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Sorr()w dominates Church reactions to clinic murders BOSTON (CNS) - As accused abortion clinic shooter John C. Salvi II I pleaded innocent to murder and attempted murder in Boston Jan. 9, a debate was emerging among Catholic and pro-life leaders about whether there should bea national moratorium on peaceful protests outside abortion clinics.

Although Boston Cardinal Bernard F. Law had ask4~d for such a moratorium in his archdiocese immediately after the Dec. 30 shootings at two Boston-area clinics, New York's CardinalJohn J. O'Connor said at a Jan. 8 Mass that he would take that action only if a moratorium were called on abortions.

Cardinal O'Connor said he would follow Cardinal Law's example of initiating scheduled periods of prayer in churches for the cause of human life. But in the New York Archdiocese, he said, they would be "in addition to any prayer vigils that responsible individuals or groups believe that they should cond uct legally and nonviolently."

In a statement appearing in the Jan.6 Anchor, Bishop Sean O'Malley, noting that he stood in solidarity with Cardinal Law, added that "at this time, we must recommit . ourselves to nonviolent and peaceful methods that recognize the dignity of every person. We must strive to win people over by persuasion, not intimidation. The battle over abortion will be won only by changing people's minds and hearts. This cannot be accomplished by anger, but only by nonviolence and love as Christ teaches us by His word and example."

In Camden, N.J., Bishop James T. McHugh issued guidelines for peaceful demonstrations at abortion clinics, saying that they "must always reflect Gospel values and be law-abiding."

Bishop Leo E. O'Neil of Manchester, N.H., the diocese in which Salvi lived at the time of the shootings, also called for a temporary halt to peaceful protests outside abortion clinics. "My own personal opinion is we should use every means in the political arena to make our positiQn known and teach the public about the principles of life," he said.

Meanwhile, a clearer picture was emerging of Salvi, the 22-year-old hairdressing student arrested Dec. 31'for the shootings in Brookline, Mass., which killed two and wounded five others, and for firing shots at a clinic in Norfolk, Va., where no one was hurt.

In a lengthy, often-rambling statement released Jan. 5, Salvi said that if he is found guilty of the charges he faces, he wants to be executed. If he is acquitted, he said, he wants to become a Catholic priest.

The statement also discussed "the persecution which the Catholic people face" and suggested that the Catholic Church begin printing money to help low-income Catholic people make ends meet.

Msgr. Francis J. Maniscalco, media relations director for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Salvi's statement "shows how confus,ed and deeply disturbed he is," In Boston, police were stationed around the cardinal's residence, which is next to tht] chancery.

Father Peter V. Conley, editor of The Pilot, archdiocesan newspaper, said neither he nor Cardinal Law had heard from Salvi, who had expressed an interest in contacting the caf(linal and other Catholic leaders. Father Conley said The Pilot would not provide a forum for Salvi's views..

Writing in the Jan. 6 issue of The Pilot, Cardinal Law said his heart was "filled with heavy sorrow" over the shootings. "May the God of love and mercy bring those who were killed to that place where every tear will be wiped away, and may the compassionate Lord console all those who knew and loved those two young women," he wrote.

Ms. Shannon Lowney, 25, and Ms. Leanne Nichols, 38, were killed at the Planned Parenthood and Preterm Health S'ervices abortion clinics in Brookline.

A full-page ad in The New York Times Jan. 5 that said Catholic leaders "incite terrorism and death" by their words against abortion .brought an outraged response from the head of the U.S. bishops' prolife office, as well as from the Catholic League for Religious and Turn to Page II

NEWI.Y ORDAINED transitional deacons stand with Bishop Sean O'Malley following Jan. 7 ceremonies at St. Mary's Cathedral. From left, Deacons Joseph Blyskosz, Michael Racine, Michael O'Hearn, Christopher Stanibula and Marek Chmurski. (Studio D photo)

Inclusive language Vatican topic WASHINGTON (CNS) - Four U.S. Scripture scholars will meet in Rome Jan. 18 to 21 with counterparts named by the Vatican to discuss the use of English inclusive language in Scripture and the liturgy.

The consultation stems from a Vatican decision last year to reverse its approval for liturgical use of two inclusive-language Scripture translations in the United States.

Bishop Donald W. Trautman of Erie, Pa., hc~ad of the U.S. delegation, told Catholic News Service that there are to be at least two full days of meetings between the U.S. group and the Vatican participants during the period Jan. 18-21.

Apart from basic facts of who and When, he said he could not comment on the pending meeting because ofa Vatican-imposed rule of confidentiality.

The U.S. delegation is to consist of: - Bishop Trautman, chairman of the National Conference ofCatholic Bishops' Committee of Liturgy.

He is also a member of the Committee for the Review of Scripture Translations, the other main NCCB committee involved in the issue, and is a theologian and Scripture

scholar who taught biblical studies in the 1960s and '70s.

- Auxiliary Bishop Richard J. SkIba of Milwaukee, chairman of, the Committee for the Review of Scripture Translations, also a Scripture scholar who taught biblical studies before he was made a bishop.

- Franciscan Father Alexander A. Di Lelia, a Scripture professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington and editor of Catholic edition of New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. That text, which uses inclusive language, had received approval fqr liturgical use by the bishops of the United States and Canada and from the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, but last year the Vatican Congregation for the Doc-

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trine of the Faith ordered withdrawal of that approval.

- Jesuit Father Richard J. Clifford, professor of Old Testament at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass.

Bishop Trautman said Jesuit Father Albert Vanhoye, secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, will head the Vatican delegation. But as of Jan. 9 he did not know who else would participate on the Vatican side.

He said that Msgr. Robert N. Lynch, NCCB general secretary, and Msgr. Alan F. Detscher, director of the NCCB Secretariat for the Liturgy, would accompany the U.S. delegation to Rome as staff. aides.

The consultation on inclusive language was announced Nov. I

by Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore, NCCB president.

He said Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the doctrinal congregation, agreed to the consultation when the two met in Rome in October, just after news broke that the doctrinal congregation had told the worship congregation to rescind its approval for liturgical use of the inclusiveTurn to Page II

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Despite problems, Maryknoll persists MARYKNOLL, N.Y.(CNS). Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers continue their emphasis on foreign missions despite the society's declining size and financial constraints, its superior general said in a recent interview.

"There is a somber side, but we can't be overpowered by it," said Father Kenn'eth F. Thesing. "Most of our missioners don't feel negative."

The superior general outlined some developments expected to keep the society serving effectively as the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, its formal name.

Father Thesing said Maryknoll planned to remain a major center of mission education and promotion despite financial constraints that will force closing of its School of Theology at the end of the 1995 spring semester.

The school's library and other physic(j.1 resources, as well as some personnel, will be used in other activities, he said.

Researchers will look at how ordinary Catholics "construct their identities and struggle for life in oppressive global and local contexts."

The society will no longer grant degrees, Father Thesing said, but might affiliate with institutions that . do, so students can get credit for work at Maryknoll.

Noting that Maryknoll considers its book publishing arm, Orbis, an important aspect of its work, Father Thesing said 1994 sales . would reach an all-time high of about $2 million, possibly making the year the first that Orbis required no subsidy.

Thi~ development, accompanied by belt tightening in other departments, slightly higher income from. supporters and holding the line on health costs, has moved maryknoll from a million-dollar defiJ:it a couple of years ago to anticipation of balanced books for 1994, said the superior.

He also said the society continues to attract new members, although overall membership is declining. In 1994, for the first time Maryknoll had no ordinations, and expects only one in 1995. However, about a dozen men are preparing for ordination and another dozen are considering entering Maryknoll.

Father Thesing was recently Mass celebrant and homilist for the first sending ceremony of the new Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful.

EDICTAL CITATION DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS Since the actual place of residence of RICHARD J. BROWN is unknown.

We cite RICHARD J. BROWN to appeal personally before the Triburial of the Diocese of Fall River on Tuesday, January 24, 1995 at 2:30 p.m. at 887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Massachusetts, to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the marriage exists in the SANDT-BROWN case?

Ordinaries of the place or other pastors having the knowledge of the residence of the above person, RICHARD J. BROWN must see to it tliat he is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation.

Jay T. Maddock judicial Vicar Given at the Tribunal, . Fall River, Massachusetts, on this 1st day of January, 1995.

Established last summer, it is a permanent organization for lay missioners and non-Maryknoll priests and brothers who serve abroad in the Maryknoll tradition. It began with 138 people already serving under Maryknoll auspices, and the sending ceremony added 18 lay missioners and one priest, including five married couples and their children.

They will serve in Tanzania, Cambodia, Japan, Thailand, Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Venezuela.

Sam Stanton, a member of the association's leadership team, said it expected another group of 20 to 25 take a preparation class this fall.

Father Thesing said the Maryknoll Fathers, Brothers and Sisters are also developing an affiliates movement for people wishing to promote the missionary spirit in the United States.

Begun in 1991 as something like a Maryknoll "third order," the movement now has hundreds of members in 45 groups and will hold its first national convention in August, Father Thesing said.

Questioning ethics NEW YORK (CNS) - A U.S. appeals court judge, writing in the Jesuit magazine America, questioned the ethics of the death penalty when demand for it is based on vengeance. Judge Richard L. Nygaard, a member of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia since 1988, said in the magazine that "although our government knows enough to do better, it is now ruled by the tides of public opinion and has deigned to respond politically to the base passions of society rather than act as a statesman upon the sociological necessities of civilization."

Nygaard, who acknowledged in the article that he was on a court panel that recently rejected a final ~ppeal of a death penalty, said that , "by exacting revenge. upon criminals, society drops to the social stratum of its dregs. We are then playing on their terms, by their. rules; and we cannot win."

Diocesan relations head WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Rev. G. Richard Fowler,'a Methodist minister and secretary for social concerns in the archdiocese of Washington, has been named director of diocesan relations in the U.S. bishops' Department of Social Development and World Peace.

As soCial concerns secretary, Mr. Fowler has led archdiocesan efforts to aid the poor, the elderly, the homeless, the unborn, persons with AIDS and others.

Priest-poor nation MOSCOW (CNS) - An Irish seminarian has become the first Catholic deacon ordained in Moscow since the 1917 Marxist revolution. Philip Andrews, who will work in Russian parishes, was ordained by Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, apostolic administrator of European Russia. The archbishop has repeatedly warried that more native priests are needed to give permanence and legal security to the Russian church. Fiftyfour priests from 15 nations are currently working in Russia's 63 registered Catholic parishes. Only two are Russian.

A MAJOR event of the year for the Catholic Charities Appeal office comes tonight as the 40th annual Bishop's Charity Ball takes place at Venus de Milo restaurant, Swansea. A highiight of the evening, say Rev. Daniel L. Freitas, Ball director, and. Mrs. Manuel T, Nogueira, president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and Ball co-chair, who are pictured above, will come when 35 young women are presented to Bishop Sean P, O'Malley, For the first time the presentees will include twins, Amy Catherine and Elizabeth Ann Roma, daughters of Permanent Deacon and Mrs. Paul K. Roma of Christ the King parish, Mashpee. Dancing will take place from 8 p.m. to midnight and Ball proceeds will benefit diocesan apostolates and ministries, (Gaudette photo)

Priestless Sundays norms set in Wisconsin MADISON, Wis.(CNS)-The - Giving priority to perma"nent Catholic bishops of Wisconsin have deacons as leaders of worship. outlined norms for parish worship - Making sure that people do when' no priest is available for not confuse services of prayer and Mass.

Communion with the Mass.

They stressed that "the celebra- Keeping such services aligned tion of Mass is the central event of with liturgical year and church the church's worship" and that no feasts by using either a Liturgy of alternative can be "an adequate the Word or celebration of mornsubstitute." ing or evening prayer from the But the shortage of priests in Liturgy of the Hours for the first Wisconsin makes it necessary to part of the celebration, then adding address the issue, they said. distribution of holy Communion.

WhUe addressed primarily to When a parish faces a situation the question of Sunday worship, in which it will not have a priest the norms also said that "when a available occasionally or regularly, priest cannot be present for a the bishops said that it will be up weekday Mass, it is strongly ento the local bishop, after consultacouraged that a Liturgy of the tion, to determine if parishioners Word or morning or evening prayer shOUld travel to a nearby parish from the Liturgy of the Hours be for services or "remain as a worcelebrated, followed by the ~istri­ shiping community with a deacon but ion of holy <;:ommunion and or lay leader of prayer." led by a deacon or lay leader."

"If the bishop decides that the In an accompanying news reintegrity of your parish is to be lease, the bishops' conference said maintained in the expectation of a that "on any given Sunday fewer permanent priest pastor, then the than a dozen of Wisconsin's nearly obligation to travel is not present 1,000 Roman Catholic churches and the obligation of attending a~e without a priest to celebrate Mass when it is not available in the the Eucharist."

It said that while such services parish is not binding," they said. are still relatively rare overall, they "It is recommended by us bishops are more common in rural areas, in the strongest way possible that and especially in the diocese of those of you so affected particiSuperior, which has only 77 pate in whatever prayer service is priests serving 115 parishes. provided in order to bring the The norms called for: members of your parish commun- Training for lay prayer lead- . ity together on Saturday night or ers .

Sunday to bear witness that you . - Procedures in each diocese are a faith community," the bishops establishing the role of bishop and wrote. the pastor or parish administrator The conference news release in designating lay leaders. noted that the bishops statement - Limited terms for lay leaders. "will help parish leaders respond" "It is important that such leaders if visitors, surprised by a priestless see themselves as supplying a need prayer service in place of Mass, in the absence of the priest and not have questions about the propas performing a stable and new riety of such a service or its form or ministry in the church." content.

PENSACOLA, Fla. (CNS) "Violence in the name of pro-life makes a mockery of th(: pro-life movement," Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb of Mobile, Ala., said in a recent keynote address to a statewide gathering of Catholi,; pro-life leaders in Florida.

