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Over a billion of us VATICAN CITY(CNS)-Catholics shouldn't fed lonely. The world's Catholic population has topped I billion, increasing 18 percent over the last decade, says the Vatican's top evangelization official.

Cardinal Jozef Tomko said the increase, along with a greater number of missionary priests, seminarians and catechists during the same period, shows that the church "is growing in quantity and maturing in quality."

At a meeting of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, he cited a figure of 1.025 billion Catholics in 1994, an increase from 872 million in 1984. The number apparently included several million Catholics in places such as China, whose statistics are not counted in Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae, an official VatiCllll yearbook. The last official statistics, from 1992, gave 958 million as the world's total Catholic population.

The increase in Catholic population has been slightly more than the growth rate of world popula-

tion, said Cardinal Tomko. He noted that the church's most dynamic growth has occurred in Africa, jumping from 2 million faithful in 1900 to 123 milIion today, with the growth most rapid in the last decade.

The cardinal said the church's missionary structures are turning more and more attention to Asia, where two-thirds of humanity lives but where the Catholic population is less than 3 percent. He said that obstacles to Asian evangelization are cultural and, in places like China, ideological and political.

He said the number of major seminarians in mission areas in.creased 40 percent from 1984 to 1994, while the number of priests increased about 7 percent. Catechists, an increasiingly important part of the evengelization effort, now number about 350,000 in missionary territories, he said.

The cardinal also cited new forms of cooperation involving laity and said his congregation was setting up an office for laity and volunteers.

Permanent diaconate ca.ndidates listed Rev. John F. Moore, director of tl)e diocesan permanent diaconate program, has annouJlced the names of22 prospective candidates for the program. They follow: Diocese of St. Maron Fall Rh'er Area Jean E. Matter, O.L. Purgatory parVictor Haddad. SI. Thomas More parish; Edward J. Hussey. SI. Patrick ish. New Bedford. parish. both in Somerset; Mark G. Deacon Numbers Grow Shea. Our Lady of Fatima parish.

The number of diaconal candiSwansea. dates and of ordained permanent New Bedford deacons in the Fall River diocese Michael P. Guy. SI. Mary parish; reflects the growth of the ministry Eduardo M. Pacheco. Abilio dosA. in North America. This expansion Pires. both O. L. MI. Carmel parish; was noted at last week's convenEugene H. Sasservine. Sacred Heart tion of the National Association of parish. all of New Bedford; Jeremiah Permanent Diaconate Directors J. Reardon. SI. Mary parish. South in Bloomington, Ind. The CathoDartmouth. lic News Service report on the Taunton/ Attleboro Area meeting follows.

A. Anthony Cipriuno. SI. John Evangelist parish. Attleboro; Robert Despite continuing struggles with J. Hill. SI. Paul parish; Joseph P. identity problems, permanent deaMedeiros. SI. Anthony parish. both cons are enjoyinga unique wave of Taunton; Walter D. Thomas, Thomas growth in North America.

P. Palanza. both St. Mary parish.

"When you're talking about the Mansfield. diaconate anywhere, you're talkCape Cod Area. ing about North America," said David P. Akin. SI.. Pius X parish.

Father John Boissonneau, direcSouth Yarmouth; James M. Barrett, tor of the diaconate program in Jr., O. L. Victory parish. Centerville; the archdiocese of Toronto. "This Chester O. Cook, SI. Peter Apostle parish, Provincetown; Leonard C. Dexis where the diaconate is the most ter, Jr., SI. John Evangelist parish. active and the most involved."

Pocasset; Frank D. Fantasia. Christ "In most parishes the deacon is the King parish. Mashpee; Dana G. the one who can say yes," he said.

McCarthy, Holy Trinity parish, West "He brings the skills and the attiHarwich; Norman F. McEnaney. O.L. tude ... and his greatest gifts are Cape parish. Brewster; Joseph F. MaTurn to Page 13 dor. Holy Redeemer :;mrish. Chatham.

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FATHER JOE T AGG stands with Bishop Sean O'Malley before last Sunday's Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral that concluded the diocesanwide Week of Renewal. (McGowan photo)

"Slouthern comfort" wins hearts

By Pat McGowan Southern comfort in the best meaning of the words was brought to the Fall River diocese last week

by Father Joe Tagg III, of the diocese of Memphis, TN, who conducted a "Week of Renewal" series of reflections for priests, parish lay ministers and other interested persons in the five deaneries of the diocese. H(: spent a day in each deanery, going successively to New Bedford, South Yarmouth, Fall River, Attleboro and Taunton.

Briefly discussing his tortuous

road to the priesthood, he described the luxurious life he had led as a successful lawyer. He hat! thought of becoming a priest since high school days, he said, and in 1978 came within a week of ordination, only to be assaiJed by ~oubts. Finally he went to his bishop, the late Carroll T. Dozier, to say he had decided against priesthood.

"He was so mad he pulJed off his collar and threw it on the ground," confided Father Tagg. One could hardly blame the bishop, consider-

ing that the reluctant candidate's name had to be whited off 1000 ordination programs.

Father Tagg returned to his former lifestyle but thoughts of the priesthood kept returning and in 1988, 10 years later, he finally became certain that it was his true vocation. Since ordination, he has worked in a Memphis parish and in the diocesan marriage tribunal and has also conducted missions and retreats throughout the nation.

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USCC/NCCD mull major organizational changes WASHINGTON (CNS) - The In fact. one proposed change is tion of bishops on the NCCB to recombine the NCCBand USCC U.S. Catholic bishops will take the Administrative Committee. the into one conference. probably to first big step toward major changes highest conference authority apart be called the NCCB. in their national organization when from the whole general memberBehind the proposals is a fourthey meet in Chicago June 15-17. ship. from 13 to 26 - two from year study by an ad hoc committee. .each NCCB region instead of the A key goal of proposals to be on mission and structure headed discussed is getting more bishops current one per region.

by Chicago Cardinal Joseph L. - Limit the Administrative Cominvolved directly and actively in the conference. ' Bernardin, former NCCB-USCC mittee membership of each standpresident and its first general ing committee to its chairman A second goal is to increase secretary. eliminating the second seat curimportance of the bishops' 13 The committee is also proposrently held by all USCC commit-~ regional groupings, and a third is ing that the bishops: to reduce the number of statetees.

- Reduce the number of stand- Limit full. voting memberments issued by the conference. ing committees from the current ship on all standing committees to If the bishops adopt the changes. bishops. Currently only bishops it will be the biggest overhaul of 28 to 15. are NCCB committee members their national conference structures - Increase committee sizes by but most USCC committees also since 1966, when they formed the raising the minimum number of have nonbishop members.

National Conference of Catholic bishops on each committee from - Place non bishops on comBishops and the U.S. Catholic five to scven and the maximum mittees only as consultants. with a Conference to replace the National number from seven to nine.

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The Anchor Friday, May 5, 1995

NEW YORK (CNS) - J. Peter Grace, a powerful figure in American business for a half century, was remembered at his funeral primarily for his religious commitment.

"If you want to know Peter Graq:, you have to look at his NATIONALS faith," said New York Cardinal $250 John J. O'Connor: LaSalette Fathers &Brothers, Attleboro Grace, 81, died of lung cancer $200 April 19 at St. Vincent's Hospital Tally's, Providence in New York. The cardinal was $100 homilist and celebrant for Grace's Philip F. Tally, Providence funeral Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, where the funeral for FALL RIVER Grace's father had been held. $325 Grace "suffered ·terribly during Sterling Package Store, Inc. Holy Week," Cardinal O'Connor said. But he said Grace became $300 serene, accepting his cancer as a St. Thomas More Conference, Somerset sharing of Christ's sufferings and $200 experienced an "enormously joyeNS photo Catholic Woman's Club of Fall River ful" Easter.

J. PETER. GRACE $150 The cardinal said Grace had Yellow Cab of Fall River, Inc. special devotion to Our Lady of $100 House shelter for troubled youths; Lourdes, and the two of them went Manuel Rogers &Sons Funeral Home, Inc. and the Inner City Scholarship to Lourdes this past winter with a Bernard A. G. Taradash Fund, which helps poor yo uths to pray for Grace's few associates Obstetrical Associates, Inc. recovery. Grace had "a very simple attend Catholic schools.'

Simon's Supply Co., Inc. He was a founding membl:r of faith" and a simple approach to Legatus, an international organimoral theology, he said, adding that his gifts and ~ervices to char- zation of Catholic chief executives itable causes were not an attempt whose mission is to spread the to "buy his way into heaven," but faith in their professional and percame out of recognition that he sonallives. . He was chairman of the advihad been born to special privisory committee of AmeriCares, a leges, and that he should use them Connecticut relief organization that to carry out God's will.

Father Jose M. Sousa was celeTributes read at ·the Mass in- over the past six years, in cooperabrant and Bishop Sean O'Malley cluded messages from Cardinal tion with Ameripan Knights of presided at the Mass of Christian Malta has shipped food and mediPio Laghi, papal representative to Burial May I for Father Sousa's cines with a retail value of more the Knights of Malta, and from father, Adelino R. Sousa, at St. Mother Teresa, the latter tele- than $110 million to the poor and Michael's Church, Fall River. The needy in Latin America, the Phiphoned from Dhaka, Bangladesh. husband .of Maria Conceicao. '.. , ATTLEBORO APPEAL: With Bishop O'Malley are lippines, and Europe.

Cardinal Laghi recalled that as (Melo) Sousa, he died April 28 at He held 25 honorary degrees (top) Father Bruce Neylon, Attleboro area Catholic Charities head of the American Knights of age 68. and was awarded Notre Dame's Malta, Grace worked to expand Ap~eal director, and (below) Deacon Thomas Souza, lay Born in Sao Vicente Ferreira, Laetare Medal. He had private Sao Miguel, Azores, he was the chairman, and Attleboro Appeal workers Leo Langlois (left) the order and "focus on the spirit- audiences with four popes and was Mother Teresa noted ual aspect." son of the late Manuel R. Sousa and Robert Menard, both members of S1. Mary's parish, that Grace had assisted the work an advisor to three presidents. and the late Adelaide (Cabral) But he was perhaps best known Seekonk, where Father Ne.ylon is pastor. (Gaudette and of her Missionary Sisters of CharSousa, and had lived in Fall River for his work from 1982 to 19~;4 as Hickey photos). ity. for 28 years. head of president Ronald Reagan's and Dames of Malta Knights He worked for many years as a Private Sector Survey on Cost wearing their regalia processed into machine operator at the Plymouth Control in the Federal Governcathedral and among Mass the Rubber Co. of Canton before rement, which became known an the concelebrants were Archbishop tiring at age 62. A parishioner at Grace Commission.

Renato R. Martino, papal nuncio St. Michael's, he was also a memThe commission's final report to the United Nations, Archbishop ber ofthe'Affonso Costas Repubcontained 2,478 specific recomTheodore E. McCarrick of NewA first total of $142,405.88 for surpass its 1994 returns by a lican Club. mendations to eliminate waste and Besides his wife and Father the 1995 Catholic Charities Appeal substantial amount. "May our ark, N.J., and other bishops. inefficiency and save the governFather Theodore Holy Cross Sousa, who is parochial vicar at of the Fall River diocese was an- generous sharing be the measure ment $424.4 billion over a threeOur Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, .nounced today at Appeal head- of our love and bring about an M. Hesburgh, former president of year period. It is estimated that the University of Notre Dame, at increase over the 1994 Appeal total New Bedford, Adelino Sousa is quarters in Fall River by Diocesan recommendations that have heen which Grace was a trustee, was of $2,307,272.10," he said. survived by two daughters, Ma.ria Director Rev. Daniel L. Freitas. . implemented have saved U.S. taxamong priests concelebrating, as It is noted that the time of the Lucilla Cabral and Maria Lurdes The figur~ reflects the total of Spepayers approximately $500 billion Catholic Charities kickoff Mass were three Trappist abbots.

Sousa, both of Fall River; two cial Gifts thus far made; and those since 19.84. and his wife had arranged Grace brothers, Manuel Virginio Sousa collecting these contributions are originally scheduled for telecastof Sao Vicente Ferreira and Gil- asked to return their remaining ing at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 7, has to be buried at St. Joseph's Cisterberto Sousa of West Bridgewater; contribution cards as soon as pos- been changed. It will be seen on cian Abbey in Spencer, and folthe same date on WLNE Channel lowing the April 22 Mass, Grace's a sister, Maria da Encarnacao sible. body was taken there for burial.

Estrela; two granddaughters and The parish phase of the Appeal 6 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

At the time of his death, Grace several nieces and nephews. begins Sunday, May 7, when thouwas chairman of W.R. Grace & . sands of volunteers will call at May6 Co., a $5 billion specialty chemisome 115,000 homes in the 112 1905, Rev. Thomas P. Elliott, diocesan parishes to request conVATICAN CITY (CNS) - The cals and health care company that Founder, St. Mary, Mansfield his grandfather founded 140 years tributions. Families are asked to right to life must override the right 1980, Rev. Asdrubal Casl:elo be prepared for the visitation and to abortion in constitutional law, ago.

Branco, Retired Pastor, Imm2.cuIn addition to the Knights of late Conception, New Bedord. volunteers are asked to make re- said Antonio Baldassarre, presi-. ports to their parish headquarters dent of Italy's constitutional court. . Malta, Grace was involved with May7 at the time specified by each parish. "It is unchallengeable that the right such groups as the Knights of the 1958, Rev. Raymond P. Levell, of Jerusalem; the Holy Sepulcher The parish phase will close Tues- to life begins at the moment of For Family Love S.J., Professor, Spring Hill Colday, June 6, and final Appeal fig- conception," he said in a Vatican Grace Institute, a tuition-free lege, Mobile, Alabama school for women which has gradures for it and for Special Gifts will Radio interview. "From the point Father, help us to live as May9 uated some 100,000 students since at 10 a.m.

Tuesday, be totaled of view of constitutional law, it is the holy family, united in 1940, Rev. J.E. Theodule Giits founding in 1897; the <;:ovenant June 13.

