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"Consistent ethic of life" philosophy defended DENVER (NC) - Answering critics of his "consistent ethic of life" or "seamless garment" philosophy, Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago said that in the final analysis Catholics can vote against a political candidate because of the candidate's support for legalized abortion. .

Cardinal Bernardin has been under attack for several years by some pro-life leaders who have argued that his "consistent ethic" stance on social issues deemphasizes abortion as a political issue for Catholics.

"The consistent ethic of life is emphatically not a strategy for down playing the issue of abortion in the church or in society.... The consistent ethic should not discourage an emphasis on abortion in individual Catholics' political activity," Cardinal Bernardin said.

"This seems widely misunderstood," he added.

The Chicago prelate, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities, made his remarks in a keynote speech at a meeting in Denver earlier this

month of U.S. diocesan pro-life directors.

He used his talk to explain and defend his "consistent ethic of life" position, which he has developed since 1983. He emphasized not only abortion but also euthanasia, which he said "threatens to assume the proportions which the abortion controversy took on two decades ago."

Cardinal Bernardin stressed that the consistent ethic philosophy is not a political strategy but a moral stance with political implications.

The consistent ethic emphasizes that Catholics must be concerned with the full range of issues involving protection of human life and enhancement of human dignity, he said. But it also stresses "protection of the right to life as antecedent to all other rights and the necessary condition for their realization," he added.

With regard to political choices revolving around abortion, he raised the question: "having examined positions on a range of issues as well as a candidate's integrity,

philosophy and performance, may a voter decide that the candidate should not receive support because he or she favors continued violation of the unborn child's right to life?"

The U.S. bishops' recent statements on political responsibility have not tried to answer that question directly, he said, but "my own answer to that question is yes.

Indeed, a commitment to a consistent ethic would support a conscientious decision of this kind."

He said the bishops' Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities calls abortion "an issue of -justice" to which Catholics must give "urgent attention and priority," but the .plan does not give Catholics a political blueprint to resolve the issue..

"Further than this, the church cannot and should not go," he said. "Whatever one's convictions about the importance of an issue, translating that conviction into an endorsement of an individual person is fraught with empiricaljudgments and uncertain predictions that the church must not identify with its own principal message."

Cardinal Bernardin said that our society.... (A consistent) voice precisely because the consistent challenges people who accept the ethic of life treats of moral issues church's witness on one issue to with political implications and poli- take seriously its arguments on tical issues with moral implica- other issues, because those argutions, there is a "danger, particu- ments begin from the same basic larly in a national election ... that a premise and the same concern for moral vision which transcends par- human well-being."

Cardinal Bernardin said he "delity platforms may be perceived as one partisan option among others." berately" spoke last of the consistCatholics ought to uphold a ent ethic's "political usefulness" consistent ethic oflife first "because because it "is not first and foreit is true" and second because of most a political strategy." Rather, "its value in building up our unity he said, its appeal lies in its abiliiy as a church involved in diverse to transcend political expediency ministries," he said. The church and to seek moral truth.

In predicting that euthanasia "must never become compartmentalized into a federation of separ- will grow as a burning issue in ate interest groups, each attending coming years, Cardinal Bernardin its own specific concern," he said. urged "not only educational and He said that the consistent ethic public policy efforts but also a pasdoes not call on every Catholic "to toral care dimension which meets take responsibility for all the . the material and spiritual needs of church's concerns in regard to life people who might otherwise be issues," but rather to view differ- prime targets of the campaign for ent ministries as collaborative and euthanasia."

"In short," he added, "an effort mutually supportive.

A third reason for adopting the by the church even on this single consistent ethic, he said, is "its issue will inevitably entail considcapacity to build a constituency eration of the church's teaching on for the protection of human life in social and economic justice."

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Catholics laud GOP pro-life attitude NEW ORLEANS (NC) - New Orleans Archbishop Philip M. Hannan gave the invocation on the first night of the Republican National Convention, calling on delegates to work toward freedom and peace.

"Work in God's spirit and love to realize we must be a community in service to all, or we'll be a community in siege," the archbishop said.

Meanwhile Catholic delegates interviewed before and during the convention agreed that Vice President George Bush has the resume to be the nation's next president.

But some also said the race against the Democratic nominee, Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, could be uphill unless Bush comes on with more vigor and shows voters more of the private Bush, a man they said is decisive but personable.

Delegates pointed to the vice president's eight years in the No.2 position in the Reagan administration and his experience as a businessman, an ambassador, director of the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. congressman.

The vice president is "not a Hollywood star," said a Hispanic delegate from Union City, N.J., Marta San Martin, but he is "a man with a world view" and experience on .international affairs.

"Hispanics have strong views on keeping the family together, on Turn to Page Seven

Third Agers look forward

By Pat McGowan "I feel the time was much too short'" That lament from a sister attending a recent workshop on options for retired and pre-retired religious was one of the very fe.w even semi-negative comments on evaluation sheets filled out after the workshop.

Spopsored by the offices for religious of the Fall River and Providence dioceses and an intercommunity Committee on Transitions, the program was titled "Challenges for New Directions: The Third Age."

It convened nearly 60 religious from the two dioceses for an afternoon at lovely St. James Convent in Tiverton, the Sakonnet River summer retreat ofthe Religious of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts. Arrangements were made

by Sister Mary Noel Blute, RSM, Episcopal Representative for Religious of the Fall River diocese, and Sister Marie Georgette Chasse, RSM, her opposite number in the Providence diocese.

A high point was a report on results of questionnaires previously sent to religious and to diocesan

pastors, school administrators, offices and institutions.

Religious were asked to list their skills, interest, educational background and times of availability; while pastors¡ and other officials were asked what parttime or temporary employment they might have to offer.

Responses brought to light needs in nursing and allied fields, office work, academic and religious education, counseling and cafeteria staffing.

Rated as extremely helpful was Turn to Page 10

WORKSHOP SPEAKERS and members of the Committee on Transitions, from left, Sisters Mary Christopher O'Rourke, RSM; Mary Noel Blute, RSM; Elizabeth Menard, OP; Kathleen Kelley, SND; Marie Georgette Chasse, RSM; Theresa Horvath, SUSC; Rosalie Patrello, SSD. (Gaudette photo)

Antihunger bill rates usee raves WASHINGTON (NC) - Congress has approved a major, $1.5 billion, three-year antihunger bill which U.S. Catholic Conference officials said met virtually all their goals.

"We did very, very well with this bill," said Walter E. Grazer, Staff specialist on food, rural and energy issues with the USCC Office of Domestic Social Development.

"We're really, really pleased. We got virtually everything we asked for."

Following months of work by the USCC and other social justice advocates, the legislation, known as the Hunger Relief Act of 1988, was given final approval by both the House and Senate Aug. 11.

"This bill is a modest but significant step forward," said John L. Carr, USCC secretary for social development and world peace. "We were pleased to be participants in a broadly based effort to respond to the continuing tragic reality of hunger in our country."

Several Catholic officials, including Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye, USCC general secretary, Auxiliary Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Auxiliary Bishop John H. Ricard of Baltimore, urged action this year to relieve U.S. hunger.

Among the USCC-backed provisions: - Basic food stamp benefit amounts would increase from the current average of 54 cents per Turn to Page Six

BISHOP CRONIN, above center, enthusiastically welcomed friends of diocesan charities to the fifth annual Diocesan Council of Catholic Women-sponsored "Evening on Cape Cod with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin," Aug. 11 at the Sheraton Hyannis.

Many Cape Catholics attended, as did vacationers and persons from other diocesan areas.

With the bishop, from left, are some of the evening's principals: DCCW president Dorothy A. Curry; the organization's diocesan and Cape and Islands moderators, Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, PA, and Very Rev. Edward C. Duffy; and Madeleine Wojcik, DCCW first vice-president. . Miss Curry and the priests coordinated the evening. Mrs. Wojcik was hospitality committee chairman.

Mary Mikita chaired the decorating committee and Madeleine Lavoie took charge of publicity.

Guests including Joe and Anita Farrow of Holy Trinity parish, West Harwich (pictured below), took to the dance floor to the music of the Chatham Bars Inn Combo. Others enjoyed hors d'oeuvres and conversation.

A gift to all guests was a Marian year souvenir explaining that Mary, under her title of Our Lady of the Assumption, is the patroness of the Fall River diocese. It described our cathedral, dedicated to her.

Photos by Joe Motta

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Marian Year

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By Pat McGowan with NC News reports

TWILIGHT GARDEN CONCERT

"The feast of the Assumption is JON POLCE dear to the heart of the committed Catholic. We have grown up celebrating this wonderful feast," said Sunday, August 21 - 2:00 P.M. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin at St. Mary's Cathedral on Monday's HEALING SERVICE holy day noontime Mass, which REV. ALBERT FREDETTE, M.S. also marked the .end of the 14month Marian Year proclaimed BISHOP CRONIN speaks during feast-day Mass. Conon Pentecost Sunday, June 7, 1987, Coming Soon - September 1-2-3-4-5 celebrants, from left, Fathers Charles J. Porada, OFM Conv.,

by Pope John Paul II. ' The closing of the year was also Richard G. Andrade, Michael K. McManus. (Motta photo) La SALETTE FAMILY FESTIVAL observed at 7 p.m. Monday by . young women in Albanian folk FIREWORKS members of the Legion of Mary might be found ready at his return," costumes. the archbishop prayed. who recited the rosary at the THURSDAY NIGHT, SEPT. 1 Prayers were said in all major cathedral prior to the 7:30 p.m.

In Rome European languages, as well as feast-day Mass.

In Rome, Pope John Paul ended' Tagalog, Russian and Swahili.

The bishop was addressing a At the end of the Mass, the pope the Marian year with a Mass in St. large congregation of the commitPeter's Basilica which reflected the went to a side chapel housing the ted Catholics of whom he spoke.

Mainly elderly, from the numer- influence of Eastern-rite churches "Pieta," Michelangelo's famous sculpture of Mary mourning her on the observance. ous senior citizen housing develThe year has included many dead son. opments that surround the catheGoing behind the bulletproof Eastern-rite ceremonies. The final dral, they bowed their heads each time the bishop spoke the name of one was the "Rite of Incense," a glass protecting the statue, the Jesus, a traditional mark of respect Coptic ceremony celebrated in St. pope recited the Angelus. all but unknown among younger Mary Major Basilica Aug. 14, the eve of the Assumption feast.

Catholics.

Despite the traditional midThe lector for the Mass was Sister Celine Thiboutot, 72, who daily August flight of Romans from the walks nearly a mile to the cathe- city, both ceremonies were crowddral from the Park Street convent ed. Tour buses clogged the main of the Dominican Sisters of St. road leading to St. Peter's, and Catherine of Siena. Although she inside the basilica it was standing wears the traditional closefitting room only for the closing ceremony.

For more information on why The Mass was filmed by Italian veil and coif and longskirted white Savings Bank Ufe Insurance is the buy of your life call: habit ofthe Dominicans, she made state television, broadcast live to light of Monday's 93-degree tem- eight European countries and perature and 52 percent humidity. beamed to 16 other countries via "I walk on the snady side of the satellite. It was not broadcast to the United States. street," she explained cheerfully.

During his homily, the pope In his remarks, Bishop Cronin recalled that in 1950, as a young said the Marian year was a pilseminarian, he was present in St. grimage of faith on the eve of the I Peter's Square when Pope Pius third millennium after Christ.

MIJjJ.1MJ While most of the Mass prayers XII proclaimed the dogma of the were in Latin, the ceremony began Assumption. ( -Based on scheduled annual premium for yearly renewable term, nolHllllOkeI's 18-30.

"The pope made clear that he with a Byzantine hymn of Marian SISTER Celine Thiboutot, OIfer~:~tbose-::e~~o:~usetts. A-1 was only formalizing an age-old praise, sung by Greek monks, and OP, at lectern. (Motta photo) belief of the church," said the a brief Albanian hymn. bishop. "The dogma of the AsThe Gospel was sung in Coptic sumption is implicit in scripture, and Arabic by an Egyptian choir, since Mary, conceived without sin, and the Communion song was would not know the corruption of sung by Chaldean monks.

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A Marian icon was adorned The bishop drew attention to with garlands of flowers brought the fact that the diocesan mother to the altar at the Offertory by 20 church is officially the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption 319 Concord Road-Weston, rvtA 02193-617-894-3199 and that the entire diocese is dedicated to Mary under that title.

