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President, cardinals meet in D.C.

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WASHINGTON (NC) - President Bush met with Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, Vatican secretary of state, for approximately 35 minutes in a private session last week, then hosted the Vatican official, six U.S. cardinals, and prominent Catholic lay people at a reception that evening.

Accompanying Cardinal Casaroli, who was in the U.S. to address a forum at Georgetown University, was Archbishop Pio Laghi, papal pronuncio to the United States.

Father Timothy Dolan, secretary at ,the Vatican Embassy,.said that at the afternoon meeting with Bush, "Cardinal Casaroli gave him a personal note of greeting from the Holy Father. I understand they had a very cordial and substantive meeting." ' The priest said that also attending the afternoon meeting were U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker and Brent Scowcroft, the president's national security adviser.

According to information from the National Conference ofCatholie Bishops, the White House and the Vatican Embassy, guests attending the White House reception along with Cardinal Casaroli and Archbishop Laghi included Cardinals Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago, Bernard F. Law of Boston, Edmund C. Szoka of Detroit, John J. O'Connor of New York, and James A. Hickey of Washington; CardinalJohn J. Krol, retired archbishop of Philadelphia; Archbishop John L. May of St. Louis, NCCB president; Father Robert N. Lynch, NCCB general secretary; and Archbishop Renato Martino, the Holy See's permanent observer to the United Nations.

Alixe Glen, White House deputy press secretary, said it is traditional for the new U.S. president to host the Catholic cardinals at the White House at some point.

Father Lynch said that the event "was just a very informal rec'eption in the family's living quarters," upstairs in the White House. "They basically gave everybody a tour of the second floor" and - mingled with their guests, he said, adding that it "was just like any two people who invite friends to their house and begin' by giving a tour."

Other guests included Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Virgil Dechant and' Ann Dechant; and Environmental Protection Agency administrator William K. Reilly and Elizabeth Reilly. Reilly is a nephew of Father William H. O'Reilly, retired former pastor of Immaculate Conception Church, Taunton.

The EPA administrator, whose parents are Fall River natives, is a graduate of B.M.C. Durfee High School, Fall River.

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TH HATCHETTE, 14, with her Girl Scout Medal ofHonor visible to the left of her troop numeral 117: The troop is led by Mrs. RuthAvila.

Medal winner scared but helped save 11 lives 14-year-old Dartmouth High,' aerial and hand-held flares, the School freshman Beth Hatchette life ring and heaving lines. said she was scared during her "She informed the vessel operand her family's ,part in the ator of the status of all equiprescue of II people in foggy ment as it was readied and. darkness following a boating instructed her grandparents as accident lastJuly4 in New Bed- to what we were, doing and ford Harbor. ' . what to, expect so they could 'But she kept her cool to the prepare themselves fO,r the extent that she received the rare- . activities which followed.

Iy-awarded Medal of Honor of "As we were required to' the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. at maneuver alongside other vesrecent ceremonies at the hall of sels during the' rescue opera':' St. Mary's Church, South Dart- tion, Beth rigged fenders and . mouth, of which the Hatchettes secured lines to the vessel we are parishioners. The medal goes assisted. She helped survivors to Scouts who save or attempt transfer aboard our vessel, she to save a human life. readied blankets and assisted in The recommendation that the the treatment of the survivors '. member of Plymouth Bay Coun- , by rendering first aid for shock,. cil Troop 117 receive the award hypothermia and salt .water cited her "incredible courage ingestion. . . '. and coolheaded actions" dur"I?uring'the hectic moments ing the rescue operation of the rescue, Beth maintained mounted by her family's. boat, a cool and concerted effort which. the "Knot Enough.;~ .'. .•. '. ..•.. . helped to calm the survivors' ..... Aboard the boatwere Beth's and prevented any signs ofpariic . ' parents, Kenneth and Lin<ia '. in other persons. .' .... '., " ,Hatchette, her sister Dawn, 18,.

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Beth's lather· said that t •.. ••. ~. As soon as.she determined it '.. family did not reach home unt' was' safe to do so, and without 3 a.m. after the rescues. , being directed, she located and hours later Beth was at work prepared emergency equiprrient .a candy·' striper' at. St. Luk.e'!~··.·· I included! .it, .. Hospital, New .~edford."

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II said the recent meetingbetween U.S. bishops and Vatican officials was a "fruitful" discussion that should serve as a guideline for the bishops in their future ministry.

He commented in a letter to all U.S. bishops dated March 19. The text follows.

To my dear brothers, the bishops of the United States, Following the recent meeting in the Vatican of the metropolitan archbishops of the United States with me and members of the Roman Curia, I am happy to send you my warmest fraternal greetings in the love of our risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

The church's annual celebration of the central mysteries of our faith - the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus - is an appropriate time for us, the successors of the Apostles, to renew in mind, heart and action our commitment to one of the foremost tasks springing from our episcopal ordination: to be witnesses and teachers of the word of truth, the Gospel of our salvation (cf. Eph I: 13).

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many positive values, ii is at the same time, like everything human, marked by elements which need to be purified and uplifted by the saving message of the Gospel (cf.

"Evangelii Nuntiandi," 20).

In this perspective our task as pastors is to speak always the truth of Jesus Christ entrusted to the church - that truth which gives life and which alone can set us free.

In, our discussions, those ordained to the ministerial priesthood occupied a very significant place because of their unique role in building up and sustaining each local church and because of the love, understanding and gratitude that all the bishops manifested in their regard.

Bishops have a special ministry to priests, to encourage and support them. Justice and charity require that wise and careful attention be given to all aspects of their formation, life and ministry.

In this, as in every important ecclesial matter, it is imperative to study and implement the documents ofthe Second Vatican Council in all their richness and inspiration.

My own part in the meeting corresponded to the requirements of the Petrine ministry of which I spoke during our gathering in Los Angeles in 1987, as not only a "global" service, reaching each particular church from "outside" as it were, but as belonging already to the essence of each particular church from "within" (cf. Address to U.S. bishops, Sept. 16, 1987, No.4).

The Resurrection, in fact, is the preeminent sign of the power of the Gospel to save men and women in every age and in every place and culture. Indeed, the paschal mystery is the deepest source of our trust in our own ministry as bishops.

The encounter with the U.S. metropolitans provided an occaIt is of the greatest importance sion for a most fruitful reflection ,that in the full power of the church's and discussion on important as- communion we continue to propects of the church's evan~elizi~g claim together Jesus Christ and his role in your country which Will Gospel. In this way we ourselves offer valuable points of reference live fully, as successors of the for your future ministry.

Apostles, the mystery of 'eccl~sial It was also an intense experience commnion. At the same time of the abiding presence in our through our ministry we enable midst of the Holy Spirit, the divine the faithful to enter ever more counselor who guides us unto all deeply into the church's life of truth (cf. J n 16: 13). The Eucharist communion with the most Holy which we celebrated at the tomb of Trinity (cf. ibid.). the prince of the apostles symbolized in a powerful way the cOI?Prays for All munion which united us in Chnst As we celebrate the glory of the and in the church.

There we gave thanks for the risen Lord, I pray for each of you church in the United States, for and for the whole church in the you the bishops, as well as for the United States. I give thanks to priests, 'deacons, religious and laity. God for the profound "collegialiWe implored God's blessings upon tas effectiva et affectiva" that uniyour particular churches and on tes us in the mystery of Christ and his church and was clearly manifall those in need.

Rather than a list of specific ested in our recent meeting. conclusions, you who were present I commend to the intercession will convey to those whom you of the mother of God, Mary represented an increased a ware- Immaculate, the continuing and ness of the challenges which call urgent tasks and challenges of your the church in the United States to teaching, sanctifying and govern~ proclaim ever more effectively the . ing ministry. As a token offratermystery of Christ. nal love and esteem, I impart my While yours is a culture with apostolic blessing.

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Leona Bouchard

Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Mar. 31, 1989

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin presided and her son, Father Marcel H. Bouchard, was principal celebrant at the Mass Of Christian Burial offered this morning at St. Julie Billiart parish, North Dartmouth, for Leona Bouchard.'

Mrs. Bouchard, 83, died Tuesday. A New Bedford resident and' a member of St. Julie's parish, she had worked in the textile industry.

A native of Quebec, she was the daughter of the late William and Alice (Cormier) Moreau and the wife of the late Henry Bouchard.

Father Bouchard, pastor of Sacred Heart parish, North Attleboro, was her only child.

Mrs. Bouchard was a member of St. Anne's Sodality at St. Joseph's Church, New Bedford, and St. Julie's Ladies' Guild.

Besides her son, she is survived by four brothers, Charles Moreau, Rheuben Moreau, Wilmer.Cyr and William Cyr, all of Canada, and four sisters, Canadians Alice Hopper, Paulette Cyr and Mary Budd, and Eileen Haupert of Miami, Florida.

$750,000 HUn grant goes to Father Ritter NEWYORK(NC)- u.s. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp last week gave Franciscan Father Bruce Ritter and his Covenant House ministry to homeless youth 'a ringing endorsement as he announced a $750,000 H UD grant for the program.

"I am thrilled at the work you are doing, and look forward to emulating it in other parts of the country," Kemp told the priest in New York.

Kemp was with Father Ritter at a press conference in a building where Covenant House is operatinga"RightsofPassage"program that offers educational and vocational training to young men and woman ages 18 to 21.

The program offers longer-term help for youth who demonstrate serious motivation.

Kemp credited U.S. Sen. Alphonse D' Amato, R-N.Y., also at the press conference, with playing a key role in securing the H UD grant. Kemp also noted that the money, which came from the HUD secretary's discretionary fund, was approved last year while he was still a U.S. representative from Buffalo, N. Y. When a reporter asked Kemp about his House vot~ against the bill under which the funds were appropriated, Kemp said he did not oppose the bill, but the budgeting. Now as HUD secretary, he said, he gives the program full sl.lpport. . D'Amato said the grant to the CovenanJ House program was.the'路 largest in its category and "the grant 1 feel proudest of."

Father Ritter said the money would go toward the $4 million to $5 million cost of renovating the building that houses Rights of Passage. One high cost, he noted, was removal of materials containing asbestos.

Formerly the National Maritime Union Building, the II-story Manh'attan structure was purchased by

Father Ritter in November 1987, but not without a well-publicized tug of war over the structure with New York Mayor Edward I. Koch.

The city was negotiating to buy it for a prisoner work-release pro- . gram.

When Father Ritter topped the city's $30 million bid with an offer of$33 million, Koch threatened to initiate condemnation proceedings and take the building anyway.

Father Ritter, at the time completing treatment for Hodgkin's disease, held a press conference to defend his actions. Koch then backFATHER RENE G. Gauthier, left, and Msgr. Henry T. ed away, deciding he could not get the Board of Estimate, a city Munroe, respectively pastors of St. Jean Baptiste parish, Fall administrative unit, to give the River, and St. Pius X parish, South Yarmouth, recently necessary approval. assisted members of St. Joseph parish, Taunton, in hanging a However, Koch accused the priest of playing on public sym.- portrait of the late Father William E. Farland. Artist Laura pathy because of his cancer.

Tillson executed the likeness of Father Farland, St. Joseph's "It is very difficult to enter compastor until his 1987 death. The portrait of the late priest, a bat with a priest, especially one lifelong friend of Father Gauthier and Msgr.. ~unroe, was suffering from cancer," Koch remarked, but Father Ritter dis- placed in the parish conference room near a portraIt of another missed the issue as simply a matter former pastor, Msgr. Patrick Hurley. of outbidding Koch.

NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC) . At the press conference with Novelist Walker Percy is the 1989 Kemp, Father Ritter looked healthy recipient of the Laetare Medal, the and said afterward that he was University of Notre Dame's highcompletely cured and no longer in It was the fourth Los Angeles est honor.

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Percy's first novel, "The MovieAngeles Auxiliary Bishop Carl A. Marathon for Dominican Sister While visiting the Rights of PasFisher and more than 40 nuns, Mary Sean Hodges, 48, principal goer," won the 1961 National Book sage program, Kemp met with five brothers, priests and seminarians of an East Los Angeles elementary Award. His other widely read of the 91 young people using parts joined some 19,000 runners in the school. During training, she runs novels include "The Last Gentleof the building already renovated. recent Los Angeles Marathon, pound- five miles daily and 15 miles on. man," "Love In the Ruins," "LanA former professional quarterback, celot," "The Second Coming" and ing the pavement to collect'prayers weekends. he tossed a couple offootballs to for religious vocations.

"I find it real invigorating," Sis- "The Thanatos Syndrome." one of the young men, and he and The award announcement cited Representing the Los Angeles ter Hodges said. For runners, inD'Amato received Covenant House archdiocese, they used the event as cluding Bishop Fisher, 42, it was Percy for uniquely fascinating路 jerseys. "church 'vocation promotion and the first路 marathon. The bishop .. novels in which a sacramental sen.'. Father Ritter said ne hoped to to help create a better image of trained several months for the race, . sibility encounters the enormity have 200 or more young people in and strangeness of the human priests and religious as healthy, even though it was cut short. the Rights of Passage program wholesome and alive people in Sister Bryant said she has re- universe. within a year. ministry," Sister Kathy Bryant, ceived two telephone calls from A program worker said that archdiocesan director of vocations people inquiring about religious about 25 in the current group are for women religious, told the Tid- vocations and has heard from many GOD'S ANCHOR HOLDS enrolled in colleges. others are ings, the archdiocesan newspaper. nuns and priests who want to parstudying for high school equivalThe runners collected about ticipate in next year's marathon.

------ency certificates or working and 10,000 signed commitments to pray some are combining schooling with for religious vocations. 35 reached jobs. Some vocational training is the finish line of the 26.2 mile race, MEMBERS of a Diocesan Council of Catholic Women offered at the building and more is Bishop Fisher completing only planned: eight miles because he had to catch team who will conduct a leadership / communication training a plane for Mexico City. workshop April 8 at St. Mary's Church, Mansfield, are, from "It was so hot that two world- left, seated, Lillian Plouffe, Taunton district president; class runners had to drop out," Claudette Armstrong, past diocesan president; Theresa Lewis, Sister Bryant said. "It was aweService Committee for CharisDCCW corr.esponding secretary; standing, Madeline Wojcik, some to see our people finish." matics.

Taunton first vice president; Madeleine Lavoie, DCCW OrganSeveral runners were experienced Offering a teaching on Cathoization Services Commission chairman;' Dorothy Curry, lics and Biblical Fundamentalism, marathoners.

