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SMALL WORLD: Grade-schoolers from the diocese of Orange, Calif., welcome Catholic educators to the National Catholic Educational Association's 90th anniversary convention in Anaheim with a rendition of "It's a Small World." (CNS photo)

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School marketing deemed success at N CEA convention with CNS reports Schools in the Fall River diocese, as well as the dioceses of Orange, Calif., Charlotte, NC, and archdioceses of Washington and San Antonio, wefi~ cited at the April 4-7 National Educational Association Convention as top beneficiaries of the NCEA's nationwide marketing campaign for Catholic schools.

NCEA official Frank' Savage credited the campaign for two years of increasing Catholic school enrollment: a 9,000 nationwide increase for the 1993-·94 school year and a 16,000 increase for 1992-93.

The current Catholic school population is 2.6 million, based on reports to the NCEA from dioceses.

This year's convention held in Anaheim, Calif., and themed "U nity in Diversity: Embracing the Challenge," marked the NCEA's 90th anniversary. More than 12,000 educators took part in at least one day of the annual meeting, including Rev. Richard W. Beaulieu, dire<:tor of the Diocesan Department of Education; Sister Eugenia Brady, SJC; associate director of religious education; and about 25 diocesan teachers and principals.

At the convention, the NCEA unveiled the mark(:ting campaign's new slogan, "Catholic Schools: Schools You Can Believe In," and discussed future marketing strategies. Previously an "in-house" effort, the campaign will now be

aimed beyond Catholic students and their parents, said Mercy Sister Lourdes Sheeh;m, secretary of the tJ .S. Catholic Conference Department of Education.

Savage said that the slogan, buttressed by the stylized image of a child running with a book, will be for Catholic education what the "golden arches" are for McDonald's, an instantly-recognized logo.

The million-dollar campaign is financed at least in part by the sale of marketing kit$ plus T-shirts, buttons and similar items bearing the logo.

So many sales were rung up from the 1993-94 Catholic Schools Week in January that a modest surplus is expected, said Sister Sheehan. That surplus will be directed into the 1994-95 marketing campaign.

Schools in the Fall River diocese have been be'nefiting for over a decade from the marketing campaign's strategies for fundraising, school promotion and recruitment of students, said Father Beaulieu.

Implementation of marketing began in the early 1980s with the Capital Campaign for Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton, and "by 1985 all four ,diocesan high schools had development and marketing people in place," he said. Between 1988 and 1990 the. strategies were introduced to the elementary schools as well, so that

all principals are now involved in the campaign on some level.

Marketing, Father Beaulieu said, in'volves "telling our story" to promote the positive aspects of Catholic schools. "We tell our stories very well in parishes. But marketing goes beyond the parish bulletin to get the information to the wider community."

Regional marketing of diocesan schools has included supplements in local newspapers as well as TV and radio spots, he said., Success can be measured in the steady rise in elementary school enrollment, which in turn anticipates a future rise in the currently stable high school enrollment.

Toward that end, "there has been a real effort to coordinate curriculum" among elementary schools so students going on to the same Catholic high school will have the same academic background.

Success can also be measured in the pending opening of two new Catholic elementary schools on Cape Cod, which have received inquiries from parents whose children will not be old enough to, enroll for several years, said Father Beaulieu.

Unity in Diversity Addressing the conference's theme, Bishop Wilson D. Gregory of Belleville, Ill., said that creating unity ami~, diversity "is not an easy endeavor.

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For the first time in its 53-year history, the annual Catholic Charities Appeal was launched with a liturgy Wednesday night at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River.

Priests representing the diocese's '112 parishes concelebrated the Mass with Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap. Hundreds of dedicated laypersons joined the clergy in the faith witness to the special care and concern provided in the many crucial services funded by the Appeal.

Focusing on this year's CCA ,theme, "God Calls Us to Sacrifice and Generosity," the liturgy emphasized the spiritual call that all the faithful have to care for those served by the apostolates which depend on the Appeal.

John P. Urban of Christ the King parish, Mashpee, lay chairman of the Appeal, addressed the assembly at the end of the Mass, which will be broadcast on WLNETV Channel6 8 to 9 a. m. May I. Distribution of funds from the 1993 Catholic Charities Appeal is detailed on page 3.

Special Gifts Special Gifts, the first phase of the Appeal, begins on Monday, April 18. Over 250 volunteer Special Gifts solicitors will make over

3000 visits to professional, fraternal, business and industrial organizations throughout Southeastern Massachusetts.' All are serving at' the invitation of Bishop Sean P. O'Malley.

"I thank the Special Gifts volunteer solicitors on behalf of Bishop O'Malley for their willingness to launch this year's Special Gift Phase of the Appeal," Urban said. "I ask that all contacts be made starting April 19. The solicitors are to make their returns to their respective area directors as soon as they have been received. The final date of this phase is April 30."

Rev. Daniel L. Freitas, Diocesan Director of the Appeal, urged the professional, fraternal, business and industrial groups to continue their generosity in an increased measure this year because the needs are greater than ever. He noted that services provided by the apostolates and ministries of the diocese are for the benefit of all who live in the area.

The theme of this year's Appeal reflects the work of the 52 previous Appeals, in which diocesans have generously shared their time and made material sacrifices for the benefit of those in need, he said, adding that the Appeal is the only hope of many in need throughout Southeastern Massachusetts.

Sti1!te bishops oppose e1~pif.lnsion of gambling The Ma$$achusetts Catholic

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loWing statement, approved by the diocesan bishops oj Fall River, Worcester, Springfield and Boston, regarding expansio,noj gambling in the state.

The expansion of the state's dependence upon gambling is a current and critical issue which we are compelled to address.

We oppose the proposed expansion ()f gambling in the Commonwealth.

Our C"lIrch sees gambling as so,methingneutraI, a legitimate recreatlo?alactivity when done ill 'P()d~l\~t,on ••. H()w.ever, we also see t~~t in gambling, there are •. dang~rs. and abuses that warrant~'gilanceandconcern.

We appreciate why the state is considering additional money from garhbling to fund services to peopk;. We acknowledge that many of our own educational and charitable programs have become dependent upon bingo and other games of chance. Our hope is that better stewardship will supplant dependency on these sources of revenue.

Casillo/ riverboat gambling will raise gambling to a new level in our Commonwealth. In additiol1, it can also encourage addietiv~ gambling. The state should riot depend on gambling for resoflrces to pay for needed services: We ui'ge our state legislators to vote against these proposals.

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Holocaust remembered at Vatican VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A were killed simply because they passion for justice and a rejection were Jews. ·"The candles that will burn' as of all forms of discrimination are the only worthy human responses we listen to the music will keep to the Holocaust of 6 million Jews before us the long history of antiin Nazi death camps, Pope John Semitism which culminated in the Shoah," the pope said.

Paul II said.

"But it is not enough that we Survivors of Nazi concentration camps lighted a menorah in the remember; for in our own day, Vatican's audience hall as the pope, regrettably, there are ma,:\y new flanked by the chief rabbi of Rome manifestations of the anti-Semand the president of Italy, arrived itism, xenophobia and racial hatred for a concert to commemorate the which were the seeds of those unspeakable crimes," he said.

Shoah, or Holocaust.

U.S. actor. Richard Dreyfuss "Humanity cannot permit all recited the "Kaddish," a Jewish that to happen again," the pope prayer for the dead, during the said. solemn concert April 7, the day He told the group that he hoped when Jews around the world rem- the concert would be another step ember those who were slaughtered toward consolidating good relaby the Nazis. tions between Catholics and Jews The hourlong concert by the "so that with the help of almighty Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of God we can work together to preLondon, conducted by Gilbert vent the repetition of such heinous Levine, opened with Max Bruch's evil."

"Kol Nidre," the ceptral prayer of At the audience, Rabbi· Rudin Yom Kip'pur, the Jewish day of told the pope, "today we join atonement. Levine, who has con- together as Jews and as Roman ducted other papal concerts, is a Catholics to commemorate an event Jew'ish American whose mother- whose very definition transcends in-law survived Auschwitz, the Nazi human words." death camp.

"We must turn to the divine gift "The melodies and songs which of music to form a mystical bond resounded in this hall were expres- of remembrance between heaven sions of a common meditation and and earth, betwe'en life and death, a shared prayer," the pope said at between past and future," he said. the end o( the concert.

The rabbi thanked "the pope for' Pope John Paul said Jews im- his repeated condemnations of anti-' prisoned by the Nazis during World Semitism, for his efforts to'improve War II "passed through a dark relations between Catholics and desert in which the fountain of Jews and for the !lite December love itself seemed to have dried start of formal diplomatic' relations between 'the -Vatican and up." .'"

The lament of the victims di'd Israel. not die with them, the pope said. H Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy" remains "strong, filled with yearn- . president of the Vatican Commising, heartfelt, and says: 'Do not sion for Religious Relations with forget us.' It is addressed to each the Jews, told Vatican 'Radio that and everyone of us. the process toward full diplomatic "We have a task; the only one, relations has made it easier for perhaps, able to give sense to every . Catholics and Jews to work totear shed by man because· of man ·gether. '. . and to explain it," the pope said.

"I 'think that this concert is "We have seen 'with our. own another sign that our relations eyes, we have been· and are wit- have improved greatly in the past n~sses of the violence and hatred few years," he said. which all too oft.en· is sparked in the world and rapidly inflames it," he said. .

"We have seen and see peace derided, brotherhood mocked, agreement neglected and mercy Msgr. Francis J. Gilligan, a sc.orned," the pope said. ' native' of St. Mary's Catheral . parish, Fall River, celebrates '''We risk making the victims of . his 96th birthday April 26. A the most atroCious deaths die again priest for nearly ,70 years,- he if we do not have a passion for was ordained on Christmas Eve ju'stice and if we do no.t commit 1924 and shortly after became' ourselves, each according to their one of "three wise men from the own ability, "to making sure that East" who went to the archdioevil does not. prevail over good as cese of St. Paul and Minneapohappened with millions of sons lis, Minn., in response to a .and daughters of the Jewish people." . '" request for priests from the late Archbishop Austin Dowling.

Earlier in the day the pope met The others, both now deceased, with Rabbi James Rudin of the became Bishop James L. ConAmerican Jewish Committee, a nolly of Fall River and Archbigroup of Jewish leaders and others shop William O. Brady of St. who helped organize the concert.

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The pope told the group that no one can remain indifferent to the Msgr. Gilligan for 29 years reality of the Holocaust and to taught at'St. Paul's Seminary, other situations in which Jews then was pastor of SL Mark's parish, one of the archdiocese's largest. He was active in labor 1)111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111· and interracial justice organizaTHE ANCHOR (USPS-545-020), Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River. Mass, tions, to the point that it was "Published weekly except the week of July 4 suggested that the public accomand the week after Christmas at 887 Highmodations section of the 1964 land Avenue. Fall River. Mass. 02720 by Civil Rights Act be named "Gilthe Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall ligan's Law." River. Subscription price by mail. postpaid $11.00 per year. Postmasters send addn:ss He directed the archdiocesan

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CONVENTION PREPARATIONS: Diocesan Council of Catholic Women parliamentarian Mrs. Vivian Cleary (left) and organizational services commission chair Mrs. Colette Waring construct badges for delegates to the annual DCCW convention, to be held May 14 at St. John of God parish center, Somerset. The badge designs reflect the International Yea.r of the Family.

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Sessions on new catechism set Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, "A Primer for the Catechism of the Catholic Church," a four-part . and will consider the structure and adult education series, will be of-, implementation of the catechism.

The presenter will be Msgr. Fran-[ered at four diocesan locations 7 cis Kelly, an authority on the to 9·p.m. Mondays April 25, May subject.

2 and 9, and Tuesday, May 17, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.lli.

The English-language edition of the catechism is scheduled for pubOn April 25 Father Charles Jodoin will speak on "Founda- lication June 22.

To register for any or all of the tions of Sacramental Life" ,at St. programs, contact the education -Mary's parish, South Dartmouth. department at 423 Highland Ave., He is parochial vicar at St. Patrick's Fall River 02720, tel. 678-2828. parish, Fall River. , On May 2 Father Mark Hession will speak on "Foundations of Moral Life" at Our Lady of Victory parish, Centerville. He is parochial vicar at St. Mary's parish, New Bedford. , On May 9 Rev. Robert A. Oliveira, Sister Elaine Heffernan, R~M, and Sister Eugenia Brady, SJC, all of the staff of the Diocesan Department of Education, will offer a panel on "Foundation of Spiritual Life." .The May 17 theme will be "Catechism of the Catholic Church:. . Nostalgia or Renewal?" The daylong. workshop will be held at

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Germans debate: is God in or out?

BONN, Germany (CNS) Debate is continuing in Germany over whether God should remain. in the country's new constitution.

A parliamentary commission examining the question has concluded that God should stay put. , The issue now goes to a parliamentary committee for a final decision.

At stake is a single clause in the document's preamble which. declares the German people to be "conscious of their responsibility' before God and man."

After taking the oath of office, the German chancellor is constitutionally allowed to add the words "so' help me God." But critics say mention of the Deity has no place in a demo-. cratic, secular society.

Following its reunification 'in 1990, Germany's religious balance changed.

In the old West Germany, the number of mostly Lutheran Protestants did not greatly exceed the number of Catholics and most West Germans, despite low attendance at services, retained some links to their churches.

But reunion brought in many nonbelievers from the atheistic former communist East Germany.

Of the East's 17 million citizens, only 4.25 percent profess religious affiliation.

The German churches have supported retaining the reference tothe Almighty, arguing that the' fact of mentioning God in the constitution does not place nonbelievers outside its protections and pointing out that when the postWorld War II constitution was devised, reference to .a· higher being was introduced to help prevent return of aNazi-style dictatorship.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Wednesday at St. Mary's Chapel, Stonehill College, North Easton, for Father Ger:lld E. Con my, CSC, 64, who died unexpectedly April6 at the Holy Cross Fathers residence in Cocoa Beach, Fla. He was associate pastor at St. Ann's parish in DeBary, Fla., where a funeral Mass wa;, celebrated April 9.

Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa" May 5, 1929, he was the son of fle late Anthonyand Loretta (Kelly) Con. my. He entered the Holy Cross community in 1947 at Our Lady of the Holy Cross Seminary in North Easton, pronounced first vows in 1950 and was ordained in 1956.

