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Father Pierre lLlchance: Last of Fall River's Dominican Mission ~

Well-known shrine director personifies the apostolic work of those sent 112 years ago to serve French-Canadian immigrants here.

By JAMES N. OUNBAR

FALL RIVER - Dominican Father Pierre E. Lachance sat back in the lounge chair, flashed the infectious, happy smIle he is famous for, and said, "Where shall we begin?"

Sitting so straight, looking so vibrant there in his sparsely furnished . room on the third floor of the Saint Anne Parish's monastery building on . Middle Street, it was difficult to imagine' that this native son is the final chapter in an epoch story of Dominicans who came to serve migrating French-Canadian Catholics in' Fall River more than a centuryago.

But as the ailing, 84-year-old director of St. Anne's famous Shrine made it clear," When I go', it wil! mark the final page in the tale of the members of the Order of Preachers who ministered here since 1887."

Father Lachance, who uses a cane to get about, is unable to FATHER PIERRE LACHANCE, O. P. stand for long periods and no longer says Mass. Instead, he concelebrates from a chair set near the altar in the Shrine's chapel as other priests say Mass.

"But I can still get to the Shrine Office daily to hear confessions, although I have the people come to me and sit beside me instead of Turn to page 13 - Dominican

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Special liturgy will mark World Day for Consecrated Life ~

Members of diocese's religious congregations will gather to renew their vows in Sf. Mary's Cathedral on February 6.

consecrated life, to promote knowledge of the life and to invite consecrated people to celebrate what the Lord has accomplished in them and to acquire more awareness of their mission in the Church and the world, said Sister Heffernan.

At Sunday's liturgy, Bishop O'Malley will ask

By JAMES N. DUNBAR that all religious men and women attending FALL RIVER - When religious of ----~ stand and renew their vows. various congregations meet in ·St. "It will be a very solemn moment as they re-consecrate themselves Mary's Cathedral Sunday, Feb. 6 to God through their congregaat 3 p.m., it will be the third time tions in service to the Church that the Diocese of Fall River and the people of God," said has observed World Day for Sister Heffernan.

Consecrated Life.

The celebration, instiThe public is invited to assist at the liturgy and tuted by Pope John Paul to relive their fond recII last year, will be comollections of religious memorated at a special liturgy at which brothers, sisters and priests who served Bishop Sean P. them throughout the O'Malley, OFM Cap., years. will be the principal The Fall River celebrant and Diocese currently has homilist. approximately 550 reA member of a religious women and ligious congregation men within its conhimself, . Bishop fines.

O'Malley will both "While the number honor and be honored of religious has declined at the Mass, reported over the years, the zeal for Mercy Sister Elaine service and the love of the Heffernan, episcopal rep: Church is strong in these resentative to religious and numbers," Sister Heffernan coordinator of the celebraasserted. "Vocations to relition. gious life and the priesthood . Initially the pope had set the have declined somewhat, yet new observance for February 2, the feast forms of religious life are occurring of the J>resentation of Our Lord. Bethroughout the world. God's call is insiscause that fell on a weekday, dioceses were . allowed to opt for a more widespread observance on tent in many hearts, but frequently, distractions of the weekend, and this is what's being done in the daily life do not allow for the prayer and recollection required for this call to be heard."

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Many women and men respond to the call to The Holy Father, in his message for the first World Day for Consecrated Life, said the observance of- religious life and the priesthood at an older age now Turn to page 13 - Consecrated fers the opportunity to thank God fqr the gift of

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Diocesan students to celebrate Catholic Schools Week

By DAVE JOUVET ANCHOR STAFF

FALL RIVER - The week of January 30 through February 5, 2000 marks the first National Catholic Schools Week of the new millennium, and schools throughout the Diocese of Fall River have plenty planned, and plenty to celebrate.

According to James McNamee, diocesan superintendent of schools, enrollment in all diocesan schools is up.

Fall River is not the only diocese experiencing growth in the parochial school system. Throughout the country, enrollment is on the increase in Catholic schools. Clearly, people are realizing the significance of the

education received at a Catholic school, and the importance of the values students learn there.

"This is a very exciting time," said McNamee. "Enro!Jment is up and the students throughout the diocese have many activities planned for the week."

In addition, McNamee pointed out that the diocese is currently working on a plan to open two more parochial schools somewhere on Cape Cod within the next few years.

Kicking off the week will be a television Mass on WLNE-Channe16 on Jan. 30 at 8:00 a.m. Celebrant for the Mass will be Father Paul A. Caron of St. Francis Xavier Church, Fairhaven. Students from St. Mary-Sacred ..

Heart School in North Attleboro will lend their voices as the choir for the Mass, and the readings will be handled by students from Bishop Stang High School in North Dartmouth. "We want to get as many Catholic school students involved in the Mass as we can," said McNamee.

National Catholic Schools Week is ajoint program sponsored by the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) and the United States Catholic Conference (USCC).

The purpose of Catholic Schools Week is to build support and recognition for the over 8,200 Catholic schools nationwide. During this week, many dioceses encourage parents , . , Turn topage nine - Celebration

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FALL RIVER Aero'" From SIaIIg H.5. Hal Door 10 _woo;! Res"l1ImUl/ . "'), communication "a kind of journey," from the' col-' lapse of the Tower of Babel to Pentecost's Christcentered "resto,ration of communication," he said proMAILING SERVICES PRINTING claiming the Gospel "therefore leads to a meeting between people in faith and charity at the deepest level of their humanity." . The pope praised contemporary media for providing information about today's world and said the

many sat~ilite broadcasts of Holy Year events "contribute to spiritual enrichment."

But he said mass media also sometimes "display the' indifference, even hostility to Christ and his message that exist in certain sectors of secular cul" , . ture. . '. The pope caIIed for an "examination of consCience on the pari of the media, Ie'ading to a more critical awareness of a bias or lack of respect for people's religious and moral convictions."

As weII as informin'g people about social issues" which the pope said "can be an implicit proclamation ,of the Lord," he urged Christian communicators "to seek out ways to speak explicitly of Jesus."

Though much has changed in the 2000 years since the birth of Christ, said the pope, "the ·same need to proclaim Christ stiII exists."

In addition' to spreading the Gospel through personal contact, he said,Christians must proclaim Christ "in and through the media."

"To proclaim Christ in the media at the dawn of the new millennium is not only a necessary part of the Church's evangelizing mission; it is also a vital, inspiring and hope-fiIIed enrichment of the media's message," said the pope..

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Women who've~ lived lives, under legal abortion tell Pro-Life· story

By MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON - At this year's March for Life, there weren't as many handmade signs attacking supporters of legal abortion.

But as the thousands of marchers gathered Monday at the Ellipse, with the White House in plain sight, in abundance were women who have lived their entire lives with abortion on demand as the law of the land.

Nancy Lee, who works in the admissions office of Christendom College in Front Royal, Va., is 26 years old - too young to run for the Senate, but able to get an abortion if she so chose.

Instead, she has chosen life.

"Growing up, my parents were always very Pro-Life, and we would always go to rallies," Lee said. Now, she volunteers at a crisis pregnancy center. "Teenagers come in. It's a hard thing," she said. "But their parents aren't going to encourage them" to carry the pregnancy to term.

Sharon Pollitt, 21, and her sister, Kathleen, 23, of East Templeton, Mass., aren't old enough to run for a seat in the House of Representatives. But they're old enough to obtain abortions.

But they are also old enough to help support a family life center in nearby Fitchburg, Mass. TENS OF thousands of people from across the country and to make their third trip to gathered on Washington's' Ellipse Jan. 24 to mark the anniWashington for the March for Life. versary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.

"We just decided that this After a rally, they marched to the steps of the Supreme Court. year'this was something we (CNS photo by Martin Lueders) wanted to do - to make a stance, to be a presence," Sharon an abortion. Instead, she and her Leonard said. "If you can't even said.

260 fellow students at stand somewhere ..." she added In a society where abortion is . Christendom College got the day in exasperation, her sentence left legal, what motivates them to be off from classes and took part in unfinished. "I just don't know Pro-Life? "God creates life. He is the march. why people wouldn't want to the author of life," answered ''I'm the sixth of 14 kids," said march."

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Price, a ~ophomore. Being ProErika Doe, 14, came with 17Parental support also plays a Life is "the way it's always been year-old sister Christina and sevfactor. Their mother brought presented to me. And when I eral others from the youth group them to Washington the first two started looking into it on my own at St. Mary Parish in Lancaster, times. "She taught us," Sharon - I mean, it's the slaughter of Pa. She got a ride' for the threesaid. But now both parents are little babies." hour trip - she's not old enough physically unable to make the Catherine Leonard, 16, who to drive, but. she could get an trip. "They're here in spirit," she attends the eight-student St. abortion if she wanted one. added.

John Bosco High School in Erika remarked at how biMary Veronica Price, 20, of Leesburg, Va., can't vote yet. But, zarre it seemed that society Linden, Calif., can't drink alco- if she wanted to, she could get trusts her in one sphere but not hol legally yet, but she can get an abortion. in another. She added that she Not that unintended pregnan- got her Pro-Life beliefs from cies are going to be a problem the Bible. In trying to explain EDICTAL CITATION for her anytime soon. "Just not it, she declared, "You just know DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS having sex at our age would go a that it's killing." long way toward solving the The Supreme Court has said it Since the actual place of residence problem," Leonard said. "I'm not will decide on the constitutionof ANNABELLE (MITCHELL) HOOLEY is un· sexually active." known. ality of parental notification We cite ANNABELLE (MITCHELL) That's not the case with oth- laws, but until then - and HOOLEY to appear personally before the ers, she added. "I heard three maybe after - Rebecca Adams, Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on people this year talk about get- 12, a seventh-grader at St. Tuesday, February 8, 2000 at 10:30 a.m. ting pregnant," Leonard said.

Theresa Grade School in at 887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mas· She expressed surprise at the Ashburn, Va., could get an aborsachusetts, to give testimony to establish: small turnout a half-hour before tion without telling her folks.

Whether the nullity of the marriage the pre-march rally began. While Rebecca sees another diexists in the Godfrey· Mitchell case? marchers slowly but steadily chotomy between what society 'Ordinaries of the place or other pastors made their way to the Ellipse dur- deems acceptable and what it having the knowledge of the residence of the above person, Annabelle (Mitchell) ing the rally, march organizers doesn't. "Every day in the news Hooley, must see to it that she is ptOperly did not' give their own crowd es- media you see it all the time advised in tegard to this edictal citation. timate from the platform as they murder, killing, war. But it's OK Paul F. Robinson, O. Carm., J.C.D. have customarily done. The U.S. to have an abortion," she said.

Adjutant Judicial Vicar Park Police no longer makes "You have to look at them Given at the Tribunal, crowd estimates. both - what is murder outside Fall River, Massachusetts the womb, "If you're not part of the soluarid what is murder on this the 21st day of January, 2000.

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Vatican spokesman dismisses report pope will soon need wheelchair

By JOHN THAVIS CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE VATICAN CITY -A Vatican spokesman dismi'ssed as "baseless" a British newspaper report that said Pope John Paul II would need a wheelchair within two years.

The Sunday TImes, quoting unnamed physicians, said Jan. 23 that the 79-year-old pontiff exhibited worsening symptoms of Parkinson's disease. One doctor was quoted as saying that although the pope might still be able to move around his room by holding onto things, he will need a wheelchair "within two years' time, at the most."

Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said it was "not the first time that we read these 'prophecies,' which are later shown to be baseless."

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The pope suffers from a degenerative nervous system disorder believed to be Parkinson's and in recent years has exhibited several typical symptoms of the disease: a trembling arm, difficulty in walking and indistinct speech.

The symptoms have gradually worsened, although Vatican officials and visitors are quick to say that the pope remains mentally alert.

Recently, the pope began using a rolling platform during some papal ceremonies instead of walking down the long aisle of St. Peter's Basilica. When he opened the Holy Door at the Vatican to start the jubilee year, he needed support from two aides.

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As campaign 2000· starts its inevitable rbad the White House, the nation faces very unique challenges. There can be little doubt that issues will not be the test of the presidency.

