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"EXCELLENT!" was the buzzword at the Nov. 8 diocesan youth convention, where Bishop Sean O'Malley emerged on stage in a scene straight out of the popular teen movie "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure." (Hickey photo)

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By Marcie Hickey "Be excellent to one another!" was Bishop Sean O'Malley's advice to youth from all reaches of the diocese at their annual convention Nov. 8.

The u'nusual translation of John 13:34 - originated by the title characters of the 1989 teen movie "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" - concluded an "Everything You Wanted to Ask a Bishop" segment in which Bishop O'Malley fielded questions from his youthful audience at Bishop Connolly High School in Fall River.

The forum was the linchpin of the youth convention, the fourth annual gathering designed for young people to discuss their common faith and learn how to live it.

Themed "Live the Faith...Share the Story," the event drew more than 800 registrants - 200 more than last year, said Lisa Kelly, associate director of the Diocesan Office of Catholic Youth Ministry.

Arriving in the spectacular fashion of Bill and Ted's time-traveling mentor Rufus, Bishop O'Malley emerged on stage from a lightstudded booth suffused in wisps of liquid nitrogen, nodded sagely and quipped, "Hello, my excellent

friends; I'm here to help you with your questions!"

(For the uninitiated, Bill and Ted are two ordinary "dudes" from suburbia destined for future greatness, but in danger of failing high school history until Rufus sends them back in time in search of "personages of historical significance" )to enliven their classroom

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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The U.S. bishops Nov. ~8 for the first time in history defeated a pastoral letter proposed for ~ final vote.

They rejected the pastoral letter on women's concerns in church and society, a document nine: years in the making, afte~ two days of extensive debate. I The vote count was 163 in favor, 110 against. A two-thirds majority was required for approval.

Voting down the ,women's pastoral paved the wayf howevc:r, for a compromise mO,ve proposed earlier by Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago to refer the document to the bishops' Executive Committee for action on some elements and further study of others.

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Cardinal Bernardin had e:arlier made such a motion, and sub, sequently withdrew: it to let full debate on the pasto1ral itself take place.

After the vote was annOlilOced Cardinal Bernardini reintroduced his motion, but at Anchor press I' time, it had not been voted on.

I Before the vote o~ the pastoral Archbishop RembertG. Weakland of Milwaukee warnbd that if the bishops passed the Idocument as written, "we're going to lose another generation ofvfry fine young women.... We're lfoing to see a radical change among the people who stay in the ch~rch" in their attitude toward prie~tly ministry.

Archbishop John, R. Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis said the pastoral would send oJt "the wrong signal" because, inst~ad of its origI inal inte~t to addre~s c~ncems of women, It had turned IOto "two litmus tests that we didn't want -the ordination of women and our role as teachers.!'

"This pastoral is not a referen,dum on the ordinati6n issue,''' said Bishop Joseph L. Imesch of Joliet, Ill., chairman ofthe Ibtter's writing committee, in his sJmmation re-

He urged passage of the letter, saying it speaks to women's concerns in marriage, family life, single life and their place in the church and in public policy.

Since the National Conference of Catholic Bishops was formed after the Second Vatican Council, no other pastoral letter had been rejected by the bishops when it came to a final vote, and none had previously received more than 30 negative votes.

Cardinal Bernardin, in suggesting that the pastoral be sent to the bishops' executive committee, emphasized that he strongly supports church teaching on the ordination of women. "We are not ambiguous about this."

His call for "further study and dialogue regarding the philosophical and theological principles underlying the church's teaching" on such issues, he said, was in no way intended to undermine church teaching but to clarify and support it and present it more persuasively.

Other Issues Although the women's pastoral proved the centerpiece of the U.S. bishops' Nov. 16-19 meeting at Washington's Omni Shoreham Hotel, many other issues crammed the agenda.

The bishops elected Baltimore Archbishop William H. Keeler to succeed Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk as NCCB/ USCC president and Cleveland Bishop Anthony M. Pilla was elected vice-president after a runoff election against Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony.

With regard to a proposed new translation of the Roman missal, the bishops voted to ask an International Commission on English in the Liturgy to review its own procedures and give bishops more time to review changes in the translation.

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1'1 . In respo.nse to the latter ques- 'I' tlOn, the bishop told students, "I \ I don't think the Church will ever VATICAN CITY:(CNS) -- The Vatican has called the Church of allow priests to marry, but does occasionally ordain married men" :, England's decision to ordain women to the priesth06d a "new and - such as widowed deacons or former Episcopal priests who congrave obstacle" to Jnity between vert. the churches.

I He explained that the tradition, "This decision by the Anglican of celibacy has its origins not only Communion constitutes a new and in "Christ's example and the way grave obstacle to thejentire process he called his apostles," but also in of reconciliation witn the Catholic Church," Vatican spbkesman Joathe martyrdom of early Christians.

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ganizations opposed to the liturgy changes voiced their complaints with the process by which the major English-speaking nations are revising the missal.

One group, the St. Joseph Foundation, is prepared to sue the U.S. bishops on grounds of canon law if the Mass is changed, said Charles M. Wilson, the group's executive director.

The foundation, based in San Antonio, represents Catholics in various canon law suits including several recent cases over diocesan policies prohibiting use of the Tridentine Latin Mass.

Edward Snyder, director of the St. Augustine Center Association, said the proposed revisions have not been made at the request of the laity.

"Instead, they have been mechanically churned out by ICEL, a group of academics who continually revise their own work to stay in business," said Snyder. The St. Augustine Center Association is a group of traditionalists with the goal of reversing what it calls the "liturgical decline in America."

A spokeswoman for a third organization at the press conference, Katie Doherty of the Coalition in Support of Ecclesia Dei, took objections to liturgical changes even farther, suggesting the Tridentine Latin Mass would become "the Mass of the future."

Clergy Abuse Victims In an unscheduled intervention, Cardinal Mahony reported to the bishops Nov. 16 on a lunchtime meeting he had with 10 victims of sexual abuse by clergy. He described the meeting as "one of the most meaningful experiences I have ever had in my 17 years as a bishop." Also at the meeting were Bishop Harry J. Flynn of Lafayette, La., and Auxiliary Bishop Alexander J. Quinn of Cleveland.

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All three houses of the General Synod - representing bishops, clergy and laity - gave the necessary two-thirds majority, and the result was greeted with tears of happiness by supporters of women priests.

The landmark decision was seen as one of the most important moves since the Church of England split from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534.

It will be at least 18 months before women can be ordained to the priesthood.

Navarro-Valls said the Vatican's position against women priests had been made very clear by several popes to several archbishops of Canterbury, including the current archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop George Carey.

"The problem of the admission of women to the ministerial priesthood touches the very nature of the sacrament of priestly orders," Navarro-Valls said.

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Fairhaven native still on job as Maryknoll hishop Bishop Joseph W. Regan has returned to the Tagu m diocese in the Philippines after undergoing successful surgery to relieve pressure on the brain this August.

Bishop Regan, who was ordained in 1929, was recognized at his diamond jubilee in 1989 as the only Maryknoller to have spent all 60 years of his priesthood overseas.

He spent 22 years in China before his assignment to thf: Philippines in 1951.

In 1962 he was maje prelate of the new Prelacy Nullius of Tagum, and Titular Bishop or Isinda.

Born in 1905 in Fairhaven, the 87-year-old bishop ,;omes from tenacious stock. His r:1other Mary lived to 104, while hi!: 84-year-old sister, Rita Marie Regan, is a Maryknoll nun still an active missioner in Taiwan.

Maryknoll, the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, was organized by the bi!.hops of the U.S. to represent the {] .S. Catholic Church in overseas mission. Maryknoll Fathers, Brothers and Lay Missioners work in 27 countries. around the world.

DIOCESAN COUNCIL of Catholic Women members have been busy nationally and locally in recent weeks. Left, at National Council of Catholic Women assembly in Salt Lake City, from left, Dorothy Curry, national nominating committee member; Mary Mikita, DCCW president; Claire O'Toole, DCCW recording secretary; Claire McMahon, observer and past president of NCCW Associates; Hel,en Stager, DCCW treasurer; Joanne Quirk, NCCW Boston Province director.

Right picture, 'some of the participants in a day of recollection at St. Joseph's Church, Attleboro; from left, Madeline Wojcik, DCCW past president; Mary Mikita; Rev. Paul Canuel, St. Joseph's pastor and director of the day; Sister Jane Sellmayer, SUSC, DCCW past president; Theresa Lewis, DCCW 3rd vice-president and chairman for the day; Peggy Leger, DCCW Church Communities commissioner.

OBITUARY Marie E. Murphy Rev. John J. Murphy, retired pastor of Holy Name Church, New Bedford, was principal celebrant at the Mass of Christian Burial for his sister, Marie A. Murphy, 81, :., . who died Nov. 9 in FalL River. The Mass was offered Nov. 13 at Holy Name Church, Fall River.

Miss Murphy, a Fall River native, was the daughter of the late .'*~ Michael J. and Mary M. (Sars',., ~~,;;I*'fi':~:;t~ field) Murphy. She held a bachelor's degree from Fitchburg State College and a master's degree from Bridgewater State College and taught and was a principal in the Fall River school system from BISHOP SEAN O'MALLEY dedicates new parish center at Imaculate Conception par1937 until her retirement in 1971.

As a teacher, she served at the' ish, New Bedford on Nov. 6, blessing the gymnatorium (left) and one of II CCD classrooms Watson, Coughlin, Westall and which serve 1400 children. Originally the parochial school. the $270,000 building renovation Brayton Avenue schools. She was provides ample facilities for large and small events and meetings in the 17,000-member parish. assistant principal and then prin- Among new additions is a small kitchen for club gatherings. An existing large kitchen accomcipal of the Watson School and was named principal of the Dwelly modates preparations for major festivals. At bishop's left in both pictures is Father Evaristo School in 1961, serving there until Tavares, pastor; at right in right picture, Father Maurice O. Gauvin. her retirement.

Miss Murphy is survived by a At Unda meeting: brother, Michael A. Murphy of Fall River, and a sister, Rita Johnson of Riverside, RI, and West Yarmouth, as well as by Father ST. LOUIS (eNS) - IfCatho- ducers that doctrine can't be taught vide them with information about Murphy. lic broadcasters want to success- effectively by broadcast media. "It themselves and the world.

"Whoever informs us forms us." fully evangelize, they should focus doesn't fit with TV," he said. he said. on tran§mitting the truth of who "People say it is boring."

He noted that television proWhat creates an impact is not they are, French Oblate Father Pierre Babin said at a national the material presented but the effort grams imd advertisements often meeting of professional Catholic created by the presenter, he added. link happiness with material posFather Joseph F. Viveiros, He said that television offers the sessions. and he warned against communicators. director of the Diocesan ApostoFather Babin gave the opening most sensory, most concrete mes- underestimating the power of imlates for Persons with Disabilities, address of the 20th annual general sage available. "In literacy. the agery. As proof. he said that since is attending the seventh Internaassembly of Unda-USA in St. Louis message is the doctrine. In media, the cartoon-like character "Joe tional Pontifical Conference for the message is your b'ody, [itl is the Camel" was introduced in ads three Nov. 10-12.

Pastoral Health Care Workers in effect that your body gives to the years ago. the cigarctte sponsor's In attendance from the Fall River Vatican City. people. It's not what you say. it's share ofthc youth smoking market diocese were Rev. John F. Moore, The three-day conference, has risen from I percent to JO perwhat you are." director, and John E. Kearns Jr., themed, "Your Members Are the The church body. or commun- cent. assistant of the Diocesan Office of Body of Christ: Disabled Persons "What more evidence do we ity. needs to express itself in such a Communications, and Rosemary in Society," ends tomorrow. it "awakens something need to be convinced that beha\'way that Dussault, Anchor general manager. that is sleeping in the people." iors including a behavior that is 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111I1111111111111111 Unda. the I.at in word for wa ve. related to JOO,OOO deaths a year Father Babin said.

