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Copenhagen summit pleases Vatican COPENHAGEN, Denmark (CNS) - After bargaining that went into the wee hours, the Vatican agreed to support the conclusions of the World Summit on Social Development in Copenhagen.

"We share the consensus, and overall we are pleased with the documents," said Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls, a member of the Vatican delegation to the March 6-12 meeting.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano, addressing the summit March 12, pledged the Vatican would join the participating nations "and all men and women of good will in the task of charting a new era of cooperation for the integral devdopme'nt of humanity."

The summit, which brought together delegates from some 170 nations, had as its main goals elimination of poverty, cn:ation ofjobs and inclusion of aU people in society.

Under those three headings, the summit touched evelrything from the foreign debt burden of developing countries to situations in ed ucation and employment in which women are discriminated against.

The last hurdle faced by the Vatican in getting a docu ment it could support was convincing other delegations to recognize the rights of parents in overseeing the sex education and health services provided to their children, Navarro-Valls said.

The Vatican's point was accepted at 2 a.m. March 10, he said, barely making the deadline for completion of the declaration and plan of action signed by some 120 presidents, vice presidents and prime ministers on March 12.

The meeting began with a proposal that ind ustrialized nations earmark 20 percent of their foreign aid for social projects and that countries receiving such aid allocate 20 percent of their own government spending to similar projects. The summit ended up promoting the "20-20 formula" as a purely voluntary target.

"But all of these heads of state are making a public commitment to this goal. It will be a moral obligation," said Navarro-Valls.

Chilean Ambassador Juan Somavia was also disappointed with what he called the summit's acceptance of "20-20 between consenting adults." But, he said, "those who like it can do it and start the process off."

"The summit is a point of departure and now we have to run with the ball," he told reporters. "We must shed the enormous moral indifference to the plight of the poor."

Pope John Paul II, speaking at the Vatican March 12, said the summit called the world's attention to "the inequalities which exist between rich and poor peoples and the tragedies which threaten the life of a great part of humanity."

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RENAT, adopted from a Russian orphanage, poses with his parents, Jim and Sandy Romero of 51. John Neumann parish, East Freetown, and composes a unique piece on Dad's guitar, which rivals the youngster in size. (Hickey photos)

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By Marcie Hickey At the sight of a camera, fiveyear-old Renat drops what he is doing - sommhing involving wadded gobs of Play-Doh - grins, and strikes a pose like a pro. ..He loves to have his picture taken, "laughs his mom.

Within reach is a bulging photo album, a chronicle in color prints of Renat 's eventful young life and the journey which brought him the nearly 5.000 miles from Moscow to Massachusetts, from the institutional setting of a Russian orphanage to the cozy Rochester home of Sandy and Jim Romero.

The album s first photo is of Renat at three orfour, just arrived at the Russian orphanage, rumpled and with a wary smile.

It is that photo that the Romeros "fell in love with" just a year ago.

The Romc:ros, married II years and owners of a backhoe service, had just begun considering adoption when their the~-pastor at St. John Neumann parish, East Freetown, Father William Boffa, alerted them to a North Carolinabased program featured in a Cath-

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IN A GES1'URE of solidarity, representat~ves from participating nations grasp the chairman's gavel at a ceremony during the UN social development summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. (CNS/ Reuters photo)

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The story, "Devon finds a home and love in the U.S.," told how Catholic Social Services of the diocese of Charlotte, NC, arranged the adoption of a three-year-old

Russian boy by Ann Wilson, a single woman in her 40s.

The Romeros were the first outof-state couple to connect with the North Carolina program and what followed was a cooperative effort of the Fall River and Charlotte Turn to Page II

Abstinence lifted for feast Bishop Sean O'Malley has announced that Catholics in the Fall River Diocese may eat meat today, the feast of St. Patrick. He quotes the Code of Canon Law and asks that those who avail themselves of the dispensation carry out another form of penance, especially an act of charity. His statement follows: As we continue our Lenten journey, I wish to comment on the spirit behind the discipline of Lent. In the Gospel, Jesus calls us to conversion of heart, a conversion which involves acts of penance. His disciples and the members oCthe early Church responded to this call through various acts of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. The Church's tradition guides us in fulfilling this call to conversion.

"All Christ's faithful are obliged to do penance ... they are in a special manner to devote themselves to prayer and acts of charity by fulfilling their obligations more faithfully and by observing the fast and abstinence prescribed by the Church." (Canon 1249)

Therefore, I encourage all the faithfUl of the Diocese of Fall River to embrace the spirit ~f penance and thus unite themselves more closely with Christ and His Body, the Church.

However, for appropriate reasons, a dispensation from the law of abstinence can be granted. In light of the traditions associated with the celebration of the feast of Saint Patrick, I grant a dispensation from the Law of Abstinence to all the faithful of the Diocese of Fall River on Friday, March 17, 1995.

Those who accept the dispensation are asked to carry out another form of penance, especially an act of charity, and in this way continue in the true spirit of the Lenten discipline. + Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap.

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Welfare reform legislation topic of letter to governor The diocesan bishops of the Commonwealth have responded to recently enacted legislation affecting the state welfare system in a letter to Massachusetts Governor William Weld. The letter is signed by Cardinal Bernard Law, Archbishop of Boston, and by Bishops Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap. of Fall River; Daniel Reilly of Worcester; and Thomas Dupre of Springfield. It follows.

Dear Governor Weld: You are aware of the Catholic Church's commitment to the poor as evidenced in the statewide network of Catholic Charities. We have followed with keen interest and have participated in the public debate on welfare reform. Now that the welfare reform legislation has been enacted, we take this opportunity to share our thoughts.

Some of what is now law in our Commonwealth could well be. beneficial in assisting the very poor in freeing themselves from the servitude of long-term dependence.

We support efforts to establish the paternity of children born out of wedlock. We support housing teen mothers in structured settings when they cannot live with their own parents. We see much potential value in work or community service provisions. We support efforts to cleanse the welfare system from abuse and from fraud.

There is, however, much in the new legislation that could be very harmful to poor families. These are the aspects that we have consistently opposed. We continue to oppose the cut in the AFDC cash grant, the "time cap," which auto-

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matically denies assistance after a specific period, and the "family cap," that withholds help to children solely because they are conceived while their mother is an AFDC recipient.

We urge you, as the Governor and Chief Executive Officer of our State, to exercise both caution and compassion in the execution of the entire welfare reform legislative package, but most especially in the time cap and family cap proviFRAN CISZEK GAJOWNICZEK VISitS with Maggie sions. We ask that your adminisSweeney at St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis, Jan. 15. tration take into consideration the many and varied, and no less real, Gajowniczek, who was saved at Auschwitz by St. Maximilian extenuating circumstances that Kolbe and devoted his life to revering the saint, died March 13 would cause a family to require at his home in Poland at age 93. assistance for a period longer than that covered by the new law. We also ask, in particular, that there be a careful and judicious approach to the handling of those cases in which children are born to welfare dependent families.

For our part, consistent with the WARSAW, Poland (CNS) -- underground starvation cell at positions we have taken over the The Polish Catholic who was saved Auschwitz. He was canonized in last two years on welfare reform from death at Auschwitz by the October 1982 by Pope John Paul -as embodied in our statement of future St. Maximilian Kolbe died II. last May, "We Are Responsible March 13 at his home in Brzeg, In a special message for the cenFor One Another" - we intend to Poland, at the age of 93. tenary celebration, the pope recontinue to teach about the conFranciszek Gajowniczek, who called that St. Maximilian had nection between the gospel of was one of 10 inmates at the Geroffered his life "with humility and Christ and how citizens should man concentration camp slated courage out of love for God and a treat the poor. With assistance for execution in July 1941 in repri- fellow man." He added that the from experts in the fields of eco- sal for a fellow prisoner's escape, saint had' given "from his Auschnomics and social welfare policy, was saved when the imprisoned • witz bunker a testimony to conwe will develop a projection of the Franciscan priest asked camp au- temporary man of the victorious, effects of Massachusetts' new wel~ thorities to let him take Gajownic- liberating power of Christ's Cross." fare laws on the lives of the people zek's place.

Gajowniczek's wife, Janina, said of the Commonwealth, and most The condemned man, who was the ex-prisoner died peacefully surparticularly the poorest and most 40 at the time, later testified that rounded by family members at vulnerable who will be affected by Father Kolbe knew he had a famtheir home near Opole in southern these changes. ily and that was the reason the Poland, where he had lived since In closing, we commend you priest made the offer.

World War II. Gajowniczek, who would later and all those who have addressed In a Catholic News Service interin good faith the highly complex describe his mission as being to view, the Polish Franciscan proand difficult issue of welfare re- "repay a debt," spent much of his vincial, Father J ozef Lapinski, said last two decades giving talks about form. We must keep in mind, he had been in telephone contact however, that the function of pub- . St. Maximilian, makinga five-city with Gajowniczek during his final lic welfare is to provide care for tour of the United States in Janumonths. He said he had witnessed those who are unable to do so for ary which included visits to St. Gajowniczek's life-long gratitude Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis, to St. Maximilian, as well as to the themselves. We are, after all, reand Our Lady's Chapel, New Bed- friends'and advisers from the Niesponsible for one another. ford. pokolanow community.

He was born in Stradchomin, Father Lapinski said the AuschPoland, in 190 I. He joined the witz survivor had played an "exarmy at age 18 and earned a com- tremely important role" in official mendation for his role in the defeat church research leading to Father' vATICAN CITY (CNS) - Sou- of an invading Bolshevik army in Kolbe's beatification by Pope Paul 1920 in a battle Poles call the VI in 1971. thern Sudanese Christians, many "Miracle on the Vistula," referring Gajowniczek's death had reof whom have fled their homes to to a Polish river. moved one of the last remaining escape the country's ongoing civil In 1940, then-Sgt. Gajowniczek witnesses to the saint's self-sacriwar, need the world's help in dewas captured by German troops fice, he said. fending their basic rights as well as In accordance with his final obtaining basic necessities, a Vati- and held for more than five years at Auschwitz and at the Sachsen- wishes, Gajowniczek's burial place can official said. "We must do hausen camp in Germany. He bore is at the Franciscan cemetery at everything possible to support their the Auschwitz prisoner tattoo No. Niepokolanow. most elementary rights, first of all 5659 on his left arm for the rest of the right to a free and humane his life. life," said Archbishop Giovanni Amon'g the last events of his life Cheli, president of the Pontifical was his appointment by Polish Council for Migrants and Travelers. The archbishop and Msgr.· president Lech Walesa to the committee which organized the 50th Joseph De Andrea, council underPriests of the diocese are secretary, visited displaced sou- anniversary commemorations of invited to concelebrate a Auschwitz's liberation, which took therners living in the northern part memorial Mass at Holy place last January. He also particof the country in camps near KharName Church, New Bedtoum, Sudan's capital, as well as. ipated in international "Kolbe ford, at 11 a.m. Sunday, Sudanese refugees living in camps Year" celebrations at Niepokolanow last December, marking the in Uganda. Millions of people are April 2, for the repose of displaced within Sudan and an centenary of the saint's birth. the soul of its late pastor, The Franciscan priest, from the estimated 400,000 Sudanese are Rev. William F. O'Connell.

Niepokolanow monastery west of living in Uganda, Zaire, Kenya Poland, died Aug. 14, 1941, in the and the Central African Republic.

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SAN FRANCISCO (eNS) A federal appeals court March 9 upheld a Washington state law against assisted suicide, overturning a controversial lower court ruling in 1994 that said assisted suicide is a constitutional right.

In a 2-1 decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the argument that a constitutional right to privacy gives terrr..inally ill persons a right to medical assistance in ending their lives. .. A federal court should not invent a constitutional right unknown to the past and antithetical to the defense of human life that has been a chief responsibility of our constitutional government," wrote Circuit Judge Jot,n Noonan, aut\1or of the majority opinion.

The court also rejected an "equal protection" argument, that a state which permits doctors to end life support measures for El dying patient cannot at the same time prevent them from administering a life-ending procedure to a dying patient who wishes it.

It said criminal and tort law have long recognized and protected "the right to be let alone" O:il which refusal or termination oftre:atment is based, but "tort law and criminal law have never recognized a right to let others enslave y,)U, mutilate you or kill you.... The: difference is not of degree but of kind."

The appellate decision was a major blow to the assisted suicide campaign of euthanasia advocates who, after several defeats in state legislatures and popular referendums in recent years, have been trying to advance their agenda through the courts.

The U.S. Cathoiic Confl:rence, the State Catholic Conferences of California, Oregon and WB.shington and the four Catholic uchbishops of those states were among those who urged the appeal:; court to uphold Washington's law clgainst assisted suicide.

The appeals court parti<:ularly faulted the lower court for its attempts to apply to the question of assisted suicide various court decisions upholding abortion as a constitutional right. .

It called the use of the abortion decisions "an enormous leap ... an unwarranted extension of abortion jurisprudence, often unique, to a very different field."

A lawyer for Compassion in Dying, an advocacy group that joined four doctors and three terminally ill patients in challenging Washington's law, said the group plans to carry the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Washington state attorney general's office said the 9th Circuit Court ruling was consistent with a federal court decision in New York and state appellate rulings in California and Michigan, which also rejected the concept of a conHtitutional right to assisted suicidl:.

In his dissent Circuit Judge: Eugene Wright said, "The right to die with dignity accords with American values of self-determinntion and privacy.... Terminally ill, mentally competent patients have a fundamental privacy right to choose physician-hastened death."

The majority ruling said the lower court failed to give adequate consideration to a number ofl,~git­ imate state interests, including its "interest in not having physicians in the role of killers of their patients."

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BISHOP THOMAS DUPRE

Bishop Dupre named Springfield ordinary WASHINGTON (CNS)- Pope John Paul II has named 13ishop Thomas L. Dupre as bishop of SpringfieW. • Bishop Dupre, 61, has been auxiliary'bishop of Springfield since 1990 and administrator of the diocese since last July, when Bishop John A. Marshall died.

