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DCCW meets for 46th convention, ~ Presenters focus on theme: 'One Bread,

One Body, One Lord of all: Hope for the Family in the New Millennium.'

By JAMES N. DUNBAR TAUNTON - There's no doubt that the Catholic woman in today's Church plays a prominent role in keeping the Body of Christ vibrant and enduring in her parish and in her family life.

Many variations on themes of the love, dedication and responsibilities of women working in union with Christ, were at forefront of the talks and workshops at the 46th annual convention of the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women held May 6 at Coyle and Cassidy High School here.

More than 200 women, representing 45 of the parishes in the diocese, attended the all-day event, which included Mass celebrated by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley; OFM Cap. Turn to page 13 - DCCW

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'tardinal O'Connor laid to rest THIS YEAR'S winners of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women's Our Lady of Good Counsel Awards pictured with Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., are, from left: Doris Dubreuil, St. Jean Baptiste, Fall River, District I; Doris Riendeau, St. Jacques, Taunton, District II; Mildred Allen (accepting for Elizabeth McKenna, St. Patrick's, Falmouth, DistrictV); Louise Cruz, Our Lady ofthe Assumption, New Bedford, District II; and Maureen Ondeka, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Seekonk, District IV. (Photo courtesy of Madeline Lavoie.)

World Day of Prayer for Vocations is Sunday ~

Special program at the Family Life Center in North Dartmouth offers an opportunity to learn about vocations.

NORTH DARTMOUTH - Pope John Paul II invites everyone in the Church to pray for vocations to the ordained and consecrated life this Sunday, World Day of Prayer for Vocations, which coincides with Mother's Day. In the hope that more young people will respond generously to God's call, a program "Building Bridges -:... Vocations for the 21 st Century" that includes prayer and a presentation, will

be take place Sunday, 6:30-8 p.m., at the Family Life Center in North Dartmouth.

"It will offer the opportUility to learn more about vocations," said Father Craig A. Pregana, vocations director for the Diocese of Fall River. "I invite anyone considering a vocation to come and join us on Sunday."

In a recent letter to pastors across the diocese, Father Pregana urged support in encouraging parishioners to pray for vocations on Sunday, and to foster candidates to the religious life. .The good news, said Father Pregana, is that-currently there are 21 seminarians preparing for the priesthood and that six men will be ordained priests in June.

Pope John Paul in his jubilee year message callior vocations, said: "Dear young people ... the world needs young people capable of 'building bridges' to unite and reconcile ... men and women are needed who believe in life and accept it as a call that comes'from above, from God who calls ... only courageous young people, with minds and hearts .open to high and generous ideals, who will be able to restore beauty and truth to life and to human relationships. Then this jubilee time will truly be for all a 'year of the Lord's grace,' a jubilee of vocation."

For more information contact Father Craig Pregana at the Vocation Office, 675-1311 or visit at www.FaIIRiverVocations.org.

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FALLRIVER - Holy Union taught in Fall River at Sacred . ,Sister Ellen Horrigan, 92, also Hearts Acad.emy, St. Michael's . known as Sist(fr Mary Agnus, a School and Sacred Heart School. teacher at paroc;hial schools in the In Taunton,· she taught at St.· . Fall River diocese and elsewhere, .Mary's and Sacred Heart schools. died Monday at the Catholic Me-.

She also taught at St. Francis morial Home after a brief illness.. de Sales Sc:hool, Patchogue, N. Y, Born in Baltimore, Md., the and at St. Joseph's School, daughter of the late James and the 'Swedesboro, N.J. late· Catherine' (Gillespie) Her last teachingassignm'ent Horrigan, she graduated from was at Sr. William ofYork School, Alexander Hamilton School and Baltimore, where she ministered St. Catherine's Normal Institute, for many years. both in Baltimore, and from After retirement from teach~ Providence Teacher's College in ing, Sister Ellen ministered as a Providence, R.I. She later stud- volunteer at Red Cross Headquaried at the College of Notre Dame ters and at'Right to Life in Mary. in Baltimore and at Villa Julie land as well to migrants in North College in Stevenson, Md. Carolina. She vblunteered at Bon Sister Ellen entered the novi- Secours Hospital in Baltimore and tiate of the Holy Union Sisters in in 1989 received an award for Fall River on Aug. 11, .1931. She 4,000 service hours there. pronounced her final vows on Sister Ellen: continued' the Aug. 26, 1938. same kind of service at Charltbn Ministry for Sister Ellen was Memorial Hospital, Fall Riverfor for many years at the kindergar-' several.years. . ten and first grade levels. She She is survived by nieces and . nephews and her Holy Union Sisters.;She was also the sister of the' ·late. Mary ¢rumling.· .

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EASTON ' - Holy Cross Father MarkT. Cregan, a Stonehill alumnus and trustee and the pastor of a large inner-city parish in New York City, has been chosen the ninth president of the 52-year~ old college. .

The recent announcement came from Thomas Shields, chairman of the Stonehill College Board of Trustees: Father C;:regan succeeds Holy Cross Father Bartl~y MacPhaidin, who has served as pr~sident since 1978.· . . , Father'Cregan, who will move to Massachusetts this summer and begin his term aspresident at that time, says his principal goal will be to str~ngthen the college's commitment to academic excellence and to place Stonehill among the 'very best academic in- . stitutions in the nation. '~My job will be to build on the college's current academic strength," said Father Cregan.. "I will work with all segments of the Stonehill comm!Jnity, enhancing the quality of our academic offerings and building on our liberal arts tradition. Accordingly, my most important immediate responsibility will be the appoint-

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Holy Cross. . . A 1978 'graduate of Stonehill, He holds a master of divinity Father C;:regan will be the second de'gree from the University of St. Michael's College at the Toronto School of Theology, and is former member of its board of trustees. .

He also holds a juris doctor degree from'Brooklyn Law ,School, and is license'd to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court; the courts of the Stat~ of New York, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the District of · Columbia; the United State District Courts for the District of Puerto Rico, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

From 1990 until 1992, he · served as law clerk to Judge Jose · F:Fuste/}J:S. Distri~t Judge, San ' Juan, Puerto Ricd~' -.

FATHER MARKT. CREGAN, esc Currently the chief administrati ve officer of Sacred alumnus to serve as president. He Heart Parish, a large, inner-city has served as member 9f the parish in the Bronx, N.Y., Facollege's board of trustees since ther Cregan als'o provides lead1996. ership to the archdiocese's comBorn in Jersey City and raised munity development efforts, in Newark, N.J., Father Cregan which have produced more than graduated from Seton Hall Pre- $100 mi Ilion in affordable subparatory School, West Orange, sidized housing. Before becomN.J.;· i~ 1971. He joined the Con- ing pastor there, he spend five gregation of the Holy Cross in. years as·associate pastor of Our 1975 and was,ordained.a priest in . Lady of Good Counsel Parish J9~3. He is active in the adminin Brooklyn.

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Pilgrimage 2000 should be a springboard . By MIKE GORDON' ANCHOR STAFF

What a great experience it was to be at Boston's Fenway Park a few weeks ago. Not because the BoSox were clobbering the ball over "the Green Monster" but because thousands of teens and young adults gathered' to celebrate Mass and their Catholic faith at Pilgrimage 2000.

It was a great opportunity for thousands of young people and I hope it leads to more opportunities for them to share and celebrate their faith.

As a 'writer for a newspaper, it's not often that I have the opportunity to describe my own thoughts in my articles. It's usually just the facts of what happened or here's the world through this person's eyes, but the experience in Boston was more than that.

Standing near the on-deck circle ofFriendly Fenway - as a reporter and photographer, we sometimes get little perks - taking pictures ofCardinal Bernard Law as he baptized and confirmed 11 young . people from throughout New England, I was filled with a great joy at being a Catholic.

I don't know if it was watching new Catholics receive the sacraments or if it was the huge crowd of young people in the seats sharing in the event or even seeing so many march down Commonwe~lth Avenue at the beginning of the day that had me smiling. But I know it affected others too. I hope they liked that feeling and brought it back ho.me with them.

To those who attended I hope it was a moving experience f?r you

and now that you're back in your parish think about getting involved more with the Church. Maybe you could help out¡ more in a youth group or visit people in nursing homes. How about teaching religious education class or helping out at Mass?

I realize that when you're young you sometimes don't know how good you have it and that it's important to make every great moment in life last and that we use those moments to make other great ones happen. .

Experiences like Pilgrimage 2000 help shape young people into who they are, but it's important for them to realize that they should take some of those left over materials and build something important.

Bishop Sean P. O'Malley OFM, Cap., and Cardinal Law both stated that they hope the young people who participated bring the enthusiasm of the day back to their parishes.

Pilgrimage 2000' should be a springboard.

Back in high school I attended the Christian Leadership Insti~te .

(Cll) at Cathedral Camp and it was an experience that changed me. It made me more involved in my faith and was my springboard. Through my job I've run across' two other Cll alumni who are doing work for the Church. One is involved in youth and young adult ministry and the other organizes a prayer group in her parish. I can see how their Cll experience sparked them to become more active in their community of faith.

The three of us are not old by any means. We are closer.to 30 than

to our high school or even our college days. I'm glad I can look back on my life and find moments like Pilgrimage 2000 and hope the young people who participated take a dive into their own faith because the pool is always open and the waters always refreshing.

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the moorinS-, New York at its best The right man,'at the right time, in the right place. This well could describe Cardinal John O'Connor's contribution to the Catholic Church in America. Prelates and politicians have offered their expected reflections of the churchman. History, thetrue test of time, will have the proverbial last word. Ye~, it can be safely stated tha~ he will rank with others as a. dynamic, intelligent, caring and faithful leader of the flock entrusted to his care. .

He brought to his archdiocese pastorate some unique gifts of person and personality. His professional military career served well as a training ground for the' enormity.oof New York.

His intelligence was demonstrated ndt'only~y his earned doc-. torate but by his native instincts as well. Above all it was his faithfulness to his Lord and his Church that set him apart amid the turmoil qf the times. In a city. where trendiness and the avant rule the day, his staunch support of Church teaching was ojten not well received; This indeed should serve as a reminder to 'all that the teachings of Christ passed on in the Church are not ruled by the social order. Rather, they affect society as a visual sign of continuity and stability. Cardinal O'Connor's weekly homilies were indeedwon'derful moments in the teaching Church. Much to the chagrin of some he taught New York and all of America very well indeed. For this gift given in the formation of his person and personality; he indeed 'will be missed. Even to the very end the .lessons 'he taughLin suffering were a wonderful and blessed moment to each and every pe,rson who must pick up their daily cross and follow the Lord. In this light, perhaps his final years will be judged as his very best:

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In Vermont; commenting on the approval by elected officials of same~sex civil unions, Bishop Kenneth A. Angell of Burlington rightly reflected, "It is not only marriage that has been poorly served, it is democracy. itself that has been ~wounded." . There can be little doubt that there are many elected officials who have little interest in preserving traditional marriages. It is very sad to ~ee so many elected Catholics going down this road.

The inexcus~ble stance tihat they oppose such legislation privately .but publicly approve, makes fools of us all. Catholic legislators who turn their backs on Church doctrine and teaching for the sake 'of political gain and applause are fraudulent and deceitful in person audin fact. Bishop Angell is correct when he states that this politi"al act "erodes God's most basic plan."

