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Pope names 23 cardinals, including two from U.S.

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI naJti!ed 23 new cardinals, includingm.S. Archbishop John P. Foley, grand master of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher, and U.S. ,Archbishop Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, the first cardinal from a Texas diocese.

The pope anno:unced the names at the end ofhis weekly general audience October 17 and said he would formally install

the cardinals during a special consistory at the Vatican November 24.

Cardinal-designate Foley was in St. Peter's Square when the announcement was made .. He said he had ,gone there, wading into the midst of the crowd, after going to a doctor's appointment.

While rumors were running strong that the pope would name cardinals at the end of the audience and his nomination was almost a given, Cardinal-designate Tum to page 18 - Cardinals

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A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE - Bishop George W. Coleman celebrated area religious anniversaries at a Mass at St. Julie Billiart Church, North Dartmouth. From left: Holy Union Sister Mary Catherine Bums, 50 years; Mercy Sister Nora Smith, 60 years; Holy Cross Father Thomas Looney, religious retreat keynote speaker; Mercy Sister Christine Dewhurst, 50 years; Dominican Sister Madeline Tacy, 50 years; the bishop; Mercy Sister Elizabeth Doyle, 50 years; Mercy Sister Maurcita Stapleton, 50 years; Mercy Sister Carolanne Theroux, 50 years; Sister of St. Dorothy Elizabeth Hayes, 50 years; Mercy Sister Jeannette Thomas, 60 years; and Sacred Hearts Father Ben Folger, 50 years. Story on page 14. (Photo by Brian Kennedy)

Diocese joins in celebrating couples' wedding jubilees

By DEACON JAMES N. DUNBAR FALL RIVER - Even if a couple has been married for only a year, the fact they've happily embraced the sacrament of matrimony Christ instituted specially for them makes it a real cause for a celebration.

On November 4 at 3 p.m., in St. Mary's Cathedral on Spring Street in Fall River, Bishop George W. Coleman will be the principal celebrant and hornilist at a Mass dedicated to observing the wedding anniversaries and jubilees ofan estimated 150 couples from parishes across the diocese.

'1 think Catholics are eager to celebrate their happy,

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married life together and the fact that the local Church . and in our case Bishop Coleman -"is ready to join with them in observing that, makes this year's event special:' said Scottie Foley, who, with her husband Jerry, are program directors ofthe Diocesan Office ofFamily Ministry.

'That the Church is ready to acknowledge their marriage is significant at a time when such a union is considerect by some as not needed in today's world:' she added.

"Last year we had more than 140 couples celebrating wedding jubilees, and those ranged from one year to a wonderful 67 years of marriage;' she reported.

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Vocations directors set ambitious course to help people to respond to' God's call

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FALL RIVER - Named as the Fall River Diocese's new director and associate director ofVocations and Seminarians respectively in mid-September, Father Karl C. Bissinger and Father Kevin A. Cook are quickly moving their plans off the drawing board and into the community.

"The goal at hand is to develop a regular, yearly routine, a calendar for vocation's programs at schools, parishes, and deaneries so that they can plan easier and know

in advance what to expect," Father Bissinger explained.

"Often times changing the plans from year to year finds problems in scheduling and the goals are never met," he added. "We need to develop a regular pattern that's more predictable ... as we)) as regional places allowing us to meet easier on a regular basis."

What's in the offing are holy hours, prayer meetings, talks, seminars and conferences all aimed at promoting the idea that serving God is a vocation worth

thinking about "and should be considered at least once as young people begin to decided what they want to do with their lives," he stated.

The two young priests say they are resolute in their goal to convince other young men to prayerfully heed the call to take up Christ's salvific mission to mankind as priests, as we)) as guide young male and female adults discerning vocations to the religious life as Sisters or Brothers.

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BOSTON - Lethal injection has made headlines since the U.S. Supreme Court agreed September 25 to hear arguments on w~ether this method ofexecution violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. .; The case before the ~burt directly involves only two convicted murderers in Kentucky, but death penalty foes hope the national attention will offer I' teachable moments about capital punishment. ' 1

That interest could also present an opening to inject debate into the lethal silence on another life issue. The same drug - potassium chloride that produces cardiac arrest in a death row inmate also ensures ~ in an unborn child during some abortions.

This practice helps guarantee that abortionists won't accidentally deliver a live baby, a possibility they're especially uneasy about since the Supreme Court ruledApril18 to uphold the ban on partial-birth abortion.

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Vatican says diplomacy must be used to stop nuclear proliferation UNITED NATIONS (CNS) The international community must use diplomacy, not armed intervention, to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons, said the Vatican's representative to the United Nations.

"Belligerence by anyone would only worsen a delicate situation and could inadvertently lead to conflagration with immense additional suffering on a humanity already overburdened with the ravages of war," said Archbishop Celestino Migliore.

The archbishop spoke October 16 at a U.N. meeting on disarmament and international security.

His remarks were made one day before U.S. President George W. Bush said he does not believe the claims of Iran's government that it is developing nuclear technology

to produce electricity.

"I believe they want to have the capacity, the knowledge, in order to make a nuclear weapon," Bush said at an October 17 White House press conference.

"And I know it's in the world's interest to prevent them from doing so," he said.

The president told reporters, "I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War ill, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon. I take the threat ofIran with a nuclear weapon very seriously."

Archbishop Migliore had told the U.N., "All the tools of diplomacy must be usedto defuse crises concerning attempts by some countries to acquire nuclear weapons

capabilities and to dissuade others from ever taking such a dangerous road."

At the same time, he said, nations that do have nuclear weapons must get serious about negotiating a treaty designed to promote "the progressive elimination of nuclear weapons" and to ban attempts to modernize their nuclear arsenals.

"The nuclear states have a particular responsibility to lead the way to a nuclear weapons-free world," the archbishop said.

Archbishop Migliore said the Vatican's position is that "nuclear weapons contravene every aspect of humanitarian law."

"They are an affront to our stewardship of the environment, in as much as they can destroy life on the planet and the planet itself. They must be done away with," he said.

STEPPING OUT - Pope Benedict XVI walks outside the restored bronze doors of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican recently. The doors, made from wood and bronze from ancient Roman temples, were restored over a period of two years with funding from the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher and an Italian bank. (CNS photol Alessia Giuliani, Catholic Press Photo)

Pope appeals for release of two priests kidnapped in Iraq VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI appealed for the re-. lease of two Catholic priests kid. napped in Iraq.

The priests, both members of the Syrian rite, were abducted in Mosul by unidentified gunmen October 13.

Reports from Iraq said a ransom was being demanded for their release.

The pope, speaking to pilgrims at a noon blessing the following day, said the latest kidnappings were part of a daily stream of bad news from Iraq, where attacks and violence "are shaking the conscience of those who care for the good ofthis country and peace in the region."

The priests abducted in Mosul are being threatened with death, he said.

"I appeal to the kidnappers to quickly release the priests. In repeatip.g once again that violence does not resolve tensions, I raise to the Lord a heartfelt prayer for their liberation, for all those who suffer violence and for peace," he said.

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Syrian-rite Archbishop Basile Casmoussa of Mosul, who was abducted bri~fly in 2005, identified the priests as Father Pius Affas, 60, and Father Mazen Ishoa, 35. They were apparently on their way to a church service on the outskirts of Mosul when they were seized.

Vatican Radio reported that Archbishop Casmoussa denied media reports that the two priests were freed.

In an interview with Vatican Radio October 14, Latin-rite Archbishop Jean Sleiman of Baghdad said the latest abductions illustrated the increasingly precarious situation of Christians in Iraq.

"Christianity in this area is truly disappearing," he said. "Iraq risks being transfonned into an unlivable society."

He said the disappearance of Christians from Iraq signifies that "Iraqi society no longer has the resources for true coexistence among diverse peoples."

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A GOOD SPORT - Giovanni Langella, captain of the AC Ancona soccer team, presents a soccer ball to Pope Benedict XVI after the pontiff's weekly general audience at the Vatican recently. The pope blessed team members. (CNS photolL'Osservatore Romano via Reuters)

Feeding the hungry is moral duty, pope says for World Food Day VATICAN CITY (CNS) Feeding the hungry is not simply a logistical and economic challenge, it is a moral obligation, Pope Benedict XVI said.

In a message for the recent October 16 celebration of World Food Day, sponsored by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, the pope said that perhaps the failure to significantly reduce the rate of malnutrition in the world is due to the fact that too many people consider it a "technical and economic" problem.

Individuals and nations, he said, must give priority to "the ethical dimension of feeding the hungry.

This priority relates to the feeling of compassion and solidarity that is part of being human, leading to sharing with others not only material goods, but also (sharing) the love all of us need."

"Indeed, we give too little if we offer only material goods," Pope Benedict said in the message sent to Jacques Diouf, director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization.

The pope said studies of the situation of the world's 850 million hungry people demonstrate that a lack a food is not due only to natural factors such as drought, but is due "above all,. to situations caused by human behavior," including wars that force people to flee their land and their homes.

"The goal of eradicating hunger and, at the same time, providing healthy and sufficient diets, requires specific methods and actions that would allow for an exploitation of resources in a way that respects the patrimony of creation," he said.

Pope"Benedict called for scien-

tists, researchers and technology developers to work in conjunction with fanners, farm workers and the indigenous who know the "cycles and rhythms of nature" and have protected them for centuries.

The pope also called for strengthening school meal programs for the poor throughout the world.

Children are "the first victims" of the tragedy of hunger and often suffer delayed physical and mental development because of malnutrition, he said. Many are forced to work or even are forced to enlist in armed militias in exchange for food.

Pope Benedict said school feeding programs not only provide food along with education for students, but they provide hope for the future for those children's communities.

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Pope acknowledges Iraq's beleaguered Catholic minority by naming cardinal VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Iraq's beleaguered Catholic minority received major recognition when Pope Benedict XVI named the head of the Chaldean patriarchate a cardinal.

Chaldean Patriarch EmmanuelKarim DeIly of Baghdad was designated to receive a red hat when the pope named 23 new cardinals October 17; they were to be elevated at a consistory November 24.

The cardinal-designate has stood out as the voice of the ongoing suffering of all Iraqis, notjust the Christian minority.

At 80, Cardinal-designate Deily will not be eligible to vote in a conclave.

He was elected patriarch by the synod of bishops of the Chaldean church in December 2003, just nine months after a U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq. The violence soon escalated as fighting among Iraq's Shiite and Sunni Muslims and other factions erupted and worsened.

As Christians became increasingly targeted, he repeatedly stressed that the Christian minority always has considered itself to be Iraqi and recalled how members of different faiths had once coexisted in peace.

"We are all one family, an Iraqi family," he would say time

He lamented the exodus of so many citizens, "but when your children get kidnapped or killed, when there's no security, no peace, well, of course (people) will want to spend the 20 or 30 years they have left to live on this earth abroad," he told Catholic News Service during a Rome visit in 2005.

He also expressed his gratitude for the solidarity shown by the Chaldean communities abroad who generously give aid to those in Iraq.

"If it weren't for our Chaldean immigrants in Detroit, in Chicago, Califomia and elsewhere, the situation for our faithful would be much worse than what it is now," he told CNS. Born in Telkaif, near Mosul, in 1927, Cardinal-designate DeIly was ordained a priest in 1952 in Rome.

He received a master's degree in philosophy from the Pontifical Urbanian University and a doctorate in theology and one in canon law from the Pontifical Lateran University.

He was ordained a bishop in 1963 and named an archbishop in 1967.

From 1963 until his retirement in October 2002, he served as an auxiliary in Baghdad, where the Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate is based.

The Chaldean synod elected him patriarch just over one year later.

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The Chaldean bishops were forced to hold their 2005 extraordinary synod in Rome instead of Iraq because ofthe war. During the synod, the cardinal-designate highlighted

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"the tragic situation that is spreading across our martyred country" and appealed for peace.

He often mged nations to have pity on fleeing Iraqis and not send them back to Iraq.

In text to British inquiry, Catholic physicians denounce abortion

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LONDON (CNS) - Catholic doctors have called on the British government to reduce the legal gestation period for abortions.

In a written submission to a parliamentary committee's inquiry into the 1967 Abortion Act, the Guild of Catholic Doctors said it was opposed to all abortion and pointed out that British society finds late-term abortions in particular to be "abhorrent."

The association of Catholic doctors in England and Wales said the abortion of babies with disabilities "creates negative attitudes to all who are disabled when everyone should be accorded equal standing as human beings."

"We remain deeply concerned about the use of screening tests to identify children with disabilities before birth when the usual outcome

mons to acknowledge that 40 years of abortion had left the British economy dependent on migrants from other countries.

"The result of the loss of six million largely healthy young citizens from our society is impossible to calculate, but it has seriously diminishedour capability of looking after ourselves without outside help and has led to some extent to the large requirement for immigration which our economy now has," the guild said. "Among this huge number would have been the average incidence of geniuses and prospective leaders, and we may well have killed the very people who could have led our society forward more successfully."

The guild said it was appalling that there was little useful data that

is that the children are killed:' the guild· said in the submission, published in early October.

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Duquesne University radio station pulls Planned Parenthood grant

By CATHOLic NEWS SERVICE PlTfSBURGH - A public radio station run by Duquesne University in Pittsburgh has stopped running Planned Parenthood sponsorship messages and returned the group's $5,000 donation because it is ''not aligned" with the school's Catholic identity.

The station, WDUQ, began airing the Planned Parenthood messages October 8. Two days later the station's general manager, Scott Hanley, said he received a call from the university's president, Charles Dougherty, expressing concern that it was inappropriate to accept a donation and air messages from Planned Parenthood.

The station pulled the messages that day and quickly began getting complaints.

Hanley told The Duquesne Duke student newspaper that the decision to pull the messages and return the donation had originally seemed uncontroversial, but has since become "complicated and nuanced." ''Planned Parenthood turned this into a political activist issue," Hanley said, referring to the barrage ofemails and phone calls he has received. Form letters of protest addressed to Dougherty and Hanley have been posted on the advocacy site of Planned ParenthoodofWestem Pennsylvania.

Underwriting is a public acknowledgment of a donor. It is similar to advertising but not the same. An underwritten message is a briefspot that names a business or organization along with a brief description. Such messages often air in between pr0grams.

One of the Planned Parenthood spots said: "Support for DUQ comes from Planned Parenthood, providing comprehensive sexuality education, including lessons on abstinence.

Planned Parenthood: Their mission is prevention." The spots did not mention abortion.

In the student paper's October 18 edition, Hanley said that in hindsight

the station should not have accepted the donation and the underwriting, which was a business decision. In a radio broadcast, he defended the station'sjournalistic integrity and said it has never had a conflict with Duquesne officials for stories "contrary to interests of the Catholic Church and Duquesne University."

