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WELCOME BACK: Principal Anthony S. Nunes, left, and Brother Roger Millette, EI.C., welcome students back to classes at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River. Schools in the Spindle City got underway after Labor Day. Students from left, are 10th grader Briana Malone and 11 th graders Jonathan Wood and Derek Viveiros. At right, freshman students take a break from class in the cafeteria at Bishop Connolly. From left are: Eric Burgess, Katie Benevides, Gerry Normandin, David Bousquet, James Casey, David Raymondo and Tom Gallant. (Anchon'Gordon photos)

Sister Heffernan takes over as representative for religions ~

In her new position she will be the bishop's master's degree from St. Michael's College in Winooski, N.Y. Sister Heffernan made her final profession of vows in 1955. liaison- with all religious orders, "My main responsibilities, according to the job descripcongregations and societies throughout the tion, are to serve as a representative of the bishop between the Fall River Diocese.

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THIS STATUE of Mother Teresa at St. Anne's Shrine in Fall River has quickly become a favorite. See story on page five.

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FALL RNER - "I' m off to work," said Mercy Sister Elaine Heffernan as she descended the staircase at the offices of The Anchor on Tuesday morning. "I'm confident, but say a prayer," she said with a broad smile as she looked back.

Effective Wednesday, Sister Heffernan became the Episcopal Representative for Religious for the diocese according to the official announcement of her appointment last week by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley.

She replaces Mercy Sister Mary Noel Blute, who has retired.

Sister Heffernan, who will have an office at the Family Life Office on Slocum Road, North Dartmouth, says she's looking forward to her new duties "as I celebrate my 50th anniversary as a Sister of Mercy in the millennium year. I have worked for the diocese all my religious life," she said proudly.

That includes teaching school for 12 years in New Bedford and as principal at St. Patrick's School in Fall River for six years; instructing religious education in Attleboro for 13 years; serving as director of religious education for the diocese for 10 years, and for the past four years being director of pastoral care at the Catholic Memorial Home in Fall River.

Born in Fall River, she was baptized, made her first communion and was confirmed at SS. Peter and Paul Parish.

After attending SS. Peter and Paul School she graduated from Mount St. Mary High School in Fall River and received a bachelor's degree from Catholic Teachers College and a

. ME':lCY SISTER Elaine Heffernan: Always happy With a Job challenge. (Anchor/Gordon photo)

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lHEANCHOR- Diocese ofFall River-Fri., September 10, 1999

. ~ Bishop Belo evacuated to Australia after militias burn home ~ Terror reigns in East

Timor following recent vo.te for autonomy; martial law declared.

DARWIN, Australia (CNS) Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximines Belo, outspoken in his defense of East Timorese, was evacuated to Darwin, Australia, after militias attacked and BISHOP P. Francis Murphy looks over the Baltimore sky- burned his home.

Nearly 40 people were reported line in a photo taken earlier this year. (eNS photo by Gregg P. killed when militias attacked his resiLandry, Catholic Review) dence in Dili, East Tunor, Monday, as the territory continued to spiral into a state of chaos. Militias were targeting the more than 4,000 refuBALTIMORE (CNS)-Auxiliary cause justice demands it." gees who were seeking shelter at the Bishop P. FrancisMurphy of13altimore, He was interred in the crypt of the bishop's residence. nationally known advocate of peace Cathedral ofMary Our Queen in BalBishop Belo, who was unharmed and nonviolence and the advancement timore following a funeral Mass there in the attack, was later evacuated to of women, died of cancer Sept 2 at Wednesday.

Baukau, to the residence of Bishop Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore.

Born March 25, 1933, in Cumber- Basilio do Nascimento. However, He was 66. land, Md., Philip Francis Murphy was when militias began attacking there, It was Bishop Murphy's 1980 pro- ordained apriestofthe BaltimoreArch- . a Royal Australian Air Force Hercules posal to take a fresh look at the moral- diocese in Rome Dec. 20, 1958. transport plane transported Bishop ity of nuclear weapons thaI. led to the He served from 1978 to 1989 on Belo and other refugees to Darwin U.S. bishops' landmark 1983 pastoral the bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on on Tuesday. letter, 'TheCh~lengeofPeace: God's Women in Church and Society, which Speaking at a press conference Promise and Our Response." He fre- engaged in extensive dialogue with upon his arrival, Bishop Belo, aposquently spoke out against war and the women and women's organizations, tolic administrator of Dili, said of his arrnsrace. including advocacy groups, on ques- fellow East Timorese, 'They are very In 1992, when the bishops were tions surrounding the Church's under- sad and they feel that they are unable in the midst of trying to write a pas- standing of women and their role. to fIght against all the ways of viotoral letter on women, he wrote an In 1981, when he joined Pax lence, and they expect that the interarticle in Commonweal, a national Christi USA, the U.S. branch of the national community should act urCatholic magazine, in which he con- international Catholic peace move- gently immediately to protect their demned the "sin of sexism" and ment, he was one ofthe fIrst U.S. bish- people." urged the ordination of women "be- ops to do so.

The attack on Bishop Belo's home was one of several incidents that prompted an international outcry for PATRICIA CASHMORE,ucsw OUR LADY'S a peace-keeping force. In WashingBoard CertifiedDiplomate RELIGIOUS STORE ton, the Clinton administration said it supported an Australian offer of Mon. - Sat. 10:00 - 5:30 PM troops, providing Indonesia agreed.

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the violence or face international intervention.

"The people are panicking. You don't thinK of asking 'how many people have died.' But with each passing moment, many people are being killed, many people;' said a Salesian nun in Dili, who spoke by telephone to Catholic News Service in NewYork.

The latest round of violence came after the United Nations announced Sept. 4 that East Timorese overwhelmingly rejected by a nearly 5-1 'margin an Indonesian offer of autonomy. Within hours of the announcement, armed militiamen went on a rampage in Dili, turning the city into a fIery nightmare.

"They're destroying this city.

There's nothing left. As I am talking to you, I am watching the city bum," said the Salesian nun, who spoke with the request of anonymity. .

'The houses nearby are burning, and the military is just letting them do it. No one can do anything at this point, not UNAMET, no one. I don't know what you can do, but we need peace-keeping troops in here right away;' she said.

"There is no one watching over us, no one;' the nun said. 'The police and the military have retreated.

We're all alone here. Earlier today, an Indonesian military officer told us h~ could no longer guarantee our safety. .

The people are scared. They've been praying the rosary all day. What else

can we do?"

Reached early Monday, hours before his home was attacked, Bishop Belo said that the campaign by the militias was a coup d' etat by the Indonesian military to overturn the results of the Aug. 30 ballot.

In a statement released by his biographer, Arnold Kohen, Bishop Belo pleaded for international peacekeeping troops, a request he has repeated for several months.

Most of those who remained in East Timor have fled to the island's rugged mountainside. Refugees have been pouring into Atarnbua in Indonesian-controlled West Timor at the rate of 1,000 per hour, said a humanitarian aid official.

There were reports of severed heads on sticks on the roads outside Dili. .

Across town, a Salesian Fathers complex was sheltering more than 3,000 people, mostly men and young boys. Militias were circling outside the complex's high walls and threatened to attack. Police and military also abandoned the priests' complex, the nun said. .

Thomas Quigley, senior policy adviser on Asia for the U.S. Catholic Conference, was forced to leave East Timor Sept. 4 as dozens of journalists, election observers and nonessential U.N. personnel fled the country.

He rarely left Bishop Belo's compound during the two-day visit.

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R.I. diocese dismayed over decision

By MICHAEL BROWN CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Officials of the Providence Diocese expressed dismay but not surprise at a federal judge's decision to void a law that bans partial-birth abortion in Rhode Island.

Valerie Sistare, coordinator of the Respect Life Program, said the language in the law was modeled closely after a ban twice approved

by Congress but vetoed by President Clinton.

"This (case) will probably end up before the highest court in the land," said Sistare. "We shall renew our efforts to outlaw this horrendous procedure."

On Aug. 20 U.S. District Judge Ronald R. Lagueux, in a 65-page decision, enjoined the state from enforcing the ban, which was passed in 1996 and was amended a year later.

"The definition of 'partial-birth abortion' is vague and infringes on" an abortion procedure known as dilation and extraction, "which is legally protected," Lagueux wrote.

Lagueux criticized the administration of Rhode Island Gov. LincoIn Almond and state Attorney Gen-

eral Sheldon Whitehouse for vigorously defending a ban which, according to Lagueux, was unconstitutional.

Msgr. Robert C. Newbold, diocesan lobbyist, said Lagueux's comments were "unfair to"the governor" and "an attack on the Legislature."

"This was not the governor's bill," said Msgr. Newbold who, along with diocesan pro-life leaders, succeeded in getting the bill through the General Assembly where it passed by 2-1 margins.

He said he wasn't surprised at Lagueux's decision, adding he thought the law would have had a better chance of surviving in the federal appeals court or the U.S. Sup(eme Court.

Msgr. Newbold said Lagueux may have lent unintended support to a ban on partial-birth abortions by creating a conflict that may eventually be resolved by the Supreme Court. "I think that may be our best chance," he said.

The state will appeal Lagueux's decision to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which could seat three judges within several weeks to hear the appeal, Msgr. Newbold said.

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preme Court.

Almond pledged to carry the appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. "I believe that the

Supreme Court will agree that the Constitution does not prohibit the legislature from banning partialbirth abortions," he said.

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Planning committee slated to meet on September 14 in New Bedford.

NEW BEDFORD - In celebration of the millennium, family members from across the Fall River Diocese will be joining Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., at the Venus de Milo Restaurant, Swansea, on January 14 for the annual Bishop's Charity Ball.

Msgr. Thomas 1. Harrington, director of the ball, and Michael 1.

Donly, diocesan Director of Development, have held preliminary meetings with key personnel and report that exciting new features are being considered for this year's gala.

The event is co-sponsored

yearly during the mid-winter holiday season by the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and the Diocesan Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Proceeds of the affair benefit the charities of the diocese.

Ball organizers announced that an important dinner meeting for all committee members will be held on Sept. 16, at 6:30 p.m., at Holy Name Parish Center, Mount Pleasant Street, New Bedford. Members will further plans for what Msgr.

Harrington says will be a memorable celebration of the unity and diversity of the diocese, with special emphasis on the generation of young people who will be leaders in the Catholic Community of Faith in the 21st century.

Clergy Day agenda will center on 'In Support of Life' initiative DARTMOUTH - Clergy from across the Fall River Diocese will gather Sept. 14, from 1 to 4 p.m., at St. Julie Billiart Parish Center, Dartmouth, to discuss "In Support of Life: A Catholic Initiative Responding to the Needs of the Dying and the Threat of Assisted Suicide."

Bishop Seail P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., will address the gathering. A team from the Massachusetts

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Catholic Conference will give an overview of the initiative and there will be a video shown.

Father James O'Donohoe will be the principal speaker. He will reflect on why the initiative is important. There will be a practical parish application session and an opportunity for a response from those attending will be provided.

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A charted course The proposed' usage of 15,000 acres of Camp Edwards as a conservation and watershed-protected area has received deserving widespread support. There can be little doubt of the commanding need in this matter. Indeed, it is a pressing local issue.