He was born in Holyoke, Nov. 10, 1933, and was ordained a priest of the Springfield diocese May 23, 1959, after studying in Montrealat the Seminary of Philosophy and the Grand Seminary.

He later did graduate studies at Catholic University in Washington, earning a doctorate in canon law.

Bishop Dupre was Springfield

diocesan vicar general and had been chancellor for 13 years when he was ordained a biShop May 31, 1990. He had served in the diocese as a pastor and a member of the diocesa.n court and worked with Vietnamese refugees. ~ As a bishop he continued to serve as vicar general and chancellor under Bishop Joseph F. Maguire, who retired in December 1991, and Bishop Marshall, who headed the diocese from February 1992 until his death in July 1994.

The Springfield diocese covers the western third of Massachusetts and has 135 parishes serving about 320,000 Catholics.

PROVIDENCE, R.t. (eNS)"Our primary goal is academic excellence," says the new president of Providence College, Dominican Father Philip A. Smith, whose five-year term began last fall.

In addition to academic excellence, Father Smith said the college stresses service and witness.

He noted that the chaplain's office is active both 0111 and off campus, and also cited the school's Feinstein Intitute of Public Service for developing students as future community leaders.

The school's decision to limit total enrollment, now around 3,500, he said, is part of a plan to keep Providence small and personal, enabling students to get the time they deserve from teachers and administrators.

"Providence College is an alma mater, and a 'mother' has to care about her children," he said. "We don't separate [that caring] from the transmission of knowledge."

Father Smith said the campus computer access is available in hundreds of dorm and classrooms.

"We have to be able to harness the technology," he said.

One serious challenge the president faces is the possibility that the college, along with other taxexempt institutions in Providence, might be taxed by the city. Last year, in exchange for a tax-exemption this year, the school joined a coalition providing services for the city's poor.

But Father Smith said the city again faces a budget shortfall and legislation has been reintroduced with the aim of taxing institutions such as Providence College.

But he focuses a bright future for the institution, saying, "I see no reason to believe that the divine has abandoned us now."

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Donations sought for flood victims SAN FRANCISCO (CNS) Catholic Charities of San Francisco is collecting funds to aid victims of the recent storms in Northern California, which have left at least a dozen people dead and thousands homeless. Damage from the flooding has been estimated at up to $2 billion.

Flood victims included two newborns whose bodies" with the umbilical cords still attached, were found washed up on beaches about 10 miles apart in Orange County on different days.

Other effects of the storms have included interruption of power to about 1.2 million homes; collapsed bridges; and loss of crops, including artichokes, strawberries, oranges and limes ready for harvest.

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Clearing the Vision Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day. Indeed, it's fast becoming an American tradition. Just visit the card shop or the local florist and you will see how profitable it is to be "green." March madness isn't just for basketball fans, it includes entering spring wearing the green.

American ingenuity has capitalized on this ethnic celebration but it really wouldn't be the commercial and social success that it is if it were not for the American Irish themselves. Far removed from the real Ireland, they have conjured up an Irish celebration that is also far removed from the real, turning their celebration into a "Finian's Rainbow" creation where sentiment replaces fact and a green veneer covers truth.

Many Americans of] rish descent, nostalgic for their roots, have eased the difficulties of assimilation and buffered the pain of separation with visions of leprechauns and a make-believe world that falls somewhere between "The Quiet Man" and Disneyland.

However, the annual celebration o(St. Patrick's Day does offer the opportunity to put into focus some of the historic facts that many Irish Americans have buried in shamrocks.

F or example, this year has the dubious distinction of being the l50th anniversary Of the start of famine that decimated Ireland. Known as the "Great Hunger," it was the major reason why so many Irish emigratedto other lands.

Another reason stems from the penal times, when men, CNS/Firney photo women and children were literally sold into bondage by their not welcome.

English overlords. But in America the Irish were . KYLEMORE ABBEY IN COUNTY GALWAY, IRELAND Even into the early years of this century many businesses in our "Come apart and rest a little." Mark 6:31 own area posted signs that read "N 0 Irish need apply."

Basically, the immigrants survived and thrived in this land because of their Catholic faith: the only thing they had in common; the only thing they could cling to; the chief factor in their survival. It was the Church that built the schools and

By Father Kevin J. Harrington because the overwhelming major.on the concept. that welfare is a colleges that brought the Irish out of the ghettos. Education constitutional right. ity of veterans of the Second World One of the most alarming trends was their key to success and it was given to them by their War, the Korean War and the Certainly our Founding Fathers in our society has been labeled the Church. Millions reaped the benefit of the labors of priests, "rights revolution." During the last Vietnam War were males, the pro- never envisioned a country of brothers and nuns who dedicated themselves unreservedly to 30 years our Supreme Court has jects were predominantly places of people steeped in the conceRt that citizenship entitled them to receive the mission of Catholic parochial and high schools, colleges consistently invoked the concept two-parent¡homes.

In the city of New Bedford, anything. Our Bill of Rigt:ts was of due process as an umbrella term and universities.

Sad to say, many who enter joyously into the festivities of St. that has steadily increased every when the veteran population of written not to tell the government how to provide for its citizc:ns.but expectation that fairness the projects decreased and more Patrick's Day have left the faith-centered lives of their fore- citizen's unwed mothers moved in, local to ensure its citizen's rights <lgainst can be dictated by law. bears to become "mainstream" Americans.

Housing Authority members en- government.

A case in point would be our Some of the anger in our conAs a result many Irish Americans have created an image of present welfare system. In 1970 the deavored to mandate that at least Ireland that extends only from shamrocks to sheep; from Pat Supreme Court turned welfare into half of Section 8 subsidized hous- temporary political climate is O'Brien to Barry Fitzgerald; from Irish Spring to Irish Mist. a right by invoking due process to ing be earmarked for two-parent directed against a small minority end that welfare caseworkers homes. The thinking was that such that believes being a citizen entiPerhaps this mind-set has been a way of escaping the harsh' the would not arbitrarily distinguish homes would provide better disci- tles one only to rights, not to facts of living, but in the process many have lost much. It's fun the deserving from the undeserv- pline and role modeling. But the responsibilities. to be Irish this week and that's great; but for thoSe of Irish ing poor. In other words, the court . policy was deemed by the courts as For the population to find a palatable solution to the many heritage St. Patrick's Day should be a reminder that it's about judged caseworkers incapable of discriminatory and squelched.

The present anti-welfare mood social problems engenderl~d by time that the Irish in America truly realize where they are from being fair, thus have created laws that is sweeping our nation is to a to assure equal treatment of all. poverty, we as a nation must come and who they are.

When confronted in a courtroom great extent a reaction to years of to a consensus on how we can As this country finds itself in the midst of a new wave of Irish with violation of a victim's rights, abuse endemic to any system based design a safety net resembling a immigration, let's hope that as these young people take advan- it is difficult to use reason or comtrampoline more than a hammock.

Laws designed in Washington will tage of what this country offers, they will not fall into the same passion as a means of balancing everyone's interests. For example, not suffice. Local control must . fantasies as past immigrants.

New York City embarked upon a also be responsible for devi:;ing a In fact, may they become a catalyst in making all Americans homelessness prevention program system that reflects both intelliof Irish descent aware of the heritage that is theirs and in. that advanced money to families gence and compassion. restoring some clarity to the celebration of St. Patrick's Day. behind in their rent; but when Working people would be less

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caseworkers realized that'there was not enough money to help everyone they established a policy of helping only those who were not using rent grants to support alcohol or drug abuse.

The policy was immediately challenged and overturned by Legal Aid lawye'rs on the basis that the policy violated the rights of substance abusing clients because they were being treated differently from those who were not abusers.

Many of the housing projects that were built to help returning veterans get back on their feet have oflate become crime-infested areas in which young families have great difficulty in. raising their children. Because veterans were given preference in projects and

For Doing God's Wi/I Almighty and ever-present Father, your watchful care reaches from end to end and orders all things in such power that even the tensions and the tragedies of sin cannot frustrate your loving plans. Help us to embrace your will, give us the strength to follow your call, so that your truth may live in our hearts and reflect peace to those who believe in your love. We ask this in the name of Jesus the Lord.

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resentful of being expected to help the unemployed and the underemployed if they had a more direct say as to how their taxes are spent.

The change of services into rights has reduced social workers to frustrated paper pusher~.

Unfortunately, in our present political climate there has been too much of a tendency either to demonize the poor or to treat them with a hands-off sameness that teaches social workers more how to avoid lawsuits than to help people.

Welfare is not the only victi.m of the "rights revolution" but it is as good a place as any to start IIsing democracy as a means of creating innovative alternatives to today's horrible system.

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• sIn Q. I am a high school CCD teacher and have an ongoing disagreement with our pastor and CCD director. . To put it bluntly, I think they are too soft and eas]'going. The main thing kids need to know today is what sin is. They need to be told continually wh~lt the church says about it.

I think we have to keep telling people where they lire sinning.

And if you ask me this goes especially for teenagers.

Father says maybe I "nag on it" too much, and "that's not the way to get them to be good Catholics."

My feeling is that if they ·can't accept now what the church teaches they should change or leave.

You said recently 'that the first step to forgiveness is acknowledging our sins. So what do you think about this? (Ohio) A. I think a number of things about it, but probably should limit myself to responding to your obvious question.

Perhaps the only place to start is with the words of Jesus, "I did not come to condemn thl: world but to save it" (In. 12:47).

Translated to your teaching ministry, it might be put this way: Our basic mission as teachers is not to tell the world how bad it is, but to make it holy and with Christ bring it back to the Father. It is not primarily to tell people how to get out of the church, but to help them to see reasons to stay in.

Thus, it seems to me your question concerns not so much "what" we teach as how we motivate people to live good and wise lives, specifically as part of the Catholic Christian community.

My 41 years as a priest convince me that the vast majority of people, Catholic or not, are deeply aware that they are not perfect, that they have faults and sins, that they are finite and weak morally and otherwise. nut they sincerely want to be better.

As one theologian wrote, ethical commands in themselves do not move people to wisdom and goodness. "They have absolutely no

Dai Iy Readings March 20: 2Sm 7:4-5a, 1214a,16; Ps 89:2··5,27,29; Rom 4:13,16-18,22; Mt 1:16,1821,24a or Lk 2:41-513 March 21: On 3:25,34-43; Ps 25:4-9; Mt 18:21-35 March 22: Dt 4:1,5-9; Ps 147:12-13,15-16,19-20; Mt 5:17-19 March 23: Jer 7:23-28; Ps 95:1-2,6-9; Lk 11:14-23 March 24: Hos 14:2-10; Ps 81:6-11,14,17; Mk 12:28b-34 March 25: Is 7:10-14; Ps 40:7-11; Heb 10:4-10; Lk 1:26-38 March 26: Jos 5:9a,10-12; Ps 34:2-7; 2 Cor 5:17-21; Lk 15:1-3,11-32

By FATHER JOHN DIETZEN need for a rescue team that stands on the beach and bores suicides with the news that they are drowning. They already know that; what they really want to hear is some reason why they shouldn't go ahead and sink." .

Pope John Paul II makes the same point beautifully and often in his book "Crossing the Threshold of Hope." Convincing the world of sin (see John 16:8) is not the same as condemning.it for sinning, he says.

It "means creating the conditions for its salvation.... To save means to embrace and lift up with redemptive love, with love that is always greater than any sin" (pages 57-58).

Teenagers, and adults for that matter, are no different from small children. Telling people constantly how wicked they are, how much they are failing in spite often of their best efforts may make the accusers feci good and righteous, but it does not change men and women into bctter people.

Jesus talked much about sin.

But his approach to changing people's hearts was never to beat them with their guilt. He reminded them that they were precious to God. He did not say, "God loves you, so you can go and do whatever you feel like doing." Neither did he ever say, "Go straighten your life out and then come back and we will talk."

Rather he called them to come, to be his, to share his life with the Father, to remember who they are and act accordingly. He knew God's healing love was bigger than their sins, and intimacy with him would change them.

Sometimes, of course, we do need to be prophets, to speak words we know will be unwelcome and resented, and maybe even hurt.

But this must always be done humbly, respectfully, and with genuine compassion and love for the other.

Our mission, whatever our small role may be in the church, is to use our "moral power" not to crush people but to give them hope; not to make them cowed, but holy.

It seems clear to me from your considerably longer letter that this is what your pastor is trying to say. . At least it is worth your prayerful reflection, perhaps with the Gospels open in front of you.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) - The National Catholic Office for Persons with Disabilities in Washington has published a 58-page guide on providing access for disabled Catholics, estimated at 10 million in the United States.

Title "A Loving Justice: The Moral and Legal Responsibilities of the U.S. Catholic Church Under the Americans with Disabilities Act," provides practical answers to questions parishes and other church agencies have about the law.

While not a substitute for legal counsel, it notes areas where religious entities are not exempt from some of the law's requirements.

"If we care about expanding the outreach of the Catholic Church in the United States, we must not forget those who have been marginalized because of their disabilities," said a statement by Mary Jane Owen, the office's executive director.

"Those who comprehend the world differently because of mental or sensory disabilities and those who move through our communities making use of canes, crutches, walkers and wheelchairs must be encouraged to take their place in our parishes, sharing their Godgiven talents," the statement said.

The book is available in largeprint, audio and Braille versions.

Further information may be obtained from National Catholic Office for PI:rsons with Disabilities, P.O. Box 29113, Washington, DC 20019, tel. (202) 529-2933.

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"""',Irish 'p'fiests~' l垄ga'cy Most ofthe priests I knew in路my growing-up years had names as Irish as shamrocks. And why not?

Their families had come right from Ireland, and I heard many a good story from them about the old sod.

I remember one ofthe nuns asking me on St. Patrick's Day what I had prayed for the night before.

And in my 8-year-old way I said, "I prayed that I'd wake up Irish!"