University spokeswoman Bridget Fare said in a statement that the "underwriting of a program on WDUQ is considered a donation and the university retains the right to refuse donations and underwriting from any organization."

"Accepting or declining money is completely separate from news decisions," she said.

Duquesne, which is run by the Congregation of the Holy Ghost, owns the broadcast license for the radio station's 25,000-watt signal.

The university provides the station, a National Public Radio affiliate and jazz station, with six percent of its cash funding, and the station raises the rest of the money, according to the station's Website.

WDUQ has "every right to reject underwriting donations from anyone, said Megan Vargo, assistant director ofthe Diocese ofPittsburgh's department for social advocacy and convening, who wrote a commentary for the 1'October 19 edition of the Pmsburgh Catholic, the diocesan newspaper. ''Every television ,and radio station, newspaper or magazine in southwestern Pennsylvania reserves the right to review and reject advertising," she said. ''Every single day, ads are rejected by media for one reason or another without any bellowing about journalistic integrity."

Vargo noted that although the radio spots ''were carefully nuanced to general health subjects and 'safe' language for a wide audience, it does not alter the fact that Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of legalized abortion services in the country, and is a major advocate oflegalized abortion. And has been for decades."

The Mother of God called the world to conversion at fatima 90 years ago REMINDER - A man holds a poster with an image of Mary as more than 200 people pray the rosary and process around the San Francisco Civic Center October 13. The two-hour event was one of what officials of the organization America Needs Fatima said were a thousand such rallies scheduled across the nation to mark the 90th anniversary of the Marian apparitions at Fatima, Portugal. (CNS photo/Dan Morris-Young, Catholic San Francisco) ,

FATHER OF ROCK- Dominican Father Cayet Mangiaracina, parochial vicar of Holy Ghost Church in Hammond, La., plays a keyboard in early September. The priest, now 72, co-wrote the '50s rock "n roll classic "Hello, Mary Lou, Goodbye Heart," which Ricky Nelson eventually made famous. Before he entered the seminary, the priest was the piano player for a rock group. (CNS photo/courtesy of Juan Quinton)

Song from '50s still paying off for Dominican priest who co-wrote it

By PETER FINNEY JR. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE HAMMOND, La. - So what's a nice, mild-mannered, 72-year-old Dominican priest doing collecting thousands ofdollars in royalty checks for a rock 'n' roll classic that he cowrote in the 1950s - a song eventually made famous by Ricky Nelson and one that has furthered the religious mission of the Dominicans?

Father Cayet Mangiaracina, who co-wrote "Hello, Mary Lou, Goodbye Heart," simply shakes his head and chuckles about the song that keeps on giving. ''The embarrassing thing about the song, which I wrote as 'Merry, Merry Lou,' is that it sounds like I gotjilted," said Father Mangiaracina, a New Orleans native who is parochial vicar of Holy Ghost Church in Hammond. ''The words were like, 'Why do you do the things you always do? ..â&#x20AC;˘.

I sit here sighing, just thinking all about you.' In the '50s, songs didn't make that much sense. Rhythm was the big thing," he told the Clarion Herald, newspaper of the New Orleans Archdiocese.

In 1953,FatherMangiaracinawas 18, fresh out of Jesuit High School and considering a religious vocation when he auditioned as a piano player for the Sparks, a rock 'n' roll group whose five members played for $1 an hour at youth dances.

He could only play chords, ''but when we started to play some rock 'n' roll, I kind ofclicked with the group,"

Father Mangiaracina recalled.

The band's four other members - Ronnie Massa, alto sax; Don Bailey, bass; Joe Lovecchio, tenor sax; and Don Connell, drums were still in high school.

For the two years the young man attended Loyola University, he kept the idea of a vocation to the priesthood in the back of his mind, but he also couldn't get enough of rhythm and blues and country music, either on the radio or in person.

"I would hear Fats Domino sing 'Blueberry Hill' and I tried to imitate him," Father Mangiaracina said. ''We played one night at Annunciation Parish for a Friday night dance, and we hadjust finished a song when a bunch ofwhite teen-agers came up to the band and said, 'Gee, whiz, it's a white band.' That was the greatest compliment I ever had."

In 1954 he sat down at his family's upright piano and banged out a tune that he titled "Merry, Merry Lou." It became a local hit for the Sparks.

A few years later when he had left New Orleans to study for the Dominican priesthood, the Sparks won a battle-of-the-bands contest in New Orleans and earned a recording session in New York City with Decca Records.

One of the two original songs the band selected for their 45 phonograph record was "Merry, Merry Lou." Bill Haley and the Comets and Sam Cooke liked the song so much they recorded their own versions.

Then in the 1960s, Ricky Nelson released "Hello, Mary Lou, Goodbye Heart," written by Gene Pitney.

Because the song was a dead ringer for "Merry, Merry Lou," the Sparks' publisher filed suit, and Father Mangiaracina was given co-authorship with Pitney. Royalties from the song went to the priest's mother until her death in 1988, then they were forwarded to the Dominicans' Southern province. ''Last year it was $35,000," Father Mangiaracina said, smiling.

"About three or four years ago, I got a check for $90,000. When I was studying for the priesthood, I thought about all the glory I could be sharing. But then, by the grace of God, God hit me in the head and said, 'You'd better rethink this.'''

"I think it's been my calling to be a people person and to serve others through liturgy and preaching and then doing other ministry such as preparing people for weddings or baptisms, visiting the :lick in the hospital and at home," he said.

Father Mangiaracina, who helped form a popular contemporary Catholic music group while he was at St. Dominic Parish from 1967 to 1980, feels good music is crucial in enhancing today's worShip experience. ''It helps us lift our hearts in praise to God," he said. ''That's what liturgy is all about - to come and worship God through Christ. Good music helps create the atmosphere to do that."

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By ROBERT DELANEY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

DETROIT - Capuchin Brother Leo Wollenweber headed to Rome October 14 with what many hope are the details of the rturacle that finally advances the sainthood cause of Capuchin Father Solanus Casey to the next step - beatification.

"I have three cases that look promising, for which I have some medical records," said Brother Wollenweber, vice postulator for the sainthood cause of the famous Capuchin who served at St. Bonaventure Monastery in Detroit .and at Capuchin-run parishes in several other states.

He will deliver the reports on the three healings to Capuchin Father Florio Tessari, postulator general for all ,Capuchin sainthood causes.

"We'll need people's prayers so that we'll have good success with this," Brother Wollenweber said.

Many astonishing healings were attributed to Father Solanus' prayers during his lifetime (1870-1957), and his virtue was recognized when he was declared venerable in 1995 by the late Pope John Paul II. But the next step on the way to being declared a saint, beatification, requires certification of a miracle attributable to his intercession after his death. This past July and

August thousands of people in Detroit and other cities where he served took part in novenas praying for his beatification.

Brother Wollenweber said the postulator gene~al will turn the cases over to medical experts for their review.

"If they feel there is enough evidence that any of the healings cannot be explained medically, then we will be advised to, initiate the formal investigation through the archdiocesan metropolitan tribuna!," Cardinal Adam J. Maida of Detroit. said.

Such an investigation involves taking testimony from witnesses including the person who received the healing, ifhe or she is still living - and from medical personnel who were involved in the case, as well as independent medical experts.

If such a process is authorized, Msgr. Ricardo Bass, pastor of Prince of Peace Parish in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield Township, would be Cardinal Maida's episcopal delegate and would function as the judge.

Brother Wollenweber, as vice postulator, would appear as Father Solanus' attorney; and Father KenI neth Kaucheck, pastor of Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish in suburban Grosse Pointe Woods, would serve as promoter of justice.

"It's quite an involved process.

It takes all the little steps," Brother Wollenweber remarked.

One previous case made it to the formal investigation stage, but eventually failed to win certification.

If one of the three new cases is approved for a formal investigation and survives its trial, it would then return to Rome, this time to the Vatican's Congregation for Saints' Causes. It would undergo further review by medical experts and, if they agree there is no medical explanation for the healing, it would come back to the congregation, which could send it to the pope with a recommendation for approval.

If the pope concurs, Father Solanus would be beatified and become Blessed Solanus.

Brother Wollenweber is hopeful for Father Solanus' eventual beatificati.on - if not from one of these cases, then from another.

And he is also hopeful Father Solanus will eventually become the first U.S.-born male to be declared a saint, but that would require certification of a second miracle after he is beatified. .

"We get a lot of reports from people who do have their prayers answered. People hear of Father Solanus and start praying, and wonGOING TO BAT FOR CASEY - Capuchin Brother Leo derful things happen," said Brother Wollenweber, whoi~ vice postulator for'Capuchin Father Solanus Wollenweber. . Casey's sainthooddaus'e,' heade(j toR,om~ October 14 with reports on three possible miracles attributed to the intercession of Father Casey. The priest could become the first U.S.-born male saint. (CNS photo/Robert Delaney, Michigan Catholic)

Pro-Life official critical of study urging legalization of abortion WASHINGTON (CNS) Across the globe abortion rates are similar whether the procedure i~ legal or not, said a new study, and its researchers stress that illegal abortions are a threat to "women's health and survival."

Deirdre McQuade, director of planning and information in the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for ProLife Activities, was critical of the study's emphasis on the safety of , legal abortion and said its "meth.'odologX was flawed."

Published in the October 13 issue of a British medical journal, The Lancet, the study was conducted by researchers at the Guttmacher Institute, the research wing of Planned Parenthood and the World Health Organization in Geneva. . According to McQuade, the researchers defined "safe abortions as those that meet leg~ requirements in countries with permissive laws."

"But by this unusual defmition, legal abortions are safe even if they kill women as well as their unborn children," she said in a recent statement.

"The authors then say that illegal abortions are harmful - even when women experience no medical complications -"- because women have to violate the law. This

is a closed semantic circle into which no fact about real-life women can intrude," McQuade added.

The Pro-Life official was also critical of an editorial in the same issue of The Lancet that said worldwide abortion rates have increased because of the United States' Mexico City policy which does not allow federal funds to go to agencies that perform and promote abor~ tion as a family planning method in developing countries.

She said the editorial noted that the total number of abortions decreased from 1995, when she noted that the policy was not in effect, until 2003, after it was reinstated.

According to the study, "Induced Abortion: Estimated Rates and Trends Worldwide," the number of abortions worldwide has decreased from 46 million in 1995 the last time the Guttmacher Institute conducted a similar survey to 42 million in 2003. The researchers note however that the previous study did not have as much data from countries where abortion was illegal as it did in the current study.

For the study the researchers used national data from countries where abortion is legal. In regions where abortion is illegal, they used data from hospital admissions for

abortion complications, interviews with local family planning officials and surveys of women.

The new study notes that abortions are performed in one of five pregnancies across the world and that the rate varies widely in different regions. Although the abortion rate was high in Eastern Europe 105 abortions per every 100 live births - the rate is dropping as better contraception becomes available, researchers said.

The study also says that 20 million abortions "considered unsafe" were performed each year and that 67,000 women worldwide die each year from abortion complications, primarily in countries where the procedure is illegal.

"Lost in the authors' ideological fog is the fact that abortion always kills; legal or illegal, it sometimes also kills women, especially when they are poor and have a terrible health care system," said McQuade, noting that promoting more abortions would not change these figures.

"Rather than pitting women and their children against each other, we need to stand in solidarity with both and focus on improving the quality of global health care," she added.

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6 Teaching the right lessons Last week, the state of Maine made national headlines when the Portland School Committee voted to make prescription contraceptives available to middle school students without parental pennission or even knowledge.

Parents in Portland responded with predictable and justifiable outrage. The attention given to the story from the national press corps, however, shows that we are dealing with an issue than transcends one Maine city. Interest and indignation from other parts of the nation give growing witness that parents everywhere are becoming more concerned with the types of lessons that some public schools are trying to teach. In Portland, students' education involves policies driven by a general distrust for the authority of parents over their children as well as zeal to pass on to them the deadly principles and means of the sexual revolution.

Bya seven-to-two decision on October 16, the school committee authorized the King Middle School health center to start making prescription birth control pills and contraceptive patches available to 11-14 year old girls who request it. In order to access the health路 center, the girls need parental permission, but once inside, what they request and receive is kept confidential, even from parents.

This confidentiality policy already does harm to the bond that should exist between parents and their children. If parents wish their children to be able to be given an aspirin for a headache or receive a free immunization shot services funded by their tax dollars - the policy requires them to give health center perspnnel what they would never have to give doctors and nurses at a hospital: eecte all oftheir rights to approve or even be aware ofthe medicine and advice being given to their children. This policy is also potentially dangerous to the students, because it does not allow parents or family doctors to know what medication a child is receiving unless the students themselves divulge the infonnation. That there would a confidentiality requirement is already a sign of an arrogant suspicion that these educators think parents either do not know or want what is in the best interest of their children.

But the new authorization for the health clinic personnel to distribute prescription contraceptives does even greater damage. Bishop Richard Malone of Portland expressed his "shock and sadness" in the school committee's decision in a strongly worded declaration that many Maine Catholics have taken as a call to action.

He wrote that he shared the "outrage and disbelief' of many parents because the decision undercuts the clarity ofthe moral message that parents have a right to give to their children. ''When contradictory messages are 'given to children from important authority figures such as parents and school officials, it can only create more confusion and difficulty for children themselves in making this important life decision." If parents are trying to fonn their children in purity ofheart, in other words, and schools are pushing an opposite message, young kids struggling through pubescent hormone shifts will only end up more confused.

'The school committee's decision;' Bishop Malone continues, "communicates to young people that adults have given up on forming young people in virtues like chastity." Rather than trying to train students in good moral habits, it promotes a technological solution that actually makes children morally weaker with regard to their sexual attractions. Offering contraceptives without parental knowledge or consent "will inevitably lead to more sexual experimentation among younger and younger children."

If we truly care about children, the bishop says, ''we need to help them understand the importance ofpostponing sexual activity until marriage for their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health." The physical risks include sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy; the mental and emotional dangers flowing from being used by others sexually and from more painful breakups; the spiritual perils coming from cutting themselves off from communion with God through sin.

Bishop Malone deserves particular credit for reiterating the spiritual harm YOUI\g people receive from the use ofcontraception to engage in sexual activity outside ofmarriage. Giving out birth control facilitates young people to engage in activity that is simply evil. While in secular contexts, many do not want to talk about right and wrong and prefer to focus on the easily discernible effects of harmful behavior, this type of consequentialist argumentation occasionally obscures the less perceptible, but just as real damage to one's soul. Condoms, pills and patches do not protect from sin, which is the worst sexually transmitted disease of all. .

Unlike the educators who pessimistically do not think that young people are capable of self-control, Bishop Malone stresses that, like the outraged parents, ''I believe that it is possible-for children and young people to make wise moraI choices given caring guidance." This type of guidance contrasts sharply with the pseudo-counsel provided by those who would give contraceptives instead of sustained moral challenge and high expectations for children's behavior.