DIRECTED RETREATS Sept. 12-20; Oct. 10-18 Rev. Edward J. Byington was He asked prayers for the univer- principal celebrant this morning at sal church, the pope, bishops and the Mass of Christian Burial for PROGRAMS priests and for vocations to the his mother, Mrs. Ethel M. ByingSept. 23-24 Dream Workshop priesthood and religious life and ton. expressed hope that devotion to Oct. 14-16 Discovering "Felt Meaning" through FOCUSING Bishop Daniel A. Cronin "pre~ary would "grow in hearts in the sided at the Mass at Sacred Heart Oct. 21-23 Community Building Through Faith Sharing years ah'eild as the fruit of the' Mar路 Church, Fall River, where Father' ian Year."

Byington is pastor and his mother WEEKEND OFFERINGS FOR WOMEN MEN In Washington was a longtime member.

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2- 5 Marketplace Spirituality for the laity Mrs. Byington, 80, a registered In Washington, Marian scholar Sept. 9-11 Men's Retreat Carmelite Father Eamon Carroll nurse, died Aug. 16. A Fall River was homilist at a Mass at the native, she was the widow of MauSept. 9-11 The Broadway Musical as a "Broadway" of Praying National Shrine of the Immacu- rice F. Byington and the daughter OCt. 21-23 Gifted & Grateful: How God Has Blessed Us late Conception closing the Mar- , of the late George S. and Mary A. (Flynn) McCoomb. ian Year.

Oct. 21-23 Enneagram IV (Directed Prayer Weekend) She was a 1930 graduate of the Apostolic pronuncio Archbishop Pio Laghi was principal celebrant fO,rmer Union Hospital School of DAYS OF PRAYER at the Mass. Following the liturgy Nursing in Fall River. She served Sept. 17; Oct. 8 Days for Nurses he lit a candle before a statue of at Union Hospital for some years Oct. 9 Experiencing God In Nature: An Autumn Day of Prayer Mary to the strains of "Salve, before becoming a district nurse in the city, retiring from that position Regina."

Oct. 29 Spirituality of Matthew's Gospel "As we close this Marian year of in 1973.

She is survived by Father Byingprayer, let today not be an end but TWILIGHT EVENINGS OF PRAYER Sept. 20, Oct. 18 a new beginning - that at Christ's ton, another son, H. Douglas For more information call or write to above address return in glory, the light of faith Byington of Wel!esley, and two will not have dimmed and we granddaughters.

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Come and Rest Vacations are for rest. Even the Lord told his disciples to come aside and rest a while. But the word has little meaning in our social order. Too much to do and too little time to do it is the theme song.

Just look at how we live. Look at people driving to work.

They're on cruise control, drinking a cup of coffee, one ear listening to a pertinent tape, the other on the cellular phone. At the same time, they're trying to dictate a memo while combing their hair. If they have a flat or a mechanical failure they are candidates for hysteria. .

What about the telephone? We put phones not only in our cars but everywhere else. They are in showers, in planes and in shops. Phones are on computer, they are in the garden or by the pool. People even walk the beach with a phone.

Even in our so-called relaxed moments, we rush. Few stroll; we are on the run. People jog or do aerobics for fitness while plugged into earphones either to remove themselves from reality or help them keep the beat. We run to the store or dash for a plane. We run out of church to be first out of the parking lot.

Move. Move. Move.

This mad pace does little to help us lose weight or gain control of our lives. Rather, it has placed us on a merry-goNC photos round going nowhere at accelerating speed. We are going so "Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it; unless fast it's impossible to try for the gold ring. Instead, we get high blood pressure, stress, tension and angina, conditions never the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it." Ps. 126:1 caused by the old carousel. .

Evidence we realize something is awry is our search for "quality time," a wretched concept. People are urged to make quality time available for loved ones in intensive care, parents seek to give children quality time; conventions are planned in which they do so differ vastly. apses. At anyone time these synBy Father Kevin J. Harrington with opportunities for quality time.

The most complex computer is far apses can be in either the inhibiIt seems we think a new phrase will make up for our inability Nature often proves that our inferior to the human brain. A dig- tory or excitatory state. to slow down, take it easy, smell the flowers and talk to one dreams are possible. ital computer obeys clear rules or The number of possible brain The elegant simplicity of the .syntax, while the real world is another at the kitchen table, in the backyard or at family_ states is far larger than the estihas allowed sciennatural order unlabeled. gatherings. tists to explain with a minimum of As of now only the human brain mated number of atoms in our The results are obvious. Family ties need nurturing but mathematical laws many actions can encounter an unlabeled world, universe and far, far larger than parents have become chauffeurs who spend most of their free and reactions in the physical sci~ organize its experience, memorize the number of states possible to biggest supercomputer. and recall it. Computers may be theAnother time dropping off and picking up. When it's not their children, ences. critical difference beBut similar attempts to reduce better calculators but there are it's clothes for the laundry, deposits for the bank and food biological and chemical laws into certain daily situations at which tween the brain and the computer from the drive-in.' Each day sees the opening of more quick a few physical laws have been frusis that computers act' in series human beings clearly excel. service, speedy delivery and fast food establishments. . trated by the complexity of the Anatomically our brains do ap- while the brain acts in parallel. pear somewhat similar to a com- 'Recall the two types of Christmas There's no doubt: we simply must slow down and follow the human brain.

St. Augustine obliquely referred puter. Within the brain there are a tree lights: those in series in which Lord's advice to rest. Our bodies, our minds and, yes, our souls to this paradox when he wrote: if one bulb burns out the whole need it. Webster describes rest as a bodily state characterized "Men go abroad to wonder at the given number of neurons connected string shuts down; and those in by an even greater number of synparallel in which only the burnedby minimal functional and metabolic activities, a state of height of mountains, at the huge out bulb is affected. The brain has waves of the sea, at the long courses freedom from activity and labor, needed by the total person. billions of neurons functioning in of the rivers, at the vast compass of Let's take time for ourselves and one another. It's sad when the ocean, at the circular motion parallel, while a digital computer functions in serial and must aclate in life one starts muttering "I wish 1 had" or "I really of the stars, and they pass by complish its tasks one step at a themselves without wondering." should have."

Aug. 20 time. True, scientists are now man1983, Rev. Thomas Cantwell, Then it's too late. The person we wanted to know better is no Yesterday's dream was to fly ufacturing computers with over SSJ., Retired, St. Joseph's Semilonger there; we can't accomplish what would have been possi- like a bird; today's dream is to 65,000 processing units functionnary, Washington simulate intelligence. ble earlier; we feel lonely and unfulfilled. ing in parallel but this does not 1982, Rev. Bernard H. Unsworth, Birds were a living proof that Check your calendar, look at your agenda, see what you can flying was possible. The first at- Retired Pastor, St. Mary, New even approach the parallelism in the human brain. omit. Then do something for yourself: walk on the beach, sit tempt, by no less a genius than Bedford Two decades ago scientists were Aug. 22 on your favorite rock, watch the sunset. Take the kids for ice Leonardo da Vinci, was based so carried away by the computer 1962, Rt. Rev. Manuel J. Teixupon what was called an ornithopcream, turn off the TV and talk. revolution that they predicted their eira, Pastor, St. Anthony, Taunton The list of true achievements made possible by slowing ter, a crude imitation ofa bird with 1972, Rev. William R. Jordan, new inventions would think and mechanically operated wings. possess other such human capdown, taking it easy and, above all, by caring for others and Pastor, St. Louis, Fall River But Leonardo's invention did abilities.

1980, Rev. Msgr. Joseph C. yourself is endless. not provide Western man's first Today computer industry veterThe Editor experience of flight. We first took Canty, Retired Pastor, St. Paul, ans have been somewhat humbled to the skies in balloons, teaching Taunton by their realization of the enorus that compulsive imitation of a Aug. 23 mous challenge presented by simumodel does not always achieve 1895, Rev. Thomas Clinton, lating human intelligence. New success. Later, planes possessing Pastor, St. Peter, Sandwich memory chips that use X-ray birdlike wings and tails were to Aug. 24 technology hold out the more realdevelop, but with propellers and 1884, Rev. Peter J.B. Bedard, istic hope that by the end of this engines.

Founder, Notre Dame, Fall River millennium computers will be able 'OFfICIAL NlWSPAPER OF THE DIOCD£ OF FALL RIVER, Today's dream ofartificial intel1987, Msgr. James E. Gleason, to accomplish such rudimentary ;Pubtithlld weekly by The CatholiC Prete of the Diocese of Fall River' ligence is closely linked to advan- Retired Pastor, St. Patrick, Fal- tasks as recognizing signatures, 410 Highland Avenue P.O. BOX 7 ces in computer technology. We mouth voice patterns and ultimately huFa" River Masa. 02722 508-675-7151 1962, Very Rev. James F. Gil- man faces. realize, however, that computers PU8USHER are as far from simulating the christ, CPM,VG, Vicar General of In short, the complexity of the Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin. D.O.• $.T.D. workings of the human mind as . the Congregation of the Fathers of computers that initially so dazzled EDITOR FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR Leonardo's ornithopter was from Mercy the scientific community no longer Rev. JohnF. Moore Rev. Msgr. John J. Regan mimicking the flight of birds.

Aug. 25 seems as fascinating as the yet Both brains and computers pro1974, Rev. Joseph F. Hanna, unmatched complexity of the hu. . . . L..'Y Pr~"'FaH·Riwr cess information but the manners Founder, Holy Cross, South Easton man mind!

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Accident-prone We have a kid with more scars than Sylvester Stallone.

Dan is called by his first name in the local emergency room.

At age four he was struck by a line drive foul at a local baseball game. In a stadium that holds 70,000 people, there were only 1000 in attendance but he managed to find the spot to get hit.

He's had two near-death accidents in two years, one auto and one skiing, and he's not yet 20.

When I rushed to the emergency room for the first the registrar asked, "Has he ever been here before?" She was obviously new to the job.

When she pulled his name up on the computer, it just kept rolling.

"Ooooh my," she said and looked at me curiously.

This kid no longer blanches at the sight of gashes, blood or ambulances. He tells doctors and nurses what to do. When he was fishing at II and got a fish hook lodged in his finger, he cut the line, walked to the clinic where he greeted everyone personally, had the hook cut out, got four sutures and a tetanus shot and then called us to pick him up.

He owns multiple healed fractures and walks around with a steel rod in his thigh bone. We have an assortment of crutches, slings and splints with his name on them. He's an insurance company's

nightmare. Parents', too. He's a risker, a survivor, and a happy young adult. He gives us good reason for believing in God and miracles.

Hearing of his latest brush with death, a friend said, "God is saving him for something, maybe the priesthood."

"The Church can't afford him," I said. Neither can we but love makes all things possible, as the saying goes.

We aren't alone, I've discovered.

Many families have a resident emergency room kid. What is it that creates the accident-prone child? .

They seem to have some things in common. They find themselves in the wrong place more than other children. Or, put another way, in the right placeforinjury. It isn't always their fault. They're the ones in the spot where the BB ricochets or the icicle falls.

But it's also true that they don't sense danger as quickly as other kids. Sometimes they're just spacey; other times they think "it" won't happen to them. Parents spend a lot of life yanking them back from danger as their siblings look on.

Accident-prone kids also seem to shrug off injury and pain more easily than children who go into trauma when they see their own blood. Perhaps it's experience but

.Catholic parishes Several years ago I attended a seminar on immigration and heard a story worth repeating. . A young Polish pastor told us that his parish, once predominantly Polish, had become heavily Hispanic and black. To meet the challenge of serving all three groups, he said, he had to change the way he thought about the parish.

He stopped thinking of it as Polish, Hispanic, black or even American. Instead, he started to consider it as catholic.

As everyone knows, the word "catholic" means universal.

However, many pastors of ethnic parishes at the meeting violently opposed his idea. They argued that if a parish has a strong ethnic component it must be recognized. If it is predominantly Polish or Mexican-American, then it is a Polish or Mexican-American parish.

Those pastors did not want a melting pot approach to parishes where everyone puts aside nationality to. become one nation.

They also emphasized the need for nationalities to stick tightly together because this was how they had traditio~ally preserved their faith.

The young Polish pastor held his ground and explained that in his parish when there is a Polish feast Hispanics and blacks are part of the festivities. When the feast is Hispanic, the blacks and Polish are invited.

"We enjoy each other's rich traditions and everyone learns from the other about the best of those traditions," he told us.

As I look back on that meeting, I believe, as I felt then, that this young man was a remarkable pastor with much foresight.

By the turn of the century, it is

predicted that half the church in the United States will be immigrant. It will consist of first- and second-generation immigrants speaking their own languages and clustering together in their own ghettos.

There is great concern that ifthe Catholic Church does not respond

Please come!

We're so concerned for little Lesotho!

PRETORIA, South Africa (NC) - South Africa, pointedly excluded from Pope John Paul II's visit to southern African nations this September, is trying to convince the pontiffto make a brief stop to celebrate Mass at Jan Smuts international airport in Johannesburg, South Africa.

