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St. Vincent's new behavioral management plan is already making progress By

MIKE GORDON ANCHOR STAFF

FALL RIVER-St. Vincent's Youth Treatment Center is constantly striving to improve its service to diocesan youth and the recent implementation of a new behavior management model continues to move it toward t!lUt goal.

"We've always helped kids and we're trying to do more of that," said St. Vincent's executive director, Jack Weldon.

The behavior management plan is a nonviolent crisis intervention system that is designed to help human service professionals in responding to disruptive or difficult to manage behavior. It was developed by the Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc., (CPI) of Milwaukee, Wisc.

St. Vincent's. recently had sev-

eral employees become certified instructors of the system and they have been training more than 400 other employees. "Any center has a behavior management plan or philosophy and our emphasis is shifting a few degrees with this new one," said Weldon.

Twenty-nine year old Clayton Walker, staff development coordinator, was one of those certified and said it has been a very good program for St. Vincent's. "October was when the first training sessions for employees started and since then we've seen a decrease in negative behavior and the need for physical intervention," he said.

"The kids have been opening up more and tell the staff what they're feeling. They're not afraid to talk," he added.

The new system that SI. Vincent's has tailored for its needs

offers both verbal and interactive physical techniques that help minimize anxiety and maximize the safety of the children. Participants are taught how to identify the early signs of negative behavior and what can be done to help prevent the behavior in the future.

Walker,a seven-year veteran of St. Vincent's, said that the key is the early intervention training. "When you see a child is anxious or getting upset at something you can approach him or her and intervene earlier, before the outburst or problem develops more."

The training for Walker and the four staff members: Craig Curtis, Chris Pineault, Carolyn West, and Jason Randall, made them more aware of the children's needs. "You learn that what you say and do affects the child and we did role playTurn to page 7 - Plan

POSITIVE STEPS-Jack Weldon, the executive director of St. Vincent's in Fall River (left), sits with staff development coordinator Clayton Walker to talk about the apostolate's new behavior management plan. Six employees of St. Vincent's, including Walker, are certified instructors of the plan and have been orienting employees to the system, which has proven successful.

OlyDlpic gold Dledalist"credlts saint DETROIT - Few people would speak of figure skating and St. Therese of Lisieux in the same Lipinski asks St Therese of Lisieux for breath. But it comes naturally for U.S. Olympic gold medalist Tara assistance and gets it. Lipinski.

Lipinski, 15, became the youngBy Catholic News Service est Olympic women's figure skating champion in history Feb. 20 with a nearly flawless performance in her free-skating routine.

But the gold medal around her neck will have to share a place with the other one she wears, a medal of SI. Therese.

In the first part of the figure skating competition Feb. 18, when Lipinski had just completed what she described as the best short program in her life, she was shown a replay of her most difficult jump combination and asked what was going through her U.S. ICE SKATER Tara Lipinski performs mind as she enher short program during the first day of Olym- tered it.

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vision audience she answered that she was concentrating on making the jump "and begging St. Therese for help."

Lipinski came in second in the short program, slightly trailing fellow U.S. skater Michelle Kwan.

In the longer freeskating program two days later, Kwan got 5.9s from all nine judges for artistry but missed the landing slightly on one jump and got 5.7s from five judges on technique.

Lipinski got all 5.8s or 5.9s in both categories, including six 5.9s on technique, and the judges voted her the winner by a 6- 3 margin.

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.SaintAnne's Hospital greets acting president:

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River :-:-:- Fri., Feb. 27, 1998

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FALL RIVER-Michael W. Metzler was recently appointed acting president of Saint Anne's Hospital. The announcement came from Dr. Michael F. Collins, CEO and president of the Caritas Christi Health Care System, a comprehensive integrated health care delivery network of which Saint Anne's is a member.

St. Anne's is a 165-bed acute care general hospital with specialized programs in cancer, pediatrics, cardiology, diabetes, pain management and behavioral medicine.

Metzler comes to Saint Anne's with more than 24 years of senior management experience in health care. He is the immediate past president of the New England Conference of the Catholic Health Association and the current president of the Epilepsy Foundation of MassaQUEBEC-Brother Herman Brunet, 78, a member of the Brothers of chusetts and Rhode Island.

"I am thrilled and most appreChristian Instruction for 65 years, died at the Brothers' infirmary in La ciative that Michael has agreed to Prairie, Quebec, Canada, on Feb. 18 after a long illness.

A native of Pointe-Claire, Quebec, he held a master's degree in French take on the interim leadership reand came to Msgr. Prevost High School, Fall River, Mass., in 1945 where sponsibilities at,Saint Anne's," he taught for a year. In the 1950s he returned to teach again in Fall River Collins said. "He has my full confidence and support and I know that for a short time. He had been retired for 36 years due to illness.

His funeral Mass was celebrated at the chapel of the motherhouse in the hospital community will extend him a warm welcome."

La Prairie. Interment was in the Brothers' Cemetery there.

Most recently, Metzler was executive vice president and chief operating officeref-St. Elizabeth's Medical Center. He joined St. Elizabeth'.s as vice president for human resources and later became the senior vice president of human Please pray for the following resources and support and services. ' . Priorto service at St:·Elizabeth's· Metzler was employed for ·11 years.at the Stop & Shop Companies NECROLOGY where he served as director of la\ 29 bor relations. He has been on the 1980, Rev. Msgr. James 1. ~olan, Pastor Emeritus, St. Mary, Taunton faculties of both Boston College and Northeastern University. \ 1 Metzler received his bachelor's de1906, Rev. James F. Mast~rspn, Founder, St. Patr~_Somersen gree from Canisius College and his 1948, Rt. Rev. Msgr. pete~~, .D. RoberL,-P;R., P tor,-Non-eDame, master's degree from Boston ColFall River ~ .~ NEW BEDFORD-Mrs. Evelyn A. (Towers) Harrington, 84, wife of the late Patrick J. Harrington, died Feb. 19 in St. Luke's Hospital after a brief illness. She was the mother of Father Brian J. Harrington, pastor of St. Julie Billiart Church, North Dartmouth, as well as Sister Patricia M. Harrington RSM of Attleboro, Sister Kathleen A. Harrington RSM of New Bedford and Sister Sheila M. Harrington RSM of Cumberland, R.I. Born in New Bedford, the daughter of the late Joseph and the late Sarah (Furness) Towers, she lived there for most of her life and in Fairhaven for 15 years.

For many years she was an active member of the Holy Name Women's Guild in New Bedford where she was honored as Mother of the Year in 1967. For several years she was the coordinator of the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store in the north end of New Bedford. She was a member of St. Julie Billiart Parish.

Besides Father Harrington she leaves another son, Capt. Kevin G. Harrington of the Fall River Fire Department; two granddaughters; and nieces and nephews. She was the sister of the late Mary A. Mayall, Joseph Towers Jr. and William J. Towers.

Her funeral Mass was celebrated Feb. 21 in St. Julie Billiart Church.

Interment was in St. Mary Cemetery, New Bedford.

lege where he is currently pursuing a doctorate in economics.

Dominican Sister Joanna Fernandes, chair of the board of trustees of St. Anne's, said: "We are delighted to have someone of Michael's ability and talent to provide seamless leadership during this transition period."

Metzler said that Saint Anne's is coming off the best year ever. "I am excited to have the opportunity of working with the dedicated, qual-

ity staff to continue the 92-year tradition of caring for the greater Fall River, southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island regions."

Metzler is actively involved in professional and community organizations. He is a member of the Board of the New England Conference of the Catholic Health Association, the Regional Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council and the Archdioces~ of Boston Health Trust. <, .,.,

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Correction A headline in the Feb. 20 edition indicated that Holy FamilyNotre Dame School students participated in a dramatic portrayal of the life of Father Damien de Veuster. That was incorrect. It was a one-man show performed by actor Charles Baker. The Anchor regrets the error.

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The Vatican spokesman said the agieem'ent "confirms once again that dialogue is the way to resolve problems which military action not only cannot resolve but makes worse."

By JOHN THAVIS "One hopes that the accord may CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE be !pe premise for resolving the VATICAN CITY - The Vatican problem of the embargo, which is hailed a written agreement on the so painful for the Iraqi people," he Iraqi crisis and expressed hope that said.' the accord would open the way to .

Pope John Paul II and other Vatilifting the embargo against the Per- ' can officials have been ~arsh critsian Gulf country. ics of the embargo against Iraq, citThe Vatican comment came Feb.. ing humanitarian concerns. Put in 23 after U.N. Secretary-General place in 1990, it has devastated the Kofi Annan worked out a deal with country's infrastructure and caused Iraqi officials to resume U.N. weap- hundreds of thousands of civilian ons inspections, apparently avert- deaths, according to international ing a threatened U.S. bombardment relief agencies. of Iraqi targets. U.S. officials were Details of the Iraqi agreement still cautious about the accord, were not immediately announced, which was signed in Baghdad, Iraq, but reports said it gave weapons after three days of negotiations. inspectors unlimited access to eight "The Holy See expresses its sat- presidential sites. Earlier, the sites isfaction with the agreement, which had been declared off-limits by should eliminate the threat of mili- Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. tary action," Vatican spokesman Annan met with Saddam for Joaquin Navarro-Valls said. He said three hours Feb. 22 before the he hoped the accord would be rati- agreement was reached.

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In Haiti, livelihood may rest on a fish Editor's Note: In Janr~af)" Mrs. Margaret Penicaud of St. Augustine Parish, Vineyard Haven, went to Haiti to visit a religious community founded by an old friend.

There, among the pooresl' of the poor, she discovered why she had made the·trip. Here is her stOlY.

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By MARGARET PENICAUD SPECIAL TO THE ANCHOR

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti-A 90-minute jet flight from Miami and I was entering, for the first time, the capital of the poorest eountry in our western hemisphere. Once through customs, a fierce onslaught and pandemonium descendt:d upon those arriving, as scores of Haitians competed for their means of livelihood. Even a well-seasom:d traveler to Haiti can be shaken by the scene. Fortunately, Sister Cadet of the Daughters of Mary Qut:en Immaculate was right there to meet us and take charge. She had already hired a porter and guided us deftly through the pressing throng.

Looking neither left nor right, I followed the bright blue skirt of Sister's habit closely and obediently. After a discussion in Creole during which Sister settled an argument as to which porter was to be paid, we were safely in the car, windows rolled up and doors locked. Once underway we were able to open the windows. The sky was clear blue. January is the most comfortable time of year to be in Haiti. Temperatures were in the upper 70s and lower 80s, but the tension at the airport had left us strained and uneasy.

The Port-au-Prince traffic was heavy as we entered the town. My appreciation of Richard, our Haitian driver, increased throughout my la-day stay. His skills at maneuvering around potholes, cars, donkeys, pushcarts, people and oncoming traffic at an incredible speed were tested and proved unfailing.

A vast number of people crowded the streets - shoppers, ven-

tween rows of rickety shanties with tin roofs. Clothes were washed in murky water strewn with trash and hung out to dry on lines, making you wonder if they could possibly be clean. Bodies of discarded vehicles, stripped of any poss'ible useful part, were left abandoned along the route. ' But most commanding of all was the pervasive odor of burning dumps. How could thes~ people survive in these conditions? The windows were rolled up e~ery time we had to slow down. No need to take chances. Where there is desperation there is a definite need for precautions.

The Mother House of the Daughters of Mary Queen Immaculate, its training school and guesthouse are located on the hill of Canape Vert in Port-au-Prince.

There is a refreshing breeze on the terrace and a remarkable view of the port. It seems a paradox' that the property is completely enclosed by a high cement wall with, broken bottles lining the top. Yet Haiti has no effective police force of its own.

Security is procured by the hiring of personal armed guards and your own watchdogs. On the entrance wall of every house belonging to the Sisters hangs a placard which reads: "Pourquoi suis-je venu ici?" (Why have I come here?) a question attributed to St. Bernard. Precisely the question I needed to answer.

I had met Sister Monique several summers in a row on Martha's Vineyard, where she had been invited to recuperate after surgery in Boston for her failing eyesight. I never suspected then that the warm, unassuming and fun-loving Haitian woman with whom I chatted in French after Mass at St. Augustine's was, as I now realize, a truly exceptional human being. Born Jan. 16, 1916, Marie Louise Elda SaintLouis was orphaned at a very young age and 'left in the care of her brother, Joseph. She was educated at the Intemat de la Madeleine.

Called to religious life, Elda entered the sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny and took her vows at 22. She received the name of Sister Monique of the Guardian Angel. In 1953, the Lord callt:d her to a very special mission. Mother Monique, as she is fondly called by her Sisters, shared this incident in her biography: "During an annual retreat I heard resound distinctly in my ears these words, 'Do you see the poor jobless girls who are falling into evil? Are you going to leave them there? They are waiting for the bread of truth.' Several times I heard these words resound in my ears. I tried to block them out, but I couldn't."

She had to wait two difficult years before she obtained permission to leave the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny to join the Little Sisters of St. Theresa, where she remained for 10 years.

