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Friday, February 16, 1990

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South African bishops hail Mandela release

DENNIS R. POYANT

DANIEL P. LARKIN

Double honors for St. Mary's School St. Mary's School, New Bed- as the number of inches in a meter ford, has double honors in store at a half, the zip code of"a one-horse the 87th annual National Catholic town somewhere," telephone area Educational Association conven- codes and, for instance, "the numtion in Toronto, Canada, in April. ber of the highway from Atlanta to Principal Dennis R. Poyant, al- Cleveland." ready named among 12 recipients Students may research the numacross the nation of the NCEA bers in any way they wish, consultDistinguished Principal Award, ing maps, calling the post office will be joined on the awards list by for zip codes or soliciting parental faculty member Daniel P. Larkin. help, he said. When they have all Larkin has been selected as re- the numbers, they feed them into a cipient of the Grand National calculator, following instructions Award in the Project-Sharing de- , on adding, subtracting, multiplypartment of Today's Catholic ing and dividing.

Teacher magazine. His trip to TorThe net result, said Larkin, is to onto will be cosponsored by an give students practice in research insurance company and the maga- and in operating a calculator. For zine. him the result was the NCEA Larkin, a mathematics teacher award. at St. Mary's, explained his awardA New Bedford resident, he was winning project as a "master calcu- ,associated with the former Holy lator scavenger hunt." He said he Family High School in the city. gives his 4th to 7th grade students "a set of obscure numbers," such Turn to Page Six

THESE EIGHTH graders, shown with Sister Mary Faith ,Harding, RSM, principal of Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, are recipients of entrance scholarships to the school for the 1990-1991 academic yea'r. From left, seated, Amy Dwyer, Mansfield; Katherine McGowan, Seekonk; Elizabeth Hartmann, Mansfield; Vanessa Cesarz, Seekonk; standing, Patrick Burt, Rehoboth; Matthew Galeone, Seekonk; Nathan Cote, North Attleboro. (Story on page 14; Maguire photo)

PRETORIA, South Africa (CNS) - Southern Africa's bishops said that the release Feb. 11 of South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was a. key to racial peace in South Africa.

They also said they hoped Mandela's freedom, after 27 years in prison, will end a "particularly sad chapter" in the country's history.

The bishops have "long held that Mr. Mandela's release is vital for a negotiated and peaceful political settlement," the Southern African bishops' conference said in a statement released the day after the 7.l-year-old leade r walked into freedom.

Although confined to prison for more than a quarter-century, Mandela became the symbol of the biack South African struggle against white-minority rule and the racial system of apartheid.

"His release hopefully signals the end to a particularly sad chapter in South African hi,story in which many lost their lives and countless others suffered detention, imprisonment and exile in their struggle for justice," the bishops said.

The bishops said they rejoiced that Mandela is free, "able once again to exercise his rights and undertake hiS responsibilities within his family and soc::ety."

"Along with many others, but in a special way nonetheless because of his leadership role. he has suf-

ferd imprisonment and vilification in his struggle to work for a South Africa in which each and every person would be respected an<,l valued, regardless of his skin," the bishops said.

The bishops WIshed Mandela and his family "a joyous and lasting reunion" and said they assured him of their "prayers and support as he faces the many and daunting challenges expected of him as leader and statesman in the months and years ahead."

Mandela, sentenced to life imprisonment for treason in 1964, soon after his release challenged the South African government by backing guerrilla war against the apartheid system.

"We have no option," he said in a speech to 50,000 supporters in Cape Town. He urged the world to maintain punitive economic sanctions against the white-minorityled Pretoria government.

Mandela quoted from a statement he made at the end of the 1964 trial: "Our resort to the armed struggle in 1960 .. , was a purely defensive action against the violence of apartheid."

He also demanded negotiations to end white power and give a political voice to the voteless black majority.

In the United States, Los Angeles Archbishop Roger M. Mahoney declared that although Mandela had been released from prison, he

and his fellow non-whites in South Africa "are still far from being free."

The archbishop, chairman of the U.S. Catholic Conference Committee on International Policy, said real freedom will come only when South Africa eliminates its system of apartheid, or racial segregation, and establishes a society based on "the equality of human persons."

Echoing the Catholic bishops of South Africa, Archbishop Mahony expressed "profound joy" at Mandela's release and said the decision to release him was "vital for a negotiated and peaceful settlement" of the apartheid conflict.

"We commend the South African government in taking this significant and necessary initial step," he said.

He said he hoped the decision would signal"the end of a particularly sad chapter in South African history" in which "countless" people "suffered detention, imprisonment and exile in their struggle for justice."

He said all "future decisions, discussions and negotiations" in South Africa must be based on "genuine respect for the life and the dignity of every human person.

"We assure all South Africans of our continued prayers as they struggle to build a democratic, united, non~racial and free South Africa," the archbishop added.

Not in their backyard!

By Marcie Hicke3' .. Because we care We promise (0 do our share to make our wo.rld a happy. safe and clean place (0 live. ..

The first grade's pledge, hanging in the foyer of Espirito Santo School, Fall River, was a cheerfUl greeting to visitors. Around it the wall was covered with colorful crayon drawings and photos of children picking up trash.

"Put trash in the barrel," one drawing advised; another, "Don't mess up our water by throwing trash in it."

If they seem to be kids with a cause, it's because they are.

Students of Espirito Santo School want to play in their park-the one they can see from their classroom windows. the one where broken fencing has exposed a swamp full of sludge, old tires, beer bottles and broken shopping carts; where it is not uneommon for people to be drinking or using drugs; where the grounds have been marred by frequent vandalism.

Espirito Santo students decided they weren't going to put I:lp with it anymore.

They presented their case to the Fall River city council; and within two weeks fencing repairs had begun and promises of further action made. ' A school wide awareness project had the children learning about their environment-local as well as global-and at the center of

attention was Father Travassos Park, located behind the school and the adjacent Flint Mills. Eight years ago the park underwent a $100,000 renovation, said eighth grade teacher Thomas Cabral, but in only a few years students could no longer play there because ofthe Turn to Page Eight

EIGHTH GRAQERS from Espirito Santo School point out some of the graffiti that plague nearby Father Travassos Park. (Hickey photo)

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Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., Feb. 16, 1990

Stand up and be counted says U.S. church WASHINGTON(CNS)- Two Hispanic population nationwide hundred years after tuis fledgling from 1980 to 1989, five times greater nation first surveyed itself, the than the increase among non-His1990 census is at hand and church panics. groups have joined in the numbers Projections for the three states game. where eight in 10 persons of MexiFor good reason, agree govern- can heritage reside show that by ment and church officials.

1990 there will have been a 55 per"It's the only numbers game in cent increase among Hispanics in town," said Ray Bancroft, a V.S. Texas and Arizona and a 73 perCensus Bureau spokesman. "Forty cent incre'ase in California. Those billion dollars in federal money states stand to gain as many as 10 alone is distributed based on cennew congressional seats in the reapsus information. A similar amount portionment process to follow the is distributed by states based on 1990 census, according to the Souththe same information." . west Voter Research Institute in Church leaders, especially those San Antonio. who work with the urban poor, Such .high stakes stir controv~ have come to realize that Census ersy. There were nearly 40 lawsuits Bureau numbers dictate where needfiled to contest the way the census ed schools and social service prowas conducted in 1980. grams are located and how well they are funded. In addition, the A House and Senate conference count determines the number of committee agreed in October to members of Congress a state is use illegal aliens counted in the allocated and the way state and 1990 census for congressional relocal districts are drawn. districting. The move to bar illegal The Census Bureau has eagerly aliens had been initiated by northaccepted involvement by churches ern states that stand to lose conbecause of the contacts they have gressional seats. among the poor, especially recent Father Nicanor Lobato, dire'cimmigrants and African-Ameri- tor of the Spanish-Speaking Aposcans, said Joe A. Cortez, chief of tolate of the Diocese of Venice, census awareness at the Census Fla., said that many undocumented Bureau. migrant workers in his dioceses Beverly Carroll, director of the are reluctant to fill out census V .S. bish9Ps' Secretariat for Black forms for fear the action will lead Catholics, s"aRt she has~eii-coutaged to deportation. . .â&#x20AC;˘. :.;. pastors of predominantly AfricanTo alert newcomers to the existAmerican parishes to make their ence ofthe census and assuage any churches available as census train- . fears, the' Census Bureau has taken ing sites. to the airwaves in Spanish, VietIllegal aliens, newcomers who namese, Chinese, Japanese, Kordo not speak English and families , ean, Cambodian and Thai. Radio living in garages and vans are and TV messages assure recent those the government has tradiimmigrants that information coltionally found it most difficult to lected will be kept confidential. reach.

"We don't even ask for Social Laurie Vega, director of the Security numbers," Bancroft told Spanish Apostolate for the ArchCNS. diocese of Baltimore, said that a "serious undercount" of Hispanics in Baltimore in the last two census counts meant a "lack of awareness of the Hispanic population here. rig~ts Politicians felt they didn't have to Citizens for Family First, a Wexdeal with Hispanics."

She said she tells local Hispan- ford-based organization, collected more than 60,000 signatures in a ics "if you don't let yourself be January' 15 through 30 petition counted, you won't count."

Baltimoreans seem to be taking drive to have the question of her words to heart. Every other repealing the Massachusetts sexual orientation law appear on the Wednesday some 20 Hispanic wostate's November ballot. men belonging to the archdiocese's The Sexual Orientation Act Hispanic Women's Self-Help amended laws 'passed in 1946 to .Group pound the pavement to alert their Spanish-speaking neigh~ protect people from racial discrimillation,'religious bigotry and other bors of the need to participate in . kinds of discrimination, the upcoming census.

Nancy Sutton, chairman of CitiIn addition, Ms. Vega's office will become a census assistance zens for Family First, called the center for people who have prob- act "a special rights law which lems filling out census forms be- attempts to undermine the pro-' gress made in civil rights for all cause they don't speak English.

At the national level too, the people."

The organization also asserted church is taking action. The U.S. bishops' Secretariat for HispaniC in a press conference statement Affairs has sponsored two work- that "This ~ffort was not undershops in the past year 'in Arling- taken out of malice for any person ton, Va., and in Albuquerque, or group. It was done to preserve N.M., to develop strategies to as- values that until recently were sure the counting of as many His- unassailed in our society and which panics as possible. To spread the many citizens of Massachusetts word, the church is working believe are worth preserving... through its Hispanic Catholic net"The repeal of the sexual orienwork developed during the Third tation law would not mean that National Hispanic Pastoral Encuen- progress in human relations must tro process, in which small groups be harmed. If that repeal should of Hispanic Catholics met to es- take place, it should be taken by tablish a national pastoral plan. both sides as the occasion for a Preliminary census statistics new start in the improvement of show a 39 percent increase in the human relations in Massachusetts."

Group asks repeal of gay act

, A YOUNG .M~MBER of St. Louis de, France parish, Swansea, seems Intngued by the visitor in the unusual hat. ~ishop Dan.iel A. Cronin was at the parish to bless newlyInstalled staIned glass windows. At right, he stands between pastor Rev. Andre P. Jussaume (left) and former pastor Rev. Louis R. Boivin, now pastor of St. Joseph's parish, New Bedford.

Bishops' workshop stresses task of moral teaching DALLAS (CNS) -In a culture that views moral norms as relative and private, moral teaching has become"the most challenging" task facing bishops, Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston said Feb. 5 at an international gathering of bishops in Dallas.

He warned that to teach effectively the bishops must overcome "a marginalization of the role of teaching office of pastors within the church. especially as regards questions of medical-moral matters."

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin was among about no U.S. bishops, along with 60 from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and the Philippines, attending the Feb. 5-,9 meeting, the ninth annual medical-moral workshop for bishops sponsored by the Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral Research and Education Center in Braintree, Mass.

Of particular interest to Bishop Cronin with regard to medicalmoral issues is the moral law regarding ordinary and extraordinary means of conserving life. His 1950s doctoral dissertation on the subject is expected to be published soon by the Pope John XXIII Center as a resource in ethical controversies surrounding prolongation of human life.

In today's world, Cardinal Law said, an "ever-growing technical advancement" is accompanied by a tendency "to lose sight of the total person and his or her spiritual destiny."

He cited widespread abortion. disintegration of married life and families, drug abuse and "the decline in sexual morality" as signs of the separation of public and private morality in U.S. culture.

Cardinal Law also described "lack of social consensus" on important moral issues as a major problem.

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In a message to the bishops, the pope said, the teachings of the Pope John Paul II urged them to Second Vatican Council make clear ensure that their flocks understand that "the morality of one's actions church moral teaching as technol- does not depend solely on the ogy and scientific advances give sincerity of the intention or the them more control over their lives. evaluation of motives."

Clarity on the part of the bishops People look to the church and can help ease "the profound con- its bishops for "wise and truthful fusion regarding fundamental prin- . guidance," the pope said. ciples of life and action affecting The pope prayed that the bishops many-people today," the pope said. would be inspired to "explain the Particularly when discussing "the truths offaith and apply them with responsible transmission of life," courage and compassion."

Vocations await discQvery, say bishops WASHINGTON (CNS) Young Americans are still being called to the priesthood, but they are not getting the help they need to recognize the call, says the V.S. bishops' Committee on Vocations.

Concern about loneliness in the priesthood, the celibacy requirement and the exclusion of women from ordination has led some parents and parish priests not to encourage potential vocations, the committee said.

"We donot believe that God is calling fewer young men to the priesthood," said the committee, headed by Winona, Minn. Bishop John G. Vlazny.

"Rather," it said', "we fear that some young people, who may live lives that are good and generous in a purely natural way, are not involved enough in the life of the church or familiar enough with the teaching of the Gospel to be able to hear or'appreciate a call to the priesthood.

The statement praised the gro~th in lay ministries in the U.S. church but emphasized that "ordained ministry is essential for the very life and existence of the church."

It called celibacy a "gift from God," a "valued charism" and an "especially treasured legacy of the Latin church."

"In our contemporary culture with its fascination with sex and fulfillment, the powerful witness of this charism is in no way diminished but, in fact, enhanced," the committee said.

The committee urged pastors and parish communities "to nurture vocations and call forth individuals to, look specifically at¡ priesthood and religious life."

