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Diocese of Fall River, Mass.

F riday , August 7, 2015

Summer sights from across the diocese

At left, Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., and Father Kevin Cook, diocesan director of Vocations and Seminarians, prepare to pick teams for a soccer match at the recent Quo Vadis Days retreat for young men. Above, the Quo Vadis crew trekked up Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire. It was a beautiful day for a hike. The group of those who made it to the summit pose for a picture. Thirty-two young men attended this year’s event, the fifth anniversary of Quo Vadis, sponsored by the diocesan Vocations Office.

Bishop da Cunha recently visited Holy Trinity Parish in West Harwich. With the bishop are, from left: Father Mark Noonan, Bishop da Cunha, parishioner Sister of Good Shepherd Dorothy Kelly, Boston vicar general and Auxiliary Bishop Peter Uglietto, and Holy Trinity pastor Father Edward A. Healey. Sister Dorothy has been a religious for more than 75 years. (Photo by Barbara-Ann Foley)

At the centennial of Our Lady of Hope Chapel in West Barnstable there was a large turnout of parishioners to celebrate the event and it also drew a contingent of diocesan officials who have been associated with the chapel over the years. From left to right: Father Donald A. MacMillan, S.J.; Msgr. John A. Perry; Father Richard D. Wilson; Father John J. Perry, Bishop Emeritus George W. Coleman; Bishop da Cunha, Father Richard Casey; Father Marek Chmurski, and Father John Lochnane.

Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V. recently spent a weekend with the parishioners of St. MaryOur Lady of the Isle, on the island of Nantucket.

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August 7, 2015 News From the Vatican Papal parenting guide: Francis delivers his own how-to for families

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis knows the family is made up of real people living in the real world, which is why he often gives down-to-earth advice.

The Catholic Church has long taught that the family is a school of humanity — the first and best place to learn about love and respect. In fact, a healthy society relies on citizens who learn love, responsibility, loyalty, acceptance of others and solidarity from their family relationships, Pope Francis has said.

The pope, a former teacher, has, in a way, been handing today’s families detailed lesson plans, offering guidance in what actually needs to be done.

The world Synod of Bishops on the family, which the pope has convoked for October, also is expected to deliver concrete guidelines for the pastoral care of the family and its members.

By devoting his general audience talks to the family since last December, as well as making the family a key topic of other speeches and homilies, Pope Francis has been offering concrete and, at times, colorful advice, which will give people gathering for the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia in September plenty of material to parse through.

The pope’s approach starts from the bottom up.

He doesn’t begin with a textbook concept or picture-perfect ideal everyone needs to magically become an exact replica of. The family is a real institution made up of very human, and therefore, limited members who need real help.

With examples from his own

life and the real lives of others, he points to what is happening “on the ground” and then builds a pastoral plan — what would God’s response be to this reality.

For example, the Christian response to the all too typical problem of anger or misunderstanding is to choose the path of dialogue, which requires eat-

Kissing in front of the children is a “beautiful witness,” he told parents in June 2015.

Children watch their parents carefully and “when they see that dad and mom love each other, the children grow in that climate of love, happiness and security.”

He has told youngsters to go out, discover the world and

prayers, wisdom and gifts to give them the encouragement, hope and faith they often lack in today’s frenetic world.

“We older people can remind ambitious young people that a life without love is barren. We can tell fearful young people that worrying about the future can be overcome. We can teach young people who are in

Pope Francis arrives to greet participants in the recent Renewal of the Spirit meeting in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

ing lots of tart “humble pie,” he said in a homily in January 2014.

“Sometimes the plates will fly,” the pope said. But “after the storm has passed,” things have to be worked out as soon as possible, “with a word, a gesture,” so no one ends up “isolated in this bitter broth of our resentment.”

Other similarly practical advice he has given couples: play with your kids more, stop the swearing, be more affectionate and always say, “please,” “may I” and “thank you.” Moms and dads must lead the way, he says; they are the most influential role models for their kids.

“build everything together, do everything with love, everything is possible and faith is an event always to be proclaimed.”

Talk to your best friend, Jesus, every day, he told children in December 2014, and be “apostles of peace and serenity” at home and at school.

“Remind your parents, brothers and sisters and peers that it is beautiful to love one another and that misunderstandings can be overcome, because when we are united with Jesus everything is possible,” he said.

Giving advice to grandparents, the pope has said that families and kids need their

love with themselves too much that there is more joy in giving than receiving,” he told his fellow seniors in March 2015. The pope’s dream is that families challenge today’s throwaway culture with “the overflowing joy of a new embrace between young and old people.”

Key to drawing the needed strength and inspiration is reading the Gospel, prayer, Confession, Communion and fellowship with the poor, he said in May 2015.

“Imagine how much our world would change if each one of us began right here and now and seriously took care of ourselves and generously took care of our relationship with God and our neighbor,” he told Vatican employees and their families before Christmas last year.

The Holy Family is still the perennial role model for families, the pope has said. Mothers can mirror the same love and attention Mary had for her Son, and fathers can exemplify the patience and understanding of Joseph who did everything to support and protect his family.

The real secret, he said, is just to “welcome Jesus, listen to Him, speak to Him, take care of Him, protect Him and grow with Him” like Mary and Joseph did, and “that is how the world will become better.”

Pope Francis knows families cannot do it on their own. He also insists policymakers and leaders devise and support poli-

cies that build up families and neutralize their biggest threats: war, poverty, consumerism and economic policies that promote the worship of money and power.

Justice for women must be promoted since, in the West, they face discrimination in the workplace and often are forced to choose between family and job obligations, the pope has said. Also, women too often face violence in “their lives as fiancees, wives, mothers, sisters and grandmothers” and, in developing countries, “women bear the heaviest burden” by having to walk miles to collect water, often risk dying in childbirth, and face kidnapping, rape and forced marriages, he said in May 2015.

Culture needs a humanizing re-haul, too, he said, to ease the pressure on couples to not be afraid of the lifelong commitment of Marriage and to see children as a blessing, not a burden.

Pope Francis has been especially vocal about resisting current trends that seek to legitimize same-sex unions, contraception and fluid notions of gender. He warned families in the Philippines against this “ideological colonization that tries to destroy the family” and takes away human identity and dignity, and he repeatedly has reaffirmed Church teaching that Marriage is a lifelong bond between a man and a woman.

Given the many challenges — within society and within the walls of the family home — Pope Francis regularly praises the many men and women who are fighting the good fight every day.

Leaders and communities “should kneel before these families, who are a true school of humanity, who are saving society from barbarity” by staying together and safeguarding their bonds amidst difficult conditions, even in poverty and crisis, he has said.

Regular men and women who care for their infirm loved ones, miss a night of sleep and still roll into work the next day are the “hidden heroes” and the “hidden saints” of today, he said.

The pope has urged the men and women who are on the right path to lend a hand to help evangelize and to help other families heal so that the teachings of the faith will touch more people’s hearts and give them the strength to follow God’s Will.

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The International Church rorism and the absence of security for the religious Christian and Muslim sites,” Kairos Palestine said.

Under police order not to speak about the case so as not to interfere in the police investigation of the Tabgha attack, Father Schnabel said: “We feel that there is not the lack of ability to look for results and arrests but a serious lack of will.

I hope I am wrong but we have that feeling.”

As difficult as it may be, the

priest said, it is necessary for Israel and its officials to acknowledge that a small fringe within society does not tolerate minorities; this is part of the religious freedom and democracy that Father Schnabel is convinced Israel supports.

Arresting the culprits helps with a feeling of justice being done, but it is only treating the symptom of the illness rather than the problem itself, he said.

“You have to go to the root of the problem,” he said.

Aid groups: Myanmar violates international law by blocking aid

An ultra-orthodox Jew walks past the Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion in Jerusalem recently. Christian leaders want Israel to step up protection of Christian sites. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill)

Church leaders want Israel to step up protection of Christian sites

JERUSALEM (CNS) — Although Israeli officials have publicly criticized the June arson attack that seriously damaged the Benedictine Church of the Multiplication in Tabgha, anti-Christian violence is not new, said a representative of the religious order.

Benedictine Father Nikodemus Schnabel, spokesman for the Benedictine Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion, told Catholic News Service that fires and vandalism have plagued other churches and Church property for years.

The abbey was set on fire May 25, 2014, soon after Pope Francis visited the site during his Holy Land pilgrimage. It is located near a yeshiva and the Tomb of David, where the Cenacle, or the Upper Room, site of the Last Supper, is located.

A year earlier, two cars owned by the Benedictines were set on fire. Benedictine monks often are victims of verbal and spitting attacks, and Christian tombstones are smashed, Father Schnabel said. In March, a Greek Orthodox seminary was damaged in an arson attack and a wall was sprayed with antiChristian graffiti.

Although there have been photos of people spitting at and verbally abusing the monks, no arrests in connection with any of the incidents have been made, Father Schnabel said. A Benedictine request that a security camera be installed near their property has gone unheeded, he added.

“We are very thankful for the

many signs of solidarity from our friends in the civil society, but (until Tabgha) we never heard any officials respond,” the Benedictine priest said.

With the official condemnations of the Tabgha attack, the Benedictines are “very happy with the words,” but are “now looking for results,” he said.

No charges have been brought in connection with the incident, although police announced recently that they had arrested several suspects.

The building housing the traditional locations of the Cenacle and the Tomb of David continues to be a point of contention within the National Religious Party, a Zionist political party whose supporters believe in the right of Israel over all areas of the Biblical Jewish Holy Land. The party has used the building as a rallying point, charging at times that it will be transferred to the Vatican or Christians.

Makor Rishon, a newspaper identified with conservative national and religious values, regularly publishes anti-Christian articles and charges against Christians and the monastery in particular.

“It is a very tiny group of national religious Jews,” said Father Schnabel, emphasizing that it was important to point out that the perpetrators are not, as often portrayed in the media, ultra-Orthodox Jews. Many are those who are prohibited from entering the West Bank by Israeli authorities, those known as “the hilltop youth” who establish illegal

settlements on hilltops in the West Bank, he said.

The Benedictine said those who carry out the attacks adhere to an ultranationalist stance that often calls for ridding Israel of non-Jewish individuals and organizations.

Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal blamed government inaction and a lack of education about tolerance and understanding for the continuing attacks.

“Sometimes the government of Israel condemns (incidents) and many private Israeli institutions and Israelis come or write beautiful letters condemning the attacks, saying this is not their way,” noted Patriarch Twal. “But it is not enough for the government to condemn the actions. We ask for follow-up with action.”

He charged that the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tacitly encourages such behavior.

“They are in the government.

All the right-wing government is their allies. This is their line,” he said. “They are an integral part of the government. This is our society. We haven’t a normal life.”

In a recent statement, the Christian Palestinian initiative Kairos Palestine expressed concern that such continued incidents could “fan dissent and fire religious conflicts in the Holy Land.” It said that failing to hold the perpetrators accountable for their deeds encourages them to continue with such actions.

“The Israeli authorities are responsible for this kind of ter-

MANDALAY, Myanmar (CNS) — Aid groups in Myanmar condemned the military’s blocking of relief supplies to more than 1,000 newly-displaced Kachin civilians as a violation of international humanitarian law.

“We demand unconditional and free humanitarian access to those displaced by the current fighting and urgently request the withdrawal of troops from the villages and the creation of safe corridors for villagers to safely return home,” a coalition of nine local aid groups said in a recent statement.

The Rev. Lama Yaw, a spokesman for the Kachin Baptist Convention, said that the situation remains tense in northern Kachin state as the military has increased troops in the region.

“We held a meeting with the U.N. and other aid groups in Myitkyina on July 24 to discuss how to carry out aid for the displaced, but the roads remain blocked by the military. We were forced to suspend our humanitarian response, but we are still observing the situation,” Rev. Yaw recently told ucanews. com.

Renewed fighting between the military and the Kachin Independence Army in Su-

prabum township in northern Kachin state forced more than 1,000 civilians from nearby villages to flee to the jungle in rebel-controlled territory.

The most recent data shows more than 1,400 newly -displaced Kachin civilians as of July 24, said Rev. Yaw. “War goes on in parts of the country. Families are broken in Kachin state with more than 100,000 displaced people,” Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon said.

Meanwhile, more than 100 civil society groups appealed to President Thein Sein and Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, commander-in-chief, to stop military activity and troop movement in Kachin, Shan and Karen states.

“We condemn the military offensive and (demand) the withdrawal of troops from the villages in ethnic areas,” read the letter.

The groups also called for a national cease-fire “for the sake of the people and peace.”

The latest round of peace talks is set to resume in early August.

The Kachin conflict intensified in 2011, after a 17-year cease-fire between the rebels and government broke down, driving nearly 100,000 civilians from their homes.

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August 7, 2015 The Church in the U.S. New Gallup poll shows pope’s favorability drops among Americans

WASHINGTON (CNS) — A new Gallup poll shows that the favorability rating for the pontiff among U.S. respondents is now about 59 percent, down from 76 percent in early 2014 and close to the 58 percent rating Americans gave him when he was elected pope in March 2013.

Sixteen percent of respondents in a poll conducted July 8-12 gave him an unfavorable rating, compared to nine percent in 2014.

Twenty-five percent now say they have no opinion or have never heard of him.

Among Catholic respondents overall, 71 percent said they have a positive view of the pope, down from 89 percent last year.

The percentage of Americans who identified themselves as conservative and gave him a favorable rating dropped 27 percent — 45 percent now, compared to 72 percent last year. The number of moderates and liberals rating him favorably declined eight percent and 14 percent, respectively.

Gallup attributed the decline among conservatives to their disagreement with Pope Francis’ strong words in his environment encyclical that human activity is a major cause of climate change as well as his focus on income inequality.

In “Laudato Si’,” released in June, the pope said there is a moral obligation to preserve the planet, and climate change is a serious issue.

“If you look at trends, there has been a decline in the general attitudes toward institutions of authority of all kinds, espe-

cially religion,” said Bill Dinges, a professor of religion and culture at The Catholic University of America in Washington.

“We know by way of Gallup polls, and others, that the nation as a whole is becoming less religious, just as it’s becoming less Christian. I am not surprised that conservatives disagree, but that liberals do,” he told Catholic News Service in comments about the survey results,.

Liberals say they are disappointed that the pope has not backed women’s ordination or married priests and has reiterated Church teaching on traditional Marriage, as recently as his trip to the Philippines in January.

