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Taunton parish bolsters hurricanestruck namesake parish in Biloxi Special national collection to be taken at all Masses this weekend

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TAUNTON - In the year since hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastatedAmerica'sGulfCoast,parishes across the country have played an active role in the rebuilding process by offering generous spiritual and monetary support to Gulf parishes struggling to serve their congregations and return to some normalcy.

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Kiln is 60 miles from New Orleans, where as much as 80 percent of the population has still not returned.

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MANSFIELD - Dreams continue to become reality for St. Mary's Parish in Mansfield. When this year's eighth-grade class completes the academic year, it will become the very' first graduating class of St. Mary's School, which first opened its doors in September 2002.

"Having the first graduating class this year is great for this parish and the community," said pastor Msgr.

Stephen J. Avila "Having only arrived here a few months ago, I'm very anxious and eager to be associated with this great school, and the wonderful work done by Father George C. Bellenoit and Principal Joanne Riley." '''This class is a perfect symbol of the task we undertook years ago to offer quality Catholic education to parishioners of St. Mary's and the Mansfield community," Father Bellenoit told The Anchor. Father Bellenoit, now pastor of St. Pius X Parish in South Yannouth, was pastor at St. Mary's at the advent of the school, which began with students in grades kinTum to page 16 - Milestone

TAUNTON - Art and music students are in for a treat this year at CoyIe and Cassidy High School. The third floor, which once was the livitig quarters for the Holy Union Sisters who taught at the school and its predecessor, Cassidy High School, is undergoing a massive face-lift. : When complete, the music and art departments will offers students state-of-the-art facilities with plenty of space to work and play. ''This is a great opportunity for us to expand and showcase our art and music departments," said sdhool president, Congregation of the Holy Cross Brother Harold Hathaway. , The highly anticipated new art and music wings provide the school with a win-win-win situation.

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FALL RIVER - As the school year opens, four new Catholic elementary school principals will be welcoming returning students.

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, New Bedfoftt; and Linda Mattson at Holy TI'ibity Regional School, West Harwich.

Prior to becoming principal at St. Joseph's, Brze~inski taught fifth-grade and secon<l-grade there. ''It's an honor and I'm very excited to start as this schoolts new principal. I am eager to co9tinue the success our school has had and try to

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Priest says Pope John Paull's cause will be at Vatican by year's end VATICAN CITY (CNS) - As the 28th anniversary of Pope John Paull's brief pontificate approached, one of the priests working on his sainthood cause said the paperwork would be sent to the Vatican by the end of the year.

Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice, Italy, was elected Aug. 26, 1978, to succeed Pope Paul VI. As Pope John Paul I, he servedjust over a month, dying Sept. 28.

The diocesan phase ofhis cause for sainthood formally opened in 2003 in his home Diocese of Belluno and Feltre, Italy.

Vatican Radio reported that Msgr. Giorgio Lise, vice postulator ofthe cause, said that 170 witnesses already had been interviewed about

the late pope's life and ministry, and the last remaining interviews would be conducted by early November.

A formal biography and the wit-· nesses' testimony will be sent to the Congregation for Saints' Causes by the end of the year, he said.

The postulators already had forwarded to the Vatican information about a southern Italian man who believes he was cured of cancer through the intervention of Pope John Paul, Msgr. Lise said.

The monsignor said the congregation found the material about the alleged miracle "interesting" and asked for more information, which was sent.

"We are optimistic," Msgr. Lise said.

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BROTHERS IN PRAYER - Orthodox and Catholic leaders pray together at the Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Md., in July 2000, during the last meeting of the Catholic-Orthodox international commission for theological dialogue. A group of 60 ecumenical experts from both churches will gather once again for dialogue in Belgrade, Serbia, in mid-September.

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Experts hope to get derailed CatholicOrthodox dialogue back on track

By JOHN THAVIS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

CAUSE FOR A CAUSE? Pope John Paul I walks at the Vatican during his 33-day papacy in 1978. (CNS photo/Arturo Mari,

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Vatican changes dates for 2008 feasts of S1. Jos.eph, Annunciation VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Because of conflicts in the Catholic Church's liturgical calendar, the Vatican has decided that in 2008 the dates of the feasts ofSt. Joseph and ofthe Annunciation ofthe Lord will be moved.

Working a year and a half in advance to meet the needs of publishers of Church calendars, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments published its notification on the 2008 changes in midJuly.

In 2008, if the feast ofSt. Joseph were to be celebrated as usual on March 19, it would fallon the Wednesday ofHoly Week and if the

feast of the Annunciation of the Lord were to be celebrated March 25, it would fall on the Tuesday during the octave of Easter.

While the two feasts are among the 14 solemnities marked with special care in the Catholic Church, they do not take precedence over the commemoration ofChrist's suffering, d<;ath and resurrection.

Therefore, the congregation said, in 2008 the feast of St. Joseph will be celebrated March 15, the day before Palm Sunday, and the feast of the Annunciation will be celebrated March 31, the Monday after the second Sunday of Easter, which also is Divine Mercy Sunday.

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VATICAN CITY - Theological dialogue between the Catholic and Orthodox churches has been derailed for six years. In mid-September, 60 ecumenical experts will try to get it back on track.

The Catholic-Orthodox international dialogue commission is meeting in the Serbian capital of Belgrade September 18-25, in what Pope Benedict XVI has optimistically described as a "new phase in dialogue."

That the encounter is taking place at all has been described as a big step forward by Vatican officials. Representatives from 10 Orthodox churches, including the Russian Orthodox Church, will attend.

But Church officials also recognize that it wouldn't take much to send the whole enterprise off the rails again.

For one thing, the two main topics of the meeting are papal primacy and the role of Eastern Catholic churches - two of the sorest points in Catholic-Orthodox relations.

In fact, it was the re-emergence of Eastern Catholic churches in post-communist Eastern Europe that so troubled the mixed commission's meetings throughout the 1990s. After an acrimonious meeting in Emmitsburg, Md., in 2000, the dialogue was suspended.

Orthodox leaders who met with Vatican officials in a planning session late last year wanted these two issues high on the agenda, according to Vatican sources. The Orthodox still feel threatened by the resurgence of Eastern Catholic churches and continue to have doubts about how papal authority would work in a reunified Church.

The hope on the Vatican side is that these topics will be examined in a new theological framework, that of the church as "koinonia" or communion, and not on the emotional level that has characterized past discussions.

Although they are downplaying

immediate expectations, Vatican sources pointed to several reasons for cautious optimism.

For one thing, there is a new pope - a fact that, at least in a psychological sense, represents a new page for dialogue. While Pope John Paul II spoke often and movingly about the need to reunite the Western and Eastern churches, his insistence on visiting traditionally Orthodox countries, with or without an invitation from the Orthodox, sometimes provoked misgivings.

Vatican insiders say Pope Benedict is unlikely to make those kinds of trips. Nor is the pope pressing for a visit to Moscow, as his predecessor did.

Another plus is that many of the Orthodox dialogue experts know Pope Benedict, have read his works and trust him as a theologian. For Orthodox leaders who viewed Pope John Paul's Polish background as an obstacle, the German pope carries no such handicap.

Vatican officials say there's another reason the Belgrade meeting could go well: Participants will not have to start from scratch. They already have a draft text that ad-

dresses papal primacy and Eastern Catholic churches; it was worked out by experts from both sides in 1990, but never discussed by the full commission.

Cardinal Walter Kasper, the Vatican's chief ecumenist and the head of its delegation to Belgrade, hosted an important Catholic-Orthodox symposium in 2003 on the role of the pope. Cardinal Kasper told participants that the climate of discussion on this topic had changed considerably, with greater openness to a papal "ministry of unity" in today's fragmented world.

At the same symposium, Metropolitan John of Pergamon from the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, Turkey, made careful arguments in favor of a "universal primacy" and said the Orthodox churches could accept it as long as it did not undermine the ecclesiological integrity of any local church.

No one at the Vatican expects the Catholic delegation to come home from Belgrade waving a major agreement with the Orthodox. For many, if the dialogue is still going when the meeting ends, it will be marked a success.

Pope names Philadelphia-born priest as nuncio to South Africa VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI has named Philadelphia-born Msgr. James P. Green an archbishop and appointed him as nuncio to South Africa and Namibia and apostolic delegate to Botswana.

The 56-year-old monsignor had been the head of the English-language section of the Vatican Secretariat of State since 2003.

The announcement of his appointment as a nuncio and archbishop was published August 17; he could not be reached for comment.

The Vatican announcement did not say when he would be or-

dained a bishop or where the ceremony would take place.

Born May 30, 1950, in Philadelphia, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1976.

He began studying at the Vatican's diplomatic academy in 1985 and entered the diplomatic corps in 1987.

Before being assigned to the Vatican Secretariat of State in 2003, he served as the charge d'affaires of the Vatican's diplomatic office in Taiwan.

Previously, he had worked at Vatican embassies in Papua New Guinea, South Korea, the Netherlands, Spain and the Denmarkbased nunciature for Scandinavia.

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Cuban immigrant's letter led him on path to N.J. seminary

By MICHAEL WOJCIK CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

"I miss my family a lot," said Corona.

Though he is sad to be separated from his family, he said he does not regret speaking up for freedom.

Even at the time he wrote his letter in support of the bishops' pastoral, he understood the repercussions of his actions.

"I was frightened. I was worried for my family," said the 36-

observers to predict the impending end of his regime.

"The police had found out WEST MILFORD, N.J. about the letter," he said. "The Enrique Corona's path to a New judge, a jury and lawyers were Jersey seminary got an unconvencommunists. I was sentenced to tional start in 1992, when he took 19 years for enemy propaganda." a stand in his native Cuba - writCorona said he used his time ing a letter in support of a pastoin the prison in the service of God. ral letter of the Cuban Catholic He led a religious education class bishops calling for greater human, that grew in popularity. political and economic rights in Though he had never met a the country. priest or experienced the For that act of rebellion parish life his family deagainst the communist govscribed in such glowing ernment of Fidel Castro he Though he had never met a terms, Corona said he knew was thrown in prison.

His mother, Maria, be- priest or experienced the parish by age 12 that he wanted to gan to seek his release, life his family described in such be a priest. He started findworking channels to her his own way to Mass glowing terms, Corona said he ing without his parents' knowlfamily's home region in Galicia, Spain. Five years knew by age 12 that he wanted edge when he was 14.

"When I told my parents, later, with the intervention to be priest. He started findof the Spanish ambassador ing his own way to Mass with- they were worried," said Corona, saying that his fato Cuba, Corona was released from prison, though out his parents' knowledge when ther, Radames, was particularly upset. he was ordered to leave the he was 14.

Though religious practice country. was considered risky A nurse by training, Cothrough much of Castro's dictarona eventually wound up in New year-old Corona.

Jersey, where he is a seminarian "After a few days in prison, I torship, Corona's mother taught in the Paterson diocese, living out figured that I'm here for some him Catholic prayers in a quiet, a call to the priesthood he first felt reason," he said. "Jesus had spent unassuming way.

"My grandparents and parents when he was 12. a few hours in prison. The In an interview with The Bea- Apostles had spent time in talked about the parish and about the priests and nuns. They longed con, the diocesan newspaper, Co- prison." rona described his convoluted trip Corona said when he wrote the for the Church" the way it was to the seminary. It led from his letter and sent it to a friend in New prior to Castro, said Corona. So home in a farming community in Jersey who circulated it for him, he viewed the parish as a mystieastern Cut>a, through nursing he knew he was risking his own cal, faraway place like Xanadu or Shangri-La. school, to his imprisonment, ex- freedom.

Catholic religious life in Cuba pulsion and eventual settlement in "Castro was angry and atNew Jersey. tacked the Church," Corona said. has "opened up" considerably Since his departure in 1997, he Castro is currently recovering since what Corona called the "big has been able to return to Cuba from surgery for intestinal bleed- miracle" of Pope John Paul TI's briefly just once, five years ago, ing. Ina historic move, he has trip there in 1998. Today, the while working with the Red temporarily handed over power to faithful are not afraid to go to his brother, Raul, leading some Mass.

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. ~CNS) As Rhode Island voters Consider a constitutional amendment to allow casino gambling at an American indian-owned resort, .the hbill of the state's Catholic diocese urged people to weigh the "hu.t1:lan, sociological, economic and politidl consequences" before voting.

Bishop Thomas 1. TobijlOfProvidence wrote in an issue of The Providence Visitor, the diocesan Catholic paper, that the proposal qn the November ballot should be Considered in light ofquestions such as: ''Is corporate gambling the best we can do for economic development?" .

The proposed casino in West Warwick would be owned by the Narragansett Indian tribe"and operated by Harrah's Entertainment, which has been blanketing the state with advertising in supPort of the constitutional amendment.

In his column, Bishop Tobin acknowledged thathe does little gambling himself, from buying raffle tickets for Church fund-raisers to participating in footballlipools and sometimes wagering on the outcome of a round of golf. .

"On a few occasions: I've even made a pilgrimage to Foxwoods," a casino owned by the Mashantucket Pequot Indians in southeastern Connecticu~ "paying my tithb to the slot machines," he said. ''In light of my Irish-German heritage and very frugal nature, both the time lmd money spent there are always strictly limited," he added.

Bishop Tobin said gambling can have useful purposes, such as helping raise funds for nonprofit agencies or as a reason for socializing, for example, when some senior citizens "fiild their primary ,~ocial support around bingo tablesl" Yet the rapid proliferation and acceptance of gambling ,in contemporary society is troublesome, he said. ''The fact that the culture of gambling is ensnaring many of our young people, including tollege and high school students, is a growing and serious problem" , Large-scale, corporate and professional gambling is in a league of its own, he said, and presents seriI' ous concerns.

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The Catholic Church has no traditional, magisterial or scriptural basis for objecting to all gambling as immoral, Bishop Tobin said. He cited the "Catechism of the Catholic Church" as saying "games of chance or wagers are not in themselves contrary to justice. They become morally unacceptable when they deprive someone ofwhat is necessary to provide for his needs and those ofothers. The passion for gambling risks becoming enslavement."

The circumstances surrounding gambling can render it immoral, he said. Such circumstances might include spending excessive amounts of money, addiction to gambling, unfair gambling, or that which leads to crime, corruption or damage to individuals, families and communities.

He recognized that "gambling is a sensitive topic for Catholics," who play bingo, sell raffle tickets and sometimes organize trips to Atlantic City, NJ., or Las Vegas.

"Are sins being committed every time these activities take place?" he asked. ''I don't think so."

He suggested that the Catholic approach to gambling is similar to the Catholic approach to' alcohol. ''While drinking alcohol is not evil in itself, the morality is found in the circumstances of its use or abuse," Bishop Tobin said. He offered Rhode Island voters questions to consider in deciding whether to approve the casino amendment.

Among the questions Bishop Tobin suggested were: - whether the anticipated shortterm benefits of a casino justify the potential long-term liabilities of the gambling environment; - whether the casino might give rise to organized crime, prostitution or the use of drugs.

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Atlanta conference helps AfricanAmerican Catholics evangelize ATLANTA - Nearly 500 African-American priests and Catholic laypeople from 20 U.S. dioceses. came to Atlanta in August to focus on becoming better evangelizers through prayer, the sacraments and solid formation, and trusting in God's grace and love to overcome any personal limitations.

The August 4-6 Interregional African-American Catholic Evangelization Conference had as its theme "Gettin' on the Good Foot, Runnin' to the Kingdom," a reference to the prophet Isaiah's call to the people who had grown complacent in exile to return to Jerusalem to work and wait for the promises of God to be fulfilled.

At the opening Mass Auxiliary Bishop Martin D. Holley of Washington spoke of the importance of having solid catechetical formation through the study of the catechism, Scripture, Church documents and the lives of the saints. He also stressed the value of feeding one's spirit to become enlightened through Christ and thus a light to others.

The conference grew out of a 1993 National Black Catholic Congress regional meeting in Louisiana focused on evangelizing AfricanAmericans. The first conference

was held in 1995 in Memphis, Tenn.