THE ANCHOR (llSPS-545-020). Second is an intcrnational organization are heavily influenced by thc In another address. Jesuit Father Class Postage Paid at Fall River. Mass. for church broadcasters. The theme John F. Kavanaugh warned that media'!" he asked.

Puhlished weekly except the week ofJuly 4 of this year's meeting was "Created the media are "evangelizers of the and the wcek aftcr Christmas at XX7 Highland Avcnuc, Fall River. Mass. 02720 hy in the image of ..... consumer culture."

Past and Future the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall Father Kavanaugh. author and Father Babin, who directs the River. SUhscription price hy mail. postpaid "Every saint has a past and Center for Research and CommunSt. Louis University professor of $11.00 per year. Postmasters send address philosophy. said people's opinions evcrysinnerhasa future." Oscar ication io/l Lyon, France. told the changes to The Anchor. P.O. Box 7. Fall group of broadcasters and proare determined by those who pro- Wildc River. MA 02722.

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Pax Chris,ti sets peace program Sister Patricia McCarthy of the Congregation of NO':re Dame will direct a program on peace, spirituality and non-violence to be sponsored from 6 te· 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, by Pc,x Christi .of Southeastern Massachusetts at St. Vincent's Home cafeteria, 2425 Highland Ave., Fall River.

A specialist in th,: theology of Christian non-violence, Sister McCarthy has given CO'Hses and lectures on the topic to students, adult education groups, parish organizations and religious communities in Canada, Irdand, Japan and many parts or the United States. She has also contributed articles to· maga7.inl:s and newspapers.

All are welcome 10 the Dec. 6 program and there is no admission charge.

Falling Far "Nothing that a man does takes him lower than when he allows himself to fall so far as to hate anyone." _.- Martin Luther King, Sr.

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Father O'Reilly dies at 82 Msgr. Henry T. Munroe, diocesan vicar general, was principal celebrant at the Mass of Christian Burial offered Tuesday at Immaculate Conception Church, Taunton, for Father William H. O'Reilly, 82, its retired pastor, who died Nov. 13.

Father James M. Fitzpatrick, chaplain at Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis, who was an altar boy at I mmaculate Conception Church during Father O'Reilly's tenure as pastor, was homilist for the funeralliturgy, concelebrated by many priests of the diocese.

The veteran pastor, a native of Fall River, was born Jan. 21,1910, and was the son of the late John F. and Ellen Perkins O'Reilly. After graduating from BMC Durfee High School in Fall River and Providence College, he prepared for the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore.

Father O'Reilly was ordained May 22, 1937, by the late Bishop James E. Cassidy and thereafter was parochial vicar at Our Lady of the Assumption, Osterville, St. Paul, Taunton, St. Patrick, Falmouth, St. Peter the Apostle, Provincetown, and St. Joseph, Taun-

ton, before being named administrator of St. Peter's parish, Dighton. . He served at St. Peter's from 1961 to 1966, then was appointed pastor of Immaculate Conception, Taunton, where he served until his retirement in 1983.

From 1942 to 1951, during his service at St. Paul parish, Taunton, Father O'Reilly was also chaplain for Taunton State Hospital.

Among his leisure activities was golf and in his retirement years, spent at the Catholic Memorial Home in Fall River, he also assisted in various area parishes.

A source of special pride for him was the work of his nephew, William K. Reilly, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Bush administration. When Reilly was sworn into office Feb. 8, 1989, he invited his uncle to deliver the invocation and benediction at the Washington ceremony. The administrator was present at Tuesday's rites.

As well as by Reilly, Father O'Reilly is survived by Reilly's father, George P. Reilly of Decatur, III,; a niece and several grandnieces and grandnephews.

VATICAN CITY: <CNS) Bishops have real authority over their local churches, Ibut for the sake of the unity of the unive'fsal church that authoritylis exercised in communion with the pope, Pope John Paul II said. ' At his ,Nov. 18 weekly general audience, the pope spoke about the authority and responsibility each bishop has and how that fits in with the overall strJcture of the church.

I The Second Vaticart Council, he said, made it clear that ~very bishop exercises a real authprity in his own diocese or local I church" an authority which "is not threatened by that of the Roman'pontiff."

But, the pope said) Vatican II strongly underlined the fact that for the sake of the unity and caltho-' licity of the church, ~he bishops' authority is exercised with the pope and under the pope. I Pope John Paul saitl that sometimes people "tend to: ignore" the ties with the church oflRome when discussing the local c~urch.

"The ministry of the successor of Peter belongs to tIle essence of every particular churdh" as part of its identity, "and not ~s something imposed from outside I perhaps for historical, sociological or prac:~ical reasons."

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The special role Jesus gave to Peter and the primacy attributed to him and his succeSsors implies "a link to the universal church and its center in the Roman church as a constitutive element of the particular church and condition of its being church."

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In guiding and caring for the local churches, bishops are called to imitate Christ, "giving their lives every day for the good of their flock," the pope said.

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the moorins..-, For the Homeless and Hopeless As Americans by the millions travel home for Thanksgiving, we as a nation must rem~mber the homeless.

So many of us will enj oy family reunions, turkey dinners and the wonderful feeling of being at home; while in stark contrast, others of our fellow citizens, many through no fault of their own, will spend the day covered by whatever materials they can find to keep themselves warm.

Some might be addicts, others might be mentally ill, but they will for the most part be bypassed by those hurrying towards buses, planes and trains. But we should realize that many who are out in the cold this Thanksgiving have been forced there by the vagaries of our changing marketplace.

Well-educated and self-supporting people who never expected to lose tht: roof over their head now know what a pink slip is all about. Once the job is lost, savings go and the cupboard becomes bare. Meanwhile banks, being in the shaky condition caused by their own greed, are like vultures ready to feast on what th(:y consider deadbeats.

Having taken pride in their work, many of today's jobless shrink from begging for handouts. But if they are to survive, they must apply for welfare, however it breaks their hearts and spirits.

For such people Thanksgiving is a vivid reminder of what once was. They did not plan, do not want and can do nothing about their prese'nt situation. Their heartbreaking condition is one of absolute frustration. Our bountiful land offers little to many a soul this Thanksgiving. , The situation becomes even more tenuous as we feebly attempt to rectify the mess in which we find ourselves. People are sick of arrogant government rules as evidenced by the election results, yet they do not want to be overwhelmed by increased taxation to create make-work jobs.

As the future leaders of our nation form their new team, little has been done towards fulfilling campaign promises. Job concerns and pa ying off the natio.nal debt take a back seat to the debate over gays in the service. One wonders what really 'is happening in Little Rock.

Despite our present chaos, it is imperative that all of us who care about our nation's future concern ourselves with the homeless and hopeless. Those who still enjoy at least a degree of prosperity mt.st care for those who have nothing. It is not merely a matter of a handout or a check to a given charity; it is a state of mind, H sincere concern for the least of our brothers and sisters.

As carif\g as are our private charities, they provide only temporary shelter against the economic cold, even though they are doing heroic work, much of which is more properly the province of our :;tate and federal governments.

As we gather to give thanks, let us also give hope, praying for the homeless and hopeless and laboring in their behalf. Let us encourage our nl~W leaders and Congress to place the cause of the neediest on ':heir priority list, not ignore it now that the campaign season is over.

The first Thanksgiving celebrated survival. Let us not lose this spirit in our own difficult times. We must help each other survive; we mus1 have reason to give thanks. As we celebrate this truly American feast, let us make room at the national . table for the horleless and hopeless.

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SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS PRODUCES SOME 40 PERCENT OF THE WORLD'S CRANBERRIES AND THE BERRY IS THE STATE'S LEADING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT. CRANBERRY HARVESTING IS A TRADITIONAL SIGN OF FALL IN THE DIOCESE AND CRANBERRY SAUCE IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THANKSGIVING DINNER..

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Father Salois speaks at Vietnam Wall WASHINGTON (CNS) - It is the most significant way to begin time' to put aside the divisions any healing would be to find the from the Vietnam War, Terry truth about men and women missing in action.

Anderson said during a Nov. II The Vietnam veterans in the service to mark ,the 10th anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Me- crowd came from across the country. Many were dressed in fatigues morial in Washington.

Anderson. held hostage for and black jackets. Some carried nearly seven years when he was flags. Huddled in groups they solMiddle East correspondent for emnly commemorated the anniAssociated Press. spoke to the versary of the memorial- a black raindrenched crowd from his ex- granite wall inscribed with the perience i'n the Vietnam War as a names of those killed during the war that is close to the Lincoln U.S. Marine.

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During what was a six-day celeDoes this bring back memories?" he asked his audience. estimated bration. all 58,183 names were by the National Park Service at read aloud for 24 hours a day. about 30,000.

Father Philip Salois. a Missionary Father of Our Lady of LaSalette stationed at LaSalette Shrine. Attleboro, who is Catholic chaplain of Boston VA Medical Center and president of the National Conference of Vietnam Veteran Ministries. gave the ceremony's opening Prayer for families prayer. He said God's presence. "like a mighty wind." could be felt I ask you to strengthen at the monument and was visible the resolve of all mothersin the "mirrored image of the men. to-be so that they may bring women and children who receive comfort and inner peace here." their children to birth. EnHe called the monument ground lighten our policymakers consecrated and holy because it with the wisdom to increase "speaks to the hearts and souls of the opportunitiesfor adopall who visit." He also prayed for tion so no child may go healing for those who carried the scars of war, "visibly or secretly." unloved or unwanted. CreHe was not the only one to atefamilies whose compasspeak of healing. Vice Presidentsionate generosity willmirelect Al Gore, a surprise guest at ror your own tender love the program, said, "What is imporand concern. I ask this tant now is the healing process."

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President Bush was among those who read from the list shortly after midnight on Nov. II. Wreaths. flowers, flags and a pair of soldier's boots with roses had been placed beside the memorial. Anderson, keynote speaker at the service, noted that a 'Medal of Honor had been left there that morning.

"I don't know what the people who left it were tj'ying to say, but it says to me that it is a fitting place for such a high honor," Anderson said. "It should be shared by everyone whose name is on the wall."

The medal is awarded by Congress for risk of life in combat beyond the call of duty.

Anderson, who has often talked about how his Catholic faith helped him through his nearly seven years in captivity in Lebanon, told his listeners they needed to experience forgiveness.

"The quiet grandeur and nobility of this monument demand forgiveness and reconciliation. I pray that we can live up to that demand," he said. . Anderson called the memorial a "penetrating reminder" of those who paid the price in the war.

"Veteran or civilian, supporter or opponent of that terrible war, we all paid; we all have the right to speak our thoughts here to remember aloud what it cost us individually and as a nation," he added.

Other speakers included Maya Ying Lin, designer of the memorial, Rocky Bleier, former Pittsburgh Steeler and Vi~tnam veteran, along with a woman whose father died in the war and another whose father has been reported as missing in action.

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The kingship of Jesus II Samuel 5:1-3 Colossians 1:12-20 Luke 23:35-43 We would miss some very important theological messages if we thought the Gospels were written to prove Jesus is God. The Evangelists were not trying to convert infidels. Presuming only those who already believed in Jesus' divinity would read their work, they did not try to demonstrate he is God, but to show what kind of God he is.

The way they went about this task is just as important as their goal: they did it by reflecting on how his risen presence affected their communities. If they could determine the difference that belief in Jesus brought to their relationship with others, they would then know what Jesus, as God, is "really like."

"Like" is the closest humans ever get to God. Once we reach heaven, we will be rid of the "like" stuff and begin to know the Lord as hel she "really is." But for now, we can only comprehend God by comparisons to persons, relationships, or situations with which we're already familiar. This process results in our using human titles for God ...such as "king.".