South Africa's foreign minister, Rolof Botha, said a short visit to South Africa would help relieve traffic congestion expected when South African Catholics travel to see the pontiffduring his visit to Lesotho, a tiny country surrounded by South Africa, Sept. 14-16.

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Aug. 19, 1988 By DOLORES CURRAN

they don't make a season out of sympathy. "It's no big deal," they say when parents ask to look at gashes and swellings.

The day before our family left for Ireland in 1983, Dan said, "I've had this rash for a week. Maybe I ought to see Rich." (I told you they're on a first name basis.)

Angry at his waiting so long to tell me, I nonetheless got him to the clinic where we left with all kinds of salves to deal with his poison ivy in Ireland. At 10 p.m. he gashed his finger to the bone closing a jackknife he was packing.

Three waiting hours later in the emergency room he said I sniped, "As soon as this heals, you're getting it." (Would I say that?)

I'm glad he's 19 because if we were rearing him today, his record would look suspiciously like child abuse. Meanwhile, all we can do is continue to thank God for small and large miracles and suggest a moratorium for a couple of years.

(As is my policy, I sent this to Dan for approval before printing it. He returned it along with a column of his own. Watch for it next week.)

By. FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK

to these immigrants properly. it will lose many to other denominations. In fact, this is happening already.

The remarkable thing about that young pastor was that he thought of the parish as church, not as nationality.

When this is translated into everyday practice it means that if one is a white American Catholic he or she does not look at others as "them," "they" or "those others."

It means being very sensitive to ethnic slurs and to how easy it is to offend a newcomer.

Racial and national prejudice occur because many people pride themselves excessively upon their race or nationality, to the detriment of others. To be a Catholic is to get beyond this pride, to be proud to say "we," "ours" or "us" and to wholeheartedly welcome all as equal members of the community.

The church in this country is at a crossroads. It can win or lose the' hundreds of thousands of immigrants who rightfully are Catholics. As true Catholics, we shouldn't think in terms of winning our own, but rather of how to make our own even more welcome.

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A Catholic who is a Mason

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By FATHER JOHN DIETZEN

Q. I am a Mason, 32nd degree,

Shriner and also a "Catholic."

Married 48' years, three children and six grandchildren.

I attend the Catholic Church regularly with my wife but feel incomplete as a Catholic be~ause of my membership in this fraternity. During my experience I have not seen anything anti-Catholic or against any religion. Why can I not receive communion like other Catholic people? I would appreciate receiving the brochure you offer on the Masons. (Louisiana) A. You give no details about your membership in this order.

Did you join as a young man and then become a Catholic later? Did you join while you were a Catholic, knowing about the prohibition against such membership?

Whatever the circumstances, enrollment in any Masonic society remains seriously 'prohibited by the Catholic Church.

Your experience ofthe religious neutrality of Masonic groups is shared by the large majority of Masons in the United States. However, anyone familiar with the history of Europe and America during the past 200 years is aware that the character of Masonry changes drastically from one place of time to another.

Political and social positions viciously antagonistic to the church and other religions have been and still are common to Masonry in some parts of Europe and Latin America. With a few notable exceptions, these have hardly been evident in the United States.

It is worth noting that major objections of Christians (by no means only Catholics) against Freemasonry have been to only its sometimes anti-religious activities; many aspects of its beliefs and quasi-religious rituals seem contradictory to Christian doctrines.

It was this in particular which inspired the strongest condemnation yet by American bishops of membership in Masonic organizations. A June 1985 report from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops calls Freemasonry "irre. concilable" not only with Catholicism but with all Christianity. The principles and basic rituals of Masonry, the report cited, "embody a naturalistic religion, active participation in which is incompatible with Christian faith and practice.

Those who knowingly embrace such principles are committing a serious sin" by professing beliefs which are contrary to Christianity.

The study also describes the "politically reactionary and racist" nature of most U.S. Masonry today. With the exception of one local lodge in New Jersey that admits blacks, the report indicated, "all women, men under 21 and blacks are barred from Masonic initiation in regular lodges." .

To my knowledge, this is still true.

In the United States, and probably most other English-speaking countries at least, few Freemason lodges, and even fewer individual Masons, would espouse the religious and social positions which so

frequently have given Masonry a less than favorable reputation.

Nevertheless, these are the reasons that Catholics and other Christian churches around the world forbid or discourage affiliation with Masonic societies.

Q. I am a sister and a teacher in our parish. Recently I was asked to explain the Messo-Arabic Mass.

I was able to find nothing about it.

Could you explain why it is called a Mass and where and how this Mass is celebrated? Has it anything to do with Moslems? (Iowa) A. I'm sure you are thinking of the Mozarabic Rite. It was one of the few, all relatively minor, rites that developed in the first several hundred years of the church under the influence of Rome.

All the major non-Latin rites developed in the East under the influence of three major churches: Antioch, Alexandria and Constantinople. .

The Mozarabic Rite was used primarily in the archdiocese of Toledo, Spain, and died out for all practical purposes during the IIOOs. During the 15th century the archbishop of Toledo attempted to resurrect the Mozarabic Rite.

He pretty much failed, except for establishing a chapel in Toledo where the Eucharist is still celebrated each day according to that rite. It is the last vestige of the Mozarabic Rite in existence.

Apparently it had no relationship to the Moslem invaders and occupiers of Spain. Perhaps the ..Arabic" part of the name simply resulted from the fact that the rite existed in a part of Spain dominated by Arab Moslems.

Many different rituals for celebrating the Eucharist and other Christian liturgies developed in various places through the centuries of Christianity. Some, especially in the East, are still strong in major churches.

Others,like the Mozarabic, have completely, or almost entirely, ceased to exist.

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- The government would initiate steps to educate potential recipients about their eligibility for food assistance.

- Government reimbursements for the school breakfast program would be increased.

- A snack or extra meal again would be covered under federal assistance to day-care food programs.

- A monthly day-care subsidy allocated to food stamp recipients who participate in an employment and training program would be increased from $160 per family, regardless of the number of children, to $160 per child.

- Nonprofit groups would again be eligible to participate in running government-assisted summer meal programs for children.

- The Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program would be continued.

- The government would purchase supplies for distribution to soup kitchens and shelters that feed the hungry and homeless.

Overall, Grazer said, the bill is significant because it allows a fundamental, much-needed expansion of the government's current antihunger effort and helps restore funding after several years of federal cutbacks.

He noted that the churches have been telling the government for years that although they have increased their own programs for the homeless and hungry, "we just can't meet the need."

Although the funding will be viewed in budget terms as a "new" allocation this year, "it's not new if you look at it from the perspective of what's been cut," Grazer said.

"This is a replacement, in that sense. Clearly, in terms of need, we're just trying to get back on track."

Carr noted Aug. 12 that "it's been an extraordinary 10 days. We got [bills on]plant closings, fair housing and the antihunger bill. I do feel we've really taken some steps forward in the last few weeks on major issues."

Msgr. Hoye, writing to conference committee members Aug. 9, called hunger "fundamentally a moral issue,"

Brother condemned, she seeks support WASHINGTON (NC) - Joyce T. Mokhesi says her brother's future is uncertain.

It could end within months at the hands ofa South African hangman, or it could continue with clemency from South African president Pieter W. Botha.

Ms. Mokhesi, a black South African Catholic lay worker, has been soliciting support from the U.S. bishops and the American public in a campaign to save the lives of Francis Mokhesi and five others sentenced with him in the case of a murder even South Africa admits they didn't commit.

The U.S. bishops' conference has joined its South African counterpart in calling on Botha to commute the sentence of Mokhesi, Reid Mokoena, Duma Khumalo, Oupa Diniso and Theresa Ramashamole.

President Ronald Reagan and other world leaders have also called for .c1emency.

The condemned are known as the Sharpeville Six after the township in which black deputy mayor Jacob Dlamini was hacked and burned to death in 1984 by members of what was described as a "lynch mob" which accused him of collaborating with South Africa's white minority government.

Francis Mokhesi and the others were not convicted for committing the murder - the real killers were never apprehended. But according to South African prosecutors they were guilty of sharing a "common purpose" with the murderers.

Ms. Mokhesi, on an extended visit to the United States, said it is "difficult to guess" which way Botha and the government will go on an appeal for clemency.

She and U.S. supporters are organizing a "red ribbon" campaign, urging the public to wear red ribbons to remember the Sharpeville Six and to petition South Africa against executing them.

Ms. Mokhesi said her brother and his companions have been under severe stress since March 17 when it seemed certain they were to die.

"It was very difficult," she said, recalling her visit to her brother that day. "It was sort of seeing him for the last time."

When an II th-hour stay was granted, she said, "they were not excited as you would expect; they were numb."

In a joint statement, the U.S. Catholic Conference, the National Council of Churches and the Synagogue Council of America said the death sentences "raise profound issues of fairness and justice. Our biblical sense of justice requires that each person be held accountable for their own actions and we reject the notion of guilt by 'common purpose.' "

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GIFTS CARDS PLANNIN G for the nurses' conference are, from left, Ellen Peterson, cochairperson; Joan Morin, publicity; Sister Rachel LaFrance of the New Bedford DCCN; Barbara Gauthier, cochairperson and Fall River DCCN president. (Rosa photo)

N.E. Catholic nurses to meet in Hyannis Advance preparations are underway for the 29th annual conference ofthe New England Diocesan Councils of Catholic Nurses, to be hosted by the Fall River Diocesan Council·and held Oct. 7 through 9 at the Sheraton Hyannis.

Cochairpersons will be Ellen Peterson of the Cape Cod Council and Barbara Gauthier, president ofthe Fall River Diocesan Council

The overall convention theme is "Love One Another." CEUs have been applied for.

Weekend speakers will include Loretta LaRoche o~ Friday night, discussing "Laughter"; and Father James O'Donohue, JCD, of the faculty of Boston College, whose topic will be "Contemporary Ethics and the Position of the Catholic Church."

Pro-life attitude lauded Continued from Page One opposing abortion," said Ms. San Martin, who works for Catholic Community Services in the Newark archdiocese. "They believe in individuality and self-improvement.... Hispanics are conservative."

Arlene Shoemaker, an alternate from Ohio and a city councilwoman in Columbus, called Bush a "strong, extremely intelligent, highly personable, caring, sensitive individual."

But she added he might be hurt in the elections because people "do not perceive" him that way and because "he's following in the shadow of a strong personality."

For Loretto Wagner of Missouri, a delegate for Kansas Sen. Robert Dole who will be voting for Bush, abortion is the key issue of the campaign.

"Pro-life is my litmus test," she said. "It is the one issue that can motivate people to cross party lines.

Another Missouri convention delegate, U.S. Rep. Jack Buechner, also sees the abortion issue as what

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separates his party from the opposition.

"The pro-life issue is one of the reasons a great number of traditional Democrats have moved over to the Republican ranks," he said.

"It is an important line of demarcation."

Buechner, of St. Louis, said the challenge for Bush the candidate will be to "define himself as a leader and not just in the shadow" of President Reagan.

Delegate Priscilla Torres, from Socorro, N.M., said Bush "is a good man" but he'll need to "come on with confidence" during the campaign.

Lt. Gov. Paul Hardy of Louisiana, the first Cajun to hold the office, said Bush stands for issues important to Louisianans, including the pro-life issue, and he expected Bush would carry the state.

California Assemblyman Pat Nolan praised the Republican Party for being "the party for faith, family and freedom."

Sister Levesque The Mass of Christian Burial was offered yesterday at the Church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, North Providence, R.I:, for Sister Marie Fernand Levesque, RJM, 73, who died Aug. 14 at Jesus Mary Cenacle, North Providence.

A Fall River native, the daughter of the late Ulric and Antoinette (Lavoie) Levesque, she earned a bachelor of education degree from Providence's former Catholic Teachers College in 1949.

The former Lillian Levesque entered the Religious of Jesus-Mary in 1934 and was professed in 1936.

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Academic freedom Bishop Wuerl's topic AMHERST, Mass. (NC) Catholic tradition upholds academic freedom, but not in the widely held sense of "unlimited, unfettered freedom to express any thought," Bishop Donald W. Wuerl of Pittsburgh said at a national conference Aug. 5-7 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

In Catholic thought "the voice of the teaching office" of the church is "intrinsic to the process of theological development," Bishop Wuerl said at the conference, which was devoted to exploring the views of Cardinal John Henry Newman, a leading 19th-century British Catholic thinker, author of the classic "Idea of a University" and the popular hymn "Lead, Kindly Light."

"Both science and theology seek the truth," Bishop Wuerl said.

"Both accept the validity of intellectual investigation. Yet theology assumes a point of verification for its judgments" in divine revelation and the authoritative teaching of the church, he said.

Bishop Wuerl spoke at the opening dinner of the three-day conference, co-sponsored by the university's Newman Center and the na-

tional Friends of Cardinal Newman Association.

