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AT THE CLIMACTIC mOffil:mt of priestly qrdination June 29 at St. Mary's Cathedral, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin imposes his hands on the heads of Gregory A. Mathias, left, and Douglas H. Sousa, right photo.

At center, the new priests stand with the bishop. (Gaudette photos)

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Pope installs 23 cardinals at Vatican rites VATICAN CITY (CNS) When Pope John Paul II installed 23 cardinals from 16 nations in solemn Vatican ceremonies June 28 and 29, the group included Czechoslavakian, Romanian and Chinese bishops who spent years in jail for their faith under communist regimes.

Their presence gave poignancy to the pope's charge to the newest members of the church's highest ranks: "Serve and give your life for your brothers and sisters to the point of shedding your blood."

"Their experience is a warning to all: each one must be ready to act with resolute strength for the growth of the faith, the service of the Christian people, for the. church's freedom and growth," the pope said at the formal installation ceremony June 28 in the Paul VI audience hall.

Two Americans - Cardinals Roger M. Mahony, 55, of Los Angeles and Anthony J. Bevilacqua, 68, of Philadelphia - were among the new cardinals.

In addition to the Americans and once-imprisoned prelates, there were seven new cardinals from Italy and one each from Argentina, Australia, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Mexico, Northern Ireland, the Philippines, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and Zaire.

The new members brought the College of Cardinals back up to its maximum number of 120 who are eligible to vote for a new pope and to 162 cardinals in all. When a pope dies, only those under the age of 80 are allowed to gather in a conclave to elect his successor.

The near-capacity crowd of8,000 church and civil dignitaries and relatives and friends in the audience hall greeted each new cardinal with applause as he approached

the pope to receive his red biretta, a four-cornered hat symbolizing his entry into College of Cardinals.

The most sustained applause was reserved for 89-year-old Cardinal Ignatius. Kun Pin-Mei of Shanghai, who spent 30 years in a Chinese communist prison before his release in 1985. He has lived in the United States since 1988, when he was allowed to leave China for health reasons.

Pope John Paul secretly named him a cardinal in 1979, when he was still in prison, and the June 28 consistory was the first since he was free to go to Rome and be installed. Although newly inducted, Vatican protocol ranks him retroactively among the cardinals created in 1979.

At a June 29 Mass in St. Peter's Square, where wind threatened to

make off with the cardinals' new red hats, the pope gave each of them a new ring as a "sign of dignity, of pastoral care and of the closest communion with the See of Peter."

In his homily the pope reminded them that they "represent in a special way the Petrine ministry and participate in it not only as electors of the successor of St. Peter, but also as his senate and counselors."

During the Mass, marking the feast of Sts. Pl:ter and Paul, the pope also presented palliums circular bands of white wool with black crosses which symbolize an archbishop's authority and unity with the pope -- to 27 archbishops appointed within the past year.

Among those: who received palliums were U.S. Archbishops James

from almost every country and every language under his care. I look forward to having him as an adviser in my ministry as successor to Peter," he said.

Greeting Cardinal Bevilacqua, who was accompanied by his predecessor, retired Cardinal John J. Krol, the pope said, "In becoming a cardinal you are even more closely bound to the service of the church and to the See of Peter in the daily care of the universal church." ."Together with the dignity, you will also be burdened with new and demanding responsibilities," the pontiff added. "I am sure you will continue to give of yourself with the same competence and love of which you have given proof on so many occasions."

The top Va.tican official among the new cardinals was Cardinal Angelo Sodano, 63, who last December succeeded· Cardinal Agostino Casaroli as papal secretary of state.

In all, six Curia officials received red hats. Best known to Americans was Cardinal Pio Laghi, 69, long-time papal representative in the United States, who last year was named head of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education.

The installation of Cardinal Jose T. Sanchez, 71, a Filipino, signaled that he was to be promoted from his post as secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Among Vatican staff, only department heads are cardinals. ~.'!!Il .

On July I Pope John Paul named him prefect of the Congregation POPE JOHN PAUL II, at right, stands with the 23 new cardinals installed June 28 at a . for Clergy, succeeding 75-year-old Vatican consistory. The two Americans raised to the College of Cardinals are Philadelphia Cardinal Antonio Innocenti, who Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua, third from left in second row; and Los Angeles Cardinal in turn replaced Cardinal AugusTurn to Page 10 Roger M. Mahony, fifth from left in second row. (CNSj UPI-Reuters photo) P. Lyke of Atlanta and Thomas V. Dolinay of the Byzantine Archdiocese of Pittburgh. Canadian recipients were Archbishops Roger Ebacherof Gatineau-Hull, Quebec; James H. MacDonald ofSt. John's, Newfoundland;and AdamJ. Exner of Vancouver; British Columbia.

The pope began a series of separate audiences June 29 in which he received the new cardinals with their relatives and friends.

Among eight audiences he held July I were meetings with Cardinals Mahony and Bevilacqua and their groups.

He told the Los Angeles group that cardinals must have a special concern for the universal church.

"As archbishop of Los Angeles, Cardinal Mahony already ministers to a see that is an image of the universal church, with Catholics

Fall River native at Angers parley

Scotus, Escriva causes advance VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has officially recognized organized devotion to the theologian-philosopher John Duns Scotus, automatically raising him to the rank of beatified.

At the same July 6 Vatican meeting, the pope moved forward the sainthood causes of Opus Dei founder Msgr. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer and of 17 Irish bishops, priests, religious imd lay people killed between 1579 and 1654 because of their Catholic faith.

The papal recognition of Duns Scotus' reputation of "holiness, the virtues and the cult (existing) 'from time immemorial''' is essentiallya recognition that he is beatified, although the formal process was never held.

Franciscan Father John Duns Scotus, who was born near the end of 1265 in Duns, Scotland, and died in Cologne, Germany, in 1308, was a philosopher. and theologian of the late scholastic period. Various Franciscan orders mark his feast day Nov. 8. His canonization requires a miracle to be attributed to his intercession.

At the pope's meeting with the Congregation for Sainthood Causes, a decree was promulgated attributing a miraculou~ cure to the intercession of Msgr. Escriva, clearing the way for his beatification. Another miracle, determined to have taken place after the beatification, is necessary for canonization.

Born in Barbastro, Spain, in 1902, Msgr. Escriva founded Opus Dei, Latin for "work of God," in 1928. It describes itself as "an association of the faithful whose members dedicate themselves entirely to the apostolate, and to the, practice of an intense spiritual life." Msgr. Escriva died in 1975.

Opus Dei, which has almost 1,400 priests and nearly 75,000 lay members worldwide, is a personal prelature, meaning its members are linked to a papally appointed prelate in Rome rather than to a geographical jurisdiction such as a diocese.

At the same meeting, the martyrdom ofthe 17 Irish was declared, clearing the way for their beatification.

Obituaries Dr. Buckley Arthur F. Buckiey, MD, 76, of St. Mary's parish, South Dartmouth, died July 2. His Mass of Christian Burial was offered July 5

~.t ~t.~~gr~:s·~f'St. Gregory i4n~., p'rominent in church and civic affairs for many years, he practiced obstetrics and gynecology for over 40 years at St., Luke's Hospital, New Bedford, where he was chief of the medical staff in 1963.

Born in New Bedford, he was

Germaine Rioux, 81, formerly known as Sister Rose Philippe, who died July 7.

A native of Fall River and the daughter of the late Philippe and Rose (Parent) Rioux, she eijtered religious life in 1930. A graduate, ~J th~'f~(fI.1eJ~StQ4a\hieu,School: and Doriumcan "A~ademy, Fall., River, she held.a bachelor's degree' frdm Rivier College, Manchester,,NH, a master's degree from Boston College and a certificate in

t!J,eology from Providence College.

She taught at Blessed Sacrament, .

St. Mathie4, S1. Roch and St. Jean Baptiste schools in Fall River, 'the son of the late Arthur I. and and at St. Joseph's school, New Catherine (O'Connell) Buckley and Bedford; and was principal of St. the husband of Katherine (Cur- Louis de France School, Swansea, ran) Buckley. He graduated from and St. Theresa's School, New Holy Family High School, Boston Bedford. In her later years she was College and Tufts University"Med-financial 'secretary at'St. Joseph ical School.

Montessori School, Fall River.

In 1959 he was named a Knight ' . In retirement, Sister Riou'x lived of St. Gregory by,Pope ~ohn XXIII first at' Blessed Sacrament Conin recognition Qf his meritorious service to the church. He was a vent, Fall River, and latterly at S erra Mont Marie Infirmary, Holyoke. f founder of~he ~ew Bed,ord , Club, active in pre-Cana IUldCaria' 'She is survived by a brother, Philip conferences for engaged and mar- Rioux, and a sister, Edna Cacciariedcouplesanrlatrustee.ofBishop''- 'beve, both of Fall River; and by Stang 'High"Scho'ol,·North :Dai't-1 sey.eral nieces and ne,phews:-mouth,where hechaired its initial building fund drive and' was ,co-, chairman of its recent capital funds Sister Gabrielle Denis, CSC, campaign. ,,' : ' , , 1 , ' ': formerly known as Sister Mary :: Dr. Buckley was illso,active in, OeneyieveofTroy, <;Iie4 June 24 at 1.9cal, state and national medical, age 91.

An Attleboro native and a gradsocieties, was,a Knight of Columbus and ·held, membership in New uate of Notre Dame College, ManBedford's ,Wamsutta Club and . chester, NH, she entered, the Holy Whaling Museum and the Old: Cross community in 1933 in S1.

Dartmouth Historical Soci'ety. ,.' Laurent, Quebec.

During' her' active ye'ars she In addition to his wife he is sur,vived bytwos~ns; Arthli~ F. Buck- 'taught a~ St. Joseph and S1. John's ley Jr., and John C. Buckley, both ~chools In Attleboro, and St. A!1of Dartmouth; a daughter, Louise thony and St. Ann s schools In Mitchell of South Dartmouth' a New Bedford, as well as at schools brother, James M.Buckley ofN~w staffed b~ her communi~y in New Bedford; and grandchildren, nie- HampshlTe, Connecticut and ces and nephews. ' Rhode. Islan~. '. .

"She IS surVived by several meces and nephews.

, Sister Denis

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The Mass of Christian Burial was offered Tuesday at Blessed Sacrament Convent Chapel, Fall River, for Sister of St. Joseph

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REV. JAMES A. McCARTHY, retired pastor of St. Patrick's parish, Falmouth, was among seven inductees to the St. Michael's College Golden Knights Club for alumni of 50 years or more during recent reunion weekend ceremonies at the Colchester, Vt., College. He received a pin and certificate from St. Michael's president Paul J. Reiss.

Before his retirement in 1989, Father McCarthy held several positions on the diocesan marriage tribunal, including judge; served as director of the deaf apo,stolate; and was a member of both the Falmouth Council on Aging and the Falmouth Hospital Board. He no",: resides in Pocasset. (Mac Neil photo)

Planned Parenthood asks dialogue with church opposition of the church to conWASHINGTON (CNS)'- The International Planned Parenthood traception (other than periodic abFederation has asked Pope John stinence) and the vehemence with Paul Irfor an open dialogue on which this opposition has been family planning with the Cathol,ic expressed, unfortunately overshadow so much on which we ca'n Church.

In a letter timed to coincide with agree."

He said that millions of women World Population Day July 11, the organization's president, Dr. die from causes related to pregFred Sai of Ghana, said Planned nancy and that "low cost, effective Parenthood has stood for values contraception used by women who similar to those of the church in do not want further children'could, by hsel(.reduce'·lIlaternal,d.eaths supporting human rights. . dramatically. " "The Catholic Church has helped "On this significant day, I humto add a human and -a spiritual dimension to the debate" on the bly suggest that 'a sensitive diagrowing; world population, con- logue should be opened between sumption ,habits' and damaging , the church and those who believe technologies, according to Sai. He as I do,that voluntary family planadded that for 40 years the Inter- ning is the·best protection against national Planned Parenthood Fed- abortion," Sai wrote. eration "has stood for similar There was no immediate comvalues," driven by concern for ment from the Vatican. health and welfare of women, their in Washington, Helen Alvare, children and their families. spokeswoman for the Secretariat According to Sai, "in this one for Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. aspect of human rights arid devel- Catholic Conference, declined to opment, the contemporary Catho~, comment on the letter until she lic Church has chosen to be an had had a chance to review it obstacle rather than an ally. The, thoroughly~

BOSrON:(CNS):-, Msg'r. Timothy J. Moran, secr~tary to Car-, dinal Bernard F. La:w:of Boston since 1988, has been appointed, rector' of. ,SL John's' Seminary,.

BrigQton, effective A-ug. 15. He~ succeeds Father Thomas J. Daly,' who has served the':seminary in various capacities for the past 38 years.

The' 107-year-Old seminary, which includes a college depart,ment and a four-year graduate' cycle of theology, prepares priests for the Archdiocese of Boston, for other dioceses, including Fall River, and for several religious congregations. .

Born in 1950, Msgr. Moran was ordained for the Boston archdiocese in 1976. He attended S1. Clement's Hall, the college department .of S1. John's Seminary, and' North American College in Rome and earned two graduate degrees from Rome's Gregorian University.

