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POPE JOHN PAUL II's itinerary begins Sept. lOin Miami and winds up with a brief stop in Fort Simpson in Canada's Northwest Territories Sept. 20.

Papal trip a pastoral visit, says NCCD head WASHINGTON (NC) - Although press reports have focused on papal souvenirs and grievances of special interest groups, the visit of Pope John Paul II to the United States should be seen "first and foremost" as a pastoral visit to U.S. Catholics, Archbishop John L. May of St. Louis said recently.

The president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops made the remarks at a media briefing in Washington on the upcoming visit.

The September trip calls attention to the "essential unity" U.S. Catholics have with one another and the pope, he said, adding that it also will be an "opportunity and a challenge to American Catholics to affirm their religious identity."

Archbishop May, in a statement, said the "excitement level is high and rising rapidly," especially in the 10 U.S. cities where the pope will stop.

While the pope will visit with a number of non-Catholics, the visit is primarily for Catholics and should be understood and evaluated in relation to them, the archbishop said.

The theme for the visit, "Unity in the Work of Service," calls attention to the "vast network" of church institutions, programs and ministries serving the nation as

well as unity with the pope.

He said he had no quarrel with stories about souvenirs, such as "popesicles" and "other trivia" but said he hoped such coverage along with stories on the "slant third parties wish to give the visit" won't entirely distract from its importance.

He said the visit also will encourage Catholics to affirm their religious identity at a time when there is confusion "in the minds of quite a few good sincere Catholics over just what it means to be a Catholic - to believe like a Catholic and to live like a Catholic in a wealthy, consumerist, nucleararmed, secularized country like this one in 1987."

To a question on whether the pope would be prepared for demonstrations that could occur along the route, Archbishop May said he saw "no indications of great demonstrations or mass uprisings against the pope."

He added that he was not trivializing dissension some Catholics may express on certain issues, including women's rights and homosexuality, but that "those subjects are nothing new or nothing particularly American. He's faced those again and again. I don't think he's going to satisfy everyone. As a teacher ofCatholic truth, he doesn't change his message."

Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati, NCCB vice-president, also at the briefing, said the pope "will come and teach in accord with the role he has in the Catholic Church and present Catholic teaching as cogently, pastorally and persuasively as he can."

Dolores Leckey, director of the U.S. bishops' Office for the Laity, said that in some ofthe cities there will be "structured dialogue" during which representatives from specific groups will make a presentation, followed by a response from the pope.

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.Glass escape called a "miracle" WASHINGTON (NC) - The. escape of hostage Charles Glass from kidnappers in Lebanon Aug. 17 was through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin and in answer to his parents' prayers for a miracle on the feast of the Assumption, their parish priest said.

Father John Neiman spoke about the release in a telephone interview with National Catholic News Service shortly after he offered a Mass of thanksgiving Aug. 18 for the release of the American who was grabbed by gunmen two months before in a suburb of West Beirut.

The 6:30 a.m. Mass was celebrated at St. John Fisher parish, Palos Verdes, Calif. Glass' father and stepmother attended.

The younger Glass, former correspondent for ABC-TV, was kid-

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napped by gunmen June 17 in an area of West Beirut which is under the control of militant pro-Iranian Shiite Moslems.

Since his kidnapping Glass has been prayed for daily in the parish, and Father Neiman credited the intercession of the Blessed Virgin with the escape by Glass, who climbed through a window in the middle of the night as his captors slept.

"On Friday (Aug. 14) Jane Glass called me and wanted to schedule a Mass for Charles for the feast of the Assumption the next day," Father Neiman said. She spoke of hoping for a miracle, he said.

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North Falmouth mortgage paid "Thanks to the extraordinary cooperation and generosity of both our year-round and seasonal parishioners, the debt on both our church and rectory is now paid; So says a happy Father Joseph L. Powers, pastor of St. Elizabeth Seton parish, North Falmouth.

After a recent Mass the parish celebrated its achievement in style with a mortgage termination ceremony.

At the ceremony, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, on a pastoral visit to the Cape Cod church, and Father Powers tore papers symbolizing the mortgage.

The approximately 550 persons who gathered for the Aug. 9 Mass and to meet the bishop responded with much applause, Father Powers said.

Bishop Cronin was the liturgy's principal celebrant. He was accompanied by Msgr. John J. Oliveira, who served as master ofceremonies.

Father Powers and Father Timothy J. Goldrick, St. Elizabeth's parochial vicar, were concelebrants.

The parish choir, Father Powers said, prepared special music for the event.

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About the cost ofthe trip, Archbishop May said it would cost each American Catholic about 50 cents or a total of $22 million, a cost he said "is a marketing reality."

Another official at the briefing, Norman Francis, president of Xavier University in New Orleans, the nation's only predominantly black Catholic college, later said that black Catholics, whom the pope will address in New Orleans, hope the Holy Father will address the issue of racism in the church and the need for more black bishops as ordinaries of dioceses.

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BISHOP Cronin, right, and Father Powers can't help but grin during St. Elizabeth Seton parish's mortgage termination ceremony.

BISHOP VISITS EAST FREETOWN CAMPS

BISHOP Daniel A. Cronin recently'enjoyed summer visits to Cathedral Camp for boys and Our Lady of the Lake Camp for girls, both in East Freetown. His activities included, clockwise from top right, addressing Our Lady of the Lake campers; receiving a T-shirt gift from campers Kathryn O'Brien and Arthur Hancock; greeting the boys at Cathedral Camp; meeting with, from left, Father Jon-Paul Gallant, assistant to Father George E. Harrison, far right, director of the camps, seminarian Charles Jodoin, Cathedral Camp program director, and seminarian John Sullivan, that camp's assistant head counselor; admiring the sign that greeted him upon his arrival. (Rosa photos)

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Cardinal Patrick A.O'Boyle.

WASHINGTON (NC) - Car.dinal Patrick A. O'Boyle, first resident archbishop of Washington, will be remembered as teacher, adminstrator and civil rights leader but also as pastor, the role "he enjoyed most," said Bishop Thomas W. Lyons of Washington.

Bishop Lyons made the comments in a homily at the Aug. 14 funeral Mass at St. Matthew's Cathedral for Cardinal O'Boyle, who died Aug. 10. Archbishop James A. Hickey of Washington was the main celebrant.

Seven U.S. cardinals, several bishops and over 200 priests and deacons filed into the crowded cathedral· and past the prelate's cloth-draped casket, with his croz~ ier at its head and the familiar red biretta at its foot.

Among those at the Mass was U.S. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett and several local government officials.

The cardinal, who was 91, died of pneumonia and kidney failure.

Jewish leaders to meet with pope

LOS ANGELES (NC) - Jewish leaders in Los Angeles recently announced that they would meet with Pope John Paul II on Sept.

16, as scheduled.

Rabbi Harvey Fields, interreligious chairman of the Southern California Board of Rabbis, said the decision was made because of the pope's willingness to meet in Rome with Jewish leaders.

After the pope held a controversial meeting with Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, as reported in last week's Anchor, some Jewish leaders threatened not to attend a Sept. 11 meeting scheduled with As archbishop of Washington the pope in Miami, the first stop from 1948-73, he made consideraon his visit to the United States. ble achievements in civil rights and "We were delighted that the social welfare, and he ordered the Vatican doors of dialogue were desegregation of archdiocesan opened, and that we can look forCatholic schools five years before ward to strengthening our own the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court dialogue," said Rabbi Fields, decision l;>arring segregation in senior rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard public schools.

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Following the Mass, interment • The Sept. 16 meeting will be a was in a chapel crypt at the cathedcelebration of "Nostra Aetate," ral reserved for Washington's the Vatican II document of nonarchbishops.

Christian religions. Jewish, BudCardinal O'Boyle "related so dhist, Moslem and Hindu repreeasily with people of every age and sentatives will meet with the pope station .... he was most touched at the J~pan America Center. by individuals," Bishop Lyons U.S. Catholic officials and some said.

Jewish leaders have said they hope He recalled the cardinal's child- the planned meeting in Rome hood and how the son of Irish between Vatican officials and Jewimmigrant parents whose father ish representatives will help ease died when he was 10 rose from a strained relations between the two working-class neighborhood in groups.

Scranton, Pa., to head the U.S. Vatican-Jewish relations have bishops' massive War Relief Ser- been strained since Pope John vices - now called Catholic Relief Paul II met June 25 with WaldServices - during and immediately heim, who has been accused of after World War II. Nazi wartime activities in called the prelate "a complex Yugoslavia. man" but "a man of simple, direct, strong faith."

What will be discussed at the Cardinal O'Boyle, who had been Rome meeting and its date have the oldest U.S. cardinal and the not been set, although officials fourth oldest prelate in the College from both sides expect the meeting of Cardinals, is survived by four to be held later this month. cousins in Scranton.

He was named a cardinal in Under Grace 1967. His death brings the mem"Sin shall have no dominion bership of the College of Cardinals to 140, of whom 102 are under the over you; for you are not under the age of80 and thus eligible to elect a law but under grace." - Rom. 6:14 new pope..

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Moral theology document coming VATICAN CITY (NC) - In an effort to help guide Catholics Jhrough a "changed social-cultural context," the Vatican is preparing a document on the fundamentals of moral theology, Pope John Paul II has announced.

The pope made the announcement in a recent apostolic letter to the Redemptorist religious order, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of the congregation's founder, St. Alphonsus Liguori. The pope praised the saint's attitude toward theological research and his defense of papal primacy and papal infallibility.

"Especially in our age, no one can ignore the great importance of moral theology," the pope said in the 12-page letter. One. of the church's modern missions, he said, was to make people rediscover the correct relationship of truth, goodness and freedom - a relationship that "has been largely lost in contemporary culture."

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make its own "contribution of enlightenment" in an upcoming document, "dealing, in a wider and more profound way, with questions regarding the very foundations of moral theology."

The pope acknowledged that modern life poses new moral problems that "are often not easy to resolve." But he said that individually and in the teaching ministry, Catholics have the duty to follow "the word of God, which is authentically interpreted by the church's magisterium."

He added that the church's teachings need to be applied with pastoral tolerance and charity.

parallels between his times and the current crisis facing moral theologians."

St. Alphonsus, a member of a noble Naples family, abandoned a law practice and founded the Redemptorists in 1732. Formally called the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, the missionary order ofabout 6,400 priests and brothers works in 63 countries, with the largest memberships in the United States, Italy and Brazil.

St. Alphonsus was canonized in 1839 and declared a doctor of the church in 1871.

The pope did not say when the document would be ready, nor which Vatican agency was preparing it. A Vatican press spokesman said he had no further information about the expected document or its contents.

In his letter, the pope praised St. Alphonsus for his clear writings on faith and morals, his sympathy as a confessor and his understanding of the way the church works.

"He had particular veneration for the Supreme Pontiff, whose primacy and infallibility he defended in difficult times," the pope said.

In an article in a recent issue of the Jesuit magazine America, a leading moral theologian, Redemptorist Father Bernard Haring, said it was "astonishing" that during his lifetime St. Alphonsus "was attacked solely by rigorists who accused him of dissenting from the teaching of the magisterium and of dangerous laxism."

Father Haring, writing from Alphonsian University in Rome, said that in a careful reading of some of the saint's works he found "many

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themoorin~ The Ministry of Adult Education It won't be long before school bells ring and our thoughts once again return to the classroom. For most parishes it's time to renew and revise existing religious education programs, which generally emphasize basic agendas for the spiritual development of children.

Growing numbers of parishes, though, are giving equal time to adult formation and education. There is little doubt that local religious instruction must reach out to fulfill the needs of adult parishioners. This effort must indeed be encouraged and supported in all its dimensions.

