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• Friday, July 11, 2003

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Ceremonies for Bishop-Elect Coleman's ordination advanced FALL RIVER - Dozens of clergy, religious, seminarians and laity will be involved in the colorful ceremonies in St. Mary's Cathedral where Bishop-Elect George W. Coleman will be ordainedJinstalled as the seventh bishop of Fall River on July 22, at II a.m.

The names of many of those taking part were announced this week by Father Richard D. Wilson, secretary to the bishop and director of Hispanic Ministry.

In recent weeks names of the 15 members of the planning com. mittee were listed in The Anchor.

The principal consecrator at the ceremonies of Holy Orders will be Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, Nuncio to the United States.

He will be assisted by Archbishop Daniel A. Cronin, archbishop of Hartford, who is a former bishop of Fall River, and Archbishop Sean P. O. Malley, OFM Cap., newly appointed archbishop of Boston, and also a former bishop of Fall River.

Deacons at the Mass will be

Rev. Mr. Michael Fitzpatrick and Rev. Mr. Ethan McCarthy, transitional deacons studying to become priests in the Fall River diocese; and Paul J. Macedo, a permanent deacon at St. John the Baptist Parish, New Bedford, who is chairman of the Deacon's Council.

Serving as masters of ceremony will be Father Wilson; Msgr. Stephen J. Avila, pastor of St. John Neumann Parish, East Freetown; Father Kevin A. Cook, parochial vicar, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, New Bedford; Father Maurice O. Gauvin, pastor, St. John the Baptist Parish, New Bedford; Father David A. Pignato, parochial vicar, St. Julie Billiart Parish, North Dartmouth and chaplain, Bishop Stang High School; Deacon Bruce J. Bonneau, who serves at St. John Neumann and is also diocesan director of Religious Education; and Deacon David B. Pepin, who serves at St. Mary's Parish in New

Bedford and is an administrative assistant in the Permanent Diaconate Office.

The lectors will be Fernanda Silveira, a member of the Diocesan Pastoral Council; and Sister Martha Elena Perez of the Guadalupan Missionaries of the Holy Spirit, a member of the Hispanic Ministry on Nantucket.

The servers will include seminarians Karl Bissinger, Joseph Chagnon, David Deston, Jack Harrington, Thomas Kosta and David Nichols.

Also, Alicia Camara and Alizabeth Camara, who are altar servers at St. Mary's Cathedral; and Kristin Houde, an altar server at St. John Neumann.

The episcopal greeters will be seminarians Gregory Bettencourt, Peter Fournier and Jay Mello, all of the Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio; and seminarians Gabriel Giella, Daniel Nunes and William Sylvia, all of Our Lady of Providence Seminary in Providence, R.I.

Capuchin brings new Catholic Charities record year hope to Boston church reveals unprecedented efforts

FALL RIVER - As the dust cleared and the of so many of the parishes.

Catholic Charities Office of the Fall River diocese . "It ~s heartwarming and most revealing that viewed the record-setting spring 2003 appeai, a'when the economiccliinate is' at its lowest ebb story of unprecedented achievement was unfold- in years, our pastors and. parishioners would ie.~. ing. . ward;those woo have so much faith i'n them with The record $3,674,844.95 was more than just a . , this outstanc;ling achievement," Msgr. Harrington number. Rather, it represented a tremendous ef- said. . . ' . " . '. . . . fort on the part of 101 diocesan parishes from" "At a:tim,ewheri' our agencies and apostolates across southeastern Massachusetts, Cape . are, having their resources nearly exhausted, so 'many parishioners - who themCod and the Islands. ' . selves are suffering from this Seventy-five percent of the parishes exceeded their p r e v i - e c o n o m i c d o w n t u r n - gave ous year's total, while more more than ever before so that than a quarter of them had others could be ministered' to,"he added. . double-digit gains ranging from I0 percent to a high of According to Michael J. 99 percent.

Donly, director of DevelopSome notable examples . ment for the diocese, there are . indications that a significant would be the 19 percent gain in St. Theresa's Parish in South number of people gave to the Appeal for the first time this Attleboro; the 25 percent gain in St. Mary's Cathedral Parish in year. ·'It is our intention always to Fall River; a 33 percent increase maintain the trust of our regular doregistered in Holy Cross Parish in South Easton; the 47 percent hike nors and encourage new donors by listed at Our Lady of Fatima Parish in assuring all parishioners in the diocese New Bedford; and the 99 percent gain realthat their gift does directly impact the wellbeing of those in need," Donly stated. ized at St. Peter's Parish in Provincetown.

Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, director of Catho''The fact that 94 cents of every dollar donated lic Charities, was quick to note that the number of in 2002 went directly to the agencies serving those success stories were equally spread out among sub- in need should make all donors very comfortable urban as well as inner-city parishes. He focused with their decision to support Catholic Charities on the work of the pastors and parish committees in the Diocese of Fall River," he explained. as a major factor in the astounding achievements The final figures begin on page 12.

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE BOSTON - A man in the simple brown robes and sandals of a Capuchin friar brought a renewed sense of enthusiasm and .hope to the embattled Catholic Archdiocese of Boston in early July, weeks before his formal installation as archbishop of Bos,ton.

Archbishop Sean Patrick O'Malley, OFM Cap., who was to be illstalled July 30 at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross, spent a' whirlwind day in Boston July to meeting with the media, clergy sex abuse victims, bishops, chancery employees and patients at Caritas St. Elizabeth Medical Center.

"I address you, my fellow Catholics of Boston, with those words that inspired St. Francis, when the crucified Lord said to him, 'Francis, repair my Church,'" Archbishop O'Malley said at a news conference. "I ask you, and plead with you: Repair my Church."

Archbishop O'Malley returned at the end of the day to Palm Beach, Fla., where he has headed the diocese since only last October and where he was to remain until his installation in Boston.

A Vatican official said the archbishop's transfer to Boston

after such a brief term in Florida was a highly unusual step that reflects deep Vatican concern for the Boston situation and its confidence in the Capuchin friar.

The 59-year-old archbishop succeeds Cardinal Bernard F. Law, who resigned last December after a year of growing scandal over his handling of priests who sexually abused children. In Palm Beach, he headed a diocese whose last two bishops resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct.

The appointment drew praise from Church and civic leaders in Boston, as well as from Catholics in the pew.

Mary Ann Glendon, a Harvard law professor who has represented the Vatican at international gatherings, said Archbishop O'Malley was beginning "a job that would be daunting to anyone," but expressed confidence that he would be "a great force for bringing a divided Catholic community together."

Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick ofWashington, whom Archbishop O'Malley was likely to join in the College of Cardinals, said in a statement, "Our prayers are with him as he undertakes a very challenging task, but Tum to page 13 - Boston

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Sister Lia Oliveira FMM NORTH SMITHFIELD, R.I. - Franciscan Missionary of Mary Sister Lia Oli"eira, 85, of Ein Karim Community, North Smithfield, died July I in St. Antoine's Residence here.

Born in Fall River, Mass., the daughter of the late Francesco and the late Clara COfonso) Oliveira, she entered the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary at Fruit Hill, North Providence, R.I., on June 13, 1936. She pronounced her first vows on Dec. 15, 1936 and final vows on Dec. 15,1944.

Most of her religious life was spent teaching school and religious education at Espirito Santo.

School in Fall River. Because she was fluent in Portuguese, her last years in Fall River were spent teaching Portuguese in all grades at the parish school and in local parishes. She also taught

in Woonsocket, R.I., and Millbrook, N. Y. Her health failing, Sister Oliveira took up residence at the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary Assisted Living Residence in 1992, and was admitted to St. Antoine's in 1998.

She leaves a brother, Edward A. Oliveira of Brockton, Mass.; and four sisters, Margaret'Silvia of Swansea, Mass., and Sister Belmira Oliveira, SCD, at the Catholic Memorial Home, Sister Mary Oliveira, SCD, and Theresa Ninetimp, all of Fall River. She was also the sister of the late Afonso and Maximina Oliveira, and Beatrice Vasconcellos.

Her funeral Mass was celebrated Tuesday in Holy Family Chapel, North Providence.

Burial was in the community's cemetery there.

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Thirty-five contact hours are awarded to those who complete the course. Graduates received certificates and pins during recent ceremonies at the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation Provincial' House.

They are: Therese Bakas, An_drea Barry, Mary Ellen Bartlett, Bette Lindberg,. Georgette Mar-

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Applications are being accepted for the next class which will begin September 30. For more information call Claire Stevens at 508-678-3831.

In Your Prayers Please pray for the following '. priests during the coming week July'14 1938, Rev. Nicholas Fett, SS.Cc., Pastor, St. Boniface, New Bedford 1949, Rev. Edmund 1. Neenan, Assistant, Sacred Heart, Oak Bluffs 1998, Rev. Vincent F. Diaferio, Pastor, Holy Rosary, Fall River July 16 1937, Rev. Bernard Percot, a,p., Founder, St. Dominic, Swansea 2002, Rev. Matthew F. Sullivan, SS.CC, Damien Residence, Fairhaven , July 17 1960, Rev. William J. Smith, Pastor, St. Jacques, Taunton 1981, Rev. Edmond Rego, Associate Pastor, Espirito Santo, Fall River 1997, Rev. Ernest N.Bessette, Retired Pastor, St. Joseph, Attleboro JulyJ8 1968, Rev. Adalbert Szklanny, St.'Patrick, Fall River 1984, Rev. Lionel G. Doraisi, SSS., Native of South Attleboro July 19' " 1934, Most Rev. Daniel F. Feehan, D.D., Second Bishop of Fall River, 1907-34 1975, Rev. Francis M. Coady, Pastor, SS. Peter & Paul, Fall River 1992, Msgr. Joseph R. Pannoni, Pastor Emeritus, Holy Rosary, Taunton July 20 1983, Rev. Joao Medeiros, Retired Pastor, St. Elizabeth, Fall River

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Lawyer: More sex abuse lawsuits coming, urges national tribunal NEW YORK (CNS) - The Catholic Church in the United States should prepare to face more sexual abuse lawsuits, said a lawyer who has often defended Catholic dioceses and other denominations against such suits.

