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Abortion, AIDS, TV on bishops' agenda WASHINGTON (CNS) - In the midst of the new national controversy over changing abortion laws, the V.S. Catholic bishops will vote on a resolution on abortion and publi<; policy at their fall general meeting Nov. 6-9.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be among bishops present and Anchor editor Rev. John F. Moore will attend on behalf of the diocesan newspaper.

The abortion resolution is one of 18 action items facing the nation's 300-plus bishops. Others include major statements on AIDS, on the Middle East, on black Catholics and on rural life, proposed liturgical norms for Sunday worship without a priest, and decisions on the bishops' future role in national Catholic television a<;tivities.

The bishops also will elect a new president and vice president of their twin national organizations, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and U.S. Catholic Conference.

Nominees are, in alphabetical order: Archbishops Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Philadelphia; William H. Keeler of Baltimore; Thomas C. Kelly of Louisville, Ky.; Daniel W. Kucera of Dubuque, Iowa; Oscar H. Lipscomb of Mobile, Ala.; Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles; Eugene A. Marino of Atlanta: Theodore . E. McCarrick of Newark, N.J.; Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati; and J. Francis Stafford of Denver.

The nominees are choosen by a process in which each bishop in the country, submits five names.

The 10 prelates most frequently mentioned who accept nomination are placed on the ballot. This year's final list did not include any cardinals.

The new president must be elected by a majority vote of all active bishops present at the Baltimore meeting. At the conclusion of the meeting, he' will succeed Archbishop John L. May of St. Louis, president since 1986.

Following election of the president, the bishops will vote for a conference vice president from among the remaining nine nominees. The winner will succeed Archbishop Pilarczyk, The meeting, to be held in Baltimore to mark the bicentennial of the establishment of the V.S. hierarchy there, will be preceded by a bicentennial Mass Nov. 5 at Baltimore's Basilica of the Assumption, the nation's oldest cathedral.

Papal secretary of state Cardinal Agostino Casaroli will attend, representing Pope John Paul II. The proposed abortion resolution, drafted by the NCCB Committee for Pro-Life Activities, says this summer's Supreme Court decision in a Missouri abortion law

case has revived the U.S. debate over abortion laws, making it important for the bishops "to reaffirm our conviction that all human life is sacred whether born or un, born."

Other key action items on the agenda of the four-day meeting include votes on: - A statement urging restoration' of Christian sexual morality and an end to drug abuse as the only real solutions to the V'.S. AI DS epidemic.

- A policy statement on the Middle East supporting both the security of Israel and sovereignty for the Palestinian people and urging a more active U.S. role in restoring peace and sovereignty in Lebanon.

- A response by the bishops to an extensive pastoral plan for responding to concerns of black Catholics and advancing their role in church life - an issue that made headlines this summer when Father George A. Stallings formed a new, African-American Catholic congregation.

- Establishment of prayers and liturgical norms for Sunday celebrations in the United States when no priest is available.

- A plan to modify an exclusive contract to air U.S. Catholic conference programming which the bishops entered into in 1988 with Mother Angelica's Eternal Word Television Network - a contract under which EWTN has rejected about two-thirds of the USCC programs submitted to it, and a plan to subsidize their own Catholic Telecommunications Network of America through Catholic Communication Campaign fund to the tune of an estimated $4.2 million in the years from 1991 through 1995.

The bishops will also' be asked to approve guidelines for priests' retreats, call for continued imple. A RESCUE WORKER pauses for a sorrowful moment after abal}.doning attempts to mentation of their 1986 pastoral revive'a victim of the Bay Bridge collapse in last Tuesday's California earthquake. Bottom, on economic justice, and approve collaps~d tower at St. Joseph College Seminary in Los Altos where a 24-year-old workman was plans for aJune 1990 retreat-style fatally injured. (CNS/ UPI and CNS photos) assembly.

On the structure and financing of their national offices, the bishops face decisions on overall plans and priorities through 1993, and discussion of a recommended 1990 budget of nearly $31.7 million, up $1 million from 1989, and a proposal to increase the yearly national assessment on dioceses from the Francisco Bay area. Total prop- a seminary tower when the quake SAN FRANCISCO (CNS) 15.7 cents per Catholic in 1990 to Northern California's devastating erty damage was estimated at some hit was fatally injured.

16.7 cents per Catholic in 1991.

St. Patrick's Church iri Watearthquake Oct. 17 wrecked a ca- $7 billion.

If the one-cent increase is apMore damage to property could sonville, in the Monterey diocese, thedral, a seminary and at least proved it would generate an addiresult from a number of after- also appeared likely to be razed. one Catholic church beyond repair, tional $520,000 for conference activDamages to San Francisco besides causing widespread losses shocks expected in the weeks ities. to four Catholic dioceses and at ahead. Landslides from heavy rains church and school structures were The bishops also face decisions, least one death on church property. further complicated recovery ef- estimated at more than $1 million subject to approval by Rome, on by the archdiocese.

Oakland's cathedral might need forts. several liturgy-related items in addiArchbishop John R. Quinn Early indications were that St. razing because of the quake that tion to the one on priest less Sunregistered 7.1 on the Richter scale Joseph College Seminary in Los placed San Francisco and the rest day celebrations: . and caused 63 confirmed deaths Altos, in the diocese of San Jose, Turn to Page Three Turn to Page Six and some 3,000 injuries in the San may be irreparable. A workman in

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CHICAGO (CNS) - The U.S.' child welfare system is "under siege," Catholic social workers from across the nation were told.

"It is time to reorder our priorities," David S. Liederman, executive director of the Child Welfare League of America in Washington, told 900 workers and volunteers attending Catholic Charities USA's, 75th annual meeting of Catholic social service for the Winter River diocese.

"We find money to bailout the savings and loans, for the Stealth bomber and for 'Star Wars' research," Liederman said, but for increased child welfare needs "we are not responding with anything but lip service."

Noting that less than 100percent of children live in families where one of the parents is home during the workday, Liederman said "a massive child care program is needed."

Liederman called for smaller case loads for child protective services, quality day care, drug abuse programs, affordable hOllsing and care for foster children after they've left the foster care system.

The needs of the elderly also demand attention, said Deborah Briceland-Betts, field coordinator for the Long Term Care Campaign, a coalition of more than 125 national organizations dedicated to enacting comprehensive legislation to protect families from the costs of long-term care.

Ackn()wledging Congress" recent revocation of catastrophic health insurance for older Americans, Ms. Briceland-Betts suggested a Social Security-style program for longterm care, to which everyone would contribute.

Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago and Donna Hanson, secretary for social' ministries in the Diocese of Spokane, Wash., told conferees to nourish themselves spi'ritually.

"You are a people of gracious and generous service," Cardinal Bernardin said. "You and I need to take the time to be refreshed and renewed in our professional lives so that we may be more effective in what we do for others."

Mrs. Hanson recommended that workers minister to themselves through quiet prayer and Scriptine reading as their lives get more hectic in a "cut-back climate." By making ministry their priority, she said, they will "put a human face on the anonymous statistics of hurting people."

Participants accepted Catholic Charities USA's 1989 policy sta-!ement, "A Just Food System." It calls for daily time for prayer and once-weekly fasting' in solidarity with the hungry, and for asking grocery stores, restaurants, food producers and distributors to offer organically or biologically grown food.

It also recommends significant reductions in purchase of animal p'roducts which divert large amounts of grain that could be u~ed for human consumption, and of imported' food products from countries who use large amounts of their land for exports while severe malnutrition exists within their own borders.

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"We have to be serious about owning the problem and admitting that we may be part of it," Ms. Amidei said.

She urged that long-term solutions to employment and child care be recommended alongside the emergency relief programs that address the symptoms of those problems.

"Before we institutionalize a Third World right in our own country," Ms. Amidei said, "we must use advocacy to make the system work the way it's supposed to work."

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Sr. Muriel Balch Sister Muriel Balch, OLVM, 76, who worked in the Fall River diocese for many years, died Oct. 18 in EI Centro, Calif. Her Mass of Christian Burial was offered Monday at her community's motherhouse, Victory Noll, Huntington, Ind. The daughter of Robert E. and Florence (Redmond) Balch, she was a native of St. Louis.

After entering the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Victory in 1931, she served in California, Colorado, Indiana and Bolivia. In this diocese she worked in St. Joseph's parish, North Dighton; St. James, New Bedford; and Holy Trinity; West Harwich, also serving in the diocesan apostolate of religious education.

In semiretirement, she was active in ministries to pregnant teenagers and imprisoned youths and also worked as a paralegal and taught English to Hispanics.

Isabel Gerrard The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Monday for Isabel Gerrard, 88, sister of retired Auxiliary Bishop James J. Gerrard, who died Oct. 21. Many priests of the diocese were concelebrants of the Mass, offered in SS. Margaret Mary Chapel of the Catholic Memorial Home"Fall River.

Miss Gerrard was the daughter of the late William and Elizabeth (Livesey) Gerrard. She was a native of New Bedford, where she lived most of her life and where she was interred in St. Mary's Cemetery.

She had been employed at Hathaway Mill Complex in New Bedford and in the Diocesan Department of Catholic Social Services.

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The Cruzan petition "asks of facing illness, handicap and death, the bishops are gravely concerned this court something that has never over recent social and legal trends before been requested: That the regarding· the withdrawal of lifecourt find in the due process clause sustaining care and treatment from of the 14th Amendment 'a princinon-terminal patients," the USCC ple of p~rsonal liberty that would said. "Procedures for providing deprive [Nancy Cruzan] of life," nutrition and hydration to unthe USCC argued. ' conscious or otherwise disabled . "If granted, this petition would patients are a central focus of these place in the' Constitution the idea disturbing trends." that personal liberty includes the , right to choose death if it should Quoting from a 1986 statement appear preferable to life." of the bishops' pro-life committee, Instead, the USCC added, "this the brief said that "the (Catholic) court should find that such a-right Conference's consideredjudgment is not entitled to constitutional regarding such procedures is that protection." 'the law should establish a strong The 14th Amendment declares presumption in favor of their use,' that no state shall make a law because 'food and water are necesabridging the privileges of citizens, sities of .life for all human beings nor "deprive any person of life, and can generally be provided with. liberty or property, without due out the risks and burdens of more process of law." aggressive means for'sustaining Nancy Beth Cruzan was injured life.''' in a 1983 car accident that left her 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111. in what has been described as a "persistent vegetative state." Her THE ANCHOR (USPS-545-Q20). Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River. Mass. parents, Lester and Joyce Cruzan, Published weekly except the week of July 4 have sought to have her water and and the week after Christmas at 887 Highfeeding tubes removed, thus allowland Avenue. Fall River. Mass. 02"720 by ing her to die. the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall A lower court judge ruled in River. Subscription price by mail postpaid their favor and told the medical $11.00 per year. Postmasters send address changes to The Anchor. P.O, Box 7. Fall facility to stop the feedings.