Naturally, that didn't last after I started to read about St. Francis of Assisi, and then I was braggingly proud that my roots were Italian!

Recently, I was reminded that American Catholics have much to thank Ireland for', because of the many good priests. it sent us.

The reminder came when my co-worker, Virginia Leary, showed me the Municipal Blue Book, put out by the city of San Francisco in .1915.

On one of the book's pages was a photo of her great uncle, the Rev. D.O. Crowley. The book praised Father Crowley for his work as president of the Playground Commission.

There was quite a bit of biograpliical information about this priest. Born in Ireland, he had coine to America in 1875, seeking adventure by working in the gold and silver mines of Nevada.

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By Bernard "O'Casserly" When St. Patrick's Day rolls around I sometimes hear complaints that I write too much about the Apostle of the Emerald Isle and too little about St. Joseph, the head of the Holy Family, whose . feastday falls on March 19, only two days later. (But, since March 19 is a Sunday this year, St. Joseph's feast is transferred to March 20.)

I'm sorry, but St. Joseph doesn'~. have much going for him in the way of stories, jokes or songs like those that mark the sons and daughters of St. Patrick. In all the Bible there's not a single word spoken by the spouse of Our Lady.

St. Patrick's 'words are often spoken on his festive day, and his followers never stop talking. Pat and Mike jokes never cease, and they all too often put down the Irish for their occasional falls from grace, I'm afraid that we Irish are so numerous and so 'outspoken that we're hard to ignore. The last census reported 40 million Americans claiming Irish ancestry. People whose forebears hail from Ireland rank first, second or third among all ethnic groups in 43 states.

Poor St. Joseph never had a following like that. It's no wonder that those with other favorite saints sometimes grumble about the at-' tention paid St. Pat. Who else inspires people without a drop of Irish blood to drink green beer, wear big shamrocks and put an "0" in front of their names one day a year?

'Tis said people don't pay much attention to saints today, and more's the pity. The world needs saints, heroes and models, and all too often it gets the wrong kind, Saints may be falling from favor elsewhere, but here, in Greater Lake Wobegon Land, they are

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Apparently he had a silent ambition that motivated him to make money. It was to get to college and become a priest. He earned enough money to do both and was ordained in 1883 at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, Md. He set his sights west, and began a life of service in San Francisco -emphasis on the word "service."

We talk a lot today about the homeless, but this is not a new problem.

A century ago the problem was severe, especially when it came to youth. Father Crowley, with the encouragement of his archbishop, built a home for destitute boys.

That was only the first home Father Crowley built. In the next 25 years' he built two more large homes and purchased a ranch in Napa County where he started an agricultural school for boys who couldn't afford to go to established farm schools.

I wondered where he got the money to do all this. Guess what?

He earned it! This amazing priest edited and published a profitable periodical called St. Joseph's Union, and he wrote books which sold well.

Then there was the great fire of 1906 in San Francisco. Mustering all the help he could find, Father Crowley worked to feed the hungry.

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"He and his colleagues supplied 72,000 persons with provisions daily," the blue book noted, adding: "A volume could be written of the work that was done .in that period, the difficulties of providing shelter, the successful struggle to save the unfortunate refugees from summary removal from the parks, and the countless details connected with their sm,tenance and comfort."

This man truly understood what his priesthood meant. And he was also much ahead of his time. California author A.J. Watl~rhouse wrote that Father Crow:,ey was beloved by "Catholic and Protestant, Jew and gentile, Christian and pagan '" because of good deeds that have known n,J creed distinction."

I feel honored to be able to bring to light the deeds of a good person who went before us. Of hi:; work, Waterhouse wrote, "It is love of Ireland emphasized in righteous deeds for America."

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Dear Dr. Kenny: Spring is com- son is obvious. You are less likely ing and I want to exercise and lose to skip a day of training if your Dr. JAMES & weight. The trouble is that I've friend is waiting, made these promises to myself Rule 2: Be specific. Don't simply MARY before and failed after a few weeks. promise goals (like losing weight), How can 'j be sure I will follow but promise the means to. those through and stay,with it 'this time? . goals (like following a 1,200-ealorie "KENNY - Louisiana . diet and avoiding fats). pie reward plan is to have a desiraIf you wish to exercise, say what We all make promises to ourble activity follow an unde:;irable of exercise (walking).

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In your case, record how well your buddy can offer each other Many revival preachers ask for you have followed your di.et for small token incentives for each a public commitment to Jesus. breakfast, lunch and dinner. five "points."

They know that if you promise in Record if you have avoided forIf you have no partner, you can front of others, you are more apt bidden fatty foods. Record if you reward yourself. Allow yourself to keep that promise. have done your prescribed exercise. certain privileges or purchases for An even better way is to work Keeping track is a means of specified numbers of points. with someone else. Frank Shorter, motivation. All good coaches keep The above four rules help keep an Olympic inarathon runner, track of their athletes' training and the focus on positive behaviors, wrote a pamphlet on training tips. performance. not failures. For that reason, they No. I: Run with a buddy. The reaRule 4: Reward success. ,A sim- are effective.

even being invented. If you were to venture n'orth in Minnesota to Menahga (pop. 980), you would . come upon a great oak carving of St. Urho.

You won't find Urho in Butler's Lives of the Saints because he is the 20th Century creation of Sulo Havumaki, a Finn then on the faculty of Bemidji, MN, State University. Where Havumaki, who died in 1970 at age 49, got his data on Urho, is not recorded.

St. Urho gained fame at the hands of country editor John Bloomquist of Menahga, who knows a civic promotion when he sees one. He set the Finnish patron's feastday on March 16, the eve of St. Patrick's Day. That pro-' voked a quarrel with the Irish and put St. Urho - and Menahga on the map.

No one knew what the phony Finn looked like, so Bloomquist . put on a contest for the best sketch.

The winner came up with a bearded About the time each of our four Laplander in reindeer skins hold- kids had reached striking distance ing a giant grasshopper on his of puberty, his or her interest in pitchfork with a bag of grapes at communicating with us tended to his feet. wane - thus our domicile's nickThat's because Urho, as the name, Wane's World. legend goes, saved the wine harThis is particularly frustrating vest in Finland by driving out all when one's child is obviously sufthe grasshoppers! The tale spread fering pains generated by romanto Minnesota's many Finns, and tic association with a person of the money was raised for a l2-foot opposite sex, a condition known statue in beautiful downtown during the Paleolithic Period as Menahga. lovesickness.

St. Urho became a lifesaver for For others who might face this, the town, and the legend of the we have compiled a glossary of phony Finn has spread to Finnish frequent - some claim the only enclaves around the world. 路St. -responses a parent receives to Urho is officially recognized in 50 questions like: &tates, and you can now get a drink "So, young person, how are in St. Urho's pub in Helsinki, things with you and what's Finland. her/ his-name?" , Too bad there isn't a real patron Likely answers are the following: saint for Finland. Maybe there is.

I) "Don't ask."

Perhaps St. Patrick sent one of his 2) "OK." missionaries up to the land of the 3) "Why do you ask?" (somemidnight sun? . times abbreviated as "Why?")

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Wane's World I personally enjoy the third because it gives me an opening to say things like, "Oh, just curious.

She (or he) left a message on the answering machine. She never wants Mr. Pond Scum to call her again ... (pause) ... unless he can be much more loving to his parents and remember to forevermore put Dad's socket wrench back where he found it."

My wife claims such answers wax the wane in Wane's World, so I avoid them.

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translations to the above responses.

"Don't ask" often means, "She asked her old boyfriend to the Tolo six weeks ago, but doesn't want to go with him, but she still got mad at me because I told her friend Sara I would go with her because I couldn't go if I wasn't invited, but in the meantime Sara was only asking me as a favor and she really would rather be going

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with Tod who is mad at me now."

"OK" means "We had a scn:aming match in the hall outside: the principal's office this afterMon. You'll probably get something about it in the mail, along with my detention schedule."

"Why do you ask?" is translated "Did she (he) call? When? What'd she say? Do you know something I 'don't? Do you know something I don't'want you to know?"

Funny, I vaguely remember my folks trying to pry into my pri'late life - when I had one. Of course that was the Precambrian Era, and they were not as sophisticated as we parents are today.

Repentance is theme of this week's liturgy Exodus 3:1-15 1 Corinthians 10:1-12 Luke 13:1-9 With this issue we bl:gin a weekly commentary on the readings oCthe liturgy for the forthcoming weekend by Dr. Patrick V. Reid, professor of Sacred Scripture at Providence College. Editor Midway through our Lenten journey, we are challenged by God's call to struggle against oppression and to reform our own lives. As we listen to this Sunday's warnings to repent, let us sing with courageous confidence the refrain of the psalm: "The Lord is kind and merciful" (Ps 103).

To understand the terrifying challenge of Moses' call, we must recall the bleak situation of Israel and Moses. A powerful and paranoid pharaoh had cruelly imposed slave labor upon the Israelites and had attempted to kill all the male children (Ex I).

Moses himself narrowly escaped death through the heroic actions of his mother, sister, and the Pharaoh's daughter (2: 1-10). When Moses attempted to help his people by killing an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew and then trying to stop two Hebrew slaves from fighting, his efforts were rejected by the aggressor with the questions, "Who made you a prince and judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" (Ex 2: 14).

Realizing that the murder was known to the Pharaoh, Moses fled to Midian where he married one of the daughters of the priest of Midian and began to tend his father-in-Iaw's flocks. His son's name, Gershom, meaning "I am a stranger in a foreign land," reflects his father's present status as an exile from his suffering people (Ex 2:22).

If Moses is to save his people, he must be called and equipped by God, and that is the point of today's burning bush story. The call begins with an experience of the awful holines!; of God. When Moses turns aside to see the burning bush, God tells him, "Come no nearer! Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground." After God has identified himself as the God of the fathers [of the Israelites), he announces: "I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry of complaint against their slave drivers, so I know well what they are suffering. Therefore I have come down to rescue them from th,e hands of the Egyptians and lead them out of that land into a good and spacious land., a land flowing with milk and honey."

Understandably, Moses doubts that his own pl:ople will believe that he speaks for God, and therefore he asks, "When I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' if they ask me, 'What is his name?' what am I to tell them?"

(The old name, "God of the fathers," is seen as inadequate for this new stage of God's action.)

God answers by saying, "I am who am." Moses is to tell the Israelites that "I am" sent him and that

the sacred name of "Yahweh" is to be his, title for all generations.

Yahweh ("He who is" or"He who causes to be") is the transposed third person form of "I am who am." It connotes GQd's freedom and unrestricted power. Equipped with this new revelation and numerous miraculous signs (Ex 4), Moses will obediently undertake his task of freeing his people.

The epistle warns us that even those called by God can fall. Paul reminds the Corinthians, who were' tempted to take part in pagan worship services (see I Cor 8-10), that even the Exodus generation led by Moses fell into the sin of idolatry.

Despite having God's cloud for guidance, passing through the sea, and being given manna and water from the rock (see Exodus 13-17), many of the fathers "were struck down in the desert" for their sin in making the golden calf (Ex 32).

Their example is a warning: "Let anyone who thinks he is standing upright watch out lest he fall!"

In today's gospel Jesus uses two recent tragedies and a parable to warn the crowds of the dire consequences of failure to repent. Both the Galileans killed by Pilate and the eighteen crushed by the tower of Siloam were not necessarily terrible sinners, but their sudden deaths should alert the crowd to the seriousness of Jesus' call to reform. Twice Jesus repeats the warning: "But I tell you, you will all come to the same end unless you begin to reform" (Lk 13:3,5).

Jesus' fig tree parable stresses that the time for repentance is running out. Only the vinedresser's intercession keeps the exasperated vineyard owner from cutting down the tree which has failed to bear fruit for three years. The crowds, like the fig tree, have only one more chance for (epentance. The vinedresser's words should remind us that during th~ Lent we too have only this opportunity for repentance of our sins.

"Sir leave it another year while I hoe around it and manure it; then perhaps it will bear fruit. If not, it shall be cut down."

Roundtable award· WASHINGTON (CNS) - Chicago's Msgr. John J. Egan and his assistant for the past'quarter-century, Margaret Roach, received the Harry A. Fagan Roundtable Award for Catholic social action leader~hip. About 150 social ministry leaders from around the country attended the awards banquet, held during Roundtable's annual meeting in Washington.

Roundtable is a national association of Catholic diocesan social action directors. Msgr. Egan, 78, known to many as "the father of urban ministry," was founding director of the Chicago archdiocesan Office of Urban Affairs. He was also founder of the Catholic Committee on Urban ministry, director of the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Pastoral and Social Ministry, and Chicago archdiocesan director of human relations and ecumenism. Since his retirement, he has been assistant to the president for community affairs at De Paul University in Chicago.

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Loyalty an issue ROME (CNS) - At least a third of all Jesuits in China work with the gov~rnment-controlled Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association but still feel loyal to Rome, a leading Jesuit official said. Father Aloysius Chang, provincial of the Jesuit Chinese province, said in an interview with Catholic News Service that 20 out of 60 Jesuits in China chose to join the official church for pastoral reasons. "They feel it's better to follow government policy so they can be with the

people and provide a sacramental life," he said. "Their real allegiance is to the primacy of the Holy See." The Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association - the governmentsanctioned body for Catholics was set up by the communist government in 1957. It does not recognize papal authority over its activities and it appoints bishops without Vatican approval.

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O.J. Simpson witness called hard work model SAN SALVADOR (CNS) Rosa Lopez. a housekeeper and a key defense witness in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, was called a "genuine representative" of all hard-working Salvadorans by a leading member of the country's hierarchy.

Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez. administrator of the San Salvador archdiocese, said Ms. Lopez typified her "hardworking and sacrificing" fellow citizens who go to the United States in search of work and account for millions of dollars annually in salary remittances to families at home.

"Rosa Lopez is a genuine representative of our humble and struggling people ... who earn a living in the U.S. working in the worst-paid jobs," Bishop Rosa Chavez said in a homily.

