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Catholic Schools A Parent's Choice' A Message from Bishop Daniel A~ Cronin In the Baptism ceremony, the priest pra~~' with the parents of the newborn child anti' reminds them several times that they are, th~ first teachers of their children in the ways ott f a i t h . , .'i'!

Catholic schools in this countryhaVeC()nl~;: mitted themselves to assisting parents in their role as "first teachers" by providing a setting where the well-rounded Christian formation of our young can take place. Education in both secular and religious subjects demon'" strates to our students that their faith cana.l1d must be integrated into theirphilosoph~9~1:: life.. Parents who choose. CatholicSc~()pl~ for their children acknowledge this~ and they, continue the tradition of their parents .' made similar choices and sacrifices.

Many of the' next generatf,onof Catha leaders, both, in out Church and in () nation, are being formed ill nur sch9~l today. May they become the best of leaders,.. witnessing to the world their love ofGod and, love of their fellow men and wome~., To the thousands of students, parents~'i teachers, religiops, priests, benefactors and' friends of our Catholic schools, I offer words ", of gratitude, encouragement and continued support in this challenging apostolateof the Church, especially as we celebrate Catholic Schools Week, 1990! .A Catholic Schools Week Section begins on page 7 . ~:

11th-hour victory at State 'House In an II th-hour roll call vote on Jan. 2, the last day of the legislative session, the Massachusetts House of Representatives voted effectively to kill a bill which would have granted abortion on demand. to rape victims. The bill, H3380, was the first abortion-related bill to reach the floor of the full house since the Supreme Court's Webster decision in July returning abor. tion regulation to the states.

Sponsored by Rep. Marjorie Clapprood (D-Sharonj Stoughton), a candidate for state lieutenant-governor, the bill would have changed existing laws to allow abortion funding for rape victims.

IN THE GLOOM of a sleet and hail-beset Sunday morning, Father Horace J. Travassos blesses a busload of diocesan March for Lifers a~ they leave St. Mary's Cathedral in time to reach Washington for a pre-march all-night prayer vigil at the National Shrine ofthe Immaculate Conception. (Hickey photo)

It was life-changing 17th March for Life

By Marcie Hickey with eNS news reports Pat Schmitt ofSt. Rita's parish, Marion, a spokesperson for prolife marchers from the Cape and Islands area of the Fall River diocese, described her participation in Sunday's prayer vigil and Monday's March for Life in Washington as a "life-changing" experience.

"If you feel discouraged about what's happening in the world" with regard to abortion, she said, cheer yourself with the image of the six lanes of Washington's Constitution Avenue packed for twoand-a-half hours with peaceful pro-life marchers.

Mrs. Schmitt was among about 120 people from the Fall River diocese who traveled to Washington on Sunday for events marking

Effectively killed on a procedural motion by a vote of 78 to 69 with 13 members not voting, the bill had received extensive lobbying and was in fact viewed by proponents of abortion as an easy win.

Abortion rights' supporters had VATlCAN CITY (CNS) - Pope sought a roll call vote in an attempt to convey the appearance of general John Paul II is in Africa for the consens~s inJhe legislature in favor .. sixth time, visiting a string of small of abortIOn. but energetic Catholic communiRep. James T. Brett (D-Dorchesties in one ofthe poorest regions in ter) who galvanized pro-life forces the world.

The pope will travel to Cape in the ~ouse l~d the effo~t to recommIt the bIll to commIttee.

Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mali, BurJoining him were Reps. Robert kina Faso and Chad - We'st AfriCorreira (D-Fall River), Marie can countries where, except in Turn to Page Two Cape Verde, Christianity has re-

the 17th annIversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.

A bus from the Fall River, New Bedford and Cape Cod areas departed Sunday morning, arriving in Washington for an all-night prayer vigil at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Long-time activist Mary Ann Boo.th of South Dartmouth said the vigil was a chance to use the power of prayer in the fight against abortion.

"I want to emphasize how important we felt it was to go before the march to the shrine to pray.

"It was a sacrifice we were willing to make for this cause," said Mrs. Booth.

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the tone for the day of pro-life activities.

"It has become a congregation of believers," not angry demonstrators, she said. "We are going down to pray. We are not a political group."

She said her group joined those praying all night at the shrine, some stretched out on sleeping bags.

During a Rosary for Life, she said, a candle was lit for every state and a rose placed by each candle for children who have died through abortions in each state.

During the Mass opening the vigil, she reported, principal celebrant Cardinal John J. O'Connor promoted prayer and fasting as Turn to 'Page Six

Africa: papal vist to focus on Muslim relations mained in the shadow of a predominantly Muslim culture.

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During the trip, which began yesterday and is scheduled to end Feb. I, the pope will meet privately with Islamic representatives, and trip organizers have scheduled larger meetings with Muslims in Mali and Chad - events they hope will echo the public rally the pope held with Muslim youths in Morocco in 1985.

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Quadriplegic opts to keep on livi~g

Card. Szoka to Vatican VATICAN CITY (CNS) -In a '$44 million in 1988. The shortfalls have bee" largely made up by an major Vatican financial appointment, Pope John Paul II has named annual worldwide Peter's Pence Cardinal Edmund C. Szoka of collection.

The appointment makes CardiDetroit to head the Holy See's nal Szoka one of the Curia's two budget and accountin'g office.

Cardinal Szoka, a 62-year-old top financial officials, both new to Polish-American and a personal their jobs. In December, the pope friend ofthe pope, was named Jan. named Venezuelan Cardinal Rosa22 as president of the Prefecture lio Castillo Lara to head the for the Economic Affairs of the Administration for the Patrimony Holy See, replacing Cardinal Giu- of the Holy See, the Vatican treasseppe Caprio, who is retiring at ury office that sets spending guidelines, disburses funds and collects age 75. , The Vafican made no immediate income.

As Detroit archbishop since announcement regarding Cardinal 1981, Cardinal Szoka has adminSzoka's replacement in Detroit. istered an archdiocese of some 1.5 Cardinal Szoka will run an office million Catholics, including more that has played an increasingly than 300 parishes. His decision to important role in the Vatican's close 30 parishes in a cost-cutting effort to cut spending and reduce move in 1988 was highly controits annual operating deficit. As versial and was appealed by some head ofthe prefecture, as the agency parishioners to the Vatican, which is called in curial circles, he will act upheld the decision. essentially as Vatican budget In 1989, the pope named Cardidirector. nal Szoka to the Council of CardiThe prefecture gathers income nals to Study the Organizational and expense figures of Vatican and Economic Problems of the agencies, double-checks them and Holy See, which last met in Rome puts them into a composite budget. in November to consider budget Its figures tell how much money figures and cost-cutting measures. entered the Vatican, how it was Cardial Szoka was National Conspent and how much is needed to ference of Catholic Bishops treascover the shortfall. urer from 1981 to 1984.

The office has no specific power Appointment of a resident arch~ to limit spending or set policies on bishop to a top Vatican financial ways of earning money. But it is position is unusual. The prefecture charged with financial "vigilance was established in 1967, and its and control" over Holy See agen- two previous presidents have been cies and is called upon for advice Vatican administration veterans. regarding all important expenCardinal Caprio, an Italian with ditures. a long curial career, had been head Prefecture members have wor,ked of the prefecture since 1981. Durclosely with a council of cardinals ing his tenure, he successfully seeking ways to reduce the Vati- campaigned for more public discan's annual shortfall, which was closure of Vatican budget figures.

, TINY SHELTERS, three levels high, are living quarters for Vietnamese boat people confined in a Hong Kong refugee camp. Catholic groups have asked the British government to fund costs of housing the refugees. (CNSj KNA photo)

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enforcement agency, no 路consideration of whether or not a rape must be proven before funds would be provided for abortions or abortion counseling, no stipulation as to where such counseling or abortions would take place, nor would the bill set time limits for care of a rape victim after the crime. In addition, the bill was vague about funding sources.

Because of all these questions Rep. Brett urged his colleagues to recommit the bill to committee.

Gerald D. D'Avolio, executive Lorraine Bussiere, RN,70; affectionately known as "Mrs. B" director' of the Massachusetts to seminarians and campers at St. ,Catholic Conference, urged House Vincent's, Catholic Boys' and Naz- members to support a motion to areth camps in Westport, died recommit H3380 to study comJan. 18. mittee.

The Mass of Christian Burial "The reason for the recommittal was offered for her Monday at St. is due to the fact that the bill was George Church, Westport. The released during the time when homilist and a concelebrant was attention in the House was being Rev. Edmund R. Levesque, pastor focused on the state budget. Not of St. Theresa Church, Attleboro, all of the members ... had the and a former director of the camps. opportunity to fully review the bill Also a concelebrant was the pres- or raise important questions regardent director, Rev. William Boffa, ing the ramifications and impact parochial vicar at St. Joseph of H3380.

Church, Taunton, Nineteen other "Because the bill involved the priests concelebrated or provided , abortion issue, some members of music for the funeral liturgy. the committee would like to have Mrs. Bussiere had been a nurse been heard before the bill was at the camps for 17 years. "She had released," said D'Avolio. a special place in her heart for the special needs children of Nazareth Camp and for the seminarians who staffed S1. Vincent's," said Rev. David A Costa, parochial Four registered nurses at diocevicar at S1. Thomas More Church, Somerset, and among priests sing- san nursing homes have been certified as gerontological nurses by ing at the Mass.

Mrs. Bussiere, a native of Wor- the American Nurses' Assn., accordcester and the daughter of the late ing to announcement made by Norman J. and.Ida (Mercier) Theo- Rev. Eomund J. Fitzgerald, execdore; is survived by her husband, utive director of diocesan health Napoleon Bussiere. She nursed for facilities.

They are Linda Roderig'ues, many years at St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford. A North Dartmouth RN-C, Our Lady's Haven, Fairresident for 45 years, she belonged haven; and Jeanne DeMarco, RNC, Jeanne Ducharme, RN-C, and to the parish Women's Guild.

As well as her husband, she .Colleen McRoy, RN-C, all at leaves a son and a daughter, David Catholic Memorial Home, Fall and Patricia Bussiere, both of River.

The American Nurses' Assn. certNorth Dartmouth; another daughter, Carol Hanson of New Bed- ification program was established ford; a brother, Philippe Theo- in 1973 to recognize professional dore of. Sutton; a stepbrother, achievement in any of a number of Gerard Messier of Fairhaven; and functional or clinical areas in nursinl!. five grandchildren.

Parente路 (D-Milford) and Francis H. Woodard (D-Walpole).

Rep. Brett argued that House Bill 3380 would have amended the General Laws without investigation or research into the impact or implications of this amendment.

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ALABASTER, Ala. (CNS) Larry McAfee, a quadriplegic Georgia man who. in November won the right in court to turn off his ventilator, has said he will try to improve the qu:::ity of his life. before ending it. The court deciding his Cdse heard a friend-of-thecourt brieffrom theAltanta archdiocese. The brief cited the 1950s doctoral dissertation of Bishop Daniel A. Cronin.

M,;Afee, 33, who is paralyzed from the neck down and is now living in Alabama, had indicated he would wait until after the Christmas holidays to turn off his ventilator.

Offers from Alabamians to help him, McAfee said, "have not only caught my interest but stimulated my desire to give it a real good try."

MI;Afee will try to gain entry into .a Alabama statefunded nonprofit work program for the handicapped. .

Because no Georgia nursing home would take him, he has been in an Alabama nursing home, one of the few in the nation with a special unit for patients depending on ventilators for life support.

McAfee, an engineer, was injured in a motorcycle accident. He used his engineering skills to develop a device enabling him to turn off his ventilator himself.

He sought the right to withdraw his life-support system because he was dissatisfied with the quality of his life. He won permission from a Georgia judge' in September, upheld in November by the Georgia Supreme Court.

The Atlanta archdiocese, in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the case, said granting McAfee's request "would not be assisting in suicide or undermining the state's and the Roman Catholic Church's interest in preserving life."

The brief cited, conclusions reached by Bishop Cronin in his 1950s doctoral dissertation, which reviewed teachings of theologians over the past seven centuries with regard to ordinary and extraordinary means of conserving life.

Bishop Cronin concluded that it was consistent church teaching that: "For the patient whose condition is incurable. even ordinary means (of preserving life) become extraordinary (morally dispensable); and so the wishes of the patient, expressed or reasonably interpreted, must be obeyed."

The bishop defined extraordinary means as "those not commonly used in given circumstances, or those means in common use which this individual in his present physical, psychological and economic condition cannot reasonably empioy, or if he can, will not give him hope of proportionate benefit."

The archdiocesan brief held that the use of a ventilator in McAfee's case was an "extraordinary means of preserving life."

"We're delighted that Mr. McAfee has not chosen to employ the moral right to withdraw extraordinary means for the preservation of his life," Father Peter Dora, archdiocesan spokesman, told CNS. Father Dora said, "This was a very tense matter because it's very easily misunderstood, but it gave the Catholic Church the opportunity to clarify the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary means" to preserve life.