But remember, all comparisons have points which apply and points which do not apply. For instance, when the author of the Song of Songs says the nose of his beloved "is like the tower on Lebanon that looks toward Damascus," there are certain aspects of the tower which help describe his beloved's nose, and others which could get him into trouble with her! In the same way, there are certain aspects of king which help us understand Jesus, and others which are totally foreign to his personality. Only our daily experiences of him help us know which points apply, and which don't.

Listening carefully to today's Scripture passages, we begin to see the aspect of king which most pertains to the way Jesus affects our lives. Paul describes it very concisely. "It pleased God," he writes, "to make absolute fullness reside in him [Jesus) and, by means of him, reconcile everything in his person, everything, I say, both on earth and in the heavens, making peace through the blood of his cross." Jesus brings things, people . and God together. He unifies the

DAILY READINGS Nov. 23: Rv 14:1-3,4-5; Ps 24:16; Lk 21:1-4 Nov. 24: Rv 14:14-19; Ps 96:10-13; Lk 21:5-11 Nov. 25: Rv 15:1-4; Ps 98:1-3,7-9; Lk 21:12-19 Nov. 26: Rv 18:1-2,21-23; 19:1-3,9; Ps 100:2-5; Lk 21:20-28 (Thanksgiving: Sir 50:22-24; Ps 138:1-5; 1 Cor 1:3-9; Lk 17:11-19) Nov. 27: Rv20:1-4,l1-21:2; Ps 84:3-6,8; Lk 21:29-33 Nov. 28: Rv 22:1-7; Ps 95:1-7; Lk 21:34-36

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By FATHER ROGER KARBAN entire universe. We experience more harmony with everyone and everything after we believe in him than before we believe. Like a good king, he unites those whom he serves.

Exactly 1,000 years before Jesus, David accomplished a similar feat for ·the Jews. Originally he ruled only over that part of Yahweh's people known as Judah. The larger portion, Israel, hesitated to swear their allegiance to him. Judaism could easily have split into two countries.

But eventually, as today's first reading narrates, "All the tribes of

Machinist heads Cursillo movement DALLAS (CNS) - The U.S. Cursillo movement has named an Illinois machinist active in the movement for 14 years as its new executive director.

Tom Sarg, 40, will replace Gerald Hughes, who is retiring after 20 years at the helm of the Dallasbased national Cursillo secretariat.

Sarg said that "Curillo's primary goal is to evangelize environments" through its weekend short courses, weekly sharing and daily living.

The international Cursillo movement, which began in Spain in 1949 as a Christian renewal effort, seeks to promote individual and organized apostolic action. Individuals are initiated into the movement through a three-way cursillo or short course on prayer, study and Christian action.

In his post, Sarg will provide support for diocesan and regional Cursillo groups and publish the national office's bimonthly testimonial magazine Ultreya and other Cursillo literature.

Sarg attended his first Cursillo in 1978 in Evansville, Ind. By the time Cursillo was established in his home diocese of Belleville, lll., he had become an active member.

He rose from lay director to president of the regional secretariat, which encompassed 14 dioceses in the Midwest.

He work for the U.S. Air Force before settling in Mount Carmel, Ill., in 1978, where he was a machihist.

A growing disaster WARSAW, Poland (CNS) The United Nations' special human rights envoy to the Ball<ans has reported int.ensified rights violations, threat§ to the survival of the Muslim community and the potential for a massive public 'health disaster in what used to be Yugoslavia. Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a leading lay Catholic who headed Poland's first postcommu~ist government, spent 10 days in the war-torn region. He is a special reporter for the U.N. Human Rights Commis. sio".

and said, 'Here we ar~, your bone and your flesh .. .' King David made an agreement with th'em then~ before the Lord, and they anointed him king of Israel." 'Ji'he two Jewish entities became ~ne through the personality of David.

Yet as all Scripture students know this unificatioA lasted only two generations. Onde David and his son, Solomon, died, the grandson's egotism split the two once again. Much of the Hebrew Bible was composed during this 200 year' divided period. No Iwonder the Sacred Authors looked back with longing to the days of'David. They were days of kingly unity.

It is no accident th~t Luke mentions the inscriptionl over Jesus' head immediately before he describes his dialogue with the good thief. "This is the king of the Jews, .. the sign reads. [ Certainly not a very royal setting. Only when the Lbrd responds to the criminal's reqoest, "JI:8US, remember me when yo~ enter upon your reign," do we see true kingship discharged. "I ~ssure you," Jesus answers, "this day you will be with me in paradise."

Jesus does the same thing on Golgotha that he doeS throughout Luke;s Gospel: he ~rings those farthest away from the community into the community. He constantly I unites.

Really not bad to think of Jesus the king, as long as we know what aspects of a king he displays.

New bishon VO\fS to affirm I life WINOOSKI PARK, Vt.(CNS) - The new head ofthe Burlington Diocese pledged to '~affirm and reaffirm" the church'slteaching on the sanctity of human, life.

Bishop Kenneth A. Angell, former auxiliary in the IProvidence, R.I., Diocese, was inst;alled Nov. 9 as the eighth bishop of Burlington before 1,500 well-wishers at St. in WinooMichael's College Chadel .

I ski. j He asked Vermont Catholics to I. "never cease to proclaim t he,d'Ignity of a II human life a:nd the truth that life begins at the moment of conception."

Cardinal Bernard IF. Law of Boston, who administ~red the rites of installation, recalled that early missionary priests referred to the area which is now thel Burlington Diocese as "paradise.'1 "When I first came to Boston, I was told that after Boston there is .j., "A s you on I y heaven, "h e salu. begin your mission a~ bishop of Burlington, may I welcome you to paradise, Bishop Ang¢ll."

Among those attending the installation from the jFall River diocese were Bishop S:ean O'Malley, Msgrs. John J. Oliveira and Henry T. Munroe and 'Fathers Jay T. Maddock and Edward J. ByingI ton. . Others included Hartford Archbishop Daniel A. Cronin and Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan, apostolic pronuncio to the United States. ' Bishop Angell, greeted by a standing ovation fol:lowing his installation, recalled his first experience in Burlington 21 years a.go.

While he was there he slipped on the ice in the parkingllot outside the chancery and brokjc !:tis leg.

"Eight days later, I left the hospital to return to Provi~ence, where I made a solemn vow never to return to the Green'Mountain State," he said, laughing. "How • .~.

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Q. Some of m~1 non-Catholic friends are questic,ning me about the Prayer of St. Francis. They say it was not written by St. Francis but by Reinhold Niebuhr sometime in the 19405.

If this is true, why does the church attribute tile prayer to St. Francis? (lIIinois) A. We are speaking of the prayer

Who wrote the Prayer of St. Francis? ' which begins "Make me an instrument of your peace."

I am grateful to some Franciscan historians, including one who wrote his doctoral thesis on the prayers of S1. Francis, for the following information.

Scholars have been unable to discover precisely where the prayer came from. They are certain that the prayer was not written by Francis himself.

The prayer so captures the spirit of Francis, however, that the Christian faithful found it natural to call it S1. Francis' prayer.

As the priest who gave me this information notes, Catholics who are excessively "literal" in their understanding of the faith might be less disturbed to know that S1.

Paul did not write all of St. Paul's letters than to find out that S1.

Francis did not write all these "Prayers of S1. Francis."

A prayer card similar to those we often distribute at funerals or ordinations, with this prayer on one side and a picture of S1. Francis on the other, was widely distributed during the 18th and 19th centuries in France and the rest of Europe.

This card may partially explain the attribution of the prayer to St. Francis.

As we all are aware, St. Francis commands considerable respect and honor among many who are not Catholic or Christian. Reinhold Niebuhr was a noted Protestant theologian, He perhaps fos-

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Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY Dear Mary: My first child is 3' months old. Last month I went back to work.

In the evening I want to spend time with my baby, but it is the only time we have for washing, cleaning, etc. The lIaby is very restless at night, so lIeither my husband nor I get much sleep.

I enjoyed the first two months with my son. I w.)uld like to cut back on working fInd my husband agrees, but we call't afford to live without my income. How do other moms manage? - Iowa

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If you find yourself tired earlier these evenings, don't be concerned that you have some hidden medical problem or suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome. You're in step with America, w lich is going to bed earlier every :rear. Prime time is getting shorter Hnd earlier in our fast-track culture.

It used to be that the older the person, the earlier his or her definition of prime time. While this may still hold, an interesting phe-

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A. Fathers of the Church is a title given to a number of theologians and writers in the early centuries of the church who witness in many ways to the Christian faith and who helped establish our basic doctrinal and moral teachings.

Among the fathers a special 'place is held by what are called the apostolic fathers. These are the great writers of the first two Christian centuries, people like S1. Cle-

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If you calculate all costs, add the wear and tear on your family, and conclude that your present job is not worth the extra income, then what?

Can you work part time, and can you and your husband arrange your hours sothat one can care for the baby while the other works?

Shared parenting takes planning, but many parents find ways to make it work.

Can you work part time in your home? Telemarketing, writing, teaching and making crafts, bookkeeping and word processing for business or students are some possibilities.

Set regular work hours and hire someone to come into your home to care for the baby during those hours. You might get more done

ment of Rome, S1. Irenaeus, S1.

Ignatius of Antioch, the unknown author of the Didache and others.

The general title of Fathers of the Church is given to certain outstanding theologians, bishops and writers up 路to approximately the year 800, such as S1. Augustine, St. Jerome and a number of great theologians of the Eastern churches, like S1. Basil the Great and S1. John Chrysostom.

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with less stress than going out to work, and you spend minimal time away from your baby.

Can you care for one or two children in your home? To offer quality care and attend to your child as well, you should not take more than two other children.

You will not make a lot of money, but you can offer a better adult-child ratio than many providers. You eliminate extra clothes and transportation for yourself.

You reduce your child's exposure to other children. You can be your own boss. And you have the opportunity to care for your child yourself.

Although the number of twoincome families is high, there are young families of modest means who manage on one income. They know' how to eliminate unneces-

sary purchases and to get the best . buys.

Many women are struggling.with the ~hoice you are trying to make.

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by Linda Burton, Janet Dittmer and Cheri Loveless.

PaYing the rent and the food bill are essential. However, if your job leaves you no time to enjoy your baby, you are paying a high price.

You have more options than you think. .

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Much is written about finding good child care. Less has been written about surviving the multiple demands when you work, manage a home and attempt to parent children.

If you calculate all the costs of working, you may find that you make little. You need to calculate extra clothes for you, extra transportation, perhaps even an extra car. You probably eat out or order take-out food often.

Your child will probably be ill more often than children who are at home the first few years. Such illness is not an indictment of child-care providers, but your child will probably have more respiratory infections, more ear infections, more trips to the doctor and prescriptions than the average child at home. These illnesses will require time off by one parent.

tered devotion to St. Francis and encouraged use of this prayer.

Whoever wrote it, however, it seems the Peace Prayer enjoyed wide popularity in the Christian world long before he was born.

Q. One of our priests refers often to the Fathers ofthe Church..

Who are they? (Louisiana)

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On the day W(' celebrated the 500th anniversar'r of Columbus' arrival in the Ne:,v World, a historic project was launched to listen for messages possibly communicated by life that may exist elsewhere in this immense universe.

Researchers were given a vote of confi~ence by t.hegovernment, con-

Prime time, a phrase that became a household word with the advent

of television, began at II p.m. and the evening news began at II p.m.

But, with Americans going to bed earlier, prime time is changing.

A study of San Francisco-area viewers replicated similar results in Washington and Boston. It found that nearly 50 percent of adults were on their way to work by 7 a.m. and nearly three-fourths were home and had begun watching television by 7 p.m. Almost half are in bed by II p.m.

What does all this mean to the typical family? Mainly, that it's not alone in being tired earlier at the end of the day. The baby boomers are aging, of course, so that makes a difference, but a primary cause of early evening fatigue begins much earlier in the day, the 5 or 5:30 a.m. wake-up alarm.

sidering that the studies are to be conducted under a 10-year. $100-' million program managed by the Natio'nal Aeronautics and Space Administration.

