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Bishops speak on state's financIal crisis The four Roman Catholic Residential Bishops of Massachusetts have issued the following statement regarding the state fiscal crisis: In the past few months, the citizens of the commonwealth have' become aware that the state's fiscal condition has deteriorated to the point of crisis. The current situation reflects a financial problem that has moral dimensions as well.

We claim no special expertise in the complexities of public sector fiscal/budgetary management. H(}~ever, when )~~cisionsln th!Se areas threaten to undermine vital services provided to the poorest members of our society and to negate previous commitments, we feel compelled to voice our concern.

When the commonwealth makes program commitments to enhance the quality of life for the most vUlne~able persons ill 9ur society -,t~e poor, the homeless, the sick, ourc~i1drenandtl1,~:elderly - th!Se citizens have the right to presume that vital serviceswiJ) continue and commitments will be honored.

At the same time, the providers of health and human services have a right to expect the state to pay for services already~endered. Because of arrears in payments by the com",onwealth,mfl~Y',care provi~~I'~ find themselves in situations rflng.ng frompre~arious ' tOn~al:r' insolvency. ' .A significant segment of our population is dependent on the continuance of the existing human servic~ network. The consequences of

Cardinal Manning dies LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Irishborn Cardinal Timothy Manning, retired archbishop of Los Angeles, died June 23 at age 79 of spinal cancer.

The cardinal, known for advocacy on behalf of Hispanics and youth and his work opposing abortion, died following months of pain resulting from the cancer. On June 19 he suffered a stroke.

A funeral Mass took place yesterday at St. Vibiana's Cathedral in Los, Angeles.

During Cardinal Manning's 15year tenure as archbishop the Los Angeles see grew to be the largest archdiocese in the United States.

His death leaves 151 members of the College of Cardinals, plus one unknown cardinal appointed "in pectore." Of those, 116 are eligible to vote.

The cardinal had spent much of his retirement preaching and offering retreats throughout the nation.

Following his retirement in 1985, he lived in a one-bedroom cottage at Holy Family parish in a residential neighborhood of southPasadena, and grew close to many of his neighbors. As archbishop of Los Angeles, he had lived in a threeroom apartment in a priests' house in the Skid Row area of the city.

AtaJune23 press conference at St. Vibiana's Cathedral in Los

weakening or diminishing this network will affect.all our citizens for many years to come.

The need for long"rangefiscalp~anning for the future of the ~om­ monwealth has never been more apparent than at the present moment.

As critical as our current situation is, short-term solutions to these problems will be ineffective unless critical policy decisions take a long-term view and equitable and ,reliable financing mechanisms are established. ~l1ile the widely-feltresistanc~(totaxes tan~:e seen as ahelpflll ,incentive to appropriate efficiencie$ in the administration of government, it should not keep us from fulfilling our social responsibilities for the neediest among us.

We speak on behalf of the most vulnerable' members Qf our commtl~ity. All segments of our socie!ymust join tog~thertoprotec~!:»ur I~sfol'tunatesisters and brothers,~nd to insure the financial stability of health and human services providers. It is essential tbat in these critical times we do not diminish our 'commitment to the common good. +Bernard Cardinal Law .,+Most Reverend Timothy J. 41'.chbishop oj BO$ton (,e Jfarrington(( ,.,,:::::\.:,:: ')."-\ iillJshop oj HlQ'Cester +Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin +Most Reverend Joseph F. Maguire Bishop oj Fall River Bishop oj Springfield ..

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CARDINAL MANNING Angeles, Los Angeles Archbishop Roger M. Mahony compared the cardinal to the founder of many California missions, Father Junipero Serra. "Both were spiritual. giants," Archbishop Mahoney said.

He and two priest-friends were with Cardinal Manning when he died.

Pope John Paul II sent a telegram of condolences, saying Cardinal Manning had "left an indelible mark on the history of the ~hurch in California."

Cardinal Manning is survived by an older sister, Joan Cronin, and a niece, Breda Lucey, who both came from Ireland to be with him in his final days; The cardinal's last public appearancewas May21, when he preached at the annual archdiocesan celeTurn to Page Six

By Catholic News Service While China-watchers were assessing the impact on potential SinoVatican relations of the crackdown on China's pro-democracy movement, a Communist Party document surfaced calling for a crackdown on the pro-Vatican "underground" church.

Meanwhile, two Catholics one an American priest, the other a Hong Kong Chinese - gave eyewitness accounts of hope and horror among pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, ,the giant plaza in China's capital, Beijing.

Even before the early June move against pro-democracy demonstrators, the Chinese Communist Party called for an "attack" on activist pro-Vatican Chinese Catholics.

The call came in a new policy paper on Chinese-Vatican relations, "underground church forces," and· China's government-approved Catholic organizations, which have no formal ties to the Vatican, said Catholic sources in Hong Kong.

The sources, who declined to be named, said that, among other things, the focus of the paper, called Document No. 3 (89), is to "firmly attack the underground Catholic forces."

The paper, issued by the Chinese Communist Party's- central committee general office Feb. 17, was said to be based on a report titled "Strengthening the Work on the Catholic Church in the Present Situation." The report was pre-

pared by the party's United Front Work Department and the government Religious Affairs Bureau in December. A copy was later obtained by church sources.

The Hong Kong sources said the Communist Party paper reiterates its position on restoring ties with the Vatican: The Vatican must

first break its ties with Taiwan and agree not to interfere in China's internal and religious affairs.

The conditions appear to mean, in part, accepting the election of bishops within the Chinese church.

The sources also-said the document asks concerned parties to Turn to Page Six

CHINA'S FUTURE will soon be in the hands of children like these being pushed across a Beijing street in a far-fromfancy stroller. The part of the Vatican in that future remains problematical. (CNS photo)

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Stress relief series set The Diocesan Office of Family Ministry will sponsor a 4-session series of workshops on stress relief from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Mondays July 31 and Aug. 7, 14and 21.

Presented by Dorothy J. Levesque, director of ministry with separated / divorced/ remarried/ widowed persons in the Providence diocese, the sessions will be held at the diocesan Family Life Center, ' 500 Slocum Road, North Dartmouth.

Organizers note that stress relief participants need not belong to one of the above categories to be eligible for the program. It is also geared, for instance, to those changing or losing jobs or experiencing any kind of health or family problems.

Signs of stress are listed as including "confusion, feeling overwhelmed, finding too many things happening at once, wishing for more time or help, having no time for relaxation or feeling depressed or in a rut."

Topics to be addressed by Ms. Levesque will be the negative and positive effects of stress; sources of stress; gaining perspective¡ on it; and finding ways in which it can be harnessed towards developing a more fulfilling life.

Further information on the series is available from the Family Life Center or by calling 999-6420.

CRA makes video on medical ethics ST. LOUIS (NC) - The' St. Louis-based Catholic Health Association has made a videotape on complex medica~ care decisions at life's end.

The 39-minute video, "Treatment Decisions at the End of Life," deals with such issues as withdrawing medical treatment, hospital ethics committees, the controversy over nutrition and hydration, the need for adequate pain relief, hospice philosophy, euthanasia, and use of advance planning to help medical facilities and individuals avoid problems associated with last-minute decisions.

In its conclusion, the video urges health facilities to establish policies and encourages individuals to make their wishes known ahead of possible need.

The video features four patients - two infants, a young man with , muscular dystrophy and an elderly man - and the decisions made by their families and caregivers.

It also includes comments from persons involved in medical, philosophical, theological and legal aspects of such cases.

Included are Dominican Father Kevin D. O'Rourke, director of the Center for Health Care Ethics, St. Louis University Medical Center; Lisa Sowle Cahill, associate professor of Christian ethics at Boston College; Jesuit Father Richard A. McCormick, professor of Christian ethics at the University ,of Notre Dame; and Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino, medical professor and director ofthe Kennedy Center for Bioethics, Georgetown University.

The videotape is abailable from the Catholic Health Association, 4455 Woodson Rd., St. Louis, Mo. 63134.

THE CATHOLIC Memorial Home, Fall River, will celebrate 50 years of service to the infirmelderly during the week of Sept. 17 through 23. The home was actually dedicated 50 years ago tomorrow by Bishop James E. Cassidy "to all, from the smallest to the greatest~ who have participated in this work of charity." The a~tual celebration has been postponed to September due to the concurrence ofthe Fourth of July weekend.

Sister M. Shawn Bernadette Flynn, a.Carm., Memorial Home administrator, said a jubilee committee is making arrangements for the observance.

She added, "It is hard to imagine how many elderly men and women have passed through the open doors of Catholic Memorial Home. It is easier to imagine how these elderly residents have received much spiritual nourishment and loving care. All those who have been invl)lved in one way or another can be proud of what Catholic Memorial Home has done for the diocese of Fall River."

Pope asks Lebanon peace VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope Cardinal John J. O'Connor of John Paul II met with the Maro. New York, who visited Lebanon nite bishops of Lebanon and again in late May, said during his trip he called for peace and an end to that had not seen the pope so agonized country's "destruction." over a situation as he ws over The pope repeated recent calls Lebanon. The cardinal met with for an end to outside intervention the pope just before going to the in the war-torn country. country and briefed the pontiffthe The pope spoke with the Maro- day after he left. nite bishops, including Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah P. Sfeir, June 24 following their "ad limina" visits to Rome. Such visits allow each a~d head of a diocese to meet privately v ATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope with the pope. ' John Paul II h!ls praised Costa In his talk, the pope mixed praise for the Lebanese Eastern- Rica for ,helping "to mitigate the rite church and its people with suffering" of refugees fleeing civil expressions of concern for the on- wars in neighboring Central Amergoing violence dividing the country. ican countries, The pope repeatedly saluted the "How can I not remember the "courage" and the "spirit of faith" numerous refugees, who seek in that he said characterized the Mar- Costa Rica the .security denied onite church. them in their coulltry?" he asked "I hope that all of you work with six Costa Rican bishops visiting courage and perseverance for peace the Vatican. and the good of your country, The pope criticized "the painful without ever losing hope," he told ,situation of suffering and uncerthem. tainty in which many Central The pope said the church was a American people and families find "precious plant on the vine of the themselves."

Christian East, loved by the Lord The bishops received papal supand respected by all." port for'their efforts "to mitigate He called the high number of the suffering of those Central Amervocations a "positive sign" and ican brothers, victims of the conencouraged efforts in youth form- flicts which torment the region." ation.

Costa Rica has had 40 years of The duty of the Maronite bishops is to "encourage and sustain the continuous democratic rule, curfaithful of your church and all rently the region's longest history of elected civilian governments, your compatriots of good will," and has no army. It has received the pope told them.

In particular he urged Lebanese thousands of refugees from neigh"to conquer the temptation to hate, boring strife-torn countries, especially Nicaragua and EI Salvador. to vengeance and reprisals."

The Maronites do not see the Costa Rican President Oscar conflict as religious in nature, he . Arias Sanchez has been instrumensaid. . tal in trying to forge a regional The pope cited "armed interven- political solution to end the differtion" by non-Lebanese forces as ent conflicts. worsening the situation. He called The bishops also were encouron other countries in the region aged to promote religious educa'and the international community tion programs to combat the evan"to act concretely to put an end to gelization activities of non-Catholic this process of destruction and to sects. aid faithfully Lebanese of good More than 88 percent of the 2.7 will to renew the dialogue in order to reestablish the free functioning million population of Costa Rica professes Catholicism. of the institutions of state."

Costa Rica praised for ,refugee

NEW YORK (CNS) - A reporter's story and subsequent work to help financially strapped aging religious were cited by President Bush as an example of going beyond "professional ~bligations" to embrace the "old-fashioned tradition" of public service.

The president spoke at a dinner in New York celebrating the IOOth anniversary of The Wall Street Journal.

John Fialka, a Catholic, wrote a front-page story in the Journal three years ago detailing the financial burdens facing elderly religious and the orders trying to care for them.

His article included the story of a New York community too poor to pay funeral home bills.

President Bush said the article "provoked a swell of readership response. And so John and others at the Journal founded SOAR Support Our Aging Religious and raised more than $1 million to aid 30 different orders."

Rita Hofbauer, executive director of SOAR's national office near Washington, told Catholic News Service June 23 that the organization had disbursed $326,000 to 30 orders in its first two years. Another $300,000 is expected to be distributed in 1989, she said.

The $1 million cited by Bush includes a grant.being released to SOAR over the next few years, Ms. Hofbauer said.

She said two recent requests from women religious are "particularly immediate."

One order wrote seeking $13,000' from SOAR because insurance regulations require it to move three bedridden sisters out of their con. vent and into a licensed infirmary or long-term care facility.

The sisters have found another order whose infirmary meets the requirement, but the cost of care will increase $25 per day per sister and it will be six months before Medicaid is available to them, Ms. Hofbauer said.

Another order wrote that during an inspection after a fire in their chapel, the fire marshal listed several major building code violations in the convent that they must correct or vacate the building.

Among those helped by SOAR was a group of sisters in Puerto Rico who needed water nearby, Ms. Hofbauer said. The nuns, who are in their 80s, were being cared for by women in their 70s, who had to walk miles a day for fresh water.

"These are touching stories that make you glad you can raise money," she said.

The work of Fialkaand other

reporters who go beyond writing about human problems to helping alleviate them are "personal gestures, profound actions, sometimes life-changing in their effect," Bush 'said.

