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Catholic Charities Appeal set to Wind down June 19 FALL RIVER - With the clos- parishes feel their true goal is to ing of the 2007 Catholit Charities raise as much money as they can, Appeal slated for next 'nJesday , the from as many parishioners as posAppeal office was scmppering to sible, by continuing the solicitation answer the phones, open process right up until the the mail, and check , very end of the Appeal. parish totals as secre- III~~~~~ Without that mentality taries and pastors called ~_~~ we could never grow in to double check their; ""':;;;";,,11,,,,-. the Appeal to meet the ever expanding needs of figures.

"It's pretty remarkable to see the the agencies we fund," Donly told dynamic that unfolds in our office The Anchor. and on a grander scale all across the Since 1942, the first year of the diocese," reported Mike Donly, co- annual Catholic Charities Appeal in the Diocese ofFall River, it has been ordinator of the Appeal~ a parish-driven endeavor with tens "It would be so easy for parishes of thousands ofparishioners donatthat have exceeded their previous year's totals to just sit back and ing whatever they could to lessen revel in the fact that they had ac- the burden on those in need of ascomplished what some might con- sistance.

Parish groups and organizations sider their goal," he said.

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"Any significant anniversary is a cause for great joy, and we hope to make this 50th anniversary just that," he added.

On July 1, there will be a Mass at 3 p.m., at which Bishop George W. Coleman - who as a parochial vicar had served at the parish will be principal celebrant and homilist.

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Rev. Mr. David C. Deston Jr., left, and Rev. Mr. William M. Sylvia, third from left, are surrounded by family during a Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral on June 9, at which the two were ordained transitional!ldeacons by Bishop George W. Coleman. The ordination is one of the final steps toward becoming priests for the Fall River Diocese. See story on page three. (Photo by Dave Jolivet)

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CENTERVILLE - When Our Lady of Victory Parish in this Cape Cod community launches its golden jubilee in July with a theme song of "When the Saints Come Marching In,'" one might wonder just where the tributes are aimed.

"Under a celebrations umbrella we'll call the 'Communion of Saints' we will indeed observe a different milieu of Catholic Church life in our parish, a public expression of the lives of those who played and continue to play

Transfers of parQchial vicars are announced Father Kevin A. Cook, from paroFALL RIVER - The reassignment and transfers of eight parochial chial vicar at St. Patrick ParishinWarevicars across the Fall River Diocese ham, to chaplain at Coyle and Cassidy were announced today by Bishop High School in Taunton, andpart-time chaplain at Morton Hospital in TaunGeorge W. Coleman.

The following transfers are effec- ton, while remaining assistant directive June 27: tor of Vocations for recruitment; Father Dariusz Kalinowski, from Msgr. Gerard P. O'Connor, from temporary parochial administrator at .parochial vicar at Our Lady of VicSt. Anthony of Padua Parish in New tory Parish in Centerville, to parochial Bedford, to parochial vicar at Our vicar at St. Patrick Parish in Ware~am; Father Thomas M. Kocik, from Lady ofVictory Parish in Centerville.

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Caritas adviser on AIDS says Church contribution gaining recognition

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AIDS. Also, he said, the Church's position that sexual abstinence before marriage and fidelity within marriage are the best ways to prevent HIV/AIDS has "opened up the vision of experts" to consider, if not include, this strategy in government-sponsored prevention plans.

"Some countries where condom use was promoted a lot saw the rate (in new infections) increase," while places where abstinence and fidelity were encouraged saw new infection rates decrease - data that also helped bolster the Church's value-based approach, he Father Vitii/o said that af- said. many," especially within the media, He also said "they think the ter years of advocacy and the Church has Church only says successful prevention and made a "tre•No' to care programs, the Church mendous imcondoms" and has had an impact on the pact" in service does nothing way the international com- to the poorest constructive in munity is responding to the and most vulthe fight against crisis. He said the Church's nerable, who HIV, he said. advocacy on behalf of uni- otherwise Father Vitillo versal access to AIDS would have rewas at the Vatican medications has "brought ceived nothing.

In Decemattending the re- the needs and voices ofthe cent Caritas ber, UNAIDS . Internationalis poor" to the debate. published a general assemfaith-based rebly, where he delivered a report sponse to the HIV/AIDS panoutlining the work Caritas orga- demic. Father Vitillo, who wrote nizations have carried out the past the book, said it highlights the - five years in HIV/AIDS preven- Church's experience of respondtion, education and care. ing to HIV/ AIDS through its Based in Geneva, Father Vitillo Choose To Care Initiative. works closely with U.N. organiHe said this publication and zations like the World Health Or- other materials the Church and - ganization and UNAIDS, the U.N. Caritas have published outline agency that coordinates the glo- much of "the good news" that bal campaign against AIDS. needs to get out to the wider pubFather Vitillo said that after lic, including policymakers, about years of advocacy and successful how the Church is making a difprevention and care programs, the ference.

Church has had an impact on the Father Vitillo said Caritas way the international community Internationalis' special relationis responding to the crisis. He said ship with UNAIDS, though their the Church's advocacy on behalf memorandum of understanding . of universal access to AIDS medi- and the faith-based publication, cations has "brought the needs and points to "progress being made" voices of the poor" to the debate. in recognizing the Church plays Much of the debate centers on an important role in offering highhow drug patents can be respected quality treatment and care and while still making available life- that it can help government agensaving medications at low or no cies try to beat the spread of this cost to treat those with HIV/ pandemic.

VATICAN CITY - The Catholic Church's contribution to halting the spread·of HIV/AIDS and offering care of those hit by the pandemic is slowly being recognized on the world stage, said Caritas Internationalis' special adviser on HIV/AIDS. U.S. Father Robert Vitill 0 told Catholic News Service that there. is, however, still a widespread perception in some circles that the" Church "is somehow an obstacle to HIV/AIDS education and care."

"Sometimes the Church is too humble in talking about the services we sponsor, and I think that's why for

PROPER FOCUS - Pope Benedict XVI leads a eUCharistic procession in Rome on the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ June 7. (CNS photo/Chris Helgren, Reuters)

Pope says Eucharist essential for Christians 1n often-hostile world

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ROME - Before leading a Corpus Christi·procession with the Eucharist through the streets of Rome, Pope Benedict XVI said the sacrament is essential nourishment for Christians walking through an oftenhostile world.

"For every Christian genemtion, the Eucharist is the indispensable nourishment that sustains them as they cross the desert of this world," he said in his homily for the feast of the Body and Blood of the Lord.

The world is "made arid by ideological and economic systems that do not promote life, but rather mortify it," he said during the Mass celebrated outside Rome's Basilica of St. John Lateran.

Ours is "a world where the logic of power and possessing dominates more than that of service and love; a world where often the culture of violence and death triumphs," the pope said.

"But Jesus comes to meet us and reassure us: he himself is the bread of life," Pope Benedict said.

The pope's security team and Italian police, who are responsible for papal safety outside the Vatican, were extra attentive June 7. A day earlier, % 7 " OmCIALNEWSPAPER OF THE a mentally disturbed man jumped a barricade in St. Peter's Square in an Member: Catholic Press Association. Catholic News ServiCe attempt to reach the pope as he rode Published weekly except for two weeks In the summer and the week after through the crowd at his weekly genChristmas by the CathOlic Pres$of the Oiocese'QfFall RiVer. S87:HIghlariqAvenue, eral audience.

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The real presence is a mystery, and "a God who becomes flesh and sacrifices himselffor the life ofthe world puts human wisdom in crisis," he said.

But Catholics continue to proclaim the true presence of Jesus in the Eucharist and, in traditional Corpus Christi processions, they bear witness to their faith by carrying the Eucharist through their cities, the pope said.

Pope Benedict said Luke's Gospel account of the miracle of the loaves and fishes emphasizes the fact that everyone present ate and was filled.

In the same way, he said, the public procession "calls attention to the

fact that Christ sacrificed himself for all humanity," the pope said. "His passage between the houses and along the streets of our city will be an offering of joy, of eternal life, peace and love to those ,who live there."

Pope Benedict said Luke's Gospel story also emphasizes the fact that the bread and fish multiplied by Jesus were offered by people in the crowd.

"The five loaves and two fish indicate our contribution, poor but necessary, which he transforms into a gift of love for all," the pope said.

The Eucharist, he said, calls Christians to give themselves to others "because the vocation ofeach of us is to be, like Christ, bread broken for the life of the world."

Pope to proclaim year dedicated to St. Paul VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI plans to proclaim a year dedicated to St. Paul, in preparation for the 2,000th anniversary of the Apostle's birth, the Vatican said.

The pope was scheduled to announce the commemorative year at a vespers service June 28 in the Basilica ofSt. Paul's Outside the Walls in Rome, on the eve of the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul.

The Pauline Year will run from June 29, 2008, to June 29, 2009, according to information published in aVatican Radio calendar. No details were immediately available about possible events during the year.

St. Paul was born in Tarsus, in what is now Thrkey, at the start of the Christian era, about 10 A.D., according to Church historians. After his conversion on the road to Damascus, he became one ofthe Church's

foremost evangelizers, first among Jews, then among Gentiles.

St. Paul's letters are a primary source of information about the life of the early Church and have. strongly influenced Church thinking through the centuries.

In his first official visit outside the Vatican in April 2005, Pope Benedict went to the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls to pray at the tomb of the Apostle and pay homage to his legacy of spreading the Gospel.

'The Church is, by its nature, missionary; its primary task is evangelization," the pope said on that occasion.

"At the' beginning of the third millennium, the Church feels with renewed strength that Christ's missionary mandate is more pressing than ever," he said.

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the past. It is your grace which has taught me wisdom; blessed are they who follow her ways, for they shall receive the crown of glory; In spite of my unworthiness, I praise you and I glorify you, 0 Lord, for your mercy to me is without limit. You have been my help and protection.

May the name of your majesty be praised forever. To you, our God, be Glory. Amen."

Cardinal O'Malley, Boston Greek Orthodox Metropolitan to lead joint pilgrimage

IN TRANsmON - Father Kevin A. Cook, diocesan assistant director of Vocations for recruitment, center,

processes into St. Mary's Cathedral in Fall River with Willia~ M. Sylvia and David C. Deston Jr.!or a June 9 Mass at which Sylvia and Deston were ordained as transitional deacons. (Photo by Dave Johvet)

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FALL RIVER - Proclaiming the Gospel, preaching, baptizing, presiding at weddings and funerals and assisting at Mass will become the immediate fare for Transitional Deacons David C. Deston Jr., and Wtlliam M. Sylvia, who were ordained June 9 by Bishop George W. Coleman in St. Mary's Cathedral.

Deacon Deston, 30, the son of David Deston and Donna (Marshall) Deston of Fall River, who has completed his seminary studies and been ministering at St. Michael's Parish in Fall River, was later assigned to diaconate duties at the same parish until September, at which time he will be assigned to St. Pius X Parish in South Yarmouth.

Deacon Sylvia, 26, the son of Mrs. Kathleen (McCann) Sylvia formerly of Fall River and now of Sarasota, Fla., and the late Wtlliam Sylvia, will be returning to Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Maryland this fall to complete his theological studies.

In the interim he is assigned diaconate duties at Notre Dame Parish in Fall River.

Both men will be ordained priests in the coming year.

Deacon Deston assisted at his first pari'shMass at 10 a.m., Sunday in St. Michael's Church. .

Deacon Sylvia's first Mass assisting as a deacon was Sunday at 10:30 a.m., in Notre Dame Church in Fall River.

The colorful diaconate ordinations found the two former seminarians called to orders after their worthiness was attested to, prostrating themselves during the chanting of the Litany ofthe Saints, and receiving the Book of the Gospels.

After being vested in the stole and dalmatic, the traditional vestments of a deacon, and following the laying on ofhands by Bishop Col~man, they assisted at their ordination Mass.

Bishop Coleman outlined their

duties: "Strengthened by the gift of the Holy Spirit, they will help the bishop and his priests in the ministry of the Word, of the altar, and of charity, showing themselves ~o be servants of all. As ministers ofthe altar, they will proclaim the Gospel, prepare the sacrifice, and distribute the Lord's Body and Blood to the faithful. Furthermore, it will be their duty, at the bishop's direction, to exhort believers and unbelievers alike and to instruct them in holy doctrine. They will

preside over public prayer, administer baptism, assist at and bless marriages, bring Viaticum to the dying, and conduct funeral rites."

In his homily, Bishop Coleman noted that while a distinction can be made in those called to active apostolates and to lives of contemplation, 'The deacon, to be true to his calling, must be, at one and the same time, both active, that is, filled with zeal and desire to carry out the work of the Church, and contemplative, immersed in a life deeply conscious

BOSTON - Cardiilal Sean P. O'Malley and Metropolitan Methodios of-the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Boston arid New EDgland will lead a joint pilgrimage to Rome, Constantinople and St. Petersburg in September.

"The pilgrimage is ~ of the flourishing ecumenical relationship between the Catholic ChUrch and the Greek Orthodox Churcq in New England," saidVito Nicastro, ofthe Boston Archdiocese Office for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs.

'The goal is for us to pilgrimage together to these holy pl~s so we are spiritually enriched and bound more closely by encoJlntering the Triune God together:' he said. ''We will attend each other's worship, learn more about each other, :and build relationships." .

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Reverend Jeffrey Cabral, from Chaplain of Coyle and Cassidy High School and Parochial Vicar at Saint Anthony Parish, Taunton, to graduate studies at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Reverend Kevin A. Cook, from Parochial Vicar of Saint Patrick Parish, Wareham, to Chaplain of Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton, and part time Chaplain at Morton Hospital in Taunton while remaining Assistant Director of Vocations for Recruitment.

Reverend Dariusz Kalinowski from Parochial Vicar of Our Lady of Victory Parish, Centerville, to Parochial Vicar, Saint Patrick Parish, Wareham.

Reverend Thomas M. Kocik, from Chaplain ofCharlton Memorial Hospital, Fall River, to Parochial Vicar, Santo Christo Parish, ~Ri~ .

Reverend Ethan G. McCarthy, from Parochial Vicar of Immaculate Conception Parish, North Easton, to Chaplain at Saint Luke's Hospital, New Bedford.

Reverend Michael O'Hearn, from Parochial Vicar of Saint Joseph Parish, Taunton, and part time Chaplain at Morton Hospital, to Chaplain to the Nursing Homes of Fall River and Somerset.

Reverend William M. Rodrigues, from Spanish Apostolate, to Chaplain at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River.

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tember 16 and stay for three days in Rome, three days in Istanbul, the former Constantinople, and an optional three days in St. Petersburg, Russia. Highlights of the trip are expected to include a general audience with Pope Benedict XVI, great vespers with the Patriarch of Constantinople and tours of the Vatican and Byzantine Mosaics ofRome; the Hagia Sophia Museum and Grand Bazaar in Istanbul; and the island of Halki. In Russia, visits are planned to the Hermitage, the Orthodox churches of St. Petersburg and more.

Space is still available for those who might wish to be part of the pilgrimage, but reservations must be made by June 27.

For information contact Vito Nicastro in Boston by email at vincastro@earthlink.net or by teleplwne at 617-435-0019.

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"Comfort and Consolation: Care of the Sick and Dying" was presented June 6 at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Roland Park during a meeting of the governing and administrative boards of the Maryland Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the Catholic Church in Maryland.

Emphasizing the dignity of every human life, the 35-page letter offers moral guidance on questions about medical care and treatment, nutrition and hydration, pain-relieving medication, pregnancy and imminent death from terminal illness.

The letter is the second time, Maryland's bishops have addressed the topic. In 1993, they issued a 13page pastoral letter called "Care of the Sick and Dying." The newest document builds on the previous one, adding teachings from Pope John Paul II's 1995 encyclical "Evangelium Vitae" ("The Gospel of Life").

While "Comfort and Consolation" does not attempt to provide what the bishops called ''ready-made answers" for every situation, it offers the Church's teachings on ways of preserving human dignity in a variety of difficult circumstances.

The bishop reaffinned that since each person is a "steward of human life," no one has a right to commit suicide or take another's life by euthanasia.

"We can readily understand how a person in prolonged agony, with no hope of recovery, might view death as a release from suffering," the bishops said.

"We also can appreciate how a family might even pray for the death of a loved one afflicted with an incurable disease. But no one must ever presume to adopt a course of action or inaction which is intended to cause death, even if the motive is to alleviate suffering,"

they also said.

The bishops said there is a distinction between euthanasia and "morally upright decisions" about accepting or refusing medical treatments in time of grave illness and imminent death.

Caregivers must never be indifferent to human suffering, the bishops said. If a dying person needs increasingly greater dosages of pain medication, the bishops said it is morally acceptable for the patient or caregiver to provide the medication "even if the patient is made less alert or responsive, or if this increase should hasten death."

"Pain medication, however, must never be given for the purpose of hastening death," they said.

The bishops emphasized that no one, including the patient, family members, medical professionals or members of the clergy, "has the right to decide that a patient's life is useless, even when a patient is no longer able to perform basic human functions."

