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Rain falls but spirits soar at priestly ordination By

MIKE GORDON

ANCHOR STAFF

FALL RIVER - One couldn't tell what was louder on Saturday morning June 13, the thunder that came with the heavy rains or the thunderous applause given to four young men from the diocese upon their ordination to the priesthood at St. Mary's Cathedral.

With sheets of rain pouring down onto the Cathedral, transitional deacons Paul Christopher Fedak, Hernando Herrera, Edward A. Murphy, and 10hn Michael Murray were ordained by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM, Cap., during the 11 a.m. Mass. The crowded church included members of each

candidate's family, some of whom had flown from as far as Ireland and Colombia.

"We arranged to have the rain today as a welcome to the Irish people," joked Bishop O'Malley as he congratulated the families of candidates and the candidates themselves on their ordination.

Edward Murphy's sister, Anne O'Farley, who came from Ireland with two other sisters and three brothers to witness the ceremony, said "It's like a bride getting married. It's a very special day."

Hernando Herrera said that he was nervous the week before the ceremony but as it approached and he had time to plan his first Mass his fears disappeared. "I went away for a few days of prayer and had some time

to relax once the Mass was planned. I have a lot of friends and family here to celebrate the moment with me and have been looking forward to it," he added.

The bishop said that the call to priesthood is difficult and permanent. "Priests

must have an attitude of self-offering. You are being ordained to serve the Church and God, and the vocabulary of thatjob: service, sacrifice, fidelity and mission, is very different from that of any other job. A lifetime of perseverance is expected," he said, Turn to page 11 - Ordination

Catholic Charities Appeal closes books on campaign FALL RIVER - The diocesan 1998 Catholic Charities Appeal closed its books Thursday on the proceeds for this year's campaign with the final report on the success of the drive appearing next week. Any money collected after June 18 will become part of next year's campaign collection.

Even as the tallying continues, prospective contributors ~ invited to participate by contacting any of the 111 parishes of the diocese, by communicating with Diocesan Headquarters at 362 Highland Ave., P.O. Box 1470, Fall River MA 027222 or by calling (508) 676-9843.

Returns from the diocese include the following figures from leading parishes in the separate geographic areas: Attleboro Area Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Seekonk $68,171 SI. Mary, Mansfield 56,649 SI. John the Evangelist, Attleboro 52,860 SI. Mary, Seekonk 37,282 SI. Mark, Attleboro Falls 36,701 Cape Cod Area SI. Pius X, South Yarmouth $135,252 Our Lady of Victory, Centerville 92,616 Corpus Christi, East Sandwich 66,280 Holy Trinity, West Harwich : 63,823 Christ the King, Mashpee 61,279 Fall River Area Holy Name, Fall River $49,896 Holy Rosary, Fall River 38,960 SI. Thomas More, Somerset 34,765 SI. Stanislaus, Fall River 31,128 SI. John the Baptist, Westport 26,254 New Bedford Area Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New Bedford $49,840 SI. Julie Billiart, North Dartmouth 43,442 Immaculate Conception, New Bedford 39,097 SI. Mary, South Dartmouth 37,091 SI. Patrick, Wareham 33,598 Taunton Area SI. Ann, Raynham $33,551 51. Anthony, Taunton 27,068 Holy Cross, South Easton 26,567 Immaculate Conception, North Easton 25,493 SI. Paul, Taunton 20,205 i

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PRIESTLY CANDIDATES prostrate themselves during the Litany of Saints at ordination ceremonies. Four men were ordained priests at St. Mary's Cathedral on June 13 despite the uncooperative weather. (Anchor/Gordon photo)

High school youths gather for College Night

By MIKE GORDON ANCHOR STAFF

NORTH DARTMOUTH - For most high school seniors the prospect of going out into the real world ofjobs or furthering their edu-

In keeping with our 49-issue schedule, the production crew at The Anchorwill be shipping out during the weeks of July :3rd and 10th.

So. to ensure that you're not left high and dry. send your school and parish news by June 22 so it may be printed before the summer break.

Anything received after that date will wait until the July 17 issue.

The Anchor business office will be open. however. during the break.

cation at college can, at times, seem overwhelming. Even those who excelled in high school may find themselves struggling to make new friends, adjust to college classes or just make the transition from high school to their new life. For those people newlyordained Father Hernando Herrera may have the answer, or at least some good suggestions.

Father Herrera has helped to bring together a College Night for high school seniors who are making the transition from high school to college or may need some help or insight in doing so. It will take place at St. Julie Billiart Parish Center in North Dartmouth from 7 to 9 p.m. July 19. Doug Rodrigues, a former campus minister at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, and a leader at the Christian Leadership Institute, held annually at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, will be the featured speaker. Pizza will be served following the program.

Although it is geared towards seniors,juniors are welcome to attend and current college students are also invited to come and share their own insights and experience of life after high school.

The evening will deal with practical concerns that first time college students may have about roommates, academics, being away from home, social life and the question of what may happen to their faith at college. It Turn to page three - College Night

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Diocese-of Fall River - Fri., June 19, 1-998

速bituarir!3 Sister Yvette LeClair, SSJ SPRINGFIELD -A Mass of Christian Burial was offered June 17 in Holyoke at the Mont Marie Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Springfield for Sister Yvette LeClair, 67, who died June 14.

A New Bedford native and the daughter of the late Oscar and Jeannette (Deneault) LeClair, she was formerly known as Sister Marguerite Cecile. She entered religious life in 1948 and during her teaching career served at the former St. Roch, St.

Mathieu and Blessed Sacrament schools in Fall River, and the former St. Theresa school in New Bedford.

In 1957 she was named principal and later became a teacher at the Montessori School of the Angels in Fall River, where she served until her death. She is survived by two sisters, Cecile Girouard of New Bedford and Simone Olson of Westport; and by three brothers, Oscar and Roland LeClair of New Bedford and Paul LeClair of Mattapoisett.

Msgr. Dollen, Priest magazine writer, dies By

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

columnist for Our Sunday Visitor's The Priest magazine.

Msgr. Dollen died June 5 of congestive heart failure while at a convalescent hospital. A private cremation followed the funeral, which was held at St. Gabriel's Church in Poway.

For the past two decades, Msgr. DOllen has contributed articles to The Priest. He also wrote two monthly columns for the magazine: "Priestalk" and "About

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE Books." "Priestalk" was a collecBOSTON - Cardinal Ber- tion of news, anecdotes, jokes and nard J. Law of Boston, after an- pastoral observations written no'uncing the defrocking bf are-' from one priest to another. tired priest ac.cused.of molesting.

"Msgr. Dollen loved priests, more than 50 children over three and he loved being a priest," said decades, prayerfully vowed the Robert Lockwood, president of archdiocese would make every ef- Our Sunday Visitor publishing fort to see "this abuse does not oc- company. "His writings reflected cur again." his rich sense of humor as well as "I hope and pray that the his no-nonsense approach to the laicization which was made pub- challenges facing modem priests. lic will help bring some closure Msgr. Dollen was also a book for victims and their families as reviewer, frequently for Catholic well as for all of us," the cardinal News Service, and a prolific book wrote in his column in the June author.

11 issue of the Boston Pilot, , His most recent book was archdiocesan newspaper.

"Prayer Book of Kings," a comCardinal Law's piece, titled "A mentary on the Psalms published Violation of Trust," accompanied by Alba House in March. In ada Pilot editorial which explained dition he wrote several children's the painstaking steps the archdio- books, and a popular 1965 biogcese took in the forcible raphy of President Kennedy, laicization of Father John "John F. Kennedy -American."

Geoghan by Pope John Paul II. A native of Rochester, N.Y., Earlier, in an interview with Msgr. Dollen attended Immacuthe daily Boston Globe, Cardinal late Heart Seminary in El Cajon, Law explained his purpose in Calif., and was ordained a priest having Geoghan laicized. "This of the San Diego Diocese in 1954. man can never again present himTwo years after becoming a self as a priest," he said. priest, he was named librarian at "There's been so much notori- the San Diego College for Men, ety that I felt it necessary to point now part of the University of San this out for the record," he said.

Diego, which is run by the dioGeoghan was removed from cese. He was pastor at several San parish ministry in 1994. Two Diego parishes and founded St. years later, public allegations of Gabriel's in Poway, where he was sexual abuse began to appear in pastor until his recent retirement. the media. This June 6, Cardinal In 1985, Pope John Paul II Law publicly announced to the named him a prelate of honor media that Geoghan has been with the title of monsignor. forcibly dismissed from the priesthood by Pope John Paul II, or to employ the more common term, "defrocked."

The Pilot editorial noted that "the forced laicization of John Geoghan was, without a doubt, only made possible by a personal appeal to the Holy Father by Cardinal Law." POWAY, Calif. - A funeral Mass was celebrated June 10 for Msgr. Charles J. Dollen, 72, author of 48 books and a longtime

Cardinal Law speaks out on abuse case

Please pray lor our newly ordained priests

JUBILEE CELEBRATION - The provincial team of the Fall River Province, Holy Union Sisters, hosted a jubilee dinner recently in honor of sisters celebrating 60 and 70 years of service to the community. Honorees and their years of service included, seated from left, Sister Joseph Dolores Ashworth (70), Sister Anne Joseph LaPlante (60), and Sister Rose Francis Riley (70); and standing, 60-year jubilarians Sisters Antoinette Landry, Eugenia Marie Arsenault, Lea Doucette, Anne DesRoches and Aline Bedard. Not shown are Sisters Grace Donovan and Rita Galligan, also celebrating 60-year anniversaries. The 60-year jubilarians entered the Holy Union order in 1938, pronounced their first vows in 1940 and were perpetually professed in 1946. All of the sisters taught in the Fall River Diocese.

Stonehill College awarded $126,254 expansion grant NORTH EASTON - The prestigious Davis Educational Foundation recently awarded Stonehill College a $126,254 grant to expand arts education and formalize Stonehill's collaboration with the Fuller Museum ofArt in Brockton.

The grant will allow Stonehill and the Fuller Museum to use each other's resources to effectively provide a major in fine arts at the college and expand learning opportunities for the museum's visitors.

The three-year-pilot program, to begin in September, will enable the college to serve the increasing number of students who wish to study fine arts. Fuller Museum studio space will be used for Stonehill fine arts courses. Also, space will be available for an annual exhibition curated by Stonehill art history students for the course "Exhibition and Collections: An Inside Look," one of the few undergraduate courses in four-year colleges to offer students hands-on curatorial experience in a museum setting.

Correction One of the telephone numbers submitted for an advertisement about an October 5-12 pilgrimage offered by the Family Rosary, Inc., for the dedication of a center in Ireland honoring the late Father Patrick Peyton, was incomplete.

The correct numbers for contacting travel agent Brian Gallagher are: . (518) 439-3946 (days) and (518) 439-2859 (evenings).

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., June 19, 1998

College Night

VINCENTIANS GATHER - Members of Fall River diocesan St. Vincent de Paul Societies took part in a regional conference in Hempstead, N.Y., to develop bonds of faith and learn about successful programs that will enable them to work more effectively in their own communities.

