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EASTER 1995 Dearly beloved in Christ, Christ has died, Christ IS risen, Christ will come again!

Each time we gather to celebrate the Eucharist, we joyfully proclaim this great mystery of our faith..•the Paschal Mystery.

Christ has entered into our humanity,walked with us, suffered with us, died for us and has risen to new life. In this redemptiv(~ act, Christ has won victory over sin and death.

In his recent book, Crossing the Thres.. hold of Hope, Pope John Paul II reminds us that Christ's redemption has restored Hthe fullness of the dignity of man received when God created him in His image and likeness." Through Christ, we not only live, but are fully alive.

As we art~ surrounded by the map-y signs of new lifle in our Easter Liturgies: the Holy Euch:arist, the Paschal Candle, Easter Waters of Baptism, even the beautiful flowers, wle must also look at the people who surround us as we worship. We are also signs, l,iving signs, of the Resurrection.

Through our baptism, we have been in.. serted into the Paschal Mystery and have Hput on Christ." Thus we share in the new life the Risen Christ has gained for us.

I particularly wish to welcome all the new members of the Catholic community who have been fully initiated into the life of the Church through the Easter Sacra.. ments. You enrich our communities with your gifts and you challenge us to embrace the Myste'ry of Faith which we now cele.. brate with you; for when we enter into the Paschal Mystery, we become people whose lives 'are filled with joy and whose hearts are filled with peace.

As we have lived the 40 days of Lent in prayerful anticipation, so now let us begin the 40 days of Eastertide resolved to inten.. sify our Easter Faith that Christ is truly risen. He lives! May this Easter Celebration bring for you and your loved ones not only days of ha.ppiness, but lives of joy.

Devotedly yours in Christ,

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WASHINGTON (CNS) - A recent Boston Globe critique of Knights of Columbus insurance operations and Supreme Knight Virgil Dechant's earnings missed the point, said Knight, spokesman Russell Shaw.

The Globe's "artificial separation - insurance on one side, fraternal-charitable on the other - does not fit the facts," Shaw said. "As it has been from the organizatio'n's founding, the insur-' ance program is integral to the Knights of Columbus as a whole."

The Boston Globe, in a series of articles, questioned Dechant's salary and benefits - about $524,000 in 1993 - and the AT MORTGAGE burning ceremony at Our Lady of amount of insurance earnings that Purgatory Church, New Bedford, from left, Kimberly Thom- went to charitable activities as, Ann Dupre Gadbois, Chorbishop Joseph Lahoud, Father about $9: I million in 1993 on what Globe reported were "$224 Charbel T. Semaan, John Kalife, Ann Moses, Josephine the million in profits" that year.

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It questioned the tax-exempt status of fraternal insurance societies, estimating that taxes on Knights insurance profits would have been in the range of $36 million to $48 million.

Shaw said, however, that $158 of what the Globe called million At a following reception, George Parishioners and friends of Our profits were distributed to policyLady of Purgatory Church. New Azar was master of ceremonies holders as dividends. After countBedford, recently gathered at a and a moment of silence was obing outlays for dividends and charLiturgy of Thanksgiving and burn- served in memory of Father George itable contributions and income ing of the mortgage on church I. Saad on the fourth anniversary from earnings and capital gains, property on Old Westport Road, of his death. During a brief speakhe said, the real net gain of the 'ing program, Father Semaan North Dartmouth. year, which was added to K of C Father Charbel T. Semaan, pas- thanked the parishioners for their reserves, amounted to $72.6 milhard work and exhorted them to tor of Our Lady of Purgatory, and lion. .

Chorbishop Joseph Lahoud, pas- carryon the work begun by their the total monetary charitaBut tor of Our Lady of the Cedars of parents and grandparents. Attorble contributions of the Knights at ney Matthew J. Thomas spoke for Lebanon,1Jamaica Plain, concelebrated the liturgy. Chorbishop the Board of Consultors, congrat- all levels that year were $94 milLahoud, also 'homilist, congratu- ulating Father Semaan for his lead- lion, he said. In addition, some 43 million hours donated by members lated the parishioners on their ership and labors and calling upon to charitable and service activities his fellow parishioners to use their accomplishment of retiring the rich heritage and traditions as' a' has been reckoned as worth more debt in seven years.

After the homily, several parish- sword to lead them into their than $500 million, he said.

Shaw disputed the Globe's sepioners joined Father Semaan in future. Chorbishop Lahoud also the sanctuary as he burned the spoke, reminding parishioners that' aration of K of C insurance operations and the Knights' charitable mortgage. John Kalife represented anything can be accomplished and service activities. It is the insurparish children, Kimberly Thomas through hard work and unity.

The mortgage-free property con- ance program that' provides the the Maronite Youth Organization, infrastructure for the Knights to Ann Dupre Gadbois the Cedars of sists of 10 acres of vacant land. In engage in their extensive works of Hope Club, Josephine Thomas the past seven years, parish festithe St. Joseph Sodality, and Annie vals, athletic events and religious charity, he said.

"The heart of our answer is that Moses parishioners past and pres- gatherings have been held on the the charitable giving of our Knights ent. site. of Columbus and of other fraternal societies far exceeds the loss of revenue which would otherwise be paid in taxes," he told Catholic WASHINGTON (CNS)~Law­ version were available in U.S. News Service. yers are working in Italy, Spain stores over Christmas. The two"I don'tmean to say that if you and the United States to defend hour, two-compact disc set has took away our tax exemption our Pope John Paul praying the rosary charitable activities and service their clients' interest in a developwould vanish. They wouldn·t.. .. ing dispute over which papal rosary in Latin, followed by an Irish album is the genuine article.

But they would be dealt a severe priest, Father Colm Kilcoyne, recblow," he said. iting the rosary in English.

No lawsuits have been filed yet, Shaw told CNS that Dechant's but knowing how some drag on, International Star has retained the matter may not be solved until the services of a Rome law firm to salary and benefits and those of " the next decade. . protect the record label's rights other top officials are set· by International Star Records confrom infringements by Divucsa, the Knights' elected board in consultation with Wyatt Data Servtends it holds the legitimate rights among others. ices, an independent agency ~hich to Pope John Paul II's rosary, sayMeanwhile, Marcello Burgos, tracks salaries and benefits of the ing it was granted by the Vicariate . who brought Airborne and Divucsa officers offraternal insurance operof Rome. together for U.S. release of DivucAirborne Advertising in Miami sa's papal rosary, plans to issue ations across the country. The agency makes its recommendations claims it holds the rights to sell 250,000 copies. on the basis of financial factors of papal rosary albums in North "There's been pirating," Burgos size and performance within the America, saying its rights were said. "Here, we are talking to the field. granted by Divucsa, a Spanish lawyers to stop this." Nothing has He said Dechant's and other firm. Divucsa says it got its rights been filed in court, Burgos said, officers' compensation is fully in from Vatican Radio. adding that Spanish lawyers are line with those in other fraternal How things got so cluttered is a also looking for ways to protect insurance societies. mystery.

Divucsa's inte"rests.

"Dechant is responsible for adTom Lipsky of International Divucsa has licensed its papal ministering a program of large Star Records drew a bead on Tel- rosary to I I other countries, insums of other people's money. mark, a British firm operating cluding the United States.

This isn't amateur night," he said. under license from'Divucsa, sendLipsky said 495,000 copies of Shaw said that since 1976, when ing it a cease-and-desist order the International Star papal rosary Dechant became supreme knight, against selling papal rosary albums have been produced, with first-· the number of local councils of the in the United States. week sales between 60,000 and Knights has gone up from 6,000 to Some import copies of Telmark's 80,000.

10,400, membership is up 25 per-

O.L. Purgatory parish pays off property mortgage.

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cent, charitable contributions of the Knights have gone from $17.2 million to $94 million, and members' hours of community and charitable service have risen from 7 million a year to 43.3 million.

The insurance in force has risen from $3.5 billion in 1976 to $24.5 billion last year, he said.

On the use of most insurance earnings for dividends to policyholders and capital reserves rather than charitable work, he said all fraternal insurance societies have financial and moral obligations to their policyholders as well as to the charitable purposes for which the organization exists. "We fed that the balance we have struck is fair and appropriate," he said.

In Boston, the local chapter of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights criticized the Globe story as "one more example of The Boston Globe's relentless hostility to all things Catholic."

Pope Line WASHINGTON (CNS) - A new "900" service that carries a recorded papal message has sprung up. Called Pope Line, the sl:rvice does not feature the voice of Pope John Paul II. Instead, it fe2.tures his message from his weekly audiences as read by someone else after the text, most" of which is in. italian, is translated into English. Pope Line charges 75 cents a minute and the average message length is 10 minutes, according to a precede to the recording, marketed by a San Francisco communications firm.

Cape Verdean island suffers eruption Donations of non-perishable foods, clothing and bedding are sought for the Cape Verdl!an island of Fogo, where a volca.no has been active for several days and is endangering two villa;ges which have been evacuat,:d~ Some homes have been lost and many persons are sleeping out· of-doors, Internationally, assistancE~ is going to the diocese of Ca pe Verde, headed by Bishop PfIUIino Livramento Evora, from the Caritas relief agency in H,[)Iland, Catholic Relief Services, the agency of U.S. Catholics" is monitoring the situation in cs.se further aid is needed. The pop ulation of Cape Verde is 92:.9 percent Catholic.

In the Fall River dioce!ie, home of many persons of Ca[)e Verdean extraction, area relief efforts are being coordinat,:d

by Rev. Alphonsus McHugh, ss,ce, pastor of Our Lady of Assumption parish, New Bedford, and by parish volunteers.

Donations of cash or needl!d items may be brought or sent :to the parish center, 47 S. Sixlth St., New Bedford 02740, and foods, clothing and bedding mllY also be dropped off at any New Bedford fire station. They wm be shipped to Cape Verde a· board the boat Jenny, now in New Bedford harbor.

Cash contributions, desil:nated"Cape Verde Relief,"may also be sent to the diocesan Chancery Office, PO Box 257", Fall River, MA 02722.

Precious Gift "Let me use the precious gift of time to learn and live and love more ... Help me look for something beautiful and special in each day... Let me live life to the fullest and be wise enough to treasure every blessing, every gift of happiness that comes my way."-B.J. Hoff

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Discussing the Appeal, now in its 54th year, Bishop O'Malley emphasized that since its beginning in 1942 its purpose has been to reach out to the needy in the diocese, regardless of their church affiliation.

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Priests urged to follow St. Paul's example of service "Sex, violence and religion" are big at the box office, said Bishop Sean O'Malley at the annual Mass of Chrism celebrated at a crowded St. Mary's Cathedral on Tuesday of Holy Week.

"But there's no box office appeal in simply running a large parish," he told the scores of priests gathered in the cathedral for their annual renewal of commitment to their vocations and for the blessing of the oils used throughout the year in administering the sacraments of confirmation, ordination and anointing of the sick.

"In fact," continued the bishop, "Jesus didn't seem to pick the best and brightest [for his original followers] - just simple fishermen.

They were a ragtag dirty dozen.. .it was God's strength that counted."

The ordained are seen as both disciples and apostles: disciples of Jesus and apostles in the sense of serving others, following the example of St. Paul who called himself "the least of the apostles" but spent himself in bringing his hearers to Christ, he said.

Paul, said the bishop, preached, wrote, founded churches and raised money to finance his endeavors"doing everything but running a bingo." Paul especially stressed the service of prayer and priests must imitate him ill this, especially in praying the Divine Office and offering Mass,' emphasized the bishop.

Another service of Paul, said the bishop, was that of both interior and exterior suffering, includ-

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PREPARING FOR the 54th annual Catholic Charities Appeal are, from left, Msgr.

Thomas J. Harrington, Taunton area director; Father Daniel L. Freitas, diocesan and Fall River area director; Father Thomas L. Rita, Cap~ and Islands director; Father Paul Caron, Taunton assistant; Bishop Sean O'Malley; Father Bruce Neylon, Attleboro area director; Father Ralph Tetrault, New Bedford area director; Father John F. Andrews, Fall River area assistant. (Gaudette photo)

With the theme "Sharing Is the Measure of Love," the annual Catholic Charities Appeal will hold its· kickoff meeting in the context of a concelebrated Mass at 7 p.m. April 19 at St. Mary's Car.hedral, Fall River. Bishop Sean O'Malley will preside and will be homilist, it was announced by Father Daniel L. Freitas, diocesan director of the Appeal.

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ing sickness, persecution and inner anguish. Today's pfiests, he said, may suffer loneliness, lack of appreciation and, in recent years, the hurt of the sexual misbehavior of brother priests.

