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THE REMNANTS of a mobile home park in Florida City, Fla., bear witness to the force of Hurricane Andrew, classified as the most destructive natural disaster in U.S. history.

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Picking up the pieces after Andrew WASHINGTON (CNS) - As immediate needs for food, water and shelter were met and the larger task of rebuilding began, the initial shock began to wear off for victims of Hurricane Andrew in Florida and Louisiana.

They were buoyed by special collections taken up in churches across the country. In Catholic dioceses, bishops responded to a request from the Washington-based U.S. Catholic Conference Disaster Response Office that they ask congregations to aid hurricane victims.

In the Fall River diocese, the emergency held special significance for Bishop Sean O'Malley, who spearheaded relief and rebuilding efforts in the diocese of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, where he was bishop in September 1989 when Hurricane Hugo struck the area,

hitting especially hard at the island of St. Croix, where 90 percent of the buildings were destroyed and every tree was left leafless.

At that time contributions came to the islands from the Washington archdiocese, where Bishop Sean O'Malley had previously served and from donors in mainland U.S. areas which the bishop visited on an emergency fundraising tour.

In the present situation, diocesan churches took up a second collection last Saturday and Sunday, with many contributors remembering their own brushes with tropical storms in this area, most recently last year's Hurricane Bob, which hit-Cape Cod with especial force.

A week after the nation's most costly natural disaster -flattened southern Florida and flooded coastal Louisiana, the Catholic dioceses of Houma-Thibodaux and

Lafayette in Louisiana and the archdiocese of Miami took stock of damage and relief efforts.

"At first people were just in trauma," said one Louisiana diocesan spokeswoman. "But [now] they seem to be coming alive."

"The numbness is beginning to wear off and we've moved to another level of needs," said a Miami archdiocese representative.

"We've gone from needing food and water to roofi~g materials and chain saws."

The toll of hurricane-related deaths in the two states and Bahamas had climbed to 35 by Aug. 31.

Estimates of the number of people left homeless in Florida by the storm ran as high as 250,000; 63,000 homes were destroyed and electricity was still off for more than 600,000 customers.

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GREENSBORO, N.C. (CNS) - Contemplation, community, conversion, prayer and witness are not the usual topics for a national gathering of some 1,300 executives who direct thousands of institutions and the lives of about 120,000 people.

But those were among the main concerns as the superiors and other representatives of U.S. religious congregations convened in Greensboro Aug. 26-30 for a joint assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and the Conference of Major Superiors of Men. Major superiors and councilors in attendance from the Fall River diocese were Sisters Patricia Heath, SUSC, and Annette Roach, OP, and Very Revs. Columban Crotty, SS.CC., and Gilles Genest, MS. Others from the area were Sisters Mary Noel Blute, RSM, episcopal representative for religious, Barbara Riley, RSM, of Fall River, Rosellen Gallogly, RSM, of New Bedford, Mary Frances Honnen, SSJ and Joan Bellenoit, SSJ, of Holyoke, Mary Dumond, CP, of Fall River, and Rosemary Laliberte, RSM, of Cumberland, RI. Also Very Revs. David Farrell, CSC, of Bridgeport, CT, and Brother Jerome Lessard, FIC, of Alfred. ME. lt was clearly an activist and action-oriented group. The theme of the meeting was "Now Is the Time," a reference to initiation of a 20-year plan to make religious orders a leading factor in transforming U.S. church life.

With no objections and only scattered abstentions, participants passed joint resolutions calling for forgiveness of Third World debt, support for Guatemalan refugees and the strengthening of shareholder rights on social justice concerns. The LCWR unanimously passed a separate resolution opposing capital punishment.

At a closing Mass the religious

contributed over $7,000 to a special collection for victims of Hurricane Andrew.

In a keynote address Aug. 27, Peter Steinfels, senior religion correspondent of The New York Times, declared that "there is no other group of Catholic leaders and I include here the College of Cardinals, the synods of bishops and the national conference of bishops - that has more potential for finding a new passage for the church through dangerous waters.

The religious orders have always been the scouts and vanguards. the explorers and the sentries of God's people."

In a second keynote address the next day, Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, editor of the national lay Catholic magazine, Commonweal, urged the religious to focus on the challenges of the world.

"Despite the conflicts within the church," she said, "I want to insist that the real challenges to the church are ... from our encounter with the world."

The husband-wife keynote team outlined to the religious leaders a wide range of massive changes in the world - changes which they said require Catholics to recover their spiritual and intellectual bearings in order to have a significant positive impact on the future.

In other discussions and talks, the assembly focused on the spiritual underpinnings of effective witness and action.

"There is a clear thrust among us for a greater understanding of contemplation and its fundamental place in our own spiritual lives," said the CMSM head, Christian Brother Paul Hennessy, in his presidential address. Brother Hennessy is midway through his two-year term as first non-clerical president of the men's conference.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) Labor Day should be a time for Americans to support families by attackingjoblessness, poverty-level wages and policies that make parents choose betweenjobs and children, according to the U.S. Catholic Conference's annual Labor Day message.

"Let us commit ourselves to protect families and defend children by refocusing on the crucial connection between decent jobs at decent wages and healthy family life," wrote Bishop James W. Malone, chairman of the USCC Committee on Domestic Social Policy.

"Unfortunately, far too many families in this country have little

reason to celebrate this Labor Day," wrote Bishop Malone, of Youngstown, Ohio.

In a society that equates freedom and personal well-being with work, unemployed people Jeellost and without dignity, according to Bishop Malone. In addition to economic difficulties, unemployment can lead to psychological scats and devastate a family's stability.

But even working families often make too little to support themselves, he noted. Nearly two-thirds of all poor families with children had a family member working almost full time for the full year in 1990. Most poor working families are white, two-parent families,

while black and Hispanic families are more likely to be jobless and poor, according to Bishop Malone.

He cautioned against budgetcontrol efforts that focus on cutting welfare benefits or that encourage families to break up and stay on welfare to survive.

"We can't make real progress by shaping policy that reflects society's prejudices against the poor and the temptation to balance bud-

gets by cutting assistance to those with great needs but little clout," Bishop Malone said.

The statement also touched on workers' safety, child labor laws and the practice of hiring permanent replacements for striking workers.

Referring to the U.S. bishops' recent statement "Putting Children and Families First," Bishop Malone highlighted its call for national leadership in reforming tax laws to offer credits to families with children; to make health care accessible and affordable; to fight discrimination, hunger and homelessness; and to enact a law allowing workers time off for family and medical emergencies.

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"We need a new sense of community and commitment to the common good," Bishop Malone said. "We call on workers to give an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; owners and managers to treat their employees with fairness and justice; unions to really rep-. resent workers and to seek creative new partnerships and strategies for the future; and policy makers to return with renewed vigor and imagination to the challenges of full employment, tax and welfare reform and worker's health, safety and rights."

The bishops' conference annually issues a statement in conjunction with Labor Day, which is·observed Sept. 7 this year.

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Gospel of Matthew to be topic of fall series The Fall River deanery of the diocese has announced two series of presentations on the Gospel of St. Matthew. They will be offered during September and October at St..Anthony of Padua Church 48 Sixteenth St., Fall River. All 'are welcome to attend either series.

One will be in English, the other in Portuguese, and both will run from 7 to 9 p.m., with the English series beginning Wednesday, Sept. 9, and the Portuguese Thursday, Sept.

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Subsequent dates for the English series will be Sept. 16, 23 and 30 and Oct. 7, 14,21 and 28. The subsequent Portuguese-language dates will be Sept. 17 and 24 and Oct. 1,8,15,22 and 29.

Offering the English-language series will be, in order, Fathers Douglas Sousa, John J. Oliveira, George Bellenoit, Raul Lagoa, John Gomes, Brian Harrington, Edward Correia and John M. Sullivan.

Father Gastao Oliveira will be the presenter for the Portugueselanguage series.

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Cardinal's burial delayed by throngs of mourners LVIV, Ukraine (CNS) - The Ukrainian Catholic Church in Lviv has delayed burying the body of Cardinal J osyf Slipyj at the request of government authorities concerned about the long lines of people still waiting to pay their respects when interment was scheduled.

The church press office said Aug. 31 there were still thousands of people waiting to view the body, but that burial was expected by Sept. 5.

The press office said government officials had estimated Aug. 29 that at least I million路 people had filed past the body in its crystal coffin since it was returned to Ukraine from Rome Aug. 27.

In his will, the cardinal, who died in Rome in 1984, asked to be buried in his homeland once Ukraine was free and the Eastern-rite church was legalized.

The morning of Aug. 29, there were two lines, each five people wide, waiting to get into the Cathedral of St. George. Police said the lines were each almost two miles long.

Earlier, greeting people gathered at the Lviv airport to receive the body, Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, said that with the return of Cardinal Slipyj's remains, "we are correcting an injustice of the atheistic communist system and the difficult times passed, and we bow our heads before one of the greatest sons of the Ukrainian people."

The coffin later was carried through the city's streets, accompanied by an honor guard of 500 young Ukrainians and a procession of mourners that Lviv police estimated at 250,000: Cardinal Archille Silvestrini, head of the Vatican Congregation for Eastern-Rite Churches, told Vatican Radio Aug. 27 that Cardinal Slipyj was "one of the greatest figures of the church in this century."

The Ukrainian cardinal was released from prison in 1963 only because Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev "decided'to pay homage to John XXIlI," said Cardinal Silvestrini.

Born in Zazdrist, Ukraine, in

1892, the cardinal was ordained to the priesthood in 1917. He was elected coadjutor archbishop of Lviv in 1939 and became head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church with the death of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky.

On April II, 1945, then-Archbishop Slipyj and all the Eastern rite bishops in Ukraine were arrested by communist authorities.

Pope John XXIII secretly named him a cardinal in 1960.

The pope's efforts to win his release from prison finally bore fruit and, after 18 years of incarceration, Cardinal Slipyj arrived in Rome in 1963.

At the next public consistory, held in 1965, Pope Paul VI formallyinstalled him in the College of Cardinals.

OBITUARY Joseph E. O'Boy The Mass of Christian Burial was offered Aug. 28 at St. Mary's Church, Taunton, for Joseph E. O'Boy, 47, a guidance counselor at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, who died Aug. 24 of a heart attack.

A Taunton native, he was the son of the late Francis J. and Mary V. (Bradley) O'Boy. He graduated from the former Coyle High School in Taunton, where he earned three varsity letters in football, and from Providence College, thereafter pursuing graduate studies at Bridgewater State College.

Following a decade as a social studies teacher at Taunton High School, he came to Feehan High in 1978, where he taught an honors class in American history and for many years was freshman football coach in addition to his work in guidance.

He is survived by two brothers, both of Taunton: Atty. Francis M. O'Boy and Paul B. O'Boy, viceprincipal at Feehan; and by four nieces.

Donations in his memory may be sent to the Feehan Scholarship Fund, 70 Holcott Dr., Attleboro 02703.

WASHINGTON (CNS) - The fourth draft of the U.S. Catholic bishops' proposed pastoral letter on women vigorously defends the church position that it cannot ordain women priests.

Like earlier drafts it condemns sexism in the church and society, but the new version also criticizes other views and attitudes in U.S. society that it considers harmful to women.

The fourth -draft was written this summer and sent in late August to the Administrative Committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, a 50-member committee that will set the agenda for the bishops' next national meeting in November.

The new text, intended for debate and a final vote at that meeting, was not immediately made public.

Catholic News Service obtained a copy from a source outside Washington.

The new version retains large portions of the third draft but also introduces several major changes in tone and content, based on criticisms of the third draft made by a number of bishops when they discussed the earlier version at the University of Notre Dame in June.

Significant changes in the 85page fourth draft - the third draft was 70 pages - include: - A major shift from the third draft's focus on sexism to a broader look at evils harming women.

- A move from a short, simple affirmation of the teaching on women's ordination to an extended defense of that teaching and rebuttal of counterarguments.

- In its response to the concerns of women, a shift from the approach of dialogue and shared examination that marked earlier drafts to an approach that emphasizes the bishops' responsibility to teach "fundamental truths about the human person and ... applications of these truths."

- The dropping of nearly all criticisms of alleged clerical insensitivity to women.

Major points of similarity or continuity between the third and fourth draft include: - Both condemn sexism and the equality and equal dignity of women and men.

- Both reject a "unisex" view of humanity, arguing that "the equality of women and men as persons is best served not by disregarding sexual difference but by taking this gift and reality into account."

- Both affirm a wider role for women in the church, within the limits set by the exclusion of women from ordained priesthood.

The committee of bishops assigned towrite the pastoral, headed

by Bishop Joseph L. Imesch of Joliet, Ill., began its work nearly nine years ago with nationwide consultations with Catholic women.

From the start, how it would handle the church's exclusion of women from priestly ordination was widely perceived as the most critical issue that it had to address.

Apparently in response to complaihts of several bishops that the third draft seemed to engage in "priest-bashing," the fourth eliminates most previous comments about the failure of some priests to be sensitive to the concerns of women or to treat them with the dignity and respect they deserve.