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Synod to .fQc,,~ on priests' problems

52 nations got Mass

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The focus of the 1990 World Synod of Bishops on priestly formation acknowledges "the many difficulties which the priestly life is encountering," said Pope John Paul.

II, who has been offering public prayers for the synod during his recitation of the Sunday Angelus.

The October synod will be the eighth general Synod of Bishops.

The synods have been held about every three years since 1967. Previous topics have included the laity, family life and the sacrament of penance.

While a priest's vocation is a gift of grace, its development "is not possible without a serious doctrinal and spiritual formation," he said the pope.

Priestly formation, the pope explained, "is first of all the work of the Holy Spirit, who exercises his power of sanctification by preparing the future priest to be a man of God in the image of Christ. He cannot preach the Gospel effectively if he has not deeply assimilated its message."

Basing his pastoral work on his own deep faith, the priest must help others sustain their faith, "respond to their doubts and objections, and reinforce those who are troubled or hesitant," he said.

When people go to a priest with their problems, he said, they are not seeking only a "common-sense" response. Rathet, they want "a word of faith."

- Equal time asked . NEW YORK (CNS) - Social justice should get "equal time" with medical ethics in Catholic discussion of health care.. says Father J. Bryan Hehir ofthe Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University in Washington.

In a New York, address, he said the Catholic Church has a valuable moral tradition of examining the validity of specific medical practices, butthat moreattentionshould go to the church's commitment to health care for all as a matter of social justice.

NOTICE The 1990 Diocesan Directory and Buyers' Guide is now available. Those wishing to get copies at the Anchor office at a cost of $5 each, thus avoiding the per-copy postage and handling charge of $2, should pick them up as soon as possible. The office, at 887 Highland Ave., Fall River, is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

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audience for the Mass was, however, more than a billion people.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CNS) - Pope John Paul II's Christmas路 midnight Mass reached 52 countries, including East Germany and Hungary for the first time, according to the Knights of Columbus, which paid for the telecast. The Soviet Union also accepted the satellite signal but it was not known whether the papal Mass was actualJy telecast there. The potential

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Father Blottman to mark silver jubilee Feb. 11 Father William P. Blottman, pastor of St. Rita's parish, Marion, will mark his 25th anniversary of priestly ordination Feb. 13. The occasion will be marked at a 3 p.in.

Mass Sunday, Feb. II, followed by a 6 p.m. reception at the Lakesider on Route 6 in North Dartmouth.

Concelebrants at the Mass will be Fathers Thomas C. Lopes and John J. Steakem: Lectors will be John B. Blottman, a brother, and Mrs. Ernest Weber. Mrs. Catherine Sweeney will read a letter of . congratulations from Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. Mrs. Charles McCormick and Mrs. Gerard Kenton, sisters of the jubilarian, will be gift bearers.

The Musical Quartet, Paul Fernland, Dr. William Jenney, Robert Coquillette and Beryl Roylance, will be singers for the Mass and a flute solo will be by Andrew . O'Shaughnessy.

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OFFICIAL Rev. Timothy P. Reis from Parochial Vicar at Saint Anthony Parish, East Falmouth to Parochial Vicar at Saint John of God, Somerset.

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op James L. Connolly, he'subsequently served as parochial vicar at Holy Family parish, East Taunton; St. Mary, North Attleboro; St. Joseph's, Fall River; and St. Mary's, South Dartmouth, before being appointed pastor in Marion Oct. 7, 1983.

Workshops On AlPS awareness planned The Diocesan Office of Catholic Social Services will sponsor a oneday workshop, "AIDS: Strengthening Our Communities' Response," in six locations of the diocese.

All workshops will be held from I to 6 p.m. Topics will be AIDS Update, presented by Christine Connolly, public health care educator; Sociological Aspects of AIDS, Liz DiCarlo, RN, public health care nurse; and Pastoral Aspects of AIDS, Father Bruce Cwiekowski, diocesan AIDS ministry coordi'nator.

Workshops are scheduled for Jan. 28 SS Peter and Paul Church, Fall River; Feb. 25, St. Pius X Church, South Yarmouth; March II, St. John Evangelist School, Attleboro; March 25, St. John Neumann parish, East Freetown; April 22, St. Joseph's Church, Taunton; April 29, Christ the King Church, Mashpee.

Walk-in registrants will be welcomed as space permits. Information on preregistering is available from the Diocesan Office of Catholic Social Services, 674-4681.

Also with regard to AIDS, Project Care of New Bedford is seeking volunteers to work with patients. Training is scheduled for 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Jan. 27 and 28. For further information contact Judi Havens Sherman, 999-2321.

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,Our Educational Disaster All the king's horses and all the king's men could not put Humpty Dumpty together again. Those lines of children's verse could well describe the current state of American education, especially in the public sphere.

There are, of course, also problems and difficulties in private and parochial education. All schools are affected by trends and theories conjured up by so-called educational theorists. Open classrooms and modern math are examples ,of educational directions which came to a crashing halt in face of the real life 'classroom situation.

Private and parochial schools face'the same problems as their public counterparts but they are better able to cope with difficulties because they retain discipline and morality as educational essentials. Unfortunately, this cannot be said of much public education and the basic reason lies in its underlying philosophy.

The secular state has forced its crass materialism and liberal ideas into the classroom. There is no God and there are no ethics. They have no place in the world of so-called free thinking which seeks to escape all constraints.

The results of such an educational attitude are more than obvious. In many schools discipline is the province 'of guns, gangs or goons. There are areas in this country where education is in complete chaos. Other areas are at best maintaining a mere facade of learning with police patrolling both the inside Rnd outside of school bui19io.gs.

The effect of tolerating and supporting such a system is obvious. Learning is on the decline. Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos, after seeing results of extensive testing of United States elementary and high school students, declared that we "should be appalled that we have placed our children in ' such jeopardy." , In generaI:'students are woefully inadequate in reading and wdting skills. In its starkest statistics, the study showed that one out of seven 17-year-olds failed to reach an intermediate reading level, a third of high school juniors could not write an adequate job description and two thirds could not write a personal letter.

Of cours'e, some immediately stated that the tragedy was the result of inadequate funding. Yet all the billions poured into education in the salad days of pre-Reagan economics, did very little to renew and improve American public education.

Money is not the only answer. Never was, never will be. It might relieve burdens temporarily, it might provide some specialprograms and it might persuade some teachers to stay in school. But it does not restore discipline, strengthen morals, or heal broken minds.

As America moves more and more into the international community, the jnadequacy of so many of our young people will become more and more evident.

The nations of the European Common Market, and of the developing Far East, especially Japan, have based their eco,: nomic planning on their schools as well as on their national talents. There is an open, no-nonsense approach to learning sadly lacking in our educational picture. Today it's not merely a matter of reform; we must make American education competitive in the world arena.

Sad to say, we are a long way from achieving this goal. The private and parochial sectors are facing tremendous obstacles but at least they are still attempting to maintain educational integrity. Our public sector must do the same.

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A vision for the future

By Father Kevin J. Harrington The changes in the Soviet V nion and Eastern Europe have brought new hope to true lovers of freedom. But for this hope totake firm root in reality there must be an understanding of what the so-called peace 'dividend will mean to the world.

The expense of the arms race may give way to a wasting ofvalu,able resources, should Second World nations fall into the First World trap of greedy consumerism.

Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, the 1988 encyclical of Pope John Paul II, called for an end to the arms race and for major relief for Third World debt; but it is hard to envision a Congress that would seek to spend its limited resources on a project seemingly so remote from its constituents.

However, true peace is more than a mere absence-of conflict. It must be based upon justice and there can be little justice when the poor nations of the world owe $1.3 trillion to Western banks.

The Holy Father has continuously urged the Western banking community, as a matter of ethics, to reduce interest rates, grant new loans and, wherever possible, absolve路debt.

Due to their huge reserves, the banks of Japan, West Germany, Britain and the V nited States are in a position to do this. Indeed, whether or not by design, the recent plan of V.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady for Third World debt relief somewhat corresponds to the spirit of the pope's proposal. Brady proposes to absolve 20 percent of Third World debt.

While the world may not be ces will be devastating. First and ready for a new Marshall Plan, Second Worid countries alike must who would have foreseen today's learn that energy resources are collapse of Marxism-leninism as limited and the greater the increase a credible economic model and the ,in waste products, the greater the inching of Hungary, Poland, Bul- dangf:r of further pollution of the garia, Romania, East Germany globe, In the 1980s the pope was disand the Soviet V nion itselftoward political pluralism and mixed' missed as too idealistic in his vision of a world free of Marxist collectieconomies. vism and liberal capitalism. The In that connection, in a recent attraGtion of the first seems to address to diplomats the pope urged have run its course with the notathe new democracies not to make ble exception of Albania and Red the same mistakes as their veteran China, but the latter still allures. counterparts. If the newcomers Nevertheless, the pope's vision consume at the rate of First World nations, the ecological consequen- seems less utopian after the extraordinary events of the past year. His plea for restructuring Third World debt, however, is only part of his conce pt of what is owing the dignity of man. His total vision comes closer to that of our Founding Fathers than do the profit-oriented goals of those who hold the fate of Divine Victim the poor nations in their hands.

The largest McDonald's in the Word of God, I adore ' just opened in Moscow, world you and with an overflowputting the Golden Arches litering heart thank you for' ally within a stone's throw of Lenhaving assumedhumanflesh in's tomb. But the American dream oflibl~rty and justice fo'r all is our and become priest and vicbest export, not a fast food chain, tim in the sacrifice of the however efficiently ru.n.

Cross, a sacrifice which you Thl~ student demonstrators in renew upon the altar at Tiana.nmen Square constructed a every moment. 0 high makeshift Statue of Liberty sympriest, divine victim,' give bolizing their hope for liberty and justice for all. Our country welme the grace to honor your comed hundreds of thousands of 'holy sacrifice in the Eucharrefugl~es from poverty and politiist with the homage ofMary cal oppression during the 1980s. most holy and of all your Hopefully the 1990s will be a decade, holy Church, triumphant, during which people will be able to remain in their homelands free of suffering and militant. Ainternal political oppression and men. will receive economic help from the wealthy nations of the world.

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I'm not much given to screaming but on an otherwise placid morning recently, I succumbed. The phone rang

I passed 'her, I looked over. She had a computer printout spread DOLORES across her steering wheel and was talking animately on her car phone. CURRAN We now have shower clocks and and just as ] answered, the cat meowed to get out. By stretching beepers for kids. Remembering the cord and my body, I was able those long' lazy days of childhood to get the back door open. One when we escaped parents, ] wonder something inconsistent about tapdoesn't fool around with pets who about kids who are beeped. Will they ever be free to wander, explore ping away at a screen with· a turf want out.

As ] recoiled, the doorbell rang. and daydream or are we starting fire behind me and lazy sheep. wandering the hills outside my Frustrated, I put my caller on hold _ them on their conditioning so early window. to discover a pair of missionaries they won't even have memories of But the families in Ireland are at the front door. "Can't talk now. peace and solitude? also being affected by the invasion Every year my husband and] I'm on long distance,"1 explained. of technology. Always a commuThey disbelieved me and per- spend four weeks in a simple cotnal, conversational, story-sharing sisted. Just then the buzzer on my tage in Ireland. We have no phone, people, they are beginning to isodryer sounded. I threw up my burn a turffire and amble down to late themselves inside their homes, hands and screamed, "AAARG H. the village to talk. We welcome the Even the machines are calling me." visits of the kids on the hill who - thanks to television and VCRs. There are proportionately more They. fled. interrupt their endless summer play VCRs in Ireland than anywhere Our lives are interruptible. We to find out what "the Yanks" are else in Europe. Eyen in villages have buzzers and beepers, alarms doing. without a bank, there's a video and children, all designed to remind I write. Jim fishes, hikes, photorental shop. and rush us. I could have ignored graphs and learns history from But who.am I to criticize, I who the missionaries and the dryer, relatives and friends who work toted a computer into this pastoral but, like Pavlov's dogs, we're hard but find time to waste with setting. Still, I want to tell them, trained to respond. It starts with others.

"Don't let it happen to you. Don't the infant's cry and progresses to a This year] faced a dilemma. I fill your lives with beepers and child's persistent, "Mom!" We can't screens that steal you from one let a phone go unanswered, even am working on my first novel, and another. Go back to your evening when we're working in a muddy the quiet Donegal life is ideal for garden. We're on call to the world. the concentration I can't achieve strolls, pub conversations, and songfests."

As technology heats up, we speed in my modern buzzer-filled home.

But it isn't going to happen up our pace. Not long ago, I found Wtih some misgivings, I invested there any more than it happened myself in a long line of traffic, in a laptop computer so my words here. Grandparents wring their slowed by the lead car, a sleek could race as fast as my mind. hands over their losses but they expensive model.

