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Mass. court to test if unwed couple can be denied apartment BOSTON (CNS) -- A closely divided Massachusetts Supr1eme Judicial Court has ordered a lower court to try a case that pits the state's interest in preventing housing discrimination against the religious convictions of three Catholic landlords.

In its July 14 decision the higher court vacated an earlier summary judgment in favor of a Catholic family in Montague that refused to rent an apartment to an unmarried couple. It sent the case back to Franklin County Superior Court for full trial. The landlords are Louise Desilets, her husband, Paul, and his brother Ronald. ' Only four of the state supreme court's seven judges favored remanding the case fortrial. The other three strongly opposed it.

Jay Sekulow, chief counsel ofthe American Center for Law and Justice, a public interest firm which is handling the Desilets' defense, said the higher court's instructions to the lower court have set the stage for a decision that "will ultimately result in the protection of a person's deeply held religious beliefs."

"Quite frankly, the way the court addressed the issue, th,~ burden ofproof[on the plaintiff] is going to be so high that there is a good possibility the state will not pursue it," center spokesman Gene Kapp told Catholic News Service.

But c.J. Doyle of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights called the new ruling "a grollndless action by an unabashedly liberal court ... that places long-standing constitutional rights at the mercy of aggressive special interests, arbitrary bureaucracies and an activist judiciary."

The Catholic League was one of six religious organizations, including national Protestant agencies and the Massachusetts Catholic Conf'~l'ence, that joined in a friend-of-the-court brief urging the high

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The housing case had its beginnings in 1989 wh~n the Desilets refused to lease one offour units in a house they owned to Cynthia Tarail and Mark Lattanzi because the couple was unmarried. The landlords said it would violate their religious convictions as Catholics to let their property be used to enable an unwed couple to cohabit.

In 1990 the Massachusetts attorney general's office filed suit on behalf of the state's Commission Against Discrimination, saying the Desilets had violated the state's law against discrimination in housing.

In a summary judgment in December 1992 Superior Court Judge George C. Keady Jr. dismissed the case on constitutional grounds, saying the Desiletses' right to act on their religious convictions outweighed the rental applicants' claim of discrimination.

The state appealed the ruling, leading to the high court's July 14 decision.

In its ruling the high court said that the state's "general objective of eliminating discrimination of all kinds referred to [in the law] ... cannot alone provide a compellingstate interest that justifies the application of that section in disregard of the def~ndants' right of free exercise of their religion."

The fourt said it recognizes that the "marital status" clause in the anti-discrimination law "substantially burdens the free exercise of religion by a landlord who does not believe in leasing premises to unmarried cohabitants."

"The commonwealth has the task of establishing that it has a compelling interest in eliminating housing discrimination against cohabiting couples that is strong enough to justify the burden placed on the de.fendants' exercise of their religion," it l:1 said. lJ

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"A ti'me when a line must be drawn in the sand" WASHINGTON (CNS) "There'comes a time when a line must be drawn in the sand," declared Archbishop Francis T. Hurley of Anchorage, Alaska.

He was commenting on a July 13 letter from Baltimore Archbishop William H. Keeler, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops', Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, chairman of the bishops' pro-life committee; and Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop John H. Ricard, chairman of the bishops' domestic policy committee.

Addressed to House Speaker Thomas S. Foley, the letter vowed the unalterable opposition of the U.S. bishops to any health care plan requiring abortion coverage.

When the prelates threw down their gauntlet, the reaction was

predictable. Within hours, over 65 members of Congress responded that they would be equally likely to dig in their heels against any legislation that did not include abortion and contraceptive services in its mandated benefits package.

House Democr!ltic Whip David E. Bonior, a Catholic from Michigan, predicted that 35 to 40 House Democrats would heed the bishops' call to oppose any health care measures that include abortion coverage. He is reportedly working on a proposal that would include universal coverage and give employees a choice on whether their health plans should cover abortion, a plan that might satisfy no one.

White House health care spokeswoman Lorrie McHugh said the

Clinton administration "will fight for" inclusion of abortion coverage, but said that the decision is ultimately up to Congress.

The bishops - who have often outlined their criteria for health care reform but have never backed a specific piece of legislation on the topic - were firm in their call to Congress.

"Now is the time for congres~ sionalleadership to rise above partisan and special-interest pressures and to bring to the floor comprehensive health care reform that will assure decent coverage for all and will not force Americans to participate in the destruction of unborn children," said their letter to Foley.

"There is much talk of compromise these days," added the letter, [butj"we write to sayas clearly

as we can that compromise must not come at the expense of the unborn, the unserved, the undocumented and the uninsured."

Bishop Ricard said none of the four major bills now before Congress meets the bishops' requirements on universal coverage or the exclusion of abortion.

Criticizing the current health system "that serves too few and costs too much," Bishop Ricard urged members of Congress "not to cave in to the powerful economic interests on universal coverage or to the abortion lobby on abortion coverage."

"We cannot compromise on'this," said Bishop James T, McHugh of Camden, N.J., a member of the bishops' pro-life committee... Abortion must be excluded," But equally aggressive statements

were coming from those on the other side of the abortion question.

"We feel compelled to convey to you our strong commitment that any health care reform package that comes before the House must contain coverage for contraceptive and abortion services ifit is to gain our support," said a letter to Foley from 68. H~use members.

"That is not negotiable, it is not discussable, it is not compromisable," said one of the signers, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. "We're saying there's a hard line here.

There will not be a health care bill without abortion coverage, period."

"Some of my colleagues threaten a fight if abortion remains in a final health care plan," said Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Ore. "I guaratee a fight if it is taken out," Turn to Page 13

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DEBORAH Dinkel, right, helps a Croatian student with an English lesson. (CNS photo)

Student says God led her to Bosnia VICTORIA, Kan. (CNS) ~ Deborah Dinkel, who postponed her college studies for a year in favor of international relief work, credits God, not personal heroism, with leading her to war-torn Bosnia.

It's "no big deal," said Ms. Dinkel, a 21-year-old University of . Notre Dame student from Victoria.

'Tmno hero. I'm only doing what God gave me the grace to do."

Serving with the St. David's Relief Foundation, of Garland, Texas, she went to Bosnia last October and began driving a convoy truck, delivering supplies, and teaching English to Croatian students in Mostar.

In the classroom, while she provided instruction, her students taught lessons in living with trauma.

When she invited them to write essays on a selected topic, with more than 40 categories to choose from, "I got so many essays back on war."

"My town is destroyed," wrote Klaudia Marie, 18. "But the most frightening thing is that my friends, young men, are just disappearing from the face of the earth. My friend Zeliko was murdered in Podvelezje. He was brought home without eyes, ears.... It was horrible."

Ms. Dinkel said she doubts she can fully understand what her ~tu­ dents are experiencing. "I can hop on the next plane and get out '" if I need to, ifl want to," she said in an interview. "But to the students, this is their home, and they fecI a great responsibility to their ancestors and generatio·ns to come to fight for the freedom of'their people..

"It bothers me sometimes when people say this is a Third World area," she said. "There is very deep culture here, and so much substance. Perhaps 'Old World' might be a better term." .

Ms. Dinkel acknowledged that her job is physically and mentally taxing. . "There are land mines, snipers, and bandits. We are especially concerned when driving convoys through wooded ards. So far, none of the relief workers have been hurt, but'there is.always that possi bility."

Nonetheless, "In serving others, I get so much more back than I give," she said.

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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Hispanic presence in Christian ~hurches is "a sleeping giant, and It'S growing," said a Pentecostal preacher speaking at a national bilingual conference on evangelism and Hispanic ministry.

"I believe it's going to be here for a long t}me," said Samuel Solivan, a Pentecostal preacher from Andover-Newton Theological Seminary in Boston.

"And I have to say it's here in many ways - not only in its Pentecostal expression, but it's here also in the Roman Catholic Church in its charismatic presence."

Part of the attraction of evangelical and Pentecostal churches is they can put up a church on any street corner almost overnight, M r.

Solivan said at the recent conference at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

THE APPEAL of fundamentalist sects has caused a "We are self~supporting, selfsubstantial exodus of Hispanics from the Catholic Church. propagating and self-governing," Mr. Solivan said. "So if a program '(CNS photo) is going to be carried out, the peomons or Jehovah Witnesses are ple in the local church pay for it. Church was "invifation': - by doing," Father Deck said·. "It's And if there's no money, you don't other churches, Sister King said.

More than half who left simply what we as Catholics aren't doing. doic" "We are not empowering enough , Also, he noted, what binds His- were invited to join another church people to attend to the huge panics together, whether they are d~nomination.

But numbers are less important numbers of Hispanic Catholics that Catholic, Pentecostal or evangeliwe have. We don't have anywhere cal, is their common "journey of when it comes to one's faith life, near the number of ministers that suffering" as well as their language she said.

"Isn't it serious if even one per- would be able to reach out to this and culture. ..

The Rev. Michael Mata of the son is not at home in his church community in a more personal Claremont School of Theology, a and leaves?" Siste; King asked. and engaging way than just the parish ·priest can," Father Deck third-generation member of the First "Isn't that a serious problem?"

Hispanics continue to leave the said.

Church of the Nazarene in Los Encouraging Hispanic men to Angeles, said the emotionally Catholic Church because it's "not charged testimonials he heard geared up" to respond to their become priests is only part of the growing up as a child continue to needs, said Jesuit Father Allan answer, he maintained. He said he attract new Hispanic immigrants Figueroa Deck, who coordinated would like to see smaller parishes the program at Loyola Marymoun1. that can respond better to the today.

"It's not what the Pentecostals social and spiritual needs of "There were radical value changes. A man who was a drunk no or the evangelicals or the Mor- Hispanics.

He also sees the need for Hislonger was drinking. We were panics to become more responsiamazed at the miraculous changes ble for their church, adding that when you witnessed to the spirit of the Hispanic populatiqn is youthGod," he said. ful while the Anglo-American Immaculate Heart of Mary SisCatholic population is aging.

VATICAN CITY(CNS)- Four ter Eleace King said that when she "The sooner we begin to chalinvestigated why Hispanics were Greek vases dating from the fourth lenge the Hispanics to assume finanleaving the Catholic Church, she and fifth centuries before Christ found signs of proselytism or have been stolen from the Vatican cial responsibility for the church, the quicker we will move to-the coercion in eac;h of 10 archdio- museums.

The theft of the rare vases, worth next phase in the history of the ceses and dioceses she examined.

The U.S. bishops commissioned millions of dollars, was discovered church here," Father Deck said.

If the churcJ1 is going to be in early June, a Vatican statement the study in the late 1980s.

But "the biggest problem is our said, reporting that they were taken "vibrant" into the next millennium failure to evangelize in the cultural from a locked display case in a "we have to get with it," he added: idiom of the people," said Sister section of the Gregorian Etruscan Museum closed to the public.

King, of the Center for Applied While the Vatican would say Research in the Apostolate in Washington. "We need to bridge that only that an investigation was HOll YWOOD (CNS) - Cov" underway, Italian newspapers re.- enant House, with a new 48-bed gap. We need to provide decor the statues, the, kinds of decor- ported that some 350 Vatican facility. has become Hollywood's ations." museum employees had been· or largest shelter.

"Whatever the devotions are, would be questioned. The glass The new youth-shelter was they need to be indigenous to the and the lock on the cas~ apparopened· with a blessing and dedicapeople. They can't be this generic ently showed no signs of tampertion by los Angeles Cardinal Roger 13-year-old statue of Mary that .ing, leading investigators to believe M. Mahony. . doesn't mean anything to any- the thief had access to the key.

Since the New York-based agenbody," Sister King said.

An Italian archeological theft cy came to los Angeles in 1988, it The reason people gave most expert told the Italian newspaper has provided emergency food and often for leaving the Catholic La Repubblica that scholarly arti- shelter, medical care at a clinic, a cles and photographs of the vases· van. outreach program, case man111111111111111111111111111111111111.111111111111111111111111111111111111 in Italian. textbooks and other agement, psychological help, emTHE ANCHOR (USPS-545-020). Second publications would make it more ployment skills, legal assistance Class Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass. difficult for the thief or thieves to and education about HIV the Published weekly except the week of July 4 and the week after Christmas at 887 Highsell them. virus that causes AIDS. . ' land Avenue, Fall River, Mass. 02720 by The Vatican described the missFred Ali. executive director of the Catholic Press of the Diocese of' Fall ingpieces as two decorated jugs Covenant House of California. said River. Subscription price by mail, postpaid anda decorated cup from the fifth that "rather than simply renovat$11.00 per year. Postmasters send address century B.c. and a decorated cup ing an existing building. we dechanges to The Anchor. P.O. Box 7, Fall River. MA 02722. from the fourth century B.c. signed our new shelter with the

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A rumor that Pope John Paul II is suffering from bone cancer has been denied by the Vaticar.\, by the pope's orthopedic surgeon and by the cardinal who originally repeated the rumor to a Brazilian radio station.

Msgr. Piero Pennacchini, vice director of the Vatican pres:; office, said the rumor is "absolutelv false."

Dr. Gianfranco Fines~hi, the orthopedic surgeon who o')erated on the pope in late April, ;:aid the rumor was "scientifically a·bsurd."

And Brazilian Cardinal Aloisio Lorscheider of Fortaleza, who told a local radio station that the rumors were circulating in Rome, later issued a statement saying that if his statement left the impression that the rumors were ba:;ed on fapt, "I want everyone to know that does not correspond to the truth."

"I want to clarify that the Holy Father does not suffer from any type of bone tumor," he said in a statement released late J'uly 12 after news agencies around the world published stories based on an interview he gave July II to a Brazilian radio station.

"What we heard in Rome was that he has what people call a cancer in the bones," Cardinal lorscheider said in the radio interview. He had been in Roml: for a mid-June meeting of the \llorld's cardinals.

The Brazilian cardinal had asked the radio station's listeners to pray for the pope.

Fineschi, who operated on the pope's broken thigh b~ne April 29, Issued a stat~ment whIch wa:; published on the front page of the Catholic newspaper Avvenire July 13. .

It had been rumored that the pope broke his leg getting out of the bathtub April28 because bone cancer had made his bones brittle.

Fineschi said the pope's operation, in which part of the broken bone was replaced with a prnsthesis, "would not have been pOi:sible to carry out if it would have meant setting it in a pathological hone; nor could the patient have been rehabilitated with the method used, because it presumes the certainty of a bone structure free from disease."

If the pope were to exper:.ence any pain or difficulty in walking, the doctor said, it would bl: the result of a mechanical problem with the. prosthesis, not bone cancer, which would have been evident during the operation.

Hollywood Covenant House enlarges needs of homeless and runaway youths in mind."

In his four years with Covenant House, Ali said runaways' nc:eds "have never been greater." e:ipecially for those ages 18-20. Of an estimated 10,000 homeless ado lescents in los Angeles. 4,000 wind up in Hollywood.

The n~w shelter will serve them with emergency assistance and a transitional living program Ali calls the "most serious unmet need" in los Angeles County.

"People, unfortunately, are beginning to see homelessness in America as almost an unsolvable intractable problem," he said: "And, as a result, I do'n't th.ink people are as sympathetic as they once were."

Dominican foundres:s to be beatified Sister Joanna Fernandes, provincial superior of the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation, has announced that the congregation's foundress, Marie Poussepin, will be beatified on Nov. 20 by Pope John Paul II at St. Petl~r's Basilica in Rome.

I n the Fall River diocese, the sisters maintain their provincial headquarters in Dighton and administer Saint Anne's Hospital, Fall River, and Marian Manor, Taunton, in addition operating Marie's Place also in Fall River, a store that distributes clothing to the needy at little or no cost.

Marie Poussepin was born Oct. 14,1653, in Dourdan, France, toa family whose work was the weaving of silk stockings. !Her mother, a member of a Confraternity of Charity, habitually took little Marie on visits to homes of the sick poor in Dourdan and when Marie became older she served as treasurer and president of the confraternity.

