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VOL.49, NO. 11 • Friday, March 18,2005

Bishop Coleman's Easter Message

DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER STATION CHURCHES

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18 - MAR. 22, 2005

: Eucharistic exposition will take place following the morning Mass until 1/2 hour prior to the evening Mass unless otherwise noted.

Fri., Mar. 18 Notre Dame de Lourdes, Fall River - 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. Masses Sat., Mar. 19 La Salette Shrine, Attleboro .-12:10 and 4:30 p.m. Masses Mon., Mar. 21 St. John Neumann, East Freetown - 7:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Masses Tues., Mar. 22 St. Mary Cathedral, Fall River - 9 a.m. Mass, noon Benediction and 4 p.m. Chrism Mass Rules for Good Friday March 25, Good Friday, is a day of fast and abstinence for Catholics. Those aged 14 and older are obliged to abstain from eating meat. For those ages 18 to 59, fasting means eating only one full meal and two light meals during the day. Eating between meals is not permitted; however, liquids are permitted.

St. MaIYs Cathedral Holy Week Schedule TUESDAY 4:00 p.m.

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, "Why do you searchforthe living One among the dead? He is not here; he has been raised up" (Lk 24:5). With these words, the angels first announced the Resurrection of Our Lord to the women at the empty tomb, on that first Easter morning. And we, as a Church, continue to proclaim to the world the news of the· Resurrection, as we celebrate Easter once again this year: Christ is truly risen!

Our observance of the Paschal Mystery during Holy Week and Easter is intensified during this Year of the Eucharist, proclaimed by our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II. This year, we join the Church throughout the world in renewing and deepening our faith in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. We are invited by the Holy Father to "rekindle our amazement" at the reality of the Eucharist, "the most precious possession which the Church can have in her journey through history" (Ecciesia de Eucharistia, 6, 9).

The Holy Father reminds us, however, that "the Eucharistic Sacrifice makes present not only the mystery of the Savior's passion and death, but also' the mystery of the Resurrection which crowned his sacrifice. It is as the living and risen One that Christ can become in the Eucharist the 'bread of life' (In 6:35, 48), the 'living bread' (In 6:51)" (Ecclesia de Eucharistia, 14). So, when we celebrate the Eucharist at Mass, we remember, not only Our Lord's sufTering and death, but also the glory of His Resurrection. Jesus is truly risen and alive in the Eucharist.

As we celebrate Easter this year, let us turn our hearts to the Eucharist, where we find Jesus truly living and remaining with us, as he promised to be (Mt 28:20). The Eucharist is Jesus Himself, alive here with us. It is a Blessed Sacrament that helps us to celebrate the central mystery of our faith, to go back in time, to be at Calvary and at the empty tomb. The Eucharist is our greatest treasure, and one that helps us to keep alive our faith in the Resurrection of the Lord.

Imploring the blessings of the Risen As a living memorial of the Paschal Christ upon you and your families this Mystery, the Eucharist powerfully and Easter, I am solemnly brings us back to the ''hour of Sincerely yours in the Lord our redemption" (Ecclesia de Eucharistia, 4). When we celebrate the Eucharist, we recall the Lord's sufTering and death at Calvary, the central event of our salvation.

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THE PRODUCTION staff of CBS-4's new magazine show, "Sunday with Liz Walker," takes a break from shooting a segment about SerVant of God Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton at Holy Cross Family Ministries in Easton, to air Easter Sunday. From left: Bob Craigue, editor/ cameraman; Liz Walker, host and executive producer; Donna Greer, senior producer; and Tanya Burres, associate producer. Story on page 13. (AnchotfJolivet photo)

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BOSTON - This week, the RoThe advertising campaignclarifies A native of Quincy, Mass., she ' Hurley, 92, fonnerly known as Sister Daniel Joseph, of the Sisters of retired to Albany for community ser- man Catholic bishops ofBoston, Fall the ethical concerns surrounding emthe Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, vice in 1999 at the Province Center River, Springfield and Worcester are bryonic stem-cell research, which who had served as principal at Im- and was transferred in July 2000 to taking the unprecedented step of takes the lives ofhuman embryos. The maculate Conception School in New Our Lady of Mercy Life Center. - launching an ad campaign in the secu- ads highlight the advantages of adult Bedford, Mass., died February 22, She is survived by nieces and lar media on a public policy issue. stem-cell research which harms no Acting through their public policy of- one and has already benefited paat Our Lady of Mercy Life Center nephews. here.

Her funeral Mass was celebrated fice, the Massachusetts Catholic Con- tients. The campaign educates the Sister Helen, who taught 'at in St. Joseph's Chapel at theProv- ference, the bishops are running ads public on what "somatic cell nuclear in numerous outlets against cloning transfer" really is - the scientific schools in New York, Maryland ince Center, Albany. tenn for human cloning. and Florida during her 69 years of The Magin and Keegan Funeral and embryo research.

The ads raise concerns about re'Thelegislation, driven by special ministry, was principal in New Home in Albany, N.Y, was in charge sorting to experiments that manipu- interest groups, is laden with scienBedford from 1966 until the school of arrangements. late and destroy human life and ques- tific terms that are confusing to wellSister Therese Robichaud SUSC tion the push among some state law- intentioned citizens and lawmakers makers to endorse such research alike. Everyone wants to find cures LOWELL - Holy Union Sister schools in Taunton, North Attleboro, within the Commonwealth. The cam- to diseases and save lives, but inacTherese Robichaud (Marie Eliza- Lawrence, Chelsea, Cambridge and . paign will place print advertisements curateclaims and false hope will only beth), 81, of Lowell, died March 1, Groton..After 38 years of service to at D'Youville Senior Care Center Catholic education, she joined the in more than 25 newspapers around lead to more suffering by those who here.

Holy Union Retirement Community the state and television andradio spots most need our help," Parker said.

The advertisements askcitizens to Born in Lawrence, she was the in Lowell, where she rendered ser- also have begun airing this week across Massachusetts.. call GovernorRopmey and their state daughter of the late Frank and the vices to the elderly Sisters.

"The public is being misled into legislators on these issues. The camlate Elizabeth (Gionet) Robichaud.

Besides her Holy Union Sisters, After graduating from Sacred she leaves a brother, Arthur believing that the stem cell proposals paign follows the joint statement isHeart High School in Lawrence, she Robichaud of Lawrence; a sister, at the State House do not involve clon- sued last week by the bishops that entered the Novitiate of the Holy Claire Robichaud Glaum of ing or the destruction ofhuman life," calls on policymakers to reject meaUnion Sisters in Fall River on Sept. Florida; and many nieces and neph- said Maria Parker, associate director sures promoting unethical research.

"It's imperative that citizens get 9, 1942. She received a Nonnal ews among whom is AugUstinian for Public Policy, Massachusetts Catholic Conference.

'The bishops accurate information about the sciSchool Certificate from the Sacred Father Robert Guesseto, of Rome, wanted the public to know what is ence involved and the actual policies Heart School of Education in Fall Italy. really at stake," Parker added. being proposed," Parker concluded.

River and a bachelor of science deHer funeral Mass was celebrated ,---------------------,-.------gree in education from the Catholic in the Chapel of St. Mary's Villa in Teachels' Collegein Providence, R.I. Lowell. Burial was in Sacred Heart SisterTherese taught at parochial Cemetery, Andover.

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Sister Anna Bilodeau SSJ HOLYOKE - Sisters of St. Joseph Sister Anna Bilodeau (Emilia), 91, died March 4 in Holyoke Hospital.

Born in Fall River, the daughter of the late Joseph and the late Olivine (Auger) Bilodeau, she received her early education in parochial schools. She entered the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1931 from St. Jean Baptisi Parish. She became a member of the Sisters ·of St. Joseph of Springfield when the two congregations merged in 1974.

Sister Anna trained in the dietary department in the Fall River Provincial House. She served at several convents including St. Jean Baptiste, St. Matthew, and Blessed Sacrament, all in Fall River.

In 1970 she joined St. Therese Convent in Fall River where she served as a nurse for the retired and ill Sisters. In 1992 she moved to the Retirement Community at Mont Marie and served in the Companion Ministry.

She leaves three sisters, Bertha Bilodeau of Fall River, Alma Pysz . of New Bedford and Antoinette Valcourt of Port St. Lucy, Fla.; many nieces and nephews; and her Sisters in Community.

Her funeral Mass was celebrated in Mont Marie Chapel in Holyoke. Burial was in Mont Marie Cemetery. .

The Sampson Family Chapels, Springfield, was in charge of arrangements.

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name that I promise to assist at the hour ofdeath with the graces. . necessary for the salvation oftheir souls, all those who on thtt first Saturday of five consecutive months shall: .I. Go to confession; 2. Receive Holy Communion; 3. Recite the Rosary (5 decades); and 4. Keep me company for 15 minutes while meditating on the 15 mysteries ofthe Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me."

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In a spirit of reparation, the above conditions are each to be preceded by the words: "In reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary."

Confessions may be made during 8 days before or after the first Saturday, and Holy Communion may be received at either the morning or evening Mass on the first Saturday.

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Daily Readings March 21 Is 42:1-7; Ps 27:1-3,13-14;Jn 12:1-11 March 22 Is 49:1-6; Ps 71 :1-4a,5'6ab, 15,17; In 13:21-33,36-38 March 23 Is 50:4-9a; Ps 69:8-10,2122,31,33-34; Mt 26:14-25 March 24 Is61:13a,6a,8b-9; Ps 89:21-22,25,27; Rv 1:5-8; Lk 4:16-21 (Evening) Ex 12:1-8,11-14; Ps 116:12-13,1516bc,17-18; 1 Cor 11 :23-26; In 13:1-15 March 25 Is 52:13-53:12; Ps 31 :2,6,1213,15,17,25; Heb 4:1416;5:7-9; In 18:1-19:42 March 26 (1) Gn 1:1-2:2 or 1:1,26-31a; Ps 104:1-2,56,10,1214,24,35 pr Ps 33:4-7,1213,20,22 (2) Gn 22:1-18 or 22:12,9a, 10-13,1518; Ps 16:5,8-11 (3) Ex 14:1515:1 (Ps) Ex 15:1-6,17-18 (4) Is 54:5-14; Ps 30:2,4-6,1112,13b (5) Is 55:1-11; (Ps) Is 12:2-3,4-6 (6) Bar 3:9-15,324:4; Ps 19:8-11 (7) Ez 36:1617a,18-28; Pss 42:3,5;43:3-4; or when baptism is celebrated, (Ps) Is 12:23,4bcd,5-6 or Ps 51:12-15,18-19 (8) Rom 6:3-11 ; Ps 118:1-2,1617,22-23 (9) Mt 28:1-10 March 27 Acts to:34a,3743; Ps 118:12,16-17,22-23; Col 3:1-4 or 1 Cor 5:6b-8; In 20:1-9 or 41: Mt 28:1-10 or, at an afternoon or evening Mass, Lk 24:13-35

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Friday, March 18, 2005

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Free lecture to address Catholic teaching on morality and sexuality ~

.Speakers to address key issues affecting teenagers

By MIKE GORDON ANCHOR STAFF

FALL RIVER - A free lecture, presented by the American Association of Malta from Bos. ton and the diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate, will be held at Bishop Connolly High School on April 2 from 9 a.m. to I p.m.

