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AT LAST SUNDAV'S Marian Medal ceremony at S1. Mary's Cathedral, Bishop Cronin meets with oldest men and women to receive the honor and (center) confers award on Mary T. Hurley ofthe Cathedral parish. At left with bishop, Melinda Santos, O.L. Assumption parish, New Bedford; Mary Silvia, Holy Family, East Taunton; Gladys Pickup, SS. Peter and Paul, Fall River;

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~~r::,ews CBS Ne orrespondent Charles Kuralt dQ four of his colleagues will take viewers on a behind-the-scenes tour of Roman Catholicism's spiritual and administrative center in "48 Hours Inside the Vatican," airing Thursday, Dec. 15, 8-9 p.m. EST on CBS. The period chosen for filming was . midweek, Nov. 15 and 16, though the crew returned the following Sunday in order to cover tne beatification ceremonies of an extraordinary. American woman, Blessed Katharine Drexel.

The program is not trying to make news but to report on a venerable institution and the people who are its representatives today.

Kuralt, host of "Sunday Morning," the weekly CBS news magazine, sets the tone when he remarks that the Vatican's morning begins with Mass, a practice that has been followed, he says with a bemused smile, "for 700,000 mornings, something like that."

Going from preparations for Mass in St. Peter's Basilica to the pope's private chapel, the camera briefly records Pope John Paul II in meditation before celebrating Mass. Observing the pope at prayer, newsman Kuralt comments on "what appears to be an intense, private dialogue with God." Part of the program follows the pope through the course of his work day. .

Reporting on the story of Mother Katharine Drexel's beatification is Bernard Goldberg who talks with Msgr. Robert Sarno of the Congregation for Sainthood Causes about the process for verifying miracles. Goldberg also interviews a young man whose hearing was saved through a miracle, attrib-' uted to the intercession of Mother Drexel.

Correspondent Susan Spencer reports on the Vatican's financial

difficulties. Explaining that the Vatican last year spent $63.8 million more than it took in is Card inalGiuseppe Caprio, president of the Prefecture of the Economic Affairs of the Holy See. Asked by Ms. Spencer why the Vatican does not make up this deficit by selling a few of its masterpieces, the cardinal replies that the Vatican's art treasures do not belong to th.e church but to the. world. Instead, the cardinal says, "We are begging and have faith that God will provide."

Former CBS Rome bureau chief Richard Roth talks about the Vatican's diplomacy as a sovereign state with Australian Archbishop Edward Cassidy, a leading official in the Secretariat of State.

Archbishop Cassidy, reacting to .

Roth's reference to 19th-century office methods, shows that even the Vatican has a paper shredder.

The archbishop refers to the Vatican's power as that of persuasion and notes "that is not a great power."

On the other hand, Roth talks with Frank Shakespeare, former CBS executive and now U.S. ambassador to the Holy See who tells him, "This is one of the best listening posts inthe world. Clearly, it is in our best interest to be here."

Kuralt contributes some human interest pieces, the best screened being a talk with Msgr. Charles Burns, a Scottish archivist. Msgr.

Burns shows the inquiring Kuralt a scroll sent from Genghis Khan to the pope and a petition from the lords of England requesting the pope grant a divorce to Henry VIII. Kuralt is slightly awed, remarking that handling these documents is "like touching history with your own hand." When asked if the pope drops into the archives very often, Msgr. Burns replies, "The Turn to Page Six

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Revised Vatican norms please U.S.colleges WASHINGTON (NC) - Vatican revisions have dramatically improved proposed norms on Catholic higher ed ucation and show more respect for cultural diversity, according to U.S. Catholic college officials who sought changes in the first draft of the norms.

The revised draft maintains the right of the church to insist on orthodoxy in teaching and states

that all Catholic univerSItIes are subject to some form of control by the church hierarchy.

But according to the new text, this control would·now be indirect and more elastic in many cases. An earlier reference to a necessary "juridical connection" between university and bishop has been dropped, and universities are no longer described as "a part of' the church but as "closely related to" the church.

Disciplinary policies are stated more generally in the revised norms, with the responsibility for devising specific procedures left to the universities and national bishops' conferences. .

The revised draft norms on the nature and purpose of Catholic universities were written by the Congregation for Catholic Education and sent to bishops and educational institutions in November.

The first draft, published in 1985, met with sharp criticism from some college presidents.

About 230 delegates from Catholic colleges and universities around the world will meet to discuss the document with Pope John Paul and Vatican officials April 18-25.

