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Friday, June 4, 1993
F ALL RIVER, MASS.
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1993 Catholic Charities Apl)eal Statement of Bishop Sean P. 0 'Malley, O.F.M. Cap.
REV. MR. FARIA
REV. MR. JODOIN
Ordin.ations tomorrow At an 11 a.m. M:ass tomorrow in at 2 p. m. Sunday at St. Anthony's. St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, Concelebrants wil1 be St. Anthony's Bishop Sean O'Mlllley will ordain pastor Father Manuel P. Ferreira Rev. Mr. Andre H. Faria and Rev. and Father Henry S. Arruda, pasMr. Charles A. Jodoin to the tor ofSt. John the Baptist parish, priesthood for the Fall River dio- New Bedford. Also participating cese. All are welcome to attend. will be three priest-natives of St. Rev. Mr. Faria Anthony's parish: Father Bento Andre Hum'berto Faria, born Fraga; pastor of St. Paul's parish, March 23, 1966, is the son of Taunton; Father David Andrade, Andre H. and Maria S. (Moitoso) Parochial vicar at St. John of God Faria and a native ofSt. Anthony's Parish, Somerset; and Father Manuel Andrade, who resides at CathoParish, Taunton. He has three brothers. Dennis, Paul and lic Memorial Home, Fal1 River. , F a t h e r Arruda will be homilist. Michael. He attended Tllunton public Serving as deacons will be Rev. Mr. Thomas J. Souza, recently schools, graduating from Taunton High School and entering St. John's ordained to the diocesan permanSeminary. Brighton, in 1984. He ent diaconate; and Rev. Mr. K. earned a bachelor's degree in libMichael Lambeth of the diocese of eral arts from the seminary col1ege Trenton, NJ. in 1988. Dionisio DaCosta wil1 be music In 1989 he began studies at St. director. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, where A reception will follow. he received a bacca!laureate degree Rev. Mr. Jodoin in sacred theology and a master of Born Nov. 7, 1967, Charles divinity degree last month. Albert Jodoin is the only child of Charles R. and Joyce (Strong) After ordination to the diaconate in January, he served at Queen Jodoin and a native of St. Thereof the Americas parish in Washingsa's parish, New Bedford. ton, D.C. He attended St. Joseph's School, 10 He will celebrate his first Mass T t P _ _ _ _ _ _ _•• .u.r.n_o_.a.ge •
Holocaust survivors speak
They don't want the w<)rld to forget By Marcie Hickey "I personally believe III the goodness of mankind." Sam Natansohn's simple declaration, coming at (he end of chilling testimony of Holocaust atrocities. is a seeming incongruity, an unexpected ray of hope in a dark account. For Sam and his wife Sidonia have had many reasons not to believe in the goodn.ess of humanity. Their youths spent in the terror of Nazi forced labor and concentration camps, they saw family members and friends stripped of
all they had and killed, their people decimated by Hitler's "Final Solution" to exterminate the Jews. In recent years. there is a new kind of trauma. evidence that in the ashes of the death camps, hate lingers. Revisionists assert the Holocaust never happened; 22 percent of American adults believe them, according to one recent poll. For the Natansohns, it is time to speak out-not only for themselves but for the millions like them whose stories were silenced in Nazi gas chambers. Turn to Page II
This week's Anchor details the results of the 1993 Catholic Charities Appeal here in the Diocese of Fall' River. This was my first Appeal as Bishop of Fall River, and I want to take the occasion to thank al1 the priests, religious. and laity who have given of their time. hard work, and money to make the 1993 Appeal successful. I am especially grateful to the Reverend Daniel L. Freitas, the Diocesan Director of the Catholic Charities
Appeal, and Mrs. Claire McMahon, this )lear's lay chairperson. I am grateful to the clergy, religious. and laity of the Dio-
cese and the many benefactors who have respond,ed so generously that we were able to realize an increase over the amount from last year's Appeal. In spite of the recession that has hit our area so hard, people have once again demonstrated their spirit of sacrifice in their wil1ingness to share'with those in need. The total collected, in excess of $2,226,000.00, will aHow us to continue the many pastoral and social activities sponsored by the Diocese.
Suspects arrested in. Mexican cardinal's slaying GUADALAJARA, Mexico (CNS) - Mexican police have arrested seven men on suspicion of . I t ' th e d rug-re ltd IIlVO vemen III ae slayl'ng of Card'lila I Jua n J esus . Posada s Gcam po 0 f G ua d a IaJara, . b u t some M' d bt th eXlcans ou eo ff'1. I versIOn . 0 f h'IS d ea th . cIa Government authorities say Cardinal Posadas was killed by mistake in a shootout at the city airport after gunmen confused his car with that of Joaquin Guzman Loera, head of the Sinaloa, Mexico, cartel. However, one official at the Guadalajara cathedral echoed the feelings of many Mexicans, saying it would have been "impossible [for gunmen] to have mistaken a religious figure dressed in a black suit and a white collar for a drug trafficker." And a leading Mexican newsmagazine reported eyewitness accounts that contradict the official version of how the cardinal died. Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the city's cathedral for Cardinal Posadas' May 27 funeral, and condolences came in from al1 over the world. The 66year-old cardinal had served as vice president of the Mexican bishops' conference and first vice president of the Latin American bishops' council. At a memorial Mass at the Vatican, Vatican secretary of state Cardinal Angelo Sodano said Cardinal Posadas' death "leaves us with a sense of dismay and indignation at the gratuitous and savage violence of which he was a victim," He said the church had lost a "truly exemplary pastor" whose life was "cut down by a murderous hand." Cardinal Posadas paid with blood for his "generous service toward the cause of the Gospel," he said. Speaking in Spanish at his May 26 general audience, Pope John
Paul II prayed that "the blood shed by the exemplary pastor, who generously dedicated his life to the: service of God arid the church, would be an urgent call to reject unjustifiable violence, which causes so much suffering and death and threatens peaceful coexistence." Two of the suspects arrested by the Mexican government said they traveled to Guadalajara a week before the shootout with a dozen other men to kill drug lord Guzman. They did not admit to taking part in the cardinal's killing but said they were involved in the gun battle, which left seven people including the cardinal - dead. They said they then boarded a plane and flew to Tijuana, Mexico.
The Mexican government has offered a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Guzman, his fellow Sinaloa drug chief Hector Salazar Palma, and brothers Ramon and Francisco Arellano Felix, heads of the Tijuana cartel. Mexican officials said Cardinal Posadas was trave:ling in a car identical to the one Guzman was expected to use and was the victim of a bungled "hit" ordered by leaders of the rival Tijuana cartel. A government source in Mexico City said the gunmen were high on drugs at the time of the shooting. The cardinal died May 24 of gunshot wounds rc:ceived in tne parking lot of the airport, where Turn to Page 10
PAYIN G RESPECTS: Standing next to the coffin of Cardinal Posadas are Archbishop Adolfo Suarez Rivera of Monterrey, Mexico, president of the Mexican bishops' conference, and Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Behind Salinas is Archbishop Girolamo Prigione, the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to Mexico, whose plane Cardinal Posadas was awaiting when he was killed by gunfire at the Guadalajara airport. (CNS/ Reuters photo) .J