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FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETIS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS VOL. 42, NO. 43 • Friday, November 6, 1998

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Grants bolster Catholic Social Services immig'ration assistance

By JAMES N. DUNBAR

$30,700 from the Massachusetts Bar AssoFALL RIVER - Thousands of low-in- ciation and $10,000 from the Lazarus Founcome immigrants and their families will ben- dation, with Catholic Charities making up efit from services via new grants to the Immi- the difference of $91,300 for the $132,000 . total costs of the program, gration, Law, Education, Advocacy Project that op- - - - - - - - - - - - - said McNamee. ' crates under the aegis of 'There are people That and another fundthe diocese's Catholic So- ,who walk through the ing SO\lrce, from the state door who don't have two Office of Refugees and Imcial Services.

In a joint interview this migrants, helped pave the week,ArleneA. McNanlee, nickels to give us.": - way for the hiring-oOanet-· ex.ecutive director of Arlene McNamee, 'ex- Buckley-SmithasanimmiCatholic Social Services, ecutive director of gration paralegal at CSS.

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St. Michael Church answers the question: How far will a parish go to get people into church?

just making the church fully accessible to. those who use wheelchairs or who need assistance to climb a grade, but we see it as a way of saying to the whole community ... as a spiritual meditation that we realize we must be willing to knock down walls to make way for people."

He added that "We see that as a metaphor for what we want to do and what we stand for as a parish; that we'll knock down walls if need be to get people to come to church; to allow them to be here and be part of the worshiping community. We see it not as a physical wall to come down but as a spiritual wall too. We want it known throughout the diocese that St. Michael Parish is wide open and welcoming."

FALL RIVER - A ramp to allow the handicapped easy access to St. Michael Church will be dedicated at Masses next weekend.

• The blessing ceremonies, to be held before the 4 p.m. Mass on Saturday, Nov. 7, and prior to the Mass Sunday at 11 a.m., realize a goal of Pastor Father Luis A. Cardoso to make his church accessible to all.

According to Father Dermot Rodgers, OFM, Cap., parochial vicar at St. Michael's, the ramp project came after some parishioners suggested it. Father Cardoso contacted Permanent Deacon Tom Palanza of Mansfield, architect for the diocese, who drew up the plans.

The construction of the ramp and full parking adjacent was done by Cesar Sousa, a parishioner and contractor.

"It was a tough job because we needed to cut through walls that were three feet thick and it was very difficult," Father Rodgers reACCESS - workers install new entranceway leading from a ported.

"As a parish newly constructed ramp that allows handicapped access to we see this as a St. Michael Church on Essex Street, Fall River, for the first symbol of not time.

that - and another $3,000 in training is anticipated - it will be well worth it, McNamee and Holland asserted.

"The goal was to be able to represent immigrants legally and since there are more than 75,000 first-generation immigrants in theSouthCoastarea,theneedforrepresentation is tremendous, especially for those who lack financial resources," Holland reported.

Over the past year, ILEAP has moved more "to representation of immigrants in various matters. The program has 128 cases that are provided assistance with deportation hear-

ings, permanent residence, naturalizations, work authorizations, asylum, and release of a juvenile from an INS detention. The program continues to utilize training workshops that in 1996-97 trained 280 human service providers as well as 450 immigrants who attended bilingual immigration seminars.

The first iTant for ILEAP came from the Massachusetts Bar in 1995, allowing the hiring of Holland, then a law student. After his admission to the bar, he represented the agetfcy at legal hearings. In March of this Turn to page seven - CSS

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FALLRlVER-App,Toximately600high sCh061 students fr6m across the region' prayed, sang, attended Mass, a~e tons of pizza an~ enjoyed [dance at the annual Dioces·a!tYouJh~CQ1).x~ntt,nl1el~+Sl)nday at Bishop jConnollytiighSchooI. ':y~~\\V'e:~~(l.~~~~~~'.~~~<>9ay'.;'~;~1lid';'ab~yLotlis ~B~d"'Mmer.directorof , YQ~tIi~llllstr!es, who pu~ithe long noon to 9 p.m., program I togeth~i. "They are youth i~etf; the sain~, "(ho are our "hall of ! fa~ers,;: because it is All Saints Day and we look to the saints ,jas our models; and finally,: the Holy Spirit: The theme of the i convention is 'The Holy Spirit WiII Tea<th You AlJ"Things.'" :. Miller said he put together a group Iofspeakers and pre• senters'''who are very popular with 'th~ young people and at : the same time have a veryl strong ev"ririgelical message."

Those included Steve Angrisano, ail intemationally rec1 ognizeO Catholic musician and storytel1~r from Denver, Colo.; Father:Dan O'Connell frolrtthe Bostol~ archdiocese, a vivaciousspeaker who has given many youth and young adult confei~nces in this region; and Robe~t Surette, an up-andcoming Catholic artist who offered multimedia reflections on Jesl,ls through music, painting and art.

Father Hemando Herrera, a member ofthe Youth Apostles, was principal celebrant at Ii late afterdoon Mass. Music for the MijSs was provided byithe St. Louis,de France Contemporary Choir, comprised of teenagers and adults.

After that, the. participants had pizza and soft drinks. The event concluded with a dance in Connolly's cafeteria atwhich disc jockey' Martin Cos~a provided entertain:.;, .

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I "This is the third convention I've attended, and it is a time of refincling your faith, your sp¥ituallty," Raymond said. "It. offers a strengthening when you see so many others just like you gatheri~g for common goals, so it's not just you. So, if you're kind 6fweak, thim this gives you a boost. If you can't. find any kids in your community who are religious~ then just come here and you will find them. On a day like this you,.' know tltey'reoutthere.".

Maryann Daley, a youth minister for the LaSalette Youth Group, leads a group of seni()r,high school students every Friday night in a few hours of prayer and talk of how God fits into the world of teenagers. "They take charge of the meeting, pick a topic, and discuss how God answers the needs oftoday's world. They tell me that when they share their faith it is the best part of their week. This convention day is just a larger U-.;=.......:...;;....;.>.. grouping of what is being done across the diocese as youth FR. O'CONNELL gather to talk about their spiritual life and read Scripture."

Father O'Connell, of the Boston archdiocesan Office of Spiritual Development and Boston Catholic Television, keyed on the theme and talked to the assembly of being open to the availability of the Holy Spirit.

Using funny storiesfrom his own experience and Gospel passages, Father O'Connell talked about how Jesus used the Spirit in his own life and invited his disciples to do the

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THE ANCHOR -'Diocese of Fall River -Fri., Nov. 6;'1998 '

ISister Marie Gonzales S1. Denis, OP I FALL RIVER - Dominican Sis. tel' Marie Gonzales St. Denis, 104, the oldest living member of the Dominican Sisters of Hope, died Oct. 28 at St. Catherine's Convent, 37 Park St. Born in this city, she was the daughter of the late Fran<;:ois and the late Esther (Tessier) St. Denis. A graduate of Dominican Academy here, she entered the Dominican Sisters in 1917, received the habit in 1918, was professed in 1919 and made her final p'rofession in 1923.

During her 81 years of religious life she served here and in Acushnet, and in New Y,?rk and Peru before retiring in 1974. All of her life and even in retirement; she was active as convent cook, sacristan and seamstress.

Sister St. Denis is survived by a nephew. She, was the sister of the late Joseph and the late Marie and Blanche St. Denis.

Her funeral Mass was celebrated Oct. 30 in the convent chapel. Burial was in Notre Dam~ Cemetery.

Sister Eileen McCabe, RSM RIVERSIDE, R.I. - Merc'y Sister Eileen McCabe, 72, formerly Sister Mary Benjamina, of St. Mary Convent, Bay View, 3070 Pawtucket Ave., Riverside, ~ied there Oct. 28.

Born in Pawtucket, a daughter of the late Henry and the late Elizabeth (Holmes) McCabe, she entered the Sisters of Mercy in 1944 and was professed in 1947.

Sister McCabe taught at Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro, Bay View and in Providence and Greenvil1e. She had served as a prin-

cipal and teacher in schools in' Belize and, Honduras, Central America. l)ntil her illness, she had been pastoral minister at St. Patrick Parish, Cumberland. ' She leaves a brother, Leo McCabe of Glassboro, N.J., and ntecesand nephews. She was the sister of the late Ruth Blais and John and Henry McCabe. , Her Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Oct. 31 in Sacred Heart Church, Pawtucket. Interment was Resurrection Cemetery, in Cumberland.

VATICAN CITY - The actions of Pope Pius XII during World War II should be considered in their context, a former ranking Austrian politician wrote in a Vatican news-, paper article.

"In the evaluation of historic personalities, it is incorrect to judge or, all the more deplorable, to condemn using knowledge acquired after the fact as a criterion," Herbert Schambeck, former president of the Austrian senate, wrote in the Nov. 1 edition of L'Osservatore

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tional socialist regime, which would have worsened all the more the persecutions for religious, political and racial reasons," the former politician said.

"Unfortunately it is a characteristic of our times to deny positive aspects and to invent negative ones in order to make propaganda out of them," Schambeck wrote. ' "Some people feel c0!1strained to judge Pope Pius XII very severely because he could not make his condemnations in a louder voice and help more people," Schambeck said.

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gebra, chemistry, biology and advanced math from 1927 until retiring in the 19705. She was a high school girls' basketball coach for several years and taught in Fal1 River, Providence and Woonsocket, R.I., and Goffstown, N.H. She is survived by ~eces and ' nephews.

Her funeral Mass was celebrated Oct. 29 in St. Martha Church, Plainvil1e. Interment was in St. Jean Baptiste Cemetery, Bellingham.

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, used his moral authority to greater advantage in predominantly Christian Europe to prevent Nazi atrocities against Jews.

Schambeck listed a number of instances in which Pope Pius either wrote or spoke against war and discrimination based on race or religion. He also provided excerpts from memos by high-ranking officials in the Nazi government show'ing that they felt irritated and, in some cases, threatened by the wartime pope's pronouncements.

But Pope Pius had to avoid "open declarations against the na-

\ "Pope Pius XII could prevent neither the scope of the Second World War nor the atrocities against the persecuted for political and racial reasons," Schambeck FALL RIVER- Dr. Krysten of AIDS and Religion in America, , wrote, "but he tried to mitigate Winter-Green, director of the' will feature dozens of well-known these aspects and to lend help, diocese's AIDS Ministry Office, international and nation~.l physiwhile many, states in Europe and will be the moderator at one of the cians, clergy, legislators and AIDS elsewhere denied help and asylum seminars at the convention of the ,program directors. to the persecuted, often even to AIDS National Interfaith Network Winter-Green will moderate a Jews." ,to be held Nov. 8-11 at the Carter roundtable talk titled, "AI1)S MinA number of Jewish leaders Presidential Center in Washington, istry on the Front Lines" that will maintain that Pope Pius could have ' D.C. be held at the Hyatt-Regency on The convention, with' a theme ,Nov.9 at 2:25 p.m. '

Sister Mary Alice Peloquin, RJM PLAINVILLE - Religious of Jesus and Mary Sister Mary Alice Peloquin, 94, of 92 School St., died Oct. 25 at the Religious of Jesus and Mary Mission Center.

Born in Woonsocket, a daughtel' of the late Louis and the late Emma (Valois) Peloquin, she en-' tered the convent in Sil1ary, Quebee in August, 1925, and made her vows on Aug. 13, 1927.

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Dominican Sisters of the Presentation continue founder Marie Poussepin's work DIGHTON - Spanning three from the Dominican Fathers at St. 1961, women entering the congrecenturies and moving forward in Anne's Church. The seed planted gation went to France for their nofaith into the new millennium, the in rich soil soon bore abundant fruit vitiate formation. In 1961. a noviDominican Sisters of the Presenta- and in 1996, India became inde- tiate was established in Dighton, tion are an international, pendent of the USA Province. The where many women received their multicultural group of consecrated same missionary spirit continues. formation in the footsteps of Marie women committed to bringing the In 1995, three sisters from the prov- Poussepin and in the spirituality of good news of Jesus Christ to his ince were asked to establish a con- St. Dominic. people. gregation in Korea. It is already Today, sisters of the USA ProvInspired by God, Blessed Marie bearing fruit, with Korean women ince are doing Christ's work in the Poussepin founded the Congregation in 1696 in Sainville, France.

She wanted to establish "a community of women of the Third Order of St. Dominic for the care of the sick poor of the parish and for the education of poor girls."