While saying that theologians must have academic freedom, Bishop Wuerl said the common understanding of academic freedom today is too narrow and secular to be applied without qualification to the field of theology.

Theology, he said, "includes as internal to its process both the demands of revelation and the exercise of the bishop's teaching office," he said.

He said the chief conflicts over academic freedom in Catholicism today are in the field of moral theology because ofthe widespread view that academic freedom includes not only "unlimited, unfettered freedom to express any thought" but also "the concomitant right to propose theories as the basis for personal action."

Particularly when a theologian proposes "various teachings as the basis for alternate pastoral practice and an alternate Christian moral code," bishops must "note when the limits have been crossed" from authentic church teaching to personal opinion, he said,

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Since November 1987, the 40year-old priest of the diocese of Trenton, N.J., has been an attache at the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations.

When Father Muthig was ordained to the priesthood six years ago, he thought his days as an

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As he showed a reporter from The Monitor, Trenton diocesan newspaper, around the United Nations, Father Muthig pointed out UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar and the ambassadors from Iran and Iraq who were meeting to set a cease-fire date in their long war.

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In another talk at the conference, Jesuit Father Daniel Degnon of Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J., argued that U.S. Catholic universities are entering a "third era" in which they must integrate professionalism and a renewed sense of Catholic identity. .

He said thatin their first phase, through World WarII, U.S. Catholic colleges and universities were largely run by religious orders whose "model ofthe way life should be on campus was a modified discipline of the seminary or convent."

The second phase, mainly over the past three decades, was characterized by strong emphasis on professionalism and academic standards, he said.

He said the third phase should not be an abandonment of standards, but a cultivation of Catholic intellectual ideals, especially in placing theology at the heart of university life as Cardinal Newman urged.

Father David Tracy, a theologian at the University of Chicago, praised Cardinal Newman's focus on theology as an integral part of intellectual and academic life.

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Five years as an assistant pastor was hardly a fast track to working for the Vatican at the United Nations, but at a chance meeting in Rome with Archbishop Renato Martino, head ofthe Vatican's UN mission, Father Muthig learned of an opening at the Vatican mission for someone who was fluent in several languages and had writing skills. The priest speaks Italian, Spanish and French.

Although he enjoyed his pastoral work, especially working with Hispanics, he agreed to meet again with Archbishop Martino at the Vatican mission in New York.

Father Muthig said he agreed to accept the position despite reservations about giving up much of his pastoral work. "Archbishop Martino told me he didn't really like his job, but that it was important," he said. "It had to be done, and somebody had to do it. I thought that was very honest."

At the mission, Father Muthig writes reports on UN activities for the Vatican Secretariat of State and prepares "interventions" for presentation to UN committees . outlining the church's position on world issues. He also writes press releases on church positions and makes sure that interested diplomats get copies of Vatican statements, such as the pope's recent social encyclical.

Only a mile and a half from the Vatican mission, but galaxies away in wealth and influence, is Spanish Harlem, where Father Muthig lives in a residence owned by the Christian Brothers.

Living in a Hispanic neighborhood helps Father Muthig remain fluent in Spanish, he said. He returns to the Trenton diocese each weekend to celebrate Masses in Spanish at parishes in Hightstown and Freehold. He also celebrates Mass for inmates at the Monmouth County jail.

"I'm still able to keep up the pastoral side of my ministry, and I can use my reporting skills and my language skills," he said. "A lot of strands I thought were destined to remain permanently separated have come together, and I'm grateful to God for that."

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EAST BREWSTER, Immaculate Conception, Route 6A: (Schedule effective July and Aug.): Sat. 4:30 and 6 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9:30 and 1.1 a.m. Confessions, Sat. 4:00 - 4:25 p.m.

BUZZARDS BA Y, St..Margaret, 141 Main St.: Sat. 4:00 p.m.; Sun. 8, 10, II a.m., daily 8:00 a.m. Sat. 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:00 - 3:30.

ONSET, St. Mary Star ofthe Sea, Onset Ave.: Sat. 4:30 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 10:30 a.m.; daily Mon., Tues., & Fri., 9 a.m. Confessions, Sat. 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. . CENTERVILLE, Our Lady of Victory, 230 So. Main St. Sat. 5, 7:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8: 15, 9:30,10:45, 12 noon and 5:15 p.m. daily, 7, 9 a.m., Confessions, Sat. following 9 a.m. Mass and 4 - 4:45 p.m.

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FALMOUTH HEIGHTS, St. Thomas Chapel, Falmouth Heights Rd.; Sat. 4:30 p.m.; Sun. 8,9, 10, II: 15 a.m.; daily 8 a.m.

HYANNIS, St. Francis Xavier, 347 South St.: Sat. 4:00, 5: 15, 7:30 p.m.; Sun. 7,8,9, 10, II :30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily 7 a.m., 12: 10 p.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:00 - 3:50 p.m. and following 7:30 p.m. Mass.

YARMOUTHPORT, Sacred Heart, off Rte. 6A: Sat. 4:00, 5: 15 p.m.; Sun. 9 a.m. and 10 a.m.; confessions before each Mass.

MARION, St. Rita, 113 Front St.: Sat. 5 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 10, II: 15 a.m.; daily, Mon., Tues., Wed., and Fri., 8:30 a.m.; confessions, Saturday, 4: 15 - 4:45 p.m.

MATTAPOISETT, St. Anthony, 22 Barstow St.: Sat. 4:30, Sun. 8, 9:30, II :00 a.m. daily 8 a.m.; Confessions 3:30 - 4:00.

WEST BARNSTABLE, Our Lady of Hope, Rte. 6A; Sat. 4 & 5: 15 p.m; Sun., 8:45, 10, II: 15 a.m. daily 8 a.m. confessions, before each Mass.

NANTUCKET, Our Lady of the Isle, Federal St.: Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10 and II :30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.; daily, 7:30 and 9:00 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4 - 4:45 p.m.

CHATHAM, Holy Redeemer., 57 Highland Ave.: Schedule July 4, Sat. 5 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, II a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; Confessions, Sat. II :30 a.m. - 12 noon; First Friday -Mass 8 & 9 a.m., Adoration ofthe Blessed Sacrament after 9:00 a.m.

Mass. Closing at 10:30 a.m. with Benediction.

SIASCONSET, Union Chapel: Sun. 8:45 a.m. during July and August.

SOUTH CHATHAM, Our Lady of Grace, Rte. 137, off Rte. 28: schedule July 4, Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 9:30, 10:30 a.m., daily, 9 a.m. Confessions Sat. after 7 p.m. Mass.

COTUIT/MASHPEE, Christ the King, Cotuit, St. Jude Chapel, 4441 Falmouth Road, Rte. 28: Sat. 4:00 p.m.; Sun. 9, II a.m.; daily, Mon.-Fri. 8:00 a.m. Confessions 3-3:30 Sat. St. Jude's Novena-Thurs. 8 a.m.

MASHPEE, Queen of All Saints; Great Neck Rd. (towards New Seabury): Sat. 4:00 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 10, II :30 a.m.; Daily 9:00 a.m. Mon.Fri. Confessions 3-3:30 p.m. Sat. EAST FALMOUTH, St. Anthony, 167 East Falmouth Highway: Sat. 4:00, 6:00 p.m.; Sun. 7:30,9, 10: 15, II :30 a.m.; daily 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:00-3:45 p.m., weekdays, any time by request.

EDGARTOWN, St. Elizabeth, Main Street: Sat. 4 and 6 p.m.; Sun. 7,9, II a.m.; daily, Mon.-Sat., 8:30 a.m.; confessions, 3:30, Saturdays. Rosary: 8: IS a.m. weekdays, 8:30 a.m. Sundays.

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CHICAGO (NC) - Cardinal service at Queen of Heaven CemeJoseph L. Bernardin of Chicago . tery, Hillside, consisted 'of a merecently led more than 500 pro-life morial Mass in the cemetery's activists at the burial of the remains mausoleum chapel and a simple of nearly 2,000 unborn babies. The graveside rite. .

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NORTH FALMOUTH, St. Elizabeth Seton, 481 Quaker Rd.; Sat. 4, 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7:45,9, 10: IS, 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3: 15-3:45, 4:45-5: IS p.m.

OAK BLUFFS, Our Lady Star of the Sea, Massasoit Ave.: Sat. 6 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9:30, Ii :00 a.m.; daily (Mon. - Thurs.) 7 a.m. confessions, Sat. 5:15 - 5:45 p.m.

ORLEANS, St. Joan of Are, Canal Road. (Schedule effective through Labor Day): Sat. 5,7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9:30, II a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4 - 4:45 p.m.; Our Lady of Perpetual Help novena, at 8 a.m. Mass Wed. NORTH EASTHAM, Church of the Visitation (Schedule effective through Labor Day): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8:00, 8:30, 11:00 a.m.; daily Mass 9 a.m. Mon. - W6d.

-Fri. During July and Aug.; confessions, Sat. 6:30 - 6:50 p.m.

OSTERVILLE, Our Lady of the Assumption, 76 Wianno Ave.; Sat. 4:00 and 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10:30 a.m., 12:00 noon; daily, 8:00 a.m., confessions, Sat. 3:30 to 4:00 p.m.

POCASSET, St. John the Evangelist, 15 Virginia Road: Sat. 4, 5:15 p.m.; Sun. 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:45 a.m.,5 p.m.; daily, 7:30 a.m., except Thursday and Saturday; Tues. and Thurs. 9:00 a.m.; Sat. 8:00 a.m.; Confessions Sat. 3-3:45 p.m.

PROVINCETOWN, St. Peter the Apostle, 11 Prince St.: Sat. 5:00, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7,9, II a.m., 5:00 p.m.; daily, 7 a.m., confessions, Sat. 4: 15 - 6: 15 p.m. and by appointment.

SANDWICH, Corpus Christi, 8 Jarves St.: Sat. 4, 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7,8:15,9:30, 10:45 a.m., 12 noon; daily 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:00 - 3:45 p.m.

TRURO, Sacred Heart: Sat. 5:15 p.m.

WEST HARWICH, Holy Trinity, Rte. 28: Sat. 4:00-5:30 p.m. Sun. 7:30, 9, 10:30, 12 noon; daily 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.; confessions, Sat. 2:00-3:30 p.m. and 7:30-8:30 p.m.

First Friday - Mass at II a.m. followed by Exposition of Blessed Sacrament closing with Benediction at 2 p.m.; confessions eve of 1st Friday 2:00-3:30 p.m.

DENNISPORT, Our Lady of Annunciation, Upper County Dr.: Sat. 4:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m. Daily 8:00 a.m.; Confessions, Sat. 3 - 4 p.m.

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NOT-VERY-RETIRED Sisters Claire Mary Joyal, SSCh, and Mary Inez and Mary Lucretia Duffy tell fellow sisters how it's done. (Gaudette photo)

Third Agers look forward Continued from Page One a presentation on preparing resumes and going onjob interviews

by Sister Mary Christopher O'Rourke, RSM, a successor to Sister Blute as provincial administrator of the Sisters of Mercy.

"Religious used to be assigned to jobs," said Sister Blute. "Now they must write resumes and are interviewed, hired and sometimes fired, like anyone else.

"They have to talk salaries and more or less 'market' themselves.

It's very difficult for older sisters who took a vow of poverty, waited for Reverend Mother to tell them what to do and were taught to be humble and never take credit for their achievements."

So useful did her hearers find Sister O'Rourke's tips on marketing themselves that she has been asked to return for a full day in January, to include employment interview role playing.

Keynote speaker Sister Kathleen Kelley, SND, holder of a doctorate in counseling psychology, stressed the importance of continuing activities after retirement and avoiding an "on-the-shelf' mentality. H.er message was brought to life by a lively threesome, all nominally retired: Sister Claire Mary Joyal, S.S.Ch., and Mercy Sisters who are also blood sisters Mary Inez and Mary Lucretia Duffy.

Sister Joyal, a much soughtafter babysitter in the Newport area, displayed pictures of her charges and described her experiences. She is prized by parents as a loving disciplinarian who slips a good bit of religious teaching into her hours with their children.

"And they don't have to worry that she's gossiping on the phone all night instead of doing her job," chuckled Sister Blute.

Sister Mary Inez Duffy, a veteran of 59 years in the classroom, is a Foster Grandparent at St. Vin-

cent's Home, Fall River, where she judiciously combines tutoring of emotionally disturbed children with rewards for good work. Her sister, also a tutor, works year-round with youngsters and is also an occasional classroom substitute.

Sister Blute said that the target years for Third Age retirement planning are from 60 to 75 and she noted that the trend towards such planning has been encouraged by religious communities for at least the past four or five years.

"Priests always have something to do, if they're in reasonable health," she pointed out. "There are always parishes that need extra help. But retired religious have tended to sit around and stagnate, especially in large communities.