"The future looks bleak," said Patrick J. Schiltz. associate dean of the law school at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., who between 1987 and 1995 defended churches against more than 500 clergy sex abuse lawsuits.

Writing in the recent issue of America. a New York-based national Catholic magazine, Schiltz suggested that the Church should confront the crisis by hiring a national "sexual abuse czar" and forming an independent national tribunal that would set awards for any credible victim who opts to use it as an alternative to litigation.

He said wide media coverage of the Church's sexual abuse crisis and legisla-

tive changes arc among the key factors behind an expected increase in lawsuits.

In addition, upcoming suits "will be more dangerous" in terms of likely dol1ar amounts of jury awards and a growing latitude in grounds for finding dioceses responsible for the misconduct of their clergy, he said.

"The media storm of the past year has led many viCtims t() believe that nothing has changed, that sexual abuse is still rampant and that bishops are still more interested in preventing bad publicity than doing justice. That will translate into more lawsuits," Schiltz said.

Victims can choose whether to sue, he said, and the distinguishing feature between those who choose to sue and those who do not is not greed or the seriousness of their abuse, but "the extent to which they trust the Church to do the right thing."

The extensive media coverage has also "poisoned" judges and potential jurors,

making plaintiffs' lawyers more "willing flicted."

"At bottom, I believe that the Church to file lawsuits they would not have filed a year ago," he said. needs a sexual abuse czar - someone He added that victims' groups and who has the knowledge, skill, authority, plaintiffs' lawyers "are working tirelessly staff and resources to improve dramatito extend or abolish the statutes of limita- . cally the Church's response to the sexual tions that have protected the Church from abuse crisis. Putting a few million dollars lawsuits relating to very old abuse." into prevention will save the Church hunSchiltz said the difficulty of defending dreds of millions of dollars in the long against older claims of misconduct has run," he said.

He said measures the bishops have been heightened by the media coverage that makes judges and juries "more likely taken so far, such as forming a National Review Board, "are going to do little to to find fault on the Church's part.".

When it comes to awarding damages, stem the bloodletting in the legal arena.~· Proposing an independent national tri"jurors arc pretty much free to pick a number, and, again, when jurors have been bunal of "respected, experienced, reasonpoisoned toward the Church, they are able people" to arbitrate cases, Schiltz more likely to pick a big number," he said. said it would allow dioceses to "invite "By far the most important thing that victims who appear to be telling the truth the Church must do is restore trust," he ... to use the tribunal."

"In other words, the question before the said, and that wil1 not happen "until it holds negligent bishops accountable for tribunal would not be 'whether' but 'how the incalculable damage they have in- much,''' he said.

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The archbishop-delegate A year ago, who would believe that Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., would be the new archbishop of Boston and Msgr.

George W. Coleman the new bishop of Fall River? The fact that these two clerics are preparing to be installed in their respective dioceses is proof that God does not forget his people.

For all of us in this diocese who know Bishop O'Malley, it is , with great joy that we welcome him home as our Metropolitan.

Archbishop. He will bring'to our region not merely his ~ompas-, . sionate ministry, but also his multi-talented gifts. He will walk the streets' of Boston speaking with Cape Verdean people, in Portuguese, Haitian people in Creole, and the many Latino people in Spanish. This ability to communicate in such a manner will be an outreach for uniting diverse peoples into the one, family of the Church. Yet, beyond this most important reality is his ability to be a healer. The Church of Boston will benefit, as did our own local Church, because the new archbishop not only cares and is concerned, but because he listens.

For effective leadership, listening is not a mere option; it is a necessity. Listening' is an acquired art. It demands self-discipline and well-developed skills, Often, only through listening, can a leader find out what is really going on. How well we all know,that if one raises an issue, and the leader does not allow the full case to be stated, the leader is likely toundeistand only, a piece of the story. In such a situation the problem will not be solved, In addition, the person who surfaced the problem will be frustrated, and more difficulties will' follow. Given the severity of the times. leaders in the Church must be very good listeners. The archbishop-designate is a problem solver because he takes the time to liste':!. This will indeed hold him in good stead as he reaches'out to bring healing to a hurting Church. He will effectively achieve this healing because he is able to walk humbly with his God. In his Fr'antiscan tradition he has learned well the virtue of humility. To be an effective leader one must exercise humility regularly and often. In fact, it is the sign of a great leader never to take personal cr~dit for success. Self~ag­ grandizement is a counter-productive quality, especi<illy when one is called in to be a healer. , The Church of Fall River was indeed blessed by the ministry of Bishop O'Malley. His focus on the least of our brothers and sisters, not only in the Church, but also in the wider c0minunity, was a t1allmark of his role as local bishop. The concern that he gave to the role of Catholic education was evident in his desire to keep our schools open. The on-going'development of the St. Mary's Education Fund helped to subsidize students whose families faced financial tuition difficulties. The quiet tone of his demeanor as he faced some very grave problems was a healing balm for bruised people. The list of his positive qualities far outweighs any of the negatives.

With this in mind, one can be certain that he will bring to Boston a renewal style of ministry that will indeed be effectively refreshing. To sustain him in the tremendous work at hand, he needs not merely our support, but above all our prayers. With this mind-set we ask the good Lord to guide him, and pray that Mary, the Mother of the Church, be with him every step of the way.

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WORK TO ENSURE THE SAFETY AND WELL-BEING OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH AND TO BRING HEALING AND COMFORT TO VICTIMS OF ABUSE. ARCHBISHOP O'MALLEY SUCCEEDS CARDINAL BERNARD

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had passed, many told Don Aldo they attributed their safety to him.

After the war, the film "The When I asked the gentle 90,year-old priest at the Casa Papa Assisi Und~rground" was made.

Giovanni retreat house in Assisi, Don Aldo said that it gives Italy, where to buy a train ticket Franciscan friars and him more back to Rome, little did I know I credit than they are due. He is was meeting a figure of history. vehement in his conviction that it His name was Father Don was the bishop of Assisi, Aldo, protector of more than 200 Giuseppe Placido Nicolini, who Jewish families during the Ger- was the impetus, inspiration, forman occupation of Italy. On Dec. titude and ecclesiastical savvy 11, 1999, he was awarded the behind housing, feeding, hiding, Medal of the Righteous Gentile schooling, preparing false papers

by Israel. A righteous gentile is a for and aiding the escape of the non-Jew who risked his or her life 200 Jews hidden in the homes and monasteries of Assisi. to help save Jews.

At the ceremony, historian Eva He also credits Colonel Fogelman said: "A carob tree is Constantin Mueller, a devout, planted along the Avenue of the Catholic stationed in Assisi, for Righteous, and a plaque bearing the helping save Jews. rescuer's name and nationality The Germans eventually marks the tree.... The medal bears caught up with Don Aldo and sent a Talmudic inscription, 'Whoever him to a concentration camp. saves a single soul, it is as if he had As I sat at the table with Don saved the whole world.'"

Aldo ilnd talked with him over Asked to recount his story, cheese and a glass of wine, I felt Don Aldo said that Jews began to ' the exuberance, of being in the arrive in Assisi in September presence of a great humanitarian, 1943, just after the German oc- but even more so of a man whose cupation. They felt drawn there humility and goodness exempliby St. Francis. When the danger fied everything I would like to be

as a priest.

He could have bragged about his heroism, but never once d,id he do so. He could have taken over the conversation and become the center of attraction, but he never did. "No doubt," I thought to myself, "age had something to do with his mellow disposition."

But as I thought about it more, I couldn't draw this conclusion, When someone risks his or her life for others, especially others who are not of the same faith or way of life, a new character is taken on whose hallmark is love at its deepest level. . , Interestingly, the Greek word for "character" comes from the word "favor." Although that evening with Don Aldo was spent 'around a dimly lit table, and I struggled in Italian to understand him, we communicated together beautifully because I realized I was in the presence ofa man who was especially favored by God to give his life for others in a special way.

He epitomized love, which is 'the essence of character and a,language that bridges all languages.

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What was I thinking?

Wel1, I'll just have to file last sion. The Home Towne Team put If and when the Red Sox ever weekend away as one of thos~ a whopping two runs on the attain such toughness, 1918 will be "What was I thinking?" moments, scoreboard in the final two games. a distant memory and not our of which I've had many lately.

What was I thinking? . claim to fame.

I didn't want to start thinking The 2Q03 Boston Red Sox The rest of the' summer could those thoughts, but in they crept. I could have taken a huge step have been a fun ride had there KNEW I should shoo them away, been a four-game sweep. Even toward reaching that elusive but I didn't. The only consolation carrot by sweeping a team they taking three-of-four would have is that I know I wasn't had on the ropes, or at alone. least taking three of four.