Father George Aguilera, 32, Father Randall will discuss underDCCW president; Bella Nogueira, DCCW treasurer. Workstanding God's message as it is associate pastor of St. J ohn Vi~n颅 shop topics will include styles of leadership and listening techcontained in the Bible, stressing ney Parish in Hacienda Heights, niques. A lunch will be served. Further information: 672-6900 the importance of reading Scrip- had run in four marathons before or 673-8474. he finthe Los Angeles run, which ture in its historical context, not as if written by a contemporary ished in three hours, 17 minutes.

Waking up every day at 5:30 author. .

Father Randall, author of many a.m. and running 70 miles a week books, is heard on radio station since November, Father Aguilera WRIB from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. said he enjoys it.

"It keeps me healthy," Father Monday through Friday on "The Aguilera said. "With the stress of Spirit and the Word" program.

He holds a doctorate in theol- parish work, 1just really enjoy it." ogy from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, is a member of the Catholic Biblical Association and was a professor of ScripThe 1989 Diocesan Directure at Our Lady of Providence tory and Buyers' Guide is Seminary in Providence.

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Father Randall teaching announced Father John Randall, a leader in the charismatic renewal movement, will conduct a scripture study day from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 8, at St. Stanislaus School, Fall River. The event will be sponsored by the Diocesan

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Family Ministry Enrichment Day set for April 9 A Family Ministry Enrichment Day will be held from 1:30 to 8 p.m. Sunday, April9, at St. Mary's School, New Bedford.

Sponsored by the Diocesan.

Office of Family Ministry, the day will offer two addresses by Dr. David Thomas, a "shareshop" session and a closing social hour and dinner.

Participants will be those involved in marriage preparation, parish family ministry and natural family planning programs and in widowed and divorced{ separated support groups in the Fall River diocese.

Dr. Thomas' topics will be "The· Challenge of Connecting with the Changing Family" and "Don't ~urn Out-Light Up: Working, Praying and Playing Together." A theologian, author, husband and father of five children, he is director of graduate studies at the Center for Adult Christian Community Development of Regis College, Denver.

He was a consultant to the U.S. bishops at the World Synod on the Family held in Rome in 1980 and is a member of the U.S. Catholic Conference advisory committee on adult religious education and a theological consultant to the U.S. bishops' Committee on Family Life.

He was the 1988 recipient of the Family Ministry Award of the National Association of Catholic Directors of Family Life Ministry.

The diocesan family ministry office is directed by Rev. Horace J. Travassos and has Jerry and Scottie Foley as program directors.

Sister Ruth Curry, SUSC, is resource coordinator.

Cardinal Gibbons portrait given to Baltimore basilica BALTIMORE (NC) - R. Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver have given a well-known life-size portrait of Cardinal James Gibbons, who headed the Baltimore archdiocese from 1877 until his death in 1921, to the parish of the Basilica ofthe Assumption in Baltimore.

The Shrivers, who had had the painting in their private collection for years, offered it to Archbishop William D. Borders last year. It now hangs on the north sanctuary wall in the basilica.

Shriver, former Peace Corps director, and his wife, president of the Worldwide Special Olympics, attended a Mass celebrated recently at the basilica to .mark their gift.

Created by painter Marie de Ford Keller, the portrait shows Cardinal Gibbons, seated and in profile, wearing his red skullcap, white ermine cappa magna and scarlet cape and cassock.

An early article from The Catholic Review, Baltimore diocesan newspaper, said Ms. Keller sketched the cardinal's head from life in 1919, but set the painting aside when she became ill and did not finish it until 30 years later.

The article also noted that the cardinal sat for her in her studio and that she often visited him at the basilica.

Eminence "A feeling of distrust is always the last which a great mind acquires." - Racine

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New Bedford physicians support pro-life endeavor

UNITED NATIONS (NC) The Franciscan order has formally affiliated with the U.N. Department of Public Information as a non-governmental organization.

Franciscan-l3rother Thomas Grady, co-chairman of the Preparatory Commission for Franciscans at the United Nations, said the arrangement would represent all Franciscans, secular and religious.

An NGO is an international organization that has not been created by a formal agreement between governments.

More than 13,000 such organizations are listed in the Yearbook of International Organizations.

Most are affiliated with the United Nations through the Department of Public Information, which allows information-sharing with other NGOs and U.N. agencies.

Brother Grady said the Franciscans hope that by 1991 they can be affiliated with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, which would allow them

to submit statements and request hearings.

He said currently the preparatory commission includes eight members and a slot for a still-tobe-designated secular Fra.nciscan.

About II other Franciscans are consultants, he added.

Brother Grady said that eventually the Catholic Franciscans also hope to represent Lutheran and Anglican Franciscans.

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"It [life) starts right at concep- . number and other numbers where GIFTS tion. There's no question in my information and help is available. mind about that." . ,CARDS , The ad featuring Dr, Saunders, So say's New Bedford pediatri- a graduate of New Bedford's Holy cian Dr. Anne Saunders, mother Family grammar and high schools, of eight and a member of the carried the following statement: 673-4262 ' Whaling City's St. Lawrence parish.

"As a physician, I agree with Dr. Saunders was one of two' scientists that human life begins at 936 So. Main S1.. Fall River New Bedford physicians who conception. All the characteristics agreed to appear in recent pro-life a genetically unique individual'will advertisments sponsored by Mas- have as an adult are already determsachusetts Citizens for Life ined - including eye color, skin pig(MCFL) and placed in several mentation, sex and intelligence poarea newspapers. tential. This new individual's life "They have a right to say that will consist of continually overSHREWSBURY, MA this is the way it is," Mary Ann lapping, progressive states of Booth of South Darnmouth, MCFC growth development from concepPresents organizer, said of the ads. "They're tion through childhood, adolesdoctors. They know." cence, maturity, old age and death.

All that is needed is nourishment The ads featured photos of the doctors and their statements of and time to grow. support for the pro-life movement.

"Birth will be only a change in They also included MCFL's phone the place of residence of an already living active person. That is why Oriental peo,ple consider a child to be one year old three months after,' birth: "N one of us doubt that we were WASHINGTON (NC) - The the same persons before and after our births, much less that we were U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled Holy Name Cathedral High School alive. And it's obvious that we arguments on a Missouri abortion were human - we had human law case for April 26 - the last 144 Granite 81. • Worcester, MA parents! . day it plans to hear arguments in "An unborn baby is just as its current term.

The case, Webster vs. Repro- much a living human being as any ductive Health Services Inc., in- of us, and therefpre has a right to volves a state law that restricted keep his or her life."

Registration Including Lunch & Parking abortion in various ways. ProviDr. Saunders said she agreed to sions struck down in the lower participate because "this is... how I courts: feel, and to help some other - Declared that life begins at people."

(ANY DONA TlON ACCEPTED) conception.

She and the other physician, - Required physicians to per- obstetrician{ gynecologist Dr. For Registration'Call: form various viability tests on Thomas P. McCormack, have also fetuses apparently 20 weeks old or served on the board of directors of older.

Birthright of New Bedford, Inc. - Prohibited public hospitals and personnel from' performing any abortion not required to save a woman's life.

- Banned use of public funds to encourage or counsel a woman to OFWFSTPORT have an abortion not required to Jet. Rt. 195 & 24 save her life.

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Fri., Mar. 31,1989

themoorin~ Reflections on the Homeless The problem of homeless Americans is real, needing to be addressed, investigated and solved. No Americans should be sleeping on sidew(!.lks or in dumpsters.

However, there' are gray areas with regard to the homeless . that too often have been exploited for political gain. If you listen to the limousine liberals, the wealthy suburbanites whose ambition is to cure urban ills, you would believe that half the American population lives on the streets. In the recent national election campaign, the Democrats attempted to play on the plight of the homeless. Obviously, the ploy did not work.

The fact is that there are fewer homeless wandering our cities than we have been led to believe. A .recent study by the nonpartisan Urban Institute concluded that the U.S. homeless population hovers around a half million rather than the 3million figure bandied about. Although this figure is indeed . too high and efforts to house the dispossessed should be a priority, politicians should stop playing number games with the homeless.

The survey also shattered the concept that the vast majority of homeless people are mentally ill, indicating that deinstitutionalized mental patients account for less than 30 percent of the homeless. However, about two-thirds of those on the streets have personal problems such as abuse of alcohol and/ or drugs. Many have also been convicted of felonies and/ or have served time in state or federal prisons.

But the most pathetic fact uncovered by the study was that most homeless parents are black or Hispanic single mothers on welfare. Such women comprise 25 percent of those in shelters, often driven there by domestic violence.

Private agencies and efforts have been the mainstay of support for the homeless. Last year nine out of 10 shelters were operated by community groups or churches. The lag comes from the public sector. Federal aid for the homeless is modest, to say the least, and often the politicians who seek to win votes at their expense do the least to develop government assistance programs for the.m.

Another factor concerns the public view of the homeless.

Unfortunately, most people look upon them as no more than bums, druggies or alcoholics who are getting their just deserts..

Obviously, housing, money and programs are not the only concerns with regard to the homeless. Public attitudes must be al~ered. We should not cross the street to avoid a man, woman or child sleeping in a doorway or on the sidewalk.

Most experts in the field state that housing and direct grants are not the solution to homelessness. The issue is as complex as is the human person. Most homeless need help to restore their self-esteem. Treatment centers, community health centers and alcohol-free halfway houses are significant steps in the right direction. They deserve our support, care and concern.

Homelessness, in short, is a multifaceted issue with many deeply distur.bing ramifications. It is wrong to make it a political football. It is wrong to consider ourselves better than the po'or, the broken and the rejected.

"There but for the grace of God go I" is a worthy prayer for each of us. If we truly believe this, we will help the homeless not for publicity and the limelight, but rather because we wish to help a fellow human being.

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"Unto old age and grey hairs, 0 God, forsake me not." Ps. 70:18

Lay movements hold hope Proposition 15 outlined those VATICAN CITY (NC) - When Pope John Paul II addressed the authorized to judge the movements: issue of new lay movements in his local bishops, regional conferenrecently released apostolic exhor- ces and the Vatican in cases of tation on the 1987 world Synod of ' international groups. It asked the Bishops, he showed that the Vati- pope for some type of formal can sees great promise in their spir- approval of international movements, a request now being stuitual efforts.

The pope said they could be of died by the Pontifical Council for "precious help" in bolstering faith the Laity. in a secularized world.

I n Proposition 16 the synod Debate on the movements dur- suggested criteria for judging the ing the 1987 synod on the laity was movements, including: drawn between those concerned - "Founders and associates [of about keeping them in line with movements) are bound above all hierarchical authority and those to subject themselves to the authorwho saw a need for the "new wine" ity of the legitimate local pastors 'of the movements in the old wine!lnd the supreme pontiff' and be skin of church structure. "always ready to cooperate" in While Pope John Paul made it carrying out pastoral plans. amply clear that he believes the - "In a special way they ought movements should remain faithful to recognize and honor" dioceses to the church's magisterium, or and parishes. teaching authority, and its leaders, - Public activities by movehe emphasized the notion of a ment members must be distinguish"new era" of lay endeavor in his ed from activities by the local recent exhortation, "Christifideles church community. ,Laici: The Vocation and'the M isProposition 17 said movements sion of the Lay Faithful in the "must look with trust toward the Church and in the World."

The label "new m9vements" is clergy."

While not ignoring concerns of applied to quite diverse phenomena: the charismatic renewal, local churches, in his exhortation Schonstatt, the Neocatechumenal th~ pope chose to emph.asize the Way, Focolare, and Communion and Liberation. Along with these international groups are countless other local, national and regional associations.

What they share is a more loosely defined relationship with the church hierarchy than traditional lay groups such as the Knights of Columbus.

In the four synod propositions concerning new movements, delegates stressed the issue of authority. . New movements "ought to have room to advance, where there is nee~, after informing the bishop and giving due consideration to the governance of the diocese or region," said Proposition 14.

promise of a "new era of group endeavors of the lay faithful." , They can help transform society ~nd also be a "precious help" for individuals seeking to remain Christian in the midst of a secularized world, he said.

In line with the pope's overall exhortation themes of formation, reevangelization and renewal, his criteria for judging the movements included: , - The "primacy given to the call of every Christian to holiness" and efforts to unify the daily lives of members and their faith. , - Proclaiming and teaching the faith "in obedience to the church's lnagisterium."

- Participation in the church's apostolic goals, including Christian formation and a "missionary zeal."

A committed presence in society so that they are "fruitful outlets for participation and solidarity in bringing about conditions that are more just and loving within society." , The pope also listed unity with the local bishop as well as a "filial relationship to the pope, in adherence to the belief that he is the perpetual and visible center of unity in the universal church."

The pope was specific about the "fruits" by which these criteria should be verified: renewed appreciation of prayer, contemplation and the liturgy; increased vocations to marriage, the priesthood and religious life; participation in l'ocal, national and international church activities; commitment to catechesis; dedication to charitable, cultural works; a spirit of detachment and evangelical poverty; and a record of conversions among the unchurched and the lapsed.

This is good news to movement leaders, who in general emphasize these points.

Upsurge of zeal For years, I've been hearing painful stories from parents whose children ha ve "left" the church or become non-practicing Catholics. But now I am hearing a new complaint from parents: their young adults are taking their religion too seriously. They are more Christian or more Catholic than their parents and this seems to be unsettling.

Often parents perceive an implied criticism that they are passive or nominal in their faith, that they didn't nurture enough faith experiences in the home and that they aren't really committed to their faith or they would be living it more fully.

One parent reported that their 26-year-old was appalled that his parents hadn't read either the bishops' pastoral on peace or on the economy. "How can you call yourself Catholic and not even care what's being written?" he asked. The sting of this is nearly !is painful as that of earlier parents who worried about their children losing the family faith.

I wasn't surprised, therefore, to read this in a New York Times article "With an upsurge of religious zeal among young people, a number of parents are perplexed and sometimes pained by their children's devotion - not to another religion, but to the family's tradi-

tional faith. Many of these children, in turn, are distressed by their parents' failure to understand that religion is providing values they felt were missing from their upbringing."

A parent wrote me of this phenomenon. I tried so hard to get family prayer going in our family but the kids fought it all the way.

Now my 24-year-old daughter has become active in the RCIA and tells me I don't know what it is to be Catholic."

A father said that his son informed him that he is "recapturing his heritage," and learning Catholic doctrine for the first time." This from a young .man whose dad drilled him on doctrinal answers for tests in his 12 years of Catholic schooling. "He makes me feel as if I'm not a Catholic," the dad said.