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New page in parish life

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More. important, they ·relieve. · in today's world ·of health sefvice.s. The very lives· of Catholic .surveyed more·than' 700U.S..par'- coming, the. norm in Arileric.an, . hospitals· throughout the state are.in jeopardy be'cause. of their ishes to identify major shifts they" Catholic parishes. These develop~. pastors of clerical work, allowing Catholicprin~iples. Again, where ·are our legislators? They fail are experiencing. Since 1982, some -ments.confIrm what we have known : them to concentrate mOre fully on to ·helphealth services while .they spend' billions: trying to, :get- ..ofthemostsignifIcaritchanges have <. for. som.e. time but refused to ac- ,pastoral ministry., . .... 'people to.bypass.'Boston with its· '\Big Dig'.' project·.··· < . - '.~ _. ' .•• :beentheSe: . ".. . ....' "'.. :knowledg~:·The models 'of a -par~ . The:study also sounds :a word . . , :. Somewhere'we have :indeed gone'astrayaild' values are going . :, .. '-,- average parish.membership·: .ish ,run:vertica1Iy, from the top of.caution.to pastors and parishio, ' ..". . down' the tube: .' " . ., .-.., :gr~by<23-percent; .. · '. '.' !.' .down,byelergy who are '·'all things . ners: Don't hang on to the ,way , , ~. . <·;Tbe'Edifor ~ .. ..,....:.:,the~average·number. ofpar- . Joal~people:' are:disappearing; .~ '.things were done in the past!.F9rty- .. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _... .•••. .•••' .'iii'. _....... ' .. ish staff mernbersgre~ bynine.~t- ,.~- pu~to ,Ul)Controllable, chang-. .' one.,percentof the parishes wesur-., ,. . ' . ... 'cent;·.: ,". <', . . , • • : 'ing circuinstances,:priests' arid·laity ·..·:veyed either haq a website or were CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

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The Oscars: A chilling look 'at the depravities 'of society

By PATRICIA STEBBINS EAST SANDWICH - While semi-dozing through the Oscars several weeks ago, I was shocked awake a few times. A group of gentlemen were exulting over their prize for the movie, "American Beauty." One of them crowed that they had pro.duced a movie ''That had sex, violence, drugs, homophobia, adultery and murder and it was the best film of the year?" He then proclaimed that he had been "blest" to be part'of it all.

But the choice line ofthe evening came from author John Irving who wrote the book and script for "Cider House Rules." He gushed that he was "proud of the courage shown . by Miramax films (Disney's evil child), in producing this wonderful film about abortion." He then effusively thanked Planned Parenthood and the National AbortionlRepro, ductive Rights Action League for their great efforts in promoting and supporting the film.

"Cider House" is a blatant pitch to p'romote abortion revolving around two illegal abortionists one a drug addict and the other a fraud who never finished high school. May one assume they are representatives of abortionists?

But the most chilling aspect of the film was the prominence of the backyard chimney, spewing smoke from the bu.rning bodies of aborted ·infants, much too reminiscent of a very dark and g{isly

time in recent history.

It's a little sickening to think that, in this great country of ours, the multi-billion dollar film industry can't come up with anything better than septic tank sludge.

Equally chilling is the fact of PP and NARAL working in the film industry. Can we look forward to a moving tale of a young, single woman who becomes pregnant but later'meets the man of her dreams?

Caught in this dreadful tug of war, she decides to have a partial-birth abortion in her eighth month to fit into a prom gown and win ,her true love. The film might close with a stirring message from PP's great friends, President Clinton and his clone, Vice PresidentAl Gore,~waving flags to a patriotic music background and telling us how they are staunchly defending a woman's right to siphon the brains from her living child in its final state of gestation.

PP operates thousands of abortion clinics in more than 120 nations. It claims to save women from the danger of"back alley abortions" via safe and legal procedures. Legal, yes. Safe? PP itself says they're' dangerous in very fine print on its own liability release forms. Nonprofit? PP recently released its 199899 annual report in which they acknowledge receiving $176.5 million in government grants and contracts.

Figures clearly indicated that over the last 13 years, the taxpayer had dumped more than $1.8 billion

into ppis coffers. This in spite of numerous polls indicating the majority ofAmericans do not want their taxes used to fund abortions.

PP also spends a great deal of time and money providing arid promoting the use ofcontraceptives especially among teens in public schools. But they cite relatively high failure rates for various birth control devices. Tsk, tsk, so when they fail, what's a girl to do but go to PP for an abortion.

PP claims that their work is bent toward slowing down the growth of humanity for the good ofall because population will soon overrun the world. Population has doubled since 1960 but world food and production has never been higher. The human race has actually never been so well off.

Although PP has worked closely with the United Nations' Population Fund in providing birth control !lnd abortion kits to underdeveloped countries and the refugee camps of Kosovo, the UN recently warned of a looming crisis of under-population. The result is a world fallen below replacement needs ... having. to bring in millions of working-age migrants to make up for what is expected to be rapidly declining populations.

These are sobering facts. Clearly, PP, its. policies, agenda, and abortion goals, coupled with strong support by aggressive radical feminist groups, deserves closer examination.

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Patricia Stebbens is a member o( Corpus Christi Parish in East Sandwich, and a former special educator in the Framingham School System.

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Church's most important ministry belong~ to' the parish catechist .

BALTIMORE (mS) - Thomas H. Groome is convinced that there is no more important ministry in the Catholic Church today than. being a parish catechist. . After all, he said, forming people. in their faith and helping them to know Christ better is the central command of-the Gospel - a command he believes religious educators are taking to heart. .

But the Boston College theology professor told some 450 religious educators from across the country that .they shouldn't be alone in their efforts.

He made the comments in a recent keynote address at the National Association ofCatechetica1 Directors' convocation in Baltimore. ''We have to stop thinking we can do this by ourselves," said Groome.

"Christ said, 'Go make disciples ofall people.' That's everyone's mandate.': He suggested that religious·educators tum to a "total. catechesis" approach to· teaching the fai tho They should involve families, teachers, pastors and others in the community to help foster a faith that is "life-giving and wholesome," he said.

"You don't want people just to know about Jesus;' he said, "you want them to be disciples of Jesus."

Groome wamed against "putting· all the eggs in one catechetical basket."

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Carole Carrington never wanted to be in the public . break in the case; a man who had been the caretaker at eye. But this California woman - mother of five and Cedar Lodge where the women had stayed confessed.

From their pain, the Carringtons have reached out grandmother of nine - and her husband of nearly 50 years found their lives nidically altered last year when .to help others. "We offer rewards for the safe return tragedy made them the. central survivors in a high of missing people 'and to bring violent persons to jusprofile. murder case. . tice. We also want to raise The story made the public awareness about national news because it missing persons and violent crime in this country. was 'so horrendous: A That's what I'm doing mother, a daughter and a friend from South running around the counAmerica all were murtry," talking to media and dered during a visit to

By Antoinette B9SCO groups, something that Yosemite National Park. would have been unheard T~ey . were· the ....----~--~----L....t._-'of for her to do two years Carringtons' daughter . ago, she said.~ .

- Carole Carrington said she has learned there are Carole Sund, their granddaughter Julie Sund and a dear friend from Argentina, Silvino Pelosso. some "very bad people" who should be "put away I had the privilege of being a part of a two-day forever." But there are also "kind, generous people in anti-violence conference in Connecticut where Carole this world," hundreds who have sent them cards and Carrington was a keynote speaker. She said that hav- letters. She has also learned that she has "a whole lot ing love.d ones taken away "is the hardest thing that' more spirituality and faith than I thought I did." Speakever could haye happened to me in my life." ing of the victims, she said, "I do believe they're all in I'm sure my readers remember this tenible story. a better pla~." .I • .

Carole Sund had taken the two girls on a trip to show .

She spoke of receiving a poem saying that if a them the western United States. They exPected to have breeze came up as she was thinking of her loved ones, a wonderful time visiting Yosemite National Park and she would know they were there'with her. They went then going for a grand finale at the Grand Canyon. back to Yosemite for a segment on the "Leeza Show," Sund's husband would then join them with their other and when she mentioned this poem, there, ona still th~ children. .'

95-degree day, "suddenly a breeze came up." There When the family couldn't contact Carole Sund, were other similar instances that all gave her ''the overthey knew something was wrong. If was more than a. whelming feeling that I was getting a message." month before their re~ted car, burned beyond recogWorking for the Sund/CarIjngton Memorial Renition, and their mutilated bodies were found. The ward Fund, she said, is showing them that helping family absolu~ly had. to know what had happened to other people is essential ~'for coping with this agony their loved ones. The Carringtons offered a reward· that be with us for the rest of our lives - but we for information. About five months later there ~as a' . can go on."

Instead of using a single model in teaching the faith, such as relying on . the Lectionary alone or structuring a program solely on the Rite of Christian Initiation ofAdults, he suggested that catechists draw from a wide variety of teaching methods to reach as . many people as possible.

He praised the work catechists·are already doing and told them not. to lose heart in their mission. "It's a myth that children aren't learning (the faith)," he ~d. ''The data: shows you are doing a good job."

Convocation delegates 'were optimistic about the direction of catechesis in·the Church today. But many of them worry that more parishes are' beginning to rely on untrained volunteers.

The NPCD board of directors announced that it wi.1I investigate con- . cems about th.e trend toward volunteer cat~hists. It will encourage parishes to use professionals who.are justly compensated for ~eir work. The board will also report back to the delegates on the issue at the next national convention.

The introduction of the "Catechism of the Catholic Church" into catechetical programs has become a "rich resource" that provides a "common language" for instruction, it was pointed out. The challenge, some said; is to "unpack" the catechislp for differerit age levels.

Q. Through the years I h~ve been very badly .however much we still hurt, we are in the process hurt by several people, especially when I was of forgiving.

-First, we can pray for the other person. When younger. I know there is a mandate from' God that we are to forgive thos~ who offend us, even we do that we are also, even if we don't realize it, praying for our own healing. . those who do grave injustice against us.

This is troubling me because I am finding it . -And second, we can be willing to treat the so difficult to forgive .these people deep in my other person with civility and charity. We don't_ heart. What can someone like myself do? (New need to seek him or her out, and we don't need to York) be' friends or buddies. aut we should be open to A.. The volume of mail I've been receiving in simple Christian decency if the situation presents recent months on this subject surprises me. People, itself. .obviously very good people, find themselves spiriI know that many who. say they cannot forgive tually frustrated and guilty because they, as you, have already reached this point. If not, it is some- . feel they cannot forgive and don't know whatto do thing doable to aim at, much more sensible that attempting to suppress our memories. aboli,t it.·. ."

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Q. We. have become totally confused a~out .froin my own~pas~~ral ..,.;~-----~---~~~= holy ~ays of obligation, experience, itseemsthat which ones apply and a large part of the problem stems from the old. which do not. Now it seemsAscension TilUrsadmonition',to forgive and forget In most cases, day is changed to Sunespecially when the hurt day in our area. What

By Father has' been grievous, it is . is the story? (Illinois) John J. :Oietzen impossible to forget, A. Several years ago, even after many years.' . the Vatican gave permisThe supposition then is that one has not for- sion for five provinces (groups of dioceses) in the given the wrongdoer, and that is a mistake. We fo.r- .United States to transfer observance of the feast of give others by letting go ofresentment and the de- the Ascension to the Sunday before Pentecost. Last . sire to take revenge, to inflict harm in return on year, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' those who have violated us. authorized all ecclesiastical provinces to do the same.