At the time of her death in 1744, 113 women had joined her and 21 houses had been established. In her last testament, she asked those who would follow her "to keep the zeal for education and the poor, the spirit of poverty and love of work." She wanted her sisters "to bring the knowledge of Jesus Christ and his mysteries wherever they are sent."

Following Poussepin's death, her successors took her teaching to heart: "The community cannot confine within itself the abundance it has received from heaven. It has to spread itself abroad generously."

And so it did, in an extraordinary and daring missionary expansion. The sisters were sent first to Spain, then to Iraq and Colombia, A FRIEND INDEED - Dominican Sister Michael Joseph South America. Cun'ently there are Midura, a pediatric nurse who visits the homes of high-risk more than 2,000 sisters in Colomchildren, plays with a youngster at Christmastime. bia alone. The missionary spirit continued as sisters were sent to Italy, Switzerland and England. The joining the sisters in community. dioceses of Fall River, Providence, congregation is now present in 36· Washington, D.C.; It has been 93 years that the sis- R.I.; countries of the world. ters have been in the United States. Brownsville, Texas and Inchon, .

In 1905, sisters were sent to be- From 1926 to 1976, Saint Anne's Korea. gin St. Anne's Hospital in Fall School of Nursing served the' local Whether through teaching, River, in response to an invitation community of Fall River. Prior to health oare, social or parochial services, they continue to embody Poussepin's great com;ern for God's people and for the needs of the times.

This concern led to new missionary

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fr.i., Nov. 6, 1998 expressions in Fall River with the founding of Marie's Place, where clothing is given out to the needy.

The clothing is donated and the store is run entirely by volunteers.

Hope House, a home for homeless persons living with HIV/AIDS, was opened next to Saint Anne's to meet another need of our times.

We, the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation, strive to imitate Christ by living a poor and simple lifestyle. We are consecrated to God through the evangelical vows

and live an intense personal and communal prayer life. We live in communities of three or more SISters and strive, as sisters, to help each other in charity to reach holiness while carrying out our particular ministries.

Our Provincial House, at 3012 Elm St., Dighton, has a beautiful chapel and an outside labyrinth. For more information contact the Vocation Office at 3012 Elm St., Dighton, MA 02715, or call (508) 669-5023.

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Since the actual place of residence of MARY LINDA PAVAO is unknown.

We cite MARY LINDA PAVAO to ap· pear personally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on Tuesday, Novem· ber 24, 1998 at 2:30 p.m. at 887 High· land Avenue, Fall River, Massachusetts, to give testimony to establish: . Whether the nullity of the marriage exists in the Medeiros· Pavao case?

Ordinaries of the place or other pas· tors having the knowledge of the resi· dence of the above person, Mary linda Pavao, must see to it that she is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation.

Paul F. Robinson, O. Carm., J.C.D. Adjutant Judicial Vil:ar Given at the Tribunal, Fall River, Massachusetts on this the 29th dav of October, 1998.

Since the actual place of residence of AUSON M. KAUFFMAN SANTOS is unknown.

We cite AUSON M. KAUFFMAN SANTOS to

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Fal River onTuesday, NoventJer24, 1998at 10:30 am at 887 Highland AVl!I1IB, FaD River, Massachusetts, to give testinony to establish: Whether the nullity of the marriage exists in the Santos· Kauffman case?

Ordinaries of the place Or other pastors having the knowledge of the residence of the above per· son, Alison M. Kauffman Santos, must see to it that she is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation.

Paul F. Robinson, O. CaRll., J.C.D. Adjutant Judicial Vicar Given at the Tribunal.

Fall River, Massachusetts on this the 29th ilay of October. 1998.

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Nov. 6, 1998

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the ·moorins.-, Meeting the challenge of education's future With public schooling going private with charter school systems, it should be obvious that confidence in the system is eroding. Parents know this and are rightly taking matters into their own hands. After all, - the prime educators ofchiIdrefl are parents, not the state. Govemment's refusal of choice in education is swiftly becoming ridiculous.

More and more educational alternatives are becoming available to' parents. Chief among them'are the ever-expanding home schooling programs. It is estimated that close to two million children are educated at home. The computer and the Internet have become vital tools in this process. How~ver, the chief reason for a decision to home school is based on a specific philosophy oJ education. Many parents want a system of values to be the cornerstone of an education whose goal is not merely learning but, more importantly, wisdom.

Others feel thatsecular schools are devoid of religiOl~s expression and want their children to learn there is more to life than material possessions. Whatever the reason, home schooling is becoming a significant part of the American education scene. When one considers the increasing interest in both parochial educatie)fi and h()me school-. ing, it becomes obviQuS that more and mor:.e.people feel thatalternative educational choices areanec~ssity in today's social order.

Parents are also losing confidence in many who are teaching in public schools.. Here in Massachusetts, 60 percent ofteachers flunked the certificatioriexaminatic)n. Despite political infighting and negative accusations, this tells liS alot about what children are not getting in the classroom. What is true in the Commonwelllth'fs also true in New York, Texas and Pennsylvania. The result has been that there is now a push to raise college admission standards aqd to imp~oNe curriculums, especially in institutions devoted to teacher training, and even mote especially since' in the next 10 years'the'country will need 200,000 new teachers. , , It is interesting to note that the debate on' how to develop quality t~achers is a refledion of the dramatic changes in learning as.a whole.

In many areas, "hildren are smarter and better prepared for~duca­ tional challenges. The computer and all its ramifications have made many students more· proficient in certain areas than their teachers, although in som.e cases poor. teaching has slowed down thelearnirig process. Indeed, test results have 'indicat~d .th<icAmeric;.~IJ students are falling behind their peers.in other nations, especially in the areas of math and science. The process of social promotion too often fosters nothing more than complet~ illiteracy.

Educational theorists are also a factor to be considered in our ongoing evaluation 0f our school systems. They have for years been playing games with curriculum.. Their continuous experimentation with the learning process has led many schools into nothingness as content is abandoned in the search for subjective relevance. Sad to say, too many so-called educational experts h~lVe allowed their sometimes wacky theories to derail the learning process rather than to set it on a right course of improvement.

All in all, this country is at an educational crossroads. There is no simple answer for the confusion and turmoil that exist in so many schools. However, there are standard guidelines that sh.ould not be abandoned for the sake of novelty. The primary rights of children and parents must be emphasized, teacher training and certifiCation must be improved and techniques of education must be refined so all will be well served. ' It is also imperative that the right of choice in education should be supported by the state. Families should not be punished when they exercise their right to choose educational alternatives. We can no longer afford the tunnel visi~n which narrows choices in school selections.

The future of education in America is hanging in the balance.

What we do now will have a tremendous impact on the entire nation as we enter the millennium. If we fail to meet this challenge we may well see the American dream turning into a nightmare. o

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The presence of God

By FATHER JOHN CATOIR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

The saints.knew that prayer is . much more than the mere words we' recite. Prayer is the whole complex of thoughts and feelings we experience when we stand before the living GoeL The depth of our prayer is related to the degree of our awareness of God's presence. Sometimes we feel a deep sense of reverence, at other times we feel ·nothing.·- " The good news is this: It doesn't matter. When it comes The Editor to prayer, you never have to force any feelings at all. Pure prayer is in the will to give yourself to God. The will simply says yes or no. You can give yourself to Godby simply willing it. "Here I am, Lord."

OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER There are times when your Published weekly by' The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River I~vel of faith is dim, and your 887 Highland Avenue P.O. BOX 7 feelings are numb. Even so, God Fall River. MA 02720 Fall River. MA 02722-0007 is always present. At such times Telephone 508-675-7151 your awareness of God may be FAX (508) 675-7048 cognitive, but it l~cks any emoSend address changes 10 PO. Box 7 or call telephone riumberabove tional depth. You know God is present, but you feel nothing. In EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER .

NEWS EDITOR this state, simply give yourself Rev. John F. Moore Rosema.ry Dussault James N. Dunbar to qod just as you are. ~" LIA'AY "'E55 - FALL R.IVER When I t:xperience thisspiri-

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tual dryness, I just tum my life to suggest that we should have over to the Lord and thank him an intense emotional experience for being there whether I feel his in our prayer life. Not so. It presence or not. ~ould be impossible to love God Sometimes I ask him why he to the maximum limit every time is so distant, so silent. But when we pray,.

I think about it and see a mag-.

Many people have no real nificent sunset or an oak tree feeling for God on a personal dancing in the wind, I realize my level, but they pray well neverquestions are irrelevant. Ood is theless. visible in all of creation.

If you fall into the category Walt Whitman once wrote, "A of those who pray without much single mouse is miracle enough feeling, put your mind at ease. to convert a thousand infidels.'.'

It doesn't really matter. Your . iii some"cuituie's people ac" union with God depends more on knowledgt? God's presence in his love for you than on your love their daily greetings. For in- for him. He loved you with an stance, Hindus bow to one an- infinite love before you were conother with ~oth hands joined be- ceived in your mother's womb, 'low the chin. This is their way and he has loved you ever since of saying; "The God.in me greets . with an infinite love. the God in you."

This divine love for you conThis is a lovely gesture, but tinues whether you feel anything not everyone is consciously or not. thinking of its meaning. The rev- .

God is unchanging love. We erent gesture is like a genuflec- don't understand it, and we don't tion made in an automatic way. deserve it. We don't even know The person bows even when the how to respond to it adequately. feeling of reverence is absent. All we need to know is that God The absence of feelings does not is present at all times, loving us negate the greeting. and sustaining us in all that we The ,Bible teaches that we do. . must love God' with our whole This is the good news of the heart, mind and soul.- Thi~ seems Gospel.

Annual Bishop's Charity Ball will be held at Venus de Milo ~

The Jan. 8, 1999, affair "Benefactor" for $150; "Guarantor" for $100; and "Sponsor" for promises to be a gala $50. event.

Father Bruce M. Neylon, St.

Mary's Parish, Seekonk, is SWANSEA - Among high- Attleboro area director and may lights of the annual Bishop's be reached at 399-8440; Father Charity Ball of the Fall River Dio- Thomas L. Rita, Our Lady of Ascese is the presentation to Bishop sumption Parish, Osterville, is Sean P. O'Malley, OFM, Cap., of Cape and Islands director, 428young women representing par- 2011; Father John A. Perry, St. ishes throughout Southeastern John Neumann Parish, East Massachusetts. The bishop pre- Freetown, is New Bedford area sents each one with a rosary director, 763-2240; Father which he has blessed, as a ball Manuel P. Ferreira, St. Anthony souvenir. The presentees wear Parish, Taunton, is Greater white gowns and each ~arries a Taunton area director, 822-0714. single red rose.

In the Fall River are'!-, those wishThe ball is scheduled for Fri- ing to support the ball may call day, January 8, 1999, at Venus de its diocesan office, 676-8943.

Milo ballroom in Swansea. ProParishes sending a represenceeds benefit Catholic Charities, tative to the 1999 ball follow: thus helping to maintain and expand the many sl;!rvices pro- .

Attleboro area: vided by the institutions, St.Joseph apostolates and ministries of the St. Mark, Attleboro Falls diocese.

St. Theresa of the Child Jesus, At the time diocesan and area South Attleboro committees are seeking contribu- St. Mary, Seekonk tions from ball supporters in conjunction with a souvenir booklet Cape Cod and the Islands area: which will have several catego- Our Lady of the Cape, Brewster ries available to subscribers. St. Anthony, East Falmouth They include an "In Memoriam" Our Lady of the Isle, Nantucket listing for contributions of $250; St. Elizabeth Seton, North "Very Special Friends" for $200; Falmouth

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Fall River area: Blessed Sacrament Espirito Santo Holy Rosary St. Elizabeth St.Joseph 55. Peter and Paul Parish at Holy Cross Church St. Stanislaus St. John of God, Somerset St. Thomas More, Somerset St. Louis de France, Swansea St. John the Baptist, Westport New Bedford area: Our Lady of Fatima Immaculate Conception Our Lady of Perpetual Help St.Anne St.Hedwig.

St.Mary St. Francis Xavier, Acushnet St. Joseph, Fairhaven St. Anthony, Mattapoisett

TIMELY CHAT - As planning advances for the annual Bishop's Charity Ball, meetings are becoming more frequent.