The first Gallup poll on the pope’s favorability among Americans was conducted April 11-14, 2013. Fifty-eighty percent of respondents said they had a favorable opinion of him; 10 percent viewed him unfavorably; and 31 percent stated that they had either never heard of him or had no opinion about him.

He earned a lot of praise from U.S. media in his early days as pope for his focus on helping the poor, interfaith relations and what many thought would be a change in doctrine on same-sex marriage and the ordination of women.

In 2013, Time magazine named him “Person of the Year” and praised what the article described as “progressiveness.”

“In a matter of months, Francis has elevated the healing mission of the Church — the Church as servant and comforter of hurting people in an often harsh world

— above the doctrinal police work so important to his recent predecessors. John Paul II and Benedict XVI were professors of theology. Francis is a former janitor, nightclub bouncer, chemical technician and literature teacher,” the article said.

In the next Gallup poll, conducted Feb. 6-9, 2014, the pope’s favorability shot up to 76 percent.

The most recent Gallup poll showed that the pope’s favorability rating is higher than that for Pope Benedict XVI. According to Gallup, its last poll conducted about the German-born pope — in March 2010 — showed he had a 40 percent favorable rating. He retired in 2013.

The last Gallup poll conducted about St. John Paul II showed he had a 78 percent favorability rate.

Gallup also said St. John Paul had an average favorability rating of 72 percent throughout his papacy, which lasted from 1978 to 2005.

The July poll on Pope Francis was conducted with telephone interviews of 1,009 adults ages 18 and older, selected at random from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The margin of error was plus or minus four percentage points.

Pope Francis’ popularity among Americans could spike again once he makes his first visit to the U.S. in September, visiting New York, Philadelphia and Washington, where he will be the first pope to address a joint meeting of Congress.

Dinges told CNS he believes this will be the case, especially

because he will be in the public eye and will be receiving a lot of media coverage.

“The media maketh and the media breaketh,” he joked.

The popularity of St. John Paul among Americans rose during his 1993 and 1999 U.S. trips to the U.S., and the same was true for that Pope Benedict during his 2008 trip.

Another recent national poll

of likely 2016 voters showed that 56 percent of them agree with the pope’s environmental encyclical, his emphasis on the need to help the poor and his criticisms of today’s “throwaway culture” and consumerism. Lake Research Partners conducted the survey among religiously affiliated individuals on behalf of a coalition of labor unions and faith-based organizations.

Appellate panel reverses decision that favored Pro-Life pharmacists

PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) — A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently reversed a lower court ruling that had granted some Pro-Life pharmacists at a Ralph’s grocery store pharmacy in Washington state the right on religious grounds to refuse to stock emergency contraception or fill such prescriptions.

The pharmacists say they will appeal the ruling to the full 9th Circuit. The plaintiffs are challenging Washington state pharmacy board rules that say pharmacists cannot refuse to dispense drugs they say are contrary to their conscience, nor can they refer customers to other pharmacists who will fill such prescriptions.

The court rejected three specific claims lodged by the plaintiffs, who are two pharmacists and a pharmacy owner: equal protection, free exercise and due process, the last of which had been rejected by the lower court but was considered anew by the appellate court.

The judicial panel held that the rules, promulgated by the Washington Pharmacy Quality Assurance Commission, were neutral on their face.

One day before the rules were to take effect in 2007, the plaintiffs had sued to block their implementation.

“No one should be forced to choose between their religious convictions and their family businesses and livelihoods, particularly when the state allows referrals for just about any other reason. The premier medical and pharmaceutical associations all support the right of a provider to refer patients, and all other states allow such referrals,” said a recent statement by Kristen Waggoner, senior vice president of legal services for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which had represented the pharmacists in court.

“This decision will affect many facilities within the state, including Catholic hospitals and pharmacies, which have made

clear they will not dispense these drugs,” Waggoner said.

But the panel had rebuffed Waggoner’s contentions.

“Plaintiffs assert that Catholicaffiliated pharmacies also refuse to stock or deliver Plan B or ella. But the record contains no evidence that any complaints have been filed against Catholic-affiliated pharmacies. The commission did not investigate alleged noncompliance among Catholic pharmacies for the simple reason that the commission received no complaints,” the court said.

By the same token, since 2006, 24 complaints had been filed with the commission against Ralph’s in connection with this policy.

Kevin Stormans, owner of Stormans Inc., which operates the pharmacy, also lambasted the court decision in a recent statement.

“With 33 pharmacies stocking the drug within five miles of our store, it is extremely disappointing that the court and the state demand that we violate our conscience or lose our family business,” he said. “All we are asking is to be able to live out the beliefs that we hold, as Americans have always been able to do, and to be able to refer patients (to other pharmacies) for religious reasons.”

The rules allow an individual pharmacist to decline to fill a prescription for religious reasons, provided another pharmacist on duty at the same store can fill it.

The court had said in its unanimous opinion, “Whether facilitated referrals also further patients’ access to medication is irrelevant.

On rational basis review, plaintiffs still have the burden to negate the commission’s chosen method for achieving that goal.”

The judges also gave no weight to the pharmacists’contention that Plan B and ella are abortifacients, noting that the state commission had disputed it. “Plaintiffs have neither argued nor presented evidence to establish that the drugs objectively cause the taking of human life,” the court said.

The Church in the U.S. Advocates applaud court orders to release detained families

August 7, 2015

WASHINGTON (CNS) — A federal judge recently ruled that the government’s immigrant family detention system violates a settlement agreement dating to 1997 over how juveniles in the custody of the immigration agency are treated.

Advocates for the thousands of families being held in compounds run by for-profit prison companies hailed the ruling and said it should mean the end of the policy of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to lock up families while they pursue asylum and other types of protection from deportation.

Judge Dolly Gee of the Central California District Court found ICE violated a court settlement reached in 1997 with a strategy enacted last summer of detaining women and their children as a deterrent to others who might try to cross the U.S. border at Mexico. The Obama Administration was given until August 3 to officially respond to Gee’s ruling.

The detention centers have been harshly criticized by attorneys, members of Congress and advocates such as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The USCCB and the Center for Migration Studies issued a scathing report in May based on bishops’ visits to two family detention centers in Texas. It decried conditions and recommended dismantling the whole system, replacing it with less drastic ways of keeping track of immigrants who are awaiting the outcome of legal cases.

More than 55,000 families were among a surge of Central American immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border last summer. Along with 57,000 unaccompanied minors, the families were fleeing violence and other dangers in their home countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. ICE had in 2009 closed another family detention center amid strong criticism. But it opened new centers and expanded an existing one to hold women and their children. Current capacity is for more than 3,000 people, primarily at two detention centers in Texas, including one built specifically to house 2,500 women and children.

Gee had issued a preliminary ruling in May, telegraphing her intentions to find the

detention system unaccept- parents unless there’s a deter- order in the Flores case, which able. In response, ICE had mination that there is “a sig- should mean that the remainbegun releasing more fami- nificant flight risk, or a threat ing families will be released.” lies on bond and with ankle- to others or the national seThe National Immigrant bracelet monitoring systems, curity which cannot be miti- Justice Center also lauded but hundreds of families are gated by an appropriate bond Gee’s ruling and urged the or conditions of release.” She administration to comply imstill in the centers.

Most of the families in the also ordered ICE to come up mediately. centers have met the first le- with standards for conditions “Rather than double down gal hurdle in applying for asy- under which immigrant chil- on a costly policy that has lum. Of the tens of thousands dren, including those with been plagued with problems, of other families apprehend- their parents, are held in even including suicide ed at the border, a attempts, inadehe said the decision “enlivens the truth of quate medical and majority have not Pope Francis’ remarks” at an audience for mental health care, been detained, but are released on Italian prison chaplains: “No cell is so isolated as prolonged periods bond pending ad- to exclude the Lord, none. He is there. His pa- of detention, and judication of their extremely limited attempts to be al- ternal and maternal love reaches everywhere.” access to counlowed to remain. sel, (the DepartBut some families ment of Homehave been held in the centers temporary conditions. land Security) must use the Auxiliary Bishop Eusebio least restrictive alternatives for more than a year.

In her order, Gee said she L. Elizondo of Seattle, chair- to detention to mitigate confound it “astonishing that the man of the USCCB Com- cerns about flight risk,” said defendants have enacted a mittee on Migration, wel- a statement from the center. policy requiring such expen- comed Gee’s ruling and urged Such alternative “will enable sive infrastructure without the administration to comply these mothers and children more evidence to show that with it expeditiously. to reside with family mem“Appealing the decision bers in the United States and it would be compliant with an agreement that has been would only prolong a flawed retain legal counsel to help in effect for nearly 20 years and unjust policy of treating them tell their stories and or effective at achieving what this vulnerable population as seek protection in immigradefendants hoped it would criminals,” said a recent state- tion court.” ment from Bishop Elizondo. accomplish.”

Among the religious orThe temporary conditions ganizations The 1997 settlement in commenting Flores v. Reno set out stan- addressed by Gee’s order in- about the ruling, Sister Padards for treatment of juve- cluded frigid, overcrowded tricia McDermott, president niles who were apprehended holding cells, inappropriate of the Sisters of Mercy of the by the Border Patrol. The un- food, inadequate medical care accompanied minors picked and other problems for how up in last year’s surge, for in- immigrants have been held by stance, were put into the care Customs and Border Patrol.

In a recent letter to ICE of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a division of the director Sarah Saldana, the Department of Health and Catholic Legal Immigration Human Services, and placed Network, known as CLINIC, into a system of foster homes and other immigrant legal and similar non-detention services agencies called for settings while efforts were ICE “to account for the casmade to unite them with cade of due process violations and detrimental practices at family members.

But a whole different set of the South Texas Family Resipolicies has been applied to dential Center in Dilley, Texchildren who arrive with their as, and at the Karnes County mothers. Those who arrive Residential Center in Karnes with their fathers typically are City, Texas.”

A press release about the released together or separated letter to Saldana said that and put into the system used for unaccompanied children, over the past weeks, attorneys attorneys have told Catholic and volunteers “have witnessed ICE officials coercing News Service.

Gee said the children who women into accepting ankle are picked up by the Border monitors, denying access to Patrol while traveling with legal counsel and impeding their mothers should be treat- pro bono representation, along ed with the same level of care with mass disorganization as those who arrive on their and confusion in implementown. She said ICE failed to ing the new release policy for provide any evidence to sup- mothers who fled violence port the agency’s argument and who are pursuing protecthat it was necessary to detain tion in the United States.”

It said the need to resolve families as a deterrent.

Gee ordered the adminis- those problems is “all the tration to release children and more crucial given the court

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Americas, asked the Obama Administration to end “the shameful policy of incarcerating refugee women and children. President (Barack) Obama’s decision to appeal the ruling or comply with Judge Gee’s findings will determine his legacy on immigration, as much as his fight for comprehensive immigration reform and deferred action.”

Scott Wright, director of the Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach, said that “a policy that blames women and children for fleeing violence, puts them in detention, and then expedites their deportation directly contradicts our values as people of faith and a nation of immigrants.”

Sister Louise Gallahue, of the Daughters of Charity of the Province of St. Louise, commended Gee’s ruling, calling it “consistent with Catholic social justice teaching. She said the decision “enlivens the truth of Pope Francis’ remarks” at an audience for Italian prison chaplains: “No cell is so isolated as to exclude the Lord, none.

He is there. His paternal and maternal love reaches everywhere.”

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August 7, 2015

Anchor Editorial

Las Cruces

This past Sunday in Las Cruces, N.M., small bombs went off at two churches, one Baptist, one Catholic. According to the Associated Press, both church buildings “had minor damage.”

Calvary Baptist Church was attacked first, at 8:20 in the morning, with a bomb placed in a mailbox on the wall of the parish offices. At 8:40, right as the pastor, Msgr. John Anderson, was saying the words consecrating the Body of Christ, a bomb went off at Holy Cross Catholic Church.

Bishop Oscar Cantú of Las Cruces (which means “the crosses” in Spanish) issued a statement after the bombings. He said, “We extend our prayers for and solidarity with our Baptist brothers and sisters. They will remain in our prayers. As for Holy Cross Parish, we are very close to Msgr. Anderson and his parishioners in our thoughts and prayers, as they recover from the trauma of having their most Sacred moments violently disrupted last week. We pray that, though with increased vigilance, the parish community will return to its routines of worship, formation, service, and community building.”

Reading about this, one might think, “How can this happen in America?”

Then we remember what happened in Charleston, S.C., June 17, where Christians were killed due to the color of their skin. We do not know the motive of the bomber(s) in New Mexico, but the fact that a Baptist and a Catholic church were attacked (with no loss of life or injuries, thanks be to God) would seem to indicate that some type of animus against Christians (or maybe just against religion in general) was the motivating factor.

After discussing the need for emergency preparedness and the need to keep on living normal lives, Bishop Cantú ended his statement with an admonition: “Let us pray for each other. Let us pray for peace. Let us pray for the perpetrator(s), that they might discover the joy of peace and forgiveness and leave behind the frustration of hatred and violence. We pray for our first responders and those who work to maintain the peace. We pray for strength and healing.”

He, of course, is right. The only solution to situations like this (or any situation, really) is prayer. Prayer will help change us to be who we truly are called to be as Christians (as Pope Francis says below in his Angelus message, we need to have an “encounter” with Christ, and these encounters only happen via prayer). Prayer for our “enemies” is not a waste of time. It first of all changes us, to become more loving and forgiving. Then, if their hearts begin to crack open, it can also help to change them, to fill their brokenness with love, instead of hatred.

Holy Cross Parish released a statement on Monday, which read, in part, “At this moment the most important action we can take is to pray and attend Mass. We must show that we are united and that our faith is strong.”

Another question we may be asking ourselves might be, “How come I did not hear about these bombings?” In some ways, maybe it is a backwards blessing that they did not get big news coverage, since oftentimes the notoriety that the media give to terrorists, serial killers, assassins and other criminals inspires other people to go out and “make a name for themselves” (think of all the assassins whose middle name you even know).

The lack of coverage might also be part of the subtle thought in the mainstream media that Christians (especially Baptists and Catholics) are really part of the dominant class, so a minor attack on them is not newsworthy. We applaud the coverage that the Boston Globe and its Crux website has been giving every Sunday for the last several weeks of persecution of Christians around the world. Its associate editor, John Allen, has spent a considerable amount of time looking into this sad situation (although one that Christ predicted for us).