Memory of what happened may remain. It is The purpose is to give more Catholics a greater normal and healthy to be angry when someone does . opportunity to celebrate and reflect on this major violence to us:or to someone we love, and that an- feast of the Church.

The bishops 'of your state are among many in ger may reappear w~en the.memory of injuries recurs. t~is country who have implemented this change, But again, that does not rule out forgiveness. beginning.this year. Catholics in several othercounAnger, just as the other normal human passions, is tries already follow this practice. often necessary and proper. It's how we respond to.

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1HEANCHOR- DioceseofFall River- Fri., May 12,2000

Making a difference Dear Dr. Kenny: I am over- mediately available ways. whelmed with all that goes 1. Greet everyone you meet wrong in the world: floods, with a smile. Say hello. We must earthquakes and mudslides, recognize one another and not famine, the availability of pass like ships in the night. guns, the AIDS epidemic and so much more. I want to help all I can to make this world a better place, but I end up doing nothing. How can I make a difference?

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Family Talk

Mary Kenny Start small. Look around you. The best place to begin your campaign to change the world is 2. Learn to give compliments. in your own back yard.

Compliments, like vitamins, are A saint or holy person has a one-a-qay necessity. Learn to been defined as someone who make positive remarks to take the does ordinary things in an ex- place of negative and critical traordinary way. Love your comments. neigbbor in all the little and imCompliments come in two va-

rieties: conditional and unconditional. Conditional compliments are called praise. Through them we recognize the achievements of one another. Unconditional compliments, however, have the advanta,ge that they can always be offered. A smile or hug. A thumbs-up gesture.

Simple phrases like "Lookin' good" or "You're an OK guy."

To begin the compliment habit, resolve to give at least two positive remarks or compliments to everyone with whom you work or have a conversation.

Don't worry if it seems a bit forced or phony at the start. Get it going.

3. Catherine deHueck Doherty, a Catholic activist, in

her later years spoke of her "chit chat apostolate." By this she meant she got to know everyone, and stopped and talked with them on her way to town for groceries. She.took tim,e. She gave her time to show an interest in people.

4. Listen. Everyone has a story. We all want to share our ideas, our experiences, the accomplishments of our children and grandchildren. Be there, and, show an interest in the life and times of your neighbors.

5. Visit those who are ill and those in the hospital. Provide a ride to doctor appointments.

Cook a meal for a family with a sick member. Sickness makes one vulnerable. Be there with a visit or with tangible help.

6. Volunteer. Become a driver for "Meals on Wheels."

Offer respite care for the par-

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Baby-sit. Give the caretakers a night out.

7. Make a more substantial commitment. Become a tutor for learning-disabled children, a mentor for troubled ones. Become a foster parent.

8. Pray for the victims of floods and epidemics and wars.

Pray for peace, and success in'our battle against disease and natural disasters. God listens. Meanwhile, do what you can to take care of your neighbor next door and all those others within your area of influence.

Reader questions on family living and child care to be answered in print are invited.

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I All worked up, over this ~----~------------------------. : Have you been shopping for faithful hand-holding thing couple of volunteers from the parish Scout troop equipped with cattle prods, parishes could easily funl)el people into the appropriate pew areas.

I realize this would publicly acknowledge what we all know in our hearts is the truth. We are a Church in schism. Some people like to shake hands, hold hands and use their hands to share the Communion cup. Others - you can tell who we are because we attend Mass with our hands in our pockets or behind our backs do not.

The shake-hold-share crowd will argue that there is no more chance of s pre ad i n g. germs through such contact than, say, pushing open the

By Dan Morris church door where other folks have could pick up hymnais, touch the touched the door with the same back of pews, touch the holy wa- hands' that they will be shaking ter font, open doors and even go yours with.

But they totally forget the "poink" on the nose of your or friends-:- children with the tip of axiom that says, "But, duh, we were not thinking about it then." your index finger.

I even had a friend claim that However, if you "poink" your own or anyone else's children's people who want to criticize shaknoses now, the Hand Police will ing, holding and common-cupcharge out of the corners of the ping will think nothing of going church and scream at you: "Don't' to a bowling alley and using a anyone touch this person during rental ball.

"Think about it," she said. the Sign of Peace.' He has 'poinked' the nose of a germ-laden "People go straight from eating child and wants to infect you. Cast pizza with their hands to sticking their fingers into those holes and him ouf" And that's just at the Sign of then rolling that ball on the floor, and then back to eating pizza."

Peace.

I could not help but think, as I If you are in a parish where. people form human chains dur- was gagging, that it might be a ing the Our Father, the hands/ nice thing if parishes started handgerms thing can get ugly. Much. ing out latex路 gloves as we enter of this, of course, could be church, especially if there are any avoided if the U.S. Liturgy Ge~ bowling alleys in the neighborstapo would listen to my oft-re- hood.

Comments are welcome. peated request that churches be cordoned offinto "hand-holding" Write Uncle Dan at 441 Church and "nonhand-holding" sections. St., San Francisco, CA 94114; or With decentsignage and a e-mail: cnsuncle@yahoo.com.

One of the more traumatic aspects about attending Mass in the United States in this day and age is that it has become of paramount importance that you pay full attention to germs and your hands.

Actually, it is easier to monitor your hands because most germs are really, really tiny and hard to see with the naked eye, and most of us have eyes that are, to be candid and blunt; naked: In the old days one could blithely saunter into a Mass (this was in a time before they were called eucharistic liturgies) and , not worry about one's hands. You

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controversies in his weekly newspaper column, in homilies at St. · Patrick's Cathedral and in frequent contacts with news media.

NewYorkers learned of the feisty side of his character within the ftrst few months of his arrival in 1984 when he became embroiled in several controversies that made national headlines.

On Catholics and abortion he dis-. ' agreed vigorously with two of New York's most prominent Democratic Catholic politicians - Gov. Mario Cuomo and Rep. Geraldine Ferraro. , On homosexuality, he risked mil· lions of dollars in Catholic social CARDINAL O'CONNOR answers questions with Bishop O'Malley at a press conferservice contracts when he fought Mayor Ed Koch's executive order ence at Bishop Connolly High School, during a visit to this diocese in April 1997 ,for the forbidding city contracts with any annu~JPro-Life convention. (Anchot1Jolivet photo) , agency unless it promised not to discriminate in employment "on the can had approved his request to open which at that time oversaw Catholic speeches on the topic and received basis of sexual orientation or the sainthood cause ofDorothy Day, .chaplains in the armed forces. Pope several awards from Jewish groups, affectional preference." The cardi~ founder of the Catholic Worker John Paul IT persori'ally ordained him including the Cardinal Bea Interfaith movement. abishop at the Vatican May 21, 1979. Award from the Anti-Defamation nal won in court.

Calling his military pension more ' His appointment as bishop of League and the Isaiah Interreligious . Despite their disagreements, he and Koch became friends. In 1989 than enough to live on, he declined Scranton, Pa., was announced May Award from the American Jewish they discussed concerns of the city , any salary or stipends as archbishop. 10, 1983, and he was installed in ·Committee. He was national episin a book they co-authored, "His In 1988 he fonned ascholarship fund the Scranton Diocese June 29. He 'copal moderator for U.S. Catholicfor African-American students, to immediately set out to visit every Jewish relations from 1992 to 1995.

Eminence and Hizzoner." , He also worked for peace in the While uncompromising on which he donated all his Social Se- parish in the diocese, began prepaChurch teachings, he reached out to curity earnings for the rest of his life. rations for Scranton's first diocesan Middle East, traveling there several A native of Philadelphia and synod in more than a century and times and meeting with religious the larger nop-Catholic community. and political leaders. In a nine-day He developed strong relations with priest ofthat archdiocese, he devoted made several other changes.

Jewish leaders and was noted for his 27 years to the military chaplaincy. - , But less than a year later, on Jan~" Middle East tour, Dec. 30, 1991· efforts to bring healing and recon- He retired as Navy chief of chap- 31, 1984, he was named archbishop Jan. 7, 1992,hemetwiththeJordan's ciliation to situations of racial or eth- lains with the rank of rear admiral of New York. He was installed there King Hussein, the presidents of in 1979, when he was made an aux- March 19. On May 25, 1985, he Egypt, Lebanon and Israel, and Isnic conflict.

He launched several programs for iliary bishop bf the U.S. Military became a member of the College of raeli Prime MinisterYitzhak Sharnir.

Cardinals.

During a visit to Cuba in 1988, people with AIDS, inaugurated an- Vicariate.

But before becoming New York Within his first few months in at a late-night meeting with Presinual celebrations with people with disabilities, promoted workers' archbishop he was thrust .into the New York it became clear that he -dt(f1t Fidel Castro, he expressed concauses, fonnetl three religiou~' or- mitional spotlight in the 1980s when was not afraid of taking stands that "cem aboufCuba's political prisonders, convened an archdiocesan he played a key role in the drafting would provoke controversy. ers. About two months later Castro synod and started the canonization commi~ee that wrote the U.S. bishThat June, he said he did not see sent him a list of 433 political pris- , , causes of Pierre Toussaint and New ops' landmark 1983 pastoral letter "how a Catholic in , York Cardinal Terence Cooke. on 'nuclear deterrence. good conscience John Joseph O'Connor was born can vote for a canOne of his last public acts was to announce this March that the Vati- in Philadelphia Jan. 15, 1920. He . didate who explicattended St. Charles Borromeo itlY supports aborSeminary in -suburban Overbrook tion." . and was ordained a priest ofthe archAfter he was diocese Dec. 15, 1945." _. made a cardinal in Hi taught high school for seven" 1985 he was apyears after ordination and engaged pointed to the Vatiin advanced studies. He: earned can Congregation master's degrees in advanced ethics for Bishops, the at Villanova University in Villanova, Pontifical ComPa., and iil clinical psychology. at mission for Social The Catholic ~niversity ofAmerica Communications in Washington. He later eamed a and what was then doctorate in political science at the Council for the Georgetown University in Washing- Public Affairs of ton. the Church. i He became a Navy chaplain'durEnthusiastic, : . ing the Korean conflict in 1952 and ,about Churc? u~e 'riIA~." ~~,' •. ,-,'',served on vessels in the Atlantic, of the medIa , tn· :i,'~ ci-:ii'" ;,.;qk'~~~~' i!,i~';;:--:;~ ',' ',1 Caribbean and Mediterranean, ashore, 1988 he started a::t!:i'j;....,y:'.\,"~"" in various U.S'- posts, and overseas weekly half-hour ,,~I, .;- ..t. ' ~:;!,;':-'l:' :'~"~'" , television series, :;:1:" "'j":""~'~f:.~':": . " , in Korea, Japan and Vietnam. {<,<Y In 1958 he received the Legion "FacetoFaceWith :IHT. of Merit award for his work in pre- John Cardinal""" paring and developing the Navy O'Connor." It ran ,NEW YORK Cardinal John J. O'Connor Moral Leadership Program. He re- for a year~and-a- reaches out to a starving child during a 1985 ceived the award agaiI,1 in 1965 for half, first on Satur- vis~ to a refugee camp in Mekele, Ethiopia. (CNS "exceptionally meritorious conduct" day mornings on photo by Chris Sheridan, Catholic New York) , as chaplain to the 3rd Marine Divi- WNYW-TV, then sion in Vietnam. His 1968 book, ''A on Sunday momings on WCBS-Tv. oners he was wjlling to release, inChaplain Looks at Vietnam," was Several times he turned down in- cluding some whose freedom had based on his experiences there. vitations to serve as grand marshal been sought by Church officials for In 1972 he became the first of New York's annual St. Patrick's many years.