"The prudent course of action is to consider the facts of the particular case and to determine whether a patient's need for nourishment and fluid can be met effectively through a medical intervention whose use does not impose excessive burdens on the patient," the bishops said.

Quoting Pope John Paul n, the bishops noted that in the case of an individual in a persistent vegetative state, medically assisted nutrition and hydration must not be refused or withdrawn. Such people have a right to basic health care, they said. . One of the priests involved in helping the bishops prepare the pastoralletter said the document could be used as "an educational tool in classrooms, hospitals, hospices and nursing homes."

Richard Dowling, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference, hopes the document will promote discussion.

"We're hopeful it will prompt families to discuss these questions among themselves, with their health care providers and with their spiritual advisers," he said.

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NEW HOME - Flags are seen in front of the new headquarters for the U.S. Archdiocese for Military Services in Washington June 4. The newly renovated 30,000-square-foot building is blocks away from The Catholic University of America campus. (CNS photo/Joshua Garner)

U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services has new headquarters

By JOSHUA GARNER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - When Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien approved plans in 2005 to move the military archdiocese's headquarters from its location at The Catholic University ofAmerica's Theological College, he and his staff hoped a new building would raise the profile of an archdiocese that serves, one of the Catholic Church's largest populations.

The end result was moving in March to a renovated 30,OOO-squarefoot building just blocks away from the Catholic University campus in Washington.

TheU.S.ArchdiocesefortheMilitary Services, headed by Archbishop O'Brien, serves ttte spiritual and pastoral needs of more than 1.2 million people. It serves military personnel and their families at 220 installations in 29 countries, patients at 1n Veterans Affairs Medical Centers and federal employees serving in 134 countries. Geographically, the archdiocese is the largest in the Church.

Staffers hope having a new building will raise the profile of the archdiocese and give them an identity they

say has eluded them since the headquarters moved from NewYork to the Washington area in 2001.

"It's a major step forward for us," Archbishop O'Brien said in an interview with Catholic News Service June 4. "It gives us a major identity and roots."

The archdiocese's.staffspent years bouncing from one rented office space to another, finally ending up near Catholic University's campus, tucked away in Theological College in tight quarters and unnoticed by the public. ''A lot of the Catholics in the military are not aware ofthe archdiocese," said Julia Rota, its director of communications. She said that along with the new building, the military archdiocese has revamped its magazine, AMSNews.

As for the building, "it's much more functional," said Father James Dixon, vicar general. ''We have room to grow and expand."

The five-story building includes a chapel, living quarters and more than 20 offices for the staffof 30. The new space has been put to good use by the staff that oversees the

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"The layout is better," said Frank Calandra, director of the sacramental records. "I like the location, comfort and environment."

When designing the building, Father Dixon said the archbishop decided not to splurge and focused only on remodeling an existing building.

It is "bare bones," he said.

"It's not lavish," said Bill Kirst, chieffinancial officer for the archdiocese. "You don't see any fancy chandeliers," he said.

Kirst said renovating the building cost $5.5 million. The archdiocese was able to purchase the buil~ng at a discount because it exchanged the property for another one it owned in Washington.

Funding came exclusively from gifts and donations, which were largely part of an $8 million fundraising campaign, Kirst said. The capital campaign' has already raised $7.6 million of its goal.

Originally constructed in the 1960s, the building served as housing for members of the Society of the Divine Word who were taking classes at Catholic University. ''We literally gutted this building," Kirst said. "It was like a college dorm."

Father Dixon said there are misconceptions as to how the archdiocese pays its bills: Many assume that it is supported by the military or the Catholic Church, but its ministries rely on donations.

He is hopeful that by raising the profile of the archdiocese with its news headquarters, people will better understand its work. ''This is a unique diocese" because it "covers the whole world," he said.

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Bush vows veto of embryonic stemcell bill; cloning bill is. defeated . it has been divisive to our society:' the cardinal wrote. ''Pursuit of this destruc-

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WASIllNGTON - The House of tive research will almost certainly reRepresentatives rejected a bill June 6 quire you to embrace more and more that would have allowed human clo~- egregious violations of moral norms ing but passed legislation the next day iri the effort to bring,its 'promise' to that would promote stem-<;ell research fruition."

He said the Human Cloning Pro. involving the destruction of human' embryos. hibition Act of 2007 was erroneously President George W. Bush vowed named and showed "the direction in to veto the stem-cell measure, how- which the embryonic stem-cell agenda ever, saying it "puts scientific research is now taking us." The House defeated and ethical principle into conflict, that bill by a 204-213 vote late June 6. rather than supporting a balanced apAlthough the legislation "may be proach that advances scientific and promoted as a ban on human cloning, medical frontiers without violating ... it is exactly the opposite:' Cardinal moral prinCiples."

Rigali wrote. ,'This bill ... allows unCardinal Justin Rigali of Philadel- limited cloning ofhuman em~ryos for phia, chairman of the U.S. bishops' research - and then makes it a crime Committee on Pro-LifeActivities, had to transfer the embryo to a womb to urged the defeat ofboth bills in a June allow the new human being to survive.

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"Such legislation is not a partial ban "Embryonic stem-cell research has on cloning, but is worse than doing been as disappointing in its results as nothing at all on the issue:' he added.

The Stem-Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007, approved by the House 247-176 June 7, passed the Senate April 11 by a 63-34 vote.

"Ethically sound research using nonembryonic stem cells has continued to advance, helping patiellts with over 70 conditions in clinical trials:' Cardinal Rigali said in his letter. "Since Congress debated this issue last summer, further evidence has emerged on the versatility of adult stem cells and on the ability of adult cells to be reprogrammed to rival the 'flexibility of embryonic cells."

An article published June 7 in the international science journal Nature reported on research by three different groups that showed skin cells of , mice could be reprogrammed back into embryonic stem cells. The new qJ.ethod, which the Nature article described as "surprisingly straightforward," could end the need for creation

State attorney general to review block on partial-birth 'abortion ban DETROIT (CNS) - Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox will study the June 4 federal appeals court decision blocking Michigan's Legal Birth Definition Act, and consider an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"We're in the process of reviewing the court's opinion. Obviously, we will be considering it in light of the Supreme Court's Gonzales ruling, which upheld the federal ban on partial-birth abortions," Cox spokesman Rusty Hills said June 5.

He was referring to the U.S. Supreme Court's April 18 ruling in the Gonzales v. Carhart and Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood cases. Analysts said Michigan;s hiw is more sweeping than the federal statlite and might apply to abortions not covered by the federal law. .

The decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was denounced by Cardinal Adam J. Maida of Detroit, who pledged that he and other Michigan bishops would redouble their efforts to end "this unthinkable procedure," which he characterized as infanticide.

"As long as the most innocent and vuIrierable in our society - the unborn - remain at risk, the issue is not going away, and neither are those of us who fought so hard to protect the dignity of all human life," the cardinal said.

Paul A. Long, vice president for public policy of the Michigan Catholic Conference, policy arm for the state's bishops, said June 4: "Today's ruling, which protects ideology that has imposed upon our state and nation one of the must inhumane, sadistic and brutal acts of aggression that history will witness, is disappointing not only for

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women but also for the protection of innocent human life. Michigan, Right to Life would be adding its voice to those urging Cox to defend the legislation by appealing to the high court, said Pam Sherstad, its director of public information.

The Legal Birth Definition Act takes a different approach to banning the procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion than that of other legislative attempts, by declaring a baby to have been born - and therefore entitled to legal protection - at the point when any portion of his or her body has been vaginally delivered outside the mother's body.

First adopted by the Michigan Legislature in 2003, the bill was vetoed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm.

A successful petition drive known as "The People's Override" - brought the bill back before legislators in June 2004, and both the state House of Representatives and Senate enacted it into law. When legislators adopt a bill that was placed before them by petition, it cannot be vetoed by the governor.

The act would have gone into effect at the end of March 2005, but a suit filed on March 1 of that year challenged the law. U.S. District Judge Denise Page Hood put the law on hold pending her decision, then ruled it unconstitutional that September.

Cox appealed Hood's decision, and the federal appeals court heard oral arguments last October, then June 4 issued its opinion upholding Hood's permanent injunction.

Hills said it is Cox's position that the Legal Birth Definition Act has

been constitutional all along, but he declined to offer any prediction of when Cox would decide whether to appeal the decision, only that it would come after the attorney general and his staff had time to. "prudently and thoroughly" revie~ it.

He added, however, that there is a str<;mg inclination on the part of the attorney general's office to defend a law that was adopted by strong majorities in both houses of the state Legislature after being "supported by literally hundreds of thousands of Michigan voters" who petitioned for its passage.

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and destruction ofhuman embryos for stem-cell research.'

Richard Doerflinger, deptity director ofthe bishops' Secretariat for ProLife Activities, welcomed the report, ( saying the advances "would be a gain for science, ethics and soci~ty."

"Because adult cell reprogramming does not pose the moral problem ofcreating or destroying embryos, it may offer a way for pe6ple of all faiths and ethical tiackgrounds to use, II

subsidize and enjoy any benefits from 'pluripotent' stem-eell research:' he said. "Practically as well as ethically, these studies point the way toward enjoying any benefits ofembryonic stem cells without their disadvantages."

Cardinal Rigali ended his letter by asking legislators to defeat both bills "on behalf of taxpayers who should not be forced to help destroy innocent life, and on behalfofgenuine progress for suffering patients."

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In the face of this political trend, which is overflowing into the legal and corporate worlds, the Catholic Church has a profound responsibility. Jesus Christ said he came from heaven to earth to "give witness to the truth" (In 18:37) and he founded the Church to continue that witness: He also said that the truth he teaches and incarnates is what makes us free (In 8:32; 14:6).

If the Church as a whole has a responsibility to give witness to the truth, bishops and priests in particular must be truth tellers in an age of spin.

Recently we have seen increasing evidence that the leaders of the Church are rising to the occasion to reverse the spin of popular sophistry.

We have seen it in terms of the various clarifications that have been made with regard to worthiness to receive holy Communion. We have seen it in defense of the institution of marriage. We have seen it with respect to the. issues of embryonic stem cell research, in-vitro fertilization and cloning.

And we are seeing it much more in response to the pretension of certain Catholic politicians to be faithful Catholics while publicly supporting the practice of abortion.

Two weeks ago, Bishop Thomas Tobin set a new bar for the genre.

He used his first路 column in the Rhode Island Catholic - the Diocese of Providence's redesigned and renamed newspaper - to address head on what he called Rudy Giuliani's "pathetic," "confusing," "hypocritical" and "preposterous" public proclamations on abortion.

Bishop Tobin was referring mainly to Giuliani's recent abortion speech at Houston Baptist College. "Here are the two strong beliefs that I have, here are the two pillars of my thinking," the Republican presidential candidate declared. "One is, I believe abortion is wrong. I think it is morally wrong ... The second pillar that guides my thinking ... where [people of good faith] come to different conclusions about this, about something so very, very personal, I believe you have to respect their viewpoint. You give them a level of choice here ... I've always believed both of these things."

Bishop Tobin says this "drivel" is the "classic expression of the position on abortion we've heard from weak-kn:eed politicians in recent years,~' who claim to be personally opposed to something evil but unwilling to impose ' their views on others.

The Bishop of Providence says that such a position is incongruous. "Would we let any politician get away with the same pathetic cop-out on other issues: 'I'm personally opposed to ... racial discrimination, sexual abuse, prostitution, drug abuse, polygamy, incest ... but don't want to impose my beliefs on others?'" , Such a position, he states, evokes the cowardice of Pontius Pilate, who personally opposed the crucifixion ofJesus but washed his hands from using his authority to stop the killing of innocent man by a blood-thirsty mob. , The incongruity ofthe position stands out all the more when its premises are probed. Bishop Tobin publicly asks Mayor Giuliani: "You say that you believe abortion is morally wrong. Why do you say that, Rudy; why do you believe that abortion is wrong? Is abortion the killing of an innocent child? Is it an offense against human dignity? Is it a cruel and violent act? Does it harm the woman who has the abortion? And if your answer to any of these questions is yes, Rudy, why would you permit people to . . . kill an innocent child, offend human dignity, co~t a cruel and violent act or do harm to the mother? This is in the name of choice?"

Bishop Tobin adds that the issue obviously goes beyond Giuliani. He very candidly names those who have tried to advance similarly preposterous arguments and wonders aloud how they will fare in the most impottant election of all.

"Rudy's defection'from the Catholic faith on this moral issue is not路 unique, of course. Catholic politicians of both parties, nationwide, have followed a similar path in abandoning the faith for the sake of political expediency: Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Pat Leahy, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden come quickly to mind. And on a local level, of courSl<, Congressman Patrick Kennedy and Senator Jack Reed. How these intelligent men and women will someday stand before the judgment seat of God and explain why they legitimized the death of countless innocent children in the sin of abortion is beyond me." .

It is easy to see why Bishop Tobin's columD has quickly become an internet sensation. this type of candor is something that distinguished many of the great leaders in the history of the early Church, towering bishops like Athanasius, Chrysostom, and Augustitie, who were prophets in the face of the political figures and issues of the day.

It's a style that today's Church leaders are increasingly adopting, as society has been lo~ing its bearings on life, marriage and the family, and so much more, and trying to spin these developments as good rather than evil.

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St. Catherine of Siena Through her intense prayer, St. Another great heroine of the Catherine also developed great CatholicJaith, who shows us what wisdom and deep'insights into it means to put into the deep, is St. theological truths.

Catherine of Siena, from the 14th After this initial period of a century. . contemplative life, St. Catherine As the youngest child'of a very was directed by the Lord to leave large family, St. Catherine lived in her cell and begin an active a comfortable home in Siena. At apostolate, which included daily the young age of seven, she began to sense a call from God to a life of volunteer work at the city's consecrated virginity, and she made a private vow to devote her entire life to God: As St. Catherine grew older, she also began to desire more and more solitude, in order to concentrate on her prayer life.

Initially, the idea of such a religious vocation hospitals and regular visits to the was vehemently resisted by St. Catherine's parents, who desired to prison, to console those who were condemned to'death. Of utmost see their youngest daughter marry. concern to St. Catherine was But after failing to dissuade her, convincing these prisoners to they eventually submitted to her prepare their souls for death, by wishes, and allowed her to live a -repenting and converting, before quasi-monastic life in a small they would meet the Lord. room of their home, known as .

When the plague struck in "Catherine's cell." For three years, Siena, St. Catherine did not miss St. Catherine put into the deep of yet, another opportunity to put into spiritual discipline, focusing on prayer, fasting and other mortifica- , the deep in charity, as she dedicated herself to nursing the victims tions, such as sleeping each night and burying the dead, without any on a board. concern for her own health or Eventually, at the age of 16, St. welfare. The trials faced by St. Catherine was allowed to joip the Catherine also included enduring Third Order of St. Dominic, and false accusations of improprieties, was granted permission to wear made by those who were resentful the black habit. Extraordinary and envious of her sanctity. spiritual experiences were not St. Catherine's greatest unusual for St. Catherine, to whom challenge and accomplishment Our Lord would appear to deliver came when she was enlisted as an consolations and guidance.

envoy and peacemaker between the Holy See and some of the rebelling city-states ofItaly. This task came at a time when the pope still lived in Avignon, France, after an absence of almost 70 years from Rome. On a visit to Pope Gregory XI in Avignon, St. Catherine pleaded with the Holy Father to overcome the opposition of the French cardinals and return to Rome, the rightful seat of the papacy, which holds the line of succession from St. Peter, the first pope and bishop of Rome.

St. Catherine was greatly admired by Gregory XI for her fidelity and sanctity, and he was equally impressed by her courage to speak frankly and respectfully of the corruption in the Church and the serious need for reform.

After numerous audiences with St. Catherine, the pope ultimately heeded her requests and returned to Rome.

Death came early for St. Catherine, at age 33, but she accomplished much in her relatively short life, by putting into the deep of prayer, charity and courage. She offers us an example of how to pray, how to love,and how to work for true reform in the Church, with fervent fidelity to the Church and to the Lord.

Father Pignato is chaplain at Bishop Stang High School in North Dartmouth and is secretary to Bishop George If. Coleman.

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Introducing the religions of thf~ East conduct more than religions, highly developed ritual, the Indians This is the fourth in a series by comparing them with Christianity is prayed to countless gods and Father Thomas M. Kocik on the less like comparing apples with seemed to worship images of them, distinctiveness ofthe Catholic and so on. It seemed only natural to oranges than diamonds with faith. daisies. think of these patterns of belief as The word "religion" derives Yet, even if our inherited idea of religions. from the Latin re + ligare, "to bind religion doesn't always seem to fit, Consequently, "religion" was back;' meaning to restore, by we must have a frame of reference treated as a genus of which there public and communal worship, a by which to compare and contrast. are many species, in the same way lost intimacy between worshipers These Asian religions may and the divine.

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Let us be~jn with the aforesaid A millennium would pass before ness of "religion" as a category is religions of the East. While especially dubious when we study European explorers and missionare:cist among them, they differences ies would effectively make known the belief systems of South and are unified iIJ their view that East Asia: Hinduism, Buddhism, to their countrymen the spiritual ultimate reality is an impersonal, beliefs and practices of the Orient, Taoism, and Confucianism. Since unknowable, all-pervading spirit. in many ways these resemble .