Claire B. McMahon (left), chairman of the Hospitality Committee; Antone Pacheco, master of ceremonies; and Claire O'Toole, chairman of the Presentee Committee, recently gathered to map strategy.

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SWANSEA - Nonagenarian Mercy Sis~er Frances Doherty, who taught for more than 50 years in the Fall River Diocese, is among those .. whowillbenefitfromtheMountSt. Rita Cehter's annual awards dinner to be held Nov. 8, 1 p.m., at the Venus de Milo Restaurant.

The dinner, dedicated to the late Mercy Sister Alban Kerwick, will honor Dr. Pa trick R. Levesque, Mercy Sister Marietta

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. Forreservations for the annual awards dinner, call Sister M. Lourdette MANY HATS - Father John Steakem, pas- Harrold at tor of St. Thomas More Parish in Somerset, is (508) 679a priest for all seasons. He hosts a Boy Scout 8511, ext. 319, troop in the' parish center and he's also the or t~e Mount chaplain for the tall ship H.M.S. Bounty. He is St. Rita Health pictured with R~chard Langfield at the latter's. Center at (401) recent Eagle Scout Court of Honor on board 333-6352. the Bounty.

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Sacred Heart, Oak Bluffs Our Lady of Assumption, Osterville Holy Trinity, West Harwich

Mount St. Rita Health Center pla,ns annual awards dinner Walsh and Mary Louise Fitzpatrick, for their service and commitment to the center.

The first assignment for Sister Frances, the former Sister Mary Baptista Doherty, was to 55. Peter and Paul School in Fall River. She lat~r was to spend 15 years teaching at St. Patrick's School, Fall River, and then at St. Mary School, .

North'AttIeboro. Besides being the principal there, she taught third ;:::;;:::==;;:=;;;::;;;;::;:;=;:==:::;~:::;grade students.

Sister Frances, who now resides at the center, later opened a new school in New Bedford. After her decades of 'teaching, she retired, then .substituted at St. James ,School, New Bedford, and o 'St. Mary Academy-Bay View, •in Riverside, o

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Encouraged by Sister'Prejean, Morris has written her story to let people knoVl she has been able to rebuild her life with the power of forgiveness.

Morris told me, "My life today is living and his sidekick Joseph Vaccaro put guns tb • their heads, kidnapped them, tortured and proof not only. that God'does not ~bandon, shothert>oyfriend leaving him for dead, raped us, but that he has great things in store for us her repeatedly-ang held her hostage for 24 if we trust him." She refers to her Ilusband, hours. She had nowayof-kn()~ing they had Brad, a pilot, their'two children, her work as a · already raped and murdered another girl,.Faith special education teacher, their involvement Hathaway. . ... in church and her media appearances where, The aftershock lastedfor ye~s. Morris lit- she speaks on forgiveness in a vioknt socierally lost her taste for life. She stopped see- ety.

When I read her book, "Forgiving jj)e Dead ing her'boyfriend, who miraculously had survived. She began drinking heavily, and be- Man Walking" (Zondervan), the last two lines came ever angrier at God, until she admitted brought tears to my eyes: "Justice didn't do a thing to heal me. Forgiveness did." her need for help.

She told me she needed to forgive so that Though she had not been much of a churchgoer, she had prayed during her or- she herself could receive forgiveness. "I had · deal, and now she began to pray again. As to pray for Robert Willie," she said, "because she worked to heal, Morris understood she'd he is a child of God, an.d God loves him the , never be healed if she couldn't forgive both , same as he loves me."

She says she has riot been given a "clear Robert WiIlie and God. When she heard about Sister Prejean's message'~ yet on the death penalty and that book ~nd the movie, she felt a bit angry that, . she leaves that debate "up to Sister Helen." as one of Willie's living vic~ims, she and the Admitting she slept better knowing Willie could never harm her again, she reflt:cted, "I author hadn't met.

But Morris felt she should meet with Sis- don't know if that's reason enough to. kill ter Prejean. When they 'met,Morris found ~ someone."

Debbie Mprris is a courageous woman woman she really respected, full of love, do- . irtg what she oelieves God wants her to do in who believes God is using Iier to c.arry his message of forgiveness 'to others. opposing the death penalty. '

.. ~. >D.ea~ Man Walking's other victim Everyone knows the story of "Dead Man Walking," the DO ok by Sister Helen Prejean that was made into a movie with Sean Penn playing the convicted killer on death row. Sister Prejean is a Sister of St. Joseph 'of MedaiIle. The book and movie brought new focus to antideath penalty concerns. .

What most people don't know is that Robert WiIlie" one of the convicted al}d executed murderers SisBy ter Prejean counse'led, had another victim, a 16-year-old girl whom he kidnapped, brutalized and released.

Her testimony helped convict him.

Now 34, Debbie Morris has come forth wi t.h her story for an unusual reason. She teIls how she has forgiven her tormentor, with the hope that her story wiIl help others find God's

comfort in forgivene~s', anhe h.as. I interviewed her and discovered a remarkably'spirio tual woman. .

The Bottom Line Antoinette Bosco , Some might wonder where she found the courage to go on-after what happened to her that Friday night in 1980, when she and her boyfriend were parked in a car'on a riverfront sipping milkshakes. That's when Robert WiIlie

,Stopping kids from ,fighting' tivity. Get them from your gro~ery o~ appliance store. Have them s'tacked apd ready for the key moment. ' The boxes can be used as large lightweight blocks. You can cut doors and windows in them to make an improvised village in the living room.

Used clothing can be used for dress-up Stay '·games. Often, you can buy bags of second-'

Dear Dr. Kenny: Our-three kids are shouting and fighting all the time.IfHry to intervene, I make it worse. There's no reasoning with them. If I try to punish someone, it's always the wrong one. How can I stop them', from fighting? Help! (Louisiana)

The apostle whom Jesus loved

The best discipline is what work~. focused on the outcome, and use Q. ,There are several places in the New Christians from their Jewish cOQnections, the your common sense. Forget your lecTestament where one of the apostles or,dis- , decision by, Judaism, somt<where around the tures and punishment. What would ,ciples is'referred to as''the one Jesus loved." year 90, to eject from the synagog'ue anyone it take to stop the fighting?, Who was this? And why is his name never who professed Jesus as ~essiah (9:22).

Three different strategies are posOther tensions, the most bitter ones it ~entioned? (Pennsylvania) . sible. Separate the combatants. Disseems, developed inside the community. In tract them. Or ritualize the fighting.

With Dr. James & A. rhe Beloved Disciple - or ,"the dis-. the First Letter of John we find extremely .The simplest strategy of all is to Mary Kenny ciple whom Jesus loved," depending on the harsh denunciations, unequaled in the New separate your children. As Soon as' you are aware that a fight is brew- L.. _ translation - is referred to often in the fourth , Testament, of one faction by another..

In the course of their censures, they deing, make your move. CoIlect one or Gospel. two of the potential adversaries and propel hand clothes at yard sales. Dres.sing up can This person, the most intimate be a special treat. them elsewhere. . friend of Jesus according to that Gos- , . . . - - - - - - - - - -.....--11 We played a game called "Hugo.~' Some<t Finally, you can ritualize the battle. Turn pel, became the source of Christian U 11. 0 one got to be Hugo. The name meant "You the fight into a fun duel. Give two of them a belief in what is called the Johannine go upstairs. Or outside. Or to the basement. throw pillow and let the third be in charge. community; the community (or cOln(Or anywhere.)" , March off three steps, and turn and hurl your munities) of John, out of which came At first, no one wanted to be designated pillow at the "enemy." the Gospel according to John.

Hugo. Rather quickly, all of them wanted the We know from that Gospel, and Nerf baIls and wadded newspaper also

By Father part. I knew we had won when they started make good ammunition. from the letters of John, that this group begging: "Why can't I be Hugo? Why can't John J. Dietzen Realize what you are doing. You are cap- of believers in Jesus underwent many _ I go outside?" turing the aggression and channeling it in an crises and conflicts. Some were caused ...

The second possible strategy is to dis- acceptable way. Very likely, you will be turn- from outside their community. tract. Have some attractive toys or activities ing incipient anger into whoops of laughter.

The Gospel reveals, for example, the scribe forcefully what true followers of Jesus ready to interrupt the erupting 'battle. Save Think outcomes, not lectures. Stopping a mounting tensions between those .Christians Christ should believe and hpw they ;hould them solely for this occasion. . fight is not that hard if you use your common and t1ie leaders of Judaism. In Chapter 9 we act. The Beloved Disciple was their inspiraPerhaps this is the time to coIlect one of sense. hear the story of the man born blind, whose tion and authority fOf' all this: them to help you cook. Or to settle another Even after his death (see 21 :23) his teachReader questions on family living and child sight is miraculously bestowed by Jesus. one of them at the computer. Or to put 'on a ~to be answeredin printareinvited Address That passage refers explici,tly to a major ings continued to inspire their development popular video. questions: The Kennys; St. Joseph's College; event in the final separation of the Johannine of the lofty theology about Jesus, which Large empty boxes are a favorite play a~" 219 W. Harrison; Rensselaer, Ind. 47978. makes the fourth Gospel so unique.

Who this mysterious, anonymous figure is, no one knows for sure. Fo'r a long dme it was thought to be John the apostle, :;on of the fisherman Zebedee.

For those of you who have not yet gotten ing'many youth ministers are hired if they can called the column a "crass'and silly satire" and For several good reasons, which we canaround to writing a letter to me about what a pass the·test of putting a thermometer in his or pointed out that youth ministry typically meets not enter into here, it seems more probable ~otten column I wrote recently about youth. ,her mouth and have it reach roughly 98.6. ' high standards. it was someone else. To whomever it might that ministry, hold on a second. I am 'going to'do .

OK, in truth I was "way flip" and "like" toHowever, never once did he threaten to ·march 40 or 50 large teen retreatants over to have been, Christianity will always owe an something Richard Nixc;m should have done, ~ally off-base~;' . imrn.ense debt of gratitude.

William Clinton tried to do and Mayor Marion In a poorly executed attempt to be tongue~ .' my house and have them 'tell me ill person.

HarrfofWashington D.C. did: apologize. .in-cheek I ended up being foot-in-mouth. . , Barb Stanley, director of youth ministry at Q. In response to your ansWer a few 'Weeks It's not a nice taste.

Church of the Resurrection in Tempe, Ariz., Please know my apology is not forthcoming ago concerning the largest Catholic clJ:urch, just becaus~ my wife is tired ofhearing me open ,Iq a narrative sortie to make light of r'. ~ • ...;.'-----......jr---:::~--"Io. I must communicate the fact that Pope John letters from irate parents, youth ministers, pas- the rilther casual approach to youth Paul II did in fact consecrate theCathtidral tors and serial conscience killers - and yelp- ministry in some parishes, I inadvertofoUr Lady ofPeace in Yamoussoukro, Ivory ing, "Ouch, ooeh, yow, oooph, mmmmph." ently, but nonetheless painfully made Coast (West Afi"ica), Sept. 9,1990.

And that's just from the barbed wire, yetchy "lite" of the incredibly successful, : He did so preceding a meeting of th,e prescratch-and-sniff and small exploding devices well·conceived and supported prosynodal council for the Special Assem:bly of grams in so many, many o$er parishes; people are putting in the envelopes.

Africa (Rome).

Nah, I'm kidding. So far the criticism has . That's not fair. It ain't right. And I

By Dan Morris been limited to narrative mortar shells and lin- am sorry. , A. I am grateful to the priest from the ofguallashings like, "Are you malicious and iIIThere is absolutely no more press- .... ..." ... , tice of the Synod of Bishops for this informainformed or just stupid and nutzoid?" ing call in our Church today than OK, OK, OK, I was a little flip in saying ministry to youth. That I, impugned the thou- sent along a letter of response signed by her . tion and for additional facts concerning this something like teens' useful purposes included sands of talented and trained Catholics who and another 14 folks involved in youth minis- cathedral.

Apparently the piazza in front of the new throwing them across picnic tables to save answer that call was not, I promise, Intended. try. It was an articulate essay in which she and them (the tables, not the teen) while you park It was, however, uh, dumb. they rightly underscored the holiness, dedica- basilica is larger than that of St. Peter':;, but the car.

Actually, other than being justifiably hot tion and example not only of youth ministers its 272 columns are 12 less than those around St. Peter's Square. The seating capacity of And knowing how to make the" 12:00" stop under the collar, most of the writers were pretty but the. young people themselves. nice. The director of youth and young adult flashing on the VCR. And never once did they offer to hurt me. Our Lady of Peace is 7,000. St. Peter's can accommodate about 10,000.

