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A diocese meets its new shepherd

By Pat McGowan

"Central Casting has not sent you a conventional-looking bishop," said a sandaled, brown-robed Franciscan friar at a Tuesday press conference in Fall River.

He was Bishop Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap., Ph.D., whose day also included a whirlwind tour of diocesan offices, a visit to his cathedral and a meeting with directors of diocesan programs.

The bishop, who will be 48 on June 29, comes to the Fall River diocese from the sunny .

Virgin Islands diocese of St. Thomas. There he has served for the past eight years, first as coadjutor bishop and then as ordinary.

At the press conference which opened his day, he explained to print, radio and TV journalists that Capuchin Franciscans, one of several branches of the 783-yearold Order of Friars Minor, wear sandals, robes and full beards in emulation of both Christ and their founder, St. Francis of Assisi.

"I am touched that the Holy Father has chosen me for this post," he said. In coming to Fall River, he moves from a 15-yearold island diocese served by eight parishes and two missions for :30,000 Catholics out of a total population of nearly 102,000. Awaiting him is an 88-year-old diocese served by 113 parishes and II missions for 350,450 Catholics out of a total population of some 700,440.

He admitted that he will miss the "quiet dignity, deep faith and joyous sense of celebration of the people of the Caribbean area," but said that he has the same sense of peace in his heart as he prepares for his new responsibilities as he did in going to St. Thomas.

Bishop O'Malley paid tribute to his predecessor, now Archbishop Daniel A. Cronin of Hartford, saying he was a "hard act to follow;" and he expressed gratitude to Msgr. Henry T. Munroe, diocesan administrator, and Msgr. John J. Oliveira, chancellor, for their maintenance of diocesan life since Archbishop Cronin was appointed to Hartford. They will remain in their caretaker roles until Bishop O'Malley is installed as diocesan ordinary during Aug. II ceremoTurn to Page 10

IN A GESTURE symbolic of entering upon his new responsibilities as Bishop of Fall River, Bishop Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap., opens the door of St. Mary's Cathedral for the first time.

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RA Y POWERS, center, with pastor Father Edward Byington and family members, from left, son-in-law Roger Halbardier, daughter-in-law Edwina Powers, daughter Betty Ann Halbardier, granddaughter Joanne Halbardier, grandson James Powers. (Hickey photo)

A special dad, grandfather honored on 95th birthday

By Marcie Hickey Powers simply summarizes, "I've As the recessional hymn for the done everything except sweep the June 12 morning Mass faded at church out - that'd be about it!"

Born in 1897 in Fall River, Sacred Heart Church, Fall River, Powers was a native of St. Louis pastor Father Edward J. Byington nodded to the organist and "Happy parish and says he's enjoyed living Birthday" beganto emanate from in the city all his life. "I love it. It's the choir loft. The honoree stood a great place. Really, it's the peoin his pew and waved jauntily to ple in it."

He received an honorary degree the crowd behind him as they this year from his alma mater, joined in the song and applause.

Wentworth Institute in Boston, on It was Ray Powers' day, because the 75th anniversary of his graduathe loyal Sacred Heart parishioner, tion. Inducted into the Black and a regular at daily Mass, was turn- Gold Society for persons who ing 95. graduated 50 or more years ago, And that, he thought, would be Powers is proud to have been "the it. A special Mass with his family oldest one there!" . around him, words of affection A World War I veteran, he was from Father Byington, then back also a mechanical engineer for the home for a happy day with rela- Mt. Hope Finishing Company for tives.

30 years. Later he taught mechaniBut the Women's Guild had cal drawing at BMC Durfee High other plans. As Powers was led School in Fall River before retiring. downstairs for a reception featurHe was married for 62 years ing coffee and donuts, scores of before his wife Catherine died five' -they can only be called fans years ago. He also lost a son, Ray awaited him with congratulations, Jr., two years ago. Daughter Betty hugs and warm wishes.

Ann, married to Roger Halbardier "I can't believe it - I never with two daughters, Joanne and . expected anything like this!" he . Suzanne, lives in Maryland. exclaimed, not seeming to mind, Daughter-in-law Edwina Powers though. has two sons, James and David.

Powers has lived on his own A member of Sacred Heart parish since 1913, he's made plenty of since his wife's death, still drives, friends. He has been a lector, but likes to walk to Mass each eucharistic minister, parish coun- morning.

"I've been coming to Mass here cil member, even served Mass until a few years ago. He has held so every morning for years, just like many positions over the years that my father before me did," he said.

At home, "I do all the vacuumFather Byington admits it's "virtuing, dusting, cooking... My wife ally impossible to list them all."

A FRIEND congratulates Ray Powers on his 95th birthday. (Hickey photo)

Social issues author Msgr. Furfey dies WASHINGTON (CNS) Msgr. Paul Hanly Furfey, 95, longtime chairman of the sociology department at The Catholic University of America in Washington, died June 8. He was 95.

Msgr. Furfey, who suffered from diabetes and a heart ailment, resided at a Catholic nursing home in Hyattsville, Md. He retired from Catholic University in 1966 after 32 years as department chairman, was a respected writer on the lives of the poor and on the collective morality of communities and nations.

He was a prolific writer of articles and reviews and the author of 17 books, including "The Respectable Murderers," a study of social evil and the individual conscience; "Love in the Urban Ghetto," about life among Washington's poor; "The Morality Gap"; "Scope and Method of Sociology"; and "Fire on the Earth."

He conducted a number of studies, one of which included leading a group of Americans to Europe in 1949 to study the role of Catholic agencies in the social reconstruction of war-torn nations.

For a time he lived among the poor in Washington, in part for studies of slum housing, juvenile delinquency and unemployment.

Such work is "slow, toilsome research," he said, and necessary for social planning because of a constant temptation to oversimplify" about the poor.

One myth he tried to debunk was that "ghetto people are too lazy to work."

"The facts show that they have to work exceptionally hard in orderto survive," he said in 1972.

Msgr. Furfey was a native of Cambridge, and was ordained in Baltimore in 1922. Active in the peace movement during the Vietnam War era, he was a founding member of the International Com~ mittee of Conscience on Vietnam.

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used to, but I 'do it now," he said.

"I'm very self-reliant!"

He's also a baseball devotee, "the number one fan at Ruggles Park for the Sacred Heart baseball teams of the 1940s and 1950s maybe even before that," according to Father Byington.

Now Powers follows the Red Sox with the tenuous affection that afflicts most fans of the Beantown team. At leas,t he can remember the last time the Sox won the World Series - in 1918! . Father Byington had a few comments of his own about I>.owers' longevity, claiming his parishioner has "lived his life according to the Good Book - but not always."

After a dramatic pause the pastor explained that Powers has only gone astray because "the Good Book says the age of man is three score and ten!"

Indeed, . President Bush, who turned 68 on June 12, has a way to go to catch up to the irrepressible man who shares his birth date.

Father Byington calls Powers, who also has a Marian Medal to his credit, "Mr. Sacred Heart."

"The secret of his life is his disposition," the pastor adds. "He is a true Christian - he radiates the joy."

In the midst of the hugs and cheer, a friend wished Ray Powers "many more years."

The birthday honoree grinned broadly and replied, "I'll be grateful for everyone I get!"

REV. MR. BRUCE T. MORRILL

REV. MR. WILLIAM STEMPSEY

Jesuits to be ordained Rev. Mr. Stempsey Rev. Mr. Bruce T. Morrill, SJ, Rev. Mr. Stempsey, the son of and Rev. Mr. William E. Stempsey, SJ, will be ordained for the William and Helen Stempsey of New England Province of the Orleans, was born in Albany, NY. Society of Jesus on June 20 at the He graduated from Boston ColCollege of the Holy Cross in lege in 1974 and the State University of New York at Buffalo School Worcester.

Rev. Mr. Morrill will preside at of Medicine in 1978. Before enteran 11:30 a. m. liturgy June 21 at St. ing the Jesuits he served as a resiThomas More Church, Somerset, dent in pathology at Boston City and Rev. Mr. Stempsey will c~le足 Hospital, University Hospital and brate his first Mass at II :00 a.m. The Children's Hospital,. all in June 21 at St. Joan of Arc Church, Boston.

Rev. Mr. Stempsey holds a masOrleans. ter's degree in health care ethics Rev. Mr. Morrill from Loyola University in ChiRev. Mr. Morrill taught religion for two years at Bishop Con- cago. He has served on a hospital ethics committee in San Francisco nolly High School, Fall River, where he also advised the student and has had experience in chapligovernment. During that time he ancy at hospitals in Boston, Chiwas an organist at St. Thomas cago and San Francisco.

He received master of divinity More Church. and master of sacred theology' The son of Henry and Helen Morrill of Brewer, ME, he is a degrees at the Jesuit School of 1981 summa cum laude graduate Theology at Berkeley. He plans to of the College of the Holy Cross, . begin doctoral studies in medical where he majored in religious stu- ethics and philosophy of medicine dies and was elected to Phi Beta at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in the fall.

Kappa in his junior year.

After a time as a lay volunteer in the Northern Alaska diocese, he entered the New England Province of the Society of Jesus in 1982.

Upon professing simple perpetual VATlCAN CITY (CNS) - The vows as a Jesuit in 1984, he Vatican has paved the way for the attended Fordham University, beatification .of Father Damien de Bronx, NY, to complete philsoVeuster, the 19th-century "leper phical studies. priest" who lived and worked He received a master of arts among leprosy victims in Hawaii. degree in cultural anthropology at On June 13 Pope John Paul II Columbia University, then was approved a miracle attributed to assigned to Bishop Connolly High the intercession of the BelgianSchool. Thereafter he attended the born priest, the last step before he Jesuit School of Theology at Bercould be beatified, or declared keley, CA, where he completed a blessed. No beatification date was master of divinity degree and was set. ordained to the diaconate in 1991.

After beatification, certification He is currently pursuing a docof another miracle is normally lorate.intheological studies at required before a declaration of Emory University in Atlanta, GA. sainthood.

Father Damien was a member Notice of a Congregation of the Sacred In keeping with our 50 Hearts of Jesus and Mary, whose eastern U.S. provincial headquartweek publishing scheders are located in Fairhaven. He ule, there will be no sailed for Hawaii in 1864 and Anchor on July 3, 1992. served there for eight years. When a priest was needed for the KalauItems that would normalpapa leprosy settlement on the ly appear in that issue island of Molokai in 1873, he should reach us by June volunteered.

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. ,New programs, services ,

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announced at St. Vincent's "The Provider," a quarterly newsletter issued by St. Vincent's Home, Fall River, a treatment center for youth, has announced several new programs and services at the facility.

An existing house on St. Vincent's farm, adjacent to the north side of the Highland Avenue campus of St. Vincent's Home, is being refurbished for use as a therapeutic foster home for six boys being prepared to return to their own homes or for placement in foster homes. The program will begin in July.

Also newly organized is a Visitor Program for volunteers willing to visit a child on a regular basis, providing personal attention to a youngster who may have no other contacts outside St. Vincents' staff members. Further information on this activity is available from Jeff Chace at 679~85.!1.

A Health and Fitness Club for preadolescent and adolescent boys provides individualized fitness programs for members, including swimming, weightlifting and exercises.

The non-competitive program leaves each youngster free to work on his own strengths and weaknesses and improve his self-esteem.

Pro-life pamphlet available Available at all Massachusetts parishes this weekend will be a new informational pamphlet offering facts about abortion and a list of local support services for individuals and families seeking abortion alternatives.

Among facts presented are: • more than 4,400 abortions are performed every day in the United States.

• abortion is legal for aU nine months of pregnancy.

• only one percent of abortions result from cases of rape or incest.

The pamphlet offers the help of the Catholic community through church endeavors which support the baby as well as the mother, father and other family members both during pregnancy and after birth of the child.

Also noted is the desire of the Church to extend a healing hand to those suffering post-abortion trauma. Counseling, sacramental reconciliation and pastoral care are offered.

The pamphlet, published by the Massachusetts Catholic Conference and sponsored in part by the Massachusetts Knights of Columbus, will also be available at diocesan pro-life offices and at the Massachusetts Catholic Conference office in Boston.

New Hispanic head WASHINGTON (CNS) - The new executive director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Hispanic Affairs says the office must be a bridge between church, community and business to help solve socioeconomic and educational problems facing Hispanic Catholics.

Ron Cruz said his office would attempt to develop strategies "to make the government responsive" to Hispanics. Cruz, a native of Tucson, Ariz., succeeds Pablo Sedillo in the post. Cruz has been interim director of the secretariat since Sedillo resigned in June 1991.

Other boys' programs are a fishing club which includes instruction in flytying and worm breeding and Activities of Daily Living sessions which see youths learning how to use public transportation.

Six to 10-year-olds in the McAuley unit at St. Vincent's have lately been enjoying three Reward Rooms where they can exchange 'points earned for good behavior for time enjoying a Sports Room with Nintendo, air hockey and electronic basketball; an Activities Room with arts and crafts, dolls and a miniature auto race track; and a Roller-Skating Room.

In terms of professional care, St. Vincent's has established a consultant relationship with Dr. Homer Reed, a psychologist at New England Medical Center in Boston. He and his associates will provide on-site assessment and evaluation services to aid in development of individualized treatment plans for youngsters and will also speed procedures when hospital admissions are required.

