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,Bishop O'Malley appoints new Pastoral' Council

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FALL RNER - Members . who is also the representative of a new Diocesan Pastoral from the permanent diaconate.

Council have been appointed by Other members include: Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM .Fall River Deanery, Osvaldo Cap., to serve the needs of the Pacheco and Lynette .,.

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Dominican Sister Deanery, Jo~o Coelho Joanna Fernandes, and Natalie Tabor;' .chairman of the Taunton Deanery, .board of directors Fernanda Silveira . of Saint Anne's and Horace Hospital, who • ~ Costa; &.~--,,'~~ Attleboro i.s also chair~..: ~ Deanery, inan of the \)?,.. Est e I I e .Pastoral Council, anMournighan' nounced the and Katherine membership this Lancisi;. Cape :. Cod Deanery, i.,j~. week.

Ex-officio \\,~;c". , John Urban and members of the ;/', Maggie Sweeney.: Council are Bishop .' ,": ,Re.presenta:,; ,',: tives..froin various, O'Malley and Msgr. ': ,; ,:: 'grQ~ps,ill1,d agencies' George W. Coleman, , :fnchi<le::.... ~ ,,-,' , ,vicar general and modera: 'St. :'Vinceit:r' de .Paul, tor of the Cl,lria.

Father John C. Ozug is the ArInand' ;Frediett~; Dio'cesan Councii,'of Ca:th~lic' Women,. executive secretary. . . . ', .• '.) .,: ~, :'.. , Besides chairing the Coun- BettY Mm-zuccheili; Kriights of CORNERSTONE for new, $4.5 million Education Center at ~t.Marys Pansh.'" MalJsf~eld . cil Sister Fernandes is also one Columbus, James Sawyer; Reis, borne in procession after a noon Mass.there Sunday concel~brated by Bis~QP'Se~n:~ ,'/of'two representatives to the ligious Men, Holy Cross Father' o Malley, pastor Father ~eorge H. BellenOit and seyeral otherprle.st~,,~~ttom:.o,eac,9r1 T~~< i, panel from religious women. R. Bradley Beaupre; Priests' ma~ Palanza puts adhesl~e on the stone held ~~ hiS son, Tom, 'pnor t.o ItS settl':lg:a~~,d~<;JI-,:.'.:. The other is Mercy Sister Council, Msgr. Edmund J. cation of the' Center .by Bishop O'Malley. CrUCifixes wer~ also :~Ie~~~,~ a~d p!~~e.d:·'11:,th,~: ::-:Rosellen Gallogly.

Fitzgerald; Company of Our classrooms. A reception and tours followed. The school wdl 0P~J;I thiS; f~lI:w,lth 1~ltlalclasses,. ': Vice chairman of the panel Lady, Janice Arruda; and Youth' kindergarten through grade four. (Photos by Charlene McNeilL'.: , .' . " " ,: .~..:::'is.Deacon Lawrence St. Onge, Ministry, Nikki Gracia. . ; .,' .. . .;.::....:: :'. .~..' .. ~ ',.'.

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By DEACON JAMES N. DUNBAR ship. One is a chapel dedjcated' to Ou~ Blessed' NORTH FALMOUTH - With 25 years Mother under the .title of The Immaculate, of service and still 'considered in its infancy Conception. The other is the church dedicated . as Fall River diocese parishes go, ,S1. Eliza- to S1. Elizabeth Ann Seton founded in 1977. beth Ann Seton Parish is set to celebrate that Prior to 1915, the whole area and faithful milestone as' it meets. ever;inceeasing needs were within the parish of St. Joseph in Woods of its Cape Cod faith cQmmunity. . .

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As the number of Catholics increased, an On Sunday, Bishop ,Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., will be the principal celebrant of abandonect summer casino-theater building in a Mass at noon to observe the parish's jubi- MeganseU was purchased and converted into lee. A reception and banquet will follow at a place of worship. 'It ,became the Chapel of .. the Sea<;rest Oceanfront Resort arid Confer- ,the Imniaculate Conception, providing Mass, ence Center in North Falmouth. spiritual guidanc~ ,and religious education; '~ The community of Catholic 'people who ,With no resid~nt pastor, the chapel was a:" . ' . . reside in the Nor:th Falmouth;'West Falmouth 'mission outpo~Lof S1.:Jo~ph's::, : , ... ,~H~ MARY Garden on th~ grounds of St. E.llzabeth ~nn Seton and HatchviHe areas ofCape Cod, since 1915 As the Catholic pop.ulation on Cape .Cod,', P~ns~ In North Falmouth prOVides a place for qUiet reflection. (Photo have gathered iil'~W9 dijf~rent plllQes ofwor:-'" " Tum' to' page 13 _ Seton :..: ,. '" ' :'by,B~c¢ McDaniel.)

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FALLRIVER - Anne' Marie he leaves six sons, Joseph Reardon, Jeremiah Reardon and his wife Pam, Kelly, director of staff develop-' Edward Reardon and his wife Lisa, ment and pain management eduand Sean Reardon and his wife cator and consultant at Catholic Tanya Cofresi, of Dartmouth; Brian Memorial Home, recently. at c Reardon of Boston and Matthew tended the End of Life Nursing Reardon and his wife Victoria, of Education Consortium in Chapel Eagle River, Alaska; two daughters, Hill, N.C. She was one of only Christine McFee and her husband 110 nurses from across the counRory, of Mattapoisett and Alexis try to attend this training proReardon of Dartmouth; a brother, gram. .The program was designed for Edward Logue ofWaltham; four sisnurses who provide continuing ters, Ellen Tedesco of Treasure Island, Fla., Ann Marie Patterson of education courses and was led by Roslindale, Kathleen Fennell of nationally renowned nurses.

Mansfield, and Maureen Spognardi Geraldine Bednash and Betty R. ofNorwood; two grandchildren; five 'Ferrell. The three-day training was stepgrandchildren; and nieces and conducted by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and nephews.

Her funeral Mass was celebrated the City of Hope Cancer Center.

The goal of the program was Monday in St. Mary's Church, South Dartmouth. Burial was in to offer nurses education and information on end of life care and South Dartmouth Cemetery.

The Saunders-Dwyer Home for resources which allow them to Funerals, 495 Park Street, New integrate end of life content into Bedford, was in charge of arrange- their current in-service programs.

Ma~erial was presented through ments. lectures, open forum discussions and group activities. It included

. SOUTH DARTMOUTH: - ' Mrs. Margaret Louise (Logue) : Reardon, 61, wife of Deacon . Jeremiah 1. Reardon, died August 8 at the New England Medical Center in Boston after a long illness.

Born in Boston, the daughter of Edward "Pop" Logue of Mansfield and the late Catherine (Coyne) Logue, she had lived in Jamaica Plain, Norwood and Roslindale before moving to Dartmouth 32 years ago. . She was a member of St. Mary's . Church, South Dartmouth, where her husband serves. She was'a member of its. St. Mary's Guild, a prayer warrior for the R.E.C. prison ministries at Dartmouth, and was an ac-' ·tive supporter of Birthright ofNew Bedford and the Mothers of Twins. . Mrs. Reardon cared not only for her family, but also for a number of foster children. For many years she lovingly opened her heart and home to children of working mothers.

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ANNE MARIE KELLY, 'right, of the Catholic' Memorial Home, Fall River, recently attended the End of Life Nursing Education Consortium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Here she meets with Betty R. Ferrell, co-coordinator of the threeday program.

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I n··.·your Prayers Please pray for the following priests during the coming week Aug. to 1982, Rev. Bernard H: Dns.worth, Retired Pastor, St. Mary, New Bedford . . ..

1983, Rev. Thomas Cantwell, SS1., Retired, St. Joseph's Seminary, Washingtori _-~ Aug. 22 1962, Rt. Rev. ,Msgr. Manuel 1.' Teixeira, Pastor, St. Anthony, Taunton .

1972, Rev.. William R. Jordan, Pastor, St. Louis, Fall River 1980, Rev. Msgr. Joseph C. Canty, Retired Pastor, St. Paul, Taunton

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1895, Rev. Thomas Clinton, Pastor, St: Peter, Sandwich 1992, Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, PA, Rt:tired Pastor, Our Lady of the Angels, Fall River Aug. 24 1884, Rev. Peter 1.B. Bedard, Founder, Notre Dame de Lourdes, Fall River 1962, Very Rev. James F. Gilchrist, CPM VG., Vicar General of the Congregation of the Fathers of Mercy .

1987, Msgr. James E. Gleason, Retired Pastor, St. Patrick, Falmouth

Aug. 25 1974, Rev. Joseph F. Hanna, Founder, Holy Cross, South Easton

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St. Francis of Assisi pastor announces his retirement NEW BEDFORD - Father Albert 1. Ryan, 70, pastor of St. Francis ofAssisi Parish here since 1994, has submitted his retirement, it was announced this week.

Born in Boston, the son of the late Albert J. and the late Mary Josephine (Gill) Ryan, he graduated from Boston schools and pre-

pared for the priesthood at Montfort Fathers' seminaries in Bay Shore, N.Y., and Litchfield, Conn., and at St. Philip Neri Seminary in Boston.

He was ordained a priest on Dec. 20, 1958 by Archbishop Henry J. O'Brien of Hartford in St. Anthony's Church in

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After service in various locations across the United States with the Montfort Fathers, he was a U.S. Air Force chaplain on active duty from 1966 to 1974. His military assignments included Thailand, Crete and North Dakota.

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Father Ryan earned a master's degree in canon law from The

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Catholic University ofAmerica in Washington, D.C., in 1976.