He served from 1977 to 1980 as a parochial vicar at S1. Mary's,

Holliston, before returning to Rome for further studies. He served· i'n the, ,Vatican qiplomat~c corps for several years, with assignments' ~n India and Germany.

Sister Elaine Basinger, RGS, a native of Fall River and a former member of Immaculate Conception parish in that city, is among representatives of the New York province of the Sisters ofthe Good Shepherd attending the congregation's worldwide general chapter in Angers, France, this month.

Elected assistant provincial for the New York province in 1989, Sister Basinger is accompanying provincial superior Sister Sheila Kelly and provincial councilor Sister Ellen Keliy.

The daughter of Lloyd' and Frances Basinger, Sister Elaine is a graduate of the former M1. S1.

Mary's Academy in Fall River.

At the general chapter meeting, a .superior general will be elected to lead the congregation for the next six years, as will new councilors' for the regions served by the Good Shepherd sisters: Englishsp'eaking; Portuguese-Italian; French; Spanish; and Asian.

Committed to belief in the profound value of the human person, sisters from 72 countries meet every six years at the Angers motherhouse to assess their ministry to persons in need, especially women, girls and families.

Priest wins award NEWARK, N.J. (CNS) - A Newark archdiocesan priest,active ill neighborhood revitalization projects for the city's ,black and Hispani~ communities was among 31 recipients of fellowships announced by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago. Msgr; 'William Linder, pasto~ of St., Roseof L'i'f~a qiurch in Newark and executive director of New Community Corporation, was awarded $330,000 ovh the next five years, to use in any way he chooses: New Community Corporation, which he founded in 1968, constructs and renovates non-profit housing and other facilities in Newark's inner city. Msgr.

Linder also has helped to create child care centers, including one for children with AIDS, as well as senior citizen centers, office space, a supermarket, a restaurant and a health club.

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Frank R. Gabor, president of' St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, has announced tliat a new physicians' group, Fall River Emergency Services, Inc., is providing emergency medical care at the hospital.

"The decision to make this change in how we provide emergency services is consistent with the hospital's emphasis on quality and finding the most effective and efficient way to deliver that quality," stated Gabor.

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., July 12, 1991 radic military clashes in late June and early July took place mainly in Slovenia, which is northwest of Croatia, although some fighting extended into northern areas of Croatia.

Ms. Krunic said Select International began offering pilgrimages to Medjugorje about five years ago and was originally expecting a banner year this year "because it is the 10th anniversary" of the first apparitions. Her agency, one of the leading U.S. agencies serving Yugoslavia, organized tours to Medjugorje for 7,400 Americans last year, she said.

Then came the war with Iraq and advice to Americans to avoid 'travel abroad unless it was essential, she said, and in the first six months of this year she booked about 600 people to Medjugorje.

The war and recessionary pressures since then have meant an overall'drop in pilgrimage tours everywhere this year, she said. "If you look at our other programs VOLCANIC ASH covers tombs at cemetery in Olongapo, PhilIppines, following eruptions of Mount Pinatubo. U.S. Catholic Relief Services has assessment teams at disaster sites.

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Yugoslav unrest has mixed effect on Medjugorje pilgrimages WASHINGTON (CNS) - Civil strife in northwestern Yugoslavia is having mixed effects on Marian pilgrimages to Medjugorje, according to U.S. travel agencies.

The Persian Gulf War and the recession earlier this year hurt such pilgrimages far more than unrest in Yugoslavia, s~id Edita Krunic,. president of Select International, a New Jersey travel agency that organizes numerous Catholic pilgrim groups.

But Anel Armada, Medjugorje specialist at RCT, a Los Angeles pilgrimage agency, said, "We have a lot of cancellations."

Potential pilgrims from the West Coast were dealt a triple blow, she said - the Gulfwar until April, air fare increases of several hundred dollars to Yugoslavia, and then a U.S. State Department advisory at the end of June that travel to Yugoslavia could be dangerous because of the civil strife.

She said East Coast travelers were not as affected by the air fare

increases, but pilgrimages every- she said, but one had cancelled where were sharply curtailed from and another was doubtful as of January until April because of the July 3.

Since the mid-1980s Medjugorje Persian Gulf crisis.

In a telephone interview, Ms. has become one of the most popuKrunic' called the lack of Medju- lar sites in the world for Marian gorje cancellations with her agency pilgrimages, although the alleged apparitions there remain contro"a phenomenon I,can't explain."

"When the unrest in Yugoslavia versial.

Ethnic clashes. in Slovenia and escalated, I thought 'Forget it,' ..

Croatia since May turned into milshe said, but her fears of people canceling did not materialize. . itary combat in late June after the "People.. .feel Our Lady's going two republics declared their independence from the six-republic fedto protect them." eration that forms Yugoslavia.

"We have not cancelled any tour" Medjugorje is a little south of to Medjugorje, said Inderjid Broca of Hodgson Travel Service's Cath- Sarajevo in the middle of the reolic Travel Office in Kensington, public of Bosnia and Hercegovina, which borders Croatia to the north Md., a Washington suburb. and west, Serbia to the East and He said the agency's owner, John Maced'onia to the south. The spoHodgson, had reported from Medjugorje that the unrest was causing no problems there.

Ms. Armada said, however, that all of RCTs planned group tours to Medjugorje in June and July had been cancelled or delayed.

"I had four groups in August,"

-Lourdes, Mexico, Fatima and so on, nothing was going as it should have. . . . Fatima and Lourdes have been off about 30 percent.:' But in May and June Medjugorje pilgrimages began· to pick up, although that was when the first civil disturbances in Yugoslavia began, she said. "As a matter of fact, for the anniversary [in midJune] we had about 150 people there."

"In fact, we've had four new groups in the last two weeks" making arrangements to go to Medjugorje, she said.

Born in Sarajevo, Ms. Krunic said she still has many relatives and friends as well as economic interests in Yugoslavia, so for her the country's growing divisions are a matter of personal concern as well as business. She personally views Yugoslavia as one nation and does not want to see it break up into several independent countries.

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THE ANCHOR'- DioceseofFall River'- FrL, July 12, "1991-,

the .moorin&-, A Question of Freedom Once more the ugly serpent of anti-Catholicism has raised its venomous head to injecf its fangs into the Judge Clarence Thomas debate. The desire to see an Afro-American in the Supreme Court was fulfilled in the person of retiring Justice Marshall and that President Bush has nominated a black to succeed him should come as no surprise.

No, the controversy over Judge Thomas arose from his religious background and wa.s initiated by none other than Governor L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia, a black politician with presidential aspirations. In discussing the nomination, Wilder told reporters that Thomas should be questioned "more vigorously" because of his Catholic background. Not limiting his prejudice to that, Wilder continued, "The question is how much allegiance is there to the pope."

Obviously Catholics in America have not made much progress since the same bigoted question was asked of John Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election campaign., In fact, . prejudice has worsened, thanks to the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization of Women and all the other pro-abortion forces. These movements are singleminded when it <:omes to the Catholic Church:. they are openly against it.

The sad thing is that of the close to 60 million U.S. Catholics, formiJ;lg nearly a quarter of the population, so few have the courage to witness to their faith in the marketplace. Politicians would never attack Supreme Court nominees on religious grounds if a vast majority of Catholi~s refused to countenance such bias.

But the church has not taken a collective leadership role in speaking out on the lingering anti-Catholic prejudice tha~ is so real and prominent a part of American life. Lack of unity on this issue has never been so obvious as in the past 20 years. This indeed is a sad commentary on the life of the church in this , land. One may be quite sure that the NAACP or the AntiDefamation League of B'nai B'rith would not put up with the treatment that is publicly and in some cases quite offici~lly meted out to American Catholics.

The attack by the governor of Virginia on the Catholic Church has yet tobe rebutted. Could this be due to the fact that American Catholics have no national voice, but are fragmented along local and regional lines? In the light of such vicious comments by a political leader, the answer to that question might be very telling. Another query: Will church silence be maintained during Thomas' confirmation hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee, should anti-Catholic bias again manifest itself, either directly or indirectly?

We must all be aware that numbering religion among the issues on which to judge a Supreme Court nominee is unAmerican, anti-Constitutional and above all repugnant. At the moment, the question seems not to be whether Thomas is the best high court appointment from the conservative or liberal viewpoint, but whether the fact that he happens to have been baptized in the Catholic Church should make a difference in his selection. It is a shame that the issue has surfaced; more than that, it is frightening to see how Catholics are threatened by the hatemongers of American society.

Whether Thomas is appointed or rejected, it should have nothing to do with the color of his skin or the faith he professes. Otherwise, every civil liberty that has been fought for in this land of freedom is at risk.

We must not let the "Catholic issue" surface in this matter.

The Editor

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Truth, not popularity, pope's goal

By Father Kevin J. Harrington When John Paul II became pope in 1978, Polish communist authorities stated begrudgingly that they hoped the former cardinal archbishop of Krakow could help foster cooperation between the "two ideologies, Marxism and Christianity." Then they proceeded to limit in every way possible the pope's access to Poland.

Now, even wi"th the dismantling of the Communist party in Poland and the triumph of the Solidarity movement and its leader, Lech Walesa, the pope's Polish agenda is far from finished.

Last month's trip was his fourth to Poland and his first since the Communists were voted out of power. Having helped unleash the forces of democracy, he now finds those forces at work in his own church. How heartbreaking it must be for him to be the subject of the same criticism prevalent in North America and Europe. Indeed, those who employ diversity, pluralism and choice as code words for dissent rejoice at a pope who must now confront the same problems in Poland as he has faced in the West during his 13 years as pontiff.

The same western secular media that lauded the pope's courage in confronting the Iron Curtain powers criticize him for being out of step with the people of Poland when he advocates church teaching on abortion and contraception.

Now that the pope has helped Solidarity achieve its goal, it is convenient for the western secular media to characterize him as conservative, even medieval. While the liberal Catholic press criticizes himJor focusing on "pelvic issues,"' the conservative Catholic press

criticizes his indictment of those who use a market economy as a license for self-centered moneygrapbing and ignoring of the poor.

Neither liberals nor conserva~ tives ever seem to get quite what they want from the pope's encyclicals or his speeches. Byt both get challenged! In his recent encyclical on evangelization, Redemptoris Missio (The Mission of the Redeemer), he referred to the need for evangelization in the old Catholic nations: "There are situations, especially in countries of ancient Christianity, and some also in younger churches, where entire groups of baptized have lost the sense of faith, or even do not conceive themselves as members of the church, living an existence far from Christ and from his gospel.

praye~BOX Prayer for Peace.

o God, source ojallholy desires, right counsels and just works, grant us that peace which the world cannot give, so that we may be obedient to your commands and under your protection enjoy peace in our days andJreedomJromJear ojour enemies. We ask this through Christ our Lord.Amen.

Here too there is need of a 'new evangelization' or 'reevangelization.' ..

Pope John Paul II dramatically told his fellow Poles: "I love my nation, I was not indifferent to its sufferings, the limitations on its sovereignty and the oppression it endured. Now I am not indifferent to this new test of freedom before which we all stand."

Anyone who dismisses the papal warning that Poland's new-found freedom will not endure unless it is built on ethical values does so his own peril. The pope's condemnation of extreme nationalism, anti-Semitism and intolerance will probably be repeated when he visits Moscow, probably in 1993.

It is obvious that he does not look to Western Europe, or to the United States, for that matter, as . the model for Poland to imitate.

Let us recall that he said, "The humiliating argument is often raised that we are about to enter . Europe, We have to think hard over the reality of Europe and Europeanization. Noting that the attitude, "Let us live as if God did not exist at all," is part of the European spirit, he added, "We have to think very hard about the multiple meaning of Europeanism.

That is why we talk about the need for a new evangelization."

The pope seems undaunted in his efforts not to be popular but to be faithful in proclaiming the Gospel, in spite of a darkness that would seemingly imperil his mission, His courage in confronting the powers of the East and the West and his countercultural message will probably form his lasting ICJ3cy.

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Prophets" nudge the • conscIence

JEFFREY .E. SULLIVAN

Amos 7:12-15 Ephesians 1:3-14 Mark 6:7-13 In his classic work, Models of the Church, Father Avery Dulles wrote that one of Christianity's most important characteristics must be its capacity to foster and cultivate a vibrant prophetic movement which remains independent of the church's authority structure. The famous theologian/ Scripture scholar teaches that both prophecy and authority are essential ministries. Only when we choose to live with the tensions arising from a combination of these two charisms will we truly become God's people.

Father Dulles knows his Scripture. Contrary to popular opinion, biblical prophets do not predict future events. The late Father Bruce Va wter once described them as the conscience of their people. That is how Father Dulles regards them; and certainly that is the way Amaziah views Amos.

Prophecy became synonymous with prediction when people forgot the historical context of the prophet's original message. Having only the prophet's words, they began to apply his message to their own historical context. Discovering amazing parallels in the process, they reasoned that prophets were blessed with a vision of the future.

Since today we are better able to reconstruct .the prophets' historical surroundings, only rigid fundamentalists continue to regard them as predictors. True students of Scripture view them as the consciences they were.

