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Soviet-Vatican ties still fluid VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A dizzying week of developments in the Soviet Union left Soviet-Vatican relations in a hopeful, although fluid state.

The impact of the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. and the accelerated pace of change in the Soviet Union gave the Vatican plenty of food for thought about future relations.

What, for example, of a hopedfor papal visit of the Soviet Union in 19921 Cardinal Angelo Sodano, papal secretary of state, told RAI, the Italian state television network, Aug. 20 that he had a "secret hope" that if the coup succeeded a papal trip would be moved up because "the Soviet Union would have had more need for it than ever."

His remarks ignited speculation that the pa.pal trip was in the works. But the Soviet envoy to the Vatican, Yuri Karlov, said Aug. 22, a day after Gorbachev returned power, it was too early to say whether planning for a papal trip to the Soviet Union would be speeded up.

Pope John PaullI was traveling in Hungary, formerly a Soviet Bloc nation, when the coup occurred.

Hours after it was announced that Gorbachev had been replaced for health reasons, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls, traveling with the pope, said with a bit of irony, "I hope that Gorbachev gets well s06n."

But it may not be a healthy Gorbachev the Vatican must look to, but a politically robust Boris Yeltsin, the Russian Republic president who stood up against the coup.

Although a largely untested figure from the Vatican's point of view, Yeltsin is viewed sympathetically by church leaders, according to one Vatican official.

The official, who asked not to be' named, met last year with a close Yeltsin advisor in Moscow.

The prelate said he came away with the impression that Yeltsin favored a radical improvement in relations between the state and religion.

The adviser cited three elements

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that inspired Yeltsin's position on church-state relations: - The spiritual traditions ofthe Russian Orthodox Church, which need renewal, along with the religious and moral basis of daily life.

- The ecumenical vision of Vladimir Solov'ev, a 19th century Russian mystic whose writings are again enjoying popularity.

- The "lay" tradition in Russia as represented by human rights activist and physicist Andrei Sakharov, a non-believer who supported religious freedom.

Yeltsin is sa id to be a nonbeliever, although baptized in the Orthodox Church.

A story is told about Yeltsin's baptism that the priest showed up drunk for the ceremony and the infant almost drowned when he was left too long in the font. At that time, it was decided to give him the name of a strong man: Boris, which means "fight" in Russian.

Russian Orthodox clerics favor Yeltsin over Gorbachev as their leader for the future, the Vatican official said. Whether Yeltsin is as attuned to the needs of other churches is another question.

Gorbachev's strength, as the Vatican sees it, is his interest in "legalities" - such as the freedom of religion law passed last year, which placed all religions on an equal juridical footing.

Gorbachev has forged a close personal relationship with the pope. .

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Mission worker recalls "40 days in the desert"

By Marcie Hickey This week weJeature the second oj three articles on mission work undertaken by members oj the Emmaus retreat community.

The retreat programJor young adults, based at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, takes its nameJrom the town near Jerusalam cited in the Gospel ojLuke. En route to the town, two disciples encounter a stranger, and only aJter walking, talking and breaking bread with him do they realize he is the risen Christ.

Like the Gospel story, the retreat program emphasizes the recognition oj Christ in the stranger. For some members oJthe Emmaus community that has meant a call toJind theJace ojJesus among strangers inJoreign lands.

For them the road to Emmaus has led beyond the Fall River diocese: to Costa Rica and Ecuador, where . Sean Sheehan has worked with the disabled in Peace Corps assignments; to Mexico, where Rayleen Giannotti served at a shelterJor migrants; and to Zimbabwe, where Kathy Sullivan Westgate spent six months assisting in a mission hospital.

This week Miss Giannotti recalls her experiences in Mexico.

She calls it. her 40 days in the desert.

Rayleen Giannotti, a parishioner at St. John Neumann Church, East Freetown, gained an introduction to missionary work earlier this year when she spent 40 days at the Migrant House, a Tijuana, Mexico, . shelter for migrant workers run by the missionary Order of St. Charles, known as the Scalibrinis. .

She became acquainted with the order while teaching at Holy Ghost School in Providence, RI, after

her 1989 graduation from Salve Regina University, Newport, RI. But her desire to do missionary work long predated her teaching career.

"I'd wanted to go to Central America since I was seven and my second grade teacher, Sister Ann Alewood, talked about missions in Guatemala," said the Tiverton, RI, native, who attended St. Patrick's and St. Jean Baptiste elementary schools in Fall River.

The sister introduced the class to the rosary and the Lenten rice

bowl project, and Rayleen's interest in foreig!1 missions was kindled.

She recalled, "i started to pray the rosary for poor people and missionaries" - and quite ambitiously, too. Misunderstanding the teacher's directive to say five. decades of the rosary daily for the missions, little Rayleen would attempt five rosaries a night.

"Usually I fell asleep!" she admits.

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FAMILY AND MEDICAL leave legislation approval would make a more just atmosphere for workers, says the U.S. Catholic Conference's annual Labor Day message. See story page 4. (CNS photo) .

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Theologian Father Carl Peter dies WASHINGTON (CNS) - Father Carl J. Peter of the Catholic University of America, one of America's leading Catholic theologians and ecumenists, died unexpectedly in his room Aug. 20, apparently from a heart attack. He was 59.

His funeral Mass took place Aug. 23 at Christ the King Church in Omaha, Neb., where he was born in 1932 and ordained in 1957.

His younger brother, Father Val J. Peter, executive director of Boys Town near Omaha, was chief celebrant. , .

A theology professor at Catholic University since 1964, Father Peter was a 19-year veteran of the U.S. Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialogue, a member of the Vatican's International Theological Commission since 1980 and a frequent consultant to Vatican agencies and the U.S. bishops on theological and ecumencial issues.

He was also: - Chairman of Catholic University'S theology department, 1975-77, and dean of its School of Religious Studies, 1977-85. . - President of the Catholic Theological Society of America, 1971-72, and recipient of its John Courtney Murray award in 1975. ~ A member of the National

Council of Churches' Faith and Order Commission, 1970-72.

- A member ofthe U.S. Roman Catholic-Presbyterian dialogue, 1967-71.

- A papally appointed theological expert for the 1983 world Synod of Bishops and theological adviser to the U.S. delegation at two other synods.

Cardinal James A. Hickey of Washington told the crowd at the funeral, which included five prelates and more than 125 priests, "We've come together today because we truly loved him. Father Carl Peter was an outstanding son of the church."

Celebrant Father Peter recalled his brother entering the first kindergarten class at Holy Cross School in Omaha at the age of 4.

"Carl J. Peter was allowed to enter school early because Sister Geraldine, principal, said: 'He seems to show some aptitude for learning.'

"What Carl had discovered, even as a little boy, was the excitement of learning; he loved school." .

Father Peter said his brother went on to distinguish himself as a theologian and was "one of the true leaders in advancing the cause ofgenuine ecumenism in this country" as a member of the Roman Turn to Page II

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ROSA SANTIAGO, eight months pregnant, harvests asparagus in Washington state's Yakima Valley. She has been a field laborer since s\1e was 13 years old. (eNS photo)

Farm workers said subject to substandard conditions WASHINGTON (CNS) - A from farm worker advocates, U.S. General .A<ccounting Office associations offarm employers and official, in recent testimony before others, he said. a congressiom{1 committee, blamed He noted that federal child labor the government for substandard laws and regulations allow chilliving and working conditions fac- dren to work at a younger age in ing the nation's farm workers. agriculture than in other industries.

Joseph F. Delfico, director of 12- and 13-year-olds may be income security issues in the GAO's employed in agriculture before or human resources division, said in after school with the written contestimony before the House Select sent of their parents or on farms Committee on Aging that a nation- where their parents are employed.

Children younger than 12, Delwide study conducted in 1979-83 showed that each year more than fico noted, can work outside school 20,000 children were injured and hours, with parental consent, on nearly 300 died on farms. . family farms or on farms exempt Delfico said research done in from federal minimum wage law.

1990 on agricultural child labor in, Delfico said federal laws proNew York found that more than vide less protection to work<;:rs 40 percent of the children studied exposed to pesticides than to other' had worked in fields still wet with toxic and hazardous substances.

Employers using pesticides, he pesticides and more than 40 percent had been sprayed while in the said, are not required to alert their fields. employees to the names of chemi"Children may receive signifi- cals being used, the potential cantly higher doses of pesticides dangers of exposure, or emergency because. of their lower body andJirst aid procedures. weight," said Delfico. In addition, He said that in 1983 the EPA, he said, they are likely to be "much' which regulates pesticide use, ad-more susceptible to neurotoxic mitted that its regulations were effects because of their developing inadequate to protect agricultural nervoussyste'm and organs.". . workers. ~Committee chairman Rep. EdHe added; however, that the wardR. Roybal, D-Calif., said agency is currently writing new after hearing the testimony that it" -'pesticide regulations that require appe.ared the federal government路 . employers to inform employees had turned a blind eye to' the . about pesticide hazards. "urgent need" to protect farJn ' The GAO official said that the workers and their children路 from. ~~EP A estimated that each year farm p'esticides and ~ther hazards. "-" .. ~orkerss'~ffer 20,000 to 300,000 Delfico told committee members,' acute' illnesses and injuri~s due to that in the process of gathering pesticide exposure. information for his testimony GAO .' Noting that providing sanitation workers had reviewed federal laws, facilities in fields can reduce the regulations and prilgrams that 'likelihood of pesticide poisonings, affect farm workers as well as data Delfico said unsanitary field conobtained from the U.S. Depart-, ditions exist in part because smaller ments of Labor, Health and Human farms are exempt from Labor DepartServices, Education, Treasury, Ag- ment field sanitation regulations. riculture and the Environmental He said the Labor Department's Protection Agency. own 1990 survey of U.S. farm Information also was gleaned workers found that about one in

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Cardinal Glempcondem'ns anti-SemitiSIi1'~ prepares for U.S. visit

WASHINGTON (CNS) - Cardinal Josef Glemp of Poland has renewed his condemnation of antiSemitism and emphasized his regret over the controversy that erupted over a 1989 incident ata Carmelite convent in Auschwitz.

At least three major Jewish organizations have accepted the statement as a sign that Cardinal Glemp, who will visit the United States this fall, wants to resolve a two-year-old dispute over a Carmelite convent in Auschwitz, site of a Nazi concentration camp.

And the attorney for a rabbi who had intended to sue Cardinal Glemp for defamation upon his arrival in the United States said he has put a hold on the legal action pending further clarification from the cardinal.

Cardinal Glemp's remarks came in a letter to Archbishop Adam J. Maida of Detroit released in Washington Aug. 23 by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

In August 1989, Rabbi Avraham Weiss of the Bronx and six of his followers protested at a convent built on the grounds of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.

When they attempted to climb a fence, the Americans were beaten

by Polish workmen at the convent.

In a sermon several days later, Cardinal Glemp said he thought the Jews might have killed the nuns if the workmen had not intervened.

Rabbi Weiss, who says he was libeled in the homily, had threatened to sue the cardinal with a lawsuit on his arrival in the United States and to stage protests in each city he v.isits on a Sept. 19-0ct. 7 trip. Rabbi Weiss could not be reached for a response Aug. 23, but his attorney, Alan Dershowitz, said he had put a hold on the lawsuit "as a symbol of reciprocity."

Dershowitz said there were other matters related to statements by Cardinal Glemp that he wanted cleared up, however.

In his first visit to the United States since a 1989 tour was canceled because of the dispute, Cardinal Glemp will meet with PolishAmericans, U.S. bishops and representatives of the Jewish community. Stops will include New York, Brooklyn, Buffalo and Albany, N.Y.; Hartford, Conn.; Boston; Cleveland; Gary, Ind.; Chicago; Pittsburgh and Scanton, Pa;; Newark and Metuchen, N.J.; and Washington.

Since the 1989 incident stirred angry accusations that he was anti-Semitic, Cardinal Glemp, who is archbishop of Warsaw and Gniezno, has made several statements decrying anti-Semitism and has met with leaders of the American Jewish Congress. Church leaders have agreed to move the convent - probably by the end of 1992 - to a new interfaith center under construction at a site some distanee.!lway from Auschwitz.

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four workers lack water for washing hands and about one in 12 lack toilets and drinking water at their work sites.

Delfico also reported that there is a shortage of housing for migrant farm workers.

Available housing, he said, "is often deficient, crowded and unsanitary." He said about 28 percent of farm workers live in housing provided by growers.

to Archbishop Maida said h'e understands that the seven protesters intended no harm to the sisters or the convent and believes his planned visits with Jewish representatives in the United States to be important.

"If in the past we had had more contacts and learned more about each other, we would not have arrived at those regrettable misunderstandings (of 1989)," he wrote.

Spokesman for three major Jewish organizations said Cardinal Glemp's letter is a step in the right direction.

A representative of the American Jewish Committee said Aug. 23 that Cardinal Glemp's letter contained "positive and necessary contributions to the ongoing work of strengthening mutual trust and understanding between Catholics and Jews in the United States as well as in Poland."

Rabbi A. James Rudin, national interreligious affairs director for the committee that was founded to fight bigotry and promote Jewish integration into American life, said he agreed with Cardinal Glemp that the Catholic and Jewish communities are entering "a new . era of hope and positive opportunities."

Rabbi Jack Bemporad, chairman of the Interreligious Affairs Committee for the Synagogue Council of America, said "the majority of the Jewish commun~

FATHER MANUEL P. Ferreira, immediate past pastor of Immaculate Conception parish, New Bedford, will be honored by his former parishioners Sept. 8 with a Mass and testimonial dinner at White's of Westport.

Father Ferreira, who had served at Immaculate Conception since 1979, has been pastor of St. Anthony's parish, Taunton, since last June.

He will concelebrate a 5 p.m. Mass Sept. 8 at Immaculate Conception with Father Evaristo Tavares, the present pastor of the parish. The dinner will follow at 6:30 p.m.

While at the New Bedford parish, Father Ferreira directed renovations of the church and rectory.

Testimonial information is available at telephones 9962200;995-7051;823-8~31;and

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ity, 1 am confident, welcomes this spirit of reconciliation expressed

by Cardinal Glemp." The Synagogue Council coordinates policies for the national rabbinrcal and lay synagogal organizations of the three main branches of Judaism.

The International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consulta- ' tions welcomed what chairman Seymour D. Reich interpreted as Cardinal Glemp's retraction of the 1989 statement.

"We expect there will be further clarification from the cardinal while still in Poland and when he arrives in the United States," said a statement from Reich. The Committee on Interreligious Consultations, based in Geneva, is the major Jewish body in dialogue with the Vatican.

Congress speaker backs Thomas SYRACUSE, N.Y. (CNS) Denouncing. "the sacred cow of separation of church and state," the keynote speaker at a recent National Congress 'of the Sacred Heart of Jesus backed nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court as one step toward the re-evangelization ofthe United States.

