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Bishop O'Malley appeals for aid to help Central America • Thousands in Honduras andNicaragua are dead and hundreds ofthousands are still suffering . from lack of food and shelter in the wake of Hurricane Mitch's widespread devastation.

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'FALL RIVER - Just days before leaving for Rome to participate in the Special Assembly on Oceania, Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap" offered a Thanksgiving Day message calling for Catholics everywhere to

be as generous as they can in efforts to help those suffering from the ravages of Hurricane Mitch in Central America.

"As we are approaching Thanksgiving, it is a time for us to realize that one of the ways we can express our gratitude to God for the many blessings we have received as a people and as a country, is to be generous in sharing those blessings with others who are in such great need at this time," Bishop O'Malley said.

He has authorized pastors' in the Fall River Diocese to take a special collection to benefit those still suffering from Mitch's wide path of destruction in Nicaragua

and Honduras.

Bishop O'Malley also said that there are three other types of help that America and the world can

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Keynote spe~~r :wis' Fa~tier James O'Donohqe, whose topic was "Catholic Perspettives on Patient Care at the End of Life: Myths and Realities." : .

Father, 0 'Donoh(le,: the ethicist for the Covenant HeallhCare Systems in Lexington, has taught moral theology at St. Jo':m's Set:J1inary in Brighton. He holds a doctorate in moral theology and canon law from the University of Louvain in Belgium.

"The Church's opposition to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is based on two sources, faith and reason," Father O'Donohoe said. "PAS is completely contrary to our Christian/Catholic surrender in faith to the person of Jesus, his message and his approach to the' human person."

He said that Catholics don't leave reason at the door of the church. "So in making our decisions it is our reason enlightened by, illumined by, instructed by, fulfilled by, our religious faith.

So we gather here today as a group of believers in Jesus."

But he· warned that the average Catholic is imbued with many "myths" about the Church's official position on death and dying. "So, it is most important that you know the official teaching."

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'Walk tenderly with us on this day as sons and daughters ofyour special care' - Reflections on the eve of World AIDS Day by Dr. ' Krysten Winter-Green.

FALL RIVER - In hushed tones of evening vesp~rs, the diocese will mark the vigil of World AIDS Day on Nov. 30 with fervent prayers, songs and petitions cry~ ing out for God's help for those with mV/AIDS. The specially written vespers service to be held at 6 p.m., in St. Mary's Cathedral, is the work of Dr. Krysten Winter-Green, director of the AIDS Ministry Office for the Fall River Diocese, and well-known musician and composer Glenn Giuttari of Rehoboth, who directs

give: prayer and charity by way of food and medicines; amending Immigration policies; and remission of debt payments by the

international banking community.

"This is one of the worst tragedies to hit our hemisphere and it has affected countries that have many poor. For much of their history they have been satellite nations that the United States has been involved with, in their civil wars, governments and economies," the bishop said.

"Because Nicaragua, Honduras and Salvador have sent many immigrants to America - Miami, Washington, New York - they are very close to us. And because they are Catholic countries gives them another claim on us. We have a great responsibility to try to respond to their needs."

While the only thing we can do for the thousands who have been killed is to pray for them, said the bishop, "we can help the Turn to page nine - Mitch Related stories on page 12

the Sine Nomine Choral Group. , "As part of last year's Mass for World Aids Day there was a litany I had written and Glenn contacted me later and told me he was interested in putting it to music," Dr. Winter-Green explained.

"Every year there has been a Eucharistic liturgy for the occasion, and I was looking to write something more inclusive for people from different faith perspectives, so that people from an interfaith group could feel more of an involvement," she added.

Because there have not been such pastoral-spiritual types of offerings around World AIDS Day, "I thought it was terribly important that we remember that we are whole people, with body and soul, and this gives people the opportunity to reflect on the issue in their lives and their responsibilities and commitment."

She said she was not aware of any other vespers service that has been written in observance of World AIDS Day. J'lt is ecumenical, something that the Holy Father has solidly encouraged. It is an opportunity for people to come together and remember that there is [as yet] no cure for AIDS. We have drugs that help people live longer lives, sometimes lives with RECOGNITION - Mrs. Ida Santos of St. John the Baplesser quality. But I Qelieve that within the context of worship and . tist Parish, New Bedford, receives the Marian Medal for liturgy there is a possibility of outstanding devotion and service to the Diocese of Fall healing."

River from Bishop Sean P. O'Malley during a ceremony of Following a meeting with a Solemn Evening Prayer and Benediction Nov. 15 at the planning committee that included Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Fall River. The representatives from the diocese's five deaneries, the Diocesan De- prestigious awards, given yearly since 1968, went to 103 Turn to page nine - Vespers

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By MARK PATIISON Clarence Joseph d'Entremont, 89, retired in October 1982.

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE a retired priest of the A dedicated histoWASHINGTON - The U.S. Fall River Diocese, and rian, over the years he bishops· have approved a budget of a historian of the wrote a fi ve-volume $46.8 million for 1999 and OK'd Acadian community in history of Cape Sable, . the coming year's priorities and Canada from which he Nova Scotia, in addiplans. came, died Nov. 13 at tion to many other hisTo beef up efforts in some areas, the Villa Acadienne in torical works, includthey also approved a series of exMeteghan where he ing French and English . had lived since 1997. histories of· Nova ceptions to their plans. The exceptions allow for the hiring of addiHis funeral Mass Scotia and a biography tional staff in Washington to bol-· was celebrated Nov. 16 of Eudist Father ster such areas as'· liturgy, d09trine at St. Pierre's Church in Basile-Joseph Babin: and the Catholic Campaign for West Pubnico. . He had a keen interHuman Development.

Born March 15, est in genealogy and The budget was approved by a 1909 in West Pubnico, in the history of Acadia, vote of 163-8. A related vote on'the he studied for the to which his ancestors priesthood at Sacred FATHER came from France in dioc·esan assessment for the year 2000, also passed Nov. 16, the first Hear~ Seminary, D'ENTREMONT 1651. -He founded the day of their fall general meeting in Charlesbourg, Quebec, and was or- Acadian Historical Society and was dained in 1936 for the Congrega- a cofounder of similar societies' in Washington, 162-7. Both needed 129 votes, or two-thirds of all U.S. preltion of Jesus and Mary, known as Maine and Nova Scotia. the Eudist Fathers.

In 1975 he founded the Massa- ates who head dioceses, for passage.

Passed on voice votes were the After studies in Rome, he taught chusetts Society of Genealogists and priorities and plans measure and the seminarians in the United States a U.S. and Canadian federation of exceptions that allow for more hir: and Canada and in 1958 was such societies; and in 1976 organized ing. incardinated into the Fall River dio- an Acadian celetiriition in"MassachuThe National Conference of cese, where he had been director of setts, for which then Gov. Michael the former ·St. Anthony High. Dukakis proclaimed May 24, 1976, School, New Bedford, since 1952. Acadian Day in the state.

He served as parochial vicar of St. After retirement to West Anthony of Padua Church, New Pubnico, Father d'Entremont Bedford, Mass., from January 1952 served on the marriage tribunal of to June 1965, at which time he be- the· Nova Scotian diocese of gan service as chaplain of Our Yarmouth.

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Catholic Bishops-U.S. Catholic used, and in others, NCCB secreConference's budget for 1999 of tariats were given the ·go-ahead on $46.8 million is up 5.55 percent the condition of securing grant money to fund a posii:ion. from 1998.

Among the 17 requests for an Bishop Alfred C. Hughes of Baton Rouge, La., thought the per- exception that were approved were: - nearly $300,000 to revise centage was too high. He said it was higher than the increase in the cost "Sharing the Light 0:: Faith," the of living, and higher than the bud- national catechetical ~irectory; - a two-year youth coordinagets in his diocese, where the highest increas~, he noted, was "4 per- tor position for CCHD; - the addition of a fulltime cent max."

Bishop Robert 1. Banks of Green th~ological adviser and a parttime Bay, Wis., NCCB treasurer, said he . support staff in the NCCB Office of shared Bishop H~ghes' concerns. Doctrine and Pastoral Practices.

"Every time we get a request for (a Apart from the offil;e director, budget) exception," he said, NCCB Bishop Banks said, there is no other budgeters must ask'themselves, "Is theological adviser on staff; - the addition of a staff adviser this going to fit within our budgetin the bishops' liturg}i secretariat ary limits for the future?"

As a result, he said, many staff for five years. Archbis hop Jerome positions approved in the requests G. Hanus of Dubuque, Iowa, said for exceptions were less than what the quantity of Spani:;h-language had originally been requested, liturgical revisions is great, and meaning temporary instead of per- they 'are currently being done on a manent, or parttime rather than full- volunteer basis. The English-lan. guage Lectionary work took four time.

In some cases, he said,realloca- years extra, he added'ddue to staff tion from existing budgets was shortages.

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Bishop Pursley, of Ind., dies at age 96

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Bishop Leo A. Pursley, the retired head of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, died Nov. 15 at St. Anne's Home in Fort Wayne at the age o( 96.

A bishop for more than 48 years, he had held the distinction of being the longest-serving U.S. bishop since the death in August of retired Archbishop Thomas 1. McDonough of Louisville, Ky., who served as a bishop for more than 50 years.

Bishop John M. D' Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend was jirincipal celebrant at the Nov. 20 funeral Mass for Bishop Pursley at St. John the Baptist Church in Fort Wayne.

Burial was in the Catholic cemetery.

In a statement, Bishop D' Arcy noted that all four of the diocese's Catholic high schools and many of . its churches and elementa'ry schools had been built during Bishop Pursley's tenure, from 1950 to 1976.

Born in Hartford City: Ind., on March 12; 1902, Bishop Pursley studied(~t MO\lnt St. Mary's Semi'. nary, Cincinnati, and was ordained a priest of the Fort Wayne Diocese on June 11, 1927.

He served in various churches in Indiana and established the Newman Club for Catholic students

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at Purdue University. He was pastor of St. John the Baptist Church, Fort Wayne,when named auxiliary bishop on Sept. 19, 1950.

Appointed apostolic administrator of the diocese, in 1955, he became its bishop on Feb. 26, 1957.

Three years later, he asked the Vatican to 'change the name of the diocese to the Diocese of Fort WayneSouth Bend.

Pope Paul VI accepted Bishop Pursley's resignation on Aug. 31, 1976, a few months before his 75th birthday. Since that time he had lived in Huntington. He entered the hospital in October and went to St. Anne Home in early Novemner.

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II announced that he was preparing to promulgate a document officially proclaiming the Holy Year for the year 2000.

Church sources said the 24-page document, with a five-page appendix on indulgences, will establish the Holy Year from Dec. 24, 1999, to Jan. 6, 2001. Some had suggested that the jubilee year be extended until Easter of the year 2ot)'l.

The pope will consign the document Nov. 29 to officials of four major basilicas in Rome, including St. Peter's at the Vatican, and the text will be read publicly outside the churches the same day.

I nYour Prayers Please pray for the follow.ing priests (luring the coming w,eek .

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1984, R~v. Msgr. Chri~topher L. Broderick, Pastor Emeritus, St.· . , . . ' '.

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PRIESTS CURRENTB-Y SERVING November 23 November 24 November 25 November 26 November 27 November 28 November 2,9

Rev. Manuei T. Faria : Rev. Paul CFedak Rev. Thomas·M. Feeley, CSC :.. Rev. Peter M.\Damian Fehlner, FFI Rev. James Fenstermaker CSC Rev. Stephen A.\Fernand~s :;. Rev. Manuel P. Ferreira

The document, called a papal Lord's final coming should lead bull, traditionally establishes dates Christians to work harder for huand procedures for holy years. The man progress, living day after day pope has already published a ma- in "prudent vigilance and healthy jor document on the spiritual realism." In such a way they can themes of the jubjlee, and the Vati- better face daily problems with an can has set a heavycal~ndar of optimistic temperament l he said. events for the year 2000.

The pope encourag;ed parish The pope announced the plans volunteer groups to continue their during a visit Nov. 15 to the parish social work, especially among the of St. Matthew, on .the outskirts of aged and suffering of tbe neighborRome, where he spoke about Chris- hood. He said the approaching tians' attitude toward the apocalyp- year-2000 jubilee will highlight tic events foreseen by Scripture. He the church's preferential option for said the faithful should view the pros- the poor and neglected. pect of the eventual end of the world with a spirit of perseverance and op111/1/111111/111111111111111 timism, not· passive indifference or THE ANCHOR (USPS-545-{)~:O) Periodical Postage Paid at Fall River, Mms, Published withdrawal from human activity.

The expected day of divine 'weekly except for the first two weeks in July am the week after Christmas at 387 Highlaoo judgment "should not bring for the Avenue, Fall River, Mass. 02720 hy the Catholic Christian a flight from the world or Press of the Diocese ofFall River. Subscription a passive attitude in the face of price by mail, postpaid $14.00 per year. daily problems," the pope said.

Postmasters send address chaJges to The On the contrary, ,he said, the Aochor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, MA 02722.

In Y {Jur Prayers Due to late-break(ng news, The Anchor was unable : " to print/his prayer list last week. please include th{se priests in your daily prayers.

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Catholic Social Services paralegal receives immigration accreditation FALL RIVER - Janet BuckleySmith, an immigration paralegal at Catholic Social Services of Fall River, has become the only paralegal south of Boston accredited to represent .immigrants at Immigration and Naturalization Service interviews.

Buckley-Smith, who was hired after CSS recently received a new source of funding, said that "People dealing with the INS really need an advocate to help them negotiate the process."

