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Are immigration officials eyeing .a Cape Cod sweep?

An attorney for Catholic Social Services in Fall River thinks so.

By DEACON JAMES N. DUNBAR

BACK TO SCtiOOL - Father Jeffrey Cabral leaves shortly for a . three-years of studies in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mike Gordon)

Father Jeffrey Cabral: Canon Law, Latin studies are on his agenda

By MIKE GORDON FALL RIVER - Heading to Washington, D.C., to begin a threeyear study ofthe official laws governing the Catholic Church, Father Jeffrey Cabral humbly acknowledges, "I'm undertaking a new chapter in my life and it will be an opportunity for me to help the Fall River Diocese."

He will be leaving for the nation's capital on August 20 to become enrolled at the Catholic University of America and a week later to begin studies in Canon Law. "I feel a sense of excitement in facing a new challenge:' he told The Anchor.

Following a meeting of the personal board of which he is a member, Father Cabral said Bishop George W. Coleman asked him if he would be interested in going back to school and eventually helping the Diocesan Tribunal.

"At first I was wondering if I was being transferred to another parish from St. Anthony's in Taunton," the parochial vicar quipped. "I was surprised at first of the idea, but after prayer and discernment I accepted the bishop's offer."

In preparation, he has been spending time at the Tribunal each week where he's read cases, studied the annulment process and sat in on a few interviews. He is fluent in Portuguese

and has assisted as a translator. ''The bulk of the work the Tribunal does deals with annulments, but Canon Law is the universal law ofthe Church," said Father Cabral. "It guides all aspects of the Church including the internal orderings of the diocese itself."

Regarding his help in the Tribunill he said, "Right now the diocese is OK, but in the future there will be a need." His background in the Por-

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rently on Cape Cod in hospitals, nursing homes, hotels and motels laboring as food processors and preparers, dish washers, vegetable pickers and baby sitters ... all phases of construction and agriculture ... so many service areas

FALL RIVER - Although an immigrant raid by of the eape's economy, and for some time now they have agents of the U.S.' Dept. of Immigration arid Custom getting'tighter scrutiny by immigration officials:' Sniffin Enforcement successfully nabbed a whopping 361 ille- reported. gal immigrants at a manufacturing plant iriNew Bedford ''While a 'sweep' is nearly impossible to make at a . hospital ora hotel, 'visits' by five months ago, another visit in the New BedfordJ. agents to landscaping and Fall River area appears un. construction firms and all likely. sorts of businesses are pos''It's a gut feeling, but it sible and very probable:' she looks like ICE is targeting added. '_ Sniffin's work as an atimmigrants on Cape Cod and that's where the next torney in immigration law horrific action might come:' takes her fron the CSS ofsaid Atty. Ondine Galvez fice in Fall River, to its satel, lites in New Bedford and Sniffin, director ofThe Immigration Law, Education Hyannis. and Advocacy Project of ."I've come to know the Catholic Social Services for areas and talk to immigrants mid from what I have seen, the Diocese of Fall River.

While it won't be like I can draw conclusions on the March 6 sting at ATTY ONDINE GALVEZ SNIFFIN ' what'~ going on," she said.

Michael Bianco Inc., in the . ! 路Fueling her opinion is Whaling City when dozens of ICE agents stormed the the minouncement by federal authorities of tough new old mill building, rounding up illegal aliens, many with rules to be announced in coming weeks that would rephony green cards, the result could still be as devastat- quire employers to fire workers who use false Social Seing, "creating another humanitarian crisis," Sniffin said Curi~1 numbers. at an interview last week.

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There was never an 'I' in Mahoney Beloved priest loved spqrts, life and others

By DAVE JOLIVET, EDITOR

The annual feast of Senhor.da Pedra takes place this weekend in New Bedford. Story on page 10.

NEW BEDFORD - The scene was a Red Sox game at Fenway Park in Boston. A batter had just sliced a foul ball, sending,it toward what is now known as Canvas Alley. The ball found a home in the big paw of a tall handsome man. Following the catch, the fan stood up, and with a big old grin on his face, raised both arms in glee. His neighboring fans erupted with cheers and laughter. They couldn't help it. The joy was contagious.

Then fan was Father Francis L. Mahoney, who approached everything in life with the same enthusiasm and zest.

Father Mahoney, a priest of the Fall River Diocese for 47 years, died June 29 at the age of 72. It appears he is one of a vanishing breed of parish priests who had a passion for sports as a child that carried over路 into his vocation -without missing a beat.

Francis Mahoney was born in New Bedford in 1935.

His dad, Francis C. Mahoney, took the lad to Fenway Park, and young Frank was hooked.

He had a passion for all sports, but he was most comfortable on the hardwood of a basketball court.

After graduating from Holy Family School in the Whaling City, Frank attended Holy Family High School, where he was a member of the basketball squad led by Coach Ed Lowney.

"In the late 40s, Coach Lowney's son Jack was the star of the team," said Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, a longctime friend of Father Mahoney. "Frank was a sub ,

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Father Francis L. Mahoney was on hand in February 1999, to dedicate Father Paul McCarrick's sports collection at the Keeley Library at Durfee High' School in Fall River. (Anchorfi.le photo)

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Iraqi Christians were safer under Saddam, says Vatican official

By CAROL GLATZ CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY - Although Iraq has a democratic government, Iraqi Christians were safer and had more protection under former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, said the future head of the Vatican's interreligious dialogue council.

During the buildup to the U.S.led invasion in 2003, French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, who will become head of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue September I, had criticized the U.S. government's plan of preventative war and said a unilateral war against Iraq would be a "crime against peace."

In a recent interview with the Italian magazine 30 Giomi, the cardina said his early criticisms had been prophetic.

'The facts speak for themselves.

Alienating the international community (with the U.S. push for war) was a mistake," he said in the magazine's August 10 issue. A copy of the interview was released in advance to journalists.

He said an "unjust approach" was used to unseat Saddarn from power, resulting in the mounting chaos in Iraq today..

"Power is in the hands of the strongest - the Shiites - and the country is sinking into a sectarian civil war (between Sunni and Shiite Muslims) in which not even Christians are spared," he said.

Christians, "paradoxically, were more protected under the dictatorship," he said Cardinal Tauran is a longtime veteran of the Vatican's diplomatic service and a specialist in international affairs. He was Pope John Paul II's "foreign minister," the official who dealt with all aspects of the Vatican's foreign policy from 1990 to 2003.

He said his new appointment as head of the interreligious dialogue council carries "great responsibility" but that he also sees it "as a new chapter in my service to the Holy See." The cardinal will be responsible for overseeing the Vatican's dialogue efforts with representatives of non-Christian religions, inc--

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His June 25 appointment alleviated concerns that Pope Benedict XVI's temporary merger of the presidencies ofthe Vatican's interreligious dialogue council with the Pontifical Council for Culture indicated a downgrading of the Vatican's interfaith efforts.

Cardinal Tauran told 30 Giomi, "We have to do everything so that religions spread brotherhood and not hatred."

The Vatican's e ¡,rts at bridgebuilding with Musli1l1S hit a speed bump when the pope's remarks on Islam in a September speech in Regensburg, Germany, prompted negative reactions across the Muslim world.

When asked if the pope's Regensberg address had compromised the Vatican's dialogue efforts with Muslims, the cardinal replied, "At first, yes."

"But later, especially during his subsequent trip to Thrkey, the pope explained himself very well," the cardinal said.

He said Pope Benedict has great respect for Muslims.

The controversies that arose after Regensburg only highlighted the importance of having a specific Vatican department dedicated to dialogue with Islam and other religions, he said.

Cardinal Tauran said that as head of the Vatican's interreligious dialogue office he would use as his guide the Second Vatican Council's declaration on relations' with nonChristian religions, "Nostra Aetate."

"To examine everything humanity has in common ... and to appreciate how much truth and holiness there is in other religions" would be some of the council's goals, he said.

But the quest to understand others will leave room to courageously pay witness to "the way, truth, and life" of Jesus, he said.

"In this sense," he said, "our road map is obviously the declaration 'Dominus Jesus,'" the 2000 document of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which said Christ and the church are necessary for salvation.

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CHOIR OF ANGELS - A group of children from South Korea sings during Pope Benedict XVI's general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican August 8. During the audience, the pope said human greatness comes from knowing God. (eNS photo/Dario Pignatelli, Reuters)

Knowing God created them makes humans great, pope says VATICAN CITY (CNS) Knowing they have been created

by God and striving to live united with him make humans great, said Pope Benedict XVI. Returning briefly to the Vatican August 8 for his weekly general audience, the pope dedicated his talk to the life and writings of St. Gregory Nazianzen, the fourth-century doctor of the Church.

Pope Benedict told the estimated 7,500 people gathered in the Vatican audience hall that, while people should learn from St. Gregory's theological work, "let us also be moved by the love conveyed in his poetry."

The pope described St. Gregory as a "refined and sensitive" man who suffered greatly because of the doctrinal disputes that divided the Christian community of his day.

For St. Gregory, the pope said, "theology was not a purely human reflection and even less only the fruit of complicated speculation, but derived from a life of prayer and holiness, from an assiduous dialogue with God." "In contemplative silence, bathed with awe before the marvels of the revealed mystery,' the soul grasps the beauty and glory of the divine," the pope said.

Pope Benedict said St. Gregory

wrote constantly of the primacy of God, a truth that helps human beings recognize their place and purpose in the world.

"Without God, man loses his greatness," he said. "Without God there is no true humanism. So, let us listen to his voice and try to know the face of God." When a group of Portuguesespeaking pilgrims began singing an "Ave Maria," the pope started humming and then joined them in song, winning applause from the crowd.

After the audience, the pope returned by helicopter to his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome.

Cardinal Lustiger, Jewish-born promoter ofdialogue, dies VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Cardinal Jean-Marie vis~tedAuschwitz was in 1983, when he accompanied Pope Lustiger, 80, the Jewish-born former archbishop of Paris John Paul II there.

In May 2006, the cardinal accompanied Pope Benedict who defended the right of believers to have a say in public debates, died August 5 in Paris after a long ill- to Auschwitz and described the visit as "one of the most important moments" of his life. ness.

Although some Jewish leaders and Holocaust surviHe had been the voice of French Catholics for nearly a quarter-eentury and spoke out against anti-Semitism, as vors thought the pope's remarks at the former concentrawell as promoted Catholic dialogue with Jews and with tion camp were problematic, Cardinal Lustiger said he had found them appropriate. the nation's growing Muslim community. ''As a priest, Christian, Jew and son who lost a mother, His funeral was held August 10 at the French capital's Notre Dame Cathedral. Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, I think the pope's words were deep, truthful and sincere;' retired archbishop of Washington, represented the U.S. Cardinal Lustiger told Polish TV. 'They were exactly what should be said in this place, where we witnessed history Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Cardinal Lustiger's death leaves the College of Cardi- being made today."

The cardinal worked hard to improve Catholic-Jewish nals with 182 members, ofwhom 105 are under the age of relations. In October 1998, the New York-based Center for 80 and therefore are eligible to vote in a conclave.

Pope Benedict XVI called the cardinal a "perceptive Christian-Jewish Understanding gave him its "Nostra intellectual" and ''passionate pastor" who "put his gifts at Aetate" award. named for the Second Vatican Council's the service of the faith" in order to bring the Gospel to all declaration on relations with other religions.

Never shy about discussing his Jewish past - he once aspects of life and society. told reporters he still considered himself to be a Jew and In a telegram sent to Archbishop Andre Vingt-Trois of had a "dual affiliation" - Cardinal Lustiger received conParis, the pope said Cardinal Lustiger was a "great figure siderable media attention, which he used to promote interof the Church in J:rance." faith dialogue.

The late cardinal was "a man offaith and dialogue," the During a question-and-answer session following his pope said, praising his generous commitment to ''fosterMarch 2006 address in Washington, he said, '1t is imposing ever more fraternal relations between Christians and sible for a Christian to be a Christian ... without the Jewish Jews." peOple."

The cardinal, who converted to Catholicism from JuHe defended church-state separation at a time when daism as a teen-ager, was the Vatican representative at the France was debating whether to ban religious symbols, 2005 commemoration in Poland of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz- . including head scarves worn by Muslim women, large Birkenau, where his Jewish mother died. The first time he Christian crosses and Jewish skullcaps, in public schools.

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WASHINGTON - The national collection to aid the Church in Latin America received more than $7 million in contributions for the first time last year and used the funds to assist 476 projects in nearly two dozen countries.

The annual report of the U.S. bishops' Committee on the Church in Latin America, published in July in English and Spanish, included those statistics and also featured a photo tribute to the rural catechists of Huancavlica, Peru.

"The work of these catechists represents the dedication and love that all catechists throughout Latin America hold for Christ and his Church," said Auxiliary Bishop Jaime Soto of Orange, Calif., chairman of the committee, in a letter sent to his fellow bishops with the report.

The Fifth General Conference of the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, held in May in Aparecida, Brazil, "brought to light many of the urgent pastoral challenges faced by our brothers and sisters," Bishop Soto added. ''This report will reveal to you the vital-

ity of many of our present collaborative efforts and the hope these efforts inspire for the future."

Contributions to the collection came from 159 dioceses in all 50 states and in U.S. territories and from the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services.

Bishop Soto's Diocese of Orange was among the biggest contributors, with $209,228 received from just more than a million Catholics. Only the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, with $220,155, and the Diocese of Arlington, Va., with $228,158, exceeded that amount.

But with a residual payment of $196,637 reported by Bishop Soto in his letter and the $140,879 included in the report, the Archdiocese of Chicago appeared to contribute the largest amount, $337,516.

The report also broke down the allocations from the collection by organizational type, region and category type, with nearly half (45.9 percent) of the grants going to pastoral programs and the second-largest number (14.6 percent) for the

formation of 'seminarians and religious.

Other funded projects involved lay leadership training, evangelization and missionary activities, catechetics, religious education, multinational programs, training permanent deacons and research.

About a third of the allocated funds went to dioceses or archdioceses, but national bishops' conferences, seminaries, parishes, religious congregations, Catholic orga- . nizations, educational institutes and Catholic Relief Services also benefited.

A portion of the collection also funds the U.S. bishops' Department of Social Development and World Peace, particularly its efforts to promote economic development in Haiti, debt relief, changes in the U.S.-Colombian Free Trade Agreement, the equitable distribution of Peru's natural resources and religious freedom in Venezuela.

The collection for the Church in Latin America takes place in most U.S. dioceses on the fourth Sunday in January. It is scheduled forthe weekend of January 26-27 in 2008.

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Anderson says Knights will keep up the fight on life, marriage issues NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) The Knights of Columbus'will continue to fight politically on issues important to the Catholic Church, such as abortion, marriage and embryonic stem-cell research, pledged Supreme Knight Carl Anderson.

"One of our most important traditions throughout our 12S-year history is that we do not, as an organization, become involved in partisan politics," Anderson said in giving his annual report on the first day of the fraternal order's August 7-9 national convention at Opryland Hotel in Nashville. ''This does not, however, mean that we take no interest in public policy issues," he continued. ''When an issue directly affects our most fundamental values as Catholics, such as abortion, or the institution of marriage, or public funding ofembryonic stem-cell research, as leaders in the Catholic community, we must, and we do take a stand.

"Since the 1970s, when abortion was suddenly transformed from being an almost unspeakable crime to a supposed constitutional 'right,' we have worked tirelessly to enact laws that would limit and ultimately end the unrestricted abortion license in the United States," Anderson said.

The Knights also have been in the forefront fighting legalized abortion in other countries where the order is . active, such as Canada, Mexico, the Philippines and Poland, he said.

"My brother Knights and ladies, on abortion, we will never give in," Anderson promised.

To those who say it is time to put the issue of abortion behind us, he said, ''We have to ask: What kind of Catholics do they think we are? Is it possible that they do not realize that . we will never cease to persevere against the evil of abortion?"

Anderson also outlined the Knights efforts to fight the funding of embryonic stem-cell research in several states as well as opposition to the legalization ofsame-sex marriage. ''In these efforts we have a simple strategy," Anderson said, "trust the

people to decide."

