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FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS VOL. 35, NO. 10

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Family Leave Act strongly supported WASHINGTON (CNS) - Legislation that protects workers from losing their jobs when they take time off to care for newborn or sick children or elderly parents is a sign of "the nation's commitment to family life" and should be passed, BishopJames W. Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, told Congress Feb. 28.

Bishop Malone, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Domestic Policy Committee; said that passing the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1991 "would send a message that our nation really believes its profamily rhetoric and that we back up that belief with the power of the law."

"Our society, through its government, must support families when they are most vulnerable," said Bishop Malone in his testimony before the House subcommittee on labor-management relations.

"We all have a stak(: in the success of each family in nurturing America's children and elderly persons."

Bishop Malone gave similar testimony before the Senate in January.

"This legislation should be a " sign of our nation's commitment to family life, our recognition that at key moments - such as birth or illness - it is important to the entire society to encourage families to make their vulnerable children and infirm parents their first priority," Bishop Malone said.

Saying that "parents should not have to choose between the jobs they need and the children who need them," Bishop Malone told lawmakers that many single-parent families and "two-earner couples" face a great deal of pressure in trying to maintain a balance between caring for elderly parents, raising 'children and holding down a job.

"As a society we have to arrange things so. that working people don't have to risk their families for the sake of their jobs, nor risk their jobs for the sake of their families," Bishop Malone said.

The legislation, which also provides unpaid leave for the workers' own illnesses, would allow for 12 weeks of unpaid family leave for employees working-for companies with more than 50 workers. Last year, the Senate and House passed similar legislation, but President Bush vetoed the bill and lawmakers were unable to muster the twothirds vote necessary to overturn the veto.

Bishop Malone said the family and medical leave policies at the U.S. Catholic Conference provide 12 weeks of paid maternity leave, six weeks of paid paternity leave and 18 days of paid sick leave. In addition, employees can take additional unpaid time for extended illnesses or other family crisis without fear of losing their jobs, he said.

Bishop Malone said, however, that most American workers do not have the same type of benefits.

"People lose their jobs when they are sick; when they have babies; when they nurse sick relatives," Bishop Malone said. "Losing ajob is a hardship for any family; for a single parent, it's a prescription for poverty."

Bishop Malone stressed the importance of keeping families together during illness.

"In our health care ministry, the church has discovered that for a sick child, a parent's presence can

Peace plan is Vatican goal VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Less than· a week after the shooting stopped, the Catholic Qhurch began picking up the pieces of the Persian Gulf War and fash'ioning them into a peace plan.

The main aims included immediate material aid for the shattered lives of war victims an,d giving the church a strong, unified voice in solving the political problems remairing in the Middle East.

Hammering out the peace plan at a March 4-6 Vatican meeting were Pope John Paul n, Catholic leaders from countries directly involved in the conflict and Vatican officials.

Several Arab Catholic leaders said church pJahs would have to include renewed efforts at dialogue with Muslims to overcome an erroneous identification of Christianity with the West.

Summit participants included: - Seven patriarchs from the Persian Gulf and Middle East, representing the region's tiny Catholic minority of 4 million.

- Eight heads of bishops' conferences from other countries involved in the war, including the United States, Great Britain and France.

- Seven high-level Vatican officials in charge of diplomacy,

relief efforts, Eastern-rite churches and interreligious dialogue with Jews and Muslims.

The meeting was called by the pope, who has expressed continuing concern over the Gulf crisis and its negative effect on the region's other political problems, relations between the West and the Arab-Islamic world and ChristianMuslim-Jewish relations.

The meeting gathered Catholic leaders representing people who fought each other, and now "these same pastors call them to reconciliation to build together a future which permits everyone to live in Turn to Page Seven

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or a nurse's care," Bishop Malone.

"We know that the dying need their families more than any medicine."

Social work parley touches all bases WASHINGTON (CNS) - "The church's social teaching is not only a doctrine but a way of life," Pope John Paul II said in a video message opening"A Century of Social Teaching," a national conference of church workers Feb. 24-27 in Washington.

The 500 participants and dozens of speakers at the meeting were a living witness to the truth of the pope's words - Catholics who work in Catholic Charities offices, minority ministries, justice and peace organizations, community organizing, human rights or antipoverty programs.

Their interests, and the general sessions and dozens of workshops

JUBILANT SCENES such as this of Kuwaitis cheering the entrance of U.S. Marines to their capital city have already given way to sober plans for fashioning a viable peace, such as those discussed at this week's Vatican summit meeting of Catholic leaders. (CNS / UPI-Reuters photo)

at the conference, were as wideranging as the century of Catholic social teaching they were celebrating: poverty, hunger, rural life, family life, racism, human rights, war and peace, Third World development, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, corporate ethics, multicultural and ininority concerns, coalition building, child care, women, labor unions, health care, immigrants, youth, the elderly.

The conference was organized by the U.S. bishops' Department of Social Development and World Peace and cosponsored by II other bishops' offices and national Catholic organizations.

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13 diocesans on program for huge NCEA congress Thirteen persons from the Fall River diocese will play Ii part at the 88th annual convention, exposition and religious education congress of the National Catholic Educational Association, to be held April 1 through 4 in Boston.

NCEA president Sister Catherine T. McNamee, CSJ, said the parley is expected to draw over 20,000 delegates, the largest gathering of Catholic educ\ltors in the world. General sessions and liturgies are complemented by departmental meetings, a development symposium, technology sessions, workshops and speeches addressing the special interest~ of school board members, paren,s, religious education directors, teachers, principals and pastors.

Keynote and general session speakers will include Dr. Robert Coles, professor of psychiatry and

medical humanities at Har~ard University; Archbishop Pio Laghi, head of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education; and Mary Alice Williams, coanchor of the

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Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be among New England bishops concelebrating the opening congress liturgy at 5 p.m. April I in Boston's Hynes Auditorium. The Mass will have Cardinal Bernard Law, archbishop of Boston, as its principal celebrant. . Diocesan Participants In order of their appearance, the followi"ng diocesans are on the congress program: Aprill: Dennis R. Poyant, principal of St. Mary School, New Bedford, will discuss "Video Evaluation of Teachers," described as a new and positive method of assessing teacher performance.

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Legion of Mary·' Acies ceremony scheduled

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Constitution topic of Scalia speech ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) -In a recent speech, Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia called the U.S. Constitution "an enduring symbol of our nationhood" and "the substance of what binds us together as a people."

Scalia said, "We (Americans) are identified by our belief in certain principles," unlike any other nation on earth. .

Scalia's speech on the Constitution was part of a "Rerum Novarum" centennial celebration at Arlington's Mary~ount University.

"Rerum Novarum" is an encyclical considered the foundation of church social justice teachings.

Scalia attributed the Constitution's durability to a series of "providential" circumstances, most notably the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which Scalia called a four-month "seminar."

The convention's delegates were "the cream of society," Scalia said.

Living in the "Age of Reason," they believed in the "new science of government (and) held the belief that applying logic and experience to any problem would lead to a solution." , The delegates' openness to persuasion in their dicussions "is as vital to our existence today as it was in our original development," said Scalia, a member of St. John parish in McLean, Va., a Washington suburb.

He expressed dismay that the Bill of Rights, approved in 1791, often overshadows the original_ Constitution.

The diocesan Legion of Mary will hold its 39th annual Acies ceremony, a yearly consecration to Mary by active and auxiliary members, at 2:30 p.m. March 17 at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River.

The homilist will be Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Taunton, and former diocesan director of the· Legion.

The public is invited to the Acies, to include recitation of the rosary and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Refreshments will be served in the Cathedral school hall following the ceremony.

In the Fall River diocese there AT A PLANNING session for the 50th anniversary campaign of the Catholic Charities are nine active Legion praesidia Appeal are, front, from left, Rev. Ralph D.Tetrault, Attleboro area assistant director; Rev. which are attached to the New DanielL. Freitas, diocesan and Fall River area director; Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, honorary Bedford curia. The number includes Appeal chairman; rear, Rev. John J. Steakem, Attleboro area director; Rev. Maurice O. a junior group from St. Joseph's Gauvin, New Bedford area assistant director; Rev. John F. Andrews, Cape and Islands area parish; New Bedford.

The works of the junior group director; Rev. Gerald T. Shovelton, Taunton area director; Rev. William L. Boffa, assistant serve various needs. For instance, Taunton area director; Rev. Richard L. Chretien, New Bedford area director. (Hickey photo) one junior member made rosaries to be sent to troops in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Storm.

Auxiliary members Mr. and Mrs. At a recent meeting with priest- priests, parishioners and the thou- More than 800 members of the Loui~ Dumont provided materials directors of the Catholic Charities sands of Appeal friends in South- clergy, religious, and laity are for the project.

Appeal, Bishop ,Daniel A. Cronin eastern Massachusetts, the 1991 expected to attend.

Other junior projects include expressed optimism that this year's drive will meet the challenge of The special gift phase of the -making items to be given to first drive will exceed last year's contri- providing for a rising number of . Appe~l will take place from April communicants and graduates of bution total of$2,218,143. " . 22 to May 4 and the traditional the parish. The juniors also conpeople in n e e d . ' Bishop Cronin, honorary Appeal ' Rev. Daniel L. Freitas, diocesan house-to-house campaign will be duct visits to shut-ins. chairman, reviewed last year's effort, Appeal director, explained its held Sunday, May 5, when 115;000 Senior members' ministry inwhich raised $145,295 more than met,hods and procedures to area homes will be visited before 3 p.m. cludes helping with parish censuses, the 1989 drive. He noted that, due directors, pictured above. by 20,650 volunteer solicitors for CeD classes or other assistance to inflation and cost increases, The kick off meeting for the contributions to the Appeal. requested by the pastor. Members 1991 budgets will be higher for 50th annuat' Catholic Charities Contributions will be accepted also make home visits and contact 'many apostolates' funded by the Appeal will be held at 8 p.m. April until May 28, when final Appeal new parish registrants and families Appeal.

1.7 in the auditorium of Bishop totals will be tabulated. of the newly baptized.

The bishop said he is confident Connolly High School, Fall River, The 1991 Appeal theme is "Car"Many times there are great that 'with the cooperation of preceded by, a 7 p.m. reception., ing, Sharing, Time, Sacrifice." res'ults' because people sometimes 'u. . seem to be more open 'when speaking' to other laypersons," said Legion spokesperson Alice Beaulieu.

"This friendly approach cO\lld be Dragicevic, who claims to see WORCESTER, Mass. (CNS) reen Murphy, Miss Massachusetts the answer to their prayers and Mary every day no matter where - A London priest urged believ1990. may open the door for the priest to ers in the apparitions of Mary at Dragicevic. speaking through an he is, reported tharshe appeared at be able to continue with the spiritthe ·convent chapel of Bethany Medjugorje, Yugoslavia', to borne interpreter, described the day of ual work." bard Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein his first vision of Mary. On June Hospital in Framingham on Feb. For information on becoming with messages of love.

24, 1981, he said, he attended 21, at Holy Name Central Catholic part of the Legion of Mary, the Speaking before the end of the Mass, ate lunch, played soccer High School in Worcester on Feb. world's largest lay organization, Persian Gulf War, Holy Ghost Fawith friends and was watching a 22 and at the home of a Catholic contact a parish priest; diocesan ther Albert Clarke asked particibasketball game on TV when a girl layman on Feb. 23. director Father Barry Wall, pastor pants in a New England Marian Father Rupcic, also speaking told him to "come see Our Lady." of St. Anthony's parish, MattaConference at Worcester MemorHe wondered if she were crazy but through an interpreter, told the poiseit; or Father Matthew Sulliial Auditorium what would happen went' in fear to the spot she had conference that Mary deserves the van, SS.Cc., curia spiritual direcindicated, then sped home and Nobel Peace Prize because, alif, instead of dropping bombs on tor at Sacred Hearts provincial though at the United Nations peoSaddam, "we sent millions of let- spent the rest of the day thinking. house, Fairhaven. at Medjugorje people ple fight, ters to him" with a message of "My life before the apparition love. was a life in faith, because that's from different walks of life gather "Is there a tiny possibility he how my parents hav,e raised me," in harmony. might go to his bedroom and cry he said. "But it wasn't very strong.

Miss Murphy, Miss Massachu'and come back down and withI went to church "because my par- setts 1990, recalled her initial reacdraw his troops?" he' said. "We WASHINGTON (CNS) - Distion to a proposed family trip to ents wanted me to go." won't know unless we try. It's not Medjugorje. . honesty in business and a general But;' he said, "my life is now full enough to read the Gospel. We of hope and full of joy."

"Going on a religious pilgrim- loss of "cultural cohesiveness" in have to live it." age didn't sound like my idea of America have left it up to corpoFather Clarke, director of a boys' fun," she said. But during the trip, rate leaders "to create a climate EDICTAL CITATION 110me in London, also said that she and her family held hands and that encourages and enforces ethiDIOCESAN TRIBUNAL fasting, which he said' Mary enprayed together for the first time, cal standards in their workplace," FALL RIVER. MASSACHUSETTS couraged in messages at Medjushe said, and she felt Mary's pres- says a 6,000-word report from the Since the actual place of residence of JOHN gorje, "creates a vacuum" which ence and promised that if she won Woodstock Theological Center in A. ROMERO, JR. is unknown, ' people ask God to fill and should the Miss Massachusetts title she Washington.

We cite JOHN A, ROMERO, JR. to appear dispose people to do without and Titled "Creating and Maintainwould use it to promote the Medpersonally before the Tribunal of the Diocese help others more readily. ing an Ethical Corporate Climate," jugorje messages. of Fall River on Monday, March 18, 1991 at the report analyzes ethical values The February. conference was 10:30 a.m. at887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, "I now realize the fulfillment I needed Jor a successful and responsored by Medjugorje MessenMassachusetts, to give testimony to establish: looked for before in pageants I sponsible corporation, how such gers of Framingham, a group which Whether the nullity of the marriage found in God," she said. values should be encouraged at all publicizes the messages Mary has exists in the PACHECO·ROMERO case? levels of corporate life, and the reportedly been giving to several Ordinaries of the place or other pastors All of These central role of executives and young people since 1981. having !he knowledge of the residence of the Organizers said 14 dioceses and "How far you go in life depends managers in developing and mainabove person, John A, Romero, Jr" must see to taining those values. the six New England states were it that he is properly advised in regard to this' on your being tender with the edictal citation. young, compassionate with the represented at the conference. aged. sympathetic with the strivAmong other conference speakJay 1. Maddock ing and tolerant of the weak and , Judicial Vicar ers were Ivan Dragicevic, one of the strong; because in life you will those to whom Mary is said to Given at the Tribunal, have been all of these." - George appear; Franciscan Father Ljudevit Fall River, Massachusetts, Washington Carver on this 4th day of March, 1991 Rupcic of Yugoslavia; and Lau-

Plans underway for 50th annual Appeal

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St. Anne's Hospital gratefully acknowledges contributions that we have received to the Remembrance Fund during February, 1991. Through the remembrance and honor of these lives, St. Anne's can continue its "Caring With Excellence."