Also eliminated in the new text

is a statement in the third draft which was hailed by many who regard sexism among Catholic clergy as a major problem in the church.

The deleted statement said that "programs for the formation of candidates for the diaconate and priesthood should emphasize the importance of being able to work cooperatively with women. An incapacity to treat women as equals ought to be considered a negative indicator for fitness for ordination."

With regard to ordination of women to the priesthood, at least one bishop has expressed himself publicly in the matter. Writing in the Aug. 22 issue of America, a Jesuit Catholic weekly, Juneau, Alaska, Bishop Michael H. Kenny, who wrote before the fourth draft of the women's pastoral appeared, said he was leaning "more and more" against issuing the pastoral.

Bishop Kenny said the "understanding of ordained priesthood and how it relates to men and women" is one of two key questions at stake in the proposed pastoral.

"I am not at all satisfied with the rationale supporting the position that women are not called to the priesthood," Bishop Kenny said.

He said he agrees that the ordained priest has a "unique relationship" to Christ such that he acts "in the person of Christ" in ordained ministry.

"So far no problem." he said.

"But here is. where I lose it: The position goes on to assert that because Christ was male, the priest representing him to the community must also be male. I can't make that leap because it seems to be making too much of the maleness of Christ."

He said that for the. Savior to become a human being "he obviously had to be either male or female. Given the time and culture in which 'the Word was made flesh,' male may have been the best choice. But 'essential' to salvation's story? I don't think so."

Bishop Kenny said he was also dissatisfied with the argument that a 2,000-year history of not ordaining women is "evidence of a divine mandate and an unchangeable tradition."

"Quite frankly, I believe it would be easier to argue that the practice is an expression of a patriarchal era that tended to view females as inferior to males," he said.

He said it is one thing to cite as part of the faith a doctrine which has developed out of "years, even centuries, of reflection, discussion and sometimes controversy."

"Simply doing or not doing something does not of itself establish a clear and certain teaching," he said. "In the case of women's ordination, one would be hard put to find any serious and widespread examination prior to this century."

A related issue the proposed pastoral comes up against, he said, "has to do with church, with how the faith community deals with its most important matters."

"The practice now seems to be that once the pope or even a Roman congregation has spoken, . the subject is closed. This seems unhealthy and contrary to our earliest traditions," he said.

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"Communications is the basic work of the church, evangelization, the proclamation of the Gospel," he said. "We are not advocating boastfulness or a betrayal of confidentiality; we are advocating that we follow the Gt;lspel direc-

Hundreds attend funeral of Msgr. Anthony Gomes.

Golden chrysanthemums formed a Notre Dame football near the .bier of Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes as his body lay in state at Our Lady of Angels Church, Fall River, his parish home for 29 years; and the strains of the Notre Dame Fight Song, played at a slow tempo, accompanied his casket from the church after a Mass of Christian Burial concelebrated on Aug. 27 by 105 of his fellow priests.

"We accompany him now with our prayers, knowing he is praying for us," said Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, principal celebrant of the Mass, in brief remarks before the rite of final commendation that closed the funeral liturgy.

Eulogist for Msgr. Gomes, who died Aug. 23 after a long illness, was his close friend, Father John P. Driscoll, pastor ofSt. Lawrence parish, New Bedford, who took as his text words from the 25th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew: "I was hungry and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; naked and you covered me."

"God's work was never a burden to him," said Father Driscoll, in describing Msgr. Gomes' 23 years of work as assistant and then as director of the diocesan Catholic Charities Appeal.

"In one week alone," said the New Bedford pastor, "he made 600 telephone calls for the Appeal, cajoling, pressuring, because'I was hungry; I was thirsty; I was a stranger; I was naked,''' "What you saw was what you got," said Father Driscoll in describing Msgr. Gomes. "He was a down-to-earth man who cut

through talk and got quickly to the bottom line. He never let the word substitute for the deed."

The priest, who liked to call himself "a 'farm boy from Taunton," had "a mind like an IBM computer and a voracious appetite for work," said Father Driscoll in listing Msgr. Gomes commitments in addition to his parish duties.

Representatives ofthe many organizations the pastor served, as well as state and civic dignitaries were in attendance at his crowded funeral liturgy. A five-person delegation from the University of Notre Dame attested to his lifelong loyalty to his alma mater, which he served for many years as football team chaplain. Knights of Columbus formed an honor guard for his casket and Massachusetts State Police escorted his funeral cortege to St. Joseph's Cemetery, Taunton.

"His faith was rooted in the deep faith of his Portuguese ancestry," said Father Driscoll. The Portuguese influence was reflected in the traditional celebration held at Catholic Charities Appeal headquarters as, year after year, the drive topped its previous total.

There was champagne, yes, but also sweet bread and malacadas, recalled Rosann Patota and Fern White, longtime workers in the Appeal office.

"There is a mosaic of Christ in triumph at the Notre Dame University campus chapel," said Father Driscoll in closing. "I like to think that Christ welcomed Msgr. Gomes with the words, 'Well done, good and faithful servant,' but also with the exclamation, 'Tony, touchdown!'"

Priests discuss service HALIFAX, Nova Scotia(CNS) - Priests' representatives from 17 countries recently met for six days in Halifax, but they didn't make any motions or pass any resolutions.

Instead, they gathered to promote a spirit of fraternity and discussed how to better serve people in their countries.

They met in early August for the fourth meeting ofthe International Assembly of Priests' Representatives from English-Speaking Countries.

The representatives - members of national priests' councils, conferences and federations - hailed from such countries as Australia, England, Wales, Nigeria, South Africa, Canada, Swaziland and the United States. They repre- .

sented countries where English is the official language or where the liturgies are normally conducted in English.

In the keynote address, retired Archbishop James M. Hayes of Halifax reminded delegates of the Second Vatican Council's impact on the priesthood.

"When we stopped muttering Latin over infants and couples at their weddings and corpses, we did more than make the prayer intelligible," he said. "We placed ourselves in the same world as the other worshipers," To those who may fear the dream of Vatican II is slipping away, the archbishop, paraphrasing Yogi Berra, said simply, "This council ain't over till it's over,"

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Father Daniel L. Freitas, diocesan director of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, led a delegation of members from various areas ofthe Fall River diocese attending the Vincentians' 78th annual gathering, this year in San Antonio.

'Archbishop Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, told participants that the needs and the numbers of those they serve should be more widely publicized.

"There are too few of you and your work is too little known," he said in his address.

Among Archbishop Foley's suggestions were that local conferences of the society publish annual reports in parish bulletins and community newspapers; that periodic appeals be made on behalf of the poor; and that radio, television and newspapers be used to seek help for recruitment and collection efforts.

Even videos might .be used to reach an increasingly mediaconscious society, he said.

Biographical videos on Frederic Ozanam, the society's founder, and on the work of the St. Vincent de Paul Society might be developed economically with the cooperation of European television networks, according to Archbishop Foley.

Quoting from a pastoral instruction issued earlier this year by his council called "Aetatis Novae," which means "At the dawn of a new era," Archbishop Foley said

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Back to School Fewer teachers, larger classes; more security, increased crime; reduced programs, less choice: the public schools' litany of woe lengthens and the problems simply will not go away.

Systems that enjoyed unlimited financial aid have found out the hard way that money was not the sole solution to crime and drugs in the classroom.

Schools that espoused student freedom have experienced insurrections. Finally, with teachers unable to exert control, police have frequently had to take over school hallways.

What has happened to so many public schools is simply horrendous. Even though the Catholic school system receives no state or federal aid, the parents of its pupils still pay taxes to support public education, a fact often overlooked.

We, as a church family, in addition to supporting our own schools, are concerned for the Catholic youngsters who attend public schools. We consider our parish-based religious education programs for these students a top priority. The need for them becomes more apparent daily as the public school classroom's ability to teach moral and ethical guidelines declines.

The concept that education involves formation of the entire child has been all but demolished by lawsuits brought by parties whose sole interest is the continued secularization of the public school system. As schools have been forced to divest themselves of all religious influences by successive court actions, so too have they failed more and more in their responsibility to form the whole person.

The recent action' in Rhode Island putting a stop to any reference to the divine at graduation ceremonies is yet another step towards the ultimate abandonment of any fundamental guidelines seeking to help students shape their lives rightly.

The situation underlines the pressing necessity for the continued existence of parochial schools. Our society is decaying and our public schools can do little about it since they have been morally neutralized. Paradoxical as it may seem, parochial and private schools offer the only true expression of constitutional freedoms in our current educational system.

The concept that the parent, not the school, is the prime educator of the child, gives the educational process its direction. Dedicated to wholeness as well as holiness, Catholic education is formative for the entire per~on. It encourage~, supports and promotes a value system which results in fewer dropouts, just 3 percent, compared to the national average of 14 percent. As an added bonus for those seeking to share in the rainbow of opportunities that only America offers, 83 percent of Catholic high school students go on to college.

It should be obvious that such a system should be encouraged and assisted. As a church family, we must not take the easy road and simply close schools because they can't make it by themselves. New avenues of monetary support should be developed, new outreaches for government aid should be initiated and those who have benefited from Catholic schools should donate some of what they have gained.

Our self-supported, tax-ignored schools are making a difference in this country, even though that difference is largely unrecognized by the secular state.

Le.t us not stand silently by as our schools wither for lack of encouragement and funding. Let us spread the good news of their accomplishments and bring them the recognition and attention they deserve.

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By Father Kevin J. Harrington

The fourth draft of a pastoral letter on the role of women has been' written by a committee of United States bishops. No letter has created more controversy nor taken so much time to write as this one.

Liberals and conservatives have been debating the topic for nine years and in mid-September the 50-member bishops' administrative committee will discuss the new draft to determine if it should be debated by the full conference of bishops in late November.

The latest effort includes a new section that criticizes those who insist upon identical treatment of men and women or who minimize or deny differentiation between the sexes.

This particular section will no doubt be hotly debated by radical feminists who often equate women's liberation with the freedom to engage in sexual intercourse without fear of pregnancy. It will no doubt also be ridiculed by the secular media that exalt individual rights over communal responsibilities.

Unfortunately, what will not be underscored in the secular media is the enormous progression in emphasis on women's dignity and rights from the documents of the Second Vatican Council up to the encyclicals of our present pope.

The Council rightly acknowledged women's emerging role in society as among signs of the times meriting sympathetic attention, while five years ago Pope John Paul II wrote in Redemptoris Mater: "In the light of Mary, the Church sees in the face of women the reflection of a beauty which mirrors the loftiest sentiments of which the human heart is capable: the self-offering totality of love; the strength that is capable of bearing the greatest sorrows; limitless fidelity and tireless devotion

to work; the' ability to combine penetrating intuition with words of support and encouragement."

The Holy Father can hardly be called a sexist bigot after penning such words; however, if the truth be told, the Church as well as most social institutions has its work cut out for it if it is to come to terms with the women's movement.

The movement has elements consistent with Judaeo-Christian principles. No one should object to its struggle for equality of pay or its efforts to overcome discrimination or sexual harassment in the workplace. But other issues often depicted as concerns of women are anathema to JudaeoChristian principles.

For example, some agenda items of the National Organization of Women, such as abortion on demand, should never be classified among women's rights.

Radical feminists applauded the Defense Department's decision not to exempt reservists called to active duty during the Persian Gulf War even ifthose reservists were mothers of infants. At the risk of being

prayer~BOX For Understanding God of justice, grant us the patience to look for the deeper causes that create pain and suffering for the poor andlowly ofthe world.

Help us to act in ways that enable all to share the beauty of the earth, and all creation to live in harmony.

Amen.

labeled a male chauvinist pig, I hereby state my opinion that that decision was nothing less than barbaric. Radical feminists advocate removal of all gender-based exemptions and protections, but in doing so are ignoring the fact that women and men are significantly different in many ways.

Neither sex is better than the other; each complements the other.

The new draft of the women's pastoral letter asserts that sexism cannot be combated by exalting the gifts and traits of women while belittling the gifts and traits of men. The unique strengths 'of men and women should complement each other in marriage, work and service to the church. We need to celebrate our giftedness as created in the image ofGod: a God depicted by analogy as father-like without lacking the advantages of being mother-like.

In short, both genders benefit when differences are seen less as a source of contention than as a call to complementarity for the good of society. .

"What harm?"

WARSAW, Poland (CNS) Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Warsaw has criticized a decision to put rules governing teaching religion in public s.chools to a constitutional test. "Wh.at harm is being done by religion, that it should have to go before a tribunal?" asked the cardinal. Religion classes were reintroduced to public schools on voluntary basis two years ago in .Poland under an agreement between' church and education ministry officials. Since then, at least 80 percent of students have chosen to attend the classes. But it has now been ruled that children will have to choose between classes in religion or ethics when the new school year starts.

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Looking back at different moments in this history we might be tempted to put down the actions of some who were not at our present level. Who today, for instance, would send a runaway slave back to his master? Why didn't Paul knowing how Jesus wished everyone to be free - use the event as an occasion to condemn such unchristian practices?