The committee noted that surveys of seminarians show encouragement by family and by a parish priest as key elements in a decision to study for the priesthood.

"However," it said, "for parents who want to encourage vocations, these are difficult days because of the declining number of priests, the loneliness of some and the conflicting expectations people have -for priests today.

"Becau'se of the requirement of celibacy or because the priesthood is not open to women, some refuse to reflect with their children on a priestly vocation," it added. "Indeed, parish priests sometimes say the same thing."

The committee said that parents, religious educators, priests, religious and leaders in youth ministry and campus ministry ~'by taking a passive attitude to priestly vocations do young people and the next generation of Catholics a great disservice."

Correction The list of Confirmation dates that ~ppeared in the Anchor for Feb. 2 incorrectly listed the date for St. Julie Billiart Church, North Dartmouth. Msgr. HenryT. Mun~ roe will administer the sacrament in that parish at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 16.

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$300 million gift to poor, evangelization Evangelization and charitable projects of the Catholic Church worldwide will receive a fi.nancial boost of over $300 million from the sale by Dutch Catholic businessman-millionaire Piet Derksen of his northern European '''Center Parcs."

Derksen sold his controlling interest in the chain ofJail-weather recreational centers to the: British firm of Scottish and Nl:wcastle Breweries.

The money will go to Living Water, one of two Dutch Catholic foundations fou'nded by Derksen.

Living Water finances Catholic charitable, vocational and evangelization work around the world.

FRANK MACCHIAROLA, interim head of Covenant House. (CNS photo)

Covenant House to continue ministry, says chairman NEW YORK (CNS) - Ralph A. Pfeiffer Jr., board chairman of the Covenant House ministry to homeless youngsters, said Feb. 9 that he was committed to keeping the ministry alive, even if its founder, Franciscan Father Bruce Rit-' ter, did not return.

Three days earlier, after'revelations that a third former Covenant House resident had accused Father Ritter of initiating a sexual relationship, the priest's superior, Father Conall McH ugh of the Conventual Franciscans of Union City, N.J., had directed, the priest to take a leave until the order completes its investigation.

In an interview with Catholic News Service at the agency's headquarters in New York, Pfeiffer, a retired IBM executive who still serves on the boards of some business corporations, said he was in Japan on a business trip when the news came.

He said that by phone he had helped arrange for another board member, Frank J. Macchiarola, to step in as president, but did not get back to New York until the evening of Feb. 8.

"The need for Covenant House is so great and so manifestly clear, we're going to find a way to continue," he said. "It has to be. There are kids who need our help, and the number is increasing by the day."

Macchiarola, 48, a native of New York, has a law-degree and a doctorate in public law and government, both from Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn, N. Y., and belongs to Our Lady Help of Christians Parish, where his wife, Mary, is director of religious education. They have three sons.

Chancellor of the New York City public school system from 1978 to 1983, Macchiarola has been executive director of the Academy of Political Science since 1984 and a professor in the Columbia University Business School since 1987.

In a later development, James Harnett, chief operational officer of Covenant House, acknowledged that agency officials secured a baptismal certificate under the name of a deceased child for a young man who later accused Father Ritter of initiating a sexual relationship with him.

Harnett said Covenant House' regretted the pain caused the deceased child's family.

But he said he thought moral theologians would consider the act justifiable under a "higher good" concept because the people securing the baptismal certificate believed a life was at stake.

He said the agency would not repeat the procedure in the future without consulting the bishop of the diocese or other authorities.

The baptismal certificate was from St. James Church in Jamestown, N.Y., and was in the name of Timothy Michael Warner, a Jamestown child who died of leukemia at Children's Hospital in Buffalo Nov. 13, 1980, at age 10.

The name Timothy Warner was given to a young man Father Ritter brought to New York from.

New Orleans in February 1989.

Father Ritter said the man, later identified as Kevin Lee Kite, convinced him that he wanted to break from a life of prostitution but feared for his life because he had been involved with crime figures.

Kite has told reporters he never thought his life was in dan.lZer. Father Kltter's relationship to the Kite youth became a public issue when the New York Post carried a front-page story about the young man's accusations Dec. 12.

The Post did not initially use a name, but he was later identified not as Kite but as Timothy Warner, age 19 or 20.

The New York Daily News reported Feb. 8 that prosecutors· believed Father Michael P. Duval, a priest who formerly worked for Covenant House, ·helped get the baptismal certificate.

Msgr. Uavid M. Lee, spokesman for the Diocese of Buffalo, which includes Jamestown, said Father Duval was a priest of the diocese who was allowed by Bishop Edward D. Head to work on loan to Covenant House for its program in the Archdiocese of Guatemala City from 1986 to 1988.

Father Duval, the official said, had been an associate at St. James Church, Jamestown, the parish of Timothy Warner's parents, Terry and Betty Warner.

Betty Warner told CNS Feb. 10 she noticed the coincidence of names when the stories about Father Ritter's accuser appeared, but

Derksen's new gift will help "the poorest of the poor" and, aid in "spreading the Gospel to every corner of the earth:' he said.

After being healed from what was diagnosed as an incurable illness - a healing Derksen attributes to his wife Gertrude's prayers - the Dutch businessman reportedly promised God in 1980 that he would give all his money to the poor. At about the same time, the Derksens became involved in the Catholic charismatic renewal movement, joining a French group known as Fraternity of Jesus..

Since then, Derksen reportedly has channeled all profits from the Center Pares business into living Water and Witnessing to God's Love, his other religious foundation. He also donated $ I million to

Shrivers honored NEW YORK (CNS) -- Eunice Kennedy Shriver, promoter of the Special Olympics for the retarded, and her daughter Maria, an NBC News corres pondent, are 1990 Christopher Award winners. Mrs. Shriver was honored for service to youth. Her daughter was honored as a writer of "Fatal Addi.ctions:' one of eight TV specials hailed by the Christophers. Comedian Bob Hope also was named to receive a special award for his half·century of entertainment and work for U.S. servicemen and women. More than 80 other persons received Christopher Awards for books, TV specials and movies, including the feature film "Romero." :111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

also knew that Warner was a common name.

She said she first became aware that the man was using her son's identity Jan. 23, when a N,ew York Times reporter called. "Thc:lt's when I was really shaken:' she said. "It brings the grief back."

"I just want to know who did it and how they got it:' she said. "He went through such a lot for a little kid. He was a little trooper right up to the end. And now when he's not here to protect himself, this happens." . In response to a CNS inquiry, Bishop Head issued a statement later the same day: "I express my deep concern for this family. I am very sad that this has happened to them. I know that this must be a very difficult time for them, and I am keeping them in my prayers."

Msgr. Lee said no one from the diocese had contacted Father Ritter, but that Bishop Head wanted to know what had happened and was "studying the situation very closely."

a 1984 world wide retreat of 6,000 priests in Rome, helped pay for the international broadcast of Pope John Paul II's 1987 Rosary for Peace and helped fund a 1987 retreat in Colombia for 109 South American bishops.

Major beneficiaries of Derksen's profits have been Evangelization 2000 and Lumen 2000, two Catholic evangelization projects with strong links to the charismatic movement.

Project officilj,ls have said Derksen has dpnated $10 million to the projects since their founding in 1987.

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themoorin~ Catholic Guilt None of the secular media reported that when Mario Cuomo first ran for governor of New York, he removed a portrait of St. Thomas More from his office wall. At the time he stated that he removed it because he did not want to make his non-Catholic associates uncomfortable.

In light of the governor's position that he is personally 'opposed to abortion but supports a woman's right to choose, one can easily reflect that it was not his non-Catholic associates who were uncomfortable; it was Cuomo himself.

Thomas More was a man for all seasons; Governor Cuomo is a weather vane.

Thomas More maintained right to the execution block that the statesman has an obligation to follow the laws of God. He clearly told his peers that' when a statesman disregards his own conscience for the sake of public acclaim, he leads his people by a~~o!:.t~ute to chaos. .

This is a dangerous age for the innocent. Indeed, all of us are victims of those'who will not protect innocence. When a right is denied to one, it is denied to all.

When human life is the victim, we all die. Angry voices shout that we all have a right to choose. However, they fail to recognize that for a choice to be really free it must be in harmony with the great ~aws of the universe. The civilized do not merely exercise their rights, but choose only that which is right. Murder is not the right choice. The right choice is on the side of life. .

Ongoing attacks on the Catholic bishops of America by the likes of Phil Donahue, Mario Cuomo and Mike Barnicle are more than appalling. In one case, much of this ill will has been directed against New York Auxiliary Bishop Austin B. Vaughan;, who refuses to remain passive in face of the legalized murder of millions of American babies. Speaking of his auxiliary bishop, New York Cardinal John J. O'Connor said Bishop Vaughan was following in the footsteps of jailed saints when he reproved Governor Cuomo from the Albany jail cell where he was confined for his civil disobedience associated' with Operation Rescue. The bishop chose life and because he publicly demonstrated on behalf of his belief, he was sentenced to jail by the secular state.

His comments with regard to Governor Cuomo were misquot.ed and misconstrued by the media. As a result, Bishop Vaughan became an object of mockery by pseudo-intellectual liberal commentators. And his greatest detractors were those who once adhered to church teachings and practice, an unfortunate though not uncommon reality. Often such persons seem to make it their mission to heap ridicule on the Catholic church, and this time they had a bishop to pick on.

One can be sure that if blacks, Jews or other victim peoples were to become media targets as have so many of today's Catholic leaders, the outcry would be enormous.

Not so with Catholics. The good life has lulled them into silence. The search for money, position and status seems to have rendered them oblivious to what is happening.

It is about time that we reassert the fact that the right to choose is the right to choose good. If we think everything is equal, we will naturally choose the convenient, the comfortable and the expedient. But we know in faith that everything is not equal.

It's time that Catholics stop shaking hands with the devil for their own convenience and begin to believe and to act on the truth that life is the most precious gift of love, not a mere option.

The Editor

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"We know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, et~rnal in heaven." 2 Cor. 5:1

The conscience dilemma But "a different decision of con-' VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The science must be possible," he said. individual conscience, long held by the church to be a "sanctuary" Those who have struggled in conscience over church teachings and where a person is alQ,ne with God, is fast becoming a theological battle- find they cannot agree with them should not be considered outside ground.

In the continuing debate over the faith, said Cardinal Konig, who helped write' the council's dissent, the Vatican has shown concern that "following one's con- documents on the subject.

At the Vatican, a slightly differscience" may be used by Catholics as an escape clause to opt out of ent view prevails.

"It is a very dangerous idea that. church teachings on moral issues a Catholic is free, after serious - particularly birth control. reflection, to reject the church's Others have responded that the traditional dignity of the personal teaching," said one official who conscience, as the ultimate place deals with doctrinal issues.

"It's what a lot of theologians of reckoning for each individual, demands respect and a certain are saying. It's an invitation to practical dissent," said the official, flexibility. who asked not to be named. Like The question has been taken up others, he suggested that some publicly by theo~ogians close to pastors may be "happy to hide the Vatican. It has been answered behind this idea of conscience" by others in church academic circles, such as Father Bernard Har- . when it comes to advising couples ing, who warned that "a war against about contraception.

He .also made another point the creative conscience" is taking which is frequently emphasized at place.

Most recently, Austrian Cardi- the Vatican: that the obligation to nal Franz Konig raised the issue in "follow one's conscience" refers to a lengthy article he wrote in late October for an Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera.

Cardinal Konig said he thought the relationship of the conscience to the church's teaching authorify was being manipulated and "called into question" in the debate over "Humanae Vitae" ("Of Human SpiritualCommunion Life"), the encyclical that banned Jesus, since I cannot artificial birth control. now receive you sacramentReviewing statements of the Secally, come at least spiritually ond Vatican Council, he noted into my heart. I love you, that Catholics are called to "give particular attention" to what the my Jesus, 0 never, never pope and bishops teach and be leave'me. Amen. disposed to follow these teachings.

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a "rightly formed" conscience. For Catholics, the official said, this is not simply a matter of informing themselves about what the church teaches but "forming the conscience according to the teaching of Christ" as expressed through the magisterium of the church.

In this view, any definitive dissent would be considered an act of infidelity, the official acknowledged. He said a correct pastoral approach. would be to tell those who cannot in conscience agree with a church teaching that they must at least keep trying to agree.

Other theologians, however, have said an individual cannot be expected-to remain in a state of permanent doubt on moral issues. At a certain point he or she must act on his beliefs - even if they are in disagreement with the hierarchy.

Msgr. Carlo Caffarra, a papal adviser on birth control and other moral issues, said in an interview last spring that the church could not tolerate the idea of an "autonomous conscience" that "produces in a creative manner the truth regarding good and evil."

Father Haering, a well-known German theologian, countered that Msgr. Caffarra's arguments would make the conscience a prisoner of rigid precepts and prohibitions. A conscience that is not allowed any flexibility would become "inevitably sick," he said.

Father Haering also cited the council's teachings on the dignity of the moral conscience. He said the Vatican II Constitution on the Church in the Modern World said the conscience contains a law inscribed by God.

Illferfaidi' mairria ge'~~ ,According to Psychology Today, only six per cent of Americans had a spouse of a different faith in 1957. Today

children of such unions consider themselves Catholics.

In my work with parents, I witness strong ecumenical marriages.

I also witness those in which one that statistic has escalated to sevenparent is trying to furnish a rich teen per cent of Protestants, 22 per home faith environment alone. cent of Jews and 38 per cent of Sometimes these parents just give Catholics. up and decide the struggle isn't When over one-third of our worth it. young choose to marry someone Their children may grow up to of a different faith, ~he reality of be nominal Catholics who also the present and fut·ure church is marry outside Catholicism. In this very different from the past church. way, "each generation's Catholic I was married in 1958, at the identity becomes diluted. time of that six per cent figure. It Further, marrying a Catholic was a serious and often traumatic today doesn't automatically insure transgression to marry out of the a strong faith bond as many Cathchurch. Mixed marriages. as they olics have discovered after the were then called, were often held marriage. Marrying a person of in the rectory with only a few close faith seems more fundamental, family members attending. regardless of the denomination.