After her father di(:d, she took over operation of the family business, expanding it and switching to the manufacture of woolen stockings. Her management practices were revolutionary for her time. She did not charge her employees the customary "apprentice fee" and they shared in profits.

Her personal industrial revolution brought economic growth to Dourdan and this is memorialized by a plaque on the home where she was born. "In subBtituting the knitting trade for handwork, she trimsformed the life of the Dourdanaise of the 17th century," it reads in part.

For several years, while conducting her business, Marie Poussepin also continued her works of

Vatican, I~ussia almost there says official MOSCOW (CNS) - Lack of full diplomatic relations between the Russian Federation and the Vatican is merely a "formal nuance," a Foreign Ministry official in Moscow said.

Vladimir Yefimov told Catholic News Service that the working relations currently existing between the two sides "are practically equivalent to full relations."

Yefimov, deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry'S First European Department; stressed that the Russian Federation has an accredited repres~ntative at the Vatican, which in turn has its representative, Archbishop Francesco Colasuonno, in Moscow.

Although he pledged that Rus:sia wouldtproceed to full relations, he declined to say when this would occur. , "They will be established when this will not cause problems," he said. "We must take into account three factors. There are interila" tiona I affairs, and in this area we have good workinl~ relations."

The other two factors involve Catholic relations with the Russian Orthodox Church and the Vatican as a confes!lion represented in Russia.

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She then answered the call to consecrate herself entirely to God and service of others, founding a community ofThird Order Domi'1icans dedicated to instructing young girls and caring for the sick poor.

She attracted many candidates and soon was able to sene;! her sisters to many parts of France to continue the work of education and care of the poor.

Marie Poussepin's special devotion to the Presentation of Mary in the Temple led to the naming of her community the Dominicans of the Presentation. She continued her ministry until her death on Jan. 24, 1744. At that time her community numbered about 100 sisters in six French dioceses.

Today the Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin number over 3,500 members serving in 33 countries on four continents.

"May her life and example challenge all of us to respond to the Gospel call of love and service," said Sister Joanna.

Book helps screen seminarians WASHINGTON (CNS) - The National Catholic Educational Association has published a book designed to help Catholic seminaries screen and evaluate candidates for the priesthood.

"Psychology, Counseling and the Seminarian" includes II essays by experts in the fields of psychology, psychotherapy, counseling, spiritual direction, testing, canon and

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7:45 p.m. - Candlelight Rosary Procession

Sunday, July 24, TICKET ClIAIRMEN for their respective districts fQr the annual Evening on Cape Cod with Bishop O'Malley are, from left, Betty Mazzucchelli, Cape & Islands: Judy Pelletier, Fall River; Katherine Lancisi, Attleboro; Theresa Lewis, New Bedford; Lillian Plouffe, Taunton. With them is Rev. Edward G. Duffy, evening co-chair and moderator for the Cape and Islands district of t.he sponsoring organization, the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. The silmmer event 'will take place 7 to 9:30 p.m. Aug. 9 atthe Cape CodderHotel on Route 132, Hyannis. (Lavoie photo)

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Masses at 8 and 10 a.m., noon, and 6:30 p.m. Solemn Exposition of the , Blessed Sacrament after the Noon Mass. 2 p.m. Healing Service including the Sacrament of the Sick. Followed by Ii Procession with the Bl,essed Sacrament and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

Tuesday, July 26, 1994 The Feast of St. Anne Grandparents' Day Masses in the upper church at 8 and 10 a.m., noon, and 6:30 p.m.

Devotions in the Shrine at 3 p.m. After the 6:30 p.m. Mass - Devotions and Procession with the Statue of St. Anne.

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A Cosmic Lesson A quarter of a century seems a long time ago, but as we earthlings recall the dramatic lunar landing on July 20, 1969, we are still awestruck. Few space exploits have matched the excitement of that moment when a man first walked on the moon.

This week, however, nature is presenting us with a very important anniversary reminder. The awesome energy unleashed by the fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting on Jupiter tells us that we are not in control, that there are forces in this universe far beyond our mastery.

After our early triumphs in space, we developed a sense that with the aid of computers we would be able to dominate not only Earth but the other planets and heavenly bodies. In many ways we began to feel we had godlike abilities. Then came the Challenger disaster, an awesome awakening for those who had never dreamed that such a horror could befall the space program. It was a sobering lesson indeed for those who had pinned their faith on computer technology.

Now, as we continue to rethink our priorities, we must learn another lesson. We are not lords bfthe universe; in fact, we are mere spectators at the drama of space, as this week's events on the planet Jupiter have proved. , Indeed, although the Jupiter impacts are not even mentioned in the 1994 Celestial Events Calendar of the World Almanac, they have proved mind-boggling, with the energy released by Fragment G alone calculated by some scientists at 6 million megatons. By contrast, the atomic bomb exploded at Hiroshima during World War II had an energy of only 15 kilotons.

Other manifestations are equally stupendous: fireballs hotter than the sun, gaseous mushroom clouds thousands of miles wide, chasms the size of some of our states~all have left us awestruck. This has been the first time dwell~h on Earth have seen and recorded a comet hitting a planet and scientists are as flabbergasted as laypersons at what they are viewing and recording. ' All are wondering what would happen if Earth were the target of such a bombardment and the conclusion is that it is doubtful that humanity would survive. With even smaller fragments of Shoemaker··Levy causing explosions of millions of megatons, and the largest fragment still to come at this writing, its effect is beyond imagining. In fact, questions have' been raised concerning possible effects on Earth. Will the gaseous clouds cause climatic changes here? The jury is out: some experts say Jupiter is too far distant to affect us; others say they simply do not know.

What this cosmic happening should do for us is to help us realize our humble place in the universe; but, sad to say, most people are unlikely to draw this lesson from the events of this week. Many may simply change their TV channel to a "better" show, while many more will undoubtedly continue to violate and abuse our own' frail planet.

But the Jupiter event should be a warning and should remind us that we don't own Earth and its atmosphere; we are merely stewards of the Creator's gift. Our guardianship ofthis trust will be the measure of our bequest to generations to come.

JULY 20,1969, WAS A FESTIVAL DAY FOR EARTH AS MAN TOOK HIS FIRST STEPS ON THE MOON

"From the moon is the sign of the festival day." Eccu. 43:7

Footsteps on mO,on or:towards heaven?

By Father Kevin J. Harrington

This past week the cosmos has seemingly provided us with a celebration of the 25th anniversary of our moon landing by way of the crashing of 20 pieces, each two or three miles long, of the periodic comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 into Jupiter, a planet 300 times the mass of Earth.

'Separated from the event by haIfa billion miles of space, we did not hear the loudest noise of our solar system, except for the constant silent (to us) roaring of the sun. Without the diligent efforts of scientists aided by the fruits of technology, these mighty cosmic cr~shes might have gone unnoticed, like the proverbial tree that falls in the forest with no one to hear the sound.

It never ceases to amaze me that some scientists can view the vastness of our universe and fail to see the marvelous hand of God at The Editor work. It brings new meaning to Jesus' question, "Have you eyes but no sight, ears but no hearing?"

There is a magnificent story that illustrates this point. In the late 19th century, the first two men to ascend majestic Mount Rai'nier in the Pacific Northwest engaged an Indian from a local tribe as their OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER guide. When he reached a certain Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River point in the ascent he refused to 887 Highland Avenue P.O: BOX 7 climb any farther, not because of Fall River, MA 02720 Fall River, MA 02722-0007 lack of bravery but because of reverence born of a belief that the Telephone 508-675-7151 , mountain was sacred, with a lake FAX (508) 675-7048 of fire at its top.

Send address changes to P.O. Box 7 or call telephone number above Our astronaut's landing on the moon exhibits bravery but at the same time celebrates, in my opinEDITOR GENERAL MANAGER ion, an unholy exercise of hubris.

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process God seems less and less impressive.

When Samuel EB. Morse invented the telegraph more than 150 years ago, the first words he sent by wire were "What hath God wrought!"

When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon, his first words were "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong was right in deflecting the praise for his achievement from himself to others but he was wrong, however politically correct, in not letting God receive any of the credit!

Ultimately, we intuitively sense that as marvelous as our manmade achievements are, they cannot lift us beyond ourselves. Dur~ ing the Middle Ages, newfound technologies were used to cultivate feelings of reverence and awe in

praye~BOX Before Communion Hail, saving victim, offered for me and for all mankind upon the cross. Hail, precious blood, flowing from the wounds of our crucified Lord Jesus Christ and washing away the sins ofthe whole world. Be mindful, Lord, ofyour creature, wh,om you have redeemed by you" precious blood.

Amen.

people. Consider the cathedrals that incorporated all then known about science and mathematics..

Their stones even to this day bear soaring witness to the gll)ry of God. Todl!y's cathedrals are skyscrapers and malls that give the message in steel and glass that your v,ilue is only calculated by your worth in dollars and cents. Such quantification is convenient for processing information through computers that extract the very soul from the individual. More lives have been sacrificed in such temples to a mercantile god than on the altars of the gods of the days ofyol'e and gore!

Unfortunately, many ml)dern church buildings are devoid .;>f the 'architectural characteristics that inspire awe and reverence. As our homes have become more palatial, our churches have become plainer and plainer. But we should remark that architecture expresses a people's moral philosophy in such a way· as to freeze its value, for generations to come to study at their convenience.

It is hard Ito imagine that our own age wilI one day be c,)nsidered worthy of a floor or even a room of a museum. The stori(:s we tell about ourselves will be judged in the harsh light of history ang we may not be as enlightened a, we imagine ourselves.

'As science climbs higher and higher on ladders of abstraction and mathematical Towers of Babel, we will eventually hit a ceiling. The crucial question is whether all our knowledge will make us any happier, wiser or better. The anSwt:r to this question does not inv,)lve making a footprint on the moon but taking a step towards heaven!

Where are the bells at consecration?

Q. At the consecration 9f the Mass the bread and wine are transformed into the body a,nd blood of Jesus Christ.

But we no longer have bells at this sacred moment. Many people, including ~yself, pay little attention to what is happerlling without the bells. Why is therl~ such widespread ignoring ofthi:'llaw? (California) A. First, there is no law or liturgical directive that requires bells to be rung during Mass, In fact, no such laws have existed for at least several hundred years, if they ever did.

My mail still brings occasional qustions such as yours, so it may be worth repeating some background, not simply out of curiosity, but to understand better what is happening during the Eucharistic Prayer and everyone's part in it.

As is usualJy true with folk customs, reasons for changes are not easy to untangle.

Ringing belJs during Mass apparently began in monasteries during the Middle Ages. Only choir monks attended the morning community Mass. Others out in the field followed the Mass through the chapel bell.

One major event which resulted in an increased use of hells was the introduction around the year 1200 of the elevation of the host and chalice after the cons.ecration.

These elevations came to be seen, even into our own century, as the main part of the Mass.

At one point it became a mark of Catholic piety in some plaoes to move from church to church just to watch the elevation, when bells rang to announce "Jesus is now here," and alJ present could look at him.

In 1972, the Vatican congregation responsible for liturgy related the use of bells to thl: level ofliturgical education in a parish.

Wh6re this education has been adequate, it noted, this kind of signal is not needed. Where sufficient liturgical instruction is lacking, bells could be rung at least at

Daily Readings July 25: 2 Cor 4:7-15; Ps 126:1-6; Mt 20:20-28 July 26: Jer 14:17-22; Ps 79:8-9,11,13; Mt 13:36-43 or Sir44:1,10-15; Ps 132:11,1314,17-18; Mt 13:16-17 July 27: Jer 15:10,16-21; Ps 59:2-4,10-11,17-18; Mt 13:44-46 or any Mass at option of celebnmt July 28: Jer 18:1-6; Ps 146:1-6; Mt 13:47-53 or any Mass at option of celebrant .

July 29: Jer 26:1-9; Ps 69:5,8-10,14; In 11:19-27 or luke 10:38-42 July 30: Jer 26:11-16,24; Ps 69:15-16,20-21,33-34; Mt 14:1-12 orany Mass at option of celebrant July 31: Ex 16:2-4,12-15; Ps 78:3-4,23 .. 25,54; Eph 4:17,20-24; Jn '6:24-35

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By FATHER ~OHN DIETZEN the two elevations to elicit joy and attention (N otitiae 1972, 343).

As I indicated, one reason for bells in days when people were primarily passive at Mass was to express joy and praise over the Lord's presence. Those present were to listen and be reverently silent. .

At least two factors contribute to the change we're experiencing.

Similar to believers in the earliest Christian centuries, we have a deeper awareness than the people described above that while Jesus does become present in a new way in the Eucharist, he does not come fresh, as it were.

As has been taught repeatedly, from the days of the fathers of the church to Vatican II, when we gather to celebrate the Eucharist we are already the body of Christ before he becomes present to us as our food and drink, and as our sacrifice to the Father.

Also, we now express that joy over the Lord's gifts', including his eucharistic presence, with our own voices, especialJy in the acclamation after the consecration and in the Great Amen concluding the Eucharistic Prayer.

As in various other liturgical actions, the people at Mass now do themselves what they formerly only watched, or listened to, someone else do.

FinalJy, the gradual decline in the use of bells is curious in one way. Instructions for Mass as instituted by Pope ~ius V in July 1570 (the "Tridentipe Mass"), and revised by later popes, did not even mention bells, On the other hand, instructions, since 1970, have said bells may be used at certain pa~ts of the Mass.

Yet they are now heard less and less. The facts I h~ve pointed out probably explain why.

Prayers asked for peace in Haiti DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (CNS) - Food for the Poor, Florida-based relief organization has asked U.S. churches and religious leaders to take part in an international day of prayer for Haiti on July 31.

"We want to add our voice to the poor's cries for peace and an end to their suffeFing," said Food for the Poor founder Ferdinand Mahfood. His organization has been supplying food and medical assistance to Hait,i for 12 years.

Food for the PQor plans to send thousands of individual letters requesting prayers to U.S. churches and is offering further information about Haiti and the prayer day through a toll-free telephone number, (800) 282-POOR.

around the real lives of people," he said, but the reality is that many churches still operate under the assumption that families should change their lifestyles and schedules in order to participate in parish programs.

Too often, he added, programs "require parishioners to come to the church to receive the benefits.

When no one shows up, we become frustrated because things aren't happening" and organize more programs, he said.

DES MOINES, Iowa (CNS)There's an African proverb: "It takes a whole village to raise a child." If John Roberto had his way, that proverb would be etched into the mind of every American Catholic.

Roberto, cofounder and direc"We need to turn the formula tor of the Centerfor Youth Minisaround and transfer what we're try Development in Naugatuck, working overtime to do in the parCT, recently addressed clergy and ish, to the home." laypeople from Iowa, Missouri and Kansas.

He emphasized a parish responH is first presentation, .. Resibility to provide families with inventing Parish Youth Ministry," religious ed ucation materials for suggested a more holistic, comuse at home. Sometimes, he said, munity-based approach than usureligious education directors comally used. A second program, on "Adolescents and Today's Family," included practical approaches for working with parents of adoWASHINGTON (CNS) - The, lescents and implementing family third printing oCthe "Catechism of perspectives with youth ministry. the Catholic Church" - which He said there has been much was bigger than the first printing growth in youth ministry over the - will boost copies in circulation last 20 years following release of to nearly 1.58 million by the time the U.S. Catholic bishops' docu- the books roll off the presses in ment, "A Vision of Youth Minis- late August. try."

The third printing, 646,000 "We've been reshaping youth copies, was ordered July 8, adding ministry by focusing almost solely to the first printing of 566,250 and on young people," said Roberto, , the second printing of 375,320. "[but] we're now trying to broaden At least three more printings our focus beyond the young per- will be ordered before the year is son to include an emphasis on his out, said Daniel Juday, director of or her family." the U.S. Catholic Conference Office Roberto has been involved in of Publishing and Promotion Seryouth ministry since 1969. In that vices. time, he has seen increasing comThe USCC lined up 15 co-pubplexity and often a great lack of lishers of the English-language time in the lives of most families. version of the catechism to meet To accommodate such lifestyles, the expected demand. That dehe advocates flexibility in parish mand, Juday said, has gone well programming. "The effective par- beyond expectations.. ishes of today are those that tailor "From what I've heard from the their programs and schedules co-publishers, sales are very high

plain that they hold programs, yet are serving only a small audience.

