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Peter's Pence Collection August 1-2, 1987 My Brothers and Sisters in Christ, At Caesarea Philippi when the Apostle Simon, son of John, affirmed his faith in Jesus saying: "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God," Christ our Lord, in turn, made the now familiar affirmation: "I, for my part, declare to you, you are 'Rock' (Peter), and on this rock 1 will build my church...:' It was in this manner that the Lord established Peter and consequently each of his successors as the visible head of the Church. The present successor is our beloved Holy Father, John Paul II, who in his daily pastoral endeavors governs the Church, both as-the successor of Peter and representative of Christ on earth.

1 take the occasion of the Peter's Pence Collection to ask you not only to engage as generously as possible in the pastoral work of our Holy Father by your contribu... tion but also, and most importantly, to pray for the success of our Holy Father's endeavors for the good of the Church and the world. As all of us are aware, the Holy Father is recognized and respected worldwide as both a messenger and worker for peace and justice. Our prayers and our contribution will be of great assistance to him in his pastoral endeavors.

It is opportune that we fervently pray for the Holy Father's intentions in this Marian Year, a year in which he has asked us to pray more earnestly for peace and justice in the world and for the conversion ofall humanity to the one true God. We request our Blessed Mother to ask her divine Son to bless abundantly with His grace our Holy Father and an his work. We pray especially for the success ofthe Holy Father's visit to the United States this year.

With every prayerful good wish for continued blessings upon you and your loved ones, I remain Faithfully yours in Christ,

+c;o-~ fl. ~ Bishop of Fall River

A Marian invitation MEXICO CITY (NC) - Cardinal Ernesto Corripio Ahumada of Mexico City has invited U.S. Catholics to visit the Mexico City shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe

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LEADERS ofthe Sacred Hearts Sisters, from left, Sisters Marie Celeste Lactaoen, vicar provincial; Brigid McCoy, East Coast regional superior; and Katherine Francis Miller, provincial superior, meet in Fall River following regional assembly. (Motta photo)

Community tevitalization is sisters' goal Following a recent regional assembly at Sacred Hearts Seminary, Wareham, members of the East Coast Region of the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts are ready to initiate a pastoral plan that will seek to revitalize the life of the community, its mission, its leadership skills aild its vocational outreach program.

"Our mission includes an option for the poor and for working with youth," said Sister Katherine Francis Miller, newly elected provincial superior of the Sacred Hearts Congregation. . .

Stationed in Honolulu, she directs the Pacific Province of the worldwide congregation, which includes the East Coast Region in a relationship somewhat like that of a mission chapel to a parish church.

In Hawaii, she noted, the Sacred Hearts Sisters are the "biggest and oldest" community, arriving in 1859, when the archipelago was known as the Sandwich Islands.

Actually, said Sister Miller, "we first started for the islands in 1846 but those sisters were lost in a shipwreck."

Sister Miller and vicar provincial Sister Marie Celeste Lactaoen, also newly elected, were present at the Wareham meeting, together with Sister Brigid McCoy, East Coast regional superior. Afterwards they spent some time in Fall River. .Sister McCoy, stationed in Mt. Rainier, Md.; Sister Claire Dumont, regional vicar and a chaplain at Boston's New England Deaconess Hospital; and Sister Dolores Marie Pavao, a cQuncilor and religious education coordinator for St. Joseph parish, Fairhaven, make up the regional administrative team.

In the Fall River diocese, the Sacred Hearts Sisters serve at the .Fairhaven parish school as well as in its CCD program and at their retirement home and House of Prayer in Fall River.

Both Sisters Miller and Lactaoen are natives of Hawaii and are serving four-year terms in their community. Both are stationed at the congregation's Sacred Hearts Academy in Honolulu, Sister Miller as campus minister, Sister Lactaoen as principal.

In response to the comment that she looked far too gentle to be a principal, Sister Lactaoen chuckled, "I have vice-principals to be mean," she said.

From Fall River, Sister Miller returned to Hawaii via Canada, also part of the congregation's' East Coast Region. Sister Lactaoen traveled to California to work in a summer camp attended by many students from her school.路

HONG KONG (NC) - The Catholic Church in Hong Kong should become Chinese-oriented, more locally independent and more socially concerned in preparation for the colony's 1997 return to China, said a Hong Kong church official. Father Luke Tsui, executive director of the Catholic Institute for Religion and Society, told Hong Kong priests and religious that the church should be well prepared for 1997 when the Britishruled island reverts to Chinese jurisdiction. Most Hong Kong church people, he said, have done little to get ready for the change, he said. Many have responded with a sense of helplessness to the prospect of living under a communist and atheistic environment, he said.

Winner's in jail DURBAN, South Africa (NC) - A weekly newspaper sponsored by the southern African bishops and covering black South African issues has received a top press freedom award from the South African Society of J~urnallsts. But its editor, Zwelakhe Sisulu, was unable to attend the awards ceremony because he has been in custody since last December under South African state of emergency rules. The 80,OOO-circulation New Nation symbolizes "the commitment and courage of the alternative press," society president Pat Sidley said at the ceremony, at which Durban Archbishop Denis Hurley accepted the award for Sisulu.

Brothers will be honored for 60 years of service Honoring the 60th anniversary of the coming of the Brothers of .

Christian Instruction to the diocese of Fall River, some 600 friends, relatives and former students of the brothers will gather Aug. 15 for Mass and a following banquet.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be principal celebrant of the 5:30 p.m.

Mass, to be offered at Notre Dame Church, Fall River, the parish to which seven brothers came in 1927 to staff its new "L'Ecole Prevost," a boys' school named for Msgr.

Jean A. Prevost, pastor from 1888 to 1925. Starting as a grade school, Prevost evolved into a high school, graduating its first seniors in 1938.

Many Prevost alumni will be among Mass concelebrants on Aug. 15 and Father Richard Gendreau, pastor of St. Stephen's parish, Attleboro, and a member of the class of '59, will be homilist.

Father Richard Chretien, pastor of St. Theresa's parish, New Bedford, will give the invocation at the banquet at White's restaurant.

Speakers at the meal will be Father James C. O'Brien,SJ, former principal and now development director at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, with which Prevost High School merged after a disastrous fire in 1968; Bishop Cronin; and Brother Patrick Menard, provincial superior ofthe Bro-' thers of Christian Instruction and a former Prevost High School principal.

Among guests of hono~ will be Brother Stephen Lefevre, still active at age 80, the only survivor of the seven original Prevost brothers.

Then known as Brother Cyprien, he was a teacher and assistant

director at Prevost from 1927 to 1938.

The anniversary celebration has as chairman Paul A. Dumais, Prevost alumni association president, assisted by Roland Masse. It follows a 1986 general alumni reunion which drew over 800 persons from as far as California.

In all, Prevost, which operated separately within the Bishop Connolly building from 1968 to 1972, had 1,416 alumni. After 1972 it merged with Bishop Connolly High School, with many brothers joining the Connolly faculty.

Dumais said that some tickets are still available for the Aug. 15 banquet and reservations may be made with him at 673-7675.

FATHER GENDREAU

Laity interest in synod rises

By NC News Service

The cast of October's world Synod of Bishops on the laity is formil'!g with new appointments

by Pope John Paul II at the same time as others seek to shape it by calling for greater participation Qf women and by objecting to the naming of two U.S. advisers.

focus on lay issues by bishops' conferences and an "equitable number of women" among invited laity.

The union said there is an "urgent" need for a forum within bishops' conferences "where the faith of lay people and their particular way of living the faith can be articulated and used as a valid base for discernment in the church."

Pope John Paul named Vietnamese Cardinal Joseph Marie The union, with III member Trinh Van Can, archbishop of Hanoi, and Cardinal Myroslav organizations in 12 countries, said Lubachivsky, Ukrainian arch- it hoped the bishops' would affirm bishojl of Lvov, as two of three that "through laity, women as well synod copresidents who will be as men, the church can be led to . members of a central "steering new insights into the meaning of committee," said synod general the Gospel, of revelation, and to secretary Archbishop Jan Schotte. new forms of ministry."

Meanwhile in the United States The third copresident is Cardinal Eduardo Pironio, an Argen- the National Catholic Coalition tine who heads the Pontifical announced a campaign to replace Council for the Laity. two advisers to the U.S. delegation Two U.S. bishops, Archbishop of bishops with two endorsed by Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles the organization. and Bishop Anthony J. BevilacIn a letter to Archbishop May qua of Pittsburgh, were named to the group asked that Dolores the synod by the pope. Their Leckey and Lucien Roy "be relieved appointments were announced July of the obligation to serve as 'periti' 23. (experts) at the upcoming bishops' They will join those elected last synod on the laity" because "since fall by the National Conference of both are fulltime paid employees Catholic Bishops: St. Louis Arch- Qfthe church bureaucracy, there is bishop John L. May, NCCB pres- serious doubt that they can truly ident; Chicago Cardinal Joseph L. represent the laity in the varied Bernardin; MilwaukeeArchbishop secular roles."

The coalition, self-described as Rembert G. Weakland; and Baton Rouge Bishop Stanley J. Ott, an organization of orthodox Cathchairman of the NCCB Commit- olics, urged that Phyllis Schlafly, tee on the Laity. president of Eagle Forum, and Pope John Paul also named the Charles Rice, a University of Notre Dame law professor, be named to heads of tw.o predomina,-ttly lay organizations 'as full synod l'arti~ •. replac~,Mr~.. I;.~~.ey ·and:R:oy. cipants: Msgr. Alvaro del Portillo, Mrs. Leckey is executive director of the NCCB's Secretariat on head of Opus Dei, a personal prelature with about 75,000 members the Laity and Roy is director of the Office of Ministry Format"ion for worldwide; and Msgr. Luigi Guis- the Chicago archdiocese. . sani, founder of Comunione e Liberazione, an Italian association.