"On the political level, devotion to the Sacred Heart means ... we must work and pray for statesmen who are God-fearing," said Father Albert J.M. Shamon, administrator of St. Isaac Jogues Church in Fleming, N.Y. "And we must work and pray for jurists who realize there is a law higher than the Constitution," he added. "That's why I've been praying for Thomas."

Thomas, who was raised Catholic but now worships in an Episcopal church, faces Senate confirmation hearings beginning Sept. 10.

Father Shamon was keynote speaker at the Aug. 1-4 national congress on the Sacred Heart, the first national gathering of its kind in 13 years..

He said devotion to the Sacred Heart is three-dimensional, involving commitment within the family, at the parish level and at the political level.

More than 1,200 people, including many from the Fall River diocese, attended the congress, which included 24-hour eucharistic adoration and a 12-hour slate of special activities for youth.

Among speakers was Fall River ,native Father Richard McNally, SS.Ce., immediate past 'superior of the Eastern Province of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts, headquartered in Fairhaven. He is now missioned in Hawaii: .

Forming a committee that helped make arrangements for the congress were members' of the Fairhaven chapter of Men ofthe Sacred Hearts, including Donald' St. Gelais, president; Ray L~voie, vicepresident; Octav'e Pimentel, publicity; Leonard Cejka, historian; and Norman Daigle, secretary. ,

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"C'alled by Name" coming to Fall River/New Bedford I

"Called by Name," a national vocation program initiated last October in the Attleboro and Taunton deaneries of the diocese, will take place this October in the Fall River and New Bedford deaneries. , With the assistance of the Diocesan Office of Vocations, the program will ask priests, religious and laity to recommend individuals

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they feel possess qualities fitting them for the priesthood and religious life.

Such persons will then be contacted by priests in their parish to explain the program and ask permission to send their names to Bishop Cronin so that he in turn can invite them to an informational program on vocations.

Priests of the Fall River and New Bedford deaneries are asked to attend a meeting at 2 p.m. Sept.

II at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, at which time "Called by Name" will be explained in further detail by Msgr. John J. Smith, diocesan director of vocations.

Brother Augustine Finnegan, FSC, 53, who taught at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, from 1984 to 1987, died Aug. 25.

At the time of his death he was assigned to St. Raphael Academy, TOLEDO, Ohio (CNS) - The Pawtucket, RI. His Mass of ChrisFarm Labor Organizing Committian Burial was offered Wednestee, meeting recently in Toledo, day at St. Joseph 'Church, Pawresolved "to work for collective tucket. contracts" for farm workers in a 'A New York native and a son of number of states and to strengthen the la~e James and Mary (Cull) ties with farm worker unions in Finnegan, he made-final vows as a Mexico. The organization at its' Brother of the Christian Schools fifth triennial convention also markin 1964. He held a bachelor's degree ed successful contracts it reached from Catholic University, Washing- , in 1990 to end a "sharecropping" ton, DC, and master's degrees in system throughout Ohio and Michitheology and social studies from gan's pickle industry.

Manhattan College and New York President Baldemar Velasquez, University respectively.

44, who founded the Toledo-based He taught in New York and farm workers' union, known as Connecticut schools in addition to FLOX, with his parents in 1967, his assignments in Massachusetts said the labor group aims to create and Rhode Island. either one organization of workers He is survived by a brother, nationally and internationally or Thomas Finnegan, and a sister, "an alliance of unions in order to Mary Matthes, both of New York. negotiate common or coordinated contracts with multinational companies for whom we work."

Union to expand bargaining efforts

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The Disaster Response Office of Catholic Charities USA is cooperating with Catholic Social Services of the Fall River diocese in assisting persons on fixed incomes, especially the elderly, to replace refrigerated and frozen food supplies lost due to lack of electricity in the wake of Hurricane Bob. A media advisory from the national office in Alexandria, VA, notes that restoration of electricity may take many days in some locations and adds that although the Fall River Diocesan Catholic Social Services office has a food voucher program to assist elderly and low-income persons, its funds are limited.

The national office is therefore appealing for assistance from throughout the country, noting that donations are tax-deductible. The appeal is part of the office's function of providing leadership, technical and financial assistance and resource development to local agencies, such as Catholic Social Services, that meet community needs after disasters.

Within the diocese, donations may be sent to Catholic Social Services, PO Box M, 'South Station, Fall River 02724. From other areas, they should go to Disaster Response Office, Catholic Charities USA,I731 King Street, Suit 200, Alexandria VA 22314.

Sept. I 1985, Rev. Jorge J. de Sousa, Pastor, St. Elizabeth, Fall River Sept. 3 1912, Rev. Thomas J. McGee, D.D., Pastor, Sacred Heart, Taunton Sept. 4 1864, Rev. Joseph P. Tallon, Pastor, St. Mary, New Bedford 1894, Rev. John J. Maguire, Founder, St. Peter, Provincetown Sept. 5 1948, Rev. Napoleon A. Messier, Pastor, St. Mathieu, Fall River

AT MADONNA MANOR luncheon for new nurses' aides, from left, Lisa Cadime, RN, director of staff development for the nursing home; nurse's aide Gloria Garner; Rev. Edmund J. Fitzgerald, executive director of Diocesan Health Facilities; and nurse's.aide Susan Savill. The ceremony had special significance for Ms. Garner,. originally from Scotland, and Ms. Savill, from Wales. Both said that such recognition would be unusual in ~heir native countries.

57 aides certified at M'adonna Manor Fifty-seven employees at Madonna Manor, North Attleboro, have achieved state certification as nurses' aides. They received certificates and pins at a recent luncheon ceremony.

They are, from North Attleboro: Carol Balut, Lorry Blasetti, Lynn Buchanan, Eloise Carley, Shirley Cooper, Roberta Chapin, Grace DaSilva, Julieta DaSilva,· Cindy Farquharson, Gloria Garner, Karen Gookin, Paula House, Judith Lareau, Karen Slaney, Jannette Medina, Ann Nisil, Catherine Parker, Evelyn Pellow, Gary Poholek, Carol Reed, Susan Savill, Bonnie Schofield.

From Attleboro: Thelma Allard, Geraldine Boucher, Rose Ann P1amand, Bonniebelle Geary, Louise Hagerty, Cynthia MacLean, Anne Teixeira.

From South Attleboro: Deborah Cote, Kathleen Hayward, Mary Lou Houle, Marilyn Vezina.

From Plainville: Louise Carvalho, Charlene Harrison, Barbara Stowell. Eleanor Wilfert.

From Norton: Susan Fernandes, Annette Waite, Donna Waite.,

Allard, Shirley Barker, Donna Burgess, Elizabeth Edwards, Kristine Medeiros, Corrie Pavlovsky, Robin Hockhousen.

Also Deborah Langille, Attleboro Falls; Beryl Collins, Seekonk; Sharyn Haskell, East Taunton; Lisa Sutherland, Swansea; Susan Wanamaker, Rehoboth; Teresa White, North Dighton; Doreen

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His Excellency, the Most Reverend DanIel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River .!tas accepted the nomination of the Very Reverend Mark L. Curesky, OFM Conv., Minister Provincial of the Conventual Franciscan Ftiars of Saint Anthony of Padua Province and has made the following appointments: Reverend Walter Mruk, OFM Conv., Pastor Holy Cross Parish, Fall River.

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the moorinJL.., Labor's Sorry Lot Labor Day is once again upon us with its signs and symbols. FO'f many people its sole. meaning is the end of summer and the start of school. It's a time for the proverbial last hurrah. Indeed, very few of us celebrate Labor Day per se.

Rather, it's a time for a long weekend bash. The media for the mos:t .Pilrt pay more attention to auto death statistics for the . holiday than to the reason for our national celebration of workers.

All in all, the Labor Day holiday has little to do with its original intent. To be sure, there will be a few city parades and the unions will perform their predictable rituals. Outside of these perfunctory tokens, little attention is given to an occasion that should be more meaningful to us.

The status of the working person in today's America is at a rather low point. The present recession has had a devastating impact on the labor force. Millions across the nation have lost their jobs. White-collar workers have been pushed into poverty. From banking to computers, the wave of layoffs is increasing and blue-collar workers are suffering the same fate as those in offices and professional occupations.

There are few jobs in the trades and even the less desirable ones that do become available are being grabbed by people who would have never considered them five years ago. In short, the salad days have wilted and all signs indicate that revival will take some time. It is true that there are those who manifest optimism but many seem to be doing so purely from political or profit motives.

American industry seems unable to compete with foreign businesses, especially in the area of automobiles. Goods manufactured overseas are flooding our stores to the point where it's hard to find a piece of clothing with an American union label.

Our communications industry, from television to CDs, is but a satellite of Japanese corporate giants. The European Economic Community and the Common Market are giving American know-how a run for its money. We are really being strangled by what might be called the global grip.

On top of all this, we have a growing immigrant labor force, much of it composed of illegal workers willing to subservientjobs at lower pay than Americans. Hispanics, Brazilians and Vietnamese are among groups exploited in this manner..

Unfortunately, our present administration has done little on the national level with regard to these domestic issues. A Point of Light award here and a promise there do little to put food on the table. Washington must become as involved with problems at home as with foreign policy.

The American family simply wants employment and the restoration ofself-respect. We can no longer dodge the issue of imbalanced foreign trade. America needs equal trade rights.

Isolation is not the answer. A dose of hard nosed American ingenuity is the real remedy that will rescue us from the doldrums of our own making.

It's not merely a matter of union 'or non-union; it's the story oimen, women and families struggling for survival'and reduced to accepting aid, if they are lucky enough to qualify, as . their lives collapse around them. This recession may be trying to tell us that we have been led astray by the so-called good life, ignoring its built-in pitfalls.

If we could pay more attention to the social message ofthe Gospel and let it guide our actions, we just might make the adjustments in our economic life that will restore justice to the workplace.

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LABOR DAY 1991

"~ome to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you."

Matt. 11:28

Justice for workers urged WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S.labor tradition would be wellserved by approval of legislation for family and medical leave, guarantee of the right to strike and improved benefits for the unemployed. according to Bishop James Malone of Youngstown. Ohio.

The three issues have in common "the church's understanding of work as a human right and responsibility as well as the role of society and government safeguarding their exercise," Bishop Malone, chairman of the U.S. Catholic Conference's Committee on Domestic Policy, said in the USCe's annual message for Labor Day. Catholic teaching obliges everyone to protect those rights. Bishop Malone said. "Moreover. we must ensure that the exercise of one human right or responsibility does not have to be paid for by the sacrifice of another."

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The Family and Medical Leave Act, pending in Congress, "would guard most Americans against losing their jobs when they are needed at home to welcome a new baby. to comfort a dying parent, or to nurse a recuperating spouse," Bishop Malone said. "While many employers do the right thing, even without legal requirements, many others do not."

The legislation was approved in "Why should these families lose the last congressional session but everything while waiting for the was vetoed by President Bush. .recession to end?" Bishop Malone Bishop Malone said the USCC asked. "Shouldn't government polalso endorses legislation protecticy keep them afloat until they and ing workers' rights to strike over the economy are back on an even wages and benefits. keel?"

"For 100 years it has been a He suggested that policy makers basic tenet of Catholic teaching "have focused too much attention that working people have a right on the official unemployment stato organize, join labor unions and tistics and other economic indicabargain collectively:' he said. But tors and not enough on real people while employees may not be fired . who are all too clearly suffering. for striking, a loophole in the law Obviously, new jobs are the best allows employers to hire "perman- . answer, but in the meantime, we ent replacements." Legislation that owe these people some measure of would ban hiring permanent re- compassion and justice." placements also is in the works in Bishop Malone concludes by Congress and also faces the threat asking people to reflect on Pope of a presidential veto.

"It's hard to see the difference John Paul II's words: "The social between being fired and being message of the Gospel must not be 'permanently replaced:" said Bish- considered a theory, but above all op Malone. Communities are often else a basis and motivation for the losers as workers are pitted action."

"In a more just society, people against each other, he added.

The bishops also are backing would not have to sacrifice their legislation to reform the unem- jobs to exercise fundamental rights ployment system to protect those and responsibilities - such as carwho are still looking for work after ing for the young, the old and the losing their jobs in the recession, sick - or find themselves out of luck when illness or the business Bishop Malone said.

Young workers with little expe- cycle leaves them out of work ...... rience and older workers who are said Bishop Malone. "This Labor too young to retire but considered Day, let us commit ourselves to "overqualified" for available jobs acting on the church's teaching on work and workers." are particularly hard-hit, he said.

Yahweh's secret of life Deuteronomy 4:1-2,6-8 James 1:17-18,21-22,27 Mark 7:1-8,14-15,21~23 Today's readings bring in combination insights which each individual passage could never convey. Yet all three writers are trying to show us how to lead fulfilling lives.

Our Deuteronomy pericope sets the theme. This last book of the Torah is filled with rules and regulations; chapter after chapter of Yahweh's precepts. But its author is not interested in creating a canon law manual. The Lord has a special reason for sharing his rules with his people."Now, Israel," Moses proclaims, "hear the statutes and decrees which I am teachi~g y?,u to observe, that you may live...

These regulations are never thought a burden. Rather, they are viewed as signs of Yahweh's love.

Moses' famous rhetorical questions ring in our ears: ..... What great nation is there that has gods so close to it as Yahweh, our God, is to us whenever we call upon him?

Or what great nation has statutes and decrees that are as just as this whole law which I am setting before you today?" Everyone wants. to live. But only Yahweh shares the secret of life with his people.

But since there are two major obstacles to finding life through obeying these laws, we must listen carefully to our second and third readings.

James brings up the more obvious impediment. "Humbly welcome the word that has taken root in you, with its power to save you," he writes. "Act on this word. If all you do is listen to it, you are deceiving yourselves." Those who study, dissect and comment on God's laws can easily fall into the trap of believing that they are also carrying them out. Often we hear and know what needs to be done, but never take the practical step of actually doing it.

Our crusty writer gives a simple formula to achieve life: "Looking after orph~ns and widows in their,

the life Yahweh had promised THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Aug. 30, 1991 through Moses. In order to do that he had to show which regulations are essential and which are accidental. .

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Mark's obstacle is more difficult Bla~k to surface and deal with: How do we know which laws actually are from God and which come from ATLANTA (CNS) - The Nahumans?

All religious reformers - includ- ' tional Black Catholic Clergy Caucus will sponsor an international ing Jesus - must eventually deal meeting of black clergy, religious with this issue. Many of us rememand seminarians in July 1992 in ber how often the topic was brought New Orleans. up for discussion and debate durThe Pan-African Roman CathOing Vatican II. And we also rememlic Clergy Conference will discuss ber that one of the great deficienevangelization of people of Africies in the question/ answer format can descent on the 500th anniverof our old catechisms was that they rarely made distinctions be- sary of Columbus' arrival in the Americas. tween God's law and theological Atlanta Archbishop James P. speculation. The answers all seemed Lyke, one of 12 black U.S. bishops, to carry the same force.