The nuptial blessing was withOne Catholic mother said wryly, held in many ca~es. Parents, par- "One of my daughters married a ticularly in rural and small town Catholic who doesn't pray or go to locales. were embarrassed, even Mass. My other daughter married humiliated, when their Catholic a Baptist, much against our wishes, offspring married a Lutheran or but he has a strong faith and their Methodist. marriage has a lot more of God in These practices and attitudes it than our Catholic daughter's served to limit dating outside one's has." faith. r.m happy to say that the With so many young people in stigma of the ecumenical marriage these marriages, I believe we need has lessened but the problems to address the issue on two levels. remain and I don't think we've First, we need to give parents help done a very good job in family in guiding and counseling ·their ministry in preparing eit/ler par- children in evaluating morals ents or children for this kind of ~morals, values, and faith levels in marriage. those they date.

Regrettably, we don't have staSimply telling them they should tistics on how many of these nearly marry Catholics is no longer four out of ten Catholics who enough, but helping them perceive marry someone of a different signs of trust, respect, generosity denomination remain actively and faith in others is valuable to practicing Catholics. Or how many those searching for a mate.

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The Christian Family Movement's "Observe, judge und act" method is helpful here. Observe your dates' behavior, speech and attitudes. Judge them by a Christian perspective and then act on a gi.ven situation.

Secondly, we need to offer special marriage preparation for those entering into ecumenical marriages, bringing in couples who huve managed to use the strengths of both traditions to enrich their faith.

They can discuss topics Iike worship.ping separately or together, dealing with in-laws who exacerbate rather than heal, educating children in religion, fostering prayer in the home and becoming involved in church activities.

It would be easier for us if Catholics married Catholics but if they aren't we're challen,ged as a faith community to support them in every possible way.

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My daug~ter-in-Iaw said that in their Pre-Cana instructions she was asked if she was sterile, because (if so) they would not be able to get married in the Catholic Church.

This sounds far-fetched to me.

Does this mean that if a woman knows she is sterile she'l never be able to get married in the Catholic Church? (New Jersey) A. First, let's be sure we are clear about our topic.

A man orwoman is sterile in the legal sense of that word when he or she is incapable of parenting a child because of some defect in the internal generative organs. A woman who has no ovaries, for example. or whose ovaries are incapable of producing the female egg (ovum) is said to be sterile.

So also would be a man who cannot produce the live sperm necessary for fathering a child.

In other words, sterility deals with the involuntary processes that are necessary for human generation.

Sterility often is confused with . impotence. which is the inability to have sexual intercourse because of some physical or emotional condition.

A possible impediment to marriage. arises with the presence of

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impotence, not of sterility. If a man or a woman is incapable of sexual relations and the problem cannot be remedied psychologically or medically, that person is incapable of entering a valid marriage.

Sometimes the impotence may be only "relative," not absolute.

This means that sexual relations are not possible with a particular individual of the opposite sex, but may be possible with others. Should that prove true, it would invalidate any marriage between that individual man or woman and the other particular individual.

Contrary to the information you "received, however, sterility does not make a marriage invalid. A woman who has had a hysterectomy. for example. or who is beyond childbearing age, is sterile in this sense, but she still may enter a legally valid marriage (Canon 1084).

But, for the sake of other couples contemplating marriage who might begin to wonder what goes on in Pre-Cana, I seriously doubt that she was asked if she herself were sterile. That is not the kind of discussion that takes place in these . pre marriage sessio.ns. ."

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BRIDGEWATER STA~TE COLLEGE

iRish ceLebRation marking the centenary of the birtlh of / PATRICK MacGILL MARCH 5· through 8 MONDAY, MARCH 5,2 to 4 p.m.

MAXWELL LIBRARY, HERITAGE ROOM Exhibit by and reception for Donegal artist Carmel Brennan with oil paintings based on quotations from MacGili poems. The paintings will remain on display through March 31.

TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 8 p.m.

HORACE MANN AUDITORIUM, BOYDEN HALL (This is the only Irish Celebration event for which there is a charge.)

TOMMY MAKEM in CONCERT Students, Senior Citizens $5 General Admission $12 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7,12:10 p.m.

CATHOLIC CENTER, FOLLOWED BY RECEPTION Gaelic Liturgy in memory of Patrick and Margaret MacGili offered by Donegal native Rev. Bartley MacPhaidin, CSC, President of Stonehill College, with music by The Music Makers, Eileen Quinn and Shamus Pender.

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LIBRARY LECTURE HALL., FOLLOWED BY RECEPTION IN HERITAGE ROOM Readings by Irish poet Seamus Heaney, Boylston Professor at Harvard University and Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, from his own poems and those of MacGill.1 ntroduction by Dr. Charles Fanning, Bridgewater State College faculty member.

THURSDAY, MARClri 8, 2 p.m.

HERITAGE ROOM, FOLLOWED BY RECEPTION Greetings from Liam Canniffe, Irish Consul, Boston; "Patrick MacGili in Historical Context," Dr. Joe Mulholland, Director, Radio Telefis Eirann; "The Scottish Experience of Patrick MacGill," Dr. Bernard Aspinwall, University of Glasgow faGulty member; "Recollections of Patrick MacGill," Dr. Owen T.P. McGowan. Bridgewater State College Director of Libraries. Introductions by Professor Maureen Connelly, Bridgewater State College Faculty member.

Traditional Irish music by The Music Makers

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Double- honor. which will be attended by thousands of Catholic educators from Poyant, principal at St. Mary's throughout the United States and for 15 years, has, during that time, Canada. St. Mary's represents the stressed quality Catholic education many good things going on in "in heart, word and deed," said American Catholic education today· Kathleen A. Burt, principal of SS. and we are proud to be part of Peter and Paul School, Fall River, such an institution. and regional representative of the "The awards reflect a quality of NCEA Department of Elementary education available at St. Mary's Schools. that challenges students academiPoyant was chosen for his award cally as well as being directed in a from among five regional nomi- family centered environment 'of nees by a selection committee of learning," they added. school administrators from the diIt was also noted that Poyant oc~se of Scranton, Pa. and Lambert are committed to "It is indeed a remarkable a- 'Catholic education both profeschievement," said other St. Mary's sionally and personally. Between School officials, "for one school to them, the two have seven daughbe recognized in two areas at the ters in Catholic schools in the diosame international convention ceseof Fall River.

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Polish priests' parley planned SAN ANTONIO(CNS)-Some 3,000 invitations have been sent out for a national convention of Polish priests in the United States, slated for April 16-19 in San Antonio.

The convention chairman is Father John W. Yanta, pastor of St. James the Apostle parish, San Antonio.

He said there are more than 100 priests of Polish descent in Texas and priests' associations in Chi-

cago, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Buffalo, but that they have never come together.

The meeting's theme will be "Polish-American Priests and the Third Millennium." The program will include a tour of Panna Maria, Texas, the oldest U.S. Polish settlement.

Further information is available from the Polish-American Priests Association, 5035 Bernardine, San Antonio, Texas.78220.

Boys All-Star hoopsters to compete Sunday CYO All-Star basketball teams from various areas of the diocese of Fall River will compete in All Star Competition this Sunday, Feb. 18, at three locations.

At the Fall River CYO, the Junior Boys'Tournament will begin at I p.m. with Fall River playing Attleboro. Taunton and New Bedford play in the second game scheduled for 2 p.m. with the winner of game I playing the winner of game 2 for the championship at 3 p.m.

At the Taunton CYO, the Fall River Prep team will take on Taunton beginning at 2 p.m. and in New Bedford, at the Kennedy CYO Center, the Fall River Senior

team will play New Bedford. Tapoff is scheduled for 2 p.in.

On Sunday, Feb. 25, the Junior Girls' tournament will take place in Fall River with New Bedford playing Fall River at 2 p.m. and the winner taking on Attleboro for the championship at 3 p.m.

At all tournaments a committee will select an All-Tournament team and a Most Valuable Player.

Awards ceremonies will follow the championship games.

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Scholar says pri~st shortage may create non-sacramental church WASHINGTON (CNS).- Sul"It's completely irrelevant ... pician Father Raymond Brown, a to say Jesus didn't demand this of his 12 [apostles]. Well, of course noted Scripture scholar, said renot. He wasn't setting up his or-' cently that the Catholic Church "may wind up as a non-sacramental ganized clergy," Father Brown said. church" if the priest shortage But when the early church orworsens. ganized a clergy, Father Brown "We may have to decide in the said, "they had their rules. And future whether we prefer that or some of them we wouldn't impose the Eucharist," Father Brown said today." following a talk on the historical Yet "with all our faults," he said, development of the priesthood at "there's something sacred about Catholic University in Washington. being set aside for God's service."

For priests, "Eucharist is the Bishops have a duty to foster the touchstone in our self-understand"koinonea," or unity, of a coming of the church," Father Brown munity, Father Brown said, espesaid. But its importance, he added, "I'm not sure we've communicated ... to all our younger clergy. So maybe there are different views on that, and we may have a debate among ourselves."

In his talk, Father Brown said WASHINGTON (CNS) - The those in current biblical scholarCatholic Church's reconciliation ship "don't conceive of Jesus as rites should stress how people can having all of this plotted .out," remake changes in modern society, ferring to the church and the priestrather than "feed into" guilt they hood. may feel about the state of the "Except for, 'You are Peter and world, said theologian Monika 'upon this rock I will build my Hellwig. church,' he never talks about Ms. Hellwig, a theology profeschurch," Father Brown said. sor at Jesuit-run Georgetow'n Uni"If you asked Jesus, 'Who are' versity, made the comments in a priests?', he would tell you it was keynote address at the North Amerthose people offering sacrifices ican Conference on worship in from the temple," Father Brown Washington. The annual meeting said. drew about 400 people.

Structure and organization, Today it is "the best bftimes and Father Brown said, are not considered "until you get too large and the worst of times " for promoting more participation in reconciliauntil there's a fight."

When chaos and competition tion rites, Ms. Hellwig said. among Christians of different chaIt is the "best of times" because risms surfaced in the early com- "it is a moment of immense oppormunities, Father Brown said, St. tunity," Ms. Hellwig said, and Paul told them, "Why don't you there is a realization of "vast posget bishops and deacons and let sibilities in our world, in our techthem be your prophets and teachers nology, in our international and and get this thing organized?" national policies, in our econoOne of its results was a priestmies that can be used for good or hood whose membership qualififor ill." cations were "artificial," Father "Never before in history have Brown said. "Once you have an organized clergy you put artificial proportionately so many of the population be~n so aware of corconditions" upon it, he added.

cially in dealing with groups with different views.

"That's part of what a bishop's supposed to be," he said. "He's got to stand for the unity of that community. And it's a terrible defeat when he has to say, 'You're out.' " He pointed to St. Paul as an example to follow in resolving differences.

Citing conflicts between St. Paul and St. Peter recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, Father Brown suggested that priests "use diplomatic means, even if you're dealing with someone you don't like."

Reconciliation should stress change, not guilt, says theologian porate responsibility for ecology, for social justice within our societies and worldwide, questions of peace and disarmament, questions of race, of inclusion of the excluded," she said.

It also is "the worst of times," she said, because with so many people aware of such issues there is a danger of making them feel so guilty they are unable to effect change.

"People are absolutely incapacitated, paralyzed by a vague anxiety and sense of guilt about all these things," she said.

The theologian said she thought the church sometimes has made a mistake in focusing confession on trying to measure degrees of personal guilt.

"The question of self-blame can in itself be rather paralyzing and therefore acting against" conversion, Ms. Hellwig said.

The challenge for today's reconciliation rites, Ms. Hellwig said, is how to incre!1se people's sense of where they need to. make changes in their way of life and yet "leave behind the perennial obsession with guilt."

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Feb. 22 1954, Rt. Rev. Msgr. J ovite Chagnon, Founder, St. Joseph, New Bedford

Feb. 19 Letters are welcomed but the editor reserves the right to condense or edit. if deemed necessary. All leuers must be signed and include a home or business address. They do not necessarily express the editorial views of The Anchor.

In defense of public schools Dear Editor: I read your column (Anchor, Jan. 26) and I felt I had to write. I belong to St. John's parish and have four children, all in public schools. I decided to send them to public school for two reasons.

First, I believe it is the parents' job to teach their children about God and their religion; second, I wanted them to live in the "real" world and not be with only other Catholic children. I feel that this will teach them to be open minded and tolerant of people's differences.

You said that in public schools there is no God and there are no ethics. I have to disagree with you on that. While the public schools do not allow prayer, they do have a moment of silent meditation and my children know that it is prayer time.

You said there are no ethics. My children have been involved in programs designed to teach them to make morally responsible choices and to think· about how their behavior affects others. One program to promote self esteem had the children watching to notice when another child did something helpful or nice for another. They would then give the helper a small token to affirm him.

I have found the teachers to be most concerned about the children. I feel that my children are receiving a more well-rounded education because of the dedication of teachers, what I teach them at home and a good religious education program.

Mary Horton Attleboro

A clarification Dear Editor: This letter is meant to clarify a misconception about prayer meetings and what happens at a prayer meeting in the charismatic renewal. Many people shun prayer meetings with excuses such as, "I could never pray with my -hands raised like they do." Neither could I in the beginning, and then again, no one ever said that I had to.

As I became more involved and .experienced the release of the Holy Spirit in my life, I began to read Scripture and I learned through the pSl!-lms that praying with hands raised was the posture for worship. It's praying with "body language," with voice, hands and body allengaged before the Lord. For the psalmist it was a sign of surrender, evidence of readiness to receive from God. The priest uses this posture every day at Mass, yet no one considers him strange.

At first I felt uneasy but when I forgot myself and lifted my heart and mind as well as my hands to God, there came a peace and freedom hard to explain in words.

My point is this: people are invited to a prayer meeting to praise, worship and experience God's love. They are free to do it in

1895, Rev. Andrew J. Brady, Pastor, St. Joseph, Fall River 1953, Rev. Leopold Jeurissen, SS.CC., Pastor, Sacred Heart, Fairhaven

the way that they are most comfortable. They can pray quietly to themselves if they so desire and no one will ever say "stick-ern-up" at a prayer meeting.

Hoping this explanation has removed the excuse of unacceptable posture for many, I invite them to "come and see" for themselves and to experience God's love on Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary's CCD Center, Rt. 152, Seekonk.