Last weekend, our But alas, they're just not Boston Red Sox swagtough enough. They gered into the House·that couldn't manage to Ruth Built and pasted the scratch out a couple of Evil Empire on consecuruns against decent tive days, 10-3 and 10-2 pitching. Not the mark of

By Dave Jolivet respectively, and in the a champion. process demolished old Boston will move on friend Roger Clemens. and continue to beat up on I was feeling pretty good at that been cause for optimism. But no, the Baltirnores and Detroits, and time, but I wouldn't talk about it. in typical N.Y. vs. Boston fashion, the Yankees will continue to beat Family and friends asked me what the Yanks come out smelling like up on everyone because they think I thought about the twin pastings, roses, and Boston? They just come they can. And last weekend, and I wouldn't acknowledge them. out smel1ing.

Boston gave them no indication And when fellow Sox fans I can't help but reminisce about otherwise. gloated, I cringed. I didn't want to Have I given up on the Sox? some of Boston's sports' glory mess anything up. days. The Boston Celtics routinely No, of course not. Am I aggraI resisted all temptations ... vated with the Sox? Yes, as usual. strutted into hostile arenas in Los until I saw the dreaded graphic on Will I fall into their web of deceit Angeles, Philadelphia and Detroit TV - ''The Red Sox have never again? Yes, inevitably. Will I again and strutted out with championswept a four-game series at utter, ''What was I thinking?" I ships. In 2002, the New England don't want to talk about and mess Yankee Stadium." That was it. It Patriots knocked off three pigskin was too much to bear. Maybe, I powerhouses, Oakland, Pittsburgh anything up. thought, just maybe this is the Dave loUvet, editor of The and St. Louis, on consecutive Anchor, is a fonner sporls editor/ year. A four-game sweep would weeks, and strutted away with a writer, and regularly gives one leave us tied with the Pinstripes, championship. fan's perspective on the unique and would have them reeling.

Those teams were tough ...

"Why not," I said, totally world ofsporls. physically and mentally. When immersing myself in the moment.

Comments are welcome at they had the opportunity to put davejolivet@anchomews.org.

"It's time we got the best of them. someone away, they did.

Yes, a four-game sweep on enemy territory IS possible."

In the first two games of the series, the Sox chewed up the Yankees and then spit them out.

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You struck a chord - dissonant at it was - which needs to be heard. The news media is a mess - of getting-it-first-ratherthan-right, and editorial-comment-in-the-guise-of "news." As you so succinctly and accurately wrote: "This is more than a journalistic disaster; it is a complete affront to authentic values."

Its perpetrators are delusory!

And those of us who long ago believed in the integrity of the profession, are disheartened!

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Liberian archbishop calls for immediate U.S. intervention WASHINGTON (CNS) Liberian Archbishop Michael Francis of Monrovia has called on the United States to send peacekeeping troops to quel1 the violence and chaos gripping the West African nation.

The United States needs to "lead an intervention force (in Liberia) in conjunction with West African states," Archbishop Francis told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview from Monrovia.

"There are many reasons, because of the relationship with the United States, because it is the only superpower," he said.

The arc.hbishop said the United States should lead the international force because of the country's historic ties to Libena,-acountry of3.3 million people founded-ill 1847 by freed American slaves: '- _ Archbishop Francis said more international pressure must be ' placed on the administration of President Charles Taylor or "our people will perish."

Taylor announced Monday that he will voluntarily leave office and go into exile in Nigeria, which has offered him refuge.

The archbishop said that the Bush administration's proposal for 500 to 2,000 American troops in coordination with 3,000 troops from West African countries would be suffi-

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Taylor took power in 1997 after an eight-year civil war ended in 1996. For the past three years, rebels have sought his ouster. More than a million Liberians have been displaced in the latest round of fighting.

Archbishop Francis said that even if Taylor left power international intervention would still be needed to keep the country from being overrun by warlords.

"If there is no intervention force, it could lead to chaos," he said.

Archbishop Francis said the situation in Liberia is a "tragedy."

"Everywhere there are guns, there is raping of women," he said.

The archbishop said the violence has prevented the distribution of humanitarian aid, despite a ceaSe~fire agreement in J u n e . ' "We have a problem, there is "looting, the priests are harassed . . . ' , everything is taken away," he said.

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Steering Points ATfLEBORO - A service entitled ''Celebrating aNew Bishop," will be held July 20 at 3p.m. at the La Salette Shrine. Father George Brennan will lead a vigil of prayer for Bishop-Elect George W. Coleman who will be ordained Bis!,!op of Fall River July 22. ' FALL RIVER - The Luminous Mysteries will be dramatically enacted and prayed by young people July 14 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Patrick's Church, 1598 South Main Street. For more information call Deborah Jezak at 508679-4348.

NEW BEDFORD - The Courage Group will meet Saturday at 7 p.m. in the rectory of Holy Name of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish. Courage is a support group for Catholic men and women who are confronting same sex attraction issues and who are striving to lead chaste lives. For more information call Msgr. Thomas Harrington at 508-992-3184.

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NEW BEDFORD ..:.- Our Lady of the Sea Lay Carmelite Community is sponsoring aTriduum ofprayer and reflection July 13-15 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel ChuI;Ch. Each evening will begin at 7 p.m. and is dedicated to Our Lady. For more information call Lorene Almeida at 508-984-7351.

NORTH DARTMOUTH - A first anniversary Mass for Saci'ed Hearts Father Matthew Sullivan will be celebrated July '16 at 9 a.m. at St. Julie Billiart Church, 494 Slocum Road.

Priests are invited to concelebrate. Refreshments will follow.

NORTII DARTMOUTH - The Diocesan Divorced-Separated Support Group will meet July 14 from 79 p.m. at the Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Road. Guest speaker Mary Kennedy will address the topic "My Journey Through Divorce and Enlightenment."

NEW BEDFORD - Calix, a group which enlists Catholic men and women who are gratefully celebrating recovery from alcoholism, drug addiction and other dependencies will meet Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at the parish center of Holy Name of the Sacred Heart ofJesus Church. Newcomers always welcome.

NORTH DARTMOUTH - A three-part series entitled "Dreams: Formed, Shattered, Reformed,"will be held at the Family Life Center July 17, 24 and 31 from 7.9 p.m. For more information call the Office of Family Ministry at 508-999-6420.

NEW BEDFORD - Volunteers are needed for the Donovan House, a transitional home for women and children. Share your time, knowledge and skills. Training and ongoing support will be provided. For more information call Debra Kenney ofCatholic So-

ONSET - AYoung Adult Beach Party for ages 19-39 will be held July 19 from 1-6 p.m. at the Point fidependence Yacht Club. It will include beach volleyball, music, food and drinks. Although this event is free, RSVPs should be given to Bud Miller at 508-675-3847 by July 14.

"We can only pay him $3.52 a month but he is like a priceless gift to our people."

So says Bishop Joseph Willigers of Jinja, Uganda, about Mathias, one of his catechists.

There are 185 full-time and 569 part-time catechists in Jinja.

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The tax bill has been signed one man who praised the by a gleeful president. It warms' betrayal of families in the taxmy heart, indeed, to know (as cut bill signed in May. I had has been reported) that some gone to the tiny post office near my home and was talking with people will have another tax my longtime friendly postmaster advantage to give them cause to about this abandonment of celebrate.

But wait. There Was a poorer children when a man walked in and quickly jumped, downside to'this. The New York Times used blunt language in explaining this: "The tax bill that President Bush triumphantly signed into law is not just unfair, dishonest and economiBy Antoinette Bosco cally unsound. It is also cruel to low-income families."

It seems that at the last in. He was furious with me. Did . minute, during negotiations I know that these people don't _between the Senate and the pay taxes anyway? They House, a worry crept in. Some deserve nothing, he shouted, were afraid the bottom line and I knew better than to try to could go a bit beyond the get another word in over his agreed upon $350 billion for the clamor. tax cut. No problem. They I wanted to ask him if he ever had children, or if he ever was simply dropped a provision that would have included more lowout of a,job. I wondered if he income families in this knew that the real "shock and summer's advance payment of 'awe" in America today is that child tax credits. (As I write more than two million people this, Congress is attempting to have lost their jobs, bringing the address this question and may total of the unemployed extend the child tax ~redit to many with families - nationmore low-income families.) ally to more than 10 million. I I unexpectedly bumped into wanted to shout at him that the

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families in America are the on,es who are making the greatest contribution to this country.

Those who bring children into the world are the ones who give our country the next generation of police, teachers, s9ldiers, business people, medical personnel, newspaper reporters and on and on.

I made that contribution as a single parent of six great kids. I felt the insult of being treated as some kind of inferior species when I got called in by the IRS, challenging my 1968 return. My entire income as a writer for a Catholic paper that year, plus some freelance magazine work, had been $9,800. I was infuriated.

I drove to the mandated office on Long Island, threw a box of receipts on the table, raised my voice and demanded to know why I was being challenged by the IRS when General Electric never paid a penny in taxes. The poor woman who had to deal with me got the point. It turned out that the IRS owed me, and I got a refund of $130!

But I never have forgotten the institutional and personal hardness directed at the poor.

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Q. Maya priest administer the sacrament of confirmation if a bishop is not available?

Our parish was scheduled to have confirmation, families made plans for food, decorated cak~s and made reservations. Some guests and sponsors from a distance were already on their way.

The bishop became ill and postponed the ceremony, caUsing a big strain on everyone and a lot of ill will toward the bishop for not asking the pastor or another priest'to minister the sacrament.

Our pastor confirmed our daughterin-I~w when she joined the Church. Couldn't he have done it this time?