This year's event included a youth summit and a young adult round table to create a national agenda for outreach to the young as part of preparations for the National Black Catholic Congress irr 2007 in Buffalo, N.Y. Workshop sessions addressed catechesis, health issues among African-Americans, spirituality, relationships, ministry, sacred movement, effective programs for youth and children, the diaconate, healthy marriage and "hip-hop hypocrisy."

Seminarian Christopher Rhodes and Father Anthony Michael Bozeman, who was ordained a priest in 2000 and currently serves in a Houston parish, told the stories of their own vocations.

Rhodes said the fIrst seed of his vocation was planted when his uncle took him to a Protestant church as a boy and the minister called the boy forward and said God was calling him to serve God's people one day.

When he received similar messages at other churches, "I'd keep going to another chure<h; I was literally running," he said. But after his graduation from Morehouse College in Atlanta, the signs of his

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Father Bozeman, the son of a father who was an inactive Catholic and a Protestant mother who had their children baptized Catholic and sent them to Catholic school grew up admiring the loving witness of the priest at his parish and proudly declared he would become a priest.

He became a Sunday-only Catholic ... "happy but not really happy," he said.

But conversations with the fIrst African-American to be ordained for the Philadelphia Archdiocese, his parish priest and others finally led him to tell God, "I surrender. If you still want me after all I've been through and all I've done, if you still want me to work for you and your people then I'll give it a shot." He was ordained in May 2000.

Father Bozeman urged parents to encourage their children to consider priesthood or religious life as was done in decades past, noting that Mary didn't have grandchildren either. . "I've never been happier," he said. "I can't imagine what my life would have been if I hadn't said 'yes' to God."

u.s. adult catechism is new faith resource for adults

By JERRY FILTEAU CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON - When U.S. Catholics celebrate Catechetical Sunday September 17, they will have a new resource available to help them deepen their understanding of the faith - the "U.S. Catholic Catechism for Adults."

Within two weeks after it went on sale July 31, the 664-page adult catechism had sold more than 25,000 copies according to USCCB Publishing, the publishing office of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Adopted by the U.S. bishops in November 2004 and recently approved by the Holy See, the "U.S. Catholic Catechism for Adults" is the fIrst official catechism produced by the nation's bishops since the creation of the "Baltimore Catechism." fIrst published in 1885 and revised in 1941.

Unlike the "Baltimore Catechism" which was aimed primarily at the religious education of children, the new adult catechism is intended chiefly as an instrument for adults. Those entering the Church can use it to learn about the Catholic faith, while adults who were born and raised Catholic can use it to deepen their understanding of Catholic teachings that they learned about more superficially as children.

The bishops intended the book for a wide audience, but especially for ''young adult Catholics whose education in the faith was inadequate or incomplete in any way," USCCB Publishing said in a release about the new publication.

The adult catechism was written in response to a Vatican request that bishops' conferences develop such national texts to complement the universal ''Catechism of the Catholic Church."

The adult catechism is adapted to U.S. culture,

providing comprehensive and authoritative Church teaching but with a view to the American culture and experience. Like the universal catechism, its contents are arranged under four themes: ''The Creed: The Faith Professed"; ''The Sacraments: The Faith Celebrated"; "Christian Morality: The Faith Lived"; and "Prayer: The Faith Prayed."

Each of its 36 chapters begins with a brief story about a biblical figure or about a saint or exemplary Catholic, most of them American.

The fIrst chapter, for example, has a brief biography of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, who converted to Catholicism as an adult and founded the U.S. Daughters of Charity of St. Vmcent de Paul.

Each chapter addresses aspects of Catholic faith and their application in U.S. culture and closes with discussion questions, a brief summation ofthe doctrinal points in the chapter, a meditation and a prayer.

At the end of the book are a scriptural index, a topical index and several appendices - a glossary of religious and Catholic terms, traditional Catholic prayers, and a reference guide on official Carbolic teachings.

Another new catechetical resource adult Catholics have this year is the "Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church." Written in question-answer format, the compendium is a summarized version of the "Catechism of the Catholic Church." .

It was produced at the request of Pope John Paul II by a commission of cardinals, headed by thenCardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who is now Pope Benedict XVI. When the compendium was completed and released by the Vatican in June 2005, Pope Benedict said it "contains, in concise form, all the essential and fundamental elements of the Church's faith."

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UP AND ABOUT - Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George talks with reporters after being released from Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, III. He was recovering from a recent operation for bladder cancer. (CNS photo/David V. Kamba, Catholic New World)

Cardinal George leaves¡hospital after bladder cancer surgery MAYWOOD, m. (CNS)-Cardinal Francis E. George ofChicago left Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood August 15, after undergoing surgery for bladder cancer July 27.

The cardinal, dressed in a black clerical suit and using crutches, appeared at the door of the Stritch School of Medicine at the hospital shortly before 9 a.m., flanked by archdiocesan aides. He stopped to speak briefly to reporters gathered there.

"I'm extremely grateful to those whohaverememb~edmeintheir

prayers before the Lord," said the 69-year-old cardinal. "In bringing me before the Lord, they had to bring themselves before the Lord and I hope that deepened their relationships." .

Colleen Dolan, director of the archdiocesan communications department, said Cardinal George has received good wishes and promises of prayers from people in at least 85 countries.

Encouraging those prayers was one reason the cardinal decided to allow his medical team to be so open about his condition, from July 26, when he entered the hospital, through some complications he experienced, to his release. ''The way that everyone knows what they're praying for is to be very open," Dolan said.

Cardinal George's personal physician, Jesuit Father Myles Sheehan, also said that to keep the cardinal's condition private would raise suspicions that matters were worse than they were. ''If we're not transparent, people are going to think that really weird, bad things are happening," said Father Sheehan, a gerontologist who also serves as dean of the medical school.

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George's bladder, prostate gland and sections of his ureters - the tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder - after a biopsy showed there was cancer in his bladder and a blockage indicated that the disease was moving into one of the ureters. They also used a section of his bowel to fashion a new bladder.

Pathology tests after the surgery showed that the cancer had not spread beyond the bladder or the ureters, and his doctors are now calling the cardinal a "cancer survivor."

But he had to go back into surgery late that evening because a small artery was bleeding internally, and he suffered more aches and pains than anticipated throughout the recovery process.

The cardinal's recovery was more difficult than usual because of his childhood bout with polio, Father Sheehan said. The polio weakened one of his legs. To keep his muscles from atrophying, he had extensive physical therapy.

"He wanted to carry on and be mobile when he left," Father Sheehan said, but added that the cardinal was glad to be going home.

"Maybe he'll wear one of the 'Free Francis' T-shirts he had printed up," Father Sheehan quipped.

But he reminded reporters that the cardinal is not out of the woods yet. The five-year survival rate for patients with bladder cancer at the stage it was in the cardinal is 70 percent to 80 percent.

"Just as all our fates are in the hands of God, so is Cardinal George's," Father Sheehan said.

Cardinal George is expected to recuperate at home until Labor Day, when he will resume a limited schedule. He expects to take on more duties by October 1, including a planned trip to Rome in midOctober, Dolan said.

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Priest who ministe~ed to McVeigh speaks of God's transforming grace

U.S. churches key in integrating Mexicans into U.S., says study

ATLANTA (CNS) - When. deemed and your p~ople (will be free in the Spirit, I have nothhe ministered to Oklahoma City be).' ... I remembered all of that, ing to fear," he said. "I'm not worried about what any man bomber Timothy McVeigh, Di- being with Timothy 楼cVeigh."

Father Smith and his brother, says. And my eyes are on the vine Word Father Charles Smith found that his faith, instilled in Divine Word Fath~r Chester sparrow. God is with me, and I him by loving parents despite the Smith, were the first black Catho- know God is with you and we childhood pain of discrimination, Hc twins to be ordaiQed priests. shall be free forevermore." enabled him to be Christ's repre- Both priests are in residence at He encouraged his audience sentative even as the inmate ver- St. Rita's Parish in Indianapolis. to be bold but gentle as they In his workshop p~esentation, speak up for what they believe bally assaulted him.

"When I first came in . is right, even if it's contro(to see him) I thought 'God versial. But "don't be afraid to use prophetic diais the owner of my life,' As he walked with McVeigh, Fa- logue ... in teaching us how and I went to him and he threw his feces on me and ther Smith rememberbd how, when to live, ... in ministry, catcalled me all types of he was a child, a porter in an Illinois echism, Bible study. Use names and said, 'You can't train told his .light-skinned parents what is there to speak the be a priest because I've that he couldn'fserve':their "wicked truth." never seen a you-know- children," who had darker skin, and He prescribed for them what as a priest,'" Father "old-school spirituality" of Smith said August 5. "The how Mississippi restaurants refused morning, noon and evening ' devil was messin' with to serve them. private prayer, recalling me." how, when he was told as He made the comments a youth that. he couldn't , in a workshop he led during the Father Charles Smith encouraged learn and shopldn't go to col2006 Interregional African- people to speak the truth in love lege, his grandmother would say, American Catholic Evangeliza- and humility, never]lpressuring "Child, you just pray and God tion Conference, which was held anyone to join the Church and will make a way." He went on avoiding a superior attitude to to graduate from college as valeAugust 4-6 in Atlanta.

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Baptist ministers had previously "I know if God can call two "You are a child of God. If you worked - unsuccessfully little black boys from the South give your all to God he'll give his with the man found guilty of Side of Chicago to live 16-17 all to you so we've got to be .bombing the Oklahoma City fed- years in an international religious people of prayer," he said. "Pray eral building in 1995 and murder- order, to go around the world and for God's perfect timing in your ing the 168 people who died from to come back home to be with his life. He's going to give you the . people to teach and to preach and revelation that you need." the blast.

But Father Smith .persevered in his ministry to McVeigh and the convicted murderer, who was a baptized Catholic, began to repent. "He did a lot of things, but in the end we had confession, reconciliation. In the end he asked me a question a lot of people ask me. He asked, 'Father Charles, can I still get to A Tradition of Excelf~nce in Theological Education for Ministry since 1971 heaven?'"

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WASfllNGTON - U.S. Catholic and Protestant churches are major channels for integrating Mexican immigrants into U.S. society and helping them participate in political life, said a new study by the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute. They also help Mexicans reaffirm their national identity in their new world and help immigraIits advance their social and political concerns in the U.S., said the study, titled "Invisible No More: Mexican Migrant Civic Participation in the United States." Churches "appropriate symbols and patterns of worship from migrants' hometowns in Mexico but tie the worship to the issues that migrants face in the United States and build capacities to address these proactively," it said. As an example of how the Catholic Church is promoting Mexican immigrant social and political agendas, the study cited the U.S. bis!?ops' campaign for comprehensive immigration reform. The study was released by the Washington-based Wilson.

Center, a nonpartisan think tank, and is based on research papers presented at a conferenct( last November. The papers discussed how churches and other U.S. organizations were helping Mexi. cans become part of U.S. society.

Mission trips abound for college students, grads WASHINGTON - While on a spring semester trip in southern Chile, Shanta Ready found her life's work -: social work. While a sophomore at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, she participated in the Maryknoll Rural Life Seminar for three weeks.

It was offered by Maryknoll Lay Missioners, made up of single men and women, couples and families working in 17 countries.

She spent a week learning intensive language skills. During the afternoons and evenings, she learned about the history of the Church in Chile and shared her culture with her host family. "I 'was interested in rural life in Chile," said Ready, 22. In a telephone interview with Catholic News Service, the South Bend, Ind., resident said she enjoyed spending time with her host family and discussing the differences between American and Chilean culture. She became interested in mental health issues while working with a nonprofit organization and the Santiago Catholic Church. After graduation, she went to Coachella Valley, Calif., as a Holy Cross associate with the Holy Cross Fathers. She and three other associates did co'mmunity organizing and pastoral and social work..

Pro-Life leader raps Bush stance on 'morning-after' pill (CWNews.com) - An American Pro~Life leader has sharply criticized }>.resident George W. Bush for a statement implying support for over-the-counter sale of the "morning-after" pill should be legally available. During an August 21 press conference, President Bush was questioned about reports that his nominee as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Andrew von Eschenbach, would approve non-prescription sales of the drug known as "Plan B." The President responded: "I believe that Plan B ought to be - ought to require a prescription for minors, is what I believe. And I support Andy's decision." Father Thomas Euteneuer, president ofHUIllan Life International, shot off a press release saying that the President's "implied support for the abortion-causing drug Plan B is completely inconsistent with his recent veto of the embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) funding bill." "What the President apparently fails to realize," Father Euteneuer continued, "is路 that Plan B kills the same innocent unborn children that the ESCR process does." Father Euteneuer said that the President's statement "risks provokil1g a great divorce" between the White House and the Pro-life Catholics who have supported him.

Chaldean Catholic priest kidnapped in Baghdad VATICAN CITY - A Chaldean Catholic priest was kidnapped in Baghdad, Iraq, just after celebrating Mass August 15 on the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Church leaders said. Masked kidnappers forced Father Saad Sirop Hanna, 34, to stop his car, then they took him away, Vatican Radio reported August 18. Father Hanna works at St. Jacob Parish in Dora, one of Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhoods. Father Philip Najim, the Rome-based representative of the Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Baghdad, confirmed the report. "It is truly a very sad situation because he is a young priest who was continuing his studies. In fact, he was supposed to come here to Rome to study. He is a young priest who has dedicated his life to serving both the nation and all the Christian faithful he encounters," Father Najim said. "Given the situation" of violence and confusion in Baghdad, especially in Dora where various militias have been fighting each other for months, "it is difficult to identify who took him," Father Najim said.

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The Acts of the Apostles describes how the disciples would sell their property and lay the proceeds at the feet of the Apostles to help out those in most need (Acts 4:34-35). The Church in Antioch, knowing that the Christians in Jerusalem were suffering, determined to take up a collection, with all giving as generously as each could. They entrusted the proceeds to Paul and Barnabas who brought the relief to the holy city. It is no wonder why it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians (Acts 11:27-30).

Later, as Paul traveled preaching the Gospel, he would regularly ask the Christians in the various churches to help out the beleaguered members of their Christian family in Jerusalem. He was very practical: "On the first day of every week [that is, Sunday], each of you is to put aside and save whatever extra you earn ... and when I arrive, I will'send any whom you approve with letters to take your gift to Jerusalem" (l Cor 16:1-4).

To the Catholics in Rome, he praised the Churches in Macedonia and Achaia for they were "pleased to share their resources with the poor among the saints in Jerusalem" (Rom 15:25).

He continued to acclaim the charity of the Churches of Macedonia in his second letter to the Corinthians, which is the most extensive treatment of Christian charity and generosity in Sacred Scripture (see chapters 8 and 9). The Macedonians, despite a "severe ordeal of affliction" and "extreme poverty," he said, allowed the wealth of their generosity to overflow: "For they voluntarily gave according to their means, and even beyond their means, begging us earnestly for the privilege of sharing in this ministry to the saints." He d~scribed the reason for their liberality, which he confessed exceeded all expectations: ''They gave themselves first to the Lord and then, by the will of God, to us." Their beneficence was a response to the "generous act ofour Lord Jesus Christ, who, though he was rich, for your sakes became poor, so that by his poverty, you might become rich." Paul called his readers to the same Christ-like generosity, so that through their impoverishing themselves out of love for others, they might become rich. He exalted the example of Christ and the Macedonians before the relatively affluent Corinthians as a means to "test the genuineness of your love against the earnestness of others."

While he clearly stated that their contributions should be a "volun.tary gift" and "not an extortion," he reminded them that God is always .watching and will never be outdone in generosity: 'The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work. '" You will be enriched in every way for your great generosity, which will produce thanksgiving to God through us.... Through the testing of this ministry you glorify God by your obedience to the confession of the Gospel of Christ and by the generosity of your sharing with them and with all others, while they long for you and pray for you because of the surpassing grace of God that he has given you. Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!"

Just as with the ancient Church in Jerusalem, which needed aid more than once, so today the churches of Biloxi and New Orleans need the help of their Christian brothers and sisters again. The successors of St. Paul throughout the country are asking the spiritual heirs of the disciples ofAntioch, Macedonia, Achaia and Corinth, to set aside and save on the upcoming first day of the week whatever extra we earn to help out our brothers and sisters in need.