The lecture is aimed at bringing information about Catholic teaching on morality and sexuality to teens. But parents, parishioners, clergy and deacons, Religious Education teachers and deacons are encouraged to attend.

Christopher Klofft, a professor of moral theology from Assumption College in Worcester, will address the topic of "Human Sexuality: Procreation and Premarital Relations," at 9:30 a.m.

He is one of three speakers the American Association Order of Malta has helped bring in, according to member Sue Downing.

"It's an important and timely program and we have some excellent speakers set up," said Downing. 'They will definitely make an impression on allwho attend."

Acting director of the Pro-Life

Apostolate Marian Desrosiers educators about sexuality. Parents agreed and stated that she is look- are still uncomfortable talking to ing forward to the day. children about it and teens are the "This lecture series will be a same way. It's a good feeling to great opportunity to bring a deeper be involved in such a program. It's understanding of human love in certainly information our teenthe divine plan to young people. agers need."

It will help give a vision for huThe third speaker, Chris man love and happiness within Godfrey is the president of Life today's culture."

Athletes, Inc. and a member of the The second speaker is pedia- Indiana Bar. Prior to graduating trician Meg Meeker who will from the University of Notre speak on "STD Epidemic: Rais- .Dame Law School, Godfrey ing Great Teens in a Toxic Sexual played nine years of professional Culture." Meeker is a nationally- football as the starting right gu.ard known speaker who has appeared for the Super Bowl XXI champion on the "Today Show," the "Dr. New York Giants.

Laura Show," an NBC special on Godfrey will address "Getting teenage sex, ABC's "20/20" and from Here to There: Living Well on "60 Minutes." She is the au- in a Sexualized Culture." Life thor of several books including Athletes is an association of more "EPIDEMIC: How Teen Sex is than 300 professional and OlymKilling Our Kids." pic athletes whose goal is to inDowning has been a member struct and inspire young people to of the Order of Malta, a lay reli- Iive lives of virtue, abstinence and gious order since 1991, where with respect for life. members help the sick and poor "It's an extremely thorough and defend the Catholic faith. She program and presents a positive said this lecture series came about understanding of our sexuality as because of a program the group the idea of love as a gift," said held regarding the Catholic teach- Desrosiers. "That's something our ing on ethics. young people are drawn to be"We saw a need for such a pro- cause of the beauty and truth of gram and hope it can educate both the message, one not commonly children and parents," said Down- found in our culture today." ing "I think there is great confuDesrosiers added that teens sion among parents, teens and know there is something radically

wrong with the prevailing attitudes about sexuality in today's society. It's often degrading and exploitative. "We need to help our young people understand that love needs to be self-giving and not self-seeking in order for it to have true meaning."

Desrosiers said she hoped the event will help people understand how to build foundations for successful relationships and will provide insight into the effects our culture is now facing because of the break down of morality.

"We're very happy to have these nationally recognized speakers. Our thanks go out to the Order of Malta and all the benefactors for making this possible.

They have understood the urgency

and need for this message," Desrosiers concluded.

Downing hopes that the program will be a success and they can bring i~ to the Archdiocese of Boston and other areas as they have done with the medical ethics program.

There is no registration required and Desrosiers said she is expecting a good turnout. Mailings were sent to schools, parishes, clergy and deacons and according to Desrosiers, the material is appropriate for parents to bring their teens. Education credits for deacons and diocesan educators will be available.

Those interested should contact the Pro-Life Apostolate at 508-997-2290.

Full Time Bookkeeper: Immediate need for a bookkeeper with 1 - 2 years of experience needed for a growing non-profit organization. Accounts payable, accounts receivable, and bank reconciliation preferred. MS Excel knowledge a must. Position requires the ability to multitask and be a team player. At least 1 - 3 years of Accounts payable/Accounts receivable experience preferred. Accounting or similar degree helpful but not required - HS diploma or equivalent at a minimum required. Great benefits. E.O.E. Send resume to: Catholic Social Services, P.O. Box M - South Station, Fall River, MA 02724 Attn: Business Finance Manager - NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

"We must live the faith even in difficult times."

With continuing war in Sudan come

Saint Anne's Hospital offers severa-I health oriented workshops/programs FALL RIVER - Saint Anne's Hospital, with additional support from the Greater Fall River Child Protection Council, is presenting a workshop to provide an overview of recent trends in childhood obesity, examine the health consequences of the epidemic and provide some sensible approaches to address the issue.

The prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States is increasing among both boys and girls of all ages, races and ethnic groups, according to the American Journal ofPublic Health.

"Childhood Obesity: Helping Children to Downsize in a Super Sized World" will be presented on April 7, at the SSTAR Conference Center, 400 Stanley Street, Fall River. Registration and a light breakfast will begin at 8:30 a.m., and the workshop takes place 9-11 a.m.

Guest speaker is Pam Kavanaugh, MS, of the Greater New Bedford Community Health Center.

Pre-registration is required, and those wishing to attend must RSVP by March 24 to Merrilyn Sikora, clo CFC Head Start, 427 Robeson Street, Fall River, MA 02720, 508-324-7509.

Cost is $10 per person. For health care professionals, CEUs are available upon prior request.

The hospital also invites the public to attend the program "Spirituality in a Multicultural World," a breakfast presentation at Saint Anne's Hospital, on March 24, from 8-10 a.m. .

The breakfast, sponsored by the hospital's Multicultural Health Committee and Interpreter Services Department, will feature guest speakers from different faith backgrounds and the mental health profession. They include: Sister of St. Brigid Catherine O'Connor, senior vice president of mission and organizational development for Caritas Christi Health

Care; Sophann Uon of the Fall River Cambodian Temple and current president of the board of directors of the Fall River Khmer Buddhist Society; and Myrna Condon, a licensed mental health counselor with the Pain Management Center at Saint Anne's Hospital.

Founded in 1984, Saint Anne's Multicultural Health Committee consists of community leaders, members of the area's ethnic communities, hospital trustees and staff, representatives of community groups, and interested individuals who work together to enhance access to health services, resolution of communication barriers, and better understanding of cultural differences by the community at large. The committee has been credited with many significant accomplishments, including provision of courses in English as a second language and practical Portuguese; hiring of bilingual personnel; and the award of annual scholarships to bilingual or bicultural students pursuing health care careers. Its membership reflects the changing local population, including Cambodian, Hispanic, and Portuguese cultures.

The program will be held in the Nannery Conference Room, Clemence Hall, 243 Forest Street. Registration and breakfast will be available from 8-8:30 a.m., with the presentation held from 8:30-10 a.m. Continuing education credits will be available for nurses and social workers. Free valet parking is available at the hospital's main entrance on South Main Street.

Seating is limited, therefore registration is requested. To register or receive more information, call Community and Social Work Services, 508-674-5600, ext. 2270. Information about this and other programs is also available on Saint Anne's Website, http:// www.saintanneshospital.org.

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. .A 'cry for the poor Shame on the U.S. Senate. The wealthiest pretentious club in the nation let die the poor. A political partisan battle defeated the Minimum Wage Bill. Democrats and Republicans engaged themselves in a political battle that kept $5.15 as a basic salary for those who are struggling for survival. Since 1997 nothing has changed except for those politicians who reap the public's bounty.

In this day and age of excessive budget difficulties, the Senate rejected the needs of millions of Americans who exist on the marginal level of poverty. More interested in bankruptcy laws, the Senate has again denied the fruits of demeaning labors to those people who do the humblest work. The Senate is a money-person operation. How many rilillions has the Senate spent to secure the vote of the poor? Once elected and assimilated into the tribal rites of their political office, Senators proceed to support the rich and ignore those in the marginal existence of life. In a mind-set for those who are on the verge of bankruptcy, many .01' whom are wealthy in their secretive right, the Senate casts aside in trite debate those who are battling to survive.

The sad thing is that $5.15 is a level of compensation for which each Senator could not even hire an office staff person. In Washington, he or she could not even afford a cocktail. This action by those Ii ving in the lap of luxury and power is appalling. One Senator had the audacity to reflect, "When you raise the minimum wage you price workers out of the market." It should be obvious that such a mentality has minimal regard for the poor, the immigrant and the dependent. The secure, the arrogant and the insolent have little use for the marginalized, the fragile, or those on the brink of life and living.

The Senate, the notorious house for pork-barrel proposals, which. if enacted, enhance reelection, has turned its back on the deprived and dispossessed. As the nation slips into financial irresponsibility, it is these people who will be plunged into horrendous financial disparity. To be sure, one can be certain it will not be the situation for any member of the Senate. After all, each and every member has his Of her own source of donations that keeps each of them in a lifestyle that is the hallmark of elitism.

In such a milieu, the poor person flipping hamburgers for $5.15 an hour has not a ghost of a chance for self-betterment.

We must surface once more that God blesses those who come to the aid of the poor, and rebuffs those who tum away from' them.

Those who slave endless hours in demeaning jobs for $5.15 are our poor. Matthew tells us, "Give to him who begs from you, do not refuse him who would borrow from you; what you receive without pay, give without pay" (Mt 5:42, 10:8). St. John Chrysostom reflects, "Not to enable the poor to share in our good is to steal from them and deprive them of life." When we reject the need for fundanlental and basic employment compensation, we reject the basic message of the Christian concept.

St. James put it well when he said, "Behold the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out." May such a cry reach the ears of those who would keep millions of Americans on a level of poverty that indeed is a national disgrace and a political shame. The poor in our nation deserve the compassion of a Senate which truly cares for its citizens, and not just the wealthy few. Let's stop compromising poverty for the sake of the few.

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"SEEK GOOD AND NOT EVIL, THAT YOU MAY LIVE" (AMOS

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The Gospel of Life Next week we mark the 10th anniversary of the papal encyclical Evangelium Wtae, which may be the most importan~ and prophetic document of John Paul II's pontificate. Perhaps more than any of his other writings, its message still urgently needs to be proclaimed and lived.

In it, the Holy Father minces no words in describing that there is a war going on between the "culture of death" and the "culture of life."

He calls it as a "war of the powerful against the weak," in which those who are defenseless and in need of greater love and care are the principal casualties. .

With great candor,'he exposes the propaganda that seeks to frame as legal "rights" and "social benefits" crimes against human persons. He dissects the root causes of the culture of death in a "perverse idea of freedom" and in the "eclipse of the sense of God and man" and then shows how they are at work in the war's various battlegrounds: abortion, embryonic manipulation and destruction, euthanasia, and inappropriate applications of capital punishnlent, among others.

He describes with great beauty what God has revealed about the Gospel of Life, and then he reminds all Catholics - and particularly Catholics in public life - of their duty before God to

"defend, promote and love" this Gospel. Faced with Cain's modem slaughter of his brother Abel, whose blood continues to cry out to God from the ground (Gen 4:10), every person must make the choice between being his brother's keeper or his brother's murderer.

Each of us must choose between life and the culture it produces, and death and the anti-eulture it produces.