His first assignment was as vocations director at the North Easton ,seminary. In 1962 he began conducting parish renewals and religious retreats with the Eastern Mission Band, based in North Dartmouth.

• He served as chaplain cf the Newman Club at Bridgewater State.

College and chaplain at St. Raphael's Hospital, New Haveri, Conn., before being named pastor at St. Mary's .parish, Brandon, Vt., in 1978.

Later he was' chaplain a.t St. Francis Hospital, Hartford, Conn., anp Saint Anne's Hospital, Fall River.

In 1982 he was assigned as associate pastor at St. Ann's parish in DeBary. He served at Our La.dy of the Assumption parish in Osterville in 1984 and 1985, then returned to .the DeBary parish. . Father Conmy was a popular preacher ofyoiJth retreats and par- : ish renewals.

He was predeceased by two brothers, Fathers Raymond (;onmy, CSC, a'nd Anthony ConDy of the diocese of Scranton, Pa. :He is survived by two brothers, Father Thomas Conmy, CSC, and Robert Conmy of Wilkes-Barre; two sisters, Mrs. Catherine Menighan of Wilkes-Barre and Mrs. -Agm:s 0' Malley of Scranton; and n::eces and nephews.

Coping with loss is conference tOltic S~int ,Anne's Hospital and the Hudner Oncology Center in Fall River' will present the program "Living With Loss; Healing With Hope" noon to 4:30 p.m. April29 in the hospital's N'annery Conference Room, located in Clemc:nce Hall'.

Presenter Dr. Earl A. Grollman will address such topics as trauma of loss related to divorce, reiocation, financial problems, terminal illness, or death of a loved one; feelings, interpretations and responses, to loss; self-help coping methods; and special issues rela.ted to terminal illness.

Dr. Grollman, a pioneer in the field of crisis intervention, was rabbi of Beth El Temple Center in Belmont before retiring in 198'7 to devote himself to writing and lecturing. Author of 20 b'ooks, he is the host of the cable television show'" Matters of Life and Death," has appeared on national te1l:vision and radio programs and is a frequent seminar speaker.

Registration information is available from Saint Anne's Hospital Education Department, '795 Middle St., Fall River 02721, tel.

674-5600 ext. 2480.

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Rwan'da' 'v'iolence clouds synod opening ,',' '

VATlCAN CITY (CNS) - Pope I John Paul II pleaded with the I people of Rwanda to stop a "catasI trophic wave" of ethnic and political violence that has reportedly I left over 20,000 killed and thouI sands more wounded.

I The pope also urged the international community to take any acI tion necessary to stem the bloodletting in the densely populated I nation on the eastern edge of Central Africa. Among those slain in the capital city of Kigali were eight priests and nine Catholic Tutsi I women, whom the pope called "innocent victims of an absurd hatred."

At a Mass April 10 to open the African Synod of Bishops, the pope appealed to all It wandans: "Stop these acts of violence! Stop I

these tragedies! Stop these fratricidal massacres'" Because of the fighting, R wandan bishops were not at thesynod's opening. Reports from R wanda said hospitals were overflowing with dead and wounded, and death squads continued to' engage in indiscriminate killing and selective assassination.

"It is an unspeakable drama: the assassinations of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi; the massacre of the head of the Rwanda government a.nd her family; the killing of priests ana men and women religious," said the pope'.

News reports said army troops, presidential guards and police, joined by gangs of youths, participated in the bloodletting in Kigali.

Among those reported killed were

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1993 Catholic Charities Appeal I. TOTAL RECEIVED, 1993 Appeal II. DISBU RSEMENTS, Made or Allocated Fiscal Year Beginning July I, 1993

$2,226,973.22

2. APOSTOLATES TO THE SICK a. Pastoral Ministry to the Sick

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3. EDUCATION a. Diocesan Education Center b. Scholarship Aid Program c. High School Capital Expenses --Connolly 60,000.00 -Stang 50,000.00

I PREPARING FOR THE Special Gifts phase of the ~nnual Catholic Charities Appeal in the Fall River area are Rev. John F. Andrews, left, assistant area director for the Appeal, Bishop Sean O'Malley, and Rev. Daniel L. Freitas, diocesan and Fall River area director. (Gaudette photo)

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International leaders should try to help in "any way that may be able to curb all this destruction and death," he said. The day before the pope made the remarks, France began airlifting troops to the R wandan capital.

In a message to the country's bishops, the pope urged them to stay close to their people and help restore hope to the nation.

He implored Rwandan Catholics not to give in to sentiments of hatred and reprisal. .

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Catholic Charities: Making a Difference As we once more prepare to launch our annual diocesan Catholic Ch~rities appeal it should be more than evident that the agencies financed by the diocese have experienced dramatic changes. The world we live in is ever in flux. So are the demands made upon those who are called to serve. The problems and difficulties experienced in our social order are many and challenging: addiction, violence, abuse and AIDS, to name but a few. Many of today's needs either did not exist a generation ago or we're not allowed to surface. Even when problems have been with us for ages, new approaches are needed for new times.

Changes in the work of the church agencies are shaped and molded by changes in their financial support. Some agencies have adopted service fees; -others receive government assistance. However, in the vast majority of cases donations are th.e heart of Catholic charitable services.

This is especially true in a countr-y where government can't fund state needs. Government funding of private agencies is subject to parameters of service and built-in restrictions; red tape can delay or fragment implementation of needed services.

Furthermore, agencies that receive government money may find themselves vulnerable to political decisions that often are in conflict with church teachings. The attempt by the current administration to include tax supported abortions in the national health care plan is but one example.

Church agencies depend on free will gifts and support ifthey are to maintain their freedom. Apostolates with private funding are often able to develop specialized services that have not yet been recognized as public responsibilities --AIDS hospice centers, for instance. That is not to say that public agencies programs': Howeve,r, never innovate or devel~p ~'xperimental l privately-funded church agencies - not having fa wait for legislation to be passed -- are often in a better position to act quickly in meeting new challenges.

These challenges are to be seen in the battered faces of children, the toothless grins of the homeless, the glazed vision of the addict, the indifferent stare of the Alzheimer's patient, the sense of despair so often found in prison and the confusion of immigrants as they seek a new life; These are the many faces of Catholic Charities.

With this in mind let's try to do our very best to support this year's Cathplic Charities Appeal. The diocesan agencies that this campaign funds help t.he needy and hurting. By helping to . assure proper funding of those programs we expand the church's mission to serve the least of our brothers and sisters.

Last Sunday, the opening reading of the liturgy from the Acts of the Apostles reflected that the community of believers were of one mind and one heart. If we are to reflect the church of the apostles we must have the service spirit and be willing to share what the Lord has given to us giving not merely from our bounty but also from our need'. Every effort and every dollar that is shared by the community helps,us all to be ministers 'to people who truly deserve our care and 路concern. That's why CatholiC Charities has soul. And isn't that what all the brethren should be concerned about?

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"They do not sow nor reap, they gather nothing into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them...will he not provide much more for you?"

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New Catholics inspire cradle variety WASHINGTON (CNS) - Despite all the bad news about church sex scandals and priestly misconduct, the Catholic Church also harbors an often"overlooked source of good headlines: the process that apriually helps thousands of Americans find their way to God and the Catholic Church.

That's the assessment of Father James B. Dunning, founder of the Washington-based North American Forum on the Catechumenate.

In a telephone interview with Catholic News Service. Father Dunningcommented on the nationwide phenomenon of thousands of new Catholics joining the church during the Lenten-Easter season. the traditional time for neophytes -to become ftill-f1edged members of . the Christian community.

Their enthusiasm is often "good for [cradle) Catholics," he said.

"Sometimes they don't see beyond these cases" [of scandal that grab national attention). .

But the truth and a source of gre~t hope is that yearly thousands. of Americans join the church, the' human imperfections of some of its followers notwithstanding, Father Dunning said.

A priest of the Seattle archdiocese, he became involved in his specialized ministry following the / 1972 issuance ofthe Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA).

Although developed from methods used by modern European missionaries working in. Africa, RCIA is based on early Christian church customs for catechetical formation and reception of adult converts.

Trained in France, Father Dunning began advising U.S. Catholic

groups, and then, responding to The RCIA includes a series of numerous requests for a national' liturgical rites, culminating ::n the network of assistance, established Easter Vigil celebration ofthe sacthe North American Forum in raments of baptism, confirmation 1981. and first Eucharist.

"I thought we'd do four or five "The catechumenate give!: us a years of this. and then self-destruct model where people can mt:et in - go out of business." he said of small groups and share their faith," his organization. Instead. he said.

Father Dunning said. "it just burgeoned." He estimated During the early days of the that the forum has reached at least church, when Christians. wert: per60.000 people through its work- secuted, it was crucial for new shops and similar programs. "N ow.. members to become closely bonded people are telli ng us: 'Y ou are to a small community of l:hose probably here for a good long who would stand by one another, while,''' he said. even to the point of death, he People still seek out the church explained. in large numbers, he said. For The concept of a small faith example, some 2,400 new Catholcommunity took root in somewhat different form in the early monasicsjoined the church in Chicago in teries. he added.

1993 and nationwide, 47 dioceses, about 'one-fourth of those in the , He noted that not all potential country, that responded to a 1991 new Catholics need yearlong t:ainCatholic News Service surve'y re- ing. Candidates from other Chrisported some 23,400 catechumens tian churches often already posand candidates participatipg in sess strong faith, thus "can be ,diocesan rites. received any time of year."

Father Dunning said that new Recent years have seen the arriCatholics generally fall into thr.ee val of another group: Catholics categories: . . who parted company with thl~ in.' ~ those who have never .been stitutional church at some poi:~t in Christians; who usually enroll in a their lives but now seek to retlJrn. yearlong catechumenate; Th.ey include not only those who - those baptized as Christians consider themselves to have been but ne.ver really raided in the sinful in some way, but also those Christian faith; . , who were "angry with the church, - those who have been practic- wounded by the church," he said. ing Christians. in such churches as . For them the North American the Episcopalian or Lutheran.

Forum has developed an outreach Early in Lent, those preparing called Re-Membering. to become Catholics that Easter Different Doors enter a final period of preparation.

When one door of happiness Catechumens declare their desire to be initiated into the church, closes another opens; but often we while those already Christians cite look so long at the closed door their desire to enter into the full that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. - Helen Keller life of the church.

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Luke 24:35-·48 In a significant break with tradition, Luke centers Jesus' postresurrection appearances in Jerusalem. Because his main source Mark, speaks only about appear~ ances in Galilee, Luke must have had a good reason for this shift.

He had the best reason any evangelist could have: theology.

Though their writings certainly contain some historical information, our four evangelists never set out to produce a biography of Jesus. They're primarily theologians, not historians. They're more concerned with conveying the meaning of what happened than in passing on an accurate narrative of what happened.

We probably wish the evangelists had copied the style of I John, saying what they meant in a way everyone could understand.

Thoug.h John wrote for a people who lived 1,900 Yl:ars ago, his words are still relevant to us today.

No one has ever misinterpreted this famous passage: "The way we can be sure of our knowledge of him [Jesus] is to keep his commandments. Whoever claims '1 h~ve known him,' without keep'ing hIs commandments, is a liar."

But gospels are different. They create problems for us who emphasize "the facts." We'd be more comfortable reading them as we read history; building our faith on the certainty that Jesus actually said and did everything Matthew, Mark, Luke and John tell us he said and did.

Many of us simply don't know how to deal with a theological work. We've developed criteria for determining whether history has been reported accurately or inaccurately, but we don't know how to separate good theology from bad, or how to recognize when it applies to us or not.

Unlike historians, the evangelists start their literary projects by reflecting on the present, not the past. Alert to whatever's happening in the communities for which they write, they're concerned with history only in as far'as it clarifies and enhances the heliefs and actions of those around them. Luke's Jesus, for instance, shows his disciples his hands and feet and even eats a piece of fish on Easter Sunday night - proving he's real and ,not a ghost ~ because Luke's

DAilY READINGS April 18: Acts 6:8-15; Ps 119;23-24, 26-27, 29-30; In 6:22-29 April 19: Acts 7:51-8:1; Ps 31:3-4,6-8,17,21; In 6:30-35 April 20: Acts 8:1-8; Ps 66:1-7; In 6:35-40 April 21: Acts 8:26-40; Ps 66:8-9,16-17,20; In 6:44-51 April 22: Acts 9:1-20; Ps 117:1-2; In 6:52-59 April 23: Acts 9:31-42; Ps 116:12-17; In 6:60-69 April 24: Acts 4:8-12; Ps 118:1,8-9,21-23,26,29; 1 In 3:1-2; In 10:11-18

By FATHER ROGER KARBAN community needs such reassurance.

Likewise. when Jesus says. "Recall those words I spoke to you when'l was still with you: everything written ab~ut me in the law of Moses and the prophets and psalms had to be fulfilled," he's actually addressing Christians in the evangelist's community in the 80s, not his original disciples on the ni'ght of his resurrection.

Luke reinforces ~his concept in today's Acts pericope, having Peter 'proclaim, ~'God has brought to fulfillment by this means what he announced long ago through all the prophets: that his Messiah would suffer." Obviously he thought tht: readers of his double volume work needed to be far more familiar with the Hebrew Scriptures than they were.

This desire to ground his community's Christian faith in iis Jewish origins seems to be one of the reasons Luke revolves so much of his gospel and Acts,around Jerusalem. He finds meaning even in the pattern of evangelization. "Penance for the remission of sins is to be preached to all the nations," Jesus announces, "beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of this." Luke tranfo~ms a geographic place into a theological concept.

Though modern Scripture scholars reject the idea that the Hebrew Scriptures contain the predictions and the Christian Scriptures the fulfillment, they, like Luke, believe that we can't truly understand Jesus without appreciating the Jewish faith he professed. Instead of rejecting Judaism, the Lord lived it so completely that he became the embodiment of everything the prophets and law envisioned the perfect Jew being. Those who doubt this need only read any of the late Carroll Stuhlmueller's writings to realize how shallow Christianity is when it rejects its Jewish roots.

