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MILWAUKEE (CNS) - A lay inissioner serving in Columbia said he fears many innocent people will either suffer or be killed in the South American nation's drug war.

Threats of retaliation by Columbian drug kingpins "do not really affect us," lay missioner Patrick Fendt told the Catholic Herald, Milwaukee's archdiocesan newspaper, in a telephone interview. ~'We're pretty small fish in a big sea."

Describing the situation in Columbia, Fendt said, "It's kinda scary now."

Fendt and his wife Pamela are completing the first year of a threeyear commitment with the archdiocese' of Milwaukee's Office for World Missions. They serve the poor' in the Colombian capital of Bogota, about 215 miles south of Medellin, the home base of the world's largest cocaine trafficking cartel.

"Many people, many gopd people are being knocked off," Fendt The controversial convent said. "It gets kind of frustrating doing small things when other people doing much more - making changes for the better - are being threatened and killed."

Turn to Page Six OSWIECIM, Poland (CNS) Cardinal JozefGlemp of Gniez______________ • Despite continuing calls for peaceno and Warsaw, head of the Polish ful dialogue, the war of words over hierarchy, fueled the fires further a Carmelite convent at Auschwitz in a sermon at Czestochowa Aug. escalated rapidly in late August and early September.

At Oswiecim - the Polish name for Auschwitz - and elsewhere in Poland, major Jewish organizaROME (CNS) - China has denied Pope John Paul II permis- tions boycotted ceremonies for the sion to fly over its territory when 50th anniversary of the start of World War II to protest the rehe visits Asia in October.

Alitalia, the Italian airline which fusal of top Polish church authoriarranges the pope's international ties to honor a 1987 agreement to flights, and the Vatican confi~med move the convent from its site near Italian press reports ofthe ChlDese a former Nazi death ~amp which. refusal. Neither··the airline nor Jews regard as the chief symbol of Vatican officials announced a rea- the Holocaust.

Cardinal Franciszek Macharski son for the refusal.

If the route had been approved, of Krakow tried to defuse some of it would have marked the first time the tensions with a plea for "an end a pope had flown over the giant to hostility and hatred toward Asian nation.

Jpdaism" during a ceremony Sept.

The China route would also 2 near the twin death camps of have allowed Pope John Paul to Auschwitz and Birkenau, where read a message to the government some 4 million people, most of Cardinal Glemp them Jews, were killed, during the and people of that country. war.

On his trips, the pope always The cardinal made no move, 26. He characterized a mid-July directs a short radio message from . however, to reverse his decision to protest demonstration in which the air to the countries he flies over.

China's commmunist govern- suspend indefinitely the removal seven U.S. Jews tried to scale the ment has no diplomatic relations of the convent. He told reporters convent walls as an "attack" that with the Vatican. It supports a only that he was "committed to threatened the lives of the nuns. national Catholic church organi- dialogue" as the way to settle the He said the nuns had a right to pray at Auschwitz, and he said zation which rejects Vatican juris- dispute. that Jews control the mass media The newest round of bitter condiction. At the same time, there in many countries and were using are an estimated 3 million Chinese troversy over the convent began their power to "spread anti-Polish Aug. 10 when Cardinal Macharski, loyal to the Vatican who are served complaining of "bad faith" and "a feeling." by a clandestine clergy.

The storm of protest that folOn Sept. 1, Alitalia confirmed violent campaign of accusations reports that it had been refused and defamat.iQn in some Western lowed Cardinal Glemp's sermon permission to fly over China dur- Jewish communities," said he went well beyond the Jewish comwould not move the Carmelite munity. nuns under,those circumstances.

Turn to Page Six Boston Cardinal Bernard F.

By Dale O'Leary

Convent word war worsens

Pope can't fly over China

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Law, in an open letter to the Carmelite nuns, asked them to move from the convent, saying that there was "little hope of an early resolution" to the controversy "except by a gracious act of reconciling love which only you can make."

Earlier, CardinalJohnJ. O'Connor of New York told reporters he wished the Polish bishops "would get on with the formal commitment [to move the convent] signed by one of their members." He said if there had been delays" it would seem logical for the leaders to have gotten together to discuss the problems.

"But to simply state that the convent would not be moved now," followed by controversial remarks

by Polish Cardinal Jozef Glemp, "normal decent people, I think, would construe ... that the blame is being. shifted to the Jews for demanding that a signed accord should be carried out, and I don't think that is right. I don't think that is just. I don't think ,that it is charitable, and it certainly doesn't represent my position as a brother cardinal."

Los Angeles Archbishop Roger M. Mahony said he joined in Cardin.al O'Connor's comments.

Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee said Cardinal Glemp's remarks were "uncalled for and harmful. '1 He said he hoped the Polish prelate would "seek some kind of reconciliation with the Jewish community that he has offended" before his approaching Turn to Page Six

Operation Rescue targeted Cape Cod Aug. 28 with a surprise weekday demonstration against the WomanCare clinic in Hyannis.

At about 4:30 p.m., ~O rescuers entered the clinic's second-floor office and took up positions in the waiting room.

A. white-haired woman clinic volunteer who wore a hand-lettered "Escort" shoulder sash tried to stop the demonstrators by spray~ ing them with a chemical fire extinguisher.

Another 200 people assembled outside the building holding antiabortion signs arid singing religious and patriotic songs.

Patients and staff of the abortion clinic and of an allergist also in the building left without interference.

WomanCare is owned by Dr. Howard Silverman who also owns Repro Associates in Brookline and another WomanCare clinic in New ,Bedford.

The Hyannis clinic normally performs about 24 abortions a week, all on Wednesday evenings.' On Aug. 26, a Wednesday, it was completely shut down by the demonstrators.

As darkness fell, those outside the building brought candles and continued their vigil, while a few policemen guarded the area. A few abortion supporters, frustrated by police unwillingness to remove the Operation Rescue members, chanted "Uphold law" for the TV cameras. But for the most part the scene remained calm. _ About 9 p.m. Lt. Martin Hoxie of the Barnstable police held a press conference to say that the police had been expecting Operation Rescue to hit the Hyannis clinic since its establishment in May. He expressed concern that his officers and the demonstrators might be injured if attempts were made to drag the protesters from the second-floor office.

The demonstrators had been told to leave and when, according to Hoxie, they refused, they were arrested, handcuffed, and charged with trespass and violation of the state civil rights statute. Hoxie said that the police were not going to carry them out.

"They can stay there until next week," he added, also saying that the facility operators were in agreement with the police plan..

The Operation Rescue leaders would not agree to walk out unless the charges against demonstrators were reduced to simple trespass.

Violation of civil rights is a felony-with stiff penalties and Operation Rescue has a general policy to remain noncompliant in solidarity Turn to Page Six

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Ecumenical gesture

The Anchor

Friday, Sept. '8, 1989

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (CNS) - A South Orange priest is believed to be the first Catholic priest elected as a voting member of a Protestant church's governing body. Msgr. Philip Morris, chairman of the Archdiocese of Newark's commission for ecumenical and religious affairs, was elected in' . early August to sit on the governing board of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) at the church's general assembly in Indianapolis.

Msgr. Morris told The Catholic Advocate, archdiocesan newspaper, that his selection represents a "significant ecumenical gesture. "

Racism condemned B~OOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) L~cal Catholic leaders sharply con-

demned racial violence following the murder of a black teen-ager by a white gang Aug. 23 in Bensonhurst, a heavily Catholic, ItalianAmerican neighborhood of Brooklyn.Police said between 10 and 30 young white'males may have been . part" of the 'bat-wielding gang that chased four young blacks and gunned down one, 16-year-old Yusef Hawkins. The next day a group of 20 local leaders, including several Catholic pastors, declared that they and "the overwhelming majority of our people are determined to do battle against the ignorance that leads to intolerance, hatred and violence."

Retirement set MILWAUKEE (CNS) -,-Jesuit Father John P. Raynor, 65, president of Marquette University in Milwaukee since 1965, will retire on or about Sept. 1,1990. He will have served 25 years at the Jesuit run university, the longest tenure of any president in Marquette's 107 years.

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295·1810 St. Anne's Hospital gratefully ac· knowledges contributions that we have received to the Remembrance Fund during August. Through the remem· brance and honor of these lives, St. Anne's can continue its "Caring With Excellence."

Estelle Bergeron Edmund Borges Robert Couture Mildred Danis Mrs. Delores Demers Lucien Dufault Jeannette Dupuis Carroll P. Gettings, M.D. Jean D. Keezer Margaret Kenney Richard G. King Rose Alma LaBonte Anna Lafrance Philomena Latessa Louis Levesque • Hattie Manchester Arthur Mattos William McGraw' .

Edward C. Michno Aurel Michaud Katherine Nash Deacon Eugene Orosz Mrs. Lucie Patenaude John L. Pontes Raymond Rivard Marie Julie Simard Robert E. Staples Frederick J. Sullivan, M.D. Mary "Elizabeth Westell Walter Zembo

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IN "ROMERO," actor Raul Julia, shown above, portrays slain EI Salvador Archbisho~ <?scar Romero as moving from being a withdrawn scholar to a champion of human rights. The fIlm deserves concerted support from the religious community, says Henry Herx, director ofthe U.S. bishops' Office for Film and Broadcasting. (CNS/Warner Bros. photo)

"Romero" film needs widespread support NEW YORK (CNS) - Paulist Father Ellwood Kieser is switching channels in his communications ministry. Highly successful as a Catholic TV producer, he has _ now moved into the role of motion picture producer.

His latest effort is "Romero," a feature film depicting the last three years in the life of martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador. Produced by Paulist Productions, the movie opened in New York and Los Angeles in August. ' It is scheduled for national release this month.

Father Kieser's career is most identified with the "Insight" TV series of contemporary moral dra-' mas, during the 1960s and 1970s among the most widely syndicated series in the history of religious broadcasting.

With the acceleration of broadcast deregulation in the 1980s, however, the notion of public service obligations on the part of TV became little more than a memory.

One result was that "Insight" either lost stations carrying the series or was aired at hours suitable primarily for insomniacs. .

Paulist Productions then came

up with a prime:time family series funded and syndicated by Capital Cities. Though the' series ended when Capital Cities purchased the ABC network, Father Kieser went on to produce two prime-time specials for ABC - "The Fourth Wise Man" (1985) and "We Are the Children" (1987).

When he began considering the "Romero" project, he tried to develop it as a network movie-of-theweek presentation; and it was only after all three networks turned down the concept that he determined to produce it as a feature film.

It took-him several years to raise the capital needed for a big-screen, budget. The steps in actual production - honing the script, hiring cast and crew, filming, editing and finding a distributor to get the finished product into movie theaters - involved major and costly decisions.

However the critics and the movie-going public respond to "Romero," Father Kieser and his associates have made a remarkable effort. Whether it is supported at the box office or not, the movie will have a long life in subsequent

showings on television, videocassette and in foreign markets: Admittedly, any theatrical movie is a financial gamble, especially one made outside the Hollywood studio system; and compounding the risk is the fact that religious movie subjects are seldom boxoffice hits. "The Mission" (1986), a visually spectacular movie about the Jesuits who championed the human rights of Indians in l7thcentury South America, died in theatrical distribution.

The irony here is that sertain portions of the religious community seem much more comfortable in protesting film excesses than in supporting worthwhile screen efforts. Indeed, it is easier to organize pickets against a movie like "The Last Temptation of Christ" than to bring a group together to see'a movie and discuss it afterward.

"Romero" is Father Kieser's latest achievement in a long and distinguished media career. If it is not supported at the box office, it will be another lost opportunity for the religious community to prove that worthwhile, religiously challenging films can be commercially viable.

Catechist Formation Workshop offered A four-session Catechist Formation Workshop will be offered in Fall River; Hyann.is, Norton . and New Bedford during September and early October under. auspices ofthe' Diocesan Department of Education. . .

Parishes are urged to encourage catechists to attend the program, said Father Richard W. Beaulieu, diocesan director of education. , "Whether they are veterans or new volunteers," he said, ','we believe that the program 'we have assembled' will provide them with tools to- better serve the parish·' efforts at religious education."

Workshop speakers will be Father Giles Genest; MS, spiritual director at LaSalette Retreat Center, Attleboro; Father Thomas Mc. Elroy, SS.CC., director of Sacred Hearts Retreat'Center, Wareham; Father Robert A. Oliveira, diocesan director of Continuing Formation of Clergy and Laity; Father

Jose M. Sousa, diocesan vice-chancellor; Dr. Ernest J. Collamati, chairman of the Regis College department of religious studies.

Also Directors of Religious Education Kathie Barboza, St. John of God parish, Somerset; Sister Theresa Bisson, OP, Holy Ghost, Attleboro; Sister Marianna Sylvester, RSM, Our Lady of Assumption, New Bedford; and Laura VerGow, S1. John Evangelist, Attleboro.Also participating will be representatives of Miramar Retreat Center, Duxbury.