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Patch design placed at holy site, sent around world.

By MIKE GORDON ANcHOR STAFF

ACUSHNET - Retired Police Sergeant George Souza began collecting police patches over 20 years ago and has amassed over 500 designs from the United States and foreign countries, including France, Norway, England and Italy.

The enthusiasm the parishioner from Our Lady of Perpetual Help, New Bedford, has experienced and generated with his hobby inspired hiJ1l to design a patch of his own which has made it all the way to the Vatican and a special hill in Yugoslavia.

Souza's design, seen in the accompanying photo, is in the shape of the state, done in blue with a gold border. In addition to the Police Association logo, it includes the state seal, a lighthouse, whale, and harpooner. It represents the over 17,000 active and retired police officers of the Commonwealth.

Souza served 10 years as a police.man in Acushnet and 20 years at the former Southeastern Massachusetts University Campus.

A fellow sergeant and patch collector from Wisconsin encouraged Souza to design his own patch and

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although it "went through a lot of changes," said Souza, he is very happy with the final product. The design proposal was submitted to the Massachusetts Police Association and it was received with a great deal of enthusiasm. Souza now trades and sells the patches with other collectors and has even got baseball hats with the special patch.

"I sent President Clinton one of those," said Souza. "He sent a nice letter back acknowledging the patch." He said he had also sent one to Pope John Paul II, but had not received any confirmation yet.

"I know he's been pretty busy," quipped Souza.

One of his patches was brought to the Hill of Apparitions, Mount Podbro, Medjugorje in Yugoslavia by fellow parishioner William Arabasz. He and Father Isidore· Kowalski, pastor of Our Lady of

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Perpetual Help, placed the commemorative patch while on a pilgrimage, at the request of Souza.

"I wanted it to be in a holy place," said Souza who added that he prays that its presence, now under the watchful eye of the Holy Mother, will serve as a spiritual umbrella providing a shield of protection for all law enforcement officers in the line of duty. "It makes me feel good that it's out there and being represented all over the world,'·' declared Souza.

Nowadays Souza said he keeps busy with the patches and recently ordered another 200 to fill orders.

If you would like more information on the patches or collecting call SouZa at 995-0434. "It's a great hobby and a lot of people collect them," he added. If the pope calls Souza to trade patches, he'll really have something to talk about!

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Annual Father McCarrick breakfast set for Nov. 22 SWANSEA - Mark Sullivan, executive director of Citizens for Citizens, will be the speaker at the second annual Father Paul F. McCarrick Memorial Breakfast, Nov. 22,10 a.m., at the Venus de Milo Restaurant.

The event continues Father McCarrick's dedicated commitment to helping the youth of Fall River. Proceeds of the breakfast will be used for scholarships that will be given to high school graduates attending college.

During his 40 years as a priest in the Fall River Diocese, Father McCarrick, who was active in community social and athletic activities, encouraged many who have subsequently assumed leadership roles not only in their pro-

fessions but in civic and government affairs. Father McCarrick, who served many years as an assistant at St. Mary's Cathedral Parish and as pastor ofSt. Joseph Parishin Fall River, died Dec. 12, 1996.

James Rogers is chairman of the breakfast and James Gibney, superintendent of Fall River Schools and honorary chairman, will greet those attending.

The ticket committee, chaired

by William Keating, includes Robert Stoico, Albert Attar, Dr. Philip Silvia, Dr. Paul Raymond, Bill Correiro, Pauline Rogers, Arthur Machado, Michael Considine and Ted Regan.

Tickets are available from Rogers at 46 North Main Street, Fall River.

Church Musician Wanted Organist/Leader of Song needed for. (four) weekend Masses, including youth and adult choirs.

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Please send inquiries to: St. Mary's Church • 14 Park Street· North Attleboro, MA 02760 Tel.: (508) 695-6161

where we say we belong as the Church. If we stray, it forces us back because we signed a commitment to do this."

Holland and McNamee said ILEAP's services are costly because ~ it works with an impoverished population.

"It's the poor and the INVESTMENT COMPANY. INC. marginalized, that's where we play," McNamee asserted. "We @ don't bring in the guy who makes $40,000 a year and say 'we're going to give you a discount.' We look at income. There are people who walk through the door who don't have two nickels to give us."

• Mutual Funds Of All Types' Currently there are more than' • Tax Free Insured Income Trusts 200 persons receiving ILEAP as• U.S. Treasury Bonds & Notes sistance and because their family members are also involved, the • IRA's. Pension Plans Continued from page one numbers really point to 1,200 • Tax Planning same. "As Jesus was about to begin But he is assertive in his goal. "The people, said Holland.

"Cases pop up suddenly," said his ministry we see. him tempted by music I write and publish covers a AND money, power and fame. He is variety of styles, and I play key- McNamee. "One night we had 12 tempted to put himsl~lf before ev- boards and guitar - guitar mainly. Guatemalans come in because it was . eryone else. He uses the power of The music I write is intended to a case of them wanting asylum. The his relationship with his Father to reach young people and give a hearing was set in Boston the next Estate. : . Trust and Portfolio Analysis say 'No' to those temptations. When sound that they enjoy listening to. morning. A case that usually takes we plug' into our relationship with The message, if! could boil it down, 40 hours to prepare for a single indiJesus, we too are able to say 'No' to would be that God is not a 'just in vidual we tried to put together, with those things which would draw us the church' kind of thing, and as factual backup, overnight. When we away from who we are really called young people they ~ave an oppor- heard of the horrors, the torture and tunity to make a difference. If we deaths in which they had been into be."

Relating the story of the Holy take the faith we believe and really volved, it moved us to try. We had Spirit coming upon the Apostles, proclaim it in school and our work- to base our work on who had the worst story to tell and use it for the Father O'Connell told the group that places, then we have great impact."

He said that his work at gather- case we were preparing." "the Apostles, who before were Using the Internet and other rescared were now reaching out to ings of young people "is a vital part search sources to help prove an asyof catechesis and evangelization for those in need and believing more in JOYCE B. WHITE MARK A. QUINT AL CFP themselves because (lfthe power of me. This is a day when kids from lum case is what proves costly, said Cenified Financial Planner Account Executive Holland.

"The Immigration Service the Spirit in their lives. If we use that small groups can see a huge gathQuintal Bldg. at Lunds Cor. same power, there is nothing that can ering of young Catholics get up and is loath to believe any contentions put us down, nothing that can pre- cheer and sing about their faith. unless they can be proven."

2177 ACUSHNET AVE. McNamee said her most diffivent us from reaching great heights." That experience of a larger Church NEW BEDFORD. MA Angrisano, 33, who hails from and a Gospel message offers them a cult task "is turning people away.

If we had the resources we could Littleton, Colo., bills himself hum- power, a confidence to identify with bly "as a composer and speaker." those who speak out fortheir faith.'.'. do~l;»e,o~r. c;ase load t9m~rrow." ......------------~---------.. year, ILEAP was recognized as an agency with knowledge, skill, library resources and commitment to serving the poor.

"What the new grant means is that Janet can represent immigrants in many matters, including the cases of those from civil-war torn countries who need temporary protection status in the United States," said Holland.

McNamee added that having a paralegal will allow the agency to expand its service base without having to hire another attorney.

"This all began as an advocacy role for us, because of the costs of services," said McNamee. "It is not 4nusual for someone to pay from

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Counselors work to help W'Ol1lE~n Living will developed discover alternatives to abortio,n THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River --'-, Fri., Nov. 6, 1998

in Florida goes nationwide

By CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHnLIC NEWS SERVICE

By ELLEN ROSSINI CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

DALLAS...,. It's shortly after 9 a.m. on a warm, windless Saturday, and a dozen or so people mostly ~tudents from the University of Dallas - are standing side by side near an abortion clinic, singing. , Strains of "Were You There?" fade out to the'murmur of a ro-

another person," Msgr. Reilly we helped save until we meet said. "The only one who can God." One reason, she said,. is that change the heart and the spirit is some women may see the pro-life . Almighty God." Lash has recruited team group praying and will. drive leaders for all seven Dallas away without keeping their apcenters, and there is a "prayer- pointments. Sometimes, c. " save" ful presence" and counseling can corne even after a woman has on many days they are open for had an abortion.

According to Lash, 50 percent business.

Counselors regularly testify to of all abortions are performed on a "save," when the woman de- women who have had a prior cidesnot to go in or walks out . abortion.

"1ÂŁ we can talk to the woman before getting an abortion. As for an estimate on the number of after t~e abortion and :~et her saves, Lash said, "We just aren't back to God," she said, "we goin!? to know how many'babies might be saving her next baby."

WASHINGTON - People should make decisions about the end-of-life care they want to receive long before they face health problems, say advocates of a living will developed in Florida and now available to people across the coun- sary.

Across the street a van pulls try. up, and Fonda Lash meets a "Five Wishes" was released nationwide Oct. 22. ,It has been couple as they step out. Their Enavailable in EloIida for about a year and iIi., that tim~ more glish is halting, so she summons than 250,000 people -have-req\l,este,d copies of it.

The will, called "-Five Wishes," is simple guidehI}e docu- a student to help translate.

The woman, who' has menting the care people come for'anabor,tior:'-, says wish to reThe will, called "Five ceive when she thought her baby they are dying.

Wishes," is a simple It ranges from would have problems bethe question of continuing life support to the guideline documenting desire for ob- cause her doctor had advised her to take seven birth ' taining for- the care people wish to giveness from control pills within three family mem- receive when they are bers. days, although she stopped "This docu- dying. It ranges from the ment can be after, the second day beused in a liv- question of continuing ing room as cause of heart pains.

Lash convinces the opposed to a life support to the desire waiting room.

It should be part of family couple to follow her to the discussions," for obtaining forgiveness said Jim Prestonwood Crisis PregTowey, presi- from family members. de'nt and nancy Center. When they founder of Aging With arriye, a Spanish-speaking Dignity, a Florida non- client is there to translate profit group which created the document. and, after witnessing a Towey, a Catholic layman, was' inspired to humanize the sonogram of their child, the way Americans die after he visited Mother Teresa's home in couple decides to keep their Calcutta, India, for destitute people who ar~ dying, and: af- baby.

Lash, 37, began " sideter he lived for a year in-the Missionaries of Charitts hos'walk cOlWseling" at aborpice for people dying of AIDS in Washington'.

Towey said he started looking at living will oocuments tion centers 10 years ago in and found most of them" treat dying as a medic~l. moment," Pittsburgh with Operation ignoring the spiritual and emotional concerns involved. For Rescue.

Today, as the "Convertexample, he 'said, most living wills essentially give people the option of ventilators or feeding tubes wnen they are near a-Mill" program dire~tor for Dallas Bishop Charles death. , "No wonder four'out of five people don't even fill them V. Grahmann's Pro-Life out," he said, referring to statistics released by the Commis- Committee, Lash and dozsion on Aging With Dignity that only one in five people in ens of volunteers whose ef, forts she coordinates are Amer-ica has a living will. And many of these wills are ineftrying to stop abortion fective because they are too vague or were never discussed where it starts - in ,the with a doctor or a loved one, he added. heart.

"Five Wishes," developed in conjunction with the Holland The sidewalk counseand Knight law firm and with the help of the American Bar lors have been trained in Association's Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly, the method of Msgr. Philip lets people make known their wishes for:' ,' Reilly, a Brooklyn, N.Y., - the,kind of medical treatment they want or don't want; . priest whose Helpers of - how comfortable they want to be; God's Precious Infants ap- how' they want people to treat them; proach has reached across FONDA LASH (with hat) joins University of Dallas students in - what they want their loved ones to know; the United States and as far prayer outside a clinic that performs abortions in Dallas. Lelsh is - which person they want to make health care decisions away as Australia. ' for them when they can't make them.

Msgr. Reilly and his director of the Dallas Diocese's pro-life sidewalk counselin~1 pro, It's designed to be signed in front of two witnesses and "helpers" report they have gram. (CNS photo by Robert Bunch, Texas Catholic) also provides space for notarization for those states that re- ,watched 20,000 women walk away frcim an abortion and quire it.