Before she founded the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Queen Immaculate in 1971, she established a boarding school for girls. She died on Oct. 18, 1997, after serving for 24 years as the supeTurn to page 7 - Haiti

Lent: A time of retreat, renewal By

LISA M. GULINO DIRECTOR OF ADULT EDUCATION

Lent is the season of prayer and penance before Easter. Its purpose is to help the faithful better prepare themselves for the feast of the Resurrection which heals the rupture between God and his people. This is the time in which we collect our thoughts, examine our actions and reflect on our personal knowledge of and relationship with the God who entered time and space to reveal himself to us.

This holy season gives 'us the opportunity to embrace the mysteries of salvation and to study the awesome reality that Jesus Christ has come to give us abundant life, both in this life and in the next.

The 40 days are the time in which we retreat into the silence of our hearts and ask ourselves if we take seriously the redemption won for

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STEPHEN GAWLIK

BRIGHTON, Mass. - The Catholic bishops of Massachusetts think it's time to start sharing the church's rich teachings on how to deal with the end of life.

"We have wonderful stuff on how to live while dying and it's our best kept secret," said Father James O'Donohoe of Boston College, who thinks Catholicism has failed to pass that on to people.

Father O'Donohoe and several others spoke at a seminar on end-of-life issues at St. John's Seminary in Brighton. Held in late January, the session was the first part of a statewide Catholic effort to take the wraps off that secret.

The Massachusetts Catholic Conference, which is the church's public policy arm, is putting into action a plan from the bishops called "In Support of Life." It's a strategy to implement Pope John Paul II's encyclical "The Gospel of Life" through various avenues.

The plan is to organize the efforts of those who serve in the areas of pastoral care, education, communications and public policy to develop new ways of dealing with the issues faced at the end of life.

Each of the state's four Latinrite dioceses - the Boston Archdiocese and the Fall River, Springfield and Worcester dioceses - will have representatives working to see that ideas are shared and discussed.

The seminar that Father O'Donohoe addressed examined

issues from the medical, legal, ethical and theological perspectives.

He challenged his audience to ask: "What are we becoming by the decisions we are making?"

"We are not 'owners' of our lives, hence we do not have absolute power over them," he said.

"Life is a gift from God and I can assure you that no secular humanist has that view."

Dr. Rosemary Ryan, in addressing the medical perspective, cited the findings of a 1997 Gallup poll which said that in a sampling of adults across the country, "almost two-thirds of the adult population supports making physician-assisted suicide legal."

One issue for people may be fear of being in pain, and Ryan said the management of pain, rather than how to end life because of pain, is what needs to be discussed.

She said 95 percent of pain can be relieved and noted that people fear narcotics because they believe the "myth," as she called it, that their use will result in addiction.

Other medical initiatives that should be addressed, she said, include the development of hospice care to answer the needs of people with terminal illnesses who fear becoming a burden to their families.

Attorney Fran Hogan said that people make the mistake of thinking that because an act is legal, it is also moral.

"The law is a powerful teacher," she said. "We have to require more of our public officials."

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Once again the ugly American

, Frequentfy, we as a people wonc~er "Yhy the world family regards us as "the ugly Americans." Our national insecurity on this subject often reaches the- state of phobia. The truth is that we feel we are so generous to so many of the world's causes that we are entitled to do exactly what we want, where we want and how we want to do it.

This rather arrogant mind-:~et has inde~.d given us the image of a ' ' haughty if not an insolent people.

The national reaction to this is 'one of embarrassment and sometimes hurt. This past week at the Winter Olympics we as a nation displayed the contemptible side of our personality. The behavior of our so-call~d elite National Hock~y"League,:players'w~s a national disgrace. Being the usual POOf sports ~hat they ar~, they simply could not lose graciously, despite their professed professionalism.

After they wereeliminated from play by the Canadianteam, which subsequently lost to the gold medal champions ofthe'Czech Republic, the members of tile United States' team returned to'the new Olympic Village and began trashing the place. Like spoiled children, they broke doors and tables, squirted fire extinguishers and even threw objects from a fifth-story balcony. These millionaire players felt they could follow theirbad performance on the ice with bad behavior in the Olympic Village~ The code of sportsmanship that they had pledged to observe went out the window together with their bad manners and bad tempers.

Once again the sad mind-set of professional sports is reflected by corresponding disregard and contempt. These men are earning millions, they are played up by the media and they disregard all guidelines for correct behavior. The public is only too ready to shell out its hard-earned dollars to see a hockey game end up as a debacle. Thus encouraged, poor sportsmanship has become a national pastime.

Hockey is a tough game, but it should not be reduced to gladiatorial (eNS phllto Reuters) contests. Millions of American children are enmeshed in countless A CHILD TRIES TO GET THE ATTENTION OF POPE JOHN PAUL II AS THE youth hockey programs. What kind of example are they being set by those whom we place on sports pedestals?

PONTIFF PRAYS AT THE VATICAN DURING A MEETING WITH FAMILIES. This incident must be addressed by the National Hockey leagUe HE URGED FAMILIES TO BE FIRM IN THEIR FAITH AND TO HA~D' ON and not left in limbo. As players re!urn to begin the Stanley Cup RELIGIOUS AND MORAL VALUES TO CHILDREN. playoffs, the NHL and the players' association have no cho~s:e, butJo .' • _ • ~' . . ,". 1 : t'. _~ .... ~~,: "identify .the_violators, andenfor,ce an,appropriatep~n~lty. By:reftis, ing to clean up'iheitown nouse·they will 'give' a;t1ear:sign~1 'that they 1I~ .~';~'JeSus::said;,.>Le:tthe children 'come to me;· Do not hinder them. TheJf , .' support the disintegration of.spor:tsm~mshjp. Perhaps banning all ~n- ,"d", , "IF::kiilgdom of'God belongs io such as these.",'JMatthew 19:14' ' .I' ,: 'Po'" ," volved from the Salt Lake City games in 2002 wouJd be an appro'..1' ., priate action., Whatever the outcome, a positive' stand must be taken. It should be obvious, when one considers the men's vandalism, that hockey might be saved by the women. The stellar performance of the U.S. Women's By FATHER KEVIN J. HARRINGTON " One of my favorite writers, Fa- I will not forget thy word."

Hockey Team and the rejuvenating enthusiasm of its members were a St. Pius X said: "The psalms Father Joseph Gallagher, a priest ther Henri Nouwen, died in Sepjoy to witness. If only their spirit could infiltrate the NHL! The women of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, tember of 1996. Any avid reader of teach mankind, especially those were indeed a credit to the nation and the men a disgrace. had a very strong influence upon his work will enjoy reading his bi- vowed to a life of worshi,p, how God The OlympiCs perpetuate a great sporting tradition. The host Ila- me as a 20-year-old graduate stu- ography by Jurgen Beumer, sub- is to be praised." I am wre Pius X, tion of Japan recognized this and went all out in its welcome and its dent at St. Mary Seminary in Balti- titled "A Restless Seeking for God" with his emphasis upon involvejoy as it hosted the great international event. From all reports, the more. I was tempted to take the easy and published by Crossroad Pub- ment of the laity, deliberately chose Japanese graciousness was infectious. International Olympic Com- route and enroll in the seminary's lishing Company of New York in the word "mankind" to be inclusive of humankind. mittee President Jean Antonio Samaranch referred to this year's master of divinity program leading 1997.

If I am what I read, then the Writers and angels share a lot in games as the best organized in the history of the event. All agree he to a pastoral degree. I clearly repsalms are what I should be readmember him telling me that St. ,common.

They bring messages that hit the nail on the head. Unlike Atlanta's fiasco, Nagano worked Mary's was one of the few semisay that there is more here than ing.

In this Lenten season I can hard to cover all bases. Too bad it could not also have helped CBS in naries in the world to grant a pon- meets the eye and share a penchant think of no better reflection on the its feeble broadcasting efforts. For ~BS, it was a matter of sports tifical degree and that I would be for elusiveness, for staying out of psalms than that of St. Ambrose, the interrupting commercials as once again the American greed for profit foolish if I did not enroll in the Pfo- the reader's, way: Our best writers fourth century bishop of Milan, replaced the spontaneity of youth, and members of the American gram leading to a master's degree hide themselves in their work. This who wrote: "The psalms are a sort public were the losers. ' in sacred theology. I never regret- was certainly true of Nouwen as it of gymnasium for the use of all As we prepare to host the next Winter Olympics here in the lJ~ited ted taking his advice, even when I was of Thomas Merton. Reading souls, a sort of stadium of virtue States, could we not give some ~ime and effort'to facing the ugly had to struggle through courses t1)flt the works ofgood authors is the best where different sorts of I~xercise are ,way I know of encountering truths set out before the reader from which American issues and preparing to present to!he world'an image that proved very challenging.

One of the mantras of the 60s that are often only revealed'in a he can choose the best suited to train truly reflects the real personality and goodness of our people? " touched a resonant chord in my subtle way. him to win his crown." The psalms \> The Editor very being. It was "You are what Unfortunately, reading has be-' made 'Nouwen a better writer and you read." While other students " come largely a consumer activity priest. were wearing their clerical clothes that involves devouring information Nouwen died after :;urviving a and visiting the. inner city of Balti- directly related to the reader's ca- heart attack Sunday night, Sept. 15, more to learn firsthand about pas- reer ,or ambitions. Witness the 1996. By Friday, September 27, the toral care; I was in my "civvies" popularity of the Internet as a doctor ~dvised him to 11egin to rethrough the archives:of source of information captured on sume normal activity with; a full OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE'DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER' searching the seminary library. , " ' a m,onitor. Without a printer trans- , recovery likely. He died the followPublished weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River : T()"say~'I ,w~s a:serlous student' lating thisinforination into pages ing day of a massive heart attack 887 Highland Avenue, .,': P,O, BOX 7 ' , wouid be an understatement. Words to read leisurely, I would feel rushed 'after praying Psalm ,91 on,Friday Fall River. MA 02720 r Fall River, MA 02722-0007 ' were always important, to me. I by my computer. I have learned that evening. "The night will never over" Telephone508-675-7151,,' firmly believe that the truth can and spiritual reading involves reading as come him: his days will stand forFAX (508) 675-7048 should be articulated clearly and much between the lines as the lines ever. Though thousands may fall Send address changes 10 P,O, Box 7 or call1elephone number above accurately. Words deserve to -be therriselves.Such reading is play- dead, he will always b~ in,scribed ". .. taken seriQ.usly and need-to be care-' ful and anticipates the pleasure of in the palm of God's hand. God proEDITOR .

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Study show U. S. Catholic colleges encounter hurdles even after offering the courses.

By JERRY FILTEAU CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - U.S. Catholic

colleges and universities have made limited progress in integrating Catholic social teaching into their academic programs, says an unpublished report circulating among some church and academic leaders.

Summarizing responses from those institutions to a recent national survey, the report says that "almost but not all schools reporting offer courses which deal with Catholic social teaching."

Letters to the Editor Non-violence is key Dear Editor, The bombing of an abortion clinic in a Southern city has appalled all our people, including pro-lifers and pro-abortionists. The person causing this catastrophe certainly must be of an unbalanced mind.

In their efforts to restrict access to abortion or to completely halt it, practically all religious communities seek to restore their concern for human rights and justice, all through non-violent ways!

In debate on the abortion issue, many pro-abortionists insist that religion is irrelevant, intrusive, overbearing and a threat to constitutional rights!

Your readers should know that when Pope John Paul II visited our country in 1993, he stated in no uncertain terms: ''The Catholic Church is unambiguously committed to protecting and cherishing every human life, including the life of the unborn!"

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"Despite these efforts," it adds, "Catholic social teaching most likely remains a well-kept secret even on these campuses.... There are few programs which offer students the chance to pursue questions of social justice in a systematic way."

Some Catholic colleges and universities have "remarkable outreach programs" engaging their students in social service, it says, and at least 10 institutions have developed specific academic programs of "peace studies or peace and justice studies."

But it says that generally the attention of U.S. Catholic higher education to Catholic social teaching is limited to campus ministry service programs and some courses offered by theology or religious studies departments.

Apart from those, it says, "there is apparently little systematic attention given to incorporating Gospel values and Catholic social teaching into general education or into departmental majors, even for those students who have indicated a clear commitment to lay leadership."

The report was prepared by church historian David J. O'Brien, Loyola professor of Roman Catholic studies at the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. It was made available at the request of Catholic News Service after a speaker cited it in early February at the Association ofCatholic Colleges and Universities annual meeting.

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commitment of Catholic higher education. "This is the most universal form of social education on Catholic as well as other campuses," it says.

But it suggests that the commitment to Catholic social teaching as an academic field lags behind and is more spotty.

It cites tensions arising from fac-

Weekly General Au(ljence.~essage

Pope Jol)rfPaul n Dear brothers and sisters, Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of our Lenten journey toward the celebration of Easter. Lent opens with the imposition of ashes, reminding us of our created condition and of our total dependence on God. The season of Lent is meant to be a time of conversion. Through prayer, fasting and charitable acts, we renew our friendship with God, we are freed from false promises of earthly happiness and, through faith, we grow in evangelical love.

St. Leo the Great, in one of his Lenten sermons, reminds us that faith is never without cflfficutties and temptations; but in our spiritual struggle the Holy Spirit comforts and strengthens us. He ,sanctifies us through the grace of the sacraments, especially the sacrament of reconciliation, which is an opportunity for every Christian to eHperience the merciful love of the Father. May the Blessed Virgin Mary be especially close to us as we make our way through Lent toward the light of Easter.

