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89 from diocese to attend Youth Day in Paris Under tbe direction ofFatber David Costa, 18 parishes and schools from allover tbe Fall River diocese will be represented in Paris, France, for tbis year's WorldYoutb Day festival.

Instituted in 1985 following tbe spontaneous gatherings of youtb in Rome on the occasion of tbe U.N. International Year for Youth, World Youtb Days are celebrated each year in every diocese of the world.

Every two years, moreover, tbe Pope calls the youth of tJle world to meet during an international gatJlering.

The purpose ofWorld Youth Day is threefold: putting trust in tbe young; gatbering togetber; and meeting tbe international world on a human level.

This year's theme is "Master, where are you staying?...Come and See" (In 1:38-39).

The gatherings and activities over the weeklong festival are designed to remind young people of tbe importance of the spiritual part of life in today's society.

The Fall River delegation will make the nine day pilgrimage not only to attend tbe many activities associated with the celebration, but also to take in the sights of Paris.

"It's important to lind Christ in everything," said Father Costa, explaining that the museums and other sight" offer much inspiration too.

Pilgrims will begi.n lrrriving on Aug. 18 and an opening Mass. will be celebrated the following day with Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, Archbishop of Paris.

The group will have Mass on Aug. 23 witb a familiar celebrant, since Bishop Sean O'Malley will also bl~ in Paris for tbe youtb convention as well as for tbe Aug. 22 beatification of Frederic Oz.anam, founder of the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

Bishops from all over tbe world will also be in town for the festival, offering daily teachings to youth separated into language groups. Each catechesis will be followed by aMass.

The afternoons of Aug. 20 and 21 will be devoted to the youth festival, which includes shows, concerts and expositions showcasing the cultural and spiritual aspects of France.

A Way of the Cross will be held Aug. 22.

Aug. 23 will bring a walking pilgrimage to the site of an evening prayer vigil in tbe presence of tbe Holy Fatber and on Sunday morning Pope John Paul II will celebrate a sendoff Mass followed by the Angelus.

The group is due back on Aug. 26.

Sending groups from the diocese are Notre Dame, St. Antbony of Padua, St. William, Sacred Heart, and Holy Name parishes, tbe Office ofYoutb Ministry Services and Bishop Connolly High School in Fall River; St. John Neumlmn parish, East Freetown; St. John tbe Baptist lUld St. James parishes of New Bedford; Our Lady of Mt. ClUmel parish, Seekonk; St. John of God, St. Thomas More and St. ?atrick parishes of Somerset; St. Mark parish, North Attleboro; St. Pius X parish, South Yarmoutb; St. Francis Xavier parish, AcuSl'fnet; and St. Joseph parish, Nortb Dighton.

A send-off Mass for the Fall River delegation to World YOlllth Day will be held at Notre Dame parish in Fall River on August 17 at 3 p.m.

VIVE ,LA FRANCE!!! Part of the 89-person delegation from our diocese preparing to attend World Youth Day with Pope John Paull! this year in Paris, France, pore over a map of the city on the steps of Sacred Heart Church in Fall River. They are, clockwise from left front: Jessica Medeiros of S1. John of God parish, Somerset; seminarian Scott Ciosek of Espirito Santo parish, Fall River; Paul Levesque of Notre Dame, Fall River; Father David Costa, pastor of Sacred Heart, who will also lead the pilgrimage; and Sarah Vargas, Vincent Medeiros, and Katie Vargas, all of S1. John of God. Joining them in the photo at far right and on the trip is Sister Celine Teresa Rainville, SUSC, of the Youth Ministry Office. (Anchor/Mills photo)

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Foreign volunteers enrich Latin Patriarchate's summer cam:ps

By JUDITH SUDILOVSKY

The Latin-rite Patriarchate of BIR ZEIT, West Bank (CNS) Jerusalem began sponsoring - Foreign volunteers at church- summer camps through its parrun summer camps in the West ishes about four years ago. This Bank and Gaza are teaching the year, for the month of July, six local volunteers - as well as parishes in the West Bank and campers.

Gaza as well as nine parishes in Since the whole concept of Jordan held camps for some summer camps is something 2,600 youngsters. novel in Arab society, foreign Last year when the volunteers volunteers who bring with them took the campers through Bir previous summer camp experi- Zeit to pick up garbage, everyences are teaching local volun- 'body stared at them, said Julia teers how to be creative and in- Matheson, 25, from Toronto, novative with projects for the Ontario. But this year, she said

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afternoon session for teen-agers, said they believe that by volunteering they are enabling the younger members of the village to have an experience they never had.

"It is very important fOf the kids to develop their talents," said Moneer Shaheen, 18, one of the local volunteers. "I wish they had had this camp for us when I was younger, but the situation wasn't the same then. Now we are in peace."

But the work at the camps is not all done out of altruism, said Bir Zeit's parish priest, Father Emil Salayta, who has organized the patriarchate's camps.

The churches know that through these summer camps they are building the youth ofto-. morrow, he said. So though the camps are fun and relaxed, they are trying to instill ideas such as volunteerism, teamwork, fair play and camaraderie into the youngsters.

In addition to the usual summer camp activities of sports, music, and art are discussion groups for the older children and catechism classes for all ages.

Father Salayta uses his parish camp as an experimental model for the other camps and has introduced a program intended to teach the children the importance of volunteering - another concept making its way into the Arab community.

Children are encouraged to help around the village and then bring back a signed slip which states what and when they helped some~.me. At the end of camp, an award is given to the campers who helped the most.

The parish priest in Gaza, Father Manuel Musallam, said in a telephone interview that his parish's camp is the only recreational outlet for the almost 200 youngsters who attend. There are 10 foreign volunteers at the camp.

"Without the camp the children would be lost, in the villages, in Gaza. They would remain without any hope of activity," Father. MusalIam said.

"They are suffering. They have

nothing. We provide them with a release. They will explode because they are enclosed. This is how we give them hope, how we build for peace."

VOLUNTEER MERNA Schmidt and a young camper try to pdp a balloon between them during a game at a summer camp in the village of Bir Zeit Foreign volunteers are bringing church camp concepts to Arab children in the West Bank to promote peace and responsible living. (CNS/Hill photo) .~

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VOLUNTEER MONICA McAuley from British Columbia helps Palestinian children paint refuse cans at the Bir Zeit church summer camp in the West Bank in late July.

Each child was encouraged to decorate her own trash can to help with cleanup in the village. (CNS/Hill photo) campers.

"Working here is completely different than working in a Canadian camp," said Monica McAuley, a 28-year-old dietitian from St. Patrick Parish in Victoria, British Columbia. Like the other five volunteers in Bir Zeit, McAuley worked in the camp as part of a six-week program sponsored by World Vision, a U.S.-based development program.

"There is a whole family involvement in this camp; a whole community involvement," she_ said, adding that children take ideas from the camp home to their families.

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she noticed a definite change in the way people think about littering in the vilIage, and the roads are a lot cleaner.

"We had some effect. I see a noticeable difference in the kids' behavior," she said.

In an effort to reinforce that behavior McAuley, who leads the art classes, had each child "adopt" a trash can and decorate it so they would be encouraged to throw trash away into "their" garbage can. So, she said, with this one project she taught art and tried to cultivate in the children a concern for the environment.

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CAMP VOLUNTEERS stand with campers next to a mural in Bir Zeit The chhdren painted several walls in a church courtyard to cover up political graffiti. (CNS/Hill piloto)

ReligiollS Education convention planned The 1997 annual diocesan Religious Education convention is scheduled for Saturday, September 27, at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, with the theme "Jesus: Yesterday, Today, Forever."

Keynote speaker Bishop Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap., will take the relationship of the coming millennium to religious educators as his theme. He will also be principal celebrant for the Mass that will open the day's program. Music for the liturgy will be led by Denise Morency Gannon, director of music at St. Francis Xavier parish, Acushnet, who will bring with her a group of singers.

In planning the day's program, the convention committee has

worked with the diocesan offices of Education, Adult Education and Youth Ministry. A track format will include Confirmation/Junior-Senior High SchoollYouth Ministry and Enrichment tracks. Robert McCarty, executive director of the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry, will lead the first track and Rev. Robert Kaszynski, pastor of St. Stanislaus parish in Fall River, is facilitating the second. Father Kaszynski's foCus will be on spirituality as related to the person of Christ.

Dr. Marie Murphy, executive religion consultant for Sadlier Publishers, will offer a general session on Elementary/Middle School Catechetics; and other workshops

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will address learning methods, sacramental preparation, hands-on teaching methods for individual groups and the Rite ofChristian Initiation for Adults, among other topics.

In addition, the Catholic Social Services office will conduct a session on abuse, now mandatory for all new teachers, catechists and youth ministers.

As in the past, exhibitors will be on hand to present catechetical products and programs and to accept orders for their products.

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Local educators attend confere:nce Michael J. Donly, Director of Development for the: Diocese of Fall River and Michael J. Tabak, Director of Development at Coyle and Cassidy High School in Taunton, were at the Gateway to the Future: Advanced Development Conference - a four-day conference featuring advanced development efforts at American Catholic secondary schools. Attended by more than 125 high school presidents, principals, board members and development directors, the Gateway Conference was sponsort:d jointly by the secondary schools department of the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA); St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ: and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

Reverend James Loughran, SJ, president of St. Petm's College, gave the conference banquet keynote address entitled "Fundraising

May Not Be What You Think It Is." Reverend Donald R9we, SJ, president of St. Ignatius College Preparatory School, Chicago, IL, spoke on securing major gifts and their transformational impact on donors.

