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Bishop says proposal will hurt immigrants As Congress debates th~ Contract with America, Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., has issued a statement opposing a component of the Contract which he believes would endanger the well-being of legal immigrant families in this country.

The Personal Responsibility Act within the Contract would make most legal immigrants ineligible for some 60 federallyfunded assistance programs, among them emergency food and shelter, health care, social services, job training and school lunches. Currently, certain categories of low-income legal immigrants can participate in federal1y-assisted programs.

Bishop O'MaHey says that the Person'll Responsibility Act would greafly limit the rights of immigrants who are legal residents of this country and who pay the same taxes as its citizens. The bishop urges that support be given to legal immigrants to maintain what is and should be rightful1y theirs.

His statement, which follows, has been forwarded to members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation.

STATEMENT OF BISHOP O'MALLEY

RITE OF ELECTION: Catechumens of the diocese participating in the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults program gather at St. Mary's Cathedral on the first Sunday of Lent to inscribe their names in the Book of the Elect.

Among those attending the service, celebrated by Bishop O'Malley, were validly baptized non-Catholics and baptized Catholics preparing for full initiation into the Church.

The sacraments of baptism, Holy Eucharist and confirmation will be administered at the Easter Vigil. (Gaudette photos)

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WASHINGTON (CNS) - Father Paul Theroux, a priest of the diocese of Providence, RI, will be national coordinator for Pope John Paul II's Oct. 4-8 visit to the United States and United Nations, announced Msgr. Dennis Schnurr, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and U.S. Catholic Conference.

The Vatican announced March 2 that the papal trip, postponed from October 1994 because of the pope's slow-healing thigh bone, had been rescheduled for this fall to include stops at the originally scheduled sites in Baltimore; Newark, NJ; and New York.

Father Theroux has directed the NCeB Secretariat for Vocations

and Priestly Formation for three years. Previously he served in parish ministry, as a judge of the diocesan tribunal and director of vocations in Providence. He will coordinate all aspects of organizing the papal visit at the bishops' conference, working with planners from the United Nations and the dioceses which will host the pope.

The new schedule will make the pontiffs stay in the New York area one day longer than was called for in last year's plan.

Among local events expected to be carried over to the new schedule are: - Mass for young people in the New York archdibcese.

- Visits to 5t. Patrick's Cathe-

dral in New York, Sacred Heart Cathedral in Newark, N.J., and the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore.

- Outdoor Masses in Giants Stadium in New Jersey and Oriole Park in Baltimore.

- A prayer meeting at Shea Stadium in the Brooklyn diocese.

From a global standpoint the centerpiece of the papal trip will still be his visit to the United Nations Oct. 5. .

Last year that visit was to mark the U.N. International Year of the Family. This year it will mark the U.N.'s 50th anniversary.

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The Catholic Church has always been deeply involved with the immigrant populations in the United States. We are alarmed by the anti-immigrant sentiment and exploitation which is occurring in our country. It has moved beyond issues involving il1egal immigrants and is aiming to curtail the rights of immigrants who are legal residents of the United States.

The Contract with America which is currently being debated in Washington includes the Personal Responsibility Act, a piece of legislation which, I feel, threatens the well-being of legal immigrant families in America. It is a radical departure from the social policies which America has hitherto practiced with regard to the immigrants who have been the backbone of the nation's social and economic development.

Under current law certain categories of low-income legal immigrants are generally permitted to participate in federally-assisted programs. The legal immigrants allowed to participate include many permanent residents who have "green cards" as well as some categories of immigrants fleeing oppression abroad. Legalimmigrants are subject to the same taxes in this country as citizens.

The Personal Responsibility Act would make most legal immigrants ineligible for about 60 federally-funded health, education, job training, housing, social service, food stamp, school lunch, emergency food and shelter, and income security programs.

(Exempted are legal immigrants over 75 who have lived in the United States for at least five years.)

How can we deny SSI benefits to a legal immigrant who is disabled on the job, or deny access to migrant health centers to children of non-citizen migrant workers who are IegaIly in the United States?

We must recognize that these families have been the foundation of America and in a particular way of Southeastern Massachusetts. They have shared their cultures, which enrich all our lives.

Their commitment to work has provided the area with one of the most reliable work forces in the country. Immigrants have been contributing members to our society, not only by work but also by their commitment to family, community and Church. We must support them in maintaining what is rightfully theirs by opposing the Personal Responsibility Act.

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1994 CHD funding was highest e,rer

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usee education secretary to head teacher corps WASHINGTON (CNS) - Mer: cy Sister Lourdes Sheehan, secretary of education for the U.S. bishops since 1990, will leave her post July I to direct the Alliance for Catholic Education teacher corps program.

"Identifying and preparing the next generation of Catholic school leaders has always been of interest' and concern to me," Sister Shee, han told Catholic News Service.

"What ACE will provide for me," she added, "is an opportunity, in a hands-on, practical way, to be involved with a cadre of Catholic school graduates ... who will be some of the future Catholic school leaders."

The Alliance for Catholic Education, based at the University of Notre Dame, began last year under the direction of Notre Dame, the U.S. Catholic Conference and the National Catholic Educational Association.

The program trains and places Catholics who are college graduates as teachers in understaffed schools. The teachers receive a small stipend and earn master's degrees in ed ucation after two years of teaching and intensive summer training.

Sister Sheehan called it particularly challenging to be part of a "developing program that's new, but has absolutely caught on." By next fall, the program will have placed nearly 90 'teachers in 16 dioceses, primarily in the South.

That's not to say Sister Sheehan wants the program to keep getting bigger, though.

"It's certainly not my plan to have a national Catholic school- ' teacher corps," she said. "What I'd love to see happen is Catholic colleges and universities developing their own programs" using the alliance as a model.

One advantage of the Alliance for Catholic Education is that it is small and contained, she said, enabling her to have personal contact with all the teachers.

Involved with the alliance since it began, Sister Sheehan said she has been overwhelmed at the number of participants who want to teach religion. "This bodes so well for the church," she said.

She has enjoyed her years at the U.S. Catholic Conference, she said, noting that the department has represented Catholic education well at the national level. She added that she was pleased with the department's newly established National Catholic School Parents' Office, which she described as a "direct response to a need."

She feels positive about the department's collaborative efforts with other professional organizations and its good relationship with diocesan personnel.

Unfinished business she leaves behind includes implementation of "Ex Corde EccIesiae," Latin for "from the heart of the church," Pope John Paul II's 1990 Apostolic Constitution on Catholic Universities.

The constitution set general norms for all Catholic institutions of higher learning around the world and called on bishops' conferences to develop local legislation adapting the norms to conditions in their country.

The U.S. bishops have drawn up ordinances to implement the

WASHINGTON (CNS) ,- The Campaign for Human Development, the Catholic Church's domestic anti-poverty program, at the end of 1994 awarded $817,183 in economic development grants to 35 low-income groups in'lolved in creating jobs and busine"ses in their communities, said Bishop James H. Garland of Marquette,.

Mich., chairman of the U.S. bishops' CHD committee.

CHD's total funding for 1994 reached more than $8 million, the highest amount ever for a single year. Recipients of $7.2 million in self-help grants were announced in September.

The total number of 1994 ,grants was 276. Recipient projects are located in 46 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. There are funded projects in 117 Catholic dioceses.

CHD's economic development funding assists organized groups of poor and low-income people in starting or expanding businesses; in developing businesses that promote management and work-er ownership; and in creating capacity for community-based economic development.

The 35 new grants ranged from $80,000 awarded to the W,~stern Maryland Interfaith Housing Development Corporation for developing affordable housing in rural areas, to a $5,000 planning grant to assist former welfare recipients in Michigan in starting a business.

Otlier grant amounts and their recipients included: - $75,000 to the Women'!: Business Development Corporation of Bangor, Maine, to continue developing a business lending system for Maine women involved in small business enterprises.

- $22,523 to Ag Connect of Creston, Iowa, for a program linking aspiring young farmers with those wishing t'o retire from farming within 10 years.

- $37,500 for the Source for Empowerment and Economic Development of Los Angeles, to strengthen its community development loan fund. The Source offers loans for small owner-operated businesses and cooperB.tives located in Los Angeles neighborhoods damaged during the riots in 1992'.

The grants to these economic development projects came from money collected last fall in Catholic parishes nationwide. That collection raised $13 million, the largest amount in the campaign's history. One-quarter of that, approximately $3.3 million, remained in the dioceses to support local self-help initiatives.

norms, discussed last year by the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. Educator after educator stood up then to say the draft ordinances were unworkable, and many calleq for more consultation.

A national project director was hired, and local dialogues between bishops and educators across the country have brought significant progress toward mutually acceptable church norms.

"The end is in sight, but not by July. I," when she leaves, Sister Sheehan noted.

Other challenges in progress include implementation of the "Catechism of the Catholic Church" in education materials and advocating parental rights in education, she said.

Sister Sheehan has been an educator for more than 35 years. Prior FATHER LUCIANO PEREIRA to joining the USCC, 'she served for five years with the NCEA as executive director of its National Association of Boards of Education. A native of Savannah, Ga., she was teacher and principal in a number of schools in the SouthFather Luciano J. Pereira, pasworked with Father Pereira since east, then superintendent of schools tor of St. Michael's parish,. Fall 1976 and is now the organization's for the diocese of Richmond, Va. River, will receive a Justice and executive director, said the priest Msgr. Dennis Schnurr, general Peace Award March 25 at a symwas intent on "minimizing Iimsecretary of the usec and the guage and cultural barriers." FaNational Conference of Catholic posium on "Just War and the ther Pereira established PYCO as Bishops, described Sister Sheehan Challenge of Peace," sponsored by a social and civic organization to as a "Catholic educator with extra- the diocese and Stonehill College, bring youth of Portuguese backordinary vision and belief in the North Easton.

Father Pereira is being honored ground together, providing a lipotential of young people in the for his 25 years of service the brary, games and tutoring. Its main church." focus was on keeping the youths in "We will miss her," he said, but . immigrant Portuguese community school despite pressures to quit he added, "Notre Dame is lucky." of the Fall Riverand New Bedford areas through the Portuguese and enter the work force.

Youth C~ltural Organization, As youths' parents also gathered which he founded in 1970. and socialized, Father Pereira beBishop Sean O'Malley will pregan identifying the problems the sent the award at the opening of families faced as immigrants, notthe symposium, to be held 9 to ing there was a need to promote II :30 a.m. at the Martin Institute' "favorable attitudinal changes on on the Stonehill campus. The prothe part of the larger community gram will continue with a panel toward the immigrant," making SHARE, a program which proimmigrants aware of community vides qualified recipients with a . moderated by Father Louis A. Manzo, CSC, featuring discussion resources and integrating them into monthly package of meat, vegetaof "The Just War Tradition" by American life as rapidly and as bles and other foods worth a total Father J. Bryan Hehir and "The smoothly as possible. of $30 to $40 at a cost of $15, is Nonviolent Response" by Suzanne expected to begin operation in St. Father Pereira initiated applicaBelote Shanley.

Anne's parish, Fall River, in April. tions for funding for PYCO, estabFather Hehir, formerly secretary Herve Tremblay, a spokesman lishing and teaching English as a of the USCC Department of Social for the project, said the program is Second Language and citizenship Development and World Peace, is open to all in need. Recipients will classes. Today, with the priest as pastor of St. Paul's parish, Cambe asked to register and pay for the chairman of the board, PYCO bridge; Ms. Shaley is co-founder monthly package at St. Anne's "provides a diversity of services," of the nonviolence and peace group School during school hours from Medeiros said - not only translatAgape in Ware.

Monday to Friday and the first ing, but counseling for domestic week of each month, then return The discussion will conclu'de violence and substance abuse, between II a.m. and I p.m. on the. with questions from the audience AIDS outreach, educational enlast Saturday of the month to pick and reflections from Father John deavors and advocacy for securing it up. ' J. Perry, diocesan director of Conhealth care and housing.

Participants will also be asked tinuing Formation of Clergy.

"Overall he's a kindhearted perFor registration information call son," Medeiros said of Father to perform two hours of community service, such as cutting grass or , Stone hill College, 230-1120, or the Pereira, "always looking for the Mended Cloak shoveling snow for a senior citi- Catholic Education Office, 678- good in people. He's always there, .. Abba Milos was asked by a zen, or volunteering to assist in the 2828. not only when PYCO has needed soldier whether God could forgive Father Pereira SHARE program itself. him but when his parishioners a sinner. 'Tell me,' the old man Born on the island of St. Mi- have needed him. We still hold to Tremblay said the program, inasked him, 'if your cloak was torn, itiated by the late farm workers' chael, Azores, Father Pereira came his message." would you throw it away?' 'Oh organizer, Cesar Chavez, is already to the United States in 1955 after Father Pereira served as pano!' he replied. 'I would mend it 'in operation in many places across attending the Seminary of Angra rochial vicar at Our Lady of the and wear it again.' 'Well,' till: old the nation and at other sites in Fall and being ordained in the Azores Angels parish, Fall River; Our man said to him, 'if you care: for May 30, 1954.

River, including the Niagara Senior Lady of Mt. Carmel, New Bedyour cloak, will God not show He found an immediate concern ford; and St. Michael's; as adminCenter at St. Luke's Episcopal mercy on his own creature?' "Church on Warren Street. Those in assisting Fall River-New Bed- istrato~ at Our Lady of Health, "The Wisdom of the Desert" wishing further information or ford area Portuguese immigrants, Fall River; and as pastor at Espi111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111III who at the time lacked such basics rito Santo, Fall River, and St. willing to volunteer in the proTHE ANCHOR (USPS-545-020). Sl,cond as translation services and hence John the Baptist, New Bedford, gram may reach him at 673-0533.

Class Postage Paid at Fall River. lv1ass, were cut off from social service before becoming pastor at St. Published weekly except the week of JUly 4 agencies' programs. As Father Michael's in 1985. and the week after Christmas at 887 ::-1 ighland Avenue, Fall River, Mass, 027:10 by Pereira once noted, "When I came" He was also the first diocesan the Catholic Press of the Diocese ot' Fall to the U.S., "I knew very little Eng- priest to become a full-time public River. Subscription price by mail, po!,tpaid lish. I know their problems." school staff member, serving as an $11.00 per year. Postmasters send ac:dress That led him in 1970 to found ESL guidance counselor in the changes to 'fhe Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall PYCO. Mario Medeiros, who has Fall River school system.

