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Sandwich parish helping job seeke.'s

By Marcie Hickey with CNS reports As the percentage of people out of work in the United States hit its highest level in eight years in December, Corpus Christi parish, Sandwich, was among churches nationwide responding to recession era joblessness by organizing support and networking groups for those seeking employment.

Begun in November, the Corpus Christi Job-Seekers Support Group meets at 7:30 p.m. on alternate Mondays in the parish center and is open to anyone in the community.

Carl and Joanne Claussen envisioned such a support system when both lost their jobs. They founded the group together with Ken and Philomena Figueiredo, also of Corpus Christi.

The group has been thriving since, said Mrs. Claussen, with 15 members on the roster, 25 to 30 person attending each meeting and four "graduates" who have found jobs.

The group's purpose is twofold, said Mrs. Claussen. "It's not only support but networking."

The job seekers have been successful in drawing on community resource persons such as area executives and Catholic Social Services representatives to offer workshops on interviewing, networking, and resume and cover letter writing. Services have been geared to individual needs of job seekers, whether they are unemployed, planning to change careers or are college students entering the job market for the first time.

Most importantly, said Mrs. Claussen, the group provides a setting for members to air their concerns about being out of work.

"When you're out of work, sometimes you feel isolated. You feel a lot better when others are going through it with you," she said. "It's a difficult time, [not just for the one out of work but] for family members too." Participants "get more power from the group experience than from going it alone," she added.

Another benefit, of course, is that members find job leads. One participant was contacted by a

company seeking to fill a COflPUter position.

"He happened to have just exactly the skills they were looking for," said Mrs. Claussen.

Now "area companies know they can contact the group and we'll pass that [job] information along," she concluded.

While the number ofunempl,)yed is not as high as in previous recessions, the "staying power" of joblessness is more severe, with more people unable to find new jobs and more of them runlling through their unemployment benefits, according to Thomas Shellabarger, urban issues expert fo: the Department of Social Development and World Peace of the U.S. Catholic Conference.

With 8.9 million people Ollt of work at the end of December helping people adjust to life without ajob is becoming a priorit~1 for some church organizations.

Sometimes the best thing a parish can do is to simply let those who are having a rough time kllow someone car.es. Former bank em-

MSGR. HENRY T. MUNROE

----------------------------Haitian ruling said "hysteria" WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. bishops' top migration official says a Supreme Court decision allowing U.S. repatriation of Haitians was based on "hysteria" and what he believes was an unsubstantiated report that some 20,000 U.s.-bound Haitians were poised to exit their homeland.

Jesuit Father Richard Ryscavage, executive director of the U.S. bishops' office of Migration and Refugee Services, in a Feb. 3 interview, said that report and what he called "exaggerated" claims that an unusually high percentage of U.S.-bound Haitian boat people had tested positive for the AIDS

virus "fed an alarmist feeling in Washington."

He said his office was urging members of Congress to "put on the fast track" a bill to halt the repatriation. Such a bill. if approved. could face a veto by President Bush.

"We're sending people back to a nation that's very unstable and violent with no assurances that they will not be persecuted as they fear they will be," said Father Thomas Wenski, director of the Pierre Toussaint Haitian Catholic Center in Miami. in an interview with Catholic News Service Feb. 3.

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"It is not the first time that the Supreme Court has succumbed to unfounded fears and popular hysteria," commented Msgr. Bryan O. Walsh. director of Catholic Community Services of the A 'chdiocese of Miami. His office recently joined MRS in opening a Miami agency to assist arriving Haitians.

Bishop Thomas V. Dail) of Brooklyn, N.Y., a consultant to the U.S. bishops' Migration C:>mmittee. in a Feb. 3 statement, :;aid he was "anguished" by the forced repatriation.

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Msgr. Munroe ;elected interim administrator

Msgr. Henry T. Munroe. diocesan vicar general and pastor of St. Thomas More parish. Somerset. was elected administrator of the diocese of Fall River by the sevenmember board of diocesan consultors on Thursday, Jan. 30.

As administrator, Msgr. Munroe will remain pastor of St. Thomas More parish while governing the diocese until the installation of new bishop, to be appointed by Pope John Paul II. In assuming the responsibility of adminstrator, Msgr. Munroe said "I look forward to the able assistance of all who are involved in the diocesan apostolates, management and every aspect of church life, in keeping the diocesan opera-

tions which Archbishop Cronin has in place functioning well. The diocese will be handed on to his successor in the excellent condition in which he left it. I ask the prayers of everyone during the interim period and I am certain that God will bless our efforts."

Msgr. Munroe was born in Fall River Nov. 21, 1928, the son of the late Kathryn (Burns)- and the late Henry T. Munroe. He graduated from St. Joseph's grammar school, Fall River, and the former Coyle High School, Taunton, and attended Providence College for two years before entering St. John's Seminary, Brighton.

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Seeking the "right place"

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THEIR FUTURE uncertain, Haitian refugees stand behind razor wire at the Guantanarno Bay U.S. naval base in Cuba. (CNS/ Reuters photo)

''I'm in the right place," says Sister Jackie Racine of New Bedford. a missionary to Uganda whose story appears on page 3 of this issue of the Anchor.

Are you a woman seeking your "right place"? Maybe. like Sister Jackie. you will find it in religious life. Her own lifelong desire was to be a missionary, but that is only one of scores of options open to today's religious women.

She was in her early 20s when she entered the Comboni Sisters. but in today's church the vocation of a sister is open to women decades beyond that age; in fact. it is not uncommon for widows or retirees to enter a second career either in religious life or as a lay volunteer often bringing with them expertise and talents gained through years of experience.

Interested? At 6 p.m. Thursday, March 12, there will be an op-

portunity to find out more about "right places" at a buffet supper and discussion se~sion at Blessed Sacrament Convent, 250 I South Main Street, Fall River. Those who attend will be obligated to nothing; it will simply be an occasion for learning more about various religious communities and programs for laywomen.

The evening will be coordinated

by Sister Mary Noel Blute, RSM, diocesan representative for religious, who will be aided by a committee consisting of Sister of St. Joseph Eileen Sullivan. Dominican Sister of the Presention Carole Mello and Sister of Mercy Aliceann Walsh.

Those interested in attending may contact the Office for Religious. 500 Slocum Road, North Dartmouth 02747. telephone 9929921. to receive an invitation.

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Obituaries

St. Anne's Hospital gratefully acknowledges contributions that we have received to the Remembrance Fund during December, 1991 and January, 1992.

Through the remembrance and honor of these lives, St. Anne's can continue its "Caring With Excellence."

DECEMBER 1991 Marjorie Abrams Edward A. Austin Roland R. Banville John Bell, Jr. John Bell, Sr. Giovanni Bonagura Rev. Roland Brodeur Mrs. Lilia Camacho Antonia S. Cardoza Jeannette Cayer Florence Croke Richard H. Cunha Theodore Falandys Mr. Richard Fernandes Mrs. William Furze' Mrs. Lorraine M. Gagne Mary V. Galvin Edward Gazarro Leon N. Gendreau Dr. William V. Gugli Mrs. Lillian D. Guillotte Holland Welcome Hazen Mrs. Ida Hicks Dr. Anne Marie Higgins Dr. Thomas F. Higgins Michele lalenti Marcel A. LaVigne Richard Lavimoniere Mary Lee Hendryka Maslanka Mrs. Sandy Mello· Edward C. Michno Edward Monarch Anita Ouellette Raymond E. Parise Andrew J. Phenix Mrs. Sylvia T. Reback Ann L. Rogers Albert J. Roy Max Salter Pauline V. Sasso Joseph C. Saulino Monsignor Daniel F. Shalloo Mr. Stike Ida Volpe Frederic A. Woodworth JANUARY 1992 Armand H. Brodeur Jerry Ciullo AI Gagnon Lillian D. Guillotte Mary Lee Sylvia T. Reback Joseph C. Saulino Atty. Richard P. St. Pierre Wilfred Thiboutot Blanche A. Tremblay Stella Troy Hildeberto Ventura Frances Whelan

We are grateful to those who thoughtfully named St. Anne's Hospital's Remembrance Fund.

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Cable· TV regulation backed by USCC WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Senate has overwhelmingly passed a bill that would allow local governments to regulate cable television charges. The U.S. Catholic Conference had urged re-regulation of the cable industry.

In a Jan. 24 letter, Miriam Whiting, director of the USCC Office

Mother Teresa doing well, gets dentures LA JOLLA, Calif. (CNS) M other Teresa of Calcutta underwent a checkup Jan. 30 at La Jolla's Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation and got a clean bill of health a month after treatment for heart disease and pneumonia.

The next item on the agenda of the 81-year-old nun, who had been staying with members of her Missionaries of Charity in Tijuana, Mexico, since her Jan. 15 release from the hospital, was a meeting with Pope John Paull!.

Mother Teresa, admitted to the hospital Dec. 26, underwent an angioplasty, a procedure designed to open clogged arteries to the heart, as well as treatment for bacterial pneumonia.

During her Jan. 30 checkup, she took a treadmill test to monitor her cardiovascular system.

The hospital released no information on the checkup, but Dr. Paul Teirstein, one of the physicians who treated Mother Teresa, told the Associated Press that she is "really doing beautifully" in her recovery.

"She's had no chest pain or other symptoms," he said.

Teirstein also said Mother Teresa had returned to the hospital several times since her release, mainly to be fitted for her first set of dentures.

"She thinks she looks younger now," he said. "She hasn't really been taking all that great care of herself, from a health perspective."

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for Communications Policy, had urged support for the Cable Televi.sion Consumer Protection Act in order to protect consumers from "abusive rates" and to guarantee diverse viewpoints.

The bill passed by a 73-18 vote Jan. 31 would have the Federal Communications Commission set national rate regulation standards and require that rate increases be deemed "reasonable" under FCC standards. Local governments would enforce the FCC regulations and consumers could petition to have rates reduced.

The Bush administration, however, has threatened to veto a cable bill, part of a policy opposing federal regulations.

She noted the significance to the nation of the Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, known as CSpan, and the Cable News Network.

"Cable television has become the sole provider of a significant amount of educat'ional and informational programming," she said.

"Justice demands" that cable operators be prevented from creating "an economic bottleneck" to deny people access on reasonable terms to programs important to "full participation in economic,

cultural and political life," she said.

Ms. Whiting added that the USCC supports "the must-carry and retransmission consent provisions" of the bill. .

"Must-carry" states that cable operators must carry all local stations broadcast in their area and '''retransmission'' would allow broadcasters to charge cable TV systems for carrying their broadcast signals.

'The NBC, ABC and CBS networks, which have lost ad revenue to cable, have argued for the retransmission provisions. Currently, cable TV can carry network signals free.

Cable television is use'd by many church broadcasters, including the Vision Interfaith Satellite Network, or VISN. Programs of the bishops' Catholic Telecommunications Network of America, CTN A, also are sometimes transmitted via cable TV within a diocese. The weekly CTNA program, "Catholic Viewpoint," for example, is available on cable systems with over 6 million subscribers.

Nelson Price, president ofVISN, noted that the cable industry "created VISN" and has "put major funds into helping the network get started."

Portuguese parishes offer Lenten Bible courses in two languages Six Portuguese parishes in Fall River will jointly sponsor Lenten Bible study courses in English and Portuguese to begin this month.

They are St. Anthony of Padua, St. Michael, Our Lady of the Angels, Our Lady of Health, Espirito Santo and Santo Christo parishes.

The eight-week Portugueselanguage course will offer a general view of the Old and New Testaments presented by Father Gastao Oliveira, parochial vicar, at Santo Christo parish center, 102 Mulberry St. Sessions will meet 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays Feb. 13 to Apr. 2.

- The English-language course, all sessions of which are to be

held at Our Lady of Angels church hall, III Tuttle St., will discuss Scripture readings for the Sundays of Lent from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Mondays, Feb. 24 to March 30.

Speakers will be as follows.

Feb. 24: Father Raul Lagoa of St. Michael's; Mar. 2: Father Jack Oliveira, St. Anthony of Padua; Mar. 9: Father John Gomes, Our Lady of the Angels.

Mar. 16: Father Steve Furtado, Our Lady of Health; Mar. 23: Father Fred Babiczuk, Espirito Santo; Mar. 30: Father Ed Correia, St. Anthony of Padua.

At both the Santo Christo and Our Lady of the Angels sites, refreshments will follow each Bible study session.

The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Jan. 27 at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, New Bedford, for Sister Margaret Walsh, SSD, 97, of Villa Fatima Convent, Taunton, who died Jan. 24.

Sister Walsh had resided at Mt. Carmel Convent, New Bedford, for 45 years before moving to Taunton last June. A native of Providence, she was the daughter of the late John and the late Margaret (Healy) Walsh.

She entered the Sisters of St. Dorothy in 1912 at age 17, becoming the first American-born member of the order. She was sent to Aerschot, Belgium, for her novitiate, then to England when war broke out in 1914. She professed final vows Nov. 28, 1922.

She taught English in Leicester, England, until August 1933, then served in the order's houses in Sintra and Lisbon, Portugal, for 13 years. She returned to the United States in 1946.

Fluent in Portuguese, she was assigned to the Mt. Carmel convent and for a time taught third grade at Mt. Carmel School. She retired in 1972.

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel parish honored herin November 1987for her 75th jubilee, giving her a trip to County Mayo, Ireland.

She is survived by two grandnieces, Mrs. Thomas Michels of Bridge Lake, NJ, and Mrs. Thomas Maloney of Putnam, Conn.; a grandnephew, James Bransfield of Salinas, Calif.; great-grandnieces, great,grandnephews and cousins.

Sister Pellerin Sister of the Presentation of Mary Doria Pellerin, 92, formerly known as Sister St. Philomena: died Feb. I at her community's residencein Manchester, NH. Her Mass of Christian Burial was offered Wednesday at the residence chapel.