At the time, the archbi~.hop was hospitalized for apparent food poisoning and was unable to deliver his talk in pe~son. Bishop John M. Smith of Pensacola-Tallahassee read his prepared text.

One of the most vocal and widely covered advocates of killing abortionists to stop abortion i:; Father David C. Trosch, a Mobile priest whom Archbishop Lipscomb has suspended from all priestly ministry because of his views.

In his address the arc:'lbishop sharply criticized the e~:tensive media coverage of Father Trosch.

"Apparently the sensationalism of a man in a Roman collar advocating killing his reason I~nough [for the media to give him coverage)," the archbishop added. "That should not be so. David Trosch has never held any posil:ion of lea.dership in the pro-life move-. ment.

"Indeed, its leaders hav\~ repudiated his opinions. The media need to re-examine standards that permit them to ignore the many pro-life leaders, representing millions, who speak compassionately.

In his text Archbishop Lipscomb re.viewed Catholic teaching and theology in opposition to. .

"In the Catholic tradition there is a clear presumption against vigilantism.... Our tradition h,IS long taught ,that private individuals should not take the Ill. w int,) their own hands," he said.

"For example, Thomas Aquinas held that it is not lawful for a private individual to harm another individual, much less kill, (:ven if this person were an evildoer whose actions hurt the community."

The bishop also repudiated as "wrong, terribly wrong" some efforts to justify killing of abortionists by reference to the Catholic "just war" tradition.

He pointed out that the argument for violence in legitimate defense of self or others requires fulfillment of a number of "strict conditions," among them "s(:rious prospects of success" - in this case ending abortions.

In a society of represen·tative government where abortion has become "the law of the land" and "socially acceptable to too many," Archbishop Lipscomb said, "the only successful solution, pa.inful but powerful, long term but long lasting, is to change hearts by witness to the truth of every human life and the love God intends to accompany it."

"Rather than saving the lives of the unborn," he said, "whoever kills an abortionist will instead do serious damage to the effort to convert our society to an attitude of respect for life. Such conversion is the only sure way to end the crisis in our demo~ratii:: sociely."

"Abortion is certainly an evil that should be resisted and resisted with all the strength we can muster," he said.

"Only if we can convince people that abortion is wrong will it stop," he said. "Killing abortionists not only is ineffective, it severely inhibits the effectiveness of the one method that has a possibility of success - persuasion."

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Ringing in New Year 1995 meant more than a calendar change for the Dominican Sisten; of St. Catherine of Siena. The Fall River congregationand two New York congregations-the Dominican Sisters of Newburgh and the Dominican Sisters of the Sick Poor of Ossiningvoted on December 31 to establish a new congregation, the Dominican Sisters of Hope.

The three current cl:ntral administration buildings, or motherhouses, will continm: to be main-

tained as Centers of Hope. Current operations and ministries will continue at all three locations.

Sister Annette Roach, OP, prioress of the Fall River congregation, and a native of Fall River, said that "this getting together generates new life and provides more options for service for the new congregation's membership."

Formal founding activities will take place in July when members of the new congregation will elect

Pope discusses Catholic response to immoral laws VATICAN CITY (CNS) Catholics must work to ensure their society's laws are in harmony with moral law, Pope John Paul II said.

But when immoral laws, such as legalized abortion, are already in place, the church must come up with criteria for helping Catholics decide how to accomplish good when the complete revocation of those laws is impossible, he said.

The pope met recently with some 45 theologians, experts and academics attending a four-day symposium on "Catholics and Pluralistic Societies: The Case of Imperfect Laws."

The meeting was, sponsored by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Its deliberations and final conclusions were not made public.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the head ofthe congregation, explained the context of the meeting: "In pluralistic states-composed of groups that have differing visions

of values or even different scales of values - where, for example, there is a law which liberalizes abortion, some parties try to introduce a more restrictive law that prohibits abortion in some cases, but continues to allow it in others.

"The problem for Catholics is whatattitude to take regarding the newer legal proposals," he said.

Cardinal Ratzinger said laws dealing with euthanasia and homo'" sexuality have raised similar questions in some cou~tries and soon will have to be confronted in others.

"The person ha's rights' which the positive laws of the state do not create but must recognize, and the first among these is the right to life," the pope told the group.

"If public authorities sometimes have to tolerate that which they cannot prohibit without causing a greater evil, they can never legitimate as a right for some that which radically attacks the fundamental rights of others," he said.

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bishops with regard to the abortion issue is more than flawed. '~r .i In the case of church matters, secular news stories all too often demonstrate accurate observation but poor interpretation of events.

The reports in most newspapers would lead one to believe that there exist wide differences of opinion among Catholic bishops on the abortion issue itself, instead of simply on the topic of whether or not to continue peaceful protests outside abortion facilities.

One paper would have had its readers believe that the Catholic archbishop of Boston was changing his position on church teaching concerning abortion. The same daily also depicted the archbishop of New York as driving a divisive wedge into the, longstanding anti-abortion position of the Catholic Chu'rch.

Both these asseverations are wrong and misleading. They are wrong because no Catholic bishop has or will change his position on abortion. All bishops in communion with the Holy See held firmly to Church teachings on this matter.

Cardinals Law and O'Connor do not differ on the principle that the right to life is fundamental. As long as a person lives, he or she has the right to life. Contrary to what has been inferred, Catholic teaching is firm on this basic issue.

The media are incorrectly confusing the matter of abortion itself with the attempts of some churchmen to defuse a potentially explosive situation by encouraging a moratorium on public protests at abortion clinics.

The right to peaceful protest is taken for granted in America, but if such protests become violent or encourage violence, they must be controlled. There is a great difference between lawful assembly and the fanaticism of a deranged individual. There are extremists on both sides of the abortion issue and they J , . f f eNS! Reulers photo should not be allowed to hide under the cloak 0 law ul protest, A CITIZEN OF GROZNY IN CHECHNY A WEEPS OVER THE BODY OF A but should be seen for what they are.

RELATIVE KILLED BY A RUSSIAN BOMB A great disservice is done by the media when in reporting on an event, they deliberately or even inadvertently inflame the "My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me." Jer. 8:18 passions of their readers, hearers or viewers.

I_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Finally, it is totally misleading to speak of a schism in the American Catholic hierarchy, as was done on recent public broadcast reports. Much hurt is inflicted by ignorant reportBy Father Kevin J. Harrington ing, but often it seems that the Church is portrayed in a Matthew's Gospel makes it abun- Chicago, met for two hours with Everyone talks about January dantly clear that Jesus wants us to Steven Cook, the Philadelphia man villainous light because a reporter or editor simply does not blu.es. Mental health professionals first be reconciled with our brother who in 1993 accused the cudinal understand diocesan procedure. or sister before we make any offer- of having sexually abused hi m as a are well aware that the sun-robbed In the present situation, it is obvious that few media personwintry days that follow Christmas ing. Before the Magi opened their teenager. The accusation made for nel realize that a bishop speaks for his own diocese on events and New Year's are usually busy coffers filled with 'gold, frakincense sensational headlines, with newsthat happen within it and that local circumstances are handled times for counselors. The holiday and myrhh they greeted the new- paper editorials ,criticizing the by the local bishop. In other words, bishops do not tell other ,season often raises high expecta- born King of Israel as their brother. archbishop for not stepping down tions that go unmet or conjure up The humble birth of Jesus did not and accusing the Church of a bishops how to run their dioceses! blind the Magi to the bright light cover up. Cook's eventual retracsad memories best forgotten. It is If superficial differences exist with regard to procedures in a of the star of Bethlehem that in- tion was relegated to second page. hard not to experience some feelparticular instance, they never have to do with matters offaith ings of melancholy when we put spired them to prostrate themselves news. Anyone in public life knows but are usually individual decisions dictated by specific our Christmas decorations away to pay him homage. how futile it is to argue with people who buy ink by the barr~1. for another year. circumstances.

Many people will never read the Last February' a federal judge It helps me cope with the Janu- Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke Taking a wider view, there is little doubt that the media are dismissed the $10 million lawsuit ary blahs to reflect upon the true or John.

Their only contact with newly focused on the abortion issue. May we hope that as they that Cook filed against the ,;ardimeaning' of the Epiphany.' This gospel will be with the living handle it they will strive.fo'r greater objectivity, accuracy and feast is often lost amid the hoopla the nal, other church officials and the homily they encounter in our good fairness as far as the. Catholic Church and its teachings on this of the holidays. It reminds us that example. The Epiphany is a vivid Cincinnati archdiocese. On Dec. 3D, Cardinal Bernardin celebrated matter are concerned.

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that occurred nearly a score of both the star of Bethlehem and the centuries ago but is a reality presMagi. We are to be the light of the ent in the heart of every true world as Jesus challenged us in his believer who searches and follows.

Sermon on the Mount as well as The Magi represent all of us who the pilgrim who struggles to find grope through the darkness of sin the way. and death with just enough light to Two modern stars of Bethlehem walk one step at a time on our have inspired me'this Christmas. pilgrimage toward God. One involved forgiveness of a In order not to lose our way we physical wound and another inneed shining stars to follow. Our volved forgiveness of an emotional world is sorely in need of heroes. wound. I have a picture in my ,Perhaps the greatest of our day are study of the scene in an Italian those who overcome the greatest prison cell of Pope John Paul II obstacles, and I know.ofno greater meeting with Mehmet Ali Agca, obstacle to overcome than our the man who shot him. It reminds inability to forgive. Too many me that when I do not forgive, I people live within prison walls of stay in prison, unable to bring the memories of unforgiven hurts or, gift of myself to God or others. worse, still, waste time harboring On Dec. 3D, a similar reconcilgrudges and nursing thoughts of ' ing event occurred when Joseph vengeance.

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a mass of reconciliation and anointed his former accuser, who is dying of AIDS, In his homily he told Cook that "in every family there are times when there is hurt, anger, alienation. The Church is a spiritual family and we cannot run away from our family. We have only one family, so we must make I:very effort to be reconciled." Cardinal Bernardin, a modern star of BNhlehem, said he made his story p'ublic "to give anyone who is hurt or alienated the inspiration and c:ourage to be reconciled."

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that following an abortion "I live daily with the pain and shame of what I did and !.ix years later still pray for forgiveness."

While your n!sponse to her was excellent as far us it went, in assuring her that she is not excommunicated, I feel strongly that more needs to be said.

As a psychiatrist, I frequently Q. During the study of the creed see women in my office who have in our RCIA (Rite for the Chrisbeen to priests repeatedly for contian Initiation of Adults) group, fession followinl~ abortion, but who one candidate questioned the need are unable to lIccept and receive for two creeds, the Apostles' and the forgiveness that is offered. the Nicene.

For women in this situation, it is I was not satisfied with the anoften essential to have post-aborswer we came up with. When were tion counselin~: from a Christian these two creeds writtE~n? Why are perspective, with prayer for emothere two? Are there others? Do tional healing. other denominations use them?

Although many professional (Illinois)

By FATHER JOHN counselors have not received speA. A creed (from the Latin DIETZEN cific training in post-abortion "credere," to believe) is simply a counseling and may not know how list of religious doctrines held by a particular group. Some can be baptism needed to respond "I be- to help, a growing number of proshorter, hitting just the basics; lieve" to three fundamental ques- fessional counselors, psychiatrists, others are longer and more de- tions, framed in words very similar as well as priests and religious, are to the Apostles' Creed. becoming educated and gaining tailed.

With minor differences, these experience in this very specialized Thus, while we are more familiar with the two you mention, same questions, or "baptism prom- type of counseling.

I would advise women with this ises," form part of our baptism Christians have had several of both type of problem to call the National liturgy to this day. kinds over the past 2,000 years.

Some time later, perhaps in the Office of Post-Abortion ReconciliThe first ones, in fact, which we find in the New Testament, con- fourth century, the formula of ation and Healing at I-S00-5WEtain only a few words. In his letter faith based on these questions, the CARE. Staff at this number can Apostles' Creed, pretty much refer women to counselors and to the Philippians, for instance, St. reached its final form. support groups throughout the Paul tells us that the climax and Another circumstance giving rise United States. summation of our' Christian reThe video "Dear Children" by sponse to the incarnation and the to credal statements was found in Liguori Press is also a powerful saving death of. Jesus is: Jesus the various doctrinal controversies within the Christian com- tool to explain post-abortion synChrist is Lord (2: II). munities. drome and show through interWe find this same proclamation Through most of the fourth cenviews with real people how forof faith reflected or alluded to giveness and healing can be exelsewhere in the New Testament tury, for example, the church wrestled fiercely against teachings perienced. dozens of times.

The book "Will I Cry TomorAnother was the simple: God which began with a priest named row?" by Susan Stanford, Ph.D., has raised him (Jesus) from the Arius directly attacking fundadead. This formula, too, is repeated mental beliefs about the divinity of tells of the author's own personal experience in dealing with the pain often in the Acts of IChe Apostles, Christ and the Holy Trinity.

Bishops and theologians at the and guilt of abortion, and shows and inferred repeat(:dly in other first ecumenical council in Nicea positive steps that people can take places. to experience God's forgiveness This does not imply that other (325) developed a more extended important beliefs are not contained profession of faith aimed particu- and healing.

I would strongly encourage readin the Scriptures. Paul makes clear, larly against Arius and his folers with this type of problem to however, that these are the core of lowers.

Fifty-six years later, the ecu- seek additional help if confession Christian faith.

"If you confess with your mouth· menical council of Constantinople alone has not been sufficient to bring resoluti.on. that Jesus is Lord," he says, "and (381) modified that profession Although God's forgiveness is believe in your heart that God somewhat, ending up with what raised him from the dead, you will we commonly call the Nicene freely given in the sacrament, there Creed. are often so many different emobe saved" (Romans 10:9).

These creeds were formed, of tional issues going on, and further As time went on, a variety of urgent circumstances prompted course, many centuries before the help is often necessary.