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By Father Roger J. Landry more intense and the relevance of this proclamation of the Gospel of Life has only grown. We see it very clearly in two crucial and urgent issues.

Beginning today in Florida (unless; God-willing, there has been an intervention after press time), Terri Schiavo will be forcibly dehydrated and starved to death at the expressed wish of her husband Michael and mandate of a judge who has abused his authority to stop every legislative and executive measure adopted to save her life.

Michael is trying to put an

emphatic exclamation point on the violation of his marital promises to love and be faithful to Terri "for better or worse, in good times and bad, in sickness and in health."

Since Terri's tragedy, Michael has won a million dollar malpractice suit for her medical care, but then refused to dispense it even for routine treatments. For the past several years, he has also been living with a woman he has publicly stated he wants to marry and with whom he now has two children. Despite these two obvious ways he would profit from Terri's death, the judge has believed Michael when he has asserted - against the testimony ofTerri's family and friends - that Terri told him that if she were ever in the circumstance she is now, she would want to be starved to death.

These details are pertinent because only in a culture that believes that Terri's life is worthless would such injustice and so many obvious "red flags" go路 unnoticed by so many Americans.

It's time at least for those who want to be faithful to Christ to stand up and wave those flags. In this battle between the culture路 of life and the culture of death, the Lord Jesus has reminded us that whatever is done to the least of his brothers and sisters is done to him. May Christ, in Terri Schiavo's disguise, never Tum to page six - Life

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Baseball flexes its (artificial) muscles The day when nonnal fans like you and me can attend a Major League Baseball game for free is the day when its commissioner and Players' Association can quibble with the U. S. Congress about fulfilling a subpoena request to appear before a special committee to investigate steroid usage in "America's Pastime."

I could have spent the entire weekend sifting through each word in the Constitution of the United States, and nowhere would it have declared that highly paid, highly coddled athletes are above the statutes written "by the people, and for the people."

I know this may be a stretch for some of them to believe, but Major League Baseball players are considered part of ''the people."

One of the Players' Association's roles seem to be providing immunity to sports studs from any misdeeds ranging from drug abuse and assault and battery of a spouse to cheating the American public, and sucking ''the people" dry of their hard-eamed cash. These guys are the masters at wiggling off the hook.

Call it what you will, steroid usage in baseball is cheating, and the victims are the fans.

It is they who, either directly or

indirectly, provide the funds that make baseball and its players obscenely rich and famous.

Barry Bonds' assault on Babe Ruth's and Hank Aaron's home run marks, is just that - an assault. It's an assault on the integrity of Messrs. Ruth and Aaron and what they accomplished.

My View From the Stands

By Dave Jolivet The ''thrill'' of watching Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds attack Roger Maris' singleseason homerun mark was just that - an attack. It was an attack on the integrity of Maris'. inner struggle while bumping Ruth from the No.1 spot in 1961.

Any major leaguer who has used steroids has cheated the American public, and therefore, the American public, through the U.S. Congress, has the RIGHT to hear their stories and watch them squinn.

It's time for them to pay the piper for their grossly exaggerated pay checks, their falsely acquired

glory, and their artificial physiques.

Americans trusted these men and embraced them as heroes.

Fools, each and every one of us.

It's time for baseball to own up, and frankly, shut up with it's whining about appearing before the American people.

No matter what name you call it, cheating is cheating. At least it is for most of us.

When I was in college, I was taking a science exam one day. A substitute professor handed out the tests, waiting for the class to finish. I completed my exam and walked to his desk. A classmate had also just finished and asked if I would bring his paper up as well. I did.

The professor accused us of cheating. We had not. That's not the way he saw it. I simply walked out of the classroom without a fight. It was a matter of respect (The situation was later cleared up.)

Today's athletes don't see things that way. Obviously they are above the law.

I don't know how Thursday's scheduled session will play out.

At press time, only Curt Schilling and Jose Canseco have agreed to appear.

Regardless of who appears, baseball, its players, and its powerful union have played

Statement of Bishop George W. Coleman following indictment of Father Bernard Kelly March 8, 2005 We have learned this afternoon that a Barnstable County Grand Jury has indicted Father Bernard Kelly for embezzlement offunds from St. Joseph Parish, Woods Hole, where he served as pastor. He has also been indicted for failing to file state income tax returns.

At this time my thoughts and concern go first to the parishioners of St. Joseph's. They have endured much pain and disappointment since the fall of 2003 when I placed Father Kelly on leave and subsequently learned ofthe missing funds. Though the announcement of his indictment was not unexpected, it is no easier nonetheless. It is understandable that the parish community is left with a deep sense . of hurt.

I am grateful to Father Joseph Mauritzen for his efforts to bring healing to the parish over the past 16 months and thank parishioners for their kindnesses to him. I pledge my heartfelt,

continued prayers for parishioners and ask their patience as a just resolution is brought to this difficult matter.

As reported, the diocese has been pursuing its own case in civil court to recover funds that our audit has shown to be missing from St. Joseph's as well as from Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Wellfleet, where Father Kelly had earlier served. Our claim also includes recovery of lost interest income on the missing funds.

As I have stated we will take whatever steps are necessary for the restitution of these funds to the two parishes.

At the same time I want to emphasize that this case is certainly an exception and not the rule with regard to financial· oversight at our parishes. Through standardized bookkeeping and reporting, the institution ofproper safeguards offunds, and mandatory finance committees at every parish, the diocese works to ensure sound financial management at its parishes.

Americans for fools once again.

They unashamedly questioned and defied the authority of the governmental body that works for the people.

They snubbed their. collective noses at the hands t1\at feed them.

Baseball continues to cheat the American public without remorse.

Why? Because they are better than us. Maybe they are. Because they are more powerful than the government? Maybe they are.

I honestly don't see anything to the contrary. They love to play ball - just not with the law.

Comments are welcome at

dave;olivet@anclwmews.org.

Holy Week programming on Portuguese Channel Holy Week programming on the Portuguese Channel will air next week as follows: On Palm Sunday at 7 p.rn. the Mass from Santo Christo Church, Fall River; on Holy Thursday at 9:30 p.rn. the Mass of the Lord's Supper from Our Lady ofMt. Carmel Church, New Bedford; on Good Friday at 7:30

p.m. the service from Our Lady ofMt. Cannel Church, New Bedford, and at 9:30 p.m. "Boa Nova do Vida"; and on Easter Sunday at 7 p.m. the Mass from Immaculate Conception Church, New Bedford.

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Having been married for almost 30 yt;:ars present.

You state that one of the reasons for short- with two wonderful sons, I am comfortable with age of priestly vocations rests on our quasi- the decision I made. However, I am offended pagan Western world. I view this as a "blame with the manner in which the formal Church the victim" strategy. I offer an alternative view has dealt with those of us who made such that the ability of the structured Church to in- choices, while welcoming married men orspire the people of God has declined in a ma- dained in other Christian denominations and ordaining them as CathQlic priests. jor way the past few decades.

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%nten ,%f[ections CWith (father 6)homas ~<I<.ecik FALL RIVER- ACatholic television program entitled ''Easter Journey," will appear on Channel 20 in Portuguese tonight at 9:30 p.rn. A Holy Thursday Mass will be shown March 24 at 9:30p.rn. The Passion ofthe Lord will be shown on March 25 at 7:30 p.m. followed by "Good News for Life," at 9:30 p.rn.

FALL RIVER - A new pregnancy help center is opening in Fall River, through thejoint labor and generosity of the Christian Community along the south coast. A Woman's Concern will provide life-affirming assistance to women in pregnancy distress. All those interested in helping are invited to attend one of the AWC Orientation nights in Fall River: March 29,7:30-9 p.m., Union United Methodist Church, 600 Highland Avenue, or April 5, 7-8:30 p.rn., Holy Trinity Parish, comer of Stafford Road and Tucker Street. Call the diocesan contact, BeaMartins, at 508-678-3351 for further information.

FALL RIVER-Lisa Gulino will facilitate a Bible study on the Gospel ofSt. Luke from 7-8:30 p.m. at Good Shepherd Church on March 28, April 4, 11, 25, May 2 and 9. For more information call 508-678-2828.

FREETOWN - St. Bernard's Parish is sponsoring a Lenten Giving Program for the military. It is collecting items such as, lip balm, paper, pens, crossword puzzle books, dental items, playing cards, toiletries, candy and pre-paid phonecards. Items can be dropped offat the main entranceof the church before and after Masses. For more information call 508-644-5585.

MASHPEE - The Third Order ofCarmelites will meetSunday forthe

5:30 p.m. Mass at Christ the King Parish. Its regular monthly meeting will follow in the St. Jude's Chapel.

NEWBEDFORD- The Daugh-

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ters of Isabella No. 71 meet each month at the Holy Name ofthe Sacred Heart ofJesus Parish center. For more information call Marianne Trundy at 508-990-7595.

NORTH EASTON - The public is invited to participate in the praying of the 20 mysteries of the rosary on Sundays at 5 p.rn. in the chapel of the Father Peyton Centerat Holy Cross Family Ministries, 58 Washington Street. Daily rosary is recited at 9 am. and Mass is celebrated at noon every weekday.

ORLEANS - The SeparatedDivorced Catholics Support Group will meet Sunday at 7 p.m. in the parish center of St. Joan of Arc Church, 61 Canal Road. Itwill include a video entitled''Healing after Loss." Formore information call Father Richard Roy at 508-255-0170.

POCASSET - The Discalced Carmelite Secular Order, meeting at St. John's in Pocasset, are welcoming inquires from lay men and women, married or single, who are devoted to the search for union with God, followingtheteaehingsofSS. TeresaofJesus and John ofthe Cross. For more information call Rachel Cote at 508-5409767.

SOMERSET - The Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will present the workshop "Make the Case for Children: Health and a Safe Environment," May 7 in the parish center of St. John of God Church, 996 Brayton Avenue.

WESTPORT - The Fall River Diocesan Council ofCatholic Nurses is sponsoring the seminar "Violence and Abuse: Identification, Intervention, Prevention and Resource," April 9 from 8:30 arn. to 3 p.m. at White's of Westport. For more information call 508-678-2373.

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be able to say to us, "When I was hungry, you gave me no food" and ''When I was thirsty, you gave me no drink" (Mt 25:31-46).

The second urgent front in this war is occurring now on Beacon Hill concerning embryonic stemcell research and cloning. State Senate President Robert Travaglini and House Speaker Sal OiMasi are poised to pass a bill to publicly fund embryonic stem-cell research and the cloning-and-destruction of human embryos for research purposes. They're hyping the bill as a therapeutic and economic panacea, but the real issue is that Cain wants to kill Abel and remove his body parts for his own and others' aggrandizement.

There's no clearer manifestation of the war of the "powerful against the weak." The fact that it is being waged by public leaders who claim to be good Catholics should make those who wish to be truly faithful to Christ more motivated

to show the authentic face of a disciple. Judas betrayed Jesus to death for 30 pieces of silver. Those who are pushing this bill are seeking more lucrative 'dividends, but the same Christ will be betrayed - and his side pierced to harvest his cells.