He was incardinated into the Fall River diocese in 1979, and Turn to page J3 - Retirement

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OFFICIAL His Excellency, the Most Reverend Sean O'Malley, O.EM. Cap., Bishop of Fall River, has accepted the request of the Reverend Albert 1. Ryan to retire as Pastor, Saint Francis of Assisi Parish, New Bedford.

Effective September 4, 2002 His Excellency, the Most Reverend Sean O'Malley, O.EM. Cap., Bishop of Fall River, has announced the following appointments: Rev. Kevin J. Harrington, from Pastor, Saint Hedwig and Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Parishes, New Bedford, to Pastor, Saint Francis of Assisi Parish, New Bedford.

Rev. Ramon Dominguez, from Parochial Vicar, Saint Anne Parish, Fall River, and Director, Hispanic Apostolate, Fall River, to Parochial Administrator, Saint Hedwig and Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Parishes, New Bedford.

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themoorin~ Let's move on the Massachusetts Legislature should be congratulated on its support of New Bedford and Barnstable as voting members of the Steamship Authority (SSA). It is a move long overdue. First and foremost, it is legislation that brings some semblance of democracy to that board. The taxpayers of Barnstable, Falmouth and New Bedford have suffered dearly because of the autocratic atmosphere in which the board conducts its affairs. By adding new voting members, balance should be restored to the SSA that for too long has been very self-serving. Expansion of voting members hopefully will correct a very flawed situation.

However, other issues still remain to be resolved. The horrific infighting that yet surrounds the Authority should also be brought to a positive solution. For example, the battle between the Falmouth Selectmen and their appointed SSA member is more than an embarrassment. It is obvious that the member has the SSA as his priority and not that of his own selectmen. He is opposed to regular ferry service out of New Bedford, as he was to the city's vote o~ SSA. The selectmen endorsed both concepts.

In addition, there are other internal SSA difficulties that are in the area of management and emploYf!lent concerns. Reporting of these situations leads to greater public confusion.

G'iven the bizarre behavior that seemingly has geen the hallmark of the SSA, is it any wonder that the citizens of the Commonwealth question why such a situation should be allowed to exist. Does the state need such an entity when there exists a State Transportation Authority? Again, would the Commonwealth be better served if the SSA ceased to exist? Amid the daily harangues that currently surface in the media, these questions do have validity.

All public agencies, including the ~SA, are in place to serve the common good. They are not the private fiefdoms of and for the few. Many different people make up the political community, and these can indeed be lawfully inclined to diverse ways of doing things. The political community is. not to be torn to pieces as each person follows his or her own viewpoint. Proper authority is needed.

However, this authority must disperse the energies of the whole citizenry toward the common good.

By making the common good the standard for measuring social health and society integrity, it becomes a standard that demands all sectors of society, including individuals, mediating institutions and the state to promote and work together for the welfare and well-being of the entire social order. Established public authorities have a moral and ethical obligation to live up to this.standard.

As we continue to endure the daily disclosures of the SSA, we should keep in mind this ideal and the obligation that is incumbent on it in its service to all the people of southeastern Massachusetts.

Also, as we strive to explore new methods of public transportation and attempt to solve the horrendous problems of th~ present, it should be quite obvious that we are indeed more dependent communities, not independent entities.

This perhaps sticks in the throats of those who yet believe in a static self-reliant and individualistic lifestyle. Yet, given the realities of our times and living, we surely come to the realization that no man or woman is an island, but part of the whole. We belong to a state comprised of many entities, each responsible for its personal contribution to safeguard that public ideal as it attempts to' . be of service to all its members. As far as the SSA is concerned, let's move on.

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SHERI PARADAY WATCHES AS HER DAUGHTER COURTNEY, FIVE, GETS AN ASSIST FROM A VOLUNTEER ONTO CRICKEr, HER FAVORITE HORSE, AT STRIDES, A SCHOOL FOR PERSONS WITH PHYSICAL AND MENTAl,.. HANOICAPS IN LOCKPORT, ILL. HIPPOTHERAPY (THERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING) HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY POPULAR OVER THE LAST

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Priests can be youthful at any age

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EUGENE HEMRICK CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Despit~. the Church's failings, Catholic still desire someone who Although the average age of can respond to their yearning for U.S. priests hovers around 60, the God. For them, this person is a priesthood has an excellent op- priest who reassures them that portunity right now to display it comprehending God is not only youthfulness. possible, but a holy duty. InterYouthfulness, the renowned estingly, in their quest .to know theologian Father Yves Congar God they do not hunger for a partold us, is "marked first of all by ticular priest, but for the spirituthe spirit of adventure, of joy, by ality the priesthood represents.

The heart of priestly youthfula kind of impetuosity, e!lsily aroused enthusiasm, a carefree ness is derived from the faithful confidence and an exuberance who live in complex times. It is that seems to indicate inexhaust- an age in which public role modible strength." . , els of honesty are few, time to Why should the priesthood be cultivate love between spouses is enthusiastic or display carefree sparse and knowing what is right confidence? Because of what it is. or wrong in the marketplace is True, it is not exempt from scan- confusing. dals. Truer than this, however, is People know that they need the fact that priests are men of more time for contemplation, but God, men of experience with the don't know where or how to find Holy Spirit and men of eternity. it. They fear becoming matter-ofCatholics, and for that matter fact about issues that disturb their all who comprehend history, conscience. They see young know that those in responsible friends struck by life-threatening positions in life are not exempt illnesses. They watch the daily from temptation. They also under- news and are apprehensive that stand that as Christ had his Judas, the violence reported will hit so too' does the Church include their neighborhood. And they some who misrepresent the priest- wonder why a good God allows this. ' hood.

Undemeath the questions is the desperate hope that in knowing God better they will understand good and evil, life and death.

Most of the schooling they received did not prepare them to ,know God. Rather it equipped them for the marketplace. Never did they image that as they grew older and wiser in the ways of the world, a certain hunger for spirituality would begin to gnaw within them.

People need the priesthood more than ever.

As crippled as the priesthood and Church may seem, society is calling for priests to maintain their youthfulness. For it is in great need of experiencing the joy of finding God, the strength this creates and the extlberance it inspires, When a deeply felt need like this is experienced, it is ironic how much new enthusiasm and strength can be generated within priests to meet it. Suddenly pains and aches disappear, and we are filled with an adventuresome spirit: With this comes a carefree confidence, and we feel young again despite our age.

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ATTLEBORO - A Mass and healing service in Portuguese will be held Sunday beginning at 2 p.m. at the La Salette Shrine. A Mass and healing service in English will be held August 22 at 6:30 p.m.

A summer concert featuring Father Pat will be held August 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the Shrine's air-conditioned church. For more information call 508-222-5410.

The 22nd annual Polish Pilgrimage will be held at the Shrine August 25 beginning at I:30 p.m. It will include a living rosary, prayer service and a Mass at 3:30 p.m. celebrated by Father Eligius Kozak, OFM Conv. All prayers 'and music will be in Polish.

band concert Sunday at 5:30 p.m. near the parish center. It will feature The Concordia Brass under the direction of Toby Monte. Attendees are asked to bring their own lawn chair. Refreshments will be available. Rain or shine.

NEW BEDFORD - There is a meeting of adorers at Our Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant Street, on August 19 at 7 p.m. All welcome. For more information call FraJude Mary at 508-996-8274.

NORTH DARTMOUTH-A day-long retreat entitled ''WhereAm I Going?" will be held August 24 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Road.

It is sponsored by the Diocesan Family Ministry Office and will be led

by Dorothy J. Levesque. For more information call 508-999-6420.

NORTH DARTMOUTH-A Separated-Divorced Group will meet August 26 from 7-9 p.m. at the Diocesan Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Road. This will be an open meeting for both the newcomer and transitional groups.

NORTH FALMOUTH - A Cancer Support Group will meet at S1. Elizabeth Seton Parish August 21 at 7 p.m. For more information call 508-563-7770.

MISCELLANEOUS - The Community of Passionist Partners, . a unique group of lay persons and professed Passionists who commit to share in the charism ofSaint Paul of the Cross with the Holy Cross Province announce their on-line Passionisf Community "Unity in Our Diversity," at the Website www.passionis1.O!:glpartners.

Q. During Mass on the feast you mention, who anoints the feet people.

Mary Magdalene herself is of Mary Magdalene (July 22), of Jesus and bathes his feet. That without doubt one of the most disthe priest told us thatthe Mary woman is not named, however.

It's true there is a long tradition tinguished women involved with Magdalene who went to the tomb and found it empty (In 20) in Christian writing and art that the earthly life of our Lord. Next was not the same Mary who was portrays the repenting sinner as to the mother of Jesus, she has the . Mary Magdalene, perhaps because primary role of all women in the a repentant sinner (Lk 7).

I was always taught it was the Mary was the one from whom Gospels.

She figures prominently in five same person and that Mary Jesus expelled the demons. But Magdalene is the patroness of there's no reason in the Gospels of the six stories of the resurrection, all except John 21: 1penitent sinners. I~ there r - -__---~----~--23.

In John (and, along more than one Mary with some other women, Magdalene in the Gosin Matthew and Mark) she pels? (Illinois) is the first witness to the A. No, there is only rising of Jesus from the one Mary Magdalene in dead the Gospels, but your

By Father She is honored as a priest was correct. saint not only by the The Gospels mention John J. Dietzen Mary Magdalene by name 10_ Catholic and Orthodox churches, but also by the several times. She is also referred to as Mary of Magdala, a for making that connection, and it Church of England, the Episcopal town on the western shore of the is generally considered un- Church in the United States a,nd the Evangelical Lutheran Church Sea of Galilee between Tiberias founded.