A. I am grateful to this doctor Protestant Reformation. Both of Christians to develop more detailed them, the Apostles' Creed particu- for pointing out post-abortion and specific lists of their beliefs. realities that need to be dealt with, Under what conditions, for ex- larly, have a place in the worship ample, should Christians allow of many, if not most, Protestant and that can even be encouraging to women (and men) who are tryothers to become members of their congregations today.

It is worth noting that these ing to work their way through faith community?

What "bare bones" truths, hand- early creeds and other expressions their recovery.

The specific suggestions she ed down from the apostles about offaith during the first 1,000 years Jesus and his teachings, should of Christianity are seen today " makes are excellent ones.

A free brochure, in English or new Christians be n~quired to pro- as having increasing importance fess before being accepted for in the movement toward Christian Spanish, outlining marriage reguunity, especially between the East- lations in the Catholic Church and baptism?

By the beginning of the third ern and W este rn Ca tho 1ic explaining the promises in an interfaith marriage, is available by sendcentury, catechumens approaching Churches.

Most of us, I believe, do not ing a stamped self-addressed enverecognize the enormous signifi- lope to Father John Dietzen, Holy cance of the creed we profess to- Trinity Church, 704 N. Main St., gether each Sunday.

Bloomington, Ill. 61701. Questions Framing the fouhdational truths for this column should be sent to of Christian faith as they do, they Father Dietzen at the same address.

Jan. 16: Heb 5:1-10; Ps are among the most majestic 110:1-4; Mk 2:111-22 achievements of those who have Jan. 17: Heb 6:10-20; Ps gone before us as followers of 111:1-2,4-5,9-10; Mk2:23-28 Christ.

Q. You recently answered a Jan. 18: Heb '7:1-3,15-17; question in your column regarding Ps 110:1-4; Mk3:1-6 abortion. The writer had stated Jan. 19: Heb 7:25-8:6; Ps

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Nurses, sonographers certified at St. Anne's Hospital Six St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, nurses recently received specialty certification in oncology nursing from the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation.

Dawn Mendoza, Lee Ann Jackson, Clara Reagan, Eileen Antonelli, Cynthia Arruda and JoAnne Goudreaujoined 10 other certified oncology nurses at St. Anne's after successfully completing the Oncology Certified Nursing Examination.

Tricia Colter, ROMS, RTR, and Stephanie Lawrence, ROMS, recently passed board exams given by the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers and will be licensed to perform gynecologic, abdominal and general diagnostic ultrasounds.

Ms. Lawrence earned a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and received ultrasound training at Charlton Memorial Hospital, Fall River. Ms. Colter graduated from the Rhode Island Hospital School of Ultrasound in Providence.

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'Marriage counseling' Dear Dr. Kenny: Our marriage is in serious trouble. After 12 years my wife says she no longer loves me and wants to leave. She has agreed to meet for marriage counseling but I don't know whom to call. What can we expect? Please help. (Indiana) You raise three important questions: What's wrong with our marriage? Who can help us? What is good marriage therapy?

You are not alone in having marital problems. Many marriages today are in trouble. Families face stress due to basic changes in society.

In earlier days many tasks were accomplished within the family: educating the young, caring for the sick. finding jobs for teens, welfare, even burying the d.ead.

In our more complex society. many agencies now perform these tasks. As a result. the family is no longer that important. The one task left to family is forming intimate love relationships.

Be gentle with yourselves. When family is stripped of alI its important functions except love, a lot of pressure is put on the marital rela~ tionship. The emotion of love is a rolIer-coaster. We expect it to last

forever, and yet it can change to hostility in a moment.

There are at least three kinds of love: emotional infatuation, friendship and commitment. All three are important in a marriage, but only commitment can make marriage last.

Commitment is an act of the will, a guarantee ~hat a promise will be kept no matter what. Both parties need to make that commitment for a marriage to work.

Your second question asks whom to calI for help.

Clergymen give counseling. They use a Scriptural or rational approach. Mental-health profession~ als provide therapy.

If you need marital therapy. you should contact a professional with credentials in one of the following three fields: clinical psychology (Ph. D.), social work (ACSW) or a marri'age and family therapist (AAMFT - American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists).

Finally. you ask what you can expect in marriage therapy. Approaches differ. Here is what I do.

My goal is to formulate an agenda of troublesome areas, starting with "communication."

By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY

Effective communication is the key to working out the other major problems. (Fora free pamphlet on communication, send U:i a selfaddressed. stamped envelope.)

I meet with both pari ners together for the first sessie'n. Then we meet separately for an hour.

All this while I am searching for a list or agenda of areas to cover.

Common ones include money, sex, in-laws. children, substanee abuse, .violence, dominance, pm-downs, whatever is threatening the marriage.

Then we meet together for two to .four sessions to add ress the hard issues. If either pany needs individual therapy, we do that, after the marriage therapy.

My goal is to fix the problem. not assign blame. I stay problemfocused, teaching couples how to resolve their difficulties on their own.

Humor hotline

By Antoinette Bosco tailor-made for people who are in pain, simply because you can really My wish for 1995 is that eveCELEBRATING IN MANILA: Children blow路card- ryone be infused with the gift of only laugh at the serious things in board horns to welcome the new year in Manila, Philippines. humor. I think most people are life. Comedian Steve Allen has ,The city is hosting a papal visit and World Youth Day through taking life too seriously, missing said. "Nothing is quite as funny as the unexpected humor of reality." the benefits of a good laugh.

Jan. 16. (eNS/ Reuters photo) .

Humor actualIy holds a mirror At a humor conference last year .! heard many times that "s/ he who up to reality. I like the one about the. person who calIed President laughs, lasts!" No question about Lincoln two~faced. Lincoln repit. Laughter helps you make it

By Msgr. George G. Higgins Dorothy Day was somewhat through hard times. even the pain .lied, "If I had .two faces do you think I'd choose this one?"

The Catholic Worker movement, exceptional among the social reform- of severe loss.

The late great psychologist Humor is healing. When you Qne of the most important social ers of her own day and age, nota- . laugh, you are releasing.

Rising Abraham Maslow, recognized for movements in the history of the bly in her likeness to one of her his pioneering work in "self-acCatholic Church in the ,United favorite patrons, St. Francis of up. Even Sigmund Freud knew the tualization," wrote about the relehealing value of humor and how, States, is the subject an invaluable Assisi, who instructed his early folvance of humor, concluding, "It's by laughter, people unburden themlowers oral history prod uced by Rosalie to "love others as they are, selves, if only for a short time, and interesting that the Western conReigle Troester, an English pro- without desiring for thy sole advanfessor at Saginaw ValIey State tage that they be better Christians." become open to new sources of ceptions of God don't permit him any humor. Think about that a University in Michigan.

One of St. Francis' biographers enjoyment. little. We tend to think of the reliLaughter is really the mind's Her book "Voices From the described him as "the last Chrissafety valve. Cal Samra, founder gious person mostly as humorless.

Catholic Worker" contains only a tian." The writer must never have of the Fellowship of Merry Chris- [But] some of the mystics do take smalI portion of the material Pro- heard of Dorothy Day, for she was tians, in his book "The Joyful into account humor, joking, gaiety fessor Troester gathered in more unquestionalllya truly great ChrisChrist" tells of a nun who says, and laughter, and wilI make jokes than 200 taped interviews and con- tian.

"Something special happens when as part of religion ... I would em-. versations with men and women, She has been correctly described people laugh together over some- phasize humor as one of the ultisome now deceased, who have as a Christian radical and a prophet thing genuinely funny and not mate values." been personalIy involved with the in the biblical sense of the word.

The wonderful mystic St. Teresa hurtful to anyone. It's like a magic movement. All of the tapes, tran- Such people, rare enough in any rain that showers down feelings of of Avila was having a pheasant scripts and related material are on generation, are a gift of God to his comfort, safety and belonging to a dinner one day when a very serious permanent file in the Catholic church. But they are sometimes man arrived at the monastery. He group."

Worker archives at Marquette hard to live ,with and, in their had heard of her holiness and had Strangely enough, laughter is University in Milwaukee. weaker moments, are given to their Dorothy Day, founder with Peter own special kind of arrogance.

Dorothy Day never felI into that Maurin of the Catholic Worker movement, inevitably fIgures very trap. To the contrary, one would prominently in many of the taped be hard put to find anything she interviews. She was one of the ever wrote or said in public that People often ask if it rains as We know. Just like when Aunt was judgmental, moralistic of self- , much in the Pacific Northwest as most significant, interesting and Shirley calls and asks, "Raining at righteous. influential persons in the history one hears. Let'sjust say that if rain your place?" and we answer, "No, She taught by example more of American Catholicism, and really is the water from angels' just a little drizzle no'w. It was than by word - although her outmany people think of her as a showers, we have a pretty good misting, mizzling and sprinkling put as a writer was enormous. She saint. idea of where heaven's bathroom earlier.'!

An experienced federal bureau- lived a life of heroic poverty and is located.

Rain rarely cancels Little League crat, looking back on his long service to the poor, and was a corTruthfulIy,. though, it doesn't games. They will be postponed, years of government service in the .ageous and prophetic Christian "rain" alI that much. Compared to however, by "downpours" or an nation's capital, observed in print' witness in many other areas as t~e monsoon regions of Southeast hour or two of "cats and dawgs."

Asia.. some time ago that "Washington, welI, notably on the subject of war ."Overcast" is a geographical is a place where it is possible to and peace.

"Rain" has specific meaning here. reality here, sort of like slugs and . F<?w men and women in this or spend your entire career traffickIt "falls" between "showers" and mold. It is not forecast. It is ing in health, education or welfare, any other generation have mea- . "rainfall" on the "precip" con- . assumed. and never have to' p'ersonally' sure'd out as much as she did in tinuum. " Potential sunshine is forecast, encounter the lame, the halt or the love and dedicated' service and The most common weather forehowever rarely. The more comdown-and-out." sheer respect for the dignity of all cast we hear is: "showers, possibly mon forecast is potential "patches turning to rain and then rainfall." ,of blue." If you see someone standThis was his way of making the God's children. As the New York I've. seen people'from Florida stop point that what is most corrosive Times aptly noted on the morn'ing ing on the hood of his ,or her. car chewing and sputter things like, ' pointing to something on the about any large-scale bureaucracy of her funeral, "There is no one is what he calIed its "numbing who can ha ve died wither a clearer "What the hurricane does that horizon, it is often a "patch of "'conscience:" mean?" abstraction." blue."

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come to see her in 'person: When he saw her eating, he berated her, a holy woman, eating pheasant. He had expected to see her deep in meditation.

She calmly reminded him that "there's a time for medftati on and a time for eating pheasant." That was from the same saint who prayed loudly at other times, "Lonl spare me from the sour, sullen saints."

I have always loved Dante. He wrote in the "Divine Comedy" that after he had made the ascent from hell to purgatory and was close to the heavenly sphere he' suddenly heard a sound he had not heard before. He wrote that "it sounded like the laughter of the universe." .

No doubt about it. Humor is a gift from the Creator. May we try harder in 1995 to connect with our Lord by using the hotline of laughter.

By DAN MORRIS

People here love "patches of blue," more than sunshine. Sunshine hurts. Visitors witness !'i'orthwesterners slinking around hunchsh,ouldered and shielding thei reyes from the glare if it pops through.

Still, we don't often get soaked .

Damp, ,yes. Misted, often. Splattered, dashed and doused. But you don't really need ,an umbrella if you visit.

Keep a newspaper handy, though, just in case the angels are engaging in one of their frec1uent bathings. ..

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Plight offishermen Dear Editor: I was reading The Mooring in the Dec. 16 Anchor ,and I had to respond.

I am a small boat fisherman who lives and works with his.family out of Provincetown. I believe that many of your readers might not be a ware of the current plight of the New England fishermen. especially the ones closer to home, from New Bedford. Chatham and Provincetown.

I can only speak for the men and women I know who work out of Provincetown, but I have never met a group so dedicated and who work so hard to survive in this way of life. They have lH:ver asked for much: "just let us do our job."

This past year has been very tough, especially with vague new rules and uncertain promises from our elected officials and 1995 looking even worse. There are a lot of people who are under an awful lot of pressure this holiday season. I am asking that you please remember these people in your prayers.

I myselfam a bit confused. I was taught all through my years in CCD classes that "the fishermen" were God'schosen people. Isn't St. Peter our patron saint?

Alex Brown Provincetown

Why clean needles?

Dear Editor: The recent discovery of a body on River Road, New Bedford, has prompted me to reaffirm my opposition to the "clean needle" exchange. It is, in my opinion, ridiculous, and why?

Will this eliminate the crime that comes with drug use?

Will this assure that no other person will die of an overdose?

Will this stop the increase of new drug users?

And [what about] the ridicule that will be placl:d on our city police force? Think of someone going for a clean needle, then

was held Jan. 6 at St. Stanislaus Church in Trenton, NJ. Affectionately known as "Father Bonny," Father Jezierski was a native of Shamokin, P A, a small mining town. He studied at the Franciscan novitiate in Ellicott City, MD, and was ordained in Granby, MD, on March 17, 1945.

He served the Conventual Franciscans as director of student friars and worked in high schools and parishes in Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania as well as Massachusetts. He was also assigned at one time to St. Bonaventure University in New York.

He was a pastor in Chicopee before serving from 1982 to 1991 at Holy Rosary, where he was known for his congenial manner.

In his parish service he was fre-

being arrested for possession of illegal drugs! Where is the logic in all of this?

The alternative? Help the drug users, use city money, if need be, not for clean needles but to help the person become once again a respected, responsible human being.

Alice Beaulieu New Bedford

Birthright says thank you Dear Editor: We of Birthright pray that everyone had a blessed Christmas.

Many of your readers responded generously via "Giving Trees" in tne area churches. We wish to thank all who donated. Over 100, possibly 200, layettes will be the result of their generosity.

Best wishes for a Happy New Year to you and your staff.

