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Marian Medals for 101 Dec. 6 101 persons will receive the diocesan Marian Medal in ceremonies at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, at St. Mary's Cathedral...

The award recognizes outstanding service within the recipient's parish.

This year's oldest medal recipient, who will coincidentally be the first to receiv.e the award from Bishop Daniel A. Cronin is Mrs. Blanche (Albert) Archambault, 84, of St. Mathieu's parish, Fall River.

She owes the number one position to the fact that she is first on the alphabetical list of Fall River area medalists, the first geographical group that will be honored on Dec. 6.

She has lived in St. Mathieu's parish, of which her father. Wilfrid Boulay, was a founding member. all her life, said her pastor, Father Adrien E. Bernier. She graduated from St. Mathieu's grammar school and brought up her children within the parish boundaries.

Still active in St. Mathieu's Council of Catholic Women, Father Bernier said Mrs. Archambault handcrafts items for bazaars and other occasions and is a reliable helper at council functions.

"She's known for her sense of humor," he chuckled.

The list of other medalists and their parishes follows:

FALL RIVER DEANERY: George J. Burns, St. Mary Cathedral, Fall River; LeonE. Cote, Our Lady of Grace, Fall River; George Doucette, St. Anne, Fall River; Mrs. Elizabeth F. (James) Duffy, Holy Name, Fall River; Philippe Durette, St. Michael, Swansea.

Mrs. Gertrude M. (Stanley) Fugiel, St. Thomas More, Somerset; Miss Evangeline Furtado, St. Elizabeth, Fall River; Mrs. Laura (John) Soares Furtado, St. John of God, Somerset; Francis L. Gragnani, O.L. Holy Rosary, Fall River; Raymond Halbardier, St. Patrick, Fall River.

Vincent Henry. St. Louis, Fall River; Andrew Jenkins, Jr., St. Patrick, Somerset; Paul W. Klaege, St. Stanislaus, Fall River; Roger A.J. LaBonte, Notre Dame -d'e Lourdes. Fall River; Raymond LaFerriere, Blessed Sacrament, Fall River.

Mrs. Desneiges (Oscar) Lagace, St. Jean Baptiste. Fall River; Mrs. Martha (Thomas) McVey, Sacred Heart, Fall River; Joseph Leo Morissette, O.L. Fatima. Swansea; John Penacho, O.L. .Health, Fall River; Mrs. Nora (John) Piekos, Holy Cross. Fall River.

Henry Jordan Raposa. St. William, Fall River; Mrs. Lucille St. Pierre, Immaculate Conception, Fall River; Joseph Sardinha, St. Anthony of Padua, Fall River; Mrs. Hilda B. (Gilbert) Tavares, Espirito Santo, Fall River; Leopold H. ThiTurn to Page Six

AT ANNUAL Feast of Christ the King presentation of youth awards. held this year at St. Mary's Cathedral, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and Rev. Martin L. Buote, diocesan director of Catholic Scouting program, stand with leaders and award winners. From left, front row, Kathryn Lynch, Theresa Watson, Shane Sullivan, Frederick LaBrecque, Bryan Talbot; rear, William B. Stoddard, Pat Adams, Ray Layton. The awards recognize work by Boy and Girl Scouts in the area of Catholic doctrine and service. (Torchia photo)

Two diocesan women get NCCW posts At the biennial convention of the National Council of Catholic Women, held earlier this month in Minneapolis and attended by over 2.500 women, Mrs. Michael .I. McMahon of St. Mary's Cathedral parish. Fall River. long active on the organization's national. regional and diocesan levels. was elected president of the associates of the National Council of Catholic Women.

With some 300 members. the Assocjates. founded in 1970. are women who. like Mrs. McMahon. have served nationally and locally.

Their purpose is the support and encouragement of religious. 'educational and civic projects initiated by the Parent organization.

Also at the Minneapolis meeting. Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong of St. Louis de France parish. Swansea. immediate past president of thc Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. was elected to thc NCCW nominating committee of which Mrs . .lames A. O'Brien .Ir. of the Cathedral parish is outgoing chairman.

Twenty womcn represented the Fall River diocese at the convention. led by Miss Dorothy Curry.

DCCW president. They reported that all convention resolutions were passed unanimously with the exception of one concerning the feas-

ibilitv of chemicai-free agriculture.

It w,;s determined that the subject re4uired further study.

assistance to the hungry. homeless and/ or jobless: encouragement of ecumenism; family ministry; aid to Resolutions adopted concerned elderly religious: support programs for AIDS victims and their families; support of family-oriented legislation; and advocacy of medical care for all and community programs for the terminally ill. conferred upon Reverend MonMary Ann Kramer of the diosignor John J. Oliveira and cese of Ne\'" Ulm. Minn .. was Very Reverend John J. Smith. elected NCCW president. to serve These ranks are honorary, datfor two years. She succeeds Toni ing back to the early Church.

Bischoff of Columbus. O. November 29 is the first Sun- .

Other officers are Carroll Quinn, day of Advent, the beginnin~ diocese of Savannah, first viceof the liturgical year for Catho- president; Beverly Medved, diolics. It be~ins four weeks of cese of Helena, second vice-presipreparation through prayer and dent; Rita Greenwald; diocese of sacrifice for celebration of the Springfield, Ill.. third vice-presicoming of Christ at Christmas. dent; Betty Miller, archdiocese of The readings and prayers of the Hartford. secretary; and Clarice season unite the Church to the Brown, archdiocese of Chicago, historical period of awaitin~ treasurer. the Messiah.

The next biennial convention is scheduled for Sept. 2X-Oct. 2. 1989.

Vespers, the evenin~ prayer in Atlanta. of the Church, is part of the "Bag Lady" Speaks Liturgy of the Hours prayed every day by priests, deacons.

In other convention activity. and reli~ious. In some parishes delegates heard an address by Valcelebration of the Hours has erie Dillon. family life director of become a daily devotion. the archdiocese of Indianapolis.

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Honors to be conferred The Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, will be the celebrant of Advent Vespers at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 29, at St.· Mary's Cathedral.

Prior to celebrating Vespers, the bishop will formally present diplomas conferring papal honors on three priests of the Diocese of Fall River.

Bishop Cronin expressed delight that Pope John Paul II has honored the Diocese and our priests by conferral of these honors. He further stated that he hoped the clergy, reli~ious; and laity would through this gesture become more closely united with the Holy Father.

The rank of Protonotary Apostolic has been conferred . upon Reverend Monsignor Anthony M. Gomes, and the rank of Prelate of Honor has been

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Marian workshops set The Diocesan Department of Education is holding workshops on Marian theology in response to Pope John Paul II's Marian year invitation to teach more about the Blessed Mother.

Resource people for the project· are Father Robert A. Oliveira, the - department's director of Continuing Formation of Clergy and Laity, and Sisters Elaine Heffernan, RSM, and Eugenia Brady, SJC, associate directors of religious education.

Workshops have already been held on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Upcoming sessions will be hosted Dec. 2 by Our Lady of Victory parish, Centerville; Dec. 9

by Holy Name parish, New Bedford; Dec. 11 by St. Thomas More parish, Somerset; and Dec. 16 by St. Paul parish, Taunton.

The workshops will be offered from to a.m. to noon and again from 7 to 9 p.m. on those days.

Sister Heffernan opens the workshops with prayer and, says Father Oliveira, "sets the evening's question, 'What's Your Theology of Ma~y?' " Father Oliveira follows with information on the theology of Mary promulgated by the Second Vatican Council, on Pope Paul VI's document, "Marialis Cultus" and on Pope John Paul II's encyclical, ",Redemptoris Mater" (Mother of the Redeemer).

Sister Brady offers reflections on Mary's prayer, the Magnificat.

All are welcome and are asked

to call the rectory of the parish where they will attend.

The education office has also prepared material on the theology. of Mary of which copies are being sent to diocesan priests.

Diocesan priesthood infol'mation day December 6 High school upperclassmen. college students and those of college or postcollege age interested in exploring the possibility of a vocation to the diocesan priesthood are invited to attend an Information Day from 2 to 8 p.m. Dec. 6 at Holy Name parish center, 121 Mt. Pleasant St., New Bedford.

Attendees will participate in a program prepar~d by diocesan priests and seminarians. Presentations. discussions and a question and answer period will be included.

Father William H. O'Reilly. a retired diocesan priest, will discuss his priestly experience.

A vesper service will be held and dinner will be served.

Men wishing to attend are asked to contact Rev. Msgr. John J. Smith. V.E .• diocesan director of vocations. at St. John the Evangelist rectory. 155 N. Main St.. Attleboro 02703. tel. 2"22-1206. by Monday. Nov. 30.

Light-Giving "The unfolding of thy words gives light." - Ps. 119: 130

L.EFT, .~UGHT AND CENTER are Sister Mary Martin Delahanty, OP, principal ofSt. FranCIS XavIer School, Acushnet; Rev. Paul Price, SS. Ce., pastor of St. Francis Xavier parish; a~d Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. Everyone else in the picture was also involved one way or another 10 the school's qualifying for a Verifying the Vision certificate upon completion of an 18-month self-study program. (Rosa photo) .

Sociologist explores priest shortage WASHINGTON (NC) - The growing shortage of Catholic priests in America "is an institutional problem, .not a spiritual problem," according to a new book

by Catholic University of America sociolgist Dean R. Hoge.

Institutional changes Hoge described as having the most potential for alleviating the priest shortage were acceptance' of married men for ordination and continued expansion oflay ministries, already growing rapidly across the country.

Among .other possible institutional changes that he spelled out, but with less anticipated impact on the priest shortage, were: .

- Redistribution of priests.

AN INVITATION TO THE YOUNG MEN OF OUR DIOCESE IN THE JUNIOR AND SENIOR YEARS OF HIGH SCHOOL, AS WELL AS MEN CURRENTLY ATTENDING COLLEGE OR RECENTLY GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE, WHO ARE PONDERING A VOCATION TO THE DIOCESAN PRIESTHOOD. IF YOU ARE GIVING THOUGHT TO A VOCATION TO THE DIOCESAN PRIESTHOOD, YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND AN INFORMATION DAY ON THE'DIOCESAN PRIESTHOOD, TO BE HELD FROM 2 TO 8 P.M., ON SUNDA Y DECEMBER 6, AT THE HOLY N AME PARISH CENTER, 121 MOUNT PLEASANT STREET, NEW BEDFORD. THE PROGRAM WILL CONSIST OF PRESENTATIONS, DISCUSSIONS AND QUESTION AND ANSWER PERIODS· ALL CENTERED AROUND THE THEME OF VOCATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD. THE PRIESTS ENGAGED IN THE-VOCATION ApOSTOLATE WILL BE ASSISTED BY DIOCESAN SEMINARIANS. THE DAY WILL INCLUDE ALSO THE CELEBRATION OF ADVENT VESPERS, FOLLOWED

BY THE SHARING OF AN EVENING MEAL.

