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FATHER STEPHEN A. FERNANDES, parochial vicar at St. James parish, New I Bedford, and other diocesan participants wearing distinctive Massachusetts Citizens for Life , sun visors join Rally for Life '90 participants from around the nation at the, base of the Washington Monument. (Hickey photo)

WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. Supreme Court April 30 declined to review for a second time litigation initiated by Abortion Rights Mobilization to force the federal government to revoke the Catholic Church's tax exemption.

As usual in such instances, the high court issued no explanation of it refusal to take the case, Abortion Rights Mobilization vs. U.S. Catholic Conference. ARM had petitioned the Supreme Court for further action Feb. I after losing at the appeals court level in September.

Mark E. Chopko, USCC general counsel, expressed satisfaction at the end of "vexatious" litigation, while Lawrence Lader, ARM president, suggested the court's refusal was promoted by "political" concerns.

"We are very pleased," Chopko said in a written statement. "The Supreme Court's action finally bringsanendtoth~longandvex­

By Marcie Hickey with Catholic News Service reports "We're here for the babies," was how facilitator Olivia Gans summed up Saturday's Rally for Life '90 in Washington D.C. Pro-lifers came by the thousands-men and women of various religious denominations, ethnic and racial backgrounds; parents and children; college students;

people in wheelchairs; babies, teens and old people.

They brought signs and banners with pro-life messages; they brought their voices, convictions and prayers; they demonstrated by their very presence that the prolife movement-much to the chagrin of abortion advocates-is not going away.

The massive crowd braved scorching heat, long trips and toe-

to-toe gridlock caused by their own turnout to rally in person against abortion. The rally drew crowds estimated at 225,000 to 250,000 by U.S. park police but at up to 700,000 by the event's organizers and participants, most of whom signed attendance cards designed to provide an accurate count.

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atious challenge by Abortion Rights Mobilization to the church's tax exemption.

"We have long believed that in raising our voice on a variety of moral issues affecting a society, we ar.e fulfilling our obligation in a democracy," Chopko added. "We are pleased to see the challenge to that right put to rest."

In a telephone interview from his New York City headquarters . April 30, Lader said that in terms

of the lawsuit, "that seems to be it.

This brings it to a total dead end as far as I can see."

"I think this is a totally political decision" by the Supreme Court, Lader ~dded. "They don't want to tackle the Catholic Church." The Internal Revenue Service backed down. Lader claimed, and "now the Supreme Court is doing the same thing. I'm terribly concerned" about the First Amendment and separation of church and state, 'he said. "I think pluralism is the cornerstone of this country."

AR M brought suit in 1980 to make the Internal Revenue Service revoke the Catholic Church's tax exemption because of alleged violations by church organizations of laws and regulations prohibiting political activity by non-profit, tax-exempt groups.

One issue - the USCC fight against subpoenas of church documents - got a public forum before the Supreme Court, which ruled 8-1 in 1988 that the USCC could challenge the subpoenas.

However, the high court returned the overall dispute to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in New York, to settle.

The appeals court dismissed the case, ruling that ARM lacked proper legal standing to instigate the lawsuit. That action led to ARM'S unsuccessful petition, asking the Supreme Court to review the appeals court's decision.

20,150 to visit 115,000 hOm1es in pari~h phase afeCA A famous name in the football history of Notre Dame University is that of George Gipp, who asked teammates to "win one for the Gipper."

This year members of the diocese are being asked to "win one" for Notre Dame's number one fan, Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes.

Longtime Notre Dame football chaplain, he is also the longtime diocesan director of the Catholic Charities Appeal. At age 75, he is retiring this year from the directorship as well as from his positions as pastor of Our Lady of Angels parish, Fall River, and moderator of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women.

The 20,150 parish volunteers who will visit some 115,000 dioce-

san homes between noon and 3 p.m. Sunday seeking donations

and pledges to the 49th annual Appeal are hoping to make a

retirement gift to Msgr. Gomes of the most successful fund drive ever.

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~ALL RIVER area workers for the Catholic Charities Appeal with Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan Appeal director, left; Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, center; and Rev. Daniel L. Freitas, assistant Appeal director; are from left John Donnelly, Holy Name parish, Fall River; Horace J. Costa, diocesan lay chairman; Virginia Routhier, St. John the Baptist parish, Westport. (Studio D photo)

Indeed, the need has never been greater. As Bishop Daniel A. Cronin said in a letter read at all diocesan Masses last Sunday: "Generous donations will help apostolates to the innocent unborn, children and families in need of education, counseling and support, the sick, the elderly and the grieving."

The bishop enumerated agencies that benefit from the Appeal, including Catholic Social Services and the diocesan departments of Education, Pastoral Care for the Sick, Campus Ministry, Apostolate for Persons with Disabilities, Youth Ministry and Family Ministry.

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$2500.00 Bacon Construction Co., E. Provo $550.00 St. Mary Conference, Norton $500.00 St. Mary Conference, Seekonk Augat, Inc., Mansfield St. John Council #404, Kof C $300.00 St. Mary Youth Groups, Seekonk Imported Auto Parts, Inc., Seekonk Sacred Heart Conference, N. Attleboro $275.00 Holy Ghost Conference $250.00 A. Caponigro & Co., Inc. Patsy Cavalieri &Son, Inc., N. Attleboro NEW BEDFORD $200.00 $1000 St. Mary Conference, Mansfield Anonymous $150.00 Compass Bank . St. Mary Women's Guild, Seekonk $600 $125.00 Fairhaven Savings Bank Fireside Nissan, Inc., N. Attleboro $500 Reardon &lynch Co., Inc. Stephen F. Sullivan, M.D.. N. DartAttleboro lions Club mouth $100.00 $300 A& AFuel Co., Inc., E. Providence Nat'l Bank of Fairhaven Consolidated Bus. Products, Inc., No. $150 Attleboro Citizen's Credit Union State line Scrap Co., Inc., S. Attleboro W.R. Sharples Co., Inc., S. Attleboro $100 Holy Ghost Women's Guild Charles R. Desmarais, Esq. Rock Funeral Home $75.00 Kof C, Bshp. Stang Council Harry J. Boardman Ins. Agcy. S. Attleboro $50.00 R.J. Carey, Engineering Consultants $50.00 C.E. Beckman Co. Armstrong, Polis & Clapp, Attys., N. Poyant Signs, Inc. Attleboro Sherman & Jackson Funeral Home, $25.00 Mansfield Park Motors, Fairhaven, Considine lance Motors Roofing Co., St. Anne Credit Union, Colonial lithograph, Inc. Hoyle Adv. Bill's lock & Key, N. Attleboro . TAUNTON V.H. Blackinton &Co., Inc., Attleboro Falls $600 Taunton Dist. of St. Vincent de Paul $40.00 Bay Bank Southeast, N.A. Chartley Beer &Wine, Norton $500 $35.00 Coyle-Cassidy High School Reynolds & Markman, Inc. $100 $30.00 AFriend larson Tool & Stamping Co. $60.00 $25.00 Edmund J. Brennan, Jr., Atty.

Richard's Auto Clinic &Garden E~uip. $25.00 FALL RIVER Williams lumber Co., Inc., Fred F. Waltz Co., Inc., Harrisville, R.I. $2200.00 CAPE COD Siades Ferry Trust Com'pany $2000.00 $1500.00 Our lady of the Cape Bingo, Brewster St. Stanislaus Bingo $1100.00 $1000.00 St. Joan of Arc Cont., Orleans The Jaffe Foundation $700.00 Somerset Medical Assoc., Inc. St. Vincent de Paul Dist. Council of $700.00 Cape Cod & the Islands SLVincent de Paul Dist. Council of Gr. . $550.00 Fall River Holy Redeemer Bingo, Chatham Dr. & Mrs. Francis M. James, Swansea $500.00 $600.00 ladies Assoc. of the Sacred Hearts, Compass Bank Holy Redeemer, Chatham $500.00 American legion Post #188, Sandwich Silva-Faria-Somerset Funeral Homes Holy Trinity Thrift Shop, W. Harwich $450.00 $300.00 Ashworth Bros., Inc. 01. ofthe Assumption Guild, Osterville $300.00 $100.00 Dr. Paul P. Dunn O.l. of the Cape Men's Club, Brewster Spartan Cleansers, Hyannis _ $250.00 Sterling Package' Store, Inc. Church of the Visitation Guild, N. Eastham $225.00 $75.00 St. John of God Women's Guild, SomerStage Stop Candy ltd., Dennisport set Our lady of Angels Credit Union $50.00 Jim's Package Store, Oak Bluffs Sea View Village, Inc., Dennisport Special Gift & parish listings will $30.00 continue to appear weekly in order Holy Redeemer Youth Group -"The received by the printer until all have Brat Pack", Chatham $25.00 been listed.

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$250.00 J.l. Marshall &Sons, Inc., Pawtucket, R.1. $100 D & N Transportation, Slatersville, R.1.

Auburn Construction Co., Inc., Whitman, MA $50.00 Thermex-Thermatron, Inc., Bay Shore, N.Y. Taylor Box Co., Warren, R.I. 25.00 .The Helio light Co., Somerville, Farley Harvey Co., Charlestown, MA, Narragansett Coated Paper, Pawtucket, R.I.

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.Executives probe Chlristian ways of firing terminated or laid-off employee is CHICAGO (CNS) - Are there Managers must also balance obliminimized, especially in terms of gations to workers with obligaChristian ways to fire an employee? unemployment insurance, pensions tions to owners, stockholders, cus"On the Firing Line," a 44-page booklet written by a group of and health insurance." 路tomers and the community, it says, Among other basics of justice and those obligations may at times Chicago-area Catholic business and and dignity, it says, are honesty in force a company to terminate some professional managers, says there telling an employee the reasons for workers in order to stay in busiare - and that most ethical choices are often good business as well.' termination and the reasonable ness and earn a fair profit. chances of being rehired, sufficient "One of the most difficult issues The booklet proposes a variety for any manager to face is the advance notice oftermination,and of creative ways, with examples question of terminations and lay- . informing the employee person- drawn' from the Chicago execually, usually by his immediate superoffs of workers," the booklet says. tives' experiences in their own comvisor or manager.

"Our Christian faith holds us to a panies, to avoid layoffs or to lessen "The 'pink slip' in a final pay high standard on this issue and our . the economic and psychological employees have a right to certain envelope has no place in the Chris- impact of a layoff. . tian businessperson's philosophy. expectations of us as employers It also analyzes those methods who have been challenged by Cath- It matters greatly how people are told about their being let go, what in terms of strengths and weakolic social teaching." help they are offered and how nesses, however, and describes dif"On the Firing Line" analyzes: ferent circumstances in which a - Alternatives to layoffs or much notice they are given," bookparticular solution would not work let says. . terminations and the practical and "Part of our vocation as busi- and might even be counterproducethical pros and cons of various ness managers is the effort to pre- tive. choices. or ameliorate the negative vent The executives' group described - The variety of reasons for layoffs and firings and how they effects of terminations and layoffs "On the Firing. Line" as the "first affect practical and ethical stand- as much as is humanly po搂Sible," it in a series of position papers" that says. it plans to reproduce fo contribute ards that may come into play.路 to Catholic and interfaith dialogue - Thejustice standards and often on the implications of Catholic conflicting obligations of business social teachings in the marketthat are involved in such decisions. place.

- Programs and processes availContinued from Page One able to lessen the impact of firings or layoffs when they are necessary. tribution cards and solicitors have - Procedures not only to assure received contact lists. Returns the rights of fired or laid-off should be made to parishes on workers but to maintain their Sunday. Parishl~s and area centers NEW YORK (CNS) - Covedignity. will be contacted for their reports nant House has cut its budget by $10 million for the next fiscal year.

Business Executives for Econ- on Sunday evening.

The action by the agency's board omic Justice, the group that wrote Parishes will continue to call on the booklet, is a project of the members until the closing of the of directors reduces the budget Chicago-based National Center for Appeal on Friday, May 25. Spe- from $85 million to $75 million.

It was a response to projected the Laity. It was started as a cial Gift contributions may also be income and expenses through June response to the U.S. _bishops' made until that date. ,1991. Areas to be cut have not national pastoral letter "Economic This year a special feature will been determined.

Justice for All." be added to the Appeal by confirContribution levels to Covenant The booklet defends immediate, summary firing of employees "for mation candidates at St. John of House have been threatened since God parish, Somerset, whose pas- allegations surfaced about sexual such reasons as gross theft or tor, Father Daniel L. Freitas, is misconduct and financial improsabotage." succeeding Msgr. Gomes as CCA priety by Franciscan Father Bruce In most other circumstances director.

Ritter, Covenant House founder. such as cyclical layoffs, workforce The agency shelters more than At lOa. m. tomorrow the youngreductions for economic reasons, plant closings or dismissals for sters and their teachers will step 25,000 homeless and runaway lack of performance - it says that off from St. John of God for a youths each year. A Covenant House announcement said efforts "as a matter of simple justice" walkathon whose proceeds will employers must ensure that "the benefit, what else, the 1990 Catholic will be made to protect operations of core programs. financial burden placed on the Charities Appeal.

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Bishop denounces Medjugorje events ROME (CNS) - A Yugoslavian bishop, in a pamphlet intended. for international distribution, has denounced the alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje as.a fraud that will bring "disgrace and scandal upon the church."

Bishop Pavao Zanic of MostarDuvno, whose diocese includes Medjugorje, said he was going on the offensive to counter what he called "disproportionate propaganda" and misinformation spread by supporters of the alleged visions.

Bishop Zanic spoke in an interview in Rome after presenting Vatican doctrinal officials with copies of his 16-page tract, "The Truth About Medjugorje." He also sent a copy of the booklet to Pope John Paul II, he said.

"After this publication is read, . no one - and especially no church official - will be able to sustain that these events are supernatural," Bishop Zanic said in the interview.

The church has not ruled on the authenticity of the appariti~ns, which began in 1981 and are said to continue today. A Yugoslavian church commission is investigating the events, and meanwhile the country's bishops have asked that no official pilgrimages be made to the site. However, Medjugorje

continue's to draw pilgrims from around the world.

Bishop Zanic: is a longtime critic of the purported events at Medjugorje and of the Franciscans who run the parish there. His booklet, has been tram;lated into several languages, including English.

