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More than 7,000 Sisters of Mercy from North, South and Central America, Guam and the Philippines, including many from the Fall River diocese, will come together July 20 'to form a new institute, thus becoming one of the largest orders of religious women in the world.

The Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, as the new institute will be called, will hold its first chapter in Buffalo, N.Y., tomorrow through Aug. 3. Participants will elect leaders, vote on a constitution and set directions for the first four years of the institute's existence.

A five-member leadership team will be elected to set priorities, design programs to carry out the chapter's policy decisions and assign material resources for the institute.

The institute, with headquarters in the Washington suburb of Silver Spring, will have members in 29 countries and 45 U.S. states.

The founding of the new institute marks the end of a to-year Vatican-approved process to merge 25 regional communities of Mercy Sisters in the United States under the same organizational umbrella.

Colleges and hospitals run by the Mercy Sisters will not be directly affected by the merger.

Organizers hope the new stnicture will result in more cost-efficient services and a stronger voice for the order on social and religious issues.

Founded in 1831 The Sisters of Mercy were founded in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley, an heiress who used her fortune to serve the poor, especially women and children. In Ireland at that time, oppressed Catholics lived in squalor in disease-ridden slums.

When Catherine McAuley began her work in 1828, she intended a corps of Catholic social workers recruited from Dublin's elite.

Church authorities, however, persuaded her to establish a religious order that would continue her work after her death.

Before she died, Catherine established 12 Mercy foundations throughout Ireland and two in England, the first convents to be built in England following the Protestant Reformation.

During the mid-19th century, when millions of laborers and their families emigrated to the United States, Sisters of Mercy were asked to follow them to nurse and teach in the poor communities that· sprang up around factories and mines.

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WASHINGTON (CNS)di$s~miii"tion.jfnatuial family' Abortion and birth control; planning methods, often mis/\incl:ll4ing~aturalfamqY'plani,'i; .. ta;~enly!houghttoinclllde oJily . ning; have remained in the news' the "calendar rhythm"method. this summer as Congress, interIn a letter timed to. coincide nationalorganizatidnsandCath~' with W~rId Population Day olic leaders have made their July II, Dr. Fn~d Sai of Ghana, views known.,. . preside~t·of th.~ Planned ParThe International Planned' enthood organization, asked Parenthood Feder'ationand the· Pope John Paul II for "a sensi< head of tll~ Gerl'llan l)~.Shop~:.. tlve dialqgue"(),n family plan.. conference have both called for ning as 'the best protection dialogue on family planning. against abortion.

In Congress, efforts to over;" . Sai,whose group promotes turn the Supreme Court's deciartificial birth (lontrol and sup. sion Qn abortioncounsc:ling in p()rts legal ab~)rtion,said the federally funded familyplan~ Catholic Church "has chosen to ning clinics moved forward, as be an obstacle rather than an House Democrats elected a new allY" with regard to birth control, which he culled "one aspect majority whip who opposes ab~ ortion except to save a mother's of human rights and developlife. ment."

Bishop James T. McHugh of And a national conference of those involved in natural family Camden, N.J., ,il member of the U.S. bishops' Committee on planning ended with a call for Pro-Life Activities, said he better understanding and widet

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Bishop Lehmann said the German bishops "do not question, the teaching. It is not, as many' believe, fundamentally wrong, but obviously it is' difficult tOi;' make it real in the heads, hearts" and consciences of many peo'pie in the church."

The bishop's comments, in an interview with the German,;: magazine Quick, came shortly;;; Tur~to P~ge I

WASHINGTON (CNS) - A coalition of 17 groups that oppose abortion will spend $1 million for newspaper and radio advertisements urging Congress to keep federal Title X regulations that prohibit physicians from mentioning abortion as a means of family planning.

The Abortion is Not Family Planning Coalition launched the campaign July 15 witha press conference and the first newsp~per ads. The U.S.. Catholic Conference, public policy arm of the nation's bishops, is a member of the coalition.

Helen Alvare, planning and information director for the bishops' pro-life secretariat, said the coalition was "unprecedented" in that its members, long allied in the fight against abortion, had "never before pooled their funds for an education campaign."

The coalition is not revealing how much each member contributed to the campaign. Ms. Alvare said the USCe's contribution was. taken from its ongoing public education and information campaign on abortion, begun last year.

The coalition campaign complements the USCC campaign "quite well," she said. "Everybody likes to see an ad that they know to be true."

The print ads highlight the results of a June survey by The WirthliD Group which reported that 83 percent of those polled oppose using abortion as a method of birth control. .

Ms. Alvare said the Title X program, begun in 1970, was intended for pre-pregnancy services. Abortion was never included, and at that time, before the 1973 Roe vs.

Wade decision legalizing abortion virtually on demand, it would have been illegal, she added.

She said Planned Parenthood was using "disinformatioo" in characterizing the Title X debate as a free speech issue. Abortion rights advocates have decried the Title X regulations as "censorship" a "gag" keeping physicians from giving proper medical advice.

Ms. Alvare said' Planned Parenthood ads depicting the issue in those terins were becoming part of the "common currency" in public policy debate.

The issue picked up steam after the Supreme Court in May upheld the Title X restrictions.

The House passed by a 353-74 margin in June an appropriations bill which included an amendment lifting the Title X restrictions. The Senate has yet to consider the bill.

President Bush has assured abortion foes he would veto any bill that changed the Title X regulations.

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The Anchor Friday, July 19, 1991

Retired Bro.oklyn b'ishop dies of heart attack

Priests to speak on Sacred Heart SYRACUSE, N.Y. (CNS) The 1991 National Congress of the Sacred Heart of Jesus will take place Aug. 1-4 in Syracuse, with the theme, "Heart Speaks to Heart."

Each speaker at the conference will center his or her talk on one line of the Litany of the Sacred Heart. For example, Father Ken Roberts" author of the book, "From Playboy to Priest," will speak about the line "Heart of Jesus, our peace and reconciliation."

Among speakers from the community of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary will be Very Rev. Richard McNally, provincial superior, based in Fairhaven, who will summarize. the congress; and Rev. Alphonsus Mitchell, based in Wareham, who is national director of the devotion of Enthronement of the Sacred Heart in the Home.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta has indicated that she will attend and address a session of the conference, if her health permits.

Conference organizers have asked the U.S. bishops to hold continuous eucharistic adoration in each diocese or archdiocese while the,conference is taking place.

Saint's Restraint Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone else's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own," - Andrew V.Mass2n, MQ ,

St. Ahne.'s· Hospital gratefully acknowledges contribuI tions that we' have received 'to the Remembrance Fund during June, 1991. Through 'the remembrance and honor of these lives, St. Anne's can continue its "Caring With Excellence."

. George Allard Roland R. Banville Frank P. Botelho Joseph Cardin John F. Courchesne Catherine Dowling. .

Bishop JamE;ls J.-Gerrarp Mr. Francis L. Gragnani .

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the American Jewish Committee, BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) Retired Brooklyn Bishop Francis and Arnold G. Gardner, chairman J. Mugavero, known for his efforts of its national interreligious affairs to fight for the poor and fight commission, mourned Bishop Muagainst racism and anti-Semitism, gavero's passing.

"We will always remember him died early July 12 from a severe heart attack he suffered in his sleep as a great church leader in fighti-ng while vacationing on Long Island. the evil of anti-Semitism, and in building positive relationships beHe was 77. tween Roman Catholics and Jews," A funeral Mass for Bishop Mugavero, who served 21 years as Rabbi Rudin and Gardner said in bishop of Brooklyn, was held July a statement.

Racism was also often on Bishop 17.

"With the death of our beloved Mugavero's agenda, dating back Bishop Mugavero we have lost a to 1971, when he condemned the great human being," said Brook- wrecking by whites of a house lyn Bishop Thomas V. Daily, Bish- built for a Chinese family.

More recently, the bishop tried op Mugavero's successor, in a to defuse racial tensions following statement.

Bishop Mugavero, born June 8, race-related murders in Howard 1914, was the diocese's fifth bishop Beach in 1987 and Brooklyn's Benand the first Brooklyn native to sonhurst neighborhood in 1989.

Bishop Mugavero also had- to govern the Brooklyn see, the fifth deal with controversial Bayside, largest U.S. diocese in terms of Catholic population but by far its Long Island, visions, alleged to be of Jesus, Mary and several saints. s~allest in terms of geographical The movement subsided after the size.

Bishop Mugavero was appointed bishop declared in 1986 that the

by Pope Paul VI as bishop of I apparitions claimed to be seen by Veronica Lueken "lack authenticBrooklyn in 1968.

Ordained a priest of the Hrook- ity and no credibility can be atIyn Diocese in 1940, he was execu- tached to them."

Bishop Mugavero also spoke tive director of Catholic Charities out strongly on cl)urch teaching in the diocese, and later was secreA T TESTIMONIAL for Father George Amaral, top picon abortion, issuing 20 pastoral tary for charities. ture from left, Mrs. Edmund Petty, Holy Rosary Sodality His interest in social welfare led letters on the subject and on homopresident at St. Anthony's Church, Taunton; Theodore J. to creation of the U.S. bishops' sexuality.

He opposed proposed New York Aleixo J r., presenting gift from parishioners to Father Amaral; Campaign for Human Developgay rights ordinances in 1974,1978 ment, supported by an annual naJoseph Amaral, master of ceremonies; at bottom, clergy in and 1986, saying in 1986 that "letional collection to fight U.S. povattendance, from left standing, Fathers Manuel P. Ferreira, ertyat the local and national levels. gitimate application of 'existing .

Arnold R. Medeiros, seminarian Andre Faria, Fathers Amerlaws" was sufficient. After a 1986 The CHDcame about after Bish- • Vatican letter on homosexuality, ica Moreira, OFM, Bento R. Fraga, Joseph Oliveira, John P. op Mugavero sponsored a resolu- he ordered dioc~san priests to WithDriscoll, Francis X. Wallace; front, Fathers John A. Raposa, tion at the 1969 U.S. bishops' draw support from Dignity, an Amaral and Manuel A. Andrade. (Correia p'hotos) meeting calling for a "national organization of homosexual CathCatholic crusade against poverty." olics at odds with church teaching He then chaired a committee to on homosexual activity. : formulate the specifics of the cruIn 1969 Bishop Mugavero issued sad.e, which resulted in the tHD. ' a pastoral letter on priestly celiCH D's executive director, Jesuit bacy, calling it "a necessary grace Father Joseph Hacala, said in a in a modern church."

His first assignment brought him statement, "His life gave total wit, Members of St. Anthony's parHis 1972 pastoral letter called ish, Taunton, gathered June 23 to to St. Michael's parish, Fall River, ness to our Lord's love and con- for an end to U.S. intervention in honor retiring pastor Father where he remained for four and_, cern for the poor and marginalized Vietnam "as quickly as possible," George E.. Amaral at atestimonial one-half years. Later, he was persons in our society. We are adding that criticism of U.S. Vietdinner 'at the Holiday Inn, also in parochial vicar at three New Bed- enormously indebted to him for nam policy "mul't not .be interford parishes: Our Lady of Mount his vision."

Taunton. preted as a sign of disloyalty." . Hon. Joseph L. Amaral, Regis- Carmel, St. John the Baptist and Bishop Mugavero was also a In 1985, Bishop Mugavero conter of Deeds, was master of cere- Immaculate Conception. leader in Catholic-Jewish relations. vened a "priestless day" in the diomonies and general chairman and Following these assignments, he Rabbi A. James Rudin, national cese to dramatize the vocation Father John A. Raposo, parochial was named pastor of St. Anthony's - interreligious affairs director of shortage. vicar, was honorary chairman.

Church, East Falmouth, in 1966, Greetings were offered by Taun- serving in this capacity for II years ton Mayor Richard Johnson and until he assumed the pastorate of also speaking were Hon. Marc M. St. Anthony's, Taunton, in FebPacheco and Hon. John F. Parker. ruary of 1977, where he has served Rev. Americo Moreira, OFM, was for the last 14 ye,!lrs. the-main'speaker.

During his 44 years in the priestPresentations were made by hood, he was also a notary of.the parish groups and FatherAmaral diocesan matrimonial court arid a . addressed the gathering. pro-synodal j~dge. .

A bipgraphical sketch of Father It is also worthy of note that asa' Amaral that appeared in the dinner young priest Father Amaral workprogram' follows: Born in Ra~nham ~ug. 14, 19~2, ed diligently and successfully with Father 'Amaral was the son of the youth at st. Michael's parish, Manuel and Maria Constantina and also substantially increased Amaral who migrated to this coun- the membership of the parish Holy try in the early part of this century Name Society.

As pastor, Father Amaral superfrom their native island of St. vised the building of an extensive Michael, Azores.

As a yOl-!ng boy, he began his addition to St. Anthony's Church, elementary education in the South East Falmouth; and at St. AnStreet School in Raynham, fol- thony's, Taunton, he initiated the lowed by four years of study at drive to replace the parish center, Msgr. Coyle High School, Taun- destroyed by fire in March of ton.

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He pursued theological studies In his ministry, Father Amaral at St. Charles College and St. has always demonstrated his abilMary's Seminary in Baltimore, ity to perform as a competent, where he graduated in 1947. capable administrator. As he reHe was ordained at St. Mary's tires after 44 years in God's servCathedral in Fall River on May ice, we gratefully pledge our pray31, 1947, by Bishop James E. ers and best wishes for a wellCassidy. deserved rest.