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DEACON CAMARA

Deacon Manuel Camara The Mass of Christian Burial was offered yesterday by Bishop Sean O'Malley at Sit. Anthony of Padua Church, Fan River, for Permanent Deacon Manuel H. Camara, 75, who died March 5, one year to the day after he and his wife Mary were honored at a standing-room-only Mass at their native parish.

Rev. Edward E. Correia, immediate past pastor of St. Anthony of Padua, was homilist for the liturgy, attended by many priests and permanent deacons, and. Msgr. George W. Coleman, diocesan .vicar general, spoke following it.

Rev. John F. Moore, director of the diocesan permanent diaconate program, presided at a wake service March 8 in St. Anthony of Padua Church, where Deacon Camara lay in state.

The deacon, the son of Veneranda (Bernaldo) Camara of Portsmouth, RI, and the late Manuel H. Camara, graduated from Fall River schools and also studied at the University of New Hampshire. He was a member of the first class of permanent deacons in the Fall River diocese and was ordained to the diaconate June 7, 1980, by then Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, serving thereafter at St. Anthony's and Sacred Heart parishes in Fall River.

From 1962 until his death he was a senior inspector for the food and milk division of the Fall River Department of Public Health. He was administrative assistant to the mayor from 1966 to 1970 and was the owner and manager of a city supermarket from 1950 to 1975.

He was also a licensed real estate broker.

Deacon Camara and his wife were among the first recipients in the diocese of the Marian Medal for outstanding chu.rch service; and Camara also received the Cardinal Humberto Medeiros Award for his work with the poor and underprivileged.

His many affiliations and activities included service as a trustee at the former Bradford Durfee College of Technology, diocesan representative to the New England Service Committee for the Charismatic Renewal, chairmanship of the Catholic University of Portugal foundation and vice president and past president of the Serra Club.

In his parish, he chaired the Catholic Charities Appeal and was

president of the Credit Union and the Holy Name Society. As a deacon he provided pastoral services to Portuguese immigrants and the elderly in both St. Anthony and Sacred Heart parishes.

In various capacities he served "Teens Encounter Christ," a retreat program; the Cursillo and Marriage Encounter programs; the Fall River Community Soup Kitchen; William Cyr Chapter of the Credit Union Association; the Model Cities board; Fall River Big Brothers/ Big Sisters; People, Inc.; Southeastern Mass. Lung Assn.; Notre Dame Cemetery advisory board; the Family Serviqe· Bureau; the Fall River park commission; the city public welfare board; and Boy Scout Troop 27.

Deacon Camara is survived by his wife, Mary J. (Carvalho) Camara, his mother, two sons, H. David Camara of Portsmouth and Paul D. Camara of Providence; a daughter, Claudia ~oniz of Hyannis; a foster daughter, Cecile Teresa Nicholas of Medway; a brother, Joseph H. Camara of Portsmouth; a sister, Vinnie Estrella of Tiverton, RI; eight grl\.ndchildren; 76 godchildren; and nieces and nephews.

He was also the brother of the late Olivia Arruda.

Prayer

F or Holiness Lord by shedding his blood for us, your Son, Jesus Christ, e$tablished the paschal mysthy. In your goodness, make us holy and watch over U$ always. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Pro-Life Mass set for March 25 The annual Pro-Life Mass will be offered by Bishop Sean O'Malley at noon Saturday, March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation. All ar~ invited to attend and pray for the pro-life cause.

WASHINGTON (CNS) - According to a new study, U.S. Catholics who belong to secular institutes say one of their biggest problems is the ignorance of other Catholics about who they are and what they do.

If that obstacle can be overcome, "a significant number of single lay people may discover that the vocation is the one for which they are ·searching, the one to which God is calling them," concludes a summary of the study.

Members of secular institutes consecrate their lives to God in ways somewhat similar to the consecration of members of religious orders, but they are not religious sisters or brothers. Most continue to work in thc~ir regular job or profession, wear no distinctive garb and live in their own home rather than in community.

The study was conducted by a three-member research committee of the U.S. Conference of Secular I nstitutes. Based on an in-depth survey of 168 members of the seven largest U.S. secular institutes. it was the first such study of U.S. institutes to be done.

The author of the summary was Helen St. Denis. president of the U.S. conference, a professor of nursing at the Catholic University of America and a member of the secular institute Caritas Christi.

With her on the rescarch team were Father John Lorenz of the diocese of Des Moines. Iowa, and C. Joseph O'Hara, a researcher at the Center for Applied Research in the ApOS1.olate in Washington, both members of the Institute of \he' Heart ofJ~sus..

The study analyzed three subgroups among secular institute members: • Externs, who make up the majority of all those in secular institutes -_. mostly women who live in thei r own residence and hold a secular job; • Interns. also mostly women. who usually reside together in small groups and most often work for the institute's particular apostolate; • Diocesan priests. who work in their assigned parish or diocesan jobs but join an institute after ordination for support in spiritual growth and as a means of special dedication to God. Pope Pius X11 established secular institutes as a church reality in 1947 with a document recognizing institutes whose members, lay or clerical, profess the evangelical counsels in the world and engage in apostolic work but do not practice a religious life in common.

Since then, according to the summary. 170 secular institutes have been formed around the world with a combined membership of more than 60,000.

In the United States there were seven approved branches with a few members in the 1950s. Now there are more tha n 25 with a combined membership of about 1.000.

A member of a secular institute takes vows or promises of consecration to the evangelical counsels. including one of celibate chastity.

Since most support themselves and must provide their own medical and retirement care, "the counsel of poverty implies a spirit of detachment, the realization of a dependence on God and stewardship over temporal goods while

living a life within ordinary circumstances," said the summary of the study.

"Obedience emphasizes doing the will of God and implementing constitution guidelines or other directives from the institute," the summary said.

The study was undertaken primarily to see whether differences of European cultures, where most of the secular institutes were formed and have their international headquarters, posed problems for American institute members.

"On the issue of cultural conflict that precipitated the study, only a few respondents indicate that the foreign language in written materials or official documents poses a conflict by way of delay in translations; no respondents think cultural conflicts pose an insurmountable problem," the summary said.

Instead, it said, the study revealed that the biggest difficulty most members faced was wide-

spread ignorance of consecrated secular institutes as a way of life in the church.

"Members perceive a low degree of understanding, especially among American bishops, priests, religious, vocation directors and the laity at large," it said.

The full study, "Adjusting to a Secular Institute Lifestyle," is 520 a copy, including pos~age and handling. It is available from U.S. Conference of Secular Institutes, P.O. Box 4556, Washington, DC 20017.

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Hear the Cry of the Poor One of the more obnoxious aspects of our present Congress is its overall put-down of the truly needy. In the effort of the majority to keep its so-called Contract with America, the poorest and least influential of our neighbors have been degraded .and contemptuously treated.

Oblivious or totally ignorant of the Beatitudes, but faultlessly attuned to the mandates of capitalism, the new Washington leadership is courageously attacking those unable to defend themselves. In other words, the homeless, legal immigrants, welfare recipients and single parents have become the targets for fiscal reform.

The balance sheet, not the human being, is the most important consideration in attempting reform. Somewhere along the line, concern over the federal deficit has obliterated realization of federal responsibility and crassness has replaced compassion.

White Anglo-Saxons who have, of course, sufficient funds to mount their election campaigns have rallied against those" who are the new strangers to our shores, who have no financial security and who are, in short, exactly like the ancestors of most of those judging them. In the myopic view of the present majority in Congress, the Contract is replacing the Constitution, while the battle for a balanced budget bids fair to make millions of born Americans as well as legal immigrants no more than refugees in their own land.

Especially hard hit by this demeaning mind-set are welfare recipients, who seem to be the target not only for financial cutbacks but also for personal defamation. The stringent measures proposed by our so-called reformers place an unjust burden on the needy, who are described as the pampered poor who should be treated with tough love, as if they had somehow violated the public trust.

While there is no doubt that many do abuse the welfare system, the nation is being presented with a stereotyped image of those on welfare that denigrates the many who are poor through no fault of their own.

Noone denies that some welfare reform is needed, but those who truly need our concern should not be subjected to public scorn. Yes, our economy is shaky, our dollar is battling for credibility and our unemployment rate cuts across all social boundaries. But the many factors that are impacting our financial stability should not be used by our elected officials as reasons for inflicting harm on those who need public support merely to survive. Our legislators should riot become as fraudulent as those who abuse the system now in place.

As representatives and senators consider our fiscal crisis, it is hoped that they will stick to monetary issues and avoid people bashing. God did not create us as solitary beings. In our innermost nature, we are social beings. While we all admit differences between people, our equal dignity as children of God necessitates that we strive for just and humane conditions for all. Excessive economic and social disparity between individuals is not just a source of scandal but a sin against justice and human dignity.

The task of the public sector is to ensure this dignity. In the process no effort should be spared to safeguard basic human rights in every political situation.

Let us not harden our hearts when we hear the cry of the poor. If we fail in this, we will fail to meet the demands of social justice made by the Gospel.

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LENT IS A TIME FOR QUIET MEDIT AnON

"Be still and see that I am God." Ps. 45:11

Season of reconciliation, WASHINGTON (CNS) - Lent ces such as fasting, prayer and should be a time of spiritual re- good works. " "Over the years, for whatever newal, particularly through the sacrament of reconciliation, sev- reason, Catholics have let Lent eral U.S. bishops reminded Cath- slip," he said.

The bishop explained Lent as a olics in messages released as the church penitential season began.. "final countdown" for those who are preparing to enter the church.

Bishop Donald W. Wuerl of Pittsburgh described reconciliation But for those Catholics already as an "initial and integral part of fully received into the ch!1rch, he spiritual renewal." He urged all said Lent is the time to prepare for Catholics to bring to this sacra- renewing baptismal commitments. "rhrough that ritual gesture, we ment "spiritual illness and afflicreach down deep inside ourselves tions of moral order ... personal and recommit ouselves to be the failures and faults, those sins that Lord's disciples," he said. "This taint our relationship with the Lord and our communion with the touches every part of our life.

Everything. No footnotes, no astechurch." risks, no fine print."

He also urged Catholics to conBishop Untener called the sacfess "all those thoughts, words, rament of reconciliation a means deeds, omissions that are at the to prepare for the renewal of the root of discord within families, baptismal commitment. "In my and tensions, even violence, in our opinion, every Catholic should neighborhoods." receive the sacrament of reconciliIn his Lenten message, published ation every Lent," he said. in the Anchor for March 3 and The bishop's letter was mailed also in parish bulletins throughout to nearly 43,000 households durthe Fall River diocese, Bishop Sean ing the week before Ash WednesO'Malley said "We must make the' day. Accompanying the letter was most of this time. Too often Lent a "Moral Inventory" checklist is seen as a period of intense diet- devised by the diocesan Lent '95 ing, or' liberation from nicotine task force to prepare people for addiction or a few weeks of sobri- the sacrament of reconciliation. ety. In reality, it is a time to renew Bishop Paul S. Loverde of Ogand deepen our life of prayer. It is densburg, N. Y., urged Catholics prayer that-will give spiritual value to pray and reflect on Christian to all our Lenten sacrifices. It is prayer as explained in the "Catealso a time when we reach out to ~ chism ofthe Catholic Church." He those in need, depriving ourselves also suggested performing "suitaof some simple pleasure so as to be ble acts of penance" as a means to able to give alms for the poor such "enable us to become freed from as in Operation Rice Bowl." inner selfishn"ess" and serve those Bishop Kenneth E. Untener of in need.

Bishop AntHony M. Pilla of Saginaw, Mich., also called for a diocesewide effort to renew partic- Cleveland said Lent is "not an ipation in the sacrament of recon- annual intrusion into pleasant livciliation and other Lenten practi- ing" or a "providential period to

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thin out for the beach" but in:;tead is "where you and I renew our Christian identity: a hopeful faith in the shadow of the cross."

Archbishop John R. Roal:h of St. Paul and Minneapolis empha~ sized the need for people to appreciate the mystery in their live:l.

"There is a great deal of my:ltery in your life and in mine," he wrote in a column in the Catholic Bulletin, the archdiocesan paper of St. Paul and Minneapolis. "I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, nor do you."

"In our own little passion:l, or serious disappointments, or any number of other challenges that put us to the test, can we see mystery as a gift from God and through that experience grow in wisciom, understanding and grace?" he asked.

In his column in his archdiocesan paper, Catholic New York, Cardinal John J. O'Connor mminisced about his boyhood Lelilten experiences.

When Lent began, he wl'Ote, "naturally, an end-of-the-world confession came first, even tho ugh we went to confession on most" Saturdays anyway." He also recalled weekly Stations ofthe CI'OSS, recitation of the rosary - the "Sorrowful Mysteries, of course" - with his family, and giving up candy and movies.

Mass seemed different du:ring Lent, he said, explaining there was a mood that "we took home with us and lived with, not a gloomy mood: 'thoughtful' would be the word, I suspect, or even 'respect" ful.'"

And during this, his 76th' L~nt, lie said he will continue to "use the days as I learned to in childhood."

Agreements on chu:rch doctrinle Q. Is there any difference remaining between Episcopalian and Catholic teachings?

A friend of mine who attends the Episcopal Church tells me her priest explained that most of the differences about holy communion have been resolved in recent discussions. Is Shl! right? (New York) A. It is too much to assert that there are no longer doctrinal differences between our churches.

Some remarkable agreements have been reached, howe:ver, in the Anglican-Roman Catholic discussions during the past sevl~ral years.

This year, for example, the U.S. Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue, made up of bishops, other clergy and theologians of both churches, published several "affirmations."

They affirmed together that: I. In the Eucharist, the church makes present the sacrifice of Calvary and is empowered by the Holy Spirit to make Christ present and to receive all the benefits of this sacrifice.

2. In the Eucharist Christ makes himself present sacramentally when the bread and wine are changed into his body and blood.

3. After the eucharistic celebration the body and blood of Christ may be reserved for communion of the sick and may be reserved for adoration, as an extension of the worship of Jesus Christ at the celebration of the Eucharist.

4. Only a validly ordained priest can be the minister who brings into being the sacrament of the Eucharist and offers sacramentally the redemptive sacrifice of Christ which God offers 'us.

Participants in the dialogue concluded that "the Eucharist as sacrifice is not an issue that divides our two churches.'"

A short time later the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity told the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission that agreement between the two churches is greatly strengthened.

Much remains to be done and prayed for. There is no question, however, that this and similar agreements are major events as we move with hope toward the unity for which Jesus prayed at the Last Supper.