Dr. Mary Hughes, executive director of the Koch Foundation, Gainesville, FL, discussed past and predicted trends in Catholic philanthropy and its sources.

Networking with administrators and board members from 23 states, Gateway participants learned how to exceed development goals and design major gifts programs. Conference presenters, school heads and development directors shared successful techniques for attracting quality board members and fostering leadership at thiS level.

Sister Mary E. Tracy, SNJM, assistant executive director and development associate of NCEA's secondary schools department, said the

St. Paul Film Foundation an.nounces project The St. Paul Film Foundation ha'i announced it will begin production of the feature film Patrick this year. The film tells the story of St. Patrick, the early Christian saint who brought Christianity to the Celts ofancient Ireland. The story, both historical and popular, will bring to the world the message that St. Patrick brought to Ireland.

The marketing goal ofthe foundation is that the film reach the widest possible audience, making it both a spiritual and a commercial success.

Therefore, Patrick will be produced independently by the foundation and it will be released through a major U.S. film distributor to be shown in theatres internationally.

The foundation expects to make its lead talent announcements as they are finalized. The filming of Patrick will take place on location in Ireland and parts of England.

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Can We Do It? Hold on, you haven't seen anything yet. All indicators tell us we are on the verge of a new technological revolution. It's going to affect the entire world and, in First World nations, every home.

It will be impossible to escape its effect on business and industry; its impact will be massive.

The first area to be affected by this revolution will be that of communications. You think fax is great? In the next few years, voice recognition systems will become commonplace. New technology will automatically translate dictation into the printed word.

You will be speaking to your computer and it will speak to you. Email will be taking incoming messages, say in Arabic, and translate them into English. .

A host of other new products will be at our disposal in the near future. High definition television is in process of being developed.

Recordable video discs will replace videocassette recorders very soon; wireless television and flat screens will invade homes; robots are even now in the workplace and soon they will be in hospitals and surgical centers, not to mention our dwellings.

The above are but a few of the items almost on our doorsteps.

Those still in the laboratories and minds of the scientists of our nation and the world are far beyond the Buck Rogers mind-set.

The world of the laser is all but unexplored; artificial blood is on its way to approval. The litany is endless.

What does all this mean for each of us? First and foremost, change will become a constant and the outlook for those who oppose it will be glum. Such persons will condemn themselves to isolation. Such exile does not nurture the human spirit, thus those unable or unwilling to go with the flow could face tremendous interpersonal conflicts and loss of relationships.

But changes may not be easy, even for those who consider themselves psychologically adaptable. Because they are coming so rapidly and often in a rather disorderly way, they can cause difficulties. Alterations in attitudes and in societal structures often call hitherto accepted values into question. Many feel that the ways of behavior and mpdes of thinking of previous generations may not be adaptable to contemporary life. This can cause a real upheaval in behavioral patterns. " Within the ,in<;lixigu~l, t~.ere .m..y also develop conflicts between ;'an intellect up-to-date in practical matters and a morality that finds certain ideas' and objectives unacceptable. Confronted with this, many people are shaken. Take religion, for example. Knowledge develops a more critical ability to distinguish it from a mere magical view of the world and from the superstitions which influence many lives. On the plus side, however, there are many others who are achieving a more honest faith and a clearer view of God. On the other hand, many are abandoning religion in favor of scientific processes and this attitude is reflected in such areas as the arts, the interpretation of history and even civil law. Doubtless, a large number of those ruled by crass materialism become totally blinded to any awareness of their pitiable situation. Looking,solely at human considerations, they wrongly convince themselves that man by his own efforts will eventually be able to satisfy every desire of his heart.

All this being said, and despite the wonders of modern science, ever-increasing numbers of people are asking the most basic questions: What is man? What is the purpose of life? What do all our achievements mean for the social order?

The Church maintains that beneath all change there are many unchanging realities that are founded on Christ, who is the same yesterday, today and, yes, forever. To all who are weary and confused, this truth offers the stability they and all of us need in our world. We must believe it and act on it.

Can we do it? We had better!

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ONLOOKERS AT THE WEST RIM OF THE GRAND CANYON STAND IN AV/E OF ITS SPECTACULAR SUNSET DISPLAY. THIS SEVENTH WONDER OF THE WORLD DRAWS THOUSANDS OF VISITORS EACH YEAR.

"Sing to God, chant praise to His name, extol Him who rides ul)On the clouds. Whose name is the Lord, exult before Him." Ps 68:5

Advertising: a ntirror or distortion of cultulre DAYTON, Ohio (CNS) - Ad- document calls for the advertising vertising helps shape and sometimes industry to reflect "a respect for truth distorts the reality it路 mirrors, said a and the dignity of persons and to encontributor to a Vatican report on hance solidarity in our social life." ethics in advertising.

It disputes the notion that adver"We live in what some are calI- tising simply mirrors the attitudes ing a de-Christianized world. What and values of the surrounding culhappens when advertisers are form- ture, she added. ing the messages we constantly see "It's a mirror that helps shape the over and over on television, on the reality it reflects, and sometimes it radio, in the press?" asked Sister presents a distorted image of reality," she said, quoting the document.

Angela Ann Zukowski.

She made the comments in a key- "Slowly and subtly, we're being pronote address at a daylong sympo- grammed by advertisers and being sium on a 33-page document on eth- depersonalized in our rapidly exics in advertising that was published panding commercial world." in February by the Pontifical CounAmong other points, the docucil for Social Communications. ment puts an emphasis on truth and The July 30 symposium, held at dignity in advertising campaigns; the University of Dayton, marked calls for the protection of children the first major U.S. response to the and others from exploitation in addocument, which calls for the reform vertising; and suggests the percentof some advertising practices. age of advertising space in electronic Sister Zukowski is the first media be regulated. woman to serve on the pontifical Panelist Joseph Mallof, president council. A member of the Mission of S.C. Johnson for North America, Helpers of the Sacred Heart, she is said advertisers do not create needs executive director of the University and that he has found in his travels 'of Dayton's Institute for Pastoral Ini- around the globe "a similarity of tiatives. wants and needs" across the board.

"For our young people, these "I find everybody wants healthy messages become the norm, the ac- bodies, enough good food to eat, ceptable way of behavior," she said clean, comfortable' and colorful to the seven-member panel of Catho- clothes, a safe and clean home and lic scholars and advertising and me- successful children," Mallof said. dia professionals at the symposium.

"These are constants. We have "We in the West need to be more never created a need. The ultimate alert to the impact that advertising judge of advertising is the consumer has on our own and other cultures," who votes with his or her pocketSister Zukowski said~ book," he added.

She suggested that people in the Ron Bess, preside!!t of the ChiWest may be "too close to our me- cago-based ad agency Foote, Cone dia culture and are numb to and Belding, whose major clients inadvertising's conscious or uncon- clude Kraft and Gatorade, said, scious influence on our own lives ,"What's at the heart of the market and in the nurturing of values and economy is' freedom of choice and beliefs of our youth." belief in the individual to reason As.advertising becomes more a right from wrong. What we're trypart 'of "the fabric of our environ- ing to do is establish an enduring, ment, we must be sentinels of our ongoing relationship:with the con- , basic beliefs," she added. sumer. If we're not truthful, just as Sister Zukowski said the Vatican in any relationship, the relationship

will not continue."

Commercial advertisers should 'ask themselves what their ad campaigns are doing to and for their target groups, said Terry Tilley, president of the College Theology Society and chair of the university's religious studies department.

"Consider Joe Camel," Tilley said. "The real target group is adolescents. The campaign wasn't targeted primarily to legal smokers."

Its purpose "was to increase the size of the target group by {:ncouraging illegal consumption and initiating consumption," he said. "If advertisers are creating a consumer mentality, they fall short by identifying a person's worth with his or her possessions."

Sister Zukowski said the ethics in advertising document emerged after several years of council (:onversations about the perceived impact of advertising on the formation of values, lifestyle, ethics, mores and religious attitudes.

The document makes a distinctionbetween the desire to liv,~ a better life and the preoccupation with material goods.

"It is not wrong to want to live better; what is wrong is a style of life which is presumed to bf: better when it is directed toward 'having' rather than 'being,'" it says.

"Advertising that reduces human progress to acquiring material goods and cultivating a lavish lifestyle expresses a false, destructive vision of the human person harmful to individuals and society alike," it adds.

The symposium was sponsored by the University of Dayton, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and St. Anthony Messenger Press. It was organized by Unda-USA, the national Catholic association for broadcasters and commun'icators, ahd the Catholic Press Association.

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Pope to call youtlls to deeper faith at 'iVorld Youtll Day in Paris

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II will call Catholic young people to reaffirm their baptismal promises as he baptizes and confirms 10 of their peers at a World Youth Day ceremony.

The pope will join an estimated 400,000 young peopleAug. 21- 24 in Paris for a celebration of faith and a call to new levels of faith commitment.

The initiation of new Catholics during the traditional Saturday vigil is an innovation of the Paris edition of World Youth Day, a celebration Pope John Paul established in 1985.

Archbishop 1. Francis Stafford, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, which coordinates the World Youth Day events, said the pope's presence with the young people from a Thursday to a Sunday is an opportunity to recall the great truths of Christian faith in a way analogous to the Triduum of Holy Week and the celebration of Easter.

In fact, all the Youth Day gatherings, like those in the past, will dedicate Friday during the event to fasting, acts of charity, signs of solidarity and a meditation on the Way of the Cross.

Just as at the Easter vigil, the addition of baptisms and confirmations at the Paris vigil service will remind young people that "living out the Christian lifl~ is living out the gifts, the fruit of the Spirit which is received in baptism and confirmation," Archbishop Stafford said.

