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FATHER HARRISON

MRS. O'BRIEN

BISHOP CRONIN

"We're all in this together" Story and photos by Joseph Motta

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"I look forward with great hope toward an outstanding 1988 Catholic Charities Appeal."

An enthusiastic and sincere Bishop Daniel A. Cronin delivered those words April 13 at Fall River's Bishop Connolly High School at the kickoff meeting for the 47th annual drive to benefit thousands through diocesan apostolates of social service, education, mercy, charity and health care.

Hundreds of priests, religious and laity participated in this year's kickoff celebration. They heard' addresses by Bishop Cronin, for the 18th year the Appeal's honorary chairman; Father George E. Harrison, speaking on behalf of Youth Ministry at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, an Appeal beneficiaryand Mrs. James A. O'Brien Jr., formerly Gertrude K. Ready, 1988 Appeal lay chairman.

Mrs. O'Brien, for 38 years a member of St. Mary's Cathedral parish, Fall River, and a secretary at the diocesan chancery office, is the third woman to chair the drive.

The trio's addresses appeared in last week's Anchor.

Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, PA, kickoff master of ceremonies and Appeal diocesan director, told the crowd that as he entered Connolly's auditorium that evening, he noticed that some of those present had been CCA workers throughout the drive's history.

He asked. pt:rsons who fit that category to rise. Several did. to applause from other attendees.

Among them were Leonor Luiz and George Mendonca, both of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel parish, New Bedford. .

Ms. Luiz later told The Anchor that she's "always felt it was my obligation to help the church in any way I could" and that being a CCA worker"was one way I could help'" Both she and Mendonca, brother to Msgr. Luiz G. Mendonca, diocesan vicar general and Mt. Carmel's pastor, have chaired the collection in their parish, she in 1985, h'e in 1980.

Mendonca said "great personal satisfaction" comes from knowing "you're part of the tremendous help that Catholic Charities provides.

"Every year," he said, "people have become more and more generous. I believe it's a result of the Appeal's accomplishments."

Bishop Cronin, who received standing ovations before and after his speech, thanked all who had a part in the kickoff and the many who will work so hard to make 1988 a memorable year. He commented on the quality of Mrs. O'Brien's presentation: "I'm sorry everybody learned tonight who really runs the chancery office," he said to laughter and applause. He advanced his point by bringing audience attention to Mrs. O'Brien's

chancery coworkers, sitting right up front, wide smiles on their faces.

"They're all here tonight," the bishop laughed. "They wouldn't miss'" Msgr. Gomes also praised the lay chairman, noting that it would take him until midnight to list her achievements. He introduced her as "Gert," explaining that that's the tag by which thousands of diocesans know her.

Agnes Kelly of Sacred Heart parish, Taunton, attending with her husband John, like her for 42 years a CCA solicitor, thought the choice of Mrs. O'Brien as chairman was "terrific.

"Espe~ally because she's a woman," Mrs. Kelly added. "A woman does a good job!"

The 47th drive is themed "Only Hope of Many People." Kickoff attendees were both hopeful and enthusiastic,joining in a sing-along led by Buddy Braga Music with Ken Leger of Sacred Heart parish, Fall River, who also led the audience in the National Anthem to open the meeting and closed the program with" America the Beautiful."

Msgr. Gomes ended the evening by telling the audience that "We're all in this together'" But the remark really wasn't necessary. People who support Catholic Charities and the thousands who benefit by it could tell him that they already knew.

WASHINGTON (NC) - The Catholic bishops of the V nited States should neither condemn nuclear deterrence outright nor "accept it as self-regulating or 'normal: " says a draft report by the V.S. bishops' Ad Hoc Committee for the M oral Evaluation of Deterrence.

The report, released last week, says the V.S.-Soviet summit last December has raised "cautious hopes" for arms control, but some nuclear policies and strategies of the superpowers must still be changed.

The nation's bishops are to make recommendations on the report in writing to the committee, then debate and vote on a second draft when they meet in June in Collegeville, M inn. The committee writing the report is headed by Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago. It has been evaluating

changes in V.S. nuclear policy since the bishops issued their 1983 pastoral letter, "The Challenge of Peace," which said that moral acceptance of nuclear deterrence had to be "strictly conditioned" by the morality of the policies and strategies underlying a nation's deterrence posture.

Some bishops who called for the new evaluation had argued that V.S. policies no longer met the pastoral letter's conditions for morally acceptable nuclear deterrence.

The draft document calls on the superpowers to reverse existing policies increasing risk of a preemptive first strike or destabilizing the nuclear balance.

The committee report urges significant reductions in the strategic weapons of both countries, saying that existing arsenals exceed reTurn to Page Six

Use of aborted tissues banned WASHINGTON (NC) - Abortion opponents applauded the Reagan administration's ban on experiments at the National Institutes of Health that use tissue from deliberately aborted fetuses.

Researchers have been using fetal organs and-tissue to seek cures for illnesses such as Parkinson's disease, diabetes and some blood disorders. Abortion opponents object to the use of deliberately aborted fetuses in such research, some of them characterizing it as "cannibalism."

Dr. Robert E. Windom, assistant secretary of health at the Department of Health and Human Services, said in a letter that a. proposal to implant fetal tissue into patients with Parkinson's disease "raises a number of questions - primarily ethical and legal that have not been satisfactorily addressed."

"I am withholding my approval of the proposed experiment and future experiments" that use fetal tissue, Windom wrote.

H HS spokesman Jim Brown said April 15 that Windom's letter calls for an outside advisory committee to be set up to study the medical, legal and ethical implications of the issue.

Brown said the ban does not include tissue from fetuses from miscarriages or stillbirths, but said it is generally not feasible to use that tissue in the type of research that NIH proposed.

Douglas J oh nson, legislative director of the National Right To Life Committee, called the fetal experimentation "a kind of cannibalism. It's one generation feeding on another."

Johnson said the National Right to Life Committee applauded Windom's action, which he said will "put a damper" on fetal experimentation throughout the V nited States and will have "a salutary effect on the overall research community."

He called NI H "the leader in many respects. They set the standards for human experimentation" and are the major source of funding for biomedical research.

Johnson said a major concern is that aborted fetuses are not dead when their organs and tissues are taken for experimentation.

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Case shouldn't have existed say USCC attorneys WASHINGTON (NC) - The Catholic Church cannot be forced to answer subpoenas in a court case if the case never should have existed in tfle first place and the subpoenas are invalid, attorneys for the U.S. Catholic Conference told the U.S. Supreme CO)Jrt. The comments came April 18 when the high court heard oral arguments in U.S. Catholic Conferencevs. Abortion Rights Mobilization.

The abortion rights group, a coalition of non-Catholic clergy and other backers of legal abortion, alleges that the church engaged in anti-abortion politicking that violated IRS regulations forbidding political involvement by tax-exempt, non-profit organizations, and that the federal government consequently must be ordered to strip the Catholic Church's tax exemption.

As part of the nearly 8-year-old case, the abortion group subpoenaed internal church documents on pro-life activities from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and its public policy twin, the USCe. However, Supreme Court attention focused not on the tax exemption itself or claims of improper church political activity but on technical, .legal questions of the subpoenas, on Abortion Rights Mobilization's power to originate the suit at all, and on the lower court's' jurisdiction in the dispute.

A Supreme Court ruling is expected before the close of the high court's current term this summer.

"There was no case or controversy" worthy offederal court action in the case, Kevin T. Baine, an attorney representing the USCC, told the court.

Thus, Baine said, with no case or controversy there can be no subpoena and no claims of contempt for failure to respond to a subpoena. "It's our view the subpoena was not only unlawful, it was also burdensome" to the USCC

and NCCB to an undue degree, he added.

When the NCCB and USCC refused to comply with the subpoenas, they were held in contempt of court and fined by a federal district court. A federal appeals court upheld the district court's ruling but the fines - $100,000 a day -were delayed pending further appeals.

"It is the bishops' contention ... that it is beyond the constitutional power of a United States court" to take up the case, Baine said. "The plaintiffs (Abortion Rights Mobilition) lack standing (and) are without power, in other words, because there was no case or controversy."

Baine argued that the USCC, as a "non-party witness," or third party, can correctly challenge the subpoena because no other option was open to the church. He noted that the I RS, not the church, is the direct party of the suit although it is the church's tax exemption that is at stake in the end.

But Marshall Beil, lawyer for Abortion Rights Mobilization, argued that "the issue here seems to be unprecedented exemption from" court jurisdiction by the church.

Responding to a subpoena "is a duty...all citizens have a duty to come forth and produce evidence if they have evidence," Beil said.

During questioning by the justices, Justice Antonin Scalia told Beil, "You're telling us there's no way the third part can ever stand on his rights and say 'I'm not turning over the documents.' " Both the USCe's attorney Baine, and Alan I. Horowitz, assistant to the U.S. solicitor general at the Department of Justice who also participated in the oral arguments, claimed that Abortion Rights Mobilization members have not demonstrated sufficient injury to warrant pursuit ofthe case. Previously, the federal government, like the USCC, has tried to have the case dismissed.

Father Curran loses "mission" WASHINGTON (NC) - The Catholic University of America board of trustees stripped Father Charles E. Curran of his church license to teach April 12 but said the priest still holds tenure and can teach outside the university's Vatican-accredited theology department, where he has been a professor for 22 years.

The board action came nearly two years after the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared that Father Curran is unfit to teach Catholic theology because of his continuing dissent from church teachings on the indissolubility of marriage, abortion, euthanasia, premarital intercourse, homosexual activity and several other moral issues.

The priest's battles with the Vatican go back to 1968, when he led public dissent by hundreds of American and European theologians from "H umanae Vitae," the encyclical in which Pope Paul VI reaffirmed church teachings prohibiting use of artificial birth control.

For the 1987-88 school year he was a visiting professor in Catholic studies at Cornell Unversity, Ithaca, N. Y., and through internal Catholic University procedures ap-

pealed Washington Archbishop James A. Hickey's decision to seek withdrawal of the "canonical mission" professors need to teach in the Catholic University theology department. .

The board of truste~s decision to pursue an alternative teaching assignment for Father Curran represented a partial victory for the theologian. In an earlier statement recently made public, the board questioned whether the priest could' teach theology anywhere in the university in light of the Vatican decision that he is "neither suitable nor eligible to teach Catholic theology."

In a short statment released by his lawyers in New York and Washington, Father Curran said he was "gratified" that the board affirmed his rights of tenure at the university, although he was "obviously disappointed by" the decision to withdraw his canonical mission.

"However," Father Curran added, "before the university proceedings even commenced, I offered to move out of the department of theology so long as I could continue to teach in the area of my competence. The board's action appears to acknowledge that such a resolution may now be acceptable."

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SISTER BLUTE

Religious transition studied

By Pat McGowan You've spent your life in the service of God as a religious sister or brother. Now it's time to shift gears, to think of a more leisurely lifestyle. What are you going to do?

It's a new problem, says Sister Mary Noel Blute, RSM, Episcopal Representative for Religious in the Fall River diocese.

But answers may be forthcoming at a workshop, "Challenges for New Directions: The Third Age," to be offered from I to 4:30 p.m.

Sunday, May I, at St. James Convent on Nannaquaket Road, Tiverton, under sponsorship of the Offices for Religious of the Fall River and Providence dioceses.

The workshop, organized by a Committee on Transitions representing six religious communities, is open to men and women religious of Southeastern New England. It will address opportunities • available for pre-retirement ministry when, says Sister Blute, "religious are experienced and capable persons, but can no longer accept the strain of a fulltime position."

She says that stepped-down "Third Age" activity, prior ~t<> full retirement, is a new idea for religious. In the past, like priests, they usually kept working until death or infirmities of age overtook them.

In the latter situation, they moved to community retirement homes, there to pray for their active. brethren and the church as a whole and, in some cases, occupy themselves otherwise with little more than busywork.

Sometimes such a religious, previously noted for a keen mind and outstanding achievements, became prematurely senile.

"Having nothing to do can devastate a person," said Sister Blute, citing her own experience some years ago after she left the demanding position of superior of the Providence province of the Sisters of Mercy.

"I felt I'd lost touch with teaching, my previous work, and I just didn't know where to go," she said.

She took a year off to consider her options but found herself becoming less and less self-confident. At that juncture Bishop Daniel A. Cronin asked her to take her present post as Episcopal Representa-

tive: it was a case ofjob and person being made for each other.

Sister Blute also related the story of a sister, a master teacher, devastated by a community regulation that sisters should retire at age 72.

"She'd always been healthy and active but the day she retired she took to bed complaining of terrible back pain," said Sister Blute.

"She didn't get out of bed for a month. Then we took her to the doctor, who said nothing whatever was wrong with her."

Light dawned and Sister was put back to work, to continue enthusiastically for many years.

Learning from such experiences, realization has grown that people can't enter retirement as easily as they can close one door and open another. Hence the May I workshop.

Its planning, said Sister Blute, was preceded by circulation of questionnaires to pastors and directors of diocesan offices as well as to religious. The pastors and directors were asked what parttime or temporary employment they might be able to offer religious in their pre-retirement years.

Among suggestions were extended time program supervisors, library aides, secretaries, substitute teachers, tutors, companions to the elderly and receptionists.

The religious were asked to list their skills, interests, educational backgroun(J and times of availability.

Reports on the findings of both questionnaires will be given at the May I workshop.

The keynote speaker will be Sister Kathleen E. Kelley, SND, Ph.D., president of Grace Institute, a clinical and theological resource center. Sister Kelley was for 10 years on the ~taff of the House of Affirmation, a therapeutic center for clergy and religious.

There she was successively director of career counseling and of a residential center and finally executive director of the organization.

Holder of a doctorate in counseling psychology from Kensington University, she has lectured and written extensively in the areas of emotional health and Christian living.