Among future plans for the home is a shelter program that would accept children for limited periods while more permanent arrangements are made for them. The service would include diagnostic tests designed to asses a child's medical, psychological and educational needs. , St. Vincent's receives assistance from the Catholic Charities Appeal and from various stat~ and federal programs but additional funds are needed to provide children with the extras taken for granted by youngsters in their own home.

Helping with such fundraising are the Friends of St. Vincent's, who welcome new members. Their undertakings include entertainments and an annual Children's Festival, to be held this year on Sept. 27. Among festival attractions are a flea market and a baked goods and crafts sale. Flea market and craft donations may be brought to the home at 2425 Highland Ave., Fall River, across from the Catholic Memorial Home, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays from now until the festival date.

The Friends of St. Vincent's also welcome new members. The executive director of the facility is Father Joseph M. Costa.

AS FAR AS is known, St. James Church in Medjugorje is thus far undamaged in the unrest that surrounds it. (CNS file photo)

Medjugorje 0 K ,SO far WASHINGTON (CNS) - Devotees of reported Marian apparitions at Medjugorje are thankful the town has not been hit in the ongoing war in Bosnia-Herzegovina but worry about its future.

Prayer is being employed, but one devotee questions whether enough praying is being done to end the war. ' "I don't know. I suppose if enough of us prayed we would have peace," said Mary Sue Eck, co-editor of Medjugorje magazine, a quarterly published in Illinois.

"Our Lady has said that."

More violence is not the answer, she added: "I don't want to bomb Belgrade. I certainly don't want to bomb Serbia."

Belgrade is the capital of Yugoslavia, which has lost four of its six republics to secession in the past year. Serbs dominate the government in what's left.

Medjugorje groups have switched their focus from devotions for the apparitions, which have been authenticated by local church officials, to relief efforts for Bosnia.

Previous fighting in the former Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Slovenia has reduced the flood of Medjugorje pilgrims to a trickle.

Today there is a virtual drought of outside visitors.

But Peter Miller, an Englishman based in California, returned May 31 from a Medjugorje trip he led with 70 pilgrims. Each pilgrim carried an extra suitcase with relief supplies.

They flew to Vienna, then traveled 18 hours by bus to Makarska, Croatia, a 90-minute bus ride from Medjugorje. They stayed at the only hotel in the city not overcrowded by refugees. ' Miller said the pilgrims had to leave ,Medjugorje by 5 p.m. each day to assure their safety.

He said the group wished to climb hills at Medjugorje that are

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a favorite of pilgrims. "We were warned that we would be picked off' by sniper fire if they tried, he said. "But we did [climb) and we didn't get shot [at]."

Miller said, "Nobody was scared because we all felt we were being called. We were traveling through villages that had shrapnel on every building." Medjugorje itself, he added, was five miles from the front lines ofthe war, yet was relatively unharmed.

Miller said he planned to organize a second pilgrimage for August.

A New Orleans group said it would be in Medjugorje June 24.

A recorded message from the offices of Caritas of Birmingham, Ala., another Medjugorje-oriented group, proclaims, "Medjugorje is a ghost town." The message, recorded June 3, said it was based on the eyewitness account of a recent traveler.

The church grounds where the alleged visions are centered "are, as always, immaculate and unto!Jched.1 did see some broken glass at some outlying houses, and a couple of places were badly damaged," the message said.

"But Medjugorje's death toll as it stands remains one cow, two chickens and a dog."

UNDER THE BIG TENT Friday, June 19th 6 pm to 10 pm' Chowder &. Clam Cakes 6 to 8 pm ENTERTAINMENT BY ZIP &. ZAP

Saturday, June 20th 10 am to 10 pm

FUN'.

PORTUGUESE. FUN

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Auction at 11 am • Flea Market 9 am to 3 pm Chowder &. Clam Cakes 6 to 8 pm Entertainment Featuring George Allen 8 to 10 pm (From "Dialing For Dollars" with Dining &. Dance Music)

Sunday, June 21st 11 am to 4 pm Chicken Bar,B--Q 1 pm (Tickets Umited) Take Dad out for Father's Day

Entertainment King Ludwig's Bavarian Band Flea Market 12 noon ~ 3 pm • Giant Raffle 4 pm

- APPEARING Friday: "Destiny" -' Saturday: "Take Two" . .

Sunday: "Jack D'Johns" • "Zip & Zap" "Couto & Mulligan"

Sunday: "For Kiddies at 1:00 P. M. FREE Hot Dog • Soda. Prizes

Unlimited Kiddie Rides $4.00

Fun For The Entire Family

Junior High Dance, Thurs .. June 18th 7:30-10:30 PM Downstairs of the Church • Mini Mall Consisting of Arts & Crafts • Bake Shop. Toys. Book Room. Basket Raffle • Chinese Auction. Plant Room

Ethnic Food Booths • Celtic Corner. French • Italian • Lebanese. Norwegian. Polish. Portuguese Soda, Coffee, and Socializing

On Our Grounds -Flea Market in Old Church (Sat. & Sun.) • Auction Saturday • Games. Children's Rides • Dunk Tank. Fast Foods. Face Painting • Giant Raffle Booth • Game Booths

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themoorin~ A Man Named Sean When Bishop Cronin came to Fall River over 21 years ago, the Church was assimilating the documents from Vatican Council II. Many events have taken place since then. Today we are guided by the codified implementations of that great council as evidenced by the 1983 Code of Canon Law. Does this make a difference for us who this week received a new shepherd? In many ways, it certainly does. Bishop Sean O'Malley comes to us as a priest of the post-Vatican II era. He will takeover the spiritual leadership of our community guided by the new directives of canon law.

No longer, for example, can a bishop be designated by civil authorities. In this light, Bishop Sean is a man of the Church, named to the see of Fall River by the Holy See to which he makes a profession of faith and swears fidelity.

The choice of Bishop Sean was directed by the pope. It was not random but well considered. Bishop Sean will pastor the new flock entrusted to his care in the spirit of fraternal love; and as a member of a religious order he will bring to his apostolate a different dimension of mission.

In most cases, the residential bishop of a diocese is from the so-called secular clergy and has been trained in seminaries that foster diocesan vocations. Our new bishop is a Franciscan of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He will bring to our local church the timeless message that St. Francis preached, drawn from the sacramental life of the Church and the words and deeds of Christ as preserved in Scripture.

The simplicity of Francis leaps beyond time and in the mysterious ways of God his message is now brought to our local church by a new bishop following old ways. But simplicity does not imply lack of knowledge. Bishop Sean brings us the gift of himself as person, priest and professor. Holding a doctorate in languages from Catholic University, he is especially fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

As his administration begins, he and we will encounter changes and challenges. He will have a special care for those who work with him in the vineyard. In today's society, the Church instructs bishops to listen to priests as assistants and advisers, to protect their rights and help them foster their spiritual and intellectual life: quite a challenge in today's world.

It is in this spirit that we look for the fulfillment of our oft-repeated prayer for the past six months, that God would grant us a shepherd who would walk in His ways and whose watchful care would bring us His blessing. .

It will take time for us to get to know our sixth residential bishop and vice versa. But the work of the church is the work of us all. We need each other as we seek to affirm the message of Christ with openness and generosity.

As we welcome Bishop Sean, it is with the fond hope that we will be able to fulfill the message of Mary to the waiters at Cana: "Do whatever He tells you." This is the episcopal motto of Bishop Sean and it gives rise to the refl~c~ion that the waiters at Cana followed the Lord's instructions and a miracle took place.

May miracles take place among us too as with open hearts and minds we welcome Bishop Sean as head of our diocesan The Editor family.

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"The spirit of the Lord hath filled the whole Earth." Wisd. 1:7

The true measure of a nation

By Father Kevin J. Harrington One of the good effects of the end of the Cold War is that it has made us take a closer look at ourselves as a nation. The Bush administration claim of being a global leader by virtue of military superiority may go unchallenged after Desert Storm, but little did that administration realize how vulnerable it was on the domestic front.

The domestic problems that bedevil us cannot be solved in a matter of days or months of battle but will involve years of harnessing our resources and strengths to confront our weaknesses and problems.

Doctors often' say that patients cannot enter recovery until they have overcome their denials. Politicians cannot help their constituents until they stop lying to them for their own benefit. If America wants to be a beacon of hope for emerging democracies throughout the world, it must make a searching inventory of its own state of health before it proposes itself as a model for other nations It would, behoove us to return to the Declaration of Independence and see how we have fulfilled Thomas Jefferson's dream that we should be the world's last great hope.

The familiar words ring loud and clear: "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life..."

Presently our right to life extends to only born humans, not to the unborn. In the future., this right to life may be further limited to those considered healthy enough not to be deemed a burden to others.

Since our "creation" does not take

place at birth, it follows logically that the "unalienable right to life" must apply to the unborn.

There is no injustice greater than depriving the unborn of life. This thought was brought home to me one morning recently while vesting for Mass at a convent for retired sisters from which the happy noise of schoolchildren could be heard.

I said to a sister: "Wouldn't it be wonderful to have their energy and enthusiasm?" She replied wryly, "We've had our turn!"

The three cardinal words of modern democracy are liberty, equality and fraternity. Equality and liberty will destroy each other without fraternity. Fraternity alone humanizes and harmonizes equality and liberty. Liberty without equality invites tyranny to calm the ensuing chaos while equality

praYe~BOX Prayer for Elderly Lord, God, I ask your blessing upon those who, by reason of age or infirmity, are now retired from the work oflife. Have pity on those grown weak through bodily or mental suffering. Rescue from despair the lonely ones and provide loving companions for those whom the world has rejected. A men.

without liberty invites revolution to free the enslaved as we have recently experienced with the fall of communism.

Fraternity comes closest in meaning to the virtue of Christian chari!y. Any democratic society must be built on the triad of liberty, equality and fraternity, with fraternity as the central pillar.

The sad state of our economy that leaves the gap between rich and poor greater than ever before and offers far fewer opportunities for the poor to access decent housing, health care and educational benefits speaks volumes about our lack of brotherly love.

One can legislate equality through a graduated income tax and mandate rights to the exercise of certain liberties through law enforcement; but society's deepest wounds will only be healed when every citizen bears the responsibility for providing for his or her own needs while seeking to help the less fortunate.

I sense that only when we do understand our citizenship as a kind offraternity or solidarity will we be on our way to recovery. And as long as unborn lives are expendable and the most important fact in a child's life is the side of the tracks upon which he or she has been born, we are far from being a beacon of hope to the world. Hard times may have strained our civility towards neighbors whose distress may be self-inflicted, but must never fully extinguish our compassion.

Improving the economy will not necessarily improve us as citizens, as the 'SO's proved. But when we measure our richness in terms of our spiritual values and not our material wealth, we will indeed be on our way to recovery.

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The body andblood of Jesus Genesis 14:18-20 I Corinthians 11:23-26 Luke 9:11-17 We need faith in our lives to help us break through the ·limits restricting us to the natural. There is much more to life than just those objects which our physical senses filter into our understanding. Faith shows us other sides of reality.

With it, we are able to see what we would never be able to perceive naturally.

For instance, when we gather to celebrate the Lord's Supper we believe that the bread and wine we share become more than the substances which left the oven and vat. They are transformed into Jesus' body and blood. Our eyes of faith help us go beyond the constraints of our natural eyes.

Yet we must always remember that faith has levels. Some believers are able to go "more beyond" than others. Though all Christians see Jesus in the eucharistic bread and wine, some see him in other areas also. Biblical authors always encourage us to explore more.

They believe faith builds upon faith. Our ability to see the beyond in one place becomes our stepping stone for glimpsing the beyond in new places.

Paul's argument in I Corinthians revolves around this concept.

Though today's small passage only mentions what Jesus did "on the night in which he was betrayed," the apostle must remind his community of this event in order to help them perceive that Jesus' presence goes beyond just the food and drink of the Lord's Supper.

Every Corinthian Christian sees Jesus there. But the destructive divisions in their church are a clear sign that very few members have perceived the Lord's presence in the community itself.

Immediately after our liturgical pericope, Paul proclaims, ..Anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself." As a typical Catholic, I had always supposed this "body" referred to Jesus in the bread. Only during graduate work in Scripture did I begin to realize

Daily Readings June 22: Kgs 17:5-8;1315,18; Ps 60:3-5,12-13; Mt 7:1-5 June 23: 2 Kgs 19:9-11, 14-21,31-36; Ps 48:2-4,1011; Mt 7:6,12-14 June 24: Is 49:1-6; Ps 139:1-3,13-15; Acts 13:2226; lk 1:57-66,80 June 25: 2 Kgs 24:8-17; Ps79:1-2,3-5,8-9; Mt7:21-29 June 26: Ez 34:11-16; Ps 23:1-6; Rom 5:5-11; lk 15:3-7 June 27: lam 2:2,10-14, 18-19; Ps 74:1-7,20-21; Mt 8:5-17 June 28: 1 Kgs 19:16,1921; Ps 16:1-2,5,7-11; Gal 5:1,13-18; lk 9:51-62

By FATHER ROGER KARBAN that "body" here stands for Jesus' presence in the community! In other words, Paul is saying, "If we do not see Jesus in one another, neither can we see him in the bread and wine!"