My misgivings sprang from too are watching the soaps, sports One by one, we crept up and escaping technology to introducand'movies. passed the slow-moving driver. As ing it into our haven. There's

A confusing Gospel

By Father John Dietzen

honor Mary as the holiest of all human beings apart from Jesus Q. I was raised Catholic but ali my life I had the wrong idea about himself, we believe that all her gifts the Immaculate Conception until I of grace were given by the Father, read your column about it some first of all, to glorify and honor his Son, who would become a member time ago.

This past December I was con- of our human family through her.

When Pope Pius IX declared fused again. If the Immaculate Conception means that Mary was the dogma of.the Immaculate Conconceived without sin in the womb ception (1854), he stressed the point of her mother as you said, why is that all of our Blessed ·Mother's the Gospel Dec. 8 about the time glory, including her sinless conwhen Jesus was conceived in her, ception in the womb of her mother, which I think is what happened in came to her through the foreseen merits of Jesus to make her "a the Annunciation.

I believe what you said. But no worthy dwelling for Christ, not on wonder people are confused. The account of her own endowments.

Gospel for that feast seems to say but because of the grace that was that the Immaculate Conception hers from the beginning."

Reflecting on this, it becomes means that Jesus was conceived without sexual relations but by the clear why the church would choose power ofthe Holy Spirit. Can you this particular Gospel passage for Dec. 8. Every word and phrase in explain this? (Texas) those verses glows with biblical A. You're not the only one con- themes which proclaim the greatfused by this, ] assure you. The ness of our Lord and of.Mary's Gospel on the feast of the Immacu- sharing in his mission to redeem late Conception (Luke 1:26-38) the world.

For example, Gabriel's words to could seem to mean what you say, Mary, "The power of the most until we recall some points about high will overshadow you," echo our faith and liturgy.

I'm sure you are aware that we the overshadowing cloud or pillar of fire, the "glory of the Lord," do not have, and could not expect, anything in the Gospels about our 'which stood over the Ark of the Blessed Mother's birth or early Covenant in the Exodus, and later childhood. The New Testament, in the Temple of Jerusalem.

For the Jews this hovering sign the Gospels in particular, is not about her but about her son. She marked the presence of God himcomes into the picture only in rela- self. See, for example, Exodus 40:35. tion to him.

To those of Luke's readers who Thus, we would expect the Gos- saw his words in the light of that pelon the feast of the Immaculate tradition, this new "overshadowConception to deal with that rela- ing" revealed a new Ark of the tionship. It would give us insight Covenant in which, or rather now on how the early Christian com- in whom, the Lord God himself munities, out of which the Gospels was present. were written, regarded her and the It would be difficult to find a .special gifts God bestowed on her more appropriate Gospel passage as the mother of the Savior. to celebrate the sinless entry into In other words, we always return the world of she who was to become to the basic truth that, while we this new Ark of the Covenant.

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Continued from Page One means to end abortion. Mrs. Schmitt quoted the Cardinal as saying that "one Hail Mary is worth more than all the letters I have ever written."

On Monday, two buses ,from : Attleboro joined the first diocesan group at the March for Life. Alice McAndrews, of Holy Ghost par"ish, Attleboro, coordinator of the Attleboro group, said the 68 participants ranged in age from 2 ,months to 82 years. . , "The day was excellent and the .,crowd was very upbeat," she said.

The Fall River diocesan groups were present with 33 other busloads of Mas~achuse~tsparticipants, at an address by California Representative Robert Dorman.

"His main point was that we have to get coverage by the dominant media" to communicate the full truth about pro-life activities," said Mrs. McAndrews.

Among prelates at the march was Boston Cardinal Bernard F. Law, who mingled with the Massachusetts delegation, said Mrs. Schmitt. The cardinal was also the celebrant of one of two prayer vigil masses.

The diocesan leaders noted that they were pleased with the number of young people joining them for the vigil and march. 'Contrary to media reports that most young people are pro-choice, said Mrs. Booth, many hold pro-life convictions.

Noting that there were five students from Stonehill College, North Easton, on her bus, Mrs. Booth said, "AU seemed very concerned about the issue of abortion. I give them a lot of credit."

Mrs. McAndrews said the Attle- , boro group included about 30 people in their 20s.

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Jennifer Bryson of Orindo, Calif., a graduate history student at Yale University, approached CNS not with news about her work with Yale Students for Life, but of her impending conversion to Catholi,..cism.

Rally and March Politicians and pro-lifers praised each other for their efforts to figlit abortion at a rally on the Ellipse near the White House-kicking off the March for Life.

Weather was not the obstacle it has been at past marches, though parking restrictions on out-of-town buses delayed several hundred marchers.

A final tally of the crowd size from the U.S: Park Police put the number at about 75,000.

What march-goers - consisting. of babies and the elderly and all ages in between, blacks, whites, men and women - may have lacked in colorful and gaudy displays, they made up for in their individual resolve.

There were certainly the cleverly worded placards: "Pro-choice starts in bed!", "Let my people grow," "Save the baby humans," and "I'm a former fetus."

But many marchers specifically mentioned personal episodes in their lives that prompted them to come to Washington for this year's march.

Hattie Mansfiehl of Dale City, ,Va., a first-time participant, said her pro-life commitment was strengthened after she had a baby.

"I was harassed so much by the doctors" to have an abortion, Mrs. 'Mansfield; said, bedlUse they suspected a deformity in the child.

But James Corey Mansfield Jr. was born healthY'19 Imonths ago. ""Even when I was giving birth," Mrs. Mansfield 'said, doctors offered her "a choice between you and the baby.!' just said, 'Keep going."" .

Jeannie McMahon of St. Lau.renceParis'h in Highland Park, Pa.~ a Philadelphia suburb, was ~t 'the march, because of her daug~­ tei', Megan.

The girl, now 5 years. old, was ,b,om with e:ye cancer and lost an , ey,~, Mrs. McMahon said, but has been cancer-free for four years.

"It was so easy for me. to see the good thap1;as ,come from her life," she said. "Even from the fact that she has cancer, there must be a reason for every single life God brings into being - even though we don't know the reason."

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'''I was an evangelical Protestant," Ms. Bryson said. "And Catholics' unwavering support for prolife gave me great respect for the church." .

: 1:,~57 square miles, it is a little larger than Rhode Island; and is the most Catholic country in Africa, American Collegians for life, a with 91 percent of its population coalition of 300 campus pro-life of 337,000 persons professing Cathgroups, brought up the rear of-the ALBINAPajarskaiteisorgan- -', olicism. march from the Ellipse to the izing Caritas, the first Catholif Capitol, where marchers were t o ' ... h One of the biggest facts of life ' meet with their elected officials chantable orgaOlzatlOn 10 t e f or t IIe c h urc h'In C ape Ver d e IS , .

Ab' out 600000 Sovt' et Union, a welfare and' . emigratIOn. about the pro-life agenda. , peop Ie The group started a musical education program that is part - more than double the current rhyme to the army "sound-off' of the revival of society in population - have left the islands mostly Catholic Lithuania. since independence was gained chant: "Congress, Congress, hear our cry, unborn babies should not She said that in addition to from Portugal in 1975. die."

A main reason of the continual traditional works of charity At a pre-march rally, President exodus is scant employment opporBush made brief remarks to the the organization will seek to tunity in a drought-impeded economarchers via a radio-telephone reestablish strong families and my. Cape Verde forms the western hook-up from the Oval Office. a strong sense of community tip of the Sahel, and a 20-year dry "The continuing strong presence and of religion. (CNS photo) spell was broken only by rains in of the March for Life reminds 1987 and 1988. Less than 10 perthose of us in decision-making cent of the country's land can be capacities in the White House and cultivated, and Cape Verde imports in the Congress and in' the court nearly 80 percent of its food. that millions of Americans care Continued from Page One fundamentally about this issue and While church relations with MusThe pope will spend tomorrow are committed to preserving the lims are'generally good in western :~~I~;uUnn~a~:~~~i~:~i:~s:~:;i~ sanctity of life," he said.

Africa, there are signs of an emerg. h largely a swampy coastal plain Former Gov. Hugh Carey of ing Islamic fundamentalism t at where malaria and other diseases New York told the rally that abor- have alarmed some Catholic leaders. tion foes will win because "the The pope's trip will take him pose a continual threat. Its annual politics of life have always tri- back to the Sahel, the region borper ca.pita income is about $200. umphed over the politics of death." dering the southern Sahara where Catholics in Guinea Bissau are Carey said that when he was gov- drought and desertification have far outnumbered by followers of ernor, state money funded abor- worsened in recent ,decades. Ten traditional animst beliefs and IslalI). tions and he was unaware of the years ago, in a brief~rop in BurBut while the church represents true nature of the issue. "I went kina Faso (then UpperVolta), the only about 5 percent of the popualong with that (funding), to my pope appealed for aid for Sahel lation, it is carving out a social eternal regret," he said. "There is populations and later'launched a, role. It runs four hospitals and 17 no basis for spending money to $20 million foundation to provide medic:al dispensaries, essential serencourage abortions in this coun- such a i d . ' vices in a country where, as in Mali The countries on the papal itinand Burkina Faso, the life expectry."

Joining Cardinal O'Connor on erary share a history of colonialtancy is 42 years - virtually the the rally podium were II other ism, and several have more recent lowest In the world.

Catholic bishops, representatives experience with Marxist-style selfThe: church in Guinea Bissau of the Jewish, Presbyterian, Epis- government. B1,1I" like much of also runs a respected high school, copalian, and Orthodox Christian Africa, the regimes are .increas- ,whose: students include children of ''e movements and leaders of ingly dropping'"ec,onomic centrale country's political leaders. pro - ll'1 ' , 'th other anti-abortion organizations planning in favor of privatization required by western aid agencies.

The: pope. will un~erscore the including Athletes for Life. , church's SOCial commitment when he visits a church~run leper hospi~ tal in Cumura on Sunday, World • •• i;.eprosy Day, Considered a model ~ , .Of. efficiency and cIeanlil1~ss in that • _ _ :partoftheworld,itd~€lwspatients from allover West Afripa.

Pastor, St: Mary, No. Attleboro Jan. 27 The pope also Will tHess a new .

1930, Rev. William F. Sullivan,' 1919, Rev. John T. O'Grady, minor seminary in Guinea Bissau, Assistant, Immaculate Conception, Pastor, St. Patrick, Somerset , the capital, underscoring the need 1930, Rev. Manuel C. Terra, Fait River for vocations in a country that has 1955, Rev. Joseph M. Silvia, Pastor, St. Peter, Provincetown only three native priests and one Pastor, St. Michael, Fall River Feb. 1 native nun.

1988, Rev. Thomas E. Lockary, 1948, Rt. Rev. MichaelJ. O'ReilCSC, Storiehill College, North Eas- ly, Pastor, Immaculate ConcepThe highlights of the pope's 21ton hour stop in Mali, a landlocked, tion, Taunton Jan. 28 1975, Rev. Anatole F. Desma- grassy plain about twice the size of Texas, are expected to be a public 1947, Rev. Joseph M. Griffin, rais, Pastor, St. James, Taunton Mass and an evening meeting with Pastor, St. Mary, Nantucket ' 1968, Rt. Rev. Patrick Hurley, some 1,500 young people, most of 1961, Rt. Rev. John J.' Shay, Pastor, St. Joseph, Taunton Pastor, St. John Evangelist, Attle1983, Rev. Msgr. Gerard J. Cha- them Muslims. The bishops of boro bot, Pastor, St. Theresa of the' Mali asked for the meeting to underline the generally good relaChild Jesus, So. Attleboro Jan. 29 tions with Muslims, who make up Feb. 2 1944, Rev. ChristianoJ. Borges, 1907, Most Rev. William Stang; 91 percent ofthe Mali population.

Pastor, St. John Baptist, New BedWhile Catholics number only I D.D., First Bishop of Fall River: ford percent of the population, their 1904-07 1950, Rev. AlbertJ. Masse, Pas1913, Rev. Patrick F. McKenna, religious freedom has been protor, St. Joseph, Attlboro Pastor, Immaculate Conception, tected by Mali's secular state. But Jan. 30 church leaders are concerned about 1983, Rev. Raymond F.X. Ca- Taunton the growing influence of a funda1941, Rev. John L. McNamara, . hill, S.J., Assistant, St. Francis Pastor, Immaculate Conception, mentalist Muslim sect called the Xavier, Hyannis "Wahhabiya," which has unsucFall River Jan. 31 1947, Rev. P. Roland Decosse, cessfuJly pushed for installation of 1901, Rev. Charles J. Burns, Pastor, St. Hyacinth, New Bedford Islamic law in the country.

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JQanne N. Riley, Principal.

ATTLEBORO St. JohD the E.uleilit. 13 Hodles St. 02703. Tel. 222-S062. Sr. Martha Mullilan, R.S.M., Principal. ' F AIRHAVEN St. Jonph. Sprin. & Delano Sts. 0271 t. Tel. 996-1983.

Sr. Mur~el Ann Lebeau, SS.CC., Principal.

FALL RIVER Dominican Academy. 37 Park St. 02721. Tel. 6746100. Mrs. Patricia Pasternak, Principal.

Esplrito Santo. 143 Everett St. 02723. Tel. 672-2229.