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HONOLULU (CNS) - Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario of Honolulu has censured a Philippine priest for comparing former President Ferdinand Marcos to Christ during a funeral Mass Oct. 13.

The Honolulu bishop called the incident a "gross abuse of the Catholic Mass" arid said the diocese considered the "comparison of Marcos to Jesus as ridiculous, absurd and an insult to the Filipino people."

He barred the priest, Msgr. Domingo Nebres, from furthercelebration of public liturgies in the diocese.

During the Mass, Msgr. Nebres said Marcos - who was ousted as Philippine president by a peaceful uprising in 1986 - was "in suffering, a Xerox copy of Christ" who was "betrayed and sold by his own people."

"Christ was a victim of the people's power; so Marcos was a victim of the people's power," the monsignor said during the homily.

"Msgr. Nebres, a 20-year friend of the Marcos family, was given permission by the diocese of Honolulu to celebrate the funeral Mass," said Bishop Ferrario. "But he was under specific written and spoken instructions that he would not give a eulogy or say anything of a political nature. He gave us his word that he would follow these directions," the bishop added. "His comments at the Mass violated these instructions."

Msgr. Nebres' comparison of Marcos and Christ was "ridiculous, absurd and an insult to the Filipino people," said Bishop Ferrario.

He said diocesan chancellor Sister Grace Dorothy Lim had conveyed the ban on celebrating further public liturgies to Msgr. Nebres.

Marcos died Sept. 28 at age 72 in his Hawaii exile home. The former ruler had entered St. Francis Medical Center in Honolulu last Jan. 15 and had been critically ill for several months.

He was accused of accumulating millions of dollars during his rule through the embezzlement of public funds, theft, bribes and kickbacks.

Sister Ruth Curry at family life parley NEWORLEANS(CNS)-Catholic families must be involved in every aspect of church life, Bishop' Warren L. Boudreaux of HoumaThiboudaux, La., said at the recent convention of the National Association of Catholic Family Life ministers in New Orleans.

Sister Ruth Curry, SUSC, of the Office of Family Ministry represented the Fall River diocese at the convention.

Deciaring that the family is the unit of all of society, the bishop said the family, "through love and support," must take part in the liturgy, schools, religious education programs, helping the needy, and more.

During the convention, the family life association dropped the word "diocesan" from its title to encourage broader membership.

Currently, the association is made up of diocesan family life directors, staff, and associate members representing more than 125 U.S. dioceses.

Black school gets $500,000 grant CHICAGO (CNS) - Chicago's Hales Franciscan High School has received a $500,000 corporate grant that officials said virtually assures the school will meet its goal of generating $ I million and increasing enrollment from 283 to 400 over three years.

G.D. Searle & Company made the challenge grant to the school, which the Franciscan order had phinned to close at the end of the 1988-89 school year until parents and alumni rallied to reverse the decision in February'.

The grant will be augmented by a fund-raising dinner the corporation will underwrite.

An all-black school for young men, Hales Franciscan received the U.S. Education Department's top honor as an exemplary school in 1985.'

BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN blesses statue of Madonna and Child recently relocated to 51. Mary's Church, New Bedford, after many years at the former 51. Mary's Home for Children, also in New Bedford. In its new home, the statue will center the parish Mary Garden.

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"It's just people helping people."

Elisee added that because the Monterey diocese is considered mission area, the Catholic Church Extension Society has offered financial help.

In Los Angeles, Archbishop Roger M. Mahony called 0'1 Southern Californians to respond to the needs of the quake's victims.

He called for prayers and donations.

Donations are also being accepted by the National Catholic Disaster Relief Committee, 1319 F St. N.W., Washington, D.C., 20004. .

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Church regroups after quake Joseph's College Seminary was Continued from Page One of the stricken area under the pro- vacated, and alternative accommotecti1m.ofOur Lady of Guadalupe. dations found for its residents.

News accounts showed Father Damage to the Cathedral of St. . Mike Miller, pastor ofSt. Patrick's Francis de Sales forced its closing, Father William V. Macchi, Oak- Church in the Monterey diocese land vicar general, told CNS Oct. praying with his people at a Mass in the parish hall after the church 19. was deemed a total loss.

"We don't know the long-range He told reporters "that strucprospects," the priest said of the free-standing masonry structure tures were man-made and that people were God-made and that built a century ago.

In the meantime, services will be people could build again"but only held in the nearby First Baptist God could make people.'; Church, Father Macchi said.

Other churches in the Monterey Oakland Bishop John S. Cum- diocese were severely damaged, mins said his real concern was the including Sacred Heart Church in victims of the one-mile collapsed Hollister, which will probably section of Interstate 880, which never be used again. leads off the Bay Bridge into OakMonterey Bishop Thaddeus A. land. The top deck of the two-tier. Shubsda described a shocking highway collapsed onto the lower scene of devastation to houses and deck, trapping many cars. buildings in the tiny town often No earthquake insurance was referred to as "earthquake city." carried by the Oakland diocese, Mission San Juan Batista on the Father Macchi said, due to its prohibitive cost. Six to '\0 years San Andreas Fault was miracuago, when it was dropped, insur- lously unscathed by the quake, ance cost almost $1 million a year suffering only loss of plaster and and then "skyrocketed beyond," adobe. he said.

In Capitola at St. Joseph's, a Most dioceses in California lack large light fixture had crashed to earthquake insurance, Father the floor impacting it sharply, like Macchi added. a cookie cutter. No one was in the Curtis Currin, 24, of Half Moon church at the time.

Bay, Calif., a workman, was trapSeveral Catholic schools in the ped when most of the tower of St. Monterey diocese sustained strucJoseph College Seminary collapsed tural damage and were to remain and later died in the El Camino 'closed until safety engineers could Hospital. assess the damage. Public schools The seminary's 57 students and also were closed. Early estimates faculty were moved to St. Patrick's of damage in Santa Cruz County Seminary in Menlo Park, about 15 alone reached more than $500 miles away in the archdiocese of million.

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Hundreds of people sought help A p~)ftion of the seminary built in 1926 suffered extensive damage. at shelters at two Catholic churches.

There has been so much comA newer wing, housing student quarters, classrooms and the chap- munity outreach, said Ted Elisee, el, appeared less affected, but most of the building was said to be unsafe for occupancy. .

His Excellency, the Most ReverSan Jose's Cathedral of St. Joseph, which withstood the 1906 end Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, has accepted the nomiearthquake, appeared unaffected, nation of the Very Reverend Roger but some plaster was cracked in adjacent parish offices.

J. Plante, M.S., Provincial Superior, and has appointed the ReverDiocesan schools were closed end Robert J. Campbell, M.S., until inspections could be made by Administrator of Our Lady of the structural engineers.

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The Politics of Disaster The real aftershock of the recent California earthquake has little to do with people and values. It's really been politics at the crassest of levels.

Like looters on a rampage, local politicians had a field day with accusations, slurs and insinuations. I~ was a chance to gain the national spotlight. After all, the entire media world had gathered in San Francisco and it would be a shame not to take advantage of such an opportunity.

While bodies remained coffined in concrete, charges and countercharges were exchanged as to who sh,ould, in effect, . take responsibility for the forces of nature.

Building codes and tax monies became prime subjects of debate and the clamor for federal disaster funds and the arguments over whether or not to continue the World Series were the topics of endless hours of television coverage. . The real significance of natural disasters was buried, not in the rubble of concrete and stone but in arguments and verbiage.

If there is one lesson we should take from the aftermaths of the California quake and the Charleston hurricane, it is that we must learn to live with nature both in beautiful times and days of hardship. No matter how' well one prepares for disasters, it will never be possible to deal fully with such events on the purely material level. ,But somehow secular wisdom denies this fact. Man is considered capable offacing nature in all its awesomeness. We feel we should be able to build bridges, highways, sea walls and the like that can stand up to any natural force. In the finger pointing of blame, the absurdity of this attitude has gone unrealized, especially by those who feel that they are the masters of their own destiny.

The real story coming out of both hurricane and earthquake has to do with the human spir.it. It's always the poor who get hit hardest in disasters; those living on the economic edge, with no insurance and insecure jobs. Yet they are the people, often homeless and jobless, who become the volunteers.

Striking miners from West Virginia pitched tents in South Carolina and helped storm victims dig out of their rubble; church groups organized clothing and food centers; volunteers traveled at their own expense to spend uncounted hours rebuilding houses. .

These are the stars who deserve the media spotlight. But it's the local politicians who hog the camera and take center stage, . benefiting from the misfortune of others.

As the saying goes, "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature."

Too many have ignored this warning and its meaning. When earth, wind, fire and water go their primordial ways, human force is all too often powerless against them. We flaunt nature and quickly forget the lessons she so often teaches us by her swift and unexpected actions.

When disaster strikes, it certainly should not be considered a time to make political hay. Nature's recent behavior should remind us all that we are but guardians of a frail and fragile planet.

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MEDICS AID A VICTIM OF THE CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE

"The earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the mountains were moved and shaken." 2 Kg. 22:8

We need a sense of awe that they have no need for organized religion? Most of our ancesMy favorite translation of the tors would find such an assertion Beatitudes is found in the New an absurdity because they respected English Bible, which translates the the c'ollective wisdom of those who familiar "poor in spirit" as "How lived before them. Contemporary blest are those who know their arrogance excludes the humility need of God; the kingdom of Heav- that is the prerequisite for entering en is theirs." a relationship with God. So often polls indicate that there At the root of this eclipse of God are few atheists in our land; but from the mind of contemporary very few polls seek to determine man is the rise of our belief in the importance of God to ordinary science. We dazzle ourselves with citizens. our technological achievements to What seems missing is a relig- the point where we fail to give God ious outlook upon everyday life. the glory and honor rightly his.