Area Vincentians attend Northeast regional forum FALL RIVER - A 19-member delegation from the Fall River Diocesan St. Vincent de Paul Society attended the 30th annual Northeast Regional Conference of the Society hosted by the Vincentians of New York's Rockville Center Diocese recently at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. Horace Costa, president of the

diocesan society; district presidents John Caron of Fall River and Roland Ducharme of Taunton and Father Daniel Freitas, formerly of the Fall River Diocese now retired in Florida but spiritual advisor for the Northeast Region of the society, were among those participating.

The conference, with a theme of

Diocese of Fall River

OFFICIAL His Excellency, the Most Reverend Sean O'Malley, O.P.M. Cap., Bishop of Fall River, has announced the following appointments:

First Assignments Rev. Paul C. Fedak, Parochial Vicar, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Seekonk.

Rev. Hernando Herrera, Parochial Vicar, St. Joseph Parish, Taunton, with responsibilities at Coyle and Cassidy High School as Chaplain and in the Hispanic Apostolate, Taunton.

Rev. Edward A. Murphy, Parochial Vicar, Holy Name Parish, Fall River.

Rev. John M. Murray, Parochial Vicar, St. Patrick Parish, Wareham.

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OFFICIAL His Excellency, the Most Reverend Sean O'Malley, O.P.M. Cap., Bishop of Fall River, has announced the following appointments: Rev. John M. Sullivan, Parochial Administrator, St. Joseph Parish, Attleboro.

Effective Immediately Rev. Robert John Powell, O.S.B. Cam., Parochial Vicar, St. Pius X Parish, South Yarmouth.

Effective June 24, 1998

"Connected by the Holy Spirit," included seminars and liturgical celebrations. Father Freitas challenged the attendees to recognize and confront their own prejudices, so that in a spirit of humility they may serve their clients with a greater spirit of charity in the manner of St. Vincent de Paul and Blessed Frederic Ozanam.

The keynote speaker was Daughter of Charity Sister Sheila O'Friel, Vincentian collaboration coordinator in the Northeast.

Bishop John McGann of Rockville Center was principal celebrant and homilist at one of the Masses.

All of the workshops focused on the need of members to function as people helping people and joined in the Holy Spirit.

The Fall River Diocese Vincentians will host the 31 st Annual Northeast Regional Conference slated to be held at Wheaton College in Norton in June 1999.

Daily Reading June 22 2 Kgs 17:5-8,13-15a, 18; Ps 60:3-5,12-13; Mt 7:1-5 June 23 2 Kgs 19:9b-11, 14-21,31-35a,36; Ps 48:2-4,10-11 ; Mt 7:6,12-14 Vigil (St. John the Baptist) Jer 1:4-10; Ps 71: 1-6,15,17; 1 Pt 1: 8-12; Lk 1:5-17 June 24 Is 49:1-6; Ps 139: 1-3,13-15; Acts 13: 22-26; Lk 1:57-66,80 June 25 2 Kgs 24:8-17; Ps 79: 1-5,8-9; Mt 7:21-29 June 26 2 Kgs 25:1-12; Ps 137:1-6; Mt 8:1-4 June 27 Lam 2:2,10-14, 18-19; Ps 74:1-7, 20-21; Mt 8:5-17 June 28 1 Kgs 19:16b,19-21; Ps 16:1-2,5; Gal 5: 1,13-18; Lk9:51-62 Vigil (SS. Peter and Paul) Acts 3:1-10; Ps 19:2-5; Gal 1: 11-20; Jn 21 :15-19

will also address some moral questions about college drinking and relationships.

"We hope that it will be helpful to kids going to college and that college kids who go can see how they are helping others," said Father Herrera. He also hopes that contacts among the attendees can be made and that the evening will help shed light on the importance of their Christian faith.

Father Herrera helped organize a similar event for several years while he was a college student in Virginia and thought it might also benefit youth of the Fall River Diocese.

"It took some time to get people together for this project, but after the group was assembled things came easy," he commented. He is assisted by a panel of eight people, including Rich Rodrigues and Anne Janerico, two of his chief organizers.

They have sent letters to schools, parishes, campus ministry groups and young people throughout the diocese and expect a good turnout for the event.

Also part of the evening will be a panel of four college students who will answer questions from the audience about campus life and making the transition from high school.

Two of the students were with Father Herrera when he spoke with The Anchor about the event. Both hope to add something positive to the evening.

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and Adam Chapdelaine, a sophomore at UMass, Dartmouth, became involved with College Night through the friendship they developed .with then seminarian Father Herrera at the Christian Leadership Institute and through various diocesan projects. The two alumni of Bishop Stang High School felt that time management would be an important issue for new college students to learn about.

"I've got a brother who's at college and several siblings who've been," said Hayden, who looks forward to the panel, "and my advice to kids is not to be too nervous about it. They need to learn to manage schoolwork and social time."

"I'd like to help those who are staying close to home and tell kids about the importance of getting involved, especially at orientation," said Chapdelaine, who is the first of his siblings to attend college.

"That's when you meet a lot of friends," he declared.

Besides information and insights, Father Herrera hopes that students may meet peers going to the same schools and thus get to know people before actually going to college.

The transition to college from high school is not always easy and those confident and not so confident about taking a new path in life will have something to gain from College Night. As Chapdelaine said, "it's about getting involved."

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themooril'l~lJ'oJ Our nuclear responsibility In the wake of the nuclear insanity revived by the rivalry of India and Pakistan, we must not forget that our own nation is the foremost proponent of nuclear arms and development. The horror of even thinking about a nuclear holocaust is made real when such vehicles of international destruction are being developed by nations whose governments are frail and fragile. In regions of the world where stability is only a hope, the knowledge that these weapons of destruction are in the hands of religious zealots is more than frightening.

The agonizing history of the area centers around the clash of Hindus and Muslims that England left as a price of partition.

Divide and conquer was the policy of British diplomacy and religious division was an obvious tool in such a strategy.

As India and Pakistan became independent, they also became polarized to such an extent that all sense of responsibility has been overcome by the desire for vengeance. In this atmosphere, nuclear weapons have become tools of rancor, as demonstrated by the recent dangerous confrontation of the two nations. The, fact that this country, with all its surveillance capabilities, was somehow unaware of their nuclear testing is abhorrent.

It would be well if we began to neutralize the world's capability of destroying itself. However, we are still caught up in the development of our own nuclear forces. Our present administration plans to spend close to $5 billion a year to build up our arsenal in these so-called post-cold war times. It is thought that this year alone we are spending $25 billion just to maintain and operate our nuclear capabilities. To further develop such weapons, we are currently involved in revamping and upgrading our nuclear systems.

What all this means, especially viewed in the light of current Russian difficulties, is that America is still the number one player in the nuclear arms game. We spend more money simply on preparation for possible atomic warfare than most nations do on their national budgets. Our nuclear arsenal is pointed all over the world and'its danger to the world family is obvious.

The Russian menace is less national than international. There is a grave danger that the vast nuclear arsenal of that nation will find its way into other hands, vastly enhancing the danger of world instability. However, the real challenge posed by the nuclear crisis confronts our government and our military.

Everyone agrees that our nation must be able to defend itself.

Yet there is also an obligation to neutralize the international nuclear threat that is currently developing into madness. As the world's greatest proponent of nuclear arms, we must become at the same time the world's foremost example of exploring methods by means of which the course leading to atomic suicide can be reversed. How many bombs do we really need for self-defense? How can we reduce the international threat of atomic warfare? What priority do we put on reducing fatal miscalculations, especially in the area of computer .information?

It should be obvious that the arms race in which so many nations are involved is not a safe way to preserve a lasting peace.

Nor would the so-called balance that might result from such a race ensure a sure and authentic peace.

Rather than be eliminated, the possible causes for war are growing gradually stronger as the nuclear arms race fashions an utterly treacherous trap for all humanity. We must develop a greater awareness of our responsibility to take a leadership position in seeking international means of resolving our disputes in a manner worthy of our humanity.

the living word "Do you now, Father, give me glory at your side, a glory I had with you before the world began. I have made your name known to those you gave me out of the world.

These men you gave me were yours; they have kept your word. Now they realize that all you gave me comes from you."

John 17:5-7

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FATHER'S DAY - NEWLY ORDAINED PRIEST FATHER JOHN M. MURRAY STANDS WITH HIS FATHER, PERMANENT DEACON MICHAEL E. MURRAY OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH, TAUNTON, AND BISHOP SEAN P. O'MALLEY FOLLOWING THE PRmSTLY ORDINATIONS AT THE CATHEDRAL LAST SATURDAY.

The "Soul of My Soul"

By FATHER JOHN CATOIR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

On the night before he died, Jesus expressed the final desire of his heart in these words, "Abide in me, and I will abide in you" (In 15:4).

He wanted us to be with him where he is. St. John of the Cross described this as a place "within the divine essence, transcending, all mortal vision and hidden from all human understanding."

Jesus invited us to unite with him in the unity of divine love. "Father, I will that where I am, they, whom you have given me, will be with me, that they may see my glory" (In 17:24).

Abiding in the Lord is not simply an occasional prayer. It is meant to be a permanent mind-set. You are united with him in work and play, injoy and in sorrow, even when you are not consciously aware of his divine presence.

St. Paul wrote, "Without faith it is impossible to penetrate this mystery." Faith enables us to experience .

The Editor now what will be our future destiny in heaven. We have a foretaste of the beatific vision. The Lord is telling us that we do not have to go outside of ourselves to find God. "There is a place within the soul which is inaccessible to the devil the world," wrote St. John of OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER and the Cross. It is in that secret chamPublished weekly by The Catholic Press or the Diocese or Fall River ber of the soul that God gives him. P.O, BOX 7 887 Highland Avenue self to us and we to him. The Lord Fall River. MA 02720 Fall River, MA 02722-0007 becomes the soul of your soul, and Telephone 508-675-7151 you can speak to him as the inFAX (508) 675-7048 dwelling Spirit.

Send address changes to P.O: Box 7 or call telephone number above "Holy Spirit, soul of my soul, guide me, console me, strengthen EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER NEWS EDITOR me.': The doctrine of the indwellRev. John F. Moore Rosemary Dussault James N. Dunbar ing Trinity taught to us by Jesus implies that wherever one person of . . . L!A'AYPA£SS-'ALLR.IV£R the Trinity is present all three may

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be presumed to be present.

One of the mystics of the church, Sister Elizabeth of the Trinity, writing at the turn of the 19th century, expressed it this way: "Love unites the soul with God, and the greater the love the more it is centered in him. When love attains the highest degree it penetrates the soul's inmost depths and becomes transformed into Christ."

Today, the New Age practitioners have a substantially different idea of the divinization process. For instance, Shirley MacLaine in her book, "Out on a Limb," stated, "I am God." I don't think she meant to say

that she was God the Creator. She was merely repeating the popular New Age idea borrowed from an ancient gnostic heresy, namely that we are all gods in a sense. This implicitly denies the Lord's divinity and his unique role in our redemption.

Catholics believe that Jesus was a divine person, and his followers are the carriers of his divine life. "I am the vine you are the branches" (In 15:5).

It is precisely because, of Jesus that we become carriers of the blessed Trinity. To look ill the mirror is to see a tabernacle of God's love.