The answer is simple: the Lord had not disclosed his entire plan to Paul. Like us, the apostle operated only at a certain level of God's revelation. But his total dedication to Jesus guaranteed that we who followed would one day be working at a different level. One insight of that dedication, that the faith made everyone - slaves, masters and apostles - brothers and sisters, would eventually lead all Christians to abolish an institution which Paul could never have imagined being abolished.

Perhaps Jesus is not commanding his present followers to "hate" their family members. He's more likely commanding us to "hate" our traditions and theologies; to die to anything which keeps us

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Pro-life events scheduled As the Respect Life Month of October approaches, the diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate, headed by Father Stephen A. Fernandes, is again planning partici pation in the annual Respect Life Walk to be held in Boston Oct. 4. The apostolate will also sponsor a speaker training workshop for persons interested in giving presentations on pro-life topics.

Respect Life Walk As in previous years, the walk will be led by Boston Cardinal Bernard Law and officials of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, which organizes the event. It will begin with a rally at I p.m., followed at 2 p.m. by the walk, to cover a 3.5mile course beginning and ending at Boston Common.

Walkers may solicit sponsors, with proceeds donated to a prolife agency of their choice.

Many diocesan parishes will •provide bus transportation for parishioners to join marchers from all over the state. Among parishes expected to have their own buses are St. Patrick's, Somerset; St. Dominic's, Swansea; St: James and St. Mary's, New Bedford; Corpus Christi, Sandwich; and Christ the King, Mashpee.

Diocesans interested in attending should contact parish pro-life representatives or area coordinators: Marian Desrosiers (Cape Cod), 888-2549; Jim Wasel (Fall River), 676-8958; Peter Zajac (New Bedford); 994-0160; Doreen Bis-

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I r.eceived a really different gift this year - a gift of time. For the first time in my life I went on'sabbatical, taking a three-month hiatus from my intense work schedule.

When I say this was the first time I had a real vacation, I am not kidding.

I began mothering at 8, helping my mother care for my six younger

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.·.Lear:l1ing :.to:enjoy'.Go,d'sgiff of.·'ti~in.e· I vividlY.remember a few years" :siblings untiiI was"19.Theiii got' '. "I. ~as g'r~wing:in many dire~tions. martiedarid had seven children.of. .Because of that .attitude, my self- .back when my daughter'Mary was . still livjng with me. It happened to my own. ". . " . ' esteem got a real shot in the arm.

Raising, supporting and educat-·· While I always thought I would . be'a balmy winter day, and I didn't .ing a bigfamily has been a nonstop . feel diminished if "were not at- 'want to be at the computer." . responsibility, and I used to joke, . tached to an 'organization or a I wanted to listen to good music, "What's a vacation?" . . group of working colleagues, I read a'book, write letters and have But for three months this year I discovered this was not the case. tea with my daughter. Mary was in. took time off and loved it. Some of Quite the contrary, I felt more the same mood, and so we had tea. . the people who know me predicted alive than ever and suddenly very We talked about how long it had been since either of us had taken a I wouldn't stay away from my job. free. that long, preferring work to The nice part about that free- day off. dom was what happened to me on leisure. .

But what we really were asking How wrong they were! I loved the inside. Once the trap of dead- is whether we were finding the being in charge of my schedule, lines was gone, I could give the time to reflect on what. our lives being able to meditate, read, walk, right side ormy brain some leeway. are about, and what makes life My creative, imaginative and have tea, waste time or dream. For worth living. We admitted that in giving so much to our jobs, we the first time ever, I came first. spiritual energies started functionwere crowding out our friends, And I learned something no one ing as if they had been let out of a ourselves and God. could have taught me. Because I cage. I felt a new wholeness, and it I took that day and savored it. I was "being," and not just "doing," was good.

sh~tdown the treadmIll for that' day ana meditated on God and the blessings of my life.

That,'s 'what I. did during my sabbatical too. I prayed a lot, studied, learned, cleaned house, visited long-lost friends, spent some time with my ailing mother .and played with grandchildren.

My sabbatical was a time of discovery that life is rich and full of beauty - God's smorgasbord at which we are invited to feast.

I'm back at work. But now I realize that when I retire it will be just one more phase of a continuing adventure - a time to proceed in my training to become a fully formed human being without the distraction of punching a clock.

College students demand money's worth in education By DOLORES CURRAN

In an unusual protest, students at Monmouth College in New Jersey have petitioned for tougher exams. That's right, tougher exams.

It seems that some of their profs have gotten into the habit of giving multiple choice tests, scanning them electronically, and recording the grade that pops up. This way, they never need to read a student's paper.

Students are accusing them of professional negligence. "They're too lazy to read essays," said one studeftt. "We pay stiff tuition to learn but they don't care what we

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN Q. Is it right for the tabernacle to be placed on the side of the altar? I know this is done on Holy Thursday, but in my parish the tabernacle is on the left side almost permanently.

My belief is that it should be on the center of the far wall of the sanctuary. (Ohio) A. The church has clear guidelines on the placing ofthe tabernacle. They arise from two facts.

The first and main purpose of

By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY Dear Dr. Kenny: What is your opinion about video games? Two things alarm me as a parent. First, our son is like an addict. He plays intensely by the hour. Second, I hear him speaking a strange language, using words I have never heard before.

I worry that he is retreating in-

are thinking. So they give us 'multiple-guess' tests instead."

Professors respond by pointing out the time constraints in reading essay tests and I must confess some empathy with them. Recalling my years as a teacher of advanced composition and correcting papers during breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I know how time consuming essays are to read and evaluate.

I suspect that the students' rancor comes as much from the impersonality of computer-scored tests . as it does from not being probed for their thinking. Students around the country complain about pro. fessors who never learn their names~ "I sat in two of his classes with , about 30 others," said a senior of a professor, "and I don't think he ever called any of us by name. He taught a subject, not students."

I admire the Monmouth students for calling professors to accountability. With college costs today, students deserve better than computer-scanned exams. As efficient as educational technology may seem, good education requires give and take between human minds.

One way to meet students' demands and address the pressures on teachers is to give short answer tests with a final essay question to indicate the student's grasp of the subject and its application to today's world and his or her ability to express both clearly.

I have always preferred a final paper to an exam, anyway. Students can stay up all night, fortified by gallons of coffee, memorizing details which they promptly forget on leaving the test room.

Most of us are able to memorize

facts for short-term retrieval. What we need to know for the future is how to ffnd information, analyze it, and express it meaningfully. A paper achieves these goals more effectively than a test.

Tests evaluate memory more than understanding. That's why good adult education rarely involves exams as we know them.

More commonly, adults in graduate and other courses today are invited to bring along their notes and materials to use while writing an essay. I like the idea. If they have been attentive students they will know where to find what they need.

A couple of years ago, I taught an adult course on family ministry at our local semInary. Sitting in front of me were clergy, religious, and laity with far more degrees than I own. Most didn't need

another degree but took the course for expanded ministry.

I had no intention of assigning papers or giving tests. I assumed these students were there to learn, not to echo back what they thought I wanted to hear. Then I learned that for them to obtain graduate credit, I had to assign a paper of at least 10 pages.

Reluctantly, I did so but I required that they write on something they could use in their immediate ministry, not a paper for me but something to benefit them: I was impressed with their papers, which ranged from projected family retreats to helping parents rear gang-free kids. I learned later that many of them implemented these projects successfully in their ministry. A multiple-choice test would never have accomplished that.

The placement of the tabernacle in church our church buildings is not to provide a place for keeping the Blessed Sacrament. It is rather the home where the local community of faithful gather each Sunday to hear the word of God and to celebrate the Eucharist together.

The architecture and arrangement of everything in the church should reflect that primary purpose.

Second, the location for reserving the Eucharist should 'not conflict with the symbolism of what is happening at the Mass or distract from the focus on the altar and, at appropriate times, on the place for the reading of Scripture.

It is in accord with these principles that the church addresses the question of where to put the tabernacle.

The General Instruction of the Roman Missal states that, where

possible, "it is highly recommended that the holy Eucharist be reserved in a chapel suitable for private adoration and prayers."

Another instruction ofthe Sacred Congregation of Rites recommended that the tabernacle be placed in a chapel apart from the main body of the church, especially where there are frequent funerals and weddings, or in places that are visited frequently because of their artistic or historic treasures. (Eucharisticum Mysterium, 1967, n. 53) Finally, a major instruction from the Vatican congregation on the sacraments and liturgy,addressed to conferences of bishops, notes some locations for the tabernacle that violate the norms.

Those include "tabernacles placed in front of the altar, sometimes on a slightly lower pedestal,

sometimes on another altar at a lower level and used in conjunction with the altar of celebration; finally, tabernacles built into the wall of the apse or those placed upon an already existing altar having the celebrant's chair in front of or below it." (N otitiae (1965) 257-264) This seems to exclude the kind of arrangement you suggest.

Please note, however, that one would have no foundation to claim that placement of the tabernacle contrary to these recommendations is "against the law." , Those guidelines simply try to point out what would best reflect good liturgical sense.

The 1967 instruction I mentioned above, for example, explicitly states it is lawful to celebrate Mass facing the people even on an

altar where there is a small but becoming tabernacle.

Even here, however, "on the grounds of the sign value, it is more in keeping with the nature of the celebration that, through reservation of the sacrament in the tabernacle, Christ not be present eucharistically from the beginning on the altar where Mass is celebrated. That presence is the effect of the consecration and should appear as such." (54-55) A free brochure explaining Catholic teaching and practice on annulments is available by sending a self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to the same address.

Are video games harmful? to a make-believe world. Your thoughts would be appreciated.

-Ohio Video games are everywhere, from shopping mall arcades to most family rooms. They are mor'ally neutral, with several positive potentials.

One obvious potential would be the opportunity for you as a parent to spend time with your child.

The first step in learning video games is to master the lingo. Your son will, no doubt, be happy to teach you.

Then let him teach you how to play. Of course, he will beat you badly and probably be scornful of

your meager abilities, but that won't warp your parental authority in other areas one iota. Rather, it will give him some self-confidence. How often does your son get a chance to best you at something?

As you play, you may be amazed at what sharp reflexes your son has. You are taking time to think it through while he has already responded.

Video games sharpen reflexes.

They teach rapid reaction time.

This is a useful skill in many adult tasks.

Video games, for better or worse,

also teach competition, an approach to life in terms of winners and losers. Here is a danger not just of video games, but of our entire society: that children will grow up to see everything as competitive, that instead of loving their neighb.or, they will see him as an adversary, one who must be defeated if we are to prosper.

If you have a personal computer, you and your son can explore the world of computer games.

While viOeo games focus on competition and reaction time, computer games teach problem solving. Often teamwork, as opposed to competition, is rewarded. The

satisfaction and joy come from figuring things out.

Computer games can lead to an interest in programming. You and your son can design programs to solve household problems or even make up your own computer games.

If you fear that your son spends too much time at video games, limit the time to one hour per day.

If he wishes more time, let him earn it by doing his chores properly or by doing other things that you want of him.

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"The shortest answer is doing."Lord Herbert

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Commonwealth are amazed at the THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Sept. 4, 1992 actions of our chief executive who ' -'_ . is frolicking about the country and state preaching the doctrine that abortion rights are here to stay.

WATERFORD CRYSTAL Only last week he spoke at the Republican NJ1tional Convention, CHRISTMAS 1992 asking that the delegates add to "NINE'LADIES DANCING" their platform "abortion rights" for citizens who seek to abort their ORNAMENT $40.00 pregnancy, resulting in the slaughBELL 75DO tering of the unborn.

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He has previously made known '1-508-678-4096 .,. that he favors legalizing abortions EXECUTIVE PLAZA. 101 PRESIDENT AVE.• FALL RIVER, MA02720 of nine-month pregnancies. He was a strong supporter of the issuance of condoms to our schoolchildren even though these contraceptives had a potential breakage point of up to 30 percent, making the users unwilling players of Russian roulette, with the top prize the contracting of the AIDS virus. His latest escapade was his appearance August ?5, 1992 at the Republican convention where he sought unsuccessfully to place the abortion issue on the platform.

Dear Children!

Wouldn't it be better for the unemployed, the homeless, and Today, I wish to tell you that I love the poverty-stricken people of the you. I love you with my motherly love, state if the governor would stay at and I call upon you to open yourselves completely to me home and help the people of our state, instead of trying to bolster so that through each of you I may be enabled to convert up his political future? and save the world, where there is much sin and many Secretary, Thomas A. Walsh things that are evil.' Therefore, my dear children, open Morality in Media yourselves completely to me so that I may be able to lead of Mass.

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The Lord's Prayer

Seeing your picture in the media and listening to your homily on TV enhanced God's love in me. I thank the Almighty for having chosen you as our spiritual leader.

You are a representative with a wonderful sense of humor, humble, a down-to-earth person, one of wisdom, dignity, courage; also gracious, humane, kindhearted, all profusely impressive indeed. '.

You will entice your flock to restore their lost faith, refresh the spirit, enliven understanding. I was told you are a bishop who will be a pastoral bishop, as the people in your congregation will be your first concern, making a personal effort to end their woeful state and bring back those who· neglected God. One appreciated fact is that you shun the luxuries of life and settle for the mere necessities. The Virgin Islands are not to be compared to Fall River [but] no doubt you will miss the beauty of the Islands.