Governor Mitt Romney, thankfully, has promised to veto that bill, but will need one-third of our state representatives to sustain that veto. Please do all you can to make sure your representative actually represents you and your views when that life-and-death vote occurs.

Christ needs a human voice to proclaim his Gospel of Life. The pope has given us the words. Now it's time for our Massachusetts accents to give them life.

On Good FridJIy,from 12-3 p.m., Father Landry wiD prem:h at St Frruu:is Xavier Parish, Hyannis, where he is a parochial vi拢ar, Oil Christ's Seven Last worm.

Eating and drinking are necessary for our self-preservation. To facilitate these two functions, God has attached a certain pleasure to them. However, the pursuit of this pleasure as an end in itself is the capital sin of gluttony. Most people identify gluttony with eating or drinking excessively. They are correct, but gluttony takes other forms too: fussiness about the quality or presentation of one's food; eating too hastily, too hoggishly, too sumptuously, or too often. Benedict Ashley, O.P., in "Living the Truth in Love," explains that "individual acts of gluttony are not ordinarily seriously harmful and therefore are venial, but habits that seriously harm health (at least in the short range), if not corrected, are mortal." (Of course, in assessing the gravity ofany human act, we must remember that subjective factors such as chemical dependency or neurotic comp~lsion can lessen the degree of guilt.)

As one of the seven capital sins, gluttony paves the way for more grievous offenses. Drunkenness caused Noah's disgrace (Gen9:20-27), Lot's incest(Gen 19:3038), and the decadence both of the pagan Persians (Est 1:6-10) and ofthe Jewish priests and prophets (Isa 28:78). Esau sold his birthright for a bowl ofpottage, a kind of bean stew (Gen 25:29-34). Gluttony was the cause of liturgical abuses within the Christian community at Corinth (1 Cor 11:21). St. Paul calls gluttons idolaters ''whose god is their belly" (phil 3:19).

Because man is a unity ofsoul and body, the Church has always insisted that the body must be disciplined as well as the soul. "Scripture's cure for gluttony is not dieting but fasting," says Peter Kreeft in "Back to Vrrtue." ''Fasting, in addition to reducing weight, reduces gluttony and, best ofall, is a form ofprayer. It is recom-

mended to us on the very highest authority, that of our Lord himself." Saints Augustine, Jerome and John Cassian are but three of the many Church Fathers and spiritual writers who extolled periodic fasting. Latinrite Catholics are obliged to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, and for one hour prior to receiving holy Communion. Yet even when not fasting, we should rememberSt. JosemariaEscriva's advice in "The Way": ''The body must be given a little less than it needs; otherwise, it will tum traitor." How much more progress we could make in the spiritual life ifonly we accompanied our prayers with sacrifice! ''The day you leave the table without having made some small mortification," the saint warns us, ''you will have eaten like a pagan."

(Talk about food for thought!)

"Learn of me," Jesus tells us, ''because I am meek and humble of heart" (Mt 11:29). Imagine our divine Savior, 40 days and 40 nights in the desert, faint with hunger from fasting. When tempted by the devil to tum stones into bread, he rejoins, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God" (Mt 4:3-4). Then pray: From the sin of gluttony, deliver me, 0 Lord.

Father Kocik is chaplain at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River and part-time assistant at St. Thomas More Parish, Somerset.

He has two published books, "Apostolic Succession" (Alba House, 1996) and ''The Refonn of the Refonn? A Liturgical Debate" (Ignatius Press, 2003); and essays, homilies and letters have been published in various periodicals, including HomiIetk & Pastoral Review, The Catholic Answer magazine, First Things, and Adoremus BuUetin.

Lenten meditations on the Sorrowful Mysteries The following meditations are taken with permission from the book "Minute Meditations on the Mysteries of the Rosary," by the late Holy Cross Father Thomas M. Feeley, who had written Advent and Lenten reflections for The Anchor.

The Agony in the Garden Christ was aware of the weakness of his apostles, the hostility and hatred of the Jewish authorities, the fickleness of the multitude and the cruelty of the Romans. His Father had withdrawn and he must enter into combat alone. Jesus had come to suffer in obedience to his Father's will and he would obey perfectly. He would, therefore, not complain and not defend himself.

His human nature recoiled. He sweated blood, but by his perfectly selfless obedience he triumphed.

By his victory he gained access for us to God and became for us "the Way, the Truth and the Life" (In , 14:6).

The Scourging at the Pillar After the Sanhedrin had condemned him, Jesus never spoke in his own defense. He did not speak to Herod. He made no attempt to defend himself before Pontius Pilate, and when the Roman soldiers were lashing him with their whips, he did not open his mouth though his body writhed in pain.

His very silence infuriated them and enflamed their cruel determination to make him beg for mercy.

But Christ remained silent. He had come to suffer. He did not want mercy for himself '" but for us.

.The Crowning with Thorns After the soldiers had scourged Jesus, they dressed him in a purple robe and crowned him with thorns.

They kept coming to him and saying, "Hail King of the Jews," and slapping him in the face (In 19:~ 3). To get a slap in the face is humiliating. It expresses contempt and disdain. It shows we are weak and defenseless. It would force us into submission.

In mocking and humiliating Jesus, the soldiers were also showing their contempt for him and his teaching and, indeed, for God's people. When we turn our backs on Jesus, ignore his teaching and fall into sin, we join the crowd who made sport of him, spitting on him路 and slapping his face. We, Christ's disciples, deserve contempt for our frailty and infidelity to him. But he doesn't despise us. "He is meek and humble ofheart " (Mt 11:29).

On the cross he prayed repeatedly, "Fatherforgivethemfortheyknow not what they are doing" (Lk 23:34). He will always be.our compassionate and trustworthy high priest (Heb 2: 17).

The Carrying of the Cross As a young boy Christ told Our Lady that he had to be about his Father business (Lk 2:49). In his public life he said, "I have a baptism with which I came to be baptized, and how I am in straits until it is accomplished" (Lk 12:50). He rebuked Peter for trying to dissuade him from going to his death . an<;i told all his followers that they had to pick up their own cross and

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follow in his footsteps. Even while he was carrying his cross on the way to Calvary he deflected the pity of the women and told them not to weep for him but for themselves (Lk 22:28). He did not want pity for doing his Father's will.

Neither should we.

The CrucifIXion It was fitting that in God's plan of salvation the Jewish authorities condemned Jesus and handed him over to the Romans to be crucified. In this way it becomes clear that all mankind, Jew and gentile, brought about the death of the Son of God. It also becomes clear that divine forgiveness is offered to all of us, for Jesus prayed for all of us as he hung upon the cross, "Father forgive them for they know not what they are doing" (Lk 23:34).

Enlightened by faith, we know what we are doing when we sin and we know how to avoid it. Sin is rooted in selfishness. When we love as Christ loved us, we cannot do evil to others. When we love as Christ loved us, we must forgive those who sin against us. When we forgive, evil directed against us is deflected and cannot penetrate our hearts, so we are always at peace with God, our neighbor and ourselves.

"Minute Meditations on the Mysteries of the Rosary" can be obtained from Holy Cross Family Ministries, 518 Washington Street, No. Easton 02356, 1-800299-7729 or on the Website at www.hcfm.org.

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How did Paul learn Christian doctrine? and the Acts of the Apostles Q. Recently there have been supports that claim. Born in Tarsus some interesting questions, both at home and in our Catholic in Asia Minor of Jewish parents, education classes, about S1. Paul. Paul eventually went to Jerusalem, where he became a disciple of the The first is about his selfillustrious rabbi .Gamaliel. Paul described ''thorn in the flesh" (2 Cor 12:7). I've heard he was the first recorded stigmatic.

Second, where did he get his Christian training and authority?

He had a dramatic encounter with Christ,

By Father but never met him in John J. Dietzen person. He did not know the other apostles until ....- - - - - - - - - later. Where did he acquire the was a fervent rabbi himself and a background he needed to teach rigid Pharisee. But neither this nor Christian doctrine? (Indiana) any other previous experience A. That's a very good question, could prepare him for that kind of because Paul's history as a

Questions and Answers

Christian authority is special; there's no one else like him.

The simplest answer to your question is that he received his "Christian education" and authority to preach the Gospel directly from Jesus, no one else. Paul himself insists on this point. In his letter to the Christians in Galatia, he refutes attacks on his teaching . with the claim, "I did not receive it from a human being, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ" (Gal 1:12).

Other information in his letters

conversion.

After his famous encounter with the Lord on the road to Damascus, it seems he went to "Arabia" for three years, then preached the Gospel in Damascus before returning to Jerusalem where he met the apostles for the first time (Gall, Acts 9).

Clearly, he did not vacillate about his authority as an apostle, even to the point of challenging (and convincing) Peter and the Christians "reputed to be important" in Jerusalem about the need to be circumcised before baptism.

Key to his conversion and theological formation, of course, was his mysterious personal confrontation with Christ as Paul was on his way to Damascus to attack the followers of Jesus. Paul asked, "Who are you, sir?"

The Lord answered, "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting."

For the rest of his life, those words remained alive in Paul as a fountain of theological learning.

Practically all the dominant themes of his teaching flowed significantly from his reflection on what Jesus said at that moment, particularly his majestic image of the Church as the Body of Christ.

On that day Christ did not say: I am Jesus whose friends or followers you are persecuting. He literally identified himself with those who believe in him. Over the years Paul drew the conclusion he expands on, for example, in 1 Corinthians 12 and 13. You have a variety of talents and gifts, he told them, bestowed by the one Spirit.

But that Spirit of Jesus makes all of you one with him; you are together "Christ's body, and individually parts of it."

Another large element in Paul's formation, together with his mystical experiences (see for

instance 2 Cor 12:1) is the conflict with the other apostles, referred to above, over the requirement that Christian converts be held to traditional Jewish laws. The resolution of that struggle contributed much to the development of the major themes of Paul's theology.

There's no question that Paul's total and immediate transformation

by Jesus Christ has no parallel in Christian history, perhaps in all the history of religion.

Speculation never stops about the "thorn in the flesh." Was it sickness? Disability? Temptation?

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There is a woman in my town There have been 36 million . who dreaded going to Mass on Mother's Day and found October, abortions in the United States Respect Life month, equally since 1973.

After talking to Pam, I felt a daunting. She cringed at the annual pulpit announcement of new awareness during Sunday the anniversary of "Roe v. Wade." Mass that post-abortion pain This Catholic carried an might be present around me in the oppressive secret: She once had crowded pews. an abortion. Despite her attenMost women suffer a history dance at Mass, she felt outside the circle of forgiveness. These special occasions only made her pain worse.

Then one day the priest used one of these events to pray, kindly, for

By Effie Caldarola women who had experienced abortion, and suddenly something lifted. She was worth of abortion in secret, said praying for. It was the beginning Albrecht. It is when one can talk of a healing journey. about that secret that healing can Within the past year, my Alaska archdiocese has launched begin.