If you think God is calling you to be a Priest ...

Come to our Information Day on the Diocesan Priesthood

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- Recruiting more seminarians.

- Expanding the permanent diaconate.

- Changing church rules on ordination of women, on the permanency of active ministry, or on the reactivation of men who have left the priesthood.

The most "radical and dangerous" approach, he said, would be to concentrate on expanded lay ministries and do nothing about the clergy shortage itself, because that could lead to a non-sacramental or congregationalist church.

The church could become nonsacramental, he said, because Catholics lacking weekly Mass may become accustomed to living without it.

Congregationalism is a danger, he said, because without initiatives from the hierarchy Catholics may start to ignore bishops and themselves provide the ministers they feel they need for their parishes. .Hoge's book,. "The Future of Catholic Leadership: Responses to the Priest Shortage," published

by Sheed and Ward, is the product of three years of research by Hoge.

Pope John Paul II argued in 1981 that the vocations shortage is "part of the spiritual crisis which exists in the whole of modern civilization." During his September U.S. visit he called on priests and bishops to resist the "prophets of doom" and find the resolution to the vocation crisis in prayer and renewed faith in "the power of the Lord of the harvest."

Hoge rejected the "spiritual crisis" argument, saying that a 1983 study showed "that all the middleclass Protestant denominations [in the United States] have a surplus .of clergy. The Catholic Church alone has a shortage. Yet both mainline Protestants and Catholics live in the midst of the same mainstream American culture.

Their young men attend many of the same colleges, watch the same television shows, participate in the same youth culture, and emerge wilh similar self-eonceptions.

"The reason for the low enrollment in Catholic seminaries cannot be due to any putative cultural factor which distinguishes Catholics from mainline Protestants in America," he concluded. "It must be due to differences in institutional rules concerning clergy."

In discussing recruitment ofseminarians Hoge discounted the "mother's revenge" theory advanced by some to account for the low

number of vocations today. He said a compa·rative study of three major surveys of Catholics over the past two decades provides no evidence to bear out the theory that women are now less likely to encourage a son to be a priest. because they are angry over church' treatment of women.

M9thers today are still more supportive than fathers of the idea of having a son become a priest, he said, and "on no relevant survey question did Catholic women come out more .angry than men.... We conclude that some Catholic women are are no doubt angry, but a mother's revenge cannot be held to account for the downward trend in vocations to the priesthood."

Another category of options Hoge explored involved changing the eligibility criteria for ordination: ordaining married men, ordaining women, restoring some resigned priests to active ministry, or instituting a term of ministry or a practice of accepting resignations from ministry without a sense of disapproval.

He said sociological studies indicate that ordination of married men would have a high impact on the number and quality of candi'dates for the priesthood.

Ordination of women or institution of a limited-term priesthood would entail "serious theological difficulties," he admitted, but he noted that the celibacy requirement is acknowledged by the church as a disciplinary decision, not a doctrinal rule, and a change would involve no major theological issues.

Patrick McCarrick The Mass of Christian Burial was offered Nov. 21 at Immaculate Conception Church. Revere. for the repose of the soul of Patrick H. McCarrick, father of Rev. Paul F. McCarriCk. pastor ofSt. Joseph parish. Fall River. McCarrick died Nov. 18.

His son was principal celebrant of the funeral Mass. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin presided and many diocesan pdests concelebrated.

McCarrick was a member of Revere's -Knights of Columbus' Council 179 and the Telephone Pioneers of America.

He is also survived by his wife.

Mary A. (Kilroy) McCarrick. two daughters. Mary H. Wood and Eileen A. Cahill. a brother. Edward McCarrick. a sister. Ellen Tiernan. 15 grandchildren and six great-grandchild reno

Ethiopian famine 'relief aid asked'

By NC News Service Pope John Paul II and international agencies have appealed for renewed efforts to fight a famine ill Ethiopia that could affect more than 5 million people.

In the United States, the chairman of the board of Catholic Relief Services said the agency faces "the large challenge" of making the world aware of the famine.

A CRS spokeswoman said Nov. 20 that the agency was "cautiously optimistic" that Ethiopians would be better offthan in 1984-85, when as many as I million people died.

Speaking to pilgrims and tourists at his general audience Nov. 18, Pope John Paul invited "everyone to participate in the initiatives which aid organizations, especially those Catholic ones, have begun to implement to urgently avoid the threat" offamine..

VERY REV. Pierre E. Lachance, prior of the DO'minican community at St. Anne's parish, Fall River, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and Very Rev. Richard Guimond, Dominican provincial superior, from left, before Mass marking centenary of community presence in St. Anne's parish, Fall River; center, priests concelebrate Mass; bottom, Dominican Sisters of St. C.atherine of Siena bring gifts of food for parish needy to pre-Thanksgiving Mass celebrated by Rev. Martin Dionne, OP. (Gaudette photos)

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He made a "special appeal" to the Ethiopian government and the rebels to grant "free passage to the food supplies intended for the people who are suffering from hunger."

The same day in Geneva, the U.N. Children's Fund appealed . for $22 million worth of medicine, food and other aid for Ethiopia.

In separate announcements Nov. 18 and 19, the U.N. Disaster Relief Organization and the European Community said they would airlift food supplies to Ethiopia the week of Nov. 23.

International aid officials have warned that 5.2 million to 6.5 million Ethiopians face starvation, especially in the northern provinces of Eritrea and Tigre, where drought caused loss of 80 percent to 100 percent of the harvests.

"The regions are doubly isolated because of inadequate transport

routes and a very grave state of civil war," said Lorenzo Natali, development commissioner for the European Community. "We have decided the only immediate solution to make the aid arrive in time is to transport it by air."

In Washington, Archibishop Edward T. O'Meara of Indianapolis, chairman of the CRS board, told the U.S. bishops Nov. 17 that Ethiopian drought and famine problems would "take to the end of the century" to solve. Catholic Relief Services is the U.S. bishops' overseas aid and development agency.

Archbishop O'Meara described Ethiopia as a barren land.

"There is not a bush or a twig or a tree - everything is used for firewood," he said.

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Advent: A Time of Personal Peace Here we are again with Advent upon us. Where has the year fled? Time is certainly an enigma. Perhaps the speed level of our social order has pulled us into a vortex!

Most of us are dumbfounded to reflect that Christmas is four weeks from today. But despite the constraints it puts upon us, time must be seen not as our master but as a gift.

There are those who bewail the fact that they have no time to do anything. For them, time becomes a personal scapegoat but their, use of it as an excuse to escape responsibility and challenge is truly an abuse of time.

Advent challenges us to review our use of time. It is a liturgical season that tries to tell us that some things are much more important than running around like a dervish. , For many, Thanksgiving is less a celebration than an indication that we'd better get on the move and complete our Christmas shopping. The social order tells us to hurry up, rush, get things done. We respond accordingly. When Christmas does arrive, it is often a non-event for us. So exhausted and spent are we that we are unable to focus on its true meaning.

Beca'use of this', Advent should gain added meaning in our hectic lives. It says to ,all who listen, slow down, make time for yourself.

This message can change your life, it can let you take control, a control desperately needed in our world.

So many people have handed themselves'over to other persons and things. Their lives are comparable to those of robots.

The difference is that when a machine breaks down it can usually be repaired. If not, it can be replaced. But Advent tells us that no one and nothing can replace us.

The Word was not made flesh for a group- but for individuals. The Incarnation reveals to us that each baby, each child, each adult is important. The whole Advent mystery can lead us to a personal awareness of who we are in the whole plan of creation and t,he realization that in the divine mind we do count and we are important.

So many of us in today's milieu of social striving have been made to feel worthless. All the decisions of life are made by others. My voice does not count, my vote means nothing.

But believers should reflect that the good Lord gives up on no one. If he had, there never would have been a Christmas.

We so often spend ourselves running around to buy presents to keep everyone happy. So many parents are determined to ELECTRIC CHAIR give their child everything they never had in their own childhood. People buy and vie with one another, but somehow "I desired mercy and not sacrifice."

'Yhen it's all over all we have are the bills and an emptil)ess that tells us somehow things could be better. And they can.

We may feel that gifts and presents will secure our relationships. We fail to appreciate that the most precious gift we can give is that of ourselves.

By Father Kevin J, Harrington tion 15 or more veal's after a crime But to come to this realization'takes time, time to get in The Supreme Court is expected committed as a :iuvenile'! touch with ourselves, our persons, our feelings. to decide before July whether the The only possible justification execution of teenagers convicted Advent is the time to take this time. During this blessed for capital punishment is deterof capital crimes should be declared season the Church gives us the opportunity to hope. But no rence. But juveniles usually act on constitutional. impulse, rarely considering the outone can hope unless he or she first believes in a God who cares It will be a sad day in U.S. hisand in the fact that each of us is important not only in his eyes tory if the Supreme Court sanc- come of their actions. Executions of teenagers are unlikely to deter tions such executions. but to ourselves. Such self-faith flows from the confidence that their fellows, most of whom barely 31 people on There are presently Bethlehem still has meaning in a world that remains in .many , death row who were juveniles when understand the finality of death. ways as crass and cold as on that first Christmas Day. For many juvenile convicts on , they committed their crimes. If death row the experience of death The peace of Christ is personal and individual. It's not execution of teenage killers is not offered as an immunization against all problems and difficulclassified as cruel and unusual has' been filtered through the punishment, then I do not know movies, television and books. They ties but as a gift he gives to us that we might in turn become gift are genuinely surprised that their what could be. _ to other~. Advent is the peaceful time to realize this. victims are dead forever.

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Because thejourney towards execution is slowed by appeals, a crime committed by a juvenile may not be avenged before the perpetrator is w'ell out of his or her teens., Crimes committed before the age of 18 should not, in my opinion, be considered in the same light as those committed by adults.

It is untenable to give no protection to children against adult punishment.