One year after Hurricane Katrina, as several articles in this edition describe, the devastation remains immense. Since insurance policies cover only damage done by wind and not by water, oDly half of the $70 million of losses in Biloxi are covered by insurance as is only 105 of the $225 million of losses in New Orleans. Of 433 church buildings in Biloxi 428 were destroyed or terribly damaged. God-forbid something like Katrina ever hits the Massachusetts coast and devastates the Cape and the Islands, and attacks head-on the area from New Bedford to Buzzards Bay, provoking massive flooding along the shores of Dartmouth and Westport and all the way up the Taunton River. But if it did happen, and we had lost our homes, our churches and so much more, we would hope in those circumstances that God would inspire Christians in other areas to respond with Christ-like generosity to help us get back on our feet.

Last year God did move the Catholics of the Diocese of Fall River to contribute an incredible $1 million to help those in the Gulf Coast rebuild. Doubtless St. Paul praised us in heaven as much as he lauded the Churches of his own day. This Sunday is a chance to show ourselves true Christians and worthy of that praise and title once again. This Sunday is an opportunity for us, in giving ofour means and "even beyond our means," to transfer some of our surplus into an eternal IRA, storing up for ourselves treasure in heaven. May the Lord, who impoverished himself to enrich us, inspire us to love others with this same standard of generosity.

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the living word MARCEL LARIVIERE AND IDS WIFE ALINE ENJOY A QUIET MOMENT ON THE GROUNDS OF THE NATIONAL SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF LA SALETTE IN ATTLEBORO. ALINE WAS A PATIENT AT THE LIFE CARE CENTER AND BOTH ARE PARISIDONERS AT ST. THERESA OF THE ClllLD JESUS CHURCH, SOUTH ATTLEBORO. (ANCHOR PHOTO BY MIKE GORDON)

"I MAY COME TO YOU IN JOY BY THE WILL OF GOD AND FIND REFRESIllNG REST IN YOUR COMPANY" (ROMANS 15:~2).

To change a life future. After meeting this polite, During my recent visit to a respectful, and faithful young mission parish in the Ukraine, I was inspired by many of the . man, it was nearly impossible to imagine that he had had such a people I met, including a young sad and rough beginning to his man named Volodymyr. " As a child, Volodymyr lived in life.

Meeting Volodymyr, and one of the state-rim orphanages, hearing the story of his converafter losing both of his parents. sion, also made me think hard He was known to the workers in about what it takes to change a the orphanage as a tough boy, life. Every serious priest, and given to lying, stealing and indeed every genuine disciple of fighting. At the time, it did not Christ, hopes to be an instruappear that his future would be a bright one.

But then things changed when one of the religious Sisters who worked in the orphanage enlisted the help of some of the local seminarians.

She asked them to consider coming to the orphanage to spend some time with the children, rnent of conversion in the world, and to sponsor those who had one whom our Lord will use to not yet been baptized. One of bring souls back to him. But the the seminarians was Gregorio, work of conversion is hard, and who was happy to meet eightyear-old Volodymyr, and began . often, prolonged efforts yield only seemingly small results. weekly visits to the orphanage. . For a while, Volodymyr was In this difficult work, we take our cue, of course, from the not too excited about spending practice of our Lord. It was our time with a seminarian. But Lord's custom to focus on after getting to know Gregorio individual souls, to whom he and learning to trust him, he ministered with attention and gradually began to enjoy his care, such as when he assured visits and wanted to learn more them their sins were forgiven about Jesus Christ. Eventually, (Mk 2:5; Lk 7:48), or when'he Volodymyr's tough shell began told them to go and sin no more to crumble, and finally he was (In 5:14, 8: 11). While our Lord brought to the waters of bapcertainly spent much time tism. addressing crowds and urging Today, 16-year-old them collectively to conversion, Volodymyr lives happily with he ultimately dealt with indithe faith-filled parents of Father vidual persons, and not with Gregorio, whom he considers not only his spiritual father, but systems.

So often, we can be tempted his adoptive father, as well. He to think that changing people's attends school with a seriouslives requires changing the ness about his studies, and he is systems in which they live. hopeful and eager about the

Although some systems can and should be changed, we must remember that all the effort in the world to change systems will be of no avail if the persons in those systems still have not changed their hearts. .

Lives are truly changed when individual souls decide to accept and follow Christ. And individual souls in need of conversion need the kind of personal attention that Christ gave to people. and that Father Gregorio gave to Volodymyr. They need to know that we truly care about their lives, and that we want to help make their lives as happy as possible. . To change a life also requires proving the truth of Christ's message by the joy it produces in the lives of those who are faithful to him. Our greatest efforts at evangelization and conversion will be thwarted if we do not offer a convincing demonstration of the true happiness that comes from following the Lord.

Working in the vineyard and pursuing the lost sheep can often lead to the conclusion that real, genuine conversions are actually rare. But rare as they may be, it is necessary to believe and hope that each individual whom we meet may prove to be one of those rare exceptions. And putting into the deep in our faith in Christ requires us to keep working for the Lord in the ongoing effort to change a life.

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And, to listen to Tito & Co. following last weekend's debacle, you'd still think they were playoff bound. What?

It was ironic to channel surf last weekend between the Red Flops and Tiger Woods' bid for another championship.

Tiger, like his namesake, is one of the most fearsome, relentless competitors in all of sports. There is fire in his eyes. With razor-sharp precision,

The sweater that she wore When Mother Teresa died on on a magazine page with the heading, "What not to wear."

Sept. 5, 1997, the world was The sweater only added to her already grieving over the untimely death of Princess beauty and simplicity because she Diana; a beautiful young chose only to put on Christ. This princess who had died five days was all that mattered.

Mother Teresa grew up in a earlier on August 31.

It was not that the world did wealthy family, but after her father died at age 42, she came to not care about Mother Teresa or that people did not grieve for her know what it meant to be poor. as well, but the tragic events of She joined the Loretto Sisters in Princess Diana's fate certainly meant that Mother Teresa's passing got less attention than if she 'I, ii ;,;,'\ had died at another l F~itb' time. " i "" But this is how ElY Gret~_lVIacKoul Mother Teresa would have wanted it. It was the way that she lived her life. In her humility she died Calcutta at age 18. As a nun she in the quietest way possible. became a geography teacher and Her humility was evident in so her students loved her. But it was many ways. In the work that she not until nearly 20 years later, did day after day serving the poor when she was traveling to her and the unwantea, in her tireless annual retreat in Datjeeling, that effort to do small things with great God called her in profound way love and in her very simple to serve the poorest of the poor in lifestyle.

India. When she founded the Even in the sweater that she Missionaries of Charity, many wore. who were first to join her were The sweater that she wore was her former students. also a sign of her humility. She The story of Mother Teresa's wore a plain, blue sweater over life is very well in a documentary the white sari. She could have produced by Ann and Jeanette worn a long coat or a lovely shawl Petrie. I have seen it several over the sari, but these choices times and each time I watch it, I would not have been practical. find that the story of her life With the cardigan sweater she brings such joy, and like so many could do her work. Her hands and who have been inspired by her, arms were free to move. It did not there are often tears of joy. For in matter that the sweater did not her we see the presence of Jesus, really "go" with the sari or that a we see the work of Jesus in fashion editor might have put an action.

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This fall I have been given the wonderful opportunity to be a teacher again, this time at St. Pius X School in South Yarmouth where our children attend.

There I will teach religion and creative writing to middle school students. I look forward to enriching my curriculum with a segment about the life and teachings of Mother Teresa.

Perhaps I'll go to a thrift store soon. There I may find an old, blue cardigan sweater. And from time to time, when I am teaching, I may wear the sweater over a lovely dress, as a possible reminder for my students, and myself, that it does not matter what we wear, but only that we put on Christ.

And to all of the teachers who are preparing to enter classrooms this year, to embark on new adventures of inspiration and learning, may God bless you in all that you do.

Meeting Christ It was with great interest that I read in the August 11 issue of The Anclwr the article explaining the Church rationale for kneeling during the consecration of the Mass, that is, that kneeling "is the most appropriate

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On the same team In response to a reeentletter, I would like to say that I have been a chaplain in hospital ministry since 1981.

I have found that the title "chaplain" has never caused confusion among patients, families, staff, and ancillary services as to what my role is as a team member in the hospital.

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Tiger sliced up every challenger at Medinah last week en route to his third PGA Championship and 12th major championship.

The New York Yankees play with the same fire. They had the Sox by the jugular last ,*eekend and didn't let go.

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way to express the fact that in the Eucharist one meets Jesus," and therefore, we should kneel.

Can't we say the same thing about receiving Communion, and therefore shouldn't we receive Communion kneeling down? Failing that, shouldn't we, at least, have the option of receiving while kneeling, either at an altar rail or a prie-dieu, as we used to years ago?

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Trusting in Jesus: a step offaith The Gospel wIDch we have here today occurs in the beautiful sixth chapter of St. John's Gospel. This chapter is essentially about our trust in Jesus and in the care he has for our lives. It invites us to contemplate the simplest attitude of faith and trust by which we believe the word of Christ and trust him.

The sixth chapter of John starts with the great miracle of the multiplication of the loves and fishes and the feeding of the 5,000. Struck by the marvelous miracle and satisfied by the bread they had received the people are eager to be with Jesus again, He, however has slipped away.

They fmally figure that he has gone to Capernaum where they catch up with him. He is preaching in the synagogue.

They stop to listen. He has chosen this moment to speak for the first time we know of about his great plan to leave us the gift of his abiding presence. He speaks of eating his Flesh and drinking his Blood.

The people murmur, they don't like this. I like to imagine Peter there at the foot of Jesus nudging him and saying "Jesus, this isn't going down

well at all, talk about somehe does not say: He does not thing else ... you are losing say "No Lord, we get it, those them!" Jesus however goes on. stupid people do not get it but It is a decisive moment and his we do so; don't worry, we will community has to make a stick around." No, he did not decisive step of maturity in base his continued adhesion to their faith; they must trust Christ on his ability to figure Jesus. He makes it clear that he out that Christ was right.

Neither did he say "No, for us is not using some figurative .language or weaving a delicate analogy but he is talking in a way that mily of the ee is both.mysterious and 21 st Sunday in literally true. We must '~Ordinary Time eat his Flesh and drink his Blood! The masses

By Father are shocked and scandalized and the Michael Carvill Gospel tells us most of them leave. Now the drama of Jesus is over for it is Jesus forever! We'll never them: "he's just crazy, we can leave you no matter what you go back to our former lives," say. We're with you." That is, they think. Jesus comes out of they did not base their followthe synagogue and sees the ing of him on a simple impulse of generosity. We must pay . people melting away into the close attention to what Peter side streets. He turns to his side and sees a little huddle of did say: "Lord to whom should men energetically debating; it we go, you have the words of is his chosen ones. He turns to everlasting life." They stay with Jesus because they have them and asks them the question: "Will you also come to trust him. In fact, the leave?" Peter, as is typical of experience they have lived the man we have come to with him leaves every other know by that name, speaks up option pale and uninteresting. first. Before we look at what They have come to know the possibility of "life and life to Peter says, let us consider what

Robust London's Trafalgar Square includes a bronze statue of Sir Charles Napier (1782-1853), an architect of the British Raj in India. Few Britons or tourists, pondering Napier's role as a military leader in the Sind campaign, would think of him as an exemplar of interreligious dialogue. But consider this: As one point in his pacification of Sind, Sir Charles confronted the long-entrenched and religiously- . warranted practice of "suttee," according to which a widow was thrown onto the funeral pyre of her dead husband. Napier invited the local leaders to a meeting and said, "You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom.

When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your

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You may follow your custom.

And then we shall follow ours."

Suttee, as you might imagine, quickly disappeared from the areas under Sir Charles Napier's command, as it eventually did throughout the subcontinent. Was Napier's abolition of . suttee an act of cultural aggression or religious intolerance? Is anyone prepared to argue that thriving modem India, the world's largest democracy, would have been better off if Napier had taken the position of today's multiculturalists, that, while there may be your truth and my truth, there~s no such thing as the truth?

- so who am I to impose my

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the full" and it came through Jesus. They have come to know that they can trust him, that to trust him is the source of an experience of life previously unimaginable. They accept Jesus' precious gift of the Eucharist because they trust him, not because they "understand it."

St. Thomas Aquinas 1,200 years later in composing his magnificent Eucharistic hymn Adoro te devote says, "Sight, touch, and taste in Thee are each deceived/The ear alone most safely is believed!

I believe all the Son of God has spokenlThan Truth :sown word there is no truer token."

He expresses the truth of our Eucharistic faith, the faith of the Church, in terms which are, with regard to the structure of belief, identical to those of Peter. Sight, touch and taste do not lead us to the truth regarding the Eucharist. Our faith is not based on our analyses, our evaluation, our capacity to grasp. It is only the word spoken by Jesus that we can trust, and we do indeed trust it as most reliable; "there is no

truer token." We believe on the authority of God who reveals himself.

My friends, it is vital to us, also, to make the step that Peter made outside the synagogue of Capernaum. We trust you, Jesus, we will follow you, you will be the criterion of our lives. This is the step of Faith. The beautiful "Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church" which the Holy Father has addressed particularly to us, members of Christ's Faithful, says: "Faith is a supernatural virtue which is necessary for salvation. It is a free gift from God and is accessible to all who humbly seek it" (CCCC 28). Let us then humbly seek it so that we might grow in this great virtue which has brought us here to Mass but which often times wilts under the daily onslaught of the World. To seek it is above all to ask him for it. Let us, then, ask for this gift for ourselves and for one another: Lord, we believe, help our unbelief. If we ask, he will grant, for he is a faithful God.

Father Carvill is pastor of St. Joseph's Parish in Attleboro.

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values on you? The parable of Sir Charles Napier and the practice is suttee is worth remembering as Americans and Europeans alike begin to confront the fact that radical, jihadist Islamism is a powerful 21st-century force that

must be countered and repelled, if the free and virtuous society envisioned by classic political tradition of the West and the social doctrine of the Catholic Church is to be built. The Holy See has begun to confront this hard fact of contemporary international life in recent months, with various senior officials insisting that there must be "reciprocity" if there is to be genuine interreligious dialogue: that, if a grand mosque can be built in Rome, it is absurd and unacceptable that the Mass cannot be celebrated in public in Saudi Arabia. Or, to take the case of the Afghani Abdul Rahman, if Christians are rightly free to convert to Islam, Muslims must be free to convert to Christianity without, like Rahman, being put in jeopardy of their lives.

Multiculturalism and relativism have seeped so far into the

consciousness of the West that many Americans and Europeans find it hard to imagine that there are, in fact, Muslims who believe themselves obliged by God's will to impose their conception of God's will on Western societies, by lethal force and the murder of innocents, if necessary; thus the endless search for the "root causes" of terrorism. Similarly, as in the Rahman case, the passions engaged seem, to many, so bizarre as to be incomprehensible.

We simply take it for granted, and have for centuries, that it is profoundly wrong to kill someone because of his or her religious convictions. Yet there are millions, perhaps tens of millions, of Muslims around the world who believe precisely the opposite: that it is profoundly wrong not to kill someone who leaves the House of Islam for, say, Christianity. Nothing is achieved, and much harm will be done, by denying these realities of contemporary life. If the pattern of recent decades - in which a radical, jihadist Islamism has become the most dynamic force within a global religious community with over a billion adherents - is to be reversed, so that other, less aggressive forms oflslam prevail within Islam's internal culture war, it will not be because Christians confuse tolerance with indifference, as if differences make no difference. Nor will it be

because Christians, unable to give a plausible account of their own moral standards, refuse to assert the superiority of those moral standards over other understandings of right and wrong? - or imagine that defending those standards in interreligious means taking an accommodating view of lethal violence in the name of God.

