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War is topic of military archbishop's pastoral SIL VER SPRING, Md. (CNS) - Despite "the ugliness of war and the horror of killing,"' U.S. soldiers fighting in the Persian Gulf are "peacemakers" working forjustice, Archbishop J oseph T. Ryan said Feb. 17 in a pastoral letter to Catholics in the military services.

Archbishop Ryan is head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, U.S.A., the c:hurch jurisdiction responsible for the pastoral care of all Catholics in the armed forces. An estimated 150,000 of the half-million service personnel in the Persian Gulf are Catholic.

The text of Archbishop Ryan's

"Pastoral Letter in a Time of War" follows.

Peace At the outset of the American Revolution, Patrick Henry said that men may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace. Today we hear many cries for peace. And of course that is a noble sentiment. Who is there that does not want peace?

Who is not against the ugliness of war and the horror of killing?

And yet we know that there are people who do not want peace.

They want power or g,lory or revenge or what belongs.to some-

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Human nature is perfectible but will never be perfect. Therefore human malice and weakness will always have to be faced and won over or opposed. Not without rea~ ~years past son did the church iJY speak of the com mUllion of saints on earth as the church militant.

Christ said that blessed are the peacemakers. Therefore the Christian will ask, "How ca,n I. make peace?" And the answer is that we make peace like we make anything good. By effort, by using our intelligence, by coming forward and not remaining passive. We do not create when we are passive. And

we do not find peace just because we run away from conflict.

We will not find peace at home' . our ears w hen someone by c I'oSlllg .IS attac k ed an d ' at our d 001'crYlllg 0 h'ld step. ur c I ren WI'11 h ave no peace if no one stops the neighborhood bully. We make peace, happen when we remove the threat to peace. ' ) U n I'ortunate Iy It . d oes no t t a k e two Sl'd es to d estroy peace. 0 ne group can d'Isrupt goo d or d er I'1' 't I chooses. But one group alone will not create peace if others will not cooperate.

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VATICANCITY(CNS)-Pope John Paul II has called an unprecedented summit of bishops from both the Middle East and Western' nations to discuss the consequences of the Gulf Wall' and offer a "concrete contribution" to peace., The pope was seeking an "exchange of information and opinions" about the war's effects on Middle Eastern populations and its. Christian communities, a Vatican statement said Feb. 19.

He also wanted to explore the war's ramifications for dialogue between East and West, Christians and Muslims, and Christians and Jews, it said.

The meeting, to ta.ke place at the Vatican March 4-5, is scheduled to bring together seven Middle Eastern patriarchs and six Western bishops, including Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Vatican participants, in addition to thl~ pope, include curial officials in charge of diplomacy, Eastern

one else. In a society of imperfect people, peace, like beauty, does not spring up everywhere spontaneously. Just as in nature weeds will keep appearing among the 'III the wheat ort h e n owers, so also social order the yearnings that arise in men's hearts are too often lusts rather than aspirations.

We do not live as yet in heaven ' an d to yearn I'or h eaven on earth'ls not exact I y rea I"IStlC nor h ealthy.

W hat we d 0 yearn f . or'IS C hnst's redemption, that it would change the fallen world we Jive in, and us with it. The work of redemption will go on till the end of time.

churches,dialoguewithnon-Christians and Jews, and relief efforts.

"The conclusions ofthe meeting ought to suggesi the most appropriate initiatives that would allow the Catholic Church and its instiContinued from Page 11

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NEW YORK (CNS) - Card inal John J. O'Connor of New York has urged U·. S. pro-flfe organizations to consider forming "a loose federation" in order to awaken "the sleeping giant of good d I h . d ecent peop e w 0 are worne

Catholic 'Social Services ·plans AIDS workshop The Diocesan Department of Catholic Social Services AIDS ministry will continue its diocesanwide effort to educate the public about AIDS with a spring workshop entitled "AIDS: Our Challenge Continues," addressing pastoral, social and personal issues of the disease.

The workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 6 at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, with Bishop Daniel A.

Cronin offering opening remarks.

The mail) address will be delivered by Rev. Walter Smith, SJ, PhD, dean and clinical professor of psychology at Weston School of Theology and author of "AIDS: Living and Dying with Hope," named Best Pastoral Book of 1989 by the Catholic Press Association.

Following his preselltation. participants will have the choice of attending two workshops from a field of 13.

AT iuiEo:F ELECTION and Call to' Continuing Conversion ceremonies Sunday at St, Mary's Cathedral, Fall River: (left photo) Rev. Jon-Paul Gallant, director of the Diocesan Office for Divine Worship, observes as one of 35 catechumens preparing for baptism through the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults inscribes his name in the Book of the Elect. Also participating, were more than 100 candidates for continuing conversion: validly baptized'

WorkShOp topics and presenters are: "AIDS and Suicide," presented . by R~bert Fournier. director of Catholic Social Services of Cape Cod. "AIDS is a Family Disease," Jay F. Hoyle, a teacher at St. John Evangelist School, Attleboro, 1990 Massachusetts History Teacher of the Year and father of Mark Hoyle, Continued from Page i i

about what's happening (on prolife issues) but have no vehicle (with which) to express themselves."

A federation would be best served if it were eventually headed by an, entity other than the Catholic Church, he said, but "at this particular point, it's not going to happen unless we (bishops) bring it into existence."

Cardinal O'Connor chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life' Activities, met in New York recently with representatives of more than 90 pro-life organizations.

He said earlier meetings with pro-life groups convinced him of the need for a pro-life federation.

"There are a lot of people with disparate ideas, but we're all there to enhance and advance the cause of human life," Cardinal O'Connor said.

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non-Catholics seeking to becQme members of the church or baptized Catholics preparing for full initiation into the church through the sacraments of confirmation and/ or Eucharist. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin presided at the ceremonies, held each year on the first Sunday of Lent. At right, participants during ceremonies at the cathedral. (Gaudette photos)

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Sister Rita Marie Regan marks 60· Maryknoll years

Fairhaven native Sister Rita diocese of Tagum in the Philip. Marie Regan is among 10 Mary- . pines.) knoll sisters celebrating diamond In 1951, by then working in jubilees in religious life this year.

Kaying, China, Sister Regan was Seven sisters marked the 'anniverimprisoned and then expelled from sary in Feb. 10 ceremonies at the -mainland China. Her brother, also Maryknoll Sisters' Center near imprisoned and expelled, met her FUEL OIL. #4 #5 #6 Ossining, N.Y., two in Monrovia, for the first time in nine years Calif., and Sister Regan in Tai- when the two boarded the same GASOLINE & DIESEL wan, China, where she has spent ship at Hong Kong in order to COMPLETE REPAIR SERVICE BU~NER BOILER EQUIPMENT 56 of her 60 years of religious life. return to the United States.

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. (CNS)Silvio Conte, a former factory worker who become an influential Republican in Congress, was remem: bered at his funeral Mass Feb. 13 as a man best known for his love of life.

Former House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, a close friend of Conte, said Conte had "a fervent desire to give back" to the people who had elected him to 17 consecutive terms in the House of Representatives.

Conte, 69, died Feb. 8 after surgery for a blood clot in the brain. He had also battled prostate .cancer for three years.

Bishop Joseph F. Maguire of Springfield, Mass., was the principal celebrant at the funeral Mass for Conte at St. Joseph Church in Pittsfield, chosen because Conte's lifelong parish, All Souls Mission in Pittsfield, was too small.

Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston was present, as were Vice President Dan Quayle and a long list of national political figures.

Jesuit Father William George, assistant to the president of Georgetown University in Washington, said in his homily that Conte "loved his country. He saw his country as the people of God. He was motivated because he recognized the dignity of everybody as a child of God." "He loved them - he loved everyone here. That's what being a Christian is all about."

Top administrators from Georgetown, The Catholic University of America, the University of Massachusetts, Boston University and Conte's alma mater, Boston College, testified to Conte's influence in increasing federal support for' higher education.

Stigmatine Father Adolph Ferrari, rector of All Souls Mission, remembered Conte as a "~eal man of charity" who never lost touch 'with boyhood .friends from his blue-collar neighborhood in Pittsfield.

A Republican in a heavily Democratic district, Conte frequently fought for environmental protection and social programs for the poor, An early supporter of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution approving increased U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, he was one of only three House Republicans to vote against authorizing the use offorce in the Persian Gulf. <

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(CNS) - The need for change in the current rite of marriage was a popular issue during the 29th annual Southwest Liturgical Conference.

Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, N. M., said in a· keynote addn:ss that the church has made great strides in the sacrament because of the Sel:ond Vatican Council, but more changes are needed. , .h "We need to initiate a new study A MASS and testimonial Feb. to marked the retirement to open up the rite even more," , of Father Bertrand R. Chabot, right, pastor of St. Anthony of Bishop Ramirez said. "The liturgical reform has not run its course. Padua parish, New Bedford, for 44 years. Th~ body of the There are new challenges of con- 2,OOO-person capacity church was filled for the Mass, celetemporary society that need our brated by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and concelebrated by 10 attention." priests including St. Anthony's present pastor, Father Edmond The 350 liturgists, lay ministers R. Levesque, left. The testimonial followed at White's of and priests responded with ap- Westport for Father Chabot, who retired in June for health plaus,e. reasons. (Rosa photo) Sponsored by the Diocese of Pueblo, Colo., the recent confer-' ence covered a host of liturgical, sacramental and human concerns A busy time of year for the tion Church, Fall River. Dr. Jereabout marriage. miah Lowney will speak on needs Jesuit Father John Baldovin of . Diocesan Council of Catholic in Haiti. Also on March 21, the the Graduate Theological Union Women begins tomorrow as memDCCW Organizations Committee in Berkeley, Calif., said in an bers of Cape and Islands District will hold a planning. meeting for address that "Christian marr,age V participate in a day of recollecthe annual convention. has become more an issue of can- tion from 8 a.m. to I p.m. at St. Cape and Islands District V will non law than sacramental theo- Francis Xavier Hall, Hyannis.

Spiritual director Rev. Mark Heshold an open meeting and eleclogy." tions at 2 p.m. March 24 at St. He added, though, that the sion will have as his theme "Eve and Mary: the Old and the New Margaret's Church, Buzzards Bay. church has adopted a more vibrant Peter Kirwin, Director of Human attitude toward matrimony in the and the Labor of Love."

As noted elsewhere on this page, Services for the town of Falmouth, past century. the Diocesan Council of Catholic will be the guest speak,er. .

Fath~r Austin Fleming, a priest is sponsoring Drug and Women From April 5 through 7, the of the Boston Archdiocese and National Council of Catholic author of "A Prayerbook for Alcohol Awareness Day throughWomen Leadership Institute will Engaged Couples," sa.id the church out the diocese on Sunday, with is not always responding to the parishes urged to present informa- be held at LaSalette' Center for tive material on substance abuse.

Christian Living in Attleboro. A true needs of engaged couples.

New Bedford District II has program offering personal and He said many engaged couples, scheduled an open meeting at 7:30 spiritual enI:ichment, skills in,comare living together or have already", p.m. March 7 at Immaculate Conmunication, organization, decision established a sexual relationship; ception parish hall. Msgr. John J. making and time and stress manare estranged from the church and 'Oliveira, diocesan chancellor, will agement, it is recommended for all only want a Catholic ceremony to speak on "A Missionary Church." in leadership positions, appease their parents; are religiousClimaxing the DCCW year, the The annual DCCW retreat will . Iy illiterate and in dire need of be heId March 8 through IO at the annual convention will be held catechesis; or find some elements Diocesan Family Life Center, 500 April 20 at St. Ann's I;hurch and of the marriage rite irrelevant Slocum Rd., North Dartmouth. parish center, Raynham. The keybecause of their cultural heritage Retreat master Father Hession will note speaker will be Or. Lois A. or intl~rfaith relationship..