And it is most important that as adult endeavors develop special care and concern be extended to the persons who direct them.

Adult religious educators, like other ministers, respond to a call for service to the church, their call often taking the form of a strong desire to work with adult learners or to see adult education as a logical extension of what is already done in catechesis with children.

Whatever the reason, it is important that the adult religious educator brings to this special ministry suitable competencies and attitudes which will enable him or her to serve well the adult learner's needs. Too many well-intentioned programs have already flounded on the rocks of incompetence and unskillfulness.

Few people who work in parish-level adult education programs enter the arena with formal training. On the job learning is the usual rule pf thumb. Fortunately, programs to develop adult religious educators are now evolving in many dioceses.

There is probably no attribute more important to adult religious educators than sp'irituality. It should not be a mere emotional or superficial whim of soul that directs one to this important mininstry. The person who undertakes this important and needed work sh.ould be an individual deeply committed to the spiritual disciplines, to prayer, to the sacramental life of th~ church and $0 authentic and approved teachings. More damage to souls is done by the dilettante who flitslrom one passing fad to another and whose sense of church is personal, subjective and inward.

This special ministry requires one to be a guide, leading a<J.ults on a pilgrimjourney in search of that wisdom and truth which is Christ. No one can hope to perform that role well unless they have some personal experience of the faith j ourney and of the challenges it presents.

A good teacher should always keep in mind his or her inadequacies. So often our level of expectation in ministry is more than exaggerated. One must always realize that in such a ministry as adult religious education, it is God who is the true educator, the one who causes the growth in faith.

Another quality that is important in today's church mission is optimism. Teachers in the church should be spiritual optimists. They must believe in the church with all that means in the long history of God's holy people.

There are many other essential skills that adult religious educators should pursue. It is essential that they be person centered and get to know those they serve. They should also be realistic. We all must learn to live with considerable amounts of ambiguity. Certitude is relegated to the divine.

The task is not easy but it is needed. There are no easy answers to the problems. We should never forget, however, that adult education is a service to life and faith. It helps us to be instruments in Thy kingdom come.

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C-elebrating the Constitution WASHINGTON (NC) ....:.. In 1787, "we the people," or, precisely, the people's representatives, convened in Philadelphia during a Bot, hectic summer to revise the Articles of Confederation loosely connecting the 13 states.

Instead of a revision, the country got-a Constitution.

Among the 39 delegates who signed the historic document on Sept. 17, 1787, were two prominent Catholics: Daniel Carroll of Maryland and Thomas FitzSimons of Pennsylvania.

Today, their religious descendants are celebrating the Constitution and all the values it embodies, including equality of religious believers.

The latter is of particular interest, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant officials said in a statement saluting the Constitution on the eve of the Fourth of July this year.

The leaders - Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye, a Taunton native who is' general secretary ofthe U.S..Catholic Conference; the Rev. Arie R. Brouwer, general secretary of the National Council of Churches; and Rabbi Henry D. Michelman, ex, ecutive vice-president of the Synagogue Council of America praised the Constitution for offering a "stable yet adaptable framework" for a "government based on the principles ofliberty and equality.

"The religious community especially esteems the protections of religious liberty written into the original Constitution and expanded upon in the First Amendment," the trio added. "They have safeguarded the aspirations" of generations of newcomers and "created a continuing climate of voluntary devotion in which religion has flourished," the statement said.

Before the American Revolution, colonial governments restricted certain civic rights on religious

grounds. Even Maryland, founded and promote awareness of it.

by Catholics, from the late 1600s The events, such as lectures, until 1775 forbade Catholics to debates and exhibits, are being vote or hold office. 'coordinated through the 28-instituBy contrast, the Constitution tion Association ofJesuit Colleges insists, in Article VI, that "no relig- and Universities, which was the ious test shall ever be required as a first higher educational association qualification to any office or pub- to be recognized by'the Commislic trust under the United States." sion on the Bicentennial of the Subsequently, the Bill of Rights United States Constitution as a was ratified, -effective on Dec. 15, formal bicentennial participant.

1791. In the very 'first sentence of The intent of the programs is the First Amendment, the nation educational, said Jesuit Father decreed that "Congress shall make William C. Mcinnes, president of no law respecting an establishment the Jesuit association. "In learning of religion, or prohibiting the free about the Constitution 'we are exercise thereof. . . ." learning about ourselves and the In letters and statements, Arch- role that church-related education bishop John Carroll of BaltiJDore, • has played in the development of Catholic America's first bishop, our country." the 'brother of Daniel Carroll, had Another Catholic university, the advocated such liberty.

University of Dallas, also is parti"Freedom and independence ac- cipating in the Constitution bicenquired by the united efforts and tennial. Through funding from the cemented with the mingled blood National Endowment for the Huof Protestants and Catholic fellow manities, the university is sponsorcitizens should be equally enjoyed ing a three-year series of programs by all," then-FatIter Carroll wrote on "the principles that bind together in December 1787. all parts of the Constitution and In a 1789 letter to George Wash- impart to it a definite spirit," the ington, he, brother Daniel, cousin bicentennial commission anCharles (a signer of the Declara- nounced. tion of Independence) and other Meanwhile, Archbishop J. Franprominent Catholics declared that cis Stafford of Denver, in a pas"whilst our country preserves her toral letter commemorating the freedom and independence, we shall Constitution, the upcoming 200th have a well-founded title to claim anniversary ofthe U.S. hierarchy, from her justice equal rights of and the IOOth birthday of the ,citizenship, as the price ... of our Denver See, cited the contribucommon exertions for her defense tions Catholics can make to restor... rights rendered more dear to ing public virtue. us by the remembrance of former "As we open the third century of hardships." our common life under the ConstiAs it turned out, "toleration tution, perhaps we can understand granted by the Bill of Rights has more clearly that what America put all on the same footing and has requires today is a renewal of civic been of great service to us," said virtue," he wrote. "In this way, our Jesuit Father Joseph Mosley, who celebration of the Constitution will lived through the limitations ofthe become more than the commemocolonial period. ration of a remarkable piece of Jesuits of today are sponsoring political craftsmanship. It will a "National Dialogue," with events become a genuine recommitment at Jesuit colleges and universities to the goals of liberty and justice to help celebrate the Constitution for all."

Readers' choices Some time ago I ask readers what topics they'd like to see treated in columns. I asked specifically whether you wanted more or less family, singles, humor, and/ or religious columns.

Your response was gratifying.

Many of you wrote long letters commenting on the Catholic press in general. Others sent lists of topics you would like addressed in future columns.

Let me thank you here collectively. I apPfeciate all who took time to write, especially with the busy lives we all lead.

In general, you want columns on family, particulary issues dealing with children, humor, and faith but related to daily life situations.

Many of you urged me to "keep telling it like it is."

Here are just a few specific topics you requested: - Children and collection envelopes at Sunday Masses. How do we make them meaningful and convenient? They're such a hassle when you have several children.

Isn't there a better way of teaching children. responsibility for church upkeep?

- How do you encourage a child to aspire to religious life? I don't know how to approach it and language like "discernment" and "calling" don't cut it in our style of conversation.

- Write more on loneliness in marriage, parent burnout, teen Silicide and peer pressure. Less humor, please.

- Anything on family. We need so much and get so little. But keep it hopeful - and funny.

- Can you write a column on living through alcoholism in the family without bitterness?

- I wish you would write something for parents with unmarried children who are living with a partner of the opposite sex. How are we supposed to react and behave toward them?

- If I wrote a family column, I'd write about the family life of the newly ordained Roman Catholic married priests (converts from other faiths). How do they live?

How are they accepted by parishioners? Are they aIMI their families living normal and happy lives?

Does a priest's wife incur problems she did not have as wife of a minister?

- With so much emphasis on education, are we forgetting to teach our children about being LOVING human beings?

- What help can you give middle-aged mothers? Children are marrying, divorcing, can't get jobs. We see articles for parents of the young. What about us?

- I would like to see a column on teenagers who don't seem to be enjoying their high school years as

Church music Some people will tell you emphatically that" they will never discuss politics or religion because these discussions end in a battle. A topic within religion which can evoke a similar volatile response is church music..

In a report, "The Liturgical Life of Catholic Parishioners in the United States," Dr. Mark Searle, a liturgical researcher for the Notre Dame Study of Catholic Life, studied 71 Masses celebrated in 36 different parishes, His survey indicates that the subject of liturgical music is certainly controversial.

He found that Gregorian chant or chant-like music and polyphony' are seldom used in parishes. Folk music is ~~e predominant musical style found in most Masses.

However, a little more than a third of the parishioners report that they are not happy about what is sung or how it is performed.

Searle also found that in 48 percent of the Masses, "participation in the opening rites - which om: might consider indicative of how ihe rest of the celebration was likely to go - ranged from mechanical to listless."

This came as no big surprise since 13 percent of all Masses observed had no music; 51 percent had no organ accompaniment; 66 percent had no choir or music group to lead the congregation; 62 percent had no cantor.

Searle's findings might lead some parishioners to say they wish they were among the 13 percent of parishes that have no music.

Others might agree with the over one-third who are unhappy with the way music is handled in their parishes.

And there might be some who remember the days of Gregorian chant and polyphony and who

pine for a return to the past.

Why have music at all if it can cause so much controversy? Vatican II and its vision of music will help answer this queslion.

The Constitution of the Liturgy observes: "Prayer is expressed in a more attractive way, the mystery of the liturgy is more openly shown, the unity of hearts is more profoundly achieved by the union of ;voices."

The ancient Greek philosopher Plato believed that our whole life was in constant need of rhythm and harmony and that music

August 11 1962, Rt. Rev. Manuel J. Teixeira, Pastor, St. Anthony, Taunton 1972, Rev. William R. Jordan, Pastor, St. Louis, Fall River , 1980, Rev. Msgr. Joseph C. Canty, Retired Pastor, St. Paul, Taunton August 13 1895, Rev. Thomas Clinton, Pastor, St. Peter, Sandwich August 14 1884, Rev. Peter J.B. Bedard, Founder, Notre Dame, Fall River 1962, Very Rev. James F. Gilchrist, CPM,Vicar General of the Congregation of the Fathers of Mercy August 15 1974, Rev. Joseph F. Hanna, Founder, Holy Cross, South Easton 1960, Rt. Rev. Francisco C. Bettencourt, Pastor, Santo Christo, Fall River 1978, Rev. Msgr. Hugh A. Gallagher, Pastor Emeritus, St. James, New Bedford

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By DOLORES CURRAN

fully as I did mine. How can we help them enjoy these relatively carefree years?

- What about grandparents and grandchildren keeping in touch when they're miles apart?

- Need help 'on how young adults who need e)asses in religious education, Bible, prayer and social interaction with other Catholics can find these.

- Perfectionism in children!

How do we help them accept limitations and themselves?

- Spanking and otherwise abusing toddlers at Mass. How do I as a Christian deal with this?

- The lives of the saints. What they did, how they suffered and how we can emulate them.

- Helping a convert spouse feel like he belongs without pushing or dragging him to church activities.

-.How can we keep the elderly in the main stream of the parish, not just on the sidelines as honorary members?

- What about Altar Societies with so many working women who don't have time to take care of Altar Society functions?

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brought this out better than any other art.

Christianity teaches that we are always in need of harmonizing our lives and this is best achieved by getting into the rhythm of living as' Christ taught.

Put I\..nother way, music has the power to break us out of a mechanical, listless disposition at Mass. It can elevate spirits, move us out of inertia and unite us with those around us and God. But what if it is difficult to produce good music?