The members ofthe School Committee say that their decision was pragmatic, . because sometimes students do not live up to parents' expectations and middle school girls end up pregnant. Bishop Malone acknowledges that sometimes students do fail, but his two-fold solution points first to the real cause of the failure and second to a much more compassionate solution. The cause of the failure is not that the young girl becomes pregnant from sexual activity, but the sexual activity itself; for that reason, focusing on a technological rather than a moral remedy avoids the real cause. Secondly, the response to teen-age pregnancy must be to stress that ''when they might fail, adults will stand by them and not abandon them." School officials will not be there when the students age, but parents will, which is yet another reason why the decision is so short-sighted.

"Everything about this decision;' Bishop Malone concludes, "gives kids the wrong message:' He has urged parents in Portland to persuade the school committee to rescind its deeply flawed decision. It remains to the rest ofus outside of . Portland to protect our kids from similarly flawed policies closer to home.

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The saint of hope in desperate situations October 28 is the feast day of St. wondering why Jesus would not do Jude, commonly known and invok ed something so spectacular that everyas the patron saint of hopele.'s one, even those opposed to him, causes. He remains one of the most would be forced to acknowledge popular of saints, probably because who he was. forlorn circumstances are never in Jesus' mysterious answer indishort supply. Parishes and individu- cates God's preferred path: ''The one als .continue to pray more novenas who loves me will keep my word, through his intercession than and my Father will love him, and we through any other saint. St. Jude stat- Will come to him and make our ues, medallions and prayer cards home with him:' Jesus did not want abound. He is a saint who unites to awe people into submission, but Catholics of every nationality and to draw them into a communion of background, since all equally share love through treasuring his word and devotion to him. One of the clearest putting it into practice. Only those examples of his continued popular- who receive Jesus' love and recipity and ability to bring Catholics to- rocate it "see" Jesus as he really is; gether was shown earlier this year all others are blind to his full revelain Taunton, when faithful from the fonner parishes of - - - - - - - - - - - Immaculate Conception and St. Jacques asked Bishop Coleman to allow their newly-merged parish / to be dedicated to God through his intercession.

While clearly one of the most popular saints, St. Jude paradoxically still remains very much unknown. Even tion - no matter how spectacular Catholics who invoke him are some- - because they do not walk by faith times startled to discover he is one and love.

St. Jude eventually grasped that of the Apostles and the author of one of the New Testament epistles. He lesson and powerfully demonstrated has perennially been the "other Ju- it in his New Testament letter das," overshadowed by Judas which, at 25 verses, is so short that Catholics can read it' within a few Iscariot.

When we look at his apostolic minutes.

He says that he originally incommission and his letter, we see clearly how he learned to trust in tended to write "about the salvation God when the going was toughest we share," but instead he found it and become the patron of those in necessary to pen a defense of the similar circumstances. faith against "certain intruders" who If there ever was a seemingly had infiltrated Christian communi. ''hopeless enterprise," it was the task ties and were "perverting ~e grace given to the Apostles - for a small of our God into licentiousness and team of ordinary men to spread the denying our only Master and Lord, Good News throughout the entire Jesus Christ." He wanted forcefully world. Their success against all hu- to remind the early Christians of man odds is a tangible reminder that what Jesus told him on Holy Thursall things, even the most humanly day: we cannot remain in loving impossible, are possible with God. communion with God unless we But St. Jude did not always grasp keep his word. that such was the way the Lord What were the intruders doing? wished to be glorified and have his They were indulging in "sexual imGospel spread. During the Last Sup- morality" and pursuing "unnatural per, he asked Jesus, "Lord, how is it lust," the way the ancients referred that you will reveal yourself to us to homosexual activity. But even and not to the world?" St. Jude was worse than their sins, St. Jude con-

tinues, they were justifying their sinfulness, pretending their sins were sacraments and their rejection of God an expression of love.

He says that without repentance these people will perish because of their sins,just like the Israelites who rejected God and Moses in the desert, the fallen angels who did not accept God's plans for redemption, and the men of Sodom who tried to molest Lot. In the face of this challenge, he continues, the faithful must first keep themselves in the love ofGod, build themselves up in the "most holy faith," and reach out themselves to the "mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life."

Then they need to reach out to others, by being merciful to those who are ''wavering'' or who "still fear God," and to try to "snatch them from the fire." He stressed that the way to show this merciful love was to hate the sin that was killing them, even to "hating even the tunic defiled by their bodies."

His strong words and actions are tremendously relevant and instructive to faithful Catholics in Massachusetts. Many of us today can occasionally feel that working to de- . fend the institution of marriage, or the good news ofthe Church's teachings on sexuality, or the sanctity of human life - even among some who call themselves Catholic - is a "hopeless cause."

St. Jude's life shows us that it is not. Challenges like the ones we face today have existed in society and in the Church from the beginning. And, with the help ofGod, they have been overcome. If St. Jude and the early Christians, through preaching and persevering faith and love, could transfonn the Church and convert the Roman empire, than by the same faith and divine assistance we can transform our parishes and over time convert our state.

St. Jude not only intercedes for us in this cause, but gives us hope and shows us the way.

Father Landry is pastor of St. Anthony's Parish in New Bedford.

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Buddhism and Christianity compared stroke? Christian mystics have Now that we've surveyed because every desire, he believes, described their experience as one Buddhism, let's comb that leads to a frustrating deadend: "I in which the self is seen, next to religion for evidences of the truth want that" implies an "I" distinct God, as nothitlg. Moreover, both fully revealed by God. Paradoxifrom the "that," and this false Buddhism and Christianity cally, it is precisely on those distinction is the cause of suffercaution against self-deception in points where Buddhism and ing. The Christian goal, on the the spiritual life: someone may Christianity touch that we also other hand, is not to extinguish find what most divides the flame of desire but them. rather to convert it to a ~ ...

Buddhism's denial of "flame of love" for God the individual self or and for others. Our deepest I soul contradicts some of longings are not absurd, '. "l Christianity's most but in one way or another basic assumptions. A find fulfillment in the God ',By Father?

Christian can never who is love through and Thom~!i.M. ~gCik accept that the self is through. unreal. On the contrary, The ethical demands of we believe that there is Buddhism's Eightfold seem to be praying or acting something God loves that is Noble Path are, for the most part, selflessly when in fact he is myself and yourself, and that God similar to those of Christian indulging his own whimsy. wants this self, body and soul, to morality. We ought to abstain not At the same time, our belief share in his own life. only from evil deeds but also that human beings are created in There is a seed of truth, from evil desires. Buddhism's the image of the God who is however, in the Buddhist doctrine analysis of evil desires sheds light Trinity reminds us that our real of anatman ("no-soul"), namely, on the dynamics of violence, self exists only in relationship. the recognition that what I regard tackling the clinging to illusions Just as the three divine Persons as my true self may in fact be a (of superiority, for example) that love one another from all eternity, lies at the root of violence. Yet the deception. After all, what is the so it is in loving others and in self? Is it the memory I have of goal of moral uprightness for the myself, growing and changing? If being loved that our truest self Christian is not peace and emerges. The Buddhist seeks to so, would I ceaSe to be myself detachment, but unselfish love in extinguish the flame of desire after losing my memory to a imitation of Christ. To the

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Munching on a slice of humble, pumpkin pie OK, here I am again writing a Tuesday column for Friday. After last week's piece of work, the Red Sox handed me a dose of humble pie. Or should I say pumpkin pie?

Not only were the Sox not toast, but they were the toast of the town.

I didn't have to carve any pumpkins last weekend as the Home Towne Team carved up Cleveland. The irony of the whole situation was that the Cap'n Jack-OLantern I created for therapeutic reasons didn't even last until the end of the American League Championship Series. When I awoke last Saturday, the day of Game 6, my swashbuckling pirate of the Caribbean was listing heavily to starboard. Sparrow's evil sneer morphed into a silly, mushy grin - despite having received a nice Vaseline rubdown days earlier.

In the fruit's hold, a fuzzy, dark blue carpet was running amok, or should I say a muck.

Cap'n Jack Sparrow walked the plank to Davy Jones' Dumpster that morning and it was the Boston Red Sox who were very much alive.

So, by now we'll have played two World Series games and this time I'm going to play it safe.

We're either ahead two games to none, tied at one game apiece, or down two games to none. In any instance, to prevent myself from again becoming a milquetoast, I'll refrain from declaring the Red

Sox could very well be toast by now.

After seeing how the Bosox resurrected themselves in the past two best-of-seven series, winning four and three consecutive games

respectively, I'll not doubt this merry band of river dancers. , Someone asked me this week if this was as 'much fun as the 2004 season. "Even better," I responded, because I know how hard it is jusno reach the World Series. After all it's only the 12th

time we've made it in the last 104 years. We've got to enjoy it while we can.

Therefore, despite being a glass is half empty kind of guy, or a New Englander, I'm going to watch each game and not give up hope until the last out is made.

I've already warned my neighbors to expect sudden o outbursts of joy and/or frustration late into night.

I've acquired a supply of cotton balls to stuff in Igor's ears lest I drive her mad.

Finally, I've asked Denise and Emilie to remove any throwable objects from the living room on game nights.

And what about my X-Acto knife? That's under lock and key.

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The motive of compassion for a Buddhist is not the welfare of the recipient but self-detachment, which leads to enlighte":IIlent. In spite of its doctrine, however, Buddhist experience oftbn attests to a genuine love that is ,lakin to Christian charity. Nevertheless, the Buddhist who wantsll to be I wholly present to another human being must recognize arid value II the other's uniqueness. To . d . embrace othemess IS, para OXII' cally, to find oneself; fot, as the perfect unity of the Trinity demonstrates, our relatii?ns are at the core of who we are. , Buddhism is very much attuned to the idea of suffering. The bodhisattva who wants to take upon himself all the sufferings of the world is the closest figure outside Christianity to that of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah, chapters 52-53. Christians believe that God has given us a definitive anSWer about suffering. This answer is not an abstrac~: concept or idea but is embodied Jesus Christ, whom the prophdts had _ foretold. By taking on flbsh, the d'1ffi' · Son expenence . su enng divIDe as a part of being humarl. Through the crucifixion, he wil1irtgly endured the pa.i.nf111 reality of torture,"tlearly as a resul~ Of his own lack of selfish attachments.

But the cross is only half of the story. The ultimate proof that selfemptying love is capable of conquering all suffering and evil is Jesus' resurrection from the dead. Jesus did-not allow the suffering he endured to detach himself from the love he had for his heavenly Father andlfor all of

humanity; instead, he made suffering the vehicle by which he displayed the power of love over and above the power of suffering.

This, I believe, is the key to opening the doors of Buddhist hearts to the fullness of truth revealed by God; for the Church has been given by her divine founder the answers to the questions Buddhists have been seeking for over 2,500 years.

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Just in the sight of God The most recent chapter in the unfolding drama of Brittany Spears is the removal of her visitation rights with her two children because she has not complied with the court order for drug testing. It seems that her unraveling life of fame has taken a downward spin into the infamous.

We see this drama unfold over and over again in the media with our seemingly endless hunger for news of the famous, infamous, the talented and not so talented. The failures of others have always been the source of sensation and certainly a way to pay less attentiol):to more,Pwssing matters about ourselves ~dour society.

We so much want to gloat over other's failures so that we don't have to encounter what is most dark and shadowed in ourselves.

Some of us wear our sinfulness on the outside where any see it and notice; others of us hide it on the inside, in the dark, pretending that we are not "like that."

We r.neet people every day

whose lives have fallen apart in This is the way the man praying at just the same way but whose the front of the temple arrogantly thought as he looked down his names never make the papers except perhaps in the court news nose at the other man. Jesus or police reports. Perhaps we makes a positive example of the know them, or are related to them tax collector. In his time and or we live with them. What is among Jesus' listeners he would happening to someone ~~>.:f>-; ,(-"::j:<:\:!;:c,~<~ .,:::l.;', ;._;~~:;{~ like Brittany Spears is happening all around us in different ways to so / Thirtieth Sunday many people. Most ~·-~·in.O~dinary !ime people don't have the fame that someone like

By Father -" Brittany Spears has. The Marc P. Tremblay outcasts of our society are those we consider "sinners," the addicted, the have been considered a traitor to socially marginalized, the illegal his own people, a thief and a alien, the poor and those who suppOrter of the Roman enemy.

Justice and righteousness then can't seem to get their lives together. Not like us, so often we must come from something that disdain them lest we become isn't based so much on observing contaminated. the right laws as the pathway to be in God's "good graces:' Justice and righteousness from the perspective ofthe Scriptures is To find the right place with more about finding a right place God is to begin with honesty, honesty about ourselves. The with God than fulfilling any laws that provide us with ritual purity. . irony of the story Jesus presents is , i ,__

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obvious. The man standing furthest away from the sanctuary is the one in fact closer to God. Once again the underdog, the outsider, becomes the hero of the story.

There is a saying that religion or religious behavior is sometimes the easiest way to avoid contact with God. Just like so many of the other characters Jesus presents in his parables, the pious man at the front of the temple is too full of himself to come to have any room for God. He's sidestepping the reality of our need for profound dependence on the Divine to find true righteousness. It is a harder way. It is because he has done what most of us spend so much time trying to avoid. It is the unavoidable embrace. It is the embrace of ourselves as we are with all of our darkness. We must become willing, like the tax collector to encounter our own inner darkness

and embrace it in order to find healing of our hearts and begin walking on the road to freedom that Jesus invites us to.

It is the part of ourselves that we refuse to look at that so often rules us. The "righteous" man praying could only see the sinful taxpayer; he could not see that the taxpayer was only a reflection of what he could not see in himself.

What is so moving about what Jesus presents in the parable is how God makes room for those even who do not have the outward appearances of religious propriety.

It is great hope for us all that in the compassionate vision of Jesus, God is more profoundly present to the taxpayer standing at the back of the temple than the "righteous" man proudly standing next to the Holy of Holies at the front of the temple. This is a great message which should bring our hearts peace; God makes room for us all.

Father Tremblay is pastor of St. Mary's Parish in Norlon.

Upcoming Daily Readings: Sat. Oct. 27 Rom 8:1-11; Ps 24:1-6; Lk 13:1-9. Sun. Oct. 28 Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Sir35:12-14,16-18; Ps 34:203,17-19,23; 2 Tm4: 68,16-18; Lk 18:9-14. Mon. Oct. 29 Rom 8:12-17; Ps 68:2,4,6-7ab,20-21; Lk 13: 10-17. The. Oct. 30 Rom 8:18-25; Ps 126:1-6; Lk 13:18-21. Wed. Oct. 31 Rom 8:26-30; Ps 13:46; Lk 13:22-30. Thu. Nov. 01 AU Saints Day Rv 7:2-4,9-14; Ps 24:1-4ab,5-6 1; Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12a. Fri. Nov. 02 Wis 3:1-9; Ps 23:1-6; Rom 5:5-11 Jn 6:37-40.