Catholic chief chaplain 'of the U.S. Day parade. But in 1995, when he He also was an outspoken advoNaval Academy in Annapolis, Md., had just turned 75 and submitted his cate of, workers. When unionized and three years later he became the resignation to the pope in accord with workers, struck the New York Daily second Catholic in history to be ap- Church law, he accepted the invita- .News in 1990, he publicly supported pointed Navy chief of chaplains. tion and became the ftr;st archbishop the strikers, addressing a union rally He retired from the Navy in 1979 to hold that post. and subrriittingtestimony at a U.S. THE CASKET of Cardinal John O'Connor is carried into when he was named auxiliary An ardent advocate of better Senate hearing in favor of legislaSt.-,Patrick's Cathedral in New York last Monday. (CNS photo bishop.of the Military Vicariate, the Catholic-Jewish relations, Cardinal tion barring employers froin hiring .nonmilitUy ecclesiastical stlUcture O'Connor gave several, important permanent replacements. from Reuters)' ." '" Cardinal Law recalled that Cardinal O'Connor was known as an "unremitting" champion of human li.fe and dignity, of workers and of peace.

But most of all, he said, he was a priest who kept the Eucharist at the heart of his life and ministry, "a man of profound and uncomplicated faith in a good and gracious God who has revealed himself in Christ Jesus."

Two minutes of sustained applause greeted -his description of Cardinal O'Connor as "unambiguously Pro-~ife."

As the ovation continued, people began standing in a wave that began at the back and quickly filled the entire church;, inCluding the hundreds of priests in the congregation and the dozens of cardinals, archbishops and bishops around the altar.

Eventually the Clintons and Gores also rose to their feet, although they did not applaud.

In an earlier statement Cardinal Law summarized the late cardinal's Churc;h ~areer with the comment, "There was a transparent consistency to his teaching, 'making it impossible to pigeonhole him as. a 'conservative' or 'liberal.' No one in the history of the Church in the United States has been more powerful in advocating the inviolable dignity of every human person."

Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., bishop of Fall River, Mass., was among scores of Catholic cardinals, bishops and representatives of other religious faiths in places of honor for the Mass. A plain-speaking public, figure, Cardinal O'Connor often addressed current

Missouri m'om fed up with guns will join at Million Mom March

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lock requirement for handguns.

Frickleton, who lives in Leawood and is a member of St. Thomas More Parish in Kansas City, Mo., was helping to coordinate local support for the national event. .

It is expected to be the largest rally held for gun control. AI-

though one million people are not anticipated for the Washington march, organizers expect there will be at least 100,000 and hope 43 rallies being held at the same time around the nation will attract a total of one million.

The National Council of Catholic Women, Pax Christi USA, and Network, all Catholic groups, are endorsing the march. The organization's website lists 40 religious su pporters, including major Protestant church groups and Jewish groups.

LEAWOOD, Kan. - Julie Frickleton is a mom and she's had enough.

That's why she plans to fly to Washington to participate in the Million Mom March on Sunday, Mother's Day. Frickleton is one of 20 Kansas Cityarea moms flying as a group to Washington for the event, where they will join thousands of women from across the nation demanding that Congress enact "Organ~zers tougher, "comwant to raise mon sense" consciousQess gun legislation to the extent to protect chilthat legislators dren. insist on better They'll safety rules for , JULIE FRICKLETON, right, holds a pair of shoes symurge the licenshandling of ing of handgun bolizing the empty shoes of a child lost in a gun-related death. 'firearms," owners, the She will take the shoes to the Million Mom March May 14 in Frickleton told registration of Washington. Beside her is Dana Bartimus, Million Mom March The Leaven, all handguns, coordinator for Kansas and the Kansas City area. (CNS photo newspaper of and a safety by Monte Mace, The Leaven) the- Archdio-

Four-star general offers five-point plan for youths

By ROBERT DYLAK

where youths can play and learn, America's Promise aims to CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE such as youth and community provide that sense of purpose to ORANGE, N.J. - Gen. Colin groups; ,youngsters and give them "a bePowell and Seton Hall University - access to proper medical lief in themselves and a sense of share a desire to "prepare young care; hope," Powell said. He added that people for a rapidly changing - access to "the technical edu- his soldierly skills are now put to world," according to the retired cation needed for success," Powell use fighting '~new enemies" inchairman of the Joint Chiefs of said; cluding "drugs, violence, despair, - the importance of service. broken homes and teen pregnanStaff. cies."

He called on Seton Hall graduates to develop a Powell said when he approaches leaders "sense of stewardship ... for Powell, who as a four-star for help corporate the talents and gifts you've with America's received from God." Powell general, was the highest Promise he tells them they added, "You have received ranking black in the armed are not acting simply out of much from this institution "They have to conforces, was the keynote charity. and now you will be able sider their own self-interest speaker at Seton Hall's recent and the future of their corto give it back" to others.

Powell, who as a four- UMany Are One" alumni poration by investing in fustar general was the highture employees and customest-ranking black in the awards ceremony. ers."

He also offered a view of armeq forces, was the keynote speaker at Seton Hall's re- "Giving somethirig of themselves hope, pointing out that although cent "Many Are One" alumni to others is an experience you dangers exist, the threat of worldwant all young people to have," wide nuclear war was eased with awards ceremony. the end of the Cold War and the He listed five priorities for the he said.

Powell is now the chairman of fall of the Berlin Wall. He credlife of America's children.

- "They need good models," America's Promise, an alliance for ited Soviet President Mikhail he said. "When parents are not youth, which aims at providing Gorbachev as a key architect of present, we have to be there." the necessary resources to, ensure the end of the mistrust.

"It's not enough to solve our Powell credited family, New York American children will grow into neighbors and public schools with responsible and prod~ctive adults. own problems," he warned. "We "Every child in this country is have to keep democracy moving watching over him and instilling a sense of values. "I realized how a gift from God, and we all have forward." He added, "You are esthey loved me," he said, "and they responsibility for those children," sential elements" in that process let me know they believed chil- he said. "Nothing is more impor- and "you do that by giving back tant than to bring the next gen- of the talents God has given ... dren should be successful"; - "Providing safe places for eration into being, position them use them wisely." He called the youngsters to learn and grow," in the right direction, and give process of giving back an "American tradition."

Powell said. That means places them a sense of purpose."

THEANCHOR-DioceseofFall River-Fri., May 12,2000 cese of Kansas City. "I'm really upset by the fact that there are so many guns on the market and that people can purchase ammunition at places like Wal-Mart as easily as they buy laundry detergent."

Frickleton said support for the Million Mom March transcends anyone religious organization and consists of women "dissatisfied with our country's inability to controLthis handgun problem."

Officials with the march organization say that, on average, 12 children die of gunshot wounds every day in the United States. However, they emphasize that they are not asking for guns to be banned but are urging Congress to enact additional gun laws.

"We're not talking about banning guns or repealing the right to self-defense," said Dana Bartimus, an Overland Park mother of three who is the Mil-

lion Mom March coordinator for Kansas and Kansas City.

"We are talking about the sort of sensible safety precautions that our society already applies to food or medicine or cars," she said. "We require drivers to pass a test and carry a license to operate a car. Why on earth wouldn't we apply that same sort of common sense to machines designea to kill people?"

The U.S. Catholic Conference has not officially endorsed the Million Mom March. But Dan Misleh of the USCC Office of Domestic Social Development said, "We do support all of the policies advocated as part of the march."

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'Heartbreaking' book is aptizzling top seller

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cious, narcissistic and immature, the latter at least being understandable.

The'trouble with the copyright' If 'the thought that life might of "Heartbreaking Work of Stag- have a spiritual dimension ever segering Genius" - and the prefa- riously occurred to him, he' obvitory "rules and suggestions for the ously put it aside, giving attention enjoyment" of the book - is that to genuine concern for his'brother,' they hint ata humorous treatment the perfection of various Frisbee' of the author's efforts to raise his techniques, a growing awareness of younger brother. In truth, the himself as typical, of and spokesbook is anything but humorous, man for his greatly-gifted undersome comic moments aside.

30 generation, and the nurturing of The author is Dave Eggers. His a c'asual but active sex life. younger brother is Christopher, .

A bitte,r obscenity-laced concalled Toph. Egger~ i~ 21 and versation with a suicidal, drug~CTOR RUS~El~ Crowe plays a former Roman general who was 'sold into slavery and Toph'is seven when the book taking friend aptly summarizes .trained as a gl~dlator In the Dr~amworks action epic, "Gladiator." For a brief review of this movie, (Simon & Schuster) op~ns as their matter~. "It's really ... boring;" see, CNS Movie. Capsules on this page. (CNS.photo from Dreamworks and Universal Pictures) mother, 51, is dying of cancer, a Dave tells him. "For a little while month after their alcoholic· father ."iqthat is, his reliance on Dave) succumbs to the 'same disease.

Older siblings (Bill, 24, and Beth, 23, a law student) are the execu" To which the friend ~eplies .. ' tors of the estate and all have agreed that Dave should act as Toph's. guardian constant ByGERRIPARE . with assists yammering CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE about tragpoverished farming community is . Coyote's teacher is another interest, from them edy and NEW YORK Two orphaned teacher Martin (Peter Coyote), who ing character - not without flaws as needed. family is German immigrants arrive in a introduces two new concepts to the in his dubious past, but hoping to Almost what has Washington state rural community . children: a newfangled game called make a difference in his new town. .immed)com e during World War. I in the well-basketball, and daily portions from Besides the golden cinematograb e ately, Dave, he plays on the phy of swaying wheat fields, the boring becrafted family film, ''The Basket" a German opera' Beth and cause "in .

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Victrola. movie delights with its depiction of Toph desert one way or .

Having lost both their parents in Both the game and the opera's basketball as it was played in 1918, middlebecoJ11e very'importanqo the' using large leather balls and botanother, we. wartime Germany, teen .Brigitta story class Lake ahyaY~hare" (Amber Willenborg) and younger life ofthe town, On~ might en;lble tomed-out peach baskets as hoops.

Forest, Ill.; t a' I k n g 'brotherHelmut(RobertKarl Burke) 'the novice basketball team 'to. win Nchampionship match brings out . for what 'b 'bC u t' are taken in by Waterville's preacher- moneyfor~desPeratelY!1eededhar-' thecommunityandenablesI-Jelmut Dave thinks Dave.. T{) doctor-undertaker (Tony Lincoln). ve~ting machine while the other of-: to take his rightful place as one of is going to which Dave At \!1e one-room schoolroom, QOw- fers insights about how the scourge their own.· be the exresponds, . ever, the students are wary of two of war .can unite-:-:-, or divide - a In a murky subplot an ex-con hil,!-rating "I am' strangers from the enemy cou~try. community.