Today (Friday) we celebrate the martyrdom of St. Sixtus II and companions, who were killed by the Roman Empire, under the Emperor Valerian in 258.

They were killed on August 6, but since that is the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord (which is more important than a saint’s feast), we celebrate them on August 7. After Pope Sixtus was killed, the imperial government asked St. Lawrence, who as a deacon was an administrator for the Church, to present to the empire the Church’s riches. When Lawrence brought before the imperial officials the many poor people the Church served, the officials were not impressed, and so barbecued Lawrence to death. His feast we celebrate on August 10, the actual day of his birth into eternal life.

Writing about Lawrence’s death, St. Augustine speaks to all of us: “I tell you again and again, my brethren, that in the Lord’s garden are to be found not only the roses of His martyrs. In it there are also the lilies of the virgins, the ivy of wedded couples, and the violets of widows. On no account may any class of people despair, thinking that God has not called them. Christ suffered for all. What the Scriptures say of Him is true: He desires all men to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth. Let us understand, then, how a Christian must follow Christ even though he does not shed his blood for Him, and his faith is not called upon to undergo the great test of the martyr’s sufferings.”

We ask God to help us attain that Salvation which He offers to all. Augustine reminds us, “Christ humbled Himself. Christian, that is what you must make your own. Christ became obedient. How is it that you are proud? When this humbling experience was completed and death itself lay conquered, Christ ascended into Heaven. Let us follow Him there, for we hear Paul saying: ‘If you have been raised with Christ, you must lift your thoughts on high, where Christ now sits at the right hand of God.’”

Pope Francis’ Angelus of August 2 Dear brothers and sisters, good day.

This Sunday continues the reading of the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John. After the multiplication of the loaves, the people had begun to look for Jesus and they finally find Him in Capernaum. He understands the reason for such enthusiasm in following Him and reveals it

clearly: “You seek Me, not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and had your fill” ( Jn 6:26). In fact, those people follow Him for material bread that the previous day had quenched their hunger, when Jesus did the miracle of the loaves; they did not understand that the bread, broken for many, for many, was the expression of OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER

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the love of Jesus Himself. They gave more value to the bread than to its Giver. Before this Spiritual blindness, Jesus emphasizes the need to go beyond the gift, and discover, to know the Giver. God Himself is the Gift and also the Giver. And so from that bread, by this gesture, people can find the One Who gives, Who is God. He invites [us] to open up a perspective that is not only one of everyday concerns of eating, dressing, success, career. Jesus speaks of another food, talking about a food that is not corruptible, and that is good to search for and receive. He urges: “Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give” (v. 27). Thus, seek Salvation, an encounter with God. And with these words, He wants us to understand that in addition to physical hunger man has within him another

hunger — all of us have this hunger — a more important hunger, that cannot be satisfied with ordinary food. It is hunger for life, hunger for eternity, that only He can satisfy, as He is “the Bread of Life” (v. 35).

Jesus does not eliminate the worry and the search for daily food, no. He does not eliminate the worry of [searching for] anything that can make life more advanced. But Jesus reminds us that the true meaning of our existence is the ground at the end, in eternity, it is the encounter with Him, Who is the Gift and the Giver, and also He reminds us that human history with its sufferings and joys must be seen in a horizon of eternity, that is, in that horizon of the definitive encounter with Him. And this encounter enlightens all the days of our life. If we think about this encounter, in this great gift, small gifts of life, even the sufferings,

the worries, will be illuminated by the hope of this encounter. “I am the Bread of Life; He who comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst “(v. 35). And this is the reference to the Eucharist, the greatest Gift that satisfies the soul and the body. Meeting and welcoming us in Jesus, “the Bread of Life,” He gives meaning and hope to the often tortuous path of life. But with this “Bread of Life” we are given a task, that we can in turn satisfy the Spiritual and material hunger of our brothers, proclaiming the Gospel everywhere. By the witness of our fraternal and united attitude towards others, we make Christ and His love present among men.

May the Blessed Virgin sustain us in finding and following her Son Jesus, the True Bread, the Living Bread Which is imperishable and lasts for eternal life. (Angelus prayer)

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n these articles on the plan of life, the series of Spiritual practices promoted by the saints to help one grow in holiness, we have recently focused on study and work, two habits that are meant to be done not at a particular frequency — daily, weekly, monthly, or annually — but are supposed to foster basic orientations of life each day.

A third continuous Spiritual exercise necessary to promote the conditions for sanctity would be discipline and order.

There’s an old monastic adage, “Serva ordinem et ordo servabit te,” “Keep order and order will keep you.” Once we form a certain healthy order in life and begin to live by it, that habit of order will sustain us for the long term. The success of a plan of life depends precisely on keeping one’s life ordered and one’s priorities genuinely prioritized. One cannot be a good disciple without self-discipline.

We’ve all met people whose lives are disordered.

Their bedrooms, closets and desks are eligible for federal disaster relief. They struggle to keep to a schedule: they’re regularly late for

Anchor Columnist Discipline and order

appointments if they don’t and to one’s emotions. forget them altogether.

Jesus lived in an ordered They may be extremely way and calls us to follow gifted, even geniuses, but Him. He patiently prepared because they don’t live and Himself in Nazareth and work in a structured way then in the desert for His their great talents, ideas and public ministry. He careaspirations often amount fully chose His Apostles to very little. Those who and trained them methodiare of modest abilities, on cally. He prioritized prayer, the other hand, are able to accomplish a great deal when Putting Into they live and work the Deep methodically.

To order is basiBy Father cally to put someRoger J. Landry thing in its proper place. It’s to prioritize properly and then act on those priorities. leaving the crowds in order To live in an ordered manto have time together with ner requires us to have a the Father, and charity, good sense of what’s most working miracles of healing important and to arrange one by one. He had a clear our time and energy in sense of time, not allowing such a way as best to obtain Himself to get drawn into those goals. traps by those seeking His This is different than demise, but rather waithow many today prefer to ing until it was His “hour” live. We live in an age in ( Jn 2:4; 8:20). And when which spontaneity is valued He sent out His disciples and order, even an order one two-by-two to proclaim the has freely chosen, is consid- Kingdom, He gave them ered a form of slavery. Many the instruction, “Greet no are ruled by their whims, one along the way” (Lk thinking that caprice con10:4), which wasn’t a green stitutes freedom; capricious- light to be rude to wayfarness, rather, is a subtle form ers on the paths of ancient of slavery to the ephemeral Palestine, but rather a clear

indication not to get distracted from their mission by other things that might arise along the way.

To live a Christian life is, like Jesus, to live an ordered life.

In the last week, we have celebrated the feasts of two saints known for not only for their personal order — St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Alphonsus Ligouri — but for their teaching others through their Spiritual writings and through the religious congregations they founded the importance of such Spiritual discipline. St. Ignatius brought a sound structure to the interior life, writing his famous “Spiritual Exercises” to help Jesuits and others order their prayer and their souls. St. Alphonsus used to preach parish missions to help people convert and re-order their existence to God. He also authored various books on moral theology to help them acquire the type of order that allowed them to hear God’s voice in conscience and choose the right despite the contrary appeals of various tempta-

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We see the beauty of order in the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary. St. Luke says of her that she “kept all [God’s] Words, pondering them in her heart” (Lk 2:19,51). The word St. Jerome used to translate “kept” was “conservare,” which comes from the same root as the verb employed in the aphorism “serva ordinem.” When Mary said to the Angel Gabriel, “Let it be done to me according to Your Word,” she was making a commitment to live according to the order of God’s holy Word — and keeping that order helped to keep her safe from all stain of original sin and ascend to the top of the hierarchy of holiness.

We’ve been made in the image and likeness of God, and we see how in the beginning of time God ordered all of creation. The more we keep order, not only the more order will keep us but the more we will grow in God’s image.

That’s the goal of a plan of life.

Anchor columnist Father Landry can be contacted at fatherlandry@ catholicpreaching.com.

Will Vatican officials face term limits?

Vatican City (CNA) — A fixed term mandate for Vatican officials serving in the Roman Curia was among recent proposals for the Vatican’s ongoing reform process, and will likely be discussed at the September 14-16 meeting of the Council of Cardinals.

It’s still unclear whether the fixed term mandate refers to all Vatican officials — that is, those who hold an office of the Roman Curia — or if it would just apply to the clergy.

According to the prominent Italian journalist Marco Tosatti, “the idea is to give a term — a five-year term, to be eventually renewed for another five-year term — to the mandate of the curia officials, which are the priests who make up the bulk of the jobs in the various Congregations and Pontifical Councils.”

So if a priest is called to serve in the Roman Curia, he would return to his home diocese after five years. On the other hand, there are many

lay Vatican officials: would the fixed term mandate apply to them as well?

According to data, out of the nearly 2,700 people working in the Holy See, there are 780 priests, 330 religious Brothers and Sisters and 1,600 lay people.

Lay people are close to double the number of priests serving in the Holy See. If the five-year mandate is applied to them, what will be their fate?

How would they provide for their families?

“These are some of the critical issues of the proposal. Another one is that people continually on the move would have no time to develop the special expertise which has characterized the Holy See personnel until now,” a source working within a Vatican congregation told CNA recently.

However, the fixed term mandate would not apply to diplomatic ranks, which would continue with the current sys-

tem.

The Holy See diplomatic Corp is nurtured in the Ecclesiastical Academy — the Vatican “school for ambassadors” of sorts. After getting their diploma, the future nuncios are sent to serve with different ranks at Holy See nunciatures all over the world.

If the papal ambassadorsin-training go all the way, they usually receive the rank of a papal nuncio after some 1617 years of diplomatic service.

However, the pope may appoint as papal nuncio whoever he wants.

Among the most known nuncios who did not attend the Ecclesiastic Academy is the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations in Geneva, Archbishop Silvano Maria Tomasi, who in 1996 was elevated to the rank of nuncio from his previous post of Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Migrants.

The current nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Charles J.

Brown, is also among those who did not attend the academy. Before his selection as a Vatican ambassador, Brown had previously served as an official in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Sacred Heart Home in New Bedford recently welcomed Jennifer Davis, MSW, LNHA as the administrator at the skilled nursing and rehabilitation care facility. A resident of East Providence, R.I., Davis earned her bachelor of science in social work at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and a master’s in social work from Boston University. Her past experience includes two years as administrator at a nursing home in the Taunton area, along with three years as assistant administrator and six years as a social worker at Catholic Memorial Home in Fall River.

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n this week’s Gospel we hear the Jews grappling with the statement proclaimed by Jesus in which He states that He has come down from Heaven and is the “True Bread and whoever eats of Him will never hunger.”

The Jews were not ready to believe Jesus; they could not see His Divinity. They saw just a Man. They knew His parents. How could He be someone special?

Despite being present at the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fish, these Jews were not ready to believe anything more because they had not been given the gift of faith.

Since you and I have been given the gift of faith, we understand that Jesus is the “Living Bread come down from Heaven and whoever eats this Bread will live forever.”

We need food that not only keeps us alive here

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God never fails us

on earth, but food that needs to Him, and we need strengthens us for eternal to ask to become a more life. loving people. We must In the first reading, God remember to receive Him provided Elijah with food with joy and faith knowing for a journey of 40 days in that we are all brothers and the desert. In the Eucharist sisters in Him. we are fed, not only for 40 days, but for eternity. However, Homily of the Week we, who are so forNineteenth Sunday tunate to be able to in Ordinary Time receive Communion over and over, must

By Deacon caution ourselves Robert A. Faria not to see this gift of Jesus giving Himself to us as simply a Returning to this week’s routine that over time will first reading, we see Elijah jade us. in a state of depression.

My friends, we must He had been a powerful never forget the wonder man but under his present and awe of receiving Jesus circumstances he has beChrist under the appearcome so overwhelmed that ance of bread. We should he wants to die. Addressnever see this act of receiving God he says, “This is ing simply as “something enough. Take my life.” that we do.”

Have we, ourselves, or Before we receive Comperhaps someone we know munion we need to thank said, “I’ve had it. I can’t Jesus, we need to bring our take this anymore. I’m at

the end of my rope.”

What causes people to say this? I’m sure there are lots of reasons. Perhaps there is not enough money to pay the bills. Perhaps a Marriage is falling apart.

Perhaps someone loses a job. People are exhausted and mentally drained.

We now know how Elijah felt. But what can we do?

How do we keep on going?

There are no easy answers to these questions but we start by getting help. Perhaps we begin by talking to a friend or a family member. What we don’t do is “go it alone.”

God didn’t create us to carry burdens by ourselves.

God created us to help each other shoulder the load. And, finally, but not lastly, we bring our burdens and suffering to God; God the Good Shepherd

Who said, “Come to Me all of you who are burdened and I will refresh you.”

We come to Mass each week because we are broken, suffering, worried, oppressed, in need or in pain. We come each week because life is fragile. And in our weekly gathering we come forward to receive the “Bread of Life.” We come forward to receive the One Who gave His life so that we may have life.

We come forward to be fed

by God Whose love for us never fails. And we pray, “Give me strength, Lord, because I’m afraid of what I must face.”

And God answers, “Every time you receive the Eucharist, I will strengthen you.”

Deacon Faria is a senior adjunct professor at Stonehill College in Easton, and serves at St. John of God Parish in Somerset.

Upcoming Daily Readings: Sat. Aug. 8, Dt 6:4-13; Ps 18:2-4,47,51; Mt 17:14-20. Sun. Aug. 9, Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, 1 Kgs 19:4-8; Ps 34:2-9; Eph 4:30-5:2; Jn 6:41-51. Mon. Aug. 10, 2 Cor 9:6-10; Ps 112:1-2,5-9; Jn 12:24-26. Tues. Aug. 11, Dt 31:1-8; (Ps) Dt 32:3-4b,7-9,12; Mt 18:15,10,12-14. Wed. Aug. 12, Dt 34:1-12; Ps 66:1-3a,5,8,16-17; Mt 18:15-20. Thurs. Aug. 13, Jos 3:7-10a,11,13-17; Ps 114:1-6; Mt 18:21–19:1. Fri. Aug. 14, Jos 24:1-13; Ps 136:1-3,16-18,21-22,24; Mt 19:3-12.

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t an inch or so over five feet and weighing, I would guess, something on the underside of 100 pounds, Sister Winnie, a soft-spoken Filipina, is not your typical dinner speaker.