I Letter to the EditorJ Editor: This is in reference to the lead article in your May 2~' issue on the "end of life symposium." Any discussion of the subject of providing humane palliative care at the end of life is incomplete without mention of the Hospice movement and the work of the Rose Hawthorne Sisters. Both organizations have played a leadership role in end-of-life care, far in advance of the medk;al establishment in general. You would do a service to your readers, all of whom face or will face the issue for themselvl3S and family members, by reminding them of the availability of these two sources of help.

I'm certain t.hat The Anchor has written about ROSE' Hawthorne and Hospice many times. However, mentioning them now, as a followup on the symposium article, may be helpful.· . We are fortunate to have a Rose Hawthorne Home in Fall Rive~..The sisters and staff provide a caring residence for those actively approaching death. Hospice, well established thl'oughout New England, provides multidisciplinary teams of physicians, nurses, home health aides, social workers, chaplains and volunteers to help a patient and family control pain and live as fully as possible at home, in hospitals or nursing homes during the demanding months when death is approaching. ' Health care professionals can provide information on both of these resources and can refer patients to either for care:

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Pioneer in 'no..priests land' builds interfaith links

By ERIKA W. MARTINEZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

outside observer, the sight of a Catholic priest in clerical attire at SALT LAKE CITY - To an the June 9-11 meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Salt Lake City might have seemed strange. :.tSd But in the busy press room of the Salt Palace Convention Center, Glenmary Home _ Missioner Father Frank Ruff was a familiar face to both the media and the convention delegates.

Father Ruff is the field representative to the Southern Baptist Convention for the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

He has held the position in two separate terms, from 1967-71, and from 1992 unFATHER FRANK RUFF serves til the present. As he exas Catholic field representative to changed greetings with jourthe Southern Baptist Convention. nalists from newspapers The priest, a Glenmary Home across the country, his popularity with them was apparMissioner, recently shared faith sto- ent. ries with convention attendees in "If I came to one of these Salt Lake City. (CNS photo by Erika conventions and I didn't see Martinez, Intermountain Catholic) Frank, I'd turn around and get

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right back on a plane for home," said Houston Chronicle religion editor Richard Vara, who has covered the Baptist conventions for the past 15 years.

Father Ruff took Vara's compliment with laughter, but as he moved through the crowds in the convention center, he was greeted warmly by dozens of people who knew him from previous conventions.

During lunch, as he listened to the stories of each person at the table, he demonstrated what he maintains in his liaison efforts between the two faiths: that Catholics should connect with Southern Baptists, and with people of the various other faiths.

Father Ruff, ordained 35 years ago, dedicated himself to promot-

ing that belief when he was a young Wisconsin priest. He came across a map which showed U.S. territories he called "no-priests land."

Convinced that he could be valuable in such places, he joined the Glenmary Home Missioners, an order of priests which "builds churches in rural areas, sets them up, and then turns them over to the dioceses," he said. Glenmary priests are active primarily in the rural South, where Catholics comprise less than 1 percent of the population.

Because Southern Baptists predominate in the South, the order agreed to underwrite Father Ruff's work as the NCCB's liaison to the denomination. He had little train-

ing, but plenty of self-confidence, he recalled.

Father Ruff does not see any danger of "Protestantization" for Southern Catholics. "What we do is take in some of the treasures of Protestant life and worship, although we don't do it blindly ... but we do consciously try to inculturate our faith and our lives."

Of the Southern Baptist Convention, he said, "I believe Jesus is bringing us together.... I hear it in the voices of the people here who say 'thank you for coming,' They want to be connected, and I hear that in the stories of Catholics and Baptists working together.

"I am convinced over the years that we have much to learn from each other,"

Weekly General Audien{:e Message Pope John Paul II Dear brothers and sisters, In our continuing preparation for the Great Jubilee of the Vear 2000, we reflect today on the identity of the Holy Spirit in the light of the Pentecost event.

St. Luke describes Pentecost as a powerful manifestation of God which establishes the new and eternal covenant, 0 manifestation similar to the one on Mount Sinai which inaugurated the old covenant. Through the gift of the Spirit, the Father gives us a new heart and makes us capable of living accol'ding to the new low.

At Pentecost, the descent of the Holy Spirit gave birth to the church. The Christian community comes about at the initiative of God's love when the Father pours out the gift of the Holy Spirrn, and we give our assent of faith to this gift, an assent which is both a response to grace and 0 result of grace.

The Holy Spirit continues the Son's saving work by making God immediately present t.o each of us and by giving us a direct knowledge of him. Thus, through the action of the Spirit in the new covenant, we grow in friendship with God, experiencing him as father, brother, friend and bridegroom.

I warmly greet the students of the Pontifical Beda College who will be ordained deacons this afternoon, as well as their families and friends.

I extend a special greeting to the priests from the Diocese of Scranton on pilgrimage to Rome and the Holy Land. I also welcome the Buddhist group "Rissho Kosei Kat and the Shinto group "Omoto-Kyo" from Japan. Upon all the English-speaking pilgrims and visitors, especially those from England, Singapore, Japan, Canada and the United States of America, I invoke the joy and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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ATILEBORO FALLS St. Mark $250 M-M Francis Chambers, M-M Dennis McCarthy; $150 M·M Brian Zibuda; $125 M·M Richard Harris; $100 MMRobert Clodi, M·M John Folan, M-M Brian Lithway, M-M Goncalo Tavares.

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I usually judge a book by how many sentences I have underlined and how many pages I have creased.

My copy of Father Paul Keenan's new book "Good News for Bad Days - Living a Soulful Life," (Warner Books) is fully marked up, with barely an uncreased page!

Father Keenan, assistant director of the New York archdiocesan Office of Communications and a delightful man, shares the stories of his life, honestly letting us into his journey with all its pain. When he tells us what he's learned from that journey, we're no longer outsiders, alone in our bad days. We connect with someone who understands that life has been, all the while, his soul's adventure, with a grand destination -love.

He wants to share with us how he learned that lesson and what it means.

To live a soulful life, he writes, means "to see God's hand in the crazy quilt of our experiences." Soul, he says, is the part of us that is connected to the divine spark. It is the deeper dimension of our lives; it is the "part of ourselves that gathers light." Instead Of "focusing on lack, soulful people are in awe of the abundance of the world, at the myriad ways God presents himself to them."

I applauded how this author, like Jesus, would not judge others. "I realized that hardness of heart is never a sign of soulfulness," he writes, "even when it masquerades as moral uprightness."

Much in his book is practical sharing. He describes

a period in his life when he was "groping around in a pea soup fog," feeling like a failure. He realiz,~d he had spent his life doing what other people wanted him to do and not what he wanted. He discovered we have options, but "the real change had to be made from within."

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He found the "voice in his soul" that guided him.

Today, Father Keenan stlid, his "whole ministry" is "touching hearts." He reaches out to anybody in pain "who thinks there's no hope, regardless of age, background, rich, poor." Part of his ministry is donl~ through the airwaves, as host of a radio program, "As You Think," and co-host of another, "Religion on the Line."

Father Keenan said the hardest thing abollt writing the book was keeping it to the editor's word length. "I had trouble not writing 'Moby Dick'" he said, with his natural good humor showing.

Maybe his editor was wrong. I didn't want the book to end.

Getting 'crafty' with grandchildren Dear Mary: My grandchildren, ages 9 and 11, are coming to visit us for a week this summer. There are a few places to visit in our area, but beyond a few day trips I am wondering how to keep them entertained. We have had them for a day at a time but never for a week. - Iowa Traditionally, grandparents are the custodians of family history, and they pass that history on to future generations. However, children are doers, more interested in action than listening.

While they are with you, by all means tell family stories. But do not overlook another kind of heritage you might pass along. You will have a great opportunity to pass on skills which children may not learn elsewhere. If you do any kind of crafts. this is a perfect time to share them with your grandchildren.

Do you knit or crochet? Do you do ceramics or other kinds of art projects? Your grandchildren are at an age to enjoy learning such skills from you. Of course, both boys and girls can learn and enjoy any craft.

First, brush up your own skills. Although you can do the craft yourself, you may need to practice in order to present it to a beginner.

Teach them to make something they will want and value. As a child, my aunt got me interested in crocheting by making a sweater for my doll.

In very little time, with no pattern, she crocheted little pieces and sewed them together into a doll sweater. I thought she was incredibly clever, and I wanted to learn to do that. She taught me, and I have enjoyed crocheting ever since.

Try books or magazines to enhance your own ideas.

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san, 1998) takes kids of all ages through each step in knitting and presents delightful projects of increasing difficulty. Search libraries, bookstores and craft stores for more ideas. For beginners, be sure to ,~hoose a small project where they can quickly produce a fin-

Family Talk With Dr. James & Mary Kenny ished product.

Prepare for your project by buying enough supplies to get them started. If they really become enthused you can take them shopping to buy materials for their own projects.

Perhaps you never passed these skills along to your own children. With our own children we are often too busy to start such a project. We postpone it, figuring there is always time later, but later never come:;. Grandchildren give us a second chance"to share odr skills.

At ages 9 and 11 you will have enthusiastic pupils who like to be doing things. You will show (hem part of their heritage that no one else can. And you should all have a good time in the bargain.

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Getting up to speed as a Catholic Q. I am a correctional officer at a state penitentiary, saw your column in our reading room and hope you can help.

I was baptized Catholic, and that's as far as it went. No first Communion, no confession and maybe attended church a dozen times.

I'm now 23. My fiance is in the same situation.

We are thinking strongly of getting involved in our church.

How do we go about doing that? Can we just go to Mass one day? Do we have to talk with someone first?

We'll appreciate your insights. (Missouri) A. Theoretically, there's nothing preventing you now from beginning to receive the sacraments.

But that would not be wise or good, particularly since you plan soon to establish your own home and family.

You and, hopefully, your children will need a much more solid base of knowledge and understanding of your faith, and of your relationship with God, than is possible at present with your very limited Catholic background.

Several possibilities come to mind. While the Rite for the Christian Initiation of Adults is actually not for people already baptized Catholic, many men and women in your circumstances have found it a wonderful way to arrive at some depth of awareness of the Catholic way of life.

Depending on your education and other experiences, a series of meetings with a priest or other parish minister, along with some good reading, might bring you up to speed.

For any of these options you need to talk with a priest in your area, explain the situation and ask his help.

Please don't be embarrassed to do this. As I said, many others have been and are in your position.

Q. I read recently your column about watching Mass on television. You said our obligation is not

to hear or watch someone else do something, but to be there and do it ourselves.

It is almost impossible for me to go to Mass. I cannot stand or sit for any long period of time, because of being crippled with arthritis. After one major surgery, I am now waiting for another.

Until your article, I felt like I was doing my part

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as a Catholic to participate in Mass, since I can't go to church. (Ohio) : A. You fare exactly the kind of person those who provide Mass on television want to reach and serve.

You are using this opportunity to join yourself spiritually to the sacrifice of the Mass, which I suggested in the column, and I'm happy you are doing so.

Obviously, watching and praying along with a recorded Mass differs significantly and essentially from sharing in the celebration together with your brothers and sisters in the faith.

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Similarly, "ful1time position" implies the applicant will be open to working weekends and evenings in addition to his or her regular 40 hours.