A Fall River native, she was a daughter of the late Arthur and Elisa (Germain) Pellerin. During her active ministry she was a school supervisor and elementary and secondary school teacher in West Warwick and Woonsocket, RI. She had entered the convent in 1917.

She is survived by nephews and nieces.

Gail Davis promoted at Madonna Manor Gail M. Davis, RN, has been promoted to the position of nursing documentation coordinator at Madonna Manor, North Attleboro.

She was previously staff charge nurse at the 121-bed nursing home.

In her new position, she will oversee documentation of resident care.

A resident of Warwick, she holds a bachelor's degree in nursing from Rhode Island College.

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Rating capitalisrR VATICAN CITY (CNS) From bankers to ex-communists, participants in a Vatican-convened conference asked whether capitalism is the best system for rebuiiding societies in the postcommunist world. No single answer emerged, but the experts agreed that com-

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munism's collapse sharpens the world's focus on the pros and cons of capitalism. The r~cent meeting, sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, permitted criticism of Pope John Paul II's social teachings under his own vaulted Vatican ceilings. Several

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speakers said communism's fall has not solved many world problems. Additionally, the worldchanging event left the United States as the sole superpower at a time when its leadership role is hampered by a troubled domestic economy.

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By Pat McGowan In 1987, Comboni Sister Jackie Racine visited the Anchor. At that time the graduate of Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, and the nursing progr~m of what is now the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth ;was a newly-professed sister on the eve ofleaving the United States for her community's generalate in Rome.

After a brief stay at the generalate, she expected to spend the following four years at a Comboni hospital in Italy.

But what she had dreamed of since childhood was a life as a missionary nurse in Africa. She didn't have to wait long.

After a mere two years at a hospital in Milan, Italy, during which time she became fluent in Italian, she received her dream assignment: to take charge of a 70-bed children's ward at St. Luke's General Hospital, in Angal, a town in the West Nile River area of Uganda in East Africa.

There she supervises care of "usually 100 kids" under conditions light years removed from those found on stateside pediatric wards. Recently she visited the Anchor again, this time to talk about her work.

Unless children are very seriously iII or receiving intravenous therapy, she explained, they sleep on the ward floor. Each child must be accompanied by an attendant, usually his or her mother, who often must bring along other child- . reno The mother does routine care and feeding of her child, cooking food brought from home in a communal kitchen with wood fires.

"It gets very smoky in there and the temperature rises to about 100 degrees in the dry season," said Sister Racine.

Except for the bedridden, children go outside during the day, she said, always with an attendarit, even if at times it's only Ii 6 or 7 year-old sibling.

It's hard to work with patients lying on the floor, she admitted, but noted that with the attendant

system, it's not very often required of her.

Sister Racine's responsibilities don't end at the hospital, where her hours are 8 a.m. to I p.m. and 5 to 7:30 p.m. Weekends find her working with Young Christian Students in Angal. "We have discussions and take part in apostolic activities," she said.

In Uganda since 1990, she has learned the Alur language, spoken by most patients, although English is the country's official tongue.

"Alur is the easiest of all the languages used in the country," she said.

St. Luke's Hospital is served by four Italian and two African,doctors and by nine Comboni Sisters.

Asked where the order gets vocations in these days of scarcity, Sister Racine laughed. "I guess from God," she said. : Commenting on care of the aged in Uganda, she said she has never seen an old age home, that people remain with their families. The aging problem seldom arises, however, since the life expectancy for men is only 49, for women 51.

Sister Racine, aged 30, is the third of six brothers and sisters, all of whom graduated from Stang High School. Her parents are Permanent Deacon and Mrs. Leo Racine. Her father serves as a deacon at S1. Theresa's parish, New Bedford, but the family's home parish is S1. Joseph's, also in New Bedford.

Their missionary daughter spoke at S1. Joseph's School and at Stang while on her every-four-years home leave, also finding time to visit her siblings.

"It was my first Christmas at home for seven years," she said.

Sister Racine worked in a plug for her chosen community, noting . that anyone interested in the 2000member congregation, which serves in Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and the United States as well as in Africa, can write to the Comboni Sisters at 514 S. Claremont Ave. Chicago, Ill., 60612.

As for herself, she said, "I'm in the right place."

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themoorins.-, In Joyful Hope The diocese now enters a period of hopeful expectation. We become the watchers and waiters as we anticipate the appointment by the Holy See of a new bishop for our diocese. With the fulfillment of required canonical procedures and the election of Msgr. Henry Munroe as diocesan administrator, our local church enters into a new phase of its life.

The last time this situation arose in our diocese was upon the death of Bishop William Stang in 1907. The guidelines of administration at that time were very different from those of today; in fact, the procedures now in place to govern such an interim situation as we are now experiencing flow directly from the historically hysterical situations that often occurred prior to promulgation of the 1917 Code of Canon Law. In that connection, it should be noted that the election of Msgr. Munroe as diocesan governed by specific regulations.

The qualifications of an administrator are spelled out in detail by canon law. He must be a priest at least 35 years of age and outstanding in doctrine and prudence. Once elected, he is bound by the obligations and enjoys much of the power of a bishop, excluding certain things which are excepted by their . nature or by the law itself.

In our present situation, where the administrator is not a bishop, certain episcopal prerogatives, especially in the sacramental area, are outside his sphere. The law also clearly states that when the see is vacant there are to be no innovations. This is a legal effort to preclude possible problems for the future bishop; but it does not mean that the administrator cannot make decisions redounding to the benefit of the diocese.

Obviously an administrator has the responsibility of keeping the diocesan house in good order. In today's world he needs the help and cooperation of all in the diocesan family, not just because it is his due but more importantly for the good of the church, the people of God. The administrator's responsibilities cease when the new bishop takes possession of the diocese. Until this occurs at the pleasure of the Holy See, this process assures the continuity so important for good order and stability, both of which are sorely needed in these times.

Thus, if anyone thinks that there will be great changes in our diocese while we await a new bishop, he or she is mistaken.

Indeed, much of what we do in the world, whether it be of a civil or ecclesial nature, is governed by law. We are such fickle beings that law is necessary to secure peace and justice.

Over the centuries, the church has experienced many swings of human moods. In most situations, such alterations have been detrimental and hurtful. In that light, the new Code of Canon Law is a true sign of care and concern for all the churches and church members in communion with the Holy See. It seeks not to harm but to help, and is in itself a very human attempt to keep the house in order and the family together. The church knows well its importance.

As we anticipate the appointment of our new bishop, may each of us support the stewardship of our administrator. Thus each of us will share with joyful hope in the task that is ours at this time in the life of our diocesan church.

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A HOMELESS BOY SLEEPS ON A SUBWAY PLATFORM IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

"See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father." Matt. 18:10

Health care: no easy answers

WASHINGTON (CNS) groups support a national health Health care promises to play a insurance plan. major role both in the 1992 presiBut the health care issue goes far dential campaign and in the house- beyond the question of insurance hold budgets ofaverage Americans. to such matters as fair distribution At a recent debate on health of human and material resources, care issues in Nashua, N.H., eight bureaucratic inefficiency and waste, Democratic candidates for presi- and discrimination against certain dent agreed that affordable health groups of patients and certain discare is a fundamental right of all eases that carry a social stigma.

Americans, but found little else to Both Network and the St. Louisagree on. based"Catholic Health Association "National health reform is going are working to address the full picto be a major issue" in the 1992 ture in health care policy stateelections, said Ruth Purtilo, pro- ments. fessor of clinical ethics in Creighton Network's "vision statement," University's Center for Health released last November, criticized Policy and Ethics. "I think we've the country's "lack of a national turned the corner on that question." health care policy" and called it a With U.S. health care costs "failure which leaves the most reaching nearly $700 billion in vulnerable people unprotected and 1990 - $2,050 for each American which jeopardizes our nation's man, woman and child, the high- future." est per capita cost in any country Among other things, Network - the deadline for resolving the recommends developing financing The Editor nation's health care crisis is fast . mechanisms to fund health care, approaching, according to Catholic changing liability laws with regard Letters Welcome to malpractice, addressing the high leaders in the health care field.

Letters to the editor are welcomed. All letters should be brief and the "It's almost like the mood ofthe cost of prescriptions and diagnoseditor reserves the right to condense any letters if deemed necessary. All '30s, a hopele'ss feeling of 'What tic testing and eliminating unneare we going to do?'" said Sister of cessary duplication of services. letters must be signed and contain a home or business address.

St. Joseph Catherine Pinkerton, a The Catholic Health Associalobbyist for the Catholic social tion, through a 20-member task action group, network. force on national health policy The statistics are daunting. A reform, is working on its own plan report released last December says for reforming the U.S. health care that an additional 1.3 million peo- system and hopes to present its ple became medically uninsured final proposal to the CHA board -OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER. between 1989 and 1990, bringing this spring.

The CHA plan, the subject of Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River' the total of Americans with no health insurance to at least 35 mil- regional meetings throughout the 887 Highland Avenue P.O. BOX- 7 lion. Another 60 million are esti- country, is designed to make a Fall River, MA 02722-0007 Fall River, MA 02720 . mated to have inadequate health uniquely Catholic contribution to Telephone (508) 675-7151 the ongoing debate about health insurance.

FAX (508) 675-7048 The report, prepared from cen- care reform, according to William 'sus data, was released by the Pub- E. Kessler, president of St. Anthlic Citizen Health Research Group, ony's Health Center in Alton, Ill., GENERAL MANAGER EDITOR Physicians for a National Health CHA board chairman Rosemary Dussault Rev. John F. Moore Program and the Center for NaThe CHA plan foresees estabtional Health Program Studies at lishment ofa national health board, ~ Leary Press-Fall River Harvard University. All three independent from the legislative

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and executive branches of government; state health organizations to assess community needs and distribute resources; and integrated care delive.ry networks of physicians, hospitals, nurses and social workers.

Key components of the plan are universal access, a patient-centered care delivery system, choice of delivery networks, reduced administrative costs and incentives for preventive and primary care.

"While our proposal is in harmony with our ministry values and the teachings of our church, it will also be appealing to a broader U.S. audience," Kessler said. "It ... will provide the Catholic health care ministry a place at the table to debate and help lead health care reform."

The difficulty of developing a comprehensive plan was demonstrated last December when the federal Advisory Council on Social Security ended two-and-a-half years of work by admitting that it could not agree on a plan to reform the current public-private health insurance system.

"A majority of the council concludes that, at this time, there is no one right choice," the council said in its final report. "The national consensus so essential to the successful systemic reform the council believes necessary has clearly not developed." , But four of the council's 13 .members issued a strongly worded dissent, saying the council had "failed in its major mission" by recommending only gradual changes, along with further study.

"In essence, the council urges us to buy some new furniture for a house that is on the verge of collapse," the dissenting members said.

"The more urgent task, we suggest, is to rebuild the house."

The call of the Lord Isaiah 6:1-2,3-8 I Corinthians 15:1-11 Luke 5:1-11 Each of today's three readings contains a "caIl narrative."

Since the original readers of Scripture believed they had received a personal vocation from God, these biblicalpassages are extremely important. Such narratives convey· the deep insights which the Lord's followers have acquired through centuries of reflecting on their special invitations. Though given eight centuries apart, in totaIly different circumstances, the three caIls contain very significant, common elements.

For instance, each recipient initially gives a reason for refusing God's request. Isaiah shouts, ..... 1 am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips.....

Peter falls at Jesus' feet pleading, "Leave me, Lord, I am a sinful man."

And Paul reacts to seeing the risen Jesus by confessing, "I am the least of the apostles; in fact, because I persecuted the church of God, I do not even deserve the name."

God's caIl forces us to look at ourselves in very honest and critical ways. In those moments we understand our total inability to respond correctly to any request the Lord makes of us.

Yet every protest is met with God's immediate reassurance.

"See," he tells Isaiah, ..... your wickedness is removed, your sin purged." "Do not be afraid," Jesus assures Peter, "from now on .....

And even Paul admits, ..... By God's favor I am what lam."

This protest/ reassurance interchange arises from a realization that the Lord calls them to go beyond their present, secure life into a realm with which they have little familiarity.

Isaiah has no idea to what he is being caIled. As usual, Yahweh first demands a commitment, then

DAILY READINGS Feb. 10: 1 Kgs 8:1-7,913; Ps 132:6-10; Mk 6:5356 Feb. 11: 1 Kgs. 8:2223,27-30; Ps 84:3-5,10-11; Mk 7:1-13 Feb. .12: 1 Kgs 10:1-10; Ps 37:5-6,30-31,39-40; Mk 7:14-23 Feb. 13: 1 Kgs 11:4-13; Ps 106:3-4,35-37, 40; Mk 7:24-30 Feb. 14: 1 Kgs 11:29-32; 12:19; Ps 81:10-15; Mk 7:31-37 Feb. 15: 1 Kgs 12:26-32; 13:33-34; Ps 106:6-7,1922; Mk 8:1-10 Feb. 16: Jer 17:5-8; Ps 1:1-4,6; 1 Cor 15:12, 1620; Lk 6: 17,20-26

Amnesty challenl~es Northern Ireland deadly force policy WASHINGTON(CNS)- Amnesty International has encour,lged Congress to press for changc:s in the policies on use of deadly force

by Northern Ireland police agencies.

In a recent hearing befon the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, Halya Gowan, a researcher

By FATHER ROGER for the international human r· ghts _K.ARBAN monitoring agency, noted diicregives details. He looks for his pancies between the existing poliprophet to say "yes". before he cies for Northern Ireland law informs him about the where, who enforcement officers and those foland when. The Lord simply asks, lowed in England or Wales.