I eHlend a special welcome to the various ecumenical groups present at this audience, and I encourage you to continue to work for ever closer unity among Christians. I greet the many young people here today, especially the student groups, and in particular the children's choir of St. Hallvard in Oslo. Upon all the Englishspeaking visitors and pilgrims, especially those from England, Northern Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Japan and the United States of America, I invol<e the strengttwnil:~g,gif.tsvqftt?e Holy Spirit.

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ulty views that social teaching has more to do with action than with learning in general, or that programs proposed or in place "feature 'soft' rather than 'hard reflection.''' ''There is the pressing need to persuade faculty and administration that these are intellectually serious matters," the report says.

The Diocese of Providence is seeking qualified candidates for anticipated openings in Catholic elementary schools, Pre-I( to 8. Commitment to Catholic education necessary.

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The O'Brien report cites a number of obstacles to the integration of Catholic social teaching into the Catholic academic world.

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Dear Editor, In October, I was visiting a friend in Attleboro, Mass., and had the opportunity to read ''Th(: Anchor." I have several friends in Promise Keepers (Catholic and non-Catholic) and was particularly interested in the article "Promise Keepers and Catholic Men" by Father Peter Daly in the .

F I O cto be r 17th Issue. at ler Daly's comments that Catholic men do not feel welcomed by Promise Keepers really concerned me, and I wrote a letter to Bill McCartney. . . Bishops and U.S; Catholic ConferI recently received a reply from Mr. McCartney's assistant, Carolyn M. Bearse, who mentions a Catholic businessman, Michael TImmis, who is on the Promise Keepers Board of Directors. She also assures me of "their sincere intention to include more Catholics in the work of our ministry in the days ahead."

I would very much appreciate it if you would give a copy of the letter to Father Daly and, if possible, suggest that he publish another article in ''The Anchor." I am tremendously encouraged by the work of the Promise Keepers and would hope that more Catholic men would make the decision to join them in bringing families back to Christ.

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Pope creates 20 new cardinals dinals have a new and higher respon"Venerable brothers, you have pope told them. priest, he had been imprisoned by the Pope John Paul said the new car- sibility in the universal (:hurch.

Nazis in the Dachau concentration been created cardinals at the time camp. After the war, he went to Zamwhen we are taking great r-------------------------~._--.., toward the third bia as a missionary and eventually -steps millennium of the Chrisbecame archbishop of Lusaka.

Although officially retired, he con- tian era," the pope said.

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By CINDY WOODEN tinues living and ministering at the "You are called, in fact, II CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE small Mpunde Mission in Zambia in along with the other VATICAN CITY - Creating 20 a simple house with an electric gen- members of the College of Cardinals, to help the new cardinals, Pope John Paul II erator, but no telephone.

The most solemn moment of the pope in guiding the boat asked them to help him guide the 123 church to the year 2000 and beyond. consistory came as the pope handed of Peter toward this his"I count on your support and your the three-cornered hat, called a biretta, toric horizon."

At the Feb. 22 Mass enlightened and expert advice for to each cardinal as he knelt before the for the distribution of guiding the church in the last phase pontiff.

The, new cardinals were each as- rings, the pope said the of preparation for the Holy Year," the pope told the new cardinals Feb. 21 signed a church in Rome as a symbol cardinals are united to as he formally inducted them into the that they were becoming members of him in a special way. the clergy of the Diocese of Rome and They "constitute the senCollege of Cardinals.

12 The next day during a Mass, he even more closely bound to the bishop ate of the church, the first collaborators of the pope sealed their new relationship with him of Rome, Pope John Paul.

Cardinal George's "titular" church in his universal pastoral and with the Diocese of Rome by slipping a ring on the finger of each of is St. Bartholomew on Tiber Island. service."

6 Cardinal Stafford received the church The rings, he said, are the cardinals.

Among those joining what the of Jesus, the Good Shepherd at a "sign of the special pope described as "the senate of the Montagnola, in the southern part of spousal bond which now 6 church" were Cardinals Francis E. Rome. Cardinal Ambrozic's Rome unites them to the Church George of Chicago; J. Francis church is Sts. Marcellinus and Peter, of Rome, which presides Stafford, former archbishop of Den- just a block from the Basilica of St. in charity" over the universal church. ver and president of the Pontifical John Lateran.

In the jubilee preparation year In the weeks followCouncil for the Laity; and Aloysius >\:. ''' . dedicated to the Holy Spirit, the pope ing the consistory, the M. Ambrozic of Toronto.

• Pope JohnPapl'll',i"t ,'; With the newly red-clad prelates, invoked on the new cardinals the gifts pope is expected to asthe membership of the College of of the Spirit. sign each of the cardinals "Who more than them needs the to be members of one or Cardinals rose to 165, 122 of whom Pope PaulVI> are under the age of 80 and therefore abundant comfort of these gifts 'to two Vatican congregaeligible to vote in a conclave to elect complete the mission received from tions or councils. a new pope. the Lord?" the pope asked.

"To you, deaF and "Venerable brothers, may the venerable brothers, is enThe consistory, originally scheduled for the Vatican audience hall, was Spirit Paraclete dwell fully in each trusted the mission, in a held in St. Peter's Square under sunny, one of you, fill you with divine con- strict communion of spring-like skies to accommodate the solation and allow you to be in tum spirit and intention with more than 15,000 pilgrims and rela- consolers of those who find them- the pope, of being wit- . tives celebrating with the new cardi- selves afflicted,particularly members nesses to the s.uffering, , Youngest Oldest nals. of the most harshly tried churches, the _which Christ faces, still Ignatius Kung' Pin-mei, ago 96 VinkopiJljic, age 52 New Cardinal Alberto Bovone, communities which suffer the most today in hismystica.l" ,(Sarajevo, Bosnia) (Shanghai, China) head of the Congregation for Saint- tribulation for the cause of the Gos- body; at the same ti~e, , hood Causes. underwent emergency pel," the pope prayed. you are called to pro~ surgery in early February and was During the consistory, as he did claim with word and with © 1998 CNS Graphics Source: CNS reports unable to attend the consistory. Pope Jan. 18 when he announced the names your life the hope which John Paul sent his secretary of state, of the new cardinals, the pope said he does not disappoint," the Cardinal Angelo Sodano, to Rome's was reserving the names of two other Gemelli Hospital to give the new car- cardinals "in pectore," or in his heart. dinal his red hat.

Cardinals are secretly named when The oldest of the new cardinals for political or other reasons a public was an 86-year-old Polish Jesuit, Car- revelation of their identities coul<;l enon Certain Questions Regarding the For example, in 1995.. the Vati• Bishops struggle dinal Adam Kozlowiecki. As a young danger them or their ministry. " Collaboration of the Nonordained can Congregation for the Doctrine through hurdles to Faithful in the Sacred Ministry of of the Faith said that when Pope meet parochial needs the Priest." It wa!i approved by Pope John Paul II reiterated that the John Paul II in August 1997, and church has no authority to ordain and follow Church rele,\sed Nov. 13 with signatures by women to the priesthood, he was teachings. ' .'. .

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE the hea~s of eight Vatican agencies . affirming a teaching "set forth in. '0., I' .

VATICAN CITY - Here is the list 9fl1~w cardi l1 !lls, in the Qrder.in . It reiterat,ed previous' p~ohibi­ fallibly by the ordi.nary and univer-' Bv PATRICIA-:ZApOR which they were created by Pope John Paul Feb. 2 1 : ' "' tion~ on. the 'I.aity laki':lg such roles 'Sfll nwgisterium (church teaching . CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE - Jorge Medina Estevez, prefect of the Congrygation ~or Divine Wor- " aS9~livering Mass hOJ:nilies, forauthority)" iInd "belonging to the .1 " , , . " ship and the Sacraments. The 71-year-old prelate-isfromChile;. • . WASf:lINGT9N~As, the C\lth- bade ·giving the la,ity, titles, such as dep,osit of faith." The pOpt' also has - Alberto Bovone, prefect of the Congregation for Sainthood Causes: ,olic Church grapples w.ith the role of chaplain and·said only pastors, who said the issue is not open to debate.

The Italian is 75 years old; women in le~clership, considtlWion ,must be 'priests, ,are competent to . Bishop Murphy said b}' attempt- Dario Castrillon Hoyos, a 68-year-old Colombian who is prefect of of life's realities ml,lstbe a part ofth~ govern ,parishes.' ,', .. :, ingto forbid discussion of women's the Congregation for Clergy; . " " ,,'., , , process, just as tradition and power . Yet- U.S. ,Catholics .have ordination, the congregation set up - Lorenzo Antonetti, 75, an Italian ~hois'presidenfof th~ Adminishave been, accord.ing to Baltimore struggled for years., to have lay ,a situation that was bound 'to cause tratioriofthePatrimo.(1yoftheHolySee;,~ '-'.', " ',' ~.' , Auxiliary' Bishop Francis P. Murphy. people recognized by hospitals and great confusion. t • -- J. Francis StaffOrd, 65-year-old formerarchbi1ihOp of Denver, presi- ' Speaking at a workshop session priso'os-as chaplains, Bishop No matter how-carefully the 'C" dent of the Pontifical Council for the Laity;>':' of the East Coast Conference on Re- Murphy said. The document's pro- church leadership defines who may - Salvatore de Giorgi of Palermo, Italy, '6;7; ligious Education Feb. 13, Bishop hibition on using the title of chap- have what role, when women teach, - Serafim Fernandes de Araujo, the 73-year-old archbishop of Belo ' Murphy said the world's bishops lain is counterintuitive to filling a they will be seen as teaching for the Horizonte,..Brazil; ,are put in a particularly difficult vital role for which there are too few church, he ,said.

- Antonio Rouco Varela of Madrid, 61 ; position when it ~omes to defining priests available, he added.

When ,women condul;t Com-Aloysius M. Ambrozic of Toronto, 68; women's roles.

"Fear permeates the document," munion services, it will be: seen by - Jean Balland of Lyons, France, 63; For one thing, bishops are called Bishop Murphy said ..

- Dionigi tettamanzi, the 63-year-old archbishop of Genoa, Italy; some as "celebrating" a, liturgy, he to be in union-with the Vatican as - Polycarp Pengo of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, 53; _Instead of trusting that the Holy continued, and when women are in well as to represent the people, he Spirit would work to bring lay charge of running day-to..day op- Christoph Schonborn of Vienna, Austria, 53; noted, - . ' " - Norberto Rivera Carrera, the 55-year-old arc~l:lishop QfMexico City; people into necessary roles, the erations, the job title may be "pas" " - Francis E. George of Chicago, 61; "We are called to be listening to document emp~asizes maintaining toralassociate" or "parist, admin- Paul Shan Kuo-Hsi, the 74-year-old bishop'bf~Kaohsiung", Taiwan;' the faith journeys ofthe people we tradition; he said. "Nearly every line istrator" but to parishiom:rs, they - Adam Kozlowiecki, 86, a Poltl and former archbishOp of Lusaka, are called to serve," he said. "On'e indicates a priority on maintaining will be "pastors," ~ .

Zambia; , example of the serious tension be- power." ' There are positive effect!; as well, - Giovanni Cheli, president of the Pontifical Council for Migrants tween the bishops' conte'rences and , An'1ong the most difficult situa- according to Bishop Murphy, from and Travelers. The Italian cardinal will tum 80 in·October; the Roman congregations 'is when tions for 'some bishops is reconcil- the increasing number of women - Francesco Colasuonno, 73. The'Italian is nuncio to Italy and former they issue documents that show no ing the hierarchy's proclamations with advanced theological education nuncio to Russia; understanding of the realities of our about women's roles with the ev- to the el,1couraging role models be- Dina Monduzzi, the 75-year~old retired Italian prefect ofthe Papal lives," Bishop Murphy said. eryday experiences of parish life, ing set for children by seeing women Household. .

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rior general of her congregation. gional High School. Tilapia is a tropiToday there are 44 sisters in her cal fresh water fish which has its oricommunity, and 10 novices are in train- . gin in Africa. A mild fish, it tastes, I ing. The congregation boasts of five am told, something like red snapper. schools, of which the largest is in Port- It is very hardy and easy to cultivate au-Prince with 1,000 students, a novi- in contained basins. China has been tiate and a dispensary. The boarding feeding the nation on tilapia for years. school continues to train young Haiti's number one obstacle is the women, placing them as employees in loss of its woodland and fertile topprivate homes and institutions. I at- soil. It is an ecological nightmare. tended the commencement ceremony Silt from the erosion of the unproof 59 young Haitian women graduat- tected mountains has run into the sea, ing from Mother Moniquc's Nurses polluting the watttrs. There are no fish Aide Class. These women, in impec- within a five-mile radius of Haiti. The cable white caps and uniforms, were lack ofa source of protein in the Haifilled with dignity. Their future is tian diet and unsafe drinking water are bright. Jobs are waiting for them. The leading causes of disease. fruits of Mother Monique's life are like Fertile land around Port-au-Prince gems shining brightly in the horror of is at a premium. Is it just a pure coina human wasteland. cidence that the congregation owns Why had I come here? What could what it calls "The Farm" in Lilavois, I do for this country whose roosters just 20 minutes from an already excrow all night long .. Kyri(? eleison" isting commercial tish farm project in (Lord have mercy)? Why did I have Croix des Bouquets'! Sister Cadet and recurring thoughts about fish farm- I met with technician Val Abe. His ing? I knew nothing of fish farming, project had just reached the stage of but my attention was immediately at- actually harvesting tilapia and they tracted to the concept when I first were looking for opportunities to exlearned about the AquaHarvest pand into the community. Val agreed Project at the Martha's Vineyard Re- to come to The Faml, two-and-a-half

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acres of completely enclosed, cleared, levelland, with a school already under construction but awaiting further funding.