WASHINGTON (NC) - Renewed humanitarian assistance to the Nicaraguan rebels is "a sign of hope that all sides may now be working to forge a lasting and just peace," the head of the U.S. bishops' conference said in a letter to Nicaraguan Cardinal Miguel Obando Bravo.

St. Louis Archbishop John L. May, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops,. said the $47.9 billion aid package approved by Congress last month would sustain the opposition forces while peace talks continue.

The U.S. bishops have "consistently opposed all provision of military support to both sides in this fratricidal conflict," Archbishop May said, but they have supported aid "designed to further the peace process."

Archbishop May praised the "crucial role" Cardinal Obando Bravo of Managua has played in seeking peace. The Cardinal mediated talks between the Nicaraguan government and the rebels and was one of two people appointed to verify compliance with a March 23 ceasefire agreement between the government and rebels.

Catholic Relief Services, the bishops' overseas agency, is among non-government agencies which may distribute the humanitarian aid, said Terence Martin, CRS Latin American director.

The legislation's language appears to allow use of the funds for Honduran and Costa Rican children who have been caught in the middle of the conflict, as well as for Nicaraguan children on both sides of the struggle, he said.

The Catholic relief agency may receive $4 million to $5 million of the aid package's $17.7 million allocation for children's programs, Martin said. It does not expect to participate in distributing assistance to the rebels.

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A small group session will be presented by Sister Christopher O'Rourke, RSM, a successor to Sister Blute as provincial administr.ator of the Sisters of Mercy. She will discuss preparation and planning for interviews,' writing of resumes and how to "market oneself."

In a second session, Sisters Claire Mary Joyal, SSCh., Rita Lovett, FCJ, Inez Duffy, RSM, and Lucretia Duffy, RSM, will speak on their work as, respectively, a babysitter; an advocate for Hmong immigrants in Providence; a foster grandparent; and a tutor and substitute teacher.

The sessions will be repeated so that all workshop participants may attend both.

In addition to Sisters Blute and O'Rourke, members of the Committee on Transitions are Sisters Mary N. Behan, SSJ, Holyoke; Marie Georgette Chasse, RSM, Providence diocesan Vicar for Religious; Theresa Horvath, SUSC, Fall River; Marina Mejia, OP, Dighton; Elizabeth Menard, OP; Fall River; Rosalie Patrello, SSD, Taunton.

Workshop registration will be accepted at the door, said Sister Blute, or pre-registrations may be sent to her at Office for Religious, 500 Slocum Rd., North Dartmouth 02747.

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FATHER FITZGERALD

FATHER PHILLIPINO

FATHER COSTA

New Health Facilities directors appointed Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has announced the appointments, effective May 4, of Rev. Edmund J. Fitzgerald and Rev. Joseph M. Costa as director and assistant director of Diocesan Health Facilities, the office in charge of four diocesan nursing homes. Both ap-

Special Gifts doing well Mrs. James A. O'BrienJr. of St. Mary's Cathedral parish, Fall River, diocesan lay chairman of the 1988 Catholic Charities Appeal, reports that the 47th drive's Special Gift phase, which began Monday, is doing well. This phase of the Appeal ends April 30.

While it is in effect, 850 Special Gift volunteer solicitors are calling on 5,000 professional, fraternal, business and industrial groups in southeastern Massachusetts.

The Appeal helps support diocesan apostolates of charity, mercy, education, social service and health care.

Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, PA, the drive's diocesan director, said Special Gift phase donors realize their contributions provide services to all people, regardless of religion.

"These contributors, with great . generosity and enthusiasm, support the Appeal for its contribution to the community," he said. . Special Gift solicitors in all five diocesan deaneries, Fall River, New Bedford, Taunton, the Attleboros and Cape Cod and the Islands, are asked to make reports to area headquarters as soon as possible.

All reports should be filed by the end of the phase.

pointments are for a three-year term.

Fathers Fitzgerald and Costa succeed Msgr. John J. Regan and Rev. Lucio P. Phillipino, who have asked to be relieved of the responsibilities of the nursing home posts.

Father Fitzgerald will remain pastor of St. John the Baptist parish, Westport, and diocesan director of Pastoral Care for the Sick and the Diocesan Council ofCatholic Nurses. Father Costa will remain parochial vicar at St. John of God parish, Somerset.

Msgr. Regan Msgr. Regan, since 1974 direc-

tor of Diocesan Health Facilities, in a 1987 Anchor interview noted with pride that "the Fall River diocese has more nursing home beds per capita than any other diocese in the country."

During his tenure, many of the facilities' operations were computerized and it was Msgr. Regan's constant concern that they should be "the finest in the state and that they conform to the multitudinous rules and regulations of the state and federal governments. Our aim is to maintain them so that they will always be a source of pride, not only to their residents, but to the whole diocese."

In addition to his direction of the four diocesan nursIng homes, Msgr. Regan is Episcopal Vicar for the Fall River and New Bedford deaneries of the diocese. In this capacity he is frequently a minister of the sacrament of confirmation.

Since 1974 he has been Anchor financial administrator and in the same year he was named a domestic prelate.

Msgr. Regan has been pastor of St. Thomas More parish, Somerset, since 1978. Previously he was rector of St. Mary's Cathedral for seven years.

Father Phillipino Father Phillipino, pastor of Immaculate Conception parish, North Easton, since 1978, has been Health Facilities assistant director since 1971. He also served as assistant in the former Diocesan Office for Administration and Finance and is currently a defender of the bond for the diocesan marriage tribunal.

He was pastor at St. Bernard's parish, Assonet, before being named to the· North Easton post.

Father Fitzgerald Father Fitzgera1d is a judge for the marriage tribunal: He is certified by the National Association of Catholic Hospital Chaplains and the U.S. Catholic Conference as a chaplain for general health care facilities.

Father Costa Father Costa was Fall River juvenile court chaplain and was for two years chaplain at St. Vincent's Home, Fall River. He holds a master's degree in social work from Boston College.

During 1985 and 1986 he was chairman of the diocesan Presbyteral Council and in 1984 he was named New England regional representative to the National Federation of Priests' Councils.

Diocese of Fall River

OFFICIAL His Excellency, the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, has acceded to the request of Msgr. John J. Regan to be relieved of his responsibilities as Director of the Diocesan Facilities Office.

Bishop Cronin has acceded to the request of the Rev. Lucio B. PhiUipino to be relieved of his responsibilities as Assistant to the Director of the Diocesan Facilities Office.

His Excellency, the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, announces the appointment of the Rev. Edmund J. Fitzgerald as Director of the Diocesan Facilities Office for a three-year term. Father Fitzgerald will retain his positions as Pastor of St. John the Baptist Parish, Westport, and Diocesan Director of Pastoral Ministry to the Sick.

Bishop Cronin has appointed the Rev. Joseph M. Costa as Assistant to the Director of the Diocesan Facilities Office for a three-year term in addition to his responsibilities as Parochial Vicar at St. John of God Parish, Somerset.

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"We will walk in the name of the Lord our God." Mich. 4:5

On capital punishment

utTOa Rev, John f. Moore

By Father Kevin J. Harrington One of the least accepted political positions held by the bishops of the United States is their opposition to capital punishment. The "seamless garment" argument advanced by Chicago's Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. linking that opposition to the arms race and abortion. has not proved very popular.

Many pro-life advocates object to coupling abortion. which terminates the life of an innocent child. with capital punishment, which terminates the life of a convicted capital offender. Many who oppose abortion cannot understand the connection Cardinal Bernardin makes between the taking of innocent and guilty life.

Our bishops could be more persuasive on the capital punishment issue if they understood better the perspective of those who argue for it.

Those who endorse capital punishment ask "Why do people worry more about the murderers on death row than about their victims?"

They reason that capital punishment is just, because actions should have consequences: a life for a life.

They also claim its value as a deterrent.

Indeed, the twin pillars of justice and deterrence are what support capital punishment in the United States. In my opinion, the argument for deterrence is the more difficult to uphotd since statistics

can be found to back both advocates and opponents.

Facts. however, very rarely change strongly-held opinions. The notion of justice provides overwhelming emotional support for capital punishment.

But it must be conveyed that the capital punishment debate is not about what murderers mayor may not deserve. but rather about how society should express and defend its fundamental values. Those opposed to capital punishment need not prove that no crime ever deserves it to establish the moral unacceptability of the death penalty.

True, the media detail horrible offenses which shock our sensibilities. The familiar phrase: "Hanging would be too good for them" rings loud and true on too many occasions. If "deserving" were the key word. not simply its presupposition, we would have to restore torture to the penal system!

A society that respects life should never permit itself to execute an innocent person. Refraining from executing even those who may to some seem to deserve it is the only way to avert the occasional mistake.

But a change in the American mind set on the issue of capital punishment will be an uphill battle, although I trust not insurmountable. Our laws should reflect our strong religious conviction that we oppose capital punishment because

responsibility for life and death belongs to God and because society should never cut short any person's opportunity to repent or embrace faith.

The bishops' opposition to capital punishment should not be perceived as a sentimental attempt to side with villain over victim. It is natural to express revulsion at killing but the best way a society can express that it cherishes life is by abstaining from taking any life.

The mark put on Cain, the first murderer, is the best model for punishment. How deep, how painful or how indelible that mark should be is best left to the discretion of the law.

Cain's life was protected. Ironically, protecting the lives of those who kill best articulates society's abhorrence of killing.

Cuban glasnost NEW YORK (NC) - President Fidel Castro of Cuba recently told a visiting interfaith delegation that he favored contact between the religious communities of Cuba and the United States as a way of overcoming the isolation Cuba has felt since the communist revolution of 1959.

Newark Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, of Newark, N.J., a delegation member, said Castro acknowledged that "subtle harassment" of believers sometimes occurred but said he opposes it.

Getting mugged Well, I was mugged. Not in . a dark alley at knifepoint but in the Newark Airport surrounded by people. I was standing at the baggage carousel with my briefcase in one hand and purse in the other, talking with a new young friend from my own city when a fleet young man ran past, snatched my purse and ran out the door before we could shout "Hey!" He got everything - my money, credit cards, checkbook, glasses, driver's license and, most devastating, my calendar. He also got two columns I wrote on the plane. I hope he read them and got a few conscience pangs but, then again, maybe he can't read.

I filled out the police report and called home to get the credit cards and checks stopped. The chaplains at Fort Monmouth, where I was working for four days, had sent transportation, so I was okay being penniless in New York until I reached my destination.

My first reaction was guilt. What had I done wrong? But that didn't last. If I had been alone on a street and heard running footsteps, I would have tightened my grip on my possessions but running in the airport is normal behavior.

Also, one can't be on "red alert" all the time, in spite of what some suggest. Besides, guilt is not a productive use of energy. There's a value in having to act immediately, protecting credit cards, getting money and so on.

I discovered since that many people have had a similar experience, either themselves or with a family member or friend. Some retain a deep anger, not just toward the perpetrator but toward all of society.

Fortunately, empathetic strangers' helpfulness offset this for me.

It's what makes the difference in how a traumatic experience determines one's attitude toward people in general.

The young woman I was talking with, a college student who couldn't have had excess cash, thrust ten dollars into my hand on the spot.

She was visibly concerned - a reversal of the parenti child role -and insisted on staying until I assured her I was okay.

The police officer at the airport couldn't have been more helpful or reassuring. "Lots of times they take the money and dump the purse," he said. "We'll check all the trash receptacles daily."

The limo driver called his superior and relieved me by saying they would bill me at home. The chaplains loaned me money and the wonderful people at Monmouth presented me with a gift at my first workshop: a new purse filled with goodies like tissues, mints and, the coup de grace, an army camouflage wallet.

On my return I met sympathetic and helpful people at the driver's license bureau, bank and department store where one of my stopped checks bounced.

Looking ahead The changes occurring in cut across categories to get the best the church are both fascinat-路 combinations of people for the job." ing and frightening.

Let me cite a few examples: In this brief paragraph, Ms. Kanter focuses on flexibility, quick reactions and cutting across categories. These add up to being creative and breaking patterns that once brought success but perhaps no longer do.

Implied in "quick reaction time" is the idea of practicing the vigilance so often encouraged in - A recent book on parishes in Scripture. the future points out that canon The concept of cutting across law puts a new emphasis on the categories suggests that task once parish belonging to the people as the responsibility of the clergy much as it does to the pastor. The alone should be reassessed and book encourages more shared deperhaps reassigned to other groups cision making and collaboration. such as the permanent diaconate - In the Archdiocese of Chi- or the laity. This already is hapcago I heard of a program that pening, but in many quarters it is provides a parish nurse to help still met with resistance. those with chronic illnesses who Planning for change -looking are too poor or uneducated to ahead to what may occur - is receive the help they need. I also important. But this does not mean learned of a program to provide we must all become wild-eyed furoutine company for those who turists, Ms. Kanter suggests. In are elderly or shut-in. . this connection she alludes to Woody Allen. There is a tendency - The reports are multiplying to think ahead to a civilization dramatically of lay ministry and that is thousands or millions of permanent diaconate teams that years ahead of us. What worried take responsibility for running Allen was a civilization that was 15 parishes in dioceses that lack minutes ahead: "Its members al, priests. ways would be first in line at the Without exaggeration, one could . movies and they would never be write a book on just one week's late for appointments. In short, a shifts in the church in the United little lead time might be all the States. The question is how we competitive advantage one needs!" should react to all the change.

The dramatic shifts in the church I turned to Rosabeth Moss call for a new astuteness and energy Kanter, a'n analyst of change, and in church leadership. Perhaps, takher book titled "Change Masters." ing a cue from Allen, if we could She writes, "Security will not come add a few minutes of serious reflecfrom domination, but from flexi- tion and analysis to our problems bility. It will come not from having on a regular basis, it would make a everything under control, but from real difference. quick reaction time, being able to Who knows, maybe we could - Today's candidates for the. priesthood are much older, many do not have a Catholic school background and a good number reflect attitudes which predict that they will be less active in social justice issues when they' are ordained.