Revi$iting the modernist wars I've long had a high regard for Pope Benedict XV, least-known pontiff of the 20th century, whose slight, stooped figure masked a diplomatic and historical intelligence of the first caliber. Benedict saw with clarity that World War I, prolonged, would be a civilizational catastrophe for Europe. The Great Powers refused to listen; Italy blackballed the Holy See from any post-war peace conference.

Benedict nevertheless spent out the Vatican's financial resources in supporting wartime prisoners and refugees - to the point where Pietro Gasparri, the Cardinal Camerlengo, had to borrow money from the Rothschilds to pay for the 1922 conclave to elect Benedict's successor.

Benedict XV began his pontificate, however, by trying to

stop another war: the civil war within the Church over Modernism, which his predecessor Pius X had condemned in the 1907 encyclical "Pascendi" as "the synthesis of all heresies." AntiModernist sentiments ran high after "Pascendi"; clandestine ecclesiastical networks dedicated to rooting out Modernists, crypto-Modernists, and/or alleged Modernists from seminaries and theology faculties ran amok; some entirely reputable scholars were gravely damaged in the process. It was a tawdry business, even if the principal Modernist paladins (like Alfred Loisy and George Tyrell) were men of highly dubious theological opinions. Benedict XV called. off the dogs, and a measure of .

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On the centenary of "Pascendi," Peter Steinfels dedicated his New York Times column to some predictable

progressive bleating about the encyclical's deleterious effects: "Pascendi," Steinfels mourned, "crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism." "Pascendi," in other words, decisively shaped the Church's role "in the blooddrenched history of the first half of the twentieth century."

I wouldn't go so far as some commentators in the Catholic blogosphere, who charged Dr. Steinfels with suggesting that "less Catholic dogmatism would have prevented the Holocaust."

Steinfels is too clever a writer for that. But his column did seem lacking in a broader historical

perspective, which would have suggested the possibility that the popes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries had been put in a very difficult position by the modem liberal state in Europe a position that inevitably shaped their attitudes toward other aspects of modernity, including modem theological adventurousness.

Historians like Michael Burleigh ("Earthly Powers"), Owen Chadwick (''A History of the Popes 1830-1914), and Michael Gross (The War Against Catholicism: Liberalism and the Anti-Catholic \ Imagination in NineteenthCentury Gennany") vigorously disagree with certain papal tactic vis-a-vis anti-clerical European governments. But they also demonstrate, in vivid detail, that those governments indeed waged a kind of war on the Church.

"Liberalism," to the popes of the 19th and early 20th centuries, did not mean William Jennings Bryan, Teddy Roosevelt, or Woodrow Wilson. It meant the French government closing all Catholic schools, monasteries, and convents in the early 20th century; it meant Bismarck's late-19th-century "culture-war" against the Church; it meant anticlerical violence in Spain and Portugal; it meant the destruction

of the old Papal States by the Italian Risorgimento. Small wonder that the popes, given their Eurocentricity, and continental Eurocentricity, at that, did not view "liberal democracy" as the Church's friend. To suggest, however, that this "conservative" theological and political critique of real-existing-liberalism in continental Europe helped pave the way for fascism is not a claim that will withstand much scrutiny, not least because it was theological innovators, not those benighted conservatives, who were seduced early-on by the siren-songs of Nazism.

The Steinfels column was of a piece with the Cowboys-andIndians interpretation of Vatican II, in which Good Liberals defeat Evil (anti-Modernist) Conservatives. Fortunately, for both the Church and the historical record, we have been blessed with two papal veterans of Vatican II, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, who have proposed a far more interesting interpretation of the Council as both a reaffinnation and a development of classic Catholic truth claims.

Some people, it seems, take rather a long time to get the message.

George Weigel is a senior fellow ofthe Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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You go, galgo! fine to me. Cardinal Humberto Thursday 25 October 2007 Medeiros once shared with me Port-a-Call: Hopkinton, Mass.

- Pablo "Lolo" Picasso born in how much he enjoyed taking a Malaga, Spain, 126 years ago drive to see the foliage. The problem was, he said, finding Most (though not all) Canadian geese are heading south. According to the greeting card companies, left-behind geese Reflections of a are cute at Christmas if ,/,.~~rl~h>iPr1l'v,~.~.{ . you tie a bright red '~'~~i~~1t~h I ' , ,~,:, " ribbon around their necks. Do not pull too Goldrick· . tightly, unless what's underfoot bothers you more than what's overhead. time. I happened to bump into Turns out Three Mile River is the then-archbishop a couple of a flyway. Hundreds of Canadian weeks later. I asked if he had geese have passed over my found time to go "leaf peeping." rectory. I hear them honking day "Indeed I did, Timothy" (the and night. That gets old fast. archbishop never called me Tim). But by the time I got They say the foliage wasn't there, the leaves had already so brilliant this fall. Looked just

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fallen. I suppose that's why they call it 'fall.' At least the fallen leaves still had some color in them, so I got to admire them on the ground. I didn't even have to strain my neck to look up." The Cardinal always saw the bright side of a situation.

Father Furlong and I drove north on Interstate 495 to see the foliage.

We had an ulterior motive. Both of us wanted to adopt another hound. There's an adoption kennel called Greyhound Friends in Hopkinton. After inspecting the various greyhounds being offered, he settled on one he named Beckett.

I was still shopping. I noticed an out-of-sight back section of

In good company When we were growing up, He also emphasized the Christian community. In my sister and I were given the importance of balance; not to Catholic parishes, Catholic responsibility of doing the be consumed by work, nor to schools and in various minisdishes after supper. We would spend so much time in prayer tries, much is accomplished by as to neglect one's responsibilitake turns; one would wash, the groups of people working ties. other would dry. Our younger together. Without people brother had a different responSt. Benedict has given us a willing to work together, very great deal of wisdom, for sibility. His was to take out the little would be accomplished. trash at the end of the day. although we may not live in a This work ethic is the backbone My sister and I would watch monastery, ~e can apply his of any community. from the kitchen window, as he teachings to our lives. Families St. Benedict took this and communities who work took the bag of trash and concept one step further. The walked down to the together in harmony are ~~-, far more successful than barrels at the end of "",. "j the sidewalk. All done, those who do not. he'd come running or skipping back. tog::;;i:: Tough job. My family or community we sister and I had hardly '; .~ are in good company started on the plates with those with whom

By Greta. MacKoul ",. and his task was we work. We also have complete. Didn't seem the added benefit of fair. I don't recall how often my rule of his order was largely being in good company with sister and I might have comour Lord. based on the premise of a plained about this situation, but Times have changed and "balanced life of prayer and it would only fallon deaf ears. now boys do dishes and girls work."

That was simply the way it was. take out the garbage.

The monks were to spend Boys were not expected to do When we first moved to time in prayer to discover the dishes in those days.

Massachusetts six years ago, my purpose of their work, and to But there was a silver lining husband would always take the center themselves in their love in the chore that my sister and I of God. They were to spend garbage to the transfer station. were asked to do. We were a The bags can be heavy and in time working so that good order community of two working some ways, it does seem more and harmony would prevail in together. We would talk like "men's work," but in recent the monastery. When we center together about many things. We ourselves in God in our work, years I have been stepping up to became good friends and I the task and find that I am fully we become less and God believe it was largely due to the becomes more, hence the work capable of carrying out this time we spent sharing this chore. Sometimes when I'm becomes "lighter." We can work. The work became "light" driving to the transfer station, I separate ourselves from a because we were "in good think back to the days when my mundane or arduous task company." To this day I younger brother took out the because we allow God to work actually don't mind doing garbage and how things have through us, and then it is not dishes the "old fashioned" way, changed. And when I'm lifting the task, but only God. In a by hand. I get a certain satisfac- community that adopts this the heavy garbage bags, I might tion washing them in warm, say a little prayer. The work is attitude, the concern is not who sudsy water, and rinsing them always lighter when we are in has the "easy" or the "better" clean. Oh, and it's especially good company. job, because the spirituality of nice if there is someone to chat Greta and her husband the work is clarified. St. with and share in the task.

George, with their children are Benedict saw work as the "great This concept of working members of Christ the King equalizer." All must engage in together is a large part of any Parish in Mashpee. manual labor.

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Indeed they were special. The dog on my right was a greyhound mix that went ballistic at the mere sight of m~n. There were two fraternal twin greyhounds that came as', a pair. They could never bear to be separated. Then there was this one dog that looked something like a I! greyhound. He was smaller. He had webbed toes. His fur was sleek and shiny like '~ dachshund. "What, pray t~ll, is that?"

"He's a Spanish greyhound," they said. "Actually",he's a galgo, a cousin of the greyhounds. He doesn't race. He's a hunter. His name is Pablo. They call him Lolo. He is,li ah, frisky."

The kennel-keeper Was called out and I approached the cage with Lolo. He got all excited.

"Frisky" doesn't conie close. He was bouncing off the, walls at the attention. Then h~ stuck his hind quarters in the air, bent down in front, and e4tended his two legs. Even dogs ~ave bodylanguage. That posture is called "a play bow." Wanting to return the compliment, I got down on my hands and knees 9n the concrete floor, bowed down, and extended my two anrts. Lolo "play bowed" back at me, and I at him. Again and agAin. Call me the dog whisperer. It was an instant bond. I want this one.

"Are you sure?" theY,:asked with solicitude. "He is frisky." Lolo came home with me that day and now sleeps calmly in my recliner.

Lolo came with a file. In it was his passport. Yes; dear readers, my dog has dn international passport. It wa~ issued by the Spanish government, Department of Agric~lture. He also has a bar code. A microchip was implanted in his ~houlder at I birth.

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At the end of the hunting season, when a galgo is considered a poor hunter, it is disposed of. Tens of thousands meet with a cruel death. My Lolo was lucky. He was abandoned on the streets of Barcelona. As a stray, he foraged for food, water and shelter. Lolo .was rescued by a Spanish vet and his British wife. They treated him medically and flew him to the United States. He was placed in the adoption kennel in Hopkinton.

He was boarded in the "special needs" section. Eight months later I met Lolo.

Dighton people now inquire, "What, pray tell, is that?" The galgo breed is very ancient. It's Celtic. A galgo is of the family of sight hounds. They are very agile and very powerful. When Caesar and his armies invaded what we now call Spain, they found that the indigenous tribe, the Gauls, had a breed of hunting dog. The Romans called an inhabitant of Gaul "galgo."

In contempt, they used the same word for the dogs.

Driving home, Lolo's eyes were popping wide. He had never been in an automobile. I found myself singing to the tune of "Her Name was Lola," the lyrics: "His name is Pablo. They call him Lolo. He's as frisky as could be 'cuz he's a galgo." My apologies to Barry Manilow.

Father Goldrick is pastor of St. Joseph's Parish in North Dighton.

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NEW YORK (CNS) - The following are capsule reviews of new and recent DVD and video releases from the Office for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Theatrical movies on video have a USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification and Motion Picture Association of America rating. These classifications refer only to the theatrical version of the films below, and do not take into account DVD releases' extra content. ''Evan Almighty" (Widescreen, Full Screen & lID DVD) (2007) Delightful contemporary spin on the Noah story, as a TV anchorman turned congressman (Steve Carell) is instructed by God (Morgan Freeman) to build an ark in light of an impending flood, much to the skeptical consternation of his colleagues on Capitol Hill (John Michael Higgins, Wanda Sykes and John Goodman), his wife (Lauren Graham) and three young sons. Imparting an overall message about how one act of random kindness can change the world, director Tom Shadyac and screenwriter Steve Oedekerk skillfully combine slapstick, sentiment and surprising reverence - these elements beautifully embodied in Carell's seriocomic central performance - while the paired animals and the flood effects are wonderfully done. A smattering of mildly crass language, humor, irreverence and innuendo. The goodlooking DVD includes 12 minutes of deleted scenes (including a sweet one where the kids say their prayers and a funny extended version of Carell's self-grooming in the mirror) and bloopers, and various behindthe-scenes looks at the building of the ark, Carell's hair and makeup preparation, the handling of the animals, the visual effects and so on.

The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification isA-lladults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG - parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children. (Universal Studios Home Entertainment) ''Reign Over Me" (Widescreen, Full Screen and Blu-ray Discs) (2007) Singularly offbeat, albeit poignantly etched, buddy film about

a successful dentist (Don Cheadle) who meets up with and tries to rehabilitate his college roommate (Adam Sandler) - once a dentist himself and now sadly childlike, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of his wife and children perishing in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. In the process Cheadle's character comes to terms with some of his own emotional issues. Writer-director Mike Binder's drama is well-intentioned, and Sandler pulls off a difficult part with distinction, but the script is paradoxically original yet formulaic with often implausible character motivation, though the September 11 theme and Sandler's heart-wrenching character tug at the emotions. Pervasive rough and crude language and occasional profanity, some forthright and crass sexual discussion, and emotional outbursts. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is L -limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - re-' stricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

(Sony Pictures Home Entertainment) "Surf's Up" (Widescreen and Blu.Ray Discs) (2007) Animated action-comedy about a teenage penguin surfer路 (Shia LaBeouf) is a warm-weather diversion with a relaxed summer vibe that earns low scores for originality but higher marks for execution and its winning-isn't-everything message.

Aware that moviegoers may have had their fill of screen penguins, some minor objectionable elements notwithstanding, directors Ash Brannon and Chris Buck set a swift pace and don't overwhelm with a surfeit of barely distinguishable characters; families will be headed back outdoors in what seems like a flash. A fair amount of mildly rude language and toilet humor. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-II adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG - parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children. (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

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A SLIDE SHOW - Michael Angarano stars in a scene from the movie "The Final Season." For a brief review of this film, see CNS Movie Capsules below. (CNS photoNari Film Group)

IC~' ~'I()vii(e lCa.I[)~UIII(e~ NEW YORK (CNS) - The following are capsule reviews of movies recently reviewed by the Office for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

"Gone Baby Gone" (Miramax) Thought-provoking mystery about a private investigator (a superlative Casey Affleck) and his girlfriend-partner (Michelle Monaghan) hired to investigate the disappearance of the four-year-old daughter of a drug addict (Amy Ryan) in the Boston area, with the reluctant cooperation of the police (Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris).

Ben Affleck makes an auspicious directorial debut in this adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel, and though the seedy environment, pervasive expletives and sporadic but graphic violence will not be to everyone's taste, mature viewers will find those elements and some morally troublesome actions handled with gravity and intelligence. Pervasive rough language, profanity, violence with blood, corpses, an impulsive vigilantestyle killing, drug use, implied nonmarital relationships, and child abuse references. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is L - limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The Motion Picture As-

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"Reservation Road" (Focus!