It was an exciting moment when Val concluded that this was an excellent fish farm site and that he would be happy to provide his expertise and even help dig the basins himself. The proximity of The Farm to that of the commercial fish farm makes it possible for them to provide the Sisters with young tilapia which need very little care to grow and harvest at minimum cost.

It is now projected that the school in construction will include courses in aquaculture! Mother Monique's vision of becoming self-sufficient and teaching self-sufficiency is underway.

Is it in your heart to help make Mother Monique's vision become a reality? You may send your tax deductible donations to The Daughters of Mary Queen Immaculate - Fish Farm Project. There are other ways, besides donating money, to become involved. For more information contact Margaret Pinicaud, Box 1803, Tisbury MA 02568 or call 693-0368.

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ing during training to get a better sense of where our kids are coming from," Walker added. The sessions took place over a four-day period for eight hours a day. The majority of time was spent learning about early intervention techniques and proximity control, such as where one stands, tone of voice and body language was stressed heavily, said Walker.

"We try and interrupt the negative cycle," Weldon said, "and the kids in the homes and dorms were ready to embrace it." He noted that the children involved with St. 'Vincent's around the diocese also went through some training so they could be a party to it and assume more responsibility.

Weldon said he has noticed kids talking more with staff and that morale of both staff and their charges has been high. Weldon himself participated in the training and declared that

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"When you approach the child in a positive way, with respect, you get that back," said Weldon. He said that the program adjusts itselfto the needs of the individual child and that was positive because not every child can be helped the same way. Some children need time away from the group, some need to go out with someone and walk around the building and hopefully, such procedures will help resolve the situation, he added. .

"Hopefully this will help kids who couldn't deal with their emotions before and they can get a better grasp on them," said Weldon. "We encourage kids to use the people and staff around them for support."

Although they know that results will take more time and hard work, Weldon and Walker were positive

about the new behavior model. Walker said that some parents have used techniques from the staff's training to aid their kids and have found it helpful.

He added that when a child is making progress and dealing with his or her emotions better, it is important for parents to recognize those accomplishments and know what's going on. ''Through family therapy sessions and consultations parents can learn to recognize and acknowledge the changes," Weldon commented.

Part of St. Vincent's mission is to help restore hopeto children and their families and it is positive steps forward that come from new programs and the dedication of people like Weldon and Walker that will help accomplish that mission. The new behavior management model of St. Vincent's is another step on the road to success.

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1972, Father Hession added.

It also takes up the mandate in the subsequent document on the continuing formation of priests: "Growing in Wisdom, Age and Grace," published by the bishops' conference in 1984.

The pastorofSt Joseph's sinceApril 1997, Father Hession has been active with NOCERCC, which functions on the national and regional levels. At the national level, such as the recent convention, there were 250 participants, who included priests and religious who are directors of continuing education and formation in each of the dioceses throughout the country.

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The Diocese of Fall River is in Region I of the national organization. This region includes all of the New England States. Father Hession has been the representative of the region's board of directors since November 1997.

His responsibility will be to direct the operations of the organization, working with the president and the executive director, for the next three years. ''The three of us comprise the executive committee. Our job will be to develop programs for the annual conventions to take up in the course of the coming three years."

At the local level, Father Hession

will coordinate events for priests and religious held at least once a month.

Diocesan priests receive a calendar in the summer of events slated to take place through the following May. "Events vary," Father Hession said.

"At times we meet with our fellow priests from the Providence Diocese.

This fall we had a workshop with them at the Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, R.I. We held our first 'Pr0fessional Development Day' in November. We had an Advent Day of Prayer last November, and in January held our annual convocation ofpriests. All ofthe events were huge successes."

pressed him as "very pleasant" and kind and wholesome.

In an interview last December with The Michigan Catholic, Detroit archdiocesan newspaper, Tara and her mother said that Tara's special devotion to St. Therese goes back to 1994.

Tara had just finished fourth in the world junior championships and Mrs. Lipinski wanted her to quit competitive skating so tht: family could return to a more normal life. During a trip to Budapest, Mrs. Lipinski was about to tell her husband this as they were standing on a hotel terrace but all of a sudden he moved and she was struck by the view of a church behind him, she said.

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their hometown is Sugar Land, Texas, where her father, Jack, an oil executive, maintains the family home.

When they are in Detroit they attend weekend Mass at eithl:r St. Owen Church or St. Hugo of the Hills Church, both in Bloomfield Hills.

Msgr. Anthony Tocco, pastor of St. Hugo's, said he personally met Lipinski only once, before last year's world championships in Lausanne, Switzerland, when she and her mother called for an appointment before leaving Michigan.

"We said a prayer together and I gave her a blessing," he said.

He added that "obviously her faith was important to her" and she im-

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They went there and prayed for guidance before a statue ofSt. Therese, Mrs. Lipinski recalled, and ever since then, whenever there has been a tough decision or a difficult time, they have left it in St. Therese's hands.

Tara said in the interview that putting her trust in St. Therese has helped her skating immensely. Whenever she is going into a competition, she said, she prays to St. Therese and knows "she's with me.... It makes me feel calmer, and I go for everything."

She said she made a novena to St. Therese before the world championships, where at the age of 14 she became the youngest world champion in history.

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Needed: Restored sense of reverence

Vatican praises couple; cites ~oral probleDls

body. After protests by offended Chri~;tians, the Once again I find myself both outraged and saddirector, Milqs Forman, had those monstrous ads dened by a report of how one of our sacred symbols taken down. , has been publicly mocked.

We should all be appalled and on the alert as to The New York Times printed a photo of a French why this mockery is happening so that 'we can be billboard campaign that Volkswagen of France and effective in, saying, "Enough!" It's not hard to see an advertising agency came up with - a "humorthat we're 'all being pushed to think that anything ous" idea to promote the latest model ofVolkswagen . ' Bringing an eight-year-old embryo to life poses Golf. a great many problems.

The billboards show 12 men in modern clothes

By CINDY WOODEN' sitting around a table in exactly the same positions CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE as Christ and his apostles in Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting "The Last Supper." :rhe figure reVATICAN CITY - While Vatican officials praised a California couple' placing Jesus is saying, "My friends, let us rejoice for bringing' to life, a embryo frozen eight years ago, they insisted the because a new Golf is born." whole process was filled with moral problems,.

This poster is so offensive that the French Catho. By Antoinette Bosco "Only tfiose who believe without reservation in scientific progress and lic bishops are suing Volkswagen and the advertis- , con'sider the embryo ... a human 'product to be used for various purposes. ing agency over their "mockery" of a symbol sacred are happy -:vith ~his:: said Fra~cisc.!1n Fa~her ino .~6ncetii. to Christians. The purpose of the lawsuit; according Th~ Callfor~Ja co~ple, who were not I~enhfied, ~ecame ~~e p,arents of to Msgr. Bernard Lagoutte, secretary general of the goes so long. as it's ~~cool," ~sophisticated, cynical, a baby boy Feb. 16, eIght years,after the bIrth of theIr first chIld, who was ,'"French ,bishops' conference, which fil~d the suit, is crowd dra"',ing and~,'~~boveall,can bring in big conceived artificially at the same time:" ", to start a public ~iscussion about setting limits on ~.\ ?

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Bishop Elio Sgreccia, vice"president Pontifical .' UStng . re I'" This "cool,'.' money-dominated mockery comes , . a bidethicisrand .' . '. . of the ."

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Ac.ademy for LI,fe, saId, the fe~tll,lzed embryo, was treated ~Ike any old " Like the bishops, I feel offended that this particu~ with a loss'bf reverence JOT every created .thing. object for expenmentatlOn, as ~! It-were matenal to be mampulated, fr9- lar religious image was used. The Last Supper is the Maybe this:~idespread loss,of reverenc~: accounts zen,. thawed and ~hat~ver else.,路, . ' occasion for the Lord giving us his lasting sign of . for why the'tobacco industry'can, without qualms hThe~nusual thl~g I~ th~ C~:!fOr~la case, ~e Sal?, ;as that the co;p~e" 'Iove, the Eucharist. How could moneymakersdefile of conscience, lure youths to a death-dealing habit; w ? ~,~ erwehnt an IF vltro ,ertdl I~dattdon pr?ce ~r~elg t yeabrs ago an t e such a sacred moment? . why we can ignore the signs that our lifestyles may phYSlclans w 0 per ormed It eCI e to gIve t e. rozen em ryo a c hance B' h L tt d t 11 be killing o~r earth; \fhy people can empty wombs to live instead of destroying it. . . .

"IS op" agou. e ~~presse o~r o~ rage we . and discard g~owing new life; why millions scream Father'Concetti, who writes about moral issues for L'Osservatore . Mockery, he saId, Is.a c~rroslve like rust that out to kill killers, becoming killers themselves, and Romano, the Vatican newspaper, said the entire process --'- up until the gradu?ll.y erodes eveIJ:thtng. whooping it up with "'cool" hate posters outside a implantation of ThIs IS not the first tIme sacred symbols have been death house, as we saw in Texas when Karla Faye the thawed emselected as good marketing tools. In early February Tucker was executed Feb. 3. novelist Jackie Collins appeared on television wearing bryo _ violated One man 'Iong has tried to teach us that we must Catholic moral crosses hanging from her ears and several gold chains reestablish reverence for all creation. We should listeaching. sporting crosses. It reminded me of revolting news reten to the pleas of our beloved pope, who begs us to ports that crosses were the new rage in jewelry.

Writing in the be human and life-giving, to see that everything from Last year advertisements in France for the ofFeb. 19 edition of 'God is sacred and that reverence.is a measure of how the newspaper, fensive movie, "The People vs. Larry Flynt," about the publisher of the pornographic magazine Husfaithful we've remained to God. Father Concetti I hope the French bishops can get this. message listed the moral tIer, showed an almost undressed man, posing as if problems as i n - b e i n g crucified, noton across but against a woman's across to Volkswagen Golf. ,:.i.' ~.....------~------------.---c1uding: , ~ separating ., ,:, .'" .

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a married couple; - fertilizing the egg "i n a laboratory con- I . , tainer instead of '""'f, 'j ' in the natural" womb of the mother"; - freezing the embryo, "which is already a human being with inviolable rights, and rigidly blocking its development"', - the production of multiple embryos and the uncertain DR. MICHAEL VERMESH holds a baby fate of those not boy born Feb. 16 at Encino Tarzana Regional implanted; Medical Center in California., The baby was - the risk of born after an embryo frozen for seven and a or dealteration of struction the half years was implanted in his mother. The

Young:marti-e'dsand financial goals:'

Dear Mary: My husband and I have been mar路 ried three years. We both have fulltime jobs. We have not been able to save any money. In fact, we have debt payments every month. We want to buy a house, but it seems impossible. We would like to have children, but we cannot afford them. Our parents say they raised families on one income, and we don't know what money problems are. I feel if we get very stressed about money, we have a money problem. - Michigan

I agree that if money is the cause of stress in your life, you have a money problem. Financial counselors can give anyone in any circumstances the secret '10 one sentence: S pen d Iess than . I success o ffitnanCIa you earn.

You need to get out of debt and into a savings plan. You should be able to achieve this with little pain by making a few changes in lifestyle.

Step I. You both undoubtedly have many minor spending habits which, taken together, add up to major spending. Choose one extravagance each, preferabl y one 0 f your Iarger spen d'109 bugaboos, t hat unidentified parents already haq a boy nearly you will try to eliminate in the next weeks. Here are f h . . f '1' t' excess embryos . ht and the risk of elg years ago rom t e same In-vitro ertl 1- some sugges Ions.

Skip first-run movies on Saturday night, and rent their being' sold zation process that created the newborn's by unscrupulous embryo. (CNS/Reuters) a video. parties.

Eliminate or severely limit eating out. This in"In the California case, however," he said, "there are some positive eludes c,offee breaks and lunch as well as dinners' aspects," including the fact that the clinic did not destroy the frozen em-. out. Instead, use your weekends for food preparabryos, that the doctors recognized the couple's right and responsibility to 'tion. Plan one week's menus, shop for the week's determine the embryos' fate, and the couple's decision "for the continua- ,groceries and spend aweekend afternoon or evening tion of life." preparing foods that can be reheated during the week. ''The mother, in fact, welcomed the embryo into her womb and with' If you smoke and can stop, you will save many her husband's agreement, allowed for its complete development and birth," dollars in health care as well as cigarettes.

If impulse clothes buys are your downfall, avoid Father Concetti wrote.

However, he said, the positive behavior of the parents and scientists window-shopping. Go shopping only when you have "does not lessen the obligation to make a negative judgment about the a specific purchase to make, and make only that purchase. . technique of medically assisted artificial procreation."

