will laugh at you if you . say, 'Shoplifting is wrong. But in case you're going to continue doing it there's a pan<;1 of experts down in Room 212 to show you how to do it without getting caught.' " , U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett said of the council's backing for school-based birth control clinics, "This is not the first time a prestigious-sounding group has advocated a dumb policy."

Numerous Catholic bishops also have opposed the idea of school clinics. The bishops of Ohio recently called them a "false safety net," and Bishop Edward O'Rourke ofJ Peoria, said such clinics would' make it seem that schools "endorse fornication."

Doerflinger objected to claims by the head of the study, Dr. Daniel Federman of Harvard Medical School, that the s,tudy was "very much controlled by research data" and "based on the evidence" rather than on political views.

"There's no scientific evidence that contraceptive pI:ograms have 'reduced pregnancy," Doerflinger said, citing a recently published Pennsylvania study of two groups of teenagers, one receiving intensive contraceptive advice and services, the other a, control gr,oup obtaining no special help on contraceptives. The study found that both groups, over a 15-month period, had the same cumulative pregnancy rate. ' On the research council's recommendation on access to abortion, Doerflinger said that when abortion is a response to teenage pregnancy, repeat pregnancies increase.

Sexually active adolescents who neither use contraception nor carry their pregnancies to term are likely to get pregnant again more quickly

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and frequently than their counterparts who are not active, use contraception or carry a pregnancy to term, he said.

He said Planned Parenthood years ago argued for wide contraceptive use to reduce teen pregnancies. When that did not work, Planned Parenthood urged abortion as the answer, he said, and now the council's study urges expansion of those programs.

"There is not one shred of evidence that more of the same will help."

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Doerflinger said one constructive element in the study was its "recognition that the root causes of the problem are broader and deeper than simply an absence of contraceptives.

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"What is destructive about the study is its despair about doing anything about those causes, and in fact advocating solutions that can aggravate the problem," he said.

He said the study tended to deal with pregnancy as if it were "the only adverse consequence of premature sexual activity." The message it gives teenagers, he said, is, "Your sexual activity will be free -of adverse consequences if you take these pills."

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Robert Berger, one of the film's two producers, said in a Dec. 18 telephone interview from New York that he expects the movie will be ready this fall.

Berger decided to do the film after he saw "The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest." a play by Robert Harwood. in London.

He thought it would make a "hell of a good movie," Berger said.

"It's one of the few times that the church and state have clashed in an Iron Curtain country and in a perverse sort of way the church won." \ It was "perverse," that it "took the death of a marvelous person to make people sit up and take notice," he added, saying that the film will highlight 'Poland's uniqueness as a Catholic country behind the Iron Curtain.

Berger plans to film the movie in Austria. Casti.ng has not y~t been announced. It will be aproduction of Hallmark~ frequent producers, . of TV specials; Prime Time Entertainment, British owner of the rights to the play; and Titus Productions, an American .company which produced th'e 1987 miniseries "Holocaust."

Father Popieluszko, an outspoken supporter. of Solidarity, the government-banned Polish labor union, was kidnapped, beaten, bound, gagged and thrown into the Vistulli River. Four Polish security guards were convicted of his murder.

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SECULAR FRANCISCANS, ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, POCASSET HYANNIS St. Francis of the Cape fraternity Cape Cod's WQRC-FM radio stameeting 2 p.m. Jan. II, St. John tion broadcast the parish's Christ(7 .•.: · mas Midnight Mass for the benefit Evangelist parish center, Pocasset; Father Edwin Dirig, OFM, will speak of shut-ins. and celebrate Mass; all welcome; ST. STANISLAUS, FR information and rides: Robert ColAt 10:30 a.m. Mass Christmas lyer, 563-2654; Dorothy Williams, day. parishioners shared in "The 394-4094.