Random House) Riveting drama about the efforts of an increasingly obsessive father (Joaquin Phoenix) to identify the driver (Mark Ruffalo) who killed his son in a hit-and-run accident, while the guilt-racked offender, a father with a boy the same age, struggles to do the right thing. Director and co-writer Terry George's film - from co-writer John Burnham Schwartz's 1998 novelhas considerably more moral complexity than your standard revenge melodrama, while Phoenix and Ruffalo are each superb in difficult roles. A violent though nongraphic car accident; some profanity, rough language and crude expressions; and domestic discord. Acceptable for older teens. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-ill - adults. The Motion Picture Association ofAmerica rating is R - restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

"The Final Season" (Yari) Low-key but good-hearted sports drama in which a new high school baseball coach (Sean Astin) tries to extend the winning streak established by his formidable predecessor (Powers Boothe) even as his small town's citizens battle over their school's future, meanwhile romancing a state education official (Rachael Leigh Cook) and having a positive influence on a troubled team member (Michael Angarano) who has been sent to live with his grandparents (James Gammon and Angela faton) by his widowed,

workaholic father (Tom Arnold).

Director David Mickey Evans' film, based on true events, is as much an examination of contemporary challenges to small-town America as a celebration of baseball, and it works competently in both capacities.

Occasional crude and some crass language, underage smoking, and drug and underage drinking references. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is An - adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG - parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.

"Things We Lost in the Fire" (DreamWorks) Captivating exploration of the bond between a young widow (Halle Berry) and her late husband's (David Duchovny) best friend (Benicio Del Toro), a charismatic recovering junkie who also influences the lives of her. son (.Mi拢ah Berry) and daughter (J\:lexis Llewellyn), her brother ~GJ!l..ar Benson Miller), a fellow aq.dict (Alison Lohman) and a gen~rous neighbor (John Carroll Lynch). The film, as directed by Susanne Bier, moves with dexterity from moments of clever humor to painfully deep emotion and features striking cinematography in which detailed close-ups beautifully mirror the script's intimacy. Partial rear nudity, nongraphic sexual activity, much rough and some crude language, one use of profanity and drug use.

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He related how ',during the Holocaust in Germany, one Protestant pastor whose services were interrupted by the nois~, of cattle cars carrying Jews to Auschwitz, told his parishioners to sing louder.

"That's what w~ire doing: singing louder," Kreeft asserted.

"There's plenty of activity in our churches and in society. But there's not much silenc~ to hear the screams."

In a call to arms, the speaker said winning the war co~es by obeying God. "You are not automatically in God's army. You have to enlist. God is not the godfathed He makes you an offer you can refuse."

Pointing out our eventual faceto-face encounter with God at the last judgment, "wh6n there will be no more time for evasion, or escape,

CONCERNED WOMEN - Happy faces show the gratitude of Caitlin Perrin, left and Collen Nutbrowri, right, to Daryl Breda, director of "A Women's Concern" in Fall River for her compassionate care. The agency extends its multi-layered pregnancy health services to women and children in the Northeast sector of Massachusetts.

'A Woman's Concern' marks 15th year in a support life battle

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FALL RIVER - While it's the "new kid" on the block, the Fall River office of "A Woman's Concern," along with its five other offices in Massachusetts recently celebrated their agency's 15th anniversary of service in pregnancy health services.

"The mission began in 1992 in Dorchester and has since spread to Beverly, Brookline, Hyannis, Revere and at our Fall River office at 484 Highland Avenue in 2005," reported director Daryl Breda.

"We work with women in an unplanned pregnancy as we try to empower them to make a positive choice for life," Breda explained, noting the mission of the nondenominational agency is to those considering abortion due to a lack of information and support mainly.

In its own brief lifespan, the local office has provided thousands of women with compassionate, competent and caring services. . Those include free pregnancy tests, sonograms, peer counseling and intervention, prenatal support to mothers and babies, employment referral, housing assistance, and learning about healthy sexual values, mature relationships, dating; and, according to its mission statement, "how to establish a vital relationship with Jesus Christ and his church."

"We believe in the conforming presence of Jesus Christ, but we meet our clients wherever they might be in their faith beliefs," Breda stated. "We don't use the Gospel to manipulate people's lives or beliefs. We believe in life and support it. We don't see abortion as a positive choice."

Breda said a recent fund-raiser event for the agency provided "an

awesome speaker with a really powerful message we had been long hoping to hear."

She was referring Boston College professor of philosophy Peter Kreeft, the keynote speaker at the October 4, benefit dinner at the Venus de Milo Restaurant in Swansea.

Speaking to an assembly that included Bishop George W. Coleman of Fall River and many of the Fall River Diocese's Pro-Life and educational leaders, Kreeft's talk, entitled "How To Win the War," centered on the devil as the enemy - his modern day target being women and children - and that Pro-Life victory for all can only come by following "our commander" Jesus Christ.

While history shows America victorious in many wars - with the jury still out on Iraq and terrorism - "We are at war, not only physically, but spiritually with a formidable opponent," and the stakes are high, asserted Kreeft, whose 45year teaching career includes his tenure since 1965 at Boston College.

The author of more than 43 published books whose contents cross from philosophical into theological matters, Kreeft has several more books in progress.

He said three things are necessary: to know we're in a war, who is our opponent, and how to win.

The surest way to lose the war is to overestimate or underestimate our enemy and to realize, "He does exist. He is not a myth. His name is the devil, ... and we must understand his strategy is that of a liar and a coward ... who attacks the most vulnerable and the weakest," said Kreeft.

"Women are more vulnerable than men, all other things being

equal," the speaker opined. "The devil knew this in attacking Eve first. Children are also more vulnerable that adults. They are weak and small .. , and crimes against them can be concealed."

He added, "Someone once said that if wombs have windows, abortionists' victims rather than abortionists would have legal protection."

Targeting babies for genocide is nothing new to the devil, who, world history shows, has attacked newborn babies: the Canaanite priests who sacrificed them to the gods; the Romans in destroying Carthage; and the Aztecs in Mexico.

But this time the devil's name is concealed, he stated. "It's no longer 'Ba'aI' or 'Smoking Mirror' but 'freedom of choice' (or) 'sexual freedom' in a sanitized and secularized ritual."

But the devil's "most successful strategy in history" said Kreeft, is "the widespread abortion holocaust (which) has so far dwarfed all other genocides in the history of the world. Nearly one out ofevery three children in America dies before birth. If you add abortions that have come from the pill, the figure is probably four times higher than that."

In a meditative moment, Kreeft stated: "The act of having children is one of the greatest acts of selfliving sacrificial love that is ever possible for a human being in this world. It's a God-like act."

Criticizing those who remain quiet and calm, he asked, "How dare we be at ease when we're victimizing our own women and children? If we really knew and believed these facts, then our sins of commission and omission would cry out to heaven."

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or distraction, nor noise, or singing louder," Kreeft asked: "Whom will you serve?"

He recommended that the most effective thing we can do to help our fellow Americans choose life, "is to open a door for women, to give them abortion alternatives and counselling and love, to be an agent of the love Jesus is now giving them."

Kreeft then asked the final, personal question: "If Jesus were now sitting where you are tonight, dressed in your clothes, and with your checkbook in his pocket, what would Jesus do?"

"Go and do likewise," Kreeft added.

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In the past, marking anniversaries were invited to attend the regularly scheduled 5 p.m. Mass at the Cathedral.Butbeca~inrecentyears so many couples arrived to take part, there was insufficient room even in the diocese's mother church to handle the crowd and so a sp~ial Mass was scheduled.

This year, each couple will receive a commemorative scbll bearing their names and citing the year of their marriage. And there will be other gifts as well.

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Father Gregory Mathias, director of the Family Life Office at 500 Slocum Road in North Dartmouth, said the goal of the anniversary celebration "is to place the concept of marriage in a sacramental setting as opposed to a merely human invention.

We want to show how the sacrament ofmatriinony is a faith tradition and a commitment wherein people are in communion in a very special way."

He added, "The witness of the people in their marriage shows their understanding - and how we should understand - (ot) the special gift of God's grace to them in their marriages, especially in their long marriages which are sustained by that

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NORTH DARTMOUTH - "We see our prayer as a dangerous moment," said Holy Cross Father Thomas Looney, quoting his congregation's founder, Father Basille-Antoine Marie Moreau, at the October 13 Retreat for Religious of the Fall River Diocese held at St. Julie Billiart Church.

Bishop George W. Coleman was the principal concelebrant ofthe Mass at which more than.70 religious celebrating from a half-century to 75 years in the religious life as Sisters, Brothers and priests from a variety of congregations renewed their vows.

"Dangerous like love is dangerous; love turns whole lives upsidedown. The love of God confronts us in prayer, and God's plan may not be our plan," Father Looney again quoted the late Father Moreau, who was beatified September 15 in his home Diocese of Le Mans, France.

Father Looney noted that there are two dynamics in prayer. He cited the recently revealed letters of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta for his example. There is the experience ofprofound grace through prayer, and also the experience ofdryness, loneliness, and seeking. When we pray, we wonder ''What is the Lord telling us to do?"

Father Looney noted that "God has a particular way of speaking to the heart of each person. Find the habitual place in your life where God speaks to you." It could be physical, such as during a walk through a forest in solitude, or a memory of the time you felt closest to God, wher-

PREACHING ON PRAYER - Holy Cross Father Thomas Looney addresses attendees of the recent Retreat for Religious of the Diocese of Fall River, at 81. Julie Billiart Parish in North Dartmouth.

(Photo by Brian Kennedy) ever or whenever it may have been.

Father Moreau always cautioned, "How easily we forget that place. We must find that place again and again."

"Beware the 'if-onlys,'" Father Looney wamed. "If only it were a more just world; if only I had the time" are neverjustifications to avoid doing the Lord's work, but are still an obstacle to faithful living in Christ.

Recalling his time in the religious life, Father Looney had at one point lamented, "I'm a religious failure," after trying several different methods of prayer and finding none of them seemed to bring him closer to God. He linked this difficulty back to finding the habitual place where God speaks

to you. He said Father Moreau had always said communal prayer is more profound than personal prayer. "Our Catholic Christian faith is a cqmmunal one. Communal prayer is a profound place of discernment." Father Looney said the profundity of personal vs. com~ munal prayer is challenging. It is not always "what do you want from me," but "what do you want from us."''We are called to do what the Lord tells us, to seek the face of the living God." One ofthe religious sisters present said Father Looney's meditation was "very profound, very beautiful, there's no way to describe it."

Our readers respond Bingo lovers speak with forked tongues It seems to me that my beloved Catholic Church and its representatives talk out of both sides of their mouths. I am referring to your September 28 front page article on gambling and the Massachusetts Catholic Council's opposition to the governor's approval to build three gambling casinos in Massachusetts.

I have been opposed for years and have written my bishop and pastor a number of times abOut my concern of some parishes, including my own at the time, sending busloads of people to Foxwoods. There are still parishes in my area continuing to send people down to the two casinos in Connecticut.

You can't disapprove of the governor's plan and at the same time encourage and support gambling elsewhere. I will ask once more, please don't allow parishes to send buses to these gambling places.

Barbara MacLean East Sandwich Hoping for a better view The Anchor provides a wealth of information for its readers and I look forward to reading it - but I have one complaint.

The editorial column is a real challenge to read because of the tiny, crowded print - even with my glasses on.

It would be so much easier to read if the print was

as large as the rest of the articles in the paper.

Lynette Harley Bourne Readers stay in touch We appreciate the tribute to our mother, Agnes Kelly, that appeared in The Anchor's recent Person of the Week column. Special thanks to Matt McDonald, Anchor reporter. Although we reside out of state we always enjoy reading The Anchor and the opportunity it provides to keep connected to our rootsin the Diocese of Fall River.

Many blessings to you and your staff on your contribution to solid Catholic journalism.

Dr. Joan M. Kelly Westport, Conn. and Atty. Mary K. Vasile Alexandria, Va.

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Vocations "Our diocese, this area is not alone when it comes to few if any vocations to becoming religious Sisters," Father Bissinger said candidly.

"Most of the young women in today's world who pursue the professions of teaching in Catholic schools and Religious Education and nursing are married. These were the professions which for many years were done by dedicated religious Sisters," Father Bissinger noted. "But that does not mean religious Sisters are no longer needed, and Church history has shown how vitally important they continue to be in all Church ministries ... always as spiritual role models and especially in promoting vocations."

And while the formal assignment for 路the two new directors might seem to end there, they are not reluctant to helping whoever seeks them out for counsel and guidance no matter what their thoughts of a vocation might be.

They are not newcomers to the task.

For Father Bissinger, 36, who was ordained July 9, 2005, it picks up where he left off when immediately after ordination he blitzed the diocese appearing in 10 churches in a 10-week period to talk about vocations as one who heard God's call and answered it.

Following that and until February, he did postgraduate studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome before returning to the diocese.

For Father Cook, 35, who was ordained in 200 I, it's something he's also familiar with as a former assistant director of vocations.

The two priests are successors to Father Edward E. Correia, who had led the Vocations Office from August 2004 until September 12 when the new assignments came.

"Yes, I feel like I'm Father Correia's protege - as well as Father Craig A. Pregana's - who was at the helm of the Vocations Office before Father Correia," said Father Bissinger.

"They each had a different style and while they inspired me and I surely want to emulate their dedication, I need to also bring my own ideas and new strategies to the vocations job," he added.

One of the new areas of focus is Cape Cod. "We have scheduled a holy hour for October 21 at Our Lady Assumption Parish in Osterville, and it is important because while we have keyed on Fall River, New Bedford and Taunton, we have not formally targeted the Cape," Father Bissinger said ''This came about at the request of Holy Union Sister Jane Sellmayer, who has done vocations work at Our Lady of the Assump-

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Continued from page one tion Parish as well as in the Cape area, and we seized on the opportunity to bring our message there," he noted.

Father Cook, associate director, also spoke of the plans to bring a structure, a fixed routine to the effort that involves teens, young adults and even what are called "late" vocations - encompassing men and women.

"There are several stages as one discerns a calling to a religious vocation, and our task as directors is to offer the opportunities for everyone at any of the stages in the process to meet with us and also to see first hand what the religious life and or sertlfnary'are like,"'Father Cook explained.

He reported that a Vocations Weekend is planned for February 22 to 24 at St. John's Seminary in Brighton for men age 18 or older "thinking about or even those in a discernment of a vocation to the priesthood."

The candidates would stay overnight at the seminary, meet with seminarians, attend Mass, prayer and talks.

"Getting to see what life is like as one journeys to the priesthood is done best in stages because it offers more to think about when one sees others and their progress in the spiritual life, and that experience can work wonders," he explained.