The workshop schedule follows: At Holy Name parish, Fall River: Sept. 18, Theology, Father Oliveira; Sept. 25, Spirituality, Father Sousa; Oct. 2, Methodology, Mrs. Barboza; Oct. 9, Collaboration, Community and Commitment, Dr. Collamati.

mar Center staff; Oct. 3, M~thodol­ ogy, Sister Sylvester; Oct. 10, Collaboration, Community and Commitment, Dr. Collamati.

At St. Mary parish, Norton: Sept.

20, Theology, Father Oliveira; Sept.

27, Spirituality, Father Genest; Oct. 4, Methodology, Mrs. VerGow; Oct. II, Collaboration, Commu"nity and Commitment, Dr. Collamati.

At Holy Name parish, New'Bedford: Sept. '21, Theology, Father Oliveira; Sept. 28, Spirituality, Fa-" ther McElroy; Oct. 5, Methodology, Sister Sylvester; Oct. 12, Collabora~ tion, Community and Commitment; Dr. Collamati. ' A registration form for the workshop is available from the Department of Education, 423 Highland Ave., Fall River 02720-3791, tel.

678-2828.

At St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis: Sept. 19, Theology, Father Oliveira; Sept. 26, Spirituality, Mira-

"The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity." - Chasles

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SISTER MARIE Edward (Kathleen) Deutsch has been appointed directress of vocations and nQvice mistress for the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, who nurse incurable cancer patients at seven homes in six states, including the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home in Fall River.

Sister Edward succeeds Sister Anne Marie Holden, elected the community's mother general last May. Previously Sister Edward had served at the sisters' home in St. Paul.

Of her new assignment, she said, "It is a very large job.

My first reaction was, 'Oh, no,' in part because of my love of nursing and in part because of the enormous responsibility of this position. But my vow of obedience required that I accept this assignment, albeit reluctantly. And subsequently, in the calmness of faith and trust, I was bolstered against my feelings of inadequacy. I would not be facing this challenge alone; God's presence would see me through."

The daughter of Ret. Col. Edward and Marie Deutsch of Malvern, Pa., Sister Edward is a graduate of Immaculata College, Immaculata, Pa. and a certified clinical pathologist.

Before entering religious life she worked as a clinical microbiologist while living in St. Kevin's parish, Boston, and donating her full salary and free time to the parish.

In 1979 she entered the HaWthorne congregation and in 1985 received a nursing degree with highest honors from the Cochran School of Nursing at St. John's Hospital, Yonkers, N. Y.

.Catholic aid 'groups urged to tooperate

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Friday, Sept. 8, 1989

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BALTIMORE (CNS) - To all- perhaps drawing from countries eviate misery in the Third World, such as Japan and Australia."

Another challenge, he said, is to more cooperation is needed among nations and among Catholic aid coordinate planning and programs organizations, says Bernard Holzer,. as non-governmental aid organipresident of International Coop- zations proliferate. "For example, eration for Development and Soli- we all know food is needed in darity, a federation of Western Africa, but what is the best way to European and North American produce more food?"

He said the best way most U.S. Catholic aid agencies.

Holzer was interviewed by the Catholics can help people in the' Catholic Review, Baltimore arch- . Third World is through CRS or by diocesan newspaper, during a visit lobbying the government.

He described his own work as a to the new national headquarters of Catholic Relief Services in Balti- fulfillment of his religious commitment. more.

CRS is the largest of 14 national Catholic aid organizations in the federation, often referred to as CIDSE after the French initials of its original name when it was form. ed in 1967.

BECOME CIDSE aims to raise awareness of the causes of underdevelopment A and to respond to the needs of the FOSTER PARENT poor especially in the Third World.

It usually fosters informationCALL Anna Mason AT HOLY UNION assembly, from left, Sister Belmira Oliveira, a guidance counselor at sharing and cooperation among its members agencies rather than Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro; Sister of St. Joseph Ann Bryant Smallings, keynote sponsoring 1-800-322-5875 projects itself, but does speaker; Sister Barbara Kirkman, nurse at the community's Fall River retirement home; Sister sponsor some projects directly. The Margaret Donnelly, provincial councilor, pastoral minister at S1. Luke's Hospital, New Bed- biggest and best-known of these is a cooperative effort in Cambodia, ford, and counselor at Interfaith Counseling Center, Fall River.

NEEDED Laos and Vietnam, begun in 1978 because the political situation prevented action by agencies such as CRS. CRS was a founding member of "To strengthen the bonds that is director of counseling for the cese, encouraged the sisters to famunite us and to bring our common laity of the Albany diocese. As iliarize themselves with services CIDSE, which has its headquarOUR LADY OF wisdom to bear on the shaping of assembly keynote speaker and chief available to the elderly. Recogniz- ters in Brussels, Belgium.

GRACE CHURCH Holzer, who headed the French our future." With this as their chief presenter, she stressed the neces- ing that most people do not like to 569 SANFORD ROAD goal, some 100 Holy Union Sisters sity of witnessing to interdepend- be in need of the help of others, she Catholic aid.agency in CIDSE for WESTPORT, MA 02790 of the Fall River Province last ence through caring relationships emphasized the importance of.learn- six years before taking up his Far Further Infarmation Call month held their annual assembly with one another. "Anything that ing how to receive assistance grace~ CIDSE post earlier this year, said the federation aims "to become at Mont Marie Conference Cen- contributes to separateness will fully.

674-6271 ter, Holyoke. .

The sisters were also updated on even more international than it is, hurt us as persons and in ministheir associate membership proAs part of their reflection on the try," she said. .

Two speakers provided inpu't on gram active in the New York area. meaning of community membership, the sisters considered aspects housing possibilities for sisters Three lay associate members desFOUR COUNTRY/RHINE RIVER CRUISE of living well together in their local 'retired from fulltime ministry but cribed development over the past and larger communities. remaining active. Marie Sheehan, year.

PASSION PLAY (OBERAMMERGAU) A paraliturgical celebration fol"The Visitation happened whe.n a director" of Catholic Charities two women met and embraced ministries for the Boston archdio- lowed by a social hour honoring • FRANCE • HOLLAND • BELGIUM • GERMANY 1989 jubilarians concluded the and nothing was ever the same ces spoke of the plight of the again. That's community." homeless and suggested several assembly.

MAY 22, 1990 Sister Ann Bryant Smallings used options for sisters to become $2999 Per Person, Per Occupancy - .14 DA YS this Gospel image offeminine mut- involved in home-sharing, particuIncludes: Air & ground transportation, accommodations at1 st class hotels, 27 meals ual support along with discussion larly with elderly persons finding it (1,2 breakfasts, 5 lunches. 10 dinners) taxes, baggage handling, all admissions & questions and activities in chal- difficult to live alone.

HUTTONSVILLE, W. Va. sightseeing, services of a professional tour guide.

Sister Patricia Schmidt, a Daugh- (CNS) - A Catholic pastoral cenlenging the sisters to make a raditer of Wisdom who provides concal difference in today's world.

ROCHESTER SENIOR TRAVEL CLUB ter near a prison in a rural West A member of the Congregation sultation services for clergy and Virginia community has become a 135 WORCESTER ST. • NEW BEDFORD, MA 02745 of Saint Joseph, Sister Smallings religious of the Manchester dio- second home for families of prison c/o Kay Settele TEL. 995-1971 inmates. Since 1987, the Bishop EVERYONE WELCOME" OPEN TO ALL AGESI Joseph H. Hodges Pastoral Center has provided rooms to individuals and families who might not otherwise be able to visit their relaVATICAN CITY (CNS) tives in the Huttonsville CorrecTravelers to the Soviet Union may tional center, said Father Paul W. now bring their Bibles with them, .

Hickey, director of the Hodges according to Vatican Radio. center and prison chaplain. The New Soviet customs rules allow center is named after former Wheelforeign visitors to carry Bibles and ing-Charleston Bishop Hodges who other religious literature, the Vatidied of cancer in 1985 after serving can's station reported in August. the diocese for 25 years. The priThe old rules banned such pubson, which houses about 500 inlications. mates, is in Huttonsville, a remote The Jesuit-run radio cited news community with no access to pubExclusive residential living for the elderly in reports from Moscow in its broadlic transportation. cast. It said according to those a gracious Victorian home providing a warm reports, the relaxed customs rules and caring environment. Monthly rates reflect a greater Soviet confidence include: .

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If he were a policeman, schoolteacher or fireman, he would be out of a job. But he's not one of these civil servants. He's a politician, an elected official.

On the one hand, a cop or teacher who makes a mistake is dismissed with vengeance and wrath. On the other hand, a .congressman seems able to set his own standard of behavior regardless of any moral accountability.

This does not seem an acceptable model for Ii public servant, especially in the case of the flagrant activities of Representative Barney Frank.

His rather tacky double standard should not be condoned or excused. His argument that his legislative activities are totally distinct from his sexual activities degrades the belief that public office is a public trust.

Our liberal do-it-if-it-feels-good' ethic has replaced the objective with the subjective.

Few in today's social order wish to admit that there are criteria that should guide behavior. One's private preferences should not automatically be considered publicly acceptable.

Somehow we have forgotten that the social conduct ofthose in public office should be above reproach.

There are those who would argue, that it makes little difference what an elected official does in so-called private life as long as he or she is an effective legislator. Such an attitude is duplicitous, never mind pathetic. There is a measure of fitness eNS/ UPI·Reuters photo expected of an officeholder. At its mini'mum, it should adhere to the basic standards expected of all who serve the public. At "Attend to the words of my mouth!" Prov~ 7/24 its best, it should be an example to be emulated.

The tragedy to date in the Frank scandal is not merely the congressman. It's the members of the public who support his flagrant violation of morality. You can be sure that if a voter had a son or daughter sexually violated by a policeman, "They've even tried to give their WASHINGTON (CNS) - The susceptible· to their threats and teacher or social worker; he or she would go to the ends of the money to the church ... offering , bullet-riddled corpses that continue bribes than in Colombia. earth to remove such a person from a position of public trust. to bloody city streets this year President Bush, meanwhile, . to donate money for the construcHow can the same people say that the Frank situation is bring home the enormity of a praised Barco's efforts and ruled tion of chapels and schools," said different? Just because it happened in Washington and not in problem shared by cocaine sup- out dispatching U.S. troops to the Msgr. Fandino. He said the Colombian bishops refused to accept the fourth Congressional district, is he to be free from all plier nations and their chief cus- South American nation. tomer, the United States.

"We in Colombia are living at a the "hot money." . accountability? Yet such seems the case.

He said most Colombians feel Throughout the Americas, from critical_and painful hour," said a Much of such duplicity has been fostered by those dements Bogota, Colombia, to suburban statement issued by the Colom- the demand for drugs in the Uniin our society that condone personal license and lewdness, too New York, from the rural Hual- bian bishops' conference follow: ted States is "so great that there is laga Valley in Peru to inner-city ing Galan's murder. The "cruel" very little one isolated country". often encouraged by the liberal media.

Those same media have invaded nearly every home with Milwaukee, the multibillion dollar and "systematic" terrorism strik- like their own can do to stop the industry has families ing the Andean nation "now claims trafficking. offerings ranging from the harshness of MTV to the porno- cocaine More than 2,000 miles to the mourning their loved ones. a victim that meant so much to graphy of Playboy/ girl. How often do we hear "I read it in the It is a complex problem with no Colombia .... an indefatigable north, New York's Ms. Bohlen paper" or "I saw it on T.V." as if such mention sanctions simple solution. Cocaine money worker for democracy and the says there is "a need to attack the means economic growth for entire common good," said the statement, supply side, but we can't just do whatever activity is being discusse4.

Sad to say, because of the millions of Massachusetts vqters regions in Peru and, perhaps, eco- which was signed by Cardinal Al- that, we have to take steps to attack the demand." nomic survival for Bolivia. For fonso Lopez Trujillo of Medellin. who tolerate literally anything from their liberal Democratic thousands In the United States the highly of South American The murder of Galan followed congressional delegation, Barney Frank seemingly has nothing peasants who grow and harvest closely the assassination of Colom- addictive form of cocaine known to worry about. Indeed, across the nation our Commonwealth the coca plant from which the bian Appeals Court Judge Carlos as crack has been blamed for skyhas a terrible reputation. This point was made quite cl~ar in the nitrogen-based compound called Ernesto Valencia by suspected drug rocketing homicide rates. Crack cocaine can be isolated, the drug traffickers. Judge Valencia was dealers shoot each other in turf last presidential election. means food on the table at shot dead only hours after he disputes. They shoot clients who Objections to the passive acceptance ofFrank's conductare trade the end of the day. upheld an arrest warrant for ac- are late with payments. And they innumerable. All in all, considering the enormity of his actions But as an indirect result of their cused Medellin cartel leader Pablo' shoot police officers trying to halt and all their implications, it would be best that he avoid the labor, in the lower Manhattan sec- Escobar. their activities.