Toward the end of his encyclia local Project Rachel, which is a cal 'The Gospel of Life," Pope ministry to Catholic women (and others are welcome) who have John Paul n spoke compassionately to the woman who has had had an abortion. One of the an abortion. "In many cases it was project's founders in Anchorage a painful and shattering decision," terms the healing that takes place "miraculous." Project Rachel was says the pontiff. 'The wound in your heart may not yet have founded in 1984 by Vicki Thorn healed." He said, 'The Father of in Milwaukee and has spread to mercies is ready to give you his more than 140 dioceses in the United States as well as foreign forgiveness and his peace in the sacrament of reconciliation," and countries.

My friend Pam Albrecht is the "you will come to understand that nothing is definitively lost, and coordinator of Project Rachel in you will also be able to ask Anchorage. She told me that statistics indicate that women who forgiveness from your child, who is now living in the Lord." identify themselves as Catholic have abortions at nearly the same If the pope can offer such

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words of hope and forgiveness, are we not called to extend the same?

Another woman I know, now volunteering for Project Rachel in Anchorage, was a teen-ager when she walked into an abortion clinic in lower Manhattan 25-five years ago. Like many who experience abortion, she felt pressure, this time from a boyfriend who pushed her into the . building past a gaggle of Pro-Life demonstrators.

In the years following, she kept her abortion secret. Although she tried to justify her decision, she suffered emotional torment. Broken relationships, substance abuse, suicide attempts followed her like bad dreams from which she couldn't awaken.

"Each time I saw a newborn, a pregnant woman, each cry I heard, I ached inside," she said.

Today, she's a wife and mother who has found peace and joy in her life. Her peace came through the sacrament of reconciliation and a wonderful priest who "guided me through my walk of forgiveness. He was a compassionate priest, just as Jesus would be."

Later, when she heard that Project Rachel was forming in Anchorage, she felt called, she said, to share the wonderful gift of healing that had been given her.

For information about Project Rachel in your area, go online to www.hQPeafterabortion.com.

Pain? Interestingly, Hebrew Scripture sometimes uses that expression as we use "thorn in the side," referring to a person. The context of those words certainly is open to that possible meaning. But there's no way to know.

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.Vatican says cardinals to stand in for pope during Holy Week

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This time several cardinals, including VATICAN CITY - The Vatican an- U.S. Cardinal J. Francis Stafford of the nounced that a series of cardinals would Apostolic Penitentiary, have been asked to be standing in for Pope John Paul II in the preside over th~ Holy Week liturgies and events. ' celebration of Holy Week events.

For the first time in his 26-year pontifiThe Vatican press office published the cate; the pope was not scheduled to pre- following schedule of services for Holy side over Holy Week and Easter celebra- Week and Easter: - March 20, Palm Sunday: Mass in St. tions, said a recent Vatican press statement.

However, the pope was expected to im- Peter's Square, induding the blessing of part the papal blessing "urbi et orbi" (to the palms, presided over by Cardinal the city of Rome and the world) March 27, Camillo Ruini, papal vicar for Rome; Easter, following Mass presided over by - March 24, Holy Thursday: morning Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary celebration ofthe chrism Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, presided over by Cardinal of state.

Where the pope would be when he was Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Conto offer his Easter blessing "was left pur- gregation for Bishops; evening Mass of the posely vague," said a Vatican official, since Lord's Supper, also in the basilica, presided it was still unclear as to what extent the over by Colombian Cardinal Alfonso Lopez pope would be able to resume activities Trujillo, head ofthe Pontifical Council for , following his hospitalization for respiratory the Family; - March 25, Good Friday: liturgy of problems and a tracheotomy.

Papal spoke,sman Joaquin Navarro- the Lord's Passion in St. Peter's Basilica, Valls said the Vatican hoped the pope presided over by Cardinal Stafford. Later would be back in the Vatican for Holy that night, the Stations of the Cr9ss will Week, but he would decide how or if he take place at Rome's Colosseum; would participate in the week's many lit- March 26: celebration of the Easter Vigil in St. Peter's Basilica, presided over urgies. .

Over the past few years, due to his by German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, limited mobility, the pope has forgone dean of the College of Cardinals; , 'POPE JOHN Paul II attends Mass in a room of Rome's Gemelli hospital . performing certain Holy Week rituals, - March 27: EasterMass in St. Peter's prior to the Sunday Angelus recently. The pope's image was shown on large ,such as washing the feet of priests on Basilica, presided over by Cardinal Sodano. screens in St. Peter's Square during the Angelus, which was led by Arch- Holy Thursday and carrying the cross on . At midday, the pope was scheduled to imGood Friday; instead, he has assigned part his blessing, "urbi et orbi. " bishop Leonardo Sandri, a Vatican official. (eNS photo from Reuters)'

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'Millions' director says film shows victory for 'good and generosity' WASHINGTON (CNS) Danny Boyle, the director ofthe new film "Millions," says the movie demonstrates "a small, significant victory for good and generosity" despite the intrusions of money and adulthood and their attendant pressures.

Throughout the filming of the movie, Boyle said, a quote from English writer Graham Greene stayed with him: "There's a moment in childhood where the door opens onto adult life, and it never closes again." "[ wanted to be able to look back through that door on Damian (the film's eight-year-old central character) ,md that moment," Boyle added.

In "Millions," motherless eightyear-old Damian (Alex Etel) fmds a suitcase filled with money and confides only in his 10-year-old brother, Anthony (Lewis McGibbon), about its existence, unaware it is stolen money. While Anthony would prefer some prudent investments along with the occasional splurge, Damian, a precocious expert on the lives of the saints, wants to give it to poor people since he believes the cash was a gift from God. Boyle told Catholic News Service the film is areminiscence about his own Catholic childhood, although he is no longer a practicing Catholic. The screenwriter of "Millions," Frank Cottrell Boyce, is, however - "and he has' seven children to prove it, like Mel Gibson," Boyle joked. The two worked on the story for a year.

Boyle, known for having directed much bleaker films such as ''Trainspotting,'' "28 Days Later" and "Shallow Grave," said he would probably be regarded today as an adult version of materialistic Anthony, which led Boyle to critique materialism and merchandising.

"We've lowered the age of consent ofconsumerism. There's a ceiling that's been lowered," he complained. "And it's terrifying, really."

Boyle added that in auditions to cast the roles of Damian and Anthony, "the eight-year-olds had no iOea of the significance of money. But the 100year-olds all did. And there's not that much difference between eight and 1O!" The U.S. bishops' Office for' Film & Broadcasting gave "Millions"'a classification of A-IT adults and adolescents - for ."a couple ofmildly crude expressions, some intense episodes of menace, a momentary sexual situation, religious stereotyping, slight irreverence, and a brief scene where the brothers look, with boyish curiosity, at a Website for women's bras."

The bra scene is Boyle's personal favorite, he said.

What makes the scene "perfect" for him, he said, is the boys' "thoughtprocesses." They're "hazy, and there's some kind of understanding, but it's not'crystallized yet," he explained, "and it's beautiful the way the scene moves from a

gentle kind of fun about their innocence to a rather tender and moving (s<;ene) about him (Damian) missing his mom. Ijust thought that: was beautiful. And sort of summed up the filni for me, really."

He noted that ''you have to learn how to direct kids, because you can leave your fingerprints on them very, very easily." If he gave his young actors instructions that were too specific, he said, he would leave the "fingerprints" .of "an adult male in my 40s, and my relationships with women. The whole point of the scene is that they're eight and 10."

Boyle said all he told Alex and Lewis for the scene was, "You come in there, that's where you stand, andyou go out there."

According to Boyle,.the menace in "Millions," mostly in the form ofa crook who wants the money, is a microcosm of society telling Dwnian, "Grow up. Get re.al."

"If there's a bag of money, it hasn't come from God. There will be some villain at some time" in the film, he said. ''These forces all work on him to make him more like his brother. What I like about the film is that he looks at these (bad) people 'and he knows who they are and it doesn't bother路him. He 'missions' them in the end," to come around to his way of thinking. . , Boyle said, "I was brought up a very strict Catholic. I was going to be a priest until I was 14. I went to seminary when I was 13. I went to a religious school, a Salesian school. And it was a priest there who told me - now whether he . was sparing the priesthood or whether he was looking out for my well-being, I don't know - 'Don't go to the seminary. Wait till you finish your school here,' and school there went until I was 18."

He added, "My mum was a very religiously devout Irish Catholic, and she was very keen on me becoming a priest. I realize we never really talked about it, but this priest talked to them behind the scenes and said, 'You should let him finish his education.'''

Boyle calls himself another in a line of "people in the film industry who were once meant to be priests and didn't end up that way," citing director Martin Scorsese as another example.

"Millions" will premiere in March in some U.S. cities~ It was set to premiere in December in Boyle's native England, until exhibitors chose the same date to debut three American movies, all with Christmas themes: ''The Polar Express," "Christmas With the Kranks" and '~Surviving Christmas."

The delay has made Boyle itchy to get to his next film once the promotion of "Millions" has concluded. It's a science-fiction film about an expedition to the sun, and Boyle promises that the characters in that movie will get to meet "the source of all being" before the final reel.

VIN DIESEL holds a baby in the movie ''The P.acifier." For a brief review of this film, see CNS Movie Capsules below. (CNS photo from Disney)

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Offbeat, slow-moving film about a nonconformist with a bad heart condition (Daniel Day-Lewis) who lives alone with his teen-age daughter (Camilla Belle) on a fonner island commune "off the East Coast of the United States," but then brings the woman he has been dating into the house (Catherine Keener), along with the woman's two teen-age sons, disrupting the delicate balance of their solitary lifestyle, all the while fending off the encroachments of a real estate developer (Beau Bridges). Written and directed by Rebecca (daughter of late playwright Arthur) Miller, the disjointed film features an accomplished performance by her real-life husband, the always watchable Day-Lewis, and Miller has created an atmospheric backdrop for her strange tale, but the vaguely incestuous undertones between father and daughter and a scene where the daughter invites one of the boys to deflower her make for fitfully distasteful viewing. Some rough and crude language, sexual situations and innuendo, a brief incestuous kiss, some talk of suicide, partial nudity, some

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drug material. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is L -limited adult' audience, fIlms whose problematic content m!Uly adults would 'find troubling.

The Motion Picture'Association of America rating is R ~ restricted. . ''The Jacket" (Warner Independent) Dark and disjointed psychological thriller about an anmesiac Gulf War veteran (Adrien Brody) who is framed for the murder of a policeman and is sentenced to an asylum for the criminally insane where a: psychiatrist (Kris Kristofferson) subjects him to mind-altering "treatment" - involving being strapped into a straitjacket and locked in a morgue body drawer - which enables him to see the future, including his own imminent death. Stylishly crafted by director John Maybury, the creepy atmospherics fail to conceal that, despite ending on aredemptive, life-affirming note, the formulaic fIlm lacks any real emotion or logic. The fIlm contains intense violence, including disturbing images of war, torture and a shooting; a sexual encounter with partial nudity; and recurring rough, crude and profane language. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is L - limited adult audience, fIlms whose problematic content many adults would fmd troubling. The Motion Picture Association ofAmerica rating is R - restricted. ''The Pacifier" (Disney) Embarrassingly unfunny comedy directed by Adam Shankman about a tough-guy Navy SEAL (Vm Diesel) assigned to baby-sit the five children ofan assassinated government scientist while simultaneously searching their suburban home for their late father's top-secret computer program, with the fate of the free world - and the Girl Scout

cookie drive - hanging in the balance. Clumsily acted and directed, this laugh-free riff on "Kindergarten Cop" reeks more than the many diapers its brooding star changes throughout the filrri: Some action violence, recurring crude and potty humor, occasional mild rude language, and several sequences of children in peril. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-IT - adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG parental guidance suggested.