In a column on this paradox, Dr. Howard Halpern wrote that its reality is being felt among parents of many faiths. Jewish and Protestant young people are evidencing an accusatory role, blaming their parents for insufficient faith development in their childhood and expressing delight in discovering that their own tradition holds more satisfying answers to their questions than they had believed while growing up.

Dr. Halpern suggests the following tips for parents: I. Never forget that it is more

Church challenges "What do you see as the greatest 'challenge facing the church'in th-e next five to 10 years?"

there is a problem in the priesthood statistics. But, as he told a group of Canadi~n bishops recently, "The priestho'od is being tested precisely so that what is essential may be strengthened, purified and renewed."

Part of the process priests will go through in the years ahead is likely to involve a humbling, but not humiliating experience. Given the ideals that priests tend to have, reality can be painful for them.

But recognizing the difference between what a situation should be and what it is means that one is becoming poor in spirit.

According to the most recent

In a recent study, priests to whom this question was directed ranked the decreasing number of priests and their ability to collaborate more closely with the laity as the top two challenges to be met.

Other areas of concern were: -Divorce and keeping family life together.

-Confusion about what to believe.

-Continuation of Vatican Council II. -Prevalence offundamentalism; -Questioning ofthe moral authority of the church's teachings.

-Growing polarization of liberals and conservatives.

Aprill -Recognizing women's roles.

1958, Rev. George A. Lewin, -Responding to the growing Pastor, St. Mary, Hebronville number of Hispanics.

1974, Rev. Edwin J. Loew, Pas-Maintaining the sacramental tor; St. Joseph, Woods Hole life 'of the church.

April 2 In the past, although laity often 1961, Rev. Adolph Banach, provided outstanding leadership, OFM Conv., Pastor, O.L. Perpetthe priest was the catalyst for the ual Help, New Bedford sacramental life of the church.

1976, Rev. Donald Belanger, He represented the church's Pastor, St. Stephen, Attleboro moral authority and often taught April 4 . the principles necessary to sort out 1985, Rev. James F. McCarthy, right from wrong, to avoid debilitatingfundamentalism, to keep Vat- Retired Pastor, Sacred Heart, Fall . River ican II alive and to preserve the April 6 fa mily. 'He ta ught in class197.7, Rev. Msgr. John A. Chiprooms or from the pulpit. pendale, Retired Pastor, St. PatAlthough the roles of women rick, Wareham and the laity were sometimes not 1980, Rev. Lorenzo Morais, Regiven their due, the priest was supposed to stand for principles which tired Pastor, St. George, Westport recognized their rightful dignity.

1987, Rev. Msgr. William D. Given the scope of the ideals Thomson, Retired Pastor, St. Franbound up with the priesthood, it is cis Xavier, Hyannis no wonder that priests feel theirdecreasApril 7 ing numbers represent the biggest 1976, Rev. James A. Dury, Chapchallenge facing the church. lain at Madonna Manor, .North Pope John Paul II concedes Attleboro

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important to keep your relationship with your child open, intact and loving than to score points in a religious debate.

2 Listen to children and find out'why they are doing it. Convey great respect and acceptance of their sincerity. _ 3. Respect your child's fundamental right to choose a path different from yours.

4. Debating religious differences can be stimulating. But don't ridicule or put down. The above apply to the grown-up children as well and Halpern adds others just for them: 5. Don't fling your religion in your parents' faces. If you do, it has more to do with your unresolved anger and rebellion than with anything religious and spiritual. To be' independent and on your own requires finding your o'wn path, not attacking their path or bringing them to yours.

6. Respect your parents' right not to believe the way you do.

Don't try to convert them. It is enough that they respect your right to choose your way even though they disagree with it.

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK

projections on the priesthood, there will be even fewer priests in the period ahead. But strength in numbers was never meant to be "the strength" of the priesthood. Its strength is in its ability to come as close as it can to its ideals.

Sometimes people must come to terms with the difference between what is and what should be. conceding that a larger reality beyond oneself is really in control of things.

This is humility.

And it is this sort of humility that I have in mind when I suggest that now's the time for priests to draw upon the strength that it brings.

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Q. I am a special eucharistic minister. During a recent workshop we were told that when we give Communion we should look at the person, smile and say "the body of Christ," then wait until the person says "amen" and give the host.

One priest, however, says we should not even have eye .contact, He says it is just a gimmick to look at the communicant or for the communicant to look at the priest or whoever is giving Communion.

He quoted someone who said, "Look at the host. You came to receive the body of Christ, not to visit with the celebrant, The gift is more important than the one who delivers it."

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St. Augustine, commenting on the "tremendous import" of St. Paul's words that we, though many, are one bread, one body, says to his people, "By the grace of redemption, you are already that which you receive" in the Eucharist. In Communion, he says. the body of Christ gives the body of Christ to the body of Christ.

In light of truths like that, how can we possibly pretend detached uninvolvement when we invite a fellow member of our faith community to one of the greatest expressions of faith' either of us can ever make?

Perhaps a core of the problem is that last statement about the gift being more important than the one who delivers it. Who, after all, is the one who "delivers it if not Christ himself?

A. It seems to me that someThat also is a truth held most body's sacramental theology got sacred in Christian tradition. Jesus short-circuited somewhere. On that Christ is present in the sacra mentheory, the ideal eucharistic ministal liturgy in the person of his minter would be a one-armed robot ister, says Vatican Council II, that could croak the right words; quoting Augustine. "so that when you can't get any more impersonal a man baptizes it is really Christ than that. himself who baptizes." require the . I regu lat'ons L ·Iturglca ."Rightly " h then," I' . council 'd cond I h C . be' "ministered .. tlnues, t e Iturgy IS consl ere as at. om~unlOn ' x e I ise Qf.th.l;.priestjy. offic~ t -not 1ust.'pH::lwd, up from;the alta!;;.· ..ar-s '. ~ .. :. . II'. ',;' . .:, ...•.of, for e,xl\m.ple., precisely. b~~al;lse thi~. J~s~~ ~h,ns,t"·'<~~'.l.WtNt~?'1 ~.r. ~.h.e or any other sacrament is not only Liturgy, No.7). . a transcendent divine activity, it is T~~s, 'perhaps the best .ques~lOn also a human interaction between a ml.nlster of the Eucharist .mlght embers of the body of Christ. ask IS, How would Jesus hlm~elf two m do it if he were the one standing We must continually reflect both here in his own physical person? of those realities, Pope Paul VI I can't believe he would do it said, "if we wish to keep the cele- without visibly expressing in some brati?n o.f t~e sacraments from genuine way the warmth, joy and deteriorating IOtO an almost super- intimacy of life he shares with the stitous formalism" (Address to one standing before him.

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Aids testing is. required. of Salvatorian candidates WASHINGTON (NC)· - At point of discussion but we're not least one men's religious order, the taking a stand."

Milwaukee-based Salvatorians, has He added that "how effective made Al DS testing part of its rou- testing is has question marks tine admissions process and at around it" and initial results could least one other order has been "be alarmist one way or the other," worki'ng on a similar policy.

Capuchin Father Gregory ReiOfficials at other seminaries said sert, associate director of the Conthe issue has reached the discus- ference of Major Superiors of Men, sion stage. . , based in Silver Spring, Md., said Father Keith Brennan, spokes- his organization would not dictate man for the' Salvatorians, told policy on the issue of AIDS testing National Catholic News Service because members decide their own that an admissions form requiring internal policies. candidates to the priesthood to But he said the conference "sees have an AIDS test went into use the question as a serious one." last fall. He said the order took Communities of male 'religious about a year to reach the decision are "attempting to be sensitive to to include testing. the rights of candidates as well as "Just as with any other serious their responsibility to their current illness this is one of those areas we members and the church at large," would need to know about," he he said. . Diocesan seminaries are dissaid.

Father George Kirwin, provin- cussing the issue in consultation cial for the Washington-based with legal counsel, said Father Eastern province of the Oblates of Robert Wister, executive director Mary Immaculate, said his order of the seminary department at the was "in the process of drawing up National Catholic Educational a policy" to include an AIDS test Association. in medical examinations required ..It is a very complicated quesof.all those entering the novitiate, tion involving civil law and the but he did not know' when it wQuld bishop's freedom to ordain whombe completed or implemented. ever he feels is called to the priest"The concern is a health issue hood," he told NC News. and the ability of the person to Father Brennan said that for the function, the ability to do studies," Salvatorians positive results from Father.Kirwin said, adding that an initial test al.one would not preofficials of the order "realize all vent admission and further testing the intricacies an'd difficulties" would be encouraged. surrounding the issue of AIDS "Our concern is to be as present testing and the need "to treat peo- to the person as we can and be very ple fairly." concerned how the information is The Salvatorian, Father Bren- communicated to the person." nan said, are also "concerned about . Confidentiality "is the area where any debilitating illness impinging we are most cautious," he said, on a person's availability to work adding it would be maintained by in the apostolic areas the order the applicant, the physician and has." formation personnel.

He said applicants are asked to Legally, the order can require agree to have the Al DS test done the testing because it is "completely by their own physician along with free to determine its own memberother required medical tests. ship requirements," Father Bren.. It is done strictly on a basis of nan said .. health, not as an effort to discrim"All membership requirements i~ate.... We do have a policy that are based on the goal of the comwe accept gay people if we're con- munity," he said. vinced they can live a celibate lifeMost of the 185 members in the style," the priest said, adding that . Salvatorians' U.S. province teach lifestyle concerns did not enter the at seminaries and high schools and order's decision. some do parish and retreat work.

Jesuit Father Douglas Leon- Worldwide there are 1,300 hardt, director of formation for Salvatorians. his order's Wisconsin province, said the issue has come up "as a

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WASHINGTON (NC) - Social justice activists need a sense of detachment to encourage spiritual growth and avoid the "addiction" of anxiety, ego, guilt and frenetic activism, Franciscan Father Richard Rohr recently told a social ministry gathering sponsored by the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, . the Association of Diocesan Social Action Directors, and the U.S. Catholic Conferen.ce's Campaign for Human Development and Department of Social Development and World Peace.

Father Rohr directs the center for ACtion and Contemplation in Albuquerque, N.M. It provides guidance to church social service ministers and others in similar occupations.

"Perhaps the most neglected group in the church" today con-. sists of those involved in social service ministries, Father Rohr remarked.

Noting the pace at which social justice ministers work in confronting society's problems, he suggested that some detachment is important, lest "we become in our own way addictive people."

"Addiction is a very good contemporary word for sin," Father Rohr said. "You pay a big price for it inside. Precisely because we haven't learned detachment, we're addictive." .

Addictions which tempt church people include an overidentificaSt. Anne's Hospital. Fall River, tion with work, ideas, ideology, now offers outpatient laser eye systems, guilt, anxiety, righteoussurgery to post-cataract and glau- ness, or ego and image, he said.

Too often, he said, Western coma patients.

The surgery, which can be com- Christianity has been distracted by pleted in seconds, is appropriate questions of who is right, who is for patients needing enlargement wrong, who has power, who inter- . prets the Bible correCtly and who of eye drainage areas or for those who develop a cloudy membrane errs, and so on. "At this point, we don't need any more righteousafter cataract surgery.

According to Dr. Kevin O'Brien, . ness," he said.

Christianity likewise has prochief of ophthalmology at St. moted "hoarding" of spiritual Anne's, laser surgery "prevents further vision loss simply, pain- treasures, such as adding more Masses celebrated or church servilessly and with extremely good ces attended to one's spiritual rosresults." ter, "collecting spiritual goodies Laser equipment is brought to instead of surrendering" to God. St. Anne's each fourth Wednesday The Catholic Church itself has and patients are scheduled for suffered from problems connected surgery and postoperative examito use of structures and control, he nation the same day. said. "Until we see the primary Hospital officials note that although glaucoma is incurable,laser thing we're addicted to is the syssurgery aids in maintenance of tem itself, the white-male system, we're probably not ready to let go vision or prevention of further eye of it." damage.

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THE 1989 diocesan Catholic Charities Appeal'will be supervised in the Taunton area by Very Rev. GeraldT. Shovelton,left, and Rev. John J. Steakem, right, shown with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and the CCA poster bearing the 1989 slogan, ..It Is in Giving That We Receive." (Studio D photo)

In general, ,religious people need to get beyond images of self as feminist, liberal priest, conservative priest, or obedient follower of the pope, Father Rohr summed up.

"Stop it,just stop it. Get off that whole thing," he said. "If the spiritual life is about anything, it's about letting go." .

Be Christ to poor, physicians told KANSAS CITY, Mo. (NC) .Catholic physicians have the means and the responsibility to "make an impact on health care for the poor in America." said Auxiliary Bishop Carl A. Fisher of Los Angeles.

"As Catholics in the healing profession. you are called to a spe~ cial partnership with God in preserving life," the bishop told the annual meeting of the National Federation of Catholic Physicians' Guilds held recently in Kansas City.

"If you respond generously, you can make an impact on health care for the poor in America," he said.

"If you feel restricted by your professional and family commitmentS, then pray about it. God will show you how to respond."

Bishop Fisher, who at 42 is one of the nation's youngest black bishops, told the physicians he was raised in Mississippi as one of 12. children of a "poor, struggling family."

Born at home with the help of a midwife, he said the first time he was ever examined by a doctor was when he had a physical just before entering the seminary.

Bishop Fisher described to the doctors how the inner-city poor live.... It is dehuma'nizing to live in a ghetto. The poor who live there are.always hungry, undernourished. run-down, sickly. They live in squalor. with rats, bugs and garbage in the streets." . Physicians, he said, are regarded by many Americans as "filthy-rich and trying to get richer."

Bishop Fisher asked the doctors to be more sensitive to "those who fall outside health care services" and to make a conscious effort to minister to the poor.

TOLEDO, OHIO (NC) - See,ing migrant farmworkers "overcome their fear and finally speak out" has been the most satisfying 'achievement of the Farm Labor ,Organizing Committee, says its :founder and president. . , Baldemar Velasquez, 41, who ~ounded the Toledo-based farm'workers' union, known as FLOC, with his parents in 1967, credited the National Council of Churches and the Catholic bishops of Ohio ~ith assisting the union to secure a contract with Campbell Soup Co. I The bishops' endorsement of a seven-year boycott against Campbell's "carried a lot of wallop ... a lot of moral weight," he said.