Yet a few weeks ago she held a room full of Washingtonians spellbound with her story — which is also the story of a largely unknown American of whom the Church in the United States should be very proud.

Sister Winnie was born, and lived the first years of her life, in a shanty built on an enormous trash dump (politely known as a “landfill”) outside Manila. The locals called it “Smoky Mountain” because of the fires that spontaneously combusted from some two million metric tons of trash. Winnie was rescued from Smoky Mountain by the Sisters of Mary and, with the permission of her family, was raised in the sisters’ Girlstown, where she became a skilled accountant.

She then took a job with a major German industrial

The amazing, and now Venerable, Father Al serves children and people firm, sending much of her with disabilities, until earlier salary back to her family to help her parents and siblings. this year. Then, happily, my friends Tom and Glory SulliBut corporate accountvan, Catholic philanthropists ing paled after a while, and who’ve generously supported Winnie decided to put her this work for years, began to professional skills at the service of the Sisters who had given her a new life.

You can guess the rest: while working for the Sisters of Mary, Winnie discerned a

By George Weigel vocation to religious life, joined the congregation that had done so much for her, and now works in one of the tell me about the founder of the Sisters and the Brothers, Sisters’ missions in Mexico, Msgr. Aloysius Schwartz, doing for other waifs and abandoned children what the whose heroic virtues were Sisters had done for her: giv- formally recognized by Pope Francis this past January 22 ing them a life.

— thus making him VenerI had never heard of able Aloysius Schwartz. the Sisters of Mary, or the “Father Al,” as he was Boystowns and Girlstowns universally known, was born in South Korea, the Philipduring the Great Deprespines, and Latin America sion in Washington, D.C. where they now serve some twenty-thousand desperately and grew up in Holy Name Parish, near the Capitol and impoverished children, or their parallel men’s order, the Union Station. As a boy living in tough economic times, Brothers of Christ, which

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he decided early on that he wanted to be a missionary priest among the poor.

Ordained in Washington in 1957, he was incardinated into the Diocese of Pusan, South Korea, where he soon discovered a tremendous human problem: children living in the direst poverty, often without parents, because of the devastation caused by the Korean War. And he decided to do something about it.

Fifty years later, the Girlstown and Boystown homes for indigent children that he founded have served some one hundred thousand youngsters: not only by feeding, clothing, and housing them and providing medical care, but by offering these youngsters an education that gives them the financial possibility of gainful employment, and the Christian and human formation that teaches them to give back to their parents and siblings.

Sister Winnie is a Spiritual daughter of Father Al; she is also a wonderful example of what Aloysius Schwartz understood to be the fruits of a missionary vocation to the poorest of the poor — she is a fellow-disciple who, having received great gifts, gives them to others.

Watching him working the soda counter at a People’s Drug Store, few would have imagined that the youngster they knew as Al Schwartz would die in 1992 at age 61, after years of patiently bearing the cross of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Perhaps even fewer would have imagined that young Al Schwartz was a nascent saint of the Church.

Venerable Father Al’s life and accomplishments are a reminder that God really is profligate with gifts of grace, and that saints-in-themaking are all around us as companions on the way.

George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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6 August 2015 — Homeport: Falmouth Harbor — feast of the Transf iguration of the Lord thought twice before choosing the title for today’s column. “The Ship’s Log” might be confused with Dave Jolivet’s “My View from the Stands.” Let me hasten to assure you, dear readers, that this has nothing to do with sports.

I fondly remember my first priestly assignment to Cape Cod back in the early 70s. That would be the 1970s, not the 1870s. The bishop sent me to the Town of Bourne, the Village of Buzzards Bay. Some will object that Buzzards Bay is not Cape Cod because it lies on the mainland side of the bridge.

But the Town of Bourne is on the other side as well.

Pocasset is over the bridge.

Where exactly does Cape Cod begin, anyway? Answers will vary.

There was a time (before the canal) when Onset was considered Cape Cod. Onset is a village of the Town of Wareham. That’s as far as the Union Street Railway’s trolley cars from New Bedford went. Beyond that, there was nothing but sand dunes and scrub pines — the haunt of naturalists, artists, play-

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have not changed my opinwrights, and other improper ion. bohemians.

Only a tourist believes At the end of the line, what the bushes proclaim – you would find yourself on and that only because they Onset Bay. The cottages, have survived the gridlocked the seasonal mansions, the bridge traffic. The demarcalovely beach, the bandstand, the yacht club, the shops and tion gives them a sense of accomplishment. eateries, and the VictorianBe that as it may, Buzstyle hotels are still there.

Onset Village, for the most part, looks the same as it did in The Ship’s Log the 1800s, but Cape Reflections of a Cod moved east Parish Priest once the canal was dug out.

By Father Tim Onset folks selfGoldrick identify as Cape Codders (self-identification seems to be zards Bay begins Cape Cod, the style these days). At any as far as I’m concerned. rate, they refer to whatever I was the curate at St. lies over the bridge as the Margaret Church on Main “main Cape.” Despite the Street, Buzzards Bay. I assigns as you enter Wareham sisted the pastor at the time, proclaiming “Welcome to Father John Carroll. It was Cape Cod,” nobody believes a wonderful assignment. that anymore.

Father Carroll was a gentle Not to be outdone, the man. It was he who menover-the-bridge folks chaltored his young curate (yours lenged Wareham’s claim to truly) on the subtleties of the title. On the Cape side, just over the Bourne Bridge, ministerial life. “Tim,” he often said, “remember this: they dumped a huge mound there are 10 summer weekof dirt at the rotary. Then ends on Cape Cod.” they planted and trimmed And that brings me (at bushes to read “Cape Cod” long last) to the title of this in giant green letters. Take column, “Half-time.” We that, Wareham!

I thought the thing looked have now had five of the 10 summer weekends of 2015. ugly when they built it. I

It’s half-time. The wheel of the year is turning, although we tend to deny the fact. It’s clearly indicated in sights and sounds for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. We prefer an endless summer. That simply isn’t going to happen.

On a foggy August night, I can hear the piercing horn at Nobska Lighthouse in the Village of Woods Hole. Like the beacon itself (formerly 10 oil lamps), the foghorn is intended to guide mariners away from treacherous shoals. Woods Hole, now an international center for oceanographic research, is almost within shouting distance of Falmouth center.

The first lighthouse was built in 1828 on the site of the smallpox hospital. Back in the day, some 10,000 ships per year passed that point. As humid air meets cooler air, the pea soup fog sets in. The Nobska foghorn signals the changing of the seasons.

The iconic flowering shrub of Cape Cod is the hydrangea. These thrive in the sandy soil, as long as you keep them very well-watered.

I planted 35 of them last

9 autumn to improve the streetscape of the church.

They bloomed this year. In time, they should be stunning.

The lilies are another sign of the times to me. Orange tiger lilies grow wild by the side of the road, escapees from long-forgotten colonial gardens. Over the years, hybridizers have come up with an amazing variety of daylily sizes, shapes, and colors.

These, too, seem to thrive in Cape Cod soil.

Wildflowers such as black-eyed Susans and chicory also warn me of the waning summer. Chicory is such a lovely blue, the rarest color in the floral palate.

Why it is considered a weed, I’ll never understand. One horticulturist wrote that a “weed” is simply a flower growing someplace you don’t want it. Chicory could grow wherever it likes, if it were up to me.

It may be August, but the days are growing noticeably shorter and the nights growing longer. It may be August, but it’s half-time on Cape Cod. No doubt about it, it’s definitely August. Enjoy God’s half-time show.

Anchor columnist Father Tim Goldrick is pastor of St. Patrick’s Parish in Falmouth.

‘I am going away and I will come back to you’

ow exactly do you say goodbye? And is it ever really “goodbye” or is it simply, “see you later”? Now, at the end of my summer experience here at Brown University, I’m faced with wishing well the 19 incredible graduate students I’ve had the opportunity to spend the past 10 weeks with. As we part, we’ll travel across the country, to places near and far, to complete our respective graduate programs.

We’ll return to friends we left behind to embark on a new journey here in “The Ocean State,” we’ll develop routines we had set in place before we left, before we knew of a new routine that would come to be brightened by the same faces for each of our next 71 days.

In May, we’ll complete our degrees, proudly walk across our respective stages, and embark on yet another journey — the job search

and our professional careers.

There will be trials we’ll each face. We’ll struggle, maybe we’ll have doubts, we’ll lean on each other from miles away. But first, we have to say goodbye. How do you say goodbye to family, though? How do you say goodbye to those who taught you so much but must simply depart?

Thinking this way, I’m propelled to take a lesson from the words we read in John’s Gospel. While I can never know what it was truly like to experience saying goodbye to Jesus, I can imagine that the feelings shared among His 12 closest followers at the Last Supper were overwhelming. However, the message included in what is known to many as Jesus’ farewell discourse that resonates with me is the following: “Do not let your

hearts be troubled or afraid.

You heard Me tell you, ‘I am going away and I will come back to you.’ And now I have told you this before it happens, so that when it happens

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you may believe” ( Jn 27-29).

He proceeded to share the parable of the vine and the branches, closing with “It was not you who chose Me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may giveth you. This I command you: love one another” ( Jn 1617).When Christ finally left

them, they had these words, His message, a directive. Just so, we too have a directive.

We must not be troubled or afraid, for we’ll be back with one another in a time so short, but still so unforeseen. We were chosen to be here among each other by another, both worldly and other-worldly.

And we were set forth on paths to be lights in the student affairs world, bringing forth a beautiful example of what we were for each other this summer to the students we will forever encounter — kindness, compassion, respect, support, guidance.

Just as the disciples had to do with Jesus, so will I carry them in my heart until I see them again, all along teaching others what they’ve taught me — a strikingly similar set of values to those we learn in our faith to

embody — faith, hope, love.

There was a greater purpose for us all being in this one special place this summer. It was not my own. I struggled with the very idea of returning to the Northeast, as I eagerly applied for internships in places I’d never traveled before. But after my first week and now as I enter into my 10th and final week, it is abundantly clear that there was a reason Brown was to be my home with summer.

Because home is where the heart is, and these individuals are my heart. They’ve captured it, they’ve captivated it, it belongs to them.

I hope they take a piece of mine with them when they go, just as I will theirs.

Anchor columnist Renee Bernier graduated from Stonehill College and is a graduate student in the College Student Personnel Program at James Madison University in Harrison, Va.

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August 7, 2015

Bishop blesses newly-restored cathedral pipe organ during recital

By Kenneth J. Souza Anchor Staff

FALL RIVER — Although it had already been tested in recent Liturgical celebrations earlier in the month — including the recent ordination of Father John Michael Schrader — the newlyrestored 1883 vintage Hook and Hastings pipe organ that was formerly housed at Sacred Heart Church was officially blessed and dedicated by Bishop Edgar

M. da Cunha, S.D.V., within the context of an organ recital inside the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption on July 26.

David Carrier, former cathedral organist and current music director for the Commonwealth Chorale of Newton, christened the instrument by performing a series of selections from renowned composers such as Louis Marchard, Cesar Franck and J.S. Bach

Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., blesses the newly-restored pipe organ at St. Mary’s Cathedral. At right, the Cathedral Choir performs “Psalm 150.” The organist was David Carrier, former cathedral organist. (Photos by Kenneth J. Souza)

during the program.

Seated at the three-keyboard console, which had been moved front-and-center for the occasion, Carrier bowed his head as Bishop da Cunha blessed the new pipe organ. The organist then launched into a rousing rendition of “All Creatures of Our God and King” that filled the confines of the nave with a swell of music. Even the pews packed with people did little to dampen the reverberating sound of the new instrument.

The Fall River Diocesan Choir, under the direction of Madeleine Grace, also joined in for a stirring performance of “Psalm 150.”

“I think the words of our prayers and our songs say it better than I could ever say it,” Bishop da Cunha said during remarks after the blessing. “We say in the introduction to the blessing and the prayers that the purpose of music in the Liturgy is to give glory to God and to lead us to holiness. What a

beautiful thought: to give glory to God and to lead us to holiness. I wonder if every time we participate in the celebration of the Eucharist with music, if everyone is actually using music and the gift of their voice to give glory to God and to help them on the journey to holiness.”

Referencing an earlier reading from St. Paul’s Letter to the Colossians (Col 3:12-17), Bishop da Cunha noted that we are called to do everything in the Turn to page 14

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St. Vincent’s Home in Fall River recently held its seventh annual Kick-Off to Summer Celebration, presented by Mechanics Cooperative Bank, on the deck of the Battleship Massachusetts at Battleship Cove in Fall River. More than 425 guests enjoyed a gourmet dinner prepared by Al Mac’s Galley, Boston Market, Fall River Grill, Lafrance Hospitality, Mario’s Lebanese Syrian Bakery, Not Your Average Joe’s, Olive Garden, St. James Irish Pub, Ten Cousins Brick Oven, Texas Roadhouse, the 99 Restaurant, the Venus de Milo, Trio Restaurant, Umi Japanese Steakhouse, Waterfront Grille and Wicked Kickin’ Savory Cheesecakes. Complimentary beer was provided by Quality Beverage, complimentary wine was provided by Globe Liquors, and Del’s Lemonade (sponsored by Prima CARE, PC and Karam Financial) was infused with vodka donated by People’s Liquor Warehouse. Desserts were provided by Edible Arrangements, Lindt Chocolates and New Boston Bakery while The Pulse of Boston entertained guests well into the evening. More than $97,000 was raised through sponsorships, donations and ticket sales as well as auctions and a special Fund-a-Need request. The proceeds from the evening directly benefit youth in St. Vincent’s Life Skills Program who are transitioning to independent living and young adulthood. St. Vincent’s youth who are aging out of care and transitioning to independent living are provided with the skills and tools necessary to complete their education, obtain employment, and live as productive, healthy adults within society. John T. Weldon, St. Vincent’s CEO, presented Joseph T. Baptista Jr., president and CEO of Mechanics Cooperative Bank with the Partner in Excellence Award for “giving children and families in need what they need most.” Keith Durand of East Commerce Solutions and Mark Gendreau of BayCoast Bank also accepted awards on behalf of their companies.

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August 7, 2015

House limits number allowed in chamber to hear papal address to Congress

WASHINGTON (CNS) — House members voted July 28 to limit the number of people allowed in the House Chamber September 24 when Pope Francis addresses a joint meeting of Congress.