He said the Massachusetts Legislature should be ashamed for refusing to put the issue of same-sex marriage on the ballot there after petitions asking for a referendum with 170,000 signatures were submitted. ''This is Mary's continent - under the protection of Our Lady of Guadalupe," Anderson said. "No other place on earth has as many practicing Catholics as theAmericas. It is up to us - in our ).ives, in our homes and in our families - to put our faith into practice. It is time Mary's Knights reclaim her continent for her."

Anderson announced that the Knights of Columbus will hold its first international Marian congress at the conclusion of the 2009 convention, which is to be held in Phoenix.

'The Knights of Columbus have actively built up the kingdom of God on earth, and I know you will continue to devote your energies and your apostolic zeal to promoting the Church's mission wherever you may be," Pope Benedict wrote in his letter to the convention, read by Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the U.S. During the States Dinner August 7; Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, received the Knights' "Gaudium et Spes" Award, the organization!s highest honor.

In accepting the award, Cardinal Bertone said he was "reminded that the Church aims solely to 'carry on . the work ofChrist under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, who came into the world to bear witness to the truth, to save and not to judge, to serve and not to be served.'" ''This is a mission that involves all the baptized - priests, consecrated and lay persons - since bearing witness to truth and love means taking an active part in Christ's redemptive work," he said.

The award is accompanied by a $100,000 honorarium. Cardinal Bertone said he would use the money to assist charitable initiatives that he will select after he returns to Rome.

KNIGHTS OF THE GRIDIRON - Knights of Columbus who belong to campus councils at Georgetown and George Washington universities shake hands after an annual game of flag football. A growing number of young men have been joining the ranks through councils on college campuses. (CNS photo/courtesy of Knights of Columbus)

SPE<?IAL GUEST - Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, celebrates the August 7 opening Mass of the Knights of Columbus' 125th annual national convention at Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tenn. (CNS photo/Rick Musacchio, Tennessee Register,

Cardinal says he'll personally work on cause of Knights' founder-priest

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praise the work of Father McGivney, who died in 1890 at age 38.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Cardinal Referring to the story of Christ Tarcisio Bertone, the second highest walking on water in the midst of a rlfilking official at the Vatican, told ferocious storm, which was the Gos2,500 members of the Knights of pel for the Mass, Cardinal Bertone Columbus and their families that he said: "In many respects the stormis taking a personal interest in the be- tossed boat on the Sea of Galilee atification process for the order's seems an apt image for the situation founder, Father Michael McGivney. of the local Church at the time of Fa"I hope this recognition (of sanc- ther McGivney, when the plight of tity) will arrive soon, and I'll person- Catholics in America was far from ally work on this, so that this day will easy. come soon," Cardinal Bertone said . ''This holy priest, however, like during his homily, delivered in Ital- Peter in the Gospel story, found the ian, at the August 7 opening Mass of faith and the courage to walk steadthe Knights of Columbus' 125th an- fastly toward Christ, and to inspire nual national convention at the pthers by his leadership," added CarGaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville. dinal Bertone.

Nearly 100 cardinals, archbishops "He recognized the need to proand bishops participated in the Mass, mote the mutual support and solidarmaking it the largest gathering of ity of the Catholic community, and Church hierarchy in Tennessee's his- nothing would deter him from purtory. suing this noble goal," he continued.

Cardinal Bertone's comments on the sainthood cause of Father McGivney were met with applause from the Knights attending the Mass.

"I was thrilled," Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., the supreme chaplain of the Knights of Columbus, said ofCardinal Bertone's comments.

"I think he appreciates what it would mean for parish priests in the United States and around the world, to have one of their own canonized a saint," Bishop Lori said in an interview on Eternal Word Television Network, which was broadcasting several events from the convention.

Father McGivney founded the Knights of Columbus at St. Mary's Church in New Haven, Conn., in GOOD KNIGHT - Father Michael J. McGivney, founder of 1882. The fraternal order for Cathothe Knights of Columbus, is piclic men has grown to become the largtured in an undated file photo. est lay Catholic organization in the Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the world with more than 1.7 million Vatican secretary of state, said members around the globe. he is taking a personal interest Cardinal Bertone, who celebrated in the sainthood process for Fathe Mass in Latin, used his homily to ther McGivney. (CNS) CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

"May your founder's faith and courage serve as an inspiration to all of you as you devote yourselves to the pursuit of your apostolate."

The process for canonization for Father McGivney was launched in December 1997 by the Archdiocese ofHartford, Conn. Father McGivney was ordained as a priest of the thenDiocese of Hartford.

The archdiocesan phase of the canonization process has been completed and the case has been presented to the Vatican Congregation for Saints' Causes. A miracle connected to Father McGivney has been reported to the congregation, but there has been no ruling on it yet.

Prelates at the convention included Cardinals Francis E. George of Chicago, Edward M. Egan of New York, Sean P. O'Malley of Boston, Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, Adam J. Maida of Detroit, Jaime OrtegaAlamino of Havana, and Juan Sandoval Iniguez of Guadalajara, Mexico. Other Vatican officials included U.S. Cardinals Edmund C. Szoka, former president of the commission governing Vatican City State, and 1. Francis Stafford, head of the Vatican's Apostolic Penitentiary.

Also in attendance were Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, Coadjutor Archbishop Fouad Twal of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, and Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States.

Cardinal Bertone received the "Gaudium et Spes" Award from the Knights during the convention's States Dinner August 7.

It is the highest honor presented by the Knights ofColumbus and recognizes individuals for their exemplary service to the Church and humanity in the spirit of Christ as articulated by the work of the Second Vatican Council.

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ARLINGTON, Va (CNS)- Like dignity of human life, the dignity of the Israelites who idolized the golden women and respect for the integrity calf, the Pro-Life movement is chal- of sexual relations and motherhood, lenged today by "the idola~us gos- they assert a false notion of freedom pel oftotal autonomy, sheer uplity and made in their own image, a self-made false mercy;' Cardinal Justin Rigali of ethic that justifies their own choices," Philadelphia told a gathering mArling- he said. ton.

But the cardinal cited several signs The cardinal, who chairsthe U.S. of encouragement for the Pro-Life bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Ac- movement, including changing pubtivities, spoke on the opening day of lic opinion about abortion, the U.S. the recent annual conference'of direc- Supreme Court decision affirming the tors of diocesan Pro-Life offices and ban on partial::birth abortion and the .

I state Catholic conferences, sponsored Philadelphia City Council's quick reby the bishops' Pro-Life sedetariat. versal earlier this year ofa declaration "Those who have blind! faith in that it was "a pro-choice city." embryonic stem-eell research and its He also noted a decline in the rate so-called 'biblical power to cure' and number of abortio~, especially as House, Majority Leader Nancy among teens who are choosing to abPelosi called it recently - are wor- stain from sex until marriage. shipping a modern-day. false idol," "To be free ofdisease, to be free of TAINTED TRIBUTE - Workers remove the name of the late Bishop Gerald F. O'Keefe from the Cardinal Rigali said. "They are put- the fear of an ill-timed pregn.ancy, to library of St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. The university's board of directors voted to re- ting their faith in an exaggerated view be free of a broken heart - this is the move his name at the request of a clergy sexual abuse survivor who said the bishop failed to protect of the wonders of science ana in their freedom that we want for our young children. (eNS photo/Barb Arland-Fye, The Catholic Messenger) own ingenuity to overcomJ disease people, and we rejoice that it is unfolding;' he added. and aging."

Similarly, the Israelites who in the Cardinal Rigali warned, however, Bible account had been recerltly freed that even those in the Pro-Life movefrom bondage in Egypt disobeyed God ment can fall victim to ''the temptaby worshipping the golden calf while tion to idolatry."

By BARB ARLANo-FYE ''Because the 'evil one' wants us mitted its findings ·to the board, Moses was on Mount Sinai, he said. moved.

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE "Il1 their impatience, stubbornness to fail, there is a temptation to claim Rev. Powell said he came to which determined the name reand disobedience, they created out of this (Pro-Life) territory as our own and DAVENPORT, Iowa ~ St. the diocese in February 1977 at moval was justified.

"It was a good decision for a their own possessions. - their own guard it - not as a gift from God but Ambrose University honored the age 17 to join the Franciscan number of reasons; the predomi- jewelry and valuables - a god they as the work ofour own hands, the fruit request of a survivor of clergy Brothers of Christ the King.

Abuse involving two of the nant one was that perhaps it can could control;' he said. "A god they ofour oWn possessions;' he said. "But sexual abuse and removed the name of the late Bishop Gerald F. brothers and one priest occurred bring about healing, at least for shaped, rather than one they would be if we do so, we risk burning out or ]I . shaped by." even growing bitter in this beautiful O'Keefe of Davenport from the from March through November some," Bishop Amos said.

Those who support keeping abor- task that has been entrusted to us."

1977, he said. He identified the "We're not making ajudgment university's II-year-old library.

He urged the participants in the The Catholic university's three as Brothers Francis Skube on Bishop O'Keefe because he tion legal in the United Sta~s "have board of directors made the de- and Mark Quillen and Father isn't here to defend himself," the also exchanged the truth fora lie" by meeting to visit the chapel set up at bishop said, but documentation promoting abortion "as a way to fur- the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Arlington cision in hopes of bringing about William Wiebler.

Rev. Powell said he then en- indicates that abuse took place ther women's freedom," Cardinal ''to pray for those in positions of culhealing, said Davenport Bishop tural and political power here in WashMartin J. Amos, .the board's tered St. Ambrose College in during his tenure and was re- Rigali said.

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June 1977 and was sent to the ported to him. president.

Shortly after the board an- college's seminary department in nounced its decision, two work- November 1977. He graduated in ! ers in a crane removed the letters 1980 and was appointed to North spelling out "0' KEEFE" from American College in Rome, . I . the front of the building. The where he said he was molested

by Father Wiebler during the word "LIBRARY" remained.

The Rev. Mark Powell of In- priest's vacation there in the dianapolis, the survivor, re- spring of 1981. (Wiebler was laquested the change because he icized in 2004 and died in 2006.)

HUB Feitelberg Personal Insurance is proud tQ offer an Rev. Powell said he told said Bishop O'Keefe failed to take the necessary precautions to Bishop 0' Keefe in 1977 and unparalleled array of personal insurance selVices. We tailor protect children from abuse dur- 1981 about what had happened effective solutions to your personal • LIFE ing his 26-year tenure as head of and was assured that the bishop insurance needs to assure appropriate ."PERSONAL would take care of the matter; the the diocese.

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6 American Catholics and.American culture In every generation, Jesus has called on his disciples to transfonn society.

He wants his followers to be the ''light of the world" and communicate to those around them the truth about God and about the human person that Jesus himself irradiated. He wants them to be "the salt of the earth" and preserve people from conuption. He reminds his followers that they are meant to be like "leaven" in the midst qfdough: their presence, even in small numbers, is meant to lift up all of society, just as one candle can illumine a pitch-dark room.

At the same time, Jesus has wamed his disciples from the beginning to beware lest their salt lose its saltiness, their light be eclipsed by a bushel basket, or their leaven supplanted by the yeast infection of teachings of the Pharisees and Sadducees, who represent the rigorists and pseudo-cultic laxists, respectively, in every age. Jesus reminds us, in other words, that, while we are carrying out our mission to transfonn those around us for the better, we need to be on-guard lest the culture around us transfonn us for the worse.

The history of the Church has been a chronicle of both great epochs when Christ's disciples as a body have largely converted those around them, as well as of wasted periods where disciples for the most part lost their identity and were seduced by the spirit of the age. The history of every believer turns on a similar choice: between being transfonned by Christ and his Church and taking that transfonnation out to others, or being transfonned by others and taking that transformation back as the principles of an altered relationship with Christ and the Church.

The major controversies within the Church in the United States, and between the Church and our society as a whole, focus on the directionality ofthis transfonnation. Should the teachings ofthe Church transfonn culture or should culture transfonn the teachings of the Church?

This is the essential background to a Catholic call-to-arms sounded by Pr0fessor Robert P. George in an article earlier this month that has quickly become a much-read internet sensation. A law professor and philosopher at Princeton, George has long been recognized as one of the sharpest thinkers in the United States, serving, among many other posts, on the President's Council for Bioethics and on the Presidential Commission on Civil Rights.

In his article, entitled ''Danger and Opportunity: A Plea to Catholics," Pr0fessor George described that the future direction of our country rests in the hands of Catholic adults in America today, specifically whether they will seek to transfonn society with the principles ofthe Gospel with respect to marriage, sexual morality, and the sanctity ofhuman life, or whether they will do nothing and allow the secularist ideologists preached in universities, the media and the elite sectors ofAmerican culture to triumph.

At issue, he says, is not merely whether particular policy decisions will be approved or denied, but which understanding ofthe human person that informs the position on both sides will be adopted.

George says that ''two issues are so central to our future and, indeed, to the future ofmankind that they must, surely, be given a certain priority. Both are on the table now and will be resolved - for better or for worse - in the next decade or so. Critical (possibly irreversible) decisions will be made in the next year or two:' Those two issues are.''marriage and the complex set of issues sometimes referred to compendiously as 'bioethics.' In respect of both matters," he writes, "things will go one way or the othe~ depending on the posture and actions of Catholics. . ''If the Catholic community is engaged on these issues, working closely with evangelical Christians, observant Jews, and people ofgoodwill and sound moral judgment of other faiths and even of no particular religious faith, grave injustices and the erosion of central moral principles will be, to a significant extent, averted. Indeed, with respect to both marriage and the sanctity of human life, earlier reverses may themselves be reversed. ''If, on the other hand, the Catholic community compromises itself, abdicates its responsibilities, and sits on the sidelines, the already deeply wounded institution of marriage will collapse and the brave new world of biotechnology will transfonn procreation into manufacture, and nascent human life into mere disposable 'research material.'''

Professor George calls on all members of the Church to be engaged. He summons lay people to reflect on their responsibilities to be salt, light and leaven and, as good citizens, to take the Church's teachings in these areas to the public arena and to the ballot box. He also called on bishops and priests to remind lay people "in no uncertain terms" of the difference they can make and are called by Christ to make.

"Bishops need to lead on this," he states, ''but not by becoming politicians; the primary responsibility to work in the political sphere falls to the laity. But bishops and clergy do their part when they challenge those of us in the laity to fulfill that great responsibility. Their role is to encourage, exhort, and even cajole us to do the right thing. Moreover, they should never hesitate to reProve us when we fail in our obligations to defend human life, marriage, and the common good, as far too many Catholics, including Catholics prominent in public life, have done and, alas, are doing."

George notes that the Church's ability to do this has been wounded notjust by the clergy-sex abuse scandals, but by the reticence of far too many priests and bishops to announce the Church's teachings in areas modem culture finds controversial, and by the unchallenged refusal ofmany lay Catholics to live them.

Be that as it may, George, says, 'This is no time for Catholics to be looking inward, gazing at our navels, too embarrassed (or desirous of the approval of cultural elites or fearful of their disapproval) to speak to the moral crisis of the culture. On the contrary, now is the time to bring our Christian witness, the very practical and effective love of Christ, unabashedly to the culture:' That is the type of transformation Christ is urgently asking of American Catholics today.

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CHRISTIAN PILGRIMS WAIT FOR THEIR TURN TO PRAY AT THE TOMB WHERE IT IS BELIEVED JESUS WAS BURIED, IN THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHER IN JERUSALEM RECENTLY. (CNS PHOTO!YANNIS BEHRAKIS, REUTERS)

"THEREFORE BECAUSE OF THE JEWISH DAY OF PREPARATION, SINCE THE TOMB WAS NEARBY, THEY LAID JESUS THERE" (JOHN

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The path of greatest love A prophetic summary of the heroic life and death of St. Maximilian .Mary Kolbe, whose feast day we celebrated on Thesday, happened when he was a young boy growing up near Lodz, Poland.

After being scolded by his mother for continued misbehavior, the young Raymond Kolbe turned in prayer to the Mother of God and asked her what was to become of him. She appeared to him holding two crowns, one white and one red --'- symbolizing purity and martyrdom - and asked which one he would be willing to accept. With a precocious boldness that would define his whole life, he said he want to accept them both.

And he did.