"Every human being has the right to be born in a human way, that is, To help you persevere you might decide on a treat to be conceived in an interpersonal relationship between spouses, to be which you must earn by sticking to your spending carried in the mother's womb and to be welcomed as a child into the regime. When you have had one successful week, nuclear family," the Franciscan wrote. reward yourselves.

After two successful weeks, choose a second "Any violation of this principle harms the personal dignity of the newspending habit and begin to eliminate or reduce that born and .its inviolable rights," Father Concetti said.

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Step 2. Attack your debt problems. If your debts are student loans, you probably have low interest rates. Making the regular payments is a necessary part of your financial life.

If credit cards got you into your debt problems, get rid of them. Keep one credit card for ,emergen-

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cies only.

Once you kiCk the credit-card habit, begin to pay them off as quickly as possible. Choose a payment plan which stretches your ability to pay, perhaps triple or quadruple the minimum payment.

Step 3. Once your credit-card debt is very low, begin a savings program. Each time you get a' paycheck, put 10 perc~ntJ5i~o a savings account. With two incomes and a savings rate ,9f 10 perc,ent, your, . savings should grow quic;:kly.

The pay-yourself-first program is much siinpler than budgeting. Budgeting involves accounting for every penny. It is too time-consuming, fo(:uses too much on money and causes a constant state of guilt when you fail to live up to your budget. You will quickly get discouraged and quit the whole program.

With the pay-yourself-first program, you set aside your savings, and the rest is yours to use as you wish.

When you have changed your spendin,g habits, eliminated credit-card debt and started a sav:ings program, you will be well on your way to a::hieving your financial goals.

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The Gospel of Thomas Q. In the past months I have heard reference several times to the Gospel "according to Thomas!' Is there really such a Gospel?

If so, why is it not included in the New Testament, and why don't we hear more about it? Who decided this Gospel should not be in the Bible?

(Indiana) , A. Yes, there is a Gospel of Thomas, but let's take your other question first. Why were some "Gospels" accepted in the Scriptures and others not?

Theoretically, the answer is simple. We believe that, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the communities of believers in Jesus gradually realized which writings were to be inth,e "canon," the official list of books which would constitute the standard or rule for Christian belief and life.

Many letters, Gospels and other writings about the life and teachings of Jesus passed back and forth . among the early churches, Eventually, by a kind of common intuition, certain of them were recognized as normative; they provided a norm or model for any authentic Christian faith or church. .

By about the year 400, popes and councils had endorsed a basic list. Confusions remained, however, until the Council of Trent (1546) identified those books to be accepted 'as the Catholic Church's sa· cred, canonical Scriptures.

As I said, it sounds simple. In reality the process was not so neat. For one thing, a number of supposedly significant documents were jiJst "lost."

At least one letter of his own, which St. Paul mentions in 1 Corinthians 5:3, simply disappeared somewhere along the line.

The same is true of a document containing quotations from Jesus in Aramaic, supposedly written by an apostle.

Other writings encountered opposition because they did not seem to meet the criterion of origin with the apostles, which was considered necessary for acceptance.

Even in those first centuries, for example, leading Christian scholars already questioned whether Hebrews and Revelation were really written respectively by Paul and the apostle John.

The fact that the original forms of the Gospels later underwent changes and additions further complicated the process. Sometimes these revisions re-

suIted from sayings of Jesus passed down by word of mouth well into the second century.

To repeat, our Christian belief is that the same Spirit who inspired the authors of Scripture when they wrote, also inspired the churches, the communities of faith, as they discerned and chose which

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"sacred" writings would constitute the norm of Christian 'discipleship.

Several early Christian Gospels are not included in the canon of the New Testament. Perhaps the mOst famous, at least today, is the one referred to as the Gospel of Thomas.

T~is gospel is quite unlike the four we know, consisting solely of 114 "sayings" of the "living Jesus."

Written most likely before the year 100, its existence has been known for centuries, through references and occasional quotes in other documents.

The discovery of the entire text in 1945, however, in an ancient library along the Nile in northern Egypt, is a significant archeological event in the history of New Testament scholarship.

Because of its antiquity, its importance in studying the life and words of Jesus can scarcely be exaggerated.

The relatively brief text is available today in several publications. If you read it, however, don't look for it to have the interest or the impact of the four Gospels in our New Testament.

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Let's hear it for the "next level" There's a relatively new sports cliche I sort of liked the first 1,523 times I heard it: "taking 'it' (or whatever) to another level."

For example, "Hey, this pair has taken ice dancing to another level," (As if there were a basement or a second floor to an ice rink.)

Or, "Bubba McThickneck took his game to a new level this season," or "If that rookie wants to make the Big Show, he's going to have to take his play to the next level," Of course we sports cliche veterans know that some overpaid sports announcer simply substituted the word "new/next level" for the tried-and-true "uppa-notch" and, ta-dah, a cliche was born.

The cliche came to mind as I read about a Catholic men's spiritual invigoration conference this month in southern California.

The idea behind the whole thing (a spin-off of the Promise Keepers' movement) is to take men's spirituality to "the next level," As a matter of fact, I would have titled it "Taking Your Spiritual Life to the Next Level, Men" instead of "Super Saturday Men's Conference," which sounds like a Sears clearance sale.

I knew this to be especially true when I saw that one of the featured speakers was going to be former major league baseball commissioner Bowie (rhymes with Huey, Louie, and Dewey) Kuhn (rhymes with balloon and doubloon).

I can just hear him: "All right, men, we've got to pull together here and take our spirituality uppa notch, uh, I mean, to a new level. Past the mezzanine, up beyond bridal registry and fine china, clear to the top floor where the:y keep all the leather recliners with vibrating head rests and built-in back massagers."

The crowd of men would hoot, clap and stomp - in a spiritually elevated kind of way.

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. "We've got to think of ourselves as a team, men," he would continue. "Remember, Jesus had his own team - 12 disciples, Now, I can see where some might think of Jesus as the quarterback of this group - which would equal a football team with two substitutes."

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"But I think we should consider that Jesus could also be viewed as the spiritual manager of an allmillennium spiritual baseball team with a couple of guys on the spiritual bench for a decent spiritual pitching rotation, and of course trading Judas to an expansion team for a draft pick to be named later.

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THE ANCHOR- Diocese of Fall River:....Fri., Feb. . . 27, 1998 REVIEWED BY ANNE BINGHAM CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW YORK (CNS) - The following are capsule reviews of movies recently reviewed by the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting.

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Billed as an examination of "our lifelong struggles with power and surrender," "Imperfect Control" describes how people try to both gain "Love Walked In" (Triumph) and dodge control of their lives at various stages.

Muddled crime story in which The problem is t,hat, most of a failed lounge singer (Denis the time, author Judith Viorst Leary) plans to blackmail a stays at the descriptive level. She wealthy married man (Terence piles anecdote upon anecdote Stamp) by getting his adored wife for pages on end, and the con(Aitana Sanchez Gijon) to seduce clusion at the close of each him, but is unprepared for the dire chapter is typically: sometimes consequences this has on his own it's good to seek control, somemarriage. Director Juan J. times it's good to acknowledge that you don't have any.

Campanella superficially exWell, yes. But isn't the trick plores several crises of conscience knowing which is which? in a downbeat narrative hampered scheme that leaves him framed for There's precious little guidby an intrusive subplot parallel- murder. Directed by Volker ance to be found in these pages. ing these crises with those of Schlondorff, the glaring lapses in Early on, in what one suspects . imaginary pulp-fiction characters. logic reduce this film noirto mere was part of the original book A sexual encounter with nudity, pulp. Some violence, discreet proposal, the author does raise brief violence and frequent rough sexual encounters, much rough fundamental questions about the language. The U.S. Catholic Con- . language and occasional profaninfluence of genetics, temperaity. The U.S. Catholic Conference ference classification is A-III ment and environment on one's classification is A-III -adults. adlilts~ The Motion Picture Assofreedom in making choices.

The Motion Picture Association ciation of America rating is R The rest of the book, howof America rating is R - rerestricted. ever, fails to resolve these quesstricted. tions, contenting itself with a de"Palmetto" (Columbia) scription of how people seek or "Senseless" (Dimension) Absurd thriller in which an emresist power at various stages of their life (birth, childhood, adolescence, Feeble college comedy about bittered ex-con (Woody marriage, parenthood, tragedy, illness and death). By an overwhelming majority, the people cited are either of the white East Coast persuasion or Harrelson) is ensnared by a se- an economics major (Marlon ductive woman (Elisabeth Shue) Wayans) whose determination to the subjects of tragic headlines.

On the one hand, one has to admire the breadth of her sources, which in an elaborate kidnapping win a' student' competition for a range from Scott Adams ("Dilbert") and Hanna Arendt through Henry James, Anita Loos ("Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"), the authors of a number of classic behavioral studies, and on to Thorton Wilder and Naomi Wolf, a veritable romp through the database of The New York Times.

The'G word comes up half dozen times, but mostly as a passing reference,twice in a four-paragraph discussion of "letting go and letting God." Such "compliant surrender," the author concludes, "can sometimes be a positive, and sometimes a negative, act."

By GERRI PARE Her discussion of death issues is equally mixed. She starts the chapter CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE quoting Thomas a Kempis about the value of keeping your death before "NEW'YORK ---.: Hope"s ge'ts you as a reminder Of how to live, and then draws conclusions about as~ qashed when a teen~ager's 'plans sisted suicide that would give a Kempis apoplexy. for a better life go awry in the gritty "Imperfect Control" started out with a good idea, perhaps as an essay urban melodrama "Hurricane that never found a home. (The strongest chapter, "Varieties of Surrender" is a good candidate.) The result, however, does not do justice to the topic.

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A 15th birthday party for Marcus (Brendan Sexton III) is held in a saloon on Manhattan's Lower East Side his grandma (Lynn Cohen) runs. Marcus' mom

By HENRY HERX Huey Long, who was cut down by an (Edie Falco) is serving time for I 930s.

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE " The series concludes Thursday assassin's bullet, and the rise of the supposedly smuggling in desperNEW YORK - How Americans 'with "Desperate Measures," which American Communist Party, which ate illegal aliens and his father is lived through the hard times of the recalls the blunders and duplicity that was cut short by Stalin's deal with long dead. Mom promises once . 1930s is recounted in the documen- led to Army troops shooting down Hitler in 1939. she's out they will have a good Ii fe tary series, "The Great Depression," World War I veterans on the streets The program finishes as the war in New Mexico where her brother airing Monday-Thursday, March 9- of the nation's capital in the 1932 in Europe begins to revive American lives.

12, 9-10 p.m. EST each night on Bonus March. industry with war contracts and the Marcus has been into shopliftcable's History Channel.

There are also segments on the Depression's end with America's ening with his pals for some ti me but Produced by Jonathan Towers, the national ambitions of Louisiana Sen. try into World War II. does not want to risk graduating series is' an interesting capsule history of the 1930s, 1'0- , . . - - - _ to more serious crimes such as car theft. They are pressuring him, cusing on particular events, Sister Sharon Holland, IHM however, since he's the only one groups and individuals as bewho can actually drive the car they ing representative of the era. have targeted.

The first episode, "The Great Shake-Up," starts with He'd rather spend time with the 1929 Wall Street crash Melena (Isidra Vega), a neighborBuilding Sisterhood and the deepening economic hqod girl he has befriended, deby the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Monroe, Mich. crisis that followed. spite restrictions her overprotecBecause these are partisan tive and hot-tempered father places matters, series host Mario on her. In fact, Marcus has roseCuomo, the former govemor colored dreams he and Melena can of New York, treats them ginjust take off and visit his uncle in gerly and bends over backNew Mexico. ward to present both sides of However, when he learns the their 150th a'nnive~b; the 1930s political perspectrue nature of his mother's crime tive.

"Far those who The second program, and his father's fate; he feels be"Face the Music," is devoted far the histary af wa trayed and agrees to one last theft to the popular culture of the with his buddies, which ends in Sister Sharon Halloi@'1t .

Depression years. unexpected violence sure to doom Wednesday night's profar Institutes af(ansec' . his trip with Melena to the wide gram, "Striking Back," is open spaces and serene scenery of equally interesting in its ac"Building Sisterhood· by the Sisters, Servants of the the Southwest. counts of how gangsters beImmaculate Heart of Mary of Monroe, Mich. (Syracuse University Press) As written and directed by Morcame the folk heroes of the 1997,424 pp.

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plum Wall Street job brings him to rely on the help of an experimental sense-enhancing drug, with tiresomely unamusing results. Directed by Penelope Spheeris, the charmle~:s story unfolds in a labored series of sophomoric sight gags and skits, most of them involving low humor and dimwitted characten•. Explicit sexual situations, fleeting rear nudity, bathroom humor and crude language. The U.S. Cal:holic Conference classification is A-IV adults, with reservations. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R _. restricted.

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sensitivity but stops tbere, seemingly unable to progress beyond preseilti'ng'the situation. .'

While the film doesn't fall into the trap of sentimentalizing its characters or dishing out an unrealistic happy ending, neither does it avoid a final bizarre: plot twist that compromises its c:redibility.

Pacing is also a problem as the generally predictable plot unfolds sluggishly, although both Sexton and Vega as sweethearts Marcus and Melena give naturalistic performances that look very skilled for their tender years.

Freeman's writing is better in evoking a troubled altmosphere than in telling a convincing story, and one character (L.M. Kit Carson) who plays somewhat of a father figure to Marcus iis seriously underwritten, leaving the audience confused about who he really is.