Mary Abdow The Abdow Family Leo Bazinet Normand Bernard Arthur Bolduc Edward Card Rose Cipollini Margaret T. Cotter Michael DiGiacomo Mary Doherty Kathleen Downey The Duffy Family Eleanor A. Edwards Eleanor G. Emsley RolandJ. Gendreau Catherine Guidotti Idola M. Hargraves Dr. Wilson E. Hughes Janice M. l-1urley Barbara Karam Beatrice T. Lekom Alice Lema Florence Marum Anne Pacheco Raymond E. Parise Angelina Piraino Lillian Ryan Joseph C. Saulino Dr. Francis Scheel Jose M. Silva Manuel R. Silva . Rev. Donald Snow Katherine Sullivan Frederick Wilding

We are grateful to those who thoughtfully named Sf. Anne's Hospital's Remembrance Fund.

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Corporate ethics needed

Sister Connolly'is Memorial Home administrator

Operation Rescue case goes to Supreme Court

Sister Sean Connolly, O.Carm., . has been named administrator at Catholic Memorial Home, Fall· River, by her order, the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm, which staffs 27 nursing homes in the United States and one in Ireland.

Sister Connolly has been assistant administrator at the diocesan nursing home since 1986. Her previous assignments included posts as administrator at Our Lady's Haven in Fairhaven, assistant administrator at Carmel Richmond on Staten Island, and consulting dietitian at Little Flower Manor Wilkes-Barre, P A. ' A certified member ·of the American College of Health Care Administrators, Sister Connolly holds Massachusetts and New York licenses as a nursing home administrator. She is a re:gistered dietitian and holds a bal:helor's degree from Pratt Institute and a master's degn~efrom New York University.

The nursing home's new assistant administrator is Sister Peter McDonough, O.Carm., who holds Massachusetts and Pennsylvania licenses as a nursing home administrator. At Catholic Memorial since 1989, she directs its quality assurance programs.

Incommentirig on her new position, Sister Connolly said that she is "committed to continuing Catholic Memorial Home's tradition of excellent care, and enthusiastic about working with the home's staff.

"I've always been impressed by their capacity to give loving care and concern," she said. "Now I'm also inspired."

WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Supreme Court has agreed to rule on whether Operation Rescue blockades of abortion clinics violate a constitutional right to interstate travel. .

The justices said Feb. 25 they would review rulings barring Operation Rescue blockades at abortion clinics. The original ruling by a U.S. District Court judge in Alexandria, Va., permitted picketing and other demonstrations at nine Northern Virginia clinics as long as they did not interfere with public access.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Richmond, Va., ~pheld the decision that Operation Rescue blockades interfered with interstate travel rights of patients who lived in other states but went to Virginia to seek abortions. The National Organizationfor Women sought the ruling under a Civil War-era federal law, known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, which' bans conspiracies intended to violate the constitutional rights of certain people..

In its verdict upholding the lower court ruling, the circuit court said such blockades "crossed the line from persuasion into coercion and operated to deny the exercise of rights protected by law."

Attorneys for the defendants said that if the blockades violate the federal right to travel "then so did the lunch counter and college campus sit-ins of the 1960s and 1970s."

Operation Rescue is a private, secular group that stages mass blockades of clinics in an effort to stop women from having abortions. Hundreds of Operation Rescue participants, including several Catholic bishops, have been arrested at such: blockades around the country.

No decision is expected in the case, Bray vs. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic, uhtil next year. The original injunction was ordered to remain in effect until Sept. 24.

NYC condom plan . deplored by bishop

MADELINE WOJCIK (left), Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women president, and Madeleine Lavoie, DCCW Organization Services Commission chairman discuss plans for Leadership Institute to be held next' m'onth at LaSalette Center, Attleboro. (Curry photo)

NCCW president to attend diocesan council event A leadership and personal ~nrich­ ment institute to be sponsored by the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women from April 5 to 7 at LaSalette Center for Christian Living, Attleboro, will be conducted by three trainers from the National Council of Catholic Women. Among those in attendance will be Beverly National Council president.

The trainers are Mary Ann Kramer of Lucan, Minn., NCCW immediate past president and vice president ofthe Leadership Council of Catholic Laity; Patricia Treadway of Ft. Walton Beach, Fla., chairman of the leadership training program ofthe PensacolaTallahassee Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and an internationally known expert in leader-

ship dynamics; and Katherine Boucher, a psychotherapist specializing in family and pastoral counseling who has conducted family life programs for the Baltimore archdiocese.

Titled "Discovering Our Gifts," the ~ttleboro progr~m, open to all, wIll offer methods of communication, organizing, goal setting and time management skills, in addition to training in assertiveness, handling stress, decision making and disceniment.

Further information 'on the weekend· institute is available from Madeleine Lavoie, DQCW Organization Services Commission chairman and program outreach chairman at telephone 673-8474 or 672-6900.

NEW YORK (CNS) - Catholic leaders in New York expressed dismay at the 4-3 vote Feb. 27 of the City Board of Education to approve distribution of condoms to public high school students on request.

Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez proposed and fought for the plan as a way to limit the spread of AIDS. He was supported

by Mayor David N. Dinkins.

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (CNS) the Vatican, which provides for "I feel very sad about the vote" A North Carolina man moved the Catholic ordination of former said Brooklyn Bishop Thomas V. Daily, '·'At the same time, how- closer in February to becoming Episcopal priests, Turner had the 50th married former Episcopal . completed additional theological ev~r, I want to commend the three members of the board who had the priest to join the Catholic priest- studies and had passed oral and written examinations at Catholic courage to vote their convictions hood in the United States.

Richard W. Turner, 57, was University in Washington. and witness their stand for moralordained to the transitional diacity in lPu~lic schools."

Raleigh Bishop F. Joseph Bishop Daily said he would col- onate Feb. 16 and was to be Gossman ordained Turner a tranMarch 23.

He ordained a priest laborate with New York Cardinal sitional deacon, the last step to John .1. OTonnor to "do what I and his wife, Jane, have three priestly ordination, At ,the ceremgrown children. can ... withwhatever resources are Twelve more cases· of former ony, ,he said the ordination was available to chang~ this policy on Episcopal married priests are not a' repudiation of Turner's condoms now voted, and restore former' ordination but a step. the educational system to th'e awaiting· review by Pope John beyond because it bJ.lilt upon what Paul II, who approves each petiobservance of proper moral tion personally. Another 30 are in he had been before. values." , preliminary stages.

While the Board of Education The married former Episcopal was meeting at its headquarters; .ONLY FULL·L1NE RElIGIOUS. wh~ch are in Brooklyn, Bishop priests are admitted to the Catholic GIFT STORE ON THE CAPE Dally led about 100 people in a priesthood under te~ms of a spe• OPEN MON·SAT: 9-5:30 program established in 1980 cial prayer vigil outside.

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themoorin~ Toward an Honest Peace Even as we celebrate victory in the Middle East, we should remember the lesson of history that winning a battle does not necessarily mean winning the war.

It should be obvious to every American worker that our victory over Germany and Japan in World War II was rather short lived, considering that those nations now control our industrial life. .

Americans too often seem to view international conflicts as if they were football games and as if it were team effort, cheerleaders and marching bands that make the real difference. Then, after the final score and the victory parade, all seems to be forgotten until the next encounter.

The president has stated that we now have the opportunity to form a new world community. The quick success of Operation Desert Storm is seen as a signal to the White House to forge policies designed to shape this community. But given our past shortsightedness, one could entertain serious doubts as to the viability of such initiatives. The efforts that will be required to assure Mideast stability cannot be gc::nerated in the smoky back rooms of American politics.

We as a nation have been given a real opportunity to change our pattern of enforcing peace. As victors in the conflict just passed, we can begin to demonstrate that we really want peace and justice in the Mideast and are willing to work for such a goal. Admittedly, it will be difficult to convince many that we really do care, but our times demand a new outreach, a new way and new ideals.

Few in the American media have focused on the efforts of the Holy Father. Such limited vision is tragic. The world should know that less than a week after the Gulf war dwindled to skirmishes, the Catholic Church was putting together a positive peace program.

This week Pope John Paul II convened a Vatican summit meeting attended by virtually all Catholic leaders involved in the recent war. Included were seven patriarchs from the Mideast, eight heads of episcopal conferences, including those of the United States, France and England, and seven high-level Vatican officials involved with diplomacy, relief efforts, Eastern-rite churches and outreach to Jews and Muslims.

Among priority problems discussed were the Palestinian question, the suffering of Lebanon and the suppression of Catholic minorities in various areas. These are matters which cannot be ignored by Jew or Gentile, Muslim or Catholic, if peace is to be real and lasting.

The international community wants these concerns addressed. They cannot continue to fester. It is true that the desperately needed healing process will be painful; yet it is necessary to resolve difficult issues firmly and positively, especially that of the Palestinians. .

At the same time, the deep-seated hurts of the past cannot be ignored for the sake of political expediency. The world family wants the Palestinian question justly resolved and America must be a foremost force in this process.

If we fail to balance all the issues involved in this peace effort, if we fail to respond to the efforts of the rest of the world community, if we continue to ignore the Va~ican's peace iQitiatives, then all has been in vain.

In short, let us all work for an honest peace in the Middle East.

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IRAQI PRISONERS OF WAR PRAY FOLLOWING THEIR SURRENDER

"Hear thou from heaven, from thy high dwelling place, and forgive, and render to everyone according to his ways...for only thou knowest the hearts of the children of men." 2 Para.6:30

Church face' isn't "all-white"

WASHINGTON (CNS) Never give the community the false impression that the church has an "all-white face," church workers at a Washington conference were told.

Showing "a face to the community that says this is an allwhite church" suggests that "it's only the white people in the church that have wisdom, faith and knowledge," said Jackie Wilson, director of the Office of Black Catholics of the Archdiocese of Washington.

But she warned against a "search for token representation," saying. that at times church committee organizers become complacent when they've found one AfricanAmerican member. "Consideration," Ms. Wilson said, "should be given to demographics."

She commented during a four, day conference commemorating the I OOth anniversary of Pope Leo XIII's labor encyclical, "Rerum Novarum."

Some 500 church workers attended the gathering titled "A Century of Social Thinking," which was sponsored by the U.S. bishops' The Editor Department of Social Development . and World Peace and other church organizations.

Ms. Wilson said that many African-Americans "think holistic for us the sacred and secular are not divided.

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efforts at "dialogue concerning racism, sexism, clericalism, ageism and homophobia."

"Guard against considering any social issue as a black problem" .

Ms. Wilson advised, saying such attitudes imply disinterest in black people.

• In ·response to a question, she said the fact that whites take their children out of public schools does "not necessarily" mean they don't want their children to attend the same school as black children.

But she said parishes "have to try to discover if your school, is becoming a haven."

In addition, it is the job of a school to which whites may be fleeing to teach about social justice and appreciation for diversity in the church, said Ms. Wilson.

Ronaldo Cruz, associate director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Hispanic Affairs, another speaker at the workshop, said integration in the church requires knowing some symbols of the church's

prayer~BOX To the Holy Trinity To You, heavenly Father, I offer, give and consecrate myself as Your child, To You, Jesus Master, I offer, give and consecrate myself as Your brother and disciple.

To You, Holy Spirit, I offer, give and consecrate myself as "a living temple" to be consecrated and sanctified. Amen.

diverse groups "and feeling at ease with them."

"It requires my becoming sensitive to the language, music, food and religious traditions" of another group, said Cruz.

He said integration of the church's diverse groups requires comprehension, constant communication and collaboration.

Comprehension, Cruz said, means knowing each other's myths, stereotypes and even jokes.

Only after there is dialogue between various peoples who respect each other's cultures and symbols and use each other's languages "can we talk about a common vision," he said.

Cruz noted that if one adds the numbers of Hispanic, AfricanAmerican and other non-white Catholics, "persons of color are already the majority" in the church in the United States.

A third workshop speaker, Father Peter Zendian, the U.S. bishops' associate director for'pastoral care for migrants and refugees, said that because of its diversity the church in the United States "can be truly 'catholic', unlike any other country in the world."

His office, he said, deals with 60 different ethnic groups.

To appreciate diverse peoples, he said, "don'~ try to change them; let them be themselves."

"Don't try to change them to something comfortable to the socalled predominant group - that's not even predominant anymore." said Father Zendzian.

He said preliminary results of the 1990 census show that church officials running offices for refugee and Hispanic Catholics have been on target with their predictions on growing ethnic diversity within the nation.

"Our church is changing," he said.

Keeping anger in check Dear Dr. Kenny: My problem is my temper, especially when I'm tired or have had a few beers. This is becoming worse, and I have come very close to losing control of myself. My wife has been afraid I'll hit her or one of our kids. I haven't done so yet, but it's a possibility. Don't tell me to make a . firm resolve to stay in control. I've tried that and it doesn't work.

Hell) me before I do something for which I'll be ashamed. (Iowa) Thanks for your straightforward letter. Temper control is a problem you share with many other adults. .

Anger is not in itself a bad or immoral thing. Anger is a very normal response to frustration, the experience of being blocked in the pursuit of some personal goal. for example. if you want to write· a letter and you cannot find your pen, your first reaction might ordinarily be anger.

In this example. your body's nervous system has "stepped it up a notch," mobilized you to deal with the problem. Energy is provided to initiate a search for the ·pen or a substitute. Anger can also look for a cause, leading us to blame another, ourself or the situation.