Its necessity, however, takes on greater urgency in the light of current global water resources. Because of constant climatic changes such as droughts, water is a constant concern. It is a major worry for industry, agriculture, food processing and residential development. The major culprit in the water battle is shrinking supplies due to salt water seepage into coastal areas because of global warming and the population explosion in the Sun Belt states. Add to these a,ir pollution and abuse of current water supplies and blend in our failure to maintain and update our current water systems.

It is becoming more evident that people are reacting to the issues in many and varied ways. One can hardly walk down the street without 'seeing people consuming bottled water. It has become big business because many people do not trust their local water supplies. Water is the fastest growing segment of the beverage business. Americans are spending close to $5 billion to drink clean water. This does not include expanding home water purifying systems or self-contained reservoirs. It is estimated that this industry will expand by 10 percent annually.

Our solicitude for tlhe purity and right use of water is an international one. Countries like India and China face desperate- water pollution. The demand for water desalinization plants in Saudi Arabia, the Middle East and South America is multiplying. Industries are pressing to develop innovative ways to recycle waste- , water into a usable and consumable product.

As time advances, the use and sale of water will become subject to government regulations. Water battles are being fought in many states. Florida, California, Colorado and Arizona are but a few in conflict over use of water resources.

When organizations become anxious on the local front, they are reflecting the growing involvement of concern that exists THE SUN SETS BETWEEN A CATHOLIC CHURCH AND A HOUSE IN ZASLAVL, around the nation and the globe. Local and national governBELARUS. THERE ARE 357 CATHOLIC PARISHES IN THE EASTERN ments will be forced to take drastic measures to ensure safe drinkEUROPEAN REPUBLIC, WHERE CATHOLICS MAKE UP 12 PERCENT OF THE ing water, fish and wildlife protection and preservation of natuPOPULATION. (CNS PHOTO FROM REUTERS) ral lands from industrial abuse. The small scenario now on our doorsteps is microscopic in comparison to the drastic measures "SLENDID AND MAJESTIC IS HIS WORK.'9 PSALM 111:3 that will be needed in the near future. Yet, it is important that local communities become involved in these important and lifethreatening issues. This is a frail creation and it has been entrusted to our care. When this gift is abused, dire consequences are inevitable predictions. The health and welfare of human beings are already at risk because of reckless and irresponsible use of the trust given each of us. In our desire to obtain the good life, we have turned on back on the God life. ,Our insati,able need for

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK tion, a community, a family. A a willingness to give one's life for things is destroying us not in the marketplace, but in our own CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE community's strength rests prima- another. Nobility is presented in perso~ Within the last year, we've rily on people trusting each other. our traditions as a virtue, and is The Church cannot be silent on issues that concern the very heard reports of scandals almost The greater the commitment found at the heart of strong famlife of man. There are some critics who feel that we should not every, tim~ we've pick up the, among them, the greater the unity, ily life or of a nation's strength. be voicing sentiments about the environment, While others feel newspaper,.from the Clinton scan- coll,aboration and accomplish-' I would say that nobility mirrors God. we have been duped by conservationists. They are wrong. We dal to scandals involving sports 'ments.

A community becomes scanScandal is the direct antithesis must be a voice to protect ami preserve thy, creation that has figl,Jres, religious leaders or pobeen given to us as a trust. If we 'fail take a stand on such litical leaders in, both major par- dalized .because the enemies of of a noble, dignified life. Scandal ties. , trust have'raised their heads. Dis- arises wh~n dishonesty is given issues, then we are only paying lip service to basic beliefs and What are we expectedio tell trust, disunity, cynicism and .pride of place over hone'sty, when teachings that affect all that pod has given us as opr inheritance. children about these, scandals? so~etimes even violence re~gn in weakness supersedes courage or The course has been charted and we must' move forward.

Children,;'after all, do hear about p,l!lce,;qft~u,~t. ". ' ,when self-indulgence replaces ., ,: .

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And when people's trust is self-sacrifice. More than this, I thi.n,k th~ first rule ought to breached, they bec9me mean-spi~­ scandill reflects - smallbe never to ta,ke s,candal.lightly. ited. We ,need only reflect on the mindedness and,results from a Some of Christ's toughelit lan- impeachment of PresidentClinton web of deceit. guage is,dire~ted at it..He tells us torecogriize the,meanness scandal When scandal breaks out, it is that it would be better for those can .spawn, the division it causes unwise to try to hide it.from chilwho would scandalize a child to and the disillusionment it creates. dren. Rather we need to sit down have a millstone tied around their The st?cond rule, i propose, is with them and -explain how virOFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DiOCESE OF FALL RIVER necks and be thrown into the sea. never to act as, if scandal didn't t~e builds our character, honor Published weekly by The Catholic Press of th~ Diocese of Fall River In pointing to the Good Shep- happen, thus failing to learn what and personality. Scandal results 887 Highland Avenue P,O, BOX 7 , herd who leaves the.99 sheep to it actually does to us. Seldom do from actions that ar~ harmful to Fall River. MA 02720 Fall River, MA 02722-0007 go after the lost one, Ch~ist de- we reflect on what a scandal actu- those who perform them. It is virscribes his love for every indi- ally does to a person.

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One of the worst results of a and peace. person who tries to ensnare oth- scandal is the destruction of noSt. Augustine wrote, "To have Send address changes to P,O, Box 7 or call telephone number above ers in order to lead them astray, bility. Our understanding of no- eyes is not the same as to look, and to steal them from Christ! bility grew out of a long tradition; and to look is not the same as to EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER NEWS EDITOR On~ reason Christ is adamantly from it we formed the notion that see." When scandal strikes, our Rev. Msgr. John F. Moore Rosemary Dussault James N. Dunbar against scandal is because of its nobility consists in such qualities wisest means for handling it is to ~ LIA"YPRESS-FALLRIYfA â&#x20AC;˘ ominou~ power to tear apart a riaas honesty, courage, prudence or face it squarely.

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Statue of Mother Teresa drawing many visitors to St. Anne's Shrine abortion in which the child survived, adding, "Thank God." And he cited the recent controversial incident in Arizona when a judge ordered that a teen-age ward of the state be sent to Kansas for a lateterm abortion because those are banned by law in Arizona.

"I said to myself when I bought the statue, 'Oh, this certainly belongs in St.Anne's Shrine.' Although the state was quite expensive, costing $5,000, I am trusting that people will be generous and will we will be able to recoup the cost:' Devotion to Mother Teresa has sprung up across the world in a

Prize, she accepted it, "in the name of the hungry, of the naked, of the homeless, of the blind, of the lepers, of all who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society."

It was an inspiring message of love and respect for the poor and the unborn in which Mother Teresa

By JAMES N. DUNBAR became a living symbol of the love FALL RIVER - Mother Teresa and compassion of Jesus Christ, not of Calcutta, the tiny nun with the only for the faithful, but for the wrinkled face in the familiar white whole world. But in it, she also conand blue sari who worked so hard demned abortion as the world's on behalf of the world's unborn, can greatest destroyer of people. be seen kneeling and smiling at the During a visit to New York in child she holds so carefully in the the early 1980s, she proposed a basement shrine at St. Anne Church. characteristically direct and simple The newest solution to the statue in the problem of unwonderful colwanted preglection at St. nancy. "If you Anne's Shrine at know anyone South Main and who does not Middle streets, want the child, offers a marvelwho is afraid of ous, slightly the child, then larger than Iifetell them to give size likeness of that child to me," she said. ' the nun who came to Calcutta In 1992, the more than 40 Diocese of Fall River received an years ago to early Christmas work among the present when on destitute and dying in India's December 19, poorest and most four of Mother Teresa's Missionpopulous city.

When she aries of Charity died on Sept. 5, arrived in New Bedford to set up 1997 at age 87, a home to serve she had become the area's needy. the most beBishop Sean P. loved religious O'Malley welin the world, and comed the nuns. a favorite with In June, 1995, he parishioners in welcomed Fall River Diocese who had Mother Teresa turned out by the herself when she came to New Bedthousands to greet her when ford and she attended Mass celshe visited New ebrated by Bedford in 1995.

"The statue Bishop O'Malley in St. Lawrence had been in the window at Church. He had met her initially Egan's Church in the late 1960s Supplies in when he was a Somerset for young friar teachsome time, and it FATHER MARC Bergeron, pastor of St. Anne's Church ing at The Cathoalways drew my attention," said in Fall River, stands besides the new statue he purchased lic University in Washington, D.C. Father Marc H. for the often-visited shrine there. (AnchodGordon photo) Bergeron, pastor Earlier this year, the Missionof St. Anne Church. "I thought it would be a very short space of time since her aries of Charity in Calcutta, India, formally petitioned the Calcutta grand addition to our Shrine. I death two years ago.

Born in Yugoslavia ofAlbanian Archdiocese to begin an investigapicked it up the weekend of Aution into Mother Teresa's heroic gust 28. Since then it has really parents, she was regarded as a livvirtues, the first step to becoming a caught the interest of hundreds of ing saint by some of her followers people. After daily Masses crowds in the Missionaries of Charity that saint. Sister Lynn, whom the Congregation chose as vice-postulator gather around the statue and light she founded in 1950. By 1965 the for Mother Teresa's cause, received votive candles seeking Mother congregation had received pontifical approval and members began approval from Archbishop Henry Teresa's intercession."

D'Souza and the opening session The thought now, he said, setting up homes in 87 countries of the local inquiry that began hear"Would be to pray for Mother around the world. In 1971 she reing witnesses on July 26. MissionTeresa's canonization. And we ceived the first Pope John XXIII ary of Charity Father Brian , should pray with her, for pro-life, Peace Prize and established the first Kollodiejchuk is the postulator. of course, and you can see in her house of her sisters in the United That came about after the Vatiloving eyes and how she is hold- States. In 1979 she received the can, in March, exempted Mother ing the little child what respect for Nobel Peace Prize; in 1988 set up a home in Moscow; traveled to Teresa's case from the usual, fivelife is all about." year waiting period from the time He added that, "We would hope China in 1993 to open a home for of death before beginning a canthe statue inspires people to pray the poor; and in March of 1997 for an end to abortion; and for was succeeded by Sister Nirmala onization process, and many people hope that the "saint of the young, pregnant women to be en- Joshi as head of the order as she poor" will be canonized during the suffered severe heart problems and couraged to have their children."

Jubilee Year 2000 marking the new Father Bergeron'called attention debilitating illnesses. millennium.

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Films· that inspire I have long been fascinated by the works of being shown in September on cable-television independent filmmakers. Most of them are cre- stations in New York, Boston and Washington, ative visionaries who dare to probe the differ- apd "Between Dreams" has been accepted to ent, the deep, the devout and even the deplorable complexities of the human - - - - - - - - - - - species in the seareh to find meaning - and perhaps even truili -:- in this mystery called life.

Ben Patton, a young man I met several years ago at ainonasrery, is one of them. Now 34, the Georgetown UniBy Antoinette Bosco versity graduate has take?l a first step toward his goal of develcping feature films. He has teamed up with an Irish film production group and founded premiere at the prestigious Venice film festival Patton Productions.

He helped produce and launch in the United also in September.

