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FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS

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Pro-life Mass is planned

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Bishop Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap., will celebrate a Pro-Life Mass sponsored by the Diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate at 7 p.m.

March 25, the Solemnity of the Annunciation, at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. Afterward the bishop will greet all those involved in the work of the apostolate.

"Prayer is the foundation and motivation of the Pro-Life Apostolate," said its director, Father Stephen A. Fernandes, inviting all diocesans to attend the Mass and join in prayer for increased reverence for all human life.

In a letter to pro-life representatives, Father Fernandes summarized recent accomplishments of the apostolate, including participation in the March for Life Jan. 22 in Washington, DC. "Who wasn't proud, at the Rally for Life just before the March, when our own Bishop Sean O'Malley delivered his stirring, bilingual invocation? What ajoy, as well, to walk the March for Life with our bishop leading us!"

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NEWLY-MINTED Rev. Msgr. Armando Annunziato stands with Bishop Sean O'Malley following the bishop's surprise announcement of the honor conferred on the pastor of St. Mary's parish, Mansfield. (Arikian photo; another photo page 13)

Last Sunday morning was unforgettable at St. Mary's parish, Mansfield. Bishop Sean O'Malley was scheduled to celebrate 10:30 a.m. Mass in the course of the visitations he is making to all diocesan parishes; and that in itself was enough to guarantee a larger than usual congregation.

But the bishop had a surprise in store. His homily was on the day's Gospel, St. Matthew's description of the transfiguration of Christ.

"And there will be a transfiguration here at St. Mary's," he declared.

With those words, diocesan chancellor Msgr. John J. Oliveira came from the sacristy bearing the robes of a monsignor and presented them to Very Rev. Armando Annunziato, St. Mary's pastor and henceforward Rev. Msgr. Armando Annunziato, while the congregation rose as one, clapping and weeping for joy.

After the communion of the Mass, Msgr. Annunziato reappeared in his new attire to receive

the congratulations, ecstatic embraces and fervent good wishes of his flock.

The celebration continued at an already planned dinner that followed at St. Mary's rectory for Bishop O'Malley and members of the new monsignor's large family.

As a monsignor, a title of honor from the Italian monsignore, which means "my lord," Msgr. Annunziato holds the rank of a prelate of honor of Pope John Paul II and is considered a member of the papal household. Thus monsignori of this rank are also referred to as domestic prelates. Their red vestments are similar to those of a bishop.

Taunton native .

Msgr. Annunziato is a native of Taunton and a graduate of the former Msgr. Coyle High School, now Coyle and Cassidy High School. He attended Providence College before preparing for the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary, Turn to Page 13

Church may name mother pro-life saint VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Catholic Church is well on the way to proclaiming a "pro-life saint."

She is Gianna Beretta Molla, a pediatrician who died in 1962 after refusing therapy that would have saved her life but killed the unborn baby girl in her womb.

The therapy would actually have been morally acceptable under church teaching because abortion would have been an unwanted secondary effect.

Dr. Molla died at age 39, eight days after giving birth to a healthy IO-pound daughter.

Last December PopeJohn Paul II approved a miracle attributed to her, qualifying her beatification,

the step before being declared a saint.

Even before the pope's action, she has been promoted in her native Italy as a "pro-life saint" showing the courage needed to reject abortion. Her image has been prominent in Catholic and pro-life circles because Parliament is currently reviewing Italy's law that virtually allows abortion on demand during the first three months of pregnancy.

Dr. Molla's example is needed today, said Bishop Elio Sgreccia, vice president of the Pontifical Council for the Family.

"Abortion has been made easy.

It's advised by doctors not to ruin

vacations at the sea or in the could cause the death ofthe fetus," mountains," he told Catholic News said Bishop Sgreccia. .

Service.

"The church has always declared Bishop Sgreccia compared wom- the surgery licit," said the Vatican en with difficult pregnancies to official. "The abortion is an unwanted secondary result." police fighting the Mafia.

Capuchin Father Paolo Rossi, "Every stage of life has its risks" promoter of her sainthood cause, and "to try to cancel this is to dimagrees that she is an inspiration to inish human dignity," he said. pro-life groups, but "it is limiting Bishop Sgreccia, an expert in . to present her in only this aspect." bioethics, said she could have Her decision was the result of a morally chosen to save herself. deep Chrstian spirituality nurtured "W hen a tumor in the uterus is from the time she was a child and found and at the same time a reflected in her Christian concept woman is pregnant, the woman of marriage and family, he said. has the right to ask that the tumor Dr. Molla, the mother of three be removed" even if "as a seconchildren, was in the third month of dary effect this therapeutic surgery her fourth pregnancy when she

discovered a tumor next to her uterus.

Her medical options were three: - Removal of the tumor and the uterus.

- Major surgery to remove the tumor and enough of the uterus to cause the abortion as a secondary effect.

- Limited surgical removal of the tumor. which would not impede the pregnancy, but put her life in danger.

The first two options would have saved her life. She chose the third.

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A MULTICULTURAL WEEKEND: Bishop O'Malley delivers a homily at a Portuguese charismatic prayer group gathering Sunday; Father Paul

Canuel, director ofthe diocesan Hispanic Apostolate, speaks at a retreat. for the Hispanic community of the diocese on Saturday. (Hickey photos)

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BISHOP SEAN O'Malley conducted a Spanish-language Lenten day of recollection for the diocese's Hispanic community March 6 at St. Hedwig's Church, New Bedford. About 250 attended the gathering, at which the bishop spoke on the sacraments of initiation and living a Christian life. Although members of the Hispanic community come from many different countries, . they are bound together by faith, said Bishop O'Malley. The retreat was

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planned by Father Paul Canuel, Father Peter Graziano, and the Guadalupan Sisters who reside at St. Hedwig's. Photos show scenes from the retreat's closing Mass and children on a lunch break. Priests are, from left, Father Roman Chwaliszewski" OFM Conv., St. Hedwig's administrat!Jr; bishop, Msgr. John J. Oliveira, Father Canuel. Leading music were Sisters Betty Ribeiro, OP, and Maria Teresa Pacheco, MGSpS. (Hickey photo)

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THE CROWD overflowed the auditorium at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, for a March 7 Portuguese-language Assembly of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal including prayer groups from this and neighboring dioceses. The program, themed "Proclaim th~ Good News of Jesus

Christ," included sessions on evangelization and renewal. Bishop O'Malley and' eight concelebrants celebrated the conference's closing Mass. The event, sponsored by the prayer group of Espirito Santo Church, Fall River, was taped for broadcast on cable TV's Portuguese channel. (Hickey photos)

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Educators to attend 90th NCEA parley Many educators from the Fall vention, which will include general River diocese will be among some· sessions, liturgies, departmental 14,000 delegates attending the 90th meetings, technology sessions and annual National Catholic Educa- workshops. tional Association convention, to The NCEA is the largest private be held April 12 to 15 in New professional education association in the world with a membership of Orleans. over 200,000 educators serving 7.6 With the theme "Catholic Educators: Telling the Good News million students in institutions Story," the parley will have as ranging from preschools to unimajor speakers Yolanda King, an versities and seminaries, in addiactress and the daughter of the late .tion to parish religious education Martin Luther KingJr., Rev. John programs.

Shea, director of a doctoral program in ministry at Mundelein Seminary in Mundelein, Ill., and Dr. Thomas Lickons, an international authority on moral development and values education.

A religious education congress, a convocation for directors of religious education and a major exhibition of educational and religious texts and other materials will be held concurrently with the con-

ANOTHER MILESTONE: Bishop Sean P. O'Malley conducts his first confirmation ceremony in the Fall River diocese at Immaculate Conception Church, Fall River. From left, Rev. Kenneth J. Delano, pastor, the bishop, confirmand Shakina Nicoll and sponsor Karen Maciel.

Catholic Nurses announce events Members of the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses will meet from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 3, at Sacred Heart Home, New Bedford, for a day of recollection themed "Why Did God Make Me A Catholic Nurse?"

Presenting the day will be Marylee Meehan, RN. Also on the program will be installation of Sister Rachael LaFrance, SCQ, as DCCN president.

The council continues to offer a scholarship for continuing education in health care. Information is available from Betty Novacek at.

St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River; telephone 674-5741, ext. 2081 or Joan Morin at Cape Cod Hospital, telephone 771-1800, ext. 2218.

On the national level, the first national conference of councils of

Catholic nurses will take place April 16 through 18 in Lisle, Ill., under sponsorship of Midwest councils. Its theme will be"Christian Challenges in the 21st Century" and the keynote speaker will be Rev. John Powen, SJ, a professor of theology at Loyola Univer~ sity, Chicago, and a nationally known author. Further information on the conference is available from Ms. Morin.

New England Catholic nurses will hold their fall conference Oct. 15 to 17 in Springfield. Further information will be forthcoming.

The Fall River council welcomes prospective members, who may contact Mrs. Novacek in the Fall River area; Delores Santos, telephone 775-3371 in the Cape Cod area; and Sister Therese Bergeron, telephone 996-6751, in the New Bedford area.

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Euthanasia: Hopeless Suicide It seems that very little is being done to combat effectively the legalization of euthanasia. In fact, the whole question of public acceptance of euthanasia as a matter-of-fact medical procedure has been taken for granted. The increase in efforts to gain acceptance for assisted suicide has obviously not been in vain.

Under the guise of "death with dignity," euthanasia is being justified, as is evidenced by the recent actions of the Dutch government. Here at home, there is little outrage in response to the infamous activities of Wisconsin's doctor of death.

But in a nation where unborn life has become legally disposable, none should be surprised that we are now venturing into the realm of euthanasia. Our casual acceptance of abortion has cheapened all life, from cradle to grave.

Anyone who has experienced the agony of watching with a dying relative or friend can indeed sympathize with suffering at the end of life. At the same time, death is not the answer, even in the most difficult situation. The church has always offered hope beyond the grave. Creation and resurection counteract despair and despondence.

Of course a dying person needs respect and care. His or her psychological, physical and spiritual needs deserve the utmost loving consideration. As Christians we firmly believe that we are stewards offrail creation. We receive and have our being in God's providence. Our time of c.onception and our time of death are in His hands.

This is not fatalism; it is faith. Eor a faith-full person, death is not defeat. Life is not ended; it is merely changed. We hold this truth not on the word or testimony of any doctor, psychiatrist or philosopher. We believe it on the word of God Himself. Otherwise, the Resurrection is a sham and Jesus is a hoax.

The consequences of accepting euthanasia as a routine medical practice will be disastrous.路 Such a death-dealing society would make Hitler look like Mickey Mouse and Dachau like Disney World.

It is our belief that Jesus asked us to teach, to preach and路 to heal. From earliest days the church has been committed to the healing ministry. As a church we have not merely brought the Good News to the world; we have also brought it countless hospitals, dispensaries, and sanitariums.

Today millions of religious and lliypeople are committed to the loving care of the sick and dying and the reassurance that they matter.

Be it cancer, leprosy, AIDS, or any other disease, the church cares and it is imperative that we are not deterred by our detractors from assisting each and every person to live his or her life to the fullest.

At the same time, it must be remembered that withholding disproportionate medical treatment is not euthanasia. Allowing a person to die is not the same as taking his or her life.

Above and beyond the best care that medicine can give, especially in the area of pain control, there is the human spirit that can soar beyond the now and face the future in the certitude of a life to come, free of suffering. Suicide, despite the theme from MAS H, is not painless; it represents an abandonment of hope.

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"The devil took him up into a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them and said to him "All these will I give you if falling down you will adore me.' "Matt. 4:8-9.

All should share environmental concern

By Rev. Kevin J. Harrington Since the Second Vatican Council, the theme of "reading the signs of the times" has been prominent in Catholic teaching. It certainly emerged in Pope John Paul II's Lenten message.