We were told in another parish that a priest may . always confirm if the bishop cannot be present. If there, , why not here? (Wisconsin) A. You're really asking several distinct questions. First of all, as you obviously know, the bishop is the ordinary minister of confirmation. There are, however, occasions when a priest may validly administer this sacrament, but the circumstances are carefully defined.

By general Church law, priests may confirm validly when someone is in danger of

death; when the priest is legally equivalent to a diocesan bishop (vicar general, for instance); or immediately after a priest baptizes an adult convert or receives a previously baptized non-Catholic adult into the Catholic faith.

A priest also confirms validly when he receives back into the Catholic Church someone who

From what I said, you can see that the priest acted lawfully and properly when he confirmed your daughter-in-law when she entered the Catholic faith. This occurs in parishes each year at the Easter Vigil liturgy and occasionally at other times through the year.

It is also clear from the above .

Church laws that the pastor in the other parish you speak of was not correct in saying that priests may always confirm if the bishop cannot come.

Unless he has the faculty from these laws or has been personally

By Father delegated by the bishop, John J. Dietzen the confirmations ministered by a priest left the Church or who without are invalid. sinful fault had been instructed The laws I cite are found in, or joined, a non-Catholic primarily in the Code of Canon religion.

Law (882 and 883), and two In addition, a bishop may official interpretations given by grant to specific priests the the Pontifical Commission for faculty to confirm in his absence . Interpretation of the Decrees of or he can ask other priests to Vatican II, in 1979 and 1975. confirm with him when the A free brochure answering number to be confirmed is large. questions Catholics ask about In my experience, many bishops Mary, the mother of Jesus, is do both of these quite often. available by sending a Those. then, are the circumstamped, self-addressed' stances when a priest other than envelope to Father John the bishop may validly minister Dietzen, Box 325, Peoria, IL the sacrament of confirmation.

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Liturgical reforms we might consider If words were measured by the ton state to California and, thus, pound and each word weighed buy gas in Oregon since it's kind roughly one pound, then I estimate of on the way. We leap out of our cars only to be confronted by surly I have read enough stories on liturgy since Vatican Council n to attendants armed with squeegies who want a tip for squeegy-ing have sunk the U. S. Pacific Reel.

However, the weekly Masses in your windshield and tell you to the parishes where I have lived during this same time period have changed little.

How can this be? As a matter of fact, I honestly W0 0 cannot think of much change other than when the reader of Scripture is

By Dan Morris done. he or she now says, "Word of the Lord" instead of 'This is the Word of the Lord." keep your hands off the pump What happened to the 'This is nozzle. Check with AAA if you don't believe me! the" part? Who took it? What are they doing with it? Is it OK? Speaking of acronyms, I know I missed 'This is the" at first, that the BCL (the U.S. bishops' but now I am used to it - like I Committee on the Liturgy) issues loads of statements, even a recent became used to pumping my own one that reminds us when to stand, gas. .

Of course, the latter is not true sit, kneel, sing and leave. They in Oregon where attendants by law also have a standing statement(but it's not on standing) about holding 'must pump your gas. This is startling for those of us who hands during the Our Father. occasionally drive froril WashingHowever, both of these are a)

not on many of our radar screens and b) even if they were, our parishes just do what they do anyway (unless a new pastor comes along who has a personal "liturgy tick" that he imposes on "his" new flock). At least most pastors don't shake squeegies at you.

Where's this going? I just read yet another liturgy story about a meeting of liturgists (big surprise, eh?). I was tricked. I thought it might be about football because it took place at the University of Notre Dame. ,The story was barely heavy enough to sink a dinghy, but it did make me wonder if the bishops or their committee might want to look into real things that happen in real pews in real parishes and issue a few dictums that would really be fun. For example?

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- The BCL's preferred sneakers for altar servers do not light up and blink.

-Parishes shall post Notices of Nonliability for sound systems and/or microphones which can crack fillings or shatter eyeglasses with their feedback.

-If the liturgy bells are not available, do not substitute tricycle clinger-ringer bells.

-While there is no prescribed liturgical garb for collection ushers, the use of camouflage uniforms and snazzy berets is encouraged.

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parishes consider "Young Family Sections" where pews can be outfitted with Cheerio dispensers, restraining devices and "soft pew toys."

I bet they've already thought of this in Oregon.

Comments are welcome. Email Uncle Dan at cnsuncleOl@yahoo.com.

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Fall River diocese marks its centennial The foUowing are the next in a series of historical sketches of the parishes comprising the Diocese of Fa,ll River, founded in 1904. The series will run in chronological order from oldest to newest parish, according to diocesan archives, concluding in March, 2004, the centennial anniversary of the diocese. Please note that ALL parish histories will run in the order they were founded - including parishes that have been suppressed or merged. Histories ofmergedparfshes w~ll run according to the time-line.

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increased with visitors on vacation. Without the opportunity ofreceiving the sacraments and wanting to celebrate their faith, they sought to have Mass offered on the Island.

In the 1870s, Frank Magetts, a butler, and John McGrath of Mansfield purchased a: lot of land on Circuit Avenue and donated it to the Catholics on the Island. It is the current site of Sacred Heart ' Church in Oak Bluffs.

It is believed that until then, there was no Catholic worship at all on the Island. A newspaper account says, "It is probable that no priest came to the' Island before 1870."

Between 1872 and ]880, an occasional priest from New Bedford or Sandwich would come to , Martha's Vineyard to celebrate Mass in various private homes.

The community on the Island came under the jurisdiction of St. Lawrence Parish in New Bedford.

In 1880, with contributions from summer visitors and resident Catholics, a wooden frame church was erected. Until 1886, Mass was said during July and August. That year, Sacred Heart Mission was turned over to St. John the Baptist Parish in New Bedford, the first Portuguese parish in the United States.

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During the whiter, Mass was said on the third Slmday of each month.' , On Feb. 1, 1903, Sacred Heart became a parish ofits own and Father Patrick McGee became its first pastor. Mass was celebrated there each Sunday summer and winter.

Father McGee's twin brother was pastor of Nantucket at the time and the Islands became known to many as ''The McGee Islands."

In 1910 Bishop Daniel F. Feehan of Fall River instructed Sacred Heart's pastor, Father MJ. Reilley, to construct a mission church in Tisbury on Vineyard Haven. The first Masses were celebrated in the town hall there.

The work of financing and building the mission church was accomplished by both the Irish and Portuguese communities who worked to earn the money and they eagerly accepted the task of building a house of worship.

On July 27, 1911, Bishop Feehan opened a dedication ser-

St. Anthony's Parish, Taunton TAUNTON -,In the 1860s Portuguese immigrants began to find theirway toTaunton.

They drifted inland abandoning the whaling ships ofNew Bedford; and arriving in Boston from theAwres were welcomed to fanns and the brickyards of Taunton: By ]902 more than 3,<XXl Portuguese immigrants in the Taunton:3rea beglPl l~king for a church of their own, ~ed,:by:a priest' as pastor who could speaktheir Dative te!ngue.,: That same year, ~ohn deRosa of Dighton purchased the Perkins proiJerty'- Which included a mansion,~ oli Weii Stn;et for. a Catholic church and the following year it was transferred to Bishop Matthew Harkins of Providence, whose,jurisdiction extended to what is now the Diocese of Fall River.

InApril, 1903; FatherAlexlindro F. Louro, a native ofTerceira,Azores, and assistantpastor ofSt Peter's in ProvincetoWn, was named pastor of the new parish, which he named St Anthony's becauSe of the special devotion of the Portuguese to the saint The front room of the mansion soon became too small for the growing congregation and the parish was forced to hire the Temperance Hall on Trescott Street for Masses.

In 1905, a year after the Diocese of Fall River came into existence, Bishop William Stang, its first bishop, realized that Taunton would n~ more than one Catholic parish and he purchased five house lots at School and Washburn streets. Construction of a rectory and basement church began and on April 19, 1906, dedication ceremonies of the basement

church were held. Father Manuel Viera de Bern of Gloucester celebrated the first Mass and St. Anthony's Parish had come into existence.

Before and shortly after the basement church was completed, religious feasts were held at the farm of Tio Joao Leitero (John Butler Souza) on Floral Street.

Father Louro served the parish until retirement in 1927 when he was succeeded by Father Manuel M. Couto, who had been the assistant pastor since 1919. He organized a St. Vmcentde Paul Society to help meet the needs of parishioners during the Depression. He re'signed in 1944.

FatherManuelJ. Teixeira, later to be named a monsignor, was appointed to administer the parish and in a span of six years a new church of Gregorian style Colonial design was built.

It was dedicated on July 29, 1951 by Bishop James L. Connolly.

A new parish school opened in September 1955 and like so many others closed in 1972 because of spiraling costs and a shortage of the Holy Union Sisters who staffed it.

After Msgr. Teixeira died in 1962, he was succeeded by Father Maurice Souza who served until 1977. He was followed by Father George Amaral as the fifth pastor, who organized a popular parish newsletter known as the St. Anthony Messenger.

AMarch 21, 1990 fire destroyed the former St. Anthony School, which housed many parish programs. A new parish center was subsequently built.

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Father Henry S. Arruda was named the seventh pastor in June 2001and is leading the parish in celebrations of this, its centennial

vice in Sacred Heart Church and then proceeded to Vineyard Haven to complete the service of dedication of the new, St. Augustine' Church and the beginning of its own parish.

In 1934, extensive repairs were made to Sacred Heart Church. Its original structure was enlarged, two new altars were installed and a 15-foot addition to its front was constructed. The work was completed in September of that year.

In 1965, Sacred Heart Church was converted into a parish hall and religious education center.