God bless you and keep you in His care while you lead us piously on the pathway of life which will take us to the gateway of heaven.

Madeline Lagueux Westport

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Dear Editor: Re: letter of John F. O'Riordan, Aug. 28.

How difficult it. is for us to accept change in things that have become part of our culture. We even begin to think that because we have always known them as they are now, they must always have been so. This is certainly the case when it comes to something so familiar to us as the English form of the Lord's Prayer.

Up to the time of the Reformation in England, although there were many different translations of the Lord's Prayer, none ofthem had very wide usage, for even among the common people, the prayer was generally said in Latin.

Allow me to cite a few examples of the first line of some early English versions: About 1400 Fader oure that art in hevene halwed be thi name...

First quarter ofthe 16th century Our Father that art in heaven, Thy name be hallowed... " Our Fader that art in Heven, sanctified be thi Name...

Our fader that arte in heven, holy be made thy name...

Second quarter of the 16th! Dear Editor: century The Mail Packet recently pubOur Father whiche arte in lished letters from readers suggest- . heven, halowed be thy name... ing that: Our Father that art in • Significant numbers ofCathoMrs. Martina B. Grover, a heaven, Thy name be hah lics are atheists teacher at St~ Mary's School in lowed...

• Democrats are godless mis- Taunton for 18 years and a member ,The form of the Lord's Prayer creants of St. Peter's parish in Dighton, with which we are familiar today is essentially the form which was • Cardinal Weakland utters has been appointed principal of St. Mary's, succeeding William J. imposed on England by the royal falsehoods and Ruggiero. decree of King Henry VIII. It was • Much that is wrong with us is accepted equally by English CathoA graduate of Lowell State due to the media. lics and Protestants.

Teachers' College with graduate The use of the pronoun Thou I'm glad we got all that cleared studies in education from Boston (with the attendant cases Thee, up. Now we can begin to deal with College and Bridgewater State Thy, Thine) has gone through a the trifles such as peace, justice, College, Mrs. Grover taught in curious history. Originally it was intolerance, racism, world hunger several area public school systems simply the second person singular .and the domestic economy. before she began teaching at Holy pronoun and was used as such in Edward P. McDonagh Union Primary School in Fall Old English. During the period of Cumberland, RI River.

Middle English (up to about the From there she moved to St. time of Shakespeare), the plural Mary·s. where she has earned the form (Ye, You, Your, Yours) gradreputation of being firm but fair in her classroom approach. ually took over in addressing a Dear Editor: superior and later an equal, but She has been awarded the MarThe Catholic voters of our the singular forms were retained in ian Medal for her contribution of addressing an inferior, an intimate, time and talent to various church programs and is a past president of or a family member (parents to DAILY READINGS children, etc.). the Taunton District Council of The curiosity is that What used Catholic Women. to be considered a familiar form of Mrs. Grover and her husband Sept.

7: 1 Cor 5: 1-8; Ps address (the singular), has now William are the parents of three 5:5-6,7,12; lk 6:6-11 come to be regarded as most forchildren and have two grandmal, and what was considered as , . children.

Sept 8: Mi 5:1-4 or Rom formal (the plural), ill now.he 8:28-30; Ps 13:6; Mt 1:1ordinary. This change has become 16,18-23 so complete that some regional dialects treat You as a singular and Sept. 9: 1 Cor 7:25-31; Ps attempt a formal rendering, or a 45:11-12,14-17; lk 6:20-26 plural, as You all or Youse.

English is a living language, and Sept. 10: 1 Cor 8:1-7,11to give life and spontaneity to 13; Ps 139:1-3,13-14,23-24; prayer, sometimes the venerable .Lk 6:39-42 old forms have to be replaced for the generation to come by the Sept. 11: 1Cor9:16-19,22idiom of the day.

27; Ps 84:3-6,8,12; lk 6:39-42 Rev. Martin Buote Sept. 12: 1 Cor 10:14-22; St. Anne's Church New Bedford Ps 116:12-13,17-18; lk6:43-

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Welcome, Bishop Dear Editor: Welcome to our midst, Your Excellency Bishop Sean O'Malley.

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GREAT FEAST: at top left, spectators line South Main Street near St. Anne's Church, awaiting the procession which concluded the Aug. 28 to 30 Great Feast of the Holy Ghost in Fall River. Bishop O'Malley viewed the procession (right) from a reserved box with Providence Bishop Louis E. Gelineau and Archbishop D. Eurico'Dias Nogueira of Braga, Portugal. The feast, begun six years ago when Portuguese parishes that held separate Holy Ghost feasts combined their celebrations, drew 91 Portuguese groups from

around the United States and Canada and featured ethnic displays and foods all weekend at Kennedy Park. Other photos show scenes from the feast Mass celebrated at St. Anne's by Archbishop Nogueira and Bishops O'Malley and Gelineau, arrival of procession participants at St. Anne's Church; Bishop O'Malley and Msgr. John J. Oliveira passing crowds on S,outh Main St. (Hickey photos)

Bishop O'Malley speaksin North Attleboro

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there were no other schools. So active in the community, was there that' belonged to his great-grand- ful church of St. Mary. We know when I watch the news and see the all the time. She was very friendly, father. So he goes to a pawnbroker that Our Lady who stood by the faces of those people, I know what outgoing and always wore that and he sells his watch and with Cross is with us, with her children: shawl. After many years of work- that money he bought some beau- She will be our comfort and our they've gone through. ing in that parish and, knowing tiful combs for his wife to wear in strength.

So I ask you the people, the Maria very well, the old lady got her beautiful blonde hair. In the Before I leave the pulpit, I would Catholics of Fall River, to reach sick and she died. At the wake I meantime his wife had gone to a' just like to say one word about out to help them in a sign of love Thank you very much, Father was very shocked to discover, as wigmaker and had her hair cut off something else. I have asked that a and solidarity.

Tetrault, my brother priests and were all the other parishioners that and bought a gold chain for his collection be taken up at all Masses sisters and beloved parishioners of God bless you. God bless your had known this lady so well, that pocket watch. this weekend so that we might help St. Mary's parish. I am very pleased parish.

I look forward to coming The story is a beautiful parable the victims ofthe recent hurricane. to be here today. For a long time I she only had one hand. The other back in the future to get to know hand was amputated, probably of the Incarnation and of Jesus When Hurricane Hugo struck in have wanted to come and visit when she was a young woman or who makes himself poor and little the West Indies, I was on [the you personally. In the meantime I your parish. child. We never knew. . for the sa kp of His people. island of) St. Croix. The destruc- ask for your prayers and thank It's a very significant date in my tion was massive. We were many you for all of your good wishes I suppose what shocked us more Today's Gospel tells us about life because today is the annivermonths without elec'tricity, with- during this time since my instalwas not the fact that she was an God's love, tells us that God is sary of my ordination. I was lation. out telephone, without water. amputee, but the fact that she had humble, that love requires humil, ordained 22 years ago today and I want you to know you are very so effectively concealed that from ity. It tells us that God's love has We lived on peanut butter and am filled with the spirit of thanksclose to my heart. I think often of all her friends around the com- no strings attached. That is the Boston baked beans and we were giving for the priesthood. your pastor and the people of this munity for so long.

As I stood love we must imitate.

Jesus tells us glad to get that.

The airports were Tuesday will also be my third there in front of the coffin, I to seek out the last place and if we destroyed, the towers left in pieces. parish. I pray for your pastor and anniversary, three weeks in Fall thought ofthat story in the Gospel do that we will be close to Jesus One of the first planes to land was the people of this parish. I pray for River. It's been three very busy about the man in the synagogue because He always sought the last a plane with a big Domino's pizza you every day. God bless you. weeks; it seems almost like years who had the withered hand. When place. sign. The door opened and out or decades. But I'm very happy to Jesus went to the synagogue, he He emptied himself and took on came Cardinal Law of Boston. share this day with this community. called the man forth and he told . the form of a slave. He made himEveryone asked him for pizza. He , I have always liked the story of a OUR LADY'S him to hold out his hand. The self poor for the sake of the beloved. hadn't brought any, but he had certain Father Garcia, the priest in man, not sure, very reluctantly Jesus tells us when you give a RELIGIOUS STORE brought generators and a check a border town in Texas who marand perhaps ashamed, held out his banquet, don't invite only those for $100,000 from Catholics of ried in the parish a couple named Mon. ,- Sat. 10:00 - 5:30 P.M, withered hand and then Christ neighbors who can reciprocate and Boston to help victims of the Juan and Maria. The years passed made him whole. have you over for a soiree at their hurricane.

GIFTS and Juan and Maria had no childWe hope that as the victims of house. Invite the poor, the sick, As bishop of St. Thomas, I ren. It was a source of great sorrow CARDS child abuse in our community come the people who are crippled, the received so much help from dioto them. forward, that they will experience people who aren't going to be able ceses all over the country and with So when Father Garcia came to that money we were able to feed say farewell and announce that he the healing power of Christ mak- to pay you back.

So often people are looking for thousands of people, to house was returning to his native Mex- ing them whole.

673-4262 , As I looked at Maria's coffin, I an angle. What's in it for me? hundreds of people and to open ico, they said," Father, when you 936 So. Main St.. Fall River What can I get out of it? Jesus tells our Catholic schools which operget to Mexico please go to the thought how tragic it was that she never shared her pain with anyone. us that love must be guileless, ated in tents for three years when Shrine of Our Lady and light a uncalculated, no strings attached, candle there for Our Lady of She may have feared that we would we knew.

But have loved her less if unconditional. Jesus is constantly Guadalupe and say a prayer that teaching us about love in the Gosour ma~riage would be blessed that wasn't true-we would have loved her even more. . pels. In the synoptic Gospels, the with children."

As the victims of these terrible first three Gospels of Matthew, Father Garcia did just that. Many Mark and Luke, there's one lesson years later he returned to the little crimes come to grips with their village on the border of Texas past and the consequences of their about love in which Jesus is teachwhere he had been pastor and suffering because of their sad exper- ing us about love for strangers. If iences, we come today to say that you only greet the brother you went to visit Juan and Maria.

Personal, auto, mortgage, student -loans God does not love you less, but know, what are you doing that's so .

When he got to their house, he from Citizens-Union Savings Bank. was very surprised because there that he loves you more. We love exceptional? Love the poor, as we heard in today's Gospel, love ene- , were children everywhere, climb- you more.

We understand your anger, your mies. Love your enemies! Bless ing out the windows and running disappointment, your frustration. those who curse you! through the patio and yard. ,,,,,,HOUSING LENDER. When we come to St. John's Member FDIC/DIFM He knocked at the door. Maria We know that words are always Gospel, the last Gospel that's writcame to the door looking sort of very feeble; that your pain and suften, there's only one kind of love haggard. Father Garcia asked if all fering are very personal and can be he's talking about. This is the fratthese children were theirs. Maria completely shared only by those who have also been victimized. ernal love that must exist among said, "Yes, they are all our childAn African priest once told me Jesus' disciples. In John's Gospel, ren." He asked where Juan was. about a certain preacher in his vil- Jesus washes the feet of his disci"Well," she said, "Juan went to lage and when one of his commun- ples to teach us to love one another, Mexico to put that candle out." ity would lose a member of their to wash each other's feet.

We have come here today not to family-child, a relative-this This is the reason our parishes put a candle out but perhaps to preacher would go to comfort them. exist: to love one another, to bear light one and to ask for a miracle.

He would always tell them to one another's burdens, to particiWe ask that the healing power of "Give it to God." Then one day his pate in the household offaith, and Our Lord come to our community Offices at550 Fish Rd., Tiverton son died in a tragic accident and he to have a special sense of duty, and especially to our brothers and was inconsolable. The people were brotherhood and responsibility sisters whose lives have been broken Heating Oil • Diesel Fuel so concerned about him. They towards each other. by child abuse and to their famicame to him and said to him, Gasoline 10 days ago I met with About lies, to their friends', to their fellow "When our children died, our loved some of the victims at the Catheparishioners. I have come in the Automatic Delivery dral and I told them, "I am your name of the church, as your bishop, ones died, you said, 'Give it to God.''' The man said, "But my son Budget Plans 0 0 0 Bishop," and I repeat that today. to ask forgiveness of all of those We have a great responsibility for who have been harmed and to was studying at the university."

Sales, Service & Installation of Oil Heating Systems It's very hard to know someone one another. invite everyone to work for recon- else's pain until you have expeTo me one of the most touching ciliation. scenes in films, in Father flanaIn today's world we know much rienced the same thing. Without gan's Boys' Town, is when a young more about pedophilia, about wanting to be presumptuous today lad is carrying a little child on his sexual abuse, and we pledge our- I'm inviting those who are victims Pharmacy .E"s~'~lZ.~::r~~:CISTS shoulders. Father Flanagan is sayselves to work with victims, with to nail their hurt on the cross ing he's too heavy. The boy resall people of good will to make our because Jesus has told us, "Come Invalid Equipment For' Rent or Sale to me all of you who are heavy ponds, "Father, he ain't heavy; community safer for children. he's my brother."