It rna\' he easier on the conscience t~) strap a 30-year-old woman ,into an electric chair than a 15-year-old girl. But is it fair to hegin the grim procedure of execu-

The same uncomprehending attitude toward death is reflected in other juvenile behavior, often reinforced by the media. Teens often experiment with alcohol and drugs, take unnecessary chances while driving and fight without full understanding of the lethal impact of weapons such as guns or knives.

In.a nation that values freedom for consenting adults, we seem reticent to protect our youngsters against their own'proclivities. How many years did it take to increase the legal drinking age to 2l?

In spite of the carnage on our roads due to driver immaturity

and inexperience, no one dares to raise the driving age to 18. , Treating youngsters as adults is as absurd as treating adults as youngsters. In my opinion, capital punishment makes little sense for adults and none for kids.

Hopefully the 31 convicts awaiting death for crimes committed as juveniles will be spared.

In September. Pope .John Paul 11 joined two million Italians in signing a petition for clemency for Paula Cooper. an 18-year-old black girl from I ndiana who at age 15 murdered an elderlv Sundav school . . teacher.

Western Europeans united in demonstrations against the execution and were outraged that Indiana at that time had on the books a minimum age of execution of 10.

The'United States stands almost alone among nations in its support of capital punishment.

In Sight of Land "The nearer 1 approach death. the more I feel like one who is in sight ofland and is about to anchor 'in his home port after a long voyage." - Cicero

My wonderful Pan Last Thanksgiving when my grown daughter was home and helping prepare our dinner, I got out a familiar pan for dressing. "I always liked it when I came home from school and that pan was on the stove." she said. "It meant we were going to have something good for dinner."

I laughed because I experienced the same thing as a child with the same pan. The Pa"n would win no prize in a gourmet magazine sweepstakes. It is a large six-quart cast iron pot calred a Dutch Oven in shops. It's black on the hottom and. like most 50 vear-olds. is a bit pocked and mottied on the exterior. The interior is multihued from the diversitv of foods it has contained in th; past half-century. But I would give up any expensi~e and shiny copper pot I own before I ~ould gi\e up The Pan. I came from a large farm family of seven children. all of whom liked to eat. so The Pan was used daily: I suspect my mother didn't even store it between meals. She probably just cleaned it and put it hack on the range. food preparation being a length) process in those days.

Sometimes I was disappointed in The Pan's contents. When I saw it steaming on the stove and lifted the cover to find potatoes boiling.

I shrugged. But when I found one

of two memorable favorites, my heart leaped. Homemade macaroni and cheese. Not the tiny box kind I give my children but rich bubbling macaroni married to sharp Wisconsin cheddar cheese.

The smell alone was worth a freezing cold day.

The possibility of macaroni and cheese made me love the fish-onFriday law because it was so much .tastier (to kids) than boring roast beef. When we had this dish, nobody had to ask us to set the table.

The second memory sends shudders through a conscientious dieter: warm from-scratch chocolate pudding. five quarts or so of it. Again. this being Wisconsin. it was constructed with rich cream and never any lumps.

When I occasionally open a little box of chocolate I]udding mix for my family 1 suffer from nostalgia and guilt. "The lumps are good for you." 1 tell my family. happy they never tasted my mother's unforgettable pudding.

How did I obtain the pan? When I was visiting my mother 20 years ago in her apartment I spied The Pan sitting way back in a storage cabinet. "Mom. someday I'd like to have that pan." I said, adding how many memories it held for me.

Without hesitation. she replied.

"Well. take it now. I never use it anymore and I need the space." I was delighted' but when I got back

Effective education Religion may be a hot topic in the news right now, but to many you~g people it is dry and meaningless. As we pass the mid-point in the first semester of this school vear. no doubt manv religious educ'ators will agree with that statement.

Some may be wondering what more might be done to capture the attention of teenagers in these times when so much else competes for their attention. To answer this questio~ two other questions first need to be asked.

On a scale of one to nine. how well do religion programs integrate ·the elements that are essential for making religion more than a classroom exercise: presenting the message clearly and connecting it to worship. service and community?

Using the same scale.. how oriented are religion programs to the students themselves and the realities of their lives?

Do religious educators attempt to relate their efforts to the ·Iife experiences of the students? Do they take into consideration the students' psychological stage of development and the needs of young people at tlieir particular age?

Religiou~ educators need to ask what emotions plague students and whether students have concerns that they yearn to have addressed.

What role models most attract youth? Is the content of religion presented to students with a feeling for their world?

Way of Escape "God is faithful and he will not let you be tempted beyo.nd your strength. but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape. that you may be able to endure it."

- I Cor. 10: 13

What approaches are educators emplOying to lJ1ake religious education a total learning experience rather than just an exercise of the mind in a classroom setting? How often are students given tile oppor c tunity during a semester to meditate and pray as means of making

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By

DOLORES CURRAN

Questions about • marriage •

and used it for a family Thanksgiving dinner. my sister said. "How dId you get. The Pan'?" I wish I could say I was generous and passed it on to her but I just gave her a smug smile..

My own kids tell me that they will r~member my homemade soup's and Christmas candy when they think of The Pan. I wonder what memorable meals it will supply in the next generation.

I suspect most families have their equivalent of The Pan -csome special utensil that holds memories of more than food. The utensil becomes a symbol of family warmth. odors of kitchens past and times when one's greatest interest and security centers around what's for supper.

Lots of these utensils will be brought out at Thanksgiving but they'll never make it to the table.

They're too ugly. But we won't confuse ugliness with value. We all know that pans, like families. take seasoning. The nicks and stains are a part of family life and The Pan reminds me of that whenever we gather around to stir things up a little.

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FATHER EUGENE

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Q. I am 71 years of age and have been married for 17 years to a Protestant woman. This is a good marriage. We were married in the Methodist Church and since that time we have been churchgoers in our respective churches.

We both were married previously. Although I always have attended the Catholic Church I have not received Communion in all these years. This I have always regretted. What must I do to make that possible? (Louisiana) A. I wish I could help you more directly and personally. But the only practical adyice I can give is that you go to your parish priest. or another priest you may know and have confidence in, explain the situation and follow his instructions.

I hope you will do that, even though it may be inconvenient and perhaps somewhat difficult.

Through this column I am happy to shed whatever light I can on the church's laws and procedures regarding matters like these. But at least two reasons make it impossible for me to go further than that.

First. almost always more details than can be included in a simple letter are required even for a preliminary judgment on what might be possible. Only personal discussion would uncover those facts.

Most practically. any marriage involving a Catholic. when a previous spouse of either partner is still living. almost always requires action of the diocesan marriage tribunal in which that Catholic lives.

My advice is t he same [or you as for the hundreds of others whowrite with a similar question. Information I can give. For action you must talk with a priest in your community or diocese and ask his assistance.

Q. I grew up in a family that really had no religion. I had never been baptized until I wanted to get married in a church wedding. You had to be a member of that church so I was baptized, but for the wrong reasons.

My husband tortured me mentally and physically and was unfaithful several times. We had no children. I wanted to get counseling to see if we could stay married, but eventually we divorced. / Six years later I met a wonderful Catholic man and married him.

We went to church together for the past seven years; only last year could I go without crying.

religion more meaningful? At a time when meditation cults attract millions of people. how much do our students really know about the inner depths and peace they can reach through spiritual exercises November 28 and a true sense of worship'? Do 1959. Rev. Adrien A. Gauthier. they realize that meditation and Pastor. St. Roch. Fall River prayer are powerful means of getting at life's meaning?

November 29 Is there an effort to foster a 1965. Rev. Francis A. McCarthy. sense of community among the.

Pastor. St. Patrick. Somerset • students in the class'? Are students December I 1958, Rev. Phillipe Ross. Chap- encouraged to form relationships lain. Sacred Heart Home, New with each other and to help each other grow?

Bedford On the parish level. is there an 1964. Rev. Edward J. Gorman. effort to create a definite commuPastor Emeritus. 5t. Patrick. Somnity spirit so that young people do erset not feel like anonymous parishDecember 2 ioners? Are they made to feel that 1917•. Rev. Arthur' Savoie, Pas- they are a real part of parish life tor, St. Hyacinth. New Bedford with contributions to make and 1958, Rev. Dennis W. Harringbenefits to receive? ton, Assistant. St. -Mary, Taunton Are students expected to give December 3 service to others, recognizing that I consider myself Catholic. We 1926, Rev. John W. McCarthy, this is part of being a church P. R., Pastor. Sacred Heart, Fall member? Does the curriculum· have two children· who have been River baptized and I want to be a member designate time for the sole purpose of the Catholic Church too.

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Judging even from the few details you give in your letter. it would seem an annulment procedure is certainly worth investigating.

However. there may be simpler avenues than that.

Please talk to the priest in your parish church and ask his advice on the steps you and he might take.

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NEW BEDFORD DEANERY: Mrs. Palmira Barboza, O.L. Assumption, New Bedford; Joseph Begnoche, St. Joseph, Fairhaven; RobertJoseph Berche, O.L. Fatima, New Bedford; Alfred E. Bousquet, St. Anthony, New Bedford; Norman A. Brassard, St. Theresa, New Bedford; Mrs. Mary Ellen (Raymond) Carter, St. Francis of Assisi, New Bedford.

Mrs. Agnes (Leo) Gallagher, St. Lawrence, New Bedford; Mrs. Emily (Charles) Gobeil, St. Kilian, New Bedford; G. Frank Grenier, St. Joseph, :New Bedford; William F. Henry, St. Rita, Marion.

Mrs. Eileen Hurley, St. Anthony, Mattapoisett; Mrs. Lillian M. L'Abbe, Holy Name, New Bedford; Mrs. Georgianna (Aurele) Ledoux, St. George, Westport; Mrs. Alice Mailloux, St. Anne, New Bedford; Joseph D. Medeiros, St. Mary, South Dartmouth.

Mrs. Mary L. Perry, St. John the Baptist, Central Village; Omer E. Pigeon, St. Francis Xavie'r, Acushnet; Mrs. Florence (Roland) Pion, Sacred Heart, New Bedford; Antone Pires, St. Mary, Fairhaven; Mrs. Aida (Arthur) Poitras, St. Julie Billiart, North Dartmouth.