Ann Baker Ursula McGinnis Lucy Sherman Birthright of New Bedford

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1977. Rev. John J. Lawler, M.M., Maryknoll Missioner Jan. 15 1948, Rev. Thomas F. Kennedy, Pastor, St. Joseph, Woods Hole 1972, Rev. Vincent Marchildon, O.P., Director, S1:. Anne's Shrine, Fall River 1977, Rev. Msgr. John E. Boyd, Retired Pastor, SI. Patrick, Wareham Jan. 17 1967, Rev. John Laughlin, Retired Pastor, Holy Ghost, Attleboro

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Researchers strike gold VICTORIA, Texas (CNS) manuscript. we recognized instantThe autobiography of the 17th- ly the value because it was the first century foundress of the Sisters of thoughts that she was writing." the Incarnate Word and Blessed But the immediate problem was Sacrament will be published soon obtaining a copy. "We knew archiin English, thanks to an accidental vists just don't let anything get discovery a few years ago in France. away from them, but the Jesuits "Quite accidentally or perhaps invited us to dinner and we were providentially, we discovered this 路trying to express - in French autobiography in loulouse in the our elation at having the manuarchives of the Jesuits." said Sister script at our fingertips." she reM. Carmelita Casso. a member of called. "Wf: told them that we the women's religious order from would pay anything to have a Victoria. She was assigned to Rome microfilm of it." and Lyons, France, from 1982 to She remembers silence in the 1987, to work for the beatification room. "I can still recall it so well. It of foundress Jeanne Chezard de was the feast of the Presentation in Matel.

November, and an old priest sudBefore its discovery. "there was dently spoke up and said in a raspy absolutely no indication that such voice. 'That manuscript belongs to a manuscript ever existed," she the sisters!'" But no decision on added. . the manuscript's fate seemed to The handwritten document emerge at that time. dating between 1642 and 1660 But "when we got back to Lyons, contains the original thoughts of there was a package waiting for Mother de Matel, who founded us," said Sister Casso. The kindly the religious order in Lyons in Jesuits had simply mailed the val1625. In the first step toward posuable manuscript. "We immedisible canonization. the Vatican de- ately took it to the Vat-ican and had it restored." she said. "Every clared her venerable on Jan. 2. page was restored and even scraps 1992.

In an inter.view with The Catho- saved as relics because she had touched these." lic Lighthouse, Victoria diocesan newspaper. Sister Casso explained that she was part of an international team of researchers looking into the life of Mother de Matel SAN FRANCISCO (CNS) when members discovered the All levels and institutions of the foundress' name in a card index catalog at the Toulouse archives of church should do everything possible to protect the rights and digthe Jesuits. When they asked the nity of immigrants, said San Franarchivist to bring out the item, cisco Archbishop John R. Quinn. "there was a note attached - in In a pastoral letter, Archbishop French and dated 1911," she said.

Quinn said a spreading hardness The handwritten note was from of heart toward immigrants, which a "Sister Emmanuel Robin" to a he called "appalling and so proJesuit priest with this request: foundly in conflict with the Gos"Father, will you take care of this? pel," is behind a wave of blaming We are being dispersed. Would immigrants for economic and soyou keep this for us until we cial problems. A fruit of that attireturn'!" tude and of the passage of PropoBut those early guardians of the sition 187 is fear and humiliation valuable papers never returned. that keeps people from seeking "Seventy-five years later and we medical care and from- sending were the ones who returned." said their children to school, he said'.

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quently involved in building and renovation projects, and Holy Rosary was no exception: he supervised construction of a parish center and directed interior and exterior renovations to the church. years in Trenton before stepping down for health reasons. Father Jezierski in survived by a sister, Ann Kemery of Pennsylvania.

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Don't obey abortion laws Vatican tells health workers VATICAN CITY(CNS)-lna document outlining moral guidelines for health care workers, the Vatican called on doctors and nurses to refuse to go along with laws that allow abortion.

Health care personnel "are obligated to raise objections of conscience" to such laws and make clear their "civil but firm refusal," said the I22-page document.

Titled, "Charter for Health Care Workers," the text was prepared by the Pontifical Council foJ' Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers. It quoted extensively from previous Vatican documents and papal speeches, cataloguing norms and pastoral advice for medical personnel in dealing with such issues as terminal illness, organ transplants, genetic experimentation and procreation.

The guidelines were framed by the principle that, in the church's view, all health care must be performed in the service of life and with full respect for the human person.

The document's strongest language occurred in the section on procured abortion, which was described as an "abominable crime."

Health workers have a "grave moral duty" to refuse to cooperate with laws that allow abortion, it said.

Moreover, the document pointed out that modern methods of abortion include the use of drugs or other means that interfere with the implantation of the fertilized egg.

The doctor who is aware of this and prescribes such drugs "cooperates in abortive action," it said.

It said health care workers have particular obligations regarding aborted fetuses, If still living, the, fetus should be baptized when possible, it said. When the fetus has died, it should be treated with respect and, if possible, given a decent burial. It should not be used for experimentation or'as a source for human organs, it said.

The document synthesized chu rch teachings on a number of other medical issues: - Euthanasia was described as a "homicidal act" that is never justified and with which workers must never cooperate. 'Far from being

an act of mercy toward the patient, euthanasia is an escapist answer to a trying situation, it said.

- Terminal illness calls on doctors and others to help the patient die with dignity and presents an occasion for deepening the patient's faith. Treatment can include use of painkillers, but drugs that cause a patient to lose consciousness are to be used with great prudence, it said.'

- Organ donation is a "service of life," but not all organs can be ethically donated - the brain and reproductive organs should not be transplanted because they assure, respectively, the personal and procreative identity of a person.

Before removing organs for transplant, doctors must make sure there is a willingness by the donor or an appropriate representative.

In the case of donation from a dead person, doctors should confirm that the brain has irreversibly ceased to function before removing organs, the document said.

- Drl,lg and substance abuse requires a preventative and therapeutic approach. There is no right to abuse drugs, because human beings do not have the right to inflict damage on themselves. It said use of alcohol and tobacco in reasonable quantities is morally licit.

- Genetic manipulation is generally a good thing when its aim is curative, but illicit when its aim is selective human breeding. Experiments on embryos must have a therapeutic goal. .

- Natural family planning should be encouraged for couples who find it necessary to space births. Health care workers can and should make such methods more accessible.

The document repeated the church's teaching against contraceptive birth control.

In general, the document emphasized that health care workers should not treat their patients as clinical cases but as human beings.

It said they have a responsibility to update ,their professional knowledge and their understanding of the ethical dimensions of modern medical issues.

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Plastic surgeon reconstructing face, life of teenager NEW ORLEANS (CNS) Ruth Carmago's 'coal-black eyes peer from a cloth mask covering her burn-scarred face.

The 13-year-old Colombian hates the mask but knows it will bring her a more promising future.

While Dr. Gustavo Colon is reconstructing Ruth's face, Marie Colon is helping her build a life of faith to overcome other scars she bears from a childhood of poverty and disfigurement and nearly a year as a runaway, glue-sniffing street child. .

Colon is' a plastic surgeon in Metairie, a New Orleans suburb.

Mrs. Colon, with whom Ruth is staying, is the· wife of Francisco Colon, a cousin of the doctor.

With 'Mrs. Colon translating, the teen told the Clarion Herald, New Orleans archdiocesan newspaper, about the explosion that burned most of her upper body, and about her life as a street child.

When she was 2, she said, "my mother went to the store. She left something on the stove and the tank exploded. My mother came home, ran inside the house, got me and brought me t9 the hospital.

"They bandaged my burns, and when they took the bandages off the flesh fell away." . Ruth's right hand had to be amputated because a plastic baby bottle she had been holding had melted and fused to it.

Ruth said that as she grew older she kriew she was different because people stared at her or avoided her.

Her father died when she was 7, and her mother had to sell possessions just to survive..

By age 9 she left h·ome. "Little by little I took to the streets," she said. "I would go wherever the night would take me, often begging, stealing or cleaning windshields to get by. Like others I

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She said many of Bogota's street children sniff glue. It hide's their hunger pangs and often knocks them out until the next day.

She had been living on the streets for nearly a year when Colombian oil man Jaime Jaramillo offered her a place to stay.

At first she was frightened, she said, because she had seen street children killed by the police or abducted by strangers. .

But when Jaramillo told her about the Children of the Andes Foundation, which he had established to give a safe haven to children like herself, she went with him and has lived at the foundation for the past three years.

Dr. Colon has known Jaramillo for several'years and on a 1994 visit to New. Orleans Jaramillo asked if the surgeon could help Ruth.

Dr. Colon and Doctors Hospital in Metairie offered to reconstruct Ruth's' face at no cost and she began the long treatment last. summer. Her mask is needed to soften old scar tissue so it can be stretched and reshaped.

"Given her circumstances.of dire poverty, being homeless and handicapped, she is one of the worst cases I've seen," Dr. Colon said.

He said his goal is to make her face as close to normal as possible.

"The face is what we interact with socially," he said.

Mrs. Colon, who immediately agreed to take Ruth in when she .was asked, said simply: "My house i's the house that God built. He decides who,lives there."

Ruth says she used to think only crazy people went to church, but now she and Mrs. Colon attend daily Mass and Ruth said she wants to. start using her life to teach and help others.

"I am beginning to have faith in God," she said. "He helps me find peace in myself to endure the surgeries ahead .... I know now he is the only one for me."

She said she wants to be a psychologist or social worker and help runaways, gays, lesbians and prostitutes.

"They' are rejected by society every day and I want to give them what I have been offered," she said.

MIAMI (CNS) - A glOup of South Florida rabbis and priests met recently in Miami to exchange views on the sometimes o:elicate issue of intermarriage betwetn Jews and Catholics.

The conference on "Marriage in the Catholic, Jewish Traditions" is believed to be a historic first in the United States.

Because both Catholicism and Judaism discourage intermarriage, the 43 participating priests and rabbis agreed on the need to ~;treng­ then and inform their own people.

Participants identified another common concern: priests and rabbis who perform intermarriage rites against the norms of their respective faiths.

The meeting was cochaired by Msgr. Bryan O. Walsh, archdiocesan director of interfaith relG:tions, and Rabbi Herbert Baumgard, rabbi emeritus of Temple Beth Am, Miami.

In an interview with The Florida Catholic, archdiocesan newspaper, Msgr. Walsh said that :South Florida's population demonstrates the meeting's importance.

"In Broward County(Fort Lauderdale) alone, there are 250,000 Catholics and 250,000 Jew:;," he noted. "In Dade (Miami, Miami Beach), there are about 600,000 Catholics and 250,000 Jews.'"

"This is something that th,: parish priest is dealing with every day," he said, "and we thought there was a tremendous la,;k of knowledge about how we regard marriage on both sides."

Rabbi Baumgard said, "Many rabbis are unaware of the chuch's position on intermarriage."

Rabbi Jack Bemporad, director of Sacred Heart University's Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding in Fairfield, said that although there is much agreement between the faiths, one area of difference is the Catholic concept of marriage as a sacrament.

It is not so regarded in Judaism, he noted, and divorce, whil,~ regrettable, is legal in that faith.

Father Andrew Anderson, director of the archdiocesan marriage tribunal and canon lawyer" said priests "can't say 'no'''' to intermarriage but can and sh,Duld try to discourage it. He added that when couples of different fuiths come "to us they are usually weak in their own religious practices."

But if couples meet the general criteria for marriage, a priest may officiate at a church wedding ceremony whe're the Jewish parmer has not converted and chilo'.ren will be raised as Catholics. Such ceremonies cannot include a Mass or Jewish rituals and require ~:pe­ cial dispensation from the local bishop.

Rabbi Solomon Schiff, an officer of the Greater Miami Rabbinical Association, said most branches of Judaism officially oppose rabbis who officiate at marriage c(:remonies where a conversion has not .taken place according to Jewish law.

Rabbi Bemporad praised the Catholic Church's pre-marital questionnaire that helps a couple identify potential problems, and said the Jewish faith could leurn from it.

Msgr. Walsh said the conference "deepened our understanding," and urged that it become an annual event. Marriage provides clergy a "tremendous opportunity to teach," he said.

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Math tutor is "volunteer grandfather" CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (CNS) - For more years than he can remember, Elmer Brown has volunteered at Holy Trinity School in Central Falls, where he tutors children who need a little extra help in mathematics.

To show their gratitude, the students and faculty of Holy Trinity took time out of their school day Dec. 15 to wish their ",volunteer grandfather" a happy 90th birthday.

"I can't remember how many years I've been doing this, but I do remember how many principals" have come and gone, he said. "I have volunteered during the years offour principals," beginning with Mercy Sister Aliceann Walsh, who served Jrom 1979 to 1984, Barring illness or stormy weather, Brown is at the school five days a week from 8 to II :30 a.m. He meets with students individually to help t·hem figure out the best way to solve math problems, In the past, he has worked with children as young as kindergarten, but this year his focus is on third-graders.

Just before the surprise birthday party, Brown and third-grader Jerri Craig were hard at work.

"This is a tough subject for me," said Jerri. But since she began working with Brown, she added, math has become "easier for me

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Q: My husband has a IifeinsuMATH TUTOR Elmer Brown helps third-graders Lori ranee policy, but he says his Social and Caroline Beatty at Holy Trinity School ill Central Blais Security benefits include life insuFalls, RI. (CNS photo) rence. Is he right?

A: Yes. Although most people and returns in the fall better preof the classes, grades K-8. Each don't think of Social Security as a pared to help you," she said. student and all of the staff also form of "survivor's insurance," the signed a huge birthday card for benefits for survivors can be imBorn in Paterson, N.J., Brown him. portant financially as a commercompleted the eighth grade before The third-grade class read a ciallife insurance policy. working in factories in New Jerspecial letter to Brown: "On Dec. A widow, or widower, can get sey. "Math was always my favorite 15, 1904, a very special person was and best subject in school," he full survivor's benefits at age 65 or born. He is a friend to Holy Trin- said. "In the eighth grade, I scored older. You can qualify for reduced ity School and has become not benefits at age 60. If your spouse three 100s and one 98 on my final only our math helper, but our has died, and you are disabled, math tests. The figures were right, volunteer grandfather. Happy birthyoucangetbenefitsasearlyasage but I must have missed a couple of day, Mr. Brown."