Others named by the pope included Nicaraguan Cardinal MiLOS ANGELES (NC) - Archguel Obando Bravo of Managua; Bishop Dario Castrillon Hoyos of bishop Roger Mahony of Los Pereira, Colombia, president of Angeles has urged a boycott of"all the Latin American Bishops' businesses that sell or rent X-rated Council; Cardinal Joseph Malula material" and asked people to get of Kinshasa, Zaire; and Archbishop videocassettes only from familyEdward Bede Clancy of Sydney, oriented shops. Archbishop Mahony urged a six-step "battle plan" Australia.

Czechoslovakian Msgr. Jan Hir- against what he termed "a major ka, who administers the diocese of societal moral problem and a major Presov, was also named by the public health problem."

In addition to the boycott, he pope, but Archbishop Schotte said it was not yet certain he would be called for aggressive enforcement of existing laws against obscenity allowed to attend.

The theme ofthe Oct. 1-30 synod and a broadening of California's is "Vocation and Mission of the anti-obscenity laws; secondary Laity in the Church and in the school education about social harm World 20 Years after the Second caused by pornography; investigation of the pornography industry Vatican Council." by news media; self-regulation by With at least 231 members, the the movie industry; and citizen synod will be the largest ever, action against pornography. Archbishop Schotte said. That includes 114 '!Vho will participate in a synod for the first time - a positive sign that new views and talents are being brought to the The Mass of Christian Burial assembly, he noted. was offered Tuesday at St. MarThe synod includes 153 repregaret Mary Chapel of the Catholic sentatives chosen by bishops' conMemorial Home, Fall River, for ferences, 14 representatives chosen Jane G. Broderick, daughter ofthe

by Eastern churches and to reprelate George V. and Jane (Aspell) sentatives of male religious orders, Broderick and sister of the late chosen by the Union of Superiors Msgr. Christopher L. Broderick, General. All have been approved pastor emeritus of St. Pius X by the pope. The heads of23 VatiChurch, South Yarmouth, and the can curial departments also are late Rev. John F. Broderick of St. members, as well as Archbishop Mary's Church, South Dartmouth. .

Schotte.

A retired teacher in the Fall In a suggestion to the synod, the - River public school system, she World Union of Catholic Women's was a member of Sacred Heart Organizations called for greater parish in that city.

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themoorin~ Ignoring the Farcical Few Every now and then it is well for us in the American Church, using that term for identification only, to sit back and listen to what our Holy Father teaches in his role as universal pastor.

All of us here talk too much and too often the Church is the whipping boy in our in-house discussions.

To add to the problem, Americans have become enamored of degrees. Everyone is an expert. There' isn't a topic of church iftterest that lacks a theologian. Every convention, meeting or convocation has its theological guru. In all this we have forgotten'that the Church is much too important to be left in the hands of theologians. It can only be placed in the care of the Holy Spirit.

In a July meeting with representatives of Catholic universities, our Holy Father, in his usual fashion offacing questions head-on, addressed this problem.

Discussing the subjects of marriage and contraception, he brought to the fore a serious difficulty. The pope stressed that Church teaching on human life has been definitively expressed by the documents of Vatican II, by the encyclical Humanae Vitae, by the apostolic exhortation Familiaris Consortio and by the recent instruction, "The Gift of Life."

With all this in mind, he stated: "A grave responsibility derives from this; those who place themselves in open conflict with the law of God authentically taught by the Church guide people along false paths. Church teaching on contraception does not belong to the category of matter open to free discussion among theologians."

This indeed is hitting the nail on the head. Teaching what contradicts the Word and the handing on of that Word by God's Church amounts to leading consciences into error.

NC/Wide World photo Publicity and notoriety given such teachings do not substiTHE POPE WALKS IN THE ITALIAN ALPS tute for truth. Much Of the confusion and division in the Church in this country has been caused by those who oppose "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence Church teaching, especially in the area of family life. cometh my help." Ps. 120:1 And what has this perversion of truth accomplished? A few have won brief fame, but the vast majority of Cath,olics have found themselves torn apart. Basic respect for Church teaching has been undermined by dissent and indeed the entire social order has been thrown into confusion.

By Father Kevin J. Harrington and rational coherence. The GosTragically, many theologians The attitude that insists that we do not need the Church to Controversy has erupted on sev- pel is meant to be a two-edged have hidden behind their right to offer us guidance in living our lives has led to the breakdown of eral fronts of American Catholi- sword, not a wet noodle! dissent to express their mistrust of the family and resultant moral chaos. Surely one of the most cism. It began with the Father Catholicism is in crisis in both the hierarchy. Some equate honesty glaring evidences of this is the dramatic increase of drug abuse. Charles Curran affair and con- the United States and Western 'with contention and are suspicious The loss of ethical and spiritual values is at the root of this tinued with the Vatican's interven- Europe. The indications of this: of theologians who "agree with in the ministry of Seattle decline in Mass attendance and in church leaders.'This mistrust has and many other evils. Realizing this, all in the Church should tion Archbishop Raymond G. Hunt- priestly and religious vocations, even led some theologians to treat be working together to unify, strengthen and heal family life. hausen. Rome's reiteration 'of its rejection by large numbers of Cathnoninfallible church teachings as Downplaying traditional religious values which give meaning stance against artificial contracep- olics of Church teachings on birth mere opinions without real bindto daily life has robbed families of the very strength that held tion and homosexual acts and its control, divorce and remarriage, ing force. of surrogate moth- surrogate motherhood and euthaThe real problem, I think, is them together in times of general adversity or personal condemnation erhood have not endeared it to lib- nasia, are all too familiar. general apathy. Many nontheolohardship. eral critics.

The modern Western experience gians, young and not so young, We are living in a period of history during which people are Although Pope John Paul II's of democratization in the political have a habitual and general disseeking stability and unity. Too many lives have been shattered September visit to the United States order has aroused in many quar- trust of the hierarchy. The last perby the cruelties of our secular society; and it is the obligation of may not end the controversies, it ters the feeling that church doc- sons to whom they would look for begin the healing process. valuable guidance on any serious our Holy Mother the Church to bind up, heal and comfort the should Many of these controversies are trine should not be controlled by a rel!gious problem confronting hubroken and hurting. hierarchy that acts without the deeply rooted and have solidified Her intent is never to separate and never should her unity over the past 25 years. As Cathol- ~consent of the governed. Some manity would be the pope and the bishops. ics became more and more Ameri- theologians, wittingly or not, have depend on the mere theological speculation of a farcical few.

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can in values and behavior, secular values and behavior moved into conflict with traditional church norms.

The wave of theological dissent combined with that of cultural assimilation and Peter's bark was indeed shaken in the United States.

The pope's strongest critics are those who want him to throw away the compass. But he is acutely aware that the distinctive witness of the church is in danger of being eroded by the spirit of the age.

Whenever the pope preaches the Gospel, he is sure to enrage peopIe. Jesus' hard sayings are not' meant to be watered down by his vicar in the interests of credibility

used their posture of dissent to encourage Catholics to assimilate in good conscience into a secular culture.

I believe that the real problem is not theological dissent. True dissent presupposes a deep concern for the institution and its traditions, and considers it important to persuade authorities to change their positions. The great theologian Father Karl Rahner had a far greater impact on the hierarchy thr0l;lgh. his esoteric theological pubhcatlOns than ~o many contemporary theologians. w.ho h~ve chosen the secu.lar med.la In which to expound their theOries.

The secular media tend to exacerbate the problem by highlighting the difference beween the values and behavior promoted by the p'ope and those believed and lived -. by the majority of American Catholics. Hopefully the religious press will not unprotestingly let its secular counterpart distort what will likely be the pope's message to America: that you cannot consider yourself a good Catholic while rejecting what the church teaches' in favor of what American culture holds dear.

The Gospel's two-edged sword both cuts and heals, and the American Catholic Church is desperately in need of a good surgeon!

Buying the promise It's vacation time and thousands of Americans are wending their way across the country spending time and money in search of rest and relaxation.

Some will find it.

Others will return eagerly to the routine of work and daily life, wondering why they bought into the idea that vacations are times of relaxation. Many will feel cheated.

They were promised renewal and refreshment only to experience disappointment and exhaustion.

Why is it that anticipation so often exceeds realization, that the more eagerly we await vacation, the Il10re disappointing it can be?

Because we expect too much of two or three weeks.

We build fantasies on what our vacation will hold: sunny beaches, idyllic retreats, beautiful weather, enthusiastic spouses, and compliant children.

We hit the road, laden perhaps with a couple of reluctant children who keep asking, "When are we going to get there?" and a couple more who count telephone poles - aloud.

"It will get better," we tell ourselves and each other. We reach our destination to find that each of us has a different idea of the perfect vacation. The hiker doesn't understand 路the lethargy of the sunbather or reader. The shopper rushes the sightseer so she can get on with the real purpose of the vacation, the souvenir shops.

Dinner together can become a nightmare. Tired young ones want quick hot dogs so they can get back before the motel pool shuts down. Exhausted parents want a leisurely meal and three cups of coffee.

Finally, the day ends and the children collapse at 8 p.m. Parents can't leave them alone in the room but can't read or watch TV, either.

One goes for a stroll while the other takes up residence in the bathroom, reading.

When this pattern is repeated for a couple of weeks, it's no wonder everyone is happy to resume normalcy at home. Postvacation memories tend to sift out the bad times and recall the jokes, the highlights and the bondedness.

Vacation in retrospect is generally more agreeable than in the present.

I liken vacations to hammocks.