Addressing the jubilarians present, the bishop aSked them to "strive to keep their sense of wonder and awe at the Mass, which should always seem new to us."

Honored for 50 years of priestly service were Msgr. john F. Denehy and Fathers Daniel A. Gamache and James A. McCarthy; for 40 years, Fathers Rene Levesque, Edmond Levesque and Joao Martins.

For 25 years, Bishop O'Malley and Fathers William T. Babbitt, Marc H. Bergeron, Edward J. Byington, Robert C. Donovan, James W. Fahey, James R. McLellan,

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Peace and Justice Following the Mass, Father Bartley MacPhaidin, CSC, president of Stonehill College, presented Father Luciano Pereira, pastor of St. Michael's parish, Fall River, with the first annual Peace and Justice Award, co-sponsored by the Fall River diocese and Stonehill College.

The award recognized Father Pereira's 40 years of service to Azorean immigrants to the diocese, especially his founding ofthe Portuguese Youth Cultural Organization which provides tutoring, language and citizenship programs, domestic and substance abuse counseling and advocacy for securing health care and hous-' ing.

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As you and your loved ones gather, we extend our sincere best wishes for joy, peace and contentment now and forever.

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Easter's Affirmation - Life In these days when death is too often in the headlines, Easter becomes the refreshing sign of life for believers. Our national debate on the abortion issue has shown us that the merchants of death are well established in our Congress and state capitals.

Under the guise of dubious rights, they are proclaiming that' death is the true answer to life questions that they euphemistically term social issues. Millions of dollars are spent by death proponents to foist their spurious laws on the public. Their lobbyists are among the most influential in the halls of government. They invade our schools with their teachings.

Now they would have our hospitals and nursing homes become centers for assisted suicide.

Life, except their 'own, has little meaning for them and eternal life is a nonentity. These current day Sadducees deny life beyond death because, walking in darkness, they have no light, thus rio faith, no hope and no love.

Because of all this, the celebration of Easter must become a new challenge for those who believe themselves children of the light. It is a very special time for all who believe that all life is sacred and that it does not end in death.

The very essence of Easter is a celebration of life but in our capitalistic culture great efforts are made to distract us from this basic and central truth. Bunnies, eggs and new ciothes are encouraged as the way to celebrate this feast of life and light.

The children ofthis world have indeed cashed in on Easter as a major commercial event of the year with its only "alleluia" found in the ring of the cash register.

This social climate makes it imperative that believers fearlessly proclaim that Christ lives, He is Risen. Our failure to do this has allowed those who espouse the ethos of death to gain the upper hand. If Catholics and other believers have doubts, it would be well for them to take the time to read the section on' the Resurrection of Jesus in the new Catechism ofthe Catholic church. This crowning truth of our faith tells all that He gives life to the dead, that He has conquered death. Indeed, if He had not risen, then our own faith would be in vain.

This is the' real message of The Gospel of Life, the new encyclical of Pope John Paul II. ·Its purpose is not only to affirm the constant belief of the Church but also to mobilize a "new culture of life."

As the pope states, the Gospel of life is at the heart of Jesus' message. He reminds all in the church that they must walk as . children of light and life. He masterfully identifies the culture of death and asks all in the Church family to support the culture of life, not just by word but also by deed. He states "What is urgently called for is a general mobilization of consciences and a united ethical effort to activate a general campaign in support of life. All together we mJjst build a new culture of life; new because it will be able to confront and solve today's unprecedented problems affecting human life."

Easter is the time for all believers to renew and deepen their conviction that the Gospel of Life is to be shared with all peoples; that it is for the whole of human society.

We must strengthen our belief that it is impossible to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the ' right to life.

This is our Easter call. May it be heard, preached and received in order to put an end to the culture of death and affirm the people of life.

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"Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will open your graves and will bring you out of your sepulchres, 0 my people." Ez. 37:12

Arriving at a date for Easter

By Father Kevin J. Harrington The only thing that seems to hop more than the Easter bunny is the date of Easter. This article was inspired by a spirited grade school student who began to sing, "I'm dreaming of a White Easter" when encountering a surprise snow shower at Palm Sunday Vigil Mass.

Rabbits are a pagan symbol of earth's renewed fertility in spring and the name Easter is derived from a Norse goddess, Eastre. Religion, like politics, makes for strange bedfellows!

In grade school most of us learned why the date of Easter changes while the date of Christmas is fixed. Unfortunately, many lessons are taught in grade school when youngsters like the one at last week's liturgy have their hearts and minds otherwise engaged. Perhaps a review is in order.

Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon occurring on or after March 21, the vernal equinox. This much most of us remember; however, as famed newscaster Pau'l Harvey says, there is always the rest of the story.

Dating a feast day around the phases ofthe moon reminds us of a time when our lives were simpler and our routines revolved around nature and not man-made devices.

In the first and second centuries, Christianity had widely varying

customs between Asia Minor and 84-year cycle while astronomers in Rome. Asia Minor adopted the Alexandria performed their calcuJ ohannine custom of celebrating lations using a 19-year cycli~. By Easter on Passover, the fourteenth the fourth century Easter was ;,eing day of the Jewish month of Nisan. celebrated on different SundlLys in The Roman practice followed the different places, with the Roman synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Alexandrian cycles vying' for and Luke) and set the Last Supper the lead. A noble but futile att,:mpt as the Passover meal and placed to correct this chaos was made by Easter on as unday, the day of the Victorius of Aquitane, who ,:ame Resurrection. Things turned a bit up with a 532-year cycle in the fifth nasty at the end of the second cen- century.

The Roman monk Dion'lsius tury when the Roman pontiff, Pope Victor, excommunicated the bish- made a slight modification t;) the ops of Asia Minor for not coordi- Alexandrian computation and nating their calendar with his! Pope achieved a broad consensus with' Victor took it as a personal affront only Ireland, England and Fnnce when a large Christian community persisting with the Roman compufrom Asia Minor that was present tation. England and Ireland compin Rome insisted on celebrating lied with the Alexandrian compuEaster on a Jewish holiday that at tation in the seventh century while times coincided with Christianity's France complied in the ninth cenmost somber day, Good Friday. tury with the crowning of CharPope Victor would have saved lemagne.

There are two more twist> to himself a lot of trouble this year because by coincidence' Passover this story. Dionysius was the one who set the birth of Christ as the and Easter fall on the same day!

The Council of Nicaea in 325 reference point for determining attempted to resolve this problem years instead of the founding of by condemning those who cele- Rome. Unfortunately, histori.ans brated Easter on the Jewish Pass- believe that Dionysius' was some over and labeling them "Judaiz- three to five years off in his reck on- . ers." Unfortunately, this was not ing the date of Christ's birth. This the end of the crisis. The Julian means that technically we do not calendar was based on the solar even know what millennium we year, while the date of Passover are in!

We may argue when Easter ocwas derived from the lunar calendar. Roman astronomers predicted curs but we all agree that it dethe future date of Easter using an serves to be celebrated. Alleluia!

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Easter: day of triumph and joy Acts 10:34-43 Colossians 3:1-4 John 20:1-9 The readings for Easter Sunday are marked by extraordinary joy over the universal significance of Jesus' triumphant resurrection from the dead and by confident exhortation to a newness of life based on faith in God's victory over sin and death. We may alI rejoice in singing the refrain of the Easter psalm "This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad!" (Ps 118) The first reading proclaims the universal meaning of the resurrection as the event which is to bring the good news of God's forgiving love, first revealed to the Jews on the feast of Pentecost. (Acts 2), into the whole Gentile world. It is taken from Peter's sermon in the Book of Acts inaugurating the mission to the Gentiles on the occasion of the conversion and baptism of Cornelius, a God-fearing Roman centurion.

Peter witnesses to the good news of the Gospel by proclaiming that God has shown him, through the events described in 10: 1-33, that. anyone who fears God and does what is right is acceptable to Him. Therefore, Peter proclaims to Cornelius' household the story of Jesus, beginning with the baptism of John and the way God anointed him with His Spirit to do good and heal those who were oppressed by the devil.

Jesus' work could· not be silenced by his death on a tree in Jerusalem, for God raised Him on the third day and made Him manifest to the chosen witnesses who ate and drank with him (Luke 24). Now Peter fulfilIs Jesus' command to witness to what he has seen (Lk 24:48; Acts I:8,22) by testifying that Jesus is the one ordained by God to judge the living and the dead, and that in His name forgiveness of sins is available to all.

In the reading from Colossians Paul exhorts them to live out the consequences of the Resurrection.

They have been raised up in company with Christ and are now to set their hearts on the higher realms, rather than on things of earth.

The meaning of this contrast between "the things above" and "things of earth" is spelIed out in Col 3:5-17. The earthly way to which the Christian has died is marked by fornication, impurity,

Daily Readings April 17: Acts 2:14,22-33; Ps 16:1-2,5,7-11; Mt 28:8-15 April 18: Acts 2:36-41; Ps 33:4-5,18-20,22; J n20: 11-18 April 19: Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-4,6-9; lk 24:13-35 April 20: Acts 3:11-26; Ps 8:2,5-9; lk 24:35-48 April 21: Acts 4:1-12; Ps 118:1-2,4,22-27 April 22: Acts 4: 13-21; Ps 118:1,14-21; Mk 16:9-15 April 23: A'cts 5:12-16; Ps 118:2-4,13-15.22-24; Rv 1: 9-11a,12-13,17-19; In 20: 19-31

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passion, evil desire, and covetousness (3:5-9). The new life of the Christian is one of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience and forgiveness (3: 10-17).

In the Easter Gospel, John emphasizes the initial'~darkness"and consternation over the discovery of the empty tomb and yet the faith of the beloved disciple who believes in Jesus' resurrection and return to the Father simply on the basis of this sign.

Mary Magdalene, coming to the tomb "while i.t was'still dark," discovers the stone has been rolIed away but meets no angels/men to interpret its significance as in the other Gospels. Instead, she thinks that the body has been stolen and runs to teII Simon Peter and the disciple "whom Jesus loved."

When they race to the tomb, the beloved disciple arrives first, but he defers to Simon Peter, who enters it and observes the wrappings on the ground and the piece of cloth which had covered Jesus' head. We are not told Peter's reac-

Renewal ofPromises Lord Jesus. Christ, I acknowledge you as King of the universe. All creation was made for you. Exercise all your sov,ereign rights over me. I renew my baptismal promises, renouncing Satan and all his works and empty promises, and I promise to lead a good Christian Iif~. I will try to bring about the recognition of the truth of God and your Church. Divine heart of Jesus, I offer all my actions that every human heart may accept your kingship. May the kingdom of your peace be established across the world. Amen.

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In contrast to the other disciples, especialIy Thomas, who wiII demand to see and touch the risen Jesus and His wounds (John 20: 19-29), thl: beloved disciple enters the tomb and believes as soon as he sees the cloth a·nd the wrappings. This belief is based on Jesus' words to the disciples in the FareweII Discourse at the Last Supper where He had announced: "You heard me teII you, 'I am going away and I wiII come back to you,' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you this before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe," (J ohn 14:28-29) For the beloved disciple, the empty tomb is enough of a sign to cause him to believe that Jesus has fulfilled His promise. On this Easter feast we are calIed to rejoice with the beloved disciple that Jesus has indeed returned to the Father and wiII come back to dweII with us believers.

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APRIL 20,21, 22, 1995 Mass and Triduum Prayers Each Day at 12:00 Noon The conclusion of the three days of prayer will take place on Sunday, April 23, 1995 at the 11 :00 A.M. Mass.

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When an aging ,parent enters the hospital

By Monica and Bill Dodds

Tubeless in Spokane psyches with so-called "cartoons" and countless commercials.

TV-America is a new national Over the years, yes, we have organization that wants you to taken occasional grief from our pull the plug on your television kids for being television-free. But set(s). It is sponsoring National we have not given in.

TV-Turnoff Week, April 24-30, Last Christmas saw our biggest and it has my support. compromise, however. We purWe haven't had a TV set in our chased a. video viewer. It looks home since 1976. Bless us, TV much like a small TV set, but all networks, for we have sinned: you can do with it is play videonearly 20 years without television, cassettes.

Our three sons, ages 13, 15 and 17, Thus we still have complete conhave never known a home with trol over what kinds of trash come television. into our home. We use it a few You may be curious about life hours each week. I am fond of the without the Tube. We think the occasionalLaurel and Hardymoadvantages outweigh the disadvie. The kids favor Monty Python. vantages.