Chester Ponichtera, O. L. Perpetual Help, New,Bedford; Albert San-

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Manuel Tavares, St. John the Baptist, New Bedford; Miss Doris Thibault, St. John Neumann, E. Freetown; Mrs. Caroline (Henry) Zyskowski, St. Casimir, New Bedford. ' TAUNTON DEANERY': Ernest A. Anacone, St. Ann, Raynham; Mrs. Mary(AIfred) Araujo, O.L. Lourdes, Taunton; Mrs. Jennie (Walter) S. Cwiek, O.L. Holy Rosary, Taunton; Vincent Galvin, Immaculate Conception, North Easton; Mrs. Shirley (Kendall) Higgins, St. Paul, Taunton., Miss Yvonne T. Labonte, St. Jacques, Taunton; Mrs. Mary (Antonio) Leite, St. Anthony's, Taunton, Manuel J. Mello, St. Joseph, Taunton; Joseph F. Pavao; St. Peter, Dighton; Mrs. Josephine (Arthur) Peterson, Holy Cross, South Easton.

Joseph I. Quinn, St. Mary, Taunton; Mrs. Rose C. (Adam) Ralko, Immaculate Conception, Taunton; Mrs. Barbara (Galen) Rheaume, Sacred Heart, Taunton; Mrs. Anna Sherrington, St. Joseph, No. Dighton; Mrs~ Maria Torres, St. Mary Spanish Apostolate, Taunton.

CAPE& ISLANDS DEANERY: John F. Bernard, Corpus Christi, Sandwich; Donald Billings, Sacred Heart, Oak Bluffs; John Vincent Callahan, St. Pius X, South Yarmouth; Robert Edward Campbell, St. Mary, Nantucket; Ralph Con:

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Mrs. Bertha (Charles E., Sr.) Meads, St. Joan of Arc, Orleans; Robert A. Noonan, St. Elizabeth Seton, North Falmouth; John O'Donnell, O.L. Assumption, Osterville; Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Ortiz, St. Augustine, Vineyard Haven; Mrs. Catherine E: Pierce, St. Peter Apostle, Provincetown.

Frank M. Raftery, Christ the King, Cotuit; James R. Sawyer, St. Patrick, Falmouth; Joseph Francis Sullivan, St. John Evangelist, Pocasset; Mrs. Elsie (J oseph) Teixeira, St. Anthony, East Falmouth. • ATTLEBORO DEANERY: Arthur Stanley Cate, St. Stephen, Attleboro; Mrs. Mary E. (Herbert) Clegg, St. John Evangelist, Attleboro; Vincent Cobb, St. Mark, Attleboro Falls; Louis C. Emond, Jr., St. Mary, Seekonk; Herbert H. Hunter, St. Mary, Norton..

Mrs. Loretta Moskalski, St. Theresa, Attleboro, Mrs. Marion Conant (Eugene) Muller, St. Mary, Mansfield; Mrs. Epifania (Pedro) Ortiz, St. Joseph Spanish apostolate, Attleboro; Mrs. Alice Perry, Holy Ghost, Attleboro; Manuel Pestana, St. Mary, No. Attleboro; Mrs. Renee (Oscar) Soulard, St. Joseph, Attleboro.

TAUNTON AREA members of the Bishop's Ball committee include, from left, Mrs. Leo Plouffe; Richard Paulson; Mrs. Aristides Andrade; Miss Adrienne Lemieux.

Ball listings requested The souvenir booklet for the 33rd annual Bishop's Charity Ball is rapidly filling with names of benefactors of the social and char~ itable event.

The ball will take place Friday, Jan. 15, at Lincoln Park Ballroom.

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The booklet has seven categories with inclusion in any of them qualifying donors to receive ball tickets at no additional cost. Names of donors are being received by members of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. honorary ball cosponsors.

Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes. PA. diocesan ball director. asks that names be reported to ball headquarters. 410·Highland Ave.. P.O. Box 1470. Fall River. 02722. within the next two weeks.

Ball proceeds benefit summer camps for underprivileged and exceptional children and other diocesan apostolates.

A ball highlight will be presentation of 36 young women representing diocesan parishes to the ball's honored guest, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. Names of such young women should be submitted to Mrs. James A. O'Brien Jr.• 488 H.igh St.. Fall River 02720. as quickly as possible.

Ball tickets may be obtained from members of sponsoring organizations.. the ball committee or at any diocesan rectory. ' In preparation for the ball. committee members will meet at 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Jan. 10. at Lincoln Park Ballroom to dec'orate and make final arrangements. Presentees will rehearse aft the ballroom at 6:30 p.m. the same day.

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Speaking on "t.oving and Living: The Stages of Family." she said statistics on divorce. child abuse. runaways. poverty or suicide "tell only part of the story."

Single-parent families can also be nurturing homes for children. she said.

Citing the rapid changes of early married life. Mrs. Dillon said 50 percent of all divorces occur ill the first seven years of marriage and 64 percent in the first 10.

"We need a ministry to the newly married," she said. and. when divorce does occur. be "compassionate Christians" and do not brand the children of these failed marriages by labeling them.

At the other end .of the spectrum she said the church also needs to· be supportive of couples in the "empty nest" stage since it often is a time of declining health. pinching pennies. scattered children and. the death of a spouse.

Among convention workshops. the best-attended was given by Beulah Lund. a 50-year-old housewife from Deer Park. Wash .. who lived as a bag lady on the streets of Washington. D.C.. to learn the plight of the homeless.

An overflow crowd'gasped when she told of awakening in a Washington shelter to find "a knife at my jugular."

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She was sure she would be killed. she said. because "cold steel is convincing" and the woman wielding the knife had been drinking.

She said she deCIded she dldn't want to die lying down. so she sat

up' and then began to cry. The tears apparently reached the other woman. who dropped the knife and put her arms around her.

The convention opened with a keynote address by Dolores R. Leckey. executive director of the U.S. bishops' Committee on the Laity. anq a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Pio Laghi. apostolic pronuncio to the United States.

Mrs. Leckey. who was an adviser to the U.S. delegation to the world Synod of Bishops on the role of the laity. said that practical steps were outlined to include women in the heart of ministry and that U.S. bishops were joined by others. including Canada and Ireland. to disprove the suggestion by some that the issue was merely "radical rhetoric from the United States."

The church in the United States is shaping a pastoral plan to include women in-as many roles as possible. Mrs. Leckey said. because the bishops know that the church needs women for "wholeness."

Archbishop Laghi told the women that for too long the lay state was viewed as "the absence of a ,vocation" rather than as a true vocation in the church and the world.

Sweetest Things "Do not grasp at the stars but do life's plain common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life." - Robert Louis Stevenson

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post for Father Jenco WASHINGTON (NC) - Servite Father Lawrence Martin Jenco, who spent 19 months in captivity in Lebanon, is to join the staff of a Marian shrine in Portland, Ore., where he plans to write about his experience as a hostage.

I n a telephone interview Nov. 17 from his office at Catholic Relief Services in New York, Father Jenco said he plans in late January to join the staff of the Nationa,l Sanctuary of Our Sorrowful Mother, which is staffed by the Servite order. His job description is still unsettled, he said.

The assignment to the 60-acre shrine "just came up about a month ago" after he told his provincial superior he'd "like to get away," he said.

Father Jenco was Catholic Relief Services director in Lebanon when he was taken hostage Jan. 8, 1985.

He was released July 26, 1986.

Father Jenco in the interview said he wanted "some space to write a book about what happened to' me in captivity."

The idea for a book came·to him while he was being held by radical Shiite Moslems, he said. He envisioned coauthoring it with a friend.

Servite Father Neal Flanagan. a Scripture scholar.

"But Neal died of a massive heart attack while I was in captivity," he said. When he learned of the death, he put aside book plans.

Recently, however, a copy of Albert Camus's "The Plague," which he read while in captivity, caught his attention and made him think again about writing.

"The Plague." which is about "a city held hostage," captures "lots of the feelings" he felt, he said.

The Encyclopedia Britannica describes the modern French novel as "an allegory of the Resistance" set in a plague epidemic, which "raises the problems of responsibility and commitment for the believer and the unbeliever."

Father Jenco said he survived his captivity because ofthe Eucharist, Scripture, and - when he was finally permitted out of isolation - "being with another person, a sense of community," first with the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a former hostage, and later with other captives.

He voiced discouragement that two of his hostage friends, Terry A. Anderson and Thomas M. Sutherland, soon will mark their I,OOOth day in captivity.

Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, was -taken hostage March 16,1985. Sutherland, dean ofagriculture at American University in Beirut, was taken hostage three months later. June 9, 1985.

"The whole hostage situation still remains with all of us" while Anderson and Sutherland are not free, Father Jenco said.

"We made a commitment to work for the release" of whoever was not freed. he said.

"We promised that whoever got out would help the others· get out and that they would not be forgotten."

The Best Things "The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils; light in your eyes; flowers at your feet; duti'es at your hand; the path of right just before you." - Robert Louis Stevenson

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LOS ANGELES (NC) - The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has its highest enrollment of seminarians in 15 years, according to Father Dan Laner, vocation director. The archdiocese also has the second highest enrollment since 1972 high school seminary.

As the academic year began, the three archdiocesan seminaries of the archdiocese had 117 students in the theologate (post-college theology studies), 86 in the college seminary, and 152 in high school.

Father Laner attributed the increase primarily to a call for prayers for religious vocations by Archbishop Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles.

The second factor is a Called by Name program begun over a year ago, Father Laner said. Under the program, parishioners are asked to identify young people they believe would make good priests, sisters or brothers.

Brother Harold F. Hathaway, CSc. a Taunton native, observed It's Better his 25th anniversary as a Brother "It is better to suffer wrong than of Holy Cross at a Mass, reception and dinner held Nov. 15 in Con- to do it and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust." necticut.

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The largest display of outdoor Christmas lights in the country, the free-admission festival will be held through Jan. 3 and will be illuminated 5 to 9 p.m. weekdays and 5 to 10 p.m. weekends.

Diaconate leader pleased with papal affirmation WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope .Iohn Pa.ul II made some significant advances in spelling out the Holy See's position on permanent deacons during his visit to the lJnited States. said Samuel Tauh. directorofthe U.S. hishops' national office for the permanent diaconate.

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Those developments strongly affirmed the approaches taken in the . U.S. permanent diaconate program. Taub said in an early No\'emher interview with National Catholic News Service.

The special role of permanent deacons in secular life was "implicit" in the 1967 document by which Pope Paul VI re-established the permanent diaconate. Taub said. but in his Detroit speech Pope .Iohn Paul made it "explicit."

In· his talk the pope said that deacons' "ministrv of charitv" requires them "to he a positive 'influence for change in the world in which' we live. that is. to be a leaven _. to be the soul of human society - so that society may be renewed by Christ and transformed into the family of God." The "temporal order" that deacons must deal with in their ministry. the pope added. "includes marriage and the family. the world of culture. economic and social life. the trades and professions. political institutions, the solidaritv of peoples and issues of justice 'and peace." .