This is not the first time a Sacred Author sees someone (or something) which those of shallow faith miss. "Melchizedek, king of Salem," actually was a pagan high. priest! "God Most High" originally was not another name for Yahweh; it was the title of a pagan god! Yet the Genesis writer notices Yahweh in this' uncircumcised Gentile who offers hospitality to the first Israelites. When he blesses Abram, it is Yahweh blessing Abram. One does not have to be a priest of Yahweh for Yahweh to work through him.

But perhaps we only reach the deepest level of faith when we begin to see God working through ourselves.

All Scripture scholars agree that the' gospel bread miracles were passed on in their present form as instruments to teach the meaning of the Eucharist. The evangelists are more concerned with showing how Jesus feeds us today in the breaking of bread than in conveying an exact historical record of how he multiplied bread 2,000 years ago. Each·descriptive word and sentence becomes an important vehicle to communicate eucharistic theology.

It is no accident that Luke's Jesus responds very precisely to the Twelve's request to dismiss the crowd so that they can find lodging and food. "Why do you not give them something to eat yourselves?" he asks.

The Lord's followers no longer have to go outside in order to discover God's presence. They can bring it forth from within themselves; and are even able to share that presence with others. What Jesus did, his disciples now continue doing. He must already be in us, else we could not "give" him to . those around us.

Faith is never static. There are not just certain dogmas to learn or beliefs to master. Faith always leads to more faith. Once we've gone "beyond" we will begin to uncover more "beyond."

EI Salvador SAN SALVADOR (eNS) Environmentally speaking, El Salvador is ruined. Environmentalists as well as some church officials say salvage work needs to begin immediately to avoid another environmental write-off in Latin America. Crystal clear rivers, celestiallakes, woody highlands and clean beaches are fast becoming scenes of the past. Looking after the environment used to mean caring about rare birds, exotic plants and small animals, said ecologist Richardo Navarro. Now concern must extend to. people and their surroundings, he said.

KNOCK, Ireland (CNS) Cardinal Cahal Daly, primate of all Ireland, has asked the news media to create a press council to set standards and reprimand journalists if necessary. He also questioned whether the news media reported on the religious commitment of the Irish people. The cardinal, archbishop of Armagh, argued that though checks and balances were needed for the media, a flourishing, free media was essential for a healthy democracy.

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By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY Dear Mary: I am a full-time homemaker. My youngest child started school this year. I expected to take up some volunteer work and begin some household pro-

Time-management tips for homemakers 2. If phone calls use up time, jects, but so far I can't find the time. What am I doing wrong? assess your telephone behavior.

Not all phone conversations are - Pennsylvania Much has been written about time wasters. Communicating with time management in the workplace. friends and relatives in support, Little has been applied to the home. encouragement or just listening is more important than busy work.

Here are some business practiIf telephone time is important to ces that should help. you, allow for it in your schedule.

I. Use a "to do" list. Make a .If you wish to reduce it, keep a weekly one each Sunday and a clock near the phone and tactfully daily one each morning.' Label end the call when it reaches a ceryour tasks A, B or C and concen- tain length. trate on those labeled A. Leave 20 3. If you are a procrastinator, percent of your time unscheduled. try this: Break a large task into Six hours of work time is realistic. small steps.. Put the first step at the

top of your list and begin it immediately. Or arrange to do the difficult task with someone else. Or offer yourself some reward which you can do only after completing the difficult task. Or just make a conscious decision not to do it.

in a folder. When you must wait for appointments, write a letter.

Or keep a paperback book or a' granny square in your purse. Even a few minutes of waiting time can be used profitably.

4. Paper flow is often a problem.

Have a specific place for mail, magazines, catalogs. Clear your mail area completely at least once a week.

6. Schedule time for things you enjoy. Too often we schedule what we must do and feel guilty about doing what we want to do. If you enjoy reading, art, crafts, gardening; schedule it and enjoy it.

5. Make use of waiting time. Put stationary, envelopes, stamps, address list and unanswered letters

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My pen pal from Sri Lanka By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

I never dreamed that at my age, well into grandmotherhood, I would become a pen pal to a young person in a foreign country.

But I have.

One day last fall I received a letter to my son Peter with such a sketchy address that I was amazed it ever arrived at my house. Because Peter had died several months earlier, I opened the letter.

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN Q. Recently the Catholic press had the Holy Father stating he would like to canonize a married couple.

Whatever happened to the cause of Louis and Zelie Martin, parents of St. Therese of Lisieux? (Michigan) A. Information about their case can be found in the book "Making Saints" by Kenneth Woodward (Simon and Schuster).

Judging from his conversations with top officials ofthe Congregation for Sainthood Causes, and biographies ofthe people involved, several snags need to be res~lved

By DOLORES CURRAN

In recent years, there has been a rash of self-help family books in which various members are designated the dictator, the butterfly, the scapegoat, and so on. While these behaviors are found in families, I question such labeling.

The problem with labeling is two-fold. First, it diminishes the chances for change in the one who is labeled. Ifl am told often enough that I am a dictator, I am going to believe it.

Secondly, if I do try to break out of the label, it's perceived by those

It was from a young woman in Sri Lanka. She had read a letter Peter wrote that was published in National Geographic magazine just before his death. She was writing to say how much she enjoyed the letter and would like to be his pen pal.

J answered, telling her that my son had died and I told her that if she wanted, I would be her pen pal. Why? I don't know, given my never-a-free-moment schedule; but something about her letter touched me.

Well, Luxmy wrote back very soon, and I couldn't believe that this stranger was writing in such an empathetic way.

In her limited English, she wrote: "I just can't tell you how sorry I'm.

I'm actually agonizing.... Please don't get pain in your heart. ...

Please accept my heartfelt condolences in this hour of sorrow....

Our good man Mr. Peter, he'll birth again and again in your family, it's sure."

I was touched and responded, and now we have become friends. I have sent Luxmy, who is 21, copies of the newspaper I edit and copies of Peter's books. He wrote three textbooks before he died, and Luxmy's praise was the best. She thanked me for the books of "the brilliant human Peter's."

Because of our new friendship, I have been investigating Sri Lanka

and have learned much about this country that has seen much internal tragedy.

Formerly known as Ceylon, it is an island nation off the southeastern tip of India where for centuries Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and Christians lived in harmony.

But in recent years civil war has erupted between Sinhalese and Tamil separatists. More than 17,000 have died since 1983.

I would not have learned any of this if it weren't for Luxmy, who is a Tamil and has in her own way been victimized by the fighting.

She explained in one of her letters that she had been accepted for a scholarship at a university in India.

But when India's prime minister

Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated, reportedly by Tamil terrorists, hostility toward Tamils prevented her from going there.

How I admire and respect people who have seen their homeland beset by civil war and yet do not despair. Luxmy is like that. "We're the tenants of God," she wrote.

"So what's the use of worrying about death, which will come tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. For surely we must die. However, we must want to live up to the limit of our life."

My new pen pal thanks me for my "good heart" in writing to her.

I thank her for opening new borders of understanding and inspiration for me.

Couple's, canonization under consideration before the cause of Louis and Zelie Martin can progress.

First, can the cause of one of them go forward if the other fails?

At least one high member of the congregation says yes. But the prefect of this Vatican agency, Cardinal Pietro Palazzini, says no.

The issue ultimately depends on whether and how their beatification is intended to be a "witness" to Christian marriage. The answer. is still in doubt.

Other factors involve the personal lives of the couple and how the love and affection between husband and wife relates to parenthood.

Marriage was a second choice, after religious life, for both Louis. and Zelie. In fact, on their wedding day, she went to the convent and wept that she still wanted to be a nun.

Perhaps for this reason they had no sexual relations for 10 months after the wedding. Louis was pre-

pared to make the arrangement permanent, patterned after the marriage of Mary and Joseph.

His argument cited other instances in Christian history supporting his position, according to one biographer, that a marriage without sex was superior to a normal one because it represents "more perfectly the chaste and wholly spiritual union between Jesus Christ and his church."

Eventually a priest convinced them that to have children in marriage was a greater call from God, and they had nine. Four died early in life. Five daughters, one of them St. Therese, became cloistered nuns.

Marriage was seldom discussed by the parents since the religious . life was always considered the preferred calling. According to another biographer the Martin home was "rather like a convent."

In a political environment that was violently anti-religion and

particularly anti-Catholic, the Martins remained largely insulated socially and economically from the outside world.

As Woodward puts it, based on published biographical information, "theirs is the affective nuclear family redeemed and at prayer-a domestic convent in which the inner life and exquisite sentiments are nourished and protected."

All this presents at least two obvious and serious questions to the Vatican Congregation about the Martin's cause, especially as they represent married persons and parents.

In what way do their lives with their family present a model to be imitated by Catholic Christian mothers and fathers in raising their families?

Perhaps more pointedly, how (if at ali) is their attitude toward their own personal emotional intimacy a model for how other Christian husbands and wives should inte-

grate their sexuality and sanctity in a wholesome, healthy way?

This last issue, of course, about how holiness connects with sexuality, is a long way from resolved in various ways in Catholic theology.

Would the message of the Martin's cause be, as Woodward suggests, that human sexuality is fine as long as it produces children and the children turn out well?

Wrestling over the answers to these questions by officials of the Congregation for Sainthood Causes seems to explain most of what has happened, up to now, in the case of Zelie and Louis Martin.

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Avoid labels that can stick for life in the family as abnormal behavior. The family, instead of seeing positive change, is likely to react with, "She's acting strangely" or even with suspicion.

Most labels in families originate from good motives but take on a life of their own which can be more negative than positive. When a precocious young child asks too many personal questions, we might laugh and begin to call him The Spy. We don't mean to lock him into a lifelong role but if, every time he asks a question we say, "Oh, oh, here's the Family Spy again," we're reinforcing a stereotype.

Labels can be devastating to self-esteem. They focus on one behavior, usually a negative one, and exclude the rest. A child who is sensitive to the hurts and needs of others can be labeled a crybaby.

Yet, he is the one who most easily

perceives pain in others, a flip side of being a crybaby.

Sometimes labels are given to a chfld by members of the extended family. I remember hearing about a distant relative who was shy.

That's all I really ever knew about him because whenever he was mentioned his shyness was the primary characteristic discussed.

When I met him as an adult, he wasn't shy at all. He was open, friendly, and self-assured. I asked my mother where that label had come from. "Well, whenever we went to visit, he hid," she said.

That was 20 years earlier when he was five.

Grandparents can unintentionally label children, too. "He's the strong one." "She's the go-getter."

"He's smart." "She's quiet."

The best way for parents to offset this damage is to let their

children know that they are all parenting, .we need to do away strong but in different ways, all with them. All of us are dictators, go-getters but for different things, . butterflies, scapegoats, and cryall smart but on different subjects, babies at times. That's the message and all quiet, but at different times. we need to get across, not that If labels get in the way of good we're locked into labels for life.

Pro-child legislation urged WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was accused of maintaining a "systematic 30-year ban on information" about the family background of abused children during a recent Senate Finance Committee hearing. Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan, D-N.Y., said the federal government has adopted "a policy nOl to know" demographic and statistical information about what sorts of children are forced into the foster care system because of abuse and neglect.

Children arid their welfare have been the focus of a national campaign launched by the U.S. Catholic bishops. They have urged children be at the forefront of legislative policy.

Added Reason "There is a type of person who doesn't go to church because he has sinned. In Christ's estimation that is the person who has one added reason for being in church."Sebastian Miklas

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Once excommunicated nun now "venerable" v ATfcAN CITY (CNS) - An Australian nun who was once excommunicated and had her order disbanded has been declared "ven-' erable" by the Vatican, a step toward possible sainthood.

Pope John Paul II has recognized the heroic virtue of Sister Mary MacKillop, who spent her life teaching children of the Australian bush.

Mother Mary of the Cross, as she was known, cofounded the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart in 1866, but her modern methods were opposed by the church establishment. The bishop of Adelaide, Australia, excommunicated her and disbanded the order in 1871.

The following year the excommunication was lifted and her religious order restored after priests and lay people sprang to her defense. The Vatican later agreed to her principal point of central government for the sisters throughout Australian colonies.

Born in 1842 to Scottish immigrants, at age 23 she and two younger sisters began teaching in an abandoned stable in South Australia. Her order eventually established 160 convents and 117 schools attended by more than 12,000 children.

'When she died in Sydney, Australia, on Aug. 8, 1909, her congregation numbered about 1,000.

Today it numbers over 1,800 members, mainly working in Australia but with centers in Ireland and Peru.

The declaration of heroic virtue means the Vatican found the nun's life worthy of imitation. To be beatified,.the step before sainthood, a canonically approved miracle must be attributed to Sister MacKillop.

June 20 1931, Rt. Rev. Msgr. James J. Coyle, P.R., LL.D., Pastor, St. Mary, Taunton June 21 1926, Rev. Desire V. Delemarre, Pastor, Blessed Sacrament, Fall River 1948, Rev. Francis D. Callahan, Pastor, St. Patrick, Wareham 1964, Rev. Clement Killgoar, SS.Cc., St. Anthony, Mattapoisett . 1976, Rev. David O'Brien, Retired Pastor, SS. Peter & Paul, Fall River June 22 1977, Rev. Alexander Zichello, Pastor, St. Francis of Assisi, New Bedford June 24 1907, Rev. Bernard F. McCahill, Pastor, SS. Peter & Paul, Fall River June 25 1941, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Louis A. Marchand, Pastor, St. Anthony, New Bedford 1960, Rev. Raymond J. Hamel, Chaplain, St. Joseph Orphanage, Fall River June 26 1931, Rev. Charles P. Gaboury, Pastor, Sacred Heart, New Bedford 1973, Rev. Msgr. Albert Berube, Pastor Emeritus, St. Anthony, New Bedford

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Rose Hawthorne Sisters welcome four postulants The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, who shelter and nurse incurable cancer patients at Rose Hawthorne Home in Fall River, have welcomed four postulants to their novitiate in Hawthorne, N. Y. They are Marguerite Zombek, a medical secretary from Atlanta; Heather Fuller, a college student from Westminster, Calif.; Judith Mabie, a secretary from Wilmington, Del.; and Maggie Shaughnessy, a department store ,credit clerk from Lavonia, Mich.