Q. We hear some wonderful

Daily Readings March 13: On 9:4b-l0; Ps 79:8-9,11-13; Lk 6:36-38 March 14: Is 1:10,16-20; Ps 50:8-9,16-17,21,23; Mt 23:1-12 March 15: Jer 18:18-20; Ps31:5-6,14-16; Mt20:17-28 March 16: Jer 17:5-10; Ps 1:1-4,6; lk 16:19-31 March 17: Gn 37:3-4,1213a,17b-28; I)s 105:16-21; Mt 21:33-43,45-46 March 18: Mi 7: 14-15,1820; Ps 103: 1-4,9-12; lk 15:1-3,11-32 March 19: Ex 3:1-8a,1315; Ps 103:1-j l,6-8,11; 1 Cor 10:1-6,10-12; lk 13:1-9

Forays into anti-Semitism

By FATHER JOHN DIETZEN sermons in our pari~h about our Blessed Mother, but not much about the rosary any more.

The rosary has been a big help in my life, but I don't' get as much out of it as I did before.

Is it still a recottJmimded prayer for Catholics? (Missouri) It certainly is. Fbr centuries, the rosary has held a prominent place in the church's treasury of prayers.

Because of the many levels of vocal and meditative prayer it offers, the rosary remains an important and valuable part of the spiritual lives of many people.

Sometimes the repetitive Hail Marys, underlaid with events in the life of Our Lord and his mother, are excactly the prayers we need.

If you feel some distance from appreciating the rosary as you 'once did, maybe your understanding and approach to it need some revitalizing.

Many fine books are available to help you do that. One that I know has helped many people put the rosary in new perspective is a brief work titled "Praying the Rosary: New Reflections on the Mysteries (written by Gloria Hutchinson; publishep by St. Anthony Messenger Press; 65 pages).

A free brochure answering questions Catholics ask about cremation and other fun!!ral regulations and customs is available by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Church, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address.

By Msgr. George G. Higgins . in the world," he plays on several alienated themselves over the years Over the years, Human Life highly charged emotional themes from the U.S. Catholic bishops.

International, a private organiza- at once when he states: "Strangely, The archdiocese of Montreal has tion founded by Benedictine Father while killing their own offspring, a no formal connection with HLI Paul Marx, has proven a divisive good number of Israelis adopt beyond allowing Catholics attendBrazilian babies (preferably of Gerforce within the pro-life movement, ing the April conference to have frequently attacking the Catholic man extraction)." This is hardly Mass in the cathedral. hierarchy of the United States both reasoned argument.

But rna ny bishops still are listed individually and as a conference H LI is still promoting Father on the masthead of H LI's newsletfor what Father Marx viewed as Marx's books. And its newsletter ter and other materials, if only as lapses from ideological purity. still reveals a fascination with Jews. "advisers." This makes it difficult Alongsidl: this, there has been Its May 1993 issue devotes its for well-meaning folks such as what I would call a flirtation with cover story to the question, "Why those of B'nai B'rith to distinguish anti-Semitism. Sadly, even under have the victims become perpetrathe preachments of H LI from the its new president, Benedictine tors?" Jews, author Brian Clowes official teaching of the church, Father Matthew Habiger, this flir- opines, "are presiding over the which clearly condemns forays into tation continues. greatest holocaust in the history of anti-Semi~ism.

The issue has come to a head in the world ... the efficient destrucTake a Chance Montreal where H LI is planning a tion of more than 30 million preconvention this April. Materials born children in this country."

"Never lose a chance to become published by HLI, such as Father Clowes continues, "their names like Jesus."-Mother Teresa Marx's book, "Confessions of a are legion," and then goes on to list Pro-life Missionary," and HLI's jewish names and organizations. own newsletter, found their way The reference, of course, is to into the hands of members of the Mark 5:9 and Luke 8:30, where a Canadian B'nai B'rith's League for demon says, "My name is legion."

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PAVED TOWN ROAD. split in their views. But they do Such anti-Semitic imagery has SURVEYED & SOIL TESTED. have a position on conspiracy been clearly condemned by the TEL. & ELEC. charges leveled against the Jewish church. It is profoundly sad to see an attempt to bring it back at the people. end of what Pope John Paul II has It appears that Father Marx FINANCING WITH 10% DOWN aptly called "The Century of the views it of interest to point out the "Jewish extraction" of those who Shoah."

CALL OWNER (603) 539-2209 . Fathers Marx and Habiger have hold views different from his. But he does not seem so concerned with the ra,ce, ethnic background or religious affiliation of anyone whose name does not sound Jewish to him.

In a 1987 newsletter article reprinted in "Confessions," he urged readers to "note the large number of abortionists (consult the Yellow Pages) and pro-abortion medical professors who are Jewish," Alleging that Jews are "the leaders of the pro-abortion movement," he pictures them working subtly behind the scenes to further their cause.

Marx highlights the "Jewish descent" of one former prime minister of Austria, Bruno Kreisky, and blames him personally - i.e., as a Jew - for the social policies of the whole country, speaking of "his At Holy Apostles, men from all parts of the country are extermination of Austrian babies" preparing to serve the Church in a great number of dioceses (Confessions, p. 272). and religious communities. Later vocations are welcome.

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i'o,i995 Recently, as I was drivingto the believed the circle is the perfect abbey church in Bethlehem, Conn. symbol for God, for it has no for 8 a.m. Mass, the sun made its beginning and no erid.

This was also the thinking of St. appearance. But this morning it wasn't the usual brilliant silver. It Augustine - that God is a circle whose center is everywhere and was a muted gold.

The sun was a perfect circle, whose circumference is nowhere.

The imagery stayed with me, as breathtakingly awesome. All I could do was catch my breath to I saw God to be our "host" in the give praise and thanks to the Lord. heavens, and we the guests at God's earthly party.

It made me wonder how anyone I meditated a lot that day on could ever doubt the existence of how pervasive is the symbolism of the Creator.

When I arrived at the church, circles, especially as it relates to the warm early morning glow the perpetuation of life.

For example, trees and vegetaenveloped everyone.

With the sun-circle still in my tion are shade and food, but they mind, I looked up and for the first begin with a seed, which resembles time really noticed, high on the a circle. The fertilized egg that wall behind the church's cloister becomes a baby is circular. So are the basic cell& of life, and so is the area, a perfect circle of glass.

At that moment, the priest raised eye, which internalizes all the won' the host for the consecration, the ders of creation.

I think the Creator's design of circular host.

It was a beautiful vision - the the circle was God's way of getting circular sun, the circular window, us to see that when it comes to the , origins and regeneration oflife, all the circular host.

And just then I remembered a is contained within God - the priest, once telling me why he perfect circle.

Schools and tools VIRTUES OF VIRTUAL: A visitor to the G7 Informatio ll Society Showcase in Belgium tries out a virtual-reality headset, which is linked to a camera controlled by the wearer's head movements. The system's designers say it has multiple applications for people needing to monitor remote environments. (eNS/ Reuters photo)

Affirmative action at risk?

By Father Eugene Hemrick Many political observers feel affirmative action is in jeopardy, about to be undone on grounds that it represents preferential treatment in federal programs.

The logic behind undoing affirmative action is that it's time to act on the pinciple at the heart of the civil rights movement, which is that our Constitution is supposed to be colorblind. All people are equal in its eyes.

No doubt about ii, affirmative action is under fire. There is a growing backlash against any entitlement that immigrants, minorities and women may assert.

Although those talking: about severely limiting affirmative action may win the battle, they will lose the war. What has been begun cannot be reversed. .

Originally, the idea behind equal opportunity was that most federal contractors, all state governments and institutions (including universities), and most local governments were to initiate plans to increase the proportions of their female and minority employees until they equaled the proportions in the available labor market. .

In 1984 and 1986 affirmative action had'setbacks when the courts ruled against upsetting seniority systems to favor minorities. If a person wasn't in the pecking order for promotion, he or she could not claim a right to promotion based on minority status.

However, a victory was scored for affirmative action in 1987 when the Supreme Court sanctioned promotion quotes in agencies with a history of "egregious" racial bias.

The same year it ruled that a woman could receive preferential treatment, affirming the promotion of a woman over a slightly more qualified man.

Affirmative action may need, some overhauling to respond to new demands, but it won't be eliminated.

Recently I visited an exhibit as part of Black History Month titled "Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of.Frederick Douglass" at the National Portrait Gallery in WashingtOI1. This black statesman spoke eloquently for the rights of blacks before and after the Civil War. One inscription in the exhibit read: "The American people have this lesson to learn: that where justice is denied, 'where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails and where anyone class is made to feel that societyjs an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."

That message is being learned today by our youth, who are being taught that radal justice and the eradication of racism are to be their \\-ay of life. Our young people are free to move in their own direction on this, having not lived in the world of their ancestors' where the races where strictly separated.

While visiting the gallery, I also saw a portrait collection of early Amerian industrial magnates. No women were among them! But thanks to women's rights, many of the old boys' clubs are quickly disappearing.

Affirmative action helped create Black History Month, and it has taught us that women not only can become chief executive officers, they can captain space shuttles.

No doubt some would like to return to pre-Civil War days and pre-women's suffrage, setting equal opportunity aside. Fortunately once trends are set in motion and our youth are raised in the midst of these trends, there is no reversing them.

Dear Dr. Kenny: Our son is in the fifth grade and has a learning disability. He has a terrible time doing simple math by hand, but he does it quickly and well with a calculator. His teacher says that he will never learn what's really going on unless he can work things out for himself first. What do you think? (New Jersey) I think he should be allowed to use a calculator. In fact, by fifth grade all children should be, taught how to use calculators, as well' as other instruments of convenience.

The first three grades are the time to learn basic reading, writing and' arithmetic. After that, subjects like science and social studies are introduced and we assume that children can read and write and c()unt. Most can.

Some, however, can't. If they learning disability, as in have your son's case, we need to let him use appropriate aids' and get on with learning.

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a wise idea. That can be done in the beginning, when the child learns basic computations in first grade.

Howeve'r, once the child has been taught how it's done, we should let the child use whatever technology simplifies the procedures so he or she can go on to more complicated problems.

Computers offer a good comparison. In the beginning, people were taught "machine ,language."

It was felt that every user had to know exactly how computers worked.Today, however, computers are quite "user friendly." Even beginners start by learni,ng simply to pu~h buttons that bypass many time-consuming steps. Not only is time saved, but accuracy is assured.

Word processors can do "spell checks" for those of us adults who still- misspell or reverse letters. I think children should learn to spell, but by fifth grade they should also be able to use "spell-checks." Why? Because children should go on to using language for creative expression, and not get bogged down by

'Tot turbulence. Top Ten

By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

Native-Americans knew that the mystery of creation'was contained in the circle. In the book "Black Elk Speaks, Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux," the author writes: "Everything an Indian does is in a c:ircle, and that is because the povier of the world always works in cLrcles, and everything tries to be rou nd ....

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were."

For anyone struggling with faith, doubting the existence of the Creator, I would say: Look at the circle in the sky, and sel: the reminder of how gracious a host we earthly pilgrims have.

By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY whether each word is spelled correctly.

Why use an ax when you have a chain-saw? Why write everything out by hand when we have typewriters? Why wash'C1othes by hand when we 'have washing machines?

Technology can perform basic operations for us, freeing our hands and minds for higher-level functioning: Children can be taught how math-and language wOI'k in the beginning. But whether they become skilled at these operations or not, they should learn to make use of technology.

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By David Letterman and the Ten impressive pulmonary projections.

Commandml(nts simultaneously DAN If God can issue the Ten Compopped to mind last Sunday at mandments and David Letterman Mass. It happened a nano-second can become famous for his "Top MORRIS after a 2-year-old let loose one of 10" list, why can't we in the pews those screams that defoliate eye- , enunciate the Top 10 Indications brows for pews in several directions.

That It Is Time - that is, time to You 'know the scream. It begins take one's child' from church for lobs them in the general direction huge and mushrooms bigger. Then the breather for which hel she is of the Crying Game players. it snaps off - poof. The child has clearly beseeching God? 3. When the choir director }rototally and completely emptied its Indication No. 10 could be when jects the parent's name and address lungs, a slight bluishness coming the scene created by parents passon the overhead projector instead to its lips. ing the crying child back and forth of words to the responsorial.

This sudden quiet period sends resembles a fight scene from a 2. When you see an usher com- , chills through tantrum and colic "Three Stooges" film. ing your way wearing a ski rr.:ask veterans like myself. This is the 9. When bouncing the child and carrying a large canvas ba,g. sucking-in-wind stage. After a tiny around to comfort him or her I. When there are threatening gulp of air which releases the creates a sound like sOmeone playnotes in the collection basket as it vacuum in the lungs, the child ing a cranky human bagpipe. goes by. inhales for avery, very, very long 8. When nearby parishioners , Don't I have a heart? Don't I time until the pressure gauge on its begin chewing on missals and have sympathy for parents who little chest reads about 1,000 PS I. making whining sounds. , love their children enough to bring Then the scream. Whoa, Nellie.

7. When your in-laws put 'their them to Mass? Of course ,I do.

We are talking screams that live up coats over their heads.

I have the pine-cone scars to 'to attributions like "blood-curdl6. When "shushing" the child prove it. ing," "s pi ne-ti ngli ng," .. hea rt- causes a spittle spray. stopping," "eye-popping."

5. When parishioners without However, the human siren's folks children seek refuge in the .:rying stayed on. That is, they allowed room. the rest, of the congregation to 4. When the pastor picks pine endure along with them their child's cones off the altar displays and

Is public health being sacl~ificed?

Dear Editor: We are concerned that regulatory reform measures in Congress such as H.R. 9, are being pushed through the U.S. House of Representatives at an alarming speed with little in the way of a truly open public debate. Streamlining government is important. But hasty regulatory reform without proper reflection could spell disaster for public health and safety standards that affect millions of Americans.

We urge congressional leaders to seek input from the medical community and the public. For example, Congress should look at ways to speed up the drug and medical device approval process as long as public health and safety is not compromised. And we believe it is appropriate to consider the cost benefits of a ...~gulation, as is already required by law. But we also believe that excessive, complex risk assessment requirements contained in bills like H.R. 9 are so bureaucratic as to be contrary to the deregulatory intent of the Contract with America, and out ofline with what Americans would support as appropriate: action.