Prophets constantly find themselves in conflict. Their "conscience ministry" forces them to confront everyone, especially religious authorities. There is a good reason for this tension. If we really listened to our consciences we would have no need of prophets. They only exist because we have dulled our minds to the words the creator-God originally placed in them. (As Father Ed Hays succinctly puts it, "Instead of 'Speak, Lord, your servant is listening; we prefer, 'Listen, Lord,

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your servant is speaking!"') If we succeed in deadening our internal conscience, we will also try-- to ignore God's external voice. It is a rare person who is open to the Lord's word and willing to live with its consequences.

Amaziah is not that person. He tries to deaden his conscience, commanding Amos to return to Judah. When the "visionary" responds, "I was no prophet, nor have I belonged to a company of prophets" he means "I am not your prophet. You do not tell me what to say. Only Yahweh puts words in my mouth." Who can prophesy honestly and accurately if he must first obtain permission to prophesy from those to whom· he prophesies?

Faithfulness to the faith's earliest traditions is one of the most authentic measures of true prophecy. Real prophets constantly hammer away at essentials. Cutting through layers of religious accretions they force us to look at the very beginnings of our 'religion, making uncomfortable comparisons between what is and what should be.

Paul, for instance, prophetically reminds his Ephesians that the purpose behind everything Jesus said and did was .....to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth." Already 2,000 years ago, in one small community, the apostle notices the same envy, pride. and insecurity which would eventually lead to Christianity splitting into hundreds of denominations. The most fundamental Christian virtue is unity.

We should be known by how close we are joined together in love, not by how many arguments we can whistle up to defend our theological convictions. Today prophets of ecunienism challenge us to be more Christian than "right." And following the historical pattern, such prophets continually find them-

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By DOLORES CURRAN

We were on a tour of the U.S. Mint and, as most such tours go, we were made up of tourists, locals with visiting relatives, and a Cub Scout troop with a young den mother lea~ing; maybe 25 of us in all.

The tour was interesting to all of us except the eight Cub Scouts who quickly became bored with the guide's monologues. They began jostling each other, at first playfully and then more forcefully.

Teachers: the people who bring order out of chaos A couple oftimes, they pushed one another into an older tourist who quickly stepped back out of their game.

The den mother did nothing but smile apologetically as if saying, "I'm sorry but there's nothing I can do. They aren't my kids, you see."

The more she ignored the boys' unruly behavior, the more they pushed each other, disturbing the whole tour. Finally, when one boy pushed another into us, my husband grabbed two of them by the back of their collars and said, "Knock it ofn" There was immediate cessation of all movement and also immediate glances of gratitude by others on the tour. One woman whispered to me, "I was hoping somebody would do that."

At the end of the tour, the guide

said to my husband, "You're a teacher, aren't you?"

He nodded yes and asked, "How did you know?"

"Because it's always the teachers in the group who step in and bring order out of cha.os."

I can't think of a better definition of a teacher. Sure, our first task lies in teaching but teachers know instinctively that order precedes learning. It's one reason teachers burn out so quickly today.

If 50% of their time is consumed with establishing and keeping order, there's only 50% left for teaching.

It's also a reason parents enroll their children in Catholic and other private schools where disorderly conduct is not allowed. If a child constantly misbehaves, he or she is asked to leave.

Public school teachers aren't so

lucky. They can't expel the disorderly IO-year-old without the equivalent of a court order. When I was teaching sophomores in public high school and heard I was getting a transfer from a private school, I knew I had a problem student on my hands. And I always ' did.

If such a student doesn't behave in a private school, he's out. If he doesn't behave in a public school, it's too bad. He's yours and if you can't learn to handle him, you accept that he's going to disrupt your teaching of the orderly students for the rest of the year.

Contrary to public oplOion, the school does not foster disorder, but inherits it. We are seeing children today who have never had a. rule enforced in their homes. How can we expect them to respect . rules in the classroom? . Teachers often say, "We can't be

parents and teachers to all of our students," and I agree. When parents find it easier to let their. 7year-old run the family than deal with his constant testing, he has little internal order.

He acts and reacts on impulse, has little sense of responsibility to others in the group, and learns quickly to blame others for his inability to get along.

But, miraculously, some students, like the Cub Scouts, are hungry for order, for someone to say, "Knock it om" Their parents or den mother may not be able to insist upon order but when another adult does so, they respond.

I've seen teachers bring order out of chaos in many non-school situations and I'm always proud when they do so. As the saying goes, a teacher remains a teacher, whether it's in the classroom or the U.S. Mint.

Burial options for the stillborn By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN

Q. In 1952, my mother's first child was stillborn. She says the parish priest refused burial rites for the full-term baby girl because the baby was not baptized. The grave went unmarked for almost 40 years. Last year when my father died we put a monument on the baby's grave with his.

It's hard for me to understand why a pries~ would do such a

thing. Are we not told that funeral services are as much for the living as for the deceased?

My mother is a Catholic convert.1 believe this is one reason she has not been a 'strong one. Was this the personal viewpoint of the parish priest? Is this still the policy ofthe Catholic Church? (Missouri)

ren to be given ecclesiastical funeral rites (that means Mass and whatever other liturgies would be appropriate for a Catholic funeral) if their parents intended to baptize them but the children died before baptism (Canon 1183).

The law makes no distinction between born and unborn children.

A. I am sorry for what happened to your mother. Even in those days several options, including a memorial Mass, were available for your mother, her child and the family.

As you note so well, this regulation acknowledges the spiritual needs of the family, but also the context offaith in which such parents bring their children into the world.

Be that as it may, the church's present regulations are broad in allowing Catholic funeral liturgies for such children.

Local bishops can permit child-

Q. I am a divorced and remarried Catholic without benefit of annulment. I have been married to my present husband, also a Catholic, for 35 years. We tried for an

annulment 38 years ago but to no avail.

We have always attended Mass but we do miss receiving holy Communion. We support the church, raised our four children as Catholics and have been involved in church and school activities.

Our question is, when we die will we be allowed to have a funeral Mass and Catholic burial?

What is the average length oftime to receive an annulment today, if it is at all possible? (New Jersey) A. Let's talk first about something far more important than a Catholic burial; your possible return to the sacraments.

Possibilities and procedures for. annulments have changed dramatically in the Catholic Church over

the past 38 years. The fact that your first marriage ended so long ago can create complications, but please talk to your parish priest or another priest in your area.

It's a shame that you have been unable to receive the sacraments of reconciliation and the Eucharist for all these years with your children.

Explain the situation and ask the priest to guide you through the ' steps.

A Catholic burial for people in your circumstances, should they remain the same, is not impossible. You must talk with a. priest about that as well.

Send questions to Father John 'Dietzen, Holy TrinityChurch~704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701.

Eroding civil rights for the sake of expediency By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

Civil rights is a great concept, the idea that all people are entitled to the protections guaranteed in the Bill pf Rights. But in mid-May it seemed that one more nail was hammered into the coffin of civil rights and this time by the body that should be guaranteeing freedom - the U.S. Supreme Court.

In a 5-4 decision, the judges ruled that a person arrested without a warrant may be locked up and held for as long as 48 hours before any action has to be taken to determine whether that person has committed any crime.

Now this might not seemunreasonable at face value. If police have pl'obable cause to arrest someone, that's what they sho'uld do. Why should they then rush to get the suspect before a judge to decide if they were right or wrong, especially if the arrest took place on a weekend, a most inconvenient time for a court appearance?

Naturally, if you're the one arrested, you might have a differ-

ent set of questions, like: what are my rights under the Constitution?

Doesn't it matter whether I'm guilty or innocent?

The decision spells out where the Supreme Court now stands on these two points: smack on the side of expediency and convenience for the police and the courts.

Worth, noting is what Justice Antonin Scalia had to say, speaking for the dissenters. Although Scalia has been solidly in the conservative camp, he showed in this decision that he values the constitutional concern for hUlnan freedom.

He said a 24-hour delay was enough. To hold someone behind

bars longer before getting a judicial determination of guilt or innocence is intolerable.

It violates common-law tradi-· tions and does not uphold the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against "unreasonable" seizures.

Years ago I was doing a story on the Nassau County jail on Long Island. The guard told me to go inside a cell to see what it felt like and then, as a joke, shut the bars and locked me in.

"I learned a new definition of claustrophobia within a few minutes, followed immediately by terror. I have since wondered how ,people would retain their composure, their balance and perhaps

their sanity if they were innocent, but locked in a cell.

Clearly, if the Supreme Court slips into a narrow and negative reading of the Constitution when it comes to human rights, we can mark an end to the great initiation of individual freedoms intended by the framers of the Constitution.

And we can look back to the era, beginning a quarter century ago, when we tried to make civil rights for all a true priority in the United States, as just another failure.

All we really have is our life, measured in time. For anyone to say one must do time for up to 48 hours on another's say-so is the worst form of stealing.

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KENNY , recognize tlie enormous challenge single parents face.

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If you have fears of abusing La Leche League offers monthly your child or of turning to drugs or meetings for mothers who breastalcohol, you need to take steps feed their babies, but their knowlimmediately before the event oc- edge and support extend to parcurs. Recognize your own needs ents in general. To find a group and limitations and seek ways to ., near you, look in the phone book meet those needs. or call 1-800-LA LECHE. Since· exhal,lstion is your first Find interests apart from child concern, look for ways to get help care. If you need to work, a shared with parenting. Relatives, if avail- job with another single parent able, are an obvious support sys- might be the answer. Each of you tem. ·Let them,watch your child, works half the job and watches and'tlien fin·d ways to do favors for both children while the other parthem in return. ent works. Such an arrangement allows you to secure good care for Support groups are a way to your child witho.ut expense and to . meet people with common inter-

earn income without working to exhaustion.

Should you find a compatible single-parent friend, 'shared living is also a possibility that would reduce expenses· and provide mutual support inraising)our children.

Raising children is not a competition betweellt, single-p~rent and tWQ-parent .Jamil~es:, Nor do all other parent.s judge you harshly.

Instead of trying to go it' alone, recognize that you must meet your own' needs i.n order to Care for the needs of your child.

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Democrats "out to lunch" on abortion PHILADELPHIA (CNS) Pennsylvania's Democratic Gov. Robert P. Casey says his party is "out to lunch" on the abortion Issue.

Speaking to 850 Catholic high school alumni, Casey said, "Weakness on the pro-life issue, I regret very much, comes from members of my own party. Democrats are out to lunch on this issue. On the national level, they are wrong, as wrong as they can be.

"I wonder why so many bright people," Casey said, "so many people who have degrees and are rather smart. can't figure out why they can't elect a preside.nt of the United States. They can't figure out why they can't carry national elections in places like New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas."

"The life issue." Casey said, "is one of the reasons." People vote "not so much on issues as on values."

If the Democrats are going to be competitive nationally. he suggested, they will have to admit they made a mistake in their support of abortion rights because the issue won't go away.

Casey called it "the defining issue of our generation." one "very much like the slavery issue was in 1g60. It is an issue that tests our basic value systems."

Calling attention to the greater number of American deaths from abortion than from all the wars "from Valley Forge to Vietnam."

Casey said that the media consider the pro-life position to be "old fashioned and out of style" and

"treat the issue in a very controlled way if they tn:at it at all. All of the key cards in the deck are stacked against us."

Casey, who won re-election last year by more than a million votes, said he had been targeted for defeat because of his pro-life position.

After the S':.Jpreme Court's 1999 Webster decision. which gave states more power to restrict abortion, "you heard in newspapers across the country there was going to be a tidal wave that was going to sweep away anyone who stood up for the' pro-life cause." Instead, he said, "many of those who changed to a pro-choice stance went down to defeat."

Without life, Casey told the alumni, "all other civil rights are~ meaningless and irrelevant."

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EDICTAL CITATION DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL FAll RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS Since the actual place of residence of KENNETH P. MANNING is unknown.

We cite KENNETH P. MANNING to appear personally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on Monday, July 22, 1991 at 10:30 a.m. at 887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Massachusetts, to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the marriage exists in the GRIFFEN·MANNING case?

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CHANTILLY, Va. (CNS) Catholic home-schooling is necessary for the survi"al of the Catholic Church in countries like the United States, Jesuit Father John Har. don told more than 300 participants in a recent national conference on home-schooling.

The daylong conference at St. Timothy's Parish in Chantilly was . organized by Father Hardon and Debbie Brock, a home-schooling mother of five from St. Timothy's, as the first step in formation of a national Catholic home-schooling organization.

"The most indispensable level of education is in the home," said Father Hardon, a well-known theologian·and author and professor for the Catholic Home Study Institute in Leesburg, Va. He said Catholic home-schooling "has great potential." .

Participants traveled from nine 'states, including Texas, to attend the conference on "Forming Young Catholics Through Home-Schooling."

Father Cornelius O'Brien, pastor of St. Timothy's, said that even as pastor of a parish with a Catholic school he believes that "there is no substitute for home-schooling."

The priest said his own upbringing on a farm in Ireland represented "an example of home as the center of truth."

Father O'Brien said he saw no contradiction between homeschooling and the Catholic school system. But Catholic schools are not always available in rural areas of the country.

"If they [public schools] no longer support the principles wIlich govern our lives, then you have the duty to take your children away from them," he said. "You must not withdraw from the society in which you live" but rather "attack the institutions which have failed us."