"These are the works of men and women who know that prosperity without purpose means nothing;" the president said.

Assault gun ban legislation backed WASHINGTON (NC) - Citing church interest in "upholding the value of human life," the U.S. Catholic Conference supports legislation to ban assault guns, such as the AK-47 assault rifle.

"The Catholic Church is deeply committed to upholding the value of human life and opposing those forces which threaten it," said John L. Carr, secretary for social development and world peace of the USCC. Carr commented in a letter of support to Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D.Ohio, sponsor of the legislation, S.386, the Assault Weapon Control Act of 1989. . Carr told Metzenbaum that the USCC has previously stated that "in most of our cities and rural areas, purchasing a weapon is as easy as buying a camera."

"I recognize that the Assault Weapons Control Act of 1989 will not eliminate gun violence, but I believe it is an important contribution," Carr said.

In introducing his legislation, Metzenbaum said the bill would ban "importation and sale of new semiautomatic assault weapons," such as the one used to kill children at a Stockton,- Calif., school in January.

The senator said his bill would: - Require registration ofassault weapons lawfully possessed prior to the date the bill is effective.

- Require buyer background checks before any existing, lawfully possessed assault weapon can be transferred or sold.

- Require a prospective buyer to submit an application, photograph and fingerprints to the federal government and get a signed certificate-from a police chief, county sheriff, or other local law enforcement official.

"This bill does not in any way limit the ability to p'urchase a legitimate hunting rifle or handgun," Metzenbaum said.

He said the gun used in Stockton could fire more than 100 rounds of ammunition in less than two minutes and that an Uzi, another assault weapon, can fire 30 rounds in five seconds.

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The Anchor Friday, June 30, 1989 The Mass of· Christian Burial was celebrated at 10 this morning in Sacred Heart Church, Fall River, · for Sister Eileen Giblin; SUSC, 80. · She served in parish ministry at'St. Francis de Sales parish, Patchogue, I Long Island; N. Y" where she died · June 26.

Born in F!lll River, she was the' daughter of 'the late William and Mary (Lyons) Giblin. She ~ttended Sacred Heahs Academy in Fall River, then studied at Fitchburg State Teachers' College before entering the Holy Union community in 1926. As a member of the congregation she completed, u?dergraduate studies at St. John's University in New York, earned a

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certificate in theology trom Provi-' dence eollege and a master's degree in' 'religious ed,!cation' from' St. 'MiChael'~ College,:Winooski, VT. Early in her religious life, Sister Giblin taught elementary grades at St.' Edward School, Baltimore. In 1945 she was named principal of St~ Francis de Sales School in Patchogue and later was principal at Holy Union-staffed schools in New York and Baltimore and at Immaculate Conception School, Taunton.

From 1958 to 1965, she was provincial of the Fall'River Holy Union Province. She led the,congregation during the years of building the Prospect Place convent in Fall River, now a home for infirm and retired sisters. ' , From 1970 until her death this week, Sister Giblin served in Patchogue, where her associates said she derived great satisfaction from pastoral activities including visiting nursing homes and hospitals, organizing a soup kitchen and collecting clothing for the needy.

Though she enjoyed visiting relatives_ and friends in Fall River, associates here said she was always eager to return to her work in Patchogue.

Sister Giblin is survived by a sister, Mrs. William A. Torphy of Fall River; a brother, James Giblin, of New Bedford; and several nieces and nephews..

Dial-a-porn ban overturned WASHINGTON (CNS) - The'tected speech," so it too should be U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 23 excluded as a legal standard. that Congress cannot ban adult Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a access to "dial-a-porn':" that is separate opinion, concurring with . "indece~t" but not "~bscene." the majorityopini<:lU but. noting The hIgh court dechned to define that it included a "value judgment" where indecency crosses over into by the court as to the effectiveness obscenity in the billion-~o~lar in- of the technological barriers to the dustry of sexually exphclt tele- access of children to dial-a-porn. phone messages.

The U.S. Catholic Conference, Existing technology that screens in a friend-of-the-court brief filed calls, scrambles messages and re- when the court took arguments in quires advance identification or the case, had said that "children's credit card payment appears to be access to dial-a-porn has continued sufficient to protect children from ,unabated since 1983" when such access to "dial-a-porn" operations, messages first became available. the court said.

Scalia argued that the court The 1988 Child Protection and could possibly have decided that Obscenity Enforcement Act, de--. current protections for minors clared it a crime to use telephone against dial-a-porn were inadefacilities to offer "obscene" or "in- quate, and he suggested that future decent" messages to anyone, re- court decisions in the same area gardless of age. might well rest on how "obscene" The law was never enforced be- and "indecent" are defined in cause U.S. District Judge A. Wal- practice. lace Tashima in Los Angeles issued In footnotes to its ruling, the an injunction against it on grounds high court in(licated the extent of that indecent sexual talk among the dilil-a-porn industry in the adults was constitutionally pro- United States.

"The dial-a-porn service in New tected free speech.

The Supreme Court's ~ine jus- York City alone received 6 (miltices agreed unanimously with lion) to 7 million calls a month for Tashima's rejection of the inde- the six-month period ending in cency rule. "Sexual expression April of 1985," it said in one note. which is indecent but not obscene In another note it commented is protected by the First Amend- that the typical prerecorded sex ment," Justice Byron R. White message, lasting from 30 seconds .' wrote for the court majority. to two minutes, "may be called by Justice William J. Brennan ar- up to 50,000 people hourly through gued that "the concept of'obscenity' a single telephone number." cannot be defined with sufficient specificity and clarity ... to preGALLERY HOURS vent substantial erosion of pro-

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ported that Auxiliary Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez of San Salvadorsaid he did riofbelieve robbery was the motive in the attack.

But Sister Corona Farrell, assistant general·superiOl: pf the Houston order, said she could not comment on his statements "to ensure the safety of our nuns.~' She said the order stood by the position that the attack was a robbery attempt and was not politically motivated.

Sister Mackey was wounded shortly before 8 p.m. June 21 as she traveled in a car with two nuns from a San Salvad'or 'bank to Zaragoza, 10 miles to the south.

She was returning to the Oscar Arnulfo Romero Community, an orphanage where she is a nurse and supervisor. The community is named after the Salvadoran archbishop murdered in March 1980.

A yellow pickup truck carrying five young men pulled up next to them, and one of the men shot at the car, instantly wounding the elderly nun in the left eye. The pickup truck fled the scene and the nuns rushed Sister Mackey to the hospital. .

The other nuns in the car, Sister Ann Mary Br:angan and Sister Juana Margarita, told Sister Farrell that it appeared the men wanted to scare them with the gunshot, rather than hurt them.

"They just feel it was an attempted robbery," Sister Farrell, said. _"Tltey had just cashed some checks,"· It was the first attack on American nuns iil EI Salvador since Dec. 2 1980, when Salvadoran guardsmen assassinated three American nuns and a lay worker.

WASHINGTON (CNS) A called to'check on the condition of 72-year-old nun wounded in what the nun, called an "angel of mercy" appeared to be an attempted robb- by newsman Dan Rather in a teleery June 21 near San Salvador, El. vision broadcast several years ago Salvador, is recuperating in a Hou- on her work with a Salvadoran ston hospital. orphanage.

Sister Stanislaus "Stan" Mackey, Meanwhile, Salvadoran goyerna member of the Houston-based ment .and U.S. Embassy officials Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate in the country said, they were tryWord, was listed in guarded but ing to determine the motive for the stable condition June 26 at St. shooting and to capture Sister Joseph's .Hospital in Houstein,' said , Mackey~s assailants. , hospital spokeswoman Elle~ DurcUnited press International rekel.The Irish~born nun; a naturalized American citizen, was brought to the hospital from EISalvador June 23.

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.the moorin~ A Tottering System Many history students sit in classrooms but never really learn much. Thus, American astonishment at the current upheavals in various Communist states is not surprising. From China to 'Czechoslovakia, Russia to Romania, East Genitany to North Korea, the fabric of the Marxist ideal is unraveling.

What many fail to realize is that such events were destined to happen as soon as force became the catalyst.of philosophical intent. Communism per se is an effective ideology and this fact should never be' overlooked. .

However, as a relevant factor in truly organizing society, it is of its nature impotent. Once a philosophy attempts to enforce its tenets at gunpoint, it is doomed. ' It may take some time for the cracks to appear in what inight seem an invulnerable iron curtain but self-destru,ction is inevitable. Yet despite the internal trouble of the Communist world, it would be premature to write it off.

Communism is far from dead, it is simply moving into a new phase of adjustment and arrangement. This in fact is the real meaning of"perestroika": the philosophy is of necessity emerging and redefining itself.

For the pastdecade Communism has been severely mangled by capitalism, not so much from the American brand of democracy but rather from European and Canadian socialism.

Change_has become a necessity, not a choice. Right now this change is a controlled process, as it must be in a Communist state. This is the immediate difference between Gorbachev and Deng Xiaoping.

The former has recognized that if the party did not guide the process of change, it might lose everything. The latter has failed to acknowled·ge the need of change and has resorted to tanks and police brutality. In the long run, China will pay the price for its refusal to cOme to grips with reality.

Marx and Lenin could never have imagined the events of our time. In fact, the success of the Russian and Chinese _revolutions did not result, as Marx had wished, in the gradual disappearance of the s~ate. Instead a clumsy and feeble superbureaucracy rose up to interfere with all of life, stifling initiative and defusing talent.

The rulers of Russia became mere inept successors to the czars and Mao Tse-tung became but another Chinese emperor.

The people lost out. Now they want in.

In this very unstable world, we cannot predict tomorrow's news. However, we can say that Russia, China and the Communist world in general will never be the same again. It is simply impossible to return to the days when the party was the sole guide of living. There is very little support for governments that encourage self-perpetuating leadership, forbid economic competition and discourage creativity.

It must be confessed that it is ajoy to see Communism forced to transform itself due to such capitalistic concepts as suppressed inflation, balance of payments and hidden unemployment. Add to this the influence of radio, television, computer networks and now fax machines. Communist nations must compete in a high-tech, highly ,educated world in which it is more and more difficult to control the so':'called masses.

It seems that we are witnessing a global revolution which will in one way or another affect every nation in the world.

It may take years to determine the end results, but we can be sure that we are witnessing history in the making and that it will have profound implications for the world family as it enters the 21st century. .

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I . ThiS tic 0 lers an InSpIrIng pat 0 splrwould recognize both the evil and H I' d . h . I' ltua Ity. e Ive at a time w en the good withinlus. Sometimes we language was very. st~rk and when choose to igno~e the evil and see people lacked th 7Insights of!'D~d- only the good, projecting our evil ern psychologists concerning onto others wllile sometimes we a . ' d' d I growth . He believed that life was .

Ignore our goo an see on your I journey and that only two thIngs eVI'1' aspect. ." . were necessary for the journey: S· I d . d b ..

Ince peop e ten to JU ge us y humlhty and brot.herly love. . . the good or evil they perceive in us, . He notes two kInds of humlhty: it is not surpri~ing that we often Imperfect and perfect. Imperfect. become great pretenders.

Ideally~perfebt humility should humility flows from our knowledge of our wounded human help us confroht our pain selfnature, a given because of original doubt mistakd and failure~ emsin. brace 'our crosS and turn t~ the He assures us that the desire for Lord. for acceptance, forgiveness and tendency toward sin will re- and healing.

I main in our hearts despite our best Too often however when con' wounded human efforts to strive for perfection; but fronted with, ourI on an .upbeat. note he counse~s: nature we quit $triving for perfec"Expenence Will teach you that In tion and instead accumulate matethis life there is no absolute secur- riafobjects to give us a false sense' ity or lasting peace. But never give of s'~curity or try to gratify our up and do not become overly anx- sexual nature to give us a false ious about falling." sense of intimaty or turn to alcoPerfect humility is much more hoi or drugs to give us a false sense' difficult to achieve and flows from of well-being. I .

While such bbhavior is very hua personal experience of God's unconditional love. The surprising man and underStandable it is also good news is that God loves usjust a clear i'ndicatior that we ·have the way we are! become discour~ged and are strayMost people go -through life ing from our johrney. . J. Harrmgton .

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I ur' great monastic spmtua fathers put much emphasis upon brotherly love. The unconditional love that we experience in a good friendship can be a foretaste of the unconditional love that we are promised in heaven. .

The monks took senously Paul's d ec Iafat'Ion.. "F or th ose wh 0 Iove G 0 d a II thOIngs wor k un t 0 goo d ...

Their journey involved an unceasing commitment to a way of life. . ..

There IS an old LatIn saYIng, "N d d h b .. h' h . emo atquo non a et, ,w IC .

Simply means that you can t give what you don't possess ....

The mon~~tIc emphaSIS upon p.erfe~t huml~lty as ~ way.of expene~cIng God s I~ve IS theIr war of sayIng that until we truly believe that God love~ us not for what we have a~comphshed but be~ause we are HIS children, we will never make .the effort to extend ourselves In love of one another.

A ny attempt to I ove ' Wit h out humi.li~y will ~Iway~ be tie~ to conditions. 'LOVIng Without stnngs attached to tbe gift of ourselves is t~e ,Ultimate ~hallenge of every diSCiple of Chnst.