The vote, which was part of a procedural measure, excludes former members of Congress and former House officers and chaplains from attending the papal address. Those allowed to attend include: members of Congress, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, Supreme Court justices, current House officers, the librarian of Congress, architect of the Capitol and department heads. The vote also approved of “other persons as designated by the Speaker.”

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, invited the pope and requested the vote to limit the audience. Emily Schillinger, a spokeswoman for Boehner’s office, said

there is “a tremendous amount of interest in the pope’s visit and we are working to ensure as many people as possible can attend.”

She said the vote was “to make sure that attendance at the joint meeting does not exceed the capacity of the chamber to hold a safe and dignified event.”

The House Chamber, where bills are introduced, debated, and voted on and where the president’s State of the Union address and joint sessions and meeting of the House and Senate are held, has more than 440 permanent seats and temporary seats are added for events when necessary.

Former members of Congress who are shut out from the House Chamber could see the pope’s address right outside since it will be broadcast live on Jumbotron screens on the West Front of the Capitol. Boehner also announced this summer that Pope Francis has “expressed an interest in making a brief appearance on the West Front.”

Diocese of Fall River TV Mass on WLNE Channel 6 Sunday, August 9 at 11:00 a.m.

Celebrant is Father Jason Brilhante, chaplain at Charlton Memorial Hospital and in residence at Santo Christo Parish, both in Fall River

Minions star in a scene from the movie “Minions.” For a brief review of this film, see CNS Movie Capsules below. (CNS photo/Image.net)

CNS Movie Capsules NEW YORK (CNS) — The following are capsule reviews of movies recently reviewed by the Office for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

“Faith of Our Fathers” (Pure Flix) Well-intentioned but awkwardly uneven drama about evangelical Christianity’s impact on two generations of families. In 1997 California, a God-fearing postman (Kevin Downes) sets out to uncover the truth about his father’s (Sean McGowan) death in the Vietnam War. Together with the ornery son (David A.R. White) of one of his dad’s platoon mates (Scott Whyte), he travels to Washington to visit the Vietnam Memorial.

Along the way, the duo gets into all sorts of trouble while debating big-ticket topics like forgiveness and destiny.

Despite hokey dialogue and contrived situations, director Carey Scott’s film deserves some credit for its godly and patriotic outlook. Brief scenes of mostly bloodless combat.

The Catholic News Service classification is A-II — adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 — parents strongly cautioned. Some ma-

terial may be inappropriate for children under 13.

“Minions” (Universal) Bright 3-D animated comedy co-directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda in which background characters from the “Despicable Me” franchise come to the fore for an ever upbeat, though not always tightly crafted, adventure set primarily in 1960s London.

A trio of the yellow, capsuleshaped creatures (all voiced by Coffin), whose natural inclination is to serve a villainous master, gets mixed up with a famed criminal (voice of Sandra Bullock), her mad scientist husband (voice of Jon Hamm) and their wild scheme to steal the British crown from Queen Elizabeth II (voice of Jennifer Saunders). Narrated by Geoffrey Rush, and interspersed with familiar hippie-era musical standards, the freewheeling plot follows its own logic down curious courses, some of which feel like detours. But the consequences of selfishness and disloyalty are clearly portrayed while genuinely objectionable material is absent. Even so, loud scenes of mayhem may be too much for small fry, and some parents may not appreciate the brief comic hay that’s made of a mustachioed bystander whose enthusiasm for Bullock’s character leads him to dress exactly like her. Occasional cartoonish violence, fleeting anatomical sight gags, a touch of scatological humor. The Catholic News Service classification is A-I — general patronage. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG — parental guidance suggested. Some material may

not be suitable for children.

“Vacation” (Warner Bros.)

Wretched revival of the comedy franchise that began with 1983’s “National Lampoon’s Vacation.” In an effort to shake up his family’s summer routine, the now-grown son (Ed Helms) of the original outing embarks with his wife (Christina Applegate) and quarrelsome kids (Skyler Gisondo and Steele Stebbins) on a road trip to the same California amusement park that served as the destination for that long-ago initial journey. While the clan’s travels are beset by a variety of disasters, the real calamity befalls viewers who find themselves dragged along on a forced march through a landscape of tastelessness unrelieved by laughs. Co-writers and -directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley try to disguise their steamy material by cloaking it in family values, including the parents’ shared commitment to maintaining the vibrancy of their Marriage.

But scenes of enthusiastic exhibitionism, together with obscenities uttered by a child and jokes about AIDS and pedophilia, make the underlying rot unmistakable. Pervasive sexual and extreme scatological humor, frontal male and upper female nudity, about a half-dozen uses of profanity, constant rough and crude language. The Catholic News Service classification is O — morally offensive. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R — restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

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W

e hear much about same-sex marriage lately. It was certainly a news item following the recent Supreme Court decision. It was new for some states, but here in Massachusetts we have been accustomed to it for some time now. While I can understand the reasoning that prompted this decision, I wish that some other term could have been used rather than “Marriage.”

At the same time, have you noticed how little is said of Marriage? Have you noticed that the newspaper carries fewer wedding photos now than in the past? If you look closely you will note that most of the wedding information found in the newspaper is wedding anniversaries, not weddings.

People do not find it necessary to get married today. I have dealt with couples who have been living together for a number of years who have no intention of marrying. Couples who have a number of children still do not consider Marriage, even if they are free to marry legally and in the Church.

This phenomenon is not limited to younger couples. The whole concept of not marrying is also found among widows and widowers. At times their situations can border on the scandalous as well.

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ow that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided, 5-4, that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right under our federal constitution, we might ask what the response of a believing and practicing Catholic should be to this redefinition of Marriage.

Well, let’s be clear about principles: in mandating the legal recognition of same-sex partnerships as marriage, the Supreme Court has chosen to constitutionalize a companionate view of Marriage which is at odds with our Judeo-Christian traditional understanding of Marriage as the union of man and woman. Manwoman Marriage is intrinsically ordered, at least in principle, to the procreation and education of children by their mother and father. Marriage, legally speaking, is now just about adults feeling good about themselves, regardless of sex or sexual orientation.

This is obviously at odds with the Book of Genesis, adopted by Jesus, which says that “Male and female God created them.”

Well, we lost this legal and cultural battle over the definition of Marriage, as it was lost 12

A commitment assisted by God’s grace

In some circumstances, the some to celebrate so many years worry or concern about divorce of Marriage and others not even and separation mitigates against approach a decade of Marriage.

Marriage. I have found that this Some years ago at the wedding is especially true when the man anniversary Mass at the cathedral, or woman comes from a family my sister and her husband were where divorce took place. standing with Bishop Daniel A. Many feel they are in love and Cronin celebrating their 25th anthat is enough. They respond with niversary of Marriage. They were “what difference does a ‘paper’ make?” There is Living also the fear of committhe ment to another person for life. On occasion their Faith shortsightedness, living

By Msgr. in the moment, prevents John J. Oliveira an understanding of the future repercussions of their decisions.

In contrast to this state of waiting for a photograph with anaffairs, I had a happy occasion other couple who were celebratrecently. My twin sister Terry and ing 65 years of Marriage. her husband Jim celebrated 50 Bishop Cronin asked the lonyears of Marriage. My brother ger married couple to share with Larry and his wife Charlotte the younger couple advice on how celebrated 40 years of Marriage. to reach such a milestone. They Both couples attend the 4 p.m. answered “take the good with the Mass on a Saturday with their bad, and make it work.” My sister families. It was my privilege to responded that they had already give them a special blessing before learned that lesson. the end of Mass. It was a good No life is always either good or example to others of the posbad. The secret is to make it work sibility of a good Marriage and a in every situation. As Catholics witness to the blessings of God we know that the Sacrament of on them through the Sacrament Marriage assists with its graces of Marriage for those many years. the men and women who have Although I did not ask, I committed themselves to accept wonder what makes it possible for each other in good times and in

bad times, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health until death.

Marriage is a very important commitment to begin with, but it is easier when that commitment is known to be assisted by God’s grace. This relationship and commitment is so important that it is raised to the dignity of a Sacrament. It was at a wedding that Jesus performed His first miracle.

It was the only blessing not taken away in the flood.

With society used to instant gratification, couples can forget that it takes work to make a Marriage succeed. I tell couples it is not only 50 percent-50 percent in Marriage. At times someone has to be willing to give that extra percent to make it happen. One does not only get married to be happy, but to make the other happy. You don’t marry someone you can live with; you marry someone you cannot live without.

Along with the Sacramental grace what else is needed? A few years ago Beverly Beckman wrote an article in which she expressed her best wishes for a newlywed couple and at the same time reflected on what keeps a Marriage together. She told the

newly-married: “Remember what brought you here. Remember why you chose one another in the first place. Remind yourself, every day of the love that has led you to this moment.” Perhaps the wedding album needs to come out occasionally to recall what it all really means.

Recently I came across an Apache Blessing with which I conclude this column as a prayer for all those married who read this as a reminder of what Marriage is: “Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other.

Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other.

Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other.

Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you.

May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and through all the years.

May happiness be your companion and your days together be good and long upon the earth.”

Anchor columnist Msgr.

Oliveira is pastor of St. Mary’s Parish in New Bedford and director of the diocesan Propagation of the Faith and Permanent Diaconate offices.

With malice toward none, with charity for all years ago here in Massachusetts, from the institution of Marriage 4-3, in the Goodridge decision. as largely just a matter of tradiIn the wake of that loss, I think tion, which of course can change it important that we not be “sore over time. Not being a sore loser losers.” Part of this is recognizmeans not impugning bad moing that the mandated legal tives to the winners, but rather recognition of same-sex marriage respecting them as the persons was only possible because our created in God’s image and collective understanding of Marriage had been impoverished in many ways since the 1960s, if not before.

With the advent of contraception, for

By Dwight G. Duncan instance, Marriage and even the sexual act were often disassociated from the procreation of children. With likeness that they are, and not the virtual universal spread of no- engaging in unfair discrimination fault divorce in the early 1970s, against them. As to most jobs, permanence and sexual fidelity for example, sexual orientation is became in a sense legally option- irrelevant. Jesus taught us in the al. This even without taking into parable of the Good Samaritan account the widespread practice and elsewhere that the Christian of abortion and adultery, often duty of charity extends to all, and with constitutional protection. that means regardless of race, Homosexuality did not cause this creed, gender or sexual orientaweakening of our richer, fuller tion. understanding of Marriage, but it I think one should recognize, doesn’t help it, either. though, that not only can our side And so, many people in good be sore losers, but that the prefaith saw the legal and practical vailing side can be sore winners. exclusion of gays and lesbians Being a sore winner is not being

Judge For Yourself

satisfied with the legal victory over the definition of Marriage, but insisting on the settling of old scores and getting even with the opposition, and illiberally trying to force people conscientiously opposed to same-sex marriage to approve of it, even beyond the legal sphere.

Just as we shouldn’t impute bad motives to our opponents, neither should they impute bad motives to those who had the temerity, in their view, to oppose samesex marriage. It’s easy to chalk it up to hate and prejudice, but as Ryan Anderson persuasively argues in his recently published book, “Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom,” there are serious reasons to have reservations about the judicial imposition of same-sex marriage.

At a time when fewer and fewer people are getting married, and Marriage and family are in a kind of crisis, the dilution of the public understanding of Marriage may only accelerate the crisis.

Some people, claiming that history is on their side, are now

arguing that tax-exempt status should be denied churches and other religious organizations that oppose same-sex marriage as a matter of faith. I think it’s generally an open question which side history is on, and certainly until the year 2000 history was unanimously on the side of the male-female understanding of Marriage. In any case, it would be highly ironic if a movement that began by calling for tolerance and understanding would end up persecuting those who see things differently.

It all reminds me of “The Hate Song” from the 1960s “The Mad Show,” which was a musical based on Mad Magazine. As the group sang, “We’re gonna stamp out hate, poke it in the eye, shoot it in the stomach yelling die, die, die. We’ll pull its insides out, and look at what it ate, we’re gonna stamp out hate.” Hate is not a Christian response. Love, understanding and forgiveness are.

Anchor columnist Dwight Duncan is a professor at UMass School of Law Dartmouth. He holds degrees in civil and canon law.

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August 7, 2015

Trips to Italy inspire fictional story on Shroud of Turin

By Becky Aubut Anchor Staff

FRAMINGHAM — Born Catholic and into a family of 12 kids, Michael Martino enjoyed his childhood and attending St. Patrick’s Parish in Watertown. First raised in Watertown and then Framingham, parochial school was a way of life in the Martino household.

He graduated from high school in 1971 and by October of the same year was living in Italy; “I thought it was going to be a few months,” said Martino, “and it turned out to be four years. I came back a few times [to the U.S.] in the interim, but my heart was in Italy.”

His mother was born in Italy and still had family and friends living there. Her friend from boarding school offered to take the young Martino in during his initial year in Italy, and then Martino moved to stay with his mother’s family.

A parish church near where he was living was being reconstructed, a major renovation, which included the creation of new stained glass windows. Martino asked a family if they would hire him to work at a stained glass studio and scored an apprenticeship of sorts: “It didn’t start as an apprenticeship, it was more ‘the kid is bored, let’s let him hang out at the studio’ type of thing,” said Martino.

The studio was located in the basement crypt area of the church being renovated, and soon Martino was living in the basement as well. Martino learned the stained glass techniques first by watching, and then being allowed to lay glass in patterns until he worked his way up to more detailed employment.

In August of 1974, while visiting relatives in the Apennine mountains in Italy, where his mother was from, Martino was driving friends home after a party and the car flipped on the curvy roads “and ended up breaking my back and almost killing everyone in the car,” said Martino.

Taken to a hospital, Martino was initially diagnosed with a perforated bowel and the doctor wanted to do emergency surgery, but after Divine intervention worked through a bookkeeper, who worked at the hospital and who recalled an American kid who stayed with his aunt a few years ago — the same woman who took in Martino when he first arrived in Italy — arrangements were made to move him to a more reputable hospital and doctor.

“Don’t do anything at the small hospital in the Apennines, but go to the University Hospital of Parma, a major hospital,” said Martino, of the conversation held with his Italian relatives and the bookkeeper’s aunt. “In the end, I believe it saved my life because they found no evidence of a perforated bowel, but that I had a trauma to my intestinal area.”

A few weeks later he came back to the United States and when he left Italy, Martino said he felt

Michael Martino with his wife Anna.

he was leaving stained glass work behind. As he was recuperating from the accident, he worked as a cook, and then met his future wife. Anna. The couple will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary this September.