Taub sa"id those words marked the first time that'a pope had explicitly tied the deacon's m'inistry of charity to service by the deacon as an agent or advocate of social change. .

"I suspect this represents a development in his own thinking in the past five years," Taub said.

The pope stressed that while a deacon shares in the "sacramental grace" of ordination and is therefore part of the clergy, "his secular occupation gives him entry into the temporal sphere in a way that is normally not appropriate for other members of the clergy," In the Detroit meeting the pope

Taub said the papal endorsement came against a history of Vatican wariness over the rapid growth of the diaconate in the United States, which has threefifths of the world's total of permanent deacons.

As recently as last year. he said, Cardinal Paul Augustin Mayer, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Sacraments, which oversees church rules on the permanent diaconate, asked U.S. church officials how they could account for the large number of permanent deacon ordinations in ' their country.

Taub said the permanent deacons who met with Pope John Paul were particularly encouraged by the recognition the pope gave to the role of married deacons' wives as collaborators in the ministry of their husbands.

The papal references to collaboration and spiritual growth of the wives of deacons affirmed and reinforced U.S, permanent diaconate policies, Taub said. He said the policies emphasize the spiritual formation of the wives as well as the deacons. and they call for screening the wives of potential deacons as carefully as the candidate~ themselves.

"It's evident to us that there's a new appreciation" in the Vatican of the need for "the spiritual development of both the deacon and his wife." Taub said.

The Detroit meeting was the first the pope had ever devoted exclusively to permanent deacons and their wives in his 36 trips abroad as pope. It was also one of the few occasions in his pontificate that he spoke at all. let alone extensively. on the permanent diaconate.

Taub said. "A question we (permanent diaconate officials) are often asked - often in a pejorative way - is. 'What has the Holv Father said about permanent de';consT We have had to say. 'Very little.' " With the Detroit talk. he said. the pope has now clearly expressed his thoughts on a number of the key issues affecting the diaconate.

He said the pope's accent on a ministry of charity as the deacon's most basic service may help correct an imbalance in public perceptions of permanent deacons.

"The problem is that the average Catholic only sees. the deacon in his liturgical ministry." he said, "They don't see him in his one-onone ministry or his ministry in the marketplace" despite the fact.that U.S. guidelines on permanent deacons stress those roles. , The fact that the pope emphasized the deacon's service 'role "gives it an affirmation that could not be made by anyone else," Taub said.

Living saints CHICAGO (NC) - More than 80 percent of readers polled by a national Catholic magazine said they feel they have met someone in their lifetime whom they would . consider a saint. Of saints they would most like to imitate in their own lives St. Francis of Assisi led the list. U.S, Catholic. a monthly magazine published in Chicago by the C1aretian Fathers and Brothers, polled 1,000 of its readers to find out what thev believe about saints. Eighty-two percent said they "firmly believe that someone I know personally - living or dead - is a saint."

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High court asked to hear USCCappeal WASHINGTON (NC) - The National Council of Churches and other major religious organizations have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the Catholic bish'ops' high court appeal in the Abortion Rights . Mobilization case.

The religious groups, in a friendof-the-court brief, joined the bishops in asking the Supreme Court to reverse lower court decisions denying the bishops a chance to fight subpoenas in Abortion Rights Mobilization's challenge to the tax-exempt status of the Catholic Church.

Those challenging the church's tax status are third parties who should have-.,po standing to sue, and if the high court allows them to carryon their suit it would give almost anyone "the use of federal courts for religion-bashing," the religious organizations said in their .brief filed in late October.

In 1986 a U.S. district court levied daily fines of $100,000 on the National Conference of Catholic Bishopsand U.S. Catholic Conference, the bishops' nati.onal agencies, for refusing to turn over documents which Abortion Rights Mobilization claims it needs to pursue its case. The fines have been delayed pending appeal.

The abortion rights organizati.on has been fighting since 1980 to force the Internal Revenue Service to remove the tax exemption from' the NCCB-USCC and some 28,000 Catholic parishes, schools, hospitals, diocesan agencies and Catholic organizations which gain their tax-exempt certification through the NCCB-USCe. The abortion group alleges that the Catholic Church has violated IRS rules on involvement in political campaigns by tax-exempt groups.

The friend-of-the-court brief argued that the district court and federal appeals court erred both in ruling that Abortion Rights Mobilization had standing to sue and in ruling that the NCCB-USCC, called into the case only as a witness, did not have standing to challenge subpoenas to produce extensive church documents.

The rules for standing used by the lower courts departed from 'binding Supreme Co,:\rt precedents in that field and "could easily open up the floodgates to litigation against churches by those hostile to their mission or ideas," the brief said. " The NCCB-USCC asked the Supreme Court to hear its appeal in the case Sept. 23 after exhausting available appeals in ~he lower courts.

The IRS also opposes the lawsuit, arguing that the lower courts have infringed on the discretionary powers of the executive branch . by assuming authority over the case.

The Supreme Court was not expected to announce whether it would accept the case immediately.

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Dr. Ross, a native of England, has worked as a leprologist in Nigeria and as a professorofmedicineand leprosy rehabilitation in Ethiopia.

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, Mexican challenge MONTERREY, Mexico (NC) - The proliferation of Protestant and other non-Catholic sects presents the Catholic Church with a challenge in Mexico, where some 87 percent of the population is at least nominally Catholic, say members of the Mexican bishops' conference. In a press conference dur-

DALLAS (NC) - A group of Texas Catholics is pushing for the beatification of a Franciscan priest who evangelized Mexican Indians . in the 16oos. The Spanish missionary priest, Father Antonio MargiJ de Jesus, spent 43 years traveling by foot through rough terrain from as far south as Panama northward to Texas and Louisiana. ,Father Margil is credited with having helped develop three missionary colleges of the Propagation of the Faith in Mexico and establishing a chain of missions throughout that country, Texas and Louisiana. Retired Bishop John L. Morkovsky of GalvestonHouston recently sent a letter to . various Texas parishes and newspapers asking that Catholics work together to spread Father MargiJ's story to '~bring about [beatification] for the Franciscan apostle of Texas."

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A BISHOPS' committee set up to evaluate the morality of nuclear deterrence will report next spring on defensive systems and the new, meanings of the spiraling cost of the arms race. says Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago. The ad hoc Committee on the Moral Evaluation of Deterrence will report on U.S. defense policy developments since the bishops' 1983 pastoral letter. "The ChaIlenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response."

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THE NCCB Administrative Committee, a governing panel of 50 bishops, approved a statement on AIDS, which will be sent to the hierarchy s%n and made pubHc "as soon as we can print it," Arch~ bishop John L. May announced.

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THE BISHOPS objected. on both moral and practical grounds. to proyiding birth control services at school-based health clinics and called for federal and state laws as well as local school board policies to be amended to exclude such services from public schools.

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THE VISIT of Pope John Paul II and the response to it made it clear that the U.S. church is not "a church in the church," said Archbishop Pio Laghi, apostolic pronuncio to the United States, in addressing the bishops. Rather, he said, quoting Chicago Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin, "the church is a communio - 'a communion of particular churches in which and from which exists the one and unique Catholic Church; a communion which is not fully the ,church unless united with the bishop of Rome.' "

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If approved by the Holy See, the rite will become an option alongside existing rites for marriage between a Catholic and a nonCatholic Christian.

Included in the new document are optional opening rites that restore ritual elements used previously in Catholic rites and still common in' non- Ca thoHc c hurc hes.

Bishop Joseph P. Delaney of Fort Worth, Texas, is chairman of the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy which proposed the new rite.

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THE BISHOPS approved norms for priests' retirement years th,at call on bishops to recognize the "value and dignity" of aging priests and their ministry.

The norms. proposed by the bishops' Committee on I?riestly Life and Ministry. ask bishops to help priests plan for their retirement, discern what ministries they wish to continue after retiring. promote well ness programs and provide adequate housing options and pension plans.

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THE CHURCH could lose "as many as 50 percent" of its Hispanic members if Catholics do not get out and knock on doors, Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, N.M. warned. He said that Protestant fundamentalist sects are proselytizing Hispanic Catholics.

• • • THE BISHOPS voted to elevate the memorial of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Dec. 12. to the rank of feast. The move gives Our Lady of Guadalupe special prominence but does not make the date a holy day of obligation. Dec. 12 is the date 'that Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in Mexico in 1531. The recommendation was introduced

by Fort Worth Bishop Joseph P. Delaney.

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THE BISHOPS strongly support their Campaign for Human Development despite observations by some that the anti-poverty program should be more "Catholic," results of a survey reveal. The survey of bishops' attitudes toward

the 17-year-old program - commonlv known as CHD - was presented at the bishops' meeting.

The USCC is the public policy twin of the 'NCCB. CHD funds groups of poor people, helping them gain political and economic power and thus overcome poverty.

It also provides educational programs to help Americans understand and fight poverty.

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THE BISHOPS pledged increased effort by Catholic agencies to help the Christian community and the wider population in wartorn Lebanon with food. medicine and other humanitarian aid. They also urged the federal government "to take a fresh look" at the needs of the Lebanese people and "to respond with generosity."

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a~d publishing operations of the Holy See in the Vatican newspaper. L'Osservatore Romano. and . the book publishing organization, Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana (the Vatican Polyglot Press). Two outmoded and expensive typesetting systems used by those agencies "will be liquidated." bringing substant'ial savings in operations. he said.

ARCHBISHOP Daniel W. Kucera of Dubuque. Iowa. was elected NCCB treasurer. defeating Bishop Anthony M. Pilla of Cleveland by a vote of 141-122 for a three-year term.

FaIl River native Bishop Joseph P. Delaney of Fort Worth. Texas. was elected chairman of the Committee on Liturgy. defeating Auxiliary Bishop Patrick Cooney of Detroit by 178 to 84.

THE BISHOPS voted to increase their per-Catholic diocesan assessment for national operations in 1989 but to study whether there is a better way to tax dioceses which might be based on ability to pay.

They also approved a 1988 budget of nearly $29.5 million for the work of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and lJ .S. Catholic Conference. The figure was up $3 million from the 1987 budget.

The per capita a..,sessment approved for 1989 was 15.7 cents, up 2.4 cents from the 13.3 cents per capita that dioceses have been assessed since 1986.

