02.24.89

VOL. 33, NO.8.

Friday, February 24, 1989

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Sister Barb';t;apark'*s outside an Appalachian cabin as inside her ~an she prepares a youngster for the more formal setting of a traditional classroom. (NC photos)

"Helping old ladies" WASHINGTON (NC) - Last December's first-ever national collection for the retirement needs of religious is likely to take in more than $20 million, topping all previous national church appeals, said the collection's coordinator.

The dollars pouring in demonstrate "that most Catholics who were educated or cared for by sisters have a strong affection for them," said Sister Mary Oliver Hudon, a School Sister of Notre Dame who is director of the Tri'" Conference Retirement Project and its retirement fund. ' Catherine Herl, supervisor of income and receipts in the V.S. Catholic Conference's accounting department, confirmed Feb. 16 that it appeared the amount collected would be "much bigger" than in past V.S. church appeals.

The largest previous national collection was the 1985 Bishops' Overseas Appeal, which yielded $13.4 million, she said.

Sister Hudon based her predic- . tion that the collection would exceed $20 million on deposits already made by 28 dioceses and estimates provided by collection coordinators nationwide. The deadline for dioceses to submit their results is March 30.

The nun said the fact the collection for religious "was the kind of appeal that's personal" contributed to its success. "You're helping old ladies. That can't be beat, in a sense," she said in a Feb. 15 interview.

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Holy Union sister brings Christ to Appalachia Sister Barbara Walsh, SVSC, a Religious of the Holy Vnion of the Sacred Hearts and a native of SS. Peter and Paul parish, Fall River, who was for 12 years principal of Holy Name School, Fall River, has for the past seven years worked in the small Appalachian community of Monticello, Ky. With a van equipped as a mobile classroom, she travels the mountainous countryside around Monticello, gathering pre-school children for weekly classes in preparation for their beginning formal school instruction.

Without such aid, she explains, the youngsters, all from culturally deprived homes, lag behind their classmates and for the most part drop out of school at an early age.

When Sister Barbara ~rrived in Monticello its small Catholic parish had a resident priest. But last May he was forced by illness to leave his post and since that time the Holy V nion nun has added the assignment of parish administrator to her job description.

In a recent letter to friends in the Fall River diocese, she updated them on her activities, telling them that her School on Wheels, as the mobile classroom is called, "is in full swing and going very well.

and 21 adults. Every morning I start out at 7:45 to make my rounds to different sections of the county and usually return home around 12:30 for a much-needed lunch.

"My afternoons are spent sharing a communion service with our parishioners and then preparing CCD classes for my second, third, and fourth graders. I also conduct an adult program on Sunday mornings followed by a com!TIunion service.

"Since we no longer have a resident priest we have Mass on Saturday l;venings. Three priests from neighboring counties say Mass for us every week and I take care of the services during the week. It's been hard on the older people and they don't like to drive at night, so we're hoping the 'new year will

"If I were two persons I could have two vans,in motion and be kept very'busy! I have a full enrollment with my 30 pre-schoolers

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bring us someone fr~m our new diocese to serve us.

"In addition to this I have been the literacy coordinator for our county for the past two and a half years and have helped train 29 tutors for the illiterate of our area.

"It is hard to believe that there ,are almost 5,000 functionally illiterate people in our county alone.

Even people who hold a high school diploma come to us and after testing them we find they only read on a first or second grade level. It makes me wonder what is going on in our school systems when we have so many dropping out because of failure and/ or bad experiences.

"It. saddens me to find young men in their early twenties up through the forties unable to read simple pre-primer words. Our program is only touching the tip of the iceberg, yet it is a beginning point in their lives.

"It is so difficult to convince some of our people of the need for an education. Our dropout rate is still one ofthe highest in the country and our scores are on the rock bottom. We rank last in the nation which is mostly due to our rural areas.

"Therefore it is so important for us to get parents who don't read into our program so that they will in turn convince their children to stay in school and complete their Turn'to Page Six

Cutting costs creatively NEW YORK (NC) - A new study of inner-city parishes is demopstrating that parish and diocesan officials have found creative ways to counter the effects of budget and personnel'shortages, according to the priest responsible for the project.

Father Philip Murnion, director of the National Pastoral Life Center. said in an interview at his office in New York that it was sometimes necessary to "bite the bullet" and close a parish, or merge it with another parish.

But he said the study, begun in 1987, found that many inner-city parishes were developing innovative approaches to cutting costs, increasing income, drawing in more people and working out partnership and collaboration agreements among parishes.

"There are causes of hope in the remarkable things that some people have done," he said. "There is real enterprise in this. But no matter what one does, the aim is not simply to reduce losses, but to improve the ministry."

Father Murnion said some innercity parishes continued to rely on bingo and similar fund raisers to help pay expenses. But he said bishops and priests found it increasingly distasteful because it sometimes encourages poor people to get into habits they cannot afford or because clergy and other parish leaders find it time-consuming. . As alternatives, Father Murnion Turn to Page Six

Bhopal bishop raps handling of disaster BHOPAL, India(NC)-Government mismanagement in the aftermath of the disaster in Bhopal, , India, where thousands of people died or were injured folIowing a poisonous gas leak in 1984, has made it impossible to find a just settlement to the situation today, the bishop of Bhopal said.

Bishop Eugene D'Souza said mistakes by Indian authorities following the pesticide plant catastrophe had in effect limited aid to victims and created confusion over indemnity.

The bishop spoke in an interview published in the French Catholic newspaper La Croix in early February, about two weeks before the Indian Supreme Court approved a final overalI settlement of $470 milIion to be paid by Union

Carbide, the Danbury, Conn.based company that owned Union Carbide India Ltd., the subsidiary which operated the plant.

Bishop D'Souza said he believes that the official government count of victims is far too low.

"Based on my own investigations, I can state that at least 12,000 people, perhaps as many as 20,000, have died. Between 60,000 and 80,000 people were seriously affected, most in the lungs and the eyes," he said.

The: government estimates that about 3,300 people died from the gas leak and another 20,000 continue to suffer from its effects.

The: bishop said that in addition to a poorly organized immediate relief effort, the government failed to conduct systematic re.search on

the number of victims, their identity and the treatment they had received.

The result now is that an estimated 500,000 people are believed to be seeking some sort of indemnity for injuries, with little way of knowing how accurate the claims are, the bishop said. Many of the real victims have never received an adequate medical examination, he said, while "cheaters" have been convinced to make claims by lawyers who promise they will receive millions of dollars in compens~tion.

While the church played a key role in aiding victims of the disaster, organizing relief camps and health centers, after eight months "the government turned against the organizaitons that were working in favor of the victims, espe-

cialIy Christians," Bishop D'Souza said.

For exampie, he said, the church wanted to build a hospital in the 'affected zone, but was refused government permission. The same thing ocurred when the church tried to build a formation center in Bhopal.

The' bishop said any indemnity settlement would raise complex legal and! political questions. He estimated that it would take 10 to 20 years to figure out a fair distribution of funds. He also questioned what a large, sudden influx of money would do to the local economy.

Asked to describe ajust solution to the problem, the bishop replied: "Given these previous mistakes, there is none."

The mid-February settlement came after four years of legal wrangling over the case. Accepted by both Indian authorities and Union Carbide, it is less than onesixth the $3 bilIion sought by relatives of the victims.

Union Carbide has said the gas leak was deliberately caused by a disgruntled employee it has never named. But an Indian investigation blamed the company for inadequate plant maintenance. The disaster occurred when methyl isocyanate, a deadly gas, escaped from a storage tank at the plant and drifted over highly populated slums and low-income neighborhoods near the plant.

Many victims died in their sleep after inhaling the gas.

Robert Canuel

Catholics share Moslem distress, says cardinal

Bishop Daniel A .. Cronin presided and Father Paul E. Canuel was principal celebrant at the funeral of his father, Robert M. Canuel Sr. The Mass of Christian Burial was offered yesterday at St. Michael's Church, Swansea.

Mr. Canuel, 72, was a Fall River native, the son of the late Alphonse and Lydia (PeIletier) Canuel.

Until his retirement in 1979, he was a manager in the trucking industry. He was a World War II \veteran and a member of the American Legion. He died Feb. '20.

He is survived by his wife, Beatrice (Belanger) Canuel, and by two sons in addition to Father Canuel, ,pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Attleboro. They are Robert M. Canuel Jr. of Swansea and Rene A. Canuel, Fair Oaks, Calif.

He is also survived by a daughter, Claudette Canuel of Swansea; two sisters, Doris Kaegael of Westport and Lillian Lamontagne of Swansea; a brother, Benoit Canuel of Fall River; six grandchildren and a great-grandson.

NEW YORK (NC) - Catholics share Moslem distress over a book perceived as an attack on Islam bijJ denounce the death threats invoked against the book's author, Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York said Feb. 19.

The cardinal, at his regular news conference at St. Patrick's Cathedral after Mass, responded to questions on the international furor over "The Satanic Verses," a novel

by British author Salman R ushdie condemned by Iranian Moslem leaders as blasphemous. Iran's religious leader, AyatoIlah Khomeini, has demanded that Rushdie be ass, assinated for writing the book, which portrays in surrealistic style the activities of an imaginary religious leader. ,"I just think it is imperative that the Moslems here in New York know that we share in their deep distress in the attack that had been made on their faith," Cardinal O'Connor said.

LAST OCTOBER thousands gathered in front of the cathedral of Vilnius, Lithuania, for the first Mass allowed by Soviet authorities in nearly 40 years. The outdoor liturgy was At the same time, however, he ' conceiebrated by about 50 priests. (NCj UPI-Reuter photo) added, "certainly, we would denounce death threats or anything of that nature."

M.ore freedom seen for Soviet churches'

Irish immigrants Hub ,parley topic WASHINGTON (NC) - A conference on "The New Irish Immigrant," sponsored by the U.S. bishops' Committee on Migration and

by Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston, will be held tomorrow at Boston College.

It wiIl be the first in a series that the bishops' committee will sponsor over the next two years to examine the social, economic,'political and pastoral concerns of ethnic groups. • Archbishop Theordore E. McCarrick of Newark, N.J., committee chairman, said severe problems in the Irish economy have resulted in a wave of "new Irish" entering the United States.

ROME(NC)- The Soviet govern- religious practice in the Soviet turned to the church, and Bishop "But we deplore" the belittling ment has nearly completed a redUnion.

Julijonas Steponavicius has' been' or "ridicule" of anyone's religion, he said, noting that for more than drafting of its laws governing reliIn Lithuania, the only predomi- allowed to assume duties as apostolic administrator of Vilnius after 20 years the Catholic Church has gious liberty and practice, says the nantly Catholic Soviet republic, having been impeded for 28 years. recognized the validity of some of Italian newspaper II Messaggero. many restrictions on the church The newspaper said the Soviet and its ,personnel have been lifted It is reported that some Lithuathe religious messages of Islam.

"We would like to see Islam 'Ministry for Religious Affairs was or' tacitly ignored. In the past year nian priests have begun teaching respected just as much as Catholi- seeking reaction to the new draft Masses have been televised, the 'catechism classes despite a ban on such activity. cism, Christianity in general or' from representatives of the coun- cathedral of Vilnius has been retry's religious bodies, including Judaism," he said.

Asked about censoring the book, Catholics., The proposed laws wiIl grant which has been banned from some nations, the cardinal replied that new legal status to the churches' , LOS ANGELES (NC) - An missionary who developed the Bi ble "I don't deal in censorship. "Those and allow them to act within soCiety as an evangelization tool in the issues are matters involving the more freely, according to the news- , English translation ofa Bible widely used in the smaIl Christian com- face of increased activity by funConstitution and government, he paper's Moscow correspondent.

The changes would give churches munities of Latin America is availdamentalists in the Chilean slum said. juridical standing in Soviet courts, able in the United States, accordwhere he lived and worked.

The Women's Guild at St. Eliing to Franciscan Communications, Answering a~other question, he and laws restricting church finan. zapeth Seton Church, North Fal" The Spanish-language edition, , 'mouth, is marking the National also said that he thinks it would be cial and communication activities' " its U.S. distributor. would be liberalized.