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A father's touch Allow me to begin this column with an old adage - "There's more than one way to skin a cat." In addition being fun to say, there's a message here as well.

Sunday is Father's Day, and as I think about how I got where I am today, I think of my own dad.

Despite having had to work since he was a boy, thereby missing out on finishing grammar and high school, he's still one of the smartest men I've ever met.

Through his example, he taught me, and still teaches me how to work hard and take care of a family.

That's one way to skin a cat. Sorry cat-lovers, but I just can't resist. I, like my dad, set examples for my kids to follow. The difference is that I teach them what not to do.

There's another old adage that applies here - "We learn from our mistakes." If that is the case, then my children are some of the most learned in the land.

I've ''taught'' my kiddies many valuable lessons along the way, but some are more memorable than others.

I'll begin with my first-born, Ben. When Ben was an infant, he had a minor medical procedure done resulting in a small incision on his tender young skin. We were told 'just keep it clean?' Easy enough.

One day while performing my fatherly duty of changing a diaper, I dabbed Ben's boo-boo with a WetOne, just to keep it clean. Not realizing Wet-Ones contained

alcohol, Ben let me know they did.

Watching more poor little boy cling to the ceiling was eerily similar to a scene from Spider Man. Ben and I both learned a lesson that day.

Next up is my first-born daughter Lauren. When Lauren was just a lass, she had long curly locks, one of which she could never comb through - a coil that constantly found a home on her freckled face.

After more than a few complaints

from her, I told her "dad will take care of it." Without hesitation, I grabbed a pair of scissors and snipped the culprit right at the roots.

Lauren made a bee-line for the mirror. What she saw, in plain view, was a small patch that looked like red Astroturf. It took quite a while for that "lesson" to grow out.

I'm still convinced that my handiwork was responsible for the Cindy Lauper look in the 80s.

To this day, more than 20 years later, Lauren will not come near me when I'm wielding a sharp object.

Emilie too, has and still is, the recipient of my fatherly wisdom.

Just within the last couple of weeks I took her to school, so to speak.

While out on a recent shopping jaunt, I bought my 12-year-old a new pair of flip-flops that she

couldn't wait to wear. It was a cold, rainy May afternoon, but I granted permission for the sole-swapping.

My wife rai~:ed both eyebrows at my decision. I swear if Denise had more than two eyebrows, they all would have been raised in unison.

Emilie braved the cold, wet conditions. A couple of days later, she came down with "cold-like" symptoms. I told my wife it was allergies.

And just last week, a stray thunderstorm floated through our neighborhood.

Emilie is not a fan of lighting. Sensing the storm had passed, I tried to calm her fears. ''There's nothing to he afraid...." In midseLtence, the lights flickered and the power went out. "Nothing to be afraid of, huh, dad?"

When the power returned, our PC monitor was non-responsive.

Emilie had a response though. ''Wheneve:: I listen to you, something bad happens," sh~ said.

Nonsense, I told her as we went to a local wholesale club to get a new screen. After choosing one, I wanted to :nake sure the connection was the correct one. I reached behind a full row of colorful screens to check tbe wiring. Suddenly, all the screeru; went blank. I tried shaking a :few of the wires - still all the screen; were non-responsive.

Emilie quickly ushered me away before I caused more trouble.

See? .A.nother lesson leamed by one of m:f children. There's more than one way to skin a cat.

Since "God" is impersonal, there realm is an illusion groun~ed in . is no real distinction between good ignorance. Individuality it:self is illusory, since we are not I'eally and evil. Yet those who are wise distinct from one another or from recognize a practical code of the divine. conduct: by detaching ourselves Eastern religions do not profess from the world of sense experience, we free ourselves from enslavement a supernatural being who created the world from nothing, guides to illusion and find enlightenment.

Buddhist scripture states, ''Those creation, and commands obedience who love nothing and hate nothing, and homage. As the Hindu scholar D.S. Sharma explains, ''The have no fetters." Morality (if it can supreme being is a person only in be called that) in Eastern religions is not about observing divine relation to ourselves and bur needs." Sharma means ~t all precepts, but attaining enlightenment so as to fuse with the absoattempts to personalize ttie divine (the proverbial "three h~dred lute.

Perhaps nothing is stranger to us thousand gods" of India, lor instance) are feeble human Westerners than the denial of the projections onto the nameless and material realm. Easterners must find it equally strange that so many formless One. And how do the Eastern Western secular intellectuals, especially scientific materialists, religions view life's purpose? The deny the spiritual realm in declaring ultimate goal of human life is to that all of reality is expressed in achieve mystical unity with the physics. Our chief concern, universal spirit. While this may be acquired through a variety of however, is theological. Starting next time with Hinduism, we will means, the one most fanllIiar to us study the individual religions of the in the West is meditation. MeditaEast, noting how their spiritual tion is the practice of ridding the yearnings can point to the fullness mind of any thought of the individual self as distinst from the of truth in Christ.

Father Kocik is chaplain at universal spirit. Through a rigorous discipline, we can overcome the Charlton Memorial Hospital in illusion of duality (distinct spiritual FaURiver. and physical realms) an,d thereby experience oneness with tl}e One. This is termed "enlightenment."

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Keeping God's forgiveness In a love letter to end all love letters a young woman wrote: "Dear John: Words cannot express my deep regret at having broken our engagement.

Will you please come back to me? Your absence from my side leaves a hole that no one can fill. And I want you to know that I sincerely forgive you for all your past transgressions and betrayals. Let us start over again. I love you! I love you!" ''P.S. Congratulations on winning the $20 million dollar lottery."

At first, It would appear that this young woman's willingness to forgive was quite sincere.

However, with that brief post script, one begins to wonder how sincere she really was.

How many times have we heard the words "I'm sorry" or "please forgive me?" These are words so easily spoken; but are they always spoken with sincerity? Over and over, when we pray the Our Father, the

words "forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us" roll off our' lips. Do we really think about what we are saying? Are we sincerely sorry for our failings and ready to change our lives?

And are we willing to forgive others who have hurt us and ready to let them start over, too?

In today's Gospel lesson there is the moving story of one woman's desire to start over. The story begins when one of the路 Pharisees asks Jesus to eat with him. "He arrived at the Pharisee's house and took his place at table. A woman came in, who had a bad name in the town. She had heard he was dining with the Pharisee and had brought with her an alabaster jar of ointment. She waited behind him at his feet, weeping; her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them away with her hair; then she covered

his feet with kisses and anointed them with the ointment." Jesus said to the woman, 'Your faith has saved you; go in peace'" (Lk. 7:50). The Gospel writer does not tell us the details of how that woman of the street discovered Jesus

and mercy were greater than anything that might threaten to separate her from him.

The same is true of each of us. God's love and mercy are greater than any fault or mistake that might threaten to separate us from him. Likewise, our love and mercy \ ought be greater than whatever might threaten to cut us off from each other. To forgive is to acknowledge that only love can overcome whatever it is that divides and alienates us.

To forgive is to acChrist. But he does suggest knowledge that deep in our enough for us to know that hearts only love can heal any before she found Jesus in the woundedness, betrayal, or Pharisee's house, she already bitterness between two had found him in her own heart. people.

And now, she was able to go in God is always there to peace, knowing that her sins accept us, to love us, and to had been forgiven. forgive us, without condition.

She didn't have to say a But if we try to keep God's thing. Jesus could read her forgiveness simply locked up sincerity of heart and thus made within ourselves, then it will it clear to her that God's love just wither away there. For our

own life-enrichment, and for the life-enrichment of our brothers and sisters, we spread his forgiveness around; pass his love on. In other words, we put into practice the words of the "Our Father."

The Apostle Paul writes, "Bear with one another; forgive each other as soon as a quarrel begins. The Lord has forgiven you; now you must do the same" (Col. 3:13).

There is an old Indian maxim that says, "If you want to understand someone else, you must walk a mile in the other's moccasins." To be the kind of disciples Christ wants us to be, we must empathize put ourselves in the other's place, feel the other's pain, sense the other's needs.

We cannot come to know the Lord and receive new life without forgiving hearts.

Father Beaupre is a member ofthe Congregation ofHoly Cross and pastor of Holy Cross Parish in South Easton.

Upcoming Daily Readings: Sat, June 16, 2 Cor 5:14-21; Ps 103:1-4,8-9,11-12; Lk 2:41-51. Sun, June 17, Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2 Sm 12:7-10,13; Ps 32:1-2,5,7,11; GaI2:16,19-21; Lk 7:36-8:3 or 7:36-50. MOD, June 18, 2 Cor 6:1-10; Ps 98:1-4; Mt 5:38-42. Thes,June 19, 2 Cor 8:1-9; Ps 146:2,5-9a; Mt5:43-48. Wed, June 20,2 Cor 9:6-11; Ps 112:1-4,9; Mt 6:1-6,16-18. Thurs, June 21,2 Cor 11:1-11; Ps 111:1-4,7-8; Mt 6:7-15. Fri, June 22,2 Cor 11:18,21-40; Ps 34:2-7; Mt 6:19-23.

Two anniversaries of consequence June 4,2007, marked the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Midway, the pivot of World War II in the Pacific. A quarter-century later, on June 5,1967, the Israeli Air Force destroyed its Egyptian counterpart in one lightning blow, thus making possible an Israeli victory in the Six-Day War - the event that set the stage for the past 40 years of Middle Eastern history. Both anniversaries offer important moral lessons to ponder.

A new book by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully, "Shattered Sword," offers an engagingly (if sometimes excessively) revisionist history of

Midway. Against the conventional telling of this tale - in which sharp-eyed American signals intelligence, the strategic and tactical acumen of Admiral Raymond Spruance, the dithering of Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, and the heroic self-sacrifice of three U.S. Navy torpedo squadrons - were the key factors in the battle, Parshall and Tully emphasize the ways in which Japanese technical, strategic, and command incapacities played a large role in the destruction of four enemy aircraft

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carriers by U.S. Navy Dauntless dive-bombers, a blow from which the Japanese Navy never recovered. The conventional story of

the American David taking down the hitherto invincible Japanese Goliath is not-quite-right, our authors suggest.

Yet there is something to be remembered, on this anniversary, from the conventional account of Midway - and it's the image of those three American torpedo squadrons from Hornet, Enterprise, and Yorktown, flying obsolete Douglas Devastators, boring in on their targets, being shot down one by one by Japanese Zeros - and so disrupting Japanese flight operations on the unscathed target carriers that the subsequent dive-bomber attacks of the Dauntlesses could change the course of history in two engagements lasting perhaps 10 minutes each. The lesson? If freedom is not free, and it isn't, then free peoples will always have to raise up men capable of stretching courage to its outer

limits, often paying the ultimate price in the process. Few Americans, today, remember the names of the squadron commanders of Torpedo Three (Lieut.

Cmdr. Lem Massey), Torpedo Six (Lieut.

Cmdr. Gene Lindsey), and Torpedo Eight (Lieut. Cmdr. John Waldron); but we should, and we should recall their names, and those of their squadron-mates, with reverent gratitude. l\venty-five years later, as Michael Oren narrates in "Six Days of War," the State of Israel was in dire peril. Egypt had imposed a blockade of Israel's only outlet to the south, the port of Ellat. A Soviet disinformation campaign falsely claimed that Israel was massing troops on the Syrian border, preparing an attack - even as Egypt having thrown U.N. peacekeepers out was remilitarizing the Sinai and concluding a military pact with Jordan, thus surrounding Israel.

Seven other Arab states began sending troops to Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, anticipating a vast slaughter of Jews and the State of Israel being driven into the sea, and out of existence. The U.N. was, as usual, useless, and President Lyndon Johnson's efforts to raise an international task force to open a passage to Eilat failed.

Alone, Israel took the hard decision to strike first - to crush the Egyptian air force in one blow, and thus make possible an effective defense against the ground attack that was certainly coming. The Israelis begged Jordan's King Hussein to stay out of the fight; but Hussein, perhaps deceived by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, got in - and lost the West Bank. In consequence, Jerusalem was united under a Jewish flag for the first time in two millennia.

Much would flow from Jordan's loss of the West Bank, including, alas, much blood.

The lesson? Sometimes, it is morally imperative to shoot first - not just strategically wise or tactically advantageous, but morally imperative. Even given the military gamble involved, for the Israeli government not to have ordered a preemptive attack on the Egyptian air force to even the odds on national survival would have been an act of moral irresponsibility. That correct justwar decision ought to be remembered, not because it provides a universal template, but because it makes a crucial moral point: faced with certain aggression, responsible public authorities need not wait for the aggressor's first blow to fall.

George Weigel is a senior fellow ofthe Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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They say 1irst impressions are important. Tills is a faith community. His first visit here will introduce him not to the buildings but to the people who comt:rise this parish. We will start with the parish leadership. I call together parish ministry staff and representatives of the Parisb Pastoral and Finance Councils.

I ask Sue Nordeste, administrative assistant, to prepare a kind of "Futurereference M:mual." It includes a compJete list of parishioners; parish councils, committees, ministries, and organizations with their present leadership and membership; a report on the last fiscal year; the parish mission statement along with established

Faith in the mist the bottom of the Canyon. It was a drama of National Geographic proportions, and we were left speechless.

Looking back it seems plausible that it was tQe presen,ce of ice crystals in the air that created the ex.tra vibrant rainbows we witnessed, meaning that, without the bad weather our experience wouldn't have been nearly as spectacular.

In 2 Corinthians 5:7 St. Paul

tells believers in Christ that "We walk by faith; not by sight:" Whether or not we can see him, feel him, or experience him, faith tells Us that God'is with us. Faith says that God js as real as tbe Grand Canyon hiding behind a bank of snow and fog. Faith tells us that whatever circumstance or mindset is holding us back from believing in the 'reality of God's presence, we need to break free and walk toward God, expecting and believing that in his time God will part . the clouds of doubt and disillusionment and reveal a spectacular view of his majesty.

Walking with such faith and trust is not always easy. I don't know about you, but as it was at the Grand Canyon, my impulse is not only to stay in the car, but also to drive away from God as quickly as

possiblewlJen a fog of doubt or disillusionment looms around me. Of course further on in 2 Corliithians 12:7-10 S1.

Paul gives liS' another story to help us know how to live in times of uncertainty, pain, or disappointrl1ent. "There was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to tonnent me. Three limes I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."

Themfore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that ChriHt's power may rest on. me. That is why, for Chri:;t's sake, I delight in w<~aknesses', in insul.ts, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties.

For when famweak, thtm I am strong .'J., Whenever we drive through .,. "lV'''' t a fog bank on the Bourne Bridge,<hike through clouds in the ,~te Mountains, or arrive at Old Silver Beach only'to find it s.hroudedin misty'gray, ,someone il\the famjly w,ill say, "Wow! Would you look at that? It's tbe GrandCanyonJ!' Of course \V.~ aIJfla\lgh, . knowing someone just had to say'it, butmore'importantly, fog and clouds now remind me that we walk by faith and not by sight, that Gbd'sgrace is sufficient for me, and that God's power is made perfect in my weakness.

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June 15 -At Sea bring your own gifts. Be who you I'll soon be shipping out of the are. I have lots of information, but I'm not going to deluge Mike .

Port of Assonet and sailing just five miles up the river to Dighton. with data. Nothing is worse than I want a smooth transition for inbeing bombarded with minutiae coming pastor, Father Mike Racine, and for this parish community.

Mike needs basic information and he must begin to meet the movers and the shakers, the dreamers and the visionaries.

Mike and I chat on the ...------"';O;;;';~ii;;;"iO;;;;.;;4._i.l phone. I've known Mike since he was a high school student while you're trying to figure out and I a yOUl}g priest. Oddly, I which key goes in what door and succeeded Father Jack Andrews which switch turns on what light. as pastor here. Jack knew me I assure Mike I will answer all when I was a high school student questions to the best of my ability, and he a young priest. What goes but I will not answer questions he around comes around. has not yet asked. We arrange for I advise Mike, "BYOG" Mike's first visit to his first

A few years ago we took a family trip to the Grand Canyon during February vacation. We spent six months preparing for the journey, studying the history and geography of the Southwest, and carefully making all the travel arrangements. We spent two long days traveling by car, bus, airplane, and rental car only to arrive at the South Rim in a shroud of fog and snow, exactly the type of weather we had left behind in New England. I can't find words to say how disappointed we were. My husband and I had prepared the kids to see spectacular rock formations and to experience a colorful panorama so expansive as to be beyond their wildest imaginations, and all that was before us was a wall of misty, snowy gray. I burst into tears and didn't even want to get out of the car.

My husband convinced me to at least get out and stretch my legs, however, and as we trudged through the storm to the edge of the canyon, an unbelievable event unfolded before our eyes. Layer by layer the snow and fog parted, and sets of cliffs were unveiled one by one by the retreating curtains of gray. Each time a new ridge was revealed, it didn't seem like the scene could get any grander. Then, with flare as dramatic as any night at the Oscars, the setting sun broke through the clouds and a series of exceedingly brilliant rainbows appeared in

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goals and objectives; the demographic profile of the parish; our report to the Diocesan Pastoral Planning Office; our armual report of sacramental statistics; the diocesan guidelines for Pastoral and Finance Councils; and a year's archives of Sunday bulletins.