Wims of the Departme,nt of Crimspeak on "The Women around inal Justice at Salve Regina ColJesus."

The annual DCCW board dinner lege, Newport, RI. The traditional meeting will take place at 6:30 "Our Lady of Good Counsel awards p.m. March 14 at Benjamin's res- to women outstanding in parish . taurant, Taunton. council activity will be presented

by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, who On March 21, Fall River Disday FE~b. wiII also celebrate the convention trict I will hold an open meeting at Members ofthe Diocesan Coun- 7:30 p.m. at Immaculate ConcepMass.. cil of Catholic Womf:n have planned local activities to coincide with Sunday's fourth annual Drug and Alcohol Awareness day as desigA National Congress of the second congress, he recalled that nated by the National Council of Sacred Heart of Jesus will take 1990 was the 300th an~iversary of Catholic Women. place Aug. I to 4 at the Sheraton the death of St. Margaret Mary In materials distributed by its. Convention Center in the Syra- Alacoque, a French nun who spread devotion to the Sacred Heart folWashington headq'uarters, the cuse suburb of Liverpool, N.Y. The meeting, the first such large lowing revelations ma~e to her in NCCW urged its more than 8,000 affiliates in 123 U.S. dioceses and Catholic gathering ever held in the 1675.

"In spite of the growth and archdioceses to mark the day with Syracuse diocese, will be sponsored by the Sacred Heart Enthrone- spread of this devotion, the hearts special parish activities.

In addition, homilies and pray- ment Apostolate located at the of mankind are cold 'again," he ers of the faithful during Masses provin~ial house of the Congrega- said.

Speakers at the three-day meetthat day should offer "a word of tion of the Sacred Hearts in Fairing will include Very Rev. Richard compassion and support to those haven.

Father A. William Mitchell, McNally, 5S.CC., a Fall River struggling with subs.tance abuse and a call·to our church to bring Apostolate director, noted that native and present provincial the values of our faith to this the congress wiII mark the II th superior of the Sacr~d Hearts urgent crisis," the council said, anniversary of a similar gathering community; Syracuse Bishop quoting from the U.S. bishops' that drew 1,509 laypersons, Joseph T. O'Keefe;; keynote priests, religious, bishops and car- speaker Rev. AlbertJ. M. Shaman; 1990 statement on subst.ance abuse.

New York Auxiliary Bishop Ausdinals to Washington.

The council also urged affiliates The 1980 event had as its theme tin Vaughan; and, dependent on to consider long-term parish pro- "The Sacred Heart: Hope of the her health and ability to travel, jects relating to substance abuse, Family." The 1991 theme will be Mother Teresa of Calcutta. including encouragement of alco- "Heart Speaks to Heart" and its Further information is available hol-free parish activities, an adult goal, as was that of the first con- from Octave S. Pimentel, 66 Mor'education series about alcohol and gress, will be to make the Sacred ton Ave., North Dartmouth 02747, drugs and compilation of local Heart better known and lov"ed, telephone 992-5402; or Donald St. resource materials for those affect- said Father Mitchell.

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Parley for disabled asked WASHINGTON (CNS) - The husband recently met with the wife of U.S. Attorney General pope and several Vatican officials Dick Thornburgh has asked Pope . to discuss'the status of the world's John Paul il to dedicate a pontifi- half billion disabled persons.

Mrs. Thornburgh is director of cal international health conference in 1992 to disabled persons and to the religion and disability program write a pastoral message on their of the Washington-based National behalf. Ginny Thornburgh and her .organization on Disability.

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themoorin~ The Place of the Pope Sometimes a sentiment mus~ be expressed despite the fact that it makes no sense to some and is unpopular with others.

The case at hand involves the Holy Father. We Americans often view him as a quasi-mystic guru far removed from the real world who spends most of his time imposing restrictions on people.

Of course, when he says things we like, he's great. He could even come to America for another visit. But if he fails to encourage our personal wants and needs, he's nothing but an archaic symbol. .

Recently many of us have not been very supportive of the Holy Father. But his mission is not to wave a national flag to placate a wealthy government; his task is to reaffirm the Good News. And a man like Pope John Paulll knows this well. We must remember that his roots lie not in the comfortable American middle class but with a people on the run, fighting just to survIve. The pope's background has served him well in appreciating the difficulties and trials of today's world. As Holy Father of all, he views every nation with equal care and concern. Thus he cares about the church in Iraq, he maintains diplomatic relations with Muslim lands and he wants the Gulf war and every . other conflict to end.

THIS NOT-SO-SUBTLE FLASHING SIGN GREETED BISHOP ROBERT BANKS, UPON HIS However, our president, our press and our media have - RETURN TO THE DIOCESE OF GREEN BAY, WIS., FOLLOWING QUADRUPLE BYPASS SURGERY IN HIS NATIVE BOSTON effectively blocked him out. Seldom do his words see print or get televisiqn time. Rarely does he get the credit he deserves for "Lo, here I am!" Num. 22:38 his diplomatic efforts towards peace.

Many Americans do not like him because he dares not only to question the righteousness of war but also to reaffirm morals and ethics in a very pagan world.

Somehow, during the 70s and 80s, we got the idea that we WASHINGTON (CNS) - New- such, and finally you begin to since black South Africans cannot were a special church, an American church, and that we should demean yourself," bornsat City Park Hospital in vote. have a special set of rules. Regarding the pope as an authority - Dumas backs the South African The South African bishops issued Cape Town, South Africa, no figure seemed almost un-American. longer are classified off\cially as a statement Feb. 5 congratulating bishops' position that sanctions But times have changed and we are forced to admit that we de Klerk for his plan, but expressing against South Africa be continued. black, white, Indian or colored. concern that the president did not Referring to African National are a nation that could not handle its day in the sun. Indeed, it Now they're just babies.

The hospital nursery policy address the issue of South Africa's Congress leader Nelson Mandela, is time for us to affirm and renew our dedication to church as well as country. We American Catholics are not separatists. change came after South African draconian security laws or deal he commented: "They say Mandela President F. W. de Klerk's Feb. I with the release of political was freed, but eyen with the reforms True, we sometimes get carried away with our notions of announcement in Parliament that prisoners and the return of exiled . he (as a black African) can't vote freedom and move into license but, as history shows, we have the Population Registration Act, .9Hosition members. and could be arrested and held ~ always somehow managed to get the proverbial train back on which required racial classification, Roburt A. Dumas, U.S. bishops' ~ithout charges," would be repealed. policy adviser on African and The Bush administration has the track.

De Klerk, proclaiming the final Western European affairs,. told said that if South Africa keeps its And now is a good time for such a return. We can effect it by dismantling of"the cornerstone of CNS that the reforms "get to the promise to release all political letting it be known that we are not afraid to affirm the role of apartheid," also said he would heart of apartheid," prisoners by April 30 it will ask John Paul II in our church and in our lives. seek repeal of two other' major Congress to allow resumption of . If implemented, the reforms will It's not a matter of mere political affirmation but rather an apartheid laws - the Group Areas mean, he said, that South African some trade with South Africa.

If Congress doesn't object within affirmation of heart and soul, not flowing from hierarchical and Land Acts - that delermine blacks "will be able to move around . which races may live where and freely," .30 days, the administration can lift authority but from faith and love. limit land ownership for blacks.

Middle- and upper-class black the sanctions.

Let us dare to declare that the pope is the Vicar of Christ and De Klerk's speech, the equivalent Africans will be affected "more All is not yet rosy in South路 the successor of Peter, not simply a personality of the week or of a U.S. president's State of the than the masses ... but that's still Africa, Pajibo cautions. Security the subject of a Time or Newsweek cover story. .

Union address, was interrupted progress," he said. police crackdowns in black townIt's about time we dared to proclaim Catholic teaching . with jeers and cries of "traitor" ships continue as does imprison"A number of whites will be from white opposition Conserment without due process, he said. .through our lives. We will be better for it and so will America. very resistant. given South Afri-

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vative Party members. Some were forcibly ejected, which prompted a walkout by the rest of the 41 party members.

South Africa's Catholic bishops and a U.S. Catholic Conference official gave a cautious welcome to de Klerk's proposed reforms.

And Ezekiel Pajibo, a specialist on South Africa at the Washington-based Africa Faith and Justice Network, told Catholi~ News Service that a repeal of race classification will mean drastic changes for a new generation of South Africans.

"Its effect is to take away the stigma of being black in South Afdca," said Pajibo. "It means black children will grow up in a better environment, will be allowed into better schools," he said.

"F~r the first time," he said young South African blacks may be able to escape the "psychological damage" that occurs when "you see yourself as a human being, then find you are not treated as

ca's history, these reforms will be hard to implement without violence," said Dumas.

Currently in South Africa, race determines "where you can live, where you go to school, where you work, what kind of job you can have, where you participate in leisure activities, where you could be buried," he noted.

In the case of a mixed marriage in which a "colored" - that is, mixed-race - South African, were to marry a black South African, one or the other has had to apply for race reclassification if they wish to live in the same household.

Implementing de Klerk's reforms will eliminate some of the racerelated repression, said Dumas.

"But there are other areas that will require special legislation or a completely new Constitution," he said. Questions remain including who would write a new Constitution, how the writers would be selected and who would ratify it,

But another sign of the radicalsocial changes emerging comes on the society pages of South African newspapers. De Klerk's 24-yearold son Willem recently became engaged to Erica Adams, a mixedrace South' African who attended the same university he did.

The South African bishops give Willem's father high grades for his per,:eptive reading of the changing societal attitudes.

"Mr. de Klerk's ability to read the signs of the times and to act constructively and courageously on that reading raises hope that a completely new dispensation for' our country is within reach," the bishops said.

Transforming Glance "Scattering a thousand graces!

He passed through these groves in haste/ And looking upon them as He went/ Left them, by His glance alone/ Clothed with beauty."-St. John of the Cross

'Childproofing the home

Dear Mary: Olllr first child is two and a half. She's into everything. She won't take no for an answer. She gets into the kitchen cup,board. She has unloaded my china. She got into the fireplace and yesterday she broke a valued vase.

We've explained to her all the thil1lgs she must not touch. We've even spanked her. Nothing seems to work. I don't think we should have to rearrange our house to suit a baby. S!touldn't she learn what is , all Jright and what is forbidden?

What do you think? (Ohio) I think you should accommodate: your toddler's need to explore' and childproof your home.

Toddlers are insatiably curious.

Curiosity and the desire to explore are normal and admirable qualities. Exploring gives your child the opportunity to learn about the world in the most effective way for her; that is, by personal experience.

Your toddler. needs maximum room to move and explore without harming adult valuables. The obvious solution is to childproof, not only the room, but the whole house.

Childproofing simply means removing all the objects which the child should not touch. Put them up or away, but keep them from the child.

Some parents think that childproofing shows entirely too much indulgence. They reason that the child must learn to respect .adult things. After all, parents can't go through their whole lives acquiescing to a child.

The answer is, of course, that a child must learn self-control, but not yet. At the toddler age the drive to explore is so new, so normal and so good that the child needs reasonable opportunities to satisfy it.

Some parents argue that it is not necessary to childproof. Particularly in a home where there are other adults and older children, the child has many guardians. You can watch her so carefully that she can be stopped before she touches your valuables.

While such vigihlnce might be possible, it would stifle your daughter's natural curiosity. You would have to interrupt many forays and attempts to explore with a discouraging "'no, no."

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SAGINAW, Mich. (CNS) Sister Epple credited her backMercy Sister Mary Epple, pastoral ground in parish ministry, which coordinator for two parishes in included "everything except where Saginaw, is the only non-ordained the buck stops," with preparing person responsible for more than her for the two-parish job. (.h·e :t Gift one parish in the Saginaw Diocese.