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Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., July 19, 1991

GENE O'BRIEN

WASHINGTON (CNS)-God's Financial Consultant command to "be fruitful, multiply and dominate" in the Book of Stocks. Bonds. IRA'S. Mutual Funds Genesis "is no license to exploit," a Insurance Service priest who specializes in ecological Investment & Estate Planning concerns said in a talk in WashingSeminars Weekly ton.

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"SHOREWAY ACRES IS A SURE THING,i Declaring that "animals, like Cod with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, to be held from 7 to 9 p.m.

It's 'What Life On Cape Cod Is All About" the land itself, are not just human Aug. 8 at Tara Hyannis Hotel in Hyannis and to include hors ...:'-Je'" EnKland GetAway, Malo\alin. property," Msgr. Murphy said. d'oeuvres and dancing. Tickets are available from diocesan "They have a right to exist because parishes and from presidents of councils affiliated with the they belong to God and to theme The Personal allention tound only at DCCW. From left, Helen Stager, New Bedford; Claire selves." . a lamily-o",ned Resort Inn He spoke recently to the John O'Toole, Fall River; Mary Mikita, Chatham; Bella Nogueira, SUPERB meals per couple Carroll Society, a Washington Fall River. (Lavoie photo) e Full Service B.Y.O.B. Bar el.ive Music-Dancinjo\-SinKalonK' archdiocesan group of Catholic • AllractiveAccommodationsprofessionals.

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He brings to the hospital over the National and Massachusetts but between God and all his seven years of experience in emer- Chapters of the American College creation." of Emergency Physicians.

"There are therefore limits placed gency medicine.

"110M( IbW "It requires a special sensitivity He and his wife and their two upon human activity, a respect for COUIICl ""1" the delicate order and balance of to patient needs," noted Arcuri. children live in Marion.

"Every patient who comes into the FOI "01ltl'1 24 Hou' 5,"1(1' the universe required as well as an .

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Published weekly except the week of July 4 transients, but a storied place, a College of Union University in place we care about," he said. "It is Albany, New York, Dr. Arcuri . and the week after Christmas at 887 High-. land Avenue. Fall River. Mass. 02720 by our home." received his medical degree in 1981 the Catholic j>ress of the Diocese of Fall The church, he added, "has every and completed internship and River. Subscription price by mail. postpaid right to summon us all to conver- .residency in internal medicine at $11.00 per year. Postmasters send address sion, to wanting less, not more, in Rhode Island Hospital, Provi-· changes to The Anchor. P.O. Box 7. Fall Offll ., OAa GlCM AVI .• fAll IMI River. MA 02722. imitation of ecology's patron, St. dence.

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Since then he has specialized in Msgr. Murphy said a leading emergency medicine at Morton American scientist recently told a . Hospital, Taunton, Sturdy MeU.S. bishops' committee that scien- morial Hospital, Attleboro, and at tists, politicians and economists St. Anne's. tend to see only their part of the "Emergency medicine requires problem, but not the whole picture. fundamental skills that you don't "But somebody has to think necessarily learn in medical school," about the whole picture because observed Dr. Arcuri. "When a Parish Grounds the problem of the environment is patient comes into the emergency not just another problem," he said. department who isn't breathing, "It has to do with our feelings and there isn't time to take a medical convictions and our relationship history, so you may have to supwith the place where we all live, port the patient's ventilation and and it touches upon our notions of gather the data later."

God and our accountability to The physician is a certified him." .Diplomate ofthe American Board Msgr. Murphy said, "Are we in of Emergency Medicine and the the developed nations advocating American Board of Internal MedPortuguese - American Food (All 3 Days) an environmentalism only for oth- icine. He is a BLS, ACLS (Aders, demanding that the under- vanced Cardiac Life Support) Malassadas • Friday, Saturday, Sunday developed nations remain undeveloped, that they reduce their populations, discontinue the destruction PARISH CENTER - CHOWDER & FRITTERS SUPPER 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. of the Amazon rain forest, etc., so that we can go on living in the style ENTERTAINMENT - D.J. STEVE SMITH to which we have become accustomed, the richest one-fifth of the world's people consuming 70 perFood Booths Open 5:30 p.m .• Game Booths Open 6:30 p.m. cent of the world's goods and services?"

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the mooril19-Airline Woes Summer is vacation time and everyone is being urged to "see the U.S.A. first," that is, if you can book a flight, if your luggage is not lost, if you're not bumped from your seat or if you can even get to the airport.

Air travel in today's America is in an alltime record mess, as any frequent flyer can testify. One of the prime reasons for this state of affairs can be'traced to that promising concept which has failed to deliver, namely deregulation.

At first, back in 1978, everyone thought that deregulation would be the quick fix that airlines needed. Well, that idea was soon reversed. When deregulation first opened its bag of tricks, there were about 150 airlines in the United States. Since then 118 of that number have failed or have merged with other carriers; in fact, many in the airline industry think that by the end ofthis century We may have only eight to 10 airlines in this country.

This of course means monopoly. With fewer airlines controlling the industry, the American public would be at the mercy of a few well-placed executives.

If one thinks it is expensive to fly now, imagine what a few Wall Street robber barons might do to make more than a justified profit on each airline ticket. The trend is with us now, as every air traveler knows.

The situation will also in all likelihood mean that travelers will receive even less consideration than at present at air terminals. The surviving airlines have invested in hub or spoke networks. What this means is that airlines deliver passengers to a central terminal where they must board another plane for their final destinations.

It's easier for the airline but a horror show for the traveler.

Millions of people have wasted countless hours waiting for conriections. It's profitable for airport shops,.stores and bars but maddening for passengers, who must allow much more time to complete a trip than in the days before deregulation.

Another vexing aspect of the hub network system is that it .causes airlines to gobble up ground space. Airports can handle only so many landing and takeoff strips and hogging of facilities leads to late flights and general airport pandemonium. In short, too many people trying to travel on too few airlines can only lead to laxity and carelessness on the part of carriers and outright rage on the part of passengers.

As fewer become more powerful, they also control all vital information and of course he who controls calls the shots.

Airlines will natprally favor their own flights, thus acquiring fertile ground for unfair business practices. Computers make it possible for those who control them to increase their profit.

Travelers are already facing a panoply of air fares; indeed, a given flight today can have up to nine different price categories and ticket warfare has become true computer razzle-dazzle.

Lord help the person who must make an emergency flight! He or she will pay through the proverbial nose.

We need our airlines. We need them available and safe. We have destroyed our 'railroads, abandoned our highways and abolished our passenger fleet. What we have left are ,a few airlines that are seemingly determined to run the whole show.

This is not good for the country for it pushes businesses to put profit ahead of people. In this climate the public suffers.

The recent bizarre rash of accidents across the nation clearly shows how careless airlines have become. Equipment deterioration is likely to continue unle.ss present atti~udes can be reversed by a government that dares to regulate abuses and airlines that put their passengers ahead of ~heir profits.

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HISPANIC MIGRANT WORKER HARVESTS ASPARAGUS IN WASHINGTON STATE

"I am a stranger and a sojourner among yOU." Gen. 23:4

Hispanics need church's attention WASHINGTON(CNS)- u.s.

Hispanic Catholics have reached maturity but "like a young 21year-old, may still go astray" if not given the direction and opportunity to fully participate in church and society, said the outgoing executive director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Hispanic Affairs.

U.S. church priorities, hiring policies and financial decisions in coming years will determine whether or not there is an "identifiable Hispanic Catholic community in the year 2000," said Pablo Sedillo.

Sedillo, 55, who has been in his position for 21 years, resigned.in late June. He will continue at the U.S. Catholic Conference for the next 18 months to complete work for the bishops' Ad Hoc Committee for the Observance of the Fifth Centenary of Evangelization in the Americas.

Sedillo said what the church has done for Hispanics includes publicly acknowledging their presence, sponsorship of three national "encuentro" meetings of Hispanic Catholics and publication of a 1983 pastoral plan for Hispanic ministry.

What the church is "not doing right," he said, is "not allocating its human and financial resources for pastoral and social development" of Hispanic Catholics and "not giving proper attention" to Hispanic youth ministry.

Look at church hiring practices, he urged. "There are very few Hispanics in high positions, from the parish to the bishops' conference," he said.

While some Hispanic Catholic

leaders have faulted the U.S. bishops for not funding their 1987 pastoral plan for Hispanic ministry, Sedillo does not.

"The bishops' conference is not a funding agency," he said. "I think the ecclesial entities that the pastoral plan calls to take leadership," in most cases dioceses and parishes, "should allocate funds to attain the plan's goals."

He predicted that he would not see implementation of the pastoral plan in his lifetime. "I am hoping my grandchildren will."

If they don't "it will be another broken promise in the history of Hispanics," he said.

"If Hispanic ministry is not in the upper one-fourth of a diocese's priorities, [Hispanics) are going to suffer. And I think the church as a whole will suffer," he added.

He said in the past 10 to 15 years he has seen "a hemorrhaging of baptized Catholics to fundamentalism." Fifteen years ago, 95 percent of U.S. Hispanics were Catholic, now 70-75 percent are, he said.

As evidence that Hispanic Catholics have matured as a community Sedillo cited a growth in dynamic Hispanic lay leadership that replaced a dependancy on clergy, and "a resurgence of cultural awareness."

Before 1960, he said, "Hispanics sort of accepted that discrimina~ tion and racism were a way of life.

"Si asi 10 quiere Dios ," ("If this is the way God wills it ") was the general feeling, he said.

But no longer, he said. '''Today there's pride in cultural heritage.

That's not to say we're now fully

accepted in church or society, but there's been significant progress."

The increase in numbers of Hispanic bishops - from one 20 years ago to 22 today - "at least gave us a voice in the hierarchy," said Sedillo, But he attributes most progress made to "the infrastructure created by the secretariat, the regional offices, the pastoral institutes and, most importantly, the committed laity."

Sedillo said generallly he did not favor a decision by a growing number of dioceses to incorporate Hispanic minstry offices into diocesan multiethnic umbrella offices.

He said the concept might work in a diocese where there are a number of ethnic groups and one is not dominant.

But in any other case, he said, there will be disagreements over "who's going to get the money, who will be the director, and who's going to have the programs... You can't establish the same. pastoral strategies for Hispanics as for African-Americans or for Asians."

"There's an inherent fighting for crumbs among minorities to begin with," he commented.

Sedillo said when he first came to the USCC he was presented with four boxes of files and a mandate to advise the bishops on the pastoral needs Of Hispanics.

His biggest challenge, he said, was to try to bring together the disparate subgroups of Hispanics and develop one vision.

It was out of this challenge, he said, that the encuentro process grew.

Body, blood also present in community Jeremiah 23:1-6 Ephesians 2:13-18 Mark 6:30-34 We are correct to say priests are able to make Jesus' body and blood present during the Eucharist. But we are even more exact when we depict our ministers as persons who, during the Eucharist, can make Jesus' body and blood present both on the altar and in the community around it.

Except for Luke's connection of the Jerusalem apostles with the giving of the Spirit, the earliest Christians seemed to know nothing of special sacramental powers being bestowed upon specific individuals or groups within the Church.

Knowing the Spirit gifted everyone with the charisms necessary to carry out the community's essen: tial ministries, they appear to have believed that if there was a need, the Lord simply would send someone with the gift to serve that need.

In the beginning of our faith, it was much more important to recognize powers than to bestow powers.

Paul presents one of the Church's most fundamental needs in today's second reading: the necessity to create unity within diversity.

The apostle teaches that Jesus not only unites total opposites Jews and Gentiles - in himself, but that he expects his followers to do the same. Those who are "far ofr'-the Gentiles-now have become one with those who are "near"-the Jews ... It is he," Paul writes, "who is our peace, and who made the two of us one by breaking down the barrier of hostility that kept us apart."

DAilY READINGS July 22: Sng 3:1-4 or 2 Cor 5:14-17; Ps 63:2-6,8-9;

In 20:1-2,11-18 July 23: Ex 14:21-15:1; Ps 15:8-10,12,17; Mt 12: 46-50 July 24: Ex 16:1-5,9-15; Ps 78: 18-19,23-28; Mt 13:1-9 July 25: 2 Cor 4:7-15; Ps 126:1-6; Mt 20:20-28 July 26: Ex' 20:1-17; Ps 19:8-11; Mt 13:18-23 , July 27: Ex 24:3-8; Ps 50:1-2,5-6,14-15; Mt 13:2430 July 28: 2 Kgs 4:42-44; Ps 145:10-11,15-18; Eph 4:1-6; In 6:1-15

By FATH'ERROGER KARBAN Each faith generation is called to break down barriers of hostility. Though we live in a world in which it is acceptable to be "united against" other individuals and groups, our scriptural authors have consistently depicted God as a person who desires his people to be "united for" other individuals and groups.

If we think this concept is found only in our Christian Scriptures, we have not listened to Jeremiah's oracle, given 600 years before Jesus. '''Woe to the shepherds who mislead and scatter the flock of my pasture, says Yahweh.... You have scattered my sheep and driven them away. You have not cared for them.. .1 myself will gather the remnant of my flock ..."

Jewish leaders have separated, divided and scattered. A shepherd with such divisive traits could never herd a flock; neither could such a king lead Yahweh's people. The job description presupposes a talent for bringing people together, not tearing them apart.