50. decimal points."

How much your family will get Sixth-grader James Tuohy said Widowed in 1944, Brown moved in survivor's benefits depends on he had been tutored by Brown in now;" to Pawtucket, R.I., years ago and your earnings. The more you math seven years ago, when he was When the time for the party finally to senior housing in Central earned, the higher their survivor's arrived, two students escorted in kindergarten. "He taught me Falls. He has no children of his benefits will be. The amount surhow to play dominoes, too," he Brown to a seat in the corridor own, and likes the fact that the vivors get is based on a percentage said.

"I thank him a lot for all his where the entire school gathered HolyTrinitychildren have adopted of the deceased person's Social help. I like math now." to sing "Happy Birthday" and as him as their grandfather.

Security benefit. Spouses age 65 or birthday cake and chocolate chip Mercy Sister Ann McKenna, older will get 1"00% of your benefit.

"I like helping the chi:ldren,". he cookies were served. current principal of Holy Trinity, Survivors between the ages of 60 "I'm really surprised. What did I wanted the students to know about said, adding that he is worried that and 64 get a varying -level of do to deserve all of this?" Brown inclement winter weather may keep Brown's dedication to their tutorbenefits. asked as he cut the cake. He was ing. "At the end of the school year, him from driving to school some Q: I have heard that if you get especially pleased with his gift, a he borrows the grades 5-8 math days. "I'll miss seeing the children. divorced, you give up your rights photo album with pictures of each They keep me young." books. He studies them all summer to survivor's benefits.

A: A former wife or husband can get survivor's benefits just as . your widow or widower can - but her daughter and hushand and PHILADELPHIA (CNS) the Catholic faith "a wonderful ·the marriage must have lasted at More than a century ago, Helen gift," said her favorite devotion is their six children. Mrs. Hoey has least 10 years. You may lose survi12 grandchildren and :!3 greatthe rosary. "I say seven in the vor's benefits if you remarry. If McGarey Hoey learned two secrets . morning and the prayer to 'My grandchildren. you get remarried at age 60 (50 if to long life: prayer and cod liver Certain experiences stand out Crucified Savior' is my favorite disabled) you can still collect sur- oil.

"I took the cod liver oil from the prayer. I pray that those who have during her 105 years. Like the sixvivor'-s benefits on your former Q': My dad, who has Parkin- spouse's earnings record. time I was able to walk;" said Mrs. gone before me have all gone home week European tour she and her son's disease, is already lletting a two sisters took in 1963. While in Hoey, a charming woman who to the Lord, where we all should For some people, survivor's fair amount of care from our fam- .

Rome, they stayed in a hotel near doesn't look her age. be." i1y - most notably my mother. Is benefits will not be as high as your "I never thought I'd ever live The chaplain at St. Francis the Vatican and Mrs. Hoey caught there some service that is available own retirement benefits. Call Social this long," she told The Catholic Country House, Father John J. a glimpse of Pope Paul \'1. to prevent my mother from getting Security (1-800-772-1213) and ask Another special time VIas when Standard and Times, Philadelphia's Van Stone, said Mrs. Hoey, who for your free Personal Earnings burned out herself?

Cardinal Anthony J. Be-vilacqua archdiocesan paper. "Little did I uses a wheelchair, "spends a good and Benefits Estimate Statement. think the day would come when I part of her day in chapel and wears of Philadelphia visited h(:r for her A: Most families get their elderThis will show you how much would have a special Mass for 100th birthday. out a half dozen rosaries a year." care the way your family does: no estimated survivor's benefits could turning 105."

She said she has alway:; kept on He went on to describe her as hired help, just family members be paid to your family. top of events through The Cathothat liturgy took place Dec. But "always in a good humor, a gentakingcare of their own. However, For more information regardlic Standard and Times.. though 6 at her residence, St. Francis uinely kind lady." a service called "respite care" may ing eldllr services and issues, conCountry House in Darby. It inMrs. Hoey was born in Phila- she can no longer read the small be able to give your mother a tact the Bristol Elder Services, Inc, cluded one of Mrs. Hoey's favorite delphia, the second of four child- print. break from the strain of daily Information and Referral DepartWhile at St. Francis, Bhe said, hymns, "Ave Maria," a fitting song ren. Her mother died in childbirth caregiving. ment at 675-2101 or 1-800-427for a lady born on Dec. 8, the feast with the fourth child, so she barely she has learned a lot, primarily Respite care services are gener2101. of the Immaculate Conception. remembers her. But a framed pho- that people are good. "~:o many help all of us here, and they do all "I ordered flowers for the altar tograph on the nightstand next to for the holy day," she said. "It's her bed constantly reminds her of in their power to be kind," she first Mary's day. It's my birthday the "wonderful woman who gave said.

If you're age 62 or older and For additional information or too."

Her advice to young people is: me life."

Mrs. Hoey, who calls practicing thinking about retiring any time in to make an appointment to discuss Her father remarried and there "Always try to be good. You do 1995, you should contact Social your retirement plans, call Social 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111I11111111111111 were 10 more children. what's wrong and you'll pay for it.

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"Family is so important to me," So do good and try hard with 772-1213, any business day between Afternoon sessions are held -- on Social Security rules permit peoshe continued. "I love a big family God's help. Don't give in to this 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. The telephone third Tuesdays and evening ses- and had the opportunity of having ple to work and receive retirment free thinking [in modern I:ulture) sions on last Tuesdays. benefits at the same tim':, so it lines are busiest early in the week a wonderful family experience, some... and keep your lives as if you could be to your advantage to and early in the month, so it's best The first long-term care facility thing everybody should have." were ready to go to heaven." have your benefits begin in Januin the area to establish a dedicated to call at other times. . She married Louis S. Hoey in Prayer has always been a conary even if you don't plan to retire Alzheimer's Unit, Blaire House 1924 at age 34 after they met on a stant for her. ,'" used to pray so hard everyuntil later in the year. In some also provides" Alzheimer's Assistblind date. They had two children, body thought I'd go into the conance," care for patients while their . Louis Jr. and Joan Hoey Schoultz. cases, the choice of retirement month could mean additional benecaregivers attend support group After 35 years of marriage, her vent, but 1 never really I:hought that," Mrs. Hoey said. fits for the beneficiary and his or meetings. Reservations are required. husband died in 1959.

Blaire House, 397 County St., her family. For your application For information contact Paulette "All I know is that whl~n I die She also buried her son in 1987.

New Bedford, resumes support M. Masse, MS, LSW, director of to be effective in January 1995, and stand before our dear Lord," Before entering St. Francis group meetings this month for the Specialized Adult Day Health Country Home last February, she you should file for benefits any she added, "he'll just caro~ about caregivers of persons with Alz- Center at Blaire House, 997-9396. time before January 31, 1995. how I lived." lived for more than 30 years with

By Bristol Elder Services, Inc, Q: My 93-year old mother has fallen several times in her apartment, and my brother and I are worried that she might soon need nursing home care. When is a good time to bring up the subject?'

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For example, 33,000 elders receive in-home services from their local home care corporation. Home care help can include assistance with homemaking or personal care, including walking, dressing, eating, etc. Sometimes this nonmedical care is what is needed to keep an older person living independently in their home. Other services available through home care include companionship, homedelivered meals, chore services, day care programs, home health care, personal emergency response systems, shopping, and respite care.

All the information and referral services provided by home care corporations are available without a fee. Ifan elder's income is limited, they may only have to make a small payment each month for care. People on medicaid and very limited incomes have no required fee.

Your mother can have a plan designed to meet her individual needs. This care plan spells out what services are needed, how often, and who will provide them.

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PEN PALS Bobby Hankey and fourth-grader Brett Mulawka meet at Ss. Peter, Paul and Michael Elementary School in St. Cloud, Minn., after writing to one another since the start of the school year. (CNS photo)

IncJlusive language Continued from Page One tries to apply sociological criteria in a way that is not faithful to language Scripture texts in English.

At immediate issue were two Scripture or the faith. texts already adopted by the u.s.

"Inclusive language does not bishop for liturgical use and aprespect the faith of the Trinity: proved for that purpose by the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It worship congregation: the entire substitutes 'Creator' for 'Father,' New Revised Standard Version of for example, and 'Redeemer' for the Bible and the revised Book of 'Son,' and so on. h 'this way it is Psalms of the New American Bible. not faithful to Scripture or to t.he Also involved is the revised New faith of the church," he said.

He said inclusive language "rules American Bible Lectionary, approved by the U.S. bishops in 1992 out certain affirmations of the but held up in Rome because the faith in order to put into all the worship congregation has not given texts a feminine presence, which is the required confirmation of the not in Scripture."

U.S. decision.

Father Vanhoye said church Some proponents of inclusive officials understand the concern language advocate a iotal vertical about respecting wQmen and not inclusivity, or rewriting God-lan- excluding them from any essential guage to eliminate all male area of church life. But he said this references. does not mean scholars can "elimBut that kind of vertical inclu- inate elements that are essential sivity has been rejectt~d in the New for our faith."

Revised Standard Version and the revised New American Bible translations. The U.S. bishops also exclude it in the principles they Continued from Page One adopted in 1990 for evaluating Scripture translations proposed for Civil Rights and the Knights of use in the liturgy.

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The texts at issue retain the bibGail Quinn, executive director lical names of God, although at ofthe bishops' Secretariat for Protimes they will avoid repetitive use Life Activities, said the ad placed of masculine pronouns for God by .by Planned Parenthood of New various devices such as substitutYork City to solicit contributions ing "who" for "he." for additional security at abortion The two translations under Vat- clinics was a "crass attempt to use ican scrutiny use horizontal incluFriday's murders to scapegoat the sivity extensively. That refers to Catholic Church in order to fund the use of inclusive or gender- raise and to silence public discusneut ral ph rasi ng to translate Greek sion of what abortion is - the desor Hebrew references to people truction of innocent human life." when those references are meant to include both men and women.

He'll lead parade For example, instead of "blessed is the man who ..... they would say NEW YORK (eNS) - Cardi"blessed are thosl~ who or nal John J. O'Connor has been "blessed is the person who .. named grand marshal of New Bishop Trautman said he was York's 1995 St. Patrick's Day unsure the meeting would be strictly parade, which has made headlines with a biblical commission delega- in recent years because of efforts tion or would include representa- by an Irish homosexual rights tion from the doctrinal congrega- group to participate. John Duntion, which oversees the commis- leavy, parade chairman, said Carsion. dinal O'Connor was chosen because he is the leader of the Catholic Inclusive Language Criticized I n an interview last October community of New York, and parwith CNS, Father Vanhoye critic- ade officials wished to emphasize ized the general use of inclusive the religious character of the St. language and said. he thought it Patrick's Day observance.

NEW YORK (CNS) -- A V.S. appeals courtj udge, writing recently in the Jesuit magazine America, questioned the ethics of the death penalty when demand for it is based on vengeance.

Judge Richard L. Nygaard. since 1988 a member of the 3rd V.S. Circuit Court'of Appeals in Philadelphia. wrote that "although our government knows enough to do better, it is now ruled by the tides of public opinion and has deigned to respond politically to the base passions of society rather than act as a statesman upon the sociological necessities of civilization." .

Nygaard. who acknowledged in the article that he was on a court panel that recently rejected a final appeal of death penalty. said that "by exacting revenge upon criminals. society drops to the social stratum of its dregs."

"We are then playing on their terms. by their rules: and we cannot win."

Of the common justifications for punishment -- rehabilitation. deterrence. containment and retribution - only retribution is served by executing criminals. he noted.

Killing a criminal is clearly not an attempt at rehabilitation. he said.

Saying deterrence justifies carrying out such a punishment is difficult to argue. the judge wrote.

Most convicted killers say they gave no thought to the possibility of facing the death penalty. and there has never been an effective way of gauging whether others are deterred from crimes by the prospect of execution. he said. And preventing future crimes can be achieved as easily and less expensively by imprisoning. rather than executing criminals. he added.

Retribution remains as the only goal that can arguably be achieved by capital punishment. Nygaard said. "The desire for revenge is the dark secret in all of us."

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The Anchor Friday, Jan. 13, 1995

Vatican jewelry glows in Chicago

GARRISON, N.Y. (CNS) Secular Franciscans took a step forward in developing an ecology program with their first leadership conference at the Graymoor Christian Unity Center in Garrison.

The weeklong National Ecology Apostolate Leadership Training Conference was organized by the Ecology Commission of the U.S. Secular Franciscan Order"to unite, educate, organize and inspire the ecology apostolate," according to the organization. . The order's Ecology Commission wrote a mission statement that was approved in 1990 and committed members to "witness prophetically that all creation, animate and inanimate, is of God and redeemed by Christ."

"All too often we put up with the decline of another species, the loss of a water supply, habitat, even our own health in the name of so-called progress," said Charles G. Spencer, commission chairman and a radio talk show host in Springfield, Mass.

"There is a sanctity about life that is being und路ercut. This conference will not only provide the moral and ethical foundation for reversing that trend 'but the background and tools necessary to be successful," he said in a statement issued prior to the meeting.

The early September conference. had about 50 participants from all across the country. They included secular members as well Franciscan religious: Among the speakers were WaIter E. Grazer, director of the environmental justice program for the U.S. Catholic Conference; Jesuit Father Drew Christiansen, director of the Office of International Justice and Peace for the USCC; Passionist Father Thomas W. Berry, a writer and speaker specializing in environmental issues; Franciscan Brother Kevin Smith, director of a Franciscan program at the' United Nations; and Franciscan Father John L. Ostdiek, a biologist and ecologist in Crowley, Texas.

The program also included technical presentations by scientists, reports on activities in local communities and an "outdoor inter-

CH ICAGO (CNS) - The hottest church-related item in the ChIcago marketing area is not the new "Catechism of the Catholic Church" or the pope's best-selling book, "Crossing the Threshold of Hope," or the CD of his recitation of the rosary in Latin. lt's a new collection of fine jewelry, inspired by the books, coins, paintings, frescoes, art objects and history of the Vatican Library. .