In it,the bishop states that after six local child.ren first reported that Mary appeared to them and spoke with them, he and other church officials caught them in lies or contradictions on several occasions.

He describes episodes to back up his accusation that the seers have been manipulated by Medjugorje Franciscans in "their battle against the bishop." The bishop's account focuses on Mary's supposed defense of two local Franciscans who were expelled from their order and suspended from their ministry.

The bishop says "disobe9ience prevails" among the Franciscans in the region, so much so that in 1989 the Franciscan headquarters in Rome threatened to close down the Yugoslavian province. A Franciscan official in Rome confirmed that such a letter. had been sent to the province.

Bishop Zanic dismisses claimed healings at Medjugorje, saying not

one has been verified by competent experts.

He says Medjugorje leaders have "fabricated miracles regarding the suit," resulting in eye damage to many pilgrims, and ri!iicules the belief that ordinary rosary links have turned to gold in Medjugorje.

Bishop Zanic says his warnings have been ignored by other Catholic leaders - many Of whom see great spiritual fruits at Medjugorje. But according to the bishop, "that which is positive in these events cannot justify the falsehoods and lies that have been spread in order to win the world over for God." . Bishop Zanic says not one of his 100 diocesan priests supports the apparitions, and that only one of the 42 Yugoslavian bishops has publicly defended them. He notes . that an overwhelming majority of an initial diocesan investigating c'ommission concluded路 that there was nothing supernatural about the events.

In the interview, Bishop Zanic said he hopes the second commission finishes its work soon and issues a judgment. He said, however, that there is great pressure for the investigation to continue; especially since the alleged apparitions are still occurring.

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ST. MARY'S Church, North Attleboro, left; right, 1985 file photo of Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and Father Ralph D. Tetrauh at solemn blessing of the parish center, renovated from the original St. Mary's, below the present church. At rear, Msgr.

John J. Oliveira, master of ceremonies for the occasion.

St. Mary's parish, No'rth Attleboro, marks centennial As well as tiles, noted. Father the area, a time identified with the There's a great day toming for St. Mary's parish, North Attle- Tetrault, centennial mugs and "Know-Nothing" movement, which plates have been available to attempted to prevent the settleboro. Capping a yearlong celebration of the 100th anniversary of parishioners. ment of both Catholics and forthe laying of the cornerstone of eign-born citizens.

The pastor switched from his their original church, members will Great Pumpkin persona to that of However, in spite of hostility, gather at II :30 a.m. May 13 for a Santa Claus for a parish Christthe group in North Attleboro centennial Mass at which Bishop , mas party and the icy blasts of became a mission of St. Mary's Daniel A. Cronin will be principal January were countered with a parish, Pawtucket: and remained celebrant. . pancake breakfast. so, under the pastorate of Father Concelebrating will be Bishop In February it was time for McNamee, until 1856. At that time Louis E. Gelineau of Providence. another costume change and Fa- the mission was taken over by FaHis participation recalls. that in ther Tetrault was a clown for an ther Gillick, pastor in Greenville, 1890 the, present diocese' of F,all in-costume Mardi eras dinner who celebrated the first Ma·ss in River was patt· of the Providence Attleboro in the home of a Mr. dance. diocese. Other concelebrants will On March's agenda was a St. Fallon on upper High Street. include former pastor Father Corn- Patrick's corned beef and cabbage Father Gillick built the first elius J. Keliher, Father Ralph D. supper and yes, another dance. church in A~tleboro. Dedicated Tetrault, present pastor, and many Easter was, heralded with a June 19, 1859, it was located atthe other priests associated with the "Magic of Easter" progra,rn staged "rock" which is now Attleboro parish. All priests who have ever . at North Attleboro's new Emerald Falls. It has since been converted Mall in honor of St. Mary's censerved St. Mary's have been invited into tenement houses. By 1873 the to participate in the liturgy, said tennial. The parish committee aided North Attleboro mission had' Father Tetrault. . with arrangements for a program become much larger than that at Immediately prior to the Mass, includ'ing a magician, a fashion Greenville, and Father Gillick Bishops Cronin and Gelineau will show, jellybeans for kids and gift moved to Attleboro.' The followprocess to the church cornerstone, certificates for adults, with Father ing year he was succeeded by Rev. which they will sprinkle with Easter William T. Babbitt, St. Mary's Edward J. Mongan, who transwater. Easter water will also be parochial vicar, drawing winners' ferred the parish center to North used to sprinkle members of the names.

Attleboro. congregation at the beginning of Tomorrow, social festivities will Old Round House· Mass, making the connection, said be climaxed with a ~emiformal Father Mongan purchased the Father Tetrault, that they are the ball and dinner at King Philip Tifft estate with its existing build"living stones" of the church.

Ballroom in Wrentham. ings-in 1877. The property at that Then it's on to the May 13 A very busy committee planned liturgy and afterwards "we col- time included the "Old Round the yearlong centennial observance, House," a historic site and well lapse," said Father Tetrault. which offered activities for all age known edifice built in 1856 and levels in the 1,250-family parish, used as a rectory until 1959; the Parish History beginning last Mother's Day with St. Mary's history began storm- "Old Octagon," an eight-sided first communion, May crowning building, another landmark in the at a time when neither Catholily, and living rosary ceremonies, folarea, which served for many years ics nor the Irish were popular in lowed the next weekend by a dinner dance.

June brought a children's day, featuring pony rides and free ice cream and balloons; and July an all-parish chicken barbecue.

August saw a parish bus trip to McCoy Stadium for a Pawtucket Dynamic parish community is searching for a Red Sox game and September Pastoral Associate. offered a "Banjos, Barbershop and Buffet" program featuring the Masters Theology or related area preferred plus "Parson's Plunkers" and a women's successful comparable experience. Music/Choir barbershop group, "A Classic ministry direction experience desirable.

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Father Tetrault starred as the Starting Salary Negotiable Great Pumpkin at a H'alloween Send resume to: party for "kids of all ages" and November's event was a senior citizens' dinner in the parish center with residents of Madonna Manor Attn: Search Committee health care facility as honored guests. Each Manorite received a P.O. Box 368 • Wells, ME 04090 complimentary St. Mary's centennial tile.

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as a church for St. .Mary's parishioners; and the famous "Old Red Barn."

During this period, St. Mary's was the mother church for missions in Attleboro, which became a separate parish in 1883; St. Mary's, Mansfield, separated in 1894; and St. Stephen's, Dodgeville, which became a parish in 1880.

The cornerstone of the new church was laid May 30, 1890, and parishioners attended services in the basement church until the upper edifice was completed and dedicated in 190 I. In the meanwhile, while the church was under construction, several changes took place at St. Mary's. Rev. John Hurley succeeded Father Mongan in 1889. Two years later he died suddenly, and Rev. Charles Burns became pastor for one year.

The next pastor was Rev. John McCarthy, who came to North Attleboro in 190·1 and was faced with the pr~biem of reducing the parish debt for the purchase of the land and building of the church.

He also purchased a parish cemetery and completed the interior of the church, erecting marble altars,

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The next pastor was one whose name seems synonymous with the growth of the church in Attleboro, since he served in that area for decades. Father, later Monsignor..

P.E. McGee came to North Attleboro in 1911 and remained there until his death in 1948.

During this time he built a school, which, after boasting the largest enrollment in the diocese, close to 770 pupils, fell victim to dwindling vocations, closed in 1981 and was sold to a private developer in 1985.

Without the school building, St. Mary's parishioners lacked a facility in which to hold meetings, social events and other activities and a study was undertaken to determine the possibility of remodeling the large.ly unused original St. Mary's Church, on which the present church stands, into a modern parish center.

Architectural plans were accepted in the fall of 1984 and in February 1985 the $600,000 renovation project began, successfully climaxed on Nov. 3, 1985, when Bishop Cronin solemnly blessed the center.

May 13 will mark another milestone, as Fathers Tetrault and Babbitt lead their flock into the second century of parish life.

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Charity Makes the Difference This is the weekend: Thousands of volunt'eers will travel door to door for Catholic Charities. In our diocese with our large Catholic population, this canvassing is a tremendous undertaking. The key to its success is our III parishes. . Indeed, the Catholic Charities Appeal will succeed in relation to the organization and coordination ofthe parishes. That is the reality of this most important and necessary fundraising project. If a parish fails to respond due to lack of structure, vision or goals, such a weak link becomes a negative burden rather than a positive force. The real heart of Catholic Charities is the parish foundation: which comprises, of course, the Catholic community.

Certainly the donations of the business community are appreciated. They witness to the fact that Catholic Charities serves all, regardless of creed or ethnic origin. Yet the broad base of Appeal support comes from the parishioners.

This year morethan ever, this support is needed. The reasons should be obvious: more and more people are dependent on the private sector for basic necessities; the drastic cutbacks in government-supported social services have created a climate of crisis in areas of human need, nowhere more than in our own commonweaJth. Inevitably, church agencies have been called upon to stretch their already strained resources to alleviate ever-worsening emergency situations. It is really ironic that in Massachusetts, so dedicated to strict separation of church and state, it is the churches that are stepping in where the government is either unwilling or incapable of caring for the needy and dependent; this despite the longstanding refusal of the state to extend any sort of aid to parochial schools.

The difference of attitude stems from practice of the virtue of charity. You can say all you like that people should give' for the benefit of'others out of a sense of justice. The fact is that most churchgoers give from their hearts. This is true giving.

Without heart, a donation is impersonal.

The Appeal speaks to the heart, not a pusillanimou~ heart but one of courage and fortitude, one determined to do what is right and moral.

It's on this basis that we ask support ofthe Appeal this year, this Sunday. The times are hard, the needs enormous, the demands overwhelming. . .

In our charity we should do our very best. The offering adequate 10 years ago cannot balance the books today. In the face of this reality each one should try, if means allow, to increase his or her gift. A 10 percent increase in each donation would mean that the diocese would not suffer curtailed programs and reduced services.

When we give this weekend, let's do it as a Gospel people, putting the Good News into practice by the witness of our generosity.

Paul put the matter well in his first letter to his friend Timothy when he wrote: "Now the end of the commandment is charity from a pure heart, a good conscience and a confirmed faith."

The Editor Letters Welcome .Letters to the editor are welcomed. All letters shoulc'lbe brief and the editor reserves the right to condense any I.etters if deemed necessary. All letters must be signed and contain a home or business address.

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"Remember poverty in the time of abundance and the necessities of poverty in the day of ri.ches." Ecclus. 18:25

Importance of geopolitics

By Father Kevin J. Harrington Some' recent statistics disturb me. A recent survey indicated that only one world-affairs news story ranked in the top 10 in a poll measuring public interest in major news stories from 1986 to 1990.

That major story was the tumbling of the Berlin Wall which ranked 29 on the list with 50% of 1,235 adults polled indicating that they followed the event very closely.

The Berlin Wall story fell well behind interest in the rescue of Jessica McClure from a Texas well which claimed the interest of 69 percent ofthose,polled. It was also behind stories such as the jet crash at Sioux City, 10,wa and the Supreme Court ruling on flag burning.

Americans are much more preoccupied with news stories close to home than are other nations. The trouble with this strong isolationist streak is that in today's world there are no fara way places except possibly in the minds and hearts of American followers of the news.

Our schools have not given our youngsters a geopolitical interest in world events.

Geography and world history have consistently been neglected in our curriculums, with the predictable result of widespread indifference to world affairs.

One cannot underestimate the damage that sound bite knowledge inflicts on an electorate in a democracy. The transformation of Central and Eastern Europe in the past year deserves more interest than most Americans are willing to give it.

Dissident playwright and recently inaugurated Czechoslovakian President Vaclav Havel delivered an important speech to a joint meeting of Congress on Feb. 21.

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astically received by Congress, it was not a media hit because, unlike our politicians, Havel was not schooled in sound bite rhetoric.

H is overriding themes were responsibility and morality, two key pillars of democracy which have fallen into dl~cay under the deleterious influenl:e of politicians who cater to special interest groups.

Little wonder that while our politicians chant of rights and choice, those who speak words of conviction return to basic values.

Havel's words to the Congress are worth hearing and heeding: "We too can offeJr something to you: our experience and the knowledge that has come from it.

It has given me one certainty: consciousness precedes being, and not the other way around, as the' Marxist claims. For this reason, the salvation of thiis human world lies nowhere else th,an in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and i'n human responsibility."

Can you imagine Dan Rather beginning his.news coverage exclaim-

praye~BOX For the Persecuted Heavenly Father, grant that those who IIIndergo persecution for their faith in Jesus remain faithful and steadfast in th~~ir sufferings for his sake :md be witnesse~ of love and sacrifice in imitation of your son, through whom we ask this.

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ing: "Havel exhorts Congress that consciousness precedes being" or to see that sentence as a headline in USA Today? Consciousness does indeed precede being, which accounts for the fact that religious ideas and impulses are inseparable from the modern story of human freedom. .

In our own history we have seen the role of religious ideas in the American Revolution, the Civil War, and our own civil rights movement. We can learn from our own history as well as from the more recent story of freedom in Central and Eastern Europe ofthe important part of religion in promoting freedom.

In Poland in 1980, the Catholic Church supported the dissenting voice of Solidarity. Most of the opposition to East German communism came from the "confessing churches" rooted in the ideas of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth, hoth of whom felt acutely the need for Germany to repent for Nazism, In Romania, the courage to face the bullets in Timisoara came from an obscure Hungarian minister named Laszlo Tokes who said: "Dictators are filled with fear of people with faith and' conviction and opposite attitudes." The West can learn much from the Eastern bloc about the transforming power of people with religious conviction to enact necessary reforms.

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Q. My wife and I are older Cath· lies. We recently visited another part of the country and read a folder about plenary indulgences gained by visitors to a local old cathedral.

We have been active Catholics all our lives, but have a question about indulgences. What is the present church teaching on this subject, the "treasury of the church," and so on?

If this practice is still officially encouraged, is there available any compendium or reference that lists church practices that are "indulgenced"? We don't seem to hear much about this anymore.

(California) A. The two sources for Catholic teaching about indulgences today are the Apostolic Constitution on Indulgences ("Indulgentiarum Doctrine") of Pope Paul VI (lD, 1967) and the Enchiridion (Compendium) of Indulgences published by the Vatican (-EI, 1968).