Without television, our fa'mily We gave television the old "interacts" more than if we had heave-ho for two reasons. First, an television. This means we talk more evening of watching television and we have more conflict. So it started to make me feel sick to my goes. stomach. Second, we' began to We also suspect that our home's realize all the things we were not moral and spiritual environment is doin,g while watching television. not as polluted as it would be if we Also, my spouse and I did not allowed television to join the family. communicate much while watchBeing TV-free is no panacea, of ing the Tube. After we gave televicourse. Our kids are fairly normal sion the boot - this was 1976 B.C. Americanteencagers, and路 their (before children) - we talked more parents hope to survive the experand did other things married couience. ples do when they have time on Some parents strictly limit TVtheir hands in the evening. watching, and they have our admi~ I n other words, we stayed in ration. We admit that exercising touch more without television than such control might be more'than with television.

After we began having babies we could handle. We took the easy way out. who became tiny tots, we decided We think our no-TV choice has it would not harm the little rascals if they did not have a TV set. Bye- done us little harm. Who knows, it bye, electronic baby sitter. Hello may even have some positive early risings for Mom and Dad effects.

-even on Saturday mornings when' You could use National TVmany other parents sleep in while Turnoff Week to find out for their kids saturate their little yourself.

By Mitch Finley

Uninsured children see docto'rs less WASHINGTON, D.C. - Children under six are only half as likely to see the doctor for four common childhood illnesses if their families have no health insurance, according to a survey published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

How frequently parents took their children to see the doctor for sore throats with fever, acute ear infection, recurrent ear infections, or for asthma was examined in a survey of 7,578 children under age 18. Parents of the children were questioned in personal interviews or over the phone five times in three months. The specific illnesses were sel~cted as both common and serious enough to warrant a visit to the doctor, according to a panel of pediatricians.

The results were consistent and significant for all four illnesses.

Children whose families had health insurance were twice as likely to see the doctor as those children without insurance.

The study also looked at some factors which might affect a family's seeking the care of a physician including urban or rural living,

which might reflect doctor's availability, family size, the child's gender, race, and age. Children ove.r age six also were less likely to see a doctor for all four illnesses, whether insured or not. Important factors not addressed were the family's income level or whether the parents were married, single, or divorced.'

The findings might reflect over, use of physicians' care by the families with insurance, the researchers noted. Also parents may refrain from taking children to the doctor if they believe the condition is mild. However, the fact that the uninsured would consistently seek out doctors only half as often for their preschoolers, probably points to lack of insurance as a contributing cause, they noted.

- Although none of these illnesses are routinely life-threatening, severe asthma can cause death.

Untreated strep throat can lead to complications, such as 'rheumatic fever. 'Untreated middle-ear infections can impair hearing.

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When an aging parent enters the hospital, it is often not just a time of worry and fear, but one of confusion for the adult child as well as the older person.路 Perhaps the first thing to keep in mind is that you have a right to ask questions. It is perfectly all right to call your parent's doctor, identify yourself and inquire about your parent and the plans for his or her treatment,and care.

Often a patient has more than one doctor. Begin with the primary doctor and ask her or him for the names and telephone numbers of the specialists who also are treating your parent.

Once your parent has been admitted to the hospital, introduce yourself to the staff on the floor where he or she has been assigned.

This can be done over the phone if you don't live nearby. Find out the daily schedule for that floor. ' Ask when your parent's doctor makes rounds. Usually this is done early in the morning and again in the evening, and these are the best times to see your parent's doctor , and ask questions.

The doctor may have a great deal of important information to share, so much so that,the patient may feel overwhelmed. It helps to have two people hearing the information and asking questions.

If you or your parent have questions, jot them down so that you'll remember to ask t,hem. And jot down the doctor's answers too.

Sometimes it sef.:ms as if there are so many health care personnel seeing Mom or Dad that it's hard to remember who's who and who said what. Make a note of those things too.

Ask what social services are available. This would include information about a visiting chaplain or eucharistic minister and if there is a cha pel.

The social services department .is also where you would contact the discharge planner, usually a medical'social worker who coordinates the release of patients. He or she looks at the situation receiving information from doctors, nurses,' occupational and physical therapists and others and what will happen when 'the patient goes home or to a nursing home or other facility.

The discharge planner lines up visiting nurses and therapists and h'as' referral information about non-medical assistanc'e like housekeeping. , Patients are discharged sooner now than they used to be and may still need to use catheters, wheelchairs, etc. The discharge planner路 can arrange for the physical or occupational therapist to teach you about these devices.

The discharge planner also helps line up equipment for home use, often through Medicare. Don't be, shy about asking fOf items for your parent; red tape and regulations can make it much more difficult and expensive to obtain that same equipment after your parent is back home. ' Finally, begin meeting with the discharge planner early, before you receive word your parent is going to be discharged. Often a patient is given less than 24 hours' notice and that's not enough to do everything needed to make the homecoming safe and successful.

, SHERRY REIF with daughter Alyssa, son Andrew and husband Andrew at their home in Millville, NJ. (eNS photo)

Multiple sclerosis, mothE~r of year is indomitable' MILLVILLE, N.J. (CNS) Sherry Reif, who is togo to the White House sometime this spring, jokes about seeing "Socks the cat being eaten by Eric the Rottweiler."

Eric is Ms. Reifs dog, an animal trained to pull her wheelchair, push elevator buttons, open and close doors, and even pick up the phone for her.

A member of St. John Bosco parish in Millville, Mrs~ Reif has two children and recently was named National Multiple Sclerosis M other of the Year. President Clinton is to present her award, along with the award for father of the year, at the White House.

Five years ago Ms. Reif, 30, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a chronic disease resulting in loss of muscle coordination. Two years ago doctors also discovered she had myasthenia gravis, a' disease characterized by progressive muscle weakness.

"I don't, und'erstand why I was named," Ms. Reiftold the Camden diocesan newspaper, Catholic Star Herald. "I am just a regular little mom doing what I can.'" , That includes skydiving.

Last year, while watching parachutists with her parents in Georgia, a jumper saw her and asked, "When are you jumping?"

Her father said not to encourage her; her mother took a tranquilizer.

Less than two hours later, with the help of a man she had just met, Ms. Reif rolled out of a plane at 13,~00 feet and parachuted to the ground. "Prior to my illness a merry-go-round was my limit," she said. "I look at things a bit differently now. Everything is a challenge." , Eleven years ago, when she was in good health, Ms. Reif gave birth prematurely to her son, Andrew Jr. He was born at five months, three weeks and weighed two pounds, 14 ounces. He suffered a brain hemorrhage. The doctor said he would be in a vegetative state and advised the Reifs to allow him to die.

"It was not an option," Ms. Reif said. "I did not care so long as he knew we loved him."

Andy has cerebral palsy and poor eyesight, and uses a wheelchair. He has a beautiful smile..

Ms. Reif and husband Andrew, a.sergeant at Southern Statl~ Correctional Facility in Delmor.:t, NJ, moved to M iIlville to enroll Andy in special education classes. He also attends special religiou3 education classes at St. John Bosco.

The Reifs have an adopted daughter, Alyssa, now 6.

They were Methodists when they moved, and Ms. Reifs disease had , ,n'ot yet been diagnosed. Then they "met Father. Louis路 A: Mawcci, then as associate pastor at St. John Bosco, also ina wheelchair lx:cause of multiple sclerosis. Before long, , the Reifs became Catholics and Ms. Reif volunteered in youth ministry.

Ms. Reif has a' permanem tracheotomy and a Hickman line for the plasmapheresis therapy she receives. But she "has the capacity to give witness without ever littering a word," said Father Marucci, , who has tapped her to, spea.k at programs and retreats. "Sherry has de'monstrated the ability to accept herself and to bting 10',e to . the world around her."

Ms. Reifsaid that at times when she has asked "Why me?" shl: has found strength in her faith. "How could I give up, knowing tha't my son is in a wheelchair? she asked.

"I have to show him it is OK, that you can do anything you wallt to do if you put your mind to it.'"

The family skis together; Ms. Reif and Andy using specially de'signed skis they can sit on. Mother and son bake together, "our two wheelchairs bumping around in the kitchen," she said.

Surrounded by wheelchairs for most of her six years, Alyssa recently wanted to know when she would be old enough to use one herself. The first grader pushes her brother's wheelchair and, said her mother, "medically, she can do anything for me."

Ms. Reif drives Alyssa to her soccer games and works them as a referee and timer. Alyssa is <,Iso involved in gymnastics.

"She loves it and I encourage her because I want her to have a life of her own," Ms. Reif said.

"She's grown up before her time, so I do everything I can to make sure there's some balance in her life."

Letters> are welcome but the editor reserves the right to condense or edit, If deemed necessary. All letters must be typed, signed and Include a home or business address (only the city name Is used In print). Letters do not necessarily reflect the editorial views of the Anchor.

Where are poor?

Dear Editor: It is strange that many of the media elite, as well as the abortion providers, are always chanting that "the poor need abortion"! Their love for the poor is not reflected in their actions. One never sees the "poor," both black and white women, walkingarm-in-arm with people like Marlo Thomas, Jane Fonda, Ellie Smeal, and Whoopi Goldberg, nor are they seen among the upscale rank and file of the "March for Women's Lives" that visit Washington, D.C., annually.

Nordo these"poor" peoplejoin the upper class women at the board meetings of Planned Parenthood, the National Organization for Women, and the National Abortion Rights Action League, or other proabortion organizations.

It is a fact that most '~poor women," both black and white, are pro-life! And isn't it true that Planned Parenthood, founded by Margaret Sanger, wanted to force birth control on Catholics, Jews, and blacks? Every thinking American must believe that there is nothing nice, civil, or American, about keeping abortion "safe and legal"! Abortion is totally unAmerican! If a mother can kill her womb's child, how can we tell other people not to kill each other?

Thomas Walsh Roslindale

From lOublin to Keystone Dear Editor: From Catherine's House of Mercy in Dublin to the southern part of West Virginia in the Appalachians ... hen: I am! This is the third phase of my sabbatical time.

I am spending three months here in Appalachia working with other Sisters of Mercy in Keystone, Richlands and Pocahontas. This is a

scene of p.oor housing, very little industry (since the heyday of the coal mines is over) and many poor people.

Sr. Barbara Riley sent me the copy of the Anchor with the article on the newly renovated Mercy International Centre and on Catherine McAuley and her work. I 'thought it was great, and I thank you (as I am sure do so many other Mercies) for your wonderful words.

I smiled when you said that I would be working in the gift shop ... and you were quoting me. I think I met you within the first two days of my working there. In addition to the gift shop, I made tea, set up the dining room each day, served tea and scones, washed tea cups and plates, reset for more tea, etc., etc. Then there were tours to give - after a while, the volunteers got to be proficient enough to perform this wonderful task. This was a great hon'or!! There was receptionist work, laundry work, sweeping, dusting - all the things' that go into making the Centre a wonderful place to visit and to stay. It was the experience of a lifetime!!

Thank you again for your kind words about our wonderful woman, Catherine McAuley.

Sr. Frances Lynch, RSM Keystone, W. Va.

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Dear Editor: The Anchor recently [March 10) ran a divisive piece by columnist Msgr. George G. Higgins: "Forays into anti-Semitism." .

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Not funning a way The full picture needs to be presented on the church's efforts to stop clergy sex abuse. 1 think the record will show that the church now is addressing this serious problem in a constructive way.

A recent editorial in the National Catholic Reporter, "Sex-Abuse Scandal Erodes Church's Credibility," made some thoughtful observations about the problem, Nonetheless, I take issue with the editorial.

It said that the church's credibility and the confidence of Catholics in their clergy are wearing away, "The clergy, too, are reeling from the scandals, which have contributed to low morale and caused priests to alter the way they perform ministry and even avoid contact with youngsters," it said.

The editorial' asked more than once, "What is going on with the clergy?" and suggested the bishops take a systematic, honest look at the priesthood, "consulting priests, psychologists, the evidence and data gleaned from years of work with priests who have been sexual abusers."

Conceding that the scandals involve a small minority of priests, the editorial concluded by sugges~-

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ing that "something systemic is afoot, and the bishops appear terrified to take an honest look."

FATHER EUGENE

The editorial is right in suggesting that bishops should systematically study 'the problem and not flinch when going after the truth and acting decisively on it.

HEMRICK gone bad can destroy it? I don't think so.

I also wonder exactly what it means to say that priests' morale today is low. Demoralizatio:l is a psychologically debilitating condition bordering on despair; it frequently hinders a person from operating correctly.

Yes, priests are disturbed by events that have occurred. But you won't find many whose work has been stopped by the probler.l. In fact you will find more bishops and laypersons offering affirmation to their priests now than in the past.