"The Christian Community called "Biblia Latin'a-Americana," Council of Catholic Women's ~iIlyfor Catholics to buy "The Religious instruction, now proSatanic Verses." ' Bible" contains new translations was first published in 1971. Its 100 annual Drug and Alcohol AwareIn such cases, he said, he would hibited, might be aIlowed if-done of Scripture texts from their origi- editions have sold a total of 12 ness Day with a program in the nal languages, as well as English million copies. give the same reply he gave in 1988 privately outside school settings. church haIl at 7 p.m. Sunday.

The changes have been in preptranslations of the commentaries, when Christians became upset over Three speakers will include a "The Last Temptation of CHrist," aration since 1984 as part of a 'which provide practical advice on In 1985, Claretia~ Father Alberto young woman recovering from a Soviet effort to normalize rela- applying biblical lessons to life a film seen as deriding Jesus.

Rossa, head of Claretian Publish- substance abuse problem. situations.

"I think our Catholics are intel- tions with the churches. ' ers of the Philippines, persuaded The program is open to the The Bible's primary translator ligent enough, mature enough, to Father Hurault to begin work on community and is expected to be Ne:ws of the possible revisions realize how foolish attacks against follows numerous recent official and author of the commentaries is an English-language edition of hi.s of special interest to parents and Father Bernard H urault, a French another faith are," he said.

Bible. and unofficial changes con,cerning teenagers.

Latin-American Bible now in English

"Substance abuse awarenessri'ight

,Sou'thern African bishops:' , defend church activity

AN ORPHAN in Sagar, India, finds love through the ministry of one of the sisters who staff an area children's home.

This Lent, suggests Msgr. John J. Oliveira, diocesan director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, live with a little less so that those in the missions may live with a little more.

Story has happy ending , In December 1984, the Anchor carried what it described as a Christmas story about three newspapers and a coast-to-coast chain of outreach and concern. Now it is time for the story's happy ending.

the senior Hamiltons and the transplant took place, followed by months of checkups and worrying.

Now, a little over four years later, all the news is good.

Pamela's mother, Bette Wojciechowski of Scituate, R.I., brings Anchor readers up-to-date on her daughter and son-in-law: "Remember our son-in-law who had leukemia four years ago?" she wrote. "Well, please God, he is well! Dec. 14 was his fourth anniversary for a bone marrow transplant. Pam and Dave often recall all the caring and prayers.

The couple was advised to have "They live in suburban Seattle, the procedure done at Swedish where Dave works for an aeroHospital in Seattle, a top U.S. space compnay. Pam is a unit facility in the field of oncology. A . secretary at Swedish Hospital' stay in Seattle of four or more where Dave was treated. They do months would be required to per- volunteer work there with new mit doctors to monitor Dave's transplant patients and sometimes post-transplant condition. have family members stay at their The Visitor carried the original home. It's been very rewarding. story, inqicating the young cou"And - blessing of all - they have a son; Jeff, 16 months! ple's need of funds for travel and living accommodations, especially "Thought you'd like this happy for Dave's parents. His mother news." was to be the bone marrow donor and she and her husband hoped to stay in a Seattle home where they could "have a cup of tea and ROME (NC) - Poland wants someone to talk to rather than sitdiplomatic relations with the Holy ting and worrying in an imperSee, but believes it is now "up to sonal hotel room." the Vatican" to decide when to Through an Anchor staff mem- establish them, a Polish governber with Seattle connections, a ment spokesman said. story about the Hamihons apThe spokesman, Jerzy Urban, peared in the Northwest Progress said in a recent Rome press con"and the phone in Fall River rang ference that his government believes off the hook with calls from Seat- full diplomatic relations with the tle offering hospitality."

Vatican would above all have a Don and Lola Dixon of Seattle ,"symbolic" value, since official diopened their home and hearts, to plomatic contact already exists.

The newspapers were the Providence Visitor, the Catholic Northwest Progress of Seattle, Wash., and the Anchor, The story was about Pamela and David Hamilton, a young Greenville, R.I., couple who had learned in the course of a routine physical examination that David had leukemia and needed a bone marrow transplant. '

Poland puts ball in Vatican court

DURBAN, South Africa (NC) - Abuses from apartheid to summary executions of persons suspected of witchcraft are condemned in a wide-ranging pastoral letter issued by the bishops' conferences of southern Africa.

The letter, from the Interregional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa, also defends the active role some churches play in seeking to end injustice in the region. It says Christians in some circumstances might find nonvioient resistance and civil disobedience the only means available to achieving that goal.

The letter calls for an end to southern Africa's civil wars, with the bishops telling governments and rebels to "listen to us, lay down your arms."

But it also deals with other injustices.

The letter says that although the bishops see greater respect for human dignity developing in the region, they also are concerned with continuing "grave injustices." , Among those injustices they cite many instances in which people are executed without trial after being accused of witchcraft. In traditional African belief persons are able, for instance, to cast spells to destroy an enemy. Because witchcraft is considered so threatening to a community, execution is often the remedy.

In other cases of capital punishment'without trial, individuals have been summarily executed on suspicion of treason, the letter says. , The letter also condemns neocolonialism - a form of political or economic pressure by powerful foreign nations., In another section oftheir letter, the bishops reject criticism that churches have no place in actively seeking to end injustice.

To fail to deal directly with the causes of abuse would be like

North Attleboro liturgy project Members of Sacred Heart pari'sh, North Attleboro, are enriching the Lenten and Easter seasons by use of a series of Paschal Mission handouts.

The colorful pages, distributed by the parish liturgy committee, are published by Liturgy Training Publications of the archdiocese of Chicago, said Joanne Mercier, the parish director of music and liturgy. The series began the Sunday before Ash Wednesday and ends on Pentecost, this year May 14.

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"To those who object that we are now political and interfering in the role of government, we affirm that the way the church transform society is part ,of her mission," it says. "The church is not seeking political power in pursuing this mission" but instead is relying "on the spiritual power that God has given' her, the power of truth and grace and love."

"We are sent to bring the Gospel message into every area of life and to all levels of society," the letter says. "We are not going 'beyond our responsibilities when compassion inspires us to work for justice; we are fulfilling them."

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the maorin&:-, The Madness of Religious Extremism It is unbelievable that a geriatric, fanatical, Mideast fundamentalist can terrorize the publishing community of the free w~r1d.

Regardles's of the contents of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, the reaction of the Ayatollah Khomeini threatens the freedom of Western culture and challenges the security of nations.

No government or leader has a right to put out a public contract. on a person. When such a mandate is issued by a religious leader to fanatic followers, the situation becomes perilous in the extreme.

The seriousness of the matter is reflected in the commendable reaction of the l2-nation European Community, each member of which has recalled its top diplomats from Iran.

We cannot anp must not ignore censorship by terrorism. It is not alone a violation of our own constitutional freedoms but of international law.

The Ayatollah has already demonstrated that human life me,ans little to him; he has already held this nation hostage; he has allowed millions to die in a religious war. His track record indicates that compromise and concession are tactics foreign to his nature.

One fears that the Ayatollah's directive to murder Rushdie is not an isolated occurrence but rather that it reflects a mind set that would not hesitate to eliminate any person, community or nation not fitting into his vision of what the world should be.

The Authors' Guild of this country did well to be outraged and demand presidential action. Who would think that a few words from a deranged enthusiast could intimidate hundreds of booksellers in the United States? Yet this is the case and it should, not happen in America.

President Bush has rightly condemn,ed the threats by Iran against Rushdie and declared that Tehran would be held . accountable fOf any violence against U.S. interests. No one has a license to ,murder, still less in the name of religion.

A faith that arrogates to itself the right to such outrageous behavior, at the same time placing itself above any whisper of criticism, certainly loses all credibility in the world community.

It is true that last year Western religious groups rose in wrath over the movie The Last Temptation of Christ. but for the most part objections to this adventure in bad taste were limited to picketing and petitions. An official murder contract and threats of the same to publishing houses and bookstores are quite other matters.

One can indeed appreciate the religious heritage of Islam and realize that in general Moslems do not fare too well in the West. The pattern of historic separatism is ancient, bloodied and full of misunderstandings. The present threat ca.n onlywiden the rift between East and West.

Extremists lead their followers to destr.uction. There is really no room in a pluralistic world for those who would continue to enforce might over right. When we begin to harm and kill in the name of God, one of our most precious gifts is destroyed.

Freedom is our very special human gift, given us by a loving God. When it is limited by force or destroyed by madness, we suffer a great loss. It is thus intolerable that the limited vision of a single human being should attempt to hold nations in bondage.

The outraged sensibilities of Islam may indeed be understood but they cannot be permitted to destroy our Western social order.

That is why the present situation must be carefully watched.

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THESE YOUN.GSTERS AT OUR LADY OF THE MAGNIFICAT SCHOOL, KINNELON, NJ, HOLD AWARDS FOR HAVING DONE MOST TO PROMOTE A PEACEFUL SPIRIT IN THE SCHOOL.

"Let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts." Col. 3:15

Housing major Bush worry' WASHINGTON (NC) - When Barbara Bush went to a shelter for the homeless to make sandwiches and to read stories to the children, she called attention to a problem camped on the nation's doorway.

In his inaugural address, her husband did not overlook the homeless either.

"My friends," President Bush said, "we have work to do. There are the homeless, lost and roaming; there are the children who have nothing, no love, no normalcy."

Church groups, public officials and nonprofit groups have claimed for years that in addition to voluntary efforts, such as those demonstrated by Mrs. Bush, solving the homelessnes~ problem will require a rejuvenated federal role as well.

"The church is proud of its efforts to feed and shelter the poor with some dignity," Bishop James W. Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, testified to a House subcommittee in June 1988. "But society cannot pretend that soup kitchens and shelters are a humane response to poverty and homeless ness."

And while "it is appropriate and necessary" for Congress to approve emergency funds for agencies serving the homeless, "this cannot, will not, and should not substitute for federal action to help provide permanent, affordable housing," he emphasized.

Nearly 3 million people in America are homeless, according to data from the National Coalition for the Homeless.

"What we're looking for (to reduce those ranks) is a national partnership" involving federal and community cooperation, said Mayor Raymond L. Flynn of Boston, a Catholic layman who headed aU .S. Conference of Mayors' task

force on homelessness and hunger.

"There is no excuse whatsoever for why people are sleeping in the streets," Flynn told a January news conference in Washington.

Releasing a report based on the problems of homeless ness and hunger in 27 cities, Flynl} added that "the people who always get hurt the most are those least able to suffer. They don't have the political clout."

The mayors' survey revealed: - In 1988, requests for emergency shelter increased by an average of 13 percent, and requests for shelter by homeless families increased by 18 percent.

- An average of 23 percent of homeless families' requests could not be met. ' - Officials in nearly all the cities surveyed expect requests from homeless individuals and families for 'shelter to increase further in 1989.

- One of every four homeiess persons in the 27 cities is a child.

- Every city surveyed cited lack ofaffordable housing for low-income people as one of the primary causes of homelessness.

- All cities surveyed used federal government funds, and almost all used state and local funds to provide shelter for the homeless.

But with the decline in federal housing assistance, none expected to meet the needs of its low-income citizens in the foreseeable future.

Housing advocates and local government officials also note that the federal budget for housing assistance was 'cut by approximately 80 percent duting the eight years of President Ronald Reagan's administration.

According to the U.S. Catholic Conference, Congress in 1980 d uring President Jimmy Carter's

administration appropriated $30.8 billion for housing; Carter sought $33.5 billion. For 1987, Congress appropriated $7.8 billion; Reagan sought $2.3 billion. .While it has cut back on housing assistance for lower-income Americans, the federal government has provided tax benefits to middleand upper-income Americans, such as the home mortgage inter'est deduction.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, two tax law provisions alone - deductibility of mortgage interest and property taxes - "are estimated to account for more than $38 billion in forgone revenue," fnoney that would otherwise go to the federal government in tax payments.

MeanwhIle, homelessness as an issue has returned to Capitol Hill, where several bills dealing with it were introduced in the opening da ys of the 10 Ist Congress.

One would provide supplemental funding under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, a law passed in the previous Congress to provide various forms of assistance to the homeless. Others seek to promote expansion and preservation of affordable housing and provide funds for states to provide emergency shelters for families.

"Housing is being seriously neglected as a national priority," Auxiliary Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan of Brooklyn told a congressional panel last year. .

"T.he quality of justice is best measured by how the poor and most vulnerable of society路 are treated," added the bishop, chairman of the USCC Committee on Domestic Policy. "By this standard, we are failing - and failing badly - in the area of housing."