In some areas, such as tobacco control, we need more regulations, not less. Tobacco use kills more than 400,000 Americans each year and adds an estimated $65 billion to our annual health care bill. Yet tobacco companic:s market and promote their deadly and addictive products to children, and no federal agency has stepped in to stop it. It is incoillsistent for the Congress to emphasize policy that supports responsibility, family values and the protection of children and to ignore tobacco, a product that devastates our families and children through addiction, disease and death.

We urge Congress to work on this issue in a bipartisan way, to set aside special inten:sts and to listen to the voices and concerns of the American people. Let's take a hard look at regulatory reform, but not at the expense of !public health.

Shukri F. Khuri, M.D. American Heart Association Massachusetts Affiliate President, Framingham

Letters rebutted Dear Editor: In the Feb. 10 Anchor I read two letters to the Editor entitled, Simplistic Reasons? and About Liturgists. In response to the first letter, may I remind the author that the Holy Spirit has been with our Church since its inception, and will continu~: to guide it into the third millennium. God's gifts of soul and language are what separate humans from animals.

Mar(:h 12 1961, Rev. Aurelien L. Moreau, Pastor, St. Mathieu, Fall River 1989, Rev. Adrien E. Bernier, Pastor, St. Mathieu, Fall River Marc:h 16 1957, Rev. Fra.ncis J. Maloney, S.T.L., Pastor, St. Mary, North Attleboro

And the use 'Of preCist:"language is what separates intelligent humankind from those who tolerate imprecision.

We Catholic feminists (precision dictates this usage as opposed to masculinists) follow in the footsteps of two great Doctors of the Church, St. Teresa of Avila and St. Catherine of Siena.

We love our Church, which is made up of males and females, and we require language that speaks to the entire congregation in our churches. This apparently is not important to the author ofthis letter since she signs herself under her husband's name rather than with the name given her in Baptism the important moment when God called her "by name."

My husband and I winter in Florida, where our churches are peopled by a "sea of gray heads."

Here and at home on Cape Cod members of our wqmen's clubs are predominantly senior citizens.

Are we losing the next generation of women who have' broken through the "glass ceiling," and are taking their places on the U.S. Supreme Court and at the controls of the Discovery rocket that recently blasted off from Cape Canaveral's launching pad? They are governors of states, mayors of cities, members of Congress and CEOs of companies. They demand precision in their fields of endeavor, and they cringe at the non-inclusive language in our liturgy.

Thankfully thiS issue is of importance to Bishop Trautman and other United States bishops. I am confident that the Holy Spirit rests with them and look forward to the day when our Church addresses all of its members equally.

In closing, may I remind the author of the letter, About Liturgists, that, "that which does not change is dead." I rejoice in the fact that the priest no longer celebrates Mass with his back to the congregation, and in Ii language that few understand.

Marj~rie J. Conway Cotuit

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It detailed a fictional crisis management center in the U.S. government and how it deals with world trouble spots in a post-Cold War environment.

Clancy was co-creator and executive producer, along with his business partner Steve Pieczenik. A series of "Op Center" novels is in the works, as could be other TV shows.

Known for his extreme unhappiness over Hollywood's treatment of his novels for the big screen, Clancy said he liked exercising control in the television project. "I

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tell them to do something and more often than not, they do it," he said. "It's kind of nice for a change."

Not that Clancy has abandoned theatrical movies altogether. "Without Remorse" will be the next of his novels to get the big-screen treatment.

He diplomatically declined to discuss his fortunes in movies and television. "They're different mediums and different venues," he said. "It would be like comparing apples and bananas."

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The first value, he said, was "teaching me how to think" rather than what to think.

Second on his list is: "God and country and family. All the stuff that should be ordinary, but isn't."

And third, and important in his line of work, is: "I try real hard to make my deadlines."

Clancy went to St. Matthew School in Baltimore, staffed then by the School Sisters of Notre Dame. He then had eight years of Jesuit education in Baltimore at Loyola High School and College.

That Catholicism rubs off in his work, too. "The main characters in all my books try to get the right thing done, act with the proper motives, not to violate their own integrity," Clancy said.

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Russia approves Catholic cemeteries WARSA W, Poland (CNS) Russia has approved theinauguration of Catholic military cemeteries at two sites where Polish Army officers were massacred by Soviet secret police during World War II. The announcement was made during a February visit to Warsaw

by Vyacheslav Bragin, Russian cochairman of the bilateral committee that negotiated the agreement.

'Plans call for joint events in May to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the mass killings.

During the ceremonies, cemetery marker stones blessed by Pope John Paul II are scheduled to be laid at both sites, said Bragin.

The massacres have been a longstanding source of Polish-Russian tensions.

About 5,000 Polish officers detained after the 1939 Soviet invasion of eastern Poland were shot in Katyn Forest in April 1940 by the forerunner of the KGB, the Soviet Union's secret police. The Soviet Union admitted responsibility for the massacres in 1990.

Until then, it had blamed invading Germans for the murders.

A further 9,300 Polish bodies were discovered three years ago in mass graves at Miednoye, Russia, and Kharkhov, Ukraine.

The cross-shaped marker stones for the cemeteries at Katyn and Miednoye are topped by barbed wire from prison camps where Polish officers were first interned.

The stones were brought from Rome to Warsaw last Christmas by a Catholic priest after they were blessed by the pope.

SISTER MOM: Franciscan Sister Anthony Wagner holds Jennifer, the youngest of her five foster children at SOS Children's Village in Lockport, Ill. (eNS photo)

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. DUBUQUE,Iowa(CNS)-Sister Anthony "Toni" Wagner answers more often these days to "Mom" than "Sister."

While politicians argue about foster care vs. orphanages, Sister Wagner, a Franciscan nun from Dubuque, has committed herself to mothering five children .siblings ranging in age from I to 7 - at the innovative SOS Children's Village in Lockport, III. Vnlike temporary foster home programs, the "moms" at SOS say they're in for the long haul. They pledge to stay unmarried and mother the children - most from abusive homes - until the children are 18 or leave the nest.

"Signing on for the long term is a full commitment, much like entering the convent again," said Sister Wagner in an interview with The Witness, Dubuque archdiocesan newspaper. "I'm fulfilling my religious life and my own desire to help others."

Although the children's village concept is a new model of care in the Vnited States, it isn't new on the world scene.

Founded in Austria in 1949 to house orphans from World War

II, SOS currently has 300 facilities in 120 countries. The only other V.S.-based facility is in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The group home in Lockport, 35 miles from Chicago, opened in May 1994 and currently has three families with 15 children. The village consists of 1.0 newly built houses, an activity center, an administration building and a' guest house.

The mothers, listed as foster care providers on the records, receive a small salary and an allowance for each child from the state Department of Children and Family Services.

Sister Wagner believes that children need long-term, stable environments - especially at a very young age, when problems can be addressed before they become ingrained.

"Children know when they are cared for and when they are not," she added. "V nloved kids are stiff as boards, with no life in their faces." .

That's how it was with I-yearold Jennifer, the youngest of the five' siblings who came from a

severely abusive home and spent time in the foster care system. .

V nderdeveloped due to her birth mother's drug addiction, she w.ould stiffen and hold her head back when Sister Wagner tried to feed' her. "After only one week in her new home, she began to come around," the nun recalled.

Sister Wagner's days are filled with making car-pool arrangements, monitoring school prog:,ess, fixing meals and making sure that she has one-on-one time with e:ach child.

On the back burner is her longtime habit of daily Mass. "Morning prayer" is often done in the afternoon. Finding herself bl:ing trailed by five kids, even when she takes out the trash, Sister Wagner says the moments she has to .herself are few and far between.

Before the children came to live with her, they had been in seven foster homes, she said. "Their trust level is low. They follow me: to make sure I will return."

But the job is not without its rewards. Sister Wagner recently heard one of the children remark, "I'm not in a foster home anymore. This is my real home."

Kansas nuns adjust to life' in Siberia HAYS, Kan. (CNS) - Agnesian Sister Lucy Ann Wasinger says her first year living in Siberia . with two fellow Sisters of St. Agnes made her feel "like a newborn."

"I had to learn how to walk, how to talk, how to run to catch the bus or trolley, how to sleep, how to write and even how to pray," said the 74-year-old nun on a visit to her native Kansas'.

Sister Wasinger and Sisters Mary Ann Schippers and Mary Elise Leiker, also natives of Ellis County, Kan., were the first Americans to make a long-term commitment to rebuilding the church in Russia.

The sisters began their mission in February 1994 in Chelyabinsk, Russia, and they planned to return to Russia in this month along with a fourth member oftheircommunity, Sister Deborah Golias.

"I expected the culture and people to be more rustic, crude and much less civilized," Sister Wasinger said. ":What I saw was a First

World country with a terribly broken economy." .

Although the economy is improving in some ways, with many more goods on the market than when the sisters arrived, inflation has hit the Russian people hard, Sister Wasinger said.

"Woml;n teachers make about $25 per month," she said. "Plus, the value of the ruble is declining."

The sisters have encountered their own economic' frustration when trying to repair a 35-year-old house to live in. .

"You cannot get a loan," Sister Wasinger said. "You have to pay cash before you can build anything."

That's not the only struggle in repairing the house and building a church. "First, you don't have the materials. Then, you don't have the workers. Next, the workers have to wait for the boss to arrive.

Then, they don't have the ce·ment.

In addition, I had to go to seven

stores to maybe find two quart:, of paint," Sister Wasinger said.

The situation is frustrating because "that is not why I came: to Russia," she said. "But in the process I learned much about the c:ulture and the Wonderful people."

Sister Schippers, who ministers to the elderly and homebound, said her inability to communic.lte was the most difficult adjustment.

She now speaks enough Russian "to get the message across."

Both Sister Leiker, who works at two hospitals, and Sisler Wasinger, who teaches a seminar in Scripture at a local college, found learning to walk through layers of snow, rain and mud wasa difficult challenge.

But Sister Wasinger sees a bright side to the struggle. "Look how trim we are," she said.

"There is always mud or water on the streets," added Sister Leikl:r.

"I was constantly cleaning my shoes. "

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Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., Mar. 10, 19959

The JPropagation .of the Faith helps transform Good Friday into Easter " Would J have been one of those who stayed with Jesus... who stood by the foot of the cross?"

women. It also has an average of had sent priests and sisters to teach 40 outstation chapels. Missionary the Gospel; h,~ thanked God for Father Franco Mastromauro said the priest who had brought the that the priests "have to drive or Holy Eucharist and the sister who ride motor bikes (and at times a had come to treat him. He prayed mule!) or simply walk for miles for all the Christians, especially the sick. He did not ask for anyHave you ever asked yourself and miles" in order to reach an . outstation, where Sunday Mass thing for himself." that very question?

Through years of famine, might be celebrated once a month; A probable answer would be, "I in a rural chapel, weekday Mass through years of war, the Church don't know; but I certainly hope might be celebrated a few times a has continued its saving, healing so." Perhaps an answer could be year. Shafinna parish, which work in Ethiopia; and the Propafound by looking at where we doesn't have a church yet, has gation of the Faith has continued stand today, as so ma ny suffering prod uced three of the seven Sidamo helping the Church in Ethiopia, people of the world make a daily diocesan priests! passing on the sacrifices of all journey to Calvary.

In this young and poor mission whose great wealth of faith, love Does it seem that the news is and compassion moves them to filled with story after story of area, there are not only seven give, and give again, so that others newly ordained local priests but a death and devastation? Sometimes, might experience the joy of"resurlocal Congregation of Sisters, the the faces of this human tragedy are rection" in their lives.

Handmaids of the Church. from our own neighborhoods and In 30 years, the Church in Awasa As the people of Liberia and cities. Too often, however, the has grown to some 90,000 Cathoother war-torn countries strive to images are from the Missions. lics. Father Mastr¢mauro told rebuild their lives, as the people of So many of our brothers and about one of them, an elderly man, young, poor, missions grow in sisters around the world, in Africa seriously ill with a tumor, who was faith, moving from Good Friday in particular, have been living Good to the Resurrection, won't you Friday, over and over. We think of lying on a mat on the floor of his hut. He had maae his confession make the journey with them? long-plagued Ethiopia a nd the warThrough the Propagation of the ravaged countries of Rwanda, Su- . and received the Eucharist. As the visiting sister-nurse was caring for Faith, you can be with them. Your dan, Liberia. him, he prayed aloud, "and went assistance helps the daily work of Liberia's civil war bl~gan in 1989. on praying. He thanked God who the Church in some 800 mission It's capital, Monrovia, has seen its population grow from 600,000 people to a million, with an influx of displaced persons. A report sent to the Propagation of the Faith by Monrovia's Archbishop Michael Kpakala Francis said that since the beginning of the war; "most of our village mission stations with schools, clinics, etc., have either been destroyed or badly damaged."

He recalled also the tragic murder of the five missionary ~.isters from the l1linois Communitv ofthe Adorers of the Blood of Christ who had affected so many lives in Monrovia's St. Anthony parish with their ministry in schools, catechetics, maternity and health care.

St. Anthony's was badly damaged in the war, but is now rebuilt.

The majority of parishioners are young people.

"The heart of the parish is the church," Archbishop Francis wrote. "There are thl"i~e Masses on Sundays, filled to capacity. There is only one priest," 71 years old, who, assisted by lay catechists, has to take care of moro~ than 3,000 parishioners.

Today, the parish elementary school and high school educate some 1,300 students. Last year, the parish health center treated close to 40,000 patients; at the maternity center, 2,300 little ones were welcomed into the world.

Inandaround Monrovia,Archbishop Francis says, parishes' educational, social and health institutions are open and in operation; but further from the city many parishes are eit her destroyed or badly damaged.

In sending his gratitude to those who aid the Church in Monrovia through their prayers and help to the Propagation ofthe Faith, Archbishop Francis said: "We pray for them daily and will continue."

Inanother part of Africa, Awasa in southern Ethiopia, modern missionary work began just 30 years ago with the arrival of two Comboni missionary priests.

PARISHES, SCHOOLS and clinics which served chilToday, a typical mission in dren such as these in Liberia were damaged or destroyed by Awasa has a parish center with a civil war. Those near the capital of Monrovia are back in church, a house for the priests, a house; for the sister:>, a primary operation, but outside of the city they lack resources which the school, a clinic and a center for Propagation of the Faith is attempting to supply. (Hallel teaching home economics to young photo)

WOMEN IN Awasa, Ethiopia, gather for a sewing class.

Hygiene, cooking, child care and income-generating activities are also taught by sisters or lay volunteers at mission parishes.

(Vicariate of Awasa photo) dioceses, their mission parisheJ,l: priests, sisters, brothers and lay catechists who serve in parish work, in education, social and medical services.