Fresh from his trip to Africa, the Holy Father made his message centerpiece the tragedy of thirst and desertification in many parts of the world. In essence, he applied the principles set forth in his en'cyclical "Centesimus Annus" to the troubled areas of the world that are so close to his heart. One speculates that those principles w~re written for him on the faces of countless desperately hungry and thirsty people.

The pope's concern for the environment is based on the understanding that human beings are the stewards of this planet and that unless fallen man has a change of heart, there will be no improvement in the environment.

He reminds us that "we cannot forget that in many cases man himself has been the cause of the' barrenness of lands which have become desert,just as he has caused the pollution of formerly clean water." Pope John Paul II's beloved city of Krakow has an unthinkably high level of air pollution that contrasts sadly with the pristine and undefiled areas of rural Poland and the Italian Alps with which the pontiff, as a skier and outdoors man, is very familiar.

Albeit in one of its briefest sections, in "Centisimus Annus" the Holy Father criticizes humanity for using natural resources in "an excessive and disordered way." He chastises men and women for forgetting that while they are called to

"transform" and even "create" the world through work, their efforts depend "on God's prior and original gift of the things that are."

While it is true that we are called to dominate Earth, we need to do it in a way that respects "a prior God-given purpose, which man can indeed develop but must not betray." We are finally urged to oven;ome a poverty of outlook that is devoid of gratitude and lacks an "aesthetic attitude that is born of wonder in the presence of being and of the beauty that enables one to see in visible things the message of the invisible God who created them."

The 1993 Lenten message reminds us that our environment is a fragile gift of God. We must all learn to live more lightly on the land. The pope reminds us: "When people do not respect the goods of

praye~BOX St. Patrick'sBreastplate Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ ,in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

the earth, when they abuse them, they act unjustly, even criminally, because for many of our brothers and sisters their actions result in poverty and death."

Obviously, we cannot change the habits of sinful man overnight; however, we can all make a greater effort to avoid the disruption of the balance of nature that so often wreaks havoc on the environment.

There is an adage that has become familiar to all of us: "We must think globally and act locally."

We may not be able to change the world but we can make changes in our own habits that can help make Earth as rich a heritage for future generations as it has been for our own.

The Holy Father's Lenten message should be for each of us a call to personal renewal. As we reach out in solidarity to our brothers and sisters in dire need we can through personal almsgiving alleviate some of their burdens.

As we support policies that promote proper use of our natural resources we can forestall problems sure to come without conservation. We can also support agencies that advocate sound environmental policies and scientific research aimed at helping repair damage already done to our world.

Perhaps we can also take to heart two passages from the Gospel of Matthew quoted by the pope in his Lenten message: "Whoever gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward"; and "Come, blessed of my Father, for I was thirsty and you gave me to drink."

Faith's proper atmosphere Exodus 17:3-7 Romans 5:1-2.5-8 John 4:5-42 When we think of religion, images of stained glass and candles often come to mind. Organ music fills the background. Mixed choirs wade into eight-part polyphonic creations, while elaborately. vested ministers execute ancient rituals in quaint medieval structures.

We presume'that a "proper religious atmosphere" is essential to faith. It's so much easier to believe and pray when we're in a sacred place, hearing sacred music, watching sacred ceremonies.

Yet as much as we enjoy this environment, we should always feel a little uneasy when we create it for "religious purposes."

The Roman Empire originally classified Christians as atheists!

They were categorized this way because they didn't do what religious people should have done.

They never gathered in special places or employed sacred rituals.

Except for their practice of meeting on the first day of the week sharing a meal in one another's home, they were indistinguishable from other "unbelievers." They appeared to have no need to create the sort of atmospheres which religious folk think essential to their faith.

Their strange behavior seems to have been rooted in the experience and teaching of Jesus himself.

By FATHER ROGER KARBAN Instead of putting God into their daily lives, they worked on discov'ering the God who was already there.

Early Christians could easily relate to the ancient Israelites in today's first reading. They had also felt abandoned before Jesus entered their lives. Though they believed God had saved and cared for them, the Lord never seemed to be around when needed. Like all people, they did lots of grumbling about their condition, hoping God would eventually hear them and come down from heaven to change it. They never realized the "water" for which they longed had always been right there with them, just under the surface of their existence. No need to haul any in. They simply had to know . which rock to strike.

John's Jesus succinctly states this insight when he first asks his disciples, "Do you not have a saying: Four months more and it will be harvest!"? Then he adds, "Listen to what I say: Open your eyes and see! The fields are shining for harvest! The reaper already collects his wages and gathers a yield for eternal life, that sower and reaper may rejoice together." The

very thing we long for and need to make us happy is already here.

No wonder Jesus begins his conversation with the Samaritan woman by informing her, "If only you recognized God's gift, and who it is that is asking you for a drink, you would have asked him instead, and he would have given you living water." He's symbolically comparing the temporary relief from thirst which comes from, bringing water home, to the permanent relief from a deeper thirst which comes from recognizing him in our midst.

"Whoever drinks the water I give," he proclaims, "will never be thirsty; no, the water I give shall become a fountain within him, leaping up to provide eternal life."

Logically, at this point, he also talks about places of worship: " An hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this

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mountain nor in Jerusalem .... Authentic worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth." We no longer need to create sacred places and atmospheres to attract God's attention and get us into the mood. The Spirit conveys the truth that the Lord's already here.

Paul, in our Romans pericope, gives us some of the deeper implications of this truth. "At the appointed time," he writes, "while we were still powerless, Christ died for us godless people.... While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Jesus never has to rearrange what be finds, before he can redeem it. He simply works with what he has - no matter what its condition.

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DAILY READINGS March 15: 2 Kgs 5:1-15; Pss 42:2-3;43:3-4; lk 4:24-30 March 16: On 3:25,34-43; Ps 25:4-9; Mt 18:21-35 March 17: Ot 4:1,5-9; Ps 147:12-13,15-16,19-20; Mt 5:17-19 March 18: Jer 7:23-28; Ps 95:1-2,6-9; lk 11:14-23 March 19: 2 Sm 7:4-5,1214,16; Ps 89:2-5,27,29; Rom 4:13,16-18,22; Mt 1:16,1821,24 or lk 2:41-51 March 20: Hos 6:1-6; Ps 51:3-4,18-21; lk 18:9-14 March 21: 1 Sm 16:1,67,10-13; Ps 23:1-6; Eph 5:814; In 9:1-41

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The day that time forgot What happened after that was a somewhat startling revelation.

For starters, I felt naked. Some essential piece of clothing was missing, and while no one else could see it I felt it, and that was sufficient.

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1 There I was, driving the 20minute stretch to work, when I' looked at my wrist to check the time, and I promptly went into shock. No watch!

Somehow, for the first time in all the years Ihave been working, I had forgotten to put on my watch.

Second, I felt disorie·nted. It was as if an essential part of my structure had gone awry. It had never occurred to me how regularly I consulted my wrist watch, asifthe watch were my guard, telling me that such and such had to be done by 9 a.m., the next thing by 10, mail by II and so on.

The watch kept me on schedule and in line, and, oddly enough, it

gave me approval or d'isapproval, depending on how well I was attending to my structured chores.

Without my watch, I was shaken by a sense of losing control of my day. It had never occurred to me that my watch gave me control.

I n the course of any day, I could contr()l the time I. spent on each chore by checking my watch. But with no instant check on time, I had no immediate control over the demands that eat up my day.

As I sat at my desk, I found myself considering all these negatives I would be facing this day because I forgot to put on my watch. And as I sat there I began

to wonder why we call this little our days lest something go awry. instrument a "watch."

What? Who knows?

I picked up the dictionary and I tried hard that morning to read the definition ofthis word. As forget the nakedness of my wrist, a verb, watch means to "be on the but I couldn't. I told myself I was lookout, or be closely observant, supposed to learn something proas to see what comes, is done, found from this, considering all •happens, etc." ,the philosophizing I had engaged I then looked up the definition in~ of clock and fully expected it would Well, I solved my problem. Just be "an instrument for measuring down the road there's a big department store. I ,scooted down, and indicating time," as it was.

The thought struck me how ac- and I bought a watch, that was on curate it is to call a timepiece at- sale for $19.95. In my state of mind. it made sense to have a tached to our bodies a watch.

That's what we have let these little spare.

But most important, I was back clocks become - instruments that in control, on top Of my schedule keep us on guard, putting us on watch to monitor the minutes of - watch on and on watch.

Contemplative prayer is not just for the saints By

DOLORES CURRAN

I was astounded to read that Mother Angelica's television series on satanism included a segment on New Age religions which listed centering prayer as one of its manifestations.

Comtemplative prayer New Age? Try telling that to the desert fathers of St. John Cassian (fourth century), St. Benedict, St. Teresa of Avila, orSt. Bonaventure. Indeed, one of the best descriptions of today's teaching on centering pray-

By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY ,Dear Mary: Please tell a concerned grandmother what she can do whell she sees her 4-year-old granddaughter gf(~wing up without discipline. She is an only child, extremely bright, growing up in a religious atmosphere and loved dearly by both parents.

However, she is allowed to do whatever she pleases, eat whatever she wants, stays up until all hours and demands to be the center of attention at all times.

I would like to say something,

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN

Q. Some months ago you wrote that if a body is to be cremated the ashes, should not be present at the funeral Mass. I have since heard that this practice is followed in some places. Is it permissible now?

(Florida) A. The .general rule of the church is that "if the body of the deceased cannot be brought to the church for the funeral Mass prior to its cremation, the Mass can be celebrated but without the ashes of the

er comes from St. Honaven'ture in the thirteenth celltury.

In On the Perfection of Life, he ' wrote, "When you pray, gather up your whole self, enter with your Beloved into the chamber of your heart, and there remain alone with him, forgetting all exterior concerns; and so rise aloft with all your love and all your mind, your affections, your desires, and devotion. And let not your mind wander away from your prayer, but rise again and agian in the fervor of your piety until you enter into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even the hous,e of God. There your heart will be delighted at the sight of your Beloved, and you will taste and see how good the Lord is, and how great is his goodness."

'I suspect that the authors of

,Mother Angelica's indictment of centering prayer didn't do their. homework. They missed the simple point that centering prayer and contemplative prayer are the same thing. Why then the name change?

Because in the public mind, contemplative prayer was reserved for contemplatives and ascetics tucked away in the desert; monastery, or convent. The idea that ordinary folk like you and me could meditate silently to bring us into our deeper spiritual center to experience God was almost heretical in the old church.

In his excellent book, The Other Side of Silence: A Guide to Christian Meditation, Morton T. Kelsey explains, "Most people seem to feel that meditation is an esoteric practice that can be attemp-

ted only by the most holy. It is my experience, however, that encounters with God are much more available than we have been led to believe.... It is true that for a long time it was thought that only ministers or those in religious orders could have any real contact with God through inner or spiritual experience. They did it for us.

They were spiritual masters, the mediators, the mystics who had gorie' the route of complete and utter commitment to God ... the first and most essential requirement was ascetism and a total renunciation of one's worldly goods and interests."

Then he adds, "One of the real discoveries in depth psychology has been the finding by one of the has been the finding by one of the

foremost groups in this field that we all have access to an inner realm."

Amen to that. The thousands of Catholics attracted to centering prayer in just the past IO years attest to God's idea that contemplative prayer can be our treasure, too. In order to overcome the deeply embedded attitude that contemplative prayer is reserved for saints and ascetics, ,today's spiritual teachers often call it centering prayer, i.e.. we reach down into and through the center of our beings to meet the center of God. Call it what you will - contemplative prayer, centering 'prayer, meditation - it is neither New Age nor old-fashioned. It promises and delivers the peace and love of God we all seek.

Grandparents 'should hold advice until asked but am afraid it will create a rift, and I do love all three very much.-Indiana You seem to be a tactful grandmother, recognizing problems but also aware that you easily could do harm.

Children such as you describe may be becoming more common.

Frequently the parents are intelligent, well-educated, busy people.