A hammock producer once said that 50 percent of hammock buyers never use them. "They buy the promise of rest and relaxation, of balmy summer days and carefree time," he said. "They think that buying the hammock will give them the carefree life, so we promote that idea."

So it is with vacations. We buy the promise rather than the reality.

We figure that if we invest three weeks and a couple of thousand dollars, we'll get what the Chamber . of Commerce promises. We deliberately ignore our responsibility in finding hammock time - in deal-

Laity vs. clergy Today, when people are heavily emphasizing their distinctiveness and individuality, there is one distinction that is being deemphasized. The laity are calling for more equality in the church.

In every consultation for the October world Synod of Bishops on the laity, lay people have decried the gap between their world and that of the institutional church.

They often report feeling like second-rate citizens ranked below and distinct from the clergy.

The more I hear this complaint, the more I ask how the situation can be resolved to the satisfaction of all. I think that viewing the entire matter in a new context might help. But first let's look back at the history of the church.

The closest Old Testament equivalent to the word "laity" means "people of God." It is used often in opposition to the gentiles, and means "the sacred people" in contrast to those not consecrated to God. The Hebrews were God's chosen people, consecrated to him by means of a covenant.

Moving from the times of the Old Testament to the middle of the third century A.D., we see the church growing as an institution and many distinctions beginning to be made within it. It is then that we read, "Special ministries have been assigned to the high priest; a special place allotte4 the priests.

Lay people are bound by rules laid down for the laity."

The clerical role was defined as providing service at the altar to the Christian people. On the other hand, as the monastic life began to develop, the monk's main role was to live a life focused not on the world, but on God.

As time progressed, a relationship between the virtues of monastic life and the life of clerics was see~. By the 12th century, the clenc and monk were regarded as dedicated to divine things, and the lay person was seen as dedicated to human things. .

Although history has shown this iSflot always true and that this is a poor way to make the distinction in question, it is an approach embedded in church history.

It is true that the lay world differs from that of the clergy, but the distinction should not be founded on higher or lower spirituality, on a better or worse state of life.

The Second Vatican Council made a contribution through its

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ing with recalcitrant children and spouses, in accepting mosquitoes and rain as part of our time away.

The best vacations are those in which we accept imperfection. We assume it will rain. We know someone will behave obnoxiously. It's all part of family life. We aren't going to undergo a transformation simply because we're on the road.

When we anticipate and accept the realiiy of time away together, our expectations don't outstrip our realization. We conclude, "Well, in spite of that setback, we had a good time."

When I was in college, I worked as a waitress in a lodge on a Wisconsin lake. Occasionally we had a rainy week and it was interesting to watch how differently guests reacted. Some got so angry at the rain, they refused to have a good time. Others accepted it and substituted indoor activities for fishing and swimming..

Perhaps the primary value of vacation lies in the realization that we are essentially the same people on the road as we are at home -imperfect. And that life at home and work isn't so bad, after all.

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FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK view of the laity, lessening the tendency to view them as second-class church citizens.

To continue the spirit of the council, lay spirituality needs to be more fully developed and better defined. There is a need to find :ways to'make it clear that by workIng from 9 to 5, raising children and keeping a family together or pursuing the single life, lay people do more than pay for the sin of Adam and Eve. Just as monks singing the divine office hope to sanctify the world, so too the laity; they can humanize the world and make it more sacred through the life they lead.

It needs to be recognized that clergy and laity share a supernatural life and Christlike goals. Both are called to true holiness. The disti!1c.tio~ between them is simply a distInction of the means to sanctity.

"Open wound" VATICAN CITY (NC) - The foreign debt problem is "an open wound in the side of international relations" which should be resolved in keeping with the needs of the poorer nations, says Pope John Paul II. All countries must make "the necessary sacrifices, taking into account the priority to be given to the needs of the most deprived peoples," he added. His comments came in a recent message to the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development, meeting in Geneva.

Questions about annulment

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Q. Please send me a copy of your brochure on annulments. My daughter is seeking one.

This is much more technical The most recent document re- than I normally wish this column ceived was the brief of the defender to be. But perhaps it will clarify of the bond. He reports no objec- some points for you and for other tion to her petition "on the grounds readers whose relatives or friends of the inability to assume the es- are involved in annulment cases. sential marital obligations"(Canon Frankly, I'm quite surprised your 1095.3), and says "the union was .. daughter received the defender's null and void from its inception on brief. These usually are circulated the cited grounds." only to other officials involved in Neither her priest nor mine could the case, not because it is a big explain further. I hope you can tell secret, but only because such legalme: 1. What is Canon law 1095.3? istic documents often generate more 2. How long before the higher level confusion than light. reviews and concurrences would When people have questions, I be finalized and a decree issued? have found the answers they receive (Mass.) from their parish priests or from In certain types of marriage cases interested tribunal officials far involving dissolution or annulment more helpful than any document. of a marriage, church law requires To your second question, any what is called a defender of the tribunal decision declaring a marbond. As the name implies, his or riage annulled must go to an appelher responsibility is to "defend the late tribunal for a second decision. marriage bond," to present any This second decision normally reason the court should not declare takes much less time than the first an annulment but let the marriage sometimes oniy several weeks. ' stand.

Anything more specific must Requiring such a defender may come from your own tribunal. seem strange; but in its concern to be pastorally helpful to the people Q. My wife and I have had what involved, the church does not wish I thought was a fairly good marto lose touch with anything essen- riage for 19 years. She is not baptial to Christian marriage. tized but we were married in the church and now have two teenage Canon 1095 is part of the- mar- children. riage legislation of the church, in For almost a year my wife has fact, one of the most critical can- been having an affair with a much ons involved with annulments. It younger single man. is particularly worth the attention She told me yesterday she had of Catholics who complain tl1at believed in divorce and remarriage annulments are un-Catholic and since the time we were married but an arbitrary novelty introduced by did not tell me until now. I have a few "liberal theologians." filed for divorce.

Canon 1095 states biuntly the My family tells me that this is Catholic principle that some peo- grounds for an annulment in the ple simply are incapable of con- Catholic Church. Is this true? I am tracting marriage. For us Catho- desperate and scared. (Ohio) lics, and we would hope for most A. An annulment is a declara- . other people, marriage consent means more than simply saying "I tion that some essential element do" at a wedding ceremony and for a real marriage was lacking from the beginning ofthe relationhaving sexual relations.

It means committing oneself ship between the couple as husknowingly and deliberately to a band and wife. Therefore no martrue "covenant, by which a man riage ever existed.

One essential' condition for a and woman establish between themselves a partnership for the valid marriage is that both partners whole of life, [which) by its nature, at the time of the marriage fully is ordered toward the good of the and consciously intend to enter a spouses and the procreation and union which can be dissolved only education of offspring" (Canon by death. Whether or not this or another essential requirement for 1055)..

Thus Canon 1095 declares that marriage was lacking for you and the following are unable to con- your wife could only be determined by your diocesan marriage tract a real, valid marriage: I. Those who lack sufficient use tribunal. of reason.

Please talk to a priest, prefera2. Those who lack sufficient dis- bly one in your parish. He will cretion of judgment concerning explain and assist you with the essential marriage rights and duties. steps you must take.

This refers to anyone incapable of Many people, Catholic and not a mature decision about the obli- Catholic, are under the serious gations of marriage and about his misconception that annulment is or her ability and willingness to only a Catholic phenomenon. Esassume those obligations for life. pecially in light of your question, it

3. And the part involved in your question - those incapable of assuming essential marriage obligations due to causes of a psychic nature. This means anyone who suffers from a personality disorder or emotional immaturity so serious that he or she is simply unable to have the kind of relationship' essential for a true marriage.

is worth noting again that this is not true.

Annulment is as much a reality in civil law as in Catholic Church law. Intention for a lifelong union is generally necessary for a valid civil marriage as well as for a valid Catholic marriage. Thus the traditional words of the vows, "Until death do us part."

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Sister Michael Joseph, OP, director of nurses at the Manor, coordinated the anniversary celebration and presented Sister Marie Therese with a corsage of yellow roses.

In Jesuit Father Dan Schutte's popular song "Here 1 Am, Lord," the last line of the refrain is "] will hold your people in my heart."

"Who has done that more than Sister Marie Therese?" asked Msgr.

Among wellwishers was Pauline John J. Regan, director of DioceRose, who worked under Sister san Health Facilities, during his Marie Therese's direction for 13 homily at a Mass recently celeyears as the Manor's food service brated at Taunton's Marian Manor. supervisor. Hugging the jubilarThe Mass marked the 50th anni- ian, Ms. Rose told The Anchor "I versary of religious life of Manor think she's one terrific person!" administrator Sister Marie Sister Marie Therese said she's Therese Ernou, OP. enjoyed every day she's worked at Sister Marie Therese has headed Marian Manor.

Marian Manor since 1972. A native "Elderly people are very good of Touraine, France, she studied teachers," she said. "When you see nursing at the Ecole Catholique themacceptfng their limitations des Cadres in Paris following her and sickness you learn a lot from entrance into the Dominicans of . them. And you receive from them the Presentation. more than you give.

After graduation she was named "Caring for the elderly is a operating room supervisor at a wonderful mission," she added. hospital on the outskirts of Paris, working there for 22 years before After the Mass, Sister Marie coming to the United States in 1960. She nursed at St. Anne's Therese was surprised with a Hospital for about five years, then luncheon celebration in the Manor was appointed first superior of activities room, where residents North Attleboro's Madonna Man- and guests enjoyed a fine buffet or in 1966, about a week after prepared by the facility's cooking . becoming a United States citizen. staff.

Mary Monahan, a resident, She remained at Madonna Manor until her appointment to Marian paused between bites of scallops to talk about Sister Marie Therese.