Ms. Lopez. who worked for Simpson's neighbor, flew to San Salvador March 6 after ending her testimony in Judge Lance Ito's Los Ange1l:s court.

She was tracked down by the local press at her sister's house in the town of Sesuntepeque. 50 miles northeast of the capital. San Salvador.

"They don't like us there, they discriminate against all of us ...

Salvadorans. Mexicans. they don't like any of us," she said in a brief statement through a half-opened door.

She also expressed displeasure with the constant attention she received from the American press. saying she 'had returned to her homeland "to rest."

"I'm very happy to be here and hope to stay until I die." Ms. Lopez said.

Bishop Rosa Chavez said that the Lopez case "should be cause for profound reflection. because she is one of the hundreds of thousands [of Salvadorans) who sustain the national economy with their family payments."

According to official figures.

Salvadoran families received more than $900 million in family aid in 1994 from relatives in the United States.

Bishop Rosa Chavez also contrasted Ms. Lopez with other Salvadorans who have returned from the United States to form street gangs modeled on those of Los Angeles.

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Editor The train from Dublin to Belfast takes one from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland in about" the time it takes to travel from Providence to New Haven.

The route passes many beauty spots and runs for miles beside the Irish Sea. But "the troubles" were at their height when I announced my trip to Belfast and I was implorcd by Dublin friends not to go. They pointed out that although the Irish Republican Army was having a truce at the time, it was due to end that night.

I stated that since the early 50s I had written dozens of articles on the ideal of aU nited Ireland. I had taught Irish history. What could happen to an American tourist?

I left the Dublin station confidently but my bravado quickly dissipated. There was a feeling of hostility on the train. How could one tell Southerners from Northerners? Usually by their newspapers: the Irish Times, the Northern Ledger or Belfast Telegraph.

And one's accent gave one away.

I left Dublin in blazing sunshine but as we approached the North, especially the border, the skies. darkened. I wondered if I should have listened to my Dublin friends.

I could not concentrate on my book and went to the old-fashioned

dining car, where I was seated with aN orthern couple who immediately labeled me as a Dubliner because of my Aran sweater and casual attire. Even my Rhode Islandaccent did not betray me! They did quiz me as to where I was staying in Belfast. Fortunately, Grosvenor Avenue, the location of the Dominican Sisters who staff a hostel for Queens University Catholic stu~ dents was then located in the posh section of the beseiged city. The couple nodded approvingly. Later Grosvenor Avenue and St. Brigid's parish in the area were no longer sacrosanct but became bombing targets.

As the train neared路 Belfast, I saw graveyards on both sides of the train, newly opened graves, many wreaths and a big sign, "Prepare to Meet Thy God." None of them bolstered my courage.

At the Belfast station, all the passengers were frisked and to my surprise, a Dominican nun in full habit was waiting to greet me, fearing for my safety. Her driver, who was used to the intricacies of Belfast traffic, the road blocks and the omnipresence oftroops, sped 'us to the convent; but en route I did not miss seeing the soldiers in full battle dress and the burned-out bars and homes.

In Belfast, after settling in my hostel room, the same room that had been occupied by Northern Ireland Member of Parliament Bernadette Devlin when she was a Queens U,niversity student, I ventured forth to meet a former nurse, the widow of a police officer; of

Follow St. Brigid's lead for Irish peace, says bishop KANSAS CITY, Mo.(CNS)Speaking about the Irish troubles, Bishop Raymond J. Boland of Kansas City-St. Joseph asked for prayers to end sectarian路路 killings for good in Northern Ireland and lamented American financing of arms for the Irish Republican Army; "The guns are silent," he said, alluding to the cease-fire reached last September after 25 years of conflict. "But the guns are still there. Both sides have ample arms if they want to go to war again."

The Irish-born bishop recently addressed members of the Ladies of the Ancient Order of ijibernians at a Mass at Kansas City's Rockhurst College.

He called on officials in Dublin and London and Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland to follow St. Brigid's example and reconcile their differences instead of using them to sustain hostilities.

Born in Tipperary and raised in Cork, Bishop Boland said pluralism has not developed in Northern Ireland because of 500-year-old memories.

"But just as St. Brigid melded two cultures {the Druid and the Christian]," he said, "let us pray that we can do the same in Northern Ireland."

Bishop Boland said Brigid and her contemporaries had a highly developed religion in Druidism long before St. Patrick brought Christianity to the island. "The Irish were comfortable with their past," he said.

The Christianizing of Ireland

was bloodless, as Druidic symbols became Christian ones. "There are bridewells all over Ireland," he said of the wells of St. Brigid.

The message of St. Brigid for today, the. bishop said, is that again the Irish are being called upon to integrate their past into a new culture in which enmities are buried and discrimination ended.

"Forty percent ofthe able-bodied men have nojobs," Bishop Boland said. "There are families whose members have not had a meaningful job in three generations."

"We must seize the moment," he said. "Pray hard, work hard, improve the economy so people have something to do besides killing.

We must get away from sectarian killing."

Bishop Boland told the story of a man who, after his regular job, delivered a load of stones later used to build a British army biuracks. For that the IRA marked him a traitor.

One day there was a knock on the door. The man saw his friend's truck outside, so he opened the door, and was killed. The IRA had invaded the friend's home, held the family and taken the friend's truck.

The slain man's 9-year-old son, the oldest, called his mother at her nurse;s job and said, "Daddy is sick. Come home." Then he called a neighbor and said, "We're all here and we need a baby sitter."

As long as that kind of hatred persists," the bishop said, "there will never be peace."

the cab, demanded identi:fication and wondered why an American was in the area. They turned my suitcase upside down and only stopped because an IRA gunman was in the area and shots could be heard.

By the time the cab reached the Belfast station, I was weak and soaked with perspiration. British soldiers lined the track and I was warned not to use a camera. At last I collapsed into my seat. A young hostess from Dublin, seeing my state, told me to take (lut my rosary and said' her mother recited it every morning for her as she traveled the dangerous Dublin-Belfast route.

Was it worthwhile for me to have experienced something of the Belfast terror? To have visitl~d the volatile North? From several years distance, yes, it was.

But at the time, when I arrived FOR QVER a quarter century, the Irish Republican Army has battled against British rule of Northern Ireland. In safely in Dublin and saw the flag of the Republic of Ireland ::Iying that period violence has claimed over 3,000 lives. In this photo from the post office building.. I got a masked youth holds rocks in each hand as he stands in front down on my knees and kissed the of a burning truck in Belfast. (eNS/ Reuters photo) blessed soil. Now, with Irish peace a strong possibility, maybe: the whom I had heard through a friend at the top of the charts. and what . next Belfast trip will not be fraught in the United States. were the current fads in dresses with such fear. Or will it?

She did not seem nervous but and movies. I couldn't believe it she confided that as she went to . -no questions as to my impresdaily Mass and did her shopping, sions of Belfast. she was praying all the time. She That night was a nightmare of par~lde said, "One gets used to everything: gunfire and the skies were lit up by buses and taxis exploding, even explosives as the IRA truce ended.

He has entertained, educated, friends being killed."

I did not sleep and yearned to be and amused for ovt:r 50 informed That evening at the hostel, the back in Dublin. It was close to war years. nuns introduced me as an Ameri- as I ever wanted to be.

Born last of 14 children, the son As I returned to the Belfast stacan journalist there to experience "the troubles.,r The students were tion with a less experienced cab of Irish immigrants to Fall River's invited to ask me questions. They driver than before, there was also Sacred Heart parish, he was general manager for the nine theaters of wanted to know what songs were plenty of action. Soldiers stopped Greater Fall Riverfor41 years and has been a Fall River Herald News ' columnist for 15 years.

A storehouse of lore of Fall BOSTON (CNS) - Former of being anti-Irish Catholic" and River's past and a commentator British Prime Minister Margatet as prime minister "was the very on its present, John McAvoy is the Thatcher has canceled without ex- symbol of oppression in Northern Clover Club's natural choice for planation her plans to attend a Ireland." grand.marshal ofthe city's revived New York dinner to receive BosWhiting said that Mrs. Thatcher St. Patrick's Day parade, plan:rted ton College's Ignatius Medal, the had been chosen for the Ignatius for noon March 19. university has announced.

Fall River's first St. Patri<:k's Medal because of "her internaThe announcement came after tionalleadership through the decDay parade in more than 35 years, several weeks of protests by Irish- ade of the '80s," and for the "vision it will follow a route from Eastl~rn American groups against the Jes-- and firmness with which she tackled Avenue to Bedford Street, down uit-run school's decision to honor the enormous problems with the to the Fall River Armory.

Mrs. Thatcher on May 5, the 14th British economy." .

Bishop Sean O'Malley will be anniversary of the death of Irish He admitted that the MayS date among participants.

Republican Army hunger striker was "a terrible coincidence" and "We will have floats, school路 Bobby Sands. bands, bagpipe bands, military and "quite unfortunate," but said it "No reasons were given as to was impossible to reschedUle the police units as well as well-known why it will not be possible for Mrs. dinner at New York's Waldorf- out-of-town marching units," said Thatcher to attend," the univer- Astoria.

Tom Murphy, chairman of the sity's statement said. parade coordination committc:e.

Sands starved to death May 5, Doug Whiting, director for pub- 1981, in Belfast's Maze prison to The event is being cosponsored by lic affairs for Boston College, said' dramatize the demands of IRA the Fall River Clover 'Club, ceLethe school had planned to present prisoners that they be treated as brating its 50th anniversary, and the Ignatius Medal to Mrs. Thatch- political prisoners, not criminals.

Jeffs Companion Animal Shelter er despite the protests by those The American Ireland Educa- of Westport. who consider her a symbol of tion Foundation Political Educaoppression in Northern Ireland tion Committee, based in Stony and an abuser ofhuman rights.

Point, N. Y., praised cancellation . He said the university would of the award, saying in a press honor her later, whether with the releasethat its announcement "creIgnatius .Medal or another recogni- ated an uproar among Americans tion. of Irish heritage the likes of which.

The award to Mrs. Thatcher has not been seen since the Irish was criticized by the IrishNational hunger strike of 1981 which, ironiCaucus, Irish American Unity cally, Mrs. Thatcher was responConference, Ancient Order of Hi- sible for." bernians and other organizations The Ignatius Medal is given for and individuals, including New "uncommon achievement in huYork Cardinal John J. O'Connor, man affairs." who expressed "perplexity and Previous winners include former deep concern'.' about the award. first lady Barbara Bush; former In a letter to Boston College U.S. Housing Secretary Jack president; Jesuit Father J. Donald Kemp; Dolores Hope, wife of enMonan, Father Sean McManus of tertainer Bob Hope; and' former' the Irish National Caucus said Philippine President Corazon ~ Mrs. Thatcher "has a long history Aquino.

JOHN McAVOY

Fall River revi'ves St. Patrick

Thatcher award gets their Irish up

By Pat McGOW:lJII

ttl NEVER in.. tended to form a religious congre.. gation. I only ,wanted to hell) the poor," said Ven.. erable Catherine McAuley, found.. ress of the Reli.. gious Sist~~rs of Mercy, the largest congregation ever established by an English.. speakirig woman.

Thinking of those words, it seemed apl>ropri.. ate that almost in the shadow of a statue ofthe found.. ress, depicting her greeting路 a needy young motller and baby, an old Irish woman begged a few pence: for a cup of tea.

The statue stands at the entrance of the House of Mercy, built on Dublin's Lower Baggot Street in 1824 by Mother McAuley and restored and opened to the public in 1994. Visiting the House, now rechristened Mercy International Centre, highlighted a recent trip to Ireland and a bonus was an unexpected encounter with Mercy Sis-

MOTHER McAuley's statue at entrance to International Centre.

tel' Frances Lynch of the Regional Community of Providence. A member of the guidance staff at St. Mary Academy Bay View in East Providence, she resides in FalI River with Mercy Sister Barbara Reilly.

Then on sabbatical, Sister Lynch was helping in the Baggot Street gift shop, part of the In~ernational Centre. She and others were stilI glowing as they recalled the formal reopening of the restored building on July 23. 1994.

We were told that 1000 Sisters of Mercy representing 80 congregations and over 15,000 sisters around the world were on hand that July day for a Mass at Dublin's St. Andrew Church. It was folIowed by a program at the Centre that included addresses from

During the tours a video is shown and visitors see the chapel, the room where Mother McAuley died and a museum housing furniture, other artifacts, records and archival holdings dating from the 1800s.

In addition, there is an exhibit tracing the travels of the pioneer sisters who brought the message of Mercy to Great Britain, Newfoundland, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Argentina.

An especialIy halIowed spot is Mother McAuh:y's garden tomb, a simple stone slab engraved with her name, her dates of birth and death and the words, "My God, I am thine for time and eternity."

Still in use in the Centre building is her office, with her desk and other furniture that had belonged to her foster father. Providing

SCENE AT dedication of Mercy International Centre.

Small tomb in center of garden houses Mother McAuley's grave. such luminaries as Irish President Mary Robinson, Dublin Archbishop Desmond Connell and U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith.

Other evidence of the regard in which Ireland holds the Sisters of Mercy had come in 1993, when a five pound bank note was issued with an engraving of Mother McAuley in front of a Mercy hospital on one side and a clilssroom scene on the other, thus honoring the work of the sisters in the fields of both education and health care. . The note has its humorous aspect. The pound sign and a large 5 were superimposed on the veiled head of the foundress. "There's a price on her head" was the irresistible comment.

"Mercy Has Come Home" "Mercy has come home," proclaimed a sister dressed in the original habit of the community at another part of the July 23 ceremony. A particularly moving moment came when sisters in national costumes, each bearing a container typical of her country and filled' with water from that country poured it into a rill surrounding the garden of the Mercy International Centre and the small stone tomb that shelters Mother McAuley's grave. The water, continualIy recirculating, symbolizes the unity of the Mercy community around the world.