Traditional -teaching about indulgences is founded on two basic' Christian truths. First, every sin is not only a disobedience of God's law; it is a violation of the order established by God and a rejection of his love.

Second, as Pope Paul pointed out in the Apostolic Constitution on Indulgences in which he called for reform of the whole indulgence structure, the early church community "was fully convinced that it was pursuing the work of salvation in community." .

Our doctrine of the Communion of Saints teaches that all children of God in Christ, whether in this life or in eternity, are linked in the Mystical Body of Christ.

Thus, says the holy father, the church "undertook various ways of applying the fruits of our Lord's redemption to the individual faithful, and of leading them to cooperate in the salvation of their brothers, so the entire body of the church might be prepared" for the fullness of God's kingdom (N 0.6).

The remission of temporal punishment for sins already forgiven through prayer, fasting and good works, has been called indulgence for hundreds of years, though the principles of faith go back to the beginning of Christianity.

A few things are worth keeping in mind.

I. The number of formally indulgenced prayers and works in the "Enchiridion" is reduced drastically, placing much more emphasis on living faithfully our daily life as Christians. The main concern, it says, "has been to attach greater importance to a Christian way of life and lead souls to cultivate a spirit of prayer and penance and to practice the virtues of faith, hope and charity, rather than merely repeating certain formulas and acts."

2. Partial indulgences are granted using only those words, with no determination of days or years as was common previously. This is among other things to avoid confusion. Contrary to what many Catholics believe, an indulgence of one year, for example, did not mean one year "off of Purgatory."

3. Plenary (full) indulgences can be gained only once a day with proper conditions fulfilled.

4. The church takes great pains today to keep the understanding of indulgences in harmony with the Gospel and with the teachings of Vatican Council II.

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MEMBERS OF the Massachusetts Citizens for Life group from Fall River and New Bedford join early arrivals at the rally site, left; at right,

26-month-old Stephen Vinci takes a well-deserved break from the day's activi, ties. (Hickey photos)

Rally for Life: "We're here for the babies" Continued from Page One crowd was a loving, caring The Washington-based National' group .. .It was remarkable to see Right to Life Committee, sponsor such a commitment to family of the rally, sai<lafter the event values." that the 569,000 crowd count calHe said the mood among the culated by news media stationed at interfaith group from the Cape the top of the Washington Monwas "very positive. uml<.nt was probably a better "It was a wonderful experience. attendance estimate than that of They felt a real joy in being able to the park police mobile command go and being able to witness for, post. life."

During the rally itself, Dr. John Boyle said that there was "a new WilIke, National Right to Life sense of commitment" among those president, suggested that the crowd who attended the rally. " reached 700,000.

"I know they're going to work Speakers including President fervently to project a pro-life image George Bush, Vice President Dan' from now on," he said.

Quayle, other politicians and such Among the Fall River-New: religious leaders as New York Bedford group there was also a Cardinal John J. O'Connor de- , sense of accomplishment as wearnounced abortion and urged conied participants returned to their tinued efforts against it. bus about 4 p.m. for the long ride Among the many thou'sands who home. gathered around the Washington "The important thing was that Monument for the day's activities we were there and that we were. were 46 diocesans from the Fall counted," said Madeleine Lavoie' River-New Bedford area, includof Westport. ing this reporter, and 85 from . "I fe'lt very heartened after Cape Cod. Buses left the Fall going," said Mrs. Vinci, who River diocese about \0:45p.m. Friday, attended with her husband and arriving ,at the rally site at 9:30 . their three children. a.m. Saturday. ' . "I was really glad to see such a Despite the grueling bus ride, cross-section of religions and ages. ' members of the diocesan delegaWe talked to people from Delation, sponsored by Massachusetts 'ware; Michigan,. Oregon, even Citizens for Life, were thrilled with Guam and Puerto Rico. We were the rallv turnout and most said impressed that people were dedithey wo~ld take another such trip. cated enough to travel that ,far," The rally "was definitely what 1 she said. expected, andmor~," said John Mrs. Vinci said 'she thought it Boyle, an organizer for the Cape was important for her children to , " Cod group. ,be' well-informed abo~t tlie' abor"There was an overwhelming ,tion issue. sense that America is pro~life. That' Her da~ghter was previously was more of a confirmation than路a reluctant to talk about the subject, shoc)(," he said. ',' . she said, but now that the family , Many diocesan participants has attended the rally, "she really cJ>rnmented that they wer,e im~, knows what it's about. Now she, pressed not only by the enormity knows why we've taken a stand of the crowd but by the pervasive . this issue. Now she'll talk about s,ense of unity and peacefulness. it." . , "Everyone was couneous. Ev:e,Those who attended were disryone was friendly and orderly," appointed a~ !he attendance figure said Janice Vinci of St. Mary's reported by many of the media: parislt, Fairhaven.

"200,000 is a disservice to all' c'''I, was overwhelmed 路and en- those who made the trek from vare couraged by the presence of so ious parts oft he country," said Fa-' many young people - high school' ther Clark. "It is an injustice on the and college age' and young cou- part of the news media to leave out ples," said Father Stephen A. Fer- about 400,000 people." nandes, parochial vicar at St. Also, the secular media "still James Church, New Bedford. insists on calling us anti-abortion"Any stereotype about the nature ists," said Father Fernandes. of people who are involved in "Throughout the rally I never heard [pro-life] is shattered" by the rally any other term but pro-life. It was crowd, he said. "It was a complete a rally for life, not againsi aborcross-section. 1 found it very en- tion." lightening and v~ry heartwarming."

Dee Piazza, also of the New Father James W. Clark, pastor Bedford area, who also attended of St. John Evangelist parish, January's March for Life, said last Pocasset, called the rally, "One of Saturday's crowd, topped it by a the finest spiritual events that I large, amount. have ever been a part of. The "It was overwhelming," she said.

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Rally Scene One rally goal was to display pro-life strength and counter an April 1989 abortion rights demonstration that drew an estimated 300,000 participants to Washington.

"Today is testimony that ours are greater [numbers] than theirs," Dr. Willke said, noting that the rally drew three times as many buses as the pro-choice demonstration.

"Hey, it's great to be here," he told the crowd. "We guess we have in the neighborhood of 700,000 people. This is an absolutely magnificent turnout." He noted that different approaches exist in the pro-life movement but added that "I applaud our unity in diversity.

We've come together here to [show] our unity."

The crowd grew steadily throughout a pre-rally program, which ,began at 9 a.m. and offered presentations by such organizations as American Victims of Abortion, teen and college pro-life groups and musical groups.

Despite the serious nature of the topic, the grounds around the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and White House took on a festive picnic air. One New Bedford participant noted that from a distance the crowd looked like "brightly colored confetti."

By the time the rally program began at 2 p.m., virtually every inch of space around the Washington Monument was filled, and crowds were still coming, streaming from the Washington Metro system carrying lawn chairs, blankets, coolers and signs with such message!, as "Stop Abo~tion Now!", "Pro-life~Where, Would You Be Without itT', "Equal Rights, for Unborn路 Women" and "We save fish ... birds .. elephants ... seals... whales... but we kill babies!"

A baQner across the ,rally' stage read "Abortion stops a beating heart."

Many participants wore official rally T-shirts or others reading "Respect Life" or declaring th~t the wearer opposed abortion "as a former fetus."

Soaring temperatures prompted , admonitions from rally organizers to avoid 'dehydration-a difficult task for those who waited in line up to two hours for soft drinks.

Red Cross workers were on hand for those with heat-connected problems and a few ralliers found relief in the waters of the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial.

Rally Speakers The crowd was on its feet at the introduction of the rally's first

speaker, Vice President Dan Quayle, who called the pro-life movement "the humanitarian movement o(our time."

"This day can begin the healing of a terrible wrong," the vice president said.

Quayle, speakilOg from the podium, also cited the "tremendous turnout today - in the hundreds of thousands. This, my friends, is a day of both celebration and protest, a day Of great, ' sadness overcome by an even greater hope." , "Will the Americ:an people continue to accept the notion that an unborn child is disposable?" he asked. "Our answer is: not in this country, not now and not ever."

Speaking by telephone hookup from the White House, President Bush referred to his similar address to the Jan. 22 March for Life, commemorating the anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.

"And I said then and I reaffirm now that your presence on the mall today reminds all of us in government that Americans from all walks of life are committed to preserving the sanctity and dignity of human life," the president said.

He also noted that the rally "looks very, very good on ti:Ievision."

In his remarks Cardinal O'Connor defended the National Conference of Catholk Bishops' decision to promote the pro-life cause as a top priorityofthe, U.S, ,church.

The NCeB recently announced it was hiring a major public relations firm to cond uct a $3 million to $5 million campaign against abortion. Cardinal O'Connor, chairs the NCCB CQmmittee on Pro-Life Activities.

"It is a remarkable thing,",said the cardinal, "that if the bishops of the United States committed. themselves to raise funds-milllclDs or hundreds of millions - in the very justifiable causes of hunger, of destroying apartheid, of ridl,ling us of the national scandal of homeless riess, of forever wiping out racism and sexism... they would be applauded to high heaven.

"It is only when the bishops address the SUbjl~Ct of abortion that they are subject to criticism, to slander, to every kind of accusation," he added. ':But the bishops will not back down." . The cardinal said that in 1984 he offered numerous services of the archdiocese of New York free of charge to women with problem pregnancies. Other bishops have undertaken the same kind of charitable efforts, he said, repudiating "the constant charge that we care

nothing about women, nothing about children after they are born, nothing about hunger, nothing about homelessness. That is a false charge. It will not hold up."

Yet, despite his repetition of his offer to pregnant women, "I personally have never seen one reference in the secular press anywhere about what 1 have said," the cardinal added.

He wasn't alone in taking potshots at the news' media. Some members ofthe crowd vehemently yelled at reporters - fenced inside a press section '- to "tell the truth."

Mass for Life The day climaxed with a Mass celebrated by'Cardinal O'Connor at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

A shrine spokesman said close to 6,000 attended the Mass at the nation's largest Catholic church.

During his homily, Cardinal O'Connor urged against divisiveness within the pro-life movement and quoted Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, who, when accepting the Nobel Prize, said, "There can be no peace in the world as long as there is abortion."

Cardinal O'Connor told the asserttbly, "You humble us" bishops with "so much sacrifice."

Yet despite persistent efforts, he said, success has come at a slow pace: "Babies are still dying at the same horrifying rates every day," he said.

"You get ridiculed, you get criticized. You are frequently looked at as crazies: 'those mad prolifers/" he said.

"The cross gets heavy. God knows, the cross gets heavy, You know it. I know it. But: it's still Christ's cross'." ;

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Unsuitable lyrics Dear Editor: Recent news releases should have important impact on the quest of decent people for minimum standards of public decency.

We refer to the decision of the record companies to label their records and videotapes as "potentially offensive" or "unsuitable lyrics" as the occasion demands. This' decision climaxes a crusade of several years by Mrs. Tippy Gore, wife ofthe Tennessee senator, who has been battling the vultures of the record industries to "clean up their acts" by purifying the words on a lot of records sold to the impressionable young.

It is to be noted that these companies' aim is not to help the public but to discourage the states that have no laws on the subject from enacting statutes that might be more stringent.

We urge our friends to be alert for a continuance of the "dirty" lyrics which have caused the action by the record producers. Most records up to this point have been in violation of state and federal laws!

Thomas A. Walsh Board Member Morality in Media of Mass.

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A response Dear Editor: I would like to respond to Carl Sagan's article in Parade Magazine of April 22: .

One very important thing missing from this extremely pro-choice article is that Carl Sagan classes all life as animal. He does not separate human from animal life. We are human beings with a body and soul made in the image and likeness of God. We are not just animals like cows, chickens or sheep -although sometimes we· follow along like sheep, led down the garden path by eleoquent and extremely pro-choice media.

Even Carl Sagan states that a sperm and an unfertilized egg, though living cells, cannot by themselves produce a baby. However, when the sperm fertilizes the egg, a complete genetic pattern for a human being is created. True, thousands of fertilized eggs are spontaneously miscarried and will not become babies, but they are not destroyed purposely by men or women for their own selfish reasons.

The fertilized egg that remains in the womb becomes an entirely new person from the moment of fertilization. It is a tiny human being made by God's design and it is not mine, yours or Carl Sagan's to destroy for convenience or any other reason.

Carl Sagan is a very compelling writer and speaker but you and I will not be called before Carl Sagan on Judgment Day, but before God Almighty to answer for our actions.

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HOLY UNION Sisters Eugenia Margaret Ready, Margaret Higgins, Lillian Mignault and Laurette DeChamplain, from left, celebrate their golden jubilees in religious life.

Sisters mark jubilees Four Holy Union Sisters were feted recently at the Fall River provincial house of their community as they celebrated a combined ministry of 200 years to the people of God in the church and in the community.

Sisters Laurette DeChamplain, Margaret Higgins, Lillian Mignault and Eugenia Margaret Ready met to recall their 50-year commitment as Religious of the Holy Union.

They remembered years of teaching in grammar schools, high schools and colleges, the many studepts to whom they gave religious instruction; their service within the congregation as novice mistress, junior mistress, provincial and councilor; trips to Europe to participate in congregational meetings, to translate and to attend renewal programs in Rome; to Africa to teach English; to professional and religious conferences throughout the United States.

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Sisters Laurette and Eugenia Margaret teach French and English respectively at Coyle-Cassidy High School in Taunton. Sister' Eugenia Margaret is also the school' librarian. Sister Margare? Higgins is vice-principal ofSt. Clare's High School in Rosindale. Sister Lillian is retired and living at Prospect Place in Fall River.

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D of I members meet in Bass River With the theme "My Peace Be with You," the Massachusetts State Circle, Daughters of Isabella, held its annual meeting last month in Bass River. Delegates and members from all Massachusetts dioceses were in attendance.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin was represented at the weekend gathering by Msgr. John J. Smith, Cape and.lslands Episcopal Vicar, who spoke at the closing banquet.

State Regent Mrs. Lillian Reilly SS.Ce., in residence, St. Francis Xavier, Acushnet May 6 1905, Rev. Thomas P. Elliott, Founder, St. Mary, Mansfield 1980, Rev. Asdrubal Castelo Branco, Retired Pastor, Immaculate Conception, New Bedford

of North Attleboro presided, assisted by Rev. James' Lanergan, state chaplain.