The other woman with whom in America. and Capernaum.

How this woman became misWe are told (Mk 16:9) that Magdalene is sometimes confused Jesus expelled seven demons from is Mary, the sister of Lazarus and construed as the public sinner of her. She was one of the women Martha of Bethany. It is she who Luke 7 is a matter of some fasciministering to the needs of Jesus is said to have "the better part" in nating conjecture.

(Lk 8:2), and she witnessed his her relation with Jesus (Lk 10), and . A free brochure answering crucifixion (In 19:25) and burial she is much involved in the story questions, Catholics ask about of the raising of her brother from receiving the holy Eucharist is (Mt 2':/:61). available by sending a stamped, Finally, on the Sunday of the the dead (In II).

In spite of traditions otherwise, self-addressed envelope to Faresurrection, she was a witness to the empty tomb, and the risen and the paintings and sculptures ther John Dietzen, Box 325, PeoJesus appeared to her alone (In through the years depicting the ria, IL 61651.

Questions may be sent to Fa"Repentant Mary Magdalene," 20:1-18).

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Pax Christi: Thirty years of following Jesus' call

OSTERVILLE Vince The last Sunday of July probably rated as one of ment for peace and justice; t~ey speak out against Ambrosetti, who has conducted more than 400 parish missions and the hottest days the city of Detroit ever gets. Sev- policies that erode our civil liberties; they visit sung for Pope John Pll.ulll, will be eral hundred people attending the 2002 National wartorn countries such as Afghanistan to bring back at Our Lady of the Assumption }>ar- Assembly of Pax Christi USA gathered for Mass at authentic news about living conditions innocent ish August 24-26 to sing at week- the student union ballroom of the University of people must endure after a military attack.

It was, after all, war that led to this movement's end Masses. He will also perform a . Detroit-Mercy, which had lost its air conditioning.

When the celebrant, Bishop Walter Sullivan of birth. The roots of Pax Christi reach back to 1945 concert at 7 p.m. August 26. For more information call 508-428- Richmond, Va., stood to give his homily, he an- when a small group of Catholics in France, troubled nounced he had written and expected to deliver a by the killing in World War II, began to meet regu2011. fine sermon. Then, holdlarly to pray for peace.

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The laughter reand a French bishop, They offer a confidential referral line ish center. For more information call sounded. It was perfect. It 1 Pierre Marie Theas, the to talk to a compassionate and non- . 508-399-8440: underscored the spirit of movement spread judgmental counselor about your exjoy that had characterized .

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European countries.

Trinity Parish will hold its monthly Nearly 700 members of Pax Christi took root NEW BEDFORD - Holy holy hour August 25 at I :30 p.m. Pax Christi had come to observe the 30th anniversary of Pax Christi's bein America in 1972 as "an association of Catholics Name of the Sacred Heart ofJesus For more information call 508-432ginnings in the United States. They came especially and others committed to the exploration of Gospel Church will hold its annual summer 4000. to affirm their commitment to peace and justice, nonviolence for our time. We seek to permeate the under the banner, "Violence Ends Where Love Be- Catholic consciousness and the Catholic structure gins." with this rich tradition and witness," said Auxiliary I was privileged to be there. Pax Christi had ex- Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit, founding tended a great honor to me. They had judged my president of Pax Christi USA. EDMONTON, Alberta (CNS) Today Pax Christi is active in more than 30 coun. Sister Rutan will be the 17th book, "Choosing Mercy, a Mother of Murder Vic- Sister Kathryn Rutan, a native general superior of the commu- tims Pleads to End the Death Penalty" (Orbis), to tries, with more than 14,OQO members in the United of Great Falls, Mont., who now nity; she succeeds Sister Gloria be one that promoted the ideals and purpose of PaX: States. serves in the Pacific Northwest, Keylor of Holy Angels province Christi: to proclaim the Gospel message of peace . At the time ofthis gathering, Bishop Gumbleton has become the first U.S. general in Edmonton, who had been gen- . and build a more just world. For that reason, David and a Pax Christi delegation had just returned from superior of the Sisters of Provi- eral superior since 1992.

Robinson, the national coordinator, told me they had visits to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Decrying a dence.

The 1,089 Sisters of Providence chosen my book to receive the 2002 Pax Christi "nuclear-armed nation," the bishop told stories of Elected at the religious today serve in the United States, USA Book Award. the pain suffered by the Afghan people, especially community's recent, general chap- Canada, Chile, Egypt, EI Salvador, I arrived as a guest and left as a member. Every- . children. He challenged all to understand that Jesus' ter in Edmonton, she will assume Cameroon, Argentina, Haiti and thing I heard gave me hope. Pax Christi people want call "has always demanded a choice between the her new post in mid-October at the the Philippines. to break the cycle of violence by fostering recon- two voices competing for your heart: good and evil!" motherhouse in Montreal, where "All my life, I have been, one ciliation, not ret.aliation; they seek a world free of And Bishop Gumbleton left us with a firm chalthe order was founded in 1843 by way or another, a teacher," she the nuclear threat; they work to end racism by fos- lenge~ "Believe in peace, forgiveness and love, for Blessed Mother Emilie Gamelin. said. tering an anti-racist, multicultural Catholic move- only these are of Christ."

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Baseball-related insights on feeding the world's hungry I have figured out how the centrated a little more on turning Catholic Church can finance feed- out topnotch pitchers and shorting the world's hungry: Either stops than eco-tourist brochures. convert Catholic colleges' focus And the Catholic community to training professional athletes or could be right there to pitch in. establish baseball camps in much (Get it? "Pitch" in.)

Key to tapping this fountain of of the Third World. capital would be "forming" the Or both!

This came to me while reading "Baseball Player Strike Looms" stories. As you probably know, major league baseball players had going on strike on their minds because,

By Dan Morris among other things, they apparently were feeling unhappy with . an annual average wage potential professional.athlete's of $2.38 million.

This might not bring tears to conscience into such a fine moral the eyes of those affected by the instrument that he or she would latest rounds of cutbacks at tum over most of his or her inBoeing, Siemens, United Air- credible income to the Church to lines, et al. But, look at the posi- feed the poor.

The other option, of course, tive side. If we harnessed the earning potential of a generation would be to put the athletes on of professional athletes - well, scholarship in return for signing· pheweeee! We are talking major iron-clad contracts to tum over their income during their prime groceries.

Alex Rodriguez's $250 million playing years. We have good contract with the Texas Rangers Catholic law schools for this kind already exceeds the annual gov- of thing. (I cannot believe the Jeernment revenues of Belize and suits haven't done this yet.) Shoe Guyana. Those countries' econo- contracts and soda-pop endorsemies could blossom if they con- ments might be tricky, but I know

The offbeat world of Uncle Dan

Vatican excommunicates women 'ordained' priests in Germ~ny

By CINDY WOODEN CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

cree said that "as a schismatic" the archbishop has "already inVATICAN CITY - Seven . curred excommunication." women who claimed to be orThe congregation had pubdained Catholic priests have lished an official warning to the been excommunicated because, women July 10, giving them 12 despite a Vatican warning, they days to renounce their so-called did not give "any indication of ordination and seek the forgiveamendment or ness of the repentance for ;-----------""'l...- Catholic Church. the most serious One of the offense they had The preface to the women, Gisela committed," said Vatican decree said Forster, told an official that '~s a schismatic" Catholic News Vatican decree. the archbishop has "al- Service July 24 "They have ready incurred excomthat they. would incurred excomappeal the decimunication," munication." sion if excomsaid the decree munication was published last imposed. week by the Congregation for the She also said that, for the time being, the women would Doctrine of the Faith.

The decree was signed by not be receiving or offering sacCardinal Joseph Ratzinger, pre- raments.

"We don't want to provoke or fect of the congregation, and by .Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, the pile up potential punishments," secretary. she said.

The women, who come from The women had responded to Germany, Austria and the the early July excommunication United States, were "ordained" warning with several open letters in late June on a boat on the arguing that they have not comDanube River. mitted any of the canonical ofThe ceremony was performed fenses for which excommunicaby Archbishop Romulo Antonio tion is the punishment.

Braschi, founder of the They also asked Cardinal breakaway Catholic-Apostolic Ratzinger to postpone any disciCharismatic Church of Jesus the plinary measures for three King. months to give them time to preThe preface to the Vatican de- pare their arguments.

our lawyers can figure it out.

This only makes moral and economic sense. Clearly, Catholic colleges' universal stampede to outdo each other with MBA (master's of business) programs has not yet eradicated world hunger or even had much impact at Enron or Arthur Anderson.

Think of it. You could hear things like, "Now batting for the hungry of Honduras and Guatemala is Catholic college graduate Hans Yinkle."

Or, "Making his major league debut from the St. Scholastica baseball institute in Haiti is Raphael Righthander."

It is probably too early to consider outright buying a major league franchise, although you could get a decent deal on the Toronto Blue Jays. The Mormons and the Presbyterians might think it was too flashy. After all, we do already have teams named "The Padres" and "Angels."

And think how the non-Catholics might feel if about two out of three hitters made the sign of the cross when coming up to bat like

the Mariners' Reuben Sierra does.

Naturally there would be the issue of what to do with the vast majority of the player pool who cannot make the major leagues.

Frankly, it seems the minor league system could absorb most of them, and there are a load 'Of MBA openings for those who want to retool.

And the business community could use a few good folks with finely tuned moral instruments.