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., April 22, 1988 By DOLORES CURRAN

In my purse I had an award certificate from a major airlines company for a free ticket. When I explained the situation, the director was understanding and said once they received a copy of the police report, they would reissue the certificate.

But most touching was yesterday when I received an anonymous box postmarked Brooklyn. In it were my credit cards, checks, and, praise God, my calendar.

Whoever found them packed them carefully and paid three dollars to send them.

Since I have no way ofthanking them and since this column appears in the Brooklyn Tablet. I want to say a public thank you to all of you there in Brooklyn for giving rise to such a Samaritan.

Sometimes things like this destroy one's faith in people but my experience cements it. I realize I am lucky. I may have faced a cold and uncaring people. But I didn't.

I was blessed in experiencing the innate goodness in people and for that I am grateful.

On the scale of tragedies, this was minor but strangers were there when I needed them. I hope I will be the same.

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK

cut across several sacred categories and react more quickly to change, which often upsets so many.

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By FATHER JOHN DIETZEN

Q, For a long time I have been interested in religious orders and munities, individuals or instituthe religious life. However, every tions, and seek their help. order I read about is for unmarQ. I would ask your advice on ried people. I have seen some reffinding a spiritual counselor or at erences to "third orders" or "seculeast a counselor with Christian lar orders." values. I have been hospitalized Unfortunately, I can't find much with what was diagnosed as deinformation. Are these open to pression. I am a single parent, married people with children? What divorced Catholic with a fuIItime would you suggest? (New York) job. I have been going to therapy A. A number of religious groups to one person recommended to me exist in the church which may fit and, while she has been helpful, I what you are looking for. Canon am uneasy about a very secular law refers to them as "associations approach to counseling. whose members lead an apostolic I have tried talking to a couple life and strive for Christian perfec- of priests. They always seem too tion while living in the world, and busy or seem to give some help in who share the spirit of some relig- spiritual matters but lack underious institute," under the direction standing of the real problems I of that institute. (Canon 303) have to deal with.

These groups "are called third I hope you can shed some light orders or some other appropriate on my problem, and also comment name." on why more clergy do not also The practice of inviting men and have psychology and therapy backwomen, married or unmarried, to grounds. (New York) pattern their spiritual lives as much as reasonably possible according A. I believe I understand your to the teachings of a particular re- problem. In most communities it ligious order goes back many seems extremely difficult to find centuries. what you are looking for: a comSometimes the lay people in- petent counselor or therapist and volved take one or more of the one whose procedures are not religious vows: usually they do unduly affected by values you not. reject.

The first of these associations You apparently recognize it is formally recognized by the church seems to have been the Oblates of .just as important to have a compeSt. Benedict. Oblates of this order tent, knowledgeable and wise (and about a dozen others) con- counselor as to have a Christian one. An untrained counselor, partinue to this day, generally related to a particular community of Bene- ticularly one who does not recognize his or her own limits, can dictine priests or sisters, and comseriously damage a client's permitted to living the spirit of the Rule of St. Benedict in their daily" sonality, just as an unskilled physician or surgeon, Christian or lives at work and home. " not, can do untold physical harm.

Probably the most widely known of such associations, at least in our I sympathize with your disapcountry, are the third orders of St. pointment that the priests you Francis and ofSt. Dominic. Groups consulted were not more helpful. of third order members, connected Perhaps, however, it was because to either the Franciscans or Do- they recognized their own limits. minicans, are common throughout the United States and elseSeminary and ordination, after where. all do not automatically produce Third order associations also ps;chologi"cal therapists anymore are related to and inspired by the than they produce attorneys, Carmelites, Augustinians and the though most priests do everything Servants of Mary and Norbertine possible to prepare themselves to priests, among others. be helpful in this area.

Obviously, which of these might At least these priests, with whom suit your desires best will depend you seem close, should be able to on how your own spiritual inclinahelp you discern whether your tions match theirs, relationships you may have with individuals or present counselor is giving you the communities of a particular relig- assistance you need and, if not, how you might find one who will. ious order and so on.

"Please ask them to do this for During some periods in the past you. when the monastic life (for men A free brochure explaining and women) was thought to be the only fully perfect Catholic Chris- Catholic teaching on cremation tian life, these associations seemed and other burial policies is availato aim often at encouraging their ble by sending a stamped, selfmembers to live quasi-monastic addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 lives.

This is not true today. Religious N. Main St., Bloomington, III. orders and congregations attempt 61701. Questions for this column diligently to interpret their own should be sent to Father Dietzen particular spiritual charisms and at the same address. way of life in a manner that makes them most helpful and practical in the daily lives of their lay associates.

An Encounter "For us Christians the Gospel is Participation in such groups can be a spiritual boost to many lay not a law but an encounter with men and women. I suggest you Christ." - Father Yves Congar, write to one or two religious com- OP

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It particularly challenges the level of U.S. and Soviet defense spending, saying defense expenditures are in "direct and unyielding competition" with social programs for the poor and needy. The amount both countries spend on defense is "a debilitating drain on their domestic economic and social progress," it says.

Continued from Page One they are still twitching. They can't use miscarriage victims," he said.

Even if the deliberately aborted fetuses are dead, the National Right to Life Committee opposes using their organs and tissue for experimentation, Johnson said.

"We think the bodies should be treated with dignity, just as any other corpse," he said. "It further degrades the human dignity of the babies. First they're killed, then they are subjected to a kind of cannibalism."

Adelle Nathanson, executive dir- ' ector of Bernelll nc., also called it cannibalism to use deliberately aborted fetuses for research. "Because research can be done, should it be done? Should we <:annibalize our own race?"

Mrs. Nathanson and her husband, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a former abortion physician who is now>a pro-life advocate, run Bernell, an anti-abortion bioethical education project.

She referred to a U.S. government agency which recently rejected research data because it had been conducted by the Nazis. The Nazi data "was obtained unethically and I think this falls into the same category."

The "tissue issue" is debasing to women and unsafe because the abortions are often performed late in pregnancy so that the fetus is more fully developed, she said.

Msgr. Orville Griese, director of research for the Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral Research and Education Center, said the Catholic Church does not oppose research on fetuses from miscarriages or stillbirths but that it does oppose research on deliberately aborted fetuses.

"Even a rational person for abortion has to ask 'what are we opening the door toT" with such experimentation, he said.

Msgr. Griese said he was afraid the "abortion mills would even sell the little aborted bodies, make a little profit on the side."

Richard Doerflinger, assistant director of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops Office for Pro-Life Activities, said he welcomed Windom's directive because "it clearly recognizes that the debate over using fetal tissues obtained by abortion cannot totally be separated from the debate over abortion itself."

"Both the pregnant woman and the abortionist may decide whether, how and at what time an abortion is performed, based on the projected use offetal organs or tissues," he said and fetal transplant protocol could involve "unethical collaboration with or even encouragement of the abortion industry."

Doerflinger said any advisory committee studying the issue should take as a starting point "the federal government's policy against public subsidies for'abortion."

PRINCIPALS at Catholic Charities Appeal kickoff meeting, from left, Mr. and Mrs. James A. O'Brien Jr., Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, Msgr. Anthony M .. Gomes.

Brazilian torture report discussed WASHINGTON (NC) - Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns of Sao Paulo, Brazil, said the Brazilian church is attempting to convince government authorities that "~o~­ ture of so-called common cnminals" is wrong.

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of records of a clandestine project he sponsored documenting torture in Brazil has resulted in widespread Brazilian opposition to torture of political prisoners.

"Now our struggle is to convince people that the common criminal - not just the political

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prisoner - has dignity," he said III an interview in which he called torture "perhaps the most violent method one can employ to destroy a person, to totally dehumanize a human being."

Cardinal Arns made the comments in a recent telephone interview from Houston, where he accepted the Oscar Romero Award for his sponsorship of the project documenting torture.

The award, named for the late Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, was presented by Rothko Chapel, an interdenominational church and art gallery in Houston.

The cardinal was honored and given a check for $10,000 during a ceremony at the chapel held on the eighth anniversary of Archbishop Romero's assassination.

With the cardinal's approval, Sao Paulo archdiocesan employees and volunteers compiled government records including 2,700 pages of testimony documenting 283 types of torture and naming 444 individual torturers.

The records were secretly photocopied in a complex operation and excerpts were published in a 1986 book titled "Brazil Nunca Mais." The book is available in English under the title "Torture in Brazil."

The project began in August 1979 and ended in July 1985, the year the Brazilian military regime was replaced by a civilian government.

Cardinal Arns said 220,000 copies ofthe book were published.

As a result, he said, "the next generation will not forget this terrible time in Brazilian history."

While torture "still goes on" in Brazil, the cardinal said, it is nowhere near as widespread as in the past; but there is no guarantee authorities will not return to the practice.

Before the cases of torture were publicized, the cardinal said, "torture was spoken of as something that happened in ancient Egypt or Babylonia. Now young people realize it happened - maybe td their parents - right here in Brazil."

It challenges President Regagan's claims that his plan for a spacebased Strategic Defense Ititiative is the moral answer to the nuclear standoff. It acknowledges the moral intentions cited by backers ofSDI, - but says any such plan has to be judged by an "ethic of consequences" which weighs economic costs; technological feasibiltiy and destabilization risks as well as its intended goals.

The report repeats the 1983 peace pastoral's "categorical rejection" of any form of "counter-city or counter-civilian" deterrence strategy and the pastoral's judgment that no first use of nuclear weapons can be "morally justified."

Accompanying the report is a pastoral message, also in draft form, which calls nuclear policy "a central moral dilemma for believers."

The message urges Catholics to form a "peacemaking" community "which consistently raises fundamental moral questions about the policies that guide the arsenals of the world."

The 72-page report originally was supposed to be given to the bishops last November, but the Bernardin committee asked for more time in order to assess the impact of the December Washington summit between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

The two leaders signed a treaty to destroy all their intermediaterange nuclear missiles within three years and moved toward an agreement to reduce their long-range strategic weaponry by as much as 50 percent.

The bishops' committee said the summit results "have raised cautious hopes... that an authentically new opportunity for redefining the political relationship of the world's two major military powers may be at hand."

But the report also stresses "the fragile hold we have on our common nuclear future" and calls for a greater sense of urgency in negotiations on a full range of arms issues.

It says that "the most intractable issues between the superpowers for much of the last 15 years have been their involvement in regional conflicts from the Horn of Africa to Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf to Nicaragua and Central America."

While the report is devoted primarily to the issues of deterrence and arms control which the committee was formed to evaluate, it says that those issues have to be part of a broader visions.

"It would be a narrow'view of the challenge ofthe present moment if a wider political context of the superpower relationship were ignored," the report says. "Arms control can be a catalyst to an improved political relationship; and changes in the political context of superpower relations can open the road to new steps in controlling weaponry."

End arms shipments, say bishops SAN SAL VADOR, El Salvador (NC) - Central American bishops have urged an end to superpower arms shipments to their wartorn region and condemned interests which are obstructing peacemaking efforts for financial or ideological gain.

The continuation of war, the statement said, "favors the profit of some" and "is due to the ideological obstinacy of others," all the while causing "the great suffering o(the majority."

The bishops also expressed concern for the suffering in Panama ca used by economic sanctions aimed at toppling Gen. Manuel Noriega, who has been accused of drug trafficking.

The April 14-15 meeting of the Central American bishops' secretariat was held in Santa Tecla, near San Salvador.

Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas of San Salvador presided over the meeting, attended by bishops from Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua and Honduras.

In a statement issued at the close of the gathering, the bishops appealed to "all the nations involved, and especially the superpowers the United States and the Soviet Union ... (to) send no more arms to Central America."

The bishops also appealed to their own governments and people for an end to armed conflict.

When war "becomes also a business for some, and a way of expanding in the area of narcotics trafficking for others, then its consequences are still more devastating for moral, patriotic and also religious values," the statement said.

U.S. SECRETARY of Education William J. Bennett will be among speakers at the annual convention of the Catholic Press Association to be held in Boston May 25 to 27.

Cardinal Bernard F. Law will be celebrant and homilist at an opening Mass and Bishop Anthony G. Bosco, CPA honorary president, and Archbishop John P. Foley, president of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications, will also celebrate Mass and speak during the parley.

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taught in its history department, later serving on the faculty of Lowell State College. She is presently a professor of history and campus minister at Stonehill College, North Easton. .

Sister Anne Joseph Laplante, also a golden jubilarian, is from Taunton. Her first teaChing assignment was to the commercial department at the former Sacred Hearts Academy, followed by appointment as elementary school principal in Baltimore and in New York City. From 1959 to 1971, she was a member of the Holy Union General Council in Rome. She is currently guidance department secretary at Coyle and Cassidy High School.

Romero Award ~OL~ UNION JUBILARIANS from left, seated, Sisters Joseph Dolores, Rose Francis; standmg, SIsters Anne DesRoches, Antoinette Landry, Eugenia Marie, Grace Donovan, Aline Bedard, Anne Joseph, Lea Doucette. (Gaudette photo)

Holy Union jubilarians feted in Fall River A total of 10 Religious of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts marked 70th, 60th and 50th anniversaries in the religious life at a prayer service and banquet last Sunday at the community's Fall River provincial house.

One 70-year, two 60-year and seven 50-year jubilarians were honored.

Sister Ann Kernan, provincial superior, said "The jubilarians enjoy coming together and recalling the many events they have shared throughout the years." She added that the occasion is also an opportunity for fellow members of the community to pay tribute to the veteran sisters.

70 Years Sister Claire Cecile Durand, observing 70 years as a Holy Union Sister, resides at Sacred Hearts Convent, Fall River. She taught primary grades and gave music lessons to uncounted children throughout her long career in education in schools in North Attleboro and Chelsea, as well as in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.