The lack of reverence and awe in Over 100 years ago Samuel F. B. the presence of creation is sympMorse, the inventor of the teletomatic of a soul starving for spirgraph, was filled with reverence as itual nourishment. he sent those memorable first words A century ago there was no need by wire: "What hath God wrought!" for special diets or exercise because Not so Neil Armstrong 20 years food, although not varied, was for ago when upon taking his first step the most part wholesome and work on the moon, he said: "That's one was physically demanding. I think small step for a man, one giant our ancestors would be amused if they could observe our present â&#x20AC;˘ ieap for mankind. "s omehow God was left out of the picture. generation fastidiously adhering Man was not meant to marvel at to a rigorous regime for the sake of his own achievements. Somehow, our physical health.

'We look to technology to save worshiping the golden calf doesn't us from the very mess that it seem so primitive when we see created; but every step away from man coMinuing to make an idol of nature takes us further from the his own accomplishments. Our anbeauty of creation and in the pro- cestors applied their technical skills cess makes us strangers to our to build majestic cathedrals that allowed nature in the form of sunCreator.

There was also a day when nour- light to filter through stained glass ishment for our souls was taken windows. They saw with the eyes for granted. One hundred years of faith and viewed the world as a ago there was little emphasis upon reflection of the glory of the individual prayer and meditation Creator. because worship was communal A cathedral may make you feel and one's relationship with God small but it always impresses you was perceived as part of one's rela- with the grandeur of God. Walk tionship with one's place of wor- Into a skyscraper or shopping mall ship. How many who proclaim and how do you feel? Probably their belief in God are quick to add that you are very .small and the

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companies are so big they couldn't care less.

Fortunately, reverence and awe are not difficult to teach. The human spirit longs to transcend itself. In my present town of North Attleboro, I wonder how many people pulled off the road to look at the manmade marvel known as the Emerald Square Mall and how many admired the foliage for hours on end.

The deeper problem is to attract them to a place of worship,where religious faith can begin to awaken within them their hunger for a God who longs to let them know that they are loved and forgiven.

Intuitively, people do know their need for God because we all need to be lifted beyond ourselves.

Unfortunately, we live in such a competitive, success-oriented world that we often fail to recognize our need for community and indeed our places of worship often fail to offer us the resources we need.

Their work alone NEW YORK (CNS) - Bishop John J. McRaith of Owensboro, Ky., recently told New York priests tha~ they could overcome uncertainty about priestly identity if they did "those things really well that no one else can do." The bishop, who headed a subcommittee that produced a 1988 document on priestly morale, said some priests seemed threatened by lay ministry. But priests, he said, still have the distinctive opportunity of preaching and celebrating the sacraments, and of making the weekend Mass "the most significant hour in the lives of the people." (

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The value of loss When my brother died suddenly· at age 48 of a heart attack, the medics worked to resuscitate him for over an hour before declaring him dead. Our family was stunned with grief but together we made it through the wake and funeral.

Of all the things that people said to comfort us, the most healing came from an intensive care nurse friend who said, "After seeing hundreds of sudden coronary deaths, I've come to the conclusion that either the victim or the family has to suffer.

"If your brother had been resuscitated and taken to intensive care, he could have been in great pain for weeks and you would have been allowed to see him only five minutes an hour.

"After watching him struggle in pain, you would come to accept his death. You might even ask God to take him to end his suffering. In that case, he would have suffered and you would have accepted his death.

"This way, you weren't ready so you had to suffer. But he didn't.

Don't you see? Your suffering was a gift to him because he didn't have to suffer."

Her consoling words gave meaning and value·to our loss. Yes, we still hurt, but it helped knowing our pain had a value. Jim didn't have to hurt.

Since then I've come to realize

that pain is not so painful if we can find a value in it. A woman I met is turning the pain of her husband's death due to sloppy hospital care into value by pursuing a change in hospital policies.

A mother whose child was killed by an intoxicated driver began the organization, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, which has spread across the country. It doesn't replace her child but it gives value to his death if it prevents even one fatal accident.

John Hinckley's parents turned their pain into value after he attempted to assassinate President Reagan by becoming public advocates for disturbed young adults and their parents.

In my state, parents of a teenage daughter who took her life now give their time to presenting workshops and talks to adolescents who might be considering the same.

All of these are rather dramatic instam;.es but they are played out in the thousands of less remarkable ways in our neighborhoods. I think of those who have lost their farms who n'ow advise those on the edge oflosing theirs on actions they can take to prevent or live with such loss. And those who have suffered depression or alcoholism who become sponsors to those who are living in similar states.

Living wills Q. Some months ago your column discussed living wills. Are you familiar with the "Christian Affirmation of Life" prepared and distributed by the Catholic Health Association of the United States?

This affirmation is a statement and meditation about one's preferences for treatment at the time of terminal illness and has been extensively reviewed by theologians, ethicists, attorneys, canonists and chaplains.

The Catholic Health Association has distributed more than 1,000,000 copies of this affirmation since 1973. It is now available in wallet size. (Missouri) A. The volume of response I received to that column indicates that this is a live subject indeed.

Most of them disagreed with my generally negative opinion about living wills. A number claimed, with considerable vigor, that my statements about what physicians and even family members might be willing and able to do in times of critical illness were more than a little naive.

These readers, and others who simply wish to know more about the subject, would find this CHA document interesting and enlightening.

The brief document begins with a declaration offaith and a request to be fully informed at the time of serious illness.

It continues that, if the patient is no longer able to make decisions personally and there is no reasonable expectation of recovery, "no ethically extraordinary treatment be used to prolong my life but that my pain be alleviated if it becomes unbearable, even if this results in shortening my life. "'Ethically extraordinary treatment' is treatment that does not offer a reasonable hope of benefit to me or that cannot be accomp-

lished without" excessive expense, pain or other grave burden. However, no treatment should be used with the intention of shortening my life."

The individual then requests prayers from family, friends and the Christian community as he or she prepares for death.

As the Catholic Health Association notes, this Christian Affirmation of Life is not intended as a legal document but one of moral persuasion.

While the affirmation leaves room for considerable and approp-riate flexibility, it may well prove helpful later on for family and friends as a confirmation of the patient's faith and desires.

Legislation concerning living wills already is in place in many states. It would be wise to know how this affirmation might be affected by such legislation.

I am grateful to the Catholic Health Association official for his interest and assistance. The text of the Christian Affirmation of Life and more information about it is available from the Catholic Health Association, 4455 Woodson Rd., Sf. Louis, Mo. 63134.

Q. I am interested in information about Veronica's veil. Friends tell me there is an actual .veil imprinted with Christ's face in some cathedral in Italy, but I can find nothing further. Can you tell me if one exists? (Massachusetts) A. Various stories of a cloth with the image of Christ have been told through the centur·ies. The legend of a woman receiving the impression of Christ's face on a cloth during his journey to Calvary seems to have arisen only in the 14th century.

About the year 1000, a cloth, supposedly having the image of Jesus, began to be venerated at St. Peter's in Rome. It is still there,

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- Approval of the English translation of 46 Marian Masses published by the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship during the 1987-88 Marian Year.

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He was originally on the show in April, but lost, then was called back after officials realized his competitor had received credit for an incorrect answer.

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The priest said only one question d.uring his appearances surprised him: " 'Who was a scientist in the British government?' I rang, but 1 really didn't know," Father Smolich said. "Then I answered 'Who is Newton?'and it turned out to be right."

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Athenaeum series marks 200 years The Boston Athenaeum at 1OY2 Beacon St., near the State Capitol, is hosting an exhibit and lecture series in observance of the 200th anniversary of organized Catholicism in New England. The program opened Oct. 2 and will continue through Dec. 9.

On displays are books, altar furnishings, vestments, art works and other materials related to the early days of New England Catholicism and four evening lectures have been arranged by the Bicentennial Committee of the Boston archdiocese.

Already heard has been Boston Cardinal Bernard Law, who spoke earlier this month on Boston's first bishop, John Cheverus, and his connection with the first nativeborn V.S. saint, Mother Elizabeth' Seton. Last week a panel of Boston area novelists discussed the Catholic history and ambience of the region.

On Nov. 9, with Leila Little, acting editor of The Pilot, Boston archdiocesan newspaper, as moderator, five area women will discuss Catholic women in church, social and public life. To be heard are Sister Mary Oates, CSJ, Regis College professor; Dorothy Jodice, a systems engineer and chair of the laity subcommittee of the Boston archdiocesan synod; Mary Cunningham Agee, executive director ofthe Nurturing Network, a problem pregnancy aid program; Donna Gittens, WCVB-TV vice president of community programming; and Mary Lou McGrath, superintendent of Cambridge public schools.

Father Peter V. Conley, rector of Boston's Holy Cross Cathedral, founding director of the archdiocesan Office of Communications and longtime archdiocesan ecumenical coordinator, will close the series Nov. 16 with a lecture, "Interfaith Relations through Two Centuries."

The Athenaeum exhibit will continue through Dec. 9.

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Letters are welcomed but the editor reserves the right to condense or edit. if deemed necessary. All letters must be signed and inClude a home or business address. They do not necessarily express the editorial views of The Anchor.

Another view Dear Editor:

it civilized the Western World.

Now, alas, history has come full circle. Human life is expendable for convenience or as a simple solution to complex problems.

Instead of working on the real problems of poverty, battered chilr dren, etc., in our society, we get rid of people before they become a . burden.

The famous English writer, G.K. Chesterton once wrote: "If you have five 'children ,and only four hats, you don't cut one head off; you buy an extra hat."

Father Pierre E. Lachance, D.P. Fall Rivc:r

In an area newspaper of Oct. 7, the Rev. Marsue Harris presented the classic pro-choice views on abortion. I would like to offer another view which I believe is better supported by scientific facts as well as by traditional Christianity.

The pro-choice battle, Rev. Har" ris writes, "is really over the nature, purpose and place of womankind."

This distorts the issue. The real issue is not women's .rights, but basic "human" rights for all, even Dear Editor:. the unborn child.

What has happened to the soul . The clergywoman adds: "The of Massachusetts? Where are the real questions are these: Is a fetus more important than a woman? strong and good people who helped Does a woman have the ability - to make it a gem among the 50 and the right to make a moral states? The tangible treasures are still there: the Old North Church, choice about reproduction?"