Such a simple understandable document has not been avail- ' 20 abortion centers close in the able before, Towey said, because of a kind of prevailing men- New'York area by using the spiritual weapons of the rosary, ' tality in society that people are going to live forever. eucharistic ~doration, fasting, The personal side of the document "marks a great advance in living wills," said Richard Doerflinger, associate di- on-site prayer and the off-site sippi River to the Kiel Center rector for policy development for the U.S. bishops' Secni- prayer of cloistered sisters, nursBy BARBARA WATKINS ing horne residents and others. downtown.The second event, in tariat for Pro-Life Activil:ies.

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE In his viqeotape, Msgr.

Reilly Kiel Center itself, will be a. tick, Although he said his office will not endorse a particular ST. LOUIS - "Light of the eted event limited to about 20,000 living will, he commended "Five Wishes" for being a tool to l~ys out the specifics of how to prepare: with prayer before, dur- World" will be the theme of Pope people. The third event, to be held encourage discussion with loved ones about dying. ing and after; how to approach John Paul II's meeting with outdoors in what has been "Five Wishes" is legally valid in 33 states and the District people: with a smile and let them youths inSt. Louis Jan. 26,1999, dubbed "Papal Plaza," will acof Columbia, but cannot be used as a legal living will in Alawalk toward you; what to show said Father Robert Smoot, coor- commodate about 100,000 bama, Alaska, California, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, New them: some nice pictures and, ,dinator of the youth event. people in St. Louis city parks near 'Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Caro- briefly, some "tough" pictures; The pope is slated to arrive at the Kiel Center. lina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin. what to say: talk about abortion the Kiel Center, home of pro Talks ahd musical entertainTowey pointed out that in states where "Five Wishes" is risks, pain after abortion, truth hockey's St. Louis Blues, about 6 ment will fill the time while the not a legal document, people may still use the form to put about the unborn baby; and how p.m. for a prayer service, but the . young people are gathered waittheir preferences in writing as a guide to health care provid~ to help them afterward, even if youth event will be an all-day ing for the pope. . ers, who have a duty, he said, to listen to patients' wishes, they get the abortion. affair with three major parts. It is Father Smoot said the archdiono matter how they are expressed.'

"The purpose of the Helpers to begin at 9:30 a.~. with "Walk cese is in the process of expanding The document can be obtained free either on the Internet at is salvation of souls. It is conver- in the ~ight," a massive youth its Web site - www.archstl.orghttp:\ \ www.agingwithdignity.org or by mail from Aging With sion of heart, it is moral conver- walk from the city's Gateway to include1l\Ore information about Dignity, P.O. Box 1661, Tallahassee, FL, 32302-1661. sion, and you cannot do that for Arch on the banks of the Missis- the youth gathering.

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Cultural pluralism is central to Church, canon lawyers told ~

Archbishop Wet~kland states his opinions on diversity and centralization in the future Church.

Formed of Many Cultures."

The archbishop served as keynoter to the SOD participants gathered for the Canon Law Society of America's 60th annual meeting, held in Orlando recently.

Archbishop Weakland said economic globalization is a fact

By JEAN PALOMBC) of life.

The phenomenon is charCATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE acterized as the economic state of ORLANDO, Fla. - Diversity one nation or sector of the world in the Church is not a bad thing, affecting national economies and homogenization and cen- across the globe. tralization in the Church are not Although "economic globalalways tools for unity, Arch- ization is a fact that cannot be disbishop RembertG. Weakland told puted," the archbishop said a group of canon lawyers. people of the West may be uncomRecognizing that the Church fortable with economic interdeof the future will be marked by pendence because they find it "cultural pluralism" was one the'difficult to identify with global sis highlighted by Archbishop· perspectives."

Weakland of Milwaukee in his Archbishop Weakland said the address on "Structuring world faces a period of globaliza'Communio' in the Church tion that is both economic and cul-

tura!. The Catholic Church also faces cultural pluralism, a phenomenon with effects similar to economic globalization applied to the "world church," a term implicit in the word "catholic."

For many centuries, the Catholic Church was dominated by the European and later by the U.S. cultures. With the rise in the number of Catholics in Asia, Africa and Latin America, the future world Church will be "predominantly nonwhite, a coalition and mixture of many races and cultures," the archbishop said.

Although Catholics in many Western nations may understand the different direction the Church is traveling, they have "not yet come to accept it in their hearts," he said.

"For many in the West, world Church is still a rather frighten-

Papal primacy is ltlatter of faith, asserts Vaticari- c'on-gregation By

CINDY WOODE,N

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VATICAN CITY - The real and effective primacy of the pope over the whole Church is a matter of faith and not simply a convenient way to govern the Church, the Vatican's doctrinal congregation said.

The papacy" is not a coordinat~ ing or presiding office, it cannot be reduced to a 'primacyof honor,' nor can it be understood as a monarchy of a political kind," the congregation said in a document published Oct. 30 at the Vatican.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued its document, described as "considerations," in connection with the Vatican's publication of papers prepared for a 1996 symposium

on "The Primacy of the Successor of Peter in the Mystery of the Church."

The symposium was a response to Pope John Paul II's call for a renewed study of the importance and essential characteristics of papal primacy in connection with efforts to restore Christian unity.

In his 1995 encyclical on ecumenism, Pope John Paul invited other churches and Christian communities to contribute to the reflection on primacy and how its exercise could be acceptable to all Christians.

The international AnglicanRoman Catholic dialogue commission announced in September that it had completed a study on the issue, which would be pub~ lished in early 1999.

A TOURIST at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., signs a giant poster wishing John Glenn a safe trip. Glenn made a historic return to space when he and his shuttle Discovery crewmatss launched Oct. 29. The astronaut became the first American to orbit Earth in 1962. (CNS photo from Reuters)

The doctrinal congregation document on papal primacy was signed by the congregation's prefect, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, and by Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, secretary of the congregation.

"The Holy -Spirit helps the Church to know these needs and the Roman pontiff, listening to the voice of the Spirit in the churches, seeks a response and offers it when and how he believes it is opportune," they said.

Determining what is the nature of papal ministry and how that should be exercised, the document said, "is a discernment to be carried out in the Church, that is, under the assistance of the Holy Spirit and in the fraternal dialogue of the Roman pontiff with the other bishops according to the concrete needs of the church."

"At the same time, it is clear that only the pope (or the pope with an ecumenical council) has, as successor of Peter, the authority and the competence to have the last word on how to exercise his pastoral ministry in the universal Church," the. document said.

The doctrinal congregation said the New Testament shows "with clarity and simplicity" that the early Christian community accepted the fact that Christ chose Peter first among the Apostles and gave him a specific function in the Church.

And, the document said, from the begiiming and "with growing clarity" the Church understood that 'the ministry of unity entrusted to Peter belonged to the perennial structure of the church of Christ" and would pass in succession to the bishop of Rome, the city of Peter's martyrdom.

"The full communion desired

by Christ among those who confess to be his disciples requires the common recognition of a universal ecclesial ministry," it said.

"The Catholic Church professes that this ministry is the primatial ministry of the Roman po.ntiff" and it maintains that according to God's design, communion with the pope "is an essential requirement of full and visible communion."

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Nov. 6, 1998 ing concept, one they feel that was not intended by Vatican Council II, one that the bishops gathered at that council did not intentionally plan," Archbishop Weakland said. "The Church of the West, for the most part, is very much in denial. To many in the West the very idea of cultural pluralism does not seem to be a phenomenon compatible with catholici~."

'We, as Church, will have to face up to a future that is marked by cultural pluralism," Archbishop Weakland said.

These are not new issues facing canon law and the Church, Archbishop Weakland said, citing Father Karl Rahner's warning in his work titled "Toward a Fundamental Theological Interpretation of Vatican II," that the new Code of Canon Law must not be "a Western code that is imposed on the world Church in Latin America, Asia and Africa."

Like Father Rahner, Arch-

bishop Weakland said when faced with cultural pluralism," Church officials react by reinforcing "centralization" or uniformity, which he said was a natural tendency.

But trends toward centralization could backfire and cause disunity because they could foster bitterness and anti-Catholic sentiments, he said. Local identities, he added, are not being recognized, including in areas of canon law.

Although Pope John Paul II works hard to keep unity in the Church through papal visits, this "kind of solution" will not hold for long, the archbishop said. The Church of the United States, along with churches in Europe, should recognize the ethnic diversity of different cultures and study the way their "different models of Catholicism" operate, he said. /I

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Nov. 6, 1998

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'Living Out Loud' inspires a fascinating comedy 'film makes incremental'st~ps t~ward

By GERRI PARE CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE getting on with life: Pat works to, ward paying back his gambling NEWYORK(CNS)-Forming (Iebts and startIng his own busi-' an unlikely alliance against life's· ness, while Judith befriends the reversals are doorman Danny torch singer and starts asserting DeVito and divorcee Holly Hunter herself after years of being a doorin the sweet-natured comedy-drama, mat for her. husband, in the process losing her essential sense of "Living Out Loud" (New Line).

The movie is inspired by two self. Judith and Pat seem indisChekhov short stories which writei'" pensable to each other as they Richard LaGravenese ("The Horse overcome loneliness, but at the' Whisperer," "The Fisher King," same time she remains ambivalent "The Bridges of Madison County" ,about accepting him as a romantic ) fashions into one slender tale for partner.

And that is the movie's probhis directorial debut. Though it's small in scope, the movie's char- lem; it doesn't know where to go acters prove bighearted enough to once their believable friendship hold an audience by virtue of their blossoms. charm and talent.

As expertly played by both acHunter plays newly divorced tors, each of the charactersis highly nurse Judith, dumped' by her car-appealing, but there is little sense. diologist husband (Martin of dramatic urgency; we just hope Donovan) for a younger woman 'for the best for them! together or and now shuffling around her Fifth apart. But LaGravenese does add Avenue condo at a loss as to how some interest by filming numerto start all over - maybe return to ous short scenes in which Judith medical school, which she gave up behaves in unexpected ways. ' . to support her spouse early in their The 'movie has an appealing 16-year, childless union. tenderness in its tone, and DeVito Venturing o'ut alone to a jazz. doesn't go for easy laughs, instead club one night to hear a torch singer instilling his "loser" character with '(Queen Latifah), she enters what real dignity.

Latifah's several bluesy numshe thinks is an unlit ladies' room only to be passionately embraced bers are nicely rendered, and she by a stranger (Elias Koteas) expect- also does well in her role as ing his mistress. Apologies ensue, Judith's newfound friend. but, awakened to long-dead pasIn the end, it's a story about sions within her, Judith feels alive people helping each other with no once mOre and upon returning to need for violence or strong sex her building strikes up an elevator scenes to jolt the audience and conversation with doorman Pat keep the audience interested.

It's not a movie to make one (DeVito), whom she barely noticed before. shout for joy, but "Living Out It turns out he's also been Loud" is a quietly reflective and 'dumped by his wife - and just pleasing experience.

Due to some sexual innuendo, lost his teenage daughter to cancer - which moves Judith to im- minor substance abuse and interpulsively hug him and insist he mittent profanity and rough lanhave coffee with her. She proves guage; the U.S. Catholic Confersuch a good listener, his spirits also ence classification is.A-III -'. rise, and Pat makes the leap that adults. The Motion Picture Assohe could interest her romantically. ciation of America rating is R From there, each separately restricted.

By LORETTA SHEA KLINE CATHOLIC NEWS' SERVICE

KANSAS. CITY, Mo. Ninety-year-old'jazz and swing musician Claude "Fiddler" Williams is at the height of his popularity in the United States after more than sevendecades of performing. " He continues to be a favorite in Europe, where he is well known, has toured Australia and Japan, and this fall is scheduled to play in Germany, France and Denmark.

And now Williams, a Catholic, has more recognition to celebrate. In October he was one of 15 artists named 1998 National Heritage Fellows by the National Endowment for the Arts.

"It'sa wonderful honor," Williams told The Catholic Key, newspaper of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph.

Williams and his wife, Blanche, are members ofSt. Louis Parishin Kansas City, where she works parttime as a parish office manager.

Each year the National Endowment for the Arts honors performers and craftspeople who represent a cross section ,of America's cultures. The fellow· ships, Which include a $10,000 award, were presented in a White House ceremony in ,the East Room by first lady Hillary · Rodham Clinton.

Born the youngest of six childrenin 1908 inMuskogee,Okla., Williams began playing music around the age of 8 with a brother-in-law. He described Ns brother-in-law as "one of those fellows, whatever he picked up he could play."