On the second Thursday of -the month, the prayer meeting is held in the church following the 7:30 p.m. Mass.

Pauline L'Heureux Seekonk

The joy of a baby Dear Editor: My wife and I brought home a baby boy just a week and a half ago, that we willadopt in July. We are only waiting until July because of Massachusetts law. He is just six weeks old. We have been trying to adopt a baby for five years now.

Just having him for two weeks has changed our lives already. What a joy to have such a beautiful baby. It still brings me to tears to think he could have been aborted.

This letter is not to put guilt on any female who has already had an abortion. My intention is to give any future pregnancy an alternative to not only save your baby's life but to share the joy with another couple unable to have children.

The adoption agency that we are working with still has five other couples waiting to adopt.

We have a support group and we meet to share our feelings. We laugh and cry together. The hardest thing my wife has had to do is call these couples and tell them we got a baby before them. It is not the joy we share but the sadness, not knowing how long they will have to wait for their baby.

I am wnting this letter hoping and praying that someone will read this letter and decide to carry her baby and give it up for adoption. I believe in freedom of choice. I am not telling you what to do, I'm begging you to make this choice.

One of our neighbors came over the other night to see our new son.

She told us she had a miscarriage and when she was in the hospital, she had to go over to the abortion side ofthe hospital. She said it was lined up with young girls waiting to have an abortion. She cried for a week. I cringe inside when I hear' things like this. ' The length of my baby's baby finger is the width of VlY thumb nail. I am in awe of how God puts so much love in such a small package. I don't know the birth mother of my child, but I pray that God would grant her peace in his amazing grace. I'm sure she feels a loss, but it's a positive loss, if there's such it thing.

My baby is alive, that's all I know. I can't wait to get home from work to hold him. He lays his little head on my chest and goes to sleep. He tries to focus on my face but he is still too little to focus.

What a bundle of joy.

Bradford E. Wills Mansfield

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She became interested in the Sisters of Mercy after meeting'Si-s~ tel' Marianna Sylvester; a'member ofthe parish team, and l:ntered the community in September 1985.

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Continued from Page One danger of the swamp and because the unfenced playground's basketball court was being used as a parking lot.

School principal Sister Mildred Morrissey:FM M, saw an opportunity for her 270 students to learn some important lessons: that they are responsible for what happens to their world-and, equally important, that their voices are worth hearing and their causes worth fighting.

Now when Debra Polselli asks her first grade class to tell her about the' environment, they respond, "Keep the air clean"; "Pick up things from the ground"; and "Keep the world clean!"

And when she asks, "Are you too little to do that?", the answer is a resounding "No!" "This is the whole sense of Cathlic education," said Sister Morrissey, "children realizing that they are part of a community."

Tying the condition of Father Travassos Park to the school's ,global awareness program has been "a good exercise in community living," she said.

The students' concern for their environment began over three years ago when Cabral assigned his eighth grade class an art project that entailed photographing anything they found interesting.

"Before he knew it, they were coming back with pictures of old tires," said Sister Morrissey.

Cabral said that pictures of beer bottles and drug needles made him very concerned about the deterioration of the park. .He made the project a yearly assignment and "Every year that's what they came back, with,-filth and holes and glass."

But until this year, the school community didn't have the confidence to approach city officials about fixing up the park because the school itself was in poor shape, said Sister Morrissey.

"We had to get the school cleaned up. If the school was not maintained, then we wouldn't have had much of an argument."

Improving the school's image went to the top of Espirito Santo's agenda, partly because the school and grounds are in clear view from Interstate 195.

"We are the first thing people see coming into Fall River," Sister Morrissey said. "We want to make it an attractive area."

The eighth grade has its own attention-getter: a large~lettered greeting to highway drivers in their classroom windows. The message changes periodically, recently reading, "Drive only as fast as your guardian angel can fly" berore the slogan for Catholic Schools Week went up.

Once their building had undergone improvements, the school community felt it was time to approach the city about cleaning up the park. Appropriately, the campaign was launched during, National Geography Awareness Week, when students were learning about land, air, water and energy resou'rces as vital components of their local environment.

Each grade did its part, beginning with the fourth graders, who wrote letters to the city councilors protesting the fact that they couldn't play in the park and inviting the councilors to come see it for themselves.

Councilors Daniel E. Bogan, Steven A. Camara, John Medeiros, John Alberto and Michael Plasski took them up on the invitation and eighth graders escorted them to the park, pointing out the problem spots they had photographed.

"They were disgusted with what they saw," said Susan Simoes, who along with twin Sandra and classmates Dori Medeiros and' Elizabeth Silva, was a tour guide.

Susan said she and her friends showed the councilors the graffi-

covered sewer pipe that empties into the swamp and told them that when a soccer ball went into the swamp and school custodian Michael Brogan retrieved it, the stench was so bad he had to go home and change his clothes.

The councilors also viewed posters, that included the incriminating photos. "The youth of tomorrow depends on your decision today," one collage asserted.

Others asked, "Is this what the world has come to?" and "Why do we have to live this way?"

"We deserve better," said a fourth. "HELP US!" Susan said the class also told the councilors that students have found needles around a closed public restroom on the park grounds.

"Just the other day we looked out the window and saw someone drinking," she added.

Melissa M9reira, Jeff Pereira and Celia Oliveira also described some of the problems at the park.

They said that fences had been repeatedly knocked down by cars, which were then driven around on the field, leaving tire marks and holes. The fences around the swamp had been pulled out of their foundations and the students said there had been incidents of peop'leincluding young children-setting fires near the swamp.

Some of the playground equipment, now rebuilt, had also fallen victim to arson. Even the "Keep Out-Police take notice" sign at the entry to the park had been burned down.

The restroom was a problem, too, they said, because, besides the fact that someone had tried to burn that down as well; one of the walls had been smashed with a car, leaving a gaping hole as a way to get in.

The graffiti alone were having a bad influence, said Dori Medei-. ros, because '''little kids were say: ing the words they saw."

A final plea to the councilors protection" for the school building came from the first graders, who and park, she said. sang'their polished version of an She hopes some of the help will environmental song, complete with corne from the school community hand motions. In those small voi- and alumni as they prepare to ces was a warning: "It won't be celebrate Espirito Santo's 80th there if we don't care. Care is all it anniversary in September. takes!:' She considers the students' campaign a great success. "The general The councilors were impressed.

"We got immediate action," said . public are aware now that there is a park down there and it's a pretty Sister Morrissey. nice one" she said, adding "We're Councilor Plasski said he found the students were "very commit- pleased with the response and I te<j" to getting the park cleaned think it will continue."

Said Cabral, "It's good for my up, and "they had done their homeclass to see the proces\s work. I'm work" in presenting their concerns.

"It was a very good experience," glad we had the courage to do it . said Councilor Camara. "The this year."

"I think the lesson of the project children were bright, articulate and was fantastic," said Plasski, because hopeful, and the government offito see that the students were able cials were impressed with their "they can move government presentations." through their own initiative."

Camara said he was particularly According to Camara, the lavainterested in the plight of the school tory building has been repaired because it is in his original neighand repainted, the city is working borhood and several relatives are on filling in some of the holes in alumni. the ground, and police patrols "Some of the immediate prob- have been increased in response to lems have already been solved," he the vandalism problem. said, referring to the fencing, "But The city council has also promthe park has to be watched closely ised improvements on the grounds by people in the area. Every citizen is responsible for keeping an eye and repair of lighting, with work expected to begin in the spring. on things."

"Just keeping the area attractive Sister Morrissey said the school staff remains alert to drug use, should keep vandalism down," said drinking and vandalism. The new Sister Morrissey. fencing has been knocked down While Espirito Santo students several times in the two months haven't played in the park as yet, since it was first put in. Bogan con- she said she has seen neighbortacted the city's park commission hood children using sleds there on and it was immediately fixed each snowy weekends. time.

"That's a good thing because it "People on dirrbikes" are also a shows parents are recognizing that problem, digging up the grounds, the place is cleaned up a little more said Sister Morrissey. and is safer," she said.

Meanwhile~ Espirito Santo stuThe problem is, "If we do clean it up, how do we keep it up?" she dents can look fprward to the said. spring and Sister Morrissey can be The principal hopes for a meet- assured that they are growing up ing with area residents, executives with a sense of global awareness.

"It's our world," she said. "I just from the surrounding mills and city council members to try to hope the children will keep looking after things." enlist further cooperation.

"Care is all it takes," they sing.

"We need further support and

'i>~u AT LEFT, eighth graders Jeff Pereira, Celia Oliveira, Dori Medeiros, Elizabeth Silva and Melissa Moreira (from left) show off the new fencing around the swamp; center, the first graders sing "Care is All It Takes"; right, the wintry weather doesn't disguise the garbage still in the swamp. (Hickey photos)

Community service organizations must speak for poor, says priest BLACK MOUNTAIN, N.C. (CNS) - Because politics, not rational judgment, dominates public policy, community service leaders must use political processes to help the poor, according to Father Thomas J. Harvey, Catholic Charities USA executive director. ' Father Harvey spoke recently at the Blue Ridge Institute for Southern Community Service Exe'cutives in Black Mountain. ''In public policy the process is not rational but political," Father Harvey said. However, he said,

"political process to me is not a pejorative term. It describes the reality of a pluralistic society with a rivalry of competing interests" which fashions public consensus.

"At the present time, the poorest are the most powerless and virtually outside the political process - except through the mediating structures of community service organizations and other voluntary associations," he said.

Thus the community service sector should not just provide specialized services, but should also en-

gage "in the debates which fashion the public consensus," Father Harvey said.

He cited the importance of "the community service sector's role of interpreting for the general society the needs and goals ofthe poorest, the disabled, the frail elderly, the abused and abusing, the lonely and the loveless, the hungry and homeless and so many others."

He told community services executives that he considers their sector "this nation's most important

resource in attaining a public consensus which benefits all people." .

"Yet," he added, "as we end this decade, I fear that we stand at a critical juncture of being shaped rather than shaping this consensus. You will make the difference."

He termed poverty the "most constant source of conflict" in the nation.

"Today, 15 percent of this nation lives below the official poverty line," he said. "Nearly 40 million Americans have little or no access

to medical services. This translates into frightening numbers. Yet, by percentage, they constitute a mi~ nority" and do not constitute a major force in providing resources to build communities or solve problems, he said. "The poorest are virtually outside the decision- , making process."

In conclusion, he said, lack of attention to the real needs of the nation's poorest will be the ultimate factor of conflict to confront "if we are to enhance the quality of life for this nation's people - all people."

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- Upon their return to their big house in blue-collar Plainville, they added one more to their family of special needs children by adopting 7-week-old Elizabeth, who has a fragile heart.

In an interview with the Catholic Transcript, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Hartford, Mrs. Orsi described the meeting with President Bush and his wife, Barbara, Jan. 26 as wonderful and "like visiting in their living room."

She said Mrs. Bush was very comfortable and grllndmotherly to the children, spending 25 minutes with the Orsi family.

Their 16-year-old daughter Clorissa held onto Mrs. Bush's hand for a long time, she said, and Mrs..

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The president, Mrs. Orsi said,. was very relaxed with the children.

He was very down-to-earth, she said, in sharing with them words about his proposal to make it easier to adopt children with special needs.

At home in Plainville, the Orsis and their 20 children, who areboth adopted and foster children, live in a house they call Domus Amoris, or House of Love symbolized by a red heart and cross engraved in cement at the entrance.

Their house resembles a condominium complex and its front yard is like a park with swings, slides and a jungle gym.

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Across the way are the child- of Mercy church in Plainville:. Orsi ren's nine bedrooms, each deco- plays the guitar and leads the folk rated with bright colors and 'each group; Mrs. Orsi interprets the Mass in sign language. with its own theme, among them Loving 20 children with disabilclowns, hearts, balloons and rainities is, Mrs. Orsi said, "fun, excitbows.

"It's important to have lots of ing and challenging. There are days when I wonder if I'm.going to light, sunshine and, color," Mrs. make it to the next moment. Some Orsi said in an interview with the Transcript last summer. "None of of the children could die anytime."

A sign of They have had four children my kids are drab." who did die because of thtir illNancy and Ray Orsi became nesses, foster parents in 1976 and by 1978 Some of our children are much had incorporated Domus Amoris closer to God than we are," Mrs. as a non-profit charitable commitOrsi said. "We learn from them ment. simple trust and faith in the Lord.

Currently, they get limited subWhat is normal? They are so in sidies and medical care from the tune with life and God. state for their children. Also, sev"They are very happy, very frienderal families tithe to them.

Caring for their children is their Iy, they live life to the fullest.

They're my teachers. Without them career.

"This is our life, it's not a job," I wouldn't get to heaven."

Mrs. Orsi said she has a lifelong said Mrs. Orsi. "My children are all very precious and dear to me. I commitment to get children out of take them everywhere with me. I institutions because she feels children have the birthright to become like being known as the mom. part of a nuclear family.

That's a gift from God." The Orsis have "two homegrown Besides living with a day-to-day kids," as Nancy called them, Sons commitment to children with dis- In the Central African nation of Chad, older youths, like this Ray Jr. and David, in their 20s, are abilities, Mrs. Orsi works on state young man, serve as catechists, telling others the "good news" of both involved in their extended legislation to help such children, family. . spending a day each week at the the Gospel. Daily many like him throughout the Missions share their own faith and nourish the faith of others. A gift of $15, Ray Jr. and his wife, Dee, who Connecticut state capitol. have three children of their own, Among needs, she said, is money offered through the Propagation of the Faith, allows a catechist go to Nancy and Ray's house Sat- for operations, medical care and to carry on such work for one month. Won't you offer a village urday nights to give the children equipment for disabled children in the Missions the gift of experiencing such "g{Jod news"? baths and showers, which takes and for respite services for parents. about four hours. The couple are r----~Societyfur-----------I in the Orsis' will to take over Domus Amoris.

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"In the world's eyes our kids are I not beautiful, not lovable, not val- one up in church. We are so> con- I To help catechists share the "good news," I enclose: 0 0 ODD $ 0 $ I uable," says Mrs. Orsi. "Some vinced of the value of the Anchor that if you would like to sub!.cribe I $15 $30 $45 $75 100 Other _ _ people think our kids should not but find it difficult to afford, the I I be here." "parish will absorb the cost. .