States two new works: "Stranded," a 28-minute I've seen "Stranded." With visuals that are film about eighth-century monks, and "Between sheer poetry, and music scored and supervised Dreams," a stirring account ofa young man's ex- by Patton, it evokes the mystery of the interior perience as an in-patient with terminal cancer. life. The film presents a searing, complex picPatton told me excitedlly that "Stranded" is ture of ways faith is challenged by the circum- .

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stances of life. It depicts how three Irish monks of the eighth century, stranded in Iceland where they went to find solitude, confront their inner torments and truths.

One viewer said the film's greatness was in how it portrays the universal conflict of anyone struggling with faith issues.

Patton credits a year he spent at the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Connecticut, where I met him, for his career change from environmentalist to filmmaker. Ifhis name sounds familiar, it is indeed, because he is the grandson of the famed World War IT leader, the late Gen. George Patton, who died in 1946 before Ben Patton's parents met.

The young man said he came to a point in his life where it was time "to do work inside, to gain a certain ability to focus and learn to do fewer things better." He chose the abbey because of its contemplative setting. He knew about this monastery because his sister, aconvert, is a nun there, Mother Margaret Georgina.

"It's perhaps not coincidental that my first film would be about monks, since I had spent a year at a monastery," Patton said, commenting: "You do get clarity sometimes when you wait and just hang on. You get to a peaceful place."

The insights he gained at the monastery somewhat parallel the theme of "Stranded," and no doubt added to the film's appeal for him. As Patton explained: "I lound the performances, direction, the cinematography, the music so strong. But what most resonates with me in terms of the story is the notion of surrender and the way each character handles that. Both through my experience at the abbey and through similarly centering/contemplative activities I do here in New York I've come to appreciate the notion of focus and surrender" in the quest to remain faithful to faith.

With such a spiritual grounding, Patton could be just the kind' of filmmaker we need - one who chooses not just to entertain, but also to inspire.

The romance is gone Just in case you missed this year's "National Resurrect Romance Week" (Aug. 8-14), I wanted to let you know far enough in advance to be ready for next year's in case someone takes it seriously.

This way you will have time to prepare.

Recommended preparation includes, I) buying multiple packs of stomach lozenges; 2) making reservations to leave town~ 3) trying not to drive near people who have "Resurrect Romance Week" bumper stickers even if you have to exit the diamond lane.

A fellow from Raleigh, N.C., has founded a whole enterprise on reviving romance: Web site; newsletter; news releases; and, proclaiming national observances .- ergo NRRW. There are those who would say: "Ah, isn't this cute? What a nice guy. The world needs more people like this." But not everyone has graduated from Marriage Encounter.

I personally support the theory that people launch themselves into ventures like this following deep psychological trauma tinged with entrepreneur revenge in the wake of discover-

ing that Ed McMahon and Dick Clark have been kind of loose with the truth in recent letters they've been sending 'just" to them.

On the Web site Mr. Romance posts "creative ideas on romance."

For example, "Fax a photocopy ofyour hand to their (significant other, I assume) office so they can hold it while you are apart." Actually, it might contribute to more time together since ~t would probably get spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend fired.

"Hey, Jack, is this smudgy hand coming through on the fax for you?" .

Jack: "Uh, does it say, 'For you to hold, Jack, while we are apart?'''

"Yeah, it does."

"Nope. Not for me. Probably for Ernie in Human Resources."

Boss: "Jack, see me in my office."

With aplomb learned from Ed and Dick, Mr. NRRW Founder tells us that "media from around the globe" have proclaimed him "the world's most romantic man."

There can be little doubt when he can give

us this bonus "creative idea on romance": "Use chalk to write loving welcome-home messages on the sidewalk."

Either this guy lives on a faml where resi-

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dents are not allowed to handle sharp implements, or Raleigh is a kinder, gentler metropolis than found in the rest of the United States.

Police officer: "Hey, Ding Dong, what do you think you are doing there on the sidewalk?"

Ding Dong: 'Writing a loving welcome."

Police: "Well, I'm gunna write you a. not-

so-loving, defacing-public-property ticket unless you unlove that cement in about 73 seconds."

Passerby: "Hey, guys, come get a load of this pervy stuff on the sidewalk."

Gang: "Har, har, har. Yuck. Yuck.

Har,har."

I know, this sounds a little killjoy. Certainly my friends in Marriage Encounter would have given the guy ample credit for creating a Web site alternative to "Face Lifts 'r' Fun" or "Pipe Bomb Clearinghouse."

And that's only fair. Yet, beware if you ever use his "creative idea on romance" that goes, ''Tie a message and balloons to the bottom of the garage door with a foot of string - they will magically rise in the air when the door is opened."

Insurance adjusters aren't all that romantic.

At least not in our area.

Comments are welcome. Write Uncle Dan at 6363 Christie Ave. No. 222, Emeryville, Calif. 94608; or e-mail: cnsuncle@yahoo.com.

Mexican bishops warn Chiapas situation could lead to force

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The bishops' conference criticized the federal government's strategy in Chiapas in a statement last week. The statement was read from the pulpit

by Bishop Felipe Aguirre Franco of Tuxtla Gutierrez.

The bishops' statement warned against a "false solution in favor of those who are strongest, increasing the presence of the army and state security forces," It added that past experience of attempts to impose military solutions has shown that "suffering, poverty, displacements increase," A dispute over a new highway being built through territory largely controlled by the Zapatista National Liberation Army, known by its Spanish acronym, EZLN, sharply increased tension in the state during August.

While the federal government announced it would suspend construction in the face of strong opposition in indigenous communities, human rights groups said the government also added another 10,000 troops to the estimated 60,000 already in Chiapas.

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Armed conflict broke out in Chiapas Jan. I, 1994, when the guerrillas seized several cities within the Diocese of San Cristobal. After 12 days of skirmishes, Bishop Ruiz agreed to mediate between the indigenous-led EZLN and the federal government.

Peace talks were suspended in 1996 after the federal government refused to implement the first agreement, on indigenous rights and culture. At the same time, paramilitary groups - often linked with the state government and its police force - began a series of attacks on civilians suspected of supporting the Zapatistas. In the largest single massacre, 45 women, children and men were killed in the hamlet of Acteal Dec. 22, 1997.

Bishop Ruiz resigned as mediator in 1998, citing government attacks on his credibility, ongoing paramilitary violence and the government's failure to implement previous accords.

About 40 churches in the diocese remain closed because of paramilitary violence.

What canon law is Q. Frequentlyinyourcolumnyou 1917. When Pope John XXIII conrefer to the canon law ofthe Catholic voked Vatican Council II in 1959, he Church. I know in general what that also announced a revision of the code, means, butwhere can one geta copy? which was completed under Pope John Or is it even available to everyone? PaulII in 1983.

It seems like so much ofwhat hapIt is this code which presently govpem is explained simply by ''it'scanon erns Catholic life in the Latin Church. law." I for one would be interested in Another code exists for Eastern Cathoreading itor at least having it to check lic churches. Many elements of the OIL And I imagine others would also.

Eastern (Oriental) code are similar to (DIinois) those in the code for the Latin Church, A. As you indicate, the Code of , . . . - - - - - - - - - Canon Law is the basic set of regulations that govern the life of the Catholic Church, from electing a

By Father pope to receiving John J. Dietzen the sacraments.

As an institution made up of human beings, the Church has always but many also naturally reflect the dishad rules, or canons (Greek for precept, tinctive traditions of those churches. law), of some sort. We find them even The code is available from· the in the New Testament.

Canon Law Society ofArnerica (WashAs human society changes, of ington, D.C. 20064). It is not awfully course laws change also, including in long and, as legal documents go, is the Church. So frequent revisions and nearly a gem of simplicity and clarity. reorganizations of one kind or another I should wam anyone who is conhave taken place over the past 2,000 sidering buying it, however, that while years. it is easy to read, it is far from easy to Various compilations of existing apply correctly. It compacts into 1,752 laws were published through the cen- canons the legal experience of hunturies, perhaps the most famous being dreds ofyears, and like any tightly writthe 12th-century Concordance of Dis- ten legal document is higWy complex. cordant Canons, in which a monk, Canons interrelate broadly with Gratian, attempted to compile and rec- each other. Innocent-sounding phrases oncile all prevailing legislation. one might easily pass by can be cruSurprisingly, the first real Code of cial for a right understanding and inCanon Law was published only in terpretation ofthe law. In other words,

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Family Talk With Dr. James & Mary Kenny make a point to be silly and even rowdy with them.

Adults need to "let go" almost as much as children do. Yet adults are expected to behave properly most of the time. Children are a wonderfuI excuse to laugh and run and jump and act goofy.

- Make up games on the spur of the moment.

Start throwing nerf balls in buckets - or at one another. Teach them how to play charades and act out words and phrases. Invent agame of"parlor polo" using cardboard squares on a string to hit a ping pong ball into a goal at the other end of the living room.

Water play ofall kinds can be lively, especially in the summer. Play dueling hoses on a hot day. Bob for apples in the bathtub.

Ay a kite. Pick a roadside bouquet.

Make chalk drawings on the sidewalk.

Start an add-on story. Each person gets to tell one episode. See where the plot and characters go as each person adds his twist.

- Make ambiguous materials available, and see what happens.

Buy a bag of clothes at a yard sale,. and make costumes.

Purchase some finger or body paints. Draw names. Each person decorates the face ofthe one he or she picked.

Then take a group picture.

Collect some large empty boxes from your local appliance store, and use them as building blocks.

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RICHARD DUNN, vested in the robes of the Knights of Malta, became the first U.S. citizen elected to the ruling body of the 900-year-old religious confraternity. The Knights of Malta are devoted to hospital and charitable work in some 100 countries. (eNS photo from Catholic San Francisco)

First American elected to high .council of Knights of Malta

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO - When Richard Dunn was invested in the Knights of Malta 22 years ago at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, he never imagined it was the beginning of a journey to become the first American ever elected to the 900-year-old international order's ruling body.

"This is an honor for Dick and for the whole archdiocese," said San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada about Dunn's election this summer in Rome to the order's Sovereign Council.

"Such a position was almost unthinkable since no American had ever before been considered for such a role, despite the order's presence in the Uriited States for more than 70 years, and it!! more than 3,000 knights and dames spread across the country in three separate associations;' according to a local order spokeswoman.

Dunn was in his sixth and final year as president of the order's Western Association when elected.

Order rules required he resign on assuming membership on lhe 11member Sovereign Council.

The entire council was received at the Vatican in Pope John Paul II's private quarters where each "was individually blessed," the spokeswoman said.

"It was an overwhelming experience," Dunn said.

With roots in the Crusades, the lay order's full title is the Sovereign Military Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, but it is commonly called the Knights of Malta.

A significant political force in the 14th and 15th centuries when - it had one of the world's most pow-

erful navies, the order technically remains an extraterritorial sovereign state. It maintains diplomatic relations with 81 countries, is active in 126, holds observer status at the United Nations, and belongs to several European organizations.

The order "has kept a very low profile in the United States," the spokeswoman said, "preferring to carry out its mandate to defend the Catholic faith and care for the sick and poor quietly." " Dunn himself can be found serving meals and scrubbing tables at monthly gatherings of the Handicapables, an organization that serves and is composed of disabled persons. He also has served as lector and eucharistic minister for many years at St. Stephen Parish in San Francisco.