We. smile at Mark's description of Jesus' efforts to find some "quality time" alone with his disciples. The Twelve have just returned from their first attempt at evangelization. Elated with success, they want to tell the Lord everything. Though he tries to take them to a .....deserted place, people saw them leaving, and many got to know about it. People from all the towns hastened on foot to the place, arriving ahead of them."

July 20 1983, Rev. Joao Medeiros, Retired Pastor, St. Elizabeth, Fall ' River July 23 1893, Rev. Patrick F. Doyle, Founder, SS. Peter & Paul, Fall River 1938, Rev. George B. McNamee, Pastor, Holy Name, Fall River July 2S 1913, Rev. MichaeIJ. Cooke, Pastor, St. Patrick, Fall River 1984, Rev. Raymond R. Mahoney, SS.CC., Retired, Our Lady of Assumption, New Bedford July 26 1974, Rev. Msgr. Alfred J.E. Bonneau, Pastor Emeritus, Notre Dame, Fall River

Instead of prefiguring Greta Garbo's request for privacy, Jesus pities the vast crowd, " ...for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them at great length."

Shepherding is such an essential part 'of Jesus' nature that it takes precedence over any other plan or desire. If we remove that feature of his personality and examine all others, we would not be observing the real Jesus. While he exists, he unites.

It is no accident that Mark describes this scene against the background of Jesus meeting with the Twelve. Since the early Christian community regards them as leaders, they, above all, must copy the Lord's personality.

We become the Body and Blood of Christ when we become one with all around us. But because we naturally tend more to divide than unite, we will always need true shepherds to lead us. Must not the body of Christ be present both on and around the altar?

God has already c,reated our shepherds. It is up to us to find and ordain them.

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By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY Dear Mary: How do I get the bill collectors to back off and let us recover? Because I got us overextended on our credit, we could lose our house and everything. Both my husband and I work, but it's not enough.

Our marriage is strained, and our three children are beginning to act up as well. I'm sure that the stress from our financial problems is at the root of our other prob-

By DOLORES CURRAN

A retired ,school principal told me that he could predict eventual school dropouts by looking at one behavior - early school absenteeism.

"I've seen it happen too often," he said. "The first grader who misses school one day a week because he doesn't feel well, his grandma's in town or his mother needs to take him shopping for

Beware quick fixes for your financial woes lems. What do I do when I realize I'm i!l too deep? - Illinois Many people get into money problems in our society. The Consumer Credit Institute is the consumer education arm of the American Financial Services Association. Here are some suggestions from their experts.

Beware of clinics or bureaus that offer to "fix" your credit record. Often they charge high fees for dubious service. Only you can fix your credit record. Here are some ways.

Iftwo incomes are "not enough," you have only two choices: cut back on spending or generate more income. You might need a combi- , nation of the two, at least temporarily.

Cutting back: Target nonessential spending to get your finances

in order. Watch especially eating out, new clothes, entertainment and impulse buys. Try shared cooking (different family members prepare meals) as an alternative to eating out. Shop yard sales and secondhand stores for clothes.

Do not eliminate recreation.

When you are working hard and under stress, recreation is a must.

Look for activities that cost nothing extra: going to parks, playing games with the family at home, sharing a pitch-in, meal with another family. When you go places, pack food and beverages to avoid expensive stops for snacks.

Extra income: Adolescent children can contribute part of their earnings from paper routes, yard work or baby-sitting, and they can use the rest for their own spending money. Crafts, sewing and woodworking skills might generate extra

cash. Starting a recycling route as a family project can generate extra cash in some communities.

If one family member works two jobs, the rest of the family can help him or her support that additional demand by taking over all household chores, respecting quiet time and handling routine family decision making.

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'Dropping out of school in the first grade sneakers. Oddly enough, these parents often say that school is important and are distressed when he eventually drops out but they don't make the connection between their lackadaisical attitude toward attendance and his attitude toward schooL" The principal now has statistical evidence to back his theory. Some researchers scrutinized the records for the Class of 1990 from three suburban high schools west of Chicago and compared the students' academic success with their attendance records since kindergarten.

The results were dramatic. Compared wi~h dropouts, the students

who graduated in the top 25% of their class missed ope-third fewer days in kindergarten and one-half fewer in first through third grades.

These findings come more as a surprise to parents than teachers, I suspect. Some parents adopt a casual attitude toward attendance.

They presume that a missed day of coloring and subtraction isn't that vital to a child's educational future.

And it isn't, if we're speaking only of content. Children, especially bright ones, can catch up easily after an illness. It's the parents' attitude toward school attendance, not lost content, that's fundamental to the child's future.

Years ago, Captain Kangaroo commented that kids don't drop out of high school; they drop out of kindergarten and then wait 10 years to make it official. His perception, validated by this study, was right on target.

Teachers, seeing a more relaxed attitude toward attendance on the part of parents, wail, "I can't teach the child who isn't here." One dedicated third grade teacher shared with me some of the reasons offered by the parent of a nine-year-old who missed 40 of 180 days last year.

These include: lost his shoes, kept sneezing, had to get his hair cut, Christmas shopping, needed

him to babysit, school bus was early, his arm hurt, and, "I let him stay home to watch them tear down a building on our block."

I suppose a case could be made for each of these under extreme circumstances but they, plus other creative reasons totaling 40 missed days, suggest that school is peripheral to the child's life, not central.

Sometimes it's tough to be the firm parent, the one' who says, "I know all the other parents are letting their kids stay home to watch the building being razed but we happen to believe school is more important." It's the best insurance against dropping out that a parent can buy.

Should we worship in our territorial parish?

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN

Q. My husband and I moved last year and changed parishes.

We were told we can worship wherever we please, but cannot become members ora parish other than that in which we live.

We miss the fellowship and opportunities for service provided by our old parish and those we grew up in.

Several people have told us that the church's laws in this matter have changed. What is the present position? (Pennsylvania) A. I don't know that there is a black-and white answer. But a few thoughts may help.

Our Catholic tradition and laws concerning parishes developed when a Christian community meant a small area in which a group of people lived and died and did nearly everything together. Today, obviously, an individual's community is more likely to be based on employment, education, recreation, social life or, as seems to be your case, on a parish in which one has become part of a personally and spiritually significant worshiping community.

The church today allows a wide variety of options in liturgies and other aspects of parish life. The spirit of parishes will differ depending on how both the priest and people understand the church and what they believe a Christian community should be.

Current regulations seem to recognize this. Most parishes are indeed territorial, which means that the local parish priest is responsible for the care of all the faithful in that territory.

Church laws spell out those responsibilities and the care with which pastors must carry them out.

The people also have rights and responsibilities.

According to their knowledge, competence and position, they have

the right and sometimes the duty to make their views concerning the good of the church known, not only to their pastors but also to others in that parish community or elsewhere, with respect for the common good of everyone.

They are obliged to assist in the necessary labors of the church, its worship, apostolic mission, charities, care of its ministers and care of the poor; and they have a right to the spiritual help of the church to help them pursue a good spirituallife and grow in Christian and human maturity.

Good and faithful Catholics, of course, might perceive their rights and duties differently from the pastoral vision and ,style they experience in their parish, and the

difference may be such that they cannot honestly and charitably fulfill their responsibilities in a particular parish community.

For these reasons, the church's policies and attitudes are almost everywhere much more flexible than formerly.

It seems to me, however, that in concern for the health of the whole church, Catholics should try to preserve some sense of responsibility toward the people of their territorial parish, even though they may join another parish community.

Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen at Holy Trinity Church, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701.

Coincidental happenings - or are they?

By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

A few months ago I wrote about "coincidences." Given some of the experiences of people I know, I wonder if coincidences really should be passed off simply a's mere chance. Is ~here some other: force at work?

Much to my delight, Thomas J. 'Dermody, editor of The Catholic Post in Peoria, Ill., did something special with this piece.

He ran a box at the end of my

column headed "Share Your Co,incidences," explaining, "Like Antoinette Bosco, we're intrigued by such chance happenings. We would like to carry a feature story on the subject, and we need your help."

Dermody asked readers to share , similar stories that they feel "may have bee'n the hand of God at , work." He received many,responses, publishing them inthe newspaper's May 19 edition. He sent me a copy, and I smiled and wept as I read these accounts which ,many readers, Dermody said, called "God-incidents."

They felt that in the face of a phenomenon not readily explainable, one has to ask if another force is at work.

One account Dermody published was particularly amazing. It hap-

pened to a woman named Marie Di Giammarino, a music therapist in a large residential facility for mentally handicapped adolescents.

One boy, about 12, pften had temper tantrums. One thing he loved, however, was to strum a guitar available in his living unit.

Marie loved guitar, too,' and . would play it with this boy she came to love and call her "brother.'"

She herself didn't own a guitar; she could never afford one. ' .

One day the boy w~s sent to a hospital suffering from'bronchitis. ' Marie wanted to bring him a gift of a toy guitar. She stopped at a department store, and happily found one costing just about all the money she had - $7.

When she got to the hospital, she was told he had been having

severe tantrums. But as he strummed his new guitar, he was soothed.

That night Marie got a phone call from her mother in a distant state. The mother "had been to a church auction that afternoon and had bought me a present - a secondhand guitar for exactly $7!" wrote M a r i e . ' Coincidence? :, Anoiher story was of a college student who wanted to go to Mexico for missionary work but could

not come up with the $256 needed for his plane fare until his income tax refund check arrived in the amount of - you guessed it $256."

There may be nothing to occurrences such as these. But I'm inclined to agree that they are truly "God-incidences."

If any readers have a story about a coincidence that they would like to share, I invite them to send it to me at 32 Main St., New Milford, CT 06776.

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since 1982, he was general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference and National Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1977-82. Previously he was USCC associate general secretary and secretary to the apostolic delegate.

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Is religion legitimate issue for public office nominee?

WASHINGTON (CNS) 'Whether religion is a legitimate issue to raise where servic~ to government is concerned, both in the courts and in local politics, was the question after a Supreme Court nominee's faith became an issue.

Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, a would-be presidential contender, ignited the firestorm over religious beliefs when he questioned the allegiance to the pope of Judge Clarence Thomas, who was raised a Catholic.

Two weeks after Thomas was nominated by President Bush to replace Justice Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court. the scrutiny such nominations inevitably bring had worked through a formidable list of subjects.

Reporters and interest groups researched details of Thomas' personallife, career, education, writings and speeches. Each day's news brought a different perspective on the nominee: his Catholic background; his poverty-stricken childhood in Georgia; his admission that he tried marijuana while in college; reports that he praised extremist black activist Louis Farrakhan; and growing numbers of prominent blacks who vowed to fight his nomination on grounds that he was a poor representative for minorities.

Wilder's remark drew a fast and furious response. Bishop Walter F. Sullivan of Richmond. Va., fellow politicians, prominent Catholics. and representatives of other religious denominations were quick to point out that the Constitution forbids any sort of religious test for public office. Religious beliefs are irrelevant to a position on the Supreme Court. they said. Wilder later apologized "if anyone was offended" by his comments.

Raised a Catholic by his grandparents, Thomas attended Catholic schools through college, including a year at Conception Seminary in Missouri. However, Thomas and his second wife regularly attend services at an Episcopalian church and apparently have no ties to any Catholic parish near their Virginia home. Thomas told The Washington Times daily newspaper that

characterizations of him as a devout Catholic apparently were drawn from his biographical data.

The furor died down relatively quickly over Wilder's remarks, but the question of why Thomas' religion became an issue at all lingered.

"This issue should have been settled when President Kennedy was elected," said Bishop Sullivan.

The church's own 'history is at least partly to blame for the sort of suspicion that arises periodically about Catholi~s in public office, according to Jesuit Father J. Leon Hooper, a fellow at Georgetown University's Woodstock Theological Center.

Untif publication of the Second Vatican Council document, "Dignitatus Humanae" ("Human Dignity"), it was a matter of church doctrine that Catholics in public positions ought to make every effort to make Catholicism the religion of the land, explained Father Hoope'r.

"That was on the books until 1965:' although practices within the church had long since become more accepting of religious liberty, he said.

Such a history still causes some to be nervous about the Catholic Church, according to Father Hooper. And there is still a public perception that Catholics in positions of power may impose Catholic morality without regard for any other factors.

Despite the fact that Catholics are the dominant single religious group in Congress and have been significant participants in U.S. government for two centuries. "people get very nervous when a Catholic stands up," because of church stands on various issues, said Father Hooper. Currently, church condemnation of abortion is the topic most likely to bring' about that nervousness, he said.

Vincent F. Testa of Wallingford, Conn., knows how nervous people can be. In his case it was his pastor who became uncomfortable with Testa's involvement in a public office.

Testa was recently told by his pastor that he could no longer serve as lector or teach in the reli-

gious educ~tion program of his parish because, as a member ofthe Wallingford public school board, he voted to allow Planned Parenthood to continue as one of several contractors teaching the district's sex education program.

Although the curriculum was entirely set by the school district and teaches only natural family planning and abstinence as methods of contraception, the fact that Planned Parenthood offers abortions and abortion counseling at its clinics elsewhere was apparently enough to raise questions about the school board's action, according to Testa. The district's agreement with' Planned Parenthood specifically prohibits instructors from mentioning the organization's other services, he pointed out.

But after the vote, Father Gene E. Gianelli, pastor at Holy Trinity Parish, wrote Testa saying his services as lector and religion instructor were no longer needed.