From his youth, his pure love for God radiated and that love inspired him to accomplish great works through daily oblations. He became a Franciscan at 16 and received the name Maximilian Mary. He obtained two doctorates in Rome, a testimony of his brilliance as well as his hunger to learn more about God. Prior to his priestly ordination in 1918 at the age of 24, he founded the Militia of the Immaculate, a pious association of the faithful dedicated to the Blessed Mother that would valiantly strive for the conversion and sanctification of nonCatholics, especially those most hostile to the Church. The first point of their rule of life which he composed established the pillar for what he deemed the most effective evangelization,. ''I must be a saint and a great saint."

Upon his return to Poland in 1922, he launched out on this evangelical work by founding a monthly magazine, a daily newspaper and a radio station. The Polish bishops one day would say that these apostolates were essential in helping the Polish nation to endure the horrors that would come from

the Nazi and communist occupations. To assist with these enonnous media missions, he fonned a Franciscan friary called Niepokalanow, The City of the Immaculate, which would soon become the largest monastery in the world.

Once the Nazis occupied Poland in 1939, Father Maximilian opened up Niepokalanow to shelter Polish refugees, most of whom were Jews, and continued boldly to write and speak out against Nazi lies. Eventu-

ally he was arrested. After three months in a brutal Warsaw prison, where he was repeatedly beaten for his fidelity to Christ, he was deported to Auschwitz.

The concentration camp was ruled by hatred, but priests were treated with singular barbarism.

Father Maximilian bore it all, confident that our Lady would intercede for him each day to help him maintain his pure love even for his persecutors and prepare for his red crown.

Despite daily exhaustion and multiple injuries, he would give his meager rations to others, secretly hear confessions, and speak of the love of God. When asked why he was doing this, he responded simply: ''Every man has an aim in life. For most men, it is to return home to their wives and families, or to their mothers. For my part, I give my life for the good of all men."

That daily habit of giving himself for the good of others would soon reach its consummation.

On July 31,1941, the SS

announced that as a reprisal for a prison escape from Maximilian's block, 10 men would be chosen at random to die in the starvation chamber. Shrieks of grief accompanied each prisoner number announced. After Franciszek Gajowniczek was selected, he wailed, ''My poor wife! My poor children! I shall never see them again!"

At that moment, Father Maximilian moved forward. ''Who is this Polish pig," Lagerfuhrer Karl Fritzsch scomfully queried, "and what does he want?"

To the question about his identity, Father Maximilian responded not with his birth name, his religious name or even his prison identification number. Instead, he went to the core of his being: ''I am a Catholic priest," and, pointing to Gajowniczek, said what he desired: "And I want to die for that man."

Startled, Fritzsch acceded. Kolbe and nine others were led off to the starvation bunker.

For the next two weeks, Maximilian prepared his fellow prisoners to die in such a way as to enter into life. He led them in daily prayers, in the recitation of the rosary, and in hymns to God and to the Blessed VIrgin. After 14 days, this man, so accustomed to living without food, was the only one still alive. The cell was needed for new victims and so a guard came and injected his left arm with carbolic acid. He leaned up against the wall and died smiling serenely. ''No one has greater love," Jesus said during the Last Supper, ''than to lay down his life for his friends." In the midst of a modem Golgotha, St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe followed Jesus on that path of the greatest love ofal!.

Father Landry is pastor of St. Anthony ofPadua Parish in New Bedford.

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The things they bring Each summer a missionary preacher, as part of the Missionary Cooperative, visits the parishes of the diocese.

Fortunately, our Diocesan Mission in Guaimaca is able to make an appeal to the generosity of parishioners through the Missionary Cooperative , Appeal. The experience has been enriching for those of us who preach, as well as for those who listen and learn more about the mission. Parishioners have been very generous to the Mission through the appeal

and are genuinely interested in the work being done there by the diocese. Inevitably, people ask

about visiting the mission in Guaimaca.

The idea of traveling to Central America is not in the realm of possibility for some;

over time, however, the call to experience the Mission draws them to do what they never imagined possible.

Recently, a group of alumni and friends associated with Bishop Stang High School in North Dartmouth, made a trip to the mission and lived the mission experience. They came as "missionaries" to offer us their time and talent, their willingness to serve and their desire to learn. Dr. Phil Robitaille, a local dentist, and Dr. Chris Cheney, an internist, were

OFF ON THE RIGHT FOOT- Young missionaries from the Fall River Diocese who recently visited Guaimaca got together with local altar servers for a nightly ~ame of tutbol. Fro.nt row, ,from left: Edgar Ivan, Rebecca, Tara, Oscar, Priscilla. Back row: Jose FranCISco, Alexander, Riley, LUIS Orlando, Parish Seminarian Daniel, Peter, Michael, and Patrick.

7 among the veterans of ~e group as they made their fifth trip to Guaimaca. Rebecca, DrJChris' , daughter, decided that she, too, would experience what ~er brother, Patrick, had de~cribed from his previous visits to the mission. There were nurses, dental hygienists, students with their parents, and other~1 who came with a desire to sacrifice and make a difference in the lives of the poor., â&#x20AC;˘ The living conditionS' for the . . " VISItorS at th e mISSIOn are a " sacrifice since hot running water and comfortable mattresses are not part of the "visitors package"! They knew they wbuldn't I have usual comforts of liome, so one visitor broughther rpatching sheets and towels! They liall knew, , I however, that even with rhe sacrifices, they were still living far better than the poor whom they were serving. TheYjlaccepted the sacrifices and serve~, the poor with smiles and generous hearts.

The doctors and medical personnel worked in the Ilclinic offering their expertise ir helping to alleviate the pain and suffering of the sick. Others helped in the makeshift ph~acy sorting vitamins and giving the ~octors the medications needed. Others worked in the Marie Poussepin Center teaching, painting, or , organizing. There is always something to be done and a place for everyone's talerit.

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vitamins, tooth brushes and, paste, baby formula, over the counter medications, material, books, etc. Some missionaries ev~n had the job of organizing an,d storing the, items they brought. ,When we traveled to a village for Mass or baptisms, some I members of the group came along with us. On one particular Saturday, the entire group traveled to a neighboring parish in Orica for a birthday celebration. One of the parishioners, Dona Irminia, was celebrating her I06th birth~ with a Mass ofthanksgiving. Her family all five generations - many parishioners, and friends from the village gathered for a wonderful celebration.

One evening 'after Mass, Daniel, the parish seminarian, invited the young missionaries to a game of soccer, or "futbol," with the altar servers. What began as one game quickly became a nightly ritual. More servers arrived for Mass each night and they were sad to see the young missionaries leave as they had become friends.

It doesn't take many words to make a connection, as the young people learned. An open heart and generous spirit are all that is needed. The mission in Guaimaca has received a number of missionaries who come with suitcases filled with supplies, and hopefully return with hearts filled with the knowledge they have touched the lives of the poor. www.Hondu,ranMission.org

A'nd now a word from our sponsor Sports and money - it's as natural a pairing as Antony and Cleopatra, soup and sandwiches, ' peanut butter and jelly, and fish and chips.

And where there's money, you're sure to find advertisers. The magicians of Madison Avenue have their fingers on the pulse of America 24n.

Advertising in sports is, for the most part, a simple annoyance. Look at any old photos of major league baseball parks in the 20s, 30s and beyond, and you'll find the outfield fences covered with sales pitches f9T tobacco, beer, razors, soap, and soda pop. ' It's the same today - just a bit more high tech. There are the pesty ads behind home plate in baseball or along the scorers table in basketball that change sponsors every few minutes. Ads on the boards of hockey rinks are qui~ colorful, but also quite distracting. Golfers send their messages via hats, shirts, shoes and clubs.

But no one comes remotely close to the ad men of NASCAR.

Most folks think NASCAR stands for the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Not quite. It's actually Nearly All Spaces Contain Ad Revenue.

There's not an inch on the cars or the racers for that matter, that isn't covered with somebody selling

something. There's even a deodorant company that bought the armpits of a driver. When this driver wins and throws his arms in the air in exultation, Americans know what deodorant to buy.

When drivers are accompanied by a mobile camera in the cockpit of their car, the viewer will find advertisements strewn all about.

I was completely blown away by the winner of the recent event at the Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania.

The post-race celebration went

something like this: "I'd like to thank God, who made men able to invent Suds Light. I'd like to thank my pit crew who find refreshment with a cold Suds Light.

I'd like to thank the owners who teamed up with the good folks at Suds Light. I'd like to thank my spotters who wait until after the race to enjoy a chilled Suds Light. I'd like. to thank my family. That's them over there wearing the cool Suds Light sweatshirts.

And I'd like to thank my GENTLEMEN, START YOUR ENGINES - You'll find no adversponsors, the nice people tising on this race car proudly displayed on the corner of Pleasant over at Suds Light. For Street and Eastern Avenue in Fall River by my pepere, Loridas without them, I'd be up Jolivet Sr., circa 1919. His only sponsors were grease under the here hawking another product." fingernails, scraped knLckles and dirty overalls.

After that display, I was relieved way. I feel no sudden urge to buy where the ads appear. In fact, most he wasn't sponsored by a farm Pang golf equipment because it of simply look for sale items. fertilizer company.

1 I'm not a magician ofMadison I understand that there are million graces a golfer's cap.

I won't hop in my car and drive Avenue, and I don't know the ins and dollar payoffs for races and golf to Bill's Sporting Goods just because outs of the ad world. I do know tournamentS, and athletes receive they have an enormous billboard on major corporations don't spend ridiculous salaries. But I really don't the centerfield wall. And I dbn't , money foolishly. There must be a ~derstand how sponsors get a return _think I'm alone. payoff. Just not with my measly few from the millions they spend on There are many of us who will bucks. advertising. continue to buy the hot dog~ we Meanwhile, some ads may be an I felt no inclination to go out and prefer, the soda we enjoy, aqd the annoyance, and others are quite buy Suds Light after that driver's deodorant that works best, rio matter enjoyable - just like fish and chips. five-minute plug at Pocono Race-

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MapQuest to heaven In recent decades, it has become much easier to know how to get from one place to another. In the past, we would ask for directions from someone who was familiar with our destination. AAA then came out with its maps that highlighted the route we should follow. Today, we can log on to the Internet and get detailed directions, or use a navigation system, which tells us which exits to take, the distance between exits, and our estimated time of arrival.

As Christians, we are on a journey and hope one day to reach our final destination heaven. Although there are many different paths that lead to heaven, there is only one Way, namely Jesus Christ.

Today's second reading from the Letter to the Hebrews reminds us "we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses ...." These witnesses are the holy men

and women who have gone in our relationship with God, before us - the saints - who but burdens us as well. That is why it is so important to show the way that leads to frequent the sacrament of heaven. Not only that, but as penance, which allows us to members of the Church Triumphant, they follow our rid ourselves of sin and progress along the way, reorients us on our way to praying and interceding that we will one day join them in ~ heaven. mily of the e The Letter to the Twentieth Sunday Hebrews continues 'in Ordinary Time "let us rid ourselves , of every burden of sin

By Father that clings to us ...." It P. Driscoll Timothy is not easy to travel, especially if our trip is long, for many of heaven. us tend to overpack. Our The author of the Letter to journey to heaven is not easy either, and so the author the Hebrews also encourages us to keep our "eyes fixed on advises to get rid of sin - the Jesus, the leader and perfecter excess baggage that weighs us of faith." down.

Jesus, by his life, death, and If we are attached to sin, resurrection, has shown us the even venial sin, it is difficult way to heaven. If we hope to to continue on the right path.

Sin not only causes a rupture get to heaven, it is essential "'--'."

that we focus on our relationship with him. Remember how St. Peter began to sink when he took his eyes off Jesus and focused instead on the wind and the waves (Mt. 14:30). It is just as easy for us to falter if we neglect our relationship with the Lord.

'Friends, TV, and the Internet can all be used for good purposes, but if they become more important than Jesus, we are bound to stumble and lose our way. We must develop an intimate relationship with the Lord through a disciplined prayer life, reading sacred Scripture, and frequenting the sacraments. Jesus must be the center of our lives.

The author of the Letter to the Hebrews knew it is not easy to reach heaven, and that the journey to heaven is

fraught with dangers and difficulties. That is why he reminds us that Jesus, knowing the joy that lay before him, "endured the cross, despising its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.'~ As we continue on our journey, we must not become discouraged by hardships or difficulties. The crosses in our lives can either unite us more closely to Jesus, or cause us to grow weary and disheartened.

We don't have the assistance of MapQuest or a navigation system as we make our way to heaven; but if we seek the intercession of th~ saints, rid ourselves of sin that weighs us down, keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, and never lose heart, we will one day arrive in heaven - our final destination.

Father Driscoll is pastor of Annunciation of the Lord Parish in Taunton.

Upcoming Daily Readings: Sat, Aug 18, Jos 24: 14-29; Ps 16: 1-2,5,7-8,11; Mt 19:13-15. Sun, Aug 19, Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jer 38:4-6,8-10; Ps 40:24,18; Heb 12:1-4; Lk 12:49-53. Mon, Aug 20, Jgs 2:11-196; Ps 106:34-37,39-40,43-44; Mt 19:16-22. Thes, Aug 21, Jgs 6: 11-24a; Ps 85:9,11-14; Mt 19:23-30. Wed, Aug 22, Jgs 9:6-15; Ps 21 :2-7; Mt 20:1-16. Thurs, Aug 23, Jgs 11:29-39a; Ps 40:.5,7-10; Mt 22: 1-14. Fri, Aug 24, Bartholomew, Apostle, Rv 21 :9b-14; Ps 145: I 0-13ab, 1718; Jn 1:45-51.

A pontifical concili.ar embarrassment Back in the early 50s, a papal allocution to an assemblage of ENT specialists might deploy a phrase like "the divinely ordained harmony among ear, nose, and throat." They were a kind of language-game, those baroque trills on Just About Everything; and, to be generous, they reflected the core Catholic conviction that the world fits together intelligibly because the world was created through the Word, the reason, of God. Still, it was no loss when that particular language-game, which was open to gentle (and sometimes not-so-gentle) ridicule, was abandoned by the Holy See. Until June: which brought us "Guidelines for the Pastoral Care

of the Road," an effusion from the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples that generated a tsunami of (generally good-natured) mockery when it was released.

The 46-page document is, in fact, a satirist's delight, as it veers from the obvious ("...traffic has increased...") to psychobabble ("When driving a car some people start up the engine to join a race, in order to escape from the troubling pace of everyday life."), and from popanthropology ("Cars tend to bring out the 'primitive' side of human

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beings, thereby producing unpleasant results.") to - well, to assertions that probably didn't sit well in Maserati-crazed Italy ("Cars particularly lend themselves to being used by owners to

show off, and as a means for outshining other people and arousing a feeling of envy.")

Waxing phenomenological in lame imitation of John Paul II, the document informs us that "Driving ... means co-existing" a 'line that could only have been written by someone utterly unfamiliar with Massachusetts Route 128 or the Capitol Beltway.

Back in 1956, we are reminded, "Pope Pius XII exhorted motorists, 'Do not forget to respect , other road users, be courteous and fair with other drivers and show them your obliging nature.'''

(Let's hope that other aspects of Pius's magisterium were more fervently embraced by his fellowRomans.) Then, having enlightened us phenomenologically and instructed us morally, the Pontifi-

cal Council proposes for our reflection "Ten Commandments for Driving," which begin with an oldie-but-goodie ("I. You shall not kill.") and include lessons in parenting ("VI. Charitably convince the young ... not to drive when they are not in a fitting condition to do so.").

The opening adverb in the latter is, I fear, an implicit criticism of the reminder my wife and I gave each of our children when they first began to drive by themselves: "Remember: we don't do bail."

Why on earth is the Vatican concocting such stuff? At a Roman press conference, a' reporter noted the "Fifth Commandment" ("Cars shall not be for you an expression of power and domination, and an occasion of sin.") and asked when a car became an occasion of sin. ''When a car is used as a place for sin," replied the president of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples, Cardinal Renato Martino, who mayor not have been referring to certain scenes in "American Graffiti," George Lucas's classic tribute to the drive-in.