Sister M. Imelda, superior of Rose Hawthorne Home in Fall River, expressed the community's delight with the postulants. "For every new sister," she said, "we will be able to care for an additional 50 patients a year. That is very important because there are so many suffering souls in need of our care.

There is a waiting list for everyone of our seven homes; and we hope to open additional homes in other areas of the country as soon as we have enough sisters to do so."

The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer, is an American congregation, founded in 1895 by Rose Hawthorne, daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Its mission is to nurse incurable cancer patients, providing them with a fre_e home where they can spend their final days with dignity.

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DOG HOUSE: Marion and Dennis Frizado outside theirkemiel, which is often mistaken for a neighbor's house, and inside with puppies and an older

By Marcie Hickey

When Dennis Frizado was nearing retirement, he decided to build his dream house.

Or, make that dream houses. . In an area of Berkley that was nothing but woods 10 years ago, there now stand two red-paneled, black-trimmed homes, roomy and wellkept, with attractive curtains and a neat yard.

Frizado and his wife Marion live in one of them. In the other reside 12 adult beagles and assorted puppies.

Indeed, visitors to Houndog Acres are likely to mistake the establishment 150 feet behind the Frizado's home to be a neighbor's cozy abode. But inside, it's lined with beagle memorabilia, ribbons from competition, and private wooden compartments for each pooch. The compartments open into outside cages where each dog can walk, nap or sun him or herself on whim.

The impressive kennel was long a dream of Frizado, who retired about five years ago from his job at a shoe tannery, where he worked for 30 years. Mrs. Frizado still works parttime for her employer of 41 years, Leary' Press in Fall River, which p!"ints the Anchor.

"Other people like to play golf' after they retire, "I like to raise dogs," Frizado says of his hobby.

Houndog Acres had its beginnings in 1983, when the Frizados, then living in Somerset where they still belong to St. Patrick's parish, bought the land in Berkley. Back then it was "just woods and a little cowpath," says Frizado, and theirs was the first on a road that now has 20' houses. It is also about a mile from where Dennis was born and grew up, learning from hunt-

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At Houndog Acres

It's a dog's life! ing "the good and bad points of a beagle."

Houndog Acres, completed in 1984, "is the realization of our retirement dreams," said Dennis, who says he and Marion "raise, breed and break beagles for our- . selves and other beaglers as a means of keeping active during our retirement."

Most of the beagles cared for by the Frizados belong to beaglers Roger Williams of Barrington, NH, and Ellen Harwood ofNatick. They, along with the Frizados, belong to the Bay State Beagle Club near Houndog Acres.

Dennis designed the 54 by 12foot kennel, which has all the comforts of home: an oil heating system for winter and fans for summer; hot and cold running .water; an inlaid linoleum floor; refrigerator; and a stereo system (music keeps the dogs calm and quiet around the clock).

There's also a telephone for the proprietors and an intercom system that enables the Frizados to monitor the dogs' noise level from their house. If the beagles get too frisky, there's a bedroom switch that activates a sprinkler system that quiets and cools the dogs. In winter the warning comes in the form of an unpleasant horn.

"You have to train them," Frizado says pragmatically. "If you have a baby, you teach him to be good. Well, as soon as they hear the pump [for the sprinkler systeml, those dogs go in and are quiet."

That discipline usually works, at least until Marion and Dennis approach the kennel. The excited barking that then erupts suggests

that the occupants are anticipating dinner or a run on the training field.

Frizado runs the beagles in pairs regularly on the field, which is dense with rye, timothy and clover plants that provide cover and food for the dogs' quarry - rabbits.

The beagles are trained to track the rabbits for hunting trips and for competition. "The best dog wins the trials...and hopefully I'll have the best dog!" is Frizado's attitude.

Last year the Frizados took the dogs to Aldie, Va., where their "pack" of six beagles placed second in a field trial involving 300 dogs.

Frizado and Williams also take the dogs hunting on Nantucket.

They are trained not to catch the

rabbits, but to "chase them in circles," spiraling them closer and closer to the hunter, he explained.

Traveling with a dozen or so beagles at a time is not a problem: the Frizados' truck has been converted into a mini-kennel with compartments for 12 dogs. Tlte beagles don't mind the ride "They just sleep," he says.

The senior dog is Brandy, a 14year-old female, and the newest additions to the brood are a litter of six puppies born on Marion's birthday, March 4, and just about ready to begin training.

"Once in a while I'll breed a good dog," Frizado said.

He says he can tell the dogs apart "most of the time"; Marion is less confident. When she has

gone to trials without her husband, she has been known to wait until all the other handlers have picked up their dogs. "That way, I can be sure the ones that are left are mine," she explained.

However, the dogs can also be distinguished by their names; all puppies in the same litter are given names beginning with the same letter, with the newest litter sporting "P' names. .

The Frizados keep predominantly female dogs, because "the female is the better hunter," said Dennis. "Dogs I can't use I give away as pets" through his veterinarian, who sees that they are spayed or neutered before they go to an adoptive home.

The kennel "is the best thing I ever did," says Dennis. "It relaxes me;" He notes, "We started slowly, steadily making improvements and adding personal touches as time went on until today...we have things pretty much as we dreamed we would."

He reminisced that "I've had dogs all my life since I was to years old and got interested in running dogs and hunting. My father made sure 1 took care of them or 1 . wouldn't have them at am" But over the years there wasn't always time or room for dogs.

Dennis and Marion, who were both widowed, married 28 years ago and had seven children between them. It wasn't until six of the 'children were married and on their own that Dennis began to seriously pursue the idea of having a kennel "in Berkley where 1 was born."

Raising dogs is a relatively new endeavor for Marion, but one she enjoys.

Now she "knows as much about dogs as 1 do" and "supports me and helps me in whatever 1 do," said Dennis. "I pray that everyone who retires can have the joy and happiness we've had."

AROUND THE KENNEL: Dennis shows the spacious interior; at rear of kennel with Electra and Echo; on training field with Circle and Blue. (Hickey photos)

Let's hear it for fathers Empty nest a hollow feeling for dads "d'

By Dolores Curran Who suffers more from the empty nest, dad or mom? In a study of 50 families in which at least one child had moved away from home, it was the fathers who suffered the greatest sense of loss. Dr. Clifton Barber, a professor at Colorado State University, explained that while none of the mothers studied expressed a sense of regret, 25 to 30 percent ofthe fathers ages 48 to 70, did.

Why this result? We've heard about empty nest mothers who supposedly lose their purpose and identity when the children leave home but we've rarely focused on fathers' reactions. Dr. Barber found that the fathers who suffered most were the ones who were gone the most when the children were younger.

One dad who travelled said, "I guess in the back of my mind I kind of rationalized it and kept thinking that the time would come when I could spend more time with the kids.' But I never did. All of a sudden they're gone. I can't make up for it."

Fathers with the fewest children

were most vulnerable to a sense of loss when the children left. So were older fathers and those with a high degree of marital dissatisfaction.

According to Roger Barkin, author of The Father's Guide, part of the father's empty nest loss may be due to the growing awareness that nurturing fathers get more satisfaction out of parenting than fathers who view their primary role as breadwinning.

Interestingly, the mothers studied by Barkin found the empty nest freeing. Most worked outside of the home by choice. Barber said, "Mothers had a sense of'mission accomplished.' They didn't mean they would stop mothering but direct day-to-day responsibility was over."

It's sad when it's too late to be the kind of parent you wanted to be, but this study has its hopeful side. If fathers are beginning to express regret at passing up closer interaction with their children at formative times, younger fathers might heed their warning.

Robert Bly, poet and philosopher, believes that men's pain is

based on grief over the loss ~of a relationship with their own fathers.

He explains that in earlier times when boys worked long hours alongside their dads, a deep attachment took place which served them both well. All that ended with the Industrial Revolution.

When fathers become absent, by necessity, choice, or, more commonly, choice excused by necessity, this attachment weakens and men long for it their entire lives.

When they try to develop an adult attachment to their too-busy fathers of childhood, it's often too late.

In a life span of 80 years, childhood consumes a mere fourth.

Most couples will live more years together without children than with them. Regrettably, these are the very years men are striving the hardest to make their mark on the career ladder.

But there's no second chance.

Children will grow up while fathers are absent, physically or emotionally. And they will leave home when fathers are ready to spend postponed time with them. It's understandable, then, that fathers feel loss at the empty nest.

Where are the fathers?

By Mitch Finley A friend sent me a copy of a recent article by Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman, entitled "In Search of Missing Fathers."

Overwhelming numbers of children, are growing up today without fathers, Ms. Goodman wrote.

She quotes David Blanketlhorn of the Institute for American Values: "Today's favorite image may be that ofthe 'new father,' but the real direction is toward fatherless children." Blankenhorn calls this absence of fathers "the most socially consequential fact of our era."

I believe it. Some cities are finally making the connection between gangs of violence-prone adolescent boys and the fact that they often come from fatherless homes.

Many studies indicate that Americans consider family life is a

high priority. When asked which they would rather have, a happy marriage and family life or a high paying job, they vote for family life.

What's going on here? Maybe we say one thing because we know deep down that's where our heart should be. But when we make life choices, we're liable to follow the path of least resistance.

I give credit to single parents, most of them women, but it's time to speak up for one of life's basics: a child's need to grow up in a home with a mother and a father who are married and love each other "till death do us part."

Catholic parishes and other Christian congregations are the only social units I can think ofthat support families unconditionally.

Parishes don't have to get approval from voters; they don't have to

wait for legislative funding. All they need do is decide to support men in their marital and parental commitments.

Homilists can make it a point to congratulate husbands and fathers for no particular reason. J>arish can take the unique concerns and needs of men into account.

While cultivating appropriate feminine images of God, parishes can also appreciate him as a strong, reliable, loving Father.

It will be a disaster for the church and society if the numbers of fatherless children remain high.

It's time for parishes to take seriously the need to support and celebrate loving faithfulness among husbands and fathers.

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By Antoinette Bosco Why do some groups find it necessary to promote the myth that men are the culprits when trouble arises in families and marriages?

It's happened again - another ,instance of father bashing. This time it's another billboard, proclaiming in huge white letters against a black background, "M ore Fathers Run Away From Home Than Children Do." I think it is time for father bashing to be replaced with an honest look at how many fathers .would actually be more involved with their families if their work schedules permitted it.

Last summer in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families sponsored a hearing called "Babies and Briefcases: Creating a Family Friendly Workplace for Fathers."

As Gilbert Quinones, past president of NCMC explained, "The intent ofthe hearing was to explore the important role that fathers play in parenting their childen, what corporations are doing to create work environments that support fathers and how to change the 'corporate culture' that inhibits fathers from taking advantage of available family policies and programs."

Quoting a 1990 poll for the Los Angeles Times, Quinones said that 39 percent of the fathers surveyed

said they would quit their jobs if they could stay home with their children. "An almost equal percentage offathers and mothers (57 percent vs. 55 percent) said they felt guilty about spending too little time with their children, and 51 percent of the fathers polled said their work interfered with their parental responsibilities," Quinones said.

Quinones, quoting an article he wrote in NCMC's publication, Network, decried what he called "the utter stupidity and foolishness in our current legal and social systems' approach to fathers in divorced, separated or unwed families."

The removal and exclusion of fathers from these families, he wrote, "may be the single greatest tragedy today."

The truth is, as the Los Angeles Times poll reports, most fathers are crucially involved with raising their children, unless prevented from doing so either by work obligations, divorce restrictions or court decisions.

As Christians, we should never let down our guard when it comes to the sanctity of family. I think we have an obligation to speak out against anything which puts a negative cast on either fatherhood or motherhood.

Parents are, after all, the ones with the greatest responsibilities of all: the nurturing and teaching of those who are to follow us and continue the building ofthe Earth.

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DURING HIS BUSY day in Fall River, Bishop Sean O'Malley participated in a press conference, visited his new cathedr!,ll aI)d met directors of diocesan programs. Left to right, top to bottom, Msgr. Henry T. Munroe welcomes the bishop; he addresses the press, backed by a diocesan shield carved and painted by Sister Gertrude Gaudette, OP; answers question of

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The Fall River diocese meets its new shepherd Continued from Page One nies at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River.

Discussing his hopes for his new post, the bishop said he wishes to cooperate in ecumenical programs and he expressed special interest in initiatives on behalf of pro-life and ofethnic and immigrant populations.

He is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish and he commented that he loves" the language, the music, the culture and the food" of the Portuguese. Additionally, he speaks French, Italian and German.

Happy that there are well-established Catholic Social Services offices in the diocese, he noted "I see such programs as enjoined upon us."

