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Rebel prelate says he'll ordain/our bishops

Schism foreseen VATICAN CITY (NC) - Suspended Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, 82, saying he needed future leaders for his self-styled "traditionalist" religious society, announced he would ordain four bishops at the end of June - an act the Vatican immediately defined as "schismatic."

Should the archbishop carry out the ordinations, he will automatically be excommunicated from the Catholic Church under terms of Canon 1382 of the Code of Canon Law, which says: "A bishop who consecrates someone a bishop and the person who receives such consecration from a bishop without a pontifical mandate incur an automatic excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See." Archbishop Lefebvre's announcement June 15 and the Vatican's reaction the next day marked the end of a dialogue aimed at regularizing his group. The Vatican revealed it had been willing to make several important concessions to the society, including the naming of a bishop from its membership.

The Vatican also appealed directly to the clerical and lay followers of the 82-year-old archbjshop, saying that "all measures

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will be taken to guarantee their identity" if they "rethink their position" and decide to stay in the church.

The bishops' conferences of France, Switzerland and Germany have expressed disappointment at Archbishop Lefebvre's hardline position and urged him not to ordain the bishops.

Archbishop John L. May of St. Louis, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, said he was surprised at Archbishop Lefebvre's rejection of the Vatican offer and said the Vatican "could not have made more efforts" at reconciliation.

While Pope John Paul II did not immediately comment on Archbishop Lefebvre's announcement, he has expressed in recent months' his keen interest in a reconciliation. Vatican sources said Archbishop Lefebvre's decision would be a grave disappointment to the pope, who now faces the prospect of a schism - a formal separation of a church movement from the communion of the church.

Archbishop Lefebvre was suspended from his ministry in 1976

by Pope Paul VI, after ordaining priests against Vatican orders.

Church approval for his society had been removed in 1975.

In announcing the bishops' ordinations for June 30, Archbishop Lefebvre left no doubt that his Priestly Society of St. Pius X remained opposed to teachings of the Second Vatican Council on ecumenism, religious liberty and liturgy. In a June 2 letter to the pope, the archbishop said his society wanted to :'guard against the spirit of Vatican II." He asserted that "false ecumenism" was "leading the church to its ruin." .

The pope wrote back on June 9, expressing his "deep distress" and sternly warning the prelate against ordaining bishops.

"I exhort you, venerable brother, to give up your plan which, if realized, could only appear as a schismatic act, whose inevitable theological and canonical consequences are known to you," the pope said.

The Vatican made public the texts of both letters, along with a statement summarizing the negotiations between the two sides. The statement revealed that a draft agreement, signed by Archbishop Lefebvre but later repudiated by him, would have given his society Turn to Page Six

Migrant plight parley topic LOTS MORE CATHOLICS: Some 90,000 of 53.5 million U.S. Catholics, up 600,000 in 1987, were on hand at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich., for the final Mass of Pope John Paul II's U.S. tour last September. (NC photo)

Catholics on rise More priests, fewer nuns WILMETTE, Ill. (NC) - The number of U.S. Catholics rose to nearly 53.5 million in 1987 up some 600,000 from the previous year, according to data released June 22 in the 1988 Official Catholic Directory, which gives the status of the U.S. church as of Jan. I, 1988.

The directory, published by P.J. Kenedy and Sons of Wilmette, Ill., showed a slight increase in priests for the first time since 1984, but registered declines in nuns, brothers, seminarians and teachers and students in Catholic schools.

While Catholic population figures represent diocesan estimates of varying quality and accuracy, other directory figures are assembled from records and annual reports in each diocese.

The 1988 directory contains

1,670 pages. It lists addresses and phone numbers of all parishes and other Catholic institutions of every U.S. diocese and has an alphabetical index of the priests and bishops of the country.

Highlights of the 1988 data include: - Priests numbered 53,522, up 140 from 1987. There were 34,791 diocesan priests, up 320 from the year before, but the number of priests in religious orders declined by 180, to a 1988 total of 18,731.

- The number of sisters fell to 106,912, down 5,577 or 5 percent from the year before. The number of brothers also dropped nearly 5 percent, from 7,418 to 7,069.

- Permanent deacops continued to increase, going from 7,981 in 1987 to 8,512 in 1988.

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SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (NC) - Among participants in a National Migration Conference held last week in South Orange was Father John J. Oliveira, parochial vicar at St. Michael's parish, Fall River.

He is advisor to the U.S. bishops' Committee on Migration on pastoral care of Portuguese immigrants in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

The conference, held at Seton Hall University, was attended by an estimated 300 diocesan and national migration, resettlement, social service and Hispanic affairs officials representing 120 dioces~s.

They discussed responses to the plight of U.S. immigrants ineligible for legalization and were told the church must ensure it is "not being used" when it contracts with the government to assist immigrants.

They also heard a Vatican official say migration not only creates tensions but also fosters the concept of world citizenship.

The June 15-18 conference was .sponsored by the U.S. Catholic Conference's division of Migration and Refugee Services.

The U.S. Catholic Church continues to insist the nation must "open its arms wide" to immigrants from the rest of the world,

said Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick of Newark, N.J. "In the face of an ongoing national debate about immigration policy - a debate that includes many people demanding restrictions on the numbers of immigrants and refugees allowed to enter this country - the Catholic Church's dissenting voice is strong and continuous," said Archbishop McCarrick, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Migration.

The prelate said in a keynote address that the church had made its stance clear in its congressional testimony, policy statements and resolutions.

To be an advocate for the immigrant and refugee, the church must be "open to new responses to some old problems," said Archbishop McCarrick.

This, he said, entails seeking "broader understanding" of the root causes of migration and accepting "our share of international responsibility" for situations causing people to migrate. .

Another· speaker, John Carr, secretary for the U.S. Catholic Conference Department of Social Development and World Peace, said the church must state clearly that "there exists a deliberate stratTurn to Page 13

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High court upholds U .8. bishops

WASHINGTON (NC) - On an 8-1 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court June 20 upheld the right of the U.S. Catholic Conference to challenge subpoenas brought by Abortion Rights Mobilization. It Father Byron said the university sent the case back to a lower court had been "in a mode of trying to for further action. come to some compromise," and The decision continues to spare he wanted to talk with Father Curthe USCC and its twin agency, the ran personally about how the proNational Conference of Catholic posed arrangement could work.

Bishops, fines of $50,000 a day But two efforts to obtain a face-toeach for noncompliance with the face meeting with Father Curran subpoenas, but does not end the underproved unsuccessful, he said. lying court case.

"He's making it very, very diffiIn that litigation, Abortion cult for us to permit him to conRights Mobilization seeks to force tinue to function," Father Byron the Internal Revenue Service to said. "It need not be that difficult." revoke the tax exemption of virtuFather Curran has charged the ally every Catholic Church entity university with violations "of the in the United States for alleged principles and procedures of aca~ church violations of laws and regdemic freedom and tenure." ulations that forbid political activBut Father Byron, in a stateity by tax-exempt groups. ment published June 5 in The As part of the nearly 8-year-old Washington Post, said the case BISHOP Vaughan awaiting case, Abortion Rights Mobilizaarrest. (NC photo) was a matter of religious freedom. tion had subpoenaed numerous "Catholic University has a freely church documents on pro-life activchosen Catholic character exities. pressed in its mission statement The USCC and NCCB refused and subscribed to by the campus to comply and said they shou.1d community," he wrote. The school's have the right to challenge federal Catholic identity requires that it court jurisdiction in the proceedDOBBS FERRY,N.Y.(NC)- ing even though they were not accept Catholic teaching and pracNew York Auxiliary Bishop Aus- direct parties to the lawsuit. tice.

"An ecclesiallimit on academic tin B. Vaughan was arrested for' A federal appeals court upheld freedom simply points to an insti- the second time in six weeks after the subpoenas, however, leading participating in a June II demontutional identity - internal, freely to the Supreme Court appeal by chosen and accepted by all in the stration at a Dobbs Ferry clinic the bishops. campus community - which ac- where abortions are performed.

Police arrested 174 people, includknowledges a role for church ing the bishop and at least six authority in doctrinal matters," he priests, after about 250 protesters wrote.

TORONTO (NC) Soviet leader blocked two entrances to the WoIn the interview Father Byron men's Medical Pavilion in Dobbs Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of said other Catholic University "glasnost" [openness) has not Ferry. faculty members had not become The protest was part of the helped the beleaguered Lithuanian hostile toward the university or alarmed about the state of aca- ongoing "Operation Rescue," Catholic Church, says Father Casiwhich has vowed to shut down mir Pugevicius, director of the demic freedom. He quoted Jesuit abortion clinics, at least for several Lithuanian Information Center in Father Avery Dulles, a theology hours, using large numbers of pro- Brooklyn. N.Y, professor at Catholic University, "Nothing has changed for the as saying at a retirement dinner testers to prevent access to the church," Father Pugevicius said that he had "never been freer than facilities.

During the first week of May, during a visit to Toronto. " 'Glasin the last 14 years" at Catholic Operation Rescue participants net- nost,' if anything, has only made University. ted more than 1,650 arrests during life under the Soviet state more Father Byron recalled that he four protests at clinics in New difficult for Catholics who persewas a student of the late Jesuit York City. Bishop Vaughan was vere in their struggle. How quickly Father John Courtney Murray at arrested May 2, the first day of the these concepts disappear when peothe time Father Murray was forple try to exercise them." project. bidden to publish his innovative .

Father Pugevicius said more than At a June 9 rally at the Glad views on religious liberty. "He was two-thirds of Lithuania's 3.5 milTidings Tabernacle in Manhattan, not calling press conferences and Bishop Vaughan said that Opera- lin population profess Catholicism, suing and all that sort of stuff," tion Rescue made the abortion thus facing arrest, persecution and Father Byron said. As a result, he possible unemployment. Lithuania issue come "alive." said, Father Murray was later able was forcibly annexed by the Soviet He participated in the first proto exert a significant influence at Union in 1940. The takeover is not test because "we haven't visibly the Second Vatican Council. made any kind of progress" in officially recognized by the United attempts to overturn the U.S. Su- States or the Holy See. "The church has no democratic preme Court decision that legalrights, no access to media, no ized abortion 15 years ago, he said.

Administrative Board tolerating Bishop Vaughan said he ap- printing facilities," said Father Puginformation about condoms in proached the' May demonstrations evicius.

AIDS public education programs.

The priest said some Catholics with hesitation, "not being sure of - Proposed statement evaluat- what would come." But the pro- think the church can survive by ing the morality of nuclear deter- tests were "blessed," he said. obeying Soviet laws; others think rence and other aspects of U.S. "It was peaceful on the part of this is suicidal. defense policy.

He noted that by tightly controlall those who took part, and the - Proposals tojoin a new nation- attention it attracted in the news- ling the number and quality of priests, authorities have weakened al interfaith cable TV venture or to papers and elsewhere was good," the Lithuanian clergy. Church leadwork more closely with Mother the bishop said.

Angelica's Eternal Word TeleviBishop Vaughan said that many ers who refuse to cooperate are sion Network. people regard Operation Rescue "banished" or sent to remote areas, - Proposed U.S. norms for the . as "foolish," terming it "too ex- he added.

As a result, some religious and use of general absolution - for- treme, too radical, not the direclay people have assumed leadergiveness of a group of penitents tion to go." ship roles in the dissident movewithout individual confessions.

"If someone has a better way to ment and since 1972 the number of - A formula for distributing propose right now," the bishop underground women religious has money raised in a new national said, "then that's the way to go. collection beginning this December but I don't see it. It may well come, almost doubled, he said, although to meet retirement needs of reli- but so far it's not on the horizon." activists continue to be beaten, imprisoned and placed under house gious communities.

Bishop Vaughan and the others - Updated bylaws for the arrested were charged with disor- arrest.

National Conference of Catholic derly conduct.

Bishops and U.S. Catholic ConferAfter promising not to go back ence. to the clinic, they were released to - Discussion of a draft Vatican march to Sacred Heart parish in GOD'S ANCHOR HOlDS document on the limits of the Dobbs Ferry for Mass and refreshauthority of bishops' conferences. ments.

Hope of Curran settlement fa~ing, says 'C.U. head NEW YORK (NC) - Jesuit Father William J. Byron, president of The Catholic University of America in Washington, said he no longer sees any prospects for negotiating a compromise with moral theologian Father Charles E. Curran.

"I think we're going to be in court in September," Father Byron said during a recent interview in New York with National Catholic News Service and The New York Times.