While we might grant that a Faneuil Hall, the Shell, Glouceswoman is more "yaluable", at least ter, Concord and Lexington, QuabTHE REV. Dr. David for now, than a fetus, this has bin Reservoir and Tanglewood.

Johnson Rowe, president of absolutely nothing to do with the . God gave us this spot and all "right to abort." At issue is not through tht years Massachusetts Habitat for Humanity, a procomparative value but the right to citizens from the Minute Men on gram for building homes for kill a human being for any reason. have made it great. the needy, will speak at the Has political greed become imThe "Pro-Choice" people choose annual dinner of the Greater to ignore the rights of the fetus by po.ssible to check? Have politicians become impossible to unseat? Have declaring it nonhuman.

Fall River Interfaith Council, the unrefine:d and abnormal swept With great naivete, some say, to be held at 12:30 p.m. Sun"Can't I do what I want with my the good a\vay? Has one family's day at St. John of God parish body?" Sorry, it's not your body. money dictated the rules and set center, Somerset, with Father. Is there a woman who feels muti- the moral tone? A historic and Daniel L. Freitas as host lated in her body after childbirth beautiful sta.te has become a laughingstock. or miscarriage? pastor.

I challenge you, citizens of MasThe decisive issue in the aborRev. Dr. Rowe, pastor of tion controversy is when does sachusetts, to rise up and declare First Baptist Church, Melrose, human life begin? After centuries war on the enemy who has taken is active in world mission pro- of speculation, it is scientific fact you for a ride these past 25 years. jects and has preached in near- that human life begins at concep- Massachuse:us is not just a IS-mile ly 1000 churches of many tion. The primitive cell formed by radius from the Golden Dome. the union of the mother's ovum She stretches north to New Hampdenominations. and the father's sperm has its own shire and Vermont and borders "genetic code", different from that Rhode Island and Connecticut on of either parent. It is like a compu- the south. Hundreds oflovely towns ter in that it contains all the instruc- and busy cities pour money into tions that will direct the growth her economy and they deserve and and development of that initial cell should demand a voice. until that individual dies. All the They should start now to get ~id fetus requires of its mother is food of the scalawags. Don't let the and shelter (not that different from "ins". intimidate you. Work its needs after birth). through church' groups and woIf there is one thing obvious to men's clubs. Educate your fellow all, it is that the product of human citizens in the political game. Don't conception is human. Thus it must let anyone give up. Your grandnever be willfully destroyed. It is children deserve better. Bring back never, never permissible to take pride in the Bay State and you'll innocent human life. find the soul of Massachusetts!

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By Marcie Hickey included items for a time capsule, "Why 路celebrate the 25th anniwhich was then buried in a newlyversary of a retreat house?" constructed garden. The capsule, Father Gilles Genest, MS, cocontaining copies of the message director of the LaSalette Center of LaSalette, the retreat house's for Christian Living, Attleboro, anniversary booklet and the operasks the question and offers an ating principles of the center, as answer in an anniversary letter to well as a picture of the first center all who have been part of the centeam, a list of the staff members ,ter over the years. through the years and a bell from "Bringing to a halt the hectic Marriage Encounter, will be activities often found at this Cenopened in the year 2000. ter affords all of us, staff and The time capsule procession then friends, the opportunity to discover the meaning of Sacred Ground in . moved to a wooded area for dediour lives," he writes...... a place cation of a new Peace Walk, consuch as the Center becomes the sisting of 14 stations depicting Burning Bush where we and our people of peace, including Dorothy Day, Mother Theresa and Gandhi.

God meet to discuss and recommit The final station is a mirror, "a ourselves to the Covenant. ", .. Within us we carryall the constant reminder to .the many retreatants who come to the center. elements of our God-experiences," he continues. "The retreat house of our ongoing call to be peacefestivities simply become the makers," said Father Genest. opportunity to celebrate that gift The celebration ended with a within us." festive dance and a potluck picnic.

The theme of the anniversary The celebration was a success, celebration held Sept. 9 and 10 said Father Genest, because it was was Cherish the Past, Celebrate an informal gathering planned in the Now, Create the Future. the spirit of family.

A crowd of about 500 representSince its beginning the center's ingpresent and former staff and main focus has been "fostering families joined in the public cele- family life," he explained. bration of the values and spiritual Father Genest was the first gifts the retreat house has so clue- director of the center for eight fully nurtured. years, beginning with its opening Saturday was a time for remem- in October 1964. He then took bering the past and enjoying the other positions at the Attleboro present. It began with a parade led and Enfield LaSalette shrines by the band from Bishop Feehan before becoming part of a family High School also in Attleboro, ministry staff in Columbus, Ohio. and it featured floats representing He returned to LaSalette Center in the five "pillars" of the center: 1986 and last year was named Family Retreats, Cursillo, Teach . codirector路 with Father Richard the Children Well, Marriage En- Delisle, MS. counter and High School Youth Also part 01 the present staff are Retreats.

Following the parade, the group Sister Patricia Cocozza, SND, shared a gigantic birthday cake, Brother Roger Moreau, MS, Kathy then divided into interest groups Wrobel and a number of retreat counselors. fQr a reflection period.

Sister Cocozza gives much credit Aided by skits and slides, they discussed what LaSalette meant to _ to the retreat counselors who make the programs possible, contributthem. ing not only their time, but their Later family retreat counselors, ideas. including many former staffers, "Because they helped design it, presented a hootenanny, featuring' they have a sense of ownership for skits that had been performed the program," she said. over the center's 25 years.

Retreats are held every weekend, An evening barbecue was folincluding four or five family retreats lowed by an anniversary ball in the retreat house dining hall. The even- a year. The center functions seven ing closed with a procession to the days a week, with prayer groups, statue of Our Lady of LaSalette in support groups, spiritual direction the center's Garden of Prayer "to . programs and high school retreats offer our homage and gratitude conducted on weekdays.

About 5,000 people are expected for the role she has played in our lives, especially at the weekend to attend various programs at the retreats," said Father Genest. center this year, said Fat~er Genest.

"There is a good blend of old Finally, participants lit sparklers people and newcomers; of people and sang Ave Maria.

On Sunday attention turned to .who have been here from the very the theme of Creating the Future. start and people hearing about it

for the first time," said Sister Cocozza.

The first retreat, held at the center in 1964, drew 16 couples and their 42 children.

The Family Retreat program is still the center's main focus. Such retreats provide an opportunity for parents to share the joys and frustrations of parenting and to be strengthened in their roles, while children learn the meaning offamily. Together families experience sharing, fun and prayer. For single parent families, it can be a time of sharing hurts and 'of healing and renewal.

Cursillo is a worldwide movement intended to revitalize th'e Christian message within families, workplaces and communities. Presented by a team of clergy and laypersons, it enables participants to develop a deep and permanent awareness of what it means to be Christian.

Teach the Children Well is an enrichment program for catechists at all levels of religious education, enabling them to hone their skills and grow in confidence. A Bible school with supervised play for children ages 5-12 is offered in conjunction with the program.

Marriage Encounter Weekends, led by a team of married couples and a clergyman, help couples rediscover each other in an open, honest, complete way.

High school retreats offer teenagers a caring Christian environment in which they can reflect on their lives, relationships and faith, raise question and voice doubts and dreams.

Directed retreats and guided retreats alike provide a one-to-one relationship between retreatmaster and retreatant and offer time for personal reflection and meditation.

Other weekend retreats focus on various interest groups, including women only, men only, motherdaughter, father-son, singles, reli- . gious, and Alcoholics Anonymous.

There are also retreats offered in conjunction with the liturgical seasons of the church.

So why celebrate the 25th anniversary of a retreat house?

Many letters over the years have said it best, including these excerpts collected for the anniversary booklet: "It is an oasis from the desert, a refuge from everyday life, a home away from home, where Jesus is easier to find." (Paul and Rita Dupuis and family) "For me, the retreat house will always be 'Holy Ground_ .. where Turn To Page 13

Teaching the teachers

By Marcie Hickey "The mystery is among you; the mystery is you. God dwells among us."

That was the message of Dr. Ernest Collamati to his audience of catechists during the final segment of an enrichment program designed to teach the teachers of diocesan CCD students.

The four-session program was sponsored by the Diocesan Department of Education and devised by Father Robert Oliveira, diocesan director of continuing formation of clergy and laity; and Sisters Eugenia Brady, SJC, and Elaine Heffernan, RSM, associate directors of religious education.

Colla mati, religious studies department chairman at Regis College, Weston, closed the series with a presentation on Collaboration, Community and Commitment, which he gave at Holy Name parish, Fall River; Holy Name, New· Bedford; St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis; and St. Mary's, Norton.

Previous sessions had theology, spirituality and methodology as topics and were also offered at the four locations'.

Father Oliveira conducted the theology discussion, which examined theology as a lived experience of faith and considered ways of presenting the subject in religious education classes.

The spirituality segment focused on the importance of individual prayer in passing on the faith. Discussed were models of spirituality, types and styles of prayer and the importance of the sacrament of reconciliation. Rev. Jose M. Sousa, diocesan vice chancellor; Rev. Gillt:s Genest, spiritual director at LaSalette retreat center, Attleboro; Rev. Thomas McElroy, director of Sacred Hearts retreat center Wareham; and the staff of Mirama; retreat center, Duxbury, conducted the session on various evenings.

The methodology workshop offered practical teaching methods.

Classroom activities were suggested, and catechists were. instructed in combining methodology teachings with personal teaching.

In the series' final session, the dynamic Dr. Collamati urged catechists to have confidence in themselves as co-disciples of Christ and stewards of faith.

He said the most difficult problem catechists face is that which has troubled the fai.thful since the I~arly church: "What do yo do when the focal point [Christ] is no longer there?"

He offered the story of the women at Christ's tomb (Luke 24: 1-12) as a possible answer.

Thrown into turmoil upon finding the tomb empty, the women are asked, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?"

The implication of these words is further illuminated, Collamati continued, in the story of Emmaus (Luke 24: 13-35): the disciples, breaking bread with a stranger, suddenly recognize him as the risen Christ, who vanishes from their sight.

Christ's disappearance, said the speaker, signified that his earthly presence was no longer needed "once the disciples realized that the mystery had become them."

Similarly, he said, today's catechists ask "How do we meet Christ in our age?" .