Jesus' basic problem with reli- . will be the conference's episcopal adviser on evangelization. gious authorities revolves around The quincentenary "marks a prethis ques·tion. He will be crucified for upholding the preeminence of cipitating event that created the blood hemorrhage of African huGod's law over and against the manity from which people on both human regulations emphasized by sides ofthe ocean have never recothe ecclesiastical officials of his vered," said Precious Blood Fa-, day. The Lord would certainly ther Clarence Williams of Detroit, nod approval if our church issued a rule mandating that his key chairman of the conference coorwords in today's Gospel passage dinating committee.

"Our conference will be an Af robe emblazoned, not behind, but in front of every religious authority's centric response to the invitation desk: "This people pays me lip ser- of Pope John Paul II for a 'new evangelization,' " he added. vice, but their heart is farfrom me.

Father Donald Sterling, new Empty is the reverence they do me because they teach as dogmas mere caucus president, estimated that the number of black Catholics human precepts. You disregard God's commandments and cling worldwide would exceed 200 million by the year 2000. Today there to what is human tradition!"

Jesus' enemies frequently depict are approximately 110 million Cathhim as a lawbreaker. Often he is olics in Africa, 60 million in Latin America, 20 million in the Caribguilty of the accusation, but even a quick reading of the Gospels shows bean, and 2 million in North why he was willing to risk the America, including 1,100 bishops, charge. He came to help us achieve priests, religious, deacons and seminarians.

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By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN Q. I have asked several eucharistic ministers about this and they all say it is forbidden.

A woman receives communion , ,on Saturday evening and takes hosts to give communion at a nurs"iilg home the next morning.

It's:j'nappropriate to'bring Eucharist home overriig~t should be made a ware of the situa- tionaries. What does it mean? (New tion, if of cours~ you are certain of York) what is happening.

The opportunity to receive A. "Anawim" is a Hebrew-Aracommunion from extraordinary maic word, found in the Old Tesministers of the Eucharist is an tament, which is often translated immeasurable blessing to thou- as "the poor." Its meaning, howsands of sick and homebound ever, goes beyond simply needy or people. destitute, qualities usually desigAll those participating in such nated by another word. sacramenta' programs need always The "anawim" are not only to show proper ,reverence for the ,materially deprived; they have no Eucharist and also a charitable power to defend themselves or concern for the faith and under- correct their situation, their spirit standable 'sensitivities of others in' , is nearly crushed by hopelessness the parish community. . '.and ,they are pushed to total deQ. I.have seen the, word "ana- pendence on God. Thus the word wim" several times in scriptural ~ usually carries religious overtones.

Old Testament books, of course, studies. It .isn't listed in my dic-,

After Mass she goes shopping or visits and takes the hosts home until morning; , I ani rather new in the parish and hesitate to ask the priest about it; he inight think I am finding fault with him: But it sounds strange to me. Is this allowed? (Illinois) A. I, cannot, imagin~ that the parish you speak of does not have explicit rules against this kind of procedure with the Eucharist.

Perhaps the woman'in question is not familiar with them or does not recognize the inappropriateness, at least, of what she is doing.

In any case, I believe the priest

speak of thes~, people, often, and they are the focus of many key declarations of Jesus about the kingd'om of God. They are the "meek" in the Beatitudes, the publican praying in the temple and numerous other figures who appear in the Gospel, including in many ways Jesus himself.

A free brochure answering questions Catholics ask about receiving the holy Eucharist is available by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Par~ ish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to him at the same address.

When your child sabotages your sleep By Dr. JAMES &

Single parents have a difficult substitute parent for one or more job 24 hours a day, no relief. Few nights in the week? Do you have a people can do what you'are trying sibling who might stay with you to do. Even fewer are able'to,do it- 'once in awhile and'take night call? well.

--'- "". -" Do you know other single p'arNo wonder you get angry. The'ents in the same predicament who anger comes from frustration, ;the 'might plan some joint dormitoryfeeling that you have been' p're- style sleeping-arrangements?

Second, thi'nk of things you vented from attaining a reasonable goal: sleep. might doto increase your daughYou are writing because you ter's bodily fatigue: Water play don't want to take out your anger and light physical' activity about on your daughter in yelling and one hour before bedtime 'may punishment. She too is innocent. help.' , ' , She did not ask to have only one Be careful of refined sugars and parent. She is simply making a caffeine. Restrict her sweets, soda claim on your attention, but at a and other' similar dietary offenders time when you have.littleor none at least'froin ~' p.m.' on: These' to give. foods might'keep'her awake.

I would suggest' a: three-way 'Even if'you are careful about' approach. First, can you find a exercise and diet; your daughter' 0'

MARY KENNY , Dear Dr. Kenny: My 2-year-old cries at night. I'm a single worki,ng parent. After barely making it through the day, I'm exhausted. I ,feel I need and am entitled to a good night's rest.

But my daughter wakes up crying every two or three hours, and I , have to go to her. I lose patience easily and tend to yell at her. Help me. ~Iowa

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may still be wakeful. Some people, both adults and children, have different sleep rhythms. They wake up, as does your daughter, every two or three hours. Even though it may be frustrating, this is not abnormal.

So the third approach is to accept her wakefulness, to accept that you are the one who will have to respond and to do what you can to make your response less difficult.

Can you make her bed a more "fun" place? Cuddly animals and favorite toys may help,'or a light : that she can turn on and off. You . might even arrange for music that she likes or a taped story.

She still may want her mommy, 'a very normal and understandable

desire for a 2-year-old. Get a foam rubber mattress that you can put on the floor next to your own bed: ,',.

Let he'rliedownthere in-the room: ,:,_ with you. Sing to her, stroke her, ' , until she feels safe again and dozes ., off.

The easiest solution of all is to' take her into bed with you. Child'- ' ren have slept with siblings and parents for centuries. Let her fall ' back to sleep in your ,arms.

A good night's sleep is a gift of God and necessary for the survival of single parents. Sweet (even if interrupted) dreams!

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Amazing', _ales"of'itear~death experiences ANTOINETTE BOSCO

Recently I covered a conference that tirought together people associated with the International Association for Near-Death Studies.

Most of them were either people who have had a i'near-death experience" or researchers who are probing what really happens when a person has what has come to be called an NDE. People who had an NDE prior

By DOLORES CURRAN

It is one ofthose family legends.

On her eighth birthdaY,Melanie's family took her to a nice (as oppose~ to fast food) restaurant as a sort of rite of passage.

All the children were dressed up, well-behaved and somewhat awed by the surroundings, service and string trio. At one point in the meal, however, the violinist came over, bowed to Melanie and began playing a piece which went on and on.

At first, she smiled and listel1ed

to the mid-'70s were generally told they were hallucinating or had become psychotic. It wasn't until Dr. Raymond Moody wrote his instant best seller in' 1975, "Life After Life," that any serious attention began to be given to this phenomenon.

Subsequent research by respected professionals like Dr. Kenneth Ring and Dr. Bruce Greyson, both conference leaders, furthered the discussion. What happened, said Greyson, was that the medical and scientific community began to find it increasingly difficult to ignore the NDE. He explained that "the everincreasing sophistication of biomedical advances has allowed increasing numbers of patients who otherwise would have died to be

resuscitated." More an4 more of '.. they told of "being lifted out of them gave a~counts of what they' ' body," going through a tunnel experienceda~ter they "died." toward a light that grew ever brightSo this subject, "formerly re- er. garded' as meaningless' hallucinaMany saw or felt relatives, benevtions'" has now become a field of olent spirits or even a presence "serious' study," said Greyson, a they did not hesitate to call God. psychiatrist with the University of Some said they were given instant' Connecticut and editor ofthe Jour- knowledge, like having all their nal of Near-Death Studies.' questions immediately answered, "Once thought to be rare, the realizing that all are connected to NDE is now reportei:l by' about each other and that everything one-third of people who come close 'about creation is absolutely "right" to death," said Greyson. ' , ' and absolutely "simple."

As Greyson explains it, '''the ' The dominant theme was that NDE is generally accepted to be a they felt a marvelous unconditional profound 'stibjecfive event with love. They came back to this life transcendentaJ'or mystical elements . transformed, wanting to make this that many people experience on . 'a world where everyone is accepted. the threshold of deatli."~ . Feeling no fear of death, they People at the conference who . are now absolutely in love with were "experiencers" often described 'life. similar occurren,ces. Frequently ,- John White, who was 12 several

Sometimes politely., Then she began eating and as he continued to play, moving from one side of her to another with flourishes, she ignored him.

Finally, in desperation, and just as he reached a soft and subdued part of the concerto, she blurted out pleadingly to her parents, "Make him stop."

The family has laughed over the story for years. "Make him stop" is uttered at every reunion. Melanie recalls her eight-year-old feelings vividly. "I didn't know what to do.

He just played and played and I got more and more uncomfortable. So I called on Dad to rescue me."

1 agree with Melanie. I know the old Hollywood romances always had strolling musicians who stopped and played love songs at tables but 1 hate it. Like Melanie, 1 never know how to respond.

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Should I smile and encourage continued music? Tip them to get rid of them? Pretend they aren't there?

Several years ago, in Minneapolis, my publisher took me and several of his staff to a lovely Hungarian restaurant with strolling violinists. Our conversation was stim- , ulating but we had to stop every ten minutes as the musicians passed.

At first, it was pleasant, then annoying. As we heard them approaching, we hurried to complete our conversation and as they departed, we felt collective relief.

Finally the publisher paid them off to bypass us.

Sometimes little niceties aren't so nice. After witnessing a few surprise parties, my husband and 1 have agreed never to inflict one another with one. We've seen too many unhappy guests of honor.

de,cades earlier when he hit his head while diving, called the NDE "a crash course (no pun intended) in spirituality." He had a "life review, more like a cartoon than a movie," considering his age.

But it was a "powerful, formative experience" that launched him on an "endless process" of seeking the "core truth ... to realize that God is in every aspect of our existence."

Peggy Raso remembers collapsing after childbirth in 1960 and seeing herself first in the corner of her room, then being swept along under a canopy of blue and silver rays to a light where she felt "incredible calm and peace."

She was left with a deeper belief in the eternal than ever before. "I have no fear of death. I know there's a God," she said.

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We've also agreed never to hire a singing telegram in the form of a bee, Superman or sexy siren. We sawan otherwise lovely retirement party ruined by the appearance of the latter who delivered a tasteless routine that embarrassed all present.

The hardest part of all this is that we feel required to pretend , we're enjoying it. If any of us had had the courage of our convictioJ1s, we would have stopped the show or simply moved into another room. As it was, we laughed uncomfortably and writhed inwardly like little Melanie.

Roasts, which are so popular these days, can create similar discomfort. When they're done in good fun, they can be great. But when they ar~ used to cloak insults and bring up embarrassing past

incidents, they become hurtful.

Still, we feel we must laugh.

Age helps here. 1 no longer worry about people telling me I have no sense of humor when I refuse to laugh at hurtful or tasteless jokes. I simply sit with a bored expression.

I don't like to see friends hurt or embarrassed and I don't want to be an accomplice to such behavior, even if it's being done in "good fun."

Cardinal Newman once defined a gentleman (or gentlewoman, I presume) as one who never knowingly inflicts pain on another. We live with enough pain in our daily lives. We don't need to inflict it on others for our amusement.

Must Have Little "He must have little who thinks that spirit is nothing."-St. Bernard

GERALD McRANEY, Shanna Reed (top right) and the rest of the "Major Dad" corps show that differences between people need not separate them. (CNSj CBS photo)

"Major D~d" shows love overcomes biases been'softened by family life. L~v'e has prompted ramrod straight John MacGillis to bend. A clip of, the family in which grade-schooler Casey, played by Chelsea Hertford, swiped the major's uniform hat, conveys the reality that the officer's life is no longer as militarily precise as It was.

Polly has changed, too. Within the military, once her philosophical enemy, she's found allies~ not the least of which is Gunnery Sgt. Alva Bricker, played by Beverly Archer, a more-military-tpan-theU.S.-Marines Marine. ..

No longer do the major and

Polly blindly hold fast to lheir personal opinions. They listen to each other now and have moved from maintaining a basic black or white perspective. Now they'll admit most. issues are gray. Each one has heard there's another point of view.

The ability of people with differences to work together for good runs through the New Testament.

Jesus went out of his way to make that point when he talked about the Good Samaritan. When he cited a Samaritan as a model for behavior, he knew he was highlighting good in a group that Jews saw as heretics. Samaritans didn't do things as Jews did, be it at worship or in going to Jerusalem.

In the Acts of the Apostles, Peter and Paul showed how people who differ could work for a common goal: spreading the Gospel. Indecisive, provincial Peter, from Palestine, and steadfast, cosmopolitan Paul, from the Greco. Roman world, were opposites in personality and background but got beyond disagreements to preach the Gospel effectively.

"Major Dad" also indicates how. love changes people without robbing them of their identity. Polly's bastion of feminism was not destroyed when Major MacGillis moved in. Camp Hollister's walls didn't shudder when Polly and her daughters invaded.

"Major Dad" shows the kind of love homilists preach about each weekend.

It's the love Jesus showed, the quiet kind that leads people to open up to one another. It's a love that lets an Irishman see value in his English neighbor and an AfricanAmerican reach out to the Caucasian across·the street.

Major J. D. Ma<:.Gillis was a perfectly happy no~nonsense, no'women career. officer. Polly was a fulfilled widow. Neither expected to fall in love again..

But they did, and they changed.

"Major Dad," which is a solid block in CBS's Monday night comedy lineup, has lots to commend it beyond its teachings about bias. For example, it's squeaky clean - which might make network execs pause for a moment.

The series proves that clean works.

"Major Dad," shows the ability of people to adjust and. grow, something they seem to do when they love another.

, WASHINGTON(CNS)-Love can change a heart..

That's what "Major Dad" says.

The CBS hit series, which airs Mondays, 8:30-9 p.m. Eastern time, begins its third sea~on Sept. 16.

One can expect it to continue spreading a key message: Differences between people need not separate them.

It's a religous theme. Major J.D. MacGillis, the show's career Marine played by Gerald McRaney, and his wife, liberal reporter Polly Cooper (Shanna Reed), are examples of what Jesus taught: Being open to people leads to love, and love changes people.

Theologically speaking, the program is about the redemptive power to love. It presents its theology with a wit that makes us smile.

"Major Dad's" message goes St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, passed a national certification beyond the tried-and-true theme has announced that its mammo- exam. . that opposites attract. In a world graphic imaging services have reCancer authorities recommend where sameness is valued and ceived a three-year accreditation that women without breast cancer polarization is commonplace, "Ma- from the American College of Rad- symptoms have a mammogram jor Dad" makes people aware that . iology. Accreditation was based every I to 2 years and a physical prejudices surround them but can on high standards achieved in the . breast exam every year from ages be overcome. areas of staff qualification, quality 40 to 49; after age 50, a mammocontrol, quality assurance pro- gram and physical breast exam It builds its case around the grams, image quality and equip- should be done every year. mutual suspicion that liberals, ment performance. represented by feminist Polly, and Mammogram appointments may conservatives, represented by SemThe mammography program is be made by contacting S1. Anne's per Fi MacGillis, have for one among diagnostic services St. Hospital Radiology Services, telanother.