Young people, the majority of whom will be called to live as Christian laity in increasingly secular societies, must draw their strength from the grace of baptism, confirmation and the Eucharist, he said.

"Lay persons, rooted in the immense newness of life that comes from baptism, are called to bring

that newness to the;world," he said.

"And what is that n~wness? It is the love of Goel revealed in Jesus Christ." . ' While their languages, races and economic status m'ay be different, the challenge is t~e same for all young Catholics. 'fhe universality of the call will be 1T1irrored not only in the WYD partiqipants, but particularly in the young people the Vatican has chosen to be received into the church in Paris.

The five young men and five young women rang~ in age from 15 to 32. Three are f~om Africa, two from Asia and tWo from Latin America. One young man is Russian, and one of thd. women is from Tahiti. The young~st of the group is Megan L. Costello of Ogden, Utah.

In his message tp young people in preparation for the event, Pope John Paul describetl Paris as a city "at the heart of tije continent of Europe," a citv that for centuries has been "a cross·roads :for peoples, for art and culture."

In Paris, he said, young people will continue thei~ dialogue with him and with more:than 200 cardinals and bishops f~om around the world, experienciJ;lg the truth of Jesus' promise: "IWhere two or three are gathere~ in my name, there am I in the midst of them."

The baptisms and confirmations are expected to echb the pope's call in his message: :"Dear young people, like the fir!it disciples, follow Jesus! Do not bf afraid to draw near to him, to cross the threshold of his dwelling, to speak with him, face to face, as y~u talk with a friend."

While Youth Day can be an extraordinarily strong time for feeling close to the L9rd, it is in the experiences of dail~ life that people meet Jesus, talk to him, care for him I

WeekJly General Audience Message Pope John Paul n Dear brothers and sisters, Our catechesis today reflects on the Second Vatican Council's teaching about I""lary as "the church's type and outstanding model in faith and charity" ("Lumen Gentium," 53:1 The council invites us to see Mary as a "type" or image ofi the spiritual richness and virginal motherhood of the church. The New Testament and the Fathers speak of the realities of the Old Testament as imperfect prefigurations of Christ an8 the church.

But, unlike the figures of the Old Testament, M9ry fully embodies the mystery of grace present in the life qf the church.

In God's saving plan, the gifts of holiness, virgin~y and motherhood given to t1ary are a prelude to the mystery of divine life which fills the church. Significantly, the counciliteaches that Mary is, after Christ, the model of the church :"in faith and charity" (ibid.). M()y all Christians learn from Mari'y to grow in union with Christ and to follow him with living faith, confident I hope and uncondrtional love.

My greeting also goes to the pilgrims from th~ Archdiocese of Atlanta. Upon all the English-speaking visit~rs, especially the groups from Indones~, Taiwan and the United States, I cordially invoke the joy and peace of J esus Chri~t our Savior.

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and experience his love, the pope said in his message.

Two special French models of Christian faith will be held up to the young people during the pope's stay with them: 8t. Therese of Lisieux and Frederic Ozanam.

For the benefit of World Youth Day pilgrims, St. Therese's relics will be moved from Lisieux to the Paris Basilica of Our Lady of the Victories, the church where she prayed during her visits to Paris.

The saint, who entered the Discalced Carmelite cloister at the age of 15, died in 1897 of tuberculosis. She was 24 years old.

Especially considering the fact she was so young and lived in a strict cloister, "the overwhelming impact of her spirituality on the church in this century is astonishing," Archbishop Stafford said.

"The foundation of Therese's spirituality basically is one of wonder, awe and trust in God as a child before her or his parent," he said.

In his message, the pope offered St. Therese as a model for young people and for the church's attitude toward them.

"The charm of her holiness is confirmation that God grants in abundance, even to the young, the treasures of his wisdom," he said.

The process expected to lead to Pope John Paul declaring St. Therese a "doctor of the church" is nearing completion, according to officials of the Discalced Carmelite order.

The Carmelite postulator of St. Therese's cause, Father Simone Tomas Fernandez, said he expects the pope to announce in Paris his decision to confer the title, making St. Therese the third female doctor of the church.

On Aug. 22, Pope John Paul will beatify Frederic Ozanam, who was 20 years old in 1833 when he and a small group of his friends founded the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Paris.

Today the charitable society has more than 850,000 members in 130 countries.

St. Thert:se's "little way" of spiritual devotion and Ozanam's active works of charity highlight the twin results of real conversion, Archbishop Stafford said.

The conversion Pope John Paul has preached to young people at every World Youth Day, he said, "engages not simply the intellect and the will, but the whole person as an individual and as part of the community."

"Conversion manifests itself in the total emptying of ourselves on behalf of Christ and of Christ in the other," he said.

"The young people involved in World Youth Day are going to live a long time into the new century and that memory - the memory of the solidarity, the gentleness and the friendship - will he with them until the end of their lives and will act aS,a leaven in whatever community they are in," the archbishop said.

More thall180 young people and adults from the Fall River diocese will be traveling to Paris, France, for World Youth Day. They will be leaving August 18.

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news Briefs Catholic college helps with NASA study LOUISVILLE, Ky. (CNS) - Scientists know that an astronaut's heart becomes smaller while in space. But they don't know why. Researchers from Bellarmine College, an independent Catholic college founded by the Archdiocese of Louisville, have joined with scientists from the University of Utah and Utah State University to try to discover the cause of the phenomenon. Thomas Bennett, an associate professor of biology at Bellarmine, and others have built an experimental apparatus consisting of an artificial human heart and circulatory system which simulate the blood pressure and flow in a normal adult. The project, nicknamed "Art Heart" by its creators and designated G-572 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was scheduled to be on board the space shuttle Discovery launched Aug. 7 (see photo page 13).

dustice can help solve rural problems SINSINAWA, Wis. (CNS) - Corporations that run farms' with an emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs al-. low land to lie fallow while "countless children are starving" in the world and food quality suffers, a Catholic bishop told a regional conference on rural issues. Bishop Raymond L. Burke of La Crosse addressed a July 24-25 conference at the Sinsinawa Dominican Center on the theme, "Creating Communities of Healing, Creativity and Justice in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois."

Congress bans. cloning

Serving patIents with love Our doctors come into our lives when we are in serious need. We need healing and they hold it in their hands, or so we believe and hope.

The physicians I remember with warmth and gratitude are those who offered more than medical and scientific expertise. They communicated real caring and humbly indicated that they, for all their skills, were limited.

The finest physicians depend on us to do our part in the healing and acknowledge the importance of trusting in help from a higher power. Many physicians have come to support Dr. Larry Dossey, who has written several books on the healing power of prayer.

Dr. Joseph Evers, a pediatrician from McLean, Va., has written an autobiographical account of how he has integrated his faith with his work. His book is called "With Stethoscope and Scapular" (Queenship Publications, Santa Barbara, Calif.).

I met Evers through correspondence a few years ago. He responded when I invited readers to share their stories of meaningful coincidences with me.

He wrote then about the personal pain that hit him and his wife Jean, a nurse, early in their married life.

Because Jean had given birth to a healthy son, Joseph, they never expected the tragedy awaiting them with the next two pregnancies.

Both were baby girls, both born prematurely. Each ' suffered from hyaline membrane disease, which can affect the lungs of premature babies. Here he was, a pediatrician, unable to save his own children. He and Jean went through the heart-wrenching ordeal of burying two beloved babies.

In his book Evers writes, "as a physician, I was frustrated," but "as a father, I was devastated." If ever there is a test of faith, it is when one has to know such sorrow. Evers chose to accept the mystery of "Why?" and trust in God's reasons.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Catholic Church in Albania needs to work on its infrastructure to prepare itself to expand, a prominent church leader said. "It is well known that in Albania (during the Cold War) everything which had to do with religion was eliminated, and we had to start again at zero," Archbishop Rrok K. Mirdita of DurresTirana, Albania, said in a late-July interview with Vatican Radio. "But this work of reconstruction obviously is not advancing at the speed which we would like, because there are many things left to do and we are very, very far from being satisfied."

u.S. Christians called aliens in today's health care milieu CAMBRIDGE, England (CNS) - People working in health care professions as their Christian vocation are increasingly finding themselves aliens in today's health, care milieu, according to a U.S. Catholic ethicist. Speaking July 28 at a bioethics conference in Cambridge, Germain Grisez said that ''for the foreseeable future, Christian health care professionals responding to their vocation as they should will work as aliens in the world." Such professionals ''find it more and more difficult to maintain their standards in doing their work," added Grisez, a professor of Christian ethics at. Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Md.

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and healthy. Two more little ones followed.

Evers' stories show what a difference a good person makes in this world. One story I shall not forget is this doctor's encounter with John, 13, a boy with metastatic carcinoma, in agony and abandoiled in the adolescent ward of a big hospital. , Evers, a newly minted M.D. from Georgetown Medical School completing his second year of residency in pediatrics, was "haunted by the boy's tortured face and grotesquely distorted body. I could not escape the strong urge to do something, anything, to let him know that someone loved him -- that someone cared."

The young doctor brought his love to th:is boy before he died, and then more. He impulsively baptized him, never forgetting John's final smile, Evers' story is a wonderful reminder of how we should see and respond to all the opportunities that come our way each day to witness to the goodness of God. This doctor is a healer who inspires.