To make matters worse~ and before the section rather brusquely titled "The Pastoral

Care of the Homeless (Tramps)," "Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road" does address two urgent problems: sex-trafficking and prostitution (which are modern forms of slavery), and the growing crisis of street children (which lends itself to other forms of slavery, in addition to the sexual variety).

But who was paying attention, after all that blather about cars and driving?

Pontifical councils like "Migrants and Itinerant Peoples" were created after Vatican II as in-house think-tanks, intended to initiate serious studies for the benefit of the pope, the Roman Curia, and the world's bishops.

Over the past 40 years, however, too many of these councils have become typical international bureaucracies, churning out paper because churning out paper is what international bureaucracies do, no matter how few people read what's churned out. An evangelically-minded pope like Benedict XVI (a BMW man, by the way) might consider whether all this faux-theological blah-blah isn't an embarrassment to the Holy See and an impediment to the Church's evangelical mission.

George Weigel is a senior ' fellow ofthe Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D;C.

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Joseph Rectory in North Wednesday 15 August 2007 Dighton. We used the same - Homeport on Three-Mile door at the same time and River - Solemnity of the walked the same grounds over Assumption of the Blessed and over again. They adjusted Virgin My retired racing greyhounds are creatures of habit. In their professional careers, Reflections of a everything happened at p ' h Pm'" "}:.. . precisely the same time',j~'J~~~~ .iQl,/If~t}8 Nothing the dogs did I-~='~lifb_1fl"' affected the regularity of their meals, exercise, Goldrick.·, <: •-"-_.....\_.•

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or grooming. Routine' makes the dogs feel safe and comfortable. They want no surprises - ever.

It took my hounds exactly two days to become accustomed to our new residence, St.

quickly. I'm still working on it.

Human beings need routine for their physical and emotional health. Routine reduces stress. I suspect this is one of the reasons Religious men and

women living in community tend to be long-lived. Their lives are strictly regulated.

They "live long and prosper," as that Star Trek Vulcan Mr. Spock would say.

We also need breaks in our routine. That's why we have days-off, weekends and vacations.

Even Pope Benedict takes vacations. I saw a photograph in The Anchor. They say Good Pope John once prayed: "0 God, please run the world

by Yourself tonight. The pope is going to bed."

I begin my daily routine well before 6 a.m. I awake without the aid of an alarm clock. If I

Brothers and sisters I will be traveling to California this week to attend a birthday party for my brother. It is a surprise party.

He does not know that I am coming. This makes it all the more fun. I will be taking our son Max with me, as Max: is my brother's godchild. This will mean the world to my brother, as he has not seen Max in over a year. It will touch my brother's heart that we traveled such a long distance to be present.

But I have to go.

He's my brother.

I have one sister and one brother, both of whom live in California, and although I do not see them as often as I would like, we are very close. These are the timeless relationships where what you have shared in the past carries you into the future, where you can "pick up where you left off."

Like many brothers and sisters who have grown into adulthood, you can see that we are siblings. Not only in physical appearance or voice or personality similarities, but also in our interaction. For if you put us together in a room for a day, it would not be surprising if we began to share stories and laugh together, and reflect upon experiences of our childhood days.

Stories like these ....

One day my brother and I were traveling in the back seat as my grandmother drove her 1949 Pontiac to town. I was five and he was three. There were no seat belts in those days. I was resting my head against the car door and when

we hit a few bumps going over the railroad tracks, the car door flew open and I fell out onto the road.

Fortunately, my grandmother was not a fast driver and I was not hurt. (Thank you guardian angel.) I got up and started running after the car. A few moments later, my grandmother noticed that she could not see me in the baclc

seat. She asked my brother, "Where is Greta?" My brother's reply, "Oh, she fell out."

That's my brother. Calm under pressure.

My grandmother stopped the car immediately and as she opened the car door and turned around, was so relieved to see me running to her, into her arms.

There are many other stories I could tell of days spent with my sister and brother. Two mile walks into town to buy candy. Attending Mass and Catholic school together. And many summer nights sleeping in our family's apricot orchard under the stars.

Whether our siblings are "blood relations," acquired through the love present in adoption or the blending of families, sibling relationships are some of the most valuable and long lasting in our lives.

Yet, Jesus spoke of another dimension of relationship

when in Mark 3:34-35 he said, "These are my mother and my brothers. Whoever does the will of God is brother and sister and mother to me."

And in Matthew 19:29, "Moreover, everyone who has given up home, brothers or sisters, father or mother, wife or children or property for my sake will receive many times as much and inherit everlasting life."

Is Jesus saying that our sibling or family relationships are not important? I don't think so. But rather he is challenging us to go beyond our "comfort zones," and to make sacrifices to follow him. He is trying to point us in the direction of faith and the spiritual life. He was speaking of the surrender to the will of God the Father and that those who make this surrender become part of a family. Our experience has shown us that a Eucharistic community can be one where faith is shared, bonds of spiritual friendships are strong and this becomes a community that can serve Christ together in many different ways.

I guess it's "icing on the cake" if you have a close sibling with whom you share a strong Christian faith, if you have parents, children or family members with whom you pray and serve Christ. For if we are serving Christ within our own families then there may be no need to move away from them in order to serve God. Greta and her husband George, with their children are members of Christ the King Parish in Mashpee.

snooze a little longer, the dogs will rouse me with loud complaints. Next I sit on the front porch, sipping a big cup of steaming coffee and scanning the daily newspaper. As someone once said, "Sometimes I sits and thinks. Sometimes I just sits." It's also a great time to pray the Liturgy of the Hours.

I watch as the neighborhood comes gradually to life. The man across the street walks down to Johnny's General Store to get a newspaper, sports commentaries, and smidgen of gossip. We wave and exchange pleasantries. He's a retired East Providence firefighter. The white Chevy Blazer with the Florida tags pulls up in the church parking lot at precisely 6:45 a.m. An elderly man emerges and walks the perimeters of the lot, praying the· rosary. I haven't yet learned his name. At 7 a.m., Thel.rta arrives in her blue Ford Escort.

I have presented Thelma with the keys to the kingdom. She unlocks the church. At 7:30 a.m., the prayer group gathers and begins reciting the rosary.

At 7:45 a.m. the neighbor boy whizzes past on his bike and delivers my second newspaper.

At 8 a.m., I preside at morning Mass. There are usually twodozen>worshippers in attendance. Today, being a Holy Day of Obligation, there will be more people. After Masis, we generally stand under the shade of the trees just chatting. A group of volunteers begins to weed and tend the flow~r beds before the day grows hot. Mary plants and waters. Terry loves to weed. Laura sometimes helps.

The same walkers and joggers use the same route every day. The bicyclists peddle the same pavement. At exactly 9 a.m. the church offices open.

The steeple bell rings pleasantly to announce the passing of another hour. And so goes the day here on Three-Mile River. It's the rhythm of life.

Like all living things, we too are creatures of habit. This is as it should be. All is well with the world - at least with our little

comer of it.

Our spiritual lives also need rhythm and routine. We need to pray privately at the same time in the same place every day. It really doesn't matter what method we choose. Use whatever works. Neither does it matter where our place of private prayer happens to be. It could be the last pew of a Baroque cathedral or a wellworn chair in our bedroom. It just has to be always our place and time of prayer. In a sense, we need to make a daily appointment with God and keep it. Virtue, as St. Thomas Aquinas teaches, is a habit. So, by the way, is vice. We need to form good habits, one of which is daily personal prayer.

We need occasional breaks in our prayer routine as well.

That's the reason the Church calendar provides holy days and holidays, feasts and seasons.

Right now we are in a long period of ordinal (counted) time in the Church liturgical calendar. "Ordinary Time" is not a season and neither is it ordinary. It extends throughout the summer until the Season of Advent begins. The danger is that we might become spiritually lethargic and allow our prayerlives to slip into the doldrums.

Fortunately, there are such summer solemnities as today's Assumption of the Blessed Virgin and next week's feast of St. Bartholomew. These add variety.

But the days grow short when you reach September.

I'd like to linger longer on my porch this lilting summer morning, but back to work I must go. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. Life goes on," sing the Beatles.

Indeed it does.

Father Goldrick is pastor of St. Joseph's Parish in North Dighton.

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BAY SHORE, L.I., N. Y. - Even as he approaches his 91 st birthday on September 2, Montfort MissionFather Roger Charest is still ready to bang out a story or two to promote the Marian spirituality of St. Louis-Marie Grignon de Montfort, the priest who founded his congregation in 1716.

When he left Fall River at age 13, and began studying for the priesthood at the Montfort Missionary Fathers' preparatory seminary on Long Island, Roger Charest had no idea his vocation would carry him to found a magazine, publish a collection of St. Montfort's writings and hymns for use in the Englishspeaking world, and spend his later life as a lecturer on true devotion to Mary, the Mother of God. "I wasn't much of a writer as a young man but I always wanted to be a priest," Father Charest told The Anchor in a recent telephone interview. "I founded 'Queen of All Hearts' magazine in 1949 and I published it for 50 years - as long as I could," he said.

"Right now my writing has all to do with the sale of thousands of books copies of the several books St. Montfort - who lived from 1673 to 1716, and was canonized in 1947 wrote in his lifetime."

He would also be a seminary teacher, a provincial in the United States and Borneo who traveled extensively as a member of a traveling missionary team, and finally, earlier this year, celebrate his 65th anniver- ANCHOR PERSON OF THE WEEK - Montfort sary as a priest and settle Missionary Father Roger Charest. into something of a retirement.

"I never liked the administrative part of being a provincial," Father Charest said with a laugh. "But I was able to visit such places as Borneo and Indonesia, and see what my confreres were doing in bringing Jesus and Mary to so many people."

"His dedication to his work and spirituality of Montfort has been incredible," said Father George Werner, superior of the Montfort Missionary community in New York. In 1947, a U.S. province was established with its office in Ozone Park in Queens.

"Of course, he does not only promote it, he lives it," he added.

It began when Roger Charest was born to Alphonse and Blanche (Gregoire) Charest in 1916 when World War I was still underway.

"He always said he would become a priest," reported Doris Morin ofTiverton and Lorraine Doucette of Fall River, two of his four sisters. Yvette Belisle of Tiverton and Reina Morin of Maryland are the others.

There are also brothers Romeo and Henry Charest in Fall River. Another brother, Robert is dead.

It was at St. Anne's School in Fall River that the boy from South Almond Street off South Park would hear the call to the priesthood. He wasn't alone. Fellow student Lionel Gamache would also go on to become a Montfort Missionary, while classmates Pierre Lachance and Jean Dominique Pare would answer the

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New Bedford parish's annual feast of Senhor da Pedra is underway By

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NEW BEDFORD路- Thousands are expected to attend this weekend's three-day Portuguese feast of Senhor da Pedra ('Lord of the Rock") as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Parish hosts its annual celebration of traditions that began in the 16th century on the Island of St. Michael in the Azores.

The mix of religious and social events begins tonight and continues Saturday and on Sunday.

The religious events'begin Saturday night when the statues of Senhor da Pedra and Our Lady of Souls are transferred in procession from the parochial school hall to the Church on Earle Street, with Mass following at 6 p.m., said Father Daniel O. Reis, pastor.

O!l Sunday, Father Reis will be the principal celebrant of the feast Mass at 11 a.m., at which Father Jose A.F. dos Santos, a former assistant at Immaculate Conception Parish, and currently retired, will be the homilist.

At 2 p.m. on Sunday a large religious procession that will include a variety of parish and community organizations and societies, civic .groups and bands, will begin at the church and wind over adjacent streets and return to the church where Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will be held.

"Everyone is invited to join with us for our annual feast," Father Reis saId. The social events are being held at the fair grounds at Madeira Field. They include concerts and auctions, and games. Portuguese and American foods will be available.

The New Bedford parish's feast precedes by one week the annual festival traditionally held on the last Sunday of August in the village of Vila Franca do Campo on St. , Michael, where some historians allege it had its roots following an earthquake on Oct. 22, 1522.

Immaculate Conception Parish began hosting the festival in 1929, because many of its parishioners and their families emigrated from Vila Franca do Campo and wanted to recall their long-time faith be. tiefs and again pay homage to the suffering Christ as they and their Luzitano ancestors had throughout their lives.

However, the New Bedford feast was not celebrated after 1942 because ofthe impact of the World War IT years, but was reinstituted in Immaculate Conception Parish in 1959.

The original and ancient statue of Senhor da Pedra, the suffering Christ as seen in his passion, is kept in the Church of Santa Casa da Misericordia, ("the holy house of mercy") on the Azorian Island

of St. Michael. The Church complex once housed infirmaries.

"The name of the parish church is significant because it was a canonical institution in the Azores from the time of the Middle Ages and provided a kind of social security for the people long before the government took up its caring programs," explained Father John J. Oliveira, pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, also in New Bedford, and dean of the New Bedford Deanery.

The statue carried in procession during the New Bedford celebrations is a copy of the original, he said.

The Senhor da Pedra feast is the second largest feast on the Island of St. Michael. The largest religious event is that honoring Santo Christo da Milagres ("Christ of the miracles") customarily observed in June in Ponta Delgada where it is said to have begun, and where its original statue is enshrined.

"While Senhor da Pedra and Santo Christo are two of the principal Portuguese feasts, there is another, Senhor Born Jesus do Pieo ("Good Lord Jesus of Pico") as well," reported Father Timothy P. Driscoll, pastor ofAnnunciation of the Lord Parish in Taunton.

Pico is one of the Azores' nine islands.

And although the statues symbolic of all three feasts depict Christ suffering in his passion before his crucifixion, "all are different," he noted.

"The statue of Born Jesus, which we have in our Taunton church, also portrays Christ in his passion, but unlike the others in that it shows Christ standing," Father Driscoll explained.

"The Santo Christo statue is a bust portraying Christ wearing his crown of thorns and the scarlet cloak, what we commonly refer to as Ecce Homo, or 'Behold the Man.' The statue of Senhor da Pedra differs because it has Christ seated on a rock, as the name implies."

Father Oliveira noted that all the feasts "center on the passion of Christ and its importance in the lives of the people of the Azores, because it was so well taught by the Franciscan priests in the Azores so long ago."

The statues of the suffering Christ are venerated in many Portuguese communities besides New England, especially in California, Canada and Bermuda.

Father Driscoll, who served as a parochial vicar at Immaculate Conception Parish from 1999 to 2004, called this weekend's feast, "A wonderful event which demonstrates the great faith of so many people."

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Image of Our Lady of America on display in St. Loui.s basilica

By JENNIFER BRINKER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ST. Loms - A new official image of Our Lady of America, which stems from apparitions of Mary received by an Ohio woman religious, will be on display at the Basilica of St. Louis, King of . France (Old Cathedral) through September 8.

The nine-foot statue of Our Lady of America, which includes its base, was first publicly displayed last November at the U.S. bishops' meeting in Baltimore, where St. Louis Archbishop Raymond L. Burke blessed it. The statue was expectc;;d to be taken to other U.S. cities throughout the rest of the year.

Born in 1916, Sister Mary Ephrem (Mildred) Neuzil, a Sister of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus of Dayton, Ohio, began receiving private revelations from Mary as Our Lady of America Sept. 26, 1956, when she was stationed at the sisters' convent in Rome City, Ind. Mary indicated to Sister Mary Ephrem that she had come in response to the United States' recognition of her Immaculate Conception, namely through the establishment of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. The shrine was designated a basilica in 1990.

Mary also told Sister Mary Ephrem that the people of the United States should focus on a message of purity. Her first words to the woman religious were: "I am Our Lady ofAmerica. I desire that my children honor me, especially by the purity of their lives."

The revelations continued through the end of the 1950s and also included messages from Christ, St. Joseph, St. Gabriel and St. Michael. Sister Mary Ephrem

11 Guadalupe, mother ofAmerica and star of the new evangelization, draws all of the nations ofAmerica into unity in carrying on the new evangelization."

"Our Lady of America calls the people of our nation to the new

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More information about the devotion to Our Lady ofAmerica is available online at www.ourladyofamerica.com.

later became part of the sisters' Leibold in 1972 and a general uncontemplative branch in New awareness today of the devotion.