And should anyone doubt that this part of Luke's theology is still relevant, I ask you to name all the readings from the Hebrew Scriptures which were part of our Sunday liturgical cyCle before the reforms of 1970.

Suicide lamented OTTAWA (CNS) - Canadian bishops have exp'ressed sadness at the docto'r-aided death of Sue Rodriguez. a handicilPped Canadian woman famous for her campaign to legalize assisted suicide. "We respected Ms. Rodriguez and sympathized with her in what were very painful and compelling personal circumstances," the bishops said, but added that "we could not support her request that the courts suspend the existing law. which makes it a crime for a third party to participate in a suicide." The bishops' statement. came as Canadian police sought the unidentified doctor who helped Mrs. Rodriguez kill herself.

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discussing"questions as important ~s the transmission of life, the family, the material and moral development of societies," the pope said.

"It is very important not to weaken man, his sense of the Sacredness of life, his capacity for love and self-sacrifice," he told the president. . "Here we are speaking of sensitive issues, issues upon which our societies stand or fall," he said.

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the statement in his 1992 book "Earth in the Balance." , Ms. Greenwald urged the United Nations to emphasize "real tools for empowerment": better education, more efficient health care and job training for wom'en in developing nations.

When women have adequate health care and enough money to support themselves, population tends to stabilize, Ms. Greenwald said. .

"Women should not be expected to assume the responsibility for so~ving the problems of poverty by bemg told or expected to limit the number of children they bring into the world," she added. "This can only lead to further abuses upon the dignity, rights and self-determination of women worldwide."

Some 2,000 people attending the World Conference on Love.

Life and the Family in Irvine, Calif.. unanimously approved a resolution criticizing the U.N. document April 9. The California meeting was sponsored by Human Life International, which describes itself as "the world's largest prolife missionary organization."

The document also drew strong criticism from the Catholic Campaign for America, a group working to increase Catholic influence on public policy.

Thomas V. Wykes, executive director of the campaign, said the document's treatment of marriage and family life was "a particularly insulting gesture during what the U. N. has declared the International Year of the Family."

ROME (CNS) - Pope John Paul II told President Clinton that the draft document for a U.N. conference on population and development could threaten humanity because of its support for abortion and its views of sexuality.

The pope. in a letter to Clinton, called the draft document for the International Conference on Population and Development "a disturbing surprise." .

Adding to objections to the draft The letter was part of a continudocument was the National Couning papal crusade against the doccil of Catholic Women. ument drawn up for the September Supporting population control conference in Cairo, Egypt.

Meeting the secretary-general of is "not an effective way to eliminate poverty or to empower women the conference March 18, the pope in Third World nations." accordoutlined his objections to the draft ing to NCCW president Rita document. Later in the month, the Greenwald.

Vatican called together diplomats to explain its objections to them.

"As an organizati~n which foIn his Easter Sunday message, cuses many of its efforts on develthe pope said he would be writing opment in Third World nations, to all heads of state to explain his we are concerned that the soluconcerns about threats to family tions being considered are both life during the 1994 International short-sighted and infringe upon Year of the Family. the individual rights of women in The pope asked Clinton to the Third World to self-deter"reflect deeply and in conscience" mination," Ms. Greenwald said in on the Cairo document's attitudes a statement released AprilS. Pretoward sexuality, marriage' and paratory meetings for the Cairo abortion. , conference began April 4 and are The agenda of the Cairo meet- scheduled to continue through ing. he said, will touch on issues April 23. important for the future of human"We agree with Vice President ity, "including the well-beingand develGore when he said: 'Simply [AI] opment of peoples, the growth of fl?oding a nation with condoms, work population, the rise of the IUDs and sterilization operpIlls, median age in some industrialized make little difference in ations will countries, the fight against disease birth rates,'" she added.

Gore made and the forced displacement of whole peoples."

When looking at those issues, DIRECTOR OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION the importance and the rights of the family must be protected and 'St. J.ohn the Ev~gelist Parish in Attleboro is seeking promoted, the pope said. applIcants for DIrector of Religious Education for K-9 "Civil authorities have a duty, in program with 650 students. Education degree or ~quivaeffect, to strive to promote the lent with experience in religious education required. harmonious growth of the family, not only from the point of view of Applications being accepted until May 15, 1994. its social vitality, but also from Address inquiries t o : ' . that of its moral and spiritual DRE Search Committee health," he said.

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By ANtOINETTE BOSCO

I worry that we've become too sensitive about being politically' correct about children's stories we used to consider timeless classics.

It seems more and more that the view of childhood as a time to explore the world, with wonder and joy is being lost.

Consider how important it has become that stories for kindergarten tots be "politically correct."

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Must children's stories be politically correct? about various "isms" that we've thrown out fairy-tale escapism, to say nothing of magical imagination.

I remember someone a few years ago showing me a guidebook for teachers titled" Anti-Bias Curriculum." It advised teachers how to explain certain well-known stories to children.

For example, if a: witch is involved, as in ,"Hansel and Gretel," the guidebook advises teachers to explain the witches are "not evil hags. They suffered from prejudice and were actually good women who used herbal remedies to help people."

A school principal on Long Island, N.Y., recently canceled a production of "Peter Pan" being put on by the children. His.worry?

He thought this old, funny and classic work might be offensive to

the Shinnecock Indians, who live not too' far from the school.

Well, you might concede that the Native 'people in this musical version may"not come across as noble characters, perticularly when they sirig "Uhga-Wuhga Meatball." Or you might think it's just a way for everybody - including. the Indians - to have some

Father, called a doxology, was part of very early Christian liturgy, probably because a similar prayer had already been common in Jewish worship for centuries.

Until moveable type p,rinting was invented in the J 5th century, Bible texts were preserved by a long succession of hand-written' copies, usually produced in monasterie's with large rooms devoted solely to this purpose.

It's not surprising that changes in the text would occur over the centuries. Copying texts by hand day after day was incredibly tedious and tiring. A letter or word might easily be overlooked, or ' shifted to another spot.

:~More than' t~ai, p]rhaps'ou(of devotion or just t.o break the monotony, monks who copied a Gospel, for instance, frequently

for herself or taking charge of her grams believe relaxation should be own life.l' "the fourth R." But the Journal Clearly, by age 5 or 6, a boy or also noted that some parents were girl should be cutting out the protesting the use of relaxation nonsense of fairy godmothers and techniques, worried that they were pumpkins and glass slippers. a form of mind control and could undermine parental autho:,ity.

Childr~n should be getting down to business about the real, and But shouldn't the greater ,;oncern maybe insidious message, in this be that children are so stressed out old tale. that'schools believe they have to The Wall Street Journal ran a add that fourth R? Whatever story titled "Relaxation Classes happened to childhood, that careRile Many Parents." It seems that free time? some elementary school children . It seems childhood is an endanare so stressed out these days that gered concept. Certainly these many schools are now ~adding a, , tender years are no longer !;een, as "relaxation teacher" to help Rudyard Kipling expressed it, as a children "take a guided-imagery "time to frivol." tour of a happy, magical place" in Sadly, we've moved far away order to help them reduce stress from the innocent age expressed and get rested.

by Charlott,e Bronte a century and The Journal story said that edu- a half ago: "We wove a web in cators promoting relaxation pro- childhood, a web of sunny air. .."

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The sChool educators apparently had only one thing in mind.

They want to be politically correct so as to avoid any possibility of protests. . As for "Cinderella," one preschool teacher was reported in The New Republic to have said one should "confront" any youngster who enjoys this fairy tale by saying, "This story is no't fun for me.

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As manuscript evidence and This is what hppened to the Our Father. Somewhere along the line, scholarship developed, it eventually became clear that the addimonks began adding the final doxology as a gloss after the Lord's tion,. was not genuinely part of Prayer in Matthew (6:9-13). Even- Scripture, but was inserted later. tually it moved in to become part All major Bibles today pubof the Gospel text. lished '. under Protestant auspices Such was the situation when the omit the doxology from the King James authorized translation Gospel text and refer to it, ifat all, was published in 161 I. The scholars only in a, footnote as an unwho' prepared that ~ranslation , authentic addition to the Bible simply did not know about the text.

Bible translations under Catholic auspices have never included the sentence. , We Catholics do, of course, continue the ancient liturgical practice even today as we S,:ly this prayer of praise at Mass, shortly after the Our Father.

The doxology in question never appeared in the Lord's Prayer as Luke has it, which is significantly different from Matthew, and even more unlike the Our Father in present use ,among Christians.

A free brochure answering questions Catholics ask ;Ilbout Mary, the Mother of Jesus, is available by sending a stll,mped self-addressed envelope to liather John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Church, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dlietzen at the same address.

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MARY KENNY Dear Dr: Kenny: Do you believe in spanking? With all this talk today about child abuse, many parents are afraid 1'0 touch their children.

I think one or two firm swats after some misbehavior helps clear the air and set a youngster back on the proper course. What do yol,l think? (Louisiana) Spanking as a form of punishment has the advantage that you

mention. It's quick and painful; then,it's over and the air is cleared.

No unnecessary attention is pro,vided for the mis!>ehavior.

In' many cases a spanking may . be less cruel tha''o a 'verbal lecture or reprimand. A spanking only hurts the body but harsh words can destroy self-esteem and hurt the soul. Many children will tell you that they pr,efer a spa,nking to a lecture and yelling.

My concern is that punishment itself (physical or verbal) is a reiatively ineffective way to motivate children. ' As a primary means of behavior control, punishment can be indicted on four counts.

- Punishment negates the person: It criticizes the child and dim-

inishes self-esteem. On the other hand, good discipline negates the problem, not the child.

-Punishment fails to' offer a blueprintfor virtiJe. Somewhere in their discipline, parents need to indicate, not through a sermon, but through example, time and attention, what they would like their child to 'do and be.

-Punishment becomes less effective as children grow older because parents control less' of their significant environment.

-The most serious indictment of punish~ent is that it provides time and attention to the wrong behavior. I n so doing, it partially encourages the very behavior parents are attemp,ting to 'eliminate.

Positive discipline is m~ch more

effective than punishment. Nothing rent to stop behavior, punishment happens without some type of pay- has many problems which make it off or reward. Attention is the rather ineffective. most powerful of all the payoffs.

If you do spank, however, here Pay attention to the good. are four rules: -Never in anger.

Other positive disciplinary meth-Never without another adult ods include setting a good example,teaching; keeping a chart, present.

-Always on the rump or leg. rewarding; going and getting, dis-' -Always with your· bare hand. tracting, separating combatants; Punishment of any kind, verbal working together with and making compliance a game. And many or physical, is less effective as a more. . , . discipline than the positive approach. As disciplinarians, parents ~arents should stay focused on should be interested in what works what they want, the results, not the best. method or technique of discipline.

Reader questions on familY livYou ask whether I approve of ing and child care to be answered .spanking. In fact, I question the in print are invited by The KeliIOYs; value of punishment itself:While 219 W. Harrison; Rensselaer,'Ind. . it may work as.a short-term deter- 47978. o

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work, given enough paper, time and dinner wine.

However, it appears my low MORRIS self-image in relation to the computer cosmos has been m'uch't.oo high, I recently decided I, should buy a modem (after losing an For me a computer has been a argument on whether or not this typewriter hooked to a little TV was even a word) and take a drive screen. No messy ribbons. Elec- onto the information highway.

Part of the reason is that our tronic doo-dads to replace white- . pastor, Msgr. O'Kneel, has been out. bragging about his cyberspace In relation to the larger computer adventures. I figured if a guy who world, I rated my computer sktlls has been around since Alexander on a par with what near-beer is to Bell made his first phone calls can Guiness Stout. I could fumble my do this stuff... way around a word-processIng "I'd like to buy a modem and program and-even make my printer take a spin on the information DAN

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highway," I informed the computer salesperson. He gave !TIe a look I know from the hardware store when I ask for a tool "with a pointy end kinda like a saw only it can cut circles if you put that funky. attachment on it." , The young man smiled his I-getall-the dimwits smile. "External or internal?" he asked.

"Assuming you are not talking about belly buttons," I said, "I don't know. Give me a hint."

"What kind of computer do you have?" he tried.

"I think they called it an ET," I replied.

To his credit, the clerk bottled

his obvious impulse to guffaw in ,my face.

"You mean maybe an XT?" he squeaked, the laugh-stuffing effort turning his neck and ears' red.

"EX, XT, empty, MTV," I grumble, "it's a minefield of acronyms out there."

He nodded politely. "Two-disc drive?"

"Yeee, uh, yeah," I guessed.

"Three-inch or five-and-aquarter?". " "The discs?"

"Yeah."

"About the size of a slice of bread, only thinner."

"OK, we have an aging XT, twodisc, large old floppies, probably

no' hard drive and not much memory," he said.

I flushed. "Well, OK, so I'm not 25 anymore, young man/' I said, "but I think I can still stay awake long enough to install a mod<:m."

That was a bald-faced fabrication if I have ever fabricated baldfacedly. ' Since issuing those ill-ch Dsen words, I have invested incredible hours on 800 numbers with nice people who have tried to wall: me through the world of serial ports, communications software :lnd other strange places. ,r .

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April 16 1928, Rev. Arthur E. Langlois, Denver, CO April 18 1935, Rev. Hugh B. Harrold, Pastor, St. Mary, Mansfield 1956, Rt. Rev. John F. McKeon, P.R., Pastor, St. Lawrence, New Bedford 1984, Rev. Joao Vieira Resendes, Retired Pastor, Espirito Santo, Fall River 1985, Rev. Wilfred C. Boulanger, M.S., LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro 1992, Rev. George E. Amaral, Retired Pastor, St. Anthony, Taunton April 19 1975, Rev. Msglr. Leo J. Duart, Pastor, St. Peter the Apostle, Provincetown 1990, Rev. Daniel E. Carey, Chaplain, Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River April 20 1954, Rev. Edward F. Coyle, S.S., St. Mary Seminary, Baltimore, MD 1970, Rev. James E. O'Reilly, Pastor Emeritus, Mt. Carmel, Seekonk Aprill 22 1910, Rev. James L. Smith, Pastor, Sacred Heart, Taunton 1954, Rev. Thomas F. Fitzgerald, Pa~tor, St. Mary, Nantucket

praye~BOX After C ommun;on Soul of Christ, be my sanctification. Body of Christ, be my salvation, Blood of Christ, fill my veins. Water from Christ's side, wash out my stains.