A night out for adults

WASHINGTON (CNS) - The House Science CommitDear Dr. Kenny: My wife and I have been so busy raising our children and attending all their tee approved legislation July 29 that would ban federal â&#x20AC;˘ spending on resea~ch that uses "human somatic cell nuclear- events that we lost touch with many of our adult friends. We've had a few of them over for an transfer technology to produce an embryo." The bill, introevening, but time seemed to drag. In fact, it was duced by Rep. Vernon Ehlers, R¡Mich., must also be apdownright boring. We want to have fun getproved by the House Commerce Committee before it can togethers but I fear we have lost the ability. (Cali.go to the full House for a vote. "The purpose of this bill is , fornia) not just to prohibit human cloning, but to ensure that the Who has the most fun? Kids do. Adults recreate industry is allowed to continue cloning animals, cloning best when they can get back in touch with the "child" plants, cloning molecules, DNA, various cells, etc.:' said that still lives in the heart and soul of each one of us.

Fortunately, our "child" is never buried so deeply Ehlers, a research physicist.

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When Jean again was pregnant and labor began prematurely, the pediatrician found himself on his knees, begging the Father and the Son to save the baby. But now he increased the odds, asking them to do this out of love for the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Jean's labor stopped. The baby was born at term,

that a little planning can't pry it loose. Here are a few thoughts on how to throw adult parties that are fun.

Plan something to do. Fellowship and fun are most likely to occur,when mediated by an engaging activity. Be active. Small talk can be deadly.

Try to invite people who do not see each other daily. Bring together friends from different circles whom you think might enjoy each other.

Try your library for books that suggest party games. Here are some party ideas from our own experience.

-Charades is a great way to loosen up. Divide into teams with spouses on different sides. Write a phrase, book, movie title or topic down on a slip of paper. One member of the other team must communicate it to his or her teammates without words, using only gestures. Keep track of how long it takes.

-Have a video party, with popcorn. Pick your favorite video and invite your friends. Or get together to watch a popular TV program.

-Play kids' games. Plan a picnic or very casual adult gathering outdoors. Get the adults to play "Hide and Seek," "Red Rover, Red Rover," "Capture the Flag" and other similar games. Once adults get over their shyness at acting silly, great fun is possible.

-Pitch-in suppers are always popular. Plan a meal for which the guests help cook. Plan so that everyone has something to do in preparing the meal.

-Meet together to go out someplace. Going out to eat together may be the most common, but what about going out to the library, to shop at the mall, meeting at the theater, going out together to a movie or ballgame?

-Bring your favorite song and have a concert, with each person explaining why he or she likes that particular piece.

-Have a white elephant raffle. All present bring something they have wanted to be rid of for ,a long time. Distribute fake money. Sell chances or have a regular auction.

-Play board games like '~Monopoly," "Scrabble" or "Risk." Sometimes the simpler games can bl~come

Family Talk With Dr. James & Mary Kenl)Y very silly and exciting. .The purpose of parties is to recreate, to RE-create, to do something different and out of our ordinary and everyday experience.

Doing something can lead to fun. Fun provokes laughter and togetherness. Laughter relieves stress and boredom. Have a good time!

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Daily Readings Aug.11 Ot 10:12-22; Ps 147:12-15,19-20; Mt 17:22-27 Aug. 12 Ot31:1-8; (Ps) 0132:3-4,7-9,12; Mt 18:1-5,10,12-14 Aug. 13 Ot 34:1-12; Ps 66:1-3,5,8;16-17; Mt 18:15-20 Aug. 14 Jos 3:7-10a,11,13-17; Ps 114:1-6; Mt 18:21-19:1 Vigil of the Assumption of Mary 1 Chr 15:3-4,15-16;16:1-2; Ps 132:6-7,9-10,13-14; 1 Cor 15:5~b-57; Lk 11 :27-28 Aug. 15 Rv 11 :19a;12:1-6a, 1Oab; Ps 45:'1012,16; 1 Cor 15:20-26; Lk 1 :39-e;6 Aug. 16 Jos24:14-29; Ps 16:1-2,5,7-8,1"1; Mt 19:13-15 Aug. 17 Pry 9:1-6; Ps 34:2-3,10-15; Eph 5:1520; Jn 6:51-58

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Q. Our 24-ye3l'-old son died three years ago.

Since then, we have had several Masses said for him.

Sometimes his name is mentioned at Mass, which makes us happy; sometimes it i., not. t., there any way to request this? It means a lot to heal!' his name. (North Carolina) A. As our Eucharistic Prayers and other parts of the Mass make quite clear, we believe that every celebration of the Eucharist is as far-reaching, as universal, as the first offering of that sacritice on Calvary.

It embraces the whole hum~m family.

The church always has been concerned not to cloud that belief. Especially since the custom began (about 1,000 years ago) of giving offerings for particular intentions at Mass, it has tried to avoid any misunderstanding of what these offerings mean.

Thus, statement" !hat a Mass "is being offered for" an individual are generally considered inappropriate.

Some mention of a special intention, however, is surely not objectionable. Certain parishes announce something like, "J~Ule Jones is being especially remembered at this Mass."

Others include tllC nmne in the general intercessions that day. Either of these would seem to respect the desires of the fmnily, and the traditions of tlle church concerning the Eucharistic celebration.

Q. Our normall:y insightful pope and your normally insightful column have endorsed the theOl'y of evolution - just. as it is collapsing.

Studies have proven gradual evolution is impossible. It is kept alive to disprove everything biblical and Godly.

How can the church pretend to accept evolution, which denies God and creation? (Texas) A. I don't wish to go into tlle whole evolution matter again, but one point you make needs to be addressed.

The tlleory of evolution in no way contradicts be-

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lief in God. Nor does it imply that God did not create the world, that the cosmos came into existence somehow by itself ratller than tllrough a divine creative act.

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Those Christians and people of other faiths who believe the weight of evidence points to an evolution· ary process also believe that God created the universe and all that is in it.

How he created it in the beginning, or how the en· ergies placed in the cosmos by the Creator work to ~ move all things toward greater and greater complex: ity - or simplicity - is not part of our faith.

People are free to reject the evolutionary explana, tion of the development of life if they can tigure out how to do it rationally. But they shouldn't attempt to use faith as a club to squeeze or neutralize people's intelligence on the subject. Acceptance of evolution is not rejection of God or creation.

Scientific support for some form of evolution of earthly life is far from collapsing. Just the opposite.

This is what prompted Pope John Paul to remark last year that tlle growing convergence of evidence ·for the tlleory, from several sciences working independently, is a signiticant argument in favor of it.

Such a scientific theory is not sometlling he would "endorse." Nevertheless, he obviously finds tlle evidence intellectually weighty.

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Keeping him.in visual range Our gmndson has just entered a stage of life known locally as tlle keep-him-in-visual-range period.

This is sometimes expressed as a command: "Keep him in visual range. Period."

In parts of the Midwest it is called the don't-let'em-out-of- your-sight-for-a-second days.

Those in charge of tlle child are allowed short breaks during which they may blink or sneeze. Otherwise, their full attention is required.

This stage begins as an infant's cmwling speed approaches 40 mph and can last until he or she moves out at age 30.

However, in most cases it ends around pre-preschool time, having gradually transitioned into the keep-a- very-dose-eye-on- him stage.

You can recognize parents of these children even when their youngster is not visible. They can be heard .in supermarket aisles yelling at one another, "I thought you were watching her!" Or seen sprinting in a crouched position through Sears yelping, "Jason, where are you?" at clothing racks.

Or observed at parades dashing into the street, crawling under huge horses, zinging through bands, chasing a two-legged giggling blur. Someone in the crowd will be yelling, "I thought he was watching her!"

The youngsters are easy to spot. They are typica.lIy about 28 inches tall (or long) and whiz by you witl} a wonderful euphoric look on tlleir faces.

My wife and I are considering having matching shirts made that say "The Tag-Temn Baby-Sitting Wonders: Whoa and Oh-No." I hate to admit it, but Oh-No (that's spouse) is much more adept tllan I when it comes to keeping our grandson Cmnpbell (nickmuned Bull) from doing things like launching oll'the lOp step of the stairs to the basement.

Or getting his head stuck under the sofa.

Or using the oven door for a diving board.

Or yanking steak knives out of tllC dishwasher.

Or stepping on the dog's face.

Or sticking his lists into the garbage.

Or dumping the raisin bran onto the noor so he can pick out the raisins.

Or .floating his plastic hmnmer in the commode. r confess lance glanced at tlle newspaper just after Oh-No temporarily put Bull in my charge. He

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"I thought you were watching him," growled my tag-team partner as we restocked the refrigerator door.

Yes, you guessed it. By creating his own diversion, Bull was able to scoot into tlle bathroom and noat not

only his hammer, but the ketchup bottle as well.

Luckily, my wife didn't make me sit in the corner.

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New York bachelor volunteer becomes foster dad to HIV exposed child Nicholas said Spearman grow and leave the center for was largely responsible for a home setting."

Nicholas said that of the the child's improvement. ''Larry was right there from 300 children admitted to Inthe beginning and was a large carnation since its 1989 openpart of the baby's turn- ing, 50 have died. The rest around," he said. "Larry has returned to their families, fosa heart that's full of love and ter homes or adoptive parents.

I think he's surprised by The 18-bed center trie:; its what's happened between best to create a homelike setting for the children. "The him and Tevin."

Incarnation surprises most essential ingredient for t.heir new volunteers their first few recovery is love," Nicholas days on the job, he said. "The said. surprise for most people is If you would like to volunteer that they think they should be to help HIV and AIDS patients prepared for death and dying, within the Fall River diocese, but that's not always the case. contact the Office ofAIDS MinMany babies improve and istry, tel. 674-5600, ext. 22~'5.