Along with his wife, Marygrace, Dunn co-chaired 路the Knights of Malta committees which provided the Visitation Shrine at the San Francisco cathedral and later enhanced the tabernacle. Together they received the Assumpta Award in 1996 for service to the cathedral and Catholic community.

Dunn was the first lay member of Mercy High School's board and a founding member of the Archbishop's Ring of Charity.

The Dunns plan to move to Rome in January and remain there during Dunn's five-year term on the Sovereign Council, returning to the Bay Area during summers.

The council convenes seven times a"nnually to address the bUSiness of the order's 42 associations worldwide.

While his formal title as a council member is "Your Excellency," he noted jokingly, '~I don't dare ask anyone to call me that here."

Court sends teen-age girl out-ot-state tor late-term abortion because it is banned in Arizona.

to her, who Jakubczyk said appears to be reliable but does not want to be named.

In Arizona the law against abortion after viability has been interpreted in practice as barring abortions after the 20th week of pregBy CAROL RENNEN nancy unless the mother's life or CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE health is in immediate danger.

In Kansas, where the girl was rePHOENIX -Arizona Gov. Jane portedly to be taken, mental health Hull said that her office would not has been accepted as a reason for appeal the recent decision of the permitting abortions later in pregArizona Supreme Court affirming nancy. an order to send a 14-year-old girl Bishop O'Brien offered assisacross state lines for a late-term abortance to the mother and baby tion. through local Church agencies.

"I have read that there may Bishop Thomas J. O'Brien "l'V1y heart goes out to the be legal efforts under way to go young mother, and I am heartto a federal court. My office is of Phoenix expressed outened by the many members of not a part of those efforts:' Hull rage at the decision and ofpublic who have expressed said. fered Church resources to athedesire to adopt and raise this The case of the girl, a ward of child if she is unable to do so. I the state whose name has not help the girl. also commit the resources of the been revealed for privacy reaCatholic Church in Phoenix to sons, provoked national controoffer care and support to this young versy after news of it leaked in late held the original ruling. It said she mother and her child:' he said. has a right under federal law to abort August. A Maricopa County SupeHe joined a group of about 150 a pregnancy caused by rape. Any rior Court judge had ordered child people at a prayer vigil Aug. 25 at sexual intercourse with a 14-yearwelfare officials to take her out of the Arizona Capitol and led them old is statutory rape in Arizona. state for an abortion because Ariin a prayer. " zona law prohibits abortion after Arizona Right to Life President "I consider this ruling to be the viability unless the mother's life or John Jakubczyk said Hull's decilatest in an unfortunate series of sion not to pursue the case through health is in immediate danger. decisions, beginning with the 1973 federal appeals effectively ended Bishop Thomas 1. O'Brien of U.S. Supreme Court decision, that the judicial process, because othPhoenix expressed outrage at the virtually legalized abortion on dedecision and offered Church reers have no legal standing to file an mand:' the bishop said in his statesources to help the girl. appeal. ment. 'These decisions have dealt Jakubczyk said the girl, widely "I want to express my horror and with the abortion issue in ways that reported to be 23 to 24 weeks pregoutrage at the situation reported in are contrary to the moral and demonant, may be as far along as 27 the Arizona media in which Judge cratic principles of our nation." weeks, according to a source close William Sargeant has ordered Child Protective Services to transport a 14-year-old girl out of the state to undergo an abortion, perhaps even a partial-birth abortion, of her nearly seven-month-old unborn baby:' Bishop O'Brien said.

He urged Hull and otherArizona leaders to appeal Sargeant's ruling "and take a stand in support 9f the life and well-being of the young mother and her unborn child."

Appellate Judge Michael Ryan temporarily blocked the abortion Aug. 28, but the next day the Supreme Court, in a 3-2 decision, up-

Scripture readings make big 'hit' on bishops' Web site WASHINGTON (CNS) - Baseball players Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa might have a lot of hits this year, but they can't compete with the number of cyberspace hits racked up by the daily Scripture readings on" the U.S. bishops' Web site at www.nccbuscc.org.

In cyberspace terminology, hits indicate the number of times a particular Web page is accessed by an Internet user.

According to Cynthia Dempsey, senior systems analyst in Management Information Systems for the U.S. bishops' conference, the Scripture readings got more than 93,000 hits in June. She expects the number to surpass a million for all of 1999.

Dempsey said "Daily Readings" gets about one-third of all the hits on the bishops' Web site, each month adding 1,000 to 3,000 more hits.

Mary Elisabeth Sperry, copyrights and permission manager for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and U.S. Catholic Conference, came up with the "Daily Readings" idea more than a year ago as ~ staff member ofthe bishops' Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.

Sperry said "Daily Readings" first went onto the bishops' Web site on Pentecost Sunday 1998. But when a link to it moved to the front page of the NCCB-USCC site last February it really took off, she said.

Sperry believes the immense popularity of the readings page should dispel once and for all the notion that Catholics are not interested in reading Scripture.

'The majority ofthe e-mail we get" is from lectors and catechists, thanking us for helping them in their ministries and everyday lives:' she said.

Sperry said that since the readings went on the bishops' Web page, "we haven't h.ad a month where the numbers have gone down."

If the postings at the beginning of each week were as much as an hour or two late, Sperry said, she would be flooded with e-mail demanding, "What's going on?" and "Where are my readings?"

Now "Daily Readings" covers a full calendar month and provides readings for the next month two weeks in advance. Most often, e-mail has come from priests or lay people who are responsible for printing out readings for Sunday or daily Masses.

MARGARET CHANEY reads a story while Renae Nicholson and Aimee Aloysius display a quilt during the annual Copper Valley School reunion near Glennallen, Alaska.

The boarding school, which taught Alaskan village children from 1956 to 1971, was run by Jesuits and the Sisters of St. Ann. (CNS photo by John Roscoe, Catholic Anchof)

Adopted Chinese girl joins Indianapolis Catholic family GREENWOOD, Ind. (CNS) When Michael and Janet Effron of Greenwood wanted to add to their. family that already included sons Ian, eight, and Kevin, four, they decided adoption was the way to go.

The journey that started nearly two years ago when the Effrons began learning about foreign adoption reached its conclusion this summer when Michael traveled to China to pick up Anne Ya Ping, now two-and-a-half. ''We looked at many different countries, but we kept being drawn to China," he said. "I think we always knew that's where our daughter was."

Although Michael traveled to China by himself, he was not alone.

The prayers of his fellow members of SS. Francis and Clare Parish in Greenwood went with him.

Because Michael was director of music ministries until just before the trip to adopt Anne Ya Ping, parishioners knew about their desire to adopt a child and were kept updated on the progress. 'Their prayers helped with the waiting:' he said.

The couple has been active in the parish, with Janet chairing the art and environment committee for the new church building and both parents recently taking turns as "snack makers" for Vacation Bible School.

Knowing that Ian would mention in school that he was getting a new sister, the Effrons helped his second-

grade classmates at Our Lady of the Greenwood School in Greenwood understand about adoptions.

When the agency assigned the little girl to them, Ian brought Anne Ya Ping's photo to his classroom. The .children prayed for her in school and made ''WelcomeHome" cards for her.

"The Church community was wonderfully supportive:' said Janet.

"People we knew were supporting us in a lot ofdirections. In so many ways, the adoption process is different from having a birth child, but on the emotionallevel, it is the same."

When Michael and Anne Ya Ping met the rest of the family at the Indianapolis airport after 26 hours oftravel, she seemed to recognize her mother and brothers from the photos Michael had shown her.

While they were waiting for luggage, "Ya Ping looked at Kevin and flashed a big smile," said Michael.

'That was it; she was part of the family."

Anne Ya Ping seems to be adjusting well to all the changes and enjoying the attention from her new family. "It is amazing how adaptable she is to new situations:' said Michael.

She is learning English quickly, asking for favorite foods and saying ''up, up" when she wants her dad to pick her up. '~s time goes on, it has become very clear to us that this is a child God

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In a written exchange of questions and answers with Catholic News Service, the cardinal was asked whether he had seen or intended to see Stanley Kubrick's final film, ''Eyes Wide Shut," which was playing every night of the

Venice festival. The cardinal responded, ''No!'' The movie, which in its European version includes an explicit orgy scene, concerns marital infidelity and a young couple's ambivalence about one another. It has garnered much media attention in Italy, as well as in the United States. lbe cardinal said he was going to Venice to present the program for a cultural festival tied to Church celebrations of the year 2000 and a book titled, "Art, Life, and Cinematographic Representation."

Cardinal Poupard said these initiatives were meant to demonstrate that "the world of cinema is not limited to sex and violence in the absence of ideas and messages."

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FATHER DOMINIC Grassi tells 35 stories of finding grace in unexpected places in his new book, "Bumping into God." The Chicago priest said that in his ministry over the years he began to "realized that I'm finding God right here, right now, all the time." (CNS photo by ,Nancy Wiechec)

'Bumping Into God' is second nature to Chicago priest-author

By NANCY HARTNAGEL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - Bumping into God comes naturally to Fa~ ther Dominic Grassi, a Chicago priest who has written "35 stories of finding grace in unexpected places" in the aptly titled "Bumping Into God." While in Washington to promote the book, Father Grassi told Catholic News Service h~s "own life's experience" dictated the subject matter.

"I went through the seminary thinking that everybody around me was holy and I wasn't, because of my perceived inability to pray like they were praying," he said.

"I was searching for God up there, and out there somewhere, all the time."

But, he added, "more and more in my ministry over the years, I began to realize that I'm finding God right here, right now, all the time. I'm literally bumping into God." , "The more you know it, the more you feel it," he said, "the more it happens."

Ordained for the Chicago Archdiocese in 1973, Father Grassi taught for 13 years in an archdiocesan high school seminary and is now in his 12th year as pastor at St. Josaphat in Chicago.

He wrote a book on contemporary ministry in the Church "Do You Love Me?" - in 1991, and has written articles for a homily subscription service.

The pastor said the "bumping" title, which "sells the book," came from someone on his publishing team at Loyola Press in,

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Chicago. "Every time I read those stories," 'the staffer said, "I just bump into God." The book is in its second printing, following a first printing of 10,000 copies. Loyola plans a sequel with more Father Grassi stories and a possible third book featuring readers' accounts of "bumping into God." In the book, the author shares stories from his Italian family and priestly ministry "the two things that have certainly been my SOUI:ces of faith," he said - in sections on God's presence, will, love, grace, sense of humor, forgiveness and mystery.

Many of the stories debuted in homilies, as Father Grassi tapped memories of Louis the butcher, the rabbi father of a boyhood pal, the feather-hatted Mrs. La France, sick old Hans, an anonymous leafleteer wearing an angel pin and a hilarious talking scale.

Father Grassi said storytelling became important early in his priesthood. "I realized my homilies were going nowhere," he explained, "and so I started reading everything I could read about the theology of story."

He eventually understood that he had to be well-versed in "the" story from the Gospels, in touch with his own story, and know people well enough to know their stories.

"And if I tell my story in a way that touches their story," he said, "together we'll find 'the' story."

Father Grassi said his relationship with parishioners is the best part of his job. "I just love the people, they are a wonderful communion of faith," he said.

"They are choosing to believe, in a world where they don't have to make that choice."

He especially appreciates "wonderful moments of being with them, moments of great joy, the sacramental moments, the part where we bump into God together."