"But is the goal participation in the program, or to help families grow and develop?" he asked. "We are so quick to blame children and families, and so slow to take the log out of our own eyes and look critically at how we minister to families."

He recommended intergenerational initiatives, which, he said, help build a sense of belonging and loyalty among youth. "There has been a tendency in some parishes to regard kids as a problem to be solved, rather than a rich resource to be utilized," he said.

But Roberto is hopeful. "We are not starting from a deficit. We're operating from a position of strength. And I'm convinced that it's never been more important to invest in youth and families."

Catechism goes into 3rd printing in their traditional ways of distribution - direct-mail sales, the catalogs," he said, "and through religious and commercial bookstores."

Paperback versions have been printd at a 3-to-1 ratio to the hardcover version, Juday said.

The paperback catechism made its first dent on USA Today's bestseller list July 7, zooming from 232nd to 40th place.

USA Today says it ranks all books - regardless of hardcover or paperback, fiction, nonfiction and how-to - by sales at 3,000 "large-volume, diverse-content" bookstores nationwide.

In the July II issue of Publishers Weekly magazine, the catechism placed first among all religion trade paperbacks and third among all hardcover books. "Trade paperback" describes nonfiction and technical material in a paperback format.

With day surg~I}T, you can be home in time for dinner: It seems like a lot of things happen a lot more quickly these days.

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It can seem to anyone taking sional counselor in the field of care of an aging parent that no one aging. This person will not tell you else understands what you are go- what to do or supply "the answer." ing through. And, to a certain Rather, a counselor is there tohelp extent, you a~e right. you find the most workable soluNo one else has the same Gom- tion and how to identify and underbination of illness or disability, stand your feelings.

A second option is a professionages, living situation, history, strengths and weaknesses as you ally run support group. This is a and your parent. There are infinite good p~ace to "dump" your feelings without listeners jumping in variables. with solutions or .judgments.

No wonder it's easy to assume that no one else can really under- Sometimes it's. easier to unload when surrounded by concerned stand or really help you. But forstrangers rather th110 family and . tunately, that isn't true. . friends. . Whatever your specific situation, Such a group also' offers a feelthere is a basic human need to talk ing of support because of the sharabout what is happening to you: to ing that takes place. You can learn. tell someone about your questions, from other people's experiences, your concerns and your fears; to but if you find yourself taking on give words to your confusing and the problems of others, this "Inay overwhelming emotions. not be a good choice for you.

The temptation is to' remain A third possibility is finding a silent:' to try to tough it out. But friend who will listen to you. This then that inner turmoil will only needs to be someone to ",hom you get worse. can say "I don't want· answers, The excuse can be "our family advice or solutions. 1just need to -, just doesn't do that" - as if-getting talk." help were a sign of weakness or an Some individuals, however well admission of failure. It isn't. It's intentioned, simply can't do that. the same as seeking medical atten- That doesn't mean an individual tion for a physical problem. If you isn't a good person or a good had appendicitis, would you simply friend, just not the right one for tough it out? this task.

A good way of telling if this is.

But where can you go? To whom the right person is the way you feel can you talk?

A first step is to get accurate, after you've talked. You shouldn't up-to-date information about feel worse. The point is to help you what's wrong with your parent. release some of your pent-up emoDoctors, nurses and social workers tions, not add to them.

The right friend is one who gives can give.you the facts along with suggestions about community re- a feeling of taking care of you. Of sources. This not only gives you - emotionally if not physically putting an arm around you and what you need to know but puts you in touch with others in similar letting you talk because t~at's what you really need to do if you are an circumstances. adult child concerned about an For some people the right aging parent. choice is to meet with a profes-

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By behind closed doors. Our family was not notified, no evidence was released and no information was ANTOINETTE given us about the motive.

It strikes me that a crime gets BOSCO , 1 mega-attention if a celebrity or a person of wealth or influence is • t ... ~ , .......... involved. But if the victims are nobodies, a crime can get shoved 'a campaign for a national holiday under the rug. honoring her son.

Getting word of the plea barSome laughed at her. The media gain was both a relief and a torment. At least there was closure to ignored her. I wrote he,r story the crime committed by an 18- because of one statement she made: year-old, the son of the couple "My son was killed-and t:~e earth from whom my son and his wife didn't shake."

Now I know what she meant. had bought their home in MonMeanwhile, I continue to pray tana just a few months earlier.

But the unanswered questions that I can take the terrible tragedy about John's and Nancy's deaths of the murders, and the ruined trouble me greatly. I will not even . lives, and create hope from the be able to get a court order letting rubble.

My children and I are one in our me see the evidence for months to sadness and determination to find come.

I remember once interviewing a forgiveness so that the harm ends Gold Star mother whose son was with the kilIings and does not killed in Vietnam. She used the bring any other kind of destrucgovernment insurance money for tion to other lives.

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Sorrows of survivors " With all the TV coverage of evidence in the O.J. Simpson case, it became a circus in which the two most forgotten people were the murder victims.

Simpson's guilt or innocence are not 11lY point today but the extensive, endless coverage of his case prompted some other thoughts for me as I looked again at a press release regarding the murders of. my son John' and his wife Nancy.

The release said that the suspect in ·their murders last August in their Montana home had pleaded guilty to two counts of deliberate homicide and one count of aggra-' vated burglary.

In exchange for the' guilty plea, he no longer faced the death penalty and would be sentenced to life in prison with no parole for 41 years..

I and my children had told the prosecutors we oppose the death . penalty, so I have no quarrel with the conditions of the plea bargain.

But what's hard to deal with is that the plea bargaining took place.

EVEN ST. ANTHONY, brought to a World Cup semifinal match by an Italian fan, couldn't stop Italy from losing the cup to Brazil. (CNS/ Reuters photo)

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Dear Dr. Kenny: We have a baby 4 months old who cries almost all the time. She keeps my husband and me awake at night, and she fusses a lot during the day.

I've tried everything. We have left her alone for 15-30 minutes at a time, hoping to teach her that crying wouldn't get her attention.

We've even spanked her but that make her cry harder.

When she wears down, she still continues a gasping, sobbing kind of cry. Should we put her. with a baby sitter? What should we do?

- Pennsylvania Nothing bothers a parent or any adult more thar. a crying baby.

Whenever we hear·an infant cry in church, every adult is restless until the baby is taken care of.

One would assume that things are' even harder on the baby. Crying is a distress call, an attempt to get adult attentiori so that baby's needs might be met. .You cannot spoil a child under 2. Infancy is the only time in a person's life when wants and needs are identical. What your baby wants is what she needs. ..

Her crying is a form of communication, designed by I}ature to get your attention. In infancy, wise parents give baby as much of their attention and love as possible.

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You can never go wrong by indulging your baby. Psychologist Dr.JAMES& Erik Erikson defined the major developmental task of infancy as MARY learning whether to trust or not trust the world.

KENNY The major correspondingjob of parents is to show' the baby that this world is an OK place, where i'lIness, you may want to consult needs are regularly, lovingly and . your physician. physically met. There is plenty of Is she lonesome? This is always time after age 2 to place demands a good guess. Babies (perhaps like and expectations on the child. all of us) crave human physical Stop all the things you wrote contact. Babies like and wa.nt and that you have tried. Don't leave a need to be held. baby alone to cry. Don't spank Hold her in your arms as much babies. And don't hire a baby sit- as you can. Sing lullabies and nonter unless you need to for your sense songs to her. Let her sleep own sake. with you in bed.

What are a baby's likely needs?

Most primitive societies literally Take inventory. Is she wet or wore their babies on their ba.:ks. A soi.led? Check her diaper, change it baby tote would free your nands if necessary and keep her bottom while allowing you to have your daughter physically 'close all the dry to prevent rawness.

Is she hungry? Your baby may time. She would experiencf: conbe on a different rhythm than you stant creature comfort. for meals. Adults have learned to Some babies cry more than otheat only three times a day, but ers. Take inventory ofthe possible reasons for complaint. The,n inbabies need to eat often.

Is she suffering tummy discom- dulge and hold your daugh·.:er as fort? Burp her by putting her on much as you are able. In infancy, your shoulder and patting her back indulgent love is the best am.wer. gently: Walk around with her.

Reader questions on fami:ly livIs she illfLook for signs such as ing and child care to be answer~d a fever (is she warm to the touch?), in print are invited. Addres!1 The a stuffy nose or droopy eyes. If you' Kennys, 219 W. Harrison, RE:nssedon't know how to handle a baby's laer, Ind. 47978.

"Build Your Lives on Christ'.' 1994 themle for Peter's Pence collection "No individual has done more to promote human freedom and political democracy in recent years than His Holiness Pope John Paul 11," said President Clinton in his message to the Holy Father on the 15th anniversary of his pontificate. "Through his work and that of the Vatican and the entire Church, the Holy Father more than any individual on earth has inspired the historic struggle for freedom we continue to witness throughout the world," the president said.

Pope John Paul II's efforts to promote freedom and democracy are recognized throughout the world. His unique mission receives support from the Peter's Pence Collection for his spiritual and charitable works, in which V.S. Catholics participate annually.

The theme for the 1994 Collection, "Build Your Lives On Christ," recalls the I-foly Father's challenge to young people and to the whole Church during his historic 1993 visit to World Youth Day in Denver. His founding of World Youth Day expresses his commitment to young people and his concern that they pillce their faith at the center of their lives.

For young people to flourish, the family must nurture and support them. In his World Peace Day statement, in this International Year of the Family, Pope John Paul II emphasized the relationship between the family and peace.

"Founded on love and open to the gift of life, the family contains in itself the very future of society; its most special task is to contribute effectively to a future of peace."

Recognizing the great pres~lUres and tensions that threaten many families, particularly in countries at war, he calls for structures to be set up to support families affected by devastating misfortunes. . The annual Collection for the Works of the Holy Father also enables him to extend the Church's care and concern in the international community by providing emergency relief to countries devastated by natrual disasters. The Vatican's diplomatic offices in 145 countries, including the V nited States, enable the pope to consult with world governments. offering clear moral leadership.

This annual appeal provide:; an opportunity for all Catholic!: to express their support for Pope John Paul II and to participate in his efforts.

Pope explains church stance on procreation

Dear Editor: Summer is here, but the hungry people are still in need. The Boy Scouts of Troop 24, St. Joseph's Church, New Bedford, taking their responsibilities seriously, canvassed the St. Joseph neighborhood for food for the needy.

Through the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the parish family. St. Joseph's continues to feed the hungry and thanks to Troop 24. the parish was able to fill its pantry.

Vincentians remind parishioners that one grocery item a week from each family will keep the pantry open.

Yvette Costa New Bedford

Mereys say "Merei" Dear Eclitor: On behalf of all the Sisters of Mercy. I wish to express the great pleasure and pride we felt on reading the lengthy article by Marcie Hickey on the celf:bration of our 150th anniversary in the United States.

Hav'ing spent 25 of my 54 years as a Sister of Mercy in the Fall River diocese. I took an added measure of pride in the coverage given to us in the Anchor.

God bless.

Sister Mary Consilii Reynolds Salve Regina University Newport. RI

July 23 1893. Rev. Patrick F. Doyle.

Founder. SS. Petf:r and Paul. Fall River 1938. Rev. George B. McNamee, Pastor. Holy :'lame. Fall River July 25 1913. Rev. Mi,:hael J. 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 July 27 1981. Rev. Damien Veary.

SS.CC., Former Pastor. St. Anthony, Mattapoisett July 29 1913. Rev. Mathias McCabe.

Pastor. Sacred Heart. Fall River

Dear Editor: Just had to say thank you for the wonderful coverage of 150 years of Mercy in the United States.

Ms. Hickey certainly caught the flavor of the day with her splendid pictures and article. Many thanks to the Anchor from the Sisters of Mercy.

Jean Cavanaugh Director of Communications Sisters of Mercy .

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CASTEL GANDOLFO. Italy (CNS) - The church is not telling couples to have as many children as physically possible in its stand against using artificial contraceptives. Pope John Paul II said.

The church teaches that it is sometimes "licit and could even be obligatory" no! to procreate. he said. but only by using natural methods - abstaining from intercourse during the woman's fertile period.

Recognizing God's design for 'human life' and God's pIii'n' for human sexuality forms the basis of church teaching on "responsible parenthood." he said July 17 dur'ing his midday Angelus talk at the papal summer residence south of Rome.

"U nfortunately on this point.

Catholic thought frequently is misunderstood. as if the church supported an ideology of fecundity at any cost, pushing couples to procreate without any discernment or planning." he said.

A careful reading of church pronouncements shows that is not true, the pope said.

"In generating life, spouses realize one of the highest dimensions of their vocation: They are God's collaborators." he said. " For this reason, they are obliged to have an extremely responsible attitude."

"I n the miracle of newborn human life, one recognizes something which goes beyond a pure biological fact." he said.

For Catholics that something more is the creative power of God with whom a husband and wife collaborate in bringing a new life into the world, he said.

Couples should take seriously the decision to have ,or not have a child at a certain time. and should avoid self-centeredness in their decision. hl: said.

Their choice must be made with "a prudent and informed generosity which evaluates possibilities and circumstances and which. above all. places the good of the newborn at the center." the pope said,

M agnificant tribute

Father Weithorn elected a definitor general

Dear Editor: For over three hours. my wife and I sat enthralled watching' the magnificent tribute given t9 the late hero Lt. Stephen Minihan. carried live on all three major Boston TV channel$. I request you publish the following in the Anchor: "We are neither Irish or Italian. black or white. male or female; we are all children of.God."-Bernard Cardinal Law. speaking at the funeral Mass for the late hero fireman.

Renato M. Ferraioli Sandwich

PITTSBURGH (CNS) - An American priest has been elected as one of eight definitor generals or councilors of his international order for a six-year term.

Father William J. Wiethorn. 53, provincial minister of the Capuchins' St. Augustine Province. to which Fall River Bishop Sean O'Malley belongs, was chosen by voting of the order's general chapter in Rome in late June. In his new post, Father Wiethorn will , represent the order's English-speaking Capuchins throughout the world.

He will be succeeded as head of the Pittsburgh-based St. Augustine Province by Father Philip Fink. vicar provincial.

Father Wiethorn. educated at St. Fidelis Seminary, Herman, Pa., and Capuchin College, in Washington. D.C.. was ordained in 1966.

In 1974, he became the superior and director of novices at the former St. Conrad Friary. Annapolis, Md. Three years later, he was elected a definitor for his province and became principal of St. Findelis Seminary High School.

Challenge in Rwanda WASHINGTON (CNS) - The numbers of destitute refugees in the southern Rwandan town of Gikongoro rival those in the Zairean border town of Goma. where world attention has focused. The whereabouts of only three of 20 Rwandans who worked for Catholic Relief Services prior to the war are known. The rest are missing. dead, or presumed dead.

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A WOMAN holds her child as they prepare to transfer from a small boat off the coast of Haiti to ~ U.S. Coast Guard cutter. Refugees from the turbulent country are being sent. at least temporarily. to safe havens. (CNS/ Reuters photo)

K of C tops old record NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CNS) - Knights of Columbus contributed more than $94 million and well over 43 million hours in service to church. community and youth programs in 1993.

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The total of service hours is the highest in the organization's 112year history and the total for charitable contributions is second only to a 1991 total of over $95 million.

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usee asks reversal of assisted suicide ruling WASHINGTON (CNS) -The who aids or causes someone else's U.S. Catholic Conference and state suicide - was unconstitutional.