"You can seal off all the borders tor of New York, school children farce of running for reelection.

Valencia is one of more than 50 In fa<*, he should resign from office as soon as possible. It "step over crack vials and needles judges killed in Colombia in the you want, but this is a big business· on their way to school, and you last 10 years for standing up to involving billions and billions of would be the honest thing to do, not only for himself but for can watch drug deals made in drug traffickers. Others have given _dollars. People that want the drugs the good of all whom he currently represents in the House. stairweUs and elevators," Mary in to the kingpins, refusing to will find them," said Ms. Bohlen.

In an age crying for role models,this nation, state and Bohlen, director of the Office of throw them in jail. It is said in She believes It is essential that district need to encourage high-caliber men and women to Substance Abuse Ministry for the Colombia the judges have a choice more federal funds be allocated to· strive for public leadership roles. How can this be done if at the Archdiocese of New YorIs, told of "plata 0 plomo" - silver or community-based drug education lead; that is, accept half a million programs at home. Although the same time we tolerate the aberrant patterns of behavior cur- Catholic News Service.

And the U.S. public has taken dollars or you and your family are effects of drug abuse are more visrently so prevalent? ible in poor city neighborhoods, notice. Results of a new Gallup dead.

Drugs, money-a lethal mix

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Poll released in August say th,lt U.S. teen-agers and adults alike view drug abuse as the most important problem facing the nation topping fear of war, unemployment, AIDS, crime, abortion and alcohol abuse.

The brutal assassination of Luis Carlos Galan Sarmiento, Colombia's leading presidential candidate who was known for his anti-drug stance, resulted in ll"crackdown on drug traffickers in Colombia arid an announcement by Colombian President Virgilio Barco that he would extradite drug kingpins to the United States, where it is believed the justice system will be less

"The incredible quantities of they are as severe in wealthy submoney held by the drug kingpins urbs, she said. "I think there's still make it easy for them to buy the a tremendous amount of denial consciences of the average Co- within families and local communlombian as well as the government ities," she added.

Her program, which has 12 reofficial," Msgr. Alvaro Fandino Franky, undersecretary to the gen- gional offices within the New York eral secretary· of the Colombian Archdiocese, has trained some bishops' conference, told CNS in a 30,000 persons to participate in mini-patrols in their neighbortelephone interview from Bogota.

He said drug traffickers have so hoods, reporting drug deals they much money that they "subvert see to the police and then followevery kind of value that exists." ing up to make sure action has Some have used their dollars to been taken. build health clinics and housing Trainees are also taught to refer for the poor in an attempt to persons in their communities who improve their standing in the eyes· need assistance to self-help organof the public. izations.

Soc'cer ,or math?

National Public Radio aired a feature last spring that caused me to reflect on how our value systems affect our educational system.

It seems that there are many Japanese-owned companies operating in the southwc;st border areas. of San Diego and El Paso, so there is a sizable Japanese population whose children attend the public schools. In El Paso, in fact, there is bilingual education in Japanese as well as Spanish.

Last year the Japanese set up a Saturday school in math and science education for their own children. These students, ages 5 to 14, attend four hours of additional math and science instruction weekly, taught in Japanese.

This led to an outcry from nonJapanese El Paso parents, charging the public schools with failure to offer adequate instruction in math and science for their child·ren. If the Japanese feel the need for better education in these areas, parents charged, then the public system must be faulty.

I was impressed, however, with the words of the director of curricida in the El Paso district who said that the Japanese math school doesn't mean that the public schools are' lacking as much as that the Japanese as a culture put more value on math and science than we do.

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Americans, he said, just don't think math is that important or, at least, as important as other activities. I reflected on the disgruntled American parents and wondered how many of them would value Saturday morning math school over soccer, football and ot!ter sports activities which consume their children's time. I suspect that ifthey were handed the choice, few would choose the math school. We already know that soccer takes precedence over religion class in many familes.

I'm not taking a stand here on which is more important, math and science or Little League. That's not the point. Rather, I'm emphasizing that our values determine our school system.

One could make a good case that Saturday sports activities are more valuable in helping children succeed in a high-stress' society than more intensive math. From the statistics on stress and workaholism among the Japanese, they might do their young a favor by letting up on them academically.

Whenever we see a problem in society, whether it's illiteracy, promiscuity, or drugs, we tend to ask where our education system has failed. The question we should ask is where our cultural values have failed.

When we allow unrestricted sex to pervade our media, advertising, and culture in general and then ask By FATHER EUGENE

Prior to the Second VatiHEMRICK can Council, sabbaticals for priests were almost unknown.

If they took one it was usually for reasons of health, and some- takes a toll. The profession of Ii times to deal with "a problem." On priest touches a human being at occasion, sabbaticals were taken the deepest level possible and reto study for a degree. quires intense empathy and soulToday, priests are being urged searching. to take sabbaticals in order to be But taking a sabbatical has an renewed and freed from stress. evtrn more important aspect than Some may wonder why priests providing the physical and emoget sabbaticals when those in the tional renewal needed for intense business world and trades don't work. The values which religion normally have this opportunity. It must address have become extremalmost seems that there is an injus- . ely complex, tice here since they work just as In the field of medicine alone, much or more. there are complex questions on One argument for priests' sab- AIDS, genetic engineering, aborbaticals might be that priests are tion, and birth control. Even not in a profession in which time is though the church has refined its measured by profit, nor are they teaching on these issues, constant driven by the same motives as updating is needed to be able to those in the marketplace. understand the teaching and to But the reasons for priests' sab- make it understandable to those baticals go much deeper than that. most affected.

Today, there are fewer priests The moral theology.books of25 and this has doubled their work years ago never· confronted some load. Usually their place of work of the knotty problems we are seeand their home are the same so ing presently. that they are at the mercy of the There are many priests and lay public constantly. people who don't agree with the No matter how dedicated a above. They argue that sabbaticals priest is, it is very difficult to stay give an elitist appearance to the fresh at ajob when your daily rou- priesthood, which is supposed to tine means you go from being be totally service oriented and to responsible for a funeral to coun- be lived on the same level as the life seling a drug addict to celebrating of any parishioner. a wedding.

True as those objections may If these begin to double and tri- be, priests need updating and sabple, a priest could end up being baticals are one of the best ways to perfunctory - going from one do it. If there is difficulty in seeing task to the next without giving any The Request one of them the personal, sacred touch it requires.

"God has not called me to be With priests, as with social work- successful. He has called me to be ers and psychiatrists, working close- faithful." - Mother Teresa of ly with others' psyches and souls Calcutta

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why the schools can't halt teenage pregnancies, we're asking the impossible of a single system.

When millions of adults haven't read a book in 10 years and then charge the school with failure to teach their children to read, we're ignoring the obvious. Parents who read beget· children who read.

Simple as that.

Mormon children attend daily religion class at 6 a.m. They know a lot about their religion. How many Catholic parents who groan about their 'children's lack of religious 'knowledge would be willing to get their children off at 6 a.m. for su~h study or even deal with getting them to turn off TV and get to bed earlier so they can get up for that hour.

I would guess that in years to come the Japanese students in El Paso will earn the high SAT scores in math while the American students will earn the sports scholarships. Whatever, it will not be the fault of the school system but the result of differing value systems which determine the "success" of their collective children. this, one might imagine what it would be like if a dentist never updated his or her technology.

People would be subjected to the old,· painful, slow drill that once was considered state of the art.

Although there is no guarantee that sabbaticals will make a priest's work less painful, they do offer hope, both to priests and others, that a period of updating ultimately enables priests to serve Catholics better as they struggle to apply the faith to everyday tasks.

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Hyannis, Continued from Page One until all felony charges are dismissed.

Subsequently, windows in the building were closed, and demonstrators were n'ot permitted wa.ter or use of toilets. At 2:00 a.m. Jean McDonnell of Providence collapsed from severe dehydration and had to be taken to the hospital. . At 2:30 a.m. police decided to remove the demonstrators. They were taken out in groups of five by elevator. Three men who had chained themselves together by their necks were strapped to a board to prevent injury and were also removed. ' All the demonstrators were arraigned on Thursqay afternoon and released on their own re~ cognizance.

While this has been the first Operation Rescue demonstration at the Hyannis abortion clinic, .t here have been weekly demonstrations by Cape Cod pro-lifers which have led to confrontations with Dr. Silverman.

Kim Brigham, a regular pro-life picketer, filed a complaint in the local court saying that on one occasion, in the presence of a police officer, Dr. Silverman grabbed her by the shoulders and pushed her. Dr. Silverman filed a counter-eomplaint against Kim and her husband. According to Mrs. Brigham, Dr. Silverman charged that she was engaged in verbal assault and threats because she talked to him about God's judgment.

A story in the Cape Cod Times reported that documents from the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine show Dr. Silverman has had his privileges suspended by several Boston area hospitals for "gross misconduct" involving sexual activity with a minor and practicing medicine while "impaired by mental instability."

A front page story in the Boston Globe (Sept. 2, 1989) revealed that other Boston abortion providers had known of Silverman's misconduct, but did not publicize it for fear of hurting the abortion rights movement.

Commenting on the Globe story Ruth Pakuluk, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, said, "This just proves what we've been saying, that abortion providers don't want women to have informed consent. They don't want them to know about fetal development, physical and emotional complications and alternatives,'and now we learn that they don't even want them to know that their abortion is being done by a doctor who has sexually abused women."

Priest - writer dies WASHINGTON (CNS) - Sulpician Father Eugene A. Walsh, a theologian noted for talks and writings on prayer, worship and liturgy, died Aug. 15. He was 78.

Father Walsh's body was found at the bottom of a swimming pool in Hilo, Hawaii. He apparently suffered a heart attack while swimming. He had been giving a conference on liturgy in Hawaii. Father Walsh wrote more than 30 books and pamphlets, including "Practical Suggestions for Celebrating Sunday Mass,''''Giving Life: The Ministry of the Parish Sunday Assembly" and "The Life-Giving Parish: Vision and Practice." •

Continued from Page One The Colombian government began its attack on the drug cartel after the assassination of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan Sarmiento. Police have seized more than $200 million in real estate, plus airplanes, helicopters, cars and cocaine. About 11,000 people have been taken into custody.

The drug traffickers, who call themselves "The Extraditables,"

Pope Continued from Page One ing the pope's Oct. 6-16 trip to South Korea, Indonesia, East Timor and Mauritius. It did not say whether the Vatican had asked for the po'pe to be routed ever China.

The Vatican confirmed Sept. 2 that the Chinese route had been refused, but said that Alitalia has the sole responsibility for determining the flight path.

"Alitalia is studying an alternative route,", said Vatican press spokesman Joaquin NavarroValls.

During the pope's 1984 trip to South Korea, the papal plane took a longer polar route which avoided Chinese airspace. The route required the plane to make a stop in Fairbanks, Alaska, where the pope met then-President Ronald Reagan.

The Fendtsjoined lay missioner Mary McCormick, 78, to gradually oversee social, educational and religious projects she initiated when she came to Bogota from Milwaukee in 1968. ' "We're fine," Ms. McCormick said. "So far, things are going on as usual. There's no trouble with us, "The war is between the narcos [traffickers) and the police... and we don't get into that."

Ms. McCormick said a planned Sept. 16 picnic for English-speaking groups in Bogota will go on as scheduled.

Fendt said, "If the government starts extradition [of arrested people to face charges in the United States] it may get hot for Americans but for now the e~bassy here does not seem to be as concerned as the [U.S.] State Department."

On Aug. 30, the St~te Department ordered all dependents of U.S. diplomats out of Colombia.

Priest counseling satanic cult victims LAFAYETTE, La. (CNS) Satanic cults are more widespread than people realize, said a Louisiana parish priest who counsels victims of satanic cults.

"There is not a satanist behind every tree," said Father Joseph F. Brennan, pastor of St. Genevieve' Parish in Lafayette. "But they're out there and they have to be healed.", ' "It is not just, it is not true" to Father Brennan estimated that speak of "the silence of the pope" there are 8,000 covens in the Uniin a negative way, said the cardinal. ted States with 100,000 members "No one tells the pope what he nationwide. should say or do as pastor of the Father Brennan has been coununiversal church," he added. seling victims of ritualistic, abuse Meanwhile, the 14 nuns in the and satanic cults for the past three eye of the storm have maintained years. silence.

He first got involved when parThe local Carmelite superior in ents of a young boy came to him Krakow, Father Anastazy Gadek, and asked for help. told Catholic News Service in a As the counseling 'sessions proSept. 2 that they would be willing gressed, the young victim began to move if ordered to do so by the talking to Father Brennan about Vatican. books that he read. The priest went to a nearby bookstore, where he found "shelves and shelves of books on satanism. I had been WASHINGTON (CNS) - The shopping in that store for years, U.S. Catholic Conference, saying and I had just never noticed them."

