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V atic~in, Israel move closer together VATICAN CITY (eNS) - Pope John Paul II and Israel's new special envoy to the Vatican, meeting for the first time, discussed an encouraging breakthrough in Middie East peace negotiations and hopes for a papal trip to Jerusalem.

The Vatican released no details of last week's audience with Ambassador Shmuel Hadas, who was named special representative in January after Israel and the Holy See signed an unprecedented agreement on fundamental church-state principles.

Hadas is the first such Israeli envoy. An exchange' of ambassadol's between the Vatican and Israel is expected, signaling the opening of full diplomatic recognition between the two states.

The Israeli envoy told Catholic News Service that the meeting was "warm and very informal," and covered a wide range: of topics. He

said the pope termed the encountel' "historic."'

Hadas said he briefed the pope on the latest Israeli-Palestinian agreement. signed Feb, 9 in Cairo

by Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and PLO leader Yasser Arafat. The accord, reached after a marathon negotiating session, covers security issues and is expected to clear the way for Israeli troop withdrawal from Ga~a and Jericho.

The pope said he was very pleased with the Cairo accord, and hoped for continued steps toward peace, Hadas said.

Hadas said the two also discussed the "fundamental agreement" reached by the Vatican and Israel last December.

Following its ratification, Vatican-Israeli commiSSion will meet to establish two subcommissions that will deal with the church's property holdings in Israel and its legal and tax status, he said.

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Pilgrilns on a journey

We are pilgrims 011 a journey, said Bishop Sean O'Malley at the traditional Ash Wednesday Mass opening the season of Lent at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River.

And ashes, placed on the forehead in the sign of a cross and accompanied by the s.olemn words, "Remember that you are dust and unto dust you will return," a.lso remind the fait'lful that they must take up the cross daily as they continue their pilgrimage towards eternal life, said the bishop.

He recalled the piilgrims of ancient Ireland who nc:ver slept two nights in the same place and let their hair and fingernails grow as a sign of penance. "They probably looked like rock stars," he added in an aside.

Lent is a time of penance, said the bishop, when people tell themselves "Stop smoking!" "Watch

your cholesterol count!" "Get to bed earlier!" "Leave the candy alone!"

Such sacrifices, he emphasized, are "a sign of an interior change of heart, of a turning away from self and towards the Lord, staring into his loving face."

But penitential spirit exemplified by such special Lenten sacrifices should be a lifetime commitment, not a matter for only 40 days, he said.

Money "freed up" by Lenten self-denial, he sugg¢sted, can help those in need, a point emphasized by the fact that Ash Wednesday collections are earmarked for the ravaged church in central and eastern Europe.

Lent, he concluded, will be successful for those who come to Easter with increased love for their neighbors and for the Lord.

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Bishops' letter raps quake aid denial to illegals WASHINGTON (CNS) - Excluding illegal immigrants from federal disaster assistance such as earthquake aid "denigrates human values," V.S. bishops have told Congress.

In a letter written earlier this month, Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick of Newark, N.J., chairman of the bishops' Migration Committee, called on Congress to "set an example and not adopt punitive measures toward newcomers that in reality do little to add ress public concern about immigration."

The letter was signed by II members or consultants to the Migration Committee. They included Bishop Sean O'Malley.

The House on Feb. 3 approved $8.6 billion in disaster relief for victims of the Los Angeles earthquake. The bill included a compromise provision that allows people who are in the United States illegally to receive emergency food, medical help and shelter, but no cash or long-term housing.

Initially, two California Republicans. Reps. Dana Rohrabacher and Ron Packard, proposed excluding from all federal emergency aid anyone known to be in the country illegally.

"When natural disasters devastate the lives of individuals caught in their path, human need and suffering is indiscriminate, in its effects,"the bishops said. "J-I u-

manitarian assistance by definition is inclusive and should not be limited by political considerations."

Jesuit Father Richard Ryscavage, executive director of M igration and Refugee Services for the U.S. Catholic Conference, called the effort by Rohrabacher and Packard "one of the more ridiculous attempts" to blame immigrants for th~ nation's problems.

"It really shocks me that we would send millions to India or other areas where people are suffering Ibecause of natural disasters] with no conditions, yet in our own country !Ittach conditions to receIving help," Father Ryscavage told Catholic News Service In a separate letter to members of Congress, Father Ryscavage warrred that requiring proof of legal residency will cause undue hardship on people whose homes and possessions were damaged in the earthquake.

"These needy earthquake victims could be denied assistance because they look or sound "foreign,''' he said. Residency requirements also would create a procedural nightmare for federal housing, small business and Federal Emergency Management Agency workers.

"They are trained to provide disaster relief, not to check the vast and confusing array of immigration documents available under U.S. immigration law," Father Ryscavage continued. "Officials would

have to consult with the Immigration and Naturalization Service, an agency notorious for insufficient and inaccurate record-keeping. to verify an individual's status."

Denying relief to disaster victims violates a fundamental tenet of humanitarian aid and could prolong the suffering of people struggling to rebuild their lives, he said. "Disaster relief is hardly a 'magnet' for attracting immigrants to the United States."

In addition to Archbishop McCarrick, the letter from the Migration Committee was signed by committee members Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston, Archbishop Adam J. Maida of Detroit, Archbishop Francis B. Schulte of New Orleans, and Bishop R. Pierre DuMaine of San Jose, Calif.

Consultants to the committee who signed the letter included Philadelphia Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua, Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, San Antonio Archbishop Patrick F. Flores, Kansas City, Kan., Archbishop James P. Keleher, Brooklyn Bishop Thomas V. Daily, and Bishop O'Malley.

In a visit to Los Angeles Feb. 6, Housing and V rban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros said he was concerned about the Rohrabacher-PacKard amendment, but that the compromise eventually reached was the best solution conTurn to Page 13

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Some Iraqis selling theilr kidneys, says U.S. priest

Fri., Feb. 18, 1994

From Texas to Taunton Vincentians of St. Joseph's par- people you have helped will sing ish, Taunton, recently received a your praises before the throne of thank-you letter from Father Mi- Almighty God. chael Annunziato, SS.Cc., a par- .

"It is amazing the joy that a little ·ish native and the brother of the food and c1othes... brings to people late Msgr. Armando A. Annunzi- who have' little or nothing at all. ato, who was pastor' of St. Mary's Since these people are unknown to parish, Mansfield. you, you will learn of the good that Father Annunziato, pastor of you do when you present yourSacred Heart Church, Edinburg, selves before the throne of AlTex., wrote "The clothes you have mighty God. sent have helped both Sacred Heart I am so proud of having grown Church and the five missions of LaJ oya. Your reward in heaven up in Saint Joe's and of all of you will be great and all the unknown who make my work easier!"

DCC'W announcespla~s f or 41 s·t annua I parIey The Diocesan Council of Catholic Women is finalizing plans for its 41 st annual all-day convention, this' year to take place Saturday, May 14, at St. John of God parish center, Somerset. The keynote speaker, Dr. Ernest Collamati, dean of religious studies at Regis College, Weston, will address the convention theme, "We Uphold the Dignity and Sanctity of Life."

Bishop Sear O'Malley, guest of honor, will be principal celebrant of the convention Mass with moderators of parish councils as concelebrants. Our Lady of Good Counsel awards will be presented

to a woman from each council disparish, Attleboro Falls, and trict out~tanding for her support Director of Youth Services of parish, district and council pro- for the Diocesan Office of grams. .

Youth Ministry, and Sister The afternoon program will feaJ S II S SC ture three speakers: Maurice Lauzane e mayer, U ,pasier, a talk show host for East Prov-' toral assistant at St. Bridget's idence radio station WHJJ, who parish, Abington, will direct will discuss how media portrayals the annual retreat of the Diof violence affect families; Atty. ocesan Council of Catholic WoKarin Morin of Massachusetts Ciiizens for Life, whose topic will be men. the after-effects of abortion; and To be held March 4 through Rev. Mark Hession, parpchial vicar .. March 6 at the Family Life at St. Mary's parish, New Bed- Center, 580 Slocum Rd., North ford:whose subject is "EuthanaDartmouth, the retreat will !lia: Is It the Only Alternative?" have' as its theme ·"Come and

China's religion rules restated BEIJING (CNS) - China has publicly restated its regulations governing religion in a 'step that seemed at least partly in response to religious unrest in the country's largely Muslim western provinces and in Tibet. Analysts also said that the republication of longstanding rules also arises from Communist Party ~oncern that

FATHER DAVID Costa, parochial vicar at St. Mark's

state-controlled religious institutions - Buddhist, Taoist, Protestant, Catholic and Islamic - are losing influence on Chinese believers. Chinese ordinances forbid proselytiZing by foreigners and bar churches from engaging in what the government calls destructive, independent, unauthorized or overseas-financed activities.

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Further information is available from Mrs. Bella Nogueira, DCCW president, tel. 6736145 or from Sister Sell mayer, 109 Richmond St., Dorchester 02124.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) to Iraq for transplants or are Three years after the Persian Gulf shipped out of the country.

War, the Iraqi economy is so bad The $4QO thus earned could keep that some citizens are selling their a family alive for a year in Iraq, Father Corcoran said. But there kidneys.

That is just one sign of the deep are hidden dangers. suffering caused by a U.N.-backed Organ donors don't always economic embargo against Iraq, realize that "if they become sick said U.S. Father William Corco- from the surgery, there's no way ran, director o(the Pontifical Mis- they can buy a'ntibiotics to ward sion for Pales,tine office in Amman, off infection," he said.

Jordan. .

The priest said the fodd ·supply Father Corcoran was recently at situation in Iraq has actually the Vatican for a 'meeting of major improved over the last year, Catholic funding agencies, friclud- largely because of increased: trade - ing Catholic Relief Services and with Iran and increased smuggling; . the Catholic Near East Welfare but more and more families canAssn. from the U.S. The agencies not afford to buy foodstuff!,. As a approved some $530,000 in pro- result. children are showing large'jects for Iraq. Most are church- scale signs of retardation and defrelated construction initiatives that ormities 'related to malnutrition.. will bring the nation welcome capThe Pontifical Mission for Palital and jobs. . estine also helps sponsor medical Father Corcoran said the Iraqi aid to Iraq, said Father Con:oran. economy has reached catastrophic He·noted that'a newspaper run by dimensions as inflation has sky- Saddam Hussein's son re,:ently rocketed and the value of the praised the Christian aid dforts country's currency has collapsed. and wondered editorially' why A can of powdered milk, for ex- world Muslim organizations had ample. costs a month's salary. not done more of the same.

"People live off government Among the projects were renorationing coupons, they grow things vation of' two Chaldean~rite and they try to find as much char- churches in Basra heavily damity as they can;" said the priest. aged in the war.

This has made the sale of a kid"It's going to give them new . ney an attractive option for many. . buildings, new jobs, and. also a Father Corcoran said private hos- sense of hope - awareness that pitals in Baghdad are paying about the rest of the Christian world $400 per kidney. The organs are cares for them," Father Corcoran either used for foreigners who travel said.

Archeologists unearthin;g fac'ts about King Herod'

WASHINGTON(CNS)- King Herod the Great, usually remembered as a cruel man, was also a creative. genius and builder,' according to an archeologist who' has discovered what may be part of Herod's palace on the coast of ST. MARY'S Pa. (eNS) - The Israel. more musical instruments at Mass "He was a 'genius at building doesn't necessarily mean the betand attaining and keeping power," ter, according to liturgical comsaid Barbara Burrell, a research poser Bob Hurd. assistant professor in the classics A cappella, singing without department at the University of musical accompaniment, is the Cincinnati and the field director current trend for liturgical music, for the past two summers at excahe says. vation sites in Caesarea, Israel, the Hurd, a composer and singer of man-made harbor city Herod liturgical music, recently performed founded in 22 B.C. at St. Mary's Church, St. Mary's, In a telephone interview from and presented a workshop called Cincinnati, Ms. Burrell said that "How Music Serves the Liturgy." tre excavation team's findings over In an interview 'with the Lake "shed great the past two summers . Shore Visitor, Erie's diocesan light on Herod's character." paper, the composer said there is a For starters, the team, sponsored practical reason for the trend by the University of Pennsylvania toward a cappella. and composed of volunteers from.

"Parishes, especially small parish around the United State's and Israel, communities, do not have a lot of has not uncovered any signs of material resources available to walls around Caesarea. them. People need music they can .

"It was always assumed that if sing without instruments."

Herod were living' in a city. he Also, he said, too often church I, would live behind high walls," said I' ,I music becomes so overwhelmed Ms. Burrell. But instead of walls, by instruments that the words being the team has unearthed the remains ,! sung become secondary.' of public buildings around' the Hurd, a Cleveland native who is palace, which might indi<;ate where an associate professor of systematic Caesarean citizens would have gaththeology at St. Patrick Seminary, ered to interact with King Herod.

Menlo Park, Calif., said church Herod was king of.Judah at ihe history shows a cappella"to be the time of Christ's birth. Biblical "preferred mode" of singing in the accounts say he ordered the murder church. A cappella was prominent of all male children in Bethlehem in the eariy church and instrumen- under the age of 2 when the wise tation came about over time. men did not report back to him -..;----------,-~_ . . ,-.-=:.~, . . .~ about where the birth of Christ .