Testa said he has no ·plans to step down from the school board or to change parishes.

"It's a fantastic parish, I love it there:' he said, adding that he also has a lot of respect and admiration for Father Gianelli.

"I don't want to be seen as a critic of the church's stand on abortion because I'm not:' Testa said.

Sanctions against Catholics whose public actions are perceived to run contrary to church teachings may be partly behind whatever public apprehension continues about Catholics in office, noted Father Hooper.

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Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., July 19, 1991

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Yad Vashem, the official Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, has posthumously awarded the priest its highest honor of "Just Among Nations," primarily because of Mrs. Edmands' testimony on Father Longeray's courage and kindness.

The priest's name will be inscribed on the Yad Vas hem's Avenue of the Just, which lists the names of more than 6,000 Christian rescuers of Holocaust victims.

"He was the closest thing I'll ever see to a saint," Mrs. Edmands told The Leaven, newspaper ofthe archdiocese of Kansas City. "He was just an ordinary man from French peasant stock, who spent 30 years of his life as a country priest. Under extraordinary circumstances, he did heroic things."

She and her parents fled their native Austria in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution. Although her parents were- atheists, their name and heritage were Jewish. They lived safely in France for two years.

But by 1940, the Nazis had occupied France as well and the family tried once more to flee.

They were arrested trying to cross into Switzerland with false identification cards, but miraculously, were released and sought refuge in a Catholic church in the town of Ann'ecy, France.

There they met Father Longeray, who was at the church just for the day. The regular priest had gone into hiding. .

Father Longeray's parish, St. Martin's, was on a secluded hilltop nearby and he immediately offered it as a hiding place. Mrs. Edmands, 13 at the time, remembers it as a small, peaceful place.

The family moved into a basement boiler room where they would be less noticeable. It was their home for three years.

Parishioners knew about the family, but remained silent, Mrs. Edmands said. Had the Gestapo discovered them, the priest would likely have been sent to a death camp.

"He just didn't care," she said.

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At one point a nephew of the priest, a member of a paramilitary organization that collaborated with the Nazis, threatened to tell, she recalled.

But she said, the priest "stood up to the nephew and he said, 'These people are under my care, and in God's protection. If you do this evil deed, you will be punished in this life and in the next.' " The nephew remained silent.

Although Mrs. Edmands' parents rarely left the boiler room during those three years, the young girl moved about freely and even attended the parish school. Father Longeray acquainted her with Catholicism during the family's stay.

"I had a spiritual longing," she said. "I was searching to fill.this void, this terrible emptiness in my life."

Father Longeray taught her catechism, but never tried to convert her, she said. She attended Mass daily and the priest gave her small jobs to do, she said. Years later, she converted to Catholicism.

A year after the war ended, the family moved to Paris, then emigrated to the United States. Mrs. Edmands returned to visit Father HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR Eva Edmands looks at phoLongeray in 1956. Three years tographs of herself as a young girl and of the French priest who later he collapsed while saying sheltered her Jewish family from the Nazis during World War Mass and died.

What lived on was her dream II. (eNS photo) that "one day the world would know what he did for us:" She said filiated with the Anti-Defamation cial gratitude was the attention he gave to helping the children mainwhen she read about Yad Vashem League.

Christians have learned from tain a sense of their Jewish identity. a few years ago, shf: contacted the The New York gathering was a organization and forwarded all Jews, he said, that "we are all chiltime of many reunions. Collet, for the information and documenta- dren of the same Father."

The g~thering was sponsored by instance, saw Bertha Bochner, who tion of her experiences during the war. About a year and a half later a recently-formed Hidden Child was 12 when he helped her find sanctuary in a castle and Who now she received word of the posthum- Committee and the ADL. Organizers said that until re- lives in New York. ous honor for the French priest.

Other children who had been In May 1990, Mrs. Edmands cently the special situation of the hidden in Namur also identified hidden children had been ignored traveled to Jerusalem for the ceremony honoring Father Longeray as attention focused on the many themselves to him. To help reesand three other priests. She brought Jews who were killed and those tablish contact, he brought along along a book she wrote when she few who survived the death camps.. an album of phtographs, and on But the separation from fami- his nametag wore a picture of himwas 14, detailing her life in hiding and Father Longeray's kindness. lies, with the tension of existence self from that time.

Collet, who had a career as a The book and the medal awarded in hiding, has left the hidden chilthe priest are-now on display at St. dren with a need for sharing as military officer after Belgium's they continue to sort out their liberation and now lives in BrusMartin's.

Mrs. Edmands, who lost her memories and emotions, the spon- sels in retirement, said he was happy to accept the invitation to grandparents in the Holocaust, is sors said. a sought-after lecturer on the Holo- ~ In an interview Collet said he the gathering, but did not consider found that some of the children, his actions worthy ofspecial notice. caust in Lawrence, Kan. "I am of course not a hero," he "I want to keep the memory of now a half century older, feel the Holocaust alive," she said. somehow guilty that they escaped said. "But what can I say? You "The extraordinary thing is,.in the when so many did not. And some, cannot say to the Jews, do not be midst of all this unspeakable evil, he said, tend to repress the memory grateful."

Collet said that he had not good triumphed. Light won out of tbeir experiences.

Collet was 18, a resident of thought of himself helping Jews as over darkness."

Namur, when Germany occupied such, but only of helping people.

Father Andre Belgium in 1940, and Father Andre, "Are we not all children of one In another story of Holocaust- a local priest, began hiding Jewish Father?" he asked.

Other Christian rescuers also related heroism, the memory of children there.

At times, a dozen or mor~ chil- played down their actions. "We Father Joseph Andre, a Belgian priest who saved many Jewish dren were hidden in the rectory didn't feel like resc~ers," said Gischildren from the Nazis, was re- attic, Collet said, and keeping them ela Wieberdink-Schnlein, who was called with deep gratitude at a quiet was a challenging assignment. a university student in Amsterdam Once, he recalled, he brought at the time. "We were just ordinary recent New York international gathering of Jewish children who three of the children home and put students who did what we had to were hidden during the Second them in his own bed, while he slept do." with a brother. Even his parents World War. But the children, now grown up, Father Andre, a "righteous Gen- did not know he was helping Jew- who recognized that these Christile" for whom a tree has been ish children, but thought he was tians had risked their lives and the planted at Yad Vashem, died in engaged in something like scout lives of their families when so 1973. But a Catholic layman who work, he said. many were turning fatally against Collet assisted the priest by tak- the Jews, did not see anything worked with him, Gustave Collet, ing children out into the country- ordinary about this "conspiracy of wal\ among Christian rescuers some represented by family mem- side, where farm families would goodness." After the 18 were bers - who were brought to the help shelter them, and by finding brought to the platform during the food and other necessities. gathering as honored guests. luncheon, the audience gave them Help for the children also came a prolonged standing ovation, with Collet was also among rescuers who spolce on behalf of 18 Chris- from a Jesuit community that ran many applauding through tears tian honorees at a lunch sponsored a high school in Namur, he said. and then rushing forward to emAn aspect of Father Andre's brace those to whom they owed by the Jewish Foundation for ..

Christian Rescuers, an agency af- assistance remembered with spe- their lives.

One-woman show recalls life of Dorothy Day NEW YORK (CNS). - A new generation of Americans, who did not know the late Dorothy Day, leader of the Catholic Worker movement, can now meet her spirit through a one-woman dramatization of her life by a young actress, Lisa Marie Wagner.

After a year of trying it out on the road, Miss Wagner recently performed the show in a small downstairs dining room at Maryhouse, the building in New York where Miss Day. worked during her final years and where she died in 1980.

She will also present it at the 45th annual convention of the National Council of Catholic Women, to be held Sept. 15 to 18 in Dallas and to be attended by many delegates from the Fall River diocese.

The NCCW convention theme, "Let Justice Surge Like Water," echoes Miss Day's lifelong concern with social justice.

The Maryhouse audience, numbering about 60, included some people who had known Miss Day, and others with a long and intimate connection with the move-

ment. Miss Wagner won their enthusiastic and prolonged applause.

Miss Wagner's presentation, called "Haunted by God," began with Miss Day in her later years moving into new quarters and unpacking objects that reminded her of past adventures.

In a two-hour series of interwoven scenes, with one intermission, viewers were taken from Miss Day's early years as part of the radical bohemian world of Greenwich Village, through the birth of her daughter and breakup of her common law marriage when she entered the church, into the launching of the Catholic Worker movement and its struggles. .

In an interview at Maryhouse the day after her performance, Miss Wagner, a 27-year-old native of Kansas, said she never saw Miss Day, but had been able to get some idea of how she looked and talked by watching tapes of a television interview and a lecture.

To Miss Wagner, the performance is a ministry, and she hopes it will stimulate people to think about their own responsibility to

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Like the woman she is portraying, who was born into an Episcopalian family, Miss Wagner comes from a Protestant background.

Like Miss Dar, she wanted to unite a deep religrous commitment with ministry to people who are suffering. And like Miss Day, who sought a way to bring her journalistic profession into her new life in the church, Miss Wagner looked for a way to use her training in theater.

Baptized and confirmed a Lutheran, she said she had not yet joined the Catholic Church, but felt most at home when attending Mass, and found a sense of communitY'in the St. Catherine of Genoa Catholic Worker House in Chicago, which serves homeless people with AIDS.

man interviewing me said, 'We would like to do a play on Dorothy Day.' ..

Paul Amandes, who wrote the musicals on the pastorals, became Miss Wagner's director for "Haunted by God." The script was jointly written by him, Miss Wagner and Robert McClory, a journalism professor at Northwestern University.

As far as they can determine, she said, everything in the script is historically correct, and no liberties have been taken with facts to enhance the drama.

The show premiered a year ago at a Catholic church in Louisville, Ky., even before the script was finished.

The performance at Maryhouse was the 59th, but the script is still being revised. Miss Wagner also does a one-hour version for high schools.

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f someone stole $30 from an 85-year-old widow living on the edge of poverty, you would say that was a heartless crime.

And if that same 85-year-old widow were forced to pay more than $700 for medical treatment she was legally entitled to for free, you would say that was an outrage.

But both these things are happening every day to hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting older Americans.

Why? Most seniors have $29.90 deducted each month from their Social Security checks for Medicare Part B. But last autumn, Congress enacted dramatic new refonns to help protect the poorest of America's seniors from skyrocketing health care costs, by picking up their bill for Medicare services.

The refonns meant that the poorest older Americans would no longer have that money deducted from their Social Security checks every month (although most other seniors will still pay the $29.90). And if these low-income seniors needed hospital and medical care, they would no longer be faced with paying $728 a year in deductibles, plus additional co-payments.

This was a victory for senior citizens. It was a plan that made sense.

What went wrong?

Even though Congress passed these reforms into law, the government is still deducting that $29.90 a month from the Social Security checks of millions of poor seniors who are eligible for this new protection! And, when they get sick, those same elderly poor are still shelling out hundreds of dollars .

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The plain truth is, the government has neglected to notify people of their new rights. The bureaucrats haven't infonned Social Security recipients that they may be eligible for the new protection. And the bureaucrats haven't notified them that they must apply for the new protection. If they don't apply for the protection, even if they are eligible, the government will keep on taking nearly $30 out of their .

Social Security checks every month!

The government's failure to meet its obligation to these vulnerable older Americans is especially glaring when you realize how easily the problem could be solved. A simple note of explanation could be sent out with the next mailing of Social Security checks.

And the government could get in touch with seniors through local senior citizens' centers, or by radio and TV. At a time when so many seniors' programs are being slashed because budgets are tight, it's especially heartQreaking when many of our poorest seniors are not receiving a benefit that has already been budgeted for and approved. The money is there. It's waiting.

Thirty dollars a month may not seem like a lot to the bureaucrats in Washington, but it's a small fortune to poor seniors who rely on Social Security and Medicare. .

A promise of help was made to our parents and grandparents. The promise should be kept

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Ron PoUack is e:xeculive director of Families USA Foundation

SENIOR WATCH IS AN EDITORIAL SERVICE OF FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION

Censoring "Trees" As we approach the 73rd anni¡ versary of the death of poet Joyce Kilmer, killed by a German sniper in France on July 30,1918, during World War I, I'll wager he is whirling in his grave.

You would be too, if you had written one of the most popular poems in America and learned that a school art contest based on the poem had been canceled because its language was deemed "inappropriate."

Kilmer's poem is "Trees" and the Florida teacher who planned to use the poem in an Earth Day art contest last year learned that another teacher had raised questions about its language.

Remember the lines: "against the Earth's sweet flowing breast" and "upon whose bosom snow has lain',? The criticism was directed against the words "breast" and "bosom." Honest.

The cancellation raised a ruckus, asyou might expect. Hugh Kilmer, the poet's grandson, wrote a letter to the editor in protest. "Trees" is well known as a godly poem, Kilmer told the Jacksonville Florida Times . Union.

"It speaks as well of nourishment, comfort, sweetness and intimacy," he said. "It is a godly poem, and an earthly poem, too. It

fits with Earth Day. My son Daniel on his ninth birthday, will be reading it-every word of it-as part of Earth Day." Joyce Kilmer's daughter, Sister Michael Kilmer, OSB, who is retired and living in St. Benedict's convent, St. Joseph, Minn., told me about the trouble her father's poem was causing when I visited her a while back.