By age 10 Williams was playing the guitar, mandolin, banjo and cello. He became interested in' the violin after hearing the great J~e Venuti play at an outdoor pavilion. Williams heard Venuti's violin "above the orchestra , on top of the other instruments," he said, so he told

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his mother,"That' Swhat I want saxophonist Charlie "Bird" , I " topay. . . Parker and tenor sa>;ophonist Williams got his first paying Lester "Prez" Young. He's perwork in his _ - - - - - - - - - -....., formed at 'brother-in-Iaw's Today, Willi~ms, WhQ Carnegie Hall, string band, d ' h Nat "1/' Center f\.mg " Lincoln . playing in bar- Playe wit an d at CI'mton, s bershops,hotels Cole, is at the height of first inaugural. and front yards. his career, making more Today, Williams He made $6 to money now than he has is at the height of hi~; career, $7 a night in tips ever made. at a time when making more people worked all week to earn money now than he has ever that much. made.

He moved to Kansas City in Through the yeam, world1928 when it was a hotbed of wide fame hasn't let Williams swing music. He played and forget the needs of his parish. toured with a variety of bands, When not on the road.. he plays including the Cole Brothers, fea- with Kansas City local bands to turing a young Nat "King" Cole. raise money for a pari,sh youth They toured in New York, Cl¥- center. ' . Williams also has recorded cago and other cities.

In 1936 he joined the Count some of his best known stanBasie Band and played guitar on dards on three compact disks.

Basie's first recordings. A year "You've Got to Si!e Your 'later he returned both to the Mamma" is on Williams' 1995 CD, "Swing Time in NE'W York." fiddle and Kansas City.

He also played alongside His latest CD, "King (If Kansas such other jazz legends as alto City," was released last year.

JAZZ VIOLINIST Claude Williams, 90, has played! for audiences worldwide, but when he is home in Kansas City, Mo., he plays with local bands· to raise funds for a parish youth center. Williams was among 15 entertainers honored recently in Washington by the National Endowment for the Arts. (CNS photo by Loretta Shea Kline, Catholic Key)

TV's "The Death. Train," is .1 requiem for the Soviet Gulag

American History X" (New Line) Violent melodrama in which the young leader what happened to the hundreds of a California hate group (Edward Norton) is convicted of manBy HENRY HERX ,of thousands of prisoners who slaughter for ki11ing two African-Americans who had broken into CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE his car, but is raped in prison by fellow skinheads, then befriended were transported to the Arctic by a black convict before retuming home a changed man. Directed NEW YORK - The fate of po- Circle, built their own prison

by Tony Kaye, there is nothing subtle about the movie's anti-hate · litical prisoners sentenced to camps, then started work on the message and the reliance on hard-edged violence in the story's treat- hard labor in the prison camps railway in the fall of 1949. ment, but the result is unconvincing as a human drama and pro- of the Soviet Gulag is shown in Though' they laid some 500 vides no insights beyond the real danger to society of such groups. the documentary, "The Death miles of track, most of it was unIntense violence, some of it gory, sexual situations, including a ho- Train," premieringSunday, Nov. usable and days after Stalin's mosexual gang rape, brief nudity, racial epithets, recurring rough 8,7:45-9 p.m. EST on HBO. - death in 1953 the project was oflanguage and some profanity. The U.S. Catholic Conference classifiExamined in close detail is the ficiallyended. cation is A-IV - adults, with reservations. The Motion Picture As- construction of the Great Stalin There is some period Soviet sociation of America rating is R - restricted.

Railway which was to be built footage of the railway under con"The Inheritors" (Stratosphere) parallel to the Arctic Circle for struction but most of the visuals show the area today, an Arctic Violent class conflicts embroil a 1930s Austrian vi11age after a the defense of northern Siberia. wasteland dotted with decaying hateful farmer upsets the neighboring landowners by leaving all his Announced with great fanproperty to his peasant workers, hoping his actions will lead to fare in 1947, the project was camp sites and abandoned railbloodshed on both sides. Writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky creates doomed from the start because road equipment.

It is a vast outdoor museum, a vivid characterizations and incorporates wry humor into a dark of engineering proqlems with tale of the peasants' dashed egalitarian meams. Subtitles. Intermit- laying track on permafrost which silent monument to the cruel intent violence including rape, brief sexual encounter, fleeting nudity thawed and shifted during the. humanity of Stalin and the Soand a few instances of profanity and rough language. The U.s. summer, destroying whatever viet gulag system.

Catholic Conference classification is A-III - adults. The Motion had been done over the winter.

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who survived an ordeal which cost the lives of more than 60,000 of their fellow inmates.

Their account of what they endured is devastating in it:; details but is fundamental to understanding the barbarity of the Gulag as part of Stalin's crimes against his people.

Produced and directed by Tom Roberts for Britain's Channel Four, the documentary intersperses the Soviet plans for the project with the inhuman work conditions of the exhausb~d prisoners and poignant vistas of the Arctic's inhospitable terrain and climate.

The result is a sort of historical requiem for all the victims of the Gulag as represented by the sufferings of those laborin'g and dying on the hopeless, senseless GreatS,taJin.Railway.

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Breakfast speaker to focus on ,elderly abuse, violence FALL RIVER- Duncan MacEachern, Taunton regional director of MassHealth, will speak on "Rei mbursement Changes and Challenges - Medicaid: An Update," Nov. 17, 7:30-9 a.m., at a breakfast in Saint Anne's Hospital's Nannery Conference Room in Clemence Hall.

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the Diocese of Fall River from 11 am. to 3 p.m Nov. 7 at St. Mary's Church. For more information or reservations call June Mann at 695-5161.

AlTLEBORO - The Divine Mercy Prayer Group of LaSalette Shrine meets every Wednesday at 7: IS p.m. Its special intention for November. as requested by SEEKONK - The youth ministry the Holy Father, is for the victims ofdrugs. program of Our Lady of Mount Carmel For more information call the shrine at Church is presenting three nights offriend222-5410. ship, food, fun and prayer this month for The shrine's Coffee House Series con- all high school-age youth: The first of tinues with musical guest Rebekah Pratt at . these teen nights, "Why Bother? Seeing 6:30 p.m. Nov. 7. the Total Picture," will Kick off Nov. 8 A healing service will bl~ held at the from 6-8 p.m. in the parish center. The shrine at 2 p.m. Nov. 8. It will include second, "Getting Extreme," will be held Mass, hymns of-praise and teaching. It onNov.15,sametimeandplaee. A 'Teen will be led by Father Richard Delisle and Liturgy and Pizza Party" will be held in people will have the opportlmity to be the main church and parish center from prayed over and anointed individually. All 6-8 p.m. Nov. 22. All welcome. welcome.

SEEKONK - A Holy Hour for VoATILEBORO - Hospice of Attle- cations will be held at 6:30 p.m. Nov. II at boro invites family and friends ofhospice , St. Mary's Church. It will be led by Fapatients who have died to join together in ther Craig A. Pregana and include Benean interfaith celebration oftheir loved ones' diction ofthe Blessed Sacrament. All wellives and memory, and to offer comfort come. and support to one another. It will be held at 3 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Evangelical CovSOUTH DARTMOUTH - Holienant Church, 841 No~ Main Street. day Hope, a: special ecumenical service of prayer for people remembering deceased CENTERVILLE - The Drew loved ones during the holiday season will Fayne Memorial Blood Drive will ~ held be offered at 3 p.m. Nov. IS at St. Mary's from 2-7 p.m. Nov. 16 at Our Lady of Parish. All welcomt:.

Victory Church. It is sponsored by the parish youth ministry program. A1I'welSOUTH YARMOUTH come. For more information or to register "Christsong," a musical rcndition of the for aspecific time call Mary Archer at 775- life of'Jesus, will be celebrated at 2:30 6591. p.m. Nov. 15 at St. Pius X Church. The performance will include dance, drama and FALL RIVER - Dominican Laity, music. All welcome.

Saint Rose of Lima Chapter will hold its monthly meeting on Nov, II at the TAUNTON - Permanent Deacon Domincan Academy Chapel. It begins Thomas J. Souza, director of the Taunton with the rosary at 6:40 p.m. and is fol- Area CYO, announced that the first lowed by Mass, liturgy oCthe hours and a coaches' meeting for the CYO Basketball conference by Father Pierre E. Lachance. League will be held at 7:30 p.m. NovemAll welcome. For more information call ber 9 at Taunton Calhofic Middle School.

Ann Fennessey at 674-1899.

Parish reps and coaches should attend, as rules will be distributed and practice times HYANNIS - A support group for will be assigned. TIle TCMS gymnasium parents, families and friends of gay and will be open for the season on November lesbian children meets on the second Mon- 10. For more information call Ron Benoit day ofeach month at 7 p.m. at the Catholic at 822-9269.

Social Services Office. Thl: next meeting is Nov. 9. Common interests and conWESTHARWICH....-St. Francis of cerns are shared in a safe, confidential set- Peace Fraternity will meet Nov. 8 at Holy ting. Newcomers are welcome. For more Trinity Church. Mass will be offered at information call 771-6771.

I:30 p.m. and the meeting will follow. Inquirers are welcome. For! more informaMASHPEE-A pro-life meeting is tion call Kay Fitzgerald at 394-0323. held on the first Monday oreach month in the Religious Education Center of Christ WEST HARWICH-The Perpetual the King Parish at 9 a.m. All welcome. Adoration Chapel at HolY'Trinity Church, For more information call Clare1Witchell route 28, invites people to sign up and at 428-9 I06. ' spend an hour or two in prayer. This regional chapel of the mid-Cape area depends on the support of people. All ages NORTH ATTLEBORO Benedict Circle #61 Daughters oflsabella welcome. For more information call Jane will be hosting a Day of Recollection for H. Jannell at 430-001 4.

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Pope says allowing fo,r Latin Mass must not divide Ch14~rch Vatican's Ecclesia Dei commisCardinal Joseph Ratzinger, and an ignoring of liturgical Latin Mass, but also" ask the sion and the establishment of the prefect of the Congregation for guidelines since Vatican II has grace to be tolerant" of those who the Doctrine of the Faith, and led some priests "to minimize prefer the new Mass..

Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, "It's a two-way ~itreet," he Pope John Paul formed the other Church leClders who ad- the sacrificial aspect of the Mass ' commission to care for followers dressed the pilgrims during their and the sense of mystery in an said, Retired Austrian Cardinal of the late French Archbishop Oct. 24-26 visit to Rome, encour- attempt to make it more intelliAlfons Stickler told members of Marcel Lefebvre whowanted to aged them to show respect for the gible," The only way "we can con- the pilgrimage they must conremain in full communion with bishops' decisions and to do the Catholic Church after the nothing which would harm the vince bishops that tl:te celebra- tinue to pray that their bishops archbishop w:as excommuni- unity of the Church. . tion ofthe old rite is not divisive," will expand permissions to celcated.

The cardinal said the old "low he said, is if we recognize the ebrate, the old Mass, but they The original members of the 'Mass," with its whispered beauty and richness of both lit- must always show respect for

By CINDY WOODEN their bishops' decisions.

Fraternity of St. Peter belonged prayers at the altar and its silent urgies.

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE , to Archbishop Lefebvre's Priestly congregation "was not what lit"We can hope for greater acBishop James C. Timlin of ,urgy should be, which is why it Scranton, Pa., who celebrated ceptance, but we are not schisVATICAN CITY - Address2 Society ofSt. Pius X. The fraternity now has about, was not painful for many two Masses for the group, said matics," the cardinal said, "We ing Catholics who prefer the celebration of the old Latin Mass, ,100 priests, 35 of whom serve in people" when it disappeared. members of the pilgrimage must will be the most obedit~nt Roman ' At th~ same time, he said, an "pray for tolerance" for their de- Catholics."

Pope]ohn Paul II said all mem- the United States. Among those bers,of the Church must make participating in the pilgrimage exaggerated sense of"creativity" sire to celebrate the traditional "gestures of unity" so their dif- were 50 of the 65 seminarians ferences do not became a source , studying at the fraternity's U.S. of division. seminary.