Just I Name I "Ray and I have seen Jesus in put th~ empty envelope with your Address I each of our children" and have the name 10. the basket.

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Instead of weapons, Father Prendergast buckled on his Army-issue priest kit that included a crucifix, candles, chalice, plastic bottles of wine, a container of Communion hosts and plastic bags of small crosses on neck chains to be given to soldiers on the battlefield.

Only he and four Protestant chaplains entered Panama unarmed.

Asked ifhe were frightened when the plane's door opened, Father Prendergast answered, "Maybe the word 'terrorized' is better."

"Everyone wa~ keenly aware the jump itself was dangerous," he said, noting that jumps from 500 feet are made only for combat and are never practiced because of the danger involved.

"That's barely enough (height) to have the parachute open before you hit the ground," he said.

"There's no time to deploy a reserve chute."

Hisjump into Panama was Father Prendergast's 58th since he was \ granted permission by Bishop Ed." "" '11 '1 ward W. O'Rourke of Peoria to WHILE IN Panama, Father Jack Prendergas! carried im Army-issue priest kit instead of a join the Army in 1980. Father Prendergast, who had been in the. weapon and often set up his altar on t~e tailgate of an Army vehicle. (eNS photo) Air Force in 1964-69, was ordained on July 4, 1976. He entered jump school at age 34.

His 57 jumps were merely training for the one Dec. 20.

"A person's adrenalin level goes PEORIA, Ill. (CNS) - As the darkness over Panama and into dergast told The Catholic Post, way up when the doors open," he history. doors of the U.S. Army transport newspaper of the Diocese of Peo- said. "It makes you very emotional.

Father Prendergast, 44, a priest ria, in an interview from Fort It's emotional for all the soldiers. plane swung open, Father Jack "Luckily, I landed on the tarof the Diocese of Peoria and a Bragg, N,C. Prendergast's heart was pumping like never before. . -.. major, 'became the first Catholic He is the only Catholic chaplain mac. When I landed the airport He was about to leap into the cleric since the Korean War to in the 82nd's three brigades quali- had already been pretty well separachute into a combat zone Dec. fied to jump. In fact, he is but one cured."

During the fighting, Father Pren20, the beginning of the U.S. inva- of 15 paratrooper priests nationdergast was stationed at the 307th sion of Panama.

Montie Plumbing wide. Just three others have reached Medical Unit. He prayed with the But history, he admitted, was the rank of major. & Heating Co. wounded. not on his mind, as he fell toward Although he jumped with the Over 35 Years the Panama City airport below.

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JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. the 82nd Airborne with whom he "It is a very, very special minisWhen the Ist Brigade got 'the jumped. .

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"Neither individuals nor society are permitted to endanger life, , whatever the benefits that might possibly accrue as a result," the pope told a meeting of international experts, sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

The experts were attending the second conference on "Determin~ ing the Moment of Death" held in recent years at the Vatican.

The pope noted that on the practical level, a "tragic dilemma" is presented when a sick person needs an organ that could be provided "by another patient lying next to him in a hospital, but about whose death there still remains some doubt."

In any case, he said, the sacrifice of a human life is prohibited, "even though it may be for the benefit of another human being who might be felt to be entitled to preference."

To help bring these issues into better focus, scientists and _scholars should try to "determine as precisely as possible the exact moment and the indisputable sign of death," the pope said.

For, once such a qetermination has been arrived at, then the apparent conflict between the duty to respect the life of one person and the duty to effect a cure or even save the life of another, disappears," he said.

Meanwhile, he said, scientists and doctors should be careful about p_olicies on transplants and experiments. He said "some form of renunciation is called for" when these methods would harm or degrade an individual.

The pope also spoke about the Christian view of death as a time of entry into a new life, as well as a separation from this one. From this perspective, he defined death as occurring "when the spiritual principle which ensures the unity of the individual can no longer exercise its functions in and upon the organism, whose elements, left to themselves, disintegrate."

During a 1985 . meeting an academy working group concluded that death could be said to have occurred when spontaneous cardiac or respiratory functions had irreversibly ceased, or when there had been an irreversible cessation of all brain function.

The group agreed that organ transplants should wait until the brain death of the donor had been certified in tests performed six hours apart.

Model dialogue WASHINGTON (CNS) - Catholic and Jewish leaders in Los Angeles, in a local dialogue hailed as a model for other parts of the country, have produced joint statements on the Holocaust and on forgiveness. Both statments were developed under auspices of Project Discovery, a dialogue and educational project cosponsored by the Los Angeles archdiocese and the American Jewjsh Committee. Both include study guides and dialogue suggestions for use by other Catholic-Jewish or high school groups.

'Help forment'al illne'ss

By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Dr. Kenny: I read with sadness your column about the woman who is struggling with a mental illness. You told her you could not order a support person for her. Well, in a roundabout way, you can.

There is a self-help group called Recovery Inc. It offers a proven method of self-help aftercare for the purpose preventing relapses in former mental patients and other similar enduring disorders.

Let me tell you about my 18year-old daughter. Starting in seventh grade, she became tense and stressful and began to have chronic stomach and bowel problems. Our family doctor said stress was the cause.

During these years she would be sick for a week at a time, so we dragged her to several specialists who diagnosed irritable bowel syndrome and recommended counseling.

She went to a psychologist during high school, and it helped her struggle through. After graduation in May 1989, she became severely ill while up north with friends. She was terrified to leave town. Later in that summer, she became very sick at home.

I had gone to Recovery about 20 years ago for my own nervousness, and it really helped. Off and on, I told her she should try it.

After the summer bout, she asked me to go to Recovery with her.

We've been going since.

It's like a miracle. She has learned to handle the stresses that used to make her sick.

Things have happened since summer, such as the breakup of a IS-month relationship, that normally would have sent her to her sickbed for three to four d~ys.

Instead, she is using the Recovery method and staying well.

I would say that the few months of Recovery are worth about two to three years of private counseling.

F or more information about Recovery Inc., you can write too: Recovery Inc., 802 N. Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. 60610. Their phone number is 312-337-5661.

I hope you can contact your writer and have her join, or maybe start a group in her area. Michigan I would be glad to inform our readers about Recove~y, but you have already done so.

As you know, Recovery was founded in Chicago in 1937 by a psychiatrist, Dr. Abraham Low. The method and application of techniques are described in his book "Mental Health Through Will Training."

Dr. Low supervised Recovery until 1952, when it became and remains a completely self-help organization.

The notion of people withproblemshelping each other is sound.

Recovery, in its regular me(:tings for persons with mental and emotional problems, is one of many effective self-help programs. A basic principle in such groups is that the persons in need help, each other. Often, professionals a:re not even allowed at the meeting~,.

Alcoholics Anonymous is the granddaddy of all such self-help groups. It was founded in 1939 by 'two recovering alcoholics, Dr, Bob, a physician, and Mr. Bill, a ~,tock­ broker.

Other successful self-help groups include Weight Watchers, Toughlove (for parents of rebellious teens) and Compassionate Friend, (for parents who have lost a child).

There are many more. .

I like your final suggestion, about our writer starting her own group.

That's how all the self-help groups began: two or three hurting people got together for coffee and talk.

They provided mutual support and began to realize they each possessed a measure of wisdorr.. The wisdom they came to share was the best kind: that.forged by pain and real life experience in coping with' it.

Reader questions on family living of child care to be answered in print are invited by the Kl~nnys; Box 872, St. Joseph's College; Rensselaer, Ind. 47978

Gaining perspective on the, past

By Antoinette Bosco A few days ago I met a young man who said that he sometimes felt ashamed to call himself a Christian. When I asked why, he explained that it was because of Christianity's hard-to-swallow hypocrisies.

"History is full of wrongdoings in the name of Christ," he said.

"Look at the Crusades."

I stared at him, slightly taken aback. I found myself searching backward in my memory to dredge up what I could remember of the Crusades. About all I could recall was that they were military expeditions, blessed by the pope, that stretched from the II th through the 13th centuries. They had the mission of regaining the Holy Land from the Muslims.

The young man began to recount some of the horror stories of the Crusades. He told of much pillaging and murdering. Certainly it is true that we cannot whitewash the past and we should admit that in any "family" history there are black sheep and incidents of corruption that cause pain when they are recalled.

But why, I asked the young man, did he want to lock himself into a negative attitude on Christianity when there is so much of the sublime in this tradition that began so humbly with the birth of Jesus in a stable.

Christ gave people a message, a blueprint of how they should live and treat each other that inspired them. From that point, the scope and ext~nt of Christian ltrowth is staggenng. Untold numbers of believers died heroically for their faith.

Those who died as martyrs were' so impressive that they were more than replaced by fresh converts.

The incredible ability of the faith to periodically renew itself stands out in history -and no more so than today in what is happening in the communist countries. Here

people have kept the faith in spite of a 50-year attempt by their leaders to squelch it.

Moreover, the sublime Christian spirit is seen in the inspired life, and work of saints like Francis, Augustine, Gregory the Great and Ignatius, and in people like Pope John XXIII and Mother Teresa.

From that spirit rose the great religious orders which still lead organizations of humanitarian and social services. Even the exploration of lands and cultures came out of the great desire to spread Christ's message.

The skeptical may brush off the blessing of Christ's entry into this world and focus on the times when Christians deviated from its message.

But one basic, undeniable miracle remains. The small, motley, demoralized group of 12 that Jesus left on earth after his Asce'nsion developed the enthusiasm to sweep away all obstacles before them in their bold worldwide mission.

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By Hilda Young How to take care of the house while your mother leaves you alone for an hour, if you are II. Stand at the window and watch her get into the car. Wave. Think, "I'll bet she beeps the horn at me."

Smile and wave again when she beeps heading up the street.

Turn on the radio. Turn it up 'full blast. Dance through the living room. Check yourself in the mirror. Lip-sync' with the song.

Use a beater from the electric mixer for a microphone. Take a bow.

Open the refrigerator. Stare. Eat one of the leftover meatballs your mother told you to leave alone because she wanted to use them for dinner. Move the other ones around so it doesn't look like any are missing.

Jump onto the couch. Jump off.

Walk across it. Try doing a handstand. Use the wall to steady your feet. Re-hang the pictures you knock off.

Skip into your folks' bedroom and do a somersault across their bed. Do it again. Bounce on it like a trampoline and see if you can touch your head to the ceiling.

Panic when you hear sounds like wood cracking. Spend 10

minutes trying to smooth all the wrinkles out of the bedspread.

Try the refrigerator again. Take a drink of orange juice straight from the pitcher. Take two. Look in the meat drawer to see if your mother hid any good stuff in there.

Grab your sister's favorite Guns 'n' Roses' tape from where she keeps it under her bed and slap it into the cassette player. Turn it loud enough that the surface of the fish bowl develops white caps.

Remember you are supposed to have your room cleaned and the dishes done before she comes home.

Kick your pajamas, underwe,ar and shoes into the closet. Fill the kitchen sink and put the dishes in to soak.

Call your best friend and tell him how great it is to have the whole house to yourself. Lie on your back and put your feet up on the wall.

Hear your mother drive up. Say goodbye. Hang up. Turn off the radio. Jump over to the sink. When your mother asks, "Aren't you done with the dishes yet?" say, "Are you kidding?" It's almost impossible to get the burned eggs off these pans."

Hope she doesn't remembl~ryou had oatmeal for breakfast.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) - To and selective in its use of official church traditions but said it also deal with the massive job of review- church teachings from the Second contains such things as the "absurd" Vatican Council and the postcon- statement that "the Eucharist is ing the Vatican draft of a planned Catechism for the Universal ciliar era, ignoring or even contra- not a meal." That statement conChurch, Cincinnati Archbishop dicting some important insights in tradicts Scripture and Catholic Daniel E. Pilarczyk, president of conciliar and postconciliar teach- doctrine, he said. the U.S. bishops' twin conferen- ing.

Plans for a universal catechism began with a proposal for such,a ces, has formed a top-level They said it failed to make needed distinctions between central or document by Boston Cardinal committee.

Bernard F. Law at the 1985 world It will be made up of six chair- essential truths of faith and perimen of National Conference of pheral elements and betweenestab- Synod of Bishops in Rome. The synod backed the proposal, and a Catholic Bishops-U.S. Catholic li~hed doctrine and theological Conference committees.

VIews. few months later Pope John Paul The committee is to consult with Jesuit Father Thomas J. Reese, II formed a c'ommission of 12 bishops to carry out the project. theologians and other scholars in a research fellow at Woodstock preparing its report. Staffing is to Center, convened a private symbe provided by the committees' posium Jan. 27-28 of 15 U.S: offices at NCCB-USCC headquar- experts in catechetics, Scripture' ters in Washington. and systematic, sacramental and .

Msgr. Robert Lynch, NCCB- moral theology. The symposium USCC general secretary, informed results are to be sent to the NCCD VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The the bishops about .the new cate- and to other bishops' conferences importance of Christian unity in chism committee in a January around the world to help them in building a world of hope and peace memo accompanied by a letter their own analysis ofthe draft, Fa- has been illustrated "in places where spiritual force~ have contributed from Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, ther Reese said. prefect of the Vatican's CongregaLawrence Cunningham, a pro- to breaking down the forces of tion for the Doctrine of the Faith fessor of theology at the Univer- tyranny," according to a new ecuand head of the Vatican commis- sity of Notre Dame, said strengths menical document. sion in charge of the catechism in the document included "a good The document, the sixth report project. Cardinal Ratzinger re-' deal of attention" paid to social ofthe World Council of Churchesquested "that your episcopal con- ethics and "an enormous amount Roman Catholic Joint Working of background from the traditions Group, was completed during an ference, through the agencies and organs proper to it, undertake a of the church .,. not only of the early February meeting in Rome. study and express an evaluation West, but of the East as well."

It must be apprQved by the cenof' the draft catechism.