The Vatican in 1986 declared that Father Curran, who has taught at the university for more than 20 years, was not suitable to teach Catholic theology because of his dissent from some church' teachings.

"Charlie will not accept that declaratory judgment," Father Byron said.

He said university trustees in early June reaffirmed their willingness to give Father Curran a teaching assignment outside the department of theology but within the priest's "area of competence," offering him a position teaching Christian ethics in the university's sociology department.

Father Curran said in May that the offer is "tantamount to dismissal" because one ofthe university's conditions in offering him the post was that he explicitly declare that he "will not teach Catholic theology" in his courses.

Such a declaration would be impossible to make, Father Curran said, since his approach to Christian ethics is based on Catholic moral theology.

Father Curran has asked the District of Columbia Superior Court to enforce his teaching contract with the university.

While Father Curran does not have to agree with the Vatican judgment, Father Byron said, he must recognize that it applies to him.

No matter how well a person drives, Father Byron said, if for some reason that person's driver's license is revoked, he or she cannot be employed in a position that requires a person to have a license.

Second arrest for N.Y. bishop

Glasnost no help

Bishops' agenda listed WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. bishops will meet today through Monday in Collegeville, Minn. Their wide-ranging agenda will see: - Discussion but no vote on the first draft of a pastoral letter on the concerns of women in church and society.

- Closed-door discussion on AIDS as a follow-up to last December's dispute among the bishops over a statement issued by their

Homelessness WASHINGTON (NC) - The "national disgrace of widespread homelessness" should prompt renewed commitment to preserving and constructing affordable housing for all people, says a statement issued by the U.S. Catholic Conference Administrative Board. "As Americans and believers, we are haunted by the tragic reality of so many without decent housing in our land," the statement says.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing the majority opinion, his first since joining the high court in February, said the issue raised by the USCC challenge "is not a mere nicety of legal metaphysics."

"It rests instead on the central principle of a free society that courts have finite bounds of authority, some of constitutional origin, which exist to protect citizens from the very wrong asserted here, the excessive use ofjudicial power."

"The courts, no less than the political branches of government, must respect the limits of their authority," Kennedy stated.

In oral arguments before the justices April.l8, attorneys for the bishops argued that the bishops' conference cannot be forced to answer subpoenas in a court case if the case never should have been instigated in the first place.

"We hold that a nonparty witness can challenge the court's lack of subject matter jurisdiction in defense of a civil contempt citation," even given the power of courts to issue subpoenas, said Kennedy's majority opinion.

The high court concluded that "the judgment of the court of appeals is... reversed and the case is remanded for further proceedings" to resolve the remaining questions.

Joining Kennedy in the opinion were ChiefJustice William H. Rehnquist and Justices William J. Brennan, Byron R. White, Harry A. Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia. The lone dissenter was J ustice Thurgood Marshall.

A MISSIONING Mass for Father Stanley J. Kolasa, SS.CC., will be celebrated at II a.m. Sunday at St. Anthony Church, Mattapoisett. Father Kolasa is going to St. Joseph's parish, Nassau, Bahamas, A reception from 2 to 5 p.m. in the church hall will follow the Mass.

Organizers say "With Father Stan as shepherd for the past four years, St. Anthony's parish has grown in love and community. He has brought a true sense of unity throughout the town of Mattapoisett, joining all people together in the spirit of one God." The parish has been staffed

by Sacred Hearts Fathers since its foundation in 1906. As of July I, it will be staffed by diocesan clergy, initially by Father Barry W; Wall, former rector of St. Mary's Cathedral and dean of the Fall River deanery of the diocese.

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Four new principals New principals have been appointed at four diocesan schools.

Dr. Donna F. Boyle will be academic principal at Coyle and Cas-' sidy High School, Taunton, succeeding Mrs. Norma Mulryan.

Dr. Boyle holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Emmanuel College and a master's degree in educational administration and supervision from Boston College, where she also earned a doctorate in 1980.

She has worked in Boston archdiocesan schools, most recently completing six years as vice-principal of Marian High School, Framingham.

Mrs. Patricia Wingate will be principal at Holy Name School, Fall River, following Sister Lina Nadeau, SUSC, who is retiring.

Mrs. Wingate, a graduate of Bridgewater State College, attended Our Lady of Perpetual Help grammar school and St. Anthony's High School in New Bedford. At Holy Name where she has taught for the last seven years, she has been in the diocesan "potential administrator" program and has directed the annual science fair for six years. She has taught CCD for four years at her home parish of Holy Name, New Bedford.

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School, New Bedford, will have Sister Rosalie A. Patrello, SSD, as principal, succeeding Sister Marie Gower, SSD, who has accepted a position serving Spanish-speaking persons in the diocese of Brownsville, Texas.

Sister Patrello, who was a Mt. Carmel teacher early in her educational career, holds a bachelor's degree in education from Providence College and a master's degree in administration and supervision from Boston College. She has served in schools in Massachusetts, New York and Michigan.

Ms. Marilyn A. Penney has been appointed principal of St. George School, Westport. She follows Sister Lea Malley, RSM, who has completed a two-year term as principal.

Ms. Penney is a graduate of the former College ofthe Sacred Hearts in Fall River and holds a master's degree in education from St. John's University, Jamaica, N.Y. For the past 10 years she has been assistant director of the Spaulding School for Children in New York City.

In southern Africa v ATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II is expected to address issues of war, human rights and refugees during his Sept. 10 to 19 visit to southern Africa.

When the pope closes a meeting of southern African bishops in Zimbabwe on the first day of the trip, he should have "something important" to say about regional war and violence and "the role of bishops in bri'ftging about justice and peace," the bishops said.

Although he is visiting only five southern· African countries, not including South Africa, "he can be expected to address himself to the concerns of the other countries while their bishops are present," the bishops added.

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one of the most valuable members Effort Required of his command. "He ought to be a chief petty officer," says Boulder's "Everything of beauty requires executive officer, Cmdr. C. W. Ak- effort." - May Sarton erL uumais has, of course, the educational and other requirements needed for an officer's commission but the Navy thus far has not needed officers with his specific qualifications.

CHURCH SUPPLIES However, he regards the enlisted experience as valuable, particularly RELIGIOUS GIFTS at this point in his work career.

"The' boys, I think, are proud, that I'm here," he said.

CLOSED SATURDAYS "And Jeffrey's new T-shirt is in IN JULY the mail!"

Dumais' parents are active members of Notre Dame parish, Fall OPEN WEEKDAYS River, where his father is a veteran 9-5 employe of the Notre Dame Credit Union. His mother, Lucienne Dumais, has been on the office staffs of Prevost and now Connolly high schools for a total of 20 years.

As well as Paul Jr., the couple has three other children, Pauline, a teacher at St. Michael's School, Fall River; Patricia, a school nurse 191 BROADWAY PROVIDENCE. RHODE ISLAND and psychologist in Davis, Calif.; 02903 and Peter, vice-president for stationery and office supply stores (401) 331-4400 headquartered in Schenectady, N.Y.

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PAUL A. DUMAIS Jr. aboard USS Boulder (Navy photo by Bill Barkley)

Benefits of Connolly High keep family in Fall River

By Sharon Hewitt Norfolk, Va. - The phone call Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Paul A. Dumais of Holy Name parish, Fall River, recently received from his 17-year-old son reported a true emergency.

"Jeffrey said he ruined his Boulder T-shirt and he wants a new one as soon as possible," chuckled Dumais in his office aboard the tank landing ship USS Boulder, homeported at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base in Norfolk.

When the Boulder changed homeport from New York to Norfolk last July, Dumais and his wife, the former Rosemary B. Matthews of Brockton, decided to keep the family in Fall River for the time being.

Jeffrey and the Dumais' other son Joseph, had too many advantage~ as students at Fall River's Bishop Connolly High School to move them, said their parents.

Dumais, 42, made a similarly thoughtful decision eight years ago when he returned to the active duty Navy after 10 years in the Naval Reserve.

When his first four years of active duty were completed in 1972, Dumais returned to Fall River and became an insurance underwriter.

He was personally successful, but the insurance industry wasn't and Dumais was laid off in 1978.

"I'm sure I could have found anotherjob in insurance or a related industry. But I considered returning to active duty the best choice among the options available," Dumais explains.

Dumais originally enlisted in the Navy in 1968. Prior to that he graduated from the former Msgr.

Prevost High School in 1963 and earned a bachelor~s degree in history from Stonehill College, North Easton, in 1967 and a master's degree, also in history, from Providence College in 1968.

"My childhood dream was to be a history teacher and I was substitute teaching while completing my master's degree," Dumais said.

"Of course, that was the height of the Vietnam era. Like other

men my age, I got that letter from the draft board," he added.

Today Dumais is senior personnelman aboard the Boulder, responsible for maintaining all personnel files, conducting'frequent training sessions and often making decisions normally reserved to commissioned officers.

Boulder is one of only two tank landing ships assigned to the Naval reserve. It has an active-duty crew of 190, which would be augmented by reservists in case of necessity.

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themoorin~ A Summer Warning Once again, as we reach the summer solstice, millions will flock to beaches and lakes to seek relieffrom the heat and try to get what was once thought to be a healthy tan, frying themselves in the belief that the rays of the sun will make them beautiful. Never have so many been so wrong. The rays of the sun are deadly and more Americans each year are learning that the hard way, with skin cancer. .

What happened to smoking should happen to sunbathing, namely, the'realization that it is dangerous to one's health. So often editorials deal with the dramatic and cataclysmic. It is well occasionally to consider the public good.

In a health-conscious age, it is tragic that so many are inflicting skin cancer on themselves. Somehow we feel that it is a problem of the few but on the contrary it is the most common form of cancer in the United States. One in seven Americans will contract it and 90 percent of those cases will be attributed. to overexposure to the sun.

Moreover, and this is alarming, the age of victims keeps declining; once considered a disease of the middle-aged and elderly, skin cancer is often afflicting people in their 20s. And . sun-damaged skin cannot be repaired.

Because we receive most of our lifetime exposure in the first 20 years of life, protecting children and teens is now seen as critical. A recent dermatological study indicated that if people regularly used sunscreen with a sun protection factor of 15 until age 18, it would reduce their lifetime risk of skin cancer by 78 percent.

It is true that knowledge of the sun's effect on the body remains sketchy. However, much is being done to fill this vacuum. For example, most researchers believe there is a strong genetic predisposition to some forms of skin cancer.

Blacks and Asians are far less vulnerable than fair-skinned people and children seem most at risk. An Australian study of immigrants from England and Ireland found, for example, that thpse who emigrated before age 12 to the sunnier environment stood a greater risk of developing melanoma than those leaving the northern latitudes at a later age.

Recent studies have also shown that the breakdown of the earth's ozone layer is aiding spread of skin cancer. Our disregard for the environment is once more reaping a harvest of grief.

Today there is !to reason why young people cannot protect themselves from the heartbreak of skin cancer. Excellent sunscreens are available but the most important precaution is plain common sense.

Limit times of sun exposure, especially avoiding the peak exposure hours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. If you must go out, wear a good sunscreen, supplemented by a waterproof lotion, reapplied after swimming and hourly if one is perspiring heavily. And remember that sun reflected from water increases in intensity. Don't become another item for a barbecue. . Awareness of all this stems from a long fight with skin cancer by this editor. To some this might seem to be a personal crusade. It is.

If a few words here can prevent others from suffering, they are well worthwhile, in fact, they could be life giving. Experience is a hard teacher and has pointed out that skin cancer cannot be dismissed as a minor human problem.

We can be certain that we have not heard the last of it nor, hopefully, of corresponding efforts to make the public aware that the bright and lifegiving sun can also be a dark and deadly menace.

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"The mercy of God is beautiful in the time of affliction, as a cloud of rain in the time of drought." EcCius. 35:26

Positions' on abortion WASHINGTON (NC) - The final three 1988 presidential contenders differ over the abortion issue. And abortion supporters and opponents differ over the meaning of the candidates' present - and past - views.

Democratic contender Michael S. Dukakis has long supported legalized abortion and abortion funding.

In response to a questionnaire

by National Catholic News Setvice early this year, Dukakis stated: "I believe that it is the individual, in the exercise of her own conscience and religious convictions, who must make the decision on abortion."

As governor of Massachusetts he vetoed legislation in 1977 that would have cut off state funds for Medicaid abortions and a restriction on abortion funding that was attached to a supplementary budget.

In 1978 he vetoed another supplementary budget proposal. He also vetoed the annual budget that contained a measure restricting Medicaid funding for abortions except in cases of rape and incest.

In 1970, as a state representative, Dukakis introduced a bill "by request" of abortion activist William Baird to repeal Massachusetts abortion laws.