The revised draft maintains the right of the church to insist on orthodoxy in teaching and says that all Catholic universities are subject to some form of control by the church hierarchy. But, according to the new text, the control would be indirect and more flexible on controversial issues of governance and discipline.

Ursuline Sister Alice Gallin, executive director of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, said the revised draft is "a much better document to work from."

There has been "a great improvement over the first ·draft. They really seem to have paid attention to the responses" from presidents of Catholic colleges, according to Sister Gallin, whose organization represents U.S. Catholic colleges.

In Fe1>ruary 1986, her association had prepared a synthesis in which 110 college presidents said the norms would violate standards of academic freedom and would result in the loss of accreditation of Catholic colleges.

Sister Gallin said the revised draft has "greater clarity about the different kinds of institutions" and "highlights the cultural diversity (among colleges)." She said it is important for the norms to take into consideration the culture, history, civil laws and higher educational structure of each country..

The revised draft calls the Catholic university "a place of dialogue between the Gospel and the contemporary culture in which both are enriched."

U.S. college presidents will discuss the document at the association's annual meeting, which will be held Feb. I in Washington. Sister Gallin said the presidents will be able to give "instructions" to the 18 U.S. delegates chosen by the association to attend the April meeting in Rome.

Christian Brother Peter Clifford of the U.S. Catholic Conference called the revised draft "a much better document than it was" but said that "lots of areas" still need improvement, especially in the second part· on norms. The 54page document includes a long introduction and 72 norms that are to become part of a university's "Catholic identity."

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WASHINGTON (NC) - The Christian, life is "a sack race ... not a IOO-yard dash" with speed or the mile with endurance. ."You hop along" on the spiritual road. It takes "a lot ofIuck and it's awkward."

So saysJ.F. Powers, the Catholic fiction writer whose novel, "Wheat That Springeth Green," was one five fiction works nominated for a NC photo 1988 National Book Award.

J.F. POWERS Powers only other novel, "Morte d'Urban," won the prestigious people in distress," said Powers. award in 1963.

And it's no coincidence that the Both of Power's novels are about resurrection leads him to "fIoly priests, the specialty' of the .writer, Cross," a new parish assignment in who has been compared to novethe inner city. list Graham Greene.

Powers first wanted t,o call the Powers spoke about his new novel "The Sack Race," but became novel in a telephone interview from entranced by the phrase "that Collegeville, Minn., where he springeth green" from a carol he teaches writing at St. John's saw in a hymnal, he said. To him, University. the words sounded "like a bird takPriests are at the hub of "ironies ing off - a physical act of beauty." that cluster about them," he said He also feared that "The Sack to explain his fascination with Race" was not, a "big enough" clergy. name for a book about the death If a priest goes out to dinner, and resurrection of an ordinary Powers asked, does he order a man who fell from his idealism but drink? who is "coming out of it and get"He's damned if he does or if he ting up off the floor." doesn't," he said. "The waitress But despite the high-sounding doesn't say what she's thinking theme - "Joe had been dead and but she is." he comes alive," Powers said -the Such observations are threaded author uses imagery which a child through the new work about Father racer could understand and uses Joe Hackett, a 1968 suburban pas- . sins, such as too much eating and tor in Minnesota who has traded drinking, to which any adult could seminary idealism for a life cen- relate. tered on parish money-changing, In the sack race a person can be booze, the Minnesota Twins and going along fine and then "you fall 'an occasional spat with church on your head and everybody bureaucrats. laughs," said Powers. But "nobody The fictional Father Hackett has the last laugh" be'cause "they're - resurrects, however, when he learns all in their own sack races." "what it's like to see people not as The falls embarrass the racers. well-to-do parishioners but as "You can't win in this life," Powers said, describing his own sack race and that of his wife of 42 years, who died of intestinal cancer last spring.

"It was infuriating to see and recognize that this devout, beautiful person was humiliated by her own disease. For me it was painful to see," said the 71-year-old Powers.

Powers spoke about' everyday events of life with the impatience that characterizes his Father Hackett, who answers a salesman's "Have a nice day" with a cynical "Don't preach at me."

The common farewell phrase irks Powers the professor.

"You teach a student for three or four years and as he goes off into the world he says, 'Have a nice day.''' he said. For that He will "look like an ass to anyone who can recognize an ass." It's "a cheap way of getting into everybody's good will;" a way of "pretending a . relationship is there which isn't like shaking hands with the person next to you in church."