"I think in his passing the deRiegel, Ohio. When the order was suppressed in 1979, she became a votion remained with a relatively member of the Contemplative Sis- small group of the faithful," ters of the Indwelling Trinity. She Langsenkamp'told the St. Louis died Jan. 10, 2000, at the age of Review, archdiocesan newspaper.

"The bishops for the most part 83.

During the time that she re- have not fulfilled the request, beceived the Marian apparitions, Sis- cause it was not widely known to ter Mary Ephrem also began meet- them. In (Our Lady's) messages, ing with Msgr. Paul F. Leibold, she asks that the bishops do this."

"The devotion has received a vicar general to then-Cincinnati very warm welcome from the bishArchbishop Karl Alter. The priest, ops as they become aware of it," who later became the archbishop he continued.

One of those prelof Cincinnati, asked Sister Mary ates is Archbishop Burke, who Ephrem to record the messages, wrote a letter to his fellow bishops which were later approved by him last May on the status of Our Lady and published in 1960, 1971 and of America.

1989.

Archbishop Burke wrote that he Archbishop Leibold also carwas able to confirm that the devoried out the first of Our Lady's retion had been approved by Archquests, which was to create a relibishop Leibold and actively progious medal with the image ofOur moted by him. Over the years, Lady of America and the coat of other bishops have approved the arms of the Christian family. devotion, according to Archbishop Mary also inspired Sister Mary Burke, and have publicly particiEphrem to write a prayer in her honor, which received an imprima- pated in the devotion to Our Lady tur, which means "let it be printed," . of America.

"Although the devotion to Our from Archbishop Leibold in 1963.

The prayer also received the "ni- Lady of America has remained hil obstat," which means "nothing constant over the years, in'recent stands in the way," from then-Fa- years, the devotion has spreagy~ry_. ther Daniel E. Pilarczyk, who is much. and has been emOrace.df·by' ;.' now the archbishop of Cincinnati. many with special fervo~~'" h~ .

Our Lady ofAmerica's ultimate wrote. "Our Lady ofAmerica calls request, however, was to have a the people of our nation to the new statue in her name to be enshrined evangelization through a renewed in the National Shrine of the Im- dedication to purity in love."

Archbishop Burke also noted maculate Conception. She indithat the devotion to Our Lady of cated that the proposed site within America and the devotion to Our the shrine was to be a place for pilLady of Guadalupe, who is congrims and a special safeguard for of all the Amerisidered "Empress the country.

MOTHER OF AMERICA - The official statue of Our Lady of cas," are "completely harmoniAI Langsenkamp, an IndiaAmerica stands in the Basilica of St. Louis, King of France (Old napolis-based volunteer with the ous."

Cathedral), where it is to be on display through September 8. The In his May letter to his fellow nine-foot statue, which includes its base. was first publicly displayed Our Lady of America Center in Fostoria, Ohio, said that request bishops, Archbishop Burke noted last November at the U.S. bishops' meeting in Baltimore, where has not yet been fulfilled, partly that Pope John Paul II reminded Archbishop Raymond L. Burke of St. Louis blessed it. (CNS photo/ because of the death ofArchbishop Catholics that "Our Lady of Rebecca Venegoni Tower, St. Louis Review)

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DVD/video reviews NEW YORK (CNS) -

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from the Office for FIlm & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Theatrical movies on video have a USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification and Motion Picture Association of America rating.

''Elvis: The HoUywood

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Collection" (1962-1967) Four of Elvis Presley's lesser films, which nonetheless demonstrate his remarlrnbly natural screen presence. are gathered in this box set. AU the films look good for the 1960s era.

1bere are no extras, and none have been rated by the Motion Picture Association ofAmerica. (Warner Home Video) "Clambake" (1967) To find out whether he is liked more for his money than for himself, a tycoon's son (Presley) switches identities with a penniless water-ski instructor (Will Hutchins). Directed

by Arthur Nadel, the results are entirely predictable, with Elvis singing a few subdued ballads and driving in a speed boat race that is the movie's highlight. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-I- general patronage.

"FoDow that Dream" (1962) Mild comedy about modern homesteaders (Arthur O'Connell, Presley, Anne Helm路 and three little 0Iphans) settling on state land along the florida coast where they thrive until a gambler (Simon Oakland) sets up shop next to them. Directed by GonIon Douglas, the humor revolves around the family's unsophisticated innocence in disarming aU attempts to dislodge them. Brief comic violence. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-I - general patronage.

"Frankie & Johnny" (1966) AUegedly based on the famous folk ballad, this Presley vehicle has plenty of rock 'n'roll music, fistswinging action and cutesy-poo r0mance. Presley plays a two-timing but ultimately redeemed riverboat gambler with Donna Douglas as his tired but true love, Frankie. Directed

by Frederick de Cordova, it's lightweight fun. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-ll - adults and adolescents.

"Kid Galahad" (1962) In this remake of the 1936 origi-

nal, a young auto mechanic (Presley) is turned into a prizefighter by a needy promoter (Gig Young), then falls for the man's sister (Joan Blackman).

Directed by Phil Karlson, Presley is unconvincing as a boxer but is otherwise likable as an earnest fellow who wants to make enough money to wed and open his own auto shop. Mild fight scenes and romantic complications. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-II adults and adolescents.

''The Henrik Ibsen CoUection" (1943-2004) The BBC has followed up its terrific George Bernard Shaw set with an even more tremendous (by dint of its lengthy content) six-DVD box of Ibsen's plays. Culled from archival broadcasts - some of which have aired in the States on PBS and elsewhere - there are 10 all-star video productions ofthe playwright's classics. These include a powerful 1959 black-and-white broadcast of ''Brand'' with Patrick McGoohan; a 1992 "Masterpiece Theatre" production of "A Doll's House;' with Juliet Stevenson as Nora; "Ghosts" with Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench and Natasha Richardson (1987); "An Enemy of the People" (1980); ''The Wild Duck" with Denholm E]]iott and Jenny Agutter (1971); "Hedda Gabler" with Ingrid Bergman, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson and Trevor Howard (1962); "The Lady From the Sea," with Eileen Atkins and E]]iott (1974); ''The Master Builder" (two productions - a 1958 black-and-white version with Donald Wolfit and Mai Zetterling and a 1988 production with Leo McKern and Miranda Richardson); and ''Little Eyolf;' with Diana Rigg andAnthony Hopkins (1982). The discs are supplemented by eight radio plays including ''Peer Gynt," ''The Pillars of Society;' "John Gabriel Borkman" and "When We Dead Awaken;' aU with stellar casts including Paul Scofield, Irene Worth, Prunella Scales and more. One of the audio plays, "A Meeting in Rome," concerns Ibsen's relationship with Swedish playwright August Strindherg. The video quality is excellent for aU, though the older productions understandably show their age. Performances are uniformly superb. Theater buffs, students, and lovers ofquality drama will find these discs indispensable. (BBC Video)

Diocese of Fall River TV Mass on WLNE Channel 6 Sunday, August 19 at 11:00 a.m.

Scheduled celebrant is Father Karl C. Bissinger, a parochial vicar at S1. Julie Billiart Parish in North Dartmouth and diocesan assistant director for vocations

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IC~' ~'t()viite lCalIV~Ullle~ NEW YORK (CNS) - The following are capsule reviews of movies recently reviewed by the Office for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

''Daddy Day Camp" (TriStar) A few years after the events of "Daddy Day Care," the two entrepreneurial fathers (now played by Cuba Gooding Jr. and Paul Rae) buy a run-down summer camp and take up a rivalry with the big, mean bully camp next door. Director Fred Savage, the former child star now making his feature-film debut, runs through the checklist of crass jokes and heavy-handed messages about life and teamwork that would have been a lot more resonant if they had been grounded in reality. A few instances of crass language, some children's brawls, bathroom humor, light cartoonlike violence and an offhand sexual remark. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-II adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association ofAmerica rating is PG - parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.

"Rocket Science" (Picturehouse) Quirky and sublime first-love dramedy about a stuttering young high-school boy (Reece Daniel Thompson) and the driven debating champ (Anna Kendrick) who to his surprise wants him as her debatepartner protege. Writer-director Jeffrey Blitz, without being preachy or obvious, shows us how family can

come through when you least expect it, and how sometimes we can become better by going through what seems like the absolute worst.

One instance each of rough language and profanity, several instances of crude and crass language, three scenes of young teens smoking or drinking, rude gestures, brief nudity in classical-art drawings, some pubescent sex talk, much debate-club discussion of abstinence policies and one instance each of implied sexual groping and offcamera sex sounds, both by adult characters. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-ill - adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

"Rush Hour 3" (New Line) The third installment of the action comedy franchise puts the dour Jackie Chan and frantic, wisecracking Chris Tucker in Paris on the trail of a secret crime syndicate called the Triads. Director Brett Ratner and screenwriter Jeff Nathanson, who both made "Rush Hour 2," keep the car chases taut and lovingly choreograph the swordplay, gunplay and martial arts, but the rapport between the two leads is forced, and the best of the comedy seems borrowed from the "Naked Gun" spoofs. Nearly bloodless violence, crude and crass language, skimpy female costuming, implied female nudity, implied sexual activity and mild sexual banter. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-III adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

"Stardust" (paramount) Eventful fairy tale based on a popular book by Neil Gaiman about a star that falls to earth in human

form (Claire Danes), and how she's pursued by a witch (Michelle Pfeiffer) who hopes to acquire eternal youth, a murderous prince (Mark Strong) trying to secure his late father's (Peter O'Toole) throne, and a young man (Charlie Cox) who promises the maiden (Sienna Miller) he loves that he'll bring her the star to prove his love. Matthew Vaughn directs the multistrand narrative with conviction, and there's a good deal of welcome humor and an interesting cast (also including Robert De Niro, Rupert Everett and Ricky Gervais) but some of the story elements veer more toward adults - or older teens - than the youngsters who might most enjoy this sort of yarn. Intense action violence, implied premarital sex, a flamboyantly gay character, another born out of wedlock, some innuendo and brief crass language.

The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-ill - adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG13 - parents strongly cautioned.

Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

"Underdog" (Disney/Spyglass) An ordinary dog is given extraordinary powers in this charming film adaptation of the classic 1960s television cartoon series. Director Frederik Du Chau's updated, live-action adventure combines the best of 21 st-century special effects with a genuinely engaging story line, some wry humor and unimpeachable family values. Occasional crass language, some mild innuendo, and scatological humor and cartoon violence perhaps preclude the film for very young children. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is AI - general patronage. The Motion Picture Association ofAmerica rating is PG - parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.

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Immigration backed up by stepped-up raids on workplaces across th~ country that employ illegal immigrants.

Sniffin said the Department of Homeland Security, which enforces the immigration laws, and the Social SecurityAdministration, which collect identity information from W-2 tax forms of about 250 mi11ion workers each years, "are now in an uneasy partnership."

Social Security said it expected to send out approximately 140,000 nomatch letters (showing current workers with and without real SS numbers) to employers, covering an estimated eight million workers. ''But the no-match information in many cases is.faulty - by reason of wrong identification numbers and wrong names - and who suffers the most is the worker. What also bothers . me is that Homeland Security officials contend they held up taking this action because they wanted to wait and see if Congress would pass a sweeping immigration reform bill. But itjust isn't true:' Sniffin maintained.

"Of course the failure of the Senate to pass the bill was a monumental failure. But Homeland Security has been making raids since 2003, and has announced it plans to rid the United States of from 10 million to 12 million iIIega1s by the year 2012, by raiding workplaces," Sniffin asserted.

The numbers are big. Of the 11 to 12 mi11ion illegal immigrants in the United States, an estimated seven million are employed, totaling one in 20 of all U.S. workers, according to an analysis of census data by the Pew Hispanic Center.

That exacerbates herconcerns, "especially after the raid a.t Bianco, where the devastation split families, because many of the workers were husbands and wives, and there were young children at home awaiting their return, which didn't come quickly."

She added, 'Thank God for agencies such as CSS and church parishes and caring pastors and people and businesses which bonded together in support of those arrested and provide immediate food and clothing - and help with rents and other needs - after hundreds lost their jobs."

One of the first to arrive at the Bianco factory after the March raid, Sniffin said she was shocked by the action and the treatment dealt by the federal agents. ''It was a whirlwind. It was horrific. It was unprecedented. I had never seen anything like that in my legal career:' said Sniffin, who earned a law degree - specializing in immigration law - from Boston University Law School in ApriJ, 1997.

After a year practicing in New York, she returned to New England and has been with CSS since 1999. ''I was born in Peru but raised in New York by my immigrant parents who both held green cards," Sniffin said with a smile. "Yes, it's a bit of irony that I would become a, lawyer to

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immigrants," she added.

In the wake of the New Bedford raid Sniffin found herself battling for the immigrants, some of whom were immediately transferred to holding areas at the Bristol County House of Correction in New Bedford, Fort Devens, and as far away as El Paso and Harlingen in Texas, where 206 of the 361 illegals arrested were shipped. ''They just zipped the people away so we couldn't contact them and we had to travel long distances to attempt to find them." .

All were told they faced deportation. Approximately 50 of those rounded up were released for humanitarian reasons, because they were determined to be the sole providers.

Thirteen children were sent with a parent to Harlingen.

"I joined with attorneys of the Greater Boston Legal Services so we could offer a larger service pro-bono to those who needed our assistance:' Sniffin, who is one of only two in the local CSS office, recalled. ''I think we were effective:' The immediate good news is that of the 361 arrested, 200 have been released "and many have returned to New Bedford," she reported.

And while between 20 and 40 have already been deported, "all the rest are still facing deportation hearings."

Although the president ofMichael Bianco Inc., and two of his top managers were indicted in early August and could face prison time and fines on charges ofconspiring to harbor and hire illegal immigrants to fulfill almost $230 mi11ion the company held in lucrative government contracts for military goods, the chances oftheir facing the consequences for hiring iIIega1s are slim. ''Few employers are prosecuted for immigration offenses and even fewer convicted," Sniffin reported. The New Bedford raid is an example.

Although the Social Security Administration had known since 2002 that Bianco was submitting wage reports with ''fraudulent or otherwise invalid Social Security numbers - according to court affidavits - it wasn't until ICE agents acting on an employee tip of bad working conditions launched the March sting operation.

'The owners and employers have access to top lawyers, and have the financial ability to retain them, unlike the immigrants who are arrested," said' Sniffin.

'The employers 'usually cop pleas to lesser charges and never dojail time but perhaps receive a stiff fine," she reported.

So is it all worth it to legally battle for the underdog immigrant's rights? ''Most definitely:' asserted Sniffin. ''I am married to Todd Sniffin and we have two daughters, Sophia, who is five and Olivia who is two. I hope some day my daughters will realize that their working mother was involved in something really important to the lives of many hurting people."

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UNITED IN GRIEF - People pray for trapped miners during a Mass at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City August 8. The bishop of Salt Lake City,: requested prayers for the miners, their families and rescuers, who had been working to reach the ~ix men caught in an August 6 cave-in at the Crandall Canyon Mine outside Huntington. (CNS photcl/Barbara Stinson Lee, Intermountain Catholic) II

Bishop Wester joins Utah families in prayers for missling coal miners

By BARBARA STINSON LEE CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

HUNTINGTON, Utah - Although he said "fear, anxiety and anger are common human emotions" during the long wait for word on the fate of six miners trapped in the Crandall Canyon Mine outside Huntington, Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City urged the miners' families, colleagues and rescuers to place themselves "in God's presence."

"God will answer our prayers either with the safe return of the six miners to us, or the grace to see us through our loss," he said during a Mass in the tiny mission church of San Rafael in Huntington.

The early morning news August 10 that no sounds from the miners could be heard was not what the mining community wanted to hear.

A hole two and a half inches wide was drilled more than 1,800 feet into the cavern where the six have been trapped since a massive mine collapse August 6. A microphone lowered into the cavern returned only silence to the rescue workers above, who were hoping for some evidence that the miners are still alive.

A second, wider hole was being drilled parallel to the first to allow camera equipment, food and water to be lowered into the cavern.

Air samples from the cavern indicated the air was good, contained no methane and had low levels of carbon dioxide, suggesting it was possible the miners were still alive.

During the wait, San Rafael Mission has been the scene of continuous efforts by the Catho-

lie community to m~et the needs of the trapped miners and their II families.