"MOTHER OF SORROWS," a painting by anu~known Out in the Cold had taken place as he had asked. early~ 18th-century artist, hangs in Mission San Gabrielin San. . I C I'f S "The day you' no 'Ionger burn "Stories of Herod's cruelty are G a b ne, a 1. tolen in 1977, it was recovered by the FBI in w'th I th '11 d' f what most people remem'ber," said I (),vt;:~any 0 . ers WI. Ie 0 1991. (CNS, hoto . _.. , ... . .. .. . .. ' p ) .,. . . - .. -. _......_._.......t.h!:.c.olct., ... francOls[\1aur!.ac Ms .. Burrell..., "but New Testa-

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ment historians now tend to think the story about ·the male ch ildren of Bethlehem was mythical.'· King Herod did condemn his wife and three sons to death. she said, because he believed they were plotting against him.

Ms. Burrell said the findings of the' excavation team have been presented to biblical archeologists.

Her involvement in the excavations began when a colleague from the Hebrew University in J(:rusalem asked her to continue thl: pro-' ject at Caesarea that he W2.S the first to start in the '70s.

The summer digs started ill 1992 and will continue for at least another year. They have involved up to 60 people at a time.

In the summer of 1992, th(: Caesarean excavation team dug up the flOOr at the foot of a stairway ihat was remodeled during the first century A.D. There they found fine pottery that could date to Herod's reign. They also fully uncovered for the first time a luxurious mosaic-floored dining room overlookinga liS-foot long s\\imming pool. Both the pool and the 'dining room were carved i'Ho a great rock extending a few hundred feet into the Mediterranean ::ea.

The archeologists also found a fountain pool set into a semicircular niche 'that was added to one end of the dining room. Whe n the excavations continued from 'July to October 1993, a large cour·tyard was uncovered.

"Herod was the only one who could build a palace in the city he founded," according to Ms. Burrell. And this was no ordinary palace ei.ther. Perched atop a precipice, it shows that Herod was "an incredibly daring engineer." she added.

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SISTERS 0);' MERCY Rose deLima Clark, Mary Monice Houston and Edna Houston together have given over a century of service to St. Vincent's Home.

Chrolnicles of the h~art: Sisters recall decades of caring for children in need Sisters Rose dd-imll Clark, Mary Monice Houston and Edna Houston retire this month/rom St Vincent's Home, Fall River. The/ollowing tribute appl?ared in the winter 1994 Providelr, the home's quarterly newsletter.

The Annals, a large hard cover book filled with meticulously handwritten entries that date from 1885, lies on the living room table in the convent at St. Vincent's.

Its pages are filled with pieces of the history of this institution. It records its origin, a place once called Bethlehem Home, opened by the Sisters of Mercy to care for orphal1ed babies.

It notes that in 1'909 the first bishop of Fall River took up residence for a time at St. Vincent's. It describes the St. Vincent's of the 1930s, a large house on a 20-acre tract known as Ashley's Grove situated between North Main St. and the Taunton River.

It tel,ls of the relocation in 1972 to new facilities on a former farm on Highland Avenue. And it dutifully registers the arrival of each sistt'r: teachers, seamstresses, cooks and superiors alike, all of whom come to this place to serve children as their way of serving God. Though a tribute to many faithful scribes over the years, the Annals somehow don't capture the spirit of St. Vincent's. That's better done by its custodians: Sister Monice, Sister Edna and Sister Rose deLima - whose names for thousands of former residents are synonymous with St. Vincent's.

Sister Monice was the first to arrive in 1939. Together, they've given more than 100 years. The Annals may chronicle the history of St. Vincent's. These sisters are the chronicles of its heart.

They recall when whole families of children came at the same time, children made orphans by wars in Europe - or by the private wars their parents lost to alcohol or then incurable diseases.

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morning when they rose, at dusk when they were tucked in, and in the middle of the ,night when fear called out for comfort.

They remember taking the children down to the private beach on the Taunton River, when it was still a good place to swim. They recollect, with sly smiles, climbing out onto the laundry roof, from where they could "catch" a child at the beach, when he shouldn't have !leen there.

In a vivid flashback, they recall the trains, filled with sailors going off to war, and they tell of the children running to the fence near the track to wave - and catch the mementos tossed' freely from the Pullman windows. The orphans were well known in town.

They recount programs quite progressive for the time: buying tenement houses that became "group homes," one family to a floor, where children and their mothers could live together under the supervision of the sisters.

They mentio'n sisters being sent to universities to earn advanced degrees in child psychology and social. services.

They speak about building a new campus in 1972 where cottage - not dormitory - living was the norm. And they detail how they gradually shifted the focus from orphan care to residential treatment in response to the changing needs of "their" children.

And they remember the children, so many children, whose names they still will not share to ensure their privacy - all good children in their eyes, children who needed most of all to know they were loved. And loved they were hundreds of them ~ by these three dedicated women.

While Sisters M onice, Edna and Rose take many memories with them as they leave, St. Vincent's this year, they leave so much more behind. They lea ve the spirit upon which St. Vincent's was built. They leave a standard of selfless service to be held up as our model for many, many years to come.

Sister Rose de Lima. who served at St. Vincent's for more then 30 lIears as social worker. administra·tor. executive director and direi:'tor emeritus. will reside at Our Lady of Mercy Convent in Attleboro.

Sisters Monice and Edna will reside at St. Mary Convent-Bayview. Riverside. RI. Sister Monice \I:as at St .. Vincent s fOl; 55 years.

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The Lives We Save Might Be Our Own Public television has been offering an edited profile of medically assisted suicide. Much of its report is based on present practices in the Netherlands and is in some ways supportive of the difficulties of the state of Michigan with regard to Dr. Kevorkian.

As a society, we seem to regard life as rather disposable.

Once abortion. became the law of the land; it was only too . obvious that attempts to legalize euthanasia would follow.

Indeed, the movement for legalized suicide/ euthanasia is well underway in this country, with many feeling that it will become an issue on the national level.

As our nation debates the cost of health care, the concepts of legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide are becoming financially attractive. But these developments have far-reaching ethical implications which must be taken into account in the formation of public policy.

In this situation, it is imperative that the American Catholic Church be on the cutting edge of this new pro-life issue. No longer can we limit our concern to abortion. Today the issue is that of life at all its stages. No matter how cleverly assisted suicide and legalized euthanasia are wrapped in a cloak offalse sympathy for the suffering, they are nothing mor~ than the actions of men attempting to play God. Recently we were informed that our government, together with what were considered reputable institutions, had played Russian roulette with human lives, subjecting mental patients and service personnel to radioactive experimentation. Such actions ali too clearly indicate the attitude of government and its cooperators towards value and sanctity of life.

With this background in mind, one is hard put to believe that our elected officials will not once again ignore the truth that every human being is made in the image and likeness of God. Rather, it is all too likely that they will support legalized euthanasia.

Given this climate of acceptance, it is vitally important that believing people reaffirm that life is a gift of God. We are only stewards of his creation. We do. not own it, nor have we dominion over the gift ofllife or the circumstances of our death.

The notion fostered by the popular film M.A.S.H., that suicide is painless, is utterly wrong but .it feeds into denial of the truth that natural death is'part of the human condition. In the light of faith, death is not an evil. We believe that it is simply the point at which life is changed, not ended.

All too often the concepts of assisted suicide or euthanasia find support in the secular sphere because of the misplaced importance given to individual freedom and personal autonomy. These are significant values when rightly understood, but never can they justify the taking of human life. To accept death as a matter for personal decision dehumanizes our .society.

The potential fallout of legalized suicide is enormous.

Would the right to kill become the duty to kill? Would the chronically ill and the elderly be encouraged or ordered to end their 'lives? Would killing replace healing?

These questions cry for answers. Assisted suicide/ euthanasia would have a profound impact on how the living are viewed; and we need look no further than Nazi Germany to see the possible consequences. .

In the Gospels, Jesus constantly urges us to be 'healers. We must follow his teachings. We must care for our sick and dying.

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Hard on judges when faith, law clash

WASHINGTON (CNS) ment they notify a parent before Judge James L. Buckley of the having an abortion.

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for Mulligan, a member of the Caththe District of Columbia believes olic Lawyers Guild, said one result when religious beliefs lead a jurist for so many judges refusing such to a different moral conclusion cases is that those who do hear than does legal interpretation, a • them are seen as likely to approve judge should be prepared to drop waiver requests. out of the case rather than jeoIn eight years on the appeals pardize the requirements of his or court, Buckley said, he has yet to her office. be given a case in which his sense As courts are increasingly of morality conflicted with legality. involved in deciding about abor"Should I ever be asked to hear tion, where public law and church a case in which the application of teaching are at odds, Catholic the law might result in my material judges throughout the country face complicity in an immoral act, I the possibility of being assigned a would have to examine my concase in which their moral stand- science and, if it so dictated, excuse ards conflict with what their jobs myself," he explained. "What I require of them. may not do is bend the law.to suit my conscience."

In Massachusetts, for example, many Catholic judges decline to Texas state Judge Alonzo T. take cases in which they might be Rodriguez, a permanent deacon in the Corpus Christi diocese, doesn't compelled to authorize abortions.

In a recent speech at The Catho- have to consider approving aborlic University of America in Washington, Buckley, a Catholic and former U.S. senator from New York, described the role of his religious beliefs as significantly different now that he's on the federal bench.

"When I took my oath of office Our' neighbor, then, is as a federal jUdge, I solemnly swore that I would 'administer justice ...

Jesus. This poor ignorant, according to the best of my abiliand, if you will, perverse The Editor ties and understanding. agreeably neighbor is Jesus. He has to the Constitution and laws of the something divine in him; United States,''' he told a forum even when he has fallen sponsored by the university'S Catholic Lawyers Guild. Unlike his into the bog and become timc in elective public office, sersoiled, he is a jewel; and a vice in the judiciary means somejewel does not lose its value times "the justice I am sworn to because it has been dropped OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER administer is not justice as I might sec it." into the mud.

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tions for minors - the state has no such parental notice law - but he occasionally does preside over cases in which a conviction might bring the death penalty.

Capital punishment ca,es in Texas are fairly narrowly dt:fined, however, requring conviction by a jury and strictly setting out criteria jurors follow in recommending a sentence.

If the law left the decisior:. up to judges, ROdriguez said, he would "have to disqualify myself every time."

In his talk at Catholic University, Buckley differentiated bf:tween the role religious beliefs may play in the lives of elected publ ic servants and those who are appointed.

Public servants who are elected or otherwise,accountable to voters, such as political appointees who serve at the pleasure of the president, should be comfortabk relying on their religious convictions in decision-making, said Buckley.

"It is, quite simply. fatuous to suppose that a public official can check the religious compom:nts of his convictions at the door before entering the council chambers of government," he said. "It follows, then, that under our constitutional arrangements, a Catholic president and Catholic members of Congress need never apologize for the fact that their recommend,'1tions or votes may reflect their religious beliefs."

Buckley told the Catholic University audience that religious principles may guide a judge's beliefs and actions, but ultinately the letter of the law has thf: final say.

For Rodriguez. that d,)esn't necessarily require separating his role as a religious leader from his judicial robes. For example. he often recommends that parents of juveniles sentenced in his ,:ourtroom take their children to church to get moral influences ba,:k on track .

And "in everything I do I ask for ~<dn.i.ritu_~lg!!idanc~"'::-'b~.

Baptism proclaims • conversion Genesis 9:8-15 I Peter 3: 18-22 Mark l:n·15 A neighboring pastor lifted my spirits yesterday by telling me he had recently informed his parishioners that he'll no longer have "private baptisms." From now on his parish will celebrate this most important event only in the context of its weekend Eucharists.

Initiating such a practice not only continues the sacramental reforms of Vatican II. it's also a prerequisite for understanding today's second reading.

The first step in uncovering a biblical author's real message is to • return the work to its original setting. Originally I P'~ter was not a letter. Most commentators believe it's a baptismal homily which. to assure its wider cirCUlation. someone eventually put into letter form.

That 'means that only by reviving the early Church practice of receiving new members in ajoyful public ceremony can we feel the real impact of today's pl:ricope.

None of those who first heard these words could have imagined a time when such a significant event would be celebrated in an empty church, withjust a handful offamily and friends taking part. They knew Christian initiation. more than just a commitment between God and the individual, is also a commitment betwf:en the entire Christian community and the individual.

It's no accident that this reading falls on the first Sunday of Lent. In recent years the Church has worked hard to return this season to its original setting; removing many of the lugubrious penitential rituals which piled up around it through the centuries, and reinstating the joyful practices which once surrounded the community's baptismal preparations.

Everything we experience in these 40 days should point us toward Holy Saturday and the Easter Vigil baptisms. The author of I Peter believes this event of initiation to be so life-transforming that he can only compare it to being rescued from the Great Flood. "You are now saved by a baptismal bath which corresponds to this exactly." he writes. "This baptism is no removal of physical stain. but the

Daily Reclldings Feb. 21: Lv 1!}:1-2,11-18; Ps 19:8-10,15; Mt 25:31-46 Feb. 22: 1 Pt 5:1-4; Ps 23:1-6; Mt 16:13-19 Feb. 23: Jon 3:1-10; Ps 51:3-4,12-13,18-19; Lk

11:29-32 Feb. 24: Est (see additions in "The living Bible") 3: 12,14-16,23-25; Ps 138:1-3, 7-8; Mt 7:7-12 Feb. 25: Ez 18:21-28; Ps 130: 1-8; Mt 5:20-26 Feb. 26: Dt 2'6:16-19; Ps 119:1-2,4-5,7-8; Mt 5:43-48 Feb. 27: Gn. 22:1-2,9,1013,15-18; Ps 116:10,15-19; Rom 8:31-34: Mk 9:2-10

High Court asked to reject earlier .church-state rulings

By FATHER ROGER KARBAN pledge to God of an irreproachable conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ."'