"There aren't many Sister Eymards," she added, referring to a 92-year-old Sister of Mercy whom fellow community members "meet every time they go into Providence.

She's always on the go, shopping, visiting museums, you name it. I even ran into her in Ireland a few years ago, all by herself, enjoying herself thoroughly."

Ablebodied religious won't be doing much sitting around if Sisters Blute and Chasse can help it.

Already in the works are programs for the coming months, including a nutrition program, "Food for the Spirit and Food for the Body," scheduled for Sunday afternoon, Nov. 6, at Dominican Academy, Fall River; the resume and interview workshop with Sister O'Rourke, planned for Saturday, Jan. 14, with a snow date of Jan. 21 at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro; and "Leisure? What's That?," to be held Sunday afternoon, April 9, at a facility of the Sisters of St. Dorothy.

Continued involvement in the work of the Lord is good for retired religious and good for the church, concludes Sister Blute.

RETIRED area sisters enjoy a picnic at Blessed Sacrament Convent, Fall River, sponsored by the Intercommunity Retirement Board, composed of director:s of retirement facilities for religious in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut. (Gaudette photo)

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History as seen by kids It's hot this summer but not as hot as when we were growing up.

Remember the Dust Bowl days of the '30s, when heat and drought combined with the Great Depression to ruin farms and close rural towns?

That was long before air conditioning, when the only escape to be had came in a few air-cooled movie houses. A fan blowing over a block of ice helped a little in the country weekly where I worked during the summer of '38.

The unrelenting heat gives me an opportunity to play the Good Humor Man. What better time for some light diversion, some good Catholic humor? Humor, after all, is the fifth mark of the Church, after"one, holy, Catholic and apostolic," according to Archbishop Edward McCarthy of Miami.

This is certified Catholic humor from Catholic schools, but anyone may laugh. It comes from my friend Margaret Cronyn, who just retired as editor of the Michigan Catholic in Detroit.

For years Margaret has collected classroom boners from children in Catholic schools and religious education programs. Teachers sent them in and Arthur Godfrey used to read them on his national radio show.

Here are some of Margaret's favorites. If you have some you like even better, send them to me in care of your diocesan newspaper. Then I'll start my own collection and share them with you.

Epistles are the wives of the Apostles.

The sad mysteries ofthe Rosary are the sourful ones.

Who was sorry when the Prodigal Son returned? The fatted calf.

By BERNARD CASSERLY

Matrimony is a place where souls suffer for a time on account of their sins.

Celibacy is a disease ofthe brain.

Martin Luther died a terrible death. He was excommunicated by a bull.

The king wore a robe trimmed with vermin.

Gullible was a famous traveler.

Name a noted foreigner who assisted the colonists in the Revolutionary War. God. The Bore War was a very dull one.

A vacuum is an empty space where the pope lives.

Where is Chicago? Third place in the league.

Give an example of a collective noun. Garbage can.

When was the Magna Carta signed? In the afternoon.

Joseph didn't wear bathrobes like the other men in the Bible. He liked sports coats and had one of many colors.

What part did the Merchant Marine play in World War II? They played the Star-Spangled Banner.

A miracle is something that can't happen until it does.

When was the age of discovery?

For me around 9.

Name three relative pronouns.

Aunt, uncle, brother.

Curate is how fast you get well.

The Indians used to scallop their victims.

What people live in the Po Valley? Po people.

The men who followed Jesus around were called the 12 oppossums.

Facts about high blood pressure If you have high blood pressure, learn the facts. If you believe any of these "fictions," you may be endangering your health.

FICTION: High blood pressure can be cured and treatment discontinued.

F ACT: Most high blood pressure CANNOT be cured, but it can be controlled. Daily treatment usually must be continued for life in order to get your blood pressure down and keep it down.

FICTION: High blood pressure has symptoms.

F ACT: You can look and feel terrific and still have high blood pressure. Some people think that when they have a headache, feel dizzy or anxious, their blood pressure is up - and that's when they take their medicine. They are wrong. They should take their medicine daily as the doctor prescribes. Just because a person feels well doesn't mean his or her blood pressure is normal.

FICTION: Nervous and tense people are the ones with high blood pressure.

F ACT:You can be a calm, relaxed person and still have high blood pressure. "Hypertension" is another word for high blood pressure, but it does not refer to being nervous or upset. High blood pressure is a physical condition - it means the force of blood pressing against artery walls is too high. You cannot

control your high blood pressure just by staying calm and relaxed.

Your blood pressure can be controlled only by proper treatment.

Follow your treatment plan daily - when you feel great, as well as when you feel tense or upset.

FICTION: You can skip the medication - if you do the other things your doctor tells you.

F ACT: If your doctor has put you on medication, you must take it regularly to lower your blood pressure. Doctors may tell patients to lose weight, cut down on salt, stop smoking, exercise more, relax... and for some people this may help lower blood pressure. But don't try to choose your own treatment plan. Talk ~ your doctor about your plan. If you are on medication, keep taking it, while you are following the other recommendations.

Source: "High Blood Pressure Fads and Fiction," U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Reprinted by permission from New Bedford SenlorSeope.

SALUTING SENIORS

Defensive tips for • senIors

By Det. Alan Silvia Elder Abuse Unit Fall River Police Dept.

Knowing how to protect yourself-and joining with your neighbors to make your streets safer places-can reduce opportunities for muggers, purse snatchers and other street criminals to strike.

Do stay alert. Keep your mind on your surroundings, who's in front of you and who's behind you. Don't get distracted. If you're worried about crime, ask a friend to accompany you when you go out.

Do communicate the message that you're calm, confident and know where you're going. Stand tall, walk purposefully and make quick eye contact with people around you.

Do trust your instincts. If you feel uncomfortable in a place or situation, leave: Plan the safest route to your destination and use it. Choose well-lighted busy streets and avoid passing vacant lots, alleys or construction sites. Take the long way if its the safest.

Know your neighborhood. Find out what stores and restaurants are open late and where the police and fire stations are.

If you are caring for them, make sure you know were grandchildren are going when they go out and encourage them to play with other kids. Show them safe places in the neighborhood where they can go if they ever feel scared.

Carry your purse close to your body and keep a firm grip on it.

Carry a wallet in an inside coat or side trouser pocket, not in a rear trouser pocket.

Don't flaunt expensive jewelry or clothing.

Walk facing traffic so you can see approaching cars.

Don't overburden yourself with packages and groceries that make it hard to react.

Bring emergency change for cab fare, bus fare or a telephone call.

Have your car or house key in hand as you approach your vehicle or home.

If you suspect you're being followed by someone on foot, cross the street and head for the nearest weJl-lighted, populated area. Walk quickly or run to a house or store to call police. If you are really scared, scream for help.

If you are being followed by someone in a car, change direction immediately and make a visible point of writing- down the license number.

Keep your car in good running condition to avoid breakdowns.

Plan your route in advance, particularly on long or unfamiliar trips. Have enough gas and money to get there and back.

Drive with all car doors locked.

Keep windows rolled up whenever possible.

If you see another motorist in trouble, signal that you will get help and then go to a telephone and call police.

If your car breaks down, raise the hood, use flares or tie a white cloth to the door handle. Stay in the locked car. When someone stops, ask them to phone for help.

Park in well-lighted areas that will still be well-lighted when you return. Lock your car doors.

Can you go home again?

By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Mary: Two years ago I returned to my hometown. I thought I could easily melt in here, but having been away 40 years I find it is not so.

I did all the things I was supposed to do - joined the hospital league, church groups, went to the local college for courses and found people were only interested in having you volunteer for work and were really not interested in a friendship.

I slowly dropped out and now keep busy reading, hiking, shopping, attending lectures and keeping in touch with old friends scatered through the United States.

I love smalltown life, but find I led such a different life from the locals here that we have little in common. I am 61 and am not close to any of my brothers and sisters.

I wonder what or who I can call on if I should need anything or become incapacitated. I had hoped I would find a person or family I could relate to here and be sort of an "adoptive" member, but in small towns I find they are too c10sekinit for outsiders. (New York) You seem to be a woman who has good health, many interests and enjoys friendships all over the nation. Clearly you are able to . make your way in the world.

I wonder whether you have given your new life a fair chance. You have generalized about the entire community and dismissed them.

Your statements reflect conventional wisdom about small towns; they reflect a grain of truth and considerable fallacy. The grain of truth is that many people in small towns form close and enduring friendships.

The fallacy is that only smalltown people exclude newcomers and outsiders. Were you to move to another location, I suspect you would face the same problems.

What more can you do? You already have joined and dismissed community groups. Perhaps you expected too much too soon from them.

You say you have little in common with "the locals." Look a little more closely at people as individuals. You mention courses at the local college. Colleges always bring an influx of new people.

Every town has newcomers eager to make new friends.

Even old-timers rarely exclude newcomers out of malice. Thoughtlessness and inertia are more likely culprits. Most of us simply do not take the time and trouble to welcome newcomers.

That puts the burden on you.

You already have reached out to

groups. Reexamine the people you met, and try to reach out on a more personal level. In most communities it is the newcomers who must do the reaching out.

Most people love to be invited out to dinner. Try it. The worst you can get is a rejection.

Other persons at the local college should share your interests.

Look for compatible people. Invite someone to go with you when you attend an interesting lecture.

Are others in your position?

Emphatically yes. Persons like you who have no close family nearby need what writer Liz Carpenter calls a "middle of the night" friend, one available when illness, anxiety or sad memories make the presence of another human being a necessity.

You are unlikely ever to find a community filled with compatible people who go out of their way to extend friendship. More likely, any community offers a variety of people who can become your acquaintances, a few of whom can become your close friends.

But the initiative is up to you.

Reader questions on family living or child care to be answered in print are invited. Address The Kennys, Box 871, St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Ind. 47978.

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By Antoinette Bosco Then there were the beauty conAt a wedding recently I met a tests, turning women into objects friend I hadn't seen for some time. .on display. Contests were subsid- .

It took me a while to get a handle ized and became big moneymakon why she looked different. ing affairs.

It finally occurred to me that it My mother had a way of letting was her face. She had no softness me know that my face was less around the eyes, no smile lines than perfect.

"If your nose wasjust a bit shoraround her mouth. Her face was ter and your face a little thinner almost masklike.

I thought she had lost her at- and your cheekbones a little higher tractiveness, but she appe.ared de- and your lips a ittle thicker, you'd lighted. She had had a facelift, and be pretty," she'd say. thought it was wonderful to look Well, now such adjustments are five or 10 years younger. available for a price that generally At that moment the well-known runs in four figures, from about line came back to me: "Beauty is in $2,000 for a nose job to $7,000 for the eye of the beholder." leer- a face lift. tianly didn't see her attempt to reverse the normal evidence of aging as a road to beauty.

It seems that more and more

By Hilda Young people are looking to technology to correct whatever facial defects, I have realized why our family real or imaginary, they see in the food budget has become a line mirror. Cosmetic surgery is a soar- item in the federal inflation index. ing big business today.

Some claim it's because our three Whether cosmetic surgery is add- adolescent boys are going through ing to or subtracting from the sum . what are called growth spurts.' total of facial beauty was discussed While. I have sympathy for that at a recent symposium on beauty theory, it's a little)ike blaming the at the New York Academy of Art, drought on sun spots. co-sponsored with the American I say let's look at the obvious.

Academy of Cosmetic Surgery.

Our food budget is bloated because The director of students, Xavier in a good week only about 27 perde Callatay, said that cosmetic cent ofthe food we buy reaches the surgeons "are making too many table. cute, bland faces with small, The metaphor of running to a turned-up noses, like the women fire with a leaky water bucket on soap operas....

The study of beauty is more comes to mind. They eat potato important than ever, he added, chips from the bag in the checkout because technology "has given us . line. They peel bananas on the way the ability to radically alter the to the car. They drink milk from the carton carrying sacks to the human individual."

That's a serious thought. Who house. They dive-bomb fruit salad hasn't wished at some point to while I'm making it. They sample change his or her looks? And why stews on the stove.

I can't remember a meal in recent not? Isn't that a legitimate desire, considering the attention given times when we did not have to wait one's face in the course ofa lifetime? for them to quit chewing so we When I was a child, I recall how could say grace. conscious everyone around me was I watched oldest son eat cereal of people's looks. Film stars were and toast at the table this morning. the prototypes of what everyone That was followed by an orange should want to look like. juice and egg "milkshake" at the

Even if I could afford it, I wouldn't have my face altered.

I think it is a shame to cut away all the scars and pains and joys of living in the interest of removing wrinkles or shortening a nose.

As a speaker at the symposium on beauty said, wrinkles serve a purpose - they are a testimonial.