Sr. Mildred Morrissey, FMM, Principal.

Holy Name. 850 Pearce St: 02720. Tel. 674-9131. Mrs. Pauicia W inaate,P-rmcipar-, Notre Dame School. 34 St. Joseph St. 02723. Tel. 672-5461. Sr. Claudette Lapointe, RJM, Principal.

St. Anne School. 240 Forest St. 02721. Tel. 678-2152.

Mrs. Irene L. Fortin, Principal.

St. Jean B.ptiste School, Lamphor St. 92721. Tel. 673-6772. John F. Brown, Principal.

St. Jonph MODteuori Scboo" 2501 So. Main St. 02724. Tel. 674-8893. Sr. Yvette Leclair, SSJ, Principal.

St. Michael School. 187 Essex St. 02720. Tel. 678-, 0266. Sr. Bernadette Sullivan, SUSC, Principal.

SS. Peter & Paul Scbool. 240 Dover St. 02721. Tel. 672-72'8. Miss Kathleen A. Burt, Principal.

St. Stan....us School, 37 Rocklaqd St., P.O. Box 217, 02724. Tel. 674-6771. Mrs. DenitaTremblay, Principal.

St. VlnceDt School. 2425 Hi.hland Ave. 02720. Tel. 679-8511. Gerald J. Poisson, Ptincipal.

NEW BEDFORD Holy Family-Holy Name School. 91 Summer St. 02740. Tel. 993-3547. Cecilia M. Felix, Principal.

Our LadyofMt. Carmel School.I03Crapo St. 02744.

Tel. 997-9612. Sr. Rosalie A. Patrello, SSD, Principal.

St. AnthoDY School, 106 BuilardSt. 02746. Tel.9945121. Sr. M. Cecile'Lebeau, esc, Principal., " St. J.mn-St. John School, 180 Orchard St. 02740. Tel. 996-DS34.,Miss Mary E. Mello, Principal. ' St"JOJeph,Scbooi. 35 Kean.rae St,·&2745.'Tet 99S2264. Felipe M. Felipe, PrinCipal' . " , St. Mary Scbool. II' Illinois St. 02745. Tel. 99S-3696.

Dennis R. Poyant, Principal.

NORTH ATTLE_ORO St. Mary-Sacred Heart Couolld.ted School., 57 Richards Ave. 02760. Tel. 695~3072~ Sr. Mary M.rtin Delahanty, O.P., Principal. ' TAUNTON , , Our Lad, of Lourd,. School. 52 First St. 02780. Tel. 822-3746. Sr. Mary Margretta Sol, RSM,Prineipal.

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Tel. 822~948O. Edmund Boracs, PriDcipai. '

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Hilh Schools ATTLEBORO Bllbop FeehaR H.... School. 70 Holcott Dr. 02703.

Tel. 226-6223. Sr. Mary F.ith H.rdina. RSM, Principal, Rev. Kevin J. H.rrington, Ch.plain.

FALL RIVER .Ishop Connollr HI" School. 373 Eisbrec St. 02720.

Tel. 676-1071. Rev. Geor.e P. Winchester, SJ. Principal.

NORTH DARTMOUTH . '''hop Stu. Hlp School. SOO Slocum Rd. 02747.

Tel. 996-'602. Theresa E. Doupll, Principal, Rev. Stephen J. Avila, Ch.plain.

TAUNTON ' Corle ud C"'dr Hlp Schoo" Adams and HamittOn Sts. 02780. TeL 823-6164; 823-61~.MichaelJ;;Do~, Headmuter; Dr. Donna Boyle....rincipal; Rev. WIIli.m L. Boffa, Chaplain.

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Elementary and secondary schools throughout the diocese are planning activities in observance of Catholic Schools Week, Jan. 28 to Feb. 3. Herewith a rundown of what's going on where.

Bishop Feehan Parents and students-past, present and prospective-are invited to a Mass opening the week at 2 p.m. Sunday. Feehan students will be ministers at the liturgy and will host the open house that will follow.

During the open house, Feehanites ~ill demonstrate yearbook production, conduct a meeting of Students Against Drunk Drivers, engage in an academic decathalon, debate current political issues and demonstrate career planning computer programs.

Guests wlll have the test their physical fitness during a health presentation.

Also during Schools Week, Feehan will host a number of guest speakers.

On Tuesday, Richard Walton, president of' the board of Amos House, Providence, will describe the plight of the homeless.

Wednesday's speaker will be Father James Coffey, parochial vicar at Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Stoughton, who will discuss vocations, the role of women in the church, and the importance of youth following Christ.

On Thursday, Sister Ann Welch, RS M, director of the Peace and Justice Office of the Province of Providence ofthe Sisters of Mercy, will speak on issues such as the effect of military spending on human service programs.

Also during the week, Feehan will announce its 1990 scholarship winners.

Principal's Scholarships of$500 each will be presented to the highest scoring boy and girl on the Dec. 2 placement examination for entering freshmen. Three Leadership Scholarships are available to applicants whose academic and extracurricular involvement demonstrates their potential leadership in the Feehan community. Finally, an Alumni Scholarship is available to the son or daughter of a Feehan graduate.

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St. Anne's Students and faculty of St. Anne's School, Fall River, will attend a Catholic Schools Week liturgy at I p.m. Monday at St. .

Anne's Church.

Observance of the week will continue with a daily theme: Monday, sacrifice; Tuesday, progress and inspiration; Wednesday, partnership; Thursday, nourishment; and Frit1ay, love. Report cards will be iSs.led Wednesd~ through Friday.

Third graie teacher Ka,ren Sullivan has arranged for guest speakers to address students on the importance of education.

They are Dr. Donald Corpveau, psychology professor at S M U; Dr. Richard Hellwig, oncologist at the Hudner Oncology Center of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River; Hector Gauthier, program director at WHTB radio; Michael Monte, a musician and teacher in the Somerset school system; and Michael Sousa, aide to Mayor Carlton Viveiros.

Also among speakers are John Flanders, channel 12 meteorologist; Sister Michaelinda Plante, RSM, associate superintendent of diocesan schools; Marilyn Oliveira-Harrington of Oliveira Funeral Homes; and Father David Landry of St. Anne's Church.

Other programs at St. Anne's will include a 30-minute Fall River Fire Museum presentation of Learn Not to Burn, for students in grades 3 through 5. Grade 4 will learn about the American Indian in a .

10-week program by George Carrier, and grade 3 will participate in a utility company presentation entitled A to Zap. St J h 's • 0 n Monday will be Green Spirit Day at St. John Evangelist School, Attleboro. Classroom doors will be decorated and students will 'wea~ school buttons. A pep rally and mtramural ~ames are planned.

On Tuesday, Clrcle Day, students .' . . Mass and prayer WI'11 partlClpate m circles and there will be an evening roller skating party Wednesday wiIi be Dress-up Day. Students will wear their best attire and it is hoped that happy faces will abound-even when report cards are distributed. A parents' program also open to the public will be conducted at 7:30 p.m. Father Robert McIntyre, director ofSt. Aloysius Home, Greenville, RI, will discuss "How Parents Can More Effectively Manage Kids' Behavior."

Guest speakers will visit classrooms on Thursday for Rap Day. Father Paul Desmarais will speak to grades 6 through 8 about cults and Satanism, which will also be . f 7 bl' . th e t 0PICS 0 a p.m. pu lC semmar to be conducted by Sgt. Edmund Pierce, Warwick police detective who has for several years dealt. with ritualistic crime, Satanic cults and teenage suicide.

Friday will be Talent Day, with a talent show for all grades and a slide program featuring St. John's. .

A dance for grades 7 and 8 wdl be held Friday night in conjunction with St. Mary-Sacred Heart School North Attleboro. , Holy Family - Holy Name Sc~ools Week events at Holy Family-Holy Name School, New 'th 4 B df d '11 b ' e or, Wl egm Wl a p.m.

Mass tomorrow at St. Lawrence Church with music provided by the school glee club. Followingthe . coffee Mass, .students. wlll .. h serve h ~nd d ough nuts 10 t esc 001 caleterla for members of St. Lawrence a d H IN' h n 0 y ame pans es.

On Sunday the school will hold a grand opening of its new preschool program and will accept registration for the 1990-91 school year for all grades. Awinter carnival will take place from noon to 5 p.m. in the school gym.

The school week will begin with a 10 a.m. Mass Monday for grade 2 at St. Lawrence Church. Sisters, priests and laypersons will share their love of Jesus with students during a "People of Faith" afternoon.

On Tuesday the Covenant Players will perform for all grades and students will wear their favorite tops to celebrate Sweater Day. , Wednesday will be Teacher Ap- . preciation Day with an after~school tea for teachers sponsored by grade 8. The glee club, directed by Sister Teresa Ouellette, will sing at a string concert at I p.m. in the schoofauditorium.

Friendship will be Thursday's theme. Students will bring brown bag lunches and eat together in homeroo~_~

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On Friday the focus will bC'lm school spirit. Students may wear school T-shirts and sweatshirts jeans and sneakers. A field day will be held in the gym from 12:30 to 2 p.m.

The week will conclude Saturday with a 4 p.m. Mass at Holy Name Church, followed by family supper and mini-concert at Holy Name parish center.

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Esp.mto S~nto Scho~l, Fall RIVer, wlll begm Cathohc Schools Week with a family Mass and ~reakfast at 10 tomorrow mornmg. . ..

Monday wlll be reglstratlO~ day.

Parents and grandparents ~Ill. be h(;mored on Tuesd~y;· begmmng wlth refreshments 10 the lunchroom betw~en 12:30. ~nd 2 p.m.

Students wlll esc0r:t vls~tors to the classroo!"s of thelf chlldren and grandchildren between I and 2 p.m..

Wed~esday Will be Dr~ss-Down Da'y, With students :we~nng casual ~tt!re.. ~rents are mVlted to partlclpate 10 b~sketball and voll~y­ b~1l games With the faculty begmmng at 12:30 p.m.

Th d '11 d"b' urs ay WI see Istr~ utl?n of report cards and lunchtime lce cr.~~7· n o~n ht uSe at 7 p.m fWl ea urbe scthoo to.u~s, as pero~manc,e y. e Espmto anto chddren s chOir, and refreshments hosted by ~ewly-elect,ed offic~rs o! the Pa~eI?ts, Teachers and Fnends ASSOCiation.

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Tomorrow afternoon students from grades 5 through 8 at St. M 'S h I N B df d 'Il ar'7.s c ?O, ewe. or , ~l participate 10 the Boston CeltlcsEaster Seal. basketball shoot-out a t th e K'enne d y Youth Center.

Students will be allotted th . _ reemm utes to make as many baskets as po 'ble SSl. .

Monday haS' been deslgnat~d Share ~ our Talent Day and wlll open With a 9 a.m. Mass at the ~chool, followed by refreshmen!s 10 the school gym. A ta!ent show IS planned for 6:~0 .p.m. m the gym.

For AppreciatIon Day on Tues-, d~y, the 8th grade Service Club Will host a I p.m. luncheon for schoo~ volunteers. . .

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An amazing story

By Father Richard W. Beaulieu, Director Diocesan Deputment of Education ~he history of Catholic Schools in the United States is an amazing story. The odds agamt the success of the system were overwhelming, yet our Catholic ancestors immigrants to this country, set about creating a system of schools which provided th~ opportunity to promote the traditions of the Catholic faith in an environment of belief in God, faith in Jesus and respect for the Church and, its teachings.

Of all the educational tools available to the Church in the United States the Catholic School has remained the most effective institution of its kind, providinjl; measurable results in study after study of academic success. The tremendous sacrifices of parents, religious women and meR, and parish communities ali a whole made pos~i,?le the birth of Catholic School. and their continued development. These sacnflces are remarkable and often heroic considering the magnitude of the work accomplished.

The commitment ofthe parish has rnaile the Catholic school what it is today. The school has been made viable because it was a major concern of the entire parish community, not just students who att-ended and their families. The fact that the Catholic school furthered the missioJl!of the Church was clearly and implicitly understood by those who established the schools. Today there is a need to reexamine this understanding and broaden the base of support for Catholic schools once again.

Regardless of whether a school is specifically attached to a parish, administered under diocesan auspices or operated independently under the jurisdication of a religious community, the greatest chaBcnge facing the Catholic school today is to expand its vision and rediscover the principles on which it was founded.

That renewed vision must take into.aeeount that each Catholic school is, first and foremost, an integral part ofthe teachin»mission ofthe Church and thereby deserves the support of the entire Church comlDUnity, not just students, parents and staff.

This is the challenge Catholic Schools,will face into the 1990s!

Catholic schools need support

By Sr. Michael"'a Plante, RSM, Associate SuperiBtendent of Schools The future of Catholic Schools came under intense scrutiny in the November 1989 issue of Catholic Studies, a Chicago archdiocesan magazine. .

Various articles examined the schoolsin terms of philosophy, educational quality, financial worries and parent and comiDunity support, in addition to the religious dimension which should pervade theseiustitutions. ' The article indicated that Catholic 9Cbools are the best means the Church possesses of spreading and teaching the Ca&lwlic faith.