"It's such a privilege," he added. "

NEW YORK (CNS) - "The Muse" (October) is indeed amusing, up to a point. Its co-writer, director and star, Albert Brooks, starts off winningly but fritters away the one-joke premise. Although it's an eventual disappointment, it's still a far cry from this summer's nonstop crop of crass comedies based on body-fluids humor.

Brooks plays Hollywood screenwriter Steven Phillips, just given a humanitarian award which he sees as a sorry substitute for an Oscar. But he's not prepared for the arrogant young studio "suit" (a sharp Mark Feuerstein) who casually decrees Steven's scripts have lost their edge and would he please vacate his office by close of day.

Depressed, Steven seeks out his successful writer pal Jack (Jeff Bridges), who introduces him to the fabled Sarah (Sharon Stone).

She claims to be a genuine muse and daughter of Zeus whose inspiration has turned around the careers of Jack and other Hollywood big shots.

The catch is Steven must indulge her every wish around the clock, so into the Phillips home she moves, soon inspiring his homemaker wife Laura (Andie MacDowell) to start her own homeSHARON STONE and Albert Brooks star in the comedy made cookie business.

"The Muse."

While Sara~ does occasionally toss out helpful story ideas, Steven The problem is once the script sonneI who expertly give Steven is too preoccupied to be creative, catering to her unreasonable de- sets up this premise, the story goes the runaround.

The result is a film that is mands night and day. Only a pa- nowhere, relying on some clever rade of worshippers, including one-liners to limp to a weak con- broadly entertaining but stops shy Martin Scorsese, Rob Reiner and clusion. Brooks mocks the Holly- of effectively making its satirical James Cameron, all of whom hang wood value system, but so gently points.

Because of a few instances of on Sarah's every utterance, keep that he uses a feather rather than a him in line. skewer. Too much time is spent on profanity and a flash of nudity, the Stone, in her glittery gossamer the muse befriending the wife and U.S. Catholic Conference classifiensembles, catches the sprightly encouraging her to start her own cation is A-III ---' adults. The Mospirit of a muse and 'keeps the career, which further irritates inse- tion Picture Association ofAmerica rating is PG-'13 - parents are movie's tone airy as she ignores cure Steven.

Brooks' smoldering resentment at Best written are the scenes with strongly cautioned that some mabeing reduced to a gofer going his wheeler-dealer agent (Bradley terial may be inappropriate for chilbroke to satisfy her whims.

Whitford) and various studio per- dren under 13.

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2. "Imitation of Christ." Tho- (Liguori) mas a Kempis (Catholic Book Pub4. "Praying in the Spirit of lishing) Catherine McAuley." Sisters of 3. "Prayer for People Who Mercy of the Americas (Liturgy Think Too Much." Mitch Finley Training) (Skylight Paths) 5. ~'Together for Life with Nup4. "Inner Voice of Love!' Henri tial Mass." Joseph M. Champlin J.M. Nouwen (Doubleday) (Ave Maria) 5. "Saints Speak to You Today." , 6., "Return of the Prodigal Mitch Finley (Servant) Son." Henri J.M. Nouwen 6. "Lives of the Saints" Vol. 1. (Doubleday) Hugo Hoever (Catholic Book Pub7. "Catholic Book of Prayers." lishing) M. Fitzgerald (Catholic Book Pub7. "Bread for the Journey." lishing) Henri J.M. Nouwen (HarperCollins) 8. "fu the Name ofJesus." Henri 8. "Wounded Prophet." lM. Nouwen (Crossroad) Michael Ford (Doubleday) 9. "Wounded Healer." Henri 9. "Revised NAB Sunday J.M. Nouwen (Doubleday) Lectionary"Year B. (Liturgy Training) 10. "Treasury of NQvenas."

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Lawrence Lovasik (Catholic Book Publishing) 5. "New Catholic Picture Bible." (Catholic Book Publishing) 6. "The Rosary." Victor Hoagland (Regina Press) 7. "Precious Moments My First Book of Prayers." Catholic edition (Regina Press) 8. "Precious Moments Remembrance of My Baptism." Girl's edition (Regina Press) 9. "In God's Name." Sandy Eisenberg Sasso (Jewish Lights) 10. "Saint Francis of Assisi."

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U.S. AMBASSADOR to Vietnam Douglas "Pete" Peterson greets Nguyen Viet Chop in the Vietnamese village of An Doai in 1997. Former aviator Peterson was shot down over the village during a bombing mission in the Vietnam War. He was captured by Chop and two others and then spent six and a half years as a POW. (CNS photo from Reuters)

Catholic ex-PO~ now ambassador, urges taking fresh look at Vietnam WASHINGTON (CNS) - U.S. Ambassador to Viet- duty in Vietnam. His youngest son, Doug, had not yet nam Douglas "Pete" Peterson, himself a prisoner of been born. war during the Vietnam conflict, said America should Peterson was shot down, found, and held captive for more than five years. take a fresh look at the Southeast Asian nation.

Vietnam has changed between his assignments to His faith became even more important in prison. "It Vietnam, said Peterson, a Catholic. confirmed that with the situation I found myself in, "Vietnam isn't the nation that it was when we were that I was not alone," Peterson said. "When you're engaged in that situation," he said. At the time of the really alone, it's your faith that shows you that you're Vietnam War, 49 million people lived in both North not." and South Vietnam, he said.

Using a code learned in military survival school, Today in the reunited country of 80 million resi- Peterson and other paws exchanged messages by dents, "65 percent of the people are under age 25, and blinking eyes and tapping on prison walls. Not only 80 percent are under age 40," giving the nation very were personal biographies exchanged, but religious little collective memory of the war, Peterson added. services were conducted. "All kinds of prayers were The ambassador is the fopassed through," he said. "We cus of a PBS documentary, had a sort of service just by tap"Assignment Hanoi," that ping through the wall. It was Using a code learned in milioriginally aired Sept. 7 on very much respected and well tary survival school, Peterson enjoyed." many PBS stations.

After his release, he put his In a telephone interview and other POWs exchanged captivity into the past "in orwith Catholic News Service messages by blinking eyes and from the U.S. Embassy in der to get my life in order," tapping on prison walls. Not Hanoi, Peterson said that as Peterson said. only were personal biographies ambassador, he deals with the He had a family to get to know' again and to help raise. religious freedom issue every exchanged, but religious serPeterson established a small day. vices were conducted.

"I've traveled to 46 or 47 family business, and served of the 6 I provinces (in Vietthree terms in Congress during nam) talking to people, the the 1990s.

People's Committee chairman, as well as the clergy During his congressional tenure, his wife died of and as many of the people in the situation as I can," he breast cancer. He suffered another heartbreak when Doug, the son he first met after leaving Vietnam, was said.

A State Department official charged with imple- killed in a car crash.

Tiring of the political partisanship on Capitol Hill, menting the provisions of the International Freedom of Religion Act visited Vietnam for a week in July and Peterson declined to for re~election in 1996. Shortly "reported that, indeed, Vietnam is moving toward reli- afterward, much to his surprise, he was nominated as gious freedom, and that's a view I share," Peterson America's first ambassador to the unified Vietnam.

Even more to his surprise, Peterson found love in said.

He said he was "very impressed" with the yearlong Hanoi with a Vietnam-born woman working for the Our Lady of La Vang celebration in Vietnam, citing Australian trade representative. He and second wife Vi reports that 200,000 had gathered at the shrine in one Peterson were married in the Hanoi cathedral two years day in mid-August, compared to 200,000 visiting the ago.

Even though Vi is not yet Catholic, Peterson said shrine over three days last year.

Peterson converted to Catholicism while on assign- she proclaimed the New Testament reading at a latement in the Air Force more than 40 years ago. "My August Mass at the cathedral.

Peterson looks back on the many events in his life (first) wife was Catholic and without making any contract (to become Catholic), I began to go to the church and remembers a conv~rsation he had with a priest and began studying the concepts, and discovered it fit before his first assignment to Vietnam more than 30 years ago. my lifestyle very well," he said.

"I told him, 'I pray about all these things and I just Aft~r returning stateside, Peterson was confirmed in Tampa in 1962. "I was a very good Catholic - not don't see the results.' He told me, 'Pete, every prayer is the best, I'm sure- butI was involved with the Church. answered. It's just that sometimes the answer is no.'

"All my prayers were being answered," Peterson "My kids went to Catholic schools," he recalled.

Less than five years later, Peterson was on active said. "It's just that it was not the time."

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WARSAW, Poland - The sale of cream cakes in the pope':; Polish hometown of Wadowice has skyrocketed since June, when the 79-year-old pontiff reminisced about eating the pastries as a youth.

"Of course, these aren't quite the genuine article, since the .cake shop the Holy Fatheli used no longer exists," said Marta Koman, an assistant at the Markiza store on Wadowice's main square. .

"But we're following the same recipe and making them the same way: French pastry at top and bottom, and loads of custard in the middle," she said.

Other cake makers in the southern town said sales of the highcalorie treats had exploded tenfold to around 3,000 daily, adding that bulk orders were now flooding in from local grocers and hardware stores, as well as assorted private consumers.

Koman told Catholic News Service she believed Markiza was selling the most cream cakes because of its proximity to the town's Basilica of the Blessed Vir-

gin Mary, where the pope was baptized.

Karol Wojtyla - now Pope John Paul - . was born in Wadowice May 18, 1920, and lived in the town with his widowed father until 1938, when he enrolled as a Krakow University student.

Addressing 100,000 people June 16, during his third ho'metown visit, the pope said he remembered the cake shop in Wadowice's Market Square, which was owned in the 1930s by Karol Hagenhuber.

"There was a pastry shop on that street, where we used to eat cream cakes after our final exams.

Somehow we survived all those cream cakes," the pope said to cheers from his audience.

Cream cakes were reportedly selling out at all Wadowice stores soon after the pope's statement.

Meanwhile, Poland's mass-circulation Gazeta Wyborcza daily said a "worldwide fraternity of cream-cake eaters" had been set up to present awards.to producers who came closest to the recipe used by Hagenhuber, whose shop is now shared by a meat st9re and bar.

Consecrati.on to the Divine Will Oh adorable and Divine Will, behold me here before the immensity of Your Light, that Your eternal goodness may open to me the doors and make me enter into If to form my life all in You, Divine Will. Therefore, oh adorable Will, prostrate before Your Light, I, the least of all creatures, put myself into the little group of the sons and daughters of Your Supreme FIAT. Prostrate in my nothingness, I invoke Your Light and beg that it clothe me and eclipse all that does not pertain to You, Divine Will. It will be my Life, the center of my intelligence, the enrapturer of my heart and of my whole being. I do not want the human will to have life in this heart any longer. I will cast it away from me and thus form the new Eden ofPeace, of happiness and of love. With It I shall be always happy. I shall have a singular strength and .a holiness that sanctifies all things and conducts them to Ood. Here prostrate, I invoke the help of the Most Holy Trinity that They permit me to live in the cloister of the Divine Will and thus return in me the first order of creation, just as the creature was created.