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"She's been very beautiful to On July 24, Marian Manor res- us," the resident said. "I wish her idents, Health Facilities office health and happiness." staffers, present and past employees and friends gathered by the score to congratulate their friend.

At the Mass in the Manorchapel, Msgr. Regan said that the jubilarian is "a wonderful person and dedicated sister.

"She's defined her vocation to a perfect degree," Msgr. Regan said.

"She's committed and filled with love for everyone she meets."

Father Munro, who has worked with the jubilarian for seven years, feels the same way. "She does great work," he said. "And she's a very loving and caring person."

After the meal, Sister Marie Therese received gifts from her fans. Employees gave her roses and a photo album filled with snapshots, some of them picturing her as a baby.

"Where did you get these?" she kept asking Mrs. Ercilia Dejesus, a Manor office worker. "I'll tell you later," was the smiling reply.

Sister Marie Therese's family, the most likely source of the photos, is in France. She will visit them and celebrate her anniversary year with other Presentation jubilarians during a one-month trip to France in August.

Following the presentations, Sister Marie stood at her table, now laden with gifts. .

"I thank God for my 50 years of religious life," she said, "and for being a Dominican Sister of the Presentation. "] am really touched by th"is celebration," she added, thanking Msgr. Regan and all in attendance.

She DOted that without her dedicated staff she "would not·be able to do all the work entrusted to me."

And the staff and friends did again what they had been doing all day. They applauded her.

The homily earned applause from Massgoers, as its subject sat smB. ing broadly and blushing just a bit.

Father HughJ. Munro, Marian Manor chaplain, and Diocesan Health Facilities associate director Father Lucio B. Phillipino were Mass concelebrants. Father Phillipino's mother, Josephine, is a Manor resident.

"I'm happy she's here," he said.

"Sister Marie Therese is exceptional."

Participants in the Mass were lector Cynthia Pelczarski, RN, a Manor employee, and Health Facilities office staffer Mrs. MichaeIJ. McMahon, who read intercessory praye~s.

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The Siren Dear Editor: Thefollowing poem is an excerpt from a commencement address given to tbe ,Diman Vocational School of Pra.et:ical Nursing in Fall River. Its message identifies the fear and sorrow those in pain mutt endure. It also explains why thOle in pain behave in rather bi.zarre ways in order to avoid it.

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DON KANE AND FATHER DUFFY

One of Hyannis' best

By Joseph MoUa When Very Rev. Edward C. Duffy, pastor of St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis, introduces you to Donald Kane, a parishioner. he doeln't hesitate to speak his tfue

The deputy chiefllmiles when he talks about his testimonial. The event and the people who atte'nded _ family, friends, St, Francis Xav· ier parishioners, police, fellow Hyannis Elk.& and members of the Hyannis Irish-American Club, which he founded - made him very happy.

"I really app~ciated BishoP Cronin taking the time to come all the way down here," Kane said, noting that he bad met the p~late several times previously during pastoral visits to St. Francia Xavier.

In 1983, he said, he was dia8noscd with liver cancer. He had a "Doo's oneor ourbesl," be says. kidney and a vein removed to help Kane retired June I from duties combat it, and after a rest returned as the town of Barnstable's Dep~ t9 work," UIY Chief of Police. At 44, he About two months later, he was suffers from cancer in his bones, found with spinal cancer. After lungs, spinal column, groin and radiation treatment and che'moIiver~ He is paralyzed from the therapy, according to Mrs. Kane, waist down as a result of the illness "for about two years we went back to normal." in his spine.

Barnstable Chief of Police Neil Kane learned he was terminally Nightingale, according to Kane, But Kane is a fighter. Hc's out- ill in June of 1985 when during a lived doctors'life expectancy prog- three-month checkup he wa$ diag- , "has really been my ,best friend through the whole thing." Other notes several times. He says his nosed with lung cancer. police friends, he said, drop by for "love of God and faith in Jesus" Experimental chemotherapy folhelp him deal with his pain and lowed. Father Duffy notes~that visits and have taken him out for that he doeso't intend to give up Kane underwent the treatments lunch. fighting. .

Tne deputy chief has always with a "Maybe this will help someFather Duffy had told The Anbody elsc" attitude. He noted that been an avid sports fan and espechor that Kane was an excellent his parishioner has never been cially loves football and the New candidate for a feature story beEngland Patriots. Pat Sullivan, despondent. cause of his incredibly strong faith. the team's general manager, and Kane could work only By then, "You met an extraordinary perretired player Jim Colclough atIon this morning," Father Duffy a couple of hours each day and tended his testimonial, and all-pro lAid after the interview was com- had to Jive up his duties as a euch- guard Brian Holloway visited pleted. "A real, premium Catholic aristic minister.

"I couldn't sit through the Mass Kane's horne at Father Duffy's layman." for a whole hour," the deputy chief request.

Kane has had tremendous devoSo Don Kane has his trust in said. tion to his parish since he took up God, his friends, a loving wife, his September 1985 Kane was In residence in Hyannis and regisparalyzed by a spinal tumor. Phys- sons{"The little one sleeps with me tered there about 20 years ago. ical therapy helped and returll1ed at night and Kevin helps me in and The former police leader, Father some feeling to his legs, but devel- out ofthe'wbeelchair all the time") Duffy said, was for about five opment ofyet another tumor mllde and the respect of the sports figyears a eucharistic minister and his goal of walking again an impos- ures who have been his heroes for has been a lector and an important sibility. ' many years. part of the parish Holy Name He also has advice for those "I knew I was going to die,'" he Society, JCcently servingu its presiwho might fino themselves in. a "but I felt lucky.· 1 had a said, dent. position simIlar to his.

F'ather Duffy also came to know chance to make peace with GOd. "It scares you a little bit, but I've "Don't give up," he says~ "and Kane throulh his approximatl:ly four yean ,"S chaplain to the Barn- got faith in Jesus. I've never asl(ed keep to your faith. Take each day Ood to heal me. I've asked God to as it comes. slable police dep«rtment. forgive all my sinS and make ,me "God gives you credit for trying, The police, in cooperation witl, ready to get into heaven. for being a fighter."

Kane's familY and parish friends, "I'd rather have him do that." held a testimonial for him shortlY Kane said that Father Duffy after his retirement. Bishop Daniel offers Man for him and his family A. Cronin was present, Father every Saturday night at_their home.

Duffy said, and was much imFather Duffy says this about the pressed with the guest of honor. bedside Masses: "He's been an The Cape priest noted that the incredible gift to us. Now th~t he's bishop remarked that he wished unable to come, we go to him."

The priest says that Kane does every prie5~ in the diocese could the readings at the celebrations MVC beard Kane speak.

"It was a once-in.-lifetime exper- and that Mn. Kane takes the i:emte,"·Patt\er.Ouffysaid, , .-, ,- "", relp0nlorial psmma.

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The deputy chief met with The Anchor at the home he shares with his wife of almost 23 years, K..therine. a registered nurse, and their sons Kevin, 16, and Timol-hy" II.

Sister Marie Cordis, OP, until July 14 administrator of the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home, a Pan River care center for persons with terminal cancer, found it hard to leave the place that's been her everything for the pasl 13 years, "It's very easy to love thele people," she said of the patients, past and present, of the 3S-bed facility.

Sister Cordis left Fall River for her order's headquarters in Hawthorne, New York. She bas assumed duties as secretary 10 the congregation's mother general and as its a"istant treasurer.

During her career at the Hawthornc Home, one of seven cancer nursing facilities that the Domincans of St. Rose of Lima, better known as the Hawthorne Dominicans, operate in the United States, Sister Cordis hal seen the power of God at work many!imes.

Until her move, she was sttperior of the seven sisters who staff the home. They live simply, she says, and all memben rise before4 a.m. daily for prayer, since days at the home include many time-consuming tasks tbat might often make time with God at more conventional hours an impossibility.

Sister Cordis said her order was founded in 1900 by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the daughter of famed noveliat Nathaniel Hawthorne.

In the mid-jS90s, Sister Cordis said, Rose Hawthorne lathrop was married, but had "lost everything." including a younl son.

After much prayer they acted upon his suggestion. Mrs. Lathrop tool( the name Sister Alphonsa and Alice Huber became Sister Rose.

In December, 1900, the pair received the full habit of the Dominican order and made their first profession.

Their congregation grew quickly and was formally affiliated with the Dominican order in 1906. During these years the ministry to the sick Wl.t expanded and largerfacilities were established.

Mother Alphonsa, as Mrs. Lathrop was now known, lived until 1926.

Today there are about 95 Hawthorne Dominicans in 'the Vnited States.

"We have vocations all the time," Siater Cordis said, "but some leave.

V nless you want to live totally for almighty God, you'II find it a little rough. You see pain and suffering but you know its value. Our little bit of lufferins is a jJadl)' Biven gift

"God had removed everything from her life that was dear to her," Sister Cordis said. "She must have been simply devastated."

In 1896, Mn. Lathrop began to study nursing to forget her losses.

Her "sociates, Sister Cordis said, thought she was just "a society woman dabbling in charity. They didn't know God bad started working within her."

She was assigned to a .New York City cancer ward, all her superiors thinking that she wouldn't last.

"And she loved it," Sister Cordis said, "Here was a Sroup that vitally needed her person and ber care and shejuSl loved every minute of it."

Mrs. Lathrop learned aU she could about cancer nursing and bravely said goodbye to the gracious livin! she had always known, opening a three-rooni tenerqent on New York City's Scammel Street as a hospital-home to cancer patients, whom she preferred to call her "guests."

She decided that the sufferers should be without financial worry, and accepted no remuneration from them, a policy strictly followed to this day by all the homes operated by the Hawthorne Dominicans.