Anne's Hospital offers as part of ephone 674-5741.

As it moves .from Major and its comprehensive community canPolly's initial cat-dog enmity for cer program, accredited by the "]I{ClU England hosl'Hality one another, "Major Dad" sug- American College of Surgeons. In With a European Flair" gests that people who share differ- addition to meeting national acing views of life can exist side by creditation criteria, St. Anne's is side, work together, even bring out recognized by the American Cancer the best in one other.

Bed C9' Brealifast Society for referral and diagnosis During the last two seasons, and the facility meets federal fans watched as the who-needs-a- requirements for Medicare reimwoman MacGillis and his bride, a bursement in mammography screen495 West falmouth H'gh,,'ay widow with three daughters, Eli- ing.

(Route 28A) r.o. Bo.t 895 zabeth, Robin and Casey, changed West Falmolllh. Ma. 02574 All St. Anne's mammography with love. technologists are registered by the Open year round The overorganized officer, who American Registry of Radiologic (508) 540·7232 once needed only the Corps, has Technologists (ARRT), having

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Priest, nun struggle to overcome brain injuries Persons who suffer head trauma in accidents often face a long and arduous recovery requiring extensive therapy to regain lost abilities.

While such therapies have been greatly advanced injust the past decade, the recovery process remains slow and painstaking, requiring great determination and dedication on the part of both patient and therapist.

Sister Mary Dominic Thattil, OP, of Dighton, and Father Thomas F. Motherway, a Boston archdiocesan priest, both suffered brain injuries as a result of car accidents and are undergoing ..ehabilitation at facilities in the diocese.

Sister Thattil's therapist, Tammy DeFero of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, comments that the nun's "struggle with brain injury has given her a wonderful perspective on the struggle of the poor," whom Sister Thattil helps by being it friend to clients of a Fall River soup kitchen.

John Webber, spokesman of the New Medico South Bay Community Reentry Service in Hyannis where Father Motherway is continuing his now five-year-Iong recovery process, said the priest's "determination and perseverance continue to impress his therapists" as he works to obtain new vocational skills and concelebrates Sunday Mass at Our Lady of Victory parish, Centerville.

Profiles of Sister Thattil and Father Motherway follow, the former by Marcie Hickey and the latter based on information from John Webber.

Thattil is ready to return when it reopens.

Unable to assist with cooking or serving meals, she provides spiritual rather than physical nourishJust two years ago, while walk- ment to the kitchen's clients.

Her job is simply to be a friend ing with a fellow sister on the quiet country road outside their Dighton to those who need one.

"I meet people and make provincial house, Dominican Sister of the Presentation Mary friends," she said. "If anyone has a Dominic Thattil was seriously problem, they can talk to me. I injured when struck by a car. Her have people come to me crying; cO;''lpanion escaped with minor they really open up. They appreinjul :es, but Sister Thattil remained ciate having someone to talk to."

A great admirer of Mother In a coma for seven weeks and since that time, with the aid of a Teresa of Calcutta, Sister Thattil rigorous occupational and physi- . often quotes the famed ally of the cal therapy program, has been路 world's impoverished.

"She speaks of the 'moral povrecovering from brain injuries.

She is now able to walk with the erty' of people not being loved or assistance of a walker or cline, and cared for," said Sister Thattil. her therapist, Tammy DeFero of "People need someone who listens St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, to them and makes them feel like has initiated "community reen~ry" they count."

Although she still has limited activities that include working at a mobility on her right- side, Sister Fall River soup kitchen and taking Thattil focuses not on her limitaa college course. tions but on what she can do.

Born in India, Sister Thattil, 42, After the seven-week coma, "No spent her years of religious forma- one would have thought 1 would tion in the United States and earned make it this far," she said. a nursing degree at UMass DartAt first she could do nothing for mouth. She returned to her native; herself, but now "I am able to do country in 1975, .then came back to all my self-care - dressing, combDighton in1986. ing my hair.....

A nurse at St. Anne's Hospital Her speech, slurred after the and a frequent visitor to homeless accident. is becoming clearer. shelters before her accident, Sister Overall, "I notice improvement Thattil was eager to return to work day by day," she said. among the needy.

Her recovery is also evident in "I wanted to be with people - I the classroom: she is completing a missed that," she said. course in ancient history at Bristol She immediately took to 'the Community College - "just to suggestion of St. Anne's Sister know how much 1 can do" and Kathy Murphy that she become doing very well in it. involved with the Fall River She neatly types her assignments, Community Soup Kitchen, run by using only her left hand. several Fall River churches at three She said it is "by the grace of locations in the city.

God" that she has made such proBeginning last September, she gress and especially that she is able worked weekly at the soup kit- to work in the soup kitchen.

Besides fulfilling the need of chen's Church of the Ascension site on Rock Street. It is now others to be cared for, that job closed for the summer but Sister me~ts "my need to be with people," she said.

It has meant so much to her that she wrote a letter about her experiences to members of her community for the Aug. 8 feast of their patron, St. Dominic, whom, Sister Thattil says, was another who saw the need to "respond to that 'moral poverty.' " She writes: "In the face of the poor. and hungry. we see the features of Christ reflected.....

These words ofMother Teresa of Calcutta become very relevant to put into words my experience in the soup kitchen every Monday for the lastfew months. An average of 200 people come to eat. On their faces there is gratitude for the food they find. They are happy for the companionship they discover in one another. They need to tell their personal stories and Hickey photo they are happy that there is SISTER MARY DOMINIC someone to listen.

Their stories are about THATTIL,OP

The struggle to survive

their struggle to survive.

There is trust and humility reflected in their faces when they tell their stories. Some express theirfeelings ofbeing useless to the state and to society. Some feel that they are nobody and very few people bother to say "hello. .. . Jean Vanier. who works with the handicapped, wrote in his book. Eruption to Hope: ...... the moment one becomes useless in a materialistic society. it is difficult for one to live with hope. So one gift we can give to the other is to make one feel useful... " A statement of deep human sensitivity and compassion ofa man who left everything路 and embraced the life' with the handicapped whom society considers useless!

One person in the soup kitchen stated that he worked all his life. and brought up his children. and now the money he receives is not enough for the rent of his apartment and food. So he comes to the soup kitchen.

Another expressed his pain... he had lost his job and is homeless. One can see the present economy has brought many to becomehomeless and has brought them to the soup kitchen. There is much pain: one expressed that the distance between the rich and the poor is widening: the rich get richer. and the poor get poorer and become bitter and violent.

Mahatma Gandhi in his book "Searchfor Truth "recorded that humanity is on the verge ofa bloody and violent revolution, unless the rich and powerful are lV;llil1g to .sflare and use their wealth' and powerfor the building ofan equal human family.

Thanks to the volunteers who give their time "to care. ..

Thanks to the generosity of the ones who' give donations to feed the hungry. .All this creates a network of charity... which lives the words of Christ: .. When I was hungry you gave me to eat... ..

From the above reflections. we can see that people are not hungry for bread alone but have a moral hunger experienced in not feeling needed or loved. I would like to conclude this reflection by the words of Mother Teresa: "To love God and neighbor. we don't have to do extraordinary things. But how much love we put in all that we are capable ofdoing make it a beautiful gift to God and neighbor... .. These are old words of spiritual wisdom but worth reflecting upon when we work with people.

F ATHER THOMAS Motherway distributes communion to a nursing home resident.

The long road to recovery On Feb. 17, 1985, Father Thomas F. Motherway of St. Margaret's parish, Dorchester, was returning home when a truck steered by a drunk driver crossed the median and struck his car head on.

The priest was trapped under the dashboard of his car for 45 minutes before being rescued. He was taken to Lynn Hospital and later transferred to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he remained for eight months.

It was the beginning of a long , recovery from head injuries which has taken the 49-year-old priest through further treatment at New England Sinai Hospital, the New Medico Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center at Lewis Bay in Hyannis, and most recently to the New Medico South Bay Community Reentry Service in Hyannis, where he has been receiving intensive brain injury rehabilitation.

He spent 13 months at the Lewis Bay facility before becoming an outpatient at New Medico South Bay in April. He now lives in West Yarmouth with his mother, Martha Motherway, a parishioner at St. Pius X Church, South Yar~ mouth.

His brain injury has left Father Motherway weak on his left side.

Therapists at the New Medico South Bay facility have developed a treatment plan that includes physical, occupational and cognitive therapies, counseling and vocational training.

Physical impairments have made it difficult for Father Motherway to walk, and the physical therapy program aims to improve his strength and mobility.

His cognitive therapist has helped him improve his organization, reading, writing and problemsolving skills, and he is working with a vocational counselor to develop new abilities, including computer skills.

In addition to the brain injury, Father Motherway lost his left eye

in the accident, and his occupational therapist has worked with him on perceptual retraining and daily living skills. He also receives psychological counseling to help him adapt to some of the changes in his life.

Thanks to trauma and medic~L technology, explaIned New Medico spokesperson John Webber, more people than ever are surviving head injuries like Father Motherway's, injuries that IO years ago would have been fatal. But among those lucky enough to survive, 70,000 to 90,000 annually will sustain some lifetime disability.

A brain injury can be particularly frightening, said Webber, because of the range of abilities that can be affected. Even a.mild head injury can have serious repercussions, causing physical impairment, memory deficits and personality changes.

Father Motherway credits the support he has received from family and friends for helping him through his recovery.

"I want to thank [Boston archdiocesan vice chancellor) Father Frederick Ryan, Cardinal Law and especially my mother for 1iI1 they have done," he said. "Most of all I want to thank tbe parishioners.

Without their prayers I wouldn't have made it."

Born in'Newton, Father Motherway graduated from Boston路 College in 1964 before entering St. John's Seminary. He was ordained May 21, 1969, and served in two parishes before he was assigned to St. Margaret's.

For the past three years he has been a regular concelebrant of the noon Sunday Mass at Our Lady of Victory parish, Centerville, and he distributes communion to residents at Windsor nursing home in South Yarmouth..

New Medico South Bay is part of a brain rehabilitation network with more than 35 facilities in the country.

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Thoughts on protecting ,our fragile planet The following article is drawn from a seminar on Spirituality for Adults presented this summer in St. Joseph's parish, Woods Hole,

by Father William W. Norton, pastor.

Cape Cod is a special place, a unique part of God's creation. One can see whales off Provincetown and hundreds of species of fish swim in the Cape waters. Its beaches welcome thousands each summer.

But its birds, bees, wild flowers and plants, salt marshes, cranberry bogs, fresh and salt ponds and estuaries are sadly threatened by man's callousness and worse, by his indifference to pollution and other environmental dangers. Why? Rene Dubos in a book entitled "The Wooing Earth," states, "When . the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment convened in Stockholm in 1,972 the main themes were expressed i,n phrases such as 'pollution is making the earth unsuited to life; rivers and lakes are dying; deserts are on the' march; many national resources are being depleted.'''

This pessimistic view of the world's condition reflected an awareness on the part of the general public that human activities are causing extensive environmental damage all over Earth.

Deforestation, erosion and salination are lowering agricultural productivity in many areas. Chemicals are pollutina the environment with deleterious effects on all forms of life. Human activities waste Earth's resources and contribute to the extinction of many species of plants and animals.

Facts to ponder: Each American throws away at least 3.5 pounds of garbage per day, totaling 150 million tons per year. The amount of trash grew by 60 percent between 1960 and 1986.

Some critics say that by the year

2000 we will throwaway six pounds per day. _ About five percent of our trash is recycled and another 10 percent is burned but the bulk goes into our estimated 6,000 landfills around the country. Unfortunately, these landfills are filling up at a rate of 600 per year, almost faster than we can build new ones. Even if there were room for all our trash, many landfills contain toxic chemicals that can contaminate the groundwater that half of all Americans rely on for drinking.

Americans dump 16 tons 'of sewage sludge into rivers, streams and the ocean every minute - a total of8.5 million tons every year.

Industry adds another 9.5 million tons of waste.

Six out of every 10 or 146 million Americans live in areas that do not meet federal clean air standards. The EPA has identified 320 toxic chemicals in the air - 60 of which are known to cause cancer.

The bulk ofthe 2.4 billion pounds of toxins released every year comes from our daily activities. Some 40' percent ofthe hydrocarbons found in smog and acid rain come from autos, trucks, boats and planes.

Air pollution also comes from dry cleaning solvents, power mowers, oil-based paints and varnishes, charcoal lighters and the multitude of other products we use every day in our homes.

Acid rain is an immense threat to our environment. It corrodes metals' and eats a way granite and other stone building materials. A 1985 EPA study found annual damages from acid rain amounted to $5 billion to houses and structures in a 17-state.area alone, not including damage to grave markers and historic and cultural landmarks. '.

Acid rain weakens trees, making them highly vulnerable to bac-

terial, viral and fungal infections.

It kills fish.

In 1988,3,000 lakes and 23,000 miles of streams in the eastern United States were found to be exceptionally vulnerable to slight increases in acidity or already barren.

Ice floes at the north and south poles are melting.

The source of this global warming is the greenhouse effect, caused when certain atmospheric gases trap heat that would normally be radiated into space. Carbon dioxide accounts for about 60 percent of global warming. It 'has increased in the atmosphere by 25 percent since the industrial revolution and is expected to double by the middie of the next century.

Some scientists believe that global warming may eventually cause the level of the oceans to rise as much as 15 feet, inundating large portions of the American coastline and destroying coastal wetlands that now serve as breeding grounds for much of the ocean's animal life.

Weather patterns will change, with monsoons becoming more frequent and powerful on the Indian subcontinent and the average U.S. rainfall decreasing, while the strength of hurricanes increases.

Depletion of the ozone layer presents another danger. This is a wispy layer of gas in the upper reaches of the atmosphere that as presently constituted screens out virtually all the damaging ultraviolet radiation of the sun. However, chlorofluorocarbons, manmade chemicals used in air conditioners and refrigerators, for electronic cleaning equipment and the making of foam insulation, are slowly destroying this protective shield. The EPA predicts an increase of 150 million cases of skin

cancer in the U.S. over the next 80 years if ozone depletion continues.

Increased ultraviolet radiation would also reduce agricultural productivity by giving all vegetation the botanical equivalent of a bad sunburn. It would also kill microorganisms at the surface of the ocean, thereby decimating marine food chains important to mankind.

EPA administrator William K. Reilly, a classmate and personal friend, recently testified before a House of Represent~tivessubcommittee that "there is a growing recognition that traditional approaches which stress treatment and disposal of wastes after pollution has been generated have not adequately dealt with existing environmental problems. Nor will they provide an adequate basis for dealing with emerging problems such as global warming, acid rain and stratospheric ozone depletion."

EP A believes that further improvements in environmental quality will be best achieved by preventing generation of pollutants by eliminating or reducing them at their source and encouraging environmentally safe recycling of those' which cannot be eliminated. Controlling pollution is not enough: we will be environmentally and economically better off when pollution is prevented from occuring in the first place. EPA's mandate in its broadcast definition is to reduce risk and to protect human health and the entire ecology.