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Those Catholic job ads Most of us know that real estate ads feature euphemisms. "Vintage" means "old." "Cozy" translates "very, very small," etc, Reading Catholic newspapers over the years has led me to conclude that their employment classifieds display a parallel phenomenon.

For example, "grant-writing experience is a plus" can very well mean, "'Don't count on retiring from this job" or, "By the way, there might be a little challenge in finding funds for you next year."

A friend who has applied for various Catholic ministerial positions assures me the phrase "salary negotiable" pretty much means what it says. It's negotiable whether or not you will be offered a salary.

If you see "fingerprints will be submitted to state and federal agencies" in the ad, it might be wise to inquire about any gossip floating around about the person formerly in this position.

"This is a challenging position for someone who is looking for an exciting ministry" can be deciphered as, "People yell at you a lot, and· the last person left in tears."

"Must possess ability to work closely and collaboratively in a team administrative setting" is code for "female applicants preferred."

"Candidate must demonstrate excel1ent communications skills" has been known to transmute to "able to operate World War II era phone system."

How about "position requires strong financial management skills"? This is the short version of "we want someone who stops to pick up a penny during a threelegged race, who can squeeze blood from a turnip, who makes nickels squeal and who adds water to the soup."

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The ad states, "Salary commensurate with experience and education." It means, "We haven't a clue what to pay this person."

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., June 19, 1998

Despite cancer, HIV, senior maintains Church dutlies most fulltime for about 10 years. During that time the CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE Caregivers Interfaith VolunSPRINGFIELD, III. - You teers of Springfield occacouldn't blame Ken Davis for be- sionally sent someone to his home so that he could leave ing desperate.

This retiree has cancer, lives to attend Mass or do other erwith post-polio syndrome and is rands.

He showed his appreciaHIV positive. His mother died last fall, and he had to file for bank- tion by bringing the program to his own parish and recruitruptcy last November.

But he is not complaining. In ing additional volunteers. He fact, the 70-year-old Catholic now coordinates about 20 volunteers to help senior citiclaims he has never been happier.

"He's had every reason to turn zens in ways that he himself his back on God, but he hasn't," said had received assistance.

A couple of years before Mary Keldermans, RCIA coordinator at Cathedral Parish in Spring- his mother died last fall, field. "He really loves everything Davis took the small step of participating in a Rehe does, and he's hung in there."

Remarkably, Davis has become Membering Church program a model of civic engagement and for inactive Catholics at the lay involvement in the Church. He cathedral parish. He felt welserves on his parish's RCIA team, come there, began attending coordinates a group of volunteers Mass regularly and agreed to who provide personal services for be a sponsor on the parish senior citizens, and labors endlessly RCIA team.

He views his entire life as for the Springfield AIDS Resource Association Center, which counsels full of episodes of dying and and consoles people and their fami- rising, starting with the polies who have AIDS or arc HIV lio he contracted at age 5. He worked through that, and positive.

KEN DAVIS, 70, talks with Mary Keldermans, RCIA coordinator at the Cathedral of the ImmacuDavis wasn't always an active much later lived "in denial" church member. Although Catho- for years because only his late Conception in Springfield, III. Davis remains active in parish and other volunteer programs lic for the past 40 years, he attended sister knew he was HIV posi- despite having cancer, post-polio syndrome and HIV disease. (CNS photo by Ed Wojcicki) churchoccasionally while enjoying tive. Now that it is public, he a successful career and living "a said, "I'm not proud of it, but it's good life" as an interior designer allowed me a freedom to talk to other people about it." in Chicago.

He uses that freedom to serve He retired 200 miles south to Springfield, his birthplace, then- until it hurts. And then he rests, but . took care of his ailing mother al- never for too long.

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Maryknoller receives Catholic Press award

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Congress is mulling positive legislation in

the Senate Judiciary Committee, began the controversy last November by asking DEA chief Thomas Constantine to comment on the controversial Oregon law.

Constantine announced that prescribing lethal doses of medicine did not appear to meet the Controlled Substances Act's requirement of "legitimate medical pur-

pose."

Hyde was asking for expedited treatment for his bill, which would wake of negative ruling have to come to a vote soon to beat by attorney general. the summer break. a fortnightly Korean version of

By Ed Langlois In Oregon, the head of a group • Father Robert Astorino, Asia Focus, its weekly newsletter Catholic News Service of doctors troubled by legalized asa director andpublisher in English. sisted suicide voiced support for It has trained more than 1,000 PORTLAND, Ore. - Some Hyde's bill. of an Asian news fledgling Asian journalists, many analysts are optimistic that Con"If the law is unclear, then the service, cops top honor. of whom have used their UCAN gress will approve a bill meant to United States Congress needs to

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE block doctors from prescribing lemake it clear that using drugs to training and experience to obtain thai drugs in response to the rulkill is not medical," said Dr. GreNEW ORLEANS (CNS) gory Hamilton, a Portland psyfulltime jobs with secular or other ing by Attorney General Janet U.S. Maryknoll Father Robert Church news organizations. Reno saying doctors could not be chiatrist and head of Physicians Astorino, founder and director of About 250 of them continue to prosecuted for such actions. for Compassionate Care. the Union of Catholic Asian serve as correspondents or string"To make assisted suicide Reno said June 5 that the fedNews, recently received the 1998 ers for UCAN. eral Drug Enforcement Adminis'medical' results in a medical proBishop John England Award of fession that no longer knows any A New York native, Father tration has no authority to arrest the Catholic Press Association in Astorino was ordain~d a or revoke the drug licenses of docother response to the eldl~rly and New Orleans.. seriously ill, except assis:ted suiMaryknoll priest in 1970 and sent tors who provide lethal doses of The award is given annually to to the Graduate School of Jour- medicine under the Oregon law cide," he told the Catholic Sentia Catholic publisher for his or her· nalism at Columbia University that took effect late last year. nel, Portland's archdiocesan serVice to First Amendment ide- with the expectation that after a Just moments after that annewspaper. als of press freedom.

"My fears have already been few years of missionary experi- nouncement, Rep. Henry Hyde, realized," Hamilton said, referring Father Astorino started UCAN ence in Asia he would return R-Ill., and Rep. James Oberstar, to Oregon's first reported :legal asin 1979 with himself and two home and take over the reins of D-Minn., introduced the Lethal Drug Abuse Prevention Act. sisted suicide. other fulltime staff sharing a Maryknoll magazine.

Instead, he stayed in Asia to ''The legislation reaffirms that In that case, two docwrs, insingle typewriter in a small onecluding the family physil:ian, reroom office in Hong Kong and a help the Asian bishops develop a physicians should use federally fused to aid in the death of an 82few untrained stringers scattered Church news service, modeled regulated drugs for legitimate year-old woman. At least one of around East and Southeast Asia. after Western news agencies but medical goals such as relief of the doctors diagnosed her with deNow it produces news services with its focus on the diverse pain and suffering," said Hyde, of the House Judiciary ATTORNEY GENERAL Janet pression and urged treatment and peoples and cultures who form chairman in six languages, has more than Committee.

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., June 19, 1998

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One quarter of U.S. diocesan priests not active •

Official Catholic Directory shows more priests retired or absent from ministry for other reasons.

By JERRY FILTEAU CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON- One-fourth of all U.S. diocesan priests are now retired, sick or otherwise absent from active duty, according to figures in the 1998 Official Catholic Directory.

Directory figures show the number of U.S. parishes without a resident pastor has now grown to 2,460, or more than 13 percent of all parishes.

The 2,200-page directory is a complete listing of all ofl1cial U.S. Catholic institutions and organizations.

The figures on retired priests and parishes without resident pas-

tors are not available in the general summary appearing at the end of the directory. But they are given for each diocese at the start of that diocese's listings.

Also listed within each diocese but not summarized nationally are figures on nonordained professional ministry personnel.

By compiling the figures from each Latin and Eastern-rite diocese of the United States - excluding Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories or possessions, Which are also listed in the directory Catholic News Service found that: - of the 31,657 U.S. diocesan priests, 7,800, or 24.6 percent, are listed as "retired, sick or ~bsent"; - of the 18,467 U.S. parishes, 2,460, or 13.3 percent, do not have a resident pastor; - the dioceses that responded to questions about their professional ministry personnel reported a total of 21,724 nonordained people - 15,112 lay ministers,

6,211 sisters and 40 I brothers employed in professional ministry.

An independent study last year by the National Pastoral Life Center found that U.S. Catholic parishes employ more than 26,000 lay ministers, of which one-fourth were women religious. It found that most were employed fulltime, but 37 percent were employed parttime, defined as 20 to 34 hours a week.

Last year there were 7,451 retired, sick or absent out of a total of 31,977, leaving 24,526 on active duty.

In the past 15 years the total of diocesan priests dropped just 10.4 percent, from 35,356 to 31,657.

But in the same period the total of active diocesan priests dropped 20.8 percent, from 30,133 to 23,857.

The vast majority of priests listed as "retired, sick or absent" are retired. Many of them continue to engage in priestly ministry, but

usually on a more limited basis, and they no longer hold administrative posts.

When dioceses develop plans for fewer priests, people often ask why priests from religious orders cannot be called in to fill the gap.

But from 1983 to 1998 the total number of U.S. religious order priests dropped from 22,514 to 15,547 - a decline of more than 30 percent.

The 2,460 parishes without a resident pastor at the start of 1998 is an increase of413 over the 2,047 reported in 1992.

Most parishes without a resident pastor are administered by a non-resident priest - 2,010 in 1998. But an increasing number are administered by someone other than a priest.

The 1998 figures show 213 parishes administered by nuns., 15 by

South Dakota pharmacists given a choice •

They can refuse to dispense life-ending drugs if it bothers their conscience.

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

PIERRE, S.D. (CNS) - Beginning July I, pharmacists in South Dakota may legally choose not to dispense drugs that would cause an abortion, assisted suicide or euthanasia if they feel doing so violates their conscience.

The pharmacists' prerogative is allowed under a bill - the first of its kind in the nation - which was passed by both state chambers and signed in March by Gov. William 1. Janklow.

"All this law does is level the playing field," said Dan Wunrow, executive director of the South Dakota Right to Life. "This bill will give pharmacists the legal protection that the rest of the medical community has had for years."

"For many years laws have pro-

tected the conscience of medical personnel who would refuse to take part in something that would conflict with other moral, ethical and religious convictions," Wunrow said in a telephone interview with Catholic News Service.

Wunrow said that as the medical community kept heading toward the "dark area" of abortions, assisted suicide and euthanasia "we felt that now, more than ever, pharmacists needed to be protected from dispensing deadly medications."

The controversy over whether a pharmacist had the right to refuse dispensing deadly doses of prescribed drugs began last year.

A pharmacist who was employed by the state's Indian Health Service clinic refused to comply with the clinic's policy of providing rape victims with "morning-after" pills. If taken within 72 hours of sexual intercourse, the pills prevent a pregnancy by keeping a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall.

House bill would restore immigrants'food stamps

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - The House has agreed to support a bill that would restore food stamps to about 250,000 legal immigrants who lost their benefits in the 1996 changes in welfare.