The hope is that the Centre will be a "resting and arriving, a sharing and a gathering place." The sharing includes guided tours of the building daily except Monday.

somewhat of II time warp was seeing "Mcintosh Bible: File Maker Pro" on the welI-\;Vorn desk.

Catherine's Life Catherine was born in Dublin in 1777 or 1778 (there is some uncertainty as to the date, due to the burning of many records during unrest in Dublin in the 1920s and also because the Penal Laws were in effect in Ireland at the time of her birth, leading to inexactitude of parish records). .

Her family was well-to-do but her father dit:d when she was only five or six years old and her mother, who handled the family's property unwisely, died when Catherine was barely 20. Thc~ young woman stayed briefly with a.n uncle and then with another well-off relative, William Callaghan.

He and his wife had no children and Catherine became very dear to them, although some problems arose because CalIaghan was an agnostic and, his wife was a Quaker.

Both looked down upon Catholics, and wen: unable to understand how their delightful niece could be among their number.

At the time, in the early years of the 19th century, there was much unrest in Dublin and to avoid violence the CalIaghans, with Catherine, moved to a country vilIage.

There the young woman visited homes of the poor as an emissary of Mrs. CalIaghan, an invalid who could not make such visits herself.

At the same time, Catherine was aiding in management of the Callaghan household and was instructing both the Catholic servants and

"A price on her head" the vilIage children in the fundamentals of their faith. All the while she had to contend with frequent diatribes against the church at the family dinner table, participated in by her own brother and brotherin-law when they were guests.

As time went on, however, Mrs. Callaghan was moved by Catherine's unfailing care of her and it is believed that she died a Catholic.

It is certain that her husband did, records showing that he was received into the church a day before his death in 1822.

He left most of his possessions and a large sum of money to Catherine, who could easily have become a wealthy socialite. Instead, she began aiding even more needy families than before, as welI as teaching needlework in a school for poor girls with the aim of providing them with a marketable skill. I But even this did not satisfy her.

What she wanted was a building where she could house servants seeking work and educate orphaned and otherwise neglected girls. Thus she had what is now the Mercy Internat.ional Centre built to her specifications. It opened Sept. 24, 1827, on, as she later discovered, the feast of Our Lady of Mercy, accounting for its original name, the House of Mercy.

On its opening day, two little sisters arrived seeking protection,

soon joined by many other young girls. Catherine's plan for staffing the house had been to form a society of "pious ladies" who would assist her but would be free to leave the work at any time they wished. However, the House of Mercy came to be perceived as a convent and as attracting young women who might otherwise have entered established religious communities.

Eventually matters were brought to a head by the archbishop of Dublin, also under the impression that Catherine was founding a new congregation. It made her realize that she had either to close the House of Mercy or herself receive training in a religious community to fit her to organize her own.

Already in her 50s, she left her house for 15 months and, with two of the women who had been working with her, was professed as a religious on Dec. 12, 1831, the same day on which she founded the Mercy Institute. Contrary to the strict rules governing most convents of the day, she aimed at making her institute "a home where the superior was to foster love," on the model of a family.

Within a few months, the new community was tested by an outbreak of cholera in Dublin, when the sisters were asked to take charge of a makeshift hospital and distinTurn to Page II

MOTHER McAuley's grave.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Mar. 17, 1995

A game about faith The new catechism and "DivinBy Father Eugene Hemrick ity" leave no doubt about Catholic In an age of cable television and computer games, is it reasonable convictions and their long tradition. to ask a family or friends to sit Unlike ingenious electronic around the table and playa game games which rely on hand-eye coorabout religion? dination or focus on trivia, "DivinI asked myself this when Mike ity" challenges players to connect McKay asked me to review his . the tempo'ral with the spiritual; it game, "Divinity" (Divinity Reli- centers on soul-searching questions. gious ProduCts, Carlsbad, Calif.).

Usually when reading the new "Divinity" asks 672 questions catechism, I reflect on its passages based on the new Catechism of the Catholic Church. They revolve momentarily, give a passing nod around the profession of faith, and move on. I found that "DivinChristian mysteries, the life of ity," like a good teacher, stopped me and challenged my pas.sivity.

Christ and prayer.

Depending on the answers, I also found that one question players advance or regress from would raise additional questions, the winner's goal, Omega. and this thinking process carried The game is played on a board over into other reading. Interestdecorated with terms and pictures ingly, I found myself aggressively drawn from faith. looking for passages in my breI enjoyed the game. But even viary which reflected this or that more, I enjoyed the fact that it teaching. made me think - that it set my A game might be a fun way to powers of reflection in motion.

And it brought to mind some think about faith. But it isn't really recent research that found a number the game itself that concerns me. of churches losing young people What I think we all need are challenges in the daily course of events because they offer a weak creed.

Youth, and for that matter adults, - yes, including leisure events are not attracted to a religious that cause us to think about the. denomination that lacks clear and value of faith and its meaning for our lives here and now. strong beliefs.

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takes' faith on the road

HOLLYWOOD(CNS) - Florence Henderson, one of the most popular moms in all televisiondom, takes her Catholic faith on the road whether she's working in a nightclub, a musical, Las Vegas, or TV. "Faith is a gift that's within us ....

If it's not going with you, then you don't have much faith," said Ms. Henderson.

"I do believe very strongly in prayer, and I'm very grateful that I've had that in my life, because I think it sustains you in very diffi- cult times. And our business can be extremely difficult. But I think it has to be within you, and you just can't park it and pick it up when you want it."

She said prayer keeps entertainers "from having a distorted image of who they are" and opens them up to new people as they go from BARRY BUNCH: Florence Henderson appears with city to city. "And those are what I Harry Anderson in an episode of "Dave's World" as the call moments of grace," she said.

"I:,p1 a great believer in the Holy mother-in-law of Anderson's character, Dave Barry. (CNS/ Spirit, in grace, CBS photo) "Whether people know how you believe or what you think about Benedictine nuns and priests in St. to the Owensboro area'to do a religion, I think they can sense that Meinrad and Ferdinand, Ind. She benefit concert for Bre:;cia Colabout you. I think people feel also has a priest in the family; her lege, an Ursuline-run school there. something - they might not know uncle, Jesuit Father Charles Whe- "We raised a lot of money," she what it is, but I think they certainly lan, teaches constitutional law at said. "I felt really good about feel its presence." that. " Fordham University. .

Ms. Henderson is best known . "] really owe so much to the On Broadway she playl:d Maria Benedictines. They took me under in the original version of "The for playing Carol Brady for five seasons of "The Brady Bunch," the their wing and realized I could Sound of Music." "] didn't get a ABC sitcom that has endured in sing," she said. crack at the film," she noted, which Ms: Henderson added the Bene- became one ofthelast great movie reruns for a generation and is now a movie. She has played the mother dictines "put me in the big choir by musicals. of Caryl on the sitcom "The Mom- the time] was 8 years old. ] learned She said that perhaps because of mies" and Maggie, Dave Barry's four-part Latin Masses and Gre- her wholesome image, palents apwitchy mother-in-law, on the CBS gorian chant. It was a wonderful proach her to ask if cer':ain TV training for me. I did that for 12 shows are good for their children sitcom "Dave's World," For 19 years she has been the years." to watch. "They're respon:;ible for She took her confirmation name, this little soul they've brought into product spokeswoman for Wesson Oil, ana had a cooking show Gemma, from a Benedictine nun the world and they wonder what's on The Nashville Network cable with whom she still corresponds. being taught," Ms. Henderson said. channel but 'that ended last year "That's how much ] loved her," She recalled lovingly the "Brady . Ms, Henderson said. She recently after nine seasons.

Bunch" legacy. "Very fe\\ people brought Sister Gemma and four The actress is the youngest of 10 children "from a huge Catholic other Benedictine nuns to catch in our business have been~. part of family," she said, "and my father her show in Vegas: "They had a something that everyone seems to have great affection for. Thl:y really didn't marry until he was 47.... He ball." love the characters. They love Carol The Hendersons grew up poor. was 67 when I was born." Ms. Brady, everyone in it. And that it's Henderson; who married at age Dad was a sharecropper and mom 20, herself has four grown children a domestic who also worked the still going strong after s(, many and a grandchild. fields. But when Florence landed a years absolutely amazes m.:."

Born in tiny Dale, Ind., across chorus role for a Broadway show The show "represents what everythe Ohio River froin Owensboro, soon after getting to New York, one wants in life, and that i:; a lovKy., she later moved with her fam- "I've never looked back. I've never ing family, unconditional love, a ily about 25 miles away to Rock- been out of work - knock wood," place to make mistakes, to get port, Ind, She was educated by ]n 1993 Ms. Henderson returned angry, to be forgiven, to forgive."

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Ground change in values, they say

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"BEANNACHTAI N A FEILE PADRAIG": St. Patrick's Day greetings from a reluctant lass in the countryside of County Galway, Ireland. (CNS photo)

WASH]NGTON(CNS)- Their the author of "The Book of Vir- ment," and believes "those who do political views may generally put tues," co-director of Empow~r are setting themselves up." them on different ends of the spec- America and onetime education After serving as secretary of trum, but when it 'comes to the secretary and drug policy director education, Bennett said he knows importance of values in society, in the Reagan and Bush administra- there is plenty of waste in governWashington Post columnist E.J. tions. ment and that he would like to see Dionne, a Fall River native, and Since the Republican gains in more creative use offederal funds. former Republican Cabinet mem- the 1994 election, two views seem "But] certainly don't believe the ber William J. Bennett think a lot to prevail among those who attempt alike. to d.efine the country's problems problems are solvable by proThe pair spoke together on the and the message voters were send- grams," he said. "These are problems of love, of the human heart." politics of values at the concluding ing, according to Dionne. session of a four-day meeting of Neither the view that governPrograms meant to change !:omeCatholic social ministry organiment involvement in people's lives one's life with retraining, counselzations. is the problem nor the conclusion ing or some other effort are a Members of the same Washing- .. that the nation is merely suffering waste oftime if they have no moral ton parish, Bennett and Dionne from traumatic economic changes . and spiritual basis, Bennett conboth said the answers to the coun- is entirely right, he said: tinued. try's problems will lie with people "There is no way forward but to "] was brought up to believe we such as those attending the confer- acknowledge both," but with the ence - people who start from a added realization that a moral cri- are moral and spiritual beings," he said. "That part of us mus,t be moral basis in working with the sis exists as well, said Dionne. addressed." poor, immigrants, refugees and "The moral crisis is destructive broken families. . to families," he continued, and to Bennett and Dionne spoke on ."] think the answer is in your children who are raised in an environ- the final day of the annual mel:ting efforts," Bennett said. ment of fear and uncertainty. of Catholic social ministry organiBennett said that unlike many zations sponsored by the U.S. CathDionne, author of "Why Americans Hate Politics," is a columnist of the Republicans in the news olic Conference Department of who tends to support traditional since the election, he doesn't sup- Social Development and World Democratic policies. Bennett is port "the disappearance of govern- Peace.

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ents to go back to Russia - to get THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Mar. 17, 1995 his baby sister!

"We didn't even know he had a sister!" said a shocked Mrs. Rodidn't tire of playing with the mero. adding that they are looking zipper. "Remember?"she asks him. into the matter and would be willContinued from Page One "Up and down, up and down?" ing to adopt his sister if they can locate her and she is available for Renat laughs at the memory: guished themselves by their devoadoption.

"Mama says, Renat, go to sleep!" tion to their patients.

As the years went by, convents Sandy Romero described her The plump photo album feawere established in many dioceses experience in Russia as "crazy, but tures a picture of Renat with Santa it worked!" during his first Christmas in Amer- in England as well as in Ireland, "Business in the United States ica. Mrs. Romero sighed that "Ever with the sisters often known as and business in Russia are two dif- since he's been here it's been one "the McAuleys" or "the walking ferent things," she declared. "Once continuous party," with his wel- !;luns," the latter from the fact that you get there you are out of con- coming followed closely by Christ- they walked to visit the poor, just trol. You let them do their part mas and then his baptism. "The as their foundress did. One of their most famous charities is a homeand go along for the ride." tough part is we have to explain Like other adopting parents now it's not going to be Santa less shelter in London, established on Crispin Street in 1868 and working through the Charlotte of- Claus and presents every day!" visited by many members of Britfice, she was hosted in Russia by The most recent set of photos Rita and Alexis Aliosha, who not are from Renal's baptism by Father ish royalty "to observe and ad mire."

Mother McAuley had her share only oversee the paperwork but John Ozug Feb. II at St. John provide a place to stay, transpor- Neumann. It was a conditional of trials. Her community was not tation and translation. The Ro- baptism since they have no way of confirmed by the Vatican until 1841, the last year of her life, and meros' documentation was already knowing if the boy was baptized in order at the American embassy, earlier, but the Romeros marvel at there were ongoing financial probso after a relatively brief stay of the Christian background he seems lems. On the personal level, her seven days getting to know Renat to have. They don't know where it family brought her grief, with her three nephews, all of whom died and visiting sites in Russia, Mrs. comes from because Renat told young, leading unsuccessful lives, Romero was on her way home them he had never been to church. with her son.

But Sandy Romero was wearing a and her brother leaving the church.

She died Nov.ll, 1841 atage63 Seeing the conditions in Russia crucifix the day she met Renat, "was hard and sad," she said. and he pointed right at it, repeat- or 64, refusing to indicate whom she might wish to be her successor.

"While I was there I thought I ing the Russian word for Christ.

"The Constitutions leave the siscould never do it again. But you "It almost seems like, as bad as survive and come home and con- it is" for the orphans, "they're ters perfect freedom of choice," sider doing it again!" being watched over and protected she said. Her grave in the Centre The trip seemed to make the somehow." That Renat "is a happy, garden has been a place of pil"business of creating families" even well-adjusted child, considering grimage from that time on. In 1992 more meaningful because, she said, what he's been through, can only she was declared Venerable by Pope John Paul II. "you return home with certainly be divine intervention," she said. an education," an attitude that Now he is intrigued with going "there are no boundaries" and a to church and loves to light can"sense of a universal family, uni- dies to "pray for his [birth] mothWASHINGTON (CNS) - Jeversa I love." er," said Mrs. Romero. suit Father William Byron, the Ifit weren't for Renat, she added, The Romeros took Renat to former president of The Catholic they might not have thought to University of America, is the new explore another culture, but noW Our Lady s Chapel in New Beddirector of the Center for the ford. where one of the Franciscan the Romeros want to be able to Advanced Study of Ethics at sisterslet him pickfrom an assortgive Renat a sense of his roots.