The priest began reading all he "the in'tegrity of the family is at stake," has filed a friend-of-the-, could about the practices and ritucourt brief in the U.S. Supreme als of satanism. He contacted psyCourt in two cases involving pr,ior .chologists and other ministers who parental notification for minors' have helped victims of satanic cults. abortions. "The integrity of the As word got out that he had begun . family unit is itself a privacy inter- his own ministry, more arid more est deserving constitutional pro- parents began seeking his help. He tection," the brief said in support currently works with about 150 of state laws in Minnesota and cases.

"Many times I have been asked Ohio requiring parental notification. The Knights of Columbus what they are like," he said. "But also filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the cases asking the court to overturn a "judicial bypass" proviNEW YORK (CNS) - Jesuit sion in the Minnesota law.

Father James B. Reuter, a 73year-old native of New Jersey who has given a lifetime of missionary G~nius service to the Philippines, has been "When a true genius appears in named 1989 recipient ofthe Ramon the world, you may know him by Magsaysay Award for journalism, this sign, that the dunces are all in literature and creative communiconfederacy against him." -Swift .~M,i91)...a.r!~:,." ..,." .....,....." ...,..", . '" 1.!. a J

Convent war worsens Continued from Page One visit to Milwaukee and several other U.S. cities. ' . Cardinal Glemp provoked another round of protests when he told reporters in Warsaw Aug. 31 that the 1987 agreement to relocate the convent, worked out 'by an international group of Catholic and Jewish 'representatives in Geneva, should be "renegotiated," and this time "not by some cardi: nals who don't understand the situation."

Among the nine Catholic and nine Jewish representatives who worked out the agreement were four cardinals: Cardinal Macharski and Cardinals Albert Decourtray of Lyons, France, Jean-Marie Lustiger of Paris, and Godfried Danneels of Malines-Brussels, Belgium.

The French and Belgian cardinals responded with a statement declaring that "the agreement undertaken must" be respected. " Sharply disputing his challenge to their competence, they asked, "If four cardinals, including the archbishop of Krakow, are not qualified to represent the Catholic side, who is?"

Thus far, Pope John Paul II has taken no public position on the escalating controversy.

At an Aug. 26 Vatican news conference, Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said the Polish-born pope has not .become involved because he "respects local churches" -and is "especially respectful of the local church from which he comes." (

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He said victims often express a "lack of love and trust" in their lives.

Some of the advice he offers parents to keep their children from becoming involved in satanic cults includes family prayer and a strong family life. He added that fragile home conditions make a child vulnerable to becoming involved in satanic cults.

"Bring Jesus. Christ, ,his love, Gospel and church back to your homes," he. said. "I have never treated a case where there is family prayer."

He also stressed the role of the community in stopping the growth of satanic cults. ' "Our task as leaders of a Christian community is to make sure we build ~ society that is not right for evil," said Father Brennan.

In today's society, there is emphasis on an inordinate desire for money, power and success. "We have a society that says whatever is good for me is right," he said.

Father Brennan said there are several warning signs that can help parents determine if their children are involved in satanic cults, including locked rooms, aggressive behavior, no church attendance, satanic symbols, jewelry, candles and posters.

The most common place for active recruitment into satanic cults is on college campuses, he said.

Drugs go hand in hand with satanic practices, he added.

Father Brennan said the New Orleans area has one of the country's fastest-growing problems with satanic cults and that he is counseling several victims from the area.

He cited a need for qualified counselors.

"We need a lot more, but so far there are not too many," said the priest, who recently published a boo~ on cults titled "The Kingdom of Darkness."

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ethic, she said, holds that the rights of landowners to do what they choose with their land '"are limited by the requirement not todo harm to the good of others, including the larger public good of a sound environment and a secure longterm food supply," she said.

Ms. Ebenreck said environmental legislation today often is based on the argument that protecting the "access of future generations to the resources they will need ... demands restriction of the rights of property owners" to guard against damage to property.

Another approach, she says, calls for "a vision of a whole earth community in which human good is achieved only when the good of the whole earth community is achieved."

Some extrapolate from that approach that animals, trees and rocks have rights, she said. Others cite humans' "essential interconnections" with all earth life.

This approach "calls us not simply to add clean water and protected soils to our list of national goals. but to,work on our relationship with the natural world and to slowly build an ethic which flows out of that relationship," said Ms. Ebenreck.

Bernard Evans, professor of social ethics and rural ministry at St. John's University in Collegeville, said at the conference that emphasis in Catholic social teaching has shifted from defense of private ownership to proper usc of land and resources.

"Concern for the neighbor near and far, today and tomorrow - determines the rights and responsibilities of ownership," Evans said.

"Contrary to the popular American ethic, Catholic social teaching suggests that one person, one family or one corporation cannot do whatever they want with their front lawn, their back yard or their mine fields simply because they hold the Jegaltitle." he said.

While current teaching does not suggest that Christians must abandon wealth or practice voluntary poverty, it does require that significant changes be made "concerning the morally permissible exercise of this right to own property privately as one's own possessioD," Evans said.

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THE CELEBRATION INCWDES: COUPLES WHO have helped in the diocesan Marriage Preparation program in the Taunton area recently attended an Appreciation-Night OfIthe-grounds of-St. Joseph Church, Taunton. Father Horace J. Travassos, rector of St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, and diocesan director of the Office of Family Ministry, thanked participants and noted especially the presence of many newlyrecruited mentor couples. "Engaged couples see that marriage works when they hear from and share with some of our older team couples," said area coordinator Fred Cormier, also noting that the couples find it easy to identify with younger team members.

Father T ravassos displayed a new marriage preparation manual expected to be of great help in forthcoming programs. Published by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the manual includes updated material on alcohol and drug addiction and physical spouse abuse.

Couples interested in becoming involved with the Marriage Preparation program may contact the Office of Family Ministry, SOO Slocum Rd" North Dartmouth.

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Priests' programs set Father Robert A. Oliveira, diocesan director of continuing formation of clergy and laity, has released a list of priestly formation and education programs planned for the remainder of 1989 and the first six months of J990. All, unless otherwise indicated, will take place at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown.

In progress are the annual priests' retreats. The first, ending today. was conducted by Father Hugh F. Crean, vicar for clergy in the diocese of Springfield, Mass.

The second, from Sept. II to 15, will be conducted by Msgr. Angelo M. Caligiuri, a pastor in the Buffalo, N.Y. diocese, and a former seminary professor and diocesan vicar for religious.

A clergy day on Oct. 26 will have Dr. Ernest Kurtz, director of research and education for a Michigan guest house for alcoholics, as presenter. His topic will be alcohol educati?n programs.

A senes ofstudy days, to be held Nov. 14, Feb. 13 and May 22 will consider respectively Models of Ministry for ihe Third Age, presented by Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Collamati. both directors of religious studies, at Regis College and Bishop Feehan High School respectively; Health Awareness, presented by a team from St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, this program at the diocesan Family Life Center in North Dartmouth; and Preaching the Message of the Old Testal

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A Lenten day of recollection will be conducted March 27 by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin; and the quinquennial study week, primarily for priests celebrating at least five years of priestly ordination in years ending in 4 or 9, will take place from June 18 through 21.

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St. Anne's Hospital offers programs "Cholesterol and You," a program designed to teach people with elevated cholesterol levels how to keep the enjoyment in eating. will be held 3:3(}'5:30 p.m. Wednesday at SI. Anne's Hospital, Fall River. The class will provide practical tips on how to monitor cholesterol while food shopping, cooking and eating out.

St. Anne's is also offering a fivepart program for children with asthma and their parents. Sessions will be held 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Sept. 2(}.Oct. 18, in Clemence Hall at the hospital, Pre-registration is necessary for both programs. Call the hospital at (508) 674-5741 ext. 2635 for reservations or further information on nutrition programs at St. Anne's, offered periodically by registered dieticians on subjects such as weight reduction, diabetes, and eating disorders.

Daytime and evening bereavement support groups will be held in Room 128 of Clemence Hall at the hospital every other Tuesday beginning Sept. 12. This program is sponsored by Hospice Outreach.

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Sister-artist turns author to tell a mother's story

By Marcie Hickey "Maria Dabrowska Kolbe's story is not the result of reviewing dusty volumes on forgotten shelves, but of loving, animated, sometimes painful conversations over hot tea and dark bread, summer compotes and hard cucumbers."

Have you ever wondered what the mother of a saint might have been like?

Sister Felicita Zdrojewski, CSSF, did, and in Poland, over hot tea and dark bread, she found out from people who had known the mother of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish priest who gave his life IOT another prisoner at the Ausch~itz concentration camp during World War II. The result was her biography of Maria Dabrowska Kolbe, entitled "To Weave a Garment:' The former teacher at St. Stanislaus School, Fall River, returned to the school on the feast day of St. Maximilian to autograph copies of her book.

She said her interest in the Kolbes began at a young age when she read a biography of Maximilian, who at the time had not yet been canonized. She was fascinated by his life but the book had given very little information about his parents. uI wondered about his mother," Sister Zdrojewski said. "I thought she must have been a very special persop to have a son like that."

Her curiosity about Maria Kolbe increased even more in 1974 when she was studying in Poland and discovered that Mrs. Kolbe had

lived in the Felician sisters' convent in Cracow as an affiliate, attending all prayers and services and observing obedience to the superior without actually taking religious vows. She died there in 1946 and was buried in the sisters' cemetery. .

When Sister Zdrojewski disco· vered that Mrs. Kolbe had been associated with her own religious community, she began the research which was to lead to the first biography of the saint's mother.

She eventually interviewed 90 people who remembered Maria Kolbe. Some came to her at the cOAvent; others she met in their homes or at other places in Cracow, Sister Zdrojewski recounts in her book that "they responded simply and sincerely when they spoke of Mrs. Kolbe...not threatened by, or awed over this woman, nor did they feel compelled to incense the mother of a saint. Their recollections were of a friend, an acquain· tance, a neighbor."

The interviews, along with Maria Kolbe's personal correspondence, provided the author with a portrait of a simple woman of deep faith.

"This mother was not the lonely recluse who peeled potatoes in the shadows and swept the dust from the back stairs of a large house on Smolensk Street. Maria Dabrowsta Kolbe was a woman of Divine Providence...

Sister Zdrojewski considers the story of Maria Kolbe significant not only in that it chronicles the life's experiences ofa saint's moth·

er, but also in that her life provides a model for Christian living.

Through prayer and love of family, Maria Kolbe trusted completely in the will of God. "She opened herself to truth, to everyday living, to real people, to their problems, events good and bad. And in prayer she considered all things. Maria Kolbe's message is valid today. It waits only to be known, reflected upon, imitated by women who also love deeply and suffer much," Sister Zdrojewski writes.

The Felician sisters who published the book note that the telling of Maria's story -"was -00Il-ceived with all mothers in mind."

Having now completed her book, Sister Zdrojewski says she has no immediate plans for undertaking a second one.

"I'm more artist than author," she said. "People remember me as the sister who did the tapestries."

In addition to the tapestries she did for 5t. Stanislaus church, Sister Zdrojewski's artwork includes kaleidoscopic geometric designs, constructed of colorful paper.

While at St. Stanislaus, she taught art classes for all grades in addition to her duties as a first and second grade teacher.

The parish sponsored her 1974 summer trip to Poland to attend a folk art workshop held by the Polish Ministry of Culture and the Kosciuszko Foundation, a Polish· American organization supporting the arts and humanities.

The trip not only inspired the biography of Maria Kolbe, it also

"Sunday best" Once upon a time going to church on Sunday was an occasion for dressing up - a time to wear our "Sunday best'" Those were the days, my friends, when Mass attendance was at its peak.

Could there be a connection here?

Though I like to dress up when I go to church, 1 have been tolerant about what others like to wear in the pew. My feeling has been, particularly regarding young people, that no matter what they're wearing, I'm glad they've come.

Maybl: bringing back dress codes would improve Mass attendance.

Archbishop Patrick Flores of San Antonio, Texas told the assembly of American archbishops and Pope John Paul II early this year that lay people must evangelize young people to get them to go to Mass.

He cited statistics reporting that only 44 percent of American young people go to weekly Mass, and only 24 percent of them would go if their parents didn't make them.

Apparently today's casual dress style has not improved their church attendance.

A long time ago I ran a weekly paper for an archbishop who loved to write. The late Archbishop William O. Brady, whQ lured me into Catholicjournalism, wrote a week· ly column that was the most popular feature in the paper.

After his sudden death in Rome while preparing for Vatican II, we published a collection of his most popular columns. The one most requested was "Where Is the Suniay Suit?"

"For those who have never heard of them,"Archbishop Brady wrote, "they were brushed on Saturday night, pressed if they needed pressing and laid out carefully with a clean handkerchief and prayerbook...