The proposal, which stated that an "abortion may be performed by any physician who has first obtained the consent of the female upon whom said abortion is to be performed," did not pass.

A National Abortion Rights Action League calls Dukakis "a c<1nsistent and firm supporter of reproductive rights. He fully supports federal funding for abortion services."

But Baird has said he believes Dukakis has backed away from his abortion record to "placate the conservatives." Before the Pennsylvania primary in April the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Fe!Jeration Political Action Committee accused

the Dukakis campaign of "deliberately distorting Dukakis' record on abortion because they know that 'hard core pro-abortion' will not sell here."

Dukakis' final rival for the Democratic nomination, Jesse L. Jackson, now supports abortion as a woman's choice, but he once opposed it, sending a telegram to Congress supporting legislation to halt federal funding of abortion.

In an answer to the 1988 NC News questionnaire Jackson stated: "Although I am personally opposed to terminating a pregnancy, I do feel every woman should be able to make her own decision about the matter."

But in 1977 Jackson's telegram to Congress said: "As a matter of conscience I must oppose the use offederal funds for a policy of killing infants. The money would much better be expended to meet human needs. I am therefore urging that the Hyde Amendment (r-estricting federal abortion funding) be supported in the interest of a more humane policy."

And in the January 1977 issue of the National Right to Life News, Jackson wrote: "How we will respect and understand the nature of life itself is the overriding moral issue."

"Human beings cannot give or create life by themselves. It is really a gift from God. Therefore, one does not have the right to take away [through abortion) that which he does not have the ability to give," Jackson wrote.

Republican candidate George Bush has expressed his opposition to abortion, but the vice president has been criticized by some prolife groups.

In response to NC's questions he said he supported a constitutional amendment to reverse the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion with an exception to save the mother's life and with exceptions for rape and incest.

In January, when New York Rep. Jack Kemp, then a rival for the Republican nomination, circulated a campaign flier that accused Bush of changing his position on abortion and of "promoting abortion," Bush responded by tearing up a copy.

"I oppose abortion. I've always done that," Bush said then, Kemp spokesman John Buckley said at the time that the charge of promoting abortion stemmed from Bush's foreword to a book on world population control, written in 1973 when Bush was U.S. antbassador to the United Nations.

In the foreword to "World Population Crisis: The United States Response," by Phyllis Tilson Piotrow, Bush does not refer to abortion but talks about "the problems of population growth and fertility control."

Buckley also said that interviews over the last 15 years showed three different shadings to Bush's opposition to abortion. But National Right to Life Committee legislative director Douglas Johnson said that in the eight years National Right to Life has dealt with Bush, "He's been pro-life."

In 1980 Bush said he was personally opposed to abortion but was opposed to a constitutional amendment overriding the Supreme Court's 1973 decision be~ cause, he said, abortions should be available in cases such as rape, incest or danger to the life of the mother. Within those limits, Bush said, he supported a constitutional amendment allowing states to regulate abortion.

The Ad Hoc Committee to Elect a Pro-Life President, which opposes Bush, said that in the 1960s Bush called for close cooperation with Planned Parenthood. But National Right to Life's Johnson said that 20 years ago "Planned Parenthood was distinguishing between abortion and contraceptives.

Last year Planned Parenthood was attacking George Bush."

Women and change A lifetime ago, I attended a lecture on parenting, then called mothering, given by a male Ph.D. in psychology.

What I remember most was his explanation of the differences in male and female thinking. "Men think rationally," he said, "in nice clear lines. Women think in scattered lines. They bring in all sorts of unrelated issues. What drives us psychologists crazy is that women always want to tell stories."

I thought of this lecture with some embarrassment recently when I read Margaret Murphy's book, How Catholic Women Have Changed(Sheed and Ward; $7.95).

Her book contains previously untold stories of Catholic women and I was embarrassed because when I listened to that lecture 20 years ago, I nodded in agreement and laughed.

When I look back on it now, I realize I was playing the "good woman" role, cooperating in ridiculing our strengths and our very essence. Today, the kind of thinking women bring to traditional male thinking is highly valued in institutions and business.

While men tend to think dualistically - it's either this way or that - women tend to think multivariantly, i.e. why not a third or fourth way, as well? This kind of thinking complements and adds to options and has resulted in creative approaches and products that

Although we shouldn't worry about the future if we believe in God's providence, there are times when acute concern for the church's future borders on worry. I would like to share with you a personal concern about priests.

It is a fact that we will have far fewer priests by the year 2000 and that their average age will be much higher than that of priests today.

There is a concern that bishops and priests will burn out, not so much from a work overload but from working with outdated methods.

In the past, a young priest went all out for the people. He was present everywhere for every activity.

He was called dedicated and was respected for this by the laity as well as by a large number of his fellow priests.

He had enormous support for being zealous.

As he became older, a priest learned to pace himself, realizing it helped no one for him to become sick from overwork. Yet even older priests supported the all-out efforts of the younger. The priesthood was a great club and it offered a sense of reward for zealous ministry.

In today's church where there are fewer priests, I worry about priests and bishops who follow the ideals of that old model of priest without examining its value for today.

They tell themselves they must be at every function. Delegation and consultation are foreign concepts to many. They do not pace themselves.

Some do not avail themselves of the best in time-management techniques and collaboration. Caught up in trying to handle everything

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have benefited insitutions open to DOLORES creativity.

Scattered thinking often comes from women's experiences told in CURRAN their stories. The stories that drove my lecturer crazy are the ones that hold the key to understanding our lives. influenced change in their lives.

So women tell stories and men Influences chosen in order of priortell facts. We've had hundreds of ity include Vatican II, friends, books on facts of Catholicism by women's movement, media, parmen. Now we have one on the sto- ent, children, lay ministry, school ries of a wide variety of Catholic experience, membership in religious women who share their faith, famorder and encouragement of ily and individual growth. spouse.

This book will touch thousands Interestingly, career issues ended of Catholic women who have up at the low end of the list. The changed or are changing and don't author comments that these low always reflect on the degree or ratings "Might suggest that woroots of their growth. It's worth men's forays into the workplace in reading if for no other reason than recent years have not been as libfor the reader to say, "That's my erating or as fulfilling as feminists story." We have a shared expe- hoped." rience of women who grew up in She adds, "A happy surprise one church, reared children in was that encouragement ofspouse another, and face a third. made such a relatively good showWe need to know we aren't ing. While men would seem to be alone, that the old injunctions still the natural adversaries of women infect us while the new excite us. in a battle for equality, it is evident It's an honest book, not a radical that many women felt they had one. The author has an unusual received much support and affirability to draw out stories from mation from their husbands." single, religious, married and diIt's a good book, one that will vorced women and to explicate stay around for awhile, one that why women were forced to reex- well be immensely useful in Cathamine early upbringing and change olic women's groups. It will also be in spite of church resistance. helpful for Catholic men, married The author presented her inter- or clergy, in understanding what viewees with a questionnaire list- happened to those good Cathing 16 events or issues which most olic women.

Pacing and priests singlehandedly, they fail to take advantage of the resources around them. Many still live in isolation and as priests become fewer, they could become even more isolated.

Some priests still cling to th~ age-old belief that leaders must have control over every facet of

June 25 1960, Rev. Raymond J. Hamel, Chaplain, St. Joseph Orphanage, Fall River 1941, Rt. Rev. Louis A. Marchand, Pastor, St. Anthony, New Bedford .

June 26 1931, Rev. Charles P. Goboury, Pastor, Sacred Heart, New Bedford 1973, Rev. Msgr. Albert Berube, Pastor Emeritus, St. Anthony, New Bedford June 27 1863, Rev. John Corry, Founder, St. Mary, Taunton; Founder, St. Mary, Fall River 1933, Rev. Dario Raposo, Pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton 1980, Rev. Msgr. Thomas F. Walsh, Pastor Emeritus, St. John the Evangelist, Attleboro 1984, Msgr. Bernard J. Fenton, Retired Pastor, St. Joseph, North Dighton June 28 1947, Rev. Thomas C. Gunning, Assistant, St. Lawrence, New Bedford June 30 1961, Rev. Alphonse M. Reniere, O.P., Dominican Priory, Fall River 1952, Rev. Simon Pease, SS.Cc., Administrator of Sacred Hearts, Fairhaven

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Why is Mass bell silent?

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Q. What is the reason so many parishes have abandoned the practice ofringing the bell during Mass, for example at the offertory and consecration and Communion?

Very few churches do it anymore.

Is this right? (Massachusetts) A. First it should be understood that no bells are required during the eucharistic liturgy. Present instructions for Mass say they may be used; they are not required or even recommended.

Perhaps it will help to have a little background. Ringing bells at Mass apparently began in monasteries during the Middle Ages.

Only a certain group of monks attended the community Mass in midmorning. Others out in the field followed the Mass through the chapel bell.

Use of bells increased to some extent with the introduction of the elevation of the host and' chalice after the consecration around the year 1200.

As all of us who are a little older will remember, these elevations came to be seen as the main part of the Mass. Some fervent Catholics, in fact, even moved from church to church just to watch the elevation.

Bells were rung to express joy and let everyone know "Jesus is now here" and all present could look at him.

In 1972 the Vatican congregation responsible for liturgy related the ringing of bells at Mass to the level of liturgical education in the parish. Where this education has been adequate, it noted there is no need for this kind of signal. If sufficient liturgical instruction is lacking, however, bells probably need to be rung at least at the two elevations (Notitiae, 1972,343).

It seems to me that two things, at least, are responsible for the gradual disappearance of bell ringing at Mass. First, we have a deeper awareness than did the people of those days that while Jesus does become present to us in a new way under the form of bread and wine in the Eucharist, he doesn't come "new," as it were.

As we gather to celebrate the Eucharist, we are the body of Christ before he becomes present to us as our food and drink and as our sacrifice to the Father. It is, in fact, If" purpose of the Eucharist itself to form this body of Christ down through the centuries.

Also we now express our joy over the Lord's eucharistic presence with our own voices, especially in the acclamation after the consecration and in the great Amen at the end of the eucharistic prayer.

Disappearance of bell ringing is just one example of how in the liturgy we now do ourselves what we formerly could only watch, or listen to, someone else doing.

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Q. A few yean ago I learned I could not be considered for the permanent diaconate. Much to my disappointment I was informed that it is a policy not to accept men who had an annulment.

Since that convenation I have sought a rationale for this rule. I

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the work that concerns them. Many do not use modern means of communication as well as they could.

In many pastoral centers and chancery offices, personnel continue to use outmoded equipment.

Often the excuse given is that there is not enough money in the budget.

Yet close examination of the budget too often reveals outdated ways of budgeting.

Computerization is often a foreign and sometimes distrusted concept.

But business organization techniques or technology are not what will solve the problem of fewer priests. It will help if priests regroup to find the hidden energies in the Good News they are to proclaim.

It is sound regrouping that allows a priest or bishop time to sort out priorities and to maintain control over the ideals that are at the heart of the future church.

This is not the full answer to the problem, but I believe that the more priests and bishops can gain control of their time through use of time-saving methods, the better they will be able to cope with the future.

By FATHER JOHN DIETZEN

was taught that an annulment wipes the slate clean. Can you explain?

(New York) A. Nothing in general church law would preclude one who has received a declaration of annulment from becoming a candidate for the diaconate.

Some men have entered the seminary and been ordained to the priesthood after their marriage had been annulled.

However, each diocesan bishop has the authority and responsibility to establish whatever criteria he believes necessary for candidates for the permanent diaconate.

Obviously these criteria will consider both the rights of the individual person and the spiritual good of the local Catholic community.

I have no further knowledge or insight concerning this policy as it affects you. In each such instance, the policy flows from a judgment made by the bishop of that diocese or archdiocese.

A free brochure outlining Catholic teaching on cremation and other burial policies is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Father Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address.

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Schism foreseen .

Continued from Page'One a number of liturgical and organizational concessions.

Under the agreement, the group was to have been established as a society of"pontifical right" -with limited control by local bishops.

The plan foresaw creation of a Vatican commission to oversee relations among the society, the Roman Curia and bishops. It allowed the society to use pre-Vatican II liturgical books. Finally, it proposed, subject to the p6pe's approval, the naming of a bishop from among society members.

On the other hand, the agreement called for the archbishop and his society to pledge fidelity to the pope and the church, to accept the council's statement on the church's teaching authority, to recognize the validity of the post-Vatican II Mass and sacramental rites, and to adopt "an attitude of study and co'mmunication" regarding conciliar teachings and policies they had rejected: The protocol agreement, signed May 5, broke down when Archbishop Lefebvre insisted on ordaining his bishop June 30. Later, he raised the number of bishops needed to four and said his members must have a majority on the Vatican's oversight commission.