First, let me" say that I too remember and cherish the beauty of-Gregorian chant and polyphony.

At the seminary we had a choir, organ and chant group that were excellent.

But the hours of practice and the talent required would make duplication of it out of the price and talent range of most parishes today.

I have experienced folk music that had an effect similar to that I experienced in the seminary. One place was in Guatemala,. where I celebrated Mass with Mayan Indians. Although every note was not perfect, the singing was heartfelt and sent chills up my spine.

I am convinced that the Vatican II vision of music can prevail if we throw our hearts into music available to us in parishes, as do those Mayan Indians.

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Q. I read your Question Corner in our archdiocesan paper and have a question. I got used to the tribunal of your diocese and could Byzantine Rite in Spanish (I'm a take a little time.

Such a process would be initiated Central American) and I loved it.

The music, incense, God's people by a priest in your area, preferably participating in the liturgy with your parish priest. Please go to the priest, all this was spiritually him, tell him your hopes and ask lifting and made me feel like I was him to help you. born again.

A free brochure outlining CathoSuddenly word came from some- lic prayers, beliefs and precepts is where that the priest would be available by sending a stamped, moved. Everything was joyful, lov- self-addressed envelope to Father ing and beautiful. I am now attend- John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Paring a Roman Catholic church and ish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomingin the liturgy I feel abandoned. ton, 111. 61701. Questions for this Why don't we h.ave a rite like the column should be sent to Father Byzantine, or at least try to teach Dietzen at the same address. our priests to renew or something?

After all, you are teaching that Christ lives. We are not praising a dead God. (California) A. I admit right at the start that LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (NC) - ' I have no answer or solution to the problem you raise. I believe many More than a year after her death, Catholics will find your letter in- officials at St. Agnes Catholic teresting, however, and it certainly , Church have agreed to allow the invites some serious reflection by body of Kate Smith to be entombed in a mausoleum in the church lay people and by us priests. cemetery.

For one thing, it is a reminder The decision came after a yearthat ours is a very big church with long dispute between parish offiroom for lots of ways of praying, cials and the executors ofthe singbelieving and worshiping. The er's estate. Miss Smith died June Byzantine' Rite (or church) is one 17, 1986. of many that are part of the CathoAccording to her will, Miss Smith lic Church on earth. Anyone who desired to be buried in the Catholic has shared in their liturgies, when cemetery of St. Agnes "in a herthey are celebrated fully and well, metically sealed bronze casket in a is reminded again of the glorious mausoleum." The parish generally varieties of our faith and that a forbids above-ground crypts and joyful, exuberant liturgy can still large headstones in the small-town be awesome and reverent. cemetery.

One hopes that the same awareMiss Smith, whose body had ness is experienced in many Roman remained in a vault in the AdironRite liturgies as well.

As you have discovered, in gen- dack Mountains, owned a camp eral, Roman Rite celebrations are on Lake Placid and spent summers more subdued - and certainly there. A convert to Catholicism, shorter - than those of most she was baptized in St. Agnes other rites. But far more flexibility Church in 1965 and left the bulk of and creativity already are possible her estate to the church and a ceneven in our Roman Rite than one ter for the elderly. usually experiences at Mass.

The pink granite walk-in mausThe missal and other liturgical books provide for numerous op- oleum will be 8 by 1 by 6 feet with tions, not only in choice of words a bronze door and a stained-glass but in other ways, that we have' window, according to news reports.

Earlier this year a parish comhardly begun to explore.

As you suggest, an unbeliever mittee recommended that the exwho walks into our liturgy should ecutors permit the remains to be experience some inkling that it is a placed in a single crypt mausoliving, happy God that we worship leum and proposed a "sarand that he is with us and in us as cophagus-type" mausoleum measuring about 5 by 9 by 3 feet. we celebrate.

The executors, however, were Q. I am a Catholic, very strong ~issatisfied with the proposal, sayin my faith and have never been 109 that a mausoleum, by defintmarried. The man I wish to marry tion, should be high enough to was married before and divorced. permit an entrance door.

At that time, both of them were not Catholic and were never baptized. About nine months ago he The Only Bible became a Catholic and, of course, received first Communion and con"Watch what you say and do firmation. because you may be the only Bible someone will read."

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High hopes for Catholic education WASHINGTON (NC) - A ing their children to the higher Catholic elementary school in Den- grades. Thus, "down the road there ver is lowering its tuition. The will be an increase in enrollment," Archdiocese of Washington is according to Brother Kealey.

The opening of pre-schools and building four new schools.

Those are the exceptions to the kindergartens is "something we're Catholic school picture this fall. seeing across the country," he said.

But today's exception may be to- "There's been a rapid growth in morrow's rule. the past couple years."

The average child returning to Brother Kealey said, "yes, defiCatholic elementary or secondary nitely" to the prospect of higher school this fall will find slightly tuition. "Although . . . there are fewer classmates, or perhaps even major efforts whereby parishes are new classmates as dioceses merge setting up financial development schools to pool resources. And the programs so that in future years student's parents will probably pay the increases are not as great as in at least a little more tuition this the past several years." year.

Tuition has increased in Catholic Catholic college students can schools because there are fewer also expect higher tuition but the religious to work for little money enrollment pictltre is brighter. and because "many of the schools Last year Catholic elementary are making a very determined effort and secondary schools experienced to increase the salaries of teachers. a decline of about three percent, They are trying to come as close as down 84,000 students to 2,735,000. possible to the salaries in public In 1986-87 there were 7,709 schools."

Catholic elementary and 1,411 A few years ago "a large number secondary schools in the United of schools were closing. There's a States, 116 fewer than in 1985-86. few this year" and in some "isoAlthough 1987-88 figures were not lated" cases new schools are openavailable before the start of the ing, Brother Kealey said. He estischool year, the trend is expected mated that now "for each opening, to continue. two close," helping to offset the Catholic school enrollment hit decline. its peak in 1964 with 5.6 million students in 13,249 schools. After Michael J. Guerra, executive that there were sharp declines, director of the NCEA secondary then a leveling off period. school department, said he "expects Some dioceses are consolidat- some decrease" in Catholic high ing schools to combat the scarcity school enrollment this year because of dollars, declining enrollments "high school-age students are fewer and escalating student costs. The in number and will be for the next merger of three elementary schools couple years. in the Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa, "That demographic wave will for example, affects an estimated roll through in the next few years 480 children. and is expected to turn around by The Diocese of Buffalo, N. Y., is the mid '90s," according to Guerra. one that is considering regionaliAnother reason for the decrease zation for some of its elementary in number of students, he said, is schools, a move.away from parish the high cost of tuition. Catholic high schools try to "strike a balschools.

In Catholic elementary schools ance" between paying teachers a tuition went from an average of just wage and keeping tuition at an $384 in 1984-85 to $463 in 1985-86. affordable level.

In Catholic high schools tuition Guerra also sees the need for rose from an average of $1,284 in "well-organized, well-managed" 1983-84 to $1,491 in 1984-85 to development programs to keep tui$1,675 in 1985-86, according to tion costs down. statistics from the National CathoA good program is "not simply lic Educational Association.

St. Catherine of Siena Elemen- selling candy bars but help people tary School, Denver, rolled back understand what Catholic schools tuition costs by $300 per student are doing" for poor and disadvanfor the 1987-88 school year. The 20 taged students and for the compercent price cut results in a tui- munity at large.

"I don't think it's right to tell the tion cost of $800, according to St. back to school story simply in Catherine's principal Martha Ellis.

In the Archdiocese of Wasbing- terms of numbers," Guerra said, but also in terms of the schools' ton Archbishop James A. Hickey service to the community. announced the building of the first He cited the recent study by new Catholic elementary schools in 20 years. Four new schoors are James S. Coleman that found that Catholic schools do better than to be built in the Maryland suburbs.

Christian Brother Robert Kea- both public and other private ley, executive director ofthe NCEA schools at helping disadvantaged students. department of elementary schools, said attention to development programs and to pre-school and kinUrsuline Sister Alice Gallin, dergarten classes may mean that executive director of the Associatuitions will go down and enroll- tion of Catholic Colleges and Uniment will go up. versities, paints a bright picture of The enrollment picture in ele- Catholic higher education enrollmentary schools now is "tricky," ment this fall. according to Brother Kealey. "In "The enrollment reports I hear the upper grades, yes, there are are very encouraging.... Usually probably fewer but in the lower I get a feeling [Catholic school grades there are more students." administrators] are worried For example, he said, a third- instead I'm getting optimistic feelgrade class might have 25 students ings" this year, she said.

Even a couple of Catholic wowhile the kindergarten has 50.

That's because "90 percent or men's colleges that were having more of the parents who have stu- problems have given encouraging dents in pre-school continue" send- reports, Sister Gallin added.

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FATHER Robert S. Kaszynski, pastor of St. Stanislaus parish, Fall River, welcomes two dozen residents of Fall River's Cardinal Medeiros Towers on their recent pilgrimage to the parish's Our Lady of Czestochowa grotto and grounds. The elderly/ disabled group recited the rosary, heard musicians and were annointed and blessed by Father Kaszynski.

North Falmouth mortga'ge paid Continued from Page One homily was based on the day's Gospel reading, an account ofJesus walking on the water.

In the Gospel, Jesus went to his disciples, who were waiting for him on a boat in Lake Galilee, by walking on and across the lake.

When the disciples saw him, they were terrified. Peter asked Jesus to prove his identity by letting him walk on the waves, too, which Jesus did.

Father Powers said that Bishop Cronin remarked that it was faith that moved Peter to walk on the

water and through the Sllme kind of faith St. Elizabeth Seton parish was built.

The Cape parish was dedicated 10 years ago. It has about 600 year-round families and many summer parishioners.

During a pastoral visit there last summer, Bishop Cronin blessed the statue of St. Elizabeth Seton which stands in front ofthe church.

Father Powers, who marked his 40th anniversary as a diocesan priest last year, has been pastor at S1. Elizabeth's since it was established. He ministered during the

planning and construction of the church and rectory.

For two years prior to his appointment there, he was pastor of neighboring S1. Joseph parish, Woods Hole.

From 1969 to 1975, he was pastor of St. Mark parish, Attleboro Falls. His years there also saw construction of a church and rectory.

"I feel happy that this has been accomplished," Father Powers said ofthe mortgage termination. "We'll go ahead now," he added, "into the future, carrying out the good works of the parish."

Glass escape called a "miracle" Continued from Page One would work this great miracle," he said.

At the Aug. 18 Mass parishioners prayed in gratitude to the Blessed Virgin and prayed for the release of other hostages.

At the Kiss of Peace during the Mass, Father Neiman said, he went to the couple, who were crying.

They told him, "Thank you very much. This is the answer to prayer."

Glass' stepsister, Barbara Wibberly, of Palos Verdes Peninsula, described the elder Glass as having "come back to life again."

A TV news report from Syria, where Glass was taken shortly

after his escape, showed him looking "thin" but "very healthy" and "happier than anyone else I've ever seen," said Ms. Wibberly. .

Reports received by the family, she said, indicated that after escaping through the window, Glass "ran barefoot to the Summerland Hotel in West Beirut. He had been running for quite a long time and was out of breath," she said.

EDICTAL CITATION DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL At the hotel, she said, Glass. FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS identified himselfand Syrian troops Since the actual place,pf residence of in the area were called.

DONNA M. (ALVES) FERREIRA is Glass, .whose mother was of unknown.

Lebanese descent, was in the warWe cite DONNA M. (ALVES) FERtorn nation researching a book on REIRA to appear personally before the the MidmeEast.

Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on Monday, August 31,1987, at 10:30 a.m., at 344 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Massachusetts, to give testimony to The archbishop made the com- establish: ments in a letter to Kathleen M. Whether the nullity of the marriage Sullivan, executive director of the exists in the FERREIRA-ALVES case?

National Catholic Coalition, which Ordinaries of the place or other pasis campaigning to replace the two tors having the knowledge of the resiadvisers with two endorsed by the dence of the above person. Donna M. organization. Mrs. Leckey is (Alves) Ferreira, must see to it that she is executive director of the NCCB's properly advised in regard to this edictal Secretariat on the Laity and Roy is citation. director of the Office of Ministry Henry T. Munroe Formation for the Archdiocese of Judicial Vicar Chicago. The text of the archbi- Given at the Tribunal, shop's letter was released in Wash- Fall River, Massachusetts, ington Aug. 13. on this, the 18th day of August, 1987.

Abp. May answers objections to periti WASHINGTON (NC) - The two lay specialists named expert advisers for .the upcoming world Synod of Bishops are not "representing and speaking" for U.S. Catholic laity, but are only assisting the U.S. bishops who are delegates, Archbishop John L. May of S1. Louis said. The "periti," Dolores Leckey and Lucien Roy, are not themselves delegates "to a synod made up entirely of bishops," the president ofthe National Conference of Catholic Bishops added.

A group calling itself the Organization of the People's Defense claimed responsibility for the kid:lapping. It called Glass a CIA spy.

The U.S. government, ABC and others who know him denied the accusation.

Laity synod should study women's role, says pope Since the Second Vatican Council and partly because 'Of church teaching, "the contribution of women in these years has notably increased in the areas of evangelization, catechesis, liturgy, theology, and, in general, in the mission the church carries out in the world," the pope said.

"Therefore, this seems like a favorable moment to examine more deeply the ways of ensuring 'an He referred to the priesthood as increasingly active share [by woa mission which was not given to men] in the various sectors of the church's apostolate,''' the pope women.

The pope made his remarks Aug. added, quoting from the council's 16 after praying the Angelus at his decree on..lay people.

The pope said the life of the Virsummer residence in Castel Gangin Mary illustrated the way toward dolfo, ] S miles south of Rome. "the equal dignity of men and .

The synod is expected to deal women in diversity of charisms with the issue of women's partici- and service," He said the synod pation in the church, and several should be able to offer an "effeclocal presynod reports have said tive, deeper study" of that issue. the church should do more to recThe pope spoke the day after he ognize women's talents. celebrated Mass on the Feast of Speaking to several hundred vis- the Assumption, which marks the itors, the pope said the Gospel is taking into heaven of Mary, body "rich in the presence of women," and soul. The pope said the event including those who accompanied was one which "we believe with Christ and the apostles, who waited absolute certainty."

He said that to understand Mary, at the foot of the cross and who Catholics need to meditate in a had the privilege of announcing special way on the Magnificat, the Christ's resurrection. canticle Mary sang to praise God's "These examples are enough to blessings when she visited her cousshow that, even if women are not in Elizabeth. One thing Mary called to the typical mission which teaches in the Magnificat, he said, the Lord entrusted to the apostles is that faith is not just an abstract as their own, nevertheless they are idea of God, but the awareness given roles of great importance," that God does "great things" for people. the pope said.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (NC) - Pope John Paul II said the October bishops' synod on the laity should study how women can play a more active part in the church's mission, but he ruled out ordination.

The' pope also said that while men and women have "equal dignity" in the church, they have different charisms and services.

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The exhibit includes an engraved goblet loaned by Sandwich's Corpus Christi parish. It was made in 1884 at Jarves' Boston and Sand-" wich Glass Company for Father Thomas F. Clinton, who served St. Peter's parish in the 1880s. St. Peter's was the predecessor of Corpus Christi.

Father George W. Coleman, Corpus Christi's present pastor, alerted The Anchor to the display and his parish's part in it. Dorothy Hogan, the museum's glass cura-

tor, provided an exhibit tour, displaying the blown-glass goblet, which has a hexagonal stem.

Father Clinton's name, with a floral wreath over it,is engraved on one side of the goblet. On the other are a dove and scattered stars.

"It's what we call a presentation piece," Miss Hogan said, "made specifically for an individual."

"I'm surprised that it survived 100 years on our shelf," joked Father Coleman. .

Another piece featured in the exhibit is a covered chalice made for Father Clinton, probably as a gift, by Nicholas Lutz, a famed glassblower from Alsace Lorraine who became a member ofSt. Peter's parish.

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There is a photo of Miss Murphy and her students in the exhibit.

Also included in the display are a photo of the parish's first permanent pastor, Father William Moran, an 1835 woodcut of the glass factory and St. Peter's Church and a sketch ofthat first St. Peter's.

St. Peter's, the first Catholic parish on Cape Cod, was dedicated in 1830. The building then used by parishioners is now part of a local hardware store.

A second St. Peter's church, where Father Clinton ministered, was built in 1854. It was declared structurally unsafe and condemned at about the turn of the century.

The parish hall of the present church, dedicated in 1901 as Corpus Christi, is named for Father Clinton, who died in 1895.

It is interesting to note that the present church is located on Jarves Street and that houses lived in by Jarves' workers still stand near Church Street, formerly James Street, the site of the second St. Peter's.

Bishop Wuer) discusses U.8. seminaries PITTSBURGH (NC) - U.S. seminaries are "on the right track" in efforts to prepare priests for the church of the 2tst century, said Bishop Donald W. Wuerl after six years of work on a Vatican-Commissioned study of the seminaries.

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"At the time, it was against canon law. Chalices had to be made of precious metal."

Father Clinton, Miss Hogan and Father Coleman explained, was very popular with the glass factory workers, many of whom were his parishioners. The priest, they said, saw the laborers through their hard times, especially those caused by the factory's 1888 closing, due to competition.

An article by Miss Hogan, in a recent edition of The Acorn, newsletter of The Sandwich Historical Society and Glass Museum, gives insight into Father Clinton's rambunctious style: "Father Clinton was very involved in community affairs. . . .In 1892, when the Sandwich school committee decided to close the Jarvesville School, Father Clinton opposed their decision. He believed that they were discriminating against the children from 'below the tracks.' With personal funds, he rented a room and furnished it with desks and school equipment.

He petitioned the superintendent of schools for a teacher, Miss Mary Murphy, and in September 1892, the first parochial school on Cape Cod opened. The school lasted for only one scholastic year.

The next year the school committee reopened the Jarvesville School and Father Clinton closed his school, having proved his point."

"There's a lot of energy on the part of faculty and students" in U.S. seminaries, "a lot of good will and very few hang-ups" among today's seminarians, he said in an interview with the Pittsburgh Catholic. He is a native of Pittsburgh.

The study, begun in 1981, is virtually complete, said the bishop, who is awaiting reassignment since the termination last May of his duties as auxiliary bishop of Seat-

tie with special governing powers.

Appointed in 1985 to Seattle, Bishop Wuerl was the subject of fierce controversy there until Archbishop Thomas Murphy was named coadjutor to Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen.

Bishop Wuerl was interviewed after returning from Rome, where phase two of the seminary study was presented to Pope John Paul II and Cardinal William W. Baum, head ofthe Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education, which oversees seminaries.

The phase covered seminaries and unions headed by religious communities.

A report oil the study's first phase, which concentrated on 38-

post-college diocesan U.S. seminaries, said some showed confusion about authoritative moral theology teachings but that the majority offered balanced and faithful programs. , Bishop Wuerl said he is not pessimistic about reduced numbers of seminarians.

In the United States, he said, "we've always had the luxury of many priests. Now perhaps we're learning it's a question of shared responsibility with religious and _ lay peopl.,;,e;..."

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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, II :30 a.m.; daily, 9 a.m. Confessions Sat. after 7 p.m. Mass.

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

OAK BLUFFS, Our Lady Star of the Sea, Massasoit Ave.: Sat. 6 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9:15, 10:30 a.m.; daily (Mon. - Thurs.) 7 a.m. confessions, Sat. 5: 15 - 5:45 p.m.

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.

ORLEANS, St. Joan of Are, Bridge Road. (Schedule effective through Labor Day): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8,9:30, II a.m.;daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4-4:50 p.m.; .Our Lady of Perpetual Help novena, at 8 a.m. Mass Wed.

MASHPEE, Queen of All Saints, Great Neck Rd. (towards New Seabury): Sat. 4:00 and 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m.; Daily 9:00 a.m. Mon.-Fri. EAST FALMOUTH, St. Anthony, 167 East Falmouth Highway: Sat. 4:30, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7:30,9,10:15, 11:30 a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:30-4: 15 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: 15 a.m. weekdays, 8:30 a.m. Sundays.

Holy hour (July ~ Aug.) Mon.Fri. 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

NORTH EASTHAM, Church of the Visitation (Schedule effective through Labor Day): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8:00, 9:30, i I :00 a.m. daily Mass 9 a.m. Mon.-Wed.-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, 1O:30a.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, 7:30a.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. 7 p.m.; Sun. 7,9, II a.m., 5:30 p.m.; daily, 7 a.m., confessions, Sat. 6:30-7:00 p.m. and by appointment.

WAREHAM, St. Patrick, 82 High St.: Sat. 4, 6, p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:30,10,11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3-3:45 p.m.

WEST WAREHAM, St. Anthony, off Rte. 28 (Summer Schedule begins June 20 - 21): Sat. 4 p.m.; Sun. 9, 10 a.m.; confessions, before each Mass.

WELLFLEET, Our Lady of Lourdes, (Schedule begins June 28), 56· 58 Main St.: Sat. 4 and 5 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9,10, II a.m.; daily, 9 a.m., confessions, before all Masses. Novena to Miraculous Medal Tuesday before Mass. Novena to St. Jude Friday before ·Mass. Rosary before daily Mass - 8:45 a.m.

NORTH TRURO, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Pond Road: Sat. 4,5 p.m.; Sun. 9, 10, II a.m.; confessions before Masses.

TRURO, Sacred Heart: Sat. 7:00 p.m.: Confessions before Mass.

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 Rd.: 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.

WOODS HOLE, St. Joseph: Schedule June 27 - 28, Sat. 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7,9:30, II a.m.; daily 8 a.m.; Confession ~ hour before Sunday Masses.

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Dear Dr. Kenny: I want to grow mentally and emotionally, to become a mature person, to fulfill my personal potential. What is the best way to grow? What· does it mean to be mature? I would like to be the best possible human being I can be. (New York) Good for you. All of us strive to be the best we can, but fbr. some "best" means simply to be free from any fault. This is the "absence theory" of health or excellence. If my body is free of illness, if my mind is free of anxiety and depression, then I must be in good shape.

Still others deffne "best" interrns of wealth and prestige and power.

This is materialism. If I make a great deal of money, if others recognize my efforts, ifI am in a position to control others, then I must be the "best."

Many famous psychologists like Erik Erikson, Abraham Maslow and Erich Fromm (not to mention Leo Buscaglia) identify love as the measure of maturity. Jesus, too, tells us that the mark of the good person is love of neighbor. The goal of maturity (and sanctity too) is growth in one's capacity to express love.

Thus you ask a very important question: What are the qualities that you should strive for? Here are four specific suggestions: • The mature person accepts himself and others, not as he wants them to be but as they are. You can love someone without approving of everything they do.

Acceptance means not judging and not blaming and not constantly looking to assign fault. It means listening and responding to pain with empathy and understanding rather than immediately offering counsel and advice.

• The mature person is open, both openminded and openhearted.

You are open to new ideas and new experiences, without the burden of prejudgment. Especially you are open to others with different values and lifestyles, attempting to hear and understand their point of view.