This was ironic, considering all the Columbus bashing that went on in the months before the quince~tennial. Now we are ready to boldly go where no one has gone before in the hope of also discovering other peoples, other worlds.

Imagine the history books of the year 2500 berating the NASA adventurers of the late 20th century for their arrogance, should it turn out that they do make contact with intelligent beings on other planets.

It has been easy for scientists to

believe that Earth can't be the only planet with intelligent life. After all, there are several hundred million of these bodies out there.

Somewhat like Columbus, who took a lot of ribbing for his claim that the earth was round, not flat, these astronomers have had to swallow pride in trying to make the case that it is time to seriously try to find out if other life is out there.

The news of the NASA project has to be good news for those who have long believed in extraterrestrial visitors, alien spacecraft and other such phenomena.

The universe is still far from being understood, wr~pped for the

nomenon is occurring among younger adults. They, too, are retiring early, and this is changing the face of prime time television, evening meetings and parties.

In the early days of America, the majority farming community rose at five and retired at 10. Church and social activities ended early in the evening. Schools started eady in the morning to free children to help at the farm or family business in the afternoon.

As our nation moved into the industrial and then technological eras, both waking and retiring times moved back an hour or two.

Electricity, commuting, and the rise of two-paycheck parents were contributing factors.

Young parents aren't getting up at 5 to milk the cows but to meet family needs so both parents can be on the road to work by 7. Early morning is becoming a more popular time to do laundry, prepare dinner, and clean up than evenings, when parents are frazzled and tired.

"I get so much more done when the children are in bed," one mother reported. "I'm fresh in the morning and by getting household chores done then, I can give my wearier self fully to the kids when I come home from work." She laughed.

"Of course, I go to bed when they do."

Exercise is another cause of early morning rising. I know a man who rises at 4 a.m. to run an hour and I know a religious educator who doubles as an aerobics instructor

at a local health center. Her class begins at 6 a.m. and is filled with working women.

Work schedules have always determined family schedules. With two parents working, mealtimes have changed and now, so have bedtimes. Television executives have recognized the need to change programing and so must we who offer evening classes and programs.

I've discovered that if a workshop doesn't end by 9:30, forget it.

Because in front of me sit all those weary parents who will be getting up at 5. They mirror the San Francisco viewer who wrote the station, "Count me in for early pogramming. I'm up early and in bed early. I would love to see, just once, a complete episode of'Designing Women."

E.T., phone Earth! most part in God's mystery. As 'soon as scientists think they 'have made a solid discovery, other scientists discover unanswered aspects.

A few years ago, astrophysicists were buzzing aboiJt something called "non-linearity" - meaning that our universe is not based on predictable, ordered laws. Rather. it's chaos out there.

This had far-reaching implications for the way we see ourselves and our universe. Ever since the ancient Greeks, the fundamental principal of science has been a belief that nature is ordered. Now some were saying that a certain degree of chaos is a sign ofhellith.

The news coming out of NASA shows we still have the courage to try to understand the mysteries of the universe.

I see no conflict in reconciling the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere with any Christian beliefs. For how could we limit the possibilities of our creator? Why should we believe that God's unlimited love is limited to only one tiny planet, Earth?

As the ancient Greek philosopher Metrodorus wrote, "To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow."

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Council enabled church growth MILAN, Italy (CNS) - The changes brought by the Second Vatican Council have enabled the church to grow and to take root in all the cultures of the world, said Peruvian Cardinal Juan Landa-

People helping people Dear Editor: "Go out and serve the Lord people helping people." That is exactly what parishioners at St. Patrick's Church. Falmouth, are doing. The parish St. Vincent de Paul conference presented the Falmouth Service Center, an organization that aids the needy, with $2000 this year. The money is used to aid Falmouth residents with utility. rent and medical bills. In addition three to six bags of food were donated weekly by parishioners.

However, Vincentian board members felt the parish could do even better and Rosalie Ghelfi, board president, with input from members and from Father Gerard A. Hebert. the enthusiastic Vincentian moderator, decided that a particular food item would be requested weekly in the parish bulletin. and that the following week the bulletin would report how many cans of tuna, for example. had been collected.

Response was tremendous. When parishioners knew, for instance, that 98 jars of peanut butter and jelly were collected one week. 142 cans of tuna and 220 cans of soup the next, and 90 packages of rice and 112 cans of vegetables the next, it made them feel much more involved in the project.

In October. the Falmouth Service Center helped 557 people in 213 families and distributed food value(j at $5478.50. We are not happy that so many needed help, but are glad we could be part of aiding our brothers and sisters.

Since I have been volunteer executive director at the center for five years, I am especially proud of what my parish has done and I hope that many other churches will examine their polices for helping the needy and follow the example of the Vincentians.

We should all also remember that none of us is exempt from being in the situation of needing help. Jobs, state of health and finances can change abruptly.

Celine M. Holly Vincentian board member St. Patrick parish. Falmouth

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St. James - St. John School St. James St. John School, New Bedford, is preparing fe,r a Thanksgiving assembly program on Nov. 24, to be themed "Thanksgiving -Then and Now." Every grade is contributing through song, essay, poetry, or artwork. The fifth grade will open the program by reciting Psalm 100.

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The eighth grade has composed a St. James-St. John Compact signed by the entire student body which will be dedicated at the assembly, and will then be decorated with Mayflowers made by the first grade.

Just as Squanto helped the Pilgrims, the sixth-graders have written essays of their modern-day helpers and friends.

Plymouth Rock is a symbol of hope the Pilgrims had for their new land. Seventh-graders have written about their hopes and dreams for the future.

Grades three and fciur have learned poems comparing the feast of long ago to the celebration of today. The fifth- and sixth-graders will pantomime the dinner feast joining Pilgrims, Indians, and children of today at the same table.

The second-graders will each hold up an example of something for which they are thankful. Pre-school and kindergarten will sing a song remembering our Indian friends of then and now.

The entire school will close the program with the traditional song, "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come."

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A MONTH-LONG celebration of the 25th anniversary of Holy Cross parish, South Easton, included a parish retreat, a picnic, a homecoming Mass to which all priests who had served the parish in its 25 years were invited, a Mass with Bishop O'Malley as principal celebrant, a dinner dance and a night of recollection. From top, bishop greets parishioners at Mass; speaks to Janet Merriam, youth group and high school program leader; Louise Vose, parish Women's Club president with spectacular anniversary cake made by parishioner and professional baker Mary Piantoni and featuring depiction of Holy Cross Church.

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I He also remains a supporter of H is pursuit turned up other Covenant House. founded by Fa- accounts of Father Ritter pressing vulnerable young males for sex ther Ritter to servc homeless youth.

I He said when people say they tear from the earliest days of Covenant I up Covenant House appeals beHouse, I cause of what he has written, he When it became known Sennott I Recognized as an "Exemplary School" by the tells them that is a mistake. was working on the story, particu"The fact that the man who larly after he telephoned Father United Stat~s Depcrrtment of founded it had serious fla ws, as'we Ritter to ask him about the charges, Education - 1991 all do. doesn't mean the work isn't the book reports. the Post started I good," Sennott said. getting heavy pressure from CovHe was interviewed about his enant House. church officials, adAccrebited by the book, "Broken Covenant," which vertisers, politicians and others.

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But the results were not made public at the urging of the Vatican.

William Ryan of the bishops' Media Relations Office said Nov. 18 that after the U.S. bishops made public the names of its deleWASHINGTON (CNS) - A after having unprotected sex, while gates to the last synod, the Vatican pro-life leader said a researcher's the other half received the stand"reminded" the conference that claim that the Fre'1ch abortion pill ard birth control pill mix of ethinyl synod statutes require that deleR U-486 can be a n effective con- estradiol and norgestrel. gates' names "not be made public None of the women given RUtraceptive is "semantic gamesmanuntil ratified by the Holy See." ship" designed to confuse women 486 became pregnant, while four Money Matters in the control group did. The about the pill's true effects.

After rejecting a impassioned Judie Brown, ')resident of the women who took R U-486 also plea from the floor to add a national American Life L;:ague, made the experienced fewer side-effects, said staff person for evangelization, the comment on the ABC television the research team headed by Dr. U.S. bishops approved a 1993 budAnna Glasier of the University of show, "Good Morning America," get of nearly $41.4 million for the after the New England Journal of Edinburgh, Scotland.

National Conference of Catholic RU-486, made by the French Medicine reported that R U-486 ~ Bishops and U.S. Catholic Confercould be used t.) prevent preg- drug company Roussel-Uclaf and YOUTH DAY masters of ceremonies Andy Smith and ence. nancy in the hours after intercourse approved for use in France, BriAmy Bedard with keynote speaker Sister Carol Wagner, OP. rather then to abort the fetus tain, Sweden and China, is the Bishop' William R. Houck of (Hickey photo) popular name for the drug mifeimplanted in the womb.

Jackson, Miss., head ofthe NCCB "The medical profession is lying pristone, which induces abortion Committee on Evangelization, reto American wo:nen," said Mrs. in the earliest stages of pregnancy quested an exception to the budget to add the evangelization staffer.

Brown. "While doctors concede when used with a synthetic prostagthat a human life begins aUertili- landin.

Archbishop Edward A. McIt is illegal to import RU-486 zation, they then turn around and Carthy of Miami pleaded with the He said several victims had met bishops to support the addition, Continued from Page One tell women that destroying that into the United States for personal several times with Fall River saying it would amount to "one-' lowing press conference that he use, but its import is permitted for human life with chemicals such as apologized to the victims for the Bishop Sean O'Malley to formu- fifth of I percent of our total research purposes.

RU-486 is not an abortion." abuse they had suffered. "In sev- late a more comprehensive plan to budget."

In an editorial in the Oct. 8 New Richard Glasow, education dieral instances people felt no one deal with clergy sexual abuse. rector of the National Right to England Journal of Medicine, Dr. "What kind of signal do we The meetings have been "very send," he asked, if "we refuse to had said aloudto them, 'I'm sorry,''' Life Committee, also called the David A. Grimes of the University successful so far," said Gaboury, spend a pittance on this essential research deceptive, saying it was of Southern California School of he said.

"These are people who have adding he liked the Chicago arch"the latest in a long series of blat- Medicine and Rebecca J. Cook of mission of the church?" been deeply wounded by the mis- . diocese's plan to deal with priest ant attempts to mislead the public the University of Toronto said It seemed clear that most bishops conduct of their priests," Cardinal sex abusers. But "it's a national wanted to create the additional that RU-486 do~s not cause an opposition to RU-486 was likely Mahony told the bishops. They problem, requiring a national staff position. But a budget comto continue and called it a "national abortion." feel "hurt, anger, pain, alienation 路response."

"The abortion advocates attempt disgrace." mittee decision that it would reand abandonment."

Also speaking to the press was quire an added tax on dioceses They compared the situation to to avoid the term 'abortion' and Fall River Bishop Sean O'Malley, made it difficult to make such an Cardinal Mahony said the group redefine how R'J-486 advocates the Tuskegee experiment in which who noted that Bishop James L. addition. asked for five things which he said attempted to disguise its abortion the U.S. government intentionally Connolly, the fourth bishop of The proposed addition would have he found both reasonable and action by descrihing it as a 'con- withheld penicillin from poor black Fall River, who died in 1970, was required raising an extra $60,000 hopeful: tragestive,' 'menses inducer' or men with syphilis 50 years ago. bishop at the time Father Porter in 1993 and more than $80,000 a - That the church "show her"Today the government is repeat'morni ng-after pi II.'" self as a loving, caring, healing was serving in diocesan parishes. year after that - meaning an addiThe study repcrted in the Oct. 8 ing its mistake by depriving another His predecessor, Bishop O'Mal- tional tax on dioceses of .11 cents church, not as a legal obstacle New England Journal of Medicine minority group, women who need ley pointed out, was the product of per Catholics in 1993 rising in 1994 which projects an image of proinvolved 800 British women. Half emergency contraception (or abora time when pedophilia was a and 1995 to .15 cents per Catholic. tecting errant priests at all costs." of them were given a 600-milligram tion for that matter), of a promislittle-understood and hushed-up - That U.S. bishops state again Heads of dioceses - the only dose of RU-486 within three days ing new drug," they wrote. condition. Nevertheless, Bishop bishops allowed to vote on fundas a body their "care and concern Connolly made treatment availa- ing questions - voted 92-70 in for all victims of clergy misble to Porter on several occasions favor of the increased tax to pay conduct."