Sur,ic.1 c.rmenls - Bird. IPPI M.chines Jobst Even now the diocese is working burdened and I will refresh you."

Our parishes must be communito develop and refine policies that By his stripes we are healed. His _ ~ • Hollisler - Crutches - (1lSlic Slockin,s ties of love, of caring, of forwill help us. Msgr. Hoye has been suffering, His love can make us Sur,ic.1 & Orthopedic Appli.nces giveness.

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I was touched and I'm sure lady in that parish, an elderly lady. life. They really have nothing, yet 550 MeArt"ur Bird., Itt.. 21, Pocass.t - 513·2203 that all of those who saw it, that It was a Spanish community. Most as Christmas draws near, they are 30 Main St., Orl.lns - 25H132 letter, were comforted. I hope that of the older women wore what anxious to get a wonderful gift to they called a rebozo. It is like a give to their beloved. The young we can continue to work apd pray 509 Kempton St., N•• Bedford - 113-0492 shawl and they would wrap them- man has no money. The only thing in confidence for that healing that ~ce-ooo, (pARAMOUNT PHARMACY) selves up in it. we all long for here in this Church of value that he owns is an old gold This particular lady was very pocket watch, a family heirloom dedicated to Our Lady, the beautiThe following is the text of a homily given by Bishop Sean O'Malley at a Mass of healing and reconciliation he celebrated Aug. 29 at St. Mary's Church, North Attleboro.

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Picking up pieces Continued from Page One In Louisiana, where Andrew hit two days later, 25,000 people were homeless, many because of flooding in houses that had little structural damage. An estimated 56,000 were without power Aug. 30.

Damage costs are estimated in the tens of billions of dollars for the two states.

Fourteen parishes and a half dozen other church-related buildings in south Florida suffered damage ranging from blown-off roofs to the three feet of water that inundated Our Lady of Charity Shrine, said Mary Ross Agosta, spokeswoman for the archdiocese of Miami.

St. John Vianney Seminary in Miami suffered about $1.25 million worth of damage, mostly from broken windows, doors and roofs.

St. Ann's Nursing Center and Residence also has broken windows, roofs and walls, forcing 200 residents into alternate quarters.

Once people's immediate needs for food, water and shelter were eased, the archdiocese gave priority to getting churches in some sort of working order and reopening schools.

Already, all but one ofthe archdiocese's 34 day-care centers had reopened, said Mrs. Agosta. Sept.

14 is targeted as the goal for resuming school.

Most Catholic churches and schools in the Lafayette, La., diocese had some damage, according to spokeswoman Una Hargrave.

The worst damage seems to have been a roof blown off the cafeteria and several classrooms at St. Edward's School in New Iberia.

Flooding was the big problem in the diocese of Houma, La., according to emergency services coordi nator Jennifer Gaudet. Residents helped by volunteers such as a crew from Loyola University in New Orleans attacked a trail of sticky, black goo left as oily mud and water receded.

Ceiling tiles from the gaping roof fell around Archbishop McCarthy at an Aug. 30 Mass at Christ the King Parish in Perrine, Mrs. Agosta said. But the liturgy was "the most beautiful and uplifting Mass I've attended," she said.

While parishioners in grimy workclothes inside the church , offered their thanks for surviving and prayers for strength, outside visitors from San Lazaro parish in Hialeah, where damage was less severe, were setting up a barbecue and preparing to spend the day cleaning up the area.

The outpouring of assistance was a scene repeated throughout southern Florida as well as in battered areas of Louisiana.

People from other states showed up in southern Florida with truckloads of supplies ranging from diapers to bottled water. One woman offered the Miami archdiocese the use of her credit card to purchase supplies.

A parish in Port Arthur, Texas, sent 30 volunteers with chain saws to help out in the Lafayette diocese.

While the job of assessing damage and setting up emergency services took precedence in Florida for nearly a week, Mrs. Agosta. said the help of volunteers willing to start repairs and cleanup would soon be welcome.

"We're hoping to give new meaning to the term 'weekend warrior,'" she said. "They can still put on their tennis shoes and head for Florida, but we want them to grab a chain saw now."

Residents of the Florida keys, a string of islands at the state's southernmost tip, were nearly unaffected by the hurricane. The fragile islands have often been devastated by hurricanes, but this time "they hardly got 'touched," Mrs. Agosta said. ' "The parishes there got together and they're bringing food for 1,000 people up - chickens, beans and rice and corn."

In a humorous vein, at the end of Mass Aug. 23 at Ignatius Loyola Cathedral in Palm Beach, Father James Malvey told the congregation he had searched in the Lectionary of Mass readings and prayers for a prayer suitable for the impending arrival of a hurricane.

He found "To Avert Storms," on page 911, which is also the emergency assistance telephone number in most parts of the country.

Musicians told to take role in renewing church PHILADELPHIA(CNS) - Liturgy has a "danger" and a "subversiveness" about it, church musicians were told at a musicians' conference in Philadelphia.

"So often we allow ourselves to . get trapped by pressing, difficult and significant issues, like who can , serve the church as ordained ministers or what music and style suits this particular assembly, that we often miss the forest for the trees," said Jesuit Father John F. Baldovin.

The forest, he said, "is God's stupendous gift of self through Jesus of Nazareth, whose teachings of utter service and the complete self-surrender and trust in the one he calls' Abba' spells the only true life of the world."

Father Baldovin, an author and faculty member ofthe Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, Calif., spoke at a regional meeting of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians in Philadelphia.

He spoke against "liturgical orthodoxy which is every bit as rigid as any political correctness and which demands that all the people get the same thing out of the liturgy."

Any liturgical musician must be aware, Father Baldovin said, "that the choice of music we sometimes think of as humdrum and ordinary will reach people in such ways we never dreamt they could be moved."

The conference drew 1,500 participants - a group so large the opening ceremonies had to be split into two sessions. The conference theme was "Break Forth: Renew the Renewal."

"We ate here, make no mistake about it, to renew our church," said Father Virgil Funk, president of the musicians' association.

"There is only one path for the renewal to take and that is through ourselves. We must renew ourselves first, [through) our music, our talents, our hopes and our dreams."

RETIRED ARCHBISHOP Dom Helder Camara (left) of Olinda and Recife, Brazil, was honored with a peace award during the recent national assembly of Pax Christi USA at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ. With him, from left, are Father Thomas Peterson, Seton Hall chancellor; Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick of Newark, NJ; and Bishop Walter F. Sullivan of Richmond, Va., Pax Christi president.

Religious leaders Continued from Page One pician Fathers, was voted CMSM president-elect, an office from which he will automatically suc-, ceed to the CMSM presidency in 1993.

Dominican Sister Donna Markham, ending her one-year term as LCWR president, focused in her presidential address on the impor- ' tance of community as a resource for hope and change. _ "The presence of a community of hope disturbs and disquiets as it disrupts the social drift toward autonomy and self-sufficiency," she said. "It disturbs those of us who aspire to live it and it unsettles the environment in which it is situated. It threatens change on every level and demonstrates that conversion and healing are, indeed, painful processes."

Succeeding Sister Markham as LCW R president at the end of the assembly was Sister Anita de Luna, the first Hispanic to hold that office. Sister de Luna is general superior of the Missionary Catechists of Divine Providence in San Antonio. In 1989 she obtained pontifical status for her community, making it the first MexicanAmerican congregation with that canonical status in the United States.

Mercy Siste~ Doris Gottemoeller, first president of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, a 7,000member congregation formed in 1991 by the merger of 25 regional Mercy communities, was elected LCWR vice president, a position from which she automatically succeeds to the' presidency next year.

The assembly broke from its original agenda Aug. 27 for a dialogue with Archbishop Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa, secretary of the Vatican congregation that oversees religious orders. They discussed the recent Vatican decision to establish a second canonical organization of women religious superiors in the. United States.

Both the LCWR and CMSM had opposed the formation of the new organization, sought pri~arilY by a group of women supe ,~ors who do not belong to the LC: I R. The press was eXclud~d from a question-answer sessionl lwith the archbishop. Participants ~fterward described it as open and honest but said it was hampered by language problems. Since the archbishop speaks only a little English, questions had to be translated into

Spanish and his answers had to be translated back into English.

When the CMSM and LCWR held separate business sessions two days later, the LCWR session did .not touch on the question of the new women's organization.

But several participants at the CMS M session told Catholic News Service afterward that the men religious discussed the issue further and agreed that they should continue to express their concern to Rome over what they considered a ,divisive and insensitive action in forming a second women's organization.

At the separate LCWR business session, it was reported that U.S. women's orders had responded to a recent plea for educational assistance from their counterparts in Eastern Europe by offering at least 19 full scholarships at U.S. institutions, various offerings of room and board, and financial donations and pledges totaling more than $90,000.

A highlight of the separate LCWR session was a report on an LCWR ministry study by Sister Margaret Cafferty, a Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and LCWR associate director.

Sister Cafferty said the final report on the study, titled "Threads for the Loom," would be published in September, but she previewed some of its findings.

Among trends it shows, she says, are decreased involvement of women religious in primary and secondary education, but growing involvement in adult education and parish ministry.

More nuns are moving from serving children to serving adults and from serving affluent or middleclass groups to serving the poor, she said.

The study also suggests, however, that the experience of individual members is currently a stronger factor in ministry decisions than corporate commitments of the congregation, she said. This finding may suggest a need to find a new balance between the common good and reverence for individual rights of community members, she said.

Sister Cafferty said 78 percent of the communities responded to the survey, giving a data base that "allows us to speak with authority about the impressive contributions of women religious" to the American church and society today.

GREENFIELD, Mass. (CNS) - Since Sisl er of Providence Senga Fulton began working with the homeless more than \0 years ago, she has seen a dramatic increase in the number of homeless women.

"Women are the ones who have fallen through the cracks in the system," shl: said.

Sister Fulton intends to do something abou',: this with the help of her order and Blessed Sacrament parish, Greenfield, in the Springfield diocesl~. They are collaborating to convert the parish's vacant 62-year-old convent into a home for single women.

Queen (If Peace Centennial House will accommodate 15 women and a live-i n manager. Residents will attend educational programs including c :>Unseling, high school equivalanc~' courses, employment search preparation and life skills development.

"We first of all give tribute to the Blessed Mother and are very grateful that this supportive housing program has received the enthusiastic support of the parishioners of Blessed Sacrament parish," said the pastor, Father Timothy Campoli, who has tried to make homelessness and the disenfranchised a priority of parish outreach ministry.

The name, Queen of Peace Centennial HOl,se, was chosen to honor Father Campoli's wish that the house be df'dicated to Our Lady of Medjugorj,~ and the 100th anniversary' of the founding of the Sisters of Pre,vidence as a diocesan communit}.

The former convent had been rented by the local public school system for offices, and most recently it brought in about $30,000 in annual rf'nt, according to Father Campoli. It will be rented to Queen of Peace C~ntennial House for $1 a year.

Sister FJlton, who will direct the home, described parishioners of Blessed Sacrament as people "really living the Gospel ... putting value on human life, not the almighty doliar."

Social service providers in the county have applauded the Queen of Peace project, particularly for its emphasis on education.

David E!:an-Robertson, director of a GreerJield-based social service agency, said 224 single women requested assistance from his agency last yem. Of those, \01 had housing re lated requests; 22 of them were homeless women; and 23 were we'men at risk of becoming homeless.

A. big job TUCSON, Ariz. (CNS) - Removing decades of cobwebs, dust, and soot from a 195-year-old church is no small task. It will take an international team of conservators nearh 17 months to restore the delicate original colors to the aged walls of San Xavier del Bac Mission. Restoration began seven years ago )n the famous mission, which lies south of Tucson in the Arizona d,~sert. After major exterior repai rs, attention has now turned to deaning and preserving the church's interior art.

Wait for God "We mllst wait for God, long, meekly, in the wind and wet, in the thunder and lightning, in the cold and the dark. Wait, and he will come. He never comes to those who do not wait."-Father Faber

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He praised Sister Markham and The archbishop attended a late A proposed view, she said, is the LCWR leadership for "the I I August joint assembly in Greensthat "while the [new] council form in which this situation was AWIDE CHOICE OF SAVINGS boro of the Leadership ConferI I ence of Women Religious and Con- emphasizes spirituality and is true handled" in their dealings with the & INVESTMENT PLANS Vatican concerning the new counference of Major Superiors of Men to the original purpose of the cil. at their request, to speak and Leadership Conference when it Plumbing & Heating But he suggested that some probanswer questions about the deci- was founded in 1956, the Leaderlems were due to "misconceptions" I Est. 1920 Lie. 10786 I ship Conference emphasizes social sion to form the new council. ' about the intent and significance The congregation established the justice."

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Gemlike Roman church holds treasures VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A 1504, and the next year he began few paces' off the beaten tourist working on the architectural plans track, but still in the heart of chao- for St. Peter's Basilica.