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

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Friday, August 25, 2006 King Manuel I. naughty neighborhood kids, but none before these three scholThe fate of Miguel Corte Real is carved in stone. He left ars saw the mark of Miguel Gaspar. When the fleet reached Sunday 20 August 2006 - At Portuguese word "IDE" Corte Real. Why? As Simon a 40-ton calling card inscribed home on Assonet Bay "GO!" And go Miguel did - to what is now New England, two with the Portuguese coat of and Garfunkle sing "A man ships sailed north. Captain On this date in 1502, a man the New World. arms, his name, and the date. hears what he wants to hear and Miguel Corte Real was on the named Miguel missed an Gaspar Corte Real, The rock is also etched with the disregards the rest." The idea third ship, sailing south. They appointment. This_changed the Miguel's brother, had already that Portuguese Catholic symbol of the Knights of the agreed to rendezvous on Order of the Cross of Christ. course of world history. explorers were in the area long August 20, 1502, in If Miguel had been Headquartered in !the Monasbefore the Pilgrims was literally what is now Boston where he was supposed tery Castle at Tomar, these were unimaginable. The Puritan Harbor. Unfortunately, to have been when he world-view would have imthe successors of the Knights Miguel missed the was supposed to have ploded. The scholar David Templar. All early Portuguese boat(s). He and his crew explorers were Knights of the been there, we might Goudsward, in the very latest were never seen again. now be living not in Order of Christ. Their distinc. book on the subject, "Ancient The two ships sailed New England but in tive symbol, the Cross of Stone Sites in New England," back to Portugal without Christ, adorned the sails of "New Portugal. " . states that the DaSilva Theory them. The oldest Miguel, son of is the most prominent. their ships. It still does. brother, Vasque Eanes Captain Joao Vaz The coat of arms, the name Dighton Rock is located at Corte Real of Terceira, Azores, reached Newfoundland in 1500. Corte Real, still in Lisbon, Miguel Corte Real, and the date 41.48 degrees north, 71.7 requested royal permission to was a late 15th-century explorer Gaspar made a second voyage degrees west in what is now St. 1511, were first noticed on the rescue his two missing brothat the navigation center of the in 1501 but didn't return. cryptic rock in 1918 by Profes- Bernard Parish. We embrace ers. Permission denied.

Infante, Dom Enrique (Prince Miguel set out from Lisbon on sor Edmund Burke our heritage. Our Knights of "Enough already. No more lost Henry, the Navigator). The May 10, 1502, in a fleet of Delabarre. He was awarded Columbus (Columbu& himself Corte Real brothers!" decreed Infante's monogram spells the three ships, searching for the prestigious Portuguese may prove to have been Order of the Cro~ls of Christ for Portuguese once the DNA study is completed) is called Cross of his efforts. Ironically, he never realized the Cross of Christ is Christ Council. The Cross of also etched on th6 very stone he Christ tops our. steeple. The had deciphered. parish motto is "Claimed for Christ in 1511." We have The Cross of Christ on Dighton Rock was finally incorporated the Cross of the top of the Caribbean's identified in 1951 by Joseph Christ into our parish emblem. conversation. No spouse is When is the right time to . Fragoso. He found three. The hurricane alley. Not one, but This is not a Portuguese parish eager to admit, "Hey, honey, take action? And when the many heads tumedthe other but, as Dr. DaSilva points out, international authority on the your travel schedule leaves right time comes, what are the way when it came to preempt"Dighton Rock is n9t a- Portusubject, my friend Dr. Manuel me lonely and vulnerable to right actions to take? These ing the disaster that engulfed guese monument' It is an DaSilva, found a fourth cross the attention.9f this new are the questions with which New Orleans last year. in 1960.

American monument ... a very person I met at the gym." Yet Americans have been wresimportant cornerstone of Most disasters, whether Diocesan Archivist Father this is exactly the type of tling since Hurricane Katrina Barry Wall, in his book American history." And, I natural or man-made, do not thing that needs to be disravaged New Orleans and the might add, of Church history as pop up out of the blue. With cussed openly or it will begin "Bearing Fruit b~ Streams of Gulf Coast nearly one year Water" writes, "In the Taunton well. the divorce rate at an appallthe undoing of our marriages. ago. What could have been River, north of Fall River, in ing 50 percent in this country, Your own parish is unique.

We must learn from the done to prevent the ensuing the Town of Berkley, there is a Its history may be buried in the undoing of New devastation? Who was . . - - -....."""!!'l!~.....""""''''!'l!i!~ r--.::--....... Orleans in the face of glacial boulder called Dighton backyard or in some office file, in charge, and why notebook, or computer. Does Rock. The intricate inscription Hurricane Katrina. The didn't this authority your parish have an accurate has been attributed to Native right time to take do the right thing at written history? Is it secure in American people~, Vikings, preventive measures the right time? ancient Phoenicdns ... and the diocesan archives? Do against the storm of Nursing homes are parishioners know the history?

Miguel Corte Re\ll. The debate divorce is not when the being sued for the Does your parish have an is ongoing." The iDaSilva Code storm is looming on deaths of elderly the horizon. The right historian? Is there someone to is still contested, but I can't for patients. The head of time is when the skies the life of me comprehend why. record current parish events? Is FEMA, the federal there a scrap book of newspaThere are actually multiple are still blue and our agency theoretically layers of graffiti on Dighton no couple can take for granted marriages are still bright. per clippings? in charge, resigned under Fortunately there are Rock. These have been studied In order to know where it's that their marriage exists pressure. A year later, governsince 1680. Cotton Mather going, a parish must know safely outside the realm of gazillions of measures we can ment agencies are still passing where it's been. divorce. In the marriages I've declared them aboriginal. take to shore up and save our blame around like a hot Father Goldrick is pastor of marriages from ruin. We can seen succumb to the torrents George Washington bragged potato. of divorce, there were many, St. Bernard Parish, Assonet. they had better ones down in affirm the good that is Following the news of Virginia. Oh, really? Was many warning signs. The already in our spouses. We Comments are welcome at Hurricane Katrina was can take responsibility for the George Washington telling a StBemardAssonet@aol.com. marriage was either built on a particularly tough for me, flawed foundation or had discord we've caused, ask for fib? Various theories have been Previous columns are at because I have been asking cracked over time in several proposed - from Druids to www.StBemardAssonet.org. forgiveness, and expect the the same types of responsibilvital areas. same in return. We can build ity questions about a similar So when is the right time to unity by praying together. We kind of disaster. The disaster take action on the threat of I'm referring to is divorce, can make time to have fun Pastoral Assistant Position divorce? Now. Right now. No together. We can stop hiding which has ripped through and St. Mark Roman Catholic Church matter how in love with our behind the facade of busyturned upside down the lives Sutton, MA spouses we feel today, ness and address the weaker of several families I hold dear. marriage and family life sit on or even dysfunctional parts The saddest part for me is that St. Mark Parish is a dynamic parish in Central Massathe top of Satan's list of things of our relationship head on. there was so much that could chusetts with about 1,200 families. Applicant should to destroy. As sure as hurriAlthough severe storms 'are a have been done to prevent possess a diocesan certificate in catechetical studies or canes form in the Caribbean, natural part of the physical some of the human devastaan equivalent degree from an accredited college or marital conflict will sweep world and upsetting squalls tion of both Katrina and the university. Applicant must have experience in whole over and test the strengtb of are known to besiege the divorces I've witnessed. parish catechesis and faith formation. Applicant must oUi marriages from time to best of marriages, devastaThe New Orleans catastropossess requisite knowledge of computer and communitime. It's not a question of if, tion and divorce do not have phe was far from unforeseen, but when. to be the inevitable aftercation technology. This is a full time position, involving according to Time magazine, No sp()~se wants to say,. 路math. and many other news outlets. some weekends and evenings, depending on the needs "Hey, sweetie, let's pull the Heidi is an author, photogThe City of New Orleans of the parish. We offer a competitive salary and benefit family out of most of our nonrapher, and full-time mother. knew about the inadequacies package cort;lmensurate with education and experience.

She and her husband raise work commitments so we can of its levee system. New Send Resumes and three Reference Contacts to: their five children in be sure to take a date every Orleans knew about its week." Yet, if we don't, Falmouth. Comments are Rev. Brian O'Toole nursing homes built below sea welcome at months can slip by before we level. Most of all, it's no E-mail: brianpotoole2002@yahoo.com ever have a meaningful homegrownfaith@yahoo.com. secret that New Orleans sits at FAX: 508-865-5095

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By MIKE GORDON ANCHOR STAFF

FALL RIVER - Every morning at six, St. Joan of Arc Sisters Rita Teasdale and Antoinette Lord begin their day at Bishop George W. Coleman's residence. Their days are filled with prayer, service and hospitality. In doing so, they continue a tradition that began in the Fall River diocese with Bishop Cassidy in the 1930s and the Sisters could not be more thankful for the opportu-.>':~" " /\ " oity to make a dif- ,_:;.,.::-, . r..

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Sister Rita is in I always liked the work that they did charge of preparing meals for the bishop and the example each day and those ~;:. they set for others who are guests. "I '1:-' so it was an easy love to cook," said decision to go Sister Rita, as she back.

It's like a It gave a tour of the family." kitchen and dinning ~'# Sis t e r room. "I enjoy bakAntoinette said the ing around the holiwork "has been days and the satisvery fulfIlling," for faction with cookher. "I know we ing a good meal." help the bishop and Sister Antoinette, \, priests and relieve who was born in themofpreoccupaCanada, prepares tions they might the bishop's vesthave." Sister Rita ments and serves the nodded in agreemeals, and both do ment adding, ''We some cleaning in the are happy to conresidence along with A PRAYERFUL PAIR - Through prayer and hard work, tribute and make a a hired layperson. St. Joan of Arc Sisters Antoinette Lord, left and Rita difference." . ''1bis is an impor- Teasdale, keep things running smoothly at the bishop's In reflecting tant ministry, even residence in Fall River. (AnchonGordon photo) upon her own vomore so today," said cational path, SisSister Antoinette. "Our priests need to be sup- ter Rita said she thought about a religious life at ported." the age of 16 after reading a story about the Little Each of their days are filled with time for prayer, Flower. "I volunteered at the church and worked during which they pray for the work of the bishop with the St. Joan of Arc Sisters, and as I learned and the diocesan priests especially. They attend a more about them, I was more interested in becommorning Mass at the residence's chapel located ing one. I was impressed by their strong prayer on its third floor where Bishop Coleman begins life and today I consider my calling a grace from his day. The Sisters meditate daily, pray the di- God. It's a miracle," said Sister Rita. vine office, the rosary and make holy hours each Sister Rita previously served at the cathedral week for priests. and at Notre Dame Parish, and spent 12 years They also assist with a Christmas reception working in Boston for Cardinal Richard each year and gatherings at the residence.

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"Our founder, Marie-Clement Staub, was very Father David Pignato, secretary to the bishop, strong on prayer and the Eucharist," said Sister praised the work of the Sisters. ''Their work 'beRita. ''We're praying for all the priests of our dio- hind the scenes' to help the bishop and me keep cese and it means a lot to the bishop to know when our busy schedules is invaluable. And in addition he is out there that we are here praying before the to this, they are always supporting us and the dioBlessed Sacrament for him." cese with their disciplined prayer. I'm always Sister Rita explained that there are religious happy to entrust prayer intentions to them."

Sisters who work with the sick and the elderly as The Sisters are also generously willing to share well as those who teach. But she recalled the ques- with a friendly reporter some "inside scoop." tion of her founder, who asked, "Why shouldn't When asked what the bishop typically eats for there be an order of nuns who work with priests breakfast, the answer was, usually cereal, coffee , and contribute by their prayer life? We share in all and juice. According to Sister Rita, he's not a big the works of the priests when we work for the bacon and eggs person. "He's a good man and bishop like we do." "It's very rewarding," she said. very humble."

"We need prayer every day," added Sister The Anchor encourages readers to nominate, Antoinette. others for the Person of the Week - who and Sister Rita has been working at the residence why? Submit nominations at our E-mail address: for 11 years and Sister Antoinette for three. Bishop theanchor@anchomews.org, or write to The AnColeman is very grateful for their dedication. chor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, MA 02722.

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Three nuns from the Sisters of Charity of St. Anne work on the tiny island of Tai Kam on China's southern coast. They serve a small population of Chinese who have Hansen's disease, also known as leprosy. (CNS graphic/Emily Thompson)

SPECIAL CALLING -

Nuns care for leprosy patients on Chinese island TAl KAM, China (CNS) from as young as age six.

For most ofTai Karn's patients, Three nuns from the Sisters of Charity of St. Anne have for years their lives on the island began 50 medically and spiritually helped or 60 years ago when they were more than 60 victims of Hansen's first diagnosed with the disease. disease, or leprosy, on a small Originally the island had more than 500 patients, but the number Chinese island.

Around the clock, Sisters has slowly decreased. By the time Orona, Lizzy and Elizabeth from the Sisters arrived eight years ago Kerala, India, tend to the people there were just over 160 patients, and today there of Tai Kam, located about 50 - - - - - - - - - - - - are 79.

Discriminamiles down shore Around the clock, Sisters from Macao in Omna,L~zyandElizabe~ tion and fear, China's known from Guangdong from Kerala, India, tend to biblical stories, province. They the people of Tai Kam, lo- still exists. Chiwake each day at cated about 50 miles down nese doctors 6 a.m. to pray shore from Macao in formally visit with the patients China's Guangdong prov- the island, but won't approach and attend to ince. They wake each day any of the patheir medical at 6 a.m. to pray with the tients. care by 8 a.m.

Patients come patients and attend to their In 1984 Jesuit Father Luis throughtheclinic medical care by 8 a.m. operated by the _ Ruiz from Spain began Sisters to have their wounds cleaned and dressed. funding Tai Kam with the help of Most have been given shoes the Sisters of Charity of St. Anne, manufactured by an American as well as with the help of local priest who visited Tai Kam a government officials. The three Sisters were invited through their couple of years ago.

Hansen's disease, which af- congregation, at the request of fects the skin, leaves the patient's Caritas Intemationalis, who reextremities with dry skin that ceived a request for assistance forms cracks and infections. Most from Father Ruiz.

"I feel that we are taking part of the patients at Tai Kam have contracted the disease because it in Jesus' true mission," Sister is,airborne or because of poor hy- Elizabeth said. "It has given me great psychological satisfaction to giene.

Patients are treated with a pow- do this work."

The older lepers teach us too, erful combination of two and sometimes three drugs; treatment simply by their being and will to usually lasts six months to a year. live, said Sister Elizabeth.

"By doing this work, we help Relapses are unlikely, and in Tai Kam, they have only hap- the people to feel that there is a God - and that he loves them," pened once or twice.

During the day, patients go she said.

Sister Omna said, "We help about their own business by gardening, sewing or playing the them to feel like a social human being." popular game Mahjong.

The Sisters have learned to The average age of the patients on Tai Karn is approximately 65. speak Cantonese since coming to The oldest man on the island, 94, the island.

"But we have also helped them has been there since his early teens.

The youngest is 43 years old. Some to see that we respect their culhave been affected by the disease ture and way of life," she said.

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TRUE SERVANTS OF GOD -Jubilarians, left photo, celebrating 65, 60, and 50 years as Holy Union Sisters recently renewed their vows of chastity, poverty and obedience in the Chapel of Mary at Stonehill College in North Easton. Below are the Holy Union Sisters residing in the Fall River diocese. Seated from left: Sister Ruth Curry, resource coordinator, Office of Family Ministry; Sister Celine Teresa Rainville, former administrative assistant in the development office at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River; "and Sister Lucille Richard who taught at St. Michael and Sacred Hearts schools in Fall River. Standing: Sister Elizabeth Murphy, librarian at Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton; and Sister Rita Beaudoin, province archivist. Also celebrating her 50th anniversary, but not pictured is Sister Gretchen Mar1att who taught at Holy FamilylHoly Name ~chool in New Bedford.

Holy Union Sisters assemble to renew, refresh and look to the future NORTH EASTON - Holy Union Sisters recently gathered at Stonehill College, North Easton, for their annual provincial assembly. Sisters and Associates from Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York and Rhode Island as well as Haiti and Benin discussed several topics affecting the lives of the Sisters and associates: the work of the Vocation-Formation Team, province finances, the Mother Helena Fund, the province-sponsored ministry.

Representatives of different province offices: archives, finances, communications, development and sponsored ministry, as well as the leadership team shared updates on the life of the province during the past year. Sister Mary Hopkins, O.P., from Milwaukee, led a day on Ages and Stages of Life - Living Holisti-

cally in Times of Change.