For many of her retirement years she was a dressmaker at Bishop Cassidy Convent in Taunton.

60 Years Sisters Joseph Dolores Ashworth and Rose Francis Riley, both living in retirement at Sacred Hearts Convent, are marking 60 years of religious life.

Sister Joseph Dolores taught elementary grades for 18 years in Taunton and Lawrence, then was superior of Holy Union communities in Taunton, Fall River, New York and Pennsylvania.

From 1952 to 1960, she was novice mistress for the Fall River province and before retiring in 1982 was librarian at St. Michael's School, Fall River.

Until recently she visited the sick in area nursing homes and continues to be active in preparing and sending clothing contributions to Sister Barbara Walsh, a Holy Union Sister who works among the poor of Appalachia.

Sister Rose Francis is well known in Fall River as a teacher for many years at the former Sacred Hearts Academy and as principal at the academy's elementary school.

She also taught at the former St. Mary's High School and in elementary schools in Taunton, and in Baltimore. In New Jersey she served as principal at a Holy Union school.

She is remembered by area sisters for a methods course in reading she gave at the former College of the Sacred Hearts.

An avid reader, Sister Rose Francis also enjoys sewing and art work.

50 Years Four of the seven golden jubilarians honored Sunday came from Chelsea to the Holy Union novititate in Fall River. They are Sisters Eugenia Marie Arsenault, Anne DesRoches, Lea Doucette and Antoinette Landry.

Sister Eugenia Marie's first assignment was at Sacred Hearts Academy elementary school in Fall River. She then taught in New York and was principal at schools in Taunton and Pennsylvania.

Since 1960 she has taught at the high school level in Taunton, presently teaching French at Coyle and Cassidy High School in that city. She has received NDEA study grants to Notre Dame University and to France.

Sister Anne taught at Sacred Hearts elementary school in Fall River and in pariSh schools in Fall River, Taunton and New York.

She is presently serving at Our Lady of Lourdes School, Taunton.

Sister Lea resides in Chelsea, her home town, where she is a eucharistic minister at Our Lady of the Assumption parish and a designated teacher substitute at the pariSh school. During her career in education, she has also taught in pariSh schools in North Attleboro, Taunton, Fall River, New York and New Jersey. .

Sister Antoinette is known in the Fall River area as a teacher and as principal of the former Sacred Heart parish school. She also taught French at the former Sacred Hearts Academy and was a parttime secretary at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.

Earlier she taught in parish schools in Baltimore and New York and was a principal in Patchogue, Long Island. Since 1971, she has been province secretary for the Holy Union community.

Of her 50 years as a religious, Sister Aline Bedard has spent 29 as a missionary in Cameroon, Africa, where she worked with abandoned infants and with women. A trained nurse, she served in remote areas that previously lacked medical care.

Today she nurses at the Holy Union community's Prospect Place convent for aged and infirm sisters in Fall River.

Golden jubilarian Sister Grace Donovan, a Fall River native, has held varied posts within her religious community and in education.

From 1971 to 1974 superior of the sisters' Fall River province, she also served for three years on a Holy Union international research commission which studied the order's early history in belgium, France and Rome.

HOUSTON (NC) - Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns of Sao Paulo, Brazil, has been named recipient of the Oscar Romero Award- for his sponsorship of a clandestine project documenting torture in Brazil. The award is named for assassinated Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero.

With the cardinal's support, Sao Paulo archdiocesan employees and volunteers compiled government records including 2,700 pages of testimony which documented 283 types of torture and named 444 individual torturers.

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By Msgr. George G. Higgins The current crisis in Israel, says Dr. Robert McAfee Brown, brings to the surface some questions "most American Jews and Christians' would prefer not to face. Can Jews criticize the State oflsrael without being perceived as disloyal? Can Christians criticize the State of Israel without being perceived as anti-Semitic?"

Dr. Brown, professor emeritus of theology and ethics at Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Calif., was an official Protestant observer at Vatican Council II. Writing in the Christian Century (April6, 1988), he laid down some helpful ground rules for speaking about Israel in response to the Israeli-Palestinian controversy.

What he says about Christian criticism of Israel can best be summarized in his own words: I) "Christians must unequivocally affirm" Israel's right "to exist and prosper.... Jews are entitled to be assured that whatever Christians say is not meant to weaken Israel and make it more vulnerable to attack."

2) "Christians must disavow Armageddon Scenarios.... Jews must be assured by Christians that they are more than pawns in Christian eschatologies, illicitly extracted from Ezekiel or the Book of Revelation."

3) "Christians must understand why Jews of the diaspora are reluctant to criticize the State of Israel publicly. In the face of overwhelming tides of criticism from Israel's enemies, Jews living elsewhere are surely entitled to think, 'Israel needs more critics?' " I find these ground rules essential. And Dr. Brown is correct when he says there are "other things" Christians must understand, and "Jews can state them more poignantly and compellingly than any non-Jew," One of those other things concerns the rhetoric Christians use to criticize Israel. Call it ground rule No.5.

By way of example, I would say that Christians must avoid inflammatory rhetoric of the kind used in a recent article, "The Palestinian Revolt," in the influential Roman magazine La Civilta Cattolica.

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The article, by Jesuit Father Giovanni Rulli, described Israel's admittedly harsh suppression of frequently violent Palestinian protests in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip as a "vendetta" recalling Nazi atrocities against Jews.

In Father Rulli's view, "one cannot help but think ...of those very crimes the Jewish people endured during the harshest periods of persecution."

Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee predictably and understandably reacted with shock to Father Rulli's article. "It is difficult," Rabbi Tanenbaum said, "to imagine a more uncivilized, unfair and unhelpful approa,ch."

Rabbi Tanenbaum said Jews worldwide are "anguished" over "excesses" committed by Israeli

forces in the occupied territories.

In his view, however, Father Rulli "uses some of the most demonological, anti-Zionist and anti-Jewish rhetoric and images to condemn Israel for carrying out 'Nazilike final solutions' for the Palestinians," Father Rulli said he regards his article as balanced and does not consider its reference to the Holocaust out of place. He said he was trying to recall the suffering Jews lived through and the sympathy they received, contrasted with mounting criticism of Israel over its handling of the current revolt.

But Dr. Eugene Fisher, director of the Secretariat for CatholicJewish Relations at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, also strongly disagreed with Father Rulli. In Fisher's view, to compare

current Israeli treatment of the Palestinians with the Nazi Holocaust is "obscene." I agree.

This is not to say Israel's harsh tr:~t'!1ent of the rebels is beyond CrIticism. I share the view of those Jews in Israel and in the diaspora who have severely criticized Israel's excessive and in some cases deadly force.

But Rabbi Tanenbaum is correct in faulting the comparison of what is happening today in Israel with the Holocaust in which 6 milion Jews - men, women and child.ren - were systematically extermmated.

Greatest Pain "The greatest pain in the world is not that there are poor - but that there are rich people who do not share." - Jean Vanier

Retired SMU dean just keeps going

By Pat McGowan Meet Mary Louise Walsh, retired associate dean of students at Southeastern Massachusetts University, North Dartmouth, whose days since her farewell to academic life have lost none of their momentum.

Her most recent recognitions came last month, when she was elected vice-president of Fall River's Dr. John C. Corrigan .Foundation, which administers programs in the field of mental and physical health; and added a plaque and pewter dish from the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors to her many academic honors. . A lifelong member of Fall River's Holy Name parish which she serves as a lector, Ms. Walsh also remains in touch with the Newman Association and other activities of the S MU campus ministry program.

A few months ago she was off to India and mountainous Nepal, where an ankle badly sprained on an uneven path didn't deter her from participating in a Jesuitsponsored retreat which she ranks among her most memorable experiences.

Back home, she resumed volunteer work at Charlton Memorial Hospital and twice-weekly involvement in the Literacy Volunteers of America, a program offering one-on-one reading instruction to illiterate adults.

Probably influenced, she says, by 12 years at Dominican Academy, Fall River, where she was a stu. dent from first grade through high school, Ms. Walsh majored in French at Regis College in Weston. She holds a master's degree from Boston University and has done advanced study there and at Btown University; the University of New Hampshire; National Taiwan Norman University, Taiwan; the University of Paris at the Sorbonne and in Morocco; and the University of Besancon, France.

Her teach路ing career began in 1943 in the Little Compton school department, where she served briefly before becoming in the fall of the same year an English and French teacher at Somerset High School, where she was also librarian for II years and French department chairperson for two.

Following teaching stints in Belgium and Morocco under Fulbright and Smith-Mundt grants, Ms. Walsh joined the SMU faculty in

1965, where she taught French and English before becoming dean of women, then associate dean of students.

In 1987 the North Dartmouth university both dedicated its yearbook to her and numbered her among recipients of honorary degrees.

At a recognition dinner in May of that year, her citation read: "Mary Louise Walsh, Professor of French, the university's first and only Dean of Women, Associate Dean of Students, you have shepherded hundreds of students through their intellectual and emotional coming of age. For more than two decades, you have been their teacher, instructor, role model and friend.

"Fulbright scholar, SmithMundt grantee, world traveler, you gave eloquent voice in your classroom to the language and culture of France. French, however, was not the only thing you taught your students. You also taught them independence of mind, appreciation of excellence a broad world view, the value of striving. Most important, you taught them without words an impressive lesson in caring. That caring did not stop at the classroom door. Nor was it left behind when you made the transition from professor to administrator. As the university's first female Associate Dean of Students, you continued to give full expression

to your deep concern for young people and your talent for nurturing the best that was in them.

"You have been with this university from its earliest days, present at its first steps, steadfast in its trials and dedicated to its continuing development. Your colleagues have prized your loyalty and dependability, your linguistic expertise, your cosmopolitan outlook and polish. Those young adults whose lives you have enriched have valued you for the same qualities, but most of all because they have known they were first in your mind and heart.

"For your legacy of caring and your inestimable contributions to this institution we, the students of SMU, pay you tribute."

Another talent of Ms. Walsh is displayed on her living room wall in the form of an impressive seascape, "done in youth," she says deprecatingly. Also related to the sea is the fact that in 1949 she was chaperone for the English Channel swim of Somerset's Shirley May France.

At present she's anticipating a May tour of national parks with friends from Belgium.

It's not surprising that recently, when she was in a Providence office, the receptionist, unable to contain her curiosity, inquired as to her profession.

When told, she declared triumphantly, "Just the way you walk, I knew you were somebody!"

Mary Louise Walsh

He's Fall River's favorite scribe

By Pat McGowan John J. McAvoy was born May 27, 1920, and to many people it seems he recalls everything that has happened to him since that date.

"I can remember conversations of 50 years ago, but can't think where I left my keys today," says Fall River's favorite scribe selfdeprecatingly.

For the past six years he's been 'writing "U nder the Marquee," one of the all-time favorite features of the Fall River Herald News. An enchanting mix of reminiscences and contemporary happenings, it has drawn scores of appreciative letters to the editor, most from out-of-towners grateful for McAvoy's recall of Fall River's yesterdays.

Those who follow the Sunday feature, well adorned with vintage photographs, have shared McAvoy's life as a youngster at Fall River's former Sacred Heart School, complete with descriptions of his favorite Holy Union Sisters; his years at BMC Durfee High school, where he was a member of the legendary class that included the late Cardinal H umberto Medeiros; and his happy career in the world of the legitimate stage and motion pictures.

The latter began in. his teens when he was an usher and general factotum at Fall River's enormous and now-gone Durfee Theatre. His experiences as an usher and for many years as the Durfee manager have formed the basis of dozens of his features and also account for his knowing thousands of Fall Riverites.

In pre-television days, he points out, going to the movies was the city's prime form of entertainment and there were few citizens who

didn't take in a show at least once a week, most frequently at the Durfee.

The theatre offered live performances and as manager McAvoy :met many of the outstanding entertainment figures of the past 50 years. His personal recollections of their charms and foibles-enliven his frequent columns on stars of stage and screen.

Other theatre-connected reminiscences involve most of the Fall . River area's Catholic schools, for whom McAvoy arranged theatre excursions. He has written affectionately of many of the sisterprincipals with whom he dealt.

In the course of time he was also associated with most of Fall River's many other movie theatres •and with a short-lived legitimate theatre in Somerset.

But he has other strings to his 'bow. For 20 years he has been . conducting tours to Europe, especially to England, which he has visited 42 times. There, he admits, London's dazzling theatre district draws him like a magnet. Other

JOHN J. MeA VOY

Pope's trip to Austria awakes bitter memories VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II's June visit to Austria comes during a year of bitter memories as 1988 marks th'e 50th anniversary of the country's annexation to Nazi Germany.

The church was a central, but divided, figure in the drama. The table-pounding, anti-Nazi Pope Pius XI was pitted against an Austrian hierarchy favoring annexation. under the slogan, "Heil Hitler."

History proved the pope right, and the Austrian church suffered the consequences.

The intense, one-month struggle between a pope and a national hierarchy was played out in public, beginning in March 1938 when the Austrian government did not resist German troops marching into their country as part of Adolf Hitler's plan to annex all German-_ speaking territories to the Third Reich.

Hitler soon followed the troops, meeting with Cardinal Theodore Innitler to promise that churchstate relations would reach new heights under German rule.

Ca:dinal Initzer attended the meeting against Vatican wishes.

"1'::c Vatican already was afraid of the :\azis because of incursions against the church in Germany, and a year earlier Pius XI had \\Tilten the encyclical "Mit Brenncnder Sorge" (With Burning Sornm) criticizing the Nazi ideology.

But the Austrian bishops believed Hitler's promises, looking favorably upon the idea of their country returning to the forefront of European political power through union with Germany.