- That the bishops "equalize and did his best to rehabilitate for the staffer, but that did not ROME (CN~,) - A leading ception on a par with animal conhim. reach the two-thirds affirmative Jesuit magazine said human beings ception and allow "all kinds of and harmonize" their clergy abuse Bishop O'Malley said that in vote required for approval. are superior to other creatures experimentation" on human em- policies, which to victims have an addition to meeting with the Por"apparent unevenness."

In other matters of priorities provoking the in: of Italy's animal bryos. ter victims, he has offered special and plans and budget, the bishops: - That the church consider "an rights movement.

Animal rights activists in Italy Masses at diocesan parishes where - Approved a proposal to make The magazine, La Civilta Cat- immediately denounced the edi- annual day set aside for prayer and the former priest served. the temporary committee coorditolica (Catholic Civilization), said torial, saying the Jesuits had for- healing for people suffering from nating concerns of Latin and Christian teachi ng clearly places gotten the teaching of St. Francis child sexual abuse of all kinds."

Youth Day - That a regular dialogue be humans above animals because of of Assisi, who preached the divine The bishops were told by Denver Eastern-rite bishops a standing continued with clergy abuse vic- Archbishop J. Francis Stafford committee of the conference. The their capacity to love and go beyond nature of all creation. tims. self-interest. that the estimated number of peo- exact name of the new standing Cardinal Mahony also told the ple expected to attend World Youth committee was not immediately "They're teaching that animals It warned against a modern tendency to "exalt" animal rights at are and should remain objects to press conference he visited Rome Day in Denver next August has decided.

- Approved a proposal to elect the cost of human dignity, espe- use at will - for fun, for experi~ the week before the bishop's meet- more than tripled, from 60,000 to future chairmen of the Committee cially in areas of ecology and bio- mentation and for furs," said Adol- ing to reassert the importance of 200,000. In the Fall River diocese, ethics. The editorial appeared in a fo Sansolini, an official of Italy's the Vatican approving procedures it is hoped that at least two repre- on Communications a year in adto speed up the laicization of sentatives from each parish will be vance of their taking office. recent issue of the magazine, a. Antivivisection League.

- Decided to have the commitrespected journal that often reflects Gianni Tamino, a biology pro- priests who have committed sex- on hand for the event, according Vatican thinking. to a leaflet distributed at the recent tee studying the structure and misfessor and national coordinator of ual abuse.

He said he hoped approval of Youth Convention '92 held at Bish- sion of the NCCB-USCC take a The article described non-human Italy's Green Party, said the article路 creatures as "closed in themselves," was trying to "validate our right of the two-year-old.request "will come op Connolly High School, Fall look at whether the conference fairly soon." president and vice president and engaged in what could be called a . life and death over other beings."

River, Bishop Sean O'Malley will Dennis Gaboury, 41, said the be among bishops present. "selfish" search for survival and chairmen of other committees "It is true that compared to us, group gathered in response to a conservation of I. he species.

At least half of the pilgrims should also be elected a year in animals have a limited capacity to request made in June at the Uni- would be English-speakers, Arch- advance. Currently a few commit"Only the human being is capachoose, but they know how to sacversity of Notre Dame by Arch- bishop Stafford said, adding that tees have that practice, but conferble of loving, tha t is, of going outrifice themselves and to love," he bishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cin- other language groups will proba- ence officers and most new chairside oneself, O:le's own selfish said: cinnati, president of the National bly number 30,000, Spanish; men take office at the end of the interests, and forming a relationship with an 'othd - with God or Conference of Catholic Bishops, 10,000, Vietnamese; 8,000 each, meeting at which they were elected. for more information about clergy French and Italian; and 1,000 each, The NCCB-USCC budget of with other human beings," it said.

The human bdng is thus "radisexual abuse in the church. $41.4 million for 1993 comes German, Portuguese and Polish.

He is a member of SNAP, the cally different [r,)m all other living LONDON (CNS) _ Cardinal "We are able to extend hospital- mainly from income generated by beings and sup.:rior to them by Survivors' Network for Those ity to well over 200,000 young services, products and investments, nature, and not only because of George Basil Hume e>f WestminsSexually Abused by Priests. Two people and adults through com- but just over $8 million will come ter expressed distress at a British additional groups, Victims of mercial accommodations, univer- from a tax of 16.45 cents' per greater cerebral organization or a Coal decision to close 31 of its 50路 more developed psyche," it said.

Clergy Abuse Linkup and Protect sity dormitories, private homes, Catholic received from dioceses.

The article said there is a mod- pits. The decision will put more the Child, are tallying reports of auditoriums and tent cities," he . Ofthat, 1.39 cents is a special oneern tendency to ';exalt biocentrism than 30,000 people out of work. "I time assessment approved in June said. am quite distressed at the social cler~y abuse, he said.

Election Selections to help fund World Youth Day in Gaboury and at least three oth... pretending that these other and human'costs of the far-reachmg In elections for various Denver next August. ers in the group'wore badges procreatures have rights equal to humans, or eVI:n sacrificing thl;., and drastic closures announced by claiming, "Survivor of Father NCCB/ USCC committees, Bishop human being to:'orms ofvegl;table..-:- British Coal, which are bound to Porter." James Porter, a former O'Malley was named to the board _. or~-,q.ima!)jfe." ' . '" , . ' have knock-on effects well beyond priest, has admitted to the moles- of Catholic Relief Services路, tile GOD'S ANCHOR HOLDS .... It:said; tlHs;atl itl,lpet\.as biolpgi- . th~;,coal industry itself," the cardi- tation of dozens of children while .U.S.;bishops' overseas'ai9 agenc~. " :\ cal i;epercujlsions~:~ for e){ample,~~_nal wrote to Michael Heseltine, a priest in the diocese of Fall '" The bishops.alsQ elected 'four River. . .

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"These are very good, very' courageous young women," said Dominican Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, president of Barry University in Miami Shores. "I think they will be beautiful IU .S.) citizens someday."

The three - Shu Zhen Qui, 26, Jing Feng Chen, 28, and Ai Hue Situ, 28 - arrived in Miami on Aug.13,199l,andhadbeenliving since then in a hotel room at the city's international airport.

The three women said they fled China because their assistance to SISTER JEANNE O'Laughlin and the Chinese students students of the Chinese de~ocracy movement had resulted in political she took under her wing. persecution against them. The three The INS then dropled its oppohad not met before they flew to- the INS considered their asylum request. but she was turned down. sition to asylum, and on O,ct. I gether from Bolivia to Miami So she began visiting them fre~ Sister O'Laughlin picked up the aboard a Paraguayan airline; it was the last leg of a journey from quently, taking with her some women. telling them, "I'm so ha ppy.

I China that took each of them 'Chinese students from Barry Uni- Get your stuff. Let'j get out of versity. She began teaching them Dodge!" through several countries.

The INS denied their asylum some English and picked up some The three ~o~en afe .iiving with request and required the women to of the Chinese language herself. the nun while lhey adjust to the Sister O'Laughlin. the first remain at the airport - at the airUnited States. but will move to the line's expense - while a lengthy women to be appointed to MiaBarry campus later I for English mi's Orange Bowl Committee, also classes. appeal dragged on unresolved.

Also arriving in Miami with "pulled every string" she could "I've never worke~ on si>methem were three men and another think of on the women's behalf. thing so difficult, whdre every two and U.S. Rep. E. Clay Shaw, Rwoman. all released long ago. weeks it was a dead lend," Sister Fla., eventually convinced U.S.' O'Laughlin said. "Blut my little After reading about the women's Attorney General William Barr to Irish heart said. 'If God intends plight. Sister O'Laughlin offered to take them into her home while intervene. them to be free. they will be.'''

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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Californians should be "justly proud that we have stemmed the tide of euthanasia in this country," a Los Angeles archdiocesan official said after the state's voters definitively turned down Proposition 16 I. Licia Nicassio. coordinator of the archdiocese's Respect Life Office. was among many church and pro-life leaders in California and around the country who applauded the Nov. 3 defeat of the measure.

Proposition 161. which would have made California the first state of legalize physician-assisted suicide, lost 54 percent to 46 percent.

A similar measure was defeated in Washington state last year.

Euthanasia supporters "should now call a moratorium on these divisive and costly referendum battles," said Richard M, Doerflinger, associate director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for ProLife Activities.

"In two states, millions of dollars have now been spent to enact or defeat euthanasia initiatives millions that could and should have been spent to meet seriously ill patients' real needs for improved therapies, effective pain control. hospice care and social and finan. cial support," he added.

But Tom Chabolla, executive director of the Los Angeles archdiocesan Office of ~ustice and Peace, warned that tHe euthanasia movement is still aliv~ in the UniI ted States.

Attacks on the "technicaK aspects" of physician-asSisted suicide will not be enough to defeat future euthanasia initiative~, Chabolla said. "Ultimately, we'will need to educate the public ~o recognize that euthanasia is no:t acceptable on moral grounds." I Wanda Franz. pre~ident of the National Right to Life Committee. said her group c~>nsiders the vote "a great victory (or the rights of the medically dependent, disabled and the elderly."

John E. Curley J~., president and CEO of the St. Louis-based Catholic Health Assobation, said the debate surroundirig Proposition 161 "has regrettably resulted in an opinion that thd use of 'aidin-dyi~g' is the only w~y to achieve death with dignity." I I He said his organization would work "to advance alternatives to 'aid-in-dying' such as pain alkviation' and palliative care in order that physician-assist~d suicide is not considered an op~ion.'·

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Is allybody out there? like "disc" of gas and dust that formed around the sun shortly after its birth, then other newborn stars should be surrounded by similar material.

Using a special technique and ultra-sensitive instruments, they located and surveyed a cluster of several hundred newborn stars.

Around two of them "we found discs of material about as big as our solar system in diameter," Father COYI\.e said.

"This is very significant," he said, predicting that the Vatican's findings and the publicity they have received will prompt further research on the subject. The Vatican Observatory itself is continuing its own hunt for additional "circumstellar discs," he said.

Father Coyne said the discovery does not necessarily mean life exists outside earth. More and more scientists are convinced that life forms do not emerge automatically from a set of physical conditions, he ~aid.

But on the other hand, he said, "wouldn't it be a type of cosmic egocentrism to think that, given the many conditions for life elsewhere, we are the only intelligent beings in the universe?"

Father Coyne said he sees no conflict between the Catholic faith and the possible existence of extraterrestrial life, and he noted that "there is no church position" on the topic.

The discovery of other life in the universe would pose interesting theological and philosophical questions, however, especially about the role of Christ outside our own salvation history, he said.

No sacraments for Mafiosi ROME (CNS) - An Italian archbishop has ir.structed priests to refuse some sacraments to known Mafia members in an effort to break the "code of silence" surrounding organized crime. . Archbishop Giuseppe Agostino of Crotone-Santa Severina, a 'southern Italian diocese where 'underworld activity is rampant, issued the order in a pastoral letter. ' , Convicted or "notorious" Mafia members can .no longer recei,ve communion or be: married in the church. Nor ca~ ~hlfy',~~...xe ~s god-

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ROME (CNS) - As NASA gears up to look for extraterrestrial life, the Vatican Observatory has published imp :>rtant findings that suggest there may be many solar systems like our own.