But, as Noah discovered in our Genesis reading, being saved also includes God's pledge that he/ she will always be an essential part of our lives. Once we understand this, even the most natural phenomena become signs of God's protection and concern. "When I bring clouds over the earth," Yahweh proclaims, "and the bow appears in the clouds: I will recall the covenant I have made between me and you and all living beings ..." The joy which comes from seeing a rainbow is a remirtder of the joy which comes from receiving and keeping the Lord in our lives.

The historical Jesus was obsessed with reminding us about this fact.

He knew that God Can completely transform those whose hearts are open to experiencing his/ her presence. But he also knew that it takes a real turnabout before anyone can take such a radical step.

Most of us are conditioned to think of the Lord as someone who comes in and out of our lives.

When we'n: in trouble or undergoing stress. we pray that God will temporarily leave heaven and come to earth and help us.

Jesus turned that concept upside down. He taught that those who really follow the Lord are convinced that the Lord is constantly with us. Instead of worrying about God's coming and going. we have to concentrate on our coming and going from his/ her presence.

Mark seems to have accurately passed on this message of Jesu~.

"After John's arrest." he writes.

"Jesus appeared in Galilee proclaiming God's good news: 'This is the time of fulfillment. The reign of God is at hand! Reform your lives and believe in the good news!' " The first Christians thought that baptism was the best way to proclaim our conversion to this revolutionary way of looking at reality.

We first inform the community that we join them in their belief that God's reign is truly among us. then we receive their commitment to help us on this life-Iongjourney of reform.

Kind of hard to do this privately.

Vital to peace v ATICAN CITY (CNS) - Respect for human dignity, the unity of the family and the sacredness of human life are eS$ential to peace and prosperity, said Pope John Paull!. "More and more, the most attentive and farsighted public authorities are taking note of this truth, which is elementary, civil and political at the same time," the pope told bishops participating in a recent three-week seminar on bioethics and the pastoral care of families. The church is called to preach and defend "the dignity of authentic and responsible love," the pope said.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -In a potentially significant New York school case. the Supreme Court is being asked to reject several of its previous church-state separation rulings.

The U.S. Catholic Conference and the Knights of Columbus have filed briefs urging the court to reverse the New York Court of Appeals in a case involving a public school district created in 1989 in the Orange County village of Kiryas Joel to provide a separate school for about 150 special needs children who could not be adequately accommodated in the private religious schools attended by their peers.

Claiming the Legislature's action was an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state, the director and president of the New York State School Boards Association sued. Lower courts said the Legislature violated the

YES retreat is for juniors, seniors in high school The Office for Youth Ministry Services is accepting applications for its annual "YES" retreat, to be held March 18 to 20, at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown.

This weekend cooed experience is intended for post-confirmation youth. primarilyjuniors and seniors in high school. Focusing on the seven sacraments, it invites participants to deepen and strengthen their faith lives, and affirm their "Y ES" of Christian Initiation.

The retreat team will be made up of Frank Lucca, director, Diane Zine, co-director, Armand Brunelle, James Durette, Scott Pepin, Mary Beth Rausch, Paul Robert.

Doug Rodrigues, Jaime Rodriguez, Elena Sardinha, and Wendy Weldon.

For reservations and further information, call Chris Tanguay, Office for Youth Ministry Services, 676-6503.

Establishment Clause of the Constitution and created an impermissible "symbolic union of church and state." the primary effect of which is "to advance religious beliefs."

Due to be heard by the court this spring, Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District vs. Louis Grumet and Albert W. Hawk should be used by the court to reject two 1985 rulings on which the New York courts relied. said the USCC brief. The rulings.

Aguilar vs. Felton and Grand Rapids vs. Ball, removed state remedial education programs from private school premises. Their application, "unaffected by any consideration of the social good to be achieved, has led to the crippling of significant and effective social programs," said the USCC. Kiryas Joel residents almost exclusively are Sat mar Hasidic Jews. whose children are taught at private religious schools. Special needs students are entitled to attend state-operated schools but had to leave their community to do so; and parents complained they were traumatized by their exposure to non-Satmar Hasidic students and an environment with which they had no experience.

According to the Knights of Columbus friend-of-the-court "the New York State Legislature took the salutary step of creating a new public school district coterminous with the Village of Kiryas Joel."

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Lemon has been widely criticized, including by at least five current members of the court, for giving too much latitude to governments to restrict religious activities.

The New York Court of App~als ruling against the Kiryas Joel district shows, the Knights' brief continued, "how [the Supreme] Court rulings have failed to provide lower courts with meaningful guidance in the often difficult task of distinguishing between unconstitutional establishment of religion and permissible accommodations to religious beliefs and practices."

A hearing in the case is expected in March or April with a ruling due by the end of June.

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By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK How much responsibility do you feel about what is Jiappening in the world around you?

If you keep up on current developments like the glut of information that electronic highways are creating, you know, for example, that electronic mail now makes enormous amounts of information instantaneously available. Do you

ever reflect on the good and bad possibilities of this new power?

I ask this because I believe that to respond to the best of our ability to Pope John Paul II's call for a new evangelization, we need to begin to think in new ways.

New forms of power - new forms of communication - offer a challenge to those concerned about evangelization. It is the challenge first to enter into this world of new "powers" and learn as much as we can about it. Second, it is the challenge of discovering how to communicate with the new "powers that be," to influence them and invite them to consider all their option for doing good.

One look at the misuse of power illustrates the urgency o[all this.

Many still believe that a successful revolution depends on war.

War, however, is waged in altogether new ways today with the power of computers, propaganda, psychological and chemical tools, lasers and nuclear weaponry. Many of these weapons not only destroy human life but, as we have seen in the case of communism, they destroy cultures.

Again, the increased number of innocent deaths resulting from abortions, genocide and euthanasia reflects another misuse of power, the self-proclaimed right to do with life as one pleases.

The Waco holocaust and Jonesville are among hundreds of examples of power gone wrong in the area of mind control and the manipulation of groups of people;

while in the world of advertising However, to respond to the new ways to manipulate the psyche 'challenge of the new evangelizaare sought, utilizing power to gention, a new type of moral character erate artificial needs through a is needed. In addition to knowing barrage of images.

Scripture and the teachings of our The greatest deterrent to the faith, we need to confront the world of computers, psychology, misuse of power is to develop one's moral character so that' one be-' biological engineering and eleccomes able and willing to look tronics. power straight in the eye.

We must raise ultimate 'quesOne terrible lesson of the world tions such as: Where are the:se socalled good new powers le-ading wars was that of learning how easy it is to become morally weakened. us? Have they moral value') How In the face of tyrannical power can we counter the misuse of power? consciences went silent, and peoHow do we make our faith more understandable so' that it can pie looked away from horrendous atrocities. influence these new worlds of Today it is easy to crawl into power? one's own little world and turn Ironic as it sounds, the caLl for a away from the new worlds of power. new evangelization is challe:nging Some may simply say that life is us as never before to become deeply getting too complicated. involved with power.

How Carolyn'led the way to help other babies By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

I have a happy story to tell about people who are respecting life in a very practical way. They are volunteers who operate CaroIy'n's Place, a crisis pregnancy center in Watertow,n, Conn. How it was established is a heartwarming story.

Church, saw a basket in its vestibule. In it was a newborn baby girl wrapped in a blue T-shirt.

The parish was quickly abuzz with the news; and Father Rousseau and the parishioners expressed their determination that such a potentially tragic event should never happen again; that no mother should have to feel so desperate that she would leave her baby in a church or on a doorstep.

They met to talk about helping pregnant women in crisis.

It is a joy to k.now about a place where love and help are offered as a real alternative for pregnant women in crisis.

"We prayed, talked, prayed again, and then it was decided to operate a 24-hour-a-day center where any woman facing a crisis pregnancy could receive assistThe story began on the night of Nov. 4, 1991, when Father Robert '.ance," said Father Rousseau.

On Nov. 4, 1992, this commitRouss'ellu, pastor of St. John's

By FATHER JOHN J. - DIETZEN Q. Enclosed with this letter is a copy of a crucifix I have. At the bottom is a skull and crossbones.

I've never seen one like it and have not been able to find out anything about it. Why would they be on a crucifix? (Illinois) A. We don't see those symbols often any more, at least in our part

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What Carolyn's Place offers is help, hope and love. Free of charge, a woman may have confidential pregnancy testing, 24-hour support, help in arranging financial, legal and medical aid, maternity clothes, layettes, educational and adoptive information.

The staff includes 54 trained volunteers, said Ms. Cavallo, who responds to the calls and calms a Ellen Cavallo, a nurse who , young woman's anxiety, providdirects Carolyn's Place, says that ing hope and a knowledge of resources in its first year it logged over 800 and encouraging her to come to phone calls, mainly from pregnant the office to talk. women.

"I think, on the whole, people Some were from young girls who thought they might be preg-, opt for life, and we need to support that. We need to be there for nant and didn't know where to them," she said. turn, and some came from young Ms. Cavallo noted that in the men concerned bd:ause a girlfriend was pregnant and considering an past .year the cent~r has .met with 85 women, including 32 teenagers. abortion.

ment became a reality when Carolyn's Place (named after the baby) was officially opened. It was the first anniversary of the discovery of the baby who had been named Carolyn Marie Johnna by parishioners, then turned over to the ,state Department of Child and Youth Services. She has since been adopted.

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are skull and crossbones depicted on a crucifix?'

of the world. But they used to be quite common.

Possibly a combination of reasons explains their presence. One comes from the name for the location where Jesus died.

The Gospels of Matthew, Mark and John give its name as Golgotha, an Aramaic word which all three translate as the Place of the Skull, or Skull Place.

Luke, in his narration of the passion and death of the Lord, identifies the place by the Greek word for skull, "kranion."

Latin tr~nslations of Scripture continued the tradition by naming

the place "Calvaria," Latin for skull, which of course eventually gave us our English "Calvary."

Various reasons for the name have been proposed through the years. Perhaps one of the most likely comes through the great Scripture scholar Origen (died 254), who recounts a legend that our Lord's death took place on the spot where Adam was buried.

Obviously, no evidence exists for the truth of such a theory, but the story seems to have inspired the skull and crossbones in many Christian depictions of the crucifixion.

Q. A friend of mine recently acquired. a stained glass window from a church. It includes the words "fiat'voluntas tua."

Could you help me tell her what those words mean? (Illinois) A. The Latin words mean "Thy will be done," and appear in the version of the Lord's Prayer given in the Gospel of St. Matthew (6: 10).

They express a theme which Jesus frequently insisted upon as essential for his followers and which seveml times is shown to be his own attitude in his love and obedience to the will of his Father.

We find this attitude explicitly

stated on the night before the crucifixion (Lk. 22:42), and in numerous other places in the Gospels.

In Christian writing and art the word "fiat" ("Let it be done") also refers to the acceptance of 'G'od's will by the mother of Jesus at the annunciation (Lk. 1:38).

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Dr. Kenny disagrees with Dr. Dobson's approach

swat them on the legs with a small pie answer to a difficult problem, switch and to leave the switch on one can be almost certain the the dresser as a further warning of answer is wrong. I fault Dobson in what will happen if they disobey. three important discipline areas.

MARY What do you think of this advice?

His first mistake is a failure to - Illinois . ,make developmental distinctions.

KENNY Frankly, I think it is poor par- The advice you paraphrase above enting advice. You are wise to note is a good example. the harshness in James Dobson's ,Everyone knows that 2-yearDear Dr. Kenny: I have just findisciplinary recommendations. I olds are negative, ornery, quick to ished reading the book "The Strong-Willed Child," by Dr. fail to see much understanding of say no and prone to tantrums.

This is a developmental phase, not James Dobson. He stresses mbal- or love for children in his writings.

Many parents today, myself a manifestation of evil. For the ance between love and control.

That sounds good, but he seems included, feel children have gotten first time, the child is asserting his harsh when he applies his controls. out of control. They fail to show or her selfhood, testing his or her independence and indentity.

In writing of disciplining a " respect. They do what they please. naughty 2- or 3-year-old, he recom- Dobson offers a simple fundamenOf course, 2-year-olds need to mends requiring active youlBsters talist answer: If they're wrong, tell be controlled. They do not, howto sit still in a chair. If they don't them. If that doesn't work, punish 'ever, need to be confronted and stay put, he tells the parent to put them. I wish raising children were squelched in the process of showthem to bed with a stern warning as easy as Dobson wants to make ing them who's boss. It's n'ot wise it sound. to remain there. to battle with two-year-olds and Whenever one proposes a sim- teenagers when there are .many If they get out of bed, he smys to Dr.JAMES&'

The volunteers who work: with them receive extensive tr:lining which covers medical, psychological, theological and legal aspects of pregnancy. They are also informed about referral agencies, counseling techniques and role. playing. And they help .mothers both before and after the b:.rth of their children.

Carolyn's Place is funded by individual donations and occasional fund raising events. "God has really taken care of this place," says Ms. Cavallo, pointing to the assortment of clothing, formula, "baby items and toys that fills a back room at the center located on the town's Main Street. 路Certainly.this is a beautiful story of how iittle chilp ~ame4 Carolyn "led the way to h"elping many babies like herself. '

other non-confrontative ways to obtain compliance.

A second mistake is his confusion of goal with strategy. Dobson takes a goal (staying in the chair or in bed) and turns it into a strategy (telling the child to stay there). If a child must stay in a certain place, ' think of a strategy such as making it a game or offering a small reward to accomplish that.