They may both work or have other activities so that the child spends many hours with outside caregivers. If the child becomes difficult and demanding on Sunday, the parents can tolerate it. On M onday it will be someone else's problem.

Furthermore, they have only one child. An only child can be allowed to eat and sleep as she

chooses. In a larger family such behavior would lead to chaos.

There is a difference between letting a child have freedom of expression and letting a child run the family.

That said, grandparents need to recognize their limits and intervene with great care. GrandpaJents often are distrusted ..

The young mother with a question about child care is more likely to pick up the latest women's magazine than to call her mother or mother-in-law. Unless you do a lot of babysitting for your granddaughter, your influence is limited.

You realize that giving advice may only alienate the family. Even ifthey are not offended, the advice is npt likely to help. Few people welcome advice, and fewer change because of it.

At this point, if you really want to help them, relax. Continue to notice all the things they do right.

If she is happy, healthy, bright and curious, they must be doing some things right.

Try to broaden your own view by recognizing that there are many ways to raise children. Not all unconventional choices are harmful. If a home is stocked with good foods, letting a child eat what she chooses is probably not harmful.

If she gets adequate and regular sleep, it probably does not matter whether the hours are from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. or from midnight to IO a.m.

Focusing on the good does not mean you condone everything the parents do. It does mean you try to be an encouraging and supportive relative. If you are supportive,

they are far more apt to trust you and ask advice.

If you should be asked, make specific suggestions rather than vague criticisms. "She's running your home" is vague and critical.

"We used to make little ones sit on a chair for one minute when they got out of bounds" is a concrete suggestion.

If asked, you might buy them a book on child care and discipline which gives good advice.

Even more than advice, your children and grandchildren need a relative who loves, encourages and supports them. Continue to be that kind of person.

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Are ashes of deceased allowed at funeral Mass? oeceased present" (Congregation for Divine Worship, January 1977).

The reason given is that "the body, not the ashes, receives liturgical honors since it was the temple ofthe Spirit of God in baptism."

However, I know that in some parts of the world where cremation is a common and expected custom, the church has adapted to these local customs, allowing the ashes to be placed on a table or other appropriate place' in the church, such as near the paschal candle, during the funeral Mass.

The Congregation for Divine Worship has explicitly granted permission for this practice to the diocese of Honolulu and perhaps to other dioceses if they have asked.

One of your parish priests could tell you, or find out, what procedures are possible in your diocese.

Q. What does the term "Latinrite priest" mean? (Indiana) A. Most simply, a Latin-rite priest is one who serves in a rite of the church whose liturgical language has been, from the fourth century to the 20th, the language of the Roman Empire, which was of course Latin.

The main such rite or church, in our experience, is naturally the one we call the Roman Rite or the Roman Catholic Church.

There have been other rites, however, which used the Latin language. Most of these are no longer used; vestiges ofa few remain in some parts of Europe and are even having some influence in current local adaptations of the liturgy.

Latin-rite priest also means, for all practical purposes, priest of the

Roman Catholic Church or the Latin Church.

Some other Catholic churches are, for example, the Ukrainian Church, the Melkite and the Chaldean. These, and more like them, are Catholic churches just as is the Roman Catholic Church; and they are part of the universal Catholic Church acknowledging the primacy ofthe bishop of Rome.

But their liturgies, including their

liturgical languages, are different from the one with which most of us in the United States are familiar.

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Dialogue eyed WASHINGTON (CNS) - Top Catholic and Lutheran theologians and church officials from the United States and Europe met recently in Florida to decide future directions of Catholic:"Lutheran dialogue. They agreed that a primary task for their c.hurches is to

declare that some Reformationera condemnations are not applicable today. They said 1997 might be a target date for 'setting them aside. It will be the 450th anniversary of the Council of Trent's condemnation of Martin Luther's teachings on justification.

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FATHER BENEDICT Taylor, right, prays with fellow Franciscans. He has lived and worked with Harlem's poor since 1968. (eNS photo)

God cares, he tells poor NEW YORK(CNS)- So many clergy have come and gone during the quarter century that Father Benedict Taylor has spent in Harlem that residents do not expect them to remain.

"They will ask if you're there to do a study, or in training for something," said the priest, who runs an agency that offers help for drug addicts and shelter for homeless young men.

But Father Taylor says he is committed to giving the poor of Harlem the rest of his years.

In 1968, he was sent to Harlem with other Franciscans. "The others eventually went on to other tbings," he said, "but I stayed.'

In 1970, the friar founded an agency he called Create, an acronym for Chance to Re-Evolve a Total Environment, and since 1973 it has had government funding. Because he operates with taxpayer funds, Father Taylor is not allowed to introduce religion formally into his programs. "But it all has a spiritual foundation," he said.

"Does God careT' is the basic religious question of the hopeless, Father Taylor said. He is trying to show and tell the answer to that question.

His drug rehabilitation program, he said, is based on the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, which begins with a spiritual dimension. "I am doing pre-evangelization," he said.

Early in Father Taylor's career in Harlem, he became disturbed at the numbers of young men on drugs. He began taking those interested in rehabilitation to various city agencies, then started his own.

March 16 1957, Rev. Francis J. Maloney, S.T.L., Pastor, St. Mary, North Attleboro March 18 1989, Rev. Robert D. Forand, c.P. West Hartford, Conn.

March 19 1905, Rev. John J. McQuaide; Assistant, St. Mary, Taunton

He rejected the view that addicts had to be taken out of Harlem. He says society should make drugs less available, but that former addicts can remain drug free even though drugs are available to them.

"We have proved that if people get an inner change, they can cope with their environment," he said.

His program, guided by professionals, gives addicts a tightly structured life with counseling, education and job training. "But the key is self-esteem," said Father Taylor.

The friar also established Create House, a transitional residence for homeless men who do not have a drug problem, and Create Young Adult Center as a place where homeless men ages 18 to 21 can stay for up to six months.

The young men he aids may be former foster care children, exprisoners, victims of a family breakup or homeless for other reasons.

Father Taylor offers them medical, counseling, vocational and other services, plus his personal caring, but they must demonstrate that they are serious about rebuilding their lives.

They cannot bring alcohol or women into the house, they must be in a study or work program and they must be in by 10 p.m. every night. "Some of the homeless would rather remain homeless," Father Taylor observed.

He also runs an all-day center for senior citizens, offering breakfast and lunch, an outpatient counseling service for drug addicts and a food pantry. He also hopes to open a home for single mothers.

The main offices of Create were destroyed by fire a few years ago, and it is being administered from cramped temporary facilities; but it is expected that renovation of a formerly abandoned building will be completed this year, allowing space for expanded services.

When the Franciscan team wentto Harlem in 1968, they got an apartment where Father Taylor lived until drug dealers began operating from the building.

His new apartment is a little farther away, but still in Harlem.

"It is important for the people to know that I am living with them," he said.

ROME (CNS) - The Vatican has confirmed the decision of the Dominicans to dismiss Father Matthew Fox from the order, the Dominican's procurator general said.

Father Malachy O'Dwyer, who handles Vatican-Dominican relations for the Rome-based order, said the Vatican confirmation was signed Feb. 22 by the undersecretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

Father Fox is the founder of the Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality at Holy Names College in Oakland, Calif. His writings and the presence of a selfproclaimed witch on the institute's faculty have been investigated by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The Dominican master general approved Father Fox's dismissal from the order in June 1992 after Father Fox refused his provincial superior's request that he return to community life in Chicago to facilitate an ongoing dialogue about his writings.

Friends of Creation Spiritual~

ity, a group of Father Fox's supporters, said the priest received the Vatican confirmation notice March 3.

Father O'Dwyer told Catholic News Service March 8 that if Father Fox wants to appeal the Vatican's decision, he must do so within 10 days of receiving the notification.

If he does not appeaL his dismissal from the Dominican order becomes finaL although he would remain a Roman Catholic priest.

However. in order to publicly exercise his ministry after dismissal he would need the permission of a diocesan bishop.

Father O'Dwver said that if Father Fox does a"ppeaL "the whole thing is suspended" and Father Fox would remain a Dominican until the appeal is settled.

"It could go on for months yet," Father O'Dwyer said.

In Oakland, a spokesman for Father Fox said the priest did not plan to appeal the decision.

Father O'Dwyer said the decision to dismiss Father Fox from the order "has absolutely nothing to do with his work." Rather, it is a result of Father Fox's refusal to

return to Dominican community life in Chicago.

Father Fox said he would rededicate himself to creationcentered spirituality and he thanked the Dominican order for "the training they gave me over the years."

He entered the Dominican order in 1960 and was .ordained to the priesthood in 1967.

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By Bernard Casserly pastoral care and love of the us when we have found it hard to people."

Peggy Noonan, presidential fcirgive ourselves... We have many gifts,God knows, and weaknesses, "Patrick was anxious," the bishghost-writer and polished wordsop concluded, "that all he baptized mith, has drafted a list of Ameri- but the greatest is the gift offaith."

The rich lore of Ireland'sforein the land would rival him in what can myths that define the dream. ' they would achieve in spreading If we do not communicate these most saint was plumbed by another the Kingdom of God on earth. unifying myth's, especially to the son of St. Patrick, Bishop Jereof Sale, Victoria, Ausmiah Coffey They are the answer to his wish." great influx of immigrants, she Peggy Noonan said the myths of wrote, "then we will stop being tralia, half-way round the world.

Patrick's "ascent to God in his America will have to come today , America." from the "general culture and the Miss Noonan's myths include Confession, "wrote Bishop Coffey public schools." With In;:land no' the 'coming of the Pilgrims, the in the Advocate, the Melbourne longer the womb of the priesthood American Revolution, the Civil archdiocesan weekly, "outlines a robust simplicity and a lack of and U.S. Catholic schools fading, War, the winning ofthe West.

True or false, the 'myths that sophistication. The Confession who and what will propagate the help unify a quarter billion Ameri~ shows a man of faith with deep myths of the Irish? cans (except during elections) are closely matched, and perhaps excelled by the nation's largest ethnic of 26 that comprise the Republic ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) group, those of Irish descent, some of Ireland.

Transplanted natives of the Eme33 million strong.

American Irish, who outnumber raid Isle, as well as the more flamThe message behind "Blarny," the mere three million who remain boyant Irish-Americans, look Betsy and Terry Labar's plate, on the Emerald Isle, continue to forward to the day every year for seems' clear, though the couple grow in number, especially on St. the wearing 0' the green. reports getting questions occasionPatrick's Day, when our ranks are But some Virginians of Irish ally from station operators and joined by those who become Irish descent proclaim their ethnic pride motorists. True believers know for a day. year-round. They like to advertise that Blarney Castle, a tourist atIrish myths are hard to ignore, their love of Ireland on the high- traction in County Cork, is where in part because of the Irish mas- ways and byways on vanity license people travel to kiss the stone which bestows the legendary gift tery of the English tongue. Even plates. more important is the tight link The personalized plates cost $10 of eloquence.

Irish Americans, mostly Catholic, extra and the message has to fit in Other Virginia fans of Ireland have to the land of their ancestors seven letters. may also seek to proclaim their and ancient faith brought to their Mary Glennon Petroutsa re- ' love for the Emerald Isle, but most small green island by St. Patrick. quested the name of her home- of the popular messages are already The deep faith and missionary town of Dublin for a license plate claimed. spirit of the Irish was communi- several years ago. The Stafford . According to the Division of cated by generations of "FBI" County resident joked about how Motor Vehicles, "Irishl" through (foreign-born Irish) priests, not local residents immediately recog- "Irish9" were claimed long ago. only in the United States but nize her car because of the plates.

Other Virginians have snagged around the glob.e.