To the author of "The Cloud of Unknowing," true friendship is worth the hurts, mistakes and betrayals that befall a disciple in the course of his journey. He likens the growing intimacy with God achieved in prayer to, the joy of being loVed by a true friend.

Layoff the nun's!

A Denver artist has found success and money making nun pinatas. What's that, you ask? A -pinata is a Mexican hanging toy which is filled with candies.

Children are blindfolded and given sticks to beat the pinata until it breaks and releases the sweets.

Poaching on this custom, artist Sue Knospe listened to her Catholic friends' horror stories of mean first-grade nuns and came up with a product.

To add to the bad taste of this "art," Knospe names them Sister Mary Magpie, Sister Mary Elephant, and the Blue Nun. They range in price from $35 to $55.

And who is buying them? Catholics, of course. According to a newspaper article, it's quick primal therapy for lapsed Catholics.

But apparently lapsed Catholics aren't the sole buyers. Knospe had an order for twenty-five pinatas for an archdiocesan party (add it up; 25 at $35 each!) but when the order was publicized in a newspaper, the order was cancelled in embarrassment.

Isn't it time we grew up and stopped blaming nuns for all our neuroses? We've had enough of Sister Mary Misfit and Mother Mary Masochist. Just as we blame mothers in our culture for our personal inadequacies, we find it in-

I have sent a copy of YO~Jr column to Cardinal Ratzinger.

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A. Many parents have written or phoned me since thatcolumn, thanking me for the help it was to them as good CatJiolic~ in attempting to deal with. an extremely complicated and painful family situation.

You are asking ·me to answer.-a question .that was not asked. The parent who wrote knew very well the situation was morally wrong; I agreed with, her.

She wanted to know not whether the couple should be doing it or not, but rather how do good parents handle the situation with charity and fidelity to what they believe, and with honesty to everyone involved.

This obviously was also the con~ern of the hundreds of parents who wrote to me, and whose responses I attempted to summarize. ' You apparently had yciur own

way of dealing with the problem.

Other parents have different methods and follow them without Clenying or watering down their convictions as to the moral character of what their children are doing.

The parents who approached the situation more tenderly and patiently than it seems you did are not morally corrupt, and it is wrong and rash for you to imply that they are.

The fact that many of their children are now in good Catholic marriages and raising good Catholic families says a lot for the validity and goodness of their methods.

I am sure that if Cardinal Ratzinger has any further suggestions for dealing with this kind of dilemma, which so tests their wisdom and courage, these parents will be happy to receive them. ,Q. With the summer months

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Queen oJCarmet Mother God and oj poor Sinners, special protectress oj all who wear your holy scapu-, lar, I beseech you to obtain Jor me pardon oj my sins, amendment oj my life, sal-, va#on ojmy soul, consola- ' tion in mypains and in particular the grace I now ask, provided it be the will oj your Son. A men.

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convenient to blame nuns for our DOLORES· spiritual and other inadequacies.

I'm not a nun but I am a mother.

Like other mothers. I accept re- CURRAN sponsibility for turning out good kids. But if, at 40, one decides to run off to the South Seas and live a dissolute life, I'll be darned if I'm going to scourge myself. I did the But it isn't posh at cocktail parbest I could with what God sent ties to talk about those nuns who' me. And the same goes for nuns. instilled in us a sense of faith, conIt seems' we live in a church fidence, and self-esteem. It's more which finds it acceptable to deride fun to bash those who terrorized nuns but disrespectful to deride us. clergy, bishops, or curia.

I didn't attend parochial school Indeed, there's an infuriating but we had a razor strap in full immaturity that· comes through view in our classroom and the when clergy talk about nuns. I've teacher used it. Yet I don't hear sat in on groups of clergy where 'non-parochial educated adults rant I'm the only woman present and on about how cruel our teachers their attitude toward nuns resem- were. It seems to be a Catholic bles junior high boys talking about indulgence. The rest of us grew up Mom. She's mean, old, authoritar- without blaming our teachers for ian, unforgivable and naive. But, using what were thought to be then, what can you do? She's Mom. .proper methods at the time.

I suggest that as mature laity we ' I'm sure some Catholics will get call a moratorium on nun-bashing. a kick out of bashing a nun pinata.

As tempting as it is to recall Sister I wonder how many would get the· Sadistica, we need also to honor same kick out of bashing a priest, Sister Sympatica who listened to bishop or pope pinata. I suspect our problems and gave us encour- there would be an outcry. agement to forge ahead at a time And I wonder how we laity we needed it. would react if an order of nuns Or Si~ter Demanda who recog- bashed lay pinatas at a Christmas nized our talents and refused to let party. "Now let's hit the president us be mediocre. Or Sister Merry of the Altar Society." Smash. whose very bearing told us that Smash. Laugh. Laugh. "Now the sacred doesn't necessarily mean Grand Knight." Smash, laugh. grim.

It makes you think.

A reader objects Q. I am a regular reader of your column and a disgruntled Catholic.

With responses such as the one you set forth In your column dealing with live-in sin and immorality, it is no wonder that the youth of our country have lost all sense of sin. You almost condone the immorality of cohabitation outside of marriage.

It is priests like you who are diluting the meaning of the priesthood. I have had experience of a couple living together, but I did not water down the morality of the church to please the sinners.

It's about time .priests started preaching the moral principles and' teaching ofthe church for a change, and stop promoting all the crackpot teaching of post-Vatican II theologians. It's high time you priests in the modern church got with it. .',

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By FATHER JOHN DIETZEN

here, my husband and I will be attending outdoor Masses at our parish. We were under the impression that these Masses qualified for our Sunday obligation. However, a parish priest says that in order for the Mass to meet our obligation it must be celebrated in a church•. .What is the church's regulation on this? (Delaware) A. Former church law contained some restrictions about where one could fulfill the obligation to share in the Sunday eucharistic celebra~ tion. These -restrictions no longer apply.

Now the precept ofparticip~t­ ing in the Mass is fulfillea anywhere the Mass is celebrated in a Catholic rite, regardles~ of piace.

The sam~ applies ,to holy days of obligation (Canop 1248). ,; . . ,A free brochure, "Infant Baptism: 'Catholic 'practi~e Today," Is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address.

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Fighting against drugs

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK

"It's like slavery. Everything you do is for the drug. The drug is'your god. It's like the cardinal said, it is like being in bondage."

Those are the words of a former drug addict who at one time was spending $200 to $1,000 per day on alcohol, heroin and cocaine.

The cardinal he spoke of is Cardinal James Hickey of Washington who has launched a five-part plan to fight the "new slavery" of drug and alcohol abuse.

In its first part, the cardinal asks all in the archdiocese to pray regularly for those struggling with substance abuse.

"Homilies," he says, "should present for us the realities of substance abuse; ... No parish should be under the illusion that this problem is not touching our family of faith."

He points out that "denial is one of the ways we participate in the crisis."

The. second. part ot the plan involves development of educational programs from kindergarten to ad ult levels.

The cardinal reminds parents that they are role models and that "the best educational programs will be only minimally effective if 'they are not supported' by word and example at home.".

The third part of the plan urges church leaders to make parish facilities available to self-help groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous "to help people find effec-

tive, accessible treatment when they need it."

In the final section of the plan, he writes, "We are citizens as well as believers and we need·to take an active role in shaping policies designed to respond effectively to this crisis." , The .cardinal says, "We -must confront the indifference, cynicism and even racism which imply that as long as the most brutal aspects of this crisis are confined to a few neighborhoods, it does not touch us or merit our active participation." .

It is this last statement which makes me feel that the archdiocese of Washington will succeed. It indicates that no one is exempt from the effort to fight drugs and addresses an attitude of smugness about the problem. , It speaks to those who would' say that minorities are the problem and to those who feel society doesn't hllve a chance against drugs suggests that such an attitude is part of the problem.

It calls for an all-out war, positive thinking and realization that we are all in the fight together.

Cardinal Hickey's plan addresses human nature, which at times has a tendency to avoid and deny difficult and overwhelming problems.

It calls upon people to get involved.

Diocesan offices and parishes would profit by getting a copy of this' program and using it as a resource for drawing up their own battle plan against drugs.

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Continued from Page One monitor development ofthe "underground Catholic forces" and proposes "isolating a small number and attacking the individual reactionaries."

"Individual clerics in the underground who stubbornly persist in their attitude, get involved in antagonistic activities, instigate'disturbances among the faithful and destroy public,order must be severely punished according to the law," the document was quoted as saying.

According!o the sources, "underground Catholic forces" are defined in the document as those bishops secretly appointed by the pope, priests ordained by them, and Catholics under their direction.

The party paper was distributed among officials at provincial and military levels, said the sources, who said their information came from local Catholics in northern China.

Anthony Liu Bainian, an official ofthe state-sanctioned Catholic Church, confirmed the document's existence June 19.

The bishops of the approved church support it, he said.

China-watchers in Hong Kong, meanwhile, said the massacre of freedom demonstrators'and ,Pope John Paul II's call on China's leaders to respect human rights would not have a long-term, direct effect on m'ovement toward restoring relations between the,Vatican and China. ,.'" , '" ' t . Pope}Qhn Paul II on June 17 urged China's leaders to respect ''truth,justice ~nd freedom."· . , The Vatican "and tile People's " Republic of China have rep'ortedly , reached the !ltage of negotiating' conditions for resuming diplomatic . links.

One ob'server, Father Anthony" Chang Sang-loy, said hedO'es'notthink the ',student-led pro-democracy movement or papal concern over the bloody' crackdown have any direct impact with China-Vati-' can relations. , Father Chang, editorial adviser of Yi-China: Message magazine, which reports on the church in' China, suggested that a 1988 directive to the world's Catholic bishops on dealing with China's government-appro~ed Catholic Church, whicn is independent of the Vatican, is a more far-reaching issue.

The directive was issued in September 1988 by Cardinal Josef Tomko, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Evangeliza- , ,tion of Peoples. .It warned the bishops to take care in relations with officials of the governmentsanctioned church. It said that the fact the church elects bishops without Vatican approval is a grave matter.

Father Chang said improvement of Vatican-China relations cannot be expected in the near future.

A senior Hong Kong diocesan priest said he is worried that the Beijing killings will have a shortterm adverse effect on relations.

He said he is also worried that Be~jing authorities might place the Vatican in an embarrassing position by proposing formal ties now in order to counteract worldwide condemnation of the bloodshed.

The priest said he is also worried about a tightening of Chinese government control over the "underground church," which is loyal to the Vatican.

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He cited a police raid on a village oflmderground Catholics last April as indicating a trend toward repression.

A Catholic worker ,from Hong Kong, employed in Beijing, saw the suppression of pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square.

He told of watching from his hotel room as troops gunned down demonstrators or rolled over them in tanks runnning at high speed.

He said he felt the demonstrators should have left the square by their original May 30 deadline.

"It wouldn't have given Chinese authorities an excuse to send troops into the square," he explained.

Back in the United States from a China journey, Oblate Father John J. Hurley said the Tiananmen demonstrators had been confident they were safe from danger.

"There was a carnival atmosphere among the university students," he said in a recent interview.

It was "awesome to look out over 1 million people," he said, adding that "no one believed that the soldiers would attack."

t~i' CHILDREN at a preschool operated by the Shanghai diocese of the government-approved C,atholicchurch. (CNS photo)

Sorrow, hope UPPSALA, Sweden (CNS)During Pope John Paul II's first Mass in Sweden, two Lutheran bishops stood in the line of people receiving communion. But when they reached the pope, instead of receiving communion, they placed their right arms across their chests and asked for his blessing. In giving it, the pope participated in a symbolic act used since 1983 in Sweden to denote the inability of Catholics and Lutherans to take communion from a minister ofthe other religion. The right arm across the chest, right hand resting against the left shoulder, signifies sorrow.

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Cardinal Mannin~ dies Continued from Page One bration of "Mary's Hour" at an open-air theater in Hollywood.

Later, in what he correctly predicted would be his last homily, Cardinal Mannning offered a meditation on the priesthood and a personal tribute to a close friend.

The homily, written fr'om his hospital'bed, was read at the June 9 silver jubilee of Msgr. Clement Cbnnolly, Cardinal Manning's secretary for 20 years. At the cardinal's request; the h~inil}" was delivered by his physician, Dr. Brian Henderson, a cancer specialist at the Uriiversity of SOI,iihernCalifornia:>s' Norris Cancer Center.

The 'cardinal said in tlie honiil y' that he an<l: his secretary-had experienced "times of emotional stress, problems without solutions, angry' protests beneath our windows; agonizing disappointments, family distresses - these were the stuff of which our friendship was made, the anvil on which our love was forged climaxing now at the approach,of death."

Cardinal Manning spent half his life as a bishop in Los Angeles, first as an auxiliary bishop from 1946 until 1967 when he became bishop of Fres~o, Calif., then as coadjutor archbishop with right of succession from 1969 until Cardinal McIntyre's retirement the following year. He was made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI in 1973.

Cardinal Manning was known for his work with area Hispanics who make up more than half ofth~ archdiocese's population. He spoke fluent Spanish.

In March 1979 the cardinal supported 22 East Los Angeles parishes which had been waging a yearlong fight to prevent the Los Angeles County f 'Board of Super. visors rom denymg emergency health care to ille al aliens. g In November 1983, he urged then-Secretary of, Sta~e George Shultz to halt deportatlO~ of ~alvador~nsw~o had fl~d their nation.