A highlight of the gathering was the celebration of a eucharistic liturgy in Stonehill's Chapel of Mary to honor the 16 province jubilarians. Those present represented 65, 60 and 50 years as Holy Union Sisters and led the procession carrying personal symbols of significance in their religious life. In her reflections at the liturgy, Sister Patricia Heath, SUSC, asked the question: "What if the prophet never spoke?" She reminded the jubilarians of how they have acted as prophets and as women religious gave voice to so many to whom they have ministered throughout the years.

All Sisters and associates met in Kindling Circles, small groups that will work together over the next five years. Their task will be to reflect and take actions to en-

able the document from last summer's Collegial Assembly, an international meeting that takes place every six years in the Congregation, to take root here in the United States.

The Holy Union Sisters are a small international congregation of women founded in France in 1826. In 1886 they came to the United States when Father Matthias McCabe invited the Sisters to staff Sacred Heart Parish School in the Fall River diocese.

They soon opened Sacred Hearts Academy in Fall River and were religious educators at Immaculate Conception Parish in Taunton.

Today Sisters live and minister on four continents: North and South America, Europe and Africa. The call of their Constitutions "to be at the heart of the world revealing God's life" inspires all their actions.

THE STATE OF THE UNION - Holy Union Sisters listen to province reports at the recent Provincial Assembly at Stonehill College in North Easton.

Dominican Sisters who taught in Fall River diocesib are celebrating jubilees OSSINING, N.Y. Five Dominican Sisters oflJope who were educators in the I'all River diocese were among nearly two dozen religious Sisters recognized for their years hf ministry and achievements ~t a recent jubilee liturgy and festive dinner at the Center of Hbpe here.

The jubilarians incl~ded Dominican Sisters Lorraine Beauchesne, MarYi Martin Delahanty, Barbara Langlois, Beatrice Lapalme, artd Cecile Marquis.

All of them have ~erved in many capacities in several dioceses, as well as in the Fall I River diocese.

Sister Marquis, Who celebrates 75 years in tnany capacities in service to the Church and the Dominican Family, recently retired from adtive ministry, after enjoying ~y years in education. , In the Fall River dibcese she taught at Dominican 1-\cademy in Fall River from 1933 to 1948 and from 1973 to 1:979. She also taught at St. Ro~e School in Acushnet and Sf. Anne's School in Fall River. She moved to residential care in !If,.ewburgh, N.Y., in 2002.

II Sister Lapalme is Observing 70 years in religious life. She taught at St. Anne's :~chool in Fall River from 1938 to 1941, and at St. Francis Xavier School in Acushnet from 1941 to 1993.

Now retired from active ministry, she resides at the Alden Court Skilled Rehabilitation Center in Acushnet.

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half-century as a religious, taught at Dominican Academy in Fall River from 1957 to 1960; St. Francis Xavier School in Acushnet where she taught and was later principal from 1974 to 1989; and St. Mary/Sacred Heart School in North Attleboro, where she served as principal. She was administrator of the motherhouse in Fall River in 1993 before moving to St. Cecilia School in Pawtucket, R.I., where she is currently teaching.

Also celebrating her 50thjubilee is Sister Beauchesne, currently the secretary and bookkeeper at St. Anne's Parish in Fall River, where she has served since 1977. A teacher at St. Anne's from 1957 to 1962, she has been a member of the parish choir since 1966 and a member of the Bristol Interfaith Choir since 1993. She is also an extraordinary minister of holy Communion, lector, and leader of song at St. Anne's, and has served on a number of committees. She holds a bachelor's degree in education from Providence College.

Sister Langlois is another marking 50 years as a Dominican Sister. She taught elementary grades at Dominican Academy from 1962 to 1967, and from 1970 to 1974, and taught at St. Anne's School from 1979 to 1994. She has also been an extraordinary minister of holy Communion at St. Anne's. She received her bachelor's degree from Providence College cum laude.

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eNS video reviews NEW YORK (CNS) - The following are capsule reviews of new and recent DVD and video releases from the Office for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

manages to hold viewer interest on the solo flight across the Atlantic, partly because ofthejourney's dangers en route but mostly because of the character's courage in accomplishing this feat. Some threatening situations. The anamorphic DVD features a spiffy restored print, a comedy short, cartoon and premiere footage. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-I - general patronage.

"James Stewart: The Signature Collection" (1949-1970) One of HollYwood's most durable leading men gets the boxedset treatment. Most are worthwhile, print quality is excellent, and several have extra features. ''The Cheyenne Social Club"/ ''The Stratton Story" (1949) ''Fire Creek" Fact-based dramatization of In ''The Cheyenne Social Club" baseball's Monty Stratton (1970), Stewart plays a cowboy (Stewart), a Texas fann youth who who inherits a brothel. Sidekick becomes a star pitcher for the ChiHenry Fonda jumps in and out of cago White Sox until losing a leg ladies' beds while Stewart stam- in a hunting accident, then tries for mers his way through a silly seduc- a comeback pitching with an artition. Gene Kelly directed this wit- ficialleg. Directed by Sam Wood, less off-color ex~rcise. The Stewart gives a fine performance USCCB Office for Film & Broad- on and offthe field Convincing decasting classification is 0 - mor- piction ofa successful athlete overally offensive. Some material may coming the despair of a devastatnotbe suitable for children. In "Fire ing disability. The full-screen DVD Creek" (1968), Fonda terrorizes the features a short subject, a cartoon town where Stewart is sheiiff in a and a 1950 radio version. The Westem reminiscent of the show- USCCB Office for Film & Broaddown situation immortalized in casting classification is A-I - gen"High Noon," but it lacks that eral patronage. movie's punch. Director Vmcent *** McEveety seems uncertain ''Hoof' (2006) whether the climactic shootout is Amiable family-friendly drama a good thing or not. Stylized vio- about an eighth-grader (Logan lence. The USCCB Office for Film Lerman) who moves with his par& Broadcasting classification is A- ents to small-town Florida, where II - adults and adolescents. The he is caught up in the crusade of anamorphic disc also includes a an enigmatic boy and his stepsisvintage featurette on "Social Club." ter to save a colony of owls threat''The FBI Story" (1959) ened by a real-estate developer.

The growth of the Federal Bu- Directed by WU Shriner from Carl award-winning reau of Investigation as seen in the Hiaasen's careerofone ofits agents (Stewart) children's book., the film's wann from the early fight against Prohi- message about friendship, respect bition-era mobsters and Ku Klux for nature and taking a stand -for Klan terrorists to combating Nazi what's right is handicapped by a spies and communist agents. Di- weak. script and a slow-starting rected by Mervyn Le Roy, the plot. Some schoolyard bullying and crime-busting episodes are inter- afew mildly crass expressions. The spersed with the agent's family life, USCCB Office for Film & Broadespecially the strains they cause his casting classification is A-I - genwife (Vera Miles), and the result is eral patronage. The Motion Picture more idealistic than convincing. Association of America rating is Stylized violence and menacing PG - parental guidance sugsituations. No extra features on the gested. Some material may not be anamorphic DVD. The USCCB suitable for children.

Office for Film & Broadcasting ''RV'' (2006) classification is A-I - general paIntermittently funny comedy about an overworked executive tronage. ''The Naked Spur" (1953) (Robin Williams) who, for job-reA bounty hunter (Stewart), lated reasons, cancels a family holiaided by an old sourdough (Millard day in Hawaii and loads his wife Mitchell) and a cashiered Army (Cheryl Hines) and kids into a malofficer (Ralph Meeker), gets his functioning motor home and drives man (Robert Ryan), but bringing from Los Angeles to Colorado, him in is complicated by the bad with comic mayhem along the way. man's girl (Janet Leigh) and a band Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and of Indians. Director Anthony with a subdued Williams in top Mann's tough-minded Western jester form, the film is full of slapcenters on the theme of greed, stick and broad, ifharmless, humor aided by an effectiv~ performance imparting a wann message about from Ryan. Some stylized violence family bonding. Some mildly crude and much menace. Standard ratio humor, including a gross-out scatoDVD features a vintage short and logical sight gag, sexual innuendo, a cartoon. The USCCB Office for and scattered crass language and Film & Broadcasting classification light profanity. The USCCB Office is A-ll - adults and adolescents. for Film & Broadcasting classifi''The Spirit of St Louis" (1957) cation is A-II- adults and adolesMeticulous recreation of cents. The Motion Picture AssociaCharles Lindbergh (Stewart) and tion ofAmerica rating is PG - pahis nonstop, groundbreaking flight rental guidance suggested. Some from New York to Paris in 1927. material may not be s~table for Directed by Billy Wuder, Stewart children.

SUPERHERO SCHOOL - From left, Michael Cassidy, Kate Mara, Spencer Breslin, Ryan Newman and Tim Allen star in a scene from the movie "Zoom." For a brief review of this film, see CNS Movie Capsules below. (CNS photO/Paramount Pictures)

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Factotum" (lFC) Bleak. adaptation ofnovelist-poet Charles Bukowski's 1975 novel (his second) about a heavy-drinking, often brutish, aspiring writer (a superb Matt Dillon), drifting from one menial job to another, and his relationships with a couple of equally selfdestructive losers (Lili Taylor and Marisa Tomei). Writer-director Bent Hamer captures the desolate world of the writer (Bukowski's alter ego) with uncompromising exactitude, and the performances are perfectly realized, but the unrelenting ugliness of the story and language, strong sexual elements and overall amoral behavior of its protagonists - despite the RIm's literary pedigreewill seriously limit its appeal. Pervasive rough and crude language and profanity, rear male and partial female nudity, premarital sexual encounters, gambling, heavy drinking and occasional violence. The

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USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is L -limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

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ing to predictable opposites-attract complications as he gives her routine a hip-hop makeover. Despite a hackneyed script, director Anne Fletcher's fonnulaic, but relatively clean, teen romance is buoyed by some lively dance sequences (choreographed by Fletcher) and appealing perfonnances. Some suggestive dance moves, a scene of vandalism, briefgun violence, including an off. screen shooting, and a few crude expressions, fleeting racially charged rap lyrics and some innuendo, limiting its appropriateness to older adolescents and up. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-ll-adults and adolescents.

The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 - parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

Horror film about a college student (Kristen Bell) who, in trying to get to the bottom of the suicide of her computer whiz boyfriend (Jonathan Tucker), discovers - together with her fellow donn residents (Christina Milian and Rick Gonzalez) and an off-eampus techie (Ian Somemalder) - thatbefore taking his life he had inadvertently activated a computer virus that opened a portal between the living and the dead, enabling the departed to,cross "Zoom" (Columbia) over through computers or cell Lively but lightweight comedy phones, with menacing, global consequences. Director Jim Sonzero's about a washed-up supemero, Capbleak and listless remake follows the tain Zoom (TlID Allen), dragged out blueprint ofthe 2001 Japanese origi- of retirement by a top secret milinal, but despite some creepy effects, tary agency (headed by Rip Tom, provides too few frights throughout Chevy Chase and Courteney Cox its incoherent plot and lacks the Arquette) to train four young mishauntingly understated eeriness of fits (Spencer Breslin, Michael the Asian version. Some scary and Cassidy, Kate Mara and Ryan suspenseful sequences, a couple of Newman) with incredible powers to suggested sexual encounters, a sui- save the world from the destructive cide, some crude language and hu- wrath of Zoom~s brother, a mor, as well as a few instances of supervillain (Kevin Zegers). Based rough language and profanity. The . on the Jason Lethcoe children's USCCB Office for Film & Broad- book., the zippy film is entertaining if your expectations are kept low, casting classification is A-ill adults. The Motion Picture Associa- though its kid-friendly themes of tion of America rating is R - re- family and teamwork are handistricted. Under 17 requires accom- capped by bland performances and a skeletal, only fitfully funny script, panying parent or adult guardian. padded with strained slapstick hu''Step Up" (Touchstone) Diverting if inconsequential mor and tedious musical montages. dance drama about a street punk Some mildly crude humor and un(Channing Tatum) who splits his necessary gross-out sight gags, a few time between break. dancing and rude expressions and some comicstealing cars, and who finds himself book-style violence. The USCCB doing community service at an elite Office for Film & Broadcasting clasperforming arts academy, where his sification is A-ll - adults and adoflashy dance moves catch the eye of lescents. The Motion Picture Assoa ballerina (Jenna Dewan) who is ciation of America rating is PG desperate to find someone to replace parental guidance suggested. Some her injured partner in preparation for material may not be suitable for chilthe big seniordance showcase, lead- dren.路

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Hurricane "As the anniversary ofHurricane Katrina arrives, we're still seeing great humanitarian needs down there, especially in our twin parish in Mississippi, and that's why Bishop George W. Coleman has authorized parishes across the Fall River diocese to take part in this weekend's national collection," said FatherJohn A. Gomes, pastor of Annunciation of the Lord Parish in Taunton.

The collection is hosted by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Hurricane Recovery TaskForce chaired by Archbishop Joseph A. Fiorenza.

Its aim is to .aid in the recovery efforts by the Archdiocese of New Orleans - which is hoping to reopen - and the Diocese of Biloxi.

The latter diocese reports $70 million in damage to its buildings, only half of which is covered by insurance.

In the Biloxi diocese, where ADnunciation Parish at Kiln is located, 428 of 433 Church-owned properties were destroyed or seriously damaged. We might say it began for us in 2001 when we became Annunciation Parish after a local merger," Father Gomes noted. "At that time, Father Paul Mast, a priest from the Wllmington, Del., diocese came to give us a parish mission, with the unity theme "Iwo shall become one.'

When FatherMast returned to the Taunton parish in 2005 after witnessing the effects of Katrina - during which he came across and visited the Annunciation Parish in Kiln - "he offered us a challenge as we celebrated our parish's fifth anniversary: for us to make the parish at Kiln our sister parish and to help in its recovery," recalled Father Gomes. ''We were asked to help spiritually with our prayers and also financially - with their religious education program. Father Mast told us they needed books, Bibles and classroom materials for their catechetical programs," Father Gomes told The Anchor. .

The Taunton pastor said that although the Kiln parish's church building was not badly damaged by the hurricanes, most of its religious education supplies were destroyed Its congregation of 500 families has dwindled to 300 after parishioners relocated to other areas because ofthe devastation to 200,000 homes,

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schools and businesses. ''However, the people are beginning to return down there, " Father Gomes reported.

In the Gulfport-Biloxi area the population has dropped by nearly 30 percent. The U.S. Department of Education reports more than 200,000 students in that area dispersed to 49 states and the District of Columbia Susan Finney, coordinator of Faith Formation at Annunciation Parish in Taunton, and her husband, Paul, met in July with Father John Noone, pastor of Annunciation Parish in Kiln. The Finneys delivered greetings, and presenting him a restored crucifix with a plaque commemorating the spiritual bond linking the parishes with the same name.

They Finneys also gave Father Noone a DVD movie telling all about their Taunton parish.

To promote the twinning and at the same time raise funds, Father Gomes said his Taunton parish has produced a novelT-Shirt.

Ori the front it reads, "Annunciation of the Lord Parish, Taunton, sending hope from the Bay State."

On the shirt's backis the message, ''To Annunciation Parish, Kiln in the Magnolia State."

How are T-shirt sales?

"Good," reported FatherGomes. ''We're raising funds, and we're keyed on acquiring the religious education materials for our sister parish right now. We'll look at their other needs as they crop up."

To keep the effort in focus, Father Mast will visit the Taunton parish on Sunday September 3, to concelebrate the 9:30 a.m., Mass with Father Gomes. ''We will gather as a parish family and offer our prayers and our hopes and ask for success in our efforts to minister to those in need," Father Gomes said.

This weekend's parishcollections for those in a state of imaginable need is not unique.

The Fall River diocese, which had raised a whopping $763,330 towards relief of millions affected by horrific tsunamis in 18 countries in December 2004, again responded generously eight months later in 2005, raising an amazing $1 million for Katrina relief.