Passion of Christ, my comfort be. 0 good Jesu, listen to me. In thy wounds I fain would hide, never to be parted from thy side. Guard me should the foe assail me. Call me when my life shall fail me. Bid me come to thee above, with all thy saints to sing thy love, world without end. Amen.

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Pope discusses role of laity

Letters are welcomE~ but the editor reserves the right to condense or edit, if deemed necessary. AII letters must be typed, signed and indude a home or business address (only the city name is used in print). Letters do not necessarily renect the editorial views of the Anchor.

Dear Editor: Senator Edward Kennedy is one of pro-life's strongest adversaries.

Please do everything poSsible ·to inform the public of this. He cleverly conceals his agenda of abortion on demand a:§ "health care concerns." Massachusetts is my home town, and I hope this senator is removed from office in the next election.

Ms. E.C. Klein Gulfpolrt, Fla.

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Missionary Servants ofthe Most Blessed Trinity Sisters Helen Elizabeth Henken and Rebecca Betz made perpetual prOfession of vows on the feast of the Annunciation, March 25, at the community's motherhouse in Philadelphia.

Sister Henken, known as Sister Beth, is coordinator of religious education at St. Patrick's parish, Wareham. Sister Betz was associate director of religious education at St. Franci~ Xavier parish, Hyannis, from 1989 to 1992 and is now a pastoral minister at St. Clement Pope parish in South Ozone P,ark, NY. Sister Henken; 37, one of 13 children of Mrs. Margaret Henken and the late Theodore F. Henken, is a native of St. Mary of the Visitation parish in Huntsville, Ala. She holds a bachelor's degree in education and an elementary educl\tion certificate from the University of Alabama in H unts\'ille and taught for three years before entering the Missionary Servants in ' 1983.

During her two-year formation period in Philadelphia, she ministered at Holy Redeemer School in that city; in the religious education program at San Juan Baptiste parish, Lakewood, NJ; and in refugee resettlement at Catholic Social Services in Charlotte, NC. Following prbfession of first vows, she taught at St. Patrick's School in Phenix City, Ala., from 1985 to 1988, then returned to Charlotte as coordinator ·of the English as a Second Language

Sister McKillop to Chicago Sister Lucille :McKillop, RSM, president of Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, has been elected president of the Sisters of Mercy Chicago regional community. She will assume the position as head of over 400 sisters in Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, as well as missionary posts in Central and South America, on July I. The position also includes responsibilities in the national leadership group of the more than 7,000-member Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, headquartered in Silver Spring, MD. Sister McKillop has been Salve Regina's president for 21 years and recently announced her retirement from the university, effective June 30.

Program and case manager for newly arrived families.

She has served at the Wareham, parish since 1991.

Sister Betz, 33, is the youngest of seven children of M r. and Mrs. Paul R. Betz and a native of St. Francis de Sales parish in Philadelphia. A 1984 graduate of St. , Joseph's University in that city, she holds a bachelor's degree in ' sociology and was a bookkeeper' and caseworker for Catholic Charities in Philadelphia- before entering the Missionary Servants in, 1987.

During her formation period she was a retreat minister in Holy.'

Trinity, Ala., a social worker in Montgomery, Ala., and parish min-' ister in Tappahannock and West Point, Va. After professing first vows she served in Hyannis before being assigned to the New York parish, where she is also involved in the Trinita Family Life Development Program, a Missionary Servants project to enhance and support family life.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) While there is agreement that lay people should be involved in the church's mission, there is confusion on how to accomplish that goal, Pope John Paul II said.

Discussing the role of the laity in an ongoing series of talks at his weekly general audience, the pope ~aid he could offer some guidelines, but putting them into action must be done at the local level.

In every parish, he said, "the activity of t.he laity is necessary so that the apostolate of the pastor can reach its full effectiveness."

In the liturgy, religious education, pastoral and social services, lay men and women must cooperate closely with the pastor to ensure their activities are truly those of a community, he said.

Lay men and women must also show their awareness of belonging to a diocese by taking responsibility fOf promoting the teaching of their local bishop, offering their expertise on administrative affairs and carrying out the catechetical, cultural and social projects of the diocese, Pope John Paul said.

As members of the universal church, lav men and women must also do wilat they can, according to their personal circumstances, to bring the Gospel message to others, he said.

"All members of the church have the task and responsibility for an evangelization which extends to all nations and to all those who -whether they know it or not need God." he said.

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In New York, the Catholics and evangelicals held a press confer~ ence presided 9ver by former Lutheran pastor and now Catholic priest Father Richard J. Neuhaus.

"To our knowledge, it is a truly unprecedented statement," he said of the 25-page document, titled "Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission i~ the Third Millennium." Charles Colson, a member of the Nixon White House who went to prison for Watergate offenses and now heads the Prison Fellowship ministry, partici pated in the press conferences as leader of the evangel'ical side.

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Vatican' approves female "altar 'servers VATICAN CITY (CNS) -The Vatican has approved the usc of female altar servers, subject to the pastoral needs of local churches.

A letter to bishops' conferences' around the world dated in midMarch said service at the altar can be performed by lay people, whether they are male or female.

The ruling on church law that clarified the policy was confirmed by.

Pope John Paul II, said the document.

The contents of the letter were made available to Catholic NI;WS Service by informed sources at the Vatican. It was signed by Cardinal Antonio Javierre Ortas, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments..

Asked about the new policy, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarrci-Valls said it was the result of an interpretation of existing church law and not a major innovation by the church. He emphasized that the decision resolves a pastoral question, not a doctrinal one.

"It may be that one bishop says yes for pastoral reasons, while another says no," he said.

Navarro-Valls also pointed out that the question has no connection with the church debate over ordained ministries. Service at the altar has a much different canonical and doctrinal nature, he said.

Archbishop William H. Keeler of Baltimore, president of the National Conference of Catholic.

Bishops, called the reported papal - Any decision to use female decision" a welcome one." . altar servers shpuld be explained The archbishop said April 12 he well to the faithful. Pastors should had not yet seen the letter, but if note that women already perform the Catholic News Service report such tasks during Mass as reading was correct, the Vatican agencies from Scripture and, in some cirinvolved deserved "special thanks." cumstances, distributing commun"Based on the report received ion. today, I would expect our confer-Liturgical ministries exerciseq by lay people are temporary tasks ence to discuss this matter at its next regular business meeting" in subject to the bishop's judgmeht November, he said. and do not imply a right held by either men or women, The Vatican'S letter explained that the Pontifical Council for the U.S. bishops have been particuInterpretation of Legislative Texts larly eager for a clarification of the had decided the basic question in policy on female altar servers.

1992 with a one-sentenc.e ruling on Several bishops raised the issue Canon 230 of church law. The rul- during their "ad limina" visits to ing was "affirmative" regarding the Vatipan in 1993. female altar servers but said there Msgr. Robert N, Lynch, general was a need for further instructions secretary of the National Conferon the matter by the worship and ence of Catholic Bishops in ~ash­ sacraments congregation. ington, ,told Catholic News SerIt apparently took another 18 vice April 12, "Nothing has been months to draw up the instruc- received here, and I'm sure it has tions, which were included in Car- not been received in other EnglishCARDINAL BERNARD F. Law outside St. Mary's Cadinal Javierre Ortas' letter. They speaking conferences, or we would thedral during a 1986 pastoral visitation to the Fall Ri,ver highlighted four points: have heard of it." diocese.

(Gaudette photo) - The policy is optional for He added, however, that the each bishop, depending on local content of the CNS report. from pastoral needs. The bishop, after Vatican City "is substantially what hearing the advice ofthe national ,I've known for abQut a year.... bishops' conference, must make There are no surpris~s here."

BOSTON (CNS) - Because unspeakable horror of these inhis own decision in order to best The role of lay people in liturgi- "faith must never be checked at the stances of child abuse, it is necespromote "an ordered development cal ministries is governed mainly" door of public debate," Catholics sary to point out that day in and ofliturgicallife in his .own diocese."

by Canon 230 in the 1983 Code of should become "leaven in our cul- day out the vast majority of priests - Altar boys represent a "noble Canon Law. ture," Cardinal Bernard F. Lawof give themselves in selfless service tradition" that has led to prie.stly It says that properly qualified Boston told the nearly 2 million to the church. ' vocations and must continue to be lay me.n may be permanently inmembers 6fhis archdiocese March Priests feel shaken by what has supported. stalled as lectors and acolytes; the 23. happened, he added. "They, no technical terms used in church law I n a pastoral letter marking his less than I, have felt in a unique for readers and altar servers" 10th anniversary as leader of the way the burden of the scandal It also says lay persons - men Northeastern see, Cardinal Law caused by a few in our numbe,;," orwome'n - can act as lectors "by listed the archdiocese's accompHe said he appreciated the fact DEYOTIO~S temporary deputation" and "all lishments and challenges, He was vocations continue, noting he will saluted in a 76-page supplement to ordain seven men for his archdio,lay persons can fulfill the functo ,"'i tions of commentator or cantor or The Pilot, Boston archdiocesan cesein May and anticipates bigger . II . other functions, in accord with th\: newspaper: The publication fea- seminary classes in the future.

Pl~REGRINE ;;i' norm of law." tured'reminiscences from the dioBut potential vocations need FOR CANCER VICflMS'AND THEIR LOVED ONES Finally, it says: "When the ceses where the cardinal 'had pre- more attention, he said, recomviously served and comments from necessity of the church warrants it Every Thursday. 9:30 A.M. mending that every priest set HS a and when ministers are lacking, persons working in diocesan agen- pc;rsonal goal "at least one semilay persons, even if they are not ' cies and representatives of other nary applicant every five yeus'" ST. LOUIS CHURCH lectors or acolytes, can also supply faiths.and each parish "at least one semi420 Bradford Avenue • Fall River for cer'tain oftheir offices, namely, In his own pastoral letter, the narian from the parish every eight to exercise the ministry of the cardinal declared that personal or years." word, to preside over liturgical private convictions cannot be sevHe also emphasized the imporprayers, to conferbaptism and to ered from public responsibilities. tance of Catholic belief and the distribute holy communion inac"What our world needs most are church's teaching authority. cord with the prescriptions of the persons of integrity, not persons Catholics need to pay more atlaw." who hide their light under' the tention to church teaching, he said, The three-paragraph canon has bushel b~sket of expediency or citing a "faith illiteracy" prevah:nt LANDSCAPE SERVICE been interpreted differently by varpolitical correctness." "for several generations." He €:x276 Meridian St. • Fall River Once, those who disagreed with pressed hope that the forthcoming ious church lawyers. Some have 673-9426 the ch\.lrch nonetheless respectfully English translation of "The Catesaid the law does not allow use of women to serve at the altar, while acknowledged its right to' present chism ofthe Catholic Church" will RICHARD S. AGUIAA,OWNER others have said it does permit it. 'its vision, "which everyone under- be widely used for renewal offaith.

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Those opposing use of altar girls ness of our culture of death has Furthermore, "no effort should CHRISTIAN PRO LIFER have argued that since the provi- helped to bring out in clearer relief be spared to enhance the quality of sion .permitting women to act as the light of Christ shining. in the .our liturgical life," 'he said. "It HELPER APOSTOLIC readers makes no mention of church.". would be a great achievement if ADVISOR 'women acting as acolytes, ·that However, the church faces its the 'quick'Mass' were to disappear TRUE own internal difficulties as well, he possibility is excluded.

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Canon' lawyers aild bishops' said, citing in particular the trauma New chal!enges confront' parHOLY MEDICATOI~'" , ,. making the case in Rome have posed by clerics' ~exual abus~; a ishes and other church institutions ··Pharma~y. focused.on the third paragraph of shortage.Qfpriests;low Massatten- . "in a soCiety whose preoccupatic1n ANTI.ABORTIONfST ONE 'Canon 230 speaking of the use of dance and po,?rcaiechetical knowlwith self has obscured its corpoCAREGIVER lay persons in ministries in cases of , edge among the laity; and chang~ rate responsibility for 'the 'poor," THOMAS PAstERNAK LOVING pastoral necessity. ing parish struc.tures and new so-, he said, predicting that "parishPIl.rm.cisl INSTRUCTOR. '.

They have argued that if women ciaI ministry de.mands. ' . based social service and healt.h NFALL.lBLL , can serve as ministers of the word "In no other time in recent mem- care programs will be the way of SPLClALIST - 202 Rock St. 'a"nd ministers of the Eucharist,. it ory has the church been so humbled the next decade."

CHARI r.'\r~1 .1, THLRA.:PI (J r 1ST F.il River does not make sense liturgically or and grieved by. the sins of her More collaborative pastoral pastorally to bar them from bring- members than have we in the face planning - bringing together pa:.679-1300 ing the waterand'wine cruets up to of child abuse by our clergy," Car- toral staffs and parish councils -. the pri'est at the altar, a lesser min- . dinal Law wrote. ' also is foreseen, he said. As demoNonetheless. he stated, '~with- graphic; communication and tran:.istry than reader or eucharistic' minister. out in any way minimizing the Turn to Page Nine '

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The results of studies on the remains were announced in early April in Washington at the Smithsonian Institution, where researchers identified the bones as those of Philip Calvert, a chancellor and governor of the Catholic colony, and his first wife, Anne W. Calvert.

The remains of the third person, an infant girl, could not be precisely identified, although she may have been a baby daughter borne

by Calyert's second wife.

In 1657, Calvert and wife Anne came to Maryland, founded as a haven of religious tolerance at a CARDIN AL JO HN J. O'Connor during one of his many time when Catholics suffered discrimination in England. public appearances over the past decade. (CNS/ UPI photo) Modern science and technology led members of Project Lead Coffins, the research effort studying the coffins, to identify the remains as those of the Calverts.

NEW YORK (CNS) - Cardi- settle other strikes in New York, Philip Calvert died in 1682. Anne I nal John J. O'Connor of New such as at the Daily News, "but died in either 1679 or 1680.