(Joey Travolta) suggests the teacher freedom of : Producer-director Rich'Cowan partnered in a gambling scam, and ,owed," One family, the Emerys, has been the Berkein-, especially hard hit by the war, as fashions a 'visually lovely period. thet:e is fleeting violence of wartime .Dave ley-Oak,deed has their oldest son has just returned . piece whose family values are care- flashbacks and schoolyard fisticuffs. land-San ,become a an amputee in worsening health. fully woven into,the tale. One gets a However, older children should be Franci sco Emery (Karen Allen) doesn't real feeling of arduou.s farming life' able to handle this and grandparents area. What bo re, - so Mrs. h0 Idth·lsagamsttheinnocentimmi. much so madeworse by the absence of sons might enjoy the movie as much as emerges' that Y 4' 'grants but her bitter'husband (Jock sent to foreignpattlefields. But the pre-teens and parents. It is a quality from the ex0 _ would like MacDonald) and son Nathan (Brian movie is also a nostalgic glance back film that deserves a wide and appreperience is a weird memoir that,' as much as . to shake him until his ,teeth rattle Skala) bristle at the very sight of the at a time when families pulled to- ciative audience..

Due to fleeting violence and disanything; is a put-down, intended as you advise him ~o grow up, German siblings in their midst.Yet gether as youngsters went home of his florid fananother brother, Tom (Eric Dane), from schoolto hours ofchores withcreet gambling, the U.S. Catholic leave the world or otherwise, of the memoir as a tasies and enter the world he is drawn to Brigitta, who does all out complaint Conference classification isA-llpublishing staple and refuge of seems to despise so much if he's' she can to make her little brother Allen plays a wife and mother adults and adolescents.

The Motion breast-beating tell-all writers of good repute, ill repute and no re- really serious about changing it. feel loved in the face of daily peer with a mind of her own when she Picture Association of America rat. feels her husband's prejudices against ing is PG - parental guidance sugGi ven, such a reaction (am I hostility.' pute at all. in this?) how do we explain A crucial newcomer to the imthe orphans must be opposed. gested. ' alone Perceptive r~aders might want the sa!es success of''A Heartbreakr:=------------:-----------------------...., to take his "rules and suggestions" which symbolically tells the (Joaquin Phoenix) execution more seriously than I did. There ing Work..."? One suspects that story of man's emotional develorder but is enslaved as a gladihe' informs us "there is no over- voyeurism,is at work here as Dave opment from birth to maturity ator and. is determined to surwhelming need" to read the pref- engages in his public stripping. while watching acrobatic' and vive the bloodthirsty arena specace or the acknowledgments, or There is too that early promise of a broad satire along with some dance scenes performed by the tacles so he can wreak revenge "even much of the middle ...

Cirque du Soleil troupe. The reby usurping the new ruler. As which concerns the Iives of people very vi vip writing, much of it suIt is a colorful mix of redirected by Ridley Scott, gruein their early 20s (for) those lives' .imaginative in a stream-of-con- ' way.

'And there is an markable dimensionality and some mortal combat scenessugsciousness are very difficult to make interuneasy feeling that at times Eggers glorious visuals although even gest that might is right, but imesting, even when they seemed its short running time of 38 passioned performances, an abinteresting to those livin'g them" is holding-up a mirror to our own IC~' minutes feels long wearing the sorbing narrative and staggering and that in fact you might not want lives and that this is an anguished required, rather weighty headvisuals are nonetheless impres- . to read more than "the first three cry (he denie~ it) for attention: .

Talent is undoubtedly' on disICaIIV~Ullite~ set.

The U.S. Catholic Confer-' sive in capturing the brutal era or four chapters" because "the play, but.tObe effective one sus''-., ence classification is'A-I·....:...of human sacrifice as entertainbook thereafter is kind of uneven." general patronage. The Motion ment for the masses. Recurring It is in. the there,after that we pects he needs a better sense of . stylized violence and a depiction NEW YORK (CNS) - FolPicture Association of America encounter Eggers' parents and his direction' and greater discipline. in "A Heartbreaking lowing are recent capsule re-rating is G general audiof a character's incestuous His targets friends and learn the details of his Work ..." are so many and his views issued by the U.S. Cathoences.' longings.

The U.S. Catholic life and the depth of his concern lic Conference Office for Film "(;ladiator" (DreamWorks) -'. Conference classificatIon is Afor Toph, It is an account that is at methods so hyper that the.overall and Broadcasting.

Larger-than~life epic set in IV - adults, with reservations. once gothic, vulgar, anguished, an- impression is not of unevenness but of an out-of-control roller "Cirque du Soleil Journey of 180 A.D. when Rome's leading The Motion Picture Association gry and guilt-ridden, revealing jump the Man" (Sony Classics) general (Russell Crowe) escapes 'of America rating is R - recoaster threatening to Eggers to be rootless, cynical, disAn Imax 3-D presentation, the vicious new emperor's stricted. dainful of his Catholic past, suspi- tracks.

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By ANTHONY BARICH

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PERTH, Australia - "If music be the food of love, play on," said Shakespeare in "Twelfth Night."

Replace "music" with "sport" and you have the motto by which· 69-year-old U.S. triathlete Sister Madonna Buder lives.

Sister Buder, a member of the Sisters for Christian Community from Spokane, Wash., has devoted her competition it! triathlons to God. After waking up at I a.m. with jet lag last week in Perth, she won the 65-69 age group of the World Triathlon Championships. The triathlon involves .long-distance swimming, biking and running.

It was her seventh championshIp.. won't youT" She dedicated the three legs of the Sister Buder is the current race to her three brothers and record holder of the iron-man dedicated the wh.ole triathlon to event in Hawaii and Canada for her late parents. her age group.

She said her mother was de"As long as God has given me voutly religious, dedicating each . the strength. and skill, I see no of her children to God while still reason why I should stop," she in the hospital while Sister said.

Buder's father, a non-Catholic, Yet Sister Buder, who began was hesitant to baptize them. The competing at age 48, said the athsporting genes came from her fa- letes she associates with need her ther, a champion oarsman who as much as she needs them. also played handball at a high "Athletes draw strength from level until age 70; she said. me: I can't understand it," she "I'm starting to wo·ndeJ: said. "They ask me 'When's whether this (triathlon) is such a Mass?' - like I'm supposed to· good idea any more,as I'm nearly .kn.ow the Mass timetables of the ' that age," she said. "But I keep loc'al church in every city we visit saying to God, 'You'll let me all over the world. know -when (to give it aw"ay) "But I give them spiritual guidance and gi ve help to those who need someone to talk to," she said. . As she is globe-trotting, she does Go~'s work by ministering

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THEANCHOR- DioceseofFall River- Fri., May 12, 2<XXl to those who are lucky enough to cross her path - except if it's on the triathlon track.

"I don't know how people get along without faith," Sister Buder said. "An event like this literally brings people to their knees. It is a time when faith is needed."

Her additional role as a guardian ad litem - an advocate for troubled youths in law courts requires her to do the work of "the FBI, lawyer, and confidant, all

rolled into one," she said.

Along with being an athlete, confidant and spi~itual guide, she is. also a published poet and author and has won an award for black-and-white photography eight times as a nature photographer.

"I wake up every morning and say to God, 'OK, God, what'll it be today? Whatever it is, guide me,'" she said: "Life is never dull and there's never enough time."

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Our retreat time together will not be so much an exercise in the theological reflection, rather an attempt to grow in our spirituality, to evaluate the ways in which we have grown over the last year, as Priests, to witness to the Lord as His Shepherds. It will be a time to reflect on the simple message ofJesus Christ and how it has molded our lives. ~

Jesus reminds us we are responsible for the progress ofthe Gospel we proclaim. asked: Doyou live what you believe? So you really preach what you live?

SISTER MADONNA Buder, a member of the Sisters .of Christian Community from Spokane, Wash., walks after cro~sing the finisFl line in Perth, Australia, to win. the World Triathlon Championship for 60- to 69-:year-olds. (CNS photo

by Anthony Barich, Perth Catholic Record)

Archbishop Pilarczyk decries court ruling on Ohio state motto

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CINCINNATI (CNS) -Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk decried a federal appeals court ruling that declared Ohio's 41-year-old state motto - "In God, All Things are Possible" - to be unconstitutional.

The ruling, handed down last week, "seems to be yet another dismaying attempt to evict moral values from the public square," he said.

- The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the state Of Ohio to abandon its motto after ajudge con-" eluded it is government endorseme!1t of religion that violates the· U.S. Constitution's mandate for separation of church and state.

"It almost defies belief that the court found the words 'With God, All Things Are Possible' to be a spe-

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cific endorsement ofChristianity simply because Jesus spoke them,"Archbishop Pilarczyk said in a statement.

The appeals court panel, made up of three judges, voted 2-1 for the decision to force the state's hand.

Judge Avern Cohn wrote that the state motto is "uniquely Christian," and implies that the state offers preference to Christianity over other religions.

Ohio officials have said.they will appeal the court's ruling.. ''The phrase is as nonsectarian as the motto of the United States, 'In God We Trust,' and in fact the sentiment is much the same," Archbishop Pilarczyk said. "We hope the state of Ohio succeeds in its effort to have this appalling decision reversed."

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Pope's Fatima visit accents faith Church'eyes healing linked of c,hildren', Marian devotion to Ble,s.sed Padre PiiJ THEANCHOR:....-DioceseofFallRiver-Fri.;,May 12,2000

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But the pope's reasons for thanking Our Lady of Fatima are not strictly personal. He believes the defeat the priest said. . , .VATICAN CITY - In the only papal trip in 2000 of cO!TImunism in Eastern Europe is due to her interSAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Diagnosed with acutemenincession.

Italy -Church authorities and gitis, the boy was transferred to not related directly to the jubilee, Pope ~ohn Paul II is Jacinta, Francisco and Lucia said Mary had asked doctors have begun studying a the hospital built by Padr~ Pio combing two of his priorities: · children and Marian devotion. for prayers for the conversion healing that might be the miracle in San Giovanni Rotondo.

Although Holy Year pilofRussia and said the country's needed, for the canonization of Father Cocomazzi said docconversion would bring peace.

Blessed Padre Pio. tors told the hospital staff and grimages to the Middle East Jacinta and Francisco will be Capuchin Father Gianmaria the Capuchins.at the shrine that were supposed to be the only papal travel in 2000, the pope the youngest non-martyrs beCocomazzi, guardian of the. . the boy's best hope was for a atified since the modem, Vatichurch where Padre Pio is bur- miracle because only fi ve but of is in Fatima, Portugal, today can beatification process began ied, said a six-year-old boy was 1,000 people struck with the and tomorrow to'beatify Fran400 years ago.

- healed of severe meningitis in same form of the disease sur- cisco and Jacinta Marto.

While the children had an The children, along ~ith , January after thousands of people vive. their cousin, were tending unusual experience which made prayed for Padre Pio to intercede The child's parents went to 'their lives unusual in many with God to heal the boy.