"Whom shall I send? Who will go The committee also heard from for us?" expecting Isaiah to answer, relatives of two young men who "Here I am, send me!" were shot by British soldie:'s in Peter and his companions are December; from John Stalker, given only a broad outline for their author of a recent book OIl his ministry. "From now on," Jesus investigation of a disputed killing; says, "you wiIl be catching men." and from a Massachusetts di!:trict Yet they respond in the generous attorney who has written OIl the fashion of all biblical "callees": legal basis for the use of I,:thal "With that they brought their boats force. to land, left everything, and became Ms. Gowan noted that Amnesty his foIlowers."

International has been askin.~ the British government since 19115 to Though paraIlel to the two other passages, Paul's response demands establish an independant ju(licial inquiry to investigate disputed kilsome reading beyond the liturgical lings by security forces as a WiY of lines. He relates his call in the context of a list of Jesus' post-resur- judging how well existing p:ocedures work and evaluating current rection appearances. Since some legislation on the use of kthal Corinthians are beginning to beforce. lieve there is no resurrection from Although the laws for use of the dead, the apostle must remind his community of the most fun- force are the same as for other damental part of his teaching. "You parts of the United Kingdom, Ms. are being saved by it at this very Gowan noted that police officers moment if you retain it as I in England and Wales, for eJ:ampreached to you," he writes. "Oth- pIe, do not regularly carry guns.

Amnesty International"bel eves erwise you have believed in vain."

Once they respond to a caIl . the laws and regulations governexper1ence from the risen Jesus, . ing the use of lethal force by Sl:curity forces are inadequate to prethey start down the road of faith.

Yet not even Paul can totally vent and deter unlawful kiIlings," she said. "There is also a discreexplain their resurrected future.

He gropes for analogies; compar- pancy between the law as ap;>lied ing seeds with fruit, starlight with· in Northern Ireland and rel{vant international legal standards." sunlight, and heavenly bodies with In addition, she said, inve5 tigaearthly bodies. Nothing quite destions do not meet minimum intercribes this phenomenon. Christians national standards set by the Unisimply are caIled to probe the ted Nations. unknown.

"In some cases [investiga tors) Every God-foIlower can idenhave not examined all the reh:vant tify with today's readings. Though evidence, prevented prosecut ions, history, culture and individuals failed to investigate reports 0: deshave· changed, call narratives retruction of evidence or conducted main the same. We stiIl need the investigations in a manner likely Lord's guarantee that he wiIl help to lead to or to facilitate fabricaus overcome the failings which tion of evidence or perjury," she stop us from totally responding to said. his invitation. And we stiIl need the courage to sign the blank contract he places before us.

Every call is· a command to change the source of our security.

Biblical examples show how the faithful leave everything behind when they begin to foIlow the Lord's path. Perhaps the reason so Families are sought to hm:t 10few of us feel God calling us today and II-year-old children froOl Belrevolves around our unwillingness fast, Northern Ireland, for six weeks to switch security sources. We find in the summer through the Cape it very hard to put all our hope and Irish Children's Program. trust in a person who continually The program has brought 50 to pushes and pulls us into areas we would rather not go. Yet it is when 60 Belfast children, half Pr,)testwe generously respond to his caIl ant and half Catholic, to Cape Cod annuaIly since 1975. Th,: visit that we most discover our destiny. allows the children a short n:spite from the beleaguered milita ~y atmosphere of Northern Ireland.

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By FATHER

JOHN J. DIETZEN Q. Would you please explain the church's stand on in vitro fertilization? (Pennsylvania) A. In vitro fertilization is a technological method of conceiving a child without sexual rela-' tions between a man and woman.

The woman's ovum and the male sperm are united in a test tube in which the first stages of growth of the new human life take place.

Soon this new pre-embryo is transferred, to the mother's (or

In vitro fertilization and Catholic teaching another woman's) womb for continuing development.

Such fertilization is called heterologous if the gametes come from people who are not married to each other. Homologous fertilization means that the reproductive cells come from a husband and wife married to each other.

In vitro, literally "in glass," fertilization is considered entirely morally unacceptable by the church, for at least these reasons: First, from the time the ovum is fertilized a new separate human life has begun which has its own dignity. Commercial, scientific and other procedures often performed on lives begun "in vitro" violate the respect and physical and spiritual reverence owed these lives.

Second, in vitro fertilizing usually means that a number of zygotes (fertilized ova) are produced, all but one of which are simply allowed

to die and be discarded. This is an immoral deliberate destruction of new human life.

And third, this process for initiating human life is seen as a subversion of the dignity and unity of marriage, and of the integrity of natural and necessary parental relationships with children as they come into the world.

This aspect ofthe moral character of in vitro fertilization may seem less tangible, but it is an important and profound one. In the tradition and teaching of the church, sexual relations in the context of married love is the only setting worthy of bringing into existence a new human life.

Heterologous fertilization, of course, brings in the additional questions of marriage fidelity and parental identity and responsibility.

But even if the fertilization is homologous (husband and wife

providing the cells for the new life of their child) it deprives human procreation of the dignity which is proper and natural to it.

The fullest current explanation of the church's teaching on these matters is the March 1987 "Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation," issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

It says of this procedure, "In conformity with the traditional doctrine relating to the goods of marriage and the dignity of the person, the church remains opposed from the moral point of view to homologous in vitro fertilization.

Such fertilization is in itself illicit and "in opposition to the dignity of procreation and of the conjugal union" (11,5).

Perhaps it needs to be clearly said that when in vitro or any other kind of artificial human fertilization does happen, the resulting life is no less human and no less to be accepted and cared for with love.

For those of us who were raised when there was only one way for a baby to be conceived and carried to term, it comes as a surprise to know that today there are at least 30 different combinations of methods by which this can happen.

And each has its own array of religious and human, and therefore moral, questions.

It is a continuing and monumental challenge for the church, or anyone else, to address these technological developments hO,nestly and at the same time remain faithful to those values we hold so路 sacred about human life and relationships.

Sexual harassment or harmless fun?

By

DOLORES CURRAN

If the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas standoff did nothing else, it started women talking and thinking about sexual harassment.

And if the women I'm hearing are representative of the wider population, then most women have been sexually harassed at some time in their lives.

I was, but it wasn't called sexual harassment 40 years ago. It was

called harmless fun by those who would be some reference to my engaged in it. It never occurred to anatomy by Chip to the rilen at the them that I was offended by-it and , bar who would pick up on it and if I had told them so, I'd ha ve been guffaw. accused of having no sense of When it rained and they couldn't humor. fish, they could always sit around During my college summers, I the bar and have fun at my expense. waitressed in a northwoods resort The owners encouraged Chip bewhich drew upper middle class cause he kept the fishermen from fisherman and their families. One being grumpy.

While I was deeply offended, I of the most popular features of the was too naive and the culture was resort was Chip, a personable 30year-old bachelor who ran the bar too accepting of this smutty male repartee to confront it. I just figin the Lodge where I waitressed. ured it went with the job.

If I faced the same thing today, I Everyone liked Chip because he was fun and funny. One of his would confront Chip privately, fortes was sexual innuendo and I tell him he was offending me, and was the chief victim. I grew to hate ask him to stop. If he didn't, I'd going into the bar to serve food or confront him at the bar with his make change because I knew there fans watching.

If that didn't work, I'd go to my bosses and say, "I was hired as a waitress, not as a butt of sexual jokes. I'm a good waitress but if that isn't enough, then I don't want the job."

I would risk losing the job, of course, and'this is what women are telling me when, like the senators, they brush off sexual harassment as harmless. It isn't harmless. It's degrading, disrespectful and threatening. Millions of women have had to put up with it because they need or want to keep their jobs.

In the aftermath of the Thomas hearings, the Corning kitchenware company shared its common-sense approach to sexual harassment.

Its employees are told to apply four tests in deciding whether their

behavior constitutes sexual harassment: Would you say or do this in front of your spouse or parents; ditto, in front of a colleague of the same sex; would you like your behavior reported in your local newspaper; and does it need to be said or done at all?

The company's guidelines for management are clear: "Harassment constitutes one of the most basic violations of an individual's rights. It represents a cost of quality and loss of productivity that Corning will not tolerate."

I don't think I could improve on those guidelines. Sexual harassment doesn't have to go with the job. I wonder if Chip ever learned that. If he had daughters or granddaughters, maybe he did.

Little Carolyn Marie made pro-life concepts real By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

Something happened at St. John's Catholic Church in Watertown, Conn., that has infused a parish with a new commitment to reach out and help desperate pregnant women.

It happened the evening of Nov. 4. Father Robert Rousseau had

left a meeting of the Council of Catholic Women and went to turn on the lights to the parking lot. As he was about to leave the dimly lit church entryway, he heard a small cry.

Father Rousseau looked down and could barely see a small box in a corner. He vividly recalls that cry in the darkness and a shaft of light shining on a newborn infant girl.

It was, the priest said, "as if God poked her and said, 'Let yourself be known.' She wasn't crying. She just let out that one cry and got my attention."

Nov.4 is the feast of St. Charles Borromeo, "so I called her Caro-

Iyn," Father Rousseau explained, "and I added Marie for the Blessed Mother."

St. John's parishioner Ellen Cavallo is a nurse, mother of three and pro-life advocate. She said that the impact of Carolyn Marie's arrival has gone beyond the "excitement at our church that night."

Suddenly the parishioners had in their midst "a lovely strawberry blonde baby girl, 3 or 4 hours old."

But along with that joy, said Mrs. Cavallo, was a sadness that a mother had been desperate enough to desert her newborn infant. "The problem of pregnant mothers is something we talk libout," Mrs. Cavallo said. "But on that night

Carolyn was right there. She made the problem come home."

Because Carolyn Marie was abandoned, Father Rouseau had to turn her over to the state department of Children and Youth Services. She has since been placed in a foster home. If the mother is not found, she will probably be put up for ado'ption.

Ironically, Father Rousseau noted, on that Nov. 4 when Carolyn Marie lay swaddled in a T-shirt in a small box, the parish's pro-life committee was having a staff meeting. "We talked about the pro-life concept and questioned what we should be doing to educate people.

.. And then that night little Carolyn -appeared. She made the whole pro-life concept real."

Father Rousseau has had some time to ponder how the arrival of Carolyn Marie has changed his own life. "Personally, I have be, come much more sensitive to the needs of women."

"I thank that mother for having given birth to that child," Father Rousseau said. "Though she may have been desperate, I thank her for having the courage to bring her child to a safe and warm place."

Then the priest paused'路f()f a moment and said, "God does work in mysterious ways."

Putting love into marriage By

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MARY KENNY Dear Mary: My husband and I have been married close to seven years. We have one child.

We were teenage lovers and married very young. We share a lot, but we really do not share the love necessary for a healthy, happy, loving marriage.

When we married I didn't know God or the teachings of Jesus concerning marriage, but now I do.

Marriage has an entirely different

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meaning to me now, and our marriage does not have what is necessary.

If we were to divorce, would I be cast out of the Catholic Church?

I love God and my church a lot; I just don't love my husband. The thought of spending my life in a relationship where there is no love is sad. What are we to do? Washington Your letter mystifies me. While I understand you are dissatisfied, I find it difficult to figure out what you want out of your marriage.

Perhaps your marriage lacks romance or intimacy. Perhaps it is just boring. Perhaps your expectations of marriage do not match reality.

Marriage is built on shared values, shared interests, physical attraction, mutual understanding, shared experiences and intimacy.

Generally, early love is more carefree and romantic. Later, with the arrival of children, responsibility grows but so does commitment.

Generally the deepest joys and hurts occur within the family. As spouses share the joys and console each other over the hurts, they become closer friends and better lovers.

You say that learning about the teachings of Jesus has convinced you that your marriage does not have what is needed. Yet, the single thing Jesus asks of us is not to look for love in our lives but to put love into our lives.

Since I am not an authority on the legalities of your status within the church, I cannot tell you what would happen should you divorce.

However, I am more interested in how you might begin to live the loving, giving, joy-filled life Jesus calls you to live.

First, you need to sincerely believe that you are capable of giving love. Then you must want to take this direction. For a marriage to grow, both husband and wife must want to grow.

The church you love can help.

Find out if there are retreats or renewal weekends in your area especially for married couples.

Join a study group or prayer group to help you reflect on what you might bring to yourmarriage.

You say you share a lot together.

Build on that. Plan to spend some time alone together every week.

Make your love grow by sharing it.

Can you provide a home for a foster child? Can you volunteer at a nursing home, a child-care center, a center for pregnancy counseling? Find out the needs in your community, and do what you do best to help.

If you truly want to make your marriage grow, you need to discover and deal with the things that bother you. Even more important you need to recognize the strengths on which you can build. A marriage counselor might be able to help.

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Continued from Page One He was ordained in 1953 by the late Bishop James L. Connolly at St. Mary's Cathedral in Fall River.

His first parish assignment was to Holy Name Church, New Bedford, where he remained 19 years before assuming the pastorate of St. John the Evangelist Church, Attleboro, in 1972. He remained in that post until 1975, when he was appointed pastor of St. Pius X Church, South Yarmouth. In 1989, he was appointed to his present parish and named diocesan vicar general.

Over the years, Msgr. Munroe served as notary and secretary of the diocesan marriage tribunal before being named judicial vicar in 1971. In that position he was chief judge and administrative officer of the court that handles all diocesan cases involving marriages.

From September, 1972, to June, 1975, he was episcopal vicar for the Attleboro and Taunton areas of the diocese, and from June II, 1975, to June 27, 1989, served in the same capacity in the Cape and Islands areas.

In 1974, Msgr. Munroe was named a prelate of honor by Pope John Paul VI, at that time receiving the title of monsignor. Since 1976 he has been a minister of the sacrament of confirmation in the Fall River diocese.