The architecture students study tic Rome, sits an oddly shaped artistic and architectural gem of a what" one guidebook calls the cloister's "sober classical dignity church.

Inside the Church of Santa Maria and serene beauty," influenced by della Pace, a plaque above the the artist's dedicated study of door 'says in Latin, "Virgin of Roman ruins.

Religious have paced the cloispeace, pray for us."

In the hustle and bustle of a city ter with prayerbooks or rosaries in with 3 million people and' what hand for the last 488 years.

The church itself, built in 1480, seems to be an equal number of cars and motorbikes, the prayer is is rather pudgy, with a short nave echoed in the hearts of harried topped by an octagon.

Inside, much of space is filled tourists and residents longing for with an elaborate jungle gym of even a brief escape.

It probably sounds most often ,scaffolding which will remain for in the hearts of the three U.S. con- four or five years as restoration templative nuns who open 'the and structural repairs are carried out. church and cloister to visitors.

It's a bit of a hodgepodge of The nuns, members ofthe Handmaids of the Precious Blood, a com- treasures. There's a side chapel munity based on Jemez Springs, decorated floor to ceiling with basN.M., offer visitors a friendly reliefs sculpted in marble by Pas~ greeting, but declined an interview. quale da Caravaggio, and another Until the sisters arrived in Rome side chapel whose marble design is in the spring of 1991, access to the attributed to Michelangelo.

Baldassare Peruzzi contributed treasures inside Santa Maria was hit or miss. The last resident reli- several frescoes to the church, gious community, a group of Bra- including one of the four scenes zilian sisters, left five or six years from the life of Mary that circle the base of its dome. ago.

In a side chapel near the nowFor most of that time, the best viewing strategy was to pass by frequently, hoping to find a wedding party entering the church.

Some couples still carryon the old VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Roman tradition of attending Mass Basilica of the National Shrine of there soon after the wedding to the Immaculate Conception in pray that peace will reign in their Washington has a star in the cennew family. , The American nuns have made ter aisle of St. Peter's Basilica.

The shrine's star and those of 25 life easier for would-be visitors. other Christian churches are emThey open the church two hours in bedded in the marble floor of St. the morning and two hours in the Peter's as a matter of perspective. afternoon, Tuesday through SatUnder each star is the Latin verurday, and at noon on Sunday. sion of the church's name, and Sitting by the church door in under that is the length of the their long crimson habits, the sisbuilding in meters. The stars are ters are willing to share with visplaced that distance from the back itors who want to pray the small oratory where the Blessed Sacra- wall of the basilica.

The cathedral in Mexico City, ment is kept.

Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris As far as real estate goes, it's not and now the national shrine -:such a bad place to be - just ask none are as long as St. Peter's, the architecture students who spend known as the largest church in the hours sketching the cloister.

The covered walkway and inteworld.

The star nearest St. Peter's main rior courtyard were among Donato Bramante's first building projects altar is the only other U.S. church represented: St. Patrick's Cathein Rome. He built the cloister in

closed main entrance, Peruzzi painted a Madonna in fresco.

Gathered around Mary and the baby Jesus are St. Catherine, St. Bridget and Ferdinando Ponzetti, who basically bought his way into the scene by paying Peruzzi to paint it.

In the chapel ceiling are Peruzzi frescoes illustrating the history of salvation, from creation' to the birth of Jesus and the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt.

But the biggest tourist draw, besides the cloister, is Raphael's famous fresco of the four Sybils receiving revelations from angels.

The place of honor over the main altar is given to a goldframed painting of Mary by an unknown artist. Above it hover two cherubs holding a crown.

According to legend, the painting - then in a chapel on the same site - bled when a drunken soldier pierced the Virgin's breast with his sword. Pope Sixtus IV,came to see the miraculous painting and vowed to build a church there if Mary would intercede to end the war being fought with Florence.

When the war ended, Pope Sixtus had the church built and dedicated it to St. Mary of Peace.

National Shrine gets star

Energetic bishop served till age 81 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (CNS) - When Bishop Thomas J. Drury of Corpus Christi died in late July, diocesan officials discovered that the prelate had appar~ ently lied about his age 50 years ago.

But he did it for "very high motives," said a priest who was with the bishop when he died. ' It was during World War II and Bishop Drury wanted to be a mil'itary chaplain but couldn't because he was too old. Apparently, he Jound a way around that by knocking six years off his ag~.

Only after the retired bishop's July 22 death did the secret come to light.

All official documents listed the bishop's year of birth as 1908.

However, at the announcement of his death, his family members listed his year of birth as 1902, making the bishop really 90 years old, not 84, as previously thought.

"The common tradition seems to be that he wanted so badly to serve in the military as a chaplain, but his age would have prevented him," Father Roger Smith told the South Texas Catholic, diocesan newspaper of Corpus Christi. Fa-

ther Smith was ordained by Bishop Drury in 1976 and was with him when he died.

According to Father Smith, Bishop Drury "managed to have his birth certificate changed from 1902 to 1908, which enabled "him to get into the service.'" '" ,"Once that was done there was no turni~g back," said Father Smith. "What he did was wrong, but he ha,d very high'motives."

When Bishop Drury came to shepherd .the Diocese of Corpus Christi in 1965, priests who worked' closely with ,him recalled that he prohibited any discussion of his age - apparently for good reason.

He didn't know that someday he'd be made a bishop and have his age so widely reported.

He also ended up serving as a bishop well beyond the normal retirement age of75, retiring when he was really 81.

Even if Bishop Drury was six years older than people thought, it seems the Irish-born bishop didn't act his age. He is described as a man of great energy and vitality.

Men years younger than he jokingly complained that they could not keep up with him.

dral in New York at 101.19 meters (about 335 feet).

The national shrine's star is about three-fourths of the ~ay to the back of St. Peter's.

Added in late spring, its inscription reads "Sanctuarium Immaculatae Concept. Washington. 139.14 meters" [about 460 feet]. St. Peter's itself is 186.36 meters long (about 615 feet).

The star of the Basilica of the National Shrine star was added to St. Peter's floor as the result of a request from one prince of the church to another.

Washington Cardinal James A. Hickey asked Cardinal Virgilio Noe, archpriest of the Vatican basilica, to consider adding the star, said Msgr. Roger C. Roensch, director of shrine pilgrimages.

But the formal name of the shrine proved a bit long for the Vatican.

"They asked if we would prefer 'basilica' or 'shrine,''' Msgr.

Roensch said.

Since it was known for so long simply as th~hrine, the Washington delegation went with that. Still, with the Latin word "sanctuarium" and Washington's IO-letter city name, Conception had to be abbreviated.

Casa Romero will shelter homeless BROWNSVILLE, Texas (CNS) - Casa Oscar Romero, a shelter for Central Americans operated for 10 years by the diocese of Brownsville in the lower Rio Grande Valley, has been closed.

Diocesan officials said that since the signing of peace accords in El Salvador between government and rebel forces, as well as an accompanying calm in Nicaragua, there is no longer a need for the shelter, which served refugees fleeing their homelands.

In a previous interview with Catholic News Service, Bishop Enrique San Pedro of Brownsville had said the diocese, which borders Mexico, was re-evaluating its efforts to assist migrants and refugees, including Casa Romero.

He said the number of Central Americans arriving at Casa Romero had decreased significantly in early 1992 but that the diocese needed to inc:rease its pastoral care efforts for persons held in two immigration detention centers within the diocese. He said more Mexican nationals than Central Americans were now entering the Rio Grande Valley.

Casa Romero was founded in , 1982 by now路retired Bishop John J. Fitzpatrick, known for his defense of the poor.

It was named for Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero of San Salvador, wh,) was murdered while celebrating Mass in 1980.

Hernan Gonzalez, a Brownsville diocesan official, said the facility would be used as a homeless shelter.

Exiled Cubans meet ST. AUSUSTINE, Fla. (CNS) - For the first time in more than 30 years of exile, about 150 Catholic Cubans recently gathered to assess the pastoral needs of exiled Cubans and to determine methods of future evangelization. "Let us not speak just about being in 'exile.'

Let us speak about being in mission, feeling as missionaries," Auxiliary Bishop Alfredo Petit Vergel of Havana told the international group, representing thousands of Cubans in 14 countries andJ5 U.S. states.

The meeting was part of a twoyear ,process called Communities

of Ecclesial Reflection for Cubans in Diaspora, begun by three Cuban bishops in exile - Bishop Enrique San Pedro of Brownsville, Texas, Auxiliary Bishop Agustin A. Roman of Miami, and former Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo Boza Masvidal of Havanll, vicar general of the Los Teques Diocese in Venezuela.

Evil not from God "There no doubt is good in all the bitter woes that come upon us, because evil cannot proceed from God." - Rahbi Israel Baal-Shem Tob

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Church aids i.n Somalia famine VATICAN CITY (CNS) Catholics of the world, through Pope John Paul II, have donated $100,000 to help provide food for -starving Somalis.

The donation was channelled through Italian Caritas, the bishops' relief agency, which is part of an ecumenical effort to provide aid to Somalia, said a Vatican announcement.

The donation was rpade possible by funds contributed to the Vatican by religious orders, church institutions and individuals.

The Red Cross has estimated that 1.5 million Somalis - about 25 percent of the population face starvation because of civil strife and a prolonged drought.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri.,_ Sept. 4, 1992

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Sept. 5 1948, Rev. Napoleon A. Messier, Pastor, St. Mathieu, Fall River

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1868: Rev. Thomas Sheehan, Founder, Holy Trinity, West Harwich

Sept. 11 1987, Rev. Joachim Shults, SS.Cc., Our Lady ofthe Assumption, New Bedford

Sept. 7 1966, Very Rev. James E. McMahon, Pastor, Sacred Heart, Oak Bluffs 1984, Rev. Raymond Pelletier, MS, LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro

Sept. 10 1966, Rev. Hugo Dylla, Pastor, St. Stanislaus, Fall River 1969, Rt. Rev. Felix S. Childs, Pastor Emeritus, Sacred Heart, Fall River

"Idleness, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices."-Ambrose Bierce

Idleness, Defined

Facts and Figures Espirito Santo School 143 Everett St. Fall River, MA 02723 Telephone 672-2229 Founded 1910 Enrollment: 252, grades K-8 Tuition: $800 for parishioner; $850 plus $200 subsidy from home parish for non-parishioner

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AT CAMP JAMIE, Thurmont, MD, where children who have lost a loved one can learn to deal with their grief, a youngster prepares to pitch in a kickball game. (eNS photo)

Camp Jamie helps kids deal with grief BALTIMORE(CNS)-Itseems ers every day through the many like a typical weekend at camp. lives he reaches through the Children play ball, make arts and hospice." crafts projects or sing songs around Dana Cable, a psychologist who a slightly out-of-tune piano. But helped start the camp, said that the smiles on these children's faces children do not often talk about belie the pain each of them has the deaths of people close to them.

"If a child has experienced the experienced.

For Rita, a 10-year-old with death of a parent or sibling, evestrawberry blonde hair, the pain rybody's so wrapped up with the came recently when both of her grief they don't have time to deal with the child." grandparents died.

But in the two days of intense Other campers, as young as 5, have similar stories of loss. One's one-on-one sharing, most children father died in a car accident, start to open up and let the grief another saw his sister die from a wash over them. "You really see heart defect, yet another lost a best progress with these kids," Cable. said. friend in a bike accident.

Even playtime is constructive.

Forabout 30 children, the weekend at Camp Jamie in northern During the Camp Jamie OlymMaryland is an opportunity to pics, the children worked together, share their feelings, to cry, and clambering over each other to scale even to laugh, perhaps for the first plywood walls. The exercise built time since they experienced the confidence and inspired the children to trust others - something death of someone close to them. they may have been reluctant to do Camp Jamie is one of the few since the death of their friend or camps in the country that focuses loved one. on children's grief. Now in its As a final activity, the campers second year, the camp pairs chil- and big buddies gathered on the dren with adults who have also edge of the lake to watch a heart lost loved ones. The adults, called shaped balloon rise above them. big buddies, volunteer to spend an The wind nudged the balloon, intensive two days with the child- , showing the message "I Love You" ren, to draw out their feelings of on one side and clusters of names anger, guilt and sadness. written in black magic marker on Rita spent most of the weekend the other side. The children had with Suzanne Knopf, her desig- written names on the balloon of nated "big buddy." They boated, loved ones who died; some wrote played, ate and talked together. . one name, others wrote four.

Mrs. Knopfs son Jamie, the name"Sometimes the people we love sake for the camp, died four years leave us," one of the camp leaders ago of Tay-sachs disease. told the group as the balloon Jamie died before he reached his floa'ted upward. "We hold onto third birthday of a metabolic dis- something, the part of them we order for which there is no known love." treatment. Shortly after his death Each camper received a carnathe Hospice of Frederick County tion and a piece of the ribbo.n that asked if they could use his name held the balloon. "You all have a for a new camp. piece of the person that died," the .

Mrs. Knopf, a parishioner at camp leader said.

Patrick, a 12-year-old camper Holy Family Catholic Community in Middletown, Md., agreed. told his big buddy that he knew the She said she is awed by how her balloon went up high so that the son could "bring so much to so people whose names were on it many people in such a short period would see it and know that these children were thinking about them. of time."