"Cork," "Shamrok," "Kerry," and They also get attention on the "FBI" sisters did the same, "Erin." spreading the rich spirituality of interstate. While ret).uning from Creative spellings still make for nearby Washington one day, she the sons and daughters of St. a tag of "Kilarne" and "Pattrik," heard shouting and a honking horn Patrick in U.S. parochial schools. but with the seven-letter limit a St. Patrick's myths are great from a car full of young people.' choice of""Leprechaun" would~'t When the car pulled up next to and small, and they range from the be possible. How about "We Pepul" snakes he drove from Irish shores hers, one passenger leaned out the instead? ' window and gestured excitedly to to the shamrocks he used to teach his Irish passport.

And Massachusetts residents the story of the Holy Trinity.

Alexandria, Va., merchants and take heart: Should you be dreamHis spirituality is not compli:' cated, Archbishop John Roach of restauranteurs Bernadette and Pat ing of an Irish vanity plate of your St. Paul-Minneapolis observed on Troy show their Irish pride in not own, it would most likely have the the great saint's day one year: "His one, but a trio of personalized added incentive of green lettering message was simple: the love of license plates. "Eire I" and "Eire .- a very fine Emerald Isle touch!

2" are easily understood, but the Warning to Bay Staters: Anchor God, the gift of faith.

"Irish spirituality is a kind of third, "Offaly," often gets puzzled staff members have already staked a claim to counties Leitrim and epiphany: a constant unveiling of looks, according to Pat Troy.

Offaly is his home county, one Donegal. the love of Jesus... He has forgiven

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St. Patrick statue at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York

The life of St. Patrick The saint so dear to Irish hearts was born Magonus Sucatus Patricius in Roman Britain around the year 385. Though his father, Calpornius, was a deacon, and his grandfather, Potitus, a priest (before celibacy was mandatory), young Patrick showed no inclination toward a priestly vocation.

Then, at age 16, he was kidnapped by raiders and sold into slavery in Ireland, probably in County Antrim or County Mayo. There, tending sheep on a cold, lonely mountain far from home, Patrick began to pray constantly.

After six years of servitude, hedreamed that God was telling him to return to his own country. He set out on an extraordinary journey, escaping on foot over 200 miles of unfamiliar territory and securing passage on a ship that was transporting Irish hounds to the continent.

He ,arrived in France (then Gaul), where he began intellectual and spiritual formation for the priesthood in the circle of St. Germanus of Auxerre. Later, while visiting his family in Britain, he had another dream in which he was told, "The voice of the Irish cry out...·We ask thee, boy, come aQd walk among us 'once more.' " He felt divinely called to an Irish mission, despite what he perceived as his own lack of worthiness: "I have not studied like the others, who have thoroughly imbibed law and Sacred Scripture... ," he wrote in Confession. "Hence today I blush. and fear exceedingly to reveal my lack of education."

As it turned out, these misgivings did not prevent him from becoming a legendary figure in Ireland.

In 432 he was consecrated bishop and sent by Pope Celestine to evangelize the Emerald Isle, succeeding Palladius, a native of Gaul, who died after just one year as bishop of "the Irish believing in Christ."

Patrick's successful evangelizing began when he kindled a paschal fire in honor of Christ's resurrection. The blaze on the hill of Slane drew attention as 'the High King of Ireland was about to light the Bealtaine Fire for a pagan feast at Tara. Patrick's words so impressed his hearers that the king gave his personal protection to the bishop and the religion he proclaimed.

Patrick traveled throughout Ireland, preaching the Gospel, building churches and schools, and baptizing many. Respecting Old Irish pagan elements, Patrick incorporated them into Roman tradition to produce a new Christian, Hiberno-Latin culture-with the effect of converting the whole island. From the beginning he cultivated native clergy, with St. Benignus recognized as the first native Irish priest. ' Though he considered himself unlearned, St. Patrick is most famed for ingeniously using the shamrock to illustrate the Trinity. And though he called himself an "unworthy sinner" in Confession, he also had the satisfaction of writing, "Hence did it come to pass in Ireland that those who never had a knowledge of God, but until now always worshiped idols and things impure, have been made a people of the Lord, and are called sons of God .....

According to tradition, the saint died in 461, on March 17, near Saul, County Down, Ulster.

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Patrick, Mo., on March 17 is the post office.

There, thousands of letters are sent each year to be stamped for St. Patrick's Day with a special pictorial regulation postmark and a shamrock cachet with green ink.

The parish in the small town in the diocese of Jefferson City, Mo., - named St. Patrick, of course -offers its own envelope with a St. Patrick's Day greeting card inside.

Purchasers get the envelope, the card, the postage, and the special St. Patrick's Day-only cancellations.

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The envelope is designed by Bill Richmond, who has designed the commemorative postmarks for. the St. Patrick post office since 1984.

It features St. Patrick, a round tower and a Celtic cross.

The' greeting card displays a photo of the rose window of the Shrine of St. Patrick built in the town in 1957. The window features St. Patrick in the center of symbols for the four provinces of Ireland.

Church volunteers address the envelopes, sign the cards with the sender's name, include th.e sender's return address on the envelopes and mail them, on March 17 if requested.

Hibernian~Iberiari. scholar's memoirs" reviewed'" Internationalism and the Three Portugais: The Memoirs of Francis Millet Rogers. Vol. 131 of A merican University Studies (Series IX, History). Sheila Rogers Ackerlund, ed. New York, Peter Lang, 1992, 386 pp.

Reviewed by George E. Ryan Friends of the late Professor Francis Rogers of HaI:vard University will be pleased to learn that his memoirs have now been added to the scores of books, scholarly articles, and other writings that distinguished his exemplary life and highly productive academic career. .

Though incomplete at Rogers; death in 1989 at 75, the manuscript has been felicilously "reconstructed and edited" fI:om notes and computer discs by his daughter and given such indispensables as an index, a representative list of byline materials, and a modest roster _ of acknowledgments.

The result is a perfectly charming and often exciting work in which the author reviews the "one grand concatenation" that was his experience as father, husband, teacher, writer, academic death, department chairman, Marine Corps officer during World War II, and, always and everywhere, a loyal (and at times constructively critical) Catholic gentleman.

Rogers accounts for his roots in Ireland (his Clare-born paternal grandmother) and the Portuguese Azores (three grandparents), his "Hibernian-Iberian" youth in New Bedford, his lifelong fascination with ships, the sea, celestial navigation and communications of every sort, his abiding conviction that Earth and its occupants con- . stitute a true family in one very precious environment, and his gradual drift toward a scholarly specialization in Romance languages and studies in the three Portugais of his title: continental, island, and overseas, including emigrants and their descendants.

None of this is ever less than

lively, even those passages in which Rogers recalls pre-war travels and studies abroad, or explains his love for languages (he spoke at least six fluently), astrolabes, the dialects of insular Portugal, and the quest to fathom MachadoJoseph disease, a genetic disorder peculiar to some Azoreans. Rogers is ever the teacher, retailing such potentially drab exotica with reserve, clarity, anecdote, and, where appropriate, great good humor.

Though instinctively a conscientious objector, Rogers volunteered for military service early in 1941 and was commissioned a Marine Corps captain, his orders to report to active duty "at once." Given his expertise in Europe's colonial empires, his thorough familiarity with areas touching any part of the Atlantic, Caribbean, or Mediter. ranean (including North Africa), plus his facility with the tongues of allied and Axis nations alike, Rogers' job was to help devise strategies to protect our Atlantic Defense Perimeter, specifically the mid-Atlantic Azores, an effort President Roosevelt deemed essential to the safety of South as well as North America.

Rogers' wartime recollections are priceless and frequently very entertaining. He rubbed elbows with General George Patton and Admiral Ernest King, consulted with his Harvard colleague and friend, Lt. Commander Samuel Eliot Morison, on a variety of naval and historical matters, shared a reviewing platform in Algeria with Charles de Gaulle, and was twice berthed with Navy Lieutenant Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., at the time emerging from a failed mission to capture Mussolini on an obsure island off the Italian coast.

Rogers was a fan of Fairb~nks (and not only because the actor had once studied Portuguese as FDR's personal envoy in Brazil) and of all the swashbuckling films oftheir time. In fact, Rogers recalls, it was because as a boy he had

thrilled to the Beau Geste trilogy of the 1920s that he took himselfto the storied headquarters of the French Foreign Legion at SidiBel-Abbes, south of Oran, there to be "treated as one of them, and a commandant to boot. "Reviewing a battalion of Legionnaires departing for the Tunisian front was, Rogers says, both touching and "a signal honor for me."

Dr. Rogers covers his academic experiences relatively swiftly, sparing the reader the minutiae of classes, meetings and campus politics, preferring to see higher education as a whole and to market several of his pet peeves - e.g., the inadequacies of language instruc~ tion and of certain Ivy League traditions he found either distasteful or downright offensive.

He interrupts the Cambridge chronicle long enough to remember "the most exciting and gratifying of my teaching excursions outside the walls of Harvard" - regular guest lecturing at West Point on such topics as "Portugal's contribution to marine and air navigation" and "Portugal's Atlantic Islands."

The stint was especially meaningful because in his youth Rogers had aspired to a West Point career but had been denied the requisite appointment "by family friend (!), Senator David I. Walsh." (Daughter Sheila, editor of these recollections, has been since 1985Distinguished Visiting Professor of Foreign Languages at West Point, specializing in Spanish and. Portuguese culture. That appointment, her Dad allows, made him indeed "a most proud father)."

And the memoirist glides gracefully over his own achievements in qualifying for travel and research grants without ever having to shelve his integrity or ideals, in advancing to various deanships and other posts of honor, in rating nine honorary degrees, in guiding dozens of graduate students in research, .in visiting every major site of Portuguese settlement

throughout the world, and in publishing works of uncommon excellence in behalf of all his beloved Portuguese.

Few who knew this dedicated and affable cosmopolite will be without stories of their own that could enhance the memoirs as here presented - how graciously he served the board of St. John's Seminary, how readily he accepted invitations to speak to such as the Catholic Library Association, how seriously he took his role as faculty advisor to the Harvard Catholic Club, how eagerly he joined the group of Catholic intellectuals in St. Benedict's Center just outside Harvard's walls only to be permanently deflected when he sensed a Catholicity so intolerant and narrow-minded as to declare nonsympathizers contemptible and unw()rthy of salvation.

Needless to say, Lusophile Rogers rejoiced when Humberto Sousa Medeiros, late of the Azores and the Fall River diocese, was named archbishop of Boston and then a cardinal. When the archbishop announced early on that he would lead a pilgrimage back to the island of his birth, it was Fran Rogers -laden with maps, informative handouts, and an intimate knowledge of the entire Azorean archipelago - who briefed members of the Boston press corps assigned to cover that "sentimental journey," providing them with an orientation few other locals were qualified to present.

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He cites one such photo in his files, an official Navy shot made in Palermo in 1943, which includes Secretary ofthe Navy Frank Knox, "a smiling Lieutenant Fairbanks, with a laughing Major Rogers,~' and, among other dignitaries, General"Blood and Guts" Patton grinning from ear to ear.

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Social. justice activists consider children, peace WASHINGTON (CNS) - Two focal points for Catholic social justice work in the past decade children and peace - were the centerpiece for discussion at the annual social ministry gathering in Washington Feb. 28-March 3.

The meeting, sponsored by five Cathoiic organizations, attracted some 200 diocesan social justice workers from throughout the country. Theme of the gathering was "Putting Children and Families First: Building Peace,-Seeking Justice."

Sessions included dialogue with three Clinton administration officials, lobbying on Capitol Hill and talks by such national figures as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros, Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey and Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund.

Cisneros, a Mexican-American Catholic, said it was unusual when "the values of church people are so completely and consistently matched" by policy coming from the White House.

But Casey, also a Democrat and a Catholic, disagreed in the meet. ing's final talk about the harmony between Catholic teachings and the Clinton White House. He said abortion is a social justice issue because it disproportionately affects poor women and is the ultimate form of violence.

"The challenge of meeting the needs of children and families and protecting human life before and after birth is especially daunting in the United States in 1993 because 'our value system has been turned upside down," Casey said.