I York, marking his 10th anniver"We know how his hair was won't deal with his own teachers." sary as archbishop of New York, The cardinal has expressed sup- trimmed, how his beard was , said he would advise his successor port for the labor movement in shaved," which is "information you , that attacks from the disgruntled general and has said church work- simply cannot find in any historiI are part of holding such a visible ers have a right to a just wage. In cal record," said Douglas Owsley, position and should not be taken 1989 he gained favor with a hospi- Smithsonian I nstitution forensic personally. tal workers local for a contract set- anthropologist. "The 17th century The cardinal said at a press con- tlement at Catholic hospitals. has been almost like a black hole. ference March 29 that he was This was an opportunity to exam-' Asked about the controversies, commonly given an additional title Cardinal O'Connor said that, with ine the bones and learn from the , in press references to him as "the regard to moral issues, there was a people themselves."

I controversial Cardinal O'Connor."

St. Mary's City, the first settleperiod of ambiguity aoout Catholic Many people seem(:d surprised teaching in the years following the ment, served as the capital of the I at how he has enunciated church Second Vatican Council. But in Maryland colony from 1634 until I teaching in his 10 years, he said, 1695. Its settlers built a great brick reality, he said, the teaching of the but "I was surprised thatthey were church on abortion and homosex- chapel and buried many of their surprised." uality always has been clear, unam- dead in wooden coffins in the field Catholic New York, the archdi- biguous and unchangeable. So around the church. But the lead ocesan newspaper, published a some people were shocked when "I coffins were found in a prominent special 112-page issue March 10 came along and - boom, boom, place in the chapel, which was desthat was primarily dt:voted to re- boom - said, this is Church teach- troyed in 1705. viewing the cardinal's 10 years in ing," he said.

Archaeologists were excavating New York and to congratulatory the chapel's foundational walls in Cardinal O'Connor said he had ads from various agencies and 1990 when the coffins were disconever called for voting against a groups. vered. The coffins were temporarThe then-Bishop O'Connor was particular politician,but"only said ily reburied and then moved and opened in 1992, in a disinterment named to succeed the late Cardi- certain policies were wrong.

He said the ACI:-UP demonfor which Cardinal James A. nal Terence Cooke as archbishop Hickey of Washington offered of New York Jan. 31,1984. He was stration of 1989, when Mass at St. prayers. installed that March 19 and was Patrick's Cathedral was disrupted The burial site of the coffins made a cardinal in May 1985. Ear- and the hQst desecrated, was "as suggested to archaeologists that lier he served as bishop of Scran- painful an experience as I've had ton, Pa., from May 1983 until his in New York." But he said he was. the bodies they contained were not angry at anybody, and thought those of high-status residents. appointment to New York.

Scientists discovered fine linens Before Scranton hl~ had been an it was better for his opponents to auxiliary bishop in what was then be "angry at me. tjlan at them- and silk ribbons and traces of , silver in the woman's hair, a sign of called the Military Vicariate fol- selves/' lowing a career as a naval chaplain.

Asked to list highlights of his 10 wealth.

Philip Calvert, sixth son of In New York, he has been en- years, Cardinal O'Connor recalled Geor.ge Calvert, the first Lord Balgaged in controversie:s particularly a year when he visited more than over homosexuality and abortion, 1,000 AIDS patients, mostly at an timore, arrived in Maryland with his wife in 1657, 23 years after the and over his insistenc:e that Catho- archdiocesan hospital, St. Clare's. lic politicians have an obligation He also spoke of his, establishment colony was founded. Calvert was sent by Cecil Calvert, the second to support the pm-life position. of a new order of nuns, the Sisters But he also has received criti- of Life, dedicated to serving the Lord Baltimore, to oversee the reestablishment of the colony, which cism on matters such as Christian- pro-life cause.

Jewish relations and labor issues.

Cardinal O'Connor cited the es- had been seized by radical ProIn November 1992 Cardinal tablishment. of Vatican-Israel rela-· testants in 1654.

Philip Calvert was governor for O'Connor became t.he first high- tions as "one ofthe happiest things" a brief period and then in 1661 level Catholic official to meet with for him in the past 10 years..

Cecil Calvert appointed his son Israeli government officials in their He said he was s/lre he had dis- and heir, Charles Calvert, as govoffices. On a previous visit he had had to cancel some scheduled meet- appointed many people in his 10 . ernor. But Philip Calvert reportings of the same type because they years and had many regrets. But edly served as a second-in-comviolated Vatican protocol rules, he did not indicate that he would mand for more than 20 years.

The skeleton found in the large and he immediately began work- have done anything differently if coffin was identified as that of a ing at the Vatican to get the rules he could have done it over.

Cardinal O'Connor noted that changed. male, age 45 to 55, 5 feet 6 inches tall, with shoulder-length reddishOn labor issues, the cardinal he would turn 75 next Jan. 15, and was criticized last December dur- would submit the required resig- auburn hair. Corpulent and not ing a strike by lay te:achers of New nation to the pope. He said he robust, he did not engage in hard York archdiocesan high schools. would happily accept the pope's physical labor, was right-handed, Among their complaints the teach- decision either to accept the resigsuffered fro m osteoarthritis due to ers said the cardinal had worked to nation or to ask him to stay longer. aging but displayed no indication

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of infectious disease, according to the research.

The other adult coffin contained the remains of a woman, age 55 to 65 years, 5 feet 3 inches tall, petite, with medium brown hair, who suffered from a badly set broken leg as well as from arthritis, spinal deterioration, and dental disease.

She was buried in a linen shroud, her wrists bound 'with silk ribbons, and strewn with rosemary sprigs, a symbol of remcmbrance.

A poorly built small coffin contained the remains of the child, age 5 months to 6 months. Buried in a fine linen garment, she had suffered from sevcre nutritional defici~ncies, including rickets and scurvy.

Henry Miller, co-director of the St. Mary's City Commission Project Lead Coffins, said the evidence indicated that the· remains of the ad ults were those of Roman Catholics, buried between 1670 and 1700, wealthy and of high social status.

I The only possibilities were Philip qalvert and Anne Calvert, Miller said.

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The remains will be reburied, with proper religious rites, at the chapel site and the grave will be marked. Reconstruction of the brick chapel is planned.

In Boston Continued from Page Eight portation patterns change, "it is foolish to assume that the configuration of parishes which served us 50, 100, or 150 years ago will necessarily serve us today," he said. .

He said archdiocesan accomplishments in the last decade have included: - Increase in archdiocesan finances and growth in the Cardinal's Appeal from $4.6 million to $13 million bctween 1984 and 1993.

- Establishment of an AIDS Ministry Office and two residential facilities for those living with AIDS, with another planned.

- Establishment of the Cardinal's Fund for the Unborn to assist pregnant women in need.

- Efforts by the Office for Persons with Disabilities, and of the new Office for Black Catholics to increase church outreach.

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Lack of fuel and the embargo The white-haired priest stood patiently in the darkened ware- itself are crippling' projects like house, waiting for food to bring Wallace Turnbull's M'ission Bapback to Les Cayes, a city on Haiti's. tiste in the mountains just outside nearly inaccessible southwest coast. the city.

Turnbull came to Haiti in 1946.

He didn't mind the wait. Four The lush, green landscape now months since the United Nations imposed an embargo against Haiti, surrounding the school, hospital Father Arnequet Local has learned and shops was once barren earth. to live with waiting as his constant His mission shaped it into a tropicompanion. Because the road out cal haven, teaching peasant basic of Les Cayes was impassable, he agricultural techniques. With betspent 15 days waiting to travel to ter medical care, the area's infant the Food ForThe Poor warehouse mortality rate of 10 out of 12 i~ Port-au-Prince to secure food children dropped significantly.

"Now we're going backwards," for his starving parishioners. Finally, he drove five hours over some- Turnbull says.

He recites statistics, During the thing that used to be a road, and is first three months of the embargo, now a gravely path. .

The five IOO-pound bags of beans the number of children under five he will bring back from Food For' years old dying every month jumpThe Poor may mean the difference ed from five to 26. Turnbull says between life and death for the suf- he is now seeing signs of malnutrition such as red hair, which signals fering poor in Les Cayes. a lack of protein.

In recent weeks, life in Haiti has But the problem is more combecome painful for the poor. Portplex than a mere fuel shortage~ au-Prince has three hours of elecLike dominoes; normal. services tricitya day on average, with some are collapsing, each having an effect suburban areas limited to four' on the other. The needs ofthe poor hours a week. Water is in big are greater. But there is less to help demand, because without electric- . them. ity, it can't be pumped. The banks Water is very scarce. In poor are open three days a week, and communities, a few villages have only until noon. Schools are also cisterns. Fond Cheval has one at open three days, and major hospithe school, locked up to pre,:ent tals are Closing because they are the thirsty from stealing. without electricity or enough fuel Miles away from Fond Cheval, to power generators. in the town of Thomassin, Father Raymonde Pun, director of Food Andre Martin has a request shared For The Poor in Haiti, tells of a by all. doctor friend who was operating "Pray for rain" he asks in his on a patient when the power simply native French. shut off.

Life is "very hard." Father Mar"The parents had to go and get tin once distributed the food that flashlights so he could finish. Now Food For The Poor gave him to' that hospital - he has to close it. his needy parishioners at St. VinHe cannot keep working," she. cent de Paul Church. He now uses says. it to feed children at the school so A surface glance at the streets of they at least receive one meal a Port-au-Prince doesn't reveal much day. There was a group offamilies except the ghosts of gas stations who supported the church finanimd the lack of traffic. Then you cially with their earnings. But notice things that easily pass by a almost all in the parish are currentlyjobless. Their employers were visitor's casual assessment:· rows of shops with signs that simply forced to close because of the read "Closed"; people clustering embargo. around a truck of potable'water, • "If you cannot work, you canshaking the hose loose to dump a not help," he says. few precious drops of 'fluid into One person working supports their buckets; and every night your an entire family, explains Pun. nostrils recoil from the stinging When the employed become unemsmoke that bathes the hillsides as ployed, another family becomes people cook with coal and wood in poor. lieu of electricity.

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She's buried three since December.

Still, there is hope, even in the darkness of Cite Soleil, the slum that is home to thousands of the poorest of the poor.

As you wind your way through alleys so narrow you havl: to ask a woman to close her from door so you can pass, it's hard tl) believe there is hope here.-The choking odor of rotting garbage and human excrement hangs like a cI Dud. But at the end of one alley is the Food For The Poor feeding and sewing ·center. And the smile of I6-yearold Carlee Andre.

Andre lives in Cite Soleil with her mother, father and three siblings. There is still s(:hool in Cite Solei I and she attend.s classes each day from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. At 3 p..m., 'she comes to the cenfer to learn how to thread a net:dle, cut out a pattern, and live for tomorrow.

"She likes the p,rogram because she thinks tomorrow she will be able to find work," the int~rpreter says.

There may be no work, or fac- . tory at which to ply her trade once the year is out and Andre has completed her training. Lac'king cloth material, the 45 students make do by se.wing on paper patterns. The supplies are limited and the patterns are worn thin. But the spirit is there. The girls conI inue to listen to the teacher, who continues to teach. It's a struggle each day. Yet they endure.

It's the same for Raymonde Pun and the other relief worl:ers at Food ForThe Poor. Theyconcent~ate on getting by one day at a time: a few bags of beans to a priest who tomorrow will thwart death for another starving child in the country; a truckload of supplies to a hospital to keep il functioning for one more mont;,. The work continues in spite of the embargo's many roadblock!:.

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CONVENnON SPEAKERS: Jesuit Father Allan Figueroa Deck, an NCEA convention speaker on Hispa.nic spirituality, talks with a participant; musician Tony Melendez, who also addressed the convention. (CNS photos)

School marketing deemed success by NCEA Continued from Page One But Catholic edul:ators "have a vital responsibility 1.0 serve youth according to the design of God's plan. That means more than [merely) tolerance," he said.

Agreeing was Bishop John S. Cummins of Oakland. "Unity is a carefully nurtured goal," he said.

"The outreach is endless. The constant nurturing of the church - I confess that on some days that is very hard work."

But Bishop Cummins cautioned against a sense of "glibness" in approaching cultural diversity.

Rather, "we must approach it with reverence," he said. . . .

School integration is no accident, said two administrators from De La Salle High School in Chicago.

"You could fon:e students to integrate, but it probably wouldn't happen," said De La Salle principal James Gay. "We can work to create an environme:nt where diversity is second nature. Our students are used to seeing and working with an ethnically diverse mix."

In his talk titled "Can We Get Along?" public school educator George McKenna, superintendent

of California's Inglewood School District, noted how different groups are often on the outside of society.

"Right now the discussion's about illegal immigrants and legal immigrants," he said. "God didn't make any illegal people, so what's the discussion about?"

What students need today is an expanded view of the world, McKenna said.

What good is it, he asked, if a kid "can throw a fc;>Otball60 yards and the colleges are drooling over him for his masculine arm and he's 16, and yet he can't use that arm to lift up a spoonful of pabhim to feed a 90-year-old woman who's in a convalescent home dying of Alzheimer's disease? Of what use is that arm? It's not programmed for charity."

Armless musician Tony Melendez, the NCEA keynote speaker who opened the convention, said he gained a new appreciation of the work teachers do after marrying a kindergarten teacher.

"It's a lot of work, I know it is," Melendez said. "I know you have a difficult job. Y(lu don't make enough money - that's one problem."

GATHERED FOR the New Bedford Catholic Woman's Club Bishop's Night last week at the Wamsutta Club in New Bedford are, from left, Msgr. John J. Oliveira; Maria Langevin, corresponding secretary; Mary Warren, second vice president; Marguerite Ronan, president; BishOp Sean O'Malley; Diane Shenk, first vice president; Mary Mitchell, secretary; Norma Winsper, treasurer; and Father jOhn P. Driscoll, moderator.

Continued from Page Three dered at the Jesuit-run Christ Spiritual Center in Kigali April 7.

The victims, all Rwandan, also included nine young women belong.ing to a secular institute, on retreat at the center; the center's cook; and a social worker who had apparently taken refuge at the center.

The victims all belonged to the Tutsi tribe. A statement from the U.S. Jesuit Conference in Washington said the attack apparently was perpetrated by the Rwandan presidential guard.

The Jesuit. statement said at least. seven Europeans, including three Belgian Jesuits, were separated from the Rwandans and locked in the dining room. In the afternoon, the Europeans were released , to discover the 19 bodies in a small room far from the dining room.