He had written the name of his "My heart aches every day; just to touch him again would be sister who died at age 5 after fightwonderful, but Jamie touches oth- ing a heart valve problem.

Charles Moreira principal

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"A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life: "-Elbert Hubbard THE MISSION of Espirito Santo School is to aid students to grow in their knowledge of God and to bring them to an awareness of His redeeming love. The school seeks to provide students with opportunities to find truth through love toward God, each, other, and all with whom they come in contact.

The marked absence of Christian values in today's society makes it imperative that our example and methods of teaching contribute to a spirit of hope and reflect values which will give students the strength to struggle with such problems as teenage suicide, promiscuity, alcohol, tobacco, use and abuse of drugs, diseases such as AIDS, nuclear armaments and environmental exploitation.

Father Steve Furtado talks to second-graders during Catholic Schools Week Alumni Day. STAFF MEMBERS at Espirito Santo strive to incorporate academic, moral, social, and physical experiences in all that is taught. They share with their students poems, art, music and literature with the aim of. awakening a natural sense of awe and wonder.

The teachers believe that all are disciples of God. True discipleship requires self-discipline.

Teachers require this discipline of students, as it can lead to a more intense personal prayer life and help students to make better value judgments as they grow in ability to listen and to make proper criticisms. They hope that discipline will help students togrow in their appreciation of God and o( their neighbor and will awaken a sense of personal sorrow for sin and a spirit of forgiveness.

Espirito Santo's religious and lay educators see teaching .as a vocation. They bring to the school a habitual spirit of service, moral integ-. rity, fraternal solidarity, and professional and. personal commitment to the students.

Espirito Santo's Catholic identity arises from the Christian witness given by the school's community'of faith.

Students at book fair "Parents by word and example are the first heralds offaith with regard to their children. "Lumen Gentium

ESPIRITO SANTO School recognizes the wisdom of this statement and makes a sincere effort to work with parents in this regard.

Believing that "the family is the earliest and most persistent influence in a child's life," school staff attempts to involve parents in the educational process. The school demonstrates respect for the language and culture of students while at the same time teaching them the English language and guiding them to appreciate their 'American heritage and to assume their civic responsibilities.

Grade 1 class outing RELIGIOUS EDUCATION is taught at the school with an attitude of fostering personal commitment rather than merely imparting a body of knowledge. Religious practice is encouraged with liturgy presented as "worship of God" rather than a "tool" for religious education.

While our school teaches doctrine in conformity with our Catholic convicti'on and in accord with our identity as a Catholic School, at the same time we will have great respect for students who may not share our 路beliefs.

Espirito Santo school staff are trying to bring the school through the 1990s well-equipped but without raising the costoftuition to an impossible amount. They do this in the belief that students of low-income groups have the right to a Catholic education.

Students and teachers recognize that there will be many challenges for them in the near future. They place their trust in the Holy Spirit, uniting with Jesus Christ, who says: "When the.Spirit of Truth comes He will guide you into all Truth." (In 16:13)

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-:,Fri., Sept. 4, 1992.·

By Charlie IW.rtin

I'VE GOT MINE

By Tom Lennon I don't get nervous when I'm up in The butterflies in his stomach front of all those people." wouldn't go away. Sixteen-yearWhen Brian and I talked, he was old Brian Hraster felt as though about to enter the school of telethe 300 pairs of eyes in the congre- communications at Indiana Unigation were all fixed on him. versity. "I'll learn all sorts ofthings He tried to combat his nervous- - how to make a TV movie, how ness by concentrating on what his to be a newscaster, how to write pastor, Father Ronald Wilker, was for the media. Both my parents are in communications and I'm really doing.

Finally, Brian's moment came. looking forward to it."

It may be that Brian's best work Father Wilker, pastor of St. Paul's Church in Englewood, Ohio, fin- in communication will be in church ished the prayer, closed the big red as he communicates God's word to people who need the hope it brings. book and sat down. .At his high school graduation Brian took a deep breath, stood up and went up the three steps to this year, Brian was one of 12 the lectern.. He adjusted the mic- valedictorians. When it was his rophone a bit, put his index finger turn to speak, Brian talked about on the Scripture reading and then "the necessity of developing our did what he dreaded most -looked own sense of what is best for us."

Obviously, proclaiming God's ou.t at the congregation.

Sure enough, all those eyes were word is one thing that is very good for him. Might it be very good for staring intently at him! you too?

Could he even speak? For. a microsecond, he doubted it. Then to his surprise the words came out loudly and clearly: "A reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah.~' .

WASHINGTON (CNS) - The He took another breath, and Christophers have published a then to his amazement he looked out. at the people and said the pamphlet titled "Speaking of Sex: opening wordsfrom memory:"The A Messag~ for Young People from desert and' the parched land will Young People,".the organization's exult; the steppe will rejoice and first pamphlet .aimed· specifically . at.teen readers. bloom."

The latest issue in a series called Now Brian was on his way.. To his delight, the rest was a piece of Nc::ws Notes, it reinforces family cake.· When he had finished his and religious values and .warns of two readings, he went back and sat the emotional and physical risks of premarital sex. down, free of the butterflies.

The pamphlet is written by young F or a few moments he recalled when a few months earlier he had people who share their thoughts talked with Father Wilker. The on why teens risk pregnancy and disease and the disappointment priest had told the members of the they feel when they opt for ·preconfirmation class that he would marital sex. interview each of themabout how It includes a checklist of suggesthey might serve the parish after tions on how to keep social situathey were confirmed. .. tions under control with examples Brian: knew exactly what he from young adults on their expewanted to do. "Father, I'd like to riences of "dating but waiting." be a lector. It would be a way for The Christophers is a non-profit me to participate in the Mass media organization founded in 1945 more. I'd like to help people hear .to encourage people of all faiths the word of God with ease and and all ages to use every opportunbenefit from hearing it."· ity to build a better world.

So Father Wilker arranged for Single copies of "Speaking of Brian to go through thret; training Sex" are available free of charge sessions. Brian learned about such by writing to The Christophers, 12 things as speaking slowly, making East 48th St., New York, N.Y. eye contact, bearing himself with 11017. dignity, and moving with other participants at Mass.

Two months later Brian made his debut.

CALCUTTA, India (CNS) Now Brian is getting ready to go Mother Teresa of Calcutta opened. to Indiana University, and he's a seminar on AIDS in Calcutta by still reading.He hepes to join the asking for prayers for those workNewman Club at the university ing to check the spread of the fatal and be able t:o read at Mass. disease. "I want you all to find a .

"It's such agood opportunity to medicine to cure AIDS before it is contribute something to the cele- too late. Let us all pray to God bration," Brian said. "That's one something is done to prevent the reason I like to do it, and I always spread of the disease," she told feel I'm participating more in the AIDS experts at the seminar, organized by the sociocultural EngMass."

STORM SURVIVORS: Jose Sanchez is reunited with his puppies after Hurricane { Brian's (riends thought it was lish Speaking Union and JesuitAndrew destroyed his home in Everglades Migrant Trailer park in Florida. The puppies were neat that he chose to be a lector. run St. Xavier College's Student left behind when Jose's family evacuated. (eNS photo) "They've told me they're surprised Union.

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Someone's sleeping on the sidewalk As the winter's sun goes down Someone's drinking cold champagne In another part of town And the only thing he thinks about As he sips his glass of win~ It sure feels good sitting here tonight Now that I've got mine.

I've got mine This isn't such a bitter world 'Cause I've got mine.

Someone's wandering the streets tonight No way to warm his hands . Someone's turning up his fireplace Making travel plans His mind is on some sandy beach Where the sun is gonna shine He thinks, "I don't have to hang around Now that I~ve got mine."

You see them in their limousines You see the way they s.tare They don't see us looking back Because they don't really care (they say) So I make a small donation What more can I do?

You know I didn't make this world I'm in it just like you I've worked all my life On this house of cards To keep it all in line I can't take care of everyone Now that I got·mine.

There's another kind of poverty That only rich men know A moral malnutrition That starves the very soul And they can't be saved with money They're all running out of time And all the while they're thinking "It's OK 'cause I've got mine" Sung by Glenn Frey. Written by G. Frey and J. Temllchin (c) 1992 by Red Cloud Music and Night River Publishing A SONG about "moral maltoday's society is composed of thosewhohavemoneyimdoppornutrition" in the Top 40? Yes, tunity, and those bardy survivGlenn Frey, formerly of the Eagles, has "I've Got Mine" on ing.

Frey mt;ntions those "wandthe charts. The song is dediering the streets" with no way to cated to author Thomas Sullivan for penning the phrase. warm their hands, and someWhat's this all about? A glance one sitting around a fireplace through the lyrics clarifies Frey's making travel plans, with his mind on "some sandy beach." use of the term. As he sees it,

This latter· person thinks to .. hiinself, "I dc,n't have to hang around now tltat I've got mine."

Yet, according to Frey, such an attitude is a "moral malnutrition that ntarves the very soul." Individuals may have plenty of financial resources but possess little compassion.

I appreciatf Frey's efforts to raise this issue through pop music; I believe the ques~ion is more compIe); than one song, or this column, can adequately address.

However, if we are to be today's followers of Jesus, no matter what our age, we need to face this question: How can I best respond to the needs of others?

Here are a few suggestions for avoiding moral malnutrition during your tf en years. \. Tithe. This means making more than the "small donation" the song me:ltions. Take 10 percent of your income, whether it comes from allowance, gifts or work, and give it to an organization that hf:1ps people. If 10 percent seems too much, pick a smaller amount, but adhere to it.

2. Put some effort into understanding the world's social problems. For example, ask a teacher to ded icate class time to discuss the current food crisis in East Africa. W.hy is it happening? How is it affecting those living in these: areas? What is . being done to :lelp? What could you and other teens do? . 3. Find ways to care about people in you:: own area. Consider setting aside some time each month to work in a soup kitchen, an aftf:r-school program for disadvantlged children or some other means of reaching out to others. If you are uncertain how to b ~ involved,· ask a teacher or some member of your parish pastoral staff.

4. Don't Sf'e money as the problem. No matter how little or how much you have, enjoy money'spresf:nce in your life.

Be grateful. Be generous. Whatever you've gut to spare, use it to make a bett~r world for all of us.

Your commlmts are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, IN 47635.

• THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Sept. 4,1992

O.L. Grace gets CYO baseball title

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL participants in Westport put on their glasses to see "through God's eyes"; the seventh grade Good News Players dress as characters from Charlotte's Web; the first grade "Wilbur" group participates in an activity while wearing their decorated VBS T-shirts.

Charlotte's Web provides Vacation Bible School theme for Westport kids Using an original curriculum, St. John the Baptist Church, Westport, and Westport Point United Methodist Church again collaborated to present a Vacation Bible School program, directed by Jean Prior of St. John's and Kathy Grundy of Westport Point. 85 participants constituted the largest enrollment thus far for the annual event.

The beloved children's classic Charlotte's Web was the basis for a faith experience themed "Through God's Eyes." This scripturally-rich classic enhanced the week of worship, skits, storytelling, music and recreation. The students discovered God's presence in their daily lives as they moved through each day with the characters of this delightful story.

The children learned that they can compare characters in "Charlotte" and their friends with the people in the Bible. In order to do this, they had to look "through God's eyes" - pretending to put on glasses to enable them to see the world the way God does. The children discovered interesting things about friends, what qualities make a good friend and most importantly, that Jesus is always our friend.

As the week progressed, important words were woven into a web that grew each day. In discussing miracles, participants realized that Charlotte's attempt to save Wilbur the pig in an act oflove for a friend was much like how God showed his love for us, by creating us and all that is around us.

The week climaxed with a discussion of the theme of new life, encompassing the concepts of the cycle of life, the seasons, and that all life renews itself. Not only did the new young spiders in Charlotte's Web give hope to Wilbur, but Christ's resurrection is our hope as believing Christians and people of faith.

A family celebration was a grand having fun so far this week they finale to a terrific week! With spe- said definitely "YES"! They cial help from the Good News thought the favorite thing about Players - a talented group of this week was "EVERYTHING"! seventh-graders who also published Templetons daily newsletters recounting the The Templetons have been busy VBS's activities - parents, grand- this week. They learned that Jesus parents and friends were given an performs miracles, in John 6, like overview of the week. A picnic the time when there was no food lunch rounded out the festivities as except five barley loaves and two all departed to spread the Good fish. Soon there was plenty offood News that was learned during the for the people with twelve baskets week. left over!

Seventh-graders Shannon ReyWhat really stands out in the nolds, Ricky Grundy, Mike Prior, Templetons' minds are the T-shirts Melissa Pacheco and Kate Tiedethat they made and making bird mann recapped the week's events feeders. When I asked them to in their final newsletter, which describe a good friend, they came spotlighted the activities of each up with someone who will play age group. Their account follows: with you no matter what! The The Joy Spiders friend would be kind too.