At a session billed as a "pundits

panel," Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, editor of Commonweal magazine, said that if Catholics want real political change they clw become "a burr under the national saddle" by taking to heart church teaching on the consistent ethic of life.

Children's issues were the focus of the meeting's opening panel, when representatives of liberal and conservative political philosophies sought common ground on improving the plight of American children and families.

"The family time deficit is the most important problem facing the nation today," said Kate Walsh O'Beirne of The Heritage Foundation, a think-tank closely associated with the Reagan and Bush years.

Ms. Edelman blamed child poverty on the fact that "their parents don't have enough income," wllile Ms. O'Beirne said the American family's greatest problems were caused by the government's increased tax burden on them and its failure to see what families really want.

Dialogues sponsored by Catholic Charities USA with Clinton administration officials focused on three aspects of public policy - child welfare, substance abuse and welfare reform.

On the issues of war and peace, the meeting featured a retrospective on the U.S. bishops' 1983 pastoralletter on that topic.

Others at the hearing spoke on a wide variety of peace issues: Teaching nonviolence; positive lessons of the peaceful revolutions of recent years; negative lessons of the Persian Gulf War and the dissolution of Yugoslavia; pervasive violence in the streets, on TV, in families.

CHILDREN'S DEFENSE Fund president Marian Wright Edelman speaks to social justice and peace workers during the annual social ministry gathering in Washington.

Kate Walsh O'Beirne, right, of the Heritage Foundation, also spoke during a panel discussion on children's issues. (eNS photo)

Where an aging parent can live

By Monica and Bill Dodds Does it have to be black or white, one or the other: at home alone or in a nursing home?

Unfortunately, some families think those are their only choices when deciding where an aging parent can live.

The truth is, those are simply the two extremes on a broad spectrum of choices. Within that range are a host of options to examine and evaluate.

If you are the adult child of an aging parent who appears to need more care, the first step is to ask your parent what he or she would like.

Does Mom want to stay in the family home? Would Dad prefer to move to an apartment?

Sometimes a parent feels that the cost and energy neededJo keep up the house is getting to be too much. It would be a relief to no longer have that responsibility, but there is the fear that the next and only - step is a nursing home.

If your parent wants to stay put but needs more help, a number of services are available in most communities. If it's simply a matter of Mom or Dad getting out more often and being with others in a supervised setting, adult day care may be the answer.

If in-home help is needed, there are not just visiting nurses, but visiting physical therapists; occupational therapists and other medical assistance.

Home care (such as shopping, laundry, cooking, cleaning) and personal care (such as bathing) can also be arranged.

Many senior citizens are able to stay in their own homes with only a minimum of assistance.

Or you may need someone to be with your parent during the night.

This type of assistance is available in many communities.

One option is a home-sharing program that matches elders who remain in their own homes with others looking for a place to live.

In some cases the tenant pays rent. In others, a barter system is set up. For instance, ,the tenant takes care of the shopping and . cooking and is always there during, the night.

Another choice is an ,"adult family home." Licensed by the state, this provides a family setting for the elderly person and assistance with particular needs - such as bathing or monitoring and taking medication.

There are also retirement communities designed for and restricted to senior citizens. Here there might

be planned activities but not services.

A retirement home often has a range of services - and costs from a private apartment with limited services such as meals and housekeeping to complete skilled nursing care. This is known as "assisted living."

An elderly person might enter at one level and as it becomes necessary begin to get more and more help. And pay more and more money.

If the retirement home is a "rental residence," there is no entry fee but the tenant pays a monthly amount, which can be steep.

Ai a "life care residence," the tenant actually buys into the place with a large sum and then pays a monthly fee.

Prices, methods of payment and services can vary. Don't be afraid to ask a lot of questions when visiting a retirement facility.

Be sure to find out if any expenses will be covered by Medicare. And don't be afraid to raise this topic with an aging parent who is still living at home and doing well.

Helping Mom and Dad investigate the options available before those options are needed can go a long way in alleviating undue anxiety and misconceptions.

Things that don't happen here

By Catherine Haven Just as Catholic girls don't get pregnant outside of marriage, teen violence does not happen in Catholic schools.

Nor do Catholic high school teens drink or do drugs. And of course our students do not test HIV-positive.

That means Catholic schools have not had to deal with social issues or with dysfunctional families. Therefore, money generally allocated for tho'se programs (counseling, teacher in-service training, etc.) is funneled into higher teacher wages and handson teaching materials.

And now I'd like to sell you tickets to St. Christopher's grave!

It would be nice if we could shel-' ter our children from life's difficult lessons. But we can't.

The timeworn complaint from now 40- and 50-something alumni is that Catholic schools were too protective, not talking about child or sexual abuse, or family alcoholism, or teen pregnancy. But if the truth be told, almost no one in society back then was very devoted to talking openly about such matters. They were all dark secrets.

Whether by choice or not, all schools today - Catholic schools included - have had to deal more openly with the sometimes lessthan-perfect away-from-school lives of their students. We know that parents drink, that children may be abused and that girls get pregnant and have abortions.

Schools also deal today with a less-than-perfect classroom environment. Sometimes that brutal reality hits us right on the bridge of the nose, and it hurts. A stray bullet at a summer graduation party kills a teenage girl. An athletic coach commits suicide. A youth leader is accused of molestation.

Reality hit hard at a suburban all-boys Catholic prep school recently when a student was beaten and died following an altercation over a girl at a school dance. No guns or knives were used, but the sheer brutality of the attack -four,

boys on one - stunned the school, student body and parents.

"Sure, we used to fight when we were in school," one parent said, "but not so violently that we could kill someobody. The Sharks and the Jets belong only in the movies."

Catholic schools shouldn't shelter us from everyday life or pretend bad things don't happen.

-So, a Dominican sister and a social worker initiate a hew program to help inner-city kindergarteners learn how to deal peacefully with anger and conflict.

-Some high school kids encourage drivers to tie red ribbons

on their car antennae as reminders not to drink and drive.

-And a grief counseling session helps youngsters cope with the death of friends or family.

Were we to deny that social problems are resting on our doorsteps, we'd be just as dysfunctional as the families we're trying to help.

The greatest service a Catholic school can provide is to teach students and parents how to deal with problems in a positive, Christian manner.

When bad things happen to good people, parents and students have a right to expect a Christian response.

The perfect wedding gift

By Dan Morris You might say one of my more creative ideas appeared recently as a light bulb above my head just as my wife asked, "What's the expiration date on our VISA card? I'm going to phone in an order for a place setting of my niece's china for her wedding."

She then told me what said setting would cost. After the blood returned to my face, I questioned aloud if it was the VISA's expiration or mine she was seeking.

"Isn't there something less pricey we could get them - like a European holiday or something?"

I managed.

"Like what?" she inquired.

I heId up the newspaper. "A light bulb," I told her. "This California company is marketing light bulbs that use one-fourth the energy of regular ones, and they'll last more than 20,000 hours - more than a lot of marriages."

She rolled her eyes'. "I can see the excited look in Kristin's eyes now as she opens the present.

'Wow, a light bulb from my favorite aunt and cheapskate uncle.'"

"Laugh if you will," I said, "but these things could 'become so valuable they'll be handed down to children like silverware, furniture and.your family's overbite."

I could tell by the way she was dialing the phone she was not taking me seriously.

"Think about it!" I went on. "At $10 to $20 a pop, people will be insuring their light bulbs, naming them in divorce settlements, bragging to the neighbors about how many they own."

The more I thought about it, the more sense it made - with the possible exception of having to keep a guard dog around to protect the porch light.

"We'd be making Kristin and What's His Name leaders of their generation - technologically advanced, energy efficient, able to avoid fights over who burned out the garage light."

Meanwhile spouse was finishing her phone order: "And my husband would like to add a set of candleholders with the longburning candles. Nothing like a little candlelight romance in mar~ riage."

I saw the light. I told her the expiration date.

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JEFFREY T. COX, right, a seminarian of the diocese of Fall River, plays the part of Richard Rich in a production of "A Man for All Seasons," to be presented at 8 p.m. April I through 3 in the Bishop Peterson Chapel of St. John's Seminary, Brighton. Joseph Mozer, left, of the Boston archdiocese, plays the lead role of Sir Thomas More in the Robert Bolt dramatization of More's opposition to the marriage of England's King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn.

. The Diocesan CYO All-Star Basketball Tournament was held Feb. 28 to March 7, with junior, prep and senior boys' teams and junior girls' teams competing.

The junior boys' division played Feb. 28 at the Fall River CYO Hall. In preliminary games, Fall River defeated Taunton 62-55 and New Bedford defeated Attleboro 55-40. New Bedford captured the championship, defeating Fall River 68-50 in the final game. David White of New Bedford was named most valuable player; and the alltournament team was composed of Tim Davin and Mike Pereira of Fall River, Mike Landenberger of Attleboro, and Jason Gracia and Mike Santos of New Bedford.

The prep boys tournament was held Feb. 28 at Taunton Catholic Middle School. Taunton defeated Fall River 73-70, with Eric Ferris of Taunton named most valuable player. Named to the all-tournament team were Taunton's Chris Borden and Mike Grasley and Fall River's Tom Ferreira, Nathan Charrette and Clinton Choate.

The junior girls tournament took place March 3 at the Fall River CYO Hall. Fall River defeated New Bedford 54-31 in game I and went on to win 57-25 over Attleboro in game 2. Named to the alltournament team were Karyn Lima of Attleboro, Debbie Souza of New Bedford, and Kim Brizado, Jodi Perreira and Tracy Jackson of Fall River. Rachel Maltais of .

Fall River was named most valuable player.

At the Kennedy CYO Center in New Bedford on March 7, the New Bedford senior boys' team defeated Fall River 80-70. All-tournament players were Paul Tavares and Gary Turner of Fall River and Bill Johnson and Charles DePina of New Bedford. Ryan Fermino was the most valuable player.

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13 publishers to issue catechism WASHINGTON (CNS) Forming a baker~s dozen, 13 U.S. publishers will jointly publish the sole authorized English version of the "Catechism of the Catholic Church."

It is the first time so many different U.S. publishers have come together on a single project.

Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston, in charge of the English translation project, said the translation process was in itli final weeks and the text would be sent to the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Iffinal approval comes from the Vatican in April, copies of the text should be available for sale in June, allowing about two months for printing and binding.

The USCC publications office, which will have its own edition of the catechism in addition to coor. dinating editions of 12 other pub-

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It will be about 600 pages text, plus an index and over 3,500 footnotes and citations.

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MEMBERS OF th~i93'8~~~du;tingclass of the Wadowice high school pose for a picture.

The future Pope John Paul II is at the left of the second row from the bottom; his friend Jerzy Kluger is fourth from left in the same row. (eNS photo)

Boyhood friend recalls pope's yo.uth VATICAN CITY (CNS) - To understand Pope John Paul II, it helps to know the story of his longlost Jewish friend.

That's the premise of a new book that offers a fresh glimpse at the young Karol Wojtyla through the recollections of Jerzy Kluger, who grew up with the future pontiff in Wadowice in southern Po, land.

Kluger, the son of the p.resident of the Wadowice Jewish community, recalls Wojtyla - whom he still calls "Lolek" or "Chuck" - as an unflinching defender of local .Jews even as anti-Semitic episodes erupted ahead of World War II. For example, when a woman saw the two young friends chatting in the Wadowice cathedral one day and questioned the Jewish boy's presence there, Wojtyla burst out laughing and remarked:" Aren't we all God's children?"

Pope John Paul was the first pontiff to visit a synagogue, he called Jews the "elder brothers" of Christians, and he launched an unprecedented diplomatic dialogue with Israel. He has spoken movingly about the Holocaust, particularly at the Auschwitz death camp located only 20 miles from his hometown.