The election of a diocesan administrator followed the Jan. 28 installation offormer Fall River Bishop Daniel A. Cronin as archbishop of Hartford, Conn. Canon law mandates that an administrator must be elected by the board of consultors of a diocese within eight days of the time that a bishop dies or is installed as head of another see.

The consultors for the Fall River diocese who participated in the Jan. 30 election are Msgr. Munroe, Msgrs. Luiz G. Mendonca, John J. Oliveira and John J. Smith and Fathers Richard L. Chretien, Edmund J. Fitzgerald, and John J. Steakem.

Continued from Page Olle . ployee Judy Milewski was surprised, heartened and a little ernbar; rassed when her Richmond, Va., parish gave tier a Christmas food basket.

Laid off from her mid ·Ievel management job at a Richmond bank in November, .Ms. Milt:wski was feeling fairly optimistic about her chances of finding a new job soon.

When her parish sent over a big box offoodjust before Christmas, Ms. Milewski was cheered ty the knowledge that someone waf worried about her but a bit embarrassed to realize she was on the receiving end of charity :'or a change. Since she was spe :lding the holidays with her parents, she was in turn able to pass along some of the food to a family she knew was in greater need.

In its publication, Initiatives, The National Center for the Laity regularly describes support programs for the unemployed from around the country. The Chicagobased organization also .)ffers copies of a booklet published during the 1983 recession with ti ps on how to set up support grou~'s and job networks.

William Drod, editor of )nitiatives, said people like Ms. Milewski are typical of the different f.lce of the unemployed in this recession.

Among the hardest hit are those in management, white-collar, technicalor highly skilled jobs -- who hl"l;pved their professions were insulated from the layoffs more common to factory, construction or other labor-intensive jobs, Droel said. , An instructor and campw: minister at Moraine Valey ColI~ge in the Chicago suburb of Palos Hills, Droel edits Initiatives on a volunteer basis.

"I try to keep raising the idea of our Christian responsibility to create jobs," he said.

In the February issue he cites the story of Jim McKeown, who went on a retreat in 1989 and discovered some retreatants were welfare recipients. Deciding he should try to create employment, he established the Partnership for Common Good, which, among other things, helped 10 f,)rmer welfare mothers start a gift-hasket company.

U.S. Rep. James Moral1, DVa., and Shellabarger ofthe USCC both said the only significant federal help to the unemployed will come from the $14.3 billion transportation bill passed in October.

Moran, a Catholic from the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Va., said that in the last few years, his constituents seem to have lost confidence. And while lack of individual confidence may make finding a job difficult, Moran is worried about what happem when employers start to reflect the same attitude.

For its part in curing the confidence gap, Moran said COl1gress needs to put aside differences with President Bush and "undo the de-

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THE BENEDICTINE order ofthe Sisters of Jesus Crucified can't be accused of discrimination. It even accepts those who are in good health.

However, all 12 sisters now at St. Paul's Priory, Newport, RI, have physical handicaps.

When their community was founded by Father Maurice Gaucheron and Suzanne Wrotnowska in 1930, they emphasized that all its members, whether in poor or good health, 'could share a life devoted to prayer and to such work as cooking, housework, sewing, gardening, arts and crafts, vestment making and painting of icons.

Sister Beatrice Marie Nadeau, shown above working on an icon, also designs greeting cards and paints.

But she said the order never forgets that its primary focus is prayer; and special intentions phoned in or brought in person are never forgotten. (CNS photo)

Haitian ruling Feb. 9 1963, Rt. Rev. Msgr. John J. Kelly, Pastor, SS. Peter & Paul, Fall River 1985, Rev. Vincent R. Dolbec, A.A., Assumption College 1972, Rev. Peter J. McKone, S.J. Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River

Feb. 10 1966, Rev. Edward L. O'Brien, St. Mary, Mansfield 1983, Rev. Lucien A. Madore, Retired Chaplain of Mt. St. Joseph School, Fall River, Director, Notre Dame Cemetery Fall River

Feb. 11 1961, Rev. John J. Sullivan, S.T.L., Pastor, Holy Rosary Fall River 1987, Rev. William J. McMahon, Retired Pastor, St. Joan of Are, Orleans 1910, Rev. John O'Connell, Founder, St. John Evangelist, Attleboro

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1961, Rev. Stanislaus B. Albert, SS.Cc., Sacred Hearts Monastery, Fairhaven

Feb. 14 1932, Rev. Charles E. Clerk, Pastor, St. Roch, Fall River 1980, Rev. Msgr. Francis E. McKeon, Pastor Emeritus, Sacred Heart, Taunton

Continued from Page One "It was not for frivolous reasons that [the Haitians] fled their homeland. They left in desperation because of intolerable violence and oppression," said Bishop Daily.

The U.S. Supreme Court Jan. 31 lifted a ban that had prevented the government from sending Haitians back, ending months of legal wrangling that left more than 10,000 Haitians in a state of limbo at Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba.

The court's 6-3 ruling came on an emergency petition by the Bush administration, which argued that as many as 20,000 Haitians were preparing to leave their country and that the naval base at Guantanamo Bay was filled to capacity.

"We have no independent confirmation" of the 20,000 figure, said Father Ryscavage.

He added that "none of the cases [of Haitian asylum seekers] we've received in Miami have been HIV-positive."

Father Ryscavage said he had no reason to believe that the AIDS virus was more prevalent among Haitian asylum-seekers than among the general Haitian population.

"I think there's a bit of hysteria involved here. It seems to me [the United States] is not really threatened by the influx. We can afford as a society to be more

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Is it realistic to expect politicians to set aside partisan differences in an election year? "If George Bush doesn't, it's not going to be an election year for him," Moran said.

Shellabarger acknowledges the difficulty of getting Congress and the president to agree on quick-fix projects. But he believes last year's argument that 1989's budget agreement won't allow dramatic changes in federal spending has lost its steam.

"The question is no longer 'Will the budget agreement be broken? but 'How will it be brokenT" he said.

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What stories these pews could tell

By Dan Morris As I walked into the back of the church recently for a quick hello to the votive candle rack, workers were unbolting the last three rows of pews.

A lump formed in my throat.

These have been "our" pews for a long time. They have been constant friends, their varnish long ago mixed with the oil of human use to make them smooth and welcoming.

Yet, I suppose it's good they are going. The church needs remodeling. It will be nice to have the altar closer to the congregation, to have the choir out of the loft, to be able to see more than just the backs of heads.

There will be more room between the new pews. No one will miss having to climb over Mrs. McBrien's boney knees (she's an aisle hugger).

I wonder if our son John remembers how we used to fall over her and how he lost a tooth once when he fell into a missal rack.

The new pews will probably have better racks, anyway. I don't know how many elbows we've pried loose from the old ones over the years. I do sort of hope that the new ones look as natural with crayon and Tinker Toys broken off in the pencil holes.

The new padded ones will be nice. Maybe the padding will cut down on the echoes created by dropping baby bottles or car keys or a concealed cap gun smuggled into church. Funny, though, that hard pew was never too hard for

our little Marie to catnap on during Mass.

What stories these old pews could tell about the kids' bickering and giggling, about路 how I tapped them nervously as the children did their parts in the Christmas program, about how they have supported us through weddings, baptisms, funerals.

I know the pews are not the church any more than the statue of Mary near the baptismal font or the worn holy water dispenser by the exit.

And change is due. But how do you say goodbye to an era?

With a quivering lip and a teary smile, that's how.

Rosary Novena for Life begins April 4 The 4th annual Rosary Novena for Life will begin April4 and continue through May 30. Nine consecutive Saturdays of praying the rosary will be offered for unborn babies; expectant mothers; and a softening of the hearts of abortionists and their supporters. The novena is sponsored by Rosary Novena for Life.

Offering an opportunity to support the right to life cause, it may be promoted throughout a diocese or simply in a parish or home. A novena planning manual with stepby-step directions and various prayers is available. For information write Rosary for Life, P.O. Box 40213, Memphis, Tennessee 38174.

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Guilt and the children of aging parents

By Monica and Bill Dodds The problem with guilt is that sometimes we deserve it. We've made a mistake, hurt someone, been lazy or arrogant or selfish and feel bad about that.

But all too frequently for the adult child caring for an aging parent, the guilt alarm never stops ringing. The feelings of frustration, inadequacy and doubt never cease.

Sometimes it helps to realize that no matter what you do - how much or how little - the guilt is likely to be there. For example: I feel guilty because I don't stop in and see Mom every day.

I feel guilty because I'm spending too much time helping her and think I'm neglecting my spouse and kids.

I feel guilty because I don't live closer to Dad. I feel guilty because I'm the sibling who lives close by and I'm resentful - even jealous - that the others don't know the day-today hassles I'm facing.

I feel guilty because Mom wasn't very good at being a parent and I love her but sometimes don't like her.

Or I feel guilty because Mom was a super parent, and now that she needs my help I'm not coming

through for her the way she did for me.

I feel guilty about feeling guilty all the time.

Or I feel guilty for giving myself a break and not feeling guilty.

Maybe hardest of all, I feel guilty because sometimes I imagine what a relief it will be when Dad has died. And then I can't believe I feel this way. What's wrong with me?

And as if the care giver's emotions aren't already stirred up, overworked and muddled enough, Mom or Dad knows what buttons to push - the phrase, the gesture, the sigh, the stare - to make a child feel guilty.

Brothers and sisters likewise haven't forgotten a sibling's emotional weak spots. A spouse can pour on guilt. And children, even little ones, can be masters at using it to manipulate.

Guilt can easily become a constant companion, and if left unchecked it feeds the twin fires of exhaustion and anger.

What to do?

Remember you are a human being, created and loved unconditionally by God even though you, like all humans, are imperfect.

You are not a perfect spouse, parent, son or daughter, not perfect at work or play or prayer. You will never be a perfect caregiver.

Remember you don't have to do everything for an aging parent. It is not required that you meet all his needs yourself. If there isn't enough time to clean Dad's house and make all his meals, or if you simply can't bring yourself to give Dad a bath, there are competent, qualified people who do these things, people in social-servicejobs who provide home and personal care.

Instead, use your time and energy to do the things with him that you really want to do. The things that mean most to you and him. The ones that will mean the most to you after he is gone.

Remember you can set limits. A parent whose health continues to deteriorate is going to need more and more attention, but that does not mean you will be able to continue to match that need. Permit yourself to say, "I can't do that."

Remember that others face the same insurmountable challenges.

There are support groups available whose members will listen and understand.

Finally, remember that no matter how much you do, no matter how well you do it, an aging parent's health is going to deteriorate.

This is not a reflection on you.

And it is not your fault.

Imperfect families, you are the church . By Mitch Finley There was once a poor peasant who lived in a small village with his family. Each day, the man would leave to spend an hour in prayer at his parish church.

As he left his home he would turn, give a little wave and say, "Goodbye, Lord God, I'm going now to perform my religious duties."

This story, told by the late author and spiritual guide Father Anthony De Mello, SJ, illustrates perfectly a strand of tradition rediscovered

by Vatican Council I!.

The point of the story is that God is present in our homes and in our families, not just in church.

Even more to the point, family life - whatever shape it may take - is an authentic form of church.

Pope John Paul II, echoing Vatican II, said that the family in its various forms is meant to "constitute the church in its fundamental dimension."

I detect some disbelief: "What?

My family is the most basic form of church I belong to? You obviously don't know my family. We have problems. We struggle from one week to the next."

Easy now. The key is to rethink what the word "church" means. It does not mean a group of people who have no problems. Rather, "church" means something like this: a gathering of people with problems of all kinds, who, when they get a minute to think about it, realize that they place all their hope in the love of God as revealed, in Jesus.

To embrace the truth that your family is church is to acknowledge that your relationship with God happens most fundamentally in the context of your relationships with that unpredictable crew you live with. Why? Because the Gospel declares that we can't draw closer to God while remaining distant from one another and vice versa.

The first form of church we par-

ticipate in is the church of our family. Our most basic calling is to be present to and build up the church of our family. So we should get involved in extra parish activities only if that will relieve not intensify our level of stress at home.

Parish staff people should be the first to appreciate this insight.

A stressed-out person motivated by guilt makes a poor CCD teacher or parish council member.

In an era when family life is being eroded on all sides, support for family life should be an essential dimension of all parish ministries. A basic parish goal should be to nourish the roots of the parish in the various kinds of struggling families which constitute the parish. Faith-filled families will mean a faith-filled parish.

The best thing we can do for our parish, most of the time, is to spend time with our family. We,

the people in the pews, will know that wonderful things are about to happen when we see notes like these in our Sunday bulletin: "Spend more evenings together as a family this week with the TV set turned om" We need to be honest with our pastors and other parish staff people. They need to hear from us that, while we would be lost without Sunday Mass, we need more than that.

First, we need to feel their acceptance of us as families ofvarious kinds, with all our trials and imperfections. Then we need their help to be the best Christian families we can be.

My family - like yours, I suspect - feels more inclined to participate in parish activities when we sense support from our parish for the domestic church that is our family.

New book looks at youths' attitudes toward Catholicism WASHINGTON (CNS) - A new book distributed by a Washington-based group offoundations and donors examines young peopIe's attitudes toward Catholicism.

FADICA (Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities), in a recent statement, said the,路 book is the "edited exchange" of persons participating in a national symposium. on how the church might develop stronger links with the next generation of Catholics. ' The 142-page book titled "Of Faith Service and Values: The Church and Youth Involvement," contains personal narratives of eight college-age Catholic students who spoke before an au4ience of foundation presidents, bishops and youth ministers.

The FADICA statement quoted one of them, Jeremy Langford, an honors student at the University of Notre Dame, as saying that to

him, "the most pressing concerns are uninspiring liturgies, ineffective styles of communication and teaching, lack of outreach programs and sporadic opportunities for [youth) involvement. These are things that turn young people away from the church."