One of its "most glaring weak- tral committee ofthe World CounThe proposed Catechism for the nesses," he said, is that it "suffers . cil of Churches and by the PontifiUniversal Church is to be the first 'from what computer people would cal Council for Promoting Chrissuch document in the Catholic call an 'information overload'" with tian Unity before it can be released. no gUIdance as to "what's more The Vatican issued a statement Church since the Roman Cateimportant and what's less import- about the report Feb. 7, including chism, issued by Pope Pius V in 'quotati'onS'from its introduction.

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Lisa Sowle Cahill, professor of In addition to signs of hope, The draft of the new catechism moral theology-at Boston College, particularly in Eastern Europe, was sent to individual bishops who said she analyzed "the in- ,'. the world faces "many grave probthroughout the world in December.

The' Vatican asked each bishop llammatory }SSUeS" of marriage, lems, which threaten the well-being to review it and submit criticisms family life and sexual morality, -of humanity and call.for the conand, suggestions to the catechism ;said that the catechism's conclu- cern and solidarity of all people of. commission in Rome by the end of 'sion on inorarissues such as' artifi- good will,'~ the introduction said.'

May. The commission is to revise ,ciaIcontraception, abortion, test-· ,"It is a time when the ecumenithe document in light ofthe bishops' tube fertilization and the roles of cal movement is more than ever r~sponses. women in the church are stated as necessary ifthe churches and ChrisThe new universal catechism is absolutes without reference to the tian communities are to be a sign' intended as a comprehensive, theological debates surrounding and seed of the unity, peace and organic statement of the basic them. She also said it is filled hope which the human family needs," it said. truths of the Catholic faith, for use "through and through" with sexist by bishops and writers ofIocal and language. .

The Joint Working Group was regional catechisms throughout the Several of the panelists critic- established in 1965 as a consultaworld. ized the text's reliance on natural tive body to the Vatican and the The draft form is divided into law as the framework for moral World Council of Churches to three main sections - creed, sac- teaching. encourage collaboration and disJesuit Father William C. Spohn, cuss trends in the ecumenical moveraments 'and commandment's ment. followed by an epilogue on prayer a professor of moral theology at The groups' sixth report, which based on the Lord's Prayer. the Jesuit School of Theology at The central purpose of the uni- Berkeley, Calif., said it takes "one covers its activities since 1983, includes the results of two studies, versal catechism, according to the waning, legalistic model of moral prologue, is "an organic exposi- life," ignoring the more scriptural on "The Church: Local and, Unition of the'whole of the Christian model of "discipleship of Christ" versal" and on the notion of a "hiefaith" addressed primarily to the as the norm for Christian' living. rarchy of truths," the Vatican - Also, Vatican II treated the laity statement said. world's bishops.

'The Vatican also said the workA panel of Catholic scholars' as "a creative part of the church," sharply criticized the Vatican draft but the catechism treats the laity as ing group has begun a consultaof the catechism in a'Jan. 28 press "an obedient part of the church," tion on "new sources of division," conference at the Woodstock Cen- he said. discussing the ways that personal ter in Washington.

The section on sacraments and and social ethical issues have led to Panelists criticized the cate- liturgy received the highest marks estrangement between some Chrischism's structure, its use of Scrip- from .the group,. but it too was tian denominations, ' ture and its use of natural law criticized.

The working group will conrather than Christian discipleship Jesuit Father Peter Fink, a tinue consultations on Christian as the framework for moral teachliturgy and sacramental theology mixed marriages and on the importing. specialist, praised the section's uses ance of "ecumenical formation," They described it asinconsistent of prayers and the full range of ~d!1cating Christians about their common. beliefs and differences and their responsibility to work toward Christian unity, the Vati'can said.

The report admits that "some difficulties" remain in the relationship between the World Council of Churches and the Roman Catholic !

Church, which is not a council member. However, the report "rejoices in the hope of growing' collaboration," the statement said.

Ch ° to ° °d rls Ian unity sal important to peace

POPE JOHN Paul II blesses the crowd after trying on a feathered hat he received from a tribal chief in Moundoun, Chad, during his five-nation visit to West Africa. (CNS photo)

Hungary, Vatican establish diplomatic ties VATICAN CITY (CNS) Since then, there has been a Hungary has become the second gradual easing of Catholic life.

Warsaw Pact nation to establish Prior to the establishment of diplomatic relations with the diplomatic relations, all HungarVatican. ian dioceses were headed by a resiThe Feb.' 9 accord c~lminated, dent bishop, a rarity in com25 years of Vatican-Hungarilin 'munist-ruledcountries. negotiations aimed at resolving At the beginning of February, church-state "roblems and came a the Hungarian bishops issued a m~n.th after Hungary passed" a statement e'xpressirig'their intenrehglOus freedom law that loosened tion to make their collective voice state control on church life and heard on social issues while remainguaranteed freedom of conscience.. ing "independent of political 'The accord cited "the profound parties." , political Th e sta temen tsal ' dpnes ' t s can· and H social .evolution proS' d uce d m ungary m the past lew tb .t d b f I't' months" as a main reason' for ?o e re~ls ere mem e~s 0 po I' h' , I t' Ical partIes nor be candIdates for es t a bl IS mg-re a IOns. .

I I Iff' . 1989 , a re f " group natlOna or oca" 0 Ice. D unng ormlst . of communist leaders came to The church respects the mdepower in Hungary, loosening pende~ce of the state, but a~ .the government and party control of same t~me demands that pohtlcal national life and promising multi-' authonty r~,spect.the autonomy of party elections in 1990. the church, I~ saId. .

The accord establishing diploHungary WIll overcome the dl~matic relations was signed in the asters of p.ast ~ecades only If Hungarian capital of Budapest by democracy IS bUIlt on stru.ctur~s Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, papal that are moral, honest and Just, It secretary of state and veteran of added. ..

Vatican-East bloc diplomacy, and . The day before ?Iplomatlc r~la- , Hungarian Prime Minister Miklos hons were estabhshed, Cardmal Nemeth.

Casaroli presided at ceremonies in Announcement of the accord honor of the late Cardinal Jozsef Mi~dszenty, symbol of Catholic was made in Budapest and at the Vatican. Last year, Poland became resIstance to the early years of the first Warsaw Pact nation to communist rule. . establish diplomatic relations with Cardi'nal Mindszenty was conthe Vatican. victed in 1949 of being a traitor Pope John Paul II plans to visit and of illegal money changing and Hungary in 1991. was givena life sentence. He was Vatican-Hungarian relations released during a brief 1956 rebellion and took refuge in the U.S. were broken in April 194,5 whan the papal nuncio, Archbishop Embassy in Budapest before the Angelo Rotta, was expelled after uprising was crushed by Soviet Sovie't occupation of the country. troops.

Hungary sided with Germany in . He stayed at the embassy until 1971, when he was allowed to World War I I. The late 1940s and 1950ssaw a leaveafterVatican-Hungariannegotiations. He died in Vienna, Ausharsh repression of the Catholic tria, in 1975.

Church, Thousands of priests and religious were killed, jailed or The ceremonies included a Mass deported, and·most religious orders in Esztergom, the primatial see of were declared illegal.

Hungary, and the naming of a plaza adjacent to the archbishop's In 1964, Hungary and the Vatican signed an accord pledging to residence after Cardinal Mindsresolve church-state problems zenty. The naming had approval through negotiation. This estabof local officials, and national. lished what Vatican officials called officials were present at the event. a "small step" policy of .slowly Cardinal Mindszenty was archbiimproving church life. shop of Esztergom.

Trifles .. A trifle consoles us because a trifle upsets us."-Blaise Pascal

FILM RATIN GS A-I Approved for Children and Adults All Dogs Go to Heaven

Babar: the Movie The Bear

The Little Mermaid Prancer

A-2 Approved for Adults and Adolescents Always Back to the Future Part II Dad Driving Miss Daisy Henry V

Romero Stanley and Iris Ski Patrol Strike It Rich Veronico Cruz

When the Whales Came The Wizard The Wizard of Speed and Time Yaaba

A-3 Approved for Adults Only Crimes and Misdemeanors Dealers Everybody Wins Family Business Flashback Glory Gross Anatomy Heart Condition Immediate Family

Lonely Woman Seeks Life Companion Mack the Knife Music Box Mystery Train National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation The Plot Against Harry Roger & Me

Second Sight She Devil Sidewalk Stories Steel Magnolias Stella Time of the Gypsies Tremors Triumph of the Spirit True Love Valmont

A-4 Separate Classification (Separate classification is given to certain films which while not morally offensive, require some analysis and explanation as a protection against wrong interpretation and false conclusions) Born on the Fourth Enemies: Sweetie of July A Love Story War of the Roses Drugstore Cowboy Hawks We're No Angels

O-Morally Offensive Apartment Zero Blaze Downtown Harlem Nights Internal Affairs

Labyrinth of Passion Look Who's Talking Loose Cannons '

Next of Kin Shocker Staying Together , Tango and Cash

(Rec.) after a title indicates that the film is recommended by the U.S. Catholic Conference reviewer for the category of viewers under which it is listed. These listings are presented monthly; please clip and save for reference. Further information on recent films is available from The Anchor office, 675-7151.

Area Religious J:lroadcasting The following television and radio programs originate in the diocesan viewing and listening area. Their listings normally do not vary from week to week. They will be presented in the Anchor periodically and will refiect any changes that may be made. Please clip and retain for reference.

On TV "Spirit and the Bride," a talk Each Sunday, 8:00 a.m WLNE, show with William Larkin, 6 p.m.

Channel 6. Diocesan Television Monday, cable channel 35.

Mass. Those in the Greater New On Radio Bedford area who do not have "Be Not Afraid," 15 minutes of cable TV can see a rebroadcast of music and Gospel message coorthe Mass at 11 a.m. on UHF dinated by Father Craig A. PreChannel 20 gana, parochial vicar at St. John Portuguese Masses from Our the Evangelist parish, Attleboro, Lady of, Mt. Carmel Church, is heard at 8 a.m. Sundays on New Bedford: 12:15 p.m. each station WARA, 1320 AM. The Sunday on radio station WJFD- Catholic clergy of the Attleboro' FM,7 p.m. each Sunday on tele- area sponsor the program. vision Channel 20.

"The Beat," Christian rock "Confiuence," 8:30 a.m. each music and information produced Sunday on Channel 6, is a panel by Building Block Ministries of program moderated by Truman Taunton, is broadcast at 6:00 Taylor and having as permanent a.m. Sundays on station WVBF participants Father Peter N. Gra- Boston, IOS.7 FM, and may be ziano, diocesan director ofsocial heard in the Attleboro, Fall River, services; Right Rev. George Hunt, New Bedford and Taunton deanEpiscopal Bishop ofRhode Island, eries. and Rabbi Baruch Korff.

Charismatic programs with "The ~eat," produced by"Build- Father John Randall are aired ing Block Ministries of Taunton from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday and aired on many cable systems through Friday on station WRlB, 1220 AM; Mass is broadcast at I in the Fall River diocese features videos from and information on p.m. each Sunday. contemporary Christian rock art"Topic Religion," presented by Ists. Check local listings for times two priests, a rabbi and a Protand dates. estant minister, is broadcast at Mass 9:30 a.m. Monday to 6:06 a.m. and 9:06 p.m. each Sunday on station WEEI BosFriday, WFXT, Channel 25.

"Breakthrough" 6:30 a.m. each ton, 590 AM. Programs of Catholic interest Sunday, Channel 10, a program on the power of God to touch are broadcast at the following lives, produced by the Pastoral .times on station WROL Boston, Theological Institute of Hamden, 950 AM: Monday through Friday 9, 9:15, 11:45 a.m.; 12:15, Conn.

12:30, I p.m. ' "Maryson," a family puppet A Polish-language Mass is show with moral and spiritual perspective 6 p.m. each Thurs- heard from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. day, Fall River and New Bedford every Sunday on station WICE, 550 a.m.

Cable Channel 13.

Pdpe names' hfead of Czech se«~ VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope John Paul II has named secretly ordained Bishop Jan Chryzostom Korec to head a diocese in Czechoslovakia.

The Feb. 6 announcement marked the first time since the toppling of the communist government in December that an ordinary has been named to head a diocese in the East European country.

The pope named Bishop 1K.0rec, a Slovakian Jesuit, to head the Nitra Diocese in Slovakia, one of the country's two republics.

Bishop Korec, 66, was ordained a priest in 1950 and secretly ordained a 'bishop the following ,year. He was one of four Jesuits secretly made bishops in the early 1950s during a time of harsh repression against the church.

Bishop Korec spent eight years in jail and was not allowed to publicly exercise 'his ministry by the communist government.

According to an aide of the bishop, he was condemned as a traitor for his fidelity to the Holy See, but was released in 1968 during the brief government of communist reform leader Alexander Dubcek.

THE ANCH'OR~Dioc~s~ 'of FaI11~ive~-FrL, Feb. '16, i990 On Feb. 5, Bishop Korec had a private meeting with the pope at the Vatican. Several weeks earlier he had been named rector of the Bratislava seminary for priesthood candidates from throughout Slovakia.

After massive anti-government 'protests toppled the communist

government, a transitional government was formed, led by President Vaclav Havel, a playwright who headed the protest movement.

Since then, restrictions on the church have been eliminated, and the pope has accepted an invitation to visit Czechoslovakia, probably in April.

MIGRANTS FROM Guatemala; El Salvador and Mexico gather for an outdoor Mass celebrated by San Diego Coadjutor Bishop Robert H. Brom, who traveled'to Rancho Penasquitos canyon where mi'grants live in plywood and cardboard shanties. (CNS photo)

The aides said the comi,ng to power of a non-communist government was instrumental in normalizing Bishop Korec's chun:h activities.

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GET ON YOUR FEET You say I know it's a waste of time There's no use trying So scared that life's gonna pass you '~y Your spirit dying Not long ago I could feel your strength and your devotion What was so clear is now overcast with mixed emotions Deep in your heart is the answer Find it, I know it will pull you through Get on your feet Get up and make it happen Get on your feet Stand up and take some action Get on your feet Don't stop before it's over Get on your feet The weight is off your shoulder I think it's true that we've all been through sortie nasty weather Let's'understand that we're here to handle things together You gotta keep looking onto tomorrow There's so much in your life that's meant for you Recorded by Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine, written by John De Faria, Jorge Casas, Clay Ostwald, (c) 1989, CBS Records Inc. DO YOU like to dance? Ifso, then you probably will enjoy the energy in Gloria Estefan's "Get on Your Feet." This dance number reflects the Latin roots in the Miami Sound Machine's background.