Invited guests from the Fall River diocese included Miss Dorothy Curry, past president of the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and a member of Daughters of Isabella Hyacinth Circle No. 71 of New Bedford; and Father Justin J. Quinn, chaplain of Benedict Circle No. 61 of Nol'th Attleboro.

Mrs. Cecile Weaver and Mrs. . Eileen Marshall of New Bedford were cochairmen of the hostess committee, aided by regents and circle members of the Fall River diocese.

Among convention feat~res were a pro:-life baby shower and a craft table featuring items made by members of all circles in the state.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) - Sur- partment (of Health and Human geon General Antonia Coello No- Services) has a moratorium, and I vello said she supports "explicit" believe in that moratorium," she Now, the schools charge tuition WASHINGTON (CNS) public information to fight AIDS, said. and have mainly lay faculties, Sis- opposes abortion and believes she Financing Catholic schools and With-expertise as a Georgetown ter Sheehan added. improving the salaries of their must take "the pulse ofthe people" University professor and a physieducators are top priorities, said cian specializingin pediatric AI DS, Declining enrollments, high costs on health issues.

She commented at a recent ,Mrs. Novello is the first female Mercy Sister Lourdes Sheehan, for the asbestos removal in schools, Washington press breakfast. the U.S. Catholic Conference's new decreases in parish subsidies and and Hispanic to :,erve as surgeon education secretary.

"In the absence of a vaccine, one general, the U.S. citizens' top docthe maintenance of Catholic Making education a priority schools in areas with few Catholics of the [accepted] forms of preven- tor. In addition to her concerns among U.S. bishops is another are compounding financing prob- tion is use of a condom" to prevent about AIDS, she :,aid highlighting item high on her agenda, Sister lems for dioceses, she said. spread of AIDS, she said. Utiliza- the health problems of women will Sheehan recently told Catholic The new secretary noted that tion of a condom can also help be one of Iier high priorities.

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The surgeon general said her while she personally could not control spread of other sexually J, "Academically, we know our views on abortion arise not so raise the salaries of Catholic edu- transmitted diseases, she said.

However the public needs in- much from growing up in heavily schools are in great shape and we cators, she hopes to attract attenhave done a lot of work in the past formation on such means of dis- Catholic Puerto Rico but from her tion to the issue and try to come up with maintaining a Catholic idenease prevention, she added. own deep feelings. Born with "a tity in our schools," she said. "Those with extra fringe benefits. For,.

One of the surgeon general's congenital defect," she said she aspects are very important, but the example, she said teachers might assistants, Jim Brown, director of came to believe that '!everyone has issue to address now is the financ-' be offered 'a tui~ion break for the news division for the Public to have a chance to live." themselves and family members if ing of Catholic schools."

Health Service's Office of ComA Health and Human Services Sister Sheehan said finances are they attend a Catholic college. munications, said the government spokeswoman said later that Mrs. On her legislative agenda, Sister is preparing a brochure on路 con- Novello had suffered from birth a problem because Catholic schools doms and disease prevention. The are in transition. For many years Sheehan said promoting parental soon-to-be-published pamphlet is they didn't charge tuition and were choice and obtaining federal funds operated by priests and nuns whQ for removal of asbestos from Cath- detailed, and "there are pictures," olic schools are priorities. receiv~d paltry salaries, she said.

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Mrs. Novello defended use of explicit materials.

"I think you have to be explicit with sensibility and sensitivity," she said. Community sentiments should be taken into considera. tion, and in providing such information, "do it in a very sensitive and sensible way," she said.

Discussing legal abortion, she said that she "would only accept it when the mother's life is in danger Durfee Falmouth and in rape and incest" cases and Attleboro~ National~ supports the Bush administration's abortion policies.

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She promised, like her predecessor, Dr. C. Everett Koop, to use the post of surgeon general in protecting the health of thy nation and to speak out on controversial topics when necessary. " -"I see the surgeon general as the voice of the people," she said, defining her job as taking "the pulse of the people."

Women's health issues she would like to address include breast cancer, lung cancer - growing to deadly proportions among women - and such problems as "abuse of women ... shelter for women."

Coming from medical involvement in treating children with AIDS, now "I'm here for all the patients with AIDS," she said.

She cited in particular the need to provide them with respect. Many AIDS victims, she said, are "just waiting to have some dignity and be recognized. Now that I am in this position can I not take a stand for all the people with AIDS?" she asked.

In dealing with controversial health subjects, such as AIDS prevention, Koop "set the tone so I don't have to" break the ground, she said.

"Some people say the office of surgeon路general should be used as a pulpit," she said. "I guess it depends on the issue. And the issues are out there. They'll be coming."

Her role, she reiterated, "is to speak out. If that means some people will not be happy, that means there'll be another part of the population who will be grateful."

"This is where God wants me. "

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PE M BROKE PINES, Fla. Father Eivers said thatthe cells, (CNS) - For churches to accom- through their evangelization asplish great things, sometimes it's pect, have helped his parish grow necessary for them to think small. at the "rate of a family per day" This "secret" is the key to the over the last thret: or four years. growth of St. Boniface Church in Prayer leaders convene the Pembroke Pines, which realizes groups for an hour and a half the power of small prayer groups. every other week and guide memSo successful is their parish cell bel'S through a time of prayer, perprogram that it has become an sonal sharing and study. intt:rnational pastoral model.

At the heart of I~ach meeting is a The parish's' fourth workshop 15-minute teaching by Father Eion "'Small Ecclesial Communities" vel'S, available eith.er on audiocasrecently attracted 130 pastors and sette or videocassette. parish leaders from eight countries Inquiries abollt the program and 17 states. pour into the parish each week, "I see the cells [prayer groups] most recently from Japan, India as hospices ofsupport," said Father and West Africa. Pastors who have Michael Eivers, St. Boniface pas- attended previous workshops have tor, to participants in the five-day introduced the St. Boniface sysworkshop. tern into places BIS distant as the "We're all hurting and we're all Fiji Islands and New Zealand. looking for healing," he said. "You Father Pigi Perini, pastor of St. can't get that healing ifthe group is Eustorgio in Millan, Italy, wontoo big and too anonymous. Where dered why his "faithful few" concan you get it? You g~t it in small tinued to dwindle:. He became ingroups." terested in St. Boniface.

Ironically the concept of small "Our pastor came here in '87," prayer group~ was developed by Lucio Sanfelice, a cell leader from the Protestant pastor of the largest St. Eustorgio, told The Voice, local congregation in the world. newspaper of the:' archdiocese of He is the Rev. Paul Yonggi Cho Miami, during the recent workof Seoul, South' Korea, whose ' shop. , 600,000-member church is an off"After that, he: discovered his shoot of the Assembly of God, mission," Sanfelilce said. "It was according to Father Eivers. really a conversion. Now we have Father Eivers artd路 permanent 34 cells with approximately 400 deacon Perry Vitale studied and people in them." adapted Mr. Cho's methods, intro"Every Sunday we have new duc:ing them into St. Boniface in people coming to the church," he 1980. 'said.

Today more than 500 persons St. Eustorgio will host its own are involved in 53 cells at the workshop in June for the whole of parish. ' .. Europe.

That pleases Father Eivers and Vitale, who see the spread of their parish cell system as a goal in itself. The prayer groups originally were designed as "doors of entry" for alienated Catholics and the unchurched.

Besides prayer cells, the parish offers other outreach programs, including a family religious education program, a preschool, a book store and information booth and distribution of a booklet about the parish and its ministries.

The parish has also adopted the "Good News" program of the Miami archdiocese, which sees parishioners knocking on neighborhood doors and inviting lapsed Catholics to attend services.

"The small group movement," 'Father Eivers said, "is now the wave of the Holy Spirit over the whole world."

Further information on the parish cell system is available from St. Boniface parish, 8330 Johnson St., Pembroke Pines, Fla., 33024; phone (305) 437-3215.

To 'head)~lYJesuits NEW YORK (CNS) - Jesuit Father Joseph P. Parkes has been appointed provincial of his order's New York Province, starting Oct. 19, and succeeding Fat~er ~oseph A. Novak, provincial since 1984.

Father Parkes, 45, has most recently chaired the editorial board of the Catholic Book Club, a subdivision Of America Press.

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Rager Millette: called to be Brother By_Marcie Hickey with Catholic News Service reports Brother Roger Millette, FIC, superior of his community's Fall River residence and associate principal at Bishop Connolly High School, also in Fall River, has seen many changes since he entered the Brothers of Christian Instruction in 1938.

But in an era that has seen vocations diminish and many who thought themselves called to religious life "turn back and walk no more with Him," Brother Millette has remained steadfast in his commitment.

As with any vocation, he said, the brotherhood "is a calling. Some people are called to a trade, to married life, to religious life....

Sometimes they are influenced by people or events. But really it has to be God who does the actual calling."

His own service, over 30 years of it in the city of Fall River, was recognized last month when hundreds of colleagues. friends and former students gathered at a banqu'et at which he was named Franco-American of the Year by the Franco-American Civic League of Fall River. .

As the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. observed this Sunday, neared. he shared a backward look at his Qwn career and at the vocation of brotherhood.

He noted that like most U.S. religious congregations, the Brothers of Christian Instruction have had a decline in new membership. As a result, said the native

of Biddeford, Maine, the como, Formation programs have shiftmunity has undergone changes as ed focus since candidates typically recruiters seek to meet the needs of have much of the required educatoday's potential candidates, many tion. The emphasis now is more on with delaye!J vocations. adjustment to the community life "In my day they did recruiting of a religious congregation. Brother very young," he said, recounting Millette noted that some prenovithat he started on the road to tiate programs allow a candidate brotherhood at age 12 when his to live with the brothers while sixth-grade teacher at a Biddeford supporting himself with an outside school staffed by the Brothers of job. Those interested in remaining Christian Instruction asked him if with the community enter a sixhe would like to sample life at the month postulancy. then spend a community'S juniorate in Alfred, year in the novitiate.

Maine, for the summer.

A one-year novitiate is now the Once in Alfred, Brother Millette .general rule for the Brothers of remained at thejuniorate until age Christian Instruction. he continued.

16, then continued as a postulant, During this time the candidate novice and scholastic until he took takes courses in theology and Bible perpetual vows. study and studies the history ofthe Today, men of all ages are con- congregation. The rest. he said, "is sidering vocations to the brother- private study, readings, prayer and hood, he said, noting that two cur- conferences." rent candidates are ages 28 and 64 res pectively.

The Brothers of Christian I nstruction in Fall River have established a contact program through which interested persons can make inquiries about the congregation. Brother Joseph Wiseman, who coordinates recruitment in the area, is currently in contact with about 100 individuals who have expressed interest in the brotherhood.

Many of those now considering the brotherhood are "undecided about their lives or feel something is missing," Brother Millette said.

Most have college degrees and established careers-many in education but "feel that they need BROTHER ROGER MILLETTE something else," he said.

But while candidates and formation methods have changed, the vocation of the communityeducation-has not.

It is a vocation to which Brother Millette has devoted his efforts for more than four decades, with teaching assignments including 10 years at the former Prevost high school and grammar school in Fall River. six of those years as principal. He has been at Bishop Connolly since 1968, teaching French, chemistry, physics and mathematics before becoming associate principal.

During his varied career he has been a band director. bus driver, moderator for many organizations and' a member of the diocesan Divine Worship Commission. He is currently a eucharistic minister at Charlton Memorial Hospital, and a choir member at Note Dame parish. both in Fall River.

A graduate of the former LaMennais College in Alfred, Maine, he also holds a master's degree from Boston College and has done advanced study at Detroit, Notre Dame and Boston universities.

He has received the diocesan Marian Medal for outstanding service to the church and a special award from the Jesuit Education Association. Students at Bishop Connolly dedicated the 1976 and 1984 yearbooks to him.

Religious life, he said, has been a good life, "a peaceful life." But it also requires a great deal of sacrifice, he noted.

"I've got eight brothers and .sisters, and most of them are already grandparents," he said. Giving up

that opportunity is difficult. but he added that his many students have been like children and grandchildren.

He enjoys working with the high school age group and that is what he plans to continue doing.

"It's an interesting period oflife.

I like it, so that's why I'm still here."

Religious life is not for everyone, he continued.

"Not everyone can come to religious life and succeed," he said "There has to be that calling from God, that sense of ' I choose you."

Interestingly, he notes large sources of potential vocations in Africa and South America. where the church, tried by hardship, is vibrantly alive.

"God will provide," is his attitude, shared by Pope John Paul II who in his annual message for Sunday's World Day of Prayer for Vocations, said "on May 6, the entire church will be gathered together in the Lord's name, to beg the master of the harvest for the gift of vocations to the consecrated life. Priests. deacons, men and women religious, laypeople, par-' ish communities, groups, associations and movements will all come together as one to ask the heavenly father to enrich his church with new vocations."

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"The soul of one who serves God always swims jn joy, always keeps holiday and is always in the mood for singing." - St. John of the Cross

CALLED TO BE BROTHER TO BROTHER

SERVICE

LIFESTYLE

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A Brother is a man:

A Brother is called to be:

is to understand

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is to reconcile, unify and heal

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-Gospel Centered -Servant to people in greatest need -Teacher ofadults and children -Nurse to the aged and poor -Missionary .

Poverty--to share all in common and to serve the poor

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Celibacy--to love universally, not to be committed to one person If you feel called~.. contact any of the Congregations listed below

-who lives and prays in community with others Brothen of the Sacred Heart

Brother Joseph WISeman, FIC 555 Eas~ Ave. Fall River, MA 02723 (508) 672-5763

Brother Paul Hebert. SC 685 Steere Fann Rd. Pascoag, RI 02859 (401) 56~3361

Brienza,

Brother Joseph FSC 635 Ocean Rd. Narragansett, RI 02882 (40]) 789-0244

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Obedience--to listen to God's will through prayer, 'other people

Brothers of Christian Instruction

Brothers of Christian Schools

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Holy Cross Brothers Brother Stephen Del!lasio, 2416 LorilIard Place Bronx, NY ] 0458 (212) 584-1389

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He could have been a big time press photographer; .they called him "One Shot Mike." He could have been a modern Friar Tuck; he was that chubby and jolly. He could have been a holy and simple country priest, and that was what he was.