The Vatican Library Collection is the brainchild ofjewelry designers Don Goodman and Devis Vadigar, who are the first to be licensed by the Vatican Library to reproduce and create jewelry from the library's vast holdings. . Vadigar told sales associates of the Marshall Field's department store chain, where the coll<:ction is. sold, that this line of jewelry, with its authenticity and attention to detail, is a collection of "works of art in jewelry form," rich in "meaning and beauty."

CARDINAL BERNARDIN smiles as he meets with All designs in the Vatican Library press after sexual abuse claims made against him were Collection, consisting of several . dropped. (eNS/ Reut"ers photo) hundred pieces, from rings and bracelets to pendants and earrings, have been approved by Dominican Father Leonard Boyle, prefect of the Vatican Library, and are one-of-a-kind.

"We're very honored to have been chosen as the only retailer in CHICAGO (CNS) - Here is Steven's apology was simple, the world to receive the Vatican the slightly abridged text of Cardirect, deeply moving. I accepted Library jewelry collection," said it and told him that I had prayed dinal Joseph L. Bernardin's stateDaniel J. Skoda, president of Mar- ment concerning his meeting Dec. for him ev~ry day and would conshall Field's.

30' in Philadelphia with Steven tinue to pray for his health and Each' piece of jewelry corres- Cook, the man who had accused peace of mind. It was very evident ponds to one of six themes signify- the cardinal of sexually abusing that he was in precarious health. ing a Christian symbol or connec- him but later recanted. The stateHe is an AIDS patient. I also told tion to papal history: crosses, keys, ment was titled"A Story of Recon- him that while I would not want to fish, wheat, angels, and coins and go through such a humiliating ciliation." medallions. experience again, nonetheless it Created in both silver and gold, Shortly after Steven Cook ac- had contributed to my own spiritthe jewelry features rubies, sap- cused me of abusing him sexually, ual growth and had made me more phires, emeralds, and other preI wrote a personal letter requesting compassionate. cious and semiprecious stones. that we meet so I could pray with I then asked whether he wanted Prices range from $20 for smaller and for him. I now know that he me to celebrate Mass for him. At pieces to several thousand dollars never received it. Nonetheless, I first he hesitated, saying he felt for larger, more elaborate settings. am happy to report that on Dec. very alienated from God and the A portion of the jewelry sales 30, 1994, I flew to Philadelphia church for several reasons which will go to the Vatican for the presand spent two hours with Steven. he shared with me. He said that on ervation of the library and its holdIn accordance with Steven's wishes, several occasions while in a hotel . ings, which include 70,000 manuI would like to tell you about this he threw the Gideon Bible against scripts, 770,000 printed books, and grace-filled meeting which brought the wall in anger and frustration.

11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111I11111III1111 7,500 incunabula, books produced closure and peace to both of us.

Perhaps, he said, just a simple pel, I told him that in every family before 1500s.

In mid-December I decided I prayer would be more appropriate. there are times when there is hurt, The library was founded in the wanted to meet with Steven before I told him that I would not press anger, alienation. But we cannot 15th century by Pope Nicholas V, the year ended. Even though I had the issue but did want to show him run away from our family. We who created a public, rather than never heard from him, I sensed he two items I had brought with me. I have only one family so we must papal, library where written and also wanted to see me. Not knowreached into my briefcase and make every effort to be reconciled. visual treasures would be accessiing his address or phone number brought out.a Bible which I had The church, I added, is our spiritble to all. and not wanting to take him by purchased for him the day before. ual family. Once we become a surprise, I spoke with Father Philip I told him I would not be offended member, we may be hurt or become Seher, a personal friend of mine \ if he did not accept it. With tears in alienated but it is still our family. and pastor of St. William parish in his eyes, he reached for the Bible Since there is no other, we must Cincinnati, where Steven's mother, and held it tightly to his chest. work at reconcilation - someMary, lives. Father Seher contacted Then I took out of the briefcase thing we were doing that very Mrs. Cook, who in. turn spoke a chalice which someone (whom I afternoon. with Steven, who expressed a real had never met) had sent with the Before Steven left, he told me desire to meet with me. We met in request that I offer a Mass for For Forgiveness Philadelphia at St. Charles Bor- Steven. I told Steven that even if I that a big burden had been lifted romeo Seminary. A priest friend . did not celebrate Mass on the from him. He felt healed and was Father ofeverlasting goodfrom Chicago accompanied me, occasion of our visit, I would do so at peace. He also asked me to tell ness, our origin and guide, and a friend came with Steven. later. Again, with tears in his eyes, the story of his reconciliation with be close to us and hear the he said, "Please, let's celebrate . the church and with me. I promI began by telling Steven that ised him I would and that I would路 prayers of all who praise Mass." Never in my 43 years as a the only reason for requesting the walk with him in the weeks and priest have I witnessed a more promeeting was to bring closure to the you. Forgive our sins and months ahead. Steven is very realfound reconciliation. traumatic events of last winter by The words I restore us to life. Keep us personally letting him know that I am using to tell you this story can- istic about his future. Happily, our safe in your love. Grunt not begin to describe the power of exchange and the celebration of harbored no ill feelings toward this through our Lord Jesus God's grace which was at work the sacraments were the instruhim, and to pray with him for his Christ, your-Son, who lives that afternoon. It was a manifesta- ments God used to give him the physical and spiritual well-being. peace and courage he needs in the of God's love, forgiveness and tion He replie9 that he wanted to meet and reigns with you and the time he has left. healing which I will never forget. witp me to apologize for the Holy. Spirit, one God, fl'or We went to the chapel, where I embarrassment and hurt he had May this story of our meeting be ever and ever. Amen. caused. In other words, we both anointed him and celebrated Mass. a source ofjoy and grace to all who sought reconciliation. read it. May God be praised!

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Speaker Paul Connett, a chemistry professor at St. .Lawrence University in Canton, :\1. Y., and others gave detailed in::ormation on dangers in the widespread use of chlorine, plastic wrap and incineration.

Awareness of such concerns was even reflected in a pre~;s release from the Ecology Commission, which noted that it was "printed with soy ink on unbleached (nonchlorinated) 100% recycled paper."

And participants were offered vegetarian meals "to express simplicity, gentleness and better health in accordance with ecological concern."

Grazer reported to cc'nference participants on the efforts of the USCC to address issues of justice related to the environment. Its program, part of an ecumenical effort with funding from private foundations, seeks to focus attention on such problems as patterns of consumption, use of pesticides and the relation of foreign aid to sustainable development, he said.

In a later interview, Grazer said the Graymoor conference was exciting not only because of 'the local activity of secular .Franciscans but also the potential for enlil:ting the entire Franciscan community in the effort.

He added that the involvement of Franciscans was especially significant because of the ins'oiration and role of St. Francis in j;romoting respect for nature.

Secular Franciscans make promises of poverty, chastity and obedience, but interpret those in ways appropriate to their life in the secular world, Spencer said. The order has about 20,000 members in some 800 U.S. groups.

The Graymoor Center is run by the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, known more commonly as Atonement' Fathers.

Pope praises l'lFP VATICAN CITY (CNS)-- Governments and organizations that promote family planr:ting programs must include natural methods in the means they offer, Pop~ John Paulll said. The leaders of nations and international organizations should fund research and education in natural family planning so that every person's religious beliefs and ethical convictions would be respected in the choices made available to them. he told a working group examining the scientific bases and problems of liatural regulation of fertility. The pope said the group, convoked by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. offers scientifically based evidence that natural methods of l'amily planning "are trustworthy and effective, even in cases or very irregular overian cycles."

Infinite "We must accept finite disappointment, but we must nevt:r lose infinite hope."-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life: What A Beautiful Choice I

Below are the winning entries in an essay contest themed "Life: What a Beautiful Choice," sponsored by the Diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate for students in grades 7-12. First place winners are offered participation in the diocesan pilgrimage to the March for Life Jan. 23 in Washington D.C.; second place winners receive $50 U.S. savings bonds.

Contest semifilllal judges were principals Cecilia Felix of Holy Family-Holy Name School and Felipe Felipe of St. Joseph's School in New Bedford and Janice Comeau, religious education coordinator at Holy Name parish, Fall River. Final judge was Chris Godfrey, president of Pro-Life Athletes.

First place - Grades 7-9

By Meghan Montouri For me life is not a choice but a gift. As a baby I was adopted by my now Mom and Dad. I came to a family where both my brother and sister had already been adopted a few years before me. Then three years later we adopted my younger brother MarcusJon, now 10 years old.

My biological mother had many social and emotional problems in her life. I have five other biological brothers and sisters living somewhere else. I have never met them and probably never will. .

I am the youngest of six. I also know that my mother was going through a very difficult time when she had me. I am quite certain that she had considered aborting me.

She obviously did not, but instead she decided to give me up for an adoption only hours after my birth. Some people might look down on my mother as a bad person or not caring or loving. But I know no matter how sick, depressed or angry she was, my life was her choice for me and her gift for my present Mom and Dad. All my brothers and sisters had similar situations in their births that caused their parents to give them up, rather than killing them. I can't imagine not being here right now and having 1111 my friends and family members. I don't kno~ what I'd do without my brother Matt-he'sjust always there.for me; and my sister Margeaux-I wouldn't have any clothes that weren't mine to borrow; and my brother Marcus-J on, even if he is a pain sometimes, I wouldn't have anyone to do things for me. And I know none of us are related to our parents in any way. But I know one thing: I couldn't love one brother or sister any differently than these three.

I'm not sure if any other kids my age feel any differently about parents they were born to: But my parents seem pretty regular and normal to me, Sometimes they are a bit strict for my liking but I'm sure I can make them see the light sometime before I turn 14. I'm sure we'll work it out sooner or later. I suppose that it's the real choice working it out.

My parents always told me and made me feel like I was a precious gift they were lucky to get. They always told me that my mother was a really wonderful person to give me to them, and I'm glad she decided to instead of abortion. So I always believed and know that life, my life, was a special gift, not a choice.

Meghan Montouri is a student at Taunton Catholic Middle School.

Second Place - Grades 7-9

By Richard Macknowski When I think of the word life, I think of the beautiful choice the Virgin Mary madl: when she had Jesus. Mary chose to have Jesus because she had faith in God. She listened to God and trusted Him because she knew it was good to do God's will. If Mary had been selfish and not had Jesus, we would never know his love for us: It is wonderful to feel his love and know we can be saved.

Everyone has a free will to think or act the way they choose. But God wants us to use our free will to do things right in His way, because He knows what is best for us. When a woman has a baby inside of her body, she should use herfree will to let it live, because it is the right way and that is God's way, the only way. If she chooses to kill her baby before it is born, she will do a very selfish thing. The woman will take a way the baby's chance to live and to know and love God like other people. She will take away the baby's gift of life.

It is sad that some women do not know that God loves them and that a baby is a gift to them from Him. It is even more sad that women who say they believe in God, go ahead and choose to end their baby's life, still knowing that it is not God's way.

Some women think that iftheir baby is born with a handicap or ifthey can't take care of it, they should have the right to end its life. It is terrible and selfish for them to act this way. They should know that there are many other people in the world who would love and take care of their babies no matter how they come into the world. Life is a beautiful choice no matter how healthy or sick the babies come into the world.

When Mary was carrying Jesus in her body, she was not afraid of people talking about her or if it was going to make her life hard, or hurt her health. She trusted God and believed that He would take care of her. God also made a big sacrifice for us. He sent Jesus here to teach us how to lead a good life. To have a good life, we have to love ourselves and lov(' other people. This means we have to respect other people and not hurt them in any way. This is why choosing life is a beautiful choice.

Richard Maclrnowski attends Holy Family-Holy Name School in New Bedford.

First Place - Grades 10-12

By Elizabeth Roma As I head down the stairs early in the morning, I hear the familiar, "Yo Beth," and I repeat the creative reply of, "Yo, Suz." I've never met a more diverse person than Suzanne. Suz has lived through more than I could ever imagine, yet she keeps smiling. Suz is eighteen, with brown hair, a little nose, blue eyes and Down's Syndrome.

Who ever thought that one little chromosome could bring so muchjoy and grief to my life. I certainly wouldn路t ... .if I hadn't known Suz. Suzanne has many qualities I wish I had. An example of this is that she has no qualms about going up to a total stranger and saying, "H i, how are you?" If everyone had this simple trait then the world would be a better place.

Every time we are in a store-such as a supermarket, other shoppers will recognize

Suz. When we're in line waiting to pay she will start talking to the people behind us.

Who could ever forget that bold girl?

On a vacation to Florida, we were stopped two separate times by people who knew Suz from somewhere. On a trip to Washington the workers in the Hot Shoppes remembered Suz from a vacation three years earlier.

One thing about Suz is that she never shuts up. She just talks and talks; she's like the Energizer Bunny-she keeps going and going.

Suz has made me look twice-and sometimes three times at a person before I judge them. As I keep teaching her, she keeps teaching me.

Suzanne is no perfect little angel. Her language would shock George Carlin. She is working on it, realizing that is is "inappropriate." "Inappropriate"-I hate that word.

That's the word adults that teach Suzanne in the Special Needs Dep.artment use. I think they do a wonderful job but how would you like it if every little thing you did not do right, was quickly followed by an "inappropriate"?

Another crazy and wild thing Suz did a few weeks ago was to cut off clumps of her hair. She had intended to give herself a "buzz" like a friend of hers.

For all the great things, and even for the hardly great things Suz has done I love her dearly.

As I head back upstairs at night to go to bed, I hear a little muffled, pillow voice ofSuz signing off with a "Yo Beth" and I, of course, say, "Yo Suz." Many people may believe that Suz is an unwanted and unfortunate addition to our family. When my mother gave birth to Suzanne, she cried and was furious at God. Now she understands why God sent Suz to us and is very thankful.