1 was returning some books of poetry by her father and her mother, Aline, also an accomplished poet. I had borrowed them for an article in which I proposed that Joyce Kilmer, convert, devout Catholic and daily communicant, be named a saint.

Sistor Michael and I agreed that the Florida school's ban on "Trees" was preposterous. School censorship over "inappropriate" words is not unheard of, however; some U.S. colleges are. banning certain words as "politically incorrect."

"Inappropriate" is a flabby label which could mean that "breast" and "bosom" are dirty words, or slanderous, or likely to disturb public order and safety. It might even indicate that the poem is too religious!

After all, it ends with lines expressing belief in a Supreme

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Being: "Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree."

There is another possibility.

Perhaps the folks in Florida don't fully understand the poem's words.

After all, illiteracy is growing' .in this country.

Among all UN member nations, the United States ranks 49th in 'literacy-a drop of 18 places since 1950! Some 27 million Americans cannot read. Next year the number will increase by two million.

The challenge to '''Trees'' was raised by a teacher. Most school censorship battles originate with parents angry over what is or is not being taught. Parental concern over evolution, dirty books or sex education is what makes the headlines.

But I'm sure Joyce Kilmer never dreamed his beautiful "Trees" would be censored from a school Earth Day art contest. I was going to say that "1984" is here, but it's already 1991, right?

LEA ARTHUR, center, Resident Council president at Madonna Manor, North Attleboro, cuts the ribbon at the recent opening ofthe nursing home's new front veranda. She is joined by Valerie Zagami- Murrant, left, representing North Attleboro selectmen, and Manor administrator Martha J. Daneault. A seafood luncheon followed the ceremony. The veranda provides the home's 121 residents with a front-seat view of downtown North Attleboro activities.

News from Councils on Aging Edgartown A recent survey has enabled the Edgartown Council on Aging at The Anchors on Daggett Street to develop a profile of senior needs and to offer information on the many programs and services available to area residents. Information is available at 627-4368. , The council also announces that the Red Cross is providing weekly transportation to medical facilities in Boston, leaving Martha's Vineyard on the 7 a.m. ferry every Tuesday, as needed. Boston appointments must be made between 10 a,m. and noon. There is no charge for the service but donations are welcome. Further information: 693-2333.

Surplus foods are available from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. Day-old bakery goods are on hand after 10 a.m. each Monday. Income guidelines apply.

Weekly events include a piano concert at 1:30 p.m. July 22 and a harp and guitar program at the same time July 3 L Hearing clinic and men's haircuts are scheduled for Aug. 8, with appointments needed, and there will be a welIness clinic at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 20 and a health talk on "N ormal Aging" at the same time Aug. 21.

Provincetown Memory workshops offering techniques for improving memory will be held noon to 2 p.m. Aug. 8 and 22 and Sept. 12 and 26 at the Senior Center, Grace Gouveia Bldg.

For reservations call 487-9906.

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Health Promotion programs will be conducted noon to 2 p.m. Aug. 15 and 29 and Sept. 5, also at the center; reservations also at 4879906, which is also the number to call for inclusion in a bus trip to the National Seashore at Herring Cove on Aug. 9, rain date Aug. 16.

Dennis The Senior Center Building at 1045 Rte. 134, East Dennis, will celebrate its 10th anniversary Sept.

10. Building space is shared by Friends of Dennis Seniors, a nonprofit organization which sponsors many trips, among other activities; and the town-sponsored Council on Aging, which organizes most activities, classes and services for seniors.

Clinton J. Wood, council director, reminds seniors of the importance of keeping in touch with

neighbors, cltmg two cases of seniors living alone who died and were not found for a long period of time. He suggests use of the coucil's telephone reassurance program and asks that all "be aware of . neighbors" and call either the council at 385-5067 or the police at 394-1315 if someone is not following his or her regular routine.

Chatham COA events: 9 a.m. to 2: 15 p.m.

July 23 and 30, health insurance counseling by appointment; July 24, 12:30 to 4 p.m. hearing aid service, both by appointment. Call 945-1534. No foot screening until fall.

Recently nominated as Chatham CONs Senior Citizen of the Year was Mary Higgins, a frequent volunteer, both at the COA and at Holy Redeemer parish, Chatham, where she is a eucharistic minister and active in the Association of the Sacred Hearts.

Mansfield The COA will offer vision and cholesterol screening from 1 to 3:30 p.m. July 24. Call 261-7368 for appointments. Canned goods donations are needed for distribution and may be left at the box. inside the COA front door.

Oldest Tauntonian makes "who's who" Mrs. Maria Marcotte, a resident of Marian Manor, Taunton, was honored at a recent reception at the home on her selection for inclusion in "Who's Who in Massachusetts Nursing Homes."

She received a citation from state representative Marc Pacheco and a plaque from the Massachusetts Federation of Nursing Homes, sponsor of the awards program.

She was one of 30 "Who's Who" nursing home residents selected from more than 200 candidates nominated by their facilities on the basis of their lifetime achievements and their ability to inspire others. . At 106, Mrs. Marcotte is Taunton's oldest person and the oldest resident in any of the four diocesan nursing homes. A Tauntonian for the past 99 years, and the widow of a city firefighter, she lived in her own home until1ast year. She has 18 grandchildren, 36 great-grandchildren and 15 greatgreat-grandchildren.

The Anchor Friday, July 19, 1991

Life issues in news Continued from Page One after the German Catholic Church celebrated its first "Week for Life" in mid-June. It featured a kickoff rally at the Mainz cathedral with a pro-life message from Bishop Lehmann and pro-life liturgies in Germany's 13,000 parishes.

Organizers said the week might become a model for similar prolife activities throughout Europe and that the German week might becomeecumenical in the future.

Elsewhere in Europe, Catholic doctors and other opposed to abortion were being asked by British pro-life groups to boy-' cott the manufacturer of the abortion drug RU-486, which was licensed for use in Great Britain July 3.

The drug, currently in use only in France, is manufactured by the French company RousselUclaf, a subsidiary of the German firm Hoechet AG. In Washington, the May 23 Supreme Court decision on abortion counseling was a hot topic, as the Senate Appropriations Committee voted July II to overturn the decision. The House passed a similar measure in June but President Bush was expected to veto the legislation.

One question mark in the congressional abortion debate was the influence that would be exercised by the new House majority whip, Rep. David E. Bonior of Michigan, who opposes abortion but has said he will not impede other Demol;:rats in expressing their views, Bush said at a July 10 news conference that he had not changed his position in support of regulations banning abortion counseling at federal clinics. But he said he was open to a compromise "if some compromise can be worked out that I find acceptable.... I haven't found such a compromise yet."

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The next day, representatives of lobbying groups opposed to abortion said Bush has assured them that he will veto any legislation overturning the regulations. "It's simply not an issue open to compromise," said Douglas R. Scott, vice president of public policy for the Christian Action Council, a Protestant lobbying organization.

A decision by Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles to permit abortion counseling through the state-funded maternal and infant care program drew criticism from Thomas A. Horkan Jr., executive. director of the Florida Catholic Conference.

Callingjt7'a maj'or change in Florida law and practice," Horkan said the transfer of funds for abortion counseling to the state's Health and Rehabilitative Services department was in opposition to the Supreme Court ruling and violated Florida law on the use of tax funds for abortion counseling.

Some 123 promoters or educators in natural family planning, meeting in Washington at the end of June, approved."An Affirmation of Natural Family Planning" which urged that its principles be taught in every parish and school in the country.

"Quality natural family planning programs, grounded in sound theological, educational, medical and sociological principles, need to be available in every diocese," said the document approved at the national conference of diocesan natural family planning coordinators.

"We need more programs in parishes, schools and catechetical programs that support and teach the virtue of chastity without apology, programs that present fertility appreciation and natural family planning in an understandable and positive manner," added the document.

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reseryations about granting mostfavored-nation status to China because of its policies on religious rights and abortion. In letters to Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, and Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., Archbishop John R. Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis said any preferential tariff status for China should be a "time-limited certification conditioned on significant improvement in human rights and in freedom of religion." .

In return for most-favored-nation status, China should guarantee "the early release of all imprisoned religious leaders and political prisoners" as well as "the right of international religious bodies to be in contact with their faithful in China," Archbishop Roach wrote.

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Priest upheld REV. STEPHEN A. Fernandes, diocesan director of the Pro-Life Apostolate, addresses parish representatives involved in respect for life activities. Workshops took place recently in Swansea and Sandwich (top picture); center, James Wasch, Fall River Deanery pro-life contact, greets veteran right-tolifer Dr. Joseph Stanton at a tribute to the physician and his wife held in the Boston area to benefit crisis pregnancy centers; bottom, Mary Ann Shaw, St. Joseph parish, Fairhaven, and Peter Zajac, St. James parish, New Bedford, were among volunteers at a: pancake breakfast sponsored by Birthright of New Bedford. (Booth photos)

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. Continued from Page One National Right to Life Committee spokeswom!1n. Nancy Myers said the coalition was not taking a stand on other methods of family planning, but "we all agreed with the position that abortion is nol family planning." _ Among abortion foes highlighted in the ads is Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a former abortionist whose film "The Silent Scream" galvanized the abortion debate in the mid-1980s.

Nathanson said he changed his mind on abortion after the development of technologies such as ultrasound which "opened a window into the womb."

He then came to believe that "the pre-natal part of life" is special, "just like childhood is a special band in the spectrum of life."

Coalition members include the Knights of Columbus, the National Right to Life Committee, Feminists for Life of America, Eagle Forum, Americans United for Life, American Victims of Abortion, Women Exploited by Abortion, and Concerned Women for Amer- . ica.

PHiLADELPHIA(CNS)- The California missions had special reason to celebrate the feast of Blessed Junipero Serra on July 1 this year. Artifacts and artworb missing from Serra's missions were safe and sound in the Philadelphia offices of the FBI. The FBI recovered the artifacts from the home , of a man arrested for theft of rare books from the University of Pennsylvania. At a press conference announcing the recovery, the centerpiece was a small painting ofthe Mother of Sorrows, stolen from San Gabriel Mission in San Gabriel, Calif., in June 1977. An FBI spokesman said the items displayed were among hundreds found in the San Gabriel home of William March Witherell. The mission artifacts were described as "priceless relics."

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A MUCH YOUNGER Pope John Paul II visits the Parthenon in Athens 1946, the same year he was ordained to the priesthood. Nowadays he would have no hope of making such a ca~ual yisit. (eNS/ Polish. Agency Int~rpress photo)

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US church holdings sale rule relaxed WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Vatican has raised the dollar limit on U,S. church property that can be sold, mortgaged or leased without prior Vatican approval.

The old limit was $1 million.

Cardinal Antonio Innocenti, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy, raised it to $3 million for the time being but asked the U,S. bishops to agree on a final figure when they meet in November.

The clergy congregation oversees stewardship of church property.

The cardinal rejected two alternative proposals the bishops had submitted each based on a sliding scale depending on tile size of the diocese involved, saying the congregation "has. decided that a single standard is desireable for the entire episcopal conference."

Mercy Sister Sharon Euart-, associate general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishop.s, said the new figure will remain in effect until the Vatican

confirms a figure agreed upon by' the bishops.

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Sister Euart said it would be up to the nation's religious orders, working with the Vatican congregation that oversees their activities, to decide if their dollar limit should be raised as well.

The sliding scales the bishops had suggested set a range of maximums. One, originally' proposed in 1985, would range from $1 million fora diocese with 200,000 or fewer Catholics to $5 million for . all dioceses with more than I million Catholics. The second, proposed as an alternative in 1990, would ra!1ge from $3 million for dioceses with fewer than 600,000 Catholics t,o $5 million for those with more than I million Catholics.

Vatican daily goes from hot to cold type VATICAN CITY (CNS) 路Readers ofL'Osservatore Romano turned over a new leaf when they read the 130th anniversary edition of the Vatican newspaper.

It was the first printed by computerized photo offset composition. This replaced the museumpiece Linotype system which used molten lead to cast stories in metal type from a huge keyboard. This "hot.type" - in bars of one line each - became the basis for page molds smeared with ink for printing.

Although major newspapers began switching to the cheaper, easier and faster cold-type method decades ago, changes come slowly at the Vatican.

Indeed, the transformation was the most important at L'Osservatore Romano since the clatter of typewriters replaced the scratching of pens over 50 years ago, noted Angelo Scelzo, editorial secretary.

Viewed from outside, L'Osservatore Romano has been "a happy Arcadia in the tumultuous kingdom of information," said Scelzo, ideaman behind the changeover.

The change from hot to cold type took place July I, bringing with it clearer photos, easier to read print and six. columns rather than seven per page.

A side benefit to readers was cleaner hands. The cold type ink does not rub off llS ink did under the old system.

The transformation' was also accompanied by promises to use livelier photos and more graphics to illustrate stories and texts.

L'Osservatore Romano began to record papal words and deeds on July I, 1861, and has been the authoritative chronicler of 10 popes stretching back to Pope Pius IX. It was founded to give voice to papal concerns during the struggle . for Italian unification. At the time there was heavy political and military pressure on Pope Pius IX to give up temporal rule over central Italy so as to complete Italian unification, Accordingly, page one of the first edition in 1861 was filled with a lengthy editorial defending the pope's temporal rule over Rome and the surrounding area.