"For the first time, a federal Catholic conferences on the West Coast have asked a federal appt:als court has ruled that a state lacks court to overturn an unprece- the power, once beyond question, .dented lower court ruling declar- to forbid others to assist a person ing that assisted suicide is a consti- in taking his or her own life," the USCC brief said. tutional right.

"In our view," it added, "the "The [lower court] decision sweeps away the most basic power decision of the District Court of government - to protect 'its seriously distorts Supreme Court citizens from harm.... This is a case precedent and ·lacks support in about deliberately and intention- law, public policy and morality."

The friend-of-the-court brief was ally making people die," the USCC said in a friend-of-the-court brief the first filed by the iJscc on the question of assisted suicide, an filed July II. . The newly alleged right to as- issue increasingly in the news besisted suicide contradicts U.S. Su- cause of growing effqrts by euthapreme Court precedents and nasia advocates to gain acceptance "would, if allowed to stand, repu- for the practice in law and public diate centuries of common law," it opinion.

Joining in the brief were the said. state' Catholic conferences of The brief was submitted to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals , Washington, Oregon and Califorin San Francisco. It joined the nia and the four chief bishops of state of Washington, the appellant those states - Cardinal Roger M. in the case, in seeking a reversan of Mahony of Los Angeles and Archa May 3 ruling by a U.S. District bishops Joh'n R. Quinn of San Court in Seattle declaring that the Francisco, Thomas J. Murphy of state's law against physician-as- Seattle, and William J. Levada of Portland, Ore. sisted suicide violated the U.S. The brief noted that in CaliforConstitution.

In that ruling U.S. DistrictJudge nia, Oregon and Washington euBarbara Rothstein cited precedents thanasia advocates have been dein U.S. Supreme Court abortion feated in recent years in their rulings to say that 14th Amend- efforts to get physician-assisted ment privacy rights bar the state suicide legalized through popular from intruding in "the most inti- referendum or the legislative promate and personal choice ... of a cess.

"This case is part of an effort to terminally ill person to end his or trump the public's expressed will .her life."

Such a person has a right to through the courts," it said.

It said the lower court erred in obtain medical assistance in carrying out such a decision, she said, so likening assisted suicide to perthe law - which imposed penal- sonal decisions of marriage and ties of up to five years in prison family life long supported in Amerand $10,000 in fines on anyone ican life and law. "One looks in

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RESPECT FOR LIFE MEANS LIFE AT EVERY AGE vain for a national tradition in support of either suicide or assisted suicide," it said.

According to the brief, the court also erred in raising such a decision to the level of constitutional protection on grounds that it is an "intimate and personal choice."

While courts have described some constitutionally protected choices as personal, it said, they have also upheld laws that prohibit a wide range of personal ch·oices. As examples the brief cited laws against selling one's body for prostitution, engaging in a duel, or using hallucinogenic drugs for recreation.

It questioned the court's "finding that someone attempting suicide, either in principle or in practice, ever acts 'knowingly and voluntarily.'" .On the contrary, it argued, "suicide, like selling oneself into slavery, is a renunciation of freedom

because it completely eliminates one's freedom to act."

The 34-page brief took issue with a number of other points in the May 3 ruling as well, among them the judge's view that there can be no constitutional distinction between assisted suicide and the refusal of medical treatment that could prolong life. It cited a number of U.S. court cases within the past 20 years which made such a distinction.

"Longstanding moral, legal, political and medical traditions recognize significant differences be~ tween allowing extraordinary medical treatment to be withdrawn or discontinued and obtaining assistance in comrnitting suicide," the brief said.

Authors of the brief were Mark E. Chopko, USCC general counsel, and Michael F. Moses, an attorney on the general counsel ~taff.

Directory lists 1993 U.S. Church stats WASHINGTON (CNS) - Con- last such increase was reported in verts to Catholicism in the United 1991.

States numbered more than 160,000 The number of students in Cathlast year, according to the 1994 olic elementary and high schools Official Catholic Directory. rose about 25,000 and the number The total number of Catholics in parish religious education pro.in the country rose to 59,858,042 grams went up about 32,000. Both by the start of 1994, about 640,000 figures continue a trend of slight - more than a year before. . yearly increases; beginning five Catholics continue to form about years ago in school enrollments 23 percent of the total U.S. popu- and seven years ago in religious . lation, making them the largest education enrollments. religious body in the country. . The 1994 directory, released in The number of priests declined mid-April, is the first to separate about 1.3 percent last year to into distinct categories infant bap50,229. Also dropping was the tisms, adult baptisms and receptotal number of seminarians, which tions into full communion with the went from 5,891 to 5,726. churCh. That move reflects the growing Religious brothers and sisters both reported slightly increased importance of the Rite of Chrisnumbers in 1993. tian Initiation of Adults in U.S. For sisters, it was a modest rise church life. It also provides for the of 409 - from 94,022 to 94,431 --' first time a: national statistical base but it represented the first reported that' will help church researchers increase since 1966, when the num- ~track the development ofthe RCIA bel' of nuns in the country hit an in coming years.. ' all-time high of 181,421.

In .1993 there were 1,036,049 Jeanne Hanline, managing edi- infant baptisms, 79,279 adult baptor of the directory, and St. Joseph tisms, and 84,072 receptions into Sister Janet Roesener, who was a full communion of baptized Chrisconsultant in the development of tians from another faith. data on women religious, cautiThe combined total of those oned that the reported increase figures was 1,199,400. That is 6,000 probably. refle~ted more c0":lplet~ more than the total "receptions into the church" in 1992 and nearly mformatlOn thIS year from slsteTlJ communities, rather than an actual 20,000 above the 1991 total. "Reincrease in members over the past ceptions into the church': is the year. category used in past years to Brothers rose from 6,260 ti) cover all baptisms, both infant and 6,510, a 4 percent increase. The adult, and receptions of already

baptized Christians from other faiths. .

The statistics in the directory are compiled from reports submitted by U.S. Catholic dioceses, religious orders and other institutions in early 1994. They reflect Catholic institutions, staffing and populations as of Jan. I, 1994, and the events - ordinations, baptisms, deaths, marriages and so forth that· took place during 1993.

Among data reported i':l the new· directory are: - Total number of priests is 50,229, down about 700 from last year and down more than 7,000 since 1984.

- Deacons now number 11,123, up 300 from last year a!ld up 3,400 since 1984. .

- The number of parishes in the country dropped by 76, to 19,787. Although 56 new parishes were formed in 1993, several large dioceses have been merging or consolidating neighboring urban parishes, causing a net loss in the total numbers.

- There were 609 'Catholic hospitals, down 15 from the previous year, but the number of patients treated last year.was almost 53.4 million, some.3 million more than the year before.

- Other Catholic health and social assistance institutions served about 22.5 million persons as. patients, clients or residents, up from 20.1 million the year before.

WILMINGTON, Del.(CNS)Responding to the- U.S. bis hops' call for parishes to becomt: the "salt and light" of social justice, the diocese of Wilmington has graduated ·38 persons from a new parish-based social ministry program.

Commissioned to renew, develop, enhance or implement.a strong social ministry outreach pro,gram in their 17 respective parishes, they were charged with being "saJ-: and light" to their faith communities and environment.

They had completed a six-month course based on the U.S. bishops' 1993 pastoral statement, "Communities of Salt and Light: Reflections on the Social Mission of the Parish."

Produced by the bishops' domestic and international policy committees, the document is part of church 'endea VOl'S to encourage and promote more parish-based social ministry.

The training course was developed by'Ursuline Sister Joan :Hart and Peggy Heins, both of the diocesan Catholic Charities' Office of Parish Social Ministry., It will be followed by a 'fall program, which already has a waiting li,t of participants, Sister Hart said. The program is being pointed to as a model for other dioceses, she added.

In his remarks at the graduation ceremony, Wilmington Bishop Robert E. Mulvee emphasized the need for the church's social ;llission to extend to every parish, He spoke of his experiences with the bishops' anti-poverty domestic program, Campaign for Human Development, and with Catholic Relief Services, their overseas aid agency. He has learned, he said, that one person can make a difference.

Allan Daul, executivediret:tor of Catholic Charities, a prime supporter of the Salt and Light program, described the Wilmigton class as the first such group in the country.

"Y ou are on the cutting edgl~ of social ministry in this country," he told them. "Service is an indispensable aspect of our faith and we are instructed by the Gospels to seek the Lord in the faces of the poor."

- The nation's 232 Catholic colleges and universities had 664.777 students, up 4,000 from the-year before and up more than 100,000 in the past decade.

- First Communions numbered 812,t04, about 15,000 more than in 1992. . - Marriages dropped to 315,387, cardin~ll1s a drop of 10,000 in one year and 30,000 in a decade.

WASHINGTON(CNS)-Seeking as much feedback as possible The directory lists names, on a controversial international addresses, phone numbers and key conference and the Clinton adminpersonnel of all Catholic dioceses, istration's views on populati on diocesan offices and agencies, parissues, a State Department offic:ial ishes, schools, hospitals, religious has conferred privately with three communities and various other U.S. cardinals, a department source national, diocesan and local Catholic organizations and institutions.. confirmed. A spokesman for Undersecretary of State for Global Affa.irs It also has an alphabetical index of all U.S. priests and a year-by-year Timothy Wirth said Wirth met in recent separate sessions in Boston, listing of the appointment.s of .all New York and Washington with living U.S. cardinals, archbishops Cardinals Bernard F. Law, John and bishops. . J. O'Connor and James A. Hickt:y, This year's 1,966-page volume respectively, as part of ongoing includes for the first time a single efforts to confer with Catholic and national alphabetical index to all other U.S. religious leaders.

Catholic institutions listed diocese So far, added the aide, Wirth by diocese throughout the direchas met with about two' dozen tory.

Publication rights to The Offi- officials of various denominations, cial Catholic Directory were ac- including the three cardinals, in regard to the United Nations' Inquired two years ago by R.R. ternational Conference on PopuBowker, a Reed Reference Publishing Company, but the com- lation and Development, schedul,ed pany has retained the P.J. Kenedy for Cairo, Egypt, in September. and Sons imprint. The directory, Wisdom first issued in 1817, has been pub"Wisdom is the quality that keeps lished under the Kenedy name you from getting into situations since 1912. where you need it."-Doug Larson

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Study sugg.~sts fetuses fee1llain M ANCH ESTER, England (CNS) - Newly published research in Britain suggests that fetuses can feel pain - and that anesthetics might be administered to a fetus prior to abortion.

The news was welcoml:d by prolife campaigners who said it was further proof of the humanity of unborn children.

The research was published in the London-based medical magazine The Lancet and was carried out by the Department of Chemical Pathology and the Center for Fetal Care at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in west London.

The purpose of the study was to investigate whether a fetus shows "a hormonal stress resJlonse to a potentially painful procedure," the report said.

The research team measured stress hormone levels in babies between 23 and 34 weeks of gestation when doctors took blood samples from the umbilical cord and the fetal abdomen.

When the needle was inserted through the abdomen a,nd left for 10 minutes or more, as done in blood transfusions, the babies released stress hormones associated in children and adults with the sensation of pain.

The London researchers said that even the youngest fetus in the group, 23 weeks gestation, showed a big rise in stress hormone levels.

"Since the mechanisms in pain perception are not fully understood, it is not possible to conclude that the fetus experiences pain; a hormonal response cannot be equated with the perception of pain," the report said. , "Our study shows that, as w'ith neonates, the fetus mounts a similar hormonal response to that which would be mounted by older children and adults to stimuli which they would find painful," it said. .. Just as physicians now provide neonates with adequate: analgesia," it said, "our findings suggest that those dealing with the fetus should consider making similar modifications to their practice.

"This applies not just to diagnostic and therapeutic procedures on the fetus," but possibly also to abortion "especially by surgical techniques involving dismemberment."

But in a commentary piece, Dr. David Clark of McMaster University Medical Center in Hamilton, Ontario, urged caution about the findings, saying unconscious patients can show reflell: reactions to painful stimuli without apparently feeling pain.

The London doctors said they only tested babies whose blood would have been examined anyway for clinical reasons and stressed that all the mothers gave consent.

In a television interview July 8, Phylis Bowman, director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, said the research meant that people would have to think "very seriously" about the status of the fetus. , And pro-life Mennler of Parliament David Alton, a Catholic, said many people would be very concerned by the re!.earch.

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The Anchor' Friday, July 22, 1994

BISHOP JOHN A. Marshall, sixth bishop of the diocese of Springfield, died July 3 of complications from bone cancer.

Bishop Marshall, 66, announced in April that he was suffering from a serious degenerative bone disease in his lower back. It was metastatic adenocarcinoma, a malignancy that spread to his back after beginning in the glandular tissue that lines the internal organs.

A funeral Mass was offered July 7 at St. Michael's Cathedral in Springfield with Boston Cardinal Bernard F. Law as principal celebrant and Green Bay, Wis., Bishop Robert J. Banks as homilist.

Springfield Auxiliary Bishop Thomas L. Dupre was elected diocesan administrator until appointment of Bishop Marshall's successor.

Installed as Springfield's bishop on Feb. 18, 1992, Bishop Marshall was spiritual leader for more than 322,000 Roman Catholics in western Massachusetts.

Born in Worcester, he was a graduate of the city's Holy Cross College and held a master's degree in guidance and psychology from Assumption College, also in Worcester.

Ordained in Rome in 1953, he was bishop of the Burlington, VT, diocese before going, to Springfield. While in Vermont, he directed a major Vatican-mandated study of U.S. seminaries aimed at determining how they were implementing the norms and decrees of Second Vatican Council.

He is survived by a sister, Mercy Sister Ann Marshall.

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was ordained in 1966. He holds master's degrees in science and ,in arts from St. John's University, and a doctorate from New York University, where he specialized in religious education. He has been secretary, vice president and president of the diocesan Council of Priests.

Bishop-designate Barbarito, ordained in 1976, holds a licentiate in canon law from Catholic University of America.

He has served as assistant chancellor, vice chancellor and associate in the appeals court of the diocesan tribunal and has been secretary to the bishop and diocesan master of ceremonies since 1992.

68, of Brownsville, Texas, died July 17 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach, Florida, where he was visiting his sisters following treatment for prosta~e cancer.

A native of Cuba who had worked for II years in Vietnam, he had

headed the Brownsville diocese since 1991. Before that he was auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Galveston-Houston since 1986. He was a Jesuit priest and one of 21 active Hispanic bishops in the United States. In November 1993 he ended a three-year term as chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Hispanic Affairs.

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AT HIS FIRST public Mass in two months, taking smaller steps than normal and showing some stiffness, Pope John Paul II presented palliums, white stoles symbolizing episcopal rank and unity with the pope, to archbishops named heads of metropolitan sees during the past year.

Among them were four U.S. prelates: ArchbishopsJohn F. Donoghue of Atlanta; James P. Keleher of Kansas City, Kan.; Michael J. Sheehan of Santa Fe, N.M.; and Justin F. Riga-Ii of St. Louis.

Also among them was Archbishop Paul Joseph Pham Dinh Tung of Hanoi, Vietnam, who was allowed to take office only after the Vatican agreed to the Vietnamese government's demand that it approve all episcopal appointments.

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BISHOP JOHN E. COHILL, 87, a retired bishop in Papua New Guinea, died June 13 at Divine Word Residence in Bordentown, NJ. He had undergone surgery for a brain tumor in March .

Bishop Cohill, a member of the DESPITE THE firm grip of a Russian Orthodox priest in Divine Word Missionaries, was a missionary in China and Papua Ryazan, Russia, the baby looks a little dubious about entering New Guinea before being ordained the baptismal waters. (eNS/ Reuters photo) a bishop. He had lived in the United States since his retirement in 1981.

Born in Elizabeth, N.J., in 1906,. he entered the Divine Word seminary at age 14,joined the society in 1930 and was ordained to the to priesthood in 1936.

RETIRED BISHOP Joseph A. Durick of Nashville, 79, the last bishop to head the 'entire Roman Catholic Church. in the state of Tennessee, died June 26 at his home in Bessemer, Ala., of heart failure after a long illhess.