Up to this point, anger can serve a productive purpose: to get you on with your task. What you don't want is to let your anger get out of control so that you behave irrationally and perhaps hurt someone.

Here are some suggestions to help keep your temper in check.

The first three are general; the last four are concerned with temperate responses to other people.

I. Stay focused on the problem.

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2. If you have to kt off steam, go fo·r a walk or run. Phvsical effort is the best way to han<lle your own aroused physiology.

3. As much as possible, keep from being overtired or from overdrinking. If you like beer, one beer should mellow you; two should be

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4. When another person makes you angry, speak out. Say how you feel Avoid blaming. In your discussion, use "I" rather than "you." For example, say: "I can't find my pen" or "I'm frustrated" rather than "Where did you leave my pen?"

5. Take enough time to explain our point. Don't dump and run with some cutting remark. Remember, the object is to solve your problem, not to "get" the other . peTson. .

'6. Don't take too much time.

Avoid interminable arguments that go nowhere but serve only to make you more irritated. Five minutes is usually enough time to make a point in a heated moment.

7. Know when to leave. By now, you should know the warning signs.

Let them be your cue to go to separate places for at least five minutes.

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by Father Roger Karban, pastor of Our Lady of Good Counsel parish. Renault, III., and a noted Scripture scholar. Each Friday Father Karban will explain the readings you will hear at weekend Masses, tying together their theologies and offering an application of their message to daily life. This weekend's readings are II Chronicles 36:14-17,19-23; Ephesians 2:410; John 3:14-21. Editor Many Catholics have a rather warped image of God. As children we were carefully kept in line by horrendous stories about hell and its torments. Wellintentioned teachers shocked us with gruesome pictures of the punishments stored up for those who dared cross God. We grew up knowing him only as someone waiting for just one slipup, so he could condemn us to an eternity of torture.

No wonder Scripture seems so'

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN

Q. 1 want to know if we as Catholics can at times attend a Lutheran church.

We often travel to visit our son who was raised Catholic but later divorced and remarried. His first marriage was annulled, but when he was to remarry in the Catholic , Church there was a problem because his new bride, a Baptist, was also divorced. They' married in a Lutheran church.

difficult to understand. It conveys an image of God quite different from our childhood ideas - even when it describes a God who at times punishes his people.

The sacred authors begin with the presumption that God deeply involves himself in everything we experience. He is not some disinterested judge positioned outside the world, dishing out rewards and punishments for good or bad performances. He actively works in the entire prod uction; showing loving concern for everyone and everything. He longs to help his people achieve 'the happiness for which they were created. ' In today's second reading, Paul paints a classic picture of God's active love. "God is rich in mercy," he writes. "Because of his great love for us he brought us to life with Christ when were dead in sin.

Bv this favor you were saved. Both with and in Christ Jesus he raised us up and gave us a place in the heavens; ....

A generation hiter John makes the same point in words so familiar that we need only see the chapter and verse number displayed on placards during the World Series and Super Bowl and they immediately form on our lips: "Yes, God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him may not die but may have eternal life."

If Paul and John are correct, how could such a generous, loving God send anyone to a place of eternal punishment?

The evangelist treats this problem in his very next sentence.

"God did not send the Son into the world Jo condemn the world," he proclaims, "but that the world might be saved through' him.

Whoever believes in him avoids condemnation, but whoever does not believe is already condemned for not believing in the name of God's only Son." God does not have to do anything. The punish-

ment which the faithless receive is not decreed by God from outside, it comes as an integral part oftheir deeds.

the Lord against his people was so inflamed that there was no remedy.

Then he brought up against them.......

We are not only responsible for our actions, but also for the punishments and rewards contained in those actions.

Had Yahweh done nothing for the Israelites, they would have ended up in exile 'much earlier.

God continually tried to stop them from doing those things which contained evil. But when they rejected and perse,cuted the prophets who proclaimed his will, the Lord let nature take its course.

Our Christian Scriptures have no monopoly on this concept. The theologians of the Hebrew Scriptures reached the same conclusions centuries before. For instance,. II Chronicles portrays God as a person who does everything possible to stop his people from falling into those habits which would eventually lead them into the Babylonian exile: "Early and often did the Lord, the God of their fathers, send his messengers to them, for he had compassion on his people and his dwelling place. But they mocked the messengers of God, despised his warnings, and scoffed at his prophets, until the anger of

Too bad we continue to blame God for many of the bad things which' happen to us. Not only do we need to change our concept of God, we also need to look more carefully at the natural consequences of our actions. When we do, we probably will better understand which are our responsibilities and which are God's. We might even see that without his loving care, we would have little hope of living a life free of evil and ,punishment.

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On going to a service of another denomination It is right for us to go to church with them on Sunday when we visit? Weare both elderly, married 51 years, and wish to do what is best. (Wisconsin) A. As far as Catholic regulations are concerned, you are entirely free to attend Lutheran services with your son and his wife when you visit.

Catholics may occasionally share in such liturgical worship for any good reason, responsibilities of public office, blood relationship or friendship, desire to be better informed, an ecumenical gathering, and so on.

Such participation may not be a substitution for Sunday Mass, and Catholics should not receive communion at the non-Catholic

liturgy; they may, however, share in all therest - prayers, responses, hymns and actions of the community of which they are guests ("Directory for Ecumenical Matters," May 14, 1967).

Q. 'I have been devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary, but have often wondered why her mother and father are never mentioned.

She confides in her cousin Elizabeth but not her parents. Did 1 miss something in my Bible reading? (Illinois) A. You did not miss anything.

The Gospels do not, and did not intend to, give us a "life" of the mother of Jesus, or for that matter, of Jesus himself.

The intention of each of the

Gospels was to describe and tell the story of the Good News ("gospel") of God's love for us as that love is revealed in Jesus Christ.

They are apparently not interested in providing incidental details simply to satisfy our curiosity.

What you note about Mary's relation to Elizabeth is a good case in point. Assuming t1)at our Blessed Mother's parents were living and available, she probably sought their advice as any other young wife.

But that was not relevant to the message.

The words concerning her visit with Elizabeth develop the connection between Jesus and John the Baptist, who was to play a major role years later in bringing

Jesus to the attention of the people of Judea.

We know nothing for certain about the maternal grandparents of Jesus. All we know about them, including their names, comes from the apocryphal "Gospel of James" and a few other early documents of doubtful credibility: The feasts of Sts. Joachim and Anne have been observed in the Western (Latin) church only in the past few hundred years.

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For a healthier spirituality, inject a little idealism By DOLORES CURRAN

Fifteen-year-old Tom heard about a summer work project for youth which appealed to his idealism. It involved a church-sponsored and chaperoned crew of willingto-work teenagers who go into Appalachia and other areas to work on homes in need of repair.

The kids pay their own eJ'penses, bring a sleeping bag, sleep on the floor of a church or school gymna-

sium, and do their own cooking.

The term lasts one' or two weeks. .

Tom asked his parents if he could go. They were appalled.

"Why don't you go to basketball camp instead?" they asked. He explained that he had been to baseball, basketball and computer camps in earlier years but that he wanted to do something useful, something to benefit others, this year.

His parents didn't like the idea of his being in a marginal economic area. They worried about crime, snakes, and construction injuries. He brought in the adult crew leader to allay their fears but still his parents resisted.

They tempted him with a trip to his cousins in Boston instead.

Finally, they just said no, he couldn't go. And because he needed their permission and financial help, he didn't go. He refused to go to basketball camp, which cost twice what his parents would have paid for the youth crew. He got a fast food job and sat around the rest of the summer.

When the youth leader told me this story, I shook my head. Idealism is high in adolescents and young adults. Yet, we do our best as parents to diminish it. One reason is that we want to protect our children from the disappointment oftarnished ideals. But we have to let them experience that sometime in their lives.

I think a major reason, though, is that we've lost an earlier sense of idealism ourselves and when we

see others acting on idealism, we when it comes to action, we're are forced to reexamine our own scarce. lac.!<, of this precious gift.

Idealism is part of a healthy We live in a culture where ideal- spirit so if our spirit is suffering, ism is disparaged. We apologize we might look at our' own level of when someone calls us a "do- idealism. How often do we respond gooder," as if it's an insult. We cynically to an advertised need? don't respond, as we could, How often do we disparage others "Thanks. J appreciate that com- who act on' their idealism? How pliment," because it isn't socially often do we feel righteous in our acceptable to be idealistic: inaction when we read of fraud in I wrote about negativity a few, philanthropic organizations? weeks ago. Idealism is the flip side Jesus was an idealist. He conof negativity. The negaholic says, tinued to spread love and good"you're just prolonging their lazi- ness while constantly being told ness," when we feed the hungry. that the people he was loving were The idealist says, "Maybe, but I'm un'worthy. He didn't throw his feeding the hungry." palms up and say, "People are not What is an idealist anyway? It is worth saving." He just went about a person with ideals who acts on saving them and let his spirit shine. them. We're all for the corporal If we want a healthier spirituality, works of mercy in principle but we might follow his lead.

Preparing for Easter, the fifty-day journey of joy By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

only the one Sunday. It seemed too short a time for the kind of rejoicing that wonderful event called for.

It was only as an adult that I began to recognize that Easter is a fu1l50-day journey of joy.

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ism and the honesty that the world is a hard place. But Connors is good at showing that it is in the gathering of Christians that we become a community, the body of Christ, and lose our aloneness.

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Appointments, elections at St. ,Anne's' St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, has announced 1991 medical staff officers and new appointments to the staff. .. " ., In staff elections, Dr. Edward A. Penn chief of the pediatrics department, was named medical staff president.

Dr. Penn joined the hospital in 1954 and was appointed department chief in 1973. He has been a member ofthe American Board of Pediatrics since 1956 and succeeds Dr. Kevin O'Brien, chief of the ophthalmology department, who was medical staff president for four years.

Dr. Michael Nissensohn, a member of the hospital's department of medicine since 1986, was reelected medical staff vice presi-

dent, a position he has held since 1989. He is a dipfomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, specializing in gastroenterology.

Dr. Jesus Sosa, a member of St. Anne's surgery department since 1988, was elected medical staff secretary/ treasurer. He is a candidate for the American Board of Surgery.

Dr. Franklin Scheel, chief of St. Anne's cardiology department, was elected member-at-large. A member of the department of medicine since 1975, he was previously medical staff secretary / treasurer. He is a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Newly-appointed to the medical staff at St. Anne's are Dr. Michelle

Hughes, joining the gynecology division of the department of surgery and Dr. Marc A. Therou~, joining the department of medicine.

Dr. Hughes, a member of.the American College of ObstetrIcs/ Gynecology, is a graduate of Brown Medical School, Providence, Rl. Dr. Theroux, a member of the Americans Society of Internal Medicine, graduated from Georgetown University School of MediCine, Washington, D.C. He was staff internist at the Robert L. Thompson Strategic Hospital, Caswell, Tex., where he was also program director for medical grand rounds, chairman of the infection control committee and assistant director of medical education.

Peace plan is Vatican goal Continued from Page One dignity and peace," the pope said in opening the meeting.

"If yesterday's problems are not resolved or do not even know the beginnings of a solution, the poor of the Middle East - I especially think of the Palestinians and the Lebanese -:- will be even more threatened," the pope added.

Other. problems cited by the pope and participants as needing immediate attention were security for Israel, foreign debt relief, controls on arms sales, an overall disarmament agreement foi-the region and greater guarantees against military invasions of one country by another.

The overall need is for a world order which excludes war as a means of solving disputes between nations, the pope said. He also asked for greater freedom and respect by Arab governments for the Catholic minorities.

Islamic attitudes range from tolerance to reje.ction, the pope said. .

"There are countries which do

not permit Christian communities to take root, celebrate their faith and live according to the demands of their confession. I think especially of Saudi Arabia," he said.

The Catholic Church wants to show its solidarity, said the pope.

"When war sows divisions, suffering and death, it is of primary importance that the Catholic Church appear in the eyes of the world as a community of charity," he said.

Joaquin Navarro-Valls, Vatican spokesman, said that summit participants did not discuss whether the war was just but concentrated on its consequences and the future role of the church.

Much of the discussion centered on political and economic problems, he said.

U.S. Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk pledged U.S. church a'id in developing Mideast peace programs "to address the legitimate concerns of Palestinians, Israel's need for survival and security, the rights of the Lebanese to freedom from outside domination."

From the time Iraq invaded Kuwait Aug. 2 until the war ended, the pope issued 55 separate appeals for peace and a negotiated solution to the conflict.

Underlying his position have been the convictions that Iraq must leave Kuwait, war in the region would create more injustices than it would solve and an international meeting is needed to discuss all the Mideast problems.

'The pope has especially singled out the need to guarantee Lebanon's sovereignty and to resolve Israeli-Palestinian problems.

For the pope, this has meant walking a political tightro{le, since the Catholic Church has little influence in the region and has to protect the tiny Catholic minority living in Arab countries, often under religious restrictions.

Before the summit started, the pope said the church is concerned for the future of all the people of the region, especially the Kuwaitis who "regained their independence" and the Iraqis.

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• Holy Father's ReliefProgram, which helps Victims of natural disasters and other emergencies throughout the world.

• U.S. Catholic Conference Department of Social Development and World Peace, a public policy agency which provides legislative and policy analysis and service to diocesan offices, working with social ministry and peace and justice offices in building local capacity to carry out Catholic social teaching.

The spiritual and physical needs of our brothers and sisters overseas are many, and contributions to the bishops' overseas collection this weekend can make a tremendous difference in individual lives.

Jesus calls us to love our neighbors- and share what we have with those in need - and in today's world our neighbors are no longer simply those in our own country.

As the Catholic Church celebrates the I OOth anniversary of Pope Leo XIII's great social encyclical Rerum Novarum, which called on Catholics to show renewed compassion

for the poor and concern for social justice, we can continue the Church's tradition by supporting works that bring life and hope to neighbors around the world.

Last year, American Catholics gave more than Sil million to the Overseas Appeal, making possible projects such as these: In Latin America, where infant mortality sometimes runs as high as 50 percent, child survival programs developed by CRS are helping children survive the criti~al first five years. A gift of $24 can help monitor growth, train others in oral rehydration, and provide vitamin A supplements to all the children in a village.