Permanent Deacon very difficult -:I would say imposrespect and love. Bring us Thomas J. Souza, diocesan Appeal sible - to recognize abortion as a 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 guere, Pastor, St. Anne, New Hedto the joy and peace of your chairman, expressed gratitude for right of freedom for the mother," THE ANCHOR (USPS-545-020). Second ford 1941, Rev. John P. Clarke, Paseternal home. Grant this contributions thus far made, and it he said. The constitutional court is Class Postage Paid at Fall River. Mass. was noted that after May 30, re- Italy's highest tribunal for judging Published weekly except the week of July 4' tor, St. Mary, Hebronville through our Lord Je~us turns should be made directly to the constitutionality of laws. Ital- and the week after Christmas at 887 HighMay 12 Christ, your Son, wJJo lives Appeal headquarters at 344 High- ian newspapers predicted that the land Avenue. Fall River, Mass. 02720 by 1920, Rev. John F. deValles, and reigns with you and the the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall land Ave., Fall River, to ensure interview would reignite national Chaplain, United States Army River. Subscription price by mail, postpaid Holy Spirit, one God, for that they are properly credited. debate over Italy's abortion law as $11.00 per year. Postmasters send address 1986, Rev. Herve Jalbert, Ret:,red ever and ever. Amen.

Father Freitas added that it was candidates prepare for national changes to The Anchor. P.O. Box 7, Fall Pastor, Blessed Sacrament, Fall his hope that every parish will elections later this year.

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Separated/ Divorced conference set "Fullness of Life: Laughter, Intimacy, Freedom, Empowerment" is the theme of an international conference to be sponsored July 6 and 7 by the North American Conference of Separated and Divorced Catholics at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Ind. The gathering, open to all faiths and to clergy, pastoral ministers, parents and friends of the separated or divorced, will he preceded on July 5 and 6 by two leadership workshops: "Introduction to Leadership," presented by Dorothy J. Levesque of Cranston, RI, NACSDC executive director, and members of the conference's international board of directors; and "Which Pew Is Mine?" presented

by Green Bay, Wise. Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Morneau, Dr. Anthony Padovano and Ms. Levesque.

Among those on the conference program will be Father John Shea, OSA, associate professor of psychology and couseling at Fordham University, BrOJ1)(, NY;author Paula Ripple-Comin; and Dr. Kathleen Kircher, therapis.t and faculty member at Regis University, Denver, CO. Both Ms. Ripper-Comin and Dr. Kircher are past NACS DC executive directors.

Further information is available from Ms. Levesque, 80 SI. Mary's Dr., Cranston, R102920, tel. (40 I) 943-7903.

Nurses to convene in October The Diocesan Council of Coltholic Nurses will host the 36th conference of the Council of Catholic Nurses ofNe}\' England Oct. 13-15 at the Cape Codder Hotel in Hyannis. Bishop Sean O'Malley will speak at the conference's Saturday night banquet and celebrate Mass on Sunday.

"The spirit of the Lord is guiding and stimulating our reason for bein,g Catholic nursl~s. There is a need for us to evangelize in our various workplaces," says Sister Rachel Lafrance, president of the diocesan and New England councils. "United, we can make a difference in nursing to protect and' respect life at all stages."

Conference cochairpersons are Joan Morin of West Hyannisport and Delores Santos of Hyannis.

Registration information is available from Alice LeBlanc, 64 Waldo St., New Bedford 02745; 995-0158.

Hotel reservations must be made

by Sept. 15 with the Cape Codder, 771-3000.

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St. Joseph Sisters mark jubilees Nine Sisters of St. Joseph will celebrate their golden jubilees and three their silver jubilees at a liturgy and reception 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Mont Marie in Holyoke.

Among the golden jubilarians are Sister Therese de L'Enfant Jesus Ouelette of Fall River and Sister Rita Pelletier of New Bedford.

Sister Ouelette is a companion to the elderly. Previously she ministered as a teacher, sacristan and librarian at St. Joseph's, New Bedford; St. Mathieu and St. Jean Baptiste Fall River; and SI. Michael's and SI. Louis de France, Swansea. She also worked in child care in Assonet, Fall River and Swansea. She entered the congregation from SI. Jean Baptiste parish.

Sister Pelletier is a pastoral assistant at SI. Mary's parish, New Bedford. She has also ministered at SI. Joseph's, New Bedford, and in Fall River at SI. Jean Baptiste, Blessed Sacrament, and SI. Roch

DCCW' CONVENTION organizers (from left) Ann Andrade, president Bella Nogueira and Muriel Patenaude review plans for the convention luncheon.

DCCW announces agenda The Diocesan Council of Coltholic Women will hold its 42nd annual convention 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. May 13 at St., John of God parish center, Somerset.

Members traveling from Cape Cod, New Bedford and Fall River should note that the Brightman Street Bridge will be closed that day, t~erefore the :Brag~ Bri.dgtt,. mustbe 'used.

Registration anQ coffee hour will begin at 7:30 a.'m. A business meeting will follow the 8:30 welcome, with the agenda to include reports from the Constitution and By-Laws Revision Committee and the nominating committee and election of officers. Candidates for offices in the Natiopal Council of Catholic Women will be announced and a pro-life resolution will be presented to the assembly.

Keynoter The keynote address, "Mary Did, So Can You,'" will be given by Father George G. Greenway, moderator of the Springfield Diocesan Council of Catholic Women.

A former Episcopal priest, Father Greenway was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1987.

Widowed in 1992, he is the father of three adult children and grandfather of five.

He has been a missionary, parish priest, retreat master, lecturer, college chaplain and diocesan administrator. He is Director of Planned Giving and a member of the Deacon Formation Board in the Springfield diocese and serves on several local, state and national organization boards and committees. , Guest of Honor " Also speaking will be Bishop Sean O'Malley, who will present Our Lady of Good Counsel Awards to a member of each of the five district councils and will be principal celebrant of the convention Mass, at which officers will be installed. Msgr. John J. Oliveira will be master of ceremonies and among concelebrants will be Father Francis L. Mahoney, DCCW moderator, and St. John of God pastor Father Daniel L. Freitas.

All priests attending are asked to wear the Emmaus stoles they received from the DCCW. A catered luncheon will follow.

The afternoon program will be "Mary, Woman of Many Faces," tableaux featuring various apparitions of the Blessed Mother, enacted by members and children of members with brief narration and musical accompaniment.

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Nobel nominee ROME (CNS) -- The Community of San Egidio, a Catholic lay organization that mediated an end to Mozambiqu(:'s civil war, is a candidate for thl~ 1995 Nobel Peace Prize. Among its nominators are ex-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople and Rabbi Samuel Sirat, presidl~nt ofEurope's rabbinical organization. San Egidio officials confirmed their official candidacy after Italian newspaper stories reported that they were on the list of more than 100 candidates. "We w(:re also candidates last year, but made no publicity about it," said Mario Marazziti, San Egidio spokesman.

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v ATlCAN CITY (CNS) - The automatic excommunication foreseen for a woman who procures an abortion also extends to the circle of "accomplices" who helped determine her choice, said the Vatican's top expert on church law, Archbishop Julian Herranz. At the same time, excommunication here is "medicinal," not punitive, and in some cases may not apply because of mitigating circumstances, he said. Archbishop Herranz, head of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts, made the comments in an article published in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano. The article reviewed legal aspects of Pope John Paul II's encyclical "Evangelium Vitae" ("The Gospel of Life").

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She has also served as associate director for religious education at the Diocesan Department of Education and coordinator of religious education at SI. Mary's. The daughter of Joseph Pelletier of New Bedford, she entered the Sisters ofSt. Joseph frotll SI. Joseph's parish in that city.

Also a goldenjubilarian is Sister Dorothy Santarpia, now a counselor at the Diocesan Pastoral Care Center in Springfield. She was a teacher and later principal of the former SI. Mathieu's School, Fall River, and also taught at SI. Joseph's School, New Bedford, and SI. Joseph's High School in Conway, AK. She was a counselor at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, and Cathedral High School in Springfielp. She entered the congregation from SI. Elizabeth's parish, Fall River.

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A Forceful Reminder In the past year the Vatican has made great strides towards settling the controversies that have existed between the Catholic Church and the State of Israel. Their diplomatic recognition'.of each other was indeed a solid result of the ongoing efforts on both sides to arrive at agreement regarding, the historical and religious problems that have existed between the two states. ' Much groundwork in this area followed the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on the Relation of the Church to NonChristian Religions, which declares that it should not be forgotten that the Church "received the Old Testament by way of that people with whom God in His inexpressible mercy established the ancient covenant." The Church gladly acknowledges that from the Jewish people s'prang the apostles, her foundation stones and pillars, as did most of the early disciples who proclaimed Christ to the world.

The Council repudiated anti-Semitism at any time and from any source. This is not simply,a pro forma statement but an indication of a mind-set that brought about a fresh starting point for building a fraternal spirit between Catholics and Jews, requiring for its fruition goodwill, justice and mu~ual esteem.

Sad to say, hopes for this were somewhat diminished last week when Israeli Chief Rabbi Israel Lau accused the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, born a Jew, of betraying his people and .c: his faith. Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, whose parents were eNS photo Polish Jews and whose mother died at Auschwitz, was in the NEW YORK CARDINAL JOHN O'CONNOR GREETS DOM LAURENTINO SAENZ Holy Land to participate in a symposium on the Holocaust. DE BURUAGA OF THE BENEDICTINE ABBEY OF SANTO DOMINGO DE SILOS, Rather than providing a moment of reconciliation, his presSPAIN,IN NEW YORK IN CONNECTION WITH A NEW RELEASE BY MEMBERS OF ence reopened old wounds. As a youth, the cardinal had been HIS COMMUNITY, WHOHITTHE POP BESTSELLER LIST IN 1994 WITH "CHANT" taken into the home of a Catholic family in Orleans after his "Come, let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our parents were deported during the Nazi occupation of France.

He eventually converted to Catholicism and thereafter entered Saviour." Ps. 94:1 , the priesthood:~ " "' ;:~: ...- .. ~ " . '. .

Some ofllis-cnHcs'accused him'of'doing this to save his own skin and of being a traitor to Is'rael. 'His reply: "To say I am no longer a Jew is like denying my father and mother, my grandCHASE, Md, (CNS) other African-American Protes- a pastor to go easy on social action 'fathers and grandmothers. I am as Jewish' as all the other - CHEVY Clergy, religious and laity, both tant churches and Catholic, parand instead to "preach Jesw;." members of my family who were butchered inrAuschwitz or in white and black, heard rallying ishes with a majority of white "Why would you separate Jesus other camps." cries on how to be more effective members; increasing awareness on from Medicare? Why would you It is deplorable when either Catholics or Jews resurrect old with their ministry in parishes with social issues; and not buckling separate Jesus from scholan.hips? hates. Anti-Catholicism will not be eradicated by anti:.. a majority of black Catholics dur- under when talking values, espe- Why would you separate Jesus ing an April 23-27 workshop in the c;ially to the young. from school breakfast and :lunch Semitism. Noone denies that tensions still exist but if we are to Washington suburb of .Chevy Bryan A. Stevenson, executive programs?" Mr. Jackson asked. reconcile differences and foster understanding, we must not Chase.

"What kind of bifurcated Gosdirector of the Alabama Capital nurture them. ' The cries had as much to do Representation Resource Center, pel is that?.. That's religion as The dialogue of friendship cannot be one-sided. Catholics with the temporal as the spiritual talked about young people's hope- dope. That's religion as am:sthewelfare of their communities. Their lessness in the context of the death sia, That's not bearing the c:ross, and Jews, the Vatican and Israel have much in common that common theme was that the gosthat's wearing the cross." penalty. must be stUdied, emphasized and fostered if pain is to be eased pel and social issues belong toThe Bible teaches, Mr. Jackson "I talk to the 13- to 14-year-old and healing expedited. gether. siblings of some of my clients," said, that "Jesus believes in affirThe"Pastoringin African-Amer- Stevenson said. After telling them mative action," using the parable The episode of last week is more than unfortunate but it Parishes" workshop sponsored to stay strong, he typically hears of the lost sheep. should not become a rallying point for bigots of whatever ican by the National Black Catholic the reply, "I know I'm going to be "Jesus could have said, 'I've got persuasion. The Holocaust plumbed new depths of inhuman- Congress highlighted speakers con99 sheep. I've got most of the dead by the time I'm 18. So don't ity and the tragedy is that even though on a smaller scale, nected to the corridors of power in talk to me about going to school, sheep. Maybe it got bit by a snake, similar inhumanity and prejudice continue with Hutus and the nation's capital. maybe it got bit by a wolf. Maybe don't talk to me about getting a Andrew Cuomo, assistant secre- job. I'm going to get out of here it got caught in the briar thicket.

Tutsis in Rwanda as with Serbs and Croats in Croatia. On an tary for community planning and Maybe one of the big sheep kicked and do what I do." even smaller scale, prejudice is harbored by individuals. development with the Department it.'''

Avis LaVelie, assistant secretary The only countermeasure is for each of us to nurture love of Housing and Urban Develop- for public affairs in the Depart"Instead, Jesus said, 'But iI's my ment, blasted $17 billion in budget and respect for all human beings in his or her own heart. ment of Health and Human Servi- sheep. And I cannot rest until all ,"

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recissions passed by the Republices, said work, responsibility and can-led House, which will af(ect reducing teen-age pregnancies are the Women, Infants and Children the "three core values of welfare feeding program and summer youth reform." jobs, and will reduce HUD's own Most welfare recipients are off budget by 25 percent. aid programs after two years, she "But they can still find $200 bil- said; that is the time limit most lion for a tax cut, half of which will often talked about in current welgo to people making more than fare reform proposals. $100,000 a year, and they can still "The trick is not getting off, but find $183 billion for a capital gains staying off," Ms. LaVelle. said. tax cut, half of which will go to people making more than $200,000 . Federal investments in education, job training, child care and health a year," Cuomo declared.

U.S. Department of Health and care would remove incentives to Human Services Deputy Secretary stay on welfare, she added.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson lashed Walter D. Broadnax issued several challenges to African-Ameri- out against attempts to end affirmative action. can Catholic parishes.

A two-time presidential aspirant, They included making a continuing commitment to cultural sen- he told of an incident when, as a sitivity; building partnerships with visiting preacher, he was asked by

sheep are here!' " Mr. Jac:kson concluded.

Detroit Auxiliary Bishop Moses.

B. Anderson, one of 12 active U.S. black bishops, talked frankly about parish survival.

"Some say the parish will not survive because of the lack of priests, the lack of religious, the lack of deacons, or the lack (If lay ministers. Some say the lac:k of good relations between the clergy, religious and lay ministers threatens the survival of the parish," he said.