Vatican astronomers studied several newborn stars and discovered some were surrounded by what appear to be the cosmic makings of planetary systfms, said U.S. Jesuit Father George Coyne: director of the Vatican Observatory.

"It's an extraordinarily important result," Father Coyne said in an interview Oct. 23.

"I t represents sor3e evidence that there are other systems" of planets and possible life in the universe, he said.

On Oct. 12, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration annouhced ambitic us plans to scan the heavens with radio telescopes to discern possible signals from extraterrestrial ciVilizations.

Father Coyne said the NASA search was "certainly worth the effort." But equally important, he said, were project; like the Vatican's, which look for "evidence of the conditions neded for the evolution of other civ:lizations" - in this case, early solar--system development.

The Vatican's findings, published recently in the magazine Nature, came from telescopic observations made during the past year on the Canary Islands. Father Coyne explained the study in an article he wrote for Avvenire, an Italian newspaper.

The Vatican team of astronomers theorized that if our solar system developed from a cloud-

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Mafiosi killed in underworld shootouts will be given a Liturgy of the Word service instead of a funeral Mass, he said.

Mafia members who wish to rejoin the sacramental life of the church must make a sincere request' and undergo a preparation program, Archbishop Agostino said. . The archbishop noted that the new policy stops short of excom-' munication. "This is not being done to, definitively break off communion, but to honestiy search for communion," he said.

autonomous bodies within a worldwide spiritual union. Most do not ordain women as priests, but some - such as churches of the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, Brazil and New Zealand -do..

The Catholic Church holds that it cannot ordain women for a number of reasons, among them Christ's example in choosing men as apostles, the unbroken church tradition that should be considered normative, and the fact that in celebrating the Eucharist, a priest acts in the person of Christ, who was a man.'

The Church of England vote is expected to alienate thousands of opponents of women priests. Up to 1,000 male priests have threatened to leave the church and warned that painstaking talks on eventual reunification with the Vatican will probably grind to a hait.

Before the vote, the General Synod stood for a moment's silence to seek God's guidance. Bishop David Jenkins of Durham, urging a "yes" vote, argued that it was "shameful to be quarreling as we are about women in the church when the whole world is torn by poverty, strife and lostness."

Meanwhile both Anglican and Roman Catholic leaders are praying that the Church of England's decision to ordain women will not lead to an Anglican schism.

At the same time, they have acknowledged that some dissatisfied Anglicans would probably leave the church and perhaps seek membership in the Roman Catholic Church.

But "it isn't just as simple as saying, 'Well, because I don't want a woman priest, I'll go along now and join the Catholic Church,'" British Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster told Vatican Radio Nov. II. "You've got to em brace the Catholic Church and all it stands for," he said.

However, Jesuit Father Edward Yarnold, who was a member of the first Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, said whole Anglican parishes might seek membership in the Roman Catholic Church.

"Obviously, we would have to look at this very carefully," he said.

"There is also a danger that Catholic women who want to be ordained might go over to the Anglican Church as has happened in the United States."

But Keith Jarrett, secretary of a convert's aid society, said he did not expect a rush of Anglican defectors.

"There is a great difference between being a disaffected Anglican and the desire to become a Catholic," he said.

Talks To Continue Also reacting to the decision were Catholic and Anglican leaders who vowed to continue talks aimed at uniting their churches, although they said their hopes for early unity had been dimmed.

Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster told Vatican Radio Nov. II that the Catholic-Anglican dialogue will continue based on "a real but partial communion in virtue of our baptism, in virtue of much that we believe in common [and] our allegiance to Jesus Christ as true God and true Man." Although other Anglican churches have ordained women for years, the Church of England's decision has a particular impact because it is the mother church of the Anglican Communion, said Msgr. Kevin McDonald, an official of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

Archbishop George Carey of Canterbury, head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, acknowledged the ecumenical concerns when he urged the synod of the Church of England to vote in favor of women's ordination.

Knowing that the Roman Cath-

olic and Orthodox churches oppose women's ordination, "however, cannot be an obstacle to the Church of England determining its own mind," he told the synod.

Anglican Father Douglas Brown, director of the Anglican Center in Rome, said the Church of England might have postponed its vote if unity with the Catholic Church had seemed likely soon.

But the Vatican's December 199 I response to an Anglican-Catholic dialogue report "made us realize that any organic union is a long, long way off and so people were not inclined to wait" on the women's ordination issue.

The first Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, which discussed ordination and other issues between 1970 and 1981, said that its doctrinal agreements on the origin and nature of ordained ministry were not affected by the ordination of women.

But the Vatican, responding to t~e ARCIC I report last December, disagreed.

"You cannot separate the two issues - the doctrine of ordination from who is ordained," Msgr.

McDonald said.

Cardinal Hume said that listening to the debate of the Church of England synod, he felt the delegates were "struggling as hard as they could to discern what was the will of God." Archbishop Carey had told the synod: "We are not departing from a traditional concept of ministry.

We are talking about an extension . of the same ministry to include women."

"We have seen the marks of the Spirit increasingly manif~st in the ministry of women as well as that of men," he said. "We must draw on all our available talents if we areto be a credible church engaged in mission to an increasingly confused and lost world.

"We are in danger of not being heard if women are exercising leadership in every area of our society's life save the ordainedpriesthood," the archbishop said.

Vatican paper hopes Clinton will care for unborn, elderly, forgotten VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican newspaper said it hoped President-elect Bill Clinton's term would be marked by concern for the unborn, the elderly and society's neglected.

In a clear reference to abortion, the newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, said the U.S. emphasis on freedom should never be used to legitimize practices that harm the ,weakest, including unborn babies.

The comment came in a frontpage editorial.

The newspaper offered its best wishes to Clinton, but said those wishes were "deeply rooted in moral concern."

"In the demanding years to come, freedom should never be deformed into devastating models of behavior that are raised to standard practices or turned into a license to strike the weakest - from unborn children to neglected elderly; from abandoned children to the lonely," it said.

The editorial noted that Clinton has been called the "president of the future."

"May he deserve the title of such great and delicate responsibility," it said.

As 'a candidate, Clinton said he

opposed abortion but believed it should remain legal.

The newspaper praised outgoing President George Bush, particularly in what it called his "defense of life." Bush had said the Supreme Court decision that allows legal abortion in the United States should be overturned.

The editorial also credited Bush with making an "essential contribution" to the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and for his disarmament efforts.

"The compliment is due to George Bush for the political wisdom demonstrated in fundamental aspects of domestic and international life," the editorial said.

Clinton's success, however, rode a wave of popular desire for greater economic equality, the article said.

It said that in recent U.S. economic history, the free market had become a "vicious" market. This in itself represented a "deformation of the concept of freedom," it said.

Sacramento's Bishop Quinn plans early retirement SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CNS) - Bishop Francis A. Quinn, who turned 71 in September, said he plans to retire as bishop of Sacramento sometime next year, once a successor is in place. Bishops ordinarily retire at the age of 75.

He said his health is still good and he hopes to work for a while with Native Americans in the Southwest and perhaps spend some time overseas with Catholic Relief Services· before returning to the Sacramento area to live.

Earlier this year he marked the SOOth anniversary of Columbus' arrival in the Americas with a pastoralletter pleading for reconciliation and mutual forgiveness between Native Americans and the newer arrivals.

Bishop Quinn said he originally planned to retire a year ago, bur he had to postpone those plans after his auxiliary, Bishop Alphonse Gallegos, was killed in an auto accident Oct. 6, 1991.

"We need the help of an additional bishop," he said. "This is a big diocese. I asked for an auxiliary when we lost Bishop Gallegos.

But the policy is that when a bishop is 70 they don't give him an auxiliary. They will give him a coadjutor."

Unlike an auxiliary, a coadjutor bishop automatically becomes the new head of a diocese when the current bishop retires or dies.

A spokesman for the Vatican Embassy in Washington confirmed that it is now the policy to appoint coadjutors instead of auxiliaries to assist bishops who are over 70.

Bishop Quinn has been a bishop' since. 1'978 and hed ,of the Sacramento diocese for nearly 13 years.

He was appointed there in late

1979 and took office in early 1980.

News of his plans drew an editorial in the Sacramento Bee daily newspaper, which called Bishop Quinn "Sacramento's conscience."

"When he speaks for the poor and the homeless," the editorial said, "he speaks with the authority of a bishop who ordered the sale of the church mansion and moved into the maid's quarters in the basement" ofthe cathedral rectory.

For a long time, until police recently got him to stop for his own safety, Bishop Quinn took a nightly walk through the park. grounds around the capitol and along the K Street Mall, a treelined, traffic-free zone of stores.

He would regularly stop to share a few words and perhaps some money with homeless people he met along the way. He still takes walks in those areas in the daytime, continuing his one-on-one Q1inistry to the homeless.

He is also known at Loaves and Fishes, a soup kitchen where he occasionally goes to serve free meals or wash dishes.

Every Easter he celebrates Mass for prisoners, and each summer he makes the rounds of the migrant labor camps in the diocese to celebrate Mass and visit the workers and their families.

"He leads by example... This gentle man of God will be greatly missed," the Bee editorial said.

It also cited Bishop Quinn's "reverence for life" ranging from concern for the unborn to fighting the death penalty.

"He has marched with farm workers and AlOS victims, protested American involvement in EI Salvador and championed the cause of nuclear disarmament and the

with merchants and try to convince them to remove the offensive objects from their shops, said Msgr.

Vittorio Peri, vicar general in Assisi.

Visitors to Assisi are used to seeing souvenirs that poke fun at monks - the drinking cup in the shape of a big-bellied friar, for example, or plates and dishes bearing less-than-flattering monkish portraits.

"Some are funny and ironical,

I AMONG THOSE attending a Sisters of Mercy benefit dinner Nov. 8 at the Venus de Milo restaurant, Swansea, were, from left, Sisters Cecile Harrington and Rose de Lima Clark, RSM; Bishop Sean O'Malley; and Sister Mary Nathan Doherty, RSM. The annual event supports the sisters' Mt. St. Rita Health Retirement Centre in Cumberland, RI (Studio D photo) ,

VATlCAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II praised women missionaries who gave their lives to spread Catholicism. They are "martyrs for the faith and for charity," the pope said to 60 Comboni Mis<innarv Sisters who met with

the pope after ending their general chapter meeting in Rome. The pope noted that Comboni missionaries work in many African countries where political violence makes life dangerous.

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He defends immigrants and, most of all, the poor," the eqitorial said.

Strongly interested in Christian unity, Bishop Quinn is lllso a leader in local ecumenical relations.

In 1989 he and th~ bishop> of three other faiths used his cathedral for a joint baptismal service.

Each bishop presided lover a baptism using the ritual I of his own church, but they used the same baptismal font, symb~lizing their mutual recognition of,the validity of baptisms in each of the churches.

A member ofthe Catholic ptace organization Pax Christi, he publicly called for nuclear disarmament before the U.S. bi~hops issued their national pastodll letter on peace and nuclear we~ponry.

Bishop Quinn was born in Los A ngeles Sept. II, 192\, and grew up in Napa, north o~ San Francisco. He was ordainea a priest of the San Francisco ArJhdiocese in 1946.

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Assisi, with its many beautiful churches and sanctuaries, draws thousands of visitors ehch day.

"But they're not all pilgrims," the priest said. ' Next year the churdh in Assisi will begin celebrations pfthe 800th anniversary of the birth of St. Clare, an Assisi nativf who converted under St. Francis amd founded a religious prder. The church wants the offensive souvenirs off the street before then.

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Continued from Page One the bishop. Later, "When martyrdom subsided, it became common to make vows of ceLbacy. Not to have children was c.onsidered a great curse because 'IOU would be forgotten, your na~le would not be carried on." There fore, celibacy was considered a kind of new martyrdom, "the Churct- 's way of saying we believe in the resurrection," said Bishop O'Malley..