ARCHBISHOP James A. Hickey of Washington told the bishops that ongoing dialogue with Catholic scientists and the wider U.S. scientific community would put bishops in needed contact with the world of science. Reporting on activities of the bishops' Committee on H uman Values, which he heads, h~ noted that the committee is "a listening post for American science and culture" and a "point of contact between the NCCB and the science community."

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DESPITE strong opposition from a few, the bishops overwhelmingly approved by voice vote the formation of a mixed commission of the NCCB, Leadership Conference of Women Religious • • and Conference of Major SuperDIOCESES that use seminaries * * * iors of Men to share concerns on OCTOBER'S stock market gy- of other dioceses to educate their religious life in the United States. rations cost the national confer- future priests will have to start They also voted, without audible ences of the U.S. bishops $6.7 mil- providing more priests to staff dissent, to establish a five-bishop lion on paper'. nearly 10 percent of those institutions. Archbishop John NCCB Committee on Religious - their investment portfolio. Bishop R. Roach ofSt. Paul-Minneapolis Life and Ministry, which will form .Iohn R. McGann of Rockville told the U.S. bishops. Without the NCCB representation on the Centre. N.V .. outgoing NCCB/ such help. he said. "frankly. our commission. The men and women's USCC treasurer. emphasized that seminaries are going to find themreligious conferences are to pro- the loss was only on paper. He said selves severely lacking in priestly vide five representatives each, giv- the cost value of the NCCB-USCC role models." ing the commission 15 members. investment portfolio at the start of • October was $69.7 million. Net • * • CARDINAL John .I. Krol of paper profits. he said. declined BECA lISE they lacked a quoPhiladelphia told the bishops that during the month from some $7.4 rum as their meeting drew to an million to $700.000. for the first time' the financially end, the bishops suspended action strapped Vatican will release an on a document aimed at improv• • annual statement on its bud'get ing relations. and helping settle and finances. The cardinal also REVERSING the decision of disputes between bishops and announced preliminary plans to one of their top committees, the theologians. A quorum call came establish some form of U.S. founbishops voted to reinstate a full- from Bishop Daniel A. Cronin as dation orendowment fund to protime youth,and young adult minis- the votes were being tabulated on vide an ongoing source of income try staff position which was to be a motion by Archbishop J. Franfor the Holy See to help reduce a abolished. The move came despite cis Stafford of Denver to return growing yearly operating deficit. assurances by conference officers the document to the bishops' docThe cardinal said administration that abolishing the position would , trine committee for extensive reviof the Holy See's operations is not mean downgrading the impor- sion. The 'archbishop said he saw "good but not perfect." tance of youth ministry and warn- serious theological problems in it.

He said that after years of effort ings that restoring the position The bishops still present voted 92one operation that "I consider a would 'upset the balance of the 80 against Archbishop Stafford's scandal" was being changed dra- bishops' 198.8 budget. motion. But the total of votes maticaIly. That was the printing 172 - was short of the 195 bishops • needed for a quorum.

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A FULL FIRST DRAFT of the U.S. bishops' proposed pastoral letter on the concerns of women should' be ready for the U.S. bishops' Administrative Committee by March 1988. said Bishop Joseph L. Imsech of Joliet. III.. writing committee chairman. The committee's tentative target date for completing the pastoral is November 1989.

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THE BISHOPS approved a new marriage rite for ecumenical weddings celebrated outside Mass by a

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DURING THEIR fall meeting, the bishops celebrate a Marian year Mass in Washington's National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. (Nc photo)

AT THE REQUEST of Archbishop .Iohn F. Whealon of Hartford. Conn.. the executive committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops has agreed to consider whether to cancel the scheduled June 1988 general meeting of the bishops in CollegeviIle. Minn. The archbishop cited the heavy schedule the bishops have in 1988. when all are due to travel to Rome for their required visits every five years to report to the pope on the state of their dioceses.

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By Dr. James and Mary Kenny_ Dear Mary: I am a grandmother getting ready to shop for Christmas toys for my grandchildren.

Some of the toys in the stores are cute, but many are poorly made, shoddy or downright ugly. I altl; looking for ways to please my grandchildren without getting everything straight offthe TV ads.

Suggestions welcome. - Illinois You have touched a subject dear to my heart. There are few activities I enjoy more than finding and purchasing a toy "treasure:' a toy that is beautiful and enduring. one that will be enjoyed long after the holidays.

My least favorite toys are guns and similar war toys. Other toys which I can easily pass up include figures or games fashioned after the latest movie or TV personality, someone who is popular this winter and will have faded into oblivion before spring arrives.

Here are some ideas which you may not have considered. For children with winter birthdays, plan year-round. Since t~ey have no occasion for spring and summer gifts, be sure to consider summer

items for Christmas or their winter birthday. Swimsuits and sunglasses, tennis rackets and camping gear are gifts that winterborn children rarely receive.

Preschool and early elementary schoolchildren enjoy costumes all year long. Buy good quality or, better yet, make them. Patterns are available, and materials such as fake fur can produce sturdy, comfortable and fun costumes.

Start a set or collection which you add to over the years. A good set of blocks in natural wood finish is a welcome but somewhat expensive toy. Buy a starter set and add to it on various occasions.

Some families like to acquire a model train or road set in the same way. An older child interested in dolls or stamps will welcome additions to his or her collection.

Many fine toys are not found in toy departments. Consider a flashlight or a backpack. Buy accessories for a bicycle such as baskets, a luggage carrier, a light, disk covers for the spokes, or even a new seat or handlegrips.

Magazine subscriptions and books make excellent gifts if the child likes to read and is interested

in the topic. Unless you know the child's taste very well, check with the parents about what the child likes to read. Be flexible enough to choose something the child will love, not the book or magazine you think he or she should read.

Many pre-teens and teens would love a camera, but the upkeep is rather expensive. Forthem a generous gift would be a camera plus a monthly roll of film, developing included, for one year.

Finally, trips and outings with you make wonderful gifts. A dinner out, a trip to the movies, a weekend trip or even a week of travel during vacation could make great gifts.

Frequently grandparents have more time and money to spend on gifts than busy parents. You are already aware of the problem in choosing good toys and you are motivated to seek good ones. Use your time and ingenuity to make this year's Christmas gifts memorable.

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Fortune magazine earlier this I took on my poverty as I would month listing the 400 wealthiest have taken on tonsillitis. I was disSomething unsettling is happenpeople in the country. And if you eased momentarily. ing in the United States now. There missed the magazine, USA Today Fortunately, the church always is so much talk of money and reprinted the names so we could be , has valued the poor, from ,Christ wealth that many people don't sure to know who's worthy ofhav- to the many great saints to people want to acknowledge the poverty ing their names in the paper. like Mother Teresa and the priests, that exists in their own nation. religious and lay people today who Though people talk about the We are inundated with images work in soup kitchens and'shelters homeless and raise m,oney for the of wealth; so much so that I think and who try to raise funds to help hungry, their concern is a distant the message is starting to sink in: the poor. one.

Money is the best, go for it. People The Catholic Church witnesses Most of us don't brush shoulders who are poor aren't worth our to the value of persons, not wealth. with poor people. If they come too time.

But our ability' to hold on to Chrisclose, we send them off to an Thus it becomes permissible to tian values is threatened when all agency, a soup kitchen, a shelter or eliminate the poor with discourtaround us we are bombarded by otherwise get rid of them. esy, disrespect. and dismissal. images that glamorize the wealthy.

Someone recently related an inIf this attraction to the glitz of I know-something of how it feels cident in Manhattan where a money and power pervades society homeless, middle-aged man was to be unwanted because of povto the point that a supermarket redeeming cans and bottles quietly erty. Once when I was about 8, '1 clerk thinks nothing of symboliat a local supermarket. He was was the only one not invited to a cally spraying away a poor man, courteous and careful to bring, birthday party for a friend in my we are a society in great trouble. bottles that had been cleaned so as class at school. She told me I Perhaps it is 'time to express wasn't invited because her mother not to offend the store clerks. moral outrage over the age of After waiting his turn patiently, said I was too poor to buy a greed that is descending upon us as he held his hand out to receive the present. a country.

After this friend opened my eyes, nickels to which he was entitled.

Just then the young clerk reached behind her back for, disinfectant spray and proceeded to humiliate him. Her colleagues laughed upHe cleared his throat. to interroariously., ,By Hilda Young rupt me. "You know, Hilda," he Hearing this account and oth"You think the homily was too said, smiling and not moving his ers, such as teenagers who set fire long?" my brother-in-law the priest lips. ~'I should do a homily on your to the homeiess as they sleep in asked me after Mass last Sunday. sarcasm." streets and parks, I ask: What is We were visiting his parish.

"I shouldn't tease you," I said. "I there about the poor that causes "N ot at all," I said. "As a matter such disrespect and brutal beof fact, the man behind us enjoyed know you put a'l6t of work into havior? the second 20 minutes so much he your sermons. Just typing and I think it has something to do made up a'iittle tune to pr~vide binding all those pages must be a with the fact that as a society we background music for it. It was a backbreaker."

Funny how this vein in Father have come to love wealth and its pleasant little ditty that almost packaging so much that those outsounded like heavy breathing and Kevin's forehead becomes proside this framework are discardahe kept time with these little snorts nounced and pulses when he is amused. He veiled his laughter by ble beings. now and then." forcing his voice to snarl. "In the All around us are signs of wealth. " It's not easy, you know, pulling Should anyone question this, just full meaning out of Sunday read- seminary, people like you were turn on the TV set. The program- ings and condensing it into a 30- called armchair homily quacks. ming, including commercials, second commercial, Hilda:'hesaid You wouldn't know a meaningful anecdote from an allusion to the shows wealth in . most ,of what is ,Stl'ffl y.

Vulgate." aired, not only on "Lifestyles of _ the Rich and Famous."

"You don't have to be defen- I nodded. "Neither did the couOr pick up a magazine or news- - sive," I told him. "A number of ple in front of me. Several times I paper. Again, everything we see o-r people seemed to enjoy it. I counted overheard her ask him if you were read speaks of the "good life," them on my left hand. There was into a meaningful anecdote or alfrom clothes, food and furniture the man sticking needles through luding to the Vulgate. I told them to daily investment tips. his upper lip. There was the woman to wait ,until the end where you Who's important? Only t he next to me who finished an afghan. read your footnotes and then they'd wealthy - wit,ness the spread in There was... know."

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The letter also asks that Marian shrines promote ecumenical workshops. prayer services and pilgrimages during the Marian year.