The challenge the Church now faces:is-keeping them open. ' Over t~e years, I have been involved with parish religious education as well as with Catholic schools. As hard as I workedia,parish programs, for and with the parents and st';ldents involved, I still am not ftlJlvinced that 24 to 26 hours of religious educatIon per year can match the 25 to-''30 hours per. week which Catholic schools provide. Catholic schools have been antiwill continue to be a valuable asset to those who take advantage of them.

The entire Catholic community, notj~t the parents of students in the schools, musHealize that all Catholics share theTCSponsibility of keeping the schools alive!

Choice':for values

By Sr. AnaMoore, eND, of Schools

~ssociat~ Superiltmdent

Catholic parents are looking for ~ ¥!tIue-oriented education that will not shield their children from the realities of life blltgive them opportunities and skill they need to succeed in today's world. That value-onented education is rooted in the Catholic faith, which provides a foundation for a: meaningful life.

A child attending a Catholic school today indicates more than ever before that the parents have made a conscious and deliberate commitment based on what they have see~ happening i~ the school of their choice. They look for an academic program which meets their needs, a disciplined environment in which their children can mature and a program of religious formation that will influence their children for a lifetime.

A report from the National Catholic Educational Association When James S. Coleman, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, and Thomas Hoffer, research associate at the Public Opinion Laboratory at Northern Illinois University, along with Sally Kilgore, a researcher at the U.S. Department of Education, published High School Achievement: Public, Catholic, and Private Schools Compared (New York: Basic. Books, 1982), it was widely authoritative and comprehensive study ever done on American high schools.

The authors' major findingthat students in private and Catholic high schools consistently outperformed public school students-created considerable controversy. Coleman and Hoffer then confirmed and extended that finding in Public and Private High SchQols: The Impact ofCommunities (New York: Basic Books, 1987). .

In this study they reported their followup findings ofthe same 1.015 high schools surveyed in High School Achievement. Coleman and Hoffer reasserted their previous claim that Catholic high schools generally do abetter job of educating students than do either public schools or most non-Catholic private schools.

The authors cited a number of reasons for this academic success; including the greater number of academic courses. the homework required in Catholic schools, and the high degree of parental involvement in their children's education.

Coleman and Hoffer's new research also suggests that what goes on outside the school is just as important as what happens inside the school. They argue that the community of families surrounding the Catholic schools plays a vital role in advancing the schOOls' values and achieving their goals.

Among the schools studied, they also found that the community climate surrounding the schoolchild is fully supportive only at Catholic schools.

Such community networks are almost totally absent from public schools, claim the authors, because the public schools have spent most of the last century trying to distance themselves' from the influence of parents.

and John Chubb of the Brookings Institution, describe a study of student performance at 500 public and private schools across the country.

One major finding is that the heavy bureaucracy ruling public schools reduces their effectiveness.

The more autonomous Catholic schools, with high levels of parental involvement, are generally doing a better job of educating students than either the public schools or many non-Catholic private schools. . ys em IS a goo one," says Moe.

Appreciation nay January 31 The National Catholic Educational Association, representing 9,000 elementary and secondary schools nationwide, has declared Wednesday, January 31, National Appreciation Day for Catholic Schools.

The theme of the day is "Parents' Choice - Catholic Scho.ols" and people are encouraged to celebrate the day by wearing a green and orange button with that slogan.

Almost three million students aUe'od Catholic schools in this country, representing a $10 billion annu.al. gift to the ttation. While provldmg a value-onented educa-, tion, Catholic schools also deliver a sound academic program. Studies by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (N AEP) show that Catholic school students score substantially hig~r than their public school counterparts on reading, mathematics and science tests.

T.he tradition of Catholic schools dates to 1606, when Franciscans opened a Catholic school to teach reading, mathematics and the principles of the Catholic religion."

Catholic schools spread throughout the territories and were the first schools opened in Louisiana, California, Kansas, North Dakota.

Ohio, Kentucky and the District of Columbia.

In 1925, a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision preserved the right o{parents-to choose their children's schools, The upcoming anniversary of this key case, Pierce vs. The Society of Sisters, adds special impact to the theme of National Appreciation Day. 04

While many educators and poliItut it is not just on the high ticiaps continue tollebate the conschool level that parents make the ", cept of parental choice in educadifference in th~ir children's edu- tion, the U.S. Constitution, in fact, cation. In a recent study by the insures that this choice applies to U.S. Department of Education to any school, not only public schools. . identify the outstanding elemenDuring the past 400 years, Cathtary schools in the nation, the olic schools have educated milschools judged best in low-, lions of students and provided this medium-, and high-income a'l'eas country with great leaders, strong all had strong parent and 'comcitizens and good neighbors. Next munity support; no ·school quali- . WedneSday, Americans will have fied without it. (A number of Cath- an opportunity to express their olicelementary schools were gratitude to these schools and selected for this honor.) educators by wearing the brieht In the book, What Price Demo- button that symbolizes fOUf cencracy, Terry Moe, a political science turies of history: "Parents' Choice professor at Stanford University, - Catholic Schools."

Bishop Connolly Midterm exams are going on this week at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River~ Regular Classes resume on Monday; the quarter closes on Tuesday.

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Seniors Brian Ackerman and Conrad Paquette are meeting with officials at the State House today inpreparatinn for the annual Massachusetts Student Government Day program.

tual physics course, has been admitted to a Harvard University Extension School spring semester course dealing with waves and particles",

toured the facility and participated in a question and answer period.

The visit concluded with the showing of a film depicting an average day in the lives of two prisoners.

Earlier this month, 75 Feehan students, accompanied by faculty members Alan Kazarin, Neil Loew and Peter Klin, took part in Project Youth at Old ,Colony Correctional Center, Bridgewater.

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Karen Azar, a sixth grader at St. Mary's School; New Bedford, was

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Yearbook advisor Jim L'Heureux has announced that seniors Tom Bednarz and Jason Buchanan are coeditors of the sports section of the Connolly yearbook, OPUS.

ular basal reading program by having the class read Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell.

This approach enables children to apply isolated basal reading skills . to the reading of quality literature.

Ap exhibit on the history of Catholic elementary and secondary education in Massachusetts will be held Jan. 29 through 31 in Doric Hall at the State House inconnecStudents read three chapters of tion with Catholic Schools Wee~. the book for each unit and are' Schools intending to send classes taught unit vocabulary during a directed reading lesson, also using to the display are asked to inform their state senator and representa~ writing skills for each unit. tive, who may wish to meet with the children of their district.

Information on the event is avail-. able from Sister John Marie McGrath, (61 7)38 7 -6324

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Thirteen student artists from Connolly have works on display at the regional exhibit of the Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards Program.

Senior Mamie Nilson and junior Eric Hatfield won Gold Key Awards, making them eligible to compete for. one of 200 blue ribbon prizes at the state level. Four Connolly students received honorable mention. .

The exhibit will remain at Plymouth Plantation until 'Feb. '2, when it will move to Bosto~for state judging ~nd coilti~ue to national competition in New York City.

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Indoor track runners Brian Ramos and Tere!1c~ Gahan qualified for the February State Class Meet after competing in the State Coaches' Invitational Meet at Harvard University. Ramos finished at 9:49 and Gahan at 10: lOin the t~o-niile run.

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In other sports, the boys' ba~ ketball team has defeated Co~'le, Somerset! Dartmouth and :)tang despite injuries and illness~ while Connolly girls have defeated Fal': The..st~dents weremeinbersofa mouth and Dighton-Rehoboth. psycholOgy cIess studying, abnorThe Connolly kemeabaveposted mal and deviant behavior and subhockey WiRS against Dartmouth , stance abuse.

(8-1)~ SomefSCt (3-2), and Durfee The ~-minute presentation, at (7-3). This week they face Feeban the correctional center began with and Barnstable on the road. a panel presentation by i1.lmates The ski team is scheduled for servingsentences ofvarious lengths. two meets at Mt. Wachusett.. · The panelists spoke openly about why they were put in prison, and the effect their impriso·nment has Jennifer Boute, a seniorat Bishop had on their lives and those of Feehan High School, Attleboro, their families.

After the program, the students and student in a Feehari c6ncep-

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first place winner in the ages 10-11 .category at the Elks Club's.annual Hoop,ShotJan. 13.. She will compete ifl the district championship shoot out in Attleboro Feb. 10.

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Debra Letendre's grade 5 students are experiencing a wholelanguage approach to reading this month. Mrs. Letendre is incorpo-· rating language skills into the reg-

Their reactions: Mellisa Corroia feels reading is exciting; Jonathan Mendes loves reading Island of the Blue Dolphins because it is more interesting than his regular reading book; KaiUin Desnoyers feels. it is more challenging and exciting; Jessica Desrosiers likes it because it is easy to understand.

In April the students will read Jacob I Have Loved by Katherine Paterson.

of Wednesday's Grandparents' Day. Parents and grandparents are invitedto attend a I p.m. assembly in the school gym.

On Thursday, Sports Day, students will wear jeans, sweatshirts and hats honoring favorite sports teams.

A prayer service will be held at the church at 1:45 p.m. Friday to celebrate Sharing Day. An art project for the day will be to create Valentine's Day cards for distribution to area nursing homes and shut-ins.

Also, a display of student paintings and other arts and crafts will be set up in the school hall and foyer for the week.

St. James-St. John School Student-made banners', posters, and commemorative stamp d~igns will decorate the walls of St. JameSSt. JohnSchool, New Bedford, for Schools Week.

Theme days will include Parent Appreciation Day, when students will write thank-you letteri to Mom and Dad for choosing to send thelD to a Catholic school.

On Family Day, each student will create a family education tree after· researching the educational history ot'family members. A family Mass is scheduled·fot 7 p.m. at St. James Church.

Grandparents win visit preschool through third grade classes on Grandparents' Day, while students in upper griufes will make giftsCot their grandparents.

For Sharing Day, students will bring in nonperishable food items for the needy.

The week will close with Student Appreciation Day, a nonuniform day which will hold a surprise for everyone.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (CNS) . but added that it was more impor- Saying Catholics should "put tant "that any woman could our money where our mouth is," approach the Catholic Church as an Albuquerque parish has given an alternative to abortion" and be $10,000 to start a program so that assured that her baby would be any woman can approach the delivered and put up for adoption. church "as an alternative to ' The priest added that on any abortion."

Sunday parishioners could put an Father Arthur J. Perrault; pas- envelope in the regular collection tor of St'. Bernadette parish and with the word "adoption" written editor 'of 'People of God, news- on it and it would go to the fund.

Father Perrault said fewer than paper ofthe Santa Fe archdiocese, announced the' grant of parish 20 percent of. women who have funds in his homily for th,e feast of abortions are married.. only 7 perthe Holy Family. cent procure abortions for health "Perhaps the church'spreoccu- reasons, and I percent because of pation with the national debate on rape or incest.

Forty-three percent have had a the legal dimension of the abortion issue has blinded us to our previous abortion, he said.

"When poverty causes one to need to reach out and to minister to pregnant women," he said. conclude that the only way to cope "Talking and signing petitions is with pregnancy is aborfion," he not enough," said the priest whose said, "that hardly seems like freeparish, with 4,000 registered fami- dom of decision. Just say 'no' lies, is the largest in New Mexico. might soiJnd easy. But are we Father Perrault said that the really providing alternatives?" $10,000, taken from the parish "I don't see that most women who have abortions are childhatbuilding fund, was given to Archdiocesan Catholic Social Services ers," he said. "Most often they are to convene a task force to develop terribly frightened, very depressed services for "women who need and overwhelmed.

"Some feel they are too young direct assistance, healing and reconto be mothers," the priest conciliation.

His parish needed the money for tinued, "Others say they are too additional meeting space, he said. poor. Still others, who may be

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older and even wealthy, cannot accept the change in lifestyle, "Very often a boy will telLa girl, 'Unless we have sex, I'm leaving.'

She gets pregnant and he indeed leaves."

Parents oftentimes "demand that she has an abortion, and then she feels abandoned by her church, Isolation leads to desperation," he said.

Catholics cannot be truly prolife "if we shut these women out of our lives and ministry," Father Perrault said. Catholics won't succeed "in our defense of the life of the unborn unless we also strive for social and economic justice for women and children." , Alluding to last year's Webster case in which the Supreme Court gave ~tates more authority to regulate abortion, Father Perrault said the court "has made it clear that states may choose to make childbirth an attractive alternative to abortion."

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Dear Editor: The second annual national rosary novena for life, a prayer event for unborn babies, pregnant mothers, and the softening of the hearts of abortionists and their supporordinari'ly difficult and very pain- ters, will take place for nine conful," and he knew some people secutive Saturdays, beginning April would wait for the district attor- 7 and concluding June 2.

Individuals are being sought to ney's report before making further plan and coordinate a novena in donations. ' The district attorney's investiga- their hometowns, arranging for tion ~nyoh:ed only the alleged mis- participants to meet at a Catholic church, then proceed to a local use of funds. ' abortion facility to pray the rosary.