In Kenya, uncontrolled cattle grazing was destroying farm land, harming the environment, and driving farmers off their land into urban slums. A CRS project helped farmers learn more efficient grazing techniques and teach them to their neighbors. One Kenyan participant said of the project, "It changes our role in society from passive members to educators of other people."

In Poland, CRS helped bring clean Water systems to more than 15,000 farm families - families previously spent up to four hours a day collecting polluted water.

In the U.S., Migration and Refugee Services assisted 30,000 of the approximately 110,000 refugees entering the U.S. in 1990 and supervised the placement of 238 unaccompanied refugee minors in foster care settings. MRS coordinates the services that'meet the special needs of Amerasian children and their accompanying families in 38 cities.

World View of Poverty • 750 to 800 million people on Earth - three times the population of the United States -live in poverty. Every year 10 percent of the world's population goes hungry.

• 17 million people each year starve or die of hunger-rcclated causes; 14 million of those are under age 5.

• The world's refugee population now totals more than 15 million. An average of 2,700 people per day have been forced to leave their homelands in the last five years.

Contributions to tbe Overseas Appeal can often be multiplied as much as 25 times through matching funds given by the U.S. government and international organizations: a S25 gift can yield as much as 5625 for human needs.

of black youth deplored Catholic Congress Office. The document, reflecting concerns expressed in five recent diocesan "listening sessions" around the country, is being used by black Catholics to develop an agenda for the Seventh National Black Catholic Congress in 1992.

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IN 14 YEARS the Rice Bowlprqram of Catholic Relief Services has raised over UO million, of which 25 pucent is used by local dioceses and the remainder for hunger and development programs in Third World nations.

Following are reports on a few such projects.

Propagation of Faith sows hope in suffering world

In the Pltilippines CRS-Philippines has had a broad impact on the well-being of families through supporting mother-child health programs. Funds from Operation Rice Bowl help provide food for children and teach mothers about nutrition. M ore than 50 Philippine dioceses are involved in this project which includes monitoring children's growth, nutrition classes and immunizations.

There is also a loan( credit program that helps mothers increase their income through weaving, raising vegetables or hogs and selling flowers.

Extra money can help families improve children's health.

Through Rice Bowl contributions, children not only in the Philippines but around the world are beginning to reap the benefits of good nutrition and health care.

In lJpnda In the African nation of Uganda, CRS promotes social justice through a program which equips people with tbe knowledge and skills to ask "why."

A few years ago the Ugandan diocese of Mityanawas devastated by a five-year civil war. Rebuilding was necessary and human organizations and communities also needed renewal.

The C RS project offers people workshops on leadership, development, communications and group work. Those trained then train others to do the same thing.

Social justice focuses on changing institutions and systems that oppress people. This requires being informed and being willing to speak up for others. This is why the CRS workshops are important to people in some of the poorest countries in the world.

In Etltiopia In the highlands of Ethiopia, most people are subsistence farmers. Some grow coffee and a crop called chal:-earning less than $90 a year. Other families are nomads and raise livestock.

Because rainfall is not abundant, droughts occur regularly, thus Ethiopians are at chronic risk of starvation.

A CRS project is helping families plant new trees with the aims of deterring soil erosion, producing more firewood and helping conserve water.

Through donations to CRS, Ethiopian families are provided with necessary emergency food supplies and De helped to understand that the first step to food self-sufficiency is to restore the land and reduce soil erosion.

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IN THE DOBA water catchment area east of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, CRS reforestation project participants prepare seedlings for planting. (UN photo)

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Each of us' at one point or another in our lives has experienced the cross of Christ. It might have been a personal illness or emotional burden; perhaps it was watching someone we love in pain or turmoil.

These days, headlines from around the world detail such great human suffering. There are wars, poverty, disease and starvation.

Truly, ours is a Good Friday world of war and deprivation.

In the African nations of the Sudan and Liberia, there has been much suffering as a result of war.

The civil war in Liberia has accounted for more than 20,000 deaths. Those who have not perished are suffering from starvation and disease. Father Terry Doherty, a missionary priest who was forced to leave the country last summer because of the war, noted that the children of his village were ~'mere sticks" when he left.

In the Sudan, Bishop Paride Taban ofTorit tells similar tales of suffering as a result of war. "PeopIe were dying in Torit," he explains. "No food was allowed in." He himself finally accompanied a convoy with food into the area, making the 53-mile trip from Khartoum, where he picked up the food, to Torit; it took him 31 days to do so. On reaching Torit, he and a priest companion buried more than 500 people who had died before the food had arrived.

The bishop has bartered his clothes to feed orphans and clothed an elderly woman with the cover from his bed.

"When as a priest you come through bullets to see people, you strengthen their faith because you offer your life, like Jesus did," he has said.

Sister Juliana is an Imitation of Christ Sister who works with orphans in Lewoleba, Indonesia.

"If through my concern, my compassion and my love, I can help these young people feel that they are worthwhile and that they are cared for, and if I can help them also to start a better life, then I will have I'erved Him well," Sister says.

In Lent we see signs all around

us of Jesus' Passion and death. But we also see signs of the Resurrection. We see the hope that comes to the people of Liberia through missionaries like Father Doherty, the hope brought to the people of the Sudan in the person of Bishop Taban, and the hope given the orphans of Indonesia by Sister Juliana and other Imitation of Christ Sisters.

In their pastoral, "To the Ends of the Earth," the bishops of the United States wrote: "Often those who have not heard the Gospel are doubly poor, doubly hungry, doubly oppressed. They are materially poor, lacking possessions; I they are spiritually poor, lacking the hope that comes from the knowledge and love of Christ."

The Propagation of the Faith. supports missions in Asia, Africa, the islands of the Pacific and remote _ regions of Latin America. The: people of the missions and the '/ missionaries who serve them depend on the prayer and sacrifice that come through the Propagation of the Faith.

This Lent, what should your response to our Good Friday world of suffering be? The bishops wrote in "To the Ends of the Earth": "Like Jesus, we must be able to accompany others in their suffering and be willing to suffer with them."

Through the Propagation, we can accompany the people of Liberia and the Sudan and the Orphans of Indonesia. We can offer our prayers and our personal and financial sacrifices for them.

About $15 supports a catechist for one month in the missions as he or she teaches the Good News ofthe Gospel. Some S1 00 a month supports a mission priest like Father Doherty. Bishop Taban himself was once a local seminarian from Torit; $700 a year helps to' train a mission seminarian; $300 a year-helps educate a local sister or brother.

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Rising'drug prices: bitter pill for aging

By Ron Pollack Ever get the feeling you are paying a whole lot more for the same old medications?

Well, you are. We all are.

The Special Committee on Aging of the V.S. Senate found that, between 1981 and 1988, the price of prescription drugs shot up over three times as fast as prices in general. While the Consumer Price Index rose 28 percent, drug costs jumped a whopping 88 percent.

Your local pharmacist isn't getting rich on these price increases.

The bulk of the new profits goes directly to the drug manufacturers. During the 1980s, drug companies' profits were much higher than those ofother industries, and the profit.gap is widening.

Drug companies try to justify -the-increase tn-drugs pe nding-oy .saying they need the money for research and development. But only 3% of new drugs introduced between 1981 and 1988 by the top drug companies were important breakthroughs. Eighty-four percent ofthe expensive new drugs are just substitutes for drugs already available. These "me too" ,drugs aren't medical improvements. The only thing they improve is the drug companies' profits.

To really get a perspective on how badly inflated American prescription drug prices are, just compare t1:lem with drug prices in other countries. Compare what

the same drugs you might buy in Pennsylvania or California or Texas are selling for in Belgium or France or England.

The well-respected Belgian Consumers' Association surveyed the 1988 prices of 25 brandname drugsfrequentiy prescribed in Europe and the V.S. Its findings?

Americans are charged far more than what Europeans pay for the exact same prescription medications.

The Senate Committee priced out a"shopping basket" ofprescription drugs. For every dollarthat Greeks pay for these drugs, Spaniards pay $1.05, the French pay $1.27, Italians pay $1.31, Belgians pay $1.66, and Britons pay $2.17. For the very same medicines, Americans are charged an exorbitant $2.79.~ ~ An example of a drug whose price is greatly inflated in the V nited States is Lopressor, a beta blocker used to control blood pressure. Lopressor is made in the V nited States, and in 1988 the average V.S. price was $34.10 for 50 tablets of 50 milligrams each.

But in Europe, the average price was about half: $19.80 for the same amount of Lopressor.

Higher Prices, Same Pill Or look at Aldomet, which is also used to treat high blood pressure. Aldomet is made in Pennsylvania. An elderly resident of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's capital,

might have paid around $25.30 (the V.S. average price) for 100 Aldomet 250mg tablets. This price is a shocking .40 percent higher than the average European price of $18.00. .

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Americans pay from 15 percent more to twice as much for medicines sqch as Ceclor, an antibiotic, or DiaBeta, an anti-diabetes medicine, or Dyazide, a diuretic.

American-owned pharmaceutical companies manufacture all these drugs.

The fact is, those drug companies are simply !Jvercharging the American consumer, and sepior citizens are getting the worst of it.

Prescription medication h)r senior citizens is often a matter oflife and death. Sometimes, consumers can save-money by asking their doctor or druggist about generic substitutions. But many seniors just can't afford to fill their prescriptions on a regular basis. Some skip pjl1s, taking their medicine less often than they should, a dangerous practice. Many others cut down on food, or turn the heat way down in order to pay for their medicine.

It is wrong that our parents should have to face hard choices li1.-,. thi. Thl' big drug companies are making higher and higher profits, while the elderly cannot afford to buy the prescription drugs they need. For older Americans

Compared 10 seniors in oIher countries, older Americans are gelling a raw deal from lbe drug companies. Americans pay more for lbe exact same drugs available elsewhere at much lower prices. In 1988, lbe same commonly-prescribed·drugs that cost S10.50 in Spain, Si2.70 in France, and Sn.lO in Italy cost S27.90 in (he United States. (Source: U.s.

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Religious devotions Social Security: new look at women's issues Recent public concerns expressed by women's organizations and others have generated a new look at how Social Security programs impact on women. The concerns have focused on the plight of older women, one of the poorest groups in the country, but also include longstanding issues about women and Social Security.

SoCial Security Commissioner Gwendolyn S. King has established a women's issues internal workgroup in response to concerns raised. .

"Because Social Security is one ofthe leading factors in separating older Americans from poverty, and because Social Security plays such a major role in the lives of older women - after all, 91 percent of nonmarried women 65 or older receive Social Security and it represents 46 percent of all income for aged nonmarried women then we need to look at the role Social Security plays, and should play, in addressing poverty among older women," Mrs. King said., The Commissioner asked the workgroup to assemble a list of recommendations for -her review in order to make recommendations to Health and Human Services Secretary Sullivan.

The Commissioner set five guidelines forthe workgroup: focus on (I) the economic, demographic, and sociological base on which the Social Security program rests as it applies to women; (2) the disparity" between*e SoCial Security treatme*!:t aCcorded the woman w'ho elects' to join the work force and·· the woman who elects to stay at (:,

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home; (3) the workcycle of the American woman in which she loses Social Security coverage during the years she is caring for children or elderly parents; (4) the strictness of the criteria used to determine disability for widows and widowers; and (5) the fact that so many widows suffer a severe loss of income at the death of their husbands.

She noted that, although substantial changes have taken place since the program started, the program is still based on the 1930 concept of the working man and non-working wife.

"We as a nation value and encourage the care given to young children, particularly in those very early years. And we applaud and encourage those who provide loving, home care to their elderly parents. These actions represent values that we embrace and cherish. Isn't it inconsistent, then, to penalize with lower Social Security benefits those who elect to provide this care? I want this task force to ask and answer a vitally important question. Shouldn't our national policies reflect our national values?" Commissioner King added.

She noted that changing the Social Security system would not be easy "but change does come and institutions do move. They move in response to need, in response to fairness, and in response to our communal desire and resolve to care for and protect th.ose who are most vulnerable in our society. Change can and wiU come. I have no doubt about that." ,

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How's your faith? .

Is it pragmatic, like W.e. Fields'?

He said, "Everyone has to believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink."

Or is it faint like that of the mountain climber who fell from a cliff and managed to grab hold of some brush in a crevice? He prayed for help and heard a voice from above tell him, "Let go and I'll save you."

He thought it over and then cried, "Is there anyone else up there?"

Most of us struggle along somewhere in between. We have faith, but we find it hard to live up to. As one of Thackeray's characters put it: " 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, ... 'tis the living up to it that's difficult."

As we move into our declining, or, as I like to say, advancing years, we spend more time examining our faith and the way we put it into practice. Most of us, thank God, can do this outside the spotlight's glare.

Politicians, however, are not so lucky. Writing in "Once a Catholic," former Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy observed: "As far as religion and politics go, you really can't separate the two."

Then he got specific. "You can have one of two things when it comes to religious beliefs in the political arena: either a vague religion strongly held - which was what Eisenhower had -- or a strong religion weakly held, which John Kennedy had."

This clash between faith and practice is what being a follower of Christ is all about. It's difficult enough, God knows, for those of us who had a strict Catholic upbringing and education in faithfilled parochial schools.

But what can the future hold for those whose waking hours are dominated by television and whose schools are barred from teaching faith, prayer or morality?

Chaplains and deacons who work among the very sick elderly find it easier to provide spiritual solace to

SENIORS IN POVERTY

• An elderly woman living alone spends nearly 50 percent 01 her lncome on housIng.

• FIIIeeIl to twenty percent oIlhe homeless _-oVer 118 60.

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those who grew up in an era when the church was rich with rites and practices tha~ now have largely disappeared.

Though many seniors have drifted away from the church and the sacraments, accO"rding to one VA hospital chaplain, they have a solid background to return to. "Older people are comfortable with the Mass, th.e rosary, the stations of the cross and Benediction."

Efforts are being made to restore some of the devotions that went down the tube after Vatican II, but the task isn't easy. The stations of the cross went through many changes, often aimed at the social gospel, but few of these survive, and attendance is poor.

But the practice of retracing the 14 stations of Our Lord's Passion goes back to the Middle Ages.

The sons of St. Francis of Assisi, a stigmatist, popularized the practice, at first in Franciscan churches, thenSt. Leonard of Port- Maurice spread it everywhere. However, it began to fade with the liturgical reforms that followed Vatican 11..