To those who wonder why the pope has a special sensitivity to Jewish issues, this slim book offers some tantalizing clues. Titled "Letter to a Jewish Friend," it was written by Italian journalist Gian Franco Svidercoschi based on interviews with Kluger, who now resides in Rome.

Kluger recalls that pre-war Wadowice was about 20 percent Jewish. As a soccer goalie, young "Lolek" Wojtyla contended with the highest scorer, a Jewish boy; his drama mentor was a Jewish actress who lived in the same apartment building; his Jewish school chums were well-accepted until ultranationalist movements arose in the late 1930s.

Their collective childhood was innocent, in contrast to the dramatic events soon to be visited upon their generation. Kluger describes how he, Wojtyla and others would swim in the Skawa River on hot summer evenings; or, in winter, play hockey on an iced-over tennis court (he remembers Karol cutting his forehead during one hard-fought game).

As older boys, they would

High school graduation came, sometimes ski on a nearoy mounand at the party Karol Wojtyla tain but had to be careful of wolves. danced with beautiful blonde HalIn warmer days they hiked to old ina Krolikiewicz. Some people at Mrs. Huppert's farm and ate apples, the time speculated on a sentimencherries or strawberries - and tal attachment between the two, sometimes their stomachs paid for Kluger remembers. it.

Soon afterward came the war Jerzy Kluger studied with his and the German invasion of Pofriend at the Wojtyla's secondland. Jerzy fled in an odyssey that floor apartment; he remembers would take him to Ukraine, Iraq, there was always a rolled-up rag Siberia and eventually Italy. Karol路 on the floor, used as a soccer ball studied at the Krakow underground in games between Karol and his seminary. The two lost touch father. By this time Karol's mother until one day in 1965, when Kluger, and elder brother had died. living if} Rome, read in a newsKluger says he considered Karol paper tilat a certain "Archbishop "a special type" even then. "He Karol Wojtyla" had given a speech was first in school, in the theater, at the Second Vatican Council. in everything. If he had gone to "I didn't路 even know he was a General Motors, he would have priest," Kluger said. He phoned become president," he said ..

Karol played hard but some- Rome's Polish clergy house: and times abruptly left, saying "It's left a message for his. old friend. A few hours later, the two embraced time to study." . on a Rome street. Kluger says the Kluger recalls that he sat behind pope's words will always stick in Karol during final exams one year his mind: "One day, Jews and and requested in a whisper to see Christians should meet again like his paper. The future pope at first this." ignored him, but in the end moved They filled each other in on the aside so that Jerzy could copy.

When Kluger thanked him after- fate of old acquaintances. Kluger ward, Karol merely gave him "an related the tragic story of his own family - how his mother, his ironic smile."

One night in Wadowice, Kluger grandmother and his little sister, recounts, an ultranationaltl;t group Tesia, were seized by Nazis and died at Auschwitz. Wojtyla covered picketed Jewish shops and shouted his eyes to hide his grief and said, slogans in the main square. The next day at school, their history "Your poor mother ... and Tesia.

What a horrible end." professor quoted Polish poet Adam Since then, the friends have kept Mickiewicz, who had written that in touch. When the pope visited the Jew is the Christian's "older the Rome synagogue in 1986, brother." It was a phrase Wojtyla Kluger was there. In 1989, the would use in his historic visit to pope wrote Kluger a moving letter Rome's synagogue nearly 50 years recalling their childhood and asked later. him to read it at a ceremony comWojtyla was one of six youths memorating the Nazi destruction who always defended Jews against of the Wadowice synagogue. Kluger propaganda campaigns of the had decided never to return to his 1930s, Kluger said. Karol used to homeland, but the pope's letter quote the local canon's sermons, persuaded him to go. insisting that "to be anti-Semitic is Kluger's recollections help to be anti-Christian."

Karol was the best actor in his explain an enigmatic remark the class, coached by Ginka Beer, des- . pope made in 1991 to members of the small Jewish community in cribed by Kluger as "a Jewish girl Warsaw. The pope said that while with stupendous dark eyes and most Jews were forced to flee black hair, tall. slender and a great Poland or were killed there, "the actress." With the spread of prewar anti-Semitism, Ginka emigrat- human past does not disappear."

It was important to recall the ed to Jerusalem in 1938.

Kluger recalls how he and Woj- tragic history of the Jews, but also tyla went to the train station with to remember"the good things that Ginka, who told them: "My coun- occurred in our mutual relations," try is in Palestine now." Karol was he said.

"After all, a lot of good things upset at her departure, but deeply touched by the attachment of Jews happened," the" pope said. His friend Jerzy would certainly agree. to Israel, Kluger says.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II, in a move to heal church divisions in Switzerland, named two auxiliaries for a diocese where the bishop has been contested by much of his flock.

The pope said he was taking the step after "long reflection and prayer" over the situation in the diocese of Chur. He asked Swiss bish~ps to welcome the two new prelates and help them "win the hearts of the people."

The pope announced the appointments in an unusual letter to the head of the Swiss bishops' conference, Bishop Pierre Mamie, and the Vatican made the letter public - another unusual move.

The pope said he wanted the entire Swiss church to be aware of why he made the appointments: to "help reestablish full communion" in a diocese torn. by pastoral discord.

Five years ago, the pope's appointment of Bishop Wolfgang Haas to Chur sparked protests from priests and lay people, who said the bishop was too authoritarian and too conservative. In 1991 'the pope named a special envoy to study the impasse.

In his letter, the pope said the new auxiliaries had distinguished themselves for their "human, priestly and pastoral qualities" as well as for their love of their church and country.

Named as auxiliaries were: - Jesuit Father Peter Henrici, 64, currently dean of the theological faculty at Rome's Gregorian University.

- Father Paul Vollmar, 58, provincial for Swiss Marianist fathers and a spiritual adviser at the country's main seminary.

The pope said he was convinced that, for the moment, naming the auxiliaries was the best solution to the difficulties.

Bishop Haas was first named coadjutor bishop for Chur and became head of the diocese when his predecessor retired in 1990. He encountered immediate protests including demonstrations during his Mass of episcopal ordination and the ringing of church bells in opposition to his leadership.

Bishop Haas said in 1991 that two of his policies were especially unpopular: restructuring of the local seminary and limiting use of general absolution.

Boxing champ meets pope VATICAN CITY (CNS) Camera lights flashing and people yelling are normal occurrences at Pope John Paull I's weekly general audience, but part of the commotion Feb. 24 was for the world heavyweight boxing champ who wanted a papal blessing.

Riddick Bowe, 25, holder of the World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation titles, spoke with the pope at the .: end of the audience.... _ . Bowe told reporters later that he thought a papal blessing would be "a great symbol" to cap a weeklong trip he made to Africa to publicize famine relief efforts.

The champ said he is still questioning his religious identity.

"I believe in God, but I don't have a denomination," he added.

Bowe's manager, Rock Newman, introduced the fighter to the pope and explained that they had just been in Somalia where Bowe gave $100,000 to the relief organization AmeriCare.

"He blessed me and said what I was doing was 'very good,'" said Bowe, who stood head and shoulders above the pontiff.

When asked why he went to Africa, Bowe said, "I thought it would be nice to help people in Somalia."

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thing back," he said. "I've been blessed."

The champ said a rematch with Evander Holyfield, from whom he won the heavyweight title last November, is "real possible."

Newman said talks are ongoing with Holyfield and with officials in Las Vegas and Kenya, two possible sites for the bout.

Bowe entered the Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall five minutes .bef.ore.. the .pope and was threefourths of the way to his front-row seat before anyone recognized him.

Photo flashes and autograph requests for Bowe lasted a few minutes, but the pope's entrance .proved who was the hometown favorite. The visitors roared, camera lights went off like popcorn over high heat, and it took Pope John Paul more than 15 minutes to wade through the crowd to the stage.

Bowe's blessing came an hour and 45 minutes later, after the pope spoke, offered greetings in II languages, and posed for photographs with an Italian choir and one from Holy Family Church, Decatur, Mich.

Interfaith parley VATICAN CITY (CNS) Christian, Muslim and Jewish experts will meet this spring in Switzerland to discuss the spiritual significance of Jerusalem, Vatican officials said. The meeting is a step toward "creating a climate of understanding" on the issue of Jerusalem's meaning for all three religions, said Bishop Michael Fitzgerald, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, who will attend the conference for the Vatican.

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Pro-life Mass is planned Continued from Page One Bishop O'Malley, who has participated in the March every year since its beginning, is already planning with Father Fernandes to lead a diocesan pilgrimage to the prayer vigil and March next year.

The apostolate also reports that 80,000 Catholics in the Fall River diocese, representing 85 percent of parishes, mailed postcards to Congress opposing the Freedom of Choice Act during the Jan. 24 National Project Life campaign.

The legislation would eliminate

restrictions on abortion nationwide.

Prize movies NEW YORK (CNS) - "Howards End" and "Lorenzo's Oil" are among movies named to receive 1993 Christopher Awards. The awards are given annually to producers, directors, writers and illustrators whose work exemplifies "the highest values of the human spirit," according to the New York-based Christophers.

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has been pastor of the rapidly Baltimore and the North Ameri- growing St. Mary's parish in Mansfield. can College in Rome.

He has held many diocesan apHe was ordained in Rome Dec. pointments including those of 16, 1956, by Archbishop Martin chaplain for the Daughters of IsaO'Connor and thereafter was pabella in North Attleboro and of rochial vicar at St. Mary's parish, the New Bedford Guild for the North Attleboro, and St. Francis Blind. He directed both the former of Assisi, New Bedford, before' St. Mary's Home, New Bedford, being named administrator of St. and St. Vincent's Home, Fall Bernard parish, Assonet, in 1974.

River, and was among priests givFrom 1977 to 1981 he was pastor ing Pre-Cana marriage preparaofSt. James parish, New Bedford, tion'conferences in New Bedford and from 1981 to the present he in the 1970s.

He is an advocate for the diocesan marriage tribunal, a member of the diocesan Presbyteral Council and dean of the Attleboro deanery of the diocese.

Msgr. Annunziato's parents, Michael and Angelina (Greco) Annunziato, are deceased. He has sister, Mrs. George Oldfield, and three brothers, John, Amalio and Michael. The latter is a member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts and is pastor of Sacred Heart parish, Edinburg, Tex. '

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Mother may be pro-life saint Continued from Page One my baby to live," she told a friend before the surgery.

The surgery took place, leaving the uterine cavity intact. She returned home and prayed for the strength to give birth, said Father Rossi. She even refused sedatives to ease her pain for fear the medication couid hurt the unborn child. he added.

Before entering the hospital to give birth, she told her husband, Pietro Molla: "If you must decide between me and the baby. do not

hesitate. Choose - and I demand it - the baby."

Dr. Molla gave birth April 21.

1962, the day before Easter, and her daughter is still living. The mother died April 28, 1962.

Gianna Beretta was born Oct. 4, 1922, in the northern Italian city of Magenta, the 10th of 13 children.

She received her medical degree from the University of Pavia in 1949 and specialized in pediatrics at the University of Milan in 1952.

In 1955 she married Molla, an engineer.

Apostleship of Prayer still thrives PHILADELPHIA(CNS)- The about 100 million people around international Apostleship of Prayer the world who daily dedicate ·continues to grow after more than themselves to God by praying the 150 years, but one of its leaders offering, but he said this practice says he is more interested in im- could be done simply from habit, proving the movement than adding since many have learned the practice from Catholic school, or in more members to it.

"We don't want growth. We're .their families or parishes.

"I don't suppose there are a looking for fruit-bearing capability, and that means pruning back," hundred million people who pray said Jesuit Father John Vessels, specifically each day for the pope's international secretary for the intention, but that is the fruitbearing objective that we have in Apostleship of Prayer. mind."