Heavenly Mother, Sovereign and Queen of the Divine Fiat, take my hand and introduce me into the Light of the Divine Will. You will be my guide, my most tender Mother, and will teach me to live in and to maintain myself in the order and the bounds of the Divine Will. Heavenly Mother, I consecrate my whole being to Your Immaculate Heart. You will teach me the doctrine of the Divine Will and I will listen most attentively to Your lessons. You will cover me with Your mantle so that the infernal serpent dare not penetrate into this sacred Eden to entice me and make me fall into the maze of the human will.

Heart of my greatest Good, Jesus, You will give me Your flames that they 111Zly bum me, consume me, and feed me to form in me the Life of the Divine Will. .

Saint. Joseph, you will be my protector, the guardian of my heart, and will keep the keys of my will in your hands. You will keep my heart jealously and shall never give it to me again, . that I may be sure of never leaving the Will of God. My guardian Angel, guard me; defend me; help me in everything so that my Eden may flourish and be the instrument that draws all men into the Kingdom of the Divine Will. Amen. ( In Honor ofLuisa Piccarreta J865- J947 Child of the Divine Will)

on that night he was in charge of controlling the entry and exit of vehicles from the military installation, SAN SALVADOR - New testiwhich is located only a few blocks mpny from a former member of the away from the bishop's house.

Guatemalan army about military According to the newspaper reinvolvement in the murder of Auxport, confirmed by Church lawyers, iliary Bishop Juan Gerardi Aguilar related how "at 8:30 p.m., Conedera .of Guatemala City has a red Trooper. left (the barracks), provided important evidence in the carrying Maj. Francisco case, said investigators and Escobar Bias, an officer called Church officials. ' Galiano, and two other person"This is going to be a great nel belonging to the Service of help in clearing the crime up. It Protection, formerly known a!' will help us piece together the G2 (military intelligence)." whole jigsaw puzzle," said the Aguilar said that he was told director of the archdiocesean by his immediate superior "not human rights office, Nery to note down" in that night's Rodenas. logbook any movements in, or Special prosecutor Celvin out of the barracks. Aguilar Galindo said, "Just when the added: "At around 10:30 p.m., possibility of resolving the case (another) vehicle came into the was seen with much skepticism, EMP, carrying Capt. Lima we are almost getting to the end . Oliva, another young man, and of the road." three others who had their faces The new information came in covered with black ski-masks." testimony given to the presidAccording to forensic exing judge in late August by perts, Bishop Gerardi was killed Jorge Manuel Aguilar Martinez, between 10:00 p.m. and 10:30 former deputy head of services p.m. as he got out of his car at in the army-commanded presidential guard, known as EMP GUATEMALA CITY路 Auxiliary the entrance to the parish house.

Last year, lawyers at the archdioin Spanish.

Rodenas said that Aguilar, Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera shown cese received an anonymous whom he described as a "trust- here two days before his death, was leaflet naming Lima, Escobar worthy witness," confirmed brutally murdered April 26, 1998 in Gua- Bias and Pozuelos as co-conpossible participation in the temala City. (CNS photo from Reuters) spirators in the case.

According to Church law'"crime of officers belonging to yers, the next stage in the drawnthe presidential guard, and gave an known destination early Aug. 27.

In his testimony, excerpts of out investigations into Bishop "important version of what could have happened" the night Bishop which were reproduced in the daily Gerardi's murder will be the revelaPrensa Libre Aug. 27, Aguilar de- tion of the results of DNA tests taken Gerardi was murdered.

Church leaders have long be- tailed the flurry of activity at the in May from 17 people.

These included 12 military oflieved that members of the presi- main barracks of the presidential dential guard unit, renowned for its guard just hours before Bishop ficers, among them members of the links to human rights violations, Gerardi was bludgeoned to death EMP, as well as a diocesan priest. were involved in the killing, alleg- April 26, 1998, outside his parish Special prosecutor Galindo returned to Guatemala recently with edly in reprisal for the bishop's out- residence.

Aguilar, who served in the presi- the DNA results that had been spoken criticism of army actions dential guard for nine years, said that tested in an FBI lab in Washington. during the 36-year civil war.

Rodenas said that the witness had approached the archdiocese "some months ago" offering his testimony "voluntarily," although he expressed "fear about the risks and consequences" of his testimony.

Under protection from the Church,Aguilar and members of his family left Guatemala for an un-

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Croatian cardinal denied .entry into Yugoslavia ~

The order stems from Cardinal Kuharic's outspoken support for Croatian independence.

By JONATHAN LuXMOORE CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

who celebrated the Bunaric Mass, told the cardinal in a letter that the move had "caused offense" to Catholics in Yugoslavia, adding that he was expressing "sadness in the name of all

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WARSAW, Poland - ACroatian cardinal was denied a visa to enter Yugoslavia for a brief pastoral visit to Catholics in the northern Vojvodina region.

A Church soiJrce said no official reason had been given for the move, but added that it was widely believed linked to Cardinal Franjo Kuharic's outspoken support for Croatian independence in the early 19905.

Cardinal Kuharic, who retired as . archbishop of zagreb in July 1997, was to have arrived in the Diocese of Subotica, Yugoslavia, Aug. 28 for a single Sunday Mass at the near.by Marian shrine of Bunaric. . However, Croatia's ambassador to Belgrade, Zvonimir Markovic, said .the 80-year-old prelate had been refused an entry permit, although his driver and assistant had obtained them.

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faithful in the region.'"

Subotica is one of five Catholic dioceses in Serbia and Montenegro, the states making up what remains of Yugoslavia.

In April, Auxiliary Bishop Djuro Gasparovic of Croatia's DjakovoSrijem Diocese, who holds Yugoslav citizenship, was temporarily refused permission to leave Yugoslavia during a similarcross-border pastoral visit after being suspected of draft-dodging.

However, a staffer at Croatia's Catholic Information Agency, Daniel Laba, said Cardinal Kuharic's case was "completely different," adding that neither the Yugoslav government nor Croatian church leaders had offered an explanation.

'The cardinal's successor, Archbishop Josip Bozanic, was allowed to visit Sobotica only this summer, so there's no evidence of any new antiCatholic pressures inYugoslavia," Laba told Catholic News Service Sept. 1.

"It's likely that the visa refusal reflects a personal dislike for Cardinal Kuharic, particularly given his role in speaking up for Croatian nationhood during recent conflicts."

Although Cardinal Kuharic advocated Croatian independence, he also defended the rights of minority Serbs during the 1991-95 war with Yugoslavia.

Black Catholic educator teaching lessons of Holocaust

By NANCY HARTNAGEL

- there is an ongoing collaboration with several Alabama institutions WASHINGTON - Educator Art on civil rights and Holocaust educaBrown said he is asked routinely at tion programming and professional the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Mu- development. seum in Washington, ''Why, as a black According to Brown, Bringing the person, do you work at a,Jewish insti- Lessons Home has provided Holotution?" caust education for 200 students and Brown, a parishioner at St. Teresa trained them to serve as museum doof Avila in southeast Washington, cents and community activists. started in the education division in "One thing 1'1)1 very proud of," he January 1993, a few months before said, is that many of those students the museum opened. "have not been the cream of the crop.

In an interview with Catholic News Some of them were average students, Service, he answered the question by some below-average." recalling other national museum openBrown said museum exhibitions ings in the Washington of an earlier and programs are important because era. "racism is alive and well in the United "If there was a black person work- States:' He cited daily newspaper reing at the Smithsonian back then, they' ports ofhate crimes and horrific crimes probably were working in some jani- in inner cities. torial type position," he said. "I saw "In our smaller towns like Columthe opportunity to be a part of the bine, we have kids that are killing founding staff of an institution in people," he continued. "Something Washington, and be a part of the pro- has to happen to solidify our country, fessional staff." to change some of the moral thinking At the museum, Brown coordinates of our younger people ... when they're the outreach program Lift Every Voice, (in) third, fourth, fifth grade." begun in the wake ofAfrican-AmeriBrown said he has not found that can church burnings in 1996 and now people are less moral, "but that they including all hate crimes. He also don't have the time, or are not taking works with Bringing the Lessons the time, to give the message back to Home, a program that teaches inner- young people." city Washington public school stuBut, he added, young people who dents about the Holocaust. go through the permanent exhibition Through Lift Every Voice, said "begin to think very critically about Brown, the museum facilitated Wash- not only this history, the history of the ington workshops and local dia- Holocaust, but they begin to think logues for people from different seg- about their own history." ments of the communities where The same is true for many teachchurches were burned. In some cases, ers, he said. "I've had teachers who he said, "the concerned parties started have been forced to come here by their talking among themselves for the fIrst principals, who would sit in worktime." shops with their arms folded, and after He noted several good outcomes: going through the exhibition, they - Holocaust education is being would come back and say 'thank taught in middle schools and high you:" schools in Enid, Okla.; While earning a history degree at - throughout Tennessee, Holo- Norfolk State University, Brown found caust materials are being used in adult himself the only student in modern literacy programs; European history and German history CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Sister Heffernan various religious and the diocese; to serve as a liaison between local parishes and the religious of the diocese; and affIrming religious life and contributing to spiritual development," she explained.

As she eagerly begins her hew post, Sister Heffernan said, "I fIrmly believe that God closes one door and opens another. That has always been my philosophy. I also believe in the passage from Corinthians: 'There are many gifts but the same Spirit.' Throughthese gifts we build up the Body of Christ for the Church. The Corinthians' passage is one of my favorites, because if we all work together ~nd use our gifts, we do build up the Body of Christ." .

She added that, "I've always been happy and never unhappy on all of my jobs in the religious life.

And while I was in~eed happy in what I was doing, when I received the bishop's call, I was also happy - knowing that it was a calling to another service. Sometimes we don't know our own gifts. I think 'the support of the religious in the diocese, shown in the many letters I've recently received, saying .'Welcome' and 'we support you,' has

classes taughtby Holocaust survivors.

Still, he said, "I had no idea the effect that the exhibition would have on me."

He was affected by similarities between "certain time periods, certain actions, certain things that happened in Europe, especially in Germany from '33 up to '38, and what was going on in the United States at the same time with Jim Crow laws."

"Man's inhumanity to man" also touched him, he said, "how the atrocities that happened 60 years ago are still being carried out ... today in Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Ethiopia, Sudan."

Brown said contacts with pastors and members of the burned black churches prompted his return to school, to clarify Scriptures and "help me in my job."

In 1997, he began studying for a master's degree in pastoral studies at Washington Theological Union. A regular Saturday stint at D.C. Jail, where he has been a volunteer chaplain since 1983, is now earning him credits.

He said one course on Catholic social teaching helped him ask - and answer - hard questions about the Church's response during the Holocaust.

"For myself," he explained, "I believe that the Church did not do enough -and when I say the Church, I mean the institutional Church - that individuals did as much as they could, and that some went out oftheir way to do more than others."

Brown said evangelization is his constant goal.

At the last National Black Catholic Congress in Baltimore, he said, "we were charged ... to go and spread the word of Jesus Christ."

"If I live and show young people how they can live their lives, then to me that's what evangelization really is," he said.

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been important to me."

Although a new appointee, Sister Heffernan isn't coming to the job with a blank agenda.

"The initial event is a retreat for all religious of the diocese on Sept.

25 at Cathedral Camp in East Freetown. Bishop O'Malley will be celebrant of the Mass and conduct the retreat. We will honor all the religious jubilarians in the diocese at the same time."