"The suit was worn only to church or to visit grandma. It was then put away for another Sun· day. Quaint? Of course, it was a quaint old custom, but it did have something to do with the rever· ence which Sunday, church and the Mass deserved."

That was 1958. Thirty years later, Sunday is no longer the only Mass day. And "weekend suit" has neither the neatness nor the alliteration of "Sunday suit."

My office looks out at the mighty St. Paul Cathedral, where noisy tourists in shorts and halters,jeans and T-shirts pour through during the tourist season. I can accept such traveling garb but at Mass it should be different.

We live in a casual age, but casual wear is not acceptable at all times and places. Casual dress reflects a casual attitude toward Mass attendance itself, and God sees the empty pews on weekends too.

Slumping church attendance is common throughout the world, even in Ireland, which is "catching up" to some of the post·Vatican II problems experienced elsewhere.

Religious News Service reported the actions of one Dublin rector who, tired of hearing the same old alibis from people who don't attend services, published in his parish

~ SISTER FELICITA Zdrojewski signs a copy of her book for Hazel Hart during her visit to St. Stanislaus Church.

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generated Sister ZdrojewsXi's ideas for the folk decorations which adorned the church that Christmas as she taught her students to make mobiles and garlands adapted from traditional Polish ornaments.

Those were in addition to the hand-sewn tapestry depicting the traditional Christmas Eve supper ofa Polish family which has become a parish treasure and in whose creation Sister Zdrojewski had directed 130 parish families.

Another reminder ofSister Zdrojewski's trip to Poland stands near the Blessed Sacrament altar of St. Stanislaus. It is a hand-carved statue ofSt. Maximilian which she brought back as a gift to the parish.

Originally from Lowell, Sister Zdrojewski made her final profession of vows on Aug. IS, 1962, in Enfield, Conn. She came to St. Stanislaus in 1968' and t8ught in the school until 1977. Since then, she said, she has had positions in

18 different places,-mostrecenily in the Felician provincial house in Enfield. She recalls her years at St. Stanislaus with fondness. "They were nine happy years," she said.

On Aug. 24 Sister Zdrowjeski left the United States for a new position in Rome; where she will remain for five years.

"I don't have a complete job description yet," she said, but she expected to teach and to tutor Italian adults in English.

About her travels, Sister Zdrojeski can aptly quote the words of Mother Mary Angela Truszkowska, foundress of the Sisters of St. Felix:"' wish that I could multiply myself a thousand times and travel to all parts of the world and live God's love and teach His merciful love to all living souls."

Says Sister Zdrojewski, "It is my desire to live so as to fulfill her wish. Then this also becomes my gift to the church of Christ. Like mother, like daughter."

Miraculous Medal proves lifesaver for woman

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"The doctor said the medal saved BALTIMORE (CNS) -Ifshe my life." said Ms. Fewster. hadn't been wearing her MiracuBERNARD Police recovered her rosary and lous Medal, 53-year-old Lennis Fewster of Shrine of the Little a bullet casing at the bus stop.

She said she carries the broken Flower Parish in Baltimore migh.t CASSERLY medal with her. not be alive today.

"I think this was more than just The Miraculous Medal was the only thing that came between her coincidence," she said. ". learned bulletin a list of "Ten Reasons heart and a thiefs bullet, she says. that Mary is proteeting me. The Why I Never Wash": Lord isn't ready for me yet:' She said the incident began about The Miraculous Medal dates I. l' was made to wash as a I:30 p.m. on Aug. 9, her birthday, back to 1832, when the first medals child. when she was waiting for a bus in Baltimore, on her way home from . were struck from instructions re2. People who wash are hypoceived by St. Catherine Laboure in her job at a pUblic library. crites. They think they are a vision in 1830. On the front, She was silently saying the rosary cleaner than other people.

Mary stands upon a globe, crush· as she stood at the bus stop, she 3. There are so many differsaid, when she was interrupted by ing a serpent under her feet. The ent kinds of soap I could someone trying to grab her pocket- reverse shows a cross on a bar never decide which one was surmounting a capital "M" and book. right. the hearts of Jesus and Mary. St. The thief yanked her around as Catherine said a voice told her that 4. I used to wash, but it got she clutched the pocketbook,Then those wearing a medal bearing the boring so I stopped. she heard a loud crack. images "will receive great graces."

5.• still wash on special oc"I thought he just set off a fireSo many remarkable favors were casions, like Christmas and cracker or something like that to associated with the medal that it Easter. scare me," Ms. Fewster said. ". quickly was labeled "miraculous," 6. None of my friends wash. didn't realize he had shot me:' and soon devotions linked to it 7. I'm stilI young. When I'm When sl1e still refused to release were approved by the church. older and have got a bit dirt· the pocketbook, the thief punched Ms. Fewster, a member of the ier, • might start washing. her in the stomach and knocked Blue Army, an international organ8. I really don't have time. . her to the ground, she said, took ization of Catholics with special the pocketbook and ran off.

9. The bathroom is never devotion to Mary, said she reguwarm enough.

Still unaware she had been shot, larly attends novenas in her parish Ms. Fews1er climbed unsteadily to and encourages others to join the 10. People who make soap her feet and went back to the Blue Army. are only after your money. library to get help. It wasn't until "Our Lady has asked for the she arrived there. she said. that she rosary to be said every day.• also noticed blood. pray for the thief. He needs help; At nearby Johns Hopkins Hos- she said.

She said her favorite words are pital, the doctor found that her Miraculous Medal had been split from the Miraculous Medal novin two by the bullet and the bot- ena: "Ever while wearing it, may tom half was embedded in her we be blessed by your loving protection.... chest.

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Handling a gifted child .

by Dr. James and Mary Kenny Q. Dear Mary: As a single parent of four children, I have been blessed (?) with gifted children.

My difficulty is the youngest one, age 11, who has skipped two grades and is now in eighth-grade. He has an IQ of 138.

Last grading period he barely passed several classes. His teachers say he is .bored. There are several accelerated classes .available, but when given this option he has a fit.

He has been kicked out of every school in our area. He is in a public school at present.

His older brother, whom he adores, married and is wrapped up in his new life. I have no male relatives willing to develop a relationship with him. We are active in our church, but my son is quiet and a loner.

I currently teach in a small Christian school and also have two other part-time jobs. I try to spend as much time as possible with him and liis older brother (the other two are married). Sometimes this is almost more than I can handle.

(Illinois) A. Hf>lding thret< jobs and raising children would be more than most people can handle. You certainly need not apologize.

You seem to have two chal-

lenges: Securing an education for this very bright child, and providing an environment which allows him to develop emotionally and spiritually.

You have accelerated him two grade levels, but if anything his. educational setting is worse. It seems as though this II-year-old is in charge of his own education and' that he is not doing a very good job. .

Listen to your son's teachers.

Encourage them to suggest every possible approach. Decide together which accelerated classes might benefit your son. Seek activities that are not purely academic to develop all his talents.

Accelerating him two grades probably was unwise.

Developmentally, he has the body. and emotions of a sixthgrader. The years of early adolescence are difficult enough. Being with older children could make those years intolerable.

Why not repeat eighth-grade now, focusing on accelerated courses, vocational courses, fine arts courses, any courses that challenge him?

Continue to seek male models.

Even your married son can· be some resource. Do not expect him to spend a lot oftime with his little brother, but invite him to get involv-

ed and welcome whatever time he can spend.

Big Brothers and similar organizations offer another way for your son to have an older male friend.

Find out what's available in your area.

You mention that you work three jobs. An II-year-old can hold a paper route, cut lawns, walk pets, do errands for the elderly. Why not develop some jobs for him so that your son can contribute to the family? Perhaps his earnings would allow you to quit one of your jobs and give you more time for yourself and your family.

Cruel? Child abuse?

On the contrary, I suspect your bright child could run his own business and might become an entrepreneur. And I doubt that all the counseling in your county could do as much for his self-esteem. , In our culture, most II-yearolds do not contribute to the family's support. But, given your circumstances and his abilities, making your son into an assistant breadwinner might be the best thing you could do to benefit yourself and him.

Questions are invited by the Kennys, Box 872, St. Joseph's College,Rensselaer, Ind. 47978.

Equal rig.hts fo.r fathers

By Antoinette Bosco A billboard in Michigan stirred ajustified reaction among a group of fathers in the late spring. On it, an organization called Oakland Family Services was promoting an ad for their services. Above the statement" After marriage, people sometimes change. Marriage problems?" was a drawing of an angeliclooking· bride, and next to her a demonic-looking groom clearly resembling Frankenstein.

Fathers for Equal Rights of America saw this billboard as a "clearly sexist smear campaign against husbands, fathers and men in general."

The group called for a nationwide boycott to halt charitable contributions to United Way, .which helps fund the Oakland Family Services. William Fry, president of Family Services, said the billboard would be changed.

As someone who believes in the importance offamily, I salute Fathers' for Equal Rights for taking that stand. It is time for fathers to insist that the United States recognize them as equal nurturers of their chilren. We have focused too long on the few deadbeats and have not acknowledged how important fathers are in the lives of their children and how many fathers embrace their responsibilities.

The same week that I read about the billboard I saw a brief item in The New York Times titled, "Dads Change Diapers, Too." It had to do with the $35 million renovations to the Central Park Zoo, which appeared to account for everything except putting a changing table in the men's room.

There was one, of course, in the ladies' room.

A father pointed this out when he needed to change his 2-yearold's diaper. With no changing table, the alternative was the cold floor or an outside bench where a cold wind was blowing. The Times concluded, "The lack of a changing table in the men's room is both anachronistic and inconvenient,"

Fathers for Equal Rights of America also has taken on the issue of ab~rtion, becoming an advocate for fathers who, they say, should have the right not to have their unborn 'children aborted. In the past year; fathers in Iowa and South Dakota sought restraining' orders against abortion of their unborn children with the help of Fathers for Equal Rights of America. Unfortunately, they were unsuccessful.

The discrimination against fathers in custody disputes is so rampant that Fathers for Equal Rights of America calls it "misopatry," from the Greek prefix "miso," meaning to hate, and the Greek word for father, "patri." The group is not blaming this on feminism which, they emphasize, means a belief in the equality of the sexes.

father, perhaps I should be antimale and see fathers as "deadbeats."

No way! That is because I also had a great, hard-working father, and I know how important it is for every child to have a good father in his or her life.

Fathers for Equal Rights of America President Dick Woods and others are saying that fathers' rights will be "the human rights issue of the 1990s," It may be an issue whose time has come.

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"Passetto" shows signs of age

Catholic numbers show steady gain

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The "passetto," a high medieval walkway that provided generations of popes with an escape route to a VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Roman castle, is showing its age. latest Vatican figures show a conAfter hunks of plaster and stone tinuing increase in the worldwide fell from the battlemented passageCatholic population, which reached way in August, Rome's traffic about 893 million at the end of , police hurried to seal off most of 1987. ' the thick, milelong wall below.

The fastest growth was in Africa.

Monsignors who duck daily benThe total represents a gain of eath the passetto's arches found about 14 million from the previou~ them blocked and had to take year, and Catholics now total 18 detours to the Vatican. Befuddled percent of the world's population, tourists tried to crawl over, under according to the 1987 Statistical or around the metal barricades.

Yearbook of the Church, published Cars and buses jammed up the in July. The statistics are normally Borgo neighborhood, creating a two years old at the time of publicadin of horn-blowing heard in Vatition. can City next door.

The Vatican said its figures inThe stone and brick corridor, clude and estimated 15 million believed erected by Pope Nicholas Catholics in countries, mostly unIII in 1277, runs four stories high der communist rule, where an accurfrom the papal apartment building ate annual count is practically to Castel Sant'Angelo near the Tiber impossible.

River. The castle, initially a mausAN ELDERLY WOMAN surveys the results of shelling in,West Beirut.

Pope John Paul II The countries with the largest oleum for the Emperor Hadrian, Catholic populations are: Brazil, has repeatedly expressed his agony at the situation in Lebanon, saying "In the name of God, I served as a refuge for beleaguered 124.7 million; Mexico, 78 million;路 ask the Syrian authorities to cease the bombardment." (CNS/UPI-Reuters photo) and besieged pontiffs through the Italy, 56.2 milli"on; the United \ centuries. Giant papal strongboxes ( States, 54 million, and France, - now empty - can still be seen in a treasury room at the center of Catholic population the fortress. increased nearly 500,000 during MEXICO CITY (CNS) _ The Puebla, against politicizing the on the church's social doctrine. He .Probably the most dramatic esMexican bishops' conference has church's mission to promote social said those themes would include cape along the passetto came the 1987, according to the figures.