Bishop O'Malley directly confronted recent sexual abuse allegations involving children and a former priest of the diocese. He said he was not as yet fully conversant with facts of the case thus could not address it in detail but that he "shared your pain" and further noted that the church has 'learned much lately on how to' handle these situations. ' Acknowledging that sexual abuse of children is particularly sad in . the case of trusted priests, he said . that "the Catholic community wants to meet your needs in the best way possible." There are "no quick fixes," he added, pledging that "I will struggle with ways to find an adequate and appropriate response."

After attending the U.S. bishops' m('eting at the University of Notre D"me, which concludes Sunday, Bishop O'Malley said he will be in St. Thomas until he returns for his installation.

"I will come as a novice to listen and learn," he said. "I ask for your p8,tie'.'ce and prayers as I learn the

ropes. I look forward to being choir rehearsal, said member Susan She noted that his ability to find on both islands; and a program for your bishop and will try to do my Pacheco, who related that the bish- his way around a kitchen would teen parents on St. Thomas, St. best for you." op sang along with the choir, stand him in good stead in the Vir- . Croix and St. John. He also proAnswering questions, the bishop greeted them in Portuguese and gin Islands, where Bishop Harper vided services and centers for the said his Aug. 11 installation date is asked them to be part of the Aug. had "no cook, no housekeeper, no mentally ill, the handicapped and the feast of St. Clare, who was 11 ceremonies. secretary." But that suited the those with terminal sicknesses, and' received into religious life, by St. "We'll be there!"she said joyous- bishop-elect, she wrote. "His new organized a low-income housing Francis and who founded the Poor ly. pectoral cross, a gift from Wash- corporation.

Clares as a companion order to the Other initiatives included dioceington Archbishop (now Cardinal) Biography Franciscans. He noted that he was James A. Hickey, is an unadorned san offices for religious education Bishop O'Malley was born in ordained as a bishop on Aug. 2, Lakewood, Ohio. He prepared for silver version of the Franciscan and Catholic schools, a religious another major Franciscan feast, that the priesthood at St. Fidelis Semicross. As for an episcopal ring, book and gift ,shop and year-long of the Portiuncula, a chapel that nary in Pennsylvania and at the 'I'm looking for something cheap. spiritual programs dedicated to was the first place of worship for Capuchin College, Washington, Save your cigar bands for me: he Mary, the Eucharist and the Bible. the followers of St. Francis.

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Tuesday afternoon, Bishop 0' the Order of Friars Minor CapuHe said in the Catholic Stan- challenge came in the wake of Malley visited St. Mary's Cathe- chin Aug. 29, 1970. Thereafter he dard interview that he had chosen 1989's Hurricane Hugo when damdral for the first time, commenting earned a master's degree in relihis episcopal motto, Quodcumque aged church properties had to be gious education and a doctorate in on its beauty, simplicity and praydixeritfacite (Do whatever he tells repaired and victims were in need erful atmosphere. He followed a languages, both at Catholic Univer- you), because "That's from St. of spiritual and material aid.

In Fall River, which has the few minutes of prayer at the Blessed sity.

John's Gospel and I chose it beSacrament altar with a pause for He is the son of Theodore O'Mal- cause he is my patron [Sean is Gae- largest Portuguese population in photos at a stained glass window ley, a ,lawyer who lives on Catawba lic for John], because he was clos- the nation, the bishop will conof St. Francis and St. Clare and a Island, Ohio, and the late Mary est to the Blessed Virgin, because tinue his special mission to Lusovisit to the bishops' crypt on the Louise (Reidy) O'Malley. A step- he was the beloved disciple and Americans, which was recognized west side of the cathedral. He then mother is Claire O'Malley; a broth- because of his fidelity to the Lord when he was in the Washington met with directors of diocesan er, Theodore, resides in Denver at the crucifixion. Also, these are archdiocese by his being named a programs in the cathedral rectory. with his family and a sister, Mary the last word~ of Mary in the Gos- Knight Commander of the Order Afterwards there was time for a . Ellen Alesovich, in Miami with pel [spoken to the waiters at the of Prince Henry the Navigator by . marriage feast of Cana). The mes- the president of Portugal. drive by St. Vincent's Home, where' hers. children held a welcoming banner, Bishop O'Malley is a man of In 1973 Bishop O'Malley was sage of Mary is always pointing to and meetings with aged residents named to direct Hispanic affairs in the Son and, as Franciscans, our many talents. Among them, apof the Catholic Memorial Home the Washington archdiocese and lives are to be like hers, pointing to parently, is that of freeing prisonand with, retired clergy at the Pri- in 1978 was named episcopal vicar the Son." ers. He related in the 1984 Catholic ests' Hostel. All the facilities are for archdiocesan priests working In the Virgin Islands, Bishop Standard interview that his most on Fall River's Highland Avenue. with Hispanics and director of the O'Malley entered a diocese only "successful" homily came when he Capping the day, the bishop archdiocesan Office of Social De- seven years old. His eight years was a Capuchin novice and preachthere have been full: he ordained ed to prisoners in a Pennsylvania made choir members at Santo velopment.

Christo Church, Fall River, very Fall River's new bishop was seven priests and nine permanent facility on prison breaks reported happy when he invited them to ordained coadjutor bishop of St. deacons, oversaw establishment of in the Bible. join with the Diocesan ChOIr for "That night, eight prisoners Thomas in 1984 and the following a new community of women relihis installation ceremonies, offeryear became bishop upon the re- gious and invited three other com- broke out," he related. "I guess ing familiar Portuguese hymns. that's what happens when you try tirement of his predecessor, Bishop munities to serve in the area, founded two Catholic TV stations to make the Scriptures too releThe spontaneous invitation came Edward J. Harper, C.SS.R. when the bishop and Msgr. John When Bishop O'Malley left the and established a diocesan month- vant."

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Santo Christo, Fall River, plans centennial events Ceremonies June 24 to 28 will tist chapel was purchased and remained St. Anthony's mission until mark the IOOth anniversary of the 1892, when it was elevated to parestablishment of Santo Christo parish on Columbia Street in Fall , ish status by Providence Bishop Matthew Harkins.

River. Father John C. Martins is pastor of the parish, assisted by The new parish was given the title of Santo Christo in honor of Fathers Gastao Oliveira and Joseph the statue that is a focal point of Viveiros.

The schedule of events is as devotion on the island of St. Michael, Azores, where the majorfollows: Mass will be celebrated at 7 p.m. ity of the Fall River Portuguese June 24, 25 and 26 with Rev. population has its roots.

Manuel Coelho deSousa as homiSanto Christo's first pastor, Rev. Candido Avila Martins, served unlist.

Bishop Aurelio G. Escudeiro of til 1898, followed by Rev. Franthe Azores will conduct a 5:30 cisco S. Mesquita, Rev. Manuel 'p.m. blessingofa newchapelJune A. Silvia and Msgr. Francisco C. 26. A Mass for the disabled will Bettencourt. follow.

During Msgr. Bettencourt's pasA procession with the Santo torate, the present church was comChristo statue at 7 p.m. June 27 pleted in 1948 and the 30-year will precede a sermon and Bene- mortgage was paid off in 1954, foldiction by Msgr. Jacinto Almeida. lowed by a two-day celebration.

Outdoor festivities will follow until Msgr. Bettencourt also purchased land to enlarge the church 11:30 p.m.

Mass for the Feast of Santo grounds and oversaw construction Christo will be celebrated by of a shrine of Our Lady of Fatima.

The pastor was succeeded by Bishop Escudeiro at 10 a.m. June Rev. Arthur C. dos Reis in 1960 28. The traditional procession will begin at 2:30 p.m., involving 10 and by Rev. Antonino Tavares in 1972. Father John C. Martins was bands. Outdoor festivities will connamed pastor in 1991. tinue until 10:30 p.m.

The parish had a joyous surprise Parish History Tuesday: when Fall River's new Santo Christo parish began in ordinary, Bishop Sean O'Malley, March 1876 as a mission of St. asked its choir to participate in his John the Baptist Church in New installation Aug. II. Bedford, the only Portuguese church in what was then the diocese of Providence. (Santo Christo celebrated the centennial of the The Santo Christo statue is a mission's establishment in 1976.) representation of Jesus after his By 1889, the Portuguese popuscourging at the hands of Pilate's lation of Fall River had grown to soldiers. It recalls Pilate's words, the extent that an independent "Ecce Homo" (Behold the parish was needed. A former Bap~ Man!).

The original statue was a gift of Pope Paul III (1534-1549) to two Poor Clare sisters who were seeking permission to establish a convent in Caloura, St. Michael, Azores.

The statue was transferred on Easter Sunday, April 23, 1541, from Caluora to Ponta Delgada for the dedication of the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Esperanca (Our Lady of Hope), where it is still enshrined for the veneration of the faithful.

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Bishops urge ecumenism among Hispanics DENVER (CNS) - Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, N. M., told a national gathering of Christian ecumenists in Denver that there is urgent need for "a high level, summit-type meeting of [U.S.] Hispanic Catholic and Hispanic Protestant church leaders."

"Ecumenism has not been a priority in Hispanic ministry," Bishop Ramirez said.

Neither the U.S. spirit of religious toleration nor 30 years of Catholic engagement in ecumenism since the start of the Second Vatican Council has overcome the "long and bitter animosity between Hispanic Catholics and all Protestants," he said.

Bishop Ramirez was one of the main speakers at the recent National Workshop on Christian Unity, which annually brings together hundreds of U.S. Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant church leaders and ecumenical officers.

Bishop Ramirez traced an antiecumenical spirit among Hispanics in the New World back to the Inquisition and Counter-Reformation spirit in Spain.

Because of Catholic-Protestant animosity among Hispanics, he

said, "our supposedly closely knit Hispanic families" frequently suffer "painful and often irreparable damage" when a member becomes Protestant.

"Hispanic families must be taught that in spite of religious difference, they can still be brothers and sisters and maintain their family ties," he said.

Another problem exacerbating religious tensions is "the extreme anti-Catholicism" of some Protestant evangelical groups actively proselytizing among Hispanics, he said.

Bishop Ramirez urged a meeting of U.S. Catholic Hispanic bishops, Catholic bishops from Mexico, members of the U.S. bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, and a variety of U. S. Protestant leaders.

He suggested that the bishops' ecumenism and Hispanic affairs committees cosponsor a summit in Washington.

Keynote speaker at the workshop was Bishop Donald E. Pelotte of Gallup, N.M., who focused on the ecumenical significance of the Gospel's call to "repentance, reconciliation and renewal."

Sahel region trying to hold back the desert NEW YORK (CNS) - The sands advancing on the Sahel region of Africa can be stopped with more international help for tree planting and public education, according to representatives of a papal foundation for the area.

The church in the Sahel, they said, is educating its members and others about the need to reverse the desertification with "green belts" and to avoid excessive cutting of trees and overgrazing.

Projects funded by the John Paul II Foundation for the Sahel help people use solar energy and other means of cooking that con- , sume less firewood, they said during'a recent U.S. visit.

The foundation also helps drill wells so women will no longer have the burden of walking as much as five miles to get water, and funds other economic development and social service projects.

A three-member, delegation recently visited the United States to tell the story of the foundation and to urge that" America make room in its heart for us."

The Sahel, Arabic for "shore," is the border area just below the Sahara Desert where the combined effects of drought and environmental pressures from large populations of humans and animals have created a problem of expanding desertification.

On a visit to Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, in 1980, Pope John Paul II appealed for the world to aid the Sahel, and on a visit later that year to West Germany received gifts for that purpose.

Bishop Julien Marie Sidibe of' Segou, Mali, participated in the delegation to the United States, which also included Father Paul Ouedraogo, a Burkina Faso priest who is general secretary of the papal foundation, arid Paul Ismael, project manager and promotion officer.

The foundation officers said educational efforts were succeeding in persuading people of the Sahel to cooperate with measures for overcoming desertification. Older people, they said, remember that their environment was better when they were young, and so help persuade younger people to end destructive practices.

"It is a real challenge and for a long duration," Bishop Sidibe said.

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The first Native American to be ordained a Catholic bishop in the United States, Bishop Pelotte said there was an ecumenical lesson in his recent experience "of raising particularly painful concerns for our Native American community" to the U.S. bishops' ad hoc committee dealing with the 500th'anniversary of Columbus' arrival in the Americas.

The committee "experienced a conversion" when it was forced to confront Native American concerns about the European colonization of their lands, he said.

"This change of heart, this opening to the multiple interpretations of history, multicultural approaches to evangelization and to learning from the marginal has much to teach us," he commented.

Surveying the current state of ecumenism around the world, Bishop Pelotte said some people formerly enthusiastic about the ecumenical movement have begun to describe it as "dead in the water" because they look at the "overwhelmingly powerful" problems facing the world and feel hopeless.

However, "As resurrection Christians, we are called to be persons of hope," and to be "faithful to the call to full communion," he said.

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The universal church is not a federation of local churches formed through the recognition of papal authority, a new Vatican document said.

Rather, the universal church is a communion of churches born from the one church established by Christ and united through faith, the sacraments and the hierarchy,. said the 19-page document, released June 15 at the Vatican.

The document, "Letter to the Bishops ofthe Catholic Church on Some Aspects of the Church Understood as Communion," was signed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congrega, tion for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The document's introduction said the doctrinal congregation wanted "to recall briefly and clarify, where necessary, some of the fundamental elements that are to be considered already settled" in future scholarly developments of the concept.