The statement said it was possible the center was targeted because of its work for national reconciliation and assistance to refugees during recent years.

In Rome April 7, Pope John Paul called for an end to conflict and vengeance after a plane carrying two leaders was downed by rockets. Rwandan President J uvenal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira were H utu, the majority ethnic group in both countries. There is a long history of suspicion and hatred between the Hutu and the Tutsi minority - which comprises 9 , percent of the population.

In Baltimore, Pat Johns, director of the African office for Cathol\,c Relief Services, said all the Americans had been evacuated from Rwanda and were safe in Nairobi, Kenya. Johns said the immediate concern was for the approximately 30 Rwandan staff, most of whom did not have telephones. The only staffer they had been able to contact was in a hospital after )laving been badly beaten, he said.

"We will definitely go back in" once security permits it, said Johns. . CRS, the U.S. bishops' overseas relief and development agency, has been working in Rwanda since 1963.

Noting that his father taught him about his Nicaraguan heritage, Melendez said, "The more we can talk to one another, that's better. The more we can talk to each other across cultures, that's better."

While unity can come from diversity, it need not be synonymous with assimilation, said Jesuit Father Allan Figueroa Deck, coordinator of Hispanic pastoral programs at Loyola Macymount University in Los Angeles.

"The Hispanic peoples represent a culture that even now has not assimilated the modern mind-set of secularism," he said. "They don't accept it, don't live it out'the way middle-class Americans do."

Culture, Father Deck said, "is our backbone. It influences us in the deepest level of our existence in terms of the meaning of life, family and what is important. It gives us our strength. It gives us our identity. It tells us who we are.

And it gives us the wherewithal that we need in order to adapt and survive."

Father Virgil Elizondo, rector of the San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio, told of how Jesus was placed on the margins of his society and embraced others on the margins during his public ministry.

Jesus was born "a Galilean Jew," a term of scorn by Jews who them- . selves wen~ oppressed. "An oppressed people," he said, "find other people to oppress."_ But by traveling and dining with sinners, tax collectors, and others on society's margins, "Jesus broke the taboos," Father Elizondo said.

"N ot because he was a lawless person, but because he was in favor of bringing out the dignity and worth of each one."

The NCEA itself released a report on 1993-94 Catholic school attendance which indicates a growing diversity within the student popu-. lation. Thirteen percent are nonCatholics, and 24.7 percent are not white.

A drop in attendance at the convention from last year's 13,000 was attributed to jitters over recent California earthquakes as well as the winter's bad weather on the East Coast-educators who would ordinarily have attended were teaching makeup days instead.

Always In Season "Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of seasons." -Kahill Gibran

Rwandan bishops said they were shocked at the extent of the bloodshed in their country and at the spirit of vengeance behind the acts of violence.

The bishops described a horrible scene following several days of killing. .

"The streets are strewn with corpses, and others are rotting in homes or hospitals. We have had the dreadful pain of counting among them many priests and religious," they said.

"One has even witnessed murderers follow those fleeing into churches and religious communities in order to massacre them," they said.

The bishops urged the country's authorities to neutralize the perpetrators of violence and called on the army to protect people of all ethnic groups. National security eventually depends upon a negotiated settlement between the government and the rebel group, the R wandese Patriotic Front, they said.

R wanda, with a population of more than 8.2 million, is the size of Maryland - which by contrast has a population of 4.9 million.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Apr.. 15, 1994

"IWorld ,gets"'ftesh' lo'ok at fresco

VATICAN CITY(CNS)-After four years of painstaking restoration, the curtain went up on Michelangelo'.s "Last Judgment" fresco in the Sistine Chapel, revealing an awesome scene of fresh colors and human figures.

At a Mass to unveil the restored masterwork, Pope John Paul II· said the cleaning had revived a painting of "unequaled beauty."

He particularly praised the artist's rendering of nudes and said the decorated chapel represented "a sanctuary of the theology of the human body."

Speaking at the foot of the 1,700-square-foot wall fresco, the pope also focused on the religious significance .of the composition, which depicts more than 300 figures awaiting eternal salvation or damnation from ajudging Christ.

"The truths of our faith are lead to a withdrawal of Syrian speaking to us here from every troops stationed throughout' file corner," the pope said. country. ' "Above all we are faced with the "We need an effort to better glory of Christ's humanity. He will explain 'to the Lebanese people truly come in his humanity to what are the limits of a papal judge the living and the dead, visit:' BishopRai said .. penetrating to the depths of human consciences and revealing the power He added that some opponents of his redemption," h~ said. of the papal trip saw it as somehow The April 8 solemn ceremony, blessing the status quo in Lebanon. broadcast worldwide on television There was uneasiness that the trip and attended by cardinals, diplowould take place before the terms mats and artistic experts from all of a 1989 peace accord were fully over .the world, recalled the origiimplemented, he said. nal inauguration of the fresco in Bishop Rai said a delay might 1541, when church leaders and be useful in prompting internaRomans were astonished at the tional pressure for application of the peace accord, which foresaw artistic achievement.

But the somber depiction of the withdra~al of all foreign forRESTORED: Pope John Paul II celebrates Mass in the Judgment Day, and especially its ces, the disarming of militias, polSistine Chapel with restored Michelangelo fresco, the '''Last nude portraits, also 'provoked itical reform and ,the return of Judgment," as backdrop. (eNS/ Reuters photo) scandal among some of Michelanrefugees. .". gelo's contemporaries; a few years (Bishop Rai said h'J was certain after he finished the epic wo~k, the Among those attending the Mass for some, who felt Michelangelo that, for the pope at,'(east,security artist had to watch as' loincloths was a large delegation from Japan. may have deliberately left a patina risks were not a determining factor were added to many figures, by The restoration of the Last Judgupon the fresco to mute its c.;>lors. for delaying his trip. But the bjsho.p order of the Council of Trent. ment, along with Michelangelo's But standing in the chapel at the questioned how a Lebanese governMass, the pope praised the high, The restoration removed 17 of cycle of ceiling frescoes, was sponment can say it will ,guarantee. the 40 loincloths painted on in ' sored by Japan's Nippon Televi- tech methods and the "spll~ndid security when I"sraeli troops occupy later' centuries and left the rest sion Network, which contributed results that were obtained." part of Lebanon "and certainly intact for' historical or technical $4.8 million to the cleaning and $7 The pope used the occassion to there a're Israeli agents throughout reasons, Vatican Museum officials million to an unprecedented docshare some personal details of his the country"; while some 40,000 said. 51. Peter and St. Catherine umentation of the restoration election as pope by cardinals l;neetSyrian troops remain stationed in thus remain clothed but St: An- process. ing in the Sistine Chapel in October Lebanon; while militias like Hez- dre'w, who stands next to Mary, 1978. He recalled that the late The actual work was carried out bollah remain armed; and while now has a bare backside,again. by a team of restorers from the primate of Poland, Cardinal Ste300,000 Palestinians remain in the Vatican Museums, led by Cola- fan Wyszynski, had approached In his homily, the pope emphacountry, many of them also with lucci. The experts cleaned the sur- him and implored: "If they elect sized that the church was no longer weapons. participating in a "cover-up" of "face by daubing it repeatedly with you, I beg you not to refuse."

Bishop Rai, who is chief coorsolvent and soaking up the grime The pope said he eventually the nudes. dinator for the Lebanese synod, accepte.9 the conclave's choic,~ in a with rice paper.

He said Michelangelo, in rensaid there had not been enough spirit of obedience.

It was a controversial technique dering the "integral beauty of the time to complete responses to the body," appeared inspired by the synod outline before the pope's Bible's account of creation which expected arrival this spring. The said: "The man al}d his wife were pope's visit was planned to launch both naked, yet'they felt no shame." the final phase of" preparations, The Last Judgment's nude figbut "more time is needed," Bishop ures appear in the "light of God" Rai said.

Antonio Auxiliary Bishop Jo;eph and conserve all their splen(lor, CARDINAL STEPHEN Kim He said the Lebanese bishops beauty and dignity, he said. Only A. Galante to head the dioceBe of Sou Hwan of Seoul, Korea, was want the synod to spark a true detached from such a vision can slightl~ injured when he was Beaumont, Texas, and Chil:ago renewal of the Lebanese churchAuxiliary Bishop Placido Rodrithe body become a depreciated attacked· during Easter Mass by a in its internal structure and pas- object, he said.. mentally disturbed man. Th~ car- guez to head the diocese of Lubtoral life, in relations with other Chief restorer Gianluigi Cola- /' dinal, 71, was grabbed by the hair bock, Texas. Bishop Galante sucChristian churches and with M us- Illcci said afterward the pope's and pulled to the floor.by the man, ceeds the late Bishop Bernard J. lims, and in the church's role in Ganter and Bishop Rodriguez sucremarks reflected modern think- who afterwards said he acted benational reconciliation. ing and showed th~t the modesty' cause the cardinal had refused to ceed Archbishop Michael J. SheeAdding to the recent tensions in issue was no longer a problem for meet with him to heal his disease. han, who now heads the Santa. Fe, Lebanon were signs of a strain in the 'church. ' C a r d i n a l Kim continued Mass after N.M., archdiocese. church-state relations. Patriarch The most striking element ofthe the incident and consoled those in Nasrallah Sfeir, in an Easter mesrestoration was its uncovering of attendance after the liturgy. sage reported in the French news~ * * * brilliant colors hidden for centurSPRINGFIELD BISHOP John paper La Croix, said the state "has ies under layers of gdme and soot.

ARCHBISHOP MARIAN A. Marshall, 65, has been diagnot treated its subjects on an equal The vibrant' azure sky, painted OLES'has been appointed Vatican nosed with a serious degenerative basis" and "has not convinced Chriswith precious lapis lazuli powder, ambassador to the former Soviet bone disease in the lower back. In tians that it is'giving them the same now provides a luminous back- republics Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan a letter to diocesan Catholics.. he protection as it gives other citizens." drop for the figures, many of them and Uzbekistan., said "Just having followed Christ carrying wraps of deep red, purple Archbishop Oles, 58, from through the events of his public Undernourished and emerald green.

Poland, had been the Vatican's life to his passion, death and g:!or786 million people in the develClearly visible for the first time ambassador to Iraq since 1987 and ious resurrection, I trust that 'Iou oping world are chroni'Cally mal- in centuries are the expressions of was in Iraq during the 199 I Perwill do the same for me." BisilOp nourished, or one in every five ~he judged or those awaiting the sian Gulf War. Marshall directed a major Vaticanpeople. (Food and Agriculture verdict: faces betraying immense * • • • mandated study of U.S. semir..arOrganization of the U.N.) "joy, relief, terror and despair.

THE POPE has named San ies from 1981 to 1990.

Papal ttip to Lebanon· postponed indefinitely VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican said Pope John Paul II was postponing indefinitely- a planned trip to Lebanon because "serious and unforeseeable" incidents had stirred up tensions again in the Middle East country.

The trip, originally planned for May 28-j une was delayed until "a more favorable moment," a Vatican statement said. It said the pope had agreed to the postponement. with sadness after the Vatican consulted with leading church and civil authorities in Lebanon.

The recent bombing ofa Catholic church near Beirut and the discovery of other bombs in predominantly Christian areas had raised safety concerns for the pontiff and the thousands expected to attend papal events.

The Vatican did not specificaVY link the postponement to the resurgence of terrorism il] the country, but said recent events had created "strong tensions and created an environment that does not seem fitting for the pastor-al" character of the visit."

Such late changes in scheduled papal visits 'are highly unusual, and no previous trip has been postponed for security' reason~, The Vatican said the pope had planned the trip as a moment of spiritual encouragement for a country still recovering from 16 years of civil strife and as an invitation to dialogue between various sectors of Lebanese society. But "difficulties of various types were encountered," it said.

The pope was sending messages to the Orthodox and Muslim communities to explain his decision, the statement said.

Lebanese Bishop Bechara Rai of Jbeil said in Rome that the delay was tied to preparation for the Lebanese synod, the political situation in the country a/1d the concern over security.

Above all, he said in an interview, the delay will give the local church time to better prepare Christians and Muslims for the papal visit. He said he thought three or four months might be long enough to accomplish this.

At a political level, some people' were expecting too much from a papal visit~ Bishop Rai said. There was a risk of disappointment if, in the wake of the pope's trip, significant political changes did not occur, he said.

Lebanese church sources said, for example, that many Muslims believed the pope'strip would result in the withdrawal of Israeli forces, which occupy a southern strip of the country, while many Christians thought it would somehow

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Directions from a devil to an underling I

The following essay is by Joshua Camara, 14, a freshman at LaSalle Academy, Providence, and the grandson of Permanent Deacon Manuel Camara of St. Anthony or Padua parish, Fall River. It is written in the style of one of the famous "Screwtape Letters" by the late British author C.S. LI~wis. Editor From: Tresslegulb, Sl:ction Head, Deceiver's Directorate, Deceiver's Building, Level 10 To: Rendulb Dear Rendulb, I had not planned on wntmg this letter, but under the circumstances, I feel I must. Left to your own incompetence, our whole mission with this young woman would fail. You may not find me as eloquent as Screwtape or quite as detailed as Brainwister, but I am sure you'll find that I get to my point rather quickly.

Now about this young woman.

Dreclumn tells me that she has been slipping slowly but surely over to the enemy's side. You have not been able to counter his arguments. Fool! Let me tell you this, if her child is not aborted, then there will be Hell to pay! We already know that a remnant of believers is praying for her and more are being gathered every day.

It will be harder for you to act the longer you wait. I'll be giving you a strategy of my own which has been widely publicized in the demonic world sincc~ the ruling of Roe v. Wade. I have found it quite effective and I'm sure you will too if your idiotic mind! can comprehend it.

The first of our problems which could jeopardize our entire mission is her family. Good Christian folk. Oh, how I despise them!

They are the reason that we have been able to only send an imp like you to this girl. It would be no use for you to directly or indirectly stop the family from praying.

They're guarded by heavenly warriors. The Holy Spirit is in' the house so often that it reeks of holiness.