The ,yearbook showed that the announced a preliminary itinerary justice and help the poor. the foreign debt, development, the morning of May 6, 1527, when church is growing fastest in Africa, for Pope John Paul II's visit to That commitment' "is religious family, contraception and abor- Pope Clement VII ran its length where the number of Catholics has Mexico next May that would in- and not social or political," he tion, education, violence, narcot- -with a bishop holding up his skirt - after cannon shot began to increased 50 percent in the pre- clude stops ih at least 17 cities over said. ics trafficking and immigration. vious 10 years, to 78.3 million. In an eight-day period. , If accepted by the Vatican SecreAccording to a statement read land near the Vatican. It ,was the 1987, the church there gained nearly of State, the itinerary would tariat at an Aug. I press conference, the beginning of surprise attack on 3.4 million new members.

Auxiliary Bishop Genaro AlaRome by the mercenary'armies of _ In Asia, where the church re- milia Arteaga of Mexico City, a allow the pope to visit Catholics in preliminary itinerary includes: King Charles V. Behind the fleeing路 the state of Veracruz, where bishops - The pope's arrival May 6 in pope 'came 13 other cardinals. mains a tiny minority, the nl.!mber spokesman for the bishops' conof Catholics increased nearly 3 ference, told reporters that the have spoken out strongly against a Mexico City. Two days would be Rome was pitilessly sacked while million during 1987. itinerary reflects the pope's ex- local nuclear power plant and spent in the Mexican capital par- Pope Clement watched from safety; . The bulk ofthe church's growth pressed desire to visit geographi- where basic Christian' communi- ticipating in liturgical events and months later, he escaped from the came in predominantly Catholic cally diverse regions of Mexico ties and liberation theology have meeting with church,groups, the castle and Rome by dressing up as Central and South America, where and t<;> deliver his pastoral 'message been gaining ground. diplomatic corps and government a servant.

The pope also would visit Villa- officials. the Catholic population increased to as many different sectors of Italy and the Vatican have keys hermosa in the state of Tabasco, 6.5 million in 1987.

Mexican soCiety as possible.

- A visit to the cities of Puebla, to the passetto but rarely use them. where the local government re9.

Veracruz and Jalapa May In Europe, the Catholic populaThe schedule would put the pope Today, this winding chamber of pressed the,church in the 1930s, as tion stayed virtually the same, while in Mexico for Mother's Day, May , - Visits to the Gulf Coast cities history remains closed, a narrow well as the west-central "Bajio" Oceania and North America show- 10, and would allow him to visit of Coatzacoalcos and Villahermosa no-man's land. Like other monued small increases. virtually all major regions of Mex- region, a stronghold of conserva- and to Merida, on'the Yucatan ments in Rome, it is suffering from of tive Catholicism and the center All Christians number roughly ico during his trip. the Cristero rebellion of militant Peninsula, May 10. neglect.

1.6 billion', according to the Encycf\.ccording to Bishop Alamilla, Catholics against the government ' - Stops in the Pacific Coast When Italian authorities recently lopaedia Britannica Book of the the visit "is strictly pastoral." He in the late,1920s. resort of Acapulco and in the opened the door to their end of the Year, 1988. ,said the pope is not coming "in The itinerary also could include "Bajio" region in west-central covered "corridor of the popes," Among oth7r religions, Islam is ' : "support of governments or ideo)o- a visit by the pope to Guatemalan Mexico May II. they found it clogged with weeds, the largest;with an estimated 860.4, gies; he is not coming to preSSllre refugee camps in the southeastern - Visits to the cities of Guada- debris and telephone cables. Swiss million followers. ' the government to amend consti- state of Campeche and visits to the lajara, Leon, Durango, and the Guards say the Vatican's section Hindus number approximately ~utional articles dealing with the northern industrial centers and northern industrial centers ofTor- - about 100 yards inside Vatican 655.6 million; Buddhists, 309.6 mil- church.... Nor is he coming to border citie~; where urban poverty reon, Ciudad Victoria and Mon- City ~ !S in much better condition. lion; 'followers of traditional Chi- promote the ,re7establishment .of. and the migratiofl of Mexican terrey May 12.

The Vatican museums and the nese religions, 187,5 million, and diplomatic rel~tions between Mex- workers to the United States are -Visits 'on May 13 to the Vatican City governor's office have various tribal religio'ns, 94.7 ico and' the Vatican," northern cities of Chihuahua, Her- offered technical advice on' restor. key social problems. " Pope'John Paul last visited Mexmillion. , ,;According to Bishop Alamilla, mosillo and the border city' of ing the passageway, but they con. ~~ere are an estimated 18 mil- ico in 1979. In the major speech of the pope'w'Hl speak on themes that Tijuana, from which the pope sider it Rome's problem now. Last hon Jews. ,that trip, he warned the Latin, include most', aspects of church would leave for his return flight to spring, Italian experts estimated it .

American' bishops, meeting in doctrin~, witt} particular em.phasis t-he Vatican. would take at least $12 million to do an adequate repair job. . ., The trouble is, neither the city of wa,~time Rome nor the state of Italy can decide which of their offices should VATICAN CITY (NC) - In a their -compatriots who followed during ameeting ~ithJewish lead- cause along with you, he has in a have responsibility for the passetletter to an old Jewish school the Jewish,religion, as well as their ersinWarsaw in 1987: ' certain sense lived all this here, in to's upkeep. c,hurn, Pope John Paul II recalled, place ofprayer that was destroyed this land," he said.

In the Catholic Church, he said, The wall is studded with marble how many of their Jewish friends by the invaders. I hold all this in , The pope told his friend that if wer'e killed during World War II deepest reverence," Pope John Paul "all peoples and nations feel uni- he thought "it would be appro- remembrances of several popes ted" to Polish Jews, and "they give and said he had not forgotten said. priate,': he could read the letter who have shelled out repair money. great' prominence to your nation "I have not forgotten the synthem. during the ceremony in Wadowice. One crest depicts a standing bull, The letter offered a rare look at agogue of Wadowice, which was and its sufferings, its Holocaust, , Vatican sources said Kluger did so emblem ofthe ruthless Borgia pope, a more personal side of the pope near our school. I still see in my when they want to speak a warn- before the commemorative stone Alexander VI, who was the first to fix up the walkway and who used and his remembrances of the Holo- mind the lines of Jewish people, ing to individuals and to nations." was placed at the site. , "The Polish pope has a particucaust as it was acted out in Poland. who filed into the synagogue ~o Wadowice, a quiet town of about it to attend plays given in a courtlar relationship with all this, be- 15,000 people, lies in southern yard of the castle. Other restora, It was addressed to Jerzy Kluger, pray on feast days," he said.

The pope recalled that "many of a longtime acquaintance who has Poland about 20 miles from the tion jobs are marked by the six our friends in high school" were lived in Rome since fleeing Poland site of the Auschwitz concentra- cannonballs of the Medici pope, during the war. Kluger went back killed by the Nazis. tion camp, where some 4 !Dillion Clement VII. Above what is normally the most to Poland for the first time in May "All ofthem lived in Wadowice; people were put to death, most of to place a com'memorative plaque they were citizens of this city to them Jews. The camp is now at the heavily trafficked archway, two at the ~ite of a synagogue in Wa- which both you and I are tied by center of a controversy concerning ornaments illustrate the passetto's ' dowice, where he and the pope the memory of our infancy and a Carmelite convent near its walls. changing fortunes - an older crest grew up. our youth," he wrote.

The pope left Wadowice after bearing the papal tiara and keys, a "When you go to Wadowice, tell finishing high school and moved nrore recent one glorifying the city The pope closed his letter by of Rome. all those present that I remember recalling words he pronounced to nearby Krakow.

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Biden has ne.w outlook on life after brush with death WILMINGTON, Del. (CNS)A brush with death has given Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. a new outlook on life, the Delaware Democrat said.

"It's like a new sense of optimism has overtaken me," he told The Dialog, newspaper of Diocese of Wilmington.

Biden, a Catholic, said he's optimistic "not only about my personal life and circumstances, but also about those things in the world that are likely to be done with or without me."

In February 1988, Biden underwent an operation for an aneu-, rysm at the base of his brain. During the surgery, <loctors discovered a second aneurysm. Before that could be repaired, he suffered a

Sept. 10 1969, R1. Rev. Felix S. Childs, Pastor Emeritus, Sacred Heart, Fall River 1966, Rev. Hugo Dylla, Pastor S1. Stanislaus, Fall River Se'pt.ll . 1987, Rev. Joachim Shults, SS.Ce., Our Lady ofthe Assumption, New Bedford Sept. 12 1962, Rev. JohnJ. Galvin, Assistant, SS. Peter & Paul, Fall River Sept. 13 1949, Rev. Charles A.J. Donovan, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, North Easton Sept. 14 1982, Rev. Stanislaus J. Ryc. zek, Retired, Lauderhills, Florida Sept. IS 1934, Rev. Henry J. Mussely, Pastor, St. Jean Baptiste, Fall River 1958, Rev. Brendari McNally, S.J., Holy Cross College, Worces~ ter, MA 1969, Rev. John J. Casey, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, North Easton

blood clot in his lung that March that had to be treated. The aneu-' rysm was repaired in May 1988.

Biden, 46, said that at times he is somewhat perplexed as to why God gave him a second chance. He was told he had 'a 60 percent chance to live and if he survived, the odds that he would be able to function as he does today were about 15 percent.

He attributed his successful recovery to three factors - his rela- . tionship to God, the tremendous support of his family and his good physical condition.

He said the ordeal affected mostly his relationship with God. "1 find myself deriving more comfort from my religion than I did before," said Biden, a member of St. Joseph-on-the-Brandywine Parish in Greenville, Del. He now. goes to daily Mass when he can and carries a rosary in his pocket.

"Every time I felt a twinge of concern in the hospital about what was to hllppen, I said the rosary; it was quieting," he said. "It's not because I was closer to God then, but we tend to lean on those things that have always given us comfort, sustenance and solace."

Another source of comfort for him was the reception of the sacrament of the sick, he said.

Biden, whose aneurysm was discovered while he was campaigning in 1987 for the Democratic nomination for president, advised others not to ignore the warning signs of an illness. He suffered frequent headaches and blacked out before . he found out about his illness.

"There is a direct correlation between timeliness of diagnosis and survivability," he said.

Biden said he now takes his life on a day by day basis. .

"As a consequence of my recent experiences, I don't make plans for my life far in advance," he said.

"When certain things are thrown my way, I believe I can have some influence on my fate, but I can't completely determine my fate."

He said he planned to seek reelection in 1990 to the Senate; he was first elected to that body in 1972 at age 29. He is chairman of the Senate' Judiciary Committee and ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee.

Biden said his recent illness has made him more a ware of the critical need for health care legislation.

"This is the second time I've become painfully aware of the high cost of medical care," he said, referring to' extensive treatment his sons underwent for injuries they suffered in an automobile accident in 1972. The accident killed his first wife, Neilia, and baby daughter Caspy. He has since remarried.

He said he paid for all of the medical expenses not covered by his health insurance.

"Someone who doesn't have enough income to have good medical coverage could be in desperate difficulty," he said.

About 16 million people in the United States do not have adequate health coverage because of their incomes, he said. Studies show there are 37 million Americans who lack health insurance.

Among those it most affected are children in families who don't qualify for Medicaid in states where a family's income is. too high, Biden added. \.

Earlier this year, the senator introduced legislation in Congress to provide free medical care for all children whose families' income is below the poverty level but above the qualifying salary to be eligible' for Medicaid.

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in our schools St. Joseph School began "at St. Joseph, Taunton, on Sept. 6. The faculty this year includes Jeffrey Megna, grade 8; Mary Lou Petti, grade 7; Michele Gauthier, grade 6; James Hoyle, grade 5; Paula Shea, 'grade 4; Mary Braga, grade 3; Patricia Carroll, grade 2; Eileen Riley, grade 1; Mary Ellen Joyce, kindergarten; Donna Tortorella, resource; Mari-Ann Burgoyne, art;' Paula Pappalardo, computers; and Patricia Cardono, office.

A special Mass for the school and religious education program will be offered at 8:45 a.m. Sunday.

There will be no hot lunches this year. Students must 'bring lunch but milk will be available: , Sue'Traversi and Lee Ann Car-" roll are coordinating an afterschool enrichment program for children .grades 1-8. An explanatory meeting will be held at 7 p.m.

Monday in the meeting room.

Volunteers are needed for the program and in other areas..

The sports committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26. Anyone interested in coaching a sport is invited to attend.

Soviets visit U.S. to foster peace SAN DIEGO (NC) - Eighteen Soviet women and their children recently spent 18 days in the United States for the second half of a' U.S.-Soviet exchange program aimed at fostering peace through understanding.

The Soviets and their U.S. counterparts, who visited the Soviet Union in 1988, gathered at t\le diocese-run University of San Diego High School near the end of the visit.

It was the first exchange involving Soviet and U.S. mothers and children, said Maureen King, executive director of Mothers ,Embracing Nuclear Disarmament, the U.S. sponsor of the program.

Ms.-King is a member of All Hallows Church in La Jolla, Calif.