When a teenager a!;ked him what he thought of the cu rrent state of education, Bishop O'Malley replied that it is "important that we get back to the basics, not just impart information but get people excited about kno\\ ing the truth - and living it." , Another questioner asked if girls can be altar servers.

Bishop O'Malley responded that while women can ~ erve in more important liturgical roles such as lector or eucharistic minister, altar serving "traditionally was a way of recruiting young men into seminaries."

Since church laws governing liturgy are not mad!: at a diocesan level, the bishop said, individual parishes allowing female altar servers "causes disunity. We don't want liturgy to be a source of controversy - it should be a sign of unity."

Asked "What <,.bout today's youth brings you joy?" Bishop O'Malley quickly a lswered, "Seeing you here today - young people with enthusiasm and a desire to know the Lord."

"There are a lot of voices calling you in a lot' of different directions," the bishop continued. "I'm pleased you have ':he support to make decisions flat draw you closer to the Lord and his Church."

He urged the high school students to be examples for their peers and to share¡their faith.

"It's work," said the bishop. "It requires discipline in our lives, being faithful to the commandments when it's hard to say no to sex, drugs, etc. But the only one~. able to reach them are you...their peers."

ON STAGE: "Bill and Ted" introduce Bishop O'Malley; the bishop gets a troll; Father David Costa leads prayer service. (Hickey photos)

After the forum, youth representatives presented the newlyinstituted St. Elizabeth Seton Award for an outstanding youth minister. Bobbi Paradise of Our Lady of Victory parish, Centerville, accepted for the honoree, Mary Fuller of Buzzards Bay, the founder of the ECHO retreat program for youth on Cape Cod. The teens also had gifts for the bishop: a giant chocolate kiss and a troll doll in priest's garb.

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'Youth Day '92 began with masters of ceremonies Amy Bedard of St. Mary's parish, New Bedford, and Andy Smith of St. Julie Billiart parish, North Dartmouth, promising the gathering would offer opportunities to "listen and speak to others. . .to meet new people, experience different cultures and grow in love of God...to eat and to dance!"

The convention delivered all of the above with a slate of activities that included the keynote address of Sister Carol Wagner, OP, coordinator of evangelization for the Providence diocese; a choice of 12 workshops for youth and three for adults; and a multicultural prayer service, as well as dinner and a dance.

Youth leadership was evident throughout, as three committees of young people had planned the day with youth ministry office staff and parish youth groups took the reins in many of the workshops.

A program sponsored by Our Lady of the Assumption parish, New Bedford, was presented by New Bedford High School students Erin Duarte and Mandi Araujo; retired educator Dorothy Lopes; and Sister Marianna Sylvester, RSM. Titled "Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover," the workshop challenged students to recognize the "sin of racism" and to overcome fear, mistrust and prejudice.

Miss Duarte opened the session by handing out creme-filled chocolates to a group of volunteers and asking them to guess what was inside them. When they bit into

the candy, most of the volunteers found they had made a wrong guess.

"They judged their chocolates before they knew what was inside," just as people are sometimes superficially judged, said Miss Duarte.

A quiz in which workshop participants were told to match inventors' names with the correct product revealed that while most students had heard of the white inventors on the list, virtually no one recognized the names of black inventors.

"Black kids have grown up without learning the contributions of black people in history," said Ms. Lopes. "To be educated, we must be open-minded and.find out about cultures other than our own."

Inviting participants to talk about experiences of racism or discrimination, Miss Duarte said a teacher once told her "I'd never ,amount to anything; I'd live in the projects and my boyfriend would be the local drug dealer."

Incidents like this happen because "we allow people to get away with it if we don't speak out," said Ms. Lopes.

"All of us at one time in our lives have felt rejection," said Sister Sylvester, "but none of us [who are white] can ever imagine what it's like to be a¡minority."

To bring about change, "You have to open your mind to other viewpoints.. .listen to what others have to say," said Miss Araujo.

"We have to respect each other's differences and admire each other's strengths."

The presenters' suggested students read books on racism, get to know people from other cultures and backgrounds, and refrain from telling jokes that stereotype or insult others.

"When we stereotype people, we strip them of dignity," said Ms. Lopes. "As Catholics we are called to live differently than the world is telling us. We have to speak up whenever we have the opportunity - and there are opportunities, because racism is alive and well."

Other youth groups presenting workshops were from Bishop Stang and Bishop Feehan high schools; S1. Patrick's parish, Wareham; Our Lady of Victory parish, Centerville; and S1. John Neumann parish, East Freetown. They covered such topics as stress, relationships, communication, establishing a youth group and community service.

Tara Wright of S1. Mary's parish, Mansfield, who was involved in planning the convention and also in presenting a workshop, said it was important for teens to hear about these topics from other teens.

"It's easier for us to understand when we see other kids up there [speaking]. We know what they're talking about. Kids I didn't know before thanked me. They wanted to know what I was saying."

Other presenters spoke about self-esteem, the Bible, depression, suicide, and pro-life activities.

Events later in the day included a presentation on World Youth Day '93, the August event for which Pope John Paul II will visit Denver, and a multicultural prayer service featuring a procession of youth in ethnic costume.

Chris Tanguay, associate director of youth ministry, is coordinating arrangements for diocesans who wish to travel to the Denver convention. He said that the youth ministry office hopes to organize a group of youth representatives, aged 14 to 34, from each diocesan parish.

Father David Costa, assistant director of the youth ministry office, presided at the prayer service, which featured a modern rendition of the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector (Luke 18: 9-14).

In the students' version, the Pharisee was a "good student" and the tax collector a "hood." The good student thanked the Lord for being better than the delinquent, who in turn petitioned for forgiveness.

"Guard against pride; let us not think ourselves better than others," the students concluded. "Remember we are all God's children, equal in his eyes." ...Share the Story Sister Carol Wagner kept the audience riveted during her" key- . note speech in which she recalled challenges in her own faith life, from being severely burned at age nine to breaking up a knife fight as a nun in Texas.

"Live the faith, share the story - what does it mean?" she asked.

"It means that we have a relationship with somebody special God" and that "God is calling us" to do his work.

People don't always hear that call, however, because "sometimes relationships get messed up."

She recounted how, after she nearly died from burns as a child, her father, feeling angry and helpless, told her she was burned because she disobeyed him and that "God doesn't like sinners and neither do I!" Years later, Sister Wagner told her mother that she felt her father didn't love her and neither did God. But, as her mother had her recall the events of her life and look for signs of her father's and God's love for her, "healing took place in my heart," said Sister Wagner. "I had blocked God's' love because I thought God didn't love me. But now I believe God does love m.e."

She asked students, "Is your faith strong enough to believe that, to believe it with your being?" Asking them to pretend that they were alive at the time Jesus walked the earth, she recounted various episodes from Jesus' life and ministry leading to his crucifixion, resurrection and charge to the disciples to evangelize the world.

"Jesus sent others," said Sister Wagner. "He wants to do the same today...God talks to you in your heart all the time and when he wants someone to go somewhere, he lets them know!"

As an example Sister Wagner told of an incident when she felt "called" by God to help others.

Returning to her convent in Galveston, Texas, late one night, she noticed that cars up ahead were "stopping and speeding up, stopping and speeding up." As she got closer she found that the cause of the disturbance was two men engaged in a knife fight at the side of the road.

"I heard God telling me, 'you've got to do something!'" said Sister Wagner. "And I said, 'I'm scared - can't you find someone else?'"

But she got out of the van and "stepped between the knives," telling the brawlers that whatever they were fighting about, "it wasn't worth a life." At great personal risk, she finally cajoled them back into their cars.

Then, a few weeks later, Sister Wagner continued, her teenage cousin committed suicide. '''I was angry at God!" she said. "God sent me to help two strangers - why didn't 'he send anyone to help my cousin?"

Later, she became convinced that "God did send someone. But I . believe sometimes you and I see someone in need and like the people in the cars we take om" She concluded, "Today when God wants to help anyone, he sends you. . .Live the faith and share the story by your attitudes, actions and words. God is sending you!"

An Excellent Adventure Tara Wright and fellow planning committee members Christine Robillard of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel parish, Seekonk, and Ryan Mooney of St. Stephen's parish, Attleboro, said they were pleased with the convention's outcome, especially the bishop's forum.

"He's down to earth and fun!" said Miss Wright. "He really listens."

In general the convention provided the opportunity for students to foster "respect for other people and respect for diversity," said Miss Robillard.

It was also a chance to "get kids involved, .to know they have a say in what's going to happen with the world," added Mooney.

As they embark on their own "excellent adventures," diocesan youth - like the time-traveling Bill and Ted - have learned that the future is in their hands.

Red Mass held WASHINGTON (CNS) - At a Red Mass in Washington that drew President Bush and other government leaders, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles urged those in public life to bring about reconciliation and heal divisions in the country.

"We servants both of God and our country are doubly bound to this duty," said Cardinal Mahony in the homily. More than 1,300 people, including lawyers, judges and Supreme Court justices, filled S1. Matthew's Cathedral for the Mass, held a day before the Supreme Court began its fall term.

In the front pews of the cathedral sat Associate Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy. They were joined

by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and retired Chief Justices Warren Burger and William Brennan. Others attending the Mass included first lady Barbara Bush.

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THANKFUL HEART I have a thankful heart that you have given me And it can only come from you There is no way to begin to tell you how I feel There are no words to express how you've become so real Jesus, you've given me so much I can't repay I have no offering There is no way to begin to tell you how I feel There's nothing more I can say and no way to repay Your warming touch that melts my heart of stone Your steadfast love - I'll never be alone.

I have a thankful heart that you have given me And it can only come from you I have a thankful heart Words don't come easily But I am sure you can see my thankful heart Help me be a man of God A man who's after your own heart Help me show my gratitude And keep in me a thankful heart Recorded by Petra. Written by B. Hartman, D. Elefante, J. Elefante. (c) 1986, Star Song Records.

Occasionally readers ask why with God on a spirit of gratitude. Indeed, few qualities enI don't review Christian rock groups. If you follow my colhance our lives more than thankumn, you know that I primarily fulness. focus on the Top Forty. ChrisWhen we are filled with gratitian rock rarely gains this tude, we see more clearly how level of popularity. we are loved. We also tend to However, for my Thanksgivtake others, our world and the ing reflections I turn to Chrisgift of life itselfless for granted. tian rock's best known group, Thanksgiving 1992 offers us Petra. a chance to deepen our spirit of gratefulness. Here are a few Their"Thankful Heart" encoursuggestions. ages us to build a relationship

I. Make an effort to notice what you have been give'n. Start with the earth itself. then is the last time that you really watched a sunset or listened to ~ bird's song? Look ar~>und in your world and acknowledge what you see. Give th~nks to God, the Creator.

I 2. Rejoice in your own gifts and qualities. Feel the {varmth ' in your smile. If you have been healthy during the last year, thank your body for wotking so well. Recognize how y04 learn, how your emotions change and . d can conqentrate how your mID on a task. All of these I special gifts and many others we often take for granted. : 3. Remember the kindnesses of others toward you'. Does someone else fix your meals, do your laundry or make m,oney to help maintain your well-being?

During this past year) did a friend make special ef(orts to reach out to you when you felt alone? Did others join, you in just having fun? , Such people help to nurture and support our lives, jnaking life happier.

I 4. If there have been losses or pain in your past year, examine them once more. Withotlt denying the pain, look to se~ if you learned anything that will help I you in the future.

Did the loss help you discover further strength itt yourself? Perhaps the painful experie,nces revealed to y~u how much others care.

I I suggest we make the song's words our Thanksgiving prayer: "Help me show my gratitude and keep in me a thankful heart."

Your comments alw~ys are welcome. Please send them to Charlie Martin, R.R. ~, Box 182, Rockport, Ind. 47635.