The result was a March 18 statement by the bishops urging Austrians to vote "yes" in the April 10 referendum on annexation. Cardinal Innitzer followed this with an April I letter to Josef Burckel, the Nazi official in charge of organizing the referendum.

"With the bishops' declaration a turning point may have been reached in the religious and culturallife of our whole people, which may introduce a period of the greatest inner peace and reconciliation between church, state and party," said the letter, which the cardinal ended with "Heil Hitler."

The Vatican was furious and launched an immediate counterattack through Vatican Radio and the Vatican newspaper.

L'Osservatore Romano printed, at the pope's direct orders, a communique disavowing the Austrian bishops' approval' of annexation.

Cardinal Innitzer was called to the Vatican for private talks with Pius Xl. No record exists of these talks. But after them, Cardinal Innitzer issued a statement saying the position in favor of annexation was not binding on Catholic consciences.

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fal~ River - Fri., April 22, 19889

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"I never worry what to write about," he says cheerfully. "It's always about people I know one way or another."

John McAvoy's Fall River is like Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, home of strong women, goodlooking men and above average children. A master of authentic Irish blarney, he makes the day for every member of the opposite sex he meets.

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"I wear a cross"

By Joseph Motta

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"Let people see what you are," says Mannie Camara. "I wear a cross."

Permanent Deacon Manuel H. Camara Jr., a member of the Fall River diocese's pioneer class of permanent deacons, doesn't really need to wear a cross. What he is is obvious after spending just a few minutes with him. He is, succinctly, an on-the-ball Catholic.

Deacon Camara, 69, has the energy and look of a man years his junior. He works as senior food and milk inspector for the City of Fall River's Health Department, a job he's held for 26 years. And he remains active with area civic organizations, some of which he helped found.

The oldest of the diocese's 35 permanent deacons, Deacon Camara has been dubbed the Archdeacon by Permanent Diaconate director Father John F. Moore.

The nickname fits. Deacon Camara, who serves at Sacred Heart parish and his home paris~ of St. Anthony of Padua, both in Fall River, is a familiar sight in the city, 'smile wide and scrimshaw cross always around his neck. He keeps a pocket stocked with cards reading, in English and Portuguese, "Jesus in Me Loves You" and "God Bless You!" A friend informs The Anchor that another pocket is always stuffed with balloons and candy for children. , Deacon Camara, incidentally, is proficient with those balloons. In his hands, one becomes Snoopy in seconds. And unlike most magicians, he's willing to share his secrets.

The deacon was recently among individuals recognized for their contributions to society by 0 Jornal, a Fall River newspaper serving New England's Portuguese com- . munity. His Humberto Cardinal Medeiros Memorial Award was, according to 0 J ornal, for "outstanding contributions in the field of social service."

"He is a man of harmony," a program detailing the awards explained. "Mannie has been giving to others all of his life."

Deacon Camara says he's grateful for the honor. "The part that's thrilling," he said, is that the award was given in the name of the cardinal, "a dear friend" he long admired.

The 1980 ordinand said when he "was a youngster I was an altar boy and I wanted to be a priest in the worst way." But his parents were poor, he explained, and couldn't afford his seminary education. The Church, he said, always remained of vast importance to him. Priests who "inspired" him kept coming into his life, too.

Deacon Camara said that, years ,later, he saw to it that his two sons and one daughter received Catholic educations. .

The diaconate brings much happiness into Camara's life. "Being so close to the Lord" on the altar during eucharistic celebrations "really thrills" him, he said.

Performing baptisms also ranks among the most savored parts of his ministry. "It's a joy," he said, "welcoming a new Christian into the Church."

The deacon notes that he "loves

Decision appalls Vatican ROME (NC) - Although the The growing commercialization ould no longer provide radiation dollars and cents aspects of health of medicine and the growth of for-' therapy for its elderly patients. care might not attract as much profit hospitals raises "a fundaDr. Jerzy Einhorn, chief physiattention from ethicists and theol- mental conflict of interest between cian of the Karolinska Policlinic ogians as genetic research or the the good of the patient and the of Stockholm, announced that men conception of life in the labora- bottom line, which is profit," he' over 75 and women over 70 with tory, Dr. Edmund Pellegrino said said. ' cancer could no longer count on he believes the issues challenge For-profit health care "threat-' receiving radiation treatments.

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Growing demand, a shortage of ens the whole moral structure of The allocation of financial re- the physician-patient relationship 'personnel and the rigid bureausources for health care involves by substituting profit for the good cracy of Sweden's state-run health answering the question, "What kind of the patient," he said. system were blamed for the restricof country do we want to be?" PelPellegrino's comments followed tions, Vatican Radio reported. legrino said during an interview a Vatican Radio report that health In a front-page editorial, the with National Catholic News Ser- care distribution has become a Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore vice in Rome, where he attended controversial issue in Sweden with Romano denounced the Swedish an international bioethics congress. a clinic's announcement that it decision as "tragic and startling."

The 67-year-old doctor and ethicist is director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at' Georgetown University in Washington. He ackIn the past six months, the Self- ' in energy-conserving home Imnowledged that "there are limits" Reliance Corporation, a com- provements. to what any health care system can munity-based organization that The money expended on energy provide, "but I don't think we've promotes individual and com- conservation creates jobs and saves reached those limits." munity self-reliance in food and on fuel bills. Money not spent on Before restricting health care, energy, has set a record for gener- imported fuel tends to stay in the he said, Americans must look at ating energy conservation loans in local economy, thus strengthening their expenditures. The nation Southeastern Massachusetts, in- it.

The HEAT program is funded spends $22 billion on "junk food" cluding Bristol, Plymouth, Barnwith Exxon overcharge penalty every year, he said, and bets bil- stable, Dukes and Nantucket coun" funds and will be in operation at lions of dollars on weekend sport- ties. least another year and a half. HEAT ing events. Yet it would cost only With the HEAT zero interest provides zero interest loans for $2.8 billion to provide dialysis for loan program, which provides insulation, weatherizing, replaceevery person in the country who $4,000 worth offree interest to resneeds it, he said. idents who earn less than $75,000 ment heating systems, new wood Pellegrino said he was not ask- annually, Self-Reliance has gener- stoves and hot water systems.

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to personalize" baptisms. "I love to mention the baby's name wherever lean."

That approach, besides making parents happy, has definite results.

A Protestant guest at one baptism, Deacon Camara happily related, told him how much she appreciated the Catholic sacrament of initiation.

Deacon Camara says his wife of 46 years, Mary Jane, "has given me a lot of leverage.

"Even though it's 'family, job and ministry,''' he said, "she often puts ministry first."

The Camaras were awarded the Marian Medal as part of"the first ever presentation of the diocesan service a wards. for their work with marriage preparation, then known as the Pre-Cana program. And the deacon notes that he and Mary Jane are proud to have been chosen as godparents 75 times.

Mrs. Camara is a eucharistic minister at St. Anthony's parish and treasurer and manager of its federal credit union. Her husband路 is the organization's president and one of its cofounders.

Old journalists never die; they Deacon Camara is also a regIs- just get depressed. Get it? Detered real estate broker. He served pressed, as in printing press! as administrative assistant to forThey get depressed, that is, if mer Fall River Mayor Roland they don't find good things to do.

Desmarais and also owned a grocThat doesn't mean just "keeping ery store for 25 years. His many busy;" it means doing work that civic involvements include cofoundwe like and which is needed by ing Fall River's Big Brothers organothers. ization.

We all know horror stories about On the religious front, the dea- friends who 'retired after busy cacon is a member of the Diocesan reers planning to take life easy and Service Committee for the Cha- then up and died - probably of rismatic Renewal and the New boredom. Just as sad are those England Service Committee. Daily, who take early retirement, put all he attends Mass and prays the their records in a couple of cardrosary with his wife. board boxes, and wind up cut off Add the responsibilities which from all contacts and resources. come with being grandpa to eight Many retirees find volunteer and you've got yourself one very work a solution to the retirement busy man. blahs. A 1985 Gallup poll found One of the deacon's 29 com- that 43 percent of people between munion calls is to his mother, 65 and 74 did some kind of volunVeneranda, a double amputee who teer work. One-third of those over recently celebrated her 90th birth- 75 had volunteered during the preday with a big family bash. vious year.

The deacon said his never-marMost fortunate art!' those who ried brother Joseph, "an unclaimed find a way to continue in the work blessing," cares for Veneranda. in which they spent their lives. The Veneranda Camara's deacon son word "emeritus" is growing in popdelights in his mother's jovial ularity to describe those who retire make-it-with-what-you've-got out- but keep serving in their chosen look on life. He pays her what careers. must be his highest compliment: My favorite dictionary describes "She's such a card." "emeritus" rather well. It means You're a card, too, Deacon. A "retired but retaining an hono~ary whole deck. title corresponding to that held immediately before retirement."Its Latin root, "emereri," means to In the Cross earn by service.

"In the cross is salvation; in the "Professor emeritus" is probacross is life; in the cross is protec- bly the most popular. More retired tion from enemies." - The Imita- pastors are being called "pastor tion of Christ emeritus," a title that has much to

Etaoin shrdlu commend it. I like being called "editor emeritus" because it makes me sound wise.

One of my favorite retirement activities is lunching at the Minnesota Press Club with a group of retired journalists who are concerned about the decline of the English language.

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sota Newspaper Association, favors "Deploribus Unum." And he has a lot to say, because he does the minutes.

The society gathers from time to time to "deplore all obfuscation in the mass media," Shaw wrote, "particularly the electronic media (the group decided unanimously to eschew all obfuscation) and any "Etaoin shrdlu" has my vote other unclassified damage inflicted because those 12 letters, spelling upon the language." nothing, recall that long era when We pass resolutions deploring the Linotype, that marvelous hot such egregious booboos as that lead typesetting machine, was es- ' contained in Minnesota Senator sential to publishing a newspaper.

Rudy Boschwitz's letter to conWhen a Linotype operator made stituents where he said he needs a mistake setting a line of type he "to continue to grow and reach out would fill out the lead slug by run-' to knew (sic) people."

Etaoin shrdluians have no dues, ning his finger over the keyboard" and the letters would come out' bylaws, articles or regular meet"etaoin shrdlu." ings. Prospective members must have worked for a newspaper, be Unlike the typewriter, designed for an octopus, Linotype letters' retired, seek expiation for having came in the order of their most abused the English tongue and be frequent use. Etaoin shrdlu just willing to collect samples of lanhappens to list, in that order, the. guage mayhem in the media.

Want to help stop the murder of most frequently used letters in English. Remember that when you our native language? Apply to R. M. Shaw, Etaoin Shrdlu Memoplay Scrabble or a TV word game. rial Society, 5408 Kellogg Avenue, I fear that our recording secre- Edina, MN 55424. Send proofs of tary, one Robert McGregor Shaw, language abuse and character manager emeritus of the Minne- references.

I have not called the group by name because we disagree about that. I like "Etaoin shrdlu Memorial Society," but there are those who prefer "Deploribus Unum," or even worse, the "Society to Abolish the Apostrophe Because Nobody Uses It Correctly Anyway."

More on the death of a baby

By Dr. James and Mary Kenny A few months ago we wrote a column on the death of a baby. We received a number of responses, all with the intent of consoling and supporting the mother.

The death of a child may be the deepest pain of all. Only one who has experienced such a loss can know how badly it hurts.

I do not understand the purpose of pain in this world. To say it is all part of God's plan strikes me as presumptuous, and unfeeling toward those who are hurting. I view pain and evil as a mystery, one of many things I do not understand.

Some people suffer and go under.

Others suffer and grow from it, and are able to reach out to another in pain.

In reaching out to love a grieving neighbor, there is meaning'in one's suffering, as if our own pain were transformed into a jewel in our soul and it was precisely that jewel that allowed us to see into the soul of our troubled neighbor.

Here are two letters from bereaved mothers, letters for all of us who suffer.

Dear Mary: Our second baby, our first boy, lived exactly 24 hours. He had major surgery before he died. His internal organs were a

"mess." The operation was successful, but our son died.

Two things stand out in my memory. First, before surgery the doctor came to my room to discuss what he had to do, adding that my baby needed private nursing so he could be watched constantly. He told me, "If you cannot afford these services, I will pay for them myself." So many times people attack their doctors for lack of concern, but this one was very kind.

I had a little girl at home with my parents. She was 18 months old. Thank God I could look forward to seeing her.

The second person I remember was a priest who taught my husband in college. He came to offer sympathy and stated how lucky we were to have someone close to us in heaven. "Just think, I can never have anyone that close pray for me." After having spoken to this priest, I was better able to accept what had happened.

Since our child's death, we have had three more sons and another daughter. But we still speak of him and pray to him. Please tell the young couple who wrote how lucky they are to have someone in heaven to pray for them. - Pennsylvania Dear Mary: You asked in your column what you should say to a

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couple whose baby dies. I hl\d two children. My first, a boy, was 3 months old when he died. My second, a girl, died at age 2, and I was three months pregnant at the time.

I have two healthy grown children now, but to this day I stilI think, talk and cry for my departed ones, especially for my daughter, who would have been 26 years old this spring.

A friend gave me a poem during my grief. I hope it wiII comfort anyone who has experienced the loss. - Pennsylvania There's a brand new saint in heaven And I should know She's a little baby With a soul as white as snow God sent her to me for a day That's all he would allow Then made me mother of a saint For she's in heaven now She's still my little baby tho And someday - if and when God lets me thru heaven's door We'll be together again

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

No Cinderella story. Just hard work.

By Antoinette Bosco Elizabeth Taylor's new book has gotten a lot of media play and drawn an equal amount of criticism.

Her book, "Elizabeth Takes Off: On Weight Gain, Weight Loss, Self-Image and Self-Esteem"(G.P. Putnam's Sons), tells the story of her descent into alcoholism and obesity and her climb back to health and beauty.