The Vatican, represented by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the doctrinal congregation, rejected Archbishop Lefebvre's demands, but agreed to the ordination of one bishop as early as Aug. 15, at the close of the Marian year.

That did not satisfy the archbishop.

In his announcement June 15 at his headquarters in Econe, Switzerland, Archbishop Lefebvre said he would name four bishops: - British-born Father Richard Williamson, 48, superior of a traditionalist seminary in Ridgefield, Conn.; - French Father Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, 42, secretary general of the society.; - Father Bernard Fellay, 31,of Valaisan, Switzerland, treasurer of the society.;

- Father Alphonso de Galarreta, 30, of Buenos Aires, Argentina, district superior for South America.

Father Williamson, who has headed the U.S. seminary of the ~riestly S.ociety since 1983, converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism shortly before entering the society's seminary in Econe in 1972.

He was in the first group of priests iIIicity ordained by Archbishop Lefebvre in Econe on June 29, 1976. He has traveled throughout the world leading retreats based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.

Father Williamson was educated at Winchester, one of Great Britain's top private schools, and at Cambridge University. He taught at St. Paul's School, another private institution, in London.

St. Paul's was founded in 1509

by John Colet, a friend of Erasmus and St. Thomas More, and dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

In an interview published in the French daily Le Figaro June 17, Archbishop Lefebvre said he had chosen two candidates from the Americas because he feared a "communist invasion of Europe," which would immobilize the society's European leadership.

Cardinal Edouard Gagnon, who last fall made a papally mandated visit to Econe as a first step toward reconciliation, said he thought the Vatican would go ahead and set up a commission to "look after the interests" of Archbishop Lefebvre's followers, despite the failed agreement.

In an interview with National Catholic News Service, the cardinal said he thought the concessions offered Archbishop Lefebvre would be offered to groups that had previously worked '~along­ side" him, but that now wished to remain in the church.

Cardinal Gagnon said the reconciliation effort was always aimed beyond the Priestly Society of St. Pius X. "The idea was to start with this

Continued from Page One - The number of patients treated in Catholic hospitals rose to more than 40 million, up 3 million from 1987. Patients treated by Catholic dispensaries rose from 1.2 million to 1.5 million.

- Seminarians dropped from 8,556 to 7,512, with most losses among candidates for religious orders.

- The number of students in Catholic colleges and universities rose about 7,000, to nearly 564,000; but enrollment in Catholic high schools fell from about 754,000 to 708,000 and in elementary schools from 2.03 million to 1.99 million. ~ Confraternity of Christian Doctrine classes lost 9.3 percent at the high school level, dropping from some 888,000 students to 805,000, but gained 2.4 percent at the elementary level, from 2.97 million students to 3.04 million.

- There were fewer priests, brothers, sisters and lay people teaching in Catholic schools, but the most dramatic decline was among teaching sisters. They dropped from 26,574 to 23,153, for a loss of nearly 13 percent in one year.

Nearly half the reported Catholic population increase came from the U.S. Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, which listed exactly 2 million Catholics in 1987 but gave the figure of 2,290,349 in 1988.

The military archdiocese has no territorial boundaries. It serves Catholics in the armed forces and their families and U.S. military and diplomatic personnel abroad.

The Diocese of Brownsville, Texas, which jumped from some 433,000 in its 1987 report to more than 544,000 in 1988, attributed its 25 percent increase to an influx of Latin American refugees and immigrants, and a paper increase caused by a change to a more accurate method of estimating numbers of Catholics.

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group and then extend it to others," he said.

In a separate interview with Vatican Radio, Cardinal Gagnon said he estimated that about 500,000 Catholics around the world use the "services" of Archbishop Lefebvre's society.

In the United States, fewer than 5,000 people worship regularly at the 95 missions operated by the society, according to a society official.

Archbishop May said in a June 17 telephone interview that Archbishop Lefebvre's decision poses a problem for Catholics who have attended society services but still consider themselves Roman Catholics.

"They are going to have to make their choice now," Archbishop May said.

In comments made after his announcement, Archbishop Lefebvre indicated he is not rethinking his decision. In an interview with the Italian magazine Trenta Giorni, he explained that ifhe had accepted the Vatican reconciliation offer, his organization would have split, "even on the simple proposal to join a procession with modernist bishops."

Archbishop Lefebvre said that by ordaining bishops, "we are stronger, with an organization that is intact, strong and well-structured." He said he hoped that in "four or five years" the Vatican would "come to an agreement with us."

Vietnam boycotts canonization rite VATICAN CITY (NC) -:- In a ceremony that strained Vatican relations with the Vietnamese government, Pope John Paul II formallydeclared as saints 117 people martyred in Vietnam more than

100 yean ago.

Although the new saints lived during the 18th and 19th centuries, the Marxist government prohibited VietnalRC5e bishops, clergy and laity from attending the June 19 Vatican canonization Mass, saying the ceremonies would be used to criticize the government.

Prior to the ceremonies. the government also said the martyrs - 96 Vietnamese, 11 Spanish mis~ sionanetl and 10 French missionaries - paved theway for Wutern colonialization of the Asian count<y.

JEANNE EGAN

Tbis:guild's got tbe rigbt stuff

By J.05ePb Motta When a woman joiN Holy T rinity Church, West Harwich, as an individual, half of a couple or a

fadniy member, she gcts more than membcnbip ina Cape Cod Catho-

fie COtIllbunity.

She ,ets. a~rdin8 to Jeanne M. Egan. president of Holy Trinity's Ladies' Association of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. a friendly offer to ';OiD a community within the community.

Mn. Ega)l;" record. show that theassociatiOD, tbeequi'l&lent ofa women's guild, has • whopping 417 members. That, says impressed Diocesan CO\UJCil ofCatholic: W0men prtlIIideDt Dorothy Curry, puts it among the .largest parish organizaboDS ift the fall River diocese:. ooEvety new woman parishioner it CODtactcd [by telephont or mail] by a guild membenlhip penon and

asked to join," Mrs. Egan said.

"Our past membership chairman.

Fran Glynn, brou!tht in ]6 mem~ ben. May O'ConDor, our current membership chairman. has aln:ady brought in 20."

Holy Trinity parish ebCOmpuses tbe town of Harwich and a good

portion of neighboring Dennis.

CapeCod's population.,...ofcourse, is growing, and it makes sense that organiutiona would grow along with it. But why is Holy Trinity's Ladies' Association such a sUccess?

Jeanne Egan talks about outreach. The retired nurse has bocna Holy Trinity parishioner for about 20 years but didn't begin involvement with the Ladies' Association until approximately eight years ago.

That's when her friend Alice Duffy, now a Waltham resident, invited her to an association IdeetiflS, just a nice social gesture.

"She belonged for years," Mrs. Egan explained, "and she just brought me along one day."

Forabout six years Mrs. Egan was "always helping if I could" but the group really became a pan of her life two years ago, when she was asked to be vice-president. .She started a two-year term as president this May..., think I'll enjoy it," she said, "because we have many, many wonderful worken. Everybody works together. I dotl't remember anybody ever saying notoanytbing I've asked them."

Mrs. Egan says that three-quarters (If the current membership is active. The remainder arc impeded by ate, infirmity or because they have small children.

Members' ages, she said. range

At thethrce-hodroutdoor Mass, celebrated in intermittent rain, the pope did Dot mention the CWTent Vietnamese government and only

alluded to the barring ofthe bishops by saying he felt "spiritually reunited" with them dUring the cere_ mony.

He briefly mentione<l the need for religious freedom but balanced this by saying that Catholics should be good citizens and bonor the authorities of their COuntry.

About half ofthe 20,000 people at Ihe Mass werecxpatriate Vietname".

The Mass was broadcast by Vatican Radio, and relayed into Vietnam by Radio Ventas, a Catholic .

radio station in Manila, Philippines, said a Vatican Radio official.

Becau!c uf lack of equipment and a severe shortage of electricity, the Vietnamese government could not jam the broad~tJ the official said.

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JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. The West Harwich resident, 775-4110 tracts between l40andl.tS women, 432 JEFFERSON sntIIT JIIm & Mar) lees. PlcJtIs. A recent meetina: bad as JUCSt a married with one teenage &on, coFaD Rjy.,.

67J..7496 Christian Brother who spoke of ordinates district meet:inp for the Diocesan Council ofCathoJic W 0his YQrs of miuion- work in the men's Cape Cod Ind bland_ disPhilippines. where be established trict. With heir hldband James she a school and worked with lepers.

AWIDE OIOICE Of s.tIINGS The auociation lDvileS membcn chaired the parish CCA coUection ofarea ProtcstPt church prild. to for two yean. She is. Vincentian & INVESI1tIENT PlANS an annual ecumenical tea. wbile and a cueharisti<: JDinister at Manes Sal•• And Service members of .11 Catholic Cape and for the homeboUnd. Father Healy hows bis parish,wkls are invited to • tea that's s Largest ioners:, liktdcannc EgaD, are billY part of the annual instalJation! people.

Bat he bows he can count crowmns· of Weekly craft. workshops arc held' on them.

ICA • ZENITH· SYLVANIA His favorite saylns? "You can't and some 35 membel"s have met 1196 IEIlfOIID STRm every Thursday for the past to to say you "n't. You won't say you 12 years to make bandages sent to won't. So you will, won't your 673-9721 At Holy Trinity they don't let leper colonies through a Catholic him doW'b. They've Bot the right distribution cauer in New York.

The JToup recently made a sub- Huff. stantial donation to The MadoJUtl, Plan. ad orpni18tioD which assists ANNUAl needy unwed motbeR. In the pallt it has h..d baby Ilhowers to benefit The Pope's Warehouse, which distributes baby ilupptieJ to needy & throushout the world, but this year, Mrs. Egan happily reported, the warehouse needed no help because it had ample supplies on hand.

The president also pr<:,udly noted that the association made its firstever scholarship awards this year.

Recipients Nancy MontO and Eliz.'---.-Fabeth Duggan were selected on the basis of their academic records and contributions to Catholic life.

Miss Moran. a lector, plans to further her dance education. Miss Duggan is IKginning her third year at Worcester's College ofthe Holy Cross, where she is a campus eucllaristic minister and donates at least one night per week to a Worcester food kitchen.

Father Gabriel Healy, 5S.ce, Holy Trinity's pastor, .ays "NoTRADITIONAL· HOT MEALS thing could be done wit.hout the women and their husbands· who FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY support them." He spoke of the SILMON PIE fRINKS & fRENCH ladies' generosity in caring for the allars and linens in the main parish CHOWDER & BEANS MElT and its mission, Our Lady of the CLAM CAKES PEA SOUP PIE Annunciation in Dcnnisport, and how they visit and bring enterVARlm OF OTHER SNACK FOODS tainmenttoresidentsata Harwich nursing home.

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The college has received orders from other colleges, parents and bishops. Bisbop William H. K.eeler of Harrisburg, Pa., ordered J4,000 copics for his diocese, said Mik.e Diegel, college assistant public relations director.

The booklet warns that college students find themselves "in an amoral atmosphere that promotes 'safe sex' as a acceptable practice."

It continues, "For many young adults the myth of 'safe sex' provides a false sense ofsecurity which can enable them to justify having casual sex with a succession of different partners. However, the promiscuity of 'safe sex' does not present an appropriate course ofaction that reflects the Christian view of the dignity of human persons."

"To have casual sex with multi· pic partners, or with someone who has had multiple partners, is a risky and possibly deadly form of 'Russian Roulette: " the booklet states. " 'Hooking up' may seem like no big deal, but can, in reality, be one of the ways carriers can knowingly or more often unknowingly transmit the virus."

Tbe booklet warns that use of condoms does not eliminate risk of infection and says that promotion ofcondoms "is notacceptable within the Catholic community."

It also calls for compa8sion toward AIDS victims and their families.

Diegel said, "We knew we were creating a piece that woutd be vaLuable to Catholics because there was nothing out there that addressed AIDS in the context of the Judea-Christian value system." He added that "it became apparent that many otbers, including nonCatholics, felt the need for something that educated people within the context of those values."

The booklet has received praise from college and church officials.

Archbishop Pio Laghi, U.S. apostolic pronuncio, said it seems to "combine compassion for the victims with firmness in an exhortation to traditional Catholic moral values."