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C:ardmal M.anmng VISited an archdiocesan high school ~ach w~ek and met regularly With seDior classes, not to lecture them, but to hear "what they feel most strongly about the church."

A~ the October 197? world.Synod of Bishops, the cardmal said that "the alienation of youth from the institutional church," is "crying

BOMBAY, India (CNS) - Indian Catholics have ph;dged a campaign to end' discrimination in society and the church against their co-religionists from India's low caste.

The pledge capped a four-day . National Convention of Catholics, held in Bombay earlier this , month and drawing 500 participants from throughout the country.

The delegates declared the 1990s "the Decade of Dalit (low-caste) Christians.''In a convention statement, they vowed to "mobilize resources to remedy injustice and create opportunities of equality" for Christians of low-caste origin, who constitute more than 50 percent of Christians in the country.

Discrimination based on caste, a traditional social practice, is illegal in India, but it remains a force in Indian society. The government' provides economic and other aid to low caste Sikhs and Hindus who have suffered discrimination, but not to low-caste Christians.

The Catholic statement demanded extending that assistance to all low-caste individuals, "irrespective of their religion."

out to us for rechgnition, response and healing." I . Pope Joh~ phi II named CardlOa.1 MannlOg! one of three copresld/?nts a~ the 1983 synod. , The ~ardlOall f~equentlr sp.oke ,out agamst ab~rtIOn, say 109 10 .a 197[> ad~resl!, jfhe, next emanc~pat~on Will hav9 to be thee~flncI­ patIOn o~ the fet.us.,It has h~e. ~t h~s the, nght tq!l,lve. And uI)til w. e do. th~. curse ,of god hangs over ':l,~ " as It did as lon~ ~s we ~ad slavery,., " "In the ~~~e_ speech" ~e sp~k~ oJ responslolhty f~r r!cI.al J~stlRe ' an~-.a year lat9~ he JOll~ed otij~r, rehgIOus leader~ 10 pledg~n~n~t t~ allow schools under tp.,elr JUflSdl-' citon,"~o beco~e.haven~ for. those . , WJ10.WISh t<;> ,av~)ld the mtegrated pubhc schools.'} , '.- '.

The,son ofa blflcksmlth, Timothy !"1annm~ wa~ bprn'Nov. 1.5, 1909, 10 the IrISh vIll~ge of Balhngear.y, County Cork. lfe ~tt.ended the vIIage sch~ol, C~nst~an 8rothers School 10 Co~k City, Mungret College in Limerick and St. Pat~ick's Coll,ege i~ M~nlo. Park, Calif. A~ter hlslordmatlOn 10 Los Angele,s In 1934, he earned a doct?rate I~ ca~onl"aw at the Gregonan UmvefSlty 110 Rome.

He was 36 i.n :1946, when he was named first bls~op of Fresno.

Less than t~o years later, on ~ay 26, 1969, fope Paul VI sent ~Im back to ~o~ Angeles as c~ad­ Jutor archbishop to Card1D~1 !"1cIntyre, thenl nearly 83 and al!mg. In January 1970, upon card 1nal McInty~e's iretirement, he becam~ archblsh~p of Los Ang~les, and In 1973 he was made a cardmal.

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Saturday, Julyl8, at the Daniel L. Mooney aUditprium of Charlton Memorial Hospital, Fall River.

Organizers s~y the presentation offers "a rare opportunity to learn the facts about this degenerative disease of the dentral nervous systern that affects persons of Azorean ancestry.'i The prograrp is sponsored' by Adsum Famil~ Support Network.

Further inforrJation is available at telephone 678-6550.

The delegates also called for an end to caste discrimination in the church in India. They noted that burials and admissions to the priesthood are subject to caste segregation - particularly in south India where the church is 'largely in the control of i!ldigenous ~lergy.

Low-caste'Christians say they converted:to Christilinity because they believed'it would treat the-m with equali'ty , The delegates noted, "with a , sen~e of ang\lish, the !lins of injus-' tice and ineq'uality that are preval:, ent also in the Catholic community," ap.d called for an awareness of "the sin of caste;, pra'dice and discriminaton' that is,:widespread among us." , ' Th'ey pledged to work for formation of lay leaders, especially women; push for greater involvementol Catholics in politics and public life; pursue justice in working conditions; discourage an inward-looking tendency in the community and join people of all faiths in their struggle for human rights.

A series of regional workshops is planned to take the convention message to Catholics throughout the country.

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Happiness "Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others." - King

Flashy ad seeks priestly vocations "It's an invitation -to give up BOSTON (CNS) - Images of a Mercedes-Benz, a Rolex watch and everything to follow Christ in an a diamond bracelet flash across environment in which you can the TV screen as the opening for a have it all," Cardinal Law said.

Boston archdiocesan TV advertiseThe spot was produced at no ment to recruit men to the priestcost to the archdiocese by advertishood. ing executive Michael Fortuna, a The screen suddenly goes to " parishioner at St. Mary's Church black. Then across the screen comes in Scituate, who offered his servithe written message, "A world that ces after reading an article about doesn't deny itself anything could his pastor's concerns over the use a few men who do," followed shortage of priests by the image of outstretcned hands 'Fortuna organized about 40 peoof a priest elevating the host. The ple who donated their time and 30-second ad closes with the arch- services to produce the spot, which diocese's phone number. he said would normally have cost The spot, to be run by local sta- about $80,000. tions as a public service announce"Everyone came together to help ment, is aimed at recruiting men to us with this project," Fortuna told the priesthood by contrasting the The Pilot, Boston archdiocesan values of a life of sacrifice and ser- newspaper. "People didn't think vice to those of a life of affluence twice about donating time and and conspicuous consumption. studio space."

Cardinal Bernard F.Law of Only five priests are in the archBoston showed a preview of the ad diocese's graduating class this year, at a recent news conference. far below class sizes averaging 50" in the early 1~60s, said Father Francis LeBlanc, archdiocesan vocations director. The archdiocese serves about 1.8 million Catholics.

Cardinal Law praised the "high St. Anne's Hospital in Fall River quality of the well-produced spot" will conduct a clinical study utiliz- and stressed that he "strongly being a new drug therapy treatment lieves that today God is callingjust for patients with anemia. as many men to the priesthood, Anemia is a blood disorder which but the difference is that the world may be caused by a variety of in which we live makes it much blood diseases, diabetes, renal fail- more difficult to hear that call." ure or hypertension and can be The advertisement, he said, life-threatening. "makes the call heard more clearly."

The drug to be used is recombi"WI; live in a more affluent nant human erythopoietin, a man- society," he added. "At the same made hormone normally manu- time there are always those who' factured in the kidneys. If the body see beyond that. We have in our does not produce enough of the seminaries very successful yuppies hormone, or if the kidneys are not who have decided that they wanted functioning properly, the patient their life to respond to a deeper becomes dependent on blood trans- meaning in their heart." fusions.

Until recently, RHE had been available only in Europe on an experimental basis, but it has now " been approved by the U.S. Food July 2 and Drug Administration and is 1967, Rev. Gerard A. Boisvert, available at limited facilities across the country on a non-experi- Assistant, Notre Dame, Fall'River mental basis.

July 3 Dr. Mark Shparber, a hematol1942, Rev. Thomas P. Doherty, ogy oncologist at St. Anne's, will Pastor, St. Kilian, New Bedford direct the study at the hospital's July 4 Harold K. Hudner Oncology 1955, Rev. James A. Coyle, Center.

S.T.L., Pastor, Holy Name, Fall "This is a unique and exciting River opportunity for St. Anne's HospiJuly ~ tal and staff to participate in such 1943, Rev. J.F. LaBonte, Pasa significant program," said Dr." tor, Sacred Heart, New Bedford' Shparber. "Blood banks across July 6 the country are feeling a tremend1963, Rev. Edmond Francis, ous shortage in their blood supply.

Helping patients to become inde- SS.CC., Pastor, St. Mary, Fairpendent of transfusions will alle- haven July 7 viate some of their burden. Prob. 1965, Rev. James E. Lynch, ably most important to patients, treatment with this drug will alle- First Pastor, St. Joan of Are, viate risk of infection through trans- Orleans fusions by such diseases as hepatiJuly 8 tis and_ AIDS." 1887, Rev. Edward J. Murphy, St. Anne's is the only hospital in Pastor, St. Mary, Fall River southeastern Massachusetts liJuly 10 censed to administer the drug, and 1938, Rev. Pie Marie Berard, because it will be used in a' clinical O.P., Dominican Priory, Fall River study, the therapy can be offered 1972, Rev. Maurice E. Parent, free of charge to patients who meet Pastor, St. Michael, Swansea certain criteria. Further informa- 1987, Rev. John E. Morris, Retired, tion is availabl~ from the hospital, Maryknoll Missioner; Rev. Theo(508) 675-5688. dore M. Morin, LaSalette Shrine.

July 13 1979, Rev. Arthur P. Deneault, M.S., LaSalette Fathe"r EDINBURGH, Scotland (NC) July 14 - The general assembly of the 1938, Rev. Nicholas Fett, (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland _ ,has approved a proposal for a new SS.ct., Pastor, St. Boniface, New ecumenical body that will replace Bedford the Scottish Churches' Council and 1949, Rev. Edmund J. Neenan, the British Council of Churches. Assistant, Sacred Heart, Oak Bluffs The new agency, to be formed in July 16 .

September 1990, will include the 1937, Rev. Bernard Percot, O.P., Catholic Church.

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PATRICIA Langis, New Bedford, is the new High Chief Ranger of the Catholic Association of Foresters. She was elected at the society's annual convention, held in North Falmouth earlier this month.

The llO-year-old association, headquartered in Boston, is a fraternal group of Catholic families, offering social and spiritual benefits, charitable programs, scholarship awards and insurance coverage to members.

Unity Week theme is announced GARRISON, N.Y.(NC)- The theme for the 1990 observance of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity to be celebrated Jan. 18-25, will be "United in the Prayer of Christ, That All May Be One." The theme, taken from the Gospel of John, was proposed by a group of Roman Catholics, Prottestants, and Orthodox church members in Madrid, Spain and announced by the Atonement Friars' Graymoor Ecumenical Institute in Garrison, publisher of resource materials used by U.S. Christian denominations during t~e annual observance.

During the week of prayer, Pope John Paul II traditionally leads prayers for Christian unity at his Wednesday general audience and closes the week with a Mass at the Rome Basilica of St. Paul's Outside the Walls. Although th~ passage from John 17:21 is frequently tited by ecumenists as expressing the desire of Jesus for the unity of his follewers, 1990 will be the first time the passage will be used for the week of prayer.

ROME (CNS) - A Ukrainian Catholic priest has been sentenced to 15 days imprisonment by Soviet authorities for celebrating a Divine Liturgy attended by 100,000 people, reported the Ukrainian Catholic Church Press Bureau.

The liturgy took place June 18 in the Ukrainian city of IvanoFrankovsk, said the press bureau, information agency of the Rome

headquarters ofthe Ukrainian Cath路 olic Church.

The press bureau identified the priest as Father Mykola Simkallo and said he was sentenced June 22.

The information came from Catholic officials in the Ukraine, said a June 26 press bureau statement.

Theliturgy was part ofachurch-spon- . sored worldwide day of prayer for the legalization of the Ukrainian - Catholic Church.

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The Ukrainian Catholic Church was declared illegal by Soviet authorities in 1946, but has continued to exist clandestinely.

The press bureau also said Soviet officials have made misleading state- " ments that the Ukrainian church will be legalized in September.

This is part of a "disinformation:' campaign "to discourage Ukrainian Catholics throughout Ukraine from continuing public services and demonstrations for the legalization of their church," said the press bureau.

Ukrainian Catholic officials have no evidence that the Soviet government plans to legalize the church, it said.

Demonstrations have included a hunger strike in Moscow and public prayer services in several Ukrainian cities, said the press . bureau. .

BIHAR, India (NC) - A group of Indian Jesuits has opened a dispensary for traditional herbal medicines in an effort to help one of India's least developed tribes improve poor health conditions.

The facility, called the Life Sustaining Dispensary, is the first of its kind providing traditional remedies in the Paharia tribal area in northern India's Bihar state. A survey in 1988 showed more than 40 percent of the region's inhabitants prefer herbal treatments.

The Paharia, one of nine primitive tribes in Bihar state considered endangered, suffer from various diseases an~ are rapidly vanishing, said dispensary director Father P. A. Chacko, SJ. Poverty and a diet which provides about half of daily calorie requirement have caused serious health problems within the tribe, he said. The problems include goiter, malaria, leprosy, tuberculosis, spleen and liver complaints, blood cancer and many' diseases connected with malnutrition. . About 25 percent of Paharia children under 5 years old die from diseases preventable through basic health amenities and primary health care, he said, noting that area hills are a rich source of a valuable variety of medicines.

Traditional tribal medicines are the subject of serious research, showing, for instance, the efficacy of certain African tribal remedies.

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And what was NC? Founded in 1920 by the bishops of the United States, it was originally the Press Bureau of the National Catholic Welfare Council and became National Catholic News Service in 1966.

CNS is now the primary source of national and world news for the U.S. Catholic press and a leading source of news for print and broadcast media in 40 other countries.