At a June 15 Vatican press conference, Cardinal Ratzinger spoke of two ways some theologians propose viewing the church, how those ideas ignore Christ's plan for a hierarchical church structure, and bring the "danger of radically altering Catholic ecclesiology."

One is to emphasize "popular sovereignty" when discussing the church as "the people of God." Such an emphasis, the cardinal said, ignores the fact that God is "the true sovereign of his people."

The second is "the tendency to reduce the concept of communion to a vision more or less exclusively horizontal and sociological."

Those theologians, Cardinal Ratzinger said, use the word communion to promote "an antihierarchical idea" of a federation of local churches having precedence over the universal church.

In the second view, he said, the hierarchy is seen "as a caste of autocrats."

Communion between local churches in the universal church not only is based on a unity of faith, one baptism and the shared Eucharist, it also requires unity through the lo~al bishop with the pope, the document said.

Sometimes, the document said, the communion of the particular or local churches "is presented in such a way as to weaken the concept of the unity of the church at the visible and institutional level."

But, the document said, for each particular church to make fully present the essential elements of the universal church "there must be present in it, as a proper element, the supreme authority of the church," that is, bishops in communion with the pope.

The final chapter of the document is devoted to the ecumenical implications of church communion, and particularly to communion with the pope..

Communion exists especially with the Eastern Orthodox churches, which although separated from Rome, are united to the Catholic Church through apostolic succession of their bishops and celebration of a valid Eucharist, it said.

The document called forecumenical prayer, study and dialogue "so that through a new conversion to the Lord, all may be enabled to recognize the continuity of the primacy of Peter in his successors, the bishops of Rome." .....

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UNITED NAnONS sanctions imposed on Bosnia-Herzegovina have the support of the U.S. bishops' International Policy Committee.

Committee chairman Archbishop John R. Roach of St. Paul and Minneapolis told Secretary ofState James Baker in an early June letter that the bishops support efforts to arrange a negotiated peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the scene of a fierce ethnic civil war.

"We believe the sanctions imposed by the United Nations are now necessary to try to bring an end to the violence," wrote Archbishop Roach. But he urged care in implementing exemptions for food and medicine to ensure lives are not endangered.

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DURING HIS visit to Angola, Pope John Paul II prays at a crucifix set up on a site where guerrillas were executed by government troops during a 16-year civil war which ended May 1, 1991. (eNS/ Reuters photo)

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Pope lauds spiritual values LUANDA, Angola (CNS) Pope John Paul II spent the week of June 4 to 10 in war-scarred Angola, promoting spiritual.values as a cure for ideological conflict and mistrust.

"Stay on the path that leads to unity and truly fraternal reconciliation," he said before departing June 10.

The pope's trip offered a visible sign that the country's rival factions might really be prepared to work together.

Soon after his arrival in the capital city of Luanda June 4, the pope met jointly with President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and Jonas Savimbi. Untillast year they were archenemies, with Savimbi's UNIT A guerillas battling dos Santos' Marxist, one-party state.

Today they remain political opponents, but their soldiers are disarming, and the first democratic elections are scheduled in September.

Visiting the devastated inland center of Huambo June 5, the pope stood on a former execution site and implored the country to close the door on the "useless sufferings" of war. But everywhere he went, priests and missionaries said shootings and banditry were on the increase, and many were doubtful that elections would come off as planned.

When the pope visited a hospital in Luanda June 7, he found that all the surgical ward patients had bullet wounds. The facility lacked basic medicines.

The wdcome given the pontiff at every stop was touching in its

simplicity. Families lined up along dusty roads, waving tree leaves or flowers in greeting.

Local churches managed to scrape together enough money to decorate papal altars, but that was about it. In Lubango, no church bells could ring a welcome for the pope - they had been stolen by Cuban soldiers on their way out of the country last year.

The Angolan government, having shed its Marxist image a year ago, was a gracious and generous host, helping to finance much of the visit, according to the Vatican.

Gone was Marxist rhetoric, but several times the pope stressed the damage done by 16 years of atheistic philosophy - especially in family matters. He specifically condemned abortion, a growing concern for the Angolan church.

The papal visit spotlighted Angola's 18,000 catechists, who were the only regular church presence in most parishes during the war.

He celebrated the 500th anniversary of the arrival of missionaries, but at the same time recalled the sufferings brought by slavery.

Some 4 million slaves were shipped out of the Angolan area after the arrival of Europeans.

Before leaving Angola, the pontiff delivered a plea on behalf of the African continent.

Africa needs help from developed countries, he said, but only those that are willing to "respect the initiative, independence and identity of each nation." Above all, Africa must preserve its traditions and its spiritual richness, hesaid.

ON A RECENT day in the small village of Sandaru, Sierra Leone, more than 200 bumpy miles from the capital of Freetown, 500 Liberian refugees lined up for their ration of wheat, salt, pots, cooking oil and farming tools from Catholic Relief Services.

There was also a temporary medical station treating patients - mainly sick or malnourished children.

CRS, using funds and goods provided by the United States and the European Community, provides continuing help to 80,000 of the 300,000 Liberians who took refuge in various parts of Sierra Leone from the civil war in their country.

"CRS implements these programs with local church partners," said Sister Leona Donahue, the agency's representative in Sierra Leone. The local churches "provide the workers and the organization for this distribution," she added.

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AN OFFICIAL of the Pontifical Mission for Palestine said in a June 10 interview that the agency thought conditions in Iraq would now allow resumption of aid shipments.

Holy Cross Sister Maureen Grady, special assistant to the president of the mission, said threats of interference with distribution in Iraq and possible confiscation of supplies and even trucks had held up the aid program since October.

Previously, she said, truck convoys from Jordan carried material aid to Iraq without hindrance. But since then, various power group.s have tried to get control of where contributed goods went, she said.

Sister Grady said the mission· and Catholic Relief Services operated ajoint Iraq program, and that a truck convoy scheduled to leave June 15 would include $160,000 worth of powdered milk for infants.

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WHEN HUGO'S 60 Catholic families gathered in early June to dedicate their new parish church, it was not just a local celebration.

It was a national milestone.

Immaculate Conception Church in Hugo is the 10,000th Catholic church to be built with the help of the Catholic Church Extension Society, a national funding organization for the home missions.

Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago, Extension chancellor, joined the southern Oklahoma community to dedicate the 196-\

seat church and preach at the Mass.

The new church is a 5350,000 building which, besides its worship space, has a meeting hall and eight classrooms.

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A SHELTER for homeless families in Florida's Indian River County can now be completed·and should open as scheduled in October, thanks to a $100,000 federal grant. The 24-bed Samaritan Center is being built on property owned by the diocese of Palm Beach and will be operated by Catholic Charities, which was one of II organizations selected to receive grants for the homeless as part of the federal emergency shelter program administered by the state Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services.

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THE CANADIAN bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Child Sexual Abuse has called for a break in the "wall of silence" that has allowed sexual abuse to persist for years within the church. In a 92-page report, "From Pain to Hope," the seven-member committee made 50 recommendations, ranging from forming adv·ocacy committees for victims of abuse to deciding whether priests convicted of child abuse should return to the active ministry. Contributing to child sexual abuse among religious, the report said, was the fact that the church "too readily shelters its ministers from having to account for their conduct." The church "is often tempted to settle moral problems behind a veil ofsecrecy which only encourages their growth," the report added.

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A MINNESOTA bishop has called on his fellow prelates to scrap their proposed pastoral letter on women, but continue dialogue on women's concerns. Bishop Raymond A. Lucker of New Ulm, Minn., in a pastoral letter to the people of his diocese, suggested that the bishops publish instead a two- or three-page statement saying they have "gone as far as we can at this moment" on issues relating to women's concerns. The brief statement would define underlying issues that divide the bishops and suggest that dialogue continue, the bishop said.

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A VATICAN diplomat, the first to visit Cambodia in 17 years, has gained renewed recognition for the head of the country's Catholic Church who had been expelled by the former communist government.

Archbishop Alberto Tricarico, apostolic pronuncio to Thailand, obtained the renewed status for French-born Bishop Yves Ramousse in an informal meeting with Cambodian leader Prince Norodom Sihanoilk, UCA News, an Asian church news agency, reported. The veteran Cambodian politician is chairman of the Supreme National Council, a transitional governing body.

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What to do when parent should stop driving

By Monica and Bill Dodds We are a nation of drivers. We define ourselves by the automobiles we choose: I am wealthy; I can afford the latest luxury sedan. I am thrifty; I tool around in a subcompact that gets nearly 50 miles per gallon. I am adventurous; I go everywhere in a pickup truck with a camper.

And on and on.

In the United States, getting a driver's license is more than obtaining the state's permission to operate a motor vehicle. Every 16year-old knows it is a rite of passage: a giant step on the road to adulthood, a key to independence, a time to celebrate.

In the same way, losing your driver's license, losing access to your own car, is more'than forfeiting the state's or the family's permission to drive. Every elderly driver knows it is a rite of passage that is seen as a giant step on the road to one's final days, a loss of independence, a time to mourn.

It isn't easy on families when the day comes that an adult child must tell an aging parent that it is no longer safe for him or her to drive.

It's a sad time for both.

In many families it was a parent who taught the children, one by one, how to drive. A child felt safe with Mom or Dad at the wheel.

But the aging process - that gradual and, in most cases, inevitable deterioration in vision, hearing and reaction time - changes that.

An older person's general confusion, a minor irritant when it comes to everyday life, can be dangerous or even fatal when it comes to driving.

Again and again, an adult child concerned with the well-being of an aging parent must ask, Is it safe for my parent to keep'driving? Is he or she in danger of harming himself or others?

It's the lucky family that has an

older parent who realizes and can admit the physical limitations that have occurred, who understands the danger to self and others, who voluntarily says, "I can no longer drive."

Unfortunately, sometimes those who have become least capable, those at the highest risk, can be the ones who refuse to even discuss the possibility. And self-imposed restrictions ("I don't go out on the freeway"; "I don't go out at night") might offer only a false sense of security.

These are some suggestions for adult children concerned about their parents' driving: - Talk early and talk often with your parent about your concerns with his or her driving. Swooping in one day and confiscating the car keys is one way to almost guarantee anger, resentment and nearly total' lack of cooperation.

- Enlist the help of your parent's doctor to explain why this action is necessary.

- If your parent has given you power_ of attorney, refer to that when discussing this issue. Remind a parent he or she set this up because your parent trusts your judgment. If someone else has power of attorney, ask that person to help you with the discussion.

- Perhaps most important, keep in mind that you cannot take away the car keys without providing some backup. You need to help your parent figure out how he or she is going to get around now.

When can you drive? When can your siblings, spouse or children?

What about neighbors or fellow parishioners? Are taxis or buses possibilities? Call the local senior information and assistance number to find out about special low-cost van rides for the elderly.

- Know that your love, respect and concern can ease your parent's sense ofloss, but can't eliminate it.

Churches called to care for Earth ~nd its people RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (CNS) - Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox from 54 countries have urged all churches to commit themselves to care of Earth and its people.

In a "Letter to the Churches," the Christians said it was "extremely urgent that we churches make strong and permanent spiritual, moral and material commitments to the emergence of the new models of society, based in deepest gratitude to God for the gift of life and in respect for the whole of God's creation."

"We have come inevitably to the conclusion that the prevailing system is exploiting nature and peoples on a worldwide scale," the Christians said.

The letter was issued by 176 participants in "Searching for the New Heavens and the New Earth: An Ecumenical Response to the Earth Summit," sponsored by the World Council of Churches. The meeting, one of hundreds of parallel events to the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, was held in Nova Iguacu, a poor neighborhood northwest of Rio de Janeiro.

"Dear sister and brothers, we write with a sense of urgency," the letter said. "Earth is in peril. Our

only home is in plain jeopardy. We are at the precipice of self-destruction. For the very first time in the history of creation, certain life support systems of the planet are being destroyed by human actions."

The participants visited povertystricken areas of Rio de Janeiro state and said that "poverty and violence are overwhelming against human beings, along with high levels of environment-degrading pollution." They noted that "wherever human beings are denied their God-created dignity, the rest of creation is denied its dignity also."

The letter noted that the U. N. Conference on Environment and Development was meeting 20 years after the Stockholm Conference. on the Environment, "and not one single major trend of environmental degradation has been reversed."

"We are fearful about even more brutal facts 20 years from now," the letter said.

"We dare not deny our own role as churches in the crisis which now overwhelms us," the letter said.

"We have not spoken the prophetic word ourselves. Indeed, we did not even hear it when it was spoken by others oflate, including a number of scientists."

The letter said Christians should develop a spirituality of creation,

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Area Religious Broadcasting The following television and radio programs originate in the diocesan viewing and listening area. Their iistings normally do not vary from week to week. They will be presented in the Anchor periodically and ,will reflect any changes that may be made. Please clip and retain for reference.

MONICA LaCROIX of New Bedford has been named director of activities at Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River. She will coordinate daily recreational activities and special events for the nursing home's 288 residents.

Mrs. LaCroix has II .years experience in the field of therapeutic recreation. She holds a bachelor's degree in gerontology and a master's degree in therapeutic recreation from Western Illinois University.

A certified activity director, she is a member of the National Therapeutic Recreation Society and'the National Recreation and Park Administration Association. She is also a certified aerobics instructor.