"I believe" says Reilly, "that pollution prevention along with environmentally safe recycling can and will serve as the primary means of fulfilling the EPA's mandate."

Three points for each of us to heed: , I) Only prevention 'can deal successfully with pollutants at their origin.

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FATHER NORTON 2) Little or 'no effort has been made to ask why we are in the grip of a massive environmental crisis.

3) The answer is not simple.

Yes, we might control the symptoms, but the more insightful question must be addressed: not control of pollutants but what causes them in the first place.

All these adult seminars have required the pondering of two questions: I) Am I responsible for myself, my neighbor and my world?

2) Will I continue to improve all these important areas so that I will help to build a City of God and a City of Neighbor?

God's wonderful plan in the book of Genesis calls man to be the steward of creation. Man is the highest point of that creation and God looks to us to care for the world that he so loved and to give our full attention to making it better.

Wichita 'bishop says abortion, not civil disobedience, is real madness WICHITA, Kan. ~CNS) - The real madness is abortion on demand, not the civil disobedience of Operation Rescue, Wichita Bishop Eugene Gerber told an estimated 25,000 people in Wichita Sunday.

He was one of several speakers at a rally at Wichita State University on the 42nd day of Operation Rescue efforts to stop abortions in Wichita.

Civil disobedience is not "an integral part of the Catholic Church's plan to restore the right to life for unborn children," but it is not madness, Bishop Gerber

said, alluding to comments earlier pie in this city who ought t<.> rein the month by a federal judge. cspond, it's him."

"The real madness is legalized The main speaker at the rally, abortion on demand," Bishop TV evangelist Pat Robertson, urged Gerber said. "The real madness is the abortion foes to continue the singling out disabled unborn chil- Wichita campaign and to impeach dren for killing."

Kelly. The rally came as Operation路 U.S. District Judge Patrick F. Rescue's "Summer of Mercy" in Kelly, who has jailed protesters for Wichita stretched into its seventh violating his order not to block week. clinics, had criticized Bishop GerBishop Gerber said a democratic ber in court for not encouraging system depends upon recognizing people to obey the law. the rights of all, especially the "I hear nothing from this bishop weakest and neediest. saying, 'Stop this madness,' " said "A democratic system is true,to Kelly, a Catholic. "Of all the peo- itself only if it defends human life against every action that threatens it and supports every endeavor that promotes or sustains human life at every moment of its existence," he said.

On Aug. 24, about 6,000 abortion rights activists staged their own rally on the banks of the Arkansas River, drawing many national feminist leaders.

Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League, said that despite the massive publicity the Wichita protests have brought Operation Rescue, public opinion has turned against the group. A local poll by the Wichita Eagle showed more than two-thirds of residents oppose Operation ResWICHITA, KAN., Bishop Eugene J. Gerber, right, and cue's tactics. clergy members pray outside an abortion clinic earlier this As of Aug. 26, there had been month in conjunction with Operation Rescue's "Summer of more than 2,600 arrests, mostly Mercy" campaign. (eNS photo) for trespassing at two targeted

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clinics. Most of the protesters had been picked up more than once, with police estimating about 1,400 individuals, many from out of town, had been arrested.

Operation Rescue is a nonsectarian national group that seeks to stop abortions by blocking access to clinics where abortions

are performed and conducting "sidewalk counseling," in an effort to convince patients of the clinics not to abort their pregnancies.

National Operation Rescue leaders had said they planned to leave Wichita after the Aug. 25 rally, but local organizers were continuing the protests outside clinics.

Jesuit provincial says U.S. footdrags ,on 1989 slayings SAN SALVADOR (CNS) The Jesuit provincial for Central America has accused the U.S. State Department of obstructing a probe into the 1989 slaying of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter in EI Salvador.

Father Jose Maria Tojeira said legal representatives of the Jesuits had been denied access to a special hearing on the case to be held in the United States.

At the hearing, former staff members at the U.S. Embassy will answer questions about the killings sent to them by Salvadoran Judge Ricardo Zamora, who is investigating the case, "The State Department is seriously hindering the case [by] preventing ... [the embassy staff members] from replying to questions or cross-examination that our representatives might carry out," Father Tojeira tol~ a press conference.

A State Department official denied the charge.

The six priests, their housekeeper and her 15-year-old daughter were killed before dawn Nov. 16, 1989, on the campus of the Jesuit-run: Central American University during a leftist offensive in San Salvador.

An army colonel, three lieutenants and five enlisted men have been charged with the shootings.

The case is expected to go to trial late this year.

Father Tojeira said the Jesuits' representatives in the United States, the Lawyers' Committee on Human, Rights, had been told by a State Department official that they could not attend the hearing to ask followup questions of the IOU.S. citizens slated to testify.

"If those people talked, it would help us follow the path of seeking out" the people who planned the ,slayings, Father Tojeira said.

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GOLDEN CLASS: Brother Berchmans, esc, of Sherman Oaks, Calif. (second row, fifth left) was the guest ofthe Msgr. Coyle High School Class of 1941 when they celebrated their,goldc::n anniver~ary at White's of Westport recently. The former Coyle teacher is o1.>serving his 60th year as a brother of the Holy Cross. Coyle classmates attending included Fathers John Driscoll, pastor of S1. Lawrence Parish, New Bedford; Louis 'Boivin, pastor of S1.

Theresa parish, South Attleboro; and the man who came the farthest, Father' Thomas W. Connolly, pastor of S1. Martin p~ri,sh, Emery, South Dakota.

Pictured at reunion, from le{t.toprow: , , ',' ,: " Jim HollanQ, AI'Shovelton, Jim Blount, Tom Burns, Bob DO,herty, Gordon Sylvia, Alice Sylvia, John Lynch, ,Emma,anddoe Murray,.l,-ouis Ouellette,..John Bosquin. ,

Third: Jim Hart, Terry Holland, Mrs. Hart, Father Driscoll, Joan Shovelton, Ed and Barbara Laughlin, Rita Blount, Betty Burns, Miriam Lynch, Joan Doherty, Mr. and Mrs. James Whalon, Natalie and Gaston S1. Denis, Gay Ouellette, Louise and Edward Steinhoff. ' Second: Rita and Charles Coyle, Father Boivin, Johnny Trucchi, Brother Berchmans, Tom "imd Virginia Murphy, Bill Cahill, Jim Curley, Roger Jackson.

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Labor 'Day thQug~ts ,

Labor Day means different things to different people.

For kids, it's the end of the long hot summer, the last day of the great 'State Fair, the final fling before school bells toll the end of vacation.

For my wife, it brings back a real labor day, one she spent giv: ing birth to our son Charlie. The delivery seemed extra long, she explains, because daylight savings ended that day, and the midnight hour was repeated.

For me, it's a salute to union, or organized, labor. It's a day to pay tribute to' the men and women who organized unions to fight for just wages, safe working conditions and a ~hare in the fruit of their labors.

Labor Day 1991 should be extra special, because it comes during the centennial of Pope Leo XIII's remarkable encyclical, Rerum Novarum. It is rightly called the Magna Carta of Catholic social teaching.

The papal letter put the Church on the cutting edge of justice for the worker at a time when power and profit were the primary goals of the industrial leaders' of the world. It would be foolish, however, to claim li.:'t the papal letter had instant impo:cl Leo XIII spoke out again.st the , growing tide of Marxism and socialism, declaring "No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true socialist." But it took almost 100 years for communism to collapse.

In 1931, another pope, Pius XI, issued Quadragesimo Anno ("Forty Years After"), recalling Rerum Novarum and adding his voice to

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the defense of the working chiss, property rights and profit sharing.

Both encyclicals set the church on a social justice path that continues to this day. In the United States, where workers were struggling to form unions during a Great Depression, the encyclicals played a powerful role.

Catholic Labor Schools were launched in many parts' of the nation. One of the first began' in Minneapolis, MN, in 1935. Suspended during World War II, they came back in 1946 for a few more years.

Held evenings in inner city Catholic schools, they taught路 Catholic union members (and a' few from other faiths) the basics of Catholic social thought, labor law, economics and nuts-and-holts techniques like parliamentary law.

The man who organized and directed the labor schools in the Sl. Paull Minneapolis archdiocese is 93 now, but Msgr. Francis J. Gilligan, a' Fall River native, remembers them. Catholic lawyers, labor leaders and seminary priest~ taught the courses.

Msgr. Edward Grzeskowiak, another "labor priest," as those involved were called, is' retired now, but he taught in the schools and served as librarian. He remembers how it was.

Union members came to learn how to handle labor disputes and "to have the courage to act," he said. Because many locals had been hit by employer violence, Msgr. Grzeskowiak said, "one guy wanted to know when it was permissable to use a baseball bal."

My memory of the few labor school classes I attended is dim,

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but'I found them very valuable.

Besides discovering Catholic social teaching, I learned something else.

That was how to beat communists at their own game.

The followers of Marx, Lenin and Stalin were on a campaign to win over the world, and unions were their primary .target. They were unbelievably successful in the United States because of the Depression.

Minnesota was a target state, and the battle was dirty and desperate. My union, the American Newspaper Guild, was in the middle of the fight, and I was a mimeograph grinder in the successful campaign to evict the Reds.

All too many people today believe the battle was a figment of our imagination - that we were seeing Reds under every bed. For years I carried in my billfold a clipping of an interview with William Z. Foster, perennial'communist candidate for the U.S. presidency.

"We lost the United States," he told a Labor Press journalist in Moscow, "when we' lost the unions."

Every Labor Day I remember what Foster said. I recall my small role in that worldwide struggle.

And I thank God for the opportunity of putting Catholic social teaching into action.

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Peter when she was a graduate as one of the best examples of THE ANCHOR-Diocese ot Fall River~Fri., Aug. 30, 1991 student at Catholic University and Catholic-Protestant theological when she returned to the univer- consultation anywhere in the world, sity as holder of the Catholic , has broken new ground in CathoDaughters of Ametica chair in lic-Lutheran understanding on a wide range of issues traditionally American church history.

Jesuit Father William J. Byron, regarded as dividing the two faith SinCe 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union, the number of churches there has grown by more than 50 president of Catholic University, communities. percent. Currently, there are 52.4 million Orthodox called Father Peter "a world-class In 1984, as a theological consulbelievers and about 12 million Catholics. theologian" and an "exemplary" tant to the bishops' ecumenism committee, he was chief writer for teacher.

Father Byron was to be chief a special bishops' committee draftRussi'an celebrant and homilist at a univer- ing the U.S. bishops' formal eva~ 11,118 6,806 Orthodox sity memorial Mass for Father luation of the Final Report of the Peter Sept. 3 in the crypt church of first Anglican-Roman Catholic 1,385 1,068 Catholic the Basilica of the National Shrine International Commission: ' 1,103 392 Muslim of the Immaculate Conception.

The highly nuanced evaluation Cardinal James A. Hickey-of was generally encouraging and 106 91 Jewish Washington, the university's chan- optimistic and, included construc-' cellor, called him "a theologian of tive suggestions at points' where'it' 2,537 2,84~ Baptist truly international stature" who criticized the report. It suggested Seventh-day "contributed greatly to the work that the Vatican eventually con-' Adventist 342 457 of ecumenism" and whose advice voke a synod of 'bishops; with Source: Soviet government ligures. published,ln was frequently sought by the Holy Anglican input, to consider AngliL'Osservatore Romano (Vatican newspaper) can-Catholic reunion. The nation's See. Shortly before Father Peter's bishops adopted the report unanideath the Vatican's Council for mously. , Promoting Christian Unity appoint,- , Carl J. Peter, was born,in..omaha ed him to a special international April 4, 193~. After studi~s .at:~he--The Vatican said Aug. 26 it :Contiillied from 'Page-One' panel of scholars to reexamine the North Amen~an Colle~e m Rom,e "He'visited the pope twice at the would study "as soon as possible" 16th-century condemnations by he was ordamed a pnest of,.the: : Vatican in 1989'and 1990. how to reactivate its diplomatic Catholics and Lutherans of each Omaha Archdiocese July 14,1957.. missions in Lithuania and other P J' h P i t G b h ope 0 n au sen or ac ev . db", F at her P eter .IS survive other's teachings. y two., 't I 'A" 23' h' h h Baltic states. '· F h P a ' e egram ug. ' m w IC e He was particularly well known brot hers an d a sister.

Ukrainian-rite Cardinal Myrosat er eter h' k 'd G .d f th'" 't'Ive ou tin Lutheran circles because of his of Boys T own,. D r. J ames B. P eter, ' t an e f th0 d" or t'e POSI lav Lubachivsky of Lvov, in an t' I'" . . come 0 e rama IC na. involvement since 1972 in the offi- president and chairman of Spe-, ' " ' .' , " '.

Aug. 24 statement, threw Ukraincial Catholic~Lutheran theological cialty labs in Los Angeles; and ",' I wish that you can ,cont.m~e ian Catholic support behind the the tre?1~ndous wO,rk of matenal Ukrainian parliament's declaration dialogue in the United States, and Mary Anne Hohman of Arling~ and spmtual ~enew~1 o!, the peo- independence, issued earlier that he was often invited to speak to ton, Va., development officer 'at Georgetown University in WashingpIes of the SOVI~t Umon, the pope day, Lutheran a'udiences. a~ded.

That dialogue, widely regarded ton.

Irina Ratushinskaya, a Soviet Yeltsin, in contrast, has never ,dissident once jailed for writing ,,conferred·at fength with the pope religious poetry but now living in , or 9t~c;r top Y!ltic~n officials., An, ,exile in London, said the restive earlier- tr~p to Rome by Yeltsin was republi<;s "are going to demand for a senior citizen discount.

FurStonehill College, North Easton will- present a symposium, "Pearl ther information on the senior canceled because of a Soviet p~l,it- serious, changes, demand mo~ . ~p'ower. I wish t~em luck."

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Father Peter Continued from Page One Catholic-Lutheran Bilateral Ecumen.i~a' ,~_(ms_ultati9n.in the United States.

He said his brother believed that if Catholics "knew more of the his'tory that is distinctly theirs as Catholics and more of the history they share with ~ther Christians, two desirable results might follow: There might well be a greater number ofdedicated Catholic ecumenists and a slightly less po~ar,­ ized Catholic Church."

"Carl's work on the International Theological Commission wase!1or:mously important. In' addition, I cannot begin to name all the bishops and cardinals who turned ,to him for advice, Carl never, divulged those matters. He did not hold press conferences and did not appear on talk shows. That would have been unprofessional."

Father Peter praised his orother' , for not being blinded by ambition.

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ALBANIAN REFUGEES jam the docks at Dari Harb~r jn southern Italy earlier this month after fleeing their homeland on an overloaded freighter. Since the collapse of East bloc communist regimes and onset of turmoil in Albania and Yugoslavia, the influx of Eastern Europeans seeking better lives has put a strain on their Western European neighbors. In September the Vatican will host an international congress addressing the human problems of migration. (eNS photo)

No room in Europe's "common house?"