It's part of the nation's "liturgy offakery," he added. "It's.tiresome to be with everyone putting on an act. It's painful" but "they think they're onto a good thing."

"Wheat That Springeth Green" is' in its fourth printing by publisher Alfred A. Knopf and has been released in a British edition.

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BETHESDA, Md. (NC) - A special federal advisory panel on fetal tissue completed work on its final report Dec. 5 with a majority of its members approving use of human fetal tissue derived from induced abortions in medical research.

With a 15-2 vote, the panel said the use of such tissue was acceptable public policy, but it recognized the "moral relevance" of using the tissue and called for appropriate guidelines' to keep deCisions on abortion totally independent of .decisions on tissue use.

Panel members Holy Cross Father James T. Burtchaell, professor at the University of Notre Dame, and Indiana attorney James Bopp Jr., general counsel for the Naitonal Right to Life Committee, voted against approval of fetal tissue use.

The final outcome reflected the panel's tentative vot~s taken during September and October meetings. Only 17 of the panel's 21 members were present and voting Dec. 5.

The panel's report said that acceptance of tissue use "must not obscure the profound moral dimensions of the issue of abortion," but added that the panel's charge was not "to attempt to settle the issue" or to weigh the "worthiness of competing principled perspectives" on it.

It said that "induced abortion creates a set of morally relevant considerations," but "that the possibility of relieving suffering and saving life cannot be a matter of moral indifference to those who shape and guide public policy.

The report was to go to a standing committee that advises Dr. James B. Wyngaarden, director of the National Institutes of Health.

In a written dissent, Father Burtchaell Bopp said they "must insist that whether or not this research is scientifically 'promising and legally permissible is beside the point if the procedure is ethically at fault."

The two also said that a key ethical question in the debate was who had the right to give "authentic consent" for the use of the tissue.

They argued that no one involved in the abortion could give such consent, including the mother, who by choosing an abortion "aban'dons her parental capacity to authorize research on that offspring and on his or her remains."

They added that any funding by the National Institutes of Health for such research would "institutionalize a collaboration" with the abortion industry.

In remarks submitted earlier, panel member Rabbi J., David Bleich, a law professor at Cardozo Law School in New York, also dissented from the majority view. He was not present to vote Dec. 5.

He said the duty to preserve life was more compelling right now than the duty to proceed with research using tissue that, despite life-saving potential, has still unknown therapeutic value and could; he felt, increase abortions.

Animal research and limited human research have shown' that fetal tissue transplants might become promising therapy for Parkinson's disease, diabetes and various neural diseases, although such efforts have met with mixed success so far.

In November, surgeons at'the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver transplanted human fetal cells into a man's brain to treat Parkinson's symptoms. The experimental procedurewas previously done in Mexico and Sweden.

Former federal Judge Arlin Adams, panel chairman, said his own longstanding opposition to abortion made him uncomfortable with research using fetal tissue but thathe voted with the majority because of the potential to save lives by using it.

The question of moral relevance and fetal tissue use was the first of 10 questions put to the panel by Dr. Robert E. Windom, U.S. assistant secretary for health, on the scientific, ethical and legal issues of tissue use.

The only one of the panel's answers that received unanimous support from the members urged that scientists continue research on using cell c~. in transplahts that "might te the need for fresh fetal tissu . ' .

The panel also said: - Payments and other forms of compensation associated with procurement of fetal tissue should be prohibited.

- Potential recipients of tissue and any other participants should be informed of the source of the tissue.

- The pregnant woman who aborts should not designate the transplant recipient.

- Fetal tissue from induced abortions should not be used in medical research without the prior consent of the woman, and such consent should comply with state law and the U'niform Anatomical Gift Act governing organ donation.

- The Hyde Amendment, banning most federally,funded abortions, would not be violated by federal funding of research using fetal tissue or covering costs in procurement because no funds would pay for abortions.

Not a Prison "Perha'ps some day the modern man willlearn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of man, .it is his home." - Walter Farrell, OP .

Diocese of Fall River

OFFICIAL Reverend Bernard Vanasse from Parochial Vicar at Holy Name parish in Fall River to sick leave.

Effective December 7, 1988.

Husbands'right ·to halt abortions is denied WASHINGTON (NC) - For the second time in two weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court refused Nov...

28 to hear a case involving a husband's right to intervene in his wife's decision to abort their child.