I believe that if the church's efforts to address the problem of clergy sex abuse are compared with the efforts of other organ.izations facing similar problems, the record is very positive. T oday's church is not running away from this problem.

But there are countless examples of tireless bishops, experts, researchers, parishioners and others in the church who have expended enormous amounts of spiriwal and physical energy addressing, and combating, this very problem.

Seminary administrators also have been addressing the problem and have taken action that has led to dramatic changes over the last few years to guarantee - as much as it can be guaranteed at this point - that seminarians have the moral character heeded to study for the priesthood.

I also wonder what it implies to say that the church is losing credibility because of clergy sex abuse.

What does this imply about t~e laity's depth of faith? Is the laity's faith so shallow that a clergyman

Friends reach out I've heard it said that a friend is someone you may not see for years, but when you get together again it's as if not a day has passed.

That's been true many times in my life, and recently I met again with someone who meets that definition of friend. ' Her name is Joan Bel Geddes, a name familiar to peop'te who were fans of the long-running television series, "Dallas." Her sister, Barbara Bel Geddes, starred in that series.

Joan Bel Geddes and I met because we are both writers. Back in'the '60s. she wrote a book about motherhood.

Earlier, as a free lancer for magazines, I had many articles published in the mother-and-baby genre publications. Joan had been editor of My Baby magazine and had accepted several of my pieces.

I mention this because it has much to do with the: friendship definition I began with. Joan ahd I

had lost touch with each other.

She had read about the devastations to hit my family, notably the murders of my son John and his wife Nancy at their Montana home in 1993. And, as a true friend would, she wrote me a beautiful, touching letter.

But the greatest example of how loving a person she is can be found in a book. Twenty years ago, her sister was devastated by her husband's long and'painful illness, to the point where she was spiritu'ally bleak.

Joan wanted to help her cope with her grief, worry, fear and anger. She searched for a book of prayers that could help her, but couldn't find one.

So Joan wrote such a book herself. It started specifically with the premise that the one reading this book was, a't best, an agnostic like her sister. it was a book that raised the basic questions about existence such as, Is ,there really a God, and if so, what's God like?

By , ANTOINETTE BOSCO Is there any meaning to life and death?

It was written simply and beautifully, reaching out from the s,)ul ofa searching person to God. She called it "To Barbara With Love."

Recently Ave Maria publishers put out a revised version of the book retitling it "Are You Listening God? (I Need You): No-frills prayers for the wounded and the skeptical, for wobbly believers a,rJd the spiritual.ity fragile."

A few months ago, I met Joan for lunch in Manhattan, where she lives. Some 25 years slipped away in an instant. We hugged, cried and laughed. We each thank,ed Ood for the gift of a true friend,

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An imp()rtant question Q. Some of my Catholic coworkers told our Jewish co-workers that they can never achieve eternal happiness after death because they have not acceph:d Jesus into their lives.

What is the official church position on this issue?

If my Catholic friends are correct, what does this mean for the millions of good people who lived before Jesus? Or the other millions who never had the opportunity to hear about Jesus or were raised in a non-Christian faith? (Pennsylvania) A. What your Catholic coworkers are saying is not what our church teaches. Certain other Christians may agree with them, but Catholic doctrine today is clearly to the contrary.

We believe that our Lord established his community of believers, the church on earth, the body of Christ, to be the means of salvation for all people.

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Catholic Church speaks strongly about the essential place of Jesus Christ and' baptism and membership in the church in God's saving plan ..

Then it adds a most significant and critical sentence. "Hence, they could not be saved who; knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it" (No. 846, quoting the Vatican Council II Constitution on the Church).

If you read those words carefully, you can see that t,hey would not apply to billions of people on earth, now and in the past, including most, if not all, people of the Jewish faith.

The idea behind this teaching is made more explicit in the following catechism paragraph. "Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his church; but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience ---., those too may achieve eternal salvation" (No. 847).

In other words, God's grace is guiding and saving those who live sincerely good lives, but have never seen the embrace of Christ or the church as a personal religious obligation.

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Before the Mass, olive branches Wt;re handed out to those attendllembrance of Jesus' triumpnal "ntrance into Jerusalem the week before his death.

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Pope John Paul II invokes this Catholic understanding in very hopeful and moving ways in his book "Crossing the Threshold of Hope."

His chapter on why there are so many religions notes the many common elements of belief between Christianity and what we would usually call "pagan" religions. "'The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions," he says, because we are "guided by the faith that God the Creator wants to save all humankind in Jesus Christ."

We don't know how God does all this. But we do know, the pope continues, that "Christ came into the world for all these peoples. He redeemed them all and has his own ways of reaching each of them" in the present age of salvation history (pages 80-83).

God says as much in his own words. "As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts" (Is 55:9).

Defend life, pope tells World Youth Day audience in Rome VATICAN CITY(CNS)- Pope John Paul II urged young people to read his latest encyclical and translate its message into p!"o-lik activities around tht: -;;;;... _ "Become defenders oflife and of the right to life against the threats facing it today," he said at a Mass marking Palm Sunday and World Youth Day. "With your energetic enthusiasm, build a wall against the culture of death and promote the culture of life," he said.

The pope spoke aftl:r leading an open-air liturgy in 51. Peter's Square, attended by an estimated 50,000 people. Leaning on his staff and holding ~/~of an aide, he walkt;d " . several steps at t/.. .• e Mass and add ressed ~ ~, o.dl greeting to youths worldWIde. He said his latest encyclical, "Evangelium Vitae" ("The Gospel of Life"), deserved a reading by young people. Thosl~ who do so will see that it is an invitation to accept life as a gift, he said.

"It does contain stl:rn demands: several 'noes' that are strong and necessary, which translate for our time the divine commandment, 'Do not kilr,''' he said. ' "But the 'noes' work in relation to the great 'yes' to life. This is a 'yes' I am entrusting in a special way to you, dear young people: become the voice of this 'yes,''' he said.

The pope said most young people naturally feel vibrant and full of life - but this is not enough. He said it was just as important for them to understand the profound

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MODERN PIElA: A mother expresses anguish over her wounded son in a painting by Mary Porterfield modeled on art showing Mary holding the crucified body of Jesus. (eNS photo)

Therapist-artist paints "Modern Pieta" ST. LOUIS (CNS) - Mary pick up trash each month in neighborhoods near the hospital.

Porterfield has seen the shock, sorrow, outrage and loss felt by "Reaching out and helping parvictims of violence and their faments" is a key element of the hospiilies. tal group's efforts, Ms. Porterfield As an occupational therapist at said. "That's how to prevent probSt. Louis University Health Scien- lems in the future." ces Center who helps them try to It has assisted some 200 people, rebuild their daily lives, Ms. Porterfield said she sees something and 83 percent have been gunshotwound victims. Some are gang else as well.

"I see Jesus Christ in all of them members or victims of gang-related because he lives in all of them," she violence. It also has helped patients, said in an interview with the St. receive alcohol and drug abuse Louis Review,' the archdiocesan rehabilitatlon,job placement counnewspaper. "Jesus must be suffer- seling, housing information and ing just as he was when he was a assistance in obtaining a general education degree. victim of unjustifiable violence."

The 24-year-old therapist is also "I see so many patients, so innoa gifted artist, and has painted" A cent," Ms. Porterfield said. She Modern Pieta," showing a con- told of a 20-year-old dietary aide temporary mother's agony as she shot in the hand and now unable kneels over her wounded son. The to work; a carpenter shot in the painting is a modern representa- shoulder and now unable to suption of Mary cradling the dead port his family; and a teenager body of Christ taken from the shot in the hand and now unable' cross.

The painting, 6 feet by 4 feet, is hung in St. Louis University Hospital and the artist dedicated it to the group Hospital Response to JERUSALEM (CNS) - On a Community Violence, of which bright Sunday morning last January Elisha Brand, 32, was finishing she is a member.

The group was founded by hoshiS prayers at his synagogue when pital staff and faculty members in his wife came to tell him he had 1991 to provide emotional and urgent phone calls. spiritual support and counseling A short time later, Brand and a for patients who are victims of number of colleagues who are volviolence. unteers in a unique organization Ms. Porterfield, who wanted to were racing to the site of the Jan. show in the mother's anguished 22 terrorist bombing at a bus stop face the senselessness of violence, at the Beit Lid intersection to see said she was particularly affected to the religious needs of the dead. by the mother of a 16-year-old boy twenty-two people were killed in shot in the neck who is paralyzed the bombing and s,cores were from the neck down and will likely wounded. need a ventilator to breathe for the Brand is among a band of volunrest of his life. teers who are members of Rabbi Posters of the painting are being Elazar Gelbshtein's Hesed Shel sold for $10 each to raise money Emet (True Righteousness) group for the hospital group's programs and Ezer Mi'tzion(HelpfromZion) that prevent violence and provide who assist the police and army in alternatives to gangs. the aftermath of terrorist attacks Sales will benefit an elementary and auto accidents. school program that helps parents While they sometimes help the injured, their main purpose is to establish discipline and build selfesteem in children and the univermake sure Halacha, Jewish relisity's School of Public Health pro- , gious law, is carried out. ject, Whole Health Outreach, a According to the law, when a women's shelter and prenatal reperson is killed every part of his source in Ellington, Mo. body must be gathered and given Members of Hospital Response proper burial since it is believed to to Community Violence also read be as holy as the person's spirit, to latchkey students from the ele- said Haiin Freund of Help from mentary school after school and Zion. It is written in the law that it

to pursue hiS dream ora college basketball s<;holarship.

"They didn't provoke any of this," she said.

A member ofSt. Francis Xavier [College) Church in St. Louis, Ms. Porterfield moved from her native Omaha, Neb., to earn a master's degree in occupational therapy at Was~ington University. She studied art while getting her undergraduate degree at Doane College in Crete, Neb., and has participated in St. Louis Artists Guild workshops.

Of her painting, the artist said, "I only showed part of the emotions victims and their families face." She said she "can't get anywhere near" the true depth of those feelings.

And with so many children being killed, Christ "must be hurting," the therapist said. "I could think of no other way to show the hurt ... I wanted to express empathy."

ROME(CNS)- A once-doubting Italian bishop said a plaster statue of Mary cried tears of blood while in his hands, but "I did not have the courage" to touch the liquid.

"My sister, though, touched it.

She was more courageous than I and bloodied her finger," Bishop Girolamo Grillo of CivitavecchiaTarquinia said on national television April 5.

But it is still too early to declare the crying a miracle, he said. The church needs more time for study, said the bishop, who appointed a , theological commission to examine if a supernatural event occurred.

The bishop initially wanted to publicly display the statue, which had been in his custody for two months, today for Good Friday.

But the plans were put in doubt when localjudicial authorities took possession of it last week to continue scientific tests as part of an investigation into possible fraud.

Bishop Grillo protested the authorities' action . . The decision violates church freedom, he said in an April 7 statement. He said he would protest the decision to national judicial authorities.

The bishop did not protest the judicially ordered tests, which began while the statue was in his possession.

Regarding the alleged tears of blood, Bishop Grillo said he and five witnesses saw the statue cry March 15 while the group was praying together and he was holding it.

The event occurred in the morning after "a mystic appeared to me with a very dramatic message," the bishop said. He said the message is a secret, elaborating only that it is "very important" and not about him.

Initially, Bishop Grillo expressed skepticism when eyewitnesses said they saw tears of blood falling from the statue's eyes Feb. 2 in Civitavecchia, 45 miles north of Rome.

City officials are planning for floods of pilgrims and curiosity seekers once the 17-inch statue moves to its permanent h'ome, a niche in St. Augustine: Church in Civitavecchia.

The church was choilen because it is the parish of the family that owns the statue.

Bishop Grillo and c:ity officials talk of Civitavecchia, population 52,000, becoming another Lourdes.

The small town in southern France where the church says Mary appeared 18 times in 18:;8 receives more than 5 million people a year. . The city has earmar:<ed $6,000 to renovate St. AugUStine Church and provide bulletproof glass and an electric alarm system for the statue.

After reports of the Feb. 2 cry'ing session, tens of thousands of people flocked to Civitavecchia to see the statue in the ba.ckyard of the Fabio Gregori family.

Bishop Grillo took possession of it several days later and ordered a series oftests by experts in medicine. Parallel tests were ordered by local prosecutors.

Both series of tests, which included X-rays and CAT scans, turned up no evidence t hat there were any cavities or devices inside the statue that could have been used to store or squirt liquid.

The bishop said test results showed that the liquid was human blood and that he had imerviewed many eyewitnesses he de!,cribed as reliable who say they saw the statue cry on several occasions.