As luck would have it, in the interim, I'm out of the parish for a weekend youth retreat. While I'm away, the ministry staff seizes the opportunity to meet without me.

They appraise the situation and set two goals: 1. Make every effort to have Father Mike feel at home and among friend.s /from the very beginning. 2. Make fvery effort to discourage parishioners from trailing the out-going pastor to his new assignment ~r jumping with joy at the news of his transfer.

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Father Mike arrives and his introduction to the parish begins.

We gather in the church for Evening Prayer. I invite Father Mike to preside - his first prayer in his new parish. Then downstairs to the conference table we go. We wear name tags so that the in-coming pastor can begin to learn names and faces. No minutes will be taken. We begin by going around the table and introducing ourselves.

There is only one agenda item.

It's in the form of a question: "What are your hopes and dreams for this faith-community?" Each person speaks in tum. All others listen. No discussion is required.

Heart-felt sharing results. Parishioners bring their gifts to the table . and offer their time and talent to their in-coming pastor: A college professor, a pastoral minister to the sick, an office manager, a computer expert, an engineer, a chef, a businessman, a systems analyst, a carpenter, a musician, a payroll clerk, a community organizer, a school teacher, a religious formation leader. The gifts are many and varied. Then the parishioners spontaneously begin to affirm each other's gifts.

The Holy Spirit is moving among us. I am in awe.

Mike gets to speak first and last. I can tell Mike is impressed.

We present him with a token gift - a lovely photograph of the church fa~ade. It's just the fa~ade.

The people inside are the Church.

Following the meeting, I say to Mike privately: "Tonight you've had a peek at the Church. Come back soon and I'll show you the buildings."

Father Goldrick becomes pastor ofSt. Joseph Parish, No. Dighton on June 27.

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When I return from treat, the staff briefs me on their oals. I am absolutely delighted. .s confirms in my own mi~d that my ministry here has born some fruit.

Nothing is worse for ,the morale of a new pastor than hearing the constant chorus "Your predecessor never did it that way."

None of us are clones. ,Nothing is worse than a priest with a fan club following him around.' Movie stars have fan clubs. Priests shouldn't.

If your priest happens to be moving to another assignment, take the instructions .of Jesus to heart: "Untie him. Let him go free" (John 11 :44). If you're a priest, don't keep returning to your former assignments for baptisms, weddings, etc. You will, of course, be welcomed, but better to bloom where you're planted.

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"I like the slides and monkey bars," said Haleigh TAUNTON - Six-year-old Haleigh Hunt only while Brett was looking forward to "using the zip wanted one thing for her birthday - a new play- line." ground for S1. Mary's Primary School where she is When asked what Jesus might think about the idea of giving up birthday presents to help others a kindergarten student.

So badly did she want that wish, she told her Brett responded that he might say, "It's a good thing. mother Christina, that instead of traditional birth- So they can have some fun too." day presents she'd like people to donate towards According to the school, the equipment will cost the playground. Thanks to her spirit of generosity, $70,000, but concrete foundations and rubberized more than $700 was given to the school. flooring surrounding the structures and landscapIn fact, the idea was so appealing that her older ing increased the cost. The area for the proposed brother ,Brett, a second-grader at the school, fol- playground is sloped and the excavation process lowed her lead when his birthday approached and will be a lengthy one. did the same. That spirit of giving is what makes Christina Hunt and her husband Edward were the brother and sister helping out at the fun duo this edition's Per- r-~--:-. ~-----.~.-----,,~._ ..... . - - - - - , day and were pleased at ANCHOR STAFF

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"Everyone will be able " ..• they really wanted a good place to play." The to play and have fun," she declared. couple volunteers their Haleigh enjoys gotime for field days, field ing to school at St. trips and book fairs and Mary's Primary School expressed happiness that and said what she likes their children are attending Catholic school. about it is, "I learn a lot and make a lot of "There are good role models here and lots of friends." She likes her teachers too she added, ..family values," said Edbetween sips from a ward. "The parents are water bottle. The South very involved too."

Weymouth native celChristina thought the ebrated her birthday on idea of giving up birthday presents was a good April 27 and on the day she met with The Anone and said, "It's chor, was enjoying a vabrought the community riety of outdoor activitogether and really inties along with her THE LADDER OF SUCCESS - Brett and Haleigh spired others to donate. peers durtng the Hunt are this week's AnchorPersons of the Week. You start off small and school's annual fun (Photo by Mike Gordon) it grows."

She added, "My children are becoming wellday.

Her brother joined her in the interview and also rounded students and this school has been an intecelebrated his eighth birthday in April. He said he gral part of that. Just the other day Brett and I went did the same thing as his sister because "We could to the bank and he helped hold a door open for an have some more fun" during recess. Asked what he older lady and he just did that on his own. I see thought about his sister's initiative he responded, little things like that in his character now."

"It seemed like a pretty good idea."

The school hopes to unveil the new playground When asked what her friends might say about a in September when it marks its 100-year annivernew playground Haleigh responded, ''Thanks!'' sary. Plans call for a playground to serve the needs With the help of the student's donations the of its youngest students in kindergarten and a secschool, to date, has raised $36,324.04 towards its ond apparatus for students up to grade five.

The school is the largest in the diocese with playground. The project, undertaken by Childscapes of Marshfield, is expected to cost $120,406 when nearly 400 students. completed.

"We've gone 100 years without a playground and "There was a great need for a new playground," I think it's about time we change that," said Cote. said Principal Brian Cote. "There is not a lot for "I hope we can get more donations and give the students to do at recess and it will give them a safe students something they will enjoy for years to place to play behind the schooL" come."

He was blown away by the idea of children givWhen the interview ended Haleigh and her ing up their birthday gifts in lieu of donations for a brother rushed outside to play with their friends. playground and said, "It really makes you smile. It Soon they hope to be doing so on a new playground.

For more information on the playground fund speaks volumes for the children, their upbringing and for Catholic schools. It's so great that they call Cote at 508-822-9480 or visit the school Webwanted to do that and they are leaving a legacy for site: www.saintmarystaunton.com.

The Anchor encourages readers to nominate years to come. They are role models for the other children." othersfor the Person ofthe Week - who and why?

Excavation for the project will begin the day af- Submit nominations at our email address: ter school closes for the summer. Already theanchor@anchornews.org, or write to The AnHaleigh and Brett are looking forward to using chor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, MA 02722.

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FAITHFUL MEMBERS - The RENEW Group of St. Patrick's Parish in Wareham began Oct. 7, 2002 and has continued to meet on Wednesday mornings for six or seven sessions at a time. Here the group gathered for a photo with the spiritual director, Father Arnold Medeiros, pastor of St. Patrick's.

Injured Army chaplain wears collar again, receives seminary's award WASHINGTON (CNS) - Although the first Army chaplain to be gravely injured in the Iraq War still has a long recovery ahead of him, Father H. Timothy Vakoc recently wore his collar again for the first time since his injury when hereceived an awardfrom his alma mater.

St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity ofthe University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., awarded Father Vakoc, 47, with the 2007 DistinguishedAlumnusAward during a ceremony in late April. The seminary has presented the award annually since 1994 as a way to recognize alumni ''who have lived their vocation in an extraordinary way," according to a statement.

In May 2004, Father Vakoc's Humvee was hit by a roadside bomb while he was returning to his barracks after saying Mass on the 12th anniversary of his ordination. He suffered severe head injuries, including the loss of his left eye and brain damage.

He was in a minimally responsive state for several months, but recovered consciousness and is now becoming increasingly more able to speak, recognize people and answer questions, according to a release from the semi-

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had taken while serving with the soldiers in Iraq.

Before he was injured, Father Vakoc had told the National Catholic Register in an email interview: '1 live with (the soldiers), work with them, eat with them, care for them, listen to them, counsel them. The soldiers know if you are real and genuinely care for them or not. The bottom line in helping these soldiers through the grieving process is to be present to them and walk with them. I prayed with the soldiers, I prayed for the soldiers who died. I brought the sacraments of the Church and the light and love ofChrist into the darkness of the situations."

FatherVakoc is currently undergoing speech, physical and occupational therapy.

During the award ceremony, Father Vakoc said ''thank you" into the microphone clearly and loudly enough to be heard throughout the chapel where he received the award, according to Ryan. Originally, doctors had predicted Father Vakoc would not be able to speak again.

Another point of progress occurred when Father Vakoc's received the Eucharist May 16 for the first time since his injury.

According to journal updates by his family on the CaringBridge Website at www.caringbridge.org/mnl timvakoc, he is also being helped to pray the rosary and recite the Apostles'

Tom Ryan, the seminary's associate vice president and director of institutional advancement, told Catholic News Service that even though Father Vakoc cannot serve his regular Creed. duties as a priest, he fulfills his priestly FatherVakoc was ordained a priest vocation in another way - by not of the St. Paul~Minneapolis Archdiobeing embittered by his condition and cese in t 992 and became an Army by serving through a ministry of in- chaplain in t 996, and held the rank of tentional presence. major. He was sent to Iraq in Septem''He's embracing the call of Christ . ber 2003, and in January 2005, he was in his life, in the circumstances that awarded the Bronze star for his serhe's in, and that's a great example for vice in Iraq. the guys and for all of us," Ryan said.

On June 15, he will celebrate the Each Saturday, the seminarians t 5th anniversary ofhis ordination with visit with Father Vakoc to spend time family and friends. with him and pray with him, which He hopes to one day say Mass Ryan said has built a fraternal relation- again, said his sister, Anita Brand. ship between the seminarians and the "That is the closest thing to his priest. heart, he wants to say Mass," Brand The ministry of intentional pres- recently told television news station ence is also the approach FatherVakoc KARE 11 in Minnesota.

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But during papal events, the Vatican's own security teams take over.

TheVatican's uniformed gendarme agents and Swiss Guards are stationed throughout the crowd, and they are trained to notice potential troublemakers.

The more elite security contingent that accompanies the pope'sjeep typically includes the head ofthe Vatican gendarme corps and Swiss Guards.

Dressed in suits, this team ofabout 10 agents walks briskly alongside the moving vehicle, scanning the route and the crowd for potential problems.

Perhaps the biggest problem facing the pope's "guardian angels" is distinguishing a real threat from a pilgrim's overexuberance!II Most ofthe people who have tried to f1lSh the pope

- and there have been many over the years - said they only wanted to be near the pontiff.

One of the best-remembered episodes was during World Youth Day ceremonies in 2000, when a young man broke through a buffer zone and ''materialized'' on the papal stage, as one security agent later described it.

Pope John Paul reacted by giving him a big hug; then the youth was led away.

IfVatican security seems low-profile during papal events, that is not true during visits by foreign dignitaries.

President George W. BuSh, for example, was to see the pope June 9. The last time he came to the Vatican, his motorcade of armor-plated SUVs roared through St. Peter's Square, which had been closed off for hours for the presidential passage.

HIGH FIVE - Pope Benedict XVI greets a girl at his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 6. A German man leapt over a barrier at the audience and reached the popemobile before he was wrestled to the ground by security guards. (CNS photolL'Osservatore Romano)

.German man sent for treatment after jumping toward papal jeep VATICAN CITY (CNS) -A 27year-old Gennan man was forced to undergo immediate psychiatric treatment June 6 after he jumped over a barrier in St. Peter's Square and reached the back of the open jeep in which Pope BenedictXVI was riding.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, refused to release the man's name but said he was in a Rome psychiatric facility by 2:30 p.m., about four hours after being tackled to the ground by Vatican police.

Gennan newspapers reported that the man's name is Roberto Sperling and that he is from Karlsruhe, in eastern Germany. The Axel-Springer newspaper group also reported that several weeks earlier he had chained himselfto a church gate in Karlsruhe, insisting Mary had given him a message for the pope.

Axel-Springer also reported Sperling was being treated in the psy-

chiatric ward of Rome's Holy Spirit Hospital, just two blocks from the Vatican.

His physician refused to speak to reporters June 7, referring all questions to the hospital director, who was unavailable for comment.

After being apprehended by Vatican security agents, the man was first taken to the Vatican police station and questioned by GianIuigi Marrone, a Vatican judge, Father Lombardi said.

"The young man's intention was not to make an attempt on the life of the pope, but to carry out a demonstrative act to attract attention to himself," Father Lombardi said.

Because the young man was "showing clear signs of mental imbalance, psychiatric doctors from the Vatican health service were called, and they arranged hospitalization for obligatory treatment in a protected, specialized health facility," the

spokesman said.

'The case is, therefore, considered closed," Father Lombardi said.

Dressed in a red shirt, dark shorts and a baseball cap, the young man was in the thlfd or fourth row ofspectators behind a wooden barricade in the square. As the pope approached, a police oflicer moved directly in front of the young man's section of the crowd, although it was not clear what had attracted the attention ofthe officer.

The young man jumped over the people in front of him and used the barricade to push himself farther, knocking over the police officer.

He managed to hold onto the back railing ofthejeep for ajust a few seconds befon: being forced to let go.

Msgr. Georg Ganswein, the pope's personal secretary, was in thejeep and also attempted to push the young man away.

PAPAL DISTURBANCE - A still image taken from television shows a

man leaping over a barricade during Pope Benedict XVI's weekly audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 6. The 27-year-old German man was restrained by security guards as he reached the back of the popemobile. The Vatican said he was receiving psychiatric treatment following the incident. (CNS photoNatican lV via Reuters TV)

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Cool under pressure: Papal guards handle many pilgrims discreetly VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI's security guards are known for composure under pressure, and they showed it when a deranged Gennan tried to jump onto the pope's jeep at a general audience.

Within seconds, 11 Vatican plainclothes agents - Swiss Guards and policemen- subdued the 27-year-old man and pinned him to the ground.

He was unarmed, and the pope was unharmed in the June 6 incident.

The whole thing happened so quickly and quietly that it went unnoticed by most people in the square, including the pope. No guns were drawn and no alarms were sounded.

The pope's jeep never sped up, and most of the faithful, even those right in front of the scene, just kept snapping pictures of the pontiff.

It was a classic display of the Vatican's elegant and understated ap-

proach to security, which relies more on intuitive alertness than a show of force.

But despite the official sighs of relief, episodes like this inevitably raise apprehensions. With the pope passing through tens of thousands of people in an open jeep each Wednesday, it's very difficult to prevent an overly enthusiastic or mentally unstable person from running toward him.

Except during bad weather, popes riding through St. Peter's Square generally have not used the covered popemobile, which has bulletproof glass. Even after he was shot in the square in 1981, Pope John Paul II continued to use an open jeep for such appearances.

The whole idea, of course, is for the pope to get close to those who came to see him. The papal vehicle crisscrosses the lanes that divide seat-

ing sections in the square, about an arm's len~,th from the people in the crowd, so thateveryone can get a good look and a photo.

TIckets are required to attend the pope's general audience, but they are easily obtainable.

Since the pope insists on being out in the opel!, the Vatican relies on subtle layers ofprotection. Most importantly, before entering St. Peter's Square all pilgrims :llOW pass through airportstyle metll detectors and have their bags searched, in an operation carried out by the Italian police force assigned to the arel around the square.

The metal detectors andbag checks were introduced during the HolyYear 2000, but were used much more routinely afi~ the Sept. 11,2001, terrorist attack>.

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Taunton St. Ann, Raynham Holy Rosary, Taunton St. Anthony, Taunton Holy Family, East Taunton Ann~ciation of the Lord, Taunton PARISHES Acushnet St. Francis Xavier: $200-Mark & Mary Hadley, Natalio & Doris Gomes; $100-William & Irene Kennedy, Gary's Best, Jose & Anita Franco.

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Attleboro St. John the Evangelist: $700-M&M John Costello; $SOO-M&M Richard Benoit, Lauren L. McBarron; $480-M&M Armand Brunelle; $300-M&M Timothy Cowgill, M&M SA Gulino; $2S0-M&M Gerald Foley; $230-Dr&Dr Steven Bensson; $200-M&M Gerard J. Kates, M&M Victor F. Larkin, Peter Silvia, M&M Charles Falugo, Edward Healey, M&M George M. Kenney, Kathleen Rogers; $160-M&M Peter Gay; $150M&M Gerard Lefrancois, Mary Rainville, , M&M Gary S. Trudo; $12S-M&M Salvatore Ciccio; $100-Patricia Cloutier & Kendell Sorensen, M&M Robert Girling, In Memory of Larry Keating, M&M Anthony Magina, M&M Terrance McCrosson, Bernice Panicci, M&M Richard Pimble, M&M Thomas R. Stapleton, M&M Paul Taylor, M&M William Wilkinson, M&M Stephen Blazejewski, Annette Brown, M&M John Cherecwich, Marilyn Blake Cobb, M&M Wayne Engler, Yvonne Gagliardi, M&M William Hannigan, M&M David T. Kayata, M&M Michael O'Keefe, Sandra Parker, M&M Ronald Roczniak.