Organizers of the conference said the home-schooling trend has grown nationwide in the past few years, especially among Catholic parents who have become dissatisfied with local public schools.

RAPID CITY, S.D. (CNS)A small lending program on the Indian reservations of South Dakota is using Campaign for Human .Development funds to make loans to people ineligible for traditional bank programs.

Modeled after micro-enterprise lending programs in Bangladesh and Canada, the Lakota Fund was one of 200 proiects to receive 'aid from nationwide CHD collections sponsored by the U.S. Catholic Conference. The $25,000 grant will be used as part of a $240,000 operating budget. .

"We had to learn to think differently when we developed this banking system," said Gerald Sherman, the fund's executive director.

That included organizing a support group fo~ loan recipients, many of whom had nearly no income and little experience with borrowing money. .

To a banker "peer lending circles" sounded like a crazy idea, he said.

He explained that the idea originated with the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, known around the world for its success with the group lending concept and boasting a 98 percent repayment rate.

In South Dakota, groups borrow from the Lakota Bank as a unit and are responsible for paying back any loans made to individuals in their group. First loans are typically no greater than $400, second loans can go as high as $800.

Each person in a peer group of four to six people must have a bus. iness, such as beadwork, sewing or selling food from home. Each goes through a five-session orientation process, which includes business training and personal effectiveness techniques.

"Then they get to borrow," Sherman said. "Each person applies to the group. The group discusses it and decides if the person .gets the loan and the amount. The group cosigns the loan." Each group is visited every few weeks by the Lakota Fund finance officer, who collects loan payments and keeps in touch with participants.

WASHINGTON (CNS) U.S. bishops who opposed the Persian Gulf War were "entirely right" when they said the "benefits did not outweigh the costs," said a Catholic social activist who has spent much of the year in Iraq and neighb,oring Jordan.

Kathy Kelly, 38, a member of the Gulf Peace Team who spent time in a peace camp on the border of Iraq and Saudi Arabia until their removal by Iraqi troops after war broke out, said she was dismayed at the many celebratory

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MIKE SIMPSON of Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton, heads into summer with a smile as he wins the 1,500-meter race at the 20th annual Massachusetts Decathlon. Overall, he scored 6315 points in the 10 decathlon events, over 200 points ahead of his closest competitor, also taking a first in the 400-meter race and second in pole vaulting and high jumping. (Breen photo)

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postwar images she saw in the United States upon her return.

"What is there to celebrate?" she asked. "Are we celebrating Kur-' dish people starving by the thousands in the cold highlands of northern Iraq? Are we celebrating a Kuwaiti atmosphere so polluted at the end of the day your shirts are black? Or that 100,000 young soldiers were so slaughtered they were barely able to fight back?"

Ms. Kelly returned to take part in a cross-country women's caravan for Middle East peace and to raise money for humanitarian aid for war victims, "We didn't see ourselves as . being a miniature version of a traditional relief group like Oxfam," said Ms. Kelly, a Chicago native.

But there is a "political" motive behind the Gulf Peace Team aid efforts, she said.

She spoke of one aid convoy from Amman to Baghdad she accompanied during the height of the air war against Iraq. "We thought that they [the United States] would let us go without shooting at us lest they kill their own people," Ms.

Kelly said. "We were wrong. We were no less immune from shooting than anything else on the highway."

After Iraqi troops evacuated the peace camp members, Ms. Kelly said, "We ended up in a refugee camp.... That was an instructive and good experience for us."

In trips to Iraq since the war's end, "we have witnessed people dying literally before our eyes because of diarrhea," she said.

Bombing knocked out virtually all of Iraq's sewage. systems.

Ms. Kelly said she senses an "impending doom of starvation in Iraq" due to continued sanctions prohibiting trade with Iraq.

"Using food as a weapon is going against everything in international law in the United Nations," she added.

A teacher in Chicago Catholic schools for 13 years, Ms. Kelly said her other anti-war activities have included not paying "war taxes" for 10 years, and a one-year prison sentence for planting corn at a nuclear silo site near Kansas City.

Sheen lecture topic is "godless goals"

THE ANCHOR -

Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., July 12, 1991

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Hispanic Affairs head resigns

NEW YORK (CNS) - British historian Paul Johnson, in a lecWASHINGTON (CNS) - Pab- for the next 18 months to complete ture sponsored by the Fulton J. lo Sedillo, director of the U.S. work for the bishops' Ad Hoc Sheen Society, said 20th-century bishops' Secretariat for Hispanic Committee for the Observance of history shows the evil that comes Affairs for the past 20 years, has the Fifth Centenary of Evangelizafrom seeking substitutes for God. resigned. Sedillo, 55, will remain tion in the Americas.

The recent lecture, given in New at the U.S. Catholic Conference York before an audience of some 300, was the first in what the society said would be an annual series.

The society promotes the writings and teachings of Archbishop Sheen, who died in 1979. The archbishop was most widely known as an author, preacher and host of NOW Checking the weekly national television from Citizens-Union. shows "Life Is Worth Living" and "The Bishop Sheen Program," in the 1950s and 60s.

TO BENEFIT a homeless shelter in the diocese of Johnson, a Catholic layman, Rochester, NY, Ed Mangan, left, and Brian Mack are riding has been a prominent journalist in their bikes from northern California to Rochester. They hope Britain and is the author of such books as "The History of Chris- to complete the 2,800-mile journey this month. (CNS photo) tianity," "Modern Times" and "A History of the Jews."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., July 12, 1991

Possible remains of first U .8. Catholics unearthed WASHINGTON (CNS)-Three lead coffins believed to contain the remains ofthe nation's first Catholics may be opened in 1991 using some very modern techniques. , The more than 300-year-old coffins, uncovered in December at the site of a state-sponsored archeological dig at historic St. Mary's City in Maryland, are believed to hold the remains of colonial Governor Philip Calvert, who died in 1682, and two members of his family. Philip was the half-brother of the second Lord Baltimore, Cecil Calvert.

In March, an advisory board made up of radiologists, NASA scientists, -anthropologists, pathologists, historians and geologists met to consider a strategy for opening the coffins or otherwise identifying the remains, said Henry M. Miller, who directs research at historic St. Mary's City.

In an interview with Catholic News Service, Miller said there was "an incredible range of ideas" proposed at that first meeting, including: - Testing by NASA of the '''ancient air" inside the coffins before they are opened, in order to compare it to today's air for information related to the "greenhouse effect" and the ozone level.

- The utilization of a new technique called tomography to look into the coffins without opening them. This X-ray technique is used

by NASA to look at the solid fuel rockets used for the space shuttle, Miller said.

- Use by the Armed Forces ,Radio-Biology Institute of gamma ray imaging, based on nuclear energy technology.

In addition, if preserved body tissue is found, scientists nowadays can run DNA tests on cells and compare the results with those of today's Calvert descendants, Miller said.

"There are so many impondera~ bles," he said. "We are trying to think it through as thoroughly as possible."

Auxiliary Bishop William G. Curlin of Washington also is a member of the advisory board but was not able to attend the March meeting. The bishop's main role on the board is to ensure that the bodies are dealt with in accordance with church practice.

"They are Catholic people in Catholic ground," Bishop Curlin said in an interview with The Catholic Review, Baltimore archdiocesan newspaper.

"I'm concerned with what they'll do with the bodies themselves," he added. "You don't dig up bodies and put them in museums. They have to be treated with respect."

The bishop said it would be "wonderful" to identify the Calvert bodies and said the church "should have an important role in what is done with those bodies in ' accordance with the Christian faith.

They're not artifacts like pottery."

St. Mary's City, located in southern Maryland between the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay, was the site of the first Catholic colony in the United States, founded in March 1634. Once part ofthe Archdiocese of Baltimore, it is now part of the Archdiocese of , Washington.

Miller said the three coffins were

found beneath the remains of the 1667 Great Brick Chapel~ which he described as "the first massive major brick building erected in Maryland." The chapel was razed in 1705 when Catholics were banned from practicing their religion.

The coffins, buried 5 feet deep, have never frozen nor been exposed to the heat ofsummer, making late fall the most. opportune time fot them to be opened, Miller said. If the board is not ready to proceed

by October or so, the opening may be postponed until the spring of 1992, he said.

Meanwhile, excavations continue at the historic St. Mary's City site, where Miller hopes to find this summer the wooden chapel built for Jesuit Father Andrew White around 1634.

Miller said there have been a number of archeological "hints" that Father White may have had "a whole mission complex," although writings from that era do not refer to it.

"There's a lot more going on there than we expected to find,".he said.

Role of women in church seen as tension point AUSTIN, Texas(CNS)-Continuing discussion of the role of women in the Catholic Church is "the biggest point of tension" in his life, Bishop John E. McCarthy said in an interview marking the fifth anniversary of his installation as Austin's bishop.

The interview was published in Catholic Spirit, newspaper of the Austin diocese. ( Bishop McCarthy said most leadership positions in his diocese are held by women.

But, he said, "there continues to be tension in the lives of some women and ... in the life of the church. Because, in point of fact, theological power in the church centers in the office of the local pastor, the diocesan bishop and the bishop in Rome. And nobody can exercise those offices unless he is male and ordained."

Regarding the priest shortage, Bishop McCarthy said, "Although I think priests will become fewer in number and less essential in dayto-day operations of the church, I believe wholeheartedly that we will never reach the time that there are no priests. How priesthood is exercised has changed through the centuries and will continue to change."

He said the fact that it is no longer necessary to be a priest in order to work fulltime in the church "is a sign of maturity and growth in the church, not a sign of weakness."

Bishop McCarthy also described communications, especially broadcast communications, as a weakness in the church.

"We were not sent here to make monsignors, conduct novenas, hold bazaars or run programs," he said.

"The church is here to communicate to a cold and unbelieving world that God loves it and Jesus has re<!eemed it. As soon as we get that done we can stop working.

"I do expect, however, to be employed through the end of the century," he added.

PENSACOLA, Fla. (CNS)-A choir member at a small Catholic mission in the Florida Panhandle used his computer expertise to solve the mission's problem of, having no musician.

Called "Synthia," the batteryrun box hooks up to an electronic keyboard and can play from a repertory of hundreds of songs preprogrammed at the time of purchase, or from music entered in by a musician after purchase.

BISHOP FEEHAN High School English teacher Sister "The concept is sort of a player Mary Enda Costello, RSM, left, and Sister Regina Coughlin, piano," Tom Simard, the invenRSM, guidance director, recently visited with Father Robert tor, told The Florida Catholic, newspaper of the Pensacola-TallaLacombe, a 1986 Feehan graduate. Father Lacombe was hassee Diocese. ordained June I at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul in While other computer devices Providence and will serve at St. Philip's Parish in Gre~nville, work similarly in playing back programmed music, Simard' told Rl. Catholic News Service in a telephone interview that Synthia is the first such device designed with church use in mind.

The black box, roughly the size and weight of a telephone, sells for Spanish, 54 percent did not and about $750 with 200 songs preproWASH INGTON (CNS) - The Catholic population is over one- the remaining dioceses responded grammed. More or fewer songs that they did not know. half Hispanic in at least 12 U.S. would change the price by about dioceses and archdioceses and more $1 a song, Simard told CNS. About - 55 percent of dioceses had a than one-quarter Hispanic in 27 Hispanic apostolate and 45 per- 500 songs are curreritly available others,. according to a national cent did not. from Catholic, Baptist and Methsurvey on Hispanic ministry. odist hymnody, with 20-30 added - Less than II percent of The survey, commissioned by each week, he said. the U.S. bishops' Committee for priests had received continuing Synthia also features key-change Hispanic Affairs, sent question- education in the areas of cultural and tempo-change functions, and naires to 178 dioceses and arch- awareness of Hispanics, devotions permits the user not to have every dioceses, of which 152 responded. of Hispanics, Spanish language, verse of a song played. Up to 12 Three archdioceses and nine dio- or culture and history related to songs can be preselected for use in Hispanic ministry. ceses reported more than one-half - 61 percent of dioceses re- worship. of their population was Hispanic: Simard, president of Suncoast sponded that steps have been taken Brooklyn, N.Y.; Yakima, Wash.; Tucson, Ariz.; Las Cruces and to implement the U.S. bishops' Systems Inc., a Pensacola firm Santa Fe, N.M.; San Antonio, El national plan for Hispanic minis- that markets computer software and hardware, said the need to Paso, Lubbock, San Angelo, try in their dioceses. create Synthia arose after St. ElizaThe emphasis in Hispanic Brownsville and Amarillo, Texas; ministry nationwide was in six beth Mission in Barrineau Park, and Los Angeles, Calif.

Dioceses and archdioces'es re- areas: youth ministry, small Chris- Fla., failed to get a permanent portedly more than one-quarter tian communities, the Cursillo church musician.

"So you drop back on what you Hispanic were: Arlington, Va.; At- movement, Catholic Charities and lanta; Chicago; Dodge City, Kan.; social ministry, lay leadership for- know, and I know computers," he told The Florida Catholic.

Gallup, N.M.; New York; Okla- mation and charismatic renewal.