The statue was,brought to Civitavecchia last year by Spanishborn Father Pablo Martin, St. Augustine pastor, from Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, site of alleged Marian apparitions.

Father Martin gave the statue to the Gregori family.

The Civitavecchia statue is one 'of at least 13 reported to have cried in Italy since the beginning of 1995, but it has attracted ;:he most attention and scrutiny from church and government officials.

Jewish volunteers care lovingly for victims"bodies will be a great sorrow to the de- metal. picking up severed limbs ceased if all the pieces of his body and pieces of human flesh from bodies torn by the force of the are not interred, he said.

Unidentifiable human remains explosion. are buried in a common grave.

Later, they inspected cars in the The volunteers carefully pick up area for drops of blood, particles dismembered remains, ,assuring of brain and other bits of remains. that all pieces of bodies - even They climbed ladders to search blond and the smallest shred of electric lines for remnants that skin - receive a proper Jewish might have blown upward. burial.

"Clearly, this is very difficult The army has a Burial Society work, but as religious Jews we unit which performs the same task know we are performing a mitzvah' 'for the remains of military per- (good deed) by doing this work," sonnel. .Brand said.

T() test their seriousness and Brand told about his work with a black velveteen hat, which he resolve, prospective volunteers are does not remove. on his head. His made to wait, sometimes for neatly curled reddish-brown side months, being called in, he said.

Only married men are accepted locks fell well below his ears. In deference to religious propriety, because the organization believes he, did not look at the female that single men have not yet been reporter interviewing him. tested by life and are usually not "What people saw on television prepared to deal with the emowe saw in front of us." he said. tional burdens of the work.

"There were pieces of bodies strewn The volunteers are trained by police and army experts, including everywhere.

Television images of the volunrabbis, in both the religious and teers, wearing surgical gloves,long secular legal aspects of the search black coats and dark skullcaps, process. stood out among the police and The Halacha demands utmost army uniforms on the scene at the respect for the body of the dead, terrorist bombing.

Rabbi Gelbshtein said. The first The men slowly made their way thing to do is to cover the victim through shattered glass and broken because it would be an embar-

rassment for him or her to be seen in the state in which most accident and explosion victims are found, he said.

Then everything must be done to protect the body from further damage. For instance, if there is too much sun, the body must be shaded, and any threatening fires must be extinguished.

There are also common-sense rules, Rabbi Gelbshtein said. A body must not be removed until the surrounding area ha:; been searched for clues as to its identity and volunteers take notes on everything they see on the grou nd and videotape the scene so that no evidence is overlooked.

"Sometimes the search l:an go on for days," Freund said.

In a ground-level explosion in Tel Aviv last October. "WI~ continued searching for two da~ls," he recalled. "There were piec:es of bodies found on the fourth floor. of buildings."

"There is no doubt that sometimes we want to cry too," Freund said. But emotions must bl: controlled in order to do the 'work.

"Maybe though, there have: been times when I've come home and prayed," he said, "and I have started to cry in the middle of my prayers."

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By Barbara Ma)'er, 08B Volunteering has been a part of Chris McCarthy's life ever since he can remember. He grew up with a strong sens~ of responsibility and awareness of others.. His parents were good role models, sometimes taking the whole family to help in a soup kitchen or bring food to shut-ins.

At Bo~ton ~ollege Hi~h S9hool, the Jesuits reinforced the idea that it is important "to return to the community some of what you have been fortunate enough to receive."

As a student, Chris was involved in various community projects and during his senior year volunteered at a nursing home.

His desire to serve continued at the University of Hartford, where he taught rugby to youth in a housing project and worked in a homeless shelter. In order to better understand homeless ness, he and two friends spent a night on the streets, talking to pl:ople who lived there.

"That made a las'ting impression on me," said the 24-year-old native of Scituate. "I was also influenced by a teacher at Boston College High who spent tWQ years in volunteer service with the Jesuits on a small island in the Pacific. When he talked about his experiences, I thought that was something I would like to do when I could."

Last July, Chris fulfilled his dream by volunteering in Guatemala with the Christian Foundation for Children and Aging, a Catholic child sponsorship program which provides life-changing benefits to needy families in 23 countries. He is sl:rving for a year in San Antonio Aguas Calientes, a small village, as a translator, teacher, and environmental worker.

"San Antonio is a poor village, but lively and beautiful," Chris wrote in a recent letter. "I have been impressed by the strength, gentleness and integrity of the people."

When he is not teaching English 10 elementary and junior high students or translating letters as part of the CFCA child sponsorship program, Chris is working with a project called "Arboles para la Vida" (Trees for Life).

"This reforestation project is only a few months old in San Antonio, but it is spreading widely over Guatemala," said Chris.

"Since most of the fertile flatlands are farms and ranches used to produce cash crops for exportation to the U.S., the Mayan people are forced to clear much of the natural forests on the mountainsides for [their own] farming. '''Therefore,' we 'have 'talked to the people' about which trees hest serve them. We have found that gravilea is a tree which provides shade for growing coffee and also is very good firewood. In our nursery. we have planted about 8,000 trees in small bags. By next May they will be about 2-3 feet tall and ready to be replanted in the mountains to take advantage of ' the rainy season." . .

As part of this reforestation plan, Chris is also helping build fuel-efficient stoveS called "cetas," which use one-third the amount of wood needed for cooking on open fires, thus reducing the number of trees cut down.

"All of the activities of Arboles para la Vida involve the schoolchildren," Chris pointed out. "Its aim is to have many people active, sharing their ideas and experiences, rather than having a center where only, a few people know about reforestation, organic agriculture and building stoves."

In spite of a history of forced relocations, mass l<illings and widespread labor discrimination, the spirit and faith of the Mayan Indians remains strong, the young . volunteer said. He feels he has much to learn from these peaceful, gentle people.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A spirited Pope John Paul 1\ led a recent rally of Roman youths and urged them to combine joy and holiness in their lives.

Addressing an overflow crowd. during an evening meeting at the Vatican, the 74..year-old pope adlib bed many of his remarks and clearly enjoyed bantering with an appreciative audience.

"God made human beings for joy, and I would say he made all of you for joy," he said. He asked them to spread that sense of joy throughout Rome, a city that he said does not always reflect the Gospel values.

After watching a short theatrical presentation about St. Philip Neri, the pope joked about the fact that the saint used a cane in later years - just as the pope has had to do during recent months.

"We're supposed to imitate the saints, and I would say there's some similarity there," he noted.

The pope said that despite reduced mobility after a broken thigh bone last year, he has not

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., April 14, 1995 given up walking. He said that two days earlier he had been hiking in the mountains outside Rome.

"Young people are privileged because they have good legs, but I'm trying not to give up, either," he said. . Noting that the young people's play ended with St. Philip Neri throwing down the cardinal's hat, the pope remarked: "I want to tell the cardinals here not to worry. He was a happy saint, but throwing away the cardinal's hat is not obligatory for us.

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Papal letter to priests asks they see women as sisters VATICAN CITY (CNS) - To successfully and happily lead a celibate life, priests must develop an attitude in which they see women as their sisters. Pope John Paul II said, Every priest. the pope said, "has the great responsibility of developing an authentic way of relating to women as a brother, a way of relating which does not admit ofambiguity."

Pope John Paul's annual Holy Thursday letter to priests had as its theme the importance of women in the life of the priest.

Priests must look to the example of Jesus for a model of what their relationship with others should be. the pope said. He noted a long list of women who accompanied Jesus in his public ministry and witnessed his suffering, death and resurrection.

"I n order to live as a celibate in a mature and untroubled way it seems particularly important that the priest should develop deep within himself the image of women as sisters," he wrote.

Relationships with women are part of a healthy life, the pope said, but he urged care on the part of priests and women so that nothing threatens the priests' commitment to celibacy.

"If in a relationship with a woman the gift and the choice of celibacy should become endangered, the priest cannot but strive

earnestly to remain faithful to his own vocation," said the pope.

He offered special prayers for "our brothers in the .priesthood who meet with difficulties in this area, and to all those who, because of a woman, have abandoned the priestly ministry."

At a press conference to release the letter,'Archbishop Crescenzio Sepe, secretary of the Congregation for Clergy, said the pope was not blaming women in s'uch situations, but was saying "they can be the occasion" of a priest's decision to leave.

The pope's letter said seeing women as sisters to priests reaffirms that "they are in a sense 'set apart,''' that the relationship has clear limits from the start.

The papal reflection began with a discussion of the priesCs mother - a child's first teacher of prayer and often a young man's main support as he discovers and follows his vocation to the priesthood.

The Vatican press 'conference , included Graziella Vattuone, a widow and mother of five, including one priest. She read from a letter her son wrote after his ordination: "Now that I am a priest, I can finally begin to celebrate the eucharistic liturgy 'in persona Christi' and for the first time make God descend to earth in my hands."

Crying, she said, "And I, his mother, kissed those holy hands of h路IS. "

Surprise! Spirituality isn't a neurosis WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CNS) - American psychiatry has made a decisive shift by recognizing spirituality as a normal part of human life and not a neurosis, according to a priest who directs a pastoral care program.

Jesuit Father Walter B. Smith said in an interview that the American Psychiatric Association has approved a revision of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, for the first time including spiritual and reli-. gious problems as a category.

"This is a seminal breakthrough in the American practice of psy'chiatry," he said. An earlier tendency of psychiatry was to treat religion as a delusion or evidence of immaturity, escapism or neurosis.

Father Smith, who holds a doctorate in clinical psychology, is president of The Hospital Chaplaincy, an interreligious program that provides chaplain training and services to 14 hospitals in New York and Westchester County.

To focus attention on the revised psychiatric manual, The Hospital Chaplaincy recently sponsored a one-day symposium for some 150 pastoral care workers.

The keynote speaker was Dr. Francis G. Lu, professor of psychiatry at the University of California in San Francisco and among authors of the new manual's section on religion.

He said that the crucial point ' accepted by the American Psychiatric Association was that religion, is not pathological.

Psychiatrists will now read in the manual that the religious aspect of a problem is not in itself a disorder, he said. .

In January, in~truction in the area of religion and spirituality

became a requirement for doctors in a residency program for psychiatry, he said.

Lu said the manual's description of the place 'of religion in human life was done in a "broad and abstract way," so it could be used by psychiatrists of any religious outlook treating patients of any tradition.

He warned, however that psychiatrists should develop awareness of their own religious identity in order to avoid "unconsciously pushing certain religious or antireligious ideas on the patient."

Father Smith said people from about 30 religious traditions are involved in his program, including the first imam to be clinically certified as a chaplain.

He noted that even in the past an individual psychiatrist would often recognize the normality and importance of'religion, and like a John the Baptist "voice in the wilderness" call on other psychiatrists to take a new look.

But he said most American psychiatrists had remained under the influence of Sigmund Freud, who saw religion as an "obsessional, neurosis." .

Carl Jung, an early associate of' Freud who later broke with him, showed openness to the religious dimension and has been more influential among pastoral care workers, Father Smith said. He noted that the revised manual was neutral in reference to evaluation 'of types of religion, neither establishing nor precluding that spirituality can be expressed healthily or unhealthily.

"The new manual accepts, the fact that spirituality and religion have a place in a person's life," said the. priest. ,

THIS EL GRECO painting of John the Baptist was recently shown 'to journalists in Moscow. It was among 60 masterpieces seized by Russian soldiers from Nazi Germany at the end of World War II arid kept in secret , vaults for 50 years. (eNS/Reuters photo)

Day of Prayer VAT1CAN CITY (CNS) - In his annual letter to priests, Pope John Paul II said that Catholics should set aside the feast of the Sacred Heart, which falls on June 23 this year, as a "Day for the Sanctification Of Priests."

"I express my hope that this day will help priests to live in ever greater conformity to the heart of the Good Shepherd," he wrote.

"The aim is to call everyone - ' bishops, priests themselves, religious men and women and laity -to pray that priests may live in full conformity to the will of Christ," said Archbishop Crescenzio Sepe, secretary of the Congregation for Clergy. ' , He said his office was encouraging bishops to mark the day with a morning meeting and lunch with their priests; In the evening, priests should gather with their parishioners for eucharistic adoration and special prayers for the holiness of the church's priests, he said.

CINCINNATI (CNS) - "It's very sad and discouraging that this sort of thing happens," said Detroit Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton a day after the Cincinnati 'City Council repealed a sexual orientation protection clause that had been part of the city's human rights law.

"Yet it is very real, and it gives us a good context for what we are discussing now," he added.

Bishop Gumbleton was in the Cincinnati archdiocese to speak on "The Unfinished Social Justice Agenda of Our Church" as part of a Lenten series at St. John Church in West Chester.