Diegel said the college also was "pleasantly surprised at the reaction from health authorities" who have distributed the booklet, which will be translated into Spanish this summer.

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Cardinal Miguel Obaw Bravo of Managua, be said, hat given his Mtotal blening" to the project.

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Have you a loving heart? Would you like to combine work that really makes a difference to people's lives with an excellent pay

and benefits package?

The Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm hope you'll say _yes.

At the Catholic Memorial Home in Fall River, flagship and largest of the four health ctlre facilities in the Fall River diocese, the sisters have cared for the aaed for nearly half a <:entury with the proud molto "Serving the loved with love."

But as the aaed population increases and tbe national birthrate continues to fail, fewer persons are in the work force and it is becGming harder to prGvide the dedicated service home re'idents deserve, says Sister Margaret Patrick, personnel assistant.

Thus it is that for the first time in 49 years the sisters are having difficulty recruiting their tradition· ally highly qualified staff from the greater Fall River area.

They thought of The Anchor as a possible source of employment prospects, said Sister Margaret Patri<:k, realizing that whether or not a subscriber is interested in a pOlition for himself or herself, each reader hal friends and relatives who might be glad to hear of the chance to work in a faith-filled envirGnment with congenial associates.

- Service of the aged may start as "just a job" said the mother of a former nurses' aide at Catholic Memorial Home, chucklingasshe recalled how her harum-scarum daughter visibly'matured u she worked with the elderly.

MShe had the whole family viliting residents with no relatives, she remembered birthdays, she'd sing and dance to cheer up tbe depressed. It was wonderful to see her blos50m and <:are," said the mother.

Altbough the young woman eventually left the home to enter colleae, she remained close to "her" residents and treasures her memories, concluded the mother.

Such experiences are open to people of any lllle, say the sisters, citinll the example Gf an 80-yearold who is an activities aide at the home.

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The Catholic Memorial Home is a beautiful place to work; situated on a landscaped site over· looking the Taunton River. In technical terms, it's a "voluntary long-term care facility offering skilled and supportive nursing care to the aged."

Owned and operated by the Fall River diooese and staffed by the Carmelite sisters, it has 288 beds open to all comers, regardless of race, creed, ethnic origin or source of payment. Dedicated to the principle of personalized care, it is "committed to a program of service which usures the dignity, privacy, independence and self-worth of each resident," say officials.

The home is IiceD~ed by the Massachusetts Department of Pub-lie Health and is a member of both the American and Massachusetts Homes for the Aged as well as the Catho1ic Hospital Association. It is approved for most insuran<:e programs: "Please consider the, Catholic Memorial home when looking for employment and assist us in serv~ ing the loved with love," sums up Sister Margaret Patrick.

Love, Dedication "Your love, devotion and dedication are a joy to behold. It takes a very giving person to bea nurses' aide," - Words of Catholic Memorial Home administrator Sister M. Shawn Bernadette Flynn to graduating nurses' aides.

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Cb)ldrcn of any agc enjoy flashliJbts. A flallblight or penlight misht be a nice bed toy, suitable

also as a "laser guo" for zapping ... r.tba'. What do you tblllt? any unwary momte" who wander ioto the room.-10.

Bcd toys also include teddy bean Sleeping. like eating, cannot be and dolls, pillows and blankets, forced. Y.I both activities are vital. cuddly objects of all varieties to Using bed as a punilhment or fore- . hold tigbtllgainsl the lonely dark,. in, a child to stay in bed over her A readiullamp and a few favorite itronlfobjections is not wise. books for reading only in bed Keeping tbe "3-year-old in her bed is a good idea, but "for(:ing" her to stay there apinst her will is not. My 1'U'S1 parental ItralelY would be to _ke bed moreattra..-

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I wrote a column a few weeki back about the new phenomenon lhat pUblishers and retai1en are capitaliriDJ on UDder the label New Ap.ldidn'l al1t14;ipate wbat • ~" of wor-m- I was opmiq Ot that ] would be caUed "danJCroWlly iporant" aDd in "Satan'. clutches."

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Oae letter writer asserted that "the bead or Ihe New Ap world sovemment will be none other than the AIltlehrist.... Muy will faDfor his falle promiles,. as Antoin. ette Bosco .ppatently bu.· ,Loa,-time readers of mycoluma wouldn'l eJtpeet me to ftIg(l~ lhat they f'lAd. New Aae JrOup to join, ad it '\fUII.'t my ~ODto do '0. rd be tile last ,penon to do that ..".elf. It". nen mY cup oftca.

FurtherDlore, I know Ihere are ample reasons and opportunities to punue spirituality within the great tradition of the church and i.1I spiritual bet~.

I ...s first mOlivated to wrile on the New Ap phenomenon by an artiele in The Wan Street Journal.

-II told how.1re publijhins business jumped on the New Ale bandwalon, even revitalizing old titles merely by aI.ppinS a New Age label on them. "Nobody seems 10 know exactly what New Age means, but one Ibing is ~rtain, New Age sells." the article u)d.

I noted lome Ne\\' Age butz· word. in my column and poionted to some of -its favorite top.ic:s universal psychic energy, cosmic (:onoec:lions or crystals. In saying that "jllSl about anytbina: can be labeled New Age," I Ihought it would be apparenl that I wasP't approvinl of or recommending . "just about anything."

The quote I reaUy found wortb a smile was from Marilyn McGuire, di.rector of the New Age Publi.hing and Retailing Alliance. Her idea ofa true New Age book is 'tbe classic children's story. "The Little Engine That Could:' Mrs. McGuire chose that book because "it's about being-positive and not being afraid.~ Nl'ne of ua ever suspected that had anything to do witb Satanism. Woald some Catholics today - as indicated by the reaction to lIly New Age column - nol read this story to t:&ir children?

Apparently the phrase "New Age" means different thin[s todiffcreat people. As • -writer in The Los Angeles Times recently put it: "No one speaks for the entire New

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AJC community. Wilbin tbe movement, there is no unanimity as to how to define it or even that it is sufficiently (:ohcsive to be called a movement." He inliKted that friqe activities and paraphernalia of some New Apn ban diatradce1 media atteaUOD from lhe beart of the Ul8tter, an interest in variO!UI aorta of spiritual awakeniDJ. Alide froID, tile uaduhaa. of the Ne. Age IabeJ to retaiJm;. lhe upccr: that bad mOIl cau&bt Illy eye wben readiaa about tbe New Ap pbeaOlDeDOR wu tm. inlerest in wbat mipt broadly be dlSCribed u the spirituaL Nothina 1 read mmtioacd My iDvolvemeal ols.-

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I concluded. that New AlP belief, an: a reaction apiut the ncptive eXCCMCS of the InduatriaJ Ap iDIaJCS of dehumanization on the _bly!iDe, machinaanclchemt_call IlICd by giant compuies to exploit and deplete Earth or Ihe techllololY used for massive destrUCIion in war. A baaic tenet of

New Ale beliefs iI thai to go forward we IIIUIt learn to mpectaod. live in barII'lony 'Nith all creation.

My POiDt wu that New AI/: it: a reaction apinal mattrialism. Ihe me-ooly excesses of tbe .,0. and lhe blawt greed of lhe '8Os. AI luch it mast be taken "serioualJ." But what does it meatI 10 take SOlDetbiRI seriouslY? To ur. that lhis phenomenon be taken aeriously is nOI ••ki.. people 10 become its adbereats. endonins il or promoting its 111011 eXlredle aroups. It mealY recol~ IliziDJ thai we may be on lhe verae

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If· a of tlile pea,u1UID IDea... that more of society's me.ben will be pamnn, tometbi!lJ lhey callspirituaJ awateiliDa. it it vital that we be aware 0( this vital. too, IIlat we in the cburch be able to speak ofour ow. spiritual· ity cndibly in an atm06pbere when: a srowiD.J Dumber of people miabt be expCc:ted to find the .ubject of dlote than pusinJ: interat.

A diet of guilt . , Hilda YOdI C.lholies often kid "cb other about growing up on a diet of IUiJ,t.

There wert jUlt so many things 10 feel guilty about -Swallowing toothp.aste after midniJbt Saturday aud brtall:jul Sunday fast.

- Takinl a bite of a cheeseburger on a Friday and reaJizinl what you had done jusl as you swallowed.

-Exiting confessional aDd rememberin, a sill you hadn't mentioned.

1always have given Sister MODica extra credit for fine-tunius our aense of pill. Tholll.uds of yean ago when I was in grammar school, she Wall the vi~principal.

She never smiled. She never joked. She was hard. She pOt!-' sessed a voice that could even make Eugene Knudsen's Adam', apple wiggle when be tried. to swallow.

Euaene terrified everyone, with. the obvious exception of Sister Monica. It was understood eommonly that Sister Monica possessed awesome psychic and physic::al powers, even for a nun.

For example, if I-even· 'entertained the tbought of slipping a piece of gum into my mouth dur·

ing class, I could count on jlanoina- over to the t'laaaroom door aDd seeing Sister Monica's eyes meltinl me down chrotlp the tiny window.

AU my friends had Ihe same experience. There were numeroUli .toriK of her appeaciul ill twO 01 three locations al the same time.

A constant worry was that ,I mipt Jiult out loud someday, duriDllhe rosary when my friend Suzanne aDCII made eye CGnlact.

I imaain" SiiterMonka would nab me and take me to the offIce. My parenti would be caUed. I t'ouldn't i18nd'lo faee. fhem, 10 I'd leap- from the principal'. second scory window and flee with severa.

DUDS in hot' punvit, lInary beads flying in all directionS. They would call \be police. I wouJd sleal a bicycle 'aud make a run for it; only to be boxed in at a dead end street and shot down in a hail of gunfire.

An officer would kneel over me and ask, "Why did you do it?"

I would cough my last words,"1 gilgled durinB the rosary."

Actually, 1 rarely broke 5Chool rules. It's not so much that I had a great admiration or undentanding of them, I couldn't b~le th~ guilt. Stayitll after school and polismngdoorknGbs wasn't much fUD either.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., June 24, 1988

Day care and Baby Jesus

By Msgr. George G. Higgins In the late '70s Congress seriously debated the need for federal day care legislation. but soon lost interest. With some 100 day care bills now pending in the Congress, the issue is back in the headlines again.

During the '70s debate, The Washington Post ran a controversial article warning against "bureaucratizing" childhood through a government-run day care program.

Published soon after Christmas, it began by asking, "Would Mary have sent Baby Jesus to a day care center?"

The writer answered this loaded question with an equally loaded answer. He said Mary might have sent Jesus to a day care center "if she were with us this Christmas and she was a career woman out there in the marketplace battling for a paycheck right along with Joseph."

There is another way, however, of responding. My answer would be, Yes, Mary might well have sent Baby Jesus to a day care center; if for anyone of a dozen socioeconomic reasons she had been compelled to enter the labor market and had no place else to leave him while she worked.

The latter answer, in my opinion, is much more realistic today than the writer's too-facile polemic against that segment ofthe women's liberation movement which allegedly is clamoring for day care centers "not for the benefit- of the child, but only for the mother or father who don't want to or can't care for their offspring."

That there are so-called "emancipated" feminists who fall into this category is a fact of life. Their ideological disdain for "mothering," as the writer pointed out, is rather frightening as well as socially harmful.

His concluding advice to such women - and the men who agree with them - was on target. "Don't knock it," he said, "until you have come up with a substitute. Certainly we need the role models of women Supreme Court justices and women in other power, prestige positions, but the role of mother in the Holy Family isn't without honor either."

That's true. But in fairness to women compelled to. enter the labor market who have no one at home to take care of their children, the writer might have also said: Don't knock day care until you can come up with a substitute.

"Emancipated" anti-motherhood feminists are not the only or even the principal advocates of an adequate day care program in the United States nor would they be its principal beneficiaries. Millions of poor and working-class women who fully understand the importance of"mothering" and, in many cases, would undoubtedly prefer to stay at home with their children are unable to do so. Day care legislation is aimed at relieving them.

Other things being equal, institutionalized day care is generally a poor substitute for "mothering" in the home. But, in the absence of an adequate day care program, millions of children will receive no care at all. This is why many Catholic schools and agencies in poor neighborhoods have established day care centers.

In fairness to the Post writer, it should be noted that he pointed to other ways of handling this problem, including "according wives and mothers Social Security protection even if they don't work

outside the home; universal child allotments; and perhaps the novel idea of one job (decently paid) for every two parents."

Now we know NEW YORK (NC) - A Christian Brot-her who was Manhattan College's baseball coach in the late 1800s is credited with inventing one of baseball's most hallowed traditions - the seventh-inning stretch.