In preparation for her new responsibilities, Buckley-Smith, who also has a paralegal certificate, attended basic and advanced immigration trainings in Las Vegas, Nev., and Providence, R.I. Fluent in German and Russian, she also holds a degree in Ger-

manic languages and literature from generation immigrants in the Harvard Universsity, and has taken SouthCoast area, so the need for imseveral courses in migration reprePortuguese. She is sentation is trea retired school mendous, espeteacher and has cially for those taught English as who lack finana Second Lancial resources." guage at St. To become Luke's Church INS accredited, a here. paralegal must be ''This is a vicemployed by a tory for imminon-profit grants," said Atty. agency that has Frank L. Holland, itself been recoglegal director of nized by the INS. the Immigration In March, CSS of Law, Education Fall River became and Advocacy the only agency Project at CSS. in the region with "There are more this recognition. than 75,000 first- JANET BUCKLEY-SMITH According to INS regulations,agencies are accredited based on the knowledge of their staff, their immigration research resources and their "We expect that number may commitment to serving low income grow to 900 or 1,000 requests by clients at nominal fees. the end of this week," she said.

"Sometimes immigrants who Catholic Social Services provides holiday meals to families in need each Thanksgiving an~ wants to meet the needs of all people again this year. ''These are families with children who have needs and can't afford a Thanksgiving turkey," said McNamee. Catholic Social Services recently picked up 90 birds from Project Bread, 30 from a Boston food bank and is expecting about 250 from a Rhode Island food bank but that's only a small number compared to the plethora of requests, "We're a few turkeys shy," declared McNamee.

The Thanksgiving food drive is being coordinated from the New Bedford Social Services office, but turkeys and fixings or donations may be dropped off at any CSS office.

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wanted to apply for naturali'zation was already a U.S. citizen, because his parents _were naturalized when he was a child. Instead of applying for naturalization, he applied for a U.S. passport, a much simpler and quicker process.

With a second level of accreditation, Buckley-Smith will also be able to represent immigrants in deportation proceedings. "Between 80 percent and 90 percent of immigrants in deportation proceedings have no one to present their cases to the immigration judge," said Holland.

need representation become intimidated or are misled," Holland said. "Some immigrants who have waited two years or more for a naturalization interview have been urged to withdraw their applications rather than go forward with the process. For lack of representation, they do as they are told and lose that opportunity to become citizens, as well as their right to appeal a negati ve decision."

Legal help proved crucial in one recent case. Buckley-Smith's legal research proved that a man who

The call is out for turkeys ~

Catholic Social Services lacks the birds to provide needy families with Thanksgiving meals.

By MIKE GORDON, ANCHOR STAFF NEW BEDFORD - Catholic Social Services offices around the diocese have had a record number of requests for Thanksgiving turkeys this year and are in search of donations to help meet those needs. They need turkeys and lots of them.

Director of Catholic Social Services, Arlene McNamee, had about 600 requests for Thanksgi ving baskets and said that in just a few days that number grew to 750.

EDICTAL CITATION DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL FALL RIVER. MASSACHUSETTS Since the actual place of residence of CONSTANTINO OLIVEIRA AGUIAR is unknown.

We ci'te CONSTANTINO OLIVEIRA AGUIAR to appear personally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of fall River on Tuesday, December 8, 1998 at 2:30 p,m. at 887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mas· sachus~tts, to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the marriage exists in the Paiva· Aguiar case?

Ordinaries of the place or other pastors having the knowledge of the residence of the above person, Constantino Oliveira Aguiar, must see to it that he is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation.

Paul F. Robinson, O. Carm., J.C.D. Adjutant Judicial Vicar Given at the Tribunal, Fall River, Massachusetts on this the 16th day of November, 1998.

For more illformation contact the office in your local area: Attleboro, 10 Maple Street, 226-4780; Fall River, 783 Slade Street, 6744681; New Bedford, 59 Rockland Street, 997-7337; Cape Cod, 261 South Street, Hyannis, 771-6771; Taunton, 78 Broadway, 824-3264.

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EDICTAL CITATION DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS Since the actual place of residence of RICK JOSEPH CAMARA is unknown.

We cite RICK JOSEPH CAMARA to appear personally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on Tuesday, December 8, 1998 at 10:30 a.m. at 887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Massachu· setts, to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the marriage exists in the Mitchell· Camara case?

Ordinaries of the placI! or other pas· tors having the knowledge of the resi· dence of the above person, Rick Joseph Camara, must see to it that he is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation.

Paul F. Robinson, O. Carm., J.C.D. Adjutant Judicial Vicar Given at the Tribunal, Fall River, Massachusetts on this the 16th day of November, 1998.

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The Anti-Defamation" League 'recently ran an advertisement on the op-ed page of the Ne'w York Times which read~ "The day we lose st?P'~nitiol). qf c~~r~h and state, start sayin,g your pniyers." The adve~isement wa~,.qf .cpur~e"a response, to the Supreme Court decisio ll Qot to review the Milwau.kee ~ase grantin.gvouchers \9. poor~'liic,lren wQose p.arents: ~'i'sh to~end t~~J:I.1 to. non-Rublic .sc~.oo~s, regardless, of religio~s preferen_ce.··' , It was but one,more voice from a,secular-st<,\te ~hich for yyars has defamed in· many ways religious school syste~ns'of all faiths. In its single-mindedness, it.seespublic educ;atlon as the only real choice: The Anti-Defamatio~ League decries tile court's action by stating that it will harm public education. In addition, it is absolutely in a panic that the voucher system will spread to other states and cities where public schools are in obvious crisis.

In a nation in which the GI Bill of Rights allowed undergraduate college choice, it seems inconsistent to deny that same choice to the elementary and high school levels. It would seem that in the view of'the League the GI Bill was. an infringement on the first amendment of the Constitution.

In addition, the emergence and general approval of the charter school concept in public education clearly indicates the massive dysfunction in public education as a whole. Voucher education procedures have evolved because of the dismay of both parents and students with regard to the current state of public schools. Many have given up and are seeking alternatives for their children.

The voucher system, like that of the charter schools, allows parental choice. Those who oppose vouchers are basically in denial of parental rights; for if choice is an essential reality of American .life, nullification of parental choice is undemocratic.If parents are to be punished by the state because they choose what they think best for their children, it seems a totalitarian procedure.

In Canada and Western Europe, the right of parents to school selection is respected. National examinations on various levels of education are upheld as standard procedure and governments support all educa.tional undertakings.

Sad to say, this is not: the case in America. Our narrow vision of states' rights has waged a constant war with national exams, standard norms and the support of school choice. Our children are in many ways worse for this. Recent professional studies show that our schools are falling behind European systems. This should be a warning sign that our government should take action to improve our educational objectives. In such a process, the rights of parents should be a foremOSt concern.

As a means of providing such a right of choice, Milwaukee has offered low-income parents a voucher system. It is working, helping to move such children out of demoralizing, negative and, in many cases, dangerous educational situations. It is our failure of care and concern for public education on all levels that has led to the voucher alternative.

Our faith supports parents in this matter of choice. They have the inalienable duty and right to educate their children;. thus they should enjoy freedom in their choice of schools. The Supreme Court decision in the Milwaukee case supports the. concept that parents are free to follow their conscience in this matter.

Indeed, the state is also protecting the rights of children when school systems are free from monopoly. When the state destroys choice, it is denying the pluralism which is the very cornerstone of the histori.c American experience.

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KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS AT ST. JOHN BOSCO SCHOOL IN 'HAMMOND: ri~D., SAY GRACE BEFORE ENJOYING A SCHOOL . THANKSGIVING FEAST. AMERICANS MARK THIS' YEAR'S THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY ON NOVEMBER 26.

"Sing to the Lord with thanksgivling" Psalms 147:7 CNS photo by Karen Callaway, Nonhwest Indiana Catholic

Fasting for farmworkers urge1d on ·day following Thanksgivin~g J

By MARK PATIlSON CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON .,...- Yo,u may want to hold off making those turkey sandwiches the day after Thanksgiving or having a piece of day-old pumpkin pie.

Americans are being urged to fast Nov. 27 to support the farmworkers who help bring that food from the fields to the table. They're also being asked to donate the money not spent on food that day to farmworker support organizations.

"Many farmworkers who clean the turkeys and pick the vegetables for our Thanksgiving day feast probably cannot afford to purchase the fruit of their labors," said Sister Charlotte Hobelman, coordinator of the U.S. Catholic Conference Migrant Farmworker Apostolate, at a recent press conference announcing the fast. .

Sister Hobelman, a Sister of Notre Dame, said farmworkers in the United States "are sometimes looked upon as individuals who can be exploited, since they a.re often here temporarily' and do no( enjoy the full benefits of citizenship. Yet their labor helps feed our nation and others around the world."

Farmworkers, she added, are driven by "the same motivations which drive the average American: the desire to provide basic Iiecessities to their families and to give their children the educational, economic, and professional opportunities they did not have growing up." The USCC and the Jesuit Conference are among the more than

two dozen organizations that have endorsed the Fast for America's

The USCC and the Jesuit Conference are among the more than two dozen organizations that have endorsed the Fast for America's' Farmworkers, which organizers said could turn into an annual event.

Farmworkers, which organizers said could turn into an annual event.

"In the early 1.960s, Edward R.

Murrow's 'Harvest of Shanle' documented for CBS News and the nation the deplorable conditions in which farm workers harvested America's crops," said Raul Yzaguirre, president of the National Council of La Raza.

If Murrow were stil.l alive, Yzaguirre added, "he would be ashamed that so little has changed.

He would find Third World conditions exist in the United States," Yzaguirre and other s:?eakers condemned an agricultural guest worker bill that did not pass Congress this year which they said would have let employers off the hODk from improving wages and working conditions for farmworkers.

I Letter to the Editor I Dear Editor, . I found the Oct.. 23rd issue of The Anchor esp'ecially !lood.

Your column on the new encyclical was excellent as most of your columns are. ' I always welcome Father Dietzen's column and found the account of Mrs. Nellie Casilli's devotion to the orphans at Saint Vincent's Home heartwarming. It makes contributions to the Catholic Charities mean something extra. . The brief bio on Sister Marie Melton was well done. Who could believe that St. John's University is the largest Catholic University in the nation.

I also missed out on the world gathering of youth in Chile so that brought me up to speed.

• Lastly, the review of the film "Beloved" was timely ancl I'm sure will be helpful to parents trying to help their youngsters in their movie viewing. Let me tell you, MTV can be worse than that. .

All in all, plenty of bang for the buck. You are up against America'and Commonweal and Focus for reading time and well worth it.

lEoieen P. ~.RcG.rath U\!Iantuc!{et

Catholic-Orthodo,x consultation endorses common Easter date

By JERRY FILTEAU CATHOLIC NEWS SEBVICE WASHINGTON -Members of the North American OrthodoxCatholic Theological Consultation have endorsed the 1997 Aleppo Statement urging all Christian churches to start celebrat.ing Easter

on a common date beginning in 2001.

At a meeting at St. Paul's College in Washington, the consultation continued its study of baptism and mutual recognition of sacraments.

Participants also exchanged in-

formation on various events in the lives of both churches and discussed the relationship of their consultation with the international Catholic-Orthodox dialogue, which next June will meet in Emmitsburg, Md. In a two-page statement issued

Sainthood requirements: Heroic 'virtue plus time and money

By NANCY HARTNAGEL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - When St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was canonized in 1975, some pn~ss reports said it had cost $1 million to make her a saint.

But the total was closer to $250,000, according t.o an official accounting in Kenneth Woodward's 1990 book, "Making Saints."

Dominican Father Gabriel O'Donnell, postulator for the relatively new cause of Knights of Columbus founder Father Michael McGivney, has told Catholic News Service that is still the operative figure.

He learned the economics of sainthood ct.udng a six-month course for postulators in Rome.

Membe.rs of the Vatican's Congregation for Sainthood Causes "tell you wh~t everything is going to cost, give or. take," he said.

"Having heard the congregation on it and having talked to other postulators," he said of the quarter-million-dollar figure, "I would guess that that's correct."

Sainthood expenses include: - collection, examination, translation and duplication of testimony from witnesses and documents by and about the "servant of God," as candidates are known; - exhumation and reburial of the servant's body; - preparation and publication of the "positio" on the servant's life and heroic virt.ue; - investigations of miraculous cures, wherever they occur, that are attributed to the servant's intercession; - stipends and expenses for the postulator and others assigned to the cause; - fees for theological, historical and medical consultants; - beatification and canonization ceremonies, often held in Rome.

Even though the Church requires all causes to follow guidelines revised in 1983, each cause is somewhat different.

And differences can run up the tally - for example, whether a cause takes decades or centuries, how many alleged cures must be investigated before the requisite two miracles are validated, whether a beatification or canonization ceremony is solo or shared.

Work on the positio began in

1973, after "the acts of the diocesan process" were sent to Rome, he said, but it wasn't complete<;l until 1998. He attributed the delay to false starts, reworkings, and a 2,000page first attempt that "wasn't a positio that Rome was looking for."

It shouldn't have taken 25 years, Father Sample said, "except for the fact that, quite honestly, for a while there I don't think we really had the direction to know what we were doing."