The statement said the students urged the church to help equip you'rig people to' better link the teachings oftheir faith to daily life.

It said they also called for more opportunities to "learn Christian values through volunteer service."

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a walkathon starting at 4:30 a.m. that involved a 15-mile hike in pouring rain 'to and from the Fall River airport. Not satisfied with that feat, Ms. Casey followed it the same day with a 5-mile walk, also in the rain. Her 5-year-old son, doubtless inspired by Mom, walked almost the whole of the 5-mile course.

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Contrasting Urban's attitude to that of Massachusetts legislators who recently eliminated a $150 clothing allowance previously allocated to each of 200,000 children served by state aid programs, Father Norton said that although "the governor and state legislators are mandated by each of us to care for [the people of the state] the Hank Urbans never get heard by Beacon Hill, even though [he] was a model ofthe wisdom of a man of God. "To care is the call," the priest continued. "Let us rally to that call in this commonwealth in 1992.

Together we can care.

"God," he said, "teaches us by being born poor, living poor, dying poor. Christ is the savior who came to give us all - and Hank Urban learned how to give it all.

His life made a big difference to each of us who loved him."

A Big Difference

AT SOUP KITCHEN dedication, from left, Rev. Richard W. Beaulieu, pastor of ~;;t.

Patrick's parish, Fall River, in which soup kitchen is located; Al Lewis, Urban's longtime friend; Rev. William W. Norton, former St. Patrick's pastor and regular soup kitchen cook; Mrs. Veronica Urban, Urban's widow; Marilyn Southworth, president of soup kitchen program. (McGowan photo)

Fri., Feb. 7, 1992

Program speaker Father Norton preceded Father Beaulieu as pastor at St. Patrick's and while there was responsible for cooking the Saturday soup kitchen meal.

Now pastor at St. Joseph's Church, Woods Hole, he traveled from Cape Cod to pay tribute to Urban who he said "stepped out of the crowd" to say and illustrate with his life that "the poor are people and we are called by God to care for them, to care about them."

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"Hank Urban was a man who Monday and Fridays. cared about God and about how An invocation was offered by God cares for poor people," Permanent Deacon Manuel Camdeclared Father William W. Nor- ara, the program's treasurer, and a ton at the recent dedication to closing blessing by Father Richard Henry P. Urban Sr. of the Slade W. Beaulieu, pastor of St. Patrick's Street location of the Fall River parish, in which the soup kitchen Community Soup Kitchen. facility is located.

A commemorative plaque was Urban, who died of cancer last April 20 at age 75, had worked at unveiled by Albert Lewis, Urban's the kitchen as dishwasher, cook longtime frie'nd and soup kitchen and eventually as supervisor from co-worker; and Fall River Mayor the time of its opening in 1982 John Mitchell presented Urban's until a few weeks before his death, widow, Veronica, with a citation continuing even as his illness was acknowledging her husband's contributions to the city. ravaging his body.

Mrs. Urban, 71, who had worked Friends, family, priests, Fall with her husband at the kitchen, River city officials and volunteers has taken over his supervisory who had worked with Urban were role. With a crew of similarly among almost 100 persons who devoted volunteers, she is on hand crowded into the soup kitchen for at the facility every Tuesday and the dedication program.

Thursday.. Most crew members,.

Located in the basement of the she said, are senior citizens who, Diocesan Offices of Catholic Social . despite a variety ofailments, report Services at 783 Slade Street in Fall faithfully to their posts.

River, the kitchen feeds the hungry She paid tribute also to Roger on a no-questions-asked basis from Salpietro who with a group of St. II a.m. to 12:30 p.in. each TuesPatrick's parishioners takes over day and Thursday year-round and direction of the kitchen on Saturfrom II a.m. to noon each Saturday days. ' from September to June.

Then there are untold scores Those at the dedication were who year-round keep the kitchen welcomed by Ms. Marilyn Southin food, contributing, Mrs. Urban worth, president of the communsaid, nearly 75. turkeys during the ity soup kitchen program, which holidays alone, plus sufficient also operates at the Episcopal canned goods to share with the Church ofthe Ascension, 160 Rock Fall River Food Pantry, a pro-

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More than a dozen U.8. bishops could 'retire thls year WASHINGTON (CNS) When Bishop Albert H. Ottenweller retired Jan. 28 as bishop of Steubenville, Ohio, it was the first of what could be up to 15 resignations for reasons of age by U.S. . bishops in 1992.

Under church law a bishop is asked to submit his resignation to the pope when he reaches his 75th birthday. The pope is not required .to accept it immediately, but usually does so then or within the next few months.

As 1992 began, among active American bishops of the Latin rite there were two who were already 75 and eight who will be 75, before the end of the year. One bishop who turns 75 next year has said he hopes to retire this year.

Four Eastern-rite bishops are

already 75 and could face retirement at any tim~.

Bishop Ottenweller, a bishop since 1974, was 75 last April 5.

The only remaining Latin-rite bishop who is 75 and still active is Bishop Glennon P. Flavin of Lincoln, Neb. A bishop since 1957, he was 75 last March 2.

Active Latin-rite bishops who were or will be 75 in 1992 are: - Bishop James D. Niedergesses, Feb. 2. He has been bishop of Nashville, Tenn., since 1975.

- Archbishop Daniel E~ Sheehan, May 14. He has been a bishop since 1964 and archbishop of Omaha, Neb .. since 1969.

- Bishop Stanislaus J. Brzana, July 7. He has been a bishop since 1964 and bishop of Ogdensburg, N.Y., since 1968.

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- Bishop Cletus F. O'Donnell, Aug. 22. He has been a bishop since 1960 and bishop of Madison, Wis., since 1967.

- Archbishop Ignatius J. Strecker, Nov. 23. He has been a bishop since 1962 and archbishop of Kansas City, Kan., since 1969.

- Bishop Bernard F. Popp, Dec. 6. He has been auxiliary bishop of San Antonio since 1983.

- Bishop Arthur J. O'Neill, Dec. 14. He has been bishop of Rockford, 111., since 1968.

Bishop Warren L. Boudreaux of Houma-Thibodaux, La., will not be 75 until next Jan. 25, but this January he told his people that he has asked Pope John Paul II to accept his resignation "sometime in the fall of 1992."

Bishop Boudreaux was ordained a bishop in 1962. In 1977 he was moved from Beaumont, Texas, to become founding bishop of the newly created Houma-Thibodaux Diocese.

Although Eastern-rite bishops make up only a small percentage of the U.S. hierarchy, they have a disproportionately high four bishops who are over 75 but still active.

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Dudick of Passaic, N.J., a bishop Similarly, the Vatican may well since 1968, who turned 75 on Feb. honor Bishop Boudreaux's request 24,1991. to retire this fall, a few months - Auxiliary Bishop John M. before his 75th birthday, because Bilock of the Byzantine Archdiokey anniver;sary occasions for him cese of Pittsburgh, a bishop since occur this spring and summer. In 1973, who turned 75 on June 20, March there is the 15th anniver1991. sary of the founding of the diocese In the Latin-rite church, bishops and his appointment as' its first have been asked to submit their bishop. In May he marks his 50th resignations at age 75 since 1966, anniversary of priestly ordination but there was no such retirement and in July the 30th of his episcorule for Eastern-rite bishops until pal ordination. last October, when a new general law for all Eastern Catholic churches went into effect.

Under the new law, for the first time bishops of the Eastern churches are asked to submit their resignations at age 75 to their patriarch or his equivalent if they VATICAN CITY (CNS) - An are in the home region of their rite, or to the pope if they live outside Italian TV broadcast of what it said was a U.S. electric-chair exethe home jurisdiction. cution was condemned as "intolIn the first few years after a retirement rule went into effect in erable" and shameful by the Vatithe Latin rite, there was a gradual can newspaper, L'Osservatore Romtransition before it became routine ano.

The execution was shown to for the pope to accept nearly all prime-time viewing audiences Jan. resignations on or shortly after a 31 by Telemontecarlo, one of Italy's bishop's 75th birthday.

Exceptions, often continuing for largest private stations. The point, years, have been common in pla- the network said, was to underline the horror of the death penalty. ces where the church is persecuted But the Vatican newspaper and or severely restrained, such as in China or until recently in Eastern other critics said the show was part of a trend toward "spectacular TV Europe.

Otherwise, exceptions are gen- . at any cost - including death." erally made only for relatively short The station refused to provide periods of time and because of the name of the person executed or particular pastoral concerns in a say when the execution took place. diocese or because an important A spokeswoman for Amnesty Interpersonal occasion for the bishop. national in New York said she such as a jubilee, is near. thought the execution occurred in When Bishop Otten weller's 75th the United States in the mid-to birthday rolled around, he was in late-I 980s. the middle of handling a delicate The Vatican newspaper said broadpastoral problem of restructuring casting the execution "was the a local Catholic charismatic com- latest shameful act in a trend that munity and getting it back on increasingly reveals a stubborn track - a job' now largely comtrait: denial of human dignity and pleted. respect."

Bishop Flavin marked his golden Several Italian church leaders, jubilee of priestly ordination in including Archbishop Giovanni December. and has a double occaSaldarini of Turin. denounced¡the sion coming up at the end of May: TV show. Other Italian commenthis 35th anniversary of episcopal ators were divided on the value of ordination and the silverjubilee of such a broadcast.

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DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE: Kathleen Donnolly Betts (left), a 1967 graduate of SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, poses with SS. Peter and Paul principal Kathleen Burt after receiving the National Catholic Educational Association Elementary School Distinguished Graduate Award. She was honored at a Catholic Schools Week Mass for bringing the Massachusetts budget into the black by discovering $489,000,000 owed the state by the federal Medicare program.

Her name was also placed in the SS. Peter and Paul Alumni Hall of Fame.

Long term care insurance: protecting assets This article is a continuation of the Elder Health Alert .. Untangling the health insurance. knot", which ran on the senior page of Jan. 24. 1992.

Long term care is nursing or personal care services needed for a long time. It includes both nursing and rest home care and home health services.

Most health insurance policies do not cover long term care, and its costs can be financially devastating to older adults who require care and their spouses and children. Medicare covers only skilled home health care, and then only rarely.

Medicaid. Most long term care coverage comes from Medicaid.

Once an elder qualifies for Medicaid by having a low enough income, and applies and is accepted in the Medicaid program, Medicaid will pay a set amount per day for nursing home or home health care.

Many elders and their spouses must pay for long term care themselves until their funds are exhausted and they are Medicaid eligible. This is called spending down.

Recently, however, Congress mandated that states must allow the spouse of a nursing home resident who lives at home to retain about $800 per month, plus about $15,000 in liquid assets such as

savings accounts, and the couple's long term care insurance privately. home.

Some medigap policies include In Massachusetts, the spouse some long term care coverage, but living at home may keep $1,500 rarely enough should care be needper month, and up to half the cou- ed for a long time. ple's assets, up to $62,580. In other When you buy long term care words, a spouse in a couple with insurance, consider how much you $30,000 in assets may keep $15,000, can afford to pay for insurance, while the spouse in a couple with what other sources of cove rage, $500,000 may keep the maximum, such as Medicaid, you have or are $62,580. eligible for, and what informal As soon as you believe you qual- sources of care, such as family.and .. ify for Medicaid, whether you curfriends, you have. It maybe that rently need long term care or not, you do not need long term care you should apply at your local insurance, or that the amount of state public assistance office so . coverage you will be able to buy is that the coverage will beavailaole so small that you may as weJ use as soon as you need it. In addition, your assets until you are eligible the application process can take for Medicaid. several months.

The purpose of long term care Recent changes in regulations insurance is generally to protect have also affected Medicaid. For assets. Thus, in determining your example, an applicant's house can needs, be sure to include in~ome now be counted as an asset in from social security, pensions, determining eligibility in certain interest income and other sOllrces. circumstances, including if the When considering policies, comapplicant is not married. pare the following features: • What services are covered?

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FLORENCE POWERS, left, a resident at Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River, and Cassia Picard, a student at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, were among those sharing a buffet luncheon hosted by Memorial Home residents for .Connolly students during Catholic Schools Week.

The 9th and 10th grade students, who then toured the facility with activities director Ruth Gruhn, will have the option of volunteering at Catholic Memorial Home through the Connolly community service program, directed by Rev. Donald A. MacMillan, SJ.

News from Councils on Aging Rehoboth Attorney Beth McGregor will speak on the Massachusetts Health Care Proxy 10:30 a.m. Feb. 19 at the COA. Assistance with income tax returns will be provided beginning in March; interested persons may call COA and leave name and number.

Dennis Wisdom Institute program is held at 10 a.m. Thursdays through April 2 at senior center. The Cape Cod Cello Choir, directed by Florence Reynolds, will perform selections from Mozart, Vivaldi, Bach and Faure 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Feb. 29 at the senior center.

Information: COA, 385-5067.

Provincetown Old prescription glasses and hearing aids are being collected at senior center for distribution to the needy. Volunteers needed as

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Information: COA, 487-9906. Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod will make home repairs for needy homeowners; information: 2552167.

Chatham Tax Counselors available to assist seniors with tax returns through April 13 at senior center; home visits are also possible for persons unable to come to the center. Information: 945-1534.

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HOUSE~husband?

Being a part-time househu ,band is not all it's cracked up to b~, and now it looks as if I'm going to have to drop my title entirely. It appears that the term may be sexist -- even politically incorrect!

That's too bad, because the label gets instant recogniti9n. It was a handy word to explain why I was staying home keeping house on Wednesdays when my bride \\'orked fulltime at the newspaper ga me.

Now that she has retired to collect her modest Social Security allowance, I may not need H.e title anyway. And that's a good thing - according to the new Random House Webster's Collegiat!: Dictionary.