After testing the device in 1990, homa City, Okla.; Reno-Las Vegas, Current staffing of Hispanic Nev.; Salt Lake City, Utah; Venice, ministry offices is "inadequate," Suncoast started marketing SynFla.; Washington, D.C.; Austin, said Cruz, adding that qualified thia in January.

"If you have people" who can Corpus Christi, Fort Worth and Hispanic employees are available Galveston-Houston, Texas; Mon- and that many are trained lay play music live, Simard said, "then terey, Oakland, Orange, Sacra- leaders or have been working in you're better off with people." But mento, San Bernardino, San Diego, apostolic movements as evangel- the device has been received warmly by small parishes and missions San Jose, and Stockton, Calif.; izers without getting paid. that did not know where else to Newark and Paterson, N.J.; and turn for a musician.

Denver and Pueblo, Colo.

Ronaldo Cruz, associate direcFather Richard Dawson, who tor of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat pastors a parish and a mission in Continued from Page One for Hispanic Affairs, said the surrural Calhoun County, Fla., was vey "says to usthe Hispanic poputin Mayer, 80, as president of the given a test model. Hi told CNS lation is increasing and so will be Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Synthia has proven effective. the religious and secular needs of Dei." "In a lot of these smaller areas, Hispanics."

Four of the new cardinals have it's absolutely impossible to find a Among survey findings was that roots in Eastern Europe. They musician," or to afford one if one in 54.6 percent of responding dio- were: ceses, I percent or less of all dioce- Romanian-rite Cardinal Alex- can be found, Father Dawson said.

But after Synthia's debut, "they san personnel minister to Hispanic andru Todea of Fagaras and Alba wanted to meet this performer, Catholics.

Julia, 78, who was imprisoned this organist, who they can't see, to Asked to estimate what percen- from 1951 to 1964. tage of their budgets specifically , - Czechoslovakian Cardinal Jan thank her." The mission, he added; was allotted for Hispanic pastoral Chryzostom Korec of Nitra, 67, bought a Synthia in the event the ministry and services, almost half who was imprisoned from 1960 to priest is transferred.

Father Dawson, who also is a of the responding dioceses said 1968. chaplain at two prisons, said atthere was no such allotment.

- German Cardinal Georg M. More than 50 percent of dio- Sterzinsky of, Berlin, 55, whose tendance at jail services was up ceses reported that proselytism by diocese was part of East Germany "substantially" since he started non-Catholic groups was affecting before East and West Germany using Synthia there. One jail's attendance jumped from three or Hispanic Catholics to a great or were reunited. significant extent. Sixty-one per- Cardinal Guido Del Mestri, four to 15-20. The other rose from cent of dioceses said they had a 80, a Yugoslavian-born former 20-30 to 50.

And Synthia is rea'ping an unspecific plan to respond to the Vatican diplomat. expected benefit at Simard's mis': proselytism.

The only new cardinal who is The survey also found that: not a bishop is Cardinal Paolo sion, he told CNS. After Synthia's arrival, "there's - 18 percent of dioceses had an Dezza, 89, a Jesuit who was perEnglish as a Second Language sonal confessor to two popes. At a woman in our church who's pre-seminary program-for poten- his request he was exempted from started practicing the organ, and' tial Hispanic seminarians. the law which says that if a priest is she's getting pretty good," he said, - 40 percent of dioceses required named a cardinal, he is to be "s.p pretty soon we'll be able to use a person to play our music." all priesthood candidates to study ordained a bishop.

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Holy war concept outdated says Jesuit magazine

THE A~CHOR-Dioceseof Fall River-Fri., July 12, 1991

Other problems caused by the ROME (CNS) - The destructive force of conventional and Gulfwar, said the editorial, include: - "The massacre of Palestininuclear weapons makes the "just war" theory outdated, and Chris- ans in Kuwait."

- "The civil war in Iraq with tianity must now stress that "modern war is always immoral," said a the massacre of Kurds and Shiites."

- Contami'nation of large parts Jesuit magazine often reflecting Vatican views. of the' Persian Gulf.

- The near-total destruction of Another previous theological justification, a "holy war" to defend civilian, economic and industrial the faith, also is no longer applica- life in Iraq.

The role of the chutch today is ble, said an editorial in the July 6 issue of La Civilta Cattolica. ' to educate for peace, it said.

"There always are peaceful means The 4,OOO-word editorial cited the Persian Gulf War as an exam- to resolve conflicts as long as there ple of the destructive power of are the will and patience to use '~' modern weapons and said it shows them," it added. ili ., j This also means "unmasking" how modern wars are "irrational," CECILIA FELIX, princicreating more problems than they the "ideology of war" which often pal of Holy Family/Holy solve. consists of "juridical and moral The editorials of the Rome- covers for the true motives of war, Name School, New Bedford, which are predominantly political ' accepts an Appreciation based, twice-monthly publication are reviewed beforehand by the and economic," it said.

Award from Massachusetts . Vatican Secretariat of State.

Citizens for Life on behalf of "Besides being immoral, war students who participated in a today is useless and dangerous," said the editorial.

Catholic Faith in Action proThe only exception to a total gram, volunteering to make moral ban on war is strict selfWASHINGTON (CNS) -- The pro-life signs and posters and defense against an act of aggres- jobbers are being treated as if they addressing' envelopes and sion,.it said. are the problem. rather than a The editorial quoted recent popes symptom. says Sharon Daly. direc- counting literature for rightand said that the 20th century has tor of the U.S. Catholic Confer- to-life mailings. seen "a growth of Christian con- ence Office of Domestic Social science about the absolute immorDevelopment. ality of war."

She questioned why economists "It has been expressed in the speculate about the next recession. absolute condemnation of war and, yet have no system to "comfort therefore, in the outdating of the' and sustain their [recessions') innoKIEV. U.S.S.R. (CNS) --old questions of the 'just war' and cent victims."

Latin-rite Catholics in Kiev have the 'holy war' to defend the faith," She was a panelist at a presenta- their old church back. but in a it said. tion of a study on unemployment condition very different from 1930 The editorial added that the and the recession. when the last Mass was celebrated "just war" theory, a strict criteria The study by the Center on there. used for centuries to judge a war's Budget and PoIi.cy Priorities found , Although the .letters have been morality, has only been a rule-of- a smaller percentage of out-of- removed. the water and dirt stains thumb formulated by theologians, work Americans received unem- above the door, still outline the "but never became 'official,' never, ployment benefits during 1990 than word "planetarium." therefore, sanctioned by the at any time since World War II. Kievans studied the constellachurch's teaching authority."

Nationwide. 37 percent of the tions projected onto the dome of Among the criteria of the "just unemployed received benefits in the old church. while Catholics war" is that the war must be fought an average month in 1990. accord- went to private apartments to for ajust cause, civilians are not to ing to the center. which studies attend the two Masses a month be deliberately targeted and the government social programs. their pastor was allowed. war cannot cause more injustices Changes in the way unemployBetween the planetarium and than it is meant to rectify. ment benefits are calculated and in the building's original floor are The editorial criticized the "just how it is determined whether states three floors of apartments and war" concept because "this theory qualify to pay benefits beyond the offices built by the Soviet governstarts from the presupposition that initial 26 weeks were seen as a ment in the 1950s. the war is not in itself always major difference between this and The planetarium is, now the immoral." previous recessions. chapel. its auditorium seats servThe report said 199,0 was the ing as pews.

"These conditions of a 'just war' seventh straight year that fewer were and are unattainable," it said.

Icons and religious paintings. than 40 percent of the nation's most of which were gifts. hang on "With the only exception of a unemployed received benefits. Only the purple and sky blue walls. A war of pure defense in the presence of an aggression that is taking Rhode Island and Alaska quali- wooden pulpit and altar carved in place, one can say that 'just wars' fied to pay extended benefits last Kiev are the only furnishings with do not exist and there is no 'right year, and 2.3 million workers a remotely matching style. to wage war,''' it added. exhausted their benefits without Comml,lnion rarely includes wine "If in fact, the relatively limited finding work. for anyone but the celebrant beMs. Daly said the center's report cause it's too expensive. Father damages of past wars could have "can help us to make the connec- Janis Krapan said during a recent been justified by some as lesser tions between this gap in the interview. evils, this can no longer be done," national safety net and the shockthe editorial said.

He said his parish plans to gut ing increases we see in poverty. the building and restore the church.

"Modern war brings with it the homeless ness and welfare depenunleashing of a violence which, Demolishing the structure and dency. because of the use of modern arms, building a new, church would "Prolonged unemployment is a undoubtedly bf: less expensive, but is without limit," it said.

"This is valid even if only so-, direct assault. on human dignity he said getting government perand on the fabric of society," she mission to do so would be imposcalled conventional weapons are said. citing the bishops' 1986 pas- sible. used because, as was seen in the toral letter on the' economy.

Gulf war, these have attained, Father Krilpan said there were In that letter. the bishops said 27 Catholic churches in Kiev before thanks to technological innovations, enormous destructive, unemployment causes people to the Russian Revolution. There are feel worthless and unproductive now two - his parish of St. Alexpower," it said.

"It is ari illusion to speak of mil- . and takes a toll on the health and ander and one in the suburbs, St. itary operations as 'surgical opera- s'-ability of 'individuals and fami- Nicholas.. ~ions,'~ it added~ . . . ' 'lies. "It gives r"ise to ,family quarFather Krapan has worked in The editorial said '''respdtlsible rels, greater alcoholism. child the Ukraine for 23 years. He began sources" estimate that 175;000 Iraqi abuse. di~orce and inf~nt mortal- minstering in Kiev in 1980, al. soldiers and 30,000 Iraqi civilians ity." they'said. though he was allowed to spend ,"We should think of the victims only two days a month in the city. were killed in the fighting.

"The liberation 'of Kuwait cost , of recession the way we think of "Fifteen days after the catasthe destruction of a country and the victims of natural disasters and trophe of Chernobyl in 1986 I the death of hundreds of thou- 'help them get bac~ on their feet," received permission to celebrate said Ms. Daly. sands of people," it said..

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counsel from those who know her physical, emotional, familial, religious or psychological background and can offer her options, many of which she may not be aware - her parents," Thayer added.

"Abortion advocates are currently trying to weaken the Massachusetts parental consent statute.

They want to lower the age limit for minors from 18 to 16 and the state to require the involvement of one instead of two parents,", sail2 Madeline McComish, MCFL legislative committee chairwoman.

"We hope that these results will persuade them to stop their effort& to weaken parental notice and consent statutes. We also urge legislators to support S695/ H2860, . which would allow parents to offer information to judges pertaining to their minor daughter's health when she is seeking permission for abortion."

Parent notification shown to reduce teen pregnancy A recent study in' the American Journal of Public Health shows that parental notification laws reduce teenage pregnancy and abortion rates.

The study, "Impact of the Minnesota Parental Notification Law on Abortion and Birth" in the March 1991 Journal, states that the abortion rate fell 28 percent after the 1981 enactment of a parental notification law in Minnesota. Since the birthrate also declined. this indicates that the pregnancy rate among teenagers dropped dramatically. The study concludes that the Minnesota law encouraged "pregnancy avoidance" among teenagers.

"Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocacy groups have wasted millions of taxpayers' dollars trying to reduce teen pregnancy." said Massachusetts Citizens for Life president Ruth Pakaluk. "Ironically. parental notice and consent statutes are the only measures that have proved effective in red ucing teen pregnancies and abortion advocacy groups have spent millions of dollars opposing these laws. It is time for them to admit publicly that they have been wrong and apologize for wasting so many tax dollars," she said.

"It is clear from the successes of the Minnesota notice law and the Massachusetts parental consent law that parental involvement in their minor datighters' healt.h care decisions has had an overwhelmingly positive impact," said MCFL education director Linda Thayer.

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CARDINAL IGNATIUS Kung Pin-mei (center) of Shanghai, China, arrives in Rome for his June 28 installation as cardinal. (CNS/ UPI-Reuters photo)

Secret naming of cardinal was secret from him too ROME(CNS)- Cardinallgnatius Kung Pin-Mei of Shanghai was named a cardinal 12 years ago.

He said he didn't know he was a secretly named cardinal; he didn't know there was such a person as a secretly named cardinal.

He was in a Chinese prison at . the time.

A dozen years later, dressed in a plain black cassock and wearing a pectoral cross given to him by Pope John Paul II, the 89-year-old cardinal prayed. the rosary while waiting for a small group of journalists the ciay before he was formally installed in the College of Cardinals.

The cardinal, who was staying at the Jesuits' Rome headquarters, said June 27 that there was no way he could have known that in 1979 Pope John Paul II named him a cardinal "in 路pectore."

During his 30 years in a Chinese prison, "I was not allowed to read . the Bible"or any other religious literature, he said. He was not allowed visitors and the prison provided only "the thoughts of Mao and Chinese newspapers."

Cardinal Kung was arrested in 1955 and convicted of treason in 1960 for refusing to renounce his loyalty to the papacy and endorse the government-supported Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, which does not accept papal rule.

He was sentenced to life, but was released on parole in 1985 and kept under house arrest. In 1988, he was allowed to leave for the United States for medical treatment. He has lived in Stamford, Conn., where several members of his family reside, since then.

During a 1989 meeting, Pope John Paul told him he was the secretly named cardinal, but asked him to keep the secret until the pope called a new consistory.