It was also during this time he came back to Christ, crediting his near-death experience after his car accident, which Martino said made him look at his life: “It was time to get serious because I could have killed myself young,” he said, and after meeting his wife, he went back to his roots and began to attend Mass at St. Patrick’s Parish in Watertown. “From when we were engaged, she knew

This week in

Diocesan history

50 years ago — Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen made a trip to the Fall River Diocese to speak at an ecumenical meeting co-sponsored by the Cape Cod Deanery that was held at Barnstable High School in Hyannis.

10 years ago — The annual Steubenville East Youth Conference was held at the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette and welcomed more than 5,000 teen-agers to the Fall River Diocese.

25 years ago — Bishop Daniel A. Cronin mandated that all parishes within the Fall River Diocese should appoint a parish pastoral council as required under Canon Law to regularly meet to discuss pastoral needs.

One year ago — Sacred Hearts Father Thomas McElroy, SS.CC., who served as pastor of three different parishes within the diocese, announced his plans to formally retire from pastoral ministry.

about this Spiritual search I was going through.”

He also explored the Charismatic renewal, attending Thursday night prayer meetings.

“I don’t want to sound like a religious fanatic but I do have a deep faith because I’ve seen what the good hand of the Lord has done in my life,” said Martino. “It’s not because I’m special, I believe everyone has a testimony, that there is this loving hand that guides and directs us to Him.” A few years after he got married, he had his first daughter, ultimately having four children. Martino also fell back into working with stained glass after being employed for years in odd jobs. He had been supplementing his income with small stainedglass jobs until he realized he could make more money by focusing solely on stained glass, he said.

In the mid-80s, more than 10 years since he had left Italy, he was able to travel back to the country.

Within a year he began to create and sell reproductive Tiffany lamp shades in Italy, thus beginning his regular travel back and forth to Italy that included stained glass window work in churches in Italy: “I think I’ve done 10 or 11 churches, now, in Italy,” said Martino. “The opportunity to do these stained glass windows I’ve considered a tremendous privilege.”

During one trip three years ago, knowing he always wanted to write a book, Martino’s wife came up with the idea of an adventure book that the Shroud of Turin would go missing and the protagonist of the book would go find it. The characters are drawn from people Martino knows, with a few names changed, and Martino came up with the idea of the main plot being based partly during World War II and having a fear that Nazis would steal the original Shroud, so a duplicate shroud was made.

Though the plot of making a duplicate Shroud to hide it from the Nazis is completely fabricated, “obviously the history and research of Italy in 1943 was as accurate as I could be,” said Martino.

The self-published, “Shrouded Deception” was released only a few weeks ago, and Martino hopes to expand the main character and write two more books. Until then, he’s happy to get the word out about his first foray into the literary world.

“I didn’t want it to be a dark book. Someone once said, ‘a Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure but with a couple of middle-aged men.’ With the help of my wife and family, we’ve written this story, which I think is a fun read,” said Martino.

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name of Jesus.

“Everything is to lead us to God — music, prayers, our singing, our voices, our participation together,” Bishop da Cunha said. “So the purpose of music and the organ is not just to have a beautiful sound, not just to get people enthused and have them sit back and enjoy, but it’s really to stir the heart and the mind and lead us to connect with God and to make God the center of all that we do.”

Given the beautiful sound of the new pipe organ, the bishop noted it can be tempting to just become an audience member watching a show.

“I know we’ve all had the experience when you’ll only see a few people singing or just the choir singing or the cantor singing, and a lot of people are just sitting there watching and listening,” he said. “The music is really there for us all to participate in — to sing with the leader of the choir and to lift our hearts to God.” “St. Augustine used to say that those who sing well pray twice,” the bishop added. “But I think the key word there is to sing well. I think that’s when we really pray twice. If we sing and it doesn’t come from the heart, we may be praying, but not necessarily twice.”

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Cardinal O’Malley says Planned Parenthood videos illustrate ‘throwaway culture’ WASHINGTON (CNS) — Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, OFM, Cap., said that Planned Parenthood officials’ videotaped descriptions of how fetal tissue and organs are procured for researchers during abortions illustrates what Pope Francis calls today’s “throwaway culture.”

The officials also discuss what the organization charges for the body parts, which opponents of Planned Parenthood said violates federal law and the organization said are customary handling fees paid by research labs.

Cardinal O’Malley, in a recent statement, said Pope Francis calls abortion “the product of a ‘widespread mentality of profit, the throwaway culture, which has today enslaved the hearts and minds of so many.’”

He made the comments as chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities.

Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a radio interview that he was “appalled” by the videos but even more

“appalled at the reality of abortion, the taking of the life itself.”

The prelates were referring to videos filmed undercover earlier this year and released in mid-July by a nonprofit California-based organization called the Center for Medical Progress.

In two videos, top Planned Parenthood physicians describe how abortions are carried out to best salvage fetal tissue and organs for researchers and described a range of prices paid for different body parts.

A third video was an interview with a technician talking about a company she works for harvesting and included graphic footage. A fourth video was about to be released, until Los Angeles Superior Court July 28 issued an order blocking its release.

Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in a statement said that “allegations that Planned Parenthood profits in any way from tissue donation is not true.” She later apologized for “the tone” the physicians used in describing

abortion procedures and also argued the videos had been heavily edited to distort the truth.

The Center for Medical Progress has posted the first three videos on its website,www. centerformedicalprogress.org.

“The recent news stories concerning Planned Parenthood direct our attention to two larger issues involving many institutions in our society,” said Cardinal O’Malley.

“The first is abortion itself: a direct attack on human life in its most vulnerable condition.

The second is the now standard practice of obtaining fetal organs and tissues though abortion.”

“Both actions fail to respect the humanity and dignity of human life,” he said. “This fact should be the center of attention in the present public controversy.”

He also urged any woman for whom the Planned Parenthood news coverage has caused them to “experience revived trauma from their own involvement in abortion” to seek help from the Catholic Church’s post-abortion healing ministry, Project Rachel,

www.projectrachel.com.

“Be assured that any and all persons will be welcomed with compassion and assistance” by the ministry, Cardinal O’Malley said.

Archbishop Kurtz recently discussed the videos in a call to the Catholic Channel’s “Seize the Day With Gus Lloyd” on SiriusXM. He said he “would be saddened” if the issue of abortion itself “somehow it lost its impact. That it became simply a debate over what’s legal and what’s illegal and I think the child in the womb then gets lost.”

“Our bishops’ conference has from the beginning opposed issues related to the funding, federal funding, of Planned Parenthood,” Archbishop Kurtz said, adding that just because “something may be legal doesn’t mean it’s right.”

The release of the videos, he added, is “an occasion for all of us to be renewed in our commitment to be Pro-Life and to promote a Culture of Life. Our culture is becoming increasingly utilitarian. It’s very easy when you get into

that mindset to see people as objects.”

The USCCB “is going to continue to promote a Culture of Life” and looking at what can be done legislatively to further that goal, he said.

On Capitol Hill, a number of Republicans in the House and Senate have called for an end to federal funding of Planned Parenthood. Several states also have launched investigations into the organization.

Planned Parenthood receives more than $500 million of its $1.3 billion annual budget from federal and state programs. According to 2013 data, the latest available, Planned Parenthood says abortions represent three percent of the total services its facilities provide.

Democrats and other opponents of cutting off federal funds point to the millions of women across the country who rely on Planned Parenthood for contraceptive care, many who otherwise couldn’t afford it. Planned Parenthood also provides limited testing for sexually transmitted diseases and cervical cancer screenings.

Annual Tekakwitha Conference draws more than 600 people nationwide

ALEXANDRIA, La. (CNS) — More than 600 people from across the country gathered in Alexandria July 22-26 for the 76th annual Tekakwitha Conference in honor of St. Kateri Tekakwitha.

“St. Kateri Embraces the Wetlands” was the theme of this year’s conference, which was marked with prayer, song, dance and workshops. The conference was co-hosted by the Houma-Thibodaux and Alexandria dioceses.

Workshop topics included the call to evangelize, Native American martyrs, the power of prayer, how to read the Bible, Pope Francis and the environment and making a living on the bayou embracing the wetlands. Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of HoumaThibodaux and Bishop Ronald P. Herzog of Alexandria celebrated daily Masses during the conference.

During a general assembly session participants learned that Father Henry Sands, a priest from the Archdiocese of Detroit who is a member of the Ojibwe, Ottawa and Potawatomi tribes, will be the new

executive director of the Black and Indian Mission Office in Washington, succeeding Father Wayne Paysse, executive director since 2007.

Father Sands, currently assistant director of Native American affairs for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church, will assume his new role September 1.

Sister Kateri Mitchell, executive director of the Tekakwitha Conference organization, presented a plaque to Father Paysse for his years of service. A priest of the New Orleans Archdiocese, he is returning home for a pastoral assignment there.

During the conference, Father Paysse presented Father David Korth, director of the St. Augustine Indian Mission School in Winnebago, Neb., with the Msgr. William H. Ketcham Service Award. The school is located on the Winnebago Indian Reservation in Nebraska and serves about 115 kindergarten through eighth-grade students from the Winnebago and Omaha tribes.

“I was shocked when Father Paysse announced the award

because I thought he was just announcing that this will be my last conference,” says Father Korth, who will be taking another assignment in the Archdiocese of Omaha, Neb., next year. “It is a great honor and I was very pleasantly surprised.

To receive an award named after Msgr. Ketcham is very humbling because I know he poured his heart and soul into serving Native Americans across this country; he paved the way for those of us who have followed.”

The priest said the award was emotional for him since it was his last conference and he “made a lot of friendships with Native Americans across the country” at the event.

Father Korth, who grew up on a farm in Nebraska, was given a Native American name by the Winnebago Tribe earlier this year, which he says is also very special to him. The English translation of that name is “man of faith.”

The award is presented to someone who offers meaningful service to the Native American Catholic community in the spirit of sacrifice and compassion; brings creativity and vision to the ministry;

promotes Faith Formation opportunities, sponsors lay leadership training and witnesses a strong personal faith; reflects in his/her life an active concern for Native American heritage and the unity of the Universal Church; and collaborates with the Bureau of

Catholic Indian Missions.

It is named after Msgr. William H. Ketcham who died in 1921 and was the third director of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions.

Next year’s Tekakwitha Conference will be held July 20-24 in San Mateo, Calif.

Native Americans in full regalia dance at a powwow during the recent 76th annual Tekakwitha Conference in Alexandria, La. (CNS photo/Lawrence Chatagnier, Bayou Catholic)

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August 7, 2015

Bishop Connolly High School unveils $1.4 million Advancement Initiative

Students from Holy Name School in Fall River learned first-hand how the court system and our Constitution work. The fifth-graders visited the Fall River Justice Center just before school ended for the summer. After visiting the security facilities and the law library, they were escorted by a court officer to a courtroom where they observed numerous arraignments. The presiding judge spoke to the inquisitive students and answered their many questions. A probation officer also spent time explaining his role in the court system.

Before returning to school, the students recited “The Bill Of Rights Rap” for the court. This field trip was memorable and educational for all the students.

St. Michael School in Fall River recently participated in the 2015 Relay for Life, as the St. Michael School Angel Fish Team, its fourth year as a team. Aimee Cyr is the team leader and does an incredible job organizing fund raising throughout the year with third-grade teacher Jenn Aguiar and the entire school community. With the support of the principal, Sister Marie Baldi, faculty, staff and parents and students, the St. Michael School Angel Fish Team was able to raise more than $3,000 this year for this great cause.

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FALL RIVER — Bishop Connolly High School in Fall River recently unveiled a $1.4 million Advancement Initiative currently under way to enhance the school’s building and grounds, as well as expand financial aid resources for students and families.

Advancement Initiative funds have been earmarked to support upgrades at Bishop Connolly in five areas — expanded financial aid and scholarships; enhancements to the school’s lab spaces and learning resources in science, math, world languages and technology; upgrades to the school’s building and grounds; refur-

bishments in the athletic and theatre complex; and design improvements and expanded amenities in the campus center and cafeteria.

Dr. Michael S. Griffin, superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Fall River, joined Connolly principal Christopher Myron to thank donors in the Advancement Initiative’s top giving circles, presenting them with framed certificates of appreciation.

Receiving recognition were Founder’s Circle ($100,000 and above) donors BayCoast Bank, Oliver S. and Jennie R. Donaldson Charitable Trust, and Rodgers Family Foundation;

Investor’s Circle ($50,000$99,999) donors BankFive and Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation; Guardian’s Circle ($25,000-$49,999) donors Borden and Remington Corp., Lafrance Hospitality Company, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III and Sharon Bogan Quinn, St. Anne’s Credit Union, and Waring-Sullivan Homes of Memorial Tribute; and Bishop’s Circle ($10,000$24,999) donors Matthew Doyle ’94 and Christine Doyle, James Kalife ’71, Jamie Karam ’94, Robert Kfoury, and Robert F. Stoico/FIRSTFED Charitable Foundation.

Donors recognized for their generous support of Bishop Connolly’s Advancement Initiative include: front row, from left: Kimberly Smith, Waring-Sullivan Homes of Memorial Tribute; Joan Medeiros ’85, Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation; Maria McCoy-Freitas, representing Oliver S. and Jennie R. Donaldson Charitable Trust; Kelly Baldwin, St. Anne’s Credit Union; and Cecelia Viveiros, representing Robert F. Stoico/FIRSTFED Charitable Foundation. Back row: Dr. Michael Griffin, Fall River Diocese superintendent of schools; James Kalife ’71; District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III; George Oliveira ’73, BayCoast Bank; Principal Christopher Myron; Robert Kfoury; Richard Lafrance, Msgr. Prevost ’64, Lafrance Hospitality Company; Ross Upton, St. Anne’s Credit Union; William Eccles, BankFive; and Michael Quinn, representing Borden and Remington Corp. Not pictured are Matthew Doyle ’94 and Christine Doyle, Jamie Karam ’94, and Thomas A. Rodgers III, Rodgers Family Foundation. (Photo Credit: Nelson Maré, New Bedford)

Fifty-two junior altar servers and youth choir members from St. John the Evangelist Parish in Attleboro, together with their chaperones, recently spent a fun-filled day at Canobie Lake Park in Salem, N.H., in appreciation for the service they render to God with such devotion.

August 7, 2015

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an you believe that in less than a month school starts?

Sorry if I just brought you down a bit.