In the good old days dict .onaries used to stick to word spelling and definition, avoiding co1troversy and political disputatio:l. The new Random House word book, which came out last spring, has no such restraints. Besides p Jtting warning labels on "offellsive" words, it has added an appendix: "Avoiding Sexist Language."

That's where I learned that "humankind" is better than "mankind," and "homemaker" should be substituted for "housewife." If housewife is sexist, can "househusband" be far behind?

I haven't bought the new dictionary yet (and I probably won't) so I don't know its other restrictions. What does it offer to replace the "man" in "human"? Or the "men" in "Amen"? Or the "man" in "mantra"? I'm worried, because it apparently proposes "womyn" as an alternative to "womall."

Before reading the New York Times story on the new dicti onary, I was feeling rather pleased with my role as a househubby. I don't

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expect any medals, but I was flying in the face of a study a while back which claimed husbands don't help BERNARD much when they do chores.

"When husbands take on more housework," the Wall Street CASSERLY Journal reported, "They tend to substitute for chores done by the kids rather than the wife." Work- pons, and you can't go sailing ing or nonworking wives did about down a supermarket aisle when 80 percent of the chores, the study you have to get down on your said, including washing, cooking, knees to read the price labels on shopping, housecleaning, child care the bottom shelves. That's where and paperwork. the bargains are.

Only for yard work and home I also try to buy items that are maintenance did women do less most often requested and least than half of the chores. While contributed to neighborhood food children helped do the mother's shelves. Studies show these include work, husbands appear to lighten canned meals like beef stew, canned the kids' load rather than mom's tuna, stewed tomatoes and peanut burden, the study claimed. butter.

Perhaps because of our revolvSometimes I save so much money ing door household, with no kids on coupons that I use equivalent you could count on, my house-=- dollars to help stock the shelves husbanding included almost all for the poor. I was bragging about the shopping and paperwork, much this neat practice one day to Verof the dishwashing and some cook- ona Devney, the Northfield, MN ing and housecleaning. woman who founded. Operation " I'm very good at shopping, if I HOPE, an international chanty do say so myself, but my bride program. claims I take too long. You can't "I hope you add a nickel of your go fast, I explain, when you do own," Mrs. Devney said. comparison shopping. What if it Nobody's perfect, I explain. It's does take two hours on a Saturday hard enough getting used to my afternoon when the job jar is full new title of homemaker. Like a lot of dirty work? of homes where both husband and Besides, I save a lot of money wife have retired, I wonder: Can when I go shopping. I collect cou- one house hold two homemakers?

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Feb. 7, 1992

More than one-half of the world's permanent deacons live in the United States.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In ing too many questions," said Fa1948, a two-volume set of alleged ther Graham. secret Vatican documents was pubOne of Scattolini's clients was lished. It caused a political uproar the Office of Strategic Services, in Italy aid exposed a IO-year- the U.S. intelligence agency durscam of false news about papal ing World War II. .. American intelligence in Rome policies. paid Scattolini $500 a month to The documents purported to show Vatican interference in Ital- get this massive documentation, ian and world affairs during the completely invented, now cluttercritical time when Europe was ing the U.S. National Archives," Father Graham said. rebuilding after World War II and Scattolini was born Sept. 3, 1889, ' the ideological ice was forming in Brescia, Italy. He was an ecoaround the Cold War. nomically unsuccessful author who The aim of the publishers, who thought the documents genuine, worked from 1935 to 1939 for was to help communist and social- L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatiist parties defeat the Christian can newspaper, as a film critic.

The years at L'Osservatore RoDemocrats in crucial Italian elecmano added authenticity to Scattions later in the year.

Instead, publication exposed the tolini's bulletins because they made career of Virgilio Scattolini, who him familiar with the Vatican's Source: 1989 figures from the Vatican's from 1939 to 1948 made a living high-sounding ecclesial writing Central Office for Church Statistics and The selling phony Vatican information. style and with the official titles of Offidal Catholic Diredory.

In 1948 an Italian court found church people.

According to court records, Scattolini guilty of "creating and spreading false news about the Scattolini initially told police that CNS photo by Gene Plaisted 01991 CNS graphics political activity of Vatican City." he "invented" his news based on The incriminating documents pub- public information about Vatican lished covered the post-war years activities, papal audiences and trips only, but the investigation showed by church authorities.

He later said he had a secret Vatthat Scattolini's efforts began in 1939. He was discovered when the ican source and his information documents were published with- "was put together based on simple out his knowledge, sparking denials intuition and predictions deduced by prominent people able to show from indiscretions and voices in that they were not involved in the the corridor." secret Vatican meetings and conNo Vatican source appeared to spiracies described in the docu- confirm his story, and the court ments. sentenced him to seven months The Vatican, which had been and four days in jail. An appeal publicly criticizing the spread of was refused in 1950, and Scattolini Scattolini's false information since disappeared from public life. the early 1940s, formally protested Father Graham, however, points to Italy.under a law that prohibits out that Scattolini's work still the spread of false information haunts government files and libabout a friendly state. The 58- raries, where it rests without any year-old Scattolini was arrested. warning that it is false. The result Prior to that he had a thriving is a minefield for unwary rebusiness for his typed news sheet, searchers investigating Vatican which he peddled clandestinely as policies, he said. inside information about papal One person who found himself affairs, often complete with bogus trapped by Scattolini's informaVatican documents. tion was Myron Taylor, U.S. PresYour $20 monthly pledge provides a needy His clients included international ident Franklin D. Roosevelt's repchild with: NOURISHING FOOD, MEDICAL news agencies, embassies and forCARE, the chance to GO TO SCHOOL and eign intelligence services on both resentative at the Vatican during World War II. sides of World War II. All were HOPE FOR THE FUTURE. Your child will Taylor got into trouble with grow in the daily knowledge of God's love and Little Conchita lives in a small village in the mountains of hard up for news from the tight- Washington officials after news lipped Vatican about its contacts your love.

Guatemala. Her house is made of cornstalks, with a tin with the Allied and Axis powers. stories appeared with false information about his private converroof and dirt floor. Her father struggles to support the Scattolini's bulletins were filled You receive a photo of your child, family his- family as a day laborer. Your concern can make the with papal plans to write political sations at the Vatican. Taylor, in tory, translated personal letters, description difference in the lives of children like Conchita. documents, secret messages to the follow-up meetings with Vatican of your child's country and quarterly newsletVatican from world leaders and officials, was shown copies of the FOR THE CHILD WHO IS WAITING directives to church officials in Scattolini news sheet that was at ters! the root of the false stories.

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Taylor explained the matter in a Scattolini wrote the bulletins Plus you have the personal satisfaction of help- Christian Foundation for Children & Aging supports because he needed money and even March 15, 1945, letter to RooseCatholic missions in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, ing a child in need at a Catholic mission site. velt, which included copies of"these Costa Rica, Nicaragua, EI Salvador, Dominican Repub- tailored reports for specific clients, bogus news sheets." said Father Robert Graham, a lic, Haiti, St. Kitts-Nevis, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Let the little children come unto me.

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KRAKOW CARDINAL Franciszek Macharski (left) and Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, president of the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, participatl: in cornerstone laying for a new Carmelite convent in Auschwitz, Poland. (CNS/ Reuters photo)

Auschwitz convent to be replaced OSWIECIM, Poland (CNS)Polish church officials have honored a longstanding pledge to world Jewish leaders by laying the cornerstone of a convent to replace a controversial Carmelite house at a former Nazi death camp.

The building, to be completed this year, is intended as a permanent home for the cloistered nuns whose convent near the walls of

Auschwitz caused international Jewish protest.

If the nuns move in on schedule

in October, it will ease a conflict that has affected Jewish-Catholic relations worldwide.

The new building is about 300 yards from the old convent.

Former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres once called the old convent a "stain" on Auschwitz.

The Nazis killed an estin:ated 1.6 million people, most of I hem Jews, at Auschwitz and neigt.boring Birkenau camps. But Polish gentiles also see them as shrines to their own dead and many were outraged by Jewish demands for removal of the nuns.

Four Catholic cardinals promised Jewish leaders at a meeting in Geneva in 1987 to move the nuns

by February 1989.

But preparations for the new building did not begin until 1990, after increased Jewish protests, including a July 1989 demonstration by New York Rabbi Avraham Weiss and six followers that ended with Polish workers beating and ejecting the demonstrators from the convent grounds.

Cardinal Franciszek Macharski of Krakow, Poland, laid the cornerstone of the new convent, which had been blessed by Polish-born Pope John Paul.

He was assisted by Cardinal Edward Cassidy, president of the Vatican's Christian unity council and its Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. The cardinal brought the cornerstone from Rome.

Neither Cardinal Macharski nor Cardinal Cassidy referred to the dispute at the hourlong ceremony, which had about 100 onlookers.

But Cardinal Cassidy said the new convent, part of an $8 million international prayer center, would provide "the opportunity to reflect on the terrible crime that has really affected the lives of all of us who are children of the 20th century."

The present convent, occupied in 1984 by the nuns to pray for the dead of Auschwitz, was a theater used by the Nazis to store the clothes and possessions of their victims. It is also believed that the Cyklon-B gas used in the gas chambers was kept there.

"This new convent is a move in the right direction, but we have to wait until the sisters move because only that will be a significant moment," said Jerzy Wroblewski, director of the camp museum.

They have key, but is it their church?

ROME (CNS) - When a fiveThe dig, Father Foley said, fits Many attend local Italian parishes inch-long key was passed through or no church at all. Attendance at into "a pattern of making it diffithe grill of the Cistercian cloister, weekend Masses has dropped from cult to get the church in shape for it was a significant step toward over 500 at Santa Susanna to public use." ending the six-year exile of Rome's about 300 at the parish's temporV ntil work in the sacristy is finAmerican Catholic parish from ary quarters, he said. ished, the parish cannot begm the the Church of Santa Susanna.

After Abbess Maria Roberta complete electrical rewirin{; that But even with key in hand, the Cappiotti handed the key through the government insists upon hefore Americans are $1 million and many the grill, Father Foley, other church allowing public use of the ct urch, which, thanks to the Paulist Fathers months away from celebrating officials and a lawyer went to the Mass in the church they called main door of the church. The and to the consternation (If the their own for more than 60 years. abbess entered through the clois- Vatican; was the first chulch in And Boston Cardinal Bernard ter to remove the bar inside the Rome to have electric lights. AddiF. Law is months away from tak- door. tions and corrections have been "We all tried the key to make made to the 1920s system, but it ing symbolic possession of Santa Susanna, the titular church as- sure it worked," he said. "We all was never completely replaced. signed to him when he became a went into the church."

The church also needs a ;ound Father Foley said he had heard cardinal. system and a new heating S) stem.

His 1985 elevation to the Col- that government archaeologists Father Foley's million-dollar lege of Cardinals came a month digging in the sacristy had piled estimate for fixing the church after an anonymous caller told the some dirt in the church, but he was includes the ceiling, electricity, Rome fire department that the surprised:at how much. Even on sound and heat. With half that ornate church ceiling sagged. The pathways through the dirt mounds amount, the work essenti iI for church was closed as a safety in the church,nave, there's no hint public' safety could be done so of the once gleaming marble floor. hazard.

Masses could resume, although it The church is considered a hisThe 15 nuns in the Cistercian would be under the scaffolding. cloister of Santa Susanna have toric landmark, and as such the "{he Paulist priest said relations said repeatedly that the busy min- government has complete control with the nuns are "calm and bus~ istry of the American parish over the exterior, is responsible for iness-like. There are no par':icular threatens their contemplative the structure and has some control difficulties, certainly no animosity , over the interior. lifestyle. is evident."

The government was supposed They also contend that they The Cistercian nuns sa~1 they own the church - a claim they to fix the ceiling, but didn't get cannot talk to reporters. continue to press before the papal .much beyond erecting scaffolding Mirth vicar of Rome, the Vatican and the before it ran out of money.

Father Foley said he didn't know Italian Ministry of the Interior: "He who is truly a lover of Jesus Paulist Father John J. Foley, whythe archaeologists chose Santa Christ does not say his pray(:rs like pastor of the' American parish, Susanna for the dig and why they . other men, for seated in hi, right said that a late 1990 letter from the. weren't digging in the open court- . mind and ravished with Christ's Vatican promised investigation of yard, or at least. putting the exca- love from above himself, he is taken into marvelous mirth." _. the ownership, but added that either vated dirt there. The dig is part of a Richard Rolle way, the pope wants "the pastoral study of fourth century foundations in the area. ......- ............ ,....--..,...-..,...- -use ofthe church" directed toward V.S. Catholics in Rome.

The current church was comFather Foley said there are an pleted in 1603 on the site of a GOO'S ANCHOR estimated 10,000 V.S. Catholics ninth-century church built over a living in Rome and its suburbs. fourth-century church.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Feb. 7, 1992

By Charlie Martin

IT'S HARD TO SAY GOODBYE TO YESTERDAY

By Christopher Carstens Have you ever noticed that sometimes things don't work out the way you thought they would?

My son Adrian and I had Sunday evening all planned. We would get a lot of work done and have a jump on Monday morning. We might sneak an hour to watch "Murder She Wrote," but other than that,.it was all homework and business. At least that was the plan.

But while Adrian was making dinner, ,he cut his hand. It wasn't a serious cut but it was a nasty sort of thing that sometimes needs a stitch or two. We wrapped the hand, and he and I headed for the emergency room.

We ended up spending two hours there, what with waiting to check in, then waiting to be called and finally waiting for the doctor to come. She gave his hand a quick rook, cleaned it and sent him home with a bandage and a tetanus shot.

Fortunately, he didn't need any stitches.

It turned out to be a special evening. Really.