Each of the current cast' of candidates simply mouth. banal· platitudes. What has surfaced as a major concern is the integrity of the office of president. The vast majority of citizens want a restoration of morals and ethics at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Health care, minimum wage and tax reform 'do hilve"a bearing, hO'wever, for better' or worse they play s~cond fiddle to the urgently needed reform of the day. Above all, no orie wants to' tamper'with the economy~ Some reflect, keep it rolling and .'booming arid·all will be well in,America. Well for many these ~e indeed good' times. Yet amid this time of plenty, the poor and homeless are 'still with us. We enjoy the lowestunemployment rate in years, the market is rolling in riches and we've ·even stabilized our welfare rolls. Still, in the midst of all this positive news many. don't experience the benefits .ofa strong economy. Those qn .the bottom of the heap are worse off,than before. The separation is widening between the have and the have-nots. While rriany in the upper income bracket have made a fortune, there are still more whose income has remained stagnant. So very many Americans are living a marginal existence.

Even working two or three jobs brings. no guarantee.of sharing in the benefits of a vibrant economy. Those, lacking skills and education are often living off food pantries, homeless shefters are at capacity and more and more children are caught in poverty's merciless grip. In these good times we cannot forget those who have become disadvantaged and displaced. They need a voice in the presidential campaign. .

When one thinks of the monies candidates are spending to succeed in their ambitions, it becomes appalling that there are Americans who cannot afford medical insurance, decent edu- . cational opportunities and retirement s.ecurity. This b~comes " even more horrifying· when we realize that top corporate' eX- : . . ecutives are paid 400 times more, than their average workers.

TWO CANDLES ARE HELD NEAR A GIRL'S THROATAS A MINISTER OFFERS Forty percent of those holding the c'ouniry's purse strings are the principle contributors to election campaigns. Our nation's· A BLESSING ON THE FEAST OF ST. BLAISE. THE SAINTAND MARTYR WAS A wealth is held by only one percent of the population. This is :FOURTH-CENTURY BISHOP OF SEBASTE, NOW ARMENIA. LEGEND SAYS where the real political power r~sts .. The truly poor 'don't h'ave . THAT HE SAVEDTHE LIFE OF A BOY 'WHO WAS CHOKING ON A FISHBONE. a chance, In fact, the so-called middle 'class is basking in to~ THE PRACTICE OF BLESSING THROATS AROSE FROM THE CULT OF ST. kenism.· .

BLAISE. HIS FEAST IS FEB. 3. (CNS FILE PHOTO) . It stands to reason· that those. who hold public offi,ces,hould. . ~'YOU, WHOTHROUGH.FAITH.ARE SIDELDED·BY GOD'S serve the common good. This is very hard to do in Washington . . POWER"· (lPETER 1:4·5). where campaign monies rule the day. The elusive reform iil this regard, that has really never-seen daylight, eventually will take .its toll. Unless .everyone shares in. this surging economy, all in time will suffer.

History teaches us a great lesson about leadership. Every significant improvement in human affairs surfaced only after

By FATliER EUGENE HEMRICK leaders of vision and courage acted with determination to corachievement. But celebration at its ents, brothers or sisters, or a friend?

CATliOUC NEWS SERVICE rect abuse. This distribution of wealth ha~ always been a key best reaches even deeper than this. Or perhaps it was the beautiful feelissue in social revolution. One must never think economics is Are you looking/for a motto to In his book, "Leisure," Josef ing born of having a real heart-tothe only force that keeps a nation on the l1l:0ve. A stable social perk you up? How about sticking Pieper said that contemplation is heart. talk.

I often wonder how many of us order is nurtured by the fair and honest distribution of wealth this sage advice of philosopher necessary for true celebration. But Soren Kierkegaard to your bathhow can contemplation often realize how much Christ favored and goods. No one should be left out, especially those forced room mirror?

'The saw sticks when thought simply to mean remaining celebrations.

In St. Mark we read of to sleep on the streets or stand in line at a soup kitchen. Elected we press· too hard on it." alone in deep thought - have any- Jesus being questioned as to why ~ officials who cater to the few will never realize all the grand Kierkegaard reminds us that all thing to do with celebration? his disciples weren't fasting, and promises. We need people in government that will devise pro- work and no play not only leaves Contemplation is more than he responded: "Can the wedding grams and initiate policies that benefit all Americans. us inefficient, but dulls the edge deep reflection. To contemplate, we guests fast while the bridegroom is . must gaze at an object long enough with them? As long as they have The Editor we are supposed to bring to life.

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We know this is true but isn't it equally true that most of us don't really know 'how to celebrate life?

We repeatedly get into the rut' of pushing purselves without ever taking a refreshing break. "After all," we tell ourselves, "this is how to get ahead."

Could it be that a loss of the art of celebration is one reason behind many of our ilhlesses? We push ourselves to a breaking point, failing to make celebration an important part of our life.

But what exactly is celebration?

Normally when we think of a celebration, we picture people eating, drinking and having a good time, or applauding an amazing

that we become one with it and that it becomes one with us. Contem, plation means being fully present to another - to the point that the other is one with us.

The sacraments we celebrate, whether the Eucharist, reconciliation or marriage, are really moments in which :We work to become absorbed with Christ, and welcome Christ's ihvitation to become one with him] Here is found the real purpose bf celebration, namely, communibn with another.

When re reflect on this, isn't it true that our most enjoyable celebrations Jwere moments when we experienoed intimate union with our wife'l husband, children, par-

the bridegroom with them they cannot fast" (2: 19), Jesus is that bridegroom, a joy to the apostles and those who are . following him.

In this episode, we learn that God wants us to remember that celebration is as much a part of our religion as is penance and fasting.

Today there is so much emphasis on getting ahead that we sometimes forget to take time t6 celebrate. But when we celebrate we take time out, and it does wonders for our health and disposition.

Celebration represents an· integral dimension of our religion one we must keep rejuvenating in order·to remain rejuvenated..

The .papacy: The. stronghold for all centuries Editor's Note: The following opinion/editorial was written

by Retired Massachusetts Superior Court Judge William H. Carey of Fairhaven. He is the recipient of the Marian Award and is a Knight of St. Gregory.

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For 20 centuries institutions of government have come and gone - none of them being able to s~t­ isfy their people's desire for peace and happiness. We must still have some real concerns of fear for the future despite the hope that is in the hearts of all people everywhere. .

Despite all these concerns, there is one institution which ,

who crowned Pepin in the eighth; and far beyond the time of Pepin the August dynasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable. The republic of Venice came next in antiquity. But the republic of Venice was modern when comThe celebration of the millenpared with the papacy; and the re· nium at the close of the 20th cenpublic of Venice is gone, and the tury certai.nly gave all of us the papacy remains. The papacy reopportunity to be proud. It was mains not in decay, not a mere, unquestionably a spectacular perantique, but full of life and youthformance. It seemed to ful vigor. The Catholic bring all people throughChurch saw the comout the world together mencements of all the and create one common governments and of all denominator for the years the ecclesiastical establishahead, i.e. a unified hope ments that now exist in the that the world will beworld; and we feel no ascome a better world and surance that she is not desa conviction that it can be tined to see the end of done by the people who them all. She was great make it up. The ·remarkand respected before the able media of TV cerSaxon had set foot. on tainly taught us a fantasBritain, before the Frank had passed the Rhine, tic lesson, that people throughout the world when Grecian eloquence have the common desire still flourished in Antioch, when idols were still wor-· to share happy times and shipped in the temple of wishes together.

It is amazingly disapMecca. And she may still exist in undiminished pointing that prior to the vigor when some traveler viewing of such a global from New Zealand shall, TV scene ushering in the in the midst of a vast solinew century by the people around the world, that no tude, take his stand on a one in the media broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins . whether TV or print of St. Paul's." anticipated the outpouring of global unity We can make the same throughout the world for commendation today.

Even when our world the next century. We comes to an end, we have should all hope that meevery confidence to bedia communicators and lieve - as Macaulay did world leaders got the in the 19th century - that message of the people the papacy at the Vatican throughout the world and will still exist with us capitalize on supporting making its substantial it for the years ahead. contribution to the welIn the midst of all the fare of mankind. hyperbole connected with At least we do know the ending of the 20th . that it still exists in this century, I have yet to read ST. PETER THE ApOSTLE 21 st century - undiminor have our minds foTHE FIRST POPE cused on the real enduri~~.ed in .gI9I;>,al,signifi-' carce"'7" desp'ite some in-. ing and permanent insti" tution bf our society which has .seeins' to have a permanent basis ternal and eternal dissention over guided and survived all of the glo- in our centuries of life but not rec- the years: . It has survived wars, emperries and tragedies of prior centu- ognized yet as we tum from the 20th to the 21 st century. A great ors, kings, reformations and other ries.

The change from the 20th to English statesman and writer of rulers of governments of all kinds.

The everlasting contribution the 21 st century is certainly a the 19th century, Thomas mi lestone for ou l' ti mes· and Babington Macaulay, wrote about that the papacy has made to manshould be recognized as such. The this institution of political, social, kind in all centuries of its existevent, however, is really of no economic and spiritual govern- ence should be recognized and more significance than the 18th ment when he wrote of the pa- appreciated from. century to cen. tury. to the 19th or the 17th to the 18th pacy at Vatican City.

It still exists today in formu"No other institution," writes and back to the creation of the world. We have inherited from Macaulay of the papacy, "which lating the heart and souls of all century to century the concerns had survived the French Revolu-· mankind. There is no evidence and fears of all people every- tiQn and the mightiest autocrat of at all to believe that it will not where. Each century seems to cre- modern times, is left standing continue to· exist for all of the ate its own fears. Despite all of . which carries the mind back to centuries to come - to the end the technological advances of the the times when the smoke of sac- of time. Let us· hope and pray 20th century, we still have·a world rifice rose from the Pantheon, and that it will.

It is the spiritual government of wars - terrorism - hunger when camelopards and tigers - unnecessary deaths - sickness, bounded in the Flavian of the world which binds together etc. In fact, our scientific advances amphitheatre. The proudest royal all mankind for all centuries.

VVe have seen or heard so in the computer century had cre- houses are but of yesterday, when ated its own fears and concerns compared with the line of the Su- many governmental - political known as Y2K - which were preme Pontiffs. That line we trace -economic institutions come and proved to be unfounded even back in an unbroken series, from go - but we continue to witness, though perhaps as a result of the pope who crowned Napoleon in all of its splendor, the papacy elaborate preparations to avoid it in the 19th century, to the pope at the Vatican.

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TIffiANCHOR- Diocese of Fall River- Fri., January 28, 2000

CRS program in Balkans seeks U.S. partners

By JENNIFER E. REED CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON - Catholic Relief Services' Parent-School Partnership Program is seeking U.S. partners to support community efforts to improve schools in the Balkans.

Blerlnda Idrizi, U.S. outreach adviser for the CRS program, said it is "in the very first stage" ofIinking up with U.S. partner organizations.

"We're still trying to get the information on the expertise that is out there," she said in a recent interview in Washington.

The Parent-School Partnership Program brokers dialogue among parents and schools throughout the Balkans to address needs identified by the community, then offers human resources and initial funding toward those needs, she said.

In mid-January, she met with representatives of the National Catholic Educational Association, the U.S. Catholic Conference Department of Education, the USCC's office of Migration and Refugee Services and U.S. diocesan staff who coordinate local CRS programs.

The CRS program is looking for U.S. partners to facilitate donations of technical expertise, materials and' human resources, and to participate in exchange visits between individuals and communities in the United States and the Balkan countries, Idrizi said.

CRS, the U.S. bishops' international relief and development organization, launched the program in Macedonia in 1994. It is also now ~stablished in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, the

Yugoslav republics of Montenegro and Serbia. The program is also operating in the former Soviet republic of Armenia.

"In most of the countries. there have been no new schools or no investment in building schools since the late 1960s or early 70s.

Schools and classrooms are overcrowded," she said.

After a ~istory of government control over schools in these countries, educational reform has focused on decentralizing education systems and increasing community involvement in schools.

"Because all these are countries in transition, the needs are too big. We have very little in our hands as donors.... We need more partners and human resources and expertise to sustain our efforts in the Balkan 'region," said Idrizi, an Albanian who works in Skopje, Macedonia.

As U.S. partnerships are formed, CRS will stress "letting communities in the Balkans and here in the U.S. design their (partnership) model and to claim ownership of that model," said Idrizi.

CRS has seen that as communities "develop their own models and claim ownership there are more chances that their efforts continue without a donor and when the donor has phased out," she said.

