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ARLINGTON, Texas (CNS) - To Fall River native Bishop Joseph P. Delaney of Fort Worth, Texas, goes the honor of welcoming into his diocese the first Episcopal parish in the United States to move in its entirety, together with its priest, into the Roman Catholic Church.

St. Mary the Virgin Church in Arlington became a Catholic parish June 12 as its pastor, Father AIIan Hawkins, and all 150 members entered full communion with Roman Catholicism.

Amid smiles and tears, each made a profession of faith and came forward to receive the sacramcnt of confirmation from 'Bishop Delaney.

The first to be confirmed was Father Hawkins, an Episcopal priest since 1961 and rector of St. Mary's for the past 14 years.

Technically without a title at the moment, he will become pastor of the new Catholic community upon his ordination into the Catholic priesthood June 29.

Over a three-year period, St. Mary's moved from the U.S. Episcopal Church through a period of transition as a freestanding Episcopal parish to full communion with the Roman Catholic Church.

At the end of Mass Msgr. Joseph Schumacher, diocesan vicar general, read a decree by Bishop Delaney formally establishing St. Mary's as a personal parish for former members of the Episcopal Church and their families.

It will be one of only seven Anglican-

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use parishes in the country - Catholic parishes which, because they are made up of former members of the Anglican Communion, have permission to incorporate elements from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer into the Catholic liturgy.

The June 12 Mass culminated the threeyear odyssey that began in August 1991 with a vote by all regular adult parishioners at St. Mary's on whether to become Roman Catholic. There was only one "no" vote.

In an unusual move Episcopal Bishop Clarence Pope of Fort Worth agreed to let the congregation transfer the parish property from Episcopal to Catholic ownership.

The parishioners prepared together to enter full communion with Rome and completed the transition after Fathcr Hawkins, who is married, received permission from Rome to become a Catholic priest.

They took that approach partly to avoid haVing a lengthy period of liturgy and sacramental ministry with a priest unfamiliar with the Anglican liturgy.

In 1980 the Vatican approved a set of special pastoral provisions for admission of married Episcopal priests to the Catholic priesthood in the United States. Since then more than 70 former Episcopal priests have been ordained under the provisions, which also allow establishment of the Anglican-use parishes.

The other six Anglican-use parishes were formed when some members of a congregation followed their pastor into the Catholic Church, but St. Mary's is the first in. which the whole congregation has become Catholic.

Father Hawkins said the move was not drastic, because since its founding in 1961 St. Mary's had been known as an AngloCatholic congregation, in the conservative wing of the Episcopal Church. AngloCatholics, he said, are characterized by a desire for authentic teaching from the universal church.

He said several controversial decisions by the U.S. Episcopal Church in recent years, including ordination of women and of homosexuals, have concerned AngloCatholics. But he emphasized that these were simply "signal issues" of what AngloCatholics see as a deeper "drift from orthodoxy" in Episcopalianism.

Father' Hawkins' wife, Jose, and two grown children, Giles and Sarah, were among those who entered full communion with the Catholic Church.

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BATTING 'WAY OVER 1.000 is Brooklyn Bishop Thomas V. Daily who helped kick off the New York Stock Exchange's annual children's charities drive by playing in a stickball tournament on Manhattan's Wall Stre~t. Last year's drive raised $180,00 and similar success is expected this year. (eNS/NY Stock Exchange photo)

Canadian to head Capuchins With Catholic News Service report The worldwide Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, to which Bishop Sean O'Malley belongs, has a new general minister.

He is Capuchin Father John Corriveau, who has led the Toronto-based Central Canadian province of the order since 1989.

Father Corriveau, 52, was elected on the first ballot by 158 Capuchins meeting in Rome for the order's general chapter.

The Capuchins have 11,205 members throughout the world; Bishop O'Malley is a member of the order's Province of St. Augustine, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa. Born in Zurich, Ontario, Father Corriveau made his final profession of vows in 1963 and was ordai ned to the priesthood in 1965.

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He holds degrees from St. fidel is College in Herman, Pa., and from the Capuchin .college in Washington.

In addition to holding various offices within his province, Father Corriveau was a professor at Mount Alverno Minor Seminary in Orangeville, Ontario, and was pastor of St. Philip Neri parish in Toronto. . He was president of the North American Capuchin Conference in 1974-75.

From 1980 to 1988, Father Corriveau was a member of the general council of the Capuchins in Rome and was president of the order's economic and ecumenical commissions. He also served on the justice, peace and environment and on international mission commissions.

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2 THE ANCHOR -'i>i~cese of FallRi~er ~ Fri., Jun~ 24,1994 IRA won't retaliate against innocent for soccer killings

Plane embargo set for Haiti, relief workers to stay

LONDON (CNS) - Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said it was not Irish Republican Army policy to retaliate against ordinary Protestants for the June 18 killings of six Catholic soccer fans, gunned down in a Northern Ireland bar as they watched a televised World Cup game between Ireland and Italy. .

Retaliation attacks on 'innocent Protestants "can play no part in republican strategy," Adams told British Broadcasting Corp. radio.

The term republican denotes hardline advocates of reuniting Northern Ireland with the Irish republic.

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NEWLY CERTIFIED as critical care registered nurses are, from left, Ginger Tetrault, Mary Dias, Judy Perry, Malorie Bertrand, Elizabeth Levesque, Karen Herndon, Jane Hoyle and Anne Marie Furze.

'Eight win critical care certification Eight staff nurses at Saint Anne's Hospital; Fall River, have successfully passed a national examination testing t·heir knowledge of nursing care for the critically ill.

They are now certified as Critical Care Registered Nurses.

The four-hour written examination centers on intensive care unit nursing. A prerequisite for candidates is at least one year of experience in such a unit. Thus far,

candidates from Saint Anne's who have voluntarily taken the examination have had a 100 percent success rate.

The newly certified nurses are Ginger Tetrault, Mary Dias, Judy Perry, Malorie Bertrand, Elizabeth Levesque, Karen Herndon, Jane Hoyle and Anne Marie Furze.

Obituaries

British document Josephine McGinn discusses problem Josephine McGinn, 89, asof home violence sociated for 60 years with Leary

Press in Fall River, where the Anchor is printed, died June 22 MANCHESTER, England after a long illness.

(CNS) - Priests should not advise A Fairhaven native, the daughabused wives they are obliged to ter of the late Pauline (Dresnar) save their marriages, said a CathoVohno~tka and the late Charles lic women's group which urges 1he church community to take a firmer . Vohnoutka, she moved to Fall stand on domestic violence.

River after her marriage to the late John R. McGinn. He was the The National Board of Catholic owner of Leary Press, of which she Women made that and other points later became vice president and a in a study paper on domesticviolence recently sent to the bishops director, also operating a subsiof England and Wales. diar.y, the Fall River Mailing SerDetails of the paper appeared in vice. She was a member of St. Mary's Cathedral parish, Fall the Catholic weekly newspaper The River. .

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It says violence against women She is survived by a daughter, needs to be called a sin and should Barbara McCoy of Dataw Island, be a' sermon topic. It also stresses SC, and was also the mother of the that women should not be told late John R. McGinn Jr. She also that they have a duty to stay with a leaves a sister, Helen Tillett, and a violent husband. brother, Ernest Vohnoutka, both of Westport; six grandchildren, In its advice to priests the docincluding Martha McGinn, Leary ument says: "If a woman is being Press vice president/ treasurer, and beaten in her home, this is a crime. eight great-grandchildren.

You have a responsibility not to Funeral arrangements are by collude in an offense by the advice O'Rourke Funeral Home, 572 Secyou offer." . "Ask yourself whether unwitting- ond St., Fall River, where calling hours will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 ly or otherwise you give women p.m. today. The Mass of Christian the impression that is their duty \;0 endure beatings for the sake of Burial will be offered at St. Mary's Cathedral. The date and time were preserving or saving their marriage, not yet available as the Anchor and whether this is what you should went to press. tie doing," it says.

The document also recommends that domestic violence should be ,<overed in marriage preparation courses. .

Msgr. Joseph R Winter, a retired Angela Perkins, development ofpriest of the archdiocese of St. ficer for the National Board, told Louis, was. fatally injured in an The Universe that the document automobile accident earlier this dimed to bring the issue to church monto. He was well'knownto awareness, "so that within the parmembers of St. Joseph's parish, if-h community.people can realize Taunton, where he 'visited thefamt·hat some women within that comily of his brother, Val Winter, and /nunity will be being beaten, and .. fr~guently. c.oncc;le~~a.te.d.~t p'ar~s~. men ·will·be"abusers.'"

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"I particularly set my ~ea.d an~ face against any actions SImIlar to this premeditated sectarian assault .on people [just] on the basis that they were Catholics," Adams added.

On the day of the attack; two gunmen from the outlawed Ulster Volunteer Force Protestant guerrilla group opened fire on a crowd watching the World Cup match in a Catholic bar at Loughinisland, southeast of Belfast. Six were killed and five injured.

Adams said the leadership of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, which is fighting to end British rule in Northern Ireland, met the same day to discuss its response to the Anglo-Irish plan for peace in N01'thern Ireland.

He said the killings would not deflect Sinn Fein from working out a response to the plan. The leadership would meet again soon and move as speedily as possible after that. he said.

The ·1 R A's struggle for a united Ireland is bitterly opposed by the Protestants who constitute the majority population of Northern Ireland.

Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds said June 19 the Unionist cause in Northern Ireland gained 'no support from the murders.

"That type of brainless savagery won't do their cause any good," said Reynolds during a visit to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. "How does the rest of the world like to think an 88-year-old man has to die just because he was a Catholic?"

$4 million gift DAYTON, Ohio (CNS) - A graduate ofthe University of Dayton's preparatory school who never had the chance to attend the university has set up a scholarship fund that eventually will help about ~O economically disadvantaged students attend the university each year. The anonymo'us donor gave the Marianist-run university $4 million in a deferred gif~, the largest such gift in the university's history. It will help build a perpetual scholarship fund to keep a college education accessible to needy students, said university president Marianist Brother Raymond L. Fitz.

Correction In last week's Anchor, the final total collected in the Catholic Charities Appeal by St. Peter's parish, Dighton, was incorrectly. given. The figure should have been $7,210, an amount which also. places St. Peter's on the list of par_~.shle9s9c30llecting more in 1994 than 10

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SISTER GERTRUDE Gaudette, 0 P, director of the Creativity Center at Dominican Academy, Fall River, was the recipient for the second year of the Fall River Herald News Golden Apple Award recognizing inspirational teachers nominated by former students. She was one of only two persons to receive the honor twice. 165 Golden Apple winners were feted, with each receiving a pin, certificate and the nomination form submitted by a former student. Sister Gertrude was nominated by a graduate of Bishop Stang High School, where she taught art from 1971 to 1982.

SHA reunion set Faculty, alumnae, family members and friends of the former Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River, are invited to attend a Mass of thanksgiving and following reunion festivities on Sunday, Aug.

7.

The Mass will be offered at 10 a.m. at Sacred Heart Church, Linden Street, Fall River, and a reception will follow at II a.m. at Venus de Milo restaurant, Route6, Swansea.

A buffet luncheon will be served at noon and an afternoon of "music and memories" will provide the opportunity to renew 'friendships and recall the past.

In charge of arrangements is Sister Margaret Louise Ouellette who requests that she be notified

by July 15 of those planning to be present. She may be reached at 550 Rock St., Fall River 02720, tel.

678-3616.

NOTICE In keeping with our annual 50-week publishing schedule, there will be no Anchor issue for July 8, ·1994. Items which would normally appear in that issue should reach us by Tuesday, June 28, for publication in the July 1 issue.

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WAS H IN G TON (C N:;) Other foreigners left Haiti hefore an embargo on commercial air traffic takes effect tomorrow, but relief and refugee agency workers are staying put. .

U.S.-based Catholic Relief Services and Food for the Poor will continue to care for thousands of Haitians affected by a tightening embargo meant to force the military-led government to step clown.

In Cap Haitien, employf:es of Migration and Refugee Se:rvices of the U.S. Catholic Conference plan to stay in northern Haiti, where they are helping Haitians apply for permission to entl:r the United States as refugees. The office is staffed by two Americans, one.Haitian-American and se:veral Haitians.

Meanwhile, MRS executive director Jes,uit Father Richard Ryscavage has been involved in dis, cussions between the U.S. State Department and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees about how to process asylum applications from an exp,:cted surge of Haitians fleeing their embattled hOQ1eland in boats. .

President Clinton announced 10 May that the United States would reverse a policy of intercepting fleeing Haitians at sea and re1:Urning them home. The current plan involves processing refugees at sea aboard a converted oil tanker and calls for teams of counselors from nongovernmental agencies su.;h as MRS to be available on the ship to advise Haitians about application procedures, make sure their physical needs were being met and to help with appeals if necesHary, Father Ryscavage reported.

For people still in Haiti, tightened trade restrictions were making it more difficult for relief agencies to get food and emerge:ncy supplies to the poor, according to CRS and, Food for the Poor, a private agency based in Miami.

CRS executive director Ken Hackett said that closing of commercial airports would likely force CRS to hire airplanes to deE vel' goods, a much riskier delivery system.

"It could be very dicey," he said.

Food for the Poor has stockpiles in Haiti sufficient to last until the end of July, said spokeswoman Vikki Alexander. Warehouse!: in Miami contain tons of supplies that will be sent as soon as arrangements' can be made with a private shipper, she said.

Other supplies, including thousands of cases of baby form lila, have been shipped to Jamaica, where the'government has agn:ed to let the United States establish an asylum processing center.

Trade sanctions also have ma.de it more difficult for relief work,:rs to get food and medicines to 1he poor who live in remote areas.

Although food and relief supplies are not restricted, fuel is mostly smuggled across the border from the Dominican Republic and the embargo has cut off access to spare parts and other .materials needed to keep vehicles running, relief agencies. ~eported.

"If we can, we try to get people to come to our feeding center at the warehouse to 'pick up supplies," said Ms. Alexander.

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15 million may march for ,Jesus tomorrow SOUTH BEND, Ind. (CNS)Organizers are expecting up to 15 million people to join :in a "March for Jesus," scheduled for June 25 in more than 500 U.S. cities and 170 other countries.

"People of every denomination, race and affiliation will come together as never bc:fore," said Tom Pelton of Austin, Texas, national coordinator of March for Jesus U.S.A. "There is. no political agenda, no social agenda or protests taking place, but rather a celebration designed to bring whole communities together."

According to an announcement from regional coordinators in South Bend, marches will begin in New Zealand as the sun rises and continue around the globe through every time zone.

March for Jesus bc:gan in 1987 in London, with a march of 15,000.

Within two years, it had grown to 200,000 in 600 locations throughout England. Pelton brought the concept to the United States in 1991.

Among plans for 1994: - More than I million marchers are expected in Sao Paulo, Brazil, site of the world's largest march last year with 300,000 people.

- Another I million marchers are likely to participate in prayer walks linked by radio in China.

- More than 2 million will gather at Yoida Plaza in Seoul, South Korea, for a prayer rally.

- In the United States, Christians of all racial groups are expected to join in a rally near the site of the Los Angeles riots. In New York, the march will conclude with prayer in front of the United Nations.

Those wishing to find the March for Jesus nearest to them may call (512) 416-0066.

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

June 21~ 1931, Rev Charles P. Gaboury, 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. Daria;' Raposo, Pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton 1980, Rev. Msgr. Thomas F. Walsh, Pastor Emeritus, St. John the Evangelist, Attleboro 1984, Rev. BemaI'd J. Fenton, Retired Pastor, St. Joseph, North Dighton June :!8 1947, Rev. Thomas C. Gunning, Assistant, St. Lawrence, New Bedford

June :JO 1952, Rev. Simon Pease, SS.Cc., Administrator, Sacred Hearts, Fairhaven 1961, Rev. Alphonse M. Reniere, O.P. Dominican Priory, Fall River

July 1 1993, Rev. Femando A. Veiga CM, Vincentian Mission House, Fall River

New.officers for diocesan Cursillo The Cursillo movement of the Fall River diocese has announced new officers for its secretariat: Bill Lawrence, lay director; Maggie Valliere, communication; Jackie Roy, pre-Cursillo; George Powers, post-Cursillo; Mike Murphy, at large; Jeanne Goyette, treasurer; Dianne Tremblay, 'rectora; Carl Taber, Dwight Giddings, rectors; AI DiNapoli, leaders' school; Fa-

thers Jack Fitzgerald, Bruce Neylon, spiritual directors.

The Cursillo movement, which originated in Spain and was introduced to the United States in 1957 is a specialized three-day retreat.

Its full Spanish name, Cursillo de Cristianidad, means "little course in Christianity." Participants, known as Cursillistas, attend a follow-up program of regular

meetings known as ultreyas. UItreya means "forward" and expresses the meetings' purpose of encouraging progress in the Christian life.

In the Fall River diocese 12 ultreya groups meet regularly in New Bedford, Dartmouth, Fall River, Swansea, Taunton, Westport, Attleboro and various Cape Cod communities.

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Christian Instruction Brothers name new head Brother Francis Blouin, FIC, now vicar for religious in the diocese of Portland, ME, has been named superior of the American province of the Brother of Christian Instruction, with headquarters in Alfred, ME. He served a previous term as superior from 1970 to 1976 and he now succeeds Brother Jerome Lessard in the position. In the Fall River diocese, members of the community serve at Bishop Connolly High School and the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home, both in the city of Fall River.

Brother Francis holds a doctorate in theology from Fordham University. He has taught and was principal in schools of his community and in 1977 was named president of Walsh College, now a university, in Canton, OH. After 15 years in that post, he assumed the vicariate in Portland.

Serving as Brother Francis' assistant provincial will be Brother Ignatius Sylvestre, for the past 15 years vicar general for the Brothers of Christian Instruction. He was principal at the former Prevost High School in Fall River and at Cathedral High School, Detroit.

Subsequently he was academic dean at Walsh College.

Support group set for AIDS workers Health care and' other professionals who work with HIV / AIDS patients and are at risk for physical, psychological or spiritual burnout are invited to participate in a support group sponsored by the diocesan Office of AIDS Ministry.

Planned to be held monthly for six months with the option to continue for another three months, the group's meetings will take place at Saint Anne's Hospital, 795 Middle Street, Fall River. Members must have direct working 'relationships with HIV / AIDS patients, attend the support group voluntarily and be willing to share their feelings with others.

Facilitators for sessions will be Krysten Winter-Oreen, program director and coordinator for the AIDS Ministry office; and Rev. Joseph M. Costa,'executive director of St. Vincent's Youth Treatment Center, Fall, River.

Meetings are scheduled for 5:30 to 7 p.m. on July 21; Aug. 18; Sept.

15; Oct. 20; Nov. 17; and Dec. 15.

Those wishing to participate are asked to register with the AIDS Ministry office, tel. 674-5600, ext.

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Renewing Our Religious Ideals The history of religion in America is ongoing and fascinating. At the very outset, religious principles played a vital role in shaping our Constitution; and from then until now, our lawmakers have continued to explore the relationship between religious freedom and our constitutional rights.

Nevertheless, few Americans are really aware of this and possibly for this reason, much religious reporting betrays almost total ignorance of the subject at hand, with reporters too often resorting to labels and cliches as they describe events and movements. The end result is frequently distortion and detraction, with .newspersons placing religio.us groups into categories for mere convenience and objective truth the loser.

In general, the reporting of religious news in the United States is in very sad shape. Unjust judgments are made and moral and ethical teachings are subjected to ridi~,ule.

Such an approach is often seen with regard to religious issues that might be regarded as conservative. Churche~ that propound basic truths are lumped together in a category labeled the "religious right," obviously in contrast to the "irreligious left." As we gear up for the fall elections, we will frequently hear these. terms.

At present there are many who are making judgments concerning factors they feel are contributing to our shaky social order; and they are immediately scoffed at by those who control the national media. But even the media magnates must recognize the factors that are destroying basic American freedoms.

Among them are the uncontrollable crime in our cities; the deterioration of our educational institutiot:ls; the erosion of family life and parental rights; and state insistence on the legality of abortion. These are but a few of the concerns of voters across theland. In particular, the placing by the federal government of the right to abortion above the right to religious freedom has led many to conclude that only extremists have the ear of government. .

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The multiplication of such difficulties, together with other longstanding problems, such as the question.of prayer in public schools and federal intrusion into many other areas of life, is slowly bringing people together, whether for better or worse, to attempt reversal of such trends.

We see, for instance, Oliver North's candidacy as a senator from Virginia, while there is also a growing grassroots move-. ment in the Midwest among those who feel that this election . year is a time for change.

Many people who share this point of view have never before involved themselves in politics and for the most part they are joining the Republican party, thus subjecting themselves to all the GOP labels. But they are beginning to make a difference and many so-called experts feel they will pick up votes on both the state and national scenes.

It is noteworthy that more and more practicing Christians are among the newcomers on the political stage. They are not the TV politicians of the Swaggart era but ordinary people who are no longer willing to 'be victimized. Their strategies are simple: telephone calls, moneyraising, passing out literature and showing up for organizational meetings.

As American politics becomes more fractionalized, its pieces will be picked up by the organized. Hopefully more and' more Americans motivated by their moral standards will be among their number and will contribute to a true renewal of religious ideals.

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"The iniquity of the fathers is visited on the children." Num. 14:18

Attendance at weekday Masses asked NEW ARK, N.J. (CNS) - In a pastoral letter on the Eucharist, Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick of Newark has urged his people to attend Mass once or twice during the week- as well as on Sundays. _ He also asked them to prepare better for Mass and to approach the Eucharist with a greater sense of reverence.

The pastoral, titled" All Praise and All Thanksgiving," with accompanying pastoral guidelines, was published as a four-page insert in The Catholic Advocate, Newark archdiocesan newspaper.

"If it were not for the Eucharist, if it were not for this marvelous manifestation of God's love ... i am sure that I could never face the challenges of my life," Archbishop McCarrick wrote.

"I feel sure that the vast majority of Catholic people have the same profound sense路 of the Eucharist as the center of their own lives," he sa'id.

He said he occasionally receives a letter from someone who says he or she has "left the church" for some reason.

"Whenever I get a letter like that," he said, "I always write back and ask the one question which always haunts me... 'How can you live without the Eucharist?'"

He said many Catholics in the -Newark archdiocese already make an extra effort to attend Mass on weekdays as well路 as Sunday during Lent, Advent and the Christmas and Easter seasons, but he would encourage that practice throughout the year.

"How wonderful it would be if every Catholic man and woman would find the occasion to attend Mass again at least once or twice during the week and, in this way, to deepen their union with Christ and his church," he wrote.

He asked for a renewal of"public signs of respect and adoration to the Eucharist in the tabernacle."

"Just as it is proper to bow to the cross and to the altar, so it is proper to make a genuflection before a tabernacle .... Sometimes, I confess to being scandalized when I see believing Catholic men and women, young and old, passing in front of the tabernacle without even a notice that the Lord is there," he said.

For those who find Mass boring or say they get nothing out of it, he acknowledged that not all Masses are as well done as they should be.

But he asked them to ask themselves: "If I am bored at 'Mass, if I get nothing out of it, what am I bringing to it myself?" .

"The Mass is not a theatrical production .... The Mass is an encounter with the Lord .... If we come in hurriedly, distracted by many problems, talking to our friends or' conscious only ofourselves, we will miss the whole point of the Eucharist," he said.. . He closed the letter with a special plea to those "who because of difficult situations in their own lives are not able to receive Holy Communion when they come to Mass.

"All of us have loved ones who

are in that situation," he wrote.

"To them, I would say as a friend and servant and brother, 'Co me to Mass' ....The Lord wants you there because he loves you."

Among his pastoral guidl:lines Archbishop McCarrick: - Recommended that people arrive a few minutes early to pray and prepare themselves for Mass and stay a路 few minutes afterward to thank God. - Urged times of"holy sih:nce" as well as music during Mass.

- Called for more Masses in which younger children are gathered separately for a Lit.urgy of the Word adapted to thei:r age level "so that it can be made: understandable to them."

Archbishop McCarrick also called for "kneeling from the end of the Holy, Holy until the end of the Eucharistic Prayer." While a number of liturgists argue that standing is the more appropriate posture for that time, knec:iing remains the currently prescribed posture in the United States., he said.

He objected to "the use of com-' mon vocabulary to describe the eucharistic body and blood of Christ." Casual references to "the breads" and "the cups" for the consecrated elements "diminish our sense of the mystery and of the wonder of the Eucharist," he said.

To assure that the tabernacle occupies an appropriately pHiminent place.in church, he said, "in new renovations permission is not granted 1'0 locate the tabernacl.e in a place where it is not visible to, the great maj ority ofthe congregati,>n."

Is the soul present at conception?

Q. An article I read recently says that the Catholic Chllirch does not teach officially that the soul is created and enters the human body at the time of conception.

The author was favorable to our position about abortion, but says the time of "animation," when the body actually becomes human, has never been actually defined by the church. This is a slllrprise. Is it true? - Missouri A. It is true that the church has never directly and explicitly defined that the human soul enters the body at the time of conception.

There is no qUl(stion, however, that this is the clear position of the Catholic Church, applying its teaching about the dignity and honor due to all human life:.

The lengthy 1987 instruction of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on respc:ct for human life makes the point several times.

Among the fundamental human rights that flow from the creative act of God is "every human being's right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception until death."

Civil authorities,. it says, are obliged to providl: appropriate sanctions for any deliberate violation of "the respect and protection which must be ensured for the unborn child from the moment of his conception" (Set~tion 111).

The new Catholic catechism uses the same terminology, stating that human life must be absolutely respected and protected from the moment of conception.

Since it is to be treated as a human person from conception, the embryo must be: defended with whatever measures possible, as befitting every human being (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nos. 2270, 2274).

This position is increasingly supported by every modern biological, genetic and psychological science.

It is now a scientific certainty in the field of genetics. for example, that the genetic code which identifies each species, and each individual in that speiCies, for life, is already present in the very first cells, in other words at conception.

It has become almost an axiom in this area of human knowledge that from the moment the first cell is formed in the union of the sperm and ovum, the being "becomes

DAilY READINGS June 27: Am :!:6-10,13-16; Ps 50:16-23; Mt 8:18-22 June 28: Am 3:1-8;4:1112; Ps 5:4-8; Mt 8:23-27 June 29: Acts 12:1-11; Ps 34:2-9; 2 Tm 4':6-8,17-18; Mt 16:1.3-19 June 30: Am 7:10-17; Ps 19:8-11; Mt 9:1-8 July 1: Am 8:4-6,9-12; Ps 119:2,10,20,30,40,131; Mt 9:9-'13 July 2: Am 9:11-15; Ps 85:9,11-14; Mt 9:14-17 July 3: Ez 2::!-5; Ps 123:14; 2 Cor 12:7-10; Mk 6:1-6

By FATHER JOHN DIETZEN what it already is," in this case a living, growing human being.

Contrary to claims one hears from pro-choice advocates, the position of protecting unborn life is not something the Christian church only gradually arrived at.

Before the 20th-century scientific discoveries I just mentioned we knew very little about the life of babies in the womb. For one thing, until the last 150 years or so, people knew nothing ofthe sperm and ovum together forming the beginning of human life.

Scientists and philosophers, including Catholic theologians and clergy, argued much over the centuries about when human life began. When the mother felt life?

When it began to "look" like a baby? when it could live outside the mother?

From the earliest decades of Christianity, however, in the midst of all these discussions, the church never wavered on its condemnation of abortion, along with other forms of infanticide which were common in the Roman Empire.

Deliberately taking an unborn human life, at whatever stage of development, was always considered, from a Christian point of view, an immoral act.

The explosion of information modern science offers about the emotional, physifal, biological, intellectual and behavioral character of life before birth only verifies that position.

A free brochure answering questions Catholics ask about baptism practices and baptismal sponsors is available by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701.

praye~BOX Mother of Good Counsel We turn to you, our Mother of Good Counsel, as we seek to imitate your faith-filled life. May we be led by the same wisdom which God sent from heaven to guide you. Keep us united in mind and heart as we I go forward in joyful hope toward grace-filled freedom. o Virgin Mother of Good Counsel, hear our prayer as we look to you for guidance. Amen.

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A WARD-WINNING SCULPTOR: Daughter of Charity Sister Loretta Hoag of Wilmington, Del., displaying her recent bronze work "Firedance," has been honored as art educator of the year by the National Art Educators Association. (CNS photo)

It's difficult when a friend suffers a terrible grief. You want to know just what the right words are to comfort that person.

In the past few years, after the pain of losing two sons and a daughter-jn-Iaw, I have been given many words by well-meaning friends, and most of these words have been welcome.

But a few have been not words of comfort, but an "explanation" for why my children died violently.

It was their "choice," I was told.

To which I could only respond, "What???"

It seems there is a new popular theory about suffering which says we chose the suffering afflicting us before we were born. Why? Because life is a '\classroom," and we need the lessons we'll learn_ from this suffering.

I read in New Woman magazine a review of "Why Me, Why This, Why Now: A Guide to Answering Life's Toughest Questions," by.

Robin Norwood.

The review quotes Ms. Norwood as calling suffering "the incarnation we design," and that we choose our "Iessons"-our families, the troubles we'll face and all the bad luck we're stuck with.

"In short," the magazine's reviewer wrote, "whatever happens,

you've picked it, for your own good."

I caught this same drift in hearing Betty Eadie, author of the bestselling "Embraced by the Light," when she was on television's 20/20 program recently. , In Ms. Eadie's book, recounting her near-death experience of some 20 years earlier, she writes, "Coming to earth is much like selecting a college and choosing a course of study."

I n a chapter she calls "The Drunken Man," she tells a story of why this man chose to abuse alcohol. He was really a "magnificent man" who had chosen his disgusting life to, help a friend become more compassionate. "This great being came to Earth as a teacher to help a friend that he had spiritually bonded with," she writes.

When interviewer Hugh Downs probed this idea further -'that we choose our suffering before coming to earth - he asked her, what about all the people in situations like Bosnia, Rwanda and the H010caust? Did they really choose that life? She nodded - and I got lost!

I think there's a danger in this theory. Rather than make people more compassionate, I think it does the opposite.

Creed vs. crime

My neighborhood somewhat resembled a war zone recently. At . least, it seemed to be under siege.

In Washington's northeast section where I live, next to the Franbucks. Why not here? Why not ciscan monastery, a woman was now? murdered, the post office was Westbrook presented the idea robbed, the Franciscans' cars were to the other members of St. Ann's burglarized, one of our cars was parish council, and the rest is broken into, another vandalized, becoming history. Of·the 19,581 the cook's car radio was stolen and parishes in the United States, St. my bicycle was stolen from my Ann's is the only one selling indulgences - "over the counter," West- . room.

On top of all that, a woman who brook quips. In this case, however, witnessed the vicious shooting of "indulgences" are delicious bitesize chocolates, each one bearing children in a swimming pool refused to testify in the case because of the imprint of the cupola high atop fears for her daughter's life.

St. Ann's Church.

Though my personal loss of a It's a wonderful way, Westbrook· bicycle was minor, my sense of said, to "generate funds for our being violated, unleashed a s'ort of parish's programs to help our inner fury. troubled inner-city neighborhood.

These feelings need to be exNot a cent of the money .. , goes to pressed, lest they burrow deeper the parish, it all goes to help the down inside us and fester. I found poor." myself repeatedly talking about Named and trademarked Jubi- the burglary to anyone I could late(Latin for "rejoice") Indulgen- find. That was my way of healing. ces, the chocolates come in three Then there are thoughts of revbasic packages. The Pottery Pack, enge. Needless to say, if revenge is offers 20 chocolates - 17 dark, 3 carried out it reduces us to a state white - packaged in a beautifully lower than that of the person who fashioned pottery jar. The Glass Pack offers 20 chocolates in a handsome dome-topped glass decanter. The Soft Pack offers 20 chocolates in a standup crystalline Secret to a Lasting Marriage, sack.

No. 31: Do not give your wife a When people asked for refills, . pressure-cooker gauge for your Westbrook came up with special anniversary, no matter how many Values in Volume refill packages, secondhand' stores you had to tubes filled with 80 chocolates (four search to find one to fit "her" old refills), called the Small TubaJuba pan. or 180 Jubilate Indulgences - the Women are funny that way.

Big Tuba-Juba, of course.

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"Because it's all for Ii good would be thrilled to receive a box cause," Westbrook said, "thank of 9/16ths sockets or even several he~ven there's no sales tax. Our screwdrivers that their wives had small inner-city parish is working gleaned from "used stuff' stores. to help our neighborhood, and It wouldn't make us feel like 'we're collaborating with other they value us only for our "fixit" neighborhood churches to fight skills. Come to think of it, it would the influx of drug dealers and be nice to have my wif.e say someother crime in the low-income area thing nice about my fix-it skills. around our chl!rch. We have elected Anyway, you get the point. In to return to this 'rich' fundraising this same vein, it is unwise to prestradition in order to get the funds ent any of the following on Mothneeded to finance our projects." er's Day, birthdays . or anniversar,

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By Mitch Finley Do you remember indulgences?

In their "Concise Dictionary of Theology,", Jesuit Father Gerald O'Collins and Edward G. Farrugia explain indulgences thus: "The remittance of temporal punishment due to sin for which sorrow has already been expressed and forgiveness received. This canceling of punishment comes from the treasury of Christ's infmite merits and the saints' participation in his passion and glory."

There are partial indulgences and full - or "plenary" - indulgences, which take away all one's debt of punishment. In the early Middle Ages indulgences helped humanize a rigid penitential and criminal system.

In the face ofthe system's attempt to exact retribution for each offense, indulgences were a sign of mercy and compassion, seeking rehabilitation rather than pumshment. Harsh sentences were commuted, of~en into forms of community service. By the 16th century, however, things got out of hand, big time.

Theological lowlifes actually sold indulgences in order to finance various church projects, .even though official church teaching always insi~ted on the need for inner repentance as well., Martin Luther had a fit about the abuse; of indulgences and various other forms of corruption in the church, and you know what happen~d after that.

Pope Paul VI made it clear that indulgences are legitimate as long as they don't lose contact with the need for personal conversion of heart. The idea of selling indulgences is long past, however.

Well, not entirely, .

Hey, thought Tom Westbrook, a member of the parish council at St. Ann's Parish, in Spokane, Wash., Catholics sold indulgences in the 16th century and made big

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ANTOINETTE BOSCO

If I don't sound open-minded on this subject, it may be because of a couple of recent experiences, after my son John and his wife Nancy were murdered.

My daughter's friend rea,:ted by saying, "Wow, you have some heavy Karma." She proclaimed that as a result of wrongdoings committed in previous incarnations of the soul, we cause our own troubles; thus, punishment for sins from a past life make perfect sense.

For grieving people, that'S not a ,consoling concept.

I don't disagree that life is a kind of school, for we are given the privilege of participating in this life precisely so that we can learn.

But I don't think we choose our lessons. I think we only ':hoose how we respond to the lessons we encounter. And as for our teacher, I'd say we don't have to look anywhere else but to the Gospels.

There we'll find God, his w.isdom and his love.

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violated us. Besides, such feelings are not very Franciscan.

Fleetingly I thought about getting a police dog, adding more lighting or even bars to the windows of my residence, as most of our neighbors have. But this would justcompound the siege mentality.

As my fury subsided, my thinking became more reasonable. Why not alert the neighbors and see what we can do as a group? What about having the police speak to a neighborhood gathering?

And it occurred to me that just as we hear about crime daily, we' need to address its root causes daily.

I have a feeling that teenagers were behind many of the thefts we experienced, and I wonder what society is teaching them.

Charles W. Colson recently wrote, "When a society abandons its transcendent ~alues, each individual's moral vision becomes purely personal and finally equal. Society merely becomes the sum total of individual preferences, and since no preference is morally preferable, anything that can be dared will be permitted ....

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ies unless accompanied by tickets for two to Maui: -A set of fresh vacuum cleaner bags. (Ditto for mop heads, Dirt Devils and Dustbusters'.)

-A bathroom scale.

-A kitchen fire extinguisher.

-Industrial-sized roll of aluminurn foil, no matter how much money you'll sav.e over the many years it might last.

-A subscription to Sports l1Iustrated with the bathing suit issue as a promotional extra.

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"N0 number of police can enforce order; no threat of punishment can create it. Crime and violence frustrate every political answer because there can be no solution apart from character and creed."

"Without God," DOStOyl:vsky said, "everything is permis:;ible; crime is inevitable."

In protecting everyone's rights, to the point of arguing that God must not be mentioned in pLlblic or in the schools lest it vi,:>late someone's· preferences, we have sanctioned a way of life that i, not based on conscience. .

My bet is that the kid now ri.ding my bike or selling it was never taught about God and the re~:pect for others. My bet is that this c:hild ultimately has no creed.

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jumping rope with barbed wire might.

I shared this counsel with my son-in-law recently as he gave me a sneak preview of a· second anniversary gift for our daughter: a gleaming new pressure-cooker.

"Very thoughful," I nodded.

"And I know she'll love it, es pe- . car.. cially when she opens it and s,ees -Fifty pounds of flour. (Refer the strawberries, a split of chnmto aluminum foil.) pagne and tickets to the movies."

It seems gifts which could con"But..." he began. note self-interest or even "drudgery" (to use spouse's term) carry a .

"Trust him on this one," my wife advised. bit of risk, much in the manner a

Theologian urges "critical dialogue" of church, culture WASHINGTON (CNS) - Jesuit theologian Fathl~J' Avery Dulles says the church must engage in a "critical dialogue" with contemporary U.S. culture, "accepting what is sound, opposing what is faulty, and attempting to supply what is lacking."

Father Dulles said the church has done this before, primarily in Greece and Rome and with the Germanic and Slavic peoples. "The church took over the healthy elements," he said, ":and gave these elements a new Christian stamp."

The other options for American Catholics - clinging to the past or embracing every culture as equally good - will not suffice, Father Dulles said.

He commented in a recent presentation, "The Gospel and Culture: Narrowing the Gap," at Georgetown Univf:rstty sponsored by the Woodstock Theological Center.

In U.S. culture, "a vague adherence to Christianity can also be combined with a culture that is hedonist, consumerist, and competitive to the point of violence," he said.

"Many believing Christians find their faith challenged or weakened by a social atmosphere that endorses values quite opposed to those of Christ and the Gospel," Father Dulles added.

Clinging to the 'culture of medieval Europe may be appealing to older Catholics, but "it is increasingly difficlIlt for younger people for whom pre-Vatican II Catholicism is not a living memory," Father Dulles said.

Treating all cultures as equally good "has a grain of truth because faith is not definitively wedded to anyone culture," Father Dulles said. But "it fails to recognize that every culture carries with it a builtin set of values and behavioral patterns that may be more or less compatible with, or supportive of, Christian faith," he noted.

A number of groups, mostly Christian and Jewish, are concerned with "revitalization of the religious heritagf: that has been at the roots of 0111' national selfconsciousness." The Catholic Church can contribute most effectively by cooperating with other Christian groups or selective issues, Father Dulles said. But he warned that "churches should be wary of entering into potf:ntially compromising alliances that are dominated by other religious groups, such as the Moral Majority of the Rev. Jerry Falwell and the Christian Coalition of the Rev. Pat Robertson.

In those cases, "limited cooperation on selective issues, such as pro-life programs, may be desirable," he said.

The church's primary contribution to society is in religious and moral formation, "giving individuals a sense of their personal accountability before God," Father Dulles said .•• A person who is sincerely convinced of God's sovereign lordship wllll not yield readily to the temptation to cut corners and take advantage of others," he added.

The state has an interest in promoting religion, he added, because it "sustains civic virtue, including the ...~sponsible exercise of freedom and respect for the human dignity of others."

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American Cancer Society seeks drivers for patients The local chapter of the American Cancer Society is in need of volunteer drivers for its Road to Recovery program, a free service for cancer patients. The need is great, since some patients' conditions may worsen or they may lose their lives if treatments are interrupted.

Most area pa,tients need only transportation to the Hudner Oncology Center at Saint Anne's Hospital, Fall River, although a few need to drive to Boston for specialized care.

Currently the Cancer Society has 12 volunteer drivers supplementing transportation provided by family or friends, but there is a need for at least 10 more drivers in the Fall River area and at least one volunteer able to drive to Boston.

Volunteers with a car, insurance and a few spare weekday hours each month betWeen 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. M o.nday through Friday, can "playa significant role in helping cancer patients recover," say Cancer Society officials. Volunteers are reimbursed, for mileage and work with a Cancer Society coordinator to arrange convenient driving schedules.

"Right here i,n Fall River, during the last three months in 1993, we coordinated 283 rides for cancer patients, which shows how great the demand is tor volunteer drivers," said Lisa Lundy, Cancer Society area director.

"Unfortunately, each week two to five cancer patients are unable to make it to their radiation treatment sessions because they don't have any way of getting there," she added, also npting the need to recruit several Portuguese-speaking volunteer drivers.

Lisa Dugal, associate nurse manager in the radiation oncology clinic at the H udner Center, says of the Road tt> Recovery volunteers that at least 10 percent of clinic patients depend on the drivers.

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Light sentence gets hea vy reaction ENDE, Indonesia (CNS) Angry Indonesian Catholics rioted after a prosecutor asked for a light sentence for a teen-agel' who desecrated a consecrated host.

About 3,000 Catholics ransacked the local courthouse and prosecutor's office and burned his house after he asked the presiding judge in the case, to punish Marthen Kamlase, 17, a Protestant bread seller, with a year in prison for insulting the Catholic faith.

The prosecutor's request surprised the crowd, comprised mostly of students and other youths who had crowded before the courthouse and who had wanted Kamlase to get a lO-year prison term.

The trial was postponed in an effort to restore calm and Assistant Attorney General R. Sutomo said a new prosecutor would be named.

Kamlase had received communion in Ende's church, then took the host to his seat where he broke it into pieces.

His act was noticed by those near him and he was beaten by several youths who then handed him over to police.

The parish priest tried to resolve the matter peacefully, but parishioners rejected his intervention, saying sacred host desecrations by non-Catholics had occurre~ too often in Ende.

Vincentius B. da Costa, a Catholic legislator and legal experts who investigated the incident, said the protest should be viewed in the context of the prosecutor's action.

He said that if the prosecutor had understood the people's sense of law and justice, he would have asked heavier punishment for Kamlase, and there would not have been such a strong reaction.

Archbishop Donatus Djagom of Ende later wrote to the district judge and the prosecutor, noting that Catholics 'believe the person of Jesus Christ is in the host.

"From this viewpoint, it is understandable why Catholics feel so offended when the holy host is desecrated," he wrote.

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He'has sent me to bring glad tidings to the lowly, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to prisoners. .. Isaiah 61:1 It

They went to prison-and found freedom.

So say some present and former inmates of the Barnstable County House of Correction who have participated in Residents Encounter Christ, a three-day retreat program known by its acronym, REC. What is the freedom that it offers?

The answer is spelled out, in simple black lettering imposed oil the outline of a cross, on'a homemade poster hanging in the BCHC gymnasium: "Freedom," it says, "is knowing He loves you."

Said Hepworth, "People find "When I came here, I was a desout that God loves them, regardtroyed woman. REC saved my less." life."

Declarations like this, from an Dedicated to Mary inmate attending the June REC, Founded two years ago by Deaare not uncommon when, at the con Richard Murphy of Corpus retreat's midpoint, participants are Christi parish, Sandwich, and Bob invited to speak to visitors about Thornton of St. Francis Xavier their experience on REC, about parish, Hyannis," REC follows a their lives, about being in jail. format similar to that of other For many of those attending the, retreat programs in the diocese, retreat, the Gospel of Christ is a' such as Cursillo, Emmaus and message they either never heeded ECHO, and involves a dedicated or never heard. Some go because network of more than 100 people they are searching for answers, who serve as team persons, particsome because they want to improve -ipate in After REC arid provide their lives. Some are rooking for palanca, notes' of prayer support someone to care about them, or for retreatants. Others, like Mrs. simply a break from the routine. Ryan, also offer friendship and Some just want to get out of soli- spiritual and practical support for tary confinement. inmates after release.

But whatever the reasons, the Both men's and women's retreats retreat's organizers say that aft(:r are held, with the former averagthree days REC candidates emerge ing 35 team members and the same changed people. . number of cahdidates from a pop"Absolutely the dead are riliulation of about 200 inmates. The ing," declared Tricia, a REC par- latter RECs have,l6 team members ticipant released from BCHC four and about 10 candidates from the months ago. "Some of these kids facility's 18 women inmates. Inwould be in the obituary column" 'mates can attend as many of the if they hadn't gone to jail, she said. retreats as they wish, and After "REC may be the most powerful REC meetings are held weekly for healing they've experienced in their those in the jail, twice a month for lives." those who have been released.

Retreat programs are supposed The thirteenth REC, held in to transform people, said Natalie early June, had nine women canRyan, a REC team member and didatesand w,as directed by Pat volunteer for its followup sessions, Donahue. She was assisted by a' called After REC. But she has team including Deacon Joe Stannever seen results as profound as ley of Our Lady of Victory Parish, those of REC. . . Centerville. No stranger to prison "Y ou can see change right in ministry, he has been leading a their faces," she averred. liturgical service and bringing comJail may get inmates away from munion to BCHC on Sundays for drugs and alcohol 'and a danger- nine years. Mass is celebrated at ous lifestyle, but R EC offers par-' the jail on Wednesdays. 'ticipants the self-respect, courage Deacon Murphy, on the other and faith to avoid falling back into hand, said he had little background old patterns once they are released. in such ministry before Sheriff Healing is possible, Tricia 'said, Jack DeMello suggested establish" when retreat participants begin to ing a Catholic retreat program at accept what to them may have: the jail modeled on an ecumenical been unbelievable concepts: that prison pr.ogram in Springfield. someone cares about them; thaI: "I just prayed God would send their lives are worth ,something; . me the right people," said the. deathat 'God never gives up 9n them. con, adding that the ur,dertaking "I never had a feeling, ever, of. was blessed from the start, when beirig appreciated, or knowing I'm REC's organizers held a prayer somebody," said Tricia, the mother" service dedicating the jail to Mary, . of three grown children with whom using the Missionary Image of she is reconciling while P,uttil1g her Our Lady oCGuadalupe as a focal point. . ' life back together at a halfway house. , . ,, Since BCHC's chapel had been "REC was like 1 woke'up one eliminated to create women's quarday and said, where've 1 been?) ters in the facility, Hepworth, whose, learned how to live all over ilgain, wife Anne directed the first wogot back my dignity and realized , men's REC, designed a temporary I'm a person of worth~'" , chapel for retreat use.

• Dick Hepworth, a police officer· The tent-like structure, draped involved with REC, sums up the in b'lue tarpaulin, faces those enprogram's effectiveness in the words tering the gymnasium and, with a of another inmate participant: "I monstrance as centerpiece, sends a feel so good oecause God knows message that "we're not just a . my name today." bunch of do-gooders coming in to

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"I had never been clean and thing in common: they can remo~m­ sober", except when in jail, she ber a time when drugs so consays. "I was a drug dealer. It pro- sumed their lives that little dse vided money. But I don't have to mattered. And they speak frankly, do that'anymore. God has provid- as if some of this weight is finally being lifted from their shoulders. ed."

"1ft wasn't here now, I wou1c1 be Her family is reunited, she has "a house full of furniture," she's dead or headed here for a longer heard from her mother for the first time than I'm in for now," says the time in seven years, an'd, above all, youngest.

"I lost sight of God because of she feels a sense of joy and gratitude that she can't stop talking my addictions and the meaning about. Last fall, she told her story and ·purpose in my life went right before a thousand people at the out the window," said the olde:a.

Now, with REC, they have someCape Cod for Jesus charismatic meeting. Both she and Tricia also thing else in common: visit schools to speak about the "I have God in my life now, and dangers of drugs. those are words I never uttered "I have everything today as a before," says a first-time p,Hresult of meeting Christ through ticipant. this program," Charyl says. "It Another, who is about to be changed my life." released from BCHC, says confiOne of the inmates on the first dently, ''I'm not coming back here. women's REC, Charyl is the first God's on my side." "graduate" to return as a team Attending REC, says another, member, a process REC organizwas the first time she felt anyone "I'm a Miracle!" ers hope will become routine. cared about her "despit~ what I Charyl weaves through a group "Someone like me has a more was"-a heroin addict. As a result of some 65 people gathered in the effective witness" for inmates than of that love and acceptance, "I c.an BCHC gym June 4 for the REC • someone who has never been in smile again, I can laugh again, I "hootnanny," the midpoint of the jail, she says. "I was once where have hope, again ... 1 get down on retreat when visitors join r,etreat- they were. I give them hope" that a my knees every day and talk to ants in prayer, some enthusiastic better life is possible. , God." singing and listening to the inmates' About 40 members of the "paCharyl tells them that her stories. lanca aT-my" are attending the "mega-friends" and R EC's "natuWearing a crown of bright pink hootnanny, having passed through ral high:' have replaced the emp::icardboard, Chary'l is hard to miss. the metal detector, prison bars and ness of her drinking and drugging "What's the crown forT' monotonous somber corridors to days. Her advice to the new REC She explains that all retreatants the small haven in the corner of the participants: "Don't quit before receive one signifying that they are gymnasium where REC unfolds. the miracle!"

"Children of the King."

Around the altar set 'up for Mass "Looks good on you." earlier in the day, the walls are a REeked Lives "Thanks'" she grins. Charyl "My first REC was the first day bright kaleidoscope of pictures, smiles easily these days, hugging palanca cards, and posters created I was in jail," a yeung woman 0 n old friends and new and producing by the retreatants. the June retreat said; adding that polarpids of her four teenagers "When you walk into the middle she'd jiJst gone along at the invitaand. husband. Her exuberance has of a retreat like this; there's a fire tion, having tlo idea what "REC" obviously had an effect: one of the that there are no words to des- meant. inmates caps. her testimony with cribe,~' says peacon Murphy. "You "But I. f,igured my life was a the declaration, "When I grow up, know something has happened wreck,anyway, so why ,not?"

I want to be just like Charyl!" . here. You can feel it." '.

Her quip was right on target Charyl herself tells the group, Thefeeling now is energy, as the· Repairing wrecked lives is wha,t "i'm a miracle!" nine inmate, retreatants lead the REC is all aboui...

For the ill mates, telling' their Her story is indeed miraculous, visitors in a s~ng-or three or· considering that Charyl, nqw a four. Then the mood becomes more" stories wi'thout fear of condemnateam'member, has been in this subdued,as one by one t,he inmates :, tion is "the beginning of the 'h.ealgymnasium before. Not long ago are invited to speak, some direct ing process:: .said Tricia, who plans she was on the verge of divorce and confideJ.lt, others shy of the to follow in C~aryl's footsteps and and of losing custody of her microphone. Some have attended serve on the' retreat team. childien-and she was a BCHC several RECs; for others this is the The v!l~t majority of those who inmate serving a' second term on first retreat. One is barely out of end up in the program come from drug charges. That's when she dis- her teens, while others have 'chil- broken homes and traumatic back,· covered REC. dren' her age. But all have one Turn to Page 16 give them milk and cookies and then leave," said Hepworth. REC intends to make a lasting impression by getting participants to "see the light, come alive."

Hepworth regards the paradox of finding freedom in prison to be the crux of REC. It makes perfect sense from a Gospel perspective, he said.

"It makes no sense in this world, but the light of Christ gets rid of every stumbling block and prejudice," he said. "Cops and criminals" worship together realizing "we're all in the same boat. We all have faults. Theirs just happened to get them sent to jail. But in the sight of God the distinction means nothing." ' "It took for me to go into these dark enclosed walls to be set free," Tricia reflected. "Drugs put me in jail. I literally felt dead. REC nurtured me back to life."

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With eNS reports I Should priests act as if they were ,ordained for "private practice," serving only their parishes and disI regarding issues ofthe institutional I church? That question sparked more discussion than almost any I other at a recent meeting of the National Federation of Priests' I Councils held in Williamsburg, Va. Attending from the Fall River ! diocese were Father Mark Ber. geron, regional representative to the federation, and Fathers Marcel Bouchard and George: Bellenoit. . The convention theme was "Decisions for the Future:: Priestly , Leadership in the 21 st Century."

A new mission statement for the federation, one of three alternatives proposed for consideration, , was adopted with 94 affirmative I votes, well over two-thirds of those ! cast from among voting delegates at the meeting.

The statement maintains the current membership structure of the NFPC, consisting of diocesan I priests' councils and associations and religious orders of men.

Along with representing, netI working and serving such groups I of priests, it says the NFPC will , provide "forums for the continuing professional development of I individual priests and a voice for I their concerns" and will encourage I more regional priests' gatherings.

Benedictine Sister Joan Chittistel', founder and head of Benet I Vision, a spirituality center in Erie, Pa., opened the four-day convenI tion with a speech calling on I priests to be prophets who boldly challenge evils and injustices even I if it makes them unpopular.

Describing parallels between societal evils today and those that Old Testament prophets deplored, she told the priests that those prophets are no longer around to I speak out: "There's only you and , I ."

Precious Blood Father Robert Schreiter, theology professor at the Catholic Theological Union in I Chicago, predicted that U.S. , priests entering the 21st century will be challenged by intergenerational tensions as the proportion of older Americans increases sigI nificantly; increased racial and ethnic diversity; and changing attitudes toward churches, religion and religious movements, a result partly of the profound impact that instantaneous global communications have had on people's perceptions of space, time and the role of institutions in their lives.

At meeting workshops, the priests discussed; among other topics, church response to new immigrants, collaborative ministry with lay people on parish staffs and diocesan policies on HIVinfected priests and seminarians.

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Touching off discussion was the observation that happy priests are often those who have distanced themselves from the wider church, focusing all their energies on their own parish - in effect doing ministry much like any other profes-

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Music by Book and Lyrics by "PRIVATE PRACTICE" OR A WIDER VISION? sional engaged in private practice. be emerging in seminaries and Father McN ulty highlighted five among some bishops as well. issues emerging from a recent Father Frederick P. Annie of NFPC survey of priests and bish- Wheeling, W. Va., expressed his ops: morale, esteem, support, lis- table's concern that disagreement tening and involvement. in the church seems to be equated with disloyalty. "Can there be loyal Regarding involvement, he opposition in the church today?" quoted from a 1987 article, based he asked. on interviews with happy priests Father Lawrence J. McGovern on what made them happy: "I was of Stockton, Calif., said his table struck by the fact that all of them thought the "private practice" issue have, one way or another, dissuggests that one role of the NFPC tanced themselves from the issues is to help priests widen their vision and agendas of the institutional beyond their own parish, helping church. These priests simply don't care about the internal politics of .them connect with the poor and with the broader church. church life.... Most have distanced Commenting on the "private themselves from their institutional practice" theme after his return preoccupations by a single-minded from the convention, Father Bellecommitment to the people of their noit said that for his part he felt parish." that it is not helpful for priests "to Father McNulty, who frequently lose contact with the wider church." leads workshops and retreats for priests and religious, said that insight "has been verified for me by a number of priest groups I've shared it with."

He said it may also explain why many talented, effective priests won't invest time and energy in their local priests' council if the bishop controls its agenda or its discussions never have a real impact on decisions or policy.

He suggested the split between parish ministry and the wider institution helps explain why surveys repeatedly show that priests are happy but their morale is low.

They find satisfaction in what CORNER STAFFORD , they are doing, especially celebrating the Eucharist and ministering to people, he said, but they are frustrated at institutional realities over which they have no control.

The issue most often cited by priests is the way authority is exercised in the church.

Looking at the frustration priests face in the wider institution he said, "It is hard to criticize a person who needs to distance himself to be happy oreyen to survive."

After half an hour of roundtable discussions in small groups, table reports addressed many current concerns am~)llg American priests, but there was apparently most interest in the problem 'of priests distancing themselves from the institutional church.

Father Regis J. Ryan of Pittsburgh said his group was concerned that a tendency toward the private practice model seemed to

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Wedding month If marriage is such a great institution, how come there are so many jokes about it?

June, the most popular month for weddings, is the perfect time to look at this riddle. Saturdays in June are the most popular days, and the last Saturday tops any other day in the year, with some 44,000 vows being sworn.

The National Center for Health Statistics in Washington is the source of these facts, according to the Associated Press. They are 1990 figures, but June is not likely to lose its top rank to less beautiful months.

When one wit said "Single people die earlier-marriage is a slow death," he was half right. A study at the University of California at San Francisco shows that marriage can be a life-saver for middle-aged males.

Men between 45 and 64 who live alone, or \\-ith someone other than a spouse, according to this research, "are twice as likely to die within 10 years as men of the same age who live with their wives."

Marriage also benefits women of the same age, th~ study shows.

Those who live without a husband face an increased chance of dying sooner. It's easy to see why marriage is so popular.

But it's not as popular as it.was.

Because people are postponing their walks down the aisle by 3 to 3.5

HE'S GOT the name for it, and Eddie Treadway walks every day. (eNS photo)

lOO-year-old starts each day with walk to Mass SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CNS) - Eddie Treadway.fishes a worn walking stick out of the shrubs in front of St. Rose Church in Sacramento, smiles and cocks his ear.

He's in a hurry to get home, but he can spare a few minutes to talk about his first 100 years. .

Treadway celebrated his 100th birthday in May by doing what he does every day: He walked to 8 a.m. Mass at St. Rose.

He's a little hard of hearing but otherwise vigorous and, most of all, happy. He spent the first half of his life in Louisiana working on shrimp boats, then moved to Sacramento and' St. Rose Parish in 1945..

He worked as a carpenter. in Sacnimento before retiring and lives with his wife, Augusta, in a house they bought in 1947. His . wife is "90,92,93,94," he says with a smile and a wave of his hand. He has four children and too many grandchildren and great-grandchildren to remember the number.

"I thank the Lord I've had a good life," he says. "I come to Mass every day, leave home at 7:30, a half-hour walk. Sometimes a fellow comes with me. He didn't make it today. That happens sometimes," he says and shrugs his shoulders. Treadway doesn't need a walking companion.

Why does he go to Mass every day? "To please God," he says . firmly. "We owe it to God." He pauses, then says, once more; "To please God." With that, Eddie Treadway <>ays goodbye and strides down the walkway to the traffic light in front of

the church. He punches the "walk" button and waits.

As the "walk" light flashes on, he lifts up his walking stick and moves briskly across the street. He makes it easily before the light changes, then turns north on the sidewalk, moving quickly, heading home once more.

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years, a decline in the number of those who marry is showing up in the record books.

So far this century, some 95 percent of adult Americans have been married at least once. Census Bureau demographers are now predicting that only 90-92 percent of today's young people will swear eternal vows.

Putting off the wedding day has both advantages and disadvantages. For one thing, it slows the birth rate, thereby reducing the surplus population-to quote that eminent theologian, Ebenezer Scrooge.

Delaying marriage is tough on stand-up comedians, but it does postpone the day when the bride and groom have to listen to an unlimited number of corny jokes about the venerable institution of wedlock.

Some of these quips have been around a long time-like marriage itself. I have some favorites I'd like to share with you, just in case you. get called on to make a toast or offer some advice to the bride and groom.

"Marriage is not a word,_ but a sentence" comes from the AARP Bulletin, but most of these oneliners were stolen from theChurch Extension Service, Inc. "Troubles in marriage often start when a man is so busy earning his salt that he forgets his sugar."

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"Too many marry for better or worse, but not for good."

"Ju~ging from the specimens picked as husbands, no wonder brides blush."

"If a man has enough horse sense to treat his wife like a thoroughbred, she will nev~r grow into an old nag."

"A successful marriag~ is the result of falling in love oftenwith the same person."

"Marriages are like diets; they can be ruined by having. a little dish on the side."

"The bounds of matrimony are a good investment only when the interest is kept up."

"Because many couples harp at each other does not mean their marriage was made in heaven."

"A successful marriage is built upon trust and an occasional compliment."

"On anniversaries, the wise husband will always forget thl~ pastbut not the present."

"They never knew wha': happiness was until they got married.

Then it was too late."

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Dear Dr. Kenny: My parents for the suspension of a person's Dr.JAMES& are both in their 80s, and my civil rights when that person is mother has become physically viol- adjudged to be a clear and present ent. danger to self or others. Usually a MARY She beats up on my father when citizen must file such a petition they're alone. She has hit him, with the court, and a physician KENNY knocked him down, causing cuts must indicate that there is reason and bruises, and even tried to push to believe the person is dangerous. him down stairs. Nothing like this After the medical! ps¥chiatric exIf you cannot have someone has ever happened before. amination, another court hearing with them at all times, you may We can't get them to talk about may be held to determine the next want to separate them. Suggest it. My father is too much of a gen- / step. separate bedrooms and givl~ dad a tieman, and my mother acts like The courts are understandably door hook to lock his room at nothing has happened. In fact, she hesitant about suspending anyone's night. 'puts on such a normal front when civil rights and forcing a person Have dad stay overnight:it your others are around that no one against his or her will. You may house. Or take turns with your believes it. find you are on the borderline, parents, having dad stay one time Mother refuses to see a psychiaworried about a danger with your at your house and mom thl: next. trist or go in the hospital or nursAging presents new problems. mother that is serious but possibly ing home. What can we do? -New not life-threatening.

You are concerned about how to Jersey You say the abuse occurs when deal with your parents fighting.

Reason with them if you can, Many problems emerge as peo- they are alone. If you can do nothing else, then at least do the but be practical. Try to get a mediple grow older. Sometimes these obvious. See that they are not cal/ psychiatric exam foJ' your problems are expressed mentally mother. If nothing else, Sl:e that as in memory loss and the develop- alone.

Get together with relatives to ,they are not alone together. Good ing of strange ideas. Other times form a "love bank." Take turns luck with Ii difficult problem. they are expressed in unusual and Reader questions on family livatypical behavior such as you des- stayirig with them.

Church volunteers may also be ing and child care to be amiwered cribe in your letter. helpful. Visiting nurses and homein print are invited by The Kennys; My first step would be to conmakers can also spend some time 219 W. Harrison; Rensselaer, Ind. sult your family physician. Try to 47978 . get your mother ~n to see him or in the home. her for a complete physical exam. ~ • A treatable medical problem may ril underlie your mother's unpleasant - ~::::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~=~~~ behavior. Attleboro Sandwich Even if no specific medical Easter Seal Society sponsors Harron Cable TV is sponsoring problem can be found, medication local stroke support groups. Inmay be of some help. The physi- production of Senior Focus, proformation: Kathleen Simpson, 399cian may consider a mild tranqui- viding information on subjects and 7928; Peggy Gay, 222-5146; 'Carol lizer among other possibilities. The activities of interest to seniors, at Nagobads, 695-3754. usual rule for medication with the Sandwich Community Access aging persons is to "go low and go station. Senior volunteers are inProvincetown vited for training in cameral techslow."

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Scheduled for Sundays, the first broadcasts will be Jury 3. Some NBC affiliates will show the program on other Sundays in July and August.

The Catholic Communication Campaign, a member of the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission, which produced the special;recommended that Catholics call their local NBC affiliate asking them to show the special or to inquire about air dates.

"States of Faith" focuses on religion in family lif(:, politics and law, and community involvement.

It features interviews with pollster George H. Gallup Jr., executive director of the Princeton Religion Research Center, and Stephen Carter, Yale law professor and author of "The Culture of Dishelief."

Carter says on thl~ program he wrote his book to show his two children "it's OK to express their beliefs."

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Vati.can agency aids those on move VATICANCITY(CNS) - Modern eeonomies and modern warfare have put hundreds of millions of people on the move. cutting them off from their families, their native cultures and the normal structures of parish life.

It's the job of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Travelers to help them.

Its special interest is ministry to migrants. refugees. seafarers, workers in the tourism and aviation industries. foreign students and Gypsies.

"Most of the people who work here really have a pastoral heart and a pastoral soul." said Msgr. .James Dillenburg of the diocese of Green Bay. Wis .. who coordinates t he ministry to seafarers.

The key to getti:lg things done, he said. is that "heart speaks to heart."

The eouncil works through existing networks of dioceses and parishes, international relief organizations and religious orders.

Its 22 staff membns come from nine countries. Its new undersecretary, Msgr. Joseph A. DeAndrea of the diocese of Greensburg. Pa .. is one of four U.S. citizens on the staff.

U.S. Scalabrinian FatherSilvano Tomasi. the council secretary. said the population served by the council includes: 100 million migrants - 20 million officially recognized refugees -- 24-30 million people displaced within their own countries -- at least 10 million Gypsies - 800.000 seafarers - 75 million people in the tourism industry Among issues dealt with by the council: When 75 million people work in the tourist industry and their heaviest workload comes on weekends. what can local churches do to help them meet their Saturday/Sunday Mass obligation?

When seafarers spend the

vast majority of their time at sea because ships can unload more cargo in 24 hours than they used to in two weeks, how does the church minister to them?

When refugees living in a camp arc preparing to return to where those.respo'nsible for their exile -- and often for the deaths of their close family members - will be their neighbors. how can the church promote reconciliation?

"Our job is to promote. encourage and support," Father Tomasi said. "We put people in touch. It is through a combination of experience. information and direct contact with local churches that things get done."

For instance. Ethiopian and Eritrean Catholics in Washington needed women religious who speak

Episc~palian Continued from Page One In his homily :Bishop Delaney called th(: occasion historic but added: "Don't le~ the history and the excitement all'ow you to forget what we are celebrating. today that the Lord Jesus is giving gifts to you and to me that began with our baptism and now include confirmation and reception in full communion in the Eucharist."

"God's love works differently in everyone's life, and the gift you are requesting, and God has granted. is full communion with the Catholic Church," he said.

He also acknowledged "the pastoral care you hllve received from the ministers of the Episcopal Church and oth¢rs. This has been a gift of love to you."

Ordained to the priesthood in 1960 at the North American College. Rome. Bishop Delaney served in Sacred Heart parish, Taunton, until 1967, when the late Cardinal Humberto Medeiros, then Bishop of Brownsville. Texas. asked him to come to the diocese. There he was co-chancellor until his appointment as b,shop of the Fort Worth diocese in 1981.

their language to run a day care center and a religious education program. .

The council brought Washington Cardinal James A. Hickey in contact with a religious order with Ethiopian members and is helping the sisters get U.S. visas.· A group of Iraqi refugees, each with either a parent or.a child in . the United States. is stranded in Malta. trying to join their families.

They asked the council for help and the council asked U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican· Raymond Flynn. The process is movingalong.

Listening to bishops. pastoral workers and people on the move themselves is just part of the job: accidents at sea. famine. disaster, ethnic conflict and war create unpredictable situations requiring immediate responses.

"Spddenly there is a political or ethnic crisis and boom! 300,000 people cross borders to seek safety," Father Tomasi said.

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Friday, June 24, 1994 12 Can't have too many saints, declares pope

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- "Too many beatifications?"

No way, Pope John Paul II told the world's cardinals during their recent meeting in Rome.

The pope defended the fast pace of canonizations and beatifications of his pontificate, saying it responded to the desires of the Second Vatican Council and to the reality of the Holy Spirit's work in the world.

Pope John Paul also hinted that as the church moves toward celebrations of the year 2000 it will look more and more to the "young churches" - those outside Europe - for new candidates to recognize as models of faith and holiness.

By last Oct. 16, the 15th anniversary of his election; Pope John Paul had beatified 596 individuals and proclaimed 267 new saints more than the combined total of his 20th-century predecessors.

"Sometimes it is said that today there are too many beatifications," the pope told the cardinals. But the ceremonies, he said, "in addition to reflecting reality, which by the grace of God is what it is, also correspond to the desire expressed by the [Second Vatican) Council."

The council, he said, emphasized the universal call to holiness of all Christians and affirmed the importance of Catholics being offered examples of people who closely followed Christ in a variety of situations and vocations.

"As in every other century of the church's history," noted the pope, "our also has given us numerous saints and blesseds."

Th-;: pope told the cardinals there is obviously a "disproportion" between the number of saints and blesseds-from countries where Christianity has been present for more than' a thousand years and those where evangelization began just a few hundred years ago. .. At the same time, it should be underlined that the young churches have a particular need for signs of holiness, a witness to their spiritual maturity within the universal community," he said.

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Plans afoot for papal visit to U .8.

BALTIMORE (CNS) - Pope Paul II will spend about three hours Oct. 23 in Baltimore's new Oriole Park at Camden Yards, using the city's skyline as a ~ack­ drop when,he celebrates,M,ass at an altar in center field.

Planners are leaning toward a late morning Ma.ss because the ballpark could be needed for a World Series game that evening if the Orioles take the American League pennant this year.

These were just a few details hammered out as Vatican officials visited New York and Baltimore earlier this month to plan, the pope's visit to the United States and United Nations Oct. 20-23.

The set-up "will probably be the simplest of any Mass site that the Holy Father has celebrated at in the U.S.," said Father James Barker, Baltimore archdiocesan vocations director and head of local planning for the papal liturgy.

On Oct. 22, current plans call for the pope to return to New Jersey early in the morning to visit Jo~n

Sacred Heart Cathedral in Newark, celebrate a to a.m. outdoor Mass for young people at St. Joseph's Seminary in Dunwoodie, Yonkers, eat lunch with seminarians and faculty and visit Shea Stadium in the Brooklyn diocese for a prayer service on the theme of the family.

In New York, where the pope is to arrive in mid-afternoon Oct. 20, he will go to St. Patrick's Cathedral for a vesper service with Catholic families around 5·p.m.

Each parish in the archdiocese will select one family to represent it at vespers.

The next day the pope 'will address the United Nations General Assembly.

-After vespers the pope will walk in procession to the cardinal's residence around the corner.

The pope will stay at the cardinal's residence all three nights of his U.S. stay. After visiting the United Nations Oct. 21, he will celebrate a Mass at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, in the Newark archdiocese. .

VATICAN CITY(CNS)-Ina historic piece of financial good news, the Vatican announced it had no operating deficit in 1993, its first budget surplus in 23 years.

Vatican officials credited the turnaround to belt-tightening measures in Rome and to increased giving from aro)lnd the world.

V .S. Cardinal Edmund C. Szoka, head of the Vatican's Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, unveiled the figures at a June press conference. He said that in 1993 the Vatican took in $169.1 million and spent $167.6 million, leaving a surplus of $1.5 million.

"It is not a large gain but certainly an important turning point in the financial operations of the Holy See," Cardinal Szoka said.

Operating deficit~ began in 1970 and grew steadily over the years, peaking at about $87.5 million in 1991.

"While we will do everything possible to contain costs, increases are inevitable" because of inflation, compensation adjustments and maintenance costs, cautioned the cardinal. The Vatican will therefore ask dioceses to increase future contributions, he said.

The surplus was good news for Pope John Paul II, who has frequently had to sacrifice all or part of his annual papal discretionary 'fund - called "Peter's Pence" -in order to meet the budget shortfall.

Last year, Catholics around the world chipped in nearly $60 million to Peter's Pence. A Vatican statement offered thanks to contributors arid said those funds could now revert to papal charities and other projects.

In meeting operating expenses, tl]e Vatican relies largely on returns from investments and real estate activities, which together totaled only about $71 million in 1993.

Crucial in making up the differ, ence was the rise in contributions from dioceses, religious institutes and foundations, which jumped from $14 million in 1992 to $34 million last year.

For several years, the Vatican has been citing a canon law provision that calls on the faithful for financial support of operations of the universal church.

Cardinal Szoka arrived at the Vatican in 1990 to take over its

economic prefecture, an office of budget, management and general accounting officefor the Holy See. He has stressed greater financial openness and independent auditing and has begun sending copies of the Vatican's annual ,;onsolidated financial statement:; to the world's bishops.

At the press conference to explain the latest figures - itself a highly unusual event at the Vatican Cardinal Szoka said greater financial openness should help convince outsiders that "the Holy See does not have great wealth."

"When you consider that the Holy See is the center of the Catholic Church, with 950 million members and thousands of diocl~ses, its resources and reserves are very modest,~' he said.

The cardinal said the Vatican's art treasures are sometime!s cited as evidence of opulence, bUl: in fact do not figure in the accounting ledger. The Holy See considers itself as merely a custodian of the art works, which are not there for commercial purposes, he said.

The 1993 budget figures showed that fQur Vatican agencies - its daily newspaper" its publishing house, its printing press and Vatican Radio - had a combined deficit of $21 million in 1993. But Cardinal Szoka said Vatican :Radio, traditionally the biggest single money-loser, was a "true se:rvice" to the whole church and cou Id not become a commercial station.

He also pointed out that 42 percent of the Vatican's annual operating expenses goes to salari,~s and pensions for the Holy See's approximately3,400 employees and retires.

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VATlCAN CITY (CNS) -- Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony arrived at a recent meeting of the world's cardinals with a detailed program for telling the world about Jesus. The plan calls for freshness, boldness and a multimedia presen- . tation of the Good News as the focus of the church's celebration of the year 2000. Pope John Paul II's main reason for calling the June 13-14 cardinals' meeting was to discuss ideas for celebrating the 2000th anniversary of Christianity. Cardinal Mahony offered 1·3 pages of ideas.

Pope asks Catholics to resume end-oj-Mass prayer to St. Michael VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The International Conference on Popand woman, married and open to having children - was clearly outfamily, human life and married ulation and Development. lined in Pope John Paul's Februlove are threatened by "the forces Bishops attending the April'lOof darkness," Pope John Paul II ,May 8 special synod for Africa ary letter to all the families of the has declared. ' , suggested. a prayer campaign, inworld . .Aspart of the 'church's battle clu~ing ~ novena to St. Michael He then explained his specific against such forces, the pope., in "to guide this crusade," the outconcerns about the draft V. N. docwhat Italian newspapers have des- come of which will be decided ument in a March 18 meeting with ctibed as "a holy war," has asked when nations vote on a final plan Nafis Sadik, the general secretary Catholics .to get back into the of action during the September o( the conference and director of habit of reciting the prayer to St.' conference in Cairo, Egypt. the U.N. Fund for Population Mictrael the Archangel thatu8ed The pQpeandother ch'urch offi- . Activities. ,cials criticized .,'the ~raft :of the to be said 'at the end of Mass: The meeting marked a con"St.. M'ichael.the Arc~a~gel, de~ . ·~.N. pla~ fo~ its.views o~ s.e~~a!" tinuation of papal practice. fend us in bjlttlf; be our protection, ~.ty.,~ar~lage and co?trac~ptlO.n~ Before the 1974 World Confer'.against the malic!; and snares of', Its support ?~ abort,lOn ~nd,. It,. on Population in Bucharest, ence 'the devil. Restrain him; 0 God, ~pproac~, to sex ,edu~atlOn,.!or we humbly beseectJ t~ee;anddo adolescent~ . . , , , ' , :.\ ' .', , Pope Paul VI met with the general thou, '0 prince of t~e heavenly , ' .The,"apc!,!n ~,battle plan. be!?an, secretary. ,of the conference and host, by. the. divine po:werqhrust"; WI!~ ~ g<:.ne~al~tatement9f"c.~~rch with the director of the V.N. fund. 'into hell,Satan and all hiseviJ'spir~, teachmg,.'!~en moved to me~tm~s Pope John Paul did the same thing :!ts ,w1w',r.oa'm :t~r~>ugh. th~'wor1d ",~nd :<Iobb.ymgefforts b.~f(jre; f,~~ before ~he 1984 International Con'se~k'ing the ruin ofsouls, Ameri~" .pope rall,ll,d ,all Cathohcs".~o.,u~e; ference on Population in Mexico , . ',.'. .."" what he has called the Chnstlan s City. greatest 'weapon:' prayer. . ' .. Pope John Paul's request for But his next move - a March ',the.p,ra,:er,came a.ft~r mO~,e th~n a',.. '. The Catholic Chuf(;h's position 19 letter sent to each of the world's month. of eX,tra-ord.mary Vatl~un.'on family life ~. \;leginning with heads of state ~ was a clear sign .effo[~ to change a'document bemg.-, the, .definition of .the family as .that" this battle would be .'more .. pre~~~,r~~'.fo! t,~~ U: N ':IlPo~sq.r~d ",:foiuldecL Qn the: union of ~)nan heated than those f6ught over d.oc~ o

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"The popes don't usually address their messages to the heads of state," the Vatican newspaper explained in a front-page commentary. "Only in very exceptional cases are political leaders addressed as such."

The two examples the newspaper gave were Pope Benedict VI's Aug. I, 1917, letter outlining possible peaceful solutions to end the fight~ ing of World War I, and Pope Pius XII's letter in the spring of 1940 "when the Third Reich was about to submerge all of Europe in a total war." . The newspaper said the stakes are just as,hig'h ,now. The "useless slaughter" of. the unborn thf,ough abortion would be expanded and attempts by industrialized northern nations' to li'mit births in the Third Wodd could c'reate a "catastrophic division" among the world's peoples.

Bishops attending' the' African synod pH:dged their full· support,

for Pope John Paul's fight against the document, saying they are: not advocating population growth at all costs, but their people's right to make their own decisions ahout family size must be respected.

Archbishop William H. Keeler of Baltimore, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, told the synod that al- . though the U.S. g~vernment delegation is, pushing for passage: of the document, it does not reflect the beliefs ofthe American people.

"Every poll indicates that people in the United States as a whole do n9t support tax dollars being used for abortion," he said in an [interview later. , Alth,ough t.he preliminary wiJrk for the U.N .. conferel1ce is over, Pope John Pa'ul' is not~xpeCte(! to give up the'battie.

In addition to a phone call to President Clinton about the confe'rence, the pope discussed his views directly ·with Clinton again June.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS)- ReThe working document said it is ligious men and woml~n are a gift especially important that women to the church and an essential part religious have greater involvement of its life, says the working docu- in decision-making processes affectment for the upcoming Synod of ing their communitieS. Bishops.

Worldwide input for the workReligious "are oftf:n found in ing document highlighted four the 'desert' where there is no one, themes for synod consideration: ort the 'margins of society' where - The need to "consolidate" a they experience poverty and share . theology of consecrated life folthe needs of people, and on the lowing the developments of the 'front lines' where they face the Second Vatican Council. risks of proclaiming the Gospel in - The need to recognize both difficult situations," the document the charism of consecrated life and said. the specific gifts of individual com"The Consecrated Life and its munities, with particular attention Role in the Church and in the on valuing religious "ot simply for World" is the theme of the Oct. what they do but for what they are.

2-29 general assembly of the world's - The need to balance the long bishops. tradition of consecrated life with The Catholic Church has more adaptation to new situations within than I million members who have the church, in the world and among publicly taken vows of poverty, community members. chastity and obedience. Women - The need to promote the are 72.5 of the total; 27.5 percent presence of religious among the are men. world's needy and to press for They include the well-known social, political and economic sisters, brothers and priests who change without usurping laity roles are in active or contemplative com- in those fields. munities, as well as male and female While the document indicated hermits, members of secular insti- the synod will look more to the tutes and consecrated virgins and future of consecrated life than to widows, who make public profes- its past, changes in church and sions of chastity but often con- society in the last 30 years are seen tinue living on their own. as key to understanding the presThe working document for the ent situation of religious life and synod highlights the variety of the challeng(: for its future. individuals, lifestyles, spiritual The document explained the relcharacteristics, orders and tasks evance of poverty, chastity and represented by the statistics. It obedience not only as an imitation praises the presence, commitment of Christ but also as a witness of and contributions of women reli- faith in contradiction to many gious to the church and society, modern values, suchas those relatand reports their desire for greater ing to sexuality, the idea of the recognition within the church. family and the value of virginity "A frank and clear recognition and celibacy," it said. of women's dignity is the first step "The profit motive in the free in promoting their participation in market economy, «laimed to be the life of the church as well as in the only motive for existence and public and sociallif(:," it said. relationships, leads to a moral Women, it said, "are still far relativism, to a culture of efficiency from full engagement in the church, which obscures the $ense of acts of despite the magisterium's direction generosity, poverty and evangeliin this regard." cal simplicity," it said.

Charisnlatics meet for self-study STEUBENVILLE,Ohio(CNS) - Some 1,200 Catholic charismatic leaders met earlier this month at the Franciscan University of Steubenville to dislcuss what one called the "lavish outpouring of the Holy Spirit" in the last 30 years.

The modern Catholic charismatic movement had its beginnings in prayer groups, mainly on U.S. col\e'ge campuses, in the mid-1960s following the Second Vatican Council.

Since then "we have been experiencing a mighty visitation of God, a lavish outpouring of the Holy Spirit. That's what this renewal is all about," said Father John Bertolucci of the diocese of Albany, N.Y., a longtime leader in the movement. He is a member of the FIRE team - Faith, Intercession, Repentance and Evangelism which sponsored t he leadership conference.

Others on the te:am are veteran charismatic leaders Ann Shields, head of the Servants of God's Love Sisterhood in Ann Arbor, Mich.; Ralph Martin, president of Renewal Ministries; and Third Order Franciscan Father Michael Scanlan, president of the Steubenville university.

At a question-answer session on Scripture and baptism in the Spirit, two theologians - Marianist Father George Montague of ·St. Mary's University in San Antonio and Alan Schreck of Franciscan

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University - spoke about the charismatic dimension of the early church and the role of charismatics in church life today.

Father Montague said "One way to spell God is M-O-R-E; he always has more for us, and when he gives us a gift, he expands our capacity to receive."

He said he considers the experience of baptism in the Spirit as an integral part of being a Christian, not just something "tagged on."

Martin said humility is essential to Christian leader$hip. "It's a relief for leaders to resign from being God," he said. "We were created to be servant leader.s and to allow God to be God." At another session Father Bertolucci also stressed that Christian leaders must be servants. "Our calling is to one thing only - to lift high the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ," he said.

In a homily Father Scanlan urged charismatic leaders to look to Mary for guidance and example. In alleged appearances of Mary all around the world, he said, "She is lovingly calling us, in a motherly way, to live the commandments."

Two Causes "We sin from two causes: either from not seeing what we ought to do, or from not doing what we see ought to be done." - St. Augustine of Hippo

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Religion tough beat CHICAGO(CNS)- Tight deadlines, incompetence, ignorance and the nature of religion itself contribute to unsatisfactory media coverage of the subject, New York Times reporter Peter Steinfels told a Chicago conference June 9.

"When you have to explain that some of these [religious] things take centuries, that has a dampening effect on editors," Steinfels told a Religion and the Media Commonweal Forum, sponsored

by Commonweal magazine at Loy. ola University, Chicago.

"The end result of all this is that we don't tell news stories so much ONE OF A SERIES of as we find ways to retell old stoVatican stamps issued to com- ries." Stei~fels, senior religion cor-

respondent for the Times, said that in his experience newspaper editors arc not hostile toward religious figures but suspicious that the "practices almost always do not live up to the preaching." But more damaging to good reporting is lack of religious expertise, laziness, and inadequate resources at newspapers and television stations, he suggested.

•••••••••••••••••••••• memorate the restoration of the Last Judgment frescoes in the Sistine Chapel painted by Michelangelo in the 15th century. (CNS photo).

Volunteer teacher develops values class for schools GARY, Ind. (CNS) - What began as one lesson in a health and teen-living course in a Gary Catholic school has become an international organization promoting values education in all schools.

Patricia DePorter, a registered nurse and parishioner at St. Mary of the Lake in Gary, has founded Voices for Values International out of her experiences from volunteering at her parish school where three years ago she began teaching a Health and Teen Living class that was part of a human sexuality program for junior high students.

She developed a survey on values for sixth graders who would be taking her course the following year and asked them to include questions they hoped to have answered in the teen-living class.

"Based on their returns, I felt there were areas of weakness and a need for education in values," she said. "Before I began teaching them about puberty, AIDS and sexually transmitted disease, 1 thought it was essential to add a lesson of defining values."

Using the survey, Mrs. DePortel' structured a class emphasizing respect, honesty, accountability, dignity, responsibility and loyalty.

She discussed character development and integrity and how these fit in with learning to live by a personal code bf conduct.

Then she distributed the survey to students in Belgium and Italy in order to learn whether other countries had problems with lack of understanding of values. She gotsimilar answers, finding that 98 percent of the surveys showed both adults and students think basic values should be taught in schools.

"The only way to get change in society is through education in values," she said. Voices for Values seeks to "instill, restore 'and promote basic human values in our society, b~ginning with children and youth."

"My idea is to connect young 'people from all over," she said.

"After all, they are the ones who will inherit the problems of society."

Further information on Voices for Values International may be obtained from P.O. Box 45, Portage, IN 46368.

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Bishop Connolly High FALL RIVER - The National Honor Society has elected as officers for 1994-95 president Grady Gauthier of Tiverton, RI; vice president Bryan Stubbert of Westport; secretary Paulina Pacheco of Fall River; and treasurer Patti Rego of Fall River.

Junior Jennifer Rezendes has been recognized for academic achievement by the University of MassachusettsAmherst and the United States Achievement Academy.

From UMass-Amherst she received the 1995 Chancellor's Award for Academic Excellence, which entitles her to a $5,OOO-a-year scholarship t9 the university beginning in fall '95; and the Achievement Academy will list her in its official yearbook as a National Honor Roll Award winner.

84 letters and 84 certificat(:s in tennis, golf, softball, baseball arid track were awarded to athletes at the spring sports awards banquet. Special awards were: sportsmanship award to Jennifer Currie.' and Joe Aleardi; scholarathlete awards to Kate Marino and Matt Tracy. Athletes of the year are Liza Peters, Joe Librera; Colleen Nolan and Chris Jusseaume.

"Every time we planned to go down there it rained," said Presto. "So we planned projects for the next two years indoors at school."

The team repainted the weight room one year and did some work on the hallways the next.

The Babe Ruth field at Maplewood was the main focus of this year's project. The girls weeded, edged, and raked the infield; edged the foul lines; and repainted the foul poles, the fence along the first base line, the bleachers, and the benches. They also swept up Albert Street which runs adjacent to the park, and picked up trash. ' Kevin Aguiar, vice president of the Maplewood Babe Ruth League and a Connolly alum, donated paint and some equipment. .

"The kids had fun doing this, there's a lot of comraderie," said Coach Presto, "You could tell it was a team at work out there."

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The Fourth Annual Thomas P. Keyes ~emorial Scholarship Golf Tournament will be held July 18 at the Fall River Country Club with registration at 7 a.m. and starting time 8 a.m. Reservation iii required by July II and may be made with the Connolly development office at 676-1476. . .

The event memorializes 1984 graduate Thomas P. Keyes, who died in an auto accident in 1990. Keyes Scholarship recipients since its institution in 1991 have been Jennifer Currier, Frank Hill and Erin Garvey.

FALL RIVER - The following awards were presented as 42 eighth-graders graduated on June 13: St. Anne Home and School Association $200 Scholarship to Grace Coelho and Caroline Amaral, both of w~om will attend Bishop Connolly High School, Fall RIver. Home and School Association Award for Achievement to Katherine Fanning, Sonia Ferreira, lauren Cunha, Patrick Mauretti, Simon Lopes. Hom~ and School Association Award for Scholarship to Gral:e Coelho and Caroline Almeida.

St. Anne Credit Union Citizenship Award to Sonia Ferreira. and Simon Lopes. Ernest J. Lavoie/ Roger Mercie~ Memorial $250 Scholarship to Brad Rodrigues, who WIll attend Bishop Connolly. Christian Living Awards to Brad Rodrigues, Joyce Botelho. Prindpal's Award to Bruno Bettencourt.

Albert J. and Irene L. St. Martin $250 Scholars:~ip to Grace Coelho. Art Award to Andrew Medeiros. Altar Boy Awards to Thomas .GartJache, Joseph Mac]lado, Andrew Medeiros.

President's Award for Educational Excellenc(: and President's Academic Effort Award to Grace Coelho Caroline Amaral, Katherine Fanning, Sonia Ferreira' Simon Lopes. '

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THE INVADING force landed at 10 a.m. They.were heavily armed and ready to do battle... .

No, it wasn't another D-Day re-enactment, but something akin to an army descended on Maplewood Park in Fall River recently. . . ~he 37 ~embers of the Connolly girls' varsity and JUnIor varsity soccer teams, led by coach Anthony Presto, arrived armed with shovels, rakes, wheelbarrows, paint brushes and theJike for their annual service project.

"Every year we do a community service project to get the kids together one last time before we break for the su,"?mer," said Presto. "It creates a lot of positive energy which we use to help other people." , The team. started these end-of-the-year projects four years ago WIth plans to do some work around Heritage State Park. .

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. STUiJENTSDF THE YEAR: Tops in their respective c:las~es at Coyle-Cassidy this year were (from left) sophomore Vanessa DeMarco,jreshman Melissa Chaves andjunior Mary Margaret Gibbons. With them is headmaster Michael Donly.

Bishop Stang High NORTH DART~OUTH - More than 40 speakers, many of them a~umni, participated in the school's semiannual Career Day last month.

Some 50 Stang students took part in the recent Walk for Hunger in Boston, which raises money for food pantries, soup kitchens and homeless shelters in the state.

Another walk-a-thon, which featured a hot dog lunch and zany sports events dubbed the "Animal Olympics," was held on school grounds, raising $8,000 for a concession stand for the new athletic field. The most popular Olympic event? The dunk tank, daringly occupied by· four eventually wet faculty members.

Derek Sousa, Kelly Wilbur and James Olden participated in the Massachusetts State Science 'Fair at MIT. Sousa earned second place standing, garnering a $6,000 .scholarship to the University of Lowell and a $100 cash award from the National Association of Corrosion Engi.neers. .Junior Danielle Charest will compete in the U.S. field hockey nationals at Wake Forest University, Wi.nstonSalem, NC, later this month. She is one of 25 young women selected from 300 candidates for the Eastregional team. All ofthe competitors will be vying for spots on the U.S. Juni.or .olympic field hockey team .

TAUNTON-Mathematics an'd computer science teacher Sister St. Paul Collard is among 15 partici',ants atte~ding a June 27 to July 29 seminar sponsored b'y the NatIOnal Endowment for the Humanities at Ohio State University in Columbus. Titled. "Great Theorems of Mathematics in Historical Context," the program will examine mathematical masterpieces spanning 2300 years and representing the works of such giants as E~lclid Archimedes, Newton and Eult:r. '

St. Mary-Sacred Heart NORTH ATTLEBORO -.: Eighteen eighth-gr~,ders graduated at June 13 ceremonies at Sacred Heart Church.

Mass was concelebrated by Sacred Heart pastor and school director Father Marcel Bouchard and former St. Mary's pastor Father Ralph 'Fetrault.

In the commencement address, Father Tetrault told students to "hold on tight" to all they have learned at ~MSH, for these lessons will serve them on their :life's Journey. .

The Presidential Academic Fitness Award for outstanding scholarship was presented to graduate Mar~:aret Taylor. Other awards went to student council memhers school volunteers and graduates who had attended SMSH since kindergarten.

Following the service, the seventh grade host(:d a reception on the churcH lawn.

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BRUSHiNG UP on her painting ski/ls~ Connolly soccer player Laura Craveiro helps spruce up Maplewood Park., .' . . ..... .. .

TOWSON, Md. (CNS) - When seniors at Towson Catholic l:Iigh School in the Baltimore archdiocese dressed up for their prom and' threw their graduation caps in the air, 17-year-old Nick Walters wasn't there.

The sellior was half a world away, trying to brighten . ' the lives of Russian orphans. .

Walters made the trip through the California-based Spirit of Hope International, which sent Clothes, toys, ..toiletries and schoolan4art supplies. .', But Walters had more to worry about than jet lag or losing his passport. 'Because he has diabetes he had to make sure he had extra insulin "in case it get~ stolen." . After he was diagnosed with diabetes when he was 10 .he ~rotea book about living with the condition. A cop; 'of It ended up in the hands of a Russian mother with a diabetic son. .'

Soon, the two were ·corresponding, and the woman t~ld him how few resources Russia had for dealing with dIabetes. Walters arranged for U.S. companies to send supplies to belp about 20 families. .

••. "It's all worthwhile," Walters said. "My parents raised me to do good - whenever .1 get a chance.'~ .'

ONE. TWO PUNCH: St. Mary-Sacred Heart School graduate (at right) Daniela Catanese. and. behind her. classmate Kelley Weeks. accept punch at a graduation reception hosted by seventh-graders. including Melissa Wright ( l e f t ) . , ' . '

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Ain't Got Nothing If You Ain't Got Love You ca.n live your life On the edge of your seat You can take your place Down on easy street Or just lose your mind Over tlhings only money can buy But it'!. a fact of life No matter what you do Every stake you claim Every dream come true Deep down these kinds of things Never satisfy Oh love is a precious thing Set you free and give your heart The wings to ny Love is the living dream Callin' your name Tellin' you something 'cause you Ain't got nothin' If you ain't got love Ain't got nothing If yOlll ain't got love You can conquer the world But it's never enough Because you ain't got nothing' If you ain't got love You un carry the name Acro!is the finish line You .:an sign your name In the sands of time But the fortune and fame, They're just things That you leave behind Well you think you've got the world In the palm of your hand But there's one thing missin' In your Promised Land It's a thing called love The one thing that your heart demands Oh love is the rhythm of life In your soul is where the secret lies When love is lookin' Through your eyes Every feelin' inside It's tellin' you something You can chase your dream Down the yellow-brick road Sail full steam Down the river of gold If you ever get it all You never get enough 'Cause you ain't got nothin' If you ain't got love Oh Nove is a precious thing Set you free and give your heart The wings to ny Call.in' your name, ooh Written by Michael Bolton/R.J. Lange. ~ung byjMichael Bolton (c) 1993 by Warner-Chappell MUSIC Ltd./Mr. Bolton's Music 1II1C. (BMI)/Zomba Enterprises Inc. (ASCAP) LISTENING TO Michael I was reminded of St. Paul's Bolton's new hit "Ain't Got famous words on love.

We often hear the passage Nothing If You Ain't Got Love,"

WASHINGTON (eNS) - Although the concept of teen chastity is starting to gain some momentum across the United States, a priest who promotes the "movement" refuses to call it new.

"It's not' new. It's been the church's tradition forever; we're just revitalizing it.," said Father 'L conard Wenke, director of the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry.

The youth fed(:ratio~, ~\1ich serves youtll ministry offlces,lI1 the United States reaching some 19,000 parishes and 10 million teenagers,

recently sent resource packets to all U.S. dioceses encouraging participation in the ecumenical campaign 'True Love Waits."

Tens of thousands of youths who have joined' the campa!gn have signed pledge cards yowll1g their sexual abstinence until marriage. . Father Wenke is not surprised, despite advertisements promoting "safe sex" and condom distribution in schools, that the concept of .teen abstinence is making a ~omeback. . , The federation's resource manual

from St. Paul's· letter to the Corinthians at weddings and other special occasions. Though, Bolton and St. Paul are separated by 20 centuries, their message is the same: No matter what else one attains'in life, only love offers last;ng meaning and worth.

Of course Bolten says all of this in a more up-to-date manner. For him, yuu "can carry the flame across the finish line," and you "can sign your name in the sands of time" even if"you've got the world in the palm of your hand."

Still, only love can "set you free and give your heart the wings to fly." It is good to be reminded ofthis truth. The next step is to translate it into action.

Without doubt, the best focus to start with is yourself.

At this level, love might best be applied as self-appreciation and self-respect. Unfortunately, many of us have learned to be critical of ourselves. We think that our worth depends on meeting some standard that seems always to be moving elusively upward. ' Sometimes a lack of selfappreciation comes from a fear of appearing conceited. However, self-love grows out of takingjoy in who we are and what we do, not in believing we are better than others.

Rather, it is a recognition of how God made each of us, with our own specific talents, interests and dreams. Truly happy people value· themselves ~nd their particular way of bell1g God's daughters or sons.

With this perspective, you should not evaluate yourself by some outward standard. You should understand that your GPA, number of athletic awards, how many people wanted you to be their prom date or any type of outward achievement does not determine your value as a person.

Self-loving people keep looking for avenues that express their unique style, that is, the ways they are most themselves.

When obstacles to this appear, as seems to happen to everyone occasionally, these people are patient and persistent in discovering new ways to manifest personal style. In fact, a selfloving person often enjoys the challenge that a setback or disappointment presents.

So, whether it be PauloI' the New Testament or Bolton of pop culture fame, the message about love remains significant.

Indeed, "you ain't got nothing if you ain't got love." Practice this truth today, starting by loving yourself.

Your comments are welcomed

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

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The Anchor Friday, June 24, 1994

By Tom Lennon In the long-ago days of the 1930s no one yet had invented the phrase "overprotective parents."

But that didn't keep some of us from feeling overprotected. " My widowed mother, who had a lot to worry about during the Great Depression, worried more, I think, about her three children than she did about where the money was coming from.

Curfews were fairly early and strictly enforced. She knew who our friends were, and if we were going out for the evening she asked where we were going and what we were going to do.

Then, as now, young people considered strict (i.e.) "overprotective") parents a great nuisance.

But in those days, since all authority was stronger and more rigid, there wasn't much an overprotected teenager could do about it ex.cept complain softly. And that I did.

What I griped about most often was the way Mom would always say as I went out the door, "~e careful, Tom." She would say thiS whether I was headed out for a Friday night football game or going to Sunday morning Mass at the church only one block away.

I came to hate that phrase, "Be carefuL" I would rage inwardly, and mutter something li~e, "Can't she see I'm grown up now? I can take care of myself! Why does she have to say that?" Then suddenly I was 28. One day I got in my car to drive to New York where I would board a plane to take me to Europe for a month's vacation. Mom stood in the driveway told me to have the gre~test vacation ever. Then came the mevitable afterthought, "and be careful." I smiled.

The years went slowly by, and in 1959 my mother died. As time went on I didn't avert to the fact that no longer was anyone urging me to be careful. Sometimes, one doesn't notice the silence of life.

MAR R I A G'E PREPARATION AT ITS BEST!

Let's "fast forward" to 1980, by which time my hair had grayed and I wasn't moving quite as fast as I used to. I was down in Cincinnati getting ready one evening to drive the 50 miles back to my home in Dayton.

At the seminary where I had spent the weekend visiting, an 18year-old student shook my hand, invited me to come back soon and then said, "Drive carefully, Tom," He knew how wild highway 1-75 can be.

As I proceeded down the long driveway and pulled out on Beechmont Avenue, I was startled to realize that somebody had just told me to be careful!

And far from being irritated by the admonition, I found myself liking it. Somebody was concerned.

Somebody cared about me. A warm feeling filled my heart, and I thought, "It's been a long, long time since anyone said that to me.

Maybe I've missed those words more than I ever realized'" Let's "fast forward" again to the present time. I live in a far different world than I ever knew. The nightly news tells of driv~-by killings, car-jackings, muggmgs and various other threats.

At the gym where I work out, I am just about to go out the door.

A disheveled young man approaches me. With his two days growth of beard, he looks as tough as nails.

He says: "Hey buddy, be careful.

It's dangerous out there'" And smiling, I say, as I never said to Mom, "I know. Thanks'"

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ST. BERNARD, ASSONET Continued from Page Eight They're pouring their livl:s out. It's munity will get used to them!"

Potluck supper welcoming new grounds and "get turned on to Christ working through that perDeacon' Muq1hy d~clared.

"Psypastor Father Timothy J. Goldrick 6 son," said Tricia. p.m. tomorrow, church hall; RSVP drugs and alcohol to not think chologists would say people so The team and inmate!: together badly damaged can't make proElaine Lucas, 644-2324 or Sue Nor- about what happened to them as a "admit we're sinners, have probchild," said Charyl. gress this way. But that's how God deste, 644-5867. lems and have made mistakes. But Mrs. Ryan recalled, a 17-year- manifests his power."

ST. STANISLAUS, FR our strength is Christ," she added.

Gina Garant,~a sophomore at old inmate telling her jail was the For Tricia, that strength and the Bishop Stang High School, North safest place he'd ever been.

Total Honesty support of REC valuntet:rs are all Dartmouth, is the recipient of the For team members, who begin Jean Drzal Women's Guild annual After a snack of cake and punch she has to go on. preparing eight weeks in advance, scholarship.

"I have no home to go to. I lost and some more singing, the hootit may seem a daunting task to everything," she said. "But the gift nanny closes with a receiving line: O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER break through the walls that surthe visitors, on their way out, I got of strength and inner peace Bereavement committee will sponround hardened hearts. sor Memorial Mass I p.m. tomorexchange greetings and hugs with helps me no matter wher,~ lam to "The hardest part," said Deacon row for persons who have lost loved -walk through it." the inmates and team.

Murphy, "is if you lose the strugones in the past year.

Where do they all come from, She noted that theacttlal hours gle. Some [inmates] are so broken SEPARATED/DIVORCED the team members, the veterans of . spent on REC over a three-day and beaten up that they're back to CATHOLICS, NB the palanca ar'my and the new vis~ period add up to about 24. no self-esteem again by the time Support group meeting with open they get out of jail." itors to the jail? "~ll this can happen in one discussion -7 to 9 p.m. June 27, Fam"I don't know," shrugs Deacon day!"

Hepworth added that "The seeds ily Life Center, N. Dartmouth, Deacon Murphy talks about that are planted on the weekend 'Murphy. "From God! For some ST. ANTHONY of the miracles, and with REC they come people, this has become their might not bloom right away," but DESERT, FR ministry." in many forms: the miracle of Exposition of Blessed Sacrament may be a resource for the particiFor Tricia and Charyl and othresurrected lives, the miracle of" pant in the future, even if REC's noon to 6 p.m. July 3 with holy hour ers like them, they are lifesavers. restored relationships, the: miracle organizers never know the results.

5 to 6 p.m., St. Sharbel Chapel. offorgiveness. "Recently I: saw the As team members share the trials "REC helps with the water and ST. THOMAS MORE, they've undergone in their own . detective who arrested me," Tricia , fertilizer, for completion in God's SOMERSET said. "And I said, hey-thanks for lives, inmates begin to open up time, not ours."

Family festival 6 to 10: 10 p.m. helping me change my life:!" and work out their problems.

The "We don't save them all, but we tonight; 9 a.m.to.1 0 p. m. tomorrow; atmosphere of acceptance and trust The miracles continue as with I to 4 p.m. Sunday. save· enough," said Deacon Murleads to "total honesty," said Dea- each REC, someone else discovers phy, whose numerous success stoSACRED HEART, that freedom is knowing He loves con Stanley.

N. ATTLEBORO / ries include that of a young man "All their cards are on the table. you.

Family picnic after 4 p.m. Mass who before REC seemed "destined tomorrow. to'spend his life in jail. He spent WIDOWED SUPPORT most. of his first REC in a corner, Cape Cod support group will meet he got so emotionally overwhelmI:30 to 3:30 p,m. Sunday, Christ the ed." Later, he became one of the King parish library, Mashpee. Inforprogram's biggest promoters, and 'mation: Dorothyann Callahan, 428"a few weeks ago he was married 7078. in a church wedding."

DES PLAINES, Ill. (CNS) take the project, although neither Charyl commented that guards Nuns at a Chicago-area nursing had any artistic background. wonder what happened when wohome literally took matters into "The architect said, 'Thi, is crymen who are dropped off for the their own hands when they dis- ing out for stained-glass windows,'" & retreat full of anger "come off it covered that stained-glass win~ she recalled, '" said, 'Oh, sure.'

Over 35 Years weeping." dows for their new chapel were "My sister said, 'Why don't you of Satisfied Service "It's emotional. But that's what cost-prohibitive. make them yourself?'" Sister TremReg. Master Plumber 7023 works," said Deacon Murphy.

Two Sisters of the Holy Family bczynski continued. '" said, JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR, When one inmate attends REC, . of Nazareth and a lay colleague 'Right.''' But her sibling persisted, others see a change in her, said enrolled in a course on stained and Sister Trembczynski asked 432 JEFFERSON STREET Tricia. They wonder, "why's she glass, As a result, 18 bright and Sister Kipa, director of the :~ome's Fall River 675-7496 smiling when her life's falling beautiful windows grace the chapel gift shop, to enroll with her in the apart?" of the Holy Family Health Center stained-glass course, Siste:: Kipa Sometimes that means being in Des Plaines. . also expressed reservatiom.. "She harassed for being a "holy roller."

"Not bad for rookies," said Sis- said, 'Are you crazy? I'm too old "New Englatld hospitality "But I'm proud of it," she said, ter Elizabeth Trembczynski, sur- for that,'" Sister Trembc,lynski with a European Flair' "No one's going to take it away." veying the windows she helped added .

One common theme, said Hepmake. "It's such an uplifting expeThey went ahead anyway. worth, is the healing of relationrience to look at them. You just Joined by Georgianna Gruskowships participants thought were want to sit here and meditate."

Bed & Breakfast ski, home'employee, they enrolled "impossible" to repair. And REC Sister Trembczynski, adminis- in a beginner's class at the Stained sends ripples to future generations: trator of the 280-residerit home, Glass Emporium in Skokie, Ill. if parents can change their lives, 495 West Falmouth Higbway and Siste'r Annella Kipa made the The three were assisted by the (Route 28A) POBox 895 "they can pass it on to their childwindows after completing five two- emporium's Roger and B,~verly West Falmouth, Ma,02514 ren, start to break that dysfunchour classes. The project took five Loevy. Loevy was drawing design 'tional chain," said Tricia. months of their time after work sketches for the windows, but durOpen year round "The miracles are so frequent and on weekends, The windows ing the project, he underwent a (508) ·540-n32 and dramatic I'm afraid the comwere created in a four-bed ward heart operation. converted into a work' room.

He told the women he'd' n:turn.

Despite some initial reluctance, "He sai'd, 'Don't worry. My work the two nuns determined to underisn't don~ yet,''' Sister Kipa !laid.

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