"The face is the person's archaelogical history," said Dr. Stuart Spieker, professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut.

Therein lies our only real potential to achieve true and lasting beauty. Authentic beauty results from greatness of spirit, not technology.

My endless eaters counter which he used to wash down a piece of pizza miraculously left over from last night.

A gla~s of milk and a few saltines with peanut butter revived him after showering and dressing.

Between then and an early lunch· he ate an apple, half a bowl of raw cookie dough cooling in the refrigerator, a can of peaches and a bologna sandwich.

When I asked if that counted as lunch he looked at me like my elevator doesn't go to the top floor.

"Gosh, Mom, it's not even 11 :30 yet," he said incredulously.

"Silly me," I said, "I thought maybe you had abandoned those old-fashioned notions of three meals a day at artificial times and opted for some form of cosmic continuing calorie intake, holistically linking your chewing to your breathing. Breathe, breathe, bite.

Breathe, breathe, bite."

"Growing spurt," he said, opening the refrigerator door and squatting like a catcher in front of the contents.

"Looking for anything in particular or just cooling down?" I asked. .

"Just looking," he said. "Who ate the leftover tuna casserole?"

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MARINA PAULOVICH (left in top picture) and Ivan Dragicevich listen to what they say are words of the Blessed Virgin at St. James Church in Medjugorje. Bottom Vicka Ivankovic (center), another ofthe six young people who claim to have seen Mary, talks to tourists at her door. (NC photos)

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Then Father Ratzinger wrote ROME (NC) - The theological writings of Cardinal Joseph Rat- commentaries on the four sessions zinger, the frequently controver- of the Second Vatican Council. sial head of the Vatican's Congre- Father Nichols' shows that the gation for the Doctrine ofthe Faith, optimism the priest took to the are "very balanced," says the author council's opening had waned by of the first book-length survey of the middle of the final session. the cardinal's theology.

The man who in 1963 expressed Dominican Father Aidan Ni- the hope the council would end the chols said the cardinal's greatest church's "anti-modernist neurosis" theological contribution might not by 1966 had serious reservations be anyone work, but his effort to about the pastoral consititution, "salvage everthing possible from "The Church in the Modern the historic tradition" while at the World." same time "looking at contemporIn particular, Father Nichols ary needs and possibilities." said the cardinal felt the docuFather Nichols was interviewed men't risked diluting the Gospel in in Rome about his book, "The its attempt to speak to everyone.

Theology of Ratzinger: An IntroAt the same time, Father Ratductory Study," which chronolog- zinger expressed concern for the ically reviews the most important confusion of the faithful, a theme of the cardinal's writings from repeated in his later writings and 1954 to the present. interviews.

A teacher of dogmatic theology Since becoming a cardinal and at Rome's St. Thomas Aquinas prefect of the doctrinal congregaUniversity and at Cambridge University in England, Father Nichols tion, he has continued to write and has met Cardinal Ratzinger only speak as a theologian. This unprecendented attempt to combine the once.

Father Nichols said the cardi- two roles has led some critics to nal's works are noteworthy for erroneously accuse him of wanting volume alone. His 60 books and to impose one theology as well as 268 articles include doctoral theses, one doctrine on the church, Father commentaries on the Second Vat- Nichols said.

"On the contrary, he holds that ican Council and personal theothe 'same doctrine can hold a mullogical writings.

Father Nichols' study does not tiplicity of theological expressions examine the official documents in different frameworks," Father published by the doctrinal congre- Nichols said.

But Cardinal Ratzinger's supgation under Cardinal Ratzinger's tenure, but it shows the roots of porters misunderstand him if they some of the cardinal's more con- see him as a reincarnation of the antimodernist Pope Pius X, the troversial positions as prefect.

In the cardinal's 1959 thesis on priest added.

St. Bonaventure, for example, Fath- The cardinal "may think we are er Nichols found the seeds for the reliving the modernist crisis" Father cardinal's later criticism of some Nichols said, "but he does not aspects of liberation theology. He agree with way that crisis was rejected what Father Nichols called handled."

What the cardinal's writings reSt. Bonaventure's "uncanny 13thcentury anticipation of liberation veal is "an integrated view of what theology" as inconsistent with the the church should be and what the faith is," Father Nichols concluded. promises of the New Testament.

Apparitions spell work for doctrinal congregation VATICAN CITY (NC) - Mention the name "Pescara" these days at the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and you're likely to see some vigorous eye-rolling.

Pescara, an Italian city on the Adriatic Sea, early this year became a worst-case scenario for those who study Marian apparitions.

For Vatican officials, it illustrated why the church is extremely cautious when dealing with such reports.

After claiming she had seen Mary about 500 times over recent months, a Pescara woman announced that on Feb. 28 the sun would dance around the sky from noon to 1:30 p.m. Then, at midnight, Mary's message would be written brightly in the heavens.

Supported by a local priest and tourist officials, the event drew tens ofthousands to the city, where seaside hotels were forced to reopen out of season. On Feb. 28, some 100,000 people stared into the sky for hours. But nothing happened.

The next day, it was announced that the local priest would withdraw for a period of "psychological rest."

"These things, when false, can damage the church greatly," lamanted a Vatican official two days later.

"In principle, the church has to adopt a certain 'coolness' toward reports of apparitions," he explained. "Its attitude must be one of circumspection. It cannot be taken in by superficiality, nor can it become psychologically involved in the events."

Mary's appearance has been reported dozens of times in recent years in various parts ofthe world, most recently in the United States in Lubbock, Tex., where alleged Marian messages to three members of St. John Neumann parish have borne "some beautiful fruit in the lives of the people," said Msgr.

Joseph W. James, pastor.

"I can assure you that they are not crazy and I assure you that they are not liars," said Deacon Leroy Behnke, a pastoral ~sso颅 ciate at the parish, who has known the three parishioners for five years.

Behnke said the messages so far are true to scripture and traditional church teaching. "It's kind of like Mom talking to the kids, saying, 'Come home. Straighten out your lives.' " Since 1981, directly across the Adriatic Sea from Pescara, millions of international pilgrims have thronged the site of reported apparitions in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the doctrinal congregation, has described the multiplication of "Marian apparitions" as a spiritual "sign of the times." For his congregation, it also adds up to more work.

One of the congregation's four departments, the disciplinary section, is charged with investigating apparition reports. According to Vatican and other church sources in Rome, the procedures it follows are contained in a 1978 memo, which also gives guidelines for local bishops.

Congregation officials like to stress that the local bishop is the first and main authority in apparition cases. But before a judgment . is issued, aAdin controversial cases

like Medjugorje, the congregation also plays a crucial role.

When a bishop finally makes a decision, it is in concert with the Vatican's doctrinal experts.

The church's final judgment is represented by one of two key phrases: "constat de supernaturalitate" or "non constat de supernaturalitate." Either the events are of a supernatural nature or not; there is no explicit mention of Mary.

In making their decision, investigators generally do nQt rely on a single piece of evidence such as a sign or miracle but weigh the answers to a wide variety of questions. The process can take years, especially in cases like Medjugorje, where the apparitions are still said to be occurring. A total of six apparitions in Fatima, Portugal, were "authenticated" only after 13 years of study.

Fora positive judgment, the following elements are considered important: - A high probability or moral certainty that the facts are consistent with what has been claimed.

- That the seer or seers are psychologically balanced, honest, respectful toward the church and without serious moral weakness.

- That there be no errors of faith attributed to God, to Mary or to saints.

- That material or financial interests be absent as a motive in the reported apparitions.

- That there be no evidence of collective hysteria among people drawn to apparition sites.

- That the spiritual fruits ofthe reported apparitions be healthy ones.

These criteria are not considered as absolute rules; rather, they are supposed to indicate where the weight of evidence lies.

The congregation's memo emphasizes one other important point: that even in events of "supernatural" origin, human error can filter in. That's why, for example, Fatima was approved even though some specific interpretations of promises there proved to be wrong.

With Medjugorje, a new problem has been introduced for the congregation and the episcopal authorities: an explosion of evidence. There are two reasons. First, the supposed apparitions, to six different people, now number in the thousands. Second, the millions of pilgrims drawn there are becoming part of the case to be studied -as witnesses, as cases of alleged healings and as petitioners.

"This represents a new difficulty for the church," the Vatican official said. But he said the investigation would not be rushed, despite the site's mushrooming popularity and the local bisho 's increasing

but futile efforts to stop pilgrimages.

If the study takes years or decades, what are local bishops to do in the meantime? The congregation guidelines say bishops have a responsibility to: - Stay well-informed about the details of the events.

- Allow, if warranted, certain forms of devotion until a final judgment is made.

- Correct any abuses in devotional practices.

- Condemn any error~ in doctrine.

The church's attitude of prudence continues even after a final judgment is made. Noone is asked to believe in approved apparitions.

The main reason is that, fQr the church, there is no real addition to the faith.

The church teaches that public revelation ended with Jesus Christ and the New Testament. On the other hand, it sees in the "private revelations" of authentic apparitions a chance to throw light on the faith and, in the words of Cardinal Ratzinger, "demonstrate that . revelation is not dead, that it is living and vital."

The risk is that false apparitions can hurt the church and the faithful. For that reason, the church will continue to pore carefully over the evidence in its files - including the thick one labeled "Medjugorje" and a thin one labeled "Pescara."

Lubbock Messages In the United States, messages from Mary reported received by members of St. John Neumann parish, Lubbock, Tex., drew 12,000 to the church on the feast of the Assumption. The rosary was recited throughout the day until a five-hour-long evening Mass began.

Three parishioners have said they have been receiving messages from Mary every Monday evening.

Prior to Monday's Mass, many said the sun was pulsating and changing colors and during the Mass some reported seeing the sun spinning and seeing an outline of the Blessed Mother. Others said _ they saw nothing.

Bishop Michael J. Sheehan of Lubbock issued a statement in July saying he neither discourages nor encourages Catholic partici路 pation in the events at the parish.

He did not attend the Aug. 15 events.

Pilgrims began arriving at the Lubbock site Aug. 14, camping out in the cotton fields and parking lots surrounding the church and reciting the rosary in English, Spanish, Vietnamese and Czech.

Inside the underground church, hundreds gathered for laying on of hands and prayer for healing. Outside, long lines formed for the sacrament of penance.

Encyclical "eerily prophetic"

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LAURO CAVAZOS

Hispanic Catholic nominated as secretary of education If confirmed, Cavazos would be the first U.S. Hispanic to be a Cabinet official. He would succeed William J. Bennett, also a Catholic, who will leave the post Sept.20.

At a White House press conference at which he named Cavazos, Reagan said it was "an exciting moment" for Hispanics and all Americans.

However, Bustamante, also a Catholic, said Aug. 10 that "people are not blind to the administration's past treatment of the Hispanic community and the Hisp~nic community understands the politics behind this appointment."

Political commentators speculate that the Hispanic and Texas vote will be crucial in the upcoming presidential election.

CINCINNATI (NC) - ArchIn acceptiQg the nomination, bishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cin- Cavazos said he shared the views cinnati got his 54th birthday pres- of Reagan and Bennett on educaent a day early this year, returning tion and did not intend to change home Aug. 11 after a 19-day hos- the course of the department. pital stay.

Bishop Michael J. Sheehan of He is recuperating from a stroke Lubbock said in an Aug. 10 telethat was followed by successful phone interview that Cavazos is surgery to repair an aneurysm at "an example of someone who startthe base of his brain. ed from scratch, ... came from a The prelate, whose birthday was rural Texas Hispanic background Aug. 12, was expected to spend and worked 'his way up with deditwo weeks at home taking it easy cation and commitment." before gradually resuming work.

"He is the embodiment of the The archbishop, vice-president of American dream," said Bishop the National Conference of Catho- Sheehan, who said he regarded lic Bishops, lives in a rectory at St. Cavazos as a personal friend and a Louis Church, across the street "devout practicing Catholic." from archdiocesan offices in downCavazos is married to Peggy town Cincinnati.

Ann Murdock Cavazos, a nurse in Physicians called his recovery a Lubbock hospital. The two have "remarkable."

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100 percent normal," said Dr. The nominee has headed Texas Thomas Brott, associate professor Tech since 1980, and previously of neurology at University Hospi- was dean of the school of medicine tal Medical Center, Cincinnati, at Tufts University in Boston for who was among physicians caring five years. He holds a doctorate in for the archbishop during his hos- physiology from Iowa State Unipitalization at Good Samaritan versity and bachelor's and masHospital, Cincinnati. ter's degrees from Texas Tech.

Archbishop Pilarczyk, who sufCavazos was born on the King fered a stroke July 23 while vaca- Ranch in Texas, where his father tioning in Tennessee, underwent was a cattle foreman for 43 years, brain surgery July 25. Surgeons' and grew up speaking Spanish and placed a clamp on the aneurysm English.