Althotlgh Harnett said he was.

Last spring approximately 40 , confident no improper use offunds had occurred and hoped that an novenas were held within the Uniannouncement to that effect would ted States and one in India.

In addition to the yearly novcome soon, he noted that the amount of documentation to be ena, the volunteer Rosary Novena reviewed made it likely.the investi- for Life'Committee sponsors the annual American Rosary for Life. gation would take sQme time.

Kite, who originally sought'help< Last October 7,'approximately from Covenant House in New Or- 60 locations in' 28 states joined in . leans, had convinced Father Ritter this u,ndertaking... .. Support fofthe.committee's efthat he was trying to break away from a .life of prostitution and forts 'to use the rosary as a means drug peddling, and was in danger to save lives has been received .from many ind,ividuals, inclUding from former as~ociate.s, Cardinal John O'Connor, Mother Father Ritter said he brought Angelica and EWTN, Mrs. Judie Kite to New York and provided an Brown and 'the American Life apartment for him u'nder a safe League, and Rep. Henry Hyde house program for young people (R-IL). whose lives are thought to be in Interested persons may contact danger. ' Rosary Novena for Life, P.O. Box Harnett said Father Ritter would 4021,3, Memphis, Tenn, continue to mentor young people Sharon Masterson at Covenant House, but in the Memphis future would handle the relationship differently.

He said none of the numerous men and women outside Covenant House serving as mentors had withdrawn; but that out of concern that they could be vulnerable to GENERAL CONTRACTORS charges, several had asked for a 55 Highland Avenue review of program guidelines.

Fall River, MA 02720 Harnett said Covenant House had begun a program in Washing678·5201 ton, where it had hoped to establish a residence this year, but because of the uncertain funding situation, the plan has been put on hold.

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Covenant House donations seen leveling out NEW YORK (CNS) - A top official at Covenant House, Franciscan Father Bruce Ritter's ministry to homeless youngsters, said recent damaging publicity has brought a leveling out of a contribution rate that had been increasing and has forced suspensi'on of plans for expanding existing programs in Washington and Mexico City. , James 'Harnett, chief operating officer si'nce 1984, said that gifts during the Christmas season totaled about $12 million, approximately the same as in 1988, " But he said gifts had been increasing 20 per<;ent or more annually, and he had 'anticipated raising about $15 million in the 1989 Christmas season.

I ' Unaffected by the allegations against Father Ritter were perennial Covebant House'donors, whom' Ha'rnett called exceptionally committed: But 'he' said a hoped-for increase of new donors did not materialize although in' early January receipts looked somewhat better. ' .

In the midst of what Harnett said was "our most important season" for fundraising, The New York Post, a tabloid daily, carried a Dec. 12 cover story reporting the district attorney ~as investigating allegations by a young man that Father Ritter had had sexual relations with him and used Covenant House 'funds to set him up in an apartment and provide other benefits. .

Father Ritter Dec. 14 denied the allegations, and the man's father, located by Covenant House, later came forward to say that his son was a chronic liar, with a history of hurting people who tried to help him.

The accuser, who identified himself as 19- or 20-year-old Timothy Warner, was actually Kevin Lee Kite and was to turn 26 Jan. 3, according to Kite's father, Alton H. Kite of Gainesville, Texas.

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. the Gentiles, responsible for much A permanent diaconate has been VATICAN CITY (CNS) of the early spread of Christianity teestablished as an ?rdained minThirty-one years ago, Pope John XXIII left his Vatican apartment beyond the Holy Land and noted . ~Istry open,.to marned men. Lay to visit Rome's basilica and abbey for his defense of flexibility in ' people ~ave become .much mo!e of St. Paul's-Outside-the-Walls. adapting religious practices to act~~e 10 c~urch .I~fe and 10 Before returning several hours later, Gentile cultures. As a first-century declsl~n-.maklO~ posItions. ~hnstlan umty has not been he set in motion the machinery Christian, his teachings form comthat changed the face of 20th- mon ground for all followers of achle"ed, but notable progress has Christ. been made. Dialogues have replaccentury Catholicism. .. ed djatribes. Serious theological In an address to 17 cardinals at The ba~lhca a~d abbey are calle.d encounters have erased many docthe abbey Jan. 25, 1959, he an- St. Paul s-Ou~sl.de-the-Walls b~- trinal problems that for centuries nounced plans to convoke the cause t?e rehgl.ous co~plex IS were considered insurmountable.

Second Vatican Council. For Pope locate~ Just 0!1tslde th~ city walls , Pope John saw little of these John the decision was an inspira- of anclen~ Rome. The ~Irst church changes. He died June 3, 1963, tion of the Holy Spirit. For the at~p t?e site of St. Paul s tomb was more than two years before the Catholic world it was a major bUilt 10 th~ .fourth century. T~e council ended. He presided over surprise. current baslhca was constructed ~n only one of the four council sesIn the time between the announce- the 19th century, after a fire 10 sions. None of the 16 documents ment and the council's opening 182~. destroyed most of the old emerging from the council was session Oct. II, 1962, the rotund, baslhca. , .. approved while he was alive. elderly pope emphasized that the In. recent y.ears, t.he basilica h~s Controversy still surrounds some council would be a new Pentecost. contlO~e~. to be a site of ecumem- of the council reforms, and arguHe wanted to give a new impetus cal actiVIties.. In 1966. Pope Paul ments have not ceased in the postIf the church has reason to belie~e VATICAN CITY (CNS)- The to Catholic life through a renewal VI and Archbishop Michael Ram- conciliar church over interpreta,church's care for couples experienc- that a true marriage existed, it is of the church's teachings, norms sey of Canterbury, E~gland, t?en- tions of others. Some people also ing marital difficulties cannot be contrary to the teaching of Christ and organization. The windows of leader of ~he world~lde Anghcan question whether Pope John-wanttruly pastoral unless the laws of and therefore an "injustice" to the church would be opened to let Com~umon, .~et 10 the c.hurch ed such far-reaching reforms as the church are upheld, Pope John annul that marriage, he said. in some fresh air, he said.

"A valid marriage, even if marked Paul II said last week. and Signed a JOlOt declaratIOn of emerged from the council Soon, "aggiornamento," Italian friendship, a major step forward in --._.. by grave' difficulties, cannot be In his annual speech to officials . What IS unc.o?tested, however, for "updating" became a househld Catholic-Anglican relations. of the Roman Rota, the church's considered invalid without doing Pope John Paul II also has IS that C~thohclsm.~as not been Catholic word. violence to the truth and under'top marriage tribunal, the pope made it a practice of visiting St. the same smce the deCISion announche also wanted But the pope said mining', in some way, the solid stressed the pastoral nature of th~ the overall aim to be the promo- Paul's-Outside-the-Walls to close ed b~ Po~e John 31 ~ears a~o to 17 foundation on which stand the court's work. tion of Christian unity, and he the Week of Prayer for Christian ~r~;nals 10 St. Paul s-Outslde-the"The juridical and pastoral dim- personal, conjugal and sotiallife," picked a symbolic date to make Unity in ceremonies attended by a s. ensions are inseparably united in the pope said. the announcement. Jan. 25 is the other Christian leaders. In 1985 the pilgrim church on this earth," The pope warned' the tribunal the pope said. judges to exercise caution when' end of the Week of Prayer for Pope John Paul pulled his own Christian Unity, a Catholic initia- surprise and announced plans to The laws of the church are based ministering to people obviously in lpope tive begun in 1908: convoke an extraordinary Synod on the teachings of Christ and are oain because of marriage problems.

St. Paul's-Outside-the-Walls is of Bishops to assess the post-conROME (CNS) - Two men who necessary in working for the salva"The judge must always be a ware also a symbolic spot. ciliaI' period. travel the globe preaching the Gostion of souls, he said. of the risk of a mistaken compaspel met recently to discuss the staThe Synod of Bishops is an outIn that way, he said, those sion which can sink into sentimenThe basilica adjacent to the involved in implementing "the talism; only apparently pastoral,"he Benedictine abbey is built above growth of Vatican II, as a form of tus of Christianity in the world.

Rev. Billy Graham and Pope John order of justice" within the church said. the tomb' ofSt. Paul the Apostle t? partial collegiality. Collegiality is shared responsibility between the Paul II ~'talked about religious are exercising a pastoral role.

"The ways which stray fromjusfaith in general and some observapope and the world's bishops in While the care of souls is the tice and from truth end by contritions.about Eastern Europe," said church affairs. It also means that church's main charge, he said, "it buting to driving people away from Dr. Graham. the church's infallibility in¡ faith is not true that to be more pas- God, obtaining the opp.osite result. and morals is exercised by the The evangelist, in Rome for toral, the law should become less from that which is sought in good pope in unison with the entire meetings with a number of Vatijuridical." faith." can officials, had a half-hour pribody, or college, of the world's Justice and mercy should mark The pope also said defending a bishops. Collegiality was a major vate audience with the pope Jan. the church's work with couples . valid marriage "represents the teaching to emerge from the II. whose marriages are troubled, he protection of an irrevocable gift of council.

"It is interesting to me that at said. The court, therefore, takes God to couples, there children, the Thirty-one years after Pope the same tim,e in history, he and into account the difficulties of church and civil society."

John's announcement, there are (Soviet President Mikhail) Gorpeople "involved in situations of "Only in the respect for this gift numerous signs of the church's bachev have emerged and were unhappy married life and recog- is it possible to find eternal happi"aggiornamento." together"'in early December, Dr. nizes their right to be subjects of a ness, and its' anticipation in our Graham said. "This made a great particular pastoral solicitude~" time, given to those wh~ with the When he made public his deciimpact."

But those couples who respon- grace of God identify with his will, sion, priests were celebrating Mass Dr. Graham said it is particusibly and freely married "cannot even though sometimes this could in Latin and with their backs to the larly evident in the pope's speeches be deceived with a sentence of nul- appear demanding," the pope said. people. Now, priests face the peothat his attitudes and decisions The church's marriage laws, he lity which is in contrast to the ple and celebrate the Mass in the "are ba,sed on his great personal existence of a true marriage," even' said, are based on "respect for the . vernacular.

POPE JOHN XXIII spirituaJ life." dignity of man." if it is unhappy, the, pope said..

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Vatican, Orthodox officials meet in Moscow,draft statement VATICAN CITY(CNS)- Vatican and Russian Orthodox officials meeting in Moscow to discuss the situation of the outlawed Ukrainian Catholic Church drafted¡ a document on relations between the churches, a statement from' the officials said.

The document will be published after approval by "superior authorities of the two churches," the statement said. No publication date was given.

The statement from the Vatican and Russian Orthodox delegations was released at the Vatican and in Moscow.

The Jan. 13-17 meeting of five Vatican officials and Russian Orthodox Church leaders included, for the first time in 40 years, official contact between Russian Orthodox prelates and clandestinely ordained Ukrainian Catholic bishops.

Five bishops of the Ukrainian church, which was forcibly merged with the Russian Orthodox Church in 1946, were invited to participate

in the meeting Jan. 16, the statement said. A delegation of Rus,sian Orthodox from the Ukraine also joined the meeting.

"I believe this is a positive first meeting between our bishops and the Moscow patriarchate" of the' Russian Orthodox Church, said Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky, the R-ome-based head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

The earlier appointment of Ukrainian-born Archbishop Miroslav Marusyn, secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Eastern-rite' Churches, to be part of the Vatican delegation marked the first time a Ukrainian Catholic had been part ofthe talks, said Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls.

"The t~o delegations expressed their satisfaction" with the "general evolution of church life in the Soviet, Union," including the growing tolerance shown by the government for public activity by the Ukrainian Catholic Church, the delegations' statement said.

In early December, the Council for Religious Affairs in the Ukrainian Republic began allowing Ukrainian Catholics to register their parishes. Cardinal Lubachivsky's office s'aid that as of Jan. 18, some 700 parishes had applied for registration.

At the same time, many Catholics parishes given to the Russian Orthodox in the government-forced merger redeclared their Ukrainian Catholic identity. .

An estimated 600 churches in the Ukraine are functioning as Catholic and in some areas there are no longer any church buildings offering Russian Orthodox services, Cardinal Lubachivsky's office said.

An estimated 350 priests who â&#x20AC;˘ had served in the Russian Orthodox Church have applied and been . accepted as Ukrainian Catholic by . bishops in the Ukraine, the cardinal's office said.

Russian Orthodox officials in the Ukraine and in Moscow have

accused Ukrainian Catholics of using violence to gain control of the former Orthodox parishes and have said that prominent Ukrainian Catholic organizations are really political groups working for Ukrainian independence.

The statement said the Ukrainian bishops in Moscow telephoned Cardinal Lubachivsky's office Jan. 16 to report on the meeting.

