The Anchor
Pope, U.S. prelates to meet in March
Friday, Jan. 13, 1989 2 Mother Teresa's nuns to aid Armenian victims
MOSCOW (NC) - Eight nuns of Mother Teresa's Missionaries" of Charity will be allowed to work in the Soviet Union on a temporary basis, the head of the Soviet Peace Committee announced. Four nuns will work in Armenia with victims of the Dec. 7 earthquake, and four will work in Moscow at the Institute of Neurosurgery. Mother Teresa, in Moscow after visiting Armenian earthquake victims, reached an agreement with the peace committee and the Soviet Ministry of Health. Genrikh Borovik, president of the peace committee, said he hoped to be able to' prolong the agreement beyond six months. Mother Teresa told a news conference that her nuns had no money. to offer, "but we are very happy to give tender love and care to the people, to the sick, the dying, the lonely, to anybody who needs love." Former Soviet leader Josef Stalin banned charitable activities by religious organizations in 1929. Under glasnost, religious laws are being rewritten but hiiVe not yet been published. . Arkady Lifshitz, a professor at the Institute of Neurosurgery, said one condition of the nuns' presence there was that religious services would be for themselves, not for patients or the public. He said the nuns in Moscow would work with victims of severe spinal injuries and trauma.
St. Anne's Hospital gratefully acknowledges contributions that we have received to the Remembrance Fund during December, 1988. Through the remembrance and honor of these lives, St. Anne's 'can continue its' "Caring With Excellence." Angelina Amaral William K: Assad Alfred Bellino Mrs. August Chouinard Jane Duperre Mrs. LMetta Dupont Sr. Germaine Des Anges G.agnon, O.P. Lorenzo Gagnon Bernard F. Iodice John W. Kennedy, Jr. Raymond Levitre Teresa Maloy Olive McGaw . Pierina Petrillo Peter Pieroni Mary Pinkoski Oiiier D. Plourde ; Jean M. Polak Margaret路 M, Roberts' Albert]. Roy路 Miriam Sherrill Elizabeth M. Smith Fr: John Sullivan Mrs. Loretta Valiquette
We. are grateful to those who thoughtfully named St. Anne's Hospital's Remembrance Fund.
BISHOP DANIEL A. Cronin recently held his traditional holiday meetings with retired priests ~nd with se~inarians of the diocese. Enjoying infor.mal talk wth the bishop are, in top pho~o, fIve of 18 retIrees at a luncheon at Fall River's Catholic Memorial Home. Clockwise from' bottom right: Fathers Cornelius J. Keliher, Daniel E. Carey and James F. Kenney and Monsignors Maurice Souza and Daniel F. ShaHoo. Bottom photo: seminarians with the bishop, front row from left: Steven Fachada, David Pregana, Charles Jodoin, Christopher Santangelo, Craig Pregana; back row: Edward J. Peck III, James Medeiros, Douglas Roderigues, John Sullivan, Gregory Mathias and John Balk. Craig Pregana's ordination is scheduled for June 10. Seminarian Douglas Sousa, not pictured, is at tne North American College in Rome. (Motta photos) .
and releases a preset amount of analgesic with pressure of a button. Maximum dosage and top frequency of administration are predetermined by the patient's physician and regulated by the computer. "The benefits of this pump are numerous," said Madeline Souza, assistant head nurse in the postanesthesia care unit at St. Anne's. "The pump actually speeds up the recovery process because it relieves pain instantly, allowing the patient more time for postoperative exercises such as coughing and moving," she explained. "It's a fantastic advance in postoperative medicine," summed up Dr. Andre P. Nasser, the hospital's chief of anesthesia. "Usually, .when a patient ent~rs the hospital, all control is taken away from him; what he eats, drinks, when he sleeps, the medicine he takes...the pump gives the patient some con-
lO-year-old buried in Lockerbie
LOCKERBIE, Scotland (NC) - About 200 people filled Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Lockerbie for the funeral of IO-yearold Joanne Flannigan, who died when falling debris from sabotaged Pan Am flight 103 destroyed her home trol over his own well~being, and The Jan . .5 Mass ~as'th~ first that in' itself relieves' a' lot' of anxiety/" . . : fun~i-al foI-l I Lockerbi~~esj'dents . ~illed lnthe Dec:21 tragedy. I;:ight Of the II, including Joanne's parents, Tom and Kathleen FllinniCHARLOTTE, N.C. (NC) gan, remain' missing. Officials I)ave Cambodian refugees in Charlotte said some ofthe townspeople might have "an authentic place to be have h~en cremated in the explothemselves" and -practice their sion of the aircraft's fuel-laden Buddhist faith - the Sister Franwings \y;hen they hit t.he ground. ces Sheridan Buddhist Temple. Father Patrick Keegans. told The temple was named after Sister tho~e at the funeral that death is Sheridan, a member of the Mis- harsh, "even in norma:I: circumsionary Servants or'the Most stances." Blessed Trinity, in 1983. She is "In these circumstances it is director of Catholic Social Servi- almost unbearable and unbelievaces for the Diocese of Charlotte. In ble," he said. meeting the needs of refugees Joanne's brother Steven, 14, at resettled through her office, Sister a neighbor's when the disaster Sheridan helped them establish occurred, survived. Another the temple. brother, David, 20, was living away from home and returned for the funeral. "The whole community shares GOD'S ANCHOR HOlDS in your grief," Father Keegans told them. - - -
Appointment, new equipment at St. Anne's St.~Anne's Hospital Fall River, has announced appointment of Dr. Mary Ann Rose to chief of radiation therapy at the hospital's Harold K. Hudner Oncology Center. Dr. Rose was previously a staff radiation therapist at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, and an instructor at Harvard Medical School. At St. Anne's she will u~ilize a new radiation treatment machine, one of only 12 in-the world .. Its use rpakes it possible to treat 'patients locally who might otherwise have had to travel to other medical centers. Also at St. Anne's, patientcontrolled analgesia pumps are now in operation, allowing postoperative patients to exercise some control over pain relief. The computerized pump, said officials, is connected to the patient's intravenous equipment
WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope John Paul II and at least 33 U.S. cardinals and archbishops will meet at the Vatican March 8-11 to discuss the church in the United States. The meeting dates were announced by William Ryan, acting secretary of public affairs for the National Conference of Catholic' Bishops. He said details of the meeting would be released later in January. Archbishop May asked bishops at last November's NCCB general meeting to' "reflect upon the potential significance" of the gathering at the Vatican and to share their thoughts on what might be discussed. The U.S. delegates to the meeting will include the heads ofthe 33 metropolitan sees - the chief dioceses ofecclesial provinces which include other dioceses, sources told National Catholic News Service. In the United States, 31 Latinrite archdioceses and two Easternrite archdioceses an~ metropolitan sees. The only U.S. archdiocese not considered-a metropolitan see is the Archdiocese for Military Services. A meeting to discuss U.S. church issues was first suggested in late 1986 by Bishop James W. Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, then-president of the NCCB. The suggestion came as the U.S. church was reacting to Vatican actions in the cases of Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen of Seattle and Father Char.\es E. Curran, a professor at The Catholic University of America. The pope announced last March that the meeting would take place in the spring of 1989. At that time St. Louis Archbishop John L. May, NCCB president, told NC News that the meeting would be similar to a 1986 discussion at the Vatican with representatives of the Brazilian bishops' conference. . At that meeting, attended by Brazil's five resident cardinals and. 14 regional secretariats, liberation theology and other issues of concern were discussed.
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