A native of Midland, Mich., an ('.·rlifi ...ate For :t "I'm not pastor because I don't hour's drive from Saginaw, she U·.·ekt·ud :tu'ay come with a Roman collar," Sister also gave credit to Saginaw Bishop Epple said in an interview with- Kenneth E. Untener, who has For Info Contact Catholic News Service. "But I cerTIM & BARBARA initiated an ongoing process called tainly have all the Iresponsibility "Companions on the Journey" to HAYDEN

By Dr. JAMES & and work of a pastor." help parishes examine their needs TEL. 336-4381 MARY KENNY Since September" Sister Epple in light of the priest shortage. has been pastoral coordinator at A third option is to leave your 125-family Our Lady of Mount treasures alone and confine your Carmel parish and 70-family St. daughter. Keep her in one area of COMPLETE PEACE OF MIND Rita parish. She works in a threethe house, perhaps confined in a member ministerial team with Faplaypen. ther Robert Schramm, an Oblate The problem here is that few FIRE & BURGLAR ALARMS of St. Francis de Sales, and Father toddlers can stand playpens and .John Sarge to cover five urban ReSidential. CommerCial few parents can stand,the rage and CLOSED CIRCUIT TV SYSTEMS parishes in Saginaw. distress expressed by an imprisoned Two other priests handle sactoddler. ramental duties at Our Lady of The items to consider childMount Carmel and St. Rita. "I Security Systems proofing are those that cause you would do what YOlJ call co-preDesigned for Your or your daughter distress. What siding," said Sister Epple, 49, a AU'.O""O Specific Needs situation causes you to get after Mercy Sister for 30 years. "I pro. your child 40 times a day?

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But "I do not feel the need to be must be put out of reach. Tie the & Mass. R.1. LICENSE #8094 ordained," she said... At this point kitchen cupboard and your china FOR PROMPT SECURITY SURVEY CALL in the church, it's not a possibility. cabinet shut. Block the fireplace; I'm not wasting my energy on that 448landlngRd. raise the drapes. issue."

• REHOBOTH, MA. Is there a dangerous, easily tipped But it is "frustrating" at times, stool your daughter climbs repeatSister Epple said. edly? Is there a drawer or bookOur Lady of Mount Carmel was shelf that she empties at every largely Italian and St. Rita largely opportunity?

Polish, but the parish neighbor/2 ';) f-~~ These are the items to approach hoods are now largely non-white. } with the greatest ingenuity and the Many Sunday worshipers, Sister most creative ideas. How can you Epple said, come from outside the .. alter them? Empty them, block parish boundaries. them off or store them away.

FROM THE Yet since her arrival. she noted, Child proofing allows a child. both parishes' populations have BOOKSHElF. .. room to explore and frees the parremained steady. "And contribuent from the dreary task of stoptions have increased." ping the child or forbidding access Sister Epple said she felt "very, For at every turn. very well-received" by parishionReader questions on family livers. "I don't know if I have them . ing and child care to be answered over the barrel by the fact that if in print are invited by The Kennys; they don't have me, they have 219 W. Harrison St.; Rensselaer, nothing," she added.

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Boston Cardinal Bernard Law celebrated her funeral Mass Feb. 18.

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The, Anchor Friday, Feb. 22, 1991

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK

Catholicism in America never was known for the homogeneity of its people.

There are urbanites, suburbanites, farmers and small-town folks; there are liberals and conservatives, white people, black people and Native Americans; there are rich and poor.

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN

Q. It seems to me that. am on everybody's mailing list for donations.• think • receive mail from almost every religious order in the States, plus many children's homes, veterans' hospitals, research organizations, etc.

• am an 80-year-old widow on Social Security and a small miner's pension from my husband.

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,New immigrants and the parish's future Catholics in all walks of life are united in the Creed and sacraments.

But how to inc~ease understanding of those essentials and avoid a mechanical, rote practice of them represents an ongoing challenge.

Ironically, the new wave of immigrants is helping us respond to that challenge.

Arriving from a different culture, there is much that new immigrants do not take for granted.

Many times they question practices that are second nature to others..

The challenge 'posed by new immigrants to the status quo leads 'to growth.

In a book titled "Second Wave" (Paulist Press), Jesuit Father Allan Deck offers fascinating insights on how immigrants foster the development of Catholic practices in

the United States could change the face of Catholicism in the nation. cism in the nation.

Tal<e, for example,' Sunday Masses. Frequently they are jammed. Getting people in and out quickly to avoid parking-lot problems and overcrowding often leads to poor liturgies, and, worse, precludes creation of a spiritual setting.

Too often we view these situations as unavoidable.

for the Mass but rather enhance Mass participation by helping to create a feeling of community.

Many people feel that if immigrants are going to feel at home in a parish, inviting them into overgrown, impersonal communities must be avoided. Emphasis is needed on small communities in the parish that foster their faith while also approximating their past cultural experience.

The popular religiosity of HisNow, with the new' wave of panic immigrants also needs to be immigrants, we are hearing more considered. Treatises on theology and more talk about basic ecclesial are not the essence of Catholicism communities or BECS - small for them. Rather, they often devegroups that study Scripture in order loped their religious sense from a to help members attune their lives grandmother's folklore, a father's to God and become better Christian wise proverbs or religious festiwitnesses. , vals. Some experts believe that BEC meetings do not substitute when it comes to the new immi-

grants, this is where Catholicism in America must begin.

There are so many issues to consider in a multicultural church!

This is causing parishes to stop and rethink the effectiveness of their ministerial practices.

Should religious education spend more time exploring the popular religiosity which first gave all of us an understanding of Catholicism?

Are Sunday eucharistic assemblies impersonal, assembly-line productions? Do w.e know how to relate religion and homelife? Would a parish become more personal if it created a network of BECs?, Because we want to serve the new immigrants better, we are rethinking many things. This rethinking is leading to the kind of growth that promises a more vibrant church in the future.

Advice for those on everybody's mailing list receive all kinds of cards, spiritual remembrances, address stickers, pens, and some even attach a coin to the request; • have to draw the line somewhere as • just can't keep up with all the requests.• would appreciate any advice in our diocesan newspaper. (New Jersey) A. Many older people are as upset as you are, confused over how they should respond to these contacts.

You have no obligation whatsoever to respond to, or pay for, or return anything that is sent unsolicited to you through the mail.

Religious communities attempting to raise funds for their various activities mail such materials to tens, even hundreds, of thousands of Catholics.

They have no expectation that ering your own personal finances more than a small percentage of . and needs. ' Q.•s it possible for a person to people will respond; but that small percentage makes their mailings receive an'annulment for two marriages? I'm sure the special circumfinancially worthwhile. stances of these marriages and Keep what is sent to you. If you divorces are important, but. hope wish to use some of your limited you can give me some kind of an money to respond to that particuanswer. (New York) lar religious organization, feel free A. The simple and direct answer ' to do so. to your question is yes. But the But feel just as free to send it to process for dealing with multiple anothecgroup with whom you feel marriages in reality is not that a greater bond, or whose work you simple. wish to support, more fully. Do It is not uncommon that, in its what you can and don't worry effort to help a Catholic be able to about it. enter a valid Catholic marriage, Any religious order or congre- the diocesan tribunal must deal with two or more previous margation is fully aware that there are riages by one (or perhaps both) of millions of people out there like the partners involved. you. They would want you to do only what is appropriate. considEach of these marriages must be

considered separately. T!:tis may involve a combination of annulment processes and other methods of resolving questions such as Privilege of the Faith or Pauline Privilege procedures.

As you indicate, such matters become complicated, but many things are possible. Please talk to your parish priest, or a priest in your diocesan tribunal, and explore the options available.

A new brochure answering questions Catholics ask about receiving and ministering Communion is available free of charge by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701.

Questions for this column should be sent to him at the same address.

Studies on coffee:' grounds for concern?

By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

There was good news for coffee drinkers when results from a recent study came out saying drinking coffee does not increase the risk.of heart disease. The study was directed by the Harvard School of Public Health and funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Almost immediately the objections started, saying this was not a

valid study because it was based solely on research with men. There appear, from other studies, to be specific caffeine risks unique to women, or so they say.

So here we were, in the midst of yet another of the spa~ring matches that have gone on for decades between those who claim coffee is a killer and those who say it is benign. And here I am, back on my lifelong tightrope, still wondering if coffee is good or bad: Every Sunday from the time I was about 61 would read the comics, especially one featuring a sinister man named Mr. Coffee Nerves.

His vicious mission was to lure unsuspecting people to drink coffee, a substance that would imme-

diately make nervous wrecks out coffee brewing and that 7 a.m. of them. cup.

Little did I know that my conBut, 10 and behold, there was a rescuer - a kindly man who science was soon to be in continubrought a magic potion that could ous conflict over whether I was rid people of their need for nerve- harming or helping myself by becoming a coffee drinker. Does shattering coffee: Sanka. this stuff cause cancer, heart disI started harassing my mother, a ease, irritability, birth defects, coffee drinker (and, I have to premenstrual syndrome, skin admit, a chronic nervous wreck) to rashes, cholesterol build up, high read this comic so she would learn ' blood pressure, irregularities in how she was the victim of Mr. Cof- the heart beat, and insomnia? fee Nerves'. She looked at the page Noone will ever really know just once, gave me a quick lesson until research actually results in in how advertising has its own some agreement. agenda and kept on drinking coffee. , Meanwhile, findings continue By the time I was 14, I had 'to be contradictory. The Harvard Medical School Health Letter states started drinking coffee myself, and not too many years later I was that careful analysis of virtually all hooked on the smell ~f morning the studies reporting that coffee

causes variou!; cancers have serious flaws.

Other studies suggest that not only is caffeine probably not a cause of cancer; it may actually be protective.

There are still other researchers who speculate that coffee may be a co-carcinogen, an element that encourages other substances in one's diet or the environment to cause cancer.

The conclusion is that at the present time there is no unchallenged evidence as to whether coffee contributes to disease. I am going to keep drinking coffee, but also follow my father's advice.

Like St. Benedict, he believed that most eVI~rything is OK, but in moderation.

Humor and the spirit: it's time to lighten up By DOLORES CURRAN

When I was a small girl on the farm, we were once having threshers for dinner. My mother worked hard all morning to prepare a hearty meal for 15 farmers.

Minutes, before they came in, my mother told me to bring in a bowl of grapes. I thought she said

gravy so I lifted the hot and heavy bowl, dropped it and watched it spread all over the floor. My mother didn't see, it. "Where are the grapes?" she asked me.

"The grapes are all spilled," I replied.

I don't recall the incident all that well but I've heard about it for years. "The grapes are all spilled" became a family euphemism for last minute catastrophes.

Years later I asked her what she did. "What could I do?" she laughed. "I just laughed and told the men they had to put grapes on their potatoes." , That was my mother. She knew

how to make humor work for her in the most dire circumstances.

The farmers enjoyed the story far more than they would have the gravy.

I think of that incident when people ask, "Why can't we laugh at ourselves any more?"

There's a validity in their question. Wh~n I began this column over 20 years ago, we laughed more. I could write about absurdities in the church like people refusing to acknowledge others during the sign of peace but if I write about such things today, people choose up sides.

Humor is one ofthe first gifts to

go when lives get stressed or spirits suffer. We can no longer laugh at our own or others' absurdities. We search for hidden meanings where there are none.

If we need one message to give o,ur spiritual lives a boost, it's to lighten up. God did not create us to be depressed. Why do we search for a sinister side to situations that happen naturally in the course of human behavior?

Humor is a God-given gift but, like all gifts, we have to be ready to receive it if it is to be of value.

Babies are born with a sense of humor. Just watch them react with glee when they discover their toes.

Depending on their environment, they quickly learn to either utilize or abolish humor in their lives.

A few years ago I was introduced to the Fellowship of Merry Christians, which pUblishes The JOJful Noise/etter, which claims, "Our modest aim is to recapture the spirit of joy, humor, unity and healing power of the early Christians. We try to be merry more than twice a year." They also make the disclaimer, "The opinions expressed in this newsletter are not always those of the editors or of God." (P.O. Box 668, Kalamazoo, MI 49005). In other words, sacred does not have to mean grim.