And it was in the midst of this, in 1983, whlm the Vatican adopted new sainthood rules, he said. "So Rome had to decree that what we hall' already. done' in the." diocese, even though . it '. ~N IMAGE of Knights?f Columdidn't conform to the new bus founder Father Michael J. legislation, I, was indeed. McGivney is featured in c:l new winvalid. That was in 1988." dow at the Basilica of the National . Cost does not seem to be Shrine of the Im'maculate Concepprohibitive, as thtfre cur- tion in Washington. The Window, 10rently .are 29 open ~.S. causes cated in the sacristy of the shrine's at vanous stage.s 10 the pro- crypt church' was biessed Nov. 15 cess. And sometlmes the con". . gregation uses surplu,s funds by K. of C. Suprem~ Chaplain, from bigger causes to assist Bishop Thomas V. Dally. of Brooksmaller ones.

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Nov. 20, 1998 at the end oftheir meeting, consultation members said the Aleppo Statement provides a sound theological, scientific, historical and practical basis to end centuries of division over the date of Easter, letting all the Christian churches give common witness once again to one of the central mysteries of the faith, the Resurrection.

"The Aleppo Statement does well to call attention to the continuing relevance of the Council of Nicaea - a fundamental point of reference for the traditions of both our c.hurches - and in so doing, to reject proposals to establish a fIxed date for EasterlPascha," the group said. Easter is called Pascha throughout the Orthodox world.

The Council of Nicaea in the fourth century decreed that Easter should be celebrated on the fIrst Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.

'Differences in dating occur because churches follow different calculations of the equinox and the full moon. The Aleppo statement called for all churches to follow the Nicene rule of the first Sunday af-

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Why so much mean-spiritedness?

When a television icon like comedian Steve Allen send into our homes." While people were asked to lends his name and photo to a full-page newspaper support this appeal by filling out a coupon with their ad, you're bound to give it some attention. In fact, names and addresses, they also were invited'to conyou couldn't miss this one because ofthe screaming headline ''TV Is Leading Children Down a Moral Sewer." AboveAllen's photo were the words, "Parents ... Grandparents ... Families ... This is [or YOU." The ad didn't mince words. "Are you as.disgusted as I am at the filth, vulgarity, sex and violence television is sending into our homes? Are you fed up with steamy

By Antoinette Bosco unmarried sex situations, filthy jokes, perversion, vulgarity, foul language, violence, killings, etc.?"

The ad asked families to appeal to TV sponsors to look at the evidence showing the "tragic tribute money to, so that more ads can be run in more consequences of the TV filth, sex and violence you of the nation's newspapers.

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Drinking during pregnancy Dear Mary: My daughter-in-law is pregnant with our first grandchild. At a family gathering recently she refused all alcohol, even a glass of wine for a toast. My husband teased her, but she was firm. When I was having children, we never condoned heavy drinking, but we figured an occasional glass of wine with dinner would do no harm. What is the current thinking? - Mississippi

passes to the baby through breast milk.

Effects of alcohol vary depending on the drinking habits of the mother and the stage of development of the fetus. The damage to the fetus is physical, which means no amount of nurture later in life - . will repair it. Researchers cannot say with certainty that any amount of alcohol is safe during pregnancy. Because the effects of drinking are so seri-

Discovering the effects of alcohol on a developing child is a relatively new field.

You are correct in observing that as late as the 1970s women were counseled that an occasional drink during pregnancy would do no harm to the child. Nursing mothers were advised that beer might With Dr. James & even be good for increasing milk supply.

Mary Kenny When a mother drinks heavily during pregnancy, particularly if she has been drinking for many years, the child is likely to be born with the tragic diagnosis ofFAS (fetal ous, doctors now recommend that pregnant arid alcohol syndrome). Some of the manifestations of nursing mothers not drink at all.

Most people drink for two reasons: to relax and FAS include significant growth retardation both before and after birth, physical birth defects, brain to socialize. Many pe'ople seek relaxation, particudamage resulting in borderline mental functioning, larly at the end of a stressful day. Sometimes the inability to focus attention, inability to learn from surroundings create relaxation as much as alcohol. previous experience and, as a result, poor judg- Sitting down with a glass of sparkling water and ment. While these symptoms can be caused by other fruit juice in comfortable surroundings, perhaps in conditions, the combination, along with a history the company of a spouse or friend, can create a relaxed mood without alcohol. Exercise and mediof maternal alcohol use, points to FAS. While FAS results in severely damaged chil- tation are other effective ways to relax. Plan to end dren, another condition, FAE (fetal alcohol effects), a stressful day with a walk, a bike ride, a period of is also a reality. In FAE children are not so badly meditation, the practice of yoga.

Pregnant women and others who choose not to damaged and problems may not surface until long after birth. FAE is also difficult to pinpoint because drink can socialize with alcohol users. When entertaining, always provide a choice of juices, soft other conditions can result in the same.problems.

Researchers have found that when a pregnant drinks, sparkling water or nonalcoholic beer and woman drinks more alcohol than her liver can pro- wine. The.thoughtful host never makes a guest feel cess, the remainder .circulates in the bloodstream uncomfortable for choosing not to drink. where it passes over to the fetus. A fetus has only Reader questions on family living or child about 50 percent of the adult capacity to rid itself of alcohol, which means the alcohol is present about care to be answered in print are invited. Adtwice as long. As one researcher put it, by the time dress questions The Kennys; St. Joseph's Colthe mother feels tipsy, the fetus could have passed lege; 219 W. Harrison St. Suite 4; Rensselaer, out. When a nursing mother drinks, alcohol also Ind. 47978.

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I applaud this effort to do something about the low standards television has adopted. But the problem isn't just with the shows that flout skewed attitudes on sex and violence in their programming. The meanness, arrogance and cynicism rampant in many shows, including sitcoms, has spilled over into cable news programs that young people watch.

I wonder if this is not contaminating our young people, giving them the idea that it's "cool" to be uncaring, to make fun of others, to get revenge for perceived hurts.

Even the network news channels spew hours of mean-spirited commentaries .on celebrities in the news. Everything is fair game, and no one is spared.

On some cable channels it has become the media's game to see which commentator can outsludge the next. But with the mess in Washington, the major networks, too, have become channels of pornography, where our youngsters can get sleazy information on the very people in government they are supposed to emulate. .

Columnist Maureen Dowd wrote, "Washington is so vile now, so filled with sulfurous partisan revenge tactics, so devoid of principle and accomplishments .....

What a terrible environment for raising children! .

The perpetual virginity of Mary Q. Regarding your answer a few weeks ago about the brothers and sisters of Jesus, just how did the Church come 'up with the idea that Mary remained a virgin after the birth of Jesus?

Wouldn't it be a ''sin'' for Mary not to have relations with Joseph while they were married? This would not make her any less of a person or saint; she was still chosen to be the mother of God. Also, in the Magnificat Mary says, ''My spirit rejoices in God my Savior."

So how did the Church come up with the fact·that she was born without original sin? (Missouri) ,

render to his will.

As with all her unique gifts from the Father, the gift of her virginity must be seen in the light of Mary's supreme vocation of being the mother of Jesus Christ, the Mother of God. This is the focal point, the ,:enith and source of whatever else our Chri!.tian faith believes and practices about her.

Thus, in the perspective of the earliest Fathers of the Church, the virginity of Mary is significant first of all as a privilege of Jesus

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A. Your "questions cover a lot of territory, but perhaps a few thoughts will cast some light on most of what you ask.

It is true, of course, that the Catholic Church professes the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of the Virgin 1-

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Mary, a belief, incidentally, which was shared by several major figures of the Reformation, including Luther, Calvin and Zwingli.

From the earliest expressions of this teaching, however, in the first centuries of Christianity, it is clear that the spiritual and theological implications of her virginity were essential and integral to an authentic understanding of what that virginity was about.

Her physical virginity was a reality, we believe. But the meaning of that reality goes far beyond biology and physiology. It was most of all an expression, a living out, of her radical, total love for God, and her full sur-

"Maybe I could show him my new lap-top. after Mass last Sunday.

"Where were you last night?" I asked. Bud It's in my car."

Bud's eyes widened, his breathing became bumped his nose with his coffee cup and held a maple bar in his !land like it was a grenade. deeper, he smiled meekly at ,Bill. He moved He said nothing.. However, I did notice he. his' mouse back and forth in happy little lines.

"I think they call J~is dy&functionaJ. enwas moving his maple bar around the table abling," pointed out Marilyn. " like jt was a computer "mouse." _ Who should '1 fax first - St.' Vincent de "Budster and his 'mouse' were last seen taking a north on the Internet about . midnight when they should have _-..;.---..;.------r--:::::-~-, been headed south," volunteered Marilyn, his wife.

"Ah," said our mutual friend, Bill.

'That explains why I could have sworn I heard him say, 'Hallowed be thy mainfranie,' during the Our Father." .

I nodded. 'Then it wasn't just my

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Bud grimaced and moved his mousy maple bar in circles.

"HoogIe-wisher," he mumbled.

Marilyn translated. "I think that's computer lingo for 'hogwash.'"

"I think he needs a little 'hair of the dog' as they used to say," sympathized Bill.·

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Help for· the gigabyte junkies, internet addicts Here at the headquarters of Ministry of the Week we are convinced we have yet an. other outreach program that should be started quickly - maybe before Christmas, because all indications are that lots and lots of Catholics are going to give each other computers as presents. .'

Or give their old computers as presents and buy themselves an "upgrade." Oh, the insidious nature of it all.

•- We need to develop a 12-step program, or a maybe a Computer Encounter Weekend, or l11aybe a Hackers Halfway House for our friends, neighbors. and, yes, even our children, who have become gigabyte junkies, Internet addicts, Web freaks.

(If we get going on this right away, we can also beat the .Protestants to the punch.)

You know some of the danger signs: falling asleep face first into a bowl of Wheaties after an "all-nighter" in "chat rooms"; yelling matches over which is better - IBM or Apple; &neaking "online" at work when no one is looking.

Actually, what "upgraded" my awareness of the problem is my neighbor, Bud, who showed up bleary-eyed at coffee and donuts

The hypocrisy is overwhelming. 'The public's right to know" has become the excuse for abomination, where the right to privacy has been demolished, and people can set themselves up as judge and jury. We've gotten to the point ~here we now demand public confession, and we want it to go on and on.

A popular item in religious gift stores these days is a wristband with the letters which stand for 'What Would Jesus Do?" I find my:;elfthinking 'of that question, and the answer comes fast. Jesus would again ask us, "How come you see the speck in your neighbor's eye but not the beam in your own?"

The TV comedians are having a fidd day with the jokes that make mishmash of celebrities, from movie stars to the president. And I have to wonder why we laugh at such mean-spiritedness? What kind of society are we turning into?

Yes, I applaud Steve Allen's appeal for decency in television. But I go beyond the evident "moral sewer." I think the box has to take responsibility for its role in desensitizing us, turning m into a less human and more mean-spirited society.

I suggest it's time for all of us to re:read Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, his marvelous antidote for mean-spiritedness.

Paul, Catholic Charities' or maybe the U.S. Catholic Conference?

Your comments are welcome always.

Please send them to Uncle Dan, 6363 Christie Ave. No. 222, Emeryville, Calif.

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himself.

His conception in her womb by the power of the Spirit reflects his eternal "conception," born of the Father before all ages, as :;he Creed says, and his mission to regenerate, recreate, the whole human race through his new covenant. It is in this Context that Mary is the "new' Eve," mother of a new creation of the human family, and a unique sharer in her Son's victory over sin and its effects in the world.

The tradition of the subsequent virginity of Mary during her whole life, whi.ch is an even older patristic traditi9n than the virgin' birth, is based on the same Christian insights.

The marriage of Joseph and Mary was obviously unique, in many ways a mystery.

Spouses in marriage vow to each tither the right to genital expression of their love, of course when that "right" is sought in timely and appropriately loving ways.

There is. no absolute obligation, however, even as we understand marriage today, for . either partner ever'to exercise that ri;~ht. The Gospels (including Luke 1:34, whe:re Mary says "I have no relations with a ma.n") and the whole Christian tradition, seem to assume . that's what happened 'with Joseph and Mary. , Finally, when proclaiming the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in 1854, Pope Pius IX made clear that all Mary's gifts, in-· eluding this orie, were given to her through Christ. She was pres~rved from all sin, he said, "in consideration of the merits of Jesus Christ, savior of the human race."

Thus, Jesus is, as the Magnificat proclaims, her 'savior as he is our own.