I Velasquez commented in an inter. ~iew with the Catholic Chronicle, Toledo diocesan newspaper. i The major goal of FLOC is sec~ring collective bargaining agreements for its members, said Belasquez, who noted that many farmworkers have hesitated to ask for better payor working conditions because they fear losing what they have.

Their attitude is one of"resignation to bondage," he said. "It's no different from the 12 tribes of Israel in Egypt. When Moses tried to get them to go, they said: 'You ~ant us to go out in that desert?

Who's going to feed us? Where are we going to get water? At least here we've got a roof over our head and know where our next meal is coming from.' " , However, as a result of the union's successes, farm workers are how more open about their needs and demands, said Velasquez. Now lnore than 3,000' workers are covered under FLOC contracts and grievance procedures are used regularly. .

"Some hearts are changing out there," Velasquez said. "Some [growers] now are accepting the fact that they have to live with us In a collective relationship." , In fact; Ohio and Michigan growers have found themselves on the' same,side as FLOC when multina~ional companies have threatened ~o seek cheaper labor in Mexico.

I The church made a significant difference in the union's struggle with Campbell Soup Co., Velasquez said.

'The National Council of Churches gave the company a deadline for reaching an agreement With the union, promising to endorse the boycott ifit wasn't met.

It was, but just in time, he said.

I Additional pressure came from other church groups that backed the boycott. But Velasquez credits endorsement by Ohio's Catholic . bishops with providing"a tremendous impetus to shaking loose other endorsements that were alhl()st there." i He praised Bishop James R. Hoffman of Toledo, a member of the U.S, bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Farm Labor, for maintaining his support in the face of opposition from some Catholic growers.

I Bishop Hoffman was saying, in ~ffect, "we're going to practice what we preach," Velasquez said.

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Sexuality is topic of Florida parley ORLANDO, Fla. (NC) Church teachings on human sexuality are not outdated ethics, but reflect God's will for men and women, said a professor of psychiatry speaking in Orlando at a conference on human sexuality.

Dr. E. Joanne Angelo, who teaches at Tufts University in Boston, told conference participants not to be afraid "to teach the truth about human psychosexual development."

"It will find its echo in what God has already written in the hearts of women and men," she told participants at the recent conference sponsored by the Florida Catholic Conference and attended by an estimated 750 people.

"Jesus' ultimate total gift of himself on the cross for our redemption is the model for our selfdonation, not only in a celibate life dedicated to his service, but also for the gift of self in marriage," said Ms. Angelo.

Father David B. Knight, a Memphis, Te~n. pastor, an~ a former missionary and college Instructor, described sexual intercourse within marriage "as a passionate, physical, symbolic gesture to express the total gift of yourself to another forever."

Sexual intercourse outside of marriage is wrong because it cannot provide the commitment required for the act to be an expression of "total union of mind and will and heart with another person," Father Knight said.

"Cynics and critics" say that the church is preoccupied with questions of sexuality," said Father Donald G. McCarthy, a theologian and pastor of St. Antonius Parish in Cincinnati.

However, Father McCarthy said, "we can truly say that unless we form a correct conscience about our sexual actions and form a correct judgment on sexual morality, we cannot abide in true love with one another. And unless we abide in true love, we know we cannot abide in God. "And unless we can abide in God, there's no reason to work for nuclear disarmament," he said, "because life is not worth living."

"It is necessary to understand Christian marriage to understand why contraception is wrong," said Janet E. Smith, a professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

"The church's position on marriage is based on total self-giving," she said, and by using contraception, openness to new life is withheld.

In his teaching, Pope John Paul II has emphasized that "human sexuality is not merely an attribute of the human person, but rather is constitutive of all of us," said Father Robert E. Harahan of Immaculate Conception Seminary in South Orange, N.J. Father Thomas G. Gallagher, U.S. Catholic Conference secretary of education, told the participants that in teaching about sexuality, "I'm not sure we should necessarily be marching in with programs· in schools or programs outside of schools.

"I'm wondering if we shouldn't be sustaining and preparing parents to do that in the most wholesome way possible," he said, noting that·a recent survey showed that 86 percent of parents want help in teaching their children about sexuality.

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Resurrection historical fact, says pope

DR. KATHLEEN E. KELLEY

Leisure workshop set Offices for Religious of the Fall River and Providence dioceses, under auspices of their Committee on Transitions, will conclude a series of workshops for men and women religious with a presentation from I to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, April9, at Mt. St. Joseph Spiritual Life Center, Bristol, RI. Titled "Leisure... What's That?" and conducted by Kathleen E. Kelley, Ph.D., the program is designed to assist religious to explore uses of leisure.

'This is a topic from which many religious seem to shy away as contrary to their work ethic," noted Sister Mary Noel Blute, RSM, Fall River Episcopal Representative for Religious and a member of the Committee on Transitions. "However," she continued, "leisure can be rejuvenative and can provide renewed energy for the service of others. This workshop will explore some of the many avenues of leisure."

Dr. Kelley is president of Grace Institute, a clinical theological resource center. She was previously associated in executive capacities with the House of Affirmation International Therapeutic Center for Clergy and Religious.

As well as organizing the workshop series, the Committee on Transitions conducts an employment service for older religious seeking parttime employment.

Members in addition to Sister Blute are Sisters Mary Behan, SSJ;' Georgette Chasse, RSM; Rosellen Gallogly, RSM; Elizabeth Hayes, SSD; Theresa Horvath, SUSC; Marina Mejia, OP; Elizabeth Menard, OP; and Imelda Toomey, FCJ. Previous workshops have dealt

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By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope the credulity, of the apostles.

"These hypotheses seem to imply John Paul II said Christ's resurrection is a "historical fact" that a prejudicial aversion to the reality cannot be reinterpreted as an inven- of the Resurrection, which is considered solely as the product of the tion by early Christians.

The pope, recently speaking at a environment or the community of general audience at the Vatican's . Jerusalem," he said.

The apostles themselves found Paul VI hall, said the account of Christ's appearances after death the Resurrection given in the New Testament is a reliable one based difficult to believe, but were conon testimony of eyewitnesses who vinced by their own direct expetouched and spoke to Christ after rience, the pope added. Christ's aim, he said, was to give the aposhis death.

The oldest account ofthe Resur- tles a sense of reality and certainty rection, in a letter from Paul to the about resurrection. That is seen in Corinthians, "refutes any attempt the account of"doubting Thomas," to interpret the Resurrection as an the apostle who insisted on touchinvention by the Jerusalem com- ing Christ's wounds before believmunity rather than a historical ing in his Resurrection, he said.

Taken together, the elements of fact," the pope said. the New Testament texts "prove The pope's remarks appeared aimed at some modern scholarly the fact of the Resurrection," which theories and interpretations regard- remains a central dogma of the . ing the accounts of Christ's rising faith, the pope said. from the dead.

The pope rul~d out hypothetical arguments that the Resurrection ~ CATHOLIC CHARITIES may have been merely a descri~­ tive or analogous term, or that It

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T~e Department of Mental Health In first century Palestine, as reestimates that the current housing counted in the Gospel of Mark, the mentally ill suffered "among need for the mentally ill in Boston the tombs" and "on the mounIn the 20th century, once again alC:>ne is 2,000 units. tains" - alone, in fear, and isothe three familiar stigmatic themes' This crucial need is evident across lated from the community. of extermination; inhumane con- the state. DMH also documents finementand homelessness became thilt there are more than 500 perToday, in the archdiocese of Boston and across the nation, perthe plight of the mentally ill. sons confined to the state's inpasons who are mentally ill no longer In Nazi Germany, the mentally tient facilities because of insuffilive in the tombs but in overill were one of the first populations cient housing and services for the crowded, inhumane state institu-' to be rounded up, abused in exper- mentally ill in the community. iments and exterminated in the tions. They are no longer found on 'It should be noted that the vast mountains but on our city streets death camps. . majority of the seriously mentally and in shelters. homeless.

In the 1950s in the U.S., state ill - as high as 60 perceQt - still The physical, mental, and relahospitals - once considered mod- live, in many cases inappropriately, tional brokenness suffered by the els for humane professional care at home with aging parents, who - had become so overcrowded mentally ill in our society has not no longer have the physical, emoand had deteriorated to such an tional or financial resources to changed much since the time of Jesus. The mentally ill are still extent that they were labeled snake- caire for them. afflicted with devastating brain pits. Once again the public conStatistics are meaningless until diseases. They are still discrimiscience was aroused. And through- they are put into human terms. out the 1960s and 1970s America Who are the mentally ill? nated against and ostracized by the community. They are still, in began the social policy experiment Mental illness occurs in all social called deinstitutionalii:ation. many cases, suffering alone and The alchemical stones for dein- classes, ethnic and national groups "bruising themselves with stones." stitutionalization were: a) new and is found all over the world.

Stigma against the mentally ill miracle drugs; b) human rights leg- One out of five American families has a long and inglorious history is afflicted with some form of menin Western civilization. For hun- islation; c) a public commitment tal illness that requires professional to community-based (:are for the dreds of centuries the mentally ill mentally ill. While the intentions treatment.

'The mentally ill could include have had to suffer an unremitting ofdeinstitutionalization were noble any of us. The mentally ill populacycle of violence consisting of exile, extermination and inhumane con~ . - and in many cases justified tion does not consist of faceless' finement. they were ba;;ed on a utopian view human beings but of people who that did not take into ;account the Throughout the centuries, the biological causes of mental iII- are the children, spouses, parents, mentally ill have had few advo- nesses; the limitations of psycho- and siblings in American families. cates. They have been loved by few tropic medication; the stigma of They did not cause their illness; but they are afflicted with it. and despised, feared and rejected by many. t~e mentally ill in the community; . Persons with mental illness suffer At the time of Jesus, the men- and the ever-changing American frqm brain diseases, which as 'yet tally ill were perceived as demon- political system. have no known cause or cure.

When the "miracle drugs" proved These illnesses are characterized possessed. They were cast out of the villages and forced to live less successful than first advertised~ by severe disturbances in thinking,alone in the wilderness or at the and when the public commitment judgment, feeling, and relating with fringes of the community. Only a ~Q community-based .care fizzled others. In many cases, the illness is few saints would take up their In the. as~es ?f th~ VI.etnam war, so severe that a person has diffi_ _ the delnstitutlOnahzatlOn hopes of culty coping with the ordinary cause and visit them.

In the Middle Ages, a few mon- the '60s beca.me th,e tragedy of demands of life. asteries opened their doors and homeless ness In the 80.s. .

IT"he vast majority of the seriously hearts to the mentally ill, one of .In .Mas~ac~usetts pnor to deln- ~entally ill are not only seriously the best known being Gheel in stitutlOnahzatlon, the~e: were about ill but also poor. Some have no Belgium. Gheel, a 13th century 24,000 persons. co~fln~d to state sources of incom·e. Others are shrine commemorating the healmental health ln~tltutlOns, .many , totally dependent upon public sering of the mentally ill by St. of whom were Inappropnately vices or charity.

Dymphna, attracted pilgrims from placed. T~day.' the ~ommonwealth Today, men and women who across Europe. Gheel grew from a has a dally inpatient census. of an:: mentally ill are still severely pilgrimage center into a therapeu- about 2,500 on an~ one day, With discriminated against in medical tic colony of healing and compas- an annual populatIOn of 9,000. care, education and housing. They In the course of a year, the Mas- are our nation's most vulnerable sion for the mentally ill. Today it still stands as a beacon of hope to sachusetts Departmenll of Mental citizens. the world in its care and accep- Health (DMH) s~rves more than Yet, throughout this nation and tance of the mentally ill 100,000 mentally III persons, pro- commonwealth, neighborhoods Gheel and a few other'monaster- viding both inpatient and outpa- and communities, infected with ies were the exception during the tient services. DMH estimates that centuries of ignorance and stigma, Middle Ages. The more prevalent there are more than 1:50?00~ per- still actively resist accepting the practices were exiling the mentally sons who are mentally III In the mentally ill as brothers or sisters in ill from the towns, burning them common~ealth.. 57,500 of these the human family. as witches, and setting them adrift are chrOnIcally III and. 33,00~ are It is time that we, as church and on overcrowded ships throughout dependent upon pul>hc services. sotiety, say no to the centuries of the cities of Europe. Floating from Many of these men and w~men are 'vi~lence and stigma against the one inhospitable town to another, not adequ~telyserved by either the mentally ill. In the Gospel of Mark, such a ship was 'stigmatized as a state or pnvate systems of care.

Jesus once again points out the "ship of fools." .

Today, across the state, the way for us. He visited the man in In the Renaissance, secular city commonwealth's inpatil:nt facilities the t·ombs. He spoke, touched, and hospitals began to replace monas- of eight state hospitals and 10 welcomed him into the community. teries in the care ofthe mentally ill. community mental health centers Today, when mentally ill people For example, in 1547, the London are operating at 110 to 120 percent come into our churches and neighbormonastery of St. Mary of Bethle- capacity. Only one 011 the eight hoods, will we side'with the ignorhem became a city hospital k.nown state hospitals meets thl~ minimum ant masses who want to kill, ignore, as "Bedlam." Many of these hospi- standard of care and is accredited. exile, and confine the mentally ill, tals could be mor.e likened to over- Danvers State Hospital is the most or will we join with the saints and crowded prisons or zoos. The men- overcrowded facility; with an the commupity.of Gheel who love tally ill were perceived more as impatient capacity of 130, it has . them? The choice is ours.

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animals than human beings. They were "treated" in chains.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, it was only when the public conscience was stricken that the care of the mentally ill began to improve.

Stirring newspaper accounts and passionate advocates such as Dr. Philippe Pinel (France, 1793), Dr. Benjamin Rush (America, 1800). and Dorothea Dix, a Quaker woman (America, 1840s) helped establish humane hospitals and professional medical standards for the care of the mentally ill.

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Beach ministry lures with ice water DA YTONA BI:ACII, 1:la. (NC) h'anl:isl:ans Fathl:r Dan Riley and Brother I:rank Sevola have hel:ome popular figures these days in Daytona Beadl, where thousands of young people l:ilme from al:J'(lss the l:ountry to seck sun and fun during spring hreak.

Free il:e water is the reason the pair is so popular with the sunhathers. The young people arc pral:til:ally lining up and prohahly willl:ontinue to do so through early April at the rented van the , friars park hy the headl daily, Some of t he students arc suspil:ious, surprised that someone would give them anything at I>aytona Beadl without dJarging for it or expel:ting something in return, Father Riley said. lie said some vendors have heen selling water' for 75 l:ents a l:Up. "They want to know why we're doing t his," hither Riley told The 1:lorida Catholil:, newspaper of lhe diol:ese of Orlando, whidl indudes Daytona Beadl. "What's the l:atdl'! What's in il for us'!