Another thought, she said, "is to make sure that I get around to meet all the religious of the diocese. I knew many of them because I've been in the diocese all my life.

But there are some new orders I need to go and meet and fInd out from them first hand what their needs are. What they need and would like is very important to me, in order to give them the service they need."

Talking on the issue of vocations, Sister Heffernan says from her own community's experience, today's candidates for religious life are more mature and often advanced in education and with degrees as well as experienced in the professional job market before they follow the call to discernment.

"In the Sisters of Mercy community, we've had two women fInally professed last year and two again this year. They are women in their mid-30s who had already advanced in their professional lives. We also have four more candidates currently in training right now and we have high hopes for them."

Sister Heffernan said she thought it important to express her grlj.titude toher Sisters of Mercy community.. "I'm most grateful and verY proud that my administrat.ion has always had faith in. me, in what I hav~'been 'doing, and have suppprted me.. It has been 49 years since I made my final vows and it is coming up on year,50 in the year 2000," she said with great expectation.

While the new post is a big change from what she had been doing, ''I'm confident because I haVe always been in education, and that's will playa key part of what I will be doing," she noted.

Asked how long the appointment might be for, Sister Heffernan smiled again, and said: "My term is up to Bishop O'Malley. Say a prayer for me," she added, briefcase and umbrella in hand.

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ART BROWN, a Catholic, coordinates the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's outreach program "Lift Every Voice." He is pictured in the museum hall dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust. (CNS photo by Martin Lueders)

Cardinal O'Connor leaves hospital after brain surgery

By TRACY EARLY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW YORK - Cardinal John 1.

O'Connor of New York had a small tumor removed from the surface of his brain, but doctors "determined that no other areas of the body were affected," according to a statement released Sept. 4 by the cardinal's spokesman, Joseph Zwilling.

The statement said the cardinal had been released earlier that day from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, and was "looking forward to returning to the full and vigorous schedule which he has followed since becoming the archbishop ofNewYork."

But it also said the cardinal would begin radiation therapy shortly and continue it "over the next several weeks."

On Sunday, a statement was read on behalfofCardinal O'Connor at the Sunday Mass he normally celebrates at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Zwilling said Pope John Paul II was notifIed, through the nuncio in Washington, at the time the cardinal

entered the hospital for tests, But Zwilling said he did not know what if any messages the pope may have sent to the cardinal.

Cardinal O'Connor, who will be 80 on Jan. 15, entered Memorial Sloan-Kettering, one of the nation's foremost cancer treatment centers, for tests Aug. 25 after suffering from weakness and nausea while working at his residence the previous two days.

The Sept. 4 statement by Zwilling said the cardinal was given "complete results" of the tests Sept. 3. But it did not say when the tumor was removed, who were the doctors performing the surgery, whether the tumor was found to be malignant or how the doctors assessed the prospects for recovery.

Announcement of plans for radiation would normally imply the presence of cancer, however.

He said Cardinal O'Connor was able to walk out of the hospital and travel to his residence in his own car.

On arriving back home, his flfSt act was to celebrate Mass in the chapel in his residence, Zwilling reported.

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ISLANDBOUND: The Youth Group of Sacred Heart Church, North Attleboro, prepares to board a ship and tour Martha's Vineyard for the day. One of the advisors for the group, Dan Nolin, said "Even though the weather didn't cooperate, the kids all had a good time."

DaRosa top golfer in'CYO tourney

FAMILY DAY: Pam Atkinson, parishioner of S1. Mary's Parish, Mansfield, enjoys time with its younger members during a re'cent Family Picnic Day. ~COOKOUT:

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Mary's Youth Group, Mansfield, cooks up a hamburger for Brendon Caughey as Brian Kiley looks on during a recent day trip to Purgatory Chasm in Sutton.

TAUNTON - The 40th annual . Fall River Diocesan CYO GolfTournament was recently held at Segregansett Country Club and golfers from throughout the diocese who had qualified in local tournaments turned out for a fun-packed competitive day of golf.

In the Senior Division, Jason DaRosa of Taunton took the championship with a score of 77 on the day while Fall River's Mike DoCouto placed a close second with a round of 80. DaRosa was also awarded the Bill Doyle Trophy as outstanding golfer for the tournament.

Justin Silvia also of Fall River, was crowned the Intermediate Division champion with his round of 81.

Josh Rheaume ofTaunton edged out Brad Costa of Fall River in a playoff hole after both tied for second with rounds of 82.

In the Junior Division, for players ages 14-16, top prize went to Fall River's Kyle Duarte who bested Attleboro's Mike Carroll by one stroke with an 81.

In the Cadet Division, ages 14 and under,. Tim Desilets of Taunton placed first with a 48 ovt<r nine holes..

Attleboro's Bryan McNamara- finished second with around of61. Sixyear-old Mike McDermott, who may be the youngest golfer ever to participate in the tournament, posted a nine-hole round of 74.

SENIORS MATT Chapman and Jen Allen of Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, enjoy some time in its library.

They were among many diocesan students making their way back to school this week. (AnchotiGordon photo)

.SCOTT FEDERICO of St. Thomas More Parish, Somerset, reads to students enrolled in its summer Bible school. This session was entitled "Passage to the Holy Land:' and gave children an opportunity to visit many familiar places like Bethlehem and Jerusalem via stories and activities.

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Our Rock 'and Role Being pretty: A matter of attitude

By CHARLIE MARTIN • CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

unpretty I have myself to blame Now I'm being stupid I wish I could tie you up in I'm just trippin' I used to be so cute to me my shoes Just a little bit skinny Make you feel unpretty too • Refrain: Whydollooktoallthesethings I was told I was beautiful You can buy your hair if it won't To keep you happy?

But what does that mean to you? grow Maybe get rid of you Look Into the mirror who's Inside You can fix your nose If he says so and then I'll get back to me (hey) there You can buy all the make-up (Repeat verse two) The one with the long hair?

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That man can make same old me again today (yeah) But if you can't look inside you My outsides look cool Find out who am I too Written by Dallas Austin and My Insides are blue Be in the position to make me feel Tionne "T-Boz"Watkins Every time I think I'm through So damn unpretty SungbyTLC It's because of you Copyright 1999 by Cyptron Musicl I'll make you feel unpretty too I've tried different ways EMI Blackwood Music (BMI) But It's all the same Never Insecure until I met you and Grunge Girt Music (ASCAP) At the end of the day

DO YOU ever look in the mirror and say inwardly, "If only I could be better looking!"

Maybe you don't like your hair, your complexion, your build or some other aspect of your physical self. That is the way that the girl in TLC's "Unpretty" feels. The song is the group's second release off their new "Fanmail" disc.

Perhaps the recording is popular because it's easy to understand how this girl feels. She is speaking primarily to herself, but also to someone whose remarks triggered her critical self-evaluation.

She admits that "my outsides look cool" but "my insides are blue." She can hide her insecurity about her looks from others, but not from herself.

Yet she realizes that when it comes to how she feels, "at the end of the day I have myself to blame."

Our physical selves are the vehicles that God gave us so our spirits can live for a time on this planet. Since each of us is made to the image and likeness of our Creator, this body, this place where one's spirit dwells, is a sacred gift. Whatever the body's outward appearance or however others might judge its value, it is where God lives.

Unfortunately, our society sends misleading messages about how one's body should look. Advertisements tell you how you can look better, especially if you will only buy certain products!

And as a counselor I find that people who feel "unpretty" often worry they are not good enough to be loved.

Sometimes - and this is a very serious problem - eating disorders that can destroy a person:s health are related to a desire to "be better looking."

Christians need to have a much different attitude toward defining "pretty" or "handsome." This starts by realizing that much about 'how our bodies look is determined by genes and thus is not under our control. However, your attitude toward your body is something that you establish. We choose how we take care of the body that God gave us. This choice includes our mental attitude.

We can form a perspective based either on criticism or appreciation. We can look for what is wrong with our bodies or feel grateful for all the abilities that our bodies possess. ' When it comes to being physically attractive, I've noticed that it is mental attitude that establishes how good looking one is! Self-appreciation, confidence and positive outlook far more determine attractiveness than the physical package.

We have a choice about the care given to our physical bodies. However, it is our attitude toward our bodies, that most shines through.

There will be times when we feel "unpretty."

When this occurs, just let the feeling pass. Then, return to a sense of appreciation that you are a unique and wondrous image of GodL Your comments are always welcome. Please address: Charlie Martin, 7125 W 200S, Rockport, Ind. 47635.

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Parents aren't perfect

By CHRISTOPHER CARSTENS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

world nurtures resentment.

The third phase is to accept your parents as whole humans: Escape from anger and bitterness comes through seeing your parents as whole people, neither all good nor all bad, but mixed - and sometimes mixed up.

They didn't just appear on the

Sooner or later you'll forgive your parents. They mess up. You get angry. Eventually, you'll forgive them.

It's part of our perfectly normal, perfectly ordinary lives.

My dad was a 240-pound alcoholic, and he made some mistakes.

My mom made some mistakes too. A small woman, she developed ways of controlling his behavior - and ours - which involved making us feel guilty and ashamed.

I have two grown children. Over the years, I made some pretty big mistakes of my own.

So will your parents. Somewhere, sometime, they'll do some unhealthy things, perhaps making your life earth in their present, flawed form. harder than it might need to be.

Your task in growing up is get- They grew up in families that were ting past that stuff. That has three often challenged by life's difficulties, just like yours. They made the best phases.

Blind ignorance: In this phase you choices they could, being who and don't see any problem. So your mom where they were.

Nobody brings home a new baby screams and throws stuffevery night at the dinner table. Doesn't every- thinking, "I'll make her as miserable body? Yeah, your dad never comes as my mom made me." People do the home from work, but that's the way best they can. But, as flawed human creatures, sometimes our best isn't all men are, right?

Your parents' faults may be less dras- that good.

Knowledge softens anger. Instead tic. Still, nobody's parents are perfect.

In blind ignorance, you simply of seeing a parent only as a character don't notice. Unfortunately, until you in your life - ''The dad who messed recognize these patterns, you can't up my chances on the football team" escape them. They'll get passed on - you begin to understand the comby you to your children, like the ge- plex life experiences that shaped who netic code; you'll do what your par- they are.

Your father becomes "a man ents did.

Recognition and anger character- whose experiences made him frightize a second phase: Eventually you ened of violence."

Finally, forgiving your parents is figure out that things aren't right.

That's good, because until you know a moment ofGod's grace. They aren't about the problem, you can't escape. perfect. What they are is whole The initial response is often in- people. Each parent is simply one of tense. Whatever form the anger takes, us, another member of the human it has the same basic content: "They race - and still beloved of God. You still wish they had made betshould have known. But they let me ter choices. But achieving forgive- down."

Yes, they did. But if you get stuck ness means that they don't have to in this stage, you can't go any fur- be perfect-and you aren't stuck in ther. During recognition and anger, bitterness. They get to be whole the world gets divided into good people, and so do you.

It's really lovely when you get there. guys and bad guys. Your parents were Your comments are welcome. supposed to be good guys - perfect - but the weren't, so that makes Pleas~ address: Dr. Christopher them bad guys. You don't see other Carstens, do Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth St. N.E., Washchoices.