"I felt I didn't deserve it." Cardinal Kung said. "The Holy Father did not explain why" he made the decision.

.Papal Mass delays Cardinal Bevilacqua's possession of titular church ROME (CNS) - Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Philadelphia thought he'd celebrate Mass and take possession of his titular church the Sunday after being ind ucted into the College of Cardinals.

But Pope John Paul II got there first.

The Vatican informed Cardinal Bevilacqua that his titular church - which symbolically makes him part of the clergy of Rome would be the Most Holy Redeemer and St. Alphonsus Church, the church of the headquarters of the Redemptorist order. The next morning he gave the church a call to make arrangements fOr the liturgy.

The Redemptorists told him sorry, but June 30 wouldn't be convenient. It was their turn to host one of Pope John Paul II's Sunday visits to Roman parishes.

"It's a great privilege to have the pope celebrate Mass at my church:' Cardinal Bevilacqua said June 28 after the consistory at which he became a cardinal.

Outside the church June 30, the cardinal said he told the Redemptorists, "of course, the pope takes precedence."

Cardinal Bevilacqua's Mass at the church, located near the Basilica of St. Mary Major, was rescheduled for July 2. But the Philadelphia prelate was on hand to welcome the pope.

Cardinal Bevilacqua sat in the sanctuary with his fellow inductee, Cardinal Camillo Ruiili, the papal

vicar of Rome, as the pope celebrated Mass and used his homily to promote devotion to Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

The famous Byzantine icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help was brought to Rome from Crete at the end of the 15th century. It was entrusted to the Redemptorists by Pope Pius IX in 1866and is housed in the Gothic-style church.

The pope July I told a group from Philadelphia which came to Rome for the consistory that his assignment of the Redemptorist church to Cardinal Bevilacqua "is particularly fitting."

"It brings to mind the life and

example of the great St. J.ohn Neumann, the first Redemptorist to be professed in America" and the fourth bishop of Philadelphia, the pope said.

The Rome church has a mosaic of St. John Neumann, who was canonized in 1977. The saint is buried at the National Shrine of St. John Neumann, which is attached to the Redemptorist's St. Peter Parish in Philadelphia.

The last cardinal to have Most Holy Redeemer and St. Alphonsus as his titular church was a Redemptorist, Cardinal Jose Clement Maurer of Sucre, Bolivia, who died a year ago. ~

Cardinal Kung said he could not "prophesy" ab6ut the future of CARDINAL ANTHONY J. BEVILACQUA Philathe Catholic Church in his homedelphia receives his red biretta from Pope John Paul II at the land, where the government has June 28 consistory at the Vatican.

(CNS photo) established the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, which spurns , ties to the Vatican and elects its own bishops.

An underground c~urch also exists of Catholics who retain loyalty to the Vatican.

"The Holy Father has extended JAHANNESBURG, South and where all can learn and win visited Namibia, where he consehis hand for a long time, 路but unfortunately. the government has Africa (CNS) - The effects of reciprocal trust:' Cardinal Etche- crated a "peace church" near the apartheid need to be removed garay said. border with Angola. not responded:' he said.

The cardinal, who met with The cardinal asked for prayers through new structures and a new "I pray to the Lord that southBishop Wilfred Napier, head of ern Africa will soon play its rightthat Chinese Catholics will "main- spirit in South Africa, said a Vatithe southern African bishops' con- ful role in developing solidarity tain fidelity and can return to the can official.

A new South Africa "is indeed ference, and other church leaders with all of Africa and with the faith." during his visit, said the churches people of the whole world," he "I hope the church in China will about to be borll, to give equal "have an important role to play, said. return to full communion. with opportunity to every person and to give a viable co-existence to especially in a countiyso strongly Rome," he said. marked by the Christian faith."

Pope John Paul II thanked all:' said Cardinal Roger EtchegaCardinal Kung for his "humble ray, head ofthe Pontifical Council The churches "must now focus perseverance" in remaining loyal for Justice and Peace. The cardi: their efforts on awakening and nal was路 speaking in South Africa educating consciences towards to the Vatican.

VATICAN CITY (CNS)- Pope "By honoring you the Holy See during a recent eight-day papally moral and social values and with a John Paul 11 has named a Vatican honors the whole faithful church appointed mission to talk with sense of the common good:' he delegate to help resolve a pastoral in China. With what prayerful government, church and civic 路said. impasse in Switzerland in which a longing and love do I follow the leaders.

Cardinal Etchegaray, who also local bishop is opposed by much He spoke at Jan Smuts airport met with African National Con- of his diocese. life of the loyal Chinese Catholic near Johannesburg as he departed gress leader Nelson Mandela and communities," the pope said July The dispute centers on the pope's the country.

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South African President Freder- appointment of Bishop Wolfgang The cardinal said he came to ick W. De Klerk, said a date for a Haas to the diocese of Chun, where The pope spoke at a Vatican South Africa "simply to encour- papal visit to the country had "not priests and lay people have promeeting with Cardinal Kung and age those who, because of their as yet been fixed."

100 of his friends and relatives a . tested, saying the bishop is too few days after inducting the Chi- responsibilities for the destiny" of During his visit, the cardinal authoritarian and conservative. the country "today are faced with nese churchman into the College . the greatest challenge of its history." of Cardinals.

The Vatican official said that Cardinal Kung was among the although apartheid has been legally 23 churchmen installed as cardidismantled it is "still necessary to nals on June 28. remove its consequences, through His induction is an "expression new structures and even more of my heartfelt esteem, openness through a new spirit." and good will towards the great The Population Registration Chinese family," Pope John Paul Act, the last bastion of apartheid said. which divided the population by The induction ceremony should be "seen as a sign of our desire to law into racial groups,was repealed foster that dialogue which can June 17. benefit the cause of harmony and "The process of negotiation peace among all peoples of the which is now being put into place world," said the pope. demands an exceptional will, on "I gladly invoke abundant divine the part of all the parties congifts upon all your fellow citizens. cerned, to make c1earsighted and May God bless the great Chinese determined efforts, in a fraternal family," he said. climate where violence is excluded

Vatican official says new spirit will help erase apartheid effects

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-Diocesan youth learn skilifs of Christian' leadership speaks of the worth of the program," said Mrs, Donoghue.

"The beautiful thing about this The program basics have reis that this is coming from the kids, mained the same: daily skills workthe next generation of the church. shops, small group sessions, prayer Like the apostles, the new church and worship services and recreais forming and the spirit is coming tion time. alive in the youth," observed Carol CLI's goal, Mrs. Donoghue exSypko at the fourth annual Chrisis to foster leadership poplained, tian Leadership Institute for diocesan youth held June 24 to 28 at tential in individuals and increase awareness of the responsibilities, Cathedral Camp, East Freetown.

Ms. Sypko, a religion teacher at rewards, and difficulties of leaderCoyle-Cassidy High School, Taun- ship in both the parish and the ton, and spiritual director for this larger Christian communities.

Mo'rnings were spent in workyear's CLI, noted that she and her fellow adult leaders in the pro- shops, with planning, consensusgram were impressed with the seeking, leadership styles and skills, "giftedness" of the students in this group dynamics and communication covered in depth. year's group.

The students, in 10 groups, each "There is a real sense of reverence in these young people," added led by an adult, discussed in small Edna Donoghue, associate direc- group sessions such topics as comtor of the Diocesan Office for munity building, prayer, youth Catholic Youth Ministry and coor- ministry components and Christian leadership. dinator of CLI. Tile groups took turns planning Held for the fourth consecutive year at Cathedral Camp, the youth aspects of the program, including leadership training program has mealtime and bedtime prayers and come into its own in the Fall River "wake-up services" consisting of diocese: for the first time the insti- prayer, music and distribution of a tute was exclusively diocesan-run, daily symbol. For example, said with youth ministry office assis- Ms. Sypko, Thursday's symbol tant director Father David A. was a sun cut from construction Costa and associate director Sister paper and the group in charge of Mary Golden, MSBT, as program the service awakened the others directors. Father Costa had been with the song "You Are My Sunspiritual director for the three pre- shine."

Each evening a different group vious institutes.

CLI was introduced to the dio- planned a liturgy for which they cese from the Center for Youth provided music, prayers and reMinistry Development in Nauga- flections to suit the day's Scripture tuck, Conn., and has previously readings. been presented by a director from "They chose their own roles, the Connecticut center and a Fall they used their own creative gifts," River diocesan team. said Ms. Sypko, "and every single With 60 registrants ages 15 to person learned that the Mass was 18, and with 33 parishes repre- theirs to participate in." sented, this year's program was the, Having a daily liturgy gave stulargest yet. dents "a better appreciation of the This year there was a waiting list Mass," said Sarah Mikulis of St. for candidates, "and to me that Mark's parish in Attleboro'Falls.

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David Correia, youth ministry president at St. John the Evangelist parish, Attleboro, said the students' participation in the Mass made the Gospt~ls more "real," while Jay Lively of St. Elizabeth Seton parish, North Falmouth, commented about the daily prayer services and Mas:; that "I could get used to this schedule!"

He added, "It's, easier to pray in a group, when everyone else is doing it."

There were a fe:w new aspects to this year's CLI program, Mrs. Donoghue noted, One was addition of a minicourse on prayer to the: complement of small group discussion topics.

The session, dl:signed to "make young people aware that a leader also needs to have a spiritual life," explored different types of prayer, said Mrs. Donoghue. .

Also new was the inclusion of representatives from two diocesan high schools - Bishop Stang in North Dartmouth and Coyle-Cassidy - in additiolll to parish representatives. ~rs. D~noghul~ noted that many pansh pnests and youth ministers who sent representatives visited their candidates during the week, and "that was vl:ry affirming for the kids. The whole purpose ofthis program is enablt~ment" - to help young people "'discover their gifts...and go back with what they've learned and share those skills in their parishes, schools and community."

"Not only are the young people enriched, but their parishes and families are as well," added Ms. Sypko.

Many student!. noted that they felt better equipped to take on responsibilities in their youth groups and parishes due to the skills and confidence acquired at CLI. "I've learned a lot about my prayer life and how to improve it and have it help me in my family and in youth ministry," said Jason Richard, a member of the youth ministry board at St. Dominic's parish, Swansea.

"I've learned there are special qualities in each person," said Michelle Levesque of St. Anthony's parish, New Bedford, who will be president of her youth group next year.

"Here there's no judgment made on you - they look at how you are o.n the inside. I'VI: grown to appreciate everyone here, how special and unique they are. By seeing their special gifts I saw God in them and feel clOSI~r to God through the people I've met here."

More than one student, citing the friendships and faith community formed during the institute, said, "I don't want to leave!"

"The' week in all has been incredible," said Robyn McBride, a CYO member and parish council representative at Our Lady of Victory parish, Centerville.

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"I've learned so much about faith and how much I really believe in God," she said. "I felt like God was here with us." . At the daily liturgies, many participants "gave witness talks as a personal reflection - told of Jesus working in their lives, how they were healed or experienced Christ's presence," said Mrs. Donoghue. . While she emphasized that CLI is not a retreat but a "skills builder," she added that "the relationship with Jesus is important.

That's what makes their kind of leadership different from'what you find in the marketplace."

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same New Mexico town, and a lot of us had known each other since In high school my friend Steve second grade. Except for the details was cool. Steve almost seemed to of family life, our backgrounds know the future. He noticed things, and he put patterns together in were almost the same.

But in the college dorm I sat up ways that would never have oclate studying and playing cards curred to me. If the flow oflife was with students who came from the shifting, Steve would recognize it Detroit ghetto, Buenos Aires and first.

New Delhi. They saw the world One afternoon in the spring of differently than I did - and I our senior year, we were walking learned that some of my comforacross campus when Steve said, table assumptions about life were "h's coming, the Big College mistaken.

Change."

I daydreamed through high I didn't know what he meant. school history classes, but my brain "Haven't you noticed? After they start college, they're different. They really came alive in college American history. Class began when the come back around here and they instructor rolled into the room, aren't the same people." absolutely filled with enthusiasm.

Some will tell you their lives , This guy knew the deiails of were changed by books. Not me.

The changes in my life during the American history the way the rest of us know our phone numbers. college years were formed and he didn't just know it - he shaped by the people I met: friends But loved it, and through ,his love of and teachers, girlfriends and priests. ideas he taught me entire new ways Drama was my great love in of thinking. high school, and I went off to col-, When I started college, I was an lege absolutely certain that acting Episcopalian.

I chose the local would be my life. During the first year my drama teacher was a gifted Catholic college because it was and demanding man. He pressed nearby and had a good drama students to their limits and forced department. I wanted no traffic them to decide if they were serious with the religion part.

The Poor Sisters of St. Francis about the theater. ran the college. On quiet evenings I wasn't that serious. Half way their singing poured out the winthrough my sophomore year I left dows and all across the quad. Just the drama department with no as their voices brought me to the regrets.

My high school friends mostly chapel, their solid spirituality slowcame from the same part of the ly drew me in.

I began attending Mass, and in college -I listened to some of the best sermons I have ever heard.

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teachers to build upon the Quest Skills for Growing self-esteem program already in place at the school.