They're not used to gelling something for nothing."

The two Franl:isl:ans arc part of a group of 10 friars taking turns mini~tering to the l:ollege erowd during spring hreak. In the day, they dress in shorts and sunglasses, hand out water and talk with students. At night, they sit in front of ha rs wea ri ng sweat shi rls over their Roman l:ollars, greeting young people walking down the sidewalks.

Derek (jretenl:ord, an IX-yearold sludent at Fort Sl:oll Community College in I:ort Sl:oll, Kan., said he's glad the friars arc in Daytona Beadl, hut he addl:d that some of t he students might he angry with the friars.

'They might look down lin it hel:ause they think the priests arc ruining their party hy throwing . (iod at thl:m or something," he said.

Wes ROl:kl:rs, IX, a student at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kan., said most of (hl: students well:ome the friars and the il:e water.

"This is a real good thing," he said.

Other slu(lcnt~ arl:n't sure what to think, after seeing the Franeis-

Gins' rented van with some signs that olTer free watl:r a nd others that read, •....ranl:isl:ans in Daytona Beal:h: Peal:eand Everything (jood." Some have asked if they l:ould huy heel' from the friars.

And onl:e some surfers in a jeep stopped next to the van. "'Icy, you got any wax, man'!" one of the surfers asked.

Othl:rs have turned to the friars to get their ml:dals hlessed or to have someone to listen to their prohlems.

"These students are' really vulnerahle," hither Riley said. "Some of them really do want to talk."

The hanl:isl:ans said they don't

want the students to think that the friars' presence in Daytona Ikach means that the Francisl:ans agree with what goes on during spring hreak. But they want the students to know they l:an have a good time without gelling into trouhle.

"They don't have to get drunk and have sex to have a good time," said Brother Sevola, who himself was a l:ollege spring hreaker in Daytona 'Beach 10 years ago.

"While we love them, we don't support what's going on," Father Riley said. "While other people arc huying and selling them, we just want them to know they arc loved."

More immigrants now in U.S. church NEW YORK (NC) Jesuit sOl:iologist hither Joseph II. Fichter said in a rel:ent address that Ameril:an Catholics arc wrong when they speak of a dlUrdl of immigrants and the poor only in t,he past tense.

"The Catholic Church in this l:ountry now has more immigrants than it ever had in its history," he said.

And statistil:s ahout "upwardly mohile" Catholil:s arc "deceptive," he said, as long as they ignore those who "never made it" or who "slipped hack" from the middle dass.

Father Fichter, XO, is a professor emerit us at I.llyola lJ niversity in New Orleans, hut remains active in parllime teaching, lect uring and rcsearch.

He spoke in New York at "A Theological Confcrence on thc Local Churl:h" held hy the thcology department of Fordham lJniversity.

In his address, Father Fichter challenged the view that with thc election of a Catholic president in 1900, the move of Catholics onto Wall Street and into the suhurhs, their departure from the lahor movement and their change of party affiliat'ion, the Catholic Church w'as no longer cthnic.

Immigrants today, he said, still constitute more than a fifth of the American Catholic population, in. duding, 10 percent Hispanics, 3 percent hlacks and 3 pe1'l:ent

Asians. Ethnic parishes cxist in many areas and arc proliferating on the West Coast, he said.

Father Fichter said poverty among American Catholics was not limited to immigrants, hut induded m,iny others "who have not made it." By conservative estimates, at least 4 million Catholics wcre among the 32 million Americans helow the p<lVerty line in 19X7, he said.

'The permanent proletariat of people on welfare includes our fellow Catholics," he said.

"Widening and persistent social dass differences" arc developing, he said, with an increasing gap hetween rich and poor. "Things arc getting worse," Father Fichter questioned suhurhan parish programs designed to promote "fellowship" among small groups of peoplc of similar social class. He advocated rather the large urhan territorial parish as a truer ex pression of the Catholic view of the church.

Catholicism, he said, is "allcmhracing," and in this spirit the large urban parish takes in all people residing in its area, regardless of their ethnic character, social class or adaptability for small group expressions of "community."

It is this traditional type of large urban parish, serving whoever lives within its boundaries, that can be an instrument for social justice, he saiq,' '

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"To die of hunger is terrible, but that she had written when she loneliness is even more terrible." heard of 50 people who never had That's what a 71-year-old woman a visitor although they had chilwrote just before she died of star- dren. She did not give her name. vation on the second floor of a Why not write a column, she busy apartment building in an said, about children who don't unidentified large city, according to a report in a Mill Hill Mission- visit their parents, and run it "say month before Mother's Day." . aries newsletter.

"She let herself die of hunger," "You might strike a spark in a the account said. "It took 26 days, few and give them some time to because she marked them off on a plan around their 'busy schedule' nearby calendar. . .. Her body to make a gift of their presence was found two months later." with perhaps a hug and a kiss on Just another sad tale of life in a . an ordinary day instead of a plant big city, right? I'd like it to be more or card on Mother's Day. Think of than that. I'd like it to be a Moth- the surprise and joy!" er's Day story - even though My unknown correspondent said Mother's Day is over a month she wrote"A Mother's Lament" as away.

Before you say "What's the a composite of all mothers' cries, rush?" let me explain. I don't know even while praising the compaswhether the woman who died of sionate women who do visit lonehunger and loneliness was some- some mothers during months with body's mother. But Ijust opened a holidays and' decorate nursing heart-wrenching letter from a home bulletin boards with special mother who said my recent essay art. Here is her poem, with an old editor's revisions: on wasting time (Anchor, March 3) had touched her.

A Mother's Lament She enclosed "A Mother's LaI love and pray for you, my ment," a bit of doggerel, sh~ said, three,

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But you give little thought to me.

You claim you're busy much to do, When I was busy I'd time for you.

You're in your forties now, my dears; There'll come a time you'll have my years.

If you keep up your thoughtless ways , You'lliater have some lonely days.

Your kids are watching how you live; In turn, they'll have no time to give.

We cherish children day to day; Shouldn't they love us that way?

Our secret poet also enclosed a copy of a Catholic weekly headlining church efforts to care for AIDS sufferers and she added to her poem: Our care for these is good to see aut where's a small appeal for me?

I broke no law of God or state To bring me to this low estate.

Our hearts blled for many others But where's concern for lonely mothers?

Our fault isjust that we survive Though kids forget that we're alive.

"A Mother's Lament" is hardly Mother's Day card material. But the Fourth Commandment, "Honor your father and your mother," has not been repealed.

Mother's Day is still a way off.

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Hearing-ear dog provides independence "There were no doctors and I ELMORE, Vt. (nc) - A hearing-ear dog is helping a Vermont remember spending 10 days in bed woman remain independent des- watching the ceiling spin around pite a hearing impairment result- because the balance in my middle ing from a stint in Korea as a lay ear was affected," she said.

Catholic missinary more than 20 The infection left her with a paryears ago. tial hearing loss.

Mary Frederick lives alone in a Miss Frederick, a member of cabin she and a friend built in the . Holy Cross Parish in Morrisville Vermont woods, and Sheba, a where she is a eucharistic minister, German shepherd, lets her know is an advocate for the elderly at a when the alarm clock rings, when county agency on aging. It was someone knocks at the door, when there that she first heard of hearthe telephone rings or when the ing-ear dogs and applied for a dog smoke detector sounds. and for training at the National "M Y hearing has never gotten Hearing Dog Center in Athol, better and as I get older, it is gradMass. ually getting worse," Miss FrederAfter she was accepted, she went ick told the Vermont Catholic Tri- to the center where she met Sheba, bune, newspaper of the Burlington who had already had six months diocese. of training.

During a 1965 sabbatical from She lived at the center for her teaching health and physical eduown training period with tJ:te dog, cation at Seton Hill college, in getting to know Sheba and formGreensburg,' Pa., Miss Frederick ing a bond with her. went as a lay missionary to Korea, Many hearing-ear dogs are reswhere she came down with a mid- cued from shelters. The only requiredle ear infection. ments are that the dog have a

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SHEBA- "prays" with Mary Frederick. (NC photo)

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After Sheba hears a sound and gets Miss Frederick's attention, she runs to the sound's source.

"Sheba has definitely added to my security living alone," Miss Frederick said. "Not only does she help me hear things, but she provides companionship and love. I've had her since last May and she goes with me nearly everywhere."

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CAMILLE AUDETTE sits before one of her paintings, "Greek Vegetable Sidewalk M~rket," as she prepares her palette for a work in progress. (Motta photo)

Filling space beautifully

By Pat McGowan "The goal of art is to fill space in a beautiful way," reads the quotation pinned to the wall of nonagenarian Camille L. Audette.

Miss Audette has filled space beautifully throughout her long life, beginning when she was a student of the Religious of Jesus and Mary and continuing to the present, when her room at the Clifton Geriatric Center in Somerset glows with her paintings.

Her favorite among her works, "Guadeloupe Pixie," a portrait of a red-turbaned child wearing gold earrings, brought her talent to the attention of the 27 million members of the American Association of Retired Persons when it was reproduced on the cover of"Modern Maturity," the association magazine.

And last summer, on the occasion of her 90th birthday, she was honored at the Somerset retirement home, where she has lived since October, 1985. There a champagne reception marked both the birthday and the opening of "A Woman and Her Art," a retrospective exhibition of her work.

Painting is not Miss Audette's only talent. Equally important in her life has been her devotion to music, beginning with piano lessons in childhood and continuing with her direction of the Caecilians, a 9-member women's choir that was for many years a fixture on the Fall River musical scene, and of a girls' choir at the former Mt. St. Joseph School, also in Fall River. She also devoted evenings and weekends to giving singing and piano lessons.

Senior sisters seek jobs ST. LOUIS (NC) - Six women's religious orders have joined forces to open a St. Louis employment office for nuns 65 years and older who are looking for 'paid employment, said Sister Rosemarie Nassif, covicar for religious in the St. Louis archdiocese.

St. Joseph Sister Mary Lou McKinney will run the pilot project, seeking "transition" positions for nuns not yet ready to retire, said Sister Nassif. The project is modeled after a similar program in Cincinnati, which placed 27 of 47 nuns in jobs during its first year.

Communities participating in the program are the School Sisters of Notre Dame, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood, the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, the Sisters of Divine Providence and

the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

After a trial period, the program will be evaluated. Eventually it may help younger nuns and members of other religious orders, said Sister Nassif. She also hopes the program director's salary will come from fees paid by employers instead of by participating orders.

The salaries the nuns will receive for either full- or part-time work will be negotiated between the employers and the sister and her order, Sister McKinney said.

Sister McKinney is researching ways sisters can serve in parishes besides traditional jobs such as teaching in a school or running a religious education program.

Potential jobs include tutoring, respite care and peace and justice work.

A mezzo-soprano, she still sings and says she sometimes "tickles the ivories" at the Clifton center, with the works of Chopin special favorites. , Miss Audette was the oldest of II children of whom one brother and one sister survive in addition to herself. Charles Audette lives in Derry, NH, and Claire Teichman in Hendersonville, NC. Born in Fall River where she attended Notre Dame School, the artist resided for most of her life in nearby Tiverton, RI, returning to Fall River, "almost next door to St. Anne's Church," for a few years before retiring to the Somerset center.

At St. Anne's, both while she lived in Fall River and in Tiverton, she was an active member of the Dominican Laity, formerly known as the Third Order of St. Dominic.

She combined her activities in the fields of music and art with fulltime employment in the U.S. Postal Service, working in Fall River as secretary to the late postmistress Grace Hartley Howe.

I After her retirement from government service at age 70, Miss Audette enjoyed five years oft ravel, years that provided her with material for many of her paintings.

She chuckles as she recalls a painting she did one summer in Ogunquit, Maine. "Someone was standing close behind me, watching me, and all of a sudden I felt drips from an ice cream cone trickling down my back."

Works hanging in her room reflect locales where she painted: "Monoliths Shooting the Sky," a scene of solitary rocks reaching to the heavens; and "Desert Solitude Interrupted by Blossoming Cacti," a title needing no explanation.

Another favorite is done from imagination: "Trial and Misfor-. , tune," a depiction of a shipwreck at the south pole.

Miss Audette used to work in watercolor but now leans to oil.

Her reason is pragmatic: "You can't change watercolors the way you can oils."

Always' seeking to hone her talent, she is a regular attendant at art classes taught at the Clifton center by Lillian Swage Noga.

And she is the center's number one fan, noting how happy she is there.

Her feelings are returned. On ~he occasion of her champagne reception last summer, Gail Silvia, RN, of the center staff, wrote her a poem. In part it said: "On this your 90th birthday / Our best wishes we impart.iCamil~, we stand and toast you./"A Woman and Her Art"!

.Caring for an alcoholic son

By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Dr. Kenny: I am "stuck" with a 42-year-old divorced alcoholic son. He has been through three different hospitalizations plus psychiatric treatments, torio avail.

No human seems able to reach him. At their expert suggestion, I put him out on his own though it nearly killed me. He was then on Skid Row for several months until a private detective was hired to locate him.

He was doing well enough practicing law, but of course he has been suspended as a lawyer until he can get his head together. About nine years ago his wife divorced him, taking his two sons with her.

Then last year my husband died of cancer and a broken heart.

My son sits idly by, day after day, watching television until he decides to sell his blood and go out and get drunk. He has also been in jail for 30 days for non-support of his boys. Nothing fazes him.

The peace in my family is no longer there. My older children will not visit me because their brother is here leeching off me.

Yes, I have gone to numerous AI-Anon meetings and sought help from the "experts." There are no answers. I used to have hope for my son. No more. I have prayed

and prayed. No help. I have tried just to accept my grief and go on living. This is most difficult.

-Ohio.

Nothing is hopeless. There is always something to do. One fact we can all be certain of is that things change.

In your A I-Anon meetings, I am sure you became acquainted with the concept of "enabling."

Enabling is all the things the family and friends of an alcoholic do to permit the drinking to continue.

In your case, providing room and board might be considered "enabling."

Yet when you asked him to leave before, you said it almost killed you. Then you rescued him from Skid Row. You made the decision at the time that it was better to keep his body and soul together, even if he continued drinking, than to take a chance on his roaming the streets.

You are paying a high price for thi.s choice. Your other children don't want to visit. You are miserable. And you are not helping your son. It may be time to review this decision.