"Robots" (20th Century Fox) Technically dazzling but disappointingly formulaic animated feature about would-be inventor robot Rodney's (Ewan McGregor) coming of age, as he leaves his parents to make his mark in far-off Robot City and joins forces with master inventor Bigweld (Mel Brooks) and some misfit robot friends to help defeat the evil Madame Gasket (Jim Broadbent) and her power-hungry son, Ratchet (Greg Kinnear), who are consigning "outmoded" robots to the scrap heap rather than equipping them with new parts. Chris Wedge's overly busy follow-up to "Ice Age" is further undermined by a merely serviceable script that substitutes some needlessly vulgar humor and a pat follow-your-dream sentiment for true wit and originality. Despite the all-star voice cast, including Halle Beny, Drew Carey and Amanda Bynes, the "bots"fail to have really distinct personalities - their mechanized body parts allowing only limited expression-andeven Robin Williams seems subparin this setting.

Some questionable humor and innuendo and crass expressions. The USCCB Officefor FIlm & Broadcasting classification is A-I - general patronage. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG - parental guidance suggested.

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THE LENNON SISTERS, from left, Kathy, Janet and Mimi, perform "Ave Maria" during the taping of the all-new PBS special, "Lawrence Welk Precious Memories" (check local listings). The Lennon Sisters join 12 other Welk stars in a special for the public TV network's pledge month. The Lennon Sisters first sang on Welk's show in 1955. (eNS photo from The Oklahoma Network)

Lennon Sisters still singing after 50 years WASHINGTON (CNS) Larry Welk, the teen-age son of Lawrence Welk, the "champagne music maker," kept pestering his dad to listen to a classmate of his, Dee Dee Lennon, from St. Monica High School in Santa Monica, Calif.

She and her sisters had a vocal group, and they all were teenagers.

Dad relented and put the girls on the Christmas episode of his ABC-TV show in 1955. That began a musical career for the

Lennon Sisters that has lasted a half-century, including a dozen seasons as regulars on Welk's program.

The Lennon Sisters, acutely aware that people regarded Welk and everyone associated with him as squares, left his show in 1968 to forg~ a different musical direction for themselves. However, their best-selling album, after all these years, remains "Best-Loved Catholic Hymns," which has just been reissued on compact disc.

The sisters, now a trio f()llow-

ing the retirement of sisters Dee Dee and Peggy and the addition of another sister, Mimi, reunited with members of the Welk ensemble for the PBS special "Lawrence Welk Precious Memories," a concert featuring sacred and inspirational songs, to be seen on PBS affiliates during their March pledge drive.

In a telephone interview with Catholic News Service from Branson, Mo., where they regularly perform at the Lawrence Welk Champagne Theatre, Kathy

Nun, ordered to halt gay ministry speaks at 'Queer Film Festival' NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS)Loretto SisterJeannine Gramick was a featured speaker at the ''QueerFilm Festival" at the University of Notre" Dame in February, despite the fact that she was censured by the Vati-_ can in 1999 and ordered to cease all ministry to homosexuals.

Additionally, a 2004 documentary film about Sister Gramick's encounters with the Vatican was shown at the festival, even though she also has been told not to write or speak about the Church's disciplining of her.

In the film, "In Good Conscience," Sister Gramick contends that homosexuality is an "innate instinct," and that a "be, but don't do" theology is unacceptable.

The Church teaches that homosexual orientation is a disorder but not sinful, but that homosexual.acts . are always sinful.

Sister Gramick also says in the film that: Only God is absolute, and everything else can change; no one has the right to say who mayor may not receive the Eucharist; one can reject Church teaching and still remain Catholic; one's own conscience is the ultimate authority; prayer and religion are complicated by rules and rubrics; and Church pro-

nouncements on sexuality are "null and void."

Sister Gramick and Salvatorian Father Robert Nugent, co-founders ofNew Ways Ministry, were ordered by the Vatican in 1999 to stop their ministry to homosexuals because "ambiguities and errors" in their approach caused confusion for the Catholic people and harmed the Church community.

Father Nugent accepted the discipline and is in parish ministry, but Sister Gramick refused and continues on the lecture circuit Because she defied the Vatican ban and faced expulsion by the School Sisters of Notre Dame, she left the order and joined the Sisters of Loretto in 2001. She made her final vows with her new order in June 2004, and her activities are still associated with New Ways Ministry in Mount Rainier, Md. Three days before Sister Gramick's recent appearance dwjng the film festival at Notre Dame, Bishop John M. D' Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend said in a statement that the entire festival was an abuse ofacademic freedom and violated the rights ofthe Church to have its teachings properly presented and

the rights ofparents of students who found the content of the festival offensive.

Quoting from the 1999 notification from the Vatican telling Sister Gramick and Father Nugent to remove themselves from gay ministry, Bishop D'Arcy said: "The promotion of errors and ambiguities is not consistent with a Q1ristian attitude oftrue respect and compassion: Persons who are struggling with homosexuality no less than others have the right to receive the authentic teaching of the Church from those who minister to them."

In a question-and-~wer session following the film showing at Notre Dame, senior Joe Lindsley asked Sister Gramick to respond to Bishop D' Arcy's concerns that she continues to speak and teach on homosexuality after being silenced.

Sister Gramick said the Vatican notification said she could not do pastoral ministry with gays and lesbians but did not prohibit speaking or writing on the matter. The silencing, she said, came from her former order, the School Sisters of Notre Dame, and since she transferred to another order the silencing order no longer applies.

and Janet Lennon marveled at their early success and their ability to sustain it.

Growing up in an II-child household as members of St. Mark Parish in Venice, Calif., "one of the biggest things we ever did was raising money for The Tidings Catholic newspaper" while students at the parish grade school, Janet Lennon said, quickly adding that the fund-raising project did not require singing.

The girls' first publicity photo, which graces the "Best-Loved Catholic Hymns" cover, was taken in front of a statue of the Blessed Mother on the church grounds.

The girls started singing to imitate their'father and uncles, who had a "Lennon Brothers" act after World War II. It was at this time when young Welk started urging his father to audition them.

When they showed up at Welk's house, "it was like walking into a Hollywood star's home," Kathy Lennon said, remembering that Welk wore his trademark smoking jacket inside the house at the audition. Welk liked what he heard, made them the first addition to the regular cast of the show he had started the previous July, and soon the Lennon Sisters got a reputation as

the nation's "Singing Sweethearts."

Still, the association with Welk at times proved a hindrance. On dates, "we'd hear, 'Oh, she sings for Lawrence Welk, '" Janet Lennon recalled. "He was associated with being corny, but people loved his music.... I think he got a bad rap with the 'corny' part."

The sisters teamed with famed comic Jimmy Durante for "Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters," which lasted one season on ABC. After that, the sisters kept recording and touring.

About 11 years ago, they received an invitation from Larry Welk to come to Branson and make it their home base. The Lennon Sisters accepted and, later, so did their brothers, who formed a new Lennon Brothers act patterned after their f::\ther's.

Kathy recounted that their father had been murdered in 1972, but their mother found happiness with an old high school sweetheart after she sent him a Mass card to have a memorial Mass celebrated for the old sweetheart's wife, who had recently died. Between the "reunited lovebirds," Kathy Lennon said, "they have 62 grandkids."

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By NANCY FRAZIER O'BRIEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Payne told the Massachusetts,committee.

"How many people have been cured of any WASHINGTON - After 14 years with disease using embryonic stern cells? The Parkinson's, Patricia Payne would give al- answer is zero. None. Instead, the history most anything to be free of the debilitating of embryonic stern-cell research is replete tremors that are characteristic of the dis- with monstrous tumors, tissue rejections ease and the constant pain caused by bone and immune reactions."

One of the biggest misconceptions about disintegration around her lower spine.

But as a Catholic and the mother of five, stern-cell research is that the Catholic she will not consider any treatment that Church opposes it, said Father Tadeusz Pawould involve the destruction of human cholczyk, who studied neuroscience at Yale University and theology at Gregorian Uniembryos.

"I don't want to see cures, even a cure versity in Rome. On the contrary, he said, the Church for my terrible supports three disease, to be of the four obtained by deways that stroying a felstern-cell relow human besearch curing at the earlirently is being est and most conducted: vulnerable adult stern-cell stage of their FATHER TADEUSZ Pacholczyk, director of education at the National research, inexistence," Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia, talks about the Church's teaching volving the Payne recently on cloning and embryonic stem-cell research during the recent taping of a ' growth of special program produced by Boston Catholic Televisiqn. The program was told a joint stern cells committee of hosted by Boston Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley. (CNS photo by Gregory L. the Massachufrom the Tracy, The Pilo~ patient's own setts Legislatissue or that ture in emoof another livtional and exing donor; hausting testicells develmony. ''To kill one oped from umWASHINGTON (CNS) - Like many state government should subsidize and force human being bilical cord blood 'or plaother states, Massachusetts is considering morally opposed taxpayers to subsidize re- for the benefit centas after a legislation that would promote embryonic search that requires the destruction of hu- of another is delivery is stern-cell research, prohibit human repro- man life," Catholic bishops of New Jersey never morally justifiable, " completed; ductive cloning, and set rules for informed stated. and cells from consent.and ethical review of any such reSimilarly, the Massachusetts bishops she added. ''To search. fetal tissue decalled on legislators in the Commonwealth kill the weak in rived from "Our research community stands on the to "jom the United Nations, which gave ini- order to benefit ,'i /', miscarriages threshold of great advances in the fight tial approval this February to a declaration the strong is I" ' ( against disabling childhood and degenera- condemning all human cloning and embry- even more obI/i! . (also called tive diseases, but has been held back by onic research as 'incompatible with human jectionable." spontaneous cloudy legal policy on stern-cell research," dignity and the protection of human life.'" abortions), as Still feeling said Senate President Robert E. Travaglini In Michigan, where a supporter of em- the effects the PATRICIA PAYNE and her husband, Rich- 'long as the in introducing the legislati9n. "Massachu- bryonic stem-cell research has vowed to re- next day of her ard, pose for a photo recently in their Winsted, parents give sÂŤtts must act now to maintain its promi- introduce legislation lifting the state's ban appearance be- Conn., home. Patricia Payne has been living informed connence in the industry." on such research, the Catholic bishops have fore the com- with Parkinson's for 14 years and would give sent.

Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, a neurosci- launched a statewide educational effort fo-, mittee and the Only the almost anything to be free of the debilitating entist who is director of education at the Na- cusing on the differences between adult and more than fouruse of embrytional Catholic Bioethics Center in Phila- embryonic stem-cell research and the moral hour round trip tremors characteristic of the disease. But as onic stern delphia, sees the rush to get in on embry- and ethical questions involved. to Boston, a Catholic and the mother of five, she will not cells, usually onic stem-cell research as part of a "mod''With an issue as important as stem-cell Payne spoke consider any treatment that would involve the harvested em secular fairy tale." research being debated at the national level, with Catholic destruction of human embryos. (CNS photo from living People want to believe that science can it is critical for the residents of Michigan to News Service by William B. Plowman) embryos five "push back the frontiers of death itself," the understand that adult stern-cell research is . by telephone to seven days priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Mass., currently treating dozens of diseases with- from her horne after their cresaid in an interview in his Philadelphia of- out destroying human embryos," said Paul in Winsted, Conn. ation in a test tube, is morally unacceptfice. But the hopes of those promoting em- A. Long, vice president for public policy at Payne told Massachusetts' newly cre- able, because it involves the killing of a bryonic stem-cell research are "much bigger the Michigan Catholic Conference. ated Joint Committee on Economic Devel- human being, he said. than what's supported by science,'; he added.

That argument got a big boost from'a study opment and Emerging Technologies that Father Pacholczyk, a priest of the DioAmong the other states considering published in the February issue of the Jour- she has been selected as one of a dozen cese of Fall River, Mass., who is director changes in their policies on embryonic stem- nal of Clinical Investigation in which re: participants in the next phase of Dr. Michel of education for the National Catholic Biocell research are Maryland, Pennsylvania, searchers at Tufts University isolated a stern Levesque's adult steIP-cell research and ethics Center in Philadelphia, said, "Just Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Michi- cell from bone marrow that they think might therapy program to treat Parkinson's, in getting the basics out is the biggest chalgan and Wisconsin. have as much potential to become different a!Jout eight m~nths. lenge. There are so many people out there "We believe it is more important than kinds of cells as embryonic stern cells do.

After the first phase of the trials, in 1999, who are trying to make the argument that ever to stand for the principle that governDr. Douglas W. Losordo, chief of cardio- Parkinson's patient and retired nuclear sci- it's not a human being if it's created for ment must not treat any living human being vascular research at Caritas St. Elizabeth's entist Dennis Turner - who had been un- 'therapeutic cloning.' The issue is being as research material, as a mere means to Medical Center in Boston and lead re- able to use his right arm because of the systematically obfuscated." benefit others," said the Catholic bishops of searcher for the Tufts study, called bone extreme shaking caused by the disease The only difference between an embryo New Jersey after acting Gov. Richard J. marrow "like a repair kit" and made a pre- was virtually symptom-free for nearly five created for "reproductive cloning" and one Codey proposed funding the stern-cell in- diction that would warm the hearts of those years and regained sufficient motor con- intended for "therapeutic cloning," the stitute with $200 million in unspent bond working against embryonic stern-cell re- trol to indulge his passion for big-game priest added, is that the goal of the former money ,md asking voters to approve the ad- search. photography on safari in Africa. "is to have a baby, walking and talking," ditional $30 million armually for 10 years.

"I think embryonic stern cells are going "Adult stern cells have treated and cured and the intent of the latter is "to strip mine "We believe this raises profound moral to fade in the rear-view mirror of adult stern literally tens of thousands of people with the embryo at its earliest stage for the dequestions, not the least of.which is whether' cells," he said. almost 100 different diseases," Patricia sired cells."

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Long-time Channel 4 anchor Liz Walker, host of a magazine news show focusing on positive people and events, will feature Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton.

By DAVE JOLIVET, EDITOR

EASTON - The story of Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton, the "rosary priest," tends to transcend the Catholic world, capturing the fancy of many folks interested in stories which evoke the human spirit.

Two such individuals are longtime anchor woman at CBS-4 in Boston, Liz Walker, host and executive producer of a new magazine news show on Channel 4, and her senior producer, Donna Greer.

The pair have scheduled a segment on Father Peyton for the Sunday morning program to air on Easter Sunday at II a.m. They and their production crew were recently on hand at the Father Peyton Center at the Holy Cross Family Ministries headquarters in Easton to film several interviews with friends and colleagues of Father Peyton.

Walker, a member of the Afri-

can Methodist Episcopal Church, the second largest black Protestant Church in the country, is currently a student at Harvard Divinity School, nearing the end of a three-year process to become a minister. "This show is a dream come true for me," Walker told The Anchor in a recent interview.

"I've always wanted to host a program with stories that focused on positive issues.

"This show gives us the opportunity to offer viewers features that balance all the negatives they see on reg'ular news shows." ''This news magazine allows us to feature people whose stories wouldn't normally be told," said Greer. And Father Peyton is one of those stories.

"Liz and I heard about the sainthood cause of Father Peyton from a story in a Boston newspaper, and we both felt this would be perfect for the show," added Greer.

Susan Wallace, director of External Relations at Holy Cross Family Ministries, arranged the interview sessions and provided background materials.

"This is so very exciting to have a segment about Father Peyton appear on Liz Walker's new show," Wallace told The Anchor.

"Many more people can experience this wonderful story."

Father Peyton was declared a Servant of God in June 2001 when then Bishop of Fall River Sean O'Malley opened the priest's sainthood cause.

On October 1 Bishop George W. Coleman presided over a gathering of clergy and appointed lay persons to open the Trial of the holy life, the heroic practice of virtue and reputation for Father Peyton.

Father Peyton, who is known for coining the phrases "The family that prays together, stays together," and "A world at prayer, is a world at peace," was a Catholic media pioneer. He spent 51 years serving the spiritual needs of families, especially encouraging them to pray daily together, particularly the rosary.

He founded Family Theater Productions in Hollywood in 1947, through which he produced more than 600 radio and television programs that featured hundreds of movie stars and celebrities, and had more than 10,000 broadcasts.

"For non-Catholics, the sainthood process is fascinating," said Walker. "It's exciting for people that a man whose tomb is right here in the area couJd possibly become a saint.

"We all need positive role models to follow. Father Peyton was

Women who are caregivers shouldn't suffer economically, says Glendon

By TRACY EARLY

sacrificing the caregiving "in which many millions of them find their UNITED NATIONS - Mary deepest fulftllment," she said.

Ann Glendon, head of the Vatican "In sum, the problem will not be delegation to a meeting of the U.N. solved until human values take preCommission on the Status of cedence over economic values," she Women, said that women face an added. unresolved problem of "harmonizThe February 28 to March 11 ing" their "aspirations for fuller par- commission meeting, held at U.N. ticipation in social and economic headquarters in New York, was delife with their roles in family life." voted to a review of the 1995 Women can resolve the problem, Beijing World Conference on but not without "radical changes in Women and of progress in implesociety," she said. menting its declaration and action Glendon, a Harvard law profes- platform. sor and president of the Pontifical Glendon, who headed the VatiAcademy of Social Sciences, said can delegation to the conference, no society had yet found a satisfac- told the commission that the famtory way to apply the "equality prin- ily of nations had given significant ciple" to the situation of "mothers "encouragement and impetus to and others who give priority to women in their quest for recognicaregiving roles." tion of their equal rights and digTo do this, she said, policy-mak- nity." . When the U.N. charter affinned ers .would have to pay closer attention "to women's own accounts of "the equal rights of men and what is important to them, rather women" in 1945, women did not than to special interest groups that enjoy social and legal equality in purport to speak for women but of- any country of the world, she said. ten do not have women's interests But she said progress toward reat heart." alizing the U.N. vision "gathered Society should both respect momentum" in the women's concaregiving as "one of the most im- ferences in Mexico City in 1975; portant forms of human work" and Copenhagen, Denmark, 1980; restructure patterns ofpaid employ- Nairobi, Kenya, 1985; and in ment so that women do not have to Beijing. pay for their economic security by Glendon said, however, that the CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

same years had brought "new forms of poverty" and "new threats to human life and dignity."

"Even in affluent societies, the faces of the poor are predominantly those of women and children," she said.

Tying this "feminization of poverty" to family breakdown, she said that the costs of increasing divorce and single parenthood had "fallen heavily on women."

Glendon said another growing problem for women was the combination of falling birth rates and increasing longevity that produced a shortage ofcaregivers and created "tensions between younger and older generations."

"In a world that has become dangerously careless about protecting human life at it frail beginnings and endings, older women are likely to be at particular risk," she said.

Poverty today, Glendon said, is not merely a problem but a scandal because humanity "for the first time in history" has the capacity to end it. ''The Holy See wishes to take this occasion to reaffirm its own long-standing commitments to the education and health of women and girls, and to pledge its redoubled efforts to awaken the consciences of the privileged," she said.

one of those role models."

During the recent taping of the Father Peyton segment, Walker interviewed Holy Cross Father John Phalen, president of Holy Cross Family Ministries.

During the session, Father Phalen gave a brief overview of the man and many wonderful anecdotes of Father Peyton and his relationship with scores of Hollywood stars.

"This is a great opportunity for us to let more people know about Father Peyton and his ministry," said Father Phalen. "More people will become aware that Father Peyton is closely associated with this area, and how his ministry extended far beyond here.

"It's appropriate that the Father Peyton segment will air on Easter Sunday. He made a point to have special programs at Easter time and at Christmas. He loved to call attention to these feasts."

Walker also interviewed friends and co-workers of the famed Rosary Priest as well as individuals who have had favors granted by Father Peyton.

The crew taped during a noon Mass at Holy Cross Family Ministries and shot a segment at Father Peyton's grave site on the campus of Stonehill College in Easton.

"Sunday With Liz Walker," debuted on Channel 4 on March 6.

"The shows have a theme with three positive segments," Greer told The Anchor. "It's a half-hour

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show, but we can provide great quality viewing in that space."

"Putting together this show has been wonderful," Walker added.

"There are many resources for positive features in this area, and the process of putting the show together has already provided some great 'God' moments."

"Liz Walker was refreshing to be with," said Father Phalen. "She very much welcomes the opportunity to focus on positive stories.

It's encouraging that she chose us as her Easter segment."

When her studies are complete, Walker will be ordained a minister for the Bethel A.M.E. Church in Boston, following in the tradition of her father. "My dad was a minister, and my calling to ministry occurred about four years ago," she said. "It Was quite a turn in my life's goals."

Experiencing Father Peyton's story enlightened the longtime news person. ''The lives of saints are very important to Catholics," she said. "I never knew that before."

The Father Peyton segment will air on March 27, Easter Sunday morning at II a.m. on CBS Channel 4, Boston.

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Coyle and Cassidy to honor alumni at service award dinner TAUNTON - On April 2, the Coyle and Cassidy High School Alumni Alliance will host the first annual Service Awards Dinner at the Columbia Cultural Center located in the Myles Standish Industrial Park.

Individuals will be recognized for outstanding contributions in the areas of service to Coyle and Cassidy, the community or humanity.

This year's recipients are:

Theresa Enos, '48; Joseph Bettencourt, '54; Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts Sister Mary Catherine Burns, '56; Mark J. Doherty, '65; Shaina Zamaitis, '98; Michael Cote, faculty; Sister Laurette DeChamplain, volunteer; and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Perry, parents. .