A Lenten offering to the Propagation of the Faith is a way you could share a common bond with the suffering poor of the Missions.

And remember to pray for those who rely on the Propagation of the Faith!

Help me this Lent to stand by the cross of Your suffering poor in the Missions.

With my prayers and my sacrifices, let me reach to them and tell them: "You are not alone. You are my sister, my brother. And I am with you." Help me, Lord, to be Your missionary, here today, right where I am.

May God bless you greatly at Easter for your prayers and sacrifices during Lent which help others come to rejoice with us in the gift of Redemption: "the Lord is risen, He is truly risen."

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"RESPITE CARE" is a new program offered by the four skilled nursing facilities sponsored by the Fall River diocese: Our Lady's Haven, Fairhaven; Catholic Memorial Home, Fa!IRiver; Marian Manor, Taunton; and Madonna Manor, North Attleboro.

In a respite care stay, an individual living in the community is able to live temporarily and receive services at a nursing facility: Respite care can be beneficial when a spouse or other family members are caring for a frail or ill relative at home, and need a brief rest from the care-giving situation: The "respite" may provide time for a needed vacation, a medical situation (for example, if the caregiver needs surgery), or other personal reasons.

Respite care may also be necessary when an older person living independently needs surgery that prevents them from returning home alone immediately after hospitalization. A frail older person may also need a safe place to stay in an 'emergency situation, such as a fire or family crisis.

A respite care stay at one of the diocesan homes will typically last from two to 13 days, although longer stays of up to 30 days may be arranged. Respite care is b,!-sed on the availability of suitable accomodations.

The homes' daily private rate is charged to respite care guests, because respite care is not generally covered by Medicare or most insurance providers; however, individuals receiving Hospice services may be eligible for respite care.

The homes are also able to provide respite care to clients of Bristol Elder Services, Inc., which serves 15 communities in Southeastern Massachusetts.

Some area families have already been served by the program, including several individuals who needed nursing care while their spouses had surgery. Two older persons in crisis situations also received respite care while Bristol Elder Services case workers developed more permanent solutions for their care.'

Respite care guests are provided with a pleasant private or semiprivate room; daily meals; skilled 24-hour nursing care; assistance with dressing, moving about, bathing, dining; delivery and monitoring of medications; and laundry services. Socializing and activities are offered through a variety of planned programs.

In accordance with Department of Public Health guidelines, an

individual may be admitted to a nursing facility for respite care only upon the written order of a physician who considers it to be medically and socially appropriate.

For more information, call Diocesan Health Facilities at 679-8154 or anyone of the diocesan homes.

CATHOLIC MEMORIAL HOME, Fall River, has named several nursing professionals to clinical nurse manager positions.

A new approach to nursing management in long-term care, clinical nurse managers are responsible for the coordination of resident care and daily nursing operations on an assigned nursing unit.

The new nurse managers are: -Irene M. Allie, RN, C, who holds an associate's degree in nursing from Bristol Community College, Fall River, and is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree from St. Joseph's College, Maine. A Berkley resident, she has worked at the Memorial Home as a staff nurse, a charge nurse and a head nurse. She is also a call fire tg'fuer/ EMT for the town of Berkley's Fire Department and treasurer of both the Berkley Firemen's Association and the Dighton Garden Club.

-Jeanne Ducharme, RN, C, who received a nursing diploma from Saint Anne's Hospital School of Nursing and worked previously in the home as a nursing supervisor and nursing coordinator of restorative care. A Somerset resident, she is pursuing a bachelor's degree in social and health services with a concentration in health care management at Roger Williams University, RI. She is a member of the Saint Anne's Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae Association.

-Karen Rose, RN, who earned her nursing diploma from Newport Hospital School of Nursing.

A Fall River resident, she has worked previously as a nursing supervisor at the Memorial Home and for Visiting Nurse Service, Newport, RI. -Beverly Silva, RN, C, of Portsmouth, RI, who has had experience as a district nurse in Fall River and as supervisor for a home care agency. She earned her nursing diploma from Saint Anne's School of Nursing and is currently enrolled in a social and health services program at Roger Williams' University. She is a member of the Saint Anne's School of Nursing Alumnae Association.

-Eleanor E. Codega, RN, C, of Fall River who has worked pre-

CLINICAL NURSE managers at Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River, are, from left, Karen Rose, Irene Allie, Eleanor Codega, Beverly Silva, Jeanne Ducharme, Lisa Cadime.

viously as the nursing documentation coordinator at the Memorial Home, staff development coordinator at Fall River Nursing Home, a staff nurse at ILGWU Health Center and a head nurse at the former Union Hospital, Fall River.

She holds a nursing diploma from Union Hospital School of Nursing and was a past president of its Alumnae Association. She also attended Bristol Community College.

-Lisa Cadime, BSN, has been the clinical nurse manager of the Memorial Home's Considine Unit for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related memory impairing illness since its opening in 1993. Prior to working at the Memorial Home, she was the director of staff development at Madonna Manor, North Attleboro. A Westport resident, Mrs.'Cadime earned her nursing diploma from Newport Hospital School of Nursing and a bachelor of science degree in nursing from Salve Regina University, RI.

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Tuesdays. A Ohio college student seeks to interview Provincetown seniors about their experiences . and memories, to be collected in a book. For information call COA: 487-7080.

Mansfield Tax assistance by appointment through April 12. Cholesterol screening I to 3 p.m. March 14, registration required. COA: 2617368.

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Fall River Senior Fitness Exercise Program 10 to II a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through March 30, Pleasant St. Senior Center; information; 324-2712.

Bristol Elder Services Southeastern Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation has been awarded a grant for operation of a Senior Law Project.

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Westport Westport Senior Social Day Program is held 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays at the middle school. Also. a volunteer reading program is held at Macomber and Westport elementary schools. and elders may volunteer to be "adopted grandparents" in second and third grade classrooms. COA: 636-1026. .

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! /1r SARA LUNA CORRAL, believed to be 126 years old, is cared for by daughter Emerita Carrasco in California. (CNS photo)

"Oldest living person" is younger than Sara Corr:al BALDWIN PARK, Calif. (CNS) , hand. For three days they would - The Guinness Book of Records burn evergreen branches. has declared Frenchwoman Jeanne After washing, the ash residue Calment, who turned 120 Feb. 21, became an acid and was mixed , the world's oldest living person. with "the hand-washed entrails But don't tell that to Mexicanfeet, head, hooves and intestines born Sara Luna Corral, who is - from one of our farm p:igs." very much alive in California at When the mixture hardened, 126 years old. Her age is docu- she said, it produced a jdly-like mented on the copy of her birth soap that they cut into squares. certificate which family members Mrs. Corral also saw hi~tory in Durango. She said she extended requested from Mexican officials.

Christian hospitality to the: legenIt shows a birth date of Nov. 20, dary Mexican bandit, Pancho 1868. .

Villa, when he and his guerrilla Mrs. Corral and her 75-year-old soldiers rode into Durango during daughter, Emerita Carrasco, live the 19 I0 revolt. at Telacu Senior Court in Baldwin After feeding them homemade Park. tortillas and beans, she sHid she Mrs. Corral has been married would read them her favori.te pas- and widowed - four times and sages from the family Bible:. had eight children. In 1992, many ,Earlier, probably in the 1880s, of her four surviving children, 70 Mrs. Corral met Warren G. Hardgrandchildren, and numerous' ing when he was working as a great-grandchildren and grc;:at- young newspaper reporter in Dugreat-grandchildren gathered for a rango. Harding served as U.S. party in her honor. president, 1920-23.

In one interview, Mrs. Carrasco Warren G. Harding Jr., the said she brought her mother from president's son, maintained ties to Durango, Mexico, to the United her family and at one time preStates in 1979, "when Mother was sented a picture of his father to 110."

Mrs. Corral.

Harding recalled once that "for Mrs. Carrasco attributes her mother's longevity to "a strict diet a festive dinner, Sara, my wife and I enjoyed one of Sara's old-fashof eating mainly homegrown fruits, vegetables, and herbs" that grew ioned recipes of tortilla alld hot on the family's five-acre farm and chili peppers which Sara confided to me that she still eats for breakcattle ranch. fast."

Recalling life in Durango, Mrs. Mrs. Ourasco said her mother Corral, who is Catholic, said was hospitalized once for a few swarms of locusts annually threat- days with bronchitis, but has never ened their crops. When the wind suffered a prolonged iIIne!:s. She conditions turned against them, said her mother's eyesight was she said, "our family would gather good and that she still sewt~d and together and join our hands in mended her own clothes. prayer that God would help us."

Mrs. Corral said she walked the She said, "There would be no corridors of Telacu Senior Court serious crop damage." for exercise and watched her To earn additional income, she favorite TV shows on a Spanishsaid, the family made soap by language station from Los Angeles.

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Maryknollers mark their liberation MARYKNOLL, N.Y.(CNS)Maryknoll Sister Mary McCormick was among 11 nuns at the community's motherhouse who gathered recently for the 50th anniversary of their World War II liberation from Japanese internment in the PhiIippinl~s.

The nuns have observed the occasion every year, but Sister McCormick has been unable to join them because for most of the past 25 years she was abroad serving in Japan.

"In 1970, there was a request for an English teacher to go to Japan," she recalled in an interview before the celebration. "I never would have chosen it, but the work I had been doing was finished, and our sister in charge of personnel said, 'This is for you ....

Sister McCormick was one of 47 Maryknoll nuns held by the Japanese at Los Banos camp, set up on the grounds of the Agricultural College of the University of the Philippines.

"Everybody worked," she recalled. "I picked worms and stones out of the rice, but there would still be worms when you got it." The total diet was one small can of watery, wormy rice in the morning, and another in the afternoon, she said.

When the call came 25 years later to teach in a Japanese school, her initial reaction was not positive. "Even the sight of a Japanese flag gave me a feeling of fright," she said.

But she went, and finished out her career there last summer.

Sister McCormick said she always thought about the events of 1945 when the nuns'· liberation anniversary rolled around. "But I never said a word about it to anybody there," she s,aid. "I would have embarrassed the Japanese that I knew."

Meanwhile, back at the motherhouse, other Maryknoll sisters were keeping in touch with some of their rescuers.

On Feb. 23, 1945, Allied forces had begun retaking the Philippines, but Los Banos was still 25 miles behind Japanese lines. U.S. military authorities knew the nuns were there, along with hundreds of other missionaries and various civilian prisoners from the United States and other Allied countries, and that they might be killed as the Japanese retreated.

So commanders of the II th Airborne Division planned a daring raid to surprise the Japanese guards and bring the prisoners out. A reconnaissance patrol made contact with some friendly Filipino guerrillas and by the agreed hour of 7 a.m. killed all the sentries.

Then planes dropped paratroopers to seize the camp, near a large lake across from Manila.

Amphibious tractors crossed the lake, and the nuns :and other prisoners were moved to the tractors as quickly as their emaciated condition allowed, then taken to Manila.

Sister Marie Bernard Purcell, a Canadian who at 90 enjoys an active retirement, takes responsibility for keeping up ties with the rescuers.

Frank Forlini, a member of the 11 th Airborne who missed the liberation raid in 1945 because he had been wounded just prior to it, gathers unit veterans in the New York area for an annual dinner at the ForIini family restaurant in lower Manhattan.

PAPAL PERCH: A dove released as a symbol of peace by two children makes a V-turn at a window overlooking St. Peter's Square. Moments later the bird dove for a perch on the pontiffs head, setting his skullcap ajar. After two attempts to re-enter the window, the bird flew away. (eNS/ Reuters photo)

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them," Archbishop Martino added.

Cardinal John J. O'Connor of last year when the Holy Father New York said the same dioceses canceled his visit," said Msgr. would be on the pope's itinerary Schnurr. "I am confident that the this year as were scheduled last enthusiasm of last year will be year. "We hope to be able to anrekindled and increased when the nounce shortly the exact details" pope comes this year. of the new schedule, he said.

"During the last year, Catholics Bishop Thomas V. Daily of have become· more aware than Brooklyn said, "I believe each of ever of the pope's influence on all us needs to hear the voice of this humanity with the tremendous imcourageous and inspiring succespact made by his book, 'Crossing sor to the apostles as he carries the the Threshold of H:ope,' and the Gospel messa.ge to us." recognition given him in the secuWhen the 1994 papal visit was lar media when he was named postponed, Archbishop Martino Time magazine's 'Man of the said that U.N. and Vatican offiYear,'" he added. cials had tentatively agreed on Father Theroux said the papal reschedJIling it for late November visit "will be a reminder of the vital 1995. ' role the papacy plays in inspiring a The bishops of the dioceses commitment to peace and to all involved asked for an earlier time, moral values in our world."

Pope John Paul's U.N. arrival' however, because ofconcern about Oct. 4 will be the ~nniversary of the difficultic:s that col~ and bad weather could pose for outdoor another 'historic occasion. It will events that late in the year. be 30 years to the day since the first Vatican sources said it was likely time a reigning pope set foot on that the 74-year-old pontiff will U.S. soil. make the U.S. trip only two weeks On Oct. 4, 1965, Pope Paul VI after an anticipated visit to Africa. landed in the morning, visited St. Patrick's, met privately with Pres- The pope has been planning to ident Lyndon B. Johnson, spoke cross the African continent north to south in a ceremonial closing of at and toured the United Nations, celebrated Mass in Yankee Sta- the African Synod of Bishops, dium, visited the Vatican Pavilion held last summer in Rome.

Oct. 24 is the actual anniversary at the World's Fair and left late of the formation of the United that night to return to Rome.

Cardinal William H. Keeler of Nations in 1945; a sufficient number of countries had by then ratified Baltimore said planning for this the charter. The main celebration October's trip will take up where it this fall will be on that day, with left off last September, when the other events planned for the days 1994 visit was postponed.

"We will welcom~ a man who, in just prior.

Archbishop Martino said he exthe past several months, has seen pected the Vatican secretary of his book become an international state would join heads of state and best seller, has been named Time other world ll:aders for those events. magazine's 'Man of the Year' and The celebration will include an who in his trip to the Philippines has attracted one of the largest, Oct. 21 Mass for Catholic heads of state at St. Patrick's Cathedral, he crowds in history," the cardinal said. said.

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As originally planned, Pope John Paul is expected to fly to Baltimore on the final day of his visit and return to Rome from BaltimoreWashington International Airport.

Archbishop Renato R. Martino, papal nuncio to the United Nations, said the pope's U.N. visit "will reaffirm that the popes have recognized the great service of the United Nations for promotion of peace and development in the world."