The Rev. Michael Jakobek was a most unlikely-looking man of God. You couldn't miss him at church celebrations. He was the fat priest in the rumpled black raincoat loaded with black andwhite and color cameras, light meters and bags offilm, bulbs and fancy lenses.

In these days of priest shortages, as we consider the Worldwide Day of Prayer for Vocations May 6, it might help to take a look at how this special man made it to the altar of God. "One Shot" is dead now, buried one spring day between his father, EDNA PIER<;:E shares stories with her young friends.

John, and his mother, the former Anna Deppa, in Resurrection cemetery in a St. Paul, MN, suburb.

Interred with him were his rosary and a steady companion, Tyke, his guardian angel.

Catholic Memorial Home, Fall They revealed that their own worst But I'm getting ahead of my River, has been involved for over a fear was that of being alone. tali. When Michael was baptized It was, stressed to the children in St. Cloud, MN, his great aunt, year in an intergenerational program that helps bridge the gap that not all older people need nurs- Mary Kasner, placed a silver dolbetween young and old. Students ing home care butthaf if such a lar in his hand and asked his placement is warranted, older citi- mother to have a Mass said so "litfrom the Wilbur School, Little zens can enjoy a quality existence' tle Mikey" would become a priest.

Compton, RI, have been visiting filled with love. With many people It may have been the last time they their "adopted grandparents" at the Home monthly to share conworking together, .all needs are called him little. versation, fun,parties, and, most met, Mrs. Pierce told her audience.

On his 40th anniversary as a i~portantly, learning experiences.., The students were surprised to . 'priest last June, Father Jakobek In March, to mark National learn, for example, that Home res- : told me how he escaped a spanking when he was five or six. He had Youth Art Month, the students idents go·to physical therapy for created an' at.tractive display for exercises much as the children go Catholic Memorial Homewithdraw- to physical education classes.

And there is never a dull moment, ings themed ....The Coming of Mrs. Pierce told them, because Spring."

Ruth Gruhn, Home activities Miss Gruhn keeps the residents director, and Edna Pierce, presi- busy with projects such as a recent

By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Easter crafts fair. dent of its Resident Council, Dear Dr. Kenny: My mother is The children spoke lovingly of recently visited the school to thank their own grandparents, some also in her mid·80s and is beginning to the students for their involvement.

Both women spoke with first, in nursing homes. One child toJd fail. We live about a mile away. second and eighth graders about about his 94-year-old grandfather, She hils lived alone since my dad's death three years ago. She has 'growing old and living in a nursing whom he loves to visit. been eating her meals with us and The young artists received award home. has done all right until recently. art work and certificates for their "Grandma" Pierce told the Now she is falling and becoming hugs and kisses were shared with children about people who need very forgetful.

I fear that she may Grandma Pierce.

The students help due to the physical and menbreak a bone or forget to do somepresented Easter drawings to their tal changes caused by old age. thing like turning off the stove. visitors for display at the Home.

Seated in a semicircle around Whenever I mention a move, she Mrs. Pierce's wheelchair, the becomes angry and upleasant. She children wanted to know "Can makes it clear that she doesn't you walk?" and" Are you happy?" want any changes. I fear for her safety but I don't know what to do.

Program 'brings kids and elderly together

slipped into his parish church duringa40 Hours devotion and stayed when everyone else left.

His father found him kneeling there and asked him to come home to eat. "I can't," he said. "Somebody has to stay with Jesus." When he was replaced he ran home, he said, and didn't get spanked.

Father Jakobek didri't turn down many other calls to dinner. His parents were stout citizens, and their only child had a weight problem most of his 66 years. Once, as a St. Paul Seminary student, he put away three full dinners at one sitting.

While attending De La Salle, a Christian Brothers high school, he was aided. and encouraged by two savvy newsmen on the Minneapolis dailies, Lou Greene and Frankie Diamond.

Both Jewish, they took a liking to the chubby Catholic kid and gave him photo jobs. Years later, when I joined the papers, I used to hear about "One Shot," who was so poor and so gifted that he used to get the right photo with one flash bulb and one sheet of film.

Greene, a night city editor, used his influence to get Jakobek a scholarship to the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul so the boy could keep taking photos as he prepared to enter the priesthood. .Lou and Frankie have gone too their reward now, too, and what a friend they have in Michael!

"My parents were good people with love and discipline," Father recalled at his jubilee. "I attended two Masses each weekend, one

By BERNARD CASSERLY with mother early in the morning and the other with Dad. as he liked to sleep over on Sunday." Think of that.

Ordained in 1949, he assisted at a city parish for 15 years. Then he became pastor of two parishes for farmers and townspeople west of Minneapolis for a quarter century.

He retired in 1988, disabled by deafness and diabetes.

At these country parishes he became interested in the Marian Movement of Priests (M MP) and angels, .

Father Jakobek preached so often about guard~an angels that friends gave him a marvelous statue of a chubby little angel with curly brown hair. Father called him "Tyke," and the pair never separated.

Tyke waited in a broom closet in the back of church during the wake and funeral. Then, in keeping with his friend's request, the guardian angel shared Father Jakobek's final journey.

Does One Shot Mike's earthly odyssey offer any solutions to the clergy shortage? Well, he had devout parents, a prophetic aunt, two kind Jewish sponsors, many friends, guidance"from the Marian Movement and one' very real guardian angel.

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You are in a difficult situation which is becoming increasingly common. The problem is what to do when elderly persons may not be able to live alone. More than that, your problem is: I. When to act?

2. Who decides?

3. What to decide?

4. How to decide?

"When" may appear to be more of a problem than it is. Something must be done if you perceive your mother to be a serious danger to herself or -others. I realize that making such an evaluation is not as easy as it may sound.

Simple charts, "Activities for Daily Living" and "Physical SelfCare," are available to help objectify such a judgment. For a copy of these charts, send a request and a self-addressed, stamped envelope to us at Box 872 St. Joseph's College, Rensselear, Ind. 47978.

The Physical Self-Care chart helps you rate feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toilet and physical movement on a five-point scale ranging from completely

self-sufficient (I) to needing total Then convene a family conferhelp (5). ence. If distances are great, use the The Activities for Daily Living telephone for a conference call. chart similarly rates food preparaDiscuss until you arrive at a tion, shopping, housekeeping, consensus. laundry, mode of transportation, If you cannot arrive at a consentelephone use, responsibility for sus, perhaps you might agree to medications an<l handling finances. appoint a single individual to make After you have rated your mother the hard choice. Keep your mother on these common' activities, it is reasonably informed throughout usually easier to decide whether your deliberations. something needs to be done now.

Do the best you can at a difficult Who decides? Obviously, the moment. Remember, there may be elderly person herself or himself many different minds with differwill ordinarily make that decision. ent opinions involved. Good luck!

However, if you believe that there is a serious danger involved, you may need to override your mother's decision to do nothing. This can be very hard for you to do Among 34 Sisters of St. Joseph because of the reversal of roles.

You were her child and now must celebrating golden and silver jubilees at a Mass Sunday at Mont act as the parent.

What are the choices? Basically, Marie, Holyoke, is silver jubilarthere are three choices you might ian Sister St. Paul Collard of Taunton. consider: A mathematics teacher at CoyleI. Living alone with help.

Cassidy High School, Taunton, 2. Living with you. she previously taught at St. Louis 3. Living in a nursing home.

Clearly, there are many varia- de France and St. Michael Schools tions of the above three choices. in Swansea; St. Jean de Baptiste, For example, your mother might Fall River; and St. Joseph, New come to live with you, but you Bedford.

She is the daughter of Mr. and might get some outside help to Mrs. L. Paul Collard of Tiverton, assist in caring for her.

How do you decide? The best RI and she entered the congregaway to decide is in concert with ·tion from Blessed Sacrament parother family members. Consult ish, Fall River. your brothers and sisters, and, of course, your husband. Make them Vain Indeed .. Anyone who does not see the aware of your evaluation of her daily activities and self-care. Give vanity of the world must be vain them a chance to think about it. indeed."-Blaise Pascal

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By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Mary: My 7-year-old son gets up almost every morning and says his stomach hurts. He doesn't want anything to eat and he says it hurts too much to go to school.

On days I let him stay home, he generally begins to eat by late morning and feels much better the rest of the day. I have tried driving him to school, and I told him I would stay in the classroom for the first part of the day if he is upset about school or if he has a physical problem, or both. How can I help him? (Indiana) A. You recognize that you must strike a delicate balance: discover any physical condition which is causing your son's problem while you avoid giving lots of attention to a behavior you would like to see go away. Offering your son support to attend school and avoiding excessive attention are good starts.

Many physical conditions could cause stomachaches. Since' your child has reported this for some time and you are baffled, a trip to the doctor is in order.

Before you go to the doctor, you might want to read "Feed Your Kids Right," by Lendon Smith (Dell, 1981). It suggests exploring

these areas in dealing with stomachaches: I. Review his past history. Was he colicky as a baby? Did he have a lot of sickness -_ colds, intestinal flu, ear infections - as a baby?

2. Is he somewhat hyperactive?

Does he have many mood swings?

3. Pinworms must be considered.

They're common and no reflection on your parenting.

4. A family history of migraines or epilepsy might be significant.

5. Was the pregnancy unusually ' stressful?

6. If he has dark circles under his eyes, snorts, or is pale,. allergy is suspect.

7. Is he extremely. ticklish?

Review Smith's clues and mention any when you visit your doctor.

After considering possible physical causes, review your home and school situations. You need to be a detective. Consider.

I. When does the problem occur?

Is it worse on certain days of the' -week? Does it disappear on weekends?

2. What has he eaten? You might want to write down everything he eats to seek clues from his diet.

3. What has happened at school recently? You might want to visit

the teacher to learn of any personnel changes, classmates who have left or arrived, activities which have been introduced or eliminated during the day.

The advantage to these measures is that you can pursue them without focusing directly on your son's problem.

Whatever causes your investigation reveals, your ultimate goal is to have your son go off to school willingly. Offer again to drive him to school yourself and to remain with him at the school for part of the day. But insist gently that he is to attend school.

Suggest to the school that he stay at the nurse's office for a while if he complains of a stomachache.

After school, take him and a friend for a modest outing. Plan a special weekend treat for the first weekend after he attends school all five days. _ Consider physical problems, school problems and the home environment in looking for causes, and continue your low-key, supportive approach.

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

St. Teresa: the language of love

By Antoinette Bosco Christ" and "spiritual marriage" The British Board of Film Clas- cannot be truly understood unless sification made a somewhat his- a person has faith. The unbeliever, toric decision in December. For reading St. Teresa's own descripfirst time in over 70 years, a film tion of her raptures, could conhas been banned for blasphemy. ceivably misunderstand these spirThe film in question, "Visions of itual raptures of love as expressed Ecstasy," depicts, according to the

by St. Teres'a. interpreting them as publicity surrounding it, "the erotic imaginings" ofSt. Teresa of Avila, the 16th century Spanish Carmelite nun.

St. Teresa was a mystic and in

By Hilda Young her lifetime was known to enter trancelike states of ecstasy or rapI have never seriously - or 0.00.-' ture. The film is said to depict her seriously, for that matter - considcaressing and kissing Christ and ered a tattoo. Until this week. It's being touched erotically by a female. my bank's fault. who represents her own psyche.

Let me start over. You see, we In making its decision, the Brit- have had the same bank for years. ish board stated it withheld certifi- It opened at 9:30 a.m. Ii closed at cation because "the wounded body 4:30 p.m.; 6 p.m. on Fridays. I of a crucified Christ is presented trusted those people. They trusted solely as the focus of, and at cer- me. They even cashed checks tain moments a participant in, the written in watercolor paints when erotic desire of St. Teresa, with no I. couldn't find a pen. attempt to explore the meaning of Then "they" merged. The "new" the imagery beyond engaging the bank cut lobby hours in half, and, viewer in an. erotic experience."

I first encountered St. Teresa of in keeping with the current friendly attitude toward the Soviets, created Avila when I was 12 years old and reading a book on saints' lives. I waiting lines long enough so it pays to carry water. ' never forgot her words of wisdom: .. Autotellers located in 120 "Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things convenient locations will provide are passing. God alone does not ,our valued customers with newchange. Patience achieves every- found banking power, including thing. Whoever has God lacks 24-hour access to cash," a bank flyer bragged. "Please stop by and nothing. God alone suffices."

Reading ner 'writings, such as pick up 'your autoteller card and .

"The Interior Castle," it is clear PIN." that Teresa of Avila was GodThe next day I packed a lunch; intoxicated. This desire to be close thermos and novel and he~ded for to God was rooted in her child- the line at the bank. It was a good hood when as a little girl she ran day. I hadn't even unwrapped my away with her brother to seek mar- Twinkies when my turn arrived. tyrdom at the hands of the Moors! ''I'd like my autoteller card and She was a mystic because she brooch," I told the teller. was on fire with love for God, and "Brooch... brooch... brooch," she her language is that of a lover. In her interior castle she sees seven mused. Suddenly her eyes widened. mansions, six of them purging and "You mean a PIN ," she exclaimed. preparing the soul for the seventh.

She leaned forward, tears dripHere the soul is permanently ping onto the counter. "A PI N is a transformed in a spiritual mar- Personal Identification Number. riage with God. It is your own private code. You The imagery of "the bride of punch it in when you use the auto-

a demented woman's sexual and erotic fantasies.

Too bad the filmmaker never made the acquaintance of the real woman, the one who wrote: "It is not a matter of thinking much, but ofloving much .... Love alone gives value to all things."

Of tattoos, P.INS and things teller so no one else can use your card without knowing the PIN." "What four-digit number would you like?" she asked. ' My mind raced. Birthday? No, too many numbers. Address? Too short. Age? It changed.

I sputtered out four numbers sixes and a seven and maybe a three. Maybe. The clerk wrote them down. "We will send you a confirmation."

My PIN arrived a week later. It included a'five and a four. I sincerely do not remember sharing any fives or fours with Attila the Twittering Teller.

The letter said not to carry the PIN with me. Thieves might use it with the card to empty the account.

Made sense. I ditched the PIN. That's unfortunate. I have needed it several times since,. Like yesterday at my supermarket.