Not long ago, at 180 pounds Liz Taylor was any vicious comedian's favorite target. Now she is more glamorous than ever.

She also is a hot topic for office gossip. The comment I hear over and over is, "Oh yeah, if I had her money I could do it, too."

Some call it a Cinderella story, as if a fairy godmother melted away all those pounds with the touch of a magic wand.

Others are more cynical, calling it a beauty miracle bought and paid for.

"She had her ribs removed to look thinner," said one woman.

"She had her jaw chiseled," claimed another.

But such comments do a real disservice to a brave lady.

Her book is full of advice about dieting, including menus. But it is much more than this. It is worthwhile reading for anyone who has struggled with self-image problems.

Readers should be warned, though, that some nutritionists have said Ms. Taylor's diet lack some nutrients.

For more than four years she hell. For her it was alcohol and tried and failed repeatedly to do obesity. For others it might be something about her excessive illness, depression. anxiety or drinking and eating. Nothing drugs.

Ms. Taylor's story exemplifies • worked, until she entered the Betty Ford Center for Substance Abuse. the "bottoming out" that can Ms. Taylor credits the center happen but also the possibility of with changing her life. "Being there turning our lives around.

If we have the courage to face filled me with the desire to live my life to the fullest," she says. "It the truth about ourselves, there forced me to pull my life together... always is hope for growth and fulI had to face things .... I never had fillment at any age.

I have to admire Ms. Taylor. to face before."

After a period of painful soul- , There is no Cinderella story here, searching, Ms. Taylor says she just hard work.

She offers some advice for dietbegan to rebuild her self-image "on a solid foundation of self- ers which is good for anyone's awareness." Working on her men- mental outlook. "If there's sometal condition put her into the right thing you've always wanted to do frame of mind for the slow, diffi- but didn't, I urge you to try it now," she says. cult road to weight loss.

She suggests indulging one's creaAnyone who has ever tried to lose five pounds knows that diet- tive side by taking piano lessons or ing is one of the hardest things in writing a story or by signing up for the world. I must have started a an art or photography course.

What strikes me most about thousand diets in my life.

Ms. Taylor's story is that she is still Money doesn't buy willpower. growing and evolving as a human If Ms. Taylor had the self-restraint being. to lose 60 pounds, she deserves a We should be grateful when sincere "Bravo." someone points out to us what We can be grateful that she has they have learned from weakness, , talked so honestly about her strugpain, struggle and triumph. gle to save herself from a personal

Burmese bishop bested by bold bandit

TAUNGGYI, Burma (NC) Auxiliary Bishop Matthias U. Shwe of Taunggyi said he performed a work of unintended charity when a party he was traveling with was robbed at gunpoint by a man claiming he was forced to steal to Ms. Taylor has the courage and , feed his large family. kindness to share her own vulnerThe incident occured as the bishability with us. op journeyed with five compan"In 1979," she writes, "I no ions along a road plagued by banlonger knew where I was headed. I dits, highwaymen and insurgents. was falling apart in every directiThe group was waylaid by a on.... I lost an essential ingredient man who popped out of the thick of self-esteem: my pride." bush along the road, stopped their She describes her shock after jeep and pulled a gun. finally forcing herself to look in Speaking in the Shan language, the mirror after a bath one day. the man demanded 400 kyats (about This is a moment of truth we can $65). A nun in the group, who all relate with. spoke the language, told him the

TO CELEBRATE the Marian Year, the student body of St. Jean Baptiste School, Fall River, is sponsoring a one-woman play entitled "Mary's Boy,"a dramatization of the life of Jesus as seen through the eyes of his mother.

Margaret Andersen, a professional playwright and actress from New York City, takes the role of Mary. She has presented the play throughout the United States, recently performing at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C. Two performances will be given at St. Jean Baptiste Church on May 2, a 12:30 p.m. matinee for children of the school to open celebration of the school's 50th anniversary and a 7 p.m. performance for parishioners and friends to honor the Marian Year.

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She explained that she had been confronted by other robbers who had let her go free because they knew that Catholic priests and religious work for the poor.

But the man was not dissuaded.

He snatched the group's money and warned them: "Don't tell anybody. I am neither an insurgent nor a dacoit [robber). I have to do this because I have nothing at home to feed my large family."

Bishop U Shwe summed up t'he incident philosophically: "I don't regret doing a charitable act for the man - even though under threat.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II, in a recent letter encouraging efforts to reintegrate suspended Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, criticized what he said were excesses of "progressivism" and "conservatism" in the postVatican II church.

The pope said the overly progressive view seems to value only what is new, while the overly conservative trend "sees correctness only in what is 'ancient.' " He said both tendencies were mistaken but understandable reactions to the renewal brought about by the Second Vatican Counci1.

The letter was addressed to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine ofthe Faith, which is handling the archbishop's case.

Pope John Paul also strongly defended the work of the council, and said its teachings mark the future path of the church. Despite some abuses in practice, he said in his letter, the council on the whole was "authoritative" and partofthe "living reality" of church tradition.

Cardinal Edouard Gagnon, sent by the Vatican last year to observe and report on Archbishop Lefebvre's Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X, said the letter would probably comfort some of the French clergyman's followers.

Archbishop Lefebvre and his organization have rejected council documents on ecumenism, liturgy and religious liberty. saying they flout church tradition.

The three-page letter ended by asking Cardinal Ratzinger to continue his efforts to reach a settlement with Archbishop Lefebvre, who was suspended from his ministry in 1976 after ordaining priests against Vatican orders. In recent months, the Vatican has stepped up attempts to reconcile with the 82-year-old archbishop, who has threatened to ordain bishops - a step that would result in his automatic excommunication and possible schism.

"We do not cease to hope" that the efforts "will bear fruit," the pope wrote.

In his brief review of the postconciliar church, the pope said there had been "certain abuses" which "can and indeed must cause justified objection." Without cit-' ing specific examples, he said that in some areas, such as liturgy, practices had ignored "essential values of Catholic doctrine on faith and morals."

But to reject the healthy church renewal introduced by the council on the basis of these excesses, the pope said, could lead to another "deviation," one opposed to "the principle of tI:!e living tradition of the church."

Cardinal Gagnon. head of the Pontifical Council for the Family,

said "most of the people who have followed Archbishop Lefebvre have done so because of the scandals they have seen in the period after the Secona Vatican Counci1." ':rhe p.ope's letter "corresponds to reality" and was meant to give all Catholics a balanced look at the issues involved in the controversy, he said.

Much of the pope's letter focused on the meaning of "tradition," a key term in the Vatican's 12-yearold dispute with Archbishop Lefebvre. The archbishop, who calls himself a traditionalist, has claimed that Vatican II betrayed the teachings of previous popes and councils.

But the pope said tradition must be understood as "a living reality which progresses vis-a-vis the problems and needs of every age."

Implementing the council has been made difficult by opposing tendencies in the church, the pope said. He criticized "progressivism" as a movement that aspires toward the future but "breaks with the past.. without taking into account the function of tradition."

"The opposite tendency. which is usually called 'conservatism' or 'integrism,' stops at the past itself, without taking into account the correct aspiration toward the future which manifested itself precisely in the work of Vatican II," he said.

"But it is not what is 'ancient: as such, or what is 'new,' per se which corresponds to the correct idea of tradition in the life of the church.

Rather, that idea means the church's remaining faithful to the truth received from God, throughout the changing circumstances of history," he said.

Archbishop Lefebvre said in a . 1987 interview that the council's teachings on ecumenism, liturgy and religious liberty were "in open contrast" with tradition and had "placed the center of the Catholic faith in danger."

He said he was following the church's true tradition, as represented in the teachings' of the II popes ending with Pius XII. Pius' successor, Pope John XXIII, convened the Second Vatican Counci1.

Cardinal Gagnon said he completed his work on his visit with Archbishop Lefebvre and followers earlier this year and had given his report to the pope. The pope's letter indicated that Cardinal Ratzinger, who met twice with Archbishop Lefebvre in 1987, would continue to coordinate the reconciliation effort.

Archbishop Lefebvre's society, based in Switzerland, is believed to have about 250 priests and 300 seminarians worldwide. Canonical approval for the society was withdrawn in 1975. BesIdes the issue of the council's teachings, a main issue to be worked out in an eventual settlement is the status of the society's priests and seminarians.

WASHINGTON (NC) - New translations for Mass prayers will pay more attention to the "inner dynamics of the English language," such as stress and rhythm, and will use inclusive language, says John R. Page, executive secretary ofthe International Commission on English in the Liturgy.

Page said that prayers in the current Roman Missal, approved in 1974, have been criticized as being too short, hard to read aloud and lacking strong verbs and adjectives.

Also, inclusive language was not an issue at that time, he said. The revised prayers, for example, would replace "sons" with "sons and daughters" or "children."

The commission expects to complete its revision of the Roman Missal, the book of prayers and instructions used by priests at Mass, by 1992. The revisions began in 1982.

The commission, sponsored by 26 Catholic bishops' conferences in English-speaking countries, recently released a progress report

on its work to revise the 1,324 prayers of the missa1. The 500 prayers nearly completed include opening prayers, prayers over the gifts and prayers after Communion for Sundays, weekdays and feasts according to liturgical season.

Work on other parts of the missal, including the nine eucharistic prayers and the Order of the Mass, is in its early stages, Page said. The first phase of the revision process was completed in 1985 when the

Interview? Nyet!

VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican said there is no substance to recent Italian press speculation that Pope John Paul II might give an interview to the official Soviet press agency Tass.

"The pope, as a general rule, does not give interviews. Therefore, I do not see any elements to sustain this hypothesis" of a Tass interview, said Vatican press spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls.

bishops received the Order of Christian Funerals.

The recent report includes examples of the stages of revision used in 31 opening prayers, recited before the Scripture readings of Mass.

While their first obvious concern is to be faithful to the Latin text of each prayers, Page said, commission members also read each proposed prayer aloud to determine its effectiveness at Mass.

The current missal has, for example, as the opening prayer for the Easter Vigil: "Lord God, you have brightened this night with the radiance of the risen Christ. Quicken the spirit of sonship in your church; renew us in mind and body to give you wholehearted service......

The fourth revision ofthe prayer, approved by the commission's advisory committee in April 1986, reads: "0 God, you brighten this most holy night with the radiance of the risen Christ. Quicken within your children the spirit of adoption, so that, renewed in mind and body, we may dedicate our lives wholeheartedly to your service......

Pope better guarded than candidates WASHINGTON (NC) - Protection for the presidential candidates at 1988 political conventions is apt to involve "complicated security and a lot of work," but will not compare to that given Pope John Paul II during his V.S. visit last Septel1lber, said a Secret Service spokeswoman.

Ii cost the federal government $4.9 million to guard the pope during his IO-day visit last September, said Jane Vezeris, the spokeswoman, in a recent interview.

During his V .S. tour, Pope John Paul visited Miami; Columbia,' S.C.; New Orleans; San Antonio, Texas; Phoenix, Ariz.; Los Angeles; Monterey and Carmel, Calif.; San Francisco; and Detroit.

In testimony before Congress last month, John R. Simpson, director of the Secret Service, and Francis A. Keating, assistant treasury secretary for enforcement, called

the pontiffs 1987 visit to the V nited States "the single most demanding protective event in our history."

"The magnitude of the events surrounding his stay required monumental security arrangements," said Simpson.

In the interview, Ms. Vezeris said in the case of the pope's trip "the popularity of the protectee increased the logistical problems" for the Secret Service. "There were thousaJ;lds and thousands of people around him at the motorcades alone."

She said the Secret Service protected the pope at seven stadium functions and 80 motorcades, addirig up to 30 miles. "Obviously, he wanted to meet as many people as possible," commented Ms. Vezeris.

Making the job especially difficult for the Secret Service, she said, was "the pace of the trip ...

and leapfrogging our personnel from place to place as well as coordinating with local police departments and emergency personne1."

In addition, she said, protecting an individual in open air, public places always complicates the task.

The most well attended outdoor Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul was in San Antonio, the fourth stop of the pontiffs visit. An estimated 350,000 attended.

Considering the size and complexity of the job,.Ms. Yezeris said she was surprised at "how quiet things were" during the trip.

The Secret Service received a supplemental appropriation of$5.6 million to cover the cost of the pontiffs visit, in addition to its regular budget of $367 million.

Ms. Vezeris said the unused portion of the supplemental allocation was returned to the general fund.

POPE JOHN PAUL II, here greeting nuns in New Orleans, was surrounded by sharp-eyed security guards during his U.S. visit last September. (NC photo)

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., April 22, 1988

Archbishop offers self as hostage

It's time to talk to Mikey

RECIFE, Brazil (NC) - Five prisoners who had taken hostages during a Mass at a Recife prison ended a 72-hour siege when they surrendered April 12 due to hunger.

The prisoners and their hostages - a priest, a missionary, a nun and a prison guard - were rushed to a hospital after living on water only for three days. Seven hostages were originally taken but a nun and a guard were released and another guard escaped.

During the siege, Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of Olinda and Recife offered to replace the four hostages, but government officials rejected his offer.

Singles Sunday CI NCI NN ATI (N C) - Catholic Alumni Clubs International, the largest Catholic singles organization in the V nited States, is sponsoring Singles Sunday April 24 to recognize the role of single persons in the church and single life as a vocation.

"We ask the church leaders to recognize the single vocation as a vocation and to encourage the single individual and singles clubs" said Donald Luebbering, club president.

But, he added, "it is a two-way street. The single individual must beco\lle involved and the church must recognize that single people need spiritual guidance and support."

Local club chapters across the country will observe Singles Sunday with special events such as Masses followed by social gatherings and projects in aid of the needy.

The alumni club, with 6,000 members in 48 chapters, sponsors social, community service and religious events throughout the year.

A weeklong international convention and weekend regional meetings are held annually.