-a bulge in an artery inside the The nominee has proven himskull - to redirect the blood flow self to be "an excellent administrato another blood vessel. tor ... to be president of a univerThe archbishop, who has headed sity is one of the hardest things the 19-county Cincinnati archdio- today," said Bishop Sheehan. cese since 1982, will not need any Bustamante said Cavazos was rehabilitation or therapy, accord- "very well respected" and "very ing to Brott. well prepared."

As his wheelchair was being "I am pleased with the appointpushed from the hospital door to ment. There are many Hispanics his car Aug. II, waiting reporters qualified to serve at the Cabinet asked how he felt. "Better than level. It's just too bad that this , when I came in," he replied with a appointment was made for politiwave. cal reasons," said Bustamante.

WASHINGTON (NC)-Churchmen in Lubbock, Texas, hailed President Reagan's nomination of Lauro F. Cavazos, a Hispanic Catholic, as secretary of education, calling him a family man and the "embodiment of the American dream."

But the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Rep. Albert Bustamante, D-Texas, said the administration's recognition of Hispanics came "too little too late."

Reagan nominated Cavazos, 61, president of Texas Tech University in Lubbock and a sixth-generation Texan, for the post Aug. 9.

PRINCETON, N.J. (NC) - The papal encyclical "Humanae Vitae" was "curiously and eerily prophetic" about the consequences of artificial contraception, says a pro-life physician who used to perform abortions.

Dr. Bernard N. Nathanson, a New York obstetrician-gynecologist, said that, just as Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical taught, "the unitive and procreative aspects of marriage were dealt a sundering blow by the advent of artificial, contraception."

"Ultimately, legalized abortion was the final sword," said the doctor who operated an abortion clinic in 1970-72 before becoming a prolife activist.

Nathanson, who is not Catholic, was a speaker at an early August symposium, "Trust the Truth," which featured lectures and discussions on "Humanae Vitae" in observance of the 20th anniversary of the document.

The symposium was cosponsored by the Aquinas Institute, the Catholic chaplaincy at Princeton University, and the Roman Academic Center Foundation of New Rochelle, N.Y., an organization associated with Opus Dei.

"Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life) reaffirmed church teaching that sexual intercourse is proper only within marriage and that every act of conjugal love should be open to the transmission of life.

Artificial means of birth control, it said, destroy the necessary connection between intercourse as an expression of unity and as a means of procreation.

While artificial contraception allowed conjugual unity but not procreation, Nathanson said, surrogate motherhood, in vitro fertilization and other new forms of conception allow procreation but not unity.

With abortion widely accepted, "the bioengineers were emboldened to split off the act of procreativity from the results of procreativity," he said. "In other words, 'Who needs you anyway, we only need your organs.' " The doctor also condemned the "selective feticide" often used with the in vitro fertilization technique to destroy unwanted embryos in the mother's womb. Normal practice is to place three or four fertilized eggs in the womb to increase chances that one will survive full term. .

A wide range of scientific experiments involve the "systematic and coldblooded manipUlation of the human body," he said. It "defiles our divinity and reduces us to the status of laboratory rats."

New York Auxiliary Bishop Austin B. Vaughan, another sym,posium speaker, said the whole

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church has been weakened by a lack of clarity in teaching about the encyclical in Catholic schools, the confessional and from the pulpit.

"There was no clear-cut response" to those who opposed the teaching "in Catholic colleges and universities, including in Rome," Bishop Vaughan said. "We live with a continued approval of teachers who clearly dissent from the encyclical."

Pope John Paul II's strong support for "Humanae Vitae" and concerns about the effects of artificial contraceptives have led to a reassessment of the document, the bishop said.

"It is more clear now that the document was prophetic than it was in 1968," he said. "The values of married life are more obvious and apparent than they were 20 years ago at the beginning of the great new age" of the so-called sexual revolution. "The great new age has collapsed," he said.

Cardinal Edouard Gagnon, president ofthe Pontifical Council for the Family, told symposium participants that there can be no doubt about the need for Catholics to follow the church teaching in "Humanae Vitae."

"The Holy Father has ~poken so clearly that nobody in gO,od conscience can say that it is not binding in conscience," the cardinal said.

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In 1822, this lovely young French "belle of the ball" gave up her beautiful gowns and parties and spent much of her time caring for the poor in a hospital for incurables.

Enough goodness for anyone, wouldn't you say? But no; Pauline Jaricot had a deep-down wish to "love without measure ...without end," to love the poorest of her sisters and ::0 brothers even at the ends of the earth.

In fulfilling her wish - by offering prayers and pennies for the Missions and persuading others to do the same- Pauline planted the seed of the PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH, the way you, today, can reach to all in the Missions who are lonely in their hearts without Christ.

Send your help today...the way Pauline did!

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ANYTHING FOR YOU

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Anything for you though you're not here Since you said we're through it seems like years Time keeps dragging on and on And forever's been and gone Still I can't figure what went Wrong.

I'd still do anything for -you 111 play your game You hurt me through and through But you can have your way I can pretend each time I see you That I don't care and I don't need you And though you11 never see me crying You ltnow inside I feel like dying.

And I'd do anything for you in spite of it all I've learned so much from you You made me strong Don't you ever think that I don't love you That for one minute I forgot you But sometimes things don't work out right And you just have to say goodbye I hope you find someone to please you Someone wh011 care and never leave you But if that someone ever hurts you You just might need a friend to turn to And I'd do anything for you III give you up If that's what I should do to make you happy I can pretend each time I see you That I don't care and I don't need you And though inside I feel like dying You know you11 never see me crying Don't you ever think that I don't love you That for one minute I forgot you But sometimes things don't work out right And you just have to say goodbye.

Recorded by Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine.

Written by Gloria Estelan. (c) 1987 by Foreign Imported Productions and Publishing Inc.

What's on your mind?

Q. There seem to be times when I just want to end my life and relieve , myself of aU the pain and confusion that is building up inside of me.

My family and I are not getting along and I feel that they do n~.t want me anymore. Also, I am seared of going away to college. It is very hard for me to make friends and I am afraid of being alone.

Could you please help me and give me some advice on' what I should do? (Washington)

A. Let's deal with your prob-

!em~ in the opposite order from

which you present them. First, your fear of being alone.

I suspect that once you have let some friends into your life, 'you will not mind periods of solitude so much. , Some people feel that they are "never less alone than when alone."

This, it seems .to me, is because they fill up their times of solitude with things that interest them.

Some read everything from detective storics to poe~ry. Others take a

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WHO IS TODAY'S most popular music group? Several names might come to mind. Surely a contender for the title would be Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine.

Their recent successes include a worldwide, sold-out concert tour and a string of chart hits. Their latest, "Anything for You," was No.1 just recently.

The song tells of someone's desire to be the friend of a fellow she formerly went with. She recognizes that the romance is over: "I can't figure what went wrong...

But sometimes things don't work out right and you just have to say goodbye."

She says she will not forget him and if he ever needs a friend, "I'd still do anything for you." Her words convey her wish that the romance's end not be the relationship's end. , Making the transi~ion from ~at­ ing to friendship means making an emotional adjustment. Whether it can happen depends on the indi" viduals·involved. Both must accept that they are no longer No.:l in the other's life.

Often the move to friendship does not occur until one or both people are dating someone else.

The couple is trying to build a new type of relationship, one that permits sharing on a different level of emotional involvement.

One key to this is the absence of jealousy. There can be no competition for the other person's affection. Each accepts and enjoys whatever can be shared in the friendship without being jealous of new people entering the other's life.

I believe teens and young adults should date several people. If a friendship grows in a dating relationship, it can turn out to be a lifelong asset.

Your comments are welcome.

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

By Michael Warren Many young people who consider themselves Christians think it's a "downer" when someone •suggests we take Jesus and his vision of reality seriously.

Jesus' way is, so fin removed from the way life is imagined in most television and films that it seems to be coming to us off the moon..

But I believe there is more truth, challenge, beauty and common sense in Jesus' way than we find say, in any afternoon soap.

How does Jesus imagine our lives?

First, he imagines us connected to one another, brothers and sisters given life by one Creator.

Jesus proposes we treat our neighbor with reverence bordering on awe. He goes further. He imagines that the least should be most cherished: the lepers, the maimed, those in anguish.

He imagines that those of us with privileges owe something to those with none.

Jesus does a little dramatic scenario in order to help his listeners picture what he means.

He describes the last judgment.

In his depiction of it the ones called to God's presence in the kingdom are those who cared for the sick, visited prisoners, gave food and drink to the hungry and thirsty and welcomed the stranger.

In Jesus' imagination of the scene, God tells everyone that when people do these things to the least of their sisters and brothers; they do them to God himself.

Second, Jesus imagines the world as nonviolent. Forgiveness, he says, is so .essential that a person' should leave a place of worship and make up with his or her enemies before presuming to worship God. Notice that Jesus doesn't imagine a world without conflict. There was' plenty of conflict in his own life that he himself initiated. But Jesus claims that human beings must respect and cherish one another's dignity.

In today's world where many men and women are trained as killers, this is an aspect of Jesus' imagination of ou~ lives that is hard to practice.

Man'y young people. I have talked to see Jesus' call to turn the other cheek as a kind of cruel joke.

Yet at his death Jesus asked God's forgiveness for th~se who were taking his life. , The elirly church understood all this well, as we can see in Timothfs Second .Le~ter (2:22-24): "Turn your back on the turbulent desires of youth and give positive attention ,to goodness, faith, love and peace... Have nothing to do with silly and ill-formed controversies which kad inevitably ... to strife. And the Lord's ser·vant must . not be a person of strife."

Jesus also imagines us living a life astonished at God's goodness, offering constant thanks in prayer.

Jesus imagines us trusting the God who cares for the flowers in the field and who knows us right down to the number of hairs on our heads.

Jesus imagines us sharing with others, even when we think there may not be enough for ourselves - the way he had the disciples give away their own small lunch.

Jesus' imagination of our lives is not glib or glittery. Neither is it popular. But it is true and good and worth trying to realize.

Some young people know this and are trying to live like Jesus.

Michael Warreo is a religious educator at St. Jobn's Univenity, Jamaica, N.Y.

In your campaign to make friends, don't expect results in five minutes and don't be discouraged by a few failures. Making friends demands continuing work and efBy fort.

In thinking about going away to TOM college, maybe you can focus on Bishop Connolly High School, the idea that you will have a chance Fan River, has announced its to see new sights, have new and LENNON orientation week schedule as folinteresting experiences and meet lows: new people who also will be a mite Freshmen: I to 4 p.m. Sept. 6. lonely and looking for new friends.

Sophomores: 8 to 11 a.m. Sept. 7.

While it's true that bad things Juniors: I to 4 p.m. Sept. 7. keen interest in nature. Some be- can happen, it's every bit as true Seniors: 8 to 11 a.m. Sept. 8. that good and even wonderful come more aware of the presence Classes are to begin Sept. 9. of God, who dwells in the spirit of things can happen. Focus orr the good things. every Christian. And some do In regard to your family probthings they can do best when alone lems and your thoughts of suicide, - studying, straightening up their rooms,' writing in' a journal or .I urge you to talk very soon to a diary; composing a poem or paint- school counselor, a favorite teacher, ' a priest or some otber professional ing, or some other creative activperson. ity.

And even as you do, remember What might have been empty hours, even frightening hours, be- , .: Leon, a young friend who some years ago was thinking of suicide. come a happy, entertaining time.

He went through terribly difficult How to make friends when'you , Jind it hard to do so? Might you. times with his family. He told me recently: begin by trying'to 'form a friendly "I'm glad I hung in there. Lots spirit within yourself! Try to adopt an attitude. of believing that eve- . of good things have happened to me in the past seven years, wondryone you meet is friendly until erful experiences that I would never they prove otherwise. have had ifI had killed myself. The Be sensibly trusting. Greet peodark times are hard, awfully hard, ple with a smile, a friendly face. Be butnow I want always to remember aware that other people value friendship too and perhaps are as inse- that if life gets painful, that will end and good times will come cure as you feel.

YOUNGSTERS get in some summer hoop at Fall River's Arm yourself with topics for again."

Anawan Street CYO hall during a recent grades six through Send comments and questions small talk by reading newspapers and listening to TV newscasts, to Tom Lennon, 1312 Mass. Ave. eight summer league game. Ref is Al Vaillancourt, the CYO's associate director. (Motta photc) N.W., Washington, D.C. ~OOOS. especially the local news.

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In news WASHINGTON (NC) - When WWL-TV of New Orleans came out first on a list of the nation's most-watched local news broadcasts last spring, faculty at Loyola University of New Orleans cheered.

The Jesuit institution owns the CBS affiliate and reaps millions of dollars from it annually. Top ranking means increased ad revenue, thus more profits for the school.