Adrian and I both had been terribly busy, and each had taken on a bit of grumpiness that comes with having too much on your mind. But driving down to the emergency room we found ourselves with time to talk. And while we were stuck waiting at the hospital, we joked with the nurses and privately shared our observations about the people there.

A man in his 30s was slowly reading the Sunday comics outloud to his wife. She was really enjoying the jokes. I thought it was odd, but Adrian figured it out. He saw that the wife, in a gentle and loving way, was helping her husband learn to read.

W'hen we got home, it was too' rate for real dinner so I threw on some bacon and eggs. After we

ate, we both went up to his room and kept talking and listened to old jazz records while we worked on our projects.

Like I said, except for the part about Adrian getting that cut, it was a really great evening. It wasn't what we expected, but it gave us a chance for closeness we hadn't had in a while.

It's natural to make plans. In fact, it's a good idea. If you don't make plans you spend a lot of time floating around aimlessly.

But problems arise when we take our plans too seriously. We decide in advance exactly what should happen, and when it doesn't work out that way we make ourselves miserable.

God is no respecter of human plans. Real life rarely progresses as smoothly as we'd like. One of the central keys to human happiness is the ability to change your plans to fit changing reality. . Much of the texture and richness of human life comes in exactly where our plans get all balled up.

The lives of great women and men are often defined at points where their carefully drawn plans ran head-on into something entirely unexpected.

Christopher Columbus was looking for a path to the Spice Islands when he stumbled across the New World. Alexander Graham Bell was' working on an amplifying device for the deaf when he accidentally created the telephone.

Mother Teresa was working as a teacher for wealthy girls in India when she could no longer turn her eyes from the human struggles surrounding the islands of privilege in Calcutta's sea of poverty.

Sometimes you do what you have planned. But God's grace is often most evident when you have to do something else - like drive to the hospital on Sunday night.

How do I say goodbye to what we had The good times that made us laugh I thought we'd get to be forever But forever's gone away It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday I don't know where the road is going to lead me All I know is where we've been and what we've been through If we get to see tomorrow I hope it's worth all the pain It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday And 111 take with me all the memories To be my sunshine after the rain It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday And 111 take with me all the memories To be my sunshine after the rain It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday Written by Freddie Perren, Christine Yarian. Sung by Boyz II Men (c) 1991 by Motown Record eompany IF YOU LIKE vocal harmony, then Boyz II Men's "It's So 'Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" is the song for you.

Apparently lots of teens like it and, as a result, the song has risen to the top five on the charts.

Most of us would agree with the song's message: It hurts to lose something good, and we soon realize that "it's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday."

Whether it be a relationship such as the song refers to, or

just about anything that we hoped to keep in our lives, the most painful part of saying goodbye is letting go of the dream.

To let go of the dream is to experience grief. Often, we face small griefs that bring us temporary setbacks. Occasionally, we encounter the type of deeper loss that makes a significant impact on our lives.

Even though facing grief is a part of everyone's life, all of us still need our hopes. Life with-

out hope is hardly life at all. We may be able to go through the motions but we don't genuinely feel alive without our hopes.

Yet, as the song suggests, sometimes permanent changes occur and our hopes for "forevers" go away. It is in these times that we need to discover ways to find new hopes and thus new reasons to live.

To renew one's life and hopes, consider these suggestions: - First, accept your grief.

Ta ke care of yourself physically and emotionally. Allow others to care about you. Getting through grief takes time, patience with your changing moods and a willingness to share your feelings with someone whom you trust.

- Next, begin to think about your life again. Ask yourself: What would happen if I were to re-experience some happiness and enjoyment during the next six months? Be imaginative.

Don't censor any of your answers at this time.

- Once you have a list of answers, write out five specific activities you could engage in actively during the next six months. Share this list with someone and ask him or her to help you keep your promises.

I think that it is just about impossible to say goodbye to yesterday unless we have created a renewed sense of tomorrow.

Finding new hope takes courage and perseverance. God will help anyone who seeks his guidance. Ask God to lead you to reestablishing your life.

Your comments are welcomed

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

No baby boom in Europe, he says governments are already very concerned," he said.

Cardinal Lopez Trujillo spoke in an interview with Vatican Radio after a recent five-day study session on demography sponsored by the council. The e.xperts looked at Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, the ethical aspects of populatio'n president ofthe Pontifical Council control. for the Family, said concern about the cardinal said that especially, the increasing worldwide populain p'laces of overpopulatipn, the tion should not路 overshadow the, church ,continues to pr<;lmote the fact that in Europe, only Poland and Ireland ar~ 'above zero popti- ' possibility of natural family plan:~ , ning methods. He said such methration gro'wth; : .' 'ods are enjoying increasing scienThe drastic decline of birthrates tific support as well as acceptance "dem'onstrates that there" is 'not by many local populations in ~he , enough lo've for life; and that the Thi,rd World. future of populations is truly being He said that by the term'''responplaced at risk," said the cardinal. sible parenthood," the church means that a couple mu.st carefully, "The fact is thatif this tendency consider, with ,an informed concontinues without deep changes; the future will bring a profound, science, how 'many children to have. and terrible collapse about which VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The declining birthrate in Europe raises tile prospect of a "terrible" population collapse that has worried many governments there, a Vatican officiar' said.. " .

DROP EVERYTHING: postman Doug Weldon, a guest reader for "Drop Everything and Read Day" during Catholic Schools Week, introduces first graders at St. Mary-Sacred Heart School, North Attleboro, to a Dr. Seuss tale.

St. Mary -Sacred IJeart Scho'ol' The"J unior A" basketball teams of St. Mary-Sacred Heart School, North Attleboro, emerged victorious from:last week's Kaleidoscope Tournament, held atSt: 'John's School i'n Attleboro as part of Catholic Schools Week festivities.

The4th-5th-6th gra'de girls' team, ' coached by Tom O'Connell and' Steve Rothemich, defeated St. John's 5th graders 20-13 in Satur-' day's final.

Leading scorer was Erin O'Connell with 13 points.

"Kerry Kennedy also had an outstanding game defensively and

a key bucket late in the game,~' said Coach O;Connell. Also scoring were Andrea Aylward, Megan Rothemich'and Kathleen Crounse.

TheSMSH girls' team defeated' St. John's 6th graders Wednesday to earn a,berth in the finals.

The SMSH 6th grade boys' 4341 vi~tory over ,St. John's in the Junior A final was a "real thriller;: said Coach. Ray LaRocque.

Offense was led by Billy Donly with 10 points, Mark Vandette, with 9 and Jeffrey LaRocque with 8. Point guard Jason O'Connell supplied many assists and Dan

Major, Josh Turcotte and Kevin DO,nley added a total of 16 points.

"The key to our'w,in was'a defensive 'effort by the total team, topped off by key rebounding by Kevin Donly in the final 2 minutes of the gaine," LaRocque said.

St. John's boys' offense was led

by Mike McNally with 15 and Nick Russas with 10. ' The boys' team defeated Mt. Carmel on Wednesday to earn its finals spot.' " LaRocque's co-coaches are Mike Donly and Jim Turcotte.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Feb. 7,1992

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Coyle-Cassidy Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton, will add two girls' varsity sports to its interscholastic program for the 1992-93 school year.

Soccer and spring track will join volleyball, cheerleading, cross country, basketball, winter track, tennis, softball, and golf as athletic offerings for girls at Coyle-Cassidy.

"The girls' program at CoyleCassidy has a great tradition of excellence and the addition of soccer and track will only strengthen that program," said CoyleCassidy athletic director William Tranter.

The girls' basketball team was the 1987 state Division III champion, while the cheerleaders won the state title in the same year. The softball team was confere(lce champion in 1990. .

The girls' soccer team will play in the Eastern Athletic Conference with Bishop Stang, Bishop Connolly, Dartmouth, Wareham, and Old Rochester. The track team will also compete in the EAC with Stang, Connolly, Dartmouth, Bishop Feehan, Attleboro, and Somerset its opponents. Previous to formation of separate teams, the girls played an.d practiced with the boys' soccer and track teams.

Coyle-Cassidy has produced outstanding girl soccer players and track stars in the past. Colleen Powers was captain of the Holy Cross soccer team in 1990 and 1991. Jean Lincoln and Tracy Kelley have had outstanding collegiate track careers.

"We Love Our Catholic School'" (sung to the tune of "Farmer in the Dell")

Bishop Stang student to visit Soviet Republics While mapmakers are catching up with changes in the former Soviet Union, Bishop Stang High School freshman Adam Gula will be heading to the new commonwealth republics this summer as a student ambassador in the People Program. Adam, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Gula of New Bedford, heard about the "Initiative for Understanding: AmericanSoviet Youth Exchange" last fall.

After scoring high in the application and interview process, he's ready to pack his bags.

The Bristol County delegation will attend local orientation meetings in the spring, then will depart during the sum'mer on a 23day project including visits to Moscow, Leningrad and three additional cities representative of the commonwealth republics.

The student ambassadors will participate in discussions and meetings with Russian citizens and government leaders. The itinerary. includes meetings and dances with members of Leningrad Komsomol (Young People's Party) and visits to a children's health clinic in Moscow and a collective farm in Kharkov for an overview of the agricultural system.

The Initiative for Understanding began as a result of 1985 Geneva talks between Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev, .when an agreement was signed to expand private' citizen exchange between the,U nited States and Soviet Union. Last year more' than 1,000 American . high schoolers were student ambassadors to the USSR.

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ST. ANTHONY'S SCHOOL, New Bedford, students (from left) Raina Figueroa, Kevin Patricio and Emmanuel Vasconcelos sport unusual apparel for Crazy Hat Day during Catholic Schools Week. .

St. Anthony's School Catholic Schools Week (Jan. 27 to Feb. 2) began at St. Anthony's School, New Bedford, with "Crazy Hat Day." Also part of the first day was a coloring contest involving the Catholic Schools Week poster.

Tuesday of Catholic Schools Week was School Spirit Day. Students wore school colors, red and white, and shared special talents with their classes.

On Wednesday, Appreciation Day for Catholic Schools, students wrote letters of thanks to persons in their families, school and communities. Students also wore un-

coordinated clothing for '''fv1ismatch Day." Thursday, Discover Day, b~gan with students writing essay:; on what they have discovered about their faith as students at St. Anthony's. It was also "I nside Out Day" with students wearing their clothes - you guessed it -itrside out.

On Friday, a morning liturgy was planned by eighth grajers, and students were invited to dress as their favorite Bible charac路;er.

Also, ethnic foods were se rved in the cafeteria' all week.

A closing liturgy was helj on Feb. 2.

Bishop Feehan The Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, art department has been extending into classrooms all over the school. Through an interdepartmental teaching program, art department chair Elaine Saulnier and faculty members Brenda Loiselle, Alden Harrison and Joseph Taylor have been sharing their expertise to' help students make connections between their physics, social studies, English, foreign language and business classes and the world or art and music.

For example, Ms. Loiselle introduced "Pop Art oflhe 1960s" to students in a contemporary American history class. Next she will present a lesson in "Impressionism, Post Impressionism and Light Theory" to physics students in order to show how light and color theory influenced painting styles in the late 1800s.

Conceptual physics students, meanwhile, have learned about generating sound from Taylor, who introduced them to instruments which demonstrated how vibration affects pitch and tone.

Art and marketing students are cooperating to produce print ads and package designs for original products dreamed tip by students.

The art students have been "hired" by marketing students to help them "sell" their products.

Ms. Saulnier plans to visit Spanish classes to teach them songs'

in that language. She is also developing an arts course for the fall as preparation for the school'f arts requirement, set to take effect in fall 1993. She is presently gathering information from Bostoll and Providence area Catholic sc ~ools which have successful ac.ademic arts programs. .

Also newly developed by (le art departmen.t. is the Bishop Fl:ehan Dance Company. 22studentf have joined the group and their first public performance took place in December when the music and dance departments presented "Songs of the Christmas Spirit.." . The Bishop FeehanTheatre Com. pany, directed by Alden Harrison, prese'nted the three-act play "Meet Me in St. Louis" in November and will perform Act II of the cc medy at the Massachusetts Drama Festival in January: II Feehan students were ae<:epted into the Southeast District 1\1 usic Festival at Bridgewater Stat~ College in January: Vocalists: Kerri Simoneau, Kate Berry, Kimberly Wappel, Cathy Choberka, Kathleen Cassidy, Elizabeth Hartmann, Angela Volpicelli, Raymond Martel.

Instrumentalists: Erinn Hoag, Jennifer Wilson and Leigh 0' Mara..

On Jan. 10 the followini~ Feehan students turned in winning performances at the Southeastern

The Janitors help the school The Janitors help the school They make sure our school is clean The Janitors help the school Our Secretary's a nurse Our Secretary's a nurse She has the greatest tasting mints Our Secretary's a nurse We love our .Catholic School We love our Catholic School What we learn and what we see We love our Catholic School Catholic Schools Week song written by Lynn Lawrence, Grade 3 teacher, St. Anthony's School, New Bedford Massachusetts Debate League neld at Norton High School: Varsity: Affirmative - Kathleen Sheridan and Erinn Hoagdefeated .

Somerset. Erinn was named top speaker. Kathleen was second speaker. Daniel Swyers and Elaine Dwyer defeated Norton and Foxboro. Elaine was first speaker in both rounds.

Varsity: Negative - Derek Wesley and Neil Lambert defeated Foxboro. Neil was first speaker, Derek was second. Kristen Saintdon and Timothy Famulare defeated Norton. Kristen was first speaker. Katherine Goldman and Nita Patel defeated Tabor. They were first and second speakers respectively.

N~vice: Affirmative - Leigh O'Mara and Amy Dwyer defeated Tabor. They were first and second speakers respectively. They also defeated Foxboro. Leigh was first speaker. Colleen Fanningand Christine LaChapelle defeated Soinerse"t.