State Circle meets The annual meeting of Massachusetts Circle Daughters of Isabella will be held tonight through Sunday at the Sheraton Plymouth. o of I members from the Fall River diocese will be among participants.

State Regent Lillian Reilly, a member of Benedict Circle, North Attleboro, will preside at a daylong business meeting tomorrow.

Events scheduled include a prolife shower chaired by New Bedford's Hyacinth Circle with entertainment by Easton Circle, a service for deceased members, Mass celebrated by Boston Auxiliary Bishop Daniel A. Hart, installation of new officers and a banquet.

Soviets reproved WASHINGTON (NC) - Persecution of Catholics in Lithuania and other areas of the Soviet V nion undermines V.S.-Soviet relations, said Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye, general secretary of the V.S. Catholic Conference, in a recent letter to the Soviets' Council for Religious Affairs, calling on the Soviets to demonstrate the sincerity of"glasnost" by setting free two imprisoned priests and allowing Bishop Julijonas Steponavicius to return to Vilnius, Lithuania, where he is apostolic administrator.

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LITTLE Richard Vuu portrays Emperor Pu Yi as a child in "The Last Emperor," winner of nine Academy Awards. (NC photo)

She lived in days of "Last Emperor" WASHINGTON (NC) - "The Last Emperor," which won nine Oscars at the 60th Academy Awards ceremony April II, gave an authentic view of life in China's Manchuria, said a Maryknoll nun who lived there from 1936to 1944.

Sister Virginia Flagg, 75, coordinator of Maryknoll's Sisters' Center in Ossining, N.Y., recalled the sweeping epic about modern China in a telephone interview hours before the blockbuster garnered the nine gold statuettes, including the most prestigious awards for best picture and best director.

It was "quite authentic," said Sister Flagg. "People were dressed exactly as they were when I was there. The barren hills of Manchuria - I felt right at home."

"The Last Emperor" recounts the life of Pu Vi, who in 1908 at age 3 was made heir to China's dragon throne and was deposed after only four years. The film studies his puppet reign as "The Lord of 10,000 Years" and his futile attempt to restore the Qing dynasty by linking himself with Japan in hopes of establishing Manchuria as an independent republic and monarchy.

It also recounts his nine years of "reeducation" in a Chinese prison and his final days as an ordinary citizen of the People's Republic of China wherehedied in 1967.

The V,S, Catholic Conference Department of Communication commended Bertolucci's attention to detail in the movie, which it described as "visually arresting and rich with historical detail." Its USCC rating is "A3-adults" because of scenes of violence, sex and opium smoking, though brief and integral to the movie's cultural context.

Sister Flagg talked about Maryknoll's fondness for China, where it established missions after the order's founding in 1912.

"We all wanted to be assigned there," she said.

The movie made her nostalgic for China, she said, despite the fact that she was interned there by the Japanese for two years, first in Manchuria and later in Shanghai.

"It presented the Manchurians just as I had known them - happy and peaceful" but politically naive, she said.

Pu Yi was used by the Japanese and revealed the trustfulness of the Chinese, she said. He lived imprisoned and as an emperor without an empire within the Forbidden City until 1924, 12 years after the 1912 overthrow of his empire.

The Chinese "loved protocol," said Sister Flagg. "That's what made the Red Guard rebellion so terrible," she said, recalling the nation's Cultural Revoiution in 1966. "The Chinese always looked up to scholars." With the rebellion "everything of artistic value was destroyed. That was very hard on the people."

Sister Flagg praised director Bernardo Bertolucci's choice of actors, noting that the people who played Manchurians could be recognized as distinct from the southern Chinese.

"The Manchurians are bigger," she said, "and more handsome, I think."

In China, Sister Flagg taught at a Maryknoll school at a time when the Japanese were in power in Manchuria; but the sisters were not really in touch with what was occurring politically.

"We had so' little to do with politics. We had no radio or television. The only newspaper we had was the Manchurian Daily News," she said. "There wasn't even air mail then."

She down played difficulties of being interned.

"We really didn't suffer too much," she said. "We had hardly any food and didn't know what would happen to us but the real suffering was when the authorities would punish Chinese coolies for being good to us."

She left China in 1944 when she and other Maryknollers were exchanged for V.S.-held Japanese prisoners of war.

Sister Flagg said five Maryknoll sisters work in the interior of China today, not as nuns, but "as lay women who teach English in universities."

By Hilda ~ oung "It's time to have 'the talk' with your youngest son," I told my husband last night.

"You mean.....

"Yes," I interrupted. "He's spending more time combing his hair than watching cartoons. And he's hitting the hard stuff."

Spouse sighed sarcastically.

"Hair gel at his age? Now that you say it: I thought I heard the wind whistling through his scalp."

It's hard to admit your baby boy' looks like a cross between a blond porcupine and a bed of nails. But it's difficult to ignore things like people patting him on the head then grasping their palms in pain.

"You got a license for that hair?" his grandmother barked at him last week.

"Something scare you or are you signaling your alien comrades in outer space?" his uncle snorted recently.

"Do you use a comb, chain saw or a bullwhip on that stuff?" his cousin laughed.

Mikey ignores them. ''They're old," he says, as if somehow that explains everything.

"Look at the positive side," spouse said to me. "His hair is all one color. He hasn't shaved his initials in his scalp. He doesn't have a crew cut on one side and a ponytail on the other."

"If his cranium isn't encased by acrylic hair goo first," I said. "If I had wanted a child with a head like a Star Wars helmet, I would have married Darth Vader. You've got to do something."

"Why me?" he protested. "It's your hair spray he's sneaking to' school in his lunch bag." . "So you've known all along," I exclaimed.

"I didn't want to alarm you," he claimed. "Remember how irrational you were when Marie wanted to put beer and lemon juice on her hair?"

"This doesn't compare," I said.

"This kid doesn't have a hair style, it's a weapons design. He doesn't wear his baseball cap, he impales it."

"If it's so bad," spouse coun,tered, "why does he still use shampoo for normal hair?"

You know, for a second there I actually tried to think of an answer to that question.

Send comments to Hilda Young, 25218 Meadow Way N.E., Arlington;Wash.98223.

Diversity supported LOS ANGELES (NC) - Los Angeles Archbishop Roger M. Mahony has urged parishes to celebrate their "racial and cultural diversity" in the liturgy. He asked parishes with minorities to provide multilingual, multicultural liturgies on major feasts and to use inclusive language where possible.

"Face reality, man,"I said. "The kid's hair gel hils the same ingredients as my hobby glue. He doesn't wash his hair. He melts it down."

"It's just a stage," spouse said hopefully. "He'll grow out of it."

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What's on your mind?

Q. Why is it that some poeple relate well and other people relate badly to the same person? I have one good friend named Susan who I like real well, and I also have another real good friend named Sondra. For some reason Susan and Sondra don't get along well at all. They really don't like each other. Then why do they both like me? (Iowa) ---~

A. Sometime when you are at the public library, look at the telephone directory of a large city like Los Angeles, Chicago or New York.

Look at the seemingly endless columns of names and names and names, each representing an individual.

Then imagine all the telephone directories in the world piled one on top of the other. Think of the millions upon millions of persons represented by that stack of telephone directories.

Then add to those the names of the millions of living persons who do not have a telephone.

That's an incredible, almost unimaginable number of people!

And one of the miracles of our world is that no two of these people are alike. Each is utterly unique.

There never has been, is not now, and never will be another person who is 100 percent like you.

While we all have some similar features, we are all in some respects different.

These differences not only keep life from monotony, but also frequently make it fascinating, frustrating, exciting, puzzling, amusing, adventurous, annoying and often enough utterly delig~~~ul.

And sometimes these dltterences also help make life mysterious.

Often we can't figure out why people act ~nd react the way they do.

Bishop Feehan Ronald Serak, a junior at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, is a Rotary International Scholarship Award recipient and will attend the organization's June World Affairs Seminar at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, with other U.S. students and representatives of 6S foreign countries.

Serak, a starting lineman for Feehan's football team and a shotput medalist in last winter's state class track meet, will speak on the seminar at a Rotary Club of Attleboro meeting.

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Feehan's junior-senior prom is scheduled for May 12 at Lantana in Randolph.

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By Charlie Martin

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MAN IN THE MIRROR Joe, for example, may have a hidden streak of timidity in his personality because of events in his early childhood. As a result he does not like being around Lizbeth, who is aggressive.

But few people understand why Joe and Lizbeth do not get along well.

Sometimes the reason two people do not relate well may be subtle and elusive. They also can be as slight as the tone of another person's voice or her not very neat way of dressing. These small differences, in some cases, can be mountainous barriers.

To explain fully why your friends, Susan and Sondra, both get along well with you but not with each other would probably require a long examiniation of the total personalities and life experiences of all three of you. And very likely the ultimate explanation would have something to do with the uniqueness of each of you.

Sometime in the next few days could you think some more about the effect this utter uniqueness of every person has on your social relationships?

Send questions and comments to Tom Lennon, 1312 Mass. Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.

Serrans serve spaghetti supper The Serra Club of Greater New Bedford will hold its fourth altar servers'appreciation night at 6:30 p.m. Monday at St. Mary's School cafeteria, New Bedford. Altar boys from St. Mary's and St. Theresa, St. Casimir, St. Kilian, St. Anthony· of Padua, St. Joseph and Immaculate Conception parishes, all in New Bedford, will be honored at the gathering.

A spaghetti supper served by Serrans, Catholic men who seek to fulfill their Christian vocations to service and to foster 'religious vocations. will begin the evening. An awards presentation and an address

by Father Mark R. Hession, St. Mary's parochial vicar, will follow.

Dennis Desnoyers is the event's chairman. Organizing committee members are Dr. William Muldoon, Leo Pelletier, Bob Lebrecque, Larry Burns, Joseph Motta, Robert Makinand Al Roy.

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Sung by Michael Jackson. Written by Siedab Garrett and Glen Ballard. (c) 1987, 1988 M·J·J Publications Inc. Can teenagers make a differ- world a better place, take a look ence in the world? Michael Jack- at yourself and make a change."

According to the song, many son's latest release, "Man in the Mirror," says you can if you are people have become victims "ofa. willing to try. selfish kind of love." We choose The song suggests that the place to be blind to . other people's to begin is with yourself: "And struggles, pretending that someno message could have been anyone else will help them.

Perhaps Jackson is right. Per· clearer, if you want to make the

Many Ways "Many are the ways by which God leads his children home." Manuel Cervantes

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I'm going to make a change for once in my life It's going to feel real good Going to make a difference Going to make it right As I turned up the collar on nty favorite winter coat This wind is blowing in my ntind I see the kids in the street Without enough to eat Who am I to be blind Pretending not to see their needs A summer's disregard, a broken bottle top And one man's soul They follow each other on the wind you know 'Cause they've got nowhere to go That's why I want you to know I'm starting with the man in the mirror I'm asking him to change his ways And no message could have been any dearer If you want to make the world a better place Take a look at yourself and then make a change I've been a victim of a selfish kind of love It's time I realize That there are some with no home Not a nickel to loan Could it really be me Pretending that they are not alone A willow deeply scarred, somebody's broken heart And a washed-out dream They followed the pattern of the wind 'Cause they've got no place to go That's why I'm starting with nte

haps we become so preoccupied with our own demands that we forget about the "kids in the street without enough to eat" or those "with no home."

Other times we simply do not know what to do. The problems in the world seem overwhelming.

Some people may wonder what good their small efforts can accomplish.

Certainly many social problems are complex. But this should not keep anyone ,from caring about others. Here are some suggestions for teens who want to make the world a better place: 1. Give away 10 percent ofthe money you make. This is difficult when one is saving for a new album, a concert ticket or important goals such as college costs.

Yet I suggest making this a priority. Contact your parish to find out what social agencies can put your donations to good use.

2. Take a talent and use it to help someone in need. If you like to cook, bake brownies for nursing home residents able to enjoy such treats. If you are talented in a certain class, inform your teacher that you would be willing to serve as a tutor. If you enjoy sports, help children learn new athletic skills.

Use your creativity to determine how you might give.

3. If pain in the world is to lessen, people need to understand problems. So consider forming a parish discussion group with the aid of a teacher or a parish leader. Meet monthly to discuss a troubling issue.

All these suggestions begin with specific actions initiated by the person you see in the mirror. You are the difference that the world needs.

Look in the mirror, smile and begin to make changes to help the world become a better place.

Your comments always are welcome. Address Charlie Martin, 1218 S. Rotherwood Ave., Evansville, Ind. 47714.

F ALL RIVER South, Bristol County CYO hockey champions for the third consecutive year, took two games from Mansfield in three finals. Squad members are, seated left to right: Scott Durocher, Kevin Taylor, Mike Muniz, Bill Camara, Dan Kane, Chris Romans and Bill Lunnie. Standing left to right: Bernie O'Reilly, Ron Andrade, Paul Hebert, Todd Jakusik, Scott Keith, Eric Crane, Dave Nobrega, Paul Hogan, Sean Fecteau and coach Gus Venice.

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BARBARA Cannistraro,. Michael Spencer, Nancy Hunter, Christopher Martin and Robyn Nunes, left to right, students at Bishop Stang, will participate in the State Science Fair Sunday at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Stang's Traci Viveiros and Tina Nickloff will also compete. '~_ :£~

Bishop Stang High School 20 students at Bishop Stang Students Leslie Rodrigues and High School, North Dartmouth, Christopher Travers recently parhave been named to the Principal's ticipated in the 41 st annual StuList for their performance during dent Government Day at the State the sec~nd quarter of the 1987-88 , House in Boston. Acting as counacademic y e a r . . ' terparts to Senator Biff MacLean, The students are Rama Andrews, the students were involved in the April Asato, Lynn ~sato: Lori passing and/ or vetoing of bills B~ad~, Mark Cardelh, MlcheIle . dealing with contemporary issues.