Verbal lectures are misleading because they sound so good. They are only good discipline, however, if they work.

To say a child 6houldobey his parents' verbal demands is true but meaningless if the child fails to comply.

Parents can talk forever without results. They end up by providing too much time and attention to the behavior. they wish to eliminate,"

thus rewarding bad behavior. Everyone knows that children (and adults) keep' on doing what gets attention.

Dobson's third mistake is his over-reliance on punishment. In fact, he seems to equate discipline with punishment.

Punishment is one of the: least effective ways to change attitudes or behavior. As with pa rents, advertisers are also interesl:ed in changing people's behavior. If punishment worked well, you' would see punitive and threatening ads. Vou don't see them be:cause they don't obtain the desired result.

It's a mystery to me why some parents are so addicted to punishment as a primary mea ns of control.

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Thanks Dear Editor: A grateful thanks for your article on the Pastoral Care Program totheSick(Anchor, Feb.4, 1994).

You captured the theme for this year, and the participants have made the touch of the Master's Hand alive in a most caring way.

Sister Dympna Smith, RSM Pocasset

Try shol·twave Dear Editor: To the fans of the EWTN Catholic Cable TV Network, who are still waiting patiently for the complete return of the EWTN Network to our local Whaling City Cable TV Station: I strongly suggest the purchase of a shortwave radio.

WEWN Catholic Shortwave Radio Station in Birmingham, Ala., began in 1993 and offers programming that reaches around the world.

One can hear Mother Angelica Live, as well as the daily Mass, prayers and devotions, as seen on the EWTN Cable TV Network.

The station is on the air 21 hours a day and a schedule of programs is mailed to those interested.

Here in New Bedford the cost of a good new shortwave radio is approximately $150 to $20'0. Believe me, this is a small cost for sud] good programming!

Alice Beaulieu New Bedford

Concert mtrgnificent Dear Editor: I have been an active member of Sacred Heart Church in Fall River for the belter part of 50 years. My children were educated in its school in the 50s and 60s and the parish has always served as an extended family; fulfilling our spiritual as well as social needs.

On Sunday, Jan. 2, the church celebrated the restoration of its Hook and Hastings Organ with a lovely blessing ceremony, officiated at by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley,

and a magnificent Concert. In all of my years as a parishioner of Sacred Heart. I was never so impressed and .inspired by my parish community. On that day, I held my head high. I am proud to be a member of Sacred Heart parish and am proud of its many accomplishments over the years.

It is because of the dedication and hard work of so many of the parishioners and friends of Sacred Heart, that our dreams can become a reality. I would be remiss in not extending a special word of thanks and congratulations to our pastor, Father Byington, who is always striving to move us forward. With his guidance, Sacred Heart Church community will continue to thrive as we move toward the 21 st century.

Lucille Caya Fall River

Column'spastoral Dear Editor: I am sorry that Olympia Caesar is put off by Father Karban's use of the pronouns he/she in referring to God. Is not the content of, his column in the Anchor of any value? I find his commentaries so pastoral and enriching that I keep a scrapbook of those I have found especially illuminating.

Ruth Dunning Brewster

The result Dear Editor: What resulted from the banning of prayers in public schools?

Did not lawlessness and immorality sneak in, in their place?

It is now lawful to kill the unborn.

Why not la wful to kill the alreadyborn who stand irl the way?

Within a week's time three police officers were murdered in New England. Bad mistakes have been made in our country's laws. They can, in time, be rectified.

It ta kes courage to ad mit to mistakes, but with God's help and the "good old American spirit," it can' be done.

God will answe'r our p~ayers. . Cecile I. Robbins Buzzards Bay

A nti-religious bias

Dear Editor: Faithful church-goers of all Christian denominations will be highly pleased when church leaders of all faiths recognize the moral harm being done to our people, especially our youth, by the filth and obscenities in our films, and Feb. 19 . especially in our TV presentations 1895, Rev. Andrew J. Brady, which come into our living rooms on a daily basis.

Pastor, SI. Joseph, Fall River Our pope, our U.S. Public Health 1953, Rev. Leopold Jeurissen, SS.Ce., Pastor, Sacred Heart, Secretary and some Christian dignitaries have already spoken out Fairhaven to the Hollywood hucksters, who Feb. 20 1922. Rev. James H. Fogarty. supply films for TV, in addition to the many movie houses in our Pastor, St. Louis, Fall River nation. All pleas have been ignored.

1986. Rey. Raymond M. GiA noted West (oast movie critic guere. O. P., Assistanf, St. Anne, hit the nail on the head when he Fall River wrote "HolI~'wood's trouble is the Feb. 22 anti-religious bia~ these producers 1954, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Jovite show, now more iillense than ever."

Chagnon, Founder, St. Joseph, When the rank-and-file citi7en beNew Bedford gins to bovcott these films. the Feb. 25 films made'for family viewing will 1988. Rev. Leo J. Ferreira, Vicar come to the ford General of Brownsville Diocese Thomas A. Walsh and Pastor, St. Mary, Brownsville Roslindale

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WASHINGTON (CNS) Catholic universities are called to be centers of dialogue in culture, Father J. Brian Hehir, chiefCatholic chaplain of Harvard University, told a gathering of some 200 presidents and other officials of the nation's Catholic insititutions of higher learning. Father Hehir, pastor of St. Paul's, the HarvardRadcliffe campus ministry parish in Boston, gave the keynote speech at the annual meeting of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities in Washington. The priest, ~Iso a longtime public polICy advtser to the U.S. bishops, said Catholic higher education should be using resources of the Catholic tradition to address major issues in contemporary American society such as bioethics and the role of the United States in the post-Cold War world.

. FLORENCE. Colo. (CNS) When Pueblo Bishop Arthur N. Tafoya said Mass at the Federal JERUSALEM (CNS) - EqualCorrectional Institution in FloI'. ity for all believers is a necessary ence, he had no idea he would condition for peace in the Holy meet the man who had saved him Land, said the leader ofthe region's from a near-fatal accident.

Latin-rite Catholics. "God does After the Mass the bishop told his congregation why prison in- . not permit his love for one people mates hold a special place in his to become an injustice to another people," said Latin-rite Patriarch heart.

Michel Sabbah. While Christians, Seven years ago. he told them, he, a priest and a seminarian were Jews 'and Muslims claim Jerusalem as a holy city, it has been a site in an all-terrain vehicle which stalled crossing a river and over- of conflict among them "in contradiction to their own belief in the turned in the water. one and same God," the patriarch He was thrown from the vehicle.

When the priest and the selJ1inar- said during a recent meeting of Christian and Jewish leaders in ian. who had escaped. could not find him. they sought aid from a Jerusalem. state prison labor crew.

11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 More than an hour later, one of for the guy they couldn't find and the prisoners found the bishop saw the .Ieep in the river. I thought downstream. badly bruised. inco- to myself. 'If he's in there. he's in herent and suffering hypothermia bad trouble or dead, because it from the. cold water. He gave the was all under water." bishop first aid until an ambulance Lawson started searching arrived, about 45 minutes later. downstream and found the bishop "As I was telling the story. the on the river bank about 150 yards inmates started to smile and wave." from the submerged Jeep, Ie~ning Bishop Tafoya said in an interview against a tree. with the Pueblo diocesan news"He was in bad shock and bad paper. "They. told me they knew hypothermia." said Lawson. who the story because the inmate was was a medic in the Vietnam War. here. I said, 'N 0, that can't be. '" wrapped him in my coat. gave That was years ago at a different him sips of water and just kept place.''' talking to him to keep him awake."

But the bishop was then intro"He was in pretty bad shape. He duced to inmate Kurt. Lawson. was blue. and that scared me." meeting him for the first time since Lawson said. "I tried to comfort the accident. him, but he did most of the work."

"I gave him a big hug and was The bishop sustained a deep tickled to finally meet the man finger cut requiring 20 stitches and who saved my life," Bishop Tafoya was hospitalized for six days so said. doctors could watch for signs of Lawson told the Pueblo newspneumonia. He said he remembers paper that he enjoyed seeing the nothing about the accident, but bishop again. fro'm what other people told him "It \vas great." he said in a telehe knew that Lawson had saved phone interview from prison. him. As for Lawson. he did not He described how he rescued find out until the next day that the Bishop Tafoya. "I went looking man he had helped was the bishop.

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Anti-Catholicis:m complimen~s chuJ'ch says Fr. Neuhaus

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"No more misery" archbishop's goal FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (CNS) ...:- His voice is.as soft as a whisper, but his message is compelling: "No more hunger, no more misery."

"M isery is an insult to our Creator Father," said Archbishop Helder Pessoa Camara, retired head of the archdiocese of Olin.da and Recife in Brazil. "In misery, not even the essentials of life exist."

Archbishop Camara receritly brought the message of his worldwide "Year 2000 Without Misery" project to a packed St. Maurice Church in Fort Lauderdale.

The ,campaign, begun in 1990, was based on the premise that a decade would allow a reasonable amount of time to mobilize complex and ample social forces to eradicate misery from Brazil and wherever else it exists. .

"An ever-increasing multitude of persons are finding themselves literally condemned to die of hunger," said the frail 84-year-old archbishop.

Brazil alone has about 32 million people who live in a situation

of misery and hunger, he estimated.

Known all over the world 'for his writings and his prophetic gestures on behalf of the poor, Archbishop Camara believes that while concern to combat hunger dates from time immemorial. 'obstacles to effective solutions can today be overcome.

"Surprisingly," he said, "the global production offood is superior to the actual consumption. The wasted surplus is sufficient to guarantee a basic diet for many legions of hungry people."

He sees his "Year 2000 Without Misery" campaign 'as "a stimulus for optimism.

"The solution is not a task for only a few. It requires militant solidarity through concrete universal action. A huge outcry from the people is capable of changing many things," said the archbishop.

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PITTSBURGH (GNS) - The strong anti-Catholicism present in the United States should be seen as "a compliment to the church,", according to 'Father Richard John' Neuhaus.

The former Lutheran pastor, president of the New York-bflsed Institute for Religion in Public Life, commented in an interview with the Pittsburgh' Catholic, the diocesan newspaper.

"In many ways the chur<:h is rightly seen as the most formidable institutional voice for the understanding of moral truth, the understanding that we are creatures who are accountable to the Creator, the understanding of life as a moral contest with eternal consequences," he said.

"These very fundamental truths are primarily defended and advanced by the Catholic Church," Father Neuhaus added. "Those who are opposed to these truth claims quite understandably view the church as their enemy."

In the interview, Father Neuhaus said Pope John Paul II's eNS/Reuters papacy has 'been "a major rallying point for serious public argument ABBE PIERRE ... and reflection on the natu::e of moral truth."

"A formidable array offorces in government, the courts, the media and the university certainly an: not receptive to the kind of serious and reasonable moral discourse' that PAR IS (CNS) - France is re and his supporters calling on the the pope is calling for," he sai d.

"But within each of these se<:tors celebrating a priest little known government to provide housing OUtside the country but regarded for the poor. there are indications of people at home as a modern-day saint.

The government set up soup having very grave second thoughts He is a frail, 81-year-old fran- kitchens; opened subway stations' a!>.out their presuppositions, and I think that such 'second-thoughtciscan monk called Abbe Pierre, to the h9meless and sent police to who for decades has c'hampioned search alleyways, empty ware- ers,' so to speak, ought to be houses and construction sites for encouraged and engaged in creatthe poor and the homeless. ing a new level of discourse, i, he As recession and unemployhlent people sleeping beneath cardboard continue in France, Abbe Pierre's sheeting or heaps of rags. added.

40-year crusade to help the underBut the priest, who wears thick Father Neuhaus said he thinks 'privileg~d is back in the headlines. spectacles, simple robes, sturdy the level of religious sentiment in The priest himself remains at the shoes and often a beret, wants the United States is far gre:ater top of the popularity polls, outdis- more and warns of dire conse- than is indicated by the religious quences in his book if the world commitment of its leaders. tancing film stars and politicians.

On Feb. I, radio stations com- fails to share the dividends of Studies show that on a glo)bal memorating his role 'in French wealth. scale, India has about the most "The poorest of the poor are pervasively religious society, and society rebroadcast'his appeal for the homeless, which aired on the beginning to understand, even when Sweden the most thoroughly secu'same day in ·1954; and his book, they are i\literate, that if we live larized, observed Father Neuhaus.

"Testament," was published in the well, it is partly because of what we "So it has ,been observed thilt a first week of February. have taken away from them," he large part of our problem in America ... is that we are a nation of The white-:bearded monk, whose wrote in the book. baptismal name is Henri-Antoine "Inevitably, this will end up like, Indians ruled by an elite ofSwecles," he said.

Groues, was on, the cover of the the decadent Roman empire when Father Neuhaus also discu:,sed news magazine Le Point, which .the barbarians reached the heart described him as a legend and of Rome in barely a few months," his recovery from a recent flout he said. with cancer, and said he was noted how he had stayed in the limelight for four decades "in this Born into a wealthy family, the "stronger, both physically and century of passing fads." gentle-voiced priest gave up a mentally but most importantly The daily Le Mondequoted comfortable life to become a spiritually, as a consequence of the Abbe Pierre as describing himself Franciscan monk. As chaplain in past year's experience." . '~'One discovers things ab out as "the voice of the voiceleSs." The the French Resistance during the newspaper wondered whether the G'erman occupation in World War oneself in times of crisis, particurebroadcast of his 1954 appeal II, he helped smuggle refugees out larly when facing the prospect of would help alleviate the current of the country by forging identity . death," he said. "To me, perhaps plight of France's growing number papers. the most surprising thing is learnof homeless.