But I believe the song is about m'ore than the rhythm of dance.

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more fully involved with the and purpose of their lives.

The lyrics descr.ibe a person caught in "mixed emotions," a person "so scared that life's gonna pass you by" that "your spirit's dying."

In response. someone who cares about him says, "Deep in di~ection

your heart is the answer.... Stand up and take some action." This caring person invites him to put more trust in his passion for life.

By looking within, each of us can find what genuinely brings zest and energy for life. Trusting,these deep-seated interests' is likely to help us find more enjoyment in life.

As we believe more in ourselves and in our dreams, our life becomes more of an adventure, bringing opportunities for satisfaction and growth.

The song does not say why the individual lost his sense of direction. Perhaps he ran into problems or disappointments that interrupted his search for achievement. Maybe he faced a difficulty in a relationship.

Whatever the case, he is encouraged to look past the pain: '~Y ou gotta keep looking into tomorrow. There's so much in your life that's meant for you."

Those words are true. God gave us the gift of life so that we might use its challenges as avenues to find the best in ourselves: Failures, mistakes anc;l pain do not change God's wish for us.

In fact, when we learn from them, new doors open. The helping individual in the song tells the other to "understand that we're here to handle things together." Once more, I agree. God gave us each other so we wouldn't have to handle pain and disappointment alone.

When we feel down on ourselves and ready to give up on life, we need to turn to another to help us through the depression and hurt. Reach out to someone you trust.

Life can be full 'of passion, satisfaction and challenge. Don't settle for less.

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin"R.R. 3, Box '187, Rockport, Ind. 47635.

What's on your mind?

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Q. My friend recently broke up with her boyfriend and is still very depressed. She's gained weight and doesn't care abouther appearance of schoolwork anymore. I try to console her and pick up her spirits, but nothing works. What can I do?

(North Dakota) A. Probably no quick fix is possible. No magic solution is available that will lift your friend out of her doldrums. Your friend likely needs a little more time to get through her sorrow.

This does not mean, however, that you should desert her 'or that you sheuld give up 'your attempts to help h e r . . .

While she needs some time to be alone and .experience her sorrow, she also needs to be reassured over and over again tliat life will get better and plenty of good times lie ahead. No matter how sqe fights this idea, keep insisting on it.

She also needs the company of friends to distract her and to bring her out of herself. Your instincts are right in wanting to be with her and to help her. If you can get

other mutual friends to assist you, so much the better.

She'll probably want to talk to you a lot about the breakup. Let her talk about it some, but certainly riot the whole time you spend with her.

Instead try to plan diverting activities. In view of her weight problem, perhaps you and your friends should try to schedule some activities that include physical exercise 'of some sort.

But don't stop at that. Could you also take in a movie now and then? Might you make a shopping expedition to the nearest mall?

Could YOu spend an evening watch- . ing a funny. old video? Could you: also give her any books or maga-' zines you have that you think might interest her? Could you do some homework with her now and then?

In general, you'd better avoid for awhile asking her, "How are you?" That can lead ioo easily to a narrative of self-pity and real or imagined ills. Better to inquire, "What do you want to do this

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afternoon'!" That may gradually set her mind in a different direction.

Helping your friend may be a discouraging task that produces results only gradually. , Or you may fail. If you do, don't throw the blame on yourself. you cannot force your friend ~o change.

She, not you, is the 'one who is responsible for how she reacts to The Big Breakup.

Cafeteria Catholic ALBANY, NY (CNS) -Former New York Gov. Hugh Carey said in a recent speech that he regrets having been a "cafeteria Catholic" while in office. "Perhaps I was convinced that, because I held a high public office, I could form niy own casuistic judgments on faith and morals in disagreement with the church in my personal and public life," Carey told about 1,000 Catholics, including the state's bishops, at Public Policy Forum, a lobbying day in Albany sponsored by. the New York State Catholic Conference.

Message praised WASH INGTON (CNS) Father Donald B. Conroy, president of the North American Confer~nce on Religion and-Ecology" has praised Pope John Paul II for giving for the first time "high priority to environmental concerns" in his message for the Jan. I World Day of Peace. "The theological and ethical implications of this pontifical statement are enormous," said Father Conroy.

in our schools Coyle-Cassidy Two Coyle-Cassidy juniors路 placed in the top 10 out of 570 papers submitted to the annual Framingham State College's State High School History Conference.

Steve Meserve and Rachel Doherty took home awards from the history department of Framingham State College, and Upsilon Alp!ta , chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, an international history honor society.

-Meserve's paper-was entitled "Wounded Knee, 1890 and 1973, An Americ"an Policy with American Indians." Miss Doherty's paper was titled "F.D.R.'s Administration: The 'Forgotten Man' Was Still Forgotten."

Senior Steffani Sullivan earned a Judge's Distinction Award for a portrait, "Portrait of Tara," at the annual Southeastern Massachusetts region Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards. Her work was exhibited at Plimouth Plantations and will later be entered in national competition.

Other Coyle-Cassidy students whose work was exhibited at PIimouth were junior Melissa Batta-glia and Brendan Conroy.

Physics'Team members picked up a first and second in individual events and placed sixth overall in the annual Physics Olympics at M.LT. The team comprised Dan Murphy, Sarah Funke, Jim Hoye" John Raposa, Julie Flanagan, Mike Hesshaus, Pat Sweeney, Todd Ducharme and Ann Gedrites.

The winter track team had its 'most successful season in recent years. Sophomore Rebecca Murphy broke the school's girls' 300yard run record with a time of 43.5 seconds and nine athletes qualified for the state Class "D" championship at Harvard: Todd Ducharme (high jump and high hurdles), Jean Lincoln, (50 yard dash), Mike Simpson (high hurdles), Rich Pires (600), Keith Silva (600), Dan deAbreu ( I mile), Mike Monteiro (shot put), Jason Wetherell (shot put), and the'boys' 4-by-440 yard relay team of Scott Morgis, Pires, Simpson and Silva.

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preparing for a trip to Rome during April vacation. Miss Elizabeth Oliveira of the Connolly language department will lead the group.

St. Jean Baptiste St. Jean Baptiste School celebrated Catholic Schools Week with ac.tivities involving faculty, students, parents, and grandparents.

The week began with a Mass路 celebrated by Rev. Jay T. Maddock. A catered breakfast followed.

On Tuesday,. the students in grades K, I and 2 hosted a continental breakfast for their grandparents. Teacher Appreciation Day was held on Wednesday and open house for parents on Thursday. '.

The week closed with an assem-'-' bly and awards were given for the' best essays, poems or posters relating to the theme of Catholic Sc!lools Week: "A Parent's Choice.'" , Student-of-the-Month certificates went to Stephanie Grant-K; Carol Phelan-1st grade; Jessica Lamarre-2nd;, Heidi Souza-3rd; John Janiak-4th; Scott Cabral5th; Jennifer Raposo-6th; Jill Wetherell 7th; Lisa Mantell-8th.

Bishop Feehan January 1990 marks the first anniversary of the establishment of Entrance Scholarships to Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro.

Again this year, the school gave scholarships to the highest ranking boys and girls who took placement examinations in December.

These Principal's Scholarships are available to qualified students whose examination achievement is also supported by their academic performance in junior high or middle school.

Three Leadership Scholarships go to applicants whose academic, extracurricular involvement and pre-highschool records mark them as potential leaders in the Feehan community. There is also an Alumni Scholarship open to a son or daughter of a Feehan graduate.

Sister Mary Faith Harding, RS M, Principal of Bishop Feehan High School, also emphasized that applications for financial aid grants are available to any present or prospective Feehan students.

Friends who wish to assist financially in the aid of students may contact Sister Mary Evangela McAleer at the Bishop Feehan Development Office, 226-7411 .

The Connolly Cougars basket-' ball team has captured solepossession of the Div. II SMC Crown as a result of a 65-58 victory over Bishop Stang on Feb. 6. The team . still faces opponents in Attleboro, Barnstable, and Xaverian of Westwood before beginning post-season tournament play. ' The Lady Cougars drew a step In 1989 more than 100 students closer to tournament action with a at Bishop Stang High School, New victory over Coyle-Cassidy on Feb. Bedford, took the national French 9. The team must win two of its exam. Senior Eduardo Pires of remaining three games against DurNew Bedford took top honors among Stang students and placed .fee, New Bedford, and Apponequet.

The hockey team has beengivan impressive 9th overall in the ing fans hot action in recent conregional competition.

On March 2, 21 Spanish III stutests. The Icemen defeated Boston, pow~r Dam Savio, heid New Beddents will take the national Spanford to a scoreless tie, and'domiish exam, which covers listening nated, Falmouth,3-Q. Its last con~路 skills, grammar and culture; and test of the regular season will be . on March 7, 90 French language against Durfee and will be a fea-' students willtake the national 1990 ture of ,Fall River's "Hot Choco- .. French exam. late Follies," a weekend ofwinte~ , '''Nuts&Bolts,''aneveningsponcelebrations. The winneroftomor- sored by the guidance department row's game will receive the Fall for juniors and their parents and River Challenge Cup. Mayor Carloriginally scheduled for March 14 ton Viveiros and other dignitaries has been postponed until April 4, are expected for the face-offat 8 It gives the opportunity to learn p,m, tomorrow at the Driscoll more about the college application Rink. . process, scholarships and other The Foreign Language Club is aspects of college life.

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By Michael Warren When I was teaching high school, a 16-year-old student came to me one day to discuss what he thought was his "weirdness."

"I think I'm getting more and more strange, you know, weird.

Maybe I'm becoming some kind of sex maniac," he said.

He told me that he would meet a girl and be convinced that "she is so fantastic that I'll never look at another girl. This one is the one.

I've fallen in love."

"I can't stop thinking about her," he continued. "She sort of haunts me all day long and some nights...

I'm sure it will never end."

But, he said, after about a month and a half he wasn't sure he liked her anymore and wasn't even sure why he liked her so much in the first place. Then, before long, he would meet another girl and the same cycle would start over again.

"What's the matter with me?" he asked.

I told him that I didn't think what was happening was strange at all. Actually, it was quite common. And just as common among girls as among guys. He was responding to the loveliness of other people and finding out that there are a lot of lovely people out there.

I added that he probably was preparing to find the person he would be willing to spend his whole life with.

At that point he stopped me with this question: "How do I know when I am engaged and ready to be married that I won't fall out of love with her?"

That was a great question and one that I have heard engaged couples ask as they prepared for their weddings. My answer was this: .

We cause ourselves a lot of trouble by naming things the wrong way. "Fallingin love"-is not agood

way of describing the process the high school student was going through. It would be more accurate if he had said something like, "I met another girl and I find that she dominates my imag~nation."

Even without wanting to, people find that the other person begins to haunt their imagination.

They find themselves thinking about the other constantly. , Our response to the loveliness of another person shows up in the way our imagination responds. Our imaginations are not fully in our control, just as our attractions to other people aren't.

To have the imagination dominated by another person could happen many times in anyone's, life. It is very different from love.

To love another person and commit yourself to that person is a decision with big consequences for both of you. But having your imagination preoccupied with another person could be a passing fancy that will go away.

For example, you could find your imagination is dominated by someone whose values are so different from yours that you absolutelyknow you couldn't develop a serious long-term relationship.

A girl could be strongly attracted to a guy who is addicted to drugs or alcohol. 'Her imagination could be preoccupied with thoughts of him at the time she knows deeply she couldn't even be his friend, let alone his wife.

In my marriage course, I make a pact with my students that none of us will use the expression "fall in love."

It encourages us to take too seriously a response of our imagination and then not to take seriously enough the possibility of working through a deep commitment to another person that will last a Jifetirrie. '

"THE NEXT Valuable Resource-Clean Water," by ei t lth grader Natalie Assad, and "Br~ad Mold," by seventh gr::. ler Steven Furtado, were the grand-prize winning projects in a recent 7-8th· grade science fair at Holy Name School, Fall River. Students had been working on the projects since early fall.

Along with the grand prize winners, representing the school at a Region III Fair at Bristol Community College in March will be Jonathan Guay, Nicole Lussier, Kenneth Ferus, Christelle Dube, Jennifer Raxter, Rebecca Hancock and Patricia Rego. '

Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Films Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-I3-parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or young teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; 4-sep~rate classification (given films not morally offensive which. however. require some analysis and explanation); a-morally: ·offensive.

C~tholic ratings for te!evision mov~es are thos~ of the movie house versions of the films.

New Films "Heart Condition" (New Line): A bigoted Los Angeles vice cop (Bob Hoskins) is hounded by the ghost of his heart-transplant donor (Denzel Washington), a slick, black attorney who took up with the cop's ex-girlfriend (Chloe Webb), a hooker in distress. The lawyer's . ghost is out to protect his heart and solve the mystery of his murder.

Skirts over the crime-thriller aspects of the story to focus on the comic antagonisms between the offbeat buddies and, along the way, make some valid points about healthy hearts and racism. Some sexually suggestive scenes involving prostitutes, climactic violence, rough language including racial slurs. A3,R .

"Loose Cannons" (Tri-Star): Witless action comedy about two screwball cops (Gene Hackman and Dan Aykroyd) whose investigation of a bizarre murder case , leads to sleazy porno king (Dom Deluise) linked to foreign agents seeking a reel of pornography produced by the Nazis. A sopho-

Notre Dame signs NBC deal WASHINGTON (CNS) - Proceeds from the UniverSity of Notre Dame's exclusive five-year contract with NBC S ports to' televise all Fighting Irish home football games will go into a student financial aid endowment fund. , Boosting the endowment fund was "the. major reason for going through with it," university spokesman Dennis Moore told Catholic News Service.

The payout of the deal, which: takes effect in '1991, was not disclosed. Notre Dam'e' sports information director Fred Heisler tord CNSa USA Todayestimateof$37 million-$38 million "isliottoo bad."

Notre Dame hopes to boost its financial aid fund by $100 million' over the next 10 years, Moore said.