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Is the future of Europe that of a "common house" for a family.of nations, as Pope John Paul II has said, or a locked fortress designed to keep the huddled masses out?

The two visions clashed this summer in Italy and elsewhere on the continent, and church leaders are among those trying to deal with the moral and ethical fallout.

In recent decades, most ofthose knocking on Europe's door have come from Third World countries.

But after the collapse of communist regimes last year, large groups of East Europeans headed West toward economic opportunity and a freer lifestyle.

European borders are officially closed, but the clandestine influx has continued, causing new strains between the continent's richer and poorer cousins. It is perhaps the most serious complication of Eastern Europe's political liberation.

For the church, it is also a moral challenge, testing the solidarity of the "haves" toward the "have-nots."

For that reason, some church leaders see migration as the leading issue of the coming decade, not only in Europe but throughout the world.

As German Bishop.Josef Voss stated recently, the church must impress on its own faithful that welcoming refugees is part of the "Christian duty imposed on them by the Gospel." In particular, he added, countries must not be allowed to mistreat refugees in order to deter others from coming.

In the view of many church officials, that is exactly what happened on ItalY's Adriatic coast iI) August, when more than 15,000 would-be refugees from Albania washed up one day and were treated like escaped 路prisoners. Widely covered on state television, the episode illustrated -both the desperation ofthe continent's poorest and the alarm ofthe Iatlian government, which deliberately slammed the door - loudly路- on the new arrivals.

After corralling the Albanians on hot docks and in a soccer stadium for more than a day without adequate food and water, Italy began forced repatriations. A group

of holdouts were apparently duped into believing they could stay, but were whisked back to their homeland in the middle ofthe night two weeks later.

Among those disturbed by the handling of the incursion were members of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Tourists, a Vatican agency whose role and stature have grown in recent years.

At the council's office in down- . town Rome, Father Loreto De Paolis said the church recognizes that there's a limit to the number of new arrivals Western Europe can host. But in the case of the Albanians, he said, Italy acted with "trickery and force," and "not according to the criteria ofjustice."

Rather than close the door completely, he said, Italy could have made a small sacrifice - for example, agreeing to accept 1,000 Albanians a month for a two-year period.

Father De Paolis cited one major contradiction in Europe's policies toward immigrants: that while borders are legally closed, local economies still depend on clandestine workers who make their way into the country. .

Despite the awakening of a fortress mentality in parts of Europe, the immigrant population is expected to keep increasing. As Father De Paolis noted, the Soviet Union is currently preparing a law that would liberalize borders later this year, and there are said to be 10 million Soviets ready to leave.

To address these issues, thepontifical council is sponsoring a major international congress in late September at the Vatican, on the theme "Solidarity in Favor of New Migrations." The meeting will focus on the human problems of migration from Eastern Europe, as well as on other continents.

Migration is expected to be an issue at the European Synod of Bishops路this fall at the Vatican, too.

In its approach to migrants and refugees, the church stresses human dignity. German Bishop Voss, an auxiliary bishop in Munster, made the following observations in a recent report on the massive influx into Germany: - Emigration is not merely an

VATICAj\," CITY(CNS)- Pope John Paul II, warning that all-out civil war appeared imminent in Yugoslavia, appealed to the country's president to push for a negotiated peace and a political dialogue with secessionist republics.

At the same time, the pope urged the European Community to do everything in its power to stop the fighting between Croatian and Serbian forces.

The pope's twin appeals this week came as Yugoslavian army troops joined Serbian guerrillas in launching a major assault on a key Croatian town. The battle marked a wider participation of the federal government in the fighting, which began in May. "The news arriving from Croatia is increasingly worrisome and leads one to fear that a generalized civil war is imminent. In these dramatic moments I am especially close to those who suffer, above all the families of the victims of this sad conflict," the pope said in his telegram to Yugoslavian President Stjepan Mesic, a Croat.

Those responsible for Yugoslavian political institutions, the pope said, should "urgently create new conditions for an honest political dialogue among all sides." He said it was more necessary than ever that individual republics respect the provisions of the Helsinki accords on human rights and on the principle of self-determination.

In a telegram signed by the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the pope thanked European foreign ministers for their attempts to halt the civil strife in Yugoslavia, but said the worsened situation calls for further diplomatic efforts.

The pope and other Vatican officials have avoided taking sides in the Yugoslavian dispute, but their statements have emphasized the legitimate right of self-deter.mination, which Croatians see as the basis of their struggle.

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economic phenomenon. People who pick up and leave have usually been through a process of "social disintegration" and also may have legitimate fears about human rights.

- The West has a duty to aid the economic development of migration source-spots. (Italy, it should be noted, rushed to announce aid programs to Albania after sending back its refugees.)

- The blurring of the distinction between refugee and immigrant, and the evaporation of the category of"politically persecuted," has led to confusion in the way countries deal with new arrivals.

- Growing ethnic tensions in 'places like Yugoslavia are adding to the pressures that force people to move.

- In many cases, the search for jobs and housing leads migrant families to split up, increasing the emotional strains.

- The demands placed on host towns and cities, especially in the area of hou,sing, is causing local resentment and bringing the danger LOS ANGELES(CNS)- Cardof social unrest. inal Roger M. Mahony's commen- Schools, church-run and . tarY'on Pope John Paul II's latest otherwise, are struggling to cope . encyclical, "Centesimus Annus," with the challenge of teaching vast made the front page of L'Osservanew groups who belong to differ- tore Romano, the Vatican newsent cultures and speak different paper. languages. ' "The Holy Father roots Catholic - Integration of immigrant social ,teaching in divine revelagroups is a long-term task but tion" in "Centesimus Annus," said should not be rushed. Pastorally, Cardinal Mahony. this means Christian immigrant The p'ope also "stresses that the groups should be able to continue church's social teaching is itself an with their own traditions and pre- instrument of evangelization. Finserve their religious identity - but ally, he once again makes a strong without.withdrawing into isolation. appeal for interreligious cooperGermany, which allows the legal ation."

Cardinal Mahony's Italian-lanentry of ethnic Germans, is currently trying to settle more than a guage' commentary appeared in million internal and 'external mi- the July 30 edition of L'Osservagrants, mostly from Poland, the tore Romano, "Societies -which bind their peoSoviet Union, Hungary and Romania. The overflow is being ple to power blocs, to colonialism housed in gyms, huts and even shipping containers.

The German church has led the way in exploring the human aspects of the drama, and its experts are likely to have much to say during this fall's Vatican meetings. The danger perceived by church leaders is that the welcome mat to Europe's "common house" may be quickly wearing out.

in Yugoslavia last year, Croatia and other republics had wanted the country to become an alliance of sovereign states. The Serbiandominated central government resisted, and Croatia and Slovenia seceded in June.

Most of the fighting has been in Croatia, where the sizable Serbian minority is struggling to keep its ethnic territories part of Yugoslavia. The Serbian rebels were said to control up to one-third of Croatian territory in late August.

Meanwhile, Yugoslavian Catholic and Orthodox leaders issued their own joint appeal for peace and self-determination. .Cardinal Franjo Kuharic of Zagreb and Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Pavle met Aug. 24 in Slavonski Brod, midway between the capitals of Croatia and Serbia..

They were accompanied by other bishops in the strife-torn region, Vatican Radio reported.

"We wish to humbly demonstrate before all people that we believe in peace, in justice and in God who promises peace to those who return. to -him with all their heart," the ca"rdinal and the patriarch said in a joint communique.

"No one can remain deaf to the need for a cease-fire and for the start of Honest negotiations," they路 said.

"The concrete political solutions of the crisis depend on the free political choice of peoples," the statement said. It called the right to self-determination an "inviolable Christian and human right of every people."

The religious leaders also condemned all attempts to turn back the process of political reform in Yugoslavia after a half-century of communism.

Croatia is heavily Catholic, while the majority of the population in Serbia is Orthodox. Despite a history of poor relations, the Catholic 'and Orthodox hierarchies in Yugoslavia have made a strong effort during the current fighting to take a common stand for peace.

Cardinal Mahony commentary makes page one of L'Osservatore Romano of any kind, to an emphasis on economic development without social and human development, to exaggerated nationalism and crippling arms races frustrate and restrict the Christian vision of society and reduce the dignity and rights of their citizens," the cardinal said.

"The ordering of nations and the restructuring of societies has been attempted by power politics, by military and trade wars, even by the imposition of various phil-" osophies of man-in-society,~' Cardinal Mahony said. "But these have all failed."

"Centesimus Annus," he said, "points to an ordering of society in accord with a theology of grace and the vision and values of the kingdom of God." The encyclical"brings to a close a century which has seen the development of a growing body of social teaching formulated by the paparmagisterium," Cardinal Mahony said.

"Hopefully, the next century will see more cooperation" between churches and religious traditions in safeguarding the dignity of the human person and in searching for the justice and peace for which so many long."

The Anchor Friday, Aug. 30, 1991

Mission worker . Continued from Page One idea of being a missionary "kept creeping up. So I started checking up on missionary religious orders when I'd get a passion to do it."

Then her pastor at Holy Ghost suggested the Scalibrinis, who run a retreat in Chicago for persons interested in mission work.

Spending 10 days in the "home missions" on the south side of Chicago, said Rayleen, "It hit me like a ton of bricks that there are people here [in the United States] who need to be served. Yet I felt God was still calling me to go to Mexico and learn how to be a missionary."

Setting out in January to find some answers at the Migrant House, she nearly turned back when she encountered a "nasty border scene" of "children begging, old women begging, mothers begging with their children on their backs ... people playing guitars and washing car windows" for change; "babies with ringworm ()n their faces, lice in their hair, torn clothes and dirty feet; women telling us their babies were cold."

It was a "horrendous experience," she said, "but I knew I couldn't just stay where it was safe."

The Migrant House sheltered itinerants from all over Mexico and Central America - people who "didn't have a chance where they were coming from. All they really had was hope in their hearts and the love of God," said Rayleen.

Some planned to remain in Tijuana, she explained, others sought to cross the border to El Norte. though the Migrant House staff tried to dissuade such potential illegal immigrants "more because of the physical danger than legal reasons," said Rayleen.

The shelter, located next to a church also run by the Scalibrinis, had a capacity for more than 200 migrants. Most were men, but some were accompanied by families.

Rayleen did housework and was in charge of admitting residents when they returned each evening.

"During the day, the men are away working, looking for work, or just hanging out in the streets," she explained. Each carries a card indicating the prearranged start and end dates of his stay. Each night Rayleen checked the validity of the cards.

The house was staffed by social workers, most of them Mexican, as well as a complement of Mexicarl volunteers.

It took some adjusting to get used to the "system" in Mexico, Rayleen said. "They have no concept of time; friendship is more important than .work; family is the primary thing."

But she also saw the harsh realities oflife in Latin America - corruption, violence, terrorism through the eyes of the migrants who came to the house.

"Once you know someone going through the horror and feel their pain and suffering" it affects you in a ~ay that nothing "you see on TV or read in the newspaper ever will," said the mission worker.

An Odyssey One such story was that of Jose, a young man who had escaped the turmoil of EI Salvador's morethan-decade-Iong civil war.

Rayleen first met him on the street outside the shelter, when he approached to ask her, in English, if she would mail a letter for him.

When she asked how he had

gotten to Mexico, what unfolded was a harrowing - but unfortunately not uncommon - tale of hardship and persecution, but also of perseverance and faith.

The young man had walked most of the way - nearly 3,000 miles - jumping trains when he could.

"He didn't have anymoney,just the clothes' on his back;" said Rayleen.

"His reasons for leaving EI Sal,vador were very valid," she continued. ':He had been in the U.S. from ages II to 21, but then he got involved in the heavy drug scene and out of fear of his family getting caught, his mother sent him back to EI Salvador. In two years there he had.run-ins with both the army and the [Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front] guerrillas."

The army forced him to undergo harsh boot camp training, and later accused him of being in league with guerrillas. As punishment they tied his hands and secured the rope over a tree limb, letting him hang there for hours.

They finally cut him down and just left him there, Rayleen recounted. "Why they didn't kill him I don't know. In EI Salvador people are killed every day for less reasons."

Jose told her that the guerrillas "aren't any better. Because he wouldn't join them he might as well have been an army official.

He was continuously being beat up and harassed by one or the other because he wouldn't choose sides. He said, 'Alii want to do is live in peace.' " Jose decided to lea ve EI Salvador "before he ended up dead," said Rayleen.

But leaving the country proved just the beginning of his trials. He set out with a group of young men who "begged and stole and jumped trains and worked wherever they could."

Parts of his story read like pages of the Bible, Rayleen continued, retelling Jose's account of begging for food: "He approached a 'rich house,' as he put it, and asked for a tortilla. The owner came out with a shotgun and told him to go away."

Jose and his friends proceeded to another house, no more than a shack, where the poor resident with two young children to feed offered to share what she had, just a plate of tortillas.

Whenever Jose found work, Rayleen went on, no sooner would he get his pay than pol/eros, or bandits, would steal it.

He tried hiding his money in a pocket stitched to the inner lining of his pants. Fora while, it worked.

Then one day Jose and his friends spotted a man in the mountains who seemed to be afraid of them.

Jose decided to ask the man to join them so he would be safer. But when he approached, the man pulled out a machine gun and two others with guns appeared. Ordering Jose to strip, they made off with his money.

"As they walked a way, Jose sincerely told them 'God Bless You,''' recounted Rayleen, "but the man with the machine gun said he didn't want to hear anything about God because there was no God." "Again," she said, "why didn't Jose get killed? It is very common to find dead Central Americans in the mountains because they have no papers and no one cares about them."

RA YLEEN GIANNOTTI entertains Er.win, right, and his siblings at the Migrant House in Tijuana, Mexico (above). At right, Erwin and his brother, their faces painted, get their chance to play at being clowns.

When Jose's companions left him to seek work in Guatemala, Jose continued to Tijuana, hoping to make it back to the United States and be reunited with his family in Los Angeles.

"He was extremely gentle and humble and would give anyone the shirt off his back," said Rayleen.

"He would go out at night and [with spare change] buy me a cup of coffee!"

The letter he had asked her to send was to his mother, "telling, her he was off drugs and needed help and that he loved her very much."

Jose left the shelter before receiving his mother's telephoned reply, but Rayleen has since learned that the young man reached California.

She said she still marvels at his fortitude.

"At the end of our first conversation, he thanked me for listening," she said. "But really he did more for me. I had never seen the Gospel more alive than when he was talking to me."

Jose, she said, w'as "stuck between three worlds: the EI Salvador he knew as a child, the States he grew up in, and the El Salvador he found as an adult."

At the Migrant House there were many refugees like Jose who, "couldn't live like people, live as, free beings, who were not thought of as God's crea tions," said Rayleen.

The most rewarding part of her experience in Mexico, she said, "was being someone who could treat these people as human beings for perhaps the first time in their lives."

Migrant children tend to be fearful of strangers, she noted, but one child overcame his reluctance and warmed to his American amigo.