St. Joseph: $SOO-M&M John O'Donnell; $2S0-M&M George Largess.

Brewster Our Lady of the Cape: $2,OOO-Edith LaVigne; $400-M&M James F. Christie; $100-M&M Joseph Martins.

Centerville Our Lady of Victory: $SOO-James Holland, Veronica Lee; $I00-Barbara Driscoll, Mrs. William Fleming, M&M Joseph Gentile, Mary James, Robert Morin, M&M Cornelius Sullivan.

Chatham Holy Redeemer: $Soo-M&M William Brennan; $400-M&M Philip Ripa; $150-M&M Walter Pollack; $120-Mrs. Paul F. Murphy; $100-M&M David Coupal. M&M Leo Gauthier, Mrs. William Machie, Charlie Moeder, Sara & Keith Nicolai.

Dighton St. Peter: $12S-Emile & Pauline Lamontagne; $100-Alice Borges.

East Falmouth St. Anthony: $800-M&M Daniel Bailey; $600-M&M Charles Mahoney; $500-M&M John P. Collins; $200-M&M Richard Podgorski; $12S-M&M Rutilio Corvo; $100-M&M William F. O'Neil, M&M John A. Reine, M&M Daniel J. Rogan, Grace Fulton, Frances O'Donnell, Charles & Carol Oliver, M&M Joseph F. Pittman, M&M George Howarth.

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Fairhaven St. Joseph: $200-Edwin J. & Stella Marnik; $IS0-Roberta Braley; $100M&M Lionel Dulude, M&M Jose Ferro, M&M Bernardino Fortunato, M&M William Machado, Alice Mayer, Edith Silva.

St. Mary: $Soo-M&M John Botelho; $loo-M&M Edward R. Allaire, Sr., M&M Antone Almeida, M&M Robert Hillman, Paul Novak.

Fail River St. Mary Cathedral: $100-Theresa Ryan.

Espirito Santo: $Soo-Anonymous; $300-Confirmation Class, Irene Vasconcellos, M&M Duarte Silva; $200M&M John Tavares, Anonymous; $150Anonymous; $120-lrene Pontes; $100Anonymous.

Good Shepherd: $300-Joanne Napert, In Memory of Manuel Velho & Louis Silvia; $17S-ln Memory of Levesque & Thorpe Families; $IS0-Richard Robillard; $12S-ln Memory of Joseph A.A. Levesque; $100-Good Shepherd First Communion Class.

Holy Name: $2,000-M&M John J. Mercer; $2S0-M&M David Delisle; $200Mrs. John Grant, M&M Reginald Cousineau, Dr. John Carvalho; $150M&M Joseph'Stanton, M&M Jason Dextraze, Mary Ruth Burke; $125-M&M David Normandin, M&M Thomas Stanton; $100-M&M John W. Cham-

pagne, M&M John Pereira, Dr&M Carlos Fernando, M&M Joseph R. Daley, Mrs. Joseph Pinsonneault.

Holy Trinity: $SOO-M&M Steven Gagnon; $200-M&M Benjamin Boudria, M&M Gilbert Faria; $12S-Anna Chlebek; $120-M&M Michael Langton; $107M&M Gary John; $100-M&M Louis Bouchard, M&M Edward Horan, M&M Albert Belanger, Robert Proulx, Muriel Cote, Bertha Vieira.

Notre Dame: $4,SOO-ln Memory of FUchard Cloutier; $200-Cecile Cloutier; $12S-M&M Paul Oliveira, Richard Scolaro; $100-M&M Julien Lafontaine, M&M Romeo Roy. Sacred Heart: $300-lrene Price; $IS0-M&M Kenneth Price, M&M Raymond Rosa.

St. Anne: $500-Dennis J. Lopes; $IS0-Ellen L. Shea; $100-Andre & Jacqueline Plante. . St. Anthony of Padua: $200-St. Anthony of Padua Federal Credit Union; $16S-ln Memory of Francisco B. Silva; $100-Portugalia Imports & Exports, M&M Fernando Rego.

St. Joseph: $200-M&M Charles St. George; $10b-Mary Whittaker.

St. Stanislaus: $I,SOO-Eileen Hadfield; $1,200-Rev. Bruce M. Neylon; $1,OOO-M&M Louis Mazurek; $500M&M Charles Joerres, M&M Desire Leguyader; $2S0-M&M Scott Szczupak, Jean Willis; $200-A Friend, In Memory of Stephen Kulpa; $IS0-A Friend, Claire Goncalves; $125-SI. Vincent de Paul Society; $100-M&M Joseph Ozug, Carol Kostka.

Santo Christo: $2S0-Antonio, Irene & Evonne Mendes; $200-Manuel & Maria Silva; $100-M&M Altino Alberto, Clodomiro & Aida Botelho, M&M Jose Cabral, Virginia Cavaco, Oliver Couto, Luis A. & Maria Pereira, Luis & Maria Pereira, M&M Jose Silva, Jose M. & Maria Silva.

Falmouth St. Patrick: $2,000-ln Memory of Gertrude E. & Albert S. Perry.

Hyannis St. Francis Xavier: $1,200-M&M Marc Calabrese; $1,OOO-M&M Raymond Cataloni, M&M Kenneth Colmer,Joseph A. Mello; $SOO-M&M John Annessi; $480-M&M Robert Fougere; $300-M&M Henry Stein; $2S0-M&M Richard Peckham; $200-M&M Ponchito Mangahas, M&M Mozart Moniz, M&M Donald Cleary, M&M Edward Salvas, Anneva L. Smith; $IS0-Dorothy Clark, M&M Donald Kimtis, Kathleen Chardeneau, M&M James Hegarty; $125Cynthia Engel, M&M Timothy Lovelette, M&M Robert Schwartz; $100-Beryl Miller, Janice Poliseno, Marilyn Snow, Rosemary' Spillane, M&M Donald Swanson, Irene Belsito, M&M John Crosby, Ann Carosso, Hilda E. Crowley, William Daly, M&M Charles Dever, M&M Kenneth Eubanks, M&M Salvatore Gentile, M&M Frederick Glennon, Winifred McDonough, Edith Richards.

Mashpee Christ the King: $2,500-Dr&M Robert Wilkinson; $1,OOO-M&M William Sullivan, Jr.; $SOO-M&M Edmund Bouche; $300-M&M John Leahy, Jr., M&M Donald Chabot, M&M John Fox; $200-Dr&M Edwin Thomas, M&M Kevin Duarte, M&M David Ryan, , M&M John Harris, Jr., M&M Joseph Mazzucchelli, Agnes McGuire; $150M&M Francis Lee; $12S-Mary Rodrigues; $120-Charles Papagni; $100M&M George Laliberte, M&M Joseph Noonan, M&M David Pierce, M&M John Kinville, Anne Lane, M&M Joseph Crifo, Mary Connor, M&M Richard Sullivan, Margaret Hitchins, M&M Robert Forte, Sr., M&M James Parenteau, M&M George Balch.

Mattapoisett St. Anthony: $I,OOO-Rev. Leonard M. Mullaney; $SOO-Dr&M Lawrence Oliveira, M&M Carl W. Taber; $250-M&M Walter Wordell; $l25-Mrs. Charles Rodrigues; $100-Mary Blanchard, M&M Jon Bryan, M&M Thomas Jackivicz, Mary M. Leeke, M&M Paul Milott, M&M John Reed, M&M John Ruane, M&M Robert J. Saunders.

Nantucket St. Mary/Our Lady of the Isle: $SOO-M&M James D. Conniff; $150M&M Stephen Lamb; $100-M&M Donald W. Holdgate, Noe Pineda, M&M Edward G. O'Rourke.

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Immaculate Conception: $SOO-Holy Ghost Society; $200-Kathy Amaral; $IS0-ln Memory of Luis & Deolinda Cardoso; $100-Laura Constant, In Memory of Manuel & Mary Bettencourt, M&M Pedro Ferreira.

Our Lady of the Assumption: $125Everett Lobo; $100-M&M Thomas Lopes, David Depina, Shirley Magnett, Sandra Araujo, M&M John Costa, Earle Bargasse, M&M Joao DaCosta, Joaquim Livramento, Theresa Santos, M&M Manuel Lobo, M&M Carl Figueiredo, Pauline Garcelon.

Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. James: $200-George & Doris Williams, Rose Marie R. Cruz.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel: $550Proline Plumbing & Heating Corp.; $450A Friend; $200-M&M Florimundo Alcaidinho, A Friend; $1~O-A Friend; $100-Holy Name Society; M&M Francisco Ferreira, M&M Kevin E. Medeiros, Rose S. Moura, A Friend, M&M Fernando Abreu, M&M Eduino M. Almeida, M&M Abilio Duarte, Jose Garcia, Eduardo S. Lima, M&M Nemesio Mendonca, Donald Cabral, Jose D. Costa, M&M Alfredo R. Pledade, M&M Jose Manuel Silva, M&M Pedro M. Sousa, FUcardo Victoria, Maria F. Vincent.

St. Anthony of Padua: $100-Gerard Gaudette.

St. John the Baptist: $SOO-In Thanksgiving, Anonymous; $300-A Friend; $12S-M&M Jose A. Sousa; $120Anonymous; $100-M&M Dimas Farias, A Friend, Anonymous, M&M Richard Carreiro, M&M Carlos Paiva, M&M John Rodrigues, M&M Jose Araujo, M&M Frederick Langevin.

St. Lawrence Martyr: $SOO-Anna T. McGlynn; $28S-M&M Thomas Ryan; $17S-Frances McIntyre; $160-M&M Arthur Walsh; $12S-ln Memory of Ellen L. Calnan; $111-Mariette Rose; $100M&M Steven Vaughan.

St. Mary: $250-M&M Arthur J. Villeneuve, Jr.; $100-M&M Jaime Costa, M&M Manuel Carneiro, M&M Michael Dakin, M&M Paul J. Costa, M&M Arthur Caron, M&M David Beaulieu, M&M Joseph F.A. LeBlanc, M&M Todd Osswald, M&M David Poulin, Miriam McCoy, David Maynard, Jacqueline Vardo, M&M John J. Farrell, M&M Roger Rioux, M&M Diarmuid Griffin. .

North Attleboro Sacred Heart: $1,OOO-M&M John Burke; $400-M&M Edmond Goulet; $200-M&M Norman Rogers; $100-M&M Bernard Poirier.

St. Mary: $3S0-Mark Vandenberghe; $IS0-James & Diana Gray; $100-Charles Blais, Jr., M&M Robert O'Donnell, M&M John Spas.

North Dartmouth St. Julie Billiart: $600-Margaret Lefever; $400-Paul Cabral, Viola Osborne; $2S0-M&M Steven Figueiredo; $22S-Jane M. Brightman, M&M Joseph Medeiros; $2oo-M&M Harding J. Carrier; $IS0-M&M James J. Donnelly, M&M David J. Kenney; $10S-Therese L. Southwick; $100-M&M Roland R. Dupere, M&M Frederick Toomey, M&M Peter M. Morris, M&M James E. Tooley, M&M Kevin Barrett, M&M Ronald R. Carando, Manuel Nunes, Elaine N. Carolus.

North Dighton St. Joseph: $I,S2S-Frank Costa.

North Easton Immaculate Conception: $500M&M Robert Garrow; $100-M&M Wilfred Roberge.

North Falmouth St. Elizabeth Seton: $S,OOO-M&M Gerald Cameron; $1,OOO-St. Elizabeth Men's Club; $600-M&M William Kelley; $500-Eleanor Flaherty, John Reichheld; $300-M&M Florence McCarthy; $250M&M Thomas Murphy; $200-M&M Tim Denmark, M&M John Leddy, M&M James Quill;.$IS0-M&M Russell Bishop, Patricia Stone; $120-M&M Amancio Correia; $100-Lorraine Bordonaro, M&M Robert Cate, M&M William Connors, Margaret Murphy, Clare O'Brien, M&M James Ulwick.

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Pocasset St. John the Evangelist: $Soo-M&M James Giarrusso; $100-M&M Thomas Wielgus.

Raynham St. Ann: $800-M&M Joseph Squizzero; $SOO-M&M Salvatore Oliveri; $275-M&M Arthur Whittemore; $200M&M Barry Arpin, M&M Wayne Barlow, M&M Raymond Platt, M&M Edward Smith; $150-Pauline Baran, James Mansfield, M&M Gary Whitfield; $130M&M Boyd Anderson, E. Joseph LaLiberte, M&M David Yelle; $125M&M John Moran; $I00-M&M Scott Cashman, M&M Daniel KreckIer, M&M Russell Martorana, Michelle Paulicelli, M&M James Williamson.

Seekonk Our Lady路 of Mount Carmel: $3,000-M&M William Kearney, M&M Edward Medeiros; $2,000-ln Loving Memory of my Parents, Dr&M Frank Casarella, In Thanksgiving; $7S0-M&M Henry Foley; $500-M&M Henry Machado; $350-M&M Mark Canuel; $250-M&M Thomas Kerwin, M&M Carlos Braga, M&M William Cuddigan, M&M Frank Mooney; $200-Knights of Columbus-#5108, M&M Harvey Mace, M&M John Mulvey, M&M Ronald Souto, M&M Robert Vandal, M&M Thomas Devine, Nancy Shackett; $180-Elizabeth Marsland; $IS0-M&M John Carney, M&M James Rassol; $125-M&M Michael Pacheco, M&M David Pitassi, M&M Ronald Holden; $120-M&M George Oliveira; $100-M&M Neil Bellavance, M&M William Carden, M&M Brian Freitas, M&M David Gering, Anna Harrison, M&M Keith Landry, M&M Jose Marques, M&M David Mitchell, M&M Edward Mota, Manuel Ormonde, Marlene Paradis, Alice Pickett, M&M Ralph Santoro, M&M Scott Simmons, M&M Ernest Strzesak, M&M Phu Tran, M&M Everett Almeida, M&M Paul Archambault, M&M Paul Bilodeau, M&M Edgar Bosworth, M&M Thomas Clifford, Martha Johnson, M&M John Machado, M&M Jeffrey Petraitis, M&M John Ratcliffe.

St. Mary: $I,OOO-SI. Vincent de Paul Society; $200-Jason & Melissa Caldwell, Knights of Columbus-#5108; $100-Jeffrey & Fran Creamer, Dorothy Francis, John & Donna Lemos, Thomas & Sherry Ustas.

Somerset St. John of God: $SOO-M&M Richard Torres; $12S-M&M James Pereira, M&M Edward B. Medeiros; $120-John Lima; $100-M&M Robert Lema, M&M Joao Jesus, M&M Michael Mello, M&M Manuel Benevides, M&M Arthur Aguiar, M&M Robert Correia, M&M Octavio Chaves, Virginia Borges, Maria Mendonca, M&M George Nicolan.

St. Patrick: $2,000-ln Memory of Bernyce Tebeau-Simmons & M&M Edward V. Darcy; $200-Deacon&M Edward Hussey; $12S-M&M Richard Brisbois, M&M Arthur Gagnon; $100-Lorraine Judge, Mary Pacheco, M&M Allen Fisher.

St. Thomas More: $SOO-M&M Richard Kelley; $300-Jean O'Brien; $200M&M Norman F. Bessette, Dolores M. Highsmith, Robert D. Michaud; $125M&M Kenneth J. Beaulieu; $100-M&M Shaun Fitzpatrick, Sr., M&M Zane Jakuboski, Barbara M. Pallas.

South Dartmouth St. Mary: $2,000-St. Vincent de Paul Society; $200-M&M Harry J. Booth; $100-Mrs. Louis Cormier, Joanne Dupre.

South Easton Holy Cross: $lS0-Mrs. Edward O'Brien; $225-M&M James M. Sullivan; $100-M&M Robert Cunha, M&M John D. Curran, M&M Paul J. DeCristofaro, M&M Walter H. Emerson, James & Anita McGuigan.

South Yarmouth St. Plus Tenth: $I,OOO-M&M Thomas Keller; $500-Claire Murphy; $300Marie Lafrenier, Joseph P. Fallen; $250M&M Robert Cullen; $200-Margaret Flaherty, Mrs. Harold Jarvis; $12S-Aileen McManus, M&M Robert Routhier; $100M&M Peter Randall, M&M Joseph E. Tierney, M&M Edwin Kelley, M&M Anibal Matos, Mrs. John J. Donovan, M&M John D. Power, Edmond JansonLaPalme, M&M John Milan, Florence M. Garrity, Richard Quirk.

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St. Francis of Assisi: $750-M&M J. Brian Keating; $540-M&M Joseph A. Ripanti; $500-ln Memory of Michael, Gerald J.B. Vallee; $350-M&M Dorvalino Carreiro; $250-M&M Kenneth J. Thorpe; $200-M&M John Lyons, Veronica T. McConnell, M&M Andrew Boisvert; $180-M&M Frank N. Clegg; $150-Mrs. Russell B. Cochrane, Claire McMahon, M&M Robert F. Leite; $135-M&M Stephen Malo; $125-Joseph Bushnell; $100-Nancy Heslin, M&M Jeffrey Patota, Cynthia Casna, M&M Harold L. Senay, M&M Leonard C. Connors, Rita L. Duclos, M&M Gerard Tremblay, M&M Norbert Flores, M&M Herbert E. Chace, Edward S. McNerney, Harold Higgins, M&M Daniel Azevedo, M&M Paul J.V. Parente, M&M William Gray.