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NEW YORK (CNS) Larry Spearman has been busy preparing his West 148th Street apartment for a muchanticipated arrival. The 46year-old bachelor has stripped walls to paper them with an animal print design and bought enough toys to keep a school bus full of children occupied. He's even giving up the bedroom to sleep on a sofa bed in the living room.

The transformation represents a radical lifestyle change for Spearman, but he's embracing it, as any new father would.

As he prepared to take 20month-old Tevin home as his foster child, he said, "I can't wait for the first time I trip over one of his toys."

The two met last July at Incarnation Children's Center in Washington Heights, a home for HIV-exposed children where Spearman volunteers. "It was love at first sight," Spearman told Catholic New York, archdiocesan newspaper.

"Becoming a foster parent was the farthest thing from my mind," he recalled. "In fact, I wanted to work with older children. I had no idea I'd become attached to an infant.

"As soon as I picked him up, that was it," he said. "He had such a cheerful look on his face. I knew right then who I'd be spending my time

with."

Tevin currently spends weekends at Spearman's home and will be living there full time once arrangements for day care are made. As for adoption, "I'd consider it, but let's take this one step at a time," Spearman said.

Spearman visits Incarnation at least five days a week, sometimes more when he can break away from his job as a housing manager with the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

He feeds, bathes and dresses Tevin. He performs all the duties of a parent, including the most important oneshowering the baby with affection.

Tevin is an active, brighteyed baby, but it wasn't always that way, statl members said. When he arrived at Incarnation he was undersized and unresponsive.

Exposed at birth to the virus that causes AIDS, Tevin has tested negative for the virus so far, although it will take some time to determine conelusively that he's HIV-free, according to Dr. Stephen W. Nicholas, Incarnation director.

"Tevin was not a happy baby when he came here. He was tiny and not socially responsive," Nicholas said.

"But with good nutrition and proper nurturing, ,he blossomed."

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A saint for our times

By MSGR. GEORGE G. HIGGINS

It has come to my attention that Nov. 8, 1997, will mark the centenary of the birth of Dorothy Day, co-founder with Peter Maurin of the Catholic Worker movement.

Charles Morris, in his recent brilliant history of the last 100 years of American Catholicism, "American Catholics" (Times Books), includes the comment of historian David O'Brien of Holy Cross College that Day may have been "the most significant, interesting and influential person" not only in the century covered in his book, but in the entire history of American Catholicism. That's a large claim, but Morris and O'Brien are not alone in making it.

Many of those who agree also think that Dorothy Day was a saint and are calling for her canonization.

Although when she died in 1981 I thought of Day as a sacramental sign of how God is speaking to us today and as a saint in that sense of the word, I was not disposed to propose her then and there as a candidate for canonization in the technical sense of that highly structured and culturally conditioned process.

However, I have since changed my mind about that, and I now hope and pray that the forthcoming centenary of her birth will bring forth a groundswell of prayerful support in favor of her canonization.

If and when the process of her canonization formally gets under way, those in charge of the process will find that Franciscan Sister Brigid O'Shea Merriman has already done most of their spade work for them in her new book "Searching for Christ: The Spirituality of Dorothy Day" (University of Notre Dame Press).

We already have several biog-

raphies of Dorothy Day and histories of the Catholic Worker movement. Sister Merriman, who teaches theology at Mt. Angel Seminary in St. Benedict, Ore., has not tried to duplicate or supplant those works.

Hers is a work of intellectual and spiritual history rather than biography.

It painstakingly explores Day's spiritual roots ip literature - - especially Russian literature - and in the Scriptures. The impact ofChristian personalism, monasticism and the retreat movement on Day's spirituality are also examined, including new material on her association with Thomas Merton and a (;ritical analysis of the Lacouture retreat movement.

Sister Merriman's final chapter discusses Day's devotion to and enduring friendship with the saints as well as her warm relationships with number of her contemporaries.

I thought I knew as much as one needed to know about Day's spiritual life, but ,I was wrong. Sister Merriman's excellent book profoundly deepened my understanding of what it was that made Day the saintly woman she was.

I dare say that even Day's closest associates in the CatholicWorker movement who knew her much better than I did will feel the same way and will join me in recommending it enthusiastically.

On a more personal note, I might add that I found the book spiritually nourishing. I recommend it, then, not only for what it tells us about Dorothy Day, but what it does to help the rest of us develop 'and deepen our own spirituality as we strive to prove ourselves worthy of having been blessed by her heroic example and saintly presence in our midst.

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YOUNG BOYS from St. Patrick's training school perform magic tricks on stage in Belfast. Circus 1-2-3 is a project of the school that helps Northern Ireland youtl1S develop communication and relationship skills. (eNS/McKernan photo)

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The circus project, devised by year conflict. social workers at St. Patrick's Liam Dumigan, director of St. some six years ago, teaches the ?atrick's, says the center i~ unique boys a variety of circus activities. in Northern Ireland: It is the only But its underlying goal goes be- place that specializes in developyond a couple of evenings under mental projects for marginalized the bright lights. youths.

"Through Circus, the boys de"We are trying to move away velop communication skills, learn from institutionalization. But in how to build relationships and can reality, that is hard to do because show off in a positive way by be- young people in care become deing good at something," said pendent," he said.

Kathryn Montgomery, develop"Circus has had a tremendous ment officer at St. Patrick's. impact. It brings the kids into the Many of the youths have un- community and gives people a derdeveloped motor and social chance to see them in a positive skills as a result offamily neglect light," added Dumigan. or abuse, and the circus project For 15-year-old Tommy aims to counteract those factors. Townsend, a four-year resident, "We work with the most diffi- community prejudice against St. cult cases here. The kids are at the Patrick's is commonplace.

"The community sees us as the guarantees anger, resentment and end of the care line when they a nearly total lack of cooperation. come to us. Most exhibit antiso- bad boys," he said pulling down -Prepare what you're going cial behavior, many come from on the bill of his prized baseball to say. Stick to the facts. (Acci- broken families and others are cap.

Once a shy child, Townsend dents, "close calls," rising insur- suspected law-breakers," Mont路now dexterously juggles, spins ance rates, failing eyesight and so gomery said. .

"By using Circus 1-2-3 we can plates and hurls Diablo, a double on.) Don't get caught up in your parent's anger and begin firing offer the kids fun and a chance to cone juggled on strings attached back. . leave the center and meet with to wooden batons.

"Circus has been the test thing -Don't expect much help other children from different that ever happened to me - it has from the路 Department of Motor backgrounds," she added.

St. ?atrick's, a former reforma- given me confidence," 1bwnsend Vehicles. In general, it tends to be generous when it comes to letting tory school, is tucked in the foot- said.

For others at St. Patrick's, Cirdrivers with questionable ability hills of Black's Mountain in West Belfast, a neighborhood that has cus 1-2-3 keeps them busy and keep their licenses.

-Perhaps most important of been the scene of much violence otIers an alternative life:;tyle.

Sean Hegarty, 17, wants to beall, keep in mind that you cannot during Northern Ireland's 27take away the car keys without come more involved in street fesactually providing some backup. tival and carnival performances.

The tall, well-built youth deftly You need to help your parent figcontrols a unicycle. ure out how he or she is going to get around now.

"If there were no Circus, I would be running around getting When can you drive? When can your siblings help out? When into trouble," Hegarty said with a can your spouse or children help? smile, admitting to past involvement in minor offenses.

What about neighbors or friends?

Are taxis or buses possibilities?

When Hegarty first C<l.me to St. Call the local Senior InformaPatrick's five years ago, he feIt tion and Assistance number (in awkward and distanced. himself the phone book's white pages) to from other children. But now he find out about special low-cost brims with confidence and selfvan rides for the elderly. esteem.

"What I have learned from the -Finally, know that your love, respect and concern can ease your project is that you can do anything parent's sense of loss but can't if you put your mind 10 it," he eliminate it. said.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (CNS) - The lights went down and music boomed across the stage as costumed unicyclists, jugglers, stilt-walkers and acrobats entertained their audience.

After finishing' to thunderous applause, the young men of Circus 1-2-3 packed up the set and returned to St. Patrick's training schoolfor boys. Government au~ thorities say the Catholic-run school helps some of the most disadvantaged children in Northern Ireland.

Reluctantly giving up the keys

By MONICA AND BILL DODDS

Getting a driver's license is more than obtaining the state's permission to operate a motor vehicle. Every 16-year-old knows it's a rite, a passage and a key to independence.

In the same way, losing one's driver's license, losing access to one's own car, is more than forfeiting the state's or the family's permission to drive. Every elderly driver knows that it, too, is a rite of passage.

It represents a tremendous loss of independence and a time to mourn.

It isn't easy for an adult child to advise an aging parent that it's no longer safe for him or her to drive. It's a sad time for both.

In many families - 'perhaps most - a parent taught the children, one by one, how to drive. A child felt safe with Mom or Dad at the wheel. But the aging process - that gradual and, in most cases, inevitable deterioration in vision, hearing and reaction time - changes that.

If an older person has some general confusion, this minor irritant in everyday home life can be dangerous or even fatal when it comes to driving.

Again and again, one must ask: . Is this safe? Is it safe for my parent to keep driving? Is he in danger of harming himself and also of harming others?

It's the lucky family that has an older parent who realizes and can admit the physical limitations that have occurred, who understands the danger to himself or herself and others, who voluntarily says, "I can no longer drive."

Unfortunately, sometimes those who have become least capable, those at the highest risk, can be the ones who not only refuse to admit any problems but refuse even to discuss the possibility with a concerned adult child. And self-imposed restrictions ("I don't go out on the freeway," "I don't go down that busy street," "I don't go out at night") might offer only a false sense of security.