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State judge strikes ,down F,lorida voucher law; backers to appeal

By CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVIC'E

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their schools. , ,Currently, voucher programs WASHINGTON - The ex'-, exjst in Cleveland and Milwauecutive director of the Florida kee.

Catholic Conference said he The Florida voucher law was 'was "disappointed and sur-challenged by the state's teachprised" by the recent ruling of 'ers union, the Florida Congress a state judge striking down of Parents and Teachers, the ,Florida's voucher l a w . ' Florida branch of the National "We were caught off guard," Association for, the Advancesaid ,Michael McCarron, who ment of Colored People and the heads the public policy arm of state's League of Women Vot,Florida's bishops. "In view of ers. the national decision and other McCarron told Catholic state decisions, we think the News Service that the Florida judge's decision is very nar- Catholic Conference has long row." supported the state's voucher Florida Circuit Court Judge program "from a social justice P. Kevin Davey said the' state position." constitution is "clear and unamHe said the conference had biguous" in prohibiting public been confident the program money from going to churches would continue in light of the or other "sectarian institu- U.S. Supreme Court decision 'tions." , June 27 that upheld the CleveHis ruling, coming just' land school voucher program weeks before school starts, and said it did not violate the could mean that 46 students . First Amendment of the U.S. 'who currently attend private Constitution. schools under the state's "We. expect an appeal," 'voucher program and hundreds McCarron said, noting that a of others who planned to use motion for aQ appeal would the program in the upcoming probably be filed right away. ,year will be required to return He expected it would be expeto their public schools. dited because school would be The 1999 Florida law al- starting in just a few weeks. ' lowed students attending pubFlorida Gov. J,eb Bush, who .lic schools which earned a fail- has given his support to the ing grade in two out of four state's voucher program, likeyears to obtain a voucher to at- wise said the state would ap" .tend private schools, including peal the court's decision, religious schools. About 12 which would allow the Catholic schools in four Florida voucher program to continue dioceses pl!-rticipate in the pro- at least temporarily until angram that this year would have other court decision is handed involved at le.ast 160 students down.

PALESTINiAN CHILDREN carry candles as they hold a peace march on the beach in the Gaza Strip recently. Children are being treated for post-traumatic stress after a rece,",t Israeli missile killed Hamas leader Salah Shehadeh and 13'civilians, including children. (CNS photo from Reuters) , '

Bush,' marks Pittsburgh miners" rescue, signs 'born-alive' act

By CATHOLIC News SERVICE Senate by Sen. Rick SaQtorum, R-Pa. , PITTSBURGH.,....... On a visit to Pennsylvania to 'The issue ofabortion divides Americans, no quescelebrate the lives of nine rescued miners, President ,tion about it," the president said. "Yet today we stand Bush, quoting Pope John 'Paul II, also signed the, on common ground. The Born-Alive Infants ProtecBom-Alive.Infants Protection Act into law, drawing tion Act establishes a principle in American law and praise from Catholic leaders and guaranteeing basic American conscience: there is no right to destroy a child who has been born alive. A child who is born rights to children born alive. quring an abortion. ''Today we're here to has intrinsic worth and celebrate life, the value of must have the full proteclife and most importantly tion of our laws." the spirit of America," the He'called the measure president said at a Pitts"a step toward the day burgh firehouse, where he. when every child is welcorned in life t a~d'proaddressed an audience of ;lbout 300 people' hlSt' tected in law." . week.'

"It is a step toward the day when the promises of : ·'The crowd included · the nine men rescued July the Declaration 'Of'Inde28 after they spent more pendence will apply to evthan 77 hours trapped in eryone, not just tho~e with a flooded, abandoned the voice and powerto de.mine in nearby Somerset fend their rights. This law .•. County. Members, of the is a. step toward the day when America fully b~rescue team were also in, ", the audience:.'.. ''(I.S. PRESIDENT George W. Bush signs comes,)n the'words of · . Later atthe bill-signing the Born.:.Alive Infants Protection Act in Pitts- Pope John Paul II,. 'a hos, .' ceremony, Bush said the burgh. Joining Bush at the signing w~re the pitable'; welcoming'f'cul·'Born-Alive Infants Pro- lead sponsors of the bill, Sen. Rick'Santorum, tore,''' he added.. .'.' tection 'Att"ensures that R-Pa. (left), and Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio.

B~shop' Donald, W. ':e~ery infant.b9m alive - (eNS photo from Reuters) . ' '., WuerlofPittsb4fgh called including an infant who . . the new law "a: small but survives an abortion procedUre - is' considered a important step" in "the long, long struggle between person under federal law. This reform was passed the culture of death and the civilization of love that with the overwhelming support ofb6th political par- has engulfed humanity for centuries." .He made the comments in a column in the Pittsties, and it is about to become the law of the land."

The measure amended the legal definitions of "pe't- . bWgh Catholic, his diocesan newspaper. son," "human being," "child" arid "mdividual" to .. ' "What -President Bush affiimed and what Coninclude a live birth that has occUrred as part of '-an gress so unanimously proclaimed is the simple but .

JOANNE MAKOKIS (left) and Sheila Poitras from Saddle abortion procedure so long as he or she displays a most,basic of all human dictums necessary to sustain Lake, Alberta, rest from setting up teepees at the World In- :heartbeat, respiration an~or voluntary movements any level ofcivilization: 'You shall not kill,'" he said.

Cathleen Cleaver, director of planning and infordigenous Peoples Conference near Morley, Alberta, recently. after "the complete expulsion or extraction from his mation for the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life or her mother."

Pope John Paul II addressed indigenous peoples recently It passed the House of Representatives by a voice Activities, said in a statement that the law "ensures when he canonized Juan Diego, North America's first indig- vote in March, and was approved by unanimous con- that the lethal mentality" of Roe vs. Wade "does not enous saint, saying that the Church supports efforts to pro- sent in the Senate in July. It was sponsored in the claim new victims - vulnerable human beings strugtect traditional ethnic values. (CNS photo from Reuters) House by Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, and in the gling for their lives outside the womb."

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Quick congressional action urged on prescription drugs

By NANCY FRAZIER O'BRIEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

THE PROCESS of making lace involves wooden bobbins of fine thread, pins and a pattern as intricate as a road map. The skill and art of making lace has been taught' by the Sisters of St. Joseph in'Le Puy, France, for many years. (CNS photo by Fred LeBlanc, Catholic Observer)

Lacernaking course brings Sister of St. Joseph,~loser'to her roots

By PEGGY WEBER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

classes in a language she didn't connection with her every time I completely understand. But. her use this pillow," said Sister SPRINGFIELD, Mass. desire to learn lacemaking was so Hottin. She has put a new cover Three weeks alone in France .strong and deep that she just did on the pillow, which accompa-, studying lacemaking is not the it. . nied her to France, but has a piece typical "dream summer vaca"I became ~nte'rested in of lace made by the sister pinned , tion." lacemaking as long as I knew the to it"to'keep,up the connection," But for Sister Patty Hottin,' a history of our congregation," said Sister Hottin, 53, said that Sister of St. Joseph who is asso- "- Sister Hottin. The Sisters of St. lacemaking is "a satisfying and ciate dean of students at Elms Joseph establish'ed their first' beautiful art: form," However, she College in Chicopee, it was eX- motherhouse in Le Puy in 1650. added that it can be difficult and actly that.

"It was the brave'women in Le , frustrating and requires concenFor many years, she yearned Puy whotaught the women on the tration. to learn how to make lace. Last streets and poor women to make "Lacemaking doesn't have summer, she acted on her dream, lace so they could make a living written instructions, so you are traveling to Le Puy, France, to for their families," said Sister looking at a pattern and it's like a take an intensive three-week Hottin. road map," she said. "You have course at the Center for the TeachShe said the sisters at her com- to know where you put your pins, ing of Lacemaking. munity in Fall River made !lice where you put your bobbins and In an interview with The and that she uses a lacemaking what stitches you use," Catholic Observer, newspaper of pillow from one of the deceased Sister Hottin said lacemaking . ' the Springfield diocese, Sister, sisters. is like knitting or crocheting but Hottin said it was daunting to live , "I do not know whose it was that it uses very fine threads and alone in an austere room and take but I do, know that I feel such a bobbins.

"I would describe lacemaking 'as crossing threads," she said. "If you think of four pencils and you want to cross the first pencil over the second pencil and the fourth over the third. That's what lacemaking is," It can take her eight hours to make 12 inches oflace. When one can buy 'a' spool of lace at a craft store or even handmade lace for a small, amount of money, why fake the, tillie' to makelace? , "I.'do it'because, first of all, I love, the art form itself," said Sis-' ,ter Hottin., , , . ','But it.atso has a specialmeailing for~e. I feel ~'connection to my,history, to my heritage and to women' who used to do this when' we first began," she added.'

When she was not participating in the eight-hour-a-day sessions at the lacemaking center in Le Puy, Sister Hottin said she enjoyed walking along the town's cobblestone streets and absorbing the culture. After she graduated from the program, she traveled in France with her cousin and anSISTER PATTY Hottin, associate dean of students at Elms other Sister of St. Joseph. At the College in Chicopee, arranges lacemaking tools on a special Louvre in Paris, she was happy pillow designed to hold tools and a pattern. (CNS photo by to see one particular painting Vermeer's "The Lacemaker," Fred LeBlanc, Catholic Observer)

CHICAGO - Congress must resolve the issue of prescription drugs for seniors so it can then turn its attention back to the enormous problem of 43 million uninsured Americans, the top federal official for Medicare and Medicaid programs told a Catholic Health Association luncheon.