"The sick should feel themselves at home at Marian shrines." said the letter. It noted that many Marian shrines maintain charitable operations such as hospitals. homes for needy children and residences for the elderly. .

"It would. however. be especially desirable in this year, and for the future, that every'shrine ... create new. adequa~e structures. or modify those already existing in order to meet the new problems of contemporary society," such as acquired immune deficieny syndrome. drug abuse. the difficulties of old age and the plight of the homeless. t he letter sa id ..

It asked bishops to give the committee "a report of such initia. tives adopted" to document how charity has been applied during the Marian year.

The letter follows a call by the pope during his September visit to the United States that Catholic hospitals and health care institutions provide medical and spiritual care to AIDS victims.

In Phoenix, Ariz.. the pope told Catholic health workers they had a moral obligation to extend their" skills and their "human sensitivities" to victims of AIDS. It was the first time he had mentioned AIDS in a speech. Several days before, at an informal press conference with journalists aboard the flight to the United States, the pope said homosexuals, especially AIDS victims, are not "outcasts."

Their place is "in the heart of the church," he said.

Regardingecumenism, the Marian committee letter said Marian shrines should be prayer and study centers for all Christians. But it . noted that Catholics should exercise "great delicacy" when inviting Protestants to ecumenical events at Marian shrines.

Protestants "while honoring Mary as a model' of faith and Christian life, do not invoke her directly, believing that this would obscure the unique redemptive' mediating role of Christ," it said.

At the same time. Mary forms a bond among Catholics, Orthodox and Anglicans, said the letter, which encouraged study of Mary's role in the historv of salvation. "The mother of Christ ... should not be the cause of division and discord among his brethren." it said.

"It will be a' courageous contribution to unity if ecumenical gatherings to celebrate the Word of God take place with a certain frequency in Marian shrines," the letter added. It also said Marian shrines should promote religious vocations and dedicated married life.

Christ is wisdom VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has called Jesus Christ "the full revelation of divine wis- . dom" whose death revealed the plan of God. Speaking at a recent regular general audience to pilgrims and visitors in St. Peter's Square, the" pope also said the wisdom of the cross is different from "the wisdom of the world."

Because of the identification of Jesus with divine wisdom, his death on the cross reveals the "merciful plan of God, the God who loves and forgives his sinful people," the pope said. The cross shows that the wisdom of God is not the same as the wisdom of the world, he added, "a wisdom which refuses to open itself to God and which is doomed to pass away."

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Elaine Corveseis into her fourth year as religious educ'ation coordinator (RECl at St. Mark parish.

Attleboro Falls. A petite dynamo, she loves her work and the kids and catechists who are a major part of it.

The Anchor met with Mrs. Corvese on a recent Monday evening in the church basement cum religious education center. Between phone rings. visitors to the small teachers' room she works out of during class sessions and the comings and goings offourth to eighth graders. she spoke about her work and how she came to it.

4:15 p.m.

Mrs. Corvese is beginning work for the second time today. She's already spent four morning and early afternoon hours at her office in the parish rectory.

Teachers begin arriving for classes. which begin at 4:30. There are many hellos and a lot oflaughs and the teachers' room is filled with the aroma offresh hot coffee.

And then the children begin to arrive.

"Do you have scissors?"

"Tell Michael not to run; He's going to hind on his head."

"I forgot my book."

4:28 p.m.

Mrs. Corvese walks briskly into a large open area, the heart of the parish center. She is ringing a large hand bell. Within 90 seconds the room fills with dozens of youngsters and their teachers. Grades four through six are in session.

Guided by Mrs. Corvese. a student volunteer leads the group in prayer. Then Mrs. Corvese takes the floor.

"Study," she commands in a friendly but authoritative voice.

"Behave. Have a good class and I'll see you all at 5:30."

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David and Elaine Corvese joined St. Mark's parish 12 years ago with their two daughters, now seventh and twelfth graders. Because of her daughters, Mrs. Corvese became involved with the parish religious education program.

She taught classrooms of first, second, third, fourth, fifth and seventh graders for eight years and was chairperson for grades one, two and three. Then she took a yearlong sabbatical, intending to teach again afterwards.

Instead, she found herselfcoordinating the entire program. She explains that Mary MacGillivrary, her predecessor, left the position to teach full time at a Catholic school. Ms. MacGillivrary had suggested to the late Very Rev. Roger L. Gagne, then pastor, that Mrs. Corvese take over the job.

And then she told Mrs. Corvese what she had done.

"I just thought, 'She's kidding,' " Mrs. Corvese remembered. "I was very surprised."

Mrs'. Corvese and her husband discussed the idea and he convinced her, she said, that since she had loved teaching so much she should look into the position.

So Mrs. Corvese met with Father Gagne and Father Paul A. Caron, St. Mark's parochial vicar and religious education program director, to find out what. the work would entail.

The informal gathering, she said,

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"Father Gagne thought it would be better that way," Mrs. Corvese smiled. ''I'd be ~yself, I wouldn't be nervous."

And so ElaineCorvese became St. Mark's religious education coordinator.

"I hate to use trite phrases but she's very dedicated," says Father Caron, noting that Mrs. Corvese handles day-to-day challenges well and that "in the midst of it all she has unbridled enthusiasm."

He says the fact that Mrs. Corvese left a higher-paying job for the coordinator's slot "speaks volumes about her faith."

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5:02 p.m. .Mrs. Corvese and Father Caron walk upstairs to the church, Where catechist Martha Guillette is asking her fifth-graders to identify church furnishings associated with the sacraments.

"Where is the tabernacle?" Mrs. Guillette asks.

A boy locates it. The class is comfortable with their director and coordinator present. No one fidgets.

"What is it?" continues the' teacher.

"A tabern?" a little girl guesses. . Mrs. Guillette shares a quick smile with Father Caron and Mrs. Corvese.

"No," she says. "It's like a little house, a little enclosure. Who can· tell me what's in there?"

5:30 p.m.

A bell rings and students begin to leave the center. Mrs. Corvese accompanies them outside and waits in the cold until their parents pick them up.

Mrs. Corvese is still waiting with two fourth-grade boys whose rides haven't come as classes for seventh-graders are set to begin.

She instructs the boys to wait inside the church and heads in ready to face the seventh grade.

5:43 p.m.

Again there are hellos from teachers and students and a phone that takes seriously its responsibility to riOg. Another pre-class meeting is held after the hand bell rings.

A youngster arrives with her' mom, is registered into the program, welcomed and shown to a classroom.

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Mrs. Corvese spends a few minutes with the girl's mother. They discuss program basics.

"If you have any questions," Mrs. Corvese says. "call me anytime."

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Mrs. Corvese loves working with the I?OO-family parish's approximately 950 students.

"I'm very fortunate," she says. "that I have a very good family and a staff that's very supportive. I work with wonderful teachers."

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"We both like to keep things organized. simple, controlled,"sh'e says. \ Mrs. Corvese works a Sunday through Thursday week. There are no classes on Thursday, a "catchup day" for paperwork.

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5:57 p.m.

"There's one thing I do miss," Mrs. Corvese says. "Teaching. I love teaching and I love to work with children."

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This scares me because I am very shy about meeting strangers. How, can I deal with this kind of fear and overcome it an~ enjoy the party? (Ohio) STUDENTS MICHELLE Koziel, a member of Sacred A. You can be almost 100 perl;Ieart parish, Taunton, and Timothy Diamantoni eat a Third cent sure of this: There will be World lunch at Bristol Community College, Fall River, during. other boys and girls at that party a recent Hunger Banquet to benefit Oxfam America, an organ- (perhaps many others) who have ization that supports self-help projects in poor countries. Sis- the· same fear you do.

They will be wondering about ter Suzanne Beaudoin, SSCh, campus minister, discussed what kind of people they are going world poverty with participants"who ate a turkey dinner, a to meet. what they are going to substantial soup or a watery concoction, depending on which talk about and what they are going economic sector of the world's population they represented. to do.

Shyness. as you probably know She also spoke about the potential her listeners had for helping well. is not uncommon' among area needy. Sister Beaudoin said $689.50 was collected for teens and there are going to be Oxfam. BCC's Campus Ministry and Student Activities offi- some teens at that party who also ces sponsored the banquet with student senators and the Cath- are struggling with shyness.

Could you focus your thoughts olic Student Ministry Asso~iation. (Motta photo) on putting these other shy people at ease? If you can, this will help heal your own sense of unease.

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Iteering pOintl HOLY NAME, FR ST. MARY, SEEKONK School parents' meeting 7 p.m.

Adult Bible discussions 7 p.m.

Monday. school hall: special presen- Dec. 9 and 9:45 a.m. Dec. 10. Raytation on the Family Life Education mond and Catherine Macomber and Curriculum. Youth group trip to Peter and Stacia Schabowski are LaSalette Shrine. Attleboro. 6 p.m. celebrating 50th wedding anniverSunday. Women's Guild meeting saries. Women's Guild Christmas with dinner and entertainment Dec. party Dec. I replaces monthly meetI. school hall. ing. Children's Mass II :30 a.m. Sunday. Junior B CYO basketball game ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH Prayer meetings 7:30 p.m. Mon- 3: 15 p.m. Sunday. Father Barry days. parish hall. Choir rehearses Center. Pawtucket. RI. 6:30 p.m. Thursdays. church: new LEGION OF MARY members welcome. Appreciation Legion of Mary annual reunion 2 dinner Dec. I. Hawthorne Country p.m. Sunday. St. Mary's Church.

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ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM legion prayers and Benediction of Confirmation retreat for second the Blessed Sacrament in church and year candidates Dec. 19. Cathedral social gathering in church basement: Camp. E. Freetown. Advent retreats all welcome.

9 to II a.m. and 7 to 8:30 p.m. pec. CAMP FIRE VACATION CAMP, I. 8. 15 and 22.

FR ST. THOMAS MORE, "School's Out Vacation Camp" SOMERSET for schoolage children of working Open house to congratulate par- parents. operated by the Algonquian ish Marian Medalist Gertrude Fugiel Camp Fire Council. 6:45 a.m. to 5 to 7 p.m. Dec. 6. rectory. Women's 5:15'p.m. Dec. 21 t024and 28t031.

Guild Christmas party Dec. 13. JTs Sacred Heart Church parish center.

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ST. JAMES, NB Marian year rosary before 9 a.m. weekdays.

Mass Fridays. Boy Scout troop or- ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET ganizational meeting 7:30 tonight.