"This is also a tithe for us to appreciate what miners do for us," Bi~hop Wester said ar the August 9 Mass. "They go into the earth ' . us energy-prol i d to bnng ucmg coa1 that we take fOf gr~nted. They work at great risk tO'1 themselves and they deserve the support of all I . of us for the work they do.

"We pray for them and for all the people who cam~ here today to hear the good neWs of Jesus," I . he added. "And we ask the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe that these six good men will be I restored to us."

• The mmers, who Icome f rom the communities Of Hel'per, Orangeville, Price, Cleveland and Huntington, have beep identified as Brandon Phillipsil 24; Kerry Allred, 58; Carlos Payan; Don Erickson; Luis Hernandez; and Manuel Sanchez. Ages were not available for Payan} Erickson, Hernandez and Sanch:ez.

Concelebrating th~, Mass with Bishop Wester were Father Donald E. Hope, pastpr of Notre Dame de Lourdes Parish in Price and the three central Utah missions associated with lithe parish, and Father Omar Ontiveros of the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt .1

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Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman and Salvador Jimenez Munoz, the Mexican consul based in Salt Lake City, also attended.

Outside the church, dozens of members of the press from across the country listened to the Mass through speakers, waiting for a chance to speak to anyone who was willing to talk at a press conference following the Mass.

The Mass was the third celebrated in three days for the miners. Fathers Hope and Ontiveros concelebrated. a Mass in Spanish on the evening of August 7 at San Rafael Mission. Bishop Wester celebrated Mass in the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City August 8 for the intention of the miners and their families.

At the close of each Mass he celebrated, Bishop Wester knelt before images of Our Lady of Guadalupe, asking for her inter- . cession on behalf of the miners.

"The families are asking everyone in the country to light a candle in gratitude and prayer for our miners," he said.

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One of the requirements needed for the prograrnis knowledge of Latin so he will be taking comses in the language in his first semester. He will also be enrolled in the History of Canon Law, General Nonns, Sacramental Law and the Juridic Structure ofMarriage.

"Learning Latin will be a new challenge for me and looking at the whole program it might seem a bit overwhelming at first, but I feel ready to meet the challenges ahead," he declared.

He will be in residence at The Church of the Little Flower Parish in Bethesda, Md. He has lots of fond memories of his recent assignments.

"I learned much at St. Anthony's in Taunton. Father Henry Arruda has been a great role model of the priesthood for me' and I got involved in a lot of activities there."

He also enjoyed working with high school youth as chaplain at

Coyle-Cassidy High School in Taunton. ''My philosophy as a chaplain was to be there for students' spiritual needs and .in other aspects of their lives as they grow into young adults."

Father Cabral is a 1995 graduate of UMass-Dartmouth and holds a degree in mathematics.

Carmelite Father Paul F. Robinson, judicial vicar for the diocese, is glad to have Father Cabral involved in the program.

"It's to the advantage of the diocese to have him pursing a degree in Canon Law,",said Father Robinson.

"Canon Law requires the knowledge and ability to deal with people and problems and make sure that decisions are just and fair."

It's even more important today given "the litigious nature of American society," he added. ''Father Cabral will do a goodjob.

He has a good pastoral sense and strong commitment," said Father Robinson.

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Marriage defenders seekinggo9d candidates

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sire to accommodate political correctness, more than half of the Catholic parishes in the ComBOSTON - Marriage supporters haven't monwealth could not be so bold as to even pubgone on vacation since June when political pres- lish a bulletin blurb urging parishioners to acsure killed a proposed 2008 marriage protection tion before the vote. In all too many cases, pasamendment. However, they are going fishing for toralleaders did not lead," he wrote. political candidates who could recapture some However, Avila noted, "no one is exempt from badly needed moral ground on Beacon Hill next complaint" and acknowledged that even he could year. have done more.

VoteOnMarriage, the coalition of faith-based Flynn's concurred that passing the buck is groups that backed the measure, will formally pointless. "In the long run, it's our responsibilannounce its reorganizational plans next month, ity to be informed and engaged," he said. "Eleca spokesman said. 'tions are won by money, media and message. We Meanwhile however, informal Marriage and don't have the money or the media, but we do Family Chapter meetings have been slated for have the message."

New Bedford, Attleboro, Seekonk, Plymouth, Talk personally to elected officials and atBraintree, Easton and throughout the state. Phil tend local political meetings, he suggested. ExPaleologos of New Bedplain to family and ford headed such a friends the long-term grassroots organiza"People complain and say - let consequences of sametional meeting in July. us vote. Well, they voted these sex "marriage" on chilPaleologos was disap- people into office. There won't be a dren, parents' rights, pointed that quick solution to a problem that's and everyone's first VoteOnMarriage had de- been a long time in the making. amendment rights of cided not to pursue an- People have to get out there, work free speech and religion. other constitutional One person who took amendment this year, but in the political arena, do something that advice was Patricia he understood it would to fight for their values," said Flynn, Stebbins of East Sandbe "an effort in futility" who also served for nine years as wich, who heads the with the same legislative mayor of Boston.

Cape Cod Family Life line-up.

Alliance. Her July 3 letAs coalition spokesman Kris Mineau said in ter to the editor in the Cape Cod Times warned a July: "We believe it unlikely many (lawmak- parents to wake up to what's happening in pubers) would change back to our side with Gover- lic schools.

"Be alarmed at the flood of homosexual manor Deval Patrick, Speaker Sal DiMasi, and Senate President Therese Murray pulling the strings." terials and programs being introduced - further But, he said, "Pro-family advocates and vol- assaults on family values and religious beliefs. unteers have been organized as never before in Schools are forced to celebrate 'gayness' during Massachusetts thanks to this campaign.... The the annual 'Day of Silence,' all at taxpayer ex2008 election could change the landscape of the pense," wrote Stebbins, a former teacher. "Citilegislature." zens in general have no idea of the power and "A lot of Bay State residents believe in our influence of the homosexual movement in Maspoint of view, but they didn't come out," sachusetts and in the country."

Paleologos said. "They didn't want to start arguAccording to an August 8 report by the Washments with their neighbors; they didn't want to ington, D.C.-based Family Research Council, the start arguments at work. We need to have more gay activist Gill Action Fund pumped $3.8 milpeople join us and get involved sooner." lion into an effort to defeat 2006 state marriage "We've been afraid of our own shadow," said amendments nationwide. Although gay activists Ray Flynn, former U.S. Ambassador to the Vati- lost on ballot initiatives in all states but one where can and currently president of Catholic Citizen- people could actually vote on the issue, Gill did ship. Flynn's Boston-based group, founded at the playa significant role in local campaigns in 2006, request of Massachusetts Catholic bishops, pro- helping to elect sympathizers in statehouses motes education and involvement in the politi- across the country. cal process for Catholics.

"We didn't expect to win. It's an incremental "We need to elect people who will vote for conversation," FRC quoted Gill as saying. The the values we reflect," Flynn said. "We can sign council added, "And that's exactly what pro-famaH the petitions in the world, but then these,law- ily activists should be afraid of." makers vote contrary to what many of their conGov. Patrick, meanwhile, is hoping to secure an stituents believe in. even more liberal make-up of the state Supreme "People complain and say - ret us vote. Well, Judicial Court with his nomination of Superior they voted these people into office. There won't Court Judge Margot Botsford, who must still be be a quick solution to a problem that's been a approved by the Governor's Council at an August long time in the making. People have to get out 29 hearing. During a press conference, Botsford there, work in the political arena, do something noted that she had officiated over a same-sex "marto fight for their values," said Flynn, who also riage" herself.

To touch base with laypeople working on served for nine years as mayor of Boston.

"People are quick to blame priests and bish- grassroots efforts to defend marriage and family ops, and there's no question some could speak issues, contact: Coalition for Marriage and Famout more assertively," he said. ily - Southeast Massachusetts Coordinator Paul Flynn's conclusion was echoed by others. Adams at 617-875-5302 or New Bedford contact Daniel Avila, associate director of the Massachu- Phil Paleologos at 508路992-0401 or setts Catholic Conference, had a blunt June 22 electphil@aol.com; Cape Cod Family Life AlIicritique in The Pilot, the Boston Archdiocesan ance, Box 465, East Sandwich 02537 or newspaper.

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Catholics for the national Retire- pared to $5.5 billion in 2006, the The average cost for skilled care ment Fund for Religious over the report said. was as high as $66,375 in the repast 20 years, the unfunded liabilAt their June 2006 meeting in , gion comprised of Indiana and ity for the care of elderly U.S. men Los Angeles, the U.S. bishops Michigan, and as low as $25,161 and women religious continues to approved extending the yearly for the region including Connectigrow, according to a new report. collection until 2017. It had been cut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Annual national collections due to expire in 2007.

Hampshire, Rhode Island and Versince 1988 have raised more than The statistical report was dated mont; $529 million for the needs - among congregations of retired religious, with reporting to the National Remore than $507 million beThe report showed that 91 per- ligious Retirement Office, ing distribute~ to more than cent of women religious and 86 per- the number of women reli500 religious congrega- cent of men religious over age 70 gious under age 70 (21,297) tions, the June statistical rereceive Social Security benefits, but is far fewer than those over port of the National Reli70 (32,664), but the number the average annual benefit for religious Retirement Office of men religious under age gious was $4,209, compared to 70 (7,157) exceeds the numshowed.

But a December 2006 more than $12,000 for the average ber who are 70 or older survey of 527 women's in- U. S. beneficiary.

(5,206); stitutes and 154 men's in- in 2007, the average stitutes showed that only reported median age of U.S. 11 percent of women's congre- June 11 and was made public women religious was 69.8; for gations and 12 percent of men's without analysi~ or commentary men religious, it was 64.7. That congregations reported being in late July. number has been slowly but "adequately funded" for the reThe report showed that 91 per- steadily increasing since 2004, tirement needs of their members, cent of women religious and 86 when the median age was 68.9 for based on designated assets and percent of men religious over age women religious and 63.5 for men the reported cost of care. By con- 70 receive Social Security ben- religious. trast, 26 percent of the women's efits, but the average annual benThe National Religious Retireinstitutes and 19 percent of the efit for religious was $4,209, ment Office, based at the U.S. men's said their funding for re- compared to more than $12,000 bishops' headquarters in Washingtirement needs came to between for the average U.S. beneficiary. ton, is jointly sponsored by the zero percent and 20 percent of Among the other statistical in- U.S. Conference 0(Catho1ic Bishthe amount needed. formation gleaned from the re- ops, the Leadership Conference of Assuming that only currently port: Women Religious, the Conference designated assets were available - the average annual cost of of Major Superiors of Men and for retirement needs, the retire- care for retired men and women the Council of Major Superiors of ment office estimated the total un- religious living independently Women Religious. funded liability for past service by was $24,927, with the average The annual collection for the Remen and women religious in the cost rising to $41,538 for assisted tirement Fund for Religious is held U.S. at $7.5 billion, in 2007, up living and $49,850 for skilled in most U.S. dioceses on the secfrom $7.4 billion the year before. nursing care. But the annual costs ond Sunday in December. It will If other assets that could be avail- also varied significantly depend- take place December 8-9 this year.

Growing numbers men join Knights of Columbus college councils WASHINGTON ....,...As the Knights of Columbus celebrates its 125th anniversary this year, a growing number of young men have been joining its ranks through councils on their college campuses. Whether they are attracted by the group's dedication to volunteer service, the camaraderie of other young Catholic men or the chance to become leaders in their lo~al church communities, these young councils are constantly replenished by recruiting freshmen each year. College councils are able npt only to develop fresh ideas for ministry projects and service trips, but to implement them as well, said Stephen Walther, coordinator for the college councils for the Knights of Columbus.

"This is a hands-on kind of organization, which I think college students are very into," he said. Since 2003, the number of members serving on college campuses has grown by an average of more than 1,600 each year. Even with members graduating and leaving their college councils to serve elsewhere, the net gain of these councils' membership has· been more than 6,000 in the last five years. The number of college ,councils around the world has grown from 162 in 2003 to 215 in 2007. ' Archbishop: 'Gift of self' leads people to find their place in world JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Archbishop John J. Myers of Newark brought something very large into a Jersey City cafe on a recent Tuesday night in July: a spiritual concept of self-discovery that challenges people to "give themselves away" to discover the road map for a life journey. Speaking to an attentive Theology on Tap crowd of more th~ 70 people, Archbishop Myers said the Christian process of self-discovery goes beyond the internal contemplation of one's emo~ions and desires. Instead, he suggested that, to find their place in the world, those in attendance should consider the "sincere gift Qf self," a declaration made during the Second Vatican Council. "You know yourself by giving yourself away in loving ways," he said at the recent gathering. "It's not enough to look in the mirror. You must look into the mirror of other faces."

True inner awareness develops when a person steps outside the comfort zone, he said, to recognize "the needs of others and the world around us."

Struggle by indigehous to regain land in Brazil is deadly serious DOURADOS, Brazil - In Brazil, the struggle by indigenous people to regain their right to the land once inhabited by their ancestors is deadly serious. Ortiz copes, a member of the Guarani Kaiowa indigenous group who was murdered by a gunman July 8, was the 20th Guarani leader killed so far this year in the state of Mato Grosso do SuI, according to the Catholic Church's Indigenous Missionary Council, known by its Portuguese acronym as CIMI. Church workers who defend indigenous land rights also are targeted. Bishop Erwin Krautler of Xingu, president of CIMI and a staunch defender of indigenous communities, rubber tappers and Afro-Brazilian communities known as "quilombos," has been und~r 24.hour police protection since late last year after a message was posted on a Website saying he would not live past December 29. CIMI recently denounced similar threats against Bishop Manoe1 Francisco of Chapeco, in southern Brazil, when an effigy was strung up with a sign warning that the bishop would hang "like Judas."

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Fifth annual World Wide Holy Hour for Children is October 5 ST. PAUL; Minn. - The World before the most Blessed SacraApostolate of Fatima USA ment to pray the World Mission' Children's Program Children of Rosary with Bishop Finn and the the Eucharist will host its fifth school children gathered at the annual Worldwide Children's Basilica in Washington D.C., for Holy Hour at the Basilica of the the families of the world, to spark National Shrine of the Immacu- the new and long awaited New late Conception'in Washington, Springtime for the children of the D.C., on First Friday, Oct. 5, 2007. world and their families.

Once again the worldwide Daytime: A pilgrimage by bus event will broadcast Live via the can be planned to your local diEternal Word Television Network ocesan Cathedral, or simply walk (EWTN) at lOAM (EST). Bishop the students to their parish church Robert William Finn, of Kansas or chapel.

City, will lead the Children's Holy Eveni~g: Parishes can plan a Hour in prayer, watch his live in- "Family Holy Hour" gathering the vitation here: and Irish singer Religious Education Children and Dana will lead the children in their all their parish children, to unite theme song:' ;'We are the children their prayers of the daytime Holy of the world, answering His Call." Hour program.

Pope Benedict XVI has The beauty of the program is A GOOD YEAR - Congratulations recently went out to Bishop Feehan High School's "Veteran of the granted an Apostolic Blessing to its simplicity. Children from the Year," Sister Patricia Harrington and, "Rookie of the Year," Sheila Cryan. Chosen by faculty and staff to all the children of the world who smallest of villages to those in the receive the fourth quarter's Staff Recognition Organization award, Sister Pat was selected due to her participate in the upcoming "Fifth largest of cities can join in and feel unshakable support of the Attleboro school's spirit and mission, her enthusiasm, integrity and loyalty to Annual Worldwide Children's part of this powerful event, simFeehan, and her example as a role model for students and staff alike for more than 37 years. Spanish Holy Hour." ply by uniting their prayers with teacher and alum Sheila Cryan, Class of 1990, was chosen based on her extraordinary work ethic and Father Patrick Byrne, secretary children around the world before positive attitude, her active participation in school life, and her dedication and willingness to embrace the spirit and mission of Bishop Feehan High School. From left, SRO officer Ann Perry, Veteran of the Year general of the Pontifical Mission Our Lord in the Blessed SacraSister Pat Harrington, SRO officer Diane Crane, and Rookie of the Year Sheila Cryan. of the Holy Childhood Associa- ment, said Magnoski, Minnesota tion is inviting the children of the Squires Chairman of the Knights world' to join in and unite their of Columbus. prayers.