The 364-50 vote in recent days followed the Senate's May 12 vote of 92-8 to restore food stamps to about one-quarter of the legal im-· migrants whose benefits were eliminated when Congress reorganized the welfare system. President Clinton was expected to sign the bill.

The bill covers the elderly, children, people with disabilities and

refugees who have lived in the United States since before Aug. 22, 1996. It was supported by a wide range of agencies, such as Catholic Charities USA, that have been trying to meet increased demand for food assistance from people whose benefits were cut.

About 935,000 legal immigrants were cut off the food stamp rolls, but the majority were not covered by the changes in the current bill.

The cost of restoring the food stamps - estimated at $818 million over five years - would be offset by reduced costs to the federal government to administer the program. State governments now handle that.

The pharmacist, Jeff Gallagher, is a Catholic who said his religious beliefs would not permit him to dispense any life-ending drugs.

"AIl I wanted to do was practice my religion without being reprimanded," he told The Associated Press after the clinic threatened to fire him. "I thought freedom of religion was allowed in this country."

Wunrow told CNS that from the beginning of the controversy, South Dakota Right to Life received solid support from other state organizations, including the South Dakota Pharmacists Association.

The biIl encountered little opposition, passing by votes of57-1O in the House and 30-3 in the Senate.

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In addition, 41 parishes without a resident pastor were administered by a "pastoral team" - a term that might or might not include a priest member - and 17 were listed as "completely vacant."

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THE ANCHOR -Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Jun~ 19,1998

Harrison Ford fans will enjoy shipwrecked comfdy

By GERRI PARE CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW YORK - The old shipwrecked-on-a-tropical-isle scenario is reworked into a romantic comedy adventure in "Six Days, Seven Nights" (Touchstone).

A sudden squall forces crusty pilot Quinn (Harrison Ford) to crashland on an uninhabited South Seas island with high-strung passenger Robin (Anne Heche), who's just become engaged back on Tahiti during her vacation.

While there is little fresh or original about the story, Ford and Heche are appealing as the leads and their bickering banter makes the movie easy on the eyes and ears if in no way challenging to the mind.

Mind you, their characters' respective love interests are much less interesting. David Schwimmer plays Heche's whiny fiance, who finds comfort in the accommodating arms of Ford's girlfriend (Jacqueline Obradors) as soon as they are told their sweet.hearts are presumed dead.

Meanwhile, back at the crash site, the crippled plane's radio and emergency transmission are kaput so the twosome may be in for the long haul.

Snarling and screaming give way to a dinner of peacock over the campfire when their empty bellies get the better of them. And eventu-

ally other appetites almost get the better of them after they join forces to survive the arrival of pirates on their private paradise.

The narrative gets even more fanciful when the endangered duo devises a novel means of escape - but anyone in the audience with one eye left open can guess just where all this is headed.

Director Ivan Reitman aims for nothing more than a summer popcorn movie that has little relationship to reality but a timeworn formula to fall back on.

As predictable as watermelon on the Fourth of July, it leisurely brings two total opposites together for the hackneyed closing clinch. The script seems contrived to please most everyone, blending in the unlikely pirate subplot for Ford's action fans, smart-alecky humor for Schwimmer's followers and starryeyed romance for the female audience.

Unfortunately, the script also throws in a lot of gratuitous profanity that is completely unnecessary and adds nothing of value to this trifle of a film. Probably, the specter of a more restrictive R rating from the MPAA is the only reason a fourletter word isn't used more than once.

However, the amount of profanity and sexual innuendo still make it

TV specials to key on race, religion in media

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK - The Odyssey cable channel and ABC will show companion specials documenting the treatment of race in religion and in the media.

Both shows will air this fall. No air dates or times have yet been set.

"Race and Media" will be the first program, shown on Odyssey. It will examine how well-known producerS, writers and actors use film to bridge racial and cultural divides. It is the last in a series of four "Horizons of the Spirit" programs distributed to Odyssey and NBC. Using film clips and interviews, it will show how mass media such as firm, TV and the Intemet have the po-

tential to reflect a much broader and far more diverse sense of community than where most people have lived.

"Racism and Reconciliation" will air on ABC in October as the first in the 1998-99 "Vision and Values" series of religion specials.

It will examine how several faith communities are coming to terms with the racism in their midst.

It will look at the spate of church burnings in the South and visit churches where people of many races worship together, sometimes in multilingual services.

Both the "Horizons of the Spirit" and "Vision and Values" series are projects of the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission, of which the U.S. Catholic Conference is a member.

Learning channel plots 'Doomsday Asteriod'

By HENRY HERX CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK - How life on our planet might be destroyed is examined in the five-part series, "Ends of the Earth," the first segment of which is "Doomsday Asteroid," premiering Monday, June 29, 9-10 p.m. EDT on cable's Leaming Channel. .

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Interviewed on the program area number of scientists who believe we need to bolster our space monitoring of such deadly objects whizzing about our globe and figure out strategies to prevent their ever impacting with earth.

One such strategy is to nuke them out of our orbit.

Fans of disaster movies should enjoy the program's sci-fi graphics, but taxpayers may have other reactions when they leam the price tag for developing these anti-asteroid measures would be billions of dollars.

In any event, those interested can watch life on earth wiped out by nuclear holocaust, killer virus, climate change and natural catastrophe on succeeding evenings, June 29 and July 1.

an adult-oriented movie.

It's only the light-as-air performances of Heche and Ford that make this forgettable movie fairly enjoyable.

Because of brief violence, some sexual innuendo, recurring profanity and an instance of rough language, the U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-III - adults. The

Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 - parents are strongly cautioned that some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS - Anne Heche and Harrison Ford star in the romantic comedy adventure "Six Days, Seven Nights." The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-III - adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 - parents are strongly cautioned that some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. (CNS/Reuters photo)

PBS will air special on Cardinal Bernardin

By CATHOLIC

NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON - "Bernardin," a special about the life of the late Chicago Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin, will be shown on PBS in July.

Most PBS affiliates that have scheduled the show have slated it for the first half of July, some as early as July I. Public television stations in America's 50 biggest TV markets, representing 79 percent of all U.S. TV households, have committed to airing the program in prime time.

"Bernardin" documents Cardinal Bernardin's rise to leadership in the church, his introduction of the "seamless garment" image into the public debate on life issues, his role. in creating the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, and his questioning ofthe U.S. commitment to nuclear weapons.

The hour-long special also looks at his involvement in the Catholic Common Ground Initiative, his attempt to foster conversation in the Church among persons with conflicting points of view.

"Bernardin" also examines how .the cardinal handled false accusations of sexual misconduct levied at him, and how he dealt with the cancer which claimed his life at age 68 in 1996.

Among those interviewed on the program are Cardinal Roger M.

Mahony of Los Angeles; Bishop Robert N. Lynch of St. Petersburg, Fla.; religious historian Martin Marty; Newsweek religion editor Kenneth Woodward; Time religion writer Richard Ostling; Cardinal Bernardin biographers Eugene Kennedy and John H. White; and Msgr. Kenneth Velo, the cardinal's secretary, who is president of the Catholic Church Extension Society.

"Bernardin" was produced by

longtime Catholic documentarians Martin Doblmeier and Frank Frost in association with Family Theater Productions and Santa Fe Communications.

Every U.S. parish has received a postcard informing 'them of the TV special.

Viewers can access www.bernardin.org for dates and times "Bernardin" willi air in their city.

NEW YORK (CNS) - The following are capsule reviews of movies recently reviewed by the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting.

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Morose tale in which a female magazine editor (Radha Mitchell) becomes sexually involved with a lesbian photographer (Ally Sheedy) who has been sharing a decadent heroin habit with her jealous longtime lover (Patricia Clarkson). Writer-director Lisa Cholodenko attempts to explore sexually charged intimate relationships, but the fuzzy characterizatiom; get blurred in repetitive, decadent scenes of recreational boozing and drug use. An uncritical acceptance of homosexual lifestyles, sexual situations with nudity, recurring substance abuse and much rough languag~. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is 0 -morally offensive. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted.

"Un Air de Famille" (Sony Classics) A French family's birthday gathering becomes the occasion for less merriment than searing emotional confrontations among six adults which force each of them to see themselves anew for better or worse. As directed by Cedric Klapisch, the slow pacing and claustrophobic cafe setting eventually give way to insightful character studies laced with dry wit and an emphasis on each person's humanity. Subtitles. A few sexual references and some rough language. The U.S. Catholic Confer~nce classification isA- III - adults. Not rated by the Motion Picture As,>ociation of America. .......... , .. , .

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but added that "in doing that job you should know that God sees your efforts."

He spoke to the candidates about the young man in Mark's Gospel who asked Jesus what he must do to reach everlasting life.

The bishop said they must live by the Commandments and never lose sight, as the young man did, of the fact that true success is not wealth or position, but salvation.

"I always suspected that the young man in the story grew richer and richer and sadder and sadder because he could not answer Jesus' call to 'Come follow me,''' he said.

The bishop also spoke of Jesus' FATHER Edward A. Murphy poses with Bishop O'Malley first sign of changing the water to following his ordination last Saturday. Murphy celebrated his wine at Cana.

"He didn't just: create wine, he first Mass at Holy Name Church, Fall River, on Jun~ 15 and created the best wine," he said. plans to visit his hometown of Cork, Ireland, to say Mass for "God wants us and you [candifriends and family this weekend. dates] to give him your best wine.

Give him your best godly choices," he advised.

Following their promise of obedience to the bishop and his successors, the candidates prostrated themselves in humility before the altar during the Litany of the Saints as the bishop and priests knelt in prayer.

During the imposition or "laying on" of hands, the bishop blessed each candidate, followed \ I by the priests in attendance, each of whom made the same gesture of calling down the Holy Spirit.

The Prayer of Consecration followed and the bishop asked that the spirit of each candidate be renewed in holiness. "Be a model for others so the words of the Gospel can reach the ends of the earth," he declared. He added that the newly-ordained should do three things: make time for the Lord, read the Scriptures often and have frequent contact with their fellow priests.

They were then vested with a stole and chasuble, the vestments MSGR. David George (left), Father William Campbell (cen- of their office. Father Paul C. ter), and Father Peter Nassetta prepare to present stoles Fedak was vested by Father and chasubles, the vestments of the priesthood, to the can- George Evans, Father Hernando Herrera by Father Peter Nassetta, didates.

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FATHERS Paul C. Fedak (left) and Hernando Herrera are all smiles during their ordination Mass at the Cathedral. A full house of friends and family watched and cheered on the ordinandi. (Anchor/Gordon photos)

NEWLY ORDAINED Fathers Murray, Murphy, Herrera and Fedak (not pictured) are vested with the stole and chasuble during the ordination ceremony.

Father Edward A. Murphy by Father William Campbell and Father John M. Murray by Msgr. David George.

The bishop anointed each on his hands with the Oil of Chrism as a sign of being chosen to do God's work. Family members then brought the gifts to the altar and each new priest received the chalice and paten from the bishop in another symbolic gesture. In concluding the rite, the newly ordained bestowed their first priestly blessings upon the bishop in a moving portion of the ceremony.

After distributing the Eucharist and offering Mass with dozens of concelebrants, the four newly ordained men made their way back to the sacristy, where others waited to offer congratulations. When they walked in, the thunder of applause once again drowned out the rain.