Practices like the stations, novenas, the Angelus, the rosary. ember days; Benediction, the First Fridays, 40 H ours and the like are not essential to our faith ..But they anchored and fortified our belief in God in difficult times.

Today, as our eyes dim, our hearing fades and ourjoints stiffen, our faith is strengthened whenever these devotions are recalled or experienced. What 'will inspire our children and grandchildren when they are old and grey?

路Soci~l路work路patley路touches Continued from Page One Commemorating"Rerum Novarum," Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical on work and workers' rights, the meeting focused on the challenge today of the whole heritage of Catholic social teaching begun by that encyclical.

In a keY)lote speech Feb. 24 Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, president of the pontifical Justice and Peace Council, reinforced the papal message that social teaching de. mands action., The church must "live what it teaches about the social field," he said.

He praised American Catholics for their long leadership in many fields of social justice.

Participants interrupted the Vatican offtcial with sustained applause when he summed up the teachings of recent popes on modern warfare: "Less and less can we work for peace with the arms of war.

More and more must we work for peace with the arms of peace."

The meeting opened just after the start of the ground war in Iraq and Kuwait, and organizers had expanded the original conference agenda to add several sessions on war and peace and A nightly prayer vigil for peace.

In a luncheon talk Feb. 25 Archbishop John R. Roach of St. PaulMinneapolis, chairman of the U.S. bishops' International Policy Committee, outlined and defended the policy stance ofthe bishops before and during the war.

At one session five bishops reviewed results so far and the future agenda of key pastoral letters and pastoral plans issued by the hierarchy in recent years on major social concerns: on war and peace, economic justice, pro-life activities, Hispanic Catholics and black Catholics.

The conference moved from a downtown Washington hotel to Capitol Hill Feb. 26 for a session in a Senate auditorium on federal legislative issues.

There three speakers - Housing and Urban development secretary Jack Kemp, Children's Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman and political analyst Kevin Phillips - described the poverty of millions of Americans, especially children, as an urgent problem calling for bipartisan solutions and extensive collaboration between the government and the private sector.

Kemp said some government policies should be changed, such as the higher tax rates for single parents and rules penalizing those on welfare who try to save money to "get a rung up the ladder."

Ms. Edelman described the United States as a nation able to mobilize for war against a distant dictator but unwilling to give the same effort for the much greater danger to the future of the nation, the poverty of some 12 million U.S. children.

Phillips described the 1980s as the "greed decade" in which business boomed. Labor lost ground, social programs were dismantled and there was "a massive increase in wealth at the top." He said the massive societal change needed to conquer poverty will come "only

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when the middle class decides chan- justice priorities for the church today. ges have to be made."

After quick updates on other Jackie Wilson, director of the current legislative issues - civil Washington archdiocesan Office rights, family medical leave and for Black Catholics, praised diverU.S. aid to El Salvador - particisity in the church and called for pants headed for congressional off- ."dialogue concerning racism, sexices to lobby their own senators or ism, clericalism, ageism and homorepresentatives on issues of conphobia" in the church. . cern. Conference organizer Nancy "We need to resolve our differWisdo said meeting participants ences, not dissolve our differences. represented nearly every state in There's a big difference," she said. the nation.

At a general session on internaA number ofconference sessions tional issues, participants heard focused on the multicultural charhuman rights leaders from El Salacter of the United States and U. S. vador and Liberia call for an end church. Several speakers challenged to the arms flow from the United perceptions of the church as "allStates to Third World countries. white" or as no longer an immiMassive weapons purchases divert grant church. needed funds from development Msgr. George Higgins of The and contribute to human rights Catholic University of America, a violations, they said. leading U.S. Catholic spokesman A third international speaker, on social issues for decades, said Polish Parliament deputy Maria that the U.S. church has a larger Stolzman, described the needs in number of immigrant members post-communist Poland and other today than at any time in history. . Eastern European countries for He called labor organizing among "technical, financial and, above immigrants and the work force of all, moral support" in rebuilding poor women one of the key social their societies.

Diocesans on program Continu~d from

Page One Mary's School, will discuss "Using Sister M. Christopher O'Rourke, Appleworks in the Elementary RSM, Ph.D.,.guidance director at Classroom."

I St. Anne's School, Fall River, will .

In a second presentation, Sister speak on "Adolescent Depression O'Rourke will discuss "Single Parand Suicide," explaining what signs ent, Double Duty?," an examinateachers should look for in stu- tion of how a one-parent family dents and what actions they can can move from trauma to stability, together with suggestions on how tak~_ April 2: Sisters Mary Dumond, schools can aid single parents.

Also in a second presentation, CP, and Mary Jane Halden, CP, both teachers at St. Anne's School, Poyant will join with principals Fall River, will have as their topic from Georgia, Illinois and Nebraska for "Lay School Leadership," a "Get a Firm Grip on Your Future: a Journey into Reading and Social panel on the role of prim;ipals visStudies." Their presentation will a-vis the parish, public relations, highlight methodology, techniques mentoring and balancing family and professional life. and use of media.

Father John F. Moore, pastor Sister M. Michaelinda Plante, RSM, diocesan associate superin- of St. Mary parish, NewiBedford, tendent of schools, will explain the which includes St. Mary School, who, what, where and why of will also be a panelist onan examextended care programs in Catholic ination of "Catholic Schools: the schools under the title "Ready, Pastor's Role." Participants will discuss what they believe they need Set, Go!" to fulfill their leadership role with April 3: Father Richard W. Beau- regard to their schools 'and how lieu, diocesan director of educaNCEA can help meet those needs. tion and pastor of St. Patrick's April 4: Jay Hoyle, a teacher at Church, Fall River, will discuss St. John Evangelist School, Attle"Evangelization: the Key to Cathoboro, will offer "The Ch~llenge of lic Identity," considering why teachAI DS: the Perspective of a Parent ing in the name of the Lord and his and Teacher." Hoyle, honored by church are central to developing the Daughters of the American the Catholicity of a school.

Revolution as 1989 Social Studies Debra J. Letendre and Marjorie Teacher of the Year, is the author' A. Mello, teacher and computer of "Mark," a biography 9f his son, coordinator respectively at St. a hemophiliac who died:at age 14 Mary School, New Bedford, will after contracting AIDS from blood present "Process Writing: Integrat- used to treat his condition. ing the Computer into the LanPublic Relations guage Curriculum" and will show Serving on the NCE~A public how to use the computer as a tool in process writing, which involves relations committee for the conpre-writing, writing, revising and gress are John Kearns, assistant to . Father Moore, who directs the publishing.

On the same day, Mrs. Mello diocesan Office of Communications I will present "Desktop Publishing in the K-8 Classroom," an explanation of computer techniques for classroom printing that enable students to create final presentations.

A sampling of software and student projects will be shown.

Daniel P. Larkin, a mathematics resource person also at St.

THE; AN.CHOR-Dioct;seof Fall River-Fri., Mar. 8, 1991

SHOPPIN G SPREE: former Kansas City Chiefs football player Ed Budde collects on a five-minute shopping spree won by the Catholic Worker House in Kansas City,' Mo., at a fundraising auction by St. Theresa's Academy, also in Kansas City. Budde's run at a local grocery store netted $1000 in supplies for .the soup kitchen and homeless shelter. (CNS photo) in addition to his position as pastor of St. Mary 'parish; and Dr. Donna Boyle, academic principal at Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton.

Catholic Library Association Meeting concurrently with the

NCEA will be the Catholic Library Association. Dr. Owen T.P. McGowan of Holy Name parish, Fall River,. librarian at Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, is serving on the convention hospitality committee.

Some churches returned

by Ukrainian government VAT1CAN CITY (CNS) - The The cathedral has religious sigUkrainian government will give nificance for both Orthodox and several historic churches in Kiev to 'Ukrainian Catholics. Its construclocal Christian parishes, but will tion began in the 11th century, maintain its control over the most long before Ukrainian and Orthfamous, St. Sophia's Cathedral. odox Catholics separated.

A Vatican Radio report said the The government allowed the Church of the Intercession, consi-. Orthodox to use the cathedral last dered a baroque masterpiece, will month for a Divine Liturgy celebe given to the Ukrainian Orthodox brating the autonomy of the UkChurch. rainian Orthodox Church.

Latin-rite Catholics will receive Although it remains in full the Cathedral of St. Alexander. communion with the Russian OrthAn Eastern-rite Ukrainian Catholic odox Church, the Ukrainian orthoparish in Kiev has been registered .dox Church will elect its own by government officials, but has bishops and its own patriarch, not been given a church,'according who will be "blessed" by the Mosto the Ukrainian church's press cow patriarch. office in Rome.

Conditions placed by government on parishes receiving the churches include promises to maintain, repair and restore the buildGA~DENS ings and to coordinate work on the structures with the republic's office 102 Shawomet Avenue for the protection of historical Somerset, Mass. buildings.

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Christianity outlawed in Saudi Arabia VATICAN CITY (CNS) When the Vatican planned its summit on the Gulf war, it could have set only a symbolic place at the table for Saudi Arabia.

Unlike other major Catholic communities in the Middle East, Saudi Catholics did not send a representative to the March 4-6 meeting.

That's because in Saudi Arabia - the host nation of Operation Desert Storm - the practice of Christianity is outlawed.

Living under strict Islamic law, the estimated 400,000 Catholics in the country have no regular pastoral care. There is no bishop, and officially no priest is allowed to operate.

"We're in the catacombs in Saudi Arabia," said a church official who has worked in the region for @1991 eNS Graphics years.

Saudi, Arabia is one of the few, places in the world where carrying a Bible or wearing a crucifix can ROME (CNS) c- If people of land someone in trouble. By law, various religions are going to live all Saudi citizens are Muslims, and together peacefully, they must take there is a death penalty for conver- steps to understand each other's sion. Islamic law takes the place of faith and culture, said Cardinal a constitution, and Islamic courts Francis Arinze. administer justice.

The alternatives to interreligious 'The lack of religious freedom dialogue are ignorance; oppression was eased somewhat for the approx- of religious minorities and even imately 400,000 U.S. troops based war in the name of one's faith, said in Saudi Arabia, most of whom the cardinal, who is president of were Christian. Chaplains were the Pontifical Council for Interrepermitted to visit soldiers and hold ligious Dialogue. religious services - but with great "Interreligious dialogue helps discretion. promote cooperadon among citiWhen a reporter asked U.S. mil- zens in mutual respect, justice and itary officials about the possibility peace, and in fraternal collaboraof attending such a service, for tion for constructing a united example, he was told it was highly society and nation," Cardinal unlikely because that would "offend Arinze said during a recent speech the host country." in Rome.

Saudi Arabia's repressive poliWithout interreligious cooperacies on religion have long been a tion, he said, there is "ignorance of concern of Vatican officials. one's neighbor, rivalry, the op-' ",It's really an impossible situation and constitutes an extremely 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 serious obstacle on a human rights nonsectarian church in Jeddae, level. The situation is complicated but the permission was withdrawn. because, theoretically, there is no In the mid-1980s, some priests Catholic community [in Saudi officially in Saudi Arabia as Arabia). But there are many teachers - were expelled from the Catholics among foreign workers," country after they were caught said Vatican spokesman Joaquin celebrating Mass.

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Today, church sources hint that With its growth as an oil-pro- there may still be a handful of ducing country, Saudi Arabia's priests working clandestinely foreign residents now number 4 among the the foreign community. million out of a total II million , But they ,say no more than that, population. Many are from prebecause the Saudi government will dominantly Catholic countries like tolerate no publicity on the matthe Philippines. This helps explain ter. There is little or no official why, despite the ban on worship dialogue on the issue: Saudi Araand proselytizing, the Catholic bia is one of the few,countrles that community there has increased does not exchange diplomatic fourfold in the last 10 years. representatives with the Vatican: In fact, membership in the subThe Arabian vicariate based in terranean Saudi church is larger the United Arab Emirates - on than that of several Middle East the Gulf side of the Arabian peninCatholic communities, whose sula - is technically responsible p'atriarchs were summoned to the for pastoral care of Catholics in Vatican meeting.

Saudi Arabia, but is not allowed The effort to maintain an "unof- to work inside the country. ficial" pastoral ministry in Saudi More and more, there is reliance Arabia is an up-and-down battle on lay ministers, who organize that is presently in a down phase. private prayer meetings, hold Under pressure from Muslim Liturgy of the Word ceremonies fundamentalists, Saudi leaders and teach religion to children. adopted an increasingly strict The church hierarchy helps interpretation of Islamic law over organize these lay ministries, but the last decade, ending a brief officials in Rome refuse to say how period of relative tolerance. At this is done. Even on this point, one point the government had there is fear of government ineven approved the building of a terference.

Figures given are percent of total population SOURCES: Catholic Almanac; The Statesman's Year-Book, 1990,1991; Encyclopedia of Religion, 1979

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pression of minorities and, in worse cases, the abuse of religion as a motive or excuse for tensions or war."

The Catholic Church engages in dialogue with non-Christians not only to promote understanding and to find ways of cooperating in building a better society, but also to show itself as part of God's plan for'the salvation of the world, he said.

"Some believers of other religions fear that in interreligious dialogue the Catholic Ch,urch has as a hidden motive the conversion of the participant to Christianity," Cardinal Arinze said.

"The true motive of dialogue is the encounter, the mutual enrichment and a serious obligation of the conversion of every participant to the will of God," he said.

"This openness to the divine will can lead to Christianity. But even if the participant does not want to be a Christian, interreligious dialogue maintains and reaches its aim."

In some parts of the world where religion is closely tied to a local culture, there is resistance to'dialogue because of a feeling that Christianity is a foreign, European influence, he said.

"For them, Christians efforts of inculturation are considered to be invasions of the Muslim or Buddhist citadel," the cardinal said.

Lack of interest or outright opposition to dialogue is also found within the church, he said.

Some consider dialogue a matter for experts and "there ~re priests who say that all their time is absorbed by the work of conversion," Cardinal Arinze said.

Some Christians think that those involved in dialogue are so accepting of other faiths that they spurn attempts at converting non-Christians., But dialogue and evangelization are both part of the church's mission, the cardinal said.

"The person involved in dialogue must have the courage and the faithfulness to confess their faith in Christ," he said. "And the one who preaches the Gospel must take into account the religious and cultural context of the listener."