Openness means being ready to share your own heart and hurts, to take the chance of self-revelation, without being defensive and hiding your faults and feelings. Openness means being humble and honest with others, sometimes "wearing your heart on your sleeve," risking vulnerability.

• The mature person trusts. You are able to see the good in others, to risk being tricked and fooled and cheated occasionally. You trust yourself as well, your own reactions and instincts.

Trust means viewing the world mostly as an "OK" place. It means being more apt to anticipate good than evil from.others. It means living for the moment, enjoying the present, trusting in God. • The mature person is generous. You are willing, even eager, to share your time and your money.

You are free to indulge yourself and equally ready to spend yourself and your goods on others.

Generosity sees the good of the other person as identical with your own. It means treating the other person as if he were with you. It means giving without counting or measure.

The paradox is that to find your "self" you must give yourselfaway.

Erikson, Maslow and Fromm all realized that the fully actualized self was a self that went beyond itself. You find your "self" in loving others.

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

Comebacks that never happen

By Antoninette Bosco

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I was driving to work recently when a young man tailgating me finally decided to pass me. As he did, he leaned 'across the passenger side and yelled out at me, "What's the matter, lady? Did you take driving lessons from a funeral director?"

"It's better to be trained by a funeral director than a law-breaking drag racer," I retorted.

Of course he never heard me.

That part of the conversation took place completely in my mind.

That set me wondering how often we are at our best in conversations held after the fact, privately, to ourselves, or later, to trusted friends and relatives. We replay the incident and add all the things we should have said. but didn't. And we fidget between annoyance and anger because we didn't squelch our antagonizer brilliantly.

I envy people like Britain's former prime minister, Winston Churchhill, who was a master at the quick comeback.

It's said he responded to a woman who said she would put strychnine in his coffee if he were her husband, "If I were your husband, I'd drink it."

Heywood Broun, founder ofthe American Newspaper Association, was another expert at the right-ontarget fast response. He was once sued for libel for calling a performer "the world's worst actor."

Shortly afterward, he covered the actor's next performance, commenting that he was "not up to his usual standards."

I, like many others, don't have the gift of the fast response and so resort to giving offenders their comeuppances in fantasy verbal knockouts.

One time I'll never forget occurred in a week when I needed joy, not jabs. I was dealing with a

hospitalized daughter, a son's abscessed tooth, two birthdays, car trouble, an obscene phone caller hitting another daughter's phone at 3 a.m., and on and on.

Obviously, I looked a bit ragged.

Exactly what I needed was a "friend" to bump into me in a hallway at work and exclaim, aghast, "My God, Toni, you've got lines under your eyes. Get some vitamin E cream. It won't take away the lines, but it will help to blend them so you won't look so baaaaad .. ."

"Thank you, friend," I said. "All well and good for you. No children, plenty of money. You've got the time to be a vitamin E junkie. I don't. Why don't we trade places for 24 hours? You can be me, lhe

drudge, and I'll be you, the princess. Then we'll do the mirror test for wrinkles."

I squelched her beautifully but when she was long out of ear range.

I used, to think my mental conversations were a copout, a kind of cowardice that kept me from vocalizing my thoughts directly to the offending person.

But over the years I have come to see a kind of wisdom in the silent technique. It allows you to "turn the other cheek" but without suffering the psychological side effects of suppressing anger -like ulcers, colitis and headaches - or the practical side effects of telling someone off, which can cost you a job or a friend.

Joys of V-picking

By Hilda Young I have always romanticized about V-pick berry fields. Youjust know the people out there with straw hats and extra large T-shirts are enjoying the cool berry plants and looking forward to slicing the fresh fruit into a bowl of cream or onto ice cream when they get home.

Later as a family they will clean the berries and make jam for the winter. In winter everyone will sit around the breakfast table spreading the jam an.d sharing warm stories of putting up the berries months earlier. A soft John Denver song will be playing in the background.

That's what I told my friend, Robin, to get her to go V-picking with me. Besides, I pointed out, picking strawberries is a lot cheaper than buying them in the store.

"I'm your row boss," this woman with hands like rock crabs told us when we arrived. "There's a one flat minimum. Don't leave little berries. Pick 'em all. If mother nature calls, you can answer over there." She pointed across the field.

I could barely make out a phonebooth structure.

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gang leader in "Cool Hand Luke',?

Robin whispered under her breath.

Strawberry plants look much taller from the road than when you are bending over them.

"The last time my lower back felt like this I was begging my obstetrician for a spinal," Robin said.

"Have you tried a berry yet?" I asked, trying to take her mind off her back.

"Yeah. I think it would have tasted good, but the grinding sound from the grit on it was distracting."

"You hoo," called another picker from a nearby row. "Have you girls done this before?"

"First time," I called back.

"Then you probably wouldn't know how to get slug and grasshopper stains out of the knees of your pants, would you? I'll bet that's why you wore shorts."

Robin popped up straight like a piece of toast and handed me her berry box. Her back must have felt much better because she cleared two rows at a time bouncing back to the car. I had this feeling she wasn't going to want to go Vpicking raspberries with me.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 21, 1987

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On AIDS commission WASHINGTON (NC) - President Reagan has named New York Cardinal John J. O'Connor to a 13-member national commis~ion to recommend policies for overcoming AIDS and evaluate progress in fighting the deadly disease. Reagan announced th~ com-

mission at the White House and then convened the group at the National Institutes of Health in suburban Washington for a formal announcement cere,mony preceded by a visit to hospital wards treating child victims of AID~.

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By Joseph Motta Sister Marion Storjohann, SS.Ce., professed final vows as a Sacred Hearts sister at a Mass offered Saturday on the grounds of her order's House of Prayer and retirement home on Hood Street in Fall River.

The Sisters of the Sacred Heart serve the Fall River diocese on Hood Street and at St. Joseph parish and school, Fairhaven.

For Sister Marion, her order and the church, her vows, of course, are cause for celebration. All such commitments are.

The nun's family was in Fall River to celebrate, too. When you consider that her family includes two sons, two daughters and 11 grandchildren, though, things get pretty interesting.

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Sister Marion, 72, was born and raised in New York City. The then-Marion Palmer had always wanted to be a religious, but her parents were against that life-choice "because they felt they would be losing me, their only daughter, and it was too hard a life."

Honoring their wishes, by age 19 or 20 she "gave up the idea."

She wed Louis Storjohann in 1938 and enjoyed their happy marriage until his 1976 death.

The couple lived on Long Island and raised childre'n Audrey, Alan, Arlene and Wayne, three of whom still make their homes there. The last years of their life together were spent in northern Vermont, where Sister Marion remained for five years after Louis' death.

All during the marriage, Sister Marion said, "it seems I was always seeking the nearest I could get to religious life." She became a Secular Franciscan, she said, and was always an active Catholic.

After being widowed, knowing that her vocation was as strong as ever, she began "seeking," writing to various religious orders for information. And when she read about the sisters, fathers and brothers of the Sacred Hearts, something rang a bell.

"Their ad just seemed to tell me 'This is it,' " she said, noting that her lifelong devotion to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and the fact that both men and women could join the order helped her make her final decision.

In November, 1980, the widow went to Mt. Rainier, Maryland, to join the order as a postulant, or "seeker."

Her family' was supportive, she said. "They think it's fine if it's what I want. They think it's great."

After about eight months, she entered as a novice, and in 1983 professed temporary vows.

"It's funny," she smiled. "I used . to pray for one of my children (all are married) to enter religious life.

"I didn't think it would be me," she said, stressing that she had always believed. that religious orders were only interested in younger vocations. . .

NEWARK, N.J. (NC) - Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick of Newark has been appointed an observer to the Commission on Sec~rity and Co~peration in Europe for an upcoming commission trip to Romania and Poland.

The commission, headed by Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., oversees compliance with the Helsinki accords on human rights. Its members include almost two dozen members of Congress.

Archbishop McCarrick will join the group on Aug. 24 in Poland..

The commission's expected agenda includes discussions on a wide variety of human rights issues with officials, church representatives and private citizens of Romania and Poland.

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She returned to Maryland after Saturday's profession to continue that work. She said that she took her vows in the Fall River diocese since there are more Sacred Hearts sisters here than in Maryland and some of them are too elderly to travel.

Sister Margarita, SS.CC., sisterin-charge at the House of Prayer, enthusiastically welcomes Sister Marion as a fully-professed con- _ temporary.

"We are most happy to have her," she said. "She's very qualified."

Sister Margarita notes that it's wonderful to have a new sister with so much life experience.

"She's come to teach us," she said.

"We teach each other," Sister Marion interjected.

Sister Marion urges older adults who are considering religious life not to hesitate to seek information.

The happy, energetic and bright "I'm thankful to God," she said, woman has recently spent most of "that he has called me to this life her time visiting, counseling and and made it possible for me to foltutoring prisoners in a District of low it."

Columbia jail, working for a Catholic justice and peace group and at a shelter for homeless women and making Eucharistic visits to the sick and shut-ins.

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Almost anything goes

L'Osservatore hits I,OOOth edition VATICAN CITY (NC) - Dominican Father Lambert Greenan unbuttoned his collar and leaned back on his chair as he proofread page I of the Aug. 10 English weekly edition of L'Osservatore Romano.

The issue was the tabloid newspaper's 1,000th edition.

To mark the event, page I was dominated by a photograph of Pope John Paul II. Below the photo was a five-line papal message, in large italic type, expressing "deep gratitude for the exemplary service offered to the church by the English edition of L'Osservatore Romano."

Actually, popes have dominated every issue of the English weekly; its purpose is to publish full texts of papal speeches and Vatican documents. It does not print news articles or unofficial commentaries on church issues.

"We are not really a newspaper, but more a documentation service," said Father Greenan, founding editor of the Vatican weekly and its only editor during its 20year existence.

"We don't give equal time to heresy," he laughed, when asked if the weekly would ever publish views contrary to papal positions.

Father Greenan was once asked if this made the weekly like Pravda, the official newspaper ofthe Soviet Communist party.

"Yes. Pravda means truth in Russian, and that would be a good name for us," he answered.

The idea of an English weekly edition was developed during the Second Vatican Council by a group of English-speaking bishops who wanted their flocks to ha~e access to unabridged papal and Vatican . texts.

Father Greenan said he selects speeches of international or universal interest such as family life, ecumenism, church-state relations, sacramental life and socioeconomic topics.

Because of the volume, he and his two other fulltime employees are helped by English-speaking priests and seminarians studying in Rome to translate the texts.

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The English edition is one of seven weekly language editions of L'Osservatore Romano, the Italian-language Vatican daily which runs news stories as well as papal and Vatican texts. L'Osservatore Romano was founded July 1,1861.

Father Greenan, from Northern Ireland, was chosen as the Englishlanguage founding editor by the Vatican from a list of names submitted by bishops from Englishspeaking countries. He does not know why he was chosen, he said.

Previously he was a canon law professor at Dominican seminaries and a local Dominican official in Ireland. His only journalism experience was writing articles for Dominican publications.

We Shall Live "If we are dead with Christ, we

believe' that we shall live also together with Christ." - Rom. 6:8

VATICAN CITY (NC) - What is Pope John Paul II likely to do during his Sept. 10-21 trip to the United States and Canada?

Almost anything. He loves spontaneity and is uninhibited about public displays ofsadness and joy.

In Australia a smiling pope hugged a koala.

In New Zealand he rubbed noses with a leader of the Maori tribe.

In Chile he held his head in his hands and grimaced as police and anti-government demonstrators engaged in bloody clashes during a papal Mass.

These images, transmitted around the world in news photos and TV footage, show that the white robes of his office do not hide the human being underneath.