In about two weeks our Peer Leaders at UMass Dartmouth move in for a couple days for a retreat and to lead our Novus program for firstyear students. This past week the Office for Campus Ministry hosted an overnight retreat at Sacred Hearts Retreat Center in Wareham for recent high school graduates who are heading off to college this month. It is a very exciting time in the lives of these students: one filled with hope and at the same time a little anxiety.

Embark (the name of this overnight retreat) is one of the ways we seek to help our Catholic students not only transition from high school life to college, but also to help them transition in their faith life as well.

College is a time of great intellectual development. Students will be challenged to think critically and to apply that thinking to all aspects of their lives. One of our tasks in campus ministry is to help students grow in faith during this intellectual development. Catholicism has a rich intellectual history. An unfortunate occurrence in the university or college atmosphere is when faith is reduced to myth or folklore. Institutions of higher learning seek to promote a healthy, holistic development of their students. This is why

Youth Pages Stay close

who share the same faith and values in addition to the academic focus, that you do, who accept you for who schools have student affair departyou are or meeting with a campus ments, that division of a college or university that seeks to help the stu- minister to vent or seek assistance dent grow in their social and leader- in the transition, we are a resource ship skills as well as provide students that can be very valuable during your college career. I should also drop a with the supports they need to succeed not just academically but in life. note here to parents. Campus ministry also hears The Catholic from nervous understanding moms and of the hudads, particuman person is larly at the that we are a beginning of union of body

By Father the semester. and soul. To David C. Frederici Unless there truly engage is a concern in a holistic for the safety development of the student, we don’t report back means we nurture our minds and to you whether they are going to hearts together.

Mass, etc. Sorry!

College is also a time when our In a transition such as college, one lives are turned upside down. For of the keys to success is to find areas many moving away from home for of stability. That is why we encourthe first time is a transition that age students to work on routines in takes time. New habits need to be their lives. A priest friend of mine established. Learning boundaronce offered students this piece of ies and self-discipline are a must. advice: Remember when you were This new freedom comes with new little and you went out to play? In responsibility. Even for those who the summertime we were able to go are commuting from home, life is different. Due to the demands of be- out after dinner while it was still ing a student, one’s relationship with light. The instruction given to us was stay close. Why? One reason was family is very different than it was safety. If there was a problem, help in high school. These changes can would be nearby. Another reason also be stressful. Campus Ministry was when it was time to go home we serves as a means of support for this aspect of transition as well. Whether would be able to hear our parents it is connecting with a group of peers calling for us.

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17 My friend’s point was the Lord is telling us the same: stay close. The Mass is celebrated throughout the world. It is celebrated on campus at many colleges and universities or at a nearby church. Stay close, not because your parents want you to, but because God wants you to. Faith becomes one of the most important anchors in our lives, particularly in times of transition.

Go to Mass to allow yourself to grow in faith as well as in wisdom.

Go to Mass to nurture a real and lasting relationship with the God Who created you, loves you and desires you.

Go to Mass to give yourself the best chance to succeed in college and in life.

UMass Dartmouth: www. umassdcatholics.com Wheaton College: www. wheatoncatholics.com Bristol Community College: www. bcccatholics.com Mass Maritime: www. capecatholics.com Cape Cod Community College: www.capecatholics.com Anchor columnist Father Frederici is pastor of St. John the Evangelist Parish in Pocasset and diocesan director of Campus Ministry and Chaplain at UMass Dartmouth and Bristol Community College. frdavid@fallrivercampusministry. com.

World Youth Day registration begins; pope is first person to sign up

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis was the first pilgrim to sign up for World Youth Day to be held in Krakow, Poland, launching the opening of registration.

Accompanied by two Polish teen-agers who wore World Youth Day 2016 Tshirts, the pope had to make a couple of attempts pressing the screen of a tablet before his online registration went through.

“There. With this electronic device I have signed up for the day as a pilgrim,” he told thousands of people gathered recently in St. Peter’s Square for an Angelus address.

The pope said, “I wanted to be the one to open registration” in front of everyone gathered for the Angelus and in the company of two teens on the day sign-ups began July 26.

The celebrations July 26-31, 2016, will come during the Holy Year of Mercy, which Pope Francis proclaimed to invite people to follow the merciful example of God, the Father.

World Youth Day “will be, in a certain sense, a jubilee of youth” during the holy year, as its theme is also about being merciful toward others, the pope said.

God’s merciful power through Jesus “heals every ill of body and Spirit,” the pope said before praying the Angelus.

Reflecting on the day’s Gospel reading, St. John’s account of the multiplica-

tion of loaves and fish, Pope Francis said the story shows how the disciples tried to find a “market”-based solution by calculating how much money they would need to feed the large, hungry crowd that had gathered by the Sea of Galilee.

“But Jesus substitutes the logic of buying with another logic, the logic of giving” when He points to the generous gift offered by the boy, Andrew, who offered to give all that he had: five small loaves and two fish.

Even though people could not see how such a small contribution could make a difference, “God is able to multiply our tiny gestures of solidarity and let us participate in His gift,” the pope said.

Jesus offers “fullness of life for those who hunger. He satisfies not only material hunger, but also that deeper hunger — the hunger for meaning in life, the hunger for God,” Pope Francis said.

Complaining does nothing to solve the many problems in life, “but we can offer that little we have like the boy in the Gospel,” he said.

Everyone has some kind of talent or skill as well as time, he said. “If we are willing to put them in the Lord’s hands they will be enough so that there will be a little bit more love, peace, justice and above all joy in the world.”

Pope Francis uses a tablet to officially open online registration for World Youth Day 2016 A related video can be viewed at https:// in Poland. He did this during the Angelus from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican recently. (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano via EPA) youtu.be/wcXsEbrWID0

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August 7, 2015

‘Women Betrayed’ by Planned Parenthood speak out against abortion giant

Washington D.C. (CNA/EWTN News) — Hundreds of women — along with scores of men — gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol recently to protest what they see as betrayal of the nation’s women at the hands of Planned Parenthood.

“I have a lot of young women friends, and I’m very concerned about how Planned Parenthood might exploit them, how Planned Parenthood might exploit me if I had an unplanned pregnancy,” Christina Yao, a student at UMBC in Maryland, told CNA. “There are women being betrayed and profited off of when they’re in crisis situations, when we should be giving them help,” added Lisa Twigg, social media coordinator for Life Matters Journal, an anti-violence and consistent ethic-of-life magazine.

“I think this is offensive, to me as a feminist,” she told CNA. Yao and Twigg were among hundreds of participants at the “Women Betrayed” rally in front of the U.S. Capitol, protesting Planned Parenthood’s tactics and calling for an end to federal funding of the organization.

The Washington, D.C. rally was one of more than 60 demonstrations held across the country in protest of Planned Parenthood and its taxpayer funding. The demonstrations followed videos that have surfaced in recent weeks of Planned Parenthood officials discussing the procuring of body parts from aborted babies in exchange for money.

The rally also coincided with the release of a third undercover video from the citizen journalist group Center for Medical Progress. The video, released as part of a three-year investigative study of Planned Parenthood, interviews a former procurement technician that worked for a clinic which received organs from Planned Parenthood clinics.

In addition, the video shows one of the undercover investigators in the back room of an abortion clinic examining an aborted patient, speaking to Planned Parenthood doctors who discuss “how much we can get out of it.”

Previous undercover videos showed senior Planned Parenthood officials discussing the pricing of “donated” body parts of aborted babies for “reason-

She also criticized Planned Washington, D.C., told CNA able” compensation, as well as roots organization of women a graphic description of how across the country, spoke at the Parenthood’s resistance to that as an adoptee, she found fetal organs are extracted from rally, calling for the defunding regulations that would bring the issue of opposing abortion aborted babies. In one of the of the abortion giant and criti- the clinics in line with surgical “very close to my heart.”

Cosby said she found the videos, a Planned Parenthood cizing what she called Planned standards. “They’re performdoctor also suggested the pos- Parenthood’s exploitation of ing surgical procedures, why prevalence of abortion and shouldn’t they have to meet Planned Parenthood’s harvestsibility of altering an abortion women. ing of organs “disgusting,” and “For decades, women have that standard?” procedure in order to have a wanted the organization to stop “I support the rights of better chance at extracting in- gone to Planned Parenthood women, but I don’t think hiding “behind this facade that tact organs. e allow children who are that means we should what they do is help women Planned Parenthood has defended its actions not born, who can’t speak be required to secure when actually they are just pushin the videos, saying that for themselves, to be slaughtered in our liberation from the ing the big corporate agenda.”

Instead, she offered, people blood of our children,” it is not making sigthe millions. Who is looking out for Twigg said. “should stand up and demand nificant or illegal profits She explained that that this be investigated, that from the process, and the people who have no voice?” being a Pro-Life femi- their rights are protected, and that it receives approprinist is nothing more that they are held accountable ate consent from mothseeking help while in a vulner- than “the radical notion that for what they’re doing.” ers.

“We allow children who are Federal law generally pro- able and desperate place,” Mc- women and children are people hibits the selling of human Donnell said. “And for decades, and we need to be helping both not born, who can’t speak for themselves, to be slaughtered in tissue but allows for the dona- we have been told that Planned of them.”

Amanda Cosby, a demon- the millions,” Cosby remarked. tion of tissue with “reasonable Parenthood is for women and payments” for the “transporta- women’s health. Planned Par- strator who woke up before “Who is looking out for the tion, implantation, processing, enthood’s response to these sunrise to get to the rally in people who have no voice?” preservation, quality control, or women’s desperation, the killstorage of human fetal tissue.” ing of the child in her womb, It explicitly prohibits the sale has only caused more suffering of tissue for “valuable consid- and pain.”

St. Anthony of Padua Parish in New Bedford is having a procession and consecration on August 14, the vigil of the Assumption of The undercover videos show eration.” the Blessed Virgin Mary. Holy Mass is at 5:15 p.m., preceded by In the first two videos, “that Planned Parenthood exHoly Hour at 4:15 p.m. After the Mass there will be a procesPlanned Parenthood officials ploited these women even more” sion with the statue of Our Lady through the streets of New were careful to articulate that — potentially at the risk of the Bedford, and then consecration to Our Lady. the organization is not look- health of the mother, she conThe Diocesan Health Facilities will be hosting its eighth Annuing to make a significant profit tinued, noting the willingness of al Golf Classic to benefit the more than 900 adults serviced in its from the transfer of body parts the officials in the videos to alter skilled nursing and rehab care facilities and community programs on August abortion procedures in order to to procurement companies.

24 at the LeBaron Hills Country Club in Lakeville. Participation opportunities include corporate sponsorships, golf foursomes, prize donations for raffles The Senate’s Health and aid in organ harvest, “even if the and advertising on tee signs and in the event program book. For additional Human Services panel has altering of the procedure is more information on the various levels of participation, a member of the golf started an investigation into dangerous to the woman.” committee will be happy to assist when you call the Diocesan Health Facili“This is not freedom. This is Planned Parenthood over the ties Office at 508-679-8154. Printable registration forms are also available at www.dhfo.org. allegations, as have two com- women betrayed yet again.”

Alison Howard, director mittees in the House of RepreOn August 28 from 5 to 7 p.m., St. Elizabeth Seton Parish in North Falmouth of alliance relations for Prosentatives. will host a lobster roll supper with clam chowder catered by Shuckers, with From 2013-2014, Planned Life legal group Alliance Decorn and watermelon by Jack in the Beanstalk for $20. Kids meals will include macaroni and cheese, hot dog, corn, melon and juice for $5. Tickets are limited Parenthood received more than fending Freedom, questioned and will be on sale after the weekend Masses during August. For more infor$528 million in grants from the Planned Parenthood’s business mation call Dan at 508-548-0386. federal government. The orga- practices. “The idea of negotinization also reported a profit ating prices is really scary for A Healing Mass and Blessing with St. André’s Relic and Anointing with St. Joseph Oil will be held at St. Joseph Chapel, 500 Washington Street, at Holy of $127 million for the same Americans to see,” Howard Cross Family Ministries in North Easton on September 13 with Rosary at 1:30 said, adding that undercover time period. p.m. and Mass at 2 p.m. All are welcome to join either or both. St. André was Michele Hendrickson, re- videos “showed the business known as the “Miracle Man of Montrèal” for his intercession in healing thougional director for Students model behind Planned Parentsands of the faithful at the St. Joseph Oratory in Montreal. More than two million people visit his shrine each year. St. André’s relic will be available for for Life of America, which or- hood and how they profit off blessing and veneration. For more information call Holy Cross Family Minisganized the nationwide rallies, of people’s pain.” tries at 508-238-4095, x. 2027 or visit www.familyrosary.org/events.

“Planned Parenthood is spoke about the need for proprofiting off of our taxpayer test.

The Lazarus Ministry of Our Lady of the Cape Parish in Brewster is offering a six-week bereavement support program called “Come Walk With Me” that “Planned Parenthood is tar- money,” she continued, criticizwill begin September 10 and run through October 15 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The geting young women,” she said, ing the heavy federal funding program meets for six weeks at the parish center and is designed for people pointing to the undercover vid- of the organization and their who have experienced the loss of a loved one within the past year. Pre-regiseos, and the practices described multi-million dollar profits. “I tration is required and there is a $10 charge for materials. For more information, contact Happy Whitman at 508-385-3252, Mary Morley at 508-385-8942 in them. “Women are definitely think this idea of defunding is or Joan Merz at 508-385-9265. so they can function like other being betrayed.”

“They’re not there to help non-profits do.”

Retrouvaille is a Christian Peer Ministry sponsored by the Catholic Church for Twigg argued that “Planned women — they’re out there for married couples who are experiencing difficulties in their Marriage. If you are considering separation or divorce, Retrouvaille can help! The next Retroumoney,” Hendrickson contin- Parenthood isn’t doing a very vaille Marriage renewal weekend will be held September 11-13. To register ued, adding that some 94 per- good job of protecting women. for the weekend or for more information, call 1-800-470-2230 or visit www.

The organization lacks adcent of the pregnancy services helpourmarriage.com. provided at Planned Parent- equate resources for pregnancy The Diocesan Marriage Preparation Program is looking for married couples hood are related to abortion. and adoption at their clinics, who would like to enrich their Marriage while helping engaged couples pre“They push abortion to make and tells “women that the solupare for their lifetime together. There is also a Re-Marriage Prep Program tion to their problems, be they money off of it.” for couples entering their second Marriages. If you are interested in sharMeg McDonnell, commu- economical, or getting out of a ing the joys and challenges of married life, please contact your pastor or the Diocesan Office of Faith Formation at 508-678-2828 or email cmcmanus@ nications director for Women bad relationship is to kill their dfrcs.org.