"Give to the orphans," says an valence" about Judaism, acceptold plaque below a slot in the wall ing its Scriptures as the inspired of a Roman building. word of God, but classifying its The message is written in Italian people as those who rejected Christ. and Hebrew, a reminder that the "The irony and the tragedy is neighborhood is home to many of that their fidelity to Torah," JewRome's Jewish families. ish law and tradition, is what ChrisFor more than 300 years a four- tians used to brand them as unbesquare-block area in the neighbor- lievers, she said. hood was the only place in the city When the papacy lost its secular where Jews were allowed to live. power in Italy in 1870, the forced Italy gave the word "ghetto" to enclosure of Rome's Jewish'comthe world after using it to describe munity ended. the forced enclosure of Jewish At the turn of the century, the communities during the 1500s. city rat:ed the entire area with the In a city saturated with Catholic exception of a building which history, personalities and parishes, housed the community's five synmonthly tours of the former Jew- ogues. It later burnt down. ish ghetto are given by Sister Margaret A square on what was the McGrath, a member of the Con- west side of the ghetto is named for gregation of Notre Dame de Sion. the ~ynagogues, which followed Sister McGrath works at SIDIC, differing rites. a center sponsored by her order to The 15,000 members of Rome's .promote Christian-Jewish under- contemporary Jewish community standing. have a large synagogue on the The tour begins under Ottavia's southeast side of the old ghetto. It Arch, which marks one corner of was there that Pope John Paul II the Rome ghetto. The arch was made history in 1986 by being the erected about 150 years before first pontiff in memory to visit a Christ's birth and Roman Jews Jewish house of ,worship. probably saw it when it was new.

The Lazio regional government, The Old Testament tells of Jews which includes Rome, voted Feb. in Rome: the Book of I Maccabees 21 to spend more than 56 million describes a Jewish diplomatic mis- on restoration and public works in sion to the Roman senate. the area of the old ghetto.

For centuries Jewish slaves were Catholic Rome's former attitude brought to the city by conquering toward the Jews is spelled out on Roman emperors, and by the end the facade ofSt. Gregory's Church, of the first century, Rome was a few yards from the'synagogue's home to some 20,000 Jews whose back fence. ancestors were freed slaves.

The Catholic pastor offered to With the spreading of Christian- remove the message several years ity and the growing secular power ago, but Jewish community leadofthe popes, the fortunes of Rome's ers wanted it to remain as a reJews came to depend on the moods minder. of the reigning pontiff.

The 19th century facade feaThe Fourth Lateran Council in tures a large fresco of the crucified 1215 stipulated that Jews should Christ with an inscription from wear special identification. In Isaiah in Latin and Hebrew: "I Rome, a yellow badge or a yellow have stretched out my hands all scarf were mandatory.

- the day to a rebellious people, who In 1555 Pope Paul IV ordered walk in evil paths and follow their all the Jews of Rome to move into own thoughts." an area along the Tiber River.

The Jewish families were taxed in order to build walls to seal off the area. A prominent Christian VATICAN CITY (CNS) family who lived nearby was given Caritas, the German Catholic ,responsibility for locking the ghetto bishops' aid agency, estimates that gates at sunset each day and open- 500 million marks ($345 million) ing them again in the morning. are needed by social and health His treatment of the Jews was, programs in the former East Gerhowever, less harsh than that of many. Caritas said the amount is some European countries. By the beyond the means of volunteer time he ordered formation of the organizations and asked for fedghetto, Jews had been expelled eral and local aid, Vatican Radio reported. from France, England and Spain.

But the survival of Rome's JewEternal Life ish community showed that the 'Eternal life is this: to know popes did offer some protection to you, the only true God' (John their Jewish subjects, said Sister 17:3). This supernatural knowledge McGrath. is now entered into by faith, which The history of the Rome ghetto believes, through infused light, is the history of Christianity's relatruths exceeding our natural wit's." tionship to Judaism, she said.

- St. Thomas Aquinas Christians have had "a real ambi-

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Defenders jailed Dear Editor, At a trial in Dedham District Court on Jan. 25, 60 pro-life defendants were found guilty of trespass at an abortion clinic in Brookline on Jan. II. They were offered three alternatives at sentencing: I) a $100 fine; 2) house arrest for three days; or 3) weekend in Dedham jail for the men and at Framingham Correctional· Institution for the women.

Since a few of the pro-lifers had been found guilty in previous rescues, jail was mandatory for them. As a result, 50 others opted for jail in a show of support and unity.

Since the prison system cannot accommodate such a large number of prisoners at one time, it was decidt:d by the court to incarcerate four rescuers each weekend beginning in mid-February until all have served their three-day sentence sometime in May. Please pray that God will be with them injail. A few minutes of prayer each weekend for these defenders of the unborn will surely help them through their ordeal.

James F. McNamara East Falmouth

U.S.-Mexican bishops form commission

NEW YORK (CNS) - New York state Attorney General Robert Abrams announced last week that Covenant House, shelter agency for homeless and runaway youngsters, had accepted an agreement that restructures the corporation • and mandates procedures to ensure better oversight.

At the same time, Abrams announced an agreement With Franciscan Father Bruce Ritter, who headed Covenant House until his resignation last year, that bars him for life from serving as l!- trustee of any charitable trust in the state.

The announcement ofthe agreement said, however, that the investigation of the Franciscan Charitable Trust, a secret fund set up by Father Ritter with part of his salary as Covenant House president, was continuing.

"Since last March," Abrams said, "Covenant House's new board of directors has worked closely with my office to investigate charges of impropriety and to overhaul the administrative and financial operations and governance of this charALBERT HAROLD Wheel- ity. er receives the Campaign for "By operating in a proper and Human Development's Develop- prudent manner, under the terms

ment of People Award from Bishop Joseph A. Fiorenza of Galveston-Houston, chairman of the bishops CHD committee. Wheeler, a veteran Catholic socialjustice worker, accepted the award during a recent national conference in Washington' DC. (CNS photo)

MEXICOCITY(CNS)- Mexican bishops have approved a proposal by an official of the u.s.

Catholic Conference to establish a joint permanent commission of U.S. and Mexican bishops to deal with such issues as immigration, drug addiction and foreign debt.'

MIAMI LAKES, Fla. (CNS)Msgr. Nicholas DiMarzio, directDorothy B. Shula, 57, wife of or of Migration and Refugee SerMiami Dolphins coach Don Shula vices for the USCC, told Mexican and mother of two NFL assistant bishops during their recent semicoaches, was buried Feb. 28 after annual assembly that it is time for funeral services at her parish the U.S. and Mexican bishops to church, Our Lady of the Lakes in transform an 18-month-old agreeMiami Lakes. She died of cancer ment to work toward developing Feb. 25. joint pastoral responses on issues "She went peacefully, .thank of common pastoral concern into God," said her husband. "It was a permanent agency for that about'as peaceful as it could be. purpose.

She went into a coma and just The Mexican bishops' conferdrifted away. Thank God everyence approved the proposal and . body was here, all the five childdesignated Bishop Emilion Carlos ren. That's 'what she wanted."

Berlie Belaunzaran of Tijuana as Mrs. Shulaearned a music degree the Mexican hierarchy's liaison in . from Ursuline College in Clevesetting up the commission. Mexiland but gave up a teaching career can church sources said the comto marry Don in 1958 when he was mission's executive secretary will an assistant coach at the Univerbe Father Roberto Simionato, an sity of Virginia. His proposal and Italian Scalabrinian priest who was her acceptance were by letter while a missioner in Chicago prior to she was teaching Spanish, social becoming head ofthe Tijuana diostudies and English in Hawaii. cese's shelter for migrants. in addition to her husbarid, she Msgr. DiMarzio, in his presenis survived by five children: David, tation to the Mexican bishops, who works with the Cincinnati stressed "the need to establish a Bengals; Michael, of the Tampa joint working commission as the Bay Buccaneers; Donna Jannach; best way to implement (the) agreeSharon Shula and Annie Shula; ment" adopted at a meeting of and five grandchildren.

U.S. and Mexican bishops in June 1989.

OUR LADY'S Msgr. DiMarzio told the assembled bishops that the experience of RELIGIOUS STORE an ad hoc commission of U.S:Mon. ' Sat. 10:00 ' 5:30 P.M. Mexico border bishops could serve as a "useful guide" in setting up the GIFTS new bilateral church commission.

CARDS The border commission, with membership comprised of bishops BOOKS whose dioceses are located in the U.S.-Mexican border region, is 673-4262 the longest-running example of cooperation between the two 936 So. Main St.. Fall River bishops' conferences.

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of this agreement, Covenant House will go a long way toward restoring the public's confidence in this refuge for troubled young people," he added.

The attorney general said many of the required changes had been voluntarily adopted by Covenant House and Robert W. McGrath, Covenant House communications director, said all substantive changes required by the agreement had been implemented by the end of last summer.

McGrath said Daughter of Charity Sister Mary Rose McGeady, who was formally installed as Covenant House president Feb. 21, signed the agreement for Covenant House Feb. 26, acting with board authorization.

Among changes that have already occurred, Abrams noted, a key element was establishment of a "strong board of directors" with authority to hire and fire all officers. Under the prior structure, Father Ritter was the sole member of the corporation, and as such named its directors.

In apparent allusion to various charges brought against Father Ritter's performance as president,

LimUations on youth fihn viewing u'rged WASHINGTON (CNS) - The the Motion Picture Association of America on "serious constitutional" U.S. Catholic Conference has urged the Federal Communications Com- grounds, said Gail Markels, MP AA mission to consider the scope of vice president.

"We share the goals of the legisthe Children's Television Act of 1990 to include people 17 and lation but believe in voluntary . industry self-regulation," Ms. under.

Markels said in a telephone in"Children well beyond the age of 12 still need to be protected terview.

Kelleher, who represents an from overzealous advertisers," the USCC said Feb. 26 in outlining upstate New York district, introduced the bill after local newsthe position it sent to the FCC. The FCC was considering regu- paper coverage focused on a patron lations to implement the act, which at a R-rated horror movie who limits advertising time during complained about the crying of a children's programming to 10.5 4-year-old at the movie with his parents. minutes per hour on weekends and 12 minutes per hour on weekdays.

Seek Grace The USCC said that instead of limiting the scope of the regula"Those who want to be present tions to children 12 and under, the at the Lord's Passover in holiness FCC should extend it to all minors of mind and body should seek 17 and under. above all to win his grace, for charGiven the money available to ity contains all other virtues and teens and their vulnerability to covers a multitude of sins." - St. peer and social press4re "if any- Leo the Great thing, the need for regulation is greater, not less, in ages 12-17," the USCC added. , Montie Plumbing In other action involving enterHeating Co'. tainment available to young perOver 35 Years sons, a New York State Assembly of Satisfied Ser.vice bill seeks to ban perso?s under 17 from attending R or NC-17-rated Reg', Master Plumber 7023 movies even if accompanied by an JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. adult. . 432 JEFFERSON STREET The bill carries sanctions of up Fall River 675-7496 to a $1,000 fine and a year in jail, said Dave Little, counsel to Republican Assemblyman Neil Kelleher, who introduced the measure.

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the agreement specifies that agency executives cannot do business with board members, relatives or staff without board approval, and that competitive bidding will be required for contracts amounting to more than $50,000.

Under the agreement with Father Ritter, he was required to pay some $1 ,500 in interest on a $25,000 interest-free loan he received from Covenant House, the attorney general's press release said.

Such loans, it noted, are "in violation of state not-for-profit charity laws."

Abrams also said Father Ritter was barred from receiving the Covemlnt House severance pay he had sought after resigning.

The attorney general said the agreements concluded the civil investigation begun by his office after Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau completed his criminal investigation. The latter ended with Morgenthau announcing the day after Father Ritter's resignation as president that there was "insufficient evidence" to prosecute.

Continuing investigation of the trust does not directly involve Covenant House because Father Ritter established and operated the trust separately. However, McGrath said he anticipated that the .trust would eventually be dissolved' and the funds turned over to Covenant House.

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I'M NOT IN LOVE I'm not in love So don't forget it It's just a simple phase I'm going through And just because I call you up Don't get me wrong Don't think you got it made I'm not in love, 0 no Just because I'd like to see you but then again That doesn't mean that you mean that much to me So if I call you Don't make a fuss, Don't tell your friends about the two of us I'm not in love, no, no Just because .

You wait a .long time for me You wait a long time I keep your picture upon the wall It hides a messy stain tha.t's lying there But don't you ask me to give it back I know that you know that it doesn't mean that much to me' I'm not in'love. ' I'm not in love Written b'y G, Gouldman, E. Stew~rt; sung by Will to Po~er . (c) 1990 by CBS Records Inc. IF YOU were around and lisonly to disguise what 'she genuinely feels. tening 'to pop music in 1975, you might remember 10CC's Perhaps she is afraid of being "I'm Not in Love." Now in in love again because of being hurt in the past. Love makes us 1991, Will to ~ower has made the original into ~,cui'rent hit. vulnerable and when a rehitionThe song describes an indiship doesn't work out, sadness and even rejection must be faced. vidual's' attempt to deny her Going through this grief can true feelings. She protests that "I'm not in love" and that make Qne ,very cautious about "you don't mean that much to future relationships. me." Yet; the frequency and Many times in the Piist I have intensity of her words appear suggested that going slow in

love is important. We'need to keep our minds plugged in when our hearts are tempted to race ahead of common sense.

However, the mind can also create walls to relationships and even block goals outside of romance. While our desires and heartfelt longings tell us what we need, our minds can keep coming forth with negative messages.

When such inner c6nflict occurs, stop to listen to what is being said. Notice all the messages being played out within yourself. Which ones seem like true assessments of a current situation? Which ones seem like tired, old, inner tapes of fear, often activated before anything new is attempted?

For example, let's say that you desire to become a member of the school speech team, even though you have no training in public speaking. Fears about being inadequate or inexperienced may surface, These messages need not be avoided or denied, for they contain helpful information about your limitations. N.either should they be made into permanent obstacles. Little will be gained by giving in to them completely and refusing to tryout for the team.

As for the girl in the song, she could be helped by talking to a trusted adult about her conflicting feelings. She also could tell the truth to the guy, If he is sensitive to her conflict, together they could build a bridge beyond her walls offear and into a path for exploring a love that may be beneficial for both.