Remember the AA Serenity Prayer: "God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we

can and wisdom to know the difference."

At this point, it may be easier to focus on what you can do than on what your son should or should not be doing. Here are four possible next steps: I. You see a counselor. You have a hard problem, caring wisely for an alcoholic son. You must distinguish between your own needs and his, and between a firm and tough approach and a nurturant one.

2. Call a family meeting. Get the advice of his brothers and sisters.

They may find it easier to be critical of you than to come up with a plan that makes sense. See if you can all agree on a reasonable plan.

3. You need some "break" time.

If you cannot ask him to leave permanently, ask him to leave for shorter periods so you can entertain or simply find a day or two of peace.

4. Get out of the house yourself.

If your children won't visit you, then you visit them.

I wish you well. You have a difficult situation. My heart and prayers go out to you.

Reader questions on family living and child care to be answered in print are invited. Add'ress the Kennys, Box 872, St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Ind. 47978.

Kiddie boutiques reflect lousy values

By Antoinette Bosco I can't imagine spending $90 on a little girl's dress, but apparently a lot of people are paying a fortune for children's designer wardrobes.

Benetton is offering a girl's sweatsuit at $58. Laura Ashley's velvet dresses are $90 and up. A new specialty gift shop has an "extremely expensive" line of dresses from $100 to $200 in infants to size 10.

Another store offers a toddler-size pantsuit at $70.

The stores' customers are reportedly affluent, "quality-conscious" parents or grandparents who want to give their children or grandchildren a "leading fashion edge."

I am a 'grandmother, and few things give me more pleasure than buying cute little outfits for my grandchildren. But I doubt the day will come when I will spend $120 on a toddler's sweater.

It sure is different from the way I dressed my children. I remember those good old rummage sales. I'd bring it home, wash it, block it and cut out new Clothes .for my children. I'd sew up their little outfits and try to make them look as good as I could.

Sometimes I'd find a good sweater or skirt intact. Pants for the boys were impossible, though. because they all had holes in the knees. Pants always had to be sewn from scratch.

With a big family and a small salary, that is how it had to be done. My children did not look fancy, but they looked nice. I do not think they suffered any· bad effects for having worn new clothes made from old.

I am turned off by this kiddie boutique business. It strikes me as a contradiction to what a child should be. Does a child need to have a designer labei slapped on him so he can be a status symbol for his parents? It seems to me that the children lose something. It takes away their freedom to get dirty.

If my children wanted to play in the dirt, that was fine. what did it matter if their rummage sale clothes got dirty? But is a little girl allowed to make mud pies when she is wearing a $90 Laura Ashley?

Probably not.

Besides their freedom, maybe the children lose some of their innocence, too, when they are so dressed to outdo the J oneses. Maybe some of that status consciousness rubs off on them. What mess!1ge do they get? That clothes make them important?

I am tired of this focus on form rather than substance. In the past decade we have seen so much emphasis on surface appearances.

Rock singer MadQnna's self-centered "Material Girl" has certainly proven to be the emblem of the 1980s.

Kiddie boutiques reflect not only materialistic values running rampant, but also what may be the unhealthiest socioeconomic trend in the United States today - the extreme stratification between rich and poor.

We used to have more layers in our society - more blending of economic levels. Our economy was strong because the middle class was vibrant.

Now we have millions of homeless, hungry children dressed in rags while privileged tots don de-

signer suits. It is unfair and unhealthy.

I keep hoping that the 1990s will bring a dramatic shift in values. I would like to see a society where parents felt ashamed to put a $100 outfit on their.child. knowing that there is a hungry child nearby.

It is plain and simple: Kiddie boutiques reflect lousy values. I am tired ofthis self-centered materialism. How about a good strong swing of the pendulum, starting now?

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Makin.g haste slowly VATI CAN CITY (N C) - If a the pontifical music chapel, failed motto were chosen for the Vati- to make the cut.

One organization listed as can's long-awaited Curia reform, an appropriate one might be "Fes- "Curia" however, did not want to tina Lente" - Latin for "Make be on the list: the Vatican bank, Haste Slowly." known officially as the Institute The changes, years in the mak- for the Works of Religion. The ing and publicized in a papal doc- Vatican itself had previously taken umentlastJune, nevertheless appear- care to distance the bank's operaed to catch Curia offices off-guard tions from that of the Holy See. Asked for his reaction, U.S. when they took effect March I. Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, the None of the new departments unveiled in the document - a Vatican bank president, said labor office, a translation center simply: "We're not a curial organiand a commission for church artis- zation." No doubt the bank's new tic and historical holdings - were bylaws - currently under revision open for business. Telephone in- - will make the relationship quiries produced only perplexed clearer. silence from the nuns who run the 1 he translations of department Vatican's switchboard. titles caused the loudest buzzing in Other announced revisions seem- curial office.

The English list contains such ed to have occurred on paper but not yet in the real world of curial verbal duds as the Apostolic routine.

Camera (the office in charge of F or example, if you called the administration between popes) and newly merged Congregation for the "Fabric of St. Peter's" (the Divine Worship and the Sacra- small industry of engineers, masons ments, the response was a cheerful and other workmen who keep the "Congregation for Divine Wor- world's largest basilica in good ship" (if you dialed an old "Wor- repair). ship" number), and "Congregation Many other titles suffered slight for Sacraments" (if you dialed the work changes that seemed arbiother side of the hall). trary and inconsistent to many at Interestingly, at eac;h "half' of the Vatican. the merged congregation, a differAt the doctrinal congregation, ·ent archbishop-secretary showed for example, the Latin "pro" was up for work on March I - a solu- changed to "de" - thus, "Congregation of.the Doctrine of the Faith" tion that was "worked out" but never officially announced. instead of "for the Doctrine of the Theoretically, the reforms were Faith." fn EnglisJt, for no apparto have marched in under a broad ent reason, the translation c~ange · new ba.nner of "n,gulations" or: was not made. · curial bylaws. Instead, they limped The same was true at the Conin - because .the new bylaws were gregation for Sainthood Causes, not finished in·time.· where the longer and more exact· ~Mell:fr.Wbile-t.h .Lso r."ri,.?~r~a? tra.?sI~~i~n~~a~a¥ed.to ,. rr.--... -.-:-y.",'W~..kP.!L- ~~ '~-'-'fi'1clude~~e ·Process-for Makmg :off.lclals ~n the unusual pOSItIOn of Blesseds and Saints:" . ' . . dOl.ng t~~ngs not .by the ~)Qo.k, but '''The printers must be happy. I by intUItIOn and ImprOVIsatIOn. don't know if anybody else is," one ....or example, Pope John Paul Curia official said of the modificaII's apostolic letter on the Curia tions. In fact, the print'shop at the changes, "Pastor Bon'us" ("The Vatican Polyglot Press reported CONTINUING HIS GOOD FRIDA Y tradition, Pope John Paul II enters a confessional Good Shepherd"), made clear that heavy orders for paper and enve51.

Peter's Basilica to hear confessions. (NCj UPI photo) in the doctrinal congregation would lopes. New curial seals were also no longer handle requests for priest- being readied, hood dispensations. It did not spell Some translations were so ml~­ out which department would pick matched that Latinists at the Vati, can considered writing a letter of up this job. . Pope Hears Confessions the highest act, after the celebraVATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope In the months that followed, the protest.

1 tion of the Eucharist, of our John Paul [I told the priests who Following his annual tradition, dispensation issue became an eccleAt the "Congregation for Cathpriesthood." he told them. the pope himself heard confessions sial football. The clergy congrega- olic Education (for Seminaries and serve as confessors in St. Peter's tion didn't want it (Cardinal AnEducational Institutions)," the Basilica and other Vatican churches Each major Vatican basilica in on Good Friday at St. Peter's. Six tonio Innocenti, its perfect, was word "education" appears twice in that their lives should be distinRome - St. Peter, St. Mary Major, persons entered his confessional, reported to have said: "We make most translations but not in the guished by "doctrine, zeal and St. John Lateran and St. Paul including a religion teacher from priests, we don't unmake them") original Latin. The parenthetical sanctity."

Outside the Walls - is served by West Germany and a housewife In a speech to ordained religious and the ball ended up in Sacra- trailer in the title was reportedly religious orders such as the Fran- and her son. who serve as confessors in the ciscans and the Benedictines. The Afterward, in a brief talk, the ments' field, the result of a' compromise, ,but major basilicas, the pope also called priests hear confessions in a va- pope said his Good Friday time in will be dropped in common usage. , On March 2, a doctrinal official the sacrament of penance second riety. of languages for many of the the confessional recalled the sigEducation congregation officials only to the Eucharist as the "highsaid the Curia was still awaiting thousands of pilgrims and visitors nificance of the sacrament of rewere among the many stuck with est act" of one's priesthood, "official orders" on the matter. who epter the basilicas each year. conciliation.

Meanwhile, his congregation was boxloads of old stationery. They . , The pope said the confessors handling the old cases and Sacra-' decided to use up the old stock, Many persons at the basilica The confessors come under the who serve the Vatican in its' except for the most important ments was taking the new ones. hoped to confess to the pope, but of Cardinal Luigi Dadagauthority churches had a special need of business. he .said that it would take months The one supplementary docu. . . preparation to deal with the "often lio, who as· head of the Apostolic At the CongregatIOn f~r Instl- grave and delicate problems which Penitentiary is called the "grand to hear all of them, and "the pope ment that was ready by March I . , tutes of Consecrated LIfe and has another mission to perform." the faithful from all the world penitentiary," stlrred among S oCle 't'les 0 f A posto I'IC L'f ' . up'd a hornet I . s nest 15 I' I e, t h e key submit to the keys of Peter." cunallnsl ers. t,was a -page 1St d "R r ' " " f of 49 "dicasteries and other orga- wor e,lglOUS was ~ISSlng rom The pope encouraged the priests . f th e R oman C'a wI'th, .the new tItle but remained etched to "continue with wisdom', with msms 0 u "n . d .

In marble over the main doorway "I th'In k we 'III eave It, ' ' ' ·salone d ' mildness and with inexhaustible offIce tItles translate In seven I anguages:. congregation official. Underlying patience their dedication to the According to Vatican sources, the good-humored remarks about confessional."

"We priests, in imparting to the "makin~ the list" was. co~sidered the name changes was resentment the.equ~valent of survIval In some about the way it was done - by faithful grace and forgiveness in cunal CIrcles. the secretary of state's office, with the sacrament of penance, perform "There was a terrible fight little if any consultation, accordeverybody wanted to get on as ing to Curia officials.

Distrust ·Curia.' The fear was that if you Given the' generally reluctant "A certain amount of distrust is were listed only as part of the reaction at the Vatican, a Rome wholesome, but not so much of Apostolic See, you could be'1ost or Latinist coined an improved motto others as of ourselves. Neither closed down," said one source, A for Curia reform's first full week: vanity nor conceit can exist in the number of organizations, ranging "Festina Lentissime"("Make Haste same atmosphere with it."-Necker from the central statistics office to Most Slowly").

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John F. Collins Falmouth The writer was mayor of Boston from 1960 to 1968 and is vice president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.

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A bout abortion Dear Editor: On Jan. 24, the Boston Globe again indulged in its favorite prejudice: hostility to the Catholic Church. David Nyhan's column warned of the danger posed to the Republic when the Catholic Church presumes to address a moral issue in .a manner inconsistent with the liberal consensus that prevails in bw and public policy.

The thesis of Nyhan's argument seems to be that any attempt to preserve legal sanctions against the reprehensible crime of abortion constitutes an attempt to impose an alien and sectarian morality upon an unwilling American public. The authors of this alleged imposition are Catholic prelates supposedly acting under orders from a foreign entity, the Vatican.

Though carefully crafted, Nyhan's argument is unoriginal, being merely a restatement of an argument devised by the National Abortion Rights Action League in the seventies. The proponents of abortion deliberately sought to revive and exploit latent religious prejudice in America as a means to discredit the pro-life position.

This divisive and wholly contrived argument, which seeks to portray the pro-life movement as an instrument of a foreign-controlled Catholic Church, remains the centerpiece of their propaganda efforts.

This argument represents a curious marriage of 20th-century nativism, a veritable alliance of feminists and the Klan.

Truly successful propaganda commences not with a lie, but with a distortion of the truth. The Catholic Church, being faithful to her Founder, must always oppose abortion, the willful murder of the innocent. Nyhan ought to be reminded that at the time of this nation's independence, Catholics made up less than I percent of the population.

It was not the Catholic Church that enshrined in American law and jurisprudence a centuries-old tradition that viewed abortion with universal revulsion as an abominable crime. It was not the church that enacted statutes prohibiting or restricting abortion in the 50 states. Nor is it the church today that directs millions of evangelicals, born-again Christians, Orthodox Jews and Eastern Orthodox Christians to risk arrest by participating in Operation Rescue.

It was only in 1973 that a small ideological minority succeedetl in using the unelected branch of 8overnment to impose its alien morality on the American people. Roe vs. Wade overturned not only the laws of 50 states, but also hundreds of years of custom, tradition and belief.

The advocates of abortion cannot discuss the horrible reality of this issue, but seek to divert attention by descending into religious bigotry and nativist demogoguery.

As Cardinal Law stated in his address to the Assembly for Life on Jan. 22, "So often in the past

the pro-life pOSitIOn has been characterized solely as a position of religious belief. More often than not it has been characterized asa Catholic position. For those who support abortion, it is most convenient to isolate the pro-life stance as a matter of religious judgment. Once this is done, then the p'osition can be safely dismissed as a question of personal belief which is quite separate from the realm of the state and its laws.

"Our task is to say and say again that it is not a matter of belief that the expectant mother carries human life within her womb - it is a matter of fact. We are dealing in abortion not with one life, but two - the life of the mother, and the life of the child within her womb."

While Nyhan's argument is spurious, Catholics and all friends of religious liberty should not fail to take it seriously, for its implications for religious freedom are perilous. In order to enter public life, or even exercise their rights as citizens, Catholics are being forcibly coerced to check their values in the cloakroom.

DeiH Editor: I was very much moved by Anne O'Riordan's Jetter in your 2/17 issue because her concerns about the abortion issue so clearly reflect my own. I too have been greatly troubled by the methods pursued by some groups opposed to abortion despite their understandable horror at its widespread use.

I can't believe, however, that either the legislative approach or the blocking of entrances to abortion facilities is the answer. Both approaches I believe are alienating to so many people who might be at the point of looking at abortion in a new way, a way which might in time bring about the conversion of heart and mind which I feel, as does Anne O'Riordan, is the only way any real and lasting change will ever come about.