"CRS does not intend to stay in the Balkans or Eastern Europe for a long, long time. We're going to phase out and this is why we want to link" partners, she added.

For more information about the CRS Parent-School Partnership Program contact Franne Van der Keilen at (410) 6252220 ext. 3505 or bye-mail at fvander@catholicrelief.ore;.

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My pastor, Father Albert Audette, often to iessen the priest shortage. Instead,' I engives sermons where he speaks personally of countered a truly spiritual man, who is also his marriage, children and grandchildren. A firmly grounded in the practical realities of stranger might be confused, but anyone belonging to the parish of St. Marguerite Bourgeoys in Brookfield, Conn., knows why this pastor is so tuned in to family. It has to do with the story of his life.

A one-time fighter pilot, later a businessman, Father Audette has

By Antoinette Bosco been a husband, is the father of four adult children and grandfather of IS, and now, since his wife Mary Ann's death in 1989, is a hardworking, guiding his parish to fiscal health. (St. devoted Catholic priest.

I had the privilege of talking with him Marguerite's debt has been reduced by about recently about what it means to become a one-third since he came here three years ago.)

"I don't like this being referred to as my priest after a good, 34~year marriage to a woman tie still calls his best friend. Ididn't having a second or third vocation," said Faget the answers, some might have expected, ther Audette~ He explained that he views all about older men or widowers being ordained decisions as "life decisions," each being a

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Albert Audette was in St. John Fisher Seminary in Connecticut, welcomed by the vocation director Msgr. Stephen DiGiovanni. He had talked to each of his children "to ask their permission. They were absolutely stunned and pleased. If they were unhappy, I don't know what I would have done." He ' was ordained in 1993.

Father Audette's diverse experiences were seen from the beginning as a great plus for his work as a priest. Added to that is his enthusiasm, energy and love for the Church and the priesthood, so evident to his parishioners.

The 67-year-old priest said he has never looked at age "as an issue. I look at energy and will. You're always tired and rundown unless you're on track with the Holy 'Spirit."

Then, humbly, he added: "I want people to know that prayer is so essential to success.

Underscoring everything 1 do is that need to pray."

natural step, "one into the other."

"I've had the best of everything - family, money, position and now this. I love being a priest as much as being Mary Ann's husband and raising four kids. I loved working for a living to ~upport my family. And now I work here, the spiritual father of my children in this parish," he said.

FatherAi's decision to become a priest came to him suddenly after his wife was diagnosed with a fatal cancer. Making sudden decisions is not unusual for him. He tells how he met Mary Ann in 1954 and proposed to her literally in minutes. Ten days later she said yes.

It was devastating to him when she became ill, but now he can say of death: "I believe you don't grieve at the loss. You find joy in the person. Whether that person had 57 years, like my wife, or more, or fewer, you don't focus on the years, but on the life. You love them for the life."

'Tw,? months after Mary Ann's death,

·What makes a good grandchild Good grandchildren are well disciplined. who eats all the food set before him or her in A well-disciplined grandchild is seen and portions that make sense to an intelligent not heard. . , and' witty person such as two tiny leafs of A good, well-disciplined grandchild 'is lettuce for salad, a big dollop of mashed poseen and not heard unless, of course, he or tatoes and extra ice cream on carrot cake.

A grandchild will not get down from the she is so intelligent and witty at Ii young age that being seen and heard a little makes sense. table until excused.

A grandchild wiil certainly not be excused An intelligent: weli-disciplined grandchild always eats all his or her vegetables. from the :iable early as long as she or he is A witty and intelligent grandchild al- still nursing, his or her green salad. , A grandchild dismissed from the table' ways eats his or her· vegetables if the vegetables are corn on the cob with lots of but- early even though a leaf'of his or her salad ter and salt or green beans with bacon and remains will not return to the table for dessert, but if he or she'has already eaten dessert chives.

An intelligent grandchild knows how to and grandpa finishes·the"salad, then that's a. ~_ spread vegetables all over the plate to create different scenario. the optical illusion that they are 'nonher~.

A well-disc:iplined grandchild will go to ' A grandchild will eat all other food set bed when it is time to go to bed.

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A grandchild who is read bedtime stories after going t9 bed late must be read tales of great moral and spiritual value.

A grandchild who is read "Daffy's Day at the Zoo" at a late hour will sleep in , his or her bed.

A grandchild put to bed late will sleep in a sleeping bag on the floor in grandpa and grandma's room.

A grandchild who brings in the morning paper may snuggle with grandpa and grandma in the morning. . Good grandchildren are well disciplined.

Comments are welcome. Write until it is like milk and then sipping it off the ' ·Uncle Dan at 441 Church St., San Franend of fork tines will not,have bedtime sto- , cisco,' Calif. 94114; or' e-mail: ries read. cnsuncle@yahoo.com.

King's name on Catholic list ofmartyrs sparks interest

By JERRY FILTEAU CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON -As Americans prepared to observe the anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, popular interest was piqued by media reports that the Vatican might declare him as a modern Christian martyr later this year.

The speculation is not. entirely accurjlte.

It appears that very few and possibly even no names will actually be announced at the event in question -'- an ecumenical jubilee year service May 7 at Rome's Colosseum honoring thousands of 20th-century Catholic and non-Catholic Christians around the world who shed their blood for Christ. ' Nor is the event to be anything like the Church's ceremonies formally pronouncing someone blessed or a saint - as is usually implied in discussions,of the Church declaring someone a martyr.

When the Vatican asked Church officials around the world to submit names of 20thcentury martyrs whoc()uld -be honored for having given up their lives in witness to their faith, it specifically asked them to include non-Catholics. Many scholars have described this as an unprecedented ecumenical gesture.

On the short list of about two dozen names submitted by the U.S. bishops was Rev. King, a Baptist minister.

The slain civil rights leader, whose Jan. IS birthday is commemorated as a national holiday, exemplified nonviolent resistance to racial injustice.

Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of Belleville, Ill., said the wide public interest in the appearance of Rev. King on the bishops' list of U.S. Chris~ianmartyrs "is indicative of the broad general respeCt that Dr. King enjoys in the United States." \ Bishop Gregory, vice president of the National Confe_renceofCatholic Bishops and head ofits Subcommittee on the Third Millennium,

spoke with Catholic News Service by telephone shortly before he appeared on the "CBS Evening News" to comment on the matter.

Rev. King "deeply touched and impacted the life of this nation," Bishop Gregory told CNS'. "He is one of-our national heroes." , "The uniqueness of his approach to social ~liange,". he added, "was bringing together the Christian tradition of nonvi.olence·

and love of neighbor, with a deep Christian history as a Baptist preacher and it man of the Word of God, and combining that with his understanding and appreciation of the nonviolent movement so effectively exercised by Mohandas Gandhi.

Bishop Gregory declined to release other names the U.S. bishops sent to Rome, saying it would be up to·the Holy See to decide how to . release the more than 10,000 names submitted from around the world. But Dr. King "was not , the only non-Catholic" on the U.S. bishops' list.

PauLHenderson, director of the bishops' national third millennium office, said he received phone calls from media across the country after wire services pickeq up a Boston Globe Page One feature story about the Catholic list naming Rev. King as a martyr.

"It sparked a good amount of'interest in both the Church's celebration of new martyrs and Dr. King's connection to that," h~ said. "I think it raises up the fact that at this time we need people to look up to who live.d a noble Christian life, who became witnesses, pointers to living out the Gospel, to the point of the supreme sacrifice of their lives."

Bishop John H. Ricard of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Fla., who like Bishop Gregory is African-American, said he was not involved in putting Rev. King's name on ihe list, but he regarded it as a good choice.

"I think it would be based on our experience in the United States of the struggle of African-Americans and all minorities against A CATHOLIC school girl holds up an image of Martin Luther King Jr. during the oppression of racism. Dr. King personified a program honoring.t~.e slain civil rights leader in Newark, N.J. (eNS file photo) that struggle," he said.

The, bread used for the Eucharist Q. One of the parishioners in .water, for example, or gummy oil, our small parish serves as chair- while perhaps 'valid for the sacraman of our liturgy commission. ments, are grossly inappropriate Recently he has made some and unbecoming. changes, with the approval of our Thus, the Church insists that the pastor, which we are told are bread for the eucharistic celebraproper but which we wonder tion "appear'as actual food" (Genabout. eral Instruction on the Roman MisEvery few weeks ,homemade bread is substituted for the usual·host.

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(North Carolina) On the other hand, the Latin-rite A. First, there is nothing wrong tradition and the present regulain itself with using bread made by tions of the Church require that no people in the local community. I've ingredients other than wheat flour known parishes, for example, where and water be used in making the families take turns preparing the bread. bread for Mass. It can be a beautiI've had much correspondence ful and meaningful custom. on this subject through the years, It is difficult to answer your ques- and have learned that most people tion honestly without noting that find it difficult, to say the least, to we have two seemingly contradic- make bread this way and have it tory sets of regulations for eucha- come out looking any more like ristic bread. recognizable bread than the usual .

The Church has insisted increas- ·hosts. ingly on the vital importance of One is reminded of the little signs in the celebration of the lit- first communicant who received a urgy, especially in the sacramental . common, tiny white host that and eucharistic liturgies. : melted in his mouth and was ., These'signs'- oil, ~water; bread, asked if he believed that the bread wine, gestures, words":"'- are'essen.: . had becom'e the:'body 'of Christ. tials for the sacraments and should He replied, "I believe it is,the body reflect as genuinely as possible the ' ,ofChrist, but I don't believe it was reality they purport to be. Dirty bread."

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Tell him or her each night how gest step: admitting that you have a serious problem, that you are an many drinks, if any,you have had.

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He died recently, but his wife has . given me the instructions for preparing and baking Communion . bread this way. I will be happy to send it to. anyone who writes to me at the address below.

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5. Have your family physician monitor and oversee your efforts.

You may need some help with medication during the initial withdrawal phase.

6. Plan "an angel," some activity to put in place .when the "devil" of desire possesses you.

For example, you might go for a walk, call a friend, say a special prayer (perhaps one of the psalms), do five sit-ups, get away from wherever you are or something similar.

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Rally.-goer says people more and··more vocal about Pro-Life cause

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Ed Taylor, one ofthe Shalotte rallyRALEIGH, N.C. - A national Pro- goers, said public demonstration was Life official attending a life rally in an effective way ofletting politicians Raleigh said she thinks people are know where the Catholic community becoming more.vocal about their stands.

Irene Manning, chair of Charlotte Pro-Life stand in their daily lives and that it's making a difference in abor-· Area Right to Life and a member of tion numbers.

St. Thomas Aquinas Church, called It is no longer possible, accord- abortion "the. greatest injustice we ing to Carol Long Tobias, National have in the country."

She said rightto life activities are Right to Life, PAC director, for a woman to have an abortion without attended by people with nothing to knowing "that someone think., it is gain and no self-interest: ''We are alwrong." ready born."

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The moniker, joined forever to She said people are more open Catholic Church in Cary, Father Riabout being Pro-Life at work, in chard Rohrer, noted his parish's long former prizefighter Rubin Carter, school, and in the home. She said involvement witft Project Rachel, a· proved prophetic as carter pulled no that is having an impact on the num- post-abortion healing ministry. He punches in pointing out hisperspecber of abortions. being performed in said the greatest victims of abortion·· tive on the critical challenges faCing the United States, a figure she said are the moth~rs. , . .._y. the United States a~ a unive~ity prayer stood at about 3,500 per day.

For the chIidren, thepnestsaJd, the breakfast celebratIng the life of Rev. Long warned, however, that "we ordeal is over. However, the· mothers f; 'IMartin Luther King Jr. do not condemn women who have must continue to ·Iivt;. "the hell" of As a tape of his unofficial anthem had an abortion." Rather, she said, it having ''the most intimate ofrelation- by Bob Dylan' played, general ap:is important to work with women who ships in their lives destroyed;' he said. plause turned to rhythmic' clapping.

Tom and Rosanne Pagles of St. "If you don't commit the crime, are living with the aftermath of the Vincent de Paul Church in Charlotte tell the truth, get a good lawyer, have procedure.