University officials Were unhappy with the number of national network appearances it would make under the terms of a contract made' with ABC in January. Notre Dame's financial share of the package would only have been $4 million at most, Heisler said.

"We face a demand for television exposure of our games from fans and alumni not just in our i.mmediate area but all over the country," Notre Dame athlet'ic director Dick Rosenthal said.

The N BC-N otre Dame deal was apparently made in just 12 days, after the ABC football package was announced Jan. 19.

moric exercise in minimalist . comedy, stringing together a series of dumb gags, weak spoofs of pop culture, sex jokes, a'nd specialeffects mayhem. Much demeaning sexual humor, violence, offensive language. O,R "Mack the Knife" (21st Century): Cheesy, tedious adaptation of the 1929 Brecht-Weill musical, "The Threepenny Opera" about the downfall of the despicable criminal and womanizer, MacHeath (Raul Julia), at large in . London's underworld of beggars, whores, murderers and thieves at the time of Queen Victoria's coronation. The point of the original social commentary is lost amidst unimaginatively staged musical numbers, gray-on-gray color scheme and overacting. Some sexually vulgar innuendoes, crude language, violence.A3,PG 13 ' "Stanley & Iris" (MGM): lIIiterate worker (Robert De Niro) asks his factory associate (Jane Fonda) to teach him to read and they fall in love, find fulfillment and go on to presumably live happily ever after. A socially conscious movie rooted in a workingclass environment that, despite credible performances by its stars, falters thanks to its too-obvious intention to be uplifting. Scant but meaningful treatment of an illegit-. imate birth, incidental profanity.

A2,PG 13 "Time of the Gypsies" (Columbia): Yugoslavian film about a Gypsy adolescent (Davor Dujmovic) who has been raised by his loving grandmother (Ljubica Adzovic) to lead an honest life within their rampantly amoral community. But poverty and his sister's illness force him to seek help from the richest, most corrupt Gypsy in town, who lures the boy to his destruction. Provides insight into Gypsy myth, morality and family life. English subtitles. Some violence and sexually suggestive material involving nudity and the rape of a minor. A3,R "The Wizard of Speed and Time" (Shapiro Glickehhaus): Specialeffects artist (M ike J ittlov) tries to crack. the big time.in Hollywood only to, come ,up ,against some sleazy ·TV' 'producers who take . advantage of his naivete. Written and directed by Jittlov, a reaHife special effects artist, 'this amateurish autobiographical screen test is Qadly written and acted and rips off such Hollywood satiric comedies' as "Pee~wee's'Big Adventur'e" and "H ollywood Shuffle·... Youngsters may enjoy the zany special effects. Some sexual innuendoes.

A2,PG . ' TV Film , Tuesday, Feb, 20, 8-11 p.m.

EST (CBS) "The WQnderful Wizard of Oz: 5'0 Years of Magic," Angela Lansbury hosts this three-

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hour 50th-anniversary tribute that will include the premiere presentation of the recently restored, uncut print of the 1939 Technicolor classic, "The Wizard of Oz," the film that launched Judy Garland's career and has given generations of' families prime entertainment.

Miss Lansbury will take a look at some outtakes and discuss backstage information about the casting and creation of the film. AI ,G

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ST. PATRICK, FR CHRIST THE KIN G, MASHPEE ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Holy hour 2 p.m. Feb. 25.

Confirmation rehearsals 7 p.m.

The parish expresses gratitude to John and Gloria Mello for their gift Feb. 26, March 5. Legion of Mary ST. STANISLAUS, FR members request donations of rosarIn what is probably a diocesan of$1000 towards new kneelers, made ies and other religious articles in box' first, the entire faculty of St. Stanis- in memory of their parents. A Lenten at church entrance. Food pantry is laus School is traveling to the Holy' evening of song and praise with Fain need of detergents, crackers, Land with pastor Father Robert ther Andre Patenaude, MS, of Lacereals and canned fruits. BabysitKaszynski during the present school Salette Shrine, Attleboro, will take ting available at 10 a.m. Sunday vacation. Thanks are expressed to place March ,II at St. Patrick's.

Masses. Pre-schoolers ages 4 to 6 are the family of the late Walter Stasi- Somerset Ultreya meeting 7 p.m. invited to a religious program durowski for a memorial commmunion _Sunday, parish center. ing 10 a.m. Masses on Lenten Suncup used for communion und~r both MARIE'S PLACE, FR PUBLICITY CHAIRMEN days.

SACRED HEART, NB species. First communion parents.

Children's clothing through the , are asked to submit news Items for this Parishioners Paul and Diane meet March 4 after 10:30 a.m. Mass. , teen years is needed by this outreach SACRED HEART, FR column to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall LeBeau are a new team couple in the store at 355 East Main St. DonaMsgr. Salvatore Matano will conST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA River, 02722. Name of city or town should diocesan marriage preparation tions may be made noon to 3 p.m. duct a parish mission March 5 to 8, 7 be Included, as well as full dates of all activYouth group'meeting 6:30 to 8:30 ministry. ities. Please send news of future rather p.m. daily. p.m. each Friday. Altar boys' meet- Mondays and 9 a.m. to noon Saturthan past events. Note: We do not normally days.

ST. ANNE HOSPITAL, FR ing 9 a.m. Feb. 24.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHA VEN carry news of fund raising activities. We are Ethics at the End of Life, the first Adoration 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

1MMAC. CONCEPTION, happy to carry notices of spiritual proST. JOHN EVANGELIST, of what will be annual symposiums grams, club meetings, youth projects and today. Couples' Club meeting 7 p.m.

TAUNTON POCASSET on ethics and medicine, will be pressimilar nonprofit activities. Fundralslng Sunday, church hall. Kenneth To, Maryknoll Father Larry Burns Vincentian meeting after 8 a.m. projects may be advertised at our regular ented from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.' bertga will discuss Pairpoint glass speak at weekend Masses. will Mass tomorrow.

Winter reminder: rates, obtainable from The Anchor busiTuesday, March 20, at White's of and will identify samples brought by, Widowed support group meets 7:30 ness office, telephone 675-7151. is a no-school snow day, If there Westport under sponsorship of St. p.m. Feb. 26, church hall. members.

On Steering Points Items FR Indicates there will be no daily Mass.

Anne's and the Pope John XXIII Fan River, NBlndlcates New Bedford.

SACRED HEART, ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, OL VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Center, Braintree. Designed for N, ATTLEBORO Parish council meeting 7:30 p.m. SWANSEA health care professionals, it will offer New youth group officers are Drew DOMINICAN LAITY Ladies of St. Anne Sodality will Feb. 20, parish center. Thanks go to credits for physicians, social workers Bennett, president; Tara Bennett, CONFERENCE resume monthly meetings 7:30 p.m. of . the Ladies' Guild for donations and nurses.

Information: 674-5741, vice-presid<:nt; Missy Edgar, secreNew England Regional Confernew candlesticks for OL Victory and Wednesday, parish hall. Lillian tary; Nikki Romano, treasurer. ence sponsored by the Dominican ext. 2482.

OL Hope Mission. The parish is Roberts and Lorraine Gagne will ST. ELIZABETH SETON, Women's Guild is makinga monthly Laity9 a.m.-4 p.m. March 17, Provbeing remembered this week by the cochair the evening; the game Coocollection of nonperishable foods idence College. All Dominicans, N. FALMOUTH of. the Sacred Hearts, Fall tie will follow the meeting. Religious Sisters' Youth group meeting following 5 for area needy. frie·nds and those interested in education classes will not meet Feb. River.

Sunday..

New members p.m.

Mass Dominican spirituality ate invited LaSALETTE CENTER FOR ·18-25 due to school vacation. for worship, prayer and fellowship. welcome. Ski trip planned March 3; CHRISTIAN LIVING, ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, Father Joseph P. Allen, OP, Promo- information 540-7232. Parish welATTLEBORO will sponsor a coming committee HYANNIS AIDS WORKSHOP ter of Third Order Dominicans for Lenten retreat emphasizing the An, Eagle Scout court of honor the Province ofSt. Joseph will speak. meatless potluck supper Friday meaning of the season in daily life, was held Feb. 3 for Timothy Dresser, -The Diocesan Office ofCathTo register contact Mary Sweeney, March 2, 6:30 p.m., church hall.

March 2-4. Information: retreat son of Deacon and Mrs. Richard M. ST. STEPHEN, ATTLEBORO 132 Hoffman Ave. 203 A, Cranston, olic Social Services will spon~ secretary, 222-8530. ' Dresser. Information on ministry to Children's Mass II a.m. Sunday; RI, by Feb. 19. . sor "AIDS: Strengthening Our HOUSE OF CORRECTION, NB homebound: Kay Callahan, 362children will bring valentines for the Communities' Response", a proD oU, ATTLEBORO Rosaries are needed for inmates 6287. Food donations for parish gram addressing educational, Alcazaba Circle, Daughters of poor and their loved ones. There will and may be sent to chaplain Father Vincentians may be left in the parish be no children's choir practice Feb. Isabella; will meet March I, 7 p.m., pastoral, social and personal Matthew Sullivan, SS.Cc., at PO center lobby. A second grade reli24.

Adult video discussion series 7-9 at K of C Hall, Hodges Street. issues of the diocese, from I to 6 Box III, Fairhaven 02719'gious educa~ion teacher is needed tonight; topic: Finding the Correct Donations of cake soap are requested p.m. Feb. 25 at St. Pius X for Thanksgiving afternoons; conof Life.

Seniors' meeting 1:30 Vision FAMILY LIFE CENTER, . for the missions. A St. Patrick's tact ~ister Anita Marie.

Church, S. Yarmouth. RNs, p.m. Tuesday, church hall.

N. DARTMOUTH social will be held.

LPNs, teachers and community "Journey to Oz," a weekend retreat O,L. CAPE, BREWSTER HOLY ROSARY, TAUNTON DCCW, DISTRICT V members are encouraged to atfor those widowed six or more years, Faith and Light Community meetThe parish is grateful for donation Meeting 2 p.m. Sunday, St. Franwill be offered at the center March 9 tend; CEUs available. Informaing I p.m. Sunday, parish center. of a new red vestment by the family cis Xavier hall, Hyannis. to II by Dorothy-Levesque, director tion on preregistration is availof Frank Biedak in his memory. A Informational meeting on becoming of separated, divorced and widowed an associate member of the Sisters of able from Catholic Social Serparish mission will be conducted ministries in the Providence diocese.

Charity 3 p.m. Sunday, parish center.

Feb. 26 through March 2 by Rev. vices Office, 674-4681.

ONL YFULL·lINE RELIGIOUS Building on the Oz·story of characConrad Miller of Baltimore, who HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO GIFT STORE ON THE CAPE ters seeking wholeness, the retreat will preach at all Masses Feb. 24 and Mass at Maple Terrace 11:30 a.in. will focus on the journey towards 25.

• OPEN MON·SAT: 9-5:30 CATHEDRAL CAMP, Monday. RCIA inquiry meeting I personal wholeness.

Information: SUMMER SCHEDULE E. FREETOWN SS, PETER & PAUL, FR p.m. Sunday. Religious education 999-6420.

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National Federation of Blind classes will not be held Feb. 17 and School advisory council meeting 7 D of I, ATTLEBORO ~20 due to school vacations. They will p.m; Feb. 22, rectory. Computer lab Benedict Circle, Daughters of retreat Saturday through Monday; resume Feb. 24. fund is grateful for $100 donation in Isabella, is collecting baby care items Espirito Santo, Fall River, youth retreat Sunday. memory of Carl and Eston Green.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, for area needy and unwed mothers.

Sullivan's St. Helena's Ultreya meeting 7 p.m.

ATTLEBORO New, unwrapped articles may be left ST, MARY, SEEKONK Sunday, Fr. Coady Center.

Religious Goods Women's Guild meeting 7:30 p.m.

Healing service 2 p.m. Sunday led the weekend of Feb. 24 and 25 at St. Monday. Discussion on Lifeline pro428 Main SI HyanniS Mark's church, Attleboro Falls, St.

by Father Andre Patenaude. Service ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH will include celebration of the EuchMary's and Sacred Heart, North gram by Joan Governo.

Scholarship applications are 775·4180 arist, teaching, songs of praise and Attleboro or St. Martha's, Plain- COUPLE TO COUPLE LEAGUE, available for seniors at the front of John & Mary Lees, Props opportunities for individual prayer ville. Other donations may be left at N. DARTMOUTH the church. Men interested in volunand anointing.

North Attleboro Town Hall. teering four hours on a Saturday or The League is sponsoring a fourMonday night every four to eight meeting series of natural family planning instructions from 7 to 9 weeks at Market Ministries homeless shelter, New Bedford, may call p.m. March 6, April 3, May I and Dick Cummings, 994-4496.

June 5 at the Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Rd., next to Stang High CORPUS CHRISTl, SANDWICH School in North Dartmouth. RegisNo religious ed ucation classes will tration and further information: Rita - be held during the week of school Quinn, 676-1440 vacation beginning tomorrow. Volun- ST, ANTHONY OF PADUA, FR teers needed at the Cape Heritage Women's Guild meeting 7 p.m.

Nursing Home 10:15-1'1:15 a.m.

The Fall River Diocesan Directory and Buyers' Guide contains Feb. 20, Fr. Reis Hall. Sister Car- Wednesday; information: Peter or complete diocesan information and a telephone directory of men Joseph, SUSC, will show slides Virginia Fortuna, 888-6033. of Puerto Rico. priest, directors of diocesan institutions, parish religious educaST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT DIVORCED/SEPARATED, tion coordinators and permanent deacons.

Confirmation rehearsal 7 p.m. Feb. CAPE & ISLANDS Ministry for Divorced & Separ- 25; ceremony 7 p.m. Feb. 26.

Also included are addresses of retired clergy and those serving ated Catholics will meet 7 p.m. Feb. 18 at St. Pius X parish center, South outside the diocese, as well as a listing of priests by years Qf Yarmouth. Father Jay Maddock, ordination and atable of movable feasts through the year 2011.

JCL, judicial vicar of the diocesan marriage tribunal, will speak on LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Calannulments. All welCome. Further It may be ordered by telephone at675-7151 or by mail, using the coupon below. ling it a "revolutionary step in information: 771-4438.

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