Unfortunately, it will be tempting, now that the Supreme Court is reviewing a Missouri law restricting abortion, for the leaders on both sides of this issue to mount an unprecedented campaign to enlist supporters to take action pro or con.

Regardless of whether the Supreme Court uses this case to overturn the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion and return to the states the right to regulate it, the issue will be with us for years to come.

-And what will be the result two armed camps with no inclina-

In 1960 John F. Kennedy asked if 40 million Americans became second-class citizens by virtue of their baptism. The threat, which many believed had receded with Kennedy's election, is alive and well 29 years later. If Catholics, as citizens, cannot seek to have their true values, which are entirely consonant with the traditional values of this nation, reflected in law, then they will have been effectively disenfranchised.

If Catholics can be told that they cannot vote their consciences, then the rights of all religious believers in this country are in jeopardy.

Nyhan speaks of polls and of popular support for abortion.

While any person of principle would reject such criteria in exa- . mining an issue of such great moral import, it should be noted that the proponents of abortion did not speak of polls in the years leading up to Roe vs. Wade, A final word is in order about Nyhan's intrepid audacity in calling to task Catholic prelates who have the temerity to criticize socalled Catholic politicians who support abortion. One of the reasons that we live in an era of Kennedys and Cuomos, of virtual mass apostasy among the Catholic political _ class, is precisely because they have so little to fear politically from the church and so much to fear from the media and the special interests.

No Catholic politician in Boston has ever been defeated because he or she dissented from the church's position on abortion. As numerous legislators and at least .one former governor can attest, however, dissenting from the Globe's position on this and on other matters can be very costly indeed.

The Catholic Church enjoys as much right as the organs and institutions of secularism to speak out on moral issues. One suspects that the real reason for Nyhan's dismay is that under Cardinal O'Connor in New York and Cardinal Law in Boston, it is starting to effectively exercise that right to .challenge the

tion whatsoever to listen to that still, small voice of compassion and reflection within all of us if it is not stifled by mutual distrust and recrimination? Indeed, as Anne O'Riordan suggests, "the only appropriate cause of action we should take in this sensitive issue consists of prayer, fasting, and education."

And in the matter of education, might we begin by asking ourselves what we are doing to make the world a better place for babies to be born in and to thrive in, once they are born, at the very least to have enough to eat.

Ruth Dunning O.L. Cape parish Brewster .

Dear Editor: Ms. Anne O'Riordan's call to prayer, fasting and education ("Another way," Mail Packet, Feb. 17) in response to her pastor's sermon urging more involvement in the pro-life movement, was indeed a redeeming portion of her letter.

She should have done this, however, without attacking those who have done those very things for years and now realize more active measures must be taken.

To such people as Joan Andrews, who spent 2 1/2 years in prison on behalf of unborn children, Bishop Austin Vaughan, many times arrested for blocking access to abortion death chambers, Cardinal O'Connor, who has encouraged Bishop Vaughan in this protest and hinted that he too may take part, and thousands of men and women of good will who have put it on the line in Operation Rescue, she is downright insulting.

She implied that they are actually contributing to the abortion holoc.aust by making mothers more determined to kill their unborn children! This is not what took place in Atlanta during Operation Rescue's presence there. At that time pro-life pregnancy counseling agencies registered a dramatic increase in clientele. ,But the thing I found most disturbing about Ms. O'Riordan's letter was her apparent admission that she is actually pro-choice on the abortion issue while attempting to wrap herself in a pro-life mantle. This was clearly revealed by her stated opposition to legislation to end abortion, which Christ's church has consistently condemned as the coldblooded murder of huTurn to Page 15

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A COYLE-CASSIDY power meet lifter does his stuff.

C,oyle an~ Cassidy High . Energized by six,fir-st place fin- .' ishes,the' Coyle:Cassidy.. High School, Taunton, pO,werlifting team won its own Warrior Power·Meet " for the second straight year. The Warriors scored 194 points, 21 points better than second place Attleb()To, d~r'ing the two-day event.

Coyle-Cassidy was led by junior Bill Czepiel, who took the 148pound, 16- I7 year-old class with a combined (squat, bench press and dead lift)lift of 1,1 IO pounds. His record-breaking' performance

earned 'hi'm the lightweight division's "Best Lifter'"'award.

Dan Huot, representing the Taunton Barbell Club, earned best lifter' status in the heavyweight division with a combined 1,240 pou'nds in the 198-pound, 16-17 year old category.

Coyle-Cassidy's other individual winners included Cathal O'Brein, ' who established four meet records; Shawn ,Smith, Chris Cabral, Joe Hines and Jason Wetherell.

Attleboro won the girl's competition with Tracy S'abourin placing first.

'Bishop (:onnolly High School BishQP ConnollY High School, tained the school's alpine ski team Fall River, Jesuit faculty member ,this year.

Mr. Tom Massaro, SJ, is featured in the current issue of National Preparations are underway fo'r Jesuit News, a monthly publica- the 1989 post-prom extravaganza tion sent to all United States at Connolly June I. The commitJesuits. tee of students and faculty expects Massaro is one ofthree teachers to build on a successful tradition spotlighted in. an article about of six years and make this year's teaching in this nation's 45 Jesuit event 'better than ever. All stuhigh schools. dents, faculty and parents are Students quoted in the article invited to join in producing the described Massaro's classes in pos- chemical-free celebration. itive terms: "He's lively. He's inConnolly's Sailing ,Club has teresting. His tests and quizzes are begun meeting under the leaderreally hard. We're learning some ship of John Fonseca '87 and juncurrent events." ior Jason Ryan, with faculty modMassaro, a member of Connol- erator Fathers Michael Doody, SJ ly's social science department, has and Paul Sullivan, SJ. After sevtaught at the school for two years. eral classroom sessions, the ConIn the fall he will begin studies at nolly mariners will take to' the the Weston School of Theology, water early next month.

Cambridge, in preparation for orThe Connolly hockey team led dination to the Jesuit priesthood. all area teams in having five mem'bers selected to the Fall River Herald News All Star Team. , Athletic director Cindy DeCosta Named to the first team were has announced that Brian Ramos seniors Craig Aumann (forward) and Holly Marvel are Connolly's and Skip Langton (defense). SecFebruary Athletes of the Month. ond team selections were senior Junior Ramos has been a standout Bob Dufault (4efense),junior Kyle runner all year for the Cougars Costa (defense) and sophomore and Miss Marvel, a senior, cocap- Eric Stubbert (goal).

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FIRST GRADE students at Notre Dame'School, Fall River, participate in their annual reenactment of the Last Supper, held Wednesday of Holy Week. The youngsters ate sweetbread and drank grape juice with their parents and Notre Dame pastor Father Ernest E. Blais.

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to affirm the strength of the ml?ther-child bond. Through the . " exp~r~ence, of P!"egnancy. this relationship' becomes :the closest _ _ po~sible in our world. The song reflects on the power of this emotional tie: "I carried you for nine months and I'm gonna carry you until you can carry yourself on By 'Charlie Marlin' yoUi·'own.'" , .

While this mother's care and commitment are commendable, THANKS FOR MY CHILD every child benefi"ts from a relaYou came into my life .' . tiorship with both pare'nts.' It is ¥9g just made~verythingIll!~i~~t ' . sad when a child must grow liP And even though.my man lias left me behi~d ~!~hout the guidance and emoI don't regret a thing for lovblg you tIOnal support of the missing Thanks for my child par-:nt. l'lll really than"ing you - the man above' :VJe all know, o( course, that Xo~brought .•.~.~ so much j~~,>:this'buna~e of love tdday's children grow up in all . '.l\.I1'(ieven thougfl your fathe~;:!an away free typesoffamily situations. SomeJ:'he love I have for you baby' " times childhood, is filled with Is the love I have in me : more hurt and fe'ar than love.

111 stay and Watch you grow When this absence of love I~t,~~ise youb~~yself __ ()~~ .'woman show OCClti~St often the ." parents' als(j .'¥()!-!~adeIi~~,~()rt" singil!g'~9I!g gre}Vup in a home without enough "~ith YOu right ~ere with me;;" lov~ and care. Unfortunately, a lillhave the strength. to go Oil . cycle of hurt develops. ,,~now your Iall~uage - you~:.JJaby talk Ho~ever, this cycle of hurt can ¥qH've got to.crll~1 beforey.· l:anwalk b~I~,~Rl'ped. Scho~Is, chur;he~ ... ()u,,~~;!~~~,~g ~(). .,Illndal~~"e while arid,~venmanyoftodllysworkenVll'ol1~ '. wrappe~.inblanke •.. . . u are illY love child ments provide professional coun~ ..... t know nl.Jiever let yo ,. . se~irg services that can help a ¥Rg're my sweelbaby'. pers()O face the effects of emo~~~can't pr~~h 'vC tiodal:hurt. ;' t.~,~,~as a,I "~~~()ne hel.eftJhili bellutiful :.Il,~~cQurage teertsto hOnestl&' . ',; 'd!i·;;i.l~;~()U!tn.,9~Il~Y:" """,.y,', rep~~t ~bout their family life. If ." .(~~~iedyou... nine mon '..' ~ij~l'm gonna/,arry you your family hurts in any way, the J rself on your'own pai\lful consequences are carried witllin you. . .Wti FUII'fSung I A....... . ' . .• i"(~).{ 'yRQt¢ . i t ,IIti~~~~er: eventh~ugh you.ma~ epsit' ... Yseerrts tittrn~iRe;'assures thi',·"t,ild be~ 19n9tlme away from belOga par¢nt yourself, wnat happened most apl'l'eciative ab(jut record-ofher love. ing he~;#ebut album. Her list of h would be possible to discuss to you growing up will affect th~nk,,&~~is on theal . cover is '$ song from a variety oro/iew- yo,u;rphildren. By. reaching Qut t~elo "ll(J've evers¢ Off t h i s t s . In fact it undout!tedlY n0'Y~o someone who can help,. , albu,het first. art hit~)d be{th~'Jopic of.$¢veral YOlulc~n begin to heal the hurt "Tha .' '. Or My Chi} , , ' I u m n s if all its ramifications witfiin and enter adult life with The",s<mg's story. is both sad "'~ere explored.l must limit myself m9~e love to give.

Your comments are always weI.onlya couple of observations and hop~ful. A mothefof a new- . cOM~•.. Address Charlie Martin! .. .~ornJ ~s upon ~ . otld the' . ' e,. '. ,... . .•.•. . . ) 9hj!d' terS, ild· hasbvi<jusly;,tlte song affirms R;iR" 3, Box 182, Roc"port, hid•• .been ndonedfather; value and dignity of the 476~5.

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Q. What would you do if you had been dying to go out with a guy for a long time and liked him a lot, and then he finally asks you out and on your first date he tries too much with you. You wouldn't want to make him feel rejected and ' yet you doil't want to be used.

For your own happiness, you may have to make a decision that is painful temporarily.

Face it. This guy tried to use you. He very likely would continue to try to use you until such time as he decides to discard you for another enticing sex object.

From what you say, he seems to regard you as precisely that, a sex object. He seems not to have any idea that physical sexual activity

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should be an expression of love for the total person.

It sounds as if he has had little time to get to know the many aspects of your personality and has little if any idea of what love should be about.

For his behavior he has earned your rejection.

If you choose not to end this friendship so soon and so abruptly, you will have to have a talk with this guy and tell him bluntly that you think he is using you and has little respect for you.

You may have to explain some of your views on sexuality to him.

And you might find it enlightening to ask him about his views.

There may be a strong clash of opinions, so be prepared to defend your ideas of what sex means.

This may be a painful and even stormy conversation. But it will not be as bad or as humiliating as the continuing dull pain you would feel if you let him use you.

your ideas and, more important, for you, you may come to see him in an entirely different light.

And while you may regret that this friendship turned out badly, you also may come to realize that there are better fish in the sea, guys who are fun to be around and are willin~ to respect you as a person, just as you do them.

Your questions are welcome and may be sent to Tom Lennon, 1312 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.

Vocations event A vocation experience for young men, high school juniors and seniors and college students interested in learning about the diocesan priesthood will be held next month at Cathedral Camp Retreat House, East Freetown.

The event will begin at 7 p.m.

Friday, April 28, and continue through the next evening.

Ipformation is available from diocesan vocations director Msgr.

John J. Smith, 222-1206. .

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The Theatre Company at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, will present its spring musical, 42nd Street, at 7:00 p.m. April 6 and 7 and 2 p.m. April 9.

Information is available during working hours at 226--.6223. i

The Anchor Friday, March 31,1989

Continued from Page 13 man beings, while showing great concern for women who by such pro-life legislation would be denied this "option" without being "convinced it was wrong."

By Ms. O'Riordan's logic, the U.S. Supreme Court should overturn laws barring racial discrimination because of all those Ku Klux Klan members who have been denied their "option" of discriminating without being convinced that it too is wrong! I would suggest she continue her "prayerful consideration."

Harry J. Booth So. Dartmouth

It's a puzzlement Dear Editor: The March 3 Anchor had an article on the East Coast conference on Women's Concerns' and the Local Church which pointed out that women are chancellors, serve in finance offices, on marriage tribunals, administer parishes without a resident priest, are eucharistic ministers, lectors, serve on parish councils, 'are hospital and prison chaplains. In the same ,article it said that the pope and t'he U.S. bishops "while proposing a " sincere and honest respect for the human dignity of all persons, uphold the view that exclusion of women from ordination is com-' patible with their beJief in equality."

Someday the Catholic Church will wonder Why it allowed women' to distribute the Eucharist but did not allow them to consecrate it; why it encouraged its women to teach CCD, but would not permit them to preach; why it recognized women's compassionate nature, but believed that God did not call them to, ad minster the sacrament of Anointing the Sick; why women who exemplify mercy could not be empowered to give absolution in the confessional. Someday the Church will wonder why it expected women to marry but never perform a marriage.

Suppose God has called women to the priesthood, but the church won't take them? The result would be a shortage of priests. I believe someday the Church will view its ban on the ordination of women as a serious theological error and an embarrassment.

Deirdre Greelish Christ the King parish Mashpee

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Dear Editor: Reading "Birth control debate reopening urged" (Anchor, Feb. 10) brought back memories of 20 years past', of listening 'to Father Bernard Haring say in essence exactly wl1at'was in his arti~le in the Italian magazine.