The rally was held in the shadow felt their presence at the rally and a solid alibi and credible witnesses. If of the Legislative Office 'Building in march was particularly important this you don't fit the profIle, pass a lie dethe state capital, a fact not lost on, year. They areabOliuo become grand- tector test, have no motive, no opporone Raleigh man. Jim McElwee of parents for the first time and said it tunity or no means, you'll beset free, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish said he was important for them to support life. right?" Carter asked rhetorically at the was at the rally to offer "encourageKnights ofColumbus from around end of a list of what should keep one ment to our legislators to change the the state took partin the rally and led out of prison. law" that allows abortion. the subsequent march around the . The audience answered, "No." Among those standing in the government district in Raleigh. Ban- Carter passed all the tests while being cold wind that swept around the nerswavedinthebreezebearingcoun- accused of triple murder. ' "That's right," he said. "That's government buildings was a del- cil names from Winston-Salem, Garegation from St. Brendan the Navi- ner, Belmont and Raleigh, among right."

AS Dylan once sang of this athlete gator in Shalotte, near the southern others.· from New Jersey, ''Herecomes the story of 'The Hurricane.'" ~~~ , In 1966, his star'as a middleweight ;1,'~ Government reports show slight declines was still in ascension. , :,~l':;n U.S. abortion rates over the lost decode "I was a neon sign with a chip on t"" ... , ." my shoulder. And the next thing I "' knew, I was on trial for my life;' he said of the nightmare to come. . .

Carter was wrongly accused, tried and convicted of a 1966 New Jersey barroom triple murder he did not commit. .

After serving 19 years of three life sentences in .prison and narrowly avoiding state execution, the case involving Carter was overturned in 1985. .

His life is the basis ofthe film 'The Hurricane;' starringAcademy Awardwinner Denzel Washington. (The film receivedanA-ill-adults-ciassification from the U.S. Catholic Conference's Office for Film and Broadcasting.) . '~s· a suspect, you are as good as guilty. People assume that you had to do something to get arrested;' Carter said of an "us-them" mentality held (

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Carter's commitment to the cause Of those unjustly trapped by the systern that 'once confined him is evidenced in his membership on the board of directors for Human Rights, the Alliance for Prison Justice and the TOfonto-basedAssociation in Defense of the Wrongfully Convicted.

'Those of us outside the country see you (in the United States) a bit differently than you see yourselves.

You are in serious trouble," said Carter; now a Toronto resident. He was commenting on a recent court ruling that factual innocence is no longer a reason to seek redress in court.

This was the .vehicle by which Carter's case was heard outside the confines of a tainted state court systern.

Commenting on government and privatized prisons in the United States, Carter said, "Prison destroys everything valuable to a person. It doesn't rehabilitate, it debilitates."

A botched surgery compounded by a lack of competent medical care in prison caused blindness in his right eye. While others might become justifiably angry at that injustice, Carter takes it in stride.

"Instead of thinking about it as losing sight, I looked at it as having one eye that sees outwardly and one

that s~ inwardly," he said. . Introspection and transcendence have been invaluable in Carter's fight against the injustice inflicted upon him for being a black man accused in . America. . This one-two Combination rewired ,his neon sign to blink "Vacancy," . opening him up to requests for correspondence from mothers like Joann . Patterson, whose son, Aaron, sits on lliinois death row as an inmate, to re-, . quests from the Oval Office.

Ccirter attended a private screening of 'The Hurricane" at the White House with President Clinton, where the two men discussed the issue ofthe death penalty.

When asked about the specifics of their conversation, he said it should remain private.

In an unprecedented gesture, Carter was awarded an honorary championship belt by the Worl~ Boxing Council. The belt, said Carter, is his second most treasured possession. '~boutfourorfive years ago, I was given a peace medal by my neighbors in Canada TheSe are the people, I live next to who gave a man once convicted of a triple murder a medal for being a good neighbor. That I most treasure;' he said.

"Today, the neighborhood peace medal, tomorrow the Nobel Peace Prize," he added, smiling. "Dare to dream." .

Father Grile is new president and publisher of Liguori LIGUORI, Mo. (CNS)'He earned his master's in di-· Redemptorist Father Harry A. Grile vinity at St. Alphonsus Seminary has been named the new president" and pursued graduate studies in and publisher of Liguori Publica- European history and church histions, replacing Redemptorist Father tory at Fordham University at the Thomas M. Santa, whose seven-year Un~versity of Chicago's Divinity term ended in 1999.

School, Father Grile has served 'as chairLiguori Publications, one of the nation's largest Catholic publishers, mll!} ofthe board of trustees at Cathois a Redf:mptorist apostolate whose, lic Theological Union in Chicago, leadership changes every five to has been chairman ofthe North Ameriseven years. can Redemptorist history task force Father Grile, who was ordained in and a member of the extraordinary 1968, has worked as a pastor, teacher provincial council ofhis order's Denand church historian. He was profes- ver province.

Father Santa's new position is as sor of church history, vice president and academic dean at Mount St. director of Picture Rocks Retreat Alphonsus Seminary in Esopus, N.Y. Center in Cortaro, Ariz.

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Catechists urged not to sell teens short on MaryBy ELIZABETH A. PERRY

built around the Magnificat, he said. And when catechists have NEW ORLEANS - Don't discussions about peace they sell teens short on their potencould bring up the Magnificat, in which Mary talks "about tial interest in Mary, Marianist Brother James Barrette told a peace and justice." group of catechists in New OrHe also suggested taking the leans recently. images of Mary as mother, disWhen Mary is introduced in ciple and witness and helping' ways to which teens can relate, teens to develop devotions that are uniquely their own. For exthey are more likely to develop a personal devotion to, her, he ample, he suggested prayer sersaid in his presentation, 'There's vices that allow teens to help Something About Mary: Makplan the music. ing Mary Meaningful for "A litany is a type of devoTeens." He spoke during the tion that can sit well with 22nd Johannes Hofinger He also suggested present- young people," he added. "In Catechetical Conference. a litany there is a lot of possiThe theme of the confer- ing Mary as motherand disciple bility for rhythm, and rhyme. ence, attended by catechists in the context ofa faithful witness. Set a litany to music or a rhythm," he added. from across the country, was who showed up whereverJesus "Eucharistic People Cross- was, even atthe foot ofthe cross.

Brother Barrette suging the Threshold."

B' h B 'd M gested that teens draw visual Brother Barrette said a . rot er arrette sal ary was litanies of Marian images on common approach cat- a witness to active discipleship large murals and study icons. echists take in teaching because she followed her son He suggested using a prayer teens about Mary is to fromplacetoplaceandbelieved service as a way to encourpresent her largely in her . h' age teens to pray before role as a mother, an image In IS message. icons. "One person escorts teen males have difficulty ...- - - - - - - - - - - - - . another to the icon and the relating to in their own lives. escort prays for the other perHe said a more effective apare Jesus' moments, not Mary's. son as they look at the icon," proach might be to present the There was a radicalness, in Mary said Brother Barrette. image, of Mary not just as a being there for her son and Since most teens don't have mother but as a disciple.

God." the funds to hop a fligh~ to A good way to do that, he . He said in their daily lives Medjugorje or Portugal, he said, teens will end up in situations catechists might arrange a trip said, is to talk to teens about the "followers" in their own lives where they have to take a stand to a local holy place and "use it peer groups, cliques and gangs, alone for what is right, such as as an opportunity to teach about refusing to go to parties where apparitions and holy places and remind them that Mary followed Jesus. they know alcohol or drugs will around the world." be used. In using Mary as an exTeens can also use the Inter"Ask them what they are following," said Brother Barrette. ample, teens can learn about sinet to research far-off apparilently standing in opposition tions and holy places, he sug"Find a way to touch them where with their friends in difficult situgested. they are at and they will start talking about Mary, even if they ations.

Helping teens learn about don't know it路 yet. We have to Catechists should not be Mary enables them to develop a let young people see her as she afraid to make Marian devospirituality that is their own, was. Take the word 'disciple' tions a part of teens' lives, which they can turn around and and take it into the everyday Brother Barrette said. For ex-' teach their peers, Brother Barlives of people." ample, a prayer service could be rette said.

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He also suggested presenting Mary as mother and disciple in the context of a faithful witness who showed up wherever Jesus was, even arthe foot of the cross.

Brother Barrette said Mary was a' witness to active discipleship because she followed her son from place to place and believed in his message.

"This can be a way to teach young people to be some place without being the center of attention," he said "Mary is about the presence of 'being.' These

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to enroll their children in Catholic lic Middle School for a Mass at St. schools. Catholic Schools Week Mary's Church in that city. also is an opportunity to interest OtheractivitiesatSt. Mary's School , citizens in volunteering their time include a career day, when parents and talents to local Catholic come in and talk about their livelischools. hoods, grandparents day, when grandThe theme for this year's celebra- parents come to school for the day and tion is "Catholic Schools: Lighting the participate in any of a number of acWay to aNew Century." Sister Lourd~ tivities and spirit day, including a lipSheehan, RSM, USCC secretary for sync contest for the students. Later in education, said that the "lighting the the week, the Parent-Teacher Organiway to a new century" theme has a spe- zation will sponsor an ice cream sundal message for parents. "Catholic dae party, and later a roller skating sesschools do provide a 'guiding light' sion in town. Friday will be Fun Day, . for parents who are increasingly con- when parents prepare the school hall cerned that character and values edu- for a day of games, raffles and amuse- . cation play a key role in the curricu- 'ments. On Saturday night, there will be lum." , a parent's social and dinner.

In the Fall River diocese, there are ''We've tried to include everyone, as,many activities planned as there are parents, teachers and students, in the schools. At Holy Trinity Regional activities;' said Cote. ''We want to recSchool in WestHarwich, Principal Sis- ognize them all." ter Carol Clifford, RSM, has a full week At Bishop Feehan High School in planned for her students. On Monday, Attleboro, activities include lunch for all of the students will bring in boxed the teachers, an ice cream party for the lunches and will dine together as a students, a rally for the basketball game school. ''It's an effort to bring all our against cross-town rivals, Attleboro students together at one time;' said Sis- High School, liturgy, a Coffee House ter Gifford. "Later in the day, we have and a day hosting students from St. games planned for the students. The Mary-Sacred Heart School in North children in the older grades have re- Attleboro arId St. John the Evangelist searched games played by children in School in Attleboro, including lunch different countries, and they will teach and an路 invitation to the Feehanthese games to the younger students:' Somerset High School basketball . Also planned is a school-wide game. , Holy Family-Holy Name School in Bingo game, and an eSsay/art contest. ''Grades Kthrough 3 will do'art projects .New Bedford has a full schedule inand grades 4;7 will write essays all cluding a book fair, Brown Bag Opera, based around the theme of what the ''Yo-Yo Man;' and services honoring students can contribute the new mil- the school's volunteers, teachers and lennium:' Later, some students will go students. The week culminates with a ice skating arid others bowling. The Mass at Holy Name ofthe Sacred Heart week-lOng activities will culminate of Jesus Church in New Bedford, folwith a school Mass on Feb.4, followed lowed by a Family Sub Sandwich and by refreshments for the parents, and on Dance Night at Holy Name Center.

Feb. 6, there will be a pancake breakAt Taunton Catholic Middle fast.

School, members of the Art Gub will At St. Mary's Primary School in design posters based on the Catholic Taunton, Principal Brian M. Cote will SchoolsWeek theme, students will take 'keep his students busy in other ways'. part in a dress-down day, watch videos, On Jan. 30, the sChool hosts an open attend a prayer service including the house and open registration for next blessing ofthe throats for students, parschool year. On Jan. 31, students from . ents and grandparents, and there will St. Mary's School will join with the be an award ceremony honoring stustudents from Our Lady of Lourdes dents who have offered community serSchool, Taunton and Taunton Catho- vice.

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Enrique Planas Coma of the PonROME - Italian broadcaster tifical Council for Social CommuMediaset announced plans to film nications told La Repubblica: Bernabei remained optimistic, a television movie on the life of Pope John Paul II, with Ben telling Reuters she was confident an agreement would be reached Kingsley as the pontiff. .

Mediaset talk show host and with the Vatican.

Discussions with Kingsley and producer Maurizio Costanzo made the surprise announcement re- Attenborough were already under cently at a company conference in . way, she.said.