She and her daughter, Michalyn, a student at University of Sat! Diego High School, were among the Americans whose 1988 trip to the Soviet Union included a nine-day cruise on the Volga River. The days were filled with formal and informal discussions about nuclear war, religion and children.

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Q... My mother is OK, but my rather is very overprotective. What can I do to change him? (Washing路 ton, D.C.) A. I would suggest, first; that you try to have a talk with your father about what you can do to cam his trust so that he will not feel such a need to be overprotective.

Second, it 'may help in your present situation to consider the complexity of overproteetionism and uilderprotectionism. To do so, please listen to the,following true story that spans two decades in the lives of a father and son.

In the late .I960s the trendy thing for some was to be rebelnous, smoke pot and get into other drugs, and maybe leave home.

In those long ago days, Jeff had many arguments with his generous. and loving parents. He began taking drugs when he 路was a high school senior. His grades were

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low. And he couldn't get ajob that would pay enough to send him through the state college.

So he drifted, drank and did drugs. His father had to make him leave home because he was stashing marijuana in his bedroom.

There was danger for his younger brothers and sisters. . Jeff moved into a dreary house with some other guys and went from one low-payingjob to another. For a while he lived with a girl, but that went nowhere too. The drinking increased and finally became obsessive.

Fast forward.

Jeff just celebrated his 32nd birthday. But he worked 10 hours, as he does seven days a week. His bills keep accumulating, and he must work constantly to pay his mounting debts.

He has struggled to better himself, but without much success, He has no money saved, no health

insurance, no pension and no prospects of a better income.

Jeffs life now is hard and sad -and he is an alcoholic who is not in the process of recovery.

Late on the evening of Jeffs birthday, a friend took him out to dinner for a celebration. Near the end of the meal, Jeff began to reminisce and to speculate about the future.

"My dad was very kind. He tried to reason with me and show me what I was doing wrong. He tried to steer me on a good course. But I think that was the wrong approach.

"If I ever have any kids and they start getting into drugs, I'm going 'to be real tough. I' won't mess around with 'my kids."

So who's right, Jeff or his dad?

Will being rough and tough with a son straighten him out? Or could it make him worse? Is kindness and reasoning the best answer, as Jeffs dad believed? If so, why did Jeff get messed up?

What's a parent to do anyway?

Why is it so difficult to steer a good middle course between being over- and under-protective?

Do you begin to see the complexities of being mom and dad?

And might sympathy for perplexed parents lead you to grin and bear what seems to you to be overprotectionism?

Or is your dad really overprotective? Is there another side to the question?

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Maya Shaw, a ninth-grade student at University of San Diego High School, said that the Soviet students were just like Americans - some are shy and some-are outgoing. She and her family hosted a Soviet mother and daughter.

Helen Izmailova, 15, who stayed with the Shaw family, said she thinks Americans smile more than Soviets.

The exchange program, Miss Izmailova said, "helps to prevent war and promotes better communication."

Anna Gourevich, one of the visiting Soviet mothers and a member of the Center for Children's and Aduit's'lnitiatives for Peace, said, "It's important for American' mothers to see that we are like them -: we don't want our world destroyed. We have beloved friends here so why would we want our countries to kill each other?"

The exchange. program is especialiy important for the children, she said. "We must broaden their outlook to accept and tolerate strange cultures. "

KIN,DERGARTEN STUDENT Kathleen Ward of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque School, Harrisburg, Pa., reminds drivers to be alert as classes resume. ,(eNS photo)

'Charismatic bishop for Alexandria ALEXANDRIA. La. (CNS) Bishop. Sam C. Jacobs has been installed as the 10th bishop of the Alexandria diocese.

Bishop Jacobs. 51. chairman of the National Service Committee .'for the Charismatic Renewal. is believed the first priest of Lebanese descent to be ordained a Latiri-rite bishop in the United States.

The new bishop called on his flock to place Jesus first in their lives.

"Jesus is Lord" is the motto he has chosen.

He said his involvement in the charismatic renewal movement stemmed from a '1970 charismatic gathering in New Orleans where another priest prayed over him.

"It was an experience of peace and joy in my life." Bishop Jacobs said. He added that he feels "a sense of pride" in the charismatic renewal movement. "My ordination is recognition by the church and a sign the movement is coming of age.~'

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General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-13-parental guidance strongly suggested for cllildren under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted. un-' suitable for children or young teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3approved for adults only; A4-separate classification (given films not morally offensive which. however. require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

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

New Films "The Adventures of Milo and Otis" (Columbia): Fine Japanese

live-action nature movIe about a .. mischievous kitten 'named Milo' and his puppy pal. Otis. who get lost in the autumn but return home in the spring with their own mates and families. The movie's success is mainly.due to its extraordinary nature photography and imagination. filled with the wonder of nature and the cycle oflife. including brief shots of the birth of a kitten and puppy. Some mild tension in a few scenes involving wild animals but otherwise a welcome, gentle experience for the young and adults who enjoy nature. AI. G

By Michael Warren someone if we want the other perSome people seem to think that son to really know us.

In Robin Archer's musical play. friendship is an acident. that it just "A Pack ofWomen." an old woman sort of happens. You are in the same high school class as some says: "Nobody ever knew me. That's other person. you sit near each the cause of all my rage. Once they other. and then you find that you only saw my beauty. Now they only see my age." have become friends. , That woman's cry of rage only I say it doesn't work that way. could have been silenced by havTV Film Friendship can endure only through ing someone know there was more Sunday, Sept. 17,8-10:45 p.m. human intention. If you' don't ~o her than appearances. The other EDT (ABC) - "Prizzi's Honor" intend to be a friend. then you side of her situation is that she is' (1985): Middle-aged man (Jack might continue a connection with the only one who can reveal to Nicholson) and a beautiful. mystethe person. but it won't be friend- another person who she really is. rious woman (Kathleen Turner) ship. True friendship is an achieveThat kind of revelation doesn't fall in love. It turns out they are ment. not an accident. happen automatically or even just both in the same line of work. but Friendship has to be worked at. once. It has' to be built up over since that happens to be killing For example. a special friend goes time with another person - worked . people. it makes for complications .away for the whole summer. When at. Real friendship'does not answer once they're married. Although he comes back. you find that you the question "How are you?" with this very black comedy is directed have been waiting and waiting to the word. "Fine." "Fine" communwith great skill and flair by John see him. and now he is right here. icates little of your inner life.

Houston. its level of violence is One of the ironies of life is that But you know that it isn't so easy extremely mature fare and not SAN FRANCISCO (CNS) understand the church better. he we think if people knew who we to reconnect. said. But he added. "From a uni- suited to everybody's taste. A4, R really are. they won't love us. The The priest shortage today stems versal perspective I still feel the While he was away many things fact is that others can only begin to from "a more basic problem than sacramental model is the one that must have happened in his life that love us when they start to know the rule of celibacy." says Jesuit you know nothing about. He's met who we really are. That's why I Father Avery Dulles in an inter- satisfies most."

AWIDE CHOICE OF SAVINGS In simplest terms. the sacramennew people. been to new places. say. you don't really know another view in San Franciso Catholic. the & INVESTMENT PIAl\JS tal model emphasizes the charachad new experiences. And the same person until you know that per- monthly publication of the San ter of the church as a sign and Francisco archdiocese. for you. He doesn't know about all son's heartaches.

Celibacy "has been rigorously communicator of Christ's redeemthe things that have' happened in A final note about revealing your life since he last saw you. oneself. A key word to remember enforced since the Middle Ages. ing grace. It puts stress on the faith Each of you know a part of your when thinking about revealing your- and we've had an abundance of .and holiness ofthe church's memblife that is a stranger to the other. self is the word "appropriate." Not vocations." the renowned theolo- ers.

Father Dulles said that despite In order to move back to the level all revelation is appropriate. There gian said. "I don't think human offriendship you had. you have to is much' a thing as unhealthy reve- nature has changed all that much" the "many advantages" and wide popularity of-the "people of God" take the time to find out not just lation. revealing your private. in- in the last 20 years. . "The problem is perhaps that model of the church found often in what happened to each. but also timate self to those who don't care WIlli co~'\'E."m:,'\T OFFIC~'\ there is not that degree of com- the documents of the Second Vatihow it felt and what it meant. That or can't understand.

TIlROFGHOlT SOUIlfEA.\TER:>; 'IA.'\S. will take time and sharing.

With friends, however. reveal- mitment to the service ofthe·church can Council. "I confess it's not my The kind of sharing friendship ing yourself often is appropriate, whereby people will take on the' favorite image of the church."

"It certainly can be used." he calls for is not always easy. Some- and of all the things we work at in obligation of celibacy." he said. .

That, in turn. he said. seems to said. "but it is not as theologically times there are things about our- friendship. this is one of the most selves. the most important things. important. Never easy. it is an . be due "partly to theological rich in my opinion as even the we would rather not talk about. important part of the achievement changes and partly to social condit- . 'body of Christ' [model] which ions." brings out the unique relation of But we have to share them with . of friendship.

The vocations decline,he noted. the church to Christ and to the is primarily a phenomenon of North Holy Spirit not conveyed by the America and Western Europe, image of people of God," n~t where "people move from' one kind He said Pope John Paul II "often of life to another rather readily. uses sacrament. body of Christ.

BALTIMORE (CNS) - The "The pI:oblem is we're not seek• Tree & Stump Removal Very few people remain in one communion" aswell as other image. evanglizer must be sure he or she is ing the ones who are lost." said • Trimming & Pruning vocation or one profession thrQugh- such as community of disciples. to converted before trying to convert Father Duning. adding it is the • Tree & Shrub Planting out their whole lives." ., , - refer to the churcQ.and it's not someone else. said Ii p~iest at an responsibility of all baptized to • Free Estimates .

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A~chbishop Robert F. Sanchez "You can find [papal] statements theology for the past three decades.

"Perhaps we ourselves need some ofSanta Fe. N.M., said those who THOMAS WALSH He retired las~ year from the Cath- that· fit in any of the five or six conversion.... said Father lames' .evangelize must be excited about 30 Weaver St. olic; University of America in Washwith which I work."

Father' models Dunning. p.resident. of the North their mission. . .. - Swansea' .. ington and took up the Laurence Dulles said.. .

American Forum on·'the Catechumenate·. "The good news'needs to . "We must gather in ourselves an J. McGinley chair in religion and Dreaming touch ourpersoriallives and work' '·.enthusiasm fo.r.God." Archbishop society at Fordham· University in "Imagination is·more important lives.",. . . " , . 'Sanch~z said. "Beiter to stay home New. York. ~him knowledge," - Einsteiri . In general Catholic circlt<s;· his He spoke at the National Coun~' than to give~a'fal~e sense of what most influential wor~ is' probab\y we're doing;" . cil for Catholic Evangeli'zatloo's "Evangelization in the '90s;' 'con- . '. He stres~ed -the family and one- "Models of the Church," a .1974 ference. held recently in Balti.more.· on-one contact as starting points book which analyzed ·!Jow differ'. for evangelization. "N.ourishment ent images, of the church affect the has to occurona one-to-one basis." faith and theology of Catholics.

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Italian Catholics between the ages' .' gehzatlon. DaVid Byers. secreta- church as a community of disciCho,I~, V~lolo. Pr~' 2··WAY RADIO of 15 and 30 fulfill the weekly riat. director for the American ples. That immediately puts' the Mass obligation. according to a '. B()iHd of Catholic Missions, not.ed church in a relationship to Christ.. .. nationwide survey by an Ifalian t~at there are .5~0 U.S. counties We are sent from Jesus. and we Catholic weekly magazine. The Without a Cathohc church. look to Jesus for direction. Every' survey showed that 84.5 percent Nearly 400 attended the confer- sacrament should be seen as an had not fulfilled their Mass obliga- ence. held in Baltimore to com-. encounter with Christ." tion the previous week and 73.6 memorate the bicentennial of theThat particular model may have percent had not fulfilled it during Catholic hierarchy. Baltimore was special value for helping people OffQ •• OAIl GlOVl AVI .• FAll IIYEI the previous three weeks. . . the first U.S. diocese. "in this country at this time" to

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HOLY NAME, FR Religious educ!ltion registration for new students, after Masses Sunday. Teachers needed for several' classes; see Father Tom Frechette; Installation Mass for altar boys, 10 a.m. Sunday; rehearsal at 9:30 a.m.

CYO basketball sign-up, grade 5 and up, 7 p.m. Monday. Coaches needed. Information: Rene Lavoie, 678-6480. A Mass of Thanksgiving in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Sister Margaret Donnelly, _S.US~C, 2 p.m. Sundll.Y at the church.

Women's Guild officers: Helen Marie Booth, president; Mary Bigelow, vice-president; Francis Sullivan, , secretary; Ann Terceira, treasurer.

Membership tea for the Guild, Sept.

24 in the school hall.

LaSALETTE CENTER, ATTLEBORO Family retreat, Sept. 29-0ct. I, LaSalette Center for Christian Living. No age limit..