Even donations from grateful families are refullCd although contributions from other llourc:es are welcome.

In the 1890s Mrs, Lath~op'I tenement wa. a godsend. A cancer patient then was treated as an outcast and often exiled from home and employment,

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When The Anchor visited Sister Cordis, patients were receiving visitors and playing cards. The Rose Hawthorne is literally a home.

Famed psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, known for her work on death and dying, included ber impressions of the hospital in "To Live Until We Say Goodbye," a 1979 book.

"It was one ofthe most beautiful places I've ever seen... the patients were happy, the nuns were $0 open and cheerful and the place looked so beautiful." • Prayer is an important part of the Rose Hawthornetradition. Sister Cordis said that she was drawn to the Hawthorne Dominicans after

a terminally ill uncle had died in their ca reo She had been considering religious life, ,he said, and during her uncle's last days'learned of the sisters' lifestyle and mission.

"They're doing my work," she remembers thinking.

"We can learn a lot from our paticnu and their patien~, suffering and resignation to whatever God wants f£Om them," she said.

"They're at peace.

"God works through them and through us (the sisters]. And it's wonderful. He's a fool for love!~ Before she left, Sister Cordis began directing renovations at the Bay Street home.

The building's entire front is being remodeled, and elegant Carrara marble columns have been installed at its entrance. '"It's to lift the spirits of the people who come here," Sister Cordis said.

Which is exactly what she did for 13 years.

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SISTER CORDIS shares a moment of prayer with Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home guest Tony Collette, a member of St. Joseph parish, New Bedford.

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THE ROSE HAWTHORNE HOME: "To lift the spirits of the people who come here."

Mrs. Lathrop's husband died in 1898. The (oUowinl year, Father -Clement Thuente, OP, who had visited the home-hospital seYeral times, sUBlested (hat she and Alil;C ,,Huber, an artist who had . learned of Mri. Lathrop'. miuion and joined her al a (ulltime coUeague,

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to Christ."

At the home, patients are treated with dignity. They are kept "headto-toe" cleAI} at all times, Sister Cordis said, noting that extra steps, like keeping a patient's hair beautiful, go a Ions way in ensuring happy endings to lives.

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Try to minimize otbcr changes in the: daily lives of your cbildren.

- Don't blame or speak ill of the other parent. You may be tcmptcd. But children want and need to think well of both parents.

- Accept that your ex-spouse may have. different approacb to parcntinl. While this is not ideal, children can learn different sets of rules. It is hetter to accept parenting differences than to keep fighting about something neither party is prepared to change.

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- Find fun time be witb your childrcn. Both the custodial and the non-eustodial parent should find some private time, witb no agenda, just to be with the children.

Po.t-divorce parenling requires· special patience and commitment to your cbildren. As they grow older and reacb age 14.. mattcR may become further complicated, as children are often allowed by the courts to choose their custodial parent.

Mediate thc disagRelDents with your ex-wife witbout going to court if you can. And stay focused on love and care for your children.

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final. Mediation is a specific skill, building agreement by starting with small and minor issues. If you cannot resolvc a disagreemcnt between yourselvcs, you oUlht to try a psychologist or social worker skilled in divorcc mediation before filing again in court.

Children are often upset after retum from ridtatiolll. PMt-diVOfte they return from visitation. Their pareadII."Iw'd, What can I do to stress is frequently exprelSed in ...tt II euler all the ehildren! tantrums, bedwetting, silencc, sassing and other similar outbreaks, This docs not mean tbe visitaDon't be surprised that you CODtinue to have difficulty agreeing. tion went badly or tbat tbe childParenting of pretccns is difficult ren were in some way abused. and parenting apart is more dii-- Probably nothing wone went on in your cx-wife's home than usufleult.

Ideany, you should find ways to ally SOCI on wben they arc with tclolve your dispute over custody you. Change: itself is unsettling. without retumingtocourt. After a Children can adapt to visitation divorce, it is usually a mistakc to schedules. but it is normal for .rely on mutual courtesy aDd undcr- them to show symptoms of disscandios to .settle disasreements. tress while doing so.

What can a post-divoRC parent However, disputes between hostile parties are suc:eesafully mediated do? Here are a few sugges:tioGS to ease tbe stress: out of court every day.

-Be understanding. Tell thcm, For example. Jabor and management work out their problems "I know you feel badly," Listen to most of tbc timc without resorting their complaints. Many children to strikes and court action. Mod- are upset that visitation prevcnts ern nations meet aad negotiate them from heinl with tbcirfricnds. agrccD1Cnts. It is possible to reach - Be: firm. Understanding that viable agreements cveD in a cli- our children are under stress must mate of dislike and diltrust. not degenerate into an excuse for Thc nccd for regular mediation tolerating unacceptable behavior. to resolve child-care disputCl con- Tantrums and sassy mouths still tinues long after the divorce is require positive discipline.

Dear Dr. KeDDy: My e.-wHe and I "ere dh"orced ChJ'ft yun alO. but "e ~ODtiDue to han dIft'Ieatty onr our chDdre•• TlMy are UaDd '. and "e hue been bad to ~Ourt three ti-. CODCItID~.ltod,. I IlI&o noticed that ..., are _pad "beDew. they

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in a rtil;ent wue of the Journal of the American Medical Association raises an alarm about American adolescents.

The picture reported by University of Minnesota pediatrician Robert Blum is &rim. AU the recent empbuiJ on health doeso't seem to have fdtcred down to youth.

Terns arc: Dot pelia. hcalChier.

On the (:(IDtrary. tbey arc dying more violent datu from accidents, hotDicilk and suicide. They arc Ulinadrup and alcohola•• younger ap. And they arc heiDI dial- from tbe availability of money for DoKld with more depresllon and drugs to boredom to a love offast cars. chronic illneuel tban in the past.

A few felt that what was left out, Blum ...ya the ltatilticl abawd be. call to action for doctOR and as always, was bow many youth are healthy and optimistic. TrouheaIIhc:are worten. ble, one teen said, always has a Hit atatiltics indicate that 77 way of endiq up as a ...listic. percent of adolescent deaths are Then lcovcrcd a talt by Dr. cauecd byaccident, suicide or homicide. In 1980, almost 62 out of every 100,000 youths between the aps of aDd 24 died·from car crashes. elrowDiitp. poisomnp, ByCedIa . . . .pr burns. falls or other accidents.

Sixty percent, 18,800. were caused Tbe extravapncc of Jeaus'love by car crubcl. is difficult for people to under· Blum's facti on suicide.re more -stand. One notices thatJCSUl never than alarming. Self-inflicted deaths prayed for God's wrath to fan among youths IS to 24 have morc upon sinnen and those wbo perle· than quadrupled, from 3 per cuted bim. IDJtead. be prayed for ~OO,OOOin 1950 to 12.4 per 100.000 God's pity upon his fOes. In 1980.

Jesus was and it the great inter·Homicides among yOllths in thc ccssor, truly a high priest. It is no samc age range increased by 300 wonder new recruits tum to him percent from 19S0 to 1980, reach- daily and calk about how he ing 15.6 of every 100,000 youths. changed tbcir lives.

Blum reports that one-tenth of Someone remarked about the adolclCeRt fcmales becomc prell- crones people wear on their lapnant evcry year. Citing 1983 fi.- els, around their necks, in their ures, he indicates that of the I mil- ears, on bracelets and as pins. This lion rcported prepanei.es amon, is • 800d form of witness but we IS to 19 year olda. 38.7 ~rccnt mu.t remember th.t the Christian cndcd in abortion. 13.4 percent cron wal not worn but borne, was were estimated to have ended in not a thing of beauty but of shame miscarriage, and 47.9 percent were and uglioess. carried to term.

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The drug and alcohol picture boBBIe. the mind. One.in seven 12th-aradcrs rcportsgetting drunk at least once a week. In 1982. 60 pcrcent of biSh school seniors reported usingdrugs other than marijuana, including cocaine and amphetamincs thc AMA Journal report said.

After reading that report. 1talked to number of young people to get their opinions on why American youth are playing Russian roulette with their lives. 1 got a variety of .answers, from the breakup. of the family to a lack of spirituality•

Bernie Siegel, a surgeon at Yak: Univcrsity and author of "Love.

Medicine.ad Miracles." Sic.1 brinp spiritUality to healing.

He mentioned a teaclter who had siven a homework alligament to her students to write themaclvel a suicide note and • love note. The results showed that students bad many rcaSODS for DOt livin•• but vel'Y, few reasons for lovina themselves.

This, it strikes me, is tbe real clue in the bleak picture of tbe health of U.S. teen•. If they can find no rcuODS 10 believe tbcy arc lovable.ad important U1d beaded for a future in whicb their particular contributi.on to the world is nccdcd, why shOuld they Care about their boalth? Why not escape in any way available?

Siepl"ded tbat being brought up by lavina parents. as he was, is alepey we a.U need if we are to be equipped for "cboosinglife."

Jesus' boundless love at tbe crucifixion who scarcely paid any at&c:ntion to what was aoing on because he had such a nawnstoothac:he. " We can aU make tbe mistake of loolcinaat the cross, seeing: notbiq and continuing on our way unchanged, Yet Christ our passover was sacrifu:ea for us,- the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

He spoke to our hearts. ..It is finished," be said. His work is done. But ours is not. Can we say, .. It is :finished"? As long as wc continue to sin, nothing wiD be finished.

We can never repay that sinless soul who died that we might be made whole again.

Thc vincgar and the gall were his. For us he left the honey and the sweet.

Friar's • remains exhumed DETROIT (NC) - The body of a Detroit friar, Capuchin Father Solanus Casey, whose life is being reviewed for possible sainthood, was exhumed earlier this month for examination and reinterred.