The choice of Kingsley for the Orvieto, Italy. , Company officials were report- role of such an important religious edly trying to reunite "Gandhi" star figure should c.ome as no surprise Kingsley and director Sir Richard to Italian television viewers. The ACTORS WOODY Harrelson and Antonio Banderas face off in the ring in a scene from British actor played Moses in a "Play It.to the Bone." The U.S. Catholic Conference Classified the movie 0 - morally offenAttenborough for the project.

Costanzo said Ettore Bernabei, 1996 Mediaset television produc- sive. See CNS Movie CapSUles on this page. (CNS photo from Reuters) the president of the Italian produc- tion.

But Kingsley is best known for tion company Lux Vide and former . head ofltalian state television RAI, his 1982. Oscar-winning portrayal pf the Indian nonviolent revolutionwould produce the film.

But Costanzo seemed to jump ary Mahatma Gandhi, whom the

By GERRI PARE CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE succumbs after Jake, Holt and Sue Lee cents find themselves playing God the gun in making the announce- current pope greatly admires. crudely amputate his arm in a futile With a gun. Indeed, one timid male, ment, as the project has yet to reIf he accepts Mediaset's offer, NEWYORK - Far from the Civil effort to save him. Sue Lee is left with when asked by his bride if he is a virceive the Vatican's stamp of ap- Kingsley can draw on personal exWar's deciding battles, two Missouri neighbors as Jake and Holt rejoin the gin, can only stammer, "Well, I've proval. . perienceas well: He met the pope While Costanzo said the Vati- in September 1998 at an audience. lads join the pro-Southern Bushwackers, which includes a bru- killed 15 men" to suggest virility.

Lee pays meticulous attention to The proposed film on the Polish Bushwackers to battle any Unionists tal redneck (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) can had already given its go-ahead, along the Kansas-Missouri border in set on killing Holt and Jake as well as period detail, but the movie's tone is Matilde Bernabei, Lux's chief ex- pope wo~ld be part of a Mediaset the enemy. remote and its dramatics fall rather flat. ecutive officer, said in the Italian series on important figUl:es of the "Ride With the Devil" (USA Films).

Teen-ager Jake (Tobey Maguire) Participating in Quantrill's Raid, Its concern for philosophizing about . newspaper La Repubblica. "We 20th century. believes in the Confederacy, unlike theAugust 1863 massacre ofmore than war tends to make the characters seem have neither asked for nqr obtained Mediaset said it was also planning television movies on Pope his German immigrant father. When 150 citizens of Lawrence, Kan., Jake hollow, not flesh-and-blood young lluthorization from the yatican." people trying to survive.

1)te Vatica~ has not "issued any John XXIII, Adolf liitler, Benito the father of Jake's best friend, Jack" ,~dHoltarewoundedandhealslowly Bull (Skeet Ulrich), is killed by pro-'. in the house where Sue Lee is being , The director seems more taken up Mussolirii and Microsoft founder commellt on the film. . Northern Jayhawkers, the two teens sheltered - and has given birth to with depicting the crucial· turning "Up until now, we have received Bill Gates as pm:t of the series. vow to avenge the death.

JackBull's baby. Her guardians as- pointofanationatwarwithitselfthan Joining the ragtag, wandering "sume';Takewas the father and.expect, in following his characters' fates.

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Passionist'Father Thomas Berry riod of human <devastation of the iJito hiding for the winter and the two Kansas that proves more interesting rr=============;] is best known as an environmental- .Eaith to a period when humans friends find themselves holed up in a than the personal stories of the plot's " Movies Online ist and cultural historian. His 1988 would· be present to the planet, in a miserable dugout with a Southern protagonists. This may be in part due book, "The Dream' of the Earth," •mutually: beneficial manner."

Can't remember how a recent gentleman (Simon Baker) and his to the subdued performances, but also was a seminal work providing a . What this m'eans and'how weare former slave, Holt (Jeffrey Wright). As to the sketchy characterizations, as film was claSsified by the USCC? Want to know whether to let the philosophical groundwork for en- to accomplish this is the subject of they contemplate their bloody deeds Jake, Jack Bull, Sue Lee and Holt are kids gO see it? Now yOl,l can look vironmentalism, not just as an iso- this book. Father Berry examines and uncertain futures their sole visitor not very well defined; their characters film reviews up on America Online. lated social issue, but as a broad the current condition of the Earth bearing food is young war widow Sue just seem to be forming as the narraOnce you're connected to AOL, just cultural paradigm. and the historical background of Lee (Jewel), with whom Jack Bull ini- , tive draws to a close. ' use the keyword CNS to go to "The Dream of the Earth" set human interaction with the Earth tiateS Ii romance with intent to marry.

Battlefield sequences are stirringly Catholic News Service's online , forth the idea that the Earth has, in that has brought about the present However, the fighting intervenes filmed, not to emphasize the supposed site, then look for movie reviews. humanity, evolved a sel(-reflective 'situation of environmental catas- and a wounded Jack Bull eventually glory of war but its horror, as adolesconsciousness. If we can see our- trophe. The current order is based , selves as fully a part of the Earth, on human perception that creation . reeted by ScottElliott,,the films starts The U.S. Catholic Conference classiwe can understand ourselves as the exists for the use of humanity, in an out promisingly, 'but the plot soon fication is 0 - morally offensive.

Earth's consciousness. exploitive relationship. The future becomes overburdened and jumpy, The Motion Picture Association of Father Berry's most recent offer- order is one of co-existence and losing its edge and vitality. Shl\dowy America rating is R - restricted. ing, 'The Great Work: Our Way Into mutuality - an "Ecozoic Era." marital encounters with nudity and ''Supernova'' (MGM) . the' Future" continues this theme' Father Berry:s perspective,is ulminimal rough language. The U.S. A 22nd-century medical,rescue while exploring ways in which hu- timately a hopeful one. He has great Catholic Conference classification is spaceship (crew includes Angela manity can become what Father faith in the ability of institutions A-ill ~ adults. The Motion Picture Bassett, James Spader and Lou DiaBerry calls a "mutually enhancing" and people to change infundamenAssociation ofAmencarating is R- mond Phillips) receives a strange dispresence on Earth. tal ways. Reading "The Great restricted. ' tress call that launches the ~essel on Father Berry's view is that we Work" is an exercise in optimism.' ''Play It to the Bone" (Touchstone) an adventure linking them with an must change our underlying atti- Father Berry says.that,"the cata£~§ . Tawdry drama in which best alien artifact able to make humans tudes toward creation. This in- strophic:moments are also creative ' friends who are professional bOXing stronger and younger, but with some 'cludes our relationship with our moments." £aaJ)~Ulle§ rivals (Woody Harrelson and Anto- tUurowing sideeffeCts. As directed by fellow humans as' well as our rela~The,.Great Work" is an intellecnio Banderas) battle it out in Las Ve-, ' Thomas Lee, the unbelievable plot NEWYO~ Following are tionship with every part'ofcreation, tually challenging book. It is also recent capsule reviews issued by the gas for big prize mom~y and a chance development and cardbOard acting both living and nonliving. Pres- quite readable. Father Berry avoids U.S. Catholic Conference Office for at the' middleweight championship make it one to skip for all but dieently there is an enormous discon- the pitfalls of academese without ,Film and Broadcasting. title. Writer-directorRon Shelton sulr ' hard sci-fi fans. Intermittentsci-fi viotinuity between humans and any- sacrificing depth; He writes for 'a "A Map of the World" stituteS brutal bOxers, artificially volence and a few sexual encounters thing not human. Our task, if we wide audience and expresse's his . '(FirstLook) luptuous wome':! and crude dialogue with nudity. The U.S. aitholic Conare to survive, is not only to bridge ideas in ways that are inclusive and Drama in which the life of ali unf9r plot and character development. ference classification isA-ill- adults. that gap but eliminate it completely. (small "c") catholic. He includes flappable wife and mother Recurring; gory boxing violence, The Motion Picture Association of While this may sound radical at modes of spirituality from many' fairly graphic sexual encounters, brief ' America rating is PG-13 - parents (Sigourney Weaver in peak form) livfirst, be assured that Father Berry is, different traditions, both Eastern ing on a farm in Wisconsin is nudity and sexual references, nega- are strongly,cautioned that some no neo-Luddite. He recognizes the and Western. The effect of this is devastatingly altered when an untive references to religion, and con- material may be inappropriate for value that modeni technology has that readers from diverse traditions stant rough language and profanity. children under 13. imaginable accident happens. As dibrought to the lives of many. He also. can find valuable guidanc'e here. . 'CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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ARTIST SONDRA Jonson looks over her creation of "Rachel Weeping for Her Children."

The life-size sculpture representing the sanctity of life was placed at the Fatima Shrine at S1.

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Sculptor creates statue of Rachel for Nebraska shrine

By CATHY BLANKENAU BENDER CATHOUC NEWS SERVIcE

ARAPAHOE, Neb. - Sculptor SondraJonson says her statue of"Rachel Weeping for Her Children" at a Nebraska Fatima shrine stands as a prayer that all people "may realize the gift of life."

Jonson, a magma cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, has been a professional sculptor for 15 years and has done numerous religious works.

Her newest, of Rachel, is the latest addition to the statues in the Fatima Shrine at St Germanus Church inArapahoe in southwestern Nebraska.

The Shrine, which is in the Lincoln Diocese, has been in place since 1956. It includes 13 statues from Italy, placed . in a grotto of natural rock and a路garden of more than 150 ,shrubs and trees.

In 1996, Jonson was asked by Father Mel Rempe, her pastor at St John's Church in Cambridge, who is also the pastor in Arapahoe, if she would sketch ideas for a new memorial to life to be placed at the Fatirna Shrine at St. Germanus.

The artist, the mother of three and a convert from Judaism to Catholicism, became an active member at St. John's after settling in Cambridge from Philadelphia in 1994.

She offered three ideas and a year later Father Rempe and the Knights of Columbus chqse her sketch of the sorrowful Rachel of the Old Testament, who was anguished for not being able to bear children but later was blessed with two sons.

In Jonson's sculpture, an empty blanket lies across Rachel's lap and her face is full of sorrow.

The artist said: "Rachel seems to say, 'Here is the blanket in which my child should have nestled against me. It is empty; my heart is more than empty; my sorrow is beyond words and God alone is my help now. My prayer is notjust for myself, but for all people, that they may realize the gift

of life and never willingly destroy it, that God may heal and help us all."

At the side of the statue is a rose representing life and hope.

"I was particularly glad to undertake this commission because Rachel, as a symbol, ties Old Testament faith to New Testament believers," Jonson told the Southern Nebraska Register, Lincoln's diocesan newspaper.

"It is so satisfying to have created a sculpture with a spiritual message that I can share with my Jewish family as . well as with my Christian circle," she added.

The Shrine was the inspiration of former pastor Father Henry Denis, a young Polish priest who was captured by the Nazis in 1939, for celebrating Mass, hearing confessions and even reciting the rosary - all activities prohibited by the Nazis.

Father Denis was placed first in Buchenwald and later Dachau. At both concentration camps ht< was starved, beaten and forced to be a guinea pig for malaria experim~ts. .

But he found strength even in the horror of the camps. .In Dachau Father Denis met a fellQw priest who was a Marian scholar and from him learned the story of the Blessed Mother appearing to three shepherd children at Fatima, Portugal.

Father Denis escaped execution in the gas chamber when it was his tum, and he attributed that to the fact he was praying so intently to Mary that he did not hear his number called and the Nazis did not notice his absence.

When the Americans liberated Dachau in April 1945, he was released. He came to the United States in 1948 and then was invited to serve in the Lincoln Diocese.

A year later, he was assigned as pastor St. Germanus Church in Arapahoe and St. Michael Church in Oxford.

Inspired by the tale, his parishioners developed the Fatima Shrine. He died in 1984.

No pope can dissolve valid marriages, pope tells Church tribunal

By JOHNTHAVIS CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY - The bond of the sacrament of marriage is so strong and sacred that not even the pope has the power to dissolve it, Pope John Paul II said.

The pope, addressing members of the Roman Rota, a Church tribunal that handles appeals of marriage annulment cases, said recently that he wanted to put an end to speculation that a pontiff had the power to dissolve valid marriages as part of his role as "vicar of Christ."

"Faced with the doubts and confusion that could emerge, it is necessary to reaffirm that matrimony validly concluded and consummated can never be dissolved, not even by the power of the Roman

pontiff," he said.

"The opposite argument would imply that no marriage is absolutely indissoluble, which would be contrary to what the Church has taught and still teaches about the indis. solubility of the marriage bond," he said.