No, there would be no use in attacking them. No sooner would you get there than you would find yourself in the pit. My advice is to try giving the girl a heart of ice towards her mother. She knows her mother feels abo~tion is wrong.

All you have to do is infect that little divot in her family life. It wouldn't stop the prayers but at least it would keep her away from them for awhile.

Secondly, you must build a brick wall between her and the child.

Have her start thinking of him as "it"; a separate, non-human organism, growing inside her, no different than a cance:rous cyst. Actually, having her think of him as a cancer or cyst would be preferable, but don't overstep yourself, an "it" will be perfectly acceptable.

Also, I hear that she is in line for a promotion at her office. Excellent! This will make it even easier for you to give her the idea of this "it" in her body as being a setback to her career. If you find her thinking that she's becoming too work centered to even care about the birth of her first child then give her the "you'lI have the rest of your life for children,just now is not a good time." It usually works.

JOSHUA CAMARA You must not let her see the envy in the eyes ofjust-wed women, or the happiness of her friends about her pregnancy. Let it be as if all their fuss is over nothing more than her birthday. Make her forget about the child. Ne\(er let her emotions get the best of her or she may start remembering that the child is the reason for all this joyfulness.

Then at the time of the abortion when she begins questioning what she's about to do, you can tell her that what is growing,inside her is not hers; just a fetus, a mass of tissue that has to be removed for her own good. , Most of all, more than anything else, do not let her have future glimpses. By this I qtean, do not let her begin daydreaming about playing with her born child or watching him see it snow for the first time, sitting with him to watch a sunset at the end of a long day, or giving him away at his wedding.

Never, never, never, let her do this because it will be the persuading action that stops her from going through with the abortion while already in the clinic. It evokes almost the same emotions for humans as being at the actual event and, with het family praying for her, the enemy's grace will. surely bring her conscience fully to the surface and you will lose her and wind up here in one of my well-known punishment areas reserved for incompetent fools like yourself.

So this is the strategy I give you.

There are, of course, many others which you could use in the line of deceiving a human during an abortion, but I believe this one will be the most effective on your subject.

Watching your every move, Tresslegulb

Sweet but rigid VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Describing himself as "by nature rather sweet, not severe," Pope John Paul 11 saidhe must be "rigid regarding the principles" on which healthy families are based. S~eak­ ing during a rece~t parish visit, the pope said only families "built on the truth and the [Ten] Commandments can remain solid and united." "Some have been talking about building a false family, a fictitious family of two men or two women," he said, referring to a proposal by the European Parliament and subsequent debate across the continent as to whether homosexual couples should have rights equal to those of married couples.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) Thousands of college students enjoying spring respites in Florida probably turn their eyes to the skies, seeking sunny days. But this week Catholic University of America sophomore Terry Nienaber has a special reason to look heavenwards -- a project he helped devise was launched into space at Cape Canaveral, Fla., April 9~ The 20-year-old Nienaber helped design a bioreactor, a three-chambered unit containing fish eggs sent aloft aboard the space shuttle Endeavour for a mission to last about 10 days.

The size of a computer printer, the bioreactor contains a computerdriven microscope and camera to record changes in the fish eggs' cells during the shuttle flight. A heat pump maintains the bioreactor's internal temperature, while t~e exterior is cooled by the cabin air.

The goal is to observe "live" during orbit what happens to cells outside Earth's gravity. A satellite will beam digitized images of the cell activity from the shuttle to Earth.

Nienaber was busy before the launch, assisting in final adjustments to the bioreactor, which he helped plan and build at the Wal. tel' Reed Army Medical Center's Institute of Research. He also aided in final tests on the bioreactor 17 hours before the shuttle launch.

Annual Mark Hoyle memorial race set for May 15 Runners, joggers and walkers are welcome to participate in the seventh annual Mark G. Hoyle Memorial Road Race beginning at 9:30 a.m. May IS at Cardi's Furniture in Swansea.

Mark, who died in 1986 at age 14, was a Swansea resident who contracted AIDS through treatment for hemophilia.

Proceeds from the three-mile race benefit the Mark G. Hoyle Memorial Trust Fund for cOllege scholarships, AI DS research at Brown University and other educational purposes. More' than $40,000 has already been awarded in memory of Mark, including funding for social studies videos at St. John Evangelist School, Attleboro, where Mark's father, Jay Hoyle, has taught for 25 years.

Race T-shirts will be given to . the first 750 registrants and trophies will be awarded to the first three male and female finishers in eight age group divisions. First' prizes of $500 will be awarded to the top male and female finisher in' each division.

St. John Evangelist School will award plaques to the top male and female finishers from the school.

Other special prizes include Cardi kids' beds for the top boy and girl finiShers age 13 or under and plaque to the top male and female finisher from Joseph Case High School, which Mark attended.

Jones and .Joan from WSNE 93.3 F.M. radio will take part in the race and announce prize winners.

Applications for the event are available by sending a SASE to Jayne Wilson, 17 Circuit Dr., Swansea 02777, Tel. 678-580 I, or from sponsors, which include St. John Evangelist's eighth grade class and numerous local businesses.

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, SHUTTLE SCIENCE: Terry Nienaber adjusts the device 'he helped design and build that will allow scientists to observe cell activity on board the space shuttle. (eNS photo)

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A mechanical engineering major, Nienaber used computer software to draw designs that helped create the bioreactor; he then worked with others in using aluminum, stainless steel and clear plastic in the Army medical center machine shop to assemble and test the unit.

He defined his greatest challenges as coming up with a design that would fit the shuttle, have secure triple contai,ners and ensure a balanced interiQr environment.

The shuttle project "gives you a little bit of the flavor" of applying learning to efforts beyond the classroom, he said.

According to John Gilheany, who chairs Catholic University's mechanical engineering department, Nienaber is one of several students who have been involved in shuttle and related work over the last few years. One recent graduate was involved in the first phase of the bioreactor and went to two shuttle launches, he said.

"This is a new version" of the bioreactor, "a more sophisticated version of what has flown before," Gilheany said. Nienaber "designed

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an optical tracking system that allows astronauts to zero in on individual cells," he explained.

He suggested that one aspect of his student's success so far is that he's learned to budget his time wisely.

Nienaber's mechanical skills proved useful early in life as he grew up on a farm in Lindsay, Neb. The family raised hogs and cattle and grew corn and soybeans.

"Helping my family maintain and repair farm equipment got me interested in how machinery works," he said.

The summer after his junior year in high school, he was one of ISO students nationwide selected for "Engineering 2000," sponsored

by Catholic University's School of Engineering. The participants spend a week in seminars, lab sessions and field trips, and the experience prompted Nienaber to apply to the university's mechanical engineering program.

While studing there, he learned about the Army's Walter Reed space activities.

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BALTI MORE (CNS) - It's a good thing Thomas J ones' teachers didn't tell him to keep his head out of the clouds when he was a student at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grade School in the archdiocese of Baltimore.

I He might not have made it into space.

Jones, 39, a 1969 grad uate of the school in Essex, Md., is a' member of the space shuttle Endeavour crew. Space flight was always a childhood dream for the planetary scientist and space shuttle mission specialist.

He took a little bit of Mount Carmel school on the trip with him: a photo package, titled "Mount Carmel in Space," which he will later return to the school for display. The package consists of two group photographs of the elementary and high school students and faculty.

School officials mailed the photos to Jones in late March, and, according to development director

Bob Aupperley, Jones said he would visit the school after his flight.

Nowa Houston resident, Jones visited Mount Carmel a year ago and talked to the students about his mission and training. He and his wife, Liz, have two children -Annie, 8, and Bryce,S. "He was always involved in space," his sister, Nancy Oldewurtel of Essex, told The Catholic Review, Baltimore archdiocesan newspaper. As a Boy Scout, he earned his first merit badge in astronomy, and "he was also the first in his troop to earn a space exploration badge," she added.

During the flight. crew members were to test a comprehensive radar system, described as the most advanced such imaging system ever built for environmental research.

It was designed to map the Earth and provide extensive data on man-made and natural phenomena affecting deserts, wetlands. soil, trees and other elements of nature.

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BREATHE AGAIN

By Christopher Carstens It was Monday night, and we sat at McDonalds, gazing out the window as we finished our burgers and fries. Marty, a kid I've. known since he was in second grade, is now a senior in high school. His short dark beard and closely trimmed reddish brown hair make him look older than 17.

His grades could hardly be better, usually a· 3.3 or a 3.4. He's president of the Speech Club. He:s active at church, and he organized the youth group retreat last summer. Marty is the complete "nice Catholic school kid."

When we talked before Christmas, the questions were about where he'd be going to college. He thought he could get into some pretty good drama programs, and there was a chance for a scholarship. He was wondering abollt'a career in theater, and as an old_ acting major, I enjoyed sharing the day-dreams with him.

Tonight, his voice is lower, and he's worried. His mom called me a couple' of weeks ago. "Could you talk with Marty? He's going through some tough times."

So that's why we're here, sharing fast food and a tough conversation. Marty is asking a different set of questions since he and his girlfriend Robin found out she was pregnant.

"We used protection, but it didn't work. 1 guess now I'm a statistic."

There isn't much talk.about going .away to college. I ask him about his plans for next fall. "Who knows?

I'm just tryil)g to live through this year." On top of school, he's working two jobs so he can buy clothes for Robin and set aside some money· for whatever comes along.

When he first heard, he just hoped it wasn't so. They'd done a home pregnancy test, and it was positive. They went to a doctor, and the first test was negative. "I ' really got my hopes up," he said.

But then the blood test came back positive, and all the false relief was gone.

Abortion wasn't even a question. "Couldn't do that, neither one of us."

He did think about running away. He named a couple of cities, both 2,000 miles from home. "But I'm not going to leave her alone.

She needs me."

Marriage? Not now, anyway.

He's still in high school, and Sh(l'S just starting college. "Maybe in a few years. But we both need a little post-high school time."

They both thought adoption made the most sense. 1 agreed. 1 told him about my friends who had spent three years waiting for a healthy baby. .

But it isn't that easy. "Robin really hates the idea of giving up our baby."

They are starting to encount(:r the intense emotional difficulty

that comes when you realize that it isn't just an abstraction, that it's a real human child growing inside.

Adoption is so logical. It really is the best choice, but it hurts.

Marty wishes he could somehow turn back the clock to that· November night and just not have it happen. Still, here he sits strong, healthy and terribly, terri,bly confused.

There is no rewind button on real life. All anybody can do is move ahead. Marty is now looking ahead at the delive'ry of a baby this summer, and a very uncertain autumn after that.

He isn't bitter. He isn't depressed.

He isn't thinking about running away now. He simply knows his life will never be the same again.

Bishop Connolly The Bishop Connolly Drama Society will present as its second production of the '93-'94 season the comedic mystery thriller" BoneChiller" by Monk Ferris. Performances will be 7:30 p.in. April 29 . and 30 and 2 p.m. May I. Cast members are: Kevin Comeau, Charles Walsh, James Enos, Matt Tracy, Christina Erwin, Elizabeth Smith, Pam Costa, Carly Christiansen, Mariann Hartley, Sarah Thiboutot, Nicole Rubano and Anne Short.

Leo Strickman, of Fall River's Little Theater fame, is the d,irector and Elizabeth Smith is the stage manager. The set was designed by Sarah Thiboutot and Matt Tracy and was constructed by Gerard Durette and members of the cast and Drama Society.

For the third quarter marking period, 105 students received highest honors, 43 earned high honors, and 48 earned honors. All received certificates of merit.

St. Anthony School .. Throughout the Lenten season, students and faculty at St. Anthony School, New Bedford, prepared for-Easter with weekly readings of the Stations of-the Cross and Rice ~ Bowl collections.

Religious activities culminated on Holy Thursday with the celebration of the Passover feast. During the Haggadah, the story of deliverance, an authentic seder meal with symbolic foods was served.

Members of the faculty read Scripture passages relating the flight of the Hebrews from Egypt and how M()ses delivered the people to ,freedom. The correlation of Christ's Last Supper at Passover with today's Mass was illustrated.

Easter was celebrated with breakfast with the Easter Bunny.

Over 500 people enjoyed a meal prepared by Father Edmond Le~ vesque and the Home and School Association.

If I never feel you In my arms again If I never feel Your tender kiss again If I never hear I love you now and then Will I never make love To you once again Please understand If love ends Then I promise you, I promise you That I shall never breathe again Breathe again Breathe again That I shall never breathe again , Breathe again ,And I can't stop thinking about About the way things used to be And I can't stop thinking about About the love that you made to me And I can't get you outta my head How in the world will I begin To let you walk right out of my life And blow my heart away And I can:t stop caring about About the apple of my eye . And I can't stop doing,without Without the center of my life And I can't get you outta my head And I know I can't pretend That I won't die if you decide You won't see me again And I can't stop thinking about .About the way my life would be No I can't stop thinking about How could your love be leaving me And I can't get you outta of my mind God knows how hard I tried And if you walk right out of my life God knows I'd surely die And I. can't stop doing without Without the rhythm of my heart No, I can't stop doing without For t'would surely fall apart And I can't get you outta of my mind 'Cause I know I can't deny it And I would die if you decide you Won't see me again Written by Babyface. Sung by Toni Braxton (c)"l993 by ECAF ISony Songs Inc. (BMI) WHEN IT comes to romance, won't see me again." For her, apparently pop music just can't "If love ends, then I promise be too melodramatic. _That's you ... that I shall never breathe my conclusion based on T.oni again."

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The song's situation raisc:s a question about how to respond to others when' they attempt to manipulate us with their f,~el­ ings. What should you do if someone trie~ to change your decisions by voicing his or .her emotional reactions?

In such a situation, first remember that you are ne'ver responsible for what another feels. Caring individuals empathize with what another is expe-, riencing. However, taking responsibility for what another feels goes beyond the limits of empathy.

We can be understanding toward a person without being hooked into trying to fix his or her hurt.

Rather, acknowledge and validate these feelings, which Me important to the other person.

If the feelings relate to your decisions or actions, encourage this person to seek support fmm others.

When your decision is based on something that you need .to do for yourself, don't give up this need just to take care of t he other's pain. Such caretaking robs you of appropriately responding to your own need and thus is likely to leave you feding angry or uneasy about the relationshi p.