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MSGR. JOHN J. OLIVEIRA, diocesan director ofthe Holy Childhood Association and the Society of the Propagation of the Faith, attended the organizations' national conference last month in Orlando, FL. From left: Bishop Norbert M. Dorsey of Orlando; Father Francis Wright, C.S.Sp., HCA national director; Msgr. Oliveira; New York Auxiliary Bishop William J. McCormack, SPOF national director; Bishop Edmond Carmody of Tyler, TX, chair of the U.S. bishops' Mission Committee.

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Rev. Msgr. John J. Oliveira. diocesan director of the Holy Childhood Association (H CAl and the Society for the Propagati()n of the Faith (S POF), participated in the organizatio'ns' Eighth Annual National Conference, held in Orlando, Fl,Feb. 8-10.

HCA is ~ommitted to building global awareness among the young through educational programs in schools and parishes and helping youths provide for the necessities of their counterparts in developing countries. SPOF develops and fosters missionary' commitment around the world. Both are Pontifical Mission Societies.

The 150 mission office staff from across the country who met in Orlando renewed their commitment to reach out to the world's young

people with Orlando Bishop Norbert M. Dorsey, whose keynote address challenged them to make a difference for children now, so that tomorrow's adults don't bear the scars of childhoods spent in poverty, hunger and ignorance.

Continuing the conference's theme, "Many Cultures, One Faith," Father John T. Judie of the louisville archdiocese shared experiences from his recent sabbatical in Tanzania and Zambia. Father Arthur Serratelli, a professor of biblical studies at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ,emphasized each person~s call to spread the Good News based upon Matthew's Gospel.

Also, diocesan mission personnel shared insights on effective ways of reaching the young. Of

particular interest to the group was how to make youths aware of the call to share the Gospel's message, from the parish to beyond the borders of nations. .

HCA awarded its 1995 ForbinJanson award to Robert and Eileen Fischer, a New Jersey couple recently relocated to Tennessee, who have adopted 10 children of various cultural backgrounds, all with some disability. The award is presented in recognition of extraordinary concern for children and in memory of Bishop Charles de Forbin-Janson, whp ,founded. the Holy Childhood Association in 1843 out of concern for the plight of abandoned Chinese children. The Fischers noted that they have received far more from their children than they have given them.

U .8. congressmen ask that UNICEF shun involvement in f~mily planning WASHINGTON(CNS)- More than 50 members ofthe U.S. House of Representatives have urged the secretary-general of the United Nations not to muddle the important work of yNI CEF by appointing a director who would move the agency toward greater involvement in family planning or abortion.

The Feb. 28 letter to Boutros Boutr'Qs-Ghali said the United Nations Children's Fund must "not obscure its purpose or jeopardize its funding by duplicating the activitieS of other U.N. agencies."

"The efforts of UNICEF have reaped, so much good, not to mention gpod will, throughout the world, that we hope and pray that the person who leads it into the 21st c~ntury will focus. all his or her energies on continuing this universally acclaimed and noncontroversial agenda of compassion and care for the most vulnerable of all persons: children," the House members said.

Boutros-Ghaii, in consultation with the UNICEF executive board, , is to choose a successor to James P. Grant, who died Jan. 28 after serving as UNICEF director since 1980. No deadline has been set for naming a successor.

The letter praised Grant's leadership but said his successor will face some of the same pressures for UNICEF "to become more

and more involved in population control, family planning, and even abortion."

The 52 signers said such involvement would be "a breach of a basic U.N. principle that agencies cooperate with one another without duplicating efforts or blurring their individual missions."

"It is critical that the new director of UNICEF affirm in word and action this principle, keeping UNI CEFs labors directed to oral rehydration, vaccination and immunization, nutritional assistance, safe water, and similar works that cost little but are of immeasurable. value to millions of children throughout the world," they said.

Oral rehydration therapy alone saves the lives of more than I million children each year, the members of Congress said.

"It would be tragic if money and other resources vital to continuing and expanding these successes were diverted to family planning and population control," they said.

In recent years, Vatican officials have been increasingly outspoken in urging that UNICEF not be involved in family planning programs.

Last November, Archbishop Renato R. Martino, Vatican nuncio to the United Nations, signaled the Vatican's unhappiness with UNICEF's involvement in fa~ily

planning by decreasing its annual gift to UNICEF's budget from $3,000 to $2,000. He also designated specific areas for its use: nutrition, immunization, breastfeeding initiatives and treatment of respiratory and diarrheal diseases: Such a designation is needed so Catholics could be "assured that their contributions would be used for programs.which in no way contradict Catholic moral teaching."

The archbishop said. He also suggested that involvement in family planning violated the "original mandate" of UNICEF: House members signing the letter to Boutros-Ghali included Rep. Richard K. Armey, R-Texas, majority leader; Rep. Tom Delay, R-Texas, majority whip; Rep. Bob livingston, R-La., chairman of the Appropriations Committee; Rep. Gerald B.H. Solomon, RN. Y., chairman ofthe Rules Committee; Rep. Henry J. Hyde, RIll., chairman of the Judiciary Committee; and Rep. Christopher H. Smith, R-N.J, chairman of the Subcommittee on International Op- , erations and Human Rights.

All but three of the signers Democratic Reps. Harold L. Volkmer of Missouri, Ron Klink of Pennsylvania and W.J. "Billy" Tauzin of Louisiana - were Republicans.

WASHINGTON (CNS) - Eight U.S. Christian leaders, among them Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore, have asked President Clinton to have the government place the question of Jerusalem's future "higher on its agenda."

In asking fora meeting with Clinton, the religious leaders also sought for his administration to "prevent this vital issue from being settled by force of events or the creation of facts on the ground."

"We fear that if issues centering on Jerusalem are not dealt with openly and directly by all affected parties, they have the potential to derail tlie peace process," they said.

Sulpician Father Gerald L. Brown, president of the Conference of Major Superiors of men, ,also signed the statement, "Jerusalem: City of Peace," made public March 6. Episcopal, lutheran and Greek and Antiochian Orthodox church leaders and the heads of World Vision and the American Friends Service Committee also signed it.

"Developments on the ground in the Jerusalem area leave less and less for negotiation in the last phase of the peace process," the statement said, citing: - The Israeli taking of Palestinian land "in contravention of international law."

- The "open secret" of Israeli planning for a "Greater Jerusalem."

- The Israeli assertion of Jerusalem as the "eternal and undivided capital of Israel," meaning Israel will exert a "sovereignty over the city that pre-empts genuine negotiations."

- Continued Israeli construction in East Jerusalem and further expansion into Palestinian areas. '''We are concerned that the administration is backing away from the long-term United States policy that East Jerusalem is subject to [U nited Nations) Security Council Resolution 242 regarding territories occupied by Israeli armed forces in 1967," they said, adding that the administration "is failing to recognize and support Palestinian rights and interests in Jerusalem."

They added that representatives

of Judaism, Christianity and Islam "must also have a role in ,haping the ultimate resolution of issues affecting historical Jerusalem and the commitment of the i.nternational community to guara.nteeing the living presence of the three religious communities in the Holy City."

Cardinal Keeler, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, identified Pal'~stinian latin-rite Patriarch Michel Sabbah as an effective Christi.an representative in such talks, although "I think the people on the scene know who their leaders are."

The cardinal told Catholic News Service his concern about Jerusalem's future can be traced t:o 1989, when he served on a bishops' committee investigating Midd.le East issues. .

"It was there that w(: heard expressions of concern" from Jerusalem's Christian commun:ity, Cardinal Keeler said, "that th.: Christians very much felt they were beleaguered. They felt they didn't have a voice in what was going on. . "They were telling us of the numbers of people that were leaving. The minority there was becoming a smaller minority."

If granted a meeting wit:h Clinton, he said he would "like to go back to the history of the Middle East" to expand upon his c,)ncerns for the area, plus "our (:oncern over the long-term situation in Lebanon," where Christians, once about half of the population, are also leaving after a multisided civil war.

Only eight signed 'the sta.tement because "we were thinking in terms of meeting the president," Cardinal Keeler said. "It's better if the group is small."

The statement said, "Only a negotiated agreement that respects the human and political rights of Palestinians and Israelis as well as the three religious communities can lead to a lasting peace.

"The goal of 'a warm peace' between Israel and its Arab neighbors can only be achieved in the context of a shared city where the interests of all parties are res, pected."

Ban on cigarettes asked at Vatican VATICAN CITY (eNS) - The Vatican should be the first independent state in the world to ban cigarette sales on its territory, a Roman pastor suggested to Pope John Paul II. "Everyone throughout the world, whether' Catholic or not, admires the courage and coherence which you, Holiness, show in tenaciously defending human life, dignity and health," said Jesuit Father Ugo Mesini during a meeting of Roman 'clergy and pastors with Pope John Paul.

"Now, everybody also knows that the Vatican store sells, among a variety of items, cigarettes on whose pac k ages 路 IS pnnte 路 d t he warning: 'Smoking is dangerous to your health,''' the,pastor of Rome's San Saba parish said.

"Some fear there is a risk of counterwitness, if not a clear contradiction, underway within the Holy See," the Jesuit said.

Cigarettes are sold tax-free at the Vatican store, which is open only to employees. The Vatican does place a limit on the number of cartons each employee can purchase every month in an attempt to limit "trafficking" of the duty-

free smokes, which cost about half the price charged in Italy.

The danger of smoking is "universally recognized," Father Mesini said. "I don't think there's anything else to add."

Pope John Paul, after ~iving a formal talk to the priests and listening to a variety of questions and comments from them, said he understood Father Mesini's concerns, but he would have to discuss the issue with Cardinal Rosalio Castillo lara, president of the Pontifical' Commission for Vatican City State. , "Great D' eCI路sl路(~ns" WASHINGTON (CNS)- George-town University's School of Foreign Service is co-producing an eight-part "Great Decisions" television series on PBS with the Foreign Policy Association. The halfhour series will air different days and times according to the wishes of local public television stations.

Now in its ninth year, the series is based on topics in "Great: Decisions," the Foreign Policy Association's annual briefing book.

Winter news from St. 'Vincent's Home Anthone, age 7, invc:nted imaginary visitors for himself over the holidays. With the exception of his Department of Social Services social worker, no one came.

Having no contact with his birth parents or his siblings, who are placed in other resid,~ntial treatment facilities, Anthone is one of many candidates for the Caregivers' program at St. Vincent's Home, Fall River.

Designed for children referred

by DSS, Caregivers serves children who have no regular visitors and whose service plan calls for supportive living or adoption.

According to Childhood and Preadolescent Services director Rita Capostosto, there are many "Anthones" who need people to open their hearts and homes to them.

"We now have 28 boys and girls, ages 5 to II, in the McAuley Unit-and nearly everyone of them could use a Caregiver. Just by visiting regularly, a Caregiver can do so much to make these children feel wanted and important," she said.

"We're very open to couples, single folks, older people, people of various ethnic backgroundsanyone who is willing to give these children an ongoing, positive, oneto-one, adult-child I:Kperience," Ms. Capotosto added.

Caregivers determine their own level of involvement in consultation with St. Vincent's staff. They may visit with children on campus, offer off-campus outings or day trips, provide occasional overnight or weekend respites, or develop a long-term relationship with one child by providing regular respites on weekends, holiday and vacations. Caregivers may also explore foster or adoptive parenthood.

For information on the program contact Kathryn Dow at 679-8511 ext. 316.

Sweeney Unit Mary Kate O'Leary, Clinical coordinatorforthe Sweeney Unit, serving boys ages 10 to 13, has developed an eight-week violence prevention program called Kids Against Violence, designed to examine the consequences of violence and offer alternatives to violent behavior. Specific activities are planned for each day of the week.

On Monday, violence will be the topic of current events lessons, in which the boys will read about, research and debat<: violence in society. Movies will be shown on Tuesdays, among th<:m "Kids Killing Kids" and "Desperate Lives."

On Wednesdays, the students will meet in a group focusing on domestic violence.

Guest speakers are scheduled for Thursdays: Ralph Pina of the Justice Resource Institute, a locked facility for juvenile offenders; Jim Ryan, guidance counselor at Dartmouth High School, and students affected by the murder of a classmate there; LeaAnm: Doyle of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; Lynne Furcht of the IH RI Counseling Center for dom<:stic violence; and Fall River police officer Sonny Rapoza.

The participating students will also produce their ()wn anti-violence videos, inspired by the Fox television network's "U nder the Helmet" spots.

"Most of our kids are victims of some kind of violence," Ms. O'Leary noted. "We need to do all we can to show them there is another way. That's what Kids Against Violence is all about:

presenting the problem and working with the kids to find the answers."

After three months of lessons, research and exhibit preparation, 19 Sweeney boys demonstrated their knowledge of such subjects as birds' beaks, electricity and iguanodons at their science fair.

"The boys certainly learned about their subjects and the scientific method," said special education facilitator Mary Ellen Shaw.

"They also sharpened their research skills, at the library 'and through our CD-ROM encyclopedia. But the nicest part to watch was the social experience, each boy explaining his project to the many staff members who visited the fair."

Staff members did more than visit: they made sure each science fair entrant had the resources needed to complete his project.

"Unlike kids in regular schools, where the parents do all the running around, these kids don't have those resources," said Ms. Shaw.

"So the staff filled in, 'adopting' a kid to make sure he ,had what he needed."

The science fair was coordinated by assistant teacher Carolyn Borden.

Among five··year honorees was the home's executive director, Father Joseph Costa. Also receiving five-year pins were Debra Bouchard, Alan Chittenden, Mike Hafey, Pauline Langevin, Danielle Slight, John Terceira and Sarah Whitford.

Bob Costa was honored for 10 years and Debra Baptista for 15.

Ms. Baptista confessed that the milestone was "pretty incredible since I was only supposed to work here part-time for six weeks!"

Fifteen years ago, her cousin, then food service director at the home, asked her to fill in for about six weeks for another employee who had broken her arm.

Ms. Baptista is now food service director herself.

"The kids kept me here," she said. "You get attached to all of them, especially those who help out in the kitchen. You even keep in. touch with some after they leave. Whether its just the heat from the kitchen or the warmth from our hearts you can't help but bond with these kids in a special way."