It's easy, free and more powThis year it seems as though erful than a nuclear exchange. A Our Lady in White, as Pope concert of love from the children Benedict XVI referred to Our of the world, for the Sacred Heart Lady of Fatima, has sent a "new of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of spark" for this year's "Worldwide Mary, said Schneider.

Children's Holy Hour" which is This children's movement is a none other than the Holy Father's gift of the Holy Spirit, and the own blessing: fruit of this global Holy Hour is "I am deeply grateful for the weekly and monthly Children's many good efforts of the World Eucharistic Adoration in our parApostolate of Fatima and in par- ishes: schools and families. It's ticular, I think of the many graces already happening," Schneider that come to so many young people said. through the Children's Programs...

When Pope Benedict XV had It is my hope and prayer that each exhausted all worldly means to of the children who participate in ' end World War I, in a meeting with this Holy Hour will be ambassa- the children in Rome, he pleaded dors of Jesus Christ to other young for their help. Within this time of people and to the world...." (Ap- July, 1916, heaven sent the "Anostolic Letter). gel of Peace" to teach three little The World Apostolate of shepherd children, how to adore Fatima's "Children of the Eucha- Jesus in the most Blessed Sacrarist" program invites and encour- ,ment, this was the first "Children's ages bishops, parish pastors, school Holy Hour" Schneider said. principals and families around the "Eucharistic Adoration for READY TO TAKE THE FIELD - Chris Keavy, principal of John Paull! High School, stands on a hill globe to plan "little pilgrimages" Children was heaven's plan, and ,overlooking the baseball field his school will share with the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball to their local shrines, diocesan ca- the family crisis in today's world League. Keavy hosted a meet-and-greet cookout for parents, students, and teachers on the hill Authedrals, parish churches, and is being entrusted to the prayers gust 4. Keavy and his staff and faculty are ready to welcome students to the new high school for the chapels, as they gather the scheol of the children of the world." This first time on September 7. (Photo by Matt McDonald) children and all the children of the was the inspiration of John Paul world before the most Blessed Sac- iI, in his Christmas Letter to the rament, to pray for peace in our world's children, at the close of families and world. the International Year of the FamFollowing a past Children's ily, 1992.

Holy Hour; Cardinal Sean It is hopeful that corporations O'Malley of Boston said, "t was and people of influence and inspiring and encouraging seeing means will come forward and help hundreds of children gathered for this Eucharistic Children's Moveprayer and adoration. Ijoin you in ment, "Children of the Eucharist" looking forward to future gather- which will then spiritually benefit con~ideration ings and the growth of the Aposto- all the childr~n of the world, and late." their families.

Children around the globe will For more information, visit: storm the heavens, as they gather childrenoftheeucharist.org.

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By CHARLIE MARTIN REHAB Refrain: They tried to make me go to rehab but I said no, no, no Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know, know, know I ain't got the time And if my daddy thinks I'm fine You tried to make me go to BIG HAPPY FAMILY - Pope Benedict XVI greets young people rehab but I won't go, go, go from the Archdiocese of Madrid, Spain, from the balcony of his.sumI'd rather be at home with Ray mer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, August 9. (CNS photo/ I ain't got 70 days L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters) Coz there's nothing, nothing you can teach me That I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway I didn't get a lot in class But I know it don't come CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy. Varela, helps prepare young Catholics in a shot glass (CNS) -Contrary to what many may to evangelize their peers.

(Repeat refrain.) think, young people are strongly at~ The pope told his audience that The man said why you think tracted to Jesus Christ and the Gospel, people have not and will not always you're here?

Pope Benedict XVI told thousands of be receptive to the good news ofJesus .1 said I got no idea Spanish youths.

Christ. () I'm gonna, gonna The pope urged some 5,000 pilJust as the early disciples faced lose my baby grims from Youth Mission of Madrid many obstacles and persecution, even So I always keep a bottle near to continue to help their peers discover today ''you see many around you who He said I just think . they are all loved by God and that his have forgotten or do not want anything you're depressed is ''the only love that never fails and to do with" God, and instead remain Yes me, baby, and the rest never ends." "blinded by many fleeting dreams that .

(Repeat refrain.)

The pope spoke to the young promise much but leave the heart I don't ever want to drink again people packed inside the courtyard of empty;' he said.

I just, oh I just need a friend his papal summer residence, south of Faith in Jesus opens up ''the horiI'm not gonna spend 10 weeks Rome, August 9. He also greeted thou- zon of a new life, authentic freedom, And have everyone think sands of young people who could not and hope without limits," he said, but I've gone mad fit inside the confined courtyard and it needs missionaries to bring this savAnd it's not just my pride gathered outside the residence's en- ing power to everyone.

It's just till these trance. tears have dried "Contrary to what many people Pope Benedict sat and listened think, the Gospel strongiy attracts (Repeat refrain.)

Sung by Amy Winehouse from his balcony as five young adults young people;' he said.

Copyright 2007 by Republic described how they grew closer to God He reminded his young and enthuAmy'Winehouse's music is new and the Church through their evang~­ siastic audience members ''to cultivate to me.

Winehouse, 23, lives in Lonlization efforts with Madrid's Youth your personal relationship with Christ, , don.

Her music is not very wellMission missionary initiative. to always keep it in the middle ofyour known in the U.S. Her style is diffiThe program, spearheaded by heart" so that Christ and his love will cult to characterize but definitely Madrid Cardinal Antonio Rouco be visible to all.

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shows overtones of soul and R&B. Then take the next step. When Because her latest CD is flagged for you are sure yourfriend has not been expliCit lynes, I cannot recommend drinking, ask to talk about what you it. However, her chart climber "Re- are witnessing. Avoid any type of hab" is released as a ~ingle and of- blaming or judging. Say that you unfers listeners much to consider. derstand that there is much hurt be-.

The gir1 in the song I~peaks about hind drinking, and you want to help her difficulties with alcohol addiction find a way to heal this hurt. and how others are trying to make .

Stress that addiction is a disease; her go to "rehab." . thafs why there are sp~a1 rehabiliShe comes up with excuses for tation programs for those struggling not going: "I ain't got tpe time," "my with alcohol-related problems. daddy thinks I'm fine," ,and how "I'm If your friend is not receptive to not going to spend 10 weeks and your caring or ideas for addressing have everyone think I've gone mad." the alcohol problem, do not be disEven though she admits that "I don't couraged. Rnd ways to continue the ever want to drink again," her re- friendship while avoiding the sponse to those askin'g her to con- person's drinking. Show that you are sider a program of rehabilitation is, a true friend, and occasionally invite "No, no, no!" your friend to reconsider what you il Apparently, she is in denial about have shared about the drinking. the extent of herproblem and seems Speak with a trusted adult about blind to how much others care about what you see your friend doing. You .

I her. Alcohol has become a best should not carry the burden of your friend, and she is not l ready to do worry alone. Perhaps this adult will what it takes to get her I~e back from know further ways to intervene in addiction. your friend's life to thwart the growAlcohol addiction is hardly limited ing addiction. to adults. It is found ~ong teens Iknow personally the pain caused too. If you are concerped about a by alcoholism. Whether this song friend who is hurting, maybe even reflects Winehouse's personal expeendangering his or herl'life because rience or is just a story for a song, of drinking, here is what you should the "no, no, no" to rehab is a misdo: : take. Real help and genuine healFirst, take care of ybur own life. ing are available for anyone afflicted Never get in a car with friend who by alcoholism. God wants everyone has been drinking. If you are ever to to have a full and meaningful life, but help this friend beyond the current this cannot be found at the bottom ·1 problem, first you have to value your of a bottle. own life. You don't hav~ to stop carDon't give up on a friend because ing about your friend, b~ don't hang of alcohol. You may be the very mesout when drinking is ocCurring. senger God sends to help another Doing so gives a m~ssage that make a lasting and positive change.

Your comments are always you accept what the p~rson is doing. If you choose to address what welcome. Please write to me at: is going on with the person, your own chmartin@swindiana.net or at choices have to back up"yourwords. 71.25W2005, Rockport, IN 47635.

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Last week I was attending our national convention in Las Vegas.

Not my favorite place on earth by any means, but this year turned out to be very special, when our two girls flew into Vegas to surprise us. They joined us for the many of the convention events and we had some nice quality time together.

Many of my colleagues had not seen our girls for many years and remarked how lucky we are to have such wonderful children who are so family-oriented. With one daughter working for GE in Kentucky and the other in grad school in Connecticut, these precious moments become fewer and fewer as the years pass yet we always find ways to get together often. A few colleagues remarked on "how was it possible to do all that we do in our parish, family, and work lives and still have time for each other and for the other stuff that we love to do like boating or traveling?" I'm often embarrassed by such comments

as they make me feel that we are doing something extraordinary or super human when in actuality, it should be the ordinary way to live a life. I guess it really is all about priorities.

As I reflected on the week we had together, and the questions and comments that were posed by'my colleagues, I thought to best explain the how we "can have it.all" with a story I recently heard on CLI. It is a familiar story most often used to ~.'" explain time management, but I think it can equally explain why it is important to have faith and family priorities well established in our lives.

Imagine that you have a bucket, sand, pebbles and large rocks. I like to think of the largest rock as God and the other large rocks as family and friends. The sand and pebbles represent all of the other stuff in our lives that we need to or want to do like work or

play tasks. The pebbles are items that are more important to us than the sand. The sand is all of the other stuff that we can let fill up our time like errands, shopping, etc.

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sand and pebble tasks' of our lives, it leaves little room for the large rocks that are so important and so often get put aside - in fact if you fill the bucket with these elements, you'll have no room for the large rocks. We are sometimes so consumed with work (pebbles) for instance, that we can't fit other important things in our lives.

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Once the big rocks are securely placed in the bucket, nqw add pebbles and when all of the pebbles are in there, no~ add the sand. As you can see, once the important things are ta.lj;en care of, you can still get the items . of some imporfunce (pebbles) in there and still have room for qte even less important items of life (sand). . I~ The obviousi~pointis this: if we don't put those big rocks in fir~'t, we I . would never have.gotten them in. If we don't putllGod and family first, we just couldn't fit II them in. In both our business and personal lives, we have big rocks, pebbles and sand. The natural tendency seems to favor the latter l two elements, leaving little space for the big rocks. In an ~ffort to respond to the urgent, the important is sometimes ~et aside.

What are the "big rocks" in your life? Your faith? Spending

time with your family? Your health? Make a list of your big rocks. Then make a plan to ensure that your big rocks are put first.

Block out the time in your schedule for those activities.

Amazingly, the other stuff still gets done. Periodically reflect on how you're doing. Are you putting your big rocks first, or do pebbles and sand dominate your life? If the big rocks aren't getting'in, what will have to happen so that they do?

When you're planning your month, your week or your day, and even when you're making specific decisions duri~g the day, refer back to your list of big rocks. Then, put those in your bucket first. Everything else will fall into place after that.

Frank Lucca is a youth minister at St. Dominic's Parish in Swansea. He is the chair and a director ofthe YES! Retreat and director ofthe Christian Leadership Institute (Cll). He is a husband and a father oftwo girls.

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on th~ team as a freshman. One day he was inserted into the game. Jack told Frank, 'Just get the ball to me.' And Frank did just that. Eventually Jack Lowney reciprocated and fed 路Frank the ball, and he blossomed. After that, Frank Mahoney started every game for Holy Family."

Denis Ryan, a parishioner of St. Mary's Parish in South Dartmouth, was a teammate of Father Mahoney's at Holy Family High School. "Frank was two years ahead of me," Ryan told The Anchor in a recent interview. "He was always an aggressive and good player. A great athlete."

Ryan said that Frank Mahoney shot up an amazing eight inches between his sophomore and junior seasons. "He was a good ball player before, but then he went from five-footseven to six-foot-three."

Frank Mahoney excelled on the boards, had a good shooting touch, and most importantly, was a team player.

"Frank never panicked, no matter what the situation was on the court," said Ryan. "And what was so admirable about him was that he treated everyone the same. He always had a big smile on his face, and he treated the underclassmen the same as his peers. He would always joke around with us.

"I would constantly watch him. Not only how he played, but also how he handled himself. He was well respected by his classmates off the court as well as on the court."

Ryan added that Frank would "always be glad to see you, whether he saw you often or just a few times."

A consistent, all around player, Frank Mahoney helped Holy Family become one of the best teams in the old Narragansett Basketball League consisting of Somerset, Case, Dartmouth, Bristol Aggie, Prevost and Dighton high schools.

"It's too bad we couldn't go to the state tournaments back then," recalled Ryan. "In the late 40s and early 50s, the tourneys were held at the Boston Garden, but there were a lot of fights up there, so Bishop Cassidy wouldn't allow us to go." That cost Frank the chance of playing on the same parquet floor as his Boston Celtic heroes.

Msgr. Harrington told The Anchor that young Frank Mahoney made the All-Narragansett team a couple oftimes and led the league in scoring his senior year.

"Frank discovered a tactic of always complimenting the referees at the end of a game," said Msgr. Harrington. "He knew he would see the same refs a couple of games down the road. He got more than a few calls to go his way because of his courtesy."

Holy Family High School was in Class C, for schools with smaller populations. "But New Bedford Yoke, Fairhaven and New Bedford high schools, all Class A schools, always played Holy Family at the beginning of the season," Msgr. Harrington said. "But with Frank on the court, they always held their own against the bigger schools."

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Treasurer 2 President S Baskethall 2. 3. 4 Baseball 3. 4 MARIA. f\ssodate Editor A very ,Popular ~nior . . . intelligent and good.natured . . . exceptIOnally skIlled memher of basketball and baseball teams ... known hy the expression. "Co ahead" . . . plans to fllrt~er education in a Catholic college . . . success a certamty.

"Born for success he seemed, with shining gifts that took all eyes."

SHADES OF THINGS TO COME Bedford yearbook, "Maria."

Francis L. Mahoney's bio from the 1952 Holy Family High School, New

In the 1952 school yearbook, "Maria," young Frank was Besides his prowess as a hoopster, Frank Mahoney was listed as "most likely to succeed," and was identified with also a fine first baseman in baseball and was, according to .

George Mikas, Mr. Basketball, an NBA Hall of Farner who Msgr. Harrington, "a decent golfer. Frank loved to play 18 played from 1946-56. holes at Pocasset Country Club in Portsmouth, R.I., with Frank Mahoney attended Providence College following Father Lucio Phillipino, Msgr. Armando Annunziato and his four years at Holy Family. It was no surprise that he his brother Sacred Hearts Father Michael Annunziato. opted to play hoops for the Friars. "Frank was on the freshTeamwork wasn't limited to the sports scene for Father man team'at P.C.," said Msgr. Harrington. "The Holy Cross Mahoney. He carried that concept into all that he did.

College freshman team was the opAs a priest for the Diocese of Fall ponent one game. A young Holy Family High School River, Father Mahoney served the faithphenom by the name of Senior forward ful and his brother priests on the DiocTommy Heinsohn played for Frank Mahoney esan Personnel Board; as a local coordithe Crusaders. I remember nator for the Campaign for Human DeFrank was guarding him and velopment and Catholic Relief Services; he kept Heinsohn scoreless for a co-director of the Catholic Youth Orgaabout five minutes. And he kept him nization with good friend Father Paul in check throughout the contest." \\ McCarrick; as spiritual advisor for the ~ Heinsohn went on to become Rookie ~ -~~.

Fall River District I Council of the St. of the Year in the National Basketball Asso- "-~ Vincent de Paul Society; dean of the dation in 1957 while playing for the Boston -"OL Fall River Deanery; moderator for the Celtics. Heinsohn, an NBA Hall of Farner, spent nine.

District I Diocesan Council of Catholic Women; vicar for clergy; Attleyears with the green, winning eight championships in that span. boro director for the Catholic After two years, Frank Mahoney left P.C. to enter St. Charities Appeal; and so on.

Mary's Seminary in Baltimore in 1954. During the sumIt was Father Frank Mahoney mers, he was a counselor at Cathedral Camp in East Freewho frequently organized the antown. It was there he became good friends with Bernie nual priests' golf tournament.