L'Osservatore Romano is Italian for Roman Observer. The publication described itself as a "poli-

Vacations, vocations discussed by pope VATICAN CITY (CNS) _ Schoolchildren can well use vacations to think about priestly or religious vocations, Pope John Paul II told youngsters at a recent general audience.

The pope praised parishes and religious organizations for sponsoring summer"camp-schools or religious formation meetings often having a vocational nature."

"If you have the opportunity, profit from it and know how to obtain from it advantages for your spiritual growth," he told the youths.

Summer vacation "is an opportune time, not only for quiet rest from the fatigue of the school year, but also to enrich your conscience with good reading and reflection about the great ideas of life," the pope said, "Above all, allow more time for prayer," he added.

tical-moral newspaper" and one of the founders was Marcantonio Pacelli, grandfather of Pope Pius 路XII. Military action eventually ended the church's ,temporal rule in 1870, but the newspaper continued.

Today, it describes itself as a "political-religious daily" and publishes six days a week, resting on Sunday. Printed in Italian, L'Osservatore is not limited to reports of Vatican and papal events. Its pages include international, Italian and Roman news culled from news services and its own reporting staff.

H also publishes weekly editions in seven languages, devoted almost exclusively to papal events and texts.

Although L'Osservatore reports papal eve.nts and prints full texts

of the' pope's speeches and documents, it is not the official Vatican publication. That honor belongs to Acta Apostolicae Sedes, a yearly tome.

However, L'Osservatore is considered authoritative in that its editorials and specially marked articles reflect the thinking of the pope and top-level Vatican officials.

The pope made clear this special relationship in his front-page letter of congratulations on the 130th anniversary and the switchover in pri!!ting methods.

"The new phase allows hope for still better fruits from the service which this newspaper authoritatively renders in the seedbeds of the papal magisterium," wrote the pope. The magisterium is the church's teaching authority.

Cardinal adapts to new job VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Taking charge of a Vatican office after nearly 10 years in th~ United States has meant a different rhythm of work for Cardinal Pio Laghi, head of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education.

"In the United States I would never take a nap in the afternoon, but in Rome it is necessary," he said. "It is part of the culture."

Pope John Paul II named the former pro-nuncio to the United States head of the Vatican congregation in April 1990. He was installed on June 28.

Cardinal Laghi gave a brief interview to Catholic News Service June 25 along with a two-page written reflection on some aspects of his work.

He said there is wisdom in the Italian philosophy that "you can't do everything today," but some things require quick action. And, he said, "I 'don't like to waste time."

His appointment to the Vatican meant changes for himself and for the congregation employees.

He compared himself to a pilot, clearly in command, who nevertheless must be "very careful" and knowledgeable when revving up his engines.

One thing hasn't changed: the cardinal still relies on the U.S. church for his tennis partners, playing once or twice a week at North American College, the U.S. seminary in Rome. The 69-yearold Italian said he has found some "good seminarians" on the court there.

The Congregation for Catholic

Education has a number of major projects underway, some of which were begun under Cardinal Laghi's predecessor, U.S. Cardinal William W. Baum.

Last September Pope John Paul II issued an apostolic constitution on Catholic higher education, which had gone through several drafts under Cardinal Baum's leadership. . , Cardinal Laghi and his staff are charged with evaluating' and approving"ordinances" submitted by national or regional bishops' conferences to apply the constitution's norms to colleges and universitites in their area.

The norms were to go into effect at the beginning of the 1991 aca路demic year, but the cardinal said "that will be delayed a bit," because the bishops' conferences need more time.

He said the new document not only will help institutions to strengthen their Catholic identity, to recognize and encourage their service to society.

Another ongoing project is a Vatican-sponsored evaluation of seminaries in various parts of the world, already conducted in the United States and Brazil.

The congregation, which has responsibility for seminaries, has visitations scheduled or in progress for the seminaries of Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Venezuela, France, Germany and the Philippines, the cardinal said.

The study of U.S. seminaries, which began in 1981, has provided an adaptable "master plan" for the studies in other countries, he noted.

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tion. This federation facilitated communication and common goalsetting and evolved into the new Institute of The Sisters of Mercy of the Americas.

At Home A unique ritual, "The Founding Event at Home," has been developed to permit Sisters of Mercy unable to be in Buffalo for the first chapter of the new Mercy community to celebrate the event in their home convents.

In the province of Providence, the Founding Event will take place July 20 at three sites: in the Central American nation of Belize and at St. Mary's-Bay View, East Providence, and Mt. St. Rita Health Centre, Cumberland, both in Rhode Island. At Bay View the ceremony will be held at I p.m. and at Mt. St. Rita at 2 p.m. At all three sites, each sister present will sign the official documents as one ofthe founders ofthe new institute.

The nuns' meeting- marks the official start of the institute, which combines 25 Sister of Mercy groups in the United States, making it the largest religious. community nationwide.

For the occasion, Mercy nuns are expected to pour into Buffalo area campsites, convents and hotels. They selected Buffalo for the meeting because "they wanted non-glitz and an economically depressed city that might benefit from whatever business the twoweek meeting generates," Ms. Cunningham said. It's also close to three Mercy Sisters' communities that are part of the merger: Buffalo, Rochester and Erie, Pa., she said. '

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Continued from Page One Sister Frances Warde was 33 years old when she and seven sisters traveled to Pittsburgh in the winter of 1846 to establish the first u:s. Mercy congregation. According to the congregation's archives, she personally founded "more convents, schools, hospitals, and institutions of social welfare than any other religious leader in the Western world."

By 1854, Sisters of Mercy'from Ireland had settled in New York, Pittsburgh and San Francisco and from these cities moved throughout the United States. In twos, threes and fours. they traveled, establishing schools, hospitals, and programs for the poor, and wel-

coming new members to the order.

By the end of the Civil War, throughout the Northeast, down the Atlantic seaboard, in the South, the Midwest and along the West Coast, the name of Mercy was linked with the Church's mission to care for the poor, the sick and the uneducated.

During this century, U.S. congregations started establishing missions or developing ties with other Sisters of Mercy in the Latin American/ Caribbean region. This movement gained strength and further engaged Sisters of Mery in a global community.

In 1965, all of the Mercy congregations in the United States became aligned within a federa-

Unexpected competition for sisters?

WASHINGTON (CNS) Which group of Sisters of Mercy will drum up more attention in late July in Buffalo, N.Y., remains to be seen.

On one side are the nuns, the more than 3,000 Mercy Sisters trekking to the western New York town for the July 20 founding meeting of their new order - the 7,400-member Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas.

On the other side is the British rock group, The Sisters of Mercy, made up of four guys and an electric drum machine.

The rockers are slated to perform July 19 at Darien Lake, a theme park between Buffalo and Rochester, N. Y. The nuns, who have spent a year on a self-described "visioning process" to set the tone for their new institute, learned of the music group's appearance from a newspaper ad for the concert.

"Just added," the ad read, "The Sisters of Mercy." Billed with them are "Public Enemy" and "Gang of Four."

Ginny Cunningham, spokeswoman for the Sisters of Mercy ofthe Americas, said the order's officials first heard of the rock group six months ago and wondered who they were.

The recent double billing in Buffalo prompted "groans and laughter," she told Catholic News Service. "We don't have a corner on mercy," she added.

Ellen Bello, publicist for the rock group, which also' performed in Boston on Good Friday, said the timing was coincidental.

The Buffalo gig is part of the second leg of The Sisters' U.S. tour, called "The Vision Thing," Ms. Bello said in a telephone interview. The tour is named after the band's successful album "Vision Thing."

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Priest gets $330,000 MacArthur fellowship NEWARK, N.J. (CNS) - ' A Newark archdiocesan priest active in neighborhood revitalization projects for the city's black and Hispanic communities was among 31 recipients offellowships recently announced by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago.

Msgr. William Linder, 55, pastor of St. Rose of Lima Church in Newark and executive director of New Community Corporation, was awarded $330,000 over the next five years, to use in any way he chooses.

New Community Corporation, which he founded in 1968. con-

structs and renovates nonprofit 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.

"It was a complete surprise," Msgr. Linder said of the award.

He said the fellowship "should be helpful for the work we do [at New Community]. It puts a stamp of legitimacy, which helps. It's not going to change anything in my style ofliving. It's going to help the work of the organization."

Adele Simmons, president of the MacArthur Foundation, said recipients are honored for their creative ability to "improve the human condition." She said that by choosing "highly talented individuilis working in awide range of fields, the foundation means to honor creative persons everywhere."

Nine women and 22 men were picked for this year's awards, ranging from $150,000 to $375,000 over five years. Recipients also receive health insurance coverage during the period of their fellowship.

A native of East Newark, Msgr.

Linder was ordained in 1963. He holds a doctorate in sociology from Fordham University.

Carter award to honor slain Jesuits ATLANTA (CNS) - Fonner President Jimmy Carter announced July II in Atlanta that he would honor the six Jesuits slain in November 1989 in EI Salvador by presenting his annual $100,000 human rights award to the University of Central America.

He cited "their extraordinary commitment and steadfast dedication to human rights and social change in that wartorn and impoverished country."

The Carter- Menil Human Rights Prize is given annually by Carter and Dominique de Menil, founder of the Rothko Chapel in Houston.

The six priests, along with their housekeeper and her daughter, were murdered at the university during the night of Nov. 16, 1989. Several members of the Salvadoran military were later implicated in the attack. Nine, including a colonel, have been charged with the murders. Eight of the nine are in custody awaiting a September trial.

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M()vies Recent box office hits 1.

The Naked Gun 2112: The Smell of Fear, A-Ill (PG-13)

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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, A-II (PG-13) City Slickers, A-II (PG-13)

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Jungle Fever, A-IV (R) Thelma & Louise, 0 (R) Soapdish, A-III (PG-13) What About Bob?, A-II (PG)

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Kindergarten Cop, A-III (PG-13) 2. GoodFellas, A-IV (R) 3. Edward Scissorhands, A-II (PG-13) 4. Reyersal of Fortune, A-III (R) 5. Postcards from the Edge, A-III (R) 6. The Grillers, 0 (R) , 7. Predator 2, 0 (R) 8. Green Card, A-III (PG-13) 9. ,MermaIds, 0 (PG-13) 10. Three Men and a little Lady, A-II (PG)

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

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

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

ROVERETO, Italy (CNS) - A Vatican official has challenged' world religions to promote global peace by beginning at home with promoting respect for each others' beliefs. Cardinal Fraricis Arinze, president ofthe Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, said POW' religions must study whether they "disrupt peace." Speaking before LA CROSSE, Wis. (CNS) - G. the International Council of the World Conference on Religion and Heileman Brewing Co., after proPeace, he said, "It is indeed true tests by two Catholic priests and U.S.· 'government criticism, has that all religions make declarations in favor of peace. But it is· scuttled ,its co~troversial Po.":eralso an observable fact that relig-·· Mas~er ma~t hquor. Adve~tlSlng ious people or people in the name, .. an~ marketIng for the malt hquor, of one religion .or another have ' which had yet to be place~ on the sometimes brought discord, dismarket, targeted low-mco~e trust, tension, pain, conflict and bl~cks. In late June two Cathohc suffering to one another and to the pnests, Fath~rs George H. Clewider worlcl" ments and Michael Pfleger;were arrested at Heileman headquarters -------- in La Crosse while protesting the brewery's marketing of PowerGOD'S ANCHOR HOtoS Master. Power Master would have been' the most potent malt from .'

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I. Talk to your teachers when you return to school this fall.

Tell t~em you want to study more about societal problems like homelessness. Perhaps sections of courses could focus on these issues, especially in classes such as social studies, economics or religion.

2. A recent study shows that one of every eight U.S. children , suffers from hunger. Most communities and some parishes offer food banks and soup kitchens.

Suggest to your local high school club or parish youth group that it organizes a fundraiser to support these efforts. Be creative. Money-making projects can be lots offun, plus often having the secondary effect of pulling group members closer together.

3. There may be young people affected by poverty in your own school. Be careful not to judge them by their clothes or the circumstances of their lives.

Show your friendliness by getting to know others. Don't let assumptions about p'eople's character be based on outward appearances.

4. Make a personal commitment to a better world. Translate it into a weekly plan to accomplish one specific action.

Some weeks,your activity may be educational, other weeks might emphasize donating money and still others could focus on some direct' service.

Keep a written record of your plans and how you fulfill them.

5. Investigate careers that contribute to others' lives, Talk , over options with a school counselor so you can learn how to plan your future education.

This is no time to give up hope. We also can' do more than "weather the storm together." We can help clear the air of despair, hurt and lives lost to poverty and personal mistakes - one step at a time.

Your comments are'welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 181, Rockport, Ind. 47635.

By Charlie Martin

STATE OF THE WORLD

by Linda Rome What are you doing this summer?

Anything exciting? , It's a common question this time of year, one that most of us are not quite up to answering. I know I'm not.

I stumble around muttering something about painting bedrooms,and the outside ofthe house, and throw in a trip to the local amusement park to cover the excitement part.

What about you?

Occasionally, someone will mention two weeks at the seashore or a trip to Washington, D.C. But most others I talk to have nothing momentous planned. Yet there is this sense that we should be doing something!

- School's out, and for 'most of you that means a delightful break from responsibilities. No one assigning homework, suggesting projects, setting deadlines.