Named coadjutor bishop of Nashville in 1963, with the right to succeed then-Bishop William' L. Adrian he became apostolic administr~tor of the' statewide diocese in 1966 and bishop heading the diocese in 1969. He retired in 1975.

After retiring, Bi~hop Durick worked for several years as a chaplain in the federal penal system in prisons in Texas, California, KenIN A CEREMONY combining tucky and Alabama. SUbsequent~y, traditional rites with a nod to culhe assisted in parishes and mIstural diversity, Bishop Alexander sions in the area of Tuscaloosa, J. Brunett, 60, was ordained and Ala. installed as the eighth bishop of For 14 years prior to becoming . Helena July 6. "I come among you a bishop, he had done summer as one who serves," Bishop Brustreet preaching in towns and vilnett told nearly 1,000 in St. Helena lages of Alabama, traveling from Cathedral. He was previously a site to site in a trailer-chapel. priest of the Detroit archdiocese Following the 1968 assassinaand pastor of Shrine of the Li.ttle tion of the Rev. Martin Luther Flower Parish in Royal Oak, MIch. KingJr. in Memphis, Bishop Durick walked in the front ralJks of a POPE JOHN PAUL II has civil rights march, n;Jarching again named u.s. Redemptorist Father. in 1969 in tribute to the slain civil Edward J. Gilbert, 57, former head . rights leader. of the order's Baltimore province, '" to be the new bishop of Roseau, TWO PRIESTS of the diocese Dominica. The diocese, which of Brooklyn, N.Y., Msgr. Ignatius includes the entire Caribbean Catanello and Father Gerald Barisland, has been a missionary terribarito have been named auxiliary tory of the Redemptorist order for bishops of the diocese by Pope almost 100 years. At the time of his John Paull!. appointment, Bishop-designate GilBishop-designate Catanello, 55, bert was an associate pastor at St. is rector of Cathed~al Preparatory Joseph's parish in Hampton, Va., Seminary. Bishop-designate Barand was working with the tribunal barito, 44, is secretary to Brooklyn of the diocese of Richmond.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., July 22,1994

Is it a sin to grow tobacco?

By Mitch Finley

Tobacco is a hot political topic these days. In North Carolina, Virginia and other states where tobacco contributes big b,ucks to the local economy, green ribbons UlII~~~~~["~~IIlGii6_~t..I_ . .- -..路 were appearing recently.

Pro-tobacco people are tying green ribbons to .lampposts, car radio antennas and their own shirts. The ribbons, symbolizing tobacco money and jobs, come from a group called Friends of Tobacco. These people oppose , l: Clinton administration moves to 2. Neglect. In these cases the increase the federal tax on a pack By !\I.onica !lnd BiU n~dds caregiver IS 'not providing the basic -of cigiuettes to help pay for health If you know or suspec(an elderly support the older person needs. care reform. or disabled person is being abused The link ,between smoking and It is important to note that an -in some way, adult prote'ctive serv~ older person still living indepen- health risks makes the Clinton ices is the agency to contact. dently might be deteriorating be- plan attractive to most Americans While the work of child protec- cause of self-neglect. Suspicions of - regardless of region, age or tive services is becoming better this can also be reported to adult income level- according to a poll known, its counterpart --'-- adult protective services. conducted by the Boston firm protective services - is still news Warning signs include inade- Marttila and Kiley.

MAKING STRAIGHT THE PATH: Damon F. Shaw to many.

However, tobacco growers and quate food in the house, unclean gets assistance from fellow members of Boy Scout Troop 56 The particular regulations adult or unsanitary living conditions and cigarette manufacturers and re, protective services follow may vary lack of medical and dental care. tailers accuse the administration for his Eagle Scout project, constructing a walkway from the from state to state, but local in3. Exploitation. This is the use of engaging in "social engineering" Adams St. sidewalk to the basement steps of St. Joseph's' formation can be obtained by call- of a person's resources or finances by trying to tax people out of their Church, Fairhaven. From left are Matthew J. Guerra, Shaw, ing your area agency on aging. smoking habit. without that person's permission.

Marc Ste. Marie, Ryan T. Greenway, Jarrod Amaral and It may be difficult for an older Simply put, it is taking advantage According to the Tobacco Douglas Fortunato. As his Eagle project, Fortunato Jed the person to say that someone is hurt- of the older person through force,' Growers' Information Committee ing him or her. He or she may fear or deception. A warning sign troop in replacing the floor of the church basement kitchen Inc., an acre of tobacco brings in remain silent and even try to sabo- would be sudden, unexplained -gross revenues of $3,200. Cotton" two years ago. tage someone investigating the case losses of money or valuables. It the next most profitable crop, rather than do anything that would could also take the form of an grosses just $320 per acre. Thereget the primary caregiver in trouble. uninvited guest moving in with the fore, it concludes, tobacco farmers The older person reasons: If he older person. can't possibly grow anything but Right below the X-I and X-15 is (or ,she) is taken away, what will

By Father Eugene Hemrick tobacco.

4. Abandonment. This is when Ever feel your mind is in a rut? Gemi'ni 4 from which James happen to me? As far as I know, the caregiver suddenly walks out . Right, and the drug pusher on there is no one else to help. While without giving anyone notice (or, the corner who makes $'1,000 a day Televisio.n bores you, as do your McDivitt and Ed White t,ook the the present situation may be bad, in some publicized "granny dump- can't possibly do anything but own conversation and outlook on first space walk in 1965. This was a life. . breakthrough - the kind that that would be far worse. push illegal drugs: ing" cases, drops the elderly permakes a person wonder if anyIf so, take an imagination day.

At the same time, the abuser son at a hospital emergency room The growers' committee ran a thing is impossible, or sho(lld I say may do his or her best to isolate and disappeaxs). newspaper ad that shows a farmer Go to a museum for revitalization! the older person from family and leaning against his truck; gazing I hope you'll have t~e kind of it causes one to contempl~lte how What can' a concerned person much is possible. friends or to prevent community do? Contact adult protective servout over a field. "Putting 14,000 experience I recently had at the Other imagination ticklers are agencies from providing services. ices through the area agency on farmers out of work ... won't solve Airand Space Museum in Washingthe Voyager and the Gossamer By always acting as intermediary, aging. You will be asked to supply the health-care crisis," the head- ton.

Upon entering, your eyes imme- Condor. The Voyager, piloted by the abuser may keep others from basic facts and your suspicions. line reads.

Dick Rulan and Jeana '(eager, talking directly with the o!der per- You don't need to prove anything.

Send these people back a cen- diately go to Wilbur and Orville son. Isolation is a classic warning Adult protective services will send tury and they would design an ad Wright's plane, the Flyer, hanging flew around the world "without a pit stop." Lasting 216 hours and sign of ~buse. picturing a mournful blacksmith from the ceiling. So you begin a staff person to the site in a timely covering I,455 miles, it Vias the gazing at a Model T. Th,e headline your visit with a walk into the past.

How is that person being hurt? manner. It recommends you do longest non-refueling flighl.

In 1903, Orville Wright flew the would read, "Putting 14,000 blackThere are several forms abuse can not investigate the situation yourThe feat reflected huma'[) inge,smiths out ofwork ... won't solve wooden spruce Flyer for 12 sectake. Here are a few. self. onds, covering 120 feet, and the nuity at its best in con!:erving the country's transPQ~tation crisis."

I. Physical, mental, emotional What if you just aren't sure? energy through creative planning.

This is, a religious column, so age of flight began. or verbal abuse. The warning signs' Call adult protective services. Talk, The Gossamer Condor on the Next to the Flyer is the Spirit of let's ask two religious questions. might be bruises or perhaps the to a professional. And remember other hand flew only seve:il minFirst, since smoking is a great way St. Louis. Just 24 years after Orville older person reports being afraid this isn't a case of Big Brother spyto harm your health and commit Wright's first flight, Charles lind- utes. However, it was not proof the caregiver or is very anxious ing. It is part of accepting the suicide slowly, is it a sin to smoke bergh flew 3,610 miles across the. pelled by a motor but by cyclist about being left alone with him or Christian responsibility of being Brian Allen. cigarettes? That is, does smoking, ocean to Paris in 33 hours. your brother's and sister's keeper. her.

A look into the pilot's comSome dream that some day each damage a person's relationship with partment makes you wonder how of us will have our own Gmsamer God and neighbor? he was able to keep his circulation Condor with which to self-:propel Many moral theologians would dance around that question with going all cooped up, let alone land ourselves in flight.

By Msgr. George G. Higgins ject. I suspect, however, that those Francis Powers' U-2 spy plane observations about how addictions the plane, not having slept in 33 hours. recalls images of American snoopPope John Paul II in his 1981 who take the trouble'to go back lessen a person's responsibility for .The Bell X-I, which flew 700 ing on the Soviet Union, but even encyclical "On Human Labor" ad- and reread "On Human Labor" in what he or she is doing. If the evil vocated a family wage that would context may find, to their surprise, weed has got you by the throat, miles an hour in 1947, and the. more it fires up the imagination to realize how aerial photography allow working mothers of young that the pope is really a "liberal" subjectively speaking, you are not North American X 15 whicti flew has helped us to better preserve the committing a sin if you smoke, 4,534 miles per hour in 1964, are children to spend m6re time at on the role of women in the economy. on either side of the Spirit of St. Earth. Now we use it to study such they'd say, and I agree. home.

He defined it as a single salary Second, what about the people Louis. things as soil erosion, air pol.lution In fact, Irish scholar Father Now the mind's eye has been and causes of flooding. given to the head of the family for Donal Dorr, a leading commenta- who grow tobacco and make cigaMy imagination day was becomrettes, and the retailers who sell jolted out of the past into a whole his work - sufficient to meet the tor on Catholic social teaching, ing an inspiration day. family's economic needs without argues that the pope's call for a them? Do they sin mightily? After new world. What must it have felt the spouse also having to find One section of the museum has family wage may be understood as all, they provide the cigarettes that like to break the sound barrier?

What is s6 amazing is the brief hands-on computer games. I employment. "a quite radical proposal which kill smokers by the hundreds of time between Orville Wright's flight Many fl?minists were extremely . would be welcomed by many in thousands every year. watched a young boy work on a and these accomplishments. It computer-simulated multistage critical of this section of the encycIn what moral theologians call the women's movement, namely, lical. They interpreted the pope as that women should not be forced the "objective realm" I believe it is boggles the mind to think how we rocket design. saying, without qualification, that He had to pick the number of to fit into an economic system a sin to grow tobacco, manufac- harnessed speed and shrank diswoman's place is in the home. ' stages a rocket needs, how much which grew up catering mainly to ture cigarettes and sell them on the tances, making a quantum leap forward in what amounts to a Not one to shy away from conretail market. thrust each stage needs and whether the needs of men." troversy when an important prinI say let each state launch its moment. in time. the rocket will launch better with I agree with Father Dorr. But own stop-smoking campaign and 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ciple is at stake, Pope John Paul II solid or liquid fuel. make cigarettes available only at recently called again on legislators not all feminists will offer such a He worked at a solution until it Tobacco growers, cigarette manaround the world to adopt mea- benign interpretation of "On Hu- designated outlets - state liquor ufacturers and retailers all profit came. I wondered if some day that sures that would allow working man 'Labor." One hopes, however, stores, for example, or other spe- from and promote addiction to boy might be just the person to mothers of young children to spend that they will at' least take the cially licensed retail stores. Also, cigarettes, an addiction that kills perfect a self-propelled plane we trouble to read the document in more time at home. hike the federal tax by at least $2 a many people every day and dam- could take to work. context and will not jump to the It is too early to tell how femipack to help support health care ages the health of countless others.

As I wondered about this and all nists will react to the pope's re- conclusion, sight unseen, that the reform and ban all cigarette adver- If what they'do isn't a sin, I don't I had seen, I found myself alive opening of this controversial sub- pope is a reactionary anti-feminist. tising. with ideas once again! know what is.

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Vatican displaying Dead Sea Scrolls

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., July 22, 1994

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In an unprecedented collaborative effort between Israel and the Vatican, the Dead Sea Scrolls are on display in a major e:xhibit at the Vatican Library.

The showing of the scrolls, which include the earliest known fragments of biblical texts, followed a breakthrough diplomatic agreement last year. At that time, Israel and the Vatican also pledged closer cultural cooperation.

"We thought this would be a good place for the scrolls to be exhibited, since tht:y touch the , '. ~ roots of both Christianity and Judaism," AmiI' Drori, director of the Israel Antiquities Authority, said at the show's opening.

Drori suggested t.hat the Vatican might want to reciprocate by sending some of its Judaism-related antiquities - mostly medieval manuscripts - to Israel for a showing. Vatican Library Prefect Father Leonard Boyle said there would be "no problem at all" with such an exchange.

The Vatican exhibit displays 12 scroll fragments out. of more than 1,000 discovered in caves of the Dead Sea area in the J udean desert between 1947 and 1956. The exhibit recently ended a U.S. tour, CNS/ N BC photo and when Israeli authorities offered CARYL KRISTENSEN it to the Vatican, the Vatican eagerly agreed to host the manuscripts, Father Boyle said.

The exhibit occupies a library showroom near the Vatican Museum. Israeli officials said they 'hope as many as 400,000 visitors will view it before its return to WASHlNGTON(CNS)-Caryl "but what I get out of religion Israel Oct. 2.

Kristensen, one of ''The Mommies" and hopefully for my children - is The scrolls are di!;played against of the NBC sitcoQ1, has plenty of some sort of spiritual guidepost, giant photographs of the Dead good things to say about her own and how to be a good human Sea sites and are a<:companied by mommy -- a tea~her at Rosary being." written explanations and a CD- High School in Fullerton, Calif.

Looking back on her own, albeit ROM - an interactive computer "My mother is the closest thing temporary, rejection of Catholiprogram for visitors - specially to being a nun you qm get and still cism, she said, "I would like to give developed for the c:vent. Also on have II children," said the comic my children something they could display are artifacts discovered in actress, who was t~e ninth in mom reject rather than nothing at all." the area and several of the Vati- Claire McKellogg's brood of six "The Mommies," which airs Satcan's Hebrew manuscripts. girls and five boys. urdays, 8:30-9 p.m. EDT on NBC, The show's inauguration saw Mrs. Kristensen made the com- is a TV-friendly version of a standVatican officials poring over the ments in· a telephone interview up comedy act she performs with scrolls while Israeli antiquity ex- with Catholic News Service from Marilyn Kentz. perts enthused over some' of the her home in Los Angeles. She also It was canceled after mediocre Vatican manuscripts, particularly talked about her own Catholic ratings this season, but NBC recona rare ninth-century rabbinic com- faith and her return to it after an sidered and ordered 13 episodes as mentary on Leviticus and an equal- extended spiritual quest. a midseason replacement. ly unusual edition of the JerusaThe resolve to form a comedy Her mother, Mrs. McKellogg, lem Talmud. who is approaching age 70, started act with another new mother may One of the longer Dead Sea teaching at all-girl~ Rosary 20 years have come from Ms. Kristensen's texts on display at the Vatican ago after her youngest turned 5 girls' school background. includes parts of 4 ~ psalms. It was years old. "I had her (as a teacher) "When you're in the middle of discovered in 1956, and when ex- . as a sophomore in religion class adolescence, you're self-conscious perts unrolled it in 1961 they read -'Growth in Christ,'" Ms. Kristensen about everything," she said. In the in Hebrew a psalm of praise to said. "I think I got an 'A.'" boy-free atmosphere of Rosary, God: "The living lcan praise you, Her mother made everyone feel she added, "you were free to be even those who stumble can raud at home, Ms. Kristensen said. So who you were." When she was a you. In revealing your kindness to much so, she noted, "all my friends senior, she became student body them and by righteousness you would stay around the house to president. enlighten them. For in your hand talk to her instead of doing stuff is the soul of every living thing." with me."