BISHOP Sean P. O'Malley imposes hands on Father John M. Murray. The laying on of hands symbolizes the calling down of the Holy Spirit.

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Pope visits Austria, a Church in crisis about the Church, along with all ues to rankle the Austrian faithful is the conits members.

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE Austria in 1995 was the birth- troversy over Cardinal place of a movement seeking Hans Hermann Groer.

VATICAN CITY - Pope John change in the Church. which even- Cardinal Groer, 78, Paul II will encounter a Church in tually spread to other European stepped down as archcrisis during his June 19-21 pas- countries and to the United States. bishop of Vienna in toral visit to Austria.

The movement, We Are Church, 1995 amid allegations Events on the pope's schedule proposes an end to requiring by former students that in the mountainous and compara- priestly celibacy, calls for the he had sexually abused tively prosperous European repub- priestly ordination of women and them as youths in the lic of 8 million people included seeks greater lay participation in 1970s. Cardinal Groer three beatifications, two outdoor the naming of bishops, among has said he would give Masses and a visit to the ill at a other things. iJp his duties at the Catholic-run hospice.

In answer to the movement and pope's request, but he In speeches, messages and to local tensions, the Austrian did not address the achomilies, Pope John Paul will have Church last year initiated a pro- cusations. the opportunity to address recent gram called Dialogue for Austria, In early June, Cardirifts among the country's more in which Church authorities meet nal Schonborn formally than 6 million faithful. The splits regularly with members of lay invited We Are Church are the result of disagreement over groups seeking change. to take part in a June 21 the nature of the priesthood, the A summit of delegates to Dia- open-air papal Mass in role of lay people and the Church logue for Austria was scheduled to Vienna. The group achierarchy's authority. take place in Salzburg this Octo- cepted, and called the Bishop Johann Weber of Graz- ber. invitation "a very posiSeckau, head of the Austrian bishA number of surveys taken by tive step." ops' conference, spoke out against Austrian media and polling agenWhile in Austria, any potential "instrument- cies shortly before the papal visit Pope John Paul was alization" of the papal trip "for one indicated that most of the faithful also to meet with civil side or another" two weeks before favor letting priests J1larry.and al- leaders and with memits start. lowing female priests, while at bers of t~e. diplom~tic . He also warned that the pope. least half of those polled said they ,corpsstati(;med in was not traveling to Austria to pro- . still supported the Church leader- 'Vienna,. including~h­ pose "miraculous solutions" !o.its, ship. . voys to the internaproblems,. but to show he'cares One of the issues which ~ontin- tional agencies with i" 1 ' headquarters there.

Church sources in Vie,nna said thesupject of the' pope's speech at that meeting was to be the' "exp~htsic;n""'Of' Europe's role I'n the world; and the plann'ed eastward enlargement Oh adorable and Divine Will, behold me here before the imof the European Union. mensity ofYour Light, that Your eternal goodness may open to This will be Pope me the doors and make me enter into It to form my life all in John Paul's third pastoYou, Divine Will. Therefore, oh adorable Will, prostrate before ral visit to Austria, and Your Light, I, the least of all creatures, put myself into the little CATHEDRAL HIPPOLYTUS - Pope John Paul II will make a prihis 83~d trip outside of group of the sons and daughters of Your Supreme FIAT. ProsIt.aly sl~ce the start of vate visit to the Cathedral of St. Hippolytus in St. Polten during his trip trate in my nothingness, I invoke Your Light and beg that it hiS pontificate. to Austria June 19-21. (CNS photo by Julie Denesha) dothe me and eclipse all that does not pertain to You, Divine Will. It will be my Life, the center of my intelligence, the enrapturer of my heart and of my whole being. I do not want the human will to have life in this heart any longer. I will cast it away from me and thus form the new Eden of Peace, of happiness and of love. With It I shall be always happy. I shall have a singular strength and a holiness that sanctifies all things and conducts them to God. The vote at the bishops' meet- meeting, it was pointed out that the Here prostrate, I invoke the help of the Most Holy Trinity • They no longer object in Sydney reversed the position Latin-rite church in Australia now ing that They permit me to live in the cloister of the Divine Will and to Eastern Rite churches taken by the country's Latin-rite has several married pri.ests, most of thus return in me the first order of creation, just as the creature ordaining married men bishops in 1949. At the time, the whom began their ministry in the was created. bishops cited the potential "alarm- Anglican Church before becoming in Australia.

Heavenly Mother, Sovereign and Queen of the Divine Fiat, ing reaction" which could arise Catholics. take my hand and introduce me into the Light of the Divine among their faithful in seeing marBishop Stasiuk told The Record,

By PETER ROSENGREN Will. You will be my guide, my most tender Mother, and will the newspaper of the Archdiocese ried Catholic priests.

CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE teach me to live in and to ·maintain myself in the order and the The Latin-rite bishops of the of Perth, that he was happy the PERTH, Australia:- Australia's . United States passed a similar mo- motion had been pa~,sed, in part boundsof the Divine WilL .Heavenly Mother, I consecrate my Catholic bishops, formally revers- tion against married priests in 1929, because it helped redress the earwhole being to Your Immaculate Heart.- You will teach me the ing the position taken by their pre- leading to the Vatican ban on the . lier motion which directed that doctrine of the.Divine Will and I will listen most attentively to decessors almost 50 years ago, have ordination of married men in East- "only celibate clergy be permitted Your lessons. You will cover me with Your mantle so that the said they have no objection to the ern-rite churches outside the tradi- to publicly exercise their ministry .infernal serpent dare not penetrate into this sacred Eden to enEastern-rite churches ordaining tional home territories of the East- in Australia." tice me and make me fall into the maze of the human will.

Bishop Stasi uk, speaking by married men in Australia. ern churches.

Heart of my greatest Good, Jesus, You will give me Your Ukrainian Bishop Peter Stasiuk telephone from his M~lbourne of"The conference expresses its flames that they may bum me, consume me, and feed me to respect for the clergy,including the of Melbourne said the Australian fice, said, "That first motion was form in me the Life of the Divine Will. married clergy," working in the bishops' May vote does not mean unjustified, and a little bit ill-conSaint Joseph, you will be my protector, the guardian of my Eastern-rite Catholic parishes of that married men from the Ukrai- ceived." heart, and will keep the keys of my will in your hands. You will Australia, said the motion passed nian or other Eastern-rite churches He said the recent vote simply during the conference's May 19-28 in Australia would be ordained in registered that the bishops' conferkeep my heart jealously and shall never give it to me again, that . meeting. the immediate future. ence had no objection to EasternI may be sure of never leaving the Will of God. "The conference further affirms While alIowing some exceprite churches ordaining married My guardian Angel, guard me; defend me; help me in everyobjection to the that it has no in Australia. tions, the Vatican has continued to men thing so that my Eden may flourish and be the instrument that eparchs. (Eastern-rite bishops) or- uphold its 70-year-old ban on the "We say it's part of our rite, our draws all men into the Kingdom of the Divine Will. Amen. daining married men to the Eastern-rite ordinations of married custom and tradition," he said, adding that "we've always had married ( In Honor of Luisa Piccarreta 1865-1947 Child of the Divine Will) diaconate and priesthood in Austra- men in the West. lia," the bishops said.

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country's bishops and local pastoral workers.

At the national shrine of Marija Bistrica, the pope will beatify Car-

The pope also plans to visit Cardinal Stepinac's grave in Zagreb.

In Split, a city damaged during the Balkan fighting earlier in this

VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II has added a day to his planned visit to Croatia in October, according to a tentative schedule discussed by Vatican and Croatian church officials.

Plans now call for the 78year-old pontiff to spend Oct. 24 in the Balkan country, where he will beatify a controversial cardinal and meet with a number of church groups.

The papal program was at the center of discussions in early June, CROATIAN FEAST - Archbishop Josip Bozanic of Zagreb, Croatia, prays when a fourbefore the image of Our Lady of the Stone Gate at an annual feast in the man Vatican delegation met Croatian capital. The painting of Our Lady of the Stone Gate was the only item with Catholic spared when a fire destroyed the Upper Town of Zagreb 267 years ago. (CNS and government photo by Josip Stilinovic) leaders in Croatia, according to the Croatian dinal Alojzije Stepinac, who was decade, the pope will celebrate Catholic news agency, IKA. Vati- jailed by communist authorities on Mass and meet with Catholic relican officials confirmed that the what the church considered gion teachers. The city is celebratschedule had been extended. trumped-up charges of collaborat- ing its 1,700th birthday.

Vatican sources said the pope The tentative program calls for ing with Croatia's pro-Nazi regime the pope to land in Zagreb, the during World War II. Croatian was likely to discuss the lingering Croatian capital, where he will meet Catholics view him as a hero for tensions in the Balkans during his with President Franjo Tudjrnan and resisting postwar communist at- October trip, which will be his second visit to Croatia. the diplomatic corps, along with the tempts to suppress religion.

Pope, Arafat, air' Middle East peace process

By CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met briefly at the Vatican June 12 to discuss the troubled Middle East peace process.

"Mr. Arafat wanted to inform the pope of the tragic situation in which the Palestinian people find themselves while the peace process is threatened on all sides," said a Vatican statement released after the meeting.

"John Paul II, in turn, renewed to Mr. Arafat the Holy See's support for the peace process, which must continue with good will on all sides [and with] respect for the commitments made and for international law," the statement said.

Arafat, president of the Palestinian Authority, was dressed in his military-style olive green uniform and kaffiyeh.

He and the pope met privately for only 13 minutes. As Arafat left the papal library, the pope said, "Certainly, I will pray for you and for your nation."

After the meeting, Arafat told reporters, "When I met His Holiness this morning, we had wideranging talks" on the celebration of the year 2000 in Bethlehem.

"I also invited His Holiness to participate with us in this event; I had a positive reaction from him," said Arafat.

The pope expressed his concern for the Middle East peace process May 28 when he welcomed Jordan's new ambassador to the Vatican.

"In recent years," the pope said, "hopes have been raised that nego-

tiations would produce peaceful solutions to the many problems of the region. But these hopes have not yet been fulfilled. Indeed, in times such as the present, the prospect of fulfillment even seems to have receded."

A complete breakdown in the negotiations, he said, would "prove disastrous for all."

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ARAFAT WITH POPE - Palestinian leader Vasser Arafat adjusts his keffiyeh while posing for photographers with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican June 12. The two discussed the Middle East peace process during their meeting. (CNS/ Reuters photo)

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Time may be right for East Timor

October Croatia visit

By JOHN THAVIS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Diocese of Fall River-Fri., June 19,1998

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - The recent changes in the Indonesian government make it an appropriate time for the U.S. government to press for a reduction in the country's military presence in East Timor, a U.S. archbishop told Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

In a letter, Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick of Newark, N.J., who is chairman of the U.S. bishops' International Policy Committee, reminded Albright of the Catholic bishops' concern for the religious and civil liberties of the people of East Timor, a former Portuguese colony.

The Indonesia military invaded the Portuguese half of the island of Timor in 1975 and annexed it in 1976.

"Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo ofDili, East Timor, recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, has commented recently on the continued civil disturbances that are causing great suffering and growing resentment," Archbishop McCarrick said.

Those disturbances are largely caused "by the heavy-handed excesses of the Indonesian military in the territory," he continued.

A long period of violence and rioting led up to the May 21 resignation oflndonesia President Suharto, who ruled for 30 years. The Indonesian bishops have asked his successor, President B.J. Habibie, to BISHOP BELO work to achieve total reform in the crisistom country.

The change in Indonesia's government makes it an appropriate time to press for quick resolution of East Timor's status, based on the wishes of the people there, Archbishop McCarrick said.

But aside from that, he urged "an immediate and genuine reduction of the Indonesian military presence in East Timor, the release of prisoners incarcerated for purely political reasons, the guarantee of freedom of speech and assembly, and an end to abuses of people's human rights."

In a separate letter to Bishop Belo, Archbishop McCarrick offered to lend whatever support is available from the U.S. bishops "to make real the promise of the Nobel Peace Prize."

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Cardinals and bishops asked the president to seek lifting of religious restrictions when he visits China later this month.

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WASHINGTON - Two U.S. cardinals and several bishops are among a group of religious leaders who have asked President Clinton to urge China to grant religious liberty to its citizens.

"The right to free expression of religion in China is still being severely restricted, and those Chinese who have attempted to express their religious beliefs, especially in the unregistered church, often endure various forms of persecution," said the letter signed by the religious leaders, including Cardinals John 1.

O'Connor of New York and Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Philadelphia.

The letter was delivered to Clinton last week. Trinitarian Father Stan DeBoe, a spokesman for the . International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, which authored the letter, said the group has been promised time with Clinton before he leaves June 24 for China.

The letter cited "the intended eradication of the unregistered, Vatican-loyal Catholic Church" and a "crackdown on and intended elimination of' house churches in China as two signs ofcontinued restrictions on religious liberty.

"We urge you to engage the Chinese leaders with whom you will

meet in an open, yet firm, dialogue on the issue of religious liberty. This basic human right is of concern to all U.S. citizens of good will," the letter said.

"It is our hope that your willingness to dialogue with the Chinese leaders will include the strongest possible prodding on religious liberty in China," they added.

The letter asks Clinton to urge that Chinese leaders: - release all religious prisoners of conscience and to guarantee their safety and freedom to practice their faith without restrictions; - ratify all international covenants guaranteeing the freedom of religious belief and expression; - rescind any decrees which limit the free functioning of religion, including those which limit worship, education and charitable activity; - engage in more open dialogue on the issue of religious freedom: - open dialogue with the Dalai Lama in regard to Tibet's future; - invite international human rights organizations to visit China and guarantee access to prisons and to meetings with the detained Panchen Lama.

Among the letter's signers are representatives of Orthodox, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim and Tibetan organizations.

U.S. religious leaders have used the religious liberties issue in the past in an effort to deny Most Favored Nation trading status with China. The Clinton administration said that it would seek greater normalization of trade relations with China on this trip.

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families together NEW BEDFORD - A family math and science workshop was recently held at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in New Bedford for students in grades 4-8. The workshop helped foster the belief that learning is a lifelong process continuing in the home and community, involving both parents and children and gave those parties the opportunity to experience math together. It is based on the PALMS (Partnership and Advancing Learning of Math and Science) Institute.

Over 60 people, including 17 families, took part in group activities involving problem-solving techniques, Venn diagrams, graphs, logic, money and other mathematical concepts and strategies.

According to co-presenters and teachers Janice Brightman, eighth grade, and Isabel Dean, fifth grade, the evening was a huge success. "Parents were very excited about the program. It's very encouraging to see families working, learning and having fun together," said Dean.

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READING WEEK Students of Jennifer Curt's sixth grade class parade as chal'acters in William Shakespeare's play "Much Ado About Nothing." They were part of a literary parade at St. Anne School, Fall River, as part of its Reading Week. All classes in the schooll dressed up as literary characters and shared in the festivities.

THE SANTOS FAMILY,was one of many to participate in the Family Math and Science Workshop held at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Schoo~. It gave parents and their children,an opportunity to learn and work together. Pictured are Antonio Santos and his daughters Paula (left) and Jessica. .

Golf team wins state title

HELPING HAND .- Students in Marsha Phillip's eighth grade class at Espirito Santo School, Fall River, collected baby items for the Birthright organization as part of a recent service project.

Pictured (from left) ___ are: Jessica Sarmento, Leslie Viveiros, Diana Borges and Melanie Perreira.

ATTLEBORO - The Bishop Feehan High School golf team recently captured the 1998 Massachusetts State Championship for division II at Taconic Golf Club in Williamstown. It is the team's first such golf title and they were led by freshmen Mick Hogan with a round of 81, juniors Mike Michel, 73; Kevin Costello, 78; and seniors Stephen Finocchi and Jay Thompson with scores of 74 and 79. The team finished the regular season undefeated with a record of 14-0.

The school's chapter of the Spanish National Honor Society moderator, Joan Drobnis has been notified by John Temple the National Director of the Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica, that the school's honor society has been chosen as one of five chapters of the year. The honor society was also recognized for its service to the Attleboro area with work at the St. Joseph's Food Pantry and tutoring grade schoolers.

Lindsay Wolf, the Spanish National Honor Society president was notified by the Massachusetts Foreign Language Board of Directors that she has won the organizations 1998 Leadership Award for her achievements in foreign language activities.

Feehan's National Honor Society moderator, Diane Crane, announces the newly elected National Honor Society officers for the 1998-99 school year as follows: Theresa Grenier, president; Kate Oliviera, vice-president; and Robin Bassett, secretary. .

Bob L'Homme, boys' track coach has announced that captains for the 1999 spring track team will be hurdler and high jumper John Morin, hurdler and javelin thrower Mark Traversi and sprinter Leo Fontaine.

Band Director Paul Mancini has announced that junior Nate Green GRANDPARENTS' DAY - Kindergarten students at St. Philomena School, Port~)mouth, was selected as the drum major for the 1998 marching band.

Both the boys and girls tennis teams successfully defended their EAC R.I., recently celebrated Grandparents' Day. Student Morgann Munro, left, of Westport, shows conference championships this year. The boys shared the title with Attle- her computer skills to her grandmother, Terry Martin; grandfather George Martin; and greatboro, with whom they split matches, and the girls went undefeated for the grandmother Mary Martin, all of Westport. The students sang songs, performed sl<its and third consecutive year. offered tours of the campus.

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall 'River -.:... Fri., June 19, 1998

Our Rock and Role Is it time to forget it?

By CHARLIE MARTIN

Let's Forget About It I told you I was sorry, I told you I wa!; wrong.

I said it was an accident And don't tell imyone.

But you love to circle Round and round, You're so misunderstood.

Yeah, you love to circle .

Round and round~ And you know that we should Forget about it. let's forget about it. let's forget about it.

I'll stop crying on the mountain That we made from the molehill Where we spilt the milk.

So you say this never happened, Perhaps not the way I thought.

Did I throw this out of focus, Or was it just the way we fought?

That it seemed to me You took this girl, But you swear to God it's not. let's forget about it. let's forget about it.

I'll stop crying if you'll stop.

I'll stop crying if you'll stop.

I'll stop crying, If you'll stop lying to me.

Written by lisa loeb, Juan Patino, Sung by lisa loeb, Copyright (c) 1997 by Furious Rose Music/Music Gorp. of America Inc. (BMI)/ Juan Patino Music Publishing LET'S SAY you get into a problem with someone you are dating. Let's suppose that you really get hurt. At what point do you say to the other person "Let's forget about it?"

Lisa Loeb's latest cassingle "Let's Forget About It" describes precisely such a situation. It is off her "Firecracker" CD along with her hit "I Do." The song doesn't fully describe the situation, but the girl

does sing, "You lied about how much you knew, I thought you were my friend." Deceiving another, whether directly or by omission, always hurts a friendship.

The other person, she says, loves "to circle round and round, you're so misunderstood." Apparently, he is not doing anything to heal the hurt.

Finally the girl says, "I'll stop crying on the mountain that we

made from the molehill where we spilt the milk. I'll stop crying if you'll stop. I'll stop crying if you'll stop lying to me."

If the situation truly is a "molehill," then I agree. They are just recycling negative emotional energy that, if continued, is likely to end their friendship.

However deception is no small concern. When you lie, you destroy trust. Broken trust is not something that can 'automatically be gotten back. It . needs to be rebuilt and proved over time. ' If telling the truth is an ongoing difficulty for someone, it could make'an ongoing relationship very difficult too.

Both individuals need to address what effect the lie has on their individual feelings about continuing in the relationship.

If their feelings can be expressed honestly and accepted, then the, first step in reestablishing trust has been taken.

It can be difficult to accept another's feelings if you are the person who lied. Taking responsibility, not reacting defensively or offering excuses, is a significant step.

Realize that it is going to take some time for the person that you have hurt to feel the same closeness as before. If you accept the other person's need for time, you will show that you warrant a new opportunity for being a better friend.

If the relationship has a future, perhaps at some point "I forgive you" will become the words you long to hear and will serve as a more appropriate and helpful response than "Let's forget about it." Forgiveness does not mean forgetting. Rather, it says that you value the friendship and you have faith that both of you can grow.

All of us make mistakes.

God did not intend for us to get stuck in whatever mistakes we might make. Use your mistakes as a path to beCome more of the person that God believes you can be.

Your comments are always welcome. Please address: Charlie Martin, 7125 W 200S, Rockport, Ind. 47635.

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An "out-of-thisworld" love

By CHRISTOPHER

CARSTENS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Jill, at 15, was as deeply in love as seemed possible. Through her long conversations with Dave she'd shared her deepest secrets, and he'd shared his. He wasn't like so many other guys she knew - boys, really, afraid to talk about their emotions or discuss anything deeper than football. Dave was bright, he was sensitive, he listened - in many ways he was perfect.

But as time went on, Jill recognized some'problems in paradise.

Dave wasn't jealous, the way lots of guys are, but his sensitivity had a negative side. His feelings got hurt by little things Jill said or didn't say. He'd get sad, deeply sad. Jill found herself feeling responsible for Dave's mental health.

She began worrying at night.

She'd set her school work aside for conversations with Dave, but it wasn't enough. There she was, apologizing for time spent with her other friends, as he demanded her total attention.

Finally, she decided that the cost' of being with Dave was too high.

She told him that she wanted to break up. Frantic, Dave told her that if they weren't together, he didn't have any reason to live.

The next three days were dreadful for Jill. His friends pleaded with her. "He really means it. He's telling everybody that he's going to kill himself," one girl said, "and if he does, it will be your fault. You're being so selfish."

Finally, Dave's "parents" contacted her. Dave had a lot to offer, and he was hurt deeply. Couldn't they all get together and talk about the relationship? Wouldn't she help them help Dave?

That was the final blow. JilI couldn't stand the pressure.

Clearly, a line had been crossed.

Before, things had been difficult, but this was just nuts.

Overwhelmed, Jill briefly considered suicide herself, but instead she told her own mom and dad the whole terrible story. The next morning they took her to see a therapist.

As the therapist listened, she recognized many elements of Jill's story.