Use your courage to seek out what is true for you. Refuse to let fear sabotage what you can attain or become.

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, Ind. 47635.

Of cookware heirlooms

By Hilda Young tory or appreciation of fine cookWe did some, spring cleaning ware," I pointed out. ,"But I do know junk," I heard this past weekend. Luckily my cousin Carly stopped by just as my him mumble. husband was extracting himself "That's true," I said. "I should from deep under the cupboard show early your fishing rod colwhere we store rare and history- le<:tion. Or how about the gun colrich cooking utensils. lection? He has this marvelous "Whydo,n:'t you t~row out those rusty pipe stickirig out of a worn ' old skillets and pots, or at least and eaten hunk of wood adorned give them to St. Vincent de Paul with blac,k tape and baling wire and let them throw them'out,~ she that,draws oohs and ahhs from his asked innocently. cronies."

I sucke~ in my bre!l:th with shock, "Don't listen to her, Carly," and stammered. "This cord on spouse' protested, sitting on the grandma's original electr.ic waffle maker is a little frayeq. I'd better floor and brandishing the cupcake pan that belonged to, my Aunt useriihber gloves to unplug it."

Ursula.: ."I didn't t~ink they ma,de electric waffle irons -~hat- long ago."

Carly said. , "The'story"1 heard is tnat g'~aild­ rna worked with Thomas Edison "PHOENIX {C~S),~, Arizona Qn' this o~e, ~'nd t~'at th'ey, started religious leaders have hailed it, by redesigni'ng a' cattle branding recent decision 'by a federal judge irc)n. That's why they call 'em waf-, that undercover government agents fie irons today insteado('wa(fle violated the First Amendment right cookers"'o'r waffle bakers, or'waf" , to freedom ,of'worship by tapefle .. ,'", recording religious' services. U.S . . '''What about this thing," she District Judge Rpger G. Strand's interrup~ed. She'held"a heav'y cast decision ,responded to a ,1986 iron pahby its wooden 'handle. complaint..filed against'the U,S. The handle !long ago had come government by three United Pres'loose and hbw'spun on its meta'l byterian churches and one Evan'core. ' . ' gelical Lutheran church, along with '''Oh,' please,'hor the' pot-that- the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) could-never-be~t,ipped-<;>ver story and the American Lutheran a'gain," my 'spouse groaned from Church. under the' cupboard. , The churches said the complaint "The man ~as not sense of his- was filed because government

"The woman defames one of the first single-shot 22s made by Remington. With a long-rifle shell you could have a squirrel's eyebrows at 100 yards. Why, there was this time my friend Shorty and I were hunting in the foothills and .. ," I took Carly by the arm. "Sorry, honey," I told her, "I didn't mean· for you to become subjected to that old warhorse's stories. Why don't· you pick up that interesting looking pot with the crack in it and follow me to the front room, and I'll share a little family history with you."

Carly was,so excited she asked if she could perhaps come back later when she had m<;>re time..

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The term "gateway drug" denotes Teens learn attitudes, too, that a passage or entrance to the world foster ,other drug use. Social psyof substances, chologists maintain that behavior, Most people tend to think of rather than knowledge, changes gateway drugs as beer or mari- attitudes. The school-based lessons juana, and that is certainly correct. of how bad drugs are can be But there is another gateway drug directly undermined by kids' perthat we often don't think of in the sonal experiences with smoking or same context. The tobacco in cig- drinking beer. If you use these arettes is also considered a gate- substances, it is unlikely you will way drug. take seriously any dialogue on the The American Society of Addic- dangers of using other drugs. tion Medicine has recently come Cigarettes, are ,psychoactive out with evidence indicating that substances. They give young peosmoking may open the door to ple,firsthand experi,ence with conaddiction to other drugs. Cigarettes trolling emotional states and some act as a gateway for'adolescents to appear to be predisposed, either' other substances and they should by nature or nurture, to use subbe targeted in the campaign against stances for this purpose.~ drug abuse, according to the orTeenagers who use food or bevganization. erages to make themselves feel bet"It is clear that the gateway ter when they are worrie!! or upset drugs - cigarettes, smokeless are more likely than others to pick tobacco, beer and wine coolers up smoking, ac<;ording to statistics. precede:: the use of psychoactive The "quick fix" is so prevalent drugs' in adolescents,'" says a in our society that it is no wonder representative ofthe societ'y. "There teenagers start smoking at an early is a developmental sequ~nce that age, They. learn from observing occurs when adolescents become that adults use cigarettes and users of these gateway substance~." alcohol to control their feelings.

In surveys of junior high stu- Role models come in every size, dents, cigarettes are co'nsistently shape and career, so if teenagers the first substance used, researchers emulate their heroes, they are also have found. The vast majority of likely to emulate their habits, adolescent marijuana users smoked A great deal of attention is being tobacco first. The results of one given to addiction in all forms. study showed that most adoles- Alcoholism, drug dependency. cents with a drug problem were eating disorders and gambling also smoking cigarettes; conver- addictions are being addressed both sely, it is unusual for an adole~cent in medical circles and among the who does not s'moke to develop a general populace. drug problem.

Additionally, medical research Various behavioraItheories exist has proven that smoking cigarettes about why cigarettes "teach" or allows some of.the most pervasive prepare adolescents for future drug of carcinogens to- bombard 'the use. For example, young smokers human body.

The national campaign against learn drug acquisition skills, "obtaining forbidden fruit." It is smoking has been highly successeasy to get cigarettes and there are ful. but a continued effort will be few consequences, since the law is needed to keep a lid on nicotine generally unenforced. From cig- dependence. Tobacco is a deadly threat not only as a carcinogen. aret~es adolescent sJ1.lo!'ers also learn drug-taking skills, s~ch as but'also as a gateway to abuse of how to adjust the. dose to their other drugs. It threatens adults needs and how to cope with adverse and teenagers alike with its severe consequences, effects. "

Freedom of worship upheld ,officials b~~ste(,t 'that they cO,uld enter churches whenever and for whatever reason. ,', '

R,eporf doubled ~ANSALV'ADO'R (CNS)~ 'The Salvadoran government has blamed three ex-soldiers and family feudi~g fo'r the January murders ' CATHOLIC ANi>,l\.f.~SLIM pupils Jump rope ~ogether of 15 villagers, but the Salvadoran . on the playground of St. Anne School in Minneapolis'; Minn., church is, not bilying that story. i at which the AcademyofIslamic Studies rents space. BenedicArchbishop Arturo Rivera Damas .J tine Siste'c Anne ·Boeckers, ~t. Anne's principal, said she views of San Salvador said the agency the arrangement as a "broadening experience" and that seeing reporting on the cause of the kilh . d h' f" hid'" k Chi' lings lacks credib'ility and is politi- ot er' students ,dedIcate to t eit alt, cou 'ma e at 0 IC cally biased toward the party in students '~mucli more open~' to their own. Sharing the space power. also helps St. Anne's: School make ends meet. (CNSphoto)

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Bishop Connolly "Global Harmony through Foreign Languages" was the theme for this week's celebratiol) ofNational Foreign Language Week, observed at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, with activities including an international fair, poster contests and an international trivia contest.

Visiting Connolly for the international fair on Tuesday were 16 Bristol Community College students of English-as-a-second-Ianguage and' their instructors.. The students presented information about their home countries, which include Venezuela, Portugal, Korea, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Cambodia. .

During the week the school halls were decorated in the colors of Spain,. France, Portugal and the Orient. Each day different international foods have been featured in the cafeteria. ' "Here in Fall'River we'are lucky to have a rich ethnic heritage that is still very much alive," said language department head .Suzi Silvia. "Through Language Week· we can call attention to 'that richness and encourage· students to study and learn the ·llinguage of their parents and grandparents." .

• Jaime' Hallas" anif Kelly'O'Bri'eil' " The'Ahcho{ ..- .•.. •• ~ '''.' and seventh graders David CawFriday, March 8, 1991 ston, Tim Hanley and Paul Scanlan may be viewed with other region 3 top students' projects from 4 to 8 p.m. tomorrow or noon to 3 p.m. Sunday at the college.

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Eighth grader Martin Wyspianski has qualified for state National Geography Bee competition after receiving the highest score on a national geography test administered to St. John's social studies classes by teacher Jay Hoyle.

Sixth grade students and parents will have a "Take Your Child to Lunch Day" on March 12.

TOP WINNERS in the Dominican Academy, Fall River, science fair, pictured with science teacher Denise Kochanski, are, from left, Miriam Laranjeira, who took first place for a project on earthquakes; third-place winner Cathy Arruda, who presented a project on sleep; and Deborah Rpdriques, who won second place with a project on waste water treatment.

Honorable mentions went to Sally Oliveira, Elizabeth' Ramos, Sta<::y Ventura, Kimberly Patricio, Vanessa DeMarco and Toni::Ann Allard.

All represent DA at a Region III science fair at Bristol Comml;lnity College this weeke~d. (Gaudette photo~

On the seventh and eighth grade high honor roll for the la~t marking period were Arlyssa Pouliot, Martin Wyspianski, Mark Brierly, Kristin O'Keefe and Nicole Turcotte. 26 seventh and eighth graders and 68 fourth through sixth received honors or honorable mention.

Diocesan school registrations St. Joseph's School, Fairhaven, has opened registration for new students in nursery through grade 8 for the 1991-92 school year.

Iriformation is available from the school at 996-1983.

Taunton Catholic Middle School will hold an open house including registration of students in grades 5 through 8 for the 1991-92 school year at 2 p.m. Sunday. Faculty mem.bers and volunteer parents will be available to answer questions. Further information is available from the school office at 822-04~1 between 8.a.m. and 2 p.m. weekdays.

frey Fox '69, captured in the war Feb. 19.

Those praying in the school league, and senior captain Eric' Connolly senior Philip Nadeau 'Lafrance became the first Con- chapel asked protection for all priis the winner of a diocesan-wide nolly skier to score in eight con- soners of war and all' serving the high school essay 'contest, held in secutive races when he placed eighth country in the Middle East as well conjunction with observance of in' the recent varsity race. 'as for restoration of peace among the 100th anniversary of Pope Leo Sp'ring sports begin on March 'all peoples of the world. Also XIII's social education encyclical 18 with organizational meetings remembered were innocent victims Rerum Novarum. of the war. all who havedied as a p~i.or to that date. ·'Registration for kindergarten at In his essay Nadeau rioted that result of it, and the families of all St. John 'Evangelist School, Attle•• the encyclical called for a just involved in it. boro, will be held March 26-27 .Progress reports will be issued wage, sufficient to provide fam'ily At the conclusion of the prayer and April9-1 O. Interviews are being needs, but pointed out that the to Connolly students, today. ·service, Suing's American flag was set up for those who wish to regis1990 average industrial wage in lowered to half mast, awaiting the . ~er their children.

Fall River was $18,000, with many safe return of Lt. Col. Fox. ~oyle-Cassidy workers earning much less than ,Registration for other grades that. will take pface later in the spring: Coyle-Cassidy High School.

For information contact the school • • • • Taunton, recently held its annual Rev. Brian Linnane, SJ, spoke History Day; for which history at 222-5062. to the Connolly Parents' Club students wrote papers. created March 3 on the ethics of war, projects and produced videos on Among March events at Holy explaining the background and the theme, "~ights in History." 19 Family-Holy Name School, New limitations of the traditional "just students have been invited to parDUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) - Irish Bedford, is a St. Patrick-St. Joseph war" theory and discussing the ticipate in a regional competition news media tend to present the family celebration to be held from Biblical tradition of pacificsm that at Bridgewater College this month.

Catholic church as an oppre'ssive 5 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the school. is receiving ,renewed attention .. Me'mbers ofthe'National Honor Teachers will attend a pro-life influence in' society. opposed to among Christians today.

Society helped the American Heart workshop given by Father Ste- progress and happiness. said Bishop A former member of the Con- Associatiori raise $·1 ,855 in a twophen Fernandes and Mary Ann Joseph Duffy of Clogher. Ireland. nolly faculty, Father Linnane is day phone-a-thon. NHS faculty Booth this afternoon. Drug and The media also makes it appear . pursuing doctoral studies in ethics moderafor Marie Angeley coordiAlcohol Awareness workshops for that the church has a programmed at Yale University. ' nated the event. teachers will be held' ftom 8:45 . response to every issue and is out The Parents' Club will, m,eeC .The sch'ool's hockey team qualiof touch with the ordinary people, a.m. t03 p.m. tomorrow and March again at 7:30 p. m. March II at the'.' "fie'c{for the state toufllament' for the bishop said. "The scapegoat16.

I' school to discuss plans for April.' . the first time, since' '1988' with a ing of the church in.the media isan Darlene Densa,a WIC program • •• • .: second place finish irt the Eastern representative, will speak on immediate catechetical and pasSophomore's and juniors will ~tnletic Con!erj::nce.. ,., . '.

Nutrition in the Lunchbox at a toral problem 'for the church."

Bishop Duffy said at an Opus Dei attend. a career Awareness Day :. The". Warnors",were paced ?y Parent and Friend steering meetstudy center in Dublin. ing 7 p.m. March II. March 12.' Coordinated by .the Bob MacDonal~, Garett Tardiff .

Connolly Alumni AssQciation; it and Russ M~tto; t~ree of:the top Ajunior high retreat will be held will include a keynote ad'qress by", goal-scorers, In. the league; Sea~ at Holy Name Center frorri 8:30 Mark Mainella, nationally-kriown .Gaffneyand Sean ~yan on~efense, a.m. to 3 p.m. March 14. speaker on career education and and, Shawn Gremer, one of the 'The Saints and Singers Choral Cantata will present "The Story of motivation, and small-group meet- area s top go~ltenders.

WASHINGTON (CNS) --' The ings with 25 Connolly alumni who The. Warno~s fa~ed NewburyEaster in Song" at"! p.m. March judicial branch of the undergradwill discuss college life and career port'1I1 the: first round of. the 17 at St. Lawrence Church. uate student government at Cath'b'I' . 'playoffs. . : An Irish Night with the O'Reilly POSSI Iitles.