The current pope has humanized a papacy previously symbolized by stiff formal portraits of aristocratic-looking churchmen.

Foreign trips have communicated this humanization process internationally.

AT CASTEL GANDOLFO, the pope leads recitation ofthe Sunday Angelus. (Ne/UPI photo)

The pope's summer getaway spot VATICAN CITY (NC) - When it comes to summer getaways, Pope John Paul II is a traditionalist.

Like almost everyone of his predecessors since 1624, the pope heads for the hills: fleeing the summer swelter of Rome for the cool of the papal palace in Castel 'Gandolfo, Italy.

Perched in the Alban hills surrounding Lake Albano, Castel Gandolfo has been a historic retreat for Romans seeking ways to beat the heat.

Originally known as Alba Longa, the town was settled before the founding of Rome, with whom it eventually lost a struggle for regional dominance.

But the victorious Romans appreciated the cool breezes of the region, and the present papal palace is located on the site of the Roman Emperor Domitian's first-century summer villa.

Castel Gandolfo today bears the name of a wealthy Genoa family, the Gandulfi, who built a castle there in 816. Eventually the town became part ofthe papal holdings, and in the 17th century Pope Urban VIII ordered the construction of a summer palace.

The spacious grounds of the papal palace dominate the hill, and the dome of the Vatican Observatory located on the grounds can be seen for miles. When the palace grounds are combined with two other Vatican-owned villas nearby, the pope has about 100 acres of wooded walks, fountains, neatly trimmed lawns and, above all, peace and quiet.

Earlier popes arrived in Castel Gandolfo by carriage or car, and some of the town's 4,000 residents recall lining up to greet Pope Pius XII when he arrived for his summer repose.

Today, however, the Vatican's most well-traveled pope uses a helicopter to hop to and from Vatican City, IS miles to the northwest.

While there is little chance for anyone other than papal aides and guests to enter the palace grounds,

one exception is the regular Sun- Often he speaks several weeks in a row on a specific theme, such as day Angelus address.

Pilgrims arriving in the town's the role of the laity or Marian main square early enough on sum- shrines around the world. mer Sundays are admitted to a Aftt:r the Angelus the pope may courtyard just inside the palace, choose to address particular issues where they can experience a rela- of concern at the moment. On this tively intimate glimpse of the pope Sunday, when he prayed for flood as he prays the Angelus and jokes victims and casualties of an Iranwith the crowd. ian riot, the crowd turned briefly Only about 1,000 people are somber. allowed into the courtyard when But a woman shouted "Viva il papa," and the air of festivity doors open at II a.m.

On a recent Sunday the surge of returned.

Because relatively few people people onto the palace grounds included a group of Catholics from are in the courtyard, the pope is St. Louis; about 100 officers and more likely to joke and to greet men from the U.S. Sixth Fleet sta- tiny groups. Off-the-cuff remarks tioned in Naples, Italy; a Spanish .to Spanish-speaking pilgrims and folk-dancing group complete with to 10 Polish nuns drew cheers and castanets; several groups of guitar- applause. When he saluted a Portwielding pilgrims trying to outsing uguese group which apparently each other in a cacophony of never made it, the silence followpraise; and a retinue of trumpet- ing his words of welcome probearing Gandolfans in medieval voked laughter from pope and visitors. costume.

The intimacy of the courtyard While waiting for the pope, a was relative, however.

"I thought I was going to get to group of Filipino nuns serenaded the crowd with Marian songs in shake the guy's hand," said one English and Italian, intermittently disappointed U.S. sailor. stilled by an exuberant youth group The town of Castel Gandolfo is from Mexico and finally drowned proud to be summer' host of the out completely by the castanets of popes. Drinking coffee in. a cafe in the Spaniards as they spontane- the shadow ofthe palace, one resiously danced before bemused Vat- dent boasted that the town always ican security officials and Swiss votes Christian Democrat, the Italian party with the closest politGuards.

At the stroke of noon, preceded ical ties to the church: this despite by a royal flourish of Gandolfan the fact that the rest of the Alban trumpets, the pope stepped onto a hills usually votes Communist or shaded. second-floor balcony Socialist.

This loyalty to the pontiff does draped with a tapestry bearing the papal coat ofarms. He was greeted not go unappreciated. During the by prolonged applause and a flut- town's annual peach festival, the pope traditionally blesses the crop. ter of flags and banners.

But if this pope is mindful of Before praying the Angelus, the pope briefly addressed the crowd. ancient traditions, he does not mind introducing a few of his own.

Early in his pontificate, he had a large pool built on the papal palace grounds' and every morning he keeps in shape by swimming.

The cost of the pool, the 67year-old pope once remarked, is I, . . less than that of electing a new " ., pontiff.

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But people who have known him as a priest, bishop and cardinal say his actions as pope are a carryover of his pastoral personality in Poland. He loved to get out of the office to visit his flock and take youth groups on mountain hikes which combined spiritual messages with physical exercise.

In fact, C.ardinal Karol Wojtyla of Krakow, Poland, was elected pope in 1978 at a time when his fellow cardinals Were looking for a pastorally 'oriented leader for the Catholic Church to break the previous trend of choosing Italian members of the Vatican's diplomatic corps with little or no pastoral experience.

The present-day result is a leader of 866 million Catholics. at ease kicking up his heels on a chorus line with Australian youths, putting on an Indian headdress owaking off his shoes to pray at the tomb of India's independence leader, Mahatma Gandhi.

The visit to the United States and Canada, his 36th outside Italy, should be no different, providing its share of humanizing papal photographs.

The pope, of course, will do more than be photogenic. As usual on papal trips, he will celebrate Masses, visit representative groups and give speeches. His pastoral visits are primarily teaching missions in which he outlines church beliefs that apply to the country.:)le is visiting.

In the United States - where there is much Catholic dissent on pivotal issues - this may reinforce his image as a stern disciplinarian and defender of traditional teachings under attack in a skeptical world.

The pope has a long record of defending church prohibitions against artificial means of contraception, married priests and women priests. All these are teachings widely criticized in the United States, and the likelihood of the pope-announcing changes are nil.

But while the pope's message will have the long-term effect of influencing future U.S. church pastoral policies, the immediate impact of the trip on Catholics in the pew is likely to be that they will see a human being behind the message.

.THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 21, 1987

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PAPAL VISIT '87 Hispanic Catholics a "hidden theme"

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Many Mexicans expected to cross border for pope , WASHINGTON (NC) - Federal immigration officials anticipate as many as 150,000 Mexicans will seek permission to cross the border to see the pope in Sari Antonio, Texas.

San Antonio church officials, who have invited t-he Mexicans to come, offer a slightly more conservative estimate. They say 100,000 may enter the country to participate in activities surrounding the Pope John Paul II's Sept. 13-14 stay in their city.

If that many Mexicans do come, they could amount to one-fifth of the expected crowd of 500,000 at

Another team LOS ANGELES (NC) - When the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros exit Dodger Stadium the night of Sept. IS, another team will take the field and it will be going for a world record. With a mere 10 hours to go before the . papal Mass begins, a liturgy team will start transforming the stadium.

The current record for preparing a stadium for a major event is 22 hours - set when the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was readied for the 1984 Olympics closing ceremonies. "We have 10 hours to set up the liturgical environment for the approximately 61,800 people who will attend Pope John Paul II's Sept. 16 Mass," said Father Vivian Ben Lima, liturgical designer for the celebration. He said grass on the field will need to be covered, a platform where the Mass is to be celebrated must be constructed, seating arranged and decorative elements put in place.

the outdoor papal Mass Sept. 13.

"We recognize a lot of Mexican nationals are going to want to make legal entry during the two to three days prior to the pope's arrival" said Mario Ortiz, spokesman for'the southern region of Immigration and Naturaliz~tion S.ervice, in a recent telephone mterview.

San Antonio is about ISO miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.

Archbishop Patrick Flores of San Antonio has sent a letter to the Mexican bishops inviting them to San Antonio and asking them to disseminate papal visit information through their respective dioceses.

"Historically, Texas and Mexico have formed the corridor by which the Catholic faith came into the Southwest," said Felix D. Almaraz, Jr., who chairs the Mexico Relations Committee formed by the Texas papal visit office.

Noting that Texas and Mexico share a common border and were once part of the same country, Almaraz said it was seen as "naturally desirable" to invite the state's Mexican neighbors to come to San Antoilio~ Although two other cities the pontiff will visit - Los Angeles and Phoenix.. Ariz. - are also about ISO miles from the U.S.Mexico border, Almaraz said church officials do not expect an influx of Mexicans in those cities.

"Mexican pilgrims feel comfortable in Texas because ofthe name ofthe town, they feel like they are coming into their own ambiance.

They flow easily in and out," said Almaraz, a history professor at the University of Texas-San Antonio.

He said many have close friends or relatives in San Antonio and will stay at their homes during the papal event.

"I expect there will be wall-towall sleeping in some houses," said Father Lawrence J. Steubben, coordinator of the Texas papal visit.

In addition to the invitation sent by way of Mexico's bishops, Almaraz said, his committee has sent press releases to major Mexican newspapers inviting pilgrims to San Antonio.

As of early August, 19 bishops and one cardinal had announced plans to come from Mexico for the papal visit, Almaraz said.

Ortiz said he does not anticipate there will be an increase in attempts to illegally cross the border before or during the papal visit.

"If there are, the border patrol will certainly be in a position to respond," he said.

Clogged roads WASHINGTON (NC) - All roads in Florida will lead to Miami Sept. 10 and II as Pope John Paul II begins his second pastoral visit to the United States, but those roads will be clogged, city officials predicted. Diocesan and city officials said a shortage of available buses for transporting people from the Archdiocese of Miami and other Florida dioceses will mean more cars, clogged streets and a need for more parking spaces. In Columbia, S.C., travelers to the city are being advised to arrive several hours before the pope in order to avoid traffic congestion.

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11 CLOISTERED Carmelite nuns in New Caney, Tex., are busy baking 300,000 communion wafers to be distributed at Pope John Paul Irs Sept. 13 outdoor Mass in San Antonio.

WASHINGTON (NC) - His- when one-half the Catholics in panic Catholics are the "hidden Yakima, Wash., are Hispanic, and theme" of Pope John Paul II's 500,000 Catholics in Chicago are September trip to the United States, Hispanic, and half oft he Archdiosaid church officials in cities on the cese of Oklahoma City is Hispanic, pontiffs itinerary. you've got to realize this is no The pope will speak on many longer a little border thing," said important topics while in the Uni- Father Steubben. ted States, said Father Lawrence In the Archdiocese ~f Miami J. Steubben, coordinator of the Texas papal visit. "But when the where the Catholic population is trip unfolds perhaps most impor- 75 percent Hispanic, "everybody's tant will be the message coming talking about (the papal trip)," loud and clear that Hispanics are said Maria Luisa Gaston, a member forming part of the U.S. church, of the pastoral team of the Southand that they have a long and rich east Region Office for Hispanic history that goes back four centu- Affairs, based in Miami. ries, that they are a very large and She agrees Hispanic Catholics growing reality." are the papal trip's hidden theme, Hispanics are the majority of but wishes it weren't such a secret Catholics in the archdioceses of in Miami.

Hispanics will be the majority of Miami, San Antonio and Los Angeles - three of the dioceses those attending functions during the pontiff will visit during his the pope's stop in Miami, she said, Sept. 10-20 visit to the United "but unlike what's happening in States and Canada.