In asking them what they thought Charlottes of Jesus they said he wasn't selfish, I went to the Charlottes group he was nice, and he was definately and asked t.hem what they learned a miracle worker. about Jesus this week. The kids They also said what they would learned that Jesus is kind and that remember most 'would be Charhe made many friends. The kids lotte's Web, the scavenger hunt, learned about Jesus's 12 disciples. and straw painting.

These 12 Jesus sent out, charging A good friend for them would them, "Go now among the genbe someone nice, friendly, considtiles, and enter no town of the erate, caring, loving, helping, and Samaritans." (Matthew 10: 1-5) and sharing. he was interesting. They also said When I went in I found them working on Scripture crosses. They that he was caring.

Goslings were going to keep one and give .

I asked what they would want in one to someone who couldn't leave a friend and some of the answers I the house. got were fun, nice, cool, sharing, Wilburs To the Wilburs Jesus has been a and wild. Another question I asked good friend. He also has taught was what did you learn about them good news. They loved [mak- Jesus. Some of the kids answered ing the Bible camp I T-shirts. Also quickly with answers like 'God they enjoyed making. eye-spy made things grow. They learned scopes! They made a puppet thea- that on "creation day" [the theme tre, and learned two songs that for the first day of camp) from the book of Genesis I: 1-28. Today, they always sing.

They thought a friend is nice, they made a flower with the parable of the mustard seed and worked kind, happy, and has a lot of trust. on a skit for celebration day.

They were talking about new life, When asked, "What will you which is the theme for today. They remember about VBS," the answers were going to make spider mobiles, were, COOL, FUN, AWESOME, too.

GOOD, RADICAL! When I asked them if they were

The Fall River Area CYO Baseball League recently concluded another successful season as Our Lady of Grace, Westport, captured its first League Championship by defeating St. Anne's, Fall River, two games to one in a best of three series.

Both teams got to the finals by defeating Notre Dame and St. Michael's, both of Fall River, in the first round of the playoffs and then pulling major upsets of defending champions St. Bernard's, Assonet, and this year's regular season first place finisher St. William's, Fall River. St. William's had finished with a 22-3 regular season record before falling to St. Anne's in the semi-finals.

In game one of the finals, St. Anne's took command early with a 10-2 victory paced by pitcher Jason Correiro and the hitting of John Botelho, who drove in seven runs. On the brink of elimination, Our Lady of Grace, with pitching from Alan Kotlarski and the hitting of Rob Lachappelle and Richie Sirop, roared back to even the series with a 4-2 victory. That set up a wild game number 3.

In a contest that went to the wire, Our Lady of Grace, trailing by three runs with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, scored four straight runs to win the championship. The winning run scored on a single down the right field line at Lafayette Park by catcher Joe Perreira.

All five series in the playoffs went three games each, showing the strong competition among this year's teams. Manager Roger Olivier and Coach Ron Avilla led the way for Our Lady of Grace whose team members were: Keith Dumaine, Toddy Brayton, Joe Perreira, Alan Kotlarski, Mike Albanese, Jamie Gouveia, Tony Oliveira.

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Steve Couto, John Arruda, Richard Sirop, John Nunes, Scott Lapointe, Rob Lachappelle, Jeff Morreira.

CYO golf tourney

winners posted' .

The annual diocesan CYO golf tournament took place Aug. 24 at the Pocasset Golf course with players representing the Taunton, Attleboro, Fall River, New Bedford and Cape Cod areas.

Brandon Bouchard of Fall River won the Bill Doyle Memorial Trophy for the outstanding player in the tourname·nt. Division winners, listed from first to third place, and their scores follow. .

Seniors (ages 20 to 26): Thomas Heinz, Attleboro (80); Brandon Rogers, New Bedford (84); Ken Foraste, Cape Cod (86).

Intermediates (age 17 to 19): .Brandon Bouchard, Fall River(79); David Correia, Attleboro (83); Russel Dubois, New Bedford, and Lowell Metivier, Fall River (both 85).

Juniors (ages 14 to 16): Peter Karns, Taunton (88); Thomas Raposa, Attleboro, and B.J. Tyszkiewicz, Taunton (both 93). Raposa won second place in a two-hole playoff.

Cadets (ages 14 and under, nine holes): Mike Silva, Taunton (43); Jeff Couture, New Bedford (44); Ed Laplante, Attleboro (45).

Seeks church unity VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Rev. Konrad Raiser, new general secretary of the World Council of Churches, said he hopes to strengthen the Christian unity movement.

Mr. Raiser, a Lutheran, told Vatican Radio that ecumenism is the motivating force behind the council, and he will work so that "it can acquire a new shining strength."

Mr. Raiser succeeds Rev. Emilio Castro, a Uruguayan Methodist.

THE WOMEN'S GUILD of Sacred Heart Church, Fall River, has awarded Rose E. Sullivan scholarships to Heidi Elizabeth Waring, left, and Cheryl Ann Souza. Both are 1992 graduates of ·BMC Durfee High School, Fall River, where Miss Waring was active in band, theater, majorettes and vocal music programs. She will attend Fitchburg State College to study nursing and psychology.

Miss Souza was a member of the Durfee band, theater company, vocal groups, Future Educators of America, and student government. She will study elementary education at Bridgewater State College.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Sept. 4,1992

ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS The parish Respect for Life Committee has published a newsletter, available at church entrances. The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults program will begin in October and continue until Easter when candidates will have the opportunity to receive the sacraments of confirmation and Eucharist. Persons interested or who know of someone wishing to join the Church may contact rectory, 255-0170, or Deacon Don Biron. 896-7823.

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SECULAR FRANCISCANS St. Francis of Peace Fraternity will hold reception and profession ceremonies 2 p.m. Sept. 13, Holy Trinity Church, W. Harwich. Mass celebrant Father Cornelius Kelly, OFM, spiritual assistant,. will speak on "The Franciscan Call to Evangelize." Business meeting, dialogue and -refreshments will follow. Rosary wi.!1 be recited at I :30 p.m. All invited.

Information: Dorothy Williams, 394-4094.

HOSPICE CARE, TAUNTON Vohinteers are needed by Hospice Care of Greater Taunton to work with terminally ill cancer and AIDS sufferers. Training course begins . Sept. 14 and will run 7 to 9 p.m.

Mondays and Wednesdays through October. Information: Sister Thomas More, OP, 823-5528.

LEGION OF MARY The Legion of Mary of the diocese will participate in the Labor Day procession for Our Lady of Angels Feast at St. Mary's Church, Fairhaven. Auxiliary or active members wishing to participate should meet at the church by 12: 15 p.m. Sept. 7.

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Sept. 9 followed by business meeting. Regent Bella Nogueira will announce agenda for 1992-93. A secret pal dinner to which all members and friends are invited will be held Sept.

14 at Venus de Milo. Absorbent material (towels, mattress covers, etc.) needed to make canceL pads.

Contact Mary Sullivan for materials pickup. Nonperishable items will be collected for area soup kitchens.

Information: Trish Isserlis, 669-6038, 669-5196.

ST.MARY,N.ATTLEBORO A healing service and Sunday Mass with Father William T. Babbitt scheduled for Sept. 6 has been postponed to 2:30 p.m. Sept. 13.

CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB,FR The Catholic Woman's Club of Fall River will begin its 82nd season with an open meeting to which all Catholic women in the area are invited, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 8 at Holy Name School Hall, Pearce St. Entertainment will be provided by Didi Stewart, lead singer of the group "Didi Stewart and Friends." The former lead singer and songwriter for "Girls' Night Out," Ms. Stewart has received seven awards from the American Song Festival and has won awards as an outstanding· vocalist.

MEN OF THE SACRED HEARTS, NB Men of the Sacred Hearts of Greater NB will sponsor a spiritual formation weekend this weekend at Sacred Hearts Retreat Center, Wareham. Attending will be members from New England; Syracuse, NY; and Louisiana.

SACRED HEART, FR Bishop O'Ma"lley will celebrate a Mass of healing and reconciliation for the parish 4 p.m. tomorrow.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Scripture from Scratch Bible video and discussion series will resume 7:30 p.m. Sept. 9 in rectory meeting room following rosary and Benediction.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Sister Doreen Levesque will make final profession as a Sister of the Holy Cross at noon Mass Sept. 13. .A New Bedford native, Sister Levesque serves in Mali.

Track star urges teens to walk wi[th God INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) Olympic gold medalist Madeline Manning Mims urged delegates to the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis to "find a reason to live, a reason to find God." "Y ou were born with a purpose to be fulfilled," she said. "It's not for you to throw it away."

Ms. Mims gained international fame in 1968 when she set a world track record for the half-mile during Olympic competition in Mexico City.

After earning the gold medal, she attributed her win to God's help and used her newfound fame to spread gospel messages and to help others. Today, she's a motivational speaker and her presentation is a mix of inspirational remarks, humorous stories and a rendition of the popular hymn "How Great Thou Art." She reminded the teenagers of the importance of God in their daily lives by singing the hymn.

"Christ in you is the hope," she recently told an audience of 7,000 teenagers and adults in a keynote address. "Christ in you is the joy and love that the world needs, but it has to come from the people of God." Ms. Mims holds both silver and gold medals in track. She was a member of four Olympic teams over 16 years. In 1983 she was a sports commentator for NBC, and for the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea, she served as a chaplain for English-speaking teams.

In an interview with The Criter-

ion, 1ndianap'olis' a.rchdiocesan Ms. Mims was one of a number newspaper, she recalled her up- of speakers who addressed youth bringing in a Cleveland ghetto and gathered for the 21 st biennial youth how she overcame adversity to conference. ~;ponsored by the Washachieve. With God's help, she said, ington-based National Federation she found her way out of the for Catholi; Youth Ministry, the ghetto through .her talent as an . four-day meeting explored the athlete. theme "Peace in the Puzzle."

"Life is not always fair," she Youths also heard from guisaid. "It's definitely not always tarist Tony Melendez and his wife, easy. But the struggles develop Lynn. Melendez, who plays guitar character and fight and drive within with his feet because he was born us that makes us 'overcomers' and without arms, gained national atwinners. It's more than being sur- tention in 1'187 when he performed vivors, because a survivor is living for Pope John Paul II during his from day to day. A person who is visit to LO!. Angeles. He told the an 'overcomer' is looking at the teens in Indianapolis to persevere. future and has set goals and does "Never quit," he said. "Never give not allow life circumstances to up." take their focus off oJ their goals."

Ms. Mims said she too was just a survivor while growing up in the ghetto, until she realized her purpose in life. She remt:mbers a high incidence of alcoholism as well as gang activity and violence in her neighborhood.

"I knew there was more to life than that, but I didn't know what or where it was," she said but then she realized her talent for running and it gave her a focus . " ... I found out I could do it well.

I had a goal set. I was going to be the best [runner] I could be when I was in high school," she said.

But she says life is more than athletic success and fame, and she urges youth, especially those struggling with life's probkms that "God eNS photo planned them to be here and they do have a purpose." When they MADELINE MANNING MIMS discover it "it just starts blooming and branching out."

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CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Father Sineon Gallagher, OFM Cap., will gi'le a parish mission on "The Spiritullity of Relationships" Sept. 12 to 17. He will preach at weekend Ma:;ses, and give presentations at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 13 through 17. Presental ions will also be given after 9 a.m. Mass Sept. 14 to 17. Job Seekers Sup~ort Group will again meet 7:45 tl)9:45 p.m. alternate Mondays beginning Sept. 14 in parish center. Information: Carl and Joanne Claussen, 833-0425, or Chuck Majors, 888-5849.

PAX CHRWTI The first rneeting of the 1992-93 Pax Christi !.eason will be held at 7 p. m. Sept. 13, St. Vincent's Home cafeteria, 24:~5 Highland Ave., Fall River. Plans for the coming year will be made. All welcome.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Vincentians will hold food pantry collection on Sunday; needed are fruit juices, toilet tissue, laundry and dish deterge:lt. .

SACRED HEARTS RETREAT CENTER, WAREHAM Food donations and volunteers are needed f,)r food pantry; information: 295-0 1:>0.

The diocesan Office of Communications has announced the following schedule of times at which cable channels within the diocese will broadcast tapes of Bishop Sean O'Malle3"s Aug. 11 installation at St. Mary's Cathedral.

Attleboro Inland Cable TV, ch. 8 September 9,9 p.m. (Part 2)

Falmouth Adelphia Cablevision, ch. 13 September 8 & 10-1 p.m. (Part I) September 15 & 17 - I p.m. (Part 2)

Somerset, Swansea, Norton Rhode Island State Interconnect TCI Cablevision September 9 & 16 - noon ch. 57 September 12 & 19 - 9:30 p.m. ch. 58

WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. bisho ps' Office for the Pas-_ toral Care of Migrants and Refugees has published a l48-page directory of over 100 Catholic shrines and places of pilgrimage throughou t the United States. For each site il gives a brief history, a schedule of Masses and other devotions, and a list offacilities such as bookstore;, gift shops or cafeterias and the languages used in addition to English.

Further information on the guide is availabk from the usec Office for Publishing and Promotion Services by clllling (800) 235-USCC.

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