A free brochure answering questions Catholics ask about Mary, the mother of Jesus, is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Fathelr John Dietzen, Box 325, Peoria, III. 61651. Questions for this columJ;l should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address• .. .. . ~

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Assisted suicide initiative fails; other referend'um results mixed couples." would have provided tax credits for In Florida, a move to add the parents of children in public, private phrase "female and male alike" to or religious schools, failed 59 perWASHINGTON - Michigan vot- the state Constitution's existing guar- cent to 41 percent. ers soundly defeated a proposal that antee of rights for "all natural perBy 58 percent to 42 percent, Washwould have permitted assisted sui- sons" won approval from two-thirds ington state voters approved an inicide in the state, but the results on of the voters. The state's, Catholic· tiative tha.t would prohibit affinnative other referendum issues that had bishops had opposed the change, action in government. The Catholic been closely followed by Catholic saying it could "adversely affect the bishops of the state had opposed it, leaders were mixed. basic institution of marriage." saying affinnative action was an efThe Michigan proposal, defeated An amendment that would allow fective tool to fight the "unjust disby a better than 2-to-1 margin, was Florida counties to require criminal crimination" that remains in society. among some 200 ballot questions de- . record checks and a cided on election day in the 24 states three- to five-day ......---..."....",---,..---that had initiative or referendum waiting period for votes this election year. the sale of handguns Catholic leaders had also taken at gun shows and stands on state ballot issues ranging other places earned from same-sex marriage to partial- the bishops' support birth abortion, affirmative action to as "a very limited the death penalty and tuition tax step, but an imporcredits to gambling. tant one." It was apMichigan's Proposal B on as- proved, 72 percent sisted suicide had been opposed by to 28 percent. a wide-ranging coalition of reliEfforts to ban pargious and health care groups, as tial-birth abortion well as by suicide doctor Jack were defeated in Kevorkian, who criticized its "sti- Washington state fling bureaucratic red tape" and and Colorado, desaid it did not "go far {:nough." spite support from JOHN WALKER looks over literature The proposal would have allowed Catholic lea.ders. against Michigan's Proposal B at St. Joseph terminally ill patients with six Denver ArchbIshop . .. . months or less to live to request a Charles J. Chaput Church In Lake Onon, MiCh., Oct. 31. Catholic lethal prescription from physicians had called it "aston- churches stepped up opposition to the assistedwith the intention of using it to kill ishing" that society suicjde initiative by holding prayer vigils and themselves. They would have been ha~ reached the voter awareness campaigns the weekend prior required to wait seven days before pomt that a vote had to the election. (CNS photo by Jim West) to be taken "to pre.. using the prescription, however.

In Alaska and Hawaii, where court vent children from being killed durdecisions had raised the possibility ing the very act of delivery." of same-sex marriages; voters apThe vote was close in. Colorado, proved constitutional amendments but 59 percent of the Washington that would ban such unions by 2-to- state voters opposed the ban.

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"Let's remember that human life is a free gift from a loving God," Father O'Donohoe asserted. "But it is not ours to possess under all conditions. While it is not ours to own, we have a stewardship, an obligation to take care of our lives."

As for suffering, he said, "It is part of the evil introduced into the world.

It is a fact and a mystery. While it has a special place in God's plan of redemption, it should not be romanticized. But when it is endured in .faith it can be for the Christian what it was for Jesus, a means of a.new and higher life."

Father O'Donohoe said that the ethical and religious directives for Catholic Health Care Services focus on seven points: that persons in danger of death should be provided with necessary infonnation so they can address the morally legitimate choices available; that a person has a moral obligation to use ordinary or proportionate means of preserving his or her life; that a person may forgo extraordinary or disproportionate means of preserving life; that there is a presumption in favor of providing nutrition and hydration to all patients ... as long as this is of sufticient benefit to outweigh the burdens involved to the patient; that the free and informed judgment by a competent adult patient must be respected; that

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euthanasia is an action or omission of itself that or by intention causes death in order to alleviate suffering; and that patients should be kept as free of pain as possible so that they may die with dignity.

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New study shows decline in teenage abortion rates Bv CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE ,WASHINGTON - A new study shows a continued decline in the number of teenage pregnancies and teenage abortion rates.

The study, conducted by the 'Alan Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, says that the U.S. teenage pregnancy rate for 15-19-year-olds in 1995 was the lowest it had been in 20 years.

The number of teenage pteg-' nancies in 1995 - 889,980 - is the lowest recorded since 1973, when there were 916,630 teen pregnancies. 1995 is the latest year for which figures are available.

The number of teenage abortions also have gradually decreased for young women under the age of 14. In 1975, the study reported 15,260 abortions. The number of abortions for this age group peaked in 1985 at 16,970 and was at its lowest in 1995 at 10,870.

The number of abortions for 1519-year-olds has also steadily decreased from a peak of444,780 in 1980 to 263,750 in 1995.

In reaction to the study's findings, the National Right to Life Committee said the lower figures were a.result of increased education about abortion and the paren. tal notification legislation in effect in several states.

"Pro-lifers will continue to work to protect women and teenagers from the dangers and repercussions of abort~on," said Darla

Bishop Fiorenza elected ne:w president of NCCB ~

The GalvestonHouston prelate wil; also lead the U.S. Catholic Conference.

. St. Martin, associate executive director of the National Right to Life Committee.

Patricia Donovan, senior associate for law and public policy

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE with the Alan Guttmacher Institute, attributed the decline in teen birthWASHINGTON- Bishop Jorates and abortions to fewer teens seph A. Fiorenza of Galvestonhaving sex and more adolescents Houston, vice president of the NaI,lsing contraceptives. tional Conference of Catholic BishIn an analysis of the falling ops and U.S. Catholic Conference teen pregnancy rate' in the Octo- for the past three years, was elected ber 1998 issue of "The . president by a wide margin Nov. Guttmacher Report on Public 17.

Bishop Fiorenza, 67, received Policy," Donovan said the recent trends in teenage behavior stem 164 of the 265 ballots cast for 10 from a fear of contracting sexu- candidates for president at the bishally transmitted diseases, espe- ops' fall general meeting in Washcially AIDS; more conservative ington. attitudes among teenagers about His three-year term of office becasual sex; greater emphasis on gan with the close of the bishops' -delaying sexual activity; and the national meeting Nov. 16-19 in popularity of long-lasting contra- Washington. . By conference rules, the viceceptive methods.

She said researchers are encour- presidential candidates were those aged by the trend, but many point bishops remaining on the presidenout that overall birthrates for U.S. tial nomination list after the elec- . teens are extraordinarily. high com- tion of a president. pared with rates for teenagers in Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of other industrialized countries.

Belleville, 111.,. was chosen from "The key, experts say, is to among the remaining nine candiadopt policies that will sustain dates to serve as NCCB-USCC vice these downward trends," she wrote. president for the next three years.

But she acknowledged that no By a 175-75 vote, he defeated one is sure just how to do that. She Archbishop JustinE Rigali of St. said countless pregnancy preven- Louis on the third ballot, which was tion programs have been imple- . a run-off betwee'n the two top vote~ mented in recent years in the getters for vice president.

United States by schools, clinics The role of president is not an and community agencies', but few unfam~liar one for Bishop Fiorenza, of these programs have been rig- who filled in for Bishop Anthony orously evaluated.

'M. Pilla of Cleveland for several

Cardinal Mahony ,offers ideas for enlivening liturgy

months after Bishop Pilla underwent quadruple bypass surgery in November 1997.

A bishop since 1979 and head of the Galveston-Houston Diocese since 1985, Bishop Fiorenza served as NCCB-USCC secretary for one year before his 1995 election as

vice president.

He also has served as chairman of the bishops' commit:tee on the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. He currently chairs the bishops' Committee on Personnel and their Subcommitt:ee on the' Millennium.

BISHOP JOSEPH A. Fiorenza acknowledges applause from his fellow bishops after being elected the new National Conference of Catholic Bishops president Nov. 17 in Washington. Bishop Fiorenza of the Galveston-Houston Diocese is the first head of the bishops' conference to come from the South. (CNS photo by Nancy Wiechec)

路Catholic radio network to begill with seven statiollls

By BILL KURTZ

derer Forum.

Because of complications in fiMILWAUKEE - A Catholic- nancing the purchase, Catholic "Gather Faithfully Together" is in the liturgy as developed by the oriented national radio network is Family Radio - originally called Bv GARY LONCKI based pn these theological insights: Second Vatican Council is'empha- now in business, with a new name Catholic Radio Network -- will beCATHOUC NEWS SERVICE. and a scaled-down initial roster of gin with seven AM stations,includ-Liturgy is a response toGod's sized.

ERIE, Pa. - Los Angeles Caidi- initiative.

He said the council's rich insight stations, including one in the Mil- ing WZER, 540 AM in Brookfield, nal Roger M. Mahony likened a instead of the 10 originally planned.

Cardinal Mahony said the into the manifold presence of Christ waukee suburb of Brookfield. get-well message he people of God at liturgy - in the gathered assemArchbishop Rembert G., "We had to restructure the deal," received from a - - - - - - - - - -... must work hard bly, in the priest/presider leading and Weakland of Milwaukee has said Father Fessio said. young boy to how "Unless we cel- for good liturgy, forming the assembly at worship, in he objects to the presence of the The six other stations will serve some Catholic litur- ebrate Christ's mys- which he dec God's word proclaimed and heard, and station in his archdiocese, citing Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelgies are celebrated. teries well, we will scribed as the "cel- in the bread and wine blessed, bro- fears the programming will have a phia, Denver, Minneapo!i's-St. Paul In a talk at Erie's ebration of ken, poured and shared - "enhances one-sided, traditional orientation and Kansas City, Kan. Gannon University; notlive them well,"he Christ's presence' rather than diminishes" the real pres- that would be divisive and cause Father Fessio said Catholic Famthe cardinal, who un- said. "(And) when we in word and sacra- ence of Christ in the Eucharist. confusion among Catholics about ilyRadio was unable -ttl acquire stations serving New York, Dallas derwent surgery last participate in Christ's ment.", But,he According to the cardinal, some who speaks for the local church.

But Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio and Phoenix. He said purchase J.une, recalled read- mysteries well and said, "we must al- misunderstand the teaching on . ing get-well cards full v, then we will live ways b~ mindful Christ's manifold 'presence at lit- said that Catholic Family Radio is price for the seven stations was $37 J' that our' work of urgy, saying路 that Christ is present not an exercise in bishop-bashing million;and the network is spendfrom children in his archdiocese. _. / them well." glorifying Gqd in only" in the Eucharist. While he and will not focus on controversies ing an additional $13 million to "I'm very sorry ......- - - - - - - - -...... liturgy is a re- called transubstantiation - the within the church. launch its talk format. . ti).at you are going to have.surgery," 路sponse to the Lord's initiative."

Referring; to Arc,hbishop changing of bread and wine to the "MotherAngelica has a very imwrote a young boy named Michael.

- Liturgy is the actio~ ofChrist body. and blood of Christ - the portant, worthwhile role; out we're Weakland's objections to the radio' "I willp~ay that you get well. By and the Spirit. .. "crown jewel" of Christ's presence, not going to duplicate what she network having a presen.ce in his the way, I've never heard of you The Holy Spirit gathers us faith- the church teaches that Christ is does," Father Fessio told the Catho- archdiocese, Father Fes,sio said, . before." fully together to express and re- present in other ways at liturgy, too. lie Herald, Milwaukee "Our door is open to him, but I can , Said the cardinal, ''I'm afraid that. ceive our identity as. the body of - Understanding liturgy, sac- archdiocesan newspaper, in an in- understand why he's mistrustful." , thpse (last) six words could describe Christ in word and sacrament, he rament and Church, in which all terview.

Hosts will "probably" be Cathosome of our relationships with our said. He explained' that the gather- seven sacraments, particularly bapLast- year the Alabama-based lics, Father Fessio said, since "we brothers and sisters at Sunday Eu- ing for Sunday liturgy actually be- tism, bestow on the faithful the dig~ nun, founder of the Eternal Word have to have hosts who can explain charist, where very often we arrive gins with our rising, washing, eat- nity of the children of God and the Television Network, criticized Los the Catholic point of view." But he as strangers, worship as strangers and ing and getting dressed. grace to grow in Christ.

Angeles Cardinal Roger M. also stressed that "we're not direct,go home as strangers."

"This is itself the work of the .

He joked, "I don't get any nasty - Mahony's pastoral letter on the ing this only at Catholics."

About 900 people attended the Spirit, who summons us from sleep, letters from parishes that have joy- Eucharist and urged Catholics not Father Fessio is part of a threelecture in which he provided several from the c!arkness of slumber, and ful celebrations of the Eucharist." member content committee for to obey his teaching. theological "underpinnings" of a impels us to gather in the assembly "Unless we celebrate Christ's mysFather Fessio, who heads Catholic Family Radio. The other pastoral letter he issued in Septem- of the faithful to partake of the body teries well, we will not live them Ignatius Press in San Francisco and members are Denver An;hbishop ber 1997 titled "Gather Faithfully and blood of Christ in word and well," he said. "(And) when we par- originated the concept of a Catho- Charles 1. Chaput and Nicholas Healy Together: A Guide for Sunday Mass." sacrament," he told his audience.. , ticipate in Christ's mysteries well and lic-oriented radio network! was in Jr., a vice president at Franciscan According to the' cardinal, ' - Christ's "manifold presence" fully, then we will live them well." - Milwaukee to speak at the Wan- University of Steubenville, Ohio.

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Iraqi Catholic patriarch asks Clinton not to bomb By

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY - The Iraqbased head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Patriarch Raphael I Bidawid, pleaded with U.S. President Bill Clinton not to launch a military strike against his country.

"How in good conscience does he have the courage to accept this genocide? There is not a sufficient reason to justify this attack on the life of a whole people," Patriarch Raphael said in a recent interview.

The patriarch told Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, that he would like to ask Clinton "to make his conscience more sen-

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sitive" as to how a new attack would impact people who are already suffering.