Madonna Manor celebrates 25 years of caring "Dedicated to Caring: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" is the theme as Madonna Manor, North Attleboro, celebrates its 25th anniversary. The nursing home, theformer Hotel Hixon-on North Washington Street, quite appropriately opened its doors, and its heart, to its first residents on Valentine's Day, 1966.

The diocesan facility is home to 121 men and women, most of whom are from the greater Attleboro area. More than half of the residents are in their 80s and 90s. The oldest resident, Lester Hays, is 100.

Events throughout the year will Manor's dedication to caring, from the contributions of its staff and volunteers to the support it enjoys from residents' family members and the greater Attleboro community.

Residents marked the beginning of the Manor's -anniversary year with a Mass Feb. II in the home's chapel celebrated by Rev. Edmund J. Fitzgerald, executive director of the Diocesan Health Facilities Office, and Rev. Justin Quinn, the Manor's chaplain.

Residents then enjoye,d a luncheon of chicken cordon bleu in the home's newly renovated recreation room, where pink hearts, roses and chocolates accented the day's Valentine theme.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will celebrate a Mass in the home's chapel Sunday in honor of the

silver anniversary. A choir of residents, staff members and friends will offer music during the Mass. ' The liturgy will be followed by a dinner at Brook Manor, North Attleboro. Honored guests will include Sister Marie Therese Emou, O.P., first director of the home, as well as former director Sister Thomas More, O.P., and other friends of the Manor. The

home was originally staffed by Dominican Sisters of the Presentation.

Sister Marie Therese recalled that the home opened with six residents and gradually welcomed more over time, "so it became a real family affair."

"That feeling of family continues today," said current administrator Martha J. Daneault. "Our em-

ployees give so much of themselves, far beyond the call of duty.

They give of their time, and of their genuine concern for the welfare of our residents. Their efforts truly make this house a home."

Madonna Manor encourages family members of residents to involve themselves in activities, said Mrs. Daneault. Family circle meetings, for example, address

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concerns about, placing a loved one in a nursing home. The annual Christmas dinner, to which family members are invited, regularly seats over 300. . Mrs. Daneault recalled that last year the husband of a resident chose the home, rather than a restaurant. as the setting for the couple's 40th anniversary party.

As they look back to the beginnings of North Attleboro's only nursing home, some residents, staff and family members. recall the building's beginnings as the Hotel Hixon, when it attracted commercial travelers and was 'frequently the settingJoLwedAiIlAI"e.ÂŁ~tions__ _ and- other social events.

From its opening day on April 14, 1928, the hotel symbolized North Attleboro's community spirit and civic pride. Despite rising unemployment and other signs of the impending depression, the hotel prospered until the early I960s, when it was sold to the Fall River diocese. Its last owner, Mrs. Pauline Moran, is now among Madonna Manor residents.

The town's support for the hotel has today translated into support for the nursing home from individuals, families, area churches and businesses, said Mrs. Daneault.

"The success of our annual Christmas bazaar, our open houses and our volunteer programs are among evidences of this tremendous community spirit," she said.

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In,this May 13, 19.4 leUer to and form.

So, once again, on· behalf Qf We arrived as strangers,un- myself and my brother and sister I then-administrator Sister Thomas I Am tbe Same More,OP, Attleboro native Father known by anyone there at the express to you and all at Madonna "You grow old but I am still the Donald J. Bowen, a missionary time, and humanly speaking, we Manor our sincerest thanks for same; the Jl'ey hairs come but ever serving in Oruro, Bolivia, praised probably had little reason to expect taking us in and letting us be the I uphold you; I must carry· you, I the care given his father .tMadon- little more than what might have beneficiaries of something so spe- that created you, I must bear you been considered routine. Once in cial at Madonna Manor that only away to'safety." - Is. 46:4 . na Manor. . the door it was impossible not to Dear Sister, I have returned here to Bolivia know otherwise. The graciousness, as of three days ago, and for the the attention, the patience and the first time since all our troubles honest concern for my father's began nearly two months back, I welfare were unmistakable from can begin to feel and to regain a the first instant. It was a most centering to my own life again., Imp~rtant and helpful stopover in Back here again in more familiar We are pleased to be among the surroundings some of the certainties of life begin to emerge once f---1I--ft'1"'1l%S-6It6S1frn-t6 serve Madonna more. True, none of It can nQrever will be able to be quite as before. a~ruly outstanding nursing home But life would not be life if it was not continually beckoning to us to move on and granting us the opportunity to always do so.

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Anchor, ~arch 22, 1979 people, always out to help, to visit When Bishop Daniel A. Cronin the sick. She is just selfless and visited North Attleboro's Madonna beautiful." \ Manor recently, Miss Julia Riley, Irish-born Miss. Riley, a retired 98, was the u'nanimous choice to teacher and a member of St. Mary's make him a presentation in behalf ' parish, North Attleboro. has been of the facility's guests. at the Manor since 1976. She's a "She's our sunshine," said Sister tireless v~lunteer chauf~eurcof the Thomas More, D.P., administra- ~heelchaJrS offellow resIdents and tor. "She's so interested in other IS always ready for a good game of cards.

And almost daily she pens a bit of verse that reflects her cheery philosophy of life. "From a Schoolteacher" is one of her most recent:

All ofus at St. Mary's parish, Mansfield, are proud of 'Madonna Manor's outstanding service to our beloved aged. We wish the Manor many morefruit/ul years.

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AT THE Feb. II anniversary celebration, top photo: the luncheon is opened by (standing, from left) Madonna Manor administrator Martha J. Daneault, diocesan health facilities director Father Edmund J. Fitzgerald, Madonna's director of nursing services Paulette Drapala, and John Zuba, director of cost control at the diocesan health facilities office.

Center: Father Fitzgerald and Madonna Manor chaplain Father Justin Quinn distribute communion to residents at the anniversary Mass.

Bottom photo: Tracy Strother, director of social services at Madonna, greets a resident at the luncheon. (Allen photos)

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BISHOP JAMES L. CONNOLLY, far left, at ground breaking in 1964 ~nd, center and right, at cornerstone laying in March i965

25 years Continued from Page Seven Bishop James L. Connolly pioneered the effort to transform the Hotel Hixon into tlfe fourth dio-

cesan-run nursing home, announcing plans in 1962 and in 1964 breaking ground for an addition to the former hotel with Mrs. Joseph Marsden, whose family once owned the hotel; Mother Pierre Marie, superior of the Domini-

We congratulate Madonna Manor and are happy to be among those whO serve. its,~ residents

can Sisters of Charity ofthe Presentation who originally staffed the home; and Msgr. Raymond T. Considine, then director of diocesan institutions for the aged. Work on the addition and refurbishment of the hotel continued under the direction of Msgr. Consic;line a,nd included the building of a chapel and a new wing for residents.

Recent renovations to the home's dining room, recreation room (the former ballroom) and main hall have restored much ofthe original building's charm. Indeed, Madonna Manor is listed in state and national registers of historic places.

While the Manor's residents and staff consider the past and cele-

brate the present, they anticipate an exciting future, as advances in the fields of long-term care and -gerontology offer new perspectives and possibilities.

"The last 25 years have brou ht

about many changes in nursing home care, and Madonna Manor has grown and advanced with those changes," said Mrs. Daneault.

"We're ready for the next 25 years and beyond."

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lfit's true that the Vietnam War was the first to be "fought" right in our living rooms (and I believe that), what can we say about the vivid scenes of the war in the Persian Gulf?

Who can forget the pitiful U nited Nations airmen captured in the first days and forced ·to appear on Iraqi TV to express their opposition to the war?

Networks were quick to interview former POWs from the Vietnam War who described how they were tortured into making statements on camera to satisfy their .

Viet Cong captors.

Although I flipped channels wildly during the war's first days, I missed the rerun of the incredible TV video of retired Admiral (and later U.S. Senator) Jeremiah Denton when he was forced to appear onN orth Vietnam TV as a captive.

Somehow he managed to blink the word "torture" with his eyes in Morse code to tell the world that he had been forced to deliver the message he mouthed. What guts!

What resourcefulness!

Even less well known is the fact that the man who spent seven and a half years in a North Vietnam prison (longer than anyone else) had divine assistance during his ordeal!

'--Denton did not reveal his extraord,inary experience in his book, "When Hell Was in Session," or the movie based on it but he did tell the story in the July( August isslJ~()f"New ~~e," a Mobile, Ala. magazine now called "Christian Conquest."

By "At I:30 one afternoon I was praying very hard," he told New Wine, "trying to resist some dis- BERNARD couraging thoughts.. .1 was seeking the Lord when suddenly a strong clear voice told me to say: . CASSERLY 'Sacred Heart of Jesus, I give myself to Thee,' "The words were said in such a Rev. Donald Wildmon. but the reassuring way that I knew it was retired ad,miral and former senaan exhortation from the Lord, and because of the loudness of the tor often speaks on the destruction voice, I just knew that my cell- of the, family and his personal mate, Jim Mulligan, had heard the experience with the Lord.

He spoke on the need for family words." prayer and devotion to the Sacred Denton said Mulligan had not heard the words, but Jim said sim- Heart at an Apostolate for Family ilar incidents had happened to him Consecration assembly in Minand other prisoners, and they knew neapolis and St. Paul last year, when the Lord had spoken to expressing concern that these traditional spiritual practices were them. being abandoned.

"I had never given sufficient Time was when every Catholic attention before to the Roman home had a likeness ofthe famous Catholic devotion to the Sacred painting of the Sacred Heart of Heart of Jesus. At that point, Jesus enthroned in a prominent h9wever, I started thinking about place. Occasionally I come across the Sacred Heart and what it meant; the red felt badges with the Sacred all his love, and all the suffering he Heart image in unused drawers. .had endured for me.

Remember the old First Friday "Those words became my prayer, clubs and the nine First Fridays? and I would repeat over and over And the feast of the Sacred Heart, again, 'Sacred Heart of Jesus, I on the first Friday after Corpus give myself to Thee.' This prayer Christi (J une 7, this year), requested was a great help to me during my by our Lord himself? time of imprisonment," The story of Admiral Jeremiah After his retu'rn from Vietnam. Denion and the voice from heaven Denton observed the moral decline he heard in his Vietnam hell tells a that had fallen on American society, lot about the grace and power of and he founded the Coalition for God. If the Gulf war goes on, it Decency in Mobile with the motto, would seem wise to return to the "Save the Family, Save the Nation." .' traditional devotions to the Sacred The coalition is now led by the Heart of Jesus.

Cardinal 'proposes' pro-life federation , Continued from Page One he said, but a federation could foster "a sense of solidarity among ourselves, whatever our religious differences."

Cardinal O'Connor said that as important as education, information, marches ,and protests are, "the ultimate an!>wer's going to be in prayer coupled with all of these things."

Mary Cunningham Agee, executive director' of the Nurturing Network, which provides emotional and material support for pregnant womt:n, spoke at the meeting of her hopes for "a pretty close federation. " Fear, discouragement, jealousy and divisiveness are present in the pro-life movement, Mrs. Agee said.

"I see people backstabbing one another, misquoting one another," she said, "their precious energy being spent in horrible ways."

The media "want us to look like we're a little bit crazed," Mrs. Agee added. "What we have to do

,is avoid the stereotypes and get to the heart of our message."

Those at the meeting expressed support for a federation, with some reservations, in interviews with Catholic New York, archdiocesan newspaper.

Bishop O'Donnell noted that U.S. political parties stay united despite their disparate elements. "I would think it scandalous if we cannot find some sense of unity in a cause that's important fundamentally as is the pro-life cause," he said.

Ms. Mathews-Green said she was concerned about pro-life groups appearing to be "puppets of Rome."