The Vatican Congregation for Saints' Causes requires verification of the candidate's remains. Father Casey was doorkeeper at Detroit's St. Bonaventure Monastery for 21 years~ His body had been buried in the Capuchin cemetery behind the monastery but was reinterred inside an adjoining chapel to facilitate visits to the burial site, said Capuchin Brother Leo Wollenweber, vice pos.tulator' for the canonization cause which began shortly. after the friar's d.eath July 31,.

1957, at age 86.

Born Bernard Caseyin Wisconsin in 1870, Father Solanus was the sixth child in a family of 10· boys and six girl~. While studying for the priesthood, he did poorly academically, and after his ordination in 1904 was assigned as a doorkeeper.

In that simple job at a number of Capuchin monasteries, including Detroit's from 1924 to 1945, he counseled thousands of people and became known as a healer of the sick and handicapped.

The friar also had deep concern for the poor and inspired the Detroit Capuchins to open a soup kitchen during the Depression. The kitchen is still in operation.

Msgr. Albert Allen, delegate for Detroit Archbishop Edmund C. Szoka in the canonization cause, told The Michigan Catholic, archdiocesan newspaper, that promoters sought permission in February from the Vatican congregation to exhume the body. After a petition filed with the county court was granted in early July the work began.

The prie's1's remains were examined by Archbishop Szoka and other official participants, including local and provincial Capuchin officials, medical professionals, witnesses and a grandniece and grandnephew of Father Solanus.

"It was a very moving experience, an awe-inspiring experience," said Brother Wollenweber, who in addition to witnessing the reinterment attended the priest's fun~ eral 30 years ago.

Sister Anne Herkenrath of Seattle, a Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary and a grandniece, said it was "a wonderful, very moving experience."

She added that there was "an awareness" of miraculous healings attributed to her great-uncle during her childhood, but recalled that when she met him in 1945 at a . family reunion "he was one of the family." ' Grandneph!,=w Michael Casey, a dentist from Newport, Wash., said he never knew the priest but always has felt "the hand of Father Solanus on my shoulder." , Msgr. Allen said the remains were "an intact body - however, not perfectly so."

The report on the exhumation to be forwarded to Rome called the structural and tissue integrity, ofthe body "extensive" and "favorable." Medical observers said a

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But the agency continues supplying food for some 80,000 elderly people, most cared for by Mother Teresa's Misionaries of Charity.

No soft-pedaling PHILADELPHIA (NC) Christian communicators should be creative but never "soft-pedal" the Gospel to communicate it to diverse cultures, says the president of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications. "It is our responsibility to proclaim the message of Jesus as he did - fearlessly but attractively, in compelling parables and in consoling beatitudes, always in a manner understandable to those in the culture in which we live," said the Vatican official, Archbishop John P. Foley of the Philadelphia archdiocese.

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Preparing for a pope What have Florida, South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Arizona, California and Michigan in common this summer of 1987? All are getting ready for a papal visit in September. Pope John Paul II will spend 23~ hours in Florida, 4 hours and 55 minutes in South Carolina, 35 hours and 35 minutes in Louisiana, 22~ hours in Texas, 24 hours and 15 minutes in Arizona, 3 days,3 hours and 50 minutes in California and 27 hours and 15 minutes in Detroit. But every city to be visited is preparing as if the pope were to conduct a white-gloves inspection of every nook and cranny.

Following is a sampling of the goings-on.

Detroit plans huge papal Mass QETROIT (NC) - Parishes in the Archdiocese of Detroit are being encouraged to cancel or cut back Saturday evening Masses where feasible during the pope路s visit to the city.

The pope is scheduled to conclude his visit to Detroit with a late-Saturday-afternoon Mass at the Silverdome on Sept. 19.

Auxiliary Bishop Dale Melczek, director of the archdiocesan papal visit office, said the decision to cut back or cancel parish Masses was reached to facilitate participation of priests at the Silverdome Mass, expected to draw nearly 97,000 people... making it one of the largest indoor liturgies ever celebrated by the pope.

The bishop said the suggestion came "with the understanding that a number of people would be at the [papal] Mass or would want to watch the Mass on television.

Therefore, there probably would not be great numbers of people in attenda~ce at the Masses anyway."

However, church officials noted that watching the Mass on TV would not fulfill the Sunday obligation.

Bishop Melczek sent a letter to pastors reminding them to distribute tickets to the Silverdome Mass in a method reflecting parish makeup, including children, young adults, senior citizens and members of different races.

Other preparations for the papal visit include a five-part lecture series on the life of the pope.

Also, a ISO-voice Polish choir is being formed to sing during his stop in Hamtramck, the Polish city surrrounded by Detroit.

Cloistered nuns And in an unusual move the superiors of Detroit's three cloistered monasteries said they hope to send their sisters to the papal Mass.

Mother Mary Emmanuel, superior of the Blessed Sacrament Monastery of the Dominican Nuns of Perpetual Adoration, said the sisters worte to Bishop Dale to request Pope John Paul II visit their monastery.

He told them it would be impossible because of the pope's short time in Detroit, she said, but told her that if the sisters got permission to attend, he would give them tickets for the Mass.

Depending upon the constitution of a community, special permission to attend must come from either the Vatican Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes or the community's generalate in Rome.

Carmelite Mother Mary Katherine, prioress of St. Theresa of the Child Jesus Monastery in Detroit, noted that some members of the cloistered congregation have met with the pope in other countries.

"But usually the pope came directly to the convent, or the .sisters were at his national address to the religious," she noted, adding that. "we did receive an invitation for the pope's address to religious in San Francisco, but we're not going."

Although the communities have extended the Mass invitation to all their members, not all are expected to attend, due to physical limitations.

As for leaving 'the quiet monasteries for the madding crowd of the Silverdome, it won't be total culture shock, the sisters pointed out.

In recent years cloister rules have relaxed a bit, allowing sisters to go out for medical appointments or, in the case of the Good Shepherd Sisters, to visit the sick.

They know what the Silverdome looks like, too.

"Someone sent in a picture of the Silverdome, showing us how large it is," Mother Emmanuel. said. "We're overwhelmed at its size."

One in faith but not in melody DETROIT (NC) - As he celebrates Mass in different cities during his U.S. visit in September, Pope John Paul II can't be faulted ifhe thinks he hears the same lyrics at each Mass but sung to a different melody in each city.

That's the way it was planned.

"One in Faith," the official welcoming song for the papal visit, was commissioned by the U.S. bishops' committee planning the visit to fit the meter or pattern of such familiar hymns as "Alleluia, Sing to Jesus" and "Sing of Mary, Pure and Lowly."

For the pope's Mass at the Silverdome in nearby Pontiac Sept.

19 the song will be sung to an early American hymn tune recognizable to non-Catholics as "Come, Thou Font of Every Blessing" and to Catholics as "God We Praise You." A priest from the diocese of Providence, Father Peter Scagnelli, who wrote the lyrics, said in an interview with The Michigan Catholic, Detroit archdiocesan newspaper, that he "tried to combine the themes of service and authority."

Calluses for pope MIAMI (NC) - Switching from making needlepoint pillows to stitching the needlepoint back for a chair to be used during Pope John Paul II's visit to Miami wasn't easy - and Theresa Abdella has the callused fingers to prove it.

The finished papal crost will adorn the back of a chair in which the pontiff sits when he meets with

some 500 priests from across the nation in St. Martha Church Sept.

10, the first day of his 10-day U.S. trip.

Mrs. Abdella's efforts began after Father John McLaughlin, pastor of St. Martha's, sought someone to do the needlepoint for the chair and heard of Mrs. Abdella.

In Florida, in 90-degree heat, she has been playing tennis daily, and then spending four or five hours, also daily, on the needlepoint.

"It's路 different from doing the pillows," she said. "That needlepoint comes in a kit with a stenciled pattern and measured yarn."

But for the papal crest, she had to start from scratch, drawing the coat of arms and then selecting the yarn.

Although she has had to resort to numerous aspirins for the leg cramps acquired from hours of sitting in the same position, she said working on the crest was a challenge and taught her patience.

Spiritual bouquets

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Catholics in Florida and California plan to toss "spiritual bouquets" in Pope John Paul II's direction when he visits their states in September.

In Miami, Hispanic Catholics are preparing a "bouquet of Hail Marys" for the pontiff. Since January, almost 3 million prayers have been said.

The spiritual bouquet is a Catholic tradition of offering a number of prayers, devotions or penitential practices for another person's intentions.

"A Hail Mary is a very small thing to offer him, but all of them together are a sign of strength," said Roger Miranda. He and his wife Idalia are coordinators of the Miami-based Our Lady of Charity Guild.

To match the number of Hail Mary's that have been said, "you would have to pray the rosary three times a day during40 years," said Miranda, "or pray the rosary once a day for 124 years."

In California, a Menlo Park couple is appealing to Catholics and non-Catholics around the world to help prepare a spiritual bouquet of voluntary prayer and fasting for the pontiff.

Bernard and Susan Bujnak suggest that interested participants pray or fast each Wednesday until the pope arrives in San Francisco.

"The fasting should be suited to your situation," Mrs. Bujnak said.

"But it is essentially a day in which we will live a poorer life and thereby know more intimately our need for God." Participants fill out forms saying they will fast and pray. Their names will be presented to the pope during his stay in San Francisco, according to the Bujnaks.