A talk: by Thomas Scully, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, focused on five areas he said were of mutual concern for the Bush administration and CHA members - quality of health care, the uninsured, prescription drugs, reimbursement issues and a program known as PACE that funds community-based programs for the elderly.

The recent luncheon marked the beginning of a separate, abbreviated CHA convention in Chicago following the close of a joint conference with Catholic Charities USA to celebrate the '275th anniversary of Catholic health care and social services in the United States.

Appointed to his currentpo~t in April 2001, Scully said the "greatest crisis of confidence" in U.S. health care involves the quality of nursing home care. Since the federal government pays for 82 percent of the funds that go to nursing homes, he said, assessing and improving nursing home quality has been a priority.

On October 15, full-page ads will run in major newspapers across the country providing information on the quality of every

nursing home in the region covered by each paper, Scully said.

Similar assessments of agencies that provide home health care and of other health care facilities will follow, he added.

Scully said he had heard that ' chances are slim for a prescription drug compromise this year because of the congressional election in November. "But every two years there is an election, the last time I checked, and it gets very frustrating," he said.

He decried the fact that Congress has passed "no significant piece oflegislation on health care in the past 20 years."

"I am still very hopeful that we can get this issue done this year," he said. ''Then we have ~o go right back to the uninsured. If we are going to get this problem solved, we have to start finding middle ground."

Scully expressed hope that Congress - and the CHA would take a second look at President Bush's proposal to provide refundable tax credits for those who need to buy their own health insurance. , But he admitted surprise when one,audience member said many Catholic health care facilities are precluded from ,participating. in PACE because of the organization'srequirement that 51 percent of the board membership be patients. Father Michael D. Place, president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, said his organization is working with PACE officials to resolve the problem.

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HOLLYWOOD (CNS) Don't look now, cable TV, but the Hallmark Channel, which features family fare, is gaining ground fast and still picking up steam.

The Hallmark Channel has doubled its ratings since it took over what' was the Odyssey Channel a year ago from the National Interfaith Cable Coalition. Hallmark had been , a minority partner wiUl the coalition in the late 19908.

The coalition still has a presence on the channel, albeit reduced, with programming'tharincludes a faithcentered morning magazine program called "New Morning," but most of the Hallmark Channel's other, fare is oriented specifically toward family viewing. . .

This fall, the Hallmark Channel is taking over the rerun rights to the long-running family drama "Touched by an Angel." The reruns had been seen the previous four years on the Pax network, which too .sought to establish itself a niche as a. .wholesome broadcaster.

In fall 2003, the Hallmark Channel will be the exclusive cable home for "M*A*S*H," the hit series ofthe 1970s and '80s that has been running on the FX cable channel.

The Hallmark Channel marked its first anniversary August 5, and in one year, "we have become the fastest growing cable network in the country, and for good reason," said Hallmark Channel president and CEO Lana Corbi. "America was ready for Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Channel was ready to serve the American people" with family-oriented programming. ''We launched in August. Then came September," Corbi added, referring to the terror attacks of that , month. ''And this trend in viewing taStes and desires that,was already so clearly einerging was magnified a hundredfold."

Corbi told TV writers gathered in Hollywood, "The evidence ofthat is that we have doubled our ratings in less than a year across virtually every (daytime) part on our schedule. People are. finding us like a magnet and they are finding us and they

are com'mitting to us like never before.

She said that cable operators tell Hallmark officials the channel is "one of the only, if not the only, analog channel," as opposed to digital, that is "gaining consistent carriage."

"Only two percent of our distribution is in digital," she added. "We have distribution deals with nine of the top 10 majpr cable and satellite companies; including DirecTV and EchoStar, and we're growing ,steadily every daf' , As of last Deceinber, the Hallmark Channel counted 43.5 million subscribers in 1,500 cable systems throughout the United States.

The channel has the rights to the Hallinark Entertainment Library, which includes the ''Hallmark Hall of Fame" made-for-TV movies. It launched a documentary series in June on adoptive parents, children and families called "Adoption," which won critical raves. ''We are so proud of this series which, after one month, has already won awards and has already received significant endorsements from some of the nation's top political and social leaders," Corbi said.

"Our goal is really simple: It's to produce high-quality familyfriendly mainstream entertainment and there is lots of running room on that field," said David Kenin, the Hallmark Channel's executive vice president for programming.

Kenin said a new reality program, "Life Moments," will commemorate "the dramatic and defining moments of our lives. It is about women, and told in the first person by women. It is emotional. It is spirited. And it is full of those values we cherish at the Hallmark Channel: quality, family friendly, and with a focus on what's really important in life."

The cable channel also plans to introduce a new made-for-TV movie about once every month. One of those films, "Mark Twain's Roughing It," placed Hallmark into the top 10 cable channels that night, even though those channels reach .nearly. twice as many households as •Ha1bnark.

This 'Party' won't appeal to everyone NEW YORK (CNS) - Director Michael first glance, could be interpreted as a rambunctious, Winterbottom's frenetic musical comedy"24 Hour energized party where everyone'has a good time.

Party People" (United Artists) is not for everyone. Yet Wilson makes clear that there are casualties.

The biographical film tells the story of local British "24 Hour Party People,,'is a musical cautionary tale TV journalist Tony Wilson, who founded Factory about the overindulgence associated with the muRecords, a Manchester, England, recording label sic industry. Artists become addicted to drugs and which ushered in a new era of pop culture music ruin their careers - or worse, die of an overdose. including punk and new wave.

Marriages (Wilson's in particular) break up over Those who will most appreciate the film are fans mindless infidelities. Some artists like Ian Curtis ,of 1980s bands New Order, Happy Mondays and (Sean Harris), the leader of the precursor band to Stone Roses. But many likely will not enjoy the acer- New O~der, commit suicide out of desperation and bic comedy or atdepression. And tention-grabbing u I tim ate I y , characters beWilson's vision of cause of the irrevartistic freedom is erent and often his own downfall. , depraved lifestyle Set to a blaring portrayed in the soundtrack, visufilm which spells ally inventive and out the sex, drugs blending historical footage with the and rock 'n' roll excesses of the fictional narrative, times in a defiant, the film spans the in-your-face man,late 1970.s to the nero early 1990s. The Charismatic chaotic structure and flirty, British of the film, which actor Steve was shot in digital ZOOEY DESCHANEL and JenniferAniston star in a video and features Coogan, who portrays Wilson, car- scene from the film "The Good Girl." For a brief review many cameos, ries the film with of this film, see CNS Movie Capsules below. (CNS photo matches the story his outspoken narof how punk and from Fox Searchlight)· . ration as he guides new wave musIc ·the audience was born, how it through the tumultuous times that left a lasting im- flourished and how it paved the way, for the next pact on the music culture. AfteJ.' attending a Sex Pis- generation of musicians before becoming a victim ,tols gig (a band known for their rebellious nature of its own excess. But the centerpiece of the film is who went on to punk music infamy) at which only Coogan's performance. He is helped by good ma42 people were present, Wilson is energized by the terial from the ,script, which allows for droll asides anarchy of their music and is inspired to form Fac- " to the camera and witty banter for the voice-over' tory Records for up-and-coming bands. He do~sn't narration., '. , believe in contracts. His goals are to give the musiHowever, "24 Hour Party People" is an acquired cians artistic freedom and to convert an old ware:.. , taste unlikely to match the palate of most, Catholic . house into a dance club called Th'e Hacienda, which moviegoers., he goes broke doing. Together with his friend Alan Due to several sexual encounters with frontal Erasmus (Lennie James), Wilson puts the city of nudity, a suicide, sporadic drug use, brief violence Manchester firmly on the pop-culture map. . ,and m,:!c.h rough language, the U.S. Conference 01 The film doesn't candy-coat the craziness of the ' Cathol!~ Bishops classification is A-IV - adults, times by making everything seem hunky-dory. This with reservations. The Motion Picture Association is something that might be missed since the fIlm, at of America rating is R - restricted.

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"Blood Work" (Warner Bros.)

A crack FBI profiler (Clint Eastwood) comes out of medically required retirement to hunt down a serial killer who has chosen specific victims in order to lure his former profiler back into a hunter vs. hunted relationship.

Also produced and directed by Eastwood, the unexceptional thriller looks as tired as Eastwood in his role of a heart transplant recipient drawn back into the sordid business of multiple murders.

Intermittent violence and rough

language, asexuai situation and occasional profanity. The U.S .

Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-III - adults.

The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted.

"The Good Girl;' (Fox Searchlight)

Bishops classification is'A-IY.adults, with reservations'. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted.

"XXX" (Columbia) Chaotic action adventure in which an antisocial extremesports enthusiast (Vin Diesel) is recruited by a veteran government agent (Samuel L. Jackson) to enter' the shadowy world of espionage to fight a desperate and dangerous gang of anarchists in Prague. Director Rob Cohen's testosterone-revved flick follows a halfhearted narrative with timeworn undercover elements and features improbable, death-defying stunts which are used to diminishing effect. An implied sexual encounter, recurring violent action sequences, brief drug content, fleeting rear nudity and some crass language. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-III ---:- adults. .The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 parents are strongly cautioned th'at some material may be inappropriate for children under

Disconcerting story in which a small-town Texas store clerk (Jennifer Aniston), trapped in a stale marriage with a pot-smoking house painter (John C. Reilly), has an affair with a brooding young man (Jake Gyllenhaal) which unravels her life in a myriad of complications and problems. Director Miguel Arteta's well-acted, characterdriven piece has moments of genuine emotion and humor, but it is nonetheless troubling in its casual presentation of characters trying to escape the banality of their lives through obsession, betrayal and violence. An extramarital affair, a few sexual situations, brief frontal nu.dity, a su'icide, some drug content and sporadiC rough language with profanity.