Padre Pio's tomb each evening sheep May 13, 1917, when ways, they still were children, Father Cocomazzi told of the to pray for the boy's healing and they had a vision ofthe Blessed and it is as holy children that boy's healing last week during as news of hi~story spread, visi- VirgIn Mary. 'The apparitipns they will be beatified. In an incelebrations at the Church of St. . tors to the shrine joined as well; continued once a month until Oct. 13, 1 9 1 7 . t e r v i e w with the Italian magaMary in San Giovanni Rotondo Fath~r Cocomazzi said. - " The children saId Mary zine 30 Giorni, Jesuit Father marking the first anniversary of The boy recovered comPaolo Molinari, the postulator, Blessed Padre Pio's beatifica- pletely, but returns to San asked them to promote devosaid the cardinals agreed that tion. ,Giovanni Rotondo with his par- tion to her Immaculate Heart children's holiness of life "This is one of the alleged ents '.each week to attend Mass and to pray the rosary daily. , They also said she told them I ~:::==~ should not be judged as if they miracles that could be presented and recite prayers of thanksgivthat Jacinta, who was then were adults. to obtain the canonization of Pa- ing, the priest said.. .

The cardinals also agreed that dre Pio. Religious authorities and.

If there is strong possibi.\ity seven years old, and Francisco, :A!!!!~i:;:;';lIIiIlIilII!!!!!!!!!~~ once children reach the age of doctors are evaluating it," Father of a miracle, the case is submit- who was nine, would die very THE BASILICA of Our Lady of Fa- seven - traditionally "the age Cocomazzi told an estimated ted to the Vatican Congregation young, but that their cousin, 10,000' pilgrims gathered to pray for Sainthood Causes. In general, Lueiados Santos, who was 10, tima will be the site of the beatification of of reason" - they are capable atthe Capuchin's tomb. two miracles need to be accepted . would live long.. \.

Fatima visionaries Francisco and Jacinta of making choices that demonThe child was at school when by the Church as having occurred Francisco was almost 11 Marto. Pope John Paul II will celebrate strate an extraordinary openness he became violently ill and was through the intercession of a PI:O- and Jacinta was almost 10 the beatification Mass at the Portugal to God, to goodness and to othwhen they died during a flu . ers. rushed to an emergency room, spective saint. . shn~e tomorrow. (eNS file photo by Sister Lucia's memoirs are epidemic. .

Their cousin, now a 93-. Leslie Kossoff) filled with examples of the ':lfAg !TUngrkm ~me year-old cloistered Carmelite children's prayers, their charwilt/Je rkRe on erudA- fM nun, 'is scheduled to meet Pope John Paul before ity and their spirit of making sacrifices offered for the • C"W" " salvation of sinners. For example, the children often tomorrow's beatification and pray with him at the en .:neat/en children's tombs at tbe Shrine of Our Lady .of the ,gave their lunchesJo pOPfcerchildren they, met on the ' Rosary.. road as they were'taking their sheep out to pasture. On hot days, they would delay 'drinking water and offer . Pope John Paul, who has a deep devotion to Mary, already has made two trips to the Fatima shrine durtheir sacrifice for the salvation of sinners.

Oh adorable 'and Divine Will, behold me here· before the his pontificate.

He believes that Our Lady of Fa-.

The ChUl;ch declared in 1930 that the ~ppariing of Your Light, that Your eternal goOdness may open immensity tjma saved his life on her May 13, 1981, feast day, 'tions were worthy of belief. , . to me the doors and make me enter into It to fonn my life all in Th,e EWTN <;ablechannel will provide live when Mehmet Ali Agca tried to assassinate him in St. .

You, Divine Will. Therefore, oh·adorable Will, prostrate before coverage of the scheduled Saturday Mass and Peter's Square.

Your Light, T, the least of all creatures, put myself into the little In thanksgi,:,ing for his recovery, Pope John Paul beatification of two of the Fatima visionaries, group of the sons and daughters of Your Supreme FIAT. Prosvisited the shrine on the first and 10th anniversaries of Jacinta and Francisco Marto, from Fatima, trate in my nothingness, I -invoke Your Light and beg that it the attack.

One of the Turkish gunman's bullets has Portugal. dothe me and eclipse all that does not perta.4J to You, Divine been embedded in the crown ofastatueofMary at~he The Mass. will be shown live at 4:30 a.m.' EDT Will.' It will be my Life, the center of my intelligence, the shrine. . and be rerun at 8:30 p.m. EDT that day. enrapturer of my heart and of my whole being. I do not want, the human will to have life in this heart any longer. Twill cast it away from me and thus fonn the new Eden of Peace, of happiness and of love. With It I shall be always happy. I shall have a singular' strength and a holiness that sanctifies all things and conducts them to God. Here pro~trate, I invoke the' help of the' Most Holy Trinity that They permit me to'live in the cloister of the Divine Will and' WARSAW, Poland (CNS) filled," the leaders said.

28 orders were later interned. More thus return in me the first order of creation; just as'ibe creature Leaders of reIlgious orders in the " A spokeswoman for Czech or- than a third of the country's 12,200 was created. ., . ".....Czeci) Republic warned that reli- ders, Dominican Sister Edyta nuns were arr~sted the ,following gious life is still impeded by re- Mendlova, s3.id the revival of reli-, s.ummer an~ autumn, when nearly Heavenly Mother, :Sovereign and Queen of the Divine Fiat, strictiohs, ,50 years after all. mon-. gi6us life had been "severely re- 340 convents were taken over by . t3.ke my hand and introduce me into the'Light of the Divine' asteries and convents were sUP-. stricted" by dfsputes with the Czech army or state institutions.

WilL You will be my guide, my'most tender Mother, and will by thecommunist regime... govem,men.t, as well as by a postpressed Religious life revived tempoteach me to live in and to maintain myself ill .theorder ,and the Aspokeswoman said order rt~- communist crisis in vocations. rarily during the 1968 Prague bounds of the Divine WilL Heavenly)\1o!-her,' Lconsec:rate my cruitment had also' been discour"It's been a very bad time, with Spring reforms, although formal whole being to Your Immaculate Heart. You, will teach me the aged by the. "cagitalist, consumermany ,abandoning the religious life prohibitio,ns remained in force un'doctrine of ~e .pivine Will and T will listen, most attentiveJy to jst systein" in'the country..' even after their perpetual vows," the til the 1989 "Velvet Revolution." . Your lessons. You will cover me with Your mantle so that the' "When monks and nuns began. spokeswoman said in a late-April Around 200 communist-seized infernal serpent dare not penetrate into this· sacred Eden,to :en~ serVing our sotiety again, they ex-' - interview. buildings have S9 far been returned , tice me and make me fall into the maze of the human will. ' · peeted to obta,in good conditions,'" , "But the government has made ,.to religious orders in the CzechRe. ,Heart of my greatest Good,' Jesus, You will give me~ Your the provinciais and.superiors said inatters much worse by deliberately public, where two separate comflames that they may bum me, consume me, and feed me to inastatementmarking·theS.othan'- , keeping the Catholic Church in.a ' missions.are negotiating legislation forin in me the Life of the Divine Will. '.' · niversary of the 1959 forced clo- provisional situation, cooperating to define the Catholic Church's Saint Joseph~ you will be my protector, the guarciiaJ) of my sures: . . _" with, it without allowing the prob- property rights and financial. sta.heart,' and will keep the keys of my' will in your hands. You' - "How{lver, a Jilek of solutions lems to be fully resolved," she said.. tus. will keep my heart jealously~and shall never give it to me. again, in church-state relations and vari- . 'All.2J.6 male monasteries in the Sister Mendlova said the current that I may be sure of never leaving the Will of GOd. . ous social arid legal problems have. then-Czechoslovakia were sup- Sodal Democrat-led government My guardian Angel, guard 111e; defend me; help me in ev• proved unfavorable to religious pressed in two combined police op- was "more sympathetic to the erything so that my Eden may flourish and be .the instrument people. Our communities have not;erations, "Action K," in April 1950, Church" than the previous Cabinet that draws all men into the Kirigdom ofthe Divine Will. Arllen.

'-as a result, ,met society?s expecta- "two years after the Communist of Premier Vaclav Klaus, wllo resigned in December 1997 amid cortions.,The hopes aroused by the Party's seizure of power. ( In Honor of Luisd Piccarreta 1865-1947 Child oj the Divine Will) . changes of 1989 have not been fulMore than 2,370 monks from ruption allegations.

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During the Mass Bishop and Dr. David Thomas, director O'Malley presented the memorial of research and education at the . Margaret M. Lahey, Our Lady of Father Peyton. Institute at Good Counsel Award for service Stonehill College in North to five Council members.

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They are: Region One, Fall Plouffe told the assembly that, River, Doris Dubreuil of St. Jean "As women of the Church, we are Baptiste Council; Regional Two, aware of the needs of our parishes.

New Bedford, Louise Cruz of These needs are both spiritual as Our Lady of the Assumption well as emotional, economic and Council; Regional Three, Taun- physical. With or. without a ton, DorIs Riendeau of St. . women's group, these needs reJacques' Council; Region Four, main the same. Some one or group Attleboro, Maureen Ondeka of will be needed to meet these Our Lady of Mount Carmel Coun- needs." cil; and Region Five, Cape Cod She said what the groups are and the Islands, Elizabeth called is unimportant.

McKenna of St. Patrick's Coun"Buildings change, pastors cil. come and go, we enter and leave Keynote speakers included parishes; but in the end, the conDCCW President Lillian Plouffe stants continue to be the precepts

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BUSY PLANNERS - ' President Lillian Plouffe and Maureen Papineau, chairman of the committee for the annual convention of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, were part of the unbeat leadership team at the event on May 6.

and needs," she said, noting that when the Council was formed in speaker and his wife have opened 1953 its mandate for members was their home to over the years. "But for "raising their voices and mak- these last two had trouble being ing them heard as they faithfully placed and so I ... and my wife, and steadfastly upheld the pre- ' well, we just had to keep them as ours." cepts of the Church." .

He said the apron was "one of In looking for a theme for this the liturgical garments of the year's convention, something sighome ... and this is for the celnificant in her life, Plouffe said ebration of the holy things done it was not difficult to find.

"Family is and will continue in a holy place, the family. It is a to be my first priority,'" she as- reminder that the life we lead evserted. "When I gave the topic to ery day, which involves caring for Bishop O'Malley and Dr. Tho- people, cooking, cleaning, bakVi mas, I purposely did not give ing" are all sacred activities, alj;' though we hardly ever think of them a great deal of direction.

Family is a person experience. Its them as such."

FAMILY MAN - Dr. David Thomas, who recounted many joys, sorrows and challenges de-.

Thomas wears a necktie velop its character. For me per- stories about his family and in the decorated by his youngest community around him said that sonally, these experiences condaughters as arrives to adtinue to be linked closely to my so much of the goodness and ho, liness ... things that God notices dress the Diocesan Council faith, a fact that has enabled'me in our lives, happen at home.

"For of Catholic Women about the . to get past the dark moments and God is in people, especially the bright hope that drives today's experience the brighter ones with 'people you know; although befamilies. ' great intensity."

Linking the family and the cause of that, its hard to see God hope ,in family life today than Eucharist "was a natural connec- in them sometimes."