These are some suggestions if ~you're concerned about your parent's driving: -Before there's a problem, talk to Mom about this. Let her know that when she is no longer able to drive, you will be available to help her get around or to arrange rides.

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When it comes to the budget d.eal you just can't please everyone

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WASHINGTON (CNS) Can it be? A bipartisan piece of legislation? That practically everybody likes?

Before anyone gets swept away in a flood of df:lirium, the operative word is "likes," not "loves."

But the balanced budget deal seems to have enough in it that even many hard-to-please folks in Washington and elsewhere are happy.

Among Catholic kadel'S, provisions to expand health coverage for children and restore aid to poor immigrants won praise, while the elimination of a provision for education savings accounts and little serious discussion about cuts in military spending drew criticism.

The budget deal was a long time coming. A prolonged government shutdown over the 1995 Christmas holidays changed partisan fortunes abruptly, nearly turning the "Republican revolution" of the previous year's elections into a counterrevolution.

But when a chastened Congress and a conciliatory President Clinton found they could do more together than by being at loggerheads, the budget deal fell into place - aided by rosy economic forecasts that allowed lawmakers to add money for critical social needs while staving off severe cuts in other programs.

"Economic growth makes a lot of things possible," said John Carr, secretary for social development and world peace at the U.S; Catholic Conference.

"In good times you ought to be able to balance the budget," he added. "We're not doctrinaire about it. The budget is a tool, not

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an end in itself. But when you don't do it for three decades, something's a little out of whack."

Children's health care got a big boost - $24 billion, up from $18 billion in earlier versions of the deal.

I Carr said when the bishops' Domestic Policy Committee met in June, it talked with key lawmakers on Capitol Hill to argue for increased children's health coverage. It could now cover up to 7 million of the IO'million U.S. children without health insurance.

Child health was a cornerstone in the bishops' document "Putting Children and Families First." The document has "really shepherded our agenda for the last few years," Can; said.

"We said we favored health care for all, but if we couldn't have that, at least we could do something for children."

Medicare savings are achieved in part through modest increases in premiums senior citizens will have to pay, but largely through limiting payments to hospitals, doctors and other providers.

Catholic Charities USA lauded in a statement the restoration of Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income benefits for more than 500,000 poor immigrants, calling it "1m astonishing reversal" from last year's welfare law cutting off immigrants from federal funds.

Tax breaks are dotted throughout the deal. The cuts more than outweigh any increases. Younger Americans and those with no dependents or investments won't feel the benefit, but nearly everyone else will, including the working poor.

"How could you have a tax cut that excluded the people who most need it?" Carr asked.

The rich are more likely to benefit from cuts in capital gains taxes, but whether they will reinvest that money into U.S. jobs and communities is part of the trickle-down debate that has endured since the 1980s.

Carr called the children's tax credit provision for working parents "a significant step in protecting children in working families with modest means," but it will help some more than others.

"I'm going to get two grand - and the person who cleans my office gets nothing," Carr said.

"There's something fundamentally, morally wrong. The help is nice, but she needs the help more than I do."

The yanking of a provision that would have permitted par-

ents to use money in education lobby group Network, said the savings accounts to finance budget and tax deal is such a grade- and high-school tuition "mixed bag" she doesn't underfor their children left educators stand the euphoria that accompanied its passage. sorely disappointed.

She cited a Citizens for Tax Clinton said he would veto any bill containing such a provi- Justice analysis which predicts sion. Its sponsor, Sen. Paul that a "great deficit" will emerge Coverdell, R-Ga., hastily with- "almost certainly in the next century" because "human needs" drew it.

"Needless to say, we're very, will have to be addressed by very disappointed with the action Congress.

Sister Pinkerton said she was of the president," said Robert Kealey, executive director of the glad many of the cuts imposed in department of elementary educa- last year's welfare law were retion for the National Catholic stored, along with new job protections for welfare recipients Educational Association.

"It's a complete lack of appre- now on "workfare," but "we ciation that the parents of nearly should never have been in the 7 million children are sacrificing position of having to redress it at for their children," Kealey said. all."

Lost in the good feeling, she The provision, he added, had passed both houses of Congress . said, was any serious discussion easily before it got attached to the about cuts in military spending budget bill. Kealey said that the or increases in other spending.

"I think we got to the point interest on the savings - which itself could not be more than where we lost all perspective," $500 a year - could have been Sister Pinkerton added. "When I used, "an infinitesimal amount look at the perspective of Cathocompared to the rest of the bud- lic social teaching, I don't know how anybody can say 'we got get."

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South Koreans concerned for North PUCHON, South Korea (CNS) By eating a small bowl of boiled corn their parish serves as a meal every Sunday, Puchon Catholics have become more aware of lhe suffering in North Korea. ''This event is aimed to 'promote concern for lhe North Korean brethren," said Father Robert Kim Jae-young, parish priest ofYokkok Parish in Puchon, about six miles west of Seoul.

After Sunday morning Mass, the parish serves lunches of 3.5 ounces of boiled corn. The small portion is reportedly a day's food ration for an adult in North Korea, where two years ofheavy flooding have caused widespread famine, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.

Currently, North Korea has suffered adrought, which has destroyed 70 percent of its maize crop, U.N. agencies said in a statement Aug. 4.

Hilary Park Hyong-dong, 53, told UCA News July 27: ''I have participated every Sunday. Sometimes I pay 10,000 won (US$II) for a meal, sometimes nothing."

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"I cannot remember lhe taste of the corn lhat I ate during my hard times, and I don't have a relative in North Korea, but I am eating it with regrets lhat they do not have enough to eat," the interior decorator said.

Many North Koreans were said to be surviving on steamed rice and corn grain, not ground cornmeal, with nothing to eat wilh it.

For Yokkok parishioners who find lhat they cannot eat the plain corn meal, salt and sugar are placed on the lunch table.

"I could not eat it at first because it was tasteless," said 12-year-old Kim An-na, who said she has participated four times.

The program is part of the North Korea Help movement begun by the Yokkok Parish Pastcral Council in April. The council set up a department to run the movement until the reunification of North and South Korea.

Each Sunday some 170,000 to 200,000 won (OS$190-$220) are collected, with 150-200 people participating, said program treasurer Mary Jeong Cheong-ja. She said Legion of Mary members volunteer to help serve the meals.

Besides the corn program, 530 families of the 1,000-family parish have promised to donate 53 million won (OS$58,3OO) for the movement, said Matthias Kim Jong-Muk, head of the council social welfare department.

The money raised is the largest donation in the history ofYokkok parish, Father Kim told UCA News.

A CATHOLIC PRIEST listens to a woman's confession on ~ sandbagged street in Siubice, Poland, July 30. Most residents of the city on the Polish-German border had been evacuated for fear of sodden dikes giving way from recent flooding. (CNS/Reuters photo) ,

.Caritas in Germany appeals f(J~r flood relief donations

By LYNNE WElL

Consecration to the Divine Will Oh adorable and Divine Will, behold me here before the immensity ofYour Light, that Your eternal goodness may open to me the doors and make. me enter into It to form my life all in You, Divine Will. Therefore, oh adorable Will, prostrate before Your Light, I, the least of all creatures, put myself into the little group of the sons and daughters ofYour Supreme FIAT. Prostrate in my nothingness, I invoke Your Light and beg that it clothe me and eclipse all that does not pertain to You, Divine Will. It will be my Life, the center of my intelligence, the enrapturer of my heart and of my whole being. I do not want the human will to have life in this heart any longer. I will cast it away from me and thus form the new Eden of Peace, of happi- ' ness and of love. With It I shall be always happy. I shall have a singular strength and a holiness that sanctifies all things and conducts them to God. Here prostrate, I invoke the help of the Most Holy Trinity that They permit me to live in the cloister of the Divine Will and thus return in me the first order of creation, just as the creature was created.

Heavenly Mother, Sovereign and Queen of the Divine Fiat, take my hand and introduce me into the Light of the Divine Will. You will be my guide, my most tender Mother, and will teach me to live in and to maintain myself in the order and the bounds of the Divine Will. Heavenly Mother, I consecrate my whole being to Your Immaculate Heart. You will teach me the doctrine of the Divine Will and I will listen most attentively to Your lessons. You will cover me with Your mantle so that the infernal serpent dare not penetrate into this sacred Eden to entice me and make me fall into the maze of the human will.

Heart of my greatest Good, Jesus, You will give me Your flames that they may bum me, consume me, and feed me to form in me the Life of the Divine Will.

Saint Joseph, you will be my protector, the guardian of my heart, ~nd will keep the keys of my will in your hands. You will keep my heart jealously and shall never give it to me again, that I may b~ sure .of never leaving the Will of God. My guardianAngel, guard me; defend me; help me in everything so that my ~en may flourish and be the in~trument that draws all men into the Kingdom of the Divine Will. Amen.

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ROME (CNS) - The Catholic aid organization Caritas was appealing to people throughout Germany to contribute food, clothing and other donations to flood relief efforts in the eastern part of the country.

Flooding that started July 23 forced people in three villages on the German-Polish border, as well as numerous residents along the Oder River, to abandon their homes.

"We are doing everything we can to help those who have been displaced," Steffen Mehnert, coordinator for the Caritas office in Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, told Catholic News Service July 31.

"But it is not nearly enough."

In addition to bedding, clothes and supplies for flood victims, Caritas was collecting and distributing fresh clothes for volunteers working around the clock to shore up dams and to build dikes to prevent further damage.