Lord Jesus' Birthday Cake"; the "yearly masterpiece of love." says VINCENTIANS, FR PUBLICITY CHAIRMEN. Fall River District Council meetORDER OF THE ALHAMBRA pastor Father Robert S. Kaszynski, are asked to submit news items for this Members of Fall River's Leon column to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall is' baked by Miss Paula and Mrs. ing and Mass 7 p.m. Tuesday. St. River, 02722. Name of city' or town should Caravan 122 will participate in a Stella Lawton. and blessed and dis- Anthony of Padua parish, Fall River, be included, as well as full dates of all Region One council meeting at 8:30 tributed at the Mass. Jan. 4, exposi- with celebrant Father Evaristo Taactivities. Please send news of future rather than past events. Note: We do not carry tonight, Loyola Hall, College of the tion of the Blessed Sacrament begins vares. pastor; final plans for the Jan. news of fundraising activities such as 16 Bishop's Charity Ball will be Holy Cross, Worcester. bingos, whists, dances, suppers and bazaars.

II :30 a.m., ends with 4 p.m. Holy We are happy to carry notices of spiritual discussed. hour.

Blessed incense and chalk will BLUE ARMY programs, club meetings, youth projects and similar nonprofit activities. Fundraising proFall River Diocesan Division of be distributed at weekend Masses in D OF I, ATTLEBORO jects may be advertised at our regular rates, Daughters of Isabella Alcazaba the Blue Army of Our Lady of honor of the Epiphany; they may be obtainable from The Anchor business office, telephone 675-7151.

Fatima five-hour vigil begins at 7 used to bless the principal doorway Circle 65 meeting 7:30 tonight, K of On Steerinll Points items FR indicates of a dwelling. Holy Rosary Sodality C Hall, Hodges Street, Attleboro; tonight, Sacred Heart Church, 341 Fall River, NB Indicates New Bedford.

Summer Street, New Bedford; Father meets I :30 p.m. Sunday. school aud- all women welcome.

Lucien Jusseaume, chaplain of Our itorium. Girls' basketball: 3 and 4 ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO WIDOWED SUPPORT, Lady's Haven, Fairhaven, will show p.m. tomorrow. vs. Fall River's Holy Mass' and healing service 2 p.m.

ATTLEBORO Name parish A and B teams. Nofilm strips of Marian apparitions at Attleboro Widowed Support Fatima, Portugal; all welcome; in- vena to St. Paul the Hermit com- Jan. II. church.

Group Mass 7 p.m. Jan. 9, St. formation: Lucille Pimental, mences Jan. 6. with services at each ST. MARY, NB Theresa's Church, S. Attleboro; 992-5402. daily Mass. Gregory and Denise PrayeF group meeting and Mass planning meeting follows.

Rego have been appointed parish Jan. 4.

O:L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK liaisons to the Office of Family NOTRE DAME, FR SACRED HEART, FR To celebrate Sunday's feast ofthe Ministry.

The parish thanks Conrad GenThe parish thanks Meg Murphy dreau for his donation of a stereo Epiphany, the parish will hold a CATHEDRAL CAMP, and her committee for decorating "Make Your Own Sundae Sunday," E. FREETOWN system to the youth center. the church for Christmas.

2 to 4 p.m., parish center. Youth HolyTrinityChurch, W. Harwich, ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS ministry 6 to 9 p.m. Jan. II. Parish Confirmation Day retreat 9 a.m. t04 O.L. MT. CARMEL, NB From Jan. 5 to March 3, daily variety show scheduled for end of Youth Prayer Community meetMass will be said in the cl1apel and March; sign-up meeting Tuesday p.m. Jan. 4: St. John Neumann Church, E. Freetown. Confirmation ing 7 p.m. Fridays, church basement. the church will be closed on weekevening, parish center. Appreciation retreat Jan. 9 and 10. Weekend days. Tiny Maggie Hatt, portrayed ON WINGS OF SONG, TAUNTON the infant Jesus in the parish Advent night for workers in parish projects retreat. with Father 'Joseph LaughThe Columbia Cultural Center is and ministries Jan. 16, Venus de lin as retreat master, Jan. 9 and 10. celebration, which included donaoffering "On wings of Song," a free Milo restaurant, Swansea; reservations by parishioners to the Toys for instructional program for talented tions by Jan. 9: rectory, 336-9022. ST.STEPHEN,ATTLEBORO Tots program. vocalists ages 12 to 16; auditions .