Someone said that a change is as good as a vacation, and summer is the ultimate change from routine - escpecially for teens. Summer;.is an opportunity, a challenge. You can be bored or you can learn to make things happen for yourself.

You may find that your expectations of a wonderful summer 'fade after a few days of uninterrupted leisure. Maybe you're grumpy or find,yourself moping around with nothing to do. That's not so unusual.

Many of us have become accustomed to having outside obligations to, structure our time around.

Without those obligations, we can ,find ourselves at loose ends. But

structuring your own routine takes practice, One surprise might be in realizing that you miss purposeful activity. You miss the satisfaction that comes from working toward a goal and accomplishing it. So think of all the things you've thought you might like to do or learn, and pick one or two.

One teen I know volunteered to work in New York City with Mother Teresa's Sisters of Charity. Another worked with kindergarteners at the summer Headstart program. Still another joined a jazz ensemble and learned a new way of making music.

A friend said that she tries to organize her summer around three different kinds of activities: for the mind, for the body and for the soul.

Summer can be a chance to try new things, meet ,new people, go new places. But frantic activity is not necessary.

Summer is also a time for relaxation. Part of summer is learning how to enjoy the slower pace.

Allow time for daydreaming, vegging out at the pool or simply taking some healthful walks.

Summer can be the perfect time for taking stock, for catching up on all the thinking you've been too busy to do during the school year.

Ask yourself the big questions: Where am I going, what do I really want from life? What is really important in life?

And the next time someone asks you what you're doing this summer, you could respond, "Growing! How about you?"

Five a.m. rise and shine To feed the baby before he starts to cry No rest, no time to play 15, the mother of a runaway No time for dreams or goals Pressure is so strong Her body she has sold so her child can eat What is happening to this world we live in In our home and other lands?

Drugs and crime spreadin' on the streets People can't find enough to eat Now our kids can't go out and play That's the state of the world today.

Little Johnny all alone His only friend, the doll he carries with him Goes to school each and' every day To be teased because he has no place to stay This young homeless boy Feels his life is worthless Instead of suicide he cries himself to sleep And it's happening to this world we live in There's got to be a better way.

Can't give up hope now Let's weather the storm together.

Written by Janet Jackson, James Harris III and Terry Lewis, sung by Janet Jackson, (c) 1989 by A&M Records Inc. "WHAT IS happening to this world we live in?"

This question is heard in the lyrics of Janet Jackson's "State of the World." Given the life stories presented in the song, we are likely to feel uneasy and concerned. It brings us face-toface with the suffering in some young people's lives.

I like this song, not just because it tells the truth about some of our nation's hurts, but because it challenges us, saying

and educational levels, and higher expectations for children's educational achievements, they may also tend to steer their kids to Catholic high school.

Parents also take into account their children's needs and desires.

The child may also get to vote. If children want to attend a particuby Catherine Haven kids to grow into healthy, honest larschool, parents reason, that Tina and Jack hadn't planned to and productive human beings. vested interest ,may motivate them send their daughter to Catholic' And for parents who are Catholic to excel there,. high school. ' With college costs looming aschool products, it is the passing "None of herfriends, were going on of an educational legacy they head, Jennifer's daughter considerthere,"'recalls Tina, "but she decid- feel is beneficial. ed pUbli~ high school after graed she wanted a smaller school That legacy carries a price tag. It ' duating from Catholic elementary. and, I guess, a fresh start in a new' may also mean forgoing the 'public "But she just wasn't comfortaschooL And she did extremely well school's larger athletic program ble with the public school," says there - getting good grades, being (better college scholarship oppor- Jennifer, who attends nursing dected, to student council, making tunities?) and more extensive 'cur~ school to improve her job prospects so she eventually can afford some nice friends who share her riculum, along with the chance to values and just being'involved in a sock away college money; her children's college education.

"It's tight financially sometimes, lot of extracurricular activities she It helps if you can afford tuition. might not h'ave done at another But as James S. Coleman's 1987 but I'm willing to pay the tuition," school." , study of public and private high Jennifer said. She told her daughDonna's son attends a Christian schools found, lack of cash won't ter, however, that considering the Brothers' high school. Tuition puts necessarily deter parents. With cost, if she doesn't keep her grades a sizable dent in her income. As a , scholarships, shared-tuition pro- up she'll be moved to a public single mother, it has meant she grams and diocesan subsidies, school.

As education costs escalate, -drives an older car, skips vacations Catholic high schools are not as parents also become, selective in and economizes in every other way elitist as people think. possible. ' Ask parents why their kids attend spending their education dollar. If As a parochial school teacher, Catholic high school and they'll they can afford one educational Donna values Catholic education probably cite the values-oriented level, some opt for Catholic high and believes the school helps pro- education, the religious training school over Catholic elementary vide the male guidance she cannot and the atmosphere where families because 'of the problems facing give. teen-agers today. share values.

Parents choose Catholic high The choice may constitute less But the answer is not always schools for the same reasons they that simple, an approval of Catholic school choose pediatricians or insist childAccording to Coleman, if parthan a rejection of public school, ren eat vegetables. Parents want ents have somewhat higher incomes particularly in areas where parents'

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that we "can't give up hope now, let's weather the storm together."

So how can refusal to give up hope lead us to specific actions, for example to help the young people the song describes? What can we do?

When we adopt the caring attitude of Jesus, the answer is clear: p~nty! Here are a' few suggestions for teens who want to reach out to other hurting young people: fear drugs, violence and other problems.

Lee and Vicki's eldest daughter got involved in drugs at her public high school. Their heads told them the,problem wasn't her school, but their hearts moved them toward Cat,holic, schools. Their younger children - all non-Catholic enrolled in Catholic high school.

"We knew it wasn't the public school's fault," these parents said.

But they wanted th~ir other child-

,ren in a situation that stressed values and that they felt was "a little bit safer."

Hope and Michael, public school teachers, enrolled their fifth-grade son in the public school system.

But he's already planning to attend a Catholic boys high school.

Is it the Catholic values? The education program? The family atmosphere? " - "He want to go where his dad went to, high school," explains Hope simply.

Fast-paced games promised ' NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS) :John MacLeod, the former New York Knicks coach who will succeed Richard "Digger" Phelps as ,coach of the University of Notre Dame's basketball team, has promised Notre Dame fans "a powerful, fast-breaking 'team."

"I will recruit p,layers who can play a faster, up-tempo style of basketball," he said at a press conference at Notre Dame after his first team meeting. MacLeod, a native of Indiana who had worked in the National Basketball Association for 18 years, said the returning players were "a good-looking crew" who want to be "good bas-

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Malankars meet NEW YORK (CNS) - The first national convention of Malankar Catholics of North America, held recently in New York, drew more than 650 people, including the, head of Malankar Catholics world'wide. Archbishop Benedict Varghese Gregorios Thangalathil of the Malankar archdiocese of Trivandrum, who came from the state of Kerala in South India to attend.

Participants included representatives from each of the seven North American cities were Malankar missions have been established!

Chicago, Dallas, Houston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Toronto.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall' River-Fri., July 19, 1991

Does ",Cheers" exemplify Christian community?

Sheila B. Fisher, a science teacher at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, has received a $9,300 grant from Toyota Motor Sales to WASHINGTON (CNS) Dr. Frasier Crane, played by Kelimplement an innovative classroom NBC's hit series "Cheers" may be a ~ey Grammer. project.

The intimacy among the Cheers religious education teacher in disOut of 800 applicants, she was guise. people lets them tease one another one of 21 high school science Without setting out to do so, the without hurting anyone. Know-itteachers selected to receive a Emmy-award-winning program all Cliff, for example, is always TAPESTRY grant. TAPESTRY, exemplifies the community that tormented but still he belongs.

Toyota's Appreciation Program Christians are called to create.

The "Cheers" theme song hones for Excellence to Science Teachers It provides a model. in on what community is supposed Reaching Youth, is the nation's Like a parish, the crowd at the to do _ make us realize we're not largest corporate-funded grant Boston sports bar Cheers encom- alone. You go to Cheers because program for high school science passes an ensemble cast. "you wanna be where you can see teachers. Administered by the NaThe patrons are a motley lot our troubles are all the same," the tional Science Teachers Associawho probably wouldn't socialize song says. tion, it is designed to help teachers with one another if they hadn't "Making your way in the world create and implement innovative accidentally come together at a today takes everything you've got," classroom science projects. neighborhood pub. it adds. "Wouldn't you like to get Using the sky as a basic theme Cheers' patrons are not clones for an interdisciplinary study, Ms. at a fern bar. Each is an individual, away? Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name, Fisher's students will engage in from macho Sam Malone, played and they're always glad you came." activities far removed from the

by Ted Danson, to the financially traditional textbook. Over the struggling Carla Tortelli Lebec, The ratings success of "Cheers," course of her curriculum, she will played by Rhea Perlman.. which has grown in popularity use kites, solar cooking, phqtog. Perhaps it's their differences that since it debuted in 1982, and that raphy, cable TV, meteorology and of similar ensemble-cast programs, let them become one. hot air balloons to teach physics JOE KUBAN, a teacher of biology and ecology at Nolan Like other places where people makes one wonder if the comedy's principles.

Catholic High School, Ft. Worth, Tex., paddles a dugout find community, the Cheers bar hit status is rooted in the need for "Kids are more excited about canoe along a Peruvian river during an international work- meets a common need for inti- community. People have a basic science when they can apply it, and macy. As the theme song from the need to be with others who recogthat's what this project is all about. shop on tropical rain forests. Kuban is noted for the field trips series notes, Cheers is "where. nize them and provide stability in Students need to learn that 'science' ,he conducts for his young ecology students. As well as to Peru, everybody knows your name." their lives. Perhaps even the weekly he has taken them to the Grand Cayman Islands and to U.S. is a verb," Ms. Fisher explained.

Some say the best, communities meeting of viewer and episode Overwhelming teacher response points of interest. Future plans include trips to upland cloud are formed by happenstance, usu- doe.s some of this. to T APESTR Y is a sign that forests on the Pacific Oce3;n, and lowland rain forests in the ally as the byproduct of people Some of television's most sucAmerica's science education needs Caribbean. (CNS) Photo) regularly working together toward cessful series have shared this support, according to Bill Aldridge, a common goal such !is a parish dimension. !'fSTA executive director.

"Barney Miller," which ran on committee or work group. The group's goal doesn't have to be ABC from 1975 to 1982 and was "So often high school teachers great: at Cheers it's just tp keep up set in a Greenwich Village police' are frustrated by the lack of funds the pub's r~putation as the ~ost- station house, is one example. The available to them to make their spirited bar in Boston - no other cast included a variety of characscience instruction more meaningpub' can beat it in interbar com- ters, from the compassionate and ful. Grants for special projects Choir awards were received by Although summer is past its competent Capt. Miller, played by ,. . , which motivate students are abun- mid mark,. school'newscontinues'" Diane Farias,.:Priscilla Paiva; An- petitions. , " The show's variety of characters, Hal Linde'n, to the endlessly gridant at the college level, but prac- to trickle in'. From Coyle-Cassioy " drea Neto, Sharlene Hamel and entices viewers' of yariolls stripes ping Deputy.Fish; played by Abe tically nonexistent at the high High in Taunton, for example, Andrea Ferreira. to identify with the show.

Vigoda. Their common goal was school level." comes word that senior Mary GioCYO basketball awards also Actor Johp. Ratzenberger, a keeping order in the .12th Precinct.

Teachers began their TAPES- vanoni has been selected by the went to Scott Ch'arette, Eric FerAn 0 the r s u c h ,s e r i e s , TR Y projects in'May. Next year, school's Latin department as its reira, Chr,stopher Medeiros, Ro- Catholic school graduate from Bridgeport, Conn:,who plays post- "M·A*S*H," ran' on CBS from TAPESTRY will provide the four first-ever delegate to the National bert Bergeron, Steven Leduc, Paul 1972 to 1983. The community at most successful projects with an Junior Classical League conven-· Flannery, Jeffrey Wagner, Kevin man Cliff Clayen, for e?,ample, the'4077th Mobiie Anny Surgical says people feel they know Cliff. additional $20,000 grant for further' tion to be held Aug. 4 to' 9 at Medeiros, David Lima, Aaron "There are a lot of Cliffs in a lot Hospital also included diverse perdevelopment. An additional $5,000 Atlanta's Emory College.

Fournier, and Derek Raposo. of people's pasts," Ratzenberger sons ,drawn together for a comaward will be given to the teacher While there she'll compete in " ' mon purpose - saving lives behirid The 1990 Distinguished Gradu- once noted. or teachers who managed the written Latin contests as well as in There also are a lot of innocent the lines, dUl:ing the Korean 'War. ate Award, a certificate froni'the' projects. track and swimming events; !\1ens souls, such as w'oodyBoyd, played The medical team included the sana in corpore sano, you know. National Catholic Educational As- by Woody Harrelson. And cities ,quirky intellect!lal H.awkeye', play'sociation, was awarded to Albert Ask 'Mary for a translation, if you H. St. Martin and the 1991 award are filled with uptight profession- ed by Alan Aida; Cpl. Maxwell don't. als who take themselves too ser- Klinger,.\:yho dressedin women's Also at C-C, freshman \,.aurie went to Rev. Jean-Domiilique· iously, like' ,olli Lilith· Sternin ¢Ibthirigto get himself expelle~ as DAYTON,Ohio(CNS)-Jesuit Father Daniel· Berrigan in a speech Poyant received 'highest honors Pare,O.P. Crane, the psychiatrist played by mentally unfit, played by Jamie at the University of Dayton said for the last quarter of the academic ,Beb~ Neuwirth.... , Farr; "Hot Lips" flpulihan, the 1'40 students year; white overall, AriYQne for spreadsheets, word that Christ's life was incompatible Toge~her these patrop.s exem-" irasci~le nurse playe4 by Loretta processing; desktop publishing or" plify wh.~~ rnaIces up a com,mup.-ity:. 'Swit; and Father Francis ,Mulcahy, with the Persian Gulf War, which achieved honor roll status. data bases? How about global good~~~arted. peopl.e bumbling, the other-worldly chaplain played he termed "an explosion of mass • murder legitimated ... by every' Meanwhile at St~ Anne's School, manhunts,' puzzles, Wild West about: trying to..make sense of by William Christopher. public authority, applauded 'by, Fall River, graduating'8th graders simulations or animation? It's all what's happening in their, lives.