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STUDENTS AT ST. MARY'S School, New Bedford, recently received rosaries from parishioner Laura Correia in memory of her husband Joe. Father Mark Hession blessed the rosaries and students dramatized the joyful mysteries. Pictured: Mrs. Correia, left, and principal Angela Stankiewicz with dramatists.

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Stang Thanksgiving drive underway The Bishop Stang student council has begun its drive to collect all the fixings for traditional Thanksgiving Day dinners, to be assembled in food baskets and distributed to those in need through Market Ministries of New Bedford. In past years the council has prepared the dinner which is served on Thanksgiving Day at Market Ministries.

This year diners will be bussed to dinner at Red Lobster restaurant but meals will also be made available through Market Ministries for shut-ins or others who wish to celebrate Thanksgiving at home.

Non-perishable foods are col-

lected in Stang homerooms and donations are sought to purchase turkeys and other perishables.

Student councilors will be at telephone number 993-8959 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. today to accept contribution pledges.

Coyle-Cassidy Bishop Sean O'Malley visited Coyle-Cassidy High School Nov. 10 for the annual Alumni Priests' Mass. 26 priests, many of them Coyle or Coyle-Cassidy graduates, were in attendance.

The Mass honored vocations to the priesthood, religious life, marriage and single life. The bishop told the Coyle-Cassidy commun-

KATHLEEN O'CONNOR of Leverett, a retreat and workshop leader of European and Native American heritage, presents "J ourney into the Circle," a program on Native American spirituality, at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth. (Hickey photo)

ity'that it is important inlany vocation to "put Christ at th~ center of your life." , At the altar with the bishop were Coyle-Cassidychaplai,n Father William Boffa and Fath,er I Douglas Sousa, '81 , the "lost recent C-C alumnus to be ordained.

The liturgy was planned by the Coyle-Cassidy liturgy c\,mmittee, headed by Carol Sypko, Michael Cote and Father Boffa. I Student body president Matthew Perkins presented Bishdp O'Malley with a Coyle-Ca,ssidy' Warriors sweatshirt and cap on behalf of the students.

II Coyle-Cassidy has begun a food pantry which distributes: groceries to the needy once a mopth. Staff members, students and their families donate food and money to stock the shelves, and Ithe front doors of the school are opened on the last Saturday of the lmonth to needy residents of the I Taunton area, who receive a bag I'f groceries packed by students. I Ninety bags of grocJries we:re distributed in the first leffort on Oct. 31. The C-C food pantry wiJl next be open from 9 t9 .11 a.m.

Nov. 28 and Dec. 26.

Students and teachers' have als.o been collecting clothing: and personal care items for their annual Thanksgiving drive to hbl p homeless men and women of Boston's Pine Street Inn. When the items are packed, a caravan ,of trucks driven by students anti faculty members will deliver thfm to the Inn. , The National Honor Society, meanwhile, is planning i~s annual Toys for Tots drive, during which it collects and wraps giftsror needy I I

DURING a visit to Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton, Bishop O'Malley celebrates a Mass for vocations and greets junior Scott Gebelein'of Raynham. In front of the altar are symbols of four vocations: priesthood, religious life, marriage and single life. (Breen photos) children in Taunton and Appalachia.

The C-C St. Vincent de Paul Society will host a Christmas party for friends of New Hope of Taunton.

Notre Dame School Notre Dame School, Fall River, has begun a theatre workshop program, directed by UMass-Dart-

mouth psychology professor Dr. Donald P. Corriveau, which will present the Christmas musical "Deck the Mall" at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 18, 19 and 20.

The 120 students involved in the program will be joined on stage by 25 adults and 30 other students who have been singing in Father Richard Degagne's choir. Information: 678-0884.

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WIDOWED SUPPORT, CAPE COD Support group meeting I:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, library of Christ the King parish education center, Mashpee. Topic: "The Holidays: Centering Our Live';." Information: Dorothyann Callah In, 428-7078.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Father John A. Perry will conduct inquiry class on th,: Catholic faith beginning 4 p.m. Sunday, religious education center.

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BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR As part of the parish's 90th anniversary observances, the Allegro Glee Club of Greater Fall River will perform a concert 3 p.m. Sunday to benefit the Greater Fall River Community Food Pantry. Information: 673-5932, 624-8849.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA Holy hour 7:30 tonight.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Ecumenical Thanksgiving Service 7 p.m. Nov. 24; reception will follow.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET A box is available at back of church for donation of used eyeglasses and hearing aids to be distributed to the needy by the Somerset Senior Lions Club.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLICS, NB Support group meeting 7 to 9 p.m.

Nov. 23, Family Life Center, North Dartmouth. Dorothy Levesque will speak on trust.

CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE Parish Scouts will collect nonperishable food items Sunday. The parish will sponsor a giving tree for Christmas; families in need of gifts may call 477-2022 for a confidential application.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Respite group needs more volunteers to provide relief to caregivers of sick or elderly persons in Dennis/ Brewster, area. Information: Pat Dowd, 385-7302; Mary Broughton, 896-7492.

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WITH DISABILITIES A holiday social will be held noon to 4:30 p.m. Dec. 13 at the Venus de Milo restaurant, Swansea. All who bring a child are asked to bring a wrapped gift with the child's name on it for distribution by Santa.

Reservations required by Dec. 7.

Information: Apostolate for Persons with Disabilities, 679-8373 (voice); 679-4277 (TTY). "Disability News," a program broadcast by Inland Cable Communications, channel8, of Attleboro, airs 8 p. m. Mondays and 6 p.m. Fridays in Attleboro, South Attleboro and Rehoboth; informa-. tion: Chris Miller, 222-1320.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM Thanksgiving Mass will be celebrated 8 a.m. Nov. 26; all are asked to bring a canned food item for the needy. Bread and wine for Thanksgiving meals may also be brought for a blessing.

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Thanksgiving Mass 7 p.m. Sunday; food donations for the needy may be brought to any weekend Masses. Socks;combs, and toiletries are also being collected. Meeting of separated/ divorced Catholics 7 p.m.

Sunday, meeting room of parish center; information: 285-9445 or 385-3647.

HOLY CROSS CLUB OF CAPE COD Annual memorial Mass 10 a.m.

Sunday, St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis; brunch will follow at Holiday Inn with speaker Sister Mary Rose McGeady, president of Covenant House. Information: Paul Saint, 896-5546.

ST. PAUL, TAUNTON Month's mind Mass for Msgr.

Robert Stanton 7 p.m. Nov. 27.

A reception for new members of the parish will be held after the II: 15 a.m. Mass Sun<;lay; parish registration forms will be available. A bereavement liturgy for all who have suffered a recent loss will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow. An adult education program on the Catholic faith for persons of all faiths will be held beginning the first week of Advent and continuing until Holy Week..

Information: 548-1065. Father Gerard A. Hebert, parochial vicar, has been appointed Falmouth police chaplain.

INTERFAITH THANKSGIVING SERVICE The Interfaith Council of Greater Fall River will sponsor an interfaith Thanksgiving service 7 p.m. Nov. 23 at St. Mary's Cathedral. Fall River.

Participants will include Father Horace Travassos. cathedral rector; Rabbi William E. Kaufman. Temple Beth .El; Pastor Michiel Lewis, Bay Community .Baptist Church. Swansea; Rev. Thomas Zgambo. Bethel AM E Church; Eric Hutchins, president, Council of Churches; Sopha Sou, Salvation Army Church. A social hour in the cathedral school will follow the service.

ST. JAMES, NB Bishop Sean O'Malley will celebrate 4 p.m. Mass tomorrow.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA The parish choir and visiting musicians will perform the concert "Crucifixion" with accompanying slide presentation 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

CATHEDRAL, FR Bishop O'Malley will celebrate Thanksgiving Mass 9 a.m. Nov. 26.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN Tres Dias Men's Retreat Nov. 19 to 22.

MEN OF THE SACRED HEARTS, FAIRHAVEN Fairhaven chapter of Men of Sacred Hearts will celebrate the feast of Christ the King with adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 2 to 3 p.m. and Mass 3 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Our Lady of the Assumption Church, New Bedford. New members will be consecrated and officers will be installed.

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SACRED HEART, N. ATTLEBORO Thanksgiving Mass 7 p.m. Nov. 25.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, ACUSHNET Thanksgiving Mass 9 a.m. Nov. 26; nonperishable foods are requested for holiday distributions.

An ecumenical Thanksgiving service will be held 7 p.m. Nov. 23 at Acushnet-Wesley United Methodist Church. Adoration of Blessed Sacrament will be held after 9 a.m. Mass until 7 p.m. First Fridays beginning Dec. 4.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Interfaith Thanksgiving service 7:30 p.m. Nov. 25, Central Congregational Church, Attleboro Falls.

Thanksgiving Masses 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. Nov. 26.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Five seminarians from the seminary in Orchard Lake, Mich., who are preparing for the priesthood for the Fall River diocese will be parish guests over Thanksgiving.

'DCCW; TAUNTON Dorothy Levesque, director of family life ministryforthe Providence diocese, will speak on "The Need for Laughter" ala meeting ofthe Taunton District Council of Catholic Women at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary's school hall, Taunton. A graduate of theformerCatholicTeachers'College' in Providence, Ms. Levesque has done graduate work at Providence College, Rhode Island College and the University of Rhode Island.

Emma Andrade and Elsie Abreau are cochairmen of the arrangements committee for her appearance in Taunton. All welcome. .

CATHOLIC HOME SCHOOLING FAMILY ASSOCIATION Families who teach their children at home will meet at 2 p.m. Nov. 29 at Holy Family Church, Rockland, for Mass, a consecration service to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and a discussion of the vocation to parenthood by Father James H. Coffey. Refreshments will follow.

The group meets regularly for 9 a.m.

Mass and a social hour each second Thursday at Immaculate Conception parish, East Weymouth. Members of the Fall River diocese are among participants in the association.

CAPE IRISH CHILDREN'S PROGRAM Host families are sought for Belfast children who spend six weeks on Cape Cod during the summer. A slide show on the program is available for use by groups and organizations. Information: Cape Irish Children's Program, P.O. Box 46, Centerville 02632.

PRO-LIFE APOSTOLATE The Boston Archdiocesan ProLife Office will sponsor "I Have Called You By Name," a daylong seminar for pro-life representatives from around the state, on Dec. 5 at Boston College High School, Dorchester. Registration begins at 9 a.m.; a 4 p.m. Mass celebrated by Cardinal Bernard Law will conclude the event. Cardinal Lopez Trujillo, president of the Vatican Council on the Family, will be keynote speaker, and workshops will be offered in English and Spanish. Information: Boston Pro-Life Office, (617) 783-5410.

ST. MARY,SEEKONK Adult education session on "Developing a close knit family" 8 to 9 p. m.

Nov. 23, parish center. FamilyThanksgiving Mass Nov. 26; canned goods will be collected.

ST. MARY, NB Thanksgiving page,ant 7 p. m. Nov. 23. Vincentians are collecting holiday food donations in a box at Illinois St. church entrance.

MCFL, ATTLEBORO Margaret Whit bread, president of Attleboro area Massachusetts Citizens for Life, will present a Life Ed ucation Awareness Project 7 to 8 tonight, St. Mark's Church, Attleboro Falls.

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FOURTEEN graduates of the 8th-grade class of 1949 at SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, relived memories at a recent reunion. Most had not returned to the school since graduation. At left, from top, Bill Garvey, Tom Dupont, Barbara (Rouleau) Reis; to her right, Robert O'Brien. At right, across back, Joan (Markland) Reed, Bill O'Neil, Tom Reis; center, Beverly (Hayes) L'Archevesque, Mary (Callahan) Whittaker; front, Dan Cahill. The reunion took place in what had been the 8th-grade classroom but is now used for third-graders - with correspondingly sized desks. "It wasn't so hard getting into them - it was the getting out that was tough," said one alumna.