Prayer petitions may be placed in Amy Lynn Hopper, daughter of CARE Peter Hopper and former parish the prayer basket in front of the Jan. 12 and 14; information and regA series of Catholic Adult Reli- song leader Carol (Azulay) Hopper, sanctuary; parishioners may take a istration: Lidia M. Pina, 823-3303, 9 petition home to pray for. Adult a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays. gious Enrichment (CARE) sessions, was baptized at Sunday's 10:30 a.m. sponsored by the Diocesan Depart- Mass, one year to the day after her education program session 7:30 p.m. ST. ANTHO)'lY OF THE DESERT, ment of Education, will be held from . parents were married at Mt. Carmel. Jan. 7, church hall; topic: The Chris- FR tian Scriptures/The New Tesrament 7 to 9 p.m. on four consecutive Exposition of the Blessed Sacra. . . The Promise Fulfilled.

Wednesday evenings beginning Jan. BREAD OF LIFE, FR ment noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, with 5 21 at St. Michael's Church, 189 p.m. holy hour. S.t. Sharbel Chapel.

A Life in the Spirit seminar will CATHEDRAL, FR Essex Street, Fall River. Adult mem- follow the prayer group's regular Women's Guild members and Vinbers of St. Michael, St. Joseph, St. meeting, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 16, Blessed centians visited and brought gifts to BIRTHRIGHT, ATTLEBORO Persons who would like to donate Mathieu, Holy Name and St. Mary's Sacrament Church, Fall River.

45 parishioners in area nursing baby furniture. especially high chairs, Cathedral parishes, all in Fall River, homes. Cathedral Choir concert of are invited to attend. Father Robert ST. ANNE, FR carols and readings for Epiphany 3 cribs and playpens. may call Irene A. Oliveira, diocesan director of 50th anniversary celebration for p.m. Sunday, chapel of SS. Thomas Frechette. 222-8059. afternoons and evenings. continuing formation of the clergy Boy Scout Troop 50 Jan. 25; inforMore and John Fisher. and laity, will be resource person. mation: 674-8120. Exposition of the HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO CHRIST THE KING, Series theme: What do Catholics Blessed Sacrament after II :30 a.m.

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Mass today. shrine. Hour of adoraior high) boys will play at 2 p.m. Jan. Hours for weekend Masses at tion 2 p.m. today, shrine.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Queen of All Saints Chapel. Mash- 3. ~unday school students will play' Vincentians meet after 10 a.m.

HOLY ROSARY, TAUNTON pee: 4 p.m. Saturdays; 8:30, 10 and . at 3:15 p.m.

Mass Sunday, home of Gerald Charis~atic prayer meeting Jan. SS. PETER AND PAUL, FR II :30 a.m. Sundays. St. Jude's ChaLanoue, 48 Grant Street. Family 8. The parish thanks Anthony Piet- pel. Cotuit. will be open for daily Parishioners Joao and Maria breakfast after all morning Masses rzyk for building the outdoor crib Mass, visits. prayer meetings, funerCosta are celebrating their 25th Sunday. The parish family welcomes and Anne Sienko. Sophie Bieulieu 'als and weddings. Family Commiswedding anniversary. The Spiritual receritly baptized and confirmed conand George Straub for decorating sion meets 7:30 p.m. first and third Life Committee thanks parishioners vert Mr. Harvie Henry of Rehoboth. the church. for 585 gifts for the needy placed Thursdays, CCD center. under the parish "Giving Tree."

ST. JOSEPH, F AIRHA VEN Parishioners who would like to 32nd ANNUAL assist at an area soup kitchen on the first Friday of each month are asked to call Joe Begnoche, 992-7371.

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The Diocese O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1987 First Saturday rosary of·reparation and act of consecration to the LINCOLN PARK BALLROOM Immaculate Heart of Mary before 9 a.m. Mass tomorrow. Ultreya holiCHARITY BALL SOUVENIR day party 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, parish BOOKLET - SEVEN CATEGORIES center.

IN MEMORIAM-4 Tickets Admit 8-$200.00 or more' st. DOMINIC, SWANSEA VERY SPECIAL FRIEND·4 Tickets First Friday holy hour 7 tonight, Admit 8-$150.00 or more church.