Emergency workers were trying July 31 to save a secondary dam in the city of Hohenwutzen south of Frankfurt-on-the-Oder.

The primary dam had cracked oyernight, prompting phltoons of ,soldiers assigned to the area to pull back and advise residents of the low-lying area to prepare for 0 evacuation.

If the· secondary dam gave way, at least a dozen other villages would be swamped.

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Caritas also was linking children's recreation programs in western Germany with families with young children in the flood area, so that the youngsters could "be spared this experience and spend three or four weeks somewhere else," Mehnert said.

To publicize appeals for donations and volunteer help, Caritas was placing advertisements in newspapers throughout Germany and placards in churches and community centers

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The German bishops" conference reported that the majority of the churches in the flood area itself were Protestant. Three Catholic churches had :reported water damage to the Berlin Archdiocese, which was also collecting and distributing aid.

"Eventually, we hope: tohave a surplus of materials so that we can assist people in Slu'bice, the city on the other side of the river in Poland, which has also been hit very hard," Mehnert said.. "But at the moment, that is only a hope."

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Flood waters have swamped 12 counties in the country's poorest southwestern region leaving 200,000 peoph~ homeless. (CNS/Reuters photo)

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OL CAPE, BREWSTER New pastor Father Bernard Baris, MS, will offer Mass at Our Lady of the Cape at 4 and 6 p.m.

Aug. 9 and at Immaculate Conception, East Brewster, at 8 and 9:30 a.m. Aug. 10.

CORPUS CHRISTI, EAST SANDWICH Redemptorist Father Edward 1.

McDonald will conduct an ecumenical healing service at 7 p.m.

Aug. II at the church. All welcom~.

ST. FRANCIS OF PEACE FRATERNITY The monthly meeting will be held Aug. 10 at Holy Tri nity Church, W. Harwich, Inquiries are welcome at tel. 432-4424.

HOLYCROSS, SOUTH EASTON The parish will host a backyard barbecue from 11 :30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 17, for IOfamilies residing at the Brockton homeless shelter, a total of 30 children, their mothers and some fathers.

Also planned is the 10th annual parish retreat, scheduled for Sept.

19 to 21 at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, with the theme of a Re-~ treat with St. Therese of Lisieux.

Further information is available from the parish office.

LEGION OF MARY The New Bedford Curia of the Legion of Mary of the Diocese of Fall River will hold i.ts annual picnic at St. Bernard's parish, Assonet, on Aug. 10 from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Those attending should bring their food and a chair. All welcome.

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DIACONATE ORDINATION VIDEOCAST A two-hour video of the diocesan Ordination to the Diaconate ceremony will air on local cable access channels in the following communities: Fall River, cable channel 3, Aug. 8 and 15, 11 :00 a.m., Aug. 12 and 19, 12 noon; New Bedford, cable channel 98, Aug. 8,15,22, and 29, 2:00 p.m.; North Attleboro and Taunton, cable channel 27, Aug. 24, 8:30 p.m.

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DEPT. OF PASTORAL CARE TO THE SICK The Diocesan Department of Pastoral Care to the Sick announces its pastoral care education program for laymen and women, religious and deacons.

The program is a five-week course to prepare the participants for ministry to the sick. It will be offered at SI:. Paul's, Taunton, Sept. 10 through Oct. 8; and at St. Pius X, So. Yarmouth, Sept. 17 through Oct. 15. For more information, contact Father Bruce Neylon, tel. 399-8440, or Sister Shirley Agnew, RSM, tel. 4776170. Registration deadline is Aug. 15.

COURAGE The next Courage meeting is Aug. 9, 7 p.m. at the Holy Name rectory, New Bedford. Courage is a support group for homosexual Catholic men and women who are striving to lead chaste lives.

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SEPARATED-DIVORCED CATHOLICS GROUP The support group meets at the Parish Life Center of 51. Pius X parish, Barbara St., So. Yarmouth, every third Sunday of the month.

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CATHEDRAL CAMP, E.FREETOWN The following events are scheduled at the camp: Aug. 10 - Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (Seekonk) picnic; Aug. 3 through 27 - Union Summer II; Day Camp for Children through Aug. 22.

CAPE-ISLANDS CHAPTER OF CATHOLIC NURSES The 13th annual Membership Mass will take place Sept. 7, 10 a.m. at St. Elizabeth Seton Church, No. Falmouth. All Catholic health care professionals, members and non-members, are invited. Refreshments will follow.

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The winners are Marianne Grnce, Swansea, Bp.Connolly High; Jeffrey Bears, N.Attleboro, Bp. Feehan, High; Heidi Roy, Mattapoisett, Bp. Stang High; Matthew Tokson, Bridgewater, Coyle-Cassidy High;Justin Gaines, Marston Mills, Barnstable High; Allison Ward, Pocasset, Bourne High; Brendan Smith-Eloin, Chatham,

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Provisions for campus life

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK As college students pack up for the new academic year that soon gets under way, many will take along a computer. More and more, the computer is a basic provision for campus life.

Readers of this column already know that I'm an admirer of computers. Nonetheless, I believt: that some other basic provisions also deserve mention.

Of course, if students own their own computers, they ought to be equipped with software to aid spelling and grammar usage, and to make it easy to correct and revise texts. This is basic nowadays.

But in thinking about the basics, bear these points in mind: -Time spent on campus ought to involve time spent reading. An important part of a college education is learning to read effectively.

-Students must write - must grow in the ability to express ideas clearly.

-And students need to know what to do - how to act - in various types of situations, including the unexpected.

Sometimes students feel that their "world" is falling apart. That is when it is most clear that God's grace is needed to re-center life.

What basic provisions, then, do college students need? Several books could serve them well.

My first recommendation is the classic, "How to Read a Book," by Mortimer Adler. It has three parts - ''The Activity of Reading"; "The Rules"; and "The Rest of the Reader's Life." Its subtitles speak for themselves of the book's value: "Reading Is Learning,"; "On SelfHelp"; "From Many Rules to One Habit"; "Catching on From the Title"; and "The Great Books and Free Minds, Free Men." My second recommendation is ''The Elements of Style," by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White (Macmillan). It covers the elementary rules of usage; elementary principles of composition; a few matters of form; words and expressions commonly misused; and an approach to style.

I've certainly benefited, for example, from the book's advice that writers omit needless words. For example, it suggests, don't write "He is the person who" since a simple "he" will do. Or, it says, lD place of "This is a subject that," write simply, "This subject."

Third, I recommend finding a book with quotations reflecting down-to-earth wisdom. Recently Ann Landers offered a list of things to know after high school. For example, "Don't sweat the small stuff, and remember most stuff is small."

Ms. Landers also observed that "the most boring word in any language is 'I.'" And, she wrote: -"Life is full of surprises. Just say 'never' and you'll see."

-"Television ruins more minds than drugs."

-"A joke beats a pill for a lot of ailments."

-"A smile is the cheapest way to improve your looks, even if your teeth are crooked."

My fourth recommendation is that college students arrive on campus with. a Bible. There are days when everything comes crashing in on students. A grade may be poor, social life may seem miserable or life may momentarily lose meaning. Anyone who ever went to the Bible in times like that knows how comforting and/or enlightening it can be.

God's word has a power found nowhere else. Many students, having learned this lesson, never forget it.

Many people define education in terms of reading, writing and arithmetic. But shouldn't prayer life be added to the list?

The greatest support parents can give their children's college education is to arm them with some basic provisions. Don't be one of those who remembers the computer but forgets to take along something' basic for life's spiritual dimension.

Youth volunteers clean up seminary

By ELIZABETH A.

PERRY

NEW ORLEANS (CNS) Some may wonder why 30 teenagers would take four days out of their summer vacation to paint, haul rocks and dig holes without pay in humid, 90-degree heat.

But the youths from Christ the King Parish in Daphne, Ala., who showed up at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans not only volunteered for the work, they did extra volunteer work throughout the past school year for the chance to come.

It was the third year that members of Christ the King's Catholic Youth Organization traveled the 150 miles to New Orleans to clean up and beautify the seminary grounds as part of their Helping Hands for Vocations project.

"We've come here to support the seminary and vocations in general," said Father Timothy Evans, associate pastor of Christ the King. "Instead of supporting vocations monetarily, they offer support with their hands. Any teen-ager can get out there with a rake or a paintbrush."

Father Evans, a Notre Dame alumnus and chaplain of the parish CYO group, started the yearly work visits three years ago when the group was looking for a mission trip that would fit within a limited budget. . Each CYO member who wants to go has to complete at least 60 hours of volunteer community service during the preceding year. The 30 who came this summer had a combined total of more than 3,175 service hours over the previous 10 months.

"They like doing service work," Father Evans told the Clarion Herald, New Orleans archdiocesan newspaper. "Teens in general want to feel needed. They really want to use their hands and abilities to do things for people."

And he wouldn't mind if exposure to the seminary helped spark thoughts about a vocation to priesthood or religious life among some of the teen-agers.

"None of them will tell you out loud that they're considering a vocation," he said. "But this trip puts them in touch with someplace that is real. Priests are usually educated far away and they just arrive one day: Teen-agers have no idea where they've come from. This experience

Teen lyric contest ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) Catholic Digest, a monthly national magazine, has launched a contest to give teens a chance to co-write song lyrics with their favorite entertainment celebrities.

The contest will be used to promote CD Talk! - Catholic Digest's new monthly discussion and activity guide for teens. ~ The CD Talk! Lyric Writing Contest is being held in conjunction with the fourth annual Celtic Harmony Songwriting Summit, scheduled for Nov 2-9 in Dublin, Ireland.