The same day, in Rome, Ar-

Patriarch Raphael told Fides, "We were surprised by the news that soon a new war, although limited, would begin in order to strike certain 'strategic sites'in Iraq." gentine President Carlos Menem said Pope John Paul II was "very worried, as we all are, about the possibility of an American attack

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survivors. They have not only lost ous in its immigration policies. their homes, but their jobs, their This would not'be a good time to crops and the infrastructure of be deporting Central Americans. these countries have ..---------:,....--.., Those people are here been seriously comworking and helping their relatives at promised. They were countries struggling home. Sending them back wo~ld only add even before the d(lvto the 'burdens of astation. I am pleased to find that presidents thos'e countries alin those countries ready striuned beyond have asked the Cathobelief." lic Church to oversee, The third need is to the relief efforts bedeal with the whole iscause of the great sue of international credibility the bishops debts, the bishop said. have in that part of BISHOP O'MALLEY He desclibed how, in the world." the p~t, international At a recent bishops' conference lending institutions "were impru-' in Washington, he met with the dent in how they lent money to ambassador to Nicaragua, a long- merchant countries: to totalitarian time friend. The bishop reported governments; and they often lent that the embassy had been turned with the idea of the lender making into a warehouse and the ambas- a great deal of money. Those counsador, his wife and 100 volunteers tries are now democracies, and were working long into the night while the principals of the debts to prepare shipments of food and have been paid off, the interest is medicines to send home. 'so high that it puts another burden "The people need our help for on their very fragile economies." the present and for the future," The Holy Father has been askBishop O'Malley pointed out. ing, as part of the biblical jubilee Besides the relief effort there practice, that there be a remission are other ways America can help, of debts, said Bishop O'Malley. the bishop said. "We hope our "As a Catholic community we government will also be gener- need to join our voices with his. I

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against Iraq." Menem spoke after meeting with Pope John Paul.

As the two men met, the U.S. military was continuing its preparations for a stlike against Iraq as punishment for President Saddam Hussein's refusal to comply fully with a U.N.-mandated inspection of weapons production sites. Patriarch Raphael told Fides, "We were surprised by the news that soon a new war, although limited, would begin in order to strike certain 'strategic sites' in Iraq.

"We protest with all our strength these threats, which have created a new imbalance," he said.

"Among the people there is great concern, also because there had been an expectation that the embargo which has been hurting

am gratified that many countries have come forward and readjusted the debts of the Central American countries to give them some breathing space.

"I would certainly hope that as part of our celebrations of Thanksgiving that we share our blessing with those less fortunate."

He said that when he was in Central America last summer, he visited Catholic Relief Services' personnel. " They have redoubled their efforts and need all the support we can give them by way of the food, clothing and money that they need so desperately."

Bishop O'Malley will be joining other selected bishops from Nov. 23 to Dec. 15 in taking a hard look at the South Pacific region known as Oceania and subsequently make recommendations for the Church there. Their assembly, like others held and to be held, has to do both with preparation within the Church for the Third Millennium and for the Church in Oceania to respond to the needs of the coming time.

Papua, which is in Oceania, recently suffered the horrible effects of a tragic tidal wave that washed hundreds off the island to their deaths.

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partment of Education, the Office dreds." the key that opens the heart of Students in Catholic middle many. Guide me through the jourof Communications and the bishop's office, "little by little the and high schools in the diocese ney that takes' away the pain and were asked tO'write a . suffering.... Life is fragile, please service came together," she said. prayer for the service give me a second chance, have The Names Quilts that reflected on the mercy on me."

Dr. Winter-Green, recently refrom Washington, issue of AIDS in the world today. "They turned from "AIDS and Religion D.C., massive panels are simply amazing, in America," an international incommemorating those incredible, some from terfaith conference at the Carter who have died from little people. Some of Presidential Center in Atlanta, Ga., AIDS and created by them will be used in said it focused on the realities of their families, will the Prayer ofthe Faith- HIV and the alarming rate of its adorn the cathedral ful during vespers and increase despite new drugs. "We during the service. will SUbsequently be find the largest increase is among "During part of the published in book those ages 15 to 21," she said. vespers, names of form," Dr. Winter- ''They are going to die very young. those who have died We see it affecting many, many, Green reported. from AIDS will be DR. KRYSTEN One of them, from poor, black women. More topiread," Dr. WinterGreen added. "Over WINTER-GREEN a sixth grader, reads in cally, we have a significant probpart: "Lord, my only lem with intravenous drug use the last couplc o~ months, people in the diocese have true God, help me strengthen the here in southeastern Massachubeen asked to submit names to be power in my heart that has the only setts, particularly in the Fall Riverread, and we have .a list of hun- cure to this sickness. Help me find New Bedford area of our diocese."

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Nov. 20, 1998 us for eight years would be removed, or at least eased," Patriarch Raphael said.

The patriarch said that since the embargo was imposed, one million, children have died because of a lack of necessary food and medicine.

"Still today the embargo causes the death Of about 20,000 children each month, both at home and in the hospitals, where there .is a lack of everything.

"It is a tragedy, not to say a genocide," he said. "If this is the new world order people are talking about, we are against it."

Msgr. Diarmuid Martin, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, told Vatican Radio Nov. 13 that the embargo against Iraq is "affecting those who are not responsible for any abuses that may take place in the country." _ "The number of children who are dying from preventable dis-

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eases and situations is very high," he said. "And when that happens, then sanctions are not achieving what they set out to do and are, therefore, not really justifiable."

Msgr. Martin said the Vatican consistently has said that sanctions and economic embargoes are justifiable when they are precise, limited and aimed at convincing a government to change its behavior.

"If the effects of sanctions touch disproportionately the children, who have no responsibility and who are going to be weakened for the rest of their lives, then this is a mechanism that hasn't worked," the monsignor said.

Patriarch Raphael is the head of the largest Christian community in Iraq. According to Vatican figures, there are more than 262,000 Catholics in the country.

They belong to the Chaldean, Armenian and Latin rites.

Vatican ambassador to u.s. is given new post in Rome cessor, Archbishop (now Cardinal) Pio Laghi, became the first in 1984 WASHINGTON - Pope John when the United States and the Holy Paul II has called the Vatican am- See established formal diplomatic bassador to the United States, Arch- relations. He served in the Vatican bishop Agostino Cacciavillan, diplomatic corps for almost 40 back to Rome to be president of years, taking his first assignment the Administration of the Patri- in 1959 in the Vatican Secretariat mony of the Holy See. of State.

Archbishop Cacciavillan, 72, He worked in Vatican has been papal pro-nuncio, or Vati- nunciatures in the Philippines, can ambassador, to the United Spain, Portugal, Kenya, India and States since June 13, 1990. During as pro-nuncio to the United States that'time he also served as the Holy and permanent observer to the OrSee's permanent observer to the ganization of American States in Organization of American States, 1990. which has its headquarters in WashBorn in the northern Italian town ington. . of Novale di Valdagno in 1926, he In his new post, he will succeed was ordained to the priesthood in Cardinal Lorenzo Antonetti, 76, 1949. head of the patrimony office since .

After three years of parish min1995. The office is in charge of ad- istry, he was sent to Rome, where ministering the fund established in he earned a degree in social sci1929 under the Lateran Pacts, when ences from the Gregorian UniverItaly paid indemnities to the Vati- sity, a degree路in canon law from the can for the papal lands and proper- Lateran University and a degree in ties expropriated by Italy in the civil law from the state University 19th century. of Rome.

The pope did not immediately During his tenure in Washington, name Archbishop Cacciavillan's Archbishop Cacciavillan's greatest successor. The next ambassador will visibility as pro-nuncio has come have the title of nuncio because from announcing the appointments shortly after Archbishop of bishops and attending episcopal Cacciavillan was appointed the ordinations and installations. The Vatican decided it would stop us- archbishop has also been present at ing the title pro-nuncio for any new milestones in U.S. Church life, such appointees. Until then, a Vatican as diocesan jubilees and the ordinaambassador with the title of nun- tion anniversaries of bishops. cio was dean of the diplomatic One of the most recent of these corps in the country he was as- was Oct. 18, when he celebrated a signed to; all others were called pro- Mass in Washington marking Pope nuncio.

John Paul II's 20th anniversary in Archbishop Cacciavillan was office. He called the pope's pononly the second Vatican ambassa- tificate "a great gift from the Holy dor to the United States. His prede- Spirit."

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THE ANCHOR -

Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., Nov. 20, 1998

100~y'ear~0Id

woman brings reaJism to, Roaring '20s play

By EMILIE AST , CATHOLIc NEWS SERVICE

DOROTHY AND gang are back on the big screen in the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz." From left is Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion, Ray Bolger as Scarecrow, judy Garland as Dorothy and Jack Haley playing the Tin Man. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-I - general patronage. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is G'- general audiences. (CNS photo from Warner Bros.)

'Joe Black' builds onoldfavorite: 'Death Takes a Holida",' theme ~c 'J

ST. PAUL, Minn. - To 100, year-old Cecilia Goswitz, a Catholic woman from St: Paul, F. Scott ,Fitzgerald wasn't just a famous name attached to the now-mythical "lost' generation" of postwar writers.' '., Instead, Fitigerald, a St. Paul native, was the "good-looking kid" who walked past her home a lot on ' his way down Selby Street.

Goswitz was a young woman during the Roaring ,20s, when. her family lived in a house on Selby and Oxford streets in St. Paul.

Her memories of that time have added a touch of realism to "Good , News," a rousing new 1920s musical being staged by a group of local dinner theaters.

Michael Brindisi, artistic 'director for, Chanhassen Dinner Theaters, called on Goswitz to prepare for the musical, which is about col-

leg~:o~;~i~~d

Goswitz, whose longtimenick-, name was "Laughing Eyes," has kept herself young, she said, by . never marrying or having children. " "No smokirig, no booie, no sex," she said., ~'I teii' everybody that." .

The third-youngest of 15 children, she has survived memal!. Her father was a laborer, and her inother was a figure skater who didn't stop skating until she was 81. The Goswitzeswere longtime members of St. Luke parish; although Goswitz ' now attends St. Leo 'parish. ,Goswitz worked for the 'Great Northern Railway and then for Northern States Power, where she advanced from bookkeeper to cashier before she retired at 65. After that, she was secretary-treasurer of Northern States Power's retiree program., , She said she still can picture the styles and fashions of the glamorous 1920s. ~'We wore these big hats with plumes and feathers," she said.

Growing up, women wore long dresses. "Then they started to wear them above' the knee - oh, they were daring!"

Goswit'z insists she \\'as not much of a flapper, asa young woman. "I was too bashful," she said. "I didn't stay out longer than midnight."

And she did not keep up with the modern music of that period, she added, preferring instead Be'eth'oven and Schubert, which she played on the piano.

But seven decatles, later,: in the privacy of her living room, she gave herself away. Someone put on a recording of "Button Up Your Overcoat" - one of the songs featured in "Good News" - and Goswitz rose out of her chair, tapping her foot back and forth. ' She sang the next line as if it were yesterday that boyfriends had swept her across the'danct: floor: "You belong, to me."

'The Si-ege' offers action lJut plot gets mixed up too oft.~n

that if you're directing a work about the Roaring '20s, it's best to talk to someone who's' been there. Brindisi had met , ,narrative is only matched by the Goswitz a few months earlier when ~ But actors Pitt and moribu~d pacing. Characters de- she introduced herself after a play. prime source, the well-connected

By GERRI PARE 'Hopkins do poorly in liver their lines after pained pauses Ask the centenarian about the Arab, Samir (Sami BouajiliJ.), who CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE this lavish movie filmed as if they were first mentally rehears- Roaring '20s and she'll tell you feeds her info about planned tering before physically speaking. Not those times weren~t ~'asroaring as NEW YQRK - The FBI, CIA rorist activities - and with whom in part at the former Our a single performance. is noteworthy they are today." and the military clash when' a se- she has an intimate if ambiguous Lady of Providence - including fine actor Hopkins, Even the "bad ones," like gang- ries of terrorist. bombings reduce relationship.

Seminaryin Warwick, HI. who here bellows his lines when. ster John Dillinger, ','went out and New York to astate of martial law However, Samir seems t<) know indicating real emotion. ' , robbed banks, not people," she told in "The Siege" (20th Century Fox). little about where the terrori,sts are Worse is Pitt, who tries to con- The Catholic Spirit, newspaper of A joint FBI-NYPD team, hiding in Brooklyn and the bombBy GERRI PARE' vey a daunti'!g, physical presence, the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdioheaded by, FBI special agent An- ings begin: A busload of people is CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE but looks like an empty suit. Some cese. , thony Hubbard (Denzel Washing- blown sky-high as Hubbard tries "Kids were'not as vicious as. thei ' 'tol9\ is put on Ngh alert as Brook- to negOtiate,'li' Broadway theater-' , NEW YORK - "Meet Joe, of his tortured lines sound as if they Black" (Univl;:rsal) is a romantic 'came out of 'a 19th-century text- are now," she said: "If they didn't Iyn-based Arab terrorists ,threaten , performance'turns explosivi~,and, fantasy misfire in which Death takes book, certainly not a pop movie. get along,' they had 'fistfights." And" to' wreak havoc on the city unless most personally horrifying, human foim to experience life for a The camera lavishes attention on the nation's presidents? "They were a certain sheik believed secretly Hubbard's ,FBI office - and most few days alongside his next victim. his finely sculptured face and blond quiet," she said. "They didn't get held· in the united States i,s re- of his team - are obliterated in a leased.