These shows and other similarlymillions among·the populace and and their awards wete Lori Pedro , yours at St. Mary's School, New Che~rS: patrons are the imperfect: struct~re,d seri~s bring together by Bedford', where one-week compu- people'who form a perfect com-. chance people of varied b.al;:k-, celebrated coast .to ,coast. by, a and Kevin Medeiros, 5200 Catholic cowardly phalanx of media 'and a high school grimts from the Home ter learnirig sessions are going on, ',mu n1't y. , ,grounds who wind, up a tight-knH. " ' .

Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. petrified forest_ ~f fl,ags." ~ather: & School Associatiori;Diane'Fatias They acc,ept the individllal dif- . group. working,toward ~ common, Berrigan, a nationally- ~n~WQ and and Gregory Morrissette, St. Anne to noon. ferences of. their members, from. ' 'good. What evolves is a closeness often jailed pea~e act,ivist, ~xpress- ,.Credit Union outstanding''CitizenEight.people a.week can enjoy neurotic ~ebecca, How~, played and a -feeling that despite pe~ple's ed his views on the Persian Gulf ship awards; Grego~y also received the fun, with sessions offered the by Kirstie Alley, to overeducated idiosy~crasies they belong.

War to a c~pacity,cn).w!i~ '" the Lavoie/Mercier Memorial weeks of July 22 and 29 and Aug. 5 , Award, of a $250 Catholic high and 12. Information at St. Mary's, . school grant,an altar boy award, a 995-3696.

CYO basketball award and the DAYTON, Ohio (CNS) - Re- Principal's Achievement Award of ligious who don't know, t.he culture. Bishop Stang High School. . . .

The number of childre.n in the United in which they worlc can't preach Christian Living Awards from ' OTTAWA(CNS) - The Catho- ' States receiving first Communion rose the Gospel well', Archbishop Daniel the Home & School Assn. went to lie Health Association of Canada by nearly 179,000 from last year.

E. Pilarczy~.of pn~innati told a Claudette Decouto and Robert has published a Health Care Ethics recent world 'gatheri~g of Marian- Bergeron Jr.; the Principal's Award Guide which discusses issues rangist Fathers and Brothers, "You for academic improvement to Eric ing from fetal experimentation to 1990· have to know the culture you are Ferreira; the St. Martin scholar- ' artificially supplied food and water talking about, the culture you are ship from the. St. Anne Credit for dying patients. The guide was 697,848 talking to, , . , If it seems that we Union to Priscilla Paiva; and serv- developed by a task force of ethiourselves are irrelevant strangers, ice recognition certificates to An- cists, lawyers, nurses, physicians then the one whom we represent drea Ferreira, Claudette DeCouto, and theologians from throughout Source: Official Catholic Directory, 1991. will seem like an irrelevant stranger, Priscilla Paiva and Robert Ber- Canada and was revised after contoo, and we will end up preaching geron Jr., who also received an sultations with 100 hospitals and a false god," he said. altar boy award. nursing homes.

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HOLY NAME, NB All 59 and older are welcome to join Sacred Heart/ Holy Name seniors who meet each first and third Thursday at Sacred Heart parish center.

SS. PETER & PA UL, FR CYO meeting 7 p.m. Aug. 13, parish center; Rocky Point outing 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 17. Volunteers sought to participate in Bridges to Community Friendship, a program matching disabled individuals with carefully assessed adults for friendship and shared activities. Information: Ramona Wilson, 678-5875.

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ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Brother Walter DeCremieux, SS.CC., will speak at weekend Masses on mission programs of the Sacred Hearts cominunity. Youth Group to visit Great Adventure amusement piuk in New Jersey Aug. 7 and 8.

ST. JAMES, NB Alcoholics Anonymous meeting 7 p.m. each Wednesday, church hall.

Parishioners who will promise to pray for 10 minutes daily for parish needs are sought. Information: Father James F. Greene.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Men's Club Red Sox trip July 20,. with bus leaving church parking lot 10 a.m. Information: 420-3798 or 428-0522.

ST. JOSEPH, NB Father Paul Ouelette, OMI, will speak at weekend Masses on behalf of his community's missions. Parishioners are asked to contacftheir senator and representative requesting their support of Title X regulations with regard to abortion counseling and referral. Suggested information to be used in letters/ postcards was distributed last weekend.

OL CAPE, BREWSTER Volunteers sought to revive "Good Tidings," a former parish newsletter.

Those interested may call the rectory.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET Schedules have been mailed for . lectors, eucharistic ministers and altar boys. Any of these ministers is asked to volunteer, even if unassigned, if at a Mass where no one is assisting.

ST. THERESA,S. ATTLEBORO 18 catechists needed! Information: Grades I to 5, 399-8 I77; Grades 6 to 9, 761-7441. Teacher training and lesson plans available.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, FR Area group meeting 7 p.m. July 23, St. Mary's Cathedral.

ST. ANTHONY, TAUNTON Farewell party for Father John A. Raposo 2 t04 p.m. July 28 at PACC, ·175 School St., Taunton. All wel:come.

SACRED HEART, FR ST. THOMAS MORE, Brian O'Neil and Victor Perreira SOMERSET are conducting free basketball sesCensus forms will shortly be mailed to all parishioners. Prompt return is . sions 6 to 8 p.m. each Thursday at Ruggles Park. requested.

ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH ·ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, Youth ministry will hold a cookHYANNIS RCIA sessions for prospective out and barbecue 4:30 p.m. July 22, converts begin 7:30 p.m. Aug. 6, par- church grounds; Red Sox game aUen~anc~ planned for July 28. CCD regish center. Information: 775-5389.

Istration weekends of Aug. 24-25 SACRED HEART, and Sept. 7-8. Pastoral and finance N.ATTLEBORO councils will meet in hall 7:30 p.m.

Volunteers needed for summer Sunday. . projects: cleaning church kitchen and HOLY NAME, FR pantry and making a supplies invenWork has begun on the church tory; cleaning stage and backstage walkways. Pastoral council members areas. are ex officio the pastor and parochST. STANISLAUS, FR ial vicar, the school principal and the Steering committee to plan estabCCD coordinator and appointed memlishment of parish pro-life commitbers Susan Frank, Mary Geary, Mautee will meet 7 p.m. July 22, 8th reen McCloskey, William Renaud. grade classroom. All welcome.

The names of four elected members ST. PATRICK, FR are to be announced.

Space is available for non-altar ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, boys on parish trip to Riverside SWANSEA Park, Agawam, on July 31. InforChildren entering first grade not mation at rectory. yet registered for CCD should call CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE Lucille Marcille, 674-9746.

Junior choir rehearses 9:15 a.m.

STAR OF THE SEA, each Sunday. Food pantry donaOAK BLUFFS tions needed.

Dr. William Tortolano, organist, ST. JOSEPH, WOODS HOLE and his wife, Martha Kane TortoA new parish newsletter is being lano, soprano, will give a concert at circulated to parishioners, thanks to 8 p.m. Aug. 9. Both Dr. and Mrs. t~e efforts of David Corcoran. ApT~rtolano are on the faculty of St. preciation is expressed to the John Michael's College, Winooski, Vt. Sheehan family for the donation of Their program will include music by new vestments.

Marcello, Peeters, Buxtehude and Mozart and arias from Puccini opST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FR Support group for pacemaker eras and a medley from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Carouwearers will meet 6:30 p.m. July 24, sel. The organ that will be used was education classroom. Information: Gerri Santos, RN, 674-5741, ext. designed and installed by Rev. Wil2392. liam Campbell, pastor of St. Dominic's parish, Swansea. .

ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT Parish improvements now in pro- ST. MARY, SEEKONK Prayer group 7:30 p.m. July 25, gress or planned include painting of parish center; blood drive 5 to 8:30 the church steeple and other areas, p.m. Aug. 8, also in center. The cenrefurbishing the sanctuary, improving the public address system and ter is open from 2 to 4 Tuesdays for cleaning ceiling fans. Volunteers are students in grades 6 to 8 for recreation. needed to make small white robes for presentation at infant baptisms. O.L. HEALTH, FR Information at rectory.

Portuguese-language prayer meeting 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. Plans HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Persons related to anyone for are in process for a bilingual choir whom Mass is being offered on a for the parish patronal feast Aug. 18. ,,:eekend who wish to present the Those interested are asked to attend gifts are asked to notify the head a rehearsal 6:30 p. m. July 23, church. usher before the liturgy.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Child care program available at 8:30 a.m. Mass during summer.

Rosary prayed weekdays at 8:30 a.m. prior to 9 a.m. Mass. RCIA inquiry session for prospective converts and others 7:30 p.m. Aug. 5, OMAHA, Neb. (CNS) - Sister parish center.

Dorothy Stevenson escaped the assassins that came for her. Sister Irene McCormack did not.

Sister McCormack, a Sister of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart serving in Peru, was shot in the back of tht< head at point-blank range. The execution, carried out by a teenage guerilla of the Sendero Luminoso terrorist group, took place in the tiny mountain village of Huasahuasi, where the two women had been ministering with the Columban Fathers since 1987.

Sister Stevenson's name was also on the death list, but she had left the day before the attack for medical treatment in Lima, the capital city of Peru.

Among other things, the women were accused of being "Yankee imperialists" for distributing food to the poor. Some of the food and cooking oil came from the United States.

"I've hardly had time to cry.

Sometimes I don't realize Irene's dead," Sister Stevenson, 57, said during a recent visit to the Columban Fathers' national headquarters near Bellevue, Neb. It is impossible for her to return to her work in Peru, so she is going home to New Zealand.

Sister McCormack, an Australian, worked in the villagers'

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EMMAUS/GALILEE New directors for the retreat progra~ and its followup meetings are Sheila Dorgan, coordinator; Claire O'Toole, secretary; Julie Johnson, Barbara Hayden, Louise Demers, Tom Barbe.r, Cindy Kulig, Paul Neto, week.end directors; Ken Paiva, Galile.e director; Paul Brasells, publicity dlfector; ~athers James Nickel, SS.CC., Richard Degagne, William Baker, spiritual directors. Galilee reunion 7 p.m. Aug. II, Neumann Hall, East Freetown; Bethany retreat Aug. 16 to 18, Cathedral Camp, East Freetown.

ROSARY FOR LIFE The 2nd annual worldwide rosary for life is scheduled for Oct. 12. Par;ticipants are asked to meet at a church and, if possible, proceed from there to an abortion center..to pray the rosary. Alternately, the rosary may be prayed in the church or at home. The 1990 worldwide rosary was offered at over 300 locations in some 12 nations. Information on planning a rosary is available from Rosary for Life, PO Box 40213, Memphis, Tenn., 38174. Material may be requested in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German or Polish. Donations welcome.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Second annual Catholic tent revival planned for Aug. 4 through 7, 7 p.m. nightly, rain or shine. Theme: The Lord; Giveth and the Lord Taketh: Blessed Be the Name of the Lord. Speakers, one nightly, will be Fathers Richard Delisle, Robert Kaszynski, and Andre Patenaude and Grace Markay. All welcome, regardless of faith.

Healing service 2 p.m. Sunday with Father Andre Patenaude, MS; twilight garden concerts series 7:30 p.m. July 27 with Carol VanErven.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Calix meeting 6:30 p.m. Sunday, center. CoDA group, a 12-step program, meets 10:30 a.m. each Tuesday, center.

ST. ELIZABETH SETON, N. FALMOUTH Ch/!-rismatic prayer group meets 7:30 p.m. each Thursday, church.

Medical appointment saves nun from assassin homes, making sick VISits and Communion calls. But "she was happiest, ] think, with the children," Sister Stevenson recalled.

She said Sister McCormack had built up a store of textbooks and school supplies for the children of the town and had organized games for them. The games were "a form of recreation for children who have nothing to play with."

The two nuns distributed food - which came primarily from the United States but was managed by the diocese through Caritas Peru - through 34 mothers' clubs in the parish.

"The Mothers' Club entails certain conditions," Sister Stevenson said, explaining that "Caritas Peru was not just a hand-out for food, but an incentive to community action."

Among the things that were developed through the clubs were literacy programs and agricultural promoters, who talked to the people about new gardening techniques. And they were trying to move the women into' growing vegetables and raising small animals.

"It didn't always reach the . poorest, but it reached the people who were willing to do something in return," she told The Catholic Voice. "And it wasn't a perfect system, but it allo,wed us to determine who would get the aid."