M'" " K' h S'I d olic University in Washington has Ike Simpson, .~It I va an Brothers will be held from 7:30 to revoked recognition given a stu• Anthony Maffini: represented 11:30 p.m. Miuch 23 atthe school. dent abortion rights group by the In a season finale at Mt. Wachu- Coyle-Cassidy at the all-stale I undergraduate legislative branch. sett, the Connolly ski team fin" indoor track meet at Harvard The court had ruled that recogniished third in the Central Massa- . recently. tion was constitutional, but later chusetts Ski League. also ruled that such recognition It is the best, finish ever for a violated university policy.

Connolly ski team, said Coach St. John Evangelist School, George Angelo; "We more than Before cessation of hostilities in Attleboro, will send five students Dependence held our own against teams that the Persian Gulf, students, facuIty to a regional science fair this weekhave far more practil:e time on the and staff at Bishop Stang High "Act if everything depends upon end at Bristol Community College. snow than we can hope to manage." School, North Dartmouth, joined you; pray as if everything depends Freshman Jamie Karem and in prayer for Stang alumnus JefThe projects of eighth graders upon God."--St. Thomas More

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Sleeping with the Enemy,

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King Aalph, A-II (PG) Home Alone, A-II (PG) Dances With Wolves, A-III (PG-13) 6. L.A. Story, A-III (PG·13) 7. , The NeverEndlng Story II, A-I (PG) 8. Nothing but Trouble, .

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4. Navy Seals, A·III (R) 5. Darkman, 0 (R) .

6. Problem Child, A·II (PG) 7. Taking Care of Business, A-III (A) 8. Young Guns II, A-III (PG-13) 9. The Witches, A-II (PG) 10. The. Freshman, A·II (PG)

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General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-13parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or young teens. ' Catholic ratings: Al--approved for children and adults; A2-app.roved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; 4-separate classification (given films not morally offensive which, however, ,require some. analysis and explanation); O.......morally offensive.

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CYO all-star gIrls' basketball tourney ,com'pleted The last in a series of diocesan CYO All-Star basketball tournaments was played March 3 at the "all River CYO, where the Fall River Junior Girls defeated their New Bedford counterparts 30-27. , New Bedford fought its way to a 13-11 halftime lead but Fall River rallied in the second half to earn the narrow victory. , Carey Maltais of Fall River led all scorers with 14 points, while Nadine Lindsey of New, Bedford had 12 points. Maltais was named Most Valuable Player of the tournament and was joined on the All Tournament team by Lindsey, Karen Azar and Celia DaLuz of New Bedford and Fall River's Jill Wetherell and Tracey Jackson.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese-of Fall River-Fri., Mar. 8,-1991

Iteering pOintl PUBLICITY CHAIRMEN are I.k.d to .ubmlt n.w. It.m. for thl. column to Th. Anchor, P.O. BOil 7, Fill Rlyer; 02722. HIIme of city or town .hould be Included, a. _lIa. full dlt.. of allactlyIll... Pl......nd n.w. of futura rath.r than pa.t av.nt•. Not.: W. do not normally clrry n.w. of fundralalng Ictlyltl••. We Ir. hipPY to carry notlc.. of .plrltual programa, club m••tlnga, youth proJecta and almllar nonprofit Ictlvltl.a. Fundrllalnli proJ.cta mlY b. Idv.rtt••d It our regullr ratea, obtainable from Th. Anchor.bu.l· n... office, telephone 875-7151.

On Steering Pointe Itema FR Indlclt.a Fall River, NB Indlclte. N.w Bedford.

ST. PATRICK, FR First penance 10 a.m. tomorrow, chapel.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE OLVjOLH Guild meeting noon Mar. II. OLV Men's Club meeting 7:30 p.m. March 12, parish center.

Will Clarke will speak on ornamental pruning. New Beginnings, interdenominational singles' support group, meets 7 p.m. Tuesdays, Federated Church of Hyannis; information: 775-0298.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM St. Patrick's Day celebration 7 p.m. March 12, hall. First communion class enrollment ceremony 9:45 a.m. tomorrow.

ST., ELIZABETH SETON, N.FALMOUTH Men's Club clinic 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. tomorrow, hall. Bereavement support group 3 p.m. Sunday, church hall. Senior choir rehearsing 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays for March 18 , ST. JAMES, NB confirmation.

Parish council meeting p.m.

Sunday, parish center.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Vincentians meet following 10 a.m.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Mass Sunday. Girl Scouts' Mass Lenten mission with Father Stan . II :30 a.m. Sunday. High school Kolasa, SS.CC., 7 p.m. Mar. II youth meet 7:30 p.m. March II, parthrough 14. ' ish center.

LaSALETTE CENTER, ST. MARY, NB ATTLEBORO Lectors' Passion narrative rehear"Renewal and Rediscovery" retreat sal 8 p.m. March II. March schefor married couples Mar. 22 to 24; dules in sacristy. Women's Guild . team couples and Father Gil Genest, meeting 7:30 p.m. March II, parish MS, will diI;ect. Information: center; Sister Rita Pelletier, SSJ, 222-8530. will speak on a Lenten theme. NomO.L. CAPE, BREWSTER inations for 1991-92 officers and Parish mission with Father'Norcommittees will be held. mand Theroux, MS, March II through 13;. sessions II a. m. and 7 p.m. _ _ _ 234 Second Street THOMAS MORE, ST. ~ Fall River, MA 02721 SOMERSET ~WebO"set Grades 3 and 4 Mass 10:15 a.m.

- . . Newspapers Sunday. 'Fall River Clover Club ~ Printing & Mailing corporate communion II :30 a.m. ~ (508)679-5262 Mass Sunday followed by brunch in parish center; information: Bob ' O'Neill, 674-0763.

All TO USPS SPECIFICATIONS

MASS IN PORTUGUESE, CAPE COD ' Mass in Portuguese for Brazilian community of Cape Cod 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, St. Francis Xavier Church, South St., Hyannis. Confessions in Portuguese 6' p.m.

Cheshire labeling on Kirk·Rudy 4-up labeler. And Pressure Sensitive Labeling

ST. DOMINIC SWANSEA Youth liturgy 10 a.m. March 10.

Inserting, collating, folding, metering, sealing, sorting, addressing, sacking, completing USPS forms, direct delivery to Post Office ... Printing . .. We Do it All!

MARIAN MANOR, TAUNTON The diocesan nursing home is enlisting volunteers for one-to-one visits with residents; conducting group activities such as crafts, cards or showing movies; and taking residents in wheelchairs to weekday and Sunday Masses.

First Class First Class Presort

Second Class Carrier Route Coding

Third Class Bulk Rate Third Class Non Profit

Zip Code Sorting list Maintenance

Call for Details (508) 679-5262

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Self-esteem workshop, "Feeling Good About Who I Am" IO a.m. to 3 p.m. March 23, Good News Room.

Dr. Bary Fleet, D.Min., psychology teacher at Bryant College and staff member of Crossroads Counseling Center, Warwick, RI, will conduct the program"which will explore ways of enhancing self-confidence and examine faulty ideas which create guilt, depression and poor self-image.

Registration deadline March 18.

Information: 222-5410, weekday mornings.

ST. MkRY, MANSFIELD Catholic Woman's Club monthly meeting March 14; entertainment will be "Name That Tune," directed

by Rosemarie Boyden. Other churchwomen's clubs from Mansfield will attend. Kathy Betts heads the refreshments committee.

DOMINICAN LAITY Aquinas Chapter will sponsor an evening with nationally acclaimed artist Ade Bethune at St. Thomas Aquinas Priory, Providence College, beginning with a Mass at 7 tonight.

A presentation on sacred art will follow. All invited.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, NB New Bedford Widowed Support Group meeting 7:30 p.m. March 11, St. Kilian rectory basement. Information: 998-3269 or 992-7587.

FR area. meeting 7 p.m. Mar. 19, St. Mary's Cathedral School hall, 467 Spring St. Information: 9996420.

Weekend retreat sponsored by Diocesan Office of Family Ministry April 26 to 28, Family Life Center, N. Dartmouth; designed for widowed men and women of all ages, it will be. conducted by team of widowed persons and a spiritual director. Information: 998-3269 or 999-6420.

CATHOLIC NURSES, CAPE COD Cape Cod chapter of Diocesan .

Council of Catholic Nurses night of recollection led by Msgr. John J. Smith 7 p.m. March 13, St. Pius X parish center, S. Yarmouth.

EMMAUS RETREAT A coeducational Christianoriented weekend program for people ages 19 to 30 under the leadership of lay and religious people, Emmaus provides participants with the opportunity to share in a loving community and deepen their relationship with Christ. Registration deadline for Emmaus 88 (Apr. 19 to 21) is AprilS. Information: Lorraine Roy, 7~3-8954.

DCCW Diocesan Council of Catholic Women annual dinner meeting March 14, Benjamin's restaurant, Taunton; social at 6:30 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m.

ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FR Dr. Philip Kantoff, assistant physician at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and associate physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, both in Boston, will speak on controversies regarding prostate cancer at 8 a.m. March 13 in the Nannery ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, Conference Room of St. Anne's Hos- POCASSET During Lent, a container is at the pital, FR. The lecture has been approved for continuing medical rear of the church for food pantry donations to aid needy parish and education credit hours. area families.

CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUBS, ·ST. STANISLAUS, FR FR,NB First penance 7 p.m. Mar. II FR spring meeting 7:30 p.m.

March 12, Holy Name School audJULIE BILLIART, ST. itorium. Hospitality committee will N. DARTMOUTH be headed by Celia Corcoran and First penance 10 a.m. tomorrow. refreshments will be provided by Grace Flanagan. Entertainment by Ladies' Guild meeting 7:30 p.m. Mar. 13 to include election of officers, "Laurie Anne."

NB Mass 7 p.m. March 13, St. "New Topics on Nutrition" presenLawrence Church, NB, followed by tation by Ann Marie Hedquist.

Irish night with John Cunningham, ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, Wamsutta Club.

SWANSEA Vincentians meet Monday, EASTER MUSICAL Trembla~ home.

The 50-member Saints and Singers Chorus will offer local performances of the Easter Musical "N ow I See You" 8 p.m. March 14 at St. Joseph's Church, NB, and 8 p.m.

Stonehill College, North Easton, March 15 at St. Pius X Church, S. will offer several programs open to Yarmouth. the public this month.

SA<.:RED HEART, FR On March 12, "The Passion of Lenten lecture series, Living the Edith Stein," a new play by Jehanne Faith in the 90s, 7 to 9 p.m. MonTessa, will be performed at 8 p.m. days, parish hall. in the coll~ge's Chapel of Mary.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, The play tells the story of ·the E. FREETOWN Carmelite nun and philosopher, St. Rita, Marion, youth retreat who died at Auschwitz in 1942.

9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow. St. The college's honors program Francis, Acushnet, confirmation will sponsor a lecture on "Marc retreat 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Chagall and the Jewish Mystical Tradition" by Brandeis University Fine Arts Professor Gerald Bernstein at 7 p.m. March 13 in the ·auditorium of the Joseph W. Martin Jr. Institute for Law and Society. . At 8 p.m. March 19, a Russian .and American song recital at the Martin Institute will feature bassbaritone'Robert Osborne and pianist Susan Almiri. Selections will.include wor.ks ofTchaikovsky, . Stravinsky, Mussorgsky, Copland, John Alden Carpenter, and Barber.

A Tenebrae service (the hours. of Matins and Lauds for Holy Week) will be held at8 p.m. March 26 in the' Chapel of Mary. Music minister Daniel Lamoureux, the chapel choir and readers will conductthe hourlong 'candlelight service to include an organ. prelude, ,hymns, . psalms, scripture readings'and intercessions.

When entering the campus from Route 123, the Chapel of Mary is the second building on the right 'and the'Martin Institute is the first building on the left.

Stonehill College

. ST. GEORGE,WESTPORT Anointing of sick 2 p.m. Sunday for persons who suffer from serious or permanent health disorder; all encouraged to attend to offer prayer support. Homebound who receive communion at home will be offered' the sacrament during their monthly visit from the pastor.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Knights of Columbus Council 9444 communion March 10; members will attend 7:30 a.m. Mass, followed by breakfast at the Bridge Restaurant.

Mark T. Conroy of the National Fire Protection Association will speak. Women's Guild monthly meeting following 7 p.m. Mass at parish center March 13; a talk on the building of the Cape Cod Canal will be pres~nted. Parish Scripture study Thursdays; morning session meets following 9 a.m. Mass, young mothers' session 9:30 to I I:30 a.m., and evening session 7: 15 to 9 p.m.

CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE Nonperishable food items will be collected at Masses March IO and 17. Catholic Women's Club meeting 7:30p.m. March 13; MichaeIO'Connor will present "Bird Watching How To." Rides: Lecky Tolchinsky, 428-1290.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLICS Attleboro area support group meeting 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday, St. Mary's parish center, N. Attleboro.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED .CATHOLICS FR area meeting 7 p.m. March 12, Our Lady of Grace Church, Westport. Support group meets regularly on second Tuesdays and fourth Wednesdays.

ST. JOSEPH, NB Bible study 7 p.m. Mar. 13. Youth group meeting has been moved to Mar. 13 and will be held at 149 Central Ave. instead of St. Joseph School.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Women's Guild evening of recollection March 12, LaSalette Center.

Cars will leave parish center 5: 15 p.m.; dinner will be served at 6 p.m. followed by reflections given by retreat house staff.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NB Girl Scouts will attend 10 a.m.

Mass Sunday and serve refreshments afterward. Vincentians meet II a.m.

Sunday, lower church; new members welcome.

R·eHef's at hand WASHINGTON (CNS) While the world's attention is focused on the Persian Gulf, Ethiopia faces another desperate year of famine and civil conflict. But another reason there are no pictures of starving Ethiopian children on television this time an say relief officials,. is that Catholic Relief Services and other donor agencies anticipated the emergency and prepared. CRS is the conduit for food from the U.S. Agency for International Development to the hunger zones of the ancient East -African country of 46 million. , mUlIon.

Pro4ife .organization opens new o'ffice WASHINGTON (CNS) Chicago-based Americans United for Life has opened.a Washington office. Its first major project will be release of a new public opinion study on abortion. said spokeswoman Laurie Anne Ramsey.

AUL. founded in 1971. has participated in every U.S. Supreme .Court abortion case'since Roe vs.

Wade.