A Michigan man, Carlton Lewis, 25, had attempted unsuccessfully last summer to stop his estranged wife, Shawn Kathleen Lewis, from ending a pregnancy which resulted from the couple's brief reconciliation in July. .

For seven weeks, Michigan court orders barred Mrs. Lewis from aborting. A later Michigan appeals court ruling allowed her to have the abortion, which she did in October.

The appeals court decision was based on the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortions and the high court's 1976 ruling which overturned a Missouri law requiring a wife to have·her husband's consent before obtaining an abortion.

In September the Supreme Court justices refused to stop Mrs. Lewis from obtaining an abortion while the case was pending.

In the earlier case, the Supreme Court Nov. 14 refused to hear a case filed by Erin A. Conn of Elkhart, Ind., who had attempted to prevent his estranged wife, Jennifer, from obtaining an abortion.

The appeals court ruled that Conn "has no right to veto" his wife's decision because "such decision concerns only her."

Conn brought the case to the Indiana Supreme Court, which upheld the'appeals court ruling and cited Roe vs. Wade.

The restraining order was lifted July 22 and Conn made an emergency appeal to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice John Paul Stevens. Both denied his request and Mrs. Conn obtained the abortion.

BISHOP VAUGHAN talks with Constable Patty Kunder, left, and clerk Linda Miller as he is processed before serving his two-day sentence. (NC photo)

Bishop Vaugh~n serves 2 days in jail PHILADELPHIA (NC) - New York Auxiliary Bishop Austin B. Vaughan was among seven prolife activists who served jail terms Nov. 27-28 at the Chester County jail in Pocopson, Pa., for their part in an' Operation Rescue demonstration last July at an abortion clinic. He is. considered possibly the first U.S. bishop to be jailed for such a cause.

The bishop and the others surrendered to county prison authorities at noon Nov. 28, to begin serving two-day sentences. They were' released Nov. 29.

A jail spokeswoman said the county district court's instructions on sentencing defined "two days" as beginning on one day and ending the next.

Upon his release the bishop celebrated a private Mass at St. Norbert Church in Paoli, Pa., and returned to New York.

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Bishop Vaughan, who has been arrested in four anti-abortion protests since last May, was among 591 demonstrators arrested for

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He added that he would offer his regular Sunday Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral for the bishop "in gratitude for your faith" and that he was "proud to be your bishop."

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Of the 591, 405 protesters, including Bishop Vaughan, declined to pay a $10 fine and court costs of $50.50 assessed at trials held between Aug. 26 and Oct. 21.

At the request of prison authorities, the first 90 protesters were to be jailed in small groups from Nov. 28 to Dec. 16. Jail time for the others was· to be scheduled after the holidays.

The Paoli demonstration was sponsored by Operation Rescue, a group that has sponsored or inspired hundreds of demonstrations across the United States.

New York Cardinal John J. O'Connor emphasized his support of Bishop Vaughan in a letter in which he said, "What you do today you do for all of us who want with all of our hearts to do the same but are not free to do so at present."

"Many eyes will be upon you as you enter prison and as you leave," the cardinal wrote. "But I know the last thing you want is to be considered a hero."

He added that after his brief imprisonment, Bishop Vaughan would "emerge alive" and "would prefer the world to remember that during that same period countless preborn babies will ~ave been put to death in their mothers' wombs.

They will not emerge alive."

Tpe cardinal said the bishop's

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Justices Marshall, Blackburn and Brennan have high marks .as three of the court's most consistently liberal members. They are also the oldest and all are quite in(irm. If they retire, Bush could change the complexion of the court for years to come.

His views on such vital topics as abortion, school prayer, the death penalty, drug testing and prisoners' rights could be put to the test by the people he might nominate to the court. This strikes fear into the hearts of American Civil Liberties Union members and their limousine liberal following. Why do you think they worked so very hard to defeat Bush?

If MarshaJI, Blackburn and Brennan are replaced by con- . servatives and join with J.ustices Rehnquist, Scalia, O'Connor and Kennedy, there is little doubt but that liberalism will face harsh times. Justice Stevens, President Ford's nominee, is considered by many to be moderate. Yet he is suspect by the ACLU. But a one-sided court should not be endorsed. In our democracy it is imperative that the Supreme Court not be dominated by a particular political philosophy. Rather,it should be the independent and moderate balance between the Congress and the presidency. It should be above partisanship as intended from its inception.

Unfortunately, this has not been the situation. For the last 50 years, the court has been the yo-yo of the majority. From FDR to Ronald Reagan, court appointments have not been made on an independent basis but have simply reflected the views of the party in power.