Today'sVeronicas And now we come to Veron- and tend to the sufferings of those ica, the woman who wiped 'being crucified.

So Veronica is a generic woman, Jesus' face and was rewarded her name coming from two root with his image on her towel. words, veren and icon, meaning In preparation for this column, I read all the Gospel accounts of the passion. No Veronica.

I reread the passages and began to wonder if my New Testament was a second. Fortunately, I had the good sense to call my sister who teaches Scripture and wail, "Where's Veronica?"

I learned once again how little I know about Scripture. I intend to correct that someday but my sister explained that Veronica is a tradition or legend who represents any of the number of women who served as angels of mercy at crucifixions, wiping the faces of victims and giving them water and wine to alleviate their suffering.

She became personalized with a station of her own when the station devotion spread throughout Europe. At first all of the stations were outsid~ and far apart, a model based on the mandatory annual Jewish pilgrimage. When we were in Ireland, we saw the remlJants of many of these stations, and also some that are still in use.

My sister explained that the Via Dolorosa, or Jesus' actual journey, is less than a mile long and very narrow. It was customary for women to gather along the path

true image. Somewhere in our history, someone or some group dedicated a station to the "true image" woman. While there's no clear evidence that there ever was a towel with Jesus' image on it, the women who performed these mercies were real.

Actually, I prefer Veronica's being generic to being a single person because she represents many instead of one courageous caregiver.

I remember being taught that Veronica, alone in all the angry crowd, risked death to wipe Jesus' face, and I always wondered about those others. Where was their compassion?

Compassion for .others is the message this station teaches. These women had no voice in determining the guilt or innocence of victims so not being able to fight the roots of injustice they ministered to the victims of it.

My sister also reminded me that when Jesus talked with the women at the eighth station, they were weeping, and we know he responded, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me but weep for youselves and for your children."

So there were many Veronicas, just as there are among us today. I talked with a nun who works in

-Aiding immigrants What are the principal means used by those religious groups and movements that proselytize Catholic immigrants in the United States?

Door-to-door canvassing and the offer offinancial and material assistance rank highes~, according to a recent pilot study on proselytization. TV evangelism and the application of psychological pressure also are successful.

Other effective means involve promises of employment, free literature, the offer of rides to church and use of the immigrants' own languages.

The data in this study reminded me' of a thesis I had written on German immigration. At the turn of the century when Germans emigrated from Bremen and Le Havre, Peter Paul Cahensley, a German layman,'realized how easy it would be to lose German Catholics to other religious groups. He organized the St. Raphael's Society, which was an organization with a grand plan for helping immigrants.

The plan involved placing German-speaking personnel at the departing port and the port of entry.

Information centers were established and all types of services were offered. Even banking services were available. .

Today, I believe we must begin to think again in terms of a grand plan for assisting immigrants. We must attempt to put down on paper every possible means of making contact with immigrants, providing essential services for them and welcoming them.

On the basis of such reflection, we must continually reevaluate to see whether they remain the most effective means possible of aiding immigrants.

February 25 1988, Rev. Leo J. Ferreira, Vicar General of Brownsville Dioces'e & Pastor, St. Mary in Brownsville February 27 1956, Rev. Joseph N. Hamel. Founder. St. Theresa, New Bedford 1874, Rev: Philip Gillick, Founder.

St. Mary. North Attleboro February 29 1980, Rev. Msgr. James J. Dolan.

Pastor Emeritus, St. Mary, Taunton March I 1906. Rev. James F. Masterson.

Founder, St. Patrick, Somerset 1948, Rt. Rev. Peter L. D. Robert, P.R .. Pastor, Notre Dame, Fall River March 2 1941. Rev. James J. Brady, Pastor, St. Kilian, New Bedford 1936, Rev. Antonio Berube, Pastor, St. Joseph, Attleboro 1952, Rev. Tarcisius Dreesen, SS.Cc. Monastery, Sacred Heart, Fairhaven 1962, Rev. Alphonse Gauthier, Pastor, Sacred Heart, New Bedford 1970, Rev. J. Orner Lussier, Pastor. Sacred Heart. North Attleboro March 3 1960. Rt. Rev. Timothy P. Sweeney. LL.D" Pastor, Holy Name, New Bedford

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We should also anticipate all the things that can hinder work among immigrants - like prejudice and hostil.i,ty ~o\yard them.

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prison ministry and the stories of anguish and suffering she tells are wrenching. But she also told of the impact of visits by caring volunteers to inmates. "For many, these are the only ones in the world who care about them," she said.

Even just writing letters to an inmate can be like offering a towel on the Way of the Cross. If inmates know that there is just one person out there sharing' their suffering, they are better able to handle the helplessness and hopelessness with which they live.

These volunteers, Dorothy Days, Mother Teresas, and countless others are today's Veronicas. We find them in the soup kitch~ns, in shelters, in parishes sorting clothing for the poor, and on the streets where runaway kids turn to drugs and prostitution because they weren't blessed with the same kind of family or background we were.

The Veronicas embody the familiar prayer "There, but for the grace of God, go I." As we walk this week's journey, let us be grateful for the Veronica among us and within each of us.

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The no-Mass rule Q. Last Holy Week a member of our family died. We were disappointed that no funeral Mass would be held from Wednesday until the day after Easter.

Why? Is this a new rule? We never heard of it in any other parish or diocese. (Ohio) A. The policy that there be no funeral Mass on Holy Thursday or during the EasterTriduum is many centuries old. Perhaps you never heard of it before simply because your family was not personally involved until now.

According to the General Instruction of the Roman Missal the funeral Mass, which holds highest priority among Masses for the dead, "may be celebrated on any day except solemnities that are days of obligation, Holy Thursday, the Easter Triduum and the Sundays of Advent, Lent and the Easter season."

The days of the Easter Triduum, starting on the evening of Holy Thursday, have greatest dignity in the ch~rch's calendar. Some years ago the Congregation for Divine Worship explicitly ruled out funeral Masses even during the day on Holy Thursday.

By The Mass on Holy Thursday is to be the celebration of the instituFATHER tion of the Lord's Supper. The bishop may permit another Mass EUGENE when genuinely necessary exclusively for those who are incapable HEMRICK of taking part in the evening Mass.

"Other eucharistic celebrations on Holy Thursday are entirely forbidden. On Good Friday, according to the church's ancient tradiThe concern of a grand plan is tion, the sacraments are not celebto assist immigrants. The people rated. On Holy Saturday the church involved in this sort of planning waits at the Lord's tomb .:. and the are responding to a need for an sacrifice of the Mass is not celeorderly approach to a problem. brated." -(See the Sacramentary, Planning is a means of exercis-' and Notitia, 1974) ing our responsibility toward othThe above does not mean'that ers, a responsibility that calls for thinking and reflection. We should- no funeral may take place on these n't leave the destiny of people to days, only that no Mass may be celebrated. The rite in church on fate. these days, in addition to the blessPerhaps these thoughts about ings and the commendations at the the need for a grand plan sound beginning and end, usually includes lofty. They are meant to be.

Scripture readings and other eleWhen we reflect on the large ments of the Liturgy of the Word. number of immigrants and the A memorial Mass may be celeproblems attached to immigration, brated during Easter Week.

Q. Could you recommend any we can feel overwhelmed. Panic sets in and more often than not we good books or courses on Catholireact with the first thoughts that cism? My husband is not Catholic but becomes more and more intercome into our head. ested as we go to Mass together Too often, energy and resources every Sunday with our infant baby. are wasted because we are trapped (Rhode Island) by a reaction of panic. This is A, Several publications exist that· where planning comes into play. could fill' your bill. They vary Planning brings calm and rea- widely in size, readability and of sonableness into the picture. And course the depth in which they it offers immigrants the assurance explore and explain Catholic teachthat careful and concerned thought ings. is being directed toward them.

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"Helping Continued from Page One She said wide local television coverage may have increased donations.

But primarily, she said, "it was the cause. We tried to present the case very honestly." She reported receiving hundreds of letters similar to one from a man who wrote that he owed all his success to the sisters who taught him.

Ninety percent offunds collected by 130 participating dioceses is to be passed out to more than 600 qualifying men's and women's religous congregations in June, said Sister Hudon. The money will be distributed based on a formula that weights the grant a congregation receives in favor of the age and years of service of all its members over 50 years old.

The remaining 10 percent or $2 million, whichever is less, will be given in December in the form of supplemental grants to religious orders in dire need, said Sister Hudon. For some religious orders. "the wolf is much closer to the door~' than for others, she said.

The U.S. bishops approved the collection in 1987. They agreed to conduct it in their. dioceses beginning in 1988 and continuing for 10 years unless the need was met before then. The project is sponsored by the bishops in cooperation with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and the Conference of Major Superiors of Men. A 1987 study showed that religious orders nationwide would need at least $2.9 billion more than they have to take care of members' retirement needs.

Non-churchgoers were among those responding generously to pleas printed on posters hanging. on the sides of Quses and in bus shelters in the diocese of Buffalo, N. Y., where $888,825 had been collected as of Feb. 16, said Mercy Sister Sally Walz, assistant diocesan coordinator of the retirement appeal.

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Catholics in the archdiocese of Atlanta contributed $206,000. This amount is believed to be the largest single collection ever taken in the archdiocese, which has an estimated 170,000 Catholics.

In the archdiocese of Washington, with 33 parishes yet to send in their monies, nearly $467,865 had been collected as of Jan. 31, said an archdiocesan spokesman.

Richard Graves, the Washington archdiocese's chief accountant, said it was the largest special collection taken in archdiocesan history.

Even dioceses without many Catholics or many resources outdid themselves, said Sister Hudon.

For example, the diocese of Baker in eastern Oregon, with an estimated 30,690 Catholics, donated $71,321 she said.

said, some parishes disposed ~f old buildings too large for current needs and too costly to maintain.

Others, he said,. were finding ways to gain income through commercial development of part of their property. Also, he said, there were new -patterns of collaboration a.mong parishes and diocesan programs drawing on affluent parishes to assist tho~e that are poor.

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Father Murnion said most innercity parishes had large populations of blacks or Hispanics or both and that responding to their needs required a br«;lader look at how the church serves these ethnic groups.

"There is a tension between the desire to subsidize certain areas, such as schools, and trying not to create a welfare mentality, but keep responsibility in the local parish."

Many inner-eity parishes, he said, are attracting people by developing liturgies and other programs that incorporate ,ethnic, cultural and religious traditions.

WASHINGTON (NC) - Cath- card will provide a 25-day grace olic Charities USA has announced period for payment and a skipthat it has available a new Caritas payment option for some holiday MasterCard which will fund dona- periods. The card's interest rate is tions to Catholic Charities' national 17.3 percent, and the minimum and local projects when the credit monthly payment will be 3 percent And the archdiocese of Anchorof the outstanding balance or $20. card is. used. age, Alaska, with 22,928 CathoJwo banks - First Financial "With this card, we hope to utillics, collected a total of $65,659. ize a simple, everyday American Savings Association of MilwauHoly Ciross Brother Charles Mcpractice - the use of a credit card . kee and State Street Bank and Father Murnion' said the study Bride, an archdiocesan spokesman, - to generate funds for our work," Trust of Boston - are participatcovers the "northeast quadrant" Of declared the collection "the largest said Father Thomas J. Harvey, ing in the new plan. the United States, as far south as we've ever had." He said money Potential card-holders can apply executive director of Catholic CharWashington and as far west as was given in appreciation for relifor a Caritas MasterCard in one of ities USA. Wisconsin. This region he said gious who currently serve or have "We are not encouraging debt," three ways: writing to Magna Carincludes most of the problem parserved the mission archdiocese. he said. "We ask that our suppor- da, 211 N. Union, Suite 100, Alexishes commonly called "inner city," The diocese of St. Thomas in ters take our card in place of any- andria Va. 22134; contacting Father terminology he said was actually the U.S. Virgin Islands sent in thing they are now using. Like any Harvey, Catholic Charities USA, geographic but also implies an $4,582, despite the fact that Sister other credit card, it should be used 1319 F St. N.W., Washington, impoverished neighborhood.