But Willke said of the meeting.

"I don't think there's any question that something ofan organizational structure and function will emerge from this. I just don't see any opposition to it at all."

Bishops from the pro-life committee in attendance were Archbishop Anthony J: Bevilacqua of

Philadelphia; Bishops Edward D. Head of Buffalo, N.Y., Donald W. Trautman of Erie, Pa." and James T. McHugh of Camden, N.J.; and Auxiliary Bishop Edward J. O'Donnell of St. Louis. Pro-life leaders who attended included John C. WilIke of the National Right to Life Committee; Nellie Gray of the national March for Life; Judie Brown of the American Life League; Guy Condonand Frederica Mathews-Green of Americans United for Life; Virgil Dechant of the Knights of Columbus; Benedictine Father Paul Marx of Human Life International; Joseph Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League; and Randall Terry of Operation Rescue.

Pro-life groups from the United Church of Christ, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Southern Baptists, Presbyterians, Evangelicals and Methodists attended, as did groups from ethnic and minority populations.

Pope calls bishops' summit on Gulf war Continued from Page One tutions to offer, both immediately and in the future, a concrete contribution to peace in the region, to interreHgious dialogue and to solidarity," said the Vatican statement.

The convocation ,was the most wide-ranging and collegial peace step taken by the pope since the outbreak of hostilities in the Persian Gulf Jan. 17. On several occasions, the pope has l~xpressed his personal apprehensions about the

war's immediate and long-range war signals Pope John Paul II's effects, saying it could bring disas- . "deep love and concern" for those ter to the entire region and create a affected by the war. deep division between cultures.

"Our conference has consistently Italian Cardinal Carlo Martini, voiced our strong opposition to president of the'Council of Euro- Iraq's invasion of KUWait and our pean Bishops' Conferences, is to deep concern about the moral participate, as is Algerian Archbi- dangers and human costs of war.". shop Henri Teissier, president of Archbishop Pilllfczyk said in a the North African Regional Bi- brief statement following the Vatishops' Conference. can announcement of the summit Archbishop Pilarczyk said Feb. meeting.

19 that the papally convened bi"We have called on world lead- , shops' summit on the Persian Gulf ers to heed the Holy Father's plea to pursue peace with urgency and creativity," he added. "I pray for a successful outcome to this meetordinator of communicable ing, and I once again ask all persons to pray for a speedy and just diseases for New Bedford. end to the tragedy of war..."

Closing remarks will be given by : Rev. Peter Graziano, LlCSW, Other Vatican officials have executive director of diocesan warned that the war could damage Catholic Social Services, and the the church's relations with the preprogram will conclude with a prayer dominant Muslim populations of service led by Sister Dympna the region.

Smith, RSM, pastoral minister at Among the patriarchs on the list Cape ~od Hospital, Hyannis. of attendees are Iraqi Chaldean Patriarch Raphael I,. Bidawid, CEUs will be granted to medical who has called the bombing of and social services personnel Iraq a crime, and Latin-rite Patricompleting the program. arch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem, Registration information may be obtained from Catholic Social who has said war in the region should have been avoided. Other Services - AIDS Ministry, 783 patriarchs representing the MaroSlade St., P.O. Box M-South Station, Fall River 02724, tel. 674- nite, Coptic, Syrian-Antiochene, Armenian and Melkite churches 4681. Registration deadline is are also scheduled to attend.

March 27.

Together, the patriarchs repres. ent more than 4 millioh Catholics in the region.

Also invited were the presidents WASHINGTON (CNS)-Cath- of the bishops' conferences of Engolic Relief Services workers are land and Wales, France, Italy and frustrated by obstacles government Belgium. Their countries have conand rebel authorities in famine tributed to the U.S.-led military threatened Sudan have placed in force in the Gulf. the way of relief efforts. The Sudanese government "is unwilling to cooperate with U.N.-sponsored relief plans" and "on occasion the insurgent Sudan People's Liberation Front has also obstructed . efforts to deliver food," according to the Baltimore-based Catholic relief and development agency.

Other aid organizations are said to be equally frustrated with the situation.

'AIDS workshop planned Continued from Page One a Swansea boy who died of A(DS in 1988. ' "Caring 'Til You Say Goodbye: The Price and the Promise," Sister Margaret Donnelly, SUSC, chap,lain a.t St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford.

"Drugs, Alcohol and AIDS," Rev. Mr. James Nun,~s, MS, chairperson for Pastoral Care Committet: of Cape Cod AIDS Council.

"Hispanic Women and AIDS," Lissette Blondet, director of education for the Multicultural AIDS Central 'American refugee group and outreach worker in Cambridge.

"Infection Control: Universal Precautions," Helen McGowen, coordinator of the Infection Control Program at St. Luke's Hospital.

"Living with AIDS," presented by a person with AIDS. . "Pastoral Care to a Person with AIDS," Rev. Raul Lagoa, director of pastoral care at Morton Hospital, Taunton.

"Portuguese Culture and AIDS," Rev. Joseph Costa, assistant director of diocesan health care facilities.

"Taking the HI V Antibody Test: Fears, Implications and Concerns," Christine Connolly, AI DS education coordinator for Project Care, New Bedford.

"Straight Talkin' Street Talk," Elizabl~th DiCarlo, RN, and Gerald Ribeiro, executive director of Treatment on Demand.

"Stress, Relaxation and the Person with AIDS," Sandra Hale, educator for Acute. Care Services at St. Luke's Hospital.

"Teaching Children About AI DS," Denise Laverdiere, co-

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POPE JOHN PAUL II greets Lech Walesa at a 1989 meeting. (eNS/ UPI photo)

Favorite sons of Polish Catholicism VATICAN CITY (CNS) - As Pope John Paul II and Lech Walesa entered the frescoed Clementine Room of the pope's palace, thunderous applause rang out.

The favorite sons of Polish Catholicism were being greeted by 3,000 of their fellow citizens.

The pope was dressed in white robes and Walesa ·in a charcoalgray suit. Yet both men are cut from the same cloth. " Walesa is the president who cannot separate his Polish politics from his Catholicism. The pope is the head of a universal church and cannot separate his Catholicism from his Polish heritage. .

Together, they toppled communist rule in Poland and were instrumental in the recent political changes throughout Eastern Europe. ' Their brief meeting with fellow Poles took place after. the pope and Walesa had talked extensively in private. The meeting in early February mar\ced Walesa's, first trip abroad after election as president last December.

Although he and the pope 'are old friends, this marked their first meeting as political equals: both are heads of state.

But for Walesa, it was just another meeting between a loyal Catholic and his spiritual leader.

As the pope reached out to greet him with an embrace, Walesa dropped to' one knee and kissed the pope's ring.

Later, Walesa told journalists that his papal talks "take place on, a family level. I am a son of the c"urch."

The pope speaks "with the goodness of a father," he said.

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These "are not negotiations in which special interests are at play," he said.

"Ours is a conversation of affection" in which the pope does not 'give instructions, he added.

Walesa embodies the fusion of Catholicism and politics advocated by the pope. It is a fusion in which the clergy give the moral and ethical guidelines while the laity forge the practical, political applications.

Walesa is a take-charge guy

whose politics spring from Catholic social teachings and constant advice from the Polish clergy. He nourishes his strength with steady doses of spiritua"lity. Pinned to his lapel is an engraving of Our Lady of Czestochowa, Poland's patroness.

A regular churchgoer, Walesa even had a chaplain, Father Franciszek Cybula, accompany him to Italy.

Also accompanying him was his wife, Danuta, mother of his eight children. . More than 95 percent of Poland's 38 million people profess Catholicism.

As the pope noted, Walesa's vi~it "in a certain sense is the pilgrimage of the president of a Christian nation at the beginning 'of its history."

For the pope, Catholicism and Polish history are virtually inseparable, and communism was a heavy-handed intruder. The pope .fought it from within as a priest, bishop and cardinal, and then from without as head of the church. But the opposition 'was always non.violent,as were the methods of Walesa..

From the Vatican, the pope

constantly stressed that he was a son of Poland who saw issues from the viewpoint of persecuted Catholics. He spared no effort to draw worldwide attention to Poland and its sister Soviet-bloc nations lacking religious, political and civil freedoms.

While cautioning clergy in the rest of the world to avoid partisan politics, he actively supported Solidarity, Walesa's labor union, which mushrQomed into a dissident political movement. Without papal support and the international attention that it drew, Solidarity might not have survived the communist repression of the 1980s.

The pope has proposed the new, democratic Poland as the example for other East European nations emerging from communism.

During their meeting the pope and Walesa exchanged symbolic gifts.

The pope reminded Walesa of his Catholicism by giving him a framed mosaic bust of Christ.

Walesa reminded the pope of his Polish heritage by giving him II silver medallions engraved with the different· coats-of-arms used 'by Polish governments throughout history.

Armenians grateful for hospital gift VATICAN CITY (eNS) - An Armenian delegation recently thanked Pope John Paul II for his gift of a hospital following the devastating 1988 earthquake in the Soviet republic.

A 20-person group presented the pope with a model of the hospital, expected to be completed by July.

In 1989, the Vatican announced that the pope had donated $100,000 toward reconstruction in the stricken region.

A Vatican spokesman said the hospital would be named "Redemptoris Mater," Latin for "Mother of the Redeemer," and the title ofthe 1987 papal encyclical on Mary. It was the first time Armenian authorities have given a hospital a religious name, the spokesman said.

The Armenian delegation included the new hospital's director and several doctors who will work in the faciltiy.

Armenia, a small southern Soviet republic that bordersTurkey, has a substantial Christian commun-· ity, with a small number of Catholics. The two main Armenian churches belong to the Oriental Orthodox tradition, which includes'the Copts, Ethiopians and some Syrians. .

The Dec. 7, 1988, earthquaKe killed an estimated 100,000 people and left another 500,000 homeless.

Tens of thousands were permanently disabled.

True Faith "True faith must be able to go on when everything else is taken away from us." - Thomas Merton

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VATlCAN CITY (CNS) - On the room - 11 Connecticut family a sunny afternoon in a nearly on sabbatical in Italy.

"I've never seen it so deserted," deserted St. Peter's Square, a German nun pointed to a helicop- . commented the mother as her two ter and said in a frightened voice, children stretched out on the "They tell me it's guarding the chapel's wooden benches.

At the Vatican's archeological pope, because of the war. It's terrible," the nun said in a frightened office, requests for English-langvoice, as the helicopter circled lower uage tours have diminished drastically. There's no Jine for the elevaaround the papal apartments.

The episode captured the melan- tor to the dome of St. Peter's and choly mood these days at the Vati- . even tickets for the pope's weekly can, where police are more visible general audience are moving more and people have all but disap- slowly than usual; on Feb. 13, the peared. At certain hours, Vatican a!1dience hall was half-empty.

Vatican souvenir vendors point.

City resembles a well-patrolled out that winter is always the low ghost town.

For the record, the nun's fears season in Rome, and that the dollar's plummeting exchange value were misplaced: The helicopter was only preparing to escort the had already cut American tourpope's motorcade to a Rome church ism.

"If this keeps up during Easter, for an Ash Wednesday ceremony.

The pope has not cancelled any we'll be in big trouble," said one activities because of the Gulf war; shopkeeper, who estimated his sales but the atmosphere in Vatican at about one-third of normal.

Vatican security has been disCity is quiet and somber. Tourists have deserted Rome in droves and creetly beefed up. More police are in evidence outside the gates and Italians are staying home, too.

Officials estimate that Rome around some nearby buildings, such hotel bookings are down as much as the Vatican press office. At the as 50 percent, largely out of ap-: Arch of the Bells entrance, a car prehension over possible terrorist barrier has gone up. . Visitors, however, are rarely attacks in reprisal for Italian participation in the war against Iraq. stopped and searched. If anything, The cancellation rate is highest passing in and Qut ofthe Vatican's among Americans and Japanese, public places has become easier for the lack of tourist traffic. tourist trade mainstays.