The issue of homosexuals in the church is "one that's very, very important, but one many of us in this church have been hesitant to talk about," said th~ bishop.

Homosexual rights have been a hot topic in Cincinnati, where voters in 1993 approved a charter amendment that denied individuals civil rights protection based on a homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientation, status, conduct or relationship. The amendment was struck down by a federal judge in 1994 and is currently before a panel of federal appeals judges.

Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk came. out publicly against the charter amendment in 1993 on the basis that it encouraged discrimination, but said homosexual orientation should not have been part of the initial 1992 human rights law, which has now been amended.

Bishop Gumbleton garnered headlines last fall by tackling the subject of homosexuals in the . church during workshops in the St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese. . His motivation to address the

issue came from his own brother's homosexuality. "It made me realize how hateful my prejudices were against gay people," he :.aid.

Yet, h'e said, he "never spoke about" his brother's life~;tyle until his mother, now deceased, asked, him in 1989 if her gay SDn would go to hell. .

"Then suddenly, I had to deal with everything I had avoided," Bishop Gumbleton said, He said he is glad to have had the opportunity to assure his mother that her son would not go to hell. "And since then,l have come 1:0 realize how important it is for parents to come to peace with their sons and daughters."

Bishop Gumbleton now speaks frequently on homosexuals and the church, as he did at Sl:. John's.

Historically, he said, gay and lesbian people have had to keep silent in the church. "We have alienated them, marginalized them, pushed [them] aside," he added.

"I,think if we're going to change our attitudes and think about developing the church's teaehing on this issue, one of the things we must do is listen to the ex':>erience of gay and lesbian people,;; Bishop Gumbleton said.

He supports the church teaching that engaging in homosexual acts is wrong, but does n,)t think that homosexuals are objectively disordered and endeavors to open new bridges of dialogue and understanding for them with the goal of healing those who are suffering, The new "Catechism of the Catholic ChtJrch" says that men 'and women ,who are homosexual "do not choose" to be so and "must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity," he noted.

Turn to God to end divisions, . says activist Chicago priest CHICAGO (CNS) - Father ,Michael Pfleger, a,n activist Who has protested racism, says Chicagoans need to turn their hearts to God to end the division between people.

"The failure for us to get along with one another is a spiritual issue. It's an issue of our hearts," said Father Pfleger in a speech at Old .St. Patrick's Church in Chicago.

Father Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Church, launched a fiveweek Civic Forum of lectures at Old St. Patrick's highlighting people working for positive change in the city.

The priest transformed St. Sabina, once on the brink of closing, into a vibrant, self-sufficient parish. He has crusaded against the commercial sale of drug paraphernalia, billboard advertisements for drugs and alcohol in minority neighborhoods, and the sale of grain alcohol, used to make crack cocaine.

"The tragedy and scandal of the human race is though we are very clever people ... with all our intelligence, all our knowledge, all we know about electronics, we still don't know how to get along," said Father Pfleger to the crowd of 450.

The answer to social strife is to be true followers of Christ, he said.

"Jesus came to us with a boldness and an almost arrogance - a command, not a suggestion, that we love God and each other," he said.

"One of ttie most rema.rkable things Jesus did was create a new community out of people who had been bitter enemies," he said.

Neither racial nor economic differences between people is what really divides them, said Father Pfleger. It's an inability to love one another.

"You can be identical twins and still hear a mother's voice ,;rying like a voice in the wilderness, 'Can't we all get along?"" he said.

The priest called for peo'ple to recognize God in others. "Every human being is created in the image and likeness of God.," he said. "To exclude or demea:1l any human being is to exclude or demean God." Father Pfleger said God identifies with excluded people. It was "no accident" that Jesus was born a Jew, a member of a perseeuted people, and no accident that he was betrayed and denied.

"It was no accident that Jesus Christ spent his life not reac:hing out .to corporate Bethlehem,," he said. "It was no accident he called a poor widow the most generous giver he had ever seen."

Father Pfleger said we must see the rich gifts every person has. He said he has been heartened to see glimpses of harmony between :peopIe in Chicago.

"My brothers and sisters, now is the time to take that feeling and turn it into a passion until our glimpses are what we see every day," he said.

Book club plans summer session

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., April 14, 1995

People who enjoy reading and lively and open discussion are invited to join the Stonehill Book Club, offered to the general public by the Office of Continuing Education at the North Easton campus.

Different groups are formed each semester. Each group reads one book a month for four months, with selections in the categories of classical, historical, contemporary, women's issues or mystery. Members meet once a month from 7 to 9 p.m. on an assigned night for discussion of the book's theme, the author's style, the characters, and techniques used to tell the story or present an issue.

Kathleen Baxter, who has been involved in the club'sin<:e its inception, will lead the summer session, meeting on Tuesdays bl:ginning on May 23. Book selections are Smiffa's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, The Rising of the Moon

by William Martin and Songbirds.

Truffles and Wolves: An American Naturalist in (taly by Gary Paul Nabhan.

"The fall semester will mark our fifth year," Ms. Baxter said. "We will have five groups that semester. The new group will read mystery stories."

"The size and composition of a group varies. Mostly the book selection determines the makeup of the group," said Patricia Fanning, leader Of the contemporary group.

Associate academic dean for continuing education George Rogers moderates the classical group. "I ask the currt:nt group for suggestions for the next semester's list. I must admit though, I also tr-y to select a book from my list of books I've always intended to read but never found the time," said Rogers. "Next fall my group will be reading Babbitt, JGrne Eyre. The Yearling and The Assistant. I . choose stories that might be considered classics."

"All members of a group discuss the same book," said! Walter Wilson, a member of Rogers' group, "but each individual interprets the story differently. In one night you can get ten different views on the same story. When things get quiet, the leader stirs the pot. The discussions give you something to think about."

For informatiori on joining the Stonehill Book Club, contact the Office of Continuing Education, Stonehill College, 320 Washington Street, North Easton, MA 02357; 230-1377.

Kids make music SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (CNS) - A nationally known liturgical music group is releasing an album of children's songs featuring students from a Catholic elementary school in Scottsdale. The Dameans is a group of five liturgical musicians who have recorded together for 27 years. The name is a 'shortened version of"N otre Dameans," after the New Orleans seminary they were attending when the group formed. The group used to compose and perform, but currently the members are simply composing. In the process of re-releasing an older music eollection, they added the voices of 20 students from St. Daniel the Prophet School in Scottsdale. The rcs\llting album, called "God's Child," is aimed at children and is currently being put on cassette and compact disc.

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Thomas Merton commented on 1959 Van Doren scandal WASHINGTON (CNS) - A Merton added, "The whole af'six-year-old compihltion ofThomfair, in its foolishness and sordid as Merton's letters includes comcheapness, is something I cannot ments to his former teacher at . help regarding as symptomatic. I Columbia University, Mark Van for one do not believe that all is Doren, about the quiz-show scanright with America. I think this is a dal that engulfed Van Doren's son sick and deluded nation (along' Charles. with all the others, of course). And "The Road to Joy: Letters to this proves it in some sense.

New and Old Fri~nds" (Farrar "Why? Charlie, precisely because Straus & Giroux) includes the he is in most ways just what so Trappist monk's thoughts about many Americans want themselves the younger Van Doren's rjse and to be - clear-headed, frank and fall in the eyes of Americans in a ingenuous - has to pay for it by series of letters to his father. becoming a victim of advertisers."

Interest in the quiz-show scanTwo weeks later, Merton wrote: dals was revived through the 1994 "My respect for Charlie is immeafilm "Quiz Show," starring Ralph surably greater than it was when Fiennes as Charles Van Doren and he was winning all the money and Paul Scofield as Mark Van Doren. getting all the favorable publicity.

The film garnered four Academy Then, one could not help feeling a Award nominations, including best little uncomfortable about it, bepicture, best director (Robert Redcause it was basically false like ford), best supporting actor (Scoeverything dse on that level of field), and best a~apted screenbeing.... play, but did not actually win any "Now, brutally but perhaps merOscars. cifully, suffering and humiliation In an April 9, 1957, letter, Merhave entered into the picture to ton wrote to Mark Van Doren: "I add a note of reality for which one had another occasion to think of has reason to be thankful. Forgive you, when news of Charlie's .exme, even all of you have reason to ploits on TV filtered through. I be thankful of it, and I think very was given to understand that he much so. It certainly gives Charlie had become the king of Persia as a a 'tragic' stature which is much result of being very smart.. .. It must have been harrowing, and if, after it all, he feels like entering a Trappist monastery, well, the novitiate is wide open."

Two years later, in October 1959, the scandal was uncovered of how Charles Van Doren was given answers in advance to the questions that helped him win $129,000.

"I have seen the papers and all the nasty fuss about Charlie," Merton wrote Oct. 17, 1959. ". am sorry to hear that everything has turned out so disagreeably and I want to express my sympathy for him and for all of you."

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more human than the nice optimistic role of a year ago."

Merton added: "America grabbed Charlie and set him up in the middle of its dream, so that he could be the dream image for a while. And the people who were making money out of it, could see that it had evident possibilities.

"And after all, America continually and stupidly pays people like that millions of dollars all the time precisely in order to suffer this kind of deception. America wants to be kidded and the only crime is letting the people know."

But in a Nov. 12, 1959, letter, Merton opened a letter to Van Doren with: "Charlie sent me his 'confession' signed, 'with love from Babylon' which immediately reassured me.... I am no longer mad, but still smouldering no doubt with resentment against the whole country, insofar as they have tried to make Charlie a scapegoat for a national sin. How stupid it all is."

"Just suppose he had taken an enormous sum of money to have his picture printed in a magazine over a statement that he thought that product was utterly superbwhatever it was. Nobody would have accused him of lying. It is perfectly respectable to tell that kind of a lie," Merton said.

"Of course I understand that they got mad when the point of the other business was its supposed genuineness. Still the difference is very artificial 'Omnis homo mendax.' [Every man is a liar.] It is about time this was admitted."

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Free Trade fallout LA CROSSE, Wis. (CNS) --Some 15 million Mexican small farmers will soon be pushed out of agriculture because of the North American Free Trade Agreement, says a U.S. missionary working in Mexico. "Illegal migration across the border, already so high, will soar to heights previously unknown," Franciscan Father Justus Wirth predicted. "Massive illegal migration by desperate people looking for work can only further fuel the fires of racism and lead to hatred." Father Wirth, an Ohio native, has worked in Latin America fOf 25 years, the past five in Juarez, Mexico. He was interviewed by the Times Review, La Crosse diocesan newspaper, while he was in the diocese recently.

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NEW BEDFORD - Jennifer Mills of St. Luke's Hospital recently gave a presentation on nutrition to students in grades 3 through 6. She discussed healthy food choices and the body's need for a balanced diet.

In a related activity, third- and fourth-graders designed cereal boxes for an April 12 art display.

Also included were other projects, such as collages which told about students' lives.

The two grades also completed a "One Way ,to Easter" project, which involved charting good deeds done each week aS'a Lenten offering. On a visit to'the Boston' Children's Museum, -the students learned about sea creatures, the lives of teens in Tokyo, television, bubble-making, and multicult~-路 ralisin. Their next field trip will 'be to the Discovery Zone in North Dartmouth.

His class bid farewell to Dan Aeillo and his family, including first grade twins Nicole and Nicholas, as they prepared to move to Ohio. . ' Fifth-graders' held a first anniversary memorial Mass for their friend Kevin Pillsbury. ,A Kevin' M. ,Pillsbury' Memorial Scholarship has been established, to be awarded each year to a fourth or fifth grade student.

The first grade recently went on a field trip to the Olive Garden resta urant, where they learned about pasta making and table manners. They enjoyed lots of breadsticks, pizza and salad.

First-graders have also begun a unit on planting and will be planting flowers outside.

Second-graders,are preparing for their first communion on April 30.

In May the first and second grade students will visit the Boston Children's Museum, and weatherman Tony Petrarca will speak to their classes.

Bishop Connolly FALL RIVER - The Bishop Connolly High School Drama So- . ciety will present the Neil Simon. comedy "The Odd Couple" 8 p.m.

April 28 and 29 and 2 p.m. April 30.

In the lead roles in this female version of the play are Mariann HartIey and Pam Costa. Other cast members are Carly Christiansen, Patti Rego, Liz Goltman, Angela Pactteco, Mike Doherty, Charles Walsh and Dan Murphy.

The crew includes stage manager Beth Santos, also working on props with Jen Durette; Chuck Walsh, lighting; and Angela Pacheco, costumes. Leo Strickman is director.

The~e is no admission fee; howeV,er; reservations are recommended. For information call 676-1476.