"They may threaten the survival of a particular parish but not the church. We must evangeli7.,e in such a manner that we live and preach the staying power of both the universal church and the local ecclesial community."

Goodb'ye, Julie

The She](lherd protects his sheep

The following editorial by Editor John Mallon will appear in the May 7 Sooner Catholic, newspaper ofthe Oklahoma City archdiocese.

Acts 13:14,43-52 Revelation 7:9,14-17 John 10:27-30 In its beginnings, Christianity, despite its small numbers and lack of political power threatened both the mother Jewish faith and the established religion of the Roman Empire. Today's readings remind us that, while end uring the trials of persecution, we too are strengthened by faith in the Good Shepherd who promises: '''No one shall snatch them out of my hand."

With faith in the victory of the risen Shepherd who laid down his life for us, we sing our psalm response, "We are his people; the sheep of his flock" (Ps 100). . The account of Paul's preaching in Pisidian Antioch follows a pattern that frequently occurs in his journeys reported in Acts: after initial success among the Jews, the Gospel meets violent opposition, and the apostles turn to the Gentiles, who respond joyfully to the message.

In today's reading, Paul and Barnabas begin their mission in the Jewish synagogue on the Sabbath, and many Jews and devout Jewish converts become their followers. But on the following Sabbath, when "almost the entire city gathered to hear the word of God," the Jewish community becomes jealous and counters everything Paul says with violent abuse.

Paul and Barnabas then fearlessly turn to the Gentiles in fulfillment of the Lord's instructions: "I ~ave made you a light to the nations, a means of salvation to the end of the earth" (Is 49:6). The Gentiles are "delighted" to hear the Gospel and respond "to the word of the Lord with praise."

Even when Paul and Barnabas are expelled from the territory, they are not discouraged. Joyfully shaking its dust from their feet, they move on to Iconium.

The reading from Revelation originally offered a consoling vision of the future for the seven churches in Asia Minor whose Christian faith caused public suspicion and sporadic persecution by Roman authorities. John's visions remind us that authentic Christian faith will be persecuted by the evil powers of the world, but they also assure us of God and the Lamb's ultimate triumph over the forces of evil.

Daily Readings May 8: Acts 11:1-18; Ps 42:2-3;43:3-4; In 10:1-10 May 9: Acts 11:19-26; Ps '87:1-7; In 10:22-30 May 10: Acts 12:24-13:5a; Ps 67:2-3,5-6,8; In 12:44-50 May 11: Acts 13:13-25; Ps 89:2-3,21-22,25,27; In 13: 16-20 May 12: Acts 13:26-33; Ps 2:6-11'; In 14:1-1) May 13: Acts 13:44-52; Ps 98:1-4; In 14:7-]l4 May 14: Acts 14:21-27; Ps 145:8-13; Rv 21:1-5a; In 13:31-33a,34-35

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For the risen Christ even death is not defeat but victory. In his vision John sees a huge crowd from every nation, race, people and tongue joyfully participating in the heavenly liturgy before the throne of God and the Lamb (the crucified and risen Christ). They are dressed in long white robes of glory and are holding the palm branches of victory in their hands.

John learns from one of the elders that "these are the ones who have survived the great period of trial; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." All Christians who suffer in their struggle against evil are consoled with the elder's concluding words: "He who sits on the throne will give them shelter.

Never again shall they know hunger or thirst, nor shall the sun or its heat beat down on them, for the Lamb on the throne will shepherd them."

He will lead them to springs of life-giving water, and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

This Sunday's gospel from John shares the theme of Jesus' protection of his followers in the midst of trial. Jesus himself is under attack.

He is in the temple area at the feast of the Dedication and is challenged with the words: "If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly."

After this incident, the Jews pick up rocks to stone him. 1n the midst of this hostility, Jesus speaks of the difference between his opponents and his followers, saying that his enemies reject him because they refuse to believe in the works he does in the Father's name, while his disciples are the sheep who "hear [his] voice."

They follow Jesus the Good Shepherd who will lay down his life for his sheep (see John 10: 1418). Those who follow Jesus in this life of selfless love are assured of protection. "I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish.

No one shall snatch them out of my hand" (John 10:28).

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I didn't know Julie, I just felt like I did. She was one of those people I felt like I knew even though I'd never met her. I was even at the point of asking her if she went to the same university that I did, so familiar did she look.

She was young and pretty, yes, and as a single guy I notice those things. But that wasn't the issue, there was more. It was as though God had shone a gentle spotlight on her. I only saw her at Mass in my parish, Epiphany of the Lord, in Oklahoma City. She seemed to be one of Jc:sus' special friends.

She stayed after Mass each week to pray - really pray. Clearly she was a friend of Jesus. I like to know people who are friends of Jesus. I want to be friends with them. I fully expected that one day I would have a chance properly to initiate a conversation with her.

Still, I didn't know her name.

Last weekend I noticed she wasn't at Mass. Then Father Stieferman announced what he said many other preachers in Oklahoma ' City would have to say in church that Sunday - that we'd lost a parishioner. He said her name was Julie Welch,.23 years old. I was trying to place a face with that name and the face of this girl whose name I didn't know came to mind.

After Mass I asked Father Stieferman who Julie was, and he said she was a daily communicant and very devout. I said, "Not the one who used to sit over there," I motioned, ':a~d pray after Mas~... ?" _ "Yes.". ' , "Oh no."

Julie worked in the federal building.

Then I re<:ognized some young people from the young adult prayer group that meets at Tinker Air Force Base on Friday nights that great group I keep promising to visit and\vrite an article about.

Julie was a member, and her friends had come to Mass at her parish to honor her.

Her body had been recovered, they told me, and the thought of her delicate, petite frame covered, bent and broken under cement and rubble horrified me. She was not made for' that. The image could not have been more out of place.

But I also couldn't help thinking she must have had a real straight shot to heaven. She was made for heaven, and that image fit, albeit much too soon for my thinking.

But, after all her visits with Jesus, which I discreetly observed after Mass, I knew when she saw Jesus face to face they would need no introduction.

But Julie, I am still looking forward to our introduction.

Till then, The friend you never met, John

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Bishops criticize death penalty HARTFORD, Conn. (CNS)There are "serious ethical problems" with the use of capital punishment "as a means ofjust retribution at this time in the history of our land, "said the Catholic bishops of Connecticut.

The death penalty is legal in Connecticut, but none of the seven prisoners on death row in the state is clOSe to an execution date and no one has been executed there since the early 1960s. The Legislature voted recently to change the

method of execution from the electric chair to lethal injection.

"While conceding that the state has the duty to maintain public order and the right to punish convicted criminals, we question whether capital punishment is morally acceptable in our nation today," the Catholic leaders said in a statement. "Accordingly, we express our considered opposition to its use in the state of Connecticut at this time," they added.

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not on a hill overlooking the city from which :those within might have looked down on the dust and squalor of the plebeian masses but right in the civic center's heaven and hell of wh.at's happening now.

That's one reason I like being a Catholic who writes; it puts me smack in the middle of everything. , When I say that religion, especially Catholicism, is fertilizer, I mean that its purpose ,is to nourish people's humanity and spirituality.

The Christian religion isn't a protection agai nst anything except our own foolishness. It exists to help keep the human heart, mind and spirit alive and growing.

If anything, Catholicism is likely to make one's life more of a risk, more of an adventure. Of course, many people are not wild about taking risks and getting involved in adventures.

Religion is a means to an end - everyday spiritual health and well-being - not an end' in itself.

Some people forget this, or maybe they have never heard it before. So . they worship their religion instead of God. They make religion an "ultimate concern," to borrow theologian Paul Tillich's famous phrase, forgetting that only God - a name we give to the Unnamable, the divine mystery - is the proper ultimate concern.

If believers take their religion as an end in itself, ·that is a form of idol worship. Religion is fertilizer,

"Poetry became for him 'a life line. It helped me through some difficult times.

It moves me out of depression and helps 'me get in touch with my feelings. '" With this discovery, Mickey, who has written over I,000 poems, began a home business that he named Poetic Expressions. His poems appear. on greeting cards, bookmarks and personalized event certificates suitable for framing.

He has also self-published two booklets of his poetry.

Mickey wrote me how he started a program called Adopt-a-Friend.

He linked 17 third- and fourthgraders with people with disabilities. They write to each other once

When you feel moody

..Dear -Dr.. Kenny: I want to .be a decent. human being, but sometimes my moods get the best of me and I am just plain nasty. I hurt people that I love, people I really didn't want to hurt. Have you any suggestions on how to overThe Catholic cathedral in the an irritable mood? (New come city where I live is a good example.

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By Mitch Finley When people called them Catholic writers, the great ones such as Graham Greene and Walker Percy replied that they didn't think of themselves as Catholic writers, they thought of themselves as writers who happened to be Catholic.

I can make no such claim.

I confess that lam a Catholic' writer. I am a Catholic who happens to write books. The author of a books column in our local newspaper described me as "a professional Catholic," and he was right.

I squirm sometimes when I think about this because I know that to be "typecast" as "a Catholic writer" is to become,irrelevant in the eyes of many readers.

In what Yale law professor and author Stephen L. Carter calls "the culture of disbelief," one should take a Catholic writer about as seriously as you take Mickey Mouse.

We live in an era when a great many sophisticated, well-educated, sincere people think of religion as a private hobby with no relevance to the real world.

For many such people, Catholicism, in particular, is an intellectual straitjacket. They think that religion is a crutch used by those too weak of heart to face life and the world head-on.

Horsefeathers.

Religion isn't a crutch. It's fertilizer.

Catholicism, especially, is fertilizer because it is an earthy religion, a religion of the people, a religion of the public square.

Mickey, who lives in St. Nazianz, Wis., writes to me and sends me copies of the poetry he composes. Though we are separated by more than 1,000 miles, we are connected in our spirits.

Mickey was a polio victim at the age of 2. The illness and its effects never completely left him. Now at 45, he continually battles his condition, which causes fatigue, muscle spasms and pain.

We became acquainted by mail after Mickey read an excerpt from my book "The Pummeled Heart" in the Stauros Notebook. This is a publication of Stauros USA, an ecumenical nonprofit organization based at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.

Stauros - the Greek word for "cross" - promotes studies and programs on specific areas of human suffering, largely from a Christian point of view.

Mickey's life has been his preparation for his present work, which he calls his ministry. In his younger adult years, he was a religious lay brother with the Capuchin Order of Friars Minor, serving as a gardener and sacristan. After he left the order, he went into the health care field, specializing in care for the aged, and then he worked at a nursing home.

But his health continued .to decline, forcing him to leave his position. By this time, however, Mickey h.ad discovered that he could write poetry. And poetry became for h.im "a life line," he says. "It has helped me through some difficult times. It moves me out of depression and helps me get in touch with my feelings."

trate easily. When are you most likely to be in a bad mood? Where?

Once'yo'u'know you iue having a "bad hair day," announce it to anyone nearby. Tell them you don't feel well, that you're grumpy, that you may be unfit for human consumption that day.

Admitting to your-mood is helpful in controlling it. Also the peo-

What a practical question! It's so easy to be nice when you're feel"Once you know ing good. But when you have a you are having cold, feel angry or depressed, are provoked Or pestered by a chi'ld, or bad day, (lnnounce are simply worn out, the kindly it to anyone nearby. words don't come easy at all.

The key is to be careful not to A dmitting to your " blame the people around you or mood is helpful in put them down. Be honest with yourself about your mood, the controlling it. " way you are feeling. .

The first step in dealing with a mood is to recognize the early warning signs. Examine your life- pIe around you know to stay away, style to try to discover if you frus- or at least not to take what you say too personally.

111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Here are a few hints to help it exists to nourish our love for improve your mood. You can reGod and neighbor.

I'm not talking about the "insti- member them by using the acronym "FLIRT." Think of it as teastutional religion" we hear so much ing away your mood. about. Many people confuse relig"F" stands for fun. Do some of ion with religious institutions. Reyour favorite activities. Work on ligious institutions, are supposed one of your hobbies. 0,0 someto spread the fertilizer, but often thing. Don't try to out-think a enough the institutions get clogged mood. up so that this nourishment has "L" stands for laugh. Sometimes trouble getting through. things are so bad it's absurd.

They get clogged up when the Haven't you ever had one of those people who guide the institutions days when everything went wrong, act as if religion, not love in the and then one more thing? Be like image of Jesus, is what it's all the Irish who even celebrate wakes. about.

Laughter is an explosive emotion It's not easy being a Catholic writer when the "culture of disbe- and can provide a good release.

"I" stands for indulge yourself. lief' dismisses you and your books.

Curl up with a good book. Watch So it goes. I do what I can, and I a sitcom. Take a bubble bath. Go love doing it. to bed. This may be the time for I keep trying to spread the fertilGTMs (Good to Myselfs). izer - this nourishment that can "R" stands for relax. Learn ways help things grow.

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a month, and, he said, "we also work on creating well ness through poetry."

From Adopt-a-Friend has come an unusual new project. As Mickey explained, one of the women receiving the letters is blind. Since his own eyesight is deteriorating because of his physical condition, Mickey had great empathy for her.

Thus he has produced canis with his poetry in large print and braille.

Mickey sends me a poem with every letter. The poetry is faithfilled. One of my favorites is "Alone With God." Here is an excerpt: "I can hear the tapping of the radiator the crackling of the icicles the drop of a pin...

It is here in this tranquil chapel that I can find peace.

For the heart is at rest and my longing for God . is complete.

I need this time to put all things asidf: to contemplate the mystery of life, a life centered in Chrisl:."

By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY

to settle your mind. Try imaging.

Pick a favorite scene from your past and use all five of your senses to recall it.

Another way to relax is to take a deep breath. Imagine you .He fil. ling your lungs with peal:e and love. Then let it out slowly. Imagine you are letting go of all your aches and pains, all your tension.

"T" stands for talking with friends. Call someone near and dear on the phone. Visit a neighbor. Sharing with a friend may be the best way of all to deal with a down time.

We are all subject to moods, but we don't have to be victimized by them. Remember FLIRT. Be good to others in spite of yourself.

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Seekin ecr volunteer oppor t unl·t·les Q. A few of us in our university dorm want to find some place that can really use us where we can volunteer for sen:ice work this summer. Have you any suggestions? Or can you tell us where to look for possibilitil:s? (Ohio) A. Since the last time I responded to a similar question in this column, two wonderful publications have been brought to my attention.