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Continued from Page One (NC) - The U.S. bishops' process Under the Caritas MasterCard of writing a pastoral letter on plan, Catholic Charities will receive education. We would love to see Father Murnion said the project women "is aimed at trying to see one-half of I percent of sales vol- more of our young people go to a , would include a symposium May where pain is and trying to alle- ume ge.nerated by the card. The college like Berea which is for the 10-12 in Baltimore which he hopes viate it.," says Bishop Thomas J. percentage will be based only on Appalachian youth. This college will attract up to 150 diocesan and provides one of the best work proGrady of Orlando, Fla. The bishop, inner-city parish staff. The final a member of the committee draft~ the price of purchases, not on the grams in the country and an excelreport will draw on their observa.additional interest and fees paid lent education in many fields. ing the letter, said women want tions, he said.• by the cardholder. acknowledgment that they are Speakers, he said, will include "I have been fortunate in receivVarious user benefits are att"fully independent human beings Detroit Auxiliary Bishop Patrick ing donations which have helped ached to the Caritas MasterCard R. Cooney, who worked 'on the who should be treated according as well, according to Catholic Char- me in the purchase of an Apple II to their personal qualifies rather recently announced closings ofarchities. For example, no fee is to be computer that I use with the pre~ than according to stereotypes." diocesan parishes. incurred for the first year, and the schoolers and the.adult literacy Father Murnion said one new programs.

"It is wonderful! My little 3 and development the study has found 4-year-oldsjust love it and it makes is an effort to begin to identify the adults feel good about them- ' "criteria for viability" of parishes, selves because t"hey are learning a such as minimum size.

Many inner-eity parishes already process that might be of help to them in the job market; it also have suffered serious declines in gives them a sense of accomplish- membership and finances, Father ment because they feel they are Murnion said, but the situation of . I doing something adult. many continues to worsen and "I have purchased some excelcalls for innovative response.

INFORMATION AT YOUR FINGERTIPS lent programs for both levels that "Most of us don't think suffiare really exciting and stimulating.

The computer is a great tool for ciently strategically about all the Complete diocesan information.

• Addresses of retired clergy and those learning and reinforcing what has options," he said. "Most bishops Telephone directory of priests, direcserving outside the diocese. w.ould admitthey do more problembeen taught. It offers a wide vartors of diocesan institutions, parish re.li• Listing of priests by years of ordination. than planning." solving of techniques so that drilling iety gious education directors and perman· • Table of movable feasts through the doesn't become boring. ent deacons. year 2011.

"I've just written a grant to get It may be ordered by telephone at 6:75·7151 or by mail, using the coupon below. money for the purchase of eight THE DIRECTORY IS $5.00 (plus $2.00 postage and handling per copy). more computers! Just having one NEW YORK (NC) - Agroup for all the students doesn't give of U.S. Catholic Church workers them much time. Some only get a involved in Hispanic ministry said chance to use it twice a month. after a weeklong meeting in Cuba ANCHOR Publishing Co. "It is my dream to open a dropthat they saw prospects for a future P.O. Box 7, Fall River, MA 02722 in center where students and tutors restoration of "full rights" to the will be able to use .the materials church there: The statement of the five days a week from 8:00 a.m. to group, recently issued in Havana Please send me _ _ copy (ies) of the 1989 DIOCESAN DIRECTORY AND BUYERS' GUIDE in English and Spanish, was dis9:00p.m.

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A Mother'sPrayer Tall and straight as an arrow is he My son, an enigma to me; Gentle and loving and strong this one, Kind as a son should be.

Why do I always strike out at him When inside I love him so?

Why can't I accept the love in him, Love that will ever grow.

Why do we grieve the ones we love, Those who are tender and true . Please, Lord, erase this flaw in me, I 'know I'm offending you.

My son's my life, my hope, my dream, Fulfilling an empty heart; Let him discover the love in me Before it is time to part.

Bring to the fore his goodness, Lord, Mold him in all your ways; Keep him, remember his heritage, Lord, Back to his childhood days.

Use him and fill him and strengthen him, Lord, Help him bring strangers yqur word; Then I'll be able to rest in you, Lord, Knowing my prayers have been heard.

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Gladshe's involved Dear Pat McGowan: Just read your article on our program ("Learning to minister to Christ in Others," Anchor, Feb. 17). It was excellent. You caught so much-- spelled it out so simply.

Your writing made me extra glad that I was involved.

Sister Dympna Smith, RSM Cape Cod Hospital Hyannis

Vocations a school priority, says pope VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II says Catholic schools should make a special effort to promote vocations to the priesthood and religious life among their students.

A truly Catholic education "cannot evade the problem of vocational choice," the pope said in a message marking the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, to be celebrated this year on April 16.

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"Dumpster deacon" aids homeless PALM BEACH, Fla. (NC) Like most people, permanent deacon joe Ranieri found the idea of sleeping in a trash dumpster unappealing, but he recently made one his temporary home for a month and raised $158,000 to help the homeless.

The "dumpster deacon, " founder and director of The Lord's Place, a charitable organization that runs two shelters for homeless families in Palm Beach County, said he decided to do it to publicize the plight of homeless families and to raise money for his shelters.

For 28 days Ranieri fasted and lived in three different dumpsters, raising $33,000 for a third shelter he wants to open. In addition he received three individual donations that totaled $125,000. His next goal was to find a building to turn into the shelter.

Two years ago Ranieri, 48, spent nine days in such a makeshift shelter and raised $50,000.

"I vowed I 'wouldn't do this again," he said from his dumpster in an interview with The Voice, newspaper of the archdiocese of Miami. "But if it will help you've always got to judge things by results. The result is we've had almost 3,000 families who have gone through the shelters in the past six years."

His first shelter began eight years ago as a soup kitchen but was, expanded when Ranieri felt too little was being done to provide temporary homes for those in need.

With that and a second shelter opened later, he "economically re" habilitates" about 300 families a year, he said. , The' shelterS' run sever<;1l, :i;.ood·

programs, and a day-care center.

The dumpster reached temperatures of over 100 degrees in the daytime and posed special physical difficulties, he said, because it was "extremely confining, boring, extremely hot ... in the day and cold at night."

The dumpster's ha"rd, uncovered floor offered little rest, but he said he had slept under all kinds of conditions.

Besides, he added, Christ had no soft mattresses or warm blankets and "no place to lay his head."

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Archbishop Foley sp.oke recemly in Aachen, West Germany, to members of the Catholic Media Council, a coordinating body of international Catholic communications operations involved in funding of projects in the developing world.

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By Bridget L. O'Hearne Holy Rosary parish, Taunton During Lent we should stop and think a little about Bible facts we may have learned in Sunday School, CCD classes or in Bible study but sometimes forget to remember. ,We have read the wonderfully woven story of the Jewish people.

How often do our own lives parallel those of God's chosen people, whose trials are recorded in the Old Testament of the Bible.

The Bible. That greatest bestseller of all time, on reading lists' for hundreds of years.

It contains every conceivable situation: floods, holocausts, famines, wars and battles, invasions, exiles, births and deaths, the wrath of God, the wrath of nature, scientific information, the good guys and the bad guys, the greatest love story ever told, and the triumph of the forces of good over the forces of evil.

The Bible was written over a span of about 1100 years, from about 1,000 B.C. to 100 A.D., by l1lany different authors, known and unknown, in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, and in places such as Mesopotamia, Greece, Babylonia, Egypt, Palestine, Rome and Corinth.

It is full of stories of the ways of God; it teaches us how to live and act; it shares human experiences in songs and poetry, laws and' history, prophecies and wise sayings, commentaries and letters.

The psalms'have comforted readers and scholars through the years; who can forget these songs of David and many others, known and unknown - songs of love between God and his people.

There are psalms of lament, containing cries of distress, suffering and pleas for deliverance, full of openness, honesty and vented anger, forthright, forceful and direct.

Forever and always the Bible is a witness to the dignity and deliverance of man, containing words of praise, of supplication, of thanks for the everlasting mercy of God. We learned that the first five books of the Bible, known as the

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The earliest Christians were almost all Jews who continued to 'worship in the synagogues and the Jerusalem temple. But as more Gentjles became converts and the Christian understanding of the divinity of Christ grew, the religions . became more distinct and separate.

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answered: "Do just'ly, love mercy and walk humbly with thy God." Another prophet, JEREMIAH, lived through the destruction of Jerusalem. He believed, like Moses, that "the law is written on your heart and spirit."

God asked Jeremiah to be his prophet at the time Ezekiel was taken to Babylon. Jeremiah protested: "But Lord, I am too young to do your work."

God answered him lovingly: "Before I knit you in your mother's womb I knew you." And there developed between God and Jeremiah a beautiful and loving fatherson relationship and Jeremiah went on to help a king govern his people wisely.

How about the famous JONAH? When God put his hand on Jonah's shoulder, Jonah was not immediately willing to comply with the divine requests.

God said: "Jonah, we have a problem that will be greater than Sodom and Gomorrha if nothing is done right away. Go to Nineveh and preach to the people to give up their evil ways and their idols."

Jonah's feelings were that he had too much to do and anyway he had to take some time off. He ran away from God. .

Jonah went fishing and we all know the story. What happened?

A terrible storm arises, the boat sinks, and Jonah is swallowed up by the whale. After he was three days in its belly the whale spews Jonah up on the beach. Where?

Why, at Nineveh. Of course!

God had his way with Jonah and he stayed and preached at Nineveh for a long time. The people gave up their idolatry and evil ways and prospered for many years.

We see that if God wants his way with us he will get it.

However, 150 years after Nineveh (now Assyria) had repented, it again returned to a life of sin.

NAHUM preached and predicted to the city: "The Lord is slow to anger but he is not blind and will - not let the wicked go unpunished."

And this time the armies of Babylon so completely destroyed Nineveh that it was never again rebuilt.

Old Testament is full of stories on this topic.

For instance, the people would murmur: "Well, God did this and that for us but now a long time has passed. Let's see what Baal has done for the Canaanites lately and ,maybe we'll switch over." It was against 'such practices that God thundered in his messages to the prophets.

The Bible tells us about many people. We all know about Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Isaac and Moses. But there are also many lesser-known personages, including the prophets, men with whom 'God had a one-on-one relationship. There are many of them, majorand minor, not because some were less notable and worthy but because we have less writing from some than from others.

Obedient AMOS was ames·' senger' of God's judgment. He warned the people of Bethel in Israel, calling them selfish but they Then there waJl HABAKKUK, laughed at him. "You will be in- the man who asks questions and vaded by plagues and fire," he who is comforted by knowing that said, "because you are like a God is in charge of the world. crooked wall that must be des- _ "God is in His holy temple and no troyed before a new one is built." matter ,what happens I am not HOSEA was known as the pro- afraid for the Lord is my strength."

HAGGAI the prophet is a temphet of love. He had a wandering wife but he never rebuked her and ple builder. After years of captivloved her in spite of her infideli- ity in Babylon the Hebrews return ties. "God judges and God loves ... to Jerusalem and their first thought as he lov:es a disobedient child or a is to rebuild the temple. ZECHAhusband an adulterous wife. God RIAH is his friend who helps him loves and forgives you as I love to finish the work in four years. and forgive my wife, Gomer... and The books onhe prophets end how much greater is God's love." with the book of MALACHI with OBADIAH was an angry pro- a warning that God will reward the phet who railed at Judah's neigh- righteous and punish the wicked. bor, Edom, for cheering when the Then Judah, under Persian rule, Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem. is taken over by Alexander of Macedonia who lets the people EZEKIEL, the visionary, was keep their religious customs and taken captive to Babylon. He they are happy. preached salvation through a new covenant of which he listed the When Alexander dies and the' conditions. He is known as the lands are divided among his gener:father of modern Judaism. alsthe people revolt. Under the MICAH, a champion of the leadership of the Machabees they poor, condemned the wealthy lead- drive out the enemy. The Temple ers of Judah and Israel. When they is rededicated and for 100 glorious , asked him what they should do he - years Judah is free.

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During Holy Week we follow 'But again, conquerors, this time serves authentic memories of a , person who actually knew Jesus the trials and tribulations of Jesus. the Romans, take the city of Jerand witnessed his ministry.

Did you know it was 15 miles usalem about 63 B.C. Again Judah Jesus was born Yeshua Baryu- between Caiphas' house and Ponis too weak to rise. suf. He was 30 years old when he tius Pilate's palace? Jesus walked Eventually the Romans appoint started his public life as teacher it back and forth. During the joura despicable ruler named Herod and rabbi. ney the soldiers pushed, punched and the Jews cry out bitterly: He was crucified in 27 A.D. by and hit him with their spears so "When will God send the deliverer the Julian calendar. He was 33 many times that he feU often. His promised to us by the prophets of years old. At that time crucifixion sacred knees and hands became old?" was for slaves - patricians were bloody.