Mrs. McKellogg, her daughter added, "definitely 'walks her talk.'

CHICAGO(CNS) - LayCathAnd you can't argue with her. She olics need to challenge society inWASHINGTON (CNS) - The absolutely puts her money where stead of blending in, Newsweek magazine senior writer Kenneth rate of drinking among college her mouth is."

Ms. Kristensen said she's not a Woodward told a Chicago audience students is increasing sharply, with especially adverse <:onsequences for carbon copy of her mom. She has at the Catholic Theological Union women students, according to a two boys, ages II and 8, and says annual dinner. "We are so eager to new study on college drinking, economics - and ravenous appe- please, many of us Catholics, so eager to be nice, to be like evewhich showed that the number of tites during her pregnancies kept her from having more. ryone else, that we have forgotten college women who drink to get And after 13 years of Catholic that Christ told us to be a sign of drunk has more than tripled in the past 15 years, from 10 percent to schooling, "I thought I couldn't contradiction," Woodward said bear it anymore/, she said of her "We are· not called to be nice, as 35 percent.

Catholic religion. She went on an C.S. Lewis pointed out. Nice is not "All substance abuse, but most especially alcohol on college cam- extended spiritual quest to find found in the Bible," he added Woodward received the 1994 Dispuses, is inhibiting the intellectual, something more satisfying. social and spiritual development "But every time I went back, I tinguished Service Award from of our students," said Holy Cross went back to the Catholic Church," Chicago Theological Union, the Ms. Kristensen said. "You could largest seminary and graduate Father Edward A. Malloy, comget petty about doctrine," she said, school of theology in the country. mission chairman.

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AIDS kills, shortens lives of Third World children The worldwide AIDS epidemic will reverse several decades of hard-won improvements in child survival rates in many developing countries, according to "World Population Profile: 1994" a report recently released by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau.

The primary cause of children contracting AIDS is mother-child transmission, the report states.

Adult AIDS deaths occur among relatively young adults; thus the impact of AIDS on life expectancy is considerable worldwide.

The report shows that levels of infant and child mortality, measured in a recent survey in Zambia, were 15 percent higher than 10 years ago because of the impact of AIDS. Over 20 percent of pregnant women in Lusaka, Zambia, tested positive for HIV in 1990.

Studies show similar patterns in the capital cities of Uganda and Malawi. In 13 sub-Saharan African countries, AIDS is expected to double the number of deaths that would have occurred without AIDS during the period from 1985 to 2010.

AIDS will also significantly increase the death rate in Brazil, Haiti, and Thailand. By 2010, it will nearly double Haiti's death rate, and in Thailand the death rate will more than triple.

Additionally, Peter Way, an author of the report, said that "by the year 2010, average life expectancy in Haiti will fall to 44 years.

Without AIDS .it would be 59 years. In Uganda, expectation of life at birth will plummet to 32 years, whereas without AIDS it would be 59 years.

AIDS has increased the U.S. death rate in the U.S. in the 199293 period by only 1.5 percent, nor do public health officials predict the widespread growth of HIV infection throughout the population in coming years. Nevertheless, in 1992 HIV infection became the leading cause of death among men aged 25-44 years. .

Generally, HlV infections among adults are manifested in the period of peak sexual activity: late teens to age 35. Because of the 7- to 10year incubation period for AIDS, and about a 1- year survival from the onset of full-blown AIDS, greatly increased mortality is expected among persons aged 30 to 45.

and is expected to increase to about 7.9 billion by the year 2020.

Of those 2.3 billion additional persons, more than 9 out of 10 will live in developing regions, more .than one billion in Asia alone.

The developing world is on average younger than the developed world. Half of all persons in developing countries are under age 23, while in the developed world, half of all, persons are under age 35. But overall, the world will get older by 2020. At present, children 4 years old and younger outnumber the elderly(those 60 and older.) By the year 2020, the number of elderly will exceed the number of young children.

The fastest population increase is projected to take place in subSaharan Africa, despite the increased mortality resulting from AIDS. Mainland China's population will continue to be the largest in Asia, though its share of developing Asia's total population will decrease from 39 percent in 1994 to 34 percent in 2020. The Asian developing countries outside mainland China are expected to comprise 36 percent of the world's population by 2020.

Throughout the world, women live longer than men. The average disparity is two years in Asia, while in Russia women live an average 10 years longer.

Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest life expectancy of anywhere in the world. On average, an inhabitant ofthis region can expect to live only 51 years. The area also has the highest proportion of infant deaths; nearly 29 percent of all the deaths are of infants.

In general, European and North American men and women live the longest. Men live an average 73 years in both regions, while North American women average 80 years, and European women 79 years.

"World Population Profile: • 1994" contains statistics for the world's 225 countries and territories. The chapter on AIDS includes statistics from both the World Health Organization and the U.S. Census Bureau's Center for International Research.

Population Changes Other report findings deal with population changes and general life expectancy.

The world's population reached about 5.6 billion persons in 1994

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Apostles' Creed: Part One of Catechism Here is the Apostles' Creed, the profession of Christian faith. It is the framework for Part 1 of the "Catechism of the Catholic Church." ~

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.

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I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.

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, ~ He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. ~ On the third day he rose again.

~He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right ,hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead. ~ I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. Amen. iCl1994 eNS Graphics

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Apostles' Creed lists basic beliefs Section 2 takes apart the indiWASHINGTON (CNS) - The Apostles' Creed, a profession of vidual elements or articles of the faith used for Christian instruc- Apostles' Creed, spelling out not tion in the West for many cen- only the beliefs explicitly professed turies, is the basis of Part I of the 'in the creed, but also related beliefs.

Under "creator of heaven and new "Catechism of the Catholic earth," for example, it includes a Church."

The English version of the cate- three-page discussion of angels, chism is now available in book- spiritual beings whose existence is "a truth offaith" about which "the stores.

Part I, which takes up 264'ofthe witness of Scripture is as clear as volume's 800-plus pages, summar" the unanimity of tradition."

The creed serves as a framework , izes basic Christian beliefs about God, creation, humanity, and the for spelling out Catholic teaching history of God's saving relation- on God and the Trinity, on creation, the fall, God's promise to ship with his people.

It is divided into two sections: Israel and salvation in Jesus, Son the first a general treatment of of God and savior.

Not surprisingly, about 75 pages belief itself, the second a specific look at Christian beliefs expressed - nearly one-tenth of the entire or implied in the profession of catechism text - are devoted to what Catholics believe about Jesus faith.

Christ, the central figure in ChrisSection I discusses: - "Man's capacity for God": tian faith.

Nearly as much - about 60 , the human desire for God, knowledge of God and ability to speak pages - is devoted to the Holy Spirit and the church, in which about God. - "God comes to meet man": "the mission of Christ and the God's self-revelation in creation, Holy Spirit is brought to comto his chosen people and in Christ pletion."

Jesus; the transmission of revelation in apostolic tradition and its relation to Scripture; the character of divine revelation in Christ and in Scripture.'

- "Man's response to God": the response of faith, both of individuals and of the community, the church.

The church is described as the universal sacrament of salvation, the people of God, the body of Christ and the temple of the Holy Spirit. Its four chief characteristics, that it is one, holy, catholic and apostolic, are discusse,d.

Next comes a treatmem: of the church's hierarchical const.ltution, the laity and those in consl~crated life.

The final elements of the article on the ,church concern th,~ communion of saints and Mary, mother of Christ and mother of the l:hurch.

In the article on "forgiveness of sins," Part I gives only a brief introductory discussion. It refers the reader to Part 2, on the sacraments, for a much fuller treatment of the place of baptism, p1mance and the other sacraments, especially the Eucharist, in the forgiveness of sins.

Part I concludes with discussions of the resurrection of the body - Christ's and ours .- and life everlasting.

Those articles review Catholic teaching on death, particular judgment, heaven, hell and purgatory, and the last judgment "when Christ returns in glory" and "the righteous will reign forever with Christ, glorified in body and sou\."

Next week: The new catecl~ism's treatment of the sacraments.

The second article in a summer series on kindness by Father Pierre E. Lachance, OP, superior of the Dominican community at St. Anne's Church, Fall River.

Nothing makes us more Godlike than kindness. To acquire so amiable a virtue we must cultivate it at its source: in our heart. As Jesus said, "Themou,th speaks from the abundance of the heart." (~1t. 12:34) .

Our external behavior reflects our interior world; where our character is formed. The thoughts we approve or reject determine the kind of person we are. He who controls his thinking is in co'ntrol of his life. If we learn to think as a Christian, we shall act like a Chris.. tian, hence the importance o{prayer, meditation and spiritual reading. The thoughts and values we entertain and live by represent the real "me."

If our thoughts are so important, it follows that kind thoughts must be of immense consequence.

Father Frederick Faber observes that "if a man habitually has kind thoughts of others, and that for supernatural motives (say, for the love of God), he is not far from being a saint." And he adds, "such a man's thoughts are not kind intermittently, or on impulse, or haphazardly. His first thoughts (spontaneous thoughts) are kind, all his thoughts are kind." Thinking kindly of others beco'mes a habit.

Kind thoughts show that we are in touch with God and reflect the goodness of God. Finally, the habit of thinking kindly implies a more profound view of things. We are not prone to judge superficially. We see the goodness in people that often lies beneath the surface. In this, we become more iike God who, even when we fail, sees our struggles, our generous efforts, our basic good intentions. God loves us as we really are in the secrecy of our hearts.

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Humility is the root \Yhich produces the fru'ii of kindness. A humble person does not look down on others, he is not self-centered but is open to appreciate the goodness 'in others. ' People who lack humility are apt to be judgmental, touchy and easily offended. No one who has a high opinion of himself finds his merits sufficiently recognized! He needs to promote his reputation and tends to uphold his rights, which makes him quite unpleasant.

On the other' hand, one who thinks kindly of others is the one who has no rights to defend, no self-importance to advance. He readily acknowledges the goodness POPE JOHN PAUL II makes an unofficial appearance at a refugee camp in Rwanda' in others and rejoices over their where a,young Hutu clings to his mother's dress, imprinted with the papal image. They were successes. Yes, he thinks kindly of part of a crowd of displaced persons attending an outdoor Mass. (CNSj.Reuters photo) others.

Kind inte'rpretations offer an excellent way to develop the habit of kind thoughts. Jesus teaches us not to judge. (Mt. 7: I) When we The Mondadori spokeswoman VATlCAN CITY (eNS) - Pope Mondadori-owned magazine, Pansee that one behaves wrongly, it confirmed that the publisher had would be foolish to pretend other- John Paul II, a published play- orama', that his queries were not wise, but we have no right to judge wright and poet, is focusing on those of a theologian nor of a 'sold the English rights to New York-based Random House and the intentions of the heart, which faith and hope in a new book, journalist specializing in Vatican the French rights to Editions Pion. no one but God can see. Nor must which is expected by its publishers eventS. "I wanted, above all, to know a The original Polish version will be we make rash judgments based on to sell millions of copies throughfew things: Does the Vicar of Christ published by the University of insufficient evidence. We must in out the world. . The book, "Crossing the Thresh- still believe in Christ? Is Christian- Lublin, where the pope taught. such cases withhold judgment and old of Hope," a 35-chapter wQrk ity true or no't?" he said in an intersay simply: I don't know.

It was widely reported that \\fort We can go one step further: we of more than 200 pages, began as view to be published in the magaJanklow, the New York agent reprezine's July 23 issue. his response to 'written questions can avoid being curious about Messori, also author of a book- senting the book in the Englisheverybody else's business and look- posed by an Italian journalist.

Royalties earned" by the pope length interview with Cardinal language market,' had been sl~ek足 ing for gossip. Remember the ing an advance of $10 million words of Jesus: "As you judge, so from the book will go to charitable Joseph ,Ratzinger called "The Ratdollars and received an estimated work's, said the chairman zinger Report," said, "Cardinal of the will you be judged." (Mt. 7:2) $6 million advance from Random To acquire the habit of judging Italian publishing company han- Ratzinger explained to me what is House. dling,the project. not going well in the church.

John kindly, Father Faber recommends The company, Arnoldo Mon- Paul II, a great optimist, speaks Mondadori's spokeswoman :;aid charitable interpretations. They the book w9uld be published in cause us to imitate the merciful ,dadori, will publish the Italian instea'd of what works." the fall, but an exact release date Msgr. Piero Pennacchini, assisingenuity of God who constantly translation from the pope's origihad not been set because'Mon,dafinds excuses for his creatures. 'He nal Polish and is selling the rights tant director of the Vatican press dori wants the book to appear is merciful because he loves us. He to publish other language editions office, said he could not give any simultaneously in the world's major judges with his heart as well as worldwide, a ,Mondadori spokes- information about the book belanguages and negotiations are with his mind and acknowledges woman told Catholic News Service. cause it was being handled by VatVittorio Messori, the journalist ican spokesman JoaquinNavarrocontinuing with publishers in other our hidden difficulties countries. who wrote the questions, told the Valls, who was on vacation.

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Deacon wants' his blindness ignored by parishioners CLIFTON, N.J. (CNS) - Michael Joly wants to make people blind to his blindness.

"Most people assume I can't do anything until I prove I can," said the transitional deacon at St. Philip parish in Clifton. "But I want people to assume that I can do anything unless I tell them I can't."

Joly, who waterskis, rides hprses and loves hiking, graduated in May with two theological degrees from St. Mary Seminary and University in Baltimore. He will be ordained a priest of the Paterson diocese in Novembf:r. ~ ow 28, he 19st his sight at age 5 when a brain tumor pressured his optic nerve and caused him to have blurry vision.

He then underwent corrective surgery, a moment he will never forget because it was the turning point of his life.

"There I was about to go into the operating room," said Joly, a native of Cumberland, R.I. "I could still see somewhat. Then came the operation and whf:n I woke up I was in darkness."

He recalls very little about the sighted world. "But I do remember' colors," he said. "And I consider that a real blessing because someone born blind has; no visual concept of what a color is."

Another blessing in his life has been his father, Armand, who made certain that his son got no preferential treatment while growing up. "He never once pitied me," Joly said.

"His first school was one for the blind and that depressed him," the elder Joly recalled in an interview with The Catholic: Review, Baltimore archdiocesan newspaper.

"So I got him into a regular public school. That turned things around."

Michael's eight !brothers and sisters didn't let him feel any different from them either. They ignored his blindness.

But Joly is aClltely aware that some people "cannot overcome, for whatever reason, a sense of being uncomfortable" around blind

people. "For many people I may be the first blind person they've ever met," he said. "But it may be the 20th or 30th person I've met that day who treats me that way."

In high school he didn't have the technological aids he used in his graduate seminary work, but he stayed after school ~o catch up and spent a lot of time on homework and research.

After public high school in Rhode Island, he went to Rhode Island College, from which he graduated magna cum laude. He was planning a business career until a priest asked him if he had considered a priestly vocation.

"I had to have more out of life," he said. "I wanted to bring life out of this negative situation" of blindness. .

While attending the seminary in Baltimore, Joly did pastoral work at Loyola College and two area parishes. ' During his two years of work at St. Louis parish' in Clarksville, Md., Joly worked in marriage preparation and religious education and at weekend Masses. He sings and plays piano and keyboard.

He can perform marriages and baptisms and conduct wake services and preach as a transitional deacon. He'll also be available to teach in the parish elementary school.

He can't wait until Nov. 26, when he will be ordained a priest at St. John Cathedral in Paterson.

"I so much look forward to celebrating the Eucharist and the sacrament of reconciliation," he told The Beacon, Paterson's diocesan newspaper.

He also hopes to inspire people through his sermons, giving them a thought or message that. will carry them through the next 167 hours of the week.

"I want people to come to church and see it as something more than just passing an hour," Joly said. "I want them to pour themselves into it rather than tryjust to get through it."

WASHINGTON (CNS) - It's a field where victory is measured in inches, where there is almost certainly no fortune to be made and any glory is likely to be recognized within only a small circle.