Contest lyrics must be about making everyone's world - big or small- a better, more harmonious place in which to live. The judges

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Charlie Buysse and Michael Hart, both 15, helped Father Evans dig a hole and haul stone to divide the pond on the seminary grounds in two.

Buysse shrugged off the heavy work as "something to do. Other째wise I'd just be sitting at home in front of the TV." But he expressed satisfaction at being able to help. "The seminary is on a real tight budget," he said.

around the French Quarter, especially the liveliness of Bourbon Street. "My dad took us the:re last spring break and said we couldn't go back until we were 21," he said.

Sister Jocelyn Staempfli, a Marianite of the Holy Cross who is the seminary's finance diTector, worked with the group's eight adult volunteers on job assignments.

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A CHRISTTHE KING youth group volunteer pulls his weight on the tennis courts at Notre Dame Seminary in N'3W Orleans during summer break. Several young people from the Daphne, Ala., church traveled to Louisiana for their annual spruce-up-the-seminary mission. (CNS/Methe photo) "Things that would cost them a couple of hundred dollars, we come in and do. They may not know who I am personally, but they do know we're out here working."

Other projects included such things as repainting the seminary's wrought-iron railings and resurfacing its tennis courts.

The trip was not all work. The group went swimming in the seminary pool, visited Lakeside Mall and toured New Orleans' famous French Market.

Hart agreed with Father Evans on the importance of promoting vocations. "We're part of the Catholic Church and we should keep it going," he said. "We'll be the next generation of priests and nuns."

He said what he liked best about the seminary was his room, which had a king-sized bed and a balcony.

He said he also liked walking

task groups and their assignments.

The youths respect the adult leaders because they don't just supervise, but pitch in and work alongside them, slie said.

"Father Tim was out shoveling mud, the women were painting.

Glen (Cunningham) was digging around the tennis court and Frank Trione was painting the parking lot strips. The adults didn't ask more of the kids than they did themselves," she said.

She said when the youths return home they get others involved. ''They relate their experie:nces on their four-day trip. That's an incentive for students to earn their hours to come on the next trip."

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By CHARLIE MARTIN says "the headlines read these The Best of Times are the worst of times," yet he finds "the best of times are Tonight's the night when I'm alone with you." AlWe'll make history though fear makes "people Honey you and I lock their doors" and "hide inAnd I'll takE! any risk side," he says "our memories To tie back the hands of time of yesterday will last a lifeStay with YIDU here all night time." He states firmly, "SomeI know you feel these are day we'll find these are the best The worst ()~ times of times."

And I do be!lieve it's true Looking back on my own Well peOplE! lock their doors teen years, clearly they were They hide inside not the best of times. Yet there The rumor Ihas it was some good. Perhaps a key It's the emil of paradise to enjoying any phase of life is But I know to recognize where good exIf the world ists.

Just passed us by For each of us, each new day Baby I know, our love dawns with the potential for Wouldn't have to die good. While we cannot know what circumstances will unRefrain: fold, each of us has choices.

For example, you can The best of times choose what attitude you will Are when I'm alone with you take toward yourself. You can So make some time be harsh and self-critical about We'll make this a world for two past mistakes, or you can see Our memories of yesterday them as avenues to growth and Will last at lifetime self- improvement. Further, We'll take the best, you can choose to believe in Forget the Irest your hopes and then resolve to And someday we'll find do whatever work is necessary These are the best of times to reach these goals.

These are the best of times You also have a choice about how you treat others.

The headlines read Kindness always has merit.

These are the worst of times Indeed, others may not be kind I do belieVE! it's true in their actions, but you do not I feel so helpless have to respond in like manLike a boat against the tide ner.

I wish that 'the summer wind Moreover, you can refuse to Would bring my paradise say bad things about others But I know even if they gossip about you.

But if the world turned True, you should not accept Upside down disrespect from others. Handle Baby I know this by walking away without being baited into similar beYou'll always be haviors.

Around my mind Another choice concerns your relationship with God. (Repeat refrain) Each of us has been given a forever spirit as the foundation These are the best of times of human life. This spirit seeks (Repeat twiice) a deep connection with our You have a choice Creator.

And so my friend we say goodbye about how much time and efTime has claimed its prize in nurturing this fort you invest But tonigh1t can always last, connection.

As long as we keep alive Even when the present is The memories of paradise ~!early not the best of times,. make choices that emphasize Written by IDennis DeYoung, Sung !by Styx Copyright (c) 1997 by CMC Internation~1 Records the good in the present moment. Choose that which leads THE BEE GEE'S "Alone" this new chart hiti"The Best of to good, make the good better took us back to the 19708. Times." The vocals pack the and perhaps you may even apStyx's new release takes us same emotion~l power as proach the "best of times." back to the 1980s. Summer "Show Me the Way" from a Your comments are al1997 seems to be giving us decade ago. ' ways welcome. Please adslices of rock history.

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The tug-of-war between teens and parents

By AMY WELBORN If I had to come up with a metaphor for the relations between parents and teens, I'd probably settle on a game: Tug-of-War. It's a game that begins, of course, not long after birth when the parent has to decide which cries to answer, which to ignore, and then has to deal with the consequences of their child learning that dreaded word: "No!" As children edge closer to independence, their grasp on their end of the rope tightens and becomes more sure.

They've learned their parents' weaknesses, and how to tell when their footing is unsure and when it's the perfect time to give that extra, definitive yank that will bring Mom and Dad over to their side of the line.

Every stage of the game has its own qualities and difficulties. Fifteen, for example.

At 15, a young person is maturing rapidly. That summer between the freshman and sophomore year, boys seem to grow about two feet and girls advance to being women.

Their interests are expanding and they are aching, simply aching to be a part of the adult world, which is symbolized, of course, by the driver's license.

But the license is still a year away (the' restricted one doesn't count!) and they are, for the most part, still at the mercy of their parents in every respect.

That tug-of-war can get pretty intense sometimes.

As a parent of a soon-to-be 15 year old (can you tell?) and the teacher of a few hundred of them over the years, let me offer some advice to kids who are straining to pull their parents over the line in that game.

Stop being so self-centered.

Yes, your life is important.

Your growth and the ability to pursue your interests and be with your friends is a priority

for you, but you will be a lot happier if you realize that all of that is perhaps not at the center of your parents' lives.

Their time and their days do not revolve around meeting your needs and desires.

You're part of a family, and your role in it is not just to receive.

Did you ever consider what you can give?

Most parents are perfectly willing to meet the transportation and "luxury" financial needs of teen-age children if they feel that it's appreciated and reciprocated.

In other words, ask, don't demand.

And consider what you can do in return for what you're asking.

If yOll have chores, do them willingly, without having to be nagged.

Offer help around the house spontaneously. Play with your younger siblings, clean the kitchen or the bathrooms. Do the laundry, dust the furniture.

Without being asked.

You would be amazed at how such simple gifts can change the dynamic in the relationship with your parents.

They won't feel as if their only functions were bank and chauffeur. They won't feel used or taken for granted.

Plus, you owe it to them.

You're still part of the family and the household, and if you want to be treated as a responsible adult, you need to act like it, which means contributing your share without having to be told.

Some might call it cold political calculation, and maybe, at a' certain level, it is.

I prefer to call it something else: Love.

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Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., Aug. 8, 1997

Prayers, Donations Urgently Needed

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Indian Mission Director Pleads for Help Special to The Anchor THOREAU, NM - As Catholics around the globe consider the Pentecost message to "go out to all the world and tell the Good News," the director, priest, sisters, lay missionaries and staff of a New Mexico Mission school are concerned about urgently-needed help. They work daily to make quality Catholic education a reality for American Indian children in their care.

These children "do without" as a way of life ... will you help them?

Trusting in God, everyone at the Mission prays for urgentlyneeded help.

St. Bonaventure Mission started a school more than a decade ago when the founder realized the Indian children in the Mission's CCD classes didn't have even the most basic reading and writing skills. Today over

300 children, most of them Native American,join in prayer to keep their school from closing.

For many of our students, the school at St. Bonaventure Mission is their "last hope."

The Indian boys and girls attending St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School live with the following realities: • 55% ojthe Navajo population cannot read or write; • McKinley County (where the Mission is located) has the highest poverty rate (43%) in the state; • The suicide rate among Navajo teenagers is ten times higher than jor their age group in the population at large.

• McKinley County has the highest alcoholism rate Iii the United States.

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A nearly 40-member strong corps of dedicated lay missionaries teach and carry out the other work of the Mission. This "other work" includes maintaining the buses and vans which travel the remote mesas. to bring the children to school; preparing two nourishing meals daily for the children; and bringing both food and water to aging Navajos living in poverty in remote areas of the barren Reservation.

New lay missionaries often ask, "Can this be America?"

They've experienced failure in other schools or inability to get to school from great distances.

Will you help?

Gifts made to 81. Bonaventure IndianMission and School are taxdeductible. The school also qualifies for "Matching Gifts.",

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School starts this month and I'm unable to pay the bills ... this summer's much needed school'repairs cost more than expected.

Plus delivering water and food to elders and families in remote areas of the reservation cost more than budgeted ... but how could I say no to people so desperate for something as basic as water?

I can't meet these urgent needs without your help. Costs are more than I can afford. Please become part of this life-giving work!

I don't want to have to say "no" to even one child or one elder who needs help, Will you join in our love for these First Americans who live in such difficult circumstances?

I pray you will join in this partnership of prayer, love and concern. Our needs are great. Please help us make quality education a reality for needy Navajo children.

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