The New Testament put to death by beheading with'an Then Pilate sent him to Herod.

The New Testament gives us the axe or sword.

When Pilate ordered Jesus to be gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke As we know, after God made scourged He was given 39 lashes and John, the Acts ofthe Apostles the covenant with the Israelites at according to Roman law at that and letters of Paul, James, John, Mount Sinai, Moses built an altar Peter. and Jude. It ends with the . at the foot of the mountain to sac- time - 40 less 1.

He was beaten with a flageUa, Joharinine Book of Revelation. rifice animals to God, blood being an instrument with a sturdy hanIt is generally believed that Mat- a symbol of life. dle and nine strips of leather. At thew and Luke followed and drew The Israelites celebrated God's . the end of each strip were two lead on Mark's writings in their accounts saving deeds every year at the Pasballs, each capable of inflicting a of Jesus's life. These three are sover meal. They renewed their sharp cut each time it was applied. called the synoptic gospels because covenant with him by promising 18 bans times 39 lashes equal 702 they give a common and harmonto keep the commandments and to times his body was struck. ious view of events. live as his chosen people. At this Scholars say that Jesus ran afoul John, however, wrote in the time they offered a lamb in sacrifice. of the chief priests because he apocalyptic style of a prophetic It was at Passover that Jesus preached the fatherhood of,God, disclosure. We are not sure who offered his life for us and made a taught that God did not require the actual writers were; whether it new covenant with God. Every the sacrifices made by pagans to was John the Apostle, John the year on Palm Sunday the Church their gods and claimed that he Presbyter, or John Mark or Laza- . remembers how Jesus came up to himself was the awaited Messiah. rus or someone else. The imporJerusalem as the gentle Messiah These statements angered the tant thing is that historical and and offered Himself as the true priests and scribes and they "sought archaelogical findings make it hard Passover lamb to save us from sin how they might by some wile lay to deny that John's gospel preand death.

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After the Crucifixion, our attention is drawn to the story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus.

What were they doing on this road?

Why, running away, of course, trying to put as much distance as they could between themselves and Jerusalem, getting away from the horror that had happened there on Friday.

As they traveled, they discussed the happenings of that terrible day in frightened conversation.

Their Messiah had just been crucified. They were sad and weary, discouraged and heavyhearted, weakened in spirit.

Were they disappointed? Well, they had expected a leader like the messianic David, like the gloriously young David who had slain the giant路 Goliath" like the militant David, unconquerable in battle, like the gentle, poetic David who could turn a phrase of indescribable beauty.

Yes, that was the messiah they had envisioned, not the frail-looking, gentle-spoken man who had gone so meekly to his cross, who, unlike David, put up no fight, who, after three hours on the cross, died by suffocation.

Soon the disciples were joined by a stranger who fell in step with them. They told him their thoughts.

He explained Scripture to them.

Much later they stopped for supper. . The stranger broke the bread and they began to eat. Their eyes, meeting his, widened and they

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recognized him. Immediately he got up and left them. They were aghast.

"Was it not he?" they asked one another. "Did we not recognize him? Were not our hearts burning within us in the breaking of the bread?"

They turned around and ran back to Jerusalem to tell the apostles and the other followers what they had seen, to find out how they couldheip do the Lord's work, to spread the Good News of God's love.

We are taught that this is what we must do in our own lives: 'back to Jerusalem, to our own Jerusalemsand Gethsemanis.

We go back: to a difficult job, sometimes boring, underpaid, underthanked, where many will step on our fingers as they climb the corporate or academic ladder, where we are sometimes unjustly stratified in society, with attention paid only to our material possessions.

We go back daily: to loved ones seriously iU; to ourseivesjust as we -are in heart, mind, soul and body; to making ends meet; to raising our families; to helping the less fortunate.

Back to Jerusalem to be~r our crosses, to suffer if need be,'so that on Easter Sunday, the m~t glorious day in the Christian liturgy, when God's promise to man was fulfilled, we can sing with full hearts and voices: Then sings my soul, my Savior God to thee How great thou art, how great thou art!

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By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Dr. Kenny: I'm frantic with jealousy about my wife and I don't know why. She has never gone out on me that I am aware of, but I am terrified she might. I ask her to account for where she's been and all her hours of the day. I even find myself checking up on where her car is to make sure she's at work.

We are both in our early 30s and have been married 10 years. We have two children. She warns me that I will destroy our marriage.

Yet it seems to be getting worse.

What can I do? (Indiana) Jealousy is a common ailment and comes in many forms. Sibling rivalry and envy at another's success are examples. But sexualjealousy may be the most tortuous. As you describe, it is very painful for both parties.

Unfortunately, sexual jealousy cannot be reasoned away. Rationally, it arises from the perception that the beloved partner or spouse is our property. We believe that our self-worth is vitally connected to our partner's continuing and undivided love.

Both notions are incorrect. Our beloved does not belong to us as property. And our self-worth does

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not depend upon who loves us. It is called thought stopping and However understanding the inac- has three steps. curate nature of jealousy does not The first step is yellow light. cure it.

When you realize you are becomInsofar as jealousy is rational at ing obsessively jealous, either you all, it operates on a'completely dif- or your wife must say: "yellow ferent logical system. Most of us light." Picture a yellow traffic light. get through our day and make our You now have 30 seconds to decisions based upon probabilities. reason with yourself or ask your The car will probably start. The , wife pertinent questions. Do the world probably won't end today. best you can to determine the I once remarked to a worried validity of your concern. patient that there was less than one The second step is called red chance in a trillion the world could light. After 30 seconds, picture a end today. His frightened response red traffic light and say "stop" to was: "See, I knew it!" He had to yourself. worry about even the slightest posThe third step is called crosssibility, something the rest of us over. Using the traffic light image, would automatically dismiss. you must metaphorically cross the This is why you and your wife street to go in another direction.

In the crossover stage, you must, will have a never-ending discussion about the matter. She is try- pre-plan to do three things. The ing to reassure you her infidelity is purpose is to distract your thinking.

You cannot outthink jealousy. a very 'improbable event. You are insisting it is possible, and feel But you can outdo it. The three constrained to check each corner activities should be brief, easily done and might include humor. of her life for evidence.

Examples of possible crossover Jealousy is an obsession. It gets worse. It cannot be argued with, activities could include: saying a because the to-be-feared happen~ prayer; walking around the outside of your house, etc. ing is always possible.

Good luck. Try thought stopHere is a psychological technique to stop jealousy. You and ping. It has worked for many and your wife must work at it together. can help you if you work at it.

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By Antoinette' Bosco young age indicates ability or poten"Is your child a Cowboy, Indian tial. or Chief!" the parents used to ask My friend's 7-year-old son was each other in the school district recently classified' as a "dumb" kid where my children attended second with slow reading ability. Yet, I. knew this child to be exception~lly grade, • Those were reading level classi- . bright in his interactions with fications, with Cowboys the slow- adults. After his parents arranged est and Chiefs the fastest. Once a , expensive tests with outside learnCowboy, always a Cowboy. That , ing specialists, they discovered the became the child's identity for every problem.

"Timothy has a very high IQ but subject.

Reading group classifications are learns almost exclusively by audithe most prevalent form of track- tory means," they explained. "He ing in the A,merican educational is also' extraordinarily social. The system, beginning 'in first or se- method used in his school depends cond grade, In some districts, track- on self-teaching through reading ing involves one or two courses, in isolation. For him, that method like remedial English or math. In is anathema." others; it may involve an entire series of courses from elementary through high school.

The tracking system is generating a lot of criticism these days.

By Hilda Young Supporters say that tracking allows educators to address the difThose of us who live in colder fering needs of students with di- parts of the country know prepaverse aptitudes and achievements. ration is the key to surviving winCritics argue that it stifles stuter. We store wood, ready snow dents' potential because it boxes tires, wrap pipes, can food, buy them in at early ages. ' spare TVs and secure hot spiced "These decisions can be self- wine mix in bulk.

Yet how many of us, especially fulfilling prophecies," said Theodore Sizer, a professor of educa- wives and mothers, prepare ,our tion at Brown University, who bodies for winter? (I don't want to believes that tracking sets limita- hear any cracks about adding a tions on many children's potential. layer of fat.)

We discussed this in depth this "If people believe in us, we can do things we never believed possible." morning at caffeine club and actually compiled a list of prewinter I know Sizer is' right because exercises we should have done I've seen it in action. When I was 'and will now put on next fall's first married I taught school in calendar. upstate New York. One of my stuFor instance: , , dents was a 17-year-old boy with a ' - Gripping cold:, Purchase a reputation as the "dumb" kid.

He was, however, a genius with used-car door handle at a local his hands who could fix any kind junkyard. Freeze it in a shallow of motor or machine. If he's such a pan of water. Begin the exercise by mechanical genius, I thought, he squeezing ice cubes until your palms must have mathematical ability. I are numb.

Now, with your fingernails and took a special interest in him, and knuckles, batter and scratch the by the end of the year he was a handle free of ice. This, of course, math whiz, A fundamental flaw in the track- simulates,opening the car door in a wind chill. factor of minus 50. ing system is the assumption that al!.chilPIcn l~arn.iJl.a certalll.pattc When you have extracted 'the ern, and that learning speed at a handle and can no longer feel your

Critics argue that the bulk of a school's resources go fOf the high track kids, cheating the lower track kids who are then placed at even further disadvantage. "For kids at the top,'the emphasis is on creativity. For kids at the bottom, the' emphasis is on discipline and conformity," said Mary Futrell, president of the National Education Association. .

Tra~king has its good and bad points. Educators must address the special needs of children at ~ach end of the spectrum.

How that's done is something else. We can't devote all our resources to gifted children at the expense of "underachievers."

Were you winter-ready? hands, complete the exercise by writing the alphabet with a dull pencil on a waxed Twinkie package liner, thus conditioning yourself to create last-minute permission slips remembered by youngsters as they exit the car.

- The thaw: This exercise is intended to help you gradually build your threshold of pain to endure the excruciating experience of blood, heat and feeling returning to your extremities - hands, feet, toes and nose, and knees and elbows for veterans such as myself who know it's safest to crawl on all fours from the car to the house when the pavement is a sheet of ice. (My husband no longer allows this unless the house happens to be our own.)

Begin the e'xercise by 'rubbing coarse sandpaper over the back of your hand while gripping a pin cushion. Increase the intensity until you can hold a hot frying pan handle while thumping on t\1e back of the extremity with a large meat tenderizer. To avoid awkward explanations, expecially when conditioning your toes or nose, it is recommended you do this exercise when others are not present.

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Worldwide consult on catechism set VATICAN CITY (NC) - A seven-month consultation with the world's Catholic bishops and bishops' conferences will precede 'the final drafting of a universal catechism, said a Vatican statement.

The consultation will begin Nov. I so that the p'apally appointed catechism commission can provide "a substantial report" to the next Synod of Bishops, planned for fall 1990, the statement said.

Pope John Paul II established the catechism commission in 1986 after the 1985 extraordinary Synod of Bishops recommended the writing of a universal catechism to be used as a basis for the formulation of diocesan and nationalcatechism~. The pope often has expressed hope that the universal catechism will be published in 1990, the 25th anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council.

The Feb. 18 Vatican statement said the commission has reviewed the third draft of the catechism and has made suggestions for revisions before the document is submitted to the worldwide hierarchy.

The statement provided information about the Feb. 6-8 meeting of the commission, formally called the Commission for the Preparation of a catechism for the Universal Church.

Present plans call for the catechism to have three main sections, the statement said. These will deal with "the doctrinal truths offaith, using the Apostles' Creed as framework, sacraments and the church's liturgical life, and the moral life and the call to holiness," it said.

Also planned is an introduction which "will present the catechism as a confident proclamation of faith singularly capable of meeting the deepest needs of the human , person," an epilogue on the "Our Father," and a glossary of terms, said the statement.

President of the 12-membercom-' mission is Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Homeless AIDS victims helped MIAMI (NC) - Genesis, a church-run residence for homeless AIDS victims, has opened in Miami with 10 people in the program.