Early Christian communities met this problem when certain individuals claimed to have "special

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Such an attitude, Collamati continu.ed, was reinforced by the preVatican II Mass, at which the cel~brant .di.d not face the congregatIOn, gIVing the congregation the sense that the priest was their mediator and that they could only approach the mystery through him.

Catechists must get away from this thinking, said Collamati, noting that "We who are devout sometimes have difficulty believing that the mystery belongs to us, [but] no one has an inside track to the mystery."

That is the insight of Luke's Gospel, he said: "You have no need to look beyond yourselves: the mystery is yours; he is among you." _ The next question faced by catechists, said Colla mati, is "How do we live this mystery together?"

Distinctions between laity and clergy, he said, are secondary when it comes to living,. sharing and spreading the faith. That is the calling of all Christians; the distinctions simply serve to bring about order, divide labor and channel individual gifts.

"The church is here to cultivate your giftedness," said Collamati.

"All have the opportunity to become the mystery in communion with God, to journey with the mystery, to steward the mystery, to share the mystery." .

Catechesis, he said, is more than getting people into the church; it is followed by "journeying together" in faith seeking understanding of the mystery. Catechists, he continued, should never doubt their effectiveness as examples of faith.

"Y ou might open up a crack in the door of someone's life that wouldn't be there if it weren't for you," he said.

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Brady said the workshop senes was well attended and that participants had noted that the sessions not only made things easier for n,ew teachers, but were equally relevant for veterans.

Many commented especially on the series' common thread: developing a prayer life as a means of personal growth. . A.nother series, offering new topIC.S, IS planned for the spring, said SIster Bra.dy. The aim of all programs, Shl: said, is "to enable catechists to share the faith mo're effectively and to iet them kno'w that they, as volunteers, are very valuable."

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By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Mary: I have an adopted daughter turning 21 soon. Although we love each other dearly, it is not easy for us to communicate. How can I express to her my joy that she has resisted the world's false temptations and not listened to the phoniness of false prophets? She bas resisted drinking, drugging, smoking and; most important of all, is pure and chaste. (Wordless Mother in Pennsylvania) What a lovely letter! Almost all the letters we receive deal with problems. What a refreshingjoy to deal with your question. How do you tell a goOd child that he-she is a fine person?

Perhaps you are a better communicator ·than you think. Yqu say you are wordless, yet you also say, "We love each other dearly."

If both you and your daughter have a quiet but deep assurance that you love and are loved, you have communicated that message to each other.

While many parents praise spe-

cific achievement ("You got all A's! Wonderful!"), fewer parents express their joy at the privilege of sharing life with a fine young man or woman. How does a parent send the simple message, 'Tm glad you are you. I'm glad you're my kid. I can't imagine life without you."

It can be done in a thousand ways, with and without words.

For starters here are 10,suggestions: I. If she is away from home, call her frequently just to chat.

2. Write. You wrote of your love and pride to us. Write it to her. You can do this whether she is at home or away. Once, as part of a sixth grade retreat, the directors had all the parents write letters to their children expressing the parent's love and pride. After my son attended that retreat, I received a most beautiful letter in reply. It consisted of one sentence in a childish hand, "I love you so much you would not believe."

3. Listen carefully when she talks about her activities. If she goes for

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ajob interview, remember the company, the situation, the details and ask about them. This is far more caring than saying merely, "Did you get th,e job?"

4. Support her decisions. "What a good idf:a," and "That makes a lot of sensl:," are examples of positive comments. , 5. Tell her straight out that you are so lue:ky to have her for a daughter.

6. Send her flowers "just because."

7. Compliment her hairstyle and her taste in clothes.

8. Mail her a package of favorite foods if she is away. Prepare them if shl~ lives at home.

9. Share your feelings about a book or article you read, a.movie or TV show you saw that moved you and also would interest her.

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I addressed the group on how to get their stories into the media and also attended several sessions. As. usual, I was distressed by the horror stories of what happens to families who get caught in the court systems because of a divorce and custody war.

One issue that came up frequently was how deeply the fathers resent a word entrenched in the courts ·-"visitation."

A young father from Massachusetts told of his battle to maintain contact with his 4-year-old daughter. He was given !o understand, he said, that "a child's'real parent is mother. And I was told that I would get used to not having contact with my'daughter."

When he refused to step out of his daughter's life, believing that she needed him, he fought and gained "visitation," and n'ow can see his daughter on a basis that adds up to a little more than a third of the year.

He made a strong, touching point when he said, poignantly, "Visitation is for prisons and hospitals, not for parents and children."

Even stronger, however, was a pediatrician from Albany, N.Y., who wrote "The Disenfranchised Father" for a medical professional publication.

He is convinced that both children and parents are destroyed by the "American way of divorce."

The concept of "visitation" particularly disturbs him. Since mothers generally are given custody of the children by the courts, they become the parent.

Father becomes the visitor, no longer expected to parent his child or children. "Visitors are not expected to· have input in children's upbringing," said the pediatrician, adding that "loving and persistent fathers find this attitude incredible and outrageous."

Since he sees the ill effects on the

physical and'emotional health of children caught in the tragedy of not having access to one parent, he has taken it upon himself to challenge his medical colleagues to try to do something about this tragedy.

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David Levy, an attorney and president of the National Council for Children's Rights, spoke of research that seems to indicate a link between the escalation of drug and alcohol abuse and other negative behaviors on the part of youth to the increase of children being raised in single parent families.

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Rule out pirate. Your buddy Jason claimed pirate. Denny put dibs on Dracula. Aaron is always Frankenstein. Ghosts are for 5-yearolds.

You outgrew hobo at 7.

Suggest Rambo at dinner. Expect less than' enthusiasm from your mother who desn't wilDt you "traips~ ing around the neighborhood as a violent, R-rated movie."

Try "soccer player" on the fam-. ily at breakfast. Then remember the coach told the team "uniforms are for games only."

Ignore your sister when she says, "Put on Dad's yellow work'gloves and go as an ewok."

Halloween morning announce your decision: Muscle Man. Ignore your sister when she says, "What a pity. We could've strapped a garbage can lid to your head and sent you out as a see-through trash can...· Borrow your dad's long underwear. Pull it on.and stuff the arms with rags. Make ties at the elbows

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Spend a half hour adjusting your "muscles'" in front of the mirror.

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Talk your brother out of his football pants, stuff the pockets with more rags and socks" hope your mother doesn't catch you using the new socks.

Lumber around the house impressing standers-by with your transformation. Call Aaron and Denny and Jason. Make plans to meet at your house to review your trick or treat route.

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He thinks attention' must be paid to the "destroyed father syndrome" because time is running out. The damage from the loss of fathers that we are now beginning to see may well be only the tip of the iceberg.

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THIS CLEVELAND protester agrees with the Vatican that racism is completely wrong. (NC/ UPI photo)

Racism completely wrong,. church 'delegate tells UN· The Justice and Peace document, UNITED NATIONS (CNS) ~ The Vatican's permanent observer he noted, admitted "the complicity to the United Nations said Oct. I I. of certain church leaders, as well that the church considers'racism as of other members" in the prob"completely wrong," but :rejects lem of racism.

Referring to the situation in attempts to solve the problem by southern Africa, he recalled that a violence: 1984 statement by Pope John Paul Archbishop Renato R. Martino in a statement told the U.N. General II to the U.N:Special Committee Assembly committee that deals Against Apartheid' expressed the with humanitarian affairs that the church's cooperation in' efforts church also saw a need for broad- "aimed at removing the temptation to violence and at helping to ening the definition of racism.

It should include, he said, such solve the problem of apartheid in a problems as First World exploita- spirit of ,dialogue and fraternal tion of Third World people in love...... , The archbishop, commended "social racism"; religious discrimination such as imposition of Mos- U.N. Secretary General Javi'er lem'Sharia, or Islamic law, on Perez de Cuellar for his efforts to non-Moslems; and use of new med- achieve peaceful solutions in southern Africa. ical techniques for eugenics. ' During a visit to Namibia last The committee that heard the Vatican statement was one of sev- summer, the secretary general eral that met during the General "missed no opportunity to reject Assembly session and -were pre- violence from whatever quarter it paring resolutions for action by arose and to advocate dialogue and democratic change as the only the assembly in mid-December.

A spokesman for the Holy See's fit foundation upon which NamiPermanent Observer Mission, bian independence can be built," which is headed by Archl:!ishop Archbishop Martino said.

Regarding "social racism," a catMartino, said this was the first year the mission had addressed the egory identified in the Vatican committee specifically on racism. document, Archbishop Martino Archbishop Martino's statement said this occurred when poor peomade several references to a Vati- ple were exploited by the "wealth. can document on racism released ier classes."

"The church holds that there is ·Iast February by the Pontifical Justice and Peace Commission. little difference between considerTitled "The Church and Racism: ing people inferior because of their Toward a More Fraternal Society," ~kin color and treating them as it'was the first Vatican document inferior by exploiting them as a work force," he said. to focus solely on racism.

"A particularly cruel and lamenArchbishop Martino began by acknowledging that the' Vatican table form" of this "social racism," needed to issue its comments. .the archbishop' said, occurs in sex·~·humbly" because "few, if any, of ual exploitation in Third World us" had escaped the individual and countries "where women, men and even children are driven into proscorporate-contagion of racism. titution by economic need."

On religio,us discrimination, Archbishop Martino noted that the religious minorities of particular countries are often also ethnic minorities, and said that this sometimes brought denial of citizenship or the right of people in the religious majority to convert to a minority religion.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - An "Pakistan is a completely Moslem Italian priest runs for the Euro- country, where there are no lay pean parliament, wins and is sus- Catholics, to defend the interests of pended from his ministry. An Irish the church." priest is a candidate for the same Another Vatican official who parliament,loses the vote and keeps deals with Pakistani affairs comhis status as a priest. . pared it to "the early days of the In Pakistan, a priest wins a seat U.S. church, when priests were in the national parliament, then very much involved in politics accepts a position in the govern- because they were the only [Cath- ' ment - and remains a priest in olics] with the education." good standing. But two NicaraIn any case, this official/said, an guan clerics who refuse to resign exemption is not based on a similar government jobs are repriest's popularity or his political moved from the active ministry. talents, but on a "lack of capable Pope John Paul II warns priests lay Catholics" in that part of the in Latin America, Africa and Asia, world. among other places, to stay out of ' The explicit prohibition against partisan politics. But in his native priests holding office was a new Poland, Catholic priests introduce addition to the Code of Canon Solidarity candidates during Mass Law when it was revised in 1983. and host get-acquainted rallies with Canon 285 states that clerics "are them afterward. forbidden to assume public office If the line between the priest- which entails a participation in the hood and politics sometimes exercise of civil power." Canon appears fuzzy, Vatican officials 287 bars priests from having an offer a reason: The church reacts active role in political parties "unless the need to protect the differently to local situations.