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After getting a personal tour of the White House, the Tqweys decided to send the Bushes a rosary that had been kissed and blessed by MotherTeresa. Searching for a suitable container in which to send the rosary to the White House, Mary Towey came up with a small red bag with a drawstring that seemed perfect.

But when the first lady's secretary called to thank the Toweys for

the gift, she said the bag also had contained some items that the Toweys might want back - some baby teeth that the parents apparently had stored there and forgotten.

Towey said faith-based health and social service organizations face challenges but must continue to "maintain that divine orientation" that animates their work.

"It is a privilege you have to be touching these lives," he said. "Like Mother Teresa said, you must continue to love until it hurts."

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AUXILIARY BISHOP Edwin M. CDnway of Chicago chats with Jim Towey, assistant to President Bush and director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, in Chicago recently. Catholic Charities USA and the Catholic Health Association opened their first joint meeting, discussing greater collaboration in the future. (eNS photo by Karen Callaway)

White House official shares stories of work with Mother Teresa, Bush

By NANCY FRAZIER O'BRIEN CAlliOUC NEWS SERVICE

CHICAGO - The director of the White House Office of FaithBased and Community Initiatives brought an audience of Catholic health care and social service leaders to laughter in Chicago with stories ofencounters with the president and his former work with Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

But the White House official,Jim Towey, also made them sit a little taller with pride in their work to solve "intractable social problems" in an environment that is sometimes hostile to faith-based efforts.

Towey's recent morning address to a joint conference of Catholic Charities USA and the Catholic Health Association followed a fiveminute videotaped talk by his boss,

President Bush, who called the conference participants "prime examples of what I like to call the 'armies of compassion.'''

Both Bush and Towey urged support for the Charity, Aid, Relief and Empowerment Act, known as the CARE Act of 2002, now before the U.S. Senate. The legislation would increase incentives for charitable giving, ease the process of applying for federal funds for some faith-' based social service organizations, set up a "compassion capital fund" to help certain faith-based projects to get offthe ground, and forbid government discrimination against faithbased groups simply because they are religious.

Before he got down to the serious side of his talk, Towey regaled the audience with memories of

Mother Teresa, whom he served as legal counsel for t 2 years.

He said he and his wife, Mary, have four sons - and are expecting a fifth child soon. "Mother Teresa told us to have a child for each mystery of the rosary - and she meant t 5!" Towey said. "We bargained her down to the (five)joyful mysteries."

He also recalled seeing Mother Teresa in New York nine weeks before her death in September 1997, after he had caught the highly contagious "pink eye," or conjunctivitis, from his children. When Towey told the founder of the Missionaries of Charity not to hug him because she might catch his "pink eye," she replied, "Leprosy, AIDS - I never get 'em."

"And I thought to myself, 'Yeah,

Power of prayer calls Harvard lawyer to religious vocation

By WILLY THORN CAlliOUC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON -In a matter of years, Fran Homer went from Harvard University to a partnership in a large, prestigious, and quite profitable, law firm, to the U.S. bishops' national headquarters and now to a cloistered life of silence, prayer and devotion.

"I think the premier part of this is publicly announcing my commitment to God," she said of her decision to leave as a policy adviser for the U.S. bishops' Office of International Justice and Peace in July to join the Carmelite nuns in Baltimore. "I want to bear witness to alternative values, because there's a lot of power, prestige and money in the world, but they're really a lot of distortion.

"I had a lot of money ... I got caught up in it. But when a person can have access to that ... and turns it all down and goes to a place of anonymity - it's a witness for values," Homer told Catholic News

Service in an interview before joining the Carmelites.

"Solitude. Silence. I believe in the power of prayer ... to be in a contemplative environment, where I can make prayer my primary occupation. And the Carmelites is one place where I can do that," she said.

She credited the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops with reaffirming her vocation. After leaving the law firm, she was at the USCCB from January 200 I until this July.

"I thought about doing this about 12 years ago," she said. "But I couldn't quite square it with my other abilities ... dedicating my life to prayer when I had been to Harvard Law School and had other blessings, gifts and talents. So I went off and did other things, but I think one of the signs of true vocation is that it never leaves you. And it's been gnawing at me for that entire time.

"My mother was very opposed to this idea," she said. "But I would

say she was the inspiration for my spiritual life. So it was she that inspired me to a deep life of prayer, and that's what led to this vocation."

About a year ago, she said, her mother "died very suddenly;' and a few months later she made the decision to enter religious life. Her mother's death "put me so much in touch with what's real and eternal in life and also with the passage of time," she said. "If I was going to do this, I had to do it now."

She said the discernment process was "all at once and gradual."

"I got the most support from colleagues," she said of her USCCB co-workers. "As many years as I've been wanting to do this, friends have always been opposed. They didn't want to lose me. My family thinks this is a waste of my talents."

Then, she said, one day driving back from Mass she thought, "I have to do this."

Homer said the lifestyle change is the greatest challenge facing her now.

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Largest black Catholic fraternal organization holds convention

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WASHiNGTON - Washington Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick encouraged members of the largest African-American Catholic fraternal organization to persevere and show wisdom and courage, despite the obstacles they encounter.

Speaking at Mass August 3 before the Knights ofPeterClaver's 87th annual convention in Washington, Cardinal McCarrick asked the several hundred Knights and members of the ladies' auxiliary in attendance to "increase your faith and love for each other" and to pray for him, particularly during the current scandal involving priests who have sexually abused minors.

"We're family," he said.

"When one of us is hurt, we're all hurt."

The New Orleans-based organization has more than 100,000 members in its order and ladies' auxiliary. The seven-day convention drew more than 1,200 people, from 33 states, representing more than 700 women's courts and men's councils.

Grand Knight Arthur McFarland, chief municipal court judge in the Charleston, S.c., and senior partner in the law firm of McFarland & O'Neil, pledged the Knights' support of the .bishops during their dark hour.

"We stand ready to demonstrate our support as you get through the crisis," he told Cardinal McCarrick, moments before making the prelate an honorary fourth-degree Knight at the end of Mass. The other Knights stood by, in blue capes and yellow sashes; the auxiliary ladies were dressed in blue caps, white blouses and yellow sashes.

"Through it all, we have stood

strong in the faith," McFarland said of the Knights and the battles with institutional and personal racism. "In this time when there is so much negativity about some priests, we feel it's important to show our support."

Washington Auxiliary Bishop Leonard J. Olivier, one of the 11 active black U.S. bishops, concelebrated the, Mass with Cardinal McCarrick, who briefly recounted the history of the Knights of Peter ClaveI' during his homily.

In 1909, he said, three Josephite priests and two lay men launched the Knights in Mobile, Ala., because the Knights of Columbus did not admit black men.

The organization's namesake is St. Peter ClaveI', a Spanish Jesuit who in the 1600s ministered to enslaved Africans being shipped to Cartagena, Colombia.

After 40 years of work, he had converted more than 300,000 slaves to the Catholic faith.

During the convention, the Knights and ladies held elections for leadership positions and made plans for the years ahead. The largest problem facing the Knights is what one member called a "disconnect" between their organization and young men who are between 18 and 30 years old. .

"We're trying to come up with ways to shorten that gap," said Emmett Orr, the Knights' district deputy for the Northern states. ' Boys between the ages of seven and 18 can become junior Knights of Peter ClaveI', but many fail to become senior Knights after they turn 18, he said.

The Knights also founded their first college council this past year, at Benedictine University in Illinois,'to encourage young men to .become Knights.

WASHINGTON CARDINAL Theodore E. McCarrick talks with members of the Knights of Peter Claver recently in Washington.The African-American Catholic fraternal organization met in the capital .for their 87th national convention. More than 100,000 men and women belong to the organization and its ladies' auxiliary. (CNS photo by Italo Solano, Catholic Standard)

SISTER MARIA Teresa Romeo helps a mother slowly feed her child at the Cubal Mission Hospital in southern Angola. The United Nation's index on human development ranks Angola as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Average life expectancy is 48, more than 60 percent of the population has no access to drinking water, and one in five children dies before age five. (CNS photo by Declan Walsh)

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CUBAL, Angola - Many can hardly believe it, but peace - for decades an impossible dream - is looming over Angola.

A peace accord between the government and rebels, signed lastApril, is working. The rebels are disarming; demobilization camps have filled with more than 330,000 exfighters and their families. , But, although the guns have gone silent, the celebrations are muted because of a fresh disaster ~ one with Catholic missionaries and aid workers, not soldiers, at the frontline.

Hundreds ofthousands of villagers, for years isolated from international aid, are emerging from their hiding places in the bush. Some are dressed in rags; others are stricken with disease. Most have not eaten for days, sometimes weeks.

At the Catholic mission hospital in Cubal, in the southern province of Benguela, wards,are packed. Exhausted mothers slowly spooned emergency food to their malnourished children, some slowly recovering, others still skeletal.

Veronica Ngeleya explained it was' her first visit to a hospital in three years. Before, the road to town was too dangerous.

"We were just running from one place to another," she said. "There was no time to cultiv.ate. We were just eating bananas."

Over the years, nine of her 12 children died, from famine, disease or war, she said. It was a story echoed by almost every mother in the cramped ward - each lost at least half her children.

Angola already had one of the world's worst child mortality rates: one in five children does not survive past the fifth birthday. The figures may now get even worse since 'people who were once unaccounted for can be counted.