Nevertheless, a respected Washington attorney is about to launch a public interest law firm to defend religious liberty. At the same time a coalition of evangelical leaders is establishing a defense fund to finance such efforts.

When the Becket Fund officially opens in a month or so, it will join the well-established American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State as well as the newer American Center for Law and Justice among the more prominent legal specialists in religious liberty.

Its president and general counsel, Kevin J. Hasson, sees plenty of reasons to leave one of Washington's most prominent law firms to start a nonprofit firm to defend religious rights.

"I'd been spending two-thirds of my time doing product liability cases and one-third of it on religious liberty law," said Hasson, a Catholic who holds a master's in theology in addition to a University of Notre Dame law degree. "I decided that while I was professionally proud, of two-thirds of my practice, one-third made me happy and made a contribution to society."

Hasson participated in the U.S. Catholic Conference's successful 1988 Supreme Court case in which Abortion Rights Mobilization sued over the USCC's tax-exempt sta-

A line in the sand Continued from Page One But everyone agrees that the weeks before the expected congressional recess in mid-August will be critical in shaping the final version of health care reform, if such reform is to receive approval before the November elections.

Public opinion seems to be on the side of the bishops, although their opponents claim otherwise.

A poll commissioned by the bishops and released July 13 showed that although 70 percent of Americans support universal coverage, the inclusion of abortion coverage in all the major plans currently under consideration in Congress erodes overall support for any of them.

A poll by the Times Mirror Center - also released July 13 and unrelated to the bishops' survey -found that 68 percent of Americans opposed including abortion in the basic benefits package for national health reform. Twentysix percent said they favored inclusion of abortion.

The margin of error for both polls was just over 3 percentage points plus or minus.

Few observers had wanted to see the health care debate reach the point of ultimatums, but perhaps it was inevitable.

"I for one had hoped that this direct public confrontation could have been averted," wrote Archbishop Francis T. Hurley of Anchorage, Alaska, in a comment on the letter to Foley.

"But there comes a time when a line must be drawn in the sand," he added. "Abortion is not a matter affecting the choice of an individual woman. The injection of abortion services into the health care reform clearly shows that it is a matter affecting all of society."

tus. In 1989 he defended the right ofthe Catholic University of America to deny tenure to Father Charles Curran in a dispute over the orthodoxy of some of his teachings.

Since he was in college he's thought about specializing in religious rights cases, and a year ago began the groundwork for the Becket Fund, the latest entry into the field of public interest organizations focusing on religious and constitutional rights.

Its directors and advisers include New York Cardi nal John J. O'Connor; Carl A. Anderson, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and vice president for public policy of the Knights of Columbus; and Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. It also involves Mormon Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, RUtah; evangelical Christian Michael McConnell, a University of Chicago law professor; and Jay P. Lefkowitz, former White House director of Cabinet affairs, who is Jewish.

Having participated in several major religious rights cases. Hasson saw a conspicuous gap in interests represented by such existing groups as the 47-year-old Americans United for Separation of Church and State and those represented by the 3-year-old American Center for Law and Justice.

Americans United was founded in response to I 940s concerns about the influence of Catholics on public school boards and the naming of a U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.

While its membership includes people from many religious denominations, its emphasis remains on rigid separatio,'? of church and state, often in school-related matters. Legal director Steven Green and a network of 60 to 70 volunteer attorneys around the country get involved in dozens of cases yearly, seeking to eliminate church involvement in schools and other public institutions.

Like Hasson, Green agrees most legal work in religious rights comes in increments rather than in big cases that change the whole scene.

On another end of the spectrum, the American Center for Law and Justice was established by the Rev. Pat Robertson, Protestant television evangelist, specifically to advocate for Christian interests "and the promotion of pro-liberty, pro-life and pro-family causes."

The center most recently has begun a nationwide campaign to protect the right of public school students to participate in prayer groups or Bible clubs.

Hasson intends the Becket Fund to challenge restrictions on religious expression no matter what the source, no matter whose voice is being threatened.

"I n the Becket Fund, our view is that religious diversity is to be celebrated," Hasson said. His ideals for the new firm are echoed by its name, honoring St. Thomas Becket, the 12th-century English martyr killed for defending religious liberty during the reign of Henry ll.

For perhaps the same reasons that Hasson believes religious rights need another organization, a coalition of evangelicals is launching the Alliance Defense Fund to finance work like his and that of the American Center for Law and Justice.

Fund president Alan Sears noted that although its founders include Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association, James Dobson of Focus on the Family, D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries and other Protestant evangelical leaders, it is also supported by prominent Catholic and Jewish rights activists.

Twenty percent of fund res~ur足 ces will go to religious freedom cases and 20 percent to sanctityof-life issues, with the balance divided among pornography prevention, family preservation projects and legal training and education.

Music directors guidelines listed WASHINGTON (CNS) - According to a new national policy statement, a parish director of music ministries needs organizational, planning and pastoral leadership skills as well as a solid understanding of liturgy and of music.

The statement is a basic checklist that pastors, parish search committees or directors of music ministries themselves can use to assess what the job requires and how well an individual is qualified for it. It was issued by the Director of Music Ministries Division of the 9,500-member National Association of Pastoral Musicians and was directed both to music ministries directors and those who hire them, and to the schools and institutes that train them.

Father Virgil C. Funk, association president, said there are about 2,500 fulltime directors of music ministries in U.S. Catholic parishes, representing about 13 percent of parishes in the nation. He estimated that there are also about 9,000 paid parttime directors.

The statement lists desirable music ministry skills in four areas: pastoral, liturgical, musical and organizational.

Among pastoral skills listed are the ability to interact with parishioners and parish It;aders, to make cultural and ethnic adaptations where needed and to encourage people to sing.'

The statement says a director must understand the requirements of the Lectionary, the Sacramentary, the liturgical calendar and the church's various sacramental. rites. It says that requisite musical skills "are ordinarily achieved through an undergraduate andl or graduate degree in music or by professional study in applied music." .

Among specific skills it cites proficiency in at least ~meinstru足 ment used in liturgy or in voice and choral performance and a variety of skills in coordinating voice and accompaniment and adapting music to different instruments, ability in basic musical composition and a knowledge of music theory and harmony.

Organizational and planning skills needed include budget planning and administration, scheduling and coordination of music ministries, maintenance of a music library and instruments and periodic general evaluation of a parish's musical ministries.

Father Funk said the association also plans to publish a directory of the nation's fulltime parish music directors.

Further information on the statement and directory is available from: National Associati'on of Pastoral Musi~ians, 225 Sherida St. N.W., Washlllgton, D.C. 200111492.

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LOST LOVE Rocking back and forth I felt her voice hit the walls of my cave.

"Hush, hush..." she said with much love in those few words. I felt comforted. The walls of my cave are soft and warm; they smell of new life being formed. The smell penetrates me, giving me strength to kick and struggle.

An arm ... a leg... they both can move. Each day something new is given to me. A thumb ... a finger ... . are these toys for me to play with?

I play all day and all night with these new-found objects... Aah, the love!

mother's ho"me - her cave - her walls - her life.

This man did harm to Mother. I could hear liquids seep through the quarters above me, and stir and gurgle with acid-like effects.

Mother's voice did not leave her mouth, not even to speak to me, her child... She did not care any longer, wanted to abandon me if she could.

**** The man returned once more.

Thunder and shattering screams hit my walls with great force, Mother's arms did not grasp her stomach, she stayed still like a corpse. She did not move.

The man's voice became utterly calm and said: "Just get rid of it, all it causes is pain and loss."

"Loss?" my mother questioned with great feeling that I felt from

**** Something is wrong. I feel my mother throbbing. What is happening to her? Grief and hostility hover above me. Cries of sorrow thunder through her belly like drumsticks pounding on a drum.

The voice of another thunders through the walls. This voice is unlike my mother's, it is sanguinary, with a, much deeper tone.

Mother is frightened by this voice.

She clenches her stomach, hoping . that I won't hear the harsh utterances; she is my protector.

**** Days have passed. The rocking and soft hushes haven't echoed nor moved the walls around me since the deep voice came into my AT SS. PETER & PAUL School, Fall River, Stephanie Ciosek, a 1985 graduate, and now an administration consultant with Hewitt Associates in Rowayton,,'CT, was guest speaker at the annual awards ceremony honoring fourth through eighth grade students for academic achievement.

Beside her in top picture is Father Stephen Fernandes, SS. Peter & Paul pastor. Be.low, Father Fernandes stands with Joseph Scanlon, a 1944 aluinnus, named 1994 Distinguished Graduate from the school, and Miss Katherine A. Burt, 'school principal.

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within by her deep sigh and thumping heart.

Loss of me! Everything fit as tight as a puzzle. This was no ordinary man, he was my fathl:r and this man, my own flesh and blood, did not want me anymore ... The door slammed shut. Mother reached slowly for her drink, she grasped it and drank it slowly, washing away the day's pain with each sip.

From the rapid beating ,)f my mom's heart I knew that she was contemplating the outcome of my life: if I was to have one or not.

**** Days have passed and nothing has changed. Mother still won't rock my sea back and forth, nor will she speak a word. Love is gone, or maybe just lost.

We are somewhere new today, in a place where many dif::erent voices escape from mouth:; and where carts are rushed back and forth down the halls. Their wheels rattle and shake like my mother's heart. .. the beats are running marathons. .

She lies down slowly and a hand touches her .stomach. This hand isn't hers, for it is much too large and it pushes in a way unlike: that of my mother.

A cold instrument penet.rates my walls,. shooting fluid from its point. My mother's voice is weak but still has enough streng'th to scream. .

My small body freezes. Pain surges through me. My heart :ltops thumping. My toy falls from my mouth. Blackness and lost love.

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About 1.6 million children com- from 15 percent to 20 percent from child .care fell froin 40 percent in 1988 to 35 percent in 1991 as 1988 to 1991. prising 8 percent of grade school children of employed mothers came • Mary Hawkins, a report coau- father-provided care became more home to empty houses in 1991, thor, says, "We are increasingly prevalent. Families paying for .:hild according to a report released by finding fathers to be the preferred care spent an average of$63.31l per the Commerce Department's Cen- provider for child care. Parents week in 199 I. sus Bureau. , with young children are usually • Among families paying for The report, Who's Minding the operating on a shoestring budget child care, those in poverty pay a higher proportion oftheir mOllthly Kids? Child Care Arrangements, and this helps keep costs down." said nearly one-third of the chil• Unmarried mothers' children family income for child care, ne'arly dren were 5 to II year-olds, while are more likely to be cared for by 27 percent, compared to families the remaining two-thirds were aged their grandparents (25 percent) than that were not in poverty, about 7 12 to 14. are married mothers' children (14 percent.

Lynne M. Casper, among auth- percent). ors of the report, says, "The moth• The number of preschoolers CYO golf tourneys !.et er's job characteristics are the most cared for by family day care proin Taunton, Attleboro · tion, and said that "faith, family. I'mportant factors in .determining viders declint:d from.24 percent in Th e en d 0 f t he aca d emlc year 1988 to 18 percent in 1991. was marked with an awards cere- and friends" were keys to success if a child is a latchkey kid. Factprs CYO golftournaments are sc:hemony and' an eighth grade class in life. such as income take a back seat to • The use of organized child duled in Attleboro and Taumon, . . care facilities for preschoolers was whether the child's mother works with winners and runners-up in night and dinner at SS. Peter & o . '. more likely 'if the child's mother Paul School, Fall River. area.. CYO . full or parttime, or has an evenmg each event 'to receive trophies and F,a II R.IV,er was working fulltime (28 percent) Guest' speaker for the awards night shift." continue to a diocesan tournarr.:ent baseball league news, or For than if she was working parttime example, children 5 to 1'1 (15 percent). .

Aug. 22 in Pocasset. Both tournight for fourth through eighth graders was Stephanie Ciosek, a Midway in its season, the Fall years old whose mothers were full• An estimated $21.8 billion was neys are being. held for the 35th year, and are.medal play event!:.

1985' graduate, now aJi·'adrrtinis-:· Rive'r Area CYO baseball league time workers were 4 times more tration consultant with Hewitt' held its 'annual all-star games' at' '. likely.to .be 'Iatchk~y kids than' .spent on child care in ·1991. The At both sites players· .will be d' f . .. , proportion of families paying for.. groupe m' our diVISions: sen::or, Associates in Rowayton, CT .

Maplewood Park in 'Fall River." . children whose mothers were:part'" T,he ,rec(:ipient of .,the .Sister The'Americans;from St. William,' timers I .' born on or after 'Jan. I;' 1968; Albertus 'Clancy' Award for dceI-~" ~t. Michael ana Notr~ D~me par~ Chil~ren livirigin suburb'an,a'reas intermediate,: on or'after Jan, I, lence iq sC,iencewas ~ighth-gra,~er· Ishes, defeated the NatlOnals,from are :about twice as likely' to' be OlfA~G~~ Texa.s (~~S) - ,A' 1975; juni?f-, on· or after Jan. I, Rebecca'Turc'otte and five students'· St. Bernard, H~ly Name an.~' ~ur "home alone as those' li'ving' in ' Texas CatholIc sc.hool that teaches 1978; cadet, 'on. or after ·Jan. I, were inducted into the school honor Lady of. Gr~ce, m.~n extr~-Inm.ng ,'. country iue'as, said Martin O'Con-' a. new, wl!-y~f, domg.mat~.fan,~~d,. ';,1980, I , " socie~y:: Ji~lia:n .Colla,rd', R~beccil game With a ~3 .score: Bnan Glb.: : nell, also a report author. '''One '. : fmt ~ut .o~' a.I.~:;sc~ools I:n~orth,.;/ For the Attleboro are,a, play Will Tu,.~otte., Valer~e.Costa', who al.so bons?f St. Wilham man~ged the ossible ex lanation for this.filld-, :"~enc~'usI9g the J?ethod,bY,!lav-,:, . take ~Iace a.t H.eath~r HIli ~oun.try r~c~lve~ 'a speIl~n,g ~~~rd:' ~hns-,,;." Amencans and Horace:Mlsturado, .. fng is 'thai ~1lJ'ents may'-feel more Ingt~.e,mos~ studen~,s qq the pro-:... Club. In PlamvllI~ wlthreglstratl,on tine Brown an~ Jesslc~ WI~hams. . of St. Bernard the NatIOnals. ' . comfortable in leaving their chil- ~ra~ sho~.?r r?II.,S~;Mar-y S.chool .. ,startmg at~8 ,a',m. Aug. ~ and.a~, 12 Twenty-five students attaIne~,aIl In a subsequent league game St. ' 'dren hOrhe ~heli there 'ar~ neigh-l In Orange, In Its thlrd.,year In the entr.y.fee collected .. SemOFs-,'mterA grades-and 39 were'~ainedto the Michael, teok Notre Dame. with. a bors :and 'other' children livi~g' ,Kumon math progr~rri, had 144 mediates an~ju~iors-;will play 18 honor roll., . '. . ~ score.. of 5-4...teague standmgs as·. nearb so he said ,',', ,students on the Kumon honor roll. holes; .cadets Will play, 9 'holes.