"The flow of pilgrims has dropUnlike Italy, the Vatican has ped to a frightening level. The rea- escaped terrorist attacks in the son is clear: people are afraid, past - except f9r the attempt on afraid of terrorism," said a priest the pope's life in 1981. Italian poliwho has welcomed visitors to St. tician Roberto Formigoni caused Peter's Basilica for 16 years. a brief stir n:cently when he sugInside St. Peter's Basilica on a gested that the pope's strong antirecent weekday, the world's larg~ .war s.tanq was bringing risk .pf . est church seemed more cavernous harm to the pontiff. than usual. Its marble floor stretchThe affair proved inconsequened nearly empty to the main altar, tial, but it added to the general and no one was at the ancient unease and left some bad feelings statue of St. Peter. Three people at the Vatican. stood in front of Michelangelo's Perhaps the resentment was best carved "Pieta," which normally_ reflected in a page one cartoon draws a small mob. published by a Rome daily, showTourism is the lifeblood for the ing an anxious Formigoni shoving Vatican. Its museums, for exam- the pope off St. Peter's balcony ple, take in well over $10 million while shouting, "Help! The pope is annually, cine big reason the Vati- in danger." can City budget has run in the Those who see the pope these black for several years. days will probably hear him deBut officials say the number of nounce the war, while others who visitors has steadily declined since simply wandl~r around the Vatican the fighting began and is now run- can see dozens of anti-war posters. ning about 34 percent below last They might also run into the year's level. . elderly woman who has free-lanced However, there are benefits for papal medals and coins since the those who do come: no longer days of Pope John XXIII. Recently push-and-shove, the museum is she gestured disconsolately toward now pick-a.nd-choose. It's not quite St. Peter's Square and said: possible to stroll alone in the Sis- "There's no one. I didn't make 10 tine Chapel - as a magazine cents yesterday, and today it's just recently fantasized - but it's much as bad." easier to find a place to sit down.

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The child was identified as 2year-old Orlando Francisco Taillon after his mother, Angeline Taillori, and a male companion were arrested in Huntington, W.Va., about 160 miles southwest of Clarksburg. A used car salesman recognized the car they were trying to sell and called the police.

According to news reports, Mrs. Taillon said she did not intend to abandon her child but wanted to find him a good home. She told police she was fleeing an abusive ex-husband in Kingston, Ontario, reports said.'

After Mrs. Taillon was returned to Clarksburg for arraignment on charges of abandonment, Father Higgs went to her to be released from the seal of the confessional.

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The priest said he supports Mrs. Taillon's claim that she never intended to abandon Orlando, who had been placed in foster care by the' state. "Abandonment is too harsh a word," he said.."She was distraught. She really wanted what was best for her child."

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Do you believe that Massachusetts' fiscal problems can be solved by keeping retail stores open continuously? How many additional pairs' of so'cks and refrigerators would have to be sold and sales tax AWIDE CHOICE OF SA\lNGS collected to justify violating the spirit of Memorial Day, the Fourth & IN\'ESfME~T PlA~S of July and Labor pay? _ Governor Weld ,and a small special interest group of retailers are trying to sell the repeal of holiday closing and Sunday hour laws as a way to raisl~ tax revenue for the state. They are offering a false solution to our economic A WEEPIN G peace sign epitomizes District of Columbia problems and attacking the quality \\Tnt CO\YE.\IE.\T OFFlCf.'; of life for retail workers' families resident Steven Carter's feelings about the Gulf war: "I'd like mRonalOl T SOl THEA."'U\ .\1-1.'\'\, across the state. the war to stop, yet I support our troops," he said. (CNS/ UPI Consumers, especially in today's economy, have a limited amount photo) of money to spend. Governor Weld ,is suggesting that increasing store "SHOREWAY ACRES IS A SURE THING" hours or days will sorneh'ow magiIt's 'What Life On Cape Cod Is All About" . cally increase the amount of money __ .!'lrw EnKland GrtAways MaKazinr customers have to spend in stores.

It is that type offaulty logic that is WHEELING, W.Va. (CNS) ~ responsible for the current down"I tried to get her to see that e Thr Prrsonal allrntion found only at turn in the state. It is far more It was no ordinary confession. In there were other possibilities," he a family-ownrd Rrsort Inn likely consumers will spread their fact, nothing in Father Donald X. said. After an hour, when he saw e 8 SUPERB mrals prr couplr e Full Srryicr B.Y.O.B. Bar spending over 7 days, increasing Higgs' seminary training prepared he could not change her mind, he eliyr Music-Dancing-SingalonKs retail business costs without any him for the desperate plea of the asked her to meet him in 10 mine Allractiyr Accommodationsupturn in tax revenue. woman sitting before him. utes in the church with the child's Indoor Pool-Saunas Find a home for my child, she . At present, stores are closed by birth certificate and a written 'per person. per night. db\. law for 5 of 365 days and prohi- begged the priest, for in an hour statement of what she wanted to F'lr rrsrrvations, call Toll-trer in New EnKlanJ occup. 1/25/91 thru 6/29/91 the woman said she would "no 1-800-352-7100 or 508-540-3000 (last 3 weekends in June rates bited from. opening until noon on do. slightly higher.) Holidays: 3 Sundays. That is· time.retail longer be alive."

"She wanted to hand the child nights. tax & tips not included.

"Myfirst thought was this wasn't employees spend with family, in over to me right there in the recOn Historic Shore Street. Box G Dept. A. Falmouth. Mass'. 02541-tory," Father Higgs said. "But I church or simply at rest. Paid happening," said Father Higgs, ,holidays area benefit that workers associate pastor of Immaculate wanted to do it in _he church have struggled to establish over Conception Parish in Clarksburg, because that would have 'been a the years. Now, the Governor W. Va., of the recent incident after public place." would force workers to choose the mother had released him from By the time he got to the church, ..£ ftK'$ Ph PllAlIlACISTS Aft armacy IECISTOEI fIIESCIIPTI~1IS betwee:n church, family or pay- the seal of confession. "We talked however, the woman had panicked check. The so-called employee about things like this in the semiand left the child in a pew. Father Invalid Equipment For Rent or Sale nary, but it was all theory. I never protections in the repeal do not Higgs then went to Father Cesidio deal with retail worker's reality thought it would happen."

J. Federico, Immaculate ConcepSur.ic.1 IiII",."ls - B"d· ",. M.chi"tI - lollst and aroe totally unenforceable. tion pastor, and "told him a child The priest knew that letting the ~ • Holhster - Crutch.s - [I.sloc Sloe.i",s Retail workers, many of whom woman leave her child and possibly had been left in church and that I Sur,lt.1 I OrlhopedlC Apph."c.s are single parents, would be forced commit suicide was not the answer, was under the seal." ".00 ' • Truss.s - OIYl'" - OIYl'" MlSh, T."1s , (."., 1l.,ul.lOrl . Approv.d for M.dlcer.

Initial reports that an abandoned to seek additional child care that is but since he was under the seal he boy had been found by a priest in limited on holidays. In effect, the could not call for help without her ~ ~ 24 HOUI OXYGEN SEIVICE Immaculate Conception Church Governor is asking struggling permission. ;+MO~'~:+I 24 HaUl EMEICENC' fIIESCllPTIOIl SEIVICE set off a flurry of phone calls from working families to shoulder the 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ItO, people throughout the United burden for a budget deficit. The Juneau, Alaska: "th'is war i's 613 Miin St., D.nnls,ort - 3.·2219 t.,=I States and Canada who wondered plan may appeal to some consu- immoral... If it is patriotic to sup~ O:~:fllf\ 550 McArtllur BIYII., It.. 21, PICIII.t - 563·2203 if he was their missing child. Othmers, and thus be a politically easy port the use of military force, so ~" ers wanted to- adopt the child or option for elected officials \0 con- also is it patriotic to question that 30 Mli~ St., Orl.lns - 255-0132 offer clothing. sider. However, the bottom line force ... If Americans begin deny509 Kempton St, N....1If.rd - t93~92 Father Federico told police that for retail workers is the quality of ing the democratic principle of he had seen a brown car with life for their families.

P'flc"""OOf\, (PARAMOUNT PHARMACY) , open debate... If this nation is , There is an additional moral sending its men and women to kill Ontario license plates outside the issue that many find disturbing. and be killed, attempts at home to church around the time the child National holidays commemorate , end the fighting might well be the or honor significant American greatest measure of support they accomplishments or citizens. The can be given."

Fourth of July - our symbol of It makes more sense to me than Independence would become a any of the following: sentence to work. Labor Day America's leaders and, allies ATTLEBORO FALL RIVER CAPE COD NEW BEDFORD honoring working people would supply Saddam Hussein with techsuffer the irony of being just nology for ten years, then declare 783 SLADE ST. 261 SOUTH ST. 10 MAPLE ST. 59 ROCKLAND ST. another work day. At a time when . him a madman. America's presi- .

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War is topic of military;'archbishop's pastoral' Continued from Page One Christ blessed the peacemakers but he did not guarantee that the peacemakers would themselves enjoy peace. A fireman saves lives by constantly endangering his own life. A doctor who treats infections exposes himself to the danger of infection. And those who make civil peace happen are' likely to lind only peace of soul themselves.

To tolerate injustice, to submit to terrorism, to ignore genocide may spare us from open conflict for a while, but it certainly does not create a world at peace. It may postpone a shooting war even· while it more surely makes life more and more intolerable.

of various nations that led to this as the custodians of the security situation will not easily be sorted and freedom of their fellow counout even by historians in years to trymen; and where they carry out come. All of us have to keep exa- their duty properly they are conmining our conscience and our tributing to the maintenance of motives to avoid self-deception or peace." the ruthless pragmatism that lets Pope John Paulll reflected these the end justify the means. As always earlier statements in his own meson this earth, imperfect humans .. sage to a group of soldiers in 1986, make imperfect judgements and when he said, "Peace, as taught by now ordina.ry people so.mehow have, sacred Scripture and the experience ~o O?ake thIs all result 10 peace and of men itself, is more than just the Justice and order. absence of war. And the Christian And yet let ~s note that fr?m the is a.ware that .on earth a human outset ou~ natl?n engaged 10 ~ro- socIety that IS completely and l?nged dlScu~slon and examlOaalways peaceful is unfortunately a tl~n of co~sclenc~ about the ~orutopia and thatthe ideologies which aht~ ?fthls conflIct. The prac~lcal present it as easily attaindeCISIOns were made after serious able only nourish vain hopes.... and even prayerful consideration· The cause of peace will not go forof the moral principles set out in ward by denying the possibility the traditional Christian teaching and the obligation to defend it.. ..

Our Military With a harsh dramatic suddenness, well over 100,000 Catholic young men and women, officers and enlisted personnel, joined by thousands of other Americans, have been called by our nation to become peacemakers in a distant corner of the world. .

Many of these I have met personally as I visited American bases the world over, praying with them and their families. I have met many exemplary Catholic officers when they were being trained at the military academies. A good number of our generals and admiral are products of our Catholic schools and universities, devout in their faith, serious about their heavy responsibilities and well versed 'in the ethical teachings of their church.

They are neither thoughtless automatons of the state as officers nor fannon fodder as enlisted personnel. They are, over all, professional, dedicated men and women of integrity, sensitive to all the implications of armed conflict, acutely conscious of their obligation to the nation and to their fellow men.