St. Louis de France: $100-Vivian F. Morrow, M&M Alfred Souza.

Taunton Holy Rosary: $1,500-M&M Anthony Snigier; $750-M&M Robert Goodman; $550-Dr&M Thaddeus Figlock; $500-Michael Tabak, M&M William Powers; $400-M&M Theodore Wojcik; $250M&M John Canto; $200-Susan Holland & Family; $170-M&M John Lopes; $150M&M Kevin J. Gregg; $120-M&M James Lukaszewski; $100-M&M Phillip Johnson, M&M Matthew Cyr, Mrs. Roland Guillemette.

St. Anthony: $1,OOO-A Friend; $500M&M Joseph L. Amaral; $325-M&M Manuel Camara, Jr.; $250-A Friend; $200-M&M Augusto Chaves; $150Anonymous; $120-M&M Jose Bota, M&M Luis Freitas; $100-Joseph F. Amaral, M&M Dinis Chaves, M&M James Copeland, Maria Fernanda Correia, Laurentina Craven, A Friend, M&M Manuel Goulart, M&M Paul Leite, M&M Jorge Matos, M&M Manuel Narciso, M&M Jose Peixoto, M&M Jose Pereira.

St. Mary: $500-John Rice, In Memory of John & Catherine Rice & Son Edward; $350-Michael & Lucy Powers; $100-Jean F. Farrell, Madeline Hathaway.

Wareham St. Patrick: $1,OOO-M&M Philip Sheridan; $600-M&M Edwin Shivvers, M&M Mariusz Wierzbicki; $500-M&M Robert Garrity; $300-M&M Leo C. McGowan; $200-M&M Francis K. Ward; $155-M&M Richard Zopatti; $100Kathleen Pappalardo, M&M George Sanford, M&M Paul Cayer, M&M John Alden.

Wellfleet Our Lady of Lourdes: $1,800-M&M Joseph K. Kane; $200-Jude Herold,

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West Harwich Holy Trinity: $500-M&M Robert D. Payne; $400-Mary Jean Birch; $200M&M James F. Powers; $125-M&M Edward M. Blute; $100-M&M Edward Brady, M&M Richard C.Y. Fish, M&M David Jacek, M&M Robert McLaughlin, M&M Richard Pickett, Ann Santacroce.

Westport Our Lady of Grace: $100-M&M Paul Vidal, Natalie King.

St. George: $500-M&M Jose Nunes; $200-Ellen Tripp; $100-M&M Joseph Rusin, M&M Edward Sousa, M&M William Oliveira.

St. John the Baptist: $300-Leonard Rock; $200-M&M Richard Zanrucha, M&M Harry Green; $150-Denise Toohey, M&M Donn Robidoux, M&M Peter Landry; $125-M&M Jose Rego; $100M&M Charles Kinnane, M&M Philip Pelletier, M&M Joseph Souza, M&M Joel Sunderland, Karen, Jason & Jordan Theriault, M&M David McClure, M&M Robert Tremblay, M&M John McDermott, M&M Victor Faria.

Woods Hole St. Joseph: $1,OOO-Jayne M. Romano; $lIO-John M. & Theresa M. Clarkin; $100-W. Redwood & Mary C. Wright.

BUSINESS & COMMUNITY Attleboro $400-Holy Ghost-St. Vincent de Paul Society; $100-Contracting Specialists, Inc. Cape Cod & the Islands $125-Tedd Williams Landscape Service.

Fall River $1,200-BankFive; The Robert F. StoicolFirstFed Charitable' Foundation; $800-C&D Construction Company, Inc.; $100-D.E.G. Associates, Inc.; American Wallpaper Company; Paul Nagle Insurance Agency, Inc. New Bedford $400-New Bedford Catholic Woman's Club.

Taunton $250-lmmaculate Conception-St. Vincent de Paul Society; St. Jacques-St. Vincent de Paul; $200-St. Paul's Council of Catholic Women.

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such as guilds and the local chapters of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, as well as parish youth groups have seen the Appeal as a way of furthering their contact with those who look to us for assistance each year, and have worked diligently to contribute whatever they could to increase the revenues from their perspective parishes.

"It is a common occurrence as well for parishes across the diocese to attempt to raise awareness of the wonderful work we are doing in assisting so many in need by having confirmation and first Communion classes, as well as classes in our Catholic schools, send in donations to assist us in our attempt to lessen the burdens of so many of our friends and neighbors in need," Donly added.

"So it becomes a 'teachable moment' as well, as parishes and schools teach the young children that reaching beyond themselves and their immediate neighborhood and parish is the way to show car-

ing and compassion for as Scripture states it 'your neighbor.'"

"Thinking globally and acting locally" seems to be what drives the enthusiasm and spirit of the 95 parishes across the Diocese ofFall River in their efforts to do whatever they can to make each annual Appeal the success it needs to be, he noted.

The Annual Catholic Charities Appeal is the only time during year the Diocese of Fall River asks its parishioners to come together to assist in ministering to the tens of thousands of individuals and families who come to the agencies funded by the Appeal for assistance.

Donations to the Appeal can still be sent to the Catholic Charities Appeal Office, P.O. Box 1470, Fall River, Mass. 02722; dropped offat any parish in the diocese; or made on the Appeal Website: www路frdioc-catholiccharities.org.

For information visit the Website or contact the Appeal Office at 508-675-1311.

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CUSTOM路MADE - U.S. President George W. Bush, presents Pope Benedict XVI with a walking stick, which was hand-carved by a former homeless :man from Texas, during their meeting at the Vatican June 9. The two leaders spoke about the precarious situation of Christians in Iraq and a wide range of other foreign policy and moral issues. (CNS photo/Plinio Lepri, Reuters)

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VATICAN CITY - Meeting for the first time, Pope Benedict XVI and U.S. President George W. Bush spoke about the precarious situaLon of Christians in Iraq and a wide range of other foreign policy and moral issues: The pope and president looked relaxed a!: they greeted each other arid spoke briefly before reporters befon: their 35-minute private encounter June 9. Bush later held a separate 40-minute meeting with the Vatican's top foreign policy officials.

A Vati.can statement described the meetings as "cordial" and said they had focused in part on "the worrisome situation in Iraq and the critkal conditions in which the Chri:;tian community finds itself." Tens of thousands of Christians have fled Iraq over the last four years to escape violence and discrimination.

The talks also touched on the overall situation in the Middle East, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and developments in Lebanon.

"The Holy See again expressed the hope for a 'regional' and 'negotiate,l' solution to the conflicts and cri:;es that are tormenting the region," the Vatican statement said.

Bush and the pope also discussed problems in Africa, the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and developments in路 Latin America, it said.

"Finally, there was an examination of current moral and religious questions, including those related to human rights and religious freedom, the defense and promotion of life, marriage and the family, education of new gen-

erations and sustain4ble develop- good.

The president paused as phoment," the Vatican said.

Before the presid~nt's visit, the tographers kept snapping photos Vatican secretary of state, Cardi- and said: ''I'll tell you in a nal Tarcisio Bertone, went out of minute." Both men laughed. Putin his way to praise B~sh for his po- and Bush had sparred over a U.S. sition on abortion and for "posi- proposal to build a missile defense tive initiatives in faVor of the de- system in Europe.

Bush then went on to tell the fense of life from conception."

In the sunny ~t. Damasus pope that he had recently asked Courtyard, the president was Congress for $30 billion toward greeted by U.S. Arc~bishop James .fighting the global AIDS crisis, a Harvey, head of the papal house- doubling of the previous U.S. hold, who escorted him past a commitment.

After reporters left, the two picket of Swiss Guards and up an elevator to the fourth floor of the leaders met privately without Apostolic Palace for the papal au- aides or interpreters. Among those dience. greeting the pontiff was Karl The pope smiled broadly as he Rove, Bush's top political adviser. ' greeted Bush just outside his pri- The pontiff handed each of them vate library. The two men shook a medallion.

The pope and the president hands, and the pope ushered the also exchanged gifts. Bush gave president to a larg~ desk. Reportthe pope a long wooden stick with ers and photographers were ala design rep.resenting the Ten lowed to stay for the first minute Commandments.

When the pope of the encounter. : "It's good to be with you sir," picked it up, Bush told him it had . as he sat down oppo- been made by a former homeless Bush SaId site the pope, crossing his legs and man in Dallas.

During his first term, Bush met leaning back in a ~hite chair.

The pope asked whether three times with Pope John Paul, Bush's dialogue:: with Russian twice at the Vatican and once at President Vladimir Putin was also the papal villa outside Rome.

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against the Nazis would force Hitler to take action against the Vatican WASHINGTON -An SS gen- and would also endanger the many eral close to Adolf Hitler foiled a Jews being sheltered in Italian monplot to kidnap Pope Pius XIT dur- asteries, churches and convents. ing World War IT and to put the VatiThe pope's behind-the-scenes can and its treasures under Nazi actions also brought the roundup of control, according to a new book.

Roman Jews to a halt, Kurzman The book, "A Special Mission" said. Only about 1,000 of the 8,000

by Dan Kurzman, refutes argu- Jews living in Rome at the time ments that Pope Pius XIT main- were deported to Nazi concentratained a public silence about Nazi tion camps, he said. actions during World War II beKurzman, who worked as a forcause he was anti-Semitic or be- eign correspondent for The Washcause he was sympathetic toward ington Post during the 1960s and Hitler. early '70s, was the first journalist "They were bitter, bitter en- to interview Wolff in 1970 after the emies. They despised each other," former general was allowed to resaid Kurzman of turn to his home the pontiff and the of Hitler, for his part, "saw town fuhrer in a late Darmstadt in the pope as his greatest May telephone inGermany. Wolff enemy" and as someone died in 1984. terview with with whom he was Ilcom _ "He claimed Catholic News Service. The pope peting for the minds and to me that he hated Hitler "not souls that he wanted to didn't know only for his inhu- control," the author added. Jews were being manity but bemurdered, cause he threatened the whole which was of course a lie," Church structure."

Kurzman said. "He tried to close his Hitler, for his part, "saw the pope mind to the reality" of the Holoas his greatest enemy" and as some- caust by saying that his job was one with whom he was "compet- only to get the trains to destinations ing for the minds and souls that he like Dachau and Treblinka on time, wanted to control," the author while ignoring what was happenadded. ing to those who arrived at the Nazi Kurzman also said he found no concentration camps, the author evidence that Pope Pius was anti- added.

Semitic, noting that one of his closAlthough the Nazis were careest childhood friends was a Jewish ful not to put any details of the plot boy with whom he remained in con- to kidnap Pope Pius XU into writtact throughout his life. ing, and Kurzman has not seen The book, published June 1 by materials in the Vatican Secret ArDa Capo Press in Cambridge, chives from that period, he said the Mass., is subtitled "Hitler's Secret plot and other details about the Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kid- pope's actions during World War IT nap Pope Pius XU." It details the were confirmed to him by Jesuit actions of SS Gen. Karl Wolff, chief Father Peter Gumpel, who had read of staff to SS Chief Heinrich the archival material as "relator," or Himmler, in the months after the chief investigator, for Pope Pius' overthrow of Italian dictator Benito sainthood cause.

Mussolini in July 1943.

Despite criticism from some Describing Wolff as 'one of Jewish groups, work on the saint"history's most successful oppor- hood cause for Pope Pius XU has tunists," Kurzman said the general continued in recent years. In a vote earned the "full confidence" of both Father Gumpel called "unanimous Hitler, who ordered him in Septem- and totally positive," the Congregaber 1943 to kidnap Pope Pius, and tion for Saints' Causes recomof the pontiff himself, whom Wolff mended May 8 that Pope Benedict warned about the plot during a se- XVI formally declare the World cret meeting at the Vatican in May War IT-era pope venerable.

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Kurzman, who has written 16 Hitler ordered the kidnapping, other books, said be had no opinaccording to the book, because he ion on whether Pope Pius XII feared that Pope Pius would speak should be beatified or canonized, out about Nazi actions against the but wanted to clear up certain un路 Jews, and in particular against a truths contained in "Hitler's Pope," proposed Nazi roundup of the Jew- a 1999 book by English author John ish community in Rome. Hitler was Cornwell. afraid the pope's words could trig"He was a human being and he ger a "revolution" against the Na- made mistakes, but I found no evizis in Italy, worldwide and even dence that he was anti-Semitic," within the Germany army, about 40 Kurzman said of Pope Pius. He said percent of which was made up of a letter cited by Cornwell containCatholics. ing an anti-Semitic remark was not Pope Pius, for his part, was written by the pope but by an aide afraid that a strong public stand and did not reflect the pope's views.

BOARD MEETING - Cody Maverick, voiced by Shia LaBeouf, and Big Z, voiced by Jeff Bridges, are seen in the animated film "Surf's Up." For a brief review of this film, see CNS Movie CapSUles below.

(CNS photo/Columbia) titles. Upper female nudity, brothel material may be inappropriate for scenes, adultery, sexual references, children under 13. nongraphic encounter, some crude "Pierrepoint: The Last language and expressions, a violent Hangman" (!FC) though nongraphic car accident, Well-made British film argues child out of wedlock, substance against capital punishment by tellabuse. The USCCB Office for Film ing the true story ofone of England's IC~~ & Broadcasting classification is A- most prolific executioners, Albert I. m - adults. The Motion Picture As- Pierrepoint, staunchly portrayed by (CaIIV~Ulllle~ sociation of America rating is PG- . talented character actor Timothy NEW YORK (CNS) - The fol- 13 - parents strongly cautioned. Spall. DirectorAdrian Shergold genlowing are capsule reviews of mov- Some material may be inappropri- erally avoids sensationalism when ies recently reviewed by the Office ate for children under 13. depicting Pierrepoint's grim stock in for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. trade, but the morally correct treat"Ocean's Thirteen" Conference of Catholic Bishops.

(Warner Bros.) ment becomes somewhat heavy''La Vie En Rose" (Picturehouse) After a convoluted European so- handed when the narrative takes an Superb panoramic biography of journ in "Ocean's Twelve," the third unbelievable turn that solidifies great French singer Edith Piaf, cov- film in the stylish caper franchise Pierrepoint's growing disillusionering her life from birth to death, and returns to its entertaining if morally ment with his duties. Numerous hitting all the high points, including questionable Las Vegas roots as nongraphic hangings, a mostly clothed her impoverished childhood, mi- Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and adulterous encounter, full frontal feraculous restoration of her sight company - motivated by loyalty to male and rear male nudity involving (which she credited to St. Therese their cohort Reuben (Elliott Gould) corpses, a few instances of crass lanofLisieux), her early years as a street - target an egotistical hotel mogul guage. The USCCB Office for Film singer, her molding as an artist, the- (AI Pacino). The buildup is more & Broadcasting classification isA-m atrical triumphs in Paris and New exciting than the payoff, but direc- - adults. The Motion Picture AssoYork, tragic affair with champion- tor Steven Soderbergh makes it easy ciation of America rating is R - reship boxer Marcel Cerdan, her sick- to watch all the moving parts in this stricted. Under 17 requires accompanesses, and premature death. Writer- elaborate and of course improbable nying parent or adult guardian. director Olivier Dahan jumps back job. Some glorification of crime, "Surf's Up" (Columbia) and forth in time to different stages crude language and profanity, sexual Animated action-comedy about in her life, and superbly recreates the innuendo, one extended if a teen-age penguin surfer (Shia various times and places in Piaf's nongraphic scene of sensuality. The LaBeouf) is a warm-weather diverlife, while Marion Cotillard, lip- USCCB Office for Film & Broad- sion with a relaxed summer vibe synching to Piaf's recordings, gives casting classification is A-TIl that earns low scores for originalan incredible performance as she adults. The Motion Picture Associa- ity but higher marks for execution morphs from foul-mouthed hoyden tion of America rating is PG-13 and its winning-isn't-everything to vibrant star to frail wraith. Sub- parents strongly cautioned. Some message. Aware that moviegoers may have had their fill of screen penguins, some minor objectionable elements notwithstanding, directors Ash Brannon and Chris Buck set a swift pace and don't overwhelm with a surfeit of barely distinguishable characters; families will be headed back outdoors in what seems like a flash. A fair amount of mildly rude language and toilet humor. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting clasScheduled celebrant is sification is A-IT - adults and adoFather Richard M. Roy, lescents.

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$ The Anchor news briefs Immigration bill stalled, not dead, backers say WASHINGTON (CNS) - With the June 7 failure of a procedural vote intended to bring the bill to a vote, the Senate's attempt to pass comprehensive immigration reform will go back behind the scenes, though the bill's backers in both parties vowed to bring it back to the floor. After the failure of a second cloture vote to cut off debate, Majority Leader Harry Reid, DNev., said he would take the bill off the floor to allow other legislation to move along, though without closing the door to reviving its consideration.