There was only one part that surprised even this experienced counselor. She was startled to learn that Jill and Dave never had met.

Theirs was totally an Internet

romance. Jill lived in Southern California, and Dave - apparently lived somewhere in Ohio. I say apparently, because Jill didn't really know where Dave lived.

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How could she know? She had never seen Dave. They had never spoken on the phone. She really knew almost nothing about him.

Yet, she had felt herself falling in love with him, and as things had fallen apart she had experienced all the grief and fear that come with the messy end of a relationship.

All they ever shared were typed words on the screen. Their "friends" were others on the net, scattered from Alaska to Florida. Dave's "parents" were two more Internet types, who had "adopted" Dave, apparently because of his ongoing emotional turmoil. The entire set of relationships consisted of people for whom the Internet had begun to replace the real world.

When you go on the Internet, be careful with your heart. Things are often not what they seem.

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tation of the,rosaJ:Y and.Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. All welcome.

benefit St..Joseph 's Food, Cellar on June 20-21. Collection baskets will· be at the church entrance.

SEEKONK - The St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. Mary's Par., ish is sponsoring ,a food drive to

SOUTH YARMOUTH - A Separated - Divorced Catholics Support Group will meet at' the

Parish Life Center of 5:t. Pius X on June 28 a~d discus:; the topic "Simple Abundance." Welcome is at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting begins at 7 p.m. For more information call Father'Richard M. Roy at 255-0170.

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Fall River, 02722. Name of city or town should be incnude~, as CENTERVILLE - A Support well as full ,dates of all activities. Group for Widowed Persons will DEADLINE IS NOON ON meet in the R.E. Center of Our At Council On Aging (COA) MONDAYS. Lady of Victory Parish on June 24 buildings and Senior Centers Events published must be of . from 1:30-3 p:m. Men and women throughout the diocese there is a interest and open to our general who have suffered the loss of their wide array of programs' and special readership. We do·not normally spouse are welcome. For more in- interest groups meet to enjoy hobcarry notices of fundraising ac- formation call the 'Office of Fam- bies, movies, and share informativities, which may be advertised ily Ministry at 999-6420. tion. Below are some activities in at our regular rates, obtainable local areas. For more information, from ourbusinessoffice at (508) FAIRHAVEN - St. Mary's call your local COA. 675-7151.

Parish will celebrate the Feast of the Sacre:d Heart'of Jesus on June Chatham ASSONET - Singer song- 19 beginning with a 7 p.m. Mass.

A blood pressure clinic is held writer John Polce will perform a This 12-hour vigil will feature at the Senior Center on Wednesdays concert in the garden of St. Ber- Benediction, praying·ofthe rosary from 9-11 a.m. Call the COA at nard Parish at 7 p.m. July 4. An and spiritual talks throughout the 945-5190 for more information. area fireworks display will high- night. It will conclude with a 7:30 An alcoholism outreach proa.m. Mass on June 20. All wel- gram is available. Call the Elder light the evening. All welcome. come.

Outreach Coordinator at 255-9416 ATTLEBORO - The last cofto arrange a free, confidential apFALL RIVER - The Fall pointment either at the Senior Cenfee house of La Salette's spring season will be held on June 20 at River Widowed Group will meet ter or in the privacy ofyour home.

6:30 p.m. and feature the local on June 22 at 7 p.m. in St. Mary's If you or a loved one has a problem School Hall. All widowed persons or question about alcohol, help is group "Wayword."

A Mass in celebration of all fa- are welcome. For more informa- available. thers will be held on June 21 at tion call Annette Dellecese at 679The COA has walkers, wheel12: 10 p.m. at the shrine. Father 3278. chairs and shower stools available Richard Delisle will be the celfor loan. Call them for more inforebrant and homilist.

MANSFIELD - St. MarY's mation.

A Portuguese Healing Service Parish'will host an all-night prayer Free hearing tests will be given will be held at the shrine on June vigil honoring the Sacred Heart of by Barbara Eaton on June 24 at the 21 at 2 p.m. Father Manuel Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Senior Center. Call ahead for an Pereira will lead the service Mary on June 19 immediately fol- appointment. which includes Mass, music and lowing the 7 p.m. Mass. It will Those interested in a Lyme Disthe opportunity for people to be contin'ue through the night and end easeSupportGroup should call the prayed over and anointed ,indi- before the:7:30a.m. Mass June 20. COA and leave their telephone All welcome. vidually. number and name.

Singer and musician John Polce Non-competitive bowling ocwill be at the shrine on June 26 at NEW BEDFORD - The curs ilt the Orleans BowlingLanes 7:30 p.m. for an evening of sOng, 'Prayer Group ofOur Lady of Per- every Thursday at ,1 0 a:m. and on witness and prayer. Members of petual Help'Church will meet at'! Thursday afternoons the· Senior the La Salette Prayer Community p.m. on June 23 for recitation of .Center hosts billiards. Also on will be present for those wishing the Divin.~ Mercy Chaplet, prayer Thursday from 1:30-4 p.m. the to be prayed over at the end of the and reflection, a Marian talk, reci- Busy Fingers Group meets to knit, crochet, cross-stitch and do needlepoint. Come and share ideas,get help, and meet new people.

Lawn bowling is heldfrom 9: 1511 :30 a.m. June through September in Chase Park. For more information call Ray Byrne at 945-3142.

The Senior Center is in need of garden tool donations. If you have any extra hoes, shovels, rakes or COFFEE HOUSE: "WAYWORD" ceramic containers, 'call the volunSaturday, June 20 - 6:;10 p~m. teer office at 945-5190.

The Center also offers cribbage games each'Monday from 1-3 p.m., PORTUGUESE HEALING SERVICES· oil painting classes, yoga classes Sunday, June 21 - 2:0'0 p.m. and several supportgroups. Can.for Portuguese Confessions: Sat., Jum~ 20 - 2-4 p.m.. more information. ;Dennis On June 24 the COA will show JOHN POLCE: BETHANY 'NIGHTS ,the movie "As' Good as it Gets" at 1:30 p.m. There is no charge for Friday, June 26- 7:30p.m. the movie and' those in need of bus Music • Prayer • Witness • Good-will'offering tran~portation can call 385-5067.

Popcorn and soda will be available.

A walking club meets at the West GARDEN CONCEBT: Dennis Beach every Monday, CELEBRANT SINGI:RS Wednesday and Friday. Call. the eOA at 385-5376 for more inforSaturday, June 27 - 7:()O p.m. mation. ,On Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. a quilting group meets at the COA. A PILGRIMAGE DAY FOR IPEOPLE bridge players group meets on WITH DISABILlTIE:S Wednesdays at 9 a.m. and French Sunday, June 28 - 2:0tJp.m. class meets at 9:30 a.m. A widowed persons support group.meetsat 7 Outdoor Mass & Refreshments p.m. on Wednesdays. Two,poker groups meet during the week. A ladies' poker group meets at 1 p.m.

on Wednesdays, men's poker meets at 1 p.m. on Thursdays.

Drivers are needed for Meals on Wheels. If you 'can spare an occasional morning hour to help out please call Pat at 385-5824 any weekday morning.

Dighton The COA is taking names of persons interested in attending ~n hourlong presentation by the Registry of Motor Vehicles on safe driving. Concerns, driving tips and information about handicapped plates will be discussed. For more information and to express your interest call the COA at 823-0095.

If you do crafts at home, then think about coming down to the COA and join the ladies on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Tuesday of each month at 1 p.m. and share your hobby.

Bring your sewing, knitting or needlepoint and meet others who share the same interests.

A Bridge Club meets every.Friday at the COA at 1 p.m. Cribbage games are at the same time on Wednesdays.

On June 27 the COA will celebrate Captain Silas TalbotDay. At 10:30 a.m. a ceremony will take place at the town hall to celebrate 200 years with those from the US Frigate Constitution and other units.

A,parade will march south on 138 to the Dighton Community Church Cemetery and a memorial stone will be dedicated to Captain Talbot,.the second captain of the USConstitution. :Highlights include a seven cannon salute.

Harwich The COA is considering the formation of a service to assist residents caring for family members.

It would be led by a registered nurse and offer an opportunity to share concerns and information. For more information or to sign up call Arline,at the COA at 430-7550.

A young-at-heart lightweight training program for seniors is currently accepting applicants. It is sponsored by Cape Cod Health Care and the Visiting Nurse Association of Cape Cod. Classes are free and open to seniors who have a doctor's approval. Call Pat Dooley at 888-557-9994 ext. 256 for more information.

A stamp club meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month at 1:30.p.m. at Pine Oaks Village.

Newcomers welcome.

The Creative Knitters Club meets every Tuesday at 1 :30 p.m. at the Albro House. For more in.formation call Jeanne Egan at 4322012.

A Sight Loss Support Group meets on the 4th Wednesday of each month from l1a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Pine Oaks Village. For more information call Sight Loss Services at 394-3904.

Banking assistance is available for seniors regarding checkbooks, bank statements or selecting an account. .Call the COA for more information.

Every Monday and Friday a blqod pressure clinic is held from 10-11:30 a.m. with Dave Wadsworth.

A bookmobile provides books for homebound seniors. Call Ginger Burke at 432-971 0 for more information.

Medical equipment is available thought the CGA and seniors can receive a daily telephon,~ call as part of the telephone reassurance program. Call the COA [.:>r more information about these opportunities.

Provincetown The COA presents movies on Monday and Friday of each week at 1:30 p.m. On June 22 and 26 they will present Sabrina. On June 29 they will show Tin Cup. Bridge players gathl:r on Mondays at the Senior Ci:nter from 7:30-11 p.m. Come and participate or cheer on your friend •.

A 'French club meets on Tuesdays from 1-2:30 p.m. and Yoga is held from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. every Wednesday. Call the COA at 487-7080 for more information.

A free presentation i~: offered by .Dr. Lucy Lin, director of the Rehabilitation Hospital for the Cape and Islands, on back pain. Discussion will include common .causes of 'back pain, new treatments, body ·mechanics and. pain m~magement.

It will begin at 10 a.m. on June 23 at the Senior Center. For more information on ,other summer programs call the COA. Sandwich Friendly visitors visit homebound and frail sen.iors. They . write letters, read· and talk to those who don't get much company. If you'd like to become a part of the program or need more information call Jan at the COAat 838-4737.

A van is available for seniors interested in going shopping at Stop and Shop, the pharmacy or bank on Thursdays or Fridays. It will pick you up at your home. Call the COA for more information on this service.

Elder Services Nutrition Site serves lunch every day of the week , except Wednesday at 11 :45 at the Human Ser.vices Building. A 24hour notice must be given by calling the nutrition site at 888-2965.

Transportation is provided. A small donation is asked for the meal.

A men's group meets at the Recreation Department Community Building to play pool, cards and 'horseshoes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 10 a.m. each week. New members are welcome.

Outreach assistance i1: available 'by appointment. Ma,ry Ellen Wilczynski, outreach coordinator, will answer your questions about resources and programs y,ou may be entitled to. Call 888-4737 to schedule your confidential appointment.

A Sight Loss group will meet at 1 p.m. June 19 and from. 1-3 p.m. on the same day hearing tests will be conducted at the senior center.