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Four awarded St. Thomas More medals ~
Diocese pays tribute to members of justice system
of them was the greatest as they walked with Jesus. "And they weren't even lawyers," he quipped. "Christ reminds them that if they wanted to be first, By JAMES N. DUNBAR they must become'the last of all and the servant of all," FALL RIVER - "Your profession calls you to be a the bishop said. "Jesus calls us to service. Your Durden is servant of all by serving justice," Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, precisely to ensure that men and women receive what they OFM Cap., told the congregation attending Sunday deserve. You are not to be swayed from justice by prejuafternoon's fourth annual Red Mass in St. Mary's Cathe- dice or profits. Your ideal is Justitia ~he lady with the dral honoring the legal profession. scales and the sword, her eyes blindfolded to betoken Citing the Gospel reading for the day, Bishop O'Malley impartiality." noted in his homily that the Apostles were arguing which , The bishop told the justice system members "that with" out your proud profession' our country would be in anarchy and freedom would disappear. Equal before the law is still very much an ideal, but largely because of you we are moving slowly, but relentlessly toward it." Bishop O'MaHey said that as an American he "feels great shame that our legal system can sentence millions of unborn children to death because they have rio rights." While we declare that life is an inalienable right, parents still have the right to kill their children with the help of a physician, he said. "And if the Hemlock Society has its way, childreR will soon be able to return the favor by killing their parents, with the help of a physiRECIPIENTS OF the St. Thomas More Awards given by the diocese cian." to members of the justice system group with Attorney Joseph P. So-named because of the r~d Harrington, chairman of.the Red Mass Planning Committee at White's vestments worn at the Mass of the on the Watuppa. From left, Judge James O'Neill of the Nantucket Dis- Holy Spirit, the liturgy included trict Court, Gloria M. Arruda of the Probation Department, Attorney the St. Thomas More Awards the Kathleen A. Snow of Barnstable, and Fall River District Court Judge bishop presents yearly to a judge, Turn to page 13 - Awards Aileen H. Belford. (Anchor Photo) 'O'
Cardinal Newman Society names bishop advisers ~
Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., is among 10 chosen. By CATHOLIC
NEWS SERVICE
FALLS CHURCH, Va. - The Cardinal Newman Society has announced formation of a 10-bishop Ecclesiastical Advisory Committee to assist its "efforts to renew Catholic identity in Catholic higher education by implementing 'Ex Corde Ecclesiae." , The society, based in the Washington suburb of Falls Church, is dedicated to restoring the Catholic character of U.S. Catholic colleges and universities.
- Auxiliary Bishops John M. It was formed in 1993 to work for Dougherty of Scranton, Pa., and Jofull implementation in those instituseph F. Martino of Philadelphia. tions of "Ex Corde Ecclesiae" ("From The U.S. bishops are in the final the Heart of the Church"), Pope John stages of implementing a U.S. appli- , Paul II's 1990 apostolic constitution on cation of the papal document. That Catholic higher education. application, approved by the bishops Two archbishops, six diocesan bishlast November, was confirmed by ops and two auxiliaries form the new Rome in May and is to take effect in advisory committee. They are: May 2001. - Archbishops John F. Donoghue of Atlanta and Robetto O. Gonzalez " The U.S. application does not apply to Puerto Rico, which has its own of San Juan, Puerto Rico. - Bishops Fabian W. Bruskewitz bishops' conference and is not under the 'jurisdiction of the U.S. National of Lincoln, Neb.; Raymond L. Burke Conference of Catholic Bishops, but of La Crosse, Wis.; Thomas G. Doran of Rockford, Ill.; Alfred C. Hughes of Archbishop Gonzalez was an NCCB Baton Rouge, La.; John J. Myers of , member in the late 1980s and the' 90s Peoria, Ill.; and Sean P. O'Malley of as a Boston auxiliary and later bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas. Fall River, Mass.
Pope to entrust world to Mary VATICAN CITY (CNS) - When bishops from around the world gather for their jubilee celebration next week, the statue of Our Lady of Fatima also will make a pilgrimage to Rome. Pope John Paul IT and the world's bishops will gather around the statue for the recitation of the rosary Oct. 7 and, in the presence of the statue Oct. 8, they will once again entrust the world to the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Once before, in March 1984, the pope had the statue brought from Portugal to St. Peter's Square where, in union with the bishops of the world, he consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The act ofconsecration was one of the requests the three shepherd children of Fatima said Mary made during her . . apparitions to them in 1917. Carmelite Sister Lucia dos Santos, the only SUrYlvmg Fatima visionary and a cousin of the other two, has said that the 1984 ceremony fulfilled the request Embedded in the statue's crown is one of the bullet fragments removed from Pope Joh'n Paul's body after he was shot May 13 - the feast of Our Lady of Fatima - in 1981. In conjunction with the May beatification of Sister Lucia's cousins, Pope John Paul.ordered publication of the so-called ''third secret of Fatima," which had been kept sealed at the Vatican for some 50 years. According to the Vatican, the message predicted the struggles of the Church with Nazism and communism and foretold the shooting of Pope John Paul. The Vatican's Holy Year committee said formally entrusting the world to Mary will be a plea "for the protection of the mother of Christ over the Church and over the world at the beginning of the third millennium." , The statue is scheduled to arrive from Portugal Oct. 6 and be kept that night in Pope John Paul's private chapel. The moming of Oct. 7 it will be transferred to St. Peter's Basilica for public veneration.