Said director and editor in chief Thomas N. Lorsung, "We have become sensitized over the past few years to just how much more international our role has become."

He said that a title like "National" is misleading to. editors abroad, . since there are CNS correspondents overseas "not only in Vatican City and Rome, but in Africa, Asia, and South America and many points in between."

CNS speeds news to clients daily , on a satellite-delivered network which encompasses the United States. The network also extends , to Canada via satellite and to Australia and Europe via electronic mail, with outlets available in many other areas around the world. CNS news is delivered by regular mail, to other points.

Today CNS is the world's oldest and largest religious news service.

It is an editorially and financially independent division of the U.S. Catholic Conference, which is the service agency ofthe U.S. Catholic bishops. It is not subsidized, earning its operating revenue by charging clients for its services.

CNS is not an official public relations office for the church, although it is an authoritative source of news. Its aim is to present the news fully and fairly. In carrying out this purpose, CNS is mindful of a key section of the Vatican's 1971 Pastoral Instruction on the Means of Social Communication, which states: "Modern man cannot do without information that is full, consistent, accurate and true. Without it, he cannot understand the perpetually changing world in which he lives nor ... assume a responsible and active role in his community."

CNS is staffed by professional journalists. All eligible nonmanagement staffers are members of

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The name of Catholic News clients are in th~ U.S. and Canada, where 150 papers with nearly 6 Service is not the only thing that million subscrioers receive'the daily has changed recently. At the end news re·port, editors and writers of the work day on Friday, June 9, are conscious bf their worldwide moving vans converged on the old responsibilitieslto press, radio and USCC building at 1312 Massachusetts Ave. NW, near the White television.

CNS maintai!OS a fulltime bureau House. Workers labored around in Rome which provides what many the clock throughout the weekend regard as the best Vatican cover- to move furniture and equipment age available fr~m any news agency. to a brand-new building adjacent Almost every English-language to the campus of Catholic UniverCatholic newspaper in the world sity in Washington, DC~ uses CNS. So d:oes Vatican Radio, The new structure has nearly which broadcaSts news around the double the office space of the old globe in more 'than 30 languages. headquarters. Its first occupant CNS material Iis translated into was a 22-foot, Io-ton bronze statue dozens of lang~ages for newspap-. of Christ that was taken from the ers in non-English-speaking coun- old offices last September, cleaned I tries. . and installed on a pedestal at the The service'~ daily report goes main entrance of the new building. not only to publications and broadFormal dedication of the new casters, but also to other news site will take place September 26 agencies, both ICatholic and secu- when the 50 bishops of the NCCB lar. In their ~urn, CNS editors Administrative Committee-USCC monitor news, reports of other Administrative Board hold their agencies, ready to respond to new first meeting there. developmentsl anywhere in the In commemoration of the trials world. Using st~te-of-the-art means employees endured in p'reparing of communidtion, CNS carries for the move, souvenirs awaite'd out its task or' producing a news them when they arrived at their report that is "catholic" in the new headquarters on Monday, broadest sense of the term.

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Ethics, finances, shortage of nurses among concerns at CHA Assembly SEATTLE (CNS) - Catholic treatment. Now, according to fty-based health systems. "We need health care officials discussed such Father Smith, medicine's ability to to reexamine the entire health care dilemmas as the nurse shortage, provide artificial nutrition and hy- system, not just hospitals and not euthanasia, financial demands, and dration to the terminally ill has just rural hospitals. We need to challenges of rural hospitals at the opened a new debate. . develop viable, appropriate health 74th Annual Catholic Health AsAt one end of the spectrum, care infrastructures in rural comsembly, held earlier this month in according to the priest, are those munities that ensure access to topSeattle. who think that anyone in a persis- quality, affordable health care," Members of the national asso_ tent vegetative state is fatally ill he said. ciation of Catholic-sponsored and that providing him or her with Meanwhile, health care facili- ... health care groups include 599 nutrition and hydration is there- ties were advised to use their own hospitals, 262 long-term care facilideas in providing a continuum of fore extraordinary means. At the ities, 60 health care sytems, 30 dioother end are those who contend care, offering a comprehensive arceses and 265 congregations of that artificial nutrition and hydraray of health and social services, male and female religious involved such as extended, acute, ambulation ahyays are ordinary means. in health care.

-"Only a willingness to debate will tory and home care, outreach servTo help end a shortage 'of nurses, provide an informed approach to ices, health promotion and others. "we must try everything," includ- dealing with these issues," he said.

There is no single model to ing a restructuring of the health adopt in devising a continuum sysLeslie S. Rothenberg, adjunct care system, said Lillian Gibbons, associate professor of medicine at tem, said Connie J. Evashwick, executive director of the U.S. De- the University of California Los president of the Consulting and partment of Health and Human Angeles School of Medicine, sugEvaluation Association, Long Services Secretary's Commission gested that euthanasia will pose Beach, Calif. on Nursing. No simple answers to the same challenge to Catholic "You need to create your own the nursing shortage are available, health care as abortion does. He vision and framework that applies she said, thus "we need to question cited attempts in several states to to your organization and your what works and have the courage win yoter approval for allowing community," she said. Not all hosto discard what doesn't." physician-assisted suicide-and pre- pitals will be good at providing all She recommended that the gov- dicted that in time at least one of services and "the idea is to give ernment begin looking at the effec- these state initiatives will succeed. access to services, not to do it all." tiveness of nursing procedures and The question that will face Cathoiic Pollster Lou Harris urged ~s­ that the medical industry review facilities is whether they will coopsembly delegates to work on over-· what tasks nurses really need to erate with an individual's request hauling the U.S. health care syshandle. "Work smarter, not hard- . for such assistance in a state where tem, and cited a recent Harris poll er," she said. "Some traditions it is legal, he said. that showed .only to percent of need to be dropped," while comIn facing the future, rural hospiAmericans were satisfied with the puters could be used more to help tals "must adopt a mentality of current system. He said 61 percent nurses save time. change rather than a mentality of of those surveyed preferred the She .'also recommended more preservation," speaker Robert L. Canadian health care sytem, which private and public sector support Ludke told the assembly. Ludke is includes a federal insurance profor nursing loans and scholarships acting director of the Center for gram that covers all Canadians and more recruitment of men and Health Services Research at the against medical expenses. Even by minorities into nursing.

University of Iowa, Iowa City. revamping the U.S. system, he Father Russell E. Smith, assisIn the past, he said, hospitals . said, the rationing of care and its tant director of research for the were everything to everyone in the costs will be persistent problems. . Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral community, but technology has "Who should have a larger or Research and Education Center in become too specialized and ex- smaller share of the medical dolBraintree, Mass., discussed ethical pensive for that. "Rural communi- lar?" he asked. "Put bluntly, this is . issues, including use of ordinary ties cannot generate the patient a cruel issue. How much Medicare and extraordinary means of treat- volume needed to justify the cost funding, for example, should go to ment. Church teaching tradition- of providing or ensuring the qualterminal cases in nursing homes or ally has held that ordinary treat- ity of those services," Ludke said. to long-term care1" ments must be provided dying One problem Ludke mentioned Such trade-offs won't be easy, patients but that extraordinary is a sense of competition among but they're coming, he warned, treatment is not required. rural communities, pitting hospiadding that such decisions should Pope Pius XII declared a right tal against hospital. be made by "the most knowledgeof patients to self-determination in He advocated creation of reable, sensitive, most caring eledeclinin~ extraordinary means of gional, cooperative and communments in the health system."

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By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Dr. Kenny: You have mentioned keeping a chart on children's behavior. Why do you need charts? That makes child rearing sound mechanical.. Most parental rules are simple enough.

I just explain things to my child and use discipline whe.. he doesn't behave. Yet I have always enjoyed , your columns. Am I missing something? Perhaps it would help if you would explain what you mean by charting. - Louisiana Charting is nothing more than a graphic way of formally recognizing behavior. Another name for charting might be behavioral bookkeeping. The chart is a written record of the date and the target behavior with a space left blank where it will be noted whether the child did what was required or not.

Charting is a very good way for parents to remind themselves to pay attention to the good behavior. Unfortunately, we are so programmed to respond mostly to the bad.

The chart is a constant and concrete reminder to identify carefully what we are seeking and to keep track of it wtIen it occurs.

Charting works. Any behavior that someone formally notices is' likely to increase. Parents can keep

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His oldest son induced his dad to jog. Charlie tried to walk-run a mile and almost collapsed again.

However, Charlie stuck with it.

Three weeks later, Charlie was jogging a little more and walking a little less; but he had in no way been seduced by the joy of running. He was all ready to quit.

That's when his son put the running chart on the refrigerator.

When Charlie got home at night, his son would ask, "Did you run yet, dad?"

If the answer was yes, the next question would be, "How' far?" If a zero appeared, the .whole family knew. Six years later, Charlie is still running.

Charlie is just as vulnerable to social criticism and just as flattered by admiring words as thenext fellow. It matters not at all that he knows how the chart works and what it does for m"otivation.

There is no trick to it. Recognition of specific good behaviors is a powerful force.

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By Antoinette Bosco I have just learned firsthand I" how it feels to be the victim of a Paul. purse snatcher.

Suddenly there he ",!as, running It happened on a Saturday night toward me. I hugged hjm and. then when I was in New York City with Paul gave me the detatls. A young my son Paul. A big, very strong man and woman had sten the thief man lunged at me, pulling my duck i~to a video ~toreiand alerted purse so hard with both his hands the police. The t~lef had struggled, that he split it from its straps, prac- so fiercely that It took Paul, the tically yanking my hand from the young man who came ~o his assist, wrist. Then he took off like a flash. ance, as well as seve~a~ policemen He got something, however, he to finally handcuff hU~. never expected.

Later I learned wh)! the ambuWhen the thief wrenched the lance had been called.;One policepurse from me, my son yelled, "I'll man had been hit by a taxi when he get him," and took off like a mara- got out of his car to assist in thon runner. I called to him to apprehending the critninal. The I, come back, visualizing a knife or a gun in the thiefs hand, but by that I time Paul was already out of sight.

A young man who happened to I be on the same corner had seen the

By Hilda Young whole' thing. This gentlemanly There was a standin~joke about stranger, named Jack, guided me my glasses at Holy Names High to two city policemen across the School. Friends claimed they could street. hold them over a petri dish and see The police ordered me to stand protozoa waving backl across the street and not to move I Without my glasses I am hardaway until notified. I understand pressed to tell the difference beobedience - trained by the good Catholic nuns. I crossed the street, tw.een a Coke m.achineI and a bear n five paces, probably at t more " tha .1 stood there and wondered w h a art,of the reason my ~usband did P , was happening to Paul. not want me to leave t e car when Within a few minutes, a police we were at Yellowstone. car flew by, lights and sirens going, N 1 0 more. I have stepped, sat, followed soon by another, then and fallen on mLglasses for a nother and a fourth. I was start- leaned f ing to get unnerved. Jack told me th e 1as t f Ime. I h ave overcome my fear of contact lenses. ~ not to worry, they had not called That fear always as seemed for an ambulance. Five minutes later, an ambulance came ringing well-grounded beca~se there is who puts hardly a person up the street. ' I know I Oddly enough, I was not having them on without stickipg his or her an emotional reaction. It was just ,finger in his or her ey However, converg~r.ce of two my head giving me tough thoughts to consider; It was so clear to me events greatly contri uted to my that what had just happened could new-found courage. My cowardly, permanently alter my life if my son weak-kneed sister anaged to were hurt or killed. secure a pair, and m oldest son I was overwhelmed with how sat on my own glasses - quite an silly most of the things are that we accomplishment consi ering 'they worry about, how unimportant were on top of the ref igerator.

So I now wear co tact lenses,most things are in the face of losing someone you love, how it is life thanks to the encour gement of

had to be in the hospital, in pain.

They assured me the officer' would be all right. But it struck me that civilians rarely consider how 'dangerous police work is.

A f~w minutes after I got home that mght the phone rang. It wasPaul. He had to be assured that I was not "turned off" to tIle city because of what had happened. . On the contrary, I responde~. I had met a number of caring people as a result of this incident. This is what I shall remember, I assured him, not the one person who hurt, but the many who helped. '

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daily charts on dry tJled, coming home on time, completed chores, successful dieting, tel~vision time' or almost any other bc!havior.

Charts work best wben they are kept in a public place, taped to the refrigerator or to thd bathroom wall. The chart itself, l)l y providing. attention, is a reward.

Charting works as well for adults as it does for children. If an employer wants more rt.anufactured items turned out Pl'er hour, he may put up a chart listing the actual hourly performance rate of each employee. Such dharts might result in a little loss of privacy, but they will almost certainly increase I .production.

Parents could well ask their children for charting belp in getting rid of parental bad habits. . One child, at her mob,s request, recorded the number t.f cigarettes mom smoked each day. As mom saw the lower riumber~ appear on th~ refrige.rat~r eachl.nigh~, she gallied motivation to qUit for good.

Another child keptI"book" on his dad's weekly weightf The weight was recorded, and every time dad was under 160 poundls, the child received 50 cents. Needless to say, the child was rooting f6r his dad to stay trim. , I Forty-year-old Charhe collapsed I

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At least I assume he is Cath~lic.