Christine was first speaker. Angela Summers was second speaker in two rounds.

Novice: Negative ~ David Heffner and Michael Gualtieri defeated Norton. David was first speaker.

Jeffrey Gomes and Michael Larocuqe defeated Tabor and New Bedford. Michael was named first speaker in both rounds. Charles Antone and Joshua Orsini defeated Foxboro. They were first and second speakers respectively.

Feehan also won several rounds by forfeit. The team was accompanied by moderator and coach Diane Crane and judges Mrs. Meloni, Sr. Anne Holland, Mrs. Saintdon, Mrs. Gualtieiri, Mrs. Famulare and Mr. Smith.

Bishop Connolly T.J. Rebello of the Bishop Connolly High School varsity basketball team scored 29 points in a recent game against Somerset, making him the all-time boys' basketball scoring leader at Connolly with 914 points. As the Connolly Cougars downed the Somerset Raiders 79-64, Rebello eclipsed the old mark of893 points held by his coach, Billy Shea.

With five games remaining in the regular season, Rebello has a chance to garner 1,000 career poi'nts, which would make him only the second basketball player in Connolly history to reach that mark. Keri Hanley was the first, finishing her high school basketball career with 1,174 points in 1990. .

Connolly students participating in the Junior"Achievement Regional Conference Feb. 3 to 5 in the Catskill Mountains, NY, were: .

Michael Charkowski, David Silva, Tonya DeMelo, Stephanie Schuller, Cassia Picard and Kyle Wills.

The conference provided learning experiences in economics and current events.

Mer.cy Corps to aid republics PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) Medical equipment, supplies, food and health care resources are being gathered by Mercy Corps International to send to Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Ells Culver, Mercy Corps president, recently re-

turned from Moscow, Kiev and Alma-Ata, the capitol. of Kazakhstan, where contacts were made to deliver the needed medical supplies. "Many hospitals don't have aspirin, let alone drugs needed'to cure and prevent illness," Culver said in a statement.

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HOSPICE OUTREACH THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Feb. 7, 1992 Self-help series on grief 10:30 a.m. to noon Thursdays Feb. 27 to Apr. 2, Clemence Hall, St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River. Topics: Feb. 27: "Grief - A Natural Response to Loss"; Mar. 5: "The Grief Process"; Mar. 12: "How Do We Cope?"; Mar. 19: "Getting Through the Holidays, Anniversaries and Difficult Times"; Mar. 26: "Practical Concerns after a Death"; Apr. 2: HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO STONEHILL COLLEGE, "Living Through Grief and Beyond."

Confirmation year II rite of enrolNORTH EASTON For information or to preregister lment 4 p.m. Mass tomorrow.

Concert featuring selections from call Hospice Outreach, 673-1589. composers Mozart, Puccini, SchuO.L. HEALTH, FR .

ST. JOSEPH, NB bert, Debussy and the musical "My Youth group Valentine dinner and Fair Lady," performed by Charlene Prayer group Bible study 7 p.m. dance Feb, 15.

Haugh, soprano, and Kayo Tatebe, Feb 12.; prayer meetings 7 p.m. Feb. CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES, 19 and 26. Parish council meeting 7 pianist, 8 p.m. Feb. II, Martin InstiCAPE COD tute (first building on left when p.m. Feb. 10. Ultreya 7 p.m. Feb. 11.

"In Memory Still" suicide bereave- entering campus from Rt. 123). Ms. ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA' ment program support group meetHaugh is director of the Stonehill Youth Ministry information meetings are held 7 to 9 p.m. second and College Chorus and of choral music ing 10 a.m. to noon tomorrow, parfourth Wednesdays at Catholic Social for the Easton public schools. Ms. ish center. Young people (in at least Services, 261 South St., Hyannis.

Tatebe, a Norton resident, has persixth grade) and adults of all ages Walk-ins welcomed. Information: formed solo and chamber recitals in needed to serve on various commit771-6771.

Japan and Germany as well as the tees. Information: 676-0547.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM United States. She regularly accomST. GEORGE WESTPORT Jr. CYO meeting 7 to 8:15 p.m. panies the Stonehill Chorus and the Confirmation II day of recollecFeb. 13; dance and pizza for Valen- Chaminade Opera Group. tion 10:30 a.m. tomorrow, church tine's Day. First penance make-up ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, hall. date 6:30 p.m. Feb. 10.

ATTLEBORO O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE HOLY NAME, FR Ladies' Guild meeting 7 p.m. Feb. Youth ministry meeting 6 to 8:30 Youth group ski trip to M t.

12, school hall, Hodges St. President Wachusett Sunday; bus leaves Holy Kathy Fredette will preside with top- p.m. Sunday, R.E. center. Family Name School 6:30 a.m. and will ics to include plans for the annual Valentine party 4:30 to 7 p.m. Sunreturn 8:30 p.m. Confirmation retreat banquet. Kitsy Lancisi, District IV day, parish center; reservation dead8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, president of the Diocesan Council of line is today. First Saturday rosary school. CCD grade 4 and substitute Catholic -Women, will speak on 8:40 a.m. tomorrow. OLV/OLH teachers needed; information: Sister "Goals of the Council of Catholic Guild meeting noon Feb. 10, parish Romana, 674-9131.

Women in the United States" and center. Men's Club meeting 7:30 plans for an evening of recollection p.m. Feb. 10, R.E. center. to be held March 10 at St. Mark's SECULAR FRANCISCANS 234 Second Street Church, Attleboro Falls, with spirSt. Louis Fraternity, FR, liturgy •• Fall River, MA 02721 itual director Father David Costa.

6:30 p.m. Feb. 12, St. Louis Church, • • Web Offset followed by meeting in church hall; CATHEDRAL CAMP, Newspapers Bernard F. Sullivan. editor of the E. FREETOWN • Printing & Mailing Heral News, will offer personal Merrimack College retreat Feb. 7 (508) 679-5262 • • to 9. Corpus Christi, Sandwich, con- reflections on the Persian Gulf war. ..

All welcome. . firmation retreat 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Now! St. Clare Fraternity, FR, meeting tomorrow.

New Computerized Mailing 6 p.m. Sunday, Rose Hawthorne ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Lathrop Home, 1600 Bay St., FR. CCD students, studying Grade 5 First Class Second Class Holy Orders, will stage a mock ordi- O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER First Class Presort Carrier Route Coding Blessing for married couples at all nation ceremony in class on Sunday.

Third C,Iass Bulk Rate Zip Code Sorting Parish children are invited to a win- Masses this weekend (World Marter vacation Children's Adventure riage Day).

Third Class Non Profit list Maintenance Day featuring sports and refresh- ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH ALL TO USPS SPECIFICATIONS ments I to 3 p.m. Feb. 19 at CoyleFountain Square Fools perforCassidy High School. mance 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Bishop Cheshire labeling on Kirk-Rudy 4·up Stang, H.S. Youth group advisory labeler. And Pressure Sensitive labeling COUPLE TO COUPLE LEAGUE Natural family planning program board meeting 7 p.m. Feb. 11, recInserling, collating, folding, Feb. 16, St. Mary's parish center, tory. Ladies' Guild potluck supper metering, sealing, sorling, addressing.

Feb. 12, church hall; new members Mansfield. Information: Jon and sacking, completing USPS forms, are welcome.

Maureen Howey, 339-4730. direct delivery to Post Office ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS O.L. ASSUMPTION, ... Printing . .. We Do It All! Evening Guild meeting 7:30 p.m.

OSTERVILLE Feb. 12; coffee hour after 8 and 9:30 Call for Details (508) 679-5262 Guild meeting I p.m. Feb. II; a.m. Masses Feb. 16. silent auction.

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. ST. MARY, NB o of I, SOMERSET Fifth graders Erin Hegarty and St. Patrick's Circle, Daughters of Marc Fatula received first and second Isabella, will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 12, place, respectively, in a World Mar- Old Town Hall, for a games night riage Day poster contest. School followed by Valentines-themed reParents' Blue and White Ball meet- freshments. Members asked to bring ing 7:30 p.m. Feb. II, parish center. canned and non-perishable packaged foods for donation to the CommunST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN tiy Soup Kitchen.

Missioning ceremony for youth group members and adult leaders ST. MARY, MANSFIELD participating in Bahamas mission The Catholic Women's Club will trip (Feb. 14 to 23) at II a.m. Mass meet 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13 at the parish Sunday. Each participant is seeking center for a games night and discus10 "Prayer Pact Partners"; in- sion of spring events, including the formation: Charlie Murphy, 992- group's annual May banquet. Bar2195. Youth group wrap-up meeting bara Willey heads meeting arrangements.

6:30 p.m. Feb. 12.

ST. ANNE, FR ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, FR Holy Name Society meeting after Maryknoll Bishop John Rudin 8 a.m. Mass Sunday; Joao Silva will will speak on Maryknoll mission speak on "Walls and Barriers." Vinwork at Masses this weekend. Concentians meet 7 p.m. Feb. 10, rec- firmation students will attend 10 tory. Holy Rosary Society corporate a.m. Mass Sunday. St. Anne novena communion 8 a.m. Mass Sunday; service 3 p.m. Sunday, shrine. Cub rosary and Benediction 2 p.m. Sun- Scouts Den 3 meeting 6 tonight. day followed by joint meeting with SACRED HEART, Espirito Santo Rosary Society. Youth N.ATTLEBORO group meeting after 6 p.m. Mass First communion class and famitomorrow. lies celebration, "It's About Giving CATHOLIC ALUMNI CLUB Thanks for Creation," 10:30 a.m.

Group open to singles ages 21 to Mass Sunday. Parish council meet65 meets second Sundays, Brass Rail ing 7 p.m. Feb. 13, rectory. RecepRestaurant, Rt. 6, Seekonk. Optional tion for Father Justin Quinn 2 to 4 dinner at 6 p.m. followed by discusp.m. Sunday, rectory. Family Life sion of upcoming activities. InforMinistry seeks new members to plan mation: 824-8378. parish activities and conduct bapST.MARY,N.ATTLEBORO tismal preparation program; inforYouth group will serve coffee and mation: Father Marcel Bouchard, donuts after 8 and 10 a.m. Masses 699-8383, or Brian and Courtney Sunday. Children's choir meeting 10 Walsh,699-7083. a.m. tomorrow, main church.

ST. ELIZABETH SETON, CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE N. FALMOUTH Registration for new altar boys 10 Youth group will meet for 5 p.m. a.m. tomorrow, church. RCIA cateMass Sunday, followed by video of chists planning session 8 p.m. Feb. Father Cook's orphanage in Hon10. Youth group trip to see Fountain duras, which the group is assisting Square Fools 5 p.m. Sunday; inforwith donations of clothing, school mation: Lorraine Folan. 477-6543. supplies and toiletries. Men's Club Youth group meeting 8 p.m. Feb. 10. health clinic 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. tomorrow, church hall. Bereavement ST. THERESA,S. ATTLEBORO Troop 35 committee meeting 7:30 support group meeting I to 2:30 p.m. Sunday, downstairs hall; video p.m. Sunday. parish center. First "Life through Death" featuring Fapenance 9 a.m. tomorrow. ther Kenneth Czillinger will be WIDOWED SUPPORT shown. Information: 563-6807,548Attleboro area widowed support 8665. Bible discussion group meets group meeting 7 p.m. tomorrow, St. Sunday; information: O'Keeffe's, Mary's parish center, N. Attleboro.

548-8735.

William J. Walsh will speak on SEPARATED/DIVORCED financial planning.

CATHOLICS ST. MARY, SEEKONK Attleboro area support group Youth ministry Valentine Dance meeting 7:30 to 9 p.m. Feb. II, St. 7:30 to 10 p.m. Feb. 15, church Mary's rectory, N. Attleboro; inbasement. formation: 695-6161.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NB ST. JAMES, NB Appreciation dinner for parish Father Larry Burns will speak at workers 6:30 p.m. Feb. 14, Century Masses this weekend on Maryknoll House, Acushnet. missions.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET SWANSEA Confirmation rehearsal 6:30 to 8 First reconciliation 10 a.m. tomorp.m. Feb. II; robes will be distrirow, church. buted.

Priest's hunger strike produces aid for Indian fishermen TRIVANDRU M. India (CNS) A hunger strike by a Catholic priest has forced the Kerala state government to rush relief to some 25.000 inland fishermen whose livelihood was threatened by a rare fish epidemic-.

The epidemic led to an estimated 120 million rupee (U .S.$4.8 million) loss because it hit fish in most of the state's backwaters. lakes and rivers. Fishermen say industrial pollution spawned the disease.

Father Jose Kaleekal. a former president of the Independent Fishermen's Federation. began "a fast unto death" because the state government refused to help alleviate the fishermen's misery. but ended it after 15 days when Chief M inister K. Karunakaran assured the fishermen of "everything possible to alleviate their misery and control the killer disease."

The government announced it would give every affected fisherman a monthly allowance of 150 rupees (U.S.$6). The fishermen also would be provided a free ration of food grains. it said.

Onthe 10thdayoftheNovember fast. police arrested Father Kaleekal and took him to a hospital after a panel of doctors recommended his immediate hospitalization.

As news of the arrest spread along the coast. thousands of fishermen from neighboring districts rushed to Trivandrum.

After the fishermen threatened to block highway and rail traffic on the 12th day of Father Kaleekal's fast,' the state government called fisherman's federation representatives together and urged them to "prevail upon the priest to call off the fast."

Though almost unconscious.

Father Kaleekal continued his fast from the hospital bed. resisting when doctors tried to force feed him with glucose.

"I believe the chief minister will keep his word." Father Kaleekal said on ending his fast. noting however that "immediate relief is only a partial solution."