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Study finds religious schools more drug-free

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK (CNS) - Catholic and other religious schools are more drug-free than public schools, said a study released recently.

The National Center on Drug Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University in NewYork, which sponsored the study, said three-fourths of teen-agers in religious schools regarded their school as drug-free. Only 40 percent of those attending public schools considered their school drugfree.

Teen-agers in religious schools "are at halfthe risk ofabusing tobacco, alcohol and illegal drugs as teens in a school where drugs are used, kept or sold;' said the center's president, Joseph A. Califano 1r., former secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.

"Religious schools are doing a far

better job in providing a drug-free environment for our teens," he added.

For the study, researchers conducted a nationwide telephone survey, interviewing 2,000 students between the ages of 12 and 17 and 1,000 parents with children in that age range.

Ten percent ofthe teen-agers interviewed said they attended a religiouslyaffiliated school-seven percent Catholic, three percent other than Catholic.

The researchers found that teenagers who said their schools are not drug-free are: - Nearly three times likelier to smoke cigarettes.

- Three times likelier to have tried marijuana.

- Two times likelier to know a teen-ager who uses cocaine, heroin or a hallucinogenic drug.

- Two times likelier to have been offered marijuana.

- More than two times likelier to get drunk on a monthly basis.

Students in drug-free schools are at half the risk of substance abuse and are two times more likely to tell school authorities if they learn of someone using or selling drugs, the study said.

The center also found that teenagers are less likely to be substance abusers if they attend church frequently, if they have good relationships with their parents and if they have discussed substance abuse with their parents.

It said that "second to the family in influencing the teen is the school environment."

The center has conducted yearly surveys ofteen-agers and parents concerning drug use for five years.

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Iteering pOintl AITLEBORO - Catholic Social Services will hold an information session on Sept. 15 from 7-9 p.m. at its Attleboro office, 10 Maple Stn:et, for persons interested in adopting an older/ special needs child, ages 6-13. For more information call 226-4780.

CENTERVILLE - The Cape Cod Widowed Support Group will meet on Oct. 27 from 1:30-3 p.m. in the CCD Center of Our Lady of Victory Parish.

The theme is "When Change is Forced Upon Us." All welcome. For more information call the Office of Family Ministry at 877-999-6420 or coordinator Dorothyann Callahan at (617) 267-5258.

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EAST FREETOWN - A joint Boy and Girl Scout retreat will be held at Cathedral Camp the weekend ofSept.

24-26. Father Ray Ball. diocesan scout chaplain from Manchester, N.H. will be retreat master. Registration deadline is Sept. 17. For information call Father Stephen B. Salvador at 222-3266, Father Mike Racine at 992-7163 or Pat Latinville at 678-8667.

FALL RIVER - The Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women District I will hold its first m~eting of the 1999-2000 year Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. at Holy Name Church. Scottie Foley of the Family Life Center will be guest speaker and affiliate presidents are asked to bring two dozen pastries and annual dues. New members welcome.

FALL RIVER - Parents and relatives ofstudents enrolled in Bi~,hop Connolly High School are invitee. to attend the first liturgy of the school year on Sept. 14 at 9 a.m.

Parents of freshman students are invited to attend a Back to School Night on Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. It will introduce .attendees to school curriculum. For more information call 676-1071.

FALL RIVER - The Young Adult Ministry Office of the Fall River Diocese is sponsoring a white-water rafting .

and camping trip to Maine Sept. 18-19 for young adults in their 20s and 30s. It will include rafting on the Kennebec River, volleyball and music. For more information call Bud Miller at 678-2828 or Sandy Mullensky at 646-3179.

NEW BEDFORD - AEucharistic Day of Prayer for vocations to priestly and religious life will be held Sept. 16 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed for Adoration following the 7:30 a.m. Mass until noon. A second Mass will follow.

All welcome.

NEW BEDFORD - Courage, a support group for Catholic men and women dealing with same sex attraction issues and who are striving to lead chaste lives, will meet on Sept. II at 7 p.m. at the Holy Name Rectory. For more information call Msgr. Thomas Harrington at 992-3184. .

NEW, BEDFORD - The Calix Group will meet on Sept. 12 at 6:30 p.m. in the Holy Name Parish Center. It enlists Catholics who are gratefully celebrating recovery from alcoholism, drug addiction and other dependencies. Mass will follow and new members are always welcome.

TAUNTON - Members of the Taunton District Council of the St. Vincent de Paul Society will sponsor a Mass on Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. at St. Paul's Church for the intention of the canonization of Blessed Frederic Ozanam and in memory of deceased members. The regular monthly meeting will follow in the church hall. All welcome.

YARMOUTH - All Catholic College Alumni are invited to attend a luncheon at Anthony's Cummiquid Inn on Oct. 6 promoting Catholic higher education. Jesuit Father John E. Brooks, president emeritus of the College of the Holy Cross, will be guest speaker. For more information or reservations call 548-31590r432-6117.

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Family Rosary to break ground for headquarters EASTON - Groundbreaking for the building to house The Family Rosary's new, international headquarters and the Father Patrick Peyton, CSC, Family Institute, will be held Sept. 15, at 3:30 p.m., on property owned by the Congregation of the Holy Cross, adjacent to Stonehill College here. .

The Family Rosary, a worldwide family prayer ministry, is moving its headquarters from Albany, N.Y., where it has been since Father Peyton founded it in 1942, to property close to the famous Rosary Priest's gravesite in Holy Cross Cemetery next to Stonehill College. .

The headquarters' move was an" Bounced June 6 at the inaugural event of the Family Institute, a symposium attended by some 300 family members at Stonehill College.

Bishop Sean P. O'MaHey; OFM Cap., celebrated Mass and preached the homily at the event.

Holy Cross Father John Phalen, president of The Family Rosary, Inc., will preside at the groundbreaking. Among those joining him will be Holy Cross Father Bartley N. MacPhaidin, president

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of Stonehill College and Bill Riley of Harwich, the new vice president of operations for The Family Rosary, Inc. The new building, expected for occupancy by August 2000, will include offi;;es for staff of The Family Rosary and of the Family Institute; a book store/gift shop offer-, ing rosaries and other prayer and inspirational materials; and a media room for viewing Family Theater Productions' programs, including those on Father Peyton's.life. It will also include a room for archives, a small chapel and a cafeteria.

The architect is Primary Group of Boston, and the contractor is Bodin Contractors of Needham Heights.

The Family Rosary serves the 30,000 members/supporters with whom it communicates regularly.

It also seeks to foster family prayer and spirituality through the collection and distribution of rosaries worldwide, as well as through family-centered products, activities, youth contests, spiritual reading material, parish missions and multimedia programs.

THE GREEK Orthodox Mount of Temptation monastery overlooks the city of Jericho. It is said Jesus fasted for 40 days and wrestled with Satan on the mountain. (eNS photo by Debbie Hill)

Cable cars bring tourists to Mount of Temptation

By JUDITH SUDILOVSKY CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

JERICHO, West Bank - Rather than follow. the footsteps ofJesus up a steep path, pilgrims can now take a cable car up to the Mount of Temptation.

The ease of the trip has increased the number of visitors so much that the three Greek Orthodox monks living at the monastery have hadto adapt their daily habits. They now hostsome 1,000 visitors a day, compared to the previous 150 a day, during the hot summer months.

'This has changed our way of life.

We have many people who are not pilgrims now. We give hospitality to all people, but this has made our monastery more a tourist place and less a pilgrim site," said Brother Ahillios, who has been at the monastery for 11 months.

The monastery sits high above the Jericho oasis on the Mount of Temptation, the site thought to be where Jesus fasted for 40 days and wrestled with Satan. With the cable cars, visitors can reach the top of the mountain in five minutes, as opposed to hiking an hour. ''We used to be open six hours a day; now we are opened 10 hours;' said Brother Ahillios. 'This is a very big problem. Before, when we were closed, we made our prayers and prepared the monastery." .

But Abeer Nashabi, the cable-car station manager, said the added visitors also mean added income for the monks, who rely on donations. The monks are also permitted free access to the cable cars, and the monastery abbot makes good use of the new mode of transportation into town, she added.

The cable-car line, which will be part of the larger Telepherique & Sultan Tourist Center in Jericho, is a privately owned and developed Palestinian project, the brainchild ofJerusalem businessman Marwan Sinokrot.

It opened for business in August, but its official opening will be in mid-September in the presence of Palestinian ChairmanYasserArafat, said Nashabi.

It has taken three years to build the cable-car system, which was installed at a cost of $10 million by the Swiss-

Austrian Gerak Garavanta Co. The company also trained the Palestinian workers in operations and management of the 12 cars, one of which is specially designed to accommodat~ passengers in wheelchairs.

When it is completed, the complex will include parking lots for 20 buses and up to 55 private cars, a 55-room, four-star hotel - expected to be up and running by the end of January 2000-16souvenirshopsanda 120seat outdoor terrace and self-service restaurant at the base station. The top station will include a French-Middle Eastern restaurant, an observation point, an open theater and numerous terraces billed as appropriate for openair religious services. The complex has 25 employees, with plans to employ up to 120 people in the future.

Greek Orthodox groups hold their liturgies in the church of the monastery, and pilgrims stand silently in line to kneel and finger the "large stones that tradition holds Satan demanded Jesus turn into bread.

Further beyond the monastery, on the crest of the mountain, is the tradi-

tional site of the third temptation of Christ, which can be reached only through the monastery and another uphill climb.

The new terraces - near some of the ancient caves that riddle the side ofthe mountain and were used by early monks - would be appropriate for Catholic Masses and ~an be reserved for that purpose, said Nashabi. The monks do not allow other denominational prayer in their church.

Four such caves are located on the side of the station, and one has been opened to the public and extends deep into the wall of the mountain. The roof ofthe cave is blackened from the years of fires lit by mo~ over the centuries. Nashabi said they are planning to restore the cave and protectits walls with a special coating to prevent overanxious pilgrims from chipping away pieces of the cave as souvenirs, which they have been apt to do. ''We will simply develop this into a one-day destination. It will change the itinerary of tourists next year," he said. "Jericho has crossed a long way into development."

Pope meets with Ararat, welcomes Mideast pact CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) - In a meeting with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Pope John Paul II expressed satisfaction at the West Bank land-for-security accord that gave new life to the Palestinian-Israeli peace process.

After signing the breakthrough agreement in Egypt Sunday, Arafat traveled to Italy, where he met for more than an hour with the pontiff at his summer villa outside Rome to discuss details of the accord. The Vatican said the pope was pleased at the progress.

The agreement, signed by Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, revives the Wye accords of 1998. It calls for an initial land transfer ofseven percent of the West Bank and release ofPalestinian prisoners and paves the way for talks on an eventual Palestinian state and

the question of Jerusalem.

On a separate issue, observers said Arafat's visit indicated that the Vatican and the Palestine Liberation Organization might be close to an agreement on legal aspects regulating Church activities in Palestinian-controlled areas.

After the meeting with the pope, Arafat gave the pontiff a small model of the Bethlehem grotto, held by tradition as the birthplace of Christ, and expressed his hope that the pope would visit there in 2000.

"I hope so, I hope so," the pope replied.

Vatican sources said that while the pope's visit to the Holy Land has not been officially decided, prospects appeared to have improved with the latest PLO-Israeli agreement.