-. ,y'. ." ,.. . ; .. . , : ' The 'next closest schoo.l had 125. 'Furtherinfonnation is 'available Joseph Scanl'on, a 1944,gradli" of July, 11:' St. Williams, 9-3; Sf: Othe~ r~pqr~ !!ndIng~:. ,,'. ,": .Of the 24,700 students who lea'rit .from Neil Loew, tel: 695·1858. ate,'was speaker for a Class Night ,Bernard;' 8-4;, $t:: Michael, 7-6; dinner for eighth graders. Now Notre Dame, 6.,.8; Holy Naine,4-8; • CP.dd~are In t~e child ,s. own, ',Kumol'i'lnath in the United States, In Taunton, the tourney will be vice-presideIlt of corporate com-' Our lady of Grace. 4~9. ,.' home ,IS most p~evalent among : Cariad!l' and Mexico, only 900 at the John F.' Parker golf course muitications for Rhode lslandBlue " pres~hoolers,~hose ~others w<?r~:, mad~,;the honor roll. The Kumon in the city. with play beginning at 8 Cross/ Blue Shie.ld, he was p r c - . ,Mystical B~dy . '. evemng or, n~ght..~hlfts'~47 per.~, 'pragram was initiated by a Japa- a.m .. Aug. ·2 and an $8 entry fc:e. viously an aide to· Rnbde Island' "Christianity' is more than: a cent): Two-~hlrd~ of such m-home, nese man named Kumon, who Larry Masterson is director of the Representative Fernand J. St. doctrine. It is Christ himself. living care ~s provl<:fed by the father. devt:loped itto teach his children. event. Seniors' and intermediates : in those whom he has. unitedt.o .,The proportion of preschool- 'basic math concepts:.!t proved so are asked to report to the' golf Germain: He spoke to the graduates of the '" himself in one Mystical Body."- ers cared: for by fathers while 'successfulJapim exported the sys~ course clubhouse at 7:45 a.m.,junadvantages of a €atholic educa-. Thomas Merton:.' . mothers were ,at work increased' tern for use'worldwide. ,', iors,and cadets at 8:45, a.m.

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IF YOU GO Taking II day at a time Dealing with feelings I don't "mnna hide Learninl~ to love As I go, baby Without taking you Along for a ride Tried to find myself Tried to find the truth Get out from this shell Girl I'm ulmost there To show you How much I really care If you go, say goodbye There11 he something Missing, in life 'Cause :you know That all I really (All I rl:ally) want is you Sorry if you felt misled But I know what I feel I know what I said, baby God I hope you 'believe Believe in all that can be The fulure in us together in love You're the reason I'm strong Don't ]'OU think I don't know This is where I belong Give me the time To say that you're mine To say that you're mine Written by Jon SEuda/Miguel A. Morejon, sung by John Secada, (c) 1994 by SBK Records HOW LONG shouid one wait for romance to grow into commitment? This is the question I believe Jon Secada's latest hit, "If You Go," is addressing.

If you follow this column, you know that I am a Secada fan. His combination of dynamic vocals with Latin beats puts lots of pizazz into his music.

This song describes a guy in love. He's "taking a day at a

time, dealing with feelings I don't wanna hide." He wants to show his girl"ho~ much I really' care."

He knows that if she gives up on the relationship, "there'll be something missil).g in life." He hopes that she will "give me the time to say that you're mine."

No information is given on how long the girl has been waiting, or how old they are, or

whether they have hurt each other. However, there is value in going slow in love, taking the time to think about one's deeper feelings, wants and goals.

Apparently, some talk about what the relationship means has already occurred. The guy apologizes if this dialogue has "misled" her. Now he wants to avoid miscommunication. He hopes she still believes "in all that can be," yet he is not ready to express permanent commitment.

Assuming that this waiting time hasn't amounted to years, the girl would be well advised to . support his need to take more time. During this waiting period, it might be helpful to both individuals to keep talking about each person's doubts or concerns.

Some questions they could consider are the following: I. What fears hold the guy back? What actions or steps is he willing to try in the hope of reducing these fears?

2. What have both people gained from the romance so far? What are they hoping for in the future?

3. What is the next step that needs to occur if an agreement on a permanent commitment is to be reached?

4. Who else might they talk to, either individually or as a couple, who could help them attain further clarity?

5. Has anything painful occurred in their respective growing up that might be affecting each person's feelings about commitment?

Discussing these questions could build more trust. Remember, trust is essential to mature love. Beyond such dialogue, I would encourage the couple to . take time to pray together.

They can sel:k God's guidance for whatever course of action would bring the most good for their lives, no matter what the choice concerning the commitment.

Your comments are welcomed

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

Catholic schools get high marks DA YTON, Ohio (CNS) Nearly nine out of 10 parents who send their children to Catholic elementary and secondary schools say the teaching of morality and values influenced their decision, according to a five-year study by the University of Da.yton.

Teachers in Catholic schools give them their highest marks in academic quality. Most students rated their teachers and t!he curriculum higher than athletfic and social programs, and religion, contrary to popular belief, is important to them, according to Don Frericks, assistant dean in the university's School of Education and director of the Office of Educational Services.

The university conducted surveys between 1988-93 in Catholic urban and rural elementary and secondary schools in California.

Iowa and Ohio. In ull, 13,603 parents, students and teachers responded.

"When the students wrote about what they appreciated about their schools, they wrote about school spirit/family atmosphere most often, competent teachers second and athletics a distant third," he said. "When they evaluated the effectiveness of their schools, they ranked what they learned and the

school's educational programs higher than athletic programs," said Frericks.

The study, according to him, "refutes the perception" that parents only send their children to Catholic schools for either athletics or academics. "Parents are concerned about quality, but they also want a value-laden education.

That's why Catholic schools are doing well."

Statistics from the National Catholic Educational Association sup-

port that. For the second straight year, enrollment in Catholic schools nationwide has increased. More than 9,000 additional students entered Catholic schools during the 1993-94 school year, according to the NCEA. Nationally, 2.6 million students attend Catholic schools.

That figure has remained steady for the past six years.

"Parents are exceedingly positive, just ecstatic about Catholic schools," Frericks said. "They see them creating a perfect tie between acadelJlic excellence and religious values. We've established that it's religious values they're most concerne.d about."

"Key is in door"

NELSON DE BARROS and Eric Robens were Students of the Year at Our Lady of Lourdes School, Taunton.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (CNS) - A unified Ireland and peace for trou bled Northern Ireland remained priority issues for the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America, as the Catholic men's and women's organization held its national convention this month in Louisville. The "key is in the door" that, if opened, can lead to peace in Northern Ireland, said Father James Champion at the convention's opening Mass. The priest is the Hibernians' deputy national chaplain.

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By Linda Rome At some point during the teen years boys become aware of girls, and girls discover that boys are more than opponents on the soccer field.

News reports are filled with scary stories about many teen romances in the '90s. But that's not my topic today. I want to talk about the delicate blossoming of young romance that is sometimes overlooked, and to offer a few tips for teens.

In the normal course of thi ngs for teens, it is a long and delightful way from the first social encounter with the opposite sex to the first kiss. For each teen it is uncharted territory.

Recently my 14-year-old son got a call from a girl. Forty-five minutes later they were still chatting happily, a noticeable change from his usual two-syllable grunts with his best friend, a boy he's known since they shared a sandbox.

Our telephone is in a semipublic room, so family members skirted the area to give him'privacy. Later he identified his new friend with a few well-chosen words: "She plays the trumpet in band."

But her continued calls and his happy chatter tell a fuller story, and we know there's a new reason for that humming u'nder his breath.

This is a ticklish time for parents and siblings, and even longtime friends, who may feel suddenly slighted. For the boy and his girlfriend this can also be an awkward time. What to do? How to act not just around each other, but around everyone else too?

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Just some generalities will let your parents know that they are still part of your life, and will ease their anxieties.

One mother confided she was afraid her son had become sneaky in jealously guarding his privacy.

She remembered how when she was young she wanted to keep secrets from her mother. But now she wonders if her son isn't sharing information because he has something serious to hide.

2. Expect your parents to be as interested in your new friend as they are in anyone you start spending time with. In fact, invite your friend over for a game of badminton or for a cookout with other friends so your parents have a chance to meet him or her.

3. Be considerate. Don't tie up the telephone for two-hour conversations, and don't get in a huff when someone asks you to hang up. And don't be a pest. A call every few days is OK. But if you're calling three times a day, that's too much!

4. Remember your other friends.

Don't stop spending time with them. A new friend should expand your world, not close it off.

5. Never stand up other friends because you got a better offer or you decided you'd rather spend the time with your special new friend.

Remember, the more open and 'considerate of others you are, the more you can relax and enjoy your new relationship.

Results of Fall River golf tourney The Annual Fall River Area CYO Golf Tournament was held July 19, at the Fall River Country Club.

In the senior division, Jamie Codega of Fall River took first place honors with an 81 and Doug Machado of Swansea was runnerup with a score of84. Kevin Blaser of Somerset captured the intermediate division crown with a score of78, while Cass Fitzgerald of Fall River took second place honors with a round of 83.

In the junior division, Chris Bouchard of Fall River won with a tournament low score of 74. Finishing in second place was Adam Zimbro who shot 84. In the cadet division, a nine-hole tournament, BrentAmaral of Westport shot 43 to capture first place and the second place finisher was Brian Dedrick of Fall River.

All' champions and runners-up are eligible for the diocesan CYO golf tournament, to take place Monday, Aug. 22, at the Pocasset Golf Club on Cape Cod. Father Jay Maddock, diocesan CYO director, expressed gratitude

to Tom Tetreault and the membership of the Fall River Country Club for hosting the tournament and to Everett Smith, tournament director, and his assistant, Roger Dugal.

High court rejects high church rent WASHINGTON (CNS) Lower court rulings rejecting a school district's practice of charging churches higher rent for use of school buildings were recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The court without comment let stand a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that said the Fairfax County, Va., school board discriminated against churches by charging them more than other groups to rent rooms for religious services and meetings.

At least one Catholic parish in Fairfax County rented space from public schools through 1990 and might be affected by the ruling, which reimbursement claims.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., July 22, 1994

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SCOUTING RETREAT Ecumenical retreat for Cub and Boy Scouts, Explorers and senior and cade.t Girl Scouts. Information: Boys: Mary Devlin, 240-2420; Girls: July Cash, 775-4553.

SAMARITANS, CAPE COD Vo'lunteers needed around the clock to help answer telephone calls from lonely, depressed or suicidal persons. In(ormation: 548-8900; 7592828; 771-7770;255-1888.

LaSALETTE SHRINE" ATTLEBORO Healing service 2 p.m. Sunday, led by Rev. Andre Patenaude, MS, also known as Father Pat. It will include teaching, music, Mass and the opportunity for individual prayer and anointing. All welcom~.

The shrine's fifth annual Catholic tenl revival will take place 7 to 8:30 p.m. Aug. 7 through 10, rain or shine, with the theme "God's LoveUnconditional, with Full Guarantee!" Speakers will be LaSalette Fathers Gilles Genest and Richard Delisle, Grace Markay and Barbara Wright and the program will include music. witnessing and liturgy. No charge, but partici pants are asked to bring a canned good for the needy.

ST. ANNE, FR The 123rd annual SI. Anne novena continues through July 25 with services at 3 and 7 p.m. daily, a candlelight rosary procession at 7:45 p.m. July 23 and solem exposition of Blessed Sacrament afternooh Mass July 24 with healing service.at 2 p,m. followed by Blessed Sacrament procession and Benediction. July 26, feast of SI. Anne, will be Grandparents' Day with Masses at 8 and 10 a.m., noon ani16:30 p.m. and devotions at 3 p.m. After 6:30 p.m. Mass there will be devotions and procession with SI. Anne statue.

CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE Support group meetings at the parish: Narcotics Anonymous (men's group), 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Room D; Alanori, same day and time, Room D-l; Overeaters Anonymous, Wednesdays 7:30-9 p.m., Room AI. Legion of Mary meets 6: 1.5 p.m.

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Sister Maria Teresa, a Guadalu" panas Sister, will mark her silver jubilee at a Mass at 5:30 p.m. July 23 with Bishop Sean O'Malley as celebrant. A Korean language Mass will be offered at 7:30 p.m; the. same night by Columban Father Gerard Dunne. Refreshments will follow in .the school. _

Hospital, church pioneer parish-based healtb caIre

SAN JOSE, Calif. (CNS) Seeking to provide a unique blend of spiritual and physical awareness, a Catholic hospital and a parish in the diocese of San Jose have . launched a parish-based nursing program.

The Alexian Brothers Hospital and Most Holy Trinity parish are working together on the nursing program, a concept the Alexian Brothers started at their flagship hospital in Illinois.

Mercy Sister Mary Peter McCusker, a registered nurse on the Most Holy Trinity' staff, is the first parish nurse. She had directed parish evangelization and outreach for three years.

Under the program, which began in February, the parish nurse is an employee of Alexian Brothers Hospital but is assigned to meet the needs of the parish, which include helping parishioners learn health management, treatment options and preventative care, understand the faith-health relationship and better utilize community resources.

Dr. Terry McGuire of Alexian CHRISTIAN recording art:Brothers Hospital said financial ist Nancy Benetti will befea- support for the program is mantured in concert in an outdoor aged by a parish after an initial performance at 6:30 p.m. five-year, startup subsidy by the tomorrow LaSalette Shrine, hospital.

Hospital and parish officials say Attleboro. From the Boston the Catholic Church is in an excela-rea, she will be accompanied lent position to foster efforts in

by John Zannini on keyboard, what they call primary wellness along with Robert Buonfiglio, care because people, regardless of Paul Cox and Cathy Rain- socioeconomic level, interact through the church. Also, they ville. A 4:30 p.m. Mass will be say, the church stresses education held indoors. Further infor- and community involvement, and mation: 222-5410. conducts a mission of health as 'well as salvation.

"The ministry of Jesus was ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA always to the entire person -body . 7 p.m. Wednesday Mass followed and soul," said Jesuit Father Jeff by prayer meeting has resumed. All LaBelle, pastor, in an interview welcome. with The Valley Catholic, dioceST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS san newspaper.

Donations to area food pantries "Health life is an integral part of may be left in baskets any day before catechesis and as people are grow2:30 p.m. ing in their. faith life, we would like to help them grow in embodiment and wholeness as physical beings as well," he said.·' , , According to Maggie Olson, SAN SALVADOR(CNS)- A program coordinator at the hospigroup naming itself after the com- tal, 'the parish nurse does not mander of a unit responsible for duplicate medical services already massacring hundreds of unarmed available.

Salvadoran civilians has added.two "Although a parish nurse is a bishops to the list of those it threa- reg'istered nurse, she does not protens to kill. Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas and Auxiliary Bishop Gregorio -Rosa Chavez have received death threats· from the Domingo Monterrosa Commando, named after a Salvadoran army colonel who led the 1980 slaughter of I ,000 peasants in the remote village of EI Mozote.

The group earlier also Cthreatened members of an investigative panel and Jesuits currently working at the Central American University in San Salvador, where six Jesuits were killed in 1979.

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vide 'hands on' treatmen t or care that is provided in the current health care system," sh~ sllid. ~'The parish nurse acts in a local faith community as minister c,f health - as a health educator, a personal health counselor, a coordinator and facilitator of volunteers, a community liaison, a referral source, and as a model ·of integrated spiritual, emotio nal and physical well-being."

The parish includes Latino, Filipino, and Vietnamese members as well as people from the South Seas and recent European immigrants.

Sister McCusker said that she sees "the greatest benefit in this parish for many of our people who have no health insurance and many who are recent arrivals, some undocumented, from other parts of the world.

"They don't know how t,) access the American health care system.

Our people trust tbe church where they 'don't necessarily trm:t other institutions," she said.

A parish nurse can heLp alert 'people to problems of diet, blood pressure or diabetes, she said.

"Early detection is the key to saving lives as well as health care dollars down the line."

"I see it as pre-evangelization," Father LaBelle'said. "It's kind of hard to center on religion if you don't have food, clothing or shelter, or if you don't feel well."

CRS gets rear admiral BALTIMORE (CNS) _. Rear Adm. Louise C. Wilmot, the highestranking woman in the Navy, will join -Catholic Relief Services as deputy executive director for domestic outreach upon her retirment from the Navy this year.

With a 3D-year career ::n the Navy, she is currently comrr.:ander of the U.S. Naval Base in Philadelphia. In her new post, she will oversee all CRS domestic programming, with responsibility for all development, education oUlreach and communications.

Rear Admiral Wilmot is a 1964 graduate of the College ofSt. Elizabeth in New Jersey, holds a master's degree from George Washington University in Washington, and is a graduate of the Naval War College, Newport, R.t.