After the war he served as a cen- ing that there is nothing to fear. Of In 1954, Abbe Pierre' went on trist member of Parliament. course I've preached that for many the air, saying: "My friends, help.

His life took another tack in the years, but there is an existential A woman froze to death last night . icy winter of 1953-54 when thou- immediacy when you are actual1y on the footpath ... clutching an sands of homeless French people in a situation where the doctors expulsion order to her side." risked freezing to death. think you may die .... So in that By all accounts, the funds which ' He then, founded the Emmaus sense I hope I'm not only a more poured in from across the country self-help organization whose confident believer but a more . after that broadclj.st were unpre-' members collect, repair and resell . joyous believer." second-hand furniture.

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Abbe Pierre, who says upto half Inthel980s,heembarrassedthe where, sometimes taxi drivers a million French people are sleep- .Socialist government by drawing refuse to let me pay," the priest ing on the streets, hopes to see a attent~on to the plight of the "new once told an interviewer, "It is very replay of that outpouring of charity. poor" who slipped through Fran- humbling when you know yourself Harsh cold at the start of winter ce's social security net. With money and know how far you are from killed more than l1alf a dozen donated by charities and individu- being what everyone admires:" He alternates between living homeless late last year, prompting 'als, Abbe Pierre founded a food ~ational remorse and a torrent of bank. among the poor in Paris and in a tough stat~mF,.9t~(r~opt~~~c<~.i~~~,..;\ ~ "f.~~p'le. ,',r~c?~~ri,~e.. Pli. _e,Yflrr!~ i: 1.1 lTIonastery in rural ll'lprrn~~~,ie.

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COLLEGEV[LLE, Minn.(CNS) St. John's Abbey in Collegeyille, sued six times in recent years (lver alleged sexual misconduct by ~ome members of its Benedictine ¢ommunity, is creating an institute ~o address sexual trauma. . "We are doing this very de[iber~tely. It may take threl~ to five years before this institute becomes ~hat we want it to be," said Bene(Iictine Abbot Timothy Kelly. ';We're not looking for a quick fix, but at the long run."

The institute,ajoint initiative of lhe abbey and St. John'sUniver$ity, is just one response to recent bllegations. The two institutions also have committed themselves to ~vork with LINKUP, a national prganization for victims of sexual ~Ibuse by clergy.

According to Abbot Kelly, the hew institute will not bl~ a treatment center but a resource, offerIng workshops on sexual trauma and on how best to deal with perpetrators and victims.

The abbot also said the: institute ~as not motivated by shame. "We can be and we are shamed, but ~hame is not the reason for correcting what happened. We don't ~ry to solve our problem because we 'got caught' but because of the ponviction of sin which ['eads us to endeavor to enter into a deeper ;re[ationship with God." He stressed that one institute :goal would be to learn from vic'tims how best to respond pastor'ally to abuse victims "when we lourse[ves are so c1ose[y identified With the perpetrators.... The first Iword of the Ru[e ofSt. Benedict is ,'Listen.''' i The abbey and LINKUP plan a leadership conference in CollegeIville in June for people who work ,with abuse victims and LINKUP I plans to hold its August national ,convention at St. John's.

I Jeanne Miller, president of LI N KUP, said she is "thrilled" to have a partnership with St. John's Abbey and University.

According to Ms. Miller, the cycle of abuse will not stop until there is a plan of action.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CNS)At nearly 3-years-old, Devon faced a bleak and uncertain future. He lived in a Russian orphanage and weighed only II pounds from a diet consisting only of rice porridge.

Developmentally, his mental and motor skills were comparable to those of a I-year-old. His orphanage world offered little hope of a normal childhood.

But that was before his photograph reached Ann Wilson, a single woman close to age 40 who yearned for motherhood and was determined to adopt.

With help from the diocese of Charlotte's Catholic Social Services, she [inked up with an agency working with Devon's orphanage and found the tot, nine days before his third birthday.

I An environmental Scientist in Charlotte, Ms. Wilson flew to I Russia to bring home 'her son, a ; TYLER, Texas (CNS) - Mean- thin tot with a blank stare. ! ingfulliturgy must celebrate unity Within four months, Devon's i amid diversity and point the way weight went up to 24 pounds. And ! to social justice, two bishops told now, at age 4, he is happy and full , participants at a recent liturgica[ of life, and his mother "can't I conference in Ty[er. imagine life without him."

"We need to realize that if there Now Catholic Social Services is I is to be peace and justice, if there is increasing its efforts to bring Rusto be service to the poor and the sian children together with AmeriI elderly, Christian edw;ation and can families, and Ms. Wilson is a formation, schools, hospitals, soup liaison in the process.

I kitchens and blood banks, that In December, she traveled to ~hese will be fed by the full and rich Russia with two representatives ! celebration of the [iturgy," said from Catholic Social Services, Bishop Donald W. Trautman of director Elizabeth Thurbee and Erie, Pa., chairman of the U.S. social worker Carol Meyerriecks. bishops' Committee on the Liturgy. Their mission was to establish a Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las relationship with Child's Right, I Cruces, N. M., said if liturgy' em- which is responsible for all Rusphasizes that "before God all are sian orphanages, except those in the same," and if it tleaches that the city of Moscow, that arrange "God is the father or parent of all," placement of children abroad.

I then "no one should be excluded "Adoption in Russia is not from his table, and no one should widespread," Ms. Thurbee told I go hungry." the Catholic News & Hera[d, Charlotte's diocesan paper.

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they are turned out to the streets. "'t is rare for children past infancy to be adopted by Russian families," she said, adding that those who are adopted arc rarely told of their birth mothers. "They'll never know they were adopted because it's just not discussed in Russian families." .

Accordingto Ms. Thurbee, many Russian orphans have handicaps but they are correctable problems such as crossed eyes or orthopedic difficulties. [n the United States, she said, "We don't find these things disturbingata[1. However, that makes children in many foreign countries unacceptable for adoption in that country."

She hopes an international agreement between Chi[d's Right and Catholic Social Services will unite Russian orphans with U.S. families anxious to adopt.

"Their hope for a bright future is not great unless there is some intervention," she added.

The agencies are seeking families willing to take older children, ages 3 to 8, said Ms. Thurbee.

"The need is urgent." she said, adding that "it will take special families to nurture" these children because some have special medical needs and all have had emotional and developmental delays. Language is no barrier, though, because they learn English quickly and before that understand "tone of voice and body [anguage.'.'

All Russian orphans are legally free to be placed in homes. Once paperwork is processed and arrangements made, adoptive parents travel to Russia to pick up their child.

As for Ms. Wilson, next year· she plans to return to Russia to adopt a sister for Devon.

Further Russian adoption information is available from Elizabeth Thurbee, director of Char[otte's Catholic Social Services, at (704) 331~"120 or-377-6871· ,.

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This is the second consecutive year of the seminary's activity in exile. The seminarians sleep in a nearby hotel, while the 15 professors are stationed in the convent. They all celebrate the Liturgy in the Dominican church and have classes in the convent. We have 56 seminarians; four 'of them will be ordained this June. Despite the war situation, the archdiocese of Vrhbos{laSarajevo recently enrolled 13 new candidates for the minor seminary. Seminary superiors and students pray for all benefactors who make possible our quiet work in war conditions."

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MARGARET MULHERN is a lady of intelligence, honesty and wit. Her thoughts about living in a "Words, words, words, I'm so away all. too soon, and it is nursing home are simple and disick of words," cried Eliza Doolit- observed, not widely enough, unrect: "Well, I'd just like people to CASSERLY tle in the great Lerner and Loewe fortunately, as Catholic Press remember that we're still living. ..

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Words are the currency of musical, "My Fair Lady," but for . A resident of Marian Manor, the Catholic magazines and newsme words are what it's all about.

Taunton, Margaret has been a papers that reach more than 40 .

Eliza wanted action, not more "In the beginning was the Word," trailblazer: one of the few women talk, but words are needed to teach million readers regularly in the John's Gospel begins, "and the to study pharmacy in the 1930s at . us, inform us and inspire us before Unitep States.

Massachusetts College of PharWord was with God, and the Word Even though studies show most we take action. I've been a dealer macy, and the only woman in the was God." The figure goes on, preof the Americans learn the news in words most of my life. You class of'37. Margaret recalls that it served in the Mass today: "And world from television and they might even say I swear by them., the Word became flesh and dwelt was hard to convince employers Another true believer in word- 'even trust TV news anchors more among us, full of grace and truth; ..." that she was,serious about being a power is Peggy Noonan, who was than print journalists, in the final Other words are used to des- pharmacist. She began her profe~­ a ghostwriter for Presidents Rea- analysis they need the printed word sional career at Taunton State cribe the Lord, of course, such as gan and Bush, Interviewed in the to help them make miljor decisions.

Hospital and went on to manage the light, the truth, the way, and We get instant replay in such London Times, Ms, Noonan said pharmacies in the Brockton area. more, but the "Word" itself has "Government is words," and then mighty matters as professional She also put aside the demands power because of its great potengave her credo - which every wri- football, but we are too often left of one career for another one tial, its depth of meaning. wondering what speakers actually ter should take to hearl.

The task of "spreading the equally demanding: wife and "Thoughts are reduced to paper said in person or on radio or TV. HELEN BREWER Word," another.use of the word to mother of four children. She made for speeches which become pol- We often have to wait to see the a home for her family in C;onnectiindicate the whole collection of icy," she told the Times. "Poetry story in print. with that walker," one lady says.

Christ's teachings,.is done in many cut while her husband, also a Eve~ wh'en stories' about mathas everything to dowith speeches "Yes, 1am," she agrees. "I wantphar.macist, worked for Lilly fharters Catholic appear in the daily ways, bui the written word remains -cadence, rhythm, ilJlagery, ed to be able to walk 2.gain, and permanent, always available for us maceuticals. "But I always kept up press, readers w'ant the complete sweep, a knowledge that words, my own r'egistration [as a pharmaI'm doing it." details as they appear in the Cath- to reread, to go back over, to like children, have this power to Helen has lived at the Manor for cist]," she adds. make dance the dullest beanbag of olic press. Particularly important, restudy. . three years, and is well known for Today at age 80, Margaret is Words that appear in prin:t may is the service the Catholic press a heart." her outgoing manner, sense of not always be read all the time, but still involved with her family, provides in printing the full text, Ghost-written or not, great words humor and active partic:ipation in they are there when they are needed. which now includes 8 grandchilthe actual words, of major Church have power to change the world, many programs and events, such The words we slave over may not dren, ranging in age from 7 to 25. documents and addresses. whether they're printed, spoken or as the home's annual bazaar.

In describing them, she says, "we I've often thought that the always have power"io make dance sung. I'd like to say a word, natuEarlier this year, medical probthe dullest beanbag of a heart," have one of everything: one who's importance of words is revealed in rally, for the printed word in books, lems required a hospita.l stay for but they carry out the Gospel interested in Oriental rugs...anthose parts of the Gospel where papers or magazines, for I am surgery to her foot. Shl: returned mandate to spread the "Word" to other who's running a farm in Our Lord is described as the most at home there. to the Manor with a wheelchairthe four corners of the earth.

Indiana... a CPA... one who just "Word."

Besides, February is slipping and lots of determination. kicked the winning goal for his First, Helen was fitted with an soccer tournament..." orthopedic shoe that would allow Margaret is on the go. Her two air to circulate around her foot to daughters and one son live in the area (another son lives in the "flat encourage healing. Then she began weekly video-watching club. a

By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Ask friends to remind you about the gradual process of karning to wilderness of Indiana"), so "they bridge club. Bible study, a travel important matters. Learn to use Dear Dr, Kenny: I'm in my early use a walker. Now shl: can get each take turns taking me out for . ,60s, but have already notked some . memory hints like rhymes and club. etc. around the home, attend activities the day. I'll go any time they're - Fear of death: This is hard of my friends beginning to panic at associating the item with 'other and go to the main dining room ready. I just love to go out: eating because we all fear the unknown. objects.

Use different senses (sight, signs of memory loss and shakifor meals independently. at rest.aurants, shopping. I went to "The whole process of her healness. Please give some more ideas sound, taste,' feel. sm~ll) to help and we'usually don't like to give up the movies with my granddaugh. what we have. you recall. on coping with growing older. ter this summer to see The Secret ing and learning to use the walker Coping plan: Talk about death - Money problems: You are on New Jersey Garden. .. is very impressive," say!: Paulette with a close friend. Identify with a fixed income with few chances' After physical therapy, Mar~ Drapalla, director of nursing servAfter a brief survey among some nature, her seasons and the ongofor extra money. of my older friends, we identified garet is now able to get about with 'ices. "We're very proud of her." ing rhythm of life. You are a real Coping plan: Get rid of costly seven major factors associated with a walker: "I couldn't walk at all Helen says, "The staff has been part of that rhythm. habits like eating out often and growing older. I will list each facwhen '1 first came to Marian wonderful. They've really helped - Physical ailments: More and buying every new gadget. Shop tor, followed by a few coping Manor." Sometimes Margaret even me. But 1 was determin.ed to do more things start t'o go wrong with yard sales and discount food stores. plans. walks about on her own, carrying this and I'm doing very welL" your body: Shakiness and loss of the walker in front of her! But Learn to enjoy nature: It's fre·e.

- Memory loss: You find yourAs Helen recently reflected on strength are common.