The speaker said he came to was seen 25 years ago. "And I tion," Plouffe said. "The meal is, understand that in recent years think family life is better now a time for families to come towhen one of his two adopted than it was before, and there are gether no inatter their differ, daughters would use a corrup- plenty of families, withiQ some ences.They talk, they share their experiences, discuss opinions and tion of the word "visit" to urge of the best ,marriages the world admit to conflicts. I see the cel- him to stay with her longer. "I has ever seen, who are today ebration of the eucharistic feast found that the most important fighting against immense odds to as offering the same opportuni- thing for that moment was to survive." be with her; more important After a luncheon, attendees ties." that anything I could possibly participated in one of five workThomas, the general editor of be doing at that time.

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They addressed: dealing "Family Life and Education," and ized that the most important with Medicare; getting life mesalso a catechist and theologianthing in family is to be with one sages across via stories; handling in-residence at Queen of Peace another." end of life issues; forgiveness; and Parish in Aurora, Colo., donned Thomas said he finds more creating balance in Hfe. a red kitchen ~pron to talk about "Hope for the Family in the Years Ahead." , Thomas, whose older children are in their 20s and 30s, also has two adopted daughters, ages seven and eight. The lattef were amopg , Attleboro, MA 02703路0965 some 75 foster children the

Vatican official praises Chinese' Catholics' fidelity to pope

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in China, is one. Do not divide yourselves, but work to maintain this fundamental unity." .

VATICAN CITY -A top Vatican official praised The division in the Chinese Church has been an Chinese Catholics' fidelity to the pope despite perse- extremely' sensitive point among Chinese Catholics cution, and he urged them to continue working for' and the two sometimes overlapping branches of Chiunity despite government attempts to divide the Church. nese hierarchy. .

Celebrating Mass for the 50th anniversary of VatiUsing a Second Vatican Council formula for papal can Radio's Chinese program, Cardinal JozefTomko, primacy, Cardinal Tomko said that "whoever is not prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of, 'with Peter and under Peter' is not Catholic.".

Peoples, said religious believers in China, especially . ' "Only bishops united to the, successor of Peter are Catholics, had come under "stiff persecution" in the the legitimate pastors of the Catholic Church in whatpast five decades, ever area of the world, and no authority, institution or "There were attempts to ,separate (the Chinese association can usurp that function," the cardinal said.

Catholic Church) from its vital center which guaran- .- "With admiration we,recall so many sacrifices, so . tees its catholicity, from the rock on which Jesus ChrisJ many sufferings you have accepted to remain incom~ , desired to build his Church," he said.. . ' " niunion with the pope," he said. "In this 'atmosphere, "A new ideological Great Wall (of China) was in- often permeated with fear, the Church in China passed tended to isolate that Church from the rest of the uni- through 'fire'aJ}d water,'yet did not vanish nor diminversal Church guided by Peter," he said. ish, but grew mature through the cross, 'and is growIn 1957, China's communist government founded ing in number and in the courage of the faith," he a Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, which elects said. its own bishops and spurns all ties with the Vatican.

The cardinal noted that 120 martyrs in China were Many Chinese Catholics have rejected the govem- to be canonized at the Vatican Oct. 1. ment-controlled association and belong instead toa Cardinal Tomko also expressed appreciation to the persecuted underground Church. But even among staff of Vatican Radio's Chinese program, which he members of the patriotic church, many bishops are said has served for 50 years as "a bridge" between the said to have secretly pledged fidelity to Rome.

Vatican and the Church in China.

In a recent report, the Vatican's missionary news Despite the apparent division, CardinalTomko said that there was only one Chinese Church, made up of agency, Fides, said its Chinese-language website was , Catholics united to the pope. celebrating its second anniversary. More than 5,000 In his homily he told Chinese Catholics that "with '. readers a week, mostly from continental China, access you we firmly professthat.the Catholic Church, even. the Fides Chinese site, it said.

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. EARTH DAY festivities at Holy Name School, Fall River, found students planting flowers with the city's r:nayor, Edward J. Lambert. The celebration also included guest speaker Priscilla Chapman, officer of conservation for the City of Fall River, a poster contest, and a clean up effort. From left are: ,Lauren Charbonneau, Emma Santoro, Ryan Medeiros, Nicholas Daddona, Mayor Lambert, Alan Pontes, Victoria Greene and Blaine Honohan.. .

OUR' LADY of Mount Carmel School, New Bedford, recently' held its annual. science fair. Eighth-grade winners, top from left are: John Mateus, Marisa Pereira, Anne Marie Tavares and Kristina Arruda; middle:seventh-graders Amanda Mello, Rita Senra, Brian Moniz and Mathew Barbosa; bottom: Cristina Camaro ~hows first-graders Lisa Rodrigues, ~ared. Ferreira al.1d Craig Soares her project.

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while. But can I tell you again what a great person I think you are?

You have many talents, and if you simply throw yourself into life, be disciplined,and commit to follow-

Four years ago in this column I wrote a letter to my son, then nearing the end of eighth grade. Time passed. A lot of it. And now I guess it's time for another letter: -~51 Dear Christopher: .. , ~..,"v II Coming In a week-and-a-half it will finally happen. You'll walk across the of, ' stage and get that high-school diploma.

Soon afterward something even FO~ ,YOOT" • ABOUT YOOT" more amazing will take place.

You'll get in your little Dodge Colt and start driving, stopping 10 hours ing yo'ur interests, life will open' up later in the place you'll call home in ways you'll find hard to believe. for the next four years at least, that If you can just conquer your fear. big city that holds that big college It's what holds a lot of us back: you:ve dreamed ofgoing to for most fear. We're afraid oUailing, oflookof your conscious life. , ing stupi'd, of being rejected, ofhavThe other night, I was sitting on ing our weaknesses revealed.

AN INDUCTION ceremony recently hon()red:20 new members of the St. Mary's School, Do Y9u' know the best way to New Bedford, honor society. The group is advised by Karen Quintin and Anne Souza and the front porch swing reading. You came ,and sat next to me, silent at conquer fear? (Ab, yes, yo\.! knew pastor of St. Mary's, Msgr. John J. Oliveira, who joined students in the celebration. first, then offering a few stupid jokes this was coming.) you kn~w would irritate me enough Depend on God. to get my attention, then finally get~ In the next few moIiths there will ting to the matter at hand. be nights when you;re lonely, when , ''A~ you'scareq?" I asked. , you'll miss a home-cooked meal; , . You nodded, ,eyes' fixed on the you;n yven,rr-iss yoUr brother and " St. Francis'bird feeder hanging from sister.· "a branch just, on the other side of Close youreyes, open your heart the screen;, and let God calm you down.

You're afraid of two things, you You'll be intimidated by profes, 'admitted: that you're not prepared sors and overwhelmed by the chalacademically and that you're not lenges of leading your life comgoing to make friends. pletely on your own without mom

By CHARLIE MARTIN· CAT.HO~IC NEWS SERVICE ' " I told you theri what I've told trailing behind, alternately nagging you before. you have.!l't had the' and picking up the pieces. ,,' I Try _ greatest high-school education, but When it seems to get really bad, Games, changes and fears Refrain's chorus: , Justa front it's better than most,and ifyou com- head over to the Catholic chapel, take When will they go from here Goodbye, and I choke (Repeat refrain.) mit to being disciplIned and keep a few minutes and sit in the quiet.

Try to walk away but I stumble When will they stop Here is my confession up with your work you'll do fine.

Listen to God in that quietspace, I believe that fate has Though I try to hide it May I be your possession?

As for the second fear, I'll re- and you'll hear what you need to brought us here ' It's clear my,world crumbles Boy I need your touch peat myself. College is completely hear: He made you out of love and And we should be together when you are not near Your love kisses and such different from high school, and we for a reason, and he wants you to be But we're not (Repeat refrain's chorus.)

With all my might I try can thank God for that. You're not happy. You're far away from us, but Refrain: I may appear to be free But this I can't deny, deny going to encounter cliques or bul- he's always there. He'll give you the But I'm just a prisoner I play it off but I'm (Repeat refrain.) lies deciding to make you the ob- strength to do'anything you set your dreaming of you , o f your love (Repeat refrain's chorus.) ject of mockery for apparently ran- mind to.

I may seem all right I keep my cool but Sung by Macy Gray dom reasons. Friendships form inAnd then when you leave the I'm finding .

And smile when you leave Copyright (c) 1999 by Sony stantly and intensely in the college chapel, you know what you should I try to say But my smilt\!s are just a front Music Entertainment Inc. environment. Don't worry. do?

Because, Christopher, you're fine.

Head straight to the dorm, pick SALES OF Macy Gray's CD "On How Life difference should not be huge. Otherwise, one You and I have had severe differ- up the phone and give me call.

Is" recently reached double platinum. The person is setting himself or herself up for lots of ences over the years, and I still wish Because you know, I'll be wait. album's popularity was helped along by her top- hurt, as in this song. you would read a book once in a ing.

10, hit "I Try.'" , , , 3 . The world should not "~rumble" when space The single describes a breakup that the girl in, ' occurs in a relationshipof lov~. Each person has· , the song does not want. She sings: ".I may seem, interests, activities, goals and other fryends. Sur~, all right and smile when you leave, but my smiles,' it still hurts when a separation happens, but thiS are just a fronf.. .. Though I try to hide it" it's' wider world helps to heal the pain. clear'my world crumbles when you're not near." , 4. Problems between the two people are,ad, A separation not' mutually chosen often 'h'u.rts dressed when love is involved. I get the feeling the person who feels abandoned. The girl 'in this from this song that the separation is a total sursong may have contributed to her own pain by prise to the girl. The guy probably struggled with her attitude. She sings: "Here is my confession.' his decision for a whjle. His lack of clarity abo~t May I be yourp()ssession?" Her statement speaks his issues may have added to her dependency. more about unhealthy depend~ncy than about' She may have avoided n~ticing his concerns,belove that could grow and mature. cause she preferred feeling close to him. AvoidIt is not unusual {or people to fall intodeperi- 'ing problems does not build love. dency even though they label the experience 5. In dependencies, individuals put m?re e~­ "love," Here are a few differences between de... phasis on the physical side of the relatIOnship pendency and genuine love: ,than on its emotional and spiritual sides. The 1. With love, no one is a "possession." Emo- 'girl says, "Boy I need your touch, your love tional closeness does not mean that one loses his ',kisses and such." Physical attraction is normal, or her identity. Nor is one's identity formed by but how we act upon it ought to be determined the romance. Rather, each person appreciates his by our values.

HELPING HAND - Bishop Connolly students Debbie Most dependencies lead to the type of hurt or her own individuality.

Viveiros, left, and Jamie McCoy, second from right, present 2. It appears that the girl in the song was much that this song describes. a check for $1,325 to Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., m'ore committed to the romance than the guy. ' Your comments are always welcome. Please Len Nicolan and Leo Thibault for the St. Vincent de Paul store There could be some difference between their address: Charlie Martin, 7125 W 200S, which was damaged by fire. Funds came from the Fall River levels of investment in the relationship, but that Rockport, Ind. 47635. school's third annual penny war, a competition between homerooms. .

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Fall River Regional 4 • Monday, May 15, 7 p.m. at S1. Anne Church, Fall River. Parishes include: St. Anthony of Padua, Fall River; St. Elizabeth, Fall River; St. Joseph, Fall River; St. William, Fall River; and St. Bernard,. Assonet.