In honor of the 50th wedding anniversary oflongtime St. Anne's School supporters Irene' L. and . Albert H. St. Martin, St. Anne's Credit Union in: Fall River estab~ lished a scholarship in their name that was awarded for the first time at this year's eighth grade graduation.

The winner was Priscilla'Paiva, who received a $250 scholarship to THE CATHOLIC Association of Foresters awarded 23 Bishop Stang High School, North college scholarships to student-members at its recent annual Dartmouth, and a personal desk set. In addition, her' name was convention~ held on Cape Cod. Local winners and society inscribed on a plaque to be perofficers are: (front row, frQm left) scholarship chairperson manently displaye.d at the school.

The St. Martins are alumni of Susan Eddy-Callahan; Carolyn M. Besse of New' Bedford; Megan McCloskey,. Fall River; Caitlin O'Donnell, Bridge- St. Anne's and Mrs. St. Martin water; Maureen Carroll, Wilmington; High Chief Ranger has been a devoted school volunteer for years. Albert 'St. Martin Janice Lee Pope. was among founders of St. Anne's Back row, from left: so~iety chaplain Rev. Leonard M. Fraternity in 1933 and was jl direcMullaney, pastor of-St. Anthony's Church, East Falmouth; tor of the Sf. Anne Credit Union Daniel P. Tweedie, New Bedford; John P. McLaughlin, M,U- for over 50 years. ' In 1965 he established the credit ton; twins Joel G. and Adam E. Braillard; Bryan T. Cafferelli union's Outstanding Citizenship of Westport, Conn.; and incoming High Chief Ranger Richard Award, given each year to a boy G. Davis. and a girl in St. Anne's graduating class.

St. Martin was also honored by the National Catholic Educational Fourth grade teacher Sister Association as :a distinguished St. Anne's School, Fall River, has been awarded four grants for Mary Dumond, CP, has received alumnus of St. Anne's. two $300 curricul~m grants, one the 1991-92 school year.

Realization A grant of $250 from NAR- for development of a Portuguese "One of the greatest things you CONON was awarded to guidance heritage social studies unit, the counselor Sister Mary Christopher other for developing the art cur- will ever be able to say in your lifetime is this: 'I have realized the O'Rourke, RS M, to assist in form- riculum.

Principal Irene L. Fortin also potential that Almighty God put ing peer support and peer leadership groups in the junior high di- announced receipt of a $2,500 into me.''' :- Norman Vincent teacher training grant to allow Peale vision of the school.

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We hope to free ourselves from past patte'rns that restrict our potential. We seek a life that makes a difference for others and for our world.

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Part of this purpose has to do with giving service to others.

We are all connected on this earth. God invites each of us to fill our part of the planet with light and love.

How do we do this? How do we find a path that enables us to enrich others' lives? ' One way is to pause and listen to your heart's· des,ires.

Whatever brings you genuine satisfaction may also positively affect the lives of others.

Each of us needs to ask what experiences almost always leave us full ofsatisfaction and energy.

What do I love to do that is also helpful to others?

Our answers to these questions just might have an effect on the future work we choose for our lives. These questions are worth talking over with a trusted adult at your school or parish.

The most important step is to listen to your feelings. As we begin to connect our deepest interests with the direction of our life, we discover where we belong - the place and the role in this world that bring bothjoy and purpose.

- Your comments are welcomed

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

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.with this issue, we begin a new column by humorist Dan Morris, a veteran Catholic journalist and editor who resides in Arlington, Wash. Writing as "Uncle Dan," he'l be taking a look at the light side of parish and family life.

There are many ways to spotcheck a marriage besides the quizzes in Redbook, Ladies Home Journal or Field and Stream.

As a matter of fact, I consider myself one of the leading experts in collecting these tiny tests of the waters of marital seaworthiness.

Ironically. my wife jokingly insists that I claim to be an expert on many things of which I know little, maybe less. This, of course, proves my point and is one of the many little tests itself.

As I recall, she began this silliness when I compared the pain of childbirth to a gruesome injury I incurred more than once as a youthful bicycle rider. Disguising her mirth behind clenched fists and an impressive show of neck veins, she offered to field test my

comparison as soon as she was out relationship testing. Several examples pop to mind, including playof the delivery room.

Good-natured humor is at the ing Monopoly together, hooking heart of many of these little "spot- up trailer lights and wallpapering checks." A good example is my the bathroom. lighthearted honking of the car The first bathroom we wallpahorn precisely when she passes in pered as a team required a priest, a front of the car. Despite years of biologist and 50 percent more paper marriage, this rarely fails to pro- and pa~te than needed. To this day duce an entertaining display of , I have my doubts that butterflies surprise, even comic relief. can be either rightside up or upside I cherish a particularly animated down, but as Father O'Brien instance when she jettisoned an, counseled, "There are larger quesentire bag of groceries that nearly tion in life, my SOil." made it through the basketball Among th'em, of course, is: hoop over our garage.

"Where in the Monopoly rules We have embellished this joyful does it say fines from Community exchange over the years. I now Chest and Chance go to Free Space never forget to roll up the windows and are awared to the next player or lock the doors before honking. to land there?"

She has developed more subtle I think I might write Milton and responses than kicking the door or embedding her fingernail in the Bradley about that one. However, I'll have to wait for this testy lady paint.

Slashing the words "Beware, with the sawed-off broom handle Pilgrim!" in lipstick across the to let me out of the car first. bathroom mirror comes to mind.

Your comments are welcomed "Shared experiences" is proba- by Uncle Dan, 2521S Meadow bly the most fruitful category of Way, Arlington, Wash. 9si23.

How funny are "America's Funniest Home Videos?" real problem with children seeing to see an accurate depiction of the WASHINGTON (CNS) something and then trying to American family having fun."

Maybe the nation is desperate for "How America spends its time is duplicate it," Di. Bona said slapstick. chronicled on home video - baby's which is why "Funniest People" That could be why some 30 milfirst haircut, baby's first birthday viewers will never watch the clip of lion Americans on Sunday nights a baby in Mama's lap driving a candle," Di Bona said. this past season watched" AmeriViewers who flood Di Bona car. ca's Funniest Home Videos" and Before creating the video shows with videocassettes are the driving its spinoff, "America's Funniest Di Bona was ass()ciated with sevforce behind the pr:ograms, he said.

People," back to back on ABC, eral other Hollywood productions, He estimated "Home Videos" What else explains why tens of including many for the church. miIlions tuned in to watch home- receives 200-450 tapesaday, th.ough He also produced the telecast of only one out of 100 is funny. made video clips, including, for example, one of a ,dog who, can For"Funniest People," he sends Pope John Paul II's meeting with start a Jacuzzi. ' a camera team out on weekends to American youths \'ia satellite hookMost then stay tuned for" Amer- film Americans doing th.eir shticks up during the pope's 1987 visit to .. ica's Funniest 'People'~ to see more' - last year, the' show visite'd 246 the United State's, In Los Angeles', he's active in St. home video clips as well as profes- cities - and also receives about 50 Paul the Apostle Parish, a "familysional footage;· The stars were home videos a day. amateurs, including the karate "Everybody has their quirky oriented parish" run by the Pauchimp from Niagara Fa,Us. trick," ~uch as "beingable to bend lists, he said.

Making "Home Videos'" IS his And then they came, back for . th.eir finger and ma\ce it look like it more. On "Videos,:' they saw a fell off," said Di Bona. The tricks luckiest break so far, he sllid. The sleeping cat fall off a TV set, earn- pay well. Ask the boy who won success came through slow, steady ing the cat $10,000. On "Funniest $10,000 for his Woody Woodpecker work, he added.

People" they watched Ii 14-month- imitation on "Funniest People." '''We were very prepared," Di But not every funny tape goes Bona said, and "very lucky and old baby make an oh-my-gosh face when Mama whispered inhis on air. "Br~adcasts standards have very blessed." ear, "Do you know what Dave and Arlene did?" Baby copped $10,000 too.' .' .

In the ratings race, "Home Area CVOgolftournaments will to be held at Pocasset Country Videos" ranked as the sixth most' be held July 22 at the John F. Club Monday, Aug. 19. popular prim~-time show this year.

Parker golf c,ourse in Taunton for .. Fall River Results "Funniest People" ~ame in n.inth. ' the,Taunton area; and July 29 at The FalI River area CVa' golf, Vin Di Bona', 47'-year~0Icrcrea~ the J,:ocust Valley golf course in tournament was held July 8 at the, tor and el{ecutive pr.od uc.er. of the, Attleboro for the Attleboro area, FalI Riv~r, ..c0\lntry Club; .with program,s, s~ys vie"Yers tuped in - Bo'th events wilIbe 18~ilOle medal Everett Smith as director. for "beIlY·I~ughs." The clip's, with . play tourname'nts. ., lrithe' senior division, Dave clever voice-overs and' sound' ef1~'Tauntori the tourriame~t wiil Purdy' of' Swansea captured first fects, add up t~ "gr~ss:roots.hu:' place with a 43-44-87 score for the mor," he said 'in Ii teleph~ne' be chaired" ~y ~arry Masterson and, will begin at 8 a.m. JuLy 22. day and Paul. Medeiros of FalI, interview.. ,~, .

The,.entry fee is $5. .

River was runner-upwit~ a 43-46How funny is" Ameri,ca's FunnIn' I\ttleboro, where the tour~ ,89 talIy. " , ',. iest Home Videos?"

"Seven wom'en wro'td in to say nament is being held for the first . In the intermediate division, last ~ year's junior champion, Jamie they laughed so hard it .induced time' in many years, it will be chaired by Arthur Anderson, a C?dega ~f FalI River was the easy childbirth," Di Bona said. ' . " ,teacher' 'at.Bishop . ' Fee- . winner With a score of 39-41-80-for longtnne . .

Others have written to say peo-' han High School;' Attleboro,. and:- the day. Se<;ond plaGe went to Jeff pie laughed till they died- almost former Attleboro Open champion.. Conroy of As~onet~ho scored 4~~ , literally.

Play will begin ,at 8:30 a.m. and 42-88 for t.he !ourn~~~nt. .

He cited letters that recounted In the JUnIor diVISion, ~evIn registration f(lrms may be filled families howling with a terminally, out at that time. A $10 entry fee B~aserof Somerset was the Winner ill person on Sunday night and the '11' I d f h t 'wlth a score of 48-40-88 for the day WI inC U e re res men, s. and close behind was the runnersick person dying the next day.

Th'ere wilI be four divisions of up Kevin Purdy of Swansea who The families thanked Di Bona for shot a 46-43-89. ' making "marvelous laughs" their, play for both tournaments: seniors, born .on or after Jan. I, 1965; In the cadet division Keith Vieira final memory.

The show's so good for the sick intermediates" b~rn on or after, of FalI River finished'in first place with a score of 56-47-103 and that therapists request clips "for Jan. I, 1972; JunIOrs, born on or Adam Zimbro of Swansea was the laugh therapy - for burn victims, after Jan. I, 1975; and cadets, b~rn runner-up with a final talIy' of for cancer therapy, for terminally on or after Jan. I, 1977, ill patients," he said.

The champion and runner-up in 62-57-113. each area will be awarded a trophy The winners and second place The program complies.

Di Bona said the home cam- . and wilI represent the area in the finishers are eligible for the dioceDiocesan CVO Gold Tournament, ,san tournament. corder has offered "the first chance

CYO golf tourneys' set in. two areaS

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Adolescence time of spiritual growth

BOVS TOWN, Neb. (CNS) - ' Adolescents who shun church services aren't necessarily anti-God, Tufts University professor David Elkind said during a national symposium on fostering spiritual growth among "at-risk" youth at Boys Town.

"It's not that they are not religious," Elkind said. "It's that they see it [religion) as very personal.

They become very concerned about that privacy. They want to protect it. God becomes a confidant to them."

An adolescent's d(!Sire to keep God private at this point in his or her spiritual life calIs for flexibility and support on the part of parents, list clllIlesy 01 Vallely@ 1991 CNS Gr aphcs teachers and religious, Elkind said.

With proper support, he said, "they'lI come back someday to the 'institution.'''

The recent symposium launched Recent top rentals Boys Town's effort to develop a unique national training program 1. GoodFellas, A-IV (R) , to foster spiritual growth among 2. Kindergarten Cop, at-risk adolescents in church and A-III (PG-13) non-church settings. The program 3, The Grifters, 0 (R) is being funded through a three4. Predator 2, 0 (R) 5, Postcards from the Edge, year, $364,000 project grant from A-III (R) LilIy Endowment Inc, 6. Green Card, A-III (PG-13) Father Val Peter, executive 7, Mermaids, 0 (PG-13) director of Boys Town, told the 8, The Rookie, 0 (R) participants that compassion is 9. Jacob's ladder, A-III (R) important but by itself isn't 10. White Fang, A-II (PG) adequate. .