- Loneliness: Increasingly your self forgetting names. appoint- '. when it co'mes to being able to see her achievements, her dangling Coping plan: Get regular exerfriends are' dying or becoming ments, even why you started to go more and do more, she takes the gold "Helen" earrings said it all: cise. Follow recommended diet . practical approach, such as opting regular (herapy, proper equipment housebound. into a certain room.' guidelines. Stay in touch 'with your Coping plan: Keep a small - Coping plan: Join activity or for a wheelchair at t!le mall: "Then and support from caring staff had physician. church groups that meet reguhrly notebook with you to write down you can go to all the stores you played their necessary parts - to - Fear of disorder: You want and do things. Examples include a all scheduled times, dates and plans. want." encourage the one pemon who everything in its place and feel really had made it happe n: Helen AS HELEN BREWER comes more uncomfortable when things herself. . out of th'e lobby elevator at Maare out of order.

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Your doctor Coping plan: Set short-term • Eliminate clutter in your home; can tell you how much you need goals, things you look forward to and how to incorporate it into arrange furniture so there is an or plan to accomplish within the unobstructed traffic pattern. . your diet. immediate future. See yourself as • Store commonly used items • Get adequate amounts of vitapart of larger groups - family. where you can reach them without min D by including it in your diet community, church, world - and standing on'a chair or ladder. and by going outside during daylook-for.ward to marvelous dreams • Use a rubber mat or <lllti-skid light hours for 15 minutes. of progr'ess for humankind. strips in the bathtub.

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CINCINNATI (CNS) - Dr. Keith Crutcher believl:S the medical community has divorced itself from scientific and medical responsibility and now defines itself strictly in terms of what's legal.

Abortion, he noted, once was used by physicians to terminate a pregnancy only when the life of mother or child was in danger. But "the attempt was still made to preserve the life of the child and the mother," he added.

Now, however, abortion "means that the physician goes into the circumstance assuming he is going to kill the fetus," Dr. Crutcher said.

To combat such anti-life trends, Dr. Crutcher, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, has cofounded the international organization Scientists for Life with Maureen Gilicinski, who holds a doctorate in molecular biology and teaches at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pa. Dr. Gilicinski contacted Dr. Crutcher after he testified before a congressional subcommittee and appeared twice on the "Today" show on the topic of fetal tissue transplantation.

"We both felt that the media were either being Vf:ry biased in their presentations or were being given incomplete information by their sources," Dr. Crutcher told the Catholic Telegraph, Cincinnati archdiocesan newspaper.

Drs. Crutcher and Gilicinski t.heref~>re d~ciged to publish a newsletter addressinli issues from conception to death. Titled Scientists for Life, it presf:nts scientific information which can be used to help protect human life.

Subjects presented have included fetal tissue transplantation, the French abortion pill R U-486, prenatal diagnosis of disease and treatment of termina.lIy ill patients suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.

"We're trying to provide a little bit of a countervoil:e to some of the stuff that we feel has been published in a fairly biased fashion," said Dr. Crutcher. "We're also trying to provide expert information, or at least relevant biomedical information, that could be used in a legal case."

With only he and Dr. Gilicinski trailblazing the effort two years ago, the newsletter now has some 400 subscribers, half of whom are degreed medical professionals, he said.

Currently the publication is free to all interested subscribers.

"We're not trying to be exclusive in any sense of the term," Dr. Crutcher said. "I n fact, I'd love it if we could get some of the prochoice people to get the information ... because one thing we feel fairly certain of is that all the views which are traditionally associated with what's called a pro-life position are scientifically and medically defensible," Dr. Crutcher may be reached at Scientists for Life, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267-0515.

Rare Sense In fact, to this vcry day, common sensc in religion is rare, and we arc too often trying to be heroic instead ofjust ordinarily good and kind. - Dorothy Day

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Three named distinguished graduates Father Douglas )-J. Sousa, Lillian Labrie, and Carol A. Duphily have been named 1994 Catholic Elementary School Distinguished Graduates in the diocese.

Father Sousa, parochial vicar at Espirito Santo parish, Fall River, graduated from Taunton Catholic Middle School in 1979.

A 1983 graduate of Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton, he studied for the priesthood at St. John's Seminary, 8righton, and the Gregorian University and North American College in_Rome.

He returned for graduate studies at the North American College after ordination June 29, 1991, and was then assigned to Espirito Santo in July 1992.

Father Sousa accepted the Distinguished Graduate Award Feb. 8 from TCMS principal Kathleen Simpson at a Catholic Schools Month Mass celebrated by Bishop O'Malley.

"Religious education in a Catholic context is essenti~1 for developing strong leadership in the Catholic community," said Father Sousa.

"Young people need the values a Catholic education instills to form a healthy self image and do work for a more just society and holier church," Miss Labrie, a teacher at St. Mary-Sacred Heart School, North Attleboro, graduated from thenSacred Heart School in 1944. She also attended Providence College and the New England Conservatory of Music.

Most of her 25 years at St. Mary-Sacred Heart have been spent teaching second grade, which includes preparation for receiving the sacraments of penance and Eucharist.

Father Marcel Bouchard, pastor of Sacred Heart Church and director ofthe consolidated school, presented the award during a Catholic Schools Month family Mass Feb. 8.

"Some of my fondest memories of attending Sacred Heart School are the respect we had for our teachers and clasSmates and the plays that were put on every year by each grade," Miss Labrie said.'

French was spoken much of the school day, she added.

Dr. Duphily, a 1973 graduate of St. Mary's School, New Bedford, is a chiropractor. She also teaches health classes at the school. She

ing the summit preparatory committee at United Nations headquarters, he urged that the summit support linkage of social justice with economic growth and apply that principle in specific areas.

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Rome, Vatican City planning for Jubilee 'Year 2000 VATICAN CITY (CNS) -It's still six 'years away, but Pope John Paul II can hear the clock ticking down to the big celebration.

The Jubilee of the Year 2000the church's next official Holy Year --: is expected to bring up to 20 million visitors to Rome and the Vatican, an influx that will tax local facilities and imaginations. It will also be a test of cooperation between the Holy See and Rome's civil authorities, co-hosts of the' event.

The Holy Year is being touted as Jesus' 2,000th birthday party.

But some are wondering whether organizers are up to the task.

In late January, the pope met with Rome's new mayor, Francesco Rutelli, and both men talked about the importance of timely preparation for the Holy Year 2000. The pope stressed that plans must be made now to beef up Rome's lodging and ser.vice facilities so that pilgrims can be welcomed in a "worthy" manner.

R utelli promised full collaboration and said he was making the Jubilee atop priority of his administration. Rome needs to erase memories of "corruption and gross inefficiency" during its hosting of past international events, the mayor said.

But there are fears on both sides that Rome may fall flat on its face.

Msgr. Liberio Andreatta, papal administrator of Rome's chief pil-

grim organization, appealed to civil authorities not to repeat the mistakes of the past. At a press conference Feb. 8, he said pilgrims cannot be left facing clogged transportation systems, inadequate or overly expensive hotels, museums closed on Sunday and streets closed for repair.

The tendency is for Italian politicians to do nothing until the eleventh hour, then pass some emergency funding legislation and hope for the best, he said.

Msgr. Andreatta spoke from experience. During the 1975 Holy Year, he recalled how Rome authorities approvc;d the widening of a major traffic artery near the Vatican - but' delayed the work until the Holy Year was already underway. Not surprisingly, transportation chaos ensued. ' In the 1983-84 extraordinary Holy Year of Reaemption, civil officials responded with plans to restore several of Rome's most, famous monuments. But the work began late, funding ran out, and visitors arrived to find many of the monuments still covered in scaffolding.

On the positive side, church officials realize that since the first Holy Year was proclaimed in 1300, Rome has had a tradition of hospi. tality toward pilgrims. Religious orders in particular are expected to help host visitors who arrive during the year 2000.

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But as Msgr. Andreatta noted, the religious houses provide only 5,000 beds in Rome. The rest of the city offers 80,000 beds - too few for the crowds expected at the end of the millennium. He said the current estimate of 20 million pilgrims and tourists may be conservative.

Moreover, about 80 percent of visitors during past Holy Years 'have arrived unescorted by tourist guides or agencies. They will need assistance, and here the church is already taking concrete steps.

In coordination with the Vatican, the Rome diocese has begun a program of historical and theological training for future pilgrim guides. By the year 2000, several hundred guides are expected to be ready.

Local churches will also be asked to become more directly involved in hosting visitors, Msgr. Andreatta said. This includes Rome's major basilicas, which "we want to transform from museums into sanctuaries of welcome." One hope is that students from Rome's international seminaries can help run spiritual animation programs for pilgrims who come to these churches.

The Vatican is also making preliminary plans. In the near future the pope is expected to name a Holy Year commission, which will help coordinate a wide array of religious and cultural activities in the tiny Vatican City State.

Officials at the Vatican M useurns - a mecca for most religious visitors - have also begun discussing the possibility of special exhibits and restorations for the Jubilee year, but no decisions have as yet been made.

For his part, Pope John Paull!, who will turn 80 in the year 2000, seems to be gearing much of his papacy toward the start of the third millennium of Christianity.

At World Youth Day ceremonies in the Philippines next January, the pope is expected to kick off a five-year countdown to the Jubilee.

In late January, he told journalists that he had ambitious travel plans leading up to the year 2000 - as he put it, he wants to follow the "footsteps" of the apostles. He said he hopes to reach Damascus and Antioch in Syria, as well as Jerusalem, Nazareth, Bethlehem and other points in the Middle East.

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, ST. PETER'S Square, overlooked by statues of the holy, will play host to many such' throngs as this during the Jubilee of the Holy Year 2000. (CNS/ James Stanfield photo, c 1991, National Geographic Society.)

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (CNS) - The Eternal Word 'Television Network will show two special Lenten programs.

"Reflections: Lent," featuring Archbishop Joseph T. Dimino of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, will be shown at 9:30 a.m. and 3 and 9p.m. EST each Sunday during Lent.

The archbishop will challenge viewers to examine and reform their lives, embrace the love of Jesus, follow his example and reflect on his suffering.

"Seasons of the Church" is scheduled for 10 p.m. Feb. 18 and 3:30 a.m. Feb. 19, EST. It is hosted

by Eternal Word Missionaries Fathers Joseph Wolfe and John Klobuchar.

The program will discuss the meaning of ashes and the col?r purple, the significance of Lenten observances, the days of Holy Week, and how fasting, prayer and almsgiving can enrich the lives of believers. '

THEFT OF this appealing "Bambinello" statue from Rome's Ara Coeli Church Feb. I has so upset Romans that wealthy citizens have offered a ransom for its return. (eNS/ Reuters photo)

Rome prisoners beseech return of "Bambinello~" ROME (CNS) - The burglary of a revered 2-foot wooden statue of the baby Jesus has so upset Rome's Catholics that even the inmates of a Roman prison have petitioned the thief, or thieves, to repent and return it to Ara Coeli Church.

Wealthy Romans are ready to offer a ransom for its recovery.

Called the '~Bambinello," Italian for tiny baby, the 15th-century, jewel-bedecked statue is believed to have miraculous powers and is a traditional object of pilgrimage, especially at Christmas.

Its origins are traced to wood from an olive tree in the Jerusalem garden where Jesus suffered his agony. Its popularity stems from the Italian fascination for the unexplaine,d.

"Disgusted by the sacrilegious robbery of the Bambinello, the prisoners of Regina Coeli ask for its immediate return," said a let,ter signed by 600 inmates of the prison. . Meanwhile, members of the old Roman nobility offered a ransom, an offer refused by the Franciscans who had custody of the Bambinello. They said that they would prefer the statue to be returned out of recognition of its spiritual importance.

For centuries, its home has been the glass case of a side chapel in the Ara Coeli Church, located on the Capitoline Hill alongside city hall.

"Ara Coeli" is Latin for "altar of heaven."

As is their daily routine, on the evening of Feb. I the Franciscans administering the church took the statue from its case and placed it in a room in the adjacent monastery considered safe. The purpose of 'the transfer was to protect the statue from being stolen. Ara Coeli itself is protected only by locked doors.

But while the Franciscans were at prayer after making the customary transfer, the monastery was broken into and the Bambinello, wrapped injewels and wearing its gold crown, was taken. â&#x20AC;˘ More.,than, 600 letters a.,year

arrive for the Bambinello. Most of the letters thank the statue for providing a favor or blessing.

At the end of the 15th ce ntury, a Franciscan living in the Holy Land carved the figure from the wood of an olive tree in the Garden of Gethsemani.

During the Franciscan'" return trip to Rome, the ship wall caught in a storm and people threw items overboard to keep the vesBel from sinking. The Franciscan tbrew the box containing his statue.

The ship was saved, and when it arrived in Leghorn, an Italian port north of Rome, the box was trailing in its wake. Many people: believe it was a miracle.

The statue was taken to Rome where it quickly became a:~ object of veneration. Pregnant mothers still climb the 122 steps leading to the church to pray before th,~ statue, then bring their newborn babies to see the Bambinello.

A Christmas season tradition is for children to make a pilgrimage to the statue and sing to it. On the Epiphany. a priest takes it outside the church, holding it up before thousands of people to symbolize Christ's blessing on the crowd.

Over the centuries people have showered the Bambinello with gifts of gold and jewels in gratitude for answered prayers. Many such jewels have been attached to the statue's cloak. ,The February robbery was not the first time that the Bambinello has been stolen. Tradition tdls of a woman who stole it during the Christmas season several centuries ago and hid it in her home. She became gravely ill and was told by her confessor to return it.