For a debut film, Freeman shows some promise Olrlce he disciplines his writing to better serve his story.

Due to brief violence, numerous thefts, some recreational drug use and much rough language, the U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-III - adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted.

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Vocations to priesthood sought among military •

New program will screen active duty troops to find candidates who would become chaplains.

By NANCY HARTNAGEL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

HYATTSVILLE, Md. -A new program to begin this fall hopes to find priestly vocations to the military chaplaincy among troops on active duty.

Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien, who became head of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services last August, initiated the project. It kicked off with a discernment retreat Feb. 5-7 at Theological College at The Catholic University of America in Washington, and ties into an ongoing priestly discernment program at the Sulpician-run college.

The retreat attracted 20 men, most now serving in the military, with a few from military families.

They traveled from installations on the East Coast and as far afield as Texas, Alaska and Hawaii. Some came at their own expense; others got help from the Catholic chaplains who invited them.

Currently the Military Archdiocese serves 1.2 million Catholics worldwide. They include activeduty military personnel and their families, federal employees serving overseas, reservists and National Guard troops, and residents of Vetcrans Affairs hospitals.

In an interview at archdiocesan

offices in Hyattsville, Msgr.

Aloysius R. Callaghan, vicar general, said that to meet pastoral responsibilities the archdiocese needs at least 700 active-duty chaplains but has only 459.

"In the Army alone, we could use 200 Catholic chaplains right now," he said.

Auxiliary Bishop John J. Glynn said in a separate interview that the Military Archdiocese is facing "the most critical moment in our history as far as the shortage of priests is concerned."

But he believes "vocations are out there." The discernment retreat "showed that priests can find young men interested in the priesthood," he said. "All of the young men were there because a priest toqk the time to urge them to attend."

Msgr. Callaghan said ~he service is fertile ground for vocations because the young people now serving have not made "a definitive decision about how they intend to spend the rest of their lives.

"They're already in service to their country," he said, and many "feel an extra calling to do something either to serve God or the church or their country."

The first two days of the retreat focused on priestly discernment in general, Msgr. Callaghan explained. The third day was spent on chaplaincy, as the archdiocese's three auxiliary bishops explored their own vocations and work and four chaplains described how they are living their priesthood in the service branches.

The vicar general, who was 01'-

dained for the Diocese of Allentown, Pa., and did vocations work there, said participants "expressed different levels of interest" during personal interviews at the end of the weekend, but he intends to follow up with each personally.

Those ready to take the next step could enter the archdiocesan-Theological College program and begin pre-theology studies this fall, he said. They must have completed their active military obligation, but need not have finished college.

If they stay with it, they would be channeled into a joint program the Military Archdiocese co-sponsors with 27 U.S. dioceses.

Though the archdiocese can ordain priests, it does not, instead finding chaplains among diocesan and religious priests. Bishop Glynn said only two of33 military archdioceses worldwide ordain their own priests.

Under the Co-Sponsorship Program, said Msgr. Callaghan, a priest is ordained for a diocese and works there for three years. Then he spends up to 20 years on loan to the Military Archdiocese, serving as a chaplain in a service branch. Following military retirement, the priest returns to his diocese.

The bishop and the monsignor agreed that a chaplain's life is both fulfilling and challenging.

On the positive side, a chaplain meets a real need among his people, said Msgr. Callaghan. He is primarily a pastor with all that involves, but "there's a certain missionary spirit to i( that c.an st~engthen and rejuvenate him. ' When troops are under duress

Military chaplaincy tied to St. Martin of Tours as recorded in Deuteronomy 20, a priest accompanied the troops and addressed them before battle, reHYATTSVILLE, Md. - The minding them that God was with word "chaplain" entered the lexi- them, fighting for victory. Christian con through a legend involving St. chaplains probably did not march Martin of Tours, a fourth-century with Roman legions until the milibishop and former Roman soldier, tary campaigns of Emperor according toAuxiliary Bishop John Constantine. In the Dark Ages, a 1. Glynn of the U.S. Military Arch- soldier-priest was both chaplain and combatant, and during the Crudiocese.

In the story, Martin the soldier sades, he administered ,the sacrasaw a beggar as he was entering a ments, cared for the wounded and town in winter. "And as this soldier buried the dead.

With nation stlltes came standwent by," the bishop said, "he took his sword and he cut his cloak in ing armies and '\ juridically es,taQhalf and tossed it to the beggar so lished chaplaincy of both s~cular and religious clergy who needed he wouldn't free;,:e to death." , "That night Christ appeared to permission from ecclesiastical superiors to serve, much like today. him in a vision, wearing the cloak," In the United States, no Catholic said Bishop,ylynn in an interview at archdiocesan offices in chaplains served in the RevolutionHyattsville. "So the kings of France ary War or War of 1812. The first kept Martin's cloak as a relic and priest commissioned to serve in the carried. it with them with their U.S. military was Father Adam Marshall, a Navy officer who was armed forces." , The word for cloak was chaplain and schoolmaSter on the, "capella," he said. The room where USS North Carolina in 1824-25.

Thereafter, Catholic chaplains it was kept became a chapel, "and the priest assigned to make sure the served at Western forts and in the cape was still around, blessing the Mexican, Civil and'Spanjsh-Ameriking," became lhe chaplain to the can wars. During the Civil War, 40 priests served with Union regiking.

The story really gave a name to ments. Only 28 of 600 Confederate chaplains were priests, the most an ancient ritual, the bishop said.

A history of Catholic chaplaincy famous being the poet, Father ' prepared by the archdiocese notes Abram Ryan.

In this period, Bishop Glynn that pagan priests "would search ritually for o!nens of military suc- said, priests got permission from cess and offer sacrifices before and their bishops to serve and likely were certified by state governors. after battle."

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cation of U.S. Oltholic chaplains was the responsibility of a Military Vicariate attached to the Archdiocese of New York, A separate Military Archdiocese, one of 33 worldwide, was created and moved to the Washington area in 1985.

Throughout this century, the U.S. Catholic chaplaincy has grown. During World War I, the number of active-duty chaplains increased from 25 to more than 1,000. Nearly 3,300 active-duty chaplains and almost 2,000 civilian auxiliary chaplains served CathoJic troops from Pearl Harbor to V-J 'bay. Priests also served and died in action in Korea and Vietnam.

There have been many heroic ,priest-chaplains. As a newly ordained priest, Irish-born Archbishop John Ireland of St. Paul, Minn., distinguished himself with the 5th Minnesota Infantry in the Civil War. More than 100 years later, Maryknoll Father Vincent Capodanno died with his men of the I st Marine Division in Vietnam. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Bishop Glynn said the patron of military chaplains, St. John of Capistrano, was the hero of the Battle of Belgrade, now in Serbia, in 1488.

"He was chaplain 'of the Christian forces that turned back the Turks ... and saved Europe from being Islamic," the bishop recalled.

"When the Turks came back 200 years later, they scattered his bones and his dust."

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from war or threat of war, "a priest's presence is a real sign of strength and hope and faith," he said. "A priest ... could certainly see how he's representing Christ for his people because he's right there with them at a time of need."

In the military, Bishop Glynn said, there's "tremendous opportunity" for youth ministry ~ "barracks at night, shipboard at sea, families in housing areas." Priests feel a special warmth and hospitality in housing areas, he added, "because everybody's away from home."

But "it's not an easy life," he said, citing loneliness and frequent moves. Some hate to leave a good program they set up, while others thrive on the variety, he said.

One challenge Bishop Glynn finds sad is the workload. "The

Army has 1,200 chaplains; 100 of them are priests," he said. "That's a terrible percentage."

At a big Army base only two of the 20 to 30 chaplains will be Catholic, he said. "You've got to carry a big load, because your people are 25 percent of the military population."

For many of these reasons, said Msgr. Callaghan, a chaplain has "to develop a strong prayer life," and continually nourish his priestly spirituality.

For Bishop Glynn, who was ordained for the Boston Archdiocese and served as a Navy chaplain for 26 years, one positive stands out.

"No other priest, except a worker priest, is - hour by hour and day by day - living as close with his parishioners as a military chaplain is," he said.

CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN Father Joseph Estabrook talks with Navy sailors aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier. The U.S. Military Archdiocese has 1,000 priest-chaplains serving 1.2 million Catholics worldwide. (CNS file photo)

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Cuban bishops follow up on pope's message •

A book containing the pope's homilies andpictures of the pontiff during the recent trip is being printed for mass circulation.

By ART BABYCH CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

HAVANA - The Catholic Church in Cuba is moving quickly to nurture seeds of evangelization planted by Pope John Paul IT during his visit to the communist-ruled nation Jan. 21-25.

Many people who were touched by the papal visit now want to read and reflect o~ the pope's homilies, said Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino of Havana.

"People have a thirst, a hunger to have the homilies in their own hands, to reflect on the words that went right to their heart and which they want to make their own," he said in a 'Canadian Catholic News interview Feb. 10 during a three-and-a-half-day meeting of the Cuban bishops.

To meet the demand and to maintain the spiritual momentum provided by the pope's visit, the Cuban bishops' conference is publishing up to 350,000 128-page books containing the complete texts of the pope's homilies and 42 photographs from the visit. The books are expected to be printed in Mexico or Spain. ''The visit was greater for the bishops of Cuba than we could have imagined," said Cardinal Ortega. "It woke up feelings that were sleeping in many Cubans," he added. .

The publishing project was explained during a one-hour meeting with the bishops' conference and a three-member delegation from the international Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need.

The meeting with Cardinal Ortega and the 13 bishops of Cuba's 11 dioceses was held in a small conference room at the Casa Sacerdotal, a house for priests and bishops visiting Havana.

The bishops also want to print up to 1 million posters of the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and 600,000 copies of 1999 calendars containing photos of the pope's visit along with .excerpts from his homilies..

The photograph for the poster is the same as that.which towered over Havana's Plaza of the Revolution during the pope's final Mass in Cuba. "

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By LYNNE WElL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROME - Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, the Nobel laureate from East Timor, took the occasion of an academic award to renew his plea for a peaceful means of achieving his country's independence.

Bishop Belo, apostolic administrator ofDili and co-recipient ofthe 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, received an honorary doctorate in theology from the Salesian University in Rome Feb. 19.

He told journalists Feb. 18 he had not made any appointments with civil authorities during his trip to Italy and a previous week in Spain, but he still could "repeat the appeal for a solution in East Timor through you, the media."

East Timor's cause has received increased world attention since the Nobel Peace Prize went to Bishop Belo and activist Jose RamosHorta.

Indonesia invaded the former Portuguese colony in 1975 after it declared its independence and annexed East Timor as Indonesia's 27th province the next year.

Neither the Vatican nor the United Nations has recognized the annexation. In March 1997 the Vatican called for ajust, internationally backed solution in East Timor. . . ,1:he country's population of 800,000 is predominantly Catholic.

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Father Michele Pe:Jerey, rector raised global awareness, little was different in the daily lives of East of the university, joked that awardTimorese since he won the Nobel ing the degree to Bishop Belo might seem anticlimactic. "Someone said Prize.

"There is no possibility for to me, 'But they already gave him people to express themselves the Nobel Prize, so what more can freely," he said. "People are being we do?''' the priest said. "But we imprisoned unjustly. The situation are not recognizing him for his great works. He is recognizi.ng us by achas not changed." .

He said matters had become cepting the award." worse since the onset of Indonesia's .. current political " and economic crisis.

"The situation brings new problems," he explained. "Since East Timor and Indonesia share currency, the steep rise in prices in Indonesia affects us as well, particularly the poor. And greater economic pressure leads to greater pol itical pressure."

A member of the Salesian order since he was 13, the 50year-old bishop studied at Salesian colleges in Portugal and Macao and was ordained a deacon BISHOP CARLOS FILIPE XIMENES BELO at the Salesian Uni- versity in Rome.

based on real people •

Vatican official says reports are real; calls for concrete Christian action.

By CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

. VATICAN CITY - The situations that many of the world's 50 million refugees fled and the conditions in which they are living now call for concrete Christian action, a Vatican official said.

Archbishop Paul J. Cordes, president of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum," which promotes Catholic charitable giving and coordinates Vatican aid distribution, said there are real people and factual stories behind the statistics on refugees.

The archbishop's Feb. 18 press conference marked the official release of Pope John Paul II's Lenten message, sent earlier to bishops' conferences around the world.

To illustrate the message and its call for welcoming and assisting refugees, Archbishop Cordes shared with reporters a letter written by a woman forced to flee her homeland in late 1997.

Archbishop Cordes would not name the country the woman was from; however there was little doubt she fled mainland China . ~nd its general policy of allow-

ing couples to have only one what happened and went to the child. family planning office to com. The woman wrote that after plain, they were both thrown into her first child, a son, was born, jail, along with their first child. "officials of the family planning They managed to escape and board office came to visit us and in- a boat for New Caledonia, off the formed us that the birth of a sec- western coast of Australia. ond child would be allowed if we Her letter was sent to the paid a tax equal to about 15,000 French Catholic relief agency, French francs (US$2,450)."