Recent cases illustrate how rights of the church or to promote the common good requires it." diverse the results can be.

Exceptions are made possible In Pakistan, Father Rufin Julius another canon - No. 87 by was elected to the country's National Assembly in November 1988. In which allows bishops to grant March, he was named by Prime exemptions from disciplinary rules Minister Benazir Bhutto to head of the church. In the case of religious, the decision is apparentli the Ministry of Minorities. shared by the order's superiors News of the 43-year-old priest's and the Holy See - in a proporappointment was received with tion not always clear to outsiders. "great joy" by his Ordinary,.Bishop Penalties against priests who do Armando Trindade of Lahore, who not comply are not always uniform. had earlier granted him an exemption so that he could hold public In 1985, two Nicaraguan priests office. were suspended fro,m their priestly ministry after refusing to resign At the Vatican, there were some raised eyebrows. But an, official , positions in the Sandinista-Ied govthere said the priest's political post ernment. A third, Jesuit Father.

Fernando Cardenal, was thrown was viewed as acceptable because

out of his religious order. But one of the suspended priests, Father Miguel D'Escoto, remains a member of the Maryknoll order as well as Nicaragua's foreign minister.

The Nicaraguan priests initially wer~ given permission by bishops to hold the positions until lay people could be found to fill the jobs.

But they stayed on too long and then refused to heed warnings from the bishops and the Vatican.

What happens if a priest runs for office and loses? Perhaps nothing. Canon law bans the holding of an office, no.-campaigning for it, said a Vatican canon law expert.

In Ireland, Pallottine Father Patrick Ryan lost his race for the European Parliament; no disciplinary action was taken against him, but his superiors have since asked him to explain why he has failed to report to them in recent years.

The Vatican seems especially sensitive to political activity it considers Marxist-influenced.

The pope's words on priests and politics have been clear and forceful. Only three months after his election, he told an international meeting of religious priests in Mexico: "You are priests and members of religious orders. You are not social directors, political leaders or functionaries of temporal power."

But lower-profile politics is sometimes approved - something seen recently in Poland. Parish priests there are credited with giving Solidaritya nationwide campaign platform last spring, and without getting into specifics, the pope later spoke proudly of the church's "important role" in Poland's turnabo~t. ' .

UN offi'cial calls 'Vatican diplomacy "the best in the world" UNITED NATIONS (CNS)-"-:' The president of the 1989 U.N. General Assembly said in an interview at the United Nations with Catholic News Service that he considered Vatican diplomacy "the, best in the world."

Nigerian Ambassador Joseph N. Garba, himself a Catholic, said that as attention increasingly focuses on humanitarian concerns, even representatives of atheistic countries give serious attention to the contribution of Vatican diplomats.

"They know what they are .about," he said. "Without being obtrusive, they get t.hings done."

Garba said he first became 'impressed when he was serving as minister of foreign affairs in Nigeria from 1975·to 1978 and observed the work of the pronuncio there, Archbishop Girolamo Prigione, now apostolic delegate to Mexico.

Archbishop Renato R. Martino, the Vatican's observer to the United Nations, also got warm praise: from Garba.

"He is a very distinguished, hardworking observer," Garba said.'

"When I first saw Jiim, I thought he was just another priest because he was present at almost every session. I didn't know he was a bishop till I saw him one day in church.'~ Garba said he was born to a Protestant family, but was converted through the influence oflay Nigerian teachers at a Catholic school he attended.

He went to the Nigerian Military School in Zaria at the age of 13, and became a Catholic the following year, 1957.

After. further military study in England, he became at 19 the youngest Nigerian ever commissioned as a military officer. In 1965, at age 22, he acquired his first experience with the United Nations by serving in the U.N. peacekeeping force in India and Pakistan.

In 1975, as a colonel, Garba joined with other officers in overthrowing the government of Gen. Yakubu Gowon, an act he calls a coup to restore democracy.

Now a major general, he has been Nigeria's ambassador to the

United Nations since 1984, during which time he has been chairman of the U.N. Special Committee Against Apartheid.

With the uncontested backing of the African countries, he was unanimously elected Sept. 19 to his one-year post. There is speculation that he might be elected UN Secretary general when the post is open two years from now. It is not considered proper to campaign for the office, however, and Garba declined to confirm or deny his availability.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fail River-Fri., Oct. 27, 1989

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WASHINGTON (CNS) - An earlier published report of "rampant" sexual misbehavior among the clergy is "distorted," according to Father David E. Brinkmoeller, director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Priestly Life and Ministry.

"The great majority of the hundreds of the priests I know work hard, pray hard and are faithful to their celibate commitment," said Father Brinkmoeller in his essay, "In the Face of 'Priest-Bashing,' " which appeared 011 the op-ed page ofthe Oct. 17 issue of The Washington Post.

The essay was a response to an ea.rlier article by Jason Berry, a fr,ee-Iance writer who has written extensively on priest pedophilia, the sexual desire for children.

A "guess" reported by Ber.ry that 5 percent of the United States' 53,000 priests may be pedophiles was presented "without a shred of evidence," Father Brinkmoeller said.

"No solid statistical data exist" on priestly pedophilia or homosexuality, Father Brinkmoeller said. "N or is it the sort of thing that admits easy quantification."

He declared that "nothing could be further from the truth" than Berry's charge that bishops "Gover up" pedophilia cases.

"Such cases may have been handled differently in past decades _. when psychology was less sophisticated and when child abuse may have been viewed as simply a moral failing for which one should be repentant, rather than as a psychological addiction for which treatment was mandatory," Father Br.inkmoeller said.

"Tod~y, the hint of such a case is viewed by a bishop with alarm and met with quick and firm action," hI:' said. A 1988 public statement on pedophilia issued by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, hI: added, advises bishops to "move in on such a situation at the earliest possible moment."

Father Brinkmoeller said,-"That some priests occasionally fail in their commitment to celibacy should surprise no one. Life, for everyone, is a struggle, and priests are drawn from the same communities that the rest of America.ns inhabit. ...

"Some priests feel that the church should change its position on mandatory celibacy," Father Brinkmoeller continued, but "many priests believe that celibacy strengthens their ministry and deepens their ability to witness to God's presence and power....

"Give me a group of priests 100, let's say, from the national Catholic directory -'and I'll match them against any 100 men in America: for their dedication, their accompI ishments and their holiness," Eather Brinkmoeller said.

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LITTLE Gregory McGuire, son of Laura Jussaume McGuir~, an alumna of the former St. Kilian School in New Bedford, greets Sister M. Stephen Finnerty, RSM, who served in the Fall River. diocese during her active ministry. (J ussaume photo) .

Sisters of Mercy continue their works of n[1ercy The Sisters of Mercy first came to the Fall River diocese in 1873 when it was still part of the diocese of Providence. They went first to New Bedfor.d,where they established a hospital, and the following year to Fall River, where they established a school.

The hospital and the school were their primary responsibilities to the two cities but they also carried on the spiritual and corporal works of mercy which are their hallmark.

Visiting the poor and aged, nursing the infirm in their homes, caring for orphans, bringing solace to the brokenheai'ted and instructing' those in prison were as much a part of the sisters' ministries as teaching and hospital '!York.. .

Today; nearly 500· Sisters of Mercy of the Province of p'rovidence continue such works of. mercy in Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island and in Belize and Honduras. Throughout their I 38-year history, the sisters' first concern has been for the less fo~tunate. New works rose up in response to needs and lack of

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funds never prevented them from serving God's people.

Today, however, the'Sisters of Mercy, like most other religious congregations are themselves in need, struggling to support their aged and infirm members, most of them at Mount St. Rita Health Centre in Cumberland, RI. The younger sisters look upon these religious as family members': who have· worked for years as teachers, social workers, nurses, child care workers and parish ministers and who now deserve the best of ca:re:But as most of us know, the cost of such care can be' far beyond family means.

This is why the.Sistersof Mercy .hold an annual benefit dinner for Mount St.. Rita Health Centre.

ThiS is· an opportunity for those who were I:ducated and cared for by the sisters to assist them in their need.

Information on the dinner, to be held Nov. 8 at Venus de Milo Restaurant, Swansea, is available in Fall River from Sister Marie Lourdette at St. Vincent's Home (679-8511); in New Bedford from Sister Nora Smith at Our Lady of Mercy Convent (992-3694); in Taunton from Sister Margretta Sol at Our Lady of Lourdes Convent (822-9206); and in Attleboro from Sister Rose Angela McLellan at Bishop Feehan (226-4608).

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(N orma Olivier) Finally, writes Father Genest,..... Sacred Grpllnd,is not a place of

memory alone-it is a place of felt experience, a place where the past and present come together to make a new moment, a' richer moment, perhaps a new revelation of God in our lives."

Information on programs may be obtained from LaSalette Center for Christian Living, 947 Park· St, Attleboro 02703; tel. 222-8530.

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Some psychologists charge according to ability to pay. Perhaps .your teacher.or counselor would .. be willing't'O,talk to a psychologist about your financial situation and that of your p.arents. ' It is not surprising that you feel unloved and punished by God. Maybe because of your situation of abuse, you can see God only as a parent figure ("Our Father") who" like -your parents, is abusive. It is possibie you can think of God only as Ii stern authority figure. '

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The song is right. Genuine love is not stopped by distance, time or even death. Love faces the difficulty of separation honestly. It does not pretend that the time apart doesn't hurt.

However, it realizes that love also means letting go and allowing another to seek his or her dreams.

At times love makes the difficult choice ofencouraging someone to seek what he or she needs to be happy, namely the chance to learn new things and experience adventures, along with having the opportunity to develop gifts and talents.

Can love survive time and distance apart? Much depends on how freely we send our loved . one on his or her way and how well we nurture the love during the time apart.

Taking care of love means finding frequent means to keep communication going. Be creative in how you keep the flow of feelings, ideas and spiritual care going between yourself and the one you love.