More good news from Christmastime: St. Vincent's annual appeal raised $20,000, topping last year's total of$14,600. Included in Staff Developments the 1994 total was $5,045 received Mike Thomas, formerly a spefor the Memorial Tree, an evercial education assistant, has been green outside St. Vincent's Chapel named a case worker, serving as a liaison between St. Vincent's, chil- . which was decorated with white lights, each illuminated in memory dren's families and therapists, and of a deceased relative or friend. the state. He will represent approxi"This past year marked the mately 12 boys. opening of our third group home James Quinn, formerly manager and the groundbreaking for a new of Boyd Cottage, assumes the new diagnostic assessment center," Faposition of assistant residential ther Costa said. "The success of services coordinator. His 'responourannual Christmas drive is certainly sibilities will include stafftraining, supervision and overseeing consis- a sign that our efforts to serve more ch'ildren through these new tency of operations among the facilities is endorsed by many, many Cronin Unit cottages and two offpeople in the region-and all of us campus group homes.

Tenure pins were awarded at the at St. Vincent's are grateful for their continued support." home's Christmas party to employees who reached their fifth, From the Wimer /995 Provider, tenth and fifteenth years of service newsletter of St. Vincent's Home in 1994.

Vatican, U.8. embassy propose cooperation in aid efforts VATICAN CITY (CNS) -:- A proposal to increase contact between Vatican aid agencies and the U.S. Embassy to the Vatican can add a new channel for cooperation in helping people in need, said the executive director of Catholic Relief Services.

Kenneth F. Hackett, head ofthe U.S. bishops' overseas relief and development agency, was in Rome recently for meetings with Vatican officials and Ambassador Raymond L. Flynn.

When disaster hits some far corner of the world, the most obvious cooperation between the U.S. government and the Catholic Church is seen in the on-site assistance offered together by the U.S. Agency for International Development and Catholic Relief Services, Hackett said.

President Clinton's proposal last December to Pope John Paul II to have the Vatican and U.S. government share information to meet human needs around the world would not replace the close cooperation already existing between AID and CRS. he said.

But Hackett said that when disasters or potential disasters are discussed by CRS and AI D officials, the discussions begin in the country where the need is, then

proposals must work their way up the chain of command for approval.

"When the Vatican is talking to the embassy, it goes directly to the White House', which is particularly important when discussing the moral obligation of intervention," Hackett said.

In addition to discussing the new plan with Flynn, Hackett said he came to Rome to meet officials of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum," the Vatican's aid coordinating agency.

He said he wanted to inform the council of efforts CRS and the U.S. bishops are making to influence congressional debate about U.S. foreign aid. p

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Mar. 10, 1995

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KLINGON CROSSING: Coinciding with the U.S. bishops' '~Confronting a Culture of Violence" week, Father John Hall, dressed as a Klingon of Star Trek lore, visited St. Matthew School in Phoenix to speak about peace on Earth.

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Jewish group seeks open records on wartime rescue baptisms ROME(CNS)-AJewishorganization has asked the Vatican to help reopen European church records that could identify thousands of Jewish children who were baptized and thus saved from Nazi persecution during World War II. "I'm convinced that if these records are released, they will reveal a heroic chapter of church history,"said Abraham Foxman, U.S. director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.

Reopening the records would be a "humanitarian and a historical gesture," he said at a recent Rome press conference.

The day before, Foxman had told Pope John Paul II that he survived the Holocaust as a child because a Christian woman in Poland "had the courage to shelter me, hide me and baptize me." She could not have done it without the support and approval of the local church, he said.

"I believe there are thousands if not tens of thousands of cases like this, in which Christian families acted to aid Jews," he said. He found out because his parents survived to tell him, but many others have no way of knowing, he said.

He said his organization was not asking for a blanket reopening of the baptismal records, but for the opportunity for individuals who have "a question or a suspicion" to check it out with local churches.

Foxman said that while some people may consider baptism of Jews inappropriate even under those circumstances, he thinks it was "a positive, heroic, sheltering act." Many convents and monasteries were involved, he said.

Rabbi Leon Klenicki, who also attended the press conference, said afterward that he felt the time had come for the church to completely open the records on baptisms.

He recalled that during the war his cousin was baptized and protected by sisters at a Polish convent.

"The nuns said, 'Bring the rest.'

But my grandmother said. 'No. they want to convert us,'" he said.

He said his grandmother eventually died in the Auschwitz gas chambers. His cousin survived and ended up in Israel.

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Sporting fancijul headgear for St. Anthony School, New Bedford, Crazy Hat Day are Jennijer Guisti (back) and, from left, Margaret Minor, Sean Silva, Amanda DeFrias, Rebecca Greene.

CYO basketball tournaments Diocesan CYO basketball all-star champions were determined in Feb. 26tournaments.

In the Junior Boys division, New Bedford was the. winning squad, de(eating Attleboro 52-49. ~n playoff games, New Bedford defe·ated Taunton 68-47 and Attleboro defeated Fall River 58-39.

Named to the all-tournament team were New Bedford'sRaleigh Dugal, Josh Shea and Tim Gaspar; Attleboro's Chris Downing and Chad Paquette; and Jared Chabot of Fall River. Gaspar was most v.aluable player, and high scorers in the championship game were powning, with 22 points; Gaspar, 19; and Shea, 17.

Taunton defeated'Fall River 68-64 in overtime for the championship in the Prep Boys division. High scorers and all~tournament players were Taunton's Jason.

Krawczyk, 15 points; Tim Rogers, 13, and Jared Colcord, 14; and Fall River's Steve Carvalho, 12. Mike Pereira of Fall River, with 20 points scored, was. most valuable player.

New Bedford was champion iIi the Junior Girls ·division, defeating Attleboro 58-45 and besting Fall River 47-21 in the playoff game.

All-tournament players were New Bedford's Jen Nowak, 14 points, Kristen Gonsalves anq Kelly Proulx; Attleboro's Sarah Wright, 17 points; and Fall River's Holly Lima, 19 points. Kate Balestrocci of New Bedford, with 18 points, was most valuable player.

FALL RIVER - 14 Bishop Connolly students are competing against their peers from other schools in the 1995 Massachusetts Mqck Trial Tournament, sponsored by the Massachusetts Bar Association, in which students assume the roles of lawyers and witnesses, trying fictitious cases in real courtrooms. Attorney volunteers assist students in preparing for the trials, many of which are presided over by Massachusetts judges.

Faculty member Ted Pettine and Fall River attorney Clement Brown are coaching the Connolly team. Preliminary trials will be held regionally, then teams with the best courtroom records will compete for county championships in April. A playoff in mid-April will decide the state champion.

The mock trial program helps students sharpen listening, public speaking and reading skills while building self-confidence, and develops lawyer-teacher partnerships valuable in teaching law, civics and political science.

Paw Prints Prints The staff of Paw Prints, Connolly's literary magazine, has published this year's first volume, containing original poems, essays and art work of students and staff. Moderated by David Morey, the magazine has 19 contributors.

St. John the Evangelist ATTLEBO RO - The following students were winners in·the school science fair, listed in order of first to third place: . ;Grad·e ·5: Mark Grochmal, Katie Holden, Mark Schroth. Honorable mention: 'Kevin Johnston, ·Laura Zanowski.

Grade 6: Rachel Preston, Sarah Bayly, Lori Stanovitch. Honorable mention: Melissa Traversi, Meghan Cronan: ·Grade 7: Coleen.Scott, JoanAlamay, Robbie O'Keefe.

Honorable mention: Matthew Delaney, Peter Sbardelli.

Grade 8: Jessica Kosowski, Kristin Texeira, Edward Bayly. Honorable· mention: Timothy Slowey, Michael . McNally..

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NEW BEDFORD - The annual science fair for grades 7 and 8 was held Feb. 7 .under direction of science teacher Michael Bernier.· Judges were Bishop Stang high school science honor students and diocesan school superintendent James McNamee. Winners were: Grade 7: Nelson Tavares, first place; Andrea Amaral, , second; Ryan Pavao, third. Honorable mention: Catarina Avelar, Clifton daSilva, Karen Gouveia, Michelle Paiva, Michael Pavao. . .

Grade 8: Marina Figueiredo and Kerry Jorge, first; Monique Botelho, second; Michael Moniz, third. Honorable mentions: Jennifer Claudino, David Ferreira, Amy Oliveira, Fernando' Rodrigues, Paula Santos.

Twelv'e of the winners participated in the regional science fair at Bristol Community College last weekend.

Sixteen students in grades 6-8 participated in the annual school spelling bee coordinated by English teacher Ann De Frias. Word pronouncer was eighth grade teacher Janice Brightman and judges were teachers Margaret McCormick and Denise Fisher-Rose. Winner Marina Figueiredo will represent the school at the regional spelling bee at Dartmouth High School.

Ann Tavares Colicchio (center) accepts Distinguished Graduate A wardfrom SS. Peter andPaulSchoolprinci· palKathleen Burt andpastorFather Stephen Fernandes.

SSe Peter and Paul School FALL RIVER - Ann Tavares Colicchio, Cass of 1973, was recently honored as SS. Peter and PauJ"s 1995 Distinguished Graduate. Mrs. Colicchio, a graduate of Bishop Gerrard High School, Fall River; Rhode Island College; and Suffolk University Law School, i!: clerk magistrate for C~>ncord District Court. .

Sponsored by the National Catholic Educational Association's Department of Elementary Schools, the award recognizes significant accomplishments of Catholic eiementary school alumni. Recipients are "people who as adults put into practice the values and ideals they learned in their Catholic elementary schools," said Dr. Ro bert Kealey, executive director of the NCEA's elementary schools department.

Mrs. Colicchio. said her education at SS. Pet€:r and Paul helped heI: meet the responsibilities of ad ult life and that the values instilled by her school, church and I:amily have helped her accomplish much. "Nothing is impossible, just do your best at whatever you do," she said.

.Holy Family-Holy Name . NEW BEDFORD - Students in grades 7 and 8 are piloting "Take Home Tuesday," a school/home communication program designed to keep' parents informed on school issues and student progress by sendi!1g items home. in an. envelope on a set day of the week. The envelope will contain tests, quizzes and graded assignments, progress reports, reminders of school events and due dates, and any other necessary communication from the student's teacher. The student will have a cht:cklist signed by a parent and return the envelope the following day. .

The Stamp Clup for fourth- through six.to-graders will exhibit projects at the 32nd Seapex Stamp Exhibition April I and 2 at Carney Academy. The student!; have been assembling theme collections of stamps depicting fish, transportation, the Wild.West, Christmas, animals, boats and birds. .

The Chess Club now has 33 active members meeting 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Thursdays. An additiona.! mod.:rator assistant is needed; knowledge of chess is not required.

Marie Guy hasjoined the staffto teach health issues in grades 3 through 7.

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Students at St. Joseph's School, Fairhaven, celebrated Mardi Gras by wearing clown costumes or masks and selecting a Royal Court consisting of king Jonathan Negri, queen Karen Whitehead and kindergartener Matthew DeSimas, first-grader Timothy Donahue, secondgrader Steven Wright; third-grader Joseph Booth,fourthgraders Samantha Cummings andM eaghan Boyle,fijthgraders Stephanie Santos and Travis Riggles, sixth-grader Erika Stokes, seventh-grader Keri Gelnett, and eighthgrader Jillian Bourque.

NORTH ATTLEBORO - Teachers are making special efforts to explain the life of Jesus, prayer and penance to students during the Lenten season.

Sixto Escobar, public outreach specialist of the Central Artery/Third Tunnel project now going on in Boston, spent a day with students in grades 5 through 8, explaining the undertaking with diagrams, maps and videos and answering many questions.

First place winners in the recent science fair for 6th through 8th graders are Brendan Poirier, BiU Smith, Justin Duquette, Erica Santos, Kate Connors, Megan Rothemich, Katie McBrine Susan Taylor, Thomas Taylor and Todd Empie.

Seventh and 8th graders are also competing in the annual Massachusetts Mock Trial Tournament, coached by teacher Mary Ellen.Smith and Atty. Susan Jacobs.

County and state champions will be named in April, following elimination trials.

On behalfofstaff, administration andfaculty at CoyleCassidy High School, Linda Pirozzi, A nthony Nune~ and Sister Eugenia Marie Arsenault, S USC, present a contri. bution to Frank L. Tosti, Jr., chairman of the Campaign for Coyle-Cassidy, for the building of an addition to the school.

By Charlie Martin

I'LL STAND BY YOU Oh why you look so sad?

Thll tears are in your eyes Come on and come to me Don't be ashamed to cry Let me see you through Because I've seen the dark side too When the night falls on you You don't know what to do Nothing that you confess Calll make me love you less I'll stand by you 111 stand by you Won't let anybody hurt you 111 stand by you So if you are mad, get mad Don't hold it all inside Come on and talk to me now What have you got to hide?

I get angry too Bul I'm alive without you When you're standing At the crossroads Don't know which path to choose tet me come along Bel:ause even if you're wrong 111 stand by you I'll stand by you Through your darkest hour And 111 never desert you And I'll stand by you And when the night falls on you baby You're feeling all alone Wondering on your own I'll stand by you Written by C. Hynde/B. Steinberg/To Kelly Sung by Pretenders (c) 1994, Sire Records Co./Warner Music UK Ltd. WHAT DOES it take to be a ted me to ask what a good good friend? friend is.

Over the years, [ have written The song speaks of a person's several times that a genuine promise to "stand by you friendship is a life treasure. The through your darkest hour."

Pretenders' la tf:st hit, "I'll Further, "nothing that you conStand By You," describes this fess can make me love you less."

Clearly, this person intends to type of friendship and promp-

Stang senior will attend Washnngton conference Adam Gula, a senior at Bishop be among 350 students at the meetStang High School, North Darting, which will have as its theme mouth, will attend The National "The Leaders of Tomorrow MeetYouth Leadership Conference in . ing the Leaders of Today." During Washington, D.C. March 14-19. the conference, the students inThe conference is a development teract with key leaders and newsprogram for high school students makers from the three branches of who have demonstrated leadership government, the media and the potential and scholastic merit. diplomatic corps.

Gula, a Mattapoisett resident, will

STANG junior and Tiverton, RI, resident Derek Sousa, shown with Glenda Souza, president of the Ladies' Auxiliary of Dartmouth VFW post #9059, is the winner of a Voice of Democracy contest sponsored by the pOSt. His thesis was "There's nothing wrong with America that what's right with America cannot fix."

His prize was a medal, together with a $100 check. He heads the Stang debate team and he and partner Lisa Reale are currently undefeated in the school's inaugural debate season.

be a faithful friend through life's ups and downs.