One is •Response," the Volunteer Directory for 1995, published by the Catholic Network of Volunteer Service. It lists the purpose, requirements, financial and living arrangements, tra:ning expectations and other information for dozens of volunteer programs in the United States and foreign countries, with lengths of service varying from several weeks to several years.

The great majority have Catholic affiliation; a few are under Protestant or non-denominational auspices.

WritetoCNVS,4121 Harewood Road N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017; 800-543-5046.

The other is "Connections 1995," a publication of the St. Vincent Pallotti Center for Apostolic Development (Box 893, Cardinal Station; Washington D.C. 20064; phone 202-529-3330). .

"Connections" carries basically the same information as "Response:" Many listings overlap, of course, but each publication includes some programs not in the other.

Openings are available to teen-

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rationalizing Have you seen the articles, studies and commentaries recently about how per-capita cheap we Catholics are compared to other faith communities?

Makes me defensi.ve. Know what I mean?

Makes me want to ask "them" (whoever "them" is) if they've calculated the volunteer time Catholics provide, all the non-parish, non-Catholic work Catholics do, all the other stuff.

On the other hand, being a Seasoned tightwad with the church, I am quite conversant with my own rationalizations and defense mechanisms in this regard.

One of the first that pops t() mind is that peopk who give too much to a church are religious fanatics. And I surely would not want to be considered a wacko, and as it happens I have the tax receipts to prove I am not.

Which hints at another warning beep frequently heard on my "cheapskate detection systl:m." Do I avoid giving cash and say I'll send a check later so the donation can be verified for the IRS? After all, I tell myself, Jesus did saysomethingabout rendering unto Caesar, and if I don't have a receipt the IRS will render me.

Scripture scholars might quibble and claim Jesus did not mean "N 0 receipt, no tithe," but not ones who've been audited big time.

See how easy it is to be a skinflint?

Here are some other examples of weaseling that ooze through my head when confronted with the

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("The blood of Christ"), as well as THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., May 5, 1995 an "emerge:ncy" procedure when not enough ministers are present at a particular Mass.

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agel's, senior citizens and everyone in between.

As the presence of these valuable directories indicates, lay volunteers, short- and long-term, have become quite a significant factor in the life of the church today. Every indication is that their importance will continue to grow. .

The Pallotti centers and the Catholic network (and I'm sure there are others as well) deserve our thanks for making this information so readily available to' American Catholics and others.

Q. You have said in your column and in your book that receiving communion by intlnction (dipping the host in the cup) prevents the option of receiving communion in Dear Editor: the hand.

August 1995 marks an imporSeveral of our parishioners, tant memory, an event which including myself, ask why they changed the course of history. Fifty cannot receive the host and then years ago on August 6, 1995, the dip the host in the cup themselves.

United States dropped an atom Can you explain? (New York) bomb on Hiros~ima, Japan, and A. In all its liturgical guidelines three days later repeated this act on the subject, the church points on Nagasaki, the largest Catholic out that the theology and the entire symbolism of the communion rite . community in Japan. Since that moment, ,the specter of nuclear require that the Eucharist be minwar has hovered over us. istered.

What should this anniversary This includes both the' consemean to the Catholic Christian crated bread and wine, if both community today? forms are offered.

We are members of Agape, a lay The church is so conscious of Catholic community in Hard wick, this need that it provides a separdedicated to a teaching ministry in ate form for mini~tering the cup nonviolence. Since 1982.our ministry has reached into every diocese in New England with. an emphasis on faith formation in nonBy violence, embracing all age levels.

Agape was cited in the recent U.S. DAN Catholic bishops' pastoral, "Confronting a Culture of Violence," as MORRIS a national resource for parishbased programs on nonviolence.

We would like to be a teaching presence in your parish to commemorate the 50th anniversary of opportunity to share with those in the Hiroshi mal Nagasaki atomic need: destruction.

-Isn't the county already doing We at Agape are launching a this?

Massachusetts-wide program -Are these guy$ really going to which opens dialogue on the annido the job right? versary of the atomic bombings -How do I know the individuand have several resources availaals who receive the help really, ble to parishes to reflect on this truly need it? event. One program will examine -If you divide the amount to be church teaching on war as part of given by $6 per hour and think in the "consistent ethic of life." Other terms of turning this many hours themes might be appropriate for of your life over to a person who your parish, which we would be won't appreciate i~, then ... happy to consult with you about.

- Will the amount donated genBlessing of peace on you. We erate reciprocal measure of aplook forward to sharing the word preciation? of God with you in an effort to be I admit I do worry about my the community of Christ. soul when, in considering Jesus' Suzanne and Brayton Shanley admonition about serving a couDavid Gill, SJ ple of bosses simul~aneously("You Eleanor MacClellan, RSCJ cannot give yourself to God and Hardwick money"), I realize that what I Editor's note: Agape members really want to de:> is search my Janet and Alden Poole, summer mind for people (other than myselO communicants at Our Lady of the who do that.

Cape parish, Brewster, will presNot being a widow, I also feel a ent "Patriotism and Conscience" 3 little squeamish at times when to 5 p.m. May 7 at the church, with Scripture turns to the Widow's a potluck s,upper following. The Mite. program addlresses the atomic bombTruthfully, if most of us gave to ings and, on a broader scope, the the church what we spend on going "just war" principles and problems out to dinner in a year, the church of conscience,' would probably be money ahead, and we'd save some calories. (I'd suggest videos and the movies, but that's so much mCiney.)

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Wanted: More lay saints

Fri., May 5, 1995

Priests plan how to serve Polonia in United States NEW YORK (CNS) - A national group of some 100 PolishAmerican priests meeting last week in New York, adopted a pastoral plan for Polonia in the United States to address ministering to a flock that has become increasingly scattered. Polonia refers to those of Polish ancestry living outside Poland.

The plan OK'd by the Polish American Priests Association (P A PA), group that has 17 local and regional chapters, responds to the trend of Polish-Americans to move from Polish national parishes or territorial parishes of predominantly Polish membership, and of other groups to move路in., "In view of this changed situation, new pastoral structures or methods have to be developed," it says.

The plan proposes ways of meeting the needs of those, including new immigrants from Poland, who speak' Polish, as well as of later generations of Polish-Americans in danger of losing their religious and cultural heritage. Polonia constitutes about 20 percent of American Catholics, but over 4,000 Polish priests now serving them are projected to de~line to 3,400 in 10 years.

"I nterparochial cooperation will be necessary to serve the spiritual needs of such a scattered flock," says the PAPA plan.

"If the number of Catholic Poles. in each parish of a region is small, thert services should be provided on 3' regiolJal,leyel, e,g.a mission church for Catholics, a center for the Polish apostolate, an occasional service in one of the parishes oft-he region."

For new immigrants, ministry in the Polish language is "indispensable for the preservation of faith," the plan says. But for later generations, the faith can be expressed in a new language, it says.

The plan forecasts that a future shortage of bilingual priests will become even more acute than a general shortage. To deal with this

problem, it proposes support of study of Polish by U.S. seminarians and recruitment of seminarians from Poland. The latter involves continuing support for SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake, Mich., where many of them are trained.

The plan also includes a call for ecumenical work, with particular reference to dialogue with the Polish National Catholic Church and with Jews. The plan was presented in English, but will be translated into Polish, with printed versions to be distributed.

The plan was the subject of an address by Philadelphia Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua, who told PA PA members that developing a pastoral plan "for" Polonia was not sufficient, and they should also plan "with" their people.

"If the people themselves are not intimately involved in the evaluation, the envisioning and the planning for the future, they will not be invested in the successful outcome of the venture," he said.

He noted that the difficulty of min- ' istry among alf groups, including Polish-Americans, has increased because a 路'smo.rgasbord" culture has developed where people go "shopping for a religion."

At a banquet, an award from Polish President Lech Walesa went to Auxiliary Bishop JohnW. Yanta of San Antonio, founder of the national PAPA in 1990.

Msgr.'Edw'ard A. Fus, a retired Brooklyn priest, received PAPA's Father Leopold Moczygemba Award, named for the priest who in I854 established the first U.S. PolishAmerican parish, in the United States, Immaculate Conception in.

Panna Maria, Texas.

Bishop Yanta's great-grandparents were in that parish, and when he was consecrated as a bishop, he was given a crozier that includes wood from the Panna Maria tree under which the first parish Mass was celebrated on Christmas Day, 1854.

A SATURN FOR EARTH: Father Ed Eschweiler checks the batteries used to power his,l993 Saturn, converted into an electric car; The retired priest unveiled his environrnentfrie'ndly vehicle during an Earth Day observance in the Milwaukee.archdiocese. (eNS photo)

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Photojournalist gets U.S. Catholic award CHICAGO (CNS) - Photojournalist Mev Puleo has been named winner of the 1995 U.S. Catholic Award for her work to "further the cause of women in the church." . Established in 1978, the award from editors of the national U.S. Catholic magazine honors individuals who confront problems in the church.

Ms. Puleo has earned worldwide praise f~r what has been called groundbreaking photojournalism. Her images of and interviews with the world's. poor and . oppressed "vividly portray the life and faith of a people," according to an announcement of the award from U.S. Catholic, which is published by the Claretian Fathers and Brothers.

She has brought her message to the pope, shaking hands with him at the 1993 World Youth Day and appealing to him"to "Iisten,to the .poor oCHaiti;' near 'the -cry' of women."

Women deserve to be heard, says Ms. Puleo, because such recognition is the foundation of Catholicism. "If we really believe in the Incarnation, then Christ is alive in every human being."

Her photos and interviews with a diverse spectrum ofBraziI's poor and those who work with them appear in her book, "The Struggle is One: Voices and Visions of liberation," published in 1994 by State University of New York Press. Her portraits of the poor also accompany text by Jesuit Father John Kavanaugh. in a 1991 Orbis book called "Faces of Poverty, Faces of Christ."

"I have long wrestled with the invasive nature of photographing people '" and violating the people I seek to serve," said Ms. Puleo in a statement. "These images are the vehicles to help amplify the muted voices of the marginalized."

She is also a writer and doctoral student in theology and the arts at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif.

People need not look as far away as Brazil to see division and strife, she contends, warning North Americans that oppression "may wear .the mask of alcoholism, cutthroat competition or an inner emptiness in the midst of material' abundance."

She says all society must fight against the racism "that reaches from the streets of Washington, D.C., to the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. .: "We start at different points, but we arrive together. And we are sure to arrive sooner if we walk in solidarity - rich and poor, woman and man, indigenous and white and black, Brazilian and North.'

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Notwithstanding the beatification of II religious in a six-week period last fall, Pope John Paul II and Vatican officials remain committed to seeking out married and other lay saints.

In his apostolic letter on preparing for the year 2000, the pope said the church would be updating and adding to its list of saints and martyrs in time for the jubilee. . Not that Pope John Paul wasn't doing so already.

As of November, he had beatified 606 people during his 16-year pontificate and proclaimed 268 new saints.

But something's missing, he'said in his letter on the coming third millennium.

"There is a need to foster the recognition of the heroic virtues of men and women who have lived their Christian vocation in marriage," he wrote.

Celebrating the 1994 International Year of the Family,' the pope did beatify two women who were wives and mothers, along with an unmarried lay catechist martyred for his faith.

The two women beatified last April included a pediatrician who died rather than have an operation which would have caused the death of the child she was carrying. The other was an Italian woman cited for keeping her family together despite being abandoned by her husband.

The other II beatifications in 1994 all involved priests or religious, who have well-organized groups documenting their lives and promoting their causes at the Vatican.

In his "Letter to Families" a year ago, Pope John Paul wrote about the heroic holiness of many married couples, "even'if they are not well known or have not been proclaimed saints by the church."

In the letter for the International Year of the Family' and throughout 1994 the pope spoke about the family as the "seed bed" of holiness, the place where people learn about God, about prayer and about self-giving in service to others.

During beatification and canonization ceremonies, he rarely fails to cite the early family life of the religious men and women he,raises to the honors of the altar.

children, who are now in their 80s, are active in promoting their par-" ents' cause.

Cardinal Angelo Felici, pTi~fect of the Congregation for Sainthood Causes, asked the world Synod of Bishops in October to think about how married couples live virtues which correspond to the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience taken by religious.

Once that is clear, he said, everyone in the church would recognize more married couples as potential saints and more :local churches would promote their causes.

The cardinal told members of the synod, which was discu:ising consecrated life, that, of 194 position papers for beatification and canonization causes ready for examination at the Vatican, almost 70 percent involve members of religious orders and institutes.

Many of the others are the C~Luses of diocesan priests and bishops. , Cardinal Felici conceded that part of the reason so many religious move so quickly through the process is that they have communities promoting their causes.

But, he said, one must also remember that "religious orders are institutes for perfection. It is natural that perfection is achieved more easily in them than in other states of life."

Pope John Paul, who had directed the congregation to devote more attention to lay and married potential saints, did not seem completely swayed by Cardinal FeIici's argument when he wrote his letter on preparing for the third millennium.

"Precisely because we are convinced of the abundant fruits of holiness in the married state, we need to find the most appropriate means for discerning them and proposing them to the whole church as a model and encouragemen.t for other Christian spouses," the pope wrote.

Influencing China HONG KONG (CNS) - The top Vatican official for Catholic education said the church can influence universities in mainland China, even if Catholic universities cannot be established there.

Cardinal Pio Laghi, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, was speaking on the ro:,e of Catholic universities in the church and in society at Fu Jen Catholic University in Hsinchuang, near Taipei, during a four-day visit to Taiwan. The cardinal made the statement in feply to a priest who asked if the Vatican would establish Catholic universities in rnainhind China.

"God can raise up saints even in the most difficult circumstances," he said, "but experience shows that the family is ordinarily the nursery of holiness."

One sainthood cause, still in the early stages, involves Louis and Marie Azelie ,Guerin Martin, the parents of St. Therese of the Child Jesus.