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I Apart from the regional confirmations, at which I Publicity Chairmen are NEW BEDFORD - The, asked to submit news items for Courage Group will meet Sat- I Bishop Sean P. O'Malley,OFM Cap., will preside, I this column to TheAnchor. P.O. urday at 7 p.m. at the rectory of I there are many confirmations slated to be held in I parishes. Ministers at those are designated by iniI Box 7, Fall River,. 02722. Name Holy Name of the Sacred Heart tials. A key indicating the minister is listed at the of city or town should be in- of Jesus Parish. Courage is a I end of this schedule. . cluded, as well as full dates of support group for Catholic men I Attleboro Deanery Fall River Regional 5 ,- Wednesday, May 24. 7 all activities.'DEADLINE IS and women who are confront- I Attleboro Regional· Friday. May 5, 7 p.m. at St. ,p.m. at St. Anne Church, Fall River. Parishes include: NOON O~ MONDAYS. John the Evangelist Church, Attleboro. Parish~s inE~ivto Santo, Fall River; ing same sex attraction issues and Events published must be of who are striving to lead chaste I dUde: , ~OUf/LadY of Health"Fall River; and .'

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Sacred Heart. North Attleboro; interest and open. to our gen- . lives. For more information call S1. Joseph, Attleboro; / . eraI readership. We do not norMsgr. Thomas Harrington at St. Stephen, Attleb<;>ro; ~n Parish ~ 7 p.m. . mally carry notices of fund992-3184.

St. Theresa of the Child Jesus, South Attleboro; Holy Name, Fall River. Monday. May 1 (G.We); raising activities, which may be and, Notre Dame, Fall River. Immaculate Conception, advertised at our regular rates, Holy Ghost, Attleboro. ~ll River, Our Lady of Grace, Westport. at Notre NEW BEDFORD Calix, obtainable from our business , Dame. Fall River, Wednesday, May 17 (GWe). a group which enlists Catholic office at (508) 675-7151.

In J»arish 7 p.m. \ . , men and women who are grateSt. Mary, Norton, Monday. May 15 (DFH); .

New Bedford Deanery fully celebrating recovery from ATTLEBORO - La Salette St. Mary, MaJisfil~ld, Mondays May 1 and May 8 New_Re_dford Regional 1 - Monday. May 1, 7 (HTM); p.m. at St. Aiiiiiohy....Church. New Bedford. Parishes Father Richard Delisle will cel- alcoholism. drug addiction and St. Mary, Seekonk, Thursday, May II (JJS); include: ebrate a Mass for Mother's Day other dependencies wiH meet St. Josep,A, Fairhaven; St. Mark, Attleboro Falls. Wednesday, May 3 Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at the paron Sunday at p: 10 p.m.

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I K St. MyyJFairhaven; center of Holy Name of the ish A Jubilee Year program, foS1. Mary. North Attleboro, Monday, !May 15, (1J6)~~Frands Xavier. Acushnet;· Sacred Heart of Jesus Church. cusing on Mary and Motherhood :st. Anth~)DY. Mattapoisett; and St. John the Evangelist. Attleboro\\Friday, 'May will be held on Sunday at 2 New. members always.welcome.

'12 (DFH); and \ St. Rita/ Marion. p.m. It will include Scripture '<.:0ur-ordrof-...Mount Carmel. seekO\TueSday, NEW BEDFORD-' A Eureadings. music and personal reMay 23 (GWe). ~. \ New ~edford Regional 2. - Monday. May 8. 7 '" _ ~ , p.m. at St. Anthony Church. New Bedford\ Parishes flection. For more information charistic Day of Prayer to Divine Mercy for vocations to _ "'" Cape CoiJ\Deanery . include: call 222-5410.

Cape God Regional 1 ~Wednesday, M~y 10, 7 St. Anthony. New Bedford; priestly and religious life will: p.m. at S1. P*us X Church, South Yarmouth. Farishes St. G~orge. Westport; . . be held on May 18 following CENTERVILLE - The include: ,~\ \ S1. dsimir, New Bedford; \ the 7:30 a.m.

Mass at Our Lady Cape Cod Widowed Support.

S1. Joan of 'f,\rc, Or1p~s;' " .

St. J9~ephJSt. Theresa. New Bed!9rd; ,~ of Perpetual Help Church.

It Group will meet on May 31 Our Lady of\ the Cape,. Brewster;"-... .

Our Lady of Fatima, New Bedford; and l Holy Redeemer, Cnatfiam; ..............

St. J6hn, Neumann, East F/:ee6wn • from 1:30-3 p.m. at Our Lady ,will include adoration of the Our Lady of \~he As~sumption. Ostervil1e;~ : ' of Victory Parish. Topic for the Blessed Sacrament and conclude Holy Trinity, \West ¥arwich; ,and .

New!Bedford Regional Mon~ay, May 22. 7 Mass at noon. with gathering will be "How Long S1. Pius X, South Yarmouth. """. p.m. at St. Anthony Church, New Bedford. Parishes Will the Pain Last?" For more 1. \ . ~, include; /_. . i \ SOUTH YARMOUTH information call Dorothyann Cape Cod RegIOnal 2 • Thursday, May 25, 7 p.m.

S1. Lawrence. New"'Bedford; The Cape' & Islands Chapter of Callahan at (617) 267-5258. at Chr.ist the King ChU~C. h, Mashpee. Parisb~inlHoly lNam.e~ohhe Sacred Heart, ,New Bedford;!

Catholic Nurses will hold its anelude: ,\ St. John the Baptist, New ~edfo~d; Christ the Ki!1g, Mashpee; St. James, New Bedford; / EAST FREETOWN -, The nual Mass and banquet on May St. Elizabeth ~eton, N~orth- Falmouth; Our Lady. of the Assumptio.n, New Bedford; next Emmaus weekend retreat 17 at 6 p.lli. at St. Pius X St. Patrick, Fillmouth; a n d .

Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe./St. Hedwig, New program, for men and women Church. All Catholic nurses, St. John the Evangelist. Pocasset. .Bedford; and / ( members and non-members are in their 20s and 30s, will be held. \ St. Francis of Assisi.

New Bedford. / June 16-18 at Cathedral Camp. welcome. For more information In Parish· 7 p.m. / ' The weekend promotes growth call Jacki McGorty at 428-6741.

Corpus Christi, East Sandwich, Friday. May 12 In Parish - 7 p.m. in your-relationship with Christ (GWe);.\ \.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel. New Bedford, ThursSOUTH YARMOUTH / St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis. Thursday, May 18 day. May 4 (JJO); and applications s~ould be re(HTM); \.. ~..

Immaculate Conception. ~ew BedfOrd,}hurSday• ceived by May 24. For more in- "Jubilee Justice-Forgive Us Our' 'I. .

I St. Anthony, East Falmouth, Monday. May 22 May 18 (JJO); formation call Deacon Michael Debts: The Crushing Weight of (JJS); ' \ \ St. Mary, New Bedfo~d, Monday, Ma~8 (JJO); I .

Debt," is the theme of the next Guy at 995-9547. . St. MargaretiSt. Mary, Buzzard~ay, Monday.

'St. Mary. South Dartmouth, Tuesday, May 16 Pax Christi-Cape Cod meeting May 22 (HTM); \ ~.

(JJS); / I -FALL RIVER - The Youth tO'be held'on May 15 from 7:30- I St. Mary/Our Lady ~Of.the Isle. NantUCK:et.~r- . S1. JUlie. Billiart, North Dartmouth. Tuesday. May I and Young Adult Ministry Of- 9:15 p.m. at St. Pius X Parish. I day, May 13. at 5 p.m. (Bishop); and . ,_.. ,I 2 (JJO);ana---/ I Parishes of Martha's meyard. Sunday. May m.

St. Patrick, Wareham, FridaY;May 12 (JJS). fice is sponsoring a white-wa- For more information call 771- ' I at 11 a.m. (Bishop) \ ~ I ter rafting and camping trip to 6737.

I " , , T q u n t o n Deanery Maine May 27-29 for adults in '.

Fall River Deanery TauntoJ.l Regionalji: - Wednesday. May 17. 7 TAUNTON - The Youth .' their 20s and 30s. For more inFall Rive.r.

Regional 1 • SuA ay, May 21, 3 p.m. p.m.

Stonehi.n c.olle.~' North Easton. Parishes information call Sandy Mullensky Apostles Institute will hold a at St. Mary Cathedral. Fall River. arishes include: elude: \ . . at 646-3179 or Bud Miller at seminar entitled "Effective Jun- ' St. Mary Cathedral. Fall River; St. Anthony. Taun on; , ior High Youth Ministry," on Sacred Heart, Fall River; Immaculat\ Conce tion. Taunton; 675-3847.

June 6 a1 the Dolan Center of SS. Peter and Paul. Fall ,River; HoIY.-,Rosll,fy" Taunton; St. Mary, aunton;'\ Holy Rosary, Fall River; and FALL RIVER - ThePor- St. Mary's Church. Mass will be St. Johitthe Baptist. Westport.

St.Joseph, Taunto~ celebrated in the chapel at7:30 tuguese-American BusinessAs'St:-Peter;-Dighton; . sociation. Inc.• announces that p.m. and the seminar will folFall River Regional 2 • Wednesday. May 3, 7 St. Joseph. North Dighton; applications are now being ac- low. For more information call ' p.m. at St. Anne Church. Fall River. Parishes include: Holy Cross, South Easton; and cepted for' its annual scholar- the Youth Apostles at 672-2755.

St. John of God. Somerset; Immaculate. Conception. North Easton.

St. Patrick, Somerset; , ship. They will award an unde\.

St. Thomas More. Somerset; In Parish - 7,p.m. termined number of $1,000 . WEST HARWICH - The S1.

Dominic, Swansea; Sacred Heart/Our Lady of Lourdes. Taunton, at Parish Nurse Ministry of Holy" scholarships. Deadline for enS1. Louis de France, Swansea; Sacred Heart. Taunton, Tuesday. May 9 (GWe).

Trinity Church will hold a tries is June' 1. For more inforOur Lady of Fatima, Swansea; and St. Ann. Raynham. Thursday. May 25 (JJS); and health fair on May 20 from 10 mation call 678-6666.

St. Michael. Swansea.

Holy Family. East Taunton. Wednesday, May 24 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the church hall. .I (HTM).

It will include cholesterol; pros- I Fall River' Regional 3 - Thursday, May 11, 7 p.m.

MANSFIEL~ Doctor Key: Mary Pat Tranter will speak tate, vision. hearing and memory I at St. Anne Church, Fall River. Parishes include: St. Anne, Fall River; (GWC) Rev. Msgr. George W. Coleman. V.G. about end of life issues as part loss screenings. Appointments I Santo Christo, Fall River; (JJO) Rev. Msgr. John J. Oliveira, P.A. of the educational initiative "In are necessary for the following: I S1. Stanislaus, Fall River; (HTM) Rev. Msgr. Henry T. Munroe, P.A. Support of Life," on May 24 at cholesterol. 432-1531; memory I' St. Patrick, Fall River; (JJS) Rev. Msgr. John J. Smith 800-239-4748; and prosloss, 7 p.m. at St. Mary's Parish cenlOur Lady of the Angels,' Fall River; and (DFH) Rev. Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye I L tate, 888-55.7-9994. ter, 330 Pratt Street.

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