I think his basic question comes in paragraph II of the Anchor story, where he asks to what extent papal pronouncements on birth control should be considered "as' doctrine revealed by God." Four popes have spoken on this subject: Pius XI in his encyclical on Christian maHiage; Pius XII in an allocution on the then new birth control pill; Paul VI in his encyclical H umanae Vitae; and

, John Paul II in numerous statements. All based their pronouncements on the natural law as found in the Bible and all reaffirmed their predecessors' statements on the subject.

In Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI concluded ..... having most diligently examined the question with all our mental and spiritual powers and after having raised assiduous prayers to God, we now resolve ,to give our reply by mandate,en-. trusted to us by Christ to these grave questions."

I believe it is from such a stance, with a certitude that he speaks on behalf of Christ, that our present pope stated that there can be no exception to the ban on birth control and that disputing church teaching on the point is "equal to refusing to God himself the obedience of our intelligence."

Bernard Poirier Seekonk

Holy hour invitation Dear Editor: ' Please pray that we will have more people coming to our holy hour on the First Friday of the month. Today, as good as people are, they do not seem to understand about the real presence of Our Lord. We have so many people at Mass but they all march out when the Blessed Sacrament is exposed. It makes me feel very sad.

I guess Christ was right when he said to the Apostles' "Could you not watch one hour with me?" when they all fell asleep.

Maybe you could write of the benefits derived from adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Even if there were no benefits, wouldn't you think that people would want to do it in thanksgiving to a Saviour who gave his life for his people.

I don't want to sound righteous but it hurts me so much to see them all file out after a brief prayer.

Thank you for a most enlightening paper. I love every article in it and each writer has so much to impart.

Rita Swenson South Yarmouth

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By Paul Henderson When I think of spirituality think in terms of relationship. I remember a day I was teaching juniors in high school about God and, love. ' A girl asked, "How do I know God loves me? I'm not sure I've ever felt God's love."

Before I could think, I heard myself asking Joan if she felt loved by anyone and by whom.

She said she felt loved by her friends and parents and, she added with a smile on her face, sometimes by her brothers and sisters.

I responded that the way I feel God's love is through the people in my life. What motivates another person to' care for me is God's presence [grace) in them.

So, through our relationships we meet God and feel God's love.

We also become sources 'of God's rove to those we touch.

I know from my experience as a youth minister that the primary way, I reach, young people is by developing a friendship with them.

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Establishing trust. Going the extra step. Challenging them.

This leads to' a second thought on spirituality: community.

Young people understand the dynamics of a group and being a member. They know how painful it is not to be one of the in-group.

Often they create names for those not like them - pinheads, nerds, jocks, etc.

A spirituality for young people centers on welcoming everyone: "All people accepted here."

But that is easier said than done.

The appeal of a community like the church is its hospitality, its acceptance of all people. Faith tells us that Jesus accepts all who come to him.

I know many high school youth who have grown closer to their faith,or been.turned off, by their acceptance or rejection by other young people and adults: What a powerful feeling it is for all of us to have someone take an interest in us, to make us fee\wanted, of value.

A third thought concernin'g spirituality for young people focuses on self-esteem.

A quote I treasure is, "w.e·are special because God makes' no junk." It speaks of us as a gift from a loving God. I remember a parent thanking me and the parish staff for all we had done for her daughter. It was through the ad ults and youth leadership that her daughter realized her talents and her specialness as a gift from God. She said how good it was that in her daughter's eyes it was the church that helped her see and feel her own self-worth.

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.CATHEDRAL CAMP, ' . "':DCCW CONVENTION . 'DCCW; NB E. FREETOWN Diocesan Council of Catholic Wo- , Diocesan Council of Catholic WoSt. Anthony of Padua parish, Fall men New Bedford district presidents' .men annual convention April 22, St. River, post-confirmation retreat toMary's parish center, S. Dartmouth; meeting 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, St. James day through Sunday. St. James parChurch, New Bedford. reservations for the luncheon, chaired ish, New Bedford, youth day retreat VINCE,NTlANS, TA UNTO N ' by T~eresa ~ewis, can be made .with 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow. dlstnct preSidents through Apnl 8.

St. Vincent de Paul Society TaunST. PATRICK, WAREHAM ton district council meeting Mon- ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO First grade Mass 10 a.m. April 9. day, hosted by Sacred Heart conferExposition Wednesdays 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Benediction, chapel. Mass ence, Taunton; church hall meeting o ofl, ATTLEBORO .

Daughters of Isabella Alcazaba follows 7:30 p.m. Mass, Sacred Heart 'and healing service with parochial PUBLICITY CHAIRMEN FIRST FRIDA Y CLUB, FR Church, celebrated for the intention !vicar Father William T. Babbitt 2 Circle meeting 7:30 p.m. Thursday, are asked to submit news Items tor this Mass 6 p.m. April 7, St. John the of beatification of society founder p.m. April 9.

K of C hall, Hodges Stree" Attlecolumn to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, Frederic Ozanam. ;WIDOWED SUPPORT, River, 02722. Name of city or town should boro; guest Marie Mansfield will 327 Center Street, Fall River; ethnic be Included, as well as full dates of all activoffer a presentation on dolls and LaSALETTE CENTER FOR ATTLEBORO supper and discussion ofthe UkrainIties. Please send news of future rather CHRISTIAN LIVING, : Attleboro area widowed support crafts. ian Catholic Church follows; inforthan past events. Note: We do not normally ATTLEBORO ,group corporate communion Suncarry news of fundraising activities. We are ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FR mation: Daryl Gonyon, 672-4822.

"Awakening Call" lecture 7 p.m. ;day, 10 a.m. Mass at SI. Mary parhappy to carry notices of spiritual pro· Clinical Social Work Department CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB, NB grams, club meetings, youth projects and April 9, Bishop Feehan High School, ,ish, N. Attleboro. . free, open to public cancer educaAnnual Bishop's Night honoring similar nonprofit activities. Fundralslng tion series sessions in hospital edu- Attleboro; James Finley,.a Merton ,ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT projects may be advertised at our regular Bishop Daniel A. Cronin 6:30 p.m. cation classroom; April 6: "Radia- confrere an? scholar.. will pres.ent , Parish couples interested in servrates, obtainable. from The Anchor busiWednesday, Wamsutta Club, New ness office, telephone 675-7151. tion and Chemotherapy" presenta- t~e talk, an lOtrodu~tlOn .to medlta- ling on a marriage preparation team Bedford; information: Mrs. Joseph On Steering Points Items FR Indicates tion by Jackie Maltais, RN, BSN, tlOn and contemplatIOn With empha- 'may contact pastor Father Barry W. Motta, 999-6710.

Fall River, NB Indicates New Bedford. . and Susan O'Brien Mathews, RN, sis on their actual practice. "Renew- 'Wall 758-3719.

O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK al amI Reco~ery" retreat for marr.ied 'CAT'HEDRAL FR 13: "Why Me?" (spiritMSN; April NEWMAN LECTURE, SMU Children's liturgy at 9 a.m. Mass ' . . ual aspects of cancer), Sister Theresa couples Apnl 28 to 30. InformatIOn ·Southeastern Massachusetts Uni' Ma~s for departed panshlOners ~undays. Holy hour with rosary reCarlow, SND; April 20: "Nutritional on both events, 222-8530. and fnends 9 a.m. tomorrow. versity Newman Lecture Series talk, citation 7 p.m. April 7, chapel.

Problems of Cancer Patients," JoAnn ST: JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN "The Call to Mission in the 1990s," SS. PETER AND PAUL, FR Renew-sponsored friendship hour Faris, RD, MS, and Carol Hazen, The 12:30 p.m. Sunday Mass has

by Father James Nickel, SS.CC., ; Vincentians meeting 7 p.m. Thursfollows 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday; all RD, MS; April 27: "How Cancer been discontinued; the II a.m.

Sunnoon Monday, Board of Governors welcome.

Affects the Whole Family," Jacque- . day Mass, previously offered in the ,day, rectory. CYO trip to New York room, Student Center; information: City April 18. Women's Club meetline Duchin, MSW, LlCSW; May4: school, will be celebrated in the CAPE IRISH 999-8224.

"Coping with Cancer," Bill Kirk- church from now on. Singles' dinner ling 7 p.m. April 3, Father Coady CHILDREN'S PROGRAM Center. patrik, MSW, LlCSW; May II: 5 p.m. tomorrow.

Homes on Cape Cod needed June TBA; May 18: Bernie Siegel film, ST. ANNE, FR BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR 27 to Aug. 8 for visiting Northern ~ 234 Second Street "Love, Medicine and Miracles," and Mass 2 p.m. Sunday followed by Ireland 10 and II-year-olds; inforExposition after 11:30 a.m. Mass ~ Fall River. MA 02721 discussion; May 25: "Hospice Care" today, shrine; hour of adoration ,healing service. mation: Mary Smith, 362-4023.

I ~WebOffset presentation by Linda Valley, exec- begins 2 p.m. Cub Scout pack meet- 1ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH _ _ _ Newspapers utive director of Hospice Outreach, ing 7 tonight, school.

I Board of Education meets after Teen activity group meeting 6 to 8 ........... Printing &Mailing Inc., and American Cancer Society renewal Mass tomorrow. p.m. Sunday, St. Theresa's Hall, O.L.·MT. CARMEL, NB ~ (508)679-5262 Fall River chapter chairperson; June Sagamore.

Women's Club installation ban- :ST. STANISLAUS, FR I: discussion led by community spePRO·L1FE NOVENA, CAPE quet Sunday; information: 993-8322; I Youth ministry general meeting cialists Ann Marie Kelly, RN, BSN, Cape Cod chapter of Massachumeeting and social 7 p.m. Wednes- 'with pizza luncheon follows Easter Joan Whittington, RN, BSN, and egg hunt after I0:30 a. m. Mass Sunsetts Citizens for Life_sponsored proday, church basement. Holy Name Mary Sullivan. life novena scheduled; information: Society meeting 7:30 p.m. Wednes- Iday. Easter season Masses for parish First Class Second Class ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET 771-1098. day, church basement; corporate ,schoolchildren 10:45 a.m. Fridays.

First Class Presort Carrier Route Coding Women's Guild meeting 7:30 p.m. communion at 9:30 a.m. Mass April IHoly Rosary Sodality meeting 1:15 HOLY NAME, FR Third Class Bulk Rate Zip Code Sorting Tuesday, rectory' basement.

9. First Dominga: Mrs. Maria Al- :p.m. Sunday, school auditorium.

Florist Theresa-Marie Pimental Third Class Non Profit list Maintenance meida, 21 Crapo Street, New Bed- ,Persons interested in serving as lecHOSPICE OUTREACH; FR will speak on house plants, conford; crowning at 12:15 p.m. Mass :t.ors and acolytes may contact pastor Self-help series on grief7 p.m. six tainer growings, annuals and vegeAll TO USPS SPECIFICATIONS Sunday. Youth group members will ·Father Robert Kaszynski, 672-0423.· tables for the Women's Guild at 7:30 'consecutive Fridays beginning April Cheshire labeling on Kirk·Rudy 4·up attend the 5:30 p.m. Mass April 9; ,0 of I, NB 7, offered by Hospice Outreach Bep.m. April 4 in the parochial school labeler. And Pressure Sensitive Labeling meeting follows. reavement Services and led by beDaughters of Isabella Hyacinth hall. Beverly Arruda and Marilyn reavement coordinator Barbara ICircle meeting 7:30 p.m. April 18,.

Sousa are cocnairpersons. VincenST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Inserting, collating, folding, Costa, RN, Room 134 at 243 Forest V.F.W. Building, Park St., New tians' meeting 7p.m. Monday, recVincentians will collect canned metering, sealing, sorting, addressing, .

Street, Fall River; open to all who tory. Rene Lavoie and the coaches goods and accept donations for com- IBedford; items to benefit Market sacking, completing USPS forms, have recently lost a loved one and of the nine parish-sponsored CYO munity needy at Masses this week- iMinistries will be collected. Comdirect delivery to Post Office are having trouble coping with their munion breakfast 9:30 a.m. April basketball teams are thanked for end. Parish Guild meeting 7:30 p.m. · .. Printing . .. We Do It All! loss; sessions to explore aspects of Tuesday, church hall; speaker: Sis- :23; speaker: Sister Sheila Harringtheir efforts; the Junior C boys (24Call for Details (508) 679-5262 0) and the Junior A girls, both city grief and ways of coping; informater Beth Mahoney, CSc. Individu- ,ton, RSM. tion and registration: 673-1589. champions, are congratulated. als who regularly attend the 7:30 ORDER OF THE ALHAMBRA a.m. liturgy have adopted members Fall River's Leon Caravan will of the first communion class in 'participate in Region One Council prayer. Rich Martin and Larry Masof Caravan ceremonies for new Sir terson, CYO basketball coaches, are ,Nobles April 14 through 16, Quality thanked for their efforts; team memInn, Chicopee. bers are congratulated on a successST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN ful season.

I Family Mass· 9:30 a.m. April 2; SPIRIT OF JESUS REGIONAL coffee and doughnuts follow, church .

PRAYER GROUP, HYANNIS Ihall. First Dominga: Lisa Medeiros, Life in the Spirit seminar informa- :36 Newbury Avenue, Fairhaven. tion night 7:15 p.m. April II, St. 1ST. MARY, NB .

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POCASSET Queen's Daughters annual comInformation on Women's Guild scholarships: Bunny McKenna, ,munion breakfast follows 9:30 a.m. :Mass April9, St. Paul's Church hall, 567-7365.

Taunton; celebrant: Msgr. Robert ANCHOR Publishing CO. O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER I L. Stanton, St. Paul's pastor anq the P.Q. Box 7, Fall River, MA 02722 The Ladies' Guild board will host 'organization's chaplairi; guest speaka Diocesan Council of Catholic Wo- ler: Taunton Daily Gazette colummen board meeting at 2 p.m. Sun- ,nist Barbara O'Brien, a member of Please send me _ _ copy (ies) of the 1989 DIOCESAN DIRECTORY AND BUYERS' GUIDE day, lower church. Food and other :St. Ann's parish, Raynham; guests items will be collected by Vincen- ;welcome. tians at Masses this weekend for dis_ _ Payment enclosed ($5.00 per copy plus $2 postage and handling per copy) ,ST. JAMES, NB tribution to Cape Cod needy. , CYO meeting 1 p.m. April 9. St. John School advisory ;James-St. NAME: ,council meeting 7 p.m. April 7, school library.

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