PARISHES SUITED TO A TEE - Andreya and Lauren De Sousa model the fund-raising T-shirt picturing their Annunciation of the Lord Parish in Taunton on its front, and its sister Annunciation Parish in Kiln, Miss., on the back. The parishes are linked in prayer as well as a rebuilding effort for the Gulf church, still feeling the impact of Hurricane Katrina a year ago. (Photo courtesy of Father John A. Gomes)

A FOUNDATION OF FAITH - Workers from Palm Harbor Homes in Austin, Texas, move a modular house into position in a housing development in New Orleans recently. It is an example of what the Catholic-run Providence CommunitY Housing initiative wants to do with 196 blighted properties it has acquired from the city of New Orleans. Providence hbpes to build, rehab or operate 7,000 housing units in the next five years. (CNS photo/Peter .Finney Jr., Clarion Herald)

Catholic initiative offers h'ousing, hope to New Orleans families NEW ORLEANS (CNS) This was one serious crane. With the power of a few levers and pulleys, the crane plucked a 41,000pound modular housing unit from the ground and carefully deposited it on a raised wooden platform prepared earlier to accept it.

In a matter of minutes -like an oversized tower ofLego pieces another New Orleans family was on the road home.

As president of Providence Community Housing, a Catholicrun post-Katrina housing initiative, Jim Kelly anticipates sights such as this over the months ahead will produce a commodity that has been in short supply since last August hope.

Providence was among 22 nonprofit and private developers that won approval August 1 to rehabilitate about 2,000 blighted properties that have been seized by the city of New Orleans because their owners have failed to pay taxes.

Providence applied for and was conditionally awarded 196 properties in all. Those property owners havebeenmailedlettersgivingthem 60 days to redeem the properties by paying back taxes and liens, but it is unlikely many will do so because the lots have lain dormant for years.

Some are vacant lots and some are houses that are in such bad condition they probably will be demolished to allow- a complete rebuild with fast-track modular construction, Kelly said.

"I don't believe the healing process can truly begin until we put people back into their own homes or their new homes or apartments," said Kelly, whp is also CEO of Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

"Pre-Katrina, we were in the business of hope," he said. ''PostKatrina, our business has taken on a much greater scale and a greater sense of urgency. We need small victories. It's about small victories

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The modular houses set into place on two side-by.!side lots were actually placed on property owned

by St. Peter ClaverlUjarnaa Community Development Corporation, which had acquired the lots from the city within the !lIst year. "But this is a wonderful ex~ple ofwhat will happen with the 196 properties," Kelly told the Clarion Her. ald, newspaper ofthe New Orleans Archdiocese. " To get this first project rolling, mayoral candidate Rob Couhig ap.d partners Sam LeBlanc and David Loeb, through their company, Traditional New Orle~ Homes, purchased the modul~r units, and Providence bought tlle homes from them with financing from Chase Bank and Fannie ~ae. The home design has been approved by the Preservation Resource Center. ''This is a pilot project," Kelly said. "We're all trying to figure out how we're going to inake this happen. But everyone's donating a lot of time."

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Another Ujarnaa lot around the comer and closer to St. Peter Claver Church. will receive its modular house in the near future.

"It's very good quality," Kelly said. ''They do schools and even mansions this way. Right now because of the cost of materials and the scarcity of labor in New Orleans, the price break is about equal (to regular construction)."

Providence, a nonprofit corporation, hopes to restore, rebuild or develop 7,000 housing units - both single-family homes and apartments - over the next five years.

It is concentrating first on two neighborhoods that it considers "important to the rebirth ofthe city," Kelly said.

"I'm gravely concerned about the mental health of our citizens," he said. "It's been a phenomenally traumatic year. Catholic Charities, the Church and everybody else is doing everything they can to provide counseling, case management, support and pastoral care, but until we put people back in a home of their own, we can't begin to heal."

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Irish-born Presentation nun honored for work with poor of New Orleans CHICAGO (CNS) - An Irishborn Presentation sister who was well acquainted with the hard times faced by many New Orleans residents long before last year's hurricanes is the 2006 recipient of the Catholic Church Extension Society's Lumen Christi Award.

Sister Vera Butler, who has lived in New Orleans since 1990, directs a daily lunch program on the outskirts of the city and is executive director of the Tulane/ Canal Neighborhood Development Cooperative, which helps first-time homeowners and works in other ways to improve the quality of life for people living and working in the area.

The national Lumen Christi Award, Latin for "light of Christ," is presented annually by the Chicago-based society to recognize outstanding missionai-y work in America.

The award is to be presented to Sister Vera, along with a $10,000 gift to the nun and $25,000 to the New Orleans Archdiocese, from Catholic Extension at a September 23 Mass and dinner in Chicago.

In a statement, Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes of New Orleans praised Sister Vera for "her deep and visible faith in God, her undaunted dedication to the mission of the Presentation Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary 'to do jus-

tice in the way of Jesus' and her boundless energy and creativity."

"Sister Vera Butler is a catalyst for thousands of Catholics and. other Christian men and women of faith throughout the Archdiocese of New Orleans to make the important connection in their lives between faith and service," he added.

Sister Vera, the director of outreach ministries at St. Joseph's Church, also makes frequent visits to the elderly and helps them manage their bills.

When Hurricane Katrina struck, she walked the streets of New Orleans, offering sandwiches and cold drinks to anyone she happened to meet, along with hope, reassurance and optimism. .Sister Vera said she accepted the award "in the name of all the people here in New Orleans who have lost everything" and yet who still tell me that they are blessed, because they have been able to experience God through the generosity of others."

Catholic Extension, the leading supporter of Catholic missions in the U.S., has raised and distributed more than $400 million over its 100-year history. The organization funds Church construction, religious education and seminary formation, outreach ministries, evangelization, salaries and operating expenses.

FROM SISTER'TO BROTHER - Sister Vera Butler offers fruit to a man on the grounds of St. Joseph Church in New Orleans. The member of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary assists with the Vincentian-run Feed Jesus lunch program providing daily nutrition for dozens of homeless and working poor in the area. (CNS photo/Peter Finney Jr., Clarion Herald)

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Health. crisis developing in New Orleans after Katr~na, experts say The 'worst child health crisis in American history' in August 2005. Approximately Assist, which ;ent a caravan of WASHINGTON (CNS) mobile medical units to Although it could eventually 20 percent of the population lead to a more equitable and ef- before and after Katrina - has Gulfport, Miss., and New Orleans; trained mental health profective health care system in no health insurance, he said.

The Louisiana official said fessionals to understand and asNew Orleans, Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city's already frag- the state had a "high-cost deliv- sess trauma in children; studied ile health care safety net and left ery system" for health care be- mold exposure and respiratory many of the poor lacking vitally fore the hurricane and needs "an health among school-age chiloverall delivery system fix" as dren evacuated from New Orneeded services.

That was the assessment of a the health care infrastructure is leans; and established three permanent clinics in Louisiana and panel of health care providers rebuilt.

Dr. Irwin Redlener, president Mississippi. and policymakers brought toSurveys of children following gether in Washington recently by of the Children's Health Fund the storm showed that 14 the Kaiser Family Foundapercent had witnessed the tion to discuss "Health death of a relative, said Dr. Care One Year After Hurricane Katrina."

Following Hurricane Katrina and Dominic Mack, project di"People are not getting the subsequent flooding of New Or- "rector of the Regional CoCenter for Hurthe routine things we all leans, the Children's Health Fund ordinating ricane Response at the Natake for granted," said Dr. Karen DeSalvo, chief of set up Operation Assist trained men- tional Center for Primary general internal medicine tal health professionals to under- Care of Morehouse School at Tulane University stand and assess trauma in children; of Medicine in Atlanta.

"We need to put a Health Sciences Center in studied mold exposure and respiraNew Orleans. "That can tory health among school-age chil- health care infrastructure in place that responds to only go on for so long beneeds of the fore. impacting public dren evacuated from New Orleans; the and established three permanent underserved population," health."

Major problem areas iV- clinics in Louisiana and Mississippi. Mack said.

Attention must also be elude mental health serpaid to the needs of the eldvices and diagnostic serand director of the National erly and disabled living in longvices such as X-rays, she said.

Dr. Fred Cerise, secretary for Center for Disaster Prepared- term care facilities, said Dr. David the Louisiana Department of ness at Columbia University's Dosa, assistant professor of mediHealth and Hospitals, said there Mailman School of Public cine at Brown Medical School in was "a significant loss of physi- Health in New York, said, Providence, R.I., and an expert on cians" in New Orleans and the Katrina has had "one of the most nursing home regulation and surrounding area, estimating dramatic mental health impacts emergency preparedness.

Although "the feeling on the that the current number of doc- we've ever seen," particularly street (in New Orleans) is that the tors is 35 percent to 50 percent among children.

"The uncertainty factor is country has moved on," the surof pre-Katrina levels. Psychiatrists, dentists and nurses are es- devastating," Redlener added. vey found that 70 percent do not "It's the worst child health cri- think the hurricane victims have pecially scarce, he said.

Although it is "difficult to put sis that we have seen in Ameri- gotten the help they need and 60 percent think about Hurricane your finger on a lot of demo- can history."

Following Hurricane Katrina Katrina and its aftermath very or graphics," Cerise said about 650,000 people live in New Or- and the subsequent flooding of somewhat often, said Drew leans a year after the hurricane, New Orleans, the Children's Altman, president and CEO of compared to about one million Health Fund set up Operation the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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81-year-0Id priest happy to be home aft~r Katrina evacuation NEW ORLEANS ~ A year water damage he found his New

ago Father Royce Mit~hell, now 81, walked in pitch-black darkness along the inte~state for some three miles with thousands of others, carrying an bvernight bag and praying during th~ mass exodus from New Orleans after' Hurricane Katrina. I He ate one granola bar from the box he had packe~ and gave five away - along with the rest â&#x20AC;˘ II of his food - to those around him in the crowd M nearly 5,000.

"I was thinking ab9ut everything and praying and wondering howinthe world Fe would get out of this. The lack of communication was the w6rst thing.

We didn't know what {vas going I to happen to us," he Itold a reporter from The Georgia Bulletin, newspaper of the Atlanta II Archdiocese.

Father Mitchell, a,!New Orleans archdiocesan priest who grew up in Atlanta, reflected upon last year's disas~r and his efforts to rebuild his life and help others in an interview In his onebedroom apartment a~ the Chateau of Notre Dame) a senior continuing care cOrruIlunity. He moved there following the storm and now serves as chaplain. .

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A year after Katrina residents reconstruct lives piece by piece GULFPORT, Miss. (CNS) Church in the rural area known as Harrison County. Henderson A year after Hurri~ane Katrina, the Kiln. Once the hurricane had noted that 90 percent of the homes residents along Mississippi's passed, he set out to return to his there were destroyed. Katrina levcoast are reconstructing their lives parish. After walking fQughly five eled the once thriving St. Clare piece by piece while the region's miles, Father Carver was finally Church in Waveland, sparing orily economic base searches for a picked up by a 10ca1 man on a its grotto. footing. , four-wheeler. Upon arriving at his Henderson pointed out that The brick walls of David parish, FatherCarver was daunted Katrina yielded two disasters very Morten's¡summer home are gone. by the sight before him.. distinct in character some 60 now. Atop the sheared f<1Undation "It's a striking memory," he miles apart. In the Mississippi are scattered remnants: a tiny said. "I was absolutely stunned. Gulf Coast, the wind and the force brown bottle once used to hold One paP-shioner was just walking of the water simply swept dwellvanilla extract, a blue lighter, sev- around in a circle and the police ings and buildings away, whereas erallengths of plastic pipe and a chief, who is also a parishioner, .in New Orleans Katrina conpair of pliers. demned the city to slow deSomewhere among the struction through submerrubble and ruin, Morten's sion.

Henderson pointed out, that sister, Shirley Henderson, Amy Gisleson, a New looks for hope. The editor Katrina yielded two disasters vel}' Orleans native who began of the Biloxi Diocese's Gulf distinct in character some 60 miles working with Catholic Pine Catholic and, at times, Charities of New Orleans the face of the diocese in her apart. In the Mississippi Gulf Coast, after Katrina, has spent her role as the director of com- the wind and the force of the water days leading groups of volmunications, Henderson simply swept dwellings and build- unteers as they gut homes cannot but project hope. ings away, whereas in New Orleans where walls are permeated Like many Southern Katrina condemned the city to slow with mold and the interiors . families, Henderson's ex- destruction through submersion. are full of debris. tended family lives close by, Gisleson said the volunmany of them within a mile teer crews inject a certain of each other in Harrison was there with no shirt and ripped amount of enetgy into the city.

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That's what a group of volunin that county along the coast were Father Carver estimates that the teers from St. Joseph the Worker still without homes by the end of parish lost between 75 percent and Parish in Liverpool, N.Y., were July. Now they are scattered 80 percent of its parishioners as a hoping to do this summer while throughout the community and result of post-Katrina migration. repairing homes in Mississippi. beyond, their homes reduced to John Doughty, youth minister But the priest still smiles easpiles of bricks. ily when greeting new people. His at the New York parish, estimated One of the unexpected out- ministry has been inspired by the that his group completed $10,000 comes of the hurricane has been monolithic task before him, rein- worth ofrepairs during their eighta ready-made rationale for merg- vigorating his decimated congre- day sojourn. He also said that he ing churches, a nationwide trend gation and merging two parish has never seen a more enthusiascompelled by the priest shortage. communities. tic yet cohesive group.

In the coming months, St. Paul, a Toward the end of the week, "It's great just to be part of parish in Pass Christian, will be what it is," he said. "Who would Doughty brought the volunteers to joined with nearby Our, Lady of have ever known that God would the coastline to see the extent of Lourdes under the new name, call me to this. It's been a roller the damage Katrina caused.

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The youths were silent and coaster," he said in an interview Father Dennis Carver, the pas- with a visiting reporter from the awestruck upon viewing the tor of St. Paul, remembers the day Catholic Sun, diocesan newspa- blasted beachfront. after Katrina roared along the per of Syracuse, N.Y. .

"If no work got done on the Gulf Coast. When the evacuation Across St. Louis Bay in house and the kids just saw that, order was released, Father Carver Hancock County, Katrina was that'd be enough," said John Rouse, sought refuge at Annunciation even less merciful than in one of the group's chaperones.

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WORSE THAN WARII- Father Royce Mitchell, 81, says he remains grateful for the: kindness shown to him while he was evacuated from his f1000-ravaged New Or1eans neighbortilood in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina lastyear. He said the diSasterwas more distressing than:: when, as an 18-year-old sailor, he was attacked by a Nazi subm~rine in the North Atlantic Ocean. (CNS photolMichael Alexan~er, Georgia Bulletin)

Testament without a single water , stain in his flooded stu~y.

"My other Bible, books and everything else were destroyed," he said. He also salvaged a chalice and a silver pitcher, but he lost nearly everything else - clothes, books, furniture, all his family and ordination pictures and certificates, and his Navy discharge papers.

When he returned to his home last October, he was shocked to see everything destroyed, neighborhoods devastated and nothing left intact, but he was also surprised to see his room where his bed was made and everything was as he left it but covered with water, mud, oil and grease.

The World War II Navy veteran said this natural disaster was more distressing than when, as an 18year-old sailor, he was attacked by a Nazi submarine in the North Atlantic Ocean. ''This was more traumatic," said the priest. "Everything is jerked out from under you, and you end up as a homeless person and don't know what the future will hold."

As Katrina approached, he stayed in New Orleans to celebrate a Saturday funeral Mass that August 27. The next day he celebrated Mass and secured the church. He packed an overnight bag and moved ' to an empty rectory on higher ground where he had weathered storms before.

Katrina slammed into the coast of Louisiana about 7 a.m. August 29. Rain poured, heavy winds blew and the rectory's electricity went out, but after the storm abated, Father Mitchell thought everything wquld be all'right.

"If the levees had not been broken we would have been OK," he said. He grew concerned as the water rose in the streets, surrounding the rectory.

Two days later he was picked up by two volunteers in a boat and dropped off at an exit ramp off the interstate where evacuees were bused to an overpass and told they would be picked up and brought to the Superdome. Rours later, police officers directed the evacuees to backtrack and walk three miles to another exit.

The next day they were bused to a shelter in Texas, where he was picked up by a family member. He stayed in Texas for a few days before going to Atlanta.

A year later, he remains grateful. .

"Kindness was everywbere.