Speak For Themselves, a grass- child,” she said.

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Around the Diocese

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August 7, 2015

Eucharistic Adoration in the Diocese Acushnet — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Francis Xavier Parish on Monday from 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Evening prayer and Benediction is held Monday through Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

ATTLEBORO — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the Adoration Chapel at St. Vincent de Paul Parish, 71 Linden Street, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

ATTLEBORO — The National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette holds Eucharistic Adoration in the Shrine Church every Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. through November 17.

ATTLEBORO — There is a weekly Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration Thursdays from 5:30 to 6:30 pm at St. John the Evangelist Church on N. Main St. Brewster — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the La Salette Chapel in the lower level of Our Lady of the Cape Church, 468 Stony Brook Road, on First Fridays beginning at noon until 7:45 a.m. First Saturday, concluding with Benediction and concluding with Mass at 8 a.m. buzzards Bay — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Margaret Church, 141 Main Street, Monday through Saturday, from 6:30 to 8 a.m.; and every first Friday from noon to 8 a.m. on Saturday.

East Freetown — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. John Neumann Church every Monday (excluding legal holidays) 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Our Lady, Mother of All Nations Chapel. (The base of the bell tower).

EAST TAUNTON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the chapel at Holy Family Parish Center, 438 Middleboro Avenue, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. On First Fridays, Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Holy Family Church, 370 Middleboro Avenue, from 8:30 a.m. until 7:45 p.m.

FAIRHAVEN — St. Mary’s Church, Main St., has Eucharistic Adoration every Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Chapel of Reconciliation, with Benediction at 11:30 a.m. Also, there is a First Friday Mass each month at 7 p.m., followed by a Holy Hour with Eucharistic Adoration. Refreshments follow.

Fall River — Espirito Santo Parish, 311 Alden Street, Fall River. Eucharistic Adoration on Mondays following the 8 a.m. Mass until Rosary and Benediction at 6:30 p.m.

FALL RIVER — St. Bernadette’s Church, 529 Eastern Ave., has continuous Eucharistic Adoration from 8 a.m. on Thursday until 8 a.m. on Saturday.

FALL RIVER — St. Anthony of the Desert Church, 300 North Eastern Avenue, has Eucharistic Adoration Mondays and Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

FALL RIVER — Holy Name Church, 709 Hanover Street, has Eucharistic Adoration Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Our Lady of Grace Chapel.

FALL RIVER — Good Shepherd Parish has Eucharistic Adoration every Friday following the 8 a.m. Mass and concluding with 3 p.m. Benediction in the Daily Mass Chapel. A bilingual holy hour takes place from 2 to 3 p.m. Park behind the church and enter the back door of the connector between the church and the rectory.

Falmouth — For July and August St. Patrick’s Church has Eucharistic Adoration on Wednesday and Friday 9 a.m. to noon Benediction at St. Thomas Chapel, Falmouth Heights.

MANSFIELD — St. Mary’s Parish, 330 Pratt Street, has Eucharistic Adoration every First Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., with Benediction at 5:45 p.m.

MASHPEE — Christ the King Parish, Route 151 and Job’s Fishing Road has 8:30 a.m. Mass every First Friday with special intentions for Respect Life, followed by 24 hours of Eucharistic Adoration in the Chapel, concluding with Benediction Saturday morning followed immediately by an 8:30 Mass.

NEW BEDFORD — Eucharistic Adoration takes place 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 233 County Street, with night prayer and Benediction at 8:45 p.m., and Confessions offered during the evening. Please use the side entrance.

NEW BEDFORD — There is a daily holy hour from 5:15-6:15 p.m. Monday through Thursday at St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1359 Acushnet Avenue. It includes Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Liturgy of the Hours, recitation of the Rosary, and the opportunity for Confession.

NEW BEDFORD — St. Lawrence Martyr Parish, 565 County Street, holds Eucharistic Adoration in the side chapel Fridays from 7:30-11:45 a.m. ending with a simple Benediction NORTH DARTMOUTH — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Julie Billiart Church, 494 Slocum Road, every Tuesday from 7 to 8 p.m., ending with Benediction.

The Sacrament of Reconciliation is available at this time.

NORTH DIGHTON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place every Wednesday following 8:00 a.m. Mass and concludes with Benediction at 5 p.m. Eucharistic Adoration also takes place every First Friday at St. Nicholas of Myra Church, 499 Spring Street following the 8 a.m. Mass, ending with Benediction at 6 p.m. The Rosary is recited Monday through Friday from 7:30 to 8 a.m.

NORTH EASTON — A Holy Hour for Families including Eucharistic Adoration is held every Friday from 3-4 p.m. at The Father Peyton Center, 518 Washington Street.

ORLEANS — St. Joan of Arc Parish, 61 Canal Road, has Eucharistic Adoration every First Friday starting after the 8 a.m. Mass and ending with Benediction at 11:45 a.m. The Sacrament of the Sick is also available immediately after the 8 a.m. Mass.

OSTERVILLE — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Our Lady of the Assumption Church, 76 Wianno Avenue on First Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to noon.

SEEKONK ­— Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish has perpetual Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day in the chapel at 984 Taunton Avenue. For information call 508-336-5549.

Taunton — Eucharistic Adoration takes place every Tuesday at St. Anthony Church, 126 School Street, following the 8 a.m. Mass with prayers including the Chaplet of Divine Mercy for vocations, concluding at 6 p.m. with Chaplet of St. Anthony and Benediction. Recitation of the Rosary for peace is prayed Monday through Saturday at 7:30 a.m. prior to the 8 a.m. Mass.

Taunton — Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament takes place every First Friday at Annunciation of the Lord, 31 First Street. Exposition begins following the 8 a.m. Mass. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed, and Adoration will continue throughout the day. Confessions are heard from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. Rosary and Benediction begin at 6:30 p.m.

WAREHAM — Eucharistic Adoration at St. Patrick’s Church begins each Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. and ends on Friday night at midnight. Adoration is held in our Adoration Chapel in the lower Parish Hall. ~ PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ~ East Sandwich — The Corpus Christi Parish Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 324 Quaker Meeting House Road, East Sandwich. Use the Chapel entrance on the side of the church.

NEW BEDFORD — Our Lady’s Chapel, 600 Pleasant Street, offers Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day. For information call 508-996-8274.

SEEKONK ­— Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish has perpetual Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day in the chapel at 984 Taunton Avenue. For information call 508-336-5549.

WEST HARWICH — Our Lady of Life Perpetual Adoration Chapel at Holy Trinity Parish, 246 Main Street (Rte. 28), holds perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. We are a regional chapel serving all of the surrounding parishes. All are invited to sign up to cover open hours. For open hours, or to sign up call 508-430-4716.

Sister Mary Brian Murphy, RSM

CUMBERLAND, R.I. — Sister Mary Brian Murphy, 90, a Sister of Mercy, died July 21, 2015 at Mount St. Rita Health Centre in Cumberland, R.I. Born in Fall River, she was the daughter of the late James and Agnes (Holt) Murphy, and sister of the late Francis Murphy. She entered the Sisters of Mercy on Sept. 8, 1944 and professed final vows on Aug. 16, 1950.

Having received a bachelor’s degree from Catholic Teachers College, Sister began her teaching ministry in New Bedford at St. Mary School.

She taught mainly in Fall River and New Bedford parish schools as well as at St. Vincent’s Home.

More recently, Sister resided at Franklin Court Assisted Living in Bristol and at Mount St. Rita Health Centre where she was lovingly cared for and enjoyed visits from community members who knew they could rely on her for her

prayerful support.

A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated July 24 at Mount St. Rita Health Centre Chapel, Cumberland.

Interment followed at Resurrection Cemetery, Cumberland.

Donations in her memory may be made to the Sisters of Mercy, 15 Highland View Road, Cumberland, R.I. 02864 or Mount St. Rita Health Centre, 15 Sumner Brown Road, Cumberland, R.I., 02864.

Funeral arrangements were handled by Gallogly Family Funeral Homes.

Roger J. Tremblay, father of Father Marc P. Tremblay

WARWICK, R.I. — Roger J. Tremblay, age 89, of Fall River passed away peacefully July 19 at the home of his daughter in Warwick, R.I. He was the beloved husband of the late Pauline G. (Ouellette) Tremblay.

Born in Fall River, on June 8, 1926, he was a son of the late Denery J. and Marthe (Gagnon) Tremblay. He grew up in Fall River and was educated in St. Anne’s parochial school. Upon graduation from Msgr. Prevost High School he proudly served his country as a member of the United States Army Air Force during WWII. He was honorably discharged from duty on July 6, 1946 with the rank of corporal. Prior to retiring, Tremblay served the com-

In Your Prayers Please pray for these priests during the coming weeks Aug. 8 Rev. William Bric, Founder, St. Joseph, Fall River, 1880 Aug. 12 Rev. Victor O. Masse, M.S., Retired Pastor, St. Anthony, New Bedford, 1974 Aug. 13 Rev. Edward J. Sheridan, Pastor, St. Mary, Taunton, 1896 Rt. Rev. Leonard J. Daley, Pastor, St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis, 1964 Rev. Gabriel Swol, OFM Conv., Former Associate Pastor, Holy Rosary, Taunton, 1991 Aug. 14 Rev. Raphael Marciniak, OFM Conv., Pastor, Holy Cross, Fall River, 1947 Rev. Conrad Lamb, O.S.B., Missionary in Guatemala, 1969

munity of Fall River as a Fall River City Firefighter for 38 years. With the exception of living several years in Florida and one year in California, he lived his entire life in Fall River.

A communicant of St. Anne’s Church, his affiliations included being a member of the VFW, the Knights of Columbus in Fall River and the Society of St. Jean Baptiste. He enjoyed spending time with his family, his Christian faith, bowling, woodworking and music.

He is survived by his loving and devoted children Father Marc P. Tremblay, pastor of St. Mary’s Church in Norton; Celeste J. Duclos and her partner Berry Murray of Warwick, R.I.; Suzanne M. Franco and her husband Francis of California; Carl E.

Tremblay and his wife Barbara of Fall River; John G. Tremblay of Fall River; Michael J. Tremblay and his wife Beverly of Fall River; and Sgt. Paul R. Tremblay, U.S. Army and his wife Theresa of Warwick, R.I. He was the dear brother of Georgette Pouliot and her husband Richard of Michigan and the late Claire Pariseault and Pauline Durette. He is also survived by his cherished grandsons Christopher, Joel, Matthew, Timothy, Matthew, Dominic, Nathan and Kevin, five great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated at Holy Trinity Church, Fall River. Burial with military honors followed at Notre Dame Cemetery in Fall River.

Donations in his memory be made to St. Anne’s Church, 818 Middle Street, Fall River, 02721. Funeral arrangements were handled by Auclair Funeral Home.

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August 7, 2015

‘It was 20 years ago today ...’

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n June of 1967, The Beatles released a landmark album called “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

The title track began with the

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lyrics, “It was 20 years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. They’ve been going in and out of style. But they’re guaranteed to raise a smile.”

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I bring this up because last on occasion at her Somerset Saturday, August 1, marked the home.

20th anniversary of my having I had the bittersweet honor to started at The Anchor. write tributes to Rosemary, BarI must say that I’m very bara and Pat in The Anchor when blessed to have been associeach passed away. ated with this fine publication I also just learned Pat’s husfor the last two decades. While band Owen passed away August sometimes it’s been a “Long and 2. Prayers to the McGowan Winding Road,” it’s a journey I Family. Owen, too, was a good was able to trek “With a Little Anchor friend.

Help From My Friends.”

And the friends along the way have been many.

I was hired by a dear friend, colleague and brilliant business woman, Anchor business manager,

By Dave Jolivet Rosemary Dussault. In a world then dominated by men, Rosemary could more than hold her own against My first “boss” was Msgr. John any of them.

F. Moore, a man who ran a sturdy She always treated me and my ship, but gave me leeway to be family like her family. my own writer as well.

Along with Rosemary, I began During the past 20 years I my Anchor journey with seasoned have worked for three bishops; newspaper veterans Barbara Reis, then-bishop, now Cardinal Sean a secretary when I started who O’Malley, OFM, Cap.; Bishop later took over for Rosemary George W. Coleman; and Bishop when she passed away; and Patri- Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., cia McGowan, the most talented each of whom I helped produce writer and news person I have special Anchor editions for. ever met. Pat took me under her I’ve produced tribute editions wing and increased my journalfor Pope John Paul II, Pope ism skills tenfold at the very least. Benedict XVI and Pope Francis.

Pat was a remarkable woman Besides Msgr. Moore, I’ve whose godfather was none other worked under Father Roger than the legendary G.K. ChesJ. Landry; Msgr. Gerard P. terton; and she was friends with O’Connor (on an interim basis); Dorothy Day, whom Pat hosted and Father Richard D. Wilson.

My View From the Stands

Also this year, this column, “My View From the Stands,” marks its 15th anniversary which began running with the March 10, 2000 edition. I have no idea how many columns I’ve produced over the years, but the column photo remained the same for years at a time. To celebrate 15 years, today’s column has a new mug shot.

I was named editor of The Anchor by Bishop O’Malley beginning with the Sept. 14, 2001 edition — another bittersweet moment. I was grateful for the promotion, but the lead headline for that edition was the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City; Washington, D.C.; and Shanksville, Pa. The Anchor was printed, when I first began, at Leary Press on Second Street in Fall River — attached to the house where the infamous Borden murders took place on Aug. 4, 1892. Good friends Martha McGinn and Ron Evans turned the house into a bed and breakfast in 1995.

Technology changed and we no longer put the paper together by actual cutting and pasting copy. Desktop publishing became vogue and in November of 2000 The Anchor published its first color edition with our new printing company, and current companion, TCI Press in Seekonk.

Through the years, I’ve been blessed to meet with many great people, some famous, some not, but each of them brought something special to The Anchor.

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention former coworkers Jim Dunbar, Mike Gordon and Christine Vieira; and current partners in crime Mary Chase, Wayne Powers, Becky Aubut and Ken Souza — each of whom has made an indelible mark on my life.

It’s been a good ride, and I hope it continues for a long time. davejolivet@anchornews.org.