"Lady, that's not a slot machine," a surly man groused. I had been punching various combinations into the bullheaded contraptioil, e'ven throwing in fives and fours. , "If you don't know your PIN, why don't you get a tattoo of it?"

I was about to walk away when the machine accepted a code.

As I started to leave, cash in hand, the autoteller started beeping at me.

"It's trying to tell you to take your card out," Mr. Hurry said sarcastically. "You might want to use it again. That is, if you can remember your PIN." You know, I read somewhere that tattoos for women could become the next rage.

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Pope to see changed Mexico MEXICOCITY(CNS)- When ,Pope John Paul II visits Mexico May 6-13 he will find it vastly changed from the country he saw during his 1979 papal visit.

Eleven years ago, during his first trip abroad as the newlyelected pope, Pope John Paul saw a Mexico at the height of an economic prosperity unmatched in its modern history. The world oil crisis of the late 1970s had translated into record export sales of petroleum, the country's No. I foreign exchange earner.

Mexico was apparently on the verge of breaking out of the cycle of underdevelopment.

Today, the pope will witness the ravages of nearly nine years of sustained economic crisis, triggered by collapse of the world oil market in 1981 and fueled by crushing $12 billion annual interest payments on the country's massive $107 billion foreign debt, second highest among developing nations.

While the administration of DAY LABORERS: Mexican craftsmen line up outside President Carlos Salinas de Gorthe cathedral in Mexico City waiting to be hired for a few tari has now successfully renegohours or a day, often without success. A sign in front of each tiated part ofthat debt and brought inflation down from a 1987 high of tool bag announces the worker's specialty. During the pope's 159 percent to around 19 percent 'visit to Mexico he will address a pastoral message to workers. last year, nearly a decade of eco(eNS/ KNA photo) nomic crisis has served to unmask social and political problems which is today home for an estimated growing population, the pope will in 1979 were hidden just below the surface of the apparent economic 500,000 political refugees. Most also see a people which continues are Guatemalan Indians living in to migrate from the countryside boom.

Poverty was certainly evident camps along Mexico's southern toward economic opportunities in among Mexicans in 1979, but its border and Salvadorans who have urban centers and northward to expansion had been kept in check settled in large numbers in the the Uniled States. by massive, government-funded greater Mexico City area.

As in 1979, he will deliver his But a 1980s hallmark has been pastoral messages to a youthful public works programs and a thriving private sector. Unemployment translation of the social discontent people, more than 40 percent of among Mexican workers was then accompanying Mexico's economic whom are under the age of 15. mostly a matter of speculation, crisis into political upheaval, forcBut this time they are also youth with no reliable figures available ing the ruling Institutional Revo- who face less possibility of social from government or independent lutionary Party (PRI) to resort to advancement because of fewer repeated electoral fraud to remain sources. economic opportunities. As such, Today,.with the Salinas admin- in power. . they demand to be listened to as Mexico's middle class was thrivistration using sharp cuts in govthey express their fears and conernment spending to prime a pro- ing at the time of the 1979 papal cerns for the future. .jected economic recovery, recent visit but has experienced a sharp The pope will speak with Indistudies confirm increased poverty drop in its standard of living since among Mexican families, with the economic tailspin began in ans who continue to be discrimi1981. The middle class blamed the nated against and who occupy a more than 40 percent of them now living below the national poverty country's, economic woes on PRI marginal place in Mexico's econcorruption and its votes were large- omy and society. And he will adline.

With reliable figures finally in, ly responsible for a string of local dress a people whose lives are still independent analysts said last year electoral successes in the mid-1980s rooted in family tradition, nearly that nearly a quarter of the coun- by the conservative opposition Na- 90 percent of whom consider themselves Catholic and whose religiostry's economically active popula- tional Action Party.

But in July 1988 national elec- ity an,d devotion to the Virgin of tion was unemployed, with another tions engineered by a new center- Guadalupe run deep.

25 percent underemployed working less than fulltime at "in- left coalition of parties managed The Mexico of 1990 thus preformal" jobs that come and go to channel anti-government sen- sents fertile ground for the pope to along with ups and downs in the timent among the poor and work- deliver pastoral counsel on social ing class into a near upset for the questions from poverty, social ineconomy.

Chronic poverty continues to ruling party. While PRI-candidate justice and political violence to affect rural areas and urban Salinas gained the presidency with . population, the family and intershantytowns most. Both cities and . a slim 50.2 percent majority, many national issues such as migration countryside have witnessed in- observers believe that the'opposi- of workers and drug trafficking, creased social problems since the tion candidate, Cuauhtemoc CarAt the same time, he will have a denas, may have been denied vicpope's last visit.

Throughout the 1980s a sharp tory through massive government- unique opportunity to address the question of foreign debt and ingrowth in cultivation of lucrative sponsored vote fraUd. equities in the world economic drug crops by poor subsistence With all the changes in the face farmers路 has been noted by law of Mexico, Pope John Paul will order, by all accounts at the root enforcement officials, compelling nevertheless be f~miliar from his of Mexico's socioeconomic probMexico to spend millions of dol- previous visit with many charac- lems. lars in drug-eradication programs. teristics of Mexican society which Meanwhile, glue-sniffing and al- he will see again and will undoubtcoholism accompany the mush- edly address in his pastoral mesrooming spread of gangs among sages. alienated shantytown youths.

Demographic growth continues Problems of neighboring coun- virtually unabated, with the 1979 tries have also affected Mexico. population of 80 million having Following 10 years of war in neigh- increased by 10 percent to nearly boring Central America, Mexico 90 million today. In addition to a

Vatican OK's UN convention on children's rights' UNITED NATIONS (CNS)Archbishop Renato R. Martino, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations, has signed the U.N. Convention on tbe Rights of the Child, making the Holy See among the first states to "accede" to the convention.

The approval was qualified by a "declaration" that a reference in the convention preamble to protection of the child "before as well as after birth" gives the "perspective" for interpreting the entire document.

In signing, the Vatican had reservations. The Holy See said it would: - Interpret a reference in the document to "family planning edu~ cation and services" to mean only "natural methods."

-Interpret the convention, particularly articles on the rights of the child in religion, education, association with others, and privacy, in a way that "safeguards the p.rimary and inalienable rights of parents."

- Note that its limited territorial size and character make some articles calling for certain legislation inapplicable. , For most governments, ratification occurs in two steps comparable to U.S. procedure: the president first decides whether to sign as chief executive, but ratification is legally binding only when the Senate approves.

Since all powers of the Holy See are vested in one person - the pope - Archbishop Martino's signing as papal representative combined both steps.

The Vatican became the fourth state, after Ecuador, Ghana and Vietnam, to complete the process.

Ratification by 20 governments is required for the convention to come into force. Then a committee of "I 0 experts of high moral standing and recognized competence" will be elected to monitor compliance.

Archbishop Martino said the Vatican normally accedes to conventions, if it decides to do so, only after international enactment is secured.

But the Vatican viewed the Convention on the Rights of the Child as so important, he said, that it acted quickly in the hope its example would encourage other states.

James P. Grant, UNICEF director, who came to observe ~he signing, said, "The Vatican's action will help move the whole process all over the world." He said he hoped the 20 ratifications would be gathered by Sept. 29, when a world summit for children is to open at the United Nations. Many heads of states and of governments are expected to attend, and the Vatican has contributed $3,000 toward summit expenses.

In addition to its preamble, the convention has 54 articles obligating ratifying states to protect children's rights in health, education, social relations and other areas.

They assert the right of the child to protection against abuse, including economic or sexual exploitation.

An article on military service forbids using children under 15, an age Archbishop Martino had said the Vatican would have liked to have seen put higher.

Article 14 is devoted to "the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion."

It affirms the ri~ht and duty of parents or guardians "to provide direction to the child" in exercise of this right.

While emphasizing the value of the convention as a step forward, Archbishop Martino also said it represented the "minimum grounds" on which a compromise agreement could be reached, not a document giving "complete satisfaction."

This was particularly the case, he indicated, with regard to protection of the child before birth.

The compromise reached on this was to refer in the preamble - a section governments may declare not legally binding - to a statement in the Nov. 20, 1959, UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child.

This declaration, which was not legally binding, cited the need of the child for "special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth."

"We would never have accepted the convention without this mention," Archbishop Martino said.

But he also said that "we would have liked much more and much better expressions than this."

Vatican deplores worldwide drug trade LONDON (CNS) - Vatican officials have expressed concern with the moral issues involved in drug trafficking, as well as practical consequences of the trade especially in poor countries.

The most effective way to reduce these problems is education in families, schools, sports club and society, the Vatican said in its submission to a world summit on drugs, held recently in London.

"It is a fact that for some poor countries, the production and smuggling of drugs has become a source oflivelihood for many thousands of people," said a Vatican statement to the conference.

"Looking dispassionately at the problem, one can get the impression that through the drug traffic, an enormous transfer of wealth is made from the affluent to the poorest societies," the delegation said. "The hideous aspect of this transfer is that this money has gone mainly to enrich unscrupulous and greedy people rather than

to alleviate the misery of the many poor." , It said that "some ofthe greatest tragedies of our times" resulted from drugs.

"The evil fruits ofthis moral and social disorder are already visible in the weakening of the physical and moral fiber of many young people, with disastrous consequences also for the social and family life of future generations," the statement said.

More than 100 countries at the conference, organized by Great Britai~ and the United Na'tions, agreed to put more resources into educating potential users about long-term effects of drug abuse and into rehabilitation programs for addicts. They also called for a global campaign to cut demand for illegal drugs as a way of driving drug traffickers out of business.

Greatest Remedy "The greatest remedy for anger is delay."-Seneca

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'Portuguese leader backs Timor rights VATICAN CITY (CNS) Portugal will continue fighting for self-determination in East Timor, a former colony forcibly annexed

by Indonesia in 1976, Portuguese President Mario Soares has told Pope John Paulil. .

The pope, in keeping with Vatican neutrality on the issue, did not mention East Timor in his public speech to Soares, but praised Portugal for its policy of granting independence to its colonies.

The pope visited East Timor last October and after a Mass witnessed a scuffle between pro-independence demonstrators and police. During the Mass, the pope asked the Indonesian government to respect human rights.

Soares said the pope had the opportunity to see the desire ofthe Timorese "to safeguard, as is their right, their cultural and religious identity."

East Timor declared independence from Portugal in 1975, but fighting followed between supporters of independence and supporters of union with neighboring Indonesia; and Indonesia sent in troops and annexed the territory in 1976.

East Timor has 535,000 Catholics out of a total population of 680,000. In contrast, 90 percent of Indonesia's 188 million population is Muslim.

The Vatican favors an international agreement to determine the status of East Timor. Portugal says it does not want to take possession of the territory but that it still has rights under international law in determining the area's future because it never completed its decolonization plan.

Rep. Leland's work is continued CINCINNATI (CNS) - Bob Valentine and the late congressman Mickey Leland, D-Texas, had many things)n common - being black Catholics, pharmacists and committed to alleviating the harsh conditions of war and poverty in Third World countries.

Now, Valentine and the group he founded, Cincinnati Reaches Out, is trying to carryon the work Leland left unfinished when he died in a plane crash last August.

Valentine headed a contingent that went in February with medical supplies to the Fugnido refuge6lo camp in Ethiopia, where the Leland plane was headed when it crashed.

The camp, near the EthiopianSudanese border, houses more than 50,000 Sudanese refugees, most of them women and children.

Although Valentine never met Leland, he hoped the trip would be seen as "a reflection of the kind of man he was," Valentine told the Catholic Telegraph, Cincinnati's archdiocesan newspaper.

"People in the State Department were a ware of the kind of work we were doing" on behalf of the poor and oppressed in Africa and South America, he said.

So, Valentine said, the Congressional Select Committee on Hunger, which Leland chaired, contacted Cincinnati Reaches Out several months ago about going to Fugnido to deliver medicine and medical supplies, desperately needed in areas of Ethiopia where hunger and effects of drought remain serious problems.

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Telescope excites scientists WASHINGTON (CNS)-Catholic astronomers nationwide are excited about the Hubble Space~ Telescope, but warn that some claims about it may be exaggerated.

It has. been touted as the key to providing answers to many of the universe's mysteries.

"We won't have all revealed," said Jesuit Father Christopher Corbally, from the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he is working to put into operation a Vatican-owned telescope, said to be one of the most powerful landbased telescopes in the world.

"Wh.at will be revealed will lead to more mysteries. But.th;Lt's the excitement of science."

The telescope, with a 94.5-inch mirror and two cameras, was carried aloft by the shuttle Discovery.

Its ·advantage over much larger ground-based telescopes will be its position well above the atmosphere which envelops earth and obscures much of the heavens.

The atmosphere shakes images seen by telescope. For example, it makes stars appear to scintillate or twinkle, said Heinrich Eichhorn, an astronomy professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

"Ground-based telescopes will always be limited by the twinkling," said Eichhorn, a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

"Jt's like observing space from the bottom of a Coke bottle." .

Astronomers have said the telescope, during its expected IS-year working lifetime, will be capable of detecting objects 50 times fainter and with 10 times greater clarity than the best ground~based observatory. Some astronomers have likened its vision to seeing the writing on a coin some 100 miles away.

Astronomers have also said the telescope could shed light on the age and size of the universe and explain how it was formed as well as what its eventual fate may be.

Other possible discoveries inc1u'de solving the mysteries of quasars, extremely distant and brilliant objects that may lie at the core of ancient galaxies, and black holes, a term for possible remains of a collapsed star which have gravity so strong that light or matter cannot escape, said Charles Misner, a physics professor at the University of Maryland. .

Michael Crowe, an astronomy historian at the University of Notre Dame, said one possible discovery

that has been publicized heavily is that of the telescope finding stars with planets that could conceivably support life; but he added that he hoped the American public would not be fooled into thinking that the Hubble holds the answer to all of astronomy's questions.

Father Corbally said he hoped attention paid to the space telescope would not take away from the work of ground-based astronomers, who he said are important in providing support for.such space projects. He said he did not believe any discoveries made would have much impact on Catholic theology. He added that he believed ~heology and science are separate

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The theory states that a compact dense structure exploded and the pieces spread to form the universe, Father Corbally said. Astronomers question if the universe will continue to expand until dilution or if all the dense pieces will eventually crash together, a lesserestablished theory known as the "Big Crunch."