"The Ukrainian [Catholic bishops] stated that they were not forcing any parishes or communities to "Expressing their worry in the' become Ukrainian Catholic [and] face of the difficulties confronting that the people themselves were interconfessional relations in asking for the change," it said. western Ukraine, the representa.. , The bishops said additional tives ofthe two churches confirmed that the problems in this region do' meeting!; would be held with the not always derive from the exactly Orthodox in Moscow and Lvov, a religious aspect," the delegations' major city in western Ukraine. statement said.

"I am happy that the Moscow patriarchate has agreed to conSuch incidents "must be con- tinue talks with the Ukrainian demned to allow the two churches Catholic: hierarchy in Ukraine, and to witness together to the peace I am confident that these talks will and love given by Christ for the continue in a spirit of justice, salvation of the world," it said. reconciliation and Christian love," The allegation of violence was Cardinal Lubachivsky said. the primary topic for discussions He added that he was preparing between the official delegations his own delegation to the Ukraine. and those brought in from the Ukraine, said a Jan. 17 statement Wholehearted Love from Cardinal Lubachivsky's "You shall love the Lord with office. your whole heart."-Matt. 22:37

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ST. JOSEPH, NB 'THE 'ANeHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., )ao'-26, 1990 8:30 a.m. Sunday Mass, formerly in French, will now be in English.

Beginning Feb. I, daily Masses will be at 7: 15 and II a.m. and 5 p.m.

(The 8 a. m. daily Mass will be discontinued.) A container near St. Joseph's altar is for canned and other nonperishable foods for Vincentians to distribute to the needy.

Notify the rectory of needy parishioners and those admitted to nursing homes.

CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE CCD teachers and aides needed; Durfee information 477-6565. Food pantry for needy open 10 a.m. to noon each National~ .

AttleborO~ Wednesday. Current needs are for tissues, crackers, cereals and spaghetti sauces. Playpen needed for baMembers Federal Deposit Insurance..corpora'lion. bysitting service at lO路a.m. Sunday Mass. Ushers needed at all Masses.

AI-Anon meetings 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, education center.

CCD classes grades 1-9 will meet in the new religious education center beginning Monday. Ushers needed for all Masses; information: Du Cipullo, 428-1485. . GERIATRIC COURSE, FR An 8-session course for persons FROM THE ,. caring for the ill and/ or elderly at BOOKSHElF I home begins at 10 a.m. Jan. 29 at Family Service Assn., 151 Rock St. Religion Textbooks FOI Classes Information: Dr. David Weed, 678- .

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Aids FOI Religious Educat;on Classes IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON Donations of fruit cocktail wil be collected this weekend for Our Daily Bread soup kitchen, which serves up to 100 meals daily. New choir mem423 Highland Avenue - Fall River bers invited to r.ehearsals 7:30 p.m. each Monday.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Cub scout meeting 2 p.m. Sunday, OPEN MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY FROM 10 A.M. TO 4 P.M. church hall. Students ages 13-17 are needed for the Youth Lector society; may be included as a confirmation service project. Information: Larry Biiarro, 996-2743 weekdays after 5 p.m. An all-day extended care program is being considered for children ages 3-5; information: S1. Joseph's school,996-1983.

SACRED HEART, N. ATTLEBORO Women's Guild meeting 7:30 p.m.

4 ACCREDITED ORTHOPEDIC APPL ANCE FITlERS Tuesday. .

-Complete Ostomy Supplies -, ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NB =-=-=-~n -Private Fitting Room Parish council and Men's League -Wheelchairs For Sale Or Rent meetings II a.m. Sunday. The Men's -Complete Line Of League intends to offer tuition aid to . parishioners attending Catholic high Convalescent Aids schools next school year; informa-Surgical Garments tion: Father Kenneth路Delano.

-Medicare, Medicaid Annual appreciation dinner for parish volunteers 6 p.m. Century House, Acushnet.

SS PETER AND PAUL PRESCRIPTION COMPLETE Students will hand out Catholic FAMIL Y SERVICE PHARMACY PICK,UP & DELIVERY Schools Week buttons at all Masses this weekend.

117 ROit~~E AVE. CATHEDRAL CAMP, DARTMOUTH STREET. NEW BEDFORD. MA E:FREETOWN Holy Cross Church, S. Easton, youth retreat this weekend.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT ADORERSOFBL.SACRAMENT Holy hour 7 tonight with special Holy hour 7 to 8 p.m. Jan. 29, St. emphasis on prayer: "Means and Theresa's Church, New Bedford, with Methods To Discern God's Voice."

Rev. Rene Belanger, SSS. RefreshMeeting for parents of first comments follow. Exposition every Frimunion candidates 6 p.m. Sunday, day at church following 9 a.m. Mass church hall; Bible study 7 p.m. Sunto closing Benediction 7 p.m. day, center.

HOLY NAME, NB O.L. CAPE,BREWSTER Couples' Club meeting 7:30 toGrade 2 first Eucharist families night. New members welcome. will attend 8:30 a.m. Mass Sunday.

UPPER CAPE CATECHISTS Choir members needed: rehearsals 7 Evening of reflection 7:30 p.m. p.m. each Thursday; folk group also Jan. 31 at St. John's Church, Pocasseeks members. Information: 385set, for upper Cape area catechists, 3847 or call rectory. direc~ed by Rev. Gilles Genest, MS, ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Confirmation candidates inter- codirector of LaSalette Shrine for Christian Living, Attleboro. views tomorrow morning, CCD center. First penance I p.m. tomorrow.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Grade 5 CCD classes will meet SunYouth ministry training program day morning for a presentation on 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. tomorrow. the sacrament of Holy Orders, includInform~tion at rectory. ing reenactment of an ordination D of I, ATTLEBORO ceremony. Grade 8 students will Meeting and Valentine party 7 attend an afternoon of reflection p.m. Feb. I, K of C Hall, Hodges with Father William L. Boffa at I Street. . p.m. Sunday. Women in the Bible are being discussed at a study group ST. ELIZABETH SETON, N. FALMOUTH meeting Tuesdays 9:30 to II :30 a.m.

Charismatic prayer group meets All welcome.

7:30 p.m. Thursdays, church. Youth ST. ANNE, FR ski trip tomorrow to Wachusett.

St. Anne novena and healing serst.

PATRICK, SOMERSET vice 3 o'clock today, shrine; parish . First penance 10 a.m. tomorrow; Girl Scouts meet 7 p.m. Monday; Cub' and Boy Scouts 7 p.m. Tues- confirmation retreat tonight through day; senior citizens I p.m. Wednes- Sunday. Eighth graders will be minday; Brownie and Daisy Girl Scouts isters at 9 a.m. Mass Sunday.

5:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. respectively ST. JAMES/ST. JOHN SCHOOL, NB Thursday, all in school. 1990-1991 Registration for 1990-1991 begins school registrations 9 a.m. to noon Monday and continues throughout Saturday Jan. 27 and Feb. 3, school Catholic Schools Week. cafeteria.

ST. PATRICK, FALMOUTH ST. JOHN EV ANGELlST, Parishioners involved in remodelPOCASSET Boys' ECHO weekend Feb. 2 t04; ing and construction businesses are applications at parish center. invited to bid on rectory renovations. Information: Dan Palanza, HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Confirmation candidates' retreat 548-7421 or 428~6480. No contracJan. 27 to 28 at Mt. St. Joseph's, tor is too small! Family Mass II: 15 Bristol, RI. Women's Guild has been a.m. Sunday. First penance tomorthanked for contributions to a Bir- row for second graders. Share the thright baby shower. Song leaders _Word video shown each Tuesday will meet at noon Feb. 4. Fourth after 9 a.m. Mass. All welcome, cofannual parish appreciation supper fee always hot. Fall River Pastoral 6:30 p:m. Feb. 10, LaSalette cafete- Musicians will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday at the parish. ria. all parish ministers invited.

ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT LaSALETTE CENTER, Confirmation candidates' retreat ATTLEBORO Six-day retreat for lay men and 7 to 10 tonight, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 women, religious and clergy Feb. 17 p.m. tomorrow, parish hall. to 23. Information: 222-8530.

ST. STEPHEN, ATTLEBORO ST. PATRICK, FR AA meeting 7 p.m. every Sunday, Lenten activities will include a parish hall. Children's choir practice video presentation featuring Jean II: 15 a.m. tomorrow and following Vanier, founder of I' Arche communCCD classes subsequent Saturdays. ities for the mentally handicapped, If there is no CCD, there is路 no twice each Wednesday, following a practice.

1O:3~ a.m. Mass and a 7 p.m. prayer ST.WILLlAM, FR servIce. Meeting for prospective altar boys ST. KILIAN, NB 10 a.m. Feb. 3, church.

Healing service 3 p.m. Feb. 4.

DCCW, TAUNTON HOLY NAME, FR HOSPICE OUTREACH, FR Open meeting of District Council The school has received one comVolunteers' training begins 7 p.m. of Catholic Women 7:30 1\lI1. Feb. 8, puter and is close to ordering a Feb. 27 and continues on Tuesdays St. Anthony's hall, School St., Taun- second, due to parishioner response and Thursdays for seven weeks. The. ton. "A Trip Down Memory Lane" in donating grocery and department program aids terminal cancer patients will offer council history through the store receipts in an "Apples for the and their families. eyes of past and present officers.

Students" program. Adult confirmaST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH tion classes 7 p.m. each Monday, ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, First Eucharist Mass 9 a.m. Sun- rectory. School registration for SWANSEA day. Lectors and eucharistic minis- 1990-91 year Feb. 3 and 4. InformaEucharistic enrollment ceremony ters will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday. tion: 674-9131. Youth ski trip meet- for grade 2 9:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. ing: 7'p.m. Sunday, school.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM No Sunday morning CCD classes; Human sexuality program for evening classes as usual. Bishop Danyouths and parents 10 a.m. arid 7 VINCENTIANS, FR iel Cronin will celebrate the 4 p.m. p.m. Jan. 30, conference room. PreMass followed by meeting 7 p.m.

Mass tomorrow during his pastoral school program for 4 and 5-year- Feb. 6, Santo Christo Church, Fall visit to the parish. olds and babysitting are offered dur- River. FEMA VIII funds will be ST. JAMES, NB ing 10 a.m. Sunday Mass. CCD discussed.

Parish council meeting I p.m. confirmation classes every Monday FRANCISCAN MISSIONS, Sunday, parish center. Family Mass night for grade 10; Jan. 31, Feb. 7 WATERFORD, WISC. 路7 p.m. Tuesday. and 28, March 7 and 21 for grade 9.

Canceled stamps, accumulations Junior CYO meeting 6:30 p.m. Feb. and collections, sewing supplies, relig- ST. THOMAS MORE, 8. ious items, old jewelry and coin col- SOMERSET First penance parent enrichment ST. STANISLAUS, FR lections can be used to support misnight 7 p.m Tuesday, parish ce,nter.

First communion candidates and sion programs and may be sent to parents will meet with Mrs. Cheryl Franciscan Missions, Inc., PO Box Women's Guild afternoon of reflection Feb. 4, parish center; Sister VirFeeney following 10:30 a.m. Mass 130, Waterford, WI 53185. ginia Saopson, S USC, will speak on Feb. 4. The 1990-1991 kindergarten SACRED HEART, NB class is full; three slots remain inthe First communion family celebra- women's spirituality.

1991-1992 class. Two assistants needST. MARY, SEEKONK tion 10 a.m. Mass Sunday; parish Confirmation class Mass 5 p.m ed in the parish youth ministry procouncil meeting Tuesday, all welgram. Information: 679-4191.

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'ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE She calls out to the man on the street Sir, can you help me It's cold and I have nowhere to sleep Is there somewhere you can tell .i.e He walks on doesn't look back He pretends he can't hear her Starts to whistle as he crosses the street She's embarrassed to be there 0, think twice .

Because it's another day for you and me in paradise 0, think twice .

Because it's another day for you and me in paradise Think about it She calls out to the man on the street He can see that she's been crying She's got blisters on the soles of her feet She can't walk but she's trying 0, no, is there anything more anybody can do o no, there must be something you can say You can tell from the lines on her face You, can see that she's been there Probably been moved on from every place Because she didn't fit in there Recorded and written by Phil Collins (c) 1989 by Atlantic . Recording Corp.

SOME MUSIC starts your feet moving and drives you to -the dance floor. Other songs delight the ears with their creative harmonies and souiId qual:ities. Phil Collins'" Another Day in Paradise" affected me in' another way, His latest hit touched my heart, reminding me of some'thing I too easily forget '-' the suffering of the homeless.

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Q. Why is the idea of life after death so frightening? (Idaho) A. Many years ago I took my first ride on a roller coaster. Today I still remember vividly how scared I was during the slow ascent to the first terrifying plunge.

What it would be like was beyond my experience. And the reason it frightened me so much was because it was so unknown to me.

For all of us, life after death is the unknown. In his play, "Ham-

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The song's images also describe the indifference people can have toward others. A man walks by and fails to acknowledge the cries of someone who' is hurting, a· person who· has "nowhere to sleep." He walks on and doesn't look back, "he pretends he can't hear her."