For ticket information, contact the school's office of Development and Alumni Relations at 508-823-6164, ext. 4.

SIXTH GRADERS in JoAnne Bernier and Joanne Lyons' Religious Education class at St. Bernard's Church in Assonet held a bake sale after all Masses to raise funds for the Sacred Heart Soup Kitchen in Fall River. The students coordinated the sale, advertised, and baked.

The students came up with the idea following a lesson on .social responsibility.

FIFTH GRADER Lauren Dufresne of St. Joseph's School, Fairhaven, discusses her science project on planes with a resident of the Alden Place assisted living community in Fairhaven. Students set up science projects at the facility to share with residents and the projects were well received according to Cathy Melanson, the school's development director.

THIRD-GRADER Krystalyn Gil from Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, New Bedford, is joined by her mother Maria, fifth-grac;ler Mathew Cardoso and teacher Tammy Pereira behind a bin filled with winter clothing to benefit the children of St. Vincent's Home, Fall River.

Gil came up with the idea of collecting warm clothes and her peers were able to fill two large bins with donations.

Cardoso won a $25 raffle for those who donated items.

THOMAS DEMARCO, a student at St. John the Evangelist School, Attleboro, proudly wears his recently-earned first degree black belt in karate. He began working towards' it when he was only six years old and after intense training he achieved his goal. He hopes to get his second degree black belt over the next two years. He is the son of Tome and Theresa DeMarco.

Is your school or Religious Education program involved in a special project, or has one of your students performed above and beyond? Be sure to send their story and photo to The Anchor at P.O. Box 7, Fall River, MA 02720 or E-mail: MikeGordon@Anchornews.org.

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By ELLIE HIDALGO

tact, a beep noise signals that the baby needs to drink milk, be burped, or get a diaper change. If there isn't a beep but the baby keeps crying, that means the fussy child just needs to be held and rocked.

The doll will register the student's patience in kindly rocking the baby for a period of time.

A baby that is left to cry unattended will register neglect. At the end of the week, the teacher prints out a report of how each student did car-

even go home with them because they will need care several times a LOS ANGELES - When night.

Louie Hernandez's baby begins to "I like the program because it cry in the classroom, the eighthis so realistic," says eighth-grade grader gently picks up little Adrian, teacher Mike Lowery. ''The stulooking a little bleary-eyed. He dents are so excited to get their says the baby woke him up four babies. By the end of the week, times the night before. they are so relieved they are done."

This story is about teen pregEach doll comes with a bottle nancy - sort of. Louie's baby isn't of pretend milk, two diapers, the a child, but a lifelike'doll he has ill bracelet and magnet, and a shirt. been assigned to carry and take The students must provide the doll care of for five days, which prowith additional clothes, a blanket vides him a peek at what it and an infant seat to carry the baby from class to class. is like to be a teen father.

Family members pitch in.

At St. Vincent School in "I like the program because it is Adriana Arellano, 13, and Los Angeles, eighth-grade students care for dolls as part so realistic," says eighth-grade her mom spent the fITst night of their religion class. Called teacher Mike Lowery. "The students sleeping in the living room "Baby Think It Over," the are so excited to get their babies. so her mother could teach her sophisticated $500 doll coos, By the end of the week, they are so how to care for a crying baby during the night. gurgles, burps, coughs, cries relieved they are done."

Students also research the and looks quite cute. prices of baby products such The program also teaches as diapers, bottles and baby each student about the enorfurniture, and they keep journals mous 24-hour demands of ing for the baby.

"It's fun when you fmd out what describing the care they provided parenting. It aims to prevent teen pregnancy and to promote absti- the baby wants, but if she's just and how they feel at different nence, values and decision-mak- fussy, it's annoying," Jeannette times.

Adriana said she felt embaring.

Gonzalez, 14, said of her baby, rassed about going to McDonald's "The students begin to think Amber.

The baby might cry when a stu- and having people stare at her. about their choices and responsibilities in life," said Sister Cabrini dent feels mad or frustrated, "but Now she prefers the drive-through.

Jeannette Gonzalez had tojump Thomas, a Daughter of Charity, you can't take it out on the baby," Jenny Guzman, 13, told The Tid- out of the shower when her baby who is the principal.

At the beginning of the week, ings, newspaper of the Los Ange- started crying. "I had to burp the baby for five minutes while havfive students receive birth certifi- les Archdiocese.

Then there's the baby's neck. If ing conditioner in my hair," she cates and get to name their babies.

Each is also fitted with a snug plas- the teen forgets to carefully sup- said.

The experience has given stutic ill bracelet that comes with a port the doll's head when picking the baby up, the doll's neck can dents who have cared for babies STEVE SALAZAR, 13, feeds his baby doll, Tifanny, dur- magnet.

Every time the doll cries, the snap back resulting in a torrent of lots of insight. "We were lucky to ing his week as a parent at St. Vincent School in Los Angehave the baby one week. If it were student has to pick up the baby and high-pitched crying. les. The school's eighth-grade students cared for dolls as a real baby, we'd be taking care fit their magnet into the hole in the Students are expected to take part of their grade in religion class. Called "Baby Think It doll's back. The computer chip in- care of unpredictable babies while of it forever," said Steve Salazar, Over," the sophisticated $500 doll coos, gurgles, burps, side the baby registers that the baby juggling their responsibilities as 13. coughs and cries. The program aims to prevent teen preg- is being cared for by its designated students - taking notes, completIndeed, on the box where each nancy and to promote abstinence, values and making good student. ing homework, taking tests and baby is stored is this message: decisions. (CNS photo by Ellie Hidalgo, The Tidings) Once the magnet makes con- participating in sports. The babies "Some decisions last a lifetime."

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Spring will come By

KASE JOHNSTUN

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Winter's got me singin' the blues. The dreary Illinois skyline gives me inspiration only to sit on the couch. Mustering motivation to do anything productive challenges me every day when the sky is so gray for weeks at a time. I watched the entire Matrix trilogy one Sunday nonstop. It's true.

I know there are studies showing that sunlight has a direct affect on mood. I am not kidding when I say the sun hasn't peeked through the clouds in a week at the time of this writing. When everything else is going well, why is it that the weather brings me down?

You would think we could change these things. You would think we could bring ourselves up without the blue of the sky, but biological reactions at times have more control than we do.

It's crazy.

Things will start to get green again with spring's arrival. Do we remember what spring feels like?

Our bodies are conditioned automatically to try to store fat for winter. They prod us to go to sleep earlier to conserve energy for the next day. God gave us these instincts to protect us.

These human instincts have not faded or disappeared over time.

We no longer have to store food in our fat cells for the

winter or go to sleep any earlier to preserve energy and body heat, but our bodies still urge us to do so. These instincts and

Coming of Age biological habits still exist, although I believe we really don't need them. They are part of what it is to be human, like it or not.

The sun hasn't popped out in a week and it is bringing me

down. I can't change this by myself. I can't move the clouds a little to the north or bring the sun into my living room to ' brighten my mood. I can't stop my body from wanting to sleep more.

But I can look toward 'spring, knowing its arrival is near.

Although it feels like winter has been here forever, I can imagine the warmth of the sun and smell of the grass in spring.

I can look up for help until the sun comes out again.

To be human is challenging, especially for teens who already are going through more physical and psychological changes than they'd care to handle all at once.

Some days are better than

others, and some moods are good, some are bad. Although it is a cliche, some days are bright and some days are gray, and at times we can't do anything about it.

There is something consoling about being human and not being able to control the shift of the clouds coming from the north. First of all, I couldn't handle the responsibility, and I don't have to, and second, the person who can control it all knows how it is to be fully human, to wake up with the clouds and to wake up with the moods, and he knows that those clouds will pass eventually, and spring will come.

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Siovenian priest-artist creates mosaics for Knights'chapel

By MARY CHALUPSKY

John was entrusted with the care of the mother of Christ.

Christ "was stripped, but we NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The were clothed," Father Rupnik exartist whose mosaics grace the plained. "The mantle of Christ is Vatican's magnificent Redemptoris the glory of God. Thus Christ is Mater Chapel has installed a new stripped and humanity is dressed set of mosaics in the Holy Family by his glory."

Chapel at the international headWearing a priest's stole, Father quarters of the Knights of ColumMcGivney holds the chalice, a bus in New Haven. symbol of the Eucharist, or unity; Clad in red overalls, Jesuit Father Marko Ivan Rupnik and his he also holds bread, the symbol team of eight artists from of charity.

Rome worked 13- and 14The wall in the back of hour days from January 22 the chapel depicts the wed"Christ difln't ask anything for himto February 12 to install the ding feast at Cana. In this self. He just accepted the Father's scene, the couple looks sad, floor-to-ceiling mosaics in will and gave himself to everyone," reflecting that it is Christ the Connecticut chapel. as did Father McGivney. " The 50-year-old Slovenian who brings joy to the marpriest, artist, theologian, riage. teacher and author is direc"Marriage is a bond," Fator of Rome's Centro Aletti, a com- a chalice and bread. On the right ther Rupnik explained, and the pomunity ofscholars and artists com- is St. Michael - whose name tential for joy is found in the bond mitted to bridging Eas.tern and means "who.is God" - holding between Christ and the marriage Western traditions through theo- a sword. partners. logical dialogue, research, reflecThe theme is "unity and charThe scene on the wall across tion and pUblication. ity in ,the spirit of Father from the entrance to the chapel is The community was respon- McGivney," explained Father the Nativity, in which all of nasible for decorating the Vatican, Rupnik, referring to the founding ture, including animals, faces tochapel, which was closed from principles of the Knights. ward the Christ child. The infant 1996-99 while artists covered the "Christ didn't ask anything for Jesus is bound in a cloth used for walls and ceiling with mosaics de- himself. He just accepted the burials, foretelling his death.

The mosaics use bursts of color JESUIT FATHER Marko Ivan Rupnik stands on a ladder signed and executed by Father' Father's will and gave himself to in front of a depiction of Father Michael J. McGivney, founder Rupnik and a Russian Orthodox everyone," as did Father tempered with creamy earth tones McGivney, he told The Catholic and sparkling gold highlights, of the Knights of Columbus, during the constr~ction of mo- artist. ,?hapel at the Knights of The Transcript, newspaper of the typical of Father Rupnik's work. saics for Holy Family Chapel at the Knights' international Columbus headquarters is the 25th Hartford Archdiocese.

Supreme Knight Carl A. headquarters in New Haven, Conn. Father Rupnik and his the priest has designed. Father In the scene, a cloth from the Anderson said he believes the team of eight artists from Rome worked 13- and 14-hour' Rupnik's work incorporates crucified Jesus flows over to new Holy Family Chapel will indays from January 22 to February 12 to install the f1oor-to- splashes of color, light, theologi- cover his mother and St. John, spire those who visit the chapel ceiling mosaics. (CNS photo by Mary Chalupsky, Catholic cal symbolism and touches ofEast- reflecting how Father McGivney' the same way the Vatican's Transcrip~ em and Western traditions. took c~e of widows just as St. Redemptoris Mater Chapel does.

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