Aiding namesake ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (CNS) - Citing its "special responsibility to help a namesake city in a strifetorn country," diocesan Catholic Charities in St. Petersburgh will send food to the only Catholic church operating in St. Petersburg, Russia. formerly known as Leningrad. American Franciscan Father Januarius lz2O, stationed at Our Lady of Lourdes church in St. Petersburg, Russia, wrote to the St. Petersburg, Fla., Catholic Charities' Office of SO'cial Justice and Peace, citing his parishioners' need for food as well as the needs ofthose in surrounding communities where he and another Franciscan hope to establish parishes.

Vocations "key" VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul 11 ordained 49 priests from 18 countries on Trinity Sunday and said more vocations were a key to successful evangelization.

Among those ordained were five from the United States, including three members of Opus Dei, a personal prelature with a mostly lay membership. The newly ordained also included II members of religious orders.

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capturing "its presence in all creation." Such a move would be"more than a political act for the Christian," the letter added.

It begins with "veneration and respect for all creatures, especially for human beings, beginning with those most in need," the letter said.

"Our churches themselves must be places where we learn anew what it means that God's covenant extends to all creatures, by rediscovering the ecocentric dimension of the Bible," the letter said. "This means a model material lifestyle that loves and treats Earth gently, as God does."

On TV Each Sunday, 8:00a.m WLNE, Channel 6. Diocesan Television Mass. Those in the Greater New Bedford area who do not have cable TV see a rebroadcast of the Mass at II a.m. on UHF Channel 20 Portuguese Masses from Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, New Bedford: 12:15 p.m. each Sunday on radio station WJFDFM, 7 p.m. each Sunday on television Channel 20.

"Confluence," 10:30 a.m. each Sunday on Channel 6, is a panel program moderated by Truman Taylor and having as permanent participants Father Peter N. Graziano, diocesan director of social services; Right Rev. George Hunt, Episcopal Bishop ofRhode Island, and Rabbi Baruch Korff.

"The Beat," produced by Building Block Ministries of Taunton and aired on many cable systems in the Fall River diocese features videos from and information on contemporary Christian rock artists. Check local listings for times and dates..

Mass 9:30 a.m. Monday to Friday, WFXT, Channel 25.

"Breakthrough" 6:30 a.m. each Sunday, Channel 10, a program on the power of God to touch lives, produced by the Pastoral Theological Institute of Hamden, Conn.

"Maryson," a family puppet show with moral and spiritual perspective 6 p.m. each Thursday, Fall River and New Bedford Cable Channel 13.

"Spirit and the Bride," a talk show with William Larkin, 6 p.m.

Monday, cable channel 35.

On Radio "Be Not Afraid," IS minutes of music and Gospel message coordinated by Father Craig A. Pregana, parochial vicar at St. John the Evangelist parish, Attleboro, is heard at 8 a.m. Sundays on station WARA,1320AM. TheCalh-. olic clergy of the Attleboro area sponsor the program.

"The Beat," Christian rock music and information produced

by Building Block Ministries of Taunton, is broadcast at 6:00 a.m. Sundays on station WVBF Boston, 105.7 FM, and may be heard in the Attleboro, Fall River, New Bedford and Taunton deaneries.

Charismatic programs with Father John Randall are aired from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday through Friday on station WRIB, 1220 AM; Mass is broadcast at I p.m. each Sunday.

"Topic Religion," presented by two priests, a rabbi and a Protestant minister, is broadcast 'at 6:06 a.m. and 9:06 p.m. each Sunday on station WEEI Boston, 590 AM. Programs of Catholic interest are broadcast at the following times on station WROL Boston, 950 AM: Monday through Friday 9, 9:15, 11:45 a.m.; 12:15, 12:30,1 p.m.

A Polish-language Mass is heard from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. every Sunday on station WICE, 550 AM. The rosary is broadcast at 5:45 a.m. Monday through Saturday and the St. Jude novena at 9: 15 p.m. each Thursday on WPLM Plymouth, 1390 AM, 99.1 FM. Both programs are simulcast.

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THE ANCHOR....:-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., June 19,-1992

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It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside I'm not one of those who can easily hide Don't have much money, but if I did I'd buy a big house where we both could live If I were a sculptor, but then again, no Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do My gift is my song, and this one's for you And you can tell everybody this is your song It may be quite simple, but now that it's done I hope that you don't mind I hope that you don't mind That I put down into words How wonderful life is when you're in the world I sat on the roof and I kicked off the moss Well, a few ofthe verses, well, they got me quite cross But the sun's been quite kind while I write this song It's for people like you that keep it turned on So excuse me for forgetting, but these things I do You see I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue Anyway the thing is what I really mean Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen Written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin.

Sung by Rod Stewart. (c) 1991 by Warner Bros.

WANT TO HEAR some of the heart, the gift of writing a the biggest names in rock on the song. An individual "sat on the same CD or cassette? Then try roof' and pondered "how won"Two Rooms," a collection of derfullife is while you're in the world." songs written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin and perClearly, John's lyrics are a formed by some of the most tribute to loving friendship. Berecognized stars in today's muyond this theme, the song resic. The cassingle release, "Your minds us of the power of any Song," is on this disc, recorded gift given freely from the heart.

by Rod Stewart.

So what does your heart freely Personally, I prefer John's want to give? What do you version, but Stewart's remake is return to those'closest to you, climbing the charts. The release to your school or parish comdescribes one person's gift of munity, and to our God, for the

Besides work, my father's great love always has been the theater.

An amateur actor, he's still appearing on stage at 76.

When I was in high school, I acted with my father. We must have done to plays together at the summer theater in our little town.

And in those final years at home, the best times I had with my dad were during the long intervals between our scenes. We'd sit out back and talk - mostly about theater - but we were talking.

Over the years, my dad and I have remained on good terms, and we've grown closer over the last decade.

I gave up acting soon after I got married. It never seemed very important after I left home.

One result is that my son and I don't have theater to share. And like my father, I work a lot and am active in all sorts of things that take me away from home. Adrian and I could easily lose touch with each other.

We have to look for time together. I think he senses it too, and so when I say things like, "Let's go grocery shopping," he almost always comes along. He'll even ride along when I take trash to the dump - especially since we always stop for sodas on the way home.

Our ride down through Big Sur was one of the high points of my life. And I think he'll remember it too.

Eighth grade graduation at DoBut the relationship between a father and son isn't built on' the minican Academy, Fall River, was foundation of a few peak_events held on June 7. The 23 graduates wore blue academic robes with with nothing in between.

My dad reached to me in the white stoles to receive their diploways he knew, and I reached back _ mas from principal Helen M. in the ways I could: Adrian and I Miller, eighth-grade teacher Cecireach to each other in different lia Wrobel and Mass celebrant Father Bob Oliveira. ways.

Six students presented the offerThe critical thing is that we are tory gifts in a dramatization of the reaching toward each other" ' Magnificat. On the feast of Pentecost, Father Oliveira encouraged the girls to use the gifts ofthe Holy tYO,baseb~ll Spirit as, they move on to high Six teams have begun the battle returning pitchers Jay Correia and school and to call on Jesus to help for the Fall River Area CYO Base- Dave Gaspar to lead his team. them find their vocation in life. ball League championship. All Manager Roger Olivier of Our Other year-end activities inteams will playa 25 game schedule Lady of Grace, Westport, has re- cluded kindergarten gr~duation, followed by league playoffs in turning veterans Rob Lachapelle outdoor picnics for路 big and little August. The annual all-star game and Keith Dumaine leading a team sisters, a roller skating party, and will take place July 19. that hopes to seriously compete an eighth-grade class outing to Defending champions St. Ber- for the championship.' Finally, Rocky Point. nard's, Assonet, managed by Notre Dame, Fall River, under Awards assemblies were held Horace Misturado, features re- Manager J.B. Aubin and general for the eighth-grade graduates and turning pitchers Jack Bevilacqua manager Al Turcotte will rely on to recognize academic and service and John Raposa as they seek to the pitching of Conrad Paquette accomplishments schoolwide. Spewin their third consecutive croWn. and Corey Hebert to put them in cial honors were given to parent Last year's runners-up, St. Willi~ contention. volunteers who donate time to Games are played Sundays DA. am's, Fall River, under manager Charlie, Medeiros will try to ride through Thursdays at Kennedy, The Home and School Associathe arms of Eric Shecter and Greg Lafayette and Maplewood Parks tion installed officers for 1992-93 Harrison to first place this season. in Fall River. Associate director of and sponsored a teacher appreciathe Fall River Area CYO Albert S't. Anne's, Fall River, manager Vaillancourt is the coordinator of tion reception. President Donna Mike Nogueira hopes that veteran scheduling for teams and umpires Mattos gave each teacher a claddagh pin symbolizing love, friendpitchers Steve Fortin and Jason for the 25th year in a row. ship and loyalty.

Correiro will lead a young team to Where Beauty Is a respectable finish while veteran The school year culminates with manager Jack Alves of St. Mich"Beauty is in the heart of thl a party for faculty and Dominican ael's, Fall River, will count on' beholder."-AI Bernstein sisters.

By Christopher Carstens I had one of the best adventures of my entire life last summer.

Our 16-year-old son Adrian and I drove south along the California Coast, all the way from San Francisco to San Diego - just the two of us.

Without his mother and sister setting schedules and rules of propriety, we followed our own whims. We had beef jerky for breakfast and chili dogs for lunch~ Whenever we saw something interesting along the side of the road, we stopped.

Adrian did almost all the driving, and I was in charge of spotting convenience stores where we could stop for the next snack.

At night we slept cheap so we'd have money for the movies. It was great - a pure "guy" event. ,I've been reading a lot lately about the men's movement. People poke fun at it, but the basic ideas ringtrue. In times past, men worked at home - or nearby and sons learned about life from their fathers. ' Now fathers, and mothers as well, work miles from home, and they often come home with little energy left for their children. It's even harder when there's been a divorce, because a lot of dads stop coming around altogether.

I've done a lot of thinking lately about my own father. We had a good-sized family, and usually my dad had two jobs. We had a small farm in the country, and on the weekends he mostly worked around the place, gardening and building.

I'd be lying if I said I never wished my dad had found more time for me when I was a teenager.

I would have liked more time for talk, for fun together. But my dad always was working on something, so I learned to work along with him.

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ways they help you find meaning and purpose in your life?

We do not have to take up song writing to give from the heart. In fact, we do not need to possess any special talents to show others the difference they make in our lives.

One gift we all have is our time. We can use some of this time to reach out to others. For example, we might: - Take time to call a grandparent just to see how he or she is doing.

- Use part of an hour to write a thank you note to a teacher for his or her efforts.

- Give part of your day to take a smaller brother or sister to the park.

When it comes to the gift of our time, we can be as creative as we give ourselves permission to be.

We can also give of our happiness and joy. We can go out of our way to say hello to others, greeting them with a wann smile.

We can mow an elderly neighbor's yard just for, the joy of working outside in the sun. We can help a fellow student with homework. When we do these things we share our joy with others.

'When it comes to giving back to God, we can be sure to say "thank you~' each night for God's help in living this day.

We can treat all human beings and all creation with respect and care. We can set aside some of our income to assist members of our human family who are in need.

I'm sure that your list of ideas can go far beyond my few suggestions. Give with no thought of receiving in return and for the sheer joy of doing so!

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, IN 47635.

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DOMINICAN ACADEMY graduates, from left, Renee Gauthier, Kimbei'ly Patricio and Deborah Rodrigues, posing with eighth grade teacher Cecilia Wrobel, display the "Light of Christ" awards they earned for Christ-like service and example. (Gaudette photo)

TOTS AND CIRCUMSTAN~E: Among kindergarten graduates at St. Mary-Sacred Heart School, North Attleboro, on June to were, from left, Kellianne Carr, Jason Cheung, Katelyn Sheppard and Vanessa Cespedes. The kindergarteners are taught by Marilyn Enross and Denise Flynn.

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FIRST PLACE winners in an art show at Our Lady of Lourdes School, Taunton, were, from left, Jason Soito, grade 3; Colleen Reilly, grade 5; Ashley Arruda, kindergarten; Sergio Lagneau, grade 4; Jessie Vieira, grade 1; and Andrea Caetano, grade 2. At right, science fair winners Krystal Fernandes, grade 4, whose project was on hermit crabs, and Jenna LoDico, grade 5, whose topic was teeth. @>

TCMS Before the close of school on June 17, students at Taunton Catholic Middle School began a Columbus Project, studying the· lives of Native Americans before Columbus' voyage.

Grade 5 visited Slater Mill as part of a social studies unit on the industrial revolution.

Grade 6 attended "Jekyll and Hyde," a drug awareness program.

The class also studied artifacts.

Grade 7 took part in Older Americans Month observances at Marian Manor nursing home, Taunton, in May. Weekly for four weeks, a seventh grade homeroom visited the Manor while the rest of the seventh grade attended a presentation at the school.

Class projects at the Manor involved attending Mass and playing bingo with residents; interviewing residents about their lives; and a spelling bee. Many students also participated in the home's 30th anniversary celebration May 15.

Presentations at the school informed the students about elder care, the aging process and Alzheimer's Disease. The film "When Someone Needs Nursing Home Care" was shown.

On Ascension Thursday, a schoolwide Mass was held outdoors under bright blue skies as Steven Matos released three white ball~0!1s representing the Trinity.

A uniform swap shop day is planned for 9 a.m. to I p.m. Aug. 6. . .