"The world is filled with people who want to help our kids," Father Peter said, "arid the kids get worse. What we need is competence. We need people who know what they"re about. That takes, lisl cOlItesy 01 Variety discipline, sacrifice and learning. , Oth!:r speakers included 'Boston Symbols follo',Virig'reviews juvenile court magistrate Bruce indi.cate both general and Wall; author and consultant on Catholic Films Office ratings, co-deperid~ncyPia Mellody; Jesuit which donot always coincide., Father Charles Shelton, ciinical" , General ratings: G-suitable psychologist and theologian at Regis College in, Denver; and Mike for general viewing; PG-13- . Carotta, director 'of religiou~ eduparental guidance strongly cation at Boys Town.' suggested for children under Father Shelton called for a 13; PG-parental guidance "fusion" Qf theology ~nd psycholsuggested; R .... restricted, un-' ogy in working with at-risk youth. told participants that highsuitable for children or roung riskWalI youth can be reached' "with a teens. . lot of love, with a belief system Cath~lic ratings: AI-ap~ that .you need 'to have yourself, proved for children and adults; with a lot of patience and with a lot .' ,', A2...,.approved for ad~lts and of time." ,In ,nis:a<,ldress and in a',later adolescent's; A3~ap'proved in.terview with The Catholic Voice, for adults only; 4-separate newspaper of- the Archdiocese of, . c"assification-<give~fiImsnot Omaha, Elkind said there is a , mo.rally offensive.wttich, how- pa.ralIel between spiritual 'growth' ever, require some analysis,' and .ch,ildhood-developme.nt, and that:the: ~arioi.Is stages ,ofreligious and explan'ation); O-morally' id'entity seen in y~uth ilre similar offensive. '. , across denominations.

He, described "at-risk" youth as ---~---------­ early adolescents most vulnerable .has-'p~an to environmental influences CINCINNATl (CNS) - A new those who believe everyone is national group to "serve the edu- watching them. who are suscepti- " ble to peer pre'ssure, who believe cational needs ofthe'pro-life movethat they can live forever, ment" will be formed by the physiWitnessing an adult's commitcian who recently stepped down as head of the National Right to Life ment to his or her faith can be Committee. Or. John C.· Willke, ' particularly insightful, he said.

1. Robin Hood: Prince of , Thieves, A-II (PG-13) 2. City Slickers, A-II (PG-13) 3. Dying Young, A-III (R) 4. The Rocketeer, A-II (PG) .

5. Backdraft, A-III (R) 6. Jungle Fever, A-IV (R) 7. What About Bob?, A-II (PG) 8. Don't Tell Mom the Babysnter's Dead, A-III (PG-13) 9. Soapdish, A-III (pG-13) 10. Thelma & louise, 0 (R)

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who ended ~ IO-year-stint as direc.tor of the National Right to Life Committee in June, said the new group will target what he estimates are the 50 percent of Americans who are undecided or unsure of their stance on abortion. In a press conference in Cincinnati, where the Life Issues Institute wilI be based, WiIlke said the large undecided group wilI have the greatest effect on abortion legislation.

The Right Door "God answers prayers in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile.

God sometimes shuts doors to lead you ,to the right open door."

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ST. MARY, NORTON Altar workers are needed to help once a month or so on .Saturday morning to prepare for weekend liturgies. Volunteers may call the rectory. Recyclable bottles and cans may be left in the container in front of the parish center. Returned deposit money is used to help the needy.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Father Felician Plichta, OFM Conv., will mark his golden jubilee as a priest at 11:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. A testimonial will follow. Catechists are needed for the fall. Volunteers may call the religious education office. Prayer meeting 7:30 p.m. each Monday, parish center. All welcome.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA Lectors are needed and may contact the rectory for further information.

ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FR "Walk Your Weight Down" program begins 5 p.m. July 16. Information: 674-5741, ext. 2635.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Youth group events include a trip to Riverside Park July 27 and a Martha's Vineyard cruise and party Aug. 17. New Women's Guild officers: Frances Jensen, president; Rita Martin, vice president: Alzira de Mattos, secretary; Yvette Ashley, treasurer.

ST. JAMES, NB The 9 a.m. Saturday Mass has been discontinued, due to St. James becoming a one-priest parish.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Prayers are asked for Tom Wallace, an altar boy at O.L. Hope Chapel, who is battling leukemia.

High School Youth Ministry trip to Martha's Vineyard July 16 to 17.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will celebrate 10:45 a. m. Mass this Sunday at O.L. Victory.

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ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT ST. STANISLAUS, FR NOTRE DAME, FR Lynn Guilmette is representing The school office is closed until B'-!s for baseball game leaves the parish at a.national convention Aug. 5. The parish has 13 special church parking lot 11:30 a.m. July of Pastoral Musicians, Judi Moniz ministers of the Eucharist serving at 21. at a national Evangelization conven- St. Anne's Hospital. Gary Zukowski ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON tion. Finance Advisory Council meet- is the recipient ofthe 1991 Women's Parish picnic noon to 6 p.m. SuningJuly 18. Openings exist for coun- Guild scholarship grant. A National day, St. Vincent de Paul Camp, cil secretary and on the stewardship, Honor Society student, he has been Westport. Vincentian yard sale 9 fundraising, budget and building com- a parish acolyte for 10 years. a.m. to 5 p.m. July 27 at center, 19 mittees. Large screen TVs and VCRs CATHEDRAL, FR Kilton St. All proceeds fund shipare needed in the parish education Missionaries of Africa Father ping costs for clothing to needy in program. Donors are asked to con- Constant Durette wili speak on needs Appalachia, Texas and other areas. tact the rectory. The choir continues - of the missions at Masses July 20 Centering prayer program 7 p.m. to minister at 9:30 a.m. Sunday and 21. An upright piano is needed each Thursday, parish center.

Mass through the summer. New for the Cathedral school. ProspecSECULAR FRANCISCANS members welcome. tive donors are asked to contact the No July meeting for St. Clare FraSPIRIT OF JESUS PRAYER rectory. ternity; meeting 6 p.m. Aug. II, GROUP Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home, ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Spirit of Jesus Regional Prayer 1100 Bay St., Fall River.

Family Picnic Aug. II at St. VinGroup healing Mass and service cent de Paul Camp, Westport. The ST. ELIZABETH SETON, with celebrant Father Bob Masciocnew parish council will meet II :30 N, FALMOUTH chi, CSS, and music by River of Life a.m. each last Sunday, beginning in Bereavement support group meet7:30 p.m. July 18, St. Francis Xavier September. . ings resume 3 p.m. Aug. II, when Church, Hyannis.

ST. RITA, MARION videotape showing will be followed SACRED HEART, TAUNTON First Friday devotions honoring by discussion. Information: 548-8665.

Lectors and eucharistic ministers the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Bible discussion group meeting July may pick up schedules in sacristy.

Heart are held each first Friday of 14. Information: 563-6961.

Annette Perry is renewing the family the month at 7 p.m. and include ST. THOMAS MORE, ministry; information: 823-3522. rosary, confessions, Mass, a healing SOMERSET Choir director/ organist Joanne service and charismatic prayer.

Youth Group Rocky Point trip 5 Alden seeks new choir members; to 10:30 p.m. July 24.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO rehearsals Wednesday evenings.

Donations of food for needy may Those interested may contact her ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO after 4 p. m. Saturday or 9:30 a.m. or be left at main church entrance, Pastoral care ministers' meeting 7 under table.

7 p.m.

July 22, planning II a.m. Sunday Masses or at 822p.m. July 22, rectory. Annual"Aftermeeting for annual anointing of sick 9823. noon with the Sisters" 2 to 4 p.m. ceremony to be held in August.

Aug. 25, convent.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ST. JOSEPH, NB ATTLEBORO ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Junior Legion of Mary meetings Grace Markay will offer "Mary: Eight new eucharistic ministers 10 a.m. July 16,23,30; senior meet- and II new altar servers are now New Woman ofthe Gospels" 10 a.m. ings 6:30 p.m., same dates. Prayer serving the parish. to 4 p.m. tomorrow, Good News meetings 7 p. m. July 17, 24, 31, recRoom, LaSalette Shrine. Program ST. FRANCIS XAVIER" will focus on mission and ministry of tory basement. Vincentians are offerHYANNIS irig refreshments in the church baseMary as found in the Gospels. PreThe parish congratulates Daniel ment following funerals; to make registration requested. Information: J. Lyons Jr., on his reception of the arrangements call 995-3289 by the 222-5410.

Eagle Scout award. Rosary for Life night before the funeral. Life in the CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE at WomanCare abortion clinic, 68 Spirit program orientation session Coffee, doughnuts, fresh fruit and Camp St., Hyannis, 7 p.m. each 7:30 p.m. July 16, rectory. homemade pastry served in church Wednesday; rosary for peace 7 p.m. hall following 8:30 and 10 a.m. SunHOLY NAME, NB each Thursday, church. day Masses. Baptismal candidates' Altar boy outing to Rocky Point class 7:30 p.m. July 22, catechists' July 24. Parish Finance Council SACRED HEART, class 7:30 p.m. July 15. Babysitting members: Henry Openshaw, Ter- N. ATTLEBORO Parish picnic I to 5 p.m. Aug. 18, at 10 a.m. Mass each Sunday. An rence Beehan, Edward Cormier.

Camp Kerr-Ana, Cumberland, RI. 8:30 a.m. Saturday Mass has been ST. ANNE, FR Women's Guild food pantry is in added to the parish schedule.

New Home and School officers: need offood for the needy. Montfort Diane Medeiros, president; Rose K of C COUNCIL 813, Father Everett Brown will speak at Almeida, vice president; Jeanne St. FALMOUTH/MASHPEE weekend Masses July 20 and 21 on Yves, treasurer, Susan Chapdelaine, New Council officers are Patrick behalf of missions of his community.

Flynn, grand knight; Joseph John- Linda Bessette, secretaries. Annual SACRED HEART, NB son, deputy grand knight; John St. Anne Noyena July 17 through Ladies of St. Anne installation Machado, warden; Joseph Pasquella, 25; services 3 and 7:30 p.m. with Mass 6:30 p.m. July 25. New memchancellor; Donald Antonanelli, homilies by Father John R. Foister, bers welcome. recorder; Paul Servis, treasurer. pastor.

Meetings 8 p.m. each -first and third Tuesday. Grand Knights' conference July 20 and 21.

DIVORCED/SEPARATED Cape and Islands support group will hold acookout at4 p.m. July 21.

Information: 548-1065; 362-9873. immediate doubling" of ordinations WASHINGTON (CNS) - The New Bedford group will meet 7 'priest shortage will last "as long as to replace departing priests is p.m. July 22 at the Family Life Cenneeded to stem the loss. any of us in the room are alive," ter, 500 Slocum Rd.,N. Dartmouth sociologist Dean R. H oge said at a He called the shortage "mainly a for a talk on codependent relationrecent "Future of the American problem ofthe leadership. It's cerships by Arthur Trundy; and on Church" conference in Washington. tainly a problem for bishops who Aug. 14 for a talk by Sister Jane Hogan.on self-esteem. The planning "For us, it's permanent," said are trying to keep the operation board will meet July 23 at 3 Adams Hoge, a sociology professor at the going and to look good to the St., Fairhaven.

Catholic University of America outer world, and to serve their ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN and the author of studies on the people as well as they can."

New Youth Group officers: Pat priest shortage. He spoke on "CarHoge said his 1985 study showed Mota, chairperson; Jim Wesoly, vice- rying Out Ministry in a Priest that most U.S. Catholics had not chair; Carrie Lipsett and Cathy Shortage." yet felt the effects of a priest Cardoza, secretaries; David Couto, Importing priests from other treasurer. shortage. nations, Hoge said, is "not fair and HOLY NAME, FR He cited one poll in which just," because priest-laity ratios The parish welcomes Father James respondents said not having a priest.

A. Calnan as parochial vicar. Father are.·worse elsewhere and foreign- available to visit the sick or adminThomas Frechette, former vicar, will born priests should not be expected ister last rites would be less accepbe honored ata testimonial in Sep- to make American cultural adapta- table than reducing the number of tember. New School Advisory Coun- tions. cil officers are Mary Biltcliffe, presiIn any case, he said, foreign .Sunday Masses.

Getting priests from religious dent; Sandy Pietruska, vice president; bishops are "tightening up the Sandy Shrader, secretary. requirements" on V.S.-bound orders is not workable. "Religious SECULAR FRANCISCANS, priests, because they fear they are orders have their own agendas," W.HARWICH only seeking a more comfortable Hoge said, and are faced with worse shortages than dioceses.

Meeting of St. Francis of Peace lifestyle in the V nited States. pre-fraternity 2 p.m. July 14, Holy In surveys, Hoge said, celibacy The shortage will get worse in Trinity Church, W. Harwich with is "a major issue" causing lack of the V.S. Northeast and Midwest Mass offered by Father William priesthood candidates. "The numCullen, SJ, who will speak on his in coming years, H,oge said, but bers went way up" among Catholic the priest-laity ratio will be worst work with troubled youth. Informain the West, primarily because of college undergraduates when celition: Dorothy Williams, 394-4094. "a rapid immigration of Catholics bacy was removed. as a requireHOLY ROSARY,TAUNTON ment in surveys, he added.

An appreciation party for all pa- there."

"You would have fourfold inFor every 100 priests who leave rishioners will be held at 6 p.m. July 20. Seating arrangements may be active ministry, only 59 are being creases" of candidates if celibacy were optional, Hoge said. ordained, Hoge said, and "an made with Kay Kiernan, 824-4815.

Priest shortage is here to stay, says researcher