BEHIND THE SCENES: Top to bottom, in Miami, Therese Abdella's hands finish a needlepoint rendition of the papal coat of arms; workers scrub the Louisiana Superdome; Antonia Sandoval prepares papal souvenirs in a San Antonio parish gift shop; S1. Vibiana's Cathedral in Los Angeles is spruced up; Detroit Auxiliary Bishop Dale Melczek accepts 100 loaner cars from General Motors for use during papal visit to city. (NC photo)

If y()'ii've beit'er answers, let's hear them, he says CINCINNATI (NC) - Those who know enough to disagree seriously with the U.S. bishops' pastoralletter on the economy are not free just "to walk away," says Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk.

"Anyone who is well enough informed to demonstrate why and how the bishops' practical suggestions will not work must also be responsible enough to offer solutions and suggestions that will work," the archbishop said at a recent series of archdiocesan study days on the pastoral.

Archbishop Pilarczyk, vice-president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, also stressed that Chaptet 2 of the economy pastoral is the central chapter and represents church teaching which "is not up for grabs." The chapter, titled "The Christian Vision of Economic Life," has three main sections, on biblical perspectives, on ethical norms and on the relationships of individuals and institutions as presented in Catholic social teaching.

When the bishops in that chapter present church social teaching spelled out by Scripture, tradition, councils and popes, "Catholic believers are not free to say, 'I don't believe any of that. That's not really Catholic teaching,' " Archbishop Pilarczyk said.

"Oh yes, it is," he added. "You'd better believe it."

In the pastoral's second chapter, he said, "we bishops are offering magisterial testimony to the Gospel and to the church's tradition in

a way that calls for assent. ... If there is one part of this pastoral letter that may not be written off by anyone who claims to be a believer, it is this chapter."

The study days were intended to help prepare parish priests, religious educators, teachers, administrators and others in various ministries to understand and teach the economy pastoral.

While Chapter 2 of the pastoral spells out church teaching, Chapters 3 and 4 spell out "practical solutions" to economic issues which the bishops consider "pretty good, in fact the best that we can come up with at this time," Archbishop Pilarczyk said.

Those more specific chapters are "not doctrine," he said, but "it is not enough simply to write off the suggestions" by saying they are wrong. Even ifthey are, he stressed, "the question of applying the teachings to the concrete situation still remains. None of us is free simply to walk away, either from the situation or the teaching."

Archbishop Pilarczyk said the pastoral was long and difficult because its subject matter does not admit easy answers. Understandingit takes work and time, he said.

The much shorter message at the beginning of the pastoral letter is only a summary of the larger document, he said, but it at least should be read.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., July 31,1987

By Charlie Martin

WHAT'S GOING ON

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Mother, mother There's too many of you crying And brother, brother, brother There's far too many of you dying You know we've got to find a way To bring back lovin' here today.

Father, father There's no need to escalate You see war is not the answer For only love can conquer hate Picket lines And picket signs Don't punish me With brutality Talk to me So you can see What's goinl on What's goinl on What's going on yeah What's going on.

Mother, mother Everybody thinks we're wrong But who are they to judge us Just because our hair is long You know we've got to find a way To bring some understanding here today.

You know we've got to find a way To bring back some lovin' here today.

Recorded by Cyndi Lauper, written by AI Cleveland, Marvin Gaye, Renaldo Benson, (c) 1970, 1971 by Jobete Music Co. Inc. TODAV'S TEENS might not one of his greatest hits, "What's be familiar with Marvin Gaye's Going On," is rising on the pop music. Unfortunately, his life charts as a Cyndi Lauper remake.

Gaye's recording was an anthem came to a tragic end in 1984. But

路What's o.n your mind?

Q. How should I react around a IUY that I like very much but don't I:aow if he likes me?

A. It's not a good idea to wear a really big heart on your sleeve, but there's nothing wrong with wearing a small one.

A big display of affection might drive this guy in the wrong direction - away from you.

But if you're generally pleasant and helpful, and if you now and then toss a smaH compliment his way, you may find a friendship starting and then flourishing.

As you await that happy time, observe the young man and see what you can learn about him.

What are some of his interests?

Does he have any hobbies? Does fie have a sharp sense of humor or is he serious much of the time?

What are some of his likes and dislikes?

Feed all this information into your memory bank and make use of it if and when the friendship ripens;

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Don't, however, use this information in a manipulative way.

Don't feign an interest in football if it really bores you to tears.

Such pretending can get you into trouble later on. For there will come a time when you will have to reveal that you really aren't interested in football, that you are sick and tired of hearing so much talk about the blankety-blank game.

Then the guy will know that you played the role of the great pre.tender, tha~ you deliberately set out to deceive him. Probably his opinion of you will plummet and th~ friendship will likely die a quick death.

Try, instead, to be sincere. If you like'the new jacket he's wearing, say so, without making a big production of the compliment.

But again, don't use compliments and flattery for purposes of manipulation. The danger is that if you are successful you may extend your manipulative activities to all areas of your life.

In a comic scene in Shakespeare's

to the social unrest felt by many Americans in the early 1970s.

The country was trapped in a war that few wanted. The government itself faced turmoil and uncertainty. Many youth ofthose days were asking: What's going on?

The song was a plea for more open talk, understanding and love, qualities needed as much in 1987 as in the 70s. I offer three suggestions on ways today's teens can further those values: 1. Homes are placeS much in need of open, honest dialogue.

Teens can 'help initiate such dialogue by asking family members to talk about family problems and challenges. Such talk builds better communication now and provides a model for teens on how to be parents in their turn.

2. Learn to be a healer. Healing often begins with understanding, and understanding starts with learning about the causes of problems. Spend 30 minutes a week learning about one world problem. If every teen would do this, think of how much understanding a nation would possess in trying to solve the problems that hurt people.

3. The song says that "we've got to find a way to bring back lovin' here today." The best way for each teen to do this is to love and appreciate him or herself.

Self-love could, for instance, affect our drug problems for the better.

Those with self-love and selfappreciation will refuse to take chances with their lives. They will be much readier to say "no" to drugs or any other danger.

Your comments are welcome.

Address Charlie Martin, 1218 S. Rotherwood Ave., Evansville, Ind. 47714.

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CHICAGO (NC) - While were away for years in the service," bringing up children in a show- she said, adding that his being business environment can be prob- away for 15 days was "never a big lematic, Dolores Hope said nuns thing." helped give their children "the right She and the children accompanperspective." ied Hope after the children were ''Their relationship with the older, she said, adding she made church and the BVMs (Sisters of eight trips with her husband.

Charity ofthe Blessed Virgin Mary) In fact, since 1966 she has been gave them stability and that means singing - and traveling - more a great deal," she said of her chiidthan ever. After her visit to Chiren; "It makes a big difference to cago, she headed to Washington see things in the right perspective." for the graduation of one of her The wife ofentertainer Bob Hope four grandchildren and then was made. the comments while in Chito give several performances with cago th.is summer to receive MunHope in the easte'rn United States. delein College's Magnificat Award.

"My big work now is following In an interview with The ChiBob," she said. "Retirement is just cago Catholic, newpaper of the not in his personality. He's booked Archdiocese of Chicago, Mrs. Hope all the time." credited two Blessed Virgin Mary Although her husband has alSisters now in Chicago for assistways been known for his tireless ing her children develop healthy charity work, Dolores Hope has "Hamlet," a tiresome old man values. been just as involved. She spoke named Polonius gives the young Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, proudly of the Eisenhower Mediprince some long-winded advice. now Mundelein College associate cal Center in Palm Desert, Calif., In it is this short gem: vice-president for academic affairs, where she is chairman of the board.

"This above all: to thine own was principal of St. Charles School Her husband donated the land and self be true and it shall follow as in North Hollywood, Calif., when raised the first funds for the center, the night the day, thou canst not the four Hope children were stuwhich includes four professional then be false to any man." dents there. And one of the childbuildings and educational and outIn other words, be yourself. Then ren's former teachers, Sister Vicpatient centers. you can relax and not worry about. tory Enright, has retired in Chicago.

The center receives 70 percent of weaving an elaborate web of lies. the proceeds from the Bob Hope The Hopes' two sons and two You won't have to worry about Chrysler Desert Classic golf tourconstructing an image. Gone will daughters continued in their stunament each year, she said. at Catholic high schools and dies be pretense and deceitfulness. The Golfing is an interest she shares universities, she said. real you can emerge, and it's more with her husband. She credits this , A native New Yorker, the former likely to be a likeable you.

Dolores Dafina received her own "wonderful hobby" - along with Send questions to Tom Lennon, - education from the Dominican Sis- "God's gift of health" - for her 1312 Mass. Ave., Washington,D.C. ters before beginning a singing husband's stamina in meeting the demands of his crowded calendar 10005. career. That career got sidetracked despite the fact that he recently for a while after her marriage to celebrated his 84th birthday.

Hope and the couple's decision to Also, she said, "I think we're start a family. The Hopes' children blessed with a good philosophy of are all adopted.

LEVOCA, Czechoslovakia (NC) At that time, she said, "the nor- life. Bob has taught me that it - 120 thousand Catholics gathered takes more energy to fret about mal thing to do was to stay home recently at an ancient shrine in something than to just go ahead with the kids.

Unfortunately today, Levoca in a demonstration of religwith the cost of living, women and do it." ious commitment despite official Dolores Hope's long list of honefforts to discourage it. The throngs have been taken out of the home. ors demonstrates how effective that . I'm sure there are many women from Slovakia, Czechoslovakia's philosophy has been in getting eastern republic, met at the 700- who would rather be home, but , things done. Some of the instituthe economy demands they work." year old Basilica Minor of Mary in As for her children's attitude tions that have recognized her efVisitation, the- nation's most imtoward their father's fame on stage, forts are the National Italian Amerportant shrine. "We wan.t to show screen, radio and television, she ican Foundation, the Holy Family that the respect of the Slovak said, "He was their father first and Adoption Service, the Eunice Kennation for the mother of God is nedy Shriver Center for Mental that was his work." still alive, and that it is a manifesOne of the questions she's fre- Retardation, the Daughters of tation of the Christian faith in quently asked about her 53-year Charity of the Archdiocese of Los Slovakia," Father Stefan Garaj, marriage is how she felt on all Angeles, Childhelp USA and the vicar capitular of the Diocese of those Christmases when her hus- National Adoption Center.