Another couple, Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi, were recognized in February 1994 as serCHICAGO (CNS) - The end vants of God, the first step in the of a to-day sit-in by DePaul Unilong process leading to beatifica- versity students protesting what tion and canonization. they considered to be racist coverThe husband was an Italian civil age in the student newspaper will servant, a church activist and pro- not end the dialogue on racial and moter of social welfare, who even- multicultural issues at the Vintually became the country's assist- centian-run university, according ant attorney general. He died in to its president. "We will con6nue 1951. , to address them at another It:vel, When Mrs. Beltame Quattroc- one that promotes' the free, exchi was pregnant with their fourth, change of ideas," Vincentian. Fachild, doctors told her that she ther John P. Minogue said in a would die unless she abort~d the statement. The protest erupted baby. The couple decided they over a front-page article in the couldn't do that; a daughter was school newspaper, the DePaulia, born in 1914 and Mrs. Beltrame about a fight ,at a campus dance Quattrocchi lived another 5 ~ years. sponsored by. a predominantly All four children became priests . African-American student organior religious. The three surviving zation.

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TEACHER Madeline Nafzner works with freshman Elsa Brum and senior Mehrshad Shahriari in St. Lawrence Academy computer lab in Santa Clara, Calif. (CNS/Valley Catholic photo)

High-tech, on-line describe SaIl Jose schools SAN JOSE, Calif. (CNS) Technology is reshaping Catholic education in the diocese of San Jose.

St. Mary School in Los Gatos was featured on a video by the National Catholic Educational Association because of its innovative computer use and state-ofthe-art equipment.

The school has network cables that will support "fast" Ethernet, which is 10 times faster than current standards. The lab's 20 computers include new Power Macs and each classroom has computers, some as many as six.

The school's internal e-mail system provides an address for each student, and its library books and student library cards feature bar codes.

"I believe technology is important if we are going to be competitive as a school today and in the

future," said Sister of the Holy Names Nicki Thomas, the school's principal.

St. Mary will have one of the first yearbooks created on CDROM; it will include 15-second video interviews retrieved by clicking on individual student photos.

Students come in on Saturday to scan in their favorite work, a piece of art, a prayer or poem, and will be able to see the yearbook on the Internet from any computer in the school.

Some students have created interactive books while others have taken electronic field trips with National Geographic. Term projects now include students' video clips and animation.

"Parents know technology is critical for their children," said Marian Stuckey, assistant superintendent of schools. "We don't plan for this year and next year, but for 10 years from now."

Casey ill pro-life campaign to stay, he says NEW YORK (CNS) - Former Gov. Robert P. Casey of Pennsylvania may not be in a political campaign for president, but he has not dropped his campaign for the unborn. Last week he gave that message to a right-to..life audience, reporting at the second annual Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner in New York, that he had authorized establishment of a foundation and political action committee to present his viewpoint in the national presidential. debate.

"The unborn ought to be a natural constituency of the Democratic Party," he said. "hvill carry that message to every part of the country."

Casey, a Democrat, had aroused interest among pro-life groups by suggesting he might seek his party's presidential nomination as a candidate combining opposition to abortion with the traditional Democratic policy of mounting government programs to help people in need.

He said that he had made a "spectacular" recovery from his 1993 heart and liver transplant operation, but after three weeks of

exploring the possibility of a presidential race, he withdrew, saying he might not be able to sustain the necessary energy level.

But Casey said that he did not rule out running in future years.

"This cause is as timeless as the ages," he said.

Casey, Republican Rep. Henry J. Hyde of Illinois and Mother Teresa were this year's dinner award recipients.

Mother Teresa did not attend, but a film about her was shown that included footage from her February 1994 address to the National Prayer Breakfast attended

by President Clinton.

"May we see the day in our lifetime when her words come from the lips of a president," Cas~y commented afterward.

Alluding to current debates over welfare reform, Casey praised Hyde for going against his own party leaders and 'opposing measures that would "take food out of the mouths of poor children in an attempt to change the behavior of their mothers." Such measures would increase abortions, Casey said.

Counseling seen biggest need of blast ~rictims Emotional counseling will be the biggest need ofsurvivors of the deadly explosion in Oklahoma City, say officials of the U.S. Catholic Conference and Catholic Charities USA. 'Trauma counselors from Associated Catholic Charities of Oklahoma City havl: been supporting survivors and their loved ones, as well as the families of people killed in the blast, since the explosion.

Besides helping survivors and rescuers to cope, with stress and grief, Catholic Charities counselors were among those who notified survivors of victims.

Associated Catholic Charities official Louis Huff said his agency anticipates a gap in expected federal aid. Money is being provided to defray medical, mental health and counseling, and funeral expenses, said I-i uff, who directs the Respect Life, Justice, and Human Development Office of Oklahoma City Catholic Charities.

Jane Gallagher, director of disaster response for Catholic Charities USA, said the need for counseling will continue.

"It's not as if people lost their possessions. They lost family members, friends, and a sense of security. Catholic Charities will offer extensive counseling with people over a long period of time," she said.

Contributions may be sent to: Catholic Charities USA - Oklahoma Explosion, Disaster Response Office, 1731 King St., Alexandria, VA 22314.

Dream .bouse LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A new home means something special to each member of the Santos family. For 5-year-old Jennifer and' her 3-year-old brother, Luis, it means a big playground and lots of neighborhood kids to run around with. To their parents, Joel and Carmen, it signals both a dream come true and an end to six years of living in a cramped room at a relative's house. The Santos' dream became reality thanks to the efforts of Nehemiah West Housing Corporation, a nonprofit organization of churches and community groups dedicated to providing high-quality, affordable housing for firsttime buyers. The latest complex was financed in part with nointerest construction loans from the Los Angeles archdiocese ($2.9 million), the Episcopal diocese of Los Angeles ($500,000) and Bank of, America ($5.4 million). Families earning between $20,000 and $40,000 a year can qualify to purchase the homes, which start at $95,950.

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Hyde praised Casey as "one of my lifetime heroes." The congressman also said he was accepting the award on behalf of other pro-life members ofCongress. He cited in particular Republicans Rep. Christopher H. Smith of New Jersey and Rep. Robert K. Dornan of California.

The dinner at the WaldorfAstoria Hotel was a benefit for the National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund. Sponsors said about 1,000 tickets were sold for $500 each. Fund officials said proceeds l'f the dinner would be used for educational materials, media campaigns, legal defense, internationa] outreach and academic and profes~ional programs.

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When grandparents must be MINNEAPOLIS (CNS) - Grandmothers Hattie Johnson and Barbara Johnson share not only the same last name but also many of the same challenges.

They have jobs to go to. And children to raise. And tuition to pay at S1. Bridget School in Minneapolis.

They also are in the same grandparent's support group at Senior Resources Northside Center, where they and 82 others talk about the difficulties of raising their grandchildren.

"All of my grandkids go to St. Bridget." said Hattie, who is raising her 10-year-old granddaughter, Alicia Jasper. "She's let everything God's given her get out in St. Bridget." .

Hattie, 47, said she sent Alicia to the north Minneapolis Catholic school at the encouragement of Barbara, 54, who is grandmother . to three of Hattie's other grandchildren: Shunieberie, 10; Barbara, 7; and Andrea, 6. The three are the offspring of Barbara's daughter and one of Hattie's sons, who .is now dead. Alicia is the daughter of another of Hattie's sons.

Across the country grandparents are playing larger roles in their graridchildren's lives wh,en the youngsters' parents are absent, sometimes because of drug addiction, mental illness, death or other reasons.

A recent report by the American Association of Retired Persons

said the number of children in households where grandparents are the sole caregivers for their grandchildren increased 17 percent between 1992 and 1993.

More than 633,000 households are headed by grandparents with neither parent of the grandchild present, the report said. The median annual income of grandparentcaregiver households is $18,000, half that of a "traditional family," the AARP said.

"Right now, I don't get to spend enough time with them because I'm working a lot," said Barbara Johnson, who works two jobs to support herself and the children.

She said she took over care of her granchildren because herdaughter was using drugs. ','She really didn't want them and she wasn't taking care of them," Barbara told the Catholic Bulletin, newspaper of the St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese. .

Although. the state provides health and. dental care: for the children, it has not helped with any other needs, Barbara said.

"For two years I've asked for foster' parent care funds, but they haven't listened," she said.

But St. Bridget's has he'lped by reducing tuition and providing used uniforms, she said.

Despite her age and the burden, Barbara said she doesn't regret taking in her grandchildren. "If they were somewhere else, I'd feel worse," she said.

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Hattie also accepts the responsibility for Alicia without concern or resentment. "All my life I've had to do things I didn't think· I could do at the time," she said.

"It's not a job for me. It's not a chore. It's a pleasure .. Knowing my grandchildren are all right is a joy."

Hattie took in Alicia about five years ago, when she learned that Alicia's mother was not getting the girl to school. "Her mom wasn't making it important," Hattie said.

"I went to her mom and said, 'I will take Alicia and I will raise her.~" Now, she is seeking legal g\lardianship of Alicia to ensure that her grandchild will finish school and go on to college.

She says she's learned a lot since she raised her own three sons.

"When I was raising my boys, I was a kid myself," Hattie said. "I didn't have a spiritual base."

Now Hattie is a minister with the Disciples of Christ. "I feel that God's given me a great life," she said. "My desire is to live on this earth and have peace of mind."

Hattie admits that she would have preferred for her grandchildren to remain with their parents.

"It would have been nice to have freedom, to have the kids visit and go back home," she said.

But as she told her grandchildren who live with Barbara, "If I don't take care of Alicia, who would take care of her?"

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NONAGENARIAN JosephJ. Deucher rinses altar cruets after serving morning Mass at Gesu Church, University Heights, Ohio. (CNS/ Reuters photo)

Nonagenarian altar serli'er .eva~gelizes inner city CLEVELAND(CNS)~Joseph

J. Deucher spent more than 50 years as an architect, helping to ; design some of Cleveland's most important facilities.

At 94, he is still in construction, but now he's building God's church.

Nearly every morning, he walks more than a mile to Gesu Church, in University Heights, to serve the 8:45 Mass.

But, being one of the oldest altar servers in the diocese is just a fraction of what he does for the church.

As presigent of his parish's Legion of Mary, Deucher leads an effort to evangelize in four innercity parishes. His small Legion group has visited every home in those parishes to ask whether residents want to learn more about the Catholic faith.

"Directly and indirectly, we've had quite a large number of converts," said Deucher, who often travels alone in some of the poorest, most crime-ridden areas of the city.

At least 15 people have converted to Catholicism because of his efforts. "I was rather surprised how many people are interested if you only talk to them," Deucher told the Catholic Universe Bulletin, Cleveland's diocesan newspaper.

Deucher also visits three nursing homes each we.ek, bringing communion to residents, and attends two Sunday Masses, one at . his current parish, and one at his old parish, St. Cecilia in Cleveland, where he ushers.

Born in Cleveland, he was raised there except for a few years when his family lived on a farm. Deucher graduated from Loyola High School.

His father, who emigrated from Switzerland, was an architect who also had studied.in the seminary.

He encouraged his son to attend the Universi.ty of Pennsylvania at

Philadelphia. Deucher said that's where he became an "altar boy."

"I stayed with a lady in Philadelphia, and I noticed she went to Mass at the Newman Club every morning, in addition to taking care of her family," he said. "I felt ashamed of myself, if she could do

it."

One morning at Mass, when there was no server, he volunteered.

And since then, he has al:tended Mass nearly every morning.

After the Depression, he married his wife, Marie, and worked in New Philadelphia and Cincinnati as well as in Kentucky before returni.ng to Cleveland. He worked on architectural plans for Hopkins Internatio'nal and Burke La:kefront airports, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland State University and Cuyahoga Community College.

Deucher got his last job at age 72 and retired at 76.

"I figured, all my life I've been working for myself and my family," he said. "After I retired, I figured it's time to do something for God." Deucher said his familiarity with the catechism make evangelization easy for him, though he doesn't push the faith if people aren't interested. ."I find religion is something that should be part of our everyday life," Deucher said. "It isn't just a Sunday suit we put on once a week."

• Despite the death of his wife four years ago, he remains positive about his life, even calling it "'thrilling." He has three childn:n, 16 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. "He's quite an amazing person," Mary Fuerst said ,:>f her father.

Deucher said he has no secret for long living except good genes.

His mother lived 96 years.

"I think one reason God's given me a long life," Deucher confided, "he's got work for me to do."

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He attended the Second Vatican Council as a bishop, Hnd was the only representative ofthe Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church to have attended every world Synod of Bishops, except for the first prior to his becoming archbishop - and the last, aftler his retirement. He served on the Vatican Congregation for !Eastern-Rite Churches in the 1980s.

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MSGR. WILLIAM E. Lori, vicar general of the archdiocese of Washington, has been named an auxiliary bishop of Washington

by Pope John Paul II. Bishop-designate Lori, 43, was named archdiocesan vicar general one year ago after serving for 10 years as secretary and theological advisor to Washington Cardinal James A. Hickey.

Born May6, 1951, in Louisville, Ky., the bishop-designate attended Pius X College in Covington, Ky., and Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md. He holds a doctorate in sacred theology from Catholic University in Washington.

After ordination M.ay 14, 1977, he was an associate pastor in Landover, Md., while continuing his studies at Catholic University.

Cardinal Hickey said the bishopdesignate will give 'up some current responsibilities but will remain vicar general of the archdiocese and moderator of the archdiocesan pastoral center and will have regional responsibility for a group of parishes.

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SERENADED BY bagpipes and with 1,200 well-wishers in attendance, Savannah's 13th bishop, J. Kevin Boland, was ordained and installed April 18 in a ceremony at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.

Atlanta Archbishop John F. Donoghue performed his first episcopal ordination.

A native of Ireland who has served in Savannah all his 36 years as a priest, Bishop Boland in particular thanked his predecessor Bishop Raymond W. Lessard, who resigned because of chronic back problems.

The new bishop also singled out "big brother, Ray., for his advice and direction." Bishop Raymond J. Boland heads the Kansas CitySt. Joseph diocese.

Bishop Lessard had headed the Savannah dioces(: for 22 years.

Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan, apostolic pro-nundo to the United States, praised Bishop Lessard for his service, stirring a lengthy ovation from the congregation.

As he thanked those who have supported him in his ministry, Bishop Boland spoke of his late parents, Frank and Gertrude Boland. He said of his mother, "It would not surprise me that she has just made a comment to one of her heavenly friends that it is about time that Kevin quit speaking and let's get on with the party."