Formerly a home for unwed mothers, the 30-room residence is located adjoining Mercy Hospital, which has 12 beds available for AIDS patients, and is administered by the Sisters of St. Joseph of St. Augustine.

"This is a unique form of ministry we're performing," said Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy of Miami during a recent Mass at the residence. "Some people, when this was first proposed, were negative toward the idea."

"But many of those," he added, "have now volunteered their time and services. It's our responsibility to provide leadership in the community and to reach out to those who are suffering.

Msgr. Bryan O. Walsh, social services director for the archdiocese and president of Catholic Health and Rehabilitation Services Inc., said that "everyone of our charity services is open to anyone."

He said only one resident at the time was Catholic.

Miami ranks 13th in the nation in number of documented cases of AIDS.

Immigrants needed CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (NC) - The United States needs immigrants and doesn't need the xenophobia and racial and ethnic prejudice that "will, surely endanger" the nation's future, says . Corpus Christi Bishop Rene H.

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Now, keeping the story in Malayalam words, change it to English characters and transmit it from a bureau to the newspaper's headquarters.

In the newsroom, edit the story, retranslate it to Malayalam and put it into a computer system.

Sound complicated? Reporters at a Catholic-run newspap~r in India go through the procedure seven days a week to publish a 75,OOO-eirculation newspaper, Deepika.

Deepika, Malayalam for Torchbearer, is published in Kottayam and Trichur in the state of Kerala, on the southwestern coast of India.

After 102 years of publication, it is the country's oldest Malayalam daily.

Owned and operated by the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate, Deepika serves as a regular secular newspaper, said Father Jose Panthaplamthottiyil, chief editor.

"The difference is it is fun by the Catholic Churcp and has more 'Catholic news than any other daily," he said.

Editorials are written from a Catholic perspective, he added, "to fight for and defend the rights of the Catholic minority there."

Father Panthaplamthottiyil, who went to school in the United States from 1977-81, visited the country recently soliciting support for the newspaper. , In 1981 Deepika bought an offset press, and in 1985 it went to photocomposing. However, with the modernization came debts.

Deepika must computerize its office accounts, he said, and it needs new equipment to print color, as most other major newspapers already do.

However, with the help of a promotion campaign by the Indian bishops, by June the paper hopes to double its circulation. In addition, bishops within the Deepika circulation area have assigned each parish the task of selling three life-

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Although the paper does not carry "too many sensati9nal stories, Iiker murder or rape," in 1988 it won an award from the Press Academy of Kerala for Best Crime Reporting, Father Panthaplamthottiyil said. The paper ran a series of six articles on crime and its impact on the family members of the criminals and the victims, he explained.

Father Panthaplamthottiyil said although the paper covers church issues, it does not get involved in church politics. For instance, India's Catholic Church has three rites - Latin, Syro-Malabar and Syro-Malankara - that, in the past, have had territorial disputes. . "We are very careful not to offend any of the rites," he said.

However, he'added, the paper often takes up the causes of minorities, including Kerala's 4.4 million Catholics, about 20 percent of the state's population.

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In January, Redemptorist Father Bono filed the following analysis of how and why the current birth Bernard Haring, a moral theolocontrol controversy has been tied gian, suggested a church commisto an overall challenge ofthe pope's sion of bishops, theologians and laity re-examine the birth control authority: issue and study to what ,extent The new year has seen a steady papal pronouncements on the issue stream of theological pros and should be considered "as doctrine cons flowing around Pope John revealed by God." Shortly after, 163 West EuroPaul II's birth control teaching.

What distinguishes the 1989 situa- pean theologians issued a much tion from the controversies 20 years stronger declaration. They cited ago over "Humanae Vitae," Pope the anti-contraceptive teaching as Paul VI's encyclical opposing arti- an example of misuse of papal ficial means of contraception, is authority. that today's debate is centered on "The concepts of New Testathe current pope's use of the mag- ment truth and Jesus' teaching isterium, the church's teaching au- about salvation are enlisted by the pope to represent a spe'cific teachthority.

The previous debate focused more ing that cannot be justified either on the teaching itself. in holy Scripture or in the tradiPope John Paul, besides defend- tions of the church," the declaraing the encyclical's anti-contracep- tion said. tive teaching, has evolved new rea"When the pope does that which sonings in an effort to make "Hum- is not part of his office, he cannot; anae Vitae" ("Of Human Life") demand obedience in the name of more acceptable to a new genera- Catholicism,,; added the statement, tion of married couples. called the Declaration of Cologne.

The signers also lumped this Yet, just as the 1968 encyclical did not put an end to theological example with papal choices for debate, neither has a decade of the bishops and Vatican denials of current pope's strong defense of permissions for specific professors to teach Catholic theology at pubthe teaching.

Instead, dissenting theologians lic uni'verisites, both of which in.are interpreting the pope's defense volve church discipline more than as a de facto upgrading of the doctrine.

This declaration is "more serteaching from a changeable one to a fundamental article of faith. In ious"than previous dissenting statetheological terms, they see this as ments in the post-Vatican II period, blurring the distinction between said German Father Walter Kasper, the changeable positions of the a dogmatic theologian and papal ordinary magisterium and the un- supporter. changeable truths of the extraor"It is the broadest questioning dinary magisterium. ofthe pope that has taken place so Both levels of the magisterium far," he said.

The declaration marks a deepenrequire assent by ~atholics, but the ordinary magisterium can ing of the split among theologians, evolve as times and circumstances because moderates - "serious prochange. The extraordinary magis- fessors whom I esteem, always terium is when the pope solemnly faithful to the pope" - signed it declares that a teaching is infalli- "to express their intolerance of ble. Encyclicals are part of the Rome," Father Kasper said.

The seriousness of the debate church's ordinary magisterium. was marked by a Feb. 15 article in The result is that today's dis-' the Vatican newspaper, L'Ossersenting theologians are tying the vatore Romano. The front-page birth control issue ro an overall article defended the teaching and challenge of the pope's use of reiterated a 1987 papal statment authority. Referring to the decades that the issue is closed to further of continued dissent over the birth debate. ,It said current doubts about control issue, they say this teachthe teaching are tied to the "centr.al :.~:'.. )~;~ ~~ ~ ~ .":, -b

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In the 1960s, debate focused on which birth control means were morally licit and the relationship between individual conscience and adherence to a specific church teaching publicly questioned by many theologians.

The 1968 encyclical gave Pope Paul's dcfinitive answer by declaring artificial and chemical means of contraception immoral and requiring assent to the teaching. But it did not end the debate, and in many developed countries subsequent surveys showed that a large segment of the Catholic population followed their own consciences when in conflict with the anticontraceptive teaching.

Pope Paul often expressed his sorrow that "the answer given to this grave and difficult question is not well received."

Pope John Paul has dedicated much of his pontificate to reinforcing the encyclical. This has included a five-year series of general audience talks on the meaning of married love and birth control.

The talks drew from the Bible, philosophy, anthropology and science to broaden the reasons in "Humanae Vitae"that support the basic tenet that every conjugal act must be open to procreation, thus prohibiting contraception.

Some of the pope's strongest statements regarding the authoritativeness 'of the teaching came last November ina speech to moral theologians attending a Rome conference to commemorate the 20th anniversary of "Humanae Vitae."

The teaching was "written by the creative hand of God in the nature of the human person" and confirmed by God in revelation, the pope said.

Disagreeing with it "is equal to refusing to God himselft~e obedience of our intelligence," he said.

To Father Haring, however, the pope is feeding a "catastrophic" polarization process in the church.

"I hop!; that our beloved pope understands that this is a conflict of epic proportions," he said.

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By Michael Warren Are there any sensible guidelines to help people of any age to view movies or videos or media in general? I think there are~ Would these guidelines be helpful to young people in setting standards for themselves of what is good and what is rubbish, of what is worthy of being watched and what is worthy of being deliberately ignored? I think so. But young people themselves will have to talk about the guidelines I am going to suggest to see if they are worthwhile.

Guideline I: Recognize the need for a standpoint. To evaluate or judge anything you have to first have a standpoint. A standpoint gives you a position from which to look at and evaluate any matter, from a movie to a football game to various hairstyles or even brands of ice cream.

If you don't have a standpoint, then you don't have a standard.

Having standards is so common to us that we don't even think about it.

Even a very young child has standards of what she or he likes in food. It wouldn't be good if we had no standards in food and wt:re willing to eat any junk anyone put in front of us.

The funny thing about movies or videos is that some people don't . seem to have any standards on these matters. They would walk away from sour ice cream but they wouldn't think of walking out of a movie or turning off a video they had rented because it was junk.

The point is that standards are important. Some young people have their own standards for music

but almost none for visuals that they watch.

Guideline 2: Name you standards. I 'think it is important to try to be clear with ourselves about our standards and to keep thinking about them and revising them in the light of our growing awareness.

What standards do you have for films or videos? Do you have any?

Should you have some?

Are there any movies so stupid they aren't worth watching? Do· things happen in some movies that would cause you to walk out of a theater or turn off your VCR? When I ask these questions, people sometimes say they watch movies for fun. That is a good poin~, but then we have to ask ourselves: Do we have any standards for fun? Have you eve'r seen people do things for fun that didn't seem so funny? Have you ever found some versions offun objectionable?

Guideline 3: Expand your standards. There are people who make a profession of applying standards to movies and videos. They are film reviewers. Basically this guideline suggests that we sharpen our standards by finding out what others say about a particular film.

In my own life I follow guideline No.3 this way: I never go to a movie without reading at least one review of the film and usually several.

By now I have found out which reviewers I can trust and which ones have directed me to junk and are not trustworthy guides to movIes. Guideline 4: Apply your standards and learn to boo. I think we all need to know how to boo a lousy performance.

Attending funeral Mass gets dismissal GLASGOW, Scotland (NC)The British government's senior law officer in England has been suspended as an elder of the tiny Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland after attending Catholic funeral Masses for two former colleagues.

Members of the church's Southern Presbytery in Glasgow deliberated five hours before making the decision against Lord Mackay of Clashfern, 51, the lord chancellor of England and Wales and a former lord advocate in Scotland.

His suspension will not take effect immediately because it has been appealed by the kirk session, or governing body, of his parish in Edinburgh, Scotland. The appeal will be heard in May by the synod, the supreme court of the fundamentalist Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

Last August, Lord Mackay attended the Catholic funeral of Lord Wheatley, a former colleague on .the Scottish bench and one of Scotland's most-respected judges. In 1986 he attended the funeral of Lord Russell of Killowen, a lord of appeal in England.

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.congregation in Barnoldswick, England, made the complaint.

Lord Mackay told journalists the presbytery decided that what he had done was inconsistent with the practice of an elder in the church, but added he did not regret attending the funerals.

"I went there purely for the purpose of paying respect to my dead colleague and to give a public expression of sympathy to his relatives, and that was in both cases," he said.

He added that he had not done anything to indicate agreement with a particular doctrine of the Catholic Church.

The Free Presbyterian Church is one of Scotland's smallest denominations, with 6,600 members, concentrated in northern Scotland.

Relationships between the Church of Scotland and Scotland's Catholic, with 820,000 members, are cordial, with much interchurch activity.

Theoretically, Church of Scotland theologians adhere to the same 17th-century West minister Confession of Faith as the Free Presbyterian Church, but the Church ofScotland interprets it in light of modern conditions.

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RaCism frustrates Durban archbishop CENTER VALLEY, Pa. (NC) - Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban, South Africa, told a U.S. Catholic college audience earlier this m'onth that he feels frustrated over a "deadlock" in the confrontation of blacks and whites in his racially torn country.

He also expressed doubt that international economic sanctions alone will push the white minority government to significantly change its racially biased policies.

"It will never be just a question of economics because of this attitude that a social group has for self-preservation and self-defense," the archbishop said, referring to the Afrikaners, white South Africans of Dutch and German background whose ancestors settled the Cape of Good Hope in the 1600s. .

Archbishop Hurley, 73, noted for his outspokenness against apartheid, spoke at Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales.

He expressed concern that "50 years of pleas of justice" from the English-speakingchurches of South Africa have "gone unheeded by the great majority of white Christians."

He noted that a pastoral plan recently approved by the Catholic bishops would seek change by encouraging "witness to Christian values."