• '. Several conflicting accOunts of the origin of the ritual exist, but, according to William Deane ofthe Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N. Y., it is the story of Christian Brother Jasper Brennan that has the most ·credence: Brother Brennan, a native of Kilkenny, Ireland, became prefect of discipline and baseball coach at the New York Catholic school in 1861.

At home games, the entire stude'nt body marched to the-fieldand sat in a reserved section so that Brother Brennan could keep an eye ~n both players and fans.

Before each contest he would admonish students not to leave their seats until the game was over.

But apparently some of his strict regulations became too much for the fans. According to college records, during a hot, humid day in June 1882 students were watching Manhattan take on the semipro New York Metropolitans. The game dragged along slowly with neither team able to accumulate hits or mount a significant rally.

Brother Brennan, sensing restlessness in the stands, decided to relieve the tension as the team came to bat in the seventh inning.

He went to the bleachers and urged the students to stand up and stretch for two minutes. They did and the tension was eased.

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He said nothing about the hundreds of thousands of homes in which there is only one parent, namely, a widowed or divorced or deserted mother, but his suggestions were excellent and deserve support. I doubt, however, that they will be adopted in the near future.

Many opponents of the day care bills also oppose the social and economic changes which alone could make such legislation unnecessary. In debate, they may be tempted to appeal to the example of the Holy Family. But opposing day care on religious grounds is, in my opinion, the wrong way to go.

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The center, successor to the U.S. bishops' office for United Nations affairs, has 18 member organizations.

From 1976 to 1988 Sister Richardson was staff adviser to the papal representative at the Holy See's Mission to the United Nations, where she delivered many interventions for the Vatican. . The nun, who speaks French, Italian and Spanish, holds a doctorate in languages and linguistics from Georgetown' University. She has been involved in church renewa] programs in Belgium, Zaire and the United States;

Spreading Gospel "greatest kindness" NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC) To spread the Gospel is the "greatest kindness" a persoll can perform because "Jesus is the greatest gift," a Redemptorist priest told almost 7,000 people at a recent national Catholic charismatic conference at the University of Notre Dame.

Redemptorist Father Tom Forrest, director of the international Evangelization 2000 project, encouraged the crowd to read Pope Paul VI's 1975 apostolic exhortation on evangelization, then "use it."

"Pray for evangelization. Every single day say, 'Here I am, God. Use me. You supply the occasions, I'll be there,''' he said at the National Conference on the Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Church.

"To the Ends of the Earth" was the theme of the conference. Participants included large groups from South Korea and Haiti and U.S. Hispanic Catholics.

The conference program included talks by Spanish Jesuit Father Manuel Casanova, a speaker at charismatic conferences in Europe and Africa; Father Jim Bermingham, a missionary in Nigeria for 17 years; and Redemptorist Father Gino Henriques, former chairman of the national charismatic service team in India.

"What this weekend is telling you is that you cannot stop your apostolic efforts at your own border," Father Forrest said. "Get outside of the charismatic (circle).

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v ATICAN CITY (NC) Wherever Pope John Paul II travels these days, he packs a copy of his latest encyclical, "Sollicitudo Rei Socialis" ("On Social Concerns").

On a trip to South America in May, he used the poor economies of Uruguay, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay as case studies in what the encyclical called the "noticeably worsened': ~light .of the Third World. The VISit at times seemed like a public reading of the 102page document.

During a June 3-7 swing through Italy's super-developed EmiliaRomagna region, the pope stressed the flip side ofthe encyclical's message: that the wealthier zones of the world cannot remain satisfied with this situation of economic imbalance. He was greeted by groups of politicians and businessmen who pledged to help correct it.

A week later he was back in the South - a twd-day stop in Italy's poverty- and crime-ridden toe,.

Reggio Calabria. The encyclical was unpacked again, and the pope was soon describing Calabria as "emblematic" of the document's main concern: a "widening of the gap" between a developed North and an underdeveloped South.

The pope clearly enjoys poundingaway at.the encyclical's themes.

At one pomt, when he spoke to directors and employees of Ferrari automake~s near Modean, he had to apologize for the. length of a sermon on the encychcal.

"Thank you for your war~ welc~m~ - . a.nd for rour. p~tI,~?ce wI.th Solhcltudo Rei Soclahs, he said to warm applause at the end.

At the yatican too, both t~e pope and ~IS guests frequently cite the encychcal.

For example, whe.n. the pope welcomed the ~ew Bntlsh ambassador t~ the v.atican June 14, he emphatically Cited the document's

call for social policies based on human rights - which are violated, he added, by abortion and unemployment.

The ambassador, in turn, did his best to show how Britain was indeed responding to the concerns raised in the encyclical. He noted his government's proposal for relieving debt burdens of southern African nations.

The same day, the pope met with a group of lay Franciscans and encouraged them in their latest project: a programmatic study of "Sollicitudo Rei Socialis."

The favorable response to the do~u.ment has heartened Vatican offiCials, some of whom feel that the pope's st~ong social teachings have sometimes been overshadowed by disciplinary or doctrinal controversies. ."In Eur?pe,. it's ~een recei~ed with admiratIOn; 10 the Thud World, with enthusiasm; in socialist countries, with attention," said Joaquin Navarro-Valls, Vatican press sp?kesman. He noted tha~ in ~he Umt~d State~,. ~he "reaction mcluded some cnt~cls~. prompted by th~ docume~t s ~ntlcal stand toward hberal capltahsm.

At the Vatican's publishing house, officials say requests for the encyclical are unusally high, par.' ticularly from lay groups.

Another Vatican official said the document has earned the pope sympathetic audiences across a wide spectrum of Catholicism.

After enthusiastic press coverage, it is now moving into the study stage, he said.

"I think this encyclical will maintain its quotability and usability for a long time to come," the official said.

As he prepares for upcoming trips north to Austria in late June and Africa in September, the pope will no doubt keep that in mind and save room in his suitcase for a by now dog-eared copy of"Sollicitudo Rei Socialis."

It's Scandinavia in '89 VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope , travel to Finland for two days in John Paul II will visit Sweden, Helsinki and Turku. On June 6 he Norway, Denmark, Finland and will go to Denmark for visits to Copenhagen, Roskilde, AasebakIceland June 1 to 9, 1989.

It will be the first papal visit to ken and, the Jutland Peninsula.

On June 8 the pope will visit the predominantly non-Catholic Stockholm and on June 9 visit the states of northern Europe.

The Scandinavian bishops said Swedish cities of Uppsala, Vadstthe theme of the trip will be Jesus' ena and Linkoping.

Scandinavia has been overwhelmmandate to the Apostles, "Proclaim the Gospel to every crea- ingly Lutheran since the Reforture," Vatican Radio reported June matin and with less than 200;000 16.

Catholics is considered mission terAccording to the bishops' state- ritory for the Catholic Church.

Less than 1 percent of the popument, the pope will visit the cities of Oslo, Trondheim and Tromso latons of Norway, Denmark, Finin Norway June 1and 2, then fly to land and Iceland are Catholic.

'Sweden has the largest Catholic Iceland for stops in the cities of Reykjavik and Thingvellir June 3. population, 119,000 or 1.4 percent The following day the pope will of the general population.

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ANDREW WILLOUGHBY NINIAN BERTIE

Days of chivalry still live for Knights of Malta ROME (NC) - When Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie, a 58year-old blue-blooded celibate judo expert, became the 78th grand master of the Knights of Malta last April, he assumed command of the world's most ancient chivalric order and the world's smallest sovereign state.

His knights, including some of Europe's oldest Catholic nobility and America's newest captains of commerce, dedicate themselves nowadays to a worldwide charitable organization tackling leprosy and other dread afflictions; but at one time the order was the first panEuropean fighting force, serving on the front lines of Christendom's war with Islam.

The Knights of Malta were founded in the 11 th century during the First Crusade by Blessed Gerard, a monk who ran a hospital for pilgrims in Jerusalem.

At first the order was solely religious but recognizing the need to protect pilgrims and defend the newly conquered Holy Land, it became a military order in the 12th century.

Recruiting members, usually noblemen, from throughout Christian Europe, the knights provided hospices and infirmaries for pilgrims and manned military fortifications in the southern Mediterranean. Over centuries, the order was driven first from Jerusalem, then from Rhodes, Greece, by Mos': lem armies, and finally from Malta

by Napoleon.

Today the order's official title is the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, and its symbol is the eight-pointed Maltese cross.

A sovereign state having diplomatic relations with 50 countries, the order mints its own coins and issues its own license plates and passports.

Its property, which enjoys extraterritorial status similar to that of the Vatican, consists of a palace on

Holy See, and the pope is technically their superior. His representative to the order is Cardinal Sebastiano Baggo.

Elected for life and subject to the approval ofthe pope, the grand master was invested with the title of prince in 1607 and has a rank equal to that of cardinal by decree of Pope Urban VIII in 1630. Today, that means litle more than that he can be addressed as "eminence."

A major concern of Grand Master Bertie is vocations, which he called a matter of"primary importance" for the order during his first official speech. .

But if the honorific titles and the red tunics, golden swords and spurs of the Knights' dress uniforms strike some as hopelessly antiquated, the order's charitable goals are demanding and contemporary.

Reflecting their roots as a hospital order and aid society, the Knights run leprosariums throughout Africa and Asia and hospitals, nursing schools and centers for the elderly and handicapped around the world.

The order operates in about 90 countries, including some of the world's poorest or most violent. It is particularly proud of its medical teams in war-torn Lebanon and EI Salvador. Its good works add up to a large commitment for the world's smallest state but to Grand Master Bertie and his noble knights, it's simply the fulfillment of the code of chivalry to serve Christ and the less fortunate.

Women's document to be issued

Rome's chic Via Condotti, just down the street from Gucci's, and a villa on the Aventine Hill a few VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope miles to the South.

John Paul II has announced the It was at the villa that Grand imminent publication of a docuMaster Bertie, standing on an Orien- ment on the "dignity and vocation tal carpet spread out upon a peb- of women" in response to concerns bled terrace ringed by orange trees raised during the 1987 Synod of and date palms overlooking the Bishops' discussion of the role of Tiber River, received the congrat- the laity. ulations of ambassadors and diploHe said the document on women mats as chief of state. would be issued before his forthBut the Knights are also a reli- coming apostolic exhortation on gious order, and the scholarly grand the synod and would "be inserted master, known for his linguistic in the context of the Marian year." skills and a royal lineage tracing The year closes Aug. 15. from the 14th-century Scottish Declaring it a theme "particuKing Robert II, is a vowed celi- larly dear to me, above allln this bate. In the order's parlance, he is Marian year," the pope said the a Knight of Justice and bore the forthcoming document would amptitle "fra" (brother) before his elec- ly treat "the dignity and vocation tion. Bertie is related to the family of woman." of Sir Winston Churchill through an aunt who married into that family.

There are only 44 Knights of Justice, all with noble bloodlines VATICAN CITY (NC) - A and bound by vows of poverty, document issued by three Vatican chastity and obedience. Only these agencies has called for recognizing ranks can produce a grand master. "university culture as a reality to A second class within the order be evangelized." "The Church and consists of the Knights of Obe- the University Culture" said that dience, who also must be of noble "what is at stake is offundamental lineage and who are the equivalent importance: the inculturation of of a religious third order. the Gospel and the evangelization The third class consists of lay of cultures." The document is from members and honor~ry chaplains the Congregation for Catholic divided into various grades, includ- . Education and the Pontifical ing Knights and Dames of Honor Councils for the Laity and for Culand Devotion, Knights and Dames ture. It declares: "Ways of thinkof Grace and Devotion, and ing, teaching, doing research, acKnights and Dames of Magistral cepting responsibility to society, Grace, known in the United States all need to be critically assessed as master knights. There are 12,000 and enriched by the values of the members worldwide.

Gospel."

Three organizations for the Knights and Dames of Malta exist in the United States, one of them headed by businessman Peter VATICAN CITY (NC) - In his Grace. William Simon, former annual Mission Sunday message, treasury secretary, and Lee lacocca are also Knights of Malta, accord- Pope John Paul II has asked Cathing to the Knights' Rome informa- olics to reflect on Mary's role in the church's mission of proclaimtion office.

As a religious order, the Knights ing the Gospel. Mission Sunday of Malta are historically tied to the will be celebrated Oct. 16.

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SURROUNDED by family members, Father Schumacher blesses two of his grandchildren after his ordination to the priesthood. (NCj UPI photo)

Great-grandpa's oldest priest DALLAS (NC) - Imbedded in the red-and-gold chalice Father William Schumacher uses at Mass is the diamond ring he gave his wife on their golden wedding anniversary.