Highly anticipated - with Brad locks to an excessive degree. And, into all the news." bombing that takes more 'than 600 Brindisi said that aspect of the Stuboornly, wedging her way lives'" New Yorkers get panicky; a Pitt in the title role as Death in dis- beautiful though she is, Forlani too guise, and Sir Anthony Hopkins as is saddled with a dreary role in 1920s gave him something to think intb the search for the'identity and car's backfire is cause for a stamhis imminent target - the movie is which she must constantly rely on about. "She gave me real insight' location of the'terrorists is CIA un- pede. , suggested by the 1920s stage play soulful, questioning gazes at her into the idea that 'bad' in the '20s dercover operative Elise (Annette Washington's measured perfor(made into a 1934 movie) "Death beloved, expressions which soon ,was not 'bad' today,:' he said. "It Bening), of whom Hubbard is dis- mance is a steadying presence in Takes a Holiday." As holiday fare, it's grow old. Very, very old. was a beautiful kind of bad --:- tinc'tly"wary.. She has her own this often shrill action thriller not even fair, it's deadly dull. Excru' So shallowly written are the lead naughty. Today it hurts people." agenda in wanting to protect her whose dense plotting is not easy ciatingly drawn out to a full three characters, they stir little interest , to follow.' ' hours, its flaws seem magnified, and certainly do not make up, for Willis is smug and uncoilVincThe story centers on the approach- the movie's extended running tiqie. ing in his role as the man who is ing 65th birthday of media tycoon' We are told billionaire Bill is the literally calling,the shots, and his Bill Parrish (Hopkins), the widowed so~l of integrity, but such types smirk only underlines that he is father of mamed Allison (MarCia Gay don't rise to multinational CEO sta- • -I • .

•_ • " ~ , just acting .,- and undermines his Harden) and ,sin'gle physician Susan tus without being ruthiess ind cunpriest videotaping confessions what is supposed to be a more than By MARI(PATTISON (Claire Forl;irn). He's started having .ning on the way up. about ,sex for his documentary, a one-dimensional character.

CATHOLIC'NEWS SERVICE' chest pains and hearing a disembodBrest allows scenes to drag, 'allow-, "World's Naughtiest Confessions." . II , Bening's is the most complex ied voice just when heshmild be ·fo- ingnuances such as gestures, looks WASHINGTON - Fox is still ofFox spokesman Tom Tyrer said character. Her secretive past holds, cusing on' a crucial buyout of his and hugs to be' repeated needlessly. ' ficially s,aYlng '.'no, comment," but the network would have no com- the key to what is happening, but However, one must credit t,he the Catholic League for Religious ment on conversations btitween its she isn't entirely believable either. company being 'facilitated by his protege Drew (Jake Weber)..' ,exceptionally opulent visuals. It ' and Civil Rights says it is satisfied standards· and practices 'department In fact, the narrative isoften murky, The morning of the fateful day looks as if no expense was'spared with the apology it got from some and the Catholic League, or as if director Edward Zwick f,elt the Bill is to meet the Grim Reaper, Dr. in creating the lavish lifestyle of a network representatives over an whether Fox indeed apologized. regular spurts of explosive action Susan meets a handsome newcomer magnate whose Manh;ltjan pent- episode of the comedy~drama, "Ally The Fox·representatives told the would. cover over the plot holes.

(Pitt) in a coffeeshop in town and house and Hudson River estate McBeal." '.

Catholic League they would seild While the violence and gore are each is drawn to the other, but she would be the envy of emperors. , Rick Hinshaw, a spokesman for letters to 20th Century Fox Televi- not overly graphic, the ph:lsical does nothing about it. Moments.

Costumes, and props, from flow- the organization, said two officials sion and David Kelley Productions, impact of the bombings, espelater, unseen by Susan, the hapless ers to fine oils, are eye candy for from the Fox TV network's stan- the "Ally McBeal" studio and pro- cially of the bus, is filmed in a visstranger is killed by speeding cars. the audience as they endure the dards and practices department said duction company respectively, tell- , ceral, in-your-face style.

Drawn away from dinner with his slow-moving theatrics before them. they would monitor the show much ing them Fox censors would, acJust as unpleasantly loud and family by the voice, Bill finally The fimil section of the film is set more closely. cording to Hinshaw, "say 'no' to any unappealingly lame is the trite diameets its owner, Death (Pitt), who at Bill's ultraextravagant riverside The Fox representatives also other anti-Catholic material." logue which seems to add the has assumed the stranger's body and birthday party, complete with gi- told the Catholic League there were 'Kelley, who writes every "Ally equivalent of verbal mayhem, not offers to delay Bill's demise in order gantic fireworks - the kind that no attacks on Catholicism in future McBeal" episode, was honored ear- momentum, to the movie. to see what being human is like. Bill mopey Joe and sorrowful Susan are' episodes they had seen. lier in November by Catholics in As a political thriller there is agrees and introduces him as Joe supposed to ign~te with each other.

The flap began after the Nov. 2 Media for the ABC law drama "The more heat than light offered, alBlack back at the dinner table.

Due to fleetingly intense vio- episode in which a nun sued the Practice," which he also writes and though the moral ambiguities and With comedies such as "Beverly lence, a discreet sexual encounter, Church because she was dismissed produces. societal issues raised at least prove Hills Cop," Midnight Run" and the, occasional profanity and an instance for breaking her vow of celibacy.

In a similar controversy, the ABC provocative. alluring "Scent of a Woman" to his of rough lang~age, the U.S. CathoDialogue the Catholic League police drama "NYPD Blue" was Due to some intense violence credit, director Martin Brest could lic Conference classification is A-III objected to included references to scorned and boycotted during its and mayhem, brief sexual innuendo be expected to tum in an accom-' - adults. The Motion Picture Asso- sex between nuns, nuns flirting with debut for its use of language and and intermittent rough language, plished fantasy tinged with comi- ciation of America rating is PG-13 priests, priests having sex with boys, nudity, yet the series has won sev- the U.S. Catholic Conference clascal undertones.

- parents are strongly cautioned and the title character making a ram- eral awards, including the sification is A-III - adults, The Alas, the ponderous if not quite that some material may be inappro- bling confession about sex.

Humanitas Prize, for its depiction Motion Picture Association of pretentious treatment given the priate for, children under 13.

The episode also included a of the human condition.

America rating is R - restricted.

Catholic League satisfied with' Fox apology"over 'Ally:l\1cBeal"

Awards given to stars at Catholic'Memorial Home FALL RIVER - Catholic Memorial Home collected three awards at the Massachusetts Aging Services Association's annual meeting last month, with recipients receiving a plaque and a framed print of their nomination letter, The home's Preceptor Training Program won top honors as the 1998 Program Innovation of the Year.

Anne Marie Kelly, director of staff development, and Lin Tetrault, inservice coordinator, developed the program to focus on the needs of orientees.

The program pairs a new staff member with an experienced one, called a preceptor, who serves as a

clinical role model and resource person to the new employee.

Throughout orientation, the preceptor helps map out the orientation process, sets learning and proficiency goals, provides feedback and evaluation and introduces the new employee to other staff members.

"We initiated the Preceptor Program as a way to make orientation a comprehensive, yet simple and meaningful experience that meets each new employee'S individual leaming style. With a trained preceptor setting ,daily leaming goals, new employees will learn more about our home's philosophy, standards of care and other important details a~out nursing at Catholic Memorial Home," said Kelly.

Resident Elizabeth

Heneghan, age 95, won the Community Spirit Award for her involvement with and dedication to fellow residents. Joyce Sevasin, therapeutic activities director, nominated Heneghan because of her hard work.

She delights in helping residents in wheelchairs and serving refreshments during socials and is also a friend to children visitors and residents who can no longer communicate.

Margarida Resendes, clinical assistant at the home, received a Hearts and Hands Certificate of Merit at the event for her achievements and contributions to aging services.

Resendes is well known for her resident-focused care, strong faith and ability to comfort, said nursing supervisor Paula Ritchotte. "I look up to her, she's a supreme role model."

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EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS at Our Lady's Haven were honored at a special Mass during Pastoral Care Week recently. They volunteer time to help bring Holy Communion to residents of the home and each received a pin to commemor~te the Mass.

Ii Lenten Pilgrimage to the Holy Land Join Fr. Bill Boffa & Deacon Bob Pelland To Jesus' hometown, Mar. 15-25, 1999 Coach from Attleboro and flight to and from Israel, nine nights in hotels, breakfast and dinner daily Information Meeting Dec. 6 • 12 noon BLESSING OF HANDS - Mercy Sister Elaine Heffernan, director of pastoral care at Catholic Memorial Home, blesses certified nurse aide Madeline Carvalho's hands during a Pastoral Care Week prayer service. Sister Elaine directed the prayer service for the staff, noting that it's "through their hands that our staff brings comfort and healing to bur residents and families."

CATHOLIC MEMORIAL HOME workers were recently honored by the Massachusetts Aging Services Association at its award banquet. They are: (first row from left) Joyce Sevasin, director of therapeutic activities; Elizabeth Heneghan, a resident; Sister Nina Amaral, administrator; (back row) Margarida Resendes, clinical assistant; Anne Marie Kelly, director of staff development; Sister Margaret Jackson, assistant administrator; and Paula Richotte, nursing supervisor.

Madonna Manor names new pastoral care director NORTH ATTLEBORO - Although Sister Mary M. Duffy, SSJ, and Beatrice Paquette have known each other for only a few short weeks they have become fast friends at Madonna Manor where Sister Mary was recently named the new pastoral care director and Paquette was welcomed as a new resident.

As pastoral care director at the home, Sister Mary is a shoulder to lean on, a source of spiritual, counseling and prayer, but above all, a friend to its residents, families and staff. "Pastoral care is walking the walk with people:' said Sister Mary.

The Sister of Saint Joseph joins the MaSISTER OF St. Joseph Mary M. donna Manor team folDuffy, (at right) spends some time with lowing a career in' reliher friend Beatrice Paquette, a resident gious education for both of Madonna Manor, North Attleboro. adults and children, Sister Mary, recently named the having decided it was time for a change. "I've Manor's pastoral care director, is look- worked in religious

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education all my professional life," said Sister Mary, "but there comes a time when one knows it's time for something different."

Prayer and research on pastoral care in skilled nursing facilities brought Sister Mary to the home, whery throughout her day she visits residents and those who are hospitalized, helping them in many ways.

"This is a sacred time in our residents' lives but all'o a confusing one for many as they feel less productive than they used to be. But that image is so contrary to how God sees us," declared Sister Mary.

"By caring in a pastoral way, we can help people realize that they are still valuable, sacred."

Sister Mary holds a bachelor's degree in education from Our Lady of the Elms College, Chicopee, and a master's degree in religious studies from Boston College. She is a member of the National Catholic Educational Association and was previously employed as director of religious education at Blessed Sacrament Parish,Worcester, and as the associate diocesan director of reli~ gious education, also in the Worcester diocese.

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Hondurans describe .devastation after Mitch washes away lives ,

all their belongings into the swirl- on our house," said Diaz, who was ing Choluteca River on its ram~ in charge of her brothers and sispage through the Honduran capi- ters because her mother was out of tal, Tegucigalpa. the country looking for work. "I TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras "When we were told to evacu- thought that the world was comAngie Diaz, 20, and her five younger siblings cQuld only look ate the houses, as the waters rose I ing to an end."

Diaz is from -EI Progreso comon ana cry as the' raging floods grabbed the smaller children and tossed their tiny wooden house and fled. Once up the main road we munity, 'one of hundreds of neighlooked back to borhoods along the banks of the . .,..,....."".=-,,""'.,....,;.-.-.--. see ,our home . Choluteca literally wip,ed off tht; > • .*,f~.,.;i~":"J8~ ....,:.\.:'{~ . floating like a pa,

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In a matter of hours, some 500 shacks in EI Progreso, had disap~ peared into the river as the steep slope above the community' collapsed under the weight of .torrential rains, sending boulders and rocks hurtling down. .

Some 60,000 people were left homeless i.n Teg,-!cigalpa by Hurricane Mitch. About 30 )lercent of the (city's housing is' ca!t;ulated to have been destroyed or badly damaged.

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Relief workers struggled to get emer"All I had to do was keep them He said his wife continued to gency food and· medicine to isolated fed, and they kept the station run- do laundry in the dirty waters of communities in Honduras, where Hur-' ning," said Father Oo,yens, a native of . the Choluteca, which had subsided ricane Mitch killed 10,0.00 people Cambridge, Mass., who has worked since the flooding, leaving odd reand left more than 500,000 home- in Honduras since 1984. mains of walls, roofs and doors jutless.

The massive storm',. which ting out from the mud swamp.

Disaster staff were "working furi- dumped heavy rainfall on Honduras Some of his neighbors' children ously" to get emergency supplies to for nine days, left 60 percent of the were drinking water froCI a small . in ruins and we II t h at h' a d forme d b I~SI'd e t he people stranded on hilltops or in vil- country's infrastructure lages, said Doug 'Ryan, country rep- destroyed 70 percent of the crops. In highly contaminated river. resentative in Honduras for Catholic response to the crisis, President One woman, waiting in line to Rtflief Services, the U.S. bishops' in- Carlos Flores declared a 9 p.rn. cur- wash in the river, said, "The [govter'nati'onal relief and development few, suspended constitutional de- ernment] water tanks came three agency.' crees, and, banned alcohol sales. days ago. There's lots of diarrhea '''But we Cl;m't do it fast ·enough.

Father Owens said the drastic mea- and fever here, especiall.y among It's'like swimming 'in a lake of hu- sures "are indications that the gov- the ohildren·." . "17A.1·1','(·. Q.7';;".,-:J .m~. _.ID,,'.~ -. ."0 ...... " , ' man need," 'lie added. '. ernment fearstlie people 'will get un.In a school classroom, three .. .:7!J:y, ~UI~IIV \,;QII~ _ Ryan recruited his' wife and two controllable." Noting'that aboliJ families, totaling 14 children and I"fi.~' .. .~II ~_ -1_ . . :;' __ .I~ ~.I' children- to help bag. emergency pro- 20,000'banana workers had lost their four adults camped out ,with two ~A UI~ IN? cuJRe on eU/Hlre- a6 "". ,e-j '. . .