Until 1978, Our Lady, Star of the Sea Church, originally built as a summer church, served the parishioners.

Other pastors who served at Sacred Heart included, Father McNamara, Father James E. McMahon, Father Hugh 1. Smith, later to become a monsignor; Father Donald Couza, Father Patrick Hurley, Father Edward B. Booth, Father Francis M.Coady, Father James W. Clark, and Father Joseph F. D'Amico, The current pastor of Sacred Heart Parish is Father Michael Nagle. Father John C. Ozug is the parochial vicar. The parish address is 156 Circuit Avenue, P.O. Box 1565, Oak Bluffs, MA 02557. It can be reached by telephone at 508-693-0342; and by FAX at 508-696-8408.

year. He is the current pastor. Father Jeffrey Cabral is the parochial vicar, and Jose H. Medina is the deacon. The rectory is at 126 School Street, Taunton, MA 02780. It can be reached by telephone at 508-822-0714; and

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By JUDITH SUDILOVSKY CA1110UC NEWS SERVICE JERUSAlEM -Isrneli authorities demolished the futmdations of the unauthorized mosque that had been OOilt next to the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, bringing to an end a squabble that began some

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of her son, who always' -wanted to be a military chaplain and is now the 10th person in their imROMEOVILLE, Ill. -As the mediate family who has served United States was preparing to in the military. launch a military assault on Iraq, "It's such a different world parishioners at St. Mary without him (here)," she added.

Magdalene Parish in Joliet wor"It's so strange to go to Mass ried about the safety of one of and know that he is so far away," their own - Father Ron Neitzke, added Father Neitzke's sister and their pastor.

St. Mary Magdalene parishioner, Father Neitzke, a military Donna Miller. chaplain with the U.S. Marine Miller said that a great-niece Corps Expeditionary Forces in of Father Neitzke is particularly Readiness, a civil engineering didisappointed that he's gone vision of the U.S. Departbecause she is about to rement of the Navy, left a teary-eyed congregation "We live in a tent city," he wrote. ceive her first Communion. behind January 19 as he '7here are no buildings around for "When she made her first reconciliation just recently, shipped out with his remiles. When we eat, we have to sit she picked a young; tall serve unit.

He was sent to Kuwait on the floor or stand because there priest who looked a lotlike but according to the aren't any chairs. We take a shower my brother to go to," Miller parish's administrative as- every three or four days if water is said.

With St. Mary sistant, Annette Murphy, available."

Magdalene's 50th annivercommunication with Father sary as a parish and the Neitzke has been sparse at "It is a different world than eighth-grade confirmation fast best. She said written corresponapproaching, Father Neitzke dence takes approximately 20 Joliet," wrote the pastor.

In a letter to the parish, he made sure his letters home condays to arrive from the Middle Eastern country and the troops added that the troops were "for- tained words of encouragement no longer have access to E-mail. tunate to receive two hot meals to parishioners.

"This is a special year for St. In a letter to students and"staff a day most days."

Because food remains limited Mary Magdalene," he wrote. at the parish school, Father Neitzke described the part of the and treats are uncommon, "Fifty years of faith. I wish I country where he is stationed as Murphy told the Catholic Ex- was there to celebrate with you, flat, dry and dusty, with no trees plorer, Joliet's diocesan newspa- but life goes on. Let's make this per, that Father Neitzke re- a year to remember. We should and little vegetation.

He noted that the only sign of quested friends and relatives to be proud of our past and prelife he has seen around the camp send snack foods such as chips, paring for the future," he conbesides the troops was a pack of salsa and co.okies for the unit. He tinued.

"I also want to congratulate wild dogs, but he said he had also urged parishioners to send been told the approaching letters to the soldiers in his unit, our eighth-graders on their conwarmer weather means several particularly since some of them firmation," he wrote. "I wish I was there to celebrate with you. species of snakes, scorpions, spi- had no one to write to them.

Sue Neitzke, Father Neitzke's I ask you to pray for peace and ders, lizards and rats will come mother, said she was very proud that this crisis is resolved soon." out of hibernation.

"We live in a tent city," he wrote. "There are no buildings around for miles. When we eat, we have to sit on the floor or stand because there aren't any chairs. We take a shower every three or four days if water is available."

The priest said his day begins somewhere between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. and ends between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Throughout the day, fighter planes and helicopters fly overhead.

began consInJction on the ItalianslyIeplazaoriginally planned forthe area in preparation fOl'Ibe year2(XX).

Israeli media rqxJrted that hundreds of Israeli police stood guard as the demolition began. Eight people were arrested. including Nazareth Deputy Mayor Salman Abu Ahmed Zuabi. local leader of the Islamic Movement.

After the demolition some 200 Muslim worshippers gathered peacefully for noon prayers on a nearby road that had been closed to traffic, the Ha'aretz newspaper reported.

Ha'aretz quoted Franciscan Father Giovanni Battistelli as saying on Vatican Radio that the decision to demolish the mosque was "fair and just" "We have been asking for this since the beginning," said Father Battistelli, custodian of the Holy Land's holy sites.

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Following a protracted court battIe, in March a Nazareth oomt ordered the demolition of the f0undations of the mosque in the public square next to the basilica. Officials are negotiating to find an appr0priate alternative site for the mosque.

The tomb revered by Muslims will be renovated and incorporated into the square that is also intended for use by Christian pilgrims visiting the city.

"The (demolition) took place with little incident," said Ramzi Hakim, spokesnlan for the mayor's office. ~ 'This is a difficult step to take because fium the beginning the issue was exploited cynically by (Israeli) officials to create divisions between Nazarerlt residents. This has never been a religious issue but rather a political one. We still don't know if this is the end," he said.

Hakim said the MinistIy ofHousing and Construction was responsible for building the plaza.

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Loyola Press (Chicago, 2(03). 149 pp.; and SOMETIMES I HAVEN'T Gar A PRAYER AND aTHER REAL CATHOLIC ADVENTURES, by Mary Kavanagh Sherry. Catholic Book Publishing (Totowa, N.J., 2003). 142 pp.

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The overwhelmed who exclaim, "God help me!" will find that help in, this book.

Meanwhile, it is encouraging when a "growing up Catholic" book moves beyond nuns and knuckles to consider growth as an ongoing process.

In "Sometimes I Haven't Got a Prayer and OtherReal CatholicAdventures," Mary Kavanagh Sherry provides entertaining "blast-fromthe-past" stories about what some Catholics in the pre-Vatican II CATliOUC NEWS SERVICE Church learned and did. If there is Gregory Popcak's book "God , finger-pointing in her stories, it is the Help Me! This Stress Is Driving Me kind associated with praise and adCrazy" is for those whose spiritual' miration ---, as in a poignant story and emotional growth are stunted by about her dying pastor- rather than anxiety. A licensed psychotherapist, accusation and condemnation.

Popcak takes what all Catholics have A first-time author, she covers at their disposal - such as Scrip- some uniquely Catholic topics, such ture; prayer; the sacraments of pen- as the Mass and rosary, and others ance, Eucharist. and anointing of the for which faith comes into play, such sick; and sacramentals - and dem- as aging, illness, dying, stewardship onstrates how they can' be used to and witnessing. Each is told with a lessen life's stress. dose of humor. For example, the As he guides readers, Popcak re- story of how her Uncle Frank hauled minds them that discerning what the communion rail home from God wants of them - and trusting Church and stored it in the basement totally that God will not let them , after his cousin, the pastor, had it down - will eradicate the anxiety removed adds a humorous personal and the accompanying stress. note to the chapter on the changes Wiiting from his own experience brought about by the council of needing to trust God and sharing "Vatican II: Let It Be, Let It Be." stories about clients and how they Fiftysomething Catholics, parchanged their stressful situations, ticularly those who had a Catholic Popcak provides direction that is school education, will relate to practical, doable, and enjoyable.

Sherry's stories and be inspired by Parts of the book are intense, like the accompanying reflections and the chapter "Find Where You Left insights with which she concludes Yourself," which details problems each one. adults must rectify by examining Those who want-a post-Vatican their roots in childhood. But that sec- II '60s exPerience may want to form tion is offset by the chapter "Prac- . a group to discuss the book via the ticeJoy," in which he shows read- three sets ofquestions she provides. ers how they can do just that by de- More than a trip down memory lane, veloping a sense of humor and by it will help you understand the faith doing things about which they could in which you grew up, and in which say, "I could never do that." you continue to grow. ."

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guise of Sinbad, framing him for the crime. Sinbad is sentenced to death, but too-noble-to-be-true Proteus, NEW YORK - Fabled Arabian swashbuckler believing his friend was set up, valiantly offers to take Sinbad crosses swords with a mischievous goddess in his place at the chopping block, unless Sinbad can reorder to retrieve apowerful magic book in the animated turn in 10 days with the book.

In true heroic fashion, Sinbad sets a course for adventure "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas" Tartarus, the netherworld abode of Eris, battling treach(DreamWorks).

Despite a star-powered cast lending their pipes and erous seas and fantastical creatures in pursuit of the peri ous prize,' proving that underneath polished animation, directors Tim his knavish facade is an honorable Johnson and Patrick Gilmore's lukewarm story lacks both the character heart. The journey is complicated by and narrative development required to a stowaway, Marina, who, it turns out, qualify it as one ofthe seven animated ' fancies the goateed rogue's bad-boy wonders of the ancient world. magnetism to her prissy prince's charm.