The pope said he wanted to underline that this has been the constant teaching of the Church, as a "doctrine to be definitively held" by the faithful.

While the pope has the power to teach the Gospel, administer the sacraments and pastorally govern the Church in Christ's name and with Christ's authority, that "does not include any power over divine law, natural or positive," he said.

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recognize a papal faculty for the dissolving of valid marriages, he said.

In his talk to the marriage law experts, the pope said that when the Church declares a marriage annulled, it in no way weakens the principle that all valid marriages are permanent.

Annulments must be granted for reasons established by Church law, the pope said. He said some tribunals have tended to accept the general "divorce mentality" in modern society as justification for annulment. But the pope cautioned that tllis was not enough; tribunals, he said, must determine that the divorce mentality profoundly influenced one or more of the spouses to the . point that they were unable to enter into a valid marriage.

BALTIMORE (CNS) - Recognizing that funerals are emotionally painful times for grieving family and friends and not always easy for pastors to organize, the Archdiocese of Baltimore has issued a formal "Policy on Catholic Church Funeral Rites."

The three-page document, which took effect Jan. 13, is designed to provide clarity and consistency and thus make it easier for pastors and family members to cope with such trying events.

Approved by Cardinal William H. Keeler, who first consulted with the Priests Council and theArchdiocesan Pastoral Council, it has been sent to all parishes and funeral directors -in the archdiocese.

The policy restricts personal eulogies during the Mass to just one person and for no longer than five minutes and covers just about any other questions that might come up during funeral preparations.

It also clarifies the Church's position on cremation that, Cardinal Keeler said, has been confusing or unclear to some people in a Church that did not even permit it until a few years ago.

Among the guidelines the cardinal said "are to be respected" are four key points: - A funeral Mass should be considered the norm within funeral rituals.

- The homily of the Mass should be based on the Scripture readings selected for the Mass and may also relate to the prayers of the liturgy.

- Following the prayer after Communion, one speaker, a member or friend of the family, may speak for not more than five minutes in remembrance of the deceased.

- Additional speakers may be asked to speak during the vigil service.

On cremation, the archdiocesan policy notes that Cardinal Keeler has delegated local pastors and associate pastors to give permission for the funeral to be celebrated in the pres-

ence of the cremated remains.

However, it cautions that in every case the priest must consider the reasons for the request and be assured that the cremated remains will be handled with reverence, buried in a grave or entombed in a mausoleum or columbarium, a vault for urns containing cremated remains.

While stressing that the Church prefers entombment to cremation, the policy statement also addressed the appropriateness of scattering the ashes after cremation. If there are such plans, no representative of the Church should be present, it said.

The document also answers other questions about which some Catholics are confused. For example, it says that catechumens - those preparing to be formally received into the Church - may receive the same funeral rite as full members of the Church.

The policy calls it "permissible, and even laudable, to donate one's body to science for purposes of research or individual organs for transplantation."

It also gives permission for Catholic funeral rites for an unbaptized child, "if the parents had intended to have the 'child baptized," and for a baptized member of another church, provided this would not be contrary to the wishes of the deceased.

The policy also allows Catholic clergy to officiate at the funeral services of other faith traditions in funeral homes and at the graveside. If invited, priests may also participate in funeral services conducted by the minister of the church of the deceased.

In keeping with the Church law, however, Catholic funeral rites are not permitted for "notorious heretics, apostates and schismatics"; those who chose cremation for reasons opposed to the Christian faith; or "other manifest sinners" for whom a Catholic funeral cannot be granted "without public scandal to the faithful."

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MOSCOW (eNS) - While acting Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged his commitment to religious freedom, Catholics in Russia say it is too early to gauge his attitude on religious matters. , By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE parish priests, 50 men and women Putin is heavily favored to lead HONG KONG - The Diocese religious, and 78 lay people from the fIrst round of presidential elecc of Hong Kong is preparing for its parishes, diocesan bodies and com- tions set for March 26. The Dec. 31 second diocesan synod, to begin missions, .and Catholic associa- surprise resignation of former PresiinMarch, _ tions. dent Boris Yeltsin moved the prime Four briefings in Chinese and minister to power as acting president.

Scheduled to open March 4, the synod is expected to last for atleast English have been held in four disIn a telephone interview from his ,10 months, depending on the num- tricts to familiarize local Catholics office in Novosibirsk, Bishop Joseph wi th the Werth, apostolic administrator of Siber of issues beria, cautioned against attaching too ,to be disIn his homily at the Mass, synod. cussed, re- Cardinal John Baptist Wu .

In his much significance to Putiri's outward ported UCA Cheng-chung of Hong Kong, hoinily at demonstrations of faith, like crossRUSSIAN ACTING President Vladimir Putin and Russian News" an _ . . . the Mass, ing himself at the televised service A s ian urgeq Catholics to renew their Car din a I for Orthodox Christmas Jan. 7.

Orthodox Patriarch Alexei II address a reception at the Kremlin church news faith through formation 'imd to J9hn J.3aptist "It is really too early tb tell. It is marking the 2,OOOth anniversary of the birth of Christ earlier age n c y evangelize in Hong Kong .and. Wuc;h~ng- either simply a sign of fashion or of this month. (CNS photo from Reuters)' ' based in mainland China,'" . " chung, of genuine religious feeling," said Thailand. " H o n g Kong Bishop'Werth, whose apostolic ad- 70 years of brutal Soviet religious Alexei. Putin, though, has met frequently with the patriarch since beThe first di- ' - - - - - - - - - - - - - -. . ' U' r g e d ministration covers an area about 10 repression. o c' e san' Catholics to times the size of France. . On the other hand, hours after ing named prime ministerin August. synod was held 1970-1971. renew their faith through formation For minority faiths in Russia, Putin's "I can only hope that he doesn't Yeltsin's resignation, in a broadcast Leaflets in Chinese and English and to evangelize in Hong Kong change the government's attitude to- to the nation Putin pledged his com- closeness to the Russian Orthodox detailing the composition, content and mainland C.hina. ward the Church," the bishop said, mitment to religious freedom, saying, Church may be a mixed blessing. Orand procedures of the synod were His pastoral ~etterfor the begin- referring to Russian government poli- ''Freedom of speech, freedom of con- thodox leaders frequently denounce recently distributed to participants ning of the third .millennium, en- cies that aIlowed for a revival in science, freedom ofthe press, the right 'as proselytism the activities of missionat a stadium Mass inaugurating the couraged Catholics to be a source Catholic life. to private property: All these basic prin- aries, including Catholics, and call for diocese's jubilee celebrations. The of 'new hope for those in despair Before the 1991 fall of the Soviet ciples of a civilized society will be the government to better regulate miMass drew 30,000 Catholics. and in need, especially the Union only two Catholic parishes op- reliably protected by the state." nority faiths and cults. A restrictive 1997 Some 200 synod members in- marginalized and those who suffer erated in Russia - in Moscow and The handover of power and law on religion, strongly backed by clude 25 ex-officio members, 45 discrimination.

Leningrad. Now, there are about 200. Russia's nuclear suitcase from Yeltsin the Russian Orthodox Church, resulted "Throughout the regions, the lo- to Putin was not witnessed by a po- in a sharp curtailment of minority relical authorities are trying to be more litical figure or the head of Russia's gions' growth.

A key factor in determining independent from Moscow. For us, Constitutional Court, but by Russian sometimes this is good, sometimes it Orthodox Patriarch Alexei IT, leader " Putin's fate at the polls will be how the Russian army fares in its attempt is bad," said Bishop Werth, a Rus- of the 8o-million member church.

Since then, Putin has taken pains, to defeat rebels in the breakaway re-' sian citizen. "Three years ago, sev. ' .

• I eral of the regions passed their own to praise Christianity'S contribution public of Chechnya. Putin's soaring popularity among voters is attributed religion laws. (In those places) it has to,Russia. been very bad for us."

While Yeltsin's eight-year tenure to the relative ease with which the Oh adorable and Divine Will, behold me here ,before the Putin, 47, had a career in the KGB, witnessed a genuine nationwide reii- Russian military reclaimed much of immensity of Your Light, that Your eternal goodness may open the Soviet security police and intel- gious revival, he nevertook an inter- Chechnya late last year. In early 2000, to me the doors and make me enter into It to form my life all in ligence agency, and was a member of est in cultivating religious figures and however, lethal rebel counterattacks You, Divine Will. Therefore, oh adorable Will, prostrate before the Communist Party. They were the seemed to have a fonnal, politically made clear that the military campaign Your Light; I, the least of all creatures, put myself into the little two institutions most responsible for based relationship with Patriarch was far from won. group of the sons and daughters of Your Supreme FIAT. Pros~ trate in my nothingness, I invoke Your Light and beg that it clothe me and' eclipse all that does not pertain to You, Divine Will. It will be my Life, the center of my intelligence, the emapturer of my heart and of my whole being. I do not want the hiJman'Will· tb have life in this heart any longer. I will cast it away froTh rri~ and t/lus for,rri the new Eden of Peace, o( happiSAN SALVADOR (CNS) - The Portillo, afonner university profes- with a broad vision 6f the country's wide-ranging changes promised by sor and, one-time collaporator with reality. We are pleased." ness and of love. ~thJt I shall be always happy.. I sha)l h~ve . newly elected Guatemalim President Marxist guerrillas, publicly promised Portillo has appointed people from a singular, strength and a holiness that sanctifies all..things Alfonso Portillo have generated cau- fulfillment of the recommendations of across the political spectrum - includ. conducts them to God., ' tious optimism among Catholic lead- a 1999 U.N.-supervised truth commis- ing former guerrilla sympathizers, Here prostrate, I' invoke the help of the Most Holy Trinity ers iiI the Central American nation. sion on human rights abuses and of an Mayan scholars and members of opthat They permit me to liv~ in the cloister of the Divine Will and 'We view this with great optimism archdiocesan human rights office re- position political parties - to his first thus return in me the first order of creation, just as the creature ... the (announcements) are very posi- port, known as the Project for the Re- Cabinet Among them are Otilia Luz, was created. tive," Auxiliary Bishop Mario Rios covery of the Historical Memory. , one of the three members of the truth ,Heavenly Mother, Sovereign-and Queen of the Divine Fi<':lt, _' Montt of Guatemala City said last Archbishop Victor Hugo Martinez commission, and Edgar Gutierrez, take my hand and introduce me into th~ Light of the Divine ' week. ofLosAltos-Queialtenango, president fonner coordinator of the historical Will. You will be my guide,: my most tender Mother, and will. In his first public address after be- "ofthe Guatemalan bishops' conference, memory project under Bishop Gerardi. teach me to live in and to maintain myself in the order and the' ing swom in as Guatemala's fifth demo- told CNS by telephone: 'This has been During his speech, Portillo surprised . bounds of the Divine Will: HeavenlyMother, .I consecrate my' cratic president Jan. 14, Portillo, 48, of one of the most incredible discourses, his audience of international dignitarthe rightist Guatemalan Republican ies by pledging to tackle past and whole being to Your Immaculate Heart. You will teach me the Front, promised to create a new nation present abuses ofpowercommitted by doctrine ofthe Divine Will and I will listen most attentively to based on peace, respect for human theanny. ' Your leSsons., You will cover me with Your mantle so that the rights and better opportunities for all.

He also announced forthcoming infernal serpent dare not penetrate into this sacred Eden to enHe also announced a new internal legislation to allow a civili~ defense tice me and make me fall into the maze of the human will. , investigation into the death of Auxilminister, the first in the country's hisHeart of my, greatest Good,Jesus, You will give me Your iary Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera of tory, as well as the dissolution of the flames that they may bum me, consume me, and feed me to GuatemalaCity, aveteran human rights elite presidential guard, implicated in form in me the Life of the Divine Will. campaigner slain allegedly by memmany abuses, including the Bishop' Samt Joseph, yoti will be my protector, the guardian of my bers ofthe security forces. Portillo said Gerardi killing. heart, and will keep the keys of my will in your hands. You he aimed ''to establish the presumed Dutierrez, who worked with Bishop individual responsibility of agents of Gerardi, will head the strategic analywill keep my heart jealously and shall never give it to me again, the state in this atrocious crime, (which) sis secretariat of the presidency,.in that I may be sure of never leaving. the Will of God. charge of presenting proposals to constitutes a national disgrace."