"W h Iots o·f . area, he asked, "What are worn rna tt resses an d ,a woo d en VISions, . eave vo l un- 'Jobs in his ~ 9l"eaPeR-" - . teers, ,and that's. heartening," Ryan they going to do to sUJVive?" board for beds. _ . ,- " : 1'1'. '1" ; : ; said. "The,big' problem is,getting fuel Government officiallt'and'.il).termi..· :,,\'~'1X!\\t;n of ,~he ·s~e~t~·s around and (finding alway'to"transgort the tional disaster experts estimated that . the city'were'bein'g adi'ninistered food to the people ·wllo need it." , ',' it would take 'Hondunis" decades· to, by a Honduran ecumenical group, Oh adorable and DivIDe'WiIl, behold rile here before the im.Eor a,:wee~ after, the"hurricane reCi:i'ver from''ilie 'st~rm:'''' ".y . 'the Association of Christian Youth. mensity ofYouiLight, that Your etetnal goodness may open to strucl(,~T~gudgalpa'!Vas cut off froJIl Archbishop. Oscar Rodriguez With limited resources and relyme the doors and make me enter in"to I1'to D,orm 'myliD,e ,aU in ports Qn ,(he Pacifi<;- .and ~aJjbbean Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa used his ingentirely .on young 'v(l!unteers, .. .<:oasts, ,?f Honduras, 3!ld fuyl, -:- along homily Nov. 8 to chastise those the association has ,been doing its You, Divine Will. Therefore, oh adorable Will, prostrate before - wit:b,food,and potable watt;! __ were tempted' to: steal from. the interna- best t.o r~sp011d ,to the crisis. in short supply. T6e, goveri:unent tiona\. aid poul'ing into ,Honduras..'..

"We need specia'lized .medicine ·YOl!r Light, I, the least of all creatures, put myself into the little riianage~ to ge(iriakeshift rqads op~iI 'Those:w.bo alter prices and hoard and drinking water ---: that's causgroup.of,the sons and daughters of Your Supr~me·FIAt. Pros! trite in my nothingness, I invoke Your Light' and beg that it over the weekend of Nov.,,7-8..arid food. are garbage,".•. Archb,isho.p ing us. lo.ts ~f pr~blems," said t~e clothe me and eclipse all that does not pertain to You,-Divine tI1e fuel crisis w!ls expected Lo ease in Rodriguez said, "for they ar~ playc aSSOCiation s 'dIrector, AleXIS Will It '11 b L'D h f' 11' h t\i.e following days. . . ' ing with the hunger of the people.

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Heavenly Mother, Sovereign'and Queen of the Divine said the government's relatiol)ship to ..•.........• ···.. t,ake ,my hand and introduce' me into the Light of the Divine.' foreign aid ;agen~ies was marked by ., 1 Will. You will be my guide, my most tender,Mother, and will "confusion and chaos, where the l e f t - 4l ·teach me live in and to maintain myself in the order and the' hand ~oesn'f kno~ what the right " hand was doing."Yet the official said bounds ofthe Divine Will. Heavenly Mother, I consecrate my aid agencies were proceeding with whole being to YOU( Immaculate Heart. You will teach me the their work, tryjngoot to let the overdoctrine of the Divrne Will and I will listen most attentively to whelmed government bureaucracy Your lessons. You will cover me with Your mantle so that the get in .the way. .' . infernal serpent dare not penetrate into this sacred Ede'n"to en. In EI Progreso, a northern Honduticeme and make me fall into the maze ofthe human will. ran.city 'hard hit by flooding, some Jesuits tried to .get a truck filled with Heart 0 f my greatest Good, Jesus, You will give me Your . food to the nearby town of Tocoa, flames that they may bum me, consume me, and .feed me to cut off from the rest of.Honduras by fonn in me the Life of the Divine Will. collapsed bridges and flooded roads.

Saint Joseph, you will be my protector, the guardian of my 'This makes you feel so sl)1all, so heart, and will keep the keys of my will in your hands. You will ' helpless in the midst of so much keep my heart jealously and shall never give it to me again, that need," said U.S. Jesuit Father 'Joe I may be sure of never leaving the Will of God. Owens in EI Progreso. ''A lot of people A WOMAN washes clothes in contaminated flood waters lost everything and have nowhere to My guardian Angel, guard me; defend me; help me in everygo." while her son cleans off a chair in the town of Flores de Oriente thing so that my Eden may flourish and be the instrument that Father Owens is station manager in Honduras Nov. 5. More than 200 residents of the town were draws all men into the Kingdom of the Divine Will. Amen. of Radio Progreso, a church-spon- left homeless due to the storms of Hurricane Mitch. Disease sored radio station. He praised the ( II! Honor of Luisa Piccarreta 1865-1947 Child of the Divine Will) station staff for "a heroic effort" that is likely to spread among the affected populations. (CNS photo ).

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Cardinal: Wonten should fill all Church roles open to thent ~

Cardinal Piovanelli advises women to be patient and have farsightedness. "

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ROME - Catholic women should occupy all of the offices and spaces which are Open to them in the Catholic Church, then try to be patient, said Italian Cardinal Silvano Piovanelli of Florence.

'The courage of farsightedness and patience for small steps is necessary," the cardinal t(lld women

theologians and theology students during a recent conference in Rome.

The conference, held at the Marianum Theological Faculty in Rome, looked at women in theology over the past century. , For much of-the century, women were not admitted to graduate schools of Catholic theology and, therefore, they were absent from the" ology as' an:. academic field, Cardi·r nal Piovanelli'said. . Cettina Militello, a professor of theology aT the' Marianum and coordinator of the conference, said graduate theology programs at.

Rome's 'pontifical universities first opened to women in 1966.

Despite "the expectation of gratifying and full solutions still to come," she said, "the enormous journey women have made in the last few decades" must be recognized.

Cardinal Piovanelli said it cannot be denied~hat·the story I of women in· the Chur<!p "is made up of more.silences than proclamations and announcements; the woman remains in the wings, while the. man dominates the scene." , The cardinal said the ferriinist currentsfound in society took a long time to reach and spark changes in the Church "because of an insufficient ability to accept the new and to critically review the theological

Philosophy, theolQgy studies aid preaching, says pope

By CINDYWOODEN CAniOUC NEWS SERVICE ROME - Studying 'philosophy and theology gives those preparing to preach the Gospel the tools they need to help modern rilen and women discover the truth about themselves, Pope John Paul II said.

"Faith, which is strengthened and expressed in love, offers knowledge a criterion of truth which looks at the essence of man and at his true needs," the pope told the faculty and students of Rome's Urbanianum University.

Pope John Paul and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the

Faith, spoke at the university, which educates seminarians and laypeople preparing to, work in the Church's mission territories. The evening lectures focused on the pope's recent encyclical on faith and reason.

The pope told his audience that as modem men and women search for the meaning of existenqe, they must not "be deprived of that special support which flows from the Gospel."

'The act of thinking" and, therefore of philosophizing, distinguishes the human being from other creatures, he said. It is in thinking that humans transcend themselves.

Vatican official cautions on' morality of' reported cell technique ~

Techniques pose moral questions about human embryos and fetuses' rights.

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VATICAN CITY - The discovery of a medical technique that would use primordial human cells to repair damaged organs and tissue drew a cautionary response from a Vatican official.

Bishop Elio Sgreccia, vice president ofthe Pontifical Academy for Life and a leading Vatican expert on bioethics, said in an interview that the technique raises serious moral questions about the protection of the rights of human embryos and fetuses. , According to results published in early November, two U.S. research teams have developed ways to collect "human embryonic. stem cells," which are belie\ed capable of developing into any of the various types of body cells. The cells can be bred in the laboratory for tissue growth or repair.

The researchers believe the cells, prepared and introduced into a patient's damaged heart, for example, could develop into new heart tissue. The technique could open trcmendous applications for body-part repair, while lessening the demand for transplant organs, according to scientists.

The research raised immediate ethical questions because, for one thing, thc stcm cells werc dcrived from human embryos created at in

vitro fertilization clinics.

Bishop Sgreccia said that the manner in which the cells are obtained represents the most serious moral issue for the Church; the therapy technique itself appears to be morally licit, he said.

He said that if human stem cells were collec~ed from spontaneously aborted fetuses, for example, it would be justifiable to use them. Or ifthey could be safely obtained from the human body later in life - something that may be scientifically possible - there would be no moral objection, he said.

But if the cells are taken from deliberately aborted fet\Jses, live fetuses or embryos, the ethical situation becomes delicate, Bishop Sgreccia said.

The bishop said the Congregation for the Doctrine Of the Faith's 1987 instruction on human procreation made clear that medical therapies that depend on procured abortion are morally illicit., That restriction would apply here, he said.

He p'ointed out that the Church also teaches that creation of in vitro embryos is morally wrong, so likewise any therapeutic I method that relies on production of such embryos would be considered immoral.

He said that whenever such stem cells are taken from living embryos or fetuses, a separate issue is raised: Does the technique compromise the health or future development Of the unborn?

He said that with the current doubts about the health effects on the "donor," this path would appear to be against Church Leaching, too.

But when people rely only on reason or philosophy and ignore the existence of God and the ultimate goal of human life, which is union with God, then they limit their search and close in on themselves, he said.

Faith is what shows philosophy "the paths to follow in order to reach even higher peaks," the pope said.

On the other hand, he said, philosophy helps theology pay tribute to the dignity of the human person as a thinking being when it reminds theology that the contents of faith must be intelligible.

In Jesus Christ, he said, "the truth about man is given through the Holy Spirit without measure in such a way as to give rise to thinking which is no longer indebted only to reason, but also to the heart.

'Theologians and philosophers, according to the requirements of their respective disciplines, are called to look to the one God, who reveals himself in creation and in the history of salvation, as the perennial source of their work," the pope said.

Cardinal Ratzinger told the university audience, "In a climate in which modern Catholicism risks being too acquiescent in the face of the common culture of values and human rights which are often thought of as changing 'rules of a social game,' the Holy Father reclaims for the Church the right and obligation to speak strongly and clearly; to announce Christ as the ultimate and definitive truth about man and about the world."

The cardinal said the pope's encyclical is "a hymn to reason" because it calls philosophers 'back to the search for ultimate truths and because it emphasizes the dangers of a faith that ignores reason.

The cardinal said that as women seek their place in the Church they must remember that as women and not despite being women they have been transformed into images of Christ.

"Being the image of Christ does not consist in sexual similarity to him, but in conforming one's life to his," he said. "Theologically, women and men have the identical ability to be conformed to the image ofChrist."

Cardinal Piovanelli told the women at the conference to "have the patience of taking small steps.

Occupy with ease all of the spaces which you can occupy."

and exegetical baggage of our great tradition."

At the same time, he said, everyone today must admit that a complete embrace of the secular feminist agenda would have been disastrous. ."Society has paid a high price because of radical chic feminism," which, Cardinal Piovanelli said, has been the main force in liberalizing divorce and abortion laws and promoting a completely individualistic concept of freedom.

On the other hand, he said, the Christian feminism that has developed since the 1970s has focused more on promoting an equal partnership between men and women.

"One must recognize that if some of the journey has (been) made, lPuch of it still lies ahead," the cardinal said. ."Mary is the mirror and model for a contemporary woman who wants to participate with decisionmaking power in the choices of the community," he added.

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1.~ SPECIAL MOM~NT~ Bishop Feehan High School Junior Scott Pettingeil was recently inducted into the school's National Honor Society. Sharing the special honor with Pettingell are his grandparents, Howard arid Dorothy Hadfi~ld, and 'hisparents, William and Leslie ' Pettingell. Twenty-eight students were inducted in, this year's ceremony:, ,

HISTORIC FLIGHT - Students and faculty at Ou:: Lady of Mount Carmel School, New Bedford, witnessed history in the making.when they gathered to watch th.e takeoff and the eveniual safe return of legendary astronaut John Glenn. Currently an Ohio Senator, Glenn became the first American to '," orbit the earth on February 20, 1962:

Bishop Feehan High- touts. community servants,· athletes ATILEBORO'~ The Bishop collecting children's summer,cloth- :activities'pl;umed are holiday greet~ Feehan High School cheerleaders, ing, disposable' diapers, blankets, ing dona~ion cards, after-:school captained by seniors Nicole Perry sheets, sleeping bags and new bake sa!es, a dance and ;1 studentand Tiffany' Richards, won first children's underwear. Among the faculty ~holiday·'tea., . ,place in the Hudson High School Cheering Competition. The squad, coached by Lisa Tetreault Ser,ak, will now' compete at the regional The Bishop Connolly High Jenna Pelletier; Merritt Walsh, level at Framingham High School. School Drama Society presents An Talitha Tozier, Stacey Viveiros, The theater department, under Evening of One Act Holiday Plays Heather, Stankiew.icz, Aiden the direction qf ,instructor Alden at 8 p.m. November 20 and 21 at the Murphy, Joey Whipp, Danielle ViHarrison, will perf~rm the Neil Msgr. PrevostAuditorium. Plays will tal, Erin L'Heureux, Marie'Savoie, Simon play, The Odd Couple, at include: "Beggar's Charity," "A Bridgid MitchelL Rebecca'Moses, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20 and at 2 p.m. Nov. Christmas Carol" (abridged), '~e Leslie Viveiros, Stephanie Sahady, 22. For more information call 226- Princess Who Would Not Be Merry" 'Heather Pearson,'Kay Christiansen 6223. . ' " and O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi." 'and Julianne Medeiros.