Secours Catholique, which assists She said the officials said per- refugees on the island. mission to have a second child, ''The misery of refugees is uniwhile heavily taxed, was being versal," Archbishop Cordes said. given because she and her hus- It is a such a huge problem that band had few relatives in the vil- most people throw up their hands lage. and wait for their govl~mments to The couple emptied their sav- act, he added.

The archbishop said that Pope ings account and sold many of their belongings in order to make John Paul, Catholic aid agencies an initial payment of 5,000 francs and everyone else involved in as(US$800) toward the tax. Then sisting refugees realizes the problem is complex. she got pregnant.

When her pregnancy was in its But, he said, "nations cannot seventh month, she said, the fam- sacrifice the right to asylum to their ily planning officers returned with own national interests, nor can the police and forced her into a they encourage the selfishness of truck. their citizens with xenophobic leg-.

"I didn't even have time to ask islation as an electoral tactic." questions before we were at the At the same time, Archbishop hospital entrance. In that moment, Cordes said, national leaders act acI understood everything," the let- cording to what they think the pubter said. lic wants. Each person must work The woman wrote that she was to ensure public opinion favors the tied to an operating table and acceptance and proteclion of refuforced to undergo an abortion, de- gees, he said. ''The Gospel is adspite her pleading, shouts and dressed to each one personally," he tears. said. ''The final judgment will be When her husband found ~out· ...of-individuals, not.institutions."

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Vatican to probe mixed messages from the Ukraine •

Moscow's Orthodox leaders'reports not in harmony with messages from Eastern-rite Catholic and Orthodox bishops in the Ukraine. " . I'

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VATICAN CITY -- While Eastern-rite Catholic and Orthodox bishops in Ukraine claim their communities have no problems with each other, Orthodox

leaders in Moscow con'tinue giving the Vatican lists of alleged incidents.

"Something is not right there, but I don't know what it is," Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, told Catholic News Service.

After a meeting in'mid-January, .the cardinal and his Russian Orthodox counterpart, Metropolitan Kirill of Smol~nsk and Kaliningrad, decided to send a small delegation to. Western Ukraine "so that next time we meet we will know what is going

on."

Cardinal Cassidy said Feb. 17 that the delegation had not yet been named, nor had a time for their visit been set The agreement called for a delegation made up of two people chosen by the Vatican and two chosen by the Moscow Patriarchate.

After Cardinal Cassidy and Metropolitan Kirill met in Moscow, Eastern-rite Catholic leaders in Ukraine expressed concern about the reports the Vatican was receiving.

In statements published in January, and February, various

Peruvian church backs· .U.S. birth control aid ban

By ALEJANDRO BERMUDEZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

LIMA, Peru - Peruvian church officials strongly supported a U.S. congn~ssional staffer's call for the ban of U.S. funds for birth control and family planning in Peru.

"By cutting any support to this evidently vicious birth control program, the U.S. will confinn its respect for the Latin American countries and its will·to be a friendly nation," said Cardinal Augusto Vargas Alzamora of Lima, president of the Peruvian bishops' conference.

"In the last years, the United States has been dissociating its image from the imperialist tyrant of the region and has been getting closer and closer to the image of a truly friendly neighbor," the cardinal told Catholic News Service.

The call to end U.S. financial support to the Peruvian government programs was issued in a Feb. 10 report by Grover Joseph Rees, staff director and chief counsel of the House Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights.

A delegation headed by Rees traveled to Peru Jan. 17-25 to investigate questions related to human rights and abuses in the Peruvian government'.s population control program, including allegations of mass sterilization of poor women without informed consent.

The 20-page report by Rees, widely published in' Peru, reinforces accusations that the population program systematically violates human rights of poor Peruvian women. Among other recommendations, the report calls for the U.S. 'Agency for International Development to "discontinue. all direct monetary assistance to the government of Peru family planning programs until it is clear that the sterilization goals and related abuses have stopped and will not resume.;; It also recommends that AID "publicly dissociate the United States from the sterilization cam-

paigns, goals, and associated gress will understand that this is abuses," by cutting its' financial not a religious or a political issue, support to the Peruvian govern- but a human one. We pray and ment for birth control programs. expect that it will accept the Rees The report quotes an AID letter report recommendations, because to the Peruvian health minister unfortunately the (Peruvian) govthat said the agency's "desire to ernment has been deaf to any incollaborate in the area of family ternal pressure. planning is based on th~ free, vol"This massive human rights untary and informed choice of violation,. which has placed the contraceptives."

Peruvian governm~nt beside Auxiliary Bishop Alberto countries like China,. is the natuBrazzini Diaz-Ufano of Lima, ral consequence of a policy that president of the Family' and Life . started from ,the very begi"nning Commission of the Peruvian bish c "looking at people as the country's ops' conference, told CNS: "We problem instead of seeing in them pray and expect that the U.S. Con- the solutiqn," he said. ~

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But since its establishment in May 1997, "the commission has, never met, because not a single conflict situation was submitted," said Ukrainian Catholic Bishop Sofron Mudry ofIvano-Frankivsk in a statement sent Feb. 17 to CNS. "This, nevertheless, did not hinder the Moscow Patriarchate from pursuing a second meeting with representatives" of the Vatican, he said.

The final press statement of the January meeting in Moscow said, "The two sides noted that, unfortunately, interconfessional rela-

tions in Western Ukraine have not registered improvements since the last bilateral meeting" held in May 1997.

"Joint initiatives aimed at a rapid overcoming of existing difficulties in reciprocal relations between Orthodox and Greek Catholics in Ukraine were agreed upon," the January statement said.

In late January and early February members of several small Russian Orthodox groups staged protests outside the Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow, calling for the defense of the rights of Orthodox believers in Western Ukraine, particularly in the province of Ivano-Frankivsk.

But Bishop Mudry said, "no conflicts whatsoever exist" between the Eastern-rite Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox communities in the province.

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Young adult Catholics stress sacraments, chari.ty· •

Survey sh~ws those ages 20 to 39 say Christ's presence in the sacraments, helping the poor, are essential to the faith. ,

By JERRY FILTEAU CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON - In a national survey, most U.S. Catholics 20 to 39 years oldranked belief in God's presence in 'the sacraments, charity to the poor and belief in Christ's real presence in the Eucharist high among elements essential to the Catholic faith.

Vast majorities, 'however, thought the church's teachings that only men ~an be' priests and that workers have a right to unionize were not essential to the faith.

Results of the survey were released Feb. 'l3 by sociologist Dean R. Hoge ofThe Catholic University of America, one of a team of researchers who commissioned it as part of a larger study of post-babyboom adult Catholics.

Notre Dame de Namur Sister' Mary Johnson, a sociologist at Emmanuel College in Boston and another member of the research team, said the survey was part of an effort to learn what young adult Catholics understand to be their Catholic identity.

The survey data came from the responses of 701 Americans who identified themselves as Catholic and in the 20-to-39 age range during a series of national random sample telephone surveys conducted last fall by Princeton Survey Research Associates.

Respondents were given 19 statements about church teaching or practice. They were asked to categorize each as "essential to faith, important but not essential, or not important to the faith today." On each statement the questioner added, "If you are unaware that this is an element of the Catholic faith, please say so." , , When asked about "belief that God is present in the sacraments,"

65 percent called it essential to the faith and 27 percent called it important but not essential. Only 8 percent thought it unimportant or not part of the faith or said they didn't know.

Charity to the poor was called essential by 58 percent and important by 35 percent.

"Belief that Christ is really present in the Eucharist" was called essential by 58 percent and important by 28 percent.

On' the role of d'evotion to Mary ,in the church, 53 percent called it essential and 33 percent important.

Fifty-twQ percent said it was essential, 33 percent important, to believe "that God is present in it special way in the poor." , Despite more than a century of church ~eaching that the right of workers to form unions is a basic human right,'only 14 percent ofre" spondents said that was essential to the faith. ', Thirty-three percent called the teaching on worker's' rights to unionize important to the faith, 30 percent called it not important to the faith and 18 percent said they were unaware it was part of the faith'.

Only 17 perce'nt of the survey respondents thought the "belief that only men can be priests" was es~ sential to the faith, and 25 percent called it important'but not essential.

Despite the Vatican's widely publicized 1995 statement calling the teaching of a male-only priesthood infallible and pertaining to the deposit of faith, that was the only one of the 19 elements on the list that a majority of respondents called not important or not part of the faith. Seven percent said they were not aware it was part of the faith and 47 percent said it was not important to the faith.

On the other hand, 27 percent of respondents said the "belief that priests must be celibate" is essential to the faith, even though the celibacy requirement has always been presented officially as a matter of church discipline,not doctrine. Twenty-five percent called clerical celibacy important but not essential to the faith, 39 percent not

important.

Other teachings the respondents ranked relatively low on a scale of centrality to the faith were: - teachings opposing the death penalty: 22 percent said essential, 37 percent important; - teachings opposing abortion: 31 percent said essential, 34 percent important; - private confession to a priest: 32 percent said essential, 39 percent important; - the obligation to attend Mass weekly: 37 percent said essential, 45 percent important.

Between 40 and 50 percent of respondents said it was essential to the faith: - to have a pope; . , - to have religious orders; ; - to work to eliminate social causes of poverty; - to believe that Christ established the authority of bishops by making Peter head of the church; - to have a regular daily prayer. life; - to have devotion to the saints.

The combined proportion 'of re-' spondents who thought those elements Were either essential or important ranged from 75 percent to 86 percent.

The researchers said of the five top-ranked elements, four had to do with the sacraments or special attention to helping the poor; the 'fifth was devotion to Mary.

By contrast, they said, the five elements on the list that respondents considered least central to faith "had to do with two topics: specific moral teachings - the right of workers to unionize, teachings about the death penalty and teachings about abortion - and specific institutional rules - only men can be priests, only celibate persons can be priests."

The report said regular Massgoers tended to rank all elements higher in importance than those who rarely or never attended Mass.

It found no significant differences in views between more educated and less educated Catholics, between lifelong Catholics and those who converted as adults or

between unconfirmed Catholics .gious orders. in the.church.

A slight'majority s,aid they and those who had received the ~ac" thought the Catholic Church derament of confirmation.

Respondents who had attended a' mands more of its members than Catholic elementary or high school other ,Christian churches do, but or Catholic college rated three ele- fewer than half regarded the Cathoments in the list higher than those lic' Church as more faithful to with no Catholic school background. Christ's will than other churches.

Nearly halfsaidCatllolics today Those elements were teachings opposing abortion, teachings opposing "are essentially' no different than the death penalty, and having reli- Protestants" in their main beliefs.

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Named Most Valuable Player was Tim Abreau of Fall River. , In the Junior Girls' Tournament held at the CYO Center in Fall River, New Bedford captured the ": playoffs.

New Bedford outscored Taunton 76 to 41 in the first game. Jamie Coe ' led New Bedford with 24 points while Sheena Brown had 18 and Catie Furtado 12 for Taunton.

In game two, Jamie Coe's 19' points helpeo New Bedford to beat Fall ~iver, 56 to 49 lor the championship. Allison Fasella and Jasmine Baptiste added 13 points each,' while Alexandra Rego led Fall River scorers with 15 points.

Elected to the All Tournament Team were Catie Furtado of Taunton, Jackie Rosa and Alexandra Rego of Fall River and Allison Fasella and Jasmine Baptiste of New Bedford.

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In the Prep Boys' Tournament held at the CYO in Taunton, the home town team captured the Tourney Championship. .

In an exciting first game" Nick Garro's 17 points led New Bedford to a slim 47 to 42 win over Fall River and to a spot in the championship game. Leo'tiraca and Adam Luz each had eight points for Fall River.

The second game found Taunton outdistancing' New Bedford 51 to 44 as Steve Sherman and Mike Googan led Taunton to the championship. Tim Marotte led all scores with 21, points for New Bedford. , Comprising the Prep Boys' All Tournament Team were Leo Graca of Fall River, Tim Marotte and Nick Garro of New Bedford, and Matt Baliadi and Steve Sherman ofTaunton.

Mike McGpogan of Taunton was named the Most Valuable Player. ,The Senior Boys' Tournament

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took place at the Kennedy CYO Center in New Bedford, and the hometown team again emerged as victors.

In the first game; Fa:1I River went to an 80 to 42 win over Taunton.

Joey Rogers had 16 points and Joe Cartin 14 to lead Fall River into the . final game. Mike Chave& and Barry Perry led Taunton scorerS with 10 "points each.

In an outstanding championship game, it took overtime for the New Bedford All Stars to literally outlast those from Fall River, with a 63 to 59 win. :Ted Wikox with 13 and Elias Perez with. 12 led New Bedford, while Brian Domingues was Fall River's leading scorer with 15.

Named to the All Tournament Team were Jay Dumont of Taunton, Brian Domingues and Joey Rogers of Fall River and Ted Wilcox and Elias Perez of New Bedford.

Peter Perreira of New Bedford copped the Most Valuable Player award.

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Annual CYO basketb~11 tournament posts winners EAST TAUNTO!'f-Players from various areas of the Diocese of Fall River gathered at different sites to compete in the Annual CYO Basketball Tournaments held Feb. 22.

In the Junior Boys' Tournament held at Kennedy Center in New Bedford, Fall River emerged victorious. ,In the first game, Fall River outscored Taunton 55 to 38 to win.