The song also reminds us how "dreams ,get changed on the W!ly to reality." Yet, we do not ,need to fear change, for ?ften it brings growth. Trust in your dreams and give them the time and space to unfold., Your comments are welcome always. Address Ciuulie Martin, R.~. #3,Box 1~2, Rock- , port, hid. 47635

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Could you temporarily put out of your head the idea that God is your father? For a time abandon that idea.

Turn now to the Gospel of John Chapter 15:14-15. HereJesus, who is not only human but also God, says, "You are my friends .... I have called you friends." , For some time to come, ,could you think of, God exclusively as "friend?" Give to God all the wonderful qualities that your best friend has, such ,things as loyalty, a willingness to listen, an ability to be available for you at all times, a desire to share with you and to help you in need and so forth.

Try to find some time each day to think of God as friend, the best of friends, one who'll stick with you in good times and bad.

And talk to him as intimately as you would to your best friend and in the same, ordinary language you would use with your'best friend; , ' Then listen in silence and try to imagine what this good friend migh't . say to you, not only about the terrible situation you have been in but also about the ordinary matters of everyday life.

This heavenly friend knows how to say just the right thing.

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MICHAEL HESSH.AUS, ,a senior at Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton, 'has been named a winner of the 1990 Universityof MassachusettsAmherst Chancellor'sAward for Academic Excellence and has been offered a merit scholarship with a four-year waiver of tuition.

'Bishop Connolly S~udent organizati~ns at Bishop Connolly High Sch<;>ol, Fall River, are in full swing. . Ski Club officers are Matt Palma, president; Danielle Jusseaume and Matt Audet, vice-presidents; Eric Hatfield, secretary; Matt Leffel'S and Eric Pilotte, treasurers.Jeremy Tung is raci?g coordiria~~r.

Amnesty International, which began' at Conolly last ,'year, now has over 100 meJ]lbel'S. Class'representatives are seniors Maria Mutty. and Bet,hllney Hall;: juniors Eric Geoghegan and Breda McCiuthy, sophomores Cassia Picard' and Sarah Provost, and fr.eshmen Megan Ryan arid Joe Mendes. . Se~lors Ca~la.Berg,.Brian-'Mic1}­ aud and' Rachel' Fl!~ger.- juniors Breda McCarthy, Kristyn Methot and Eric Brenner,'and sophomore Paul Ca:bral are leads for a Nov. 9 to II production "Go Ask Alice."

The Diocesan Office of Youth Ministry will hold a convention in celebration of World Youth Day from 1-9 p.m. Oct: 28 at CoyleCassidy High School, Taunton.

Brother Joseph LaGressa, OFM, a parish youth minister from 'the Boston archdiocese, will give the keynote address, Catholic Youth on the Threshold of the 90s.

Students will be able to attend any two of nine afternoon workshops. A workshop for adults, The Faith D,evelopment of Youth, will be conducted by teacher and author Rev. James DiGiacomo, SJ. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will celebrate, a 5 p.m. liturgy, to be followed by dinner and a dance.

St. Joseph's School . An. induction ceremony for junIOr hIgh students accepting positions of leadership in the Father Damien Catholic Civics Club at St. Joseph's School, Fairhaven, was held Oct. 13.

National Junior Honor Society leaders, grade 8', are Danielle Cyr, Jennifer Demanche, Kimberly Ferreira, Sara Garde,Kathryn Negri, Heather Ribeiro and Kimberly Schultze.

Grade 6 student councilors are Laurie Amos, Kristie Dee Botelho, Heidi-Jo Gonsalves, Daniel Osuch and Brian Rose; grade "I members are Terrence Costello, Jared DaRocha and Andres Ortega; grade 8 members are Andrew Gallaghe'r, Sara Garde, Kathryn Negri, Heather Ribeiro and Kimberly Shultze are grade 8 members. , Inducted into the school safety patrol by Officer Macy Joseph of , the Fairhaven Police Department were Peter Hasenfuss, ·captain; Andres 'Ortega, sergeant; and Aniette Alves, lieutenant. Also inducted were Jared DaRocha, Christopher Eustace, Brenda Foster, "Jason Kaeterle, Aaron Lague, Jason Lague and Erika Spinola.

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Mathematics teacher Eiieen Lafleur led seniors Laurence Bell, Jennifer Charland, Jeff Conroy and Maria Mutty in competiton at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Invitational Mathematics Meet , on Oct. 19.

Rev. William Norton, pastor of St. Patrick's parish, Fall River, recently spoke to Connolly students on his involvement with the community soup kitchen at the Catholic Social Services Office located on the parish grounds. , ,The kitchen operates Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to noon and many Connolly students are among its volunteers.

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Three June 1989 graduates have earned national honors from Junior Achievement: Stephanie Ciosek, Jim Agarand Christine Viera.

The".Fall River delegation was honored as the best delegation at the'JA East Coast convention last spring. J A is a national program designed to help students become familiar with the business world through classes and by running their own enterprises.

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. By Linda Rome After babysitting, washing cars and IT)owing lawns for extra cash, the leap to your first formal job may not seem moment us. But that first formal job is a stepping stone into the adult world of timecards, unions, a steady paycheck and taxes. It's also a step into a world unprotected by your parents, fr!ends and teachers.

My first "real" job was as a clerk at a discount drugstore. I learned how to run the register and how to make change. I restocked shelves and showed customers 10 different shades of lipstick at the cosmetic counter. I worked on Christmas Eve and on my birthday because I was the newest employee.

I felt faceless to the customers and even to my fellow workers. I was surprised that for Marge and the other clerks, this was their job of choice, day in, day out, week after month after year.

For the most part they were satisfied with the pay, benefits and hours and had made a life around the demands of this job -:- demands which included not knowing what your schedule was for the following week until the last minute, no sick leave and having to pay for any register errors out of our own pocket.

What are your attitudes and expectations about the workplace?

Quiz yourself with the help of the following questions. Or use these questions in a discussion with others.

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Symbols following film reviews indir.ate both general and Catholic Fil:ns Office ratings. which do not always coillcide.

General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-13-parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggf!sted; R-restricted. unsuitable for children or young teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for 6. I work for minimum wage. I: children and adults: A2-approved a. think my employer deserves for adults and adolescents; A3the best I can do even though I approved for adults only; A4-sepathink the job is worth more; rate classification (given films not b. think I deserve a little slack morally offensive which, however, when it comes to breaks and lunch; require some analysis and explanac. don't see how an employer can tion); O-morally offensive. . expect hard work, loyalty and a' Catholic: ratings for television great attitude when he d,oesn't value movies are those of the movie house. the job enough to pay more than versions of the films. minimum wage.

7. Another employee is constantly asking me to do his or her work. I would: a. help out when it didn't interfere with my own work; b. explain I have my own work to do; c. try to avoid this person as much as possible.

8. A person I work with and have become friendly with asked me to punch his or her timecard i·n when I punch mine. This person is always five to 10 minutes late. I would: a. do it to help out a friend; b. just say no; c. say yes, but "forget" to do it.

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sense of visual tension helps clarify the moral issues debated by those who made the bomb. An adulteryoung son are brutally' murdered ous encounter with nudity, a grisly by police.. Sutherl~nd is powerful - radiatior death, minimal rough as a conscIence-strIcken man who. language. A3, PG 13 painfully realizes that his white "Halloween 5: ·The Revenge of compatriots and wife and daughMichael Myers" (Galaxy): Senseter are morally bankrupt. .

Conjures up comparisons with less exploitation of Michael's psythe Holocaust. Good for parents chic power over his niece (Danielle Harris) who survived last year's and older adolescents to share. installment and,is her uncle's major A3,R target when he returns to terrorize "The Fabulous Baker Boys" young Halloween revelers. Mind(Fox): Charts the last hurrah of less menace, remorseless violence piano-playing brothers (Jeff and and a sexually suggestive encounBeau Bridges) who work the Seat- ter. O,R tle cocktail lounge circuit and brief"The Outside Chance of lVIaxly revitalize their stale act with a. imilian Glick" (South Gate): Exsultry female singer (Michelle plores the crisis of faith of a 12Pfeiffer). The Bridges brothers are year-old Jewish boy(Noam Zylberoutstanding as two brother& who man) as he approaches his bar simultaneously respect and resent mitzvah in his rural Canadian one another and 'who continue hometown circa ·1960. When his their demoralizing act long after it family cuts .off his relationship serves anyone's purpose. Also fine' with a Polish Catholic girl (Faiis Miss Pfeiffer, who catalyzes the ruza Balk), the boy, who hoped to men to face hard realities. Profanteam with her in a piano competiity, sexual vulgarities, brief sexual tion, is .troubled by the prejudice situations with nudity. A3,R within both Jewish and Christian communities. Although the film "Fat Man and Little Boy"(Paratoo easily resolves the issue of mount): Fine production values prejudice, it does not sugar-coat and serviceable acting highlight the Jewish point of view and clearly this dramatization of the I942 creaevokes the confusion of children tion of the 'world's first atomic too young to understand prejubomb. Focuses on the motivations dice. Fine for' interfaith parentof the two key players, Gen. Leslie child audiences. A I,G R. Groves (Paul Newman) and physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer TV Film (Dwight Schultz), in the turning of Sunday, Nov. 5, 9-11 p.m. EST energy into a force capable of des(ABC)~'CrocodiIeDundee"(1986): troYing'mankind. An air of scienCentral premise of this Australian tific and historical accuracy and a comedy is the clash of cultures when a crocodile hunter from Down Under (Paul Hogan) visits New York City acco~panied by an attractive journalist (Linda Kozlowski) assigned to do a story on the Crocodile Man. The film is said. "I think it's going to be quite more a vehicle showcasing Hogan's modern to have somebody with charming mannerisms than the some very definite standards who lighthearted romance it pretends will not lower those standards. ", to be. Mild satire of some of the Miss, Beacham said she "would seamier sides of urban life. fight very hard" against 'trivializ-, A2,PGI3 ing religion and declared she will not do "cheap God jokes." Jackie Mason also said his show will "not trivialize religion at all." Instead, he said, it will poke fun at people's "emotional problems because of their religious upbringing."

Sales and Service for Domestic . ::; Alan H. Gerson, NBC vice presand Industrial ~ ident for program standards and 995-1631 marketing policy, said the retwork 2283 ACUSHNET AVENUE is looking at how Sister Kate comes NEW BEDFORD across. . "We are concerned that we not allQw the characterization to be disrespectful to sisters," Gerson s,!-id..