Georgetown University. Father ment ofprayer cards.

Renat has opened afresh can of Byron succeeds Dr. Edward Pelle"This is the one he picked. "Mrs. Play-Doh and hands a bright- Romero said. producing a picture grino. who had held the post for colored ball to his mother. who of Christ being taken down from five years. Pellegrino will continue takes the opportunityfor a lesson: the Cross. as director of Georgetown's Cen"What do you call that color?"

Certainly there were more ap- ter for Clinical Bioethics at the Renat examines the ball pealing images a little boy might Georgetown Medical Center. thoughtfully but is stumped. He have chosen. But that he would leans closer so 'his mother can identify with the painful scene is whisper in his ear. "Yellow." not so surprising to his parents.

"Yellow," Renat repeats conRenat turns six years old on fidently.

April 14, Good Friday. One senses "Many of the concerns I had GENERAL CONTRACTORS though, that this former orphan would he like us, would he like our who has known suffering has also 55 Highland Avenue home - have not been a prob- found Easter joy with his new Fall Rive" MA 02720 lem," said Mrs. Romero. The same family. goes for the language barrier; "With the families we know who 678·5201 Renat is learning quickly, and while have pursued Russian adoptions," he occasionally will use a Russian Sandy Roemro reflected, "it always word, "he's wanted from the begin- seems the child was meant for that ning to communicate in English," family ... 1t seems always a match said his mother. made in heaven."

Renat attends Little People's Est. 1962 Preschool and "has totally integrated into the lifestyle in America Religious with few problems," she said, though at first he didn't seem to Articles HEATING, INC. understand the permanence of the Sales and service Books • Gifts adoption. for Domestic and Industrial When the Romeros went to enall Burners Church Supplies roll him in next year's kindergarten 995-1631 at St. Francis Xavier School in 428 Main St. • Hyannis, MA 02601 2283 ACUSHNET AVENUE Acushnet, the normally friendly NEW BEDFORD 508-775-4180 Mon.-Sat. 9-5 boy clung to his mother, asking, "Sleep?"

The school building reminded him of the facility in Russia, and he feared they were going to leave FRANCISCAN FRIARS him there "to sleep" like he did at the orphanage.

MASS AND DEVOTIONS Another novelty in his Amerito can life is having his own things.

"He's a packrat!" Jim Romero ST. PEREGRINE declared. "He gets presents and even wants to keep the boxes."

FOR CANCER VICTIMS AND THEIR-LOVED ONES Every Thursday • 9:30 A.M. Renat's first present was a pair offooted pajamas Mrs. Romero ST. LOUIS CHURCH brought with her to Russia. He was sofascinated with them he put 420 Bradford Avenue • Fall River shoes on to keep thefeet clean and

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ST. PATRICK An Irish Blessing: May the blessing of the Light be on you, light without and light within. May the blessed sunlight shine on you and warm your heart till it glows like a great peatfire. so that the stranger may come and warm himself at it, and also a friend.

Russian boy presents information on all the Continued from Page One children available to potential CSS offices. The couple had their first meeting with Fall River CSS adoptive families. By the time an on March 25. On Oct. 25, Sandy application is sent to Russia for Romero left for Russia, returning review, "You've already chosen a child," Mrs. Romero explained.

Nov. 2 with a son. .. A lot of people have gone "You set the parameters - age, through so many [adoption] pro- sex, medical conditions you will grams and been disappointed. Peo- accept." The Russian institutions, ple are surprised at how little time realizing the lack of future the it actually took," she said, caution- children have if they stay, are ing, though, that the process was accommodating about who will be at times laborious and complicated. allowed to adopt, she added; a The Charlotte agency's success, couple in their 60S, a paraplegic she said, is due to a "good rapport" and single parents have been apwith Russian orphanage contacts proved.

The adoptive parents "have to and their mutual understanding that they are not seeking to place be realistic about the work that only "perfect infants" but to find . goes into it" said Mrs. Romero, "nurturing homes for children who adding that it takes a lot of love, have none and have no hope of faith and flexibility to open one's receiving one" in Russia. Those home to a Russian orphan, as available for placement are either information on background is often more than three years old or have scant. "The more open-minded you conditions - medical, emotional are, the better your chances" of or developmental .- which make finding a child, she said.

Once Russia approves an applithem "unadoptablf:" in Russia but cation, she continued, "you wait in many cases are treatable in the for an invitation" to go pick up the U.S. Renat. the Romeros were told, child. With sonie international had acute bronchial asthma and adoptions, "things change once had been repeatedly hospitalized you get there," said Mrs. Romero. in Russia. Medical care in villages "But with this program, you can such as Renat S. four hours from be 99 percent sure that the child Moscow. can be woefully unso- you go over there for is the child phisticated: the boy had burn you return with." marksfrom "cup treatment. "heatThe Romeros originally wanted ed glasses placed on his back to a child younger than three. but ease his breathing. His condition. after they heard about Renat, "his however. "had a lot to do with air was the only picture we askedfor. pollution. "said Mrs. Romero. and and right then we were ready to since coming to the U. S.• he hasn't bring him homer had a respiratory problem.

Renat had been living in a rela"He needed immunizations. but tively small orphanage ofabout 40 otherwise has not needed special- children for about a year. "Of his ized medical atlelllion. "his mother life prior to that we know very litnoted. She is concerned. however. tle - just the name ofthe mother that. removed from an abusive and father. no medical or family home and placed in' the orphan- history. " age, Renat "mayhavea lot ofemoBut he "remembers everything. " tional issues still' to address. .. said Mrs. Romero, and as he is For the Romeros, the adoption able to expres$ himself more in process began with a home study English, Renat adoptive parents consisting of meetings with CSS are learning more about his traupersonnel at their home and at the matic early life. ,For instance. when CSS office. One misconception they visited the New England the couple had was that "only Aquarium. he was terrified; later people financially well off could he told them how his mother had do this. Our income is modest, and once driven their car into water.

But overall, "he's very fun, very they didn't close their door to that." The process costs $10-15,000, loving. by nature a very happy "but when you look at the children child. He just wakes up happy. you can't put a price on the oppor- The love that he gives totally outtunity to help a person be the per- weighs the challenging moments. " son they were created to be," said said Mrs. Romero.

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Taxes should go up, says Father Drinan MIAMI (CNS)-Jesuit Father Robert F. Drinan, a Democratic congressman from Massachusetts during the 1970s, still needles the Establishment and champions the cause of the poor two decades later.

Nowa law professor at Georgetown University in Washington, he told students at St. Thomas University Law School in Miami they are "sojourners, wayfarers on a journey" who have a "hatred of injustice - which is why you became lawyers."

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Thomas More, who was urged to compromise by the despots of his day in England, "but he said, 'can't do that.'"

The cause of the poor leaves Father Drinan in favor of more tax, not less. To think otherwise is a "heresy" that will leave the poor and children out in the cold in a country where its people are already taxed 'less than those in other democracies, he said.

Father Drinan elaborated on that theme in an interview with The Florida Catholic, Miami's archdiocesan newspaper.

Who will care for the children?

In Musoma, Tanzania, AIDS is as clothing and scholarships, all made possible by the contributions of killing a generation of parents.

Grandparents who thought their HCA children like the ones in our child-rearing years were over are diocese. now struggling with limited means What has been done by our to care for grandchildren orphaned young people is quite amazing. It

by AI DS. In so many cases, those seems they've taken to heart the .affected are very poor. And Mu- . Gospel teaching that with God soma is just one area in Africa, everything is possible. The kids where 10 million of the world's who join in HCA's efforts to make estimated 15 million HI V-infected a difference for children suffering people live. More than a million in developing countries don't worry African children have lost their that what they do won't be enough. parents to AI DS. They simply make a sacrifice, do With resources strained and what they can, and trust in God, those hardest hit often already liv- who asks that we care for His ing in dire poverty, who will help poor. the children of Africa?

Amidst all the bad news about The children of the U.S. the young people of America being In fact, for some time, our youths have been helping Africa's chil- selfish, lazy, or violent, isn't it dren and other young people in good to hear about the work being need in ·the world's developing done by child'ren who understand countries. Through the Holy Child- what sacrifice is about?

Adults can support their efforts hood Association, the Catholic Church's "children helping child- and help the Holy Childhood care ren" organization, young people for children who have been orphaned or abandoned, who are in the U.S. learn about children in countries like Tanzania, India, and sick with malaria, tuberculosis, Bolivia and share their blessings and dysentery; who are living in with youngsters who often lack refugee camps, who haven't'heard the good news Jesus came to bring. . even life's most basic necessities.

Right now, AIDS orphans in To find out how you can help, con~ Musoma are receiving food tact HCA diocesan director Msgr. vegetables and ugali, a stiff por- John J. Oliveira, 344 Highland ridge eaten in Tanzania - as well Ave., Fall River 02720, 672-7781.

CHILDREN HELPING CHILDREN, like these sisters in Zaire, is the mission of the Holy Childhood Association.

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The Republican "Contract with America" is "going back on some of the fundamental social programs that are inherent in America," he said. "We have struggled for over 40 years to bring school lunches to children, legal aid to the poor and all kinds of educational help to Catholic and other schools."

"It seems to me that we should modernize and reform some ofthe programs, but to suggest that all of this should be reverted to the states or phased out is contrary to some of the fundamental American truths," Father Drinan said.

So why did people vote for it?

"Because ofthe money," he replied. "Congress doesn't have the courage to face.the fact that everything goes up every year with inflation. Taxes should go up every year 2 or 3 percent. They never say that. They say they want taxes to be cut. That's the heresy that has now been propagated for 12 or 14 years."

Father Drinan said Congress isn't really taking the money and giving it back to the states. "What will happen inevitably is that state and local taxes will go up very substantially," he said.

"You are sending the problem back to the states and that means' that a lot of children who need special help such as emotionally or handicapped children are not going to get the help.

"On the school lunch program, for instance, this is a program that everybody says works. It costs money but helps farmers and poor children. To say we're going to revert all this to (states like) Mississippi - the poor children won't have lunch."

For the states, "It's going to be an acute problem," Father Drinan said. "The property taxes and sales taxes will go up. Inevitably, the governor here says, 'I will never raise your taxes.' This is the myth and sickness that we can't have any more taxes. We must have more taxes."

As for churches taking up the slack resulting from cuts in 'social programs, former President Ronald Reagan "had the fantasy that all church organizations could do all of these things," he said. "They are heavily impacted now and doing all they can and it's almost impossible for them to do any more."

In talking with the law students, Father Drinan touched on several topics: - Fees: Should they be by the hour, or by the case? So much is said about rich lawyers, he noted, but the median income for those in the profession is "only $60,000$70,000 a year."

- Repugnant representation: Model rules established in 1983 say a lawyer must not accept a client who wants to do an illegal act. "Could you. take big bucks from the tobacco industry?" he asked. "Take $500 an hour from an industry when 5,000 a day dieT' - Minorities: Only 3.1 percent of lawyers are Hispanic and 3.2 percent black while those groups make up 12.7 percent of the general population.

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Cardinal UU.me discussE~s hetero-, homosexual lov~ LONDON (CNS) - Loying friendship between homosexual or heterosexual individuals is to be treasured and respected, Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster said.

Friendship is a gift from God, and is a way of loving, said the cardinal, who is primate of England and Wales.

But "to equate friendship and full sexual involvement with another is to distort the very concept offriendship" in any circumstance, he said.

It is also a mistake to assume that because two people enjoy a deep friendship that they must be sexually involved, he said.

"When two persons love they experience in a limited manner in this world what will be their unending delight when one with God in the next," he said.

Cardinal Hume's comments .came in an eight-page statement on the teaching of the Catholic Church concerning homosexuals.

It was made public in' London March 6.

"To love another is in fact to reach out to God, who shares his lovableness with the one we love," Cardinal Hume said.

"To love one another, whether of the same sex or of a different sex, is to have entered the area of the richest human experience," he said. "But that experience is spoiled, whether it is in .marriage or in friendship, when we do not think and act as God wills us to think and act."

Hisdocument draws on the background advice offered by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith three years ago to the U.S. bishops on how to assess the impact of legislative proposals concerning homosexuals.

He also quoted from the congregation's" Letter on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons," published in 1986.

In a synthesis of the document, the Vatican said that "the particular inclination of the homosexual

person, while it is not in itself a sin, is a more or less strong tendency to behavior which is intrinsica lIy evil from the moral point of view, and should therefore be considered objectively disordered itself."

The cardinal stressed th;lt the church recognizes and respet:ts the dignity of all people :- and does not define them in terms of their sexual orientation.

But the church could not in any way equate a homosexual partnership with a heterosexual marriage, nor could the church approv.e of homosexual genital sexual acts, he said. , "No individual, bishop, priest or layperson is in a position to change the teaching of the church which she considers to be Godgiven," Cardinal Hume said.

Homosexual inclination or orientation is not a moral failing, Cardinal Hume said.

"Being a homosexual person is neither morally good nor morally bad: it is homosexual genital acts that are morally wrong," he said.

"When the church speaks of the inclination to homosexuality as being an 'objective disorder,' the church can be thinking only of the inclination towards homosexual genital acts," he said.

"The church does not consider the whole personality and character of the individual to be then:by disordered," the church leader sa.id.

Cardinal Hume said church.tea,:hing could never be used to justify violence against homosexuals or their victimization.

"Homophobia" should have no place among CathOlics, he add(:d.