My guardian Angel, guard me; defend ~e; help ine in ev,:, Portillo and monitoring the work of He also announced that April 26, erything so that my Eden may;flourish and be the instrument other state bodies. He will also be given the day of Bishop Gerardi's murder, that draw's all men into the Kingdom of th-e Divine Will. _Am~n. specific charge of keeping a close eye would beconsidered a "day ofnational on .the new investigation into the dignity" for victims ofthe nation's civil ( In Honor of Luisa Piccarreta 1865-1947 Child of th~ Divine Will) PRESIDENT ALFONSO' PORTILLO W3[ B.ishop Gerardi murder. i • • . '• •

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than previously, Sister Heffernan pointed out.

"Some respond at great sacrifice, leaving possessions and positions of eminence in order to serve the needs of God's people," she said. "They bring a maturity and some life experienc~ which can be invaluable in their understanding of the problems facing many parishioners and other needy people in today',s world." .

Members of the 16 congregations of men are engaged i!1 a variety of ministries that include: campus ministry; school chaplaincy, education, evangelization, Hispanic ministry, parish service, pastoral care, retreat and spiritual direction, social· services and a variety of volunteer activities.

There ro:e currently 35 different orders of women religious who are serving such ministries as: health

Dominican using the confessional box," he said. Then smiling, he added, ~'And it is just a talk between us, the penitent and I, and it is informal, yet it is the wonderful, forgiving sacrament of penance and absolution given."

As director of the Shrine since 1959, except for five years in the mid-1970s when he performed parish work and was director of St. Anne's School, Father Lachance has heard thousands of confessions in those 40 years.

"What I miss most now is being able to preach," he said. "Over the years I have preached a lot," he mused. "I gave homilies every Sunday and every weekday for long years. I preached weekly novenas at the Shrine, 13 nine-daynovenas on different subjects, 'yet each novena on just one theme. . Between 1987 and 1990 1 preached more than 250 holy hours on Fridays at the Shrine."

He noted that his preaching style changed over the years. ''After I was ordained a priest in St. Mary's Cathedral in this city on July 27,1942, by Bishop James E. Cassidy, my homilies were more instructional. I was a teacher and it came naturally I guess to teach the people during my homilies. But later, in 1974, I became involved in evangelization with the charismatic renewal and began to preach and teach on this subject, and study all I could about evangelization. I wanted to teach the people, yes, but I also saw a need to bring them to their knees, to bring them closer to Christ."

Without knowing it, Father Lachance was talking about the very history of St. Anne's itself, and the Dominicans who came from Lewiston, Maine, at the request of Bishop Matthew Harkins of Providence, R.I. (because Fall River was at that time part of the Providence Diocese).

The Dominican fathers came to minister to a huge and "stubborn" French-Canadian population in this city, who had rebelled against being sent "Irish" priests, even those who spoke fluent French, said Father Lachance. The situation had earlier caused former Bishop Thomas F. Hendricken to condemn the "excessive pride" of the Canadians and place Notre Dame de Lourdes Parish in the Flint Section under interdict and close it.

The troubles had spread to St. Anne's where another "Irish" priest was pastor. The arrival of the Dominicans began a legacy of ministry to the burgeoning French com-

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Each religious order had a founder who was inspired to respond to a specific situation in the history of the Church, Sister Heffernan said. "Many religious orders came to the United States following the great waves of immigrants from Western Europe in the 18th century; They helped their people to adjust to the difficult life here and to preserve their faith. Today, these same religious seek out the present-day needs of their people and strive with the same zeal to be of help in meeting their needs and in preserving their faith."

Continuedfrom page one munity that would see a population explosion at St. Anne's. Subsequently the church was built as were mission churches and schools; a convent for the arriving nuns for work at the hospital, the school and the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home. Thousands lined up to go to holy Communion at the many Masses on Sunday and weekdays.

"At times there were more than 50 Dominicans housed in this monastery, all serving here and other parishes and the hospital too," said Father Lachance, archivist and historiographer of St. Anne's, the Dominicans, and to an extent, the Franco-Americans of the area. . Ironically, or happily for the French community here, the French government in Canada promulgated decrees in' 1880 ordering the expropriation and expulsion of religious orders. The pro~il1cial of the Dominicans saw not onlyAmerica, but the needs of the people in Fall River as offering a refuge as well as a fruitful field for apostolic work.

Father Lachance has also written biographies of nine Dominicans who led the parish and community here and who died while at the priory. His latest work was the life of Father Jean Dominique Pare, his colleague and friend, who died here this fall.

Oddly, it is Father Lachance, a native of this city, who will end the Dominican mission to this city. The eldest of 12 children born to the late Emile and the late Helena (Robitaille) Lachance, he attended St. Anne School. After graduating from there in 1929, he studied at the Sulpician Fathers' College de Montreal in Montreal until 1935.

"It wasn't a seminary but taught subjects similar to those found in any high school and college," Father Lachance explained.

After that, his vocation to the priesthood discerned, he joined the Dominicans as a seminarian at their House of Studies in Ottawa, Canada.

"Studying before and after ordination led me to a lectorate in theology and I taught theology and liturgy at the seminary until 1955."

For the next five years, the young priest rode circuit in mission parishes in Saskatchewan, Canada. "I drove hundreds of miles between' churches to say Mass. I stayed overnight in people's homes. And I got lost plenty of times," he said. "But the people

were so intensely religious. And that is also what I found here in my life at St. Anne's, he said, recalling being spiritual leader of the Third Order Dominicans, or "Lay Dominicans" ,as they are frequently called; and work with youth groups and giving retreats.

"So here, we are," he said, "the end of the line for the Dominicans' work here. There are so few parishioners who only speak French now.

The original purpose and goal that the Dominicans came here for has been fulfilled. The accomplishments .were truly great. God surely oversaw what was done, and I wrote about these over the years in The Anchor. We are more of a diocesan parish now, with diocesan priests assisting all the time and wonderful Father Marc Bergeron as pastor; and he has been so very, very kind to me."

As Father Lachance talked about a simple, God-centered spirituality, which he called the Dominican spirituality, I looked about the small room. Therewas a narrow bed, small sink, two chairs, a desk, a wall library and draw-files containing his writings and documents of those healed at his Sunday pray services in past years.

"St. Dominic spoke either to God or of God," Father Lachance said. "He summarized that spirituality as: to contemplate and share with others what we contemplate.

And Dominic founded an active Order, to save souls through preaching. " Leaning forward to make the point, Father Lachance said: "It was a joy when I joined the Dominican Order and discovered that spirituality. To this day, my personal spirituality and teaching is God-centered, and because of that, it is eminently positive, joyous. I learned during my novitiate year that we must awaken in others a great desire to live in union with God, not by persuading them, but by motivating them. And I think that's exactly what the Dominicans taught and did tirelessly, efficiently and successfully here in Fall River over the years."

Was it a golden era, I asked. "I think so," said Father Lachance.

"They succeeded beyond' all expectations. But their work, done by their preaching and the holiness of their lives, is completed."

And as for you, I asked. "I'm still here to serve for as long as I can, but my mind is not·as sharp as it was," he said with a wide smile. "Drop in and see me at the Shrine."

Iteering pOintl ATTLEBORO - Singer John Polce will be at the La Salette Shrine tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the chapel for an evening of song, witness and prayer. All welcome.

A healing service and Mass will be celebrated Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Shrine. It will be led by Father Pat and offers a chance for people to be prayed over and anointed individually. All welcome.

A Taize evening of prayer will be held at 7: 15 p.m. on Feb: 4 at the Shrine.

Participants are asked to bring a candle in a holder or a drip-proofcontainer. All welcome. For more information call 2225410.

NEW BEDFORD - The Men of St. Joseph, a Catholic men's prayer group, meets at Holy Name of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church. For more information call Dan Alexander at 6362494 or John Poisson at 675-0271.

NEW BEDFORD - Devotion to Our Lady ofPerpetual Help is celebrated every Thesday and Thursday at the noon Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church. All welcome. For more information call 992-9378.

NORm ATTLEBORO -A First Friday celebration will be held on Feb. 4 bt<ginning with intercessory prayer at 6:30 p.m. at Sacred Heart Church, 58 FAIRHAVEN - Sacred Heart Fa- Church Street. Jesuit Father Dick Roos therTom McElroy will give a presenta- will be guest speaker and the evening is tion entitled "Being Disciples of Jesus;' .. themed "God Guides Groups." Mass at the St. Mary's Parish Church hall on will be held at 7 p:m. and adoration will Feb. 15 from 7-8:30 p.m. Refreshments begin at 9 p.m. and continue until 3 p.m.

Saturday. For more information call 699will be served. All welcome.

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FALL RIVER - Saint Anne's NORTH DARTMOUTH - The Hospital offers breast and cervical cancer-screening programs for women ages Fall River Diocesan Council ofCatholic 40-64, uninsured or underinsured who Women will hold its annual retreat weekare residents of Massachusetts. Call end March 24-26 at the Family Life Community Outreach at Saint Anne's Center. Father Edward A. Murphy will Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. serve as retreat master and it is open to to schedule an appointment or more in- all women of the diocese. For more information or reservations call Claudette formation.

Armstrong at 672-1658 or Bella FALL RIVER - A program en- Nogueira at 673-6145. titled "Catholic Social Teaching for NORTH DARTMOUTH - A Everyday Life," will be held on Feb. 15 from 7-9 p.m. at St. Stanislaus Par- separated-divorced group will meet on ish. It is the first ina series of four Jan. 31 from 7-9 p.m. at the Diocesan sessions and will be led by Peter Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Road.

Beisheim of Stonehill College. All Peg Ormond will speak on self-esteem. welcome. For more information call New members always welcome.

674-4681.

SOUTH YARMOUTH - An FALL RIVER - Catholic Social evening of reflection will be held on Services is accepting registrations for Feb. 13 from 7-9 p.m. at Cathedral ESL (English as a Second Language) Camp for young adults in their 20s and and Citizenship classes to be held in 30s who would like to participate in Fall River, New Bedford and Hyan- Pilgrimage 2000. The evening will innis. This is a chance to improve your clude prayer and discussion and is English skills at your own pace, or be- themed "The Church and the Rock: come a U.S. citizen. For more infor- Where is Christ's Church Today?" All mation call Eva dos Santos or Rosa welcome. For more information call Sousa at Catholic Social Services at Bud Miller at 675-3847.

674-4681 or 997-7337. They also can TAUNTON - The Youth Apostles help people read or write in their own Institute announces the second in its selanguage. ries of seminars designed for men and FALL RIVER - A series of four women who minister to and with youth. monthly classes on Natural Family Plan- "Clown Ministry," will be led by Father ning by the Couple to Couple League Michael Kuhn on Feb. I from 7:30-9 begins on Feb. 1from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at p.m. at the Dolan Center at St. Mary's Saint Anne's Hospital. To register or for Church. All ministers, teachers and catmore information call Dianne Santos at echists are welcome. For more information call Youth Apostles at 672-2755.

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CHRISTOPHER TEVES and Amanda Burns, bottom photo, played the parts of M~.ry and Joseph .at St. Anne School, Fall River, in its school-wide celebration of the Epiphany. Dressedas pages and the three wise men above are, from left: Ryan Rodrigues, Steven Souza, Nicholas Lotz; Nathaniel Dupere; Ruben Resendes and Nicholas Belmore.

.... STUDENTS TAKE time out for a photo during a recent school concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, New Bedford. ~ First-graders" in Margaret McCormick's class at Our. Lady of Mount Carmel School, show off their Jubilee pledge certificates. Students sign.ed a promise to pray more, le~rn more and' help others more. in the year .

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FRESHMEN ELECTIONS were recently held at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth. Four students were chosen to represent their classmates. They are, from left: President Harry Davis, Vice President Lauren Barrett, Treasur~r Jonathan MacNally and Secretary Racine Silva. ,

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·1 KneW 1Loved You Maybe it's intuition I met you Chorus I think I dreamed you into life A thousand angels dance I;lut some things I knew floved you before You just don't question aroundyou .