I can't even begin to imagine my life without Suzanne: I would be a completely different person than I am now. When my mother was pregnant with Suzanne she wasn't given the option of terminating her life but when she was pregnant with my twin sister and I, she was. Nowadays women are given the decision of terminating an unhealthy baby's life, or any baby for that matter.

We have all learned long ago that life isn't fair, things don't always go our way, and there are a lot of obstacles on the path to our future. These obstacles are a way of making us stronger and more compassionate people. Suzanne's Down's Syndrome is her obstacle and hers alone; sure we all have to deal with it, but we don't have to live with it.

My mother was the medium for Suz's entrance into the world, not the gatekeeper. It was not her decision tp make regarding Suzanne's life; unfortunately many mothers do not realize this. A person's life is his/ hers and God's. It belongs to no one else.

There's a reason why events that happen in our lives happen and I've always felt that we have to play with the cards we've been dealt. When one has an abortion, they're stacking the deck and not playing fair.

Beth R oma, daughter ofDeacon Paul andJean R oma ofCotuit will be presented this evening at the Bishop's Charity Ball along with her twin sister A my, representing Christ the King parish, Mashpee. She is a student at Barnstable High School.

Second Place..:.. Grades 10-12

By Donald Guenette I think back to Jesus' time and wonder if people considered abortion then. After Mary found out that she was to be the mother of Jesus, I wonder if she questioned whether she should have the baby. Joseph, not being the biological father, must have had concerns since Mary conceived by a miracle. What if after that the two of them had decided to have an abortion causing the death of Jesus? The Catholic Church would not exist all because of the killing of one baby. By kllIing that one baby they would have affected millions and millions of people in the future.

I pictured Jesus with all the children around him and the many times in the Bible children are referred to as pure and special. Which children do you think Jesus would not have wanted present there, if their parents had chosen abortion? My religion teaches me none. Where in the Bible is it written that such a cruel act is acceptable?

Abortion is the separation or removal of a developing child from the mother before the normal time of birth. Medical records show that human prenatal development begins prior to a woman having knowledge that she is pregnant. The central nervous system and heart develop between the third and sixth week of pregnancy. A heartbeat can be heard by the sixth week. The unborn child receives food and oxygen from the mother as it continues to develop. It has been shown that a baby born at twenty-three weeks can survive. This shows that anyone who believes life begins after nine months is mistaken. God created the earth and put us in charge of it, but nowhere is it written that we should determine who lives and who dies.

There are many who speak against the death penalty even for people who have committed horrendous crimes. At the same time, these people are in favor of aborting potential infants who have done nothing wrong. Human Rights Groups are concerned with human rights in the world today. Yet, in the case of abortion, they are willing to deny an unborn infant its most basic right, to live. The words pro-choice could easily be replaced with the words for-death.

There are many solutions other than having an abortion if a woman has an unwanted pregnancy. For example, many people would like a baby but can't have one of their own. Let them adopt your child. There are also church support groups to help you and give you counseling, if you wish to raise your unplanned child.

God, the church, and the Bible teach us our religion. Abortion is immoral according to these and our religion should be total, not a pick and choose of those parts we wish to obey. How can ending the life of an innocent human being created in the image of God ever be morally explained? I can't think of any reasons that will be acceptable to God on Judgment Day to justify abortion.

Donald Guenette attends Bishop Stang High School in North Dartmouth.

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O'Brien, who is dean of students and a history teacher, along with Rob Ostrye, English teacher and assistant athletic director, and principal of students Robert Zukowski, attended a recent conference on sportsmanship sponsored by the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association and the Massachusetts Secondary School Athletic Directors' Association.

The seminar addressed taunting, "trash-talking" arid baiting opponents during sports events, and speakers included sportscaster Mike Lynch and former Boston College head football coach Jack Bicknell. .' '

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Presidential Award Nominees Chemistry teacher Kathy Crosson and math teacher Joyce'Menard have been nominated for 1995 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching. Four awards will be given in each state on the secondary level, as well as four on the elementary level.

Dinner Theatre Cancelled Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Bishop Stang Drama Club Mystery Dinner Theatre, scheduled for tonight has been cancelled. The Drama Club apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause.

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NORTH DARTMOUTH - Sister Liz Engel, a counFALL RIVER - ~iriam C. Laranjeira of Fall River selor and school liaison for the diocese, will offer the and Eric Gent of New Bedford were named Teenagers of workshop "Surviving the Adolescent Years" for parents the Month for December by Fall River Elks Lodge 118. of preteens and adolescents 7 p.m. Jan. 18 in the Stang Miss Laranjeira is student body president and was cafeteria. previously class secretary. She is a participant in the The two-hour presentation will include insight on National Honor Society, French National Honor Society, power struggles and communication, an assessment surDirection of the School Committee, cross-country and vey, "survival techniques" and a question and answer winter and spring track, session.

Gent is a member of the National Honor Society and A native of the Bronx and former campus minister at the basketball and cross country teams. He is a state the University of Rhode Island, Sister Engel believes award recipient in the Johns Hopkins Talent Search, parents of teens need as much support as religious educaattended the Johns Hopkins summer program at Wheators can give them. "We need to let parents know we are ton College, and was named a Tandy Scholar in math and sensitive to what they're going through," she said. science.

He has serveD as Class secretary and class "We're mindful that parents have needs as well as treasurer. students," said Stang guidance counselor Kathy Ruginis.

"Hopefully, this workshop will address some of those needs and provide a possible springboard for parent support groups." , Outing Club Goes In TAUNTON - The Taunton Catholic Middle School - The Bishop Stang Outing Club will not lie dormant AdventfChristmas "Welcome a Child" project concluded during the winter months: advisors Keith Holbrook and . with an Epiphany prayer service Jan. 4. Representatives Michael O'Brien have scheduled hours for indoor rock of Birthright of Greater Taunton attended, accepting climbing at the Rhode Island Rock Gym in Pawtucket. gifts and donations students collected throughout the holiday season.

Their most recent outdoor outing was a mountain biking venture at Borderland State Park in Easton, the This weekend marks the conclusion of the Butler club's "First Annual Turkey Ride" on the Sunday after Memorial Basketball Tournament, which began last Thanksgiving. weekend. Girls' and boys' teams from local middle schools are competing for first, second and third place, "It was fun," said senior Chaney Becker, one of 15 M VP and ~portsmanshipawards, to be presented followstudent pa.rticipants, "The course was challenging, but ing the championship game on Sunday. not so difficult that anyone got hurt." , Tournament p(oceeds fund scholarships to TCMS. Spills and scrapes are expeeted in mountain biking"but , awarded this year to John Manganaro and' Rosemarie with helmets a requirement the only casualties were Chris Sullivan. " Betcheller's detached bike seat and Roland Vigeant's Eighth-graders will atten~ a Jan. 19 production of Dr. snapped chain, The outing was not stalled by the failure of Bishop , , .. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at the Zeiterion Theater. They are also composing autobiographies and researching science Stang's van,to,start: the students hoisted their bikes into a 'fair topics. Science fair judging is scheduled for 2 to 4 dumptr!Jck provided by I,>arenPereira 's dad, and rode in p.m. Feb. 7, with an open house and awards 6:30 p.m. the 'Erickson family's van to East'on, where they hit the Feb. 8. ' , ' trails. '

TCMS is a candidate for accreditation by, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges anC, will be , visited by an accreditation team this fall. The s(:hool is beginning a self-study process, with the first profe:ssional day scheduled for Jan, 30.

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NORTH ATTLEBORO- Winners werechos.:n from each grade in a Book Fair Poster Contest. They are: kindergarteners Kala McGuire and Bridget Endler and, for grades 1-6, Meaghan Brennan, Jennifer Rosbecki, Adam Womack, Justin BrunneIl, Meg Petrone and Trisha Bosworth. Each received a $5 certificate to spend at the fair. ' Sixth-graders' public speaking program concluded last month with students reading daily announcement:; on the intercom system about church and world history. It has been reported that some of the students have beer.. telling their teachers to "pronounce their Rs'" Grades 5-8 heard about technology being used in the Boston Harbor Tunnel Project from Sixto Escobar, who visited the school Jan. 5.

Student Council president Merilee Fazio donatl:d $100 . in proceeds from a December dance to principal Alberta Goss for purchases of a new VCR for the middle ;;chool, grades.

Fourth-graders, studying the Pacific states, have made replicas of Seattle's Space Needle, Mt. Hood, the Golden Gate Bridge, an igloo and a volcano. They will gi~e oral presentations, dressed for various occupations of these states, and will sample foods of Pacific states.

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CHILLUM, Md. (CNS) -- Asked for any exampies of seen in the last weel.<, only a fe~ in the eighth grade class at'St. John Baptist dela Salle Grade School in Chillum', a suburb of Washington, raised their hands. " . ,-' "I saw 'a' man~t' the store collecting for th~needy , people," one girl said. "I gave him'a dollar."

Any examples of peacebrcaking? Several hands shot up., ' "Someone tried to start a fight." "Sometimes when I, Watch and listen to the news." "Somebody my mother knows went, to jail for'.doing a very bad thing.';" Aman my mother works with got shot - and he died."

Soliciting examples of peacemaking and peacebreaking was an icebreaker'used by Mary Joan ,Park'of Little' FriendsJor Peace. She ~tarted the group wit~ . her hus, band, Jerry,.to teach nonviolent skills to young children throughplayfu'f skill-building' actiYities. .

It is one/of the 1.3 models of peac'emaking activity cited ~y the U.S. bishop's in their pastoral message "ConfrontIng a Culture of Violence: A Catholic Framework for Action.", '. : M r~. P,a.t:k, s~i? s~;e g~t her star:t on the pea~ema,king path after par~,l~ll.'a~lng In a group st';1dy,pLthe bishops' 1983 pastor~lletter 0ll w~r.and peace in St. Paul, Minn. peacema~ing they'd

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After Chris Keber graduated from Georgetowl" University in 1993 with a major in international relations, he formed a limited partnership exploring land develop, ment. A PBS election special he helped prodUCE' aired nationally. He had plans to go to law school. But K eber, 23, jumped off the fast track Dec. 27 when he boa,rded a plane headed for Micronesia, where he will work as a grammar school teacher for the next two years through Jesuit Volunteers International. "I came to an under· standing that I nei~her deserved nor earned any of the advantages I had received, and I felt a strong calling to help others," said K eber, a 1-989 graduate of Ch~!rlotte Catholic High School in North Carolina. (CNS piloto)

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The Parks have written four books on'peacemaking for children and their families., , Mrs. Park also started a "peace camp" in Minnesota; 'now, she said~ camp is held "wherever I go." , , T!te cl~ssroom education started 'eight yea~s ago, she said. "Parents were so di,straught, telling us who their kids were looking up to as heroes," she said.

•The 45-minu~e session with the eighth graders included talk about peacemakers of the past. The Rev. Martin Luther King J r. and Nelson Mandela were acknowledged as peac~makers, but student opinion was split as to, whether Malcolm X belonged on the list.

Mrs. Park held up Mahatma Gandhi as her model of peacemaking. When Gandhi saw injustice, she said "he -didn't say, 'Let's solve the' problem,' He didn't criticize them, [telling them] that they were peace!>reakers. He didn't say they were horrible. He, just ~aid, 'Stop,''' , 'She also presented Dorothy D~y, who helped establish a network of hospitality houses, to the students, because in the opinion of the cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, the three biggest obstacles to peace were lack of love, food and shelter. ,Peacemaking is not easy. "Take Jesus as an example.

He Was put down," Mrs. Park said.,But don't be discouraged, she told the students, "Just like, Martin Luther

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King;just like Jesus, you have to be creative" to get others to follow the way of peace. . And, as a parting note to them, she told them that "the hardest person to make peace w.ith is a peacebreaker," 'S~~e of the other peacemeking exa;nples cited in "Confronting a Culture of Violence": , The diocese,of Cleveland coordinated apinterfaith gun turl)-in program that tool.< more than 1,500 weapons off the streets. ' , - Catholic Charities is Jac~son, Miss., sponsors a shelter. (or battered fam,ilies, serving 350 W.Qmc::n and children each year. , - The Office of Black Catholic Concerns in tht: dio'cese of Saginaw, Mich., use~ TV., ,radio, publi~ sl:rvice' , announcements and marches with,gang,mem))ers to help them refocus their lives a,nd reconnect' with the church and the comm,unity. , - The archdiocese of Los Angeles' "Hope in'Youth" 'initiative works with others to combat gang violence: with youth opportunities and economic development. :...- St. Sabina parish in Chicago crl;ated a b'u'siness training'p,rogram ca,lled "Some~hing,Good for the Hood," teaching youths and young "adults responsibility and work skills.': ,

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Jan. 13, 1995

By Charlie Martin

ALWAYS This romeo is bleeding But you can't see his blood It's nothing but some feelings That this old ~og kicked up It's been raining since you left me And now I'm drowning in the flood You see I've always been a fighter But without you, I give up Now I can't sing a love song Like the way its meant to be But I ~:uess that I'm not that good any more But baby that is just me I will love you baby, always And I'll be there Forever and a day, always I'll be there Until the stars don't shine Til thE: heavens burst And the words don't rhyme And when I die You11 he on my mind And I n'i11 love you always Now your pictures That llClu left behind Are just memories Of a different life Some made us laugh Some made us cry What made you Have to say goodbye What I would give to run My fingers through your hair Touch your lips To hold you near When you say your prayers Tr)' to understand I've made mistakes I'm just a man When he holds you close When he pulls you near When he says the words You've been needing to hear I wislh I was him I wish his words were mine To suy to you To the end of time If you told me to cry for you I could If you told me to die for you I would TakE~ a look at my face There's no price I won't pay To s.ay these words to you Written and Sung by: Bon Jovi (c) 1994 by PolyGram Records Inc. If you like Bon Jovi, you off this disc, which also includes some of his best recordings. probably love his "Cross Road" The song carries the Bon J ovi CD. Hiscurrent hit "Always" is

Schools showdown DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) - A major conflict may be developing between the Irish government and churches over the management of parochial secondary schools, which a majority of Ireland's high school students attend. Minister for Education Niamh Blm:athnach has drafted legislation that would require equal representation on parochial school boards for parents and teachers. Currently, representatives of the school owners bishops or religious orders - form the majority of the board memberships of the 3,000 primary and 476 secondary schools in the church system. Ireland's Catholic bishops and others have argued that the proposal, which requires no reli-

gious test for board membership, could threaten the Catholic nature of Catholic education. Some have charged that the education minister wants to "take the church out of education."