Clcona, Meghan Foley, Suzanne S h M I' G ' op ,o.more e Issa a~de. IS Harrington, Erin Hayden, Vince 'I L t' . the recipient of the Hugh 0 Bnan J orna Ies an d J en yn a 1m.

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Al so KevlO '0 II P I partlClpatlOg 10 the State LeaderI o ff , o J n h 0 onne, au 0 sh' W k h b Ip or sop, to e held at BosPereira Richard Roberts Elizabeth V~sconcelos, Gabrieia Vas- ton CoIlege. concelos, Gregory Vrona and Christina ConneIly. 60 students merited first honors, and 104 earped second honors.

St. Joseph's School, New Bedford, will begin its 75th anniverGuidance department staff will sary year this fall.

The school opened in September discuss the college application pro1913 with a total enroIlment of cedure with juniors and their parents at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The, 340. Thousands have attended junior class will also attend the . since.

The school is planning an alumni National CoIlege Fair May 2 in social as part of anniversary celeBoston. brations and is seeking graduates Grades nine through II will par- who would like to attend / assist with coordinating the gathering. ticipate in a May 3 Career Day. Information is available from Academic awards wiIl be distributed and there wiIl be induc~ the school, 995-2264, from 8:30 tion of new National Honor Society a.m. t02: 15 p.m. weekdays. Afterschool members at a ceremony 7 p.m. hours: Mrs. Kramer, 995-5487; Mrs. Bowne, 995-6015.

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Diocesan elected to NCEA committee Sister Ann Moore, CND, associate superintendent for dioc~san secondary schools, has been elected vice-president of the executive committee of the secondary school department of the National Catholic Educational Association. Elections were held recently at the organization's national convention in New York City.

Sister Moore has served on the NCEA's New England regional committee for the past six years and has been regional representative to the executive committee for two years.

The executive committee meets biannually to discuss concerns of Catholic secondary education in the United States. Its most recent meeting was held in Puerto Rico, where it sponsored an in-service day for island Catholic school administrators.

As an executive committee officer, Sister Moore will participate in the May 19 to 26 Catholic Education Futur-es Project in Dayton.

The NCEA, in coIlaboration with the education department of the

United States Catholic Conference, has initiated the comprehensive project, designed to study in depth the future'l"of church education in the United States.

SISTER MOORE

Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Films Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-13-parental guidance strongly suaested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for cbildren or young teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; 4-separate classification (given films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

Catholic ratings for television movies are those of the movie house versions of the films.

NOTE Please check dates and times of television and radio programs against local listings, which may differ from the New York network schedules supplied to The Anchor.

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New Films "Bright Lights, Big City" (United Artists) - Lurid adaptation of Jay McInerney's best-selling novel tracing the downward spiral of a young, aspiring novelist (Michael J. Fox) into sordid New York club life and drug and alcohol abuse.

Excessive drug use, some profanity and hedonistic sexual activity.

O,R "18 Again" (New World Pictures) - A grandfather and grandson (George Burns and Charlie Schlatter) switch spirits after an almost fatal car crash. A comedy marred by off-color, sexist jokes with sexual inferences. Sophomoric humor. Brief nudity. A3, PG "The Seventh Sign" (Tri-Star) - Glossy, ultimately exploitative interpretation of the New Testament's Book of Revelation: The apocalypse is close at hand and a pregnant woman finds she has the power to stop it. Several scenes of violence involving the woman and some brief nudity. 0, R "A New Life" (Paramount) - A workaholic Wall Street broker (Allin Aida) and his wife (AnnMargaret) split up after 26 years of marriage. Takes advantage of the serio-comic elements found in their nervous entry into the singles' scene.

Fine acting but a somewhat predictable plot. Some rough language and discreet nudity in several sexual situations. A3, PG 13 .

"Beetlejuice"(Warner Bros.)Marvelous special effects overshadow a silly plot about a couple of dim-witted ghosts (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) who return to their old home to find it inhabited and grossly redecorated by an eccentric family. When their attempts to scare the family out fail, they use the services of Beetlejuice (M ichael Keaton), a ghoulish demon who specializes in people-busting. Some vulgar language and bloody special effects. A2, PG "Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach" (Warner Bros.) The Police Academy graduates are back, this time to honor soonto-be-retired Commandant Lassard as Policeman of the Decade. The boys and girls in blue frolic on the beach and foil a kidnapping plot.

Innocuous fun. Some brief sexist visuals. A2, PG

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15 Noblesse oblige alive and well in Knights ofMalta

Film on TV Sunday, April 24, 9-11 p.m.

VATICAN CITY (NC) - A EDT (NBC) -"Protocol" (1984) - Dizzy cocktail waitress (Goldie British aristocrat is the new head Hawn) becomes a national heroine of the sovereign military order of when she thwarts the assassination the Knights of Malta.

Andrew Willoughby Ninian Berattempt of a visiting Arab leader, which gives some nasty State De- tie, 58, will lead the worldwide partment types the idea of using religious and charitable organiher as a diplomatic pawn. Sexu- zation.

To be grand master, a knight ally oriented humor. A2, PG must have taken perpetual vows of Religious TV poverty, chastity and obedience Sunday, April 24 (CBS) - "For and be able to trace back at least Our Times" - CBS presents a 200 years an unblemished noble portrait of composer Franz Schu- bloodline on both sides of his bert, including selections from "The family.

Unfinished Symphony" performed Bertie has worked as a volunteer by the Cologne Youth Symphony in a Knights of Malta Hospital in Orchestra at the Cathedral of St. Lourdes, France, and has organStephen in Vienna, Austria. . ized annual tours to the Marian Religious TV Shrine at Lourdes.

He has been a member of 'the Sunday, April 24 (NBC) order since 1956 and took vows in "Guideline" - Marist Brother 1981.

Lewis Luks, youth minister at He succeeds Angelo de Mojano Sacred Heart Church, Gramercy, di Cologna, who died Jan. 18 after La., discusses teenagers and chemserving more than 25 years as ical abuse. grand master.

Born in London and a former officer in the Scots Guards, Bertie Kelly Cleveland, an eighth grader is a linguist who has taught French, at Holy Family/ Holy Name Spanish and Russian.

School, New Bedford, was grade He also worked for a time as a seven through nine winner in a reporter and editor for City Press recent utility company radio jingle in London. contest.

His father, a stockbroker, was The "Energy Conservation in a related to the Count of Lindsay Student's World" contest encour- and Abingdon and his mother was aged students to think creatively, a Stuart, once Scotland's royal become energy conscious and family. Bertie is related by marunderstand how energy is produced riage to the family of former Britand used. ish Prime Minister Winston ChurchKelly's winning jingle may be ill. used on radio. She received an Founded during the Cr,usades in award certificate and a T-shirt. the II th century, the order today has 12,000 members worldwide and is involved in charitable projects in Lebanon, Central and South America and Africa. Only a handful of members take monastic vows.

Father David A. Costa, parochial vicar at S1. Thomas More parReward of Belief ish, Somerset, celebrated an Easter "The Lord Jesus Christ said: season Mass at the Fall River school.

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Iteering pOintl ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT Mr. and Mrs. John 8. Caron are celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary.

HOLY路 GHOST, ATTLEBORO Men and women needed to establish parish choir; information: Father Thomas C. Lopes, pastor, 222-3266.

F AMIL Y LIFE CENTER, N. DARTMOUTH Joy of Living Widowed support weekend begins today. Divorced and .Separated support group meeting 7 p.m. Monday. 11th Step men's retreat April 29 to May I. D of I, ATTLEBORO Alcazaba Circle meeting 7:30 p.m.

May 5, K of C hall; members will make May baskets for shutins.

ST. ANTHONY OF THE DESERT, FR Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament noon to 6 p.m. May I with 5 p.m. Holy Hour. St. Sharbel Chapel.

Procession and crowning of Blessed Virgin after II a.m. Mass May I. MCFL, SWANSEA Massachusetts Citizens for Life Swansea chapter regular meeting 7 p.m. Thursday, Swansea Public Library; all welcome.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, I. FREETOWN Emmaus retreat today through Sunday. St. Francis Xavier parish, Acushnet, youth retreat 3:30 to 9 p.m. Monday.

BLESSED SACRAMENT ADORERS, NB Holy hour 7 p.m. Monday, St. Theresa's Church, New Bedford; guest priest: Father John F. Moore, pastor of St. Mary's Church, New Bedford; refreshments follow; all welcome. Exposition Fridays at St. Theresa's follows 9 a.m. Mass to 7 p.m. Benediction; all welcome.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Parish pilgrims in the Holy Land were supplied with last' Sunday's bulletin as they journeyed from Mount Tabor to Jerusalem. The pilgrims return today. Also reading the parish news were schoolchildren on a class trip to Canada. New acolytes rehearse I p.m. April 30.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Area Vincentians will meet at the church at 5 p.m. Sunday for a Mass celebrated by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. Previously, at 1:45 p.m., parish Vincentians will sing at Taunton Nursing Home. Additional singers welcomed. First communion candidates will meet 9 a.m. tomorrow for a retreat, rehearsal and bannermaking session.

BISHOP CONNOLLY High School varsity baseball pitchers, from left, sophomores Bob Kennedy and Louis Torres and senior Tom Cummings, engage in throwing drills at a practice.

Don Chouinard coaches at the Fall River school. (Motta photo)

LaSALETTE CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN LIVING, ATTLEBORO . Family retreat May 6 through 8, dIrected by center staff and volunteer counselors; information: 2228530.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Father William Campbell, pastor, expresses gratitude to all who joined路 in celebration of his silver jubilee of ' ordination. Confirmation 7 p.m. May 4. Word has come from Father Paul Carrier, SJ, a frequent parish visitor, that he has successfully defended his doctoral thesis and will receive his doctorate.

ST. ELIZABETH SETON, N. FALMOUTH Women's Guild communion breakfast following 10: 15 a.m. Mass May 15. Information: Grace Bowen, 548-3113. Guild college scholarship available. Information: Kathleen Eggleston, 540-0642.

SS. PETER & PAUL, FR First communion 9:30 a.m. May I, with practice 2:45 p.m. April 25.

Women's Club communion breakfast follows 9:30 a.m. Mass May 15 with talk and film shown by Josephine Dube. Choir and folk groups will rehearse 7:30 p.m. April 25. The parish senior basketball team has won the Sam Priestly tournament, emerging as the only undefeated team.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Youth ministry Adventure Group meeting 8 p.m. Monday; softball game 2 p.m. May I, North School Field. Cursillo ultreya 7:30 p.m. May 6, parish center.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET The Clover Club will sing at the II :30 a.m. Mass Sunday. Students grades two through four will attend the 10: 15 a.m. liturgy May I for the May procession and crowning of theBlessed Mother. Junior High schoolers recently donated $145 to Catholic Social Services to aid a Laotian refugee family of five who recently resettled in the Fall River diocese. , ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Third dominga: Margaret Motta: 18 Nye's Lane, Acushnet.

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ST. JULIE. N. DARTMOUTh Rosary and BenedictioL 4 p.m.

Sunday follows exposition of Blessed Sacrament, which begins after 11:30 a.m. Mass.

MASS/TEACHING Father John Bertolucci video teaching on "born-again Catholicism" follows 7 p.m. cr.arislllatic Mass Sunday, Immaculate Conception Church, Taunton; program sponsored by Building Block Ministries; all welcome.

ST. JAMES, NB Ladies' Guild 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, parish hall; spring bonnet contest; refreshments.

HOLY NAME, FR Women's Guild Mass and installation of officers May 3; banquet follows; information by Wednesday: Ruth Burke, 673-9144. Retreat renewal6:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday, school, includes potluck supper; information: Karen Nicoletti, 672-4114. Children's Mass 10: 15 a.m. Sunday.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON Women's Guild meeting 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET Christopher O'Donnell is parish CCA chairman; secretaries are Marilyn Timo and Gertrude McKenna. Vincentians' meeting follows 8 a.m. Mass tomorrow.

ST. MARY,NB Youth group volleyball 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday; parishioners welcome.

Permanent Deacon Claude LeBlanc is parish CCA chairman.

ST. JOHN NEUMANN, E. FREETOWN Right to Life Committee-sponsored screening of the pro-life film "Eclipse of Reason" 7:45 p.m. April 29; Chris Spoor, founder of Women Exploited by Abortion, will speak; free admission; all welcome.

VINCENTIANS, CAPE Cape and Islands district council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Mass with principal celebrant Bishop Dani'el A. Cronin 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, Corpus Christi parish, Sandwich.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Scouts' pack night 5:30 p.m. Sunday, church hall.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, CAPE Meeting 3 p.m. Sunday, CCD Center next to St. Jude's Chapel, Cotuit; topic: New Awakening; all widowed persons welcome; information: 428-7078.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Exposition of Blessed Sacrament 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays, chapel, ends with Benediction. Mass and prayer meeting 7 p.m. Thursdays, parish center.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA New parish council members: Pauline Dufour, Edward L. Sullivan, Leopold H. Thibault.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NB Men's League meeting after 10 a.m. Mass Sunday. Members will provide coffee and doughnuts after both morning Masses.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT The feast of St. George will be celebrated at 5 p.m. Masstomorrow with a balloon liftoff, each balloon containing a parishioner's message.

Women's Guild meeting 7 p.m. April 25 with talk by Barbara O'Brien on "The Housekeeper and Health Keeper of the 1880s."

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE The parish wishes to honor graduating seniors, who are asked to send a yearbook picture and note as to future plans to the parish center

by May 13. Parish council meeting April 26..

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Marian devotions and Benediction 2 and 3 p.m. Sunday; seminar, "Journey to Wholeness," with Sister Philomena Agudo, FMM, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 30. Information: 222-5410.