The telescope, named after American astronomer Edward P. Hubble, who discovered in the 1920s that the universe was expanding, is the most expensive unmanned spacecraft ever builtwith a price tag of $2.1 billion for the entire project, including ground-based support ·facilities.

Plans are to send astronauts every five years to the,telescope for maintenance, r.epairs and technological upgrades.

Astronomers said it could take six months for the telescope to settle and transmit useful information for its research center, the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

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ALL MY LIFE , Am I really here in your arms It's just like I dreamed it would be Feel like I've frozen time Yo~ are the only on~ I can ~ee Hey, I've looked all my life for you Now you're here". '..

Hey, I'll spen~.all my life with 'you , All my life An~ I never r~~IIy' knew how to lore I just hoped that somehow I'd see I ask~d for ,a little help from above .

Send an angel do,wn Jo me Never .thQught that I could feel love so tender Never thought I coul" let those feelings show Now my heart is.on my sleeve.

And this love will never leave I know I know Written by Karla Bonoff, Sung by Linda Ronstadt and ~aron Neville (c) 1989 by Elektra Ente.rtainment I ·

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That is one reason why Catholics see the love that builds marriage as a sacrament. It is an outward sign of God's love for us.

The song makes no mention of how long the couple has been together, what problems they have faced or what challenges the future holds.

Genuine love takes time. It avoids rushing into expressing sexual passion or that euphoric sense that everything is wonderful- what we call infatuation.

Love's tenderness lies in each person gradually removing pro- . tective walls and allowing the . other to see his or her feelings, hopes and dreams.

But even true love is no :guarantee of continued happiness.

Nearly halfof all marriages end, in divorce. Marriage is a risk.

We cannot know for sure if the .-Iove we feel today will remain alive and keep on growing.

However, w~ ca~ celebrate' how love enriches o.ur lives.

Each of us cim Jia'use to think · how loving relationships help us glimpse God's eternal love..

Each' of us can take on love's · ctiallenge fo give out the best In ourselves.

If you go to ~ny' weddings this year, listen fo the love songs, but do more than: enjoy the good feelings that they often stir up. Ask yourself: How am I · a better person because of another's love? What steps can I take to keep this love growing?

What am I learning about God through this love?

.Love ,happens when, neither perso,J.l thought it possible: On~ "never really krie'w how to love."

He's been as~ing for "a littl~ help from above." The other "never thought tha.t I could feel love. s,? ~ender" Qr ·~Iet. those. feelings show." The love they share leads them to want to "spend all'my life with you." , .'.. ·Love.d·oes have great power.

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The workshop was the first of a senes. , . Vietnamese refugees' Mr. 'and Mrs. Cuong' >P~am spoke' about their escape from their native land . a,t a. ,recent illl-sctiool assembly sponsored' by the Fall River high school's chapter of Amnesty Internatiorial. The Phams are the par'erJt~ or" Connolly shldents KhQi, Cuon,g and G~offrey.. . Nine Connolly students are' participatinK in a da'y-Iong seminar, "Celebration of Teaching," today at Durfee High School, Fall River.

Connolly students will be part of The High School Hour, a special,radio program to be heard on WSNE, 'Providence. WilliamBibeau, Jon Carlos, Matt' Carlos, Lowell Metivier, Jeff Paul and Lia Ponte are preparing the Connolly segment..

Some 30 seniors were models at a rece'nt Senior Fashion Show at White's of Westport. Faculty member Gracie Burke provided commentary and Carol Ryan and Leslie Barker coordinated the everting.

By. I stood ex pectantly on the t1iresVan Dine and Mignon Eberhart.: hold of the home of the future, Some evenings when there was not wondering what time-saving inven- much on· the radio, we would sit TOM tions awaitep me. Since the home ,silently in the quiet living room show was not crowded that day, I journeying, througl! books, to all tENNON could inspect it in a leisurely way. sorts of travels and :adv~ntures.

I stepped across the threshold, As I grew up my' com'panions walked down a small haBway and changed. I began to read books ·turned into the living room. As I about war and the politics of surveyed the scene, a strange thing fessor, states that his students, all Europe. happened. 'Lsaw not what was, As an adult I added some spirit- of them gifted with high intellithere, but what 'was not there, ual companions to my reading list, gence, do not regard books as .what was lacking in this home of books that dealt with our life with companions. the future.

If this is true, these people are "God and the challenge to become a There was no bookcase with saint. Leon Bloy's .novel, "The ,missing enormous pleasure and beautiful glass doors. My spirit Woman'Who was Poor," made a some awfully good friendships. quickly stepped back through a How about you? Do you have deep impression on me, and one time warp and walked into the sentence still haunts me: "The only some good companions? If not, try home Of the past, into the living • tragedy in life is not to become a searching for some books you like. ' It could be fun. room of my childhood. saint."

Will you need any bookcases for I was seated once again in the All sorts of books are still comlarge, soft chair in front of the panions on my journey. This week the home of your future? great bookcase, my feet dangling I am engrossed in a murder mysover' the hot air register that tery written in the 1930s, "Strong • warmed me as the snow swirled Poison," by Dorothy Sayers. When Bishop Connolly basketball around our old, drafty house.

I finish that, I think I will reread standout Keri Hanley has been BISMARCK, N.D. (CNS) On the third shelf were the books Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Father John F. Hotchkin, execu': , named to the 1989-90 All-Jesuit that belonged to me, some of them Heights" and then perhaps watch tive director of the U.S. bishops' High School Girls' Basketball Christmas gifts and some of them it on a video. After that comes the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Team. Team selections were made purchased with"accumulated nickbiography "Joan of Arc" by, of all Interreligious Affairs, is the winner from nominations made by prinels and dimes that grandpa gave people, Mark Twain. of the 1990 ecumenism award of cipals and basketball coaches at me from week to week. .010 books and new, slim and fat the National Association of each of, the 45 Jesuit-sponsored When I was not outside playing books, humorous and sad ones, Diocesan Ecumenical Officers. A high schools in the United States. in the snow, I liked to sit there and some scary, some poignant, some priest of the Archdiocese of ChiMiss Hanley is the first Conread about the "Little Men" of easy reading and some more diffinolly player, male or female, to cago, he works with national leadNew England by Louisa May cult - these good companions ers of other faiths and is a consul- break the 1,000 point barrier, finAlcott. I also read and reread the still fill my hours with much tor to the Pontifical Councils for ishing her career with a total 1;174 adventures of Jerry Todd, Tom enjoyment. They entertain me, keep Promoting Christian Unity and points. She was honored with the Swift, Harry Dee, Percy Wynn me company, enrich my imagina- for Interreligious Dialogue.

Outstanding Achievement Award and Tom Playfair. They were all tion and help me grow in a variety at a recent winter athletics award good companions for many quiet of ways. ceremony and it was announced Discipline hours.

In my house today there are that her number will be retired.

"Before you can discipline othMy entire family liked to read. seven bookcases. On one of the A senior, sire is an honor stuWe all liked the murder mysteries shelves is a book that makes me ers successfully, you must disci- dent and participant in the Conof Mary Roberts Rinehart, S.S. sad. The author, a university pro- pline yourself." - Feather nolly community service program.

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On the highest honor roll for the third quarter are: Freshmen: Lawry Batchelder, Timothy Famulare, Erinn Hoag, .' Dawn Langevin,. Melissa Ormonde, Nita Patel. " . . Sophomores:. Elaine Dwyer, PauJ Flana~an, Heather Galligan, Melissa.l,.ogan, Heather MacCaffrie: 'Juniors: Keith C~lIins, Glen Gaebe, Lisa Houghton, Amy Ma':toian. . .'

Seniors: Karyn Coition, Marc Coie, Lisa Gagn,on', 'Marc Gagnon, Joanne Gervais, Steven Goodreau, deo~ge 'Jabrenl Cor: ena 'Ledger; Roderick McGarry, John: McCracken, Kathleen McInerney, ,Piiti Patel, Julie Toscano. .. 15 freshmen; 19 sophomores, 30 -juniors and 37' seniors merited high honors and' 23 freshmen, 17 sophomores, 21 juniors and 19 se·niors. merited honors.

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Barbara Starkie of New Bedford and Christine Castro of Attleboro' were among' 230 students receiving awards at the annual honors convocation 'of Salve Regina College, 'Newport, RI. The eve'nt recognizes students who have excelled academically and in campus leadership and community service. . , Miss Starkie.. received a Parents' Association' award, Miss Castro recognition from the accounting department:

Poland's 1991 Youth Day venue VAT1CAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Paid II says he will make his fourth papal trip to Poland in August 1991 to celebrate World Youth Day at the Marian shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa.

The pope invited- "youths of every continent to meet each ottier again in August of 1991, at the shrine of Our Lady of Czesto-. chowa, which for over 600 years has been the heart of the history of the Polish people."

The Vatican did not give the exact dates of the 1991 visit. The youth celebration is expected to be part of a longer papal trip to Poland and will be the first papal visit to Poland since a democratically elected government ended more than 40 years of communist rule last year.

It will also be the first time that World Youth Day has been held in an East European country. This year's observance was in Rome and the 1989 observance was at Santiago de Compostela, Spain, coinciding with an international Catholic youth festival.

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I was almost 17 when I got my driver's license. In a sort of reverse snobbery I didn't want my license when everyone else got theirs - it was my way of being different. But after a while my position backfired.

I simply felt left out!

I never envisioned a driver's license as a door to freedom, since I was sure my parents would not really let me drive far without them. Still, I saw the license as an entry into the adult world.

In fact, many sticky situations can crop up when you acquire a driver's license - and the freedom from parental scrutiny that comes with it.

"Read and think about the following questions, first from your perspective, then from your parent's perspective. Then answer each as you would handle the situation.

I. I've promised my parents that I would never drink and drive. a.

But I don't think one glass of spi~ed punch counts as drinking. b. I won't, even if I have to call them at 2 a.m. to pick me up.

2. Friends have asked me for a ride to a place farther away than I'm allowed to drive. I would: a. refuse to take them. b. call my parents and ask permission.

3.1 often provide transportation for my friends, but I have to pay for my own gas.a. I don't mind the extra cost of taking them places. b.

I expect everyone to chip in for gasoline and I'm not shy about letting them know.

4. If I can afford to buy a used car, I would expect to: a. monopolize my parents' car less. b. help out with the insurance costs. c. pay all expenses except insurance.

5. 'Which of the following common parental re~uirementsdo I find hardest to do: a. call home when my plans change. b. pay for my own insura'nce. c, face angry parents when I leave the gas tank almost empty.

6. If a car pulled up next to me at a stoplight and the driver challenged me to race, I would: a. ignore him. b. take her up on it. c. probably not recognize what the person had in mind.

Symbols following film, reviews indicate both g3neral and Catholic, Films Office ratings. which do not always coincide.

'General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-I3-parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance sug,gested; R-restricted. unsuitable,for children 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 whic~. however. require some analysis and explanation); a-morally offensive.

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

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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.

New Films "The Guardian" (Universal): Failed horror movie about a supernatural being (Jenny Seagrove) who masquerades as a nanny in order to steal infants and sacrifice

them to a woodland deity. Director William Friedkin works hard at building an eerie, foreboding atmosphere but the story makes little sense and the special effects aren't worth the effort. Excessive gory violence, extended nudity and an explicit sex scene. 0, R "Spaced Invaders"(Touchstone): Silly, mildly diverting children's comedy about five bumbling, diminutive Martians who mistakenly invade Earth on Halloween but have trouble convincing people 'that they're really aliens and not trick-or-treating children. Directed

by Patrick Read Johnson, the onejoke movie has so"so special effects and some broad humor - the best from Royal Dano as an old codger who saves the day. Some scenes of menace that the very young may find frightening unless accompanied by older members of the family. A3,PG "Wild Orchid" (Triumph): Boring voyeuristic exercise in sexual titillation about the sexual awakening of an innocent young woman (Carre Otis) by a sleazy business magnate (Mickey Rourke). Director Zalman King's hothouse fantasy a~out unappealing characters offers unrelieved tedium except for some splendid views of Rio de Janeiro and its environs, Several simulations of sex acts. O,R

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Live coverage for pope's Mexico trip BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (CNS) - Mother Angelica's Eternal Word Television Network will offer live coverage of Pope John Paul II's May 6-13 visit to Mexico.

Jesuit Father Harold F, Cohen will anchor the coverage, to air Sunday, May 6, 6-10:30 p.m. EDT; Monday, May7, to Saturday, May 12, noon-IO:30 p.m. EDT, and Sunday, May 13, noon-2 p.m.

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Organ donations TORONTO (CNS) - A Canadian bishop has told a television audience that he would will his organs to medicine, and has encouraged other Catholics to do the same. Toronto Auxiliary Bishop Michael P. Lacey, 73, spoke as part of an effort by the Ontario bishops to encourage donation of body organs after death.

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Bishop Stang The Class of 1965 of Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, is planning its 25th reunion for Nov. 23 at White's of Westport. 38 classmates have yet to be located. Information may be 'obtained from the Bishop Stang Alumni Office, 993-8959.

Prayer will win abortion fight say Rosary Leaders CHICAGO (CNS) - Speakers at the recent third annual Summit Meeting of Rosary Leaders said prayer would win the battle against abortion.

Sponsored by Rosaries for Peace and Catholic Truth International, the all-day Chicago meeting was called "the first major fusion of the rosary and the pro-life movement on a national basis" by Robert Ziener, chairman of the Great Rosary Crusade '90. .

He told the 100 or so people attending the opening session that they would leave with "a spiritual plan" for action that will include several national events.

A Rosary March on Washington is planned for Mother's Day, May 13. Other upcoming events are the Third National Rosary Congress Cenacle June 10-1 f. at the Natio'nat ~hrfne of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, and what organizers termed the Supernatural Rescue Mission to be held across the country Oct. 7-13. . ' John Downs, V.S. founder of the National Rosary Congress, said the,idea of the congress, which will consist of seven days of prayer before t'he Blessed Sacrament, originated in Poland in 1979'.

He said the goal'was to prec'ede the June event With a congress in every diocese, with representatives going on to the national congress.

He said he hO'ped diocesan congresses would be held annually.

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ning a national week of prayer and fasting "to end abortion and bring America to repentance."

