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FALL RIVER DIOCESAN .NEWSPAPER FOR
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CA"E CG)D &;,THE ISLANDS VOL. 35, NO. 21
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Friday, May 24, 1991
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MEMORIES OF PORTUGAL: From left, a Terceiran villager paints his house in anticipation of the pope's visit; Bishop Daniel A. Cronin with his host, Bishop Aurelio Grana·da of the diocese of Angra, Azores; the bishop in front of the Fatima guesthouse at which the pope, he and Msgr. Oliveira were accommodated. (Msgr: Oliveira photos)
Bishop, chancellor recall Fatima papal trip By Pat McGowan with Catholic News Service reports A friendly wave from Sister Lucia dos Santos, only survivor of the
shepherd children of Fatima, Portugal, to whom Our Lady appeared in 1917; the sight of nearly a million candles thrust skyward in the night as throngs prayed the rosary with Pope John Paul II at the
Plane memorializes Fall River brother A very special plane landed last weekend at the Fall River municipal airport. Dedicated to Brother Normand Berger, it memorializes the Brother of Christian Instruction who grew up in Fall River and Tiverton, RI, attended the brothers' former Prevost elementary and high schools in Fall River, then entered the community at age 18. After graduating from Walsh College, conducted by the broth-
ers in Canton, 0., Brother Berge,r became an announcer and the chief engineer at a Jesuit-run radio station in Nome, Alaska. While there he earned a private pilot's certificate and later was certified as a commercial pilot and airplane mechanic. In 1987 he went to Zaire, Africa, as a bush pilot with a group of Canadian brothers. There, in 1989, at age 40, he, thre~ other brothers Turn-to Page II
STANDIN G beside plane memorializing their son, Brother Normand Berger, are Lorraine and Normand Berger. At left, Guy Gervais, a bush pilot with Brother Berger, who flew the plane into Fall River. (Studio 0 photo)
Fatima shrine: those are among memories of Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, the only U.S. bishop to participate in the May 10 to 13 papal pilgrimage to the Azores, Madeira and mainland Portugal. The bishop was invited to share the pope's 50th trip outside Italy by Bishop Aurelio Granada of the diocese of Angra, Azores. He was
accompanied b'y diocesan chancellor Msgr. John J. Oliveira. The Angra and Fall River dioceses have had close ties for many years. Fall River has the largest population of Azorean immigrants of any U.S. diocese. . Bishops Granada and Cronin were the only bishops to greet the pope on his arrival on the Azorean
island ofTerceira May II, although other prelates, including Cardinal Antonio Ribeiro, patriarch of Lisbon, were aboard the papal plane. Bishop Cronin participated in the pope's motorcade through several small villages en route from the Terceira airport to Toiros di Turn to Page II J
Children killed for body parts, allege, Latin American bishops WASHINGTON (CNS) Latin America's bishops have condemned the kidnapping, illegal adoption and killing of Latin American children - which they say in some cases are committed for the sale of body parts to First World countries. "How could we keep silent when we are confronted with so many sins against life like abortion,con~raception, euthanasia, and the trafficking of children and their physical elimination for the transplant of organs," the Latin American bishops' council, or CELAM, said in a May I statement. The council, meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, agreed to push for the investigation of 20 possible cases of alleged murder and organ theft. Bishop Luis Armando Bambaren Gastelumendi of Chimbote, Peru, told Catholic News Service May 14 that the bishops spent a great deal of their time discussing the injustices and violence plaguing Latin American children.
He said some 1,400 street children were murdered in Brazil from January to April. "Children deserve Our respect and love and nothing less," he said. "As a society we need to give protection to our children and their rights." The National Movement in Defense of Street Kids, a human rights group in Brazil, said the children are being murdered by off-duty
security guards, police and death squads who are being paid by small shopowners to eliminate petty thievery. More than 7 million children roam Brazil's streets. Vigilante groups blame them for hurting tourism and business. Joao Ricardo Dornelles, a law professor at Rio's Pontifical Catholic University, said civil Turn to Page II
Appeal at $1,949,827.61 Reports from parishes and Special Gift collectors have brought the total of the 1991 Catholic Charities Appeal to $1 ,949,827.61. Collectors for the Special Gifts and parish phases of the Appeal are asked to complete their calls this weekend, May 25-26. The Catholic Charities Appeal Office will be closed on Memori~l Day, Monday, May 27, but Appeal books will be open until 10 a.m. Tuesday,
May 28. All reports received by this time will be credited to the 1991 Appeal. To assure 'such credit, last-minute reports should be brought in person to Appeal Headquarters, 410 Highland Avenue, Fall River. Parish Honor Roll Parishes which have surpassed their 1990 final Appeal totals in this year's Appeal will be enrolled Turn to Page 13