One tradition says that the: statue left the house by itself and miraculously returned to its placl: while the church bells announe:ed its arrival.

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Two Kinds of Men "There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous."- Blaise Pascal

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ESPIRITO SANTO Church, Fall River, was crowded last Sunday morning as members of Teams of Our Lady from Fall River and New Bedford celebrated World Marriage Day at a ~ Mass with Bishop Sean O'Malley as principal celebrant and priests associated with Teams of Our Lady as concelebrants. From left, Fathers John J. Oliveira, Luis A. Cardoso, the bishop, Msgr. John J. Oliveira, Fathers Jose A.F. dos Santos, Manuel A. Andrade, Douglas H. Sousa.

The liturgy was followed by a luncheon at Espirito Santo parish center featuring Portuguese traditional foods.

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(CNS) - When Bob and Ruth Ward told their six grown children that they werejoining the Franciscan Covenant Program, they pictured their parents in some sort of monastery with caves and candles.

But now that the children have visited St. Francis Retreat Center in San Juan Bautista, which is in the Monterey diocese, their "attitude has truly reversed," said Ward. He and his wife are co-directors of the program's Santa Barbalra province.

Members of the program are lay people, ages 18-65, single or married, who live, work and worship together, contributing time and energy as a way to become closer to God. They devote one to three years to a Franciscan community, helping the friars at missions and retreat houses.

The Wards' path to the program began in Ohio. High school sweethearts, they married, raised a family and wO'l'ked - Ward taught junior high classes in Columbus -but they wanted som<:thing more.

They eventually movl~d to Scottsdale, Ariz., where Ward also taught school.

"It was there that Bob told me, 'y ou know, someday J: would like to do volunteer work on a fulltime

basis," Mrs. Ward said in an interview with The Observer, Monterey's diocesan newspaper.

When the children were grown, Ward retired, his wife quit her job as a bookkeeper and they briefly operated their own business. But then they realized they wanted something different.

They looked at options around the country for devoting time and energy to God. The search led them to the California,based Franciscan Covenant Program.

After an interview and a long discernment process, the Wards worked for three yelj,rs with the community of St. Francis Retreat Center in San Juan Bautista.

They then worked a year with Jesuits in Micronesia; and returning to California served at Mission San Luis Rey. Two years ago they returned to the San Juan Bautista center and last September were named its co-directors.

"All of it is just a continuation of our search for God," Ward said.

"Through this work, we have been changed forever, and most people who participate in the program feel the same."

Nineteen covenant ~embers now work in California Franciscan communities. The Wards hope to

expand the program and are looking for people who want to give something back to God, deepen their spirituality and live in a community with people who share those feelings.

There must be a willingness' to do whatever needs to be done: marketing and coordinating retreats, answering phones, working in the gift shop, cooking, maintenance and gardening are among the jobs. And not everyone can live in a community, according to the Wards.

Ward did not want to teach, and Mrs. Ward didn't want to keep books, but they have done both and have often ended a day by "doing a lot of dishes."

"Each person has to get in touch with God in their own way working in a soup kitchen, visiting the sick, attending Mass," Ward said.

"What's right for one person isn't right for another," Mrs. Ward added. "This is right for us. We do what we can and tomorrow is another day."

Further information is available from Frandsenn Covenant Program, Box 1070, San Juan Bautista, CA 95045-1070, or phone (408) 623-2412.

CRS head reports on Russian scene WASHINGTON (eNS) - The people who see the quality of life slipping away in the Russian Far East, like their comrades throughout Russia, cast 25 percent of their ballots for Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky's party, said Catholic Relief Servi<:es' Eurasia region director.

"Times have been very difficult for people," William Canny said.

"Folks who have seen the value of the ruble decline, folks who are faced with layoffs as the state stops subsidizing industry, those who have seen the preeminence of Rus, sia in world affairs slip away, those who aren't getting their welfare payments on.time - those are the people who voted for the nationalist party." '..:"'" ... '.1 :

Canny recently toured CRS offices in Vladivostok and Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East.

"The economy continues to decline," he said. "Inflation is running rampant and people's paychecks are not keeping up."

CRS hopes to develop a network of private charities in the Russian Far East, Canny said. It could be a potential secondary safety net if lhe government continues to lose groun~ in supplying basic services to citizens.

To help stem such loss of service, CRS is providing technical assistance to Russia's welfare ministry, showing workers how to use a computer to calculate payments rather than doing them slowly by .hapd, \\Ihili:h sho,rtchanges recip-

ients as inflation continues to soar.

The ruble, which had a value of two to the dollar in mid-1991, is now about 1,600 to the dollar.

CRS is also working with groups that offer services to the disabled and with U.S. and Russian dental schools on a preventive dental maintenance program.

Most Russians have gold teeth, Canny said, adding that brushing at an early age and flossing are unheard of and there is no fluoride in the diet or the water.

CRS has eight U.S. and 25 Russian employees at its Russian Far East offices. "Our Russian counterparts actually do the bulk ofthe work," Canny said. CRS' 1994 budget for Russia i~ $7 million and could go up to $10 tnill\Q\1 ji c~r-

Continued from Page One sidering the anti-immigrant climate in the country.

"It's unfortunate that at a time when we should be extending emergency services without question that these issues are raised," Cisneros told The Tidings, newspaper of the archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Hidden Story At a Mass, also on Feb. 6, offered in Nativity Church in Los Angeles, Cisneros said that the hidden story of the earthquake has been the Catholic Church's efforts to calm terrified city dwellers especially new immigrants - and to get 20,000 people to leave unhealthy tent cities for shelters or their homes.

Church credibility with innercity families allowed parish teams to persuade frightened families and individuals to return to safe apartments and houses throughout the area, said Cisneros.

Cardinal Mahony concelebrated the Mass with the pastor, Father David Huerrera.

"It is not a well-known story, but Cardinal Mahony was very instrumental in getting 20,000 people living in tent cities in the parks to move into shelters or go back to their homes," Cisneros said.

"For those who are uncertain what their relationship is to government and about their legal status," he added, "Cardinal Mahony's willingness to go on television and radio, to go to the tent

cities and shelters has been a calming presence."

Even more vital, he said, had been the archdiocese's staffing of "reassurance teams" of mental health professionals who went out to frightened folks in the parks. He said this outreach work was one of the principal reasons why the tent cities came down so fast.

"There arc some real heroes among the church lay people and clergy," Cisneros said, "who really took the message of the Gospel to the parks and made it live."

In other quake-related news, the 1,585 students of earthquake-ruined Alemany High School began the second semester of the 1993-94 school year Feb. 2 across the street at Our Lady Queen of Angels Seminary High School.

Nine of the school's 14 buildings were heavily damaged in the Jan. 17 temblor, forcing school and archdiocesan officials to arrange temporary relocation of the entire student body to the seminary's unused east wing.

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Dean gets award WASHINGTON(CNS)-Jude P. Dougherty, professor and dean of the school of philosophy at The Catholic University of America, is the 1994 recipient of the Aquinas Meda, the highest honor conferred by the American Catholic Philosophical Association. The award recognizes contributions to the advancement of philosopher scholarship. Previous winners in the 44-year history ofthe award include French philosopher Jacques Maritain and Pope John Paul II, who received the award in 1979.

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He predicted Zhirinovsky would not last long. Russia's electoral turnout hovered around 50 percent - about the same as for U.S. presidential elections. "Those who didn't vote were shocked" at the results, he added.

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By Mick Conway Grounded at 16. Not too unusual, you say. The price for violating house rules or bending parental expectations is often being grounded.

Having privileges taken away, not being able to do what you want to do, feeling the co'nsequences of pushing the envelope, so to speak, are ways of directing attention to developing a sense of responsibility.

There's another form of being grounded that is the severest penalty of all. A poster on display, in the treatment' center where I work has the caption "Grounded at Sixteen" in large print over the picture of a casket surrounded by empty beer cans, a high school .Ietter jacket and some flowers.

Quite a message.

There's a saying that goes, "A picture is worth a thousand words," and for the first time I was struck by the truth of that statement.

Sometimes we lecture, preach, scold, or harass our kids about the dangers of drinking and driving, often without success. Schools have prevention classes to educate teenagers about substance abuse.

Parents try their 'best to teach their ~ids ·that responsibility includes not using and abusl11g alcohol or other drugs, only to feel totally inadequate when an accident claims the life of someone who has. only begun to live.

Sadly, most teenagers will experience the profound grief of having someone they know die in a car accident. It's one oflife's hardest moments when a funeral is held· for a young'person in the very bud' of life. . .

Wake services are kind of like reality therapy. They confront us w[th the inescapable truth that we are all vulnerable..Tee!1agers alway~ think they are invincible, that nothing really.b,!d is going to happen.

Going to a wake or funeral and feeling ~he abruptness of death·can , be a sobering expe~ience. It can' also bring us closer'(o God. The absolute finality of death is softene.d

by the presence of our Creator and his loving plan for each of us.

We don't know why sad things happen. we only know that God, in his mercy, allows pain to be part of every life. God calls us to his . presence by reminding us that death can be a reconciliation, of sorts, for those left in life. God calls us to his presence by reminding us that death is part of the life he has given us, and that overconfidence' can make the difference between life and death.

"What do you mean. give you the keys! Do you think I can't drive this car just because I've had a few beers? Get outta my face!" .

A hostile response like that may cause the questioner to get out of one's face. but it doesn't solve the problem at hand. Letting someone drive who has had too much to drink is never an acceptable solution. Take the keys, call for help. do whatever has to be done to keep a drinking driver off the roads.

The risk is too great.

Noone wants to be grounded permanently. A little common sense may be all that's needed to prevent an accident. We all have choices -some more difficult than others.

But choosing to put one's life on the line by driving while intoxicated or by riding with a drunken driver is not a good decision. Ask anyone. who's done it - if they are still around.

Problem's problems BALTIMORI;.(CNS) -:-Cuba:s biggest problem may be that it has so many problem's, says Dr. Rene Zamora Marin, director of Caritas Cuba's medical commission. Visiting Catholic Relief Services headquarters, Zamora said that although Cuba' is" peaceful, scarcity . is part of life. "The time of peace has been compromised by lack of sufficient food, good transportation and medicines," he said. Since the Soviet bloc crumble'd, the island nation has lost 70 percent of its imports from its former 'benefac~ tor and Cuba still is under a trade embargo by the United States and other Western nations.

I'm lying beside you Just thinking about us Too tired to go to sleep And too much in love I know I'm crazy But I can't close my eyes I'm.worried you won't be there In the morning when I rise.

Will you be there?

Who do you dream about?

Are you alone in your sleep?

To whom will you reach out?

Oh, let it be me Oh, baby you're my obsession, My addiction, my drug Don't want to be without you When I wake up.

Will you be there in the morning?

Will you be there when I want you?

Will you be there 'when I wake up?

Oh, I need you to be there In the morning.

Will you be there?

Well you are so close to me But I feel so alone The more i touch you The more I want Don't know what to do About me loving' you But I pray to God That you feel it too You're my obsession My addiction, my drug So let the candle grow Into a great fire of love.

Wanna love you forever Don't want a love That is now or never Can't 'you see that you've got me· Down on the floor I want more; more. ' .

Written by Robert John "Mutt" Lllnge. Sung by' Heart (c) 1993 by Out of Pocket Productions Ltd" Zomba Music Publishers Ltd., Capitol Records Inc. HEART'S new CD is titled "Desire Walks On." Climbing the charts off this disc is their cassingle "Will You Be There?" !fyou are looking for advice on how to build a successful relationship, you'd best look elsewhere.

Perhaps the song is meant as

a Plirody of romance. Whatever its intent, the song serves as an apt description on how not to have a relationship, that is, unless you want to be bonkers!

The girl in the song sees her partner as "my ob,session, my addiction, my' drug." She asks him: "Who do you dream about?

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"Are you alone in your sleep?"

Clearly, this woman has, not learned that trust is fundamental for love to be real and lasting.

While there is nothing to take seriously in the song, it does raise this question: What should one do when being overcome by feelings of jealousy and possessiveness?

Jealousy may be natura:. but it is rarely helpful. Behind most jealous feelings lies fear. The fear may never be expressed directly, but it often acts to c'ontrol another and the direction of the relationship. Control takes all the fresh air out of love, leaving romance with a stale, stifled future. !f you find yourself acting in jealous, possessive ways toward another, look clearly at your behavior. Be honest. Try to identify the fear that steals a,way your trust. .

After some time of honest, clear reflection, share YOlir thoughts and concerns with your dating partner. This might be scary, for one could feel very vulnerable. Fear, tells us to hide our weaknesses if we are to be loved and accepted. .However, the oppo~ite is more likely to occur. When we take full responsibility for our feelings and the behavior that flows out of these emotions, we take a step toward deeper clost:ness with another. Such a choice states that our attitude and actions have hurt the rela'tionship but that we want to learn to do better.

Taking this risk is an ae:t .of love. It may also free the other person to express his or her feelings about your jealousy. Whatever resentments·have built up can then be released. Once more, the shared love takes in the fresh air of renewal that I mentioned above.

God wants to help us trans-' form and heal all aspects of fear. When. you are struggling with fear. or its .close cousins, jealousy and possessiveness, ask God to help you face the truth.

Go.d'sguidance wUI take you to the indivict'uals who Clln help you overcome fear. You can learn how to share'love in a non-controlling and uplifting way. ., Your comments are welcomed . '~'by Charlie Martin, RR j, Rltlckport, ·IN 47635.