While we are well aware of the evil effects that a "military mentality" can have upon the nation, as about a just war. For six months, we see in some undeveloped coun- debate in government and articles tries, thank God we do not find in the press referred to the teachsuch -a feature in ,our American ings of moralists and theologians society. In fact, often we see a sus- about war. The whole nation heard picion in some segments ·of our civ- about the necessary'conditions for ilian population' that is not born a just war: legitimate authority, out by the facts. proportionate means, last resort, Civilian-leadership, congression- right intention and regard for the al oversight, detailed reporting by innocent. Whatever decisions were the news media, and above all an finally made, our leaders had involved citizenry keep the mil- . looked squarely at moral princi.itary our servants and not our ples and not just expediency. masters - which is not the case among so many of th'e countries The Popes Pope John Paulll said recently that oppose our actions. . Today, our young Americans in that all wars are disasters, whatthe service are being called, not eyer the reasons for entering them. only by their nation, but also by a These words are the latest papal great part of the world to ·create statement. They follow and do not peace and· security where it does contradict what the pope's predenot exist. It is to them above all . cessors have said. Pope Pius Xll that I address these brief thoughts said in a Christmas message after about peace and justice and re- World War II that"people threasponsibility. tened with unjust aggression may.

Is it a paradox to call our armed not remain passively indifferent..:. forces peacemakers? Some would. The solidarity of the family of say that is self-contradictory. But nations forbids others to behave as ,the peace was gone before our mere spectators in an attitude of young men and women got there. apathetic neutrality.... Among the A ravaged nation and a horrified goods of humanity, some are of wodd body of nations called for a such importance for society that it restoration of the order that was is perfectly lawful to defend them being destroyed and fOf a h'alt to against unjust aggression. Their the aggression that gave every defense is even an obligation for indication of increasing. the nations as a whole, who have a It must be acknowledged that in duty not to abandon a nation that this world no person or nation is is attacked." perfect and no people or nations, Later, the Second Vatican Counhowever reprehensible their ac- cil under the leadership of Pope tions, are totally evil. High ideals John XXlll and Pope' Paul VI and baser motives can be intert- said: "Those who enter the milwined. The political miscalculations itary service in loyalty to their and even self-serving motivation country should look on themselves

Chaplains will help (the youth of our time) to see military service as . a useful and often indispensable service for peace and freedom, although with the rightful respect. for legitimate alternative choices, which cannot be considered exdusive or preferential.... May the military truly become defenders of justice and tl)us builders of peace..."

Today we have to bear in mind this idea of the Holy Father, that peace is built when justice .is defended. Let us be wary of those who speak of peace without providingjustice, for that would only be a false illusory peace that cannot last.

We see that Pope John Paul and the previous popes have given us much more than a slogan that war is a disaster. Those who serve in the military perform a noble and important mission when they place their very life at risk in defending against aggression and in protecting world stability. The soldier can and should be a worthy, heroic figure. Bravery, discipline, love of country, a passion to right wrongs, subordination of personal welfare to the common good - all of these are qualities needed in every age and perhaps more than ever in our times.

In keeping with the Holy Father's positive regard for the role of the Christian soldier, I want to impress on our young servicemen and women the caution that war does not excuse a hardening of heart or hatred of another nation or lessening of Christian moral standards,

no matter what our opponents may do. As the visible symbol of security and justice and good order to the community, the soldier ~hould be above reproach and must fight against the brutalizing effect of violence.

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up fully to our values butwe pray with dread that our enemy will not live up to his rhetoric.

Although this war involves us all and is highly publicized, the fact remains that the individual soldier is left very much'alone in battle, vulnerable in his mortality, awesomely reponsible for his buddies and for his country's mission, dependent on both his military training and his previous religious formation to make crucial splitsecond decisions of life and death.

This War War is as old as Cain and Abel, but today we have a 'new kind of war. Just as we were engaging in euphoria, certain that the Cold War was over, a vastly different kind of global disturbance apPrayer peared. The Gulf war is a particuTo our 'young people in such larly strange and terri'ble one, with' situations, I want to say that a its racial and religious overtones. most vital element in their life has And even when the shooting is to be prayer. Adequate weapons' over, prolonged efforts must continue to establish conditions that . may give security; popular support may lift the spirit; but a spewill foster lasting peace rather than cial strength comes from the awareness of God and a sense of union with him. Through the contact with God that prayer gives, we have an antidote for fear in danger.

Through prayer, we have a preventative of hatred. Through prayer, we take on the mind of Christ in every situation.

I want to assure every Catholic serving in the Gulf conflict that we are praying with you. On ships, in trenches, where you are, we will be there. Some 150 Catholic chaplains are stationed there with you to provide whatever the church can give. Besides all the priests on active duty, older reserve chaplains are being recalled to help. We thank all the dioceses imd religious orders that have been socooperative in releasing their priests from important pastoral assignments for this sudden recall.

We also assure our servicemen and women that ~e are praying for you. Each Mass at each installation is specially for you. A Rosary Crusade for Peace is going on at American bases aroung the world.

Various dioceses have joined in this crusade of prayer or in similar efforts. While our crusade of prayer . a truce in that ever-simmering area. for peace does not get the publicity In this new war, the whole world that street demonstrations do, can watch from a safe distance and 'know that heaven is being bomyet up close by way of television. barded with constant prayer by We get instant replays of a plane thousands of us for you and for a shot down and between-battle speedy just peace. interviews asking a soldier to desWe are praying for the families cribe his fear or his political attitudes.· Are we getting a clearer of those in the Gulf and will try to understanding or are we indulging visit and support them as they keep vigil. We pledge our prayers a morbid voyeurism? Are we moved to prayerful concern or are we and urge the prayers of all the looking for vicarious thrills, like nation for our leaders that their the onlookers who inevitably gather decisions be made with such wisto gape at an accident but do dom and Christian principle that nothing to help? War can brutalize lasting peace and justice will come those who watch as well as those soon from these terrible labors. who engage in the fighting.

Finally, we thank these young This is also Ii new kind of war men and women in the Gulf, who where countless advisers stand are no wiser or hoiier than the rest ready to give instant military, pol- of us but who' are ready to risk itical and ethical analyses about their lives for us, for other nations, the complex realities unfolding at and for a better world. May God the moment. Demands for instant reward such generosity and idealfeedback, like demands for instant ism. May Christ's principles guide results, can lead to superficiality, them in their responsibilities. May emotionalism and overreaction God's caring providence lead them rather than to principled, reasoned . through danger ba'ck to us safe in body and spirit. action.

It is a paradoxical war, with dif"Deliver us, Lord, from every ferent rules for either side. As we evil and grant us peace in our day.. make greater efforts than ever In your mer,cy keep us free from before to exclude civilians from sin and protect us from all anxiety danger, the other side uses cap- as we wait in joyful hope; for the tives and hostages and non-comba- kingdom, the power and the glory tants as human shields. U.N. reso- are yours now and forever." lutions are answered with terrorism, threats of nuclear and chemical ............... ......... warfare and attacks on non-participating countries. Deeper than the GOD'S ANCHOR HOlDS Persian Gulf is the gulf between our values and the strange rhetoric ---- of our enemy. We may fail to live

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Anne Carroll a teacher in the social studies and religion departments of Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, has been named Senior Matt Macy and junior Outstanding American History Maura McDermott are January Teacher for 1991, rece'i~ing the Athletes of the Month at Bishop award Feb. 6. A faculty m\ember Connolly High, Fall River. Macy, since 1975, she is also coach'qf the varsity hockey team cocaptain, was girls' tennis team, which has cited for his commitment and abil- the state championship for four ity to inspire fellow team members; years in a row.

Latin students recently heard a McDermott, first-year ski team member, was praisedJor her dedi- presentation by Atty. Aram P. cation and concern for other team Jarrett on Latin expressions used members. At press time the Con- in the legal profession and on nolly team was in third place in the preparation required by an aspirCentral Massachusetts Ski League. ing lawyer.

Jesuit-affiliated Seattle College Feehan alumni and alumnae were is offering an Ignatian Scholarship recognized at a recent Distingto Connolly graduates. The four- uished Alumni Awards Night. year, renewable award is valued Master of ceremonies was Peter up to $5,800 and' is nOt tied to Gay, '77, a past award recipient. financial need.

New honorees were Anne Marie A by-invitation parents' night is Dumont Langevin '66, James slated for Feb. 26. Parents not Lennox '69, Nancy Woodbury specifically invited to meet with a Freeman '70, Rosemarie Hastings teacher but who wish to attend Landry'75. may call the schqol office.

Katheryn Laporte Viens '80, The Parents' Club will spo'nsor ' Brian Pinsonneault '83, Kathleen a public Lenten lecture at 7:30 Zern '84, Elizabeth Moore '86, p.m. March 3. Rev. Brian Lin- Michael Hoag'86andJohn Mcinnane, SJ, a doctoral cartdidate in tyre, J r. '88.

Christian ethics at Yale UniverThey were recognized for consity, will speak on church tradi- tributions to Bishop Feehan's tions with regard to war and peace. growth and traditions. , Alumni Association - members Feehan debaters did well at a recently heard an address by Rev. Valentine's Day South Shore Frank McManus, SJ, on the Jesuit Debate League meet at Somerset educational tradition.

High School, with team members defeating Cohasset, Somerset and Foxboro high schools and Nita Patel, Katherine Goldman, Darcie Dennigan and Elisabeth Sweeney meriting special recognition for Top CYO basketball players of being top speakers in one or more the Fall River diocese will com- debate rounds. , pete,in their respective divisions in the next two weeks.

On Sunday, the Junior Boys All Star r ournament will take place at the Fall River CYO with Taunton , playing Attleboro at I:00 p.m. 'imd' Fall River hosting New Bedford at 2:00 p.m. The two winners will then play for the championship at ' 3:00 p.m.

Meanwhile, on the same day in New Bedford, Fall River Senior Boys will take on New Bedford 'Seniorsat 1:00 p.m. at the Kennedy CYO Center.

The Taunton CYO, located at the Catholic Middle School, will be the site of Prep Boys All Star game between Taunton land Fall River 7:00 p.m. Monday.

The Junior Girls Tournament will take place March 3 at the Fall River CYO. Fall River will host Attleboro at 2:00 p.m., and the winner of that game will take on New Be~ford at 3:00 p.m. ,At all tournaments, a Most Valuable ~Iayer will be selected along with an All-Tournament Team.'

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SMILES WERE in style as students from SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, accompanied by principal Kathleen A. Burt, distributed Valentines bearing promises of prayer to residents of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home, Fall River.

SSe Peter & Paul Among recent activities at SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, was a performance of Kids on the' Block puppets depicting children with various handicaps, emphasizing their similarity to their peers.

The school hosted other Fall River Catholic school teachers for a workshop on classroom use of cable" TV; and Dave Roycroft, representing C-SPAN, presented principal Kathleen Burt with a new VCR and monitor for the school in appreciation of her support of the Cable in the Classroom program., At the annual science and '!Invent America" fairs, over 100 inventions and 75 science projects were

displayed and students were chosen to represent the school in regional Invent America competition. Prizes were awarded by the Fall River Gas Company.

School Lenten activities are based on the theme of peace in families and the world. Letters will be sent to Gulf troops, including a videotape of stories, songs' and messages made by 4th graders for "faraway friend" Jeff Becotte, whose birthday is Monday.

A new school and five-year plan are in preparation and the 199 r alumni newsletter is ready for mailing. Those not on the mailing, list should call 672-7258 for inclusion.

Bishop Stang Stang seniors Lynn' Asato and Tim Schmitt are national semifinalists for the National Honor Society scholarship program.

Lynn"daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Yukio Asato of. Westport; is corresponding secretary of the Stang chapter of Amenesty International, concert-mistress of the Massachu-' setts District. Orchestra and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and captain of the varsity tennis and cross-country teams., â&#x20AC;˘ Tim, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry' Schmitt of Maric)n" is National Honor SoCiety vice-president, cap,tain of the varsity football, basketball, and golf teams and' also active in the school retreats pro- ' gram, speaking at both senior and' freshman retreats.

, The Stang drama club will present the musical fairy tale "Cinderella" on May 3 and 4 at 7:00 p.m. and May 5 at 2:30 p.m.