I met you Like in your eyes I am complete now,that I've I see my future in an instant I have been waiting all my life found you There's just no rhyme or And there it goes Chorus reason I think I'va found my best Only this sense of completion W.ritten by Darren Hayes! friend And. ~n your eyes ,': Daniel Jones Chorus: I see the missing pieces Sung -by Savage Garden I know that it sounds More than 'a little crazy I'm searching for Copyright (c) 1999 by But I believe ' I think I've found my Sony Music ' way home I knew I loved you before Entertainment YOU'VE HEARD oflove at-first sight. Is it possible to fall in love before first sight? According to the Australian duo Savage Garden, the answer is yes! "I Knew I Loved You" is their latest hit off their ~ew disc "Affirmatiol)." .

The character in the song sings: "I know that it sounds more than a little crazy." He's right! Yet, this is how strongly he feels. To him, the one he loves holds "the missing pieces I'm searching for." He says, "I think 1've found my best friend." Could this happen hefore getting to know someone?

I doubt it Rather, he has projected his desire onto this individual. As he says, "I think I dreamed you into life." If he is seeking a lasting love relationship, this is not the way to go about it.

He sings, "maybe it's intuition," that he knew that he would fall in love, He seems to have confused intuition with total infatuation.

Falling in love is an intense emotional experi.ence. However, emotions, though real in themselves, are not the same thing as intuition. It is important not to confuse the two if we want a deeper understanding of what is occurring in our lives.

Intuition is not supercharged with emotion. In fact, intuition is a type of felt sense that often comes when our other feelings are calm. Intuition presents a voice that helps us consider choices, sometimes even outside what we think we desire.

For example, let's say th~t you are considering who to ask to a school dance. If you want to follow your intuition, look beyond sexual attraction, a person's popularity or your own fear that no one will ask you. Intuition is more of a quiet inner sense that guides you.

Also, intuition about a specific concern often grows stronger over time and is not subject to the unpredictable whims of emotional need. Following intuition may mean taking a risk. Yet, those who trust their intuition often receive messages that benefit their lives.

Knowing how to distinguish the voices of emotional nee,diness or wish fulfillment from the wisdom of intuition is not easy. Yet, if we really try to listen to our intuition, and if we ask God to help us do this, with practice we will learn to know the difference. .

Could knowing that you loved someone before meeting that person be baSed on intuitive guidance?

Unlikely. Intuition is not usually connected with the emotional fIreworks that this song describes.

Look to hear your intuition in 'emotionally quiet moments when your soul can speak to you about what is best for your life.

Your comments are always welcome. Please

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Abortion isn't a subject anyone likes to discuss. But this time of year it tends to come up. Perhaps your radafhas taken in some of the -~~ signs: a Pro-Life march in Wash,.~ '-.,"".11 ington, protests or programs in your local area, extra prayers at Mass or . maybe even a homily or lesson plan devoted to this difficult, tragic topic.

FOR YOUTH • ABOUT YOUTH If you're wondering why, and why now, it's simple: Jan. 22 was the date, in 1973, that the Suprelpe unique human life begins. Find out Court declared that individual what abortion does to that life and states couldn't make laws prohib- how it affects women as well.

2) Don't be afraid to voice your iting or even strictly limiting abortion anymore. Up to that time, abor- opinion, and don't allow yourself tion had been legal only in a few to be put on the defensive. When states for limited times during preg-you 're talking about this with acnancy and for serious, documented quaintances who support abortion, don't let them back down from the reasons.

But in "Roe vs. Wade," our Su- question of when life begins or why preme Court threw all of those laws in the world they think it's OK for out and declared that states defenseless human beings to be atcouldn't limit 'abortion unless a tacked in the womb. Those whO' woman's life or health was in dan- protect life don't need to feel deger. And then it said that '~health" fensive; those who seek to take it included things like emotional dis- do.

3) Be a loving witness to the satress.

So, if you've been paying atten- credness of all life. Treat everyone tion, you know what's happened. you meet with respect. Don't reject In case you don't, let's make it clear. those who have struggled with this.

In the United States, abortion is Don't gossip about girls who get legal for any reason through all pregnant unexpectedly. Love.

4) Go to the local Pro-Life ofnine months of pregnancy. Period.

We have the most permissive abor- fice, and ask what you can do to tion laws in the West. help. Believe me, they have someTragically, this is what you've thing for you to do!

5) Pray. Pray for the girls your grown up with. You were born into a society in which killing unborn age - the girls in your town, in babies is protected as a right and your school and in your class profited from as a business. who right now, this very moment, The Centers for Disease Control are confronting this quite terrible recently reported a slight decline dilemma in the most personal way. in abortion rates, but the numbers And pray for their babies and their are still pretty staggering: well over boyfriends as well.

So think about it. You're prob· one million a year. The thought of it can be overwhelming. In the face ably a pretty idealistic person, and of such a massive problem, we can are always looking for ways that sometimes feel helpless. But we're you can help make life on earth ever not. more beautiful, harmonious and carEven if you're 20. Even if you're ing.

15 or even 12, you can do someWhat better place to start trying thing to spread the message of life. to a~complish that goal than our Here are five simple suggestions: treatment of life itself?

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BILL LACROIX of the Rhode Island Reptile Association recently visited fourth-graders in Terry Leblanc's class at St. Mary's School, New Bedford, where he pres~nted a lesson on the different types of reptiles and their habitats. Here he shows off a lizard to John Campoli, Matthew Bandarra and K?~elyn O'B~ien.

Dolan Center, St. Mary's Parish, Taunton When: Tuesday, February1,ZOOO 7:'30 pm Mass in Church Chapel 8:00 Seminar in Dolan Center Presenter: Father Michael Kuhn, YA Chaplain, Bishop Feehan H.S. P.V., St. Mary's, Seekonk For: .Youth Ministers, Teachers, ReI. Ed. Volunteers, Parents, Prie~ts, Hospital Ministers Info: YouthApostIes(508) 67Z-2755 Mr. Michael Miller, Director (617) 641-9561

"I have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be co.mplete." (John 15:11)

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TIIEANCHOR- Diocese ofFall River- Fri., January 28, 2000

NATIONAL CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK January 30 - February '5, 2000

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The purpose of Catholic Schools Week, a j.oint program spon~ored by the National· Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) and the United States Catholic Conference (USee), is to build support and recognition for the over 8,200 Catholic schools nationwide. During: this week, many dioceses encourage paren.ts to enroll their children in Catholic. schools. It is also is an opportunity to interest citizens in volunteering.their time and talents to local Catholic schools.

Sister Lourdes Sheehan, RSM, USCC secretary for education, said that the "lighting the way to a new century" theme has a special message for parents. "Ca;fholic schools do provide a 'guiding light' for parents who are increasingly concerned that chara~ter and values educatio.n playa key role in the' curriculum."

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Elementary Schools' ACUSHNET St. Francis Xavier School, 223 Main St.. 02743-1597. Tel. 995-4313, FAX 995-0456. Mrs.. Susan M. Boulay, Principal.

ATTLEBORO St, John the Evangelist School, 13 Hodges St., 02703. Tel. 222-5062. FAX 223-1737. Mrs. Claire A. Powers, Principal.

BUZZARDS BAY' St. Margaret Regional School, 143 Main St., 02532. Tel. 7592213, FAX. 759-8776. Charles B. Lindberg, Principal.

FAIRHAVEN St. Joseph School, 100 Spring St., 02719. Tel. 996.1983, FAX 996-1998. Sister Muriel Ann Lebeau; SS:CC., Principal.

FALL RIVER Espirito Santo School, 143 Everett St., 02723. Tel. 672-2229, . FAX 672-7724. Mrs. Patricia Benoit; Principal.

Holy Name School, 850 Pearce St.•. 02720. Tel. 674-9131, FAX 679-0571. Mrs. Sandra F. Cummings. Principal.

Notre Dame School, 34 St. Joseph St., 02723. Tel. 672-5461, FAX 673-8430. Mrs. Anne Conlon, .Principal. .

St. Anne School, 240 Forest· St:, 02721. Tel. 678-2.152, FAX 674-5190. Mrs. Denise D. Gagne, Principal. .

St. Jean Baptiste School, 64 Lamphor St., 02721.. Tel. 67~-6772. FAX 730-1864. Mrs. Kathleen Barboza, Principal.

St. Michael School, 209 Essex St., 02720-2996. Tel. 678-0266.

Sister Bernadette Sullivan. SUSC. Principal.

SS. Peter & Paul School, 240 Dover St., 02721'. Tel. 672-7258, FAX 674-6042. Ms~ Kathleen-A. Burt, Principal.

St; Stanislaus School, 37 Rockland St., P.O. Box 217, 02724.

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Tel. 674-6771, FAX 677-1622; Mrs. Denita Tremblay, Principal.

St. Vincent's Residential/Special Education Treatment Center, 2425 Highland Ave., 02720. Tel. 679-8511, FAX 6722558. John T. Weldon, LICSW, Executive Director.

NEW BEDFORD Holy Family-Holy Name. School, 91 Summer St., 02740. TeL. 993-3547, FAX 993-8277. Ms. Cecilia. M. Felix, Principal.

Our.Lady of Mt. Carmel School, 103 Crapo St., 02744. Tel. 997-9612, FAX 997-2485·. Mrs. Rosemary daSilva, Principal.

St. Anthony School, 190 Ashley Blvd., 02746. Tel. 994-5121, FAX 979-5923. Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Lavigne, Principal.

St. James-St. John School, 180 Orchard St., 02740, TeL and FAX 996-0534. Edmund Borges, Principal.

St. Joseph School, 35 Kearsarge St., 02745-6117. Tel. 995-2264, .

FAX 998-7404. Mrs. Paulette Dansereau, Principaj. ·St. Mary School, 115· II1inois St., 02745. Tel. 995-3696, FAX 998-0840. Mrs. Cathy laCroix, Principal.

NORTH. ATTLEBORO ' St. Mary-Sacred Heart School; 57 Richards Ave., 02760. Tel. 695-3072, FAX 695-9074. Mrs. Denise M. Peixoto, Principal.

TAUNTON Our Lady of Lourdes School, 52 First St., 02780. Tel. 822- .

3746, FAX 822-1450. Mrs. Arleen M. Booker, Principal.

St. Mary's Primary School, 106 Washington St., 0278~7408 ..

Tel. 822-9480, FAX 822-7164. Brian M. Cote, ~ncipal.

WEST HARWICH Holy Trinity Regional School, 245 Main St., P.O. Box 163, 02671. Tel. 432-8216, FAX 432-9349. Sister Carol Clifford, RSM, Principal. .

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.. Middle Schools HYANNIS St. Francis Xavier .Preparatory School, 33 Cross St., 02601. TeL 771-7200, FAX 771-7233. Stephen'Kenney, Headmaster.

TAUNTON Taunton Catholic Middle School, 61 Summer St., 02780~3486.

Tel. 822-0491,.FAX 824-0469. Mrs. Kathleen A. Simpson. Principal. Rev. Pawel A. Swiercz. Chaplain;

High Schools ATTLEBORO Bishop Feehan High School, 70 Holcott Dr., 02703. Tel.. 2266223, FAX 226-7696. George A. Milot, Principal, Rev. Michael F. Kuhn, YA; Chaplain.

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Bishop Connolly High School, 373 Elsbree St., 02720. Tel. 676-1071, FAX 676-8594. Anthony 5: Nunes, Principal, Rev. John M. Murray; Chaplain. . NORTH DARTMOUTH Bishop Stang High School,' 500 Slocum Rd., 02747. Tel. 996-5602, FAX 994-6756. Ms. Theresa E. Dougall; President, Mrs. Mary Ann Miskel. Academic Principal, Rev. Craig A. Pregana, Chaplain ..

TAUNTON. Coyle and Cassidy High School, 2 Hamilton St., 02780. Tel. 823-6164; 823-6165, FAX 823-2530. Dennis R. Poyant, Headmaster; ·Dr. Donna Boyle, Academic Principal; Rev. Hernando Herrera._ YA, Chaplain.

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Schools in the Diocese of Fall River admit students of any race, .Qotor, n'ational and ethnic " i i . ·......i ..... ANO'EMPLOYEES origin to all the rights, priVileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made Schools in the Diocese of Fall River, the;e'xtent required by Title IX, do '';;;tdi~crimiflate available to students at the schools. . . against any'applicant/employee because Of sex. .They do not discriminate against any They do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in admin- student because of sex in any educationa./ program and activity. istration of educational policies, admissions policies, loan programs, and athletic and .il other school-administered programs. . .

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