New folk group members welcome; parish center: boys II to 17 and their rehearsals 5:45 p.m. Wednesdays: parents welcome. CYO Council performances at 10:30 a.m. Mass meeting 7 p.m. Dec. I. parish center. Sundays: information: Father Horace J. Travassos. parochial vicar. 672ST. ANNE, FR Girl and Boy Scout-sponsored 1523. Rosary prayed 3:25 p.m. blood drive 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 3. Thursdays. church. school cafeteria. Exposition of the CATHEDRAL CAMP, Blessed Sacrament after II :30 a.m.

E. FREETOWN Mass today. shrine: hour of AdoraSt. Patrick parish. Fall River. tion 2 p.m. women's retreat tomorrow and Sunday.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Advent-Christmas candles will be BLUE ARMY solemnly blessed at a family Mass Fall River diocesan division of the 4:30 p.m. tomorrow. Bible classes Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima postponed to after New Year's. Ad- five-hour vigil in honor of the Sacred ve'nt penitential service 3 p.m. Dec. Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate 20. Father Robert S. Kaszynski.

Heart of Mary begIns 7:30 p.m. Dec. pastor. will be a concelebrant at a 4. St. Rita parish. Marion: refreshWoonsocket. R.1.. Mass marking ments: all welcome: information: Ann 1.000 years of Christianity in the Levasseur. 822-6866.

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ST.GEORGE,WESTPORT ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, Parish school students who earned POCASSET high honors for the first quarter of Parishioner Paul Bonin was a the 1987-88 academic year: Marietta candidate at a recent ECHO retreat; , Knox, C. Jay Martin, Justin Ramut.

Father James W. Clark. pastor. Katie Ritz and Courtney Smith.

Father Francis Connors. D.J. Gre- grade two; Nicholas Lacey and goire and Mike Haskell were among Amanda O·Gara. grade three: Andrea team members. Parishioner Bette Santos. grade five: Anne Desrosiers.

Songer was rectora of a women's Kerri Ritz and Jeffrey Roberts. grade cursillo last weekend: Janet Travis six: Jennifer Borden, grade seven was a team member. Arlene Lima a and Celeste Castonguay and Ana candidate. First Friday Masses Dec. Lima. grade eight; 51 students mer4 at 7:30 and 9 a.m. ited honors. Advent (week one) NOTRE DAME, FR events: Advent wreath blessing 7 Youth Council meets third Sun- p.m. Sunday. church: penance serv- . day of each month. church hall. Par- ice 7 p.m. Thursday. church. ish School students grades one ECUMENICAL SERVICE through four are participating in the Ecumenical service and HymnPizza Hut "Book It!" reading- Sing 7 p.m. Sunday. St. John of God motivation program. New Youth Church. Somerset: all welcome.

Council members: Father Marc Tremblay. parochial vicar: Rick WIDOWED SUPPORT, Scholaro. Collette Turcotte. Tammy CAPE COD Cape Cod widowed support group Deschenes. Michael Dion. Albert Vaillancourt. Pauline Dumais. Gert meeting 3 p.m. Sunday. CCD CenGendreau. Jennifer D'Alio. David ter next to St. Jude the Apostle Latessa and Claire Amiot. Council Chapel. Cotuit; topic: Reorganizing of Catholic Women Mass for de- Your Life: information: 428-7078. ceased members 7 p.m. Monday. evenings. chapel: meeting follows with speaker O.L ASSUMPTION, Bert Latessa; information on the OSTERVILLE council's Dec. 14 Christmas party Adult choir rehearsal Dec. 3. will be available at the meeting.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Coffee hour and blood pressure Parishioners Robert Dinan and Christopher Cote were team members screenings follows. morning Masses . at a rece'nt ECHO retreat. Women's Sunday.

Guild meeting 7:30 p.m. WednesST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, NB day. Father Clinton Hall; guest Parish school seventh graders respeaker: Neal Simon. , cently decided to contribute to ' UNICEF and raised $134.50 for the SACRED HEART,OAK BLUFFS organization; students Anthony Guild meetin&6 p.m. Dec. 7 preNunes. Paulo DeBastosand Rebecca ceded by potluck supper for members.

Andre made "outstanding" contrispouses and guests; Santa Claus will butions to the collection, notes sevdeliver gift!i---after ,the meeting and e!1th grade teacher Yvette P. Desmarthere will be Christmas caroling under ais. the direction 'of Claudia Metell.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN George and Irene Casey are celebrating their 50th wedding a'nniversary.

O.L ANGELS, FR Reception for Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes. PA, pastor. to congratulate him on his protonotary apostolic honors. recently bestowed by Pope John Paul II. I to 4 p.m. Dec. 13. parish hall. Altar boys (grades three through five) and lectors needed; information: rectory. 676-8883.

CHRIST THE KING, COTUIT/MASHPEE Evening of prayer and praise 7:30 p.m. Thursdays. St. Jude's Chapel.

Cotuit. Novena to St. Jude after 8 a.m. Mass Thursdays. St. Jude's Chapel. Unconfirmed adults wishing to receive the sacrament should contact Father Ronald A. Tosti. pastor. 428-0166. Choir rehearsal 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays. St. Jude's Chapel. A children's choir. grades four through ten. is forming and will debut at Christmas: rehearsals 4 p.m. Wednesdays. St. Jude's Chapel.

Saints and Singers Chorus Sounds of Christmas concert 8 p.m. Dec. 3.

Our Lady. Queen of All Saints Chapel. Mashpee: a free-will offering will be taken: program sponsored by Mashpee Arts Council. hosted by parish.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Mary. Q'ueen of Peace prayer group meetings 7 p.m. Wednesdays include "Jesus Rosarv:" all welcome: Religious education students' Christmas meal for senior citizens (age 60 and over) 6 p.m. Dec. 8. parish center; information and reservations: Judy Cabral. 379-9651. Women's Guild Christmas party 6:30 p.m.

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Rosary recitation 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays, Apartment 301-A. Fairhaven Village, 334 Main Street. Members of the Community Life and Growth committee are visiting the parents of all confirmation candidates.

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CATHEDRAL, FR Parochial vicar Father Richard G. Andrade has awarded rosaries to grade five religious education students for their good attendance.

Volunteers to help' Women's Guild members and Vincentians expand their visitation of parishioners confined to nursing homes wanted; information: rectory, 673-2833. . SACRED HEART, FR Women's Guild Christmas party 6:30 p.m. Dec. 7, parish hall; entertainment: Christmas selections by the Allegro Glee Club; former president Vivian Cleary is the evening's chairperson; she will be assisted by a committee offormer guild presidents.

The women's sewing group needswhite cloth sheeting for the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop cancer home; donations may be left at rectory.

After an absence of eight years. the parish is again represented in the Fall River area CYO basketball league; players are led by coaches John O'Neil and B.J. McDonald.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR J ljnior choir· special rehearsal 2 p.m. Sunday; senior choir 3 p.m.

Prayer meeting 7:30 p.m. Fridays, small chapel; all welcome. Women's Guild Christmas party Dec. 9. White's Restaurant. Westport.

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ELIZA Roderick, in wheelchair, a resident of Our Lady's Haven, Fairhaven, celebrated her 100th birthday Nov. 6.

Father Lucien Jusseaume, haven chaplain, offered a Mass of thanksgiving for her. Her daughters Gertrude Lopez, left, and Marie Pereira were' among attendees.

The previous Sunday, over 100 relatives and friends gathered for a birthday party for the centenarian, who received greetings from Bishop Daniel A. Cronin l Governor Michael Dukakis and President and Mrs. Reagan, among others.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO The parish thanks Natalie Ty for preparing the altar Thanksgiving decorations and John Viveiros, .Christine Bridges and Patricia Kettle for their contributions to the religious education program.

ST. ANTHONY OF THE DESERT, FR Healing service and Mass with Father William T. Babbitt. parochial vicar of SI. Mary parish, N. Attleboro, 2 p.m. Nov. 29. church; all welcome. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament noon to 6 p.m. Dec. 6 with 5 p.m. holy hour, St. Sharbel Chapel.

ST. MARGARET, BUZZARDS BAY St. Margaret's and St. Mary's Guild Christmas party I p.m. Dec. 3.

Wagon Wheel restaurant. Wareham.

DOMINICAN ACADEMY, FR The school. seeks a piano accompanist for their 2:30 to 3:45 p.m.

Wednesday chorus rehearsals; information: school office. 674-6100.

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ADORERS OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT, NB Holy hour. with celebrant Father Clement E. Dufour, pastor of St. George parish, Westport. 7 p.m.

Monday, St. Theresa's Church, New Bedford; refreshments follow. church hall; all welcome. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Theresa's every Friday after 9 a.m. Mass to 7 p.m. Benediction; all welcome; information on holy hour program: Angelo DeBortoli, 996-0332.

DCCW, NB New Bedford district council of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women presidents' meeting 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 3, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church hall. New Bedford.

SS. PETER & PAUL, FR Women's Club Christmas social and concert 7 p.m. Dec. 3; Father Coady Center; information: Mary Tyrrell: 672-0227. The parish school has begun a "~tar Search" program; one student from each classroom who exemplifies qualities of peace and justice and obeys classroom and schoolyard rules is chosen to "star" on the school bulletin board; October's stars were, kindergarten through grade eight: Jessica Silva, Michael Santos, Jillian Collard, Christine Pelletier, Louis Vieira, Kelly Gorman, Nicole Boudria, Jennifer Silva and Michelle Pereira! Eight students grades four through eight earned all "As" for the first quarter of the 198788 academic year; 31 other youngsters in those grades merited a place on the honor roll.

LaSALETTE CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN LIVING, ATTLEBORO The center's Good News newsletter has made its debut. Support groupfor divorced. separated and widowed meets 7 p.m. first and third Mondays of each month. Advent retreat and retreat for divorced. separated and/ or widowed persons both Dec. II to 13; information: 222-8530.

CATHOLIC NURSES, NB Communion breakfast 9:30 a.m.

Dec. 5. Sacred Heart Home, New Bedford; information and reservations: 996-6751, ext. 60 before 4:30 p.m.

ST. ANNE, NB The pastor announced in last week's Qulletin that he would personally· double any contributions made to the Campaign for Human Development by non-budget using parishioners. "The Messiah" will be performed at the parish by the Greater New Bedford Choral Society 7:30 p.m. Dec. 13. Day of Recollection for confirmation candidates and sponsors Dec. 12, parish hall.

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