Inscribed on the patten - the saucerlike dish that rests on the chalice - are the words, "In loving memory of Genevieve," and

the dates of his wife's birth and death.

Bishop Thomas J. Tschoepe of Dallas ordained Father Schumacher June 4 at St. Tarcisius parish in Chicago. The new priest and his family, which includes six children, had been members of the parish for 30 years.

Father Schumacher, who will

celebrate his 80th birthday June 28, is believed the oldest man to be ordained a Catholic priest in the United States.

He will be associate pastor of St. Patrick parish in Dallas.

After his wife's death in 1984, the grandfather of 13 and greatgrandfather of one applied to each ofthe four U.S. seminaries specializing in older vocations. Only one accepted him, on condition that he find a sponsoring bishop.

Forty-nine dioceses either ignored his letter or refused his request. Three seminaries for delayed vocations said he was too old.

"I never gave up, but I was discouraged, yes," Father Schumacher told reporters. "The feeling was of being discriminated against on an age-basis when I felt I was as capable as anybody years younger than I." After a personal interview, Bishop Tschoepe agreed to sponsor him and in 1985 he entered Holy Apostles Seminary, Cromwell, Conn.

Bishop Tschoepe told the Texas Catholic, Dallas diocesan newspaper, that men who enter the seminary late in life "are certainly stable in knowing that they want to be priests."

For many of them, he said, "their experience with family life is perhaps one of the pluses, because if someone says to them, 'Hey, I've got a problem,' the priest can say, 'I know, we went through that with our children or even with finances or hard times."

At the reception after the ordination Mass, Father Schumacher told reporters, "I would say that except for my wife not being here, it's a great day. I hope she's hear- . ing it."

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He told the Texas Catholic that he had hoped to enter the seminary in 1925, but he put the dream aside to care for his mother when his father died.

He graduated from Loyola University in Chicago and entered law school but after two years, the financial woes of the Depression forced him to leave.

During the next 40 years, he was a law clerk, collection agent, insurance salesman, credit manager and business adviser and a job

just because the law says so? This poses an ethical dilemma," said Father Tomasi, former head of the U.S. bishops' office for the pastoral care of migrants and refugees.

The church must ensure it is "not being used" when it contracts with the government to assist immigrants, Father Thomas Harvey, executive director of Catholic Charities USA, said at the conference.

He pointed to what he termed "inconsistencies" in the way the United States pays church officials to resettle immigrants.

After the Vietnam War "we were suddenly told to have a welcoming capacity for the war's victims," he said. But other wars have occurred elsewhere and "yet there has been no advocacy" for resettling their victims, he said.

In an interview, Father Harvey said he was not opposed to the church acting as "a partner to the government" in assisting immigrants. But he said such a partnership should follow "wide discussion within the church community" and be a "balancing act."

Archbishop Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Philadelphia told conference participants that increasing racial and ethnic variety in the United States requires a pastoral respone by the U.S. church. Political freedom and economic opportunity attract large numbers of immigrants to the United States, said Archbishop Bevilacqua, a member of the Pontifical Commission for Migration and Tourism.

"By the year 2000, almost 30 percent of the projected 80 million Catholics may be Hispanic, and

counselor with the Illinois Department of Labor. . Retiring in 1975, he used much of his pension to pay for his seminary tuition, room and board.

"The two attributes which never flagged in the man were determination and cheerfulness," said Father Leo Ovian, a Missionary of the Holy Apostles who was rector of the Cromwell seminary when Father Schumacher entered. "I think God has decided to crown this wonderful man's life with the ultimate gift: priesthood."

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Migrant plight parley topic Continued from Page One egy" by the government to make aliens who didn't qualify for legalization "invisible."

Few institutions "with any clout are going to tell the truth about this. And the truth is our best defense," he said.

The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act allowed aliens who had resided illegally in the United States since before Jan. I, 1982, to apply for legalization.

Thousands of aliens, including Central Americans who fled strife in their homelands after 1981, did not qualify.

Reyes Ruiz, president of the National Migrant Farmworkers Network who works for the Diocese of Phoenix, Ariz., said illegal migrant workers have been forgotten.

"We're thinking [the problem] is going to go away and it isn't," he said.

Since passage of the 1986 immigration law, which allowed levying ofsanctions against employers who hire illegal aliens, Ruiz said, "a lot of the undocumented have been taken advantage of. They're not getting paid for the work they're doing."

Scalabrinian Father Silvano Tomasi, provincial of the St. Charles Borromeo province of his order, also speaking at the conference, said thousands ofimmigrants who did not qualify for legalization under provisions in the 1986 immigration reform law "serve as a red light of alarm for the church."

He asked if these immigrants do not have a"right to survivaL" "Can a Christian employer refuse a job to [an immigrant] in need

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Hispanics may well comprise 40 percent of the American Catholic population by 2025," he said.

On one hand, migration means "diversity" and "confrontation leading to tensions and misunderstanding," said Archbishop Giovanni Cheli, propresident of the Rome-based Pontifical Commission for Migration and Tourism.

But he said the massive movements of peoples have also helped others "prepare to be citizens of the world" and "given rise to action on behalf of human rights."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., June 24, 1988

By Charlie Martin

~TTINGONTHEDOCKOFTHEBAY Sitting in the morning sun 111 be sitting when the evening comes Watching the ships go in Then I watch them roll away again Sitting on tbe dock of the bay Watching tbe tide roll away Sitting on the dock of the bay Wasting time Left my home in Georgia Headed to the Frisco Bay I have nothing to live for Looks like nothing's going to come my way Looks like nothing's going to change, no Everytbing remains the same I can't do wbat people tell me to do So I guess I'll remain the same I'm sitting and resting my bones And this loneliness won't leave me alone Two thousand miles from home Just to make this dock my home Recorded by Michael Bolton, written by O. Redding and S. Cropper, (c) 1987 by CBS Records Inc. OTIS REDDING first released this classic 20 years ago. Since then, five recording artists have tried to make it into their own hit.

Michael Bolton has achieved the success that eluded others.

His style conveys well the feeling and magic of Redding's original.

The song describes an individual's sad and lonely experience of being far from home. We are not told why this person "left my home in Georgia," but now his life has lost meaning and direction. He has nothing to do but sit on the dock of the bay and waste time.

Most people can identify with his disappointment. At times. our plans fail to work out and we may see our dreams fading and find ourselves thinking that "nothing's going to change."

Such are the times when we need to gather our strength and make new plans. God has blessed each of us with creativity and imagination. We can use them to form a new and different life experience which won't repeat current dissatisfactions.

The quality that most helps us make changes is belief in ourselves. No matter how badly life is going, when we believe in ourselves, we build up self-esteem.

Believing in ourselves tells us that our value and potential as individuals is not being diminished bv current circumstances.

For example, getting a failing grade can be depressing and embarrassing but when we continue to believe in ourselves, we start thinking about what changes we could make for improved grades.

We might ask ourselves some questions: How can 1 learn to study better? Who could help me in this subject? What can I learn from this failure that will help me in my future studies?

Self-beliefcan encourage a person to change disappointments into new opportunities. If you find yourseW'sitting on the dock of the bay," use this time to plan a new beginning.

Your comments always are welcome. Address Cbarlie Martin, 1218 S. Rotberwood Ave., Evansville~ Ind. 47714.

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Q. How do you tell a friend that be is becoming too serious about you very much want to help him.

The girl he is dating (without hurt- What to do? ing his feelings or making him First of all, keep in mind that angry)? (Alabama) you cannot control him, nor has God or anyone else appointed you A. Before you say anything to to do so. It is not your responsibilthis person about his romantic ity to oversee this romance. friendship, consider something else tltat may happen if you presume to But a normal friendship would give him unrequested advice. permit you to make one or two Without getting angry, he may brief, tactful remarks. Nothing heasay to you in a calm, matter-of- vy-handed though. No speeches.

Cact way something like the follow- No arguments about his romantic ing: friendship.

"Why do you think you have a Maybe at an opportune time right to sit in judgment on the you could make a quick, lightmendship I have with this person? hearted remark, "It looks like you Do you think you have so much and Lisa are getting pretty serious." experience in the romance depart- End ofspeech. This neutral remark iDent that you can decide when I'm may help increase his awareness of getting too serious? Are you really . the situation. such an expert in these matters?"

Or you fIlight josh him laughHe might say then, with justifi- ingly with a remark like this, "Hey, Cition, very pointedly, "Mind your buddy, are you getting married own business." soon?" But don't say this unless How would you feel then? Could you're sure he's in the mood for your friendship with this person some kidding. withstand the strain of these blunt Simply calling attention to the . words, even if you cQuld admit he apparent seriousness of tl\e friend. was right in speaking them to you? ship is enough. Stop there. You've Yes, you are his friend. It seems done all a friend can or should do. to you he's headed for' trouble, 'possibly serious trouble. As a What the outcome is will be friend, perhaps a longtime one, determined by him and the girl.

St. Mary's School Christopher Vardo, Sarah Constant, Julie Poyant and Kim Boutin, eighth grade graduates at St. Mary's School, New Bedford, were recently awarded school Christian Service Awards.

The recipients were selected by St. Mary's faculty for exemplifying the values of Catholic education.

SSe Peter & Paid Recently named "Peace and J ustice Stars" at Saints Peter and Paul School, Fall River, were students Kimberly Goncalo, Lisa Ferreira, Victor Bettencourt, Amie Buchanan, Carolyn Reis, Adam Jolivet, Erin Hackett, Scott Bie. lecki and Kyle Hathaway.

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Kindergartners and first graders recently attended a performance of "The Wizard ofOz" at Fall River's B.M.C. Durfee High School, while second and third graders traveled to New Bedford's Zeiterion Theater to see "Aladdin's Lamp." Grade four recently cruised the Taunton River on the River Queen, newest attraction ~t Fall River's Heritage Park.

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Grade three has a new computer and many students are involved in its operation and care. Grade four students have written stories using "The Story Tree," a new software program.

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A PUPIL at St. Augustine School of the Arts in the blighted South Bronx gets help from a student assistant. The school's high quality music program has turned around previously declining enrollment figures which had threatened to force its closing. (NC photo)

CYO golf tourney July 25 The 29th annual CYO Diocesan Golf Tourney will begin at 12:30 p.m. July 25 at Pocasset Golf Course, Pocasset.

There will be four divisions of play: seniors, born on or after Jan. I, 1962; intermediates, born on or afterJan. 1,1969;juniors, born on or after Jan. I, 1972; and cadets, born on or after Jan. I, 1974.

Area chairmen for the tournament are Bill Doyle, New Bedford; Father JayT. Maddock, Fall River; Larry Masterson, Taunton/ Attleboro; and Dick Maxwell, Cape Cod. Each area will be allowed two entries per division. Division cham-

pions and runners-up will receive trophies.

The Marty Higgins Trophy, named for a Fall River golf pro, will be awarded to the tourney's outstanding golfer.

Interested boys and young men may contact local CYO directors for information.

Dominican Academy

Twenty-six 8th grade girls recently graduated from Dominican Academy, Fall River.

At an awards ceremony, many were recognized for outstanding academic and extracurricular efforts.

According to a recent Alumni Nancy Arruda won an attenNewsletter from Bishop Stang High dance award, and Debra Damaso School, North Dartmouth, re- was lauded for her efforts in music unions for the classes of '63, '68, and on the computer.

'74, '79, '82 and '84 are planned.

Nine graduates were given servSpotted among alumni news: ice awards.

- George Rheaume '73 and Kimberly Anne Thorpe earned Carol Reilly Rheaume '73 met at the President's Academic Fitness their 10th reunion, married in 1983 . Award. and are now the parents of Lauren, to girls were recognized for their eight months. honor roll status and nine received - Dr. Pamela Coury '74 received awards for effort. her M.D. from St. Lucia UniverSonya Machado, Debra Damaso sity, has done AIDS research at and Jennifer Patricio attained Boston VA Hospital, married in honor roll listings for all four March and moved to California. terms of the 1987-88 academic - Karen Arsenault '81 is a year. director of employment services "Light of Christ" awards were assisting Los Angeles skid row researned by Debra Damaso, Sonya idents to find jobs and become Machado, Jennifer Patricio and self-sufficient.

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Bishop Feehan Many underclassmen at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, were recently honored with awards for academic and extracurricular achievements.

Special awards went to five students. Todd Alessandri was recipient of the Holy Cross Book Prize for outstanding scholastic achievement and commitment to the school and community.