In a 1985 interview with National Catholic News Service, the archbishop said he had grown up accepting racial discrimination as a nor-

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WASHINGTON (NC) - As dilemmas involving the global economy proliferate, "this is a propitious moment for a new alliance between religion and labor," according to Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee. The archbishop, who chaired the bishops' committee that produced the 1986 pastoral letter on ecomomic justice, addressed a recent "Dialogue Between the Religious and Labor Community" in Washington. Increased dialogue-and cooperation between labor and church is desirable because of several recent economic developments, the archbishop said.

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Cynthia Decosta, athletic di~ec­ tor at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, has announced that .senior~ Craig Aumann and Ka~a O'Connell have been chosen the school's Athletes of the Month for January.

Athletes are nominated for the honor' by coaching staff. Selections are made by the school administration base'd on athletic achievement, leadership and all-around school citizenship.

Craig is a.captain and three-year veteran of Connolly's hockey teain.

He is a potent force'for the Cougar offensive line, 'scoring 20 points'in January. Coach Michael Relihan commends him for his team leadership, his care to aid younger player.s 'jfnd his own' personal development. "Aumann is playing the best hockey of his life and is having a great.time,': he said. This spring, Craig will captain the Connolly golfteam. He is also involved with the school's Community Service Program and is currently working as a volunteer at Newport Hospital.

Fall Riverite Kara is a vital element in the success story of the Lady Cougars basketball team, which recently finished tied for first place in SMC Division II and will enter postseason tournament action. O'Connell is the team's captain and lone senior. She played in the point guard position, and even though that is normally a play-making rather than a scoring position, she was the secon.d leading scorer for the team With 205 pts. Earlier this season she set a school scoring record for a single game with 30 pts. A talented soft- , ball player, Kara was also named to the Fall River Herald News and New Bedford Standard-Times AllStar softball teams last spring. As a m~mber of Connolly's first girls' soccer team, she' was also named to the Herald News and StandardTimes All-Star rosters, for that sport. She has been a memb~r .of Connolly's Ski Club, Peer MIniStry program and Student Government. She also' served as Student Body vice president last'year.

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James Agar have.been named Teenagers of the Month for January in the Greater Fall River Elks Club program.

Meredith is a veteran performer with the Connolly Drama Club, captain of the Speech and Debate team, business editor of the yearbook, a member of the National Honor Society, the Connolly Community Service Program and the Connolly Alcohol- Drug Awareness Peer Education Program.

James is vice-president of his class and co-editor of the Connolly newspaper.He was a delegate to 'Massachusetts. Student Government Day, and is a member of the National Honor Society, the Foreign Language Club and Juriior Achievement. He is an Eagle Scout and aj:1nior assistant scoutmaster.

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School parents are invited to a Lenten Evening of Prayer and Reflection at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the school's Pius X chapel. The evening's program of readings from the Gospel of Luke, reflection and applications of the Gospel will be conducted by Connolly Campus Ministry staff.

Bishop Stang On March I, students at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, will participate in "Le Grand Concours," a national exam sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of French.

Approximately 125 students from French I, II and 1I I classes will be tested on grammar, history, culture and listening skills.

Stang's guidance department will administer the test and absorb test fee costs. National, regional and chapter awards will be given to outstanding students, Stang will also present its own awards to students.

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Junior Patrick M. Kenny, a Westport resident, has been named a member of the Outstanding High School Students of America.

OHSA membership enables him to qualify for one of IO $2,000 scholarships available only to members.

St. 'Mary's School, New Bedford .Grade two students at St.Mary's varied ethnic representation, a School, New Bedford recently had sports clay with relay and obstacle their prayers answered when races, a family dance, a career day Miquel Monette of Inver Grove complete with a "What's My Line?"

Heights, Minnesota, a·missing child game and a communion breakfast the clasl' had been praying for, was served by the eighth grade service found.' ·club.

Since September each Class has been praying f.or a missing child.

Pictures of the youngsters have NEW YORK (NC) - Vincenbeen posted in classJ:ooms, and tian Father Donald J. Harrington every day during prayer their safe has been named president of S1. return is asked.

John's University, the largest Cath. Recent activities at· the school olic university in the United States, included a talent show for students He is now president of Niagara and parents, a "Helping Hand University near Niagara where he Day" during which students focushas been since his ordination in ed on sharing part of themselves 1973, first as an instructor, then with the community and their director and dean of student activschool, a celebration of the school's ities and executive vice presid.ent.

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CHRISTINE MAD-RETTI, Holy Rosary parish, Fall River, and Kathleen ~edeiros, seated, of Holy Name, Fall River, seniors at Bishop Connolly ijigh School, Fall River, keep bowling scores for mentally retarded adults aided by the People- Incorporated agency.

The students number among the 60 percent of Connoll~ seniors particip~ting in the s~h~ol's community service program, which reflects a key principle of Jesuit educatIOn, that ChrIstians . should serve others. (Motta photo)

mentions. Particularly, I would point to the song's reference. to being "courageous and be brave."

Courage is needed throughout life. Young people often are challenged to stand up to peer pressure. Teens need to be brave if they are to confront the disapproval of friends and act according to their own values.

As adults, we are asked to lead .By Charlie Martin the way in building a more caring and just world. ]n the face of many decisions, and sometimes FOREVER YOUNG disappointments, adults need' courage to keep hopes and dreams May the good Lord be with you ·alive. down every road you roam As we age, life presents new And may sunshine and happiness surround you challenges. Senior citizens' must when you are far from home draw upon their courage to reAnd may you grow to ~e proud spond to the aging' process as dignified and true they continue living with hope And do unto others as you would have and trust. others do unto you Be courageous and be brave The song also emph~sizes the And in my heart, youll always be' Impo(tance of. the support of Forever young, forever young. others: "I'm right l?ehind you, . May good fortune be with you . win or lose:" We need others to May your guiding light be strong help us find the best in oU,rselves.

Build a stairway to heaven As I listen to others, I hear that With a prince or a vagabond loneliness is one of the greatest And may you never love in vain problems. wl1ether people are And in my heart, you 'will remain . young or old. So many people Forever YO'ung, forever young live without ·las.ting relationForever young, forever young.. ships. They find themselves alone And when you finally Oy away as. they encounter challenges and 111 be hoping that I served you well problems.

For all the wisdom of a lifetime, We need to remember that we No one can ever tell can make a difference in others' But whatever rpad you choo~e lives. Start right in your own I'm right behind you win or lose home. Ask yourself: What supForever young, forever young, forever young port do I give to those I live with?

Forever young, forever young, forever young.

Is there a parent, grandparent, brother' or sister who needs an Sung by Rod Stewart. Written by R. Stewart, J. Cregan, K. extra dose of love?

Savigar. (c) 1988, Warner Brothers Records Noone remains forever young.

Rod Stewart's new hit, "For- overlooking the value of other Yet we can help each other disever Young," wishes blessings 'stages of life. cover the courage, support and upon someone loved.

Certainly youth is an exciting, love that turns any time of life The song leads me to .ask, wonderful time. But a full and into an opportunity for happiness. however, whether such blessings meaningful life can be found at any age.

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AT BIRTHRIGHT'S office, presenting the check: from left, Sister Mahoney, teen ministry participants Dan Menard and Chris Barbosa, Rosalie Connors of Birthright and Father Boffa.

Taunton teens benefit Birthright Members of the Teen Ministry group at St. Joseph's parish, Taunton, recently donated $155, profits from a recent pancake breakfast they sponsored, to Birthright of Greater Taunton. .

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Taunton High School studentmembers of the group vied with teens from Bristol-Plymouth Vocational High to see who could concoct the tastiest hotcakes. Diners served as a jury and by a slim margin decided that the THS team of Danny McCarthy and Ricky Perry were the champs.

Teen ministry advisers Father Amanda Carvalho, an eighth William L. Boffa, St. Joseph's grader at Dominican Academy, parochial' vicar, and Sister Beth Fall River, took top prize in the' Mahoney, CSC, accompanied school's science fair last week. group members to the Birthright Amanda's project was on hydrop- office to present the check. onics, growing plants without soil.

Seventh and eighth graders at the girls' school participate in the annual competition.

Eighth graders Melanie Arruda Al Vaillancourt, associate direcand Monica Sylvia respectively merited second and third place tor of the Fall River area CYO, awards for their projects. Melan- has released the names of the young ie's work addressed allergies. Mon- people selected to play in the ica's submission, "Sparkling Diocesan CYO All Star BasketClean," compared the effectiveness ball Tournament on Sunday. Participating players were selected by of laundry detergents.

Honorable mentions went to division coaches.

Tournament play will take place seventh graders Jocelyn Paquette, Tonya Machado, Shannon Tavares at three sites: the Anawan Street and Naomi <;::reason and eighth CYO Center, Fall River; the Taungraders Jodi-Ann Medeiros, San- ton CYO, Taunton Catholic Middra Rovoredo, Aimee Estrela, dle School, and the Kennedy CYO Michele Torres, and Michele Pest- Center, New Bedford. ana.

Senior All Stars tournament play against New Bedford will take place at I p.m. at the Kennedy PA ULO A. Pereira, a senior Cel)ter. Players are Paul Medeiat Bishop Stang High School, ros, Lou Britto, Jeff Berube, Tim Plant, Rick Lepage, Joe Senra, North Dartmouth, has been named a finalist in the National Joe Boule, Mike Boule, Kyle WeIchman, Norm Dumont and Dave Merit Scholarship Program Oliveira. Skip Topolski is coach. and is being considered for Richard Benevides. Will coach one of 1800 $20QO National All Star Girls, who will play New Merit Scholarships. Fewer Bedford at 3 p.m. at the Kennedy .than one half of one percent Center. Players are Sqeila. Freitas, of America's seniors have Amber Roy, Kelly DeMello, Jamie Rebello, Laura Chase, Monique made it to the finals.

Desrosiers, Heather Davis, Cheryl The student hopes to attend Patenaude, Robin Botelho and . . the Massachusetts Institute of Chris Gonsalves. , Technolog~. Helooks forward , Junior Boys players are' Kevin' to an aerospace engineering Mikolazyk, Dave Souza, Tom Sire ois, Chris Herren, 'Peter Pavao, career.

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CYO tournament' play Sunday

Play. begins .at I p.m. at the, Anawan Stre~t HaIl, .with Attleboro playing Taunton. Fall River takes on New Bedford at 2 p.m., and the winners;·of the games will meet at 3.

Taunton Catholic Middle School will be the site of Prep All Stars play at 7 p.m. Sunday. Coach Tom Coute will lead his team against Taunton.

Players are Joe Cidade, Fred Canuel, Jay Bombeck, T.J. Rebello, Rui Estrella, Carlos Courto, John Cabral, Greg Witt, Brandon Bouchard and Josh Pancley.

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

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

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3approved for adults only; A4-separate classification (given films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

Catholic ratings for television movies are those of the movie house versions of the films.

NOTE Please check dates and times of television and radio programs against local list· Ings, which may diller from the New York network schedules supplied to The Anchor.

New Films "Cousins" (Paramount) - English-language remake of French hit "Cousin, Cousine" romanticizes the adulterous liaisons between the partners of two unhappily mar-

ried couples related by marriage (Isabella Rossellini, William Petersen, Ted Danson and Sean Young).

Delightful ethnic family wedding sequences, but is marred by film glorification of adultery and premarital sex. Discreet nudity, rough language laced with sexual vulgarities. 0, PG 13 "The Fly II" (Fox) - When the son (Eric Stoltz) of the original fly-man grows up to realize that he is being exploited by a dastardly industrialist (Lee Richardson), he tries to free himself. Gratuitous sex and gore, some rough laO'guage. 0, R "Tap"(Tri-Star) - A wildly entertaining look at the redemption of a talented tap dancer (Gregory Hines) who took a wrong turn and now must choose between a potentially low-paying but rewarding career as a dancer and a lucrative life of crime. Respectful tribute to this unique American artform is especially mindful of tap's black roots.

Breathtaking dancing by hoofers young and old. A lusty kissing scene, brief, heavily shadowed nudity within a fleeting sexual encounter and some nasty language. A3, PG 13.

Religious Radio Sunday, Feb. 26 - (NBC) "Guideline" - Philip Miller, librarian of Hebrew Union College-

Churches dissatisfied with~ CBS religious programming WASHINGTON (NC) to "what the official state broadChurch leaders, including repre- casting system in the officially athsentatives 0'£ the U.S. Catholic eist USSR provides for its ChrisConference, will meet Feb. 28 with tian community."