HALLETT The church showing up on prime time might be good for religion, Funeral Home Inc. . said Henry Herx, director of the USCC Office forFilm and Broad2f!3 St~tion Avenue casting. $outh Yarmouth, Mass.

It can mean a "humanization of religion" which "f~r many in our Te,I.. ,398·2285 society would be.a positive thing," he said, adding that popular culture may simplify deep spiritual truths, but that is not necessarily a .' ~_ _~ ..... failing for television. .. .'

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"The censors come down and. are not quite sure what to do," she said. "They take religious paintings off the wall"and change scenes \\lTIl CO\YE\IE\T OFFICFA' if they fear she's making the Sign '111ROlUIOlT SOlTIIE\."TER\ 'IA'\.'. of the Cross too much, she said.

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I. I expect that my first job will: a. be fun; b. be boring; c. lead to a better job in the same field; d. be easy.

2. I think of ajob as a means to: a. make money; b, do something useful; c. find out ifI would like the work as a future career; d. occupy my time.

3. On my first job the supervisor made a pass (unwanted and unsolicited) at me. I would: a. quit my job; b. tell my parents; c. be flattered; d. make a formal complaint in writing; e. tell my supervisor in no uncertain terms that I am nOt interested.

4. The employee I work with most closely has had something· bad to say about many other workers. I would: a. continue to be friendly and polite with everyone until I can make up my own mind; b. try to stay out <?f personality conflicts by not choosing sides; C. take my new friend's words to heart when it comes to dealing with the other employees.

5. Everyone takes a break before me - sometimes I don't even get a break. I would: a. speak to my supervisor; b. seethe inwardly but not say anything; c. suggest to the other employees that we rotate who takes a break; d. forget taking a break in order to get others to view me as a hard worker.

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LOS ANGELES (CNS) Prime-time television's getting Catholicism. At least that seems to be the case with the networks' fall lineup.

The Catholic religion figures sig: nificantly in two new network programs, NBC's "Sister Kate," and ABC's "Chicken Soup," about a Jewish man in love with an IrishCatholic widow.

The fall lineup also includes the return of '·'Just the Ten of Us," a comedy set at a private Catholic school for boys.

Catholicism is expected to figure in all the programs. It will fit. naturally into "Sister Kate," a series built around a nun, played by Stephanie Beacham, who heads a group home for orphans.

Catholicism also p\ays a part in "Chicken Soup~" 'starring Jackie Mason and Lynn Redgrave, which will .deal with "Jackie meeting members of her family and their friends, and how they feel about each' other, how Jews feel abOUt Catholics," said producer Bernard Orenstein. ' , . , Robert C. Wright, president and chief executive officer' of NBC,' told CNS he thought the current Catholic emphasis,stelumed from what he said is society:s current "fascination with things conservati.ve.": ' , , There seems to be an,attraction for shows "featuring religion, a· wholesomeness" and shows which are ."conservative and ·disciplineoriented," he said. , Miss Beacham ·cited.·a move toward law and order as an impetus for the use of Catholicism in prime time, .

"There's a strong revival of morality in America today," she

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·,teering pOintl TV MASS Father George E. Harriso!1, director of the Diocese Office of Youth Ministry, will celebrate the channel 6 Television Mass at 11:00 a.m.

Sunday in celebration of World Youth Day. SACRED HEART, TAUNTON The parish Family Ministry program will sponsor a Halloween party at 3 p.m. Sunday in the church hall.

SACRED HEART, N.ATTLEBORO Barbara Driscoll is in charge of coordinating, training and assigning lectors. Confirmation parents will meet after 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday in the chapel. HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO All Saints Eve Mass, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday. All are invited to come in costume. Youth group sponsored party follows in the church hall.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Halloween Liturgy, 4:30 p.m. Sunday. All invited to come in costume.

Party in the church hall will follow.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET World Youth Day will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Mass Sunday. 35 youth group members and five adult advisors will participate in a program from I to 9 p.m. Saturday at' Coyle-Cassidy High School,. Taunton. The parish Haitian Help Program is in need of bed linens, towels, bath mats, dishtowels, pot holders, clothespins, 60-watt light bulbs, light bedspreads and.soap. Donations may be brought to the re1:tory.

SACRED HEART, FR Care of household plants will be discussed at a Women's Guild meeting in the parisp hall to follow a 7 p.m. Mass for deceased members Monday, Nov. 6. Chairpersons a·re Rosann Patota and Fern White.

CYO meeting, after 7 p.m. Mass Sunday.

ST. JOSEPH, F AIRHA VEN Adoration 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. today, church. Mass and anointing of sick, 2 p.m. Sunday, school.

Refreshments will be provided by ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO the Couples' Club and served by Parish Halloween party, 6-9 p.m. youth group members. TransportaTuesday, parish center. Costumes tion available: call 992-0082. New required. members sought by Vincentians.

Information: Joe Begnoche, DAUGHTERS·OF ISABELLA 992-7371.

Benedict Circle 61 installation, ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN noon tomorrow, St. Mary's Church, Paraliturgy for grade 2 religious N. Attleboro. education students, tomorrow. Mass ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET' of anointing, St. Joseph's School, All Saints Party, tomorrow. . Fairhaven, 2 p.m. Sunday. All Children should come dressed as invited, especially the aged and their patron saint. Sophomore Day infirm. For transportation call 992of Recollection, Sunday.

0082, 992-5490.

BL. SACRAMENT, FR A Women's Guild meeting planned for Nov. 8 has been rescheduled to follow 6:30 p.m. Mass Nov. I in the church hall. Junior choristers will meet at 1:50 p.m. Sunday at Blessed Sacrament COnvent. Dressed in Halloween costumes, they will entertain sisters at the convent, who will then judge the costumes. Prizes will be awarded and refreshments will follow in the church basement.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Converts Pamela Almeida and Herbert Collins, who were baptized last Sunday, are welcomed by the parish. Assistance is needed at 1:30 p.m. each Wednesday to wheel patients to Mass at Country Gardens Nursing Home.

ST. JEAN BAPTISTE, FR School students are collecting . labels to be exchanged for audiovisual and teaching aids and reference books. Information at the school.

ST. THERESA, NB Holy Hour sponsored by Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament, 7-8 p.m.

Monday. St. Theresa's Church, 2693 Acushnet Ave, NB. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Fridays following ,9. a:m. Mass continuously until 7 p.m. when Benediction services are held. Information: Angelo DeBortoli,996-o332.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Meeting for parents of grade 2 religious education students, 7-8:30 p.m. Nov. 5 Halloween party for grades 1-5,2-4 p.m. Sunday, church basement. Explorer Post Youth Groun general meeting, 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 13; executive committee meeting, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14. Canned goods drive for needy families, Nov. 4-5.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Bishop Cronin will be the celebrant at the 11:30 a.m. Mass Sunday with the dedication and open house of the parish center to follow. All parishioners invited. Grade 3 liturgy for that day is cancelled.

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ST, ELIZABETH SETON, ST. ANNE HOSPITAL, FR N,FALMOUTH A free educational series for cancer K of C members and families will patients and families is held from 3 attend a Mass for departed Knights to.4:30 p.m. Wednesdays in the at 10 a.m. Nov. 5. The annual com- Nannery Conference Room. Current munion breakfast will follow at the treatment of breast cancer will be Council Hall, Brick Kiln Road. discussed Nov. I, and there will be a Birthright donations of clothing or panel discussion On home services supplies will be welcomed. Anoint- available On Nov. 8. Further inforing of sick at II: 15 a.m. Mass Nov. mation: 674-5741, ext. 2270.

5. Transportation: call 548-6326 or HOLY NAME, FR 563-9206. The Women's Guild has Halloween party, grades K-4, 5-7 presented over $30,000 to the parish for use in building new offices at the p.m. Tuesday, sl?onsored by youth rectory. 11:15 a.m. Mass Sunday group. will celebrate World Youth Day. ST. STANISLAUS, FR Five parish teens will attend SunNOTRE DAME, FR day's youth program at CoyleParochial vicar Father Robert Cassidy High, Taunton. This week's Canuel will speak at the Council pf icon-hosting family: Raymond and Catholic Women meeting at 7:30 Janice Romagnolo. RCIA program p.m. Monday in the church hall.

Haitian relief items may be brought . begins 7 p.m. Nov. 6. All prospective COnverts welcome, as well as those to the meeting, including cast iron already bapti?-ed wishing to learn frying pans, bed linens, towels and more about the Church.

60·watt light bulbs. Musicians and singers are needed for the ThanksST. KILIAN, NB giving Eve liturgy. Information: Healing service, 3 p.m. Nov. 5, St. Claire Amiot, 678-7419.

Kilian Church, 306 Ashley Blvd., MASS. CITIZENS FOR LIFE, NB NB. The public is invited.

Holy hour on precious gift of life.

SS PETER AND PAUL 7 p.m. Nov. 3, St. Joseph's Church, St. Vincent de Paul Society meetFairhaven. ing, 7 p.m. Nov. 2, rectory.

ORDER OF ALHAMBRA Meeting 2 p.m. Nov. 5, St. AnST. JULIE BILLIART, selm's College, Manchester, NH. N. DARTMOUTH Ushers needed for 6 p.m. SaturCHRIST THE KING, day and 11:30 a.m. Sunday Masses.

MASHPEE/COTUIT Mass for First Eucharist students 15 more ushers are needed. Inand parents, 9 a.m. Sunday. Those formation: 428-1485. New children's attending the. diocesan youth day choir members are welcome. Infortomorrow should meet in the church mation: 428-1252. Catholic Social parking lot at nOon. Services is seeking families to care for newborns on a temporary basis.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, Information: Jane price, 771-6771.

E. FREETOWN Halloween party for children 2 to 4 Our Lady of Grace Church, Wes-p.m. Sunday, Queen of All Saints port, retreat, tomorrow and Sunday. chapel.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM HEALING SERVICE, NB Youth Mass, 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

Greater New Bedford clergy will Second-year Confirmation parent hold an ecumenical healing service meeting, 7-9 p.m. Monday, parish for AIDS patients at 7 p.m. Sunday hall. Kathy Wrobel of the LaSalette at North Baptist Church. All wel- retreat staff will share aspects of the come. youth retreat.

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