Tim Abreau had 20 points for Fa'll River and Tim 'Sullivan and Matt Coute each had 10. Chris Thompson led Taunton scorers with seven points.

In game two, Fall River managed 36 as compared to 30 for New Bedford to slip into the championship. Tim Sullivan led Fall River with eight points while Steve Colon hit eight for New Bedford.

Named to the All Tournament Team were Ian Tweedy of Taunton, Jason Tavares and Steve Colon of New Bedford, and Tim Sullivan and

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Shamrock cheerleaders enter competition ATTl.:EBORO-The' Bishop Feehan High School c'heerleaders recently competed intheWarwick Invitational Competition in Warwick, R.I. The fr,~shman ~quad placed t~ird in the novice division while the junior varsity girls earned second place in the junior high'9ivision .. The: Varsity team placed si,xth in their division.

Freshmen Melissa D,~ Lano, Catherine Poholek and Melissa MacDonald of Mans.field have all successfully auditioned for the Southeast District Music Education Orchestra. These thwe string players will represent the: school in the District Festival Orchestra in March at B'ridge:waterRaynham High School.

Lisa Ziniti, also a freshman at the school, was recently in the Southeastern Mass. District Finals for Chorus and she will represent Feehan in the Massachusetts Music Education a.ll-state chorus next month.

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By CHARLIE MARTIN

How's it Gonna Be? I am only pretty sure That I can't take it anymore.

Before you take a swing I wonder What are we fighting for?

When I say out loud I want to get out of this I wonder Is ,there anything I'm going to miss?

How's it gonna be When you don't know me?

How's it gonnn be When you are sure I'm not there?

How's it gonnn be When there is no one there To talk to about How it's gonnn be?

'Cause I don't care.

How's it gonnn be?

When we used to laugh There's a shouting match, Sharp as a thumbnail scratch, A silence I can't ignore.

Like ...

The hammocks and the doorways We spent time in Swing empty.

Don't see the lightning Like last fall When it was always About to hit me.

I guess that's how It's gonna be.

Want to get back in again The soft drive of oblivion.

Written by Jenkins/Cadogan Sung by Third Eye Blind Copyright (c) 1997 by Elektra Entertainment Group, a Division of Warner Communications Inc. for the United States and WEA International for the world outside of the United States' THIRD EYE BLIND has gained recognition on both Billboard's Mainstream Rock and Top One Hundred Pop charts. Their current hit "How's It Gonna Be?" demonstrates their straight-ahead rock style.

The lyrics are interesting.

The song describes a person's struggle to break off a romance. The person says, "When I say out loud I want to get out of this, I wonder, is there anything I'm going to miss, how's it gonna be?"

The answer appears to be

yes, there is much ~that he is going to miss. As in most relationships, there has been real closeness. He rePlembers.

However, now, "when we used to laugh, there's a shouting match."

Hurt, sadness and disappointment often follow the end of a relationship. Consequently, it takes courage to recognize that the promise of joy once experienced and shared is no longer possible.

So how does one know that the time has arrived to move out of a dating relationship?

There are many indications.

Here are a few questions to consider: 1. Are you losing your own self-identity? The clearest sign of such a loss is when you are more interested in keeping your boy/girlfriend happy than in sticking to your own values.

When this occurs, your behavior and choices no longer align with what you really believe.

2. Do you have large and frequent mood swings? Every relation~hip has ups and downs, and how we feel about dating someone will change.

However, if being in this relationship is more like a ride on a world-class roller coaster, it's time to take a permanent detour.

3. Are your preferences and choices respected? For example, if you dearly indicate that you have no interest in a suggested activity, is your decision, re~pecte<;i? Do.es your dating partner try to manipulate you to get his or her way?

4. Is your dating partner pressuring you to have sex?

When someone does this, it reveals his or her selfishness and lack of concern for you. It is time to leave the relationship.

5. Do you frequently find yourself thinking about dating others? Attraction to others is normal, even when you are in a good relationship. However, the ongoing desire to date others probably indicates that you are not emotionally ready for an exclusive relationship. You need to let go of the current relationship and be who you really are: Other questions could also be used as assessments. Most times, the answer to "How's it gonna be?" is "difficult" after you lea~e the relationship, especially in the short term. Yet, the more important concern is your future.

Indeed, there may be parts of the relationship that you miss. However, don't sacrifice the promise of a new and better future because of a fear of the difficulty that you now will face. Ask God to be your guide as you live through how it's going to be.

Your comments are always welcome. Please address: Charlie Martin, 7125 W 2008, Rockport, Ind. 47635.

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Here's the picture. There's this It's easy to make small talk if guy or girl in your eighth-period you first observe the person and English class. You find this other your shared situation, and then ask person "interesting." questions. The trick is letting othThe problem is that you don't ers share their own ideas and imhave any clue yet about whether or pressions. People love talking about not this other person has any inter- themselves - and once they relax, est in you. There's the dilemma. you can too.

Your questions can be pretty How do you go about helping that person notice that you're in the obvious. "How do you like Mr. room without making an utter fool Thomas' American history class?" of yourself?

"That's a great shirt. Where did you Now, for people who are abso- get it?" Or even, "Did you see the lutely drop-dead. gorgeous, this is Spice Girls movie? What did you no problem. They just aim that su- think?" per-model smile across the room None of this is rocket science. and wait. But, let's face it - if you But your goal isn't getting to the were the Gwyneth Paltrow or moon. You just want to get past Leonardo DiCaprio type you "hello."

Once the conversation is rolling, wouldn't be reading this article.

These suggestions are for every- share your opinions. After all, if you just ask questions, that quickly gets body else.

First, smile. Research on what old - and a bit odd. Conversation makes people good-looking em- is about give-and-take. But you'll phasizes the importance of smiling. always do well letting the other perShow people photographs, and ask son talk first.

After you've had a conversation them if they think the person is good-looking, and smiling people or two, and you're really feel ing are almost always seen as more at- brave, it's time to take the next step. tractive than people who aren't Suggest getting together. Il's best smiling. to avoid a complex date at first.

- Check out the pictures of celeb- Rather, arrange a simpler meeting. rities on the tabloid covers in the "Want to review for the exam tosupermarket. Smiling movie stars gether in study hall?" may fit the look terrific, but when they frown bill. Or, "Meet me for a Coke at the and scowl they look just like any- Quick Stop after school?" body else. If you smile, you'll look Girls can do this as well as guys, and after YOll've had your first ar50 percent better. It's a fact.

Next, remember that even the ranged meeting, you may be ready beauties have to do something be-' for something more.

So, .it's a simple three-step forsides stand there and look prettylike, for instance, hold a conversa- mula. Smile. Ask and listen. Take tion. For the rest of us, it's even the initiative in setting up a meetmore important. ing.

It won't work every time; maybe You can help someone like you by putting that person at ease. The that "interesting" person won't be key is learning how to make small your match. ,Still, it's a tried-andtalk. Now, some people say they true approach. The chances of suchate small talk. We call those cess are really good, and the peop,le "loners." Small talk is the chances of making an idiot of yourfoundation Of normal social rela- self are really low. That combinations, and it's a wonderfully use- tion works for me.

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CHATHAM-A Lenten Triduum will be held at Holy Redeemer Church March 9 to 11 with Masses at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. It will be conducted by Father Ed Dudink, SVD, of the Miramar Retreat Center, Duxbury. Confessions· will be heard after all Masses and all are welcome. For more information call 945-0677.

Publicity Chairmen are asked to submit news items for this column to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, 02722. Name of city or town should be included, as well as full dates of all activities.

Events published must be of interest and open to our general readership. We do not normally carry notices of fundraising activities, which may be advertised at our regular rates, obtainable from our business office at (508) 675-7151.

ATTLEBORO-Holy Ghost Parish, 71 Linden St., will host a parish mission, "Guideposts Along Our Spiritual Journey," to be led by Father Jose M. Sousa. The mission will be held in English on March II, 12 and 13 at 7 p.m. and in Portuguese March 25, 26 and 27 at 7 p.m. For information call the rectory at 2223292.

ATTLEBORO-Singer and musician John Polce will perform at La Salette Shrine tonight at 7:30 in the chapel.

The singing group "Wayword," made up of Dave and Dean Mueller,

will perform at the shrine's coffeehouse on Feb. 28 af 6:30 p.m. All are welcome.

As part of its Lenten programs the shrine will offer mini-missions from Feb. 28-March 4. The theme is "The Spirit in You" and they will be led by Father Ernest Corriveau, MS, at several Masses. Call the shrine at 222-54]0 for times.

A program series entitled "Living in the Spirit" will be held on March 3 at 7:15 p.m. at the shrine's theater. All are welcome.

The Counseling Center at La Salette Shrine will hold grief education programs on the following days: "Grief and Anger,': March 5 from 12 p.m; "Grief and Guilt," March 9 from 6:30-8 p.m.; and "Giving Sorrow Voice," March 19 from 1-2 p.m.

ATTLEBORO FALLS-St. Mark's parish will host an adult education program at 7 p.m. each Thursday of Lent beginning on March 12.

The topic will be sacramental theology and all are welcome.

The parish will also hold a mission led by Father Robert S.

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BREWSTER-The Lazarus Group of Our Lady of the Cape Parish is offering an eight-week mutual support seminar entitled "Come Walk With Me" for bereaved persons. It will begin in the parish center on April 17 at 7 p.m. and anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one is welcome. For more information call Patricia Clock at 2556964 or Happy Whitman at 3853252.

CENTERVILLE-Our Lady ofVictory parish will sponsor a Day of Reflection on March 5 starting with the 9 a.m. Mass and concluding with Benediction at 3 p.m.

Deacons Joe Stanley and Jim Barrett will be guest speakers.

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EAST FREETOWN-Renowned iconographer D.C. Christopher Gosey will conduct an icon painting workshop at Cathedral Camp Retreat Center on March 14 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Participants will be guided in creating their own icons within a prayerful setting and materials will be provided. Interested persons should call the camp at 673-8874.

FALL RIVER-Saint Anne Hospital, 795 Middle St., will sponsor a service of prayer and healing, "Embracing the Mystery," for per- . sons living with or affected by HIV disease or AIDS, their families and friends, March 15, 2 p.m., in the chapel. For information call 6745600, ext. 2295.

NORTH ATTLEBORO-Sun-

day healing services and Thursday prayer meetings at St. Mary's Church with Father William Babbitt have been canceled until further notice.

The church will be having Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the chapel at the rear of the church every first Friday of the month immediately following the '7 a.m. Mass and ending prior to the 5' a.m. Mass on Sat. Evening prayer wiII be held at 7 p.m. on Fri. and spec:ial prayers will be offered at 8 a. m. Sat. All are welcome. For more information call Joan Provost at 699-2740.

SOUTH YARMOUTH-The Cape-Islands Chapter of Catholic Nurses will hold its next meeting on March ·18 at 7 p.m. in thl: St. Pius X parish center. All Catholic health care professionals, members and non-members, are invited to attend.

For more information cali Deb Searle at 420-1387.

TAUNTON-The St. Vincent de Paul Society announces that a Mass will be celebrated at 7 p.m. on March 2 at Our Lady of Lourde:; parish for the intention Of the canonization of Blessed Frederic Ozanam and in memory of deceased members. Its regular monthly meeting wilJ follow in the parish hall.

Educationalopportuni1ties for elders . . FALL RIVER-More older Americans are interested in advancing their education and many are pursuing high school and col1ege de:grees and other advanced degrees even after retirement.

Massachusetts and Rhode Island educational institutions often provide scholastic, financial and social incentives for seniors who are considering a return to school and many are available. Discounted or waived tuition and fees, individualized tutoring and academic support and courses designed especially for senior citizens are among the educational opportunities which may await elders.

Senior citizens can often choose to attend only classes of interest and will find a wide selection of day and evening courses available:. It is not always necessary to participate in a degree program or even ,to take more than one course.

Any senior interested in learning even more than he or she already knew who would like more information may call Bristol Elder Services at 675-2101 or 1-800-427-2101.

$130K available for senior service projects FALL RIVER-Request proposals are currently being accepted for senior service projects though Bristol Elder Services, Inc. Applications must be received by 4 p.m. on May 22.

The allocation and administration of Title III funds is one of the many responsibilities of Bristol Elder Services. Monies are given for the development of projects providing services to a significant number of elders identified as having the greatest economic and social need and to lowincome minority persons.

The programs must serve a significant number of elderly residents in at least one of the following communities: Attleboro, Berkley, Dighton, Fall River, Freetown, Mansfield, North Attleboro, Norton, Raynham, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Somerset, Swansea, Taunton or Westport.

Priority for Title III funding will be given to projects that develop short and/or long distance medical escort transportation services, mental health services and legal services, although any project providing s:Jpportive services for elders will be considered. Approximately $130,000 is available for grants.

Title III funds are awarded through a competitive Request for Proposals (RFP) process. RFPs are issued to organizations interested in providing services in the fiscal year 1999 (Oct. I I 998-Sept. 3D, 1999).

Technical assistance is provided at a Bidders' Conference to be conducted at Bristol Elder Services, 182 North Main Street, Fall River, MA on March 5 at 8:30 a.m. The board of directors will make final decisions regarding funding and all applicants will receive written notification on action taken.

Application packets may be obtained by contacting Grants Manager/ Planner Melanie Ramos at 675-2105, ext. 306.