CBS Broadcast Group president Religious programs on NBC and Howard Stringer to discuss what ABC in 1987 and 1988 were carthe church leaders say is the net- ried by well over 100 affiliates, the work's lack of religious broadcasts. letter said.

Beth Bressan, a CBS vice presiStringer, who initially refused dent, said members of the delegato meet the group, agreed to the tion which will meet with Stringer meeting after the Interfaith Networks, an ecumenical coalition of are expected to include St. Louis Auxiliary Bishop Edwa'rd J. O'Donchurch communication's officials, nell, chairman ofthe U.S. bishops' sent him a letter saying CBS had "abandoned" its obligation to serve communications committee, and Richard Hi~sch, director of the the "total public."

The letter said the issue was not usce Office for Film and Broadjust the network's cancellation of a casting and an INE.T member.

CB$ dropped "For Our Times" Sun~ay morning religious series, "For Our Times," but also con- because it felt local affiliates were cerne<,l "a major change in policy." airing religious programs and so there'was "not as great a need" as M~mbers 'of the Interfaith Network, or INET, include represen- previously for the network to protatives of the USCC, the National duce such show, Ms. Bressan said.

Council of Churches, the New She said she was "curious as to York Board of Rabbis, the South- . why they are focusing on CBS" ern Baptist Convention and the and said she did not see that CBS Jewish .Tbeological Seminary of was offering any less religious programming than the other major America.

The five-page letter said that· networks. when the. Communications Act "I~ their issue is just· to get 'For was approved by Congress in 1934, Our Times' back oh the air I'm not r~ligious leaders were promised sure we can accommodate them," that the FCC would assure they she' said. : had time on commercial stations.

Marist Father Joseph Fenton of The letter alleged that CBS failed the USCC Office for Film and' to promote"For Our Times," then Broadcasting said ABC and NBC dropped it because only 35 of its began( to fund and air specials 'over 200 affiliates carried it. produced by mainline' religidus It also said that a CBS proposal groups when they. cut back on to provide four religious specials their network-produced religious. in 1989 - at Christmas, Easter, a programming.

Jewish holy day and an "interfaith For this year, for example, he special" - was "an insult to the said, ABC has given $250,000 to religious public." fund and air a program on the "More than 100 million Ameri- church in China, and NBC has can adults are members of a church given $250,000 for a program on or synagogue," the letter said, com- altruism and the American characparing CBS religious programming ter.

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ST. ANTHONY, O.L. ANGELS, FR ' Parish council meeting 7 p.m. MATTAPOISETT Parish retreat Sunday through March 6, hall. Holy Name Society meeting and breakfast follow 8 a.m. , Tuesday with Father Robert KasMass March 19, hall. Richard Costa zynski; services 7:30 p.m.; Tuesday will chair the parish Catholic Chari- service within context of holy. hour with exposition and Benediction. ties Appeal collection.

Fall River's retired Sisters of the ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Sacred Hearts are remembering.the Mini-retreat ends Palm Sunday parish in prayer this week. with music ministry performance of "Requiem."

SACRED HEART, HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE N. ATTLEBORO • Lenten coffee talks with religious Our Lady of Hope Chapel choir Gloria Gaskin. leaving her posied ucation coordinator Sister Theresa needs new voices; information: Jack tion as sacristan, is thanked for her L. Bisson, OP, 9:40 a.m. and 7 p.m.

Dugger, 428-4156 days, 428-2854 years of dedication. Finance comMarch 2 and 9, parish center; topic: evenings. mittee meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday, "What is the Love of God Like" meeting room. Lenten Bible study O.L. ASSUMPTION, "Aprofundar a Mina Fe"missao after Mass March 7. Meeting for OSTERVILLE .

Portuguesa; Fr. Manuel Martins, women interested in forming a Ladies' The Adult Choir will sing at the CM, urn padre Vicentino, esara aqui Guild after 7 p.m. Mass Tuesday.

10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. na Semana Santa para conferencias diarias, e servicos bilingua para os ' ST. ELIZABETH SETON, FIRST FRIDA Y CLUB, FR Santos Dias de Pascoa.

Mass 6 p.m. March 3, Sacred N. FALMOUTH Heart Church, Fall River; seafood . Charismatic prayer group meets LIFE IN THE SPIRIT SEMINAR supper follows; Sacred Heart pastor Life in the Spirit seminar (course 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, church. Youth Father Edward J. Byington will dishelping Christians develop deeper Group ski trjp to Mt. Wachusett cuss "The Church Today in Poland"; relationships with Christ by using March 4. Bible discussion group the power of the Holy Spirit to meets Sunday; information: Susan 'information: Daryl Gonyon, 6724822. transform their lives) introductory/ in- Casey. 564-6544. formation session 7:30 p.m. March WIDOWED SUPPORT, FR HOLY NAME, FR 19; sponsor: prayer group of St. Fall River Widowed Support Retreat renewal Sunday; theme: Mary parish. Seekonk; information: Group meets 7 p.m. Feb. 28. Sacred "Forgiveness and Healing."

Pauline L'Heureux, 336-6349.

Heart parish center., Fall River: all CATHEDRAL, FR ,welcome. ' ST. MARY, SEEKONK Rite of Christian Initiation First Parish blood drive 5:30 p.m. March ST. MARY, NB Scrutiny celebration at 11:30 a.m. .

9. General Youth Ministry planning Mass Sunday.

Workshops for lectors 7:30 to 9 committee meeting 7 p.m. March 9. p.m. Mondays through March 13; ST. STANISLAUS, FR Adventure youth group general meet- conducted by Deacon Michael MurYouth Ministry Lenten forum on ing 7:30 p.m. Monday, parish center. ray and parochial vicar Father Mark teenage suicide with presenter Leo ST. ANTHONY OF THE DESERT, K. Hession. Poor Man's Supper, Dube March 12; time TBA; free FR sponsored by Youth Group, 4 p.m. admission; refreshments.

Adult L(:nten retreat in conjuncMarch 12, school cafeteria' free tion with Exposition of the Blessed tickets available previous we~kend; ST.GEORGE,WESTPORT Sacrament March 5; retreat master: almsgiving to benefit Market MinisHenry and Lorette Tetrault are Father Robert Oliveira; retreat I to tries guests. Michelle Lussier, leader celebrating their 50th wedding anni5 p.m., main church; exposition noon of ~t. Mary's Brownie Troop 72, is versary. The parish's girls' junior to 6 p.m. with 5 p.m. holy hour, St. stepping down after nine years of basketball teams are congratulated Sharbel Chapel. ' dedicated service; a replacement is for their excellent play; team A has needed; information: 998-1205. lost only one game, and team B is BREAD OF LIFE PRA YER Friendly Sons of St. Patric~ Mass 9 undefeated. St. George's Boy Scout GROUP, FR Troop is congratulated for winning Life in the Spirit program spon- a.m. March II. Parish council meetthe Klondike Derby. soreq by prayer group begins soon; ing 7:30 p.m. March 10, parish coninformation: Father Rene R. ference center. Lenten Mass of ST. THOMAS MORE, Anointing 3 p.m. March 5.

Levesque. 672-5473.

SOMERSET A parish team has been established to raise vocations awareness in all areas of Christian life.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall Rivl~r-Fri., Feb. 24,1989

Iteering pOintl PUBLICITY CHAIRMEN are asked to submit newi Items lor this columli to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7. Fall RIver. 02722. Name of city or town should be Included. as well as full dat.. of all activItIes. P1la.. send news of future rather than "'~ events. Note: We do not normally carry Relits of fundraisIng actlvftles. We are happy ~ carry notices 01 splrllual programs, '~Iub meetings. youth proJacts' and similar nonprofit activities'. Fundralslng projects may be advertised at our regular rates. obtainable from The Anchor business offIce. telephone 675-7151.

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ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Lenten devotions 4 p.m. Sunday, church, include meditation and reflection presented by Sister Beth Mahoney, CSC, and choir-led adaptation of Lenten Vespers. Parish council meeting 7: 15 p.m. Sunday, rectory.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON Women's Guild meeting and Seder Supper 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, church hall.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO "Anger - The Misunderstood Emotion" workshop led by Dr. Bary Fleet 7 p:m. March 8; information: 222-5410.

LaSALETTE CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN LIVING, ATTLEBORO "Claiming the Victor" Holy Week retreat March 22 to 26 directed by center staff; information: 222-8530.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR Bible study 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays. small chapel, preceded by Mass.

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ST. JAMES, NB CYO Council meeting 7 p.m.

Tuesday, parish center. Congratulations to the winners ofthe St. JamesSt. John School science fair: Amy Trigueiro, first place; Jamie Bonneau, second; and Mark Trahan, third. Students will attend the9 a.m.

Mass at St. John the Baptist Church Lenten Fridays; school friends are we.lcome to worship with them.

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O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Faith and Light (handicapped adults) community meeting 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday" lower church. Parish women will participate in a Church Women United World Day of Prayer observance March 2 at Federation Church, Orleans.

DCCW, CAPE COD Diocesan Council' of Catholic Women Cape Cod and Islands district meeting 2 p.m. Sunday, St. Francis Xavier hall, Hyannis; Dr. George Keary, DDS, will present a slide presentation about his medical experiences in Honduras. ' ST. JOHN EVANGELIST POCASSET First Friday Masses 7:30 and 9 a.m. March 3. Parish women will attend a Church Women United World Day of Prayer celebration at the Bourne Methodist Church I p.m.

March 3. Little Rock Bible Study led by Deacon James Marzelli begins March 8.

HOLY TRINITY, W. HARWICH "We Celebrate Prayer" celebration begins with noon Mass March' 12; includes prayer, reflection, Benediction, discussion and praise; featured speaker: Father Pat Fanning, SS.Cc.; information: Grace Waystack, 430-0164.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM St. Patrick's Day program March 14; practice sessions for children grades through eight Sundays; singing II a.m. to noon; dancing noon to 12:45 p.m. Lenten evening of prayer, fasting and almsgiving6 p.m. March 10; includes Stations of the Cross, Benediction. almsgiving for the poor and simple supper; sponsors: first year confirmation candidates.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN St. James, New Bedford, confirmation day retreat 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow. Merrimac College weekend retreat to'day through Sunday.

BLESSED SACRAMENT ADORERS, NB Holy' hour 7 to 8 p.m. Monday, St. Theresa's Church. New Bedford; celebrant: Father Marc H. Bergeron; all welcome.

ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH Rosary and Benediction service 4 p.m. Sunday.

ST. JOSEPH, F AIRHAVEN Cub Scout Blue and Gold banquet 2 p.m. tomorrow, church hall.

Eucharistic ministers' workshop 2 to 4 p.m. March 5, rectory. Parish mission directed by Father Richard McNally, SS.CC., begins March II and 12.

New Orleans community seeks founder's sainthood NEW ORLEANS (NC) - Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans has agreed to a request from the Sisters of the Holy Family to introduce at the Vatican the cause for sainthood of their founder, Mother Henriette DeliIle. Mother Henriette was born in 1812 into one of the oldest free black families in New Orleans, the quadroon - one-fourth black daughter of Jean Baptiste DelilIe and his mistress, Marie Joseph Diaz.

Her family trained and educated her in the traditions of her class and for the same destiny as her female ancestors - to be a mistress of some aristocratic member of the white gentry.

It was a future she rejected, despite the protests of her mother and the fact that her elder sister had formed a comfortable and wealthy liaison.

She made several attempts to form a religious order with her friend Juliette Gaudin'and a white woman from France, Marie Jeanne AliquPt, which contradicted legal and social norms of the time.

With the assistance of a French missionary, Father Etienne Rousselon, the women formed a pious society in 1842. They began their work in a house which quickly fiIled with needy, elderly women.

The house is thought to be the first Catholic institution for the elderly in the United States.

Mother Henriette and Sister Juliette taught classes, visited the sick and elderly,begged for food, money and medicine for their house and devoted time to prayer and Mass attendance.

For 10 years before taking vows and formally founding the Sisters of the Holy Family, the women opened convents and schools.

When Mother Henriette died in 1862, her community had 12 members and was involved in caring for the elderly and orphans.

They also educated free blacks as well as slaves.

The order now has 234 members in Louisiana, Texas, California and Belize. Members operate nursing homes, residences for the elderly and schools and also teach at colleges and universities