In addition to his bishop brother, two other Boland brothers, Frank and Tony, their wives and seven of their eight nephews and nieces

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THE VICE PRESIDENT of the Mexican bishops' conference, Archbishop Manuel Perez-Gil of Tlalnepantla, was recovering in a hospital from biopsy surgery after doctors discovered a brain tumor which caused him to faint after celebrating Mass on April 19. The archbishop had been feeling ill since Palm Sunday.

According to the secretary of the Tlalnepantla archdiocesan curia, Rosario Guzman, Archbishop Perez-Gil was recovering from the surgery and was being transferred from the intensive care ward at the American-British Cowdray hospital, where he was awaiting the biopsy results.

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POPE JOHN Paul II has named Auxiliary Bishop Henry J. Mansell of New York to be bishop of Buffalo, N.Y. He succeeds Bishop Edward D. Head, bishop of Buffalo since 1973, who turned 75 last August.

Bishop Mansell, 57, was ordained a bishop Jan. 6, 1993, and has been New York archdiocesan vicar for administration and moderator of the curia.

He is to take up his new post in installation ceremonies June 12.

Henry J. Mansell was born in New York City Oct. 10, 1937,and ordained in Rome Dec. 19, 1962, after studies at the North Ameri_can College.

As a priest in the New York archdiocese he served as chancellor, vice chancellorand'director of priest persorinel, archdiocesan chaplain of the Christian Family Movement and chairman of the priests' senate.

As a bishop he was the first to hoid the post of vicar for administration in the New York archdiocese.

Bishop Head, who was born in White Plains, N.Y., Aug. 5, 1919, was also a priest and auxiliary bishop of the New York archdiocese before he became bishop of Buffalo.

Ordained in 1945, he has a master's degree in social work, held various pastoral assignments in the archdiocese, and was archdiocesan director of Catholic Charities when he was named a bishop in 1970.

He was named bishop of Buffalo Jan. 23, 1973, In his first year there, he ordered a thorough study of the church's role in the inner city in order to improve services to the poor and minorities.

In 1990, when all the bishops of the Appalachian regio? from Ne~ York to Alabama reissued their 1975 joint pastoral letter, "This Land Is Home to Me," he and Bishop Walter F. Sullivan of Ri~h­ mond, Va., were the only two onginal signers still around to sign it anew.

North American College and Gregorian University in Rome, where he was ordained a priest on Dec. 15, 1957, and later earned a doctorate in canon law.

After serving in parishes, he was episcopal secretary, vice chancellor and chancellor of the Rochester diocese.

Bishop O'Keefe, who turned 76 on March 12, had headed the Syracuse diocese since 1987. Before that he had been an auxiliary bishop in the New York archdiocese for five years.

In 1994 he was the first winner of the Catholic Press Association's BishopJohn England Award, honoring publishers in the Catholic press for defending First Amendment rights.

A native of New York City, Bishop O'Keefe was ordained April 17, 1948.

From 1960-65, he was managing editor of The Catholic Encyclopedia for School and Home and a biology instructor at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry and at St. Joseph Seminary in Yonkers.

Beginning in 1965, he held various positions with the New York archdiocese, including associate superintendent of schools, coordinator of instructional television, associate secretary and secretary for education, chancellor and vicar general. He was instrumental in establishing Catholic New York, the archdiocesan newspaper.

Ordained an auxiliary bishop Sept. 8, 1982, he was vicar general of the archdiocese until the death of Cardinal Terence Cooke on Oct. 6, 1983, when he became apostolic administrator. He was reappointed vicar general by Cardinal JohnJ. O'Connor in 1984.

Installed as Syracuse's bishop on Aug. 3, 1987, Bishop O'Keefe established the Catholic Sun as a diocesan newspaper.

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F ATHER EDWARD K. Braxton, a pastor and theologian in the archdiocese of Chicago, has been named an auxiliary bishop of St. Louis by Pope John Paul II. Bishop-designate Braxton has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard Divinity School and the University of Notre Dame and has served as a part-time professor of theology at The Catholic University of America.

He has been pastor of St. Catherine-St. Lucy Parish in Oak Park, 1\1., since 1991.

His appointment brings to 13 the number of active AfricanAmerican bishops in the United States.

Archbishop Justin F. Rigali of St. Louis will be principal consecrator at his episcopal ordination May 17 at the Cathedral of St. Louis.

Born in Chicago on June 28, 1944, Bishop-designate Braxton was the third of five children of Evelyn and Cullen Braxton.

He was ordained May 13, 1970.

POPE JOHN Paul II has named Throughollt his career, he has been Msgr. James M. Moynihan as a prominent speaker on subjects bishop of the diocese of Syracuse, such as the role of black Catholics in the church.

N.Y., succeeding Bishop Joseph Bishop-designate Braxton writes T. O'Keefe, who is retiring.

Bishop-designate Moynihan, extensively for journals and has who will be ordained May 29, has written two books, "The Wisdom been associate general secretary of Community" and "The Faith Comthe Catholic Near East Welfare munity: One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic." He has held posts inAssociation since 1991.

Born July 16, 1932, in Rochescluding special assistant for theotel', N. Y., he attended St. Ber- . logical affairs for the Washington nard's Seminary there and the archdiocese.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., May 5, 1995

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Capuchin provincial dies The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated April 26 at Sacred Heart Church, Yonkers, NY, for Father Gary McAuley, OFM Cap., provincial minister since 1993 of the New York-New England Province of St. Mary of the Capuchin Franciscan Order. .

Bishop Sean O'Malley, a member of the Capuchins' Pittsburgh Province of St. Augustine, was in attendance.

Father McAuley, 56, died April 22 at Rosary Hill Home, Hawthorne, NY, where he was admitted April 17 suffering from metastatic carcinoma of the liver. The same form of cancer afflicted his brother, Gerald McAuley, and sister, Eleanor Earnshaw, both of whom died in recent years.

Father Bernard Smith, OFM -Cap., provincial vicar,. will lead the Province of St. Mary until a new provincial minister is chosen at the May 1996 provincial chapter.

Father McAuley His cancer diagnosed in May 1994, Father McAuley wrote in a March 30 letter to the Capuchin Franciscan Friars, his family and frit:nds that, "This time is undoubtedly the most critical time of my provincial ministry."

"I wish to have youjoin with me in a very simple prayer that throughout this experience God's will be done," he wrote. "I feel that we are in a time of grace. It is a time of blessing and deep mystery."

Born July 18, 1938, in Astoria, NY, the son of the late M. Joseph and Annmarie(Sharkey) McAuley, Father McAuley entered the Franciscan novitiate in 1956 and was ordained at Sacred Heart Church in Yonkers Nov. 28, 1964.

Beginning in 1969, he served at various times as professor of theology at the Maryknoll School of Theology, Ossining, NY, dean of Capuchin theolQgy students and guardian of Mary Immaculate Friary in Garrison, NY, taking some years off for studies. He was elected to the Provincial Council in 1981 and in 1988 was appointed to the faculty of St. Mary's Seminary and University, Roland Park, MD. He was elected provincial minister May 27, 1993. During his term he promoted a province-wide pastoral planning effort, improved the province's internal communications and revitalized fundraising efforts with the establishment of the merged Capuchin Mission Association and Development Office in Manhattan.

Father McAuley is survived by his stepmother, Bridget McAuley, and sister-in-law, Sharon Mc-

Auley, of Palm Harbor, FL, and by two nieces and three nephews in Florida.

Father Smith Born Nov. 18, 1937, in Kings Park, NY, Father Smith entered the Franciscan order in 1955; pronounced perpetual vows in 1959 and was ordained Jan. II, 1964, at Sacred Heart in Yonkers.

He was parochial vicar at New York parishes and taught liturgy and sacred music at St. Mary's Minor Seminary and Capuchin Theological Seminary in Garrison.

He was pastor at St. Joseph's parish in Portland, ME, from 1977 until 1981, when he was elected to the Provincial Council and named pastor of Sacred Heart in Yonkers.

In 1990 he was appointed guardian of the Capuchin Franciscan fraternity at St. Francis Friary in Garrison; where he served until elected provinical vicar May 27, 1993.

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Hope rises for year-round access to site of Jesus' baptism ON THE BANKS OF THE JORDAN RIVER, Israel (CNS) - Five thousand Greek Orthodox pilgrims flocked to the site of Jesus' baptism April 18. There Greek Orthodox Patriarch Timothy Margarits celebrated the traditional pre-Easter Divine Liturgy.

It was one of the few times a year the restricted Israeli military zone is opened.

But if local government bodies have their way, the area would be ope.n all year to the faithful and the CUriOus.

Because of its proximity to the border with Jordan, the winding stretch of the Jordan River where Jesus is said to have been baptized

by John the Baptist has been a' closed area since the 1967 IsraeliArab war, when Israelis gained 路control of the area. ' Starting in 1981, at the request of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, the civil administration agreed to open the location to pilgrims three times a year: in October for prayer by the Franciscans; in January for

the Greek Orthodox Epiphany; and during Easter Week, also for the Greek Orthodox, . But the Jordan Valley and Megilot Regional Councils want the 37.S-acre strip of land, which houses ruins of 12 monasteries, open for good.

"It is a good opportunity to develop tourism here," said Jordan Valley Regional Council head David Levy.

"If there is government land which does not belong to any of the churches we would use that land," Levy said. "We would like to have the opportunity to develop the baptismal site just as they have done up north."

Pilgrims who want to be baptized in the Jordan River now go north near the Sea of Galilee where Kibbutz Kinnerth built a baptismal site on the river bank. ,But Levy said he would like to see every Christian who wants to be able to come to the actual site of Jesus' baptism. .

Negotiations are under way with

the tourism, religion and defense ministries. Levy said he is aware of security concerns, but believes such obstacles can be overcome.

On April 18, the area, which is about 15 minutes travel south of Jericho, was also open for the first time to non pilgrim tourists and a handful of Jewish Israelis trickled down to the site after the Greek Orthodox liturgy.

Accordin'g to tradition, the site is also where Joshua crossed over the Jordan River with the Israelites on his way to conquer Jericho.

But the entire area is sown with land mines and rolis of barbed wire fence off most of the land.

For now, only, the uninhabited Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. John is accessible.

At the bank of the river on April 18, a generator pumped Jordan water into plastic tubing. It streamed from numerous holes as pilgrims jostled to fill plastic bottles.

If the regional councils can convince the government, future pilgrims will be able to come to the site individually, avoiding the mobs that now converge on it three times annually.

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CLEVELAND (CNS) - For decades the Stollenwerk family of Cleveland have been hearing about a saintly relative in Europe.

On May 7, the world will know about Blessed Helen Stollenwerk when Pope John Paul II beatifies her during ceremonies in Rome, "We grew up with this," said Alice Stollenwerk Petrulis, a physician at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland.

She and her sister, Joan Kasicki, and brother, Father Charles Stollenwerk, pastor of St. Richard Parish, North Olmsted, OH, heard the stories from their grandfather'.

"He told us about our greatgrandfather's cousin who went to the convent," Ms. Petrullis told the Universe Bulletin, Cleveland's diocesan newspaper. , The cousin was Helen Stollenwerk, a long-suffering sister who was cofoundress ofthe Missionary Sisters, Servants of the Holy Spirit in Steyl, Netherlands.

Helen Stollenwerk, who later became Mother Maria, was born Nov. 28, 1852, in Rollesbroich, located where the borders of the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium meet.

She was a child when she became interested in the mission work of the Holy Childhood Association, founded in 1843. She was only 7 when she was selected as the sponsor for a Chinese baby whose baptism her parish was supporting.

She dedicated her life to the foreign missions and when she died in 1900, she was honored for founding both the missionary and cloistered branches of the Servants of the Holy Spirit, although she herself never left Holland.

The Stollenwerk family learned more about Helen Stollenwerk about three years ago when Dr. Petrulis did some genealogical research for a family reunion arid was put in touch with a Servants of the Holy Spirit convent in Illinois.

"I heard from a man in Wisconsin who got the family tree from the convent," she said. Comparing notes, the two established . that they were distant cousins.

Dr. Petrulis said many rel:ords that would have clearly established family ties were destroyed d'uring World War II, but she has been able to trace her grandfather to the town of Stollberg, in what is now Germany. Helen traveled to the town in her early years in search of an order that would take her to the mission fields.

The family was notified in January of' her beatification, which will be the focal point of a family gathering that will bring togc:ther the Stollenwerks in Cleveland, Pittsburgh. and Wisconsin.

The day after the beatification, the family will attend an audience with Pope John Paul.

According to Father Stollenwerk, a miracle for a Japanese musician was attributed to Helen Stollenwerk's intercession, helping her cause for beatification and eventual canonization.

More miracles are needed for sainthood, however, and Ms. Petrulis has one in mind. "My briefcase was stolen with the meme ntos we have received in the mail ahout her," she said. "If she finds that briefcase, that will be one of her miracles!"

No Irs or Buts "Let God's will be done today, tomorrow and forever, without an if or a but." - St. Jane Frances de Chantal

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., May 5, 1995 Continued from Page One voice but no vote, and spell out more clearly their role, function, method of appointment and term of service.

- Adopt new rul(:s for conference statements, allowing the conference president to respond more quickly to developing situations but reducing the number of statements issued by the whole conference.

There will be no vote on the proposals in June, but in light of the Chicago discussions, the ad , hoc committee will review its proposals and develop final recommendations to submit for debate AT NEW BEDFORD Catholic Woman's Club's annual and a vote at the bishops' next Bishop's Night dinner, from left, Rev. John P. Driscoll, modgenera'i meeting, in mid-November erator; Bishop Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap.; Marguerite Ronan, in Washington.

Copies of the pres(:nt committee club president; Barbara Nobrega, vice president. report went to all bishops last month.

Among proposals to reduce the number of standing committees Continued from Page One And, he ad.ded, Augustine urged were: deacons, "Don't preach too long."

- A single committee on clergy adaptability and flexibility. That's The quotation drew laughter from in place of seven separate commit- what makes the deacon so valuthe deacons and deacon directors. tees that currently exist: priestly able."

He said preparation and conformation, priestly life and minisFather Boissonneau delivered a tinuing education remain primary try, permanent diaconate, voca- main presentation at the Bloomingissues of concern for directors of tions, the North American College ton meeting, which was atte'1ded programs. in Rome, the Ameri,can College in by over 200 people. including dea"There is no set training patLouvain and bishops' life and cons, directors of diaconate protern," he said, noting that dioceses ministry. grams, many of whom are deause different models in their for- A single committee on gov- cons, and a number of deacons' mation programs. ernance instead of current separ- wives.