Analysts on all sides have said that if immigration reform legislation isn't passed before the end of 2007, it's unlikely to get a serious shot at passage again until after the 2008 general election. Some supporters of the bill accused President George W. Bush of failing to exert enough pressure on Senate Republicans to pass the bill. The legislation itselfwas the product of months of behind-the-scenes negotiations by the White House, Democratic and Republican senators. While many supporters of comprehensive immigration reform, including the U,S. Conference ofCatholic Bishops, said the massive piece oflegislation was flawed, most members of a vast alliance of faith groups, unions, civil rights groups and business organizations were urging that the bill be passed, as a starting point to fixing a broken immigration system.

Catholic coUege is 'nation's classroom' during debates, priest says WASHINGTON (CNS) - With 18 presidential candidates to get to know and their 18 different platforms to consider, St. Anselm College, a small Catholic school in Manchester, N.H., became ''the nation's classroom" when it held two primary debates during the first week of June, said the college's president. For the last 50 years or so, St. Anselm has been a ''must-stop place on the campaign trail for everybody;' college president Benedictine Father Jonathan DeFelice said in a phone interview with Catholic News Service. His observation seemed to be true in early June when eight Democrats and then later 10 Republicans descended on the campus to pitch their ideas and take questions. Father DeFelice said it was important that qrtholics - and Catholic institutions of higher learning in particular - be involved in the political process and active in their comm~ties. The major candidates from each party participated in the debates, including U.S. Sens.

Hillary Ointon of New York and Barack Obama of lllinois for the Democrats and formeF New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for the Republicans.

Buffalo, nearby dioceses gear up for National Black Catholic Congress ROCHESTER, N.Y. (CNS) - During the last National Black Catholic Congress five years ago in Chicago, black Catholic leaders from throughout the United States identified eight challenges to their communities: Africa.

Catholic education, HIV and AIDS, parish life, racism, social justice, spirituality, and youth and young adults. Since then, leadership commissions have been meeting to research each issue in depth. Now, with the advent of the 10th National Black Catholic Congress, scheduled for July 12-17 in Buffalo, those leadership commissions are putting the final touches on their research. Rochester resident Freida McCray, a member of the congress' leadershipcommission on Catholiceducationand a parishionerat Rochester's Immaculate Conception Parish, said her commission will use two sessions to present its findings. The presentation will include details on 10 funding sources that Catholic schools can tip. ''Our goal is to sustainCatholic schools in the black community;' McCray told the Catholic Courier, newspaper of the Rochester Diocese. The congress will feature presentations from national and international speakers and experts. Congress participants also will explore the sacraments and how they speak to contemporary lives as part of the event's theme, "Christ is With Us: Celebrating the Gifts of the Sacraments." Organizers expect at least 2,500 attendees from throughout the country. Keynote speakers includeArchbishopJohn OnaiyekanofAbuja, Nigeria, with special Masses celebrated by Archbishop Wdton D. Gregory ofAtlanta and other black Catholic bishops from around the United States.

Efforts to get assisted suicide in California abandoned for this year SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CNS) - A coalition that includes the California Catholic Conference and other Catholic groups welcomed the news that the issue of physician-assisted suicide is dead in the state Legislature this year.

Facing a June 8 deadline for action on bills by legislators and reportedly lacking sufficient support, sponsors decided not to bring AB 374 to a vote on the Assembly floor. The bill, similar to an Oregon assisted-suicide law, would have allowed patients with less than three months to live to request and ingest medication to kill themselves, after meeting ~ conditions.

Members ofCalifornians AgainstAssisted Suicide- a coalition ofdisability rights groups, medical professionals, civil rights organizations, bioethicists and others - praised the decision to shelve the bill. ''I think legislators understand the devastating impact assisted suicide would have on the disability community in California;' said Marilyn Golden of the Disability Rights, Education and Defense Fund" Anyone should see a huge red flag over this bill when you consider the wide collection ofdisability rights organizations opposed to this legislation," she added. Carol Hogan, communications director for the California Catholic Conference, which represents the state's bishops on public policy matters, said the coalition owes "a huge debt of gratitude to the 'grass-roots' volunteers, many of them Catholic parishioners" for defeat of the bill.

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By JOHN THAVIS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE ROME -- A leading Vatican official said two important documents from Pope Benedict XVI - a letter to Chinese Catholics and a decree liberalizing use of the Tridentine Mass - were coming soon.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone,' the Vatican secretary of state, told the Italian newspaper Avvenire that the pope had "definitively approved" the text of his letter to the Church in China, "Now the various translations are being carried 011.1, along with the technical aspects of its publication," Cardinal Bertone said.

Vatican sources have said that, as a courtesy, the letter would be sent to th~ Chinese government before it was released publicly.

The letter follows a meeting at the Vatican in January on the state of Catholics in China.

As for the documen~ granting wider latitude for celebration of the Trid,~ntine rite, Cardinal Bertone said that "one shouldn't have to wait long to see it published."

The cardinal said the pope was "persona:Jy interested in making this happen" and that the pontiff had prepared an accompanying letter exp laining the move and expressing the hope for a serene reception by the Church. .

In the interview, Cardinal Bertone also commented on Pope Benedict's recent remarks to reporters about the possible excommunicati on of Catholic politicians who support legislation to make abortion legal.

"It seems clear to me that the pope recalled that it is up to individual bishops to estab-

.Priest, three d.~acons slain in Mosul MOSUL, Iraq (Zenit.org) - A Chalde:m priest and three deacons were shot and killed after Sunday Mass ill front of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Mosul.

Asi~News.it identified the priest as Father Ragheed Ganni, 34, the pastor of Holy Spirit, located in the Nur district of the northern Iraqi city.

Sources told AsiaNews that the bodies lay abandoned on the street today 'Jecause no one dared to go and ret:over them, given the tension of the situation.

Thl: news agency reported that attempts on Father Ragheed,'s life have been made before, and that the Church of the Holy Spirit had been attacked and bombed in previous years, and again a few months ago.

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The cardinal added that in the "official" version of papal recase of Catholic politicians, such marks.

"There's nothing scandalous in a penalty would be carried out "ferendae sententiae"- imposed this," Cardinal Bertone said. He by the judgment of a Church court compared it to the publication of or authority - rather than auto- the "editio typica," or definitive matically incurred. . edition, of papal documents, Cardinal Bertone 'was appar- which he s.aid is sometimes ently distinguishing the situation changed to be more precise than of Catholic politicians from that an earlier version.

Cardinal Bertone's office rouof p~ople directly involved in procuring abortion, for which the tinely modifies the texts of extempenalty is automatic excommuni- poraneous papal comments, Vatication, can officials have said.

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FAMILIAR FACE - Father Craig A. Pregana visited the students of St. John the Evangelist School in Attleboro recently before heading back to the diocesan mission in Guaimaca, Honduras. He began his career as a deacon at the parish and shared photos of the mission with students. The sch~ol presented a check for $200 to assist the Honduran people.

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ist to yo r attitude towa ers will he th hrist" WINNING TEAM - Notre Dame Club of Cape Cod founder, Lee , Drinane, left, presents a donation to Pope John Paull! High School Principal Christopher W. Keavy. The newly-formed organization has ' teamed up with the new high school.

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ENJOYING THE BIG APPLE - Eighth-graders from St. Pius X School in South Yarmouth enjoy a recent class trip to New York City. As part of their visit they spent time at the United Nations building and Rockefeller Center.

HYANNIS - The newly-formed Notre Dame Club ofCape Cod celebrated its birth with support for the new Pope John Paul II High School opening in Hyannis this fall. .The Club is providing funds to begin the new school's library collection as well as sponsor a book scholarship for a deserving student.

These gifts were made in honor of the 90th birthday of Father Theodore Hesburgh, the internationally-honored former president of the University of Notre Dame.

Receiving this gift from Lee

Drinane, club founder, Christopher W. Keavy, Principal of John Paul II High School, said, "I'm delighted to receive the support of the Notre Dame alumni. The University of Notre Dame embodies the best of Catholic education and is a model for our'new high school to follow.

It's great to have the Club support Cape Catholic education."

The Notre Dame Club ofCape Cod welcomes alumni, parents and friends of Notre Dame by visiting the university's Website or contacting leedrinane@comcast.net.

CHAD AFRICA A SENIOR MOMENT - Prior to their recent graduation, this trio from Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro took a moment for a group photo. From left: Bryana Killion, who dedicated the class tree; Meghan Gibson, valedictorian; and Bridget Endler, salutatorian.

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PHYSIC-CAL FITNESS These students from Coyle and Cassidy High School were recently named recipients of the Taunton school's Outstanding Physics Student Award. From left: Matt Gerrior, Andrea Stewart . and Shawn Andrade.

OUT OF AFRICA - Sixth-graders Sean Lawler and Paul Ramundo from St. Mary's-Sacred Heart School in North Attleboro display their project on Chad prior to the school's Geography Fair.

It was themed "Habitats and People." Sixth-graders focused on the continent of Africa. Each team made an oral presentation and designed an information station displayed at the fair for family and peers.

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Missouri students find service to vets leads to lasting friendships

By BARBARA WATKINS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

FLORISSANT, Mo. - What started out as a service project for students at Sacred Heart School in Florissant has grown into a lasting friendship with residents of nearby Missouri Veterans Home in Bellefontaine Neighbors.

During the 2006-07 school year, the sixth, seventh and eighth grades each visited the Missouri Veterans Home, one of seven state-operated facilities administered by the Missouri Veterans Commission. ''Veterans have set the ultimate example of service," said Sacred Heart middle-school religion teacher Kerry B. Sprimont. "What they did they did for people they knew they would never meet."

When the Sacred Heart students visited, they played games with the residents, shared lunch, did crafts and heard the experiences of the senior citizens, many of whom had served in World War II or other conflicts. ''The students spent much of their time visiting with the residents and listening to their stories and experiences," said Sprimont. ''The students were really excited about going and they wanted to go back again."

The veterans were equally excited.

"One of the residents said, 'You've visited us three times. When are we going to visit you' So Sacred Heart School invited them to celebrate Mass with us andjoin us for coffee, doughnuts and entertainment," Sprimont told the St. Louis Review, newspaper of the St. Louis Archdiocese.

When the veterans came calling in March, Father Edward Stanger, Sacred Heart pastor, celebrated an all-school Mass in the church. Then the veterans and the middle-school

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students, accompanied by teachers, visited together in the school cafeteria Students entertained the vets with selections from the musical ''Annie,'' the school's spring musical. They celebrated the 100th birthday of World War II veteran Eric Ragan.

"It was very nice," said Ragan, who turned 100 April 15. "They . sang 'Happy Birthday,' gave me a cake and a funny hat and a spiritual bouquet. And they said they'd do the same thing next year." . Ragan's wife, Ruth, was also on hand. ''It was a lovely affair. The kids were fascinated with the fellows. The gentlemen sat at different tables and the students asked questions and waited on them. They can't fathom what it was like that many years ago." ''They were surprised I rode a horse to school," Eric Ragan said.

The Sacred Heart students said they learned a lot from their visits with the veterans.

"It was fun to go speak with the veterans and talk to them about their experiences," said eighth-grader Kevin O'Meara. "I think that they felt good to be able to talk to people that wanted to listen."

Lizzie Fitzpatrick, another eighth-grader, said it was "really interesting to hear about their stories of service to our country. I also found it rewarding to see how much they enjoy life. We could all take a lesson from them."

Sprimont said both the students and the veterans seemed to enjoy the visit to Sacred Heart.

"If they are happy, I'm happy," he said. 'We plan to do something with the Missouri Veterans Home every year as part of our middleschool service project and with the Florissant branch" of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

WHAT I'VE DONE In this farewell There is no blood There is no alibi 'Cause I've drawn reg·ret From the truth Ofa thousand lies So l{!t mercy come And wash away Refrain: What I've done I'llface myself To cross out What I've become Erase myself And let go of What I've done Put to rest What you thought of me While I clean this slate With the hands Of uncertainty So let mercy come And wash me (Repeat r~frain.)

For what I've done I'll start again And whatever thing May come Today this ends I'mforgiving What I've done I'llface myself To cross out What I've become Erase myself And let go of What I've done What I've done . Forgiving what I've done Sung by Linkin Park Copyright 2007 by Warner Bros/ Wea Linkin'Park's new hit "What I've Done" is getting lots of airplay. The song is prereleased off the group's third studio album "Minutes to

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Midnight." Linkin Par~ changed both their sound and their look for this disc; but unfortunately it is the first of their CDs to receive a "Parental Advisory" label. As sU;ch, I can'trecommend it. "What Pve Done," however, is available as a single and offers us pluch to consider.

The song's character looks back on his life and draws "regret from the truth "of a thousand lies." Yet, he seeks to make a change. He wllnts to "clean his slate" and hopes that "mercy" will "come and wash away" his wrong. He :~s ready to forgive himself.

His attitude is both honest and constructive for the change he desires. God's forgiveness and a new beginning::remain just an instant away. "He only needs to ask for it.

Too often individuals open themselves to God's :'forgiveness then fail to genuinely accept it. They hold :onto the guilt or shame of what "they've done," even though the wrong has been admitted and God's forgiveness was sought.

Such feelings of lingering guilt or shame are never required by God. Furthermore, they become a block to the better future that c~n be created.

The person in the song does well to forgive him~elf and clean his slate. Doing so is an act of truth and hope. God made us in such a way that we can learn from our mistakes.

Once we realize our mistakes, it is time to move on; No one should be so imprisoned by

guilt about a past wrong that he or she misses the promise to be found in the present.

As Catholics, we are fortunate to have the healing process available through the sacrament of reconciliation. We can admit before God that we have sinned against others and that we want to do better. Receiving the grace of the sacrament empowers us to make those changes that form a positive shift in who we are.

Of course, we may also need to apologize to whoever has been hurt. While we are already forgiven by God, we still need to make amends as part of this new beginning in our lives.

Perhaps the offended party may not be open to a sincere apology or want further involvement. Should this happen after you attempt reconciliation, bless the person in your heart and accept the end of the relationship.

We all have regrets about past mistakes. When I look at my own big mist:lkes, I wish that I could have acted differently and not hurt others as I have. Yet regretting something is not the same as holding on to the guilt or shame that keeps us from truly receiving God's forgiveness.

Name your regrets about "what you've done," but move into the present. The light and love of God dwells within you and our world needs it.

Your comments are always welcome. Please write to me at: chmartin@swindiana.netorat 7125W 200S, Rockport, IN

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Holy boldness There are times when you feel the presence of the Holy Spirit and you take a stand for your faith that might make you seem a little "out there." I call those moments of holy boldness. We need more holy boldness in our world. We need more people to stand up and make some noise for God, for holiness, for righteousness. Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati was a man of holy boldness. He stood up against the fascists in Italy; he was a man of social justice and of mercy. He spent much of his time caring for the needs of the poor, quietly, humbly, not worrying about what people would think or what people would say. He stepped up and was willing to put himself out there.

That's holy boldness.

Graduations are going on all over the region as I write this article. At Bishop Stang High School one graduate will receive his diploma at Boston Children's

Hospital where he is recovering from pneumonia as he copes with Lafora's disease. His name is Matthew DeSimas. Matt was diagnosed with this illness when he was about 14. We've watched him struggle in every way during his time at our school. And then, just two weeks from graduation, he had a major seizure and ended up in the hospital. He has worked so hard to get to graduation, and now he can't be there.

Matt has caused me to step out in holy boldness. In all these years that I have prayed for Matt, I know that I've prayed for his strength, for his courage, for his faith, but I don't think I ever prayed for a miracle ... for his total and complete healing. Now I am. I'm not sure why I never did, but I have announced to the entire

school community and beyond that we need to pray for this miracle.

And hundreds are praying, perhaps even a thousand by now. We have decided to pray through the intercession of Blessed Pier

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Giorgio Frassati. Blessed Pier Giorgio died at age 24. That's around Matt's life expectancy.

Blessed Pier Giorgio loved the outdoors; hiking, skiing, rock climbing. Matt loved those things too until his illness made them impossible. Blessed Pier Giorgio had a notorious sense of humor.

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Celebration concelebrants at the anniversary Mass, and afterwards to join us at the Cape Codder Restaurant in Hyannis," Father Hession reported.

A parish committee is at work for the kick-off event. The honorary chairmen are Mrs. Mary Murphy, wife of the late Judge Henry L. Murphy Sr. - one of the first trustees of the p,arish and John "Jack" Pendergast, the first person baptized in the parish and in whose name the baptismal font w.as given by his father.

"They'll be among the saints marching in," Father Hession told The Anchor.

Accordillg to John Lees, chairman of the parish's Public Relations Team, a series of monthly events called "Golden Opportunities: Celebrating Faith the Next Fifty in Mind," over the course of 2007 will continue the celebrations.