In the interview,"Father Vessels According to Father Vessels, described the prayer movement as the Apostleship of Prayer is growa ministry which involves millions ing more in Africa and Asia than . of Catholics praying for specific in North and South America. He intentions for the entire church. said it benefits the universal church Particip~nts pledge to carry out because of the "worldwide comdaily prayers called the morning munion of prayer of scores of miloffering and evening review and lions praying at the same time for commit themselves to devotions to the same particular intention." the Sacred Heart. They also pray He said specific ministries ofthe for the pope's monthly intentions church - such as evangelization, and are encouraged to frequently community building and parish receive communion. life - are strengthened by the Father Vessels said there are prayer ministry.

As of early March the Vatican had not set a date for the papal Mass at which she will be officially beatified. After the beatification ceremony, another miracle attributed to her intercession has to be approved by the Vatican for her to be declared a saint.

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Mar. 12, 1993

By Charlie Martin

DO YOU BELIEVE IN US?

By Christopher Carstens As teens get into, high school, their parents typically give, them more trust and freed9m. As parents learn that their teens can be trusted, it's easy to give them more time on their own, without direct adult supervision.

Parents of high ,school juniors or seniors now quite commonly leave their tee'ns entirely on their own for a night or two. Sometimes it works out well- but not always.

Since last fall, four kids I know personally have gotten into similar problems. It starts out innocently enough. "Mom and Dad are away tonight. I'll have a few of my friends over for a little get-together.

What could go wrong?"

Here's what could go wrong.

Before first period, you invite five or six people you know well. "M om and Dad are out of town and I'm having a party tonight.. Keep it quiet." High schools being what they are, the word immediately gets passed along to a few kids who mention it to some of their friends after second period.

By lunch, 320 kids have heard , that there's a party at your house, tonight, and that your parents won't be there. So as you and your friends sit down that night .for some popcorri and rented videos, the doorbell rings.

There are two guys from school at the door. "We heard you were having a party." You don't want to be unsociable, so you invite them in. It doesn't seem like a big problem - until the fifth time the doorbell rings, annoucing the arr.ival of yet another group of "friends."

While you're making popcorn for all these extra people, somebody brings a case of beer in the back door. Pretty soon kids are

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drinking all over the house. Soon you realize that you've never seen half the people now playing loud music and drinking your parents' liquor.

It's scary to watch the house fill up with drunks as your driveway becomes a landing zone for pickup trucks filled with strangers who heard that things were getting lively over at your house.

But I don't need to make this stuff up. The following events have really happened in the homes of teenagers I know personally, just since last summer.

One kid watched in horror as his house filled, with over 60 kids, many of whom he'd never met.

For more than an hour he begged them to go, but they wouldn't leave.

When they finally went away, more than $12,000 damage had been done'to the home. Among other things, five guys had used the family'S antique pool table as a trampoline,jumping up and down until it fell to the floor, completely destroyed.

Another improvised party ended when the police were called because a brawl broke out on the street.

At a third party, teens as young as 13 were drinking till they passed out. The "host" didn't know who brought the beer or who the kids drinking it were, but she was scared stiff until they careened off into the night, leaving her to clean up the mess before her parents got home.

Just recently, I heard a new one.

This fellow had a party, and the kids who showed up not only got drunk, they cleaned out the house.

They stole the family's VCR, camcorder, jewelry, stereo equi pment.

They even took a pair of his dad's shoes!

The moral is simple. Having grownups around helps keep things safe. If you have a party when your parents are gone, it can get ouCof control and you'll find yourself in trouble you hadn't imagined. Don't do it.

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I tremble inside Just thinking About the world around us Scared, ca'n't help to wonder Don't want any changes About the way we feel.

Do you know what I mean?

Catch me I'm falling Say it's gonna be all right It's gonna be all right.

I know that we belong Do you believe in us?

Just give it half a chance.

Time has redefined the meaning of love The way we know it Love, the way that we show it I don't want any changes When it comes to you I like us the way it is No matter what happens Say it's gonna be all right It's gonna be all right.

Yes our love Will still be strong , Girl, I believe in us 111 give you all I can.

I don't want any changes Unless'you want them too Forever ain't long enough, baby Nothing can change us Say it's gonna be all right It's gonna be all right.

Written by Jon Secada and Miguel A. Norejon. Sung by Jon Secada (c) 1992 by SBK Records 1

"DO YOU Believe in Us?" is Jon Secada's second hit off his debut album. Once more, his strong vocal abilities shine through. I suspect that Secada is headed to that magical place called "pop music stardom."

The song describes how fear can affect a relationship. The guy in the song feels very positive about his romance. but 'appears to fear that something will break him apart from his girlfriend, He says. "I don't want any

changes," He seeks· assurance' from her that "no matter what happens, say it's gonna be all right." He asks his girl, "Do you believe in us?"

Unfortunately, his fears lead him to make unrealistic requests.

Instead of trying to keep everything the same, this couple would benefit from honest dialogue about why this guy fears change.

His biggest fear seems to be that his' girlfriend will leave him. There may be reasons for

the fear. Perhaps she has indicated that she needs the freedom to date others.

Maybe he has been rejected by other girls. Further, he could have endured hurtful experiences in his childhood that keep him from trusting the girl that he now loves.

Fear can make us worry excessively, filling us with anx.ious thought. In such a mental state, we are not likely to keep love alive and growing.

The other person will feel the lack of trust and probably grow to resent this attitude. Fear can "also control us as we attempt to force everything to work out according to what we want and desire.

Either of these two behaviors - mistrusting or attempting to control others - are ways to sabotage love. However; there are ways to minimize fear's power in our lives, - First, recognize and express that you are afraid. Tell the other person what you feel.

Emotions begin to lose their intensity when we get them out in the open.

- Next, determine if your current anxiety relates to anything in your past. Many times we bring to our current relationships hidden feelings connected to what occurred in our past.

Don't discount a painful experience just because it happened a long time ago. If you have not faced the hurt that occurred then, it is still alive in you, Consider talking with someone professionally trained to help others get beyond storedup hurts.

- Finally, remember the words in Scripture about how love heals fear. Ask God to be your guide and friend as you face the fear within you. Pray for the strength to be kind and loving toward yourself.

All of us experience fear, and even, at times, mistrust. Yet, fear's tyranny can be diminished.

As we lessen fear, our hearts make more room' for the love and joy that we most want to find in life.

Your comments are welcomed

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

Bishop Connolly There's going to be a shootout at Bishop Connolly High Schooland the Fall River Police Association will be involved! They've challenged the Fall River high school's faculty to a basketball game to be held 7:30 p.m. March 17. All are welcome.

The Connolly chapter of the National Honor Society will hold its annual blood drive 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. March 15 in the resource center. Persons wishing to donate blood may call 676-1071.

After four excruciating sudden death overtimes, Bishop Connolly's hockey team defeated defending state champ Westwood 3-2 to become the Division III Eastern Conference Champions. The Connolly Cougars were slated to meet Oakmont Regional to determine the new state champion. .

The staff of Paw Prints, Bishop Connolly's literary magazine, has publish«;d this year's second volume of original works by students and staff. Included are poems, essays, short stories and artwork. , Contributors are Timothy Gas-

TUX TRIO: Sharp-looking Bishop Connolly High School students Joe Mendez, Pedro Fernandes and Shawn Levesque were among participants in the school's spring fashion show luncheon held March 7. Juniors and seniors, as well as faculty members, modeled inthe event, chaired by Maureen Donnelly and JoAnn Ryder. tall, Kevin Paiva, Bethany Sullivan, Melanie Arruda, and Laurie Leal.

Also, Andre Desautels, Tanya Paquette, Susan Soares, Phillip' Keefe, Benjamin Chase, Benjamin Goldenbloome and Jeffrey Wagner.

David Morey is faculty moderator.

Jamie Caron of Swansea and Rita Kane of Middletown, ,RI, have been '1amed scholar soccerplayers and Kathryn ,Marino of

Warren, Rl, has been named a scholar-basketball player for the 1993 World Scholar-Athlete Games.

Two thousand students ages 16 to 19 from all over the U.S. and over 50 other countries will participate in basketball, soccer, tennis, sailing, art, singing or writing events in Newport, RI, 'and at,the University of Rhode Island be'tween June 20 and July I.

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SCIEN CE FAIR WINNERS: Three eighth-graders won top honors at Dominican Academy's science fair last month. They are (standing, from left) Mary Noone, whose project on optical illusions, "Get Wise to Lying Eyes," took. first place; ~ary Minstrell, second-prize winner for "Every Breath You Take," a project on asthma; and Kathryn Elbert, third place for The Effect of Phospates on Pond Life." , Honorable mentions went to (seated; from left): seventh-graders Paula Elbert, Karen Carreiro and Jennie Wrobel, and eighth-graders H oIly Brooder and Alyshia Allaire. All will represent their Fall River school at a regional science fair March 13 and 14 at Bristol Community College, Fall River.

At right, science fair judge Carlos Santos hears Mary Noone's presentation.

Bishop Feehan High School Sophomores and juniors at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, heard Sister Zita Foley and Bob McBride speak about AIDS from a faith perspective during a Feb. 5 program. The speakers are affiliated with the Boston archdiocesan AIDS Ministry Office.

Sister Foley reminded the students that there are only four known ways of contracting HIV: through sexual contact (with an infected person), through drug abuse (sharing contaminated needles or other drug-related items), pregnancy or breastfeeding by a woman infected with the AIDS virus, and blood transfusions (rareIya means of AIDS infection since 1985).

McBride, in his early 30s, contracted HIV in 1979 and was diagnosed as having AIDS in 1987.

Since that time he has dedicated his life to AI DS education, meeting with students and adults across Massachusetts to share his story as a way of saving lives. His purpose is to challenge the many myths about AIDS and about those with

AIDS, and to give students an opportunity to ask any questions they might have on this issue.

The students listened in complete silence as McBride talked.

He stresseg that "people with AI DS are not bad people, they are sick people." As Christians we need to ask ourselves "What can we do to respond to people who need us?

This is, after all, what the Gospel of Jesus Christ is all about." The answer must be to give compassionate care and to do all we can to insure that the virus is not spread.

Our response should be what Jesus' would be, to love, said McBride.

with themselves. A prerequisite of "making love" is the 'ability to first love oneself unconditionally and then, and only then to be willing to share that with another. McBride's words of advice to teens were to begin to look for nonsexual ways of sharing love. Suggested ways to say "I love you" were to be a friend, to lend an ear to someone who needs to talk, and to go out of one's way to help someone.

Following the hour-long presentation, McBride and Sister Foley encouraged students to remain behind if they had any further questions about AIDS. Many students took advantage of the opportunity. Plans are in the works to have both speakers return for presentations to the freshmen and senior classes.

The point was made that in the near future every person will know someone with AIDS, and we will all have our lives touched by it in some way. Since we know today how to prevent the spread of AI DS The Bishop Feehan library is the answer lies in education and in literally on the move. Plans are in making the wisest possible choices. the works to move the present With regard to sexual behavior, library, located in the main buildMcBride stressed that teens are ing, to an adjacent building known not able to truly "make love" with . as the Nazareth Center. This trananother teen because they have sition will mean greater space for not yet completely "fallen 'in love" books, periodicals and computers.

Boyle's work, "Useable Calcium in Breakfast Cereal," was judged the best by the 25 judges who evaluated the many research projects displayed at the fair.

Second place went to sophomore Peter Fletcher of Bridgewater for "Mo'isture Content of Soil Column Segments and Content of Potassium, Nitrate, Ammonium, and Phosphorous in Leachate."

Third prize went to senior Jeffrey Tenney of Tauton for "Chromium: An Essential Element for Life." , Honorable mentions were given to junior Lisa Freitas of Taunton for her project on acid rain; , sophomore Michael Fournier of Somerset on his research of heat and the electrolysis of water; and freshman James Hammond of Middleboro for "Can Drosophil Adapt to Pesticides?"

These projects will be entered in SAMANTHA HAMthe upcoming regional science fair.