San Antonio, that aspect is not The pope is visiting parts of the being played up here." nation that are heavily Hispanic, She said neither the pontiff nor said Father Steubben, and the trip the press are likely to note the cannot help but emphasize the influence of Hispanics on the "giftedness, customs and language Miami church unless they take of Hispanic Catholics." time to walk among the crowds He thinks media coverage gen- and chat with the people. erated by the papal trip inadverIn the Diocese of Monterey tently may force U.S. Catholic.s to where so~e to~ns are 50 to 75 realize "this is no longer a httle percent Hispamc, the people conborder thing," and take notice. of ... ~ider it a privilege.the pope is c~~­ the way Hispanics are changmg }ng to see them, said Sister Patncia the fac'e ofthe U.S. church and the Murtagh, a Sister of Charity of the nation.

Infant Mary who is director of the The pope's itinerary includes Hispanic minist~y office. _ Miami, Columbia, S.C.; New OrThe pope. Will s~eak on the leans, San Antonio, Phoenix, Los theme ofagnculture'm Monterey.

Angeles, Monterey, Calif.; San "~e ca.nn~t he If but to.uch ?n Francisco Detroit and Fort Simp- Hispamc hfe. It s the Hispamcs son in Ca~ada. ' who are working in the fields," In Monterey, thousands of Mex- said Sister Murtagh. ican migrantfarmworkersare likely .She said the~e are a~out 121 to be among those greeting the migrant camps m the Diocese of pope.

Monterey wher~ migr~nts.work in In the Diocese of Phoenix where the fields cuttmg, thmmng and Hispanics include third-generation waterin~ artichok~s, carrots a~d Mexican-American doctors and broccoh. Other migrants work m lawyers as well as the more recently packing companies. arrived farmworkers estimates are During the papal Mass celebratthat 18 to 35 percent'ofthe church ed. at Laguna Seca Raceway in t.he is Hispanic.

Diocese of Monterey, ~he said, San Francisco, also on the papal three farm,",:orkers Will carry itinerary, is refuge to growing num- baskets of frUits and vegetables to bers of Central American immi- the altar during the Offertory progrants. cession.

As far north as Detroit, large U.S. Hispanics are moved that numbers of Hispanics are making "the pope is coming to their homes plans to see the pontiff. Raul Feli- in Los Angeles! ~~o~nix, .M~~mi ciano, director of Detroit'S Office and San A!'tomo, said Pnmltivo for Hispanic Ministry, anticipates R?mer<,>, dlre~tor ofthe ~ffice for almost all of the estimated 115,000 Hlspamc\Affairs of the Diocese of Hispanics in the archdiocese will Phoenix. turn out to see the pope. .

"Hispanics around the country While Hispanic Cathohcs are are praying and saying rosaries so . not among the official themes the -that he will have a safe 'caminata' pope will address, the pontiff will (journey) through the United â&#x20AC;˘ speak in Spanish on the topic of States," he said.

In Detroit too, increased Mass parish ministry at the largelyHispanic Our Lady of Guadalupe attendance by Hispanics is attribParish in San Antonio. In a nun;tber uted to the upcoming papal visit. of cities Spanish and the contnbu"It may be that people are going tions of Hispanics to the U.S. to church because they think they church will be incorporated into might get tickets to the papal Mass, Masses celebrated by the pope. but I prefer to think the papal visit In downtown Los Angeles, the has revived their faith in the pope is scheduled to address church," said Feliciano. schoolchildren at Immaculate Conception Elementary school where the majority of students are Coverage of the upcoming Hispanic and most instruction is papal tour of the United States given in Spanish. . and Canada will continue in future Hispanics already are "a major issues of The Anchor. Watch for theme in the American church ... it!

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relationship. One individual has given up on the relationship. The other realizes that he is "in too deep" emotionally.

He states his love for her but knows that "I just can't take this." He also recognizes that the separation "may be my fault," for he has given the woman "too many reasons, being alone."

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IN TOO DEEP AU the time I was searching with no one to run to It started me thinking Wondering what to make of my Ufe And who will be waiting And asking all kinds of questions to myself But never finding the answers Crying at the top of my voice With no one listening AU this time I still remember everything you said This much you will promise How could I ever forget, listen You know I love you but I just can't take this You know I love you but I'm playing for keeps Although I need you, 1m not going to make this You know I want you, but 1m in too deep So listen, Usten to me YoumDSt beUeve me I fHl your eyes go through me But I don't know why o I know you're going I can believe It's the way that you're leaving It's like we never knew each other at an It may be my fault .

I gave you too many reasons, being alone When I didn't want to I felt you always needed I almost believe you It seems you're staying too long I'm thinking about myself Now I want to spend my Just caring about somebody else Recorded by Genesis. Written by A. Banks, P. Collins, M. Ruthersford. (c) 1986 by PhD ColHns Ltd., Mike Rutherford .

Ltd., Tony Banks Ltd. GENESIS' LATEST hit, "'In something to say. The song is the Too Deep," offers listeners the fifth Top Ten hit off the "Invisigroup's vintage best - mellow ble Touch" album. rock coupled with lyrics that have The song describes a troubled

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By TOM LENNON

Q. How do you deal with peer . So maybe it's unwise fo'r an adult Jl'essure? I mean in regard to beer like me to talk to you about peer pressure.

8d drugs and stuff like that. I Instead, let's have Jeff'do the think adults today know nat kind of pressure kids are talking. This seemingly ordinary .cIer from their friends at sehool guy is an 18-year-old freshman in a Midwestern college. He has done (New Hampshire).

A. You may be right about some something extraordinary. Hear him of us adults. Even in my last two out: "Last fall, shortly after entering JarS of high school, the gang I college, I decided to create some Eng out with drank chocolate .uIkshakes, not beer. As for mari- peer pressure of my own. I quit jllana, we didn't even smoke nico- drinking alcoholic beverages. line. No money.

Totally.

"I hoped this would be a way of And sex? We necked on hayputting some peer pressure, howlides and in the front and back ever slight, on other students to sats of cars. Getting in the sack change their drinking habits. just wasn't the thing to do.

"I had seen some of the guys get Sound dull? Not so. We had, I falling-<lown drunk and make fools SlISpect, just as much and pllObaof themselves. One guy even fell bly more fun than the youths of down some stairs. tf1e 1980s.

"Also, I had the sad memory of Certainly we never had to engage three of my high school buddies in the difficult struggle against being killed in an auto accident. peer pressure that teens do now.

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Consequently, he has been "asking all kinds of questions to myself, but never finding the answers."

The situation is painful emotionally for both people. The major decision they face involves this question: Should they just let each other go or make a commitment to WOrk on improving the relationship?

Does this song have anything to say to young couples who are dating? Real love seeks the best for both individuals. If the problems are so extensive that one or both perSons no longer has hope of overcoming them, then it is better to set each other free.

Separating hurts, but parting can provide a pathway out of an emotionallimbo.

If the decision is to address the problems, both individuals will need patience and the desire to make changes. One person's willingness to Work at the relationship will not be enough. It takes two.

Toward the song's end, one person states, "Now I want to spend my life just caring about somebody else." Learning how to care is the heart of love. This learning can be a slow process, but few things are more important in life.

Your comments are always welcome and may be used in future columns. Address: Charlie Martin, 1118 S. Rotherswood Ave., Evansville, Ind. 47114.

My fourth buddy, who wasn't killed, was the drunk driver.

"When I began to tell my friends that I had quit drinking, some of them, the heavy drinkers, called me a fool. I just grinned. I didn't let them get to me.

"After a time, I noticed a funny thing. The very guys who called me a fool began to cut down on their drinking. They weren't falling down anymore.

"And I heard other guys talking about their drinking habits. I was making some people think.

"I don't expect everyone to give up alcohol like I did. But if I can just get some to think about alcohol abuse and to examine their drinking patterns, I will have succeeded in what I wanted todo. My peer pressure will have worked. I think it already has to some extent."

What do you think ofJeffs strategy? Is there some way you could imitate him? What do you think might happen if quite a few young people used his peer pressure strategy?

Send questions and comments to Tom Lenn()n, 1311 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.

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MEMBERS of the Nun Others softball team congratulate each other on a good play.

Sister at the bat NEW YORK (NC) - Sometimes opponents of the women's softball team from New York's St. Nicholas ofTolentine Parish don't realize just who they're up against.

Members of the Nun Others softball team include 17 nuns, ages 26 to 52, from a variety of religious orders.

The nuns hail from Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island, Nassau and Suffolk, New York, and Stamford, Conn. Teammates include teachers, a principal, a youth minister, a retreat director, a social worker, a psychiatric nurse, a provincial formation director and a real estate actuary.

The team was St. Nicholas parish's entry into the CYO over-25 women's softball league this year.

"Some of the other teams didn't know at the beginning ... I think people were amazed that there were that many able-bodied nuns

around," said Sister of Charity Ann Woodford, team organizer, manager and pitcher.

Surprise turned to amazement as the nuns from St. Nicholas won two of their first four games. Four straight losses followed, however, and they closed the season with a 4-8 record.

The team's losses have not dampened its spirit.

"This is community out here," said Sister Erin Feerick, a Sister of St. Joseph and first-grade teacher who was cheering for the team.

"You learn as you play ... it's definitely something to look forward to each week," said Sister of Charity Jayne Porcelli, a youth minister at a Bronx high school.

Sister Woodford said so many have expressed interest in playing that next season there may be two teams of nuns.

Newman novena HUNTINGTON, Ind. (NC) A worldwide novena is being promoted to pray for the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman, a 19th-century Anglican convert.

The announcement of the novena, planned for Oct. 1-9, was made by Father Vincent J. Giese, chairman of the board of the Friends of Cardinal Newman Association in the United States and publisher of Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington.

Father Gregory Winterton, provost of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in Birmingham, England, founded by Cardinal Newman, and Jesuit Father Vincent F. BIehl, a Fordham University professor who has been named postulator for

Cardinal Newman's cause in Rome, asked the American Friends of Newman to promote the novena in the United States through Newman campus ministry centers, dioceses and parishes. .

While an Anglican priest and an Oxford don, Cardinal Newman was leader of the Oxford Movement, which was committed to defending the Church of England.

He converted to Catholicism in 1845 and was ordained in 1847. He was named a cardinal in 1879 and died in 1890.

A recent international Newman conference exploring his life, works and holiness drew about 200 people to the University of Notre Dame.

The Anchor Friday, Aug. 21, 1987

tv, movie news Symbols following film reviews his parents' trial and their guilt or indicate both general and Catholic iimocence. Sidney Lumet directs a Films Office ratings. which do not well-intentioned but rather simalways coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for plistic and romantic treatment of general viewing; PG-13-parental gui- political events and personal reladance strongly suggested for children tionships. It succeeds best, how'under 13; PG-parental guidance sug- ever, in showing the continuity of gested; R-restricted, unsuitable for social justice issues and movements children or young teens. from the Depression to the VietCatholic ratings: AI-approved for nam War. Graphic electrocution children and adults; A2-approved for scene. A3, R adults and adolescents; A3-approved TV Program for adults only; 4-separate classification (given films not morally offenTuesday, Sept. 1, 9-10 p.m. EDT sive which. however, require some (PBS) - "To Taste a Hundred analysis and explanation); O-morally . Herbs" - This second program in offensive. the "One Village in China" series Catholic ratings for television tells the story of Dr. Shen Fasheng, movies are those of the movie house a country doctor in northern China versions of the films. . and a devout Catholic. The Mary_._----~--- knoll Fathers and Brothers and the Catholic Communication 'NOTE Campaign are among the underPlease check dates and writers for the series. times of television and radio Religious TV programs against local listSunday, Aug. 23 (CBS) - "For Ings, which may differ from Our Times" - CBS reports on the New York network sched, contemporary Islamic religion and ules supplied to The Anchor. its influence on the people of the Middle East.