The fanciful tale centers on Sinbad (voiced by Brad Pitt), dashing dareFans who prefer the more traditiondevil of the "Arabian Nights;' who, ally drawn Disney-style animation to on this cinematic voyage, trades in his Pixar's computer generated critters flying carpet for the helm of the Chiwill not be disappointed. Drawing inmera and its motley crew of fun-lov. spiration from both classical Grecoing pirates, itching for some time off Roman and Arabian folklore, the film-' from pillaging and plundering, prefmakers have'created an eclectic world, erably on the white sands of Fiji. at once both realistic and mythic. The The loot that will punch their tickenchanting artwork is at its best when ets to fun in the sun, a priceless leatherdealing with the film's more fantastic bound volume called the "Book of elements. Eris slithers with serpentine Peace" - you know, the standard fluidity, as do the ethereal Sirens, the magical object that keeps COSrrllC equimythological seductresses whose librium - is en route to Syracuse, not hypnotic songs lured sailors to death the city of Italian or Orangemen (as - envisioned here as fountain-like in Syracuse University) fame, but a liquid femme fatales. Special mention mythic realm, part Byzantium, part should also gq to the surreal sequence Camelot. The only problem is, the in Tartarus, a Dali-inspired realm of treasured tome is being escorted by FOR A brief review of shifting sands, littered with the ruins the gallant Proteus (voiced by Joseph Arnold Schwarzenegger star- of ancient cities - the perfect digs Fiennes), heir to the throne of Syra- ring in the futuristic action for the goddess of chaos. cuse and Sinbad's former childhood thriller "Terminator 3: Rise of Pfeiffer steals the show as the dechum. liciously devious deity. Pitrs Sinthe Machines,"see CNS It is reveale9 that their friendship "Brad" is rather bland and takes a went sour and that the two have not Movie Capsules below. (CNS back seat to his more colorful crew. seen each other in 10 years. All is for~ photo from Warner Bros. Pic- Zeta-Jones' raspy voice is always a . gotten when a sea monster attacks, tures) pleasure to listen to, even without any styniieing Sinbad's shot at filching the tunes for her to belt out- in fact, there book from under Proteus' nose. After barely escaping a aren't any songs at all. ' watery grave in the squid-like behemoth's tentacles, Several of the scenes, including a near-shipwreck Sinbad is offered a deal by Eris (voiced by Michelle and the Tartarus sequences, may be distressing to the Pfeiffer), the goddess of chaos, who also has designs under-six set. And while much of the plot hinges on a for the mystical manuscript - if he steals the book for complex emotional triangle involving Sinbad, Proteus her, she'll guarantee him that he and his mates will re- and Marina, the film promotes a tyke-friendly theme tire in style. All of this has little to'do with the book about the value of friendship, as well as imparting a . itself, and everything to do with stirring up trouble: What strong message about honesty and selfless courage. else is an immortal to do for a little fun?

If you are trying to figure out what to do with one of Sinbad and his boys sail on to Syracuse, crashing your thousand and one nights, you might just want to Proteus' welcome-home bash with plans to pilfer the see this film. While it could have been better, it's still book, which has been set in the city's well-guarded cita- not all that Sin-':bad." del. At the party Sinbad is introduced to Proteus' beauDue to some scary scenes, as well as complex emotiful betrothed, Marina (voiced by Catherine Zeta-Jones). tional relationships, the USCCB Office for Film & One look from her doe-like eyes makes the cocksure Broadcasting classification is A-II - adults and adocad want to amend his thievin' ways. But Eris trumps lescents. The Motion Picture Association of America en;>s when the divine diva steals the book herself in the rating is PG - parental guidance suggested.

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"Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde" (MGM) Cotton-candy comedy about dizzy material girl and Harvard

Law grad Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon), heading off to Washington as an animal rights activist in order to pass legislation, that will free her pampered pooch's , mother from a cosmetics research lab. Director Charles HermanWurmfeld's predictable fish-out-, of-water sequel rehashes many of the same 'can't-keep-a-dumbblonde down situations, while continuing to plug the original's message of believing in oneself. Some mild sexual humor, a homosexualthemed subplot, as well as a smattering of crass language and an instance of profanity. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-ill - adults.

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Priest stoned, bishop guarded by police during rioting in Malawi·

By BRONWEN DACHS CAlliOUC NEWS SERVICE

CAPE TOWN, South Africa Apriest was stoned and abishop was guarded by police during riots in the southemAfrican country ofMalawi.

An angry mob protesting the removal of five Muslim foreign nationals suspected of ~orking for al Qaeda stoned Father Girevelo Lazarus' truck as he was driving in Mangochi, Malawi, a week ago, said Bishop Allesandro Assolari 'of Mangochi.

The priest "got out of the truck and ran away," BishopAssolari said in a telephone interview from Mangochi, a predominantly Muslim tourist resort district noltheast of the

commercial capital Blantyre.

The demonstrators continued stoning the truck and then set it on fire, he said, noting that the crowd seemed to have "recognized it as a mission car."

Father Lazarus was not badly injured, he said.

A report by The Associated Press said II people were arrested after demonstrators vandalized and looted the offices of Save the Children USA and at least seven churches in late June.

Malawi's army was deployed to quell the riots after the five Muslim men were handed over to the CIA June 23 and flown to nearby Botswana.

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The men are accused of funneling money to Osama bin Laden's terrorist group and have been linked to the 1998 bombings at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in which 231 people were killed.

Bishop Assolari said he was protected by armed police who were set on re-establishing order in Mangochi.

"Severe damage was done to churches around·here," he said, noting that most were Pentecostal churches "which are seen as having U.S. links."

"Even some isolated simple chapels in the bush were bumed," he said.

"We are all puzzled about why

churches were targeted" by the demonstrators, Archbishop Tarcisius G. Ziyaye of Blantyre said.

"Churches have nothing to do with this (the five arrests)," he said.

In Blantyre, police fired tear gas to disperse a violent crowd of about 200 Muslims. ''There has been a lot of damage and destruction here," Archbishop Ziyaye said.

"Up until now there has been no tension in the relationship" between Christians and Muslims in Malawi, he said.

Bishop Assolari said the riots in Mangochi made him unable to attend the consecration of Bishop Peter Musikuwa of Chikwawa. .

President Bakili Muluzi, a Muslim, said he would not allow vio-

lence to threaten peace in Malawi.

"You know that I am a Muslim, I don't hide that, but I am a peaceful Muslim. I will not allow anyone to start violence in the name of religion," the AP quoted Muluzi as say~ ing.

"I was very glad that the president took a strong stand against the violence and condemned those responsible for the damage," Bishop Assolari said.

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Vatican to advise on genetically modifiedfood situation in the drought areas in Zimbabwe and other places," Msgr.

James Reinert, an official ofthe Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace said. "We realize that some bishops around the world are waiting for some direction from the Holy See." For many countries, biotechnology "is an economic issue, not a technology issue," said Msgr.

Reinert, a priest of the Diocese of Lincoln, Neb. "But for us, for the Church, this is a human rights issue. We are looking at the fact that there are 800 million people in danger of famine, of actual starvation," the priest said.

"They're not just going to bed hungry, they're starving. So we. have to examine anything that can help alleviate that."

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CNS) "in extreme poverty," living on $1 a - The Vatican's representative to a . day, and the other two billion people global agriculture conference in Sac- are "little better off at $2 a day." .Neither Pope John Paul II nor the ramento said he would observe discussions on food engineering tech- Vatican has taken a definitive stance nology to become better informed on the genetic modification offoodand to advise Pope John Paul II stuffs, but they have emphasized the need for safeguards to. protect about its ethical implications.

Archbishop Renato R. Martino people's health and the environment.

Genetic modifications involve said the pope is interested in leaming more about genetically modi- cutting, joining and transferring fied food and whether it could be genes between unrelated species. used to feed billions of starving They are used to make plants more resistant to pesticides, freezing, people around the world.

"He wants to know how these spoilage or drought; to make aninew technologies might help mals grow faster or larger or propeople who are hungry or are liv- duce more milk; or - in the case ing in poverty," said Archbishop of the so-called "terminator seed" Martino, presidellt of the Pontifi- - to produce sterile crops, forcing cal Council for Justice and Peace. farmers to buy new seeds each year.

Although the first large-scale "The Holy Father so far has not spoken on the issue, and we are in commercial harvest of genetically the process of study in order to rec- engineered crops in the United ommend to him what the Church's States took place only in 1996, today the nation is the world leader stance might be."

He was in the state capital to rep- in farm biotechnology. About 75 resent the Vatican at the first Min- percent of U.S. soybeans, 34 peristerial Conference and Expo on cent of the country's corn and Agricultural Science and Technol- nearly 50 percent of all cotton are ogy, sponsored by the U.S. Depart- genetically altered.

The Pontifical Academy for ment of Agriculture at the SacraLife, in a 1999 study, gave a "prumento Convention Center. ''The Holy See wants to elabo- dent yes" to genetic modification rate a position, so we need to hear of plants, as long as the risks are all of the different aspects," he said. "carefully followed through open. "We have in mind the fate of three ness, analysis and controls."

"We were in southem Africa last billion people - half of the world's population." He said one billion are September, .and we understand the

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we have confidence that he has all the gifts that are needed for the task of reconciliation and renewal in the Church of Boston."

Former Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, who also served as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican under President Clinton, called the路 appointmen,~'~a gift from God to the city of Boston and a gift of God to our Church" and said "the Church in Boston's greatest days are before us."

Archbishop O'Malley has made clear that his first priority in B9ston will be confronting the clergy sex abuse scandal and redressing what he called the "grave er.rors of the past."