In this song, the manipulation is easy to see. As' far as I know, no one ever died by attempting to hold his or hl~r breath.

But most manipulations are more subtle. Often, we do not realize that we've been manipulated until later when we check out our feelings about the situation.

However, it's not too late. Go back to the other individual and share your perception abollt , what has· occurred. Do this in a caring way. Avoid judgJl}ent e'r self-righteousness.

If you intend to stay in the relationship, ask the other indi,vidual to work with you t,o create new and non-manipulative responses for the future. . At times, we all give int,) manipulation. However, to the extent that we can recogniz,e such behavior we can grow mor,~ honest and respectful toward others.

Where respect grows, 10vI: will thrive.

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Bm: 182, Rockport, IN 47635.

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AT HOLY THURSDAY observance at St. Anthonv's School; New Bedford, seventh grade teacher Patrick Wilkin'\ son guides students through a sedar meal; second-graders , Vanessa Ferreira (left) and Doris Medeiros follow Scripture readings.

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St. Mary-Sacred Heart School Brendan Poirier of North Attleboro, a seventh-grader at St. Mary-Sacred Heart School, was the top-scoring entrant in the Junior Division of the Rensselaer Region III Scienc.: Fair held March 26 at Bristol Community College in Fall River.

Poirier's project, "Steel and Salt Water: A Corrosi1 e Combination," was one of nine from the school in the regional event.

Other SMSH students who earned recognition are: Peggy Taylor, grade 8, a first place for "Fine Motor Skills in First Graders"; Bill Smith, grade 7, a second place for "The Effect of Road Salt Runoff Water on Hydroponically Grown Vegetable Plants"; Andrea Gualtieri, 7th grade, a third place for"How Seeds Turn into Plants," and Justin Duquette, 7th grade, a third place for "What Alkaline Battery Lasts Longest?"

Also, Kerry Kennedy, grade 8, honorable mention for "Does Alcohol Affect the Activity and Development of Meal Worms?" and Merrilee Fazio, grade 7, honorable mention for "Classifying and Finger Printing Stars."

Also participating in the regional fair were Lyndsey Aubin, grade 7, and Marc Corriveau, grade 8.

An engraved plaque honoring Poirie(s accomplishment will be displayed at SMSH for a year.

IMPORTANT ACTS: Coyle-Cassidy Health Awareness Day keynoter Carol Adams begins with a sister act reminiscent of her days in the cast of "Nunsense"; students Sean Barney , and Linda Cabral perform a play about AIDS; program principals ~yan' Levesque, a student council member; Mrs. Adams; Taunton Mayor Robert Nunes; speaker Jay Hqyle.

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Carol Adams started them laughing, but gy the end of her hour-long pre~entation she had many Coyle~Cassidy students in tears.

Mrs. Adams was the keynote speaker for Hea!th Awareness Day March 25, an event which brought more than 25 professionals to the Taunton school to discuss such topics as adolescent sexuality, alcoholism and addictions, steroids, eating disorders, All DS, relationships with parents and building self-esteem.

Mrs. Adams began her presentation in full habit, a costume she wore when she was a cast member in "Nunsense." After some bantering with students and staff, she entered the serious part of her talk.

"Take off your masks! ... Accept yourselfl" she told the assembly.

Mrs. Adams, a stage and television actress, told the audience that "it's more important what you , think of yourself than what others think of you." It's important to live in the present and not worry about the past or future, she added.

She also talked about her husband's battle with mvlt.iple sclerosis.

"When we first found out that he had MS, I could picture a slow deterioration to the point where he was dead," she said. "But he hasn't given up. He's alive. And we love each other even more... We just take things day by day and do not worry about what the future will bring."

She concluded h~r remarks with the day's theme song, "Hero" by Mariah Carey, which states that "A hero lies in you!"

Following the address, students had the opportunity'to attend workshops.

One of the most movi ng presentations was by Jay Hoyle, whose son Mark died of AIDS in 1986.

Hoyle discussed his son's battle with the disease and how the family has coped with his loss.

"Not a single day goes by," said Hoyle, "that I don't go to the cemetary to talk to Mark. I feel that God is taking care of Mark

BRENDAN POIRIER ofSt. Mary-Sacred Heart School, North Attleboro, displays his science fair project, the top scorer in the junior division at the recent regional science fair.

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arteries), the holistic art of aroma therapy, aerodynamic drag, and effects' of albuterol on exerciseinduced asthma.

Sophomore Derek Sousa's project on "Copper Corrosion Through and Inverse Electroplate Reaction" is being examined for further testDominican Academy ing by an area engineer.

Students from the North DartI The following winners of the mouth high school have also served 11111111111111111111111111111111:1111111111111111111111111111I111111111111111 Dominican Academy Social Stu-' as science fair judges at Catholic now, and Mark is taking care of dies Fair have been announc'ed by elementary'schools, including St. us." principal Helen Miller: First place, Joseph's, Fairhaven; Our Lady of Other students heard frank dis- Elaine Davis of Newport, RI; Mt. Carmel, New Bedford; and cussions of sexuality and date second place, Erica Tavares of Espirito Santo, Fall River. violence.

Fall River; third place, Amanda The Stang foreign language "You have the option not to Dwelley of Westport. department recently observed Forhave sex," said Dr. Genevieve A. The fair, iniwhich fourth, fifth, eign Language Week with internaFitzpatrick. and sixth gnide students particitional breakfasts sold in the cafeContrary to what society wants pated, was held March 23-24 in the teria and each day devoted to a teens to believe, most birth control Fall River school's auditorium. different language and its accommethods have a high failure rate, The project provided the students panying heritage. the students h:arned. with an opportunity to conduct For St. Patrick's Day, Stang "The safest and most effective long-term research assignments, students prepared a meal for the . form of birth control is abstinence," both written and visual. The Market Ministries homeless shelthey were told. fourth-grade projects dealt with ter in New Bedford.

Following the workshops, stu- US geography, the fifth grade's Newly elected class officers are dents Linda Cabral, Cheryl Dill With US history, and the sixth freshman president Nate Huff, vice and Sean Barney performed the grade's with world history. Stupresident Conor Kennedy, treaspiay "The Inner Circle," about dt;nts demonstrated a great deal of urer Matt Bastoni and secretary AIDS. Faculty member Carol Caul- originality in developing games Chuck Burke and sophomore field directed. based ,on their chosen topic. president Derek Sousa, vice presiThe day concluded with a prayer , The fair, coordinated by sixthdent Chris Fortier, treasurer Dan service with Father Bill Baker. grade teacher Pamela Chretian with Osuch and secretary Kathryn There were several witness talks the assistance of Sister Irene CoBarrett. about the day, and other students meau and Marianne Rego, is an Principal Theresa Dougall has offered prayer petitions as a way example of the programs used at been selected for the National to show the ~chool's concern about Dominican Academy to promote Catholic Educational Association ev~rything they had learned duran atmosphere for creative teachsubcommittee loo~ingat "Catholic ing the liay.. , . ' ' ing and learning.

Schools for the 21st century."

It took many months of planning by the Health Awareness Committee, coordinated by religion department chairman Michael Cote and science teacher Kathy St. Laurent.

The event, according to Mrs. St. Laurent and Cote, was designed to bring personal issues to light and provide information that will help students make educated decisions about life issues.

"There is such a need for topics like this to be raised with students," Mrs. St. Laurent said.

"When we decided last year to I .',;,. "\(;. \ .';.'i ! . -.s begin planning this day, we establish our focus as being how we can educate our students about these types of issues, especially from the Catholic perspective."

The CC Community was joined by representatives from Bishop Stang High School in North Dart< mouth and Bishop Connolly High DOMINICAN ACADEMY sixth-grader Amanda Dwelly School in Fall River, as well as describes her social studies project to eighth-grader Jennie James McNamee, superintendent Wrobel during the academy's recent social stud ies fair. of secondary schools for the dio(Gaudette photo) cese, and Mayor Robert Nunes.

Project Search, Bishop Stang High School's science module, recently held a science fair in the, SChool gym.

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Iteering pOintl LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Day of Recollection on Spiritual Disciplines 10 a.m. to,4 p.m. tomor-, row, Shrine Theater. Led by Father Fernand Cassista, MS, of the Shrine staff, the program will help participants understand the value of spiritual practices and integrate them into daily living. Brother Armand Binette, MS, will lead a healing servicc 2 p~m.

Sunday at the Shrine. Information:

WIDOWED SUPPORT, CAPE Meetings are held I :30 to 3:30 p.m. fourth Sundays in the library of the educational center, Christ the King parish, Mashpee. Area coordinator is Dorothyann Callahan, 4287078. Upcoming meeting topics are "The Changes 'in Our Journey" for April 24; "Strength Through Pray-. er," May 22; and "The Family,'" June 26.

(703) 349-4314.

, Information about Catholic homeschooling is available from the National Association of Catholic Home Educators, P.O.. Box 420225, San Diego, CA 92142.

ST. ANNE, FR Pro-life holy hour after 6:30 Mass tonight.

D. of I., NB New Bedford Daughters of Isabella will meet 7 p.m. April 19, Holy Name Church hall, to hear a speaker from St. Luke's Hospital.

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

Sunday, St. Pius X parish center, S. Yarmouth; Father Jay Maddock of the diocesan marriage tribunal will speak on annulments. Newcomers welcomed at 6:30 p.m. Information:

MARE Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange is accepting donations of APOSTOLATE FOR PERSONS WITH DlSABILI~IES. ~'unwanted cars, which will be towed _ A Mass and social. will ~e held 2 free of charge. Proceeds from scrap p.m. S~nday at St. Vmcen~ s Home, metal, recycled parts or auctioning Fall R,yer. For a new pans~ advo- will benefit MAR E's efforts to match ~acy program, the apost.olate IS seekchildren awaiting permanent homes mg vo!u~teers from pan~hes to serve with adoptive families. Persons with as a lIaison bet:",een disabled per- a vehicle for donation may call Bill son~ and the pan.sh and bet'Ycen the Holt's Recycling for Charity ih, Portsmouth, NH at 1-800-516-0516. 362~9873. pansh an~ the dlOce~an office. T~e goal of this program IS to enable diSabled persons to have full participation in the life of the church. A trainPUBLICITY CHAIRMEN ing program will begin June II. For are asked to submit news items for this column to information call the apostolate at 222-5410.

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-The fourth annual National Association of Catholic Home Educators convention will beheld July 8 and 9 , in Manassas, VA. The conference, not associated with anyone Catholic curriculum company, will offer workshops on homeschooling and Catholic family life. For information contact Bill and Lisanne Bales,

The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, 02722. Name of city or town should be included, as well as full dates of all activities. Please send news of future r,ather than past events; and send Hems to Steering Poil')ts, NOT to individual staff members.

Due to limited space and also because notices of strictly parish affairs normally appear in a parish's own bulletin, we are forced to limit items to events of general interest. Also, we do not normally carry notices of fund raising activities, which may be advertised at our regular rates, obtainable from The Anchor business office,· telephone (508) 675-7151.

On Steering Points items, FR indicates Fall River;_ NB indicates(New Bedford.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, CATHOLIC NURSES, TAUNTON ' ACUSHNET Ecumenical prayer service 7 toCEU program on "Diabetes Mellitus: Review and Research" will be night anticipating the beatification presented April 21 at St. Jacques of Father Damien de Veuster, Church, Taunton, by Marilyn Fick- SS.Cc., the leper priest, May 15 in . ett, RN, diabetes teaching nurse at Belgium.

Morton Hospital. To register con- O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER tact president Barbara Gauthier, .

Clothing for infants, young chil823-4116, or moderator Rev. Thomdren and expectant mothers is being as Morrissey, 824-7794. Membership collected for delivery to Birthright of applications also available. ~ape Cod April 24.

F ATHER LAWRENCE Martin Jenco, OSM, will give the keynote address at a peace andjustice workshop, "Blessed' Are the Peacemakers," lOa.m. to 4 p.m. April 30 in the cafeteria of LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro..

Father Jenco, a former Beirut hostage, was director of Catholic Relief Services in . Lebanon when he was kid.napped in 1985. He will speak on the hostage experience and how he was able to forgive his captors. He is currently a mentor to Servite seminarians in Berkeley, CA. Also in the program, Dr..

David O'Brien, professor of Roman Catholic Studies at Holy Cross College, Worcester, will speak on "Development, The' New Name for Peace"; Sister Patricia McCarthy, CND, of Providence, RI, on "What Does It Mean to Be a Peacemaker Today?"; and Dr. Mya Maung, Boston College professor, on' "The Prophetic Witness of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi," the Nobel Peace Prize winning leader of the Burmese democracy movement. ~eservations are required

by April 25. For information call 222-5410.

Foreign high. school students will soon be arriving in the Fall River area through Pacific Intercultural Exchange (PIE) for academic semester and yea r homeslays, and are in need of host families.

The students, ages 15 to 18, are English-speaking, have their own spending money, carry accident and health insurance, and are anxious to share their cultural experiences with American families.

'PI E representatives match stu~ dents with host families by finding common interests and. lifestyles through an informal in-home: meeting at which prospective host families review student applications. Various host situations are possible, whether it be a single pMent, a childless couple, a retired. couple or a large family. .

Host families are eligible to claim a $50 per month charitablt: contribution deduction on their itemized tax. returns for each mor.:th they host a sponsored student.

The upcoming programs involve students from Spain, Gc:rmany, Polan'd, Finland, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Australia, New Zealand, Croatia and ma'ny other countries. PI E has also been invited to participate in a government-funded program to bring scholarship students from the former Soviet Union to the United States.

Since its founding in 1975, PI E, a non-profit educational organization, has sponsored more than 18,000 students from 23 countries.

Families interested in h:arning more about student excha.nge or arranging for a meeting with a community representative may call PIE, toll-free, at 1-800-63!~-1818.

The agency also has travel-study program opportunities available for American high schpol students as well as possibilities fol' community volunteers to assi"t and work with area host families, students and schools.

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HITTING THE NAIL: Corbin King, a member of Resurrection Churc'h in Tempe, Ariz., hammers the frame of a window for a home.near Tijuana, Mexico. He was among 29 Arizonans, all members of parish youth groups, who helped construct homes for poor families during a five-day sp:ring break mission trip. (eNS photo)