Sophomore''Lerin Brady reThe four presentations feature The ev~ning performances are dicently returne'd from the 1998 students Matt Braga, Nathan Eddy; rected ,by Jeff Belanger, whose theGrand National and World Cliam- Jo~hua Wilkinson; . DimieHe atrical' experience includes extenpionship Morgan Horse. Show' in Thi~ert,' Colin Mon'iz, Andrew :sive work as director/choreographer Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where Vidal, . IS:ate Erklauer; Robert' -: in productions' for Fall River First . she pl~Ced S¢Cond)ri the 16-.17 yea,- LaMontagne, "Peter BielJo, Justin Night, Fall River Little Theatre and old division. She qualified for tlie ,Marcoiix, Mary Beth Luiitano, Bristol Community, College.

•champiopship by winning'~everal state and regio!1af ev_en~s 'includ- ' "ing the ,Massach~'Setts Grand 'Champion/Senior'Sliddle Equita.. tion and United Sta:tesHorsemen's Association .Chainpio~~hip.

Spanish teacher Joan Drobnis has been' informe"d by the McDougall Littell Publishing Company that 'ot}e of her students, .'Th'eresa 'Grenier, has been sel~cted ;: to appear in the Tu' en~ia' comuiddcid . feature the coDjp~ny's "fpcom.' ing secon,d!1!y ~I?a~i~h textbook series En ·espa1!ol. " , " Sen'ior class moderator Sheila "Haskins has announced .the Junior and Senior class-es have embarked AN APPLE A' DAY- Sec"ond-grade students at SS. Jameson a riionthlong pfbJect to aid the ,recent victims of Hurricane Mitch. and John School, New Bedford, enjoy a fun-filled morning with 'Fundraising activities and collec- activities 'related to,their Apple F:estival.· Children made apple tions will assist ,the Bishop Feehan . sauce, apple'turnovers and apple magnets. John Baglini, /Sisters of Mercy Honduras Relief Meghan Thomes' and Alexi Barbosa work with parent helper Fund. Students and faculty will be Frank Andrade on one of the activities.

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ELECTION PROCESS - Students at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, New Bedford, recently ,studied the democratic process and what it involves in.campaigning for office to coincide with November elections. A mock election was held in which students set up voting booths and diSt ballots. Students voted for their chosen candidates (above) and lobbied " the polls (below). '

TH~ ANCHOR -

Our Rock and Role Saying goodbye isn't easy

By CHARLIE MARTIN

The Power of Goodbye ing this point cannot be dismissed.

This is not to imply that the woman is making the wrong decision. In their romance tpis action may be long overdue.

But when a goodbye involves giving ,up a dre'am, then any individual is likely to need much support and love as he or ~she moves in '. a new direction.

Sayi'ng goodbye in, this larger sense can apply 'to Refrain many aspects of 'life, not There's nothing left to try. just dating relationships.

Often, we have hopes and There's no place left to hide. dreams about life's possiThere's no greater power bilities. For example, life's Than the power of goodbye. mobility sometimes takes us away from dear friends. If your parents must accept a Your heart is not open so I must go. job transfer, saying goodbye The spell has been broken; to close friends means givI loved you so. ing up the hope of spendYou were my lesson I hod to learn. ing your teen years together.

No matter what type of I was your fortress. goodbye you face, don't hide your feelings about (Repeat re1:rain.) what is happening. Even if it is as necessary as the'song suggests can happen, share There's nothing left to lose. with trusted friends or famThere's no more heart to bruise. ily the emotions involved.

There's no greater power This, is one of the reasons Than thepo~er,of goodbye~ that I am such a promoter of parish youth-ministry ,proLearn to say goodbye. ' grams. Th¢y often create ,the I yearn to say' goodbye. type of cl<;>seness among . " teens that allows them to Written by ~adonna,andRick Nowels help each other through the .emotionalstfuggleS of dealSUhg by Madonna,' " , Copyright,(c) ~ 998 by Warner Br~s. Records ing with life's goodby,es.. ' ' This is also the time to WHEN IS itim~ortant to goodbye." For her, "Free- lean on God. God's pressay goodbye? dom comes when you learn ence ,is riot a magic that takes awa:y all the, hurt .

When "there's nothing .to, let go." left to try, there's no place' Undoubtedly the time Rather, feeling God'~ love left to hide," according to can come to say goodbye in is an assurance that you will Madonna's latest hit "The a dating relationship. Even make it through the pain.

Power of Goodbye," off her so, these lyrics seem to Make ti.mes of pr.ayer a highly successful, "Ray of minimize the struggle and pathway toward healing Light" disc. hurt such a loss can cause. and ~enewed hope in life's The woman in this song Saying goodbye is one of opportunities. says, "Your heart is not life's most difficult experiopen so I must go." She ences. As the song suggests, Your comments are alnow sees him as a "lesson I there can be a sense of re- ways welcome. Please adhad to learn." She sings, lief when you finally accept dress: Charlie Martin, "There's no greater power what must be done. Yet, the 7125 W 2008, Rockport, than the power of emotional struggle in reach- Ind. 47635.

Your heart is not open so I must go.

The spell has been broken; I loved you so Freedom comes when you learn to let go.

Creation comes when you learn to say no.

Walkaway. ' You were my I~sson I had to learn.

I was your fortress you had to burn: Pain is a warning that something's wrong.

I pray to God that ~t won't be long. ' " .

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Delaying decision-making when you're upset

By CHRISTOPHER CARSTENS C~THOLIC NEWS SERVICE

and so you do whatever it is that makes you feel better. Eventually, the circuits get set, and the behav-

Everybody has those awful days when they feel so miserable that they could shout at somebody, or run away, or break stuff or - or al.. most anything, as long as it would . make a person feel better for a little while.

Everybody has those days, and how you handle them really matFOIt YOClTtt • ABOUT yOunt ters.

Decisions made when we're upset grow out of emotion. When ior becomes automatic. we're angry and feel like hurting There's no way to avoid becomsomebody, our actions can be hos- ing upset. It's part of human life. tile and aggressive: The important step is slowing "I'll get even" or "If that's the down your decision making. letting way this is going to be, we're just the emotions calm down and your not. friends anymore - and I'm tell- thinking brain kick back in:o gear. ing him about it right now."

Here's a suggestion that can help 'That may express how you feel you delay decision makint when - right now - but tomorrow you you 're up~et: may feel different. You'll still be Sit down and write out yo Jr feelstuck with the consequences of ings. I suggest using a cl,lck or today's actions, Words spoken in timer, and simply writing as fast as anger can destroy friendships, and you can for 15 minutes. Je.': keep "clearing the air" can be costly. writing ti1l.the time is up. D( )'t edit Other times the anger. and hurt .or make corrections. Don't worry turn inward. We do lots of risky', self- about writing complete S('· 'ences destructive and downright stupid or spelling correctly. Til:, isn't things because we're upset, and :English class. want to change how we feel inside.

Write whatever you're th;nking, Upset people sometimes drink, and use whatever words "press or use drugs. your emotions. Writing tho. ~ feelI've seen lots of kids in the ER ings takes away their pOI.Jer who took a handful of aspirin, just you'll be a much better d 'cision hoping to change ho~ they felt. maker when you're finishec.

Some people overeat when they feel You may want to keep these bad because food feels comforting, pages together in ajournal. A simple Some teens do more disturbing spiral notebook usually does the things. I've seen teens who cut trick. Some kids like fancy bound themselves - scratching their blank books, and others fi'.ld them hands and arms till they bled intimidating, as though anything because they were upset. Making you wrote in there would need to the cuts changes how they feel. be perfect. Use whatever you preSome teens spend money on things fer. they don't need, or steal stuff from The goal is not a book or a critistores, seeking escape from the un- cal historical document. You're just happy emotions. Finally, a remark- getting your feelings out by putable number of people, including ting them on paper, rather than teens, engage in risky or humiliat- blowing them into somcbody else's ing sexual behavior when they're face, or taking them out on your unhappy, not because they are sexu- own hide. It's one of the most useally aroused, but because they feel ful tools I know. miserable, .and they want to feel Your comments are welcome. som~thing else. Anything else.

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fteering pOint, Publicity Chairnten are asked to submit news items for this column to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, 02122. Name of. city or town should be included, as well as full dates of ali activities. DEADLINE·IS NOON ON MONDAYS. Events published: must be of interest and open to our general

readership. We do not nor-mally carry'notices of fundraising activities, which may be advertised at our regular rates, obtainable from our: businessoft'ice at (508)

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ATTLEBORO ~ Singer musician John Poke will be at the LaSalette Shrine chapel at 7:30

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p~m. tonight for an evening of' provide the community with a song, witness and prayer All wel- special context for prayer and recome. Members of the shrine's flection. Vespers for the Vigil of prayer community will be present World AIDS Day will be held at for those wis,hing to be prayed' '6 p.m. Nov. 30 at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption. over.

The final Coffee House per-· For more information call 674formance of the 1998 season will 5600 ext. 2295.. All welcome. take place at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 21 and feature Father "Pat" FALL RIVER - The Fall Patenaude. He will be doing se- RiverWidowed Group will meet lections'from his latest recording on Nov. 23 at 7p.m. in St. Mary's "With Heart and Soul and VoiCe School hall. Lisa Cohen from the at Christmas.'.' All welCome.

CVS Health Connection. will be A healing service with Mass guest speaker. All widows and will be held at 2 p.m. Nov. 22 at .'widow.ers are welcome to attend: the shrine's cnapel. It will include For more information call Annette music and the opportunity to be . Dellecese at 679-3278'. . prayed over and anointed individualiy.

FALL RIVER - St. Anne's Hospital School of Nursing DARTMOUTH -A pilgrim.: Alumni are invited to begin their age with Bishop Sean' O'Miilley 1998 holiday celebration byjointo Washington D.C. for·the·an- ing fellow alumni on Dec. 2 at nual Mareh-. for Life is being or- White's of Westport for a Yankee ganized by the Pro-Life Aposto- Swap and buffet dinner. A social late for January 21, 22, 23, 1'999'. hour w.ill begin at 6 p.m. For It will include Mass at the Basilica reservations call Josie Rock of the,National Shrine of the Im- . Lafleur by Nov. 24 at 763-2609. maculate Conception.. Ai special Youth ,Bus' is being. arranged to HYANNIS - The Elder Seraccommodate young persons at a vices Meals on Wheels program reduced fare. For more informll'- .is seeking volunteer drivers to detion call 997-2290. liver meals to homebound residents in- Osterville, Centerville FALL RIVER - Area par- and Marstons Mills. If you can ishes are Joining in a program for' spare two hours one morning per baptized adults age 18 and over, w.eek, please call Natalie Hopf at who have not been confirmed. 771-1070 between the hours of9 'Such candidates will meet from a.m. and 1 p.m. .6:30-8 p.m. on four Sundays at Bishop Connolly High School.

MASHPEE - A young adult The dates are Jan. 17'and 24 and prayer group meets on the first Feb. 7 and 14, 1'999. Those'wish- and third Wednesday .of each ing to participate may obtain a month at .7:30 p.m. in the chapel registration form from their par- ' of Christ the King' Parish. All ish priest. welcome. For more information call Heather Kirby at 548-2364.

FALL ·RIVER - To commeinorate World AIDS Day 1998, NEW BEDFORD - Cathothe Office of AIDS Ministry will lic Social Services .is providing hundreds of families with a tur-

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key basket this year and needs donations of turkeys and fixings.

For information on how you can help a family inneed call. Joseph Andrade at 997-7337 or your local Catholic Social Services office. Donations can be dropped off at your area CSS office. . NEW BEDFORD ' - The Catholic Committee on· Scouting in the New Bedford area :is offering the "I Live My Faith" religious award program to Girl Scouts ages 9-11. For more information and registration call Joyce Metthe at 997-689a.

NEW BEDFORD -- Holy Family-Holy Name School announces that the second. annual Father Justin J. Quinn M::morial Dance will be held from' 8 p.m. to midnight Nov. 27 at the Knights of Columbus Hall: route 6, Mattapoisett.

The third annual Father Justin J. Quinn Memorial Basketball Games will be held at the Kennedy Center/CYO. County Strc:et, beginning at 6 p.m. Nov. 28.. Doors' open at 5 p.m. .

AMemorial Mass will be held at St. Lawrence Martyr Church on Nov. 29 at 10 a.m'. immediately followed by a Communion Breakfast at Holy Family. - Holy NameSchool. All welcoAte. For more information on the dance or basketball games call 993.-3547.

NEW BEDFORD -- The Prayer Group of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church will meet at I p.m. Nov. 24 for the, recitation of the Divine Mercy Chaplet, prayer and reflection, a Marian talk, recitation of the rosary and Benediction ·of the Blessed Sacrament. All welcome.

NEW BEDFORD So.uthcoast Home Care, Hospice and Infusion, a: service of Southcoast Health System, will host the 14th annual Int~~rfaith Memorial Service at 7 p.m. Dec. I at Tifereth Israel Congregation, 145 Brownell Avenue. All wei: come. For more information call Leo Racine at 984-0202.

SOUTH YARMOUTH - A Separated and DivorcedCadlOlics Support Group meets every third Sunday of the month at the Parish Life Center of St. Pius X Parish. For mOre information call Father Richard M. Royal; 255-.

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