Spis, told a cheering crowd. A In 1980, the Hopes were honored band was away entertaining U.S. vicar capitular administers a <1io- troops abroad. "There were mil- by Catholic Charities USA as "ince~e without a bishop. lions of wives whose husbands ternational family of the year."

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

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

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

Catholic ratings for television movies are those of the movie house versions of the films.

NOTE Please check dates and times of television and radio programs against local listings, which may differ from the New York network schedules supplied to The Anchor.

"Jaws: The Revenge" (Universal) - The great white shark tries to eat up the remainder of the Brody family but can't get past Mom (Lorraine Gary). This failed attempt to milk the suspense and shock of the Steven Spielberg original offers only mild scares for the small fry and repetitive, bloody visual effects.

"La Bamba"(Columbia) - Pop biographical homage to teen age rock singer Ritche Valens (Lou Diamond Phillips). Valens' meteoric success and tragic death are set against the poverty and oppression of the barrios of Southern California and the ethnic bias of middle class suburbia. Effective study of Valens' struggle against cultural stereotyping and his relationship with his wayward brother (Esal Morales). Scenes of domestic violence, brief nudity and some profanity are overcome by the film's overall inspiratiQnal tone and depiction of youthful aspirations. A2, PG 13 "The Whistle Blower" (Hemdale) - Veteran spy Michael Caine avenges the death of his son, a British intelligence agent, without jeopardizing his position in the international "club" of spy organizations that form an "invisible government," which the film suggests controls worldwide political affairs. This murder mystery's plot includes infidelity and a subtle and pernicious political atmosphere confusing to youngsters and annoying to sophisticated adults. A3, PG "Robocop" (Orion) - Futuristic urban crime drama' about a good Detroit cop (Peter Weller) shot up by hoods and recycled into , a cyborg - part man, part machine - programmed to rid the streets of crime. Blood is not spared in this relentlessly graphic depiction of violent lawenfon;ement tactics used against equally violent criminals. BeCause the end does not justify the means, it is rated 0, R. TV Films Sunday; Aug. ,9, and Monday, Aug. 10, 9-11 p.m. EDT (NBC) "Once Upon a 'rime In America" (1984). Boyhoo" chums on New '

York's Lower East Side fight to achieve their versions of the American dream. Robert De Niro and James Woods star in this epic crime melodrama about twisted loyalties, unbridled passion and the Jewish emigrant experience.

The theatrical version contained excessive violence and a demeaning depiction of a sexual encounter. 0, R Saturday, Aug. 15, 9-11 p.m.

EDT (ABC) "Oh Heavenly Dog" (1980) - A detective (Chevy Chase) is murdered and reincarnated as a lovable brown mutt with a mission to solve the crime. A tricky balancing of adult and childlike material contains some sexual innuendo, profanity and gags at the expense of homosexuals. A3, PG

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NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC) The personal library and collected newspaper columns of Red Smith, a Pulitzer Prize-winning sports writer, have been given to the University of Notre Dame.

Walter "Red" Wellesley Smith, a 1927 Notre Dame journalism graduate, received a Pulitzer Prize in 1976. His column appeared in The New York Times and more than 100 newspapers nationwide.

The decision to donate the collection to Notre Dame was made by his widow, Phyllis Smith, who r~sides in New Canaan, Conn.

Nearly 1,000 volumes of Smith's personal library as well as awards and other memorabilia and newspaper column clippings dating from the 1930s will be incorporated into the Sports and Games Collection of Notre Dame's Theodore M. Hesburgh Library, university officials said.

Smith began his journalistic career with the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1927. After jobs with the St. Louis Star and Philadelphia Record, he wrote for the New York Herald Tribune from 1945 to 1966 and for the New York Times from 1971 untH his death in 1982.

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"I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of reparation on the first Saturdays. If people listen to my requests, Russia will be converted and there will be peace."

Then again, on December 10, 1925, Our Lady appeared to Sister Lucia, one of the children of Fatima, and told her the following: "Announce in my name that I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, shall

1. Go to confession and receive Holy Communion, 2. Recite the Rosary, 3. And keep, me company for a quarter of an hour while meditating on the mys,eries of the Rosary 4. ' With the intention of making reparation to me."

To practiCe this devotion, you must fulfill the requests of Our Lady, doing so in reparation for the offenses committed a'gainst the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Confession may be made during eight days before or after the Communion.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., July 31, 1987

Iteering pOintl ORDER OF ALHAMBRA Meeting 8 p.m. Aug. 7, Loyola Hall, Holy Cross College, Worcester.

5-HOUR VIGIL, ACUSHNET Blue Army vigil 7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Aug. 7, St. Francis Xavier Church, Acushnet.

ST. ANNE,FR Scout paper and can drive 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow, schoolyard.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Life in Spirit seminar begins tonight "and will continue through weekend. Parish blood drive Aug.

13.

ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH CCD teachers needed; information from Clara Weeks, 990-0287; CCD registration after all Masses the weekend of Aug. 29 and 30. New Bedford Market Ministries volunteers may call Dick Cummings; 994-4496.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Permanent deacon Joseph Tassinari is welcomed as liturgical deacon for Immaculate Conception mission and for other parish diaconal ministry as needed. A deacon in the Boston archdiocese, he also has faculties for the Fall River diocese.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Congratulations' to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Chaves, celebrating 50 years of marriage.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Joseph and Priscilla DaRosa are marking their 25th wedding anniversary.Family Mass 9:30a.m. Sunday with refreshments following.

ST. JAMES, NB CVO members will meet for outing 10 a.m. tomorrow, rectory parking lot. Lectors needed at all Masses.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Parishioners Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sheehan are observing their 50th wedding anniversary. First Saturday rosary and act of consecration to Mary 8:40 a.m. tomorrow, preceding 9 a.m. Mass.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET Babysitting at 9:30 a.m. Mass each Sunday. First Saturday Mass and rosary 8 a.m. tomorrow.

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ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET CCD teachers needed at all levels.

Information from rectory or Mary Kelley, 674-5980. Registration first two weekends of August following 4 p.m., 9 and 10:15 a.m. Masses.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO .Rosary 2 p.m. Sunday, followed

by Benediction and blessing of sick.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON Our Daily Bread food kitchen is requesting canned fruit juice donations for August.

HEALING SERVICES 2 p.m. Sunday, St. George Church Westport, with Mass; 2 p.m. Aug. 9: St. Joseph's Hall, Tucker Road, N..

Dartmouth; 2 p.m. Aug. 23, St. Elizabeth's Church, Edgartown; 3 p.m.

Aug. 30, Espirito Santo Church Fall River. ' ST.MARY,NB St. Mary's annual golf tournament will be held Oct. 3, chaired by Bob Sheehan. Henceforth it will be known as the Jack Curry Memorial tournament, honoring its founder. It is hoped that the new church will have a Curry memorial window dedicated to St. Andrew, for whom the famous Scottish course is named. A cheerleading coach is needed. Information mornings at school, 995-3696.

NOTRE DAME, FR New CCD teachers are needed.

Information at rectory.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, HYANNIS Deacon Richard M. Dresser is welcomed to parish service. Prayers are asked for Father Joseph M. Caplice, OMI, a weekend assistant, who has undergone cancer surgery.

ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FR The hospital has announced participation in Health Choices, a health coverage program for families receiving public assistance.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Day of adoration from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. today. Thanks go to Jim Ferris for donation of two parking signs for the rectory grounds. Parishioners will be in charge of the area soup kitchen on Aug. 7. The school floors will be refinished Aug. 12 through 15, thus the building will be out of use at that time.

HOLY NAME, FR CCD teachers needed. Volunteers may call the rectory. Additional ushers are needed at Sunday Masses.

SACRED HEART, FR Plans are being made for a Women's Guild Halloween mystery ride.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Acolytes' summer outing Aug. 5, meeting at church at 10:30 a.m. Five chaperones are needed and volunteers are welcome.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS POCASSET ' S~. Fr!in~is of Cape Fraternity family plcmc and meeting 2 p.m.

Sunday at home of Mr. and Mrs. George Towers, 396 Barlows landing Rd., Pocasset. Mass and homily

by Father Edwin Dirig, OFM. Portiuncula indulgence may be gained f~om noon tomorrow through midmght Sunday. Further information: Robert Collyer, upper Cape, 5632654; Dorothy Williams, middle and lower Cape, 394-4094.

RAY REPP, an originator of folk Masses in the 60s, will lead a workshop for music ministers from 1 to 3 p.m. tomorrow at LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro. He will be featured at I an outdoor concert at 4 p.m. and will lead music at a 7:30 p.m. twilight Mass in the shrine's Garden of Worship.

Repp has been composing and performing original music since the 60s, producing 10 albums which have been translated into 28 languages.

At the workshop he will speak 'on the role of pastoral musicians from the standpoint of his experience and will conduct a question session. The concert will be open to all; law'n chairs and blankets may be brought and it will be held indoors in case of rain. Further information on all events: 2225410.

CATHEDRAL, FR An exhibit of photographs in t~e shrine room at the cathedral entrance honors the 100th anniversary of the death of Father Edward Murphy, pastor from 1840 to 1887. Classes for converts and for high school students or adults wishing to receive the sacraments of first communion or confirmation will begin in September.

Information at rectory. Those wishing to participate in a parish golf tournament may contact Father Barry W. Wall.

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