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR Membership tea for Women's Guild following 7 p.m. Mass, Wednesday. Celebration in song and prayer with Rev. Andre Patenaude of LaSalette, Attleboro, Sept. 20.

AIDS MINISTRY SACRED HEART, FR Day of Recollection for persons CCD registration, after Masses with AIDS, Mercy Retreat Center, this weekend. Teacher's meeting, Madison, CT, 9 a.m,-3 p.m. Sept. after 9 a.m. Mass Sept. 17. Classes 20, conducted by Father Bruce Cwiebegin after 9 .a.m. Mass Sept. 24; kowski, FR diocesan coordinator of Confirmation classes after 7 p.m.

AIDS ministry. Information: Mercy Mass. The sewing group needs white Center, (203) 245:.0401. Ecumenical sheets to make cancer pads for AIDS healing service, 6 p.m. Sept. patients at Rose Hawthorne Home.

24, Pilgrim'United Church of Christ, ST. ELIZABETH SETON, NB. Such services are held monthly N.FALMOUTH at local churches.

Charismatic prayer group meets SAINTS & SINGERS, O.L: VICTORY, CENTERVILLE ST. ANTHONY, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays in the church. ,_ Winter Mass Schedule resumes .,CAPE COD MATTAPOISETT WIDOWED SUPPORT GROUP, 'Saints and Singers chorus annuthis weekend. 0 LV Guiid meeting, Religious education registration, NB ally awards two scholarships in music noon Monday in the parish center. after Masses this weekend. Some Monthly meeting, 7:30 p.m. Monor a related field to southeastern teachers. are still needed; call the ST. JULIE BILLIART, day, St. Kilian rectory basement.

Massachusetts students. Information office if interested. Classes begin N. DARTMOUTH Nondenominational. Topic: Lecture Sept. 25.

Meeting for religious education on the program is available from PO and slide presentation on disease of Box 416, Buzzards Bay 02532. The teachers, grades 1-7,7 p.m. Sunday, ST. ANNE, FR the eye by George Picard, Eye Health rm. 201, Bishop Stang High School; chorus will be heard Dec. 7 at Our Meeting for parents of CCD stuAssoc.

Information: 998-3269-992Lady of Victory parish, Centerville, teachers needed for grades 8-10. dents, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, school 7587.

7; at St. John Neumann, East Dec. Youth group membership night, cafeteria. CCD teachers needed, all SEPARATED AND DIVORCED Freetown Dec. 10; at St. Anthony, grades 8-12, Sunday. grades; call Mrs. Brodeur, 678-1510, CATHOLICS East Falmouth, Dec. 14; at St. Pius or Father Landry, 674-5651.

Attleboro area meeting, 7-8:30 ST. JAMES, NB X, S. Yarmouth, Dec. 15; and Corp.m. Sunday, St. Mary parish cen- ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, CCD registration in the church pus Christi, Sandwich, Dec. 16; and ter, N. Attleboro. Information: hall after Masses this weekend.

POCASSET at St. Margaret, Buzzards Bay, Dec. 695-6161. . Maryknoll Father Lawrence Burns 17.

New members are welcome.

ReYOUTH MINISTRY will speak at Masses this weekend. hearsals are held 7 to 10 p.m. each IMMUNIZATION CLINIC CONFERENCE Friday and every other Thursday at The Visiting Nurses Association CCD teachers needed; contact Bette, Youth Ministry on the Threshold Massachusetts Maritime Academy, will hold a clinic for pre-schoolers in 563-5536. of the 1990s will be the theme of the Buzzards Bay. Information: Dolores Dennis, Brewster and Yarmouth, 9- ANNIVERSARY MASS fourth annual New England ConferJ. Powell, 759-4690 evenings/ weeII a.m. Tuesday, Central Cape A Mass of Thanksgiving will be ence on Youth Ministry, sponsored kends; 759-5761, ext. 204, weekdays.

Office, 68 Route 134, S. Dennis. offered by Bishop, Cronin for couby New England Consultants in MinParents should bring previous im- ples celebrating significant wedding IS YOUR istry, to be held at Downtown Holi- ST. STANISLAUS, FR munization records. HIB vaccines anniversaries in 1989 at 5 p.m. Oct. Youth ministry back-to-school day Inn in Hartford, CT, the wee" PARISH HERE? will be offered. Appointments and 15, Cathedral, FR. To receive an dance, 7-11 tonight in the school. kend of October 13 to 15. Speakers information: VNA, 394-2230, invitation contact your parish priest.

Me-,)'s Club mee'ting, 7 p.m. Sunday.

If not, why not send us will include Don Kimball, Clare 771-3606.

Fitzgerald, Richard Reichert, Peter Picnic for students and faculty of your bulletin weekly and ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM Benson and others. Among topics parish school and Christian Living CORPUS CHRISTI, CYO adult advisor meeting, 7spread the word ofthe good' discussed will be evangelization, program, following 10:30 a.m. backSANDWICH 8:30 p.m. Sept. 12 in the Cenacle; things going on in your youth behavioral trends, junior high to-school liturgy, Sept. 10, at the The Sunday schedule at St. general meeting Sept. 19. CCD regministry and story boarding. Further Dorothean Sisters retreat house, Theresa's will change beginning Sept. part of the diocese. The istration for new students, 10 a.m." information: New England Consul- Bristol.

17 to accommodate religious educa- noon Sept. 12; 6:30-8:30 p.m. Sept. . address: tants, P.O. Box 603, North Bran- IMMACULATE C:;ONCEPTION, tion classes. Sunday Masses will be 13; 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Sept. 17. PreSTEERING POINTS ford, CT 06471; phone (508) 580- TAUNTON at 8:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 school ;tnd babysitting will begin The Anchor '5961 in Massachusetts. a.m. Religious education classes will during 10 a.m. Mass Sept. 17.

IO-week Little Rock Scripture sertake place following the 9:30 a.m.

PO Box 7 ies on Acts of the Apostles, beginMass. Classes begin Sept. 17 (grades HOSPICE CARE, TAUNTON . ning Sept. I, 9:30 a.m. or 7 p.m.

Fall River, MA 02722 Volunteers needed; classes run 1-5) and Sept. 20 (grades 6-7). CorInformation: 882-0788.

Mondays and. Wednesdays Sept. 18pus Christi students begin Sept. 24 _ _ _ 234 Second Street CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE (grades 1-6), Sept. 25 (grade 8) and Oct. 30. Information: Hospice office, Fall River. MA 02721 New rectory phone number: Sept. 28, (grade 7). Confirmation 823-5528. ~ WebOffset 477-7700. Children's Choir rehear- CATHEDRAL, FR classes 6-8 p.m. at Father' Clinton ST. MARY, NB Evening prayer, 7 tonight in the _ _ _ Newspapers sal, 9 a.m. Sept. 19 at CCD Center., Men's Club meeting, 7:30 'p.m.

Hall: session I, Sept. 17; session 2, ~ Printing & Mailing New members welcome. Informa- main church as the cathedral choir Sept. 24. Women's Guild meeting, Sept. 1-3, parish center. Parish school ~ (508)679-5262 tion: Beverly Donheiser 428-1252. begins its new season; all parishioncommittee meeting, 7:30 p.m. Sept. following 7 p.m. Mass Wednesday.

CCD information has been mailed ers invited. Religion classes begin' 27; conference center. St. Mary's Monday and Tuesday; teachers are JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN ST. to all registered families. If you have Guild dinner-meeting, 7 p.m. Monstill needed.

Cathedral Women's little Rock Scripture study pronot received the mailing call 428day. Brownie registration and meetGuild, opening meeting 7:30 p.m. gram on The Book of the Prophet 3521 and leave a message. ing, 3-4: 15 p.m. Sept. 12. CCD regisTuesday in the cathedral school.

Isaiah, beginning 9 a.m. Sept. 19. All First Class Second Class ST. MARY, SEEKONK tration for new students, 9 a.m.-noon, New members welcome. welcome.

Information: Debbie OFirst Class Presort Carrier Route Coding Students grades 9-12 are invited Sunday-Thursday, parish center. Presuch, 994-3405. Respect Life Walk, to join the Explorer Post Youth HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO sentation of teachers, 10 a.qt. Mass Third Class Bulk Rate lip Code Sorting 2 p.m.

Oct. I; 3 mile walk and rally.

Song lea,der meeting, after II a.m.

Group. Membership meeting, 7:30 Sept. 17. RCIA registration, 6:30Third Class Non Profit List Maintenance Information: Theresa Hanley, 242Mass Sunday in choir loft. RCIA p.m. Monday at the parish center.

7:30 p.m. Sunday, 10-l! a.m. Sept.

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Last registration for religious All TO USPS SPECIFICATIONS 16 in the rectory. Youth group meetExecutive committee meeting, 7:30 inquiry, I p.m. Sunday, parish cen- education, 9-11 a.m. tomorrow. Claster. Choir rehearsals resume, 7 p.m. p.m. Sept. 19 in the center. ing 6 p.m. Sept. 17 for registration of Cheshire labeling on Kirk·Rudy 4-up Sunday at the church. Finance Coun- ses begin Sept. II" I J and 16. Catenew members, grades 9-12; new offilabeler. And Pressure Sensitive Labeling LaSALETTE SHRINE, cil meeting, 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Lit- chal Sunday for religious education cers will be installed at the 10 a.m.

ATTLEBORO 17. teachers,.11 a.m.

Mass Sept. urgy Board meeting, 7 p.m., parish Inserting. collating. folding.

Mass Oct. 22. There are volunteer Franco-American Pilgrimage Day, center; new members welcome. Relig- SACRED HEART, metering. sealing. sorting. addressing. openings at St. Mary's School as Sunday, with musical presentation ious education registration, after 4 N.ATTLEBORO sacking. completing USPS forms. well as in other works of the parish.

by Lucie Therrien at 2 p.m., 3 p.m. p.m. Mass Sept. 16 and 9:30 a.m.

Religious education registration direct delivery to Post Office recitation of the Rosary and 3:30 SS PETER AND PAUL, FR Mass Sept. 17. for new students, after Masses this .. ' Printing . . , We Do It All! p,m. Mass celebrated by Bishop Commissioning of religion teachweekend.

Eucharistic ministers meetLouis E. Gelineau, D.O. All events O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER ers, 9:30 a.m. Mass Sept. 17. MeetCall for Details (508) 679-5262 ing, after 7 p.m.

Mass Sunday.

UItreya, 8 tonight. will be conducted in French. ing for grade 9 Confirmation stuST. JOSEPH, N. DIGHTON dents and their parents following the Women's Guild opening Mass and Mass. CCD registration for new meeting, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 21. Rectory students following all Masses. Classes open house after Masses this Sunday. begin Sept. 24. St. Helena's Ultrea AIR CONDITIONING PLUMBING/HEATING ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Group meeting, 7-9 p.m. Sunday, Sacred Hearts Association meetparish hall. ing, 7 tonight.

ST. WILLIAM, FR ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, CCD classes begin after 8 a.m.

Working with Architects, Plant SOMERSET Mass Sunday. Choir meetings, 7 Choir rehearsals resume 7:30-9 p.m. Thursdays in the church. New Engineers, and Contractors to provide: p.m. Monday. New members invited. members needed.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET CATHOLICS CCD teachers grades 1-8, meeting Region I annual. conference, Oct. 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Teachers needed, Process piping, Steam - Hot Water, HVAC 7, St. Anthony Parish Hall, 349 grades 7-9.

Plainfield St., Providence, RI 02909. ST. THOMAS MORE, Systems, Heating facilities, Plumbing, Speaking at the conference will be SOMERSET .

Rev. Christopher Witt, esp, chaRefrigeration,· Labor services Commissioning of catechists, 9 plain for the North American Con- a.m. Sept. 17. Classes begin week of ference of Separated and Divorced Sept. 24. Women's Guild memberCatholics.

FIRE PROTECTION BOILERS ship weekend, Sept. 16-17; opening SECULAR FRANCISCANS, meeting, 6:30 p.m. Sept. 18.

POCASSET SECULAR FRANCISCANS, FR St. Francis of the Cape Fraternity St. Clare Fraternity meeting 6:30 will hold reception and profession p.m. Sunday, Rose Hawthorne Laceremonies at the monthly meeting, throp Home, 1600 Bay St. 7 p.m. Tuesday, St. John Evangelist Church, Pocasset. Mass will be cele- O.L. ASSUMPTION, brated by FatherJude Smith, OFM, OSTERVILLE Rose for Life drive, all Masses this who will speak on "The Way of P.C>. BOX 409 32 MILL STREET (ROUTE 79) ASSONET, MA 02702 Life." Information: Ernest Foley, weekend. O.L. Assumption Guild TEL. (508) 644-2221 540-5392, Dorothy Williams, 394- meeting following noon Mass Tuesday.

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