Among the areas requiring his immediate attention were financial settlements, which he said he was anxious to resolve.

"We hope that the achievement of financial settlements will be a factor in a process of healing," he said. "Settlements are not hush money or extortion or anything other than the rightful indemnifica-

tion of persons who have suffered gravely at the hands of priests."

At the meeting with victims on that first day in Boston, Archbishop O'Malley heard some plain talk.

Bernie McDaid, who says he was abused by Father Joseph E. Birmingham 40 years ago, said he told the new archbishop: "So, Sean, don't blow it." ,"The whole room started laughing, and he laughed, too," McDaid said. "So he is human. And I like that. It broke the ice a little ~t:

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A Capuchin friar since 1965 and a priest since 1970, the archbishop was named coadjutor bishop of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, in 1984 and became head of the diocese the following year. He was bishop of Fall River from 1992 to 2002 and bishop of Palm Beach since October 19. .

In addition to English,.Portuguese and Spanish, Archbishop O'Malley speaks .French, Italian and German.

Bishop-Elect Coleman hails Bishop ., O'Malley as new Boston archbishop ROME -" Even as the Vatican named Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., as the new archbishop of Boston, Bishop-Elect George W. Coleman of Fall River, in the Eternal City in preparation for his own July 22 ordination, issued a statement.

The comments came early July I, just hours after the Vatican announced the appointment.

The statement reads as follows: "In preparation for my ordination as the seventh Bishop of Fall River, I have been in Rome these pastfew days.

I learned this morning of the appointment by His Holiness Pope John Paul II of Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM .Cap., as the next archbishop of Boston. I was privileged to assist Bishop O'Malley for nine years when he was here as our diocesan bishop. His unique qualities of holiness, intelligence, and humility endeared him to all of us here in our diocese.

Bishop O'Malley came to Fall River after the James Porter case had broken, and from his first moments here, he worked tirelessly to bring healing to the victims, their fa~ilies, the priests, and the parishioners of our diocese. The work that he did in this area is well known throughout the country, and the steps that he took have served as a model for other diocesan bishops. We remain gratefulfor all the good that he accomplished while he was among us.

We pledge to him our continued prayers as he prepares to lead the Archdiocese of Boston. With God's help and the support ofthe priests, deacons, religious, and laity, we are certain that he will bring his personal qualities to an archdiocese in great need of them. All in the archdiocese will learn of the great gift that they have received in his appointment as their shepherd, and to them he will bring healing and consolation while restoring confidence in the Church.

Our affection and prayers go with him as he undertakes these weighty responsibilities. .

On a personal note, I look forward to having him as our neighbor and to

the opportunities that we will have to work together."

Across the nation,路 Church leaders agreed in comments after the appointment was announced.. ' Archbishop John C. Favalora of Miami praised Archbishop O'Malley as an "excellent choice" for Boston and said "his background and experience suit hil1) very well to shepherd the people of the Archdiocese of Boston in the aftermath of the problems they have been dealing with."

He said, however, that the transfer was "a disappointment to all of us in Florida, especially in the Diocese of Palm Beach, since he has been received so very well and has served the needs. of that diocese under difficult circumstances."

But Archbishop Favalora praised the simultaneous appoiptment to Palm Beach of Bishop Gerald M.: Barbarito of Ogdensburg, N.Y. "W~ are all very grateful that the Holy See hl1-s taken the extraordinary step of filling the Diocese of Palm Beach immediately so there will be no period of vacancy," he said.

Cardinal Bernard F. Law, who resigned in December as archbishop of Boston, congratulated Archbishop O'Malley on his appointment.

"My prayers are with the new archbishop and with the archdiocese," he said in a statement. "In their ecclesial communion may they show forth the presence of the risen Lord."

Archbishop John J. Myers of Newark, N.J., praised the new Boston leader as "an outstanding bishop, a man of prayer and of the Church."

"His extensive experience in leading dioceses and people through difficult times will be particularly valuable to the Archdiocese of Boston as it seeks healing in the days and months ahead," he added. .

Archbishop Harry J. Flynn of St. Paul and Minneapolis said Archbishop O'Malley "has shown himself to be a good shepherd."

"He brings the intelligence, compassion and firm faith that will, over time, restore the great name of the Boston Archdiocese and renew the spirit of the faithful," he said.

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SEVENTH-GRADER Jessica Oliveira, above, of SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, 'displays her first~place award from the Massachusetts State Science Fair with help from Principal Kathleen Burt and Science Teacher Thomas Keane, Her project "Does Temperature Affect the Strength of Monofilament Line?" was chosen as the best among hundreds of entries. Below, third-grader Alexandra Mendonca displays a news report during a recent visit by Channel 6 anchor April O'Dell and meteorologist Fred Campagana. Mendonca and other students met with the special visitors to get advice on creating their own news team for a class project.

STUDENTS FROM St. Joseph-St. Therese School, New Bedford, enjoyed their annual field day at Brooklawn Park. The event included many out900r activities and games as well as food.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION students from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, New Bedford, gather with Franciscan Father Roman Chwaliszewski for a recent ceremony honoring Our Lady.

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RYAN TULLY of Bishop' Feehan High School, Attleboro, receives congratulations from Athletic Director Paul O'Boy upon selection by the National Football Foundation as a scholar-athlete. He was one of 22 so honored at a recent banquet.

EIGHT-GRADER Nicole Garcia of Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, New Bedford, answers questions from first-graders during a recent story hour. Garcia was on hand to share the story "The Animal Zoo," which she wrote and illustrated as part of a class project.

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Friday, July 11, 2003

Principals, faculty gather to share ideas on helping needy students

THE WORLD Language Department at Bishop Connolly High School recently inducted these students into its French Honor Society. Front row: Elsa Bermudez, Ashley Cain and Tracy Ferreira. Middle row: Jennifer Fleming, Nicholas Logier, Matthew Luzitano and Ashley Sturchio.

Students must maintain an overall B- average to be inducted.

BOSTON (CNS) - Principals and faculty members at Catholic schools throughout the country left Boston College recently with ideas and inspiration for helping impoverished students in their own schools.

They had just finished up the Selected Programs for Improving Catholic Education conference, also known as SPICE, a three-day event in which Catholic educators shared programs that have worked in their dioceses to help needy students so that others may replicate them.

The conference, titled "Catholic Schools for Children and Youth in Poverty," was sponsored by Boston College and the National Catholic Educational Association.

"You have to have a little vision, a little energy and you have to be a little tenacious," said Steve Perla of the Parents' Alliance for Catholic Education. "You have to be professional and you have to have good relationships (with public schools in your district) and you can't be afraid to push the envelope."

To "get a fair share of state funds,'~ Catholic schools must establish good relationships with their districts because all federal money goes through the district first, Perla said.

He urged those who attended to apply for direct funding from their state's Department of Education; to speak to superintendents in urban areas who, under Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act, have a certain amount of money set aside for private schools; to work with a consultant to collect data on the number of children living in poverty in their area; and to form coalitions with groups who have similar interests. .

Sister Dale McDonald, a Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who is NCEA director of public policy and educational research, urged audience members to familiarize themselves with funds available through federal programs, such as child nutrition programs, the education rate for discounts on telecommunication services and the No Child Left Behind Act. James Miller of the Catholic Schools Foundation in Boston spoke ofthe importance ofCatholic schools and the values that they instill in students, among them the values of charity and helping others, which the foundation relies on to provide aid to Catholic schools.

While acknowledging that contributions to his foundation are: down, in part because of the sex abuse crisis and the economy, he was hopeful that Catholics would

give again and said they just need new reasons to do so.

They need to see what he has seen in poor urban Catholic schools where the children, who come from single-parent families on welfare, collect loose change to send to people in impoverished parts of the world, such as Haiti.

"Catholic schools have always done so well in teaching the whole person," Miller said. "You need to get people into your schools so that they can see the stairs that have been worn thin from generations of Catholics."

"There are philanthropists out there who are interested in Catholic education," said Jeff Thielman, director of development at the Cassin Foundation. His organization recently paired up with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fund the building of schools that follow the Cristo Rey model to serve economically disadvantaged and immigrant students in urban areas.

The Cassin Foundation believes that to revitalize Catholic education, new schools have to be built, he said. The Cristo Rey school model, where students work in the business community to cover the costs of tuition, has become increasingly popular in many dioceses.

Michael Guerra, NCEA president, called on participants in the symposium to help needy students to "get the power that others have."

"What we are doing is the Lord's work," he said.

Margie Buller, a guidance counselor and former teacher at San Xavier Mission School on the Tohono 0'odham reservation in Tucson, Ariz:·, said she came to the conference "to learn about how children serve other children in impoverished areas and ... to take that information back and try it at our school."

She said San Xavier School had used fund-raisers, foundations and individual benefactors to increase security, reduce classroom overcrowding, renovate t1!e playground, eliminate drainage problems and build a technology lab and science/art lab in the K-8 school.

At Elizabethport Catholic School in the poorest section of Elizabeth, NJ., students learn to use the computer keyboard in the first grade and all assignments arc done on the computer by fifth grade.

There are 165 computers for the 192 students at the K-8 school. Class size is small and class makeup is not based on· the age of the student but on his or her ability in the subject area.

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Looking back with a little gratitude

By EFFIE CALDAROLA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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My husband just returned{rom a so·ccer tournament in Fairbanks, a city about a six-hour drive from our home. It's a beautiful trip through the heart of Alaska. A sunny day brings a great view of Mt. McKinley, the highest peak in North America. You may spot moose or a black bear on the journey.