MOND, a member of CoyleThe C-C Science Fair was coorCassidy's Health Education dinated by the Coyle-Cassidy and Peer Leadership group, Science Department, headed by makes a presentation to fresh- James Rusconi, and judges were science majors from area colleges, men.

science teachers, and other area professionals.

Senior Theresa Watson of Taunton recently represented Taunton in the state's Young Woman of the Year program.

During the February vacation Miss Watson was hard at work in Hyannis preparing for the state finals held Feb. 19 and 20.

The women arrived on the Cape Feb. 14 and met their host families for their stay. During the course of the week, Miss Watson and other contestants made personal appearances at restaurants and saw the Kennedy Compound. It was at the Compound that Miss Watson played her talent piece, Richard Addinsell's "Themes from the Warsaw Concerto," on the piano.

Later in the day, the contestants were guests of the Hyannis Rotary Club at their weekly luncheon.

In addition to morning practices, the personal appearances continued on Thursday and Friday as the women performed a rap routine at the "Best Your Best Self' program at the Day Care Center and the YMCA. They also took

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When the move is complete, hopefully by the end of this academic year, all study halls will also be moved over to the new library so as to provide better student access to the resources necessary for learning.

Just this month a CD ROM, IBM compatible computer was purchased as well as many useful CD ROM programs. Students now have at their fingertips computer access to SIRS program, the full ClI993 CNS Graphics texts of some 107 United States Ust courtesy ot Variety history texts and many other programs.

Future plans are to -place the Students in Nancy Ricci's first card catalog also on the computer. grade class at SI. James-SI. John For now students can call up and School, New Bedford, recently print out whole or partial excerpts staged "The Three Little Pigs" for from texts, cross reference and parents and fellow students. obtain complete bibliographies.

Each student in the class had an The library is staffed by two active role in the play, and all part-time and one full-time librar- ' pitched in to make scenery and ian: Sheila Haskins, the head li- props, complete with the straw, brarian, is enrolled in a graduate stick and brick houses; forest program in library science at greenery and flowers, and masks Bridgewater State College. Assist- for the pig and wolf characters. ing her in the school library are - Following their own stage debut, faculty members Diane Crane and the class visited the Zeiterion Ann Ulrich.

Theatre Feb. 23 to see "Hansel and Gretel. "

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Activities concluded on Friday and Saturday with the pagaent, at which the women were judged on their fitness routine, presence, composure, and talent.

"Although I did not receive any scholarships on the state level," Miss Watson said, "I did not leave the program emptyhanded. The friendships I gained and the experiences of the program are things which will not soon be forgotten."

Members of Coyle-Cassidy's Health Education-Peer Leadership group taught freshmen health education classes in January and February.

The peer group is comprised of juniors and seniors who have studied problems of drug and alcohol abuse, sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS in sessions taught

by Karen Pehrson, MS, RNC. She is a psychiatric clinical nurse at Charlton Memorial Hospital, Fall River and specialist in adolescent health issues.

Peer group members were trained to be discussion leaders and instructed in techniques such as

value clarification and role playing. These techniques have been successful in the classroom.

"These classes have increased my awareness of these health issues," said freshman Susan Bonney. "The group leaders are great because they face the same, pressures we do."

Marc Ferreira, also a freshman, feels that the peer leaders "have given us a lot of information about things that are 'out there.'"

The peer leaders are also benefiting from the positive effects of this program. "If the underclassmen see us doing the right thing," says senior Colleen Murphy, "then, they'll know that not everyone is out there doing drugs,_ alcohol, and having sex. The situations that we are walking them through will happen to them and they will know how to deal with them.

These kids need to know that someone is there for them. Hopefully we've done that."

Future plans for the group include presentations to sophomores.

The faculty advisors to the group are Kathy St. Laurent and Mary Ellen Stanghellini.

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CATHOLIC WOMEN, ATTLEBORO The first meeting of a new group for Catholic women from Attleboro area parishes will be a rosary, Benediction and social hour7 p.m. March 22 at St,. Joseph's Church, Attleboro.

APOSTOLATE FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES March Mass and social will be a day of recollection 2 to 5 p.m. March 28 at St. Vincent's Home, FR. Designed for both adults and children, it will focus on understanding Jesus' love during the Lenten season.

DCCW Taunton District open, meeting 7:30 p.m. March '22, Immaculate Conception Church hall, Taunton; Attorney Gerald D'Avolio, executive director of Massachusetts Catholic Conference, will speak on important state legislation. Refreshments follow.

Fall River District meeting 7:30 p.m. March 18, St. Patrick's Church hall, Somerset; Father Robert A. Oliveira, diocesan director of continuing formation oflaity and clergy, will speak.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN O.L. Assumption, NB, retreat today through Sunday. St. Mary, N B, confirmation retreat tomorrow.

St. Mary, S. Dartmouth, confirmation retreat Sunday.

MA COMMISSION FOR THE BLIND Employers may nominate outstandiog blind or visually-impaired employees for membership in the Carroll Society, named for Father Thomas Carroll, who developed opportunities in employment and rehabilitation for blind persons. In 1954, he founded the Carroll Center in Newton, a training site for the vision-impaired. Carroll Awards will be given to those selected for membership in the society on April 29.

Information: (617) 969-6200.

LaSALETTE CENTER, ATTLEBORO Lenten retreat March 12 to 14.

Holy Week retreat during Paschal Triduum April 8 to II, ending after breakfast Easter morning. Information: 222-8530.

ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS Discussion hour with Father John Powell, SJ, video series "Happiness is an Inside Job" 2:45 to 3:45 or 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Mondays, chapel.

Liturgy of the Hours 7 p.m. Wednesdays during Lent. Stations of the Cross 7 p.m. Fridays, chapel, and after 9 a.m. Mass at Church of the Visitation, Eastham.

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O.L. PURGATORY, NB The St. Joseph Sodality will celebrate its 75th anniversary beginning with a Mass 10 a.m. March 21.

Father Charbel Semaan, pastor, will preside. The St. Joseph Sodality, originally founded by the Jesuits in Rome, was instituted at Our Lady of Purgatory in 1918 by a group of parish women, most of them Lebaneseborn immigrants. Rev. Msgr. Joseph Shebaya wasthe sodality's founding spiritual advisor.

After a fire in 1933, the St. Joseph Sodality was the only parish society to persevere in its devotions and activities, using a temporary altar' for weekly devotions until a new church Was built in 1954.

The sodality's notable contributions have included a National Lebanese Supper in 1964 that brought together sodality members and parishioners of the Unitarian Church of New Bedford; cooking for haftis (church socials) and for bereaved families; contributions of ornate golden altar cloths and the altar of St. Joseph; and charitable donations.

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ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Workshop on centering pra~er 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. March 20 and 27; registration forms on bulletin board.

SACRED HEART, NB Rev.¡Angelus M. Shaughnessy, OFM Cap., will preach Lenten mission March 20 to 25. Sessions will be held at weekend Masses and at II a.m. weekdays, repeated at 7 p.m.

ST. ANNE, FR St. Anne novena service 3 p.m.

Sunday, followed by healing service.

GILBERT C. OLIVEIRA INS. AGENCY FEITELBERG INSURANCE AGENCY

LOWER CAPE ULTREY A Meeting 7:30 tonight, Our Lady of the Cape parish center, IBrewster; all welcome.

K. OF c., PROVINCETOWN A group of members of the Walter Welsh Council 2476 Knights of Columbus have formed a "Friends of the Alumni" committe'e to celebrate the 20th year of Provincetown High School Hockey. An anniversary hockey game featuring current team members against alumni will be held 6 p.m. March 31 at the Charles Moore Arena in Orleans.

Alumni wishing to play or for more information contact A.J. Santos, Box 585, Truro 02666.

A funeral was held Jan. 28 at St. Peter the Apostle Church, Provincetown for Domingos Pereira Perry, the oldest member of the Provincetown K. of e. and the oldest Provincetown fisherman. He was 100 years old.

Born in Algarve, Portugal, in 1892, he worked as a commerci.al fisherman when he came to the United States. He worked the "Grand Banks" on the fishing vessels "Perry Brothers," "Catherine P" and "Leah e."

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Father Al Dagnoli, SS.Ce.. will preach Lenten mission March 20 to 25; sessions at all weekend Masses, followed by Mass and conference 9 a.m. weekdays, repeated at 7 p.m.

Opportunityfor confession after each session and 2 to 3 p.m. daily in church.

CATHOLIC NURSES, CAPE-ISLANDS Cape Cod and Islands Chapter of Catholic Nurses will meet for Lenten program conducted by Msgr. John J. Smith 6:45 p.m. March 17, St. Pius X parish hall, S. Yarmouth.

Information: Dee Santos, 775-3371.

EMMAUS/GALILEE Coyle-Cassidy High School faculty member Carol Sypko will speak on "40 Days of Lent-A Personal Journey" at monthly Galilee meeting 7 p.m. Sunday, Neumann Hall, Cat~edral Camp, E. Freetown.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Lenten reconciliation service 7 p. m.

March 15; opportunity for individual confessions will follow.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Guest vocalist and string emsemble will accompany praying of Stations of the Cross 7 p. m. March 17.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM St. Patrick's Day celebration with song led by children's choir; Irish dancers, joke telling, surprises and refreshments 7 p.m. March 16.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FR Rev. Thomas McElroy, SS.CC., will preach Lenten mission March 14 to 18, including opportunity for confessions 7 p.m. March 17.

ST.STEPHEN,ATTLEBORO _ Lee Ghazil will speak about the New Hope agency at an open meeting of People for Life 7:30 p.m.

March 18, rectory meeting rooin.

D. of I. Hyacinth Circle 71 Daughters of Isabella meeting 7 p.m. March 16, Holy Name CCD center, NB. Program: Irish music with Christine Cleary.

They go too far

WASHINGTON (CNS) Public school district policies go beyond neutrality to discriminate against religion while attempting to keep church and state separate, attorneys in two cases have told the Supreme Court. In oral arguments attorneys said policies of . the Center Moriches Union Free School District in New York and the Catalina Foothills District in Mark Peterson, associate proArizona went so far to keep church fessor of government at Harvard and state separate that they were University, will speak in an in- hostile toward religion. In Zobrest stallment of the "Is Congress vs. Catalina Foothills, a'Tucson, Broken" lecture series at 7:30 p.m.

Ariz., family is suing the public March 19 in room 105 of the school for reimbu,rsement of costs Joseph W. Martin Institute for to provide a deaf boy with a sign Law and Society at Stont:hill Collanguage interpreter at a Catholic lege, North Easton. Professor high school. 'I n the New York case, Peterson is the author of Legislatan evangelical church asked to use ing Together: The White House a public school to show a film serand Capitol Hill/rom Eisenhower ies on family problems. to Reagan.

Martin Institute director James Kenneally, a history professor at Stonehill, will speak on "Joseph W. Martin Jr. and a Jewish National Homeland" at an open Sister Cla're Fitzgerald, SSND, meeting of the Easton Historical Society 7:30 p.m. March 24 in director of Boston College's CathoAlumni Hall. lic School Leadership Program, will speak on "Women in the For information on the above events call 230-1 120.

Church: New Horizons, New Roles . The fourth concert in the 1992for the 21st Century" at 7:30 p.m.

March 24 at Bishop Connolly High 93 E. Nakamichi Series will be presented at 8 p.m. March 23 in School, Fall River.

The event is sponsored by the the college's Chapel of Mary.

Organists Daniel Lamoureux school's Parents and Friends Club. and Margaret Angelini and narraSister Fitzgerald is a nationallyknown speaker on such topics as tor Chet Raymo will present organ the role of Catholic education and duets by Bach and Mozart and developing women's role in the pieces by Schubert, Kuhnau and church today. The program is free others. For information ,~all 230.and open to the public. For infor1487. , mation contact the school's develAll events are free, opl:n to the opment office at 676-1476. public and handicapped accessible.

Stonehill College

Women's role in church 'is topic