People would come up and say, 'Can I get you anything?' That was beautiful. People wanted to help you," he recalled. Family members encouraged him to stay in Georgia, but the priest felt called back to Louisiana.

"I'm retired and I'm still active, and I'll stay as long as I physically can. That's the reason I came back." he said. "I'm happy with what I'm doing, satisfied I can be back and can be of help and service. This is where I belong."

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their own pace and "allows for each mentally disabled young adUlts.

Brzezinski holds a bachelor's type oflearner to succeed," she said. degree in English from Bridgewater As for goals, Raposo would like State College and a master's in edu- to "increase enrollment, continue cation from Lesley University. She student success, create a positive and her husband Peter reside in moral environment and bring Jesus Mattapoisett and have two children to each and every student." who attend St. Joseph's.

She will continue her teaching Brzezinski is looking forward to duties as she works with third- and working with the school's dedicated fourth-graders and said, "Catholic faculty to "provide a quality educa- education is wonderful. Here chiltional experience based on faith, val- dren can learn about Jesus in all subues and excellence." A product of ject areas and it's a safe and happy Catholic education, she places ahigh environment. It's truly a great place value on Catholic education. 'The for students."

She and her husband David are children oftoday are the future leaders of tomorrow and with a strong raising' their daughter Victoria Catholic education they will lead our Isa~lla in Westport and are memfutures with excellence in education, . bers of Our Lady of Grace Parish. a !:Xlmmitment to service; enriched She holds a degree in elementary character and the development of education from Bridgewater State their spiritual lives," she said.

College and is currently working on · She is a member of St. Jacques a master's degree.

Sullivan is coming out of retireParish in Taunton.

Raposo, a native of Westport, is ment to return as principal at Our the principal at S1. Anthony School Lady of Mount Carmel S,chool where she has served for the past where he served previously. When eight years as a second-grade teacher The Anchor spoke with him, it was and assistant principal. She sees her his first day on the job and he was appointment as a great opportunity looking forward to the start of the and has been busy this summer, new year. along with teachers, to make im"I'm excited to return to Catho· provements at the school. lic education," said Sullivan. "I feel "We've done much work this a great deal ofjoy to be back at Our summer and it's like a completely Lady ofMount Carmel and I'm lookdifferent building," said Rap9so. ing forward to a terrific year."

"Our teachers and staff are so dediA native of Pocasset, Sullivan · cated and have been working' resides there with his wife Theresa. through the summer." The school The two have been married for 37 also had assistance from the Bristol years and have two adult children.

Sullivan holds a bachelor's deCounty Sheriff's Community Work gree from UMass~Boston and a Program. .

Raposo is looking forward to a master's degree in education from new school year and said, "I feel I Bridgewater State College. He have a special calling. I want to make taught for 18 years in the Bourne this school succeed and be a top school system and was a principal school in New Bedford. I'm excited for more than 15 years there and in about the start of classes."

Centerville Elementary School in In addition to physical changes Barnstable. at the school, Raposo is helping 'This is a great school where you implement a new model ofteaching get to know every student and staff which will combine cl:;tSses and give member and it has a spiritual atmo·children an opportunity to learn at sphere," said Sullivan. ''Having been

Milestone dergarten through grade four. ''Right from the beginning, we received so much supportfrom parishioners, and this is a great testament to their faith and vision."

With more than 3,000 families, St. Mary's Parish is one of the largest in the Diocese ofFall River. With such a large number ofyoung families, the need was great for a parochial school in the area. In' July of 2000, ground was brokenforthe new school that would eventually house students in grades kindergarten through grade eight, and would also be the home of the parish Religious Education program. . ''We have more than 200 students atSt. Mary's andmore than 2,300 students enrolled in our Religious Education program," said pastor Msgr.

StephenJ. Avila: 'The educationcenter is always alive with activity."

in public education for 35 years there is a substantial difference ofwho we are and what we're about," he said regarding Catholic education.

"We're children of God and we're puton this earth to do his work.

Catholic education gives our students a strong foundation for their future and it's importantto feel closeness to God. We learn as much as the students here," he concluded. .Mattson has served as interim principal following the death last year of long-time principal Mercy Sister Carol Clifford. She has worked at Holy Trinity School for 10 years and also taught second grade in the Stoughton school system before taking time off to raise her five children.

A native ofBrockton, Mattson resides with her husband in South Orleans where they are members ofSt. Joan of Arc Parish. She earned her bachelor degree from North Adams State College in New Hampshire and saideverything is in place for the students to return to school.

"I'm looking forward to the new year," said Mattson. ''We've been improving the rooms and getting the study programs ready. We have a lot of changes going on and we're all excited; parents and teachers alike."

Mattson said her goals are to work towards school accreditation and seek to increase enrollment. She added, "I'm also looking forward to working again with our staff and welcoming our students back."

To Mattson, a Catholic education is invaluable. "Catholic education nourishes the soul," she said. "You educate the whole being and it's important to bring the Catholic faith to children and have God in one's life."

New equipment for the playground will be an;iving in October at Holy Trinity and Mattson said she will continue to make -the school a . haven for creativity and a nourishing place for students as Sister Clifford has done before her.

DREAMS OF FIELDS - Acreage recently acquired by Coyle and Cassidy High School in Taunton will become playing fields and parking areas for students. (AnchotiJolivet photo)

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Hathaway. "The added space will The art section will be home to be very welcome. graphic arts, freshman art classes "We look forward not only to and advanced art classes. "Our art next month, but also to new play- director, Carol Mecca, is also the ing fields on school grounds, and drama teacher," said Brother the renovations of our science labs Hathaway. "I think she'll utilize the and gymnasium," said Brother space for rehearsals as well. The desks and chairs are mobile, so Hathaway.

The original plan for the art! they can make plenty of space." music project was slated for the The art project received a very first floor, but a fine-arts student substant\fll donation from Mr. & created a floor plan utilizing the Mrs. Alexander Alfieri in memory third floor. "The plan was very of their son Miles, who was killed feasible, and we went with it," in an automobile accident just months after he graduated from added Brother Hathaway.

When complete, the marching Coyle and Cassidy in 2004. Miles' band, concert band and chorus ·siblings, Matthew and Alexandra, will have ample space for equip- are students are Coyle and Cassidy. The art wing will be ment and rehearsals. . "We'll have much more room named after Miles.

Also new at the Taunton school to work and we'll have great storage areas," said music director this fall is the athletic director David Renoni. "The space will Tom Pileski - who will also take also be air-conditioned and will the reins of the football sql,lad.

'Pileski is a former A.D. and foothave a great view."

The space will also house mu- ball coach at Brockton High .School. sic theory classes.

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Father Bellenoit recalled that from the beginning, ''things raIi very smoothly," thanks to the efforts of Riley and the hard working, dedicated St. Mary's parishioners.

"Personally and professionally, I'm very excited to anticipate the graduation," said Riley. "It's the culmination of a significant undertaking, that was the result of the collaboration ofmany many faithful p~­ rishioners and friends."

Riley told The Anchor that while this class is completing it's fifth year at St. Mary's, the planning process was in effecta good half-dozen years ~fore the doors opened in 2002.

'This milestone is the result of a great deal of hard work from parish individuals, groups, ministries, the parish staffand the school staff," she continued. 'This is truly evidence of the mission of the Church to evan-

gelize,and this never could have happened if the parishioners didn't believe it could."

Riley also said that this graduating class will be ready to leave St. Mary's prepared to provide service to the parish and the comrilUnity.

'They see living out the Gospel as a way of life," she said.

Many special events are in the works for the eighth-graders, including a class retreat, visits from high schools to prepare them for the high school experience, class trips, aclass day, preparing a time capsule, all culminating with a special graduation Mass and ceremony at the end of the school year. ''Details ofthe graduation are still in the works, but parents have been meeting with us since last year to prepare," said Riley. ''Everyone is excited for the young people."

UP THE CREEK WITH A PADDLE - Teen members and adult chaperones of the Sacred Heart Youth Ministry, North Attleboro, group enjoy a weekend of white-water rafting at Kennebec River, in Caratunk, Maine, earlier this month. Its annual summer trip is planned and coordinated by youth members and financed by fundraising done throughout the year.

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Friday, August 25, 2006

Managing intense feelings

By CHARLIE MARTIN -

LIGHTING THE WAY - Volunteers Jessica Hensle, left, and Laura Cartagena of A Simple House, show Hakeem Alston, 14, how to light a prayer candle following Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. A Simple House is an outreach program in Washington whose volunteers serve the poor by proclaiming the Gospel through acts of faith, love and charity. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

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MY ROLE MODEL - Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful gathered for recitation of the Angelus at the pontiff's summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy. (CNS photo/Dario Pignatelli, Reuters)

WHAT'S LEFT OF ME Watched my life pass me by - in the review mirror Pictures frozen in time Are becoming clearer I don't wanna waste another day - stuck in the shadow ofmy mistakes Refrain: 'Cause I want you - and I feel you - crawling underneath my skin Like a hunger, like a burnin' - to find a place I've never been Now I'm broken, and I'm faded ...:...- I'm half the man I thought I would be But you can have what's left ofme I've been dying inside little by little Nowhere to go I'm goin' outta my mind An endless circle - runnin ' from myselfuntil You gave me a reason for standing still (Repeat refrain.)

Fallin' faster - barely breathing Give me somethin' to believe in Tell me it's not all in my head Take what's left ofthis man Make me whole once again I've been dying inside you see I'm goin' outta my mind (outta my mind, outta my mind, outta my mind) I'm just runnin' in circles all the -time Will you take what's left ofme?

I'm just runnin' in circles in my mind Will you take what's left ofme?

Take what's left ofme

Sung By: Nick Lachey (c) 2006 by Jive

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

It's hard to know what has brought NiCk Lachey more attention, his marriage to Jessica Simpson or the couple's subsequent divorce. Of course, Lachey might suggest that ijis being a big part of the '90's "boy band" Ninety Eight Degrees was even more significant.

The latest development in Lachey's musical career is the release of his new disc "What's Left of Me." Critics are PIuch divided about its quality. However, most agree that the songs demonstrate how he is working through the hurt he feels about the divorce. Anyone who has felt distress over a failed relationship will find much to identify with in these songs.

The CD's title song is getting lots of airplay and is climbing the charts. The song's character says: "Now I'm broken and I'm faded - I'm half the man I thought I would be, but you can have what's left of me." With this way of think, ing, it would be better if he stayed out ofrelationships for a while. His real problem is not the hurt that he feels but his perspective about it.

He need not deny how he feels, but, unfortunately, he seems to have become lost within his feelings.

Intense feelings need to be managed knowledgeably and skillfully.

Otherwise, they tend to consume us with the obsessive thinking that accompanies them. The following suggestions can h¢lp you more skillfully manage iQtense feelings and heal the hurt behind them: -Admit fully to i\vhat you feel, but do not give your feelings your . 10ne way to constant attention.

achieve this emotional restraint is to continue addressing whatever your daily tasks require. True, you may have moments when your feel intensely sad or angry, but by putting your attention back on everyday realities, some of the intensity will wane.

-Set aside a specific 30minute time span for acknowledging these feelings, but completely change your focus when this time has passed. The best way to do this is .to do something very physical such as working out or going for a long run. This way you honor your feelings but also communicate to your mind that there are boundaries around the power you will give them.

-Share your feelings with someone you trust. Pick someone who can preserve confidentiality and will not try to "fix" your hurt.

This individual should be accepting of tears or any other safe physical release of emotions.

-Tell God exactly what you are feeling, including any anger you might be experiencing toward him. No feeling can hurt God. See God as your best ally.

These are only a few ways to manage intense feelings. Encountering strong emotions is challenging for all of us. Yet resolving and healing their intensity means keeping feelings from controlling who you are as a person.

No one has to be "half' of who he wants to be.

Your comments are always welcome. Please write to me at: chmartin@swindiana.net or at 7125W 2008, Rockport, IN 4763~ :

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Is this good for my soul?

A couple of weeks ago I read a news story about a study which found that "teens who said they listened to lots of music with degrading sexual messages were almost twice as likely to start having intercourse or other sexual activities within the following two years as were teens who listened to little or no sexually degrading music" (Lindsay Tanner, AP, Aug. 6, 2006). Now, I think most of us have always known that music has an impact on us.

It can pick us up when we're down and it can draw us in when we need to be reflective.

It can also fill us with negative messages about our self worth, tear down the truth of the joy and giftedness of our lives, and basically take us where we should not go. This latest study of the impact of music on our sexual behavior is a prime example. If the messages that sex equals power, women are

objects, and degrading someone sexually is a sign of strength, are poured into your head over and over again, after a while you will take the messages in.

Many young people become oblivious to the gift of sexuality and treat it literally as a game, and often times a sick game.

I often share with my students a simple rule that I have come to live by. Whatever I am about .J to take in, be it music, movies, books, etc.; 'i) whatever I am about to do or whatever choice I am about to make, I ask this simple question: Is it good for my soul? If it is, I want to jump in with both feet; if it isn't, I pray for the strength to stay away. And when I'm not sure?

Well, I don't want to risk my soul, so I would rather stay away. A lot of the music that is out there today is just not good

for our souls. Some of the movies fit in that category as well. Just stop and think about it for a minute. I bet you can list 10 song or movie titles right off the top of your head that are just not good for our souls. But,

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I would think that when you get into the car, your favorite radio stations are programmed in. As a result, you may not be aware of new stations that are broadcasting in the area. So, I would like to bring your attention to 91."1 FM, KLOVE,

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which broad'casts out of New Bedford, Fall River, and Dartmouth. It's Christian music. Now before you roll your eyes and make those noises that you make when you're going to shut someone off, just listen to it. It's music that is good for your soul. That doesn't mean that a lot of secular music isn't good; it just means that there's another option to add to your list of music to listen to; It's contemporary Christian music with a variety of styles and some great me~sages that we all need to hear; Many of the songs help us recognize the gifts and graces being s~owered upon us and they help usl to give God glory.

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She suggested to a group of students that they set the alarm on their cell phones at a random time each day. When the alarm went off, students were to ask themselves if, their actions, conversations, etc. right at that moment were giving glory to God or not. I thought this was an incredible idea. We all need that little tap on the shoulder, that simple reminder, to check ourselves. I share this idea with you, with S~auna's permission, so that . you might take advantage of a' simple yet ingenious way of asking the questions: Is this good for my soul? Am I giving glory to God?

Jean Revil is director of CampusAlm~hyatB~hop

Stang High School, where she has taught for 27 years.

Comments welcome at: jrevil@bishopstang.com.

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Pope says working too hard is never good CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) - In the middle of his summer break, Pope Benedict XVI said working too hard was never a good thing - not even for a pope.

Speaking at a noon blessing at his summer residence outside Rome Sunday, the pope reflected on the 12th-century writings of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who warned against "the dangers of excessive activity, whatever the condition or office held, because many occupations lead to a 'hardening of the heart' and suffering of the spirit." ''This warning is valid for every kind of occupation, even those involving the governance of the Church," the pope said.

He recalled that St. Bernard had criticized the reigning pontiff of his time, Pope Eugenius ill, for "losing himself' in his many activities and forgetting the primacy of prayer and contemplation. The saint's provocative comments are

well worth remembering today, the pope said.

The pope also highlighted an underlying theme in St. Bernard's writings: divine love as the greatest source of spiritual strength. It's a theme the pope has focused on throughout his young papacy.

The pope was spending most of the summer months at the papal villa in Castel Gandolfo, where aides said he was spending much ofhis time writing, praying and meditating.

Recently the pope was a spectator in the courtyard of his villa for a performance of "The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc," a play by the French writer Charles Peguy.

Afterward, the pope thanked the actors and praised the author, saying Peguy had depicted St. Joan's sorrow and dismay at the suffering around her, but also conveyed the hope and courage inspired by her faith.