Religious Radio New Films' Sunday, Aug. 23 (NBC) "Back to the Beach"(Paramount) "Guideline" - Marist Brother - Frankie Avalon and Annette Louis Luks of Gramercy, La., disFunicello return to the seashore cusses religious education programs and discover that the chaste rela- for high school students. tionships ofthe 1950s have evolved into more physical alliances in the 1980s. Fanciful nostalgia trip is consistently upbeat, but accepting WASHINGTON (NC) - About ofthe plot's implied premarital sex 700 Catholic liturgists from 43 while offhandedly affirming the states and Canada attended "Litvirtues of enduring marriage and urgy for 1988," the first North fidelity. A3, PG American Conference on Worship, "Who's That Girl" (Warners) held recently in Washington. The Dull vanity action-comedy produc- four-day planning session for tion showcasing music idol Maliturgical worship in the coming donna as an ex-con trying to vindiyear drew "mostly professional cate herself while ruining the marpeople involved in liturgy, mostly riage plans of her escort (Griffin people in parish liturgy," said Tim Dunne). Of interest only 'to MaRagan, president of Time Consuldonna's diehard fans. A3, PG tants Inc., organizer of the confer-

Worship meeting

"The Monster Squad" (Trl-Star) - Preteens foil Count Dracula's attempt to destroy an amulet bearing positive energy in this visually stunning mock-horror flick. Lots o(fun and frolic but explosively realistic demise of the monsters.

A2, PG13 "No Way Out" (Orion) - Triangular power struggle forms when a high-ranking politico (Gene Hackman) and his chief counsel (Will Patton) try to cover up the accidental death of the pl!-rty girl unknowingly shared by his CIA liaison (Kevin Costner). Deals with abuse of power but uses an indecorously erotic lovemaking scene prior to development of the betrayal theme. A3, R "Can't Buy Me Love" (Touchstone) - A suburban nerd (Patrick Dempsey) pays a popular cheerleader (Amanda Peterson) to date him for it month in this comic' exploration of teen mores which condemns "in crowd" conformism and self-deception but passively conveys a permissive attitude toward adolescent sex. A3, PGl3 Film on TV Tuesday, Sept.t, 9-11 p.m. EDT (NBC) - "Daniel" (1983) - Fic, tional account of the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for treason in the 1950s and its effect on their son (Timothy Hutton) as he grows to adulthood in the I960s, determined to learn the truth about

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Catholic trivia game brings laughs, memories WASHINGTON (NC) - "Is the Pope Catholic!?!" may look like a nostalgia game for oldtimers who lived through Latin Masses, pagan babies and knuckleraps from nun-disciplinarians.

But some of the most ardent players are teenagers, say Richard and John Crowley, the brothers who created the game.

"Is the Pope Catholic!?!" is something of a cross between Trivial Pursuit, Monopoly and several other games.

The object is to climb the hierarchical ladder from altar boy to pope.

To do that you have to make it around the game board - a path of rosary beads - past the Hail Holy Queen medal five or more times by throwing dice and obeying the instructions on the bead you land on.

Hitting a Bingo bead can move you up the hierarchical ladder in a single turn, but a Pagan Place bead moves you down a step.

"How many Stations of the Cross are there?" If you land on a Baltimore Bonus bead and answer a question like that correctly, you advance an extra nine beads.

(Answer: 14).

But watch out for those Sin beads and Meet Me After School beads, where you get penalized for doing something bad.

Land on one of the Nostalgia beads and you must share a Catholic memory - an anecdote about a memorable priest or nun, a "most embarassing moment" story, a favorite Catholic joke.

The other players vote whether your tale was good enough to earn you a free turn.

The Crowleys, both psychotherapists, worked the game out together. Richard Crowley in Los Angeles was the main inspiration, while most of the research on the Baltimore Bonus and Vatican Vitals trivia was done, with the help of some priest friends, by

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John Crowley in Fort Wayne, Ind. The game is meant just for fun, but it can also have a healthy psychological impact on the players, they said.

Richard Crowley, who handles its mail sales and sees letters commenting on the game, said he was surprised at "how many teenagers like to play it with their parents.

He called it a "humanizing experience" as the younger generation discovers some of the things the parents did when they were in school.

John Crowley said that when people get an oppqrtunity to "share their own nostalgia" about the church and laugh with others about it, "if they had negative feelings, sometimes these become less negative. If they blamed the church (for an unpleasant episode), sometimes they are able to see their own role. It opens up some doors."

The Crowleys recently said they had sold about 1,000 games so far, mostly by mail.

Labor statement WASHINGTON (NC) - Because of "new and difficult" economic challenges and the positive role for Catholic social teaching in addressing them, traditional church-worker ties should be renewed, according to the 1987 U.S. Catholic Conference Labor Day Statement. The statement, "Rights and Responsibilities of Workers,"

by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan of Brooklyn, was recently released. Its author chairs the USCC Committee on Social Development and World Peace.

"Much has changed in recent years, but the basic challenge of defending human dignity remains a common task of both church and labor," he said. "I believe there are several reasons to suggest that we should renew and strengthen this partnership in the years ahead."

ence. Ragan said he hopes to turn the" meeting into an annual event.

MUSICIAN in fulltime ministry Jon Polce will be featured in a Garden of Worship concert at 4 p.m. tomorrow at LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro.

Lawn chairs suggested. Polce will also lead music at a 7:30 p.m. twilight Mass tomorrow in the garden. In case of rain, both concert and Mass will be held indoors; all welcome.

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FATHER Manuel Ferreira, left, pastor of Immaculate Conception parish, New Bedford, and Rev. Constantine Bebis ofthe same city's St. George Greek Orthodox Church were among representatives offourfaiths who blessed over 150 New Bedford fishing fleet vessels Aug. 16.

Hundreds watched the annual event from the New Bedford and Fairhaven shores and from many small pleasure craft, and the U.S. Coast Guard sailing barque Eagle served as a reviewing stand.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 21, 1987

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BLESSED SACRAMENT ADORERS,NB Holy hour 7 p.m. Aug. 31, St. Theresa Church, New Bedford; celebrant: Father Matthew Sullivan, SS.CC.; refreshments; all welcome.

Exposition ofthe Blessed Sacrament at St. Theresa's 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Fridays, all welcome.

OFFICE OF FAMILY MINISTRY, NO. DARTMOUTH Diane Lavallee has joined the staff as a secretary. Guest speaker resource list available to anyone involved in parish or diocesan ministry; information: Jerry and Scottie Foley, 999-6420. Enrichment day for priests and couples of the diocesan marriageteams 10a.m. t04 p.m. Nov. 7, St. Thomas More parish center, Somerset. 21 couples representing 16 parishes have joined the teams.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Seventh annual Polish Pilgrimage Day begins I:30 p.m. Sunday, shrine; in honor of the Marian year a special rosary devotion will include narration and costumes remembering Mary's apparitions on earth; Father Robert S. Kaszynski, pastor of St. Stanislaus parish, Fall River, will be main celebrant and homilist at a 3 p.m. Liturgy, Garden of Worship; music ministry by the Our Lady of Czestochowa, So. Boston, parish choir, under the direction of Mary Ferent; all devotions in Polish; all welcome.

0.". CAPE, BREWSTER Ladies' Guild first meeting of 1987-88 season Sept. 8 begins with 7 p.m. Mass for deceased members; reception of new members and business meeting foHows, church hall; refreshments; all parish women welcome.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE John and Mary Kaskan are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. Parish council nominations this weekend. Religious education teacher training session 10 a.m. Tuesday; guest speaker: Michaela Burke.

NOTRE DAME, FR Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hubert are celebrating their 50th wedding anniSS. PETER &; PAUL, FR versary. Altar boys' outing to WestThe parish school welcomes new port Water Slides today. Parish fifth-grade teacher Darrin Doane and secretary Barbara Vieira. School school opening day Sept. 2. teachers' commissioning ceremony . IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, at 8 a.m. Mass Sept. 2. School year TAUNTON opening liturgy II a.m. Sept. 4; all The Columban Sisters will speak parishioners welcome. at all Masses Sept. 5 and 6.

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AT A CELEBRATION honoring the 60 years of service by the Brothers of Christian Instruction to the Diocese of Fall River are, from left, Brother Patrick Menard, the order's provincial superior and a principal of Fall River's former Prevost High School; Father Ernest E. Blais, pastor of Notre Dame Church, Fall River, site of the Aug. 15 thanksgiving Mass; Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, principal celebrant; Brother David Touchette; and celebration chairman Paul A. Dumais, Prevost class of '39 and president of its alumni association.

A grade school when it opened in 1927, Prevost evolved into a high school, graduating its first seniors in 1938. It operated within the Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, building after a disastrous 1968 fire, and merged with Connolly in 1972. Many of the brothers on its faculty joined the Connolly staff. Prevost had 1,416 alumni.

Some 600 friends, relatives and former students of the brothers gathered for the Liturgy and a following banquet. Many Prevost alumni were among Mass concelebrants. Father Richard Gendreau, pastor of St. Stephen parish, Attleboro, and a member of the class of '59, was homilist.

Dumais was assisted by Roland Masse.

ST. JULIE, NO. DARTMOUTH Mr. and Mrs. Edward Souza are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary.

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CATHEDRAL, FR Religious education teachers meeting Aug. 25.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 30.

Father Edward J. McDonough, C.SS. R., healing service 2 p.m. Sept.

6, all welcome.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Adult Bible discussion 7 p.m.

Wednesday and 9:45 a.m. Thursday.

Youth ministry softball 6 p.m. Sunday.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT Persons interested in the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults may call the rectory, 636-4965, for in. formation.

ST. ANNE,FR The parish welcomes new staffers Lucy Paul, secretary/receptionist, and Natalie Stack, religious education coordinator.

ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT Non-perishable canned goods to benefit Market Ministries may be left near the St. Vincent de Paul box at the church entrance.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NB Manuel and Diane (Belli) Arruda are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN School parents' meeting 7 p.m.

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ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA Parish picnic follows II a. m. Mass Sunday. Choir sings at II a.m. Mass Sept. 27 and every fourth Sunday thereafter.

SEPARATED AND DIVORCED, FR Fall River area support group for separated, divorced and remarried Catholics meeting 7 p.m. Wednesday, O.L. Fatima Church hall, Swansea; all welcome.

ST. JAMES, NB Lectors needed; information: rectory, 992-9408. Jesuit missionary Father Ben Morin will speak at all Masses Aug. 29 and 30.

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TORONTO (NC) - The Canadian law allows abortions Supreme Court of Canada has when approved by accredited hosagreed to hear a case presented by pital committees ifthe committees Joe Borowski, a leading pro-life rule that a pregnancy threatens the campaigner, challenging the con- life or health of the mother. stitutionality of Canada's abortion Medical witnesses from several laws. countries appeared on Borowski's Its decision will allow Borowski to appeal an earlier Saskatchewan behalf before the three Supreme Court of Appeal ruling against his Court judges hearing the case.

Borowski, a Catholic, said he argument that unborn children have the right to protection under and his lawyers decided to present only medical evidence to the court, the Canadian Chapter of Rights and did not bring in any clergy. and Freedoms.

Borowski must present a brief Borowski, a former Manitoba provincial cabinet minister, argues of his arguments to the Supreme that the charter's protection under Court, after which a court date the law "for everyone" also ap- . will be set.

He said he believes a victory will plied to unborn children. He challenges the constitutionality of 1969 stop most ofthe 100,000 abortions amendments to the Canadian which he estimates are performed Criminal Code allowing abortions. annually in Canada.