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thew Ryan and Christopher Conrad earned honorable mention.

The SMSH Parents Group gave trophies to winners in the Massachusetts ~egion III Science Fair: Jarrod Gingras, Danielle Corriveau and Lindsay Charlebois.

Special presentations were made to those students who have been at the school since kindergarten: Crystal Rask, Danielle Corriveau, Lindsay Charlebois and Christopher Conrad.

Mary Jane Burke and' Barbara Connors ~re eighth'grade teachers at SMSH.

Bishop Feehan Over 200 awards for participation in· extracurricular activities and nearly 230 awards for academic achievement were presented to underclassmen at a June 3 ceremony at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro.

Special awards were given as follows: Katherine Goldman received a certificate of merit from the government scholarship program Youth for Understanding International Exchange.

Erinn Hoag received the Brown University Book Award for excellence in English.

Timothy Famulare received the Holy Cross Book Award forscholastic' achievement, commitment to the school and community, and concern for others.

Jennie 'Green received the Salve Regina Book Award for high achievement and commitment to . excellence. , Nita Patel received the Bausch and Lomb Award for achievement in science.'

Erinn tIoag received the Rensselaer Polytechnic· mathematics and science award. , Karen Hillm~n and Richard :" Yngveearned'~l pare You" awards for' 'personal integrity, balanced 'living and leadership potential.

The S1. James-S1. John students also met some of the students to whom they had sent spring cards.

Some of the sixth-grade students are planning to continue the friendships by volunteering at the center.

Notre Dame School Three students in Pat Ouellette's first grade class at Notre Dame School, Fall River, were awarded prizes in a poster and essay contest sponsored by the Fall River Fire Museum. Awards, presented by Mayor John Mitchell at Heritage State Park, went to Stephanie Souza, third place poster; Matthew Renaud, third place essay; and Jessica Roy, second place essay.

Bishop Connolly The· National Honor Society of Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, elected as officers for the 1992-93 school year Tara Gauthier, president; Lauren Stiles, vice president; Sarah Anne Ryder, secretary; Elizabeth Sisson, treasurer.

Pro-life reasons?

WASHINGTON (CNS) - Prolife academicians recently were urged to come up with convincing reasons against abortion. "A fiat 'because I said so,' or 'that's what the church teaches' will not do," Jesuit Father William Byron said.

"This issue calls for convincing reasons why..Reasoned moral arguments must be advanced to address these questions and ,establish the baseline for political debate in which a moral society can express its will on the protection of both life and rights within the womb," Father Byron said.

Rev. Marcel Bouchard ,was celebrant of the June 8 graduation liturgy for eighth-gr~~e,rs at, St. Mary-Sac,red.I;Iear.t School, North .Attleboro. .' , Graduates ,are Lindsay C~~rle­ bois, Christopher Conrad, Danielle , NEW YORK (CNS) - SulpiCorriveau, Jarrod Gingras, Kim- .. cian Father Joseph C. Martin, berly Ley~oil; Crystal Rask a'nd who founded one of the nation's Matthew Ryan.' ., ,Sixth';graders in Jane Rioux's most successful programs for the Principal Alberta Goss"~avet~e: class at S1. James-St. John School, tre~tment of alcohol and drug graduation address and presented'" New Be9ford, have been fostering abuse, has received a 1992 Norman ties with special needs children at, Vincent Peale Award for Positive awards.

The Presidential Academic'Fit~ the Kennedy Donovan Center Thinking. Other 1992 honorees ness Awards went to Jarrod'Gin-, School, also in New Bedford. were Sir John Templeton, a mutgras, Christopher Conrad and (2hildren from the. Center have ual fund pioneer who created the Crystal Rask. The pins were given been. brought t6the playground at , Templeton Prize for Progress in to students who have an overall· . S~. James-St; John during recess, Religion, and Tiffany Talley, 22, average of at least B-plu~ for grades and on June 2' the sixth-graders of San Angelo, Texas, who coun4-8 and who have earned a score of toured the Center and visited their sels terminally ill children. Father 80 percentor better on standard- friends in Jane Estrella's class. Martin, who has worked in alcoized achievement tests in both ver- Both classes joined in frosting a hol education since 1970, founded cake and making ice cream frappes the center known as Father Marbal and mathematical skills.

Jarrod Gingras won a medal in for a Kennedy Donovan· Center tin's Ashley in Havre de Grace, the 1992 Science Olympiad; Mat- student's birthday party.

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Youth ministry manual issued WASHINGTON (CNS) - The National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry has published English and Spanish versions of a resource manual for youth ministry coordinators.

The manual, designed for youth ministerS, diocesan personnel or youth directors and parish administrators, is divided into five areas of practical applications and intended for self-directed learning.

Charlotte McCorquodale, director of the Mobile, Ala., diocesan youth ministry office and chair of the federation's Committee on Certification and Accreditation, praised the manual's sections on cultural applications from African-American, Hispanic and rural perspectives. Sections on Asian and Native American cultures are forthcoming.

An appendix to the resource manual has self-assessment guides' which correlate with competencybased standards for coordinators of youth ministry, approved by the federation and the U.S. Catholic Conference Commission on Accreditation and Certification in 1990-91.

Further information is available from the federation at 3700 Oakview Terrace N.E., Washington, DC 20017-2591.

K of C announces scholarship aid for seminarians The Kilights of Columbus has announced a scholar~hip program . for seminarians. ..

Knights of Columbus Vocations Scholarships'are $2,500 need-based grants for tuition, room'and board', supported by 'e'arnings on $3 million voted for this purpose to the 1991 K of C convention.

Initially, the grants will go to students in the first four years of theology. Eventually they will be extended to students in the fourth year of college or in "pre-theology."

They are renewable for up to four years.

Applicants preparing for ordination as priests of a diocese or religious institute in the United States, its territories or Canada are eligible. Thus far, some 40 theologates have indicated they will participate in the program.

In awarding scholarships, preference will be given to seminarians who are members of the Knights of Columbus or whose fathers are members. Others are also eligible.

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16· THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., June 19, 1992

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ST. MARY, NORTON Beginning this month, canned goods donations will be given to St. Joseph's food cellar in Attleboro.

The June collection will be baked beans on the last weekend of the month.

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SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLICS, ATTLEBORO Support group meeting 7:30 to 9 p.m. June 28, St. Mary's rectory, N. Attleboro; information: 695-6161.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLICS, TAUNTON Support group meeting 7 p.m.

June 23, St. Joseph's parish, North Dighton.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Food pantry collection this weekend; items needed include canned soup, fruit and vegetables and paper goods.

ST.STEPHEN,ATTLEBORO "Pathways: A Journey in Spiritual Growth" including video presentation and distussion 7:30 to 9 p.m.

June 22 and 29, parish hall; all welcome. Prayer petitions may be placed in prayer basket in front of sanctuary; all are invited to take a petition home for prayer during the week.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLICS, NB Support group meeting with open discussion 7 to 9 p. m. June 22, Family Life Center, N. Dartmouth; information: Louise Reinsch, 991-4019.

ST. JOSEPH, NB Prayer gr04P will sponsor Triduum in preparation for feast of Sacred Heart with services after 11 a.m. Masses June 24, 25 and 26.

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WIDOWED SUPPORT, TAUNTON Support group meeting 2 to 4 p.m.

June 28, Immaculate Conception rectory, Taunton; spiritual director Father Michael Nagle.

ST, ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT St. Anthony's Guild awarded scholarships to Karen Antonsen and Eric D. Rose.

ST, JOSEPH, TAUNTON Calix meeting for addiction recovery 6:30 p.m. Sunday, parish center. New participants always welcome.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Healing Service with Father Andre Patenaude, MS, 2 p.m. June 21, outdoors if weather permits. Participants may bring lawn chairs.

Beginning with 4:30 p.m. vigil Mass tomorrow, all Masses will be in the outdoor chapel, weather permitting, for the summer. Schedule includes daily Masses at 12: 10 p. m. and 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday as well as the Saturday vigil Mass. Confessions: I to 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 to 6 p.m. weekdays; I to 5 p.m. weekends. Schedule of Shrine programs and events through the fall is now available. Information: 222-5410.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Healing Mass with Father Dick Lavoie, MS, 7:30 p.m. July I. Ladies' Guild Scholarships went to Christine Dumas, a senior at Wellesley College; David Lofstrom, ajunior at Westfield State College; Stephen Bearse, a junior at Westminster Choir College; Denise' Doherty, a junior at Lesley College; Andrea Higgins, Cape Cod Community College; and Chaylee Priete, Emory College.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, CAPE COD Support group meeting I :30 to 3:30 p.m. June 28, Christ the King parish education center, Mashpee; topic: "Our of the Wilderness." Information: 428-7078, evenings.

MEN OFTHE SACRED HEARTS, NB Men of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary of Greater NB community will sponsor 7 p.m. Mass followed by five-hour exposition of Blessed Sacrament, candlelight procession and midnight Mass June 26 at Sacred Heart church, NB. Mass concelebrants will be Father Clement Dufour and Sacred Hearts Fathers Matthew Sullivan and Albert Evans.

Music will be provided by Sacred Heart Church choir. All are invited to attend any portion of the vigil. .

NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION REFRIGERATOR DISPOSAL As federal requirements effective . beginning in July make it illegal to dispose of appliances containing chlorofluorocarbons in a manner which permits such substances to enter the atmosphere, the National Kidney Foundation is offering to dispose of unwanted refrigerators.

Appliances will be picked up. Information: 1-800-542-400 I. ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS Vincentians will collect food donations for Lower Cape Outreach Food Pantries this weekend; canned goods, boxed foods, paper goods and personal items are needed.

"Uniquely extreme"

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WASHINGTON (CNS)-Msgr.

Robert N. Lynch of the U.S. bishops' conference has condemned as "uniquely extreme" a defense budget provision that would require overseas military hospitals to provide abortions if the patients pay for them. Msgr. Lynch, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, commented on the provision in a letter to Congress. The House approved the amendment on abortion by a 216-193 vote, and passed in full the $270 billion Defense Department budget, 198-168.

CHARISMATICS march through Pittsburgh's civic arena. (eNS photo)

Catholic charismatics mark 25th anniversary PITTSBURGH (CNS) - The Stanley Cup finals were over, but the Pittsburgh Civic Arena still rocked with as much emotion as the 31-year-old building had ever seen.

Almost 17,000 people attended "Pentecost in Pittsburgh," the 1992 national Catholic charismatic renewal conference, held in early .June at the city's civic arena and convention center.

The meeting's theme of"Return to the Upper Room" commemorated the February 1967 meeting of some 25 Duquesne University students and faculty in an upper room chapel at a retreat house in Gibsonia, Pa. The meeting spawned the birth ofthe modern Catholic charismatic renewal.

Representatives from the 50 states, six Canadian provinces and several foreign countries participated.

"People of different races and cultures were able to come together as one," said Father Frank Tinajero of Los Angeles. "It personified what it meant to be followers of Jesus Christ."

Among conference speakers were Bishop Sam G. Jacobs of Alexandria, La., chairman ofthe National Service Committee of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal; German Bishop Paul J. Cordes, vice president of the Pontifical Council for

the Laity; Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, official preacher for the pontifical household at the Vatican; and Auxiliary Bishop Joseph C. McKinney of Grand Rapids, Mich., one of the first bishops in North America to embrace the Catholic charismatic renewal.

Several ofthe original Duquesne retreatants also were in attendance.

Among them was Patty Gallagher Mansfield, who told the gathering that the power of the Spirit had influenced the founding of the movement.

"It was a love story," she said.

"God's extraordinary response to some very ordinary people."

At a press conference called to discuss the state and the goals of the Catholic charismatic renewal, Bishop Jacobs said participants are "sensing a new vision and hope" and "want to be part ofthat vision."

At the conference's closing Mass, Pittsburgh Bishop Donald W. Wuerl recalled the installation of Pope John Paul II, at which the pope asked Catholic faithful to open their hearts to Christ.

"The Holy Father said, 'Open so wide that you pull the door right off its hinges,'" the bishop said.

"To do that you need an enormous amount of power. That is the power we celebrate today."

Anointing shouldn't be at last minute VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II says anointing the sick can promote spiritual and physical healing and therefore should not be saved for "the last minute."

"Experience shows that the sacrament produces a spiritual strength that transforms the soul of the sick person and even relieves his physical condition," the pope said at a recent general audience.

Anointing confers a "grace of strength that develops courage and the capacity to resist," he said. It promotes spiritual growth through the remission of sins, and "sometimes even physical healing," he . said.

The pope said physical healing is not the essential aim of the sacrament, "but when it is produced, it shows the salvation procured by Christ in abundance of charity and mercy toward all the needy."

That physical healing can be

provided by the sacrament was stated as church doctrine by the 16th-century Council of Trent, the pope pointed out.

Anointing of the sick, also called extreme unction or the "last rites," is an "effective intervention in all cases of serious illness or weakness due to old age," the pope said.

Once a deathbed ritual, its more expanded use was promoted by the Second Vatican Council, he noted.

"Therefore it is not right to wait until the last minute to ask for this sacrament, thus depriving the sick person of the help extreme unction provides the soul and sometimes even the body," he said.

Relatives and friends should be alert to the sick person's willingness to receive the sacrament, he said. In cases where one of the faithful is not able to ask for the sacrament, this willingness should normally be assumed, he said.