Miss Giannotti described Erwin as "a typical migrant. When we met he was dirty and probably hadn't eaten in days. He was the man of his family."

Erwin was three years old.

The boy came to Tijuana from Guatemala with his mother and younger brother and sister. Their

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said, that "there was missionary work to be done in this country, too. But I wouldn't give up [my experience of ] Mexico for anything.

"I learned that I wasn't needed there so much as I needed to be, there. In a lot of ways' the experience did teach me to be a missionary." , Also, she noted, the 40-day "journey" reaffirmed for her the philosophy of the Emmaus community, which she sums up as "We're always on the road to ,Emmaus and we're always meeting Jesus."

In each person she encountered during her mission work, she said, "there was no doubt in my mind yoil could see the face of.Jesus , they were very humble, very simple people, full of life. For all the hardships they face, it's hard to believe how much hope they have."

She speculates that "maybe if the Mexican volunteers hadn't been there, if there was no one to show these people how beautiful they are, maybe I would've stayed. But for now I feel I could do more here" in the United States.

Presently working in Fairhaven as an employment counselor for the handic!lpped, Rayleen says she plans to obtain a master's degree in pastoral ministry and perhaps work in campus ministry to "expose people to the missions here father, deported from the United and abroad."

States, had told the family he Early Start wo~ld meet them in Tijuana, but, She got off to an early start on wrongly believing his wife had that work when she made her been unfaithful to him, had no Mexico experience the topic for a intention of doing so. monthly "Galilee" spiritual talk Rayleen soon became fond of sponsored by the Emmaus communthe boisterous Erwin, who would ity' . wake her up each morning shout'Speaking on "Listening to God," ing" Amiga! Amiga!" up the stairs she told fellow community memto her room. During the day, when there was little work to do, "we bers that "Mexico was a powerful experience for me... It amazed me played together, colored together, how much love people had, even laughed together.. .! cried alone," said the mission volunteer. for someone like myself, ignorant of how the policies of the United Erwin's mother considered putStates have affected [the poor in ting her children in an orphanage developing countries]. It struck me while she tried to find work. Three that this is the way God wants us times she asked Rayleen to take to live; Jesus said 'when you welher son, "but I knew it was imposcome a stranger you welcome sible," the volunteer said. me.'"

Eventually the shelter superviShe said she learned ''I'm not sor, claiming Erwin's mother hadn't living the way God wants us to done anything to improve her sitevery time I let the negative overuation, forced the family to leave. whelm me and say 'What can I do Rayleen saw Erwin only once about itT; every time Ilet fear parmore. alyze me; every time I say I could "He ran up to me, hugged me, have, would have, should have' or called me amigo. I call that a piece â&#x20AC;˘ 'It's not my responsibility.' " of heaven."

"Because," she continued, "there Eventually the family returned is something'l can do, and it starts to Guatemala, a situation that with just loving the person in front worries Rayleen even more. of me and the person who comes "I met a Marine Reservist on the to me. plane home," she said. "She told "I envision a God who is waiting me they are shooting children on for us to look up, look to the side, the streets of Guatemala, just for look behind and say 'I love you' to the sa~e of shooting them." the person there."

The Return Home Miss Giannotti said she left The people she encountered in Mexico after the 40 days "not Mexico were strangers, she said, because it was a harsh experience "but they were 'unstrange' too. In - although it was - but because I a way' they were people I knew" wasn't really working most of the after so many years of praying for day." the poor and for missionaries.

And as for wondering ~'how" to Women staying in the shelter would insist on doing the house- be a missionary, Miss Giannotti work. "They would take the sheets feels' she has some answers,n~.w. '~It's a matter of letting of away from me and wash them unimportant things. There are a themselves," said Rayleen.

"They felt like they were taking lot of material things I no longer something by being there and they think are important. I feel God is felt they ,had to do something in calling me to help people realize return." there's another side to them than Although "they left absolutely wanting and taking - there's a nothing for me to do, they would spiritual side." thank me for coming there - my Most importantly, she concludes, presence meant an awful lot to being a missionary is ultimately a them." matter of "giving yOllrself totally It became more obvious, she and fUlly to God."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of 'Fall River-Fri., Aug. 30, 1991

By Charlie Martin

LOSING MY RELIGION

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By Linda L. Rome When I left for college, much as August is a bittersweet month I loved my parents, I was eager to for parents and teens alike. go. I felt poised on the brink of my For many, August marks the "real" life. I was crabby with transition in family life known as waiting. "going away to college." For othI tolerated my mother's help ers, a hitch in the military or a (t'ike taking me to 15 stores so I full-time job that promises to be- could find the perfect dress for my come a career signals the transi- freshman mixer) as an unavoidation to a more inaependent and ble intrusion in my soon-to-be ad ult lifestYl.e. "life without parents." , You're on your own: Fly! Crash!

I made my parents promise not Sink! Swim! It's up to you. to visit me at school, to call no Like most transitions, it is a more than once a week and not to period loaded with ambiguous expect me home until Thanksgivfeelings and turmoil. ing. After we had finally lugged A frien4 of mine was' making every box and suitcase to my dorm last-minute preparations for her room, I couldn't wait for them to son's move out of the house. "He be gone. needs another pair of pants," she My father wanted to meet my said, "and we want to do some- roommate. My mother wanted to thing special with him before he make sure I knew where the dining goes." . hall was, and the laundry room. I She was caught in a paradox. just wanted to close the car door One moment she was ready to cry, and wave goodbye. so sharp was the mixture of immiI was secretly bored by the spenent loss, the sense of pride and cial family dinner (with my favorthe hope mixed with equal parts of ite dessert), oblivious and acceptfear for this c~ild she and his faing of the extra socks, the earrings ther had parented to this inevita- that matched my dress that my ble moment. ' mother just happened to pick up The next minute she couldn't and the bookcase my dad built to wait for him to be gone so that my exact specifications. after 18 years she could reclaim Perhaps I cared too much to let her life, and especially her bath- . them know how much I cared. room!

Perhaps I was overwhelmed by One minute she was extra loving what I knew, by love, by the and planning his favorite dessert. weight of gratitude too deep for The next minute she was snarling words.

"You~re going to have to do this Perhaps you are too. for yourself from now on," as she So remember this: Transitions made sure he got u'p in time for his are tough. And you're still a famsummer job. Her son was, no ily, even if you don't share the doubt, in the same quandary. same bathroom.

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I'm going to start saving my three I ignored him. "Whatever hapboys' worn-out shoes. I figure that pened to the days of oxfords and if I start tying them end to end, by cork boots when boys could only the 'time the 'boys are out of high buy new shoes when they proved school I should be able to throw to their father their toes were growthem into the Pacific (the shoes, ing to a distinct point?" , not the boys) and pull myself hand I think I heard him mumble over hand to Hawaii. Throw in my something under. his breath about daughter's shoes and I'll be able to spats and corsets and the Oregon . make 'some, inter-isiand trips.

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The thing is, I could have pur"Mom, if he asks if we want to chased my own Lear' jet with the wear the s,hoes or take them out in shoe money in the meantime. , the box, pleas,e don't tell him we I have actually seen a pair of my want to wear the boxes," middle son's shoes die behveen the shop- son said to me while the clerk went . ping mall and t~e car. It-was ugly. to the back room.

The tongues swelled up and deve"Hey, Buster Brown," I said, "if loped spots, the sides hemorrhaged, I see you. anywhere near your the Velcro croaked and the, sole skateboard with these new shoes separated from the body. People on your feet you might find yourgawked as we walked in single file self wearing thongs to school this carrying this tiny box to the trash winter." bin singing "Faith of Our Fathers." .

"That would be cool," exclaimed "Do you have anything that is our 8-year-old. That's' too young all leather, wears like iron, ,has a to make plays on words, isn't it? little style and costs less than $20?"

As I left the store wondering I asked the shoe clerk during our how far over our Visa card limit recent back-to-school shoe for- we had soared, I thought about aging.

Hawaii. They don't wear shoes "Yes, but why would you want there, do they?

Life is bigger It's bigger than you And you are not me The lengths that I will go to The distance in your eyes Oh no, I've said too much I said enough.

That's me in the corner That's me in the spotlight Losing my religion Trying to keep up with you And I don't know if I can do it Oh no, I said too much I haven't said enough I thought that I heard you laughing I thought that I heard you sing I think I thought I saw you try.

Every whisper, every waking hour I'm choosing my confessions .

Trying to keep an eye on you Like a hurt lost and blind and poor, poor.

Oh no, I've said too much I said enough Consider this Consider this the hit of the century Consider this This love that brought me to my knees What if all these fantasies Come flaming to the ground Now I've said too much.

That wasjust a dream That was just a dream.

That was just a dream Try, cry, why try?

Written by Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe. Sung by R.E.M. (c) 1991 by R.E.M.I Athens Ltd. SEVERAL READERS asked that will form the ba~is for what metoreview"Losing My Religion."

I write here.

Yet I hesitated to do so, not The song appears to describe being certain what this R.E. M. a very unhealthy romance. One hit was trying to say. Recently I individual is obsessed with another, watching everything heard an interpretation of it

she does. He seems afraid of losing the relationship. He wor- . ries about everything that happens, including whether he has "said too much" or hasn't said enough.

At this point, possibly because the other can no longer stand such obsession, the relationship is ending. Consequently" the obsessed person feels hurt and empty.

In his despair, his emotional state is like someone losing his religion. That is, all his principles, all he held important, now seems lost.

The type of obsessing an,d worry the song seems to describe kill love. Such a romance is like living in a prison of fear.

The joy and spontaneity of falling in love gets lost in anxious thoughts about what will happen in the future.

Obsessive individuals try to control others. When you are dating someone with this problem, you sense that you need his or her permission to do anything., Attempts to have interests outside the relationship are met with strong disapproval.

Instead Of feeling emotionally supported by the other person, you feel trapped in a relationship headed for more and more pain.

All relationships have problems, but what I describe here is beyond the ordinary ups and downs of personality differences or communication problems.

If you find yourself dating someone who wants to control everything about the relationship, take direct and clear steps to get out of the situation. Don't expect the other person to understand. Be kind, but also be firm.

Set yourself free to find the kind of love that enables you to find the best in yourself and supports you in sharing your goodness with many others.

Your comments welcomed by Charlie Martin, R.R. 3, Box 182, Rockport, IN 47635.

Private schools rate high in poll WASHINGTON (CNS) - A recent public opinion poll shows that 87 percent of those surveyed think private schools are good for the country because they provide a choice for parents, and, if cost were not a factor, 51 percent said they would send their children to one.

The 51 percent figure combined the 18 percent who said theywould choose a parochial school and 33 percent who would choose an independent school.

The National Association of Independent Schools, which commissioned the poll, said the 1,000 independent schools it, represents are distinct from other private schools in that they are notsupported by tax or church monies and are independently governed by a board of trustees. .

According to the Washingtonbased association, currently only: 12 percent of ,all children attend private schools.

According to the poll, 45 percent of the respondents would choose public schools even if cost were not a factor. Respondents said public schools turn out "wellrounded" students and do a better job than private schools in physical education and sports programs.

The poll also found that 52 per- .

cent ofthose polled believe private voucher to pay for the school of schools are "too elitist" and 82 their choice, whether public or percent of Americans believe pri- private.

In 1983, a similar poll done by vate 'schools "would be too expenThe New York Times found that sive for most families like mine."

The figure means that private only 44 percent of the American schools "have to work harder to let .pu!,lic approved of vouchers. people I(now about the value of The poll by Belden & Russoour schools, get more information nello found that while most Amerout about our ever-growing finan- icans believe the nation is not educial aid programs, and let families cating young people well, a manew to our schools know about jority thinks that local public tuition payment plans and other schools are doing a good' job. options," said association vice Asked where local schools need president John W. Sanders. . improyement, respondents cited The survey was a random tele- the need for better basic academic ph'one sampling in January and instruction' and more science February of 801 adults across the .courses. .

United States done by the WashAbout 87 percent ofthose polled ington-based Belden & Russonello said that private schools are g()od public opinion research firm. for the country because they proSeventy-one percent ofthe respon- vide parents with a choice of where dents were parents. The margin of to enroll their children. sampling error is plus or minus 3.5 By 10 to I those surveyed said percentage points. private schools were better at keePRespondents were also asked, ing class size small, giving students whethere4ucational youchers were' individual attention and maintaina good or bad idea. According to ing discipline. the poll, 57 percent believe vouch- .

Eighty percent of the responers are a good idea, while 38 per- dents said they approved the teachcent said they were a bad idea and ing of values in public schools, 5 percent had no opinion. which Sanders said include such Catholic educators advocate the "universal values" as "honesty, use of vouchers. The voucher idea integrity, respect for other people, is based on the theory of the respect for differences, respect for government giving parents a hard work."

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'Back~to~sch'ool'arinou'ricements"

Diocesan schools open for the 1991-92 school year on Wednesday, Sept. 4.

Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton, will greet 654 students, the most in the school's history. In addition, there are a record number of freshmen-198-from more than 20 area cities and towns, Freshmen will report for classes at 7:45 a.m. Sept. 4 and all students will report at 7:45 a.m. Sept.

5. School will be dismissed at approximately 12:30 p.m. for the first three days.

Father William L. Boffa, chaplain, will celebrate a year-opening liturgy at 9 a.m. Sept. 5. . Freshmen orientation at Bishop Connonlly High School, Fall River, begins at 8 a.m. Sept. 4. Dismissal will be at I: 15 p.m. after class photos and abbreviated classes. Lunch will be served.

An orientation program for freshmen and their parents will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. that evening.

The schedule for upperclassmen is as follows:' seniors, I to 3 p.m.

Sept. 4;juniors, 8 to II a.m. Sept., 5; sophomores' noon to 3 p.m.

Sept. 5. Sept. 6 will be a full day of school for all students.

The traditional year-opening Mass of the Holy Spirit will be celebrated for students and their families at 9:30 a.m. Sept. 8 in the school auditorium. A pancake breakfast will follow in the cafeteria.

New staff appointments at Con, nolly include: Mary Jane Keyes, athletic director; James L'Heureul(, director of admissions and public relations; Father Donald MacMillan, SJ, director of community service and Spanish teacher.

Suzette Andrade has joined the foreign language department to teach French and Portuguese, and Anne Ricci has joined the social studies department to teach world history and geography.

Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, has announced the following scholarship awards for the new school year: the John C. O'Brien Memorial Scholarship to senior Christopher Dansereau

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of Fairhaven; Michael S. Carey Memorial Scholarships to sophomore Rosemary Fernandes of New Bedford and junior Scott Waite of Acushnet; Charles A. Cayer Memorial Scholarships to senior Shelagh Booth of West Wareham and Rosemary Fernandes; George F. Durant Memorial Scholarship to junior Rebecca Babineau of Westport.

Bishop Stang Scholarships, awarded in honor of parents who have shown outstanding support for the school, went to brothers Mark Conlon, a junior, and Scott Conlon, a freshman, of Pocasset, and to Katrina Gumkowski of Westport.