Laura Lopes and Michael Atwood received "I Dare You" awards for outstanding leadership.

The Brown University Book Award went to Kathleen Marrah for outstanding aptitude in written and spoken English.

The Smith College Club of Rhode Island recognized Shefali Shah as an outstanding junior with its Book Award.

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By Christopher Carstens The time comes in almost every teen's life when meeting some new people really would help. Maybe you just moved or your best friend fell in love last week and seems to have forgotten your phone number.

Or you simply may have decided that the time has come to broaden your social horizons. Whatever the reasons, it would be nice having someone new to talk with at school or call on a lonely Tuesday night.

Here's a list of five tips that can help make it happen.

1. You won't meet any new people while listening to the radio in your room.

Sometimes teens who feel lonesome hide out. They go into their bedrooms, put on the headphones and wait for something interesting to happen.

Be honest: When's the last time a fascinating stranger walked into your room and introduced himself or herself? If it hasn't happened yet, it probably won't.

2. To meet new people, get involved in a small group activity.

Meeting new people is easiest in a small group working on a shared task. One ofthe best bets isjoining your parish youth group and volunteering for a committee - any committee will do, but it will be more fun working on one that really interests you.

Getting to know other teens is easier on a committee than in the' big meetings. If you sit in a room with 100 teens, starting a conversation with anyone of them can feel almost impossible.

Everyjunior high and high school has clubs and organizations doing things in small groups and committees. Get involved and you will start meeting new people.

3. You may need to talk first.

Two teens who might eventually be great pals will never have the chance unless one breaks the ice

and says something. Yau can sit there and wait - while the other person waits for you to talk first. If you want to meet somebody, you just may have to be the one who opens your mouth first.

4. Make it easier on yourself by putting the focus on the other person.

Before you take that first leap, think, "Hi, let's talk about you."

Actually, you'd never really say those words, but you might say, "Have you studied for the history exam?" or, "That's a great shirt.

Where did you buy it?"

Then pretend you're a reporter working on an article about this person. Ask questions and focus on learning as much as you can about the person you have just met.

Remember, most people would rather talk about themselves than anything. Don't get too personal at first - school, clothes, sports and TV are pretty safe topics when you're getting started.

5. Plan to meet again.

Lots of times people meet once but don't find each other after that. If you'd like to get together again, say so. Most folks are really complimented.

Make a simple offer like "I'll see you after math class," or "Let's get a Coke at lunch time." If you are in a class or a club together, simply saying "I'll see you next time" communicates your interest.

Remember, you aren't making a pledge to be best friends forever or get married. You're only saying "I'd like to see you again."

Meeting new people can be tricky. It can seem impossible but it isn't. If you are willing to give it some time and effort (because none of these tips is magic), you will find the world is full of people just waiting to meet you too.

Dr. Christopher Carstens is a clinical psychologist in San Diego, .

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General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing: PG·13-parental guidance strongly suuested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested: R-restricted. unsuitable for c~ildren or young teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only: 4-separate classifi· cation (given films not morally offensive which. however. require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

Catholic ratings for television movies are those of the movie house versions of the films.

New Films "Bagdad Cafe"(Island Pictures) - A loveiy fable about the restorative powers of love and friendship set at the Bagdad Cafe, a rundown truckstop, luncheonette and motel in the desert outside Las Vegas. Profanity and some nudity in several brief scenes involving an artist's model. A3, PG "The Beat"(Vestron) - A grim, inner city drama about druggedup, aimless teens who improve when they briefly befriend a weird new boy (David Jacobson). Wallto-wall profanity, violence and a clear suggestion of sexual promiscuity. 0, R "Beethoven's Nephew" (New World Pictures) - Director-cowriter Paul Morrissey's look at Beethoven's (Wolfgang Reichmann) obsessive control over his teenage nephew's life. A true story with caricatured characterizations.

Some nudity in several heterosexual situations, one of an explicit nature, and an up-close view of a gunshot suicide attempt by the boy. 0, R

"Poltergeist III" (M-G-M) An impossibly silly second sequel to the original film sees ghouls continue to hound little Cl~rol Anne (Heather O'Rourke). Much grisly violence and frightening special effects. 0, PG-13 "The Presidio" (Paramount) An army officer (Sean Connery) based at the Presidio and a San Francisco police inspector (Mark Harmon) who formerly served under him jointly investigate a murder. Their past conflicts and the cop's brewing relationship with the army officer's sexy daughter (Meg Ryan) weigh heavily on their investigation. Intense, well-directed chase scenes are not balanced with solid characterizations and good dialogue. Brutal death and destruction, much profanity and a fairly explicit sexual encounter. 0, R "Wings of Desire" (Orion Classics) - Arthouse film follows the lonely work of two angels (Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander) who wander about and above Berlin .listening to the joys and travails of people in libraries, a circus and even on an American movie set (starring Peter Falk as himself). One angel chooses to shed his wings for the chance of expressing human emotions and love for a woman. Ponderous, reflective, philosophic. Subtitled.

Some profanity, fleeting nudity and sexually suggestive. material that binds an angel with a mere mortal. A4, PG-13 Religious TV Sunday, June 26 (CBS) - "For Our Times" - A report on the world Synod of Bishops on the laity last October at the Vatican and its impact on U.S. Catholics.

Reflecting on the American contribution to this international meeting is Dolores Leckey, executive director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Laity and Family Life.

Religious Radio Sunday, June 26 (NBC) "Guideline" - Jesuit Father John Blewett of the Gregorian University Consortium foundation in New York discusses the Gregorian's educational and theological activities in Rome.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., June 24,1988

fteering pOintf O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK Sister Irene Rivard, FCSCJ, is the new director of religious education, succeeding Sister Mary Fraga, SSD, now a pastoral assistant.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON Canned grapefruit juice to benefit Taunton's Our Daily Bread soup kitchen will be collected at Masses this weekend. Choir sings at 10:30 a.m. Mass Sundays throughout summer.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, TAUNTON AIDS program 7:30 p.m. Monday, church hall; all welcome.

CHRIST THE KING, COTUIT/MASHPEE A parish youth ministry program was recently instituted.

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ST. ANTHONY OF THE DESERT, FR Exposition of Blessed Sacrament noon to 6 p.m. July 3, St. Sharbel Chapel; holy hour 5 p.m. .

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Healing service 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, church. James and Margaret Clare Norton are celebrating their 27th wedding anniversary.

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INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN healing priest Father Edward McDonough, C.SS.R., of Mission Church, Boston, will lead a healing service at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Our Lady of the Cape Church, Brewster. All welcome.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET New Women's Guild officers: Lynette Harley, president; Lillian J oly, vice-president; Marjorie Costello, secretary; Patricia O~Donnell, treasurer.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Altar servers' outing to Rocky Point Park Monday. New eucharistic ministers: Sister Laura Fortier, SUSC; Carol Hilsman; K. Mary Kennedy; John Choberka; Stanley and Beth McMahon; Earl and Sharon Queenan.

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CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN New Bedford deanery healing retreat with Father Carl Schmidt, C.SS.R, and Sister Mary Hogan, OSU, today through Sunday. Espirito Santo School, Fall River, youth retreat tomorrow and Sunday. St. Mary, New Bedford, parish picnic noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Fellowship meeting 7 p.m. Sunday, parish center; all welcome.

SEPARATED AND DIVORCED, NB New Bedford area support group meeting 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, Family Life Center, N. Dartmouth; Dr. Hugh Boyle will speak on "inner feelings/ inner healings"; all welcome.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Parish council elections this weekend. Farewell reception for parochial vicar Father Brian R. Marggraf, SS.CC., noon Sunday, church hall; He will go to St. Joseph's parish, Fairhaven.

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ST. STANISLAUS, FR Bill and Celia Wolowiec are celbrating their 50th wedding anniversary. Our Lady of Czestochowa devotions after 7:20 a.m. Mass Wednesdays; evening prayer 6:45 p.m.

NOTICE In keeping with our SOweek publishing schedule, The Anchor will not be published July 8. All bulletins and Steering Points information covering events through July 14 should reach The Anchor by Tuesday, June 28, for inclusion in the July 1 issue.

ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT Religious education students raised $282 to send to the Sacred Hearts Fathers' Bahamian mission with departing Father Stanley J. Kolasa, SS.CC., who will work there.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Adventure youth group general meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday, parish center. "Softball for All" 6 p.m.

Sunday, North School field. Roger and Marge Farren are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary, George and Margaret LaBelle their 50th.

HOLY NAME, FR School advisory council meeting 7:15 p.m. Thursday, rectory ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Couples' Club meeting 5 p.m. Sunday, church hall.

ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH Rosary and Benediction service 4 p.m. Sunday. Youth group advisers and pro-tern committee members meet after 11:30 a.m. Mass Sunday.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO New eucharistic ministers: Maria Bridges, Virginia Charette, Delores and Steven Duquette, Theresa Groft, Claire Lennox, Alice Perry, Dolores Norcott, Eugenia Rodrigues, Agueda Ventura and Natalie Ty. REGINA PACIS CENTER, NB Hispanic festival dedicated to St. John the Baptist tomorrow and Sunday at the center, 171 Rivet St.; Saturday: religious functions, cultural programs, Latin music and dance; Sunday Mass 9 a.m., parade at noon Hazelwood Park, Brock Ave., Rodney French Blvd., Cove, County, Rivet Streets to center.

CATHEDRAL, FR Classes forming in September for adults wishing to receive baptism, first communion or confirmation; information: Father Richard G. Andrade, 673-2833. Persons wishing to teach in the religious education program, especially special needs teachers, are needed; contact Father Andrade f~r information on training.

IMMUNIZATIONS, FR AREA Free summer immunization clinics for children in greater Fall River will be open for public and private/ parochial school students from 9 to 9:30 a.m. Monday through Friday, July 5 through Sept. 2, according to the following schedule (all addresses in Fall River): Mondays: Healy School, 726 Hicks St.; Tuesdays: Watson School, 935 Eastern Ave.; Wednesdays: St. Anne School, 240 Forest St.; Thursdays: Carroll School, 117 Hood St.; Fridays: Doran School, 101 Fountain St. Immunization is required for kindergarten entrance and is also available to all children through high school age eligible for extended immunizations required by state law.

Parental consent and certificates of previous immunizations should be brought to clinics.

Immunizations available are diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus, polio and triviral (for measles, mumps and rubella, also known as German measles).

ST. ANNE, FR Red Cross certified babysitting course 9 to II a.m. today, school.

Exposition of Blessed Sacrament after II :30 a.m. Mass today; hour of adoration 2 to 3 p.m., shrine.

HYDRANT TESTS, FR Fall River fire department hydrant inspection Fridays through September; test procedures may cause rusty water flow in nearby homes and consumers are advised to run water before use until a clean supply is delivered.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, CAPE Cape Cod area widowed support group meeting 3 p.m. Sunday, CCO Center next to St. Jude the Apostle Chapel, Cotuit.

ST. MARY,NB Presentation of 10 new eucharistic ministers to parish at 10:15 a.m.

Mass Sunday; celebrant: recently ordained Father Daniel W. Lacroix, the first parish school graduate to be ordained.

BLESSED SACRAMENT ADORERS, NB Adorers ofthe Blessed Sacrament holy hour 7 p.m. Monday, St. Theresa's Church, New Bedford; guest priest: Father William Babbitt, parochial vicar at St. Mary's Church North Attleboro; hour includes exposition, prayers, homily, meditation and Benediction; refreshments follow in church hall; all welcome. Exposition 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Fridays at St. Theresa's concludes with Benediction.

MCFL CONVENTION Massachusetts Citizens for Life convention 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. tomorrow, Regis College, Weston; Mary Senander, public information director ofinternational Anti-Euthanasia Task Force, will speak.

HOSPICE OUTREACH, FR New bereavement support group meeting 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays, Clemence Hall at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River; registration and information: 673-1589 during office hours.

L.SALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Festival of Flowers programs June 27,28 and 29 include 3 p.m. concert and prayer service with Father Andre A. Patenaude, MS, and Sister Lucille Gauvin, OP: organized groups and individuals welcome; programs also scheduled for July and August; information: 222-5410.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Religious education coordinator Sister Celine Teresa Rainville, SUSC, will participate in an international renewal program at the Holy Union mothe!house in Rome; bon voyage receptIon 7 p.m. Monday, rectory grounds.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR Women's Guild installation at 7 p.m. Mass Wednesday: new officers Judy Pelletier, president; Susan Schenck, vice-president; Kathy Zak, secretary; Bertha Dutilly, treasurer.