The 14-member Connolly Law Team reached the finals of the Bristol County championship at Barnstable Court in the Massachusetts Mock Trial Tournament.

Under the guidance of Connolly law teacher Ted Pettine, the Cougar:barristen; went 4-0 before losing by a narrow margin to Nauset in t~e finals. Chuck Walsh, Pam Costa, Dan Murphy, Lauren Mau, ceri and Mike Doherty each earned perfect scores for their presentations on a number of occasions.

STAMP CLUB members at Our Lady of Lourdes School, Taunton, examine some路 of their 'collection: Albert Tetrault of Acushnet, father'ofteacher Arlee'i\ Booker, directs the club, which has 20 members and me~t~ j to ):30 p.m.

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TAUNTON -Coyle-Cassidy's' scorer in the Eastern Athletic ConWarrior Weightlifting Club had ference last fall, Hager was also numerous winners in the 1995 named to its all star team. , Coyle-Cassidy recently held its American Drug-Free Powerlifting II th annual Two-On-Two hoops Association's Open High School Powerlifting Championship, held' tournament to benefit the Spanish Honor Society. Trophies in the recently at the school.

Senior Andrew Lofgren of three-day competition, went to Taunton wasjudged best male lift- sophomores Eric Johnson of er in the lightweight class. He won Bridgewater and Kyle Quigley of the 165-pound class, l8-and-19- Taunton; juniors Eric Ferris and , year-old division, with a combined Corey Santos of Taunton; senior , lift of 475 kilos in the squat, bench Jamie Leonard and freshman Stacy press and dead lift. He also estab- Arpin of Taunton; and freshmen lished three meet records in his Nina Casavant of Dartmouth and, Dana Tourangeau of Middleboro. class.

Other winners in their respective weight and age categories were: freshman Jason Oliveira of Assonet; sophomores Ryan Ballard, Steve Souza and James Mulhern of Taunton and J.P. Benoit NEW BEDFORD- A team of of Berkley; juniors Allegra DutzH FHN students competed against man and Mike Preveti of RaynSt. Mary's, New Bedford, in the ham, Mike Metzger of Taunton Brain Quest Trivia Tournament and Mike Rolli of Lakeville; and , held April I at Barnes & Noble in seniors Ron Campbell of RaynDartmouth. A maximum of 18 ham and Josh Dion and Kevin points could be scored in the comAvilla of Taunton:, petition; H FHN earned 15 and St. Earning second places were Mary's 12. On the HFHN team freshmanJ.T. Bridgwood of Lakeville; sophomore Josh Nunes of were third-graders Ashley Welecka Taunton;juniors'Chris Wenson of and Brendan Hayes; fourth-graders Bridgewater and Sean McNearney Rosemary Larkin and James Ferus, and fifth-graders Meghan Brady and Casey Medas ofTaunfon; and and Robert Massoud. , senior Tim Sheerin of Taunton..

In an effort to upgrade compuThe Warrior Weightlifting Club finished in second place in the ter technology, HFHNis collecting "School Investment Points" team competition. offered by Bank of Boston.

Junior Eric Hager of Middle- Through May 31, school supporboro has been named by the East- ters may obtain bonus certificates, ern Massachusetts Soccer Coaches which contribute 100 school investAssociation to the 1994 Eastern ment points, at any Bank of BosMassachusetts All Star Team. ton branch.

Honored at a banquet in FebruAlso as'part of the effort. returnary with the rest of the all stars, able bottles and cans are being colHager will play in th.e association's lected and the school is seeking annual all star game Aug. 4 at Bos- . donations of computers no longer ton University. The second-leading needed by companies. .'

Holy Family-Holy Name, Sch'ool

NORTH DARTMOUTH Girls and Women in Sport Dayat Dedication of the Stanley Stan- Fanueil Hall in Boston. Speakers kiewicz Baseball Field will take included Barbara Stevens" Bentley place April 29, beginning with a College Women's basketball coach, 10:30 a.m. Mass followed by dedi- and Mary Pratt, an original memcation ceremonies, an alumni vs. ber of Rockford Peacht:s team, students baseball game, and ,a part of the first women's profesreception. sional baseball league.

Stang's first Fine Arts Night, a "It was an honor to be able to concert and art program, featured attend," said Miss Carney, who is performances and art work by 80 soccer captain and an avid skier students and contributions from and tennis player as well as student several fa:"ulty members. council president. She recalled that Attended by more than 200 Ms. Stevens "spoke about the three guests, the concert included pieces Rs: respect for self, respect for ranging from Bach to Andrew others, and responsibility."

Lloyd Webber to an original guiMiss Charest captained Stang's tar piece written and performed,by field. hockey team and was an senior Phil Pendergrass and teachAA UJ unior OlYmpian in the sport. er Mark Durfee.

She was. also an' outfielder for the The 12-pjece Instrumental En- school's, 1994 state champi Dn softsemble opened the program with ball team. '.

"Torch Theme," then shifted gears She said Ms. Stevens "!.tressed to a fun rendition of "I Will Fol- that athletes today should underlow Him." stand women's sports have come a Music director Suzanne Chrislong, long way al'\d that we still tie praised the performances of pave lots of room to grow ill terms pianist Shirley Guerreiro and vo- .of respect and r~cognition. calist Meagan Carroll, who sang . "Young girls dp (lot have a lot of "I Dreamed a Dream" from ,~fs p.osi~ive role models. They should Miserables. be able to turn on the TV and see a Before and after the concert, femal.e athlete excelling, instead of those attending viewed art work a ma'n all the time. by 40 students, paintings by art "I've seen change occurring," teacher Gary Rego and photos by Miss Charest路added. "Progress has student teacher Corinna Raznikov. been made,' but this is only the Senior Phil Tongue:s pencil draw~ , beginning. 'My, generation has to ing, "Arabic Man," earned the pass on ,to ,our childr.en all we've "Popular Choice Award." learned and gained in sports. I'd The Spartan Forensic and Delike to come back to help.,coach . bate Team com'pleted its inaugural and run athletic programs for season with impressive p,erform~ young athie路tes.' There is a n:sponances at the 1995 Eastern Massasibility to give back to the communchusetts Debate Conference Tourity." nament Finals at Tabor Academy.

Competing against 18 teams in the novice class (first year debaters); the Spartans finished 9-3 in TAUNTON - Taunton Cathotheir 12 final debates. In the daylic Middle School has begun a long tournament, Stang garnered food pantry. Collected items will 10 team trophies and plaques, in- be donated to Ii local parish each cluding second place individual month. speaker awards to 'sophomores TCMS students earning awards Chuck Burke (affirmative) and at the Region III science fair were: Josh Giguere (negative). Led by Amy Ferreira, first place and Derek Sousa's top affirmative Banners and Flags award for prospeaker award, the team took home ' ject which best exemplifies scienan additional six honors from the tific method; Diana Rodrigues, eight preliminary rounds of the second place and Dr. Dionne Me, regular debate season. morial Plaque for best dental proBishop Stang participated with ject; Matthew Chumra, se,:ond other area high schools in "School place; Helder Freitas; third place Pride Weekend" April I and 2 at and honorable mention from the the North Dartmouth Mall. Stang Electrochemical Society; RicJlalie students exhibited art and science Griffith, third place; Jessica Smith, projects and the A Capella Singers honorable mention. and Instrumental Ensemble perThe fourth annual Lip-Sync formed. Seniors Bryan Lemieux Contest was held March 24, Grand and Mark Oliveira and junior prize winners and audience favorDerek Sousa participated in a' ites were Stacy Simmons, Leigh "Battle ofthe Brains" competition.

Silveira, Kendra Gordon and Erin The following winter sports Ferreira, who performed "The FIintawards were recently given: stones." First place' winner in the Alpine skiing'most valuable fifth/ sixth grade category was skiers: Colleen Carney, Ryan DeJarod Gagnon, "All By Mysdf." brosse; coach's award: Bryan Des=- Nicole Podogrodski and Carolyn marais, Jodie Xavier. Basketball, Vargas placed first in the :;evChris Cariglia Award: Scott Jack- enth/ eighth grade category with a' son; best free throw percentage: performance of"Up on the HOlJseLynn St. Martin. Cheerleading top." coach's award: Carolyn Goff.

Fifth-graders ma'de gingerbread Ice hockey coach's award: John houses for Easter. They were disRobb; 'most improved award: Max played in the office and foyer this Becker. Winter track most valuaweek before students took tbem ble players: Matthew Emond, Peter . home for t~e holiday.

Morris, Danielle Valcourt; coach's Sixth-graders wrote rap songs awards: Mark Oliveira, Julie Wheusing concepts learned in religion lan. class. They are also composing Senior athletes Colleen Carney "mask" poems, which involve and Danielle Charest- represented writing from the perspective oJ: an Bishop Stang at last month's Masobject or animal. The poems will sachusetts celebration of National be penned on poster board.

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By Clulrlle Martin

HELPING HAND Everybody needs a helping hand Take a look at your fellow man And tell me what can I do today Everybody needs a helping hand If that ain't what it's all about Tell me what What can I do What can I do today We've all seen trouble From time to time There is a mountain ahead I've got no strength to climb If YOU'rE~ feeling like you're strong Reach out to me I hope tlhis journey won't take long But won't you please Have mercy I'm talking about The soul all alone Needin~: the daily bread Some place to lay his head And I'm talking about The neighbor on your street Won't )'OU look him in the eye Take time to speak That's mercy Love one another Sister and brother Love is the only way Written by Tommy Sims/Amy Grant/Beverly Darnall, sung by Amy Grant, (c) 1994 by Bases Loaded Music/ Ageto Age Musiclnc.

(AS CAP) AMY GRANT'S "Helping Easter is not just about a day Hand" is about miracles. The some 2,000 years in the past.

Easter is about today. Easter song is off her popular "House of Love" disc. It challenges us reminds us that we can create miracles' for others. to make miracles happen by reaching out to a "neighbor on I do not intend to talk about your street" and to "the soul all fine-sounding generalizations.

Rather, I want to talk about alone."

Easter is about miracles too your life and the power within - the miracle of new life. you to make definite changes in Do you have a miracle ready your small corner of our world. to give someone this Easter?

Look around. Who needs a

renewed touch of love? How can you turn Easter 1995 into an opportunity to give more of your time, concern and effort so that someone else can experience the miracle of genuine care?

Time spent with a grandparent, a peer who is struggling or a younger siblin 6 who needs encouragement is a way of saying that this person's life counts to you. This message is uplifting for others and helps to heal emotional pain.

Another way to create Easter miracles is to work with a group on fun and worthwhile programs. Here are ideas for a parish youth group, religious education class or some other group: 1. Many communities sponsor Habitat for Humanity projects. This ministry provides the miracle of a private home for a family who otherwise could never afford one. You don't need polished building skills to help out. Contact your local Habitat office to learn what your group could do.

2. Organize a fundraiser for an area agency that is helping others in some way. Be creative.

With your group's combined brain power, surely you can come up with a day's activity that is productive and fun.

3. Reach out to the forgotten in society. Few are more ignored than the people on death row. Ask your social studies or religion teacher how to obtain the names of these people. Then organize a group letter-writing party. Send your letters to these people in prison to let them know there are those who care about them.

Easter makes clear that the life of Jesus continues. Easter reminds us to live Jesus' message each day, creating miracles through the gift of a helping hand: Affirm all of life by showing that "love is the only way." .

Your commE~ntswelcOmed by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, IN 47635.

The Anchor Friday, April 14, 1995

By Amy Welborn If a girl's going out, and she dresses in a way that shows off her figure, what is she trying to communicate?

To a lot of boys, it's simple.

"She's saying that she wants to you know. That it's OK for the guy to .... you know what I mean. It's an invitation!"

Most girls are horrified when they hear this coming out of a boy's mouth.

"Are you crazy? The only thing she's trying to say is that she wants to look nice! She's not giving anyone permission to do anything!

What's wrong with you?"

What do boys and girls want and expect when they go out on dates? What are the rules? Tbis seemingly minor matter of a girl's wardrobe illustrates the challenges young people face in trying to answer those questions.

First, don't worry so much about what the other person on the date wants, but concentrate on your own behavior.

If you've firmly established your own boundaries and have integrated them into the way you think, it will show in the way you act. If you're clear in your own mind, you won't be misunderstood by anyone else.

Second, don't assume anything about the person you're going out with.

In discussing the clothing question, several girls maintained that if a guy has been raised right, he's not going to see a girl that way.

He's not going to look at the way she dresses, but concentrate on the kind of person she is. At the same time, they believed that while you should not be suspicious of every person you date, you shouldn't assume that they're focused only on your soul.