Ten years after he authorized The pope said the permission bishops around the world to al- to celebrate the Mass according' low the celebration of the prey to the Roman Missal of 1962 is Second Vatican Council liturgy, "a sign of the Church's underthe pope said his permission standing" of those who prefer ~ New legislation seen must not be seen as a denial of the old liturgy. But, he said, the John Capel, who heads the Parliament, the Tobacco Instias positive step in Church and Work office of the tute of South Africa said the legthe good accomplished by the permission was extended bishops' conference, said the islation is "badly drafted and council in ordering liturgical re- "while confirming the good \ improving the , act is "in the broader interests totally unreasonable" and will form. found in the liturgical reform nation's health. of society, although it is unfor- lead to " harsh, absurd and un- , The pope met recently with an desired by the Second Vatican estimated 1,500 people partici- Council and implemented -by tunate that some jobs may be intended consequences."

By BRONWEN DACHS pating in an international Catho- Pope Paul VI." lost along the way."

The bishops' conference's CATHOLIC NEWS SERylCE lic Traditionalist Pilgrimage, cel- , The liturgy, he said, must The legislation's business submission said" it seems to us CAPE TOWN, South Africa and labor opponents argued in that the limited negative impact ebrating the 10th anniversary of never be used as a source of divi~ - The SO\~thern African Catho- Parliament ,that an estimated that the bill may have on the the establishment of the sion. lic Bishops' Conference wel- 100,000 people employed by continued growth of the tocomed a new anti-tobacco law the tobacco industry will lose bacco industry is by far outg--Ag ~mas a significant step in improv- their jobs, and newspapers and ' weighed by the positive longing the,health of the country's magazines that rely on tobacco 'term impact on the lives of lOut Ae --done on eaftIA, fM population. ' advertising may be forced o!J,t people that reduced levels of . cw" In o7Teulen " The law, which was passed of business. smoking and nicotin:? depenrecently, places a complete ban In an recent s'4bmission to dency can have." on tobacco advertising and sponsorships, anp gives the ~inocllet' Oh adorable and Divine Will, behold me here before the imgovernment the authority to ban mensity ofYour Light, that Your eternal goodness rriay open to smoking in public plaf:es. me the doors and make me eQter into It to form my life all in However, it is strongly opposed by trade unions and in, You, Divine Will. Theref~re, oh adorable Will, prostrate before

By MIKE LANCHIN, CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE dustry, which say it will lead to Your Light, I,the least of all creatures, put myself into the little , SAN SALVADOR -:- Even if Gen. Augusto Pinochet walks free, his thousands of job losses. group of the sons and daughters of Your Supreme FIAT. Prosdetention in England has served as a reminder that Latin America's The bishops' parliamentary - trate in my nothingness, I invoke Your Light and beg that it liaison office called the Tobacco grisly past cannot be easily forgotten, say Church human rig:1.ts workclothe me and eclipse all that does riot pertain to You, Divine ' Products Control Amendment ers and human rights abuse victims' relatives.

'Will. It will be my"Life, the'.center of my intelligence, the The arrest of the former Chilean dictator" makes Latin American Act" an important and progresenrapturer of my heart and _of my whole being. I do _not want sive step towards improving the society look back at itself and see that what happened in thE' past still the human will to have life in this heart any longer. I will cast it health of the South African has serious repercussions today. There are open wounds that clamor a\yay from me and thus form the new Eden of Peace, of happipopulation in an integrated fOr justice," said Eduardo Pirotto, former coordinator of the peace and justice office of the Archdiocese of Montevideo, Uruguay. ness and of love. With It I shall be always happy. I shall have a and comprehensive way," "But rather than be threatened by this new situation, the demoIn a submission to Parliasingular strength and a holiness that sanctifies all things and cratic processes of the region are being strengthened by it," r,e added. ment in Cape Town before the conducts them to God. The 82-year-old Pinochet, now a permanent senator, was arrested law was passed, the bishops' Here prostrate, I invoke the help, of the Most Holy Trfuity parliamentary office said that, by British authorities Oct. 16 at the private clinic where he was recovthat They permit me to live in the cloisterofthe Divine Will and 'while the legislation is contro:. eriIig from back surgery. thus return in me the first ordet: of creation, just as the creature The arrest came after Britain received an extradition request from a versial,,"even for members of wa~,cre~ted, ',:' .:,' , our own Church," the Church's judge in Spain who accused Pinochet of genocide, as well clS terrorism and torture of more than 90 people, including British and SpanHeavenly Mother,Sovereign and Queen ofthe'Divine Fiat", universal teaching" refers to ish'nationals,during his 1973-1990 military dictatqrship. , take my hand and introduce me into the Light of the Divine ~ the use of tobacco in cautionAlthough three British High Court judges annulled the detention Will. You 'will be my guide, my mos~ tenderMoth~r,.and will' , i~gagC;linst'exc'ess and, advo,order Qct. 28, Pinochet was ordered to re~in under arrest pending teach me to live in and to maintain myself in the order and die -, , cating the virtue oftemperance an appeal of the decision, expected to conclude in early November. bounds of the Divine Will. Heavenly Mother: I consecrate my' in its use." . ' , , Extraditio~ proceedings against him have also been initiated in France, 'whole being to Your iin,maclilate Heart.' You will teach me the路, 'Th~路 act" which ,cippone,nts Switzerland and?w~\len.. ',,' ,' , , say is unconstjtutional; wa~ the , "Pina<;het has become one of the worst symbols qf there;~mesof doctrine of the Divine Will and r willlist~n most attentively to' ' subject' of public hearings 'in ,death and tor~ure, wNch later awarded the~elves pardons," said Your lessons. You will cover me with Your mantle sO'that the ' Parliament in late October. It Alba Lanzillotto, leader of ~e Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo (Grandinfernal serpent dare 'not penetrate into this sacred Eden to en-',' wi~lprqhibit smoking in pub- mothers of Plaza d~ ,Mayo), Argentina's internationally re:nowned -~ tice me and make me fall into the maze of the human will. lic places oh the basis that, ilc- group made up of relatives of the victimS ofhurnan rights violations. , Heart of my greatest Good, Jesus, Y~u will give me Your ;' cording to the prea'mble to the The detention of the man, still reviled as one of Latin America's flames that they rimy burn me, consume 'me, and feed me to dr,aft law, " tobacco use is so in- most brut~ military rulers of the 1970s and '80s sent shock waves, form in me the Life of the Divine Will. ' '~, ' jurious to the health of both through the contment and provoked violent street protests in Chile, Saint Joseph, you will be my protector, the guardian of my' smokers and nonsmokers as to with daily clashes between police and demonstrators. heart, and will keep the keys of my will in your hands. You will warrant restrictiv~ legislation."

The Chilean bishops' conference repeatedly called for calm, but keep my heart jealously and shall never give it to me again, that ' Tobacco advertising and the president of.the conference's permanent council, Bishop Fernando sponsorship of sporting a'nd Ariztia Ruiz, told the press in late October that" while the wound is , , ' I may be sure of never leaving the Will of God. other events will be banned to not healed it will continue bleeding and will, at times, produce a .My guardian Angel"guard me; defend me; help me in everysever the" association of smok-' strong reaction in the body." . , thing so that my Eden may flourish and be the instrument that, ing with sqcial success,' busiAccordinl7 to Maria Julia Herriandez, director of the San Salvador draws all men into the Kingdom of the Divine Will. Amen. ness advancement and sport- Archdiocese s human rights office, the arrest of Pinochet is " a lesson ( In Honor ofLuisa Piccarreta 1865-1947 Child of the Diviile Will) ing prowess," the preamble to the rest of the world,,; it has set a precedent." said. , "This'is a very important attempt to overcome impunity," she added, ~

The pope said the permission to celebrate the Mass according to the Roman. Missal o~ '1962 is "a sign of the Church's understanding" of those who prefer the old liturgy.

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to needs to support himself on his expect to see a frail - pastoral staff. He leans on the cross, on the crucifix.... What can man with pain written he have to say, this sick, sufferon his face.

By JOHN THAVIS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY - Americans who greet Pope John Paul 11 when he visits St. Louis in January will see an older and frailer pope, whose physical decline is increasingly discussed inside the Vatican.

"The pain is written on his face. His figure is bent, and he

ing, tired and elderly man, who speaks with obvious weakness in moments of physical fatigue?"

That comment came not from a critic of the pope, but from Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, in an article paying tribute to the pontiff's first 20 years in office.

For Cardinal Ratzinger, the pope clearly does have much left to say, and his suffering has only increased the power of his message - especially during foreign

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"Some people have said that this old man is no longer interesting to anyone and that his . message is outdated. But when he arrives, the force. of his personality reveals itself as strong~r than all the prejudices that have been built up," the cardinal wrote in an October issue of the Italian weekly, Famiglia Cristiana.

The pope's visible discomfort ends up bringing him closer to all the world's afflicted, while identifying him more closely with the suffering Christ, said the cardinal, who heads the

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Vatican's doctrinal office. now openly discussing the The pontificate's 20th anni- pope's physical deterioration, versary this fall appeared to they have yet to specify what dispush the door open a little wider ease the pope is suffering, except on the once-taboo subject of pa- to say it is an infirmity of the expal health. Among the tributes trapyramidal nervous system. published by the Vatican's own The most common of such disnewspaper, at least three high- eases is Parkinson's, a degeneralighted the 78-year-old pope's tive illness which develops at frail p hysical condition :..... not as different rates in patients, but a negative factor in Church lead- which often leaves them without ership, but as a new chapter of .basic abilities of movement and Gospel witness. expression. _ The pope's' spokesman, The pope ,also shows the wear Joaquin Navarro-Valls, made a and tear of several operations, similar point, even suggesting including one to repair a broken that the pontiff's trembling arm thigh bone in 1994. From that and slurred speech were making time on, he has used a cane, but connections with people who recently his movements even may have preViously seen him with the cane have been unusuas a mere authority figure. ally slow.

But Cardinal Ratzinger went Cardinal Ratzinger said. it . further, saying that physical in- was difficul t not to contrast this firmity may well be a defining el- curved and tentative figure with ement of the rest of thi!? papacy. the energetic young pontiff of 20 "I think that preciselY in the yeats ago. Yet by not trying to phySical and spiritual suffering hide his illness and his fatigue, of the pope, which no one can the pope is carrying out an impretend n~t to se~, one can find a portant service to everyone, he particular message of this second said. half of his pontificate," the car"Even age has a message, and dinal said. suffering has a dignity and a .. Alth6ugh Vatican officials are salvific force," the cardinal said.

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POPE JOHN PAUL II looks toward a camera, as he rides through St. Peter's Square, greeting pilgrims at his general audience Oct. 28. (eNS photo from Reuters)

Changes sought to accommodate world's growing elderly population

By LYNNE WElL CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY -, Social and legal systems must be changed to accommodate the world's growing elderly population, authorities said at the launch of a Vatican conference on aging.

Archbishop Javier Lozano Barragan, head of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, said the late-October meeting was meant to address demographic shifts as well as changes in attitudes toward the old and thE! ill.

Pointing out that there are more people worldwide who are over 60 than those who are younger than 15 years old, he said "this means profound changes regarding society, the economy, politics, and human culture."

The archbishop noted that "old age has a lesson .., for the next generation and for the next century" which should not be

ignored, because it" gives a pro- society must come to terms with found sense to life." euthanasia by changing people's FatheiJose L. Redrado, secre- perspectives on suffering. tary of the health care workers' "When people resort to euthacouncil, pointed out that Pope . nasia, it is usually not because John Paul II himself is aging, yet of the incurability of ~ disease or remains an example for all. . because of unbearable pain, but People should regard the last because of ~ la€k of social supyears of life asa time of opportu- port," he explained, adding that nity, he said; and not of decline. euthanasia is viewed as "an es"The last chapter oflife which cape route fFom enormous ecoan elderly person wtites must"be nomic problems' faced by 'the written with much enthusiasm old." , and with joy," the priest continThose concerns are bound to ued; "and this ... presents a per- worsen, Carbonin said, as the sanaI, ecclesial and social chal- population of retired people in lenge.": industri~lized societies grows, Topics on the agenda for t~e while the tax-paying base conference ranged from pension shrinks. reform to the neu'rological Unless s~)Cieties raise their changes which come with age. ages of retirement or force wo~k­ Euthanasia was also to be dis- ers to pay more taxes, he Said, cussed, participants said, al- there will be increasing tension though it was not one of the main over limited financial resources themes. for the elderly.

PierUgo Carbonin, director of "The big problem is ~olidarthe gerontologica~ institute at ity between the ~enerations," Rome's Catholic University ofthe Carbonin added, ,and not conSacred Heart, said Church and £lict between them."