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Directing the play is Stang graduate Beth (Cabral) Lecuyer '77, with Paul Cabral as music director and Rebecca Babineau as, stage manager. Katie Lacoste, East Freetown; has the role of Cinderella; Kevin Grant, Fall River, the prince; Luke Wrobel, Fall River, the king; Kim Sutcliffe, East Freetown, the' queen; Cristina Nunes, New Bedford, the fairy godmother; Jennifer Belair, Adamsville, RI, the stepmother; Judy Alden, WestKindness Worth Winning port, Esmerelda; and Alison Gor"From quiet hours and first,' "A part. 'of kindness consists in man, Westport, Prunella. loving, people more tlian they debeginnings, out to the undisco,>erve-."-Joseph Joubert vered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter c~re and the love offriends," - Hilaire Belloc

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JEREMIAH Kuslock, a third grader at St. Joseph School, Fairhaven, hugs the teddy bear he won during Catholic Schools Week.

St. Joseph School An information night for parents of potential students will be held at 7 p.m. March 20. Further information is available from Sister Muriel Ann Lebeau, principal, telephone 996-1983.

The school plans an alumni reunion this fall. Those wishing to be added ~o the mailing list may also call 996-1983.

Bishops issue book on sex education WASHINGTON (CNS) Guidelines for education in human sexuality approved by the U.S. Catholic bishops last November have been published under the title "Human Sexuality: A Catholic Perspective for Education and Lifelong Learning," by the U.S. Catholic Conference Office of Publishing and Promotion , Services.

The guidelines stress that sex education is a lifelong process needing cooperation among parents, schoolteachers, religious educators and church officials.

Topics discussed include chastity, moral decision-making, marriage preparation, p'rocreation, homosexuality, celibacy, adolescence, pornography, sexual abuse and dysfunction, and acquired immune deficiency ,syndrome.

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Feb. 28 with a Hawaiian Night theme.

ST. JULIE, NB A book near the tabernacle is . available to enter names of loved .ones serving in the Persian Gulf.

Scholarship applications available at church entrance.

HOLY NAME, NB Parishioners Richard and Jane Estrella and their four children, burned out of their home Dec. 26, will be aided by means of a benefit dance March 2 at VFW Hall, Freetown. Information: 996-4953. Other contributions may be placed in the collection basket at any Mass.

ST. JOSEPH, NB A parish mission is planned for March 2 through 7.

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ST. JAMES, NB Daily Lenten Mass 9 a.m., chapel.

PARK STREET DOMINICANS, FR The Dominican Sisters at 37 Park St:, invite all to attend stations' of the cross at 6: 15 p.m. each Friday of Lent.

ST. ANTHONY OF DESERT, FR Exposition of Blessed Sacrament noon to 6 p.m. March 3, with holy hour at 5 p.m.

ST. MARY, NORTON Canned goods for Food and Friends Kitchen, Attleboro will be collected March 2 and 3.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Women's Guild open meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday. Noel Dent, an exercise physiologist, will speak on ways of reducing stress.

SACRED HEART, FR Women's Guild members will attend stations of the cross at 7 p.m.

March 5, followed by an open meeting in the church hall featuring "Living Pictures" arranged by cochairs Rosann Patota and Fern White.

ST. JOHN BAPTIST, WESTPORT Parish mission 7:30 p.m. March 4 through 7, directed by Rev. Richard Delisle, MS, codirector of LaSalette Center for Christian Living, Attleboro, on the theme of God's love.

Programs will include Mass or a prayer service, a sermon and the opportunity for confession.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET A Lenten retreat with Father Thomas McElroy, SS.Cc., concludes at 7 tonight. Vincentions meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Women's Guild members will attend a Lenten dinner and evening of recollection at 6 p.m.

March 12 at LaSalette Center for Christi;1n Living, Attleboro.

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Introductory workshop in natural family planning: 2 p.m. Sunday, parish center. To register, call 432-7192.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED SUPPORT NB Meeting 'and open discussion 7 p.m. Monday, Diocesan Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Rd., N. Dartmouth. Information: 994-8676; 9981313.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO The World of Islam, an audiovisual presentation, will be offered t0rt0rrow at 7:30 p.m. in the Good News Theater by Rev. Joseph Gosselin, MS, superior of the Attleboro LaSalette community. All welcome.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Baptism preparation meeting.7 p.m. Sunday, church hall.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT Lenten program each Wednesday includes 7 p.m. Mass. Those willing to pray one hour weekly for the Pletrish may call the rectory to register.

New choir members welcome; rehearsals 7 p.m. each Tuesday, church.

Cub Scouts in need of assistant leader; information at rectory.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Father Albert J. Ryan is presenting a course in Christology following 7 p.m. Lenten Mass each Monday. Stations of cross follow Friday Mass. A 3rd grade CCD teacher is needed for the remainder ofthe year.

Information at CCD office. As of March, baptism will be given each last Sunday and an obligatory instruction will be held. at I:30 p.m. each . first Sunday for parents and sponsors.

ST. JOANOFARC, ORLEANS New Vincentian officers: Susan Canu, president; Alice Wolff, vice president; Priscilla Fox, secretary; Francis O'Neil, -treasurer. The parish prayer group meets at 7:30 p.m. each Lenten Tuesday in the church for . Mass and teachings on Life in the Spirit by Father Herbert T. Nichols.

All welcome. Lenten services: Mass Mon.-Sat. 8 a.m. in Orleans; Mon.Fri. 9 a.m. Eastham; stations of the cross after Friday Mass in Eastham; 3:30 p.m. Friday, Orleans; 7 p.m.

Wednesdays, Catholic doctrine series for adults; 7 p.m. Fridays, study/ meditation on stations of cross, both in Orleans.

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Lenten holy hour 2 p.m. March 3, including presentation on the Shroud of Turin by Dr. and Mrs. Anthony Feb. 25: Dn 9:4·10; Ps Paruda. A yellow ribbon tree in the Lk 6:36·38 79:8·9,11,13; sanctuary bears the names of all serFeb. 26: Is 1:10,16·20; vice personn~1 for ~hom parishioners are praYing. FIrSt penance 10 Ps 50:8..9,16·17,21,23; a.m. March 9 .

Mt 23:1·12 ST. STANISLAUS, FR Parents of children in parochial Feb. 27: .Jer 18:18·20; Ps school will meet at 6:30 p.m. March 31:5·6,14·16; Mt 20:17· 3. First penance 7 p.m. March II. At 28 . that time families of first-timers are also invited to receive the sacrament.

Feb. 28: Jer 7:5·10; Ps SACRED HEART, lk 16:19·31 1:1·4,6; N ATTLEBORO During Lent, Evening Prayer, Mar. 1: Gin 37:3·4,12·13, which is part of,the Church's Liturgy 17·28; Ps 105:16,21; Mt of the Hours, will be offered in the ~1:33·43,45·46 chapel from 7 to 7:30 daily.

ST. ANNE HOSPITAL, FR Mar. 2: Mi 7:14·15,18· Parish mission 7:30 p.m. March 4 20; Ps 103:1·4,9·12; Lk through 7, directed by Rev. Richard 15:1·3,11·32 Delisle, MS, codirector of LaSalette Center for Christian Living, AttleMar. 3: Ex 20:1·17 or boro"on the theme of God's love.

20:1·3,'7·8,12·17; Ps Programs will include Mass or a 19:8·11; 1 Cor 1:22·25; prayer service, a sermon and the opportunity for confession.

In 2:13·25 ST. ELIZABETH SETON, N. FALMOUTH A discussion series on the Gospel HOSPICE OUTREACH, FR of Matthew will be held at 9:30 a.m.

Interviews of potential volunteers each Wednesday of Lent and the to offer aid to terminally ill homebound patients and their families parish will conduct its first mission will begin in March at Clemence the week of Mar. 10 with sessions at Hall, 243 Forest St., behind St. 9 a.m. and repeated at 7 p.m., directed Anne's Hospital. Training of those

by Rev. Robert A. Oliveira of the accepted will begin April 2, continuDiocesan Department of Education.

Canned and packaged foods will be ing twice weekly through May 16. collected Sunday for Falmouth SerInformation: 673-1589. vice Center by Men's Club members.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON ST. MARY, NB Lenten activities include two daily The Women's Guild has estabMasses: 7:30 a.m. and 5:15 p:m.; lished an annual scholarship for a Marian novena and Benediction 7:30 child in St. Mary's School whose p.m. each Monday; a penance sermother, aunt or grandmother is active vice at 7:30 p.m. March 13, in addiin the guild. Members will meet at tion to confessions at 3:45 p.m. each 7:30 p.m. March II in the parish . Saturday and preceding evening center. Sister Rita Pelletier will Mass Monday through Wednesday present a Lenten program. of Holy Week; a potluck supper and ecumenical service at 6:30 p.m. Feb. HOLY NAME, FR 28 with Dr. Leonard Holst of Prayers for peace are offered at all Dighton Community Church as guest daily and weekend Masses. Parents preacher; a Lenten vesper service at of first communicants meet at 7: 15 3 p.m. March 3; stations ofthe cross p.m. Feb. 26 at school. Parents will at 7:30 p.m. each Friday, with tabsponsor hot lunch for school stuleaux by 6th grade CCD students on dents Feb. 27; school advisory counMarch 15; and a Mass for deceased cil meeting 7: 15 p.m. Feb. 28. Stu~ parish Vincentians at 7:30 p.m. dents are attending Monday noon March 18. Vincentians have shipped Mass during Lent. over 3 1/2 tons of clothing to DoroSS. PETER & PAUL, FR thean Sister Maureen, now serving Names of parishioners shut-in or in the Rio Grande Valley in South in nursing homes should be reported Texas. Video on alcoholism will be to the rectory. shown Sunday following 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. Masses.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, ST. PETER, CAMBRIDGE POCASSET Graduates of St. Peter's School, Canned and packaged goods for Cambridge, are invited to attend a needy will be collected during Lent reunion at Hillcrest, Waltham, at in lieu of Rice Bowl donations.

6:30 p.m. Oct. 26. Those with names CATHEDRAL CAMP, and addresses of alumni are asked to E. FREETOWN contact the reunion committee, PO Espirito Santo youth retreat 9 Box 343, Cambridge 02 140, tel. (617) a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

868-1580 or (617)492-0213.

WORLD DAY OF PRAYER O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Parish women's guilds invited to Stations of cross presented by participate in World Day of Prayer Lower Cape Ult~eya 7 tonight. Men's service I p.m. March I, Brewster Club open supper meeting 6:30 p.m.

Baptist Church, Rte. 6A between Feb. 26 with talk by sports statistiRtes. 137 and 124. cian Ken Hermes. Reservations by HOLY CROSS, FR Feb. 24 at 385-2169 or 896-2810.

Father Claude Jarmak, OFM Healing Mass with Father Richard Conv., will conduct a mini-mission Lavoie, MS, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28. New March 2 through 5. A faculty member choir members needed; rehearsals 7 of St. Hyacinth College and Semi- to 9 p.m. each Thursday. nary in Granby, he also preaches ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET retreats, holy hours and missions.

Joint breakfast with Holy Name Information on time of the Holy Society March 3.

Cross services is available at the recCATHEDRAL, FR tory, telephone 672-2093.

A fast meal of bread, cheese, fresh fruit and beverage is available in the school from 12:25 to I p.m. each Lenten Wednesday. Duringthe meal readings and music will carry out the theme of Lent and peace.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Fathers John H~nnessy and Raymond Weithman of the Mission Church in !Roxbury will conduct a God the Son parish mission Feb. 24 through God the Son, Giver of . March I daily at 9 a.m. and 7:30 light, grant to praying minds p.m. and will visit sick of the parish during the day. Anyone wishing a the grace of light to know ·visit may.call the rectory. New altar Thy Truth. Amen. boys' meeti.ng 4:·15 p.m. Tuesday, church.

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