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As my informal survey in a Catholic high school showed, most of the guys admitted that they would see provocative dress as a definite signal of interest in something besides a discussion on life's meaning. It may not be fair, but there it is. People can easily misinterpret gestures, words and body language.

Third, to avoid the pitfall of faulty assumptions, people on a date need to communicate clearly.

It's best to start even before you go out, and try to spend your time with people who share your values.

If you can't talk honestly with your date about your feelings, maybe this isn't a person you need to be with anyway.

Finally, don't be stupid. Don't place yourself in situations that our grandparents used to call "occasions of sin." Help yourself out by staying a way from isolated locations.

Above all, don't drink alcohol.

Even a person with strong values can betray them without a second thought after a few beers. The next morning, however, second thoughts will visit him or her.

Temptations can be powerful. If you do fall, don't interpret your action as a first step on some inevitable road to ruin. Too often people think that a mistake is final.

Instead, seek forgiveness, seek support and start again. It can be done.' ' A college freshman I know tells me that out of the 25 girls on her dorm floor, only two are not on birth-control pills. It's tough to be strong in a world with such pressure.

So you have to develop your own inner strength and communicate your feelings clearly in word and action (including how you dress).

Sad as it may sound, don't assume that everyone you're with thinks the same way you do. Maybe they do, but again, maybe they don't. You'll never know if you don't ask.

Dance)- calls her career "gift from God" 'DES MOINES, Iowa (CNS)Whether she's dancing the lead role in "Snow White" or "Carmen," ballerina Bettina Imperial Sarmiento gives God the credit for + putting her there.

"It's a career that to me is basically a gift from God," said the dancer with Ballet lowa. "It's a gift in that I've been given this ability to dance, and now I must take it and develop it to the best of my abilities."

Ms. Sarmiento, a 21-year-old native of the Philippines and member of Sacred Heart Parish in West Des Moines, describes her dancing as a labor born of love anel commitment.

"You're always striving to reach this perfection which is never attainable as a dancer," she told The Catholic Mirror, the diocesan paper of Des Moines. "But you still strive every day for the perfect body type, the perfect lines, the perfect technique. You're always fighting with yourst:lf."

She is now in her third season with Ballet Iowa, the state's only professional ballet company. It is led by artistic director Konstantin Uralsky and his wife, ballet mistress Irina Vassileni-Uralsky, who were dancers with the world-renowned Bolshoi Ballet. Ballet Iowa

has received both local and national acclaim.

U ralsky first spotted Ms. Sarmiento when she was a student in San Francisco. Her parents had moved her and her two siblings there from the Philippines when she was 5.

At age 18, she was enrolled at the San Francisco Ballet School while also attending the Jesuit-run University of San Francisco. A 1991 graduate of Mercy High School in San Francisco, Ms. Sarmiento had planned to pursue a degree in aerospace engineering or physical therapy at the university, but changed her plans when Uralsky offered her a contract with Ballet Iowa.

Studying under Uralsky means using the Russian d~tnce technique which Ms. Sarmiento contends is not as harsh as the technique employed by most American ballet companies. She describes the approach as a daily "cleaning" process during which she works to eliminate faults from line and movement.

But it's not just about physical technique, she added. Equally important is her ability to portray the emotions of her characters to the audience. To accomplish this, she studies her characters with the

same level of intensity that she brings to her technique.

For example, while preparing for the role of the Spanish gypsy Carmen, Ms. Sarmiento traveled to Spain, watched a bullfight and had her fortune told just as her character had done.

"As a dancer, I'm constantly striving to lea.rn more for myself," she said. "I want to be able to experience as much of the dance world as I can, and to grow along with the piece and the character I portray."

Ms. Sarmiento says her Catholic faith sustained her during the more difficult times in her dance career, enabling her "to take a lot of the hardships that dancing brings and see them in a gentler light."

For her parents, Benjamin and Ireene Sarmiento, "nothing is more important to them than my religion."

"A lot of young people, when they leave home, their religion ends," she said. "But my parents helped me to develop a faith that is my own. Even away from my parents, my fait.h is st.rong."

GIFT OF GRACE: Ballerina Bettina Imperial Sarmiento performs in a Ballet Iowa production. (eNS photo)

16.THE .ANCHOR"--Diocese ofFall Riv~r-=--Fri.: April' 14; 1'995,

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HlV PREVENTION, LAKEVILLE A community forum on "What Works in HIV Prevention" will be held 4 to 7 p. m. April 19 at the Lakeville Dep~rtment of Environmental Protection, 20 Riverside Dr., at the Lakeville Corporate Park, second building. Further info'rmation: (617)727-0368. .

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM All welcome at an organ recital at 3 p.m. 'Sunday, May 7, at the church, 82 High St. At the two manual, 17 rank, Conrad Olsen pipe organ will be parish organist and music minister Philip Lowe Jr. The program will include "Trumpet Tune and Fanfare" by Purcell; "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" and "Toccata and Fugue . in d Minor" by Bach; and other 'selections.

OFFICE OF AIDS MINISTRY "Embracing the Mystery," a service of prayer and healing for persons living with HIV / AIDS, their family and friends and concerned others, 2 p.m. April 30, Holy Cross Church, FR. O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Catholic Daughters will meet noon April 18, parish center; information: Theresa Hebert, 394-8737. Loaves and Fishes group needs volunteers to make and ,serve lunches at Salvation Army in Hyannis on Saturdays; information: Gladys Usher, 896-5231, or Anne Mason, 385-6140.

CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB, NB Executive board meeting 7 p.m.

April 19, St. Lawrence rectory, NB. Bishop's Night 6:30 p.m. April 26, Hawthorne Country Club, N. Dartmouth. Reservations: Barbara Nobrega, 996-6387.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Prayer group potluck supper 6 p.m. April 22, parish center social room. Blood drive 5 to 8:30 p.m.

April 19, parish center. ' SS. PETER AND PAUL, FR An Easter egg hunt for children in first grade or younger will be held after II a.m. Mass Sunday. Father Mark Hession will speak on 'the health care ,proxy and euthanasia 7 p.m. April25, Father Coady Center.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLICS, CAPE Support group meeting 7 p.m.

April 23, St. Pius X parish center, S. Yarmouth. Clayton Barbeau video, "Surviving Life's Transitions," will be shown. Newcomers welcomed at 6:30 p.m. Information: Judy, 3629873, or Paula, 385-2693.

SACRED HEART, N.ATTLEBORO A parish prayer chain has been formed; to request prayers or to participate contact Patricia Desrochers, 695-2517; Eva Blake, 699-4820; or Marilyn Buck, 399-6109.

WALK FOR HUNGER, BOSTON The annual 20-mile Walk for Hunger, the nation's largest one-day fund raiser in support of food pantries, soup kitchens and homeless \helter feeding programs, will take place Sunday, May 7, beginning and ending at the Boston Common. Participants may walk the entire route or any part of it. 'Complete infor'ma c tion: Project Bread, tel. (617)7235000.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Easter Sunday sunri,se service and Mass with celebrant Father Richard Delisle 5:45 a.m., gathering at tomb at end of Stations of the Cross and continuing in Shrine Chapel. Easter celebration for children 2 p.m., gathering at Shrine Theater;' included will be egg hunt, music and,storytelling led by Father Delisle, Brother David Dumaine and members of LaSalette youth group. Information: 222-5410.

CURSILLO , Cursillo Movement Leaders' School 7:30 p.m. April 19, Bishop Connolly H.S., FR; all welcome.

ST. ANNE, FR Bishop O'Malley will preside at 103rd annual Solemn Way of the . Cross 7 tonight.

D. of I., NB Daughters of Isabella Hyacinth Circle 71 meeting 7:30 p.m. April 18; entertainment will be "An Evening in Portugal."

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Nine week novena in honor of the Divine Mercy ,will begin 6:30 p.m.

April25, parish center; information: Joan Provost, 699-2430. Feeding Our Future food collection April 22-23.

K. of c., FALMOUTH Knights of Columbus Council813 social meeting 6:30 p.m. April 18, business meeting 8 p.m.

Convergence seen WASHINGTON (CNS) - Lutherans and Roman Catholics have reached such a convergence of faith that they may soon be able to say the mutual condemnations of the 16th century no 'longer apply, says Archbishop Oscar H. lipscomb. The Mobile, Ala., archbishop delivered the inaugurallecture for establishment of the Carl J. Peter Chair in Theology at Catholic University of America.

Father Peter, who taught at Catholic University from 1964 until his, unexpected death at the age of 59 in 1991, was one of America's leading Catholic theologians and ecumenists and for 19 years a member of the U.S. Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialogue. Widely regarded as one of the best examples of Catholic-Protestant theological consultation anywhere in the world, the dialogue has broken new ground in Catholic-Lutheran agreement on justification by faith, the central doctrinal question behind the Reformation.

SANDY FARIA signs a Scripture reading during Ma~s at a day of recollection sponsored by the Diocesan Apostolate for Persons with Disabilities March 26 at Our Lady of Fatima parish, New ,Bedford. The program was led by Apontolate director Father Joseph Viveiros (right), and Deacon Marcel Morency of St. Anne's parish, New Bedford. (Kearns photo)

Christians full speed ahe:id on information highwa:r

BURLINGTON, VI. (CNS) ent translations of the same Bible In the dizzying array of new compassage . puter software and communicaCardinal Roger M. Mahony of ti'ons systems, a growing number Los Angeles says he regularly uses of products an'd services are comthe electronic New American Bible ing out to help churches and indion his computer when he is preparvidual Christians. ing a homily.

If St. Paul were alive today, he Charles Bugge of the U.S,.Cathmight be sending his Letter to the olic Conference Office of P'JblishRomans by electronic mail, known ingand Promotion Services, which as e-mail, or posting a copy on handles the copyright of the New Internet.

American Bible, said the elel:tronic At least 300 companies around version has been available f,or sevthe country are now marketing eral years. computer resources for religious An electronic edition of the believers and organizations, said "Catechism of the Cal holic Steve Hewitt, editor of Christian Church" is in the works, said Computing Magazine in Raymore, Richard W: Daw, Office ot' PubMo. lishing and Promotion Se:rvices In an interview with The Vermont Catholic Tribune in Burling- director. He said it will come out on diskettes and possibly a:.so on ton, Hewitt said software for CD-ROM. Christians falls into three main For religious educators there categories: Bible study and reare programs like biblical atlases search, church management and administration, and personal and , and programs to create work :.heets for students based on Scripture family values. lessons. And there are computer In addition, many Catholics and games to help children learn about other Christians are sharing their the Bible and their faith. faith or discussing questions about "We now have personal ;,nforFall R'iver District I of the it in the rapidly growing world of mation managers for Chri:;tians cyberspace, populated by compuDiocesan Council of Catholic that pull up your daily devotions, ter networks like America Online, Women will install officers for keep track of your Bible reading 1995 to 1997 at 7 p.m. Mass April Prodigy, Internet and World Wide and help schedule your prayer Web. 25 at Sacred Heart Church, Fall life," Hewitt added.

Hewitt said with 'parish adminRiver. Very Rev. 'Francis L. MaSome ,pastors use counseling honey, diocesan and district mod- istration software programs, par- software that helps them identify ishes can manage budgets, keep erator for the organization, will be problems and advise those who the installing officer and principa'l :church membership reco'rds, or come to them for assistance. even put a street map on screen celebrant at the Mass.

Some dioceses and religious To be seated are Vivian Cleary, showing where parishioners live. 'orders have established their own Voice messaging systems are also president; Carol Simmons, vice e-mail networks, either on their president; Lynette Ouellette, treas- popular, he said. One system, own or through existing commerurer;'Linda Mello, recording secre- ,Phone Tree, wiII call a selected list cial on-line networks. E-mail also of parish members automatically, tary; Debbie Mello, correspondprovides a way of contacting mising secretary. ' give them a recorded message, and , sionaries or overseas houses of 'record responses if needed.

A district meeting in the parish communities. ,hall will follow the Mass and inA pastor looking, for instance, Commercial networks such' as stallation. for three volunteers'for an activity CompuServe, Prodigy and Amercan program Phone Tree to stop ica Online carry forums and rdermaking further calls once three ence resources in religion either people have aweed to help. directly or through links with, InBible study software abounds. ternet or World Wide Web. Most programs have a word search Hewitt's magazine has mirrored that will let users find specific the computer industry's growth. words or phrases in an instant, From a list of 100 subscri'bers while programs such as'BibleWorks when it began in 1989, it has grown 'for Windows or HyperBible let to a nationwide circulation of users call up and compare:differ90,000.

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