"There's a need for ongoing revate committees on canonical affairs, Of about 20,200 permanent deaboundaries of dioceses, Eastern- cons worldwide in 1994, nearly italization in training," he added.

"We need some criteria for judging rite churches, shrines, relations with three-fifths - 11,895 - were servthe Holy See and selection of ing in the United States and Can- the effectiveness of our programs."

He said continuing education bishops. ada; and while the total number of after ordination is an area that The report said some current priests, sisters and brothers has busy deacons often let fall by the committees would become subcom- declined in North America over wayside. mittees "working at the pleasure of the past decade, the number of "Deacons tend to take on their the standing committee" to which permanent deacons has increased ministry lik(: a profession, and like they are assigned. It said other dramatically. professionals they get deeply incurrent committees would be atIn the United States they grew volved," he said. "Yet they're doing tached to a particular standing by 57 percent, from 7,102 in 1984 this parttime," he said. "They still committee as a subgroup. They 1I,I751ast year.In Canada they have families and jobs and other to would not be totally under that more than doubled, from 334 in issues to deal with, so the last thing committee'sjurisdiction but would they put a priority on is the con1984 to 720 last year. continue functioning as at present Father Boissonneau, president- tinuing education aspect." with their own committees or Father Boissonneau said there rector of St. Augustine Seminary boards, including ill some cases in Toronto, emphasized that the continues to be a tension in some having non-bishop committee or diacomite is involved in the chang- people's minds between lay minisboard members.

Also proposed is a rule that no ing nature of church ministry today, try and permanent diaconate.

"Some people are asking. 'In an bishop can serve on more than two where leadership doesn't do all the ministry but rather calls others to age of lay ministry, why do we standing committees at once and need deacons?' They are still trying . that a committee chairman cannot share responsibility. to understand the role deacons be a member of any other commitOn tne other hand, he said, play," he said. tee while chairman. some issues deacons face today are Some bishops feel caught beThe report described the pro- remarkably like those their predetween putting resources into lay posed shift of the conference to cessors faced in the ea.rly church. ministry training or deacon traingreater regional emphasis "a major He quoted from an instructional ing, but there should be no conflict change" that "will (:all for a signifiletter to deacons written in 405 between th(: two, he said. cant change in the way regions A.D. by St. Augustine. function."

"Augustine reminded the deaIt ,suggested tha.t if the plan is adopted, part of each spring meet- cons that they are often the first contact from the church for prosing should be organized around pective converts," something that smaller groupings of the bishops by regions or eccle:;iastical provin- continues to happen in the 20th century, Father Boissonneau said. ces.

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"Southern comfort" Continued from Page One spirational materials to each person at the diocesan meetings, adopting the unique technique of having his audience read selected passages aloud. Quotations came from, among others, Cardinal Newman, Helen Keller, Albert Schweitzer, William Booth (founder ofthe Salvation Army), and the Old Testament Book of Sirach.

And he recommended as the "cornerstone Gospel," Luke 6:27-38, beginning "Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you."

But it was Father Tagg's homespun, bouncy style that captivated the hearts of his audiences. In his soft Tennessee drawl he advised them not "to jack around with God" and to remember that if "ya always do what ya always did, ya'lI always get what ya always got; if ya always sin, ya'lI always feel like ya always did."

He listed the "four greatest statements in the world" as "I love you" (if you mean it); "I'm sorry"; "I don't know"; and "Thank you very much."

His parting words: "If I never see you again, please remember you're all called by God. Do great work for your diocese and for each other."

At <:;athedral The Week of Renewal concluded with a Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral at which Father Tagg was principal celebrant and homilist.

Bishop Sean O'Malley spoke brief-

Iy at the beginning of the liturgy, expressing appreciation for Father Tagg's ministry to both priests and laity.

"God loves you and me as if we were the only people in the world," Father Tagg told the cathedral congregation during his homily.

"Your vineyard is the diocese of Fall River," he added. "You can't do everything but you can do something."

He concluded by quoting a prayer written by the mother of a mentally handicapped child. In it she asked God for many favors, such as the curing of her child. To each request he answered "No," but showed her how to turn her trials into opportunities to grow in grace.

Lastly the mother asked God if he loved her and finalIy got a "Yes," as God pointed out he had sent his only Son to the world because he loved it so much.

"Help me love others as much as you love me," said the mother.

"Ah, finally you have the idea!" responded God.

Concluding Program The Season of Renewal will conclude Sunday, June II, with a program at a time and place yet to be announced. It is hoped that the many events which began last November have inspired many in the diocese to renewed commitment to personal and parish ministry.

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BUCKLE BEAR, also known as Jason Pimental, a St. Anne's School eighth-grader, greets Somerset Police Officer Brian Page, who ~poke to prekindergarten and kindergarten children about seat belt safety.

St. Anne's School FALL RIVER - Students in prekindergarten and kindergarten recently learned about seat belt and pedestrian safety from Somerset Police Officer Brian Page and his companion "Buckle Bear" (operated by puppeteer SlIlsan Fournier), who spoke via cassette recording.

Eighth-grader Jason Pimental dressed as a life-size Buckle Bear to distribute safety stickers to the, children.

"If there's a way to get kids to learn safety, this is it," Pag·e said.

"Kids really seemed to listen to Buckle Bear's message to wear your seat belts." Offic,er Page is a member of the newly-formed Community Safety Coalition.

All St. Anne's students will have the opportunity to enter a poster contest in which 50 bicycle helmets will be awarded. Principal Denise Gagne explained that Buckle Bear and the helmets were purchased with a $750 grant from Bristol Community College's Occupant Protection Program. It is funded by the Massachusetts Governor's Highway Safety Bureau.

Said Deborah Perry, coordi'nator of the BCC program, "I'm always pleased to hear that the safety me~sage .is getting t~rough to kids·, wbo are the· next generation of citiiens who will be driving on our city streets. Our aim is to reduce injuries and deaths."

Bishop Feehan' High School ATTLEBORO - The Class of 1994's gift to the Feehan community is now on display in the main office. The 35-gallon river tank aquarium is filled with a menagerie of fish, albino frogs, and a chameleon as well as plants and mosses. The 1994 graduates donated $500 for the tank and additional assistance was received from the Messier. family' and biology' teacher Chris Grant, who helped orchestrate the ecosystem's seiup.

In Class 'Students in Honors French classes have completed reading LitPrince and have compiled individual journals and a visual project. Mrs. Ausiello's French a.nd Spanish students are taking turns teaching' a word or expression to the class each day. .

Jennie Harper and Michael Ca.ssidy represented Mrs. Crane's Latin class at the annual Massachusetts Junior Classical League Classics Day MarchJ I at Harvard University. .

John Pontes' .freshman English class created soundtracks for the play Antigone and 'conducted a courtroom trial for the protagonist. While one class found her "not guilty," the other called for Antigone's death! . Miss Brandley's 9th ·andlOth grade students in Hebrew Scriptures and Morality have been studying the Holocaust. The 22 students then entered a National Art and W rit,ing Contest sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Museum~ Entrant,s were to write essays

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ST. CLOU D, Minn. (CNS) ·Central Minnesota tee'ns pray often but are reluctant to talk about their faith.

That's one of the conclusions published recently in the Saint Cloud Visitor, newspaper of the St. Cloud diocese, and drawn from a survey of teens conducted by the paper through its November 1994 issue of Ruck This!

The "youth magazine with a Catholic attitude" was sent to the Visitor's 41,000 subscribers and was also available for distribution in parish youth groups and religious education classes. Rock This! has so far published only one issue. .

Most teens who responded to the Rock This! survey said they pray privately at least once a day, but less than half said they talk about God and faith with their friends.

Bishop Connolly FALL RIVER - Three Bishop Connolly students were winners of an essay contest on the t()pic "What Religious Tolerance Means to Me," sponsored by the Jewish/ Catholic Dialogue Committee of Stonehill College, North Easton.

Lili Ibara of North Dartmouth earned first prize, $100. Lauren Mauceri of North Dartmouth received the $75 second prize and Pam Costa of Fall River a $10 honorable mention prize.

The three students were readers at Stonehill's annual Holocaust Memorial Service, held April 27.

St. John Evangelist ATTLEBORO - Students in grades 6-8 recently participated in the New England Mathematics

League Contest. Scores of the top' to continue to confront this event five students in each class were of over 50 years ago?" Winners submitted to the League for comwill be notified by May 22. petition with other schools. St. The entire Feehan community . John's should know its ~tanding participated in a Lenten retreat/, by May 23 and the League will a wareness day themed "H oly give awards.

Whole." In a keynote speech, Certificates of merit were preformer New England Patriot Mike sented to the top scorers in each Ruth discussed the importance of class: trusting God, developing' one's Grade 8: (tie) Nicholas Mctalents and not giving in to peer Namee and Lynsey 'Fernandes; pressure. More than 33 workshops Kristin Teixeira; (tie) Edward were offered on topics ranging from alcoholism to violence.

Bayly and Francis Quimby.

Grade 7: Jason 'Quimby; Evan Members of the senior class carHourigan; BryanBall; (tie) Fred ried a six-foot tall cross to open a Loewen, Philip McGee and MiHoly Thursday pray'er service. chael Morin.

Joining the student chorus in singGrade 6: (tie) Patrick Myles and ing and prayer, students reflected Ryan McNair; Megan Lopes; (tie) on the Last Supper, Jesus' washBecky Michel and Rachel Preston; ing of the disciples feet and its (tie) Keelia Smith, Katherine symbolism of service.

Moore and Christopher Antonellis.

Chemistry teacher Joan LaCroix Eighth-grader Jessica Kosowski attended the recent National Sci- ,represented St. John's at the state ence Teachers Convention at the finals of the National Geographic Philadelphia Convention Center.

Society's National Geography Bee, held Aprif7 at Clark University in Before, and after the conference, Operation Progress III, an addiWorcester. She, was the highest tional workshop for chemistry scorer among St. John's fifth 'teachers, was held. Teachers were through eighth grade students to give presentations related to given oral questions in the school 'ideas developed at a ,previous geography bee. workshop, also attended by Mrs. LaCr,oix, at Bucknell University St. Mar,y-Sacred Heart on Lewisburg, P A. .

Honor Roll For the third quarter marking period, 31 students earned first honors, 10 1 second honors, and 143 third honors.

NORTH ATTLEBORO - On the third quarter honor roll for grades 4-8 were 10 students earning highest' honors for all As and 56 students achieving all As and Bs.

Surveys were completed by. 154 people between the ages of II and 18. Eleven surveys were eliminated because of contradictory answers.

Although the main purpose of the questionnaire was to help the Visitor staff measure reaction to the mag'azine itself, several other questions about teen attitudes were -included.

Asked how often they pray .privately, 18 respondents said they pray several times a day; 72 said they pray at least once a day; 16 said they pray about once a week; 19 said they pray about every two weeks; and 19 said they pray once a month. Only seven respondents said they never pray.

Most said that when they pray they use their own words, although many use a combination of their own words and traditional prayers such as the Our Father and the ro~ary. Only II said they use the Bible for personal prayer.

Of the 125 teens who responded to the question on whether they talk about God and faith with their friends, 67 said they do not.

Those who were most enthusiastic about the magazine were most likely to say they talk about faith, while those who were the least interested in Rock Thi$.' were the most likely to say they do not discuss religious topics.

Those who were most enthusiastic about the magazine were also somewhat more inclined to say they fear that some of their friends use too much alcohol, but for the most part respondents said they were not worried about alcohol' abuse among their peers.

Only 36 of the 136 teens who responded to the question said they have such a concern. Even fewer - 24 - said they worry that their friends have problems with drugs.

A majority of ten respondents - more than 68 percent - said they have one or more friends who are of a different race.

A majority - 81 percent - said they think "life is harder for teens today than it was for teens 20 years agp:" A smaller majority - about.

62 'percent. - agreed with the statement that "fashions in the ---------

1960s were crazier than the'y are today."

Publication of the first is:;ue of Rock This.' was funded from the regular operating budget of the St. Cloud Visitor, but future issues would have to be funded independently through grants, advertising or donations.

The November 1994 issue included articles on "When a Classmate has Cancer," "What to Do When Your Friend is Drill king Too Much;" and "Olympic Athletes With a Catholic Attitude"; a profile of the late actor Raul Julia; 'an interview with author Jon iYassler; and an advice column.

Look, love, witness pope tells youth CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) - Pope John Paul II recently encouraged young pil,grims from the Boston archdiocese to look for Jesus' presence in their lives, love him and tell the world about him.

"As you prepare to leave Rome I would like to give you three words to take back with you 10 the United States, three words for you to live by always: look, 10VI: and witness," the pope told 200 young pilgrims, led by Boston Cardinal Bernard F. Law. They had an audience with the pope at his vacation residence in Catel Gandolfo, south of Rome. '~Look for Jesus," the pope told the young people. "Seek his presence in your lives, strive to know him ever more intimately, and do not be afraid to make yourselves known to him."

"Love Jesus," he said, encouraging them to give themselve:s to Jesus in prayer, in the sacraments and through participation in the Mass.

"In his love you will find the fulfillment of your deepest as}irations, and you will grow into full spiritual maturity," the pope :;aid.

"Finally, bear witness to Je!:us," he said. "Place your hope firmly in . him, and let your words and deeds speak courageously of this hope to others." ...

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HILDA· BOYLE, a v.olunteer ~t Our Lady of Lourdes School,. Tauntori, admir<;:s science fair entries with granddaughter Alicia De' Sou~~, a fifth-grader.

By Ctulrlle Martin

JLOVE IS ALL AROUND I feel it in my fingers I feel it in my toes Love is :111 around me And so the feeling grows It's written in the wind It's everywhere I go Oh yes it is So if you really love me Come on and let it show ¥ou know I love you I always will My mind's made up By the way that I feel There's no beginning There'll be no end Becausll on my love ¥ou call depend I see your face before me As I lay on my bed I kind' of get to thinking Of all the things you said Oh yes I did ¥ou gave your promise to me And I I~ive mine to you I need someone beside me In everything I do It's written in the wind It's everywhere I go Oh yes it is So if )'OU really love me Come on and let it show Come on and let it show Come on and let it show Come on and let it show Written by R. Presley. Sung by Wet Wet Wet (el 1994 By. Phonogram Ltd., London

GETTING CONSIDERABLE radio time is Wet Wet Wet's "Love Is All Around."