But road construction and a long lunch turned the six hours into eight, and by the time my husband and two soccer players, our daughter and her friend, pulled into the hotel parking lot, everyone was tired, stiff and hundreds of miles into "Are we there yet?"

Within another 48 hours the team was out of the running, so the little entourage headed back down that long highway. '

"Do you think when we're 70 the kids look back and feel grateful for all we've done?" ·my husband asked me with a grin that said he already knew the' answer.

He wasn't just thinking of the road trip, of course, but of all the things we throw our lives into olice the pregnancy test comes back positive.

With two kids on competitive soccer teams, or as they're sometimes known, "traveling teams," it seems our gas tank is always hovering near empty and our checkbook is always open.

But what about all those nights of waking from a deep sleep to the sounds of a crying baby or a sick child?

What about all the evenings we stayed home when we couldn't find a babysitter or couldn't afford one?

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flge we paid tuition continuously at our parish elementary school.

Sometimes, I confess, I looked at those checks and fantasized about a kitchen remodel.

How about that "free" dog we adopted that we didn't want but our youngest pleaded for, and the hundreds of dollars my husband spent building a great fence for the dog?

But then I think about what· I've gained by parenting - besides three great kids: I've gained a whole depth of empathy and compassion that I don't think I· had back in the days before my paychecks paid for soccer, the days that teen readers of this column are experiencing now. I wonder: Are you realIy braced for where many of you are heading?

(Parenthood! ) Parenting is often a thankless job.

Right now, I'm at life's in-between point. I'm a mother of growing children and the daughter of an aging mother. I stand on a bridge, as you young readers will one day, with swirling waters below me, and I look at the labors and fruits of my own call to motherhood on one side, and on the other, all my parents did

for me.

As I look both ways, I realize I take a lot for granted. And even though you are still young, it is not too soon to begin Hlking stock of things you appreciate from your folks.

I never grasped, years back, how tough it was for my mom to be a young widow with me in colIege and my three younger brothers to raise.

When life brings disappointments, we blame the baggage our parents handed us. When success comes, we forget who sacrificed to help us find it.

Parents don't load the car up and drive to soccer tournaments because they want to be praised for it in their old age. But they hope that someday their child stands on a distant bridge and looks back at them with gratitude.

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British arChbishop criticizes new research using aborted fetuses

By PAULINUS BARNES CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

not only a long way from reality, but unnecessary, because alternaMANCHESTER, England tive, more ethical options were beA British archbishop criticized re- ing developed. ports of new research that harvested 'There is a widespread objection eggs from aborted fetuses could be by about 80 percent of the British' used for in-vitro fertilization'treat- population who feel thatiJsing aborted fetuses is repugnant," he ment. .

"There is something deeply said. wrong with a society that can even "To talk about fetal ovarian tiscontemplate harvesting eggs from sue as an answer to the donation the ovaries of aborted fetuses;' said ' problem is a complete nonsense,' Archbishop Peter Smith ofCardiff, and it ignores the fact that. scienWales. tistscurrently trying to 'do ex"How is it' that we can recog- actly this in adult tissue wherethere nize that the aborted fetiIs is'hwmin is informed consent," he said. enough to become a biological parDr. Geraldine Hartshorne of the ent and yet not human enough to Association of Clinical Embryolohave the right to life?" the arch- gists in Britain told the BBC that it bishop said. would not be acceptable to use eggs Another British Pt:o-Life leader ,from aborted fetuses for any pUrsaid the proposed technique would pose. repulse "most normal people."

"Quite apart from the very seriThe new research was released ous ethical concerns, we do not during the recent European.Soci- know enough about the differences ety of Human Reproduction and between immature eggs derived Embryology conference in Madrid, from fetuses and those from adults Spain. where the hormonal environment One researcher, Dr. Tal Biron- is completely different," she said. , Shental of Meir Hospital in Kfar The Human Fertilization and .

Saba, Israel, acknowledged that the Embryology Authority, which concept oftaking egg follicles from regulates in-vitro ft;rtilization in an aborted baby was controversial. Britain, said that it would never alShe said there was a shortage of low the procedure, a spokesman donated eggs for in-vitro fertiliza- told the BBC. tion and that tissue from aborted 'The use of fetal ovarian tissue fetuses might provide a new source raises difficult social, medical scifor these. entific and legal questions. After a Biron-Shental's study, carried public consultation, we decided that out in collaboration with Utrecht it would be difficult for any child to University in the Netherlands, in- come to terms with being created volved fetuses aborted late in a using aborted fetal material because pregnancy. of prevailing social attitudes. We do Leading fertility expert Lord not consider the use of tissue from RobertWmston was reported by the this source to be acceptable for ferBBC as saying that the concept was tility treatment;' the spokesman said.

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FATHER RAYMUNDO Osorto and Franciscan Sister Honoris Diaz Zamora rub their aching feet after walking part of '7he March for Life," a 12Q-mile procession led by Church leaders to protest indiscriminate logging in central Honduras. (CNS photo by Paul,Jeffrey)

Honduran priest, peasants lll3rCh to protest environmelltaldesttu.ction TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Father,Tamayo said " cently,reve,aledihattimberconi.~any (CNS) - After years of struggling ~. Bo~ton-1;lornBishop TOl1las, .' owners' pooled $,40,000 to pay for against environmental destruction in MllJlID Muldoon of Juticalpa tried the priest's, ass~sination' if Father the isolated mountains of central ',to negotiate a: meet:iJ).g between ,the . Tamayo did,'riotleave~e.countiy Honduras, a Honduran priest took . marchers and Ma~. ' '." '. ,by the end' of May. "" ' '. his protest through the countryside ,"It's ii political em>rnot to receive " .' "Those who want me dead won't to the nation's capital. ~ese ~ople. At least the president: ,: go ,t6 'Q~V~I). by' fabricating' a)leU Thousands of ,peasant farmers 'could have m~ symbolicaIJy:with here earth. afraid of dying, who suffer from massive deforesta- them for five minutes and'then left but I won't leave Honduras" Father tion sporadically joined Father them with the commission he ap- Tamayo said. ' Andres Tamayo on a 12Q-mile, pointed. That would have been the Because of the threats, the govseven-day "March for Life" as it best thing for him to do;' Bishop emment ordered strict security for wound through the country's ceo- Muldoon told CNS. Father Tamayo's march. A military tral highlands. ''I'm walking to seekjustice" said bodyguard was never far from FaThe nonviolent protest, led by Father Raymundo Osorto, a parish ther Tamayo's side, and when the Father Tamayo and several other priest from La Union who walked priest entered Tegucigalpa he was priests and religious working in the the entire seven,days. closely guarded by a contingent of remote province of Olancho, "'Therearevillagesthathavebeen police officers. marked an escalation ofthe environ- 'plunged into poverty and desper:aThe activities of Father Tamayo mental campaign in Honduras and tion after a few rich business people and other religious leaders in . the Church's leaqership in it." ,extracted millions and millions of Olancho have helped push the The protestersdemanded a mora';' ,d?ll~ of timber. Before there was country's Catholic leadership totorilml,on further 1999ing in central abundant water, and now people ward greater environmental activHonduras until a "forest audit" can, have none;' he said. ism. Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez be conducted and plans,developed' In 'a rare political development, Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa walked for sustainable use of forest re- the,march brought togetherenviron- a few minutes with Father Tamayo sources. They claim indiscrimiitate', mentalists and political activists of as he started into the capital on the .'logging has dried up water sources different stripes. march's last day. and exacerbated poverty in'there- .'. "Walking to defend the f<:>rests is Bishop Muldoon participated in gion. , . . w~g to defend life and the hu- the march on its first and last days. . On the pilgrimage's final day, the man nghts of people to have fresh The head of the diocese where Famarchers delivered a petition to lead~ water ll?d.clean air. The march isn't ther Tamayo s~rves,' Bishop , ers of the country's National Con- an end m Itself, but a means to take Muldoon has been critical of the gress. Father Tamayo then led back Honduras from those who priest's tactics in the past, yet activ10,00<)'marchers across 'the city to commit ecological genocide in or- ists claim the bishop is coming the Presidential Palace. Honduran der W profit from nature violating around to their way of thinking.

President Ricardo Madurodesig- the basic right ofpeople to life;' said "The bishop has definitely nated a committee of assistants to Bertha Oliva, coordinator of the changed. He's seen the support for' dialogue with the protesters, who Committee of Relatives of the Dis- the movement from all· over the refused to talk to anyone but appeared and Detained in Hondu- country, from priests and from the Madura. ras. _people, and it was logical that he "We have sent a message that Father Tamayo has slowly came to support 'this noble cause;' from the little pieces of laI).d where lated his environmental activism said Franciscan Sister Honoris Diaz we live. we are going to take back over recent years, leading highway Zamora, who works in Juticalpa. this country;' Father Tamayo, pas- c~osures to block the passage oflog"We've made progress;' Father tor of the Catholic parish in Salama, gmg. trucks and last year fasting in Tamayo told CNS during a rest stop tOld Catholic News Service. ''It's the public for a month. His protests have near Talanga. people who are demanding this. earned him the enmity of several 'The bishop knows the people "I hope that someday the presi- powerful owners oflogging compa- are gaining consciousness, and he dent can feel their suffering and be- nies, and the priest, a native of El knows that the government hasn't gin to respOnd. He told the press that Salvador, has received several death had the political will to address these the march made no sense. Yet what threats. problems. He knows that's where alternatives do people have leftT' Church leaders in the area re~ misery comes from."

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