GUARANTOR-3 Tickets-Admit 6-$100.00 ST. MARY, FAIRHAVE-N BENEFACTOR:2 Tickets-Admit 4 $100.00 (box holder) Adult forum 7 p.m. Jan. 20, church hall; guest speaker Dr. David ConBOOSTER-2 Tickets-Admit 4-$75.00 DANCE MUSIC BY BUDDY BRAGA MUSIC stantine on The Value of Life. First SPONSOR-I Ticket-Admit 2-$50.00 Friday Mass 7 tonight. The parish IN THE COCKTAIL LOUNGE PATRON-l Ticket-Admit 2-$25.00 thanks The Samaritans for their 8:30 9:00 P.M. 9:30 1:00 A.M. DEADLINE FOR NAMES IN SOUVENIR BOOKLET IS DECEMBER 29, 1986 presentation on suicide preverition Contact any member of the Society of Sl. Vincent de Paul, Council of Catholic and FEATURING at a recent adult education forum. A Women, Bishop's Charity Ball Committee or call or mail name for one of these ED SOUZA & THE ARISTOCRATS holiday meal was p'repared for relicategories to: gious education teachers by Jim and IN THE BALLROOM - 8 P.M. TO 1 A.M. BISHOP'S CHARITY BALL HEADQUARTERS-410 HIGHLAND AVENUE Leannette Martin and Mary Viera.

P.O. BOX 1470-FALL RIVER, MA 02722-TEL. 676-8943 Remember The Date FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16,1987 Epiphany party for religious education students grades K to six tomorThis Message Sponsored by the Following Business Concerns in the Diocese of Fall River row. New daily Mass schedule: Mass FEITELBERG INSURANCE AGENCY GILBERT C. OLIVEIRA INS. AGENCY at 8:30 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 7 a.m. Tuesday and GLOBE MANUFACTURING CO. DURO FINISHING CORP. GEORGEO'HARA CHEVROLET-CADILLAC Thursday.

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BISHOP'S CHARITY BALL

HOLY NAME, FR A booklet describing Holy Name school programs is available to parishioners.

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Religious calendars are available at the church entrance.

ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, POCASSET . Proceeds from a collection last weekend were given to Cape Cod's Diakonos program for Sister Marie Antoine, who runs a mountain clinic in Haiti. First Saturday Mass 8 tomorrow, followed by rosary recitation. The parish thanks .Mildred Bailey for arranging Christmas poinsettias and its music ministry staff, altar boys, lectors and eucharistic ministers for their holiday contributions.

Relic replicas' DUBLIN, Ireland (NC) - The .Irish Office of Public Works is replacing valuable Christian relics with silicon-and-rubber replicas to protect the originals from theft.

The replicas are being hailed as perfect copies of the relics, plus being weatherproof and inexpensive to make - about $250 apiece.

At the sixth-century Monastery fo Clonmacnois in County Offaly, public works officials began last year to remove the site's more than 600. crosses and monuments.

Clonmacnois, sometimes referred to as the Westminster Abbey of Ireland because of its countless royal tombs, was among Irish monastic sites vandalized in the last several years. Some of the most elaborately carved, centuriesold stones remain missing.

The replicas are to be placed on . the original sites. Nearby, a special museum - part of a cultural and interpretive center - is planned for storing the original crosses and stones.

Public works officials said they hope to be able to install the replicas early in 1987. They said replicas will be used at other ancient sites around Ireland as well.

In County Sligo, the British National Museum plans to replace five stone carvings with siliconand-rubber versions at the ancient monastic settlement at Carrowntemple. The carvings were stolen from the site, then recovered from an antique dealer.

Although the silicon-and-rubber compound is new, other replicas of ancient artifacts have been used in -I reland - such as a cross of fiberglass at the Rock of CasheI in County Tipperary.

'Priest dead at 102 MINNEAPOLIS (NC) - Msgr.

John J. Cullinan, 'oldest priest in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and a priest for 74 years, has died in Minneapolis at age 102. He retired in 1968 at age 84.

Father Cullinan was ordained

by Archbishop John Ireland of St. Paul on June 7, 1912. He was a U.S. Army chaplain during World War I in France and, before his death, was believed the oldest veteran chaplain.

He served under every archbishop who has headed the archdiocese and taught most of the older priests during 17 years at Nazareth Hall, the archdiocese's former minor seminary.

When he turned IOO in 1984, Father Cullinan received a handsigned blessing from the pope and_ said at that time the most important thing in life to him was "the priesthood - serving God."