During the war, conditions at the hospital were difficult and dangerous.' The UNITA rebels surrounding the town sometimes bombarded

it with shells.

"For years we have been praying for peace,'" said Sister Milagros Moreno. "It is only now that we realize that perhaps it has come."

Cubal hospital is jointly funded

by Catholic ReliefServices, the U.S. bishops' international relief and development agency; the Irish government; and Trocaire, the Irish Catholic bishops' development agency.

Thousands of land mines that litter the countryside make travel difficult.

Aid agencies are calling on the Angolan government to help clear mines and rebuild roads and bridges to facilitate the aid operation, one of the largest in the world.

The United Nations estimates that some three million Angolans will need help with food, medicines or shelter this year. The situation is partly exacerbated by the return of Angolan refugees from neighbor"'

ing countries: an estimated 400,000 people are expected to return before year-end, mostly from Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

However international donors ,have responded sluggisnly to appeals for increased aid. A U.N. appeal for $232 million in funding has raised one-third of its goal so far.

Part of the reason is that donors appear reluctant to take responsibility from the Angolan government, which makes billions ofdollars from its oil reserves every year, but spends precious little on its own people.

More than 80,000 former UNITA soldiers and 250,000 family members are currently staying in 34 such camps across the country.

CRS is helping out at the camp in Chimboa, a bumpy two-hour drive from Cubal along a roa~ lined with the remains of destroyed vehicles.

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Poland trip on: Pope visiting key sites iii former archdiocese VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II returned to his Polish homeland' for the ninth time, making a pilgrimage to two important sanctuaries in his former Archdiocese of Krakow.

During his stay - today through Monday - the pope will . also celebrate an outdoor Mass in Krakow's Blonia Park - a "make-up" liturgy for a Mass he had to cancel during his last visit to Poland in 1999 when he came 'down with the flu.

For many in Poland and around the world, the most important event of the visit will come tomorrow, when the pontiff goes路 to the Krakow suburb of Lagiewniki to inaugurate a new basilica dedicated to the Divine Mercy movement and an adjoining pilgrim complex.

The devotional movement has grown rapidly around the world in recent years, and more than a million people visited the

Lagiewniki sanctuary in 2001.

Polish Church sources have said the new, $20 million Divine Mercy complex would include a 28,000-square-foot basilica, a retreat house and pilgrim hostel, and facilities for single mothers and the homeless.

According to an official schedule, the pope will meet with Polish civil authorities and the country's bishops, and. will pay private visits to the tomb of his relatives and to Krakow's historic cathedral.

On his last day in the country, the pope plans to say Mass at a Calvary sanctuary, called Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, about 20 miles outside of Krakpw in the Carpathian foothills. As a priest and bishop, the pope used to visit the Franciscan-run pilgrimage site, which is Poland's oldest and largest shrine dedicated to Christ's passion and the suffering of Mary.

Cardinal Law, Bishop Banks testify on nixed settlement plan WASHINGTON - Boston was again a focus of events surrounding the Church's sex abuse crisis as Cardinal Bernard F. Law and a fonner Boston auxiliary, Bishop Robert 1.

Banks of Green Bay, Wis., testified in court last week that they did not consider a $30 million sex abuse settlement plan a final agreement.

At the same time, the archdiocese issued a statement saying a review of bankruptcy law by its legal counsel was only a study, not implying any recommendation or decision that the archdiocese would seek bankruptcy protection.

The financial difficulties of the Boston Archdiocese, which faces hundreds of lawsuits over sexual abuse of minors by priests, were highlighted in a court hearing to detennine whether a settlement plan agreed to in March was legally binding. Under it, the archdiocese would have established a fund of $15 million to $30 million to settle lawsuits by 86 plaintiffs who claim to have

been sexually abused by John testified that when it was announced Geoghan, a defrocked Boston priest in March "I believed this to be a pronow in jail. posed settlement," not yet a final The deal was quashed at the last agreement. minute in May by the archdi~san Amid media speculation that the finance council, which by Church archdiocese was considering filing law must approve such extraordi- for bankruptcy, David W. Smith, nary expenditures, on grounds that archdiocesan chancellor, ls~ued a the archdiocese could not afford it brief statement August 2 saying in a in light of additional sex abuse law- review of all possible options "legal suits filed since March. When the counsel has been authorized to resettlement plan was developed, Bos- view how bankruptcy law might ton Church officials faced only about apply to the archdiocese."

30 other sex abuse lawsuits; by May Smith testified that the archdiothere were about 150 others; by early cese is in financial straits and has August that figure was nearly 300. used. more than half of a $17.5 milIn -a preliminary ruling in July, . lion line of credit with Reet Bank to SuperiorCourt Judge Constance M. pay daily operating expenses.

Sweeney said that under the state ''We owe $9 million of that to the laws under which the archdiocese bank and they've said, 'No more,''' was incorporated in the 18oos, the he said. The archdiocese recently power to enter such an agreement announced major cutbacks, citing a rested with the archbishop, not his number ofeconomic factors includfinance council. ing the impact of the sexual abuse In the early August court hear- scandal locally and the national ecoing on whether the agreement was nomic downturn since September final and enforceable, Cardinal Law 11.

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subsequently served as a parochial vicar at St. Mary's in Attleboro and St. Mary's in Taunton, St. Francis Xavier in Hyannis, and St. Dominic's in Swansea, before becoming pastor of St. Francis of Assisi.

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increased even further, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin of Fall River, of which Cape Cod is a part, separated the chapel from the Wood's Hole parish and designated it a parish unto itself in 1977. He appointed Father Joseph L. Powers as its first and founding pastor.

On June 11 of that year, Bishop Cronin celebrated the first' Mass in the newly completed . house of worship.

In the following month, July 17, 1977, Archbishop Jean Jadot, the apostolic delegate to the United States, consecrated the church under the title of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, who had been canonized just two years before.

She is the first American-born saint.

Under the inspiration and guidance of founding pastor, Father Powers, and the current pastor, Msgr. John F. Moore, the people

have supported their parish spiritually and financially to the extent that within the first 15 years of its existence they built a new and comfortable rectory or parish house, and have contributed to the elimination of all indebtedness.

The church edifice is built in the shape of a cross, the main entrance being at the foot of cross, with the altar at the top. The two arms of the cross, as well as the nave, contain pews seating 650 worshippers.

On each side of the main door on the outside of the church hang the coats-of arms of Pope Paul VI and of Bishop Cronin, during whose pontificate and bishopric the church was built.

The main altar occupies the center of the elevated sanctuary, while the altar of repose, containing the tabernacle, is on one side and the baptismal font on the other.

The celebrant's chair is elevated above the sanctuary floor' against the wall behind the altar.

The lectern and organ are to the presider's right on the lower level.

All the furnishings, including the pews, are solid oak, and richly furnished.

The church's brilliant, stained glass windows in. the nave depict biblical characters and events of salvation history from Abraham to the Crucifixion. The windows in the wings, many of them conceived by Father Powers and custom-made, represent the Universal Church, the beginning of St. Elizabeth Seton Parish, including St. Joseph's in Woods Hole, and the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception. They also depict St. Elizabeth Ann Seton herself and other saints, all symbolizing the faith and missionary work of the Church.

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Bishop Stang High School names Student Ambassador Committee NORTH DARTMOUTH - The Student Ambassador Committee was recently elected at Bishop Stang High School for the upcoming school year. It provides leadership in many areas of student orientation including conducting visits to elementary schools and high school fairs.

Elected were: Katherine Connolly, daughter of William and Ann Marie Connolly, president; John Mateus, son of John and Judith M'!teus, vice president; Paige Hogan, daughter of Patricia Hogan, sec: . retary.

The committee also includes two representatives from each class. They are: Seniors Racine Silva, daughter ofTony and TIna Silva; and Dan Shea, son of Daniel and Monica Shea; Juniors Riley McLean, daughter of Michael and Kathleen McLean; and Sean Dulmaine, son of Ron and Mary Dulmaine; Sophomores Emily Babbit, daughter ofJohn and Karen Babbit; and Carlos Farias, son of Carlos and Maria Farias.

The leaders will be busy soon as' the summer winds down and students get ready to get back to school.

THE STUDENTS of St. Francis Xavier Preparatory School in Hyannis recently held an International Night. Among some of the路many countries represented were Portugal, England, France, Japan, Australia and Germany; and samples of some of the ethnic foods were offered. An avid soccer fan, Tim Offiler, is pictured with his project depicting England, where his dad was born. (Photo by Claudia Moniz)

Students' art chosen as designs for Holy Childhood's Christmas seals NEW YORK (CNS) - The contest," said Father John E. Kozar, New York-based Holy Childhood national director of the pontifical Association has announced that the mission societies in the United artwork of 25 elementary school States the Holy Childhood Assostudents will be featured this year ciation.

The seals are available from on its Christmas seals.

Their designs were selected from Catholic schools, parishes, diocmore than 10,000 entries submitted esan mission offices and the by children in Catholic schools and association's national office for a religious education programs to the ' suggested donation of$2. Proceeds association's annual nationwide art- support local churches, hospitals, work contest for its Christmas seals. schools and day-care centers in The association's Christmas . Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands and seals packet has been a holiday tra- remote regions of Latin America. dition since 1916.

For more information on how "We are continually delighted by to get the seals, read~rs may phone the enthusiasm and creativity dis- the Holy Childhood Association at . played by children who enter this 800-431-2222.

By AMY WELBORN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE When a new school year begins, most kids expelience a strange mix of feelings: They feel a sense of freedom, and they feel trapped.