As I work with teens, I notice that young people often freely and fully give the gift of friendship. Teens know how to believe in each other and to be there for the sake of a peer I want to stress ,lOW teens can extend their gift~ of friendship and make a rea~ difference to people beyoqdl their immediate school or social group.

The Gospels tell how Jesus loved his friends. He deeply enjoyed relaxing with them and experienced the blessings of affectionate companionship.

However, Jesus also offered his friendship to the friendless.

He did not stop with his friends.

He gave caring friendship to those facing life alone. Teens can do this too.

For example, you could work with school leaders to arrange a system to reach out to teens in some of the world's hurting places.

Fortunately, English is one of the world's most known languages. Start a writing friendship with a teen in Bosnia, Iraq, Haiti or in some other country where teens face suffering and fear. .01' look closer to home. The harshness of some teens' lives has led them to prison. From the letters I n:ceive from some of t'hese teens, I hear of their loneliness and battle against despair. You could contact your local law enforcement department to find out how to write a teen in prison.

I have seen the positive effects teens bring to people in prison and in nursing homes. To chat with an elderly person for an hour each week can bring caring into a lonely person's life.

These are just some suggestions to get you thinking. Be creative. Think of ways that you can give other people the gift of your friendship.

Your comments are welcomed

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

Highlights of the program will include welcoming remarks from the floor of the House of Representatives and a panel discussion with prominentjoumalistsat the National Press Club. The students also visit foreign e:mbassies and attend policy briefings by senior government officials.

In college, Gula plans to major in political science and minor in international law.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Mar. 10, 1995

By Christopher Carstens I was 12, still in sixth grade, when I went to my first ever boygirl dance party. At one point, I found enough nerve to dance with a tall dark-haired girl named Denise. She was 14 and told me she was "going steady" with Brad.

"We're in love," she told me proudly.

"What's it like to be in love?" I asked. I'll never forget her reply.

"When you're 14 you'll know."

I was reminded of that night by a conversation I recently sat in on with a group of teens. They were discussing how old you have to be before you can "really" be in love .

The lowest anybody suggested was 14. But a lot of the kids thought 14 was "way too immature" for true love. They thought 17 or 18 was a much more realistic age.

The discussion was brought to a head by a sincere young man who burst out, "I definitely think teens can be in love. I've been engaged for six months now, and I'm only 14."

I don't know if there's a minimum age for true love, and neither did most of the kids in the discussion. They generally agreed that it depended on the individual.

One girl put it this way. "It is possible for a teenager to be in love, but a lot of time they confuse it with lust."

I think the real question is: When are you old enough to make and keep the life-long promises that serious love demands?

By about 14 or 15 the body is ready for making babies - all the biology is in place. A lot of the emotions that get mixed in with what we know as love are actually signals that the body sends to the

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brain, saying, "Let's get on with the baby production business."

Those signals are strong, and they can convince otherwise bright and reasonable teens to do things that they'd never do if they were thinking straight.

I do not lie. I recently read that more than half of the teenagers in America are sexually active and that we have the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the Western world. American teens lead the developed world in the baby-making business.

Guys say, "If you get pregnant, I'll be there for you." They may mean that promise when they make it, but once that baby is born and it comes down to making child-support payments for the next 18 years, the vast majority of teen fathers just quietly take a hike.

Those are the facts.

Teen girls who get pregnant are only half as likely to graduate from high school as girls who don't have babies. That's why children who are born to teen parents ha ve the highest levels of poverty in our country.

And if the boy does hang around, and the couple do get married, the vast majority of teen marriages end up in divorce. There are just too many pressures on a couple of young people trying to grow up together and raise a child at the same time.

It's wonderful, being young and in love. Enjoy it, but recognize that the one you love at 14 is not likely to be the one you marry.

Knowing that, keep an eye on the biology.

There's nothing quite so shattering to a young life as a pregnancy that the heart and mind aren't really prepared to take on.

F our priorities WASHINGTON (CNS) - The National Catholic Rural Life Conference has identified four priorities for the 1995 farm bill Congress is expected to work on this spring.

The priorities - to increase family farm income, promote sustainable agriculture, promote beginner farming programs, and protect agricultural land from speculative pressures - were unveiled during a Washington luncheon organized by the rural life conference and attended by diocesan rural life and social ministry advocates. There are two ways to boost family farm income, said NCR LC staffer Joe Dever: target more of the farm bill's support to mid-size and small farms than to big farms and corporate farming, and improve federal loan policies to "give farmers more in-pocket income."

CELEBRATING CENTENNIAL: Father Richard W. Beaulieu, director of the Diocesan Department of Education, accepts a Dominican Academy centennial ornament from second-grader Stephanie Brodeur, Alumnae Association president Geraldine Nunes Saucier (left), principal Sister Diane Dube, RJ M, and music director John Travers. Upcoming activities in celebration of Fall River girls' school's centennial include a fashion show March 12, concert March 26 and Liturgy of Thanksgiving and Centennial Dinner April 30.

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'. ", "... . ., .,'., : . :.'." ' . ","'STLOUIS de'I"RANCE THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall Rlver-Fn., Mar. 10, 1995 SWANSEA ' Police Officer Robert Cabral, S ' DARE ff '11 wansea s 0 Icer, WI present a drug awareness program for youth, youth groups and parents 7:30 p.m. March 15, church hall.

8-week Bible study of Epistles of S.. paul will meet 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays March 21 to May 9; informaLaSALETTE SHRINE, ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM tion: Paulette Normandin, 676-0029.

Scripture study on Acts of the ATTLEBORO Apostles 7 to 8:15 p.m. March 17, ST. ANNE, FR The Coffee House Series conparish hall. Children's singers and tinues at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in Father Marc Bergeron and Philip step dancers will participate in St. the cafeteria with a performance Hamel will offer Lenten adult edPatrick's Day celebration 7 p.m. by the S.. Thomas Music Ministry ucation sessions 7: 15 p.m. MonMarch 14. . th e Sh' of Providence's St. Thomas parnne. F a th er Be rgerd ays 10 , . f M h 13 d 27 '11 ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO ish. Over a dozen singers and on s tOPiC or arc, an WI . Stations of the Cross 6:30 p.m. instrumentalists will entertain with ?e Pope John Paul s book CrossFridays during Lent. traditional and contemporary famg the Threshold of Hope; Father ST. MARY, MANSFIELD vorites. A Mass precedes the perHamel will anoint the sick at a During Lent, morning study group formance at 4:30 p.m.

March 20 Mass. A penance service meets 10 a.m. Tuesdays, parish cenFather Ernest Corriveau, MS, will be offered Apri13 and an open ter conference room; Stations of the forum on April 10.

Cross and Benediction 7 p.m. Fri- and members of the LaSalette Lay Associates will pray "Mary's Way ST. PETER THE APOSTLE, days. of the Cross" as tonight's Stations PROVIN CETOWN RETROUV AILLE Father Paul A. Trementozzi, The program for troubled ma'r- of the Cross devotion, to be held riages will offer a weekend session 7: 15 p.m. each Lenten Friday with OCD, D. Min., will present Lenten April 21-23, sponsored by the Dio- a different theme and contemporretreat, "Meditations of the Mercy cesan Office of Family Ministry. ary focus. Information: 222-5410. and Compassion of Jesus as He Information: Phil and Diane Caruso, SECULAR FRANCISCANS Goes to Jerusalem," at 7 p.m.

429-6293, or Bob and Meg Pettiti, St. Louis Fraternity meets second Masses March 13, 14 and 15.

(617) 327-1864. All inquiries held in Wednesdays with 6:30 p.m.

Mass PROVIDENCE MINISTRY stric~· confidence. followed by meeting at St. Louis VOLUNTEERS ST. ANTHONY, E. FALMOUTH Church, 420 Bradford Ave., FR. Three-week program of ministry EliCh 12th of the month a rosary and Christian living planned July 23 for ·the intentions of Birthright is ST. MICHAEL, SWANSEA Lenten retreat series each Tues- through Aug. 12 for Catholic women, said,at 7 p.m. All welcome. day through April II: Reconcilia- age 18 and older. Information: Sr. ST.:MARY, FAIRHAVEN Mary Francis, 341 Bishops Hightion 6:30 p.m.; Mass 7 p.m. with vis"p"ower of Love," a parents' sup- iting priests as homilists. March 14, way, Kingston, MA 02364, tel. (617) port :group, meets each Thursday Rev. Edward Correia, "Service"; 585-7724. .

7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in rectory meeting March 21, Rev. John Gomes, "For- .

ST. FRANCIS OF CAPE room. All welcome. giveness"; March 28, Rev. John Oli- FRATERNITY, POCASSET veira, "Healing"; April 4, Rev. WilMeeting 2 to 4 p.m. March 19, St. liam Baker, "Compassion & Hope in John Evangelist Center. All welcome. the Cross"; April II, CCD students, CATHEDRAL CAMP CENTER "Soup & Sacrifice." .

OF RENEWAL, E. FREETOWN EMMANUEL COLLEGE O. L. Assumption, NB, youth ALUMNAE retreat March 10 to 12; Sacred Heart, Cape Cod alumnae of Emmanuel Taunton, confirmation retreat March College, Boston, will hold a memorII; St. Mary So. Dartmouth, conial Mass and luncheon Thursday, firmation retreat March 12; Lenten April6, with the Mass scheduled for series, "Living in the Kingdom," led II a.m. at O.L. Victory Church,

by Father George E. Harrison 7 to 9 Centerville. p.m. March 14.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED, CAPE COD OUR LADY'S Support group meeting 7 p.m.

March 19, St. Pius X parish center, RELIGIOUS STORE So. Yarmouth. Newcomers welcome Man. - Sat. 70:00 - 5:30 PM. at6:30p.m. Stephen Raven, LICSW, will discuss "What We Have To FinGIFTS ish Before We Can Start Again."

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:sT.'MA'RV;SEElfoNK'·· . ·······STON'EHILL COLLEGE, Lenten mission presented by Sis- NO. EASTOJ'lj ter Virgi~ia Sampson, SUS<;, March One-~?man ..show presented by 13-15, with Mass 9 a.m. dally a.nd 7 Jessa Plaia on Susan B. Anthony: p.m. Monday and Wednesday; 7 A Singular Feminist" 7:;0 p.m. p. m. prayer service Tuesday. Sister March 22. Storyteller Judith Black Sampson, formerly of LaSalette will present "Our Immigrant MothCenter, Attleboro, is spiritual direc- ers," 7:30 p.m. March 23. Both events tor for the Cursillo movement in the commemorate Women's History diocese .and has conducted parish Month and will take place: at the missions in New England and New Martin Institute auditoriult. on the York in a ministry of spiritual devel- college campus. opment.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER CATHOLICWOMAN'SCLUB,FR Lower Cape Ultreya mel:ts each Meeting 7:30.p.m. M~rch 14, H?ly s.econd Friday, 7:30 p.m. All CursilName School hall. BuslOess meetlOg hstas welcome. will be follo~ed by a program by. CORPUS CHRISTI, dance based E. SANDWICH .Damhsa, an Insh d ' I troupe h . .

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Lenten senes IS offered Thursdays of Lent at both 10 a.m. and 7:45 p.m., with babysitting available for the morning sessions. Topics: March 16, Stewardship as a Way of Life; March 23, Holy Hour of pr.ayer for confirmation candidates;.March 30, Holy Family hour of prayer; April6, the Holy Triduum.

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FATHER ERNEST Corriveau, MS, director of LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro, will lead "a Lent~n mission, "The Ascent of the Mountain of God," March II-IS in the Shrine Chapel. Incorporating his own experiences of mountain climbing in the U.S. and abroad, Father Corriveau will speak of a spiritual mountain climbing expedition in which the mountain symbolizes the presence of God and is a place of a we-inspiring sacred encounters. Named Shrine director last year, Father Corriveau was previously worldwide superior general for the Missionaries of LaSalette.

Mission sessions Will be at the 4:30 p.m. Mass Saturday, 12: lOp. m. Mass Sunday, and 12: 10 and 6:30 p.m. Masses Monday through Wednesday.

For information call the Shrine a"t 222-5410.

OFFICE OF AIDS MINISTRY, FR "Embracing the Mystery," a service .of prayer and healing, will be offered at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 19, at St. Mary's Church, New Bedford.

Persons with HlV I AIDS, families, friends, loved ones and other concerned individuals are welcome.

DCCW, ATTLEBORO Diocesan Council of Catholic Women District IV will sponsor a Day of Recollection with pastor Father Richard Roy 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 25, St. Stephen's Church, Attleboro. A brown bag lunch will be served. Reservations requested; information: 222-1890, evenings.

FAMILY LIFE CENTER, NO. DARTMOUTH Afternoon of Renewal for those serving families I to 5 p.m. March 19, Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Rd. Information: tel. 999-6420.

Saint Anne's Hospital, Fall River, will offer an Engli:;h as a second language and medical terminology and interpretation course, "Opening Doors to Health Care for Linguistic and Cultural Minorities," beginning next week.

The free program will mee:t Tuesday and Thursday evening:; at the hospital, with class size limited to 15 and students grouped according to language proficiency. It is designed to prepare persons who speak English as a second language for entry into the health care field by providing training in interpretation and introducing medical terminology. Job procureml:nt and interviewing skills will be inc:luded~ The application period has been extended through this week. Information is available from Curt Wilkins, director of Community and Social Work Services at th,~ Hospital, 674-5600 ext. 2270.

Occupational Medicine Expands Saint Anne's has expanded its occupational medicine and wellness services and developed a new. comprehensive program under the name CompResource. Under the direction of Dr. Thomas P. Galvin, medical director, the program focuses on effective management of work injuries, reducing preventable accidents and increasing employee awareness of health ·Issues.

Acute treatment of on-the-job injuries and case management, specialty examinations designed to meet o.SHA, DOT, EPA and other requirements, drug and alcohol testing, and rehabilitation se:rvices are among CompResource services. . CompResource helps employers to reduce worker's compem.ation and staff replacement costs by managing employee injurie:; efficiently and effectively. It can be integrated into an employer"s risk management program and has the staff, experience, and expertise to deliver. high-quality medical services and cutting-edge consultation and educational programs.

CompResource is locatl~d at Saint Anne's Medical Center" 10 I0 South Main Street in Fall River.

For acute injury treatment workers may report directly to this location Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. Traumatic in:uries or those occurring on off hours can report to Saint Anne's Hospital Emergency Department for treatment with follow-up by CompResource. For more information contact Claire Sullivan, RN, Occupational Medicine Program director, 675-6300.