Also on the agenda are presentations that would be made to parish Religious Education classes, as well as to those in grades seven and eight in Catholic elementary schools across the diocese.

"Grades seven and eight are when thoughts of vocations seem to first arise, and so we want to be there to assist them and give them-some guidance and make recommendations," Father Cook added.

"Of course we also set our sights on the high schools too."

His plan is to offer talks alternating with a week for young men followed by a week for young women. _', The vocations effort will aiso earmark events and sessions that include holy hours in the diocese's five deaneries, Fathers Bissinger and Cook reported.Has he had any "feelers" from young people mulling a vocation?

"Definitely," Father Cook responded. "Currently I have two young men who have asked for direction as they think about the priesthood; and we have been approached by several more who are being challenged."

Fathers Bissinger and Cook can be contacted at the Diocesan Office for Vocations, 47 Underwood Street, Fall River MA, 02722 2577; telephone: 508-675-1311; email: Vocations@dioc-fr.org; and the Website: fallrivervocations.org.

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It's business as usual WORCESTER - The College of the Holy Cross inWorcester was slated to provide facilities for a conference on October 24, organized by the Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy. By the time this column appears, the conferenceeither will or will not have taken place. If it does not, it will be because of the Worcester bishop's request to Father Michael McFarland, SJ., president of the college, ''to revoke the college's agreement to rent space to the Massachusetts Teen Alliance."

Bishop Robert 1. McManus issued his formal request on October 10 because of complaints from people that are "shocked and outraged that a Catholic institution like Holy Cross would have anything to do" with workshops presented by members of PlannedParentl:lOo~t:mdNARALPro­

Choice Massachusetts, both of which "promote positions on artificial contraception and abortion that are contrary to the moral teachings of the Catholic Church:' The schedule includes a workshop r

ents and teen-agers at risk of becoming pregnant are among the most vulnerable people in our country today. I respect the duty of Bishop McManus to uphold the teachings ofthe Church.

However, it is the college's position that providing rented meeting space to aconferenceofprofessionals ... does not represent a disregard of Catholic teaching."

So it seems that, unless he has a last-minute change of heart, Father McFarland will provide space for Planned Parenthood et al. They have a contract. It's about the money, then.

But it's also about the principle: ''We believe [the conference] deals with a worthwhile subject": stuff like artificial contraception for kids and minor girls getting abortions without their parents' knowing about it. It's also about sex, then. And it's ultimately about power. The Jesuit college is telling the bishop that he's wrong. Who's in charge here?

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run by someone from Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, to '1earn the latest and greatest information on protection methods and how to engage the teen parents you work with in conversations about these O{r tions. The workshop will provide useful information about contraceptive methods...."

Another workshop is to be lead by Attorney Jamie Sabino, who arranges for minor girls to get judicial consent for abortions without the consent or even knowledge ofany parents: "Specifically addressed will be provision ofcontrnceptives, parental consentand judicial bypass for abortion and questions regarding mandated reporting of underage sexual activity."

The Bishop ofWorcester says it is his "pastoral and canonical responsibility to determine what institutions can Jx.?perly call themselves 'Catholic.?~··-As a Catholic institution, 'The College ofthe Holy Cross should reco~ that any association with these groUps can Create the situation of offering scandal understood in its proper theological sense, i.e., an attitude or behavior which leads another to do eviI." What was the response of Father McFarland? On October 18 he sent an email to alumni and friends of Holy Cross saying that ''Holy Cross regrets any confusion that in renting space, the college is supporting Planned Parenthood, NARAL or other agencies that promote practices contrary to Church teaching. Holy Cross fully affirms and promotes Catholic teaching on abortion and the sanctity of all human life. To cancel at this point would break a legal contractand would make it impossible for theAlliance to hold a conference that we believe deals with a worthwhile subject. Teen-age par-

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per, Alice Slattery of Framingham quoted the article and concluded: rael Deaconess - have responded to ''What kind of reasoning leads these the ban by making tile injections the doctors to approve this insidious atnew standard operatiJ1g procedure for tack on innocent babies about to abortions beginning at around 20 emerge from the womb? Why are we weeks' gestation, said Dr. Michael F. silentT' When Msgr. Francis Strahan, pasGreene, director ofobstetrics at Mass, tor of St. Bridget Parish in General. ''Boston Medical Center, too, has Framingham, was alerted to the issue begun using injections for later surgi- by other Pro-Life Catholics, he told cal abortions, said Dr. Phillip parishioners about it via a bulletin inStubblefield, professqr of obstetrics sert and asked fellow priests to do the and gynecology at B~ton University same. ''Can you believe this is happenMedical School."

In response to AlUhor inquiries ing?" the October 14 insert read. about whether anesthesia is used, ''Where is the outrageT' Greene did notreply. StUbblefield wrote The pastor said in an interview, in an October 17 email that it is not ''We need people to keep us aware of He said that at a gestational age of less these issues. It shows you how barthan 24 weeks, a fetus '~fcannot yet feel baric we've become when you realize that even vets won't use this drug alone pain." ': That claim is displ,lted, however. on animals without anesthesia" The proposed federal pnborn Child Ironically, the human rights group Pain Awareness Act states that by at Amnesty International, which opposes least 20 weeks gestatit>n, art unborn execution by lethal injection, recently child responds to panjrw stimuli by came out in favor of legalizing abordrawing away from it'much like an tion.

Yet its September report, "Execuinfant or adult would. ' The bill would ensure that women tion by lethal injection - a quarter seeking an abortion are fully informed century of state poisoning:' says th~ ofthe pain theirunborn child may feel. drug used to indue::e unconsciousness ''Like the death row inmate, how- can wear offbefore the prisoner's heart 'l ever, they can't express tpat pain," said stops, "placing him at risk of excruciFather Frank Pavone, president of ating pain" but unable to convey this.

Priests for Life, in a recent statement One ofthe arguments against capi"So even without raising the issue tal punishment is that wrongly conof whether abortion itself is constitu- victed people could be executed. tional, could we not hal~ithe execution According to the Death Penalty Inof these children out o£ithe same hu- formation Center, nearly 1,100people manitarian concern of sparing fellow nationwide have been executed since 1976, but another 124 have been "rehuman beings painT' II One Massachusetts, woman was leased from death row with evidence appalled enough at reading the Globe of their innocence" since 1973.

Since 1973 when the Roe v. Wade report to ask, ''How shoWd Catholics respond to this revelatiohT' decision legalized abortion, there's In an October 12 letter to The Pi- been no commutation for nearly 50 lot, the BostonArchdiocesan newspa- million unborn innocents.

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case ofKentucky inmates Ralph Baze and Thomas Oyde Bowling Jr. does not challenge the death penalty itself, but rather the method the state uses for chemical execution. That method is said to put a prisoner at risk of suffering a particularly gruesome death if the drugs aren't administered pro{r erly.

Opponents of the "three-drug cocktail" lethal injection claim that if the first anesthetic drug doesn't render the prisoner unconscious, then potassium chloride - the heart-sto{r ping drug - can cause unbearable' pain. They say that inmates would be unable to signal they're in pain because they've also been given a paralysisinducing drug.

FrankMcNeimey, a spokesman for CatholicsAgainstCapital Punishment, told Catholic News Service, ''1 hope the descriptions of the way we put people to death via lethal injection may convince a majority ofthejustices that the process is indeed cruel and unusual." temptations of money, sex and By contrast, prominentdoctors ex\ power. Giving li{r plained in a Boston Globe article Auservice to the gust 10 how lethal injections are used teaching of the in some later term abortions.

Church, and the "Shots assist in aborting fetuses: authority of the Lethal injections offerlegal shield," the bishop, contrasts article reported. ''In response to the rather sharply with giving scan- Supreme Court decision upholding the dal in the proper Partial-BirthAbortion Ban Act, many theological sense of providing faCili- abortion providers in Boston and ties to lead others into evil attitudes around the country have adopted a deand behavior. In the words of then- fensive tactic. ' Cardinal Ratzinger, "Can it be that, ''To avoid'any chance of partially despite all our expressions ofconster- delivering a live fetus, they are injectnation in the face ofevil and innocent ing fetuses with lethal drugs before suffering, we are all too prepared to trivialize the mystery of evil?" This procedures."

The article continued, ''In Boston, trivialization of evil "salves our conthree major Harvard-affiliated hospisciences and allows us to carry on as before." In the modem university, it's . tals - Massachusetts General, business as usual for the educational Brigham and Women's, and Beth Iscareerists and bureaucrats.

What would St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, say?

We know what he did say: ''If we wish to be sure that we are right in all things, we should always be ready to accept this principle: I will believe that the white that I see is black, if the hierarchical Church so defines it" (Rules for Thinking with the Church, HUB Feitelberg Personallnsutance is proud to offer an , I No. 13). unparalleled array of personal ins4rance selVices. We tailor And St. Ignatius' patron saint, the apostolic father St. Ignatius of effective solutions to your personal ~ LIFE Antioch, whose feast we celebrated insurance needs to assure. appropriate ~ PERSONAL last week, wrote insistently, ''Let there be nothing among you that can diprotection for you, your family and ~ BUSINESS vide you, but be unified with the bishop and with those who preside your assets. ~ EMPLOYEE BENEFITS according to the model and teaching lJ"i? of incorruptibility" (Letter to the Magnesians, 6).

If Holy Cross persists in saying one HUB Fellelbarg thing and doing another, professing Catholicism but denying it International l1J -------Th-e-Il;4-e-I '-e-'b-e-rg-C-:"o-m--'-p-a-n-y,-L-L-Cin practice, then they will be reconfirming for everyone not only FALL RIVER WEST BRIDGEWATER SOMERSET I' their betrayal of Christ and the West Center Street Milliken Boulevard Route 6 Church he founded, but also their be800.698.8585 800.2423862 800.242.3862 trayal of the "Jesuit tradition," il which they so often cite as justification for that duplicity.

Dwight Duncan is a professor at Southern New England School of www.hubfe!telberg.com Law in North Dartmouth. He holds degrees in civil and canon law.

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WAIT 'TIL THIS YEAR - Students at St. Pius X School in South Yarmouth do the wave at a recent Boston Red Sox rally led by Father J.ohn M. Murray, parochial vicar at the parish.

FRONT RUNNERS - Members of the Cross Country Team at St. Mary's School, Mansfield, recently helped out at Our Daily Bread.

BY THE BOOK - St.. Francis Xavier School in Acushnet recently held a family reading night with noted children's author and illustrator Nancy Cote who discussed her work and brought along several of her original drawings. She explained how she thought about stories and how she put her thoughts to paper and then illustrated her work. The author also read some of her stories and later signed copies of her books.

From left' David Laplante, PTO president, Cote and Donald Pelletier, principal, along with studt:lnts.

MARIAN MEMENTO - St. Mary-Sacred Heart School recently attended a Mass celebrated by Father David Costa. Following the Mass, student representatives from each class received medals of Our Lady of Fatima: From left: Sarah Pierini, Anneka Ignatius, Elizabeth Parkinson, Gavin Lancaster, Maggie Dunn, Austin Patch, Gianna Desrochers, Joshua Ryan, Alexandra Moura, Matthew Tjahjadi, and Principal Denise Peixoto.

TRY IT, YOU'LL LIKE IT"":: Student Council members at St. Michael School in Fall River served parishioners who joined them in a recent event at the school.

FAMILIAR GROUNDS - Bishop Feehan freshmen students Scott Lattari and Emily Walsh recently returned to their alma mater, St. John the Evangelist School in Attleboro to speak to eighth-graders about their move to high school. With the pair is math teacher Bob LeBeouf.

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'Amazed' album by N.~ Catholic musician earns five Unity Awards PHOENIX (CNS) - New York Catholic musician Sean Clive let his fans know he would be traveling to the eighth annual Unity Awards in Phoenix.

He wrote on his Website that he'd be "attending, presenting and maybe even receiving," though, he added, there was "little chance" of that "but God only knows."

He did a bit better than he expected. His album "Amazed" won five Unity Awards at the October 6 event, including pop/contemporary album of the year and song of the year for the title track.

The awards are sponsored by the Iowa-based United Catholic Music and Video Association.

"It's nice to have other people supporting you:' said Clive, a music minister at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Utica, N.Y. "You don't do it for that, but when you get support, it's nice."

"Amazed" also walked away with best producer honors for David C. Smith and best album packaging. Smith, who played almost all the instruments on the album, also shared the songwriter of the year award with Clive.

Phoenix artist Jaime Cortez won best Spanish album of the year for "Adviento," an Advent-inspired album. He perfonned at the awards ceremony with his three sons, Daniel, Nicholas and Benjamin, wife Karl and other members of his band.

Matt Maher, associate music minister at St. Timothy Parish in Mesa, was named male vocalist of the year.

Musicians Katrina Rae and Angelina also walked away with three Unity Awards apiece.

Rae, a recording artist based in Hendersonville, Tenn., won female vocalist of the year and artist of the year. She also won best religious radio presentation for Catholic evangelization of the year for "Changes

by His Glory."

Rae left her country music career in 1985 to "sing for God's people," she said, and has tallied more than 15 Unity Awards.

Angelina, who began her music career at age 10, won for her music video, "Touched by Your Love."

Her song "Wait in the Water" won gospel song of the year. Her album "Assem!Jled" won liturgical/sacramental album of the year.

It was the first time the Unity Awards ceremony took place in Phoenix, largely at the behest of Julie and Kurt Carrick.

Janice Gist, a Catholic from Midland, Texas, who sits on the Carrick Ministries board, said musicians should band together.

"Catholic artists aren't about marketing. They're about sharing their faith journey," she said. "So many things that are dear to our hearts are not accepted in the public arena."

David Palmer, manager of two Catholic radio路 stations in Dallas, said the music needs a broader audience.

"Radio has to be the one that promotes Catholic music," he said.

"The Protestants have done it so well. Now it's our time."

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Healing a broken heart

By CHARLIE MARTIN - CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE Dreaming With a Broken Heart tinuum") is "Dreaming With a Bro- it. Yes, you can take time for tears, When you're dreaming with a ken Heart." The song is a powerful but you can also find time for other broken heart ballad that is likely to stir many feel- interests. Even if you are not fully.

The waking up is the hardest part ings, especially in those who have engaged in an activity, you still can You roll outta bed and down on recently endured the end of a rela- go out and embrace life. Take a your knees tionship.' break from the hurt. In a small way, And for the moment you can For the guy in thdsong, this end- each time you pu~ your attention on hardly breathe ing was not his choibe. Early in the something else the intensity of your Wondering was she really here? morning he still finds himself won- hurt is lessened.