"N 0 pray, no play" AURORA, 111. (CNS) - St. Joseph School's new "no pray, no play" policy has dramatically boosted Sunday Mass attendance and promoted students' critical thinking and writing skills. Implemented at the start of the school year, the policy makes attendance at Sunday services. 50 percent of the religion grade for fifth through eighth grades. Each Monday students must answer five written questions about t1)e homily and

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He can take a song to its· emotional limits through the sheer power of his voice.

The song describes the grief the man feels after a romance ends. He imagines that the woman will find a new man who will say "the wores'you've been needing to hear.'

At this point, the man says he can only "wish I was him" and that "his words were mine to say to you to the end of time."

This song attests to the power that words possess. What we say and/ or don't say can make a difference in how fragile or how strong our love with another becomes.

Most of us realize the significance of saying "thank you," "I'm sorry," and "I love you." These are words of endearment needed for the growth of love in many types of relationships.

However, consider these additional ways of reaching out to those you love through the power of words: I. Speak about specific qualities within another that you respect or appreciate, and tell how certain aspects of his or her personality affect your life in a positive way.

2. When you do something wrong, go beyond words of apology. Take full responsibility for your behavior. Tell the other how you will work toward changing your actions and doing things differently in the future.

3. Periodically inquire if there are ways that you can be more supportive in some area of the other person's life. If the person asks something that you think you cannot do, be honest, but keep discussing alternative efforts that might be of help to him or her.

4. As for your own needs, speak directly and openly about them. Otherwise, anyone is likely to become manipulative, and this type of behavior creates resentment, thus eroding love.

Use your words to negotiate the differences that arise from conflicting needs.

We all know that actions speak louder than words. However, when we couple our actions with the language of support, understanding and compassion, love has a chance to build a lasting home within a relationship.

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin,.RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, IN 47635.

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By Amy Welborn "I've never gotten angry with 1994 didn't go anything like God. I've always thanked God for Annie expected it to. everything that happens, the good She didn't expect to move, she and the bad," she said. didn't expect to go to a new school How can you thank God for bad for her junior year and, most of all, things that happen? she didn't expect her dad to die.

"There's a reason for everything.

"It was last January," she told We may not know the reason, but me one afternoon recently. "He'd God does, and you just really have been having headaches that got to trust him. It's hard sometimes." worse and worse. The doctors I asked her what she'd learned found a tumor on his acoustic from all this.

"You have to be sensitive to nerve.

"He didn't think it was anthing. people. The way I deal with this, I called him on the phone right and I know I shouldn't do this, but before he went to the hospital, and I do, is that Ilet my emotions build he was so rushed .... He said we'd up, and then one day I'll just start talk after the operation, that it crying and crying. The people would be really simple." around me may not understand, Annie shook her head. "He albut I know there is a reason," she most hung up on me!" explained.

But Annie's father came out of "The same way, if someone else his surgery in a coma from which is upset or acting funny I try to he never a woke. He died four days understand that there's probably a later. reason for it that I don't know, but Annie had flown over from I have to be patient and try to Europe where she was in boarding understand." school, and she remembers the last Annie was also firm on another time she saw her dad alive.

• point: "I see the importance of not "We knew he was not going to being shy. Life is short .... You make it, so we all went in to say need to make the most of your go·odbye.1 asked mychurch's youth life." pastor to go with me. I just cried, Yes, Annie's life changed a great and we prayed, and even though I deal. She's probably hoping that did n't k now if he could hear me I 1995 will be better. But she rememjust said goodbye and that I loved bers what her dad used to tell her him." when he'd buy her something and Her father's death has left a she'd thank him. huge void in Annie's life.

"Don't thank me. Thank the "I still think about my dad every Lord. It's his money; he's just lent day. I went everywhere with him, it to me." and we talked all the time.

God's lent you another year of ''I'm sad, too, because he can't life. Annie's story tells how fragile see my future - when I graduate that gift can be - for us and the from high school, when I become a people around us whom we take lawyer like he was or when I get for granted. married .... In a way it motivates Howdo you plan to use that gift me to accomplish a lot, sort of in in 1995? his memory."

How has Annie dealt with this loss?

"Friends help a lot. It's not that they have to say anything really deep or wise. All they have to do is be with me, and it's understood that they're sorry for me."

Annie's faith helps too.

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D.ofI.,NB Daughters of Isabella Hyacinth Circle 71 first meeting of New Year 7 p.m. Jan. 17, Holy Name Church hall, NB. ST. PATRICK, FALMOUTH Bible study of the Gospel of Mark and inquiry ·sessions for persons interested in becoming Catholic will begin soon; Msgr. Regan will meet with prospective participants in the PUBLICITY CHAIRMEN SEPARATED/DIVORCED programs following II: 15 a.m. Mass are asked to submit news Items for this CATHOLICS, CAPE Jan. 22. Information: rectory, column to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall Support group meeting 7 p.m.

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River, 02722. Name of city or town should Jan. 15, St. Pius X parish center, S. be Included, as well as full dates of allacllvYarmouth. Newcomers welcomed at ST. ANTHONY, E. FALMOUTH Illes. Please send news of future rather In conjunction with'the reading of 6:30 p.m. Information: 362-9873. than past events. the Gospel story of Cana this weeDue to limited space and also because O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER kend, married couples will be invited nollces of strictly parish affairs normally Lower Cape Ultreya 7:30 tonigh.t, to renew their vows at 6 p.m. Mass appear In a parish's own bUlletin, we are parish center. Father Hector LaCha- tomorrow, followed by"Cana Night forced to limit lIems to events of general pelle, direction of Shrine of Our Out" at Willow Field Tavern. ParticInterest. Also, we do not normally carry Lady of LaSalette in Ipswich, will notices of fund raising actiVities, which may ipants are asked to make their own be advertised at our regular rates, obtainpresent workship "Why Be Catholic?" reservations at the restaurant. able from The Anchor business office, tele10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 21 and 28, phone (508) 675-7151. parish center. To preregister call' K. of c., FALMOUTH' Knights of Columbus annual men's On Steering Points lIems, FR Indicates Mary Ann Eaton, 385-7652.

Fall River; NB Indicates New Bedford. retreat Feb. 24-26, Calvary Retreat . "SPIRIT," a Rhode Island Christian music group, will ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS Center, Shrewsbury. Information: open the second annual winter Coffee House S,~ries at Vincentian food collection for Mel Gonsalves, 548-5774, or Phil INTERFAITH COUNCIL of LCOC food pantries this weekend.

LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro, with a performance 6:30 p.m.

Fullin, 548-5555.

GREATER FR Interfaith Council and Mayor John CATHEDRAL CENTER of MCFL, ATTLEBORO Jan. 21. Group members are Aimee Robichaud and brothers Mitchell's B.R.I.D.G.E.S. Program RENEWAL, E. FREETOWN Attleboro area Massachusetts Citi- Aime, Edward and Robert Brissette. A 4:30 Mass prec~des the wil sponsor Martin Luther King Youth Ministry Services Peer· zens for Life will sponsor a bus to the Day Program 10 a.m. Jan. 16, St. Leadership Training Retreat Jan. March for Life in Washington, DC, concert. Information: 222-5410 Anne's School, 340 Forest St., FR. 13-15. Immaculate Conception, FR, leaving from Holy Ghost Church, Students from local schools will read confirmation retreat Jan. 14. RegisLinden St., 10 p.m. Jan. 22 and essays. Participants will include Fatrations are being accepted for Tues- returning around 1:30 a.m. Jan. 24. ther Marc Bergeron, pastor of St. days at the Lake Series, to be held II Information: Margaret Whitbread, Anne's parish; Dr. Irving Fradkin, a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Feb. 7-18, and for chapter chairperson, 384-7232.

Temple Beth EI; Robert Brough, Bishop's Day of Renewal for Laity, ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM A major effort for Hue:ser is the OMAHA, Neb. (CNS) - Holy Feb. 25. Information: 763-3994.

Fall River School Department; and Volunteers needed for St. Camilparish food redistribution proFamily Church may look like a members of the Interfaith Council.

CATHOLIC ALUMNI CLUB Ii us Group for outreach to sick and small, poor parish in the heart of gram. Six days a week he makes Rev. Trevond Grass of Bethel AME Catholic singles group monthly elderly, including assisting at Mass industrial Omaha, but its commit- the rounds of area supermarkets, Church will speak. All welcome. social 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Ground at Forest View Nursing Center and collecting outdated but still usable ment to the poor has made it rich CURSILLO Round restaurant, Silver City Galle- communion services at Mill Brook foods and delivering them to shelindeed.

Cursillo Movement Leaders' ria Mall, Taunton. Meetings are Nursing Home on alternating MonHoly Family's social service pro- ters, community centers and OmaSchool 7:30 p.m. Jan. 18, Bishop held at various restaurants in the days. Assistants are also needed for ha Housing Authority high-rise gram helps as many as 3,000 famiConnolly High School, FR; all mall on third Sundays. Information: parish funeral Masses. For informawelcome.

824-8378. lies a year and its food redistribu- buildings. tion contact Father Dan Lacroix, 295-2411.

SEPARATED/ DIVORCED tion program assists 150 families a The food program gets j:lroduce, CATHOLICS, NB day, six days a week, according to baked goods and sometimes meat A tenth anniversary meeting will pastoral administrator Ralph Hue- . to 150 families a day, Hueser said, be held 7 to 9 p.m. Jan. 23, Famiand he receives help from other ser. ly Life Center, 500 Slocum Rd., permanent deacons and the. Knights For that reason parishioners, N. Dartmouth. Past members are of Columbus.

TECHNY, Ill. (CNS) - Chi- currently numbering 62 families, welcome to attend. Among presenSupport and collaboration are na's communist leaders are show- are determined to keep the church ters will be Mary Dubois, speaking standing, said Hueser, the parish's essential, he said, .becau:;e small on "Moving On," and Louis and ing unprecedented tolerance toward membership means a built·;in probpermanent deacon, who has headed Michelle Robillard. the public Catholic Church, accordlem with finances. "It's a test in Holy Family for three years. ing to speakers at a Catholic conST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Physical signs of life at the faith," he said, "that God will conA Cursillo palanca Mass, to com- ference on China. But officials church include the first exterior tinue to get us the money we need mission two local men who will serve . persecute the underground church on the team for an upcoming Cur- that retains adherence to Rome painting in 40 years, repairs to the to operate." sillo weekend, will be held 7:30 p.m. and view religion cynically as a "Why do we stay? It's a comsteeple, installation of an elevator Sunday. way to strengthen the state,' the. for easier access, and planned res- mitment to the poor," said Mrs. Hays. "People come from "lIl over. toration of the worship space.

CORPUS CHRISTI, speakers said. The 14th annual E. SANDWICH "All our funds go to the poor," They know they'll be treated with Catholic China conference was held Father Greg Mathias, who is chaparishioner Cathy Hays told The dignity here." recently at Divine Word Internaplain for the Massachusetts Mari- tional, a center of the Divine Word "We have to survive aH a parCatholic Voice, Omaha's diocesan time Academy, is accompanying ca. newspap'er. "We've got to now ish," she added, "to keep the door Missionaries in Techny, a northdets on the first leg of their training spend some money on the church," open." ern suburb of Chicago. "If you cruise until Jan. 17. she said. cannot destroy religion, you conPAX CHRISTI, CAPE COD The parish, the first one estabtrol it," said Jean-Paul Wiest, a "A Weapons-Free Future" is the lished by Bishop James O'Connor, China historian and director of the topic for monthly meeting 7:30 p.m. first bishop of Omaha, was founded Maryknoll Society's Center for Jan. 16, Our Lady of Victory reliin 1876 and initially served Irish Mission Research in New York. gious education center, Centerville. and Italian immigrants. The 1883 church is one of Omaha's oldest brick structures.

In the 1960s and 1970s the parish was a center for social action, Stonehill College's Office of said Hueser. Today, the church is Continuing Education is offering surrounded by industry and only a certificate program in A IDS three parish families live within a' counseling, directed by Dr. Benmile of it. jamin R. Mariante.

What hasn't changed over the The program is designed to proyears is the parish's commitment vide relatives of friends of persons to chapter 25 of Matthew's Gos- with AIDS with skills to underpel, in which Christ's final judg- stand and cope with the disease. ment is based on helping those in For health care professionals, need, Hueser said. teachers and counselors it will help "What we're doing now in terms develop specific counseling skills of the physical structure of the' for assisting persons with AIDS. churCh is to keep the building Eight courses are required to God~ standing'so we can keep going in complete the program, "ith all our mission of serving the poor," credits applicable toward a bachehe said. lor's degree in the North Easton THANK YOU Directed by Dolores Goodlett, college's Evening Division. the social service, or "door minisThe Evening Division offers II try," of Holy Family assists anyone degree programs, eight cer'tificate who comes to the door for help programs and a wide var::ety of with direct assistance or commun- credit courses. For information on This Message Sponsored by the Following ity referrals. Omaha-area parishes programs call 230-1470. For inforBusiness Concerns in the Diocese of Fall River also collaborate on projects, inmation on noncredit offerings, call DURO FINISHING CORP. . FALL RIVER TRAVEL BUREAU cluding a back-to-school clothing 230-1258. giveaway that outfitted more than GLOBE MFG. CO. GILBERT C. OLIVEIRA INS. AGENCY Walk-in registration continues 1,500 children in 1994. through Jan. 19.

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