Like many of us, he doesn't feel the connection to this pained member of the human family,

By TOM LENNON

let," Shakespeare calls it "the undiscovered country."

Precisely because it is the unknown, some people find the idea oflife after death terribly frightening. It is totally beyond their experience and they feel that they have absolutely no control over what will happen in that afterlife.

Other people are filled with a certain fear for a different reason.

They believe that they will have to render an account to God for how they have used the gift of life.

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The reason people are homeless, hungry and cold cannot be explored within the li.mited space given to this column. Social problems are complex and finding solutions is not easy.

However, our response to suffering is always a choice. We can hide behind indifference or we can respond with concern to the song's question: "Is there anything more anybody can do?"

Individual actions may not solve the problem, but by working together We can reach out to those, who hurt.

Here are a few suggestions on where to begin: Find out what programs are helping the homeless in your area. Many communities sponsor soup kitchens or run shelters. Encourage your religion class or parish youth group to volunteer one day a month to assist at the program.

Ask your school or parish to conduct a one-day educational program that can help build , further understanding of the problems or needs of the homeless.

Decide to donate a portion of your weekly income, maybe up to five percent, to a local program helping the homeless, Organize a write-in campaign that includes your parish or school. Send letters to your U :S, repres'entatives or senators.

Tell them of your concern for , the homeless. Ask them why our government chooses to spend billions on agents of death when the needs of the living cry '" out for help, Inquire about their legislative plans to help the homeless, Your comments are w'elcomed .

by Charlie Martin, R,R. 3 ~ock­ port, Ind. 47635. not used the gift wisely - and they wonder about the consequences.

Some Christians, however, are not at all frightened by the thought of life after death. Indeed, it is very comforting to them.

They firmly believe that the undiscovered country will be a land of unalloyed happiness for all who have tried to do what they sincerely thought right.

There'll be no tears or suffering or injustice or sickness or death or sin. Darkness will give way to light and sadness to joy.

They also believe that they'll enjoy not only the full friendship of God but also the friendship of billions of people, unmarred by misunderstandings, friction,jealousy and so forth.

Best of all, they have the assurance that their happiness and fulfillment will never come to an end.

Never again will there be the letdown of "lhe day after Christmas.

Down through the ages countless Christians have expressed their yeariling for this undiscovered country and the vision of a loving God. Perhaps it was this that gave rise to the custom of praying to St. Joseph for an astonishing favora hppy death. Catholics turned to him because they thought he had died in the presenCe of Jesus and Mary.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to turn to this saint now and 'ask his help in dealing with the fear you are experiencing in regard to life after death. .. He's living now in that undiscovered country and he knows well that the kingdom of God is, above all, a country of love.

By Michael Warren . I was recently in a discussion with some young people about boy-girl relationships and,eventually, about when it is all right for a couple to have sex.

Several said it would be OK if they had "strong feelings" for each other. Others said that wasn't enough. Each would have to "really feel" love for the other.

Their basic idea was that if the feelings are there you can "do it."

Finally a 17-year-old girl told us that no matter what she felt she knew she was not ready for the kind of life commitment sexual intercourse called for.

She said she knew she was phys.ically. able to have sex and even to have a child, but that was the only way she was ready: physically. She wasn't emotionally, psychologically or even educationally ready.

Her comment moved the discussion to a new level. She was not just talking about feeling or "really feeling:" She 'was making judgments about feelings.

I found wisdom in what she said. I also found that she basically understood the difference between feeling and emotion.. Understand~ ing this difference can be important.

Emotion refers to bodily agitation not fully in our control. It could take such forms as sobbing, shouting, breathing irregularly, a wave of sexual agitation. Your. body responds almost outside your. will.

Once when I narrowly missed a terrible car crash, it took many minutes before my intense feelings offear subsided. My mind told me the danger was over, but my bodily response offear just didn't stop.

The emotion held my body in its grip.

Emotions can be manipulated by clever people. Filmmakers know how to shoot a scene with the proper lighting and dialogue and. the proper music to make many people in the theater come to tears.

Feeling (or feelings) can include emotion. But feeling refers not so

much to bodily agitation as to our conscious, insightful responses to situations.

Looked at this way we can see that strength of emotion and strength of feeling do not always correspond.

In some cases feeling actually can check emotion, as when a strong feeling about the importance of non-violence might not permit me to express a vehment emotion of rage or anger. Here, feeling controls emotion and directs it.

Or you might have a strong emotional urge to have sex with a beloved, but your feelings for that person and your understanding of life itself tell you this is not the right time.

The girl in our discussion apparently understood the relation of feeling to emotion.

When feeling becomes a synonym for emotion and when we assume' that we can act as long as we'havt: a strong'feeling, then feeling gets cut ,off from intelligence.

So in our discussion on relationships, I suspect some people were using the word "feeling" to mean emotions you could act on without much thought, like scratching an itch.

The truth is that genuine feeling doesn't put intelligence out in the cold but invites it in for a dialogue.

It is the door between emotion and thought. , This distinction is important and needs to be given attention if one is to develop as a person whose passion is matched by compassion and a deep respect for other persons.

The teen years are a good time to think deeply about the importance of feeling and how to direct it.

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Local students winners in pro-life contests Several young people of the diocese were winners in recent pro-life contests.

The Respect Life Committee of St. John Neumann Church, East Freetown, sponsored an essay contest, "The Tragedy of Abortion," for parish youth in grades 5 through 8 and 9 through 12.

The winners, each receiving $50, were eighth-grader Katie Simone, 13, and high schooljunior Suzanne Mercier, 16.

Receivingho'norable mention were John Salas, 13, grade 7; Julie A. Sadeck, 10, grade 5; Cheryl Mercier, 10, grade 5; and Jennifer Comeau, 13, grade 7. ' Seth R. Correia, grade 7, and Kathryn Negri, grade 8, of St. Joseph's School, Fairhaven, submitted winning poems in an October Res'pect Life Month Contest sponsored by the New Bedford chapter of Massachusetts Citizens for Life.

The winning entries follow.

The Tragedy of Abortion Abortion is a tragedy all by itself. Abortion is murder, and murder isn't allowed so abortion shouldn't be either. It's like using a gun. The gun was first used for hunting purposes, to get food for the family. Then it was used in wars, to kill, and now it is used for pleasure, to get revenge, or to get things even. God is the only person who should be in control of death.

Natural death is planned by God, so the person can spend eternity with him. Abortion should be illegal.

At the very minute of concep7 tion, God has created a human being. This human being may be small, but it is a living thing. A miracle. It should not be killed.

God has made the 10 Commandments to live by, to be better Christians. The 5th Commandment s,aYs thou shalt not, kill. We are breaking God's law. We are sinning. The. mother becomes selfish, and has,: aI abortion for the pleasure of h\ ;elf. If she can't be 'bothered;' th I she sh'ould never have created lif\ n the first place. ,.

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Don't deprive them of their right to,live ' Save the life of an unborn fetus Who is innocent; helpless and really needs us.

Some people aren't able to have kids', it seems.

Help fulfill their hopes and dreams.

Give the infant a chance to grow With adopting parents who will love it so.

What kind of motive could you have to kill A child lying in its mother's womb so still?

Let a child live and be free Otherwise it's murder ofthe first degree. , ) Suzanne Mercier Respect for Life Abortion is bad and very evil; Why don't people stop it and make it illegal.

Doctors are killing babies every night and day; People who don't like that should have their own say.

Drinking is bad, but drugs are worse; Before people take them, they should really think first.

People who think getting high is really cool, Should be smart and stay in school.

Gangs are really really bad, When I read about them in the newspaper I really get sad.

They're hurting people all the time, They should realize it is a crime.

We must respect old people and give them their due.

Someday we'll be in their place too.

God has plans for each and everyone, Only he can choose when your life is done.

Seth R. Correia Importance of Respecting Life "Respect life" is what many preach, the hearts of killers they try to reach.

When parents fight, and children cry, when elders are just left to d~. .

When unborn babies' lives are taken, someone, somewhere must be mistaken.

The air we breathe is full of dirt, "why must everyone be hurt?

Kids are teased and pushed around, their self-image now in the ground.

Someone must take a stand and ." teach the world to understand. .Our lives are a gift from him, our Lord, to let them waste, we can't afford.

So stop the hurting, stop the fighting, put away your knife.

We all must join together in this important fight for life.

Kathryn Negri

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According to Mark E. Chopko, "We obviously were sorry they general counsel of the National decided the way they did" at the Conference of Catholic Bishops, Supreme Court. "the Swaggart case indicates that Mr. Kelley, a Methodist ministhe Supreme Court will continue ter, told Catholic News Service to treat religion like any other bus- that although the court specifically 'dt:alt with a sales tax, it 'iness, value or entity."

"Thus the court is minimizing agreed that no religious freedom both the intent and effect of the problems were posed as long as a free exercise clause of the First general tax, applicable to all Amendment" to the Constitution organizlltions, was involved. he said. ' Justic:e O'Connor wrote that --The FTrstA~endment declares "<?alifornia tr.e~ts the sal~ o~ a ~Ible b~' a relIgIOUS organIzatIOn in part that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment Ju.st as It would treat"the. sale of of religion or prohibiting the free BIble by. a books~ore, WIth both exercise thereof." ~ransac~lOns subject to the t~x. . .

"There IS no danger that (the mm" PotentIally th~ ,court rul.mg . istry's) religious activity is being .affects a lot of relIgl?u,~ or~anIza- singled out for special and burdentlOns that a~e CatholIc, sa.ld J.ohn some tn:atment."

Pantuso, .dlrector of publIcatlO~s H\:r court opinion also stated for the Mllwauk~e~basedCath~lI.c that "thl~ sales and use tax is not a L~ague 0r RelIgIOUS and CIVIl tax on the right to disseminate RIghts. ~ w~uld. agree ... that religious information, ideas or there are ,~mplIcatlOns that could beliefs 'per se; rather, it is a tax on be messy.

-the privilege of making retails At the same time, Pantuso said, sales." stat~ governmen~s proba.bly.can Swaggart's dispute focused on ,realIze the extensIve contnbutlOns collection of taxes in 1974-81 on religio~s institut~ons make through such goods as religious books, educatl~~, cha~lty and other pr~hymnals. and taped sermons sold grams. I don 1. expect there IS by his Louisiana-based organgoing to be any massive effort to ization. tax churches by the states," he At stake was $118 000 in back said. Pantuso said his view was an taxes and $65 000 in i~terest levied

by California:s Board of Equalizaunoffic,ial opinion and that the CatholIc Le.a~ue had ta.ken no tion. Swaggart protested the payformal pOSItIOn rega~dJng the ments but lost in bothc'alifornia's Swaggart case. lower court and at the state appeals, "I think the immediate impact court.

Anglican prelate denounced outside Catholic cathedral they were practicing a faith that LONDON (CNS) - Protestant contradicted the Bible. groups outside Catholic Westminster Cathedral denounced , Inside, members of other denominations who attended the service Anglican Archbishop Robert Rundid not s.hare the animosity shown cie of Canterbury for preaching at outside. an ecumenical service inside.

"I feel very proud that all these "We're mounting this protest people from other faiths came here because we are born-again believtonight," said Elizabeth Horne, a ers," said Michael Dark, a member Catholi(; from Essex, England. of a Welsh Presbyterian church.

"Please God it won't be long before "We wish to defend our Lord we are all one." and Savior, Jesus Christ, against The Rev. Reginald Leigh, a retirthe blasphemy and idolatry of the papist Mass and the treachery of ed Anglican vicar, urged patience and dialogue over potentially divDr. Runcie," he said. isive issues, such as wc;>men's "We believe the ecumenical ordination. movement comes directly from "We wouldn't have been able to hell," he added. have a service like this 20 years The protesters - about 50 ago," he added. "I've been thinkcarried banners saying, "There is ing and praying for this for 40 one mediator between God and years." man: Jesus Christ," and "Masses Baptist Arsenio de Mora said, are blasphemous fables and dan"The most important thing is to gerous deceits."

To some of the 2,000 people respect each other's traditions. entering the cathedral, the protes- Without that, there is no progress." ters handed out leaflets saying the aims of the Catholic Church were wealth, power and political domination. The cathedral service marked the Jan. 18-25 Week of DETROIT (CNS) - Detroit Prayer for Christian Unity.

Cardinal Edmund C. Szoka is closSheila Bradley, another Welsh ing five city parishes that failed to Presbyterian, called Archbishop meet viability norms after a year of Runcie an "arch-traitor." trying. 20 other parishes also slated to close will remain open because "This is a PrOtestant country, and he's supposed to be a Protest- "all made progress toward a viable parish community," according to ant leader, but he's going against everything he committed himself an archdiocesan news release. to at ordination," Mrs. Bradley said.

What To Pray For "Ecumenism isn't based on the "Do not pray for easy lives; pray Scriptures," she said. "It's not unity to be stronger people. Do not pray in the truth. You can't have real unity unless it's based on the Bible." , for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your Mrs. Bradley added that she did tasks."--Phillips Brooks not hate Catholics, but thought

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