Freedom because, of course, it's a new year with new classes, teachers, responsibilities, maybe even a new school.

Trapped because hardly any of that stuff mentioned above has been chosen by you, the actual person who will take the actual classes and read the actual books. 1t's what's been chosen for you, either by your parents or school administrators or through a sneaky conspiracy involving both.

Aren't you tempted to think you'd be so much happier if you just had more freedom to figure out what to do with your own life?

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BISHOP STANG Seniors Ainslee Kosboski and Ryan Ziccardi display official citations they received for participating in Government Day in Boston. They are joined by Timothy McCarthy, chairman of the school's social studies department. Kosboski will be attending UMass-Dartinouth this fall and Ziccardi will be at Brown University.

Your choices life that are structured by other people. to you, isn't it?

Fighting that fact only brings frustration.

But sometimes, kids feel just as trapped The better question: What freedom do you by that round of action as they do by their have within the constraints, of that struc- 'school schedule. They might feel trapped ture? Wha.t choices are . . .. by their parents' expectayou going to make? tions that they'll be great Let's think about some "~-~~:?lI baseball players, dancers of those choiCes. or musicians, years after Sure, you're going to of themselves losing interest. sit through required If that's your story, if classes. But how miserAge you'd really rather be doable that experience will I':~==~:' ing something else, or be is partly up to you. Are you're just tired, get brave you going to be open to the material being and talk to your folks honestly about it. taught or closed to it? Guaranteed, the more Be sure to tell them that you really,reclosed you are, the unhappier you'll be.' ally appreciate all the ways they've helped What's going on after school? OK, -'- their money, their volunteer time, their maybe some of those hours are dictated encouragement - butthat you think you'd by necessity. Maybe you have to have a like to (gulp) drop it for now. You need a job to help the family out qr pay tuition. break. You'd like to try something else. It Maybe you have to spend time at home can be a hard decision, what with parental doing chores or helping with your sib- and peer pressure and all, .but believe it or lings. But apart from that, it's really up not, you have a choice about what to do

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You should be able to, after all. It is your time, isn't it?

There are lots of other parts of your life where you have choices. You have choices how to treat people every minute of every day. You have choices about what to watch, read and listen to.

So no, your life is not one big prison.

Parts of it might be determined by others, but - news flash - that's not going to change when you grow up. You'll have more freedom, but you'll also probably have something else - called a "boss."

So as a new school year begins, sure, keep working for that authentic freedom God created you 'to enjoy. Clear your life of unnecessary activities that make you feel trapped. Bring the right attitude to your obligations, being open to the possibility that God put you in that situation fOf a reason. If you're closed to that possibility, you might never figure out what that reason is.

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., August 16, 2002

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Pope authorizes indulgence for Divine Mercy devotion

CARDINAL FRANCIS E. George of Chicago addresses the 120th annual meeting of the Knights of Columbus in Anaheim, Calif., while Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson looks on.

(CNS p,hoto courtesy Knights of Columbus)

Pope, president honor Knights of ColuDlbus at annual convention' ANAHEIM, Calif. (CNS) - In messages sent to the Knights of Columbus convention in Anaheim, Pope John Paul II and President Bush hailed the work of the fraternal organization in trying times.

The 120th annual convention, held August 6-8, marked the centennial of the founding of the first Knights' council in California.

More than 2,000 attended, including more than 70 cardinals, arch- . bishops and bishops from North America and the Vatican.

Bush, in a video message, hailed the Knights as "advocates for life," and thanked them for their role in healing the nation following the September II terrorist attacks.

The Knights, he said, "were among the first to step up" by creating the Heroes Fund, which from September 12 to November 1'collected and distributed more than $1 million to the nearly 400 families of lost rescue, workers.

That was just a small part, though, of what the Knights of Columbus did in 2001. They raised more than $125.6 million for charity and volunteered more than 58.9 million hours of service.

President Bush called the 1.6 million-member Catholic fraternal organization's IO-year record of $1 billion in charitable contributions and 400 million volunteer hours served a "great legacy."

Noting the convention was "taking place at a time of painful purification and great suffering for the Church in the United States," the pope thanked the Knights for their "unfailing commitment to promoting vocations to the priesthood and religious life."

At the height of the Church's sexual abuse scandal, the Knights launched a grass-roots campaign called "In Solidarity With Our Bishops and Priests," which included sponsoring ads in national magazines, New York and Boston

newspapers, and, diocesan papers across the country calling for support, faith and prayers for priests.

"Experience has shown that the more the lay apostolate develops, the more. strongly the need for priests is felt," the pope said. "And the more the laity's own sense of vocation is deepened, the more deeply is the unique role of priests appreciated."

Bishop Tod D. Brown of Orange, Calif., elaborated on the idea during his homily. at the convention's opening Mass.

"Whatever pain the U.s. Church may be experiencing now is only a time of purification for the Church and the country," the bishop said.

He was joined by Cardinals Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles, Bernard F. Law of Boston, Adam 1. Maida of Detroit, Francis E. George of Chicago and Theodore路E. McCarrick of Washington. Cardinals Aloysius M. Ambrozic of Toronto and Edmund C. Szoka, a former Detroit arch-' bishop now at the Vatican, also concelebrated the Mass.

Supreme Knight Carl Anderson also mentioned the theme of renewal in his address at the convention's opening session..

"The present crisis is an opportunity for authentic renewal and reform within the Church," Anderson said. ''Through our programs to promote and enhance family life, to support vocations to the priesthood and religious life, to show solidarity with our bishops and priests, and to advance the new evangelizatjon, we are at the forefront on the path of authentic renewal.

"It is at the parish, where ... this renewal can take root," he said.

"The Knights of Columbus can lead the way by helping to integrate more completely the life of the family and the laity within the life of the parish."

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In a further sign of his attachment to the Divine Mercy devotion, Pope John Paul II has authorized the recognition of a plenary indulgence to Catholics who participate fully in the devotion on the Sunday after Easter.

The announcement and the conditions necessary for receiving the indulgence were published by the Apostolic Penitentiary, a Vatican court.

An indulgence is a remission of the temporal punishment deserved for sins.

The Vatican announcement said Pope John Paul wanted the indulgence to be available on Divine Mercy Sunday "in order to impress deeply on the souls of the faithful the precepts and teachings of Christian faith" regarding God's mercy and forgiveness.

With the indulgence, it said, "the faithful can receive even more fully the gift of the consolation of the Holy Spirit and, in that way, nourish a growing love for God and for their neighbors and, obtaining pardon from God, they are led in tum to quickly forgive their brothers and sisters."

In order to receive the indulgence, Catholics must fulfill the basic requirements of going to confession, receiving the Eucharist and offering prayers for the intentions of the pope.

The special indulgence is earned when they meet the basic requirements and then, "with a

soul totally detached from affection to any sin, even venial, participate in the pious practices undertaken in honor of divine mercy, or at least recite in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament ... the Our Father, the Creed and a pious invocation to the merciful Lord Jesus," such as "Merciful Jesus, I trust in you," the announcement said.

The Vatican also asked priests to make special efforts on Divine Mercy Sunday to extend the mercy of Jesus by dedicating extra time to hearing confessions.

The Divine Mercy devotion was begun in the late 1930s by a Polish nun, Sister Faustina Kowalska, who said she had a vision of Jesus in which he asked for devotions to divine mercy on the Sunday after Easter.

The Vatican, which urges caution when dealing with private visions and revelations, banned the devotion in 1959.

A few years later, Archbishop Karol Wojtyla of Krakow, the future Pope John Paul II, opened the sainthood cause of Sister Faustina.

The Vatican lifted the ban on the devotions in 1978, six months before the Polish prelate was elected pope. In 1993 he beatified Sister Faustina, and in 2000 he canonized her and established Divine Mercy Sunday.

He is scheduled to dedicate the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy near Krakow August 17.

Anderson also pointed to World Youth Day 2002 as another example of renewal. Several dozen college-age Knights attended, Toronto-area members volunteered thousands ofhours, and the Knights contributed $1 million to fund "Due in Altum" Park, the event's venue for the sacrament of reconciliation.

In giving his annual report on the . organization, Anderson highlighted a rise in membership - up 15,103 from a year ago - and assets of $9.2 billion and ratings of "superior" and "extremely strong" by A.M. Best Co. and Standard & Poor's, two leading independent insurance rating companies. He also noted the organization's volunteer opportunities and the insurance, annuities and related products it offers its members and their families.

During the convention, the Knights also adopted a resolution deploring the decision made by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court ofAppeals earlier this year that declared unconstitutional a 1954 law that added the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance when recited in public schools.

The Catholic fraternal order successfully campaigned to get Congress to include those words almost 50 years ago, and called the decision "yet another atteinpt to remove any reference to God from public life."

In other resolutions, the Knights called human cloning "a grave wrong against the inherent dignity of human life"; commended Bush for Pro-Life measures; reaffirmed a position of"prayerful support and understanding for the victims of clergy sexual abuse and their families and loved ones"; and called for legislation banning human cloning THE DIVINE Mercy image of Christ, a private revelation of and measures protecting health care S1.

Faustina Kowalska, is carried during a Pro-Life march in entities from being forced to perWashington in 1996. (CNS file photo by Bob Roller) form abortions.

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Shroud of Turin=: undergoes- s,ecret restoration·,·"work·

Staying Power :u.s. Caiholi( adults weigh in.on whether the 82-year-old

Pope John PauUlshouldremainin office or resign for ,,heahh.reosons.·1'hose,who soyJteshould remain in offire: . . PmciidngCo1bolics

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