The song is off the soundtrack to "Four Weddings and a Funeral," and is on the group's latest disc. I really like the song, both in sou.nd and message.

My hunch is that this cassingle will be heard at lots of wed-

dings during 1995. The person in the song feels "love is all around me," even "in my fingers" and "in my toes." He knows he always will love this woman because "my mind's made up by the way that I feel."

As far as he i~ concerned, "there's no beginning, there'll be no end" to their romance.

Consequently, he says to her, "if you really love me, come on and let it show."

Clearly, the spirit of romance colors his perspective. But how well will he remember this feeling later when love is not so intense?

When we feel love all around, it's difficult to realize that this emotion will not always be there in the same way. During these close times, w{: think that we always will experience this kind of joy at being in love. H,owever, such intense feelings come and go.

Relationships, even the best ones, go through ups and downs.

Married peoph: need to realize this.

Words of promise do not always ensure a peaceful future.

What we hear on the wind today may at another time be drowned out by the thunder of problems, hurts and disappointments.

Given all this, what the song affirms remains true. "Love is all around." A marriage experiences cycles in the intensity of feelings. A less intense point on the cycle is not a sign that love is dead.

What about young people who are dating? Does this song address them?

This beautiful world is given to us as a sign of God's ongoing care for our lives. Further, God often guides people into our lives so that we have many opportunities to be touched by love. ¥oung people who are dating should reflect on this, I believe, especially if a breakup has occurred with a boyfriend or girlfriend.

Love will return to our lives, even when we "feel" that it won't.

So, if you find love in a present experience, rejoice in it. If you do not feel love's supportive and healing grace, wait with trust. Though young people sometimes doubt this after a breakup, the door to the future is not closed for them. ¥our comments are welcomed

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lreen actress has tithing tips WASHINGTON (CNS)-Grace Johnston may be only 14 years old, but the young actress has an idea beyond her years.

"I have a project for other kids to do, for other Catholic Christians," she says. "TJley can go out and do things like mow lawns and rake leaves and things like that, and give 10 percent ItO some cause that they like."

Miss Johnston practices what she preaches. "Ever since I was 5, I've been giving 10 percent of my earnings to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. My cousin Susan was born without an immune system. [Thirteen years later], she's still alive. It's a miracle," she said.

Miss Johnston said she even persuaded Bill Cosby to donate to Texas Children's Hospital when she did guest appearances on "The Cosby Show."

Her newest TV endeavor, "Notes for My Daughter," an ABC "Afterschool Special," ain~d April6. She played the 13-year-old daughter of a breast cancer victim who isn't told the nature or extent of her mother's illness.

She's also appeared in the movies "Beaches" and "One Good Cop,"

was a guest star on the old series "Kate & Allie," plus done 30 commercials by her own count.

The demands on her time would ordinarily make it tough on her schoolwork, but Miss Johnston is home schooled with a Christian program called School of Tomorrow. On the day CNS interviewed her by telephone from her parents' home in Milford, NJ, the ninth grader had studied math, social studies, biology, sCience and the New Testament.

Miss Johnston graduated from Visitation Academy in Paramus, N.J., and attended Queen of Peace School in Maywood, N.J., until it closed and combined with St. Peter Interparochial Academy in River Edge, N.J. In the past, she'd take her schoolwork to the set under the care of a tutor. "When I got back, I might

be ahead of my class," she said. Or sometimes, ~he added, her class and the faculty would be mad, telling her, '''¥ou shouldn't be missing school.'" , But "oh, gosh, home school is great. I love it. I can go at my own pace and do the work I'm capable of doing," Miss Johnston said.

And she can time her studies to coincide with the hours of her friends' high school schedules. "I never \Uiss out on seeing friends," she said. "I'd never cut that out."

Living in a two-religion household - mom is Catholic, dad is Presbyterian - poses few problems to her. The family goes to church each Sunday, splitting time. between thl: local Presbyterian church and Sacred Heart Church in Rochelle Park, N.J. After acting for so much of her life, does Miss Johnston want to keep doing it as an adult?

"I'll leave that in God's hands," she said. "Whatever's best for my career. As you get older, there's no family projects to do. It's all trashy.

Even TV. Irs trash. It's hard for a Christian p{:rson or a Catholic to go out to those kinds of movies.

Even at 14, it's sort of bad."

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., May 5, 1995

By Christopher Carstens ¥ oung people worry that when they're ready for real jobs, there won't be any real jobs out there ready for them.

It's not an unreasonable concern. Today's market for good jobs is remarkably competitive.

Bright young people know they'll need an edge if they want to land a promisingjob right out of school.

Many young people think the key is computer literacy. I'm not so convinced. I think that the next generation will be swamped with eager job seekers who can write computer programs in their sleep.

I don't think that will be a tool that really sets you apart.

But there is a single special skill that every high school student can learn, one that will be in big demand in the years ahead, exactly because America is in business with the rest of the world.

Learn a second language, and get really good at it.

Everywhere else rn the world it is assumed that educated people can speak a second language or even a third. In Europe any business' person, or any waiter at a good restaurant, speaks multiple languages.

I recently heard a woman complaining about a business meeting she'd attended. "Can you imagine," she complained loudly, "nobody there spoke anything but Spanish.

I wasted my entire day!"

I didn't think it was all that surprising, given that the woman's meeting was in Mexico. But she had, assumed that the meeting's business would be conducted in English for her convenience.

No Mexican business executive would come to America and expect 'to find business done in Spanish.

It's time for us to learn about deating with the other guys. That means speaking their languages.

No matter what other skills you have, a second languge will help you get ahead. If you have computer skWs - and speak French you can get a job selling software in the European market. If you are a social worker, you are much more likely to be hired if you speak Spanish.

I ran a mental health clinic in

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Southern California for several years, and whenever I had a choice I always hired therapists who spoke two languages.

My wife is a teacher, and she has gotten jobs in five states over the years - each time she was hired ahead of other applicants because she is bilingual. She learned Spanish in high school and college.

The United States' new trading partners, Mexico and Canada, do much of their business in Spanish, English and French. If you want to be in international business with them, learn to speak their languages. The same is true of Europe, Latin American and Asia.

You can begin studying language in high school, and it's highly advisable to continue in college or even beyond. If you've. got the knack, the military is a great place to get advanced language training.

Spea.king a second language will be a critical job skill in the coming years. I don't mean that everybody will need multiple languages to get ajob; rather, applicants with more than one language will often be hired first and offered more interesting opportunities.

In a competitive job market, this may bejust the edge you need.

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KIDNEY CAR CAMPAIGN LaSALETTE SHRINE, Unwanted vehicles may ,be doATTLEBORO nated to the National Kidney FounThe LaSalette Shrine Christian Action Group continues its series of dation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, Inc., to be sold at dealer auc"Choose Life" weekends with a distion to raise funds for patient service cussion of Third World concerns and research programs. Vehicles will May 6-7. The program will focus on be picked up at no charge to the American complicity in persecution of Latin American peoples. The 18- donor. Information: 1-800-488CARS. minute documentary "School of Assassins" will be shown; it has footage SEPARATED/DIVORCED of the U.S. Army School of the PUBLICITY CHAIRMEN CATHOLICS, NB K. of C., ATTLEBORO are asked to submit news Items lor Ihls Americas. alleged to have trained Former member Mary Dubois will Knights of Columbus St. John's column to The Anchor, P.O. BOK 7, Fall some of the worst human rights viospeak at support group meeting 7 Council 404 will sponsor 8th annual River, 02722. Name 01 city or town should lators in the hemisphere. and also p.m. May 10, Family Life Center, N. Pro-Life Living Rosary and Mass be Included, as well as lull dates of all actlvfocuses on efforts to shut the school Dartmouth, on "Marching on in 1:30 p.m.

May 13, LaSalette Shrine.

Illes. Please send news' of futuro rather Life After Divorce."

Attleboro. Keynote speaker will be down. than past events.

The topic will be addressed at the Joseph Riley of Massachusetts CitiDue to limited space and also because CATHOLIC WOMAN'S notices of strictly parish affairs normally zens for Life. Bishop Sean O'Malley 4:30 p.m. Mass Saturday and film CLUB,NB appear In a parish's own bulletin, we are will celebrate 4:30 p.m. Mass. The and discussion will follow at 6:30 The annual meeting is set for 7:30 lorced to limit Items to events of general event will be held, regard less of p.m. in the Shrine Theater. The p.m. Wednesday, May 10 at Seaport Interest. Also, we do not normally carry same program will be 're'peated Sunweather. Participants are encouraged nollces ollundralslng activities, which may day at the 12: lOp. m. Mass and a 2 Inn, Fairhaven. to bring chairs. as seating is limited. be advertised at our regular rates, obtainp.m. presentation. Information: 222SACRED HEART, able from The Anchor business office, teleST. ANNE, FR 5410.

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Pro-Life Committee meeting with CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB, FR First Friday celebration 6:30 toOn Steering Points Items, FR Indicates guest speaker Marian Desrosiers of Fall River; NB Indicates New Bedford. night with theme "Gratitude for Annual meeting 7:30 p.m. May Diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate 6:30 God's Gifts." Schedule includes in9, Holy Name Schoolauditorium. ComAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY to 8:30 p.m. May 18. tercessory prayer, liturgy, program, mittee reports will be presented at' Volunteer drivers are needed for ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM coffee ~nd social, followed by Adobusiness meeting by Mrs. Edmond the Road to Recovery program, Scripture study of Acts 22-28, 7 to ration In chapel 9:30 p.m. until 3 through which cancer patients are Audette, nominating committee, and , p. m. tomorrow.

8: 15 p. m. May 12, parish hall. transported to and from treatment Mrs. Belisario Almeida, scholarCORPUS CHRISTI, sessions and doctor's appointments ship committee. Musical program E. SANDWICH at area hospitals and in Boston will be performed by the AlpenbFirst Friday Mass at St. Theresa's treatment centers. Volunteers must lumen Volk Dancers, a German Chapel, Sagamore.

5 p.m. today. have a few spare weekday hours Adoration of Blessed Sacrament 10 folk dancing group, and a coffee between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. each a.m. until8 p.m. Benediction today, hour will follow under direction of month. They will be reimbursed for parish center. Afternoon of recollecGrace Flanagan and the registrars. mileage. Portuguese-speaking drivtion for women May 8 at St. Thereers are particularly needed: InforTHE WALK Sisters Patricia Heath, provinsa's Chapel; confessions will be heard mation: 996-6262.

The third "Walk for Food and cial.

Mary Ellen Donohue. counci2:30 to 3 p.m. and also at 5 p.m. by a Shelter" benefiting various Fall River lor. and Virginia O'Hare. finance priest from Opus Dei. agencies will be held 7 a.m. June 4. officer of the Fall River province The 6-mile (10K) walk begins at St. of the Holy Union Sisters. recently Vincent's Home, 2425 Highland attended an enlarged general counAve., FR. Registration will be held cil meeting of their international at 6:30 a. m. the day of the walk. congregation in Bruges, Belgium.

Organizers include Sister Kathy Murphy, 'OP, and Mary Lou ManAlso present were representaJ. TESER, Prop. cini of Catholic Social Services. Intives of the Groton Holy Union RESIDENTIAL formation: 679-7037 between 8 a.m. province, which has a convent in . INDUSTRIAL , and 4:30 p.m. weekdays.

North Attleboro. They were SisCOMMERCIAL ters Alice Arsenault. provincial, SERRA CLUB, NO 253 Cedar St., New Bedford Dr. Elizabeth Pennington. dean Marilyn Gignac and Beatrice Ger993-3222 of the UMass-Dartmouth college of 'ard. councilors, and Rita Beaunursing, will speak on "Wellness and doin. finance officer, Spirituality" at May 8 meeting at Joined by officials representing White's of Westport. provinces in England. Ireland, SPIRITUAL CONNECTIONS, France. Belgium. Argentina and INC., FR Cameroon and the community's Fifth annual conference, "Beyond general staff in Rome. Italy, the Tolerance," 8:30 a.m. to noon May sisters explored ways of enabling 9, Union United Methodist Church, GENERAL CONTRACTORS their members to bring new life to 600 Highland Ave., FR. Keynote 55 Highland Avenue both their mission and society. speakers Norman White and Dorothy Reflecting on their experience Neary will be followed by panel Fall River. MA 02720· of leadership in an international presentation and question and answer 678-5201 session. ,I nformation: 678-290 I ext. congregation and in the world.

288. they were urged to continue researching and examining various models appropriate to mission, ministries and communities, with special emFIFTY-FOUR YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY phasis on feminine ways of leaderYOUR GENEROUS GIFT HELPS MEET THE NEEDS OF MANY PEOPLE ship, collaborative methods and human qualities and skills. They were also challenged to deepen their understanding of issues of authority and power by working collaboratively to develop deciTHE ANd-lOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., May 5, 1995

CATHEDRAL CENTER OF RENEWAL, E. FREETOWN New Bedford Catholic Schools Faculty Retreat, led by Father Charles A. Jodoin, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. today.

Cathedral Camp open house June 18; registra tions now being accepted for summer camp. Information: 763-8874.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSU Guild living rosary and Benediction 7 p.m. May 9. Vincentians seek children's and teen clothing for families who were recent fire victims.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FR Pro-Life committee will collect baby items for Catholic Charities ~nd Birthright beginning May 12; Items may be placed in bassinet at ,the altar: ST. LOUIS, FR All welcome at intercessofJ' prayer and mediation 7 p. m. each Monday.

O.L. ASSUMPTION, OSTERVILLE The parish will celebrate: silver jubilee of pastor Father Thomas Rita at noon Mass of Thanksgiving on Sunday.

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In addition, they explored resource sharing in terms of justice and sought ways in which Holy Union Sisters can continue personal formation throughout their religious lives.

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Reports from provinciallc:aders were received and discusse:J and delegates will report both results of the council meeting and direc-, tives to be implemented to their respective provinces.

What To Do? "How is it, my Creator, that you have become man? How is it that you have gone from eternal.life to death here in time that thus you might die for my sins? And I, what have I done for Christ, what ought I to do for Christ?" - St. Ignatius Loyola

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