Is she standing in my room? dering, "Was she really here? Is she Patience -lots of patience - is No she's not, 'cause she's gone, standing in my roorft?" Eventually also needed. All of us want to be gone, gone, gone, gone he overcomes his "d}eams" and re- "over" hurt. Yet healing does not When you're dreaming with a turns to reality: "No she is not, occur on a schedule. You will face broken heart 'cause she's gone." difficult days and then better days. " The giving up is the hardest part .If you have ever faced the same You may find yourself in the midst She takes you in with situation, that is, aPother person of a really painful day, wondering if her crying eyes choosing to end a relationship with you will ever get over the breakup.

Then all at once you have you, then you would likely agree If this "leaving" is the death of to say goodbye with his comments: ;"When you're someone you love, nothing totally Wondering could you dreaming with a broken heart, the removes the ache that you are feelstay my love? giving up is the hardest part." ing. Yet God never leaves you to Will you wake up by my side?

Living through the day with its face hurt by yourself. Even on your No she can't, 'cause she's gone, emptiness becomes an ongoing worst days, love surrounds you. gone, gone, gone, gone As you receive healing from challenge. In this circumstance, Now do I have to fall asleep with there is so much to give up: the rou- your loss, you will see the power roses in my hands? tine that you shared.with the other that resides in the heart.

Do I have to fall asleep with roses person, the hopes, the sense of conTo understand this power, think of in my hands? nection and finally tlie dream itself. a house. Every house has a variety of Do I have to fall asleep with roses Life suddenly seem~ like a waste- rooms. If a room becomes empty, we in my hands? do not need to remove that room in land of brokenness Jnd loss.

Do I have to fall asleep with During these tim6s, you need "a order to build new rooms. roses, roses in my hands? lot." For example, y6u need friends In a similar way, when a room Would you get them if I did? who accept you as lIyou are. This in our heart becomes empty, we No you won't, 'cause you're gone, means not trying to 'tfix" your bro- don't remove the room. If we have gone, gon~ gon~ gone ken heart - because this cannot be truly loved another, we don't take When you're dreaming with a done. Rather, you nbed those who that room out of our hearts. In time broken heart will sit with you in thb current ashes we build new rooms as we learn to The waking up is the hardest part of your dreams andUust keep you love others.

Sung by John Mayer The heart is a vast place. It can company. Sometim~s, their caring Copyright 2006 by Sony silence and presence means more hold so much love, so much of John Mayer is one of today's than any words. This helps you re- God's presence. best musicians. I picked his "Wait- alize that you are not alone as you Your comments are always weling on the World to Change" as my deal with the gnawing emptiness. come. Please write to me at: choice for the best song of 2006.

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Pride and humility; The beginning of man's pride is to depart from the Lord. The beginning of pride is sin (Sirach 10:12-13).

We are born to live a life of grace. Grace is kindness. Grace is dignity. Grace is showing humility.

Grace is a blessing. However, sometimes in ourc lives we become so complacent that we lose this gift of grace - we become proud, selfrighteous and self-satisfied. This can lead to pride. When pride comes, then comes disgrace; but with the humble is wisdom (Proverbs 11:2).

Young people today are taught that in order to succeed in life they must wOIk l楼ud "Be the best you can be, be brave and courageous, and, most of all, do not fear." Good advice. However, when success is achieved, how do you control it? ''Control it?" you ask. Success, if not controlled, can lead to pride.

Let's say that you worked hard and made it on your high school football team, as quarterback - the highest profile player of the team. If your team wins, and continues to win. you'll get a lot of the credit You'll be hailed as the star of the

team, make headlines in the school of his own spiritual need. A proud person desires to make a name for and local newspapers, and be himself, while a humble person is respected by your school. You become proud of your achievemotivated to be faithful and to ments. And this is all OK. make others a success. A proud person has the feeling that "people The potential problem is what are privileged to have me and my happens next. Do you become too proud that you tend to forget how gifts; this is what I can do for God," you really achieved this success? Do you shun away from those who may not be at the same level of success as yourself? Did you forget that there is no "Y' in team?

Remember, pride is undue self-esteem or self-love, it seeks attention and honor and sets oneself in competition with God. On the other hand, if .while a humble person has the you are humble in your success then attitude "I don't deserve to have any you share that success with others part of this work; I know that I have and do not set yourself apart from nothing to offer God except what them - this is huprility.

God enables me to do." A proud Humility is coming to God on person will wait for the other to his terms, not yours. The heart of a come and offer forgiveness when proud person contrasts with the . there is a conflict in a relationship, heart of a humble and contrite while a humble person will ask for person. Pride contradicts God's reconciliation. A proud person feels love. A proud person focuses on the confident in how much they know, failures of others, while a humble while a humble person knows how person is overwhelmed with a sense very much they have to learn.

Many of you are fkruar with C.S. Lewis' ''The Chrbnic1es of Narnia: The Lion, ThJII Witch and the Wardrobe," and how Edmund is being manipulated bYI!,the witch with the promise of making him king by offering him Thrkish (>elight. Why doesn't Edmund recognize this manipulati~n? First of all, the witch kr).ows that Edmund reSents his brother Peter for having the role of eldest The witch plays.on that resentment by offering Edmund the role of king over his brother, his other siblings, and all of Narnia. Edmund's mistake is that he allows the witch to lead him from sins of the flesh to sins of the spirit, mainly pride arid envy.

Ultimately, what Edritund does not recognize is that he iJI' betraying his family. In the end, although Edmund betrayed hiJ family for his own self-interests'l he was humbled by the love his brother and sisters still had for him.

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ourselves. When we do, God is always there with open anns of grace and love. Ask God's forgiveness for your pride, realizing that pride is really an attempt to be "as God" Do you have a hard time reaching out and being friendly to people that you don't know at church? Do you stick to your own little group there, hard to reach out to new people? That can be pride.

Do you become defensive when you are criticized or corrected? That anger that builds up inside, what is that? That's a sin that grows on the root of pride. Why do we get angry when somebody criticizes us? We may not express it outwardly, but instead we express it inwardly because our pride gets hurt.

Humility is a fresh encounter with God for a big dose of His Holy Spirit. Remember, the greatest example of humility the world has ever known was born in a stable.

Take a dose of humility. I promise you will like it God bless.

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Foley said he was shocked to be cal Lateran University, 85. the second name announced by Pope Benedict said he also had the pope. The order in which the planned to name 93-year-old recardinals are announced deter- tired Bishop Ignacy Jez of mines their seniority in the Col- Koszalin-Kolobrzeg, Poland, but lege of Cardinals, which has little "the well-deserving prelate" died practical effect except in liturgi- unexpectedly October 16, the day cal processions. before the new cardinals were anNaming 18 cardinals under the nounced. i age of 80, the age limit set for Like that of Cardinal-designate voting in a papal conclave, Pope Foley, the nomination of CardiBenedict said he was setting aside nal-designate Leonardo Sandri the limit of 120 potential papal was not a surprise. The Argentinaelectors established by Pope Paul born prelate, who will celebrate VI and confirmed by Pope John his 64th birthday November 18, Paul II. is the prefect of the Congregation After the new cardinals are in- for Eastern Churches. stalled in late November, there The longtime Vatican official; will be 121 potential voters. who served at the Vatican The 23 new cardinals will nunciature in the United States bring the total membership ofthe from 1989 to 1991, became the College of Cardinals to 202. voice of Pope John Paul when the The nomination of Cardinals- pope became too weak to read the designate Foley and DiNardo full texts of his speeches near the brings to 17 the number of U.S. end of his pontificate.

Cardinal-designate Foley for 23 cardinals; after the consistory, the U.S. contingent will include 13 years served as president of the potential papal electors.

Pontifical Council for Social ComThe November ceremony will munications. mark the second time Pope A native of Philadelphia, he Benedict has created cardinals studied at the Columbia University since his election in April 2005. journalism school and served as At a March 2006 consistory, he editor of The Catholic Standard & created 15 new cardinals.

Times, Philadelphia archdiocesan The new cardinals represent 15 newspaper, before Pope John Paul couiitries on five continents. Eight called him to the Vatican to head of the new cardinals are current the social communications office. or retired Vatican officials, 13 are In June, Pope Benedict named current or retired heads of arch- him pro-grand master of the dioceses around the world and Knights of the Holy Sepulcher, a two are former rectors of the main chivalric organization dedicated pontifical universities in Rome. to supporting the Latin PatriarchAfter he had read the 23 ate of JerusaleIl} and to respondnames, Pope Benedict told the es- ing to the needs of Catholics' in timated 30,000 people in St. the Holy Land.

Peter's Square that "the new carKnown to millions of people as dinals come from various parts of the English-language commentathe world," and "they reflect the tor of papal Christmas midnight universality ofthe Church with its Masses, the archbishop said he multiple ministries: Alongside the had tried to merge his love for prelates deserving for the service God and the media. they have given to the Holy See "In my work as a priest and as there are pastors who devote their an archbishop, I am able to do two energies to direct contact with the things I love very much: to be acfaithful." tive in communications and to tell Continuing a papal custom, people about Jesus," he said May ilmong the new cardinals were 6 in a commencement address to five churchmen over the age of 80, students at the University of Portwhom Pope Benedict said he land, Ore. wanted to honor because they Cardinal-designate DiNardo, were "partjcular1y deserving be- 58, was born in Steubenville, cause of their commitment to the Ohio, and was ordained a priest service of the Church." of the Diocese of Pittsburgh in The five included the Iraqi- 1977. based head of the Chaldean After serving for six years in C~t~olic Church, Patriarch the diocese, he moved to Rome, Emmanuel-Karim DeIly of where he worked in the CongreBaghdad, 80; Archbishop gation for ~ishops for six years.

Giovanni Coppa, a retired Vatican While in Rome, he also taught at ambassador who will turn 82 No- Gregorian University. vember 9; retired Archbishop He returned to Pittsburgh in Estiuiislao Karlic of Parana, Ar-, 1991 and was named coadjutor gentina, 81; SpamshlesuitFlJther bishop of Sioux City, Iowa, in ::t)r~AA:o N~vaiTefe,' fonner r~tor 1997, beconrlng hea~' of thediooFRome;s Pontifical Gregorian, cese a year latet. He was na'nJed V~'{~!si'tY; 87;iu1dJtalian Fran·' .:; coadjutor: of Galveston~Houston.' c~s~c~n.:~atb~berto,',B~nj;'~'jD'2~ and: ~came head o( the', ,foilifiJ rectOr Of,Rome's Pontifi;" "archdioCesein 2006. ' " ' . . . ... .

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newspaper in 1984 when Pope John Paul II named 'VATICAN CITY - Here is the list of the cardi- him an archbishop and head of the Vatican office nals-designate in the order in which Pope Benedict for social communications.

XVI announced them October 17: As grand master of the Knights of the Holy - Argentine Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, pre- Sepulcher, Cardinal-designate Foley assists fect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, who knights from around the world in fulfilling their will turn 64 November 18. commitment to the chivalric organization, which - U.S. Archbishop John P. Foley, pro-grand is dedicated to supporting the Latin Patriarchate master of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher, who of Jerusalem and to responding to the needs of will turn 72 November 11.

Catholics in the Holy Land.

Cardinal-designate Daniel N. DiNardo - Italian Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, president of the commission governing Vatican City Cardinal-designate Daniel N. DiNardo of State, 72.

Galveston-Houston, a former Vatican official, was - German Archbishop Paul Cordes, president born May 23, 1949, in Steubenville, Ohio. He was of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, 73. ordained a priest for the Pittsburgh Diocese in - Italian Archbishop Angelo Comastri, 1977. From 1984 to 1990 he was a staff member archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica and papal vicar of the Vatican Congregation for' Bi~hops. ' for Vatican City, 64.

From 1990 to 1997 he held pastoral posts in - Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Rylko, presi- the Pittsburgh Diocese, where he taught in the ondent of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, 62. going formation program for priests and was as- Italian Archbishop Raffaele Farina, archivist sistant spiritual director at St. Paul Seminary. and librarian of the Holy Roman Church, 74.

He was named coadjutor bishop of Sioux City - Spanish Archbishop Agustin Garcia-Gasco in 1997 and became bishop the following year.

Vicente of Valencia, 76.

In Sioux City, he was known for a strong focus - Irish Archbishop Sean Brady of Armagh, on vocations, the strengthening of adult religious education programs, a continued emphasis on the Northern Ireland, primate of all Ireland, 68.

- Spanish Archbishop Lluis Martinez Sistach value of Catholic schools and the creation of safe of Barcelona, 70. environment programs for children.

He became coadjut,or of the Archdiocese of - French Archbishop Andre Vingt-Trois of Paris, who will turn 65 November 7.

Galveston-Houston in 2004 and became arch- Italian Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco of bishop in February 2006 with the resignation of Genoa, 64.

Archbishop JosephA. Fiorenza.

Cardinal-designate DiNardo received - Senegalese Archbishop Theodore-Adrien Sarr of Dakar, who will be 71 November 28. bachelor's and master's degrees from The Catho- Indian Archbishop Oswald Gracias of lic University of America in Washington, where Mumbai, 62. he is currently a member of the board of direc- Mexican Archbishop Francisco Robles tors. He also received licentiate in theology from Ortega of Monterrey, 58.

Gregorian University in Rome and a degree in - U.S. Archbishop Daniel N. DiNardo of patristics, the study of the fathers of the Church, Galveston-Houston, 58. from the Augustinianum in Rome.

- Brazilian Archbishop Odilio Pedro Scherer During his time in Rome, he also served as diof Sao Paulo, 58. rector of Villa Stritch, the residence for U.S. - Kenyan Archbishop John Njue of Nairobi, priests working at the Vatican, and taught a theol63. ogy seminar in methodology at Gregorian Uni- Chaldean Patriarch Emmanuel-Karim DeIly versity. of Baghdad, Iraq, 80.

After the November 24 consistory for the cre- Retired Italian Archbishop Giovanni Coppa, ation of new cardinals; 17 of the 202 members of former Vatican nuncio, who will tuin 82 Novem- the College of Cardinals will be from the, United ber 9.

States. The U.S. contingent will be second in size - Retired Archbishop Estanislao Karlic of only to the Italians. Of the 17 U.S. cardinals, 13 Parana, Argentina, 81. will be under age 80 and eligible to vote in a con- Spanish Jesuit Father Urbano Navarrete, clave to elect a new pope. former rector of Rome's Pontifical Gregorian UniThe U.S. cardinals under age 80 will be: versity, 87.

Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, Edward ~ Italian Franciscan Father Umberto Betti, M. Egan of New York, John P. Foley, grand master former rector of Rome's Pontifical Lateran Uni- of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher; Francis E. versity, 85. , G e o r g e of Chicago, William H. Keeler, retired archHere are brief biographical sketches of Cardi- bishop of Baltimore; Bernard F. Law, archpriest of nal-designates Foley and DiNardo: Rome's Basilica of St. Mary Major and retired archCardinal-designate John P. Foley bishop of Boston; William J. Levada, prefect of the Cardinal-designate John P. Foley became pro- Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; Roger grand master of the Knights of the Holy Sepul- M. Mahony of Los Angeles, Adam J. Maida of cher in late June. He had been president of the Detroit, Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop Pontifical Council for Social Communications for of Washington; Sean P. O'Malley of Bostori, Jusmore than 23 years. tin Rigali of Philadelphia, and J. Francis Stafford, A native of Philadelphia and a graduate of the head of the Apostolic Penitentiary and former arch~ New York's Columbia University School of Jour- bishop of Denver. nalism, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1962.

The four U.S. cardinals over age 80 are: WiIlRetween stints in the 1960s as assistant editor of iam W. Baum, former archbishop of Washington Philadelphia's archdiocesan paper, the Catholic and former head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, a ~ Standard & Times, he studied in Roine, where'he Vatican court; Anthony J. Bevilacqua, retired arch'covered: the Second VaiicanCouDcil from' 1963 ' bishop of Philadelphia, . .Avery Dulles;"a-)esuit .". . to 1965. ' } ; ' , theologian; and Edmund C. Szoka,,former presi~ , In 1970, he waS appQinted editor of the Ciitho-, 'dent of the commission that go"em~ Vatican City: Uf' ~tandqrd &: 7ime.s:an~, was sti1t~nning,'the :,State and former archbishop ~r:De'tr'oh:: ,',,: " '.

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EASTON::'- Holy Parish Purchase Street holds Bible study sessions at 7 p.m. Tuesdays and 9:30 a.m. Fridays at the parish center. This year's session, focuses on St. Paul's letters to the Philippians, Colossians, and Ephesians. For more information call Fran Long at 508-238-2255.

FALL RIVER - A Bible study of the Book of Genesis is scheduled for 7 p.m.

Tuesdays at the Shrine of St. Anne Church at 780 South Main Street. The meetings run until December 18 and then start again January 15.

:Eucharistic Adoration ATTLEBORO - Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is scheduled for 1 to 6 p.m. the first Friday of every month at the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette at 947 Park Street.

MANSAELD - St. Mary's Parish at 330 Pratt Street has exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at noon on First Fridays of the month, concluding with 6 p.m. Benediction.

WAREHAM - St. Patrick's Church at 82 High Street has eucharistic adoration on first Fridays of the month following the 8 a.m. Mass until 6 p.m., with evening prayer including the Liturgy of the Hours. . r;('fI2iEi ~n

WOODS HOLE - Eucharistic adoration takes place at St. Joseph's.Church, 33 Millfield Street, following daily Mass until 5 p.m. every day except Sundays, Wednesdays and holidays. For information call 508-274-5435. r

IMiscellaneous ATTLEBORO - St. Stephen's Parish, 683 South Main Street, will hold its annual Holiday Bazaar November 2 , from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and November 3 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the church hall. Patriots tickets and a computer system will be raffled as well as many silent auction items. Many booths including baked goods, candy, knitted & crocheted items, gift baskets, crafts, jewelry; face painting, and photos with Santa. Kitchen specials include chowder, clam cakes, French meat pies and blade meat sandwiches.

EAST SANDWICH - The Women's Guild of Corpus Christi Parish, 324 Quaker Meeting House Road, will hold its annual Christmas Fair on November 10 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The fair will have handmade crafts, knit and crochet items, gift baskets, holiday decor, white elephant items and new gifts. There will also be a homemade luncheon and baked goods table.

EAST SANDWICH - Corpus Christi Parish is hosting a talk by Msgr. Gerard O'Connor on Oct 27 at 9:45 am entitled "Practicing Catholics, Devout Catholics, Good Catholics: What do they have in common?" The talk will take place in the parish center. All are invited. For reservations/directions please call Pat Stebbins @508-833-8432.

FALL RIVER - The Fall River Area Men's First Friday Club will meet November 2 at Good Shepherd Parish, 1598 South Main Street, for a Mal?S at 6 p.m. with Father Freddie Babiczuk, followed by a meal in the church hall and guest speaker retired police officer Bill O'Neil, maker and distributor of rosaries wor1d wide. Members are asked to bring rosaries they no longer use for donation. All invited. For information call 508-672-8174.

FALL RIVER - The annual St. Mary's Education Fund Dinner supporting financial assistance for Catholic students will be held November 8 at White's of Westport. Reception begins at 5:30 p.m. and dinner with host speaker Dan Shaughnessy begins at 6:30 p.m. For information call the Office of Development at 508-675-1311.

FALMOUTH - Knights of Columbus Council 81 will sponsor a Holy Hour for Vocations at St. Patrick's Church, 511 Main Street, on Sunday from 2-3 p.m.

NEW BEDFORD - St. Joseph-St. Therese Parish will hold its Holiday Craft Fair November 18 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the church hall at Acushnet Avenue across from Brooklawn Park. Admission is free.

NEW BEDFORD - A Tridentine Mass is celebrated at 8 a.m. the first Saturday of the month at St. Anthony of Padua Church 1359 Acushnet Avenue. Father Roger J. Landry will offer a short catechetical session at 7: 15 a.m. those days on the rite and the Latin language. ~~~IONAL

- Schola Cantorum of Falmouth will present a concert of renaissa,Dpe choral music November 2 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Peter's Church, Osterville; NbVember 3 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary's Church, Bamstable; and November 4 at 4 p.rn.at St. Patrick's Church, Falmouth. Admission is free. A freewill donation will

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Fi'EGIONAL - Echo of Cape Cod is sponsoring a retreat entitled "Encountering Christ in Others" for high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors, and is now accepting applications for the Gir1s' weekend - November 9, 10, and 11 and the Boys' weekend - November 30, December 1 and 2. Applications may be downloaded from www.echoofcapecod.org or at your parish rectory. Call Mary Fuller at 508-759-4265 for additional information.

WEST HARWICH -' Father Kenan Peters, C.P., will conduct a parish mission at Holy Trinity Church, 246 Route 28 from October 29 through November 1 at 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. daily. .. -._----_........._....._._.~

Support Groups WAREHAM - On November 3 Sacred Hearts Retreat Center, 226 Great Neck Road, will host a day of reflection for bereaved spouses with Anne Biancuzzo, RN. NORTH DARTMOUTH - The Diocesan Divorced and Separated Support Group which meets in the Family Life Center at 500 Slocum Road every second and. last Wednesday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. will continue W!th the video of Session 5, Part Two of "Relationships" by Andy Morgan. The group is open to all separated or divorced persons.

NORTH DARTMOUTH - Project Rachel, a ministry of healing and'reConciliation for post-abortion women and men is available. If you are hurting'from 'an abortion experience and want help call 508-997-3300.

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FALL RNER - Holy Union Sister Annand Marie Chabot, 89, a resident of The Landmark in Fall River, died at Charlton Memorial Hospital October 13, after a brief illness.

She was the aunt of Father Philip N. Hamel, pastor of St. Joseph-St. Therese Parish in New Bedford; and the sister of the late Msgr. Gerard 1.

Chabot, Father Bertrand R. Chabot, and Franciscan Father Luke M. (Annand) Chabot.

Born Alexina Chabot in North Attleboro, she was the daughter ofthe late Joseph and Clara (Gamache) Chabot. She was a graduate ofSacred .

Heart School in North Attleboro and entered the Holy Union Sisters in Fall River in 1936 and pronounced her vows on March 25, 1938. With the exception of two years teaching at St.

Francis de Sales School i1;1 Patchogue, N. Y., she spent her entire religious life at the former Sacred Hearts Convent in Fall River where she cooked for the large community of Sisters.

She was known to generations ofstudents at the forfuer Sacred Heirts Academy in Fall River for treats SISTER ARMAND of delicious CHABOT, SUSC Ilk' d coq les an cakes she baked.

She retired in 1982 but continued to assist in the convent kitchen. In the 1960s Sister Chabot wID! among the first religious to attend th~ continuing education workshops at Stonehill Coli.

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In addition to her nephew Father Hamel and her Holy Union Sisters, SisterChabot leaves two sisters,Yvette Hamel and Theresa L'Homme of North Attleboro; and several other nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews. She was also the sister of the late Claire Deschenes, Annette and Rita Chabot.

Her funeral Mass was celebrated October 17 in Sacred Heart Church in North Attleboro. Burial was in St. Mary's Cemetery there. The Sperry & McHoul Funeral Home in North Attleboro was in charge of arrangements.

Site offers hope to parents whose unb4rn child has medical problems ROMEOVILLE, Ill. (CNS) When she was pregnant, doctors told Monica Rafie and her husband, Darian, that their unborn child "had heart defects that were incompatible with life."

The couple relied on their faith and opted to have the child. As an infant, Celine, now six years old, required surgeries for her cardiac abnormalities as well as intensive neonatal care.

"We wanted to giveCeline as much of a chance as we could," said Rafie.

The parents remained at ~ttle Celine's bedside as the newborn recovered.

And, their extended family provided support while they remained at the hospital.

Rafie, a member of Sacred Heart Parish in Lombard, realized later that the love and compassion of her family gave her and her husband the

In. YQUI Pray~r$ Please pray for these priests during the coming weeks

Oct. 30 Msgr. Robert L. Stanton, Retired Pastor. St. Paul. Taunton. 1992 Director of Rev. Denis Sughrue.

Postulancy. Holy Cross Novitiate.

North Dartmouth, 2002 Nov•• Rev. William H. McNamara, Retired Pastor. St. Mary. Mansfield, 1924 Rev. Louis N. Blanchet. Assistant. St. Jean Baptiste. Fall River. 1927 Rt. Rev. Msgr. John F. Ferraz. Pastor.

St. Michael. Fall River. 1944 Rt. Rev. Msgr. George F. Cain. Pastor.

St. Mathieu, Fall River. 1953 Rev. William E. Farland. Pastor. St. Joseph. Taunton, 1987 Rev. William F. Gartland, C.S.C. Stonehill College. North Easton, 1988 Rev. John F. Sullivan, SS.Ce.. Retired Pastor Holy Trinity. West Harwich, 1994 Rev. Manuel T. Faria. Retired, Catholic Memorial Home, 1999 Nov. 2 A memento for the repose of the souls of our bishops, priests and permanent deacons not on this list Rev. Joseph S. Fortin. Founder, St. Jean Baptiste, Fall River. 1923 Rev. Michael V. McDonough. Chaplain.

St. Mary's Home. New Bedford, 1933 Nov. 3 Rev. Jose M. Bettencourt e Avila. Retired Pastor. Our Lady of Mt. Cannel. New Bedford. 1988 Nov. 4 Peimanent Deacon James M. O·Gara.

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strength necessary to continue to brave the ordeal. So she launch~ a Website in2002-www.benotafraid.net-to show parents the same kirdness during traumatic times in their own lives.

The site, which she operates from her home, "offers hope from a Catholic perspective:' Rafie told the Calholie Explorer, newspaper be the Joliet Diocese.

Along with stories of the parents, the site is packed with information about organizations that can help paren~ c,?~ with _the e~oti{>I~.al.and flnancial ramifications of t1ieir circumstances.

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according to Rafie, the mother of four children.

Among the organizations she lists on her site is Elizabeth Ministry, a woman-to-woman mentoring program. Its ministers interact with mothers during the joys and trials of pregnancy, she explained.

Jeannie Hannemann, founder of Elizabeth Ministry, said resources for parents to help them through critical pregnancy situations are certainly needed. She noted that more than 90 pe~cen,t ofthose who receive negative results. from prenatal exams opt to abort their unborn children.

Rafie said herWebsite works to inspire visitors "to choose life. The rest is God's work."

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Church. But one senior from Bishop Stang High School, As she prepares for college Trindade said she was , North Dartmouth, is committed to showing how the looking at several Christian institutions and a few secuPro-Life movement is for everyone. lar ones, including Thomas More College of Liberal "It's hard to explain, but when people ask me why I Arts and Magdalene College in New Hampshire, the do this, why I'm involved, Ijust want to say, 'How can I Franciscan University ofSteubenville in Ohio, UMassnot be?''' said Stang Senior Jocelyn Trindade.

Dartmouth, and Bristol Community College in Fall "TIns is serious; it's about savIng lives ... innocent, River. unique, and sacred lives;' she added.

She said she hopes to major in theology and eventu~ Trindade is the new Youth Representative for the ally become a Religious Education teacher.

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FALL RIVER 508-675-7496 508-995-1631 Fax 508-995·1630 the hallways alerting readShe feels that if some ers to reserve a copy ofthe ANCHORPERSONOFTHEWEEK- Jocelyn day she teaches her students ''to believe in, hope literaryartsmagazineinthe Trindade. (Photo by Brian Kennedy) cafeteria on such and such in, and love Christ and his a date at such and such a time. So naturally, at that time, Church, they will understand, hopefully, that being anyI went to the cafeteria to reserve my copy." thing less than Pro-Life is absurd. Ifthe majority ofyoung Although to her. disappointment no one from the people are Pro-Life, it leaves abortion clinics with a very magazine staff was there to make the reservation, in- bleak future. Thank God, this has already begun to take stead, Marian Desrosiers, director of the diocese's Pro- place. More and more young people are starting to pracLife Apostolate and her assistant Jean Arsenault, were tice abstinence, which is a great plus for the Pro-Life there, she recalled. They were hoping to recruit student movement." volunteers to make Pro-Life rosary bracelets for their Active in her St. Anthony of Padua Parish in New colleagues.

Bedford, she teaches cen, is a member of the parish's WJ"~'S1I?Ut.t:. it", Ntf\ N'4<riliiilly.f<$2lM.. a.uJ ~tWy (flllJrmdinr".Trindade recalls former school librarian Elizabeth Pastoral Council, served two years as the head altar "~!:wJl!.U,.~lrjll1e~'tls..~~CJmull!.Wnand.dtc Xu:o~ , 17.m.~ WMo)l?k1lucomcnkn:t1yt=:ro In thc~~~Qf&w Rivet saying, "Hey why don'. you sign up? You'll like. server in charge oftraining new recruits, and has worked &6~ lll1d fj (l;:>:ro Q l!!Q dmITJng;rod thn ~i:\V &"dforc1 m\J:!f= blltt'ic 11m; COmo-mr.. this:' on a teen evangelization outreach to the young people cd ~=6e=Tel: G:s:01e.. ~ G.TI 6;: ~ CMX:fu:::...-;:]Wld =:m muki:l "So I did," said Trindade. "Several days after that, who visit the parish's weekly food panJrY. tt=~ to cE::n they contacted me telling me when the peer mediation. Father Roger 1. Landry, pastor of St. Anthony's and training sessions would begin, whic~ included a brief. executive editorof TheAnchor, said, "JocelynTrindade • !n.. .... instructional section where we learned how to make the is one ofthe most inspiring young people I've ever met. bracelets."

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