"Marian and pro-life groups can light up America for a whole week," he said. "Legalized abortion will end if this is done properly."

Judie Brown of the American Life League said that if "pro-life leaders don't bring holiness to their work, they cannot win victory."

Joseph Scheidler of the Pro-life Action League recalled praying the rosary with demonstrators in front of an abortion clinic.

"When you're nervous or scared," he said, "you turn to ~ary. There was a peace in our group that the others couldn't understand."

In another testimony to the power of prayer in tense situations, Jeremiah Denton, former V.S. senator from Alabama, speaking of openings being seen in Eastern Europe, recalled his experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. "After running out of every memorized prayer," he said. "I turned everything over to God and felt relief."

Noting tne changes in Eastern Europe but warning that those openings could close, Vent on added, "I 'know ~ personally that prayer is a bigger factor than anything,else in gaining peace." .

Dominican Fattier Pau(Duffner, director Of the Rosary Confraternity, said the success ofthe May 13 march "will not depend on the 'number of people participating, but on the prayers and sacrifices that go before it." , Jerry Coniker, president of the Apostolate for Family Consecration, said, "We have lost the whole idea of the Lord's Day. The only way to stop abortion is to fill the churches,"

SCENES FROM last Saturday's Rally for Life at the nation's cap'.ital include a view of the crowd; Carole Duksta makes a new friend with a pro-life balloon provided by Mass. Citizens for Life; diocesans depart for the Metro; members of the diocesan group; a view of the rally stage. (Hickey photos) ,

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.' ST.,MARY, SEEKONK BLOOD DRIVE T·HE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River---'-Fri., May 4, 1990· ECHO ALL·CAPE REUNION ECHO retreat reunion for Cape First communion rehearsal II a.m.

The Greater Fall River region of tomorrow. Confirmation rehearsal the American Red Cross will sponCod 1-5 p.m. Sunday, O.L. Victory with sponsors 7 p.m. Monday, sor a blood drive 1-6 p.m; Monday, parish, CentervilIe. HOSPICE OUTREACH, INC. church. Youth ministry planning FR Lodge of Elks, 4500 North Main Six-week series on grief and loss committee meets 7 p.m. Sunday, St. Appointments: 676-8276; walkin donors welcome. began May I and continues 7-9 p.m. parish center.

Tuesdays until June 5. Pat Potter, SACRED HEART, FR O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Hospice Outreach bereavement coCCO students will attend 9 a.m.

First Saturday rosary and act of ordinator, wilI facilitate sessions Mass Sunday for crowning of the consecration, to Immaculate Heart which give the bereaved an opporBlessed Virgin. Rosary and Latin of Mary 8:40 a.m. tomorrow. GradBenediction 7 p.m. Tuesdays in May. uating seniors asked to send yeartunity to learn more about the grief PUBLICITY CHAIRMEN O.L. LOURDES, TAUNTON experience and to meet with others First Friday Club meets for 6 p.m. book picture and note regarding are asked to submit news Items lor this Communion supper sponsored by who are grieving. Information: 673Mass Friday followed by supper and future plans to parish office by May column 'to The Anchor, P.O: BOl 7, Fall Holy Name Society and Holy Rosary River, 02722. Name of city or town should II. 1589. talk. Women's Guild installation Sodality 6 p.m. June 3; Sister Thombe Included, as well as full dates of all activBereavement support group meets banquet 6:30 p.m. Monday, Venus CATHOLIC WOMAN'S Ities. Please send news of future rather as More, O.P., executive director of 10:30 a.m.-noon alternate Tuesdays de Milo restaurant: Newly-elected CLUB,NB than past events. Note: We do not normally Hospice Care of Greater Taunton, at Clemence Hall at St. Anne's Hosofficers are Phyllis Peck, president; Annual meeting 7:30 p.m. Wedcarry news of fundraising actlvilies. We are wilI speak. Information: Robert pital, Fall River. Newcomers are Colleen McRoy, vice president; Rita nesday; slide presentation on Hawaii happy to carry notices of spiritual proMendes, 824-7482, 822-6580. grams, club meellngs, youfh projects and welcome at each meeting and may be Caouette, secretary; Claire Cantin, will follow. Information: Joan Sylva, similar nonprofit activities. Fundralslng accompanied by a relative or friend. treasurer.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, 993-8825. projects may be advertised at our regular ATTLEBORO ST. PATRICK, FR HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO rates, obtainable Irom The Anchor busi· Prayer day for vocations 2 p.m: nell olllce,telephone 675-7151.

Women's Guild meeting Monday; Confirmation rehearsal and prayer Sunday, People's Chapel. Rev. Andre On Steering Points Items FR Indicates Father Horace Travassos, rector of service 7 p.m. Sunday, church.

F(lil River, NB Indicates New Bedford.

Patenaude, MS, wilI discuss the SA.CRED HEART, NB St. Mary's Cathedral, will speak. church in the 21 st century. He and CATHEDRAL, FR _ First communion practice I p.m.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET his team also conduct a vocations Monthly Mass for those enrolled tomorrow; first communion Mass Youth group meeting 7 p.m. Sun- prayer vigil 7: 15 p.m. Fridays.

WASHINGTON (CNS) - No in purgatorial society 9 a.m. tomor- Sunday. May devotions, 6:30 p.m. day, parish center.

Rev. Normand Theroux, MS, wilI significant progress has been made row. Rosary and Litany of Our Lady Mondays.

HOLY ROSARY, TAUNTON lead the program "The Resurrecin investigation of the November will be prayed daily before 9 a.m. ST. JAMES, NB May crowning before 10:30 a.m. tion: New People-New Life" 10 and 12:05 p.m. Masses in May. ConCYOcouncil meeting 7 p.m. Tues- murder of six Jesuits and two Mass Sunday. a.m.-5 p.m. May 19. Talks will exwomen in EI Salvador, said a spefirmation 7 tonight.

First communday, parish center. plore how participants are affected ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM House task force. cial ion workshop 2-4 p.m. Sunday; par- ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NB Wareham hunger walk May 12; by the Resurrection and the meanThe task force, appointed by ents' meeting 3:30-4 p.m.

Women's League annual mystery ing of new faith, hope and life.

Mass information: Sandra Lundgren, 295House Speaker Thomas S. Foley, WIDOWED SUPPORT ride Tuesday; members to meet in 5453. First communion 10 a.m. to- wilI be offered.

Information: 222-5410.

NB area meeting 7:30 p.m. Mon- church parking lot 5:45 p.m. Cate- O-Washington, also reported that morrow and May 12. Religious eduday, St. Kilian rectory basement. . chism ends Sunday and Monday for investigators had made little effort cation closing liturgies: 8th grade 7 ST. PATRICK, FALMOUTH Group will not meet during the the summer for all grades except to determine whether high milp.m. Monday, 7th grade 7 p.m.

Finance committee meeting 7 p.m. summer; next meeting is Sept. 10. first communion. itary officers might have had a role Wednesday.

Monday, rectory. in covering up or ordering the O.t. ASSUMPTION, ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, ST. MARY,NB OSTERVILLE May devotions 7 p.m.

Tuesdays. crime.

The report questioned SWANSEA Youth group wilI elect officers Annual spring meeting for instal- Serra Club members will attend 8:30 whether justice would be achieved.

Parish Vincentians will host the Sunday before 7 p.m. parish Mass. lation of officers following II a.m. a.m. Mass Sunday; a communion evening meal·at the soup kitchen at Retreat renewal Monday evening.

It said it believed the murders Mass Tuesday. A luncheon will folbreakfast will follow in parish cen- were not an individual crime but the First Baptist Church, N. Main CATHEDRAL CAMP, low at 12:30 p.m. at the Daniel ter. Centennial ball 6:30 p.m.-midSt., FalI River, 5-6:30 p.m. Tuesday; E. FREETOWN Webster Inn, Sandwich, featuring a night tomorrow, King Philip BalI- an indictment of EI Salvador's those wishing to volunteer contact Cardinal SpelIman High School fashion show. room, Wrentham. Healing service armed forces.

Leopold Thibault, 673-5449. faculty day 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. today.

The Jesuits, their housekeeper NB scheduled for May 6 has been HOLY NAME, SS. Martha and Mary, LakevilIe and her daughter were slain Nov. CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE Women's Guild meeting May 14; canceled.

CCD registration for new students confirmation day retreat 3-8 p.m.

16 at Central American University attend rosary and SEPARATED/DIVORCED members will Sunday. Tres Dias women's retreat after Masses this weekend. in San Salvador. Eight members Benediction prior to meeting at CCD CATHOLICS May 3-6.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, center. A baby shower for Birthright Attleboro area meeting 7-8:30 p.m. of the armed forces have been CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH HYANNIS is planned; members are asked to Sunday, St. Mary's parish center, N. detained in the case. A ninth memFirst communion 2 p.m. Sunday May crowning 3:25 p.m. Monday. bring a gift. Information: Eleanor Attleboro; information: 695-6161. ber'remains at large.

Final family Mass fo'r the season 10 for session I; II :30 a.m. at St. ThereCabral, 992-4073.

Greater Taunton meeting 8 p.m.

"In short, the investigation is sa's. Women's Guild' meeting Weda.m..Sunday.

Tuesday, CCD center, Sacred Heart stalled," said Rep. Joe Moakley, ST. LAWRENCE, NB nesday following 7 p;m. living rosary The Manzoni Requiem by GiuChurch.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS D-Mass., who headed the 19-memat church; WilIiam A Congalton seppe Verdi will be performed at St. ST. JOSEPH, NB St. Francis of the Cape Fraternity ber task force that conducted exwilI speak on Tea Around the World.

Lawrence at 8 p.m. May 20 in comParish choir concert 3 p.m. Sun- tensive interviews in EI Salvador. wilI host a communion breakfast fol- Child care meeting 7:30 p.m. Tuesmemoration of the 75th year of the day; sacred music from Gregorian lowing 9 .a.m. Mass Sunday, St. day, Fr. Clinton HalI; information: The report is expected to influNew Bedford Symphony Orchestra. chant to 20th century will be heard. ence congressional, attempts to reJohn Evangelist Church, Pocasset. 477-6645.

To be heard are Rebecca O'Brien, W. Harwich pre-fraternity w.ilI duce military aid to EI Salvador.

MASS. CITIZENS FOR LIFE soprano; Dani Raphael. mezzo-soSACRED HEART, attend.

N. ATTLEBORO New Bedford: volunteers needed prano; William Livingston, tenor; Youth group and confirmation , The House Foreign Affairs Comto prepare roses for Rose for Life mittee has approved a bill requirand Robert Honeysucker, bass, with class day of recollection Sunday. drive 9 a.m. tomorrow, St. James _ _ _ 234 Second Street members of the Concord Chorus ing a 50 percent aid reduction.

Church basement, 233 County St. ~,Fall River. MA 02721 and the New Bedford and Sippican ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET .The task force said it believed Monthly meeting Tuesday; informa- choral societies. Ticket information: Council of Catholic Women instal- that the murders grew out of an ~WebOffset tion: 636-4903.

994-2900. lation' Mass 5:30 p.m. May 8, fol- attitude of suspicion and anger _ _ _ Newspapers Cape Cod: pro-life Cape Cod adSS PETER AND PAUL, FR. lowed by banquet at Venus de Milo toward activist segments of the " " " " ' - " Printing &Mailing vocates will gather at Cape Cod. Academic awards night for grades restaurant. To be installed are Bea- church. That attitude remains IIIIIiiIIIiI (508) 679-5262 Community ColIege 6-9 p.m. May 4-8 7 p.m. Tuesday; Brad Durfee, trice Lapointe, president; Pamela II duringa speech by MolIy Yard of vice presiden~ of Fall River Chamber Cordeiro, vice-president; Agnes Bar- widespread, it said. the National Organization of Woof Commerce and education comboza and Carol Rapoza, secretaries; men. For information or to join the mittee chair, will speak. Junior Rosemary Ferreira, treasurer. RoCape Cod chapter call 778"5651.

First Class Second Class Achievement will recognize out- sary devotions: 6:30 p.m. Monday standing business students. Infor- through Friday; 4 p.m. Saturday; ST. STANISLAUS, FR First Class Presort Carrier Route Coding mation on joining new parish Cub 6:30 a.m. Sunday during May. Solemn days of parish reparation Third Class Bulk Rate Zip Code Sorting _ Scout program: John Santos, 674for desecration of the Blessed Sac'. Third Class Non Profit List Maintenance ' rament recently stolen from the 9347. Women's Club meeting 7 p;m. church, May 5-8; Exposition of Monday followed by Yankee swap; ALL TO USPS SPECIFICATIONS Blessed Sacrament 11:30 a.m.-6:30 members asked to bring wrapped Cheshire labeling on Kirk·Rudy 4-up gift. ' p.m. Sunday; Polish holy hour 3 labeler. And Pressure Sensitive Labeling p.m.; English evening prayer and ST. THOMAS MORE, reposition 6:30 p.m. Holy Rosary Inserting. collating. folding.

SOMERSET Sodality meets 8: 15 a.m. Sunday for metering. sealing. sorting. addressing.

Youth group meets Wednesday to procession to the church for May sacking. completing USPS forms. prepare for volleyball match. litany, rosary and Mass; brunch wilI direct delivery to Post Office ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN folIow. Marian devotions daily in , .. Printing, , , We Do It All' Family Mass 9:30 a.m. Sunday; May: 7: 15 a.m. except Tuesday and Parvuli Dei religious awards will be Wednesday when prayers will follow Call for Details (508) 679-5262 presented to Cub Scouts.

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ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Confirmation rehearsal 7 p.m.

Sunday. First communion for six older students at 10 a.m. Mass Sunday. Education board meeting 9 a.m. tomorrow, lower rectory. ' ST. ANNE, FR St. Anne novena and healing service 3-5 p.m. Sunday.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Guild meeting 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, church hall. First communion 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. Sister Beth Mahoney will lead the spring, Bible study session on the Gospel of St. Mark beginning 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, rectory.

ROBERT AND JOY Hernandez of Upton and Father Gerald Ornowski, MIC, of Stockbridge, all from Massachusetts, will represent New England on the national board of Worldwide Marriage Encounter. Five Encounter weekends are scheduled for' the Fall, River diocese:this year. Forinformation call 823;.7030.