Jesuit Father>Thomas H. Clancy, 64, faculty director of WWL and . Loyola's radio stations, WWLAM and WLNG-FM, spoke in a telephone interview about his unique position - running what may be the only church-owned network affiliate in one of the country's top-50 markets. The University of Notre Dame owns WNDU, the NBC affiliate in South Bend, Ind., a relatively small market area.

Father Clancy's decade at WWL has been enjoyable, he said, though not without controversy. For exampIe, WWL radio, also a CBS affiliate, cut twice fro~ a Sunday Mass program to an NFL football game.

Cutting away from the Mass brought the outcry: "Which is more important - the Mass or the game?" he said. But not cutting away "would have created hundreds of thousands of anti-Catholics in New Orleans," said the priest.

A decision not to air a CBS network TV program on Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, also brought criticism. .

For the most part, however, the priest does "not have a big problem with CBS," he said.

Not that all he airs could be shown in church, however. For example, WWL shows "Dallas," a sophisticated nighttime soap.

"It's not one of my favorites but I'm not corrupting anyone by not taking it offthe air," Father Clancy said. He described "Dallas" as a step above two syndicated shows the station refuses to air - "The Dating Game" and "The Newlywed Game."

Each is "one long dirty joke," he said. And "The Dating Game," on which contestants choose a date

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FATHER CLANCY after hearing answers to mostly titillating questions, is "a meatmarket." . WWL has won four Peabody Awards, television's equivalent to Pulitzers for newspapers. Two were for documentaries, which the station airs often. WWL uses only four syndicated shows: "M.A.S.H.,", "The Oprah Winfrey Show,""Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune."

Father Clancy is surprised by what people will tolerate from talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey, he said, noting that WWL holds the show until station personnel can preview it.

Because the church sponsors WWL, people at the station feel called "to a certain mark of excellence" and do a lot of public interest programming, he said.

"He tells people that the best publicity is through the evening news and warns them that reporters always are suspicious when management suggests a story. It's easier to push a story about nuns than priests, he said. "Reporters think nuns are charming and priests are dull."

His theory was reinforced at a recent CBS affiliates meeting in Los Angeles, he added. Stars from "60 Minutes" selected the favorite piece each had done, and Diane Sawyer's choice was about a Belgian nun living and helping the poor at a trash dump in Cairo, Egypt.

Father Clancy said the station, founded by Loyola, is New Orleans' most popular TV station, making "enormous" profits. Exact figures are not public but WWL gives "millions annually" to Loyola, he said. .

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

General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG·13-parentalgui· dance strongly sugested for children under 13; PG-parentalguidance suggested; I-restricted, unsuitable for children or young teens.

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

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

New Films "The Blob"(Tri-Star) - Technical wizardry highlights this remake of the 1958 cult classic which focuses on two teens (Shawnee Smith and Kevin Dillon) who help save their town from being sucked up by the insidious plasma. Several grisly blob encounters, some profanity and a dumb condom segment. A3, R "Cocktail" (Touchstone) - A young man (Tom Cruise) learns about life and love as a career bartender in New York. A colossal bore. Sexual promiscuity, pregnancy outside marriage, excessive alcohol consumption, off-camera suicide, some profanity. A3, R "Hero and the Terror" (Cannon) - Chuck Norris is a Los Angeles detective agonized by the escape of a brutal murderer (Jack O'Halioran) from a· mental facility. This film just doesn't wash.

Numerous graphic neck-breaking scenes, gruesome half-naked corpses, some locker-room language and childbirth outSIde marriage.

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"The Rescue" (Touchstone) Implausible fantasy about four teenagers and a 10-year-old who rescue their Navy fathers from a North Korean prison camp features a most improbable climax. Some rough language and comic-book violence. A2, PG "Vibes"(Columbia) - Two psychics (Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Goldblum) are lured to Ecuador ostensibly to save the son of a seedy adventurer (Peter Falk) who really wants them to psyche out some Incan gold. Misuses many comic lines and its talented cast. Some sexual innuendo, minimal rough language. A3, PG Films on TV Sunday, Aug. 18, 9·n p.m. EDT (NBC) - "PoUce Academy 1: Their Fint Assignment" (198S) - Vulgar sequel is lackluster and unfunny. Sexually oriented humor.

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EDT (NBC) - "Fandango"(198S) - It's May 1971, and five newly minted Texas college graduates take a car trip to the Mexican border in search of their lost youth - fleeing Vietnam, marriage, regular jobs and other fearful specters. Sporadically amusing but more often sentimental, self-indulgent and tedious. Some brief nudity meant to be comic. A2, PO Religious TV Sunday, Aug. 11, (CBS) - "For Our Times" - How Asian immigrants have added to the richness of America's religious diversity, society and culture.

Religious Radio Sunday, Aug. 11 (NBC) "Guideline" - Jesuit Father John Snyder discusses formation of future priests.

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Beginning this year, gone will be the annual scramble in closets, attics and cellars for usable clothing to be donated to Catholic Relief Services' Thanksgiving clothing drive.

The drive, held for more than 40 years in parishes across the nation, is to be operated in the future only ."as needed," the agency announced Aug. 8.

The announcement said that increased costs in transportation of clothing, coupled with steadily declining government transport grants, were behind the decision to suspend the drive. .

In addition, it noted a rise in textile manufacturing in developing countries accompanied by restrictions by some local governments on the import of used clothing.

The annual clothing drive usually generated an average of 16 million pounds of clothing, which

was shipped to nations in which CRS operated for use in emergency situations and training workshops.

But in 1987, CRS shipped only about 4 million pounds of clothing to 28 countries. The agency anticipates it will send only 3 million pounds to nations with such a need in each of the next few years.

Dioceses will continue to participate on a rotating basis in drives for clothing and bedding but for the next two years, CRS will be able to meet its needs with surplus clothing already stored in its New Jersey warehouse.

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ST. STANISLAUS, FR Men's Club meeting Sunday. Special blessing for engaged couples after 10:30 a.m. Mass Aug. 28.

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SACRED HEART, N.ATTLEBORO Installation of Father Marcel H. Bouchard as pastor at 10:30 a.m.

Mass Sept. 25. Arthur and Rita Chabot are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Representatives of the Mill Hill Fathers will speak at all Masses this weekend.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Frank Foley has donated Marian year mementos for distribution to parishioners. Adventure youth group membership meeting 7 p.m. Aug. 29.

Youth and adult choirs forming; registration in St. Joseph's room in rear of church.

F AMILY LIFE CENTER, N. DARTMOUTH Engaged Encounter begins today.

Divorced and separated support group meets 7 p.m. Monday.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Fellowship summer retreat this weekend. Folk group will play at 10:30 a.m. Mass Sundays beginning next month; new members welcome.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Outdoor concert featuring Father Andre Patenaude, MS, 7:30 p.m.

Aug. 27, Garden of Worship, follows 6:30 p.m. garden Mass with Father Philip Salois, MS, as celebrant and Father Patenaude leading music ministry; indoors in case of rain; all welcome. Eighth annual Polish Pilgrimage Day Aug. 28 begins I :30 p.m.: living rosary, confessions, procession and polka Mass with main celebrant and homilist Father Cornelian Dende.. OFM Conv., director ofthe "Father Justin Rosary Hour," a Polish-language radio program; program music by Kozlowski Orchestra; all services in Garden of Worship, weather permitting; all of Polish heritage welcome; information: 222-5410.

MCFL, SWANSEA Massachusetts Citizens for Life Swansea chapter meeting 7 p.m.

Thursday, Swansea Public Library; educational pamphlets and resources available; all welcome; information: Pauline Desrosiers, 673-4939.

Appeal made for Sudan aid

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Caritas Internationalis, a Vatican-based association of Catholic aid organizations, has appealed for assistSEPARATED AND DIVORCED, ance for Sudanese flood victims FR whose numbers may reach 2 milGreater Fall River support group lion. meeting 7 p.m. Wednesday, Our The organization issued the apLady of Fatima Church hall, Swanpeal following torrential rain!! in sea; new members welcome. early August which have produced O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK record flooding and severed comPersons interesting in building munication lines with Sudan's caphousing for the needy through Habiital city, Khartoum. tat for Humanity may contact Sam Caritas organizations in the Barchi, 336-4745. .

Netherlands, Italy, Austria and GerIMMACULATE CONCEPTION, many have responded to the appeal, TAUNTON while in the United States, Catholic Altar boys' pool party Aug. 29; Relief Services is preparing to send meet 1:30 p.m. rectory. aid based on a recently completed BREAD OF LIFE field report.

PRAYER COMMUNITY Jesuit Father Thomas FitzpaBread of Life prayer group retreat Sept. 30 through Oct. 2, Cathedral trick, who runs Caritas's' operaCamp, E. Freetown; retreatmaster: tions desk, said that those worst Father Joseph M. Costa; informahit by the flooding are refugees tion: Fred Demetrius, 644-2375. displaced by Sudan's civil war in ST. FRANCIS OF ASSlSI, NB the south and Ethiopians fleeing Women's League meeting Sept. the civil war in their country.

15, following 7 p.m. Mass; guest The flooding of Khartoum and speaker: Edward Karl. the eastern half of Sudan, geograST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN phically Africa's largest country, is Adoration 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. the result of unusually heavy rain today, church. The II a.m. Sunday which dumped more than double Mass, normally celebrated in the school, will be said in the church the country's annual average rainfall on the region.

Aug. 21.

According to the English CathoST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH lic relief agency CAFOD, which is Area native Bishop Joseph Regan, the liaison for Caritas InternationMM, will speak at weekend Masses. alis with Sudan, as many as 10 ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, other cities besides Khartoum have POCASSET Babysitting available during 9:30 suffered flooding.

Because of rising rivers, there is a.m. Mass Sundays, parish center. a "high probability" that sluice HOLY NAME, FR gates will have to be opened to Confirmation II retreat days Nov. avoid dam ruptures, said an Aug. 5 and 12.

9 CAFOD memo to Caritas InterST. JOSEPH,TAUNTON nationalis.

A parish newsletter has made its "This will result in a tidal wave, debut. Fall River's retired Sisters of certain further flooding of Kharthe Sacred Hearts remembered the toum and settlements along the intentions of parishioners in prayer river," it added. this week. Miraculous Medal Novena Mondays; rosary 7: 10 p.m.; Benediction 7:30 p.m. Adult choir sings at 10:30 a.m. Mass Sundays; new members welcome.

A United Nations Disaster Relief Organization report Aug. 9 said a helicopter tour of the affected areas in Khartoum revealed at least 80 percent of residential areas under water, leaving "families stranded on heaps of rubble, formerly their houses."

Because of damage to power plants, the capital has less than one-sixth of the power it normally requires, the U.N. report said.

In addition, the hard-hit eastern part of the country is the site of refugee camps for Ethiopians fleeing the war in Eritrea province.

This section of the country is also where most ofthe country's food is grown, Father Fitzpatrick said, meaning possible food shortages later in the year.

Smudging rite RAPID CITY, S.D. (NC) Native American Bishop Charles J. Chaput has been ordained for the diocese of Rapid City during a celebration that began with a ceremonial rite of purification performed by an Ojibway Indian.

Bishop Chaput, 43, a Capuchin and a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Indian tribe, is the second U.S. Native American bishop. The Rapid City Diocese has about 35,000 Catholics, nearly half of whom are Lakota Indian, also known as Sioux.

The rite of purification, known as smudging, was performed by Capuchin Father John Hascall, an Ojibway and president of the National Tekakwitha Conference, an organization for North American Catholic native peoples.

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BRIDGETON, Mo. (NC) U.S. Catholic Conference ratings for movies determine which videocassettes patients at a Catholic hospital in suburban St. Louis may rent during their hospital stay.

Rentals of videotapes and players are available to patients at DePaul Health Center in Bridgeton through a video rental store called Gift Shop Videos sponsored by the DePaul Auxiliary, said Cynthia Meyer, the auxiliary's president.

Each videocassette is labeled with its film classification as determined by the USCe's Department of Communication, she said.

No films rated "morally objectionable" by the USCC are available in the hospital's video rental shop.

"Using the USCC rating system allows the hospital to offer only acceptable movies and gives us a

tremendous educational opportunity," said Mike McNearny, owner of a private firm that supplies the video units.

"If someone asks how come we don't have "Witches of Eastwick" we can tell them it's because the bishops' conference objects to the movie," McNearny said.

He said he keeps a list of every movie rated by the USCC in the past 20 years. Hospital employees and others may contact the video firm for information on film ratings.

Without the rating system, said Liz Miskozsky, a member of the auxiliary, "you rent a flick and you don't know what you're getting."

Profits from the rentals are to be used for improvements at DePaul Health Center, which is operated by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.

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