Besides the anniversary Mass the current listing includes: "Summer in Centerville, adult faith enrichment for a summer's break; a Jubilee Retreat with Passionist Father Cedric Psiegna - August 5-8; a Harvest Cookout for the Neighbors and Us in September; Fifty Hours For Life, as well as Fifty Pints of Blood For Life and 路a Fifty-day Food Drive in October; Thanksgiving (JustFaithlSVDP); Building Our Future - Building Our Faith: Introducing Generations of Faith on November 15; Dreaming

Tomorrow - An Advent Gift Box of Dreams; "Does Being Christian Make a Difference? What Difference Does Being Christian Make?": a faith-sharing afternoon with someone baptized here: 50, 40, 30, 20 and 10 years ago. The feast of the Baptism of the Lord; a Wedding Anniversary Celebration: For Golden Jubilarians and those married here the last 50 years; World Marriage Day with Mass at 11 :30 a.m., and brunch to follow; a Healing Mass sponsored by the Cursillo community on World Day of Prayer for the Sick; The Call to Ongoing Conversion - Lenten Programs/ Reconciliation Service; a Reception for past priests on Good Shepherd Sunday; a Novena to the Holy Spirit ending on May 11, Pentecost 2008; and the Closing Mass of the Jubilee on June 1, 2008.

"Then it's back to Ordinary Time," Lees quipped.

Although Our Lady of Victory formally became a parish on July 7, 1957, in late 1956, Father Howard Waldron, who was to become its first pastor, arrived to supervise construction of the house of worship on land gifted to the parish by Herbert T. Kalmus, who is credited with originating technicolor films, Ed Kirk, parish historian, told The Anchor.

Father Waldron was assisted by trustees Arthur D. Maddalena Jr., Stephen B. O'Brien, and Murphy.

At the first Mass in 1957, Larry and Dough Murphy, sons of Judge

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Although there were fewer than 75 people in the parish,.many summer residents and visitors were in attendance, which necessitated having two Sunday Masses.

Father Waldron was assisted during summers by Father George Drury, S.J., and Msgr. Raymond Considine.

When Father Waldron was transferred in 1964, Father Joseph Welch arrived as pastor, followed

by Father James Lyons, Father Raymond McCarthy, Father Francis Connors, Father John A. Perry - now Msgr. Perry and current vicar general and moderator of the curia for the Fall River Diocese - and Msgr. Henry Munroe.

The parish family grew quickly. Father Francis Coady became the fi~st of many assistants. He was followed by Fathers Edward Correia, Thomas McMorrow, H. Stanley Barney, James McLellan, Michael Dufault, Holy Cross Father James E. Tobin, and Father John J. Perry.

Parochial vicars in more recent years included Fathers Andre Faria, Richard Wilson and Marek Chmurski.

Fathers Bill McCarthy, Bob Soucy, Patrick Tarrant, Paul E. Miceli, and James O'Brien, S.1., along with a host of Jesuits and Dominicans also served at the parish; as did Deacon Joseph Stanley, who died last year.

Our Lady of Hope Chapel in West Barnstable, formerly a summer mission of the parish, officially became part of the Centerville parish in 1960.

In 1983,' a $1 million parish center and rectory - all in one building - were completed during the pastorate of Father John A. Perry.

From a little group of75 families and two Sunday Masses, the parish has grown to what currently are more than 3,400 families and 1,100 children in Religious Education, and 10 weekend Masses between Our Lady of Victory and Our Lady of Hope. . For several years during the 1960s-1970s, the Religious Education Program was supervised by the Trinitarian Sisters.

Following a five-year capital campaign $2.5 million was raised specifically to build 12 classrooms, that since December have provided faith formation for children and adults.

Assisting pastor Father Hession are parochial vicar Father Dariusz Kalinowski, deacons James Barrett Jr., and Theodore Lukac; and Father David C. Frederici, chaplain at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, who is in residence.

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Carr, secretary for social development and world peace for the U.S. bishops' conference, said ingenuity, creativity, entrepreneurship and economic markets can help develop the knowledge, technology and measures to make progress against climate change and limit i~s damage. ''This is a crucial time to build up the common ground for common action to pursue the common good for all of God's children and creation," Carr said.

Carr was one of seven panelists, all of whom represented religious denominations or organizations, testifying at the hearing, which was titled "An Examination of the Views of Religious Organizations Regarding Global Warming."

"We do not have to know everything about global climate change to know that something significant is occurring:' Carr said. Quoting the U.S. bishops' 2001 statement "Global Climate change, A Plea for Dialogue, Prudence and the Common Good," he said, 'We know that when a problem is serious and worsening, it is better to act now rather than wait until more drastic action is required." . A "concerted and persistenteffort" is required to pursue the common good on climate change with an attitude of "we are all in this together," Carr added. He said he had been to three statewide gatherings, most recently in Alaska, that brought together leaders in various fields on the issue.

"Such gatherings can create an environment of dialogue and common ground for common action on

climate change," Carr said.

Borrowing from the film documentary by former Vice President Al Gore, Carr said, "the real 'inconvenient truth' is that those who contributed least to climate change will be affected the most." He noted how the presidents of seven Catholic bishops' conferences sent a letter to Group of Eight leaders before their recent summit in Germany in which they said the costs to prevent and mitigate climate change "should not be placed on thlt shoulders of the poor."

Others testifying at the hearing were Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church; the Rev. Jim Ball, president and CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network; Rabbi David Saperstein, director and counsel for the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism; Russell More, dean of the theology school at Southern BaptistTheological Seminary; the Rev. Jim Tonkowich, president ofthe Institute on Religion and Democracy; and author-historian David Barton.

Rev. Ball, a signatory to the Evangelical Climate Initiative, said the initiative makes four basic claims in its call to action: human-induced climate change is real; the consequences of climate change will be significant, and hit the poor the hardest; Christian moral convictions demand a repose to climate change; and the need for governments, businesses, churches and individuals to "act now is urgent."

In making his case to shield the poor from the effects of climate change, Rabbi Saperstein said, "We need only consider the record surface temperatures ofthe last 20 years or look into the faces of the victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Those with the fewest resources get left behind and forgotten. Disproportionately, they are the ones forced to fend for themselves."

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iEucharistic Adoration FALL RIVER - Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is held weekdays following the 7 a.m. Mass at Holy Name Church, 709 Hanover Street. It concludes at 9 p.m. each evening. For more information call 508-679-6732.

NEW BEDFORD - Perpetual eucharistic adoration is held at Our Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant Street.

For more information call 508-8887751.

Healing Services ATTLEBORO - A Portuguese healing service will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette. For more information call 508-222-541 O. POCASSET-The 15th annual Mass of the Anointing of the Sick will be held June 24 at 2 p.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 841 Shore Road. For more information call Betty Kazmier at 508-563-9020.

FALL RIVER - Upcoming programs on the Portuguese Channel include "Good News For Life: Sanctuary of Santo Christo, Axis of the Universe," June 20 at 9:30 p.m.

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EAST FREETOWN - Cathedral Camp is now accepting registrations for its summer camp program. Cathedral Camp is owned and operated by the Diocese ofFall River.

It is a day camp for children between the ages of four and 13. It offers four two-week sessions from June 25 to August 17. It is located on Route 18 in East Freetown. Open House is Sunday from 1- 4 p.m. For more information call 508-763-8874 or visit the Website: www.cathedralcamp.org.

FALL RIVER - Volunteers are needed to provide companionship and friendship to Hospice patients at Beacon Hospice, 45 North Main Street. Free training is provided. Volunteers are also needed to knit blankets for patients .and make memory quilts for families of patients. For more information call Christine Miller at 508-324-1900.

MASHPEE- ''From Broadway to Galway," a musical tribute to

Frank Patterson, will be held June 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mashpee High School auditorium. It will feature Irish Tenor Ciaran Sheehan and is sponsored by Christ the King Parish.

For more information call 508-4772837.

NEW BEDFORD - The Daughters oflsabella will meet June 19 at 7 p.m. in the parish center of Holy Name of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish. For more information call 508-990-7595.

NEW BEDFORD - Food donations are needed for families affected by the raid at the Michael Bianco factory and can be dropped off at the former St. Hedwig Church, 51 Division Street. Items can be dropped off Mondays, Tuesdays or Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information call 508-992-9408.

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ATTLEBORO - Pro-Life advocates picket and offer prayers on Wednesdays from 4-5 p.m. and Saturdays from 7:30-9 a.m. at "4 Women's Clinic," at the comer of Park and Emory streets, where abortions take piace on those days. Participants are needed to pray and picket to help save the lives of unborn children.

ISocial Events CENTERVILLE - A yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary of Our Lady of Victory Parish will begin July I with a Mass at 3 p.m., followed by a dinner at the Cape Codder Resort and Spa, Route 132 in Hyannis. For more information call 508-775-5744.

POCASSET - A spring rummage sale, sponsored by the Women's Guild will be held today and tomorrow at St. John the Evangelist Parish center, 841 Shore Road.

For more information call 508-5635887.

ISupport G r o u p s ' I NORTH DARTMOUTH Project Rachel, a ministry of healing and reconciliation for post-abortion women and men is available in themocese.ITyouarehurtingfrom an abortion experience and want help call 508-997-3300. All calls are confidential.

Office for Persons With Disabilities to offer estate planning workshops NEW BEDFORD - Catholic Social Services Office of Persons with Disabilities and the Medicare and Estate Planning Lawyers will present several local workshops on "Estate Planning for Persons with Disabilities and Medicare."

They will explain the complexities of estate planning in regards to disability and disability benefits.

They are open to everyone and designed specifically for persons with msabilities, their guardians and parents, services providers, rep payees, etc.

The first session will be held

June 21 at the Catholic Social Services main office at 1600 Bay Street Fall River. The second will be held June 28 at St. Julie's Church Hall, 494 Slocum Road, North Dartmouth. Both workshops will run from 9-11 a.m.

The workshops are free and walk ins are welcome. For more information, questions about accommodations, or to pre-register, contact Matthew Dansereau, coormnator ofOPD at 508-997-7337.

Both facilities are handicapped accessible, and light refreshments will be served.

POPULAR VOTE - Claudette Armstrong, second from right, was installed as president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women at a transitional meeting on June 3, becoming the first to be reelected to the post. She was away when other DCCW officers were installed in May. From left, Moderator Sister Eugenia Brady, SJC; Father Richard R. Gendreau, moderator of Women's Ministry at St. Louis de France Parish in Swansea; Armstrong; and past DCCW President Maureen Papineau. (Photo courtesy of Maddie Lavoie)

Santo Christo Parish feast set for June 23-24 in Fall River FALL RIVER - Tramtionally guese-American foods. including the first summer feast in the City of malassadas, are again onthe agenda.

"We invite the community and Fall River, the Santo Christo Parish celebrations annually attract thou- everyone to take part in 'bur feast of sands of people from across the Santo Christo," said Father Gastao New England region to the church A. Oliveira, pastor. and grounds on Columbia Street.

On Saturday, June ,23, Father A Mass, two processions over Oliveira will be the prj.ncipal celstreets in the city's South End led ebrant at a 6 p.m. 짜ass. The by bands, as well as musical con- . homilist will be Msgr. Augusto certs,entertainment, booths,games Manuel de Arruda Cabral, secretary for all ages, an auction, and Portu- to the Bishop's Conference ofPortugal as well as the Christian Education Committee in Lisbon.

The Grand Procession of Promises will follow the Mass, the itinPlease pray for these priests during the coming weeks erary being Canal, Ferry, Mulberry, June 12 William and Grant streets, returnI' Rev. Thomas H. Taylor, Pastor, Iming to the church. maculate Conception, Taunton, From 8 p.m. until rnilliught, feast 1966

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On Sunday, June 24, a solemn procession beginning at4 p.m., will wind over Columbia, Hunter, Hope, Fountain, Division and William streets and Broadway, returning to the church.

Participants will include clergy and religious, representatives of parish and other organizations, civic, cultural and sporting groups, as well as local, state and federal government officials, and bands.

From 6:30 to 11 p.m., feast activities will include a concert by the Senhora da Conceicao Mosteirense Band, followed by Marc Dennis and his group Atlantis.

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June 14 Rev. Msgr. George E. Sullivan, Retired Pastor, St. Joseph, Fall River, 1980 Rev. Msgr. Joseph A. Cournoyer, Retired Pastor, St. Michael, Swansea, 1982 Rev. James H. Coughlin, S.J., Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn., 1992 Rev. Justin 1. Quinn, Chaplain, Madonna Manor, North Attleboro, Fonner Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Fall River, 1996

June 16 Rev. James McDennott, Pastor, St. Patrick, Somerset, 1975

June 18 Most Rev. William B. Tyler, First . Bishop of Hartford, Founder of the Sandwich Mission, 1849 Rev. James M. Coffey, P.R., Pastor, St. Mary, Taunton, 1935 Rev. Declan Daly, SS.Ce., Associate Pastor, St. Joseph, Fairhaven, 1984 Rev. Henri Laporte, O.P., Fonner Pastor, St. Anne, Fall River, 1992

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REMEMBRANCE AND THANKSGIVING - Several members of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and ~ary recently gathered to mark significant anniversaries. Among those attending were, from left: Father Gabriel Healy, Provincial Father William Petrie, Father Tom McElroy, Father Michael Annunziato, Father Bill Penderghest, and Father Ben Folger.

Sacred Hearts priests, Brothers mark anniversaries FAIRHAVEN - The religious priests and brothers of the U.S. Eastern Province of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary gathered with Sisters and friends at the Sacred Hearts Retreat Center in Wareham on June 1 to commemorate the anniversaries ofthe profession or ordination of nine priests and Brothers.

Father Javier Alvarez-Ossorio, SS.Cc., superior general of the international missionary order, and Father Radek Ziezo, SS:Cc., general councilor, took part in the celebration that capped the community's 17th provincial chapter.

The tribute acknowledged the jubilarians' contributions of service to the Congregation's foreign and domestic missions in the areas of parochial ministry and Catholic Education to Roman Catholic dioceses in Massachusetts, Texas, New Mexico, the Bahamas, and Japan.

Father Michael Annunziato, SS.CC., currently chaplain at Sacred Heart Home, in New Bedford, cel-

ebrated his 60th anniversary of religious life. Father Gabriel Healy, SS.Cc., and Father Ben Folger, SS.Cc., marked 50 years ofpriestly ordination; Brother Francis Nakazawa, SS.CC., and Father Roy Yurco, SS.CC., celebrated their 50th anniversary of religious life; Father Tom McElroy, SS.CC., and Father Bill Penderghest, SS.Cc., 40 years of priestly ordination; Brother Paul Alves, SS.CC., and Father John Yamada, SS.CC., 40 years of religious life.

The Mass, which was concelebrated by the jubilarians and by Father William Petrie, SS.CC., provincial, was well attended by members and the Congregation's Conference Provincials of Hawaii and the USA West Coast and the vice provincial of Japan. In his homily Father Bill Petrie noted with simple joy the years of dedicated service of his brothers. He also extended additional congratulations to Father Javier, the Congregations' 11th Superior General, who this year celebrates his 25th anniversary of religious life.

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BRIGHTON (CNS) - Agreements to sell the BostonArchdiocese's chancery buildings and Bishop Peterson Hall to Boston College and relocate the central administration to Braintree are part of a strategic, longterm plan to strengthen the archdiocese, Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston said in a letter to priests.

"We must have a strong foundation, including our finances and operations, in order to provide the many good works that are essential to our mission;' he said. ''The financial and administrative factors necessitating these decisions are well known; the response to them requires an understanding of the pastoral, educational and social obligations the church in Boston must fulfill in the short and long term;' he said.

In the letter, the cardinal also reiterated his commitment to St. John's Seminary in Brighton and the formation of priests there. In disagreement with the archdiocese's plans to sell the adjacent Bishop Peterson Hall, Dominican Father John Farren resigned as rector of the seminary May 29, a month before his scheduled departure.

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The Archdiocese of Boston announced the sale ofthe chancery property in a statement. The three Brighton buildings on nearly 20 acres will net the archdiocese $65 million. The archdiocese said it expects the property sale to close by August 1.

The plan already has the approval of the archdiocesan Finance Council, the College of Consultors and the members of the corporation of St. John's Seminary, according to chancellor James P. McDonough. The sale needs the approval of the Vatican.

The Brighton property has been home to the archdiocese's central administration since the late 1920s. The archdiocese reached an agreement with Boston College in 2004 to sell 43 acres of the campus, including the cardinal's residence and other build-

ings, for $99.4 million. In 2006, the archdiocese sold the tribunal building and property to B.C. for $8 million.

Through this most recent deal, the remainder of the Brighton property, except for St. John's Seminary, will belong to Boston College. Bishop Peterson Hall, which is attached to St. John's Seminary, is intended as the future home of Weston Jesuit School of Theology.

It is expected that the college will remove the chancery and Creagh Lib~ buildings and will build new facilities, including undergraduate student housing, a parking garage, a baseball stadium and softball fields, academic offices, classrooms, a museum and an auditorium.

The Boston Archdiocese plans to move all chancery offices to a nineyear-old, 140,OOQ-square-foot leased building in Braintree.

The Braintree building will be home for all departments now located in Brighton, including the cardinal's office, as well as other agencies and departments located in the greater Boston area. The archdiocese assured employees that no jobs will be eliminated as a result ofthe move. The archdiocese downsized staff last year, eliminating 50 positions.

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