The Otis Community Chapel Scholarship, contributed by the congregation of the Otis Air Force Base Chapel, was awarded to Daniel Perkins of Bourne.

Fifth and sixth grade students will report for classes at Taunton Catholic Middle School Sept. 4 and seventh and eighth grade classes begin Sept. 5.

As the school begins its twentieth year, it welcomes more children of alumni than ever and its largest student body in recent years.

For information on the school contact Kathleen Simpson, 8220491.

The Parent 'N Friend Steering Group of Holy Family-Holy Name School,New Bedford, will hold its first monthly meeting of the year at 7 p.m. Sept. 4. Each student is expected to have a parent in attendance.

The format for meetings, beginning in October, will be a 7 p.m. guest lecture followed by an 8 p.m. discussion of school business. At the Oct. 7 meeting, James McNamee of Bishop Stang High School will speak on study habits.

A National Grandparents' Day dance will be held in the school gym from I to 4 p.m. Sept. 8.

Festivities for -'the year-long "Discover Catholic Schools" national campaign to promote Catholic education will begin at St. Joseph's School, Fairhaven, at 10 a.m. Sept. 9. James Peterson of the Bishop Cassidy Assembly

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Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus and selectman of the town of Fairhaven, and Sister Michaelinda Plante, RSM, associate superintendent of diocesan schools, will join principal Sister Muriel Ann Lebeau, ss.cc., and Father Patrick Killilea, ss.cc., in welcoming staff, students and parents.

Students in grades I through 8 will begin classes at St. John Evangelist School, Attleboro, on Sept. 4; kindergarten begins Sept.

9.

The lunch program will begin Sept. 9, so students must bring a lunch for the first three days.

An open house for parents of children in grades I through 4 will be held at 7 p.m. Sept. 10 and for parents of grades 5 through 8 students at 7 p.m. Sept. II. There will be a general meeting in the gym followed by classroom presentation by each teacher.

A year-opening Mass and commitment ceremony for teachers will take place at the parish's 8:45 a.m. Mass Sept.. 15.

Parents .are invited to attend a demonstration of Music on the Move instrumental lessons at 2 p.m. Sept. 5.

An informational meeting for those interested in volunteering at SJE will be held at 1:45 p.m. Sept.

5 and repeated at 7 p.m. that day.

THE J\NCHOR-Diocese of.Fall'River~Fri.,Aug: 30,1991

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Eight Americans delegates for 'World Youth Day celebration WASHINGTON (CNS) - Eight U.S. youths represented the U.S. bishops' conference as delegates to the mid-August World Youth Day meeting with Pope John Paul II in Czestochowa, Poland.

Delegate Tina Purcell of Milford, Del., a freshman at the University of Delaware this fall, called the international gathering of Catholic youth exciting and "inspiring" because "everybody there had iw insight on something."

Of the estimated 1.5 million or more young people who traveled to Czestochowa to see the pope Aug. 14-15, only 250 were official delegates attending a week of prayer, discussion and study that preceded the celebrations with the pope, .said Paul Henderson, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' special assista.nt for youth and young adults. .

Among the larger crowd were about 70,000 youths from the Soviet Union, as relaxed Soviet laws allowed them to get visas for such an event for the first time.

The 250 delegates participated in an International Youth Forum Aug. 7-10 and a three-day religious formation program Aug. 1113; sponsored by the Vatican's.

Pontifical Council for the Laity.

Henderson, who. helped plan the program.and accompanied the U.S. d'elegation as an observer, said the main focus of the forum - what freedom means, especially:: to a .Christian -~ was particularly interesting because this ye·ar's.. gathering was the first with a large. ' representation of youths .from the Soviet Union and former communist countries of Eastern Europe.

Ms.·' Purcell, a 'regional rep'resentative of the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry for the past two years, said that in the small "share groups" at which . delegates talked out their ideas, she was in a group that' included

young people from'Nigeria, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Australia, the Philippines, Sweden and England.

She said the young man from Nigeria had "many insights" into the meaning of freedom because his people have to fight for "a lot of things I take for granted."

The Pakistani woman explained how her country's traditions and social customs prevent women from pursuing independent careers. "She said she would like to have the freedom to have a job," Ms. Purcell said.

Despite the "totally different way of life" of the people she met, she said, "we always had one thi'ng in common,- we would'always think of the Lord first [at the start of each session) , and we had the same views of God." "We would sit for three hours and talk about our faith," she said.

"I have friends at home I can't do that with .... If you tried to talk about faith, they'd think you're weird.'" . .

Henderson said the opportunity for young adults to meet with others'their age from 'all over' the world was one of the main values of the forum, "y·ou 'get 'to hear their stories.

You pray\yith,them and eat with them," 'fie said. "You realize the Unlted States is just· one country in a vast globe." ' ,'. , For the small-group discussions' there were eight English-language groups, he said, so each American delegate was assigned to a different group..

He'said the U.S'. delegates, who ranged in age from about 18 to 28, were, selected frQm four U.S. Catholic youth and yo,ung adult organizations.

Other observers or guests with the U.S. delegation were Dolores R. Leckey, executive director of the NCCB Secretariat for Laity and Family Life; Bishop Charles

Chaput of Rapid City, S.D.; and Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Morneau .of Green Bay, Wis., chairman of the NCCB Committee on the Laity.

Henderson said Americans tend to think of teenagers when they say "youth," but in Europe the term is used for what Americans would call young adults - men and women from their late teens to their middle or late 20s.

World Youth Day is an annual celebration begun by the Vatican in 1986, with an emphasis on local observances, which take place in the United States on a Sunday in late October. Every second year so far - 1987, 1989 and 1991 - the observance has included a world gathering of youth with the pope.

Henderson said about 400 other Americans, mainly from military bases in Germany, also traveled to Czestochowa for the p'apal celebration of World' Youth Day. The celebration began with a prayer vigil with the pope .Aug. 14 and featured a papal Mass, talks and prayer services Aug. 15.

Movement. grows LIBERTYV"LLE, Ill. (eNS)St. Maximilian Kolbe is best known as the priest martyred ~t Auschwitz 50 years ago. Buthis devotees say his Marian movement, the Militia Immacuhitae, contirrues to grow and may surpass the fame of' his saciificial death. "This whole moveme'nt should impregnate and revitalize arid re-energiie ali existing organizations" in the church, said Conventual Franciscan Brother Francis Mary Ka'lvela'ge; editor of the Mission of the Immaculata newsletter at Marytown, the militia's national center in Libertyville. Marytown celebrated the 50th anniversary of St. Maximilian's 1941 martyrdom with a memorial Mass and festival.

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ST. STANISLAUS, FR Parishioners may sign up beginning Sept. 2 for bus transportation to Cathedral of Holy Cross, Boston, for Mass celebrated by Cardinal Jozef Glemp 7 p.m. Sept. 24.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET CCD begins Sept. 21. Teachers and substitutes still needed. Information: 673-1241.

ST. ANTHONY OF DESERT, FR Adoration of Blessed Sacrament noon to 6 p.m. with holy hour 5 to 6 p.m. Sept. 8, 300 North Eastern Ave.

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CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Catechists' Mass and meeting 7: 15 p.m. Sept. 4. Teachers needed for grades 7 and 8. Information: 8888267. Scripture study program starts Sept. 26. Information: rectory. RCIA meeting for adults interested in church membership: 7:30 p.m. Sept.

9, parish center. Helpers needed for child care program 8:30 a.m. Sunday Mass. Information: 888-7171.

The former parish hall on Jarves Street is now for sale.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NB CCD teachers needed in grades I and 5. Information: 993-9355. Novena services: St. Anthony following 8 a.m. Mass each Tuesday; Our Lady of Perpetual Help following 8 a.m. Mass each Wednesday.

HOSPICE OUTREACH, FR Volunteers wishing to help provide home care for the terminally ill are sought by Hospice Outreach.

Volunteer training sessions begin Oct. 3. Information: 673-1589.

ST. JOSEPH, NB RCIA program for adults wishing to receive baptism, Holy Eucharist or confirmation will begin in late September. Information: 995-5235.

CCDregisiration Sept. 15, 9:30a.m., school hall.

CATHEDRAL, FR CCD students' assembly 2:45 to 4 p.m. Sept. 3. Retreat for teachers and staff Sept. 8, Sacred Heart Retreat Center, Wareham; group leaves . school yard I p.m.

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. DCCW DiSTRICT 4 ST. MARY, NORTON Bishop Joseph Regan, MM, will Taunton District 4, Diocesan speak at weekend Masses on mis- Council of Catholic Women will sions in the Philippines. Altar boy install officers at 7 p.m. Mass Sept. classes begin 10 a.m. Sept. 7 for boys 4, St. John Evangelist Church, Attlein third grade or older. Tuna fish boro. Rev. Thomas L. Rita, district donations for Food and Friends moderator, will sellt Katherine M. Kitchens, Attleboro, may be brought Lancisi, president; L.c. Spellman, to weekend Masses. vice-president; Alva Houde, trea-' surer; and Mary Martin and Sandra ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS Bishop Maurus Muldoon, OFM, Kelley, secretaries. A reception will from 1981 to 1983 director of Regina follow at the Sweet House, Peck Pacis Hispanic Center in New Bed- Street, Attleboro. The district's anford, will speak on needs of his dio- nual communion supper will take cese in Olancho, Honduras at all place Oct. 10 in Taunton with Kay weekend Masses in Orleans. Roses Messier as chairperson. for Life will be available at Masses SS. PETER & PAUL, FR A sanctuary banner has been dothe weekend of Sept. 7 and 8. Two 7th grade CCD teachers needed. nated in memory of deceased memInformation: Judy Burt 255-8717. bers of the O'Neil and Holland famiSt. Joan of Arc Evening Guild will lies. Vincentians Mass and meeting 7 meet 7:30 p.m. Sept. II, Orleans p.m. Sept. 5. Parents of 9th graders church basement. New members wel- will meet after 9:30 a.m. Mass Sept.

15, school. CCD teachers meet 7 come. p.m. Sept. 8, also in school. Women's ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Club meets Sept. 9, Father Coady CCD teachers and aides needed; Center. New members welcome. information, Sister Pauline Louise.

JOSEPH, TAUNTON ST. Healing service and Mass with FaWomen's Guild meeting Sept. 10 ther William T. Babbitt 2:30 p.m.

Sunday. Widowed support group with 6:30 p.m. Mass followed by mother-daughter potluck supper. meeting 7 p.m. Sept. 13; Separated/ Divorced 7:30 p.m. Sept. 10, parish CCD teachers' meeting 6:30 p.m.

Sept. 5, parish center, including center. liturgical worship presentation by ST. PATRICK, FR Mike Kelley.

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CAPE/ISLANDS ST. ELIZABETH SETON, Catholic nurses, whether members N.FALMOUTH of the Diocesan Councilor not, are The youth group will hold a can invited to 9:30 a.m. Mass Sept. 8, and bottle drive this weekend.

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Coffee and doughnuts will follow ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH CCD teachers needed; informa- the Mass. tion at rectory. Women's Guild ban- HOLY NAME, FR Reception at school for former quet Sept. II. Information: 994parochial vicar Fr. Thomas Frechette 3583; 993-6362. follows 11:30 a.m. Mass Sept. 22.

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Harry Reasoner laid to rest SIOUX CITY, Iowa (CNS) Television newsman H'arry Reasoner returned home to his roots in Humboldt, Iowa, for one last time Aug. 12.

About 40 members of his family gathered at a private funeral service at the Mason-Lindhart Funeral Horne and at Union Cemetery, both in Humboldt, to bid farewell to the three-time Emmy winner,> best known as a correspondent on the CBS television show, "60 Minutes."

Reasoner, 68, died at a Norwalk, Conn., hospital Aug. 6, two months after he had been hospitalized with a blood clot in his brain and with pneumonia.

The Rev. David Johnson, pastor of the Congregational United Church of Christ, and Msgr. Louis Kollasch, pastor ofSt. Mary Catholic Church, both in Humboldt, officiated at the funeral.

More than 300 people took part in a two-hour public visitation held earlier in the day. Other servi-,

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Diocesan priests' retreat Sept. 2 through 6.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Our Lady of Angels feast Portuguese-language Mass 10 a.m. Labor Day; procession I p.m. Baptism preparation meeting Sept. 3, 7 p.m.; baptims Sept. 8. Sacred Hearts Assn. meeting 7 p.m. Sept. 6.

NOTRE DAME, FR Vincentians seek new members to aid the poor and visit patients at Rose Hawthorne Home. Soup kitchen food drive first two weekends of September. Donation boxes will be at church entrance.

ST. STEPHEN, ATTLEBORO Pro-life program Sept. 12, time and place to be announced. CCD , teachers needed for levels I and 5 (Saturday morning). Vincentians request donations of clothes for ages 7 to 18, since welfare clothing allocations have been cut. Items may be left in lower sacristy. The parish.is supporting a community food-raising program I to 4 p.m. Sept. 2 at Grace Episcopal Church, N. Attleboro.

Gardeners are asked to donate produce; others may bring quart and gallon freezer storage bags. Proceeds .will benefit area food programs.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Vincentian> meeting following 10 a.m. Mass Sept. 8. Clothing needed for schoolchildren; for information on donating, call 761-6737. Youth group is collecting returnable cans and bottles. Donations may be left at boiler room door behind parish center.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO CCD teachers needed in grades 7 and 8. Volunteers may call rectory.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS, W.HARWICH St. Francis of Peace Pre-Fraternity meeting 2 p.m. Sept. 8, Holy Trinity Church, W. Harwich, with Mass' and instruction session with Father Bob Menard, OFM. Information: Dorothy F. Williams, 394-4094.

ces were held Aug. 10 in Westport, Conn.

Reasoner's first wife, Kathleen Carroll, who died in 1986, was Catholic and their seven children were raised in the Catholic faith.

In 1988 he married Lois Weber at the Congregational United Church of Christ in Humboldt; Msgr. Kollasch met Reasoner at that ceremony.

The funeral service was based on the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, Msgr. Kollasch said, adding that "I believe he frequently used that book as a source of inspiration."

The priest said he focused his thoughts at the service on chapter II, verses 25-30 of the Gospel of Matthew, which speaks,of being "meek and humble of heart."

"I spoke on the virtue of humility and those characteristics which flow from it: kindness, gentleness and humbleness," he said. "I think those virtues were evident in Harry as a newscaster and as a commentator and were witnessed by his loved ones and those who worked with him." , Reasoner was born in Dakota City, Iowa, in 1923 and spent his childhood years in Humboldt. His father, Harry R. Reasoner, was a school superintendent and his mother, Eunice Nicholl Reasoner, was a teacher.

Reasoner returned to Humboldt in 1972 for a TV documentary focusing on problems in small Iowa towns, in 1983 to serve as marshal in the Fourth of July parade and in 1988 for his marriage.

"The whole community felt honored that a national figure would return here to be buried," Msgr.

Kollasch said.