D.omiriicanAcademy The Dominican .Academy stu~ , dent body gathered in the school's auditorium. Feb. 2 for a SlPelling.

Bee for grades one through eight. .

This event has become a highlight of the annual Catholic Schools Week celebration at DA, a Catholic element.ary school for g!rls located' on Park St'reet in Fall River.

Winners in the various categories were, for grade I, Katherine Monahan of Somerset; grade 2, Caroline McKeon .of Dighton; grade 3, Lindsey Kaminski of Adamsville, RI; grade 4, Shauna' Dunn 'of Fall River; and grade ?, Jennifer Bispo of Somerset.

Amanda Dwelly, a 12-y·ear-old .. from Westport, won in the sixth. through eighth grade categor-y. She will now .participate in the Re-, gional Spelling Bee sponsored by The Standard Times to be held April6 at Dartmouth High School.

The spelling champ said she aims to spell her way to the top by reaching the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC. Also in the grade 6 through g' category,. second runner-up was K,aren Carreiro of Fall River and the third runner-up was Jamie Ferreira of Fall River.

DA'S SUPER SPELLER Amanda Dwelly receives trop,hy at the school spelling. bee.

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Coyle-Cassidy High School Recent weatlier patterns are sure to keep at least one group busy: , the new Weather Club at CoyleI Cassidy High School, Taunton. , While winter storms swirled about, members got an inside look at I forecasting during a recent visit to the Taunton offices of the National I Weather Service. in Myles Stan: dish Industrial Park.

The students, who toured the' facility and spoke to professional , meteorologists, will share their 'findings with their science and I math classes. The Coyle-Cassidy science department plans to integrate information from the NaI tional Weather Servi(:e into its curriculum. .

Field trip participants were club moderator Bill Breen, president : Scott Gebelein, and members Lisa I Cetamore, Luigi Grim:ddi, Brian Herbert, Anita Pereira and Scott Nogueira.Gebelein has been aceepted into the Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT, meteorology program for fall 1994.

Coyle-Cassidy held its largest History Day competition ever on Feb. I. Projects using a variety of media were submitted bv students in world history, wester'n civilization, U.S.' history and American st ud ies classes.

The following students have I, advanced to district competition at Bridgewater State College March r

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ton, "The Influence of Christianity on Medieval Mapmaking."

Group, project: Sophomores Nathan Nowotny and Matt Kravitz of Middleboro, "Little Big Horn: Whose Last Stand?"

Historical paper: Sophomore Chris 'Wensoll of Bridgewater.

"Altering the Land: Pathway to Disaster- The Johnstown Flood."

Individual Projects ,Sophomores: James Boyle of Taunton, "The Battle of Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill: Victory of Defeat": Vanessa DeMarco of Berkley, "Portuguese 1mmigration to America": Catherine Couture of Taunton, "Exploring the West: the Lewis and Clark Expedition": Melissa Lothrop of Lakeville.

"Yellow Stone."

Freshmen: Joanna Gately of Middleboro, "Irish Emigration as the Result of the Potato Famine"; Jaclyn Souza of Taunton, "The Geographical Significance of Paris"; Scott Nogueir~ of Brockton, "Eurotunnel: The Big Dig." 273 students are listed on the second marking period honor roll.

Of those students, 20 achieved highest honors.

Bishop Feehan For the second quarter marking period at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, 24 students earned first honors, 97 second honors and 134 third honors.

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iii TWINS enrolled in record numbers this year at St. Christopher School, Parsippany, NJ. The six pairs are (back row, from left). Lauren and Rosalie De Massi, Christopher and Michael Naglieri, Annamarie and Frank Loftus, Christopher and Michael Pierro, and (front row, from left) Czerisa and Czerinelle Vitug, Sylvia and Fernando Lopez. Pastor Msgr.

Frank Ferraioli, at left, is also a twin. (CNS photo)

Father Hogan scholarships given at P .c.

The Rev. John F. Hogan Scholarship Fund reports for the 199394 academic year that awards totaling $10,000 have' been granted to six area students attending Providence College.

The awards and recipients are: $2,100.00 to Jason Buchanan, son of James and Nancy Buchanan of Fall River, a senior majoring in special/ elementary education. He is a graduate of Bishop Connolly High School. $1,500.00 to John Nunes, son of John and Carol Nunes of North Dartmouth, a junior with an undeclared m~jor. He is a graduate of Dartmouth High School. $1,150.00 to Kelly Tabor, daughter of Kenneth and Diane Tabor of New Bedford, ajunior majoring in psychology. She is a graduate of New Bedford High School. $2,000.00 to Holly Thomson, daughter of Raymond and Elizabeth Thomson of Fall River, a senior majoring in humanities. She is a graduate of Durfee High School. $1,600.00 to Kerri Beth Arruda, daughter of Raymond and Beverly Arruda of Fall River, a sophomore majoring in special/ elementary education. She is a graduate of Durfee High School. $3,000.00 to Joshua P. DesRoches, son of Conrad and Flor-

ence DesRoches of Acushnet, a frewhman with an undeclared major. He is a graduate of New Bedford High School.

The Rev. John F. Hogan Scholarship Fund was established in memory of Father Hogan, a popular and charismatic priest who at the time of his death on August 7, 1986, was pastor ofSt. Julie Billiart Church in North Dartmouth.

The scholarship fund raised nearly $126,000, which was placed in trust at Providence College. Over $60,000 in grants have since been awarded to area students.

Fund Chairman William J. Synnott congratulated the grant recipients and expressed on behalf of all who contributed to the fund the hope that each would make a serious effort in their studies and endeavors at Providence College.

Each was asked to serve the memory of Father Hogan by acts ,of kindness and thoughtfulness to others - especially those less fortunate.

The Scholarship Fund Committee has completed its formal fundraising activities but continues to accept contributions. Anyone in need of more information or wishing to make a gift or testamentary bequest may contact Providence College or Attorney William J. Synnott, 398 County Street, New Bedford, MA02740, tel. 999-1539.

Taunton Catholic Middle School celebrated Catholic Schools Month with a three-week observance.

"Academic Week" began Jan. 31 with decoration of homeroom doors. Bee Day and Student Teacher Day followed. On Maroon and Gold Spirit Day, a pep rally was held for the final boys' and girls' home basketball games of the season. Academic awards were given Feb. 4.

Bishop O'Malley celebrated Mass at the school Feb. 8 during "Spiritual Week." Student essays on the theme "Support Catholic Schools: Your Choice in Education" were on display. The week also included a teacher social.

This week is "International Week," featuring an international lunch menu. Monday, designated Student Appreciation Day, included a snack break, and all dressed in red and white for SI. Valentine's Day. A science fair was held Tuesday and Wednesday. Events close today with a prayer service and student vs. faculty volleyball game. Teachers enjoyed a catered breakfast this morningforTeacher Appreciation Day. A Lenten program with stations of the cross in tableau, followed by a chowder supper, will be held March II. A school open house is planned for March 13.

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JUMP SHOT: Coyle-Cassidy's Eric Ferris has been leading the Eastern Athletic Conference scoring in boys' basketball. A sophomore, Ferris has 348 points in 15 games for the Warriors, an average of about 23 points per game.

The language department at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, is forming chapters of the French and Spanish national honor societies. The Societe Honoraire de Francais is sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of French and the Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.

Students will be eligible for membership,at the end of their second year of foreign language study or thereafter, provided they have a current average of A- in the foreign language a.nd have maintained it for, three semesters, and a current 'average of B- in all other subjects, also maintained for three semesters.

Eligible students and their parents will be notified at the end of the third quarter marking period.

The first induction of members' will take place at the end of April.

Seniors Kimberly Atwood of Little Compton, RI, and Robert Javonillo of Fall River have been named Teenage,rs of the Month

for January by Fall River Elks Lodge 118.

Miss Atwood is a member of the National Honor Society, Connolly Alcohol and Drug Awareness Team, and the cross country and winter and spring track teams.

Javonillo is a member of the National Honor Society, drama and science clubs, student government, academic team and soccer team.

He was the school winner of the Century III Leaders competition, earning the opportunity to compete for one of two $1,000 college scholarships offered to Massachusetts participants and 'a trip to a national leaders conference this spring.

A transfer student from South Carolina, he was a member of the National Honor Roll, a Governor's Scholar and a Presbyterian College Junior Fellow in that state.

He received academic citations from the Quiz Bowl Team, the South Carolina House of Representatives, and the National Beta Club.

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HOSPICE OUTREACH, INC. Bereavement Daytime Support Group meets 10:30 a.m. to noon alternate. Tuesdays (next meeting Feb. 22) in room 220, Clemence Hall, St. Anne's Hospital, 243 Forest St., FR. Open to persons who have lost a loved one within the past two years. An evening support group meets 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursdays through March 17 at the 'Hampton Inn, Westpoit..

DISTRICT/DIOCESAN Significance: a support group for COUNCILS OF CATHOLIC family, friends and caregivers of WOMEN Fall River District I will meet at cancer patients;will meet 6:30 to 8 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2~ at Holy Name par- p.m. Tuesdays March I to April 5, ish hal1, 850 Pearce St., Fal1 River Stop & Shop community room, (entrance at rear of building). City Mariano Bishop Blvd., FR. Regispolice department representative Mi- tration is encouraged for each of the support groups'; information: 673chael Sweeney wil1 speak on the U.S. 1589. drug problem. Donations of socks for needy adults or children wil1 be LaSALETTE SHRINE, • collected.

ATTLEBORO An members of the· Diocesan - - Father Rayrnohd-Vail1il-ncourC" - Council are invited to attend a tap- . MS, will lead stations of the cross ing of the diocesan television Mass progra~ 7: 15 tonight. The stations at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, at continue each Lenten Friday, led.by St. Julie Billiart Church, North Dim- different members of the Shrine team mouth. The Mass is later broadcast and focusing on various aspects of Jesus' Passion and death. Healing for viewing by the homebound and service and Mass 2 p.m. Sunday, led those in hospitals and nursing homes.

by Father Andre Patenaude, MS. CATHEDRAL, FR CCD students wil1 be col1ecting Information: 222-5410.

ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS canned foods and soap to send to Adult education video series, Haiti Feb. 20 to March 27. Stations "Happiness is an Inside Job," 7 to 8 of the cross and Benediction 3 p.m. p.m. Wf.dnesdaysduring Lent, CCD Fridays and confessions 3: 15 p.m. hall. Stations of the cross and BeneSaturdays during Lent. diction 7 p.m. Fridays during Lent, ST. ANNE, FR rear chapel; also at Church of the Pro-life holy hour fol1owing 6:30 Visitation following Friday morning Mass tonight. service. Vincentian food pantry colST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON lection this weekend.

Stations of the cross 7:30 p.m.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Fridays during Lent; reconciliation John McAvoy, Fal1 River Herald . wil1 precede tonight's service at 7.

News columnist, will be guest speaker Calix meeting for persons recover- at Men's Club meeting following 7 ing from addictions 6:30 p.m. Sun- p.m. Mass Feb. 22. The parish will day, parish center. host monthly meeting of Come and HOLY NAME, NB See, a group for Catholic singles Holy hour whh stations of the ages 20 to 40, 3 to 5 p.m. Feb. 27; cross, Lenten message and oppor- program includes Mass, opportuntunity for confession 7 to 8 p.m. Fri- ity for sacrament of reconciliation days during Lent. 'and Lenten meal of soup and bread.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River--'-':Fri.', Feb. (8, 1994'

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ST. JULIE BILLIART, N. DARTMOUTH On Fridays during Lent, Blessed Sacrament will be exposed al1 day after 9 a.m. Mass. Stations of the cross, Benediction 'and reflection on the Seven Last Words of Christ will follow at 7 p.m.

CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB,NB Executive board meeting 7 p.m.

Feb. 23, St. Lawrence rectorY,.NB. GREATER FR ALZHEIMER'S SUPPORT GROUP Daytime session of support group for caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's or related diseases meets 12:30 to 2 p.m. Feb. 22, Catholic Memorial Home, 2446' Highland Ave., FR. Information: 679-0011.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED, CAPE Support group meeting 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, St. Pius X parish center, S. Yarmouth. Father Mark Hession will be guest speaker. Newcomers welcomed at 6:30 p.m. Information: 362-9873.

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HISPANIC CHILDREN such as these youngsters who live ina Washington State trailer park are among those: helped by proceeds from the Home Missions collection to be taken up tomorrow and Sunday in diocesan churches. (eNS photo) O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Father Camil1e Doucet, MS, will lead parish mission Feb. 26 through March 3. He will speak at Masses Feb. 26 and 27 and weekday sessions wil1 be at II a.m. and 7 p.m. Topics will be Baptism, Spirit Life, Penance, Eucharist.

O.L. PERPETUAL HELP, NB Prayer group meeting I p.m. Feb. 22 and each fourth Tuesday.

MORTON HOSPITAL, TAUNTON , Extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist are needed; information: Father David Landry, pastoral care department, 824-6911 ext. 1678.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVE)I Stations of the cross, Scripture and Benediction 7 p.m. Fridays during Lent.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Food pantry collection this weekend. A van is needed for use by the pantry 8 a.m. to noon Tuesdays; information: Joe Chiasson, :188-2504, or leave mes'sage on food pantry phone, 888-3816.· FANS, EAST DENNIS "Furnishing a New Star':," a project of Resource Center for Peace and Justice, Inc., wil1 pick up used furniture in good condition Feb. 26 for distribution to needy families.

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