WORKSHOP: HEALING OF FATIGUE, ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION Saturday, November 7 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

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THE FIRST interscholastic soccer team.of Saint Margaret Regional School, Buzzards Bay, posesforaphoto.ou~side , the school.' The team consists 'of students in grades four through seven and,.is coached by Karen HO~l'!leister (f~rright) and Wendy Spiegle'(not pictured). '

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. NORTH DAR1MOUlH -Calling all members of the Classes of 1963, 1968, 1973, 1983, 1988 and 1993- to join in celebrating the anniversariesoftheir graduation from Bishop Stang High School. A grand reunion has been set for Thanksgi ving weekend and will be a chance to join classmates, rekindle old friendships and reminisce about your years at Stang.

Cheer on the Stang football team as they take,on New Bedford Yoke at 10:30 a.m. at Yoke, 1121 Ashley Boulevard, Thanksgiving Day. , Friday evening festivities begin with a cocktail reception at 6:30 p.m. at the Hawthorne Country , Club, North Dartmouth. Buffet will . , . . be provided ilt 7:3Q.p...m. and danc-.

WALK-A-TH~N -:- Stud~nt~ ,?ourtney Fans, Katie Grant ing will continue till midnight. . and Samantha Blltchffe of Dominican Academy we~e, the top On S.aturday from 2-4 p.m. grads " fundrais~rs in an annual walk-a-thon entitled "Get I::>n Your are invited to the John C. O'Brien Feet!" The ·na.l'dwork ofthe school's students helpedto raise Gymnasium to relive th~ir basket- , more than $11,000 this year: -.: . l?all glory d;lYS. The cou~t will. be open' and tours of the school will be available also. , Reunion' weekend ends with 10:30 a.in. Mass in the Stang chapel. For more information' call, Mary Jane Roy,alur~mi director, at,' 996-5602 ext. 433 or via E-mail at alumni@bishopstang.com., , ,

KATHLEEN BURT, principal of SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, picks up a diamond from Denis Tetrault and his wife R~nee at Patenaude Jewelers to help celebrate the school's 75th anniversary.. A replica of the stone, valued at over $500, will be frozen in an ice cube and raffled off Nov. 28 at White's of Westport at a reunion qinner. When,the lucky winner:S ice melts he or she will receive the real diamond. .

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FUN-FILLED DAY! First, second and third graders. from St. Mary's School, New Bedford, enjoy a field trip to Keith's Orchard. It included a'hay ride through an apple orcha.rd and a visit to a pumpkin patch. At the end of the day each student brought home apples and his or her own pumpkin.

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: 1998 BISHOP Feehan· graduate 'Katherine Haskins'. was honored as the-reCipien~ 6f the Massachusetts Association of Land Surveyors and Civil Eng'ir,eers (MALSCE)' !?Cholarship at a convention last month in Falmouth., She ;' GOOD DEEDS --;These stUdents were elected to 'th~, is the first high school student &tudent council at St. ~oseph School; ~ew Bedford, whicQ ever to receive the award and promotes, Christ~~m valQes in school p!1d the communJty. Mem~ i~ majoring in civil engineering' bers have recently help.ed-the American Cancer SOCiety and at the University of Vermont. hope to visit residents 9f nursing homes this fall. They are John Halmon Jr., trustee for (front, 'from left) Nick l6Inierz" Jasmine Liarikos, (middle) An-. ~du.cation ,service' for drew Poitras, Zack Zolnierz, Ben Viall, (back) Shane Dumont, MALSCE, presented the . Jonathan Camara, and 'Ryan, Lemieux. ', . award.

HIGH HONOR - Bishop Feehan High School sEmiors Theresa Grenier, Meghan Kearns and Erin Savolainen were recently recognized as Commended Students in the 1999 National Merit Scholarship Program. They placed among the' top five percent of more than one million students throughout the country: Each ,is a member of the National Hon,or S()ciety and active in several school dubs.

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Our Rock and Role How to detect' a r6manticm'istake

By CHARLIE MARTIN

, don't care for me anymore."

When he leaves, she says, "It's the perfect ending to the bad day I'd gotten used to spending."

In other words, this relationship I woke up and'called this morning, brought her more misery than joy: The tone of your voice was warning In an honest moment she could That you don't ca,re for me anymo're. say: !'When you go, all I know is you're my favorite mistake."

How do you know when I made up the bed we sleep in. ' you've made a mistake like this?

I looked at the clock when you creep in. ' The song suggests a beginIt's 6 a.m., and I'm alone. ning; Be honest with yourself.

Face these questions: How do I Did you know when you go feel when I am with this person?

How do I feel when I am away It's the perfect ending from him or her? Listen to all your To the bad day I was just beginning? feelings as you think about these When you go, all I know is questions, not just the emotions You're my favorite mistake. that you want to feel.

Second, look carefully at the behaviors that occur when you Your friends act sorry for me. are together, particul~rly your They watch you pretend to adore me. own. Are you pretending anyBut I'm no fOCll to this game. th:,lg? Do you see any changes in your behavior that you are disNow here comes your set;j"'et lover. pleased with or not proud of? Do you feel more Of less free just to She'll be unlike any other, be yourself? ' Until your guilt goes up in flames.

Third, look at what happens when you and this person you Did you know when you go are going with have conflicts. Do It's the peF.'cJ\~"t ending, both of you acknowledge what is going on? Is there respect for To the bad d:.: 1 ' each other's point of view, even I'd gotten used to spending? though these may be in conflict?

When you go, all I know is Is there a fair resolution with a You're my favorite mistake. mutually agreed-upon solution accepted by both of you?

You're my favorite mistake.

If you say that you never have conflicts, and you have seriously Well, maybe nothi'''a lasts forever, investeq your heart in this relaEven wher. you S~~} ~ogether.' tionship, then Y9u've really made, ,I don't need -forever after, a mista~e! Either both of you are avoldirig issues and differences, But it's v('ur laughter or you just dOl} 't know each other Won't let me go, very well. IUs time to recognize So I'm holding on this way. what is happening and begin to correCt ~his mistake: .

Did you know? Could you t~lI? 1\vo,yaluable summary questions aw these: Because of this You were the only one ' relationship, am I becoming a betThat I ever loved? ter human being?' Does the relaNow everything's so wrong. tionship help 111errtanifest more Did you see me walking by? of my innate goodness - all the Did it ever make you cry? ' goodness that comes of being made to God's image and likeNow you're my favorite mistake. ness?

Yeah, you're my favorite mistake.

As with the woman in the song, You're my favorite mistake. you may discover with chagrin that you made a mistake. Maybe Written by Sheryl Crow/Jeff Trott the person you've been going with will become your "favorite Sung by Sheryl Crow mistake." Just don't make the Copyright (c) 1998 by A&M Records' even bigger mistake of not seeHAVE YOU evermadeamis- take" off h'er newly released disc ing what you haye done. take? Of course! What happens "The Globe Sessions."

The girl in the song is having , Your comments are always when your romantic relationship is a mistake? a hurtful awakening. In a phone welcome. Please address: This is the topic of Sheryl call she realizes "the tone of your Charlie Martin, 7125 W 2008, Crow's new hit "My Favorite Mis- voice was a warning that you Rockport, Ind. 47635.

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When parents limit their teens' freedom By

CHRISTOPHER CARSTENS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

"You don't trust me." How many teens have told their parents this?

All of them, pfQbably.

It is normal for teens to want more freedom and more independent choices. It is also perfectly normal - and appropriate - for parents to place limits on that freedoin and independence.

Why? First, because parents are very aware of life's dangers, and teens think none of the bad things will happen to them.

If there's an article i"n the paper about a gang fight at your favorite mall, your parents will worry, knowing you and your friends go there every weekend. You, on the other hand, won't won)', knowing that you and your pals never hang around with the kids who get into fights.

So, who's right? It doesn't really matter. Parents worry, and when they worry they protect. That's their job, and this factor won't ever change. , The second reason for limited freedom is lack of trust. Once you're out of sight, parents don't really know what you're doing. You know this and so do they. Your freedom is directly related to the confidence your folks have that you'll be where you say you'll be, doing what you say you'll be doing.

This factor you can do something about. .

Trust is a simple concept. Take away all the fancy psychological talk, and it comes down to this: Do you do what you say you will and not do what you say you won't?

Everything else grows out of the answer to this fundamental question.

Let's look at some examples. On Saturday evenillg you tell your mom that you'll be. at Tim's house playing pool in his basement There's an emergency at home, and at 9 0' clock Mom calls Tim's house. If you come right to the phone, trust is made stronger. But if Tim's dad answers and says: ''There must be a

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Or consider this. You say you'll be home from a class party at 11. At 10:58 you walk through the door, and call out a cheerful, "Hi, everybody,

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I'm home." Trust' becomes stronger.

But suppose you sneak in through the back door at 2 a.m., hoping nobody wakes up. Your dad is there in the hallway, waiting.

"Hi, Dad, I'm home."

Trust has just gotten weaker.

Think about your reaction when a friend tells you a lie. You feel hurt and betlayed. That's exactly how your parents feel when you break trust with them.

That emotional reaction changes the way your parents treat you. Two things happen. and neither will make your life any better.

-First, whenever you tell your parents anything, they silently ask themselves, "Can I believe this?"

They'll press you with a lot more questions, and will probably start checking out your statements. That's annoying, but it's a natural response.

-Second, your parents place greaterlimitson your freedom. If they can't confidently know where you'll be, they won't let you go out as freely. If they can't assume that you'll be in on time, there will be a lot more rules about curfew.

So, how can you help your parents trust you again? Like I said, trust is simple, but once it is broken, restoration takes a bit of time. Commit yourself to this principle: Do what you say you will, and don't do wha; you say you won't.

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Special to The Anchor Indian children in the Mission's .McKinley County has the THOREAU, NM "Lord. when did I see you hungry and CCD classes didn't have even the highest alcoholism rate in the feed yoiJ?" mo~t basic reading a,nd writing United States.

"When you did it for one of the least of skills. Today over 300 children, Thirty dedicated lay missionaries my people. you did it for me." Matt 25:40 most of them Native American, teach·and carry out the other work of As Catholics around the globe j'oin in prayer to keep their school the Mission. This "other work" prepare to celebrate the holy seasons - from closing. Mission staffbelieve includes maintaining the buses and of Advent and Christmas, the education is the key to breaking vans which travel the remote mesas to director, priest, sisters, lay the cycle of poverty. bring the children to'school; preparing missionaries and staff of a New The Indian ,boys and girls two nourishing meals daily for the MexicoMission schoolare concerned attendinl}St. Bonaventure Indian children; and bringing both food and about urgently-needed help. They Mission and School live with the watertoagingNavajoslivinginpoverty work daily to m'ake quality Catholic following realities: ' 'in remote: areas of the barren education a reality for American .55% of 'the Navajo Reservation.

Indian children in their care. population cannot read or New lay missionaries often ask, These children "do without" as write; "Can this be America?"

The shining eyes of these Navajo "angels,· part of last year's a way oflife ... will you help them?

• McKinley County (where the They've experienced failure in preschool pageant, reflect the hope of all at St. Bonaventure - to For many ofour students, the school Mission is located) has the other ,schools or inability to get 'to · keep the school open ... to give 300 children the. skills they will at St. Bonaventure Mission is their highest poverty rate (43%) school from great distances. need to break the cycle of poverty and to live a Spirit-filled life. "last hope." in the state; Will you help?

Trusting in God, everyone at • The suicide rate among Gifts made to St. Bonaventure •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• the Mission prays for help to pay Navajo teenagers is ten times Indian Mission and School are tax- • Dear Anchor Readers, our month to month bills. higher than for their age deductible. The school also qualifies • St. Bonaventure Mission I'm turning to you for help. My concern is for the : group in the U.S. population for "Matchingjlifts.:,--\ • children started a school more than a decade at Iarge. .... . " and elders served by St. Bonaventure Indian • ~--------ago when the founder realized the .

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Please check here ifyou would like to receive a beautiful rosary.himd-strung with reconstituted turquoise nuggets and silver-plated beads as a token ofappreciation for your gift of$100 or more.

Please check here ifyou would like to receive a sterli~g silver cross, set with turquoise. made by our local indian artisans, as a token ofappreciation for your gift 0/$35 or more. it is a unique piece ofjewelry you will ,wear-or give-with pride.

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