Sullivan, .now a parishioner of St. Patrick's in Somerset, And when the CYO hall on and a public information officer for the Bristol County Anawan Street in Fall River was Sheriff's Department. . dedicated to Fathers Walter A. Sullivan and Paul McCarrick, it was Father "What I remember most about Frank was that he was guided by a spirit of gentleness," Sullivan told The AnMahoney who gave the address. chor. "He was at ease with all levels of people.

If one were to look through The Anchor "Frank was an athletic counselor at the camp, and the archives spanning his priestly lifetime, one kids just flocked around him. He treated all of them, would find scores of photos of Father youngsters and older kids, with the same ~espect. And he Mahoney in service to someone - and alran a fine athletic program for them - to no ways with that broad grin on his face. one's surprise."

J As a teen-ager, Frank Mahoney was Sullivan was quick to point out that // ~ the BMOC, big man on campus - but 'young Frank Mahoney brought the same ~. ~ not in the conventional sense. He didn't respect and love for others to the priest- . ~ ~ laud it over others. He embraced everyhood with him. one for who they were.

"He was someone you could always count on;' As a priest, Frank Mahoney was the BMOC, big man of added Sullivan. "He was there for the big moments the Church. Again, he did it in a way that included everyin my life, and other's as well. Frank's grin said it one he came in contact with. Everyone was the same. . all, and you can't say that about many people. I Perhaps Bernie Sullivan put -it best when he told The don't think he was capable of frowning."

Anchor, "Frank Mahoney's life was a slam dunk."

Sullivan recalled that he and his wife would visit Father Mahoney during his final months In the tradition of alumnus Father at the Catholic Memorial Home in Fall River.

Francis L. Mahoney, Holy Family-Holy "We would pop in and visit him, and he always Name School in New Bedford invites all had that same joyous demeanor about him. He to the annual Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington was always glad for the visit. We just wouldn't Open Golf Tournament drop in when the Sox were on though."

This year's event will be held SeptemSullivan said that his long-time pal had a generous heart. "It's easy to give from the wallet," ber 23 at Acushnet River Valley Golf Club. said Sullivan. "But it isn't so simple to be genProceeds benefit the school. erous of yourself. And Frank always gave of DRIVEN TO SUCCEED - Frank "Moe" Mahoney, left, drives against For information call Theresa Hirst at an opponent in Narragansett League play in 1951. (Photos from himself. Priesthood for Frank was doing for oth508.993.3547, or email thirst@hfhn.org "Maria," courtesy of Holy Family-Holy Name School, New Bedford) ers. He路was the consummate priest."

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FALL RIVER - Exposition and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament takes place at Sacred Heart Church at 160 Seabury Street from just after the 8 a.m. Mass to 2:30 p.m. every Monday.

EDGARTOWN - St. Elizabeth's Church at 86 Main Street has eucharistic adoration every morning in August before the 9 a.m. Mass.

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ATTLEBORO - The parish library at St. John the Evangelist Church has four biographies of Pope John Paul II, four books by him, and a video of the biographical movie about the late pontiff starring Jon Voight. The library is open 10 a.m. to noon Fridays and Sundays after the 8 and 10 a.m. Masses.

TAUNTON - Holy Family Parish is planning to hold its second annual adult parish retreat this weekend at His Land at 9 Loon Pond Road in' Lakeville. The theme is "Holy Eucharist, Food Indeed." The retreat is tomorrow and Sunday. For more information, call Bob at 508-823-2677 or send an email messagetokbcpfk@comcast.net.

FALL RIVER - St. Michael's Parish will hold a soup kitchen tomorrow at

5 p.m. The parish is at 189 Essex Street.

CHATHAM - A Tridentine Mass celebrated in Latin according to the 1962 missal is celebrated 1 p.m. every Sunday at Our Lady of Grace Chapel on Route 137 in Chatham.

FALMOUTH - St. Patrick's Church at 511 Main Street is holding two more sessions featuring recordings of sacred music masterpieces. The sessions, which are held in the large classroom in the church basement, are scheduled for 7 to 8:15 p.m. August 21 (The Verdi Requiem) and August 28 (short choral works by AIIegri, Barber, and Schubert, among others).

REGIONAL - The Office of Family Ministry of the Diocese of Fall River is offering resources to support marriage in connection with a multi-year initiative begun by the U.S. bishops in 2004. For more information, go to the office's Website, www.familyfallriver.org.

REGIONAL - Couples planning to get married can participate in Catholic Engaged Encounter, a weekend event designed to give couples a chance to speak honestly about their future lives together. Desires, ambitions, goals, and attitudes about money and children are among the topics. The weekend fulfills the Diocese of Fall River's marriage preparation instructional requirement. The next event is scheduled for August 24-26.

For more information call Matt or Marianne Doran-Collins at 508-2946822 or www.eefallriver.org.

ILectureslPresentations ORLEANS - Get to know Pope Benedict XVI. Dr. Louis Savary is holding sessions in August exploring all aspects of the pope's life at St. Joan of Arc at 61 Canal Road. Remaining sessions are scheduled for 7 p.m.

August 20and August 27.

ISocial Events OAK BLUFFS - Good Shepherd Parish plans to show "Maximilian Kolbe," a movie about the Polish priest arrested by the Gestapo in and sent the death camp at Auschwitz in 1941. The showing is scheduled for tonight at 7 p.m. at the parish center at 55 School Street.

IPro-Life Activities ATTLEBORO - Pro-Life advocates picket and offer prayers on Thursdays from 4-5 p.m. and Saturdays from 7:30-9 a.m. at "4 Women's Clinic," at the corner of Park and Emory streets, where abortions take place on those days. Participants are needed to pray and picket to help save the lives of unborn children.

SANDWICH - The Respect Life Committee at Corpus Christi Church has a morning group that meets at 10 o'clock and an evening group that meets at 7 o'clock, both on the third Tuesday of the month. As an example of activities, the evening group held a parish baby shower to provide items for expecting mothers served by A Woman's Concern, a pregnancy center in Hyannis. For more information, contact Heather Wesp by email at HeatherWesp@comcast.net or Pat Stebbins by calling 508-

833-8432.

~ortGroups MASHPEE - A Bereavement Support Group for people who have lost loved ones is scheduled for September and October at Christ the King Parish at Mashpee Commons off Route 151. The group plans to meet from 10 to 11 :30 a.m. Wednesdays from September 5 through October 17. Sister Dympna Smith is the facilitator. Call 508-477-7700 or stop by the parish office to register.

NEW BEDFORD - Courage, a group that helps people who are attracted to members of the same sex live chastely, meets regularly at the rectory of St. James's Church at 233 County Street in New Bedford. For more information, call Father Richard Wilson at 508-992-

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NORTH CANTON, OhioFormer Walsh University President Brother of Christian Instruction Robert A. Francoeur died August 7 following a battle with leukemia.

He was 84. Brother Robert was one of Walsh University'S founding Brothers and the last ofthe founders living on campus. Brother Robert was the University's first academic dean and second president. He also taught philosophy and business ethics classes over the 47 years he spent at Walsh.

Born on Feb. 3, 1923, in Fall River, Mass., Brother Robert joined the Brothers of Christian Instruction at the age of 12. He earned bachelor's degrees in arts and education from The University of Montreal, a master of arts degree from Boston College, a doctorate from the University of Notre Dame, and a law degree from the University of Akron. He has also studied at the University ofFribourg in

Switzerland, the University of Paris, and began laying the groundwork Sorbonne, France, and the Institut for what is now Walsh University.

On Nov. 17, 1960, the day when Catholique in Paris.

Brother Robert began his teach- Walsh College officially opened for ing career in Montreal at the age of classes, its first dean, Brother Rob18 with a third-grade class. He also ert surprised the 67 incoming stuheld teaching dents by greeting them all by name.

In 1970 he became Walsh's secpositions in Biddeford and ond president, a post he held until Alfred, 1977, when he took a leave of abMaine, and in sence to earn his law degree. He Plattsburgh, .returned to the classrooms ofWalsh NY In 1958 in 1980 where he stayed for more he became than two decades.

He was the son ofJoseph Edwald dean of LaMennais Francoeur and Leonie (Giasson) Francoeur. He is survived by a BROTHER ROBERT Col leg e , FRANCOEUR, F.e.!. Walsh's prebrother, Joseph Francoeur, and two decessor, in sisters, Colette Belanger and Oaire Amaral, all of FaIl River, Mass.

Alfred, Maine.

His funeral was held August 13 As Brother Robert headed off to at Walsh University'S Our Lady of study for his doctorate at Notre Perpetual Help Chapel in North Dame in Indiana, he was given inCanton.

Interment was at the Brothstruction to find a suitable area in ers of Christian Instruction Resithe Midwest to relocate the Order's dence in Alfred, Maine. college. He found North Canton o

Father Joseph A.R. Belanger MCBS; was missionary, teacher, chaplain FAIRHAVEN - Father Joseph Antoine Rene Belanger of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament, 84, died August 6 at Our Lady's Haven.

Born in New Bedford, he was the son 'of the late Charles Emile Belanger and Eveline (Trembley) Belanger.

After attending St. Alme School he entered the Blessed Sacrament Fathers and was ordained a priest on March 25, 1950 by Cardinal Francis J. Spellman in New York City.

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Please pray for these priests during the coming weeks Aug. 20 Rev. Bernard H. Unsworth, Retired Pastor, St. Mary, New Bedford, 1982 Rev. Thomali Cantwell, SSJ., Retired, St. Joseph's Seminary, Washington, 1983 Aug. 21 Most Rev. Lawrence S. McMahon, Bishop of Hartford, Former Pastor, St. Lawrence, New Bedford, 1894 Aug. 22 Rev. Msgr. Manuel J. Teixeira, Pastor, St. Anthony, Taunton, 1962 Rev. William R. Jordan, Pastor, SI. Louis, Fall River, 1972 Rev. Msgr. Joseph C. Canty, USN Re, tired Chaplain, Retired Pastor, SI. Paul, Taunton, 1980 Msgr. John F. Denehy, USAF Retired Chaplain, 2003 Aug. 23 Rev. Thomas F. Clinton, Pastor, St. Peter, Sandwich, 1895 Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, PA, Retired Pastor, Our Lady of the Angels, Fall River, 1992 Aug. 24 Rev. Peter J.B. Bedard, Founder, Notre Dame de Lourdes, Fall River, 1884 Very Rev. James F. Gilchrist, CPMVG., Vicar General of the Congregation of the Fathers of Mercy, 1962 Rev. Msgr. James E. Gleason, Retired Pastor, St. Patrick, Falmouth, 1987 Aug. 25 Rev. Joseph F. Hanna, C.S.C, Founder, Holy Cross, South Easton, 1974 Rev. Thomas E. Lawton, e.S.C., 2002

nary and missionary and military chaplain service that took him to many part of the United States as well as Australia, Vietnam, Germany and Alaska.

After 20 years as a military chaplain he retired- and returned to the United States.

He leaves a brother, Orner Belanger of Florida; and a cousin, Jean Armstrong of Rochester.

His wake begins today at 4 p.m., in Our Lady of Guadalupe at SL James Church in New Bedford, with a vigil service at 7 p.rn. His funeral Mass will be celebrated Saturday at II a.m., in the church. Burial will be in the Congregation's Ascension Cemetery in Munsey, N.V. The Cabral-Lamoreux Funeral Home in New Bedford is in charge of arrangements.

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Musicians combine Catholicism, bluegrass SPOKANE, Wash. - Bluegrass music, with its high lonesome sound, has roots in both hillbilly music and early blues music.

In 1947, Bill Monroe, known as the "father of bluegrass music," put together what many regard as the first true bluegrass band, when banjo innovator Earl Scruggs joined Monroe's Blue Grass Boys.

Monroe always included sacred or Gospel songs in his repertoire, but the primary influence was a generic evangelical Protestant Christianity. There are no Gospel bluegrass "standards" about the Mass, the sacraments - except vague references to baptism - or any of the saints, in particular Mary.

Catholic bluegrass music simply has never existed - until recently, that is.

Father Edward James Richard - pronounced "Ree-shard," revealing the priest's Louisiana Cajun roots - is a LaSalette Missionirry

priest who teaches at his order's ing up in Louisiana).... Music is Kenrick-Glennon Seminary near S1. spiritual and healing. It's a special Louis. gift that God gave us.

On the side, Father Richard, 50, "Bluegrass music falls into the is a bluegrass musician who has category of music that really beplayed guitar since he was a boy longs to the people," he continued. and five-string banjo since his col- "It grew up out of tunes that were lege years. passed down from generations, and "I learned by listening and it has a lot of-stories about common watching others," he said, and he experiences. Gospel music is intehas the Scruggs book, "Earl gral to bluegrass."

Scruggs and the Five String Banjo."

Sometimes, Father Richard He said his "main influence" is changes "a word or two" in a clasbanjoist and singer Ralph Stanley, sic Gospel bluegrass song, "beand he has "learned a lot listening cause," he said, "theologically or to" the recordings of ,,:eteran five- . biblic~lly, they were just wrong.'; string banjo player Butch Robbins.

On his CDs, the priest includes With a bluegrass band he put to- songs he wrote based on themes gether, Father Richard has recorded that those outside Catholic tradition three CDs, the sales of which help overlook. support the missionary efforts of his "I write about the Eucharist," the order's 200 members in North and priest said, "the Blessed Virgin South America.

Mary and other Catholic themes."

"I like bluegrass music," Father Father Richard often plays for Richard commented, "and I have non-Catholic groups, and he reliked it since I first heard it (grow- ceives a warm welcome.

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AUGUST "I have played in a lot of churches of various denominations," he said, "(and) even in a synagogue. I have incorporated my music into my ministry.... It is also an outreach to those who don't know about Our Lady of LaSalette.

It seems to work well, also, when I can combine speaking of moral issues and performing."

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presence in the American bluegrass music community is five-string banjo player and publisher John Lawless.

Lawless grew up Norfolk, Va., in Sacred Heart Parish, attended the parish school and graduated from Norfolk Catholic High School in 1973. Today he lives in Roanoke, Va., and attends Mass at S1. Andrew Church.

Congregation of late Sister Lord gratefulfor compassion shown FALL RIVER - Sister Pauline Talbot, superior general in Quebec, Canada, of the Sisters of Ste. Jeanne d' Arc, has send a letter to the Diocese bfFall River expressing her congregation's gratitude and her own, for the care and compassion shown to the late Sister Antoinette Lord during her illness and subsequent death in June.

Sister Lord was one oftwo Sisters who serve and minister at the residence of Bishop George W. Coleman.

The letter reads: "From June 20 through the 24th, we were supported in such an extraordinary fashion that I would want to let everyone on this planet know of your generosity of heart.

The Lord knows of your warm welcome, your benevolent affection which was manifested throughout, and especially of the dedication and professionalism of the physicians, nursing staff, and all medical personnel in both the Emergency Room and the Critical Care Unit of the Charlton Memorial Hospital. To

Our Lord all glory ang may He grant you His abundant blessings.

In the name of Sister Marie-Therese Lord, her (Sister Antoinette's) sister, in the name of Sister Rita Teasdale, her mission companion, (at the Bishop's residence) in my name, and in the name of the entire Community of the Sisters of Ste. Jeanne d' Arc, our profound gratitude. We will never forget how out of this difficult ordeal came such a great moment of solidarity, fraternity and support."

The August 2 letter was sent to Bishop Coleman, Msgr. John A. Perry, moderator of the Curia; Father David A. Pignato, secretary to the bishop; Father Michael K. McManus, chancellor; Father Paul Bernier, rector of S1. Mary's Cathedral; personnel of the chancery and education offices, physicians and nursing staff of Charlton Memorial Hospital, and "all who showed us such compassion and sympathy by the untimely death of our dear Sister Antoinette Lord."

THE GRASS IS ALWAYS BLUER - Bluegrass musician John lawless, who attends St. Andrew Parish in Roanoke, Va., is seen performing in an undated handout photo. Lawless said he is one of the relatively few Catholics who actively play and enjoy bluegrass music. (CNS photo/handout) I

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