"Catholic teaching on homosexuality is not founded on and can never be used to justify 'homophobic' attitudes."

The cardinal's statement was welcomed by the Roman Catholic caucus of the Lesbian and Ga.y Christian Movement, which hailed it as showing signs of a developing appreciation of the theological, pastoral and social needs of le~;­ bian and gay Catholics.

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March 30 date for encyclical 011 life VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II's long-awaited encyclical on abortion and other human life issues, "Evangelium Vitae" ("The Gospel of Life"), will be made public March 30, the Vatican said.

The text, which sourccs said was over 180 pages long, was presented to bishops from around the world at a closed-door Vatica.n meeting March 13.

Sources said the encyclical, requested by the College of Cardinals in 1991, focuses on abortion, euthanasia and embryonic experiments as growing threats to human life. The pope is said to offer both theological reflection and practical ethical guidelines. The document also touches upon contraception and "in vitro" fertilization, practices which the church teaches are morally illicit.

Addressed to all the faithful, the encyclical is expected t.o be a landmark document of this pontificate. The pope has said he considers the issues he treats indicative of a modern "struggle bctween the culture of death and the culture of life."

New York 'Cardinal John J. O'Connor, who spoke with the pope during the encydical's preparation, said last year he expected it to be a "blockbuster" and reflective of the pope's new urgency about pro-life issues.

The private Vatican presentation of the document was made to representatives of bishops' conference and national doctrinal commissions. Attending from the V nited States was Bishop James T. McHugh of Camden., N.J.,a member of the V.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities.

Vatican Holly Week services listed WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Good Friday and Easter Sunday services led by POPf: John Paul II will be broadcast live for pickup

by TV and radio stations worldwide.

As in previous y1ears, the Vatican will pay uplink costs. Downlink expenses are e:xpected to be borne by local stations.

The April 12 Good Friday service, at which the pope will preside, will be broadcast live from 9: 15 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Italian time (3: 15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST) from Rome's Colosseum.

Easter Sunday Mass will be celebrated by the pope and broadcast from St. Peter's Basilica from 10:30 a.m. to noon Italian time (4:30 a.m. to 6 a. m. EST) April 14.

After the Mass, the pope will deliver his ~aster message "urbi et orbi" (to the city and the world) from noon until 12:40 p. m. Italian time (6 a.m. to 6:40 a.m. EST).

Transmission of the services will be accompanied by commentaries in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Handicaps "I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God."Helen Keller

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The Multicultural Healthcare Committee of Saint Anne's Hospital is for the eighth year offering scholarships to linguistic and cultural minorities of the Greater Fall River community who are entering or enrolled in a degree program in a health care profession.

To be a warded are four $500 scholarships to Saint Anne's employees or their family members and two $500 scholarships to residents of Greater Fall River. Applicants must be: -Bilingual and bicultural Portuguese, Cambodian or Latino -A resident of Greater Fall River (including Dighton, Freetown, Rehoboth, Swansea, Somerset, Westport and Tiverton, RI) - Entering or pursuing a degree program in nursing or an allied health care profession at an accredited college or university. (Preference will be given to individ uals who are, or will be, enrolling at a college or university in Southeastern Massachusetts or Rhode Island) -A graduating high school senior or currently-enrolled college/ university student who would use the scholarship award during the 1995-96 academic year.

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Msgr. Diarmuid Martin, secre- without government support for institutions teaching the values of tary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and head of the solidarity, love, friendship, tolerVatican delegation, told the sum- ance and cooperation.

"V ndoubtedly, the first of these mit that commitment is the key to institutions to be safeguarded is the meeting's success. the family," he said.

"The leaders of the world's An area where the Vatican had nations come together at this hoped for stronger action was the summit not just to study, to anaforeign debt burden of poor counlyze, to reflect on or to discuss tries; many of which pay more in [problems]," he said. interest on their debts each year "They will make a promise to than they receive in development those I billion people in today's aid. world who live in abject poverty, "The summit did not accept the' to do something concrete and definitive about their situation," said' challenge to cancel the debt of the poorest countries, but it did accept Msgr. Martin. the need to study ways to do so," The Vatican delegation was Navarro-Valls said. pleased with its success in getting other delegations to accept two of At the same time, the summit its proposals dealing specifically . recognized the need to reform with women, Navarro-Valls said. structural adjustment programs The first proposal called on imposed on debtor nations as a governments to report in their condition for new loans. The progross national product statistics grams emphasize government spendon the value of unpaid work that ing cuts with the result that social women perform at home. services almost always are the first Its final language said such .items cut. reporting could be separate; from The summit documents, recogofficial GNP reports, but acknownizing that balanced budgets and ledged the need to recognize "the economic growth are not the only great social importance" of the ingredients in a nation's developunpaid work of those who care for ment, call for structural adjustchildren, the elderly and persons ment programs to take into account with disabilities. the need for job creation and guaThe second Vatican proposal rantees of basic social services.

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The Multicultural Healthcare Committee, formed in 1984 as the Portuguese Community Healthcare Committee, serves to broaden and enhance access to health care services for ethnic and cultural minorities.

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Boy and Girl Scouts participate in religious emblem, award ceremony at St. Mary's Cathedral last Sunday.

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S couts receive awards Bi~hop Sean O'Malley awarded religious emblems to Girl and Boy Scouts at the annual Diocesan S~outing . awards ceremony March 12 at St. Mary's Cathedral.

Girl Scouts receiving the Marian Medal were: troop 494, Taunton Jessica Harpin, St. Jacques parish; Paula Lee, Sacred Heart parish.

Troop 610, Taunton St. Joseph's parish: Shannon Andrade, Becky Gagnon, Richalie Griffith, Julie Elizabeth Medeiros, Emily Morris; St. Anthony's parish: Allison Da Rosa, Stacy Fernandes. . .

Boy Scouts receiving Ad Altare Dei emblems were: Anawam Council Troop 30, St.. Mary, North Attleboro: Travi~ Ryan Flint. Troop 35, St. Theresea, South Attleboro: Gary Joseph Wright.

Moby' Dick Council Troop 12, New Bedford, SI. Mary's parish: LaurieJ: Audette, Matthew Calvao, Matthew Pelletier, Jonathan Vardo; St.路 Lawrence: Andrew Bettencourt; St. Theresa: Brian Fredette; Our Lady of Fatima: Keith 'Goudreau; St. Francis Xavier, Acushnet: Aaron Sameiro.

Cape Cod & Islands Council Troop 63, St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis: Michael Harran, Joseph Hurley, Joseph Newton-Labadie, Sean Rausch. . , Troop 83, St. Joan of Arc, Orleans: Josh Daigle, Mat-

thew Daigle, Joseph Devlin, Andrew Eitelbach, James Filliman, Matthew Johnston.

Troop 36, Christ the King, Mashpee: Brad Lewis, Matthew Trask. . Troop 52: Our Lady of Hope mission, Centerville: Tim Powers. .

Troop 50: St. Pius X parish, South Yarmouth: Joshua Drohan.

Troop 71, St. Pius X: Jeffrey Newell, Robert Newell.

Troop 59, St. Pius X: Roger Scott Cash, Pat Keary, Charles Greg Millen, Jonathan Regan; St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis: Chris George.

Boy Scouts' receiving the Pope Pius award were: Cape Cod & Islands Council Troop 59, St. Pius X: David Newell. Troop 63, St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis: Mike Harran, Matthew Harrington, Michael Peterson.

Adult awards were given as follows: Bronze Pelican Anawam Council: William R. Powers, Holy Rosary, Taunton; Leslie Spousta, Sacred Heart, Taunton. Cape Cod & Islands Council: Mary Devlin, St. Joan of Arc, Orleans.

Moby Dick Council: Christian Fernandes, St. Mary, Fairhaven; Omer Demers, St. Anne, Fall River; Stephen Soares, Espirito Santo, Fall River; Cecily Vagaco, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, New Bedford; Natalie Morais, St. Mary; South Dartmouth; Father Richard Andrade, associate chaplain for Diocesan Scouting, chaplain at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River.'

St. George Father David Landry, chaplain for Anawam Council and at Morton Hospital, Taunton.

St. 'Elizabeth Seton Maureen Morris and 'Patricia Medeiros, St. Joseph, Taunton. .

JJishopConnoily High 'FALL RIVER - The following students received awards at a recent school.assembly: Jason Chapman, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and Fairfield University book award,s; Lisa Almeida, Regis College Book Award; Jodie Pietroska, Holy Cross Book Award and Bausch and Lomb Award.

Also: Jen Rezendes, Harvard Book, Award; Miriam Laranjeira, Xerox Award; Grady Gauthier, Xavier University Book Award.

Richard Sisson was recognized asa regional finalist in the 1994 Wendy's High School Heisman.Award competition. He was among 1,200 finalists selected from 10,000 nominees of principals nationwide.

Miss Rezendes was first runner-up in the Junior Miss Massachusetts pageant. She earned a $500 scholarship for outstanding scholastic performance and presence and composure. . . .

Junior Elizabeth Goltman has received Girl Scouting's highest honor, the Gold Award. . .

Sports Senior Kevin' Donnolly, a member of the boys' winter track team, was named an EAC all star ~nd qualified for the All New England Championships by finishing seventh in the M~ssachusetts State Championships. , The ski race team put in an outstanding performance in their last race of the season, bringing'home a trophy for third place men's varsity team. Meanwhile, both the boys' and girls' junior varsity ski teams took first place. The' boys' JV squad remains .undefeated for a'fift~ year.

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Bishop O'Malley awards Marian Medal to Paula Lee of Sacred Heart parish, Taunton. (Hickey photo)

TAUNTON - Returning to the school where he. started his coaching career 40 years ago, Frank Almeida has been named Coyle-Cassidy's sixth head football coach, succeeding Stephen McGonigle.

Almeida has a long and storied career as a high school football coach in Southeastern Massachusetts, posting more than 200 victories as a varsity head coach in 38 seasons. In 1980, he coached the Taunton Tigers of his alma mater to a Super Bowl championship. At Bridgewater-Raynham High School he led theTrojans to three Super Bowl appearances in 10 years.

After graduating from Boston University, Almeida was assistant coach at Coyle High School under Jim Burns beginning in 1955. In addition to Taunton and Bridgewater-Raynham, he has coached at Wareham and Old Rochester high schools.

Coyle-Cassidy alum Mike Piesco will continue as an assistant coach and Don Miller, who assisted Almeida at Taunton and Bridgewater-Raynham, willjoin the CoyleCassidy coaching staff in August.

The school opens its 68th season of Warrior football in September.

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St. Mary's School principal Angela Stankiewicz and pastor Father John Moore present Distinguished Graduate A ward to Anthony Folco. .

St. Mary's alumni who now attendBishop StanJ High School visit their elementary alma mater during Cllthotic Schools Week.

St. Mary's School NEW BEDFORD -..:. St. Mary's School celehrated Catholic SChools Week with a variety of activities I,eginning with a Family Dance coordinated by the rriiddle . grades. Students and their families created Family S:~ields which decorated the gym for the evening and were displayed in the school foyer for the remainder of the week.

The primary teachers planned a Student Talent :;how which opened with a selection of musical numbers by the children in nursery through grade 2. Other students showcased their dancing, singing, and magic talents.

Young alumni now attending Bishop Stang High S<:hool visited the school arid judged a school spirit doordecorating contest sponsored by the elementary unit.

They were accompanied by students from grade 5, who encouraged them to vote for the fifth grade door! Decorating contest winners were: grade. I (primary unit), grade 4 (elementary unit), and grade 8 (middle unit).

Catholic Schools Week closed with liturgy and the presentation of the 1995 Distinguished Graduate Award. ' Anthony D. Folco (Clas~ of 1971) was,named St. M~lry's NCEA Distinguished Graduate. A member of the first . graduating class'of SMS, Folco is a local businessman a'nd member of St. Mary's paFish. Through his parish and community activities, he exemplifies the values whicb St. Mary's strives to teach its students.

Day 100 at SMS coincided with Valentine's Day, so the elementary and primary children celebrated by the hundreds! They began the day by offering hundred:; of prayer intentions at a St. Valentine's service. The primary children's goal was to collect 100 cans of vegetables for Market Ministries while the elementary children <:01lected 100 pounds of pasta; both groups exceeded tbeir goals. The children also baked hundreds of cookies to share with the rest of the school at lunch. What a great way to share the spirit of love and live the Works of Mercy!

Sixth grade parent, Joseph David, recently visited the class to share with them some of the rituals of the Maronite Rite of the Church and share his Arabic heritage through stories.

Rivier College NAS H UA, N H - Junior Rob Pereira of Fall River. a graduate of Bishop Connolly High School, recently completed a third season on the Rivier College men's basketball team. He was team co-captain for 1994-95 and . was named to the All Tournament team of the Granite State Shootout. He has played in 75 straight games and holds school records in career assists (207) and carel:r steals (116). Said Coach Jim Domoracki, "Rob is the toughest player on the team."

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ZOMBIE Another head hangs lowly Child is slowly taken And the ,'iolence Caused such silence Who are we mistaken But you see it's not me It's not my family In your head, in your head They arc fighting With their tanks and their bombs And their bombs and their guns In your head In your head they are crying In your !head Zombie What's in your head Zombie~~

Another mother's breaking Heart is taking over When the violence chooses silence We must be mistaken It's thesllme old theme since 1916 In your head In your 'lead They're still fighting With tlneir tanks In your head they are dying Written by Dolores O'Riordan/Noel Hogan.

Sung b}' The Cranberries (c) 1994 by Island Music Ltd. I REALLY lik(: The Cranberries' music. This group from Ireland has a great sound, plus they write songs that have something to say. Evidence of both qualities is found in their current chart hit, "Zombie."

Dolores O'Riordan is a band member and the song's co-

author. Recently, I heard a commentary about her reasons for writing this song.

Apparently The Cranberries were practicing for an upcoming performance in Northern Ireland when a bombing killed several people very near where they were playing. This expe-

rience shook The Cranberries deeply.