As a result, for the past generation court decision.s have not been impartial. They have been power decrees. Whoever had the most votes, whether liberal or conservative, has claimed the day in court. Very few Supreme Court decisions in recent memory could rightly be described as independently arrived at. This is both inevitable and deplorable. .

It is the former because.the court has been the playground of liberalism. It has not made decisions; it has caused them to be; it has not applied existing laws; it has created new laws for a particular philosophical base.

Thus, serious issues plague the nation. The intrusion of the court into the marketplace of morals and mores has had a 'devastating effect. The abortion issue is a clear example of court determination to become the god of secularism, an issue dear to ACLU hearts. In addition to the daily murderous results of Roe vs. Wade, the effect of the decision has been to erode the constitutional"right to life of all citizens. This is but one area in which court action has caused a conservative groundswell which is likely to affect the future of the cou"rt.

F or several reasons, swinging from side to side is deplorable in an institution such as the Supreme Court. The court should be above and beyond political whims. It should not be right or left. Justice must stand in the middle and justice is of its nature independent and free from coercion. When the court loses its independent vision, people react with rage and revenge and the country ends with anarchy, not justice.

As George Bush prepares to take office, it is to be hoped that he will manifest sufficient vision, strength and insight to avoid the mistakes of the past in his relations with the Supreme Court. May he also 'be resolved to raise the court above the arena of the petty politics which refuses. to see the distinction between liberty and license, reason and revolution, truth and tyranny.

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"Humanae Vitae": what's that?

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Twenty years after "Humanae Vitae" was born amid controversy and .protest, Pope Paul VI's famous encyclical on contraception and marital love is old enough to have a generation gap.

According to the encyclical's supporters, drawn to Rome for a series of conferences marking the anniversary, today's seminarians are significantly more open to the church's teachings on sexuality and contraception than their predecessors.

The real problem, they say, is not opposition but ignorance: A whole new generation of young Catholics does not know what the fuss is all about.

Three recent conferences addressed "H umanae Vitae" from the point of view of moral theologians, bishops and students.

Backers of the church's teaching, like Msgr. Carlo Caffarra of the John Paul II Institutefor Marriage and the Family and U.S. theologians Germain Grisez and William May, fired traditional salvos at dissenting theologians and the havoc they say has been wreaked upon the church's teaching authority.

But several participants also struck a note of optimism, predicting that "the times, they are The Editor achanging."

"The time is right for a more open response to路 'Humanae Vitae:" said May, a theologian at The Catholic University of AmeriCll, Washington. In November, he 1 was a featured speaker at a world .$PAPER.dF THE DIO垄ESE Of F'i14LRIVER congress of moral theologians, sponsored by Msgr. Caffarra's institute The Ca'~Qllc Pres$of4he Dioces II River and Opus Dei's Holy Cross AcaighlY.nue . 路 . 9X 7 ." ". . demic Center. o

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ians today have a more open attitude to the encyclical's message than those in the past.

"They see a lot of the problems"

wltn contraception and its effect on society "that weren't evident to their predecessors:' he said.

Jesuit Father Bartholomew Kiely, a professor at Rome's Gregorian University, agreed.

Another one-time-doubter-turned-defender, Father Kiely said he has seen a "big change" in the past 10 years in attitudes of the Gregorian's theology students.

For Fa'ther Kiely, the opposi-' tion to Pope Paul's pronouncement on artificial birth control was part and parcel of the heady days of 1968, when young people took to the streets and the sexual revolution was in full flower. ,Today people have lost the faith in technology that characterized that period and are "more sober" in their attitudes toward marriage, the family and society, he said..

Those who argue that a new generation of Catholics is turning toward the church's position point to a two-day conference in Rome in late October for 350 seminarians and religious on the church's . sexual teachings.

What made the conference unusual was that it was organized by Stephen Langridge, an enterprising English seminarian studying in Rome. .

Langridge said the conference grew out of his frustrations with a moral theology 'course that ended without ever having explained the difference between natural family planning and contraception.

Last March Langridge began planning a seminar that would "present the teachings of 'Humanae Vitae' in a positive way to those who will be engaged in pastoral ministries."

Unlike the other Rome conferences, Langridge's seminar did not include attacks on dissenters.

"That's what we get endlessly in our theology courses," he said.'

Instead it 'focused' on scientific explanati~ms of contraception and natural family planning placed in

the context of the church's