PRAYERFUL CONCERN - Paula Gutierrez of New Jersey prays after receiving Communion during Mass at the Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, August 19. A Latino "encuentrd' attracted 10,000 people to the shrine for the Mass celebrated by Mexican Archbishop Rosendo Huesca Pacheco of Puebla, who asked that Mary intercede for the needs of those who have left their land in search of a better future. (CNS photo/Octavio Duran)

Prayer to Our Mother of Good Success Soul of Mary, sanctify me, Body of Mary, purify me, Heart of Mary, inflame me, Sorrow of Mary, comfort me, Tears of Mary, console me, 0 Sweet Mary, hear me. With thy benign eyes, look upon me, Through thy holy steps, guide me, To thy Divine Son, pray for me, Pardon for my sins, achievefor me, Devotion to your holy Rosary, infuse in me, Love for God and my fellow man, grant me, Permit me not to ever be separated from thee. In the hour of my death, comfort me, From my enemies, defend me, With the shield of thy holy name, protect me, With thy mantle, cover me, In the fatal instant of my agony, assist me, From dying in sin, free me, Into the arms ofJesus, deliver me, To the eternal mansion, bring me, So that, with the angels and saints I can praise thee forever and ever. Amen.

MOSTLY EVERYTHING IS GONE - A woman searches her destroyed apartment in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, August 17. Catholic Relief Services and other international aid agencies were sending assessment teams throughout southern Lebanon and were meeting to coordinate their efforts. (CNS/Zohra Bensemra, Reuters)

Catholic Relief Services earmarks $10 M for Mideast war assistance BALTIMORE, Md. - As the long-term recovery and recon- their countries of origin. The says Mark Caritas Lebanon Migrant Centre ceasefire takes effect in Lebanon struction," and Israel, Catholic Relief Ser- Schnellbaecher, CRS regional di- (CLMC) has provided thousands vices announces plans for an rector for the Middle East, who is of migrants and refugees with emergency response and rehabili- based in Beirut. "Our goal is not food and water, hygiene supplies, tation program of at least $10 mil- just to help people return to what bedding, cooking utensils, lion for the current Middle East is left of their homes, but to re- clothes, medical assistance, psychological and moral support, as crisis including impacted areas in build lives and communities."

Displaced people in Lebanon well as legal and repatriation Gaza, northern Israel and Lebaand those who have no relatives counsel. CLMC is coordinating non.

CRS is the official interna- in so-called secure areas are tak- closely with the Sri Lankan, tional humanitarian agency of the ing refuge in gardens, public and Ethiopian and Philippines embassies to evacuate their nationCatholic community in the als.

United States. The agency CRS has also committed provides assistance to Displacedpeople in Lebanon and aid to people displaced by people in 99 countries and territories based on need, re- those who have no relatives in so- cross-border shelling in gardless of race, nationality called secure areas are taking ref- northern Israel through conor creed. For more informa- uge in gardens, public andprivate tributions to the American tion, visit schools, churches, convents, Jewish Joint Distribution and the AmeriIncreased resources will mosques, bombed out buildings, Committee can Jewish Committee. enable CRS and its local In Gaza, Caritas Jerusapartners Caritas Lebanon storage places and cars. They deand Caritas Jerusalem to pendon the assistance oflocal and lem is working to help the provide crucial life-saving internationalhumanitarian organiza- 1.4 million Palestinians, half of them children, who supplies for both immediate tions to survive. are suffering as a result of emergency needs and postceasefrre recovery efforts. the conflict. Shortages of Since the crisis in Lebanon private schools, churches, con- electricity, fuel, food, water, medibegan nearly one month ago, more vents, mosques, bombed out cines, and medical equipment than 900,000 people have been buildings, storage places and have reached critical levels. displaced - nearly 25 percent of cars. They depend on the assis- Housing and infrastructure are the total population. To date, CRS tance of local and international heavily damaged, and poorly and Caritas Lebanon have aided humanitarian organizations to sur- functioning wastewater treatment plants have led to major public more than 85,000 displaced vive.

Immediate life-saving relief health concerns. people throughout Lebanon and Last week CRS delivered expect to ultimately assist up- supplies such as food, water, hygiene kits, clothing, cleaning ma- emergency supplies to north, cenwards of 100,000 evacuees.

"We are continuing to provide terials, mattresses, and baby food tral and south Gaza, beginning much-needed emergency assis- and diapers, are being distributed with a distribution of 450 packtance, while also undertaking every day. Caritas Lebanon has ages of food and hygiene items to 36 offices, nine health centers and families in Beit Lahiya, Beit eight mobile medical clinics Hanoun and Jabaliya, all areas Montie Plumbing spread throughout the country, all that suffered major air assaults & Heating Co. of which are being manned by and armored incursions in recent Over 35 Years dedicated staff members and a weeks. CRS and local partners of Satisfied Services also delivered some 950 family volunteer base of 2,000.

Reg. Master Plumber 7023 In addition to the internally packages to vulnerable families in JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. displaced, there are also more Rafah, Khan Younis and EI than 100,000 migrant workers in Maghazi refugee camp. In total, 432 JEFFERSON STREET Lebanon left without work who this assistance will reach more FALL RIVER 508-675-7496 are finding it difficult to return to than 8,000 people in need.

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Friday, August 25, 2006

Stonehill College again named one of the top U.S. colleges by U.S. News & World Report EASTON - For the sixth consecutive year, Stonehill College has been named first in the U.S. News & World Report category of Best Comprehensive Colleges - Bachelor's (North).

Receiving an overall score of 100 percent, Stonehill ranked strongly in peer assessment, freshman retention, and graduation rates.

"We are pleased that the U.S. News & World Report college rankings continue to recognize the excellence of a Stonehill education," said College President Father ,Mark T. Cregan, C.S.c. "We are equally pleased that on many additional dimensions that we track, Stonehill compares well with other leading colleges in the nation."

Due to changes ahead in the classification system used by U.S. News, Stonehill may be moved into a different category next year. This is likely to be the final year that Stonehill competes in the U.S. News "comprehensive college" category, according to Stonehill Director of Planning and Institutional Research Laura Uerling. ''To create its rankings, U.S. News uses a classification system that was developed by the Carnegie Foundation to group colleges in categories," she said. ''The Carnegie Foundation has announced that it will replace its current system with five new classifications. We expect that Stonehill will be grouped with institutions that are more similar to us in profile and status, such as the College of the Holy Cross, Bates College, and Connecticut College." ''We look forward to competing in a new category in the coming year," Cregan added. "At

Stonehill, our faculty challenges our students and gives them the individual attention to help them meet those challenges. Our graduates are accepted into the finest graduate schools and have a strong record of job offers and professional success. So I am confident that Stonehill belongs amongst the company that we will keep in the year ahead."

The U.S. News announcement caps a remarkable month of appearances in national rankings for Stonehill. Earlier, the College's combination of academic and athletic success garnered Stonehill the NO.1 ranking in the country among NCAA Division II schools in the Collegiate Power Rankings that are published by the National College Scouting Association.

Stonehill finished 11th in the overall NCSA Top 50 Power Rankings across all three NCAA divisions.

Included in the Top 50 are Division I powerhouses Duke, Stanford, Princeton, and Notre Dame.

Stonehill is the only Division II institution to appear in the top 25 of the NCSA Top 50 Power Rankings.

For more information on the Carnegie classifications, visit www.carnegiefoundation.org/classifications/.

For information on NCSA ranking, visit www.stonehillskyhawks.com.

Stonehill is a competitive, coeducational, Catholic college located in Easton, Massachusetts.

Established in 1948 by the Congregation of Holy Cross, Stonehill continues the rich Holy Cross tradition of a rigorous liberal arts, pre-professional, and sciences education. information call Rachel Cote at 508540-9767.

SOCIAL EVENTS

EUCHARISTICADORATION

ATTLEBORO - A Divine Mercy holy hour is celebrated each Wednesday evening immediately following the 6:30 Mass at the National Shrine of Our Lady ofLa Salette. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed during the holy hour. For more information call 508-222-5410.

FALL RIVER - First Saturday devotion will be held September 2 beginning with the celebration of Mass at 9 a.m. at St. Mary's Cathedral. Exposition, adoration and Benediction ofthe Blessed Sacrament will follow until noon. For more information call 508-673-2833.

FALL RIVER - Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is held each Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Notre Dame de Lourdes Parish, 529 Eastern Avenue. APro-Life holy hour will be held August 28 at 7 p.m. For more information call 508-679-1991.

WEST HARWICH - A holy hour will be held Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at Holy Trinity Parish, Route 28. Rosary will be followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

WEST HARWICH- Perpetual eucharistic adoration is held at Our Lady of Life perpetual adoration chapel. New adorers are needed. For more information call508-43Q-4716.

LECTURESfPRESENTATIONS

ATTLEBORO - Grief Education programs are offered each month

at the La Salette Retreat House, 947 Park Street. Sessions provide individuals the opportunity to learn, explore feelings in a confidential setting and find ways to cope during painful times. For more information call 508222-8530.

MISCELLANEOUS

CENTERVILLE - Taize Prayer is held each Wednesday at 7 p.m. during the summer at Our Lady of Victory Church, 230 South Main Street. For more information call 508775-5744.

NEW BEDFORD- A day with Mary will be held Saturday beginning with a procession and crowning of Our Lady at 8 a.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, 233 County Street.

Mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m.

Confessions will be heard throughout the day and attendees are asked to bring a bag lunch. For more information call 508-992-9408.

NEW BEDFORD - Volunteers are needed to work with women and children at the Donovan House, a transitional home for women and children, 59 Rockland Street. Training and ongoing support will be provided.

For more information call Catholic Social Services' Donovan House at 508-999-5893.

POCASSET - The Discalced Carmelite Secular Order welcomes inquires from single and married lay men and women devoted in the search for union with God. It meets each month at St. John's Parish. For more

ATTLEBORO- Musician John Polce will bring his Bethany Nights program to the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette tonight at 7:30. It will include music and prayer. For more information call 508-236-9056.

FALL RIVER - A song recital will be held tonight at 7 at St. Mary's Cathedral. Performers include sopranos Heidi Dion and Elizabeth Grace; mezzo-soprano Barbara Youmans; and countertenor Nick zammit. They will be accompanied by Erik Thompson and Madeleine Grace.

Difficult 'times grow worse for Swansea family

By DAVE JOLIVET, EDITOR SWANSEA - The new millennium hasn't been kind to the DeSousa Family, parisqioners of St. Francis of Assisi Parish. Linda DeSousa has recently battled breast cancer and now her 24year-old daughter, Jennifer, who battles lupus, is in need of a kidney transplant.

The DeSousas were long-time parishioners of Espirito Santo Parish in Fall River before moving to Swansea.

Linda had surgery and has completed her chemotherapy.

"I'm doing pretty good now," Linda told The Anchor. "But I just want my daughter to get well."

Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that can target joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, heart and lungs. In this case, Jennifer's kidneys are affected.

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"This is Jen's second flare-up and now she is on dialysis three times a week," said Linda.

Jennifer needs a kidney transplant, and the family is seeking potential donors.

"Since I've recently battled cancer, I can't be a donor," said Linda. "And my husband is not the right blood type."

Potential donors should have an a-positive blood type, be in good health, and be between the ages of 18 and 50.

Those who would like to help can call Rhode Island Hospital at 1-401-444-8345 to schedule an evaluation.

If a potential donor meets the listed criteria, Rhode Island Hospital will set up an interview and schedule additional testing. According to Rhode Island Hospital, the donor evaluation process would take no more than 60-90 minutes.

In Your Prayers Please pray for the following priests during the coming weeks Aug. 29 1921, Rev. Joseph, DeVillandre, D.O., Founder, Sacred Heart, North Attleboro 1975, Msgr. Williain H. Harrington, Retired Pastor, Holy Name, Fall River \ \" \

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SWANSEA - A family fun festival will be held Sunday at St. Louis de France Parish, 56 Buffington Street. It will begin with the celebration of Mass at 3 p.m. A free concert will follow. For more information call 508-676-0029:

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NEW BEDFORD - The Courage Group, for those dealing with same-sex attraction, while striving to lead chaste lives, will meet Saturday at 7 p.m. in the rectory of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, 233 County Street. For more information call Father RichardWIlson at 508-992-9408.

NORTH DARTMOUTH - A diocesan divorced-separated support group will meet August28 from 78:30 p.m. at the Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Road. It will include the video "Facing Your Depression."

Refreshments will be served. For more information call Bob Menard at 508-965-2919.

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He studied theology at The Bishop Coleman will ,.,....--------------...,,'"". Catholic University in be the principal celebrant Washington, D.C. Followat the 11: 15 a.m., retreat ing ordination to the priestMass, during which reli... hood in 1970, he served as gious celebrating 25, 50, I ~ a Missionary of Our Lady 60, and 70 jubilee years of La Salette in Argentina will be recognized. and Bolivia, and other "I'm excited about the Latin America countries day," said Mercy Sister ministering in parishes. He Elaine Heffernan, the currently resides in bishop's representative to i Attleboro, where he is a religious in the diocese.

I vocations recruiter and "Not only in having so t ministers in the Pax Christi many religious gather for \ Peace Movement.

Jubilarians marking 70 a day of prayer, but also to I have Bishop Coleman years in religious service there for the celebration of I are Holy Union Sisters the Eucharist and honor Armand Chabot and Rita those who have served the Laprade; and St. Dorothy diocese for so many Sister Marie Isabel Franco. years," she added.

Celebrating 60 years in Among those planning religious life are, Holy to attend the recollection Union Sisters Rita day, which begins at 9:30 '-----' Beaudoin, Ruth Curry, M. a.m., with light refresh- GUEST SPEAKER - La Salette Father Elizabeth Murphy, and ments, welcome, and John P. Sullivan will speak at the annual Lucille Richard; and opening prayers are Do- Bishop's Day. of Rec<:>lIection for religious. Mercy Sisters Marie Andre minican Sisters Sisters of Father Sullivan Will speak on Pope Guay and Lourdette the Sacred He;rts, Holy Benedict XVI's "Deus Caritas Est." Harrold.

Union Sisters, Sisters of Marking 50 years are, Mercy, Sisters of St. Dorothy and Good Shep- Sister Lorraine Beauchesne, O.P.; Sister Rose herd Sisters.

Virginia Behrend, CGS; Sister Eleanor Cyr, Also, priests from Congregation Holy Cross SS.CC; Sister Gretchen Marlatt, SUSC; Mercy Sisters Rose Angela McLellan and Marianna and Missionaries of La Salette "I'm looking forward to hearing from La Sylvester, RSM; Father Giles Genest, MS, and Salette Father John P. Sullivan who will meet Father Robert Rioux, CSc. with us at two conferences and speak on Pope Celebrating 25 years in his congregation is Benedict XVI's encyclical, 'Deus Caritas Est' Holy Cross Father Thomas Bertone.

NURSING ASSISTANCE - Certified nurse assistants Kristen Rogers and LaurieHubert of the Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River, were recently awarded full scholarships to attend the Diman Regional School of Practical Nursing. Hubert has been employed at the home since 1986 and Rogers since 2002. From left, Sherrie Grime, director of nursing; Rogers; Hubert; and Erin Kanuse, assistant administrator.

PRACTICE THE DEVOTION OF THE FIRST SATURDAYS, AS REQUESTED BY OUR LADY OF FATIMA

On December 10, 1925, Our Lady appeared to Sister Lucia (seer of Fatima) and spoke these words: "Announce in my name that I promise to assist at the hour ofdeath with the graces necessaryfor the salvation oftheir souls, all those who on the first Saturday of five consecutive months shall: 1. Go to confession; 2. Receive Holy Communion; 3. Recite the Rosary (5 decades); and 4. Keep me company for IS minutes while meditating on the IS mysteries ofthe Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me."

In a spirit of reparation, the above conditions are each to be preceded by the words: "In reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary."

Confessions may be made during 8 days before or after the first Saturday, and Holy Communion may be received at either the morning or evening Mass on the first Saturday.

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_ A JOYOUS JOURNEY - Young people from the dioceses of Fall River and Providence pose for a photo -before a statue of the Sacred Heart during a recent trip to Medjugorje. ''They had such an incredible, faith-building experience and were so moved by the Masses and adoration hours and great talks," said Maureen O'Brien, a member of Our Lady, Queen of Peace Prayer Group, St. Joseph's Parish, Attleboro. "May what they have experienced touch the many people they will now encounter, and remain with them always." (Photo courtesy of Maureen O'Brien)