Out of their feelings over this incident, The Cranberries chose to make a statement about the effects of violence on our world.

As I listen to '''Zombie,'' I hear their plea that we genuinely notice what violence does to us.

Even when the bombing, the killing and the terror stops, the pain, the fighting and the fright go on in peoples' heads. All of this turns them into emotional zombies, as people learn to block all their feelings to survive.

One does not have to live in Belfast or a large city to dwell in a climate of violence. Reading the local newspaper, watching professional sports or even a night's dose oftelevision is likely to immerse us in violence. Even worse, some of us witness violence in our homes in the ways family members treat each other.

Perhaps' the deeper message in the song is its challenge that we not remain powerless before violence. The Cranberries used their talents to make a clear statement concerning violence.

We can do the same.

Why not ask that this song be discussed in one of your classes, at a religious education session or through a parish youth ministry activity? Think both in terms of personal responses and what your group might do to respond to our world's violence.

If you send your ideas to me, I will try to share your thinking in a future column.

In God's kingdom, violence is not accepted or practiced. As today's followers of Jesus, it is our turn to help transform our corner of the world into a place where human dignity is recognized and protected.

Let me hear your ideas.

Send them to Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, IN 47635.

Teen bounces back after attack NEW ORLEANS (CNS) - The fundraising effort for Sara Cusimano was called "Fourth-and-40 for Sara," a name that symb.olized her against-all-odds fight for re: covery.

Sara was about to enter eighth grade at St. Mary's Dominican High School last August when she was raped and shot in the head.

Now, the down and distance have changed. For 13-year-old Sara, it is first down and a lifetime.

In a recent interview with the archdiocesan newspaper, the Clarion Herald, at her family's home in Kenner, Sara rolh:d her eyes in answer to a question about her courage.

But when Billy Pittman was convicted in February of raping her and shooting her between the eyes, the 5-foot-3, 93-pound honors student stood outside the courthouse and revealed her identity. It had been withheld throughout the ordeal.

"I don't see any point in keeping my identity a secret," said Sara, while petting her hamster, Wood. stock. "I don't find that this makes me a worse person."

She has received prayer cards and letters of encouragement from people across the country. He'" ordeal, which began as a carjacking at a convenience store, was to reach judicial closure March 15 with Pittman's se:ntencing.

Andree DaigTl~, Sara's mother, said one of h(:r biggest fears

throughout the trial was that Pitt- think about this at all. It's a safe man might plead insanity and get a place for her." light sentence, maybe three years, Doctors ha.d advised Sara to use then be back on the street. a cane for balance, but when she attended a pancake breakfast at "That was a real ~care to me and her former elementary school, St. I know to her," she continued.

Clement of Rome, Sara "started "But he'll be in forever."

When Sara was shot, the bullet waving the cane in the air and split in two, severing one of four threw it back in the chair," her arteries to her brain. Doctors testi- mother said.

Some physical obstacles remain. fied that the artery stopped bleeding during the 50 minutes she lay She has a painfully stiff neck beunconscious in a field, while the cause the bullet fractured two verother arteries kept blood flowing tebrae, a ringing in her ear and has lost her sense of smell. She faces to her brain. plastic surgery on her forehead "She felt that my mother, who wound, dental work on her jaw was her Granny Borgia, was there and additional psychological counwith her that night and she had seling. helped save her,'~ Ms. Daigre said.

But Sara already has made "Somebody had to have been there, amazing physical and academic we know that for sure." progress.

A massive network of friends She goes to dance practice and and strangers has helped Sara. plays the piano flawlessly. Her Jerry Foley, a family acquaintance, musical hero is New Orleans-born spearheaded the ongoing "Fourth- entertainer Harry Connick Jr., and-40," which has raised more whose music she played every day than $67,000 toward medical ex- in the hospital. penses through local schools and Sara is just thankful - and businesses. ready to gc~t on with her life.

Dominican waived Sara's tui"I think people are making too tion this year. The school also big of a deal about it," she said. provided her with a cot in a private When asked what she would room when she came to school just like to do when she gets older, seven weeks after the shooting.

Sara repli(:d, "That's too far away."

"Dominican has been wonderful because they've just been paAfter tient," Ms. Daigre said. "They've' kept a low profile with the whole "Never insult an alligator until thing so that she would have a after you have crossed the ri\'place where she wouldn't have to cr." - Cordell Hull

THE ANCHOR--Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Mar. 17, 1995

By Amy Welborn Sometimes we receive news we don't expect, or don't want. Remember when that happens that maybe God wants to take you in another direction. Why? Maybe God has even bigger dreams for you than you have for yourself!

Right now it's that time of year when dreams are tested. High school seniors who have dreamed of attending college search through the incoming mail, hoping to find that envelope with a college's official-looking return address.

But others read their letters in heavy silence, their dreams crushed, their future an uncertain blur.

Ben's story is about a dream of another sort. Like all his classmates, he had a dream. He wanted to play baseball ever since his father played catch with him in the back yard.

Even though the odds of beeoming a professional athlete were slim, Ben discovered in his early teens that it really was possible.

After all, he saw others do it.

His father led Bible studies for members of a major league team during spring training every year, and during his own interaction with the players Ben learned that th'ey could achieve their dream and maintain their integrity and faith while pursuing it.

After Little League, Ben played for his high school baseball team.

The team made it to the state finals year after year, and Ben was often spoken of as a future second-, or even first-round draft pick by the major leagues when his time would corne. Life was, running just as planned - until last August.

"I pitched too many innings," Ben recalls, "and by the end of it my elbow was getting tender." By December, Ben's throwing arm was in a cast, and the future was

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starting to look a little bit cloudy.

Right after Thanksgiving, Ben had the opportunity to travel to Israel with his father. He spent a lot of time thinking about the direction his life might take.

"Doing well in school was always important to me," he says, "so baseball wasn't the only thing in my life." Ben was an excellent student, and would have no trouble getting into college, baseball or no baseball.

Ben recalls that despite the worries, despite the disappointment, while in Jerusalem he experienced a deep sense of God's presence and care for him.

"I just had this really strong feeling that God could use me through baseball somehow," Ben said. "It may be as player, but it may be as a coach or something else. Whatever it was, God would take care of me."

Now, a few months later, the cast is off and Ben has started practicing with his team. The problem with his arm, threatening as it was, has passed. H is doctors feel he'll be back up to form soon.

Of course, the future of major league baseball is up in the air right now, so the health of his arm isn't the only question mark for Ben. But whatever happens, Ben knows that God wants the best for him, and God has a plan for him, even if it's not all clear to Ben right now. What would he say to other young men and women chasing after a dream?

"Keep after it," Ben might say.

"You might fail sometimes, and you might get disappointed, but then you can really see how important your dream is and get stronger.

I did, in a lot of ways. God can help you see how it all makes sense."

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888 90 0 arc . e service WI I U e Mass tomorrow~ refreshments' will or call 1-800- - 4. music; teaching, celebration ofEuchfollow in parish center. Applications' ST. WILLIAM, FR. ,arist and the opportunity for perfor Father Tom McMorrow and Father Mark HeSSIOn of S1. Mary s sons to be anointed and prayed over Vincent & Rose Curran scholarships parish, NB, will speak on "Euthanaindividually. . are available to OL V and OLH high sia and Living ':V i.lls" 2 p.m. March Father Fern Cassista will present school seniors at OLV parish office 26, Msgr. Consldme Center. InforLenten reflection "Jonah and the and Barnstable High School guid- mation: Bea Martins, 678-3351.

Call to Conversion," concluding with ance office; application deadline is CATHOLIC WOMAN'S a prayer service, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

AprillO. CLUB, NB March 23, Shrine Theater. InformaST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Executive board meeting 7 p.m. tion: 222-5410.

A work day for reconstruction of March 22, S1. Lawrence rectory.

ST. PATRICK, FR a parishioner's home is, scheduled A presentation on the joint misfor tomorrow; volunteers and donasion of St. Patrick's and S1. Mary's, tions of materials are needed. InIS YOUR Fairhaven, youth will be given 6:30 formation: Don Fredette, 992-8969, to 8:30 p.m. Sunday in the church.

PARISH HERE? 999-4436.

The' students, who volunteered at OFFICE OF AIDS MINISTRY SS. Peter and Paul Soup Kitchen in 'If not, why not send us "Embracing the Mystery," a servRochester, NY, Feb. 18-26, will share your bulletin weekly and ice of prayer and healing for persons their experiences. living with HIV/ AIDS, their famispread the word of the As part of Women's History CORPUS CHRISTI, lies, friends and concerned others, E. SANDWICH Month programs at the Martin good things .going on in will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, St. Lenten Series of Education/ For- Institute, Stonehill Co1lege, North Mary's Church, NB. your part of the diocese. mation, offering programs at lOa. m.

Easton, Commissioner Charles SEPARA'TED/DiVORCED and 7:45 p.m. Thursdays, continues The address: Walker ofthe Massachusetts ComCATHOLICS, NB March 23 with a holy hour of prayer STEERING POINTS Support group meeting 7 to 9 p.m. for confirmation candidates. Bless- mission Against Discrimination March 27, Family Life Center, N. ing of a S1. Joseph statue don~ted by will speak on "An Argument for The Anchor Dartmouth; Father George HarriKnights of Columbus Council 9444 Affirmative Action: An Historical . .POBox7 .

Perspective" 4 p.m. Man:h 28 in son will speak on "Dealing in a Spirwill take place following .11 :30 a.m. itual Way with Divorce/Separation."

Mass Sunday. the Institute's main auditorium.

Fall River, MA 02722 Commissioner Walker was apSAINTS AND SINGERS ST. THOMAS MORE, pointed in 1994 to the three-memCHORUS, INC. SOMERSET ST. MICHAEL, SWANSEA Performances of the Easter MusiAn 8-week Bible study on "The ber board of the Commission Lenten retreats, held each Tuescal "Lord of Life" will be 8 p.m.

Writings of St. Paul" will begin in Against Discrimination, which enday with reconciliation at 6:30 p.m.

March 31, S1. Mary's, Fairhaven; April; preregistration is requested in forces civil rights and equal opporApril I, Holy Trinity, W. Harwich; and' Mass at 7 p.m., continue March order to obtain materials. Informa- tunity laws throughout thl: Com21 with guest speaker Father John April 10, S1. Elizabeth Seton, N. tion: religious education office, monwealth.

Falmouth; and 4 p.m. April 2, Holy Gomes pastor ofO.L. Angels parish, 679-1236.

FR, on topic of "Forgiveness."

Currently president of the Mas~ Cross, FR. ST. PATRICK, SOME~SET sachusetts Black Lawyers AssociK. of C./D. of I., ATTLEBORO CATHEDRAL, FR Vincentians are in need of bureaus. ation and associate editor ,of the Joint communion breakfast for A St. Patrick's Day performance Those with one available are asked . Massachusetts Law Review, the St. John's CQuncil 404 and Edward by a harp and flute duo wil1 precede Douglas. WlJite· ,General Assembly. to cal1 Roland Cabral, 678-9713 or commissioner was previously gentoday's 12:05 p.m..Mass.

Ed Lima, 678-0202.

0398 Knights of, Columbus and eral counsel in the Executive Office LEGION OF MARY Alcazaba Circle 65 Daughters of LENTEN ENRICHMENT of Elder Affairs and taught at the The Diocesan Legion of Mary Isabe1la w.ill follow 9:30 a.m. Mass SERIES New England School of Law. Acies ceremony will be held 2:30 April 2, celebrated at K. of C. Hall, , Father James Fitzpatrick wil1 fap.m. March 26, St. Mary's Cathe- Hodges St., by chaplain Father Kevin, cilitate reflection on "God's Word in Lenten Concert dral, FR. Bus tran~portation from The Stonehill College Chapel Harrington. Congressman Peter Lent" 7 to 9 p.m. March 22 and 29, NB is being arranged; information: Blute will be guest speaker. ReservaChoir will present a Lenter., conSt. Mark's Church, Attleboro. Fal1s.

Alice Beaulieu, 995-2354. tion deadline March 26. cert featuring "The Passion AcDCCW, ATTLEBORO cording to St. John" by Rkhard PAX CHRISTI, CAPE COD ST. MARY, SEEKONK Diocesan Council of Catholic Wo- Hillert 8 p.m. March 29 in the Stations, of the ·Cross reflecting Pat Blenkiron, nutritionist and, men District IV Day of Recollection Jesus' spirit of nonviolence, peace health educator, wil1 spe!1k at guild with pastor Father Richard Roy 10 Chapel of Mary. andjustice 7:30 p.m. March 20, O.L. meeting 7' p.m. March 20, parish a.m. to 2 p.m. March 25, St. SteVictory R.E. center, Centerville. ' center.

Cited on dean's lir~t phen's Church, Attleboro. Participants should bring a brown bag Cara McDonald of Ware;lam, lunch; dessert ~nd coffee will be majoring in political science at served. Reservations: Johanna, 222- Emmanuel College, Boston, re1890, evenings. ceived a certificate of merit at the ST. JOAN of ARC, ORLEANS college's annual dean's list recepLenten video series featuring Clay- tion for students with a seml:ster ton Barbeau 7 to 8: 15 p.m. WednesGPA of3.4 or above. She is a .1993 days March 22, 29, April 5. Vincengraduate of Bishop Stang. High tians' food pantry collection this School. weekend..

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CATHEDRAL CENTER of RENEWAL, E. FREETOWN Youth Ministry Services Peer Leadership Training Retreat March 17-19. S1. Mary's, NB, confirmation retreat March 18. Lenten series, "Living in the Kingdom," led by Father George Harrison, continues 7 to 9 p.m. March 21.

D. of I. Hyacinth Circle Daughters of Isabel1a meeting 7:30 p. m. March 21, Holy Name Church center, NB; entertainment will be an Irish program.

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SS. PETER AND PA UL., FR The parish school music program seeks donations of instruments.

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