H.e called on sev~ral saints, s~me new to me, dunng my appomtd I h d h' ments, .an .over ea.r . 1m say ,s,ometh.mg to h.ls receptlODlst abou.t cha,l,kmg up mdulgences for thiS one; Other than that, his conversation was pretty much limited to three phrases: "How's that feel?" "Is that better?" and "You'll get used to it."

"Like someone is pulling on my eyeball with a miniaturized yet . powerful toilet plunger," _I answered.

He'd squirt something into my eye, then he'd ask, "Is that better?"

Actually, I have become accustomed to them.

Still, sometimes when I squint just right, I could swear I see proto2Oa floating across the surface of my eye waving to me.

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"We don't expect a lot of ab(){'tions to be prevented, but now this will make doctors more cautious," he added. . Throughout the trial Melnick's attorneys contended that he believed he was aborting a fetus of about 18 weeks, and the doctor testified he oniy signed birth and death certificates under pressure from 'the medical staff.

Defense attorney Richard Sprague, who said Melnick's case would be appealed, contended Melnick should have been acquitted because of conflicting testimony from witnesses.

"We wouldn't agree with that," said Dominic Aspite, director of the Philadelphia Archdiocesan Respect Life Office. "Certainly ifthere is a reasonable doubt, the reasonable doubt is that there was life, and the law should always come down on that side." '

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WASHINGTON (CNS) - Cath- man, after hearing Kemp's housolics leaders, in an early June ing goals, noted they were so simmeeting with Housing and Urban ilar to the church's goals that "the Development Secretary Jack bishops could have written them."

"Are'you sure you're a RepubliKemp, urged combating homelessness with affordable housing rather can?" he joked to Kemp. "I'm a than shelters, saying the church is card-carrying George Bush, Abra"ashamed" that people "have to ham Lincoln Republican," resdepend on us for a bowl of soup ponded the housing secretary. "I thought as you walked through and a col."

Members of the U.S. Catholic the door you might have had a Conference's Committee on Dom- conversion," rejo~ned Bishop estic Policy and church housing Sullivan.

However, John Carr, USCCsecexperts applauded a six-goal plan detailed by Kemp, which called for retary of social development and revitalizing existing public hous- world peace, stressed that commiting, tax incentives to encourage tee members blame both parties investment in low-income housing for the current housing predicament. "Congress was controlled and strong enforcement of fair housing laws, but told him more by Democrats who voted these federal dollars must be allocated budgets and cut the funds. So our to housing if such plans are to be problem right now is with both parties, and we're looking for realized.

Some of the dollars, said Kemp, leaders in both parties who are wilshould come from institutions that ling to put housing front and center again," he said. , benefit from a proposed- federal Kemp, a former professional government bailout of savings and loans. He told the committee that f09tball player, peppered his talk with football and religious meta~ "if we're going to spend that kind MARGUERITE D'Alesio phors, saying at one point that he - of money to bail out.the thrifts, we ought to require them to be in- did not believe in "worshiping at Mary. (eNS photo) volved in housing in low-income the shrine of capitalism" but that, neighborhoods." The proposed bail- where possible, the "private'secout is estimated to cost at least tor" must be used as a tool to create affordable housing. $157 billion over 10 years.

Kemp called the committee The meeting wi~h Kemp, part of .. a two-day <;ommittee meeting, took, members "inoder~-day ~ehemi­ place at USCC headquarters' iii ahs." Nehemiah was a Jewish leader PHILADELPHIA(CNS)- The of the 5th century BC who super- conviction of an obstetrician in Washington.

During the, meeting iKemp said vised the rebuilding ofthe walls of Philadelphia on inf~nticidecharges he had informed President Bush' Jenisalem -lifter the Babylonian began with Ii Catholic nurse's con_ when asked to' accept the housing, captivity. cerns about a baby believed Ito' post: that he did nbt' want- to'be " The HUO'se'cretary ~Iso singled have survived an abortion. " .' "secretary of voucher~\orsec'retai'}; out'for'special pI:aise:Father 'Biucc' ;'It 'alsowA's the nurse;'Milrguerof austerity;" f,i, Ritter,' director of the New:York- iteO'Alesio, who bal)tized the ,Calling hoinelessnessa "inoral based Covenant House Urider 21 ;" baby:' ,_ 'r stain" o'~ the nation; Kemp said, "I a shelter for r,unaway and, home" Or}· Josep,h Melnick, 66, was don't see'how it's possible for us ... lessyouth;Msgr. WilliamJ. Llnd,er,' found guilty )uneJ2 of infanticide ; .. to tell countries ofthe trhird World 1 who helped found the Newark, on grounds that a fetus taken durthat democracy is the right 'model: N.J.-based New Com~uDity Cor~ ing a 1984 abortion'was alive inof economic'andsoCial a'nd politi- , poration; and the Little Brothers stead of stillborn, as 'the doctor cal development, if we cannot make of the Good Shepherd who run had claimed. He also had claimed it work in our own Third Wodd Camillus House, a shelter for home- he was'told his 13-year':'old patient communities'." He said he was ref- less men in Miami. wasin her fourth month of pregWhile'thanking Kemp for 'giv- nancy when she was actually \n the erring to rural and urban U.S. ing the church creditfof'providing eighth month. pockets of inadequate housing.

The original accusation of He called ,proposed legislatit»n shelter for the homeless, Carr told murder against Melnick wasrethat would encourage tenant man- the housing sec'retary he should agementand eventual ownership "understand very Clearly that while placed by the infanticide charge, and his conviction in the Philadelof public 'housing one of the most we're coinmitted to continuing that, we're ashamed we have to do it." phia Court of Common Pleas behopeful signs in the nation today.

"The fact that people have to came the first under PennsylvaJosepJt Errigo, president of a nia's Abortion Control Act of 1982. non-profit housing corporation depend on us for a bowl of soup At the time of the hicident, Mrs. owned by the Archdiocese of St. and a cot and that that's somehow 0' Alesio was an emergency-room Paul and Minneapolis, told Kemp part of our religious commitment nurse at West Park Hospital, a "the biggest cttallenge" the hous- is not a sign of progress but a sign I33-bed community hospital where ing secretary faces is "HUD itself." of real trouble," Carr said.

He reminded Kemp that part- the abortion was performed.

Citing turf battles and bureaucratic She recalled that on the night in red tape, he said "HUD is not part nerships between public, private question the nursing supervisor of the solution, but part of the and nonprofit institutions aimed at creating more low- and middle- "came down to the emergency room problem." to borrow forceps. She 'said there Kemp responded that he ,was income housing "require dollars" making reforms at HUD, but didn't in addition to the the housing was a problem with an abortion on the second floor." want to spend all his time "damn~ secretary's "energy a!1d goals" and the church's "experience and Mrs. 0' Alesio told the Catholic ing the darkness."

Standard and Times, Philadelphia Congressional and Justice De- community ties." .archdiocesan newspaper, in an inpartment probes of HUD's modterview that a couple of hours later erate rehabilitation subsidy proa resident came to the emergency gram have focused on politically room rather "shook up." influenced decisions made at the highest official levels within the "He said a live baby had been department. born during an abortion and they were'going to bring it down to the Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan of Brooklyn, N.Y., com'mittee chairemergency room for resuscitation," she said.

Diligence She learned the abortion had been performed by Melnick and "All that 1 have accomplished, that the nursing supervisor had or expect or hope to accomplish, found the baby in a utility room, has been and will be by that plodapparently placed there by Melnick. ding, patient, persevering process "I think she noticed Dr. Melof accretion which builds the ant nick standing there, and this was heap, particle by particle, thought unusual," she said. "She [the by thought, fact by fact."-Burritt JACK KEMP

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During an "autopsy, the threeand-one-half-poundbaby girl Was determined to be at 32 weeks gestati,on...·, .

I Mrs. '0' Alesio said the nursing supervisor had Melnick fill out the birth and death certificates and that she went home fully expecting him to be at least suspended by the hospital.

But "when I came in the next morning, 1 was told we couldn't talk about it," Mrs. D'Alesio said.

"Nothing was going to happen," so'she called the police.

The police recovered the body, which had been given to a local funeral director who sent it to' Temple Medical School.

Mrs. D'Alesio said that after that fellow employees shunned her.

"I felt bad for them," she said.

"They were worried about their jobs. The hospital was having financial difficulties, and the last thing it needed was bad publicity."

Subsequently, the tires on her car were slashed, her mother received threatening phone calls and, finally, she was suspended for three days without pay. So she took a job at another hospital.

After all this time she said she just has one regret. "I only wish 1 had found out sooner. 1 would have gone up to that room and resuscitated the baby myself."

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Vatican bank totally-restructured las of July 18 VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In a decided by the Holy Father," said move that will bring the Vatican Vatican spokesman Joaquin Nabank largely under the control of varro-Valls in announcing. the outside lay professionals, the Vat- appointments. ican appo.inted a five-person man"There are several new elements agement council that includes here. First, lay professionals are a prominent U.S. businessman, given a major role. Second, there Thomas M. Macioce. is an ecclesiastical presence but A Vatican spokesman noted that one. without any executive funcfor the first time there will be no tion," Navarro-Valls said. .

U.S. Archbishop Paul Marcinchurchman in an executive role in the institution,. used by church kus will leave the institute after agencies to move money interna- serving as bank president for 19 tionally for religious pu~oses. rears - includin~ a sto.rmy period The bank, formally titled the m the early 1980s m which the VatInstitute for the Works of Relig- ican paid out $240 million to crediion,. has been ~nderthecloud of an ~ors of~collapsedbank with which Itahan finanCial scand!ll for most It was mvolved. of this dec~de. ' . The thru~t of the bank re~orms The Vatican als~ reappomted IS to ~~ovlde closer, c~ntmual New York Card mal John~. s~pervlSlon of th.e b~nks ope~aO'Connor and four ot~er cardl- tIons. The ba~k Will stIll be consldn~ls ~o serve on an overSight com- ered as an entity separate from the mission for the bank. ·Holy See, howev~r. ..

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The lay supervisory councIl wIll Donato De Bonis will hold a non- act as a management board, meetexecutive liaison position between ~ng at least once every three ~onths the two groups, the Vatican said m Rome, Navarro-Valls said. Its June 20. The administrative coun- rt.temb~r~ have ~ wealth o~ expecil will later select a director and r~ence m mternatlOnal bankmg and vice-director - both laymen - to ~mance. and several. ~ave worked handle day-to-day operations of I~ adVisory capacIties to local the bank, along with three auditors. bishops.

The changes, due to take effect They are: - Macioce, 70, former chairJuly 18, represent the first major reform of the bank since its found- man and chief executive officer of ing in 1942. the New York-based Allied Stores "This was a reform desired and Corp., who has been a financial

consultant to the archdiocese of mission, which afso appointed New York.

Msgr. De,Bonis to his ne.w liaison Macioce has received a number post. of church-related awards, includ~ The prelate, prev~ously secretary ing the Brotherhood Award of the general of the Vatican bank, has National Conference of Christians worked in the banrs administraand Jews in 1971 and the Cardinal tion for more than ,25 years. He is Cooke Inner City Award in 1978: apparently the onl~ managerfrom He is a member of the Knights of the bank to be retained, although' Malta and the Order of the Holy he will not act as a manager in the Sepulchre. new system of administration.

- Angelo Caloia, 50, professor Report to Bishops of economics at the Polytechnical At the biannual :meeting of the Institute in Milan. A speciali~t in U.S. bishops held earlier this month monetary theory, he has adVised at Seton Hall Universit South the International Monetary Fund, Orange N J Cardinal &Connor t~e World B~nk~nd otherinternatold th; bi~h~psth~t a special U.S. tIonalorgamzatIons. . Ca'tholic fund to rbverse Vatican - Philippe d~ ~eck~ 70, pres~deficits has reached the $12 mildent of th~ admlmstr~tlVecoun~Il lion mark. He als6 discussed the of t~e Umon of SWISS Banks m then-pending Vatican bank, reZunch. . organization.

I - Theodor E: Pletzcker, 64, .a Two major deficit operations of Ger~an expert ~n legal economic the Vatican ~ Vati~an Radio.and affaIrS, an adViser to the ~~st the Vatican daily newspaper, L'OsGer~an churc~ and an admlms- servatore Romanb - are also tratlve counCIl. member of the undergoing financi~l review, CarDeutsche Bank m Essen. .. dinalO'Connorsaid. He addressed - Jose. Angel Sanc~ez ASla~n, the bishops in place:of retired Phil60, copreSident of a major Spamsh adelphia CardinalJohn Krol, also b~nk and a past government ~da member of the IVatican bank vlse.r. on a number of finanCial oversight commission but too ill to proJects. '.' . attend the bishops' 'spring meeting . The council Will set bank p<.>hin South Orange. I clesand make sure therare earned Since the mid-1970s the Holy out, Navarro-Valls said.

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NOT A GLOOMY DANE: This sister, at least, was glad to see the pope in Denrpark. She greeted him as he arrived for a :chu~ch ser~iCe in Copenhagen. (cNs I U,PIReuters photo) ,

troversy among Denmark's Luthe- and often very heated. I hadn't rans over Pope John Paul II's visit expected this natiod of5 million to there has led people to think about get that upset over the visit of the their religion, said a V.S. Catholic head of the Roritan Catholic priest working in Copenhagen.

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"It has caused everyone here to He said that in local newpapers reexamine the roots, the present one Lutheran the610gian caIled content and the practice of their the papacy "a lie an~ a deception" own faith," Oblate Father Charles and another suggested that Danes HurkeswroteinTheCatholicPost, would give the ~ope a "cold newspaper ofthe Diocese of Peoria, shoulder or a wartb box on the where Father Hurkes worked be- ear." ' fore his move to Copenhagen.

The Lutheran bishops of Den·· d Denmar k mark met .with thel pope in RosPope J 0 hn P au I Vlslte June 6-8 during a IO-day trip to kilde but the po~tiff was ,not five Nordic countries in which the allowed to speak a~ a prayer ser. , 0f peop Ie are Lut her- vI'ce I'n the Lutheran cathedralthere vast maJonty ans. In Denmark, the visit pro- J'ust be'for'e the meetlJng because the would. think . . d eb- bl'shops feared peorlile voked ~ometimes acnmomous t': they were endorsing the pope. ate.

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"You will be reading soon of the extensive reorganization" of the bank, he said. "I h~pe this wi,~l restore the trust that IS needed.

'He said the endowment fund t~at he, Cardinal Krol and ~rchbishop Theodore E. McCarnck of Newark, N.J., ~egan two yea.rs ~go has ~een buIlt up to $12 mIlhon,but wehave~longwaytogo to. r~ac~ the first plateau of $100 mllhon.

The long-term goal, he said, is $500 million - a figure that he estimated would generate a yearly income of about $50 million for the Holy See. Cardinal O'Connor emphasized that the fundraising effort, aimed at Catholic business leaders and philanthropists, was stressing to contributors that they should not make contributions to the Vatican fund "at the expense of the local church."

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Father Hurkes' said he thought most Danes would agree with a Lutheran pastor, the Rev. H.L. Mortensen, who wrote in a published .letter: "It is regrettable to reject an outstretched hand. This means that the Catholic Church • wants to dialogue: In his time, Luther al'so wanted to dialogue, but then he was rejected by the pope. Is it the 'other way around today?" .. ' ..

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At the same time he met with a planning committee considering future projects to be sponsored by the observatory..

The pope praised work on the Vatican Advance~ Te~hnology.telescope at the V mverslty of Anzona's Steward Observatory.

"It is gratifying to see how, in a

r~markably creative ~ay, t~e prac~ v!lt.ory~s direc,tor, the planne~ teletical; ~Iements of engmeenng, the scope IS the prototype of, a new theoretical understanding of light generation of telescopes utilizing and thedesi~e to see' f~rther!ind innovative mirror casting t~chmore accurately into ~he ':lniverse" . niques to see greater dist,ances into are co~bining to produce, "a ~ew space. generation of the w9r1d s, mos~ Environmentalists have criticized powerfultelescopes\"thepopesaid. plans by about a dozen .universiHe said these new telescopes ties and institutions to use the ultimately ,will enable scientists to Mount Graham site. A spokesman see "10 times farther into the. uni- for the Sierra Club in Tucson has verse than ever ,before." called the projects slated for the To operate efficiently, such tele- mountain "a massive development scopes must be located in "remote proposal." ~ mountain sites, many of which are J ' F h Ch' C b II . eSUlt at er ns or a y, a treasured ecological zones," he noted, The pope said project scientists have "sought to interfere as little as possible in the natural processes of Earth, that small but precious part of the universe" from which they observe.

According to Jesuit Father George Coyne, the Vatican obser-

researcher on the \f~t~can ()bserstaff, respond~d thatastronomers are concerned with the environ!Dent,and w041d do a better job of preserving it than would commercja~ users.~. " The Vatican .telescope IS bemg fabricated in Losl Angeles, and should be completed in December.

"We're looki~g at jthe spring?f 1990 for havmg tile telescope m operation," Father Foyne said.

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After Chinese troops crushed student and worker opposition movements earlier this month, the Chinese astrophysicist and his wife . t he V .03. .. E massy b soug ht re fuge m in Beijing.

Father Coyne said that he had only indirect contact with Fang in the weeks preceding his flight to the embassy. The Vatican Observatory director said he had written' to President Bush, urging the V.S. government to continue its assistance to the scientist.

High c·ourt seen abandoning. former civil rights stance WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Supreme Court's June 15 decision to let stand Runyon vs. McCrary, a key 1976 civil rights ruling, was small comfort to civil rights propo- . nents.

They were still reeling from two decisions announced by the high court only days earlier that made it significantly harder for minorities and women to prove that an employer's practices are discriminatory and riskier for employers to adopt affirmative action programs.

Ronald G. Jackson, a member of the U.S. Catholic Conference Domestic Policy committee who is a public policy analyst· for the National Urban League, told Catholic News Service June 15 that civil rights legislation had been dealt a "major blow," noting that it appeared "a majority of thqse on the court ~elieves th~t racism is. no longer a problem in our society."

"Sadly the Supreme Court, the principal protector of individuals' rights and liberties for 35 years, has been abandoning (its) historic role," Ralph G. Neas, executive director of the Leadership conference on Civil Rights, told CNS. The conference is a coalition of 180 groups that includes the U:S. Catholic Conference and other religious, civil rights and labor organizations.

While Catholics may be hopeful tite current court is "prolife" in terms of abortion; its rulings on "other pro-life issues, such as civil rights, have been devastating," according to Jerome Ernst, executive director of the National Catholic Conference on Inten:acial Justice.

A string of important civil rights cases has been reviewed by the Supreme Court since early June.

- In a June 5 decision in Ward's Cove Packing vs. Atonio, the court voted 5-4 to reverse an 18-year-old precedent, making it more difficult for women and minorities to use statistics to prove discrimination and easing the burden on employers attemptillg to insulate themselves· from liability.

- Then on June 12, the court' ruled 5-4 that court-approved affirmative action settlements would be open to subsequent legal challenges by white workers claiming reverse discrimination.

- The high court, in one .of the most important cases of its term, decided unanimously June 15 not to overturn its 1976 ruling that upheld a post-Civil War law outlawing racial discrimination in all private contracts. Even that decision was tempered, however, by a 5-4 vote that held the law does not cover racial harassment lawsuits.

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, in his opinion for the court, said the June 15 ruling was "entirely consistent with our society's deep commmitment to the eradication of discrimination based on a per.. son's race or the color of his or her skin."

But the vote to limit the law sparked a lengthy dissent by Justice William J. Brennan, who accused the majority of "selecting the most pinched reading" of the 1866 law.

"What the court declines to snatch away with one hand, it takes with the other," said Brennan. He was joined in his dissent

by Justices Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun and John Paul Stevens.

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who grew up in Mississippi, the recent rulings demonstratre a lack of realism on the part of the high court's justices.

•• All of the civil rights laws were enacted to correct wrongs, and all the wrongs haven't been corrected," he said.

"The educational, legal and financial systems, along with other structures and sectors of our society, impede people's. progress and narrow their access because they are black, Hispanic, Native American or Asian," they wrote.

Calling racism a sin, the bishops said it "divides the human family, blots out the image of God among specific members of that· family and violates the fundamental human dignity of those called to be children of the same father."

By making employers more susceptible to reverse discrimination suits, the Supreme Court has the "clear effect of protecting the white, male preserve," said Ernst.

Many employers, he said, have come· to realize that following affirmative action policies is in their own interest.

"There's good will out there, but good will is not enough," he said.

Laws need to'be on the books and enforced "so that timetables are set for accomplishing our goals."

There are whites who claim that before civil rights legislation was passed they got their positions on merit, but the truth is, said Jackson, that they didn't have to compete with blacks.

He said white youths who oppose affirmative action policies have told him they" shouldn't have to pay for what their ancestors did."

"I realize that and I'm sympathetic," responds Jackson. But he said. he tells the young people that it's impossible to "correct damage that's been done over nearly 200 years in a 25-year span."

Society as a whole will be better off if civil rights legislation is supported, he maintains. The debate will be kept off the streets, away from the picket lines and brought into the courts. .

"If you've got your foot on my head in a ditch, you can't go forward and I can't get up," notes Jackson.

Once the foot· is removed, he says, both parties can join forces and work diligently to improve this already "marvelous nation." .

EWTN goes European BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (CNS) - Mother Angelica, head of the Eternal Word Television Network, has announced plans to launch a muftilanguage European radio network focused on spiritual guidance.

The new enterprise will be called EWTN-Europe, said the cloistered' Poor Clare Sister of' Perpetual Adoration.

EWTN is a 24-hour cable TV operation headquartered in Birmingham.

The European network "is projected to reach Europe, parts of Africa and the Mediterranean" and will "provide spiritual growth programming," according to the announcement.

William Steltemier, EWTN president, said the new network will be based near ~ome and is expected to be operational in early 1990.

Typical broadcasts will center on "Scripture, novenas, the rosary, sacramental life and Mariology," Steltemeier said.

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38 NURSES' AIDES recently received certificates . an4 p'ins at the conclusion of a geriatric training course at Catholic Memorial Home, FallRiver. At the cer~mony, from left, Rev. Joseph Costa, associate director of the diocesan Health Facilities office; aides Maria G. Torres and Donna J. Petit; inservice director Janet Brewer, LPN; aide June A. Braga; home administrator Sister Shawn Flynn, a.Carm.

Purpose of Jesuit. schools told by superior general WASHINGTON (CNS) - Jes- Vatican to discuss the proposed uit-run schools are known for rigor- norms for Catholic higher educaous academic standards, but their tion, it is clear the document must "final purpose" is to turn out gra- be one "that encourages us to the duates "who will be leaders con- most exacting professional standcerned about society and the world ards of research and teaching and in which they live," said the Jesuit of governance, while deepening the entire institution's authentically sup~rior general.

"The Society ofJesus has always Catholic inspiration," he said. sought to imbue students with The apostolic discernment undervalues that transcend the goals of taken by· the Jesuits working in money, fame and success," said colleges and universities must not Jesuit Father Peter-Hans Kolven- "interfere with or supplant the bach, who has headed the world- methods and procedures of decision making proper to the univerwide order since 1983. . Father Kolvenbach spoke June sity itself," Father Kolvenbach con7 at Georgetown University's "As- tinued. "There can be no suggestion sembly '89: Jesuit Ministry in High- that the Jesuit community should er 'Education," to some 900 repre- become a pressure group or a privsentatives, mostly Jesuits, of the ileged group in the institution."

28 U.S. Jesuit colleges and univer"The Jesuit community at the sities as well as other Jesuit minis- university ought to exercise not tries in the order's 10 U.S. provin- power, but its authority," he said. ces. On June 8 he spoke at a Its role is to guarantee "the tra!1sconvocation. at Georgetown Pre- mission of Gospel values which is paratory school in Rockville, Md., the distinctive mark ofJesuit educaat a convocaton marking the 200th tion."

Father Kolvenbach also emphaanniversary of Jesuit education in sized that it is the objective of this the United States.

Georgetown University, founded education to prepare "leaders in in 1789, was the first Catholic col- service" who will bring the love of Christ to others by seeking an end lege in the U.S. Father Kolvenbach said that a to the hunger, poverty, war and Vatican document outlining prin- discrimination that plagues people ciples for Catholic higher educa- around the world.

"Many modern-day students tion shows Pope John Paul II's "understanding ofthe universities' seem excessively preoccupied with uniquely formative role" in influenc- career training and self-fulfillment ing the outcome ofchanges through- to the exclusion ofa broader human out the world. growth," ,Father Kolvenbach told The superior general discussed the crowd, but "From freshmen in the role of Jesuit schools as educa- high school to the researchers in tors within the framework of Cath- laboratories of our best graduate. olic ideals. Institutions sponsored departments, no one can be excused by the church or by religious orders from our final purpose." "must serve the church in its misJesuits and the growing number sion of evangelizing the world," he of lay people working at their colsaid. "This implies close collabo- ·Ieges and universities "are in a ration with the hierarchical church position to form the minds and even when the collaboration may hearts ofthe people who will mold seem to create difficulties." the. beginning of the third mille"A college or university has its nium," he said. "But the challenge own way of being and acting; it has is complex."

"It is remarkable that there are its own specific nature and mission. But it cannot be Catholic arid approximately 1.5 million living at the same time completely with- graduates of U.S. Jesuit high out accountability," Father Kol- schools, coHeges and universities in the world," Father Kolvenbach venbach said.

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Students from all backgrounds should have access to Jesuit schools, he added, encouraging parents to try to convince government officials to enact programs that would make Catholic schools more affordable. .. At the elementary and secondary school level, yours is one of the relatively few countries in the free world ·that does not provide government funds to enable parents to exercise their right to choose education they want for their'children ...[this] is an urgent matter of socialjilstice," Father Kolvenbach said.' .

"Jesuits run the real risk qf living at a distance, or with an information gap, but especially at a distance of affectivity from realities off campus," he said, adding that collaboration will make the work of the Society of Jesus more effective.

He also said that tlie Jesuit order must increasingly collaborate with the laity in order for its schools to continue its mission into the next century. That mission, he insisted, must involve opening the minds and hearts of youths.

"Our institutions make their essential contributions to society by embodying in our educational p~o­ cess a rigorous, probing study of crucial human 'problems and concerns" and' bringing to that process the Gospel value of justice.

"Today it is very difficult in the First World to see beyond individualism, hedonism; unbelief and . their effects," Father Kolvenbach asserted. "What we aim at in Jesuit education is therefore counter to many aspects of contemporary culture. That is why your apostolate today is more difficult and more critical in opening the minds and ears of young people to faith, truth, justice and love."

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I Sarah Paquette, Karlene Manches- .She and two guests will spend a weekend in Washington, D.C. In ter; Tara Wichmann! John Janiak, Keven Coelho, Jeffrey Mitchell, the fall she will attend the UniverKerrie Souza, Ker~ie Mathieu,. sity of New Hampshire, where she will major in business and Spanish.

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PAUL BELONICK, 9, portrayed Dr. Albert Einstein for his science class at Blessed Sacrament Elementary School in Johnson City, N.Y. As part of the ~choors celebration of national Science ~nd T~chnology Week, students were invited t~ portray their favorite scientist and then do presentations about that scientist. (eNS photo)

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By Mick Conway "My dad's a drunk. I feel so embarrassed by his drinking that I don't bring my friends to our home.

He would probably say or do something outrageous in front of them, so I make excuses to keep them away."

When alcoholism is present in a home, it touches everyone. An alcoholic pareilt can so impact the lives of children that they inay develop unhealthy attitudes toward their parents, peers and even themselves. This is why alcoholism is called a family disease.

Children of alcoholics learn to distrust everything. Many are notoriously troubled by authority figures and often feel isolated imd fearful. They may experience low self-worth, with harsh judgments turned inward.

Children of alcoholics learn to protect themselves by refusing to feel joy or happiness. Disappointments are routine fare in alcoholic homes, so one way to deal with disappointment is to have no expectations. It does not hurt so much that way. . .

The term "children of alcoholics" implies young age, but actually refers to a person of any age who has had an alcoholic parent.

The lifelong effects of growing up in an alcoholic home can be devastating. Our early experiences tend to stay with us, and if those experiences have been related to an alcoholic parent, it is likely. there will be a residual effect.

To aid victims, support groups such as Children of Alcoholics or Adult Children of Alcoholics have

integrated in many places with local Alcoholics Anonymous or AI-Anon groups.

Many college campuses also offer counseling for adult children of alcoholics through campus ministry programs or: guidance services.

"Y9U would be surprised to know the depth of pain experienced by many adult children of alcoholics," said'a young priest who directs campus ministry at a Midwestern college.

"We have seen a need to reach out to these students whose lives have been altered by this disease and to help them deal with their pain appropriately and therapeutically," he added.

'Such testimony gives credence to the belief that the disease of alcoholism can have far-reaching consequences, not only for the alcoholic, but for family members.

COA and ACOA groups follow the same 12-step program as Alcoholics Anonymous. This approach is nearly universally regarded as vital in treatment of this disease.

Sharing emotional pain in the safety of a COA or ACOA group with others who understand and identify with it is a basis for regaining a foodhold on sanity. ' The high visibility of COA and ACOA groups in communities, grade schools, high schools and on college campuses is an indicator of the magnitude of alcoholism. It is truly a family disease, with a cause, symptoms and recovery. Involvement in COA or ACOA support groups can be where recovery begins.

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STUDENTS FROM St. Dominic's School in Sheboygan, Wis., are dwarfed by donations to their "walk for food" effort to help the hungry, part of a recent hunger awareness project sponsored by the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. (eNS photo)

Symbols following film reviews. indicate both general and Catholic Films Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-13-parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children Or young teens.

Catholic ratings: Al-~pproved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3approved for adults only; A4-separate classification (given films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

Catholic ratings for television movies are those of the movie house ver.sions of t~e films. . .

New Films "Cold Feet" (Avenue): A quirky black comedy about a trio of eccentric con artists who have a chache of stolen emeralds sewn up into a prize stallion. One of the thieves (Keith Carradine) hides out on his honest brother's (Bill Pullman) Montana horse ranch, but his two cohorts (Sally Kirkland and Tom Waits) track him down. Wacky encounters, offbeat characters and a feel for the heartland. Family values are intact in the end. Profanity, sexual vulgarities and innuend"oes, some grisly violence.

A3, R "Ghostbusters II" (Columbia): The Manhattan spook chasers (Dan Aykroyd;Oill Murray, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson) are reunited after five years to save the same lady in distress (Sigourney Weaver) from losing her baby to the evil spirit of a 16th-century carpathian (Wilhelm Von Homburg). The ghostly special effects are marvelous, comical and, for the most part, non-menacing. The guys are funny, and director Ivan Reitman incorporates the satir~ of the Big

bad Apple and yuppie trends without a heavy hand. Mildly vulgar language, sexual innuendoes. A2, PG "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" (Disney): Nutty professor (Rick Moranis) mistakenly throws out his and his neighbors' kids with the garbage when one of his' inventions accidentally shrinks them to one-fourth inch in height. The kids must make their way back, to the house through a jungle of grass and giant insects; Very young children may be frightened; older children and adolescents will enjoy the dizzy array of special effects and appealing young actors. Witiess parents, some menace, minimal sexual innuendo. A2, PG

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He's not your typical 9-year-old WASHINGTON (CNS) - Ed"They really enjoyed it very ward Bysiek III, a New York Cath- much," Ms. Koch said. "It has had olic school student, is not your an impact on them because it typical 9-year-old. really has gotten them talking about , The fourth-grader at Southern what's going on in the world."

Ms. Koch added that the video Tier Catholic School in Olean, N.Y., is an award-winning video has a strong Catholic message of directo'r.· Edwar'd, who started respecting life by not taking drugs. .

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His latest production is titled career. He got a head start thanks "Be a Winner, Drugs Are for Los- to living in an area with poor teleers!" The youth has been waiting vision reception, !!aid his mother.

"When you live in a rural area to see if the video, which stars 120 of his classmates, brings him honors the end result is that the kids look from New York Gov. Mario Cuo- for other alternatives," Betsy Bysiek mo's Youth Drug Prevention Cam- said. "He puts a lot oftime into his paign and the American Film In- videos. He loves it."

She said she and her husband stitute's contest for "Visions of the have tried to teach their children U.S." valut's and she hopes they will con"[Kids) are confused a lot and I tinue to be reflected in Edward's wanted to unconfuse them and tell work. them that drugs are really bad for . The youngster's awards have you," said Edward about his video. come for his documentaries on The video, which took three Martin Luther King Jr. from the months to create, features Edward's Cork Youth International Film classmates romping in parks, at an Festival in Cork, Ireland, and from ice rink and at school while a song a New York state Martin Luther by the group Talking Heads, called King Jr. film contest.

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Iteering pOintl O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER New Men's Club O'fficers: John Morrissey. president; Donald Dunn. vice-president; John Shea. secretary; Charles Stephens. treasurer. New Ladies' Guild officers: Helen' DeMarco. president; Betty Flagg. vicepresident; Mildred Mullen. secretary; Anne Woods. treasurer.

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SACRED HEART, N. ATTLEBORO For July and August. the' parish Mass on Tuesdays and,Thursdays .will be at 10: I5 a.m. at Madonna Manor. Other weekday Masses will be in the chapel at the regular times.

Thanks to Mrs. and Mrs. Albert Plante for providing the flowers recently planted on the church grounds and to all those who helped plant them.

ST. ANNE, FR New parish committee officers: Donald Valcourt. president; Larry Boyer•. vice-president; Al Vezina. treasurer; Lucille Gauthier and Blanche Gagnon. secretaries. The parish thanks the committee for the donation of $6.500 to the general . fund for the school. The committee has remitted $63.000 to the school this fiscal year. The parish alsoJhanks Senior Citizens for a $100 donation., Devotions to St. Anne 3 and 7:30 p.m, daily July 17-25.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Parish picnic. July 17. St. Vincent's Camp. Westport/ Adamsville RI border.

ST.GEORGE,WESTPORT Kudos to parishioner Bob Carney who designed a special logo to commemorate St. George's 75th anniversary year. It·s now in use on the weekly bulletin.

ST. MARY, NB Youth group cookout and swimming party. July IS. bus departs St. Mary's school at 11:30 a.m. The Women's Guild will form a 30-member parish bowling league 1n the fall.

Information: Colette Medeiros. 9951434. Visits are ma!le weekly to St. Luke's Hospital.

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ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Thursday adult discussion group will resume in September.

IMMUNIZATIONS Immunization clinics will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. and 1I to> 3 p.m. Monday .' through Friday during the summer at the Fall River ~overnm~nt Cent!.., room 443. T~e dinits are free for children attending Fall Rivt!r public and parochial ,~~hools, igc:ludin.' those who do not reside in the city itself. Age-appropriate vaccines will beadministeredo Foi'more informa.,; tion contact Cecelia B. ~elly, RN, Supervisor of ~.~~ Fall. River Health. De~ paitment DivlsionofSchool I-fygiene: 675-60n ext. 289. ) i , i ' .,.

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SECULAR FRANCIS'CANS, POCASSET St. Francis of the Cape Faternity annual visitation 7 p.ml. July II. St. JOhn the Evangelist parish center.

Mass by Father John SrPith. O.F.M. Inquirers are welcome. 'nformation: Upper Cape-ErnestdFoley. 5405392; Lower/Middle 'ape-Dorothy Williams. 394-4094!

I ST. MARY CATHEDRAL, FR July 4 Mass 9 a.m. only. Monthly day of prayer for vocatibns. July 6.8. a.m. Mass. expositiort of Blessed Sacrament and morning prayer..

Adoration will continue until Benediction at noon.

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ST. MARY, SEEKONK New Women's Guild officers: Bette Froment. president; Marilyn Leddy. vice-president; Elaine Feighery, treasurer; Elsie Spellman and Linda Crapo. secretaries. Adventure Youth Group: HarI1pton Beach trip. 8 a.m. tomorrow; Rocky Point Trip. 5 p.m.

July 6; youth and adult leaders meeting, 7 p.m. July 7; general meeting 7 p.m. July 10. .

HOLY ROSARY, TAUNTON Father George Maslar. OFM Conv. will speak at weekend Masses on behalf of Franciscan Missions in Ghana. Japan and Bessemer. Ala. ORDER OF ALHAMBRA Meeting 8 p.m. July 7, Loyola Hall, Holy Cross College, Worcester.

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Mission societies allocate funds

The funds were distributed to some 900 mission territories around the world to finance local pastoral programs, new construction, education and the training of priests and Religious.

MARK Gabriel I Girardin, singer, guitarist, keyboardist and composer-in-re~idencefor· I the People of God's Love Community in Ptovidence, opens Attleboro's ILaSalette Shrine summer co1ncert season at 7:30 p.m. Ju~y 8 with a Concert for Life, a~so featurkeying Kim GyuricksaI on . board and Donan Olobri, Annie McKenna ~Ind Marie Loeffler as soloists and liturI gical dancers.

LaSALETTE CONCERTS, ATTLEBORO I A summer concert series of Christian performers at LaSlhette Shrine, Route 118. Attleboro,! begins 7:30 p.m. July 8. Seating is provided and lawn chairs and blanICets are welcome. Parking and admission are free. In case of rain, the concert will. be held indoors. It will! be preceded at 6:30 p.m. by an outdoor Mass. A concert schedule may be obtained by calling 222-5410.

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ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Bishop Joseph Regan will speak at weekend Masses on the work of Maryknoll in the Philippines. Healing service 2 p.m. Aug. 6. Worship the Lord with songs and praise: the Rainbow Connection, sponsored by St. Mary's Guild, 7-10 p.m. each '~econd and fourth Saturday beginning July 8, parish center.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican's three main mission aid societies allocated a record-high $136' million in 1988, with more than half the money going to missions in Africa.

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ST. VINCENTdePAULSO~IETY, FR Meeting July 9. St. Vincent de Paul Camp. 573 Adamsville Rd.• Westport; Eucharistic Devotion. 2:30 p.m.

'HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Summer schedule for Saturday Masses, 4 & 6 p.m. July I-Aug. 26.

Confessions 3-3:45 p.m. Saturdays.

The Society for the Propagation ~ of the Faith made allocations and salary payments totaling $83.5 million; Africa received 55 percent of ' the funding, Asia 31 percent and the Americas 8 percent. As in previous years, catechetical instruction was the category receiving the . largest share of the funds.

The St. Peter Apostle Mission Society, which subsidizes seminaries in mission territories, allocated about $42 million in 1988, 58 percent in Africa, while the Holy Childhood Mission Society, which funds mission educational and' health programs for children up to 14 years of age, allocated $10.8 million, most of it going to Africa and Asia.

Mission funds are normally collected one year and distributed the next. The money is kept in accounts in the countries in which it was collected, then sent directly to mission territories to pay for specific projects. Worldwide contributions haJe increased steadily over the last several years.

MAKIN G PLIANS for the annual "Evening on Cape Cod with Bishop Danibl A. Cronin" sponsored by the Diocesan Council of Catholib Women are, from left, Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, P A, dioces~n DCCW moderator; JoAnn Quirk, a past DCCW president; !Betty Mazzucchelli, Cape and Islands District DCCW president; Very Rev. Edward C. Duffy, pastor of St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis. The event, to be held Aug. 10 at the Sheraton Hyannis Hotel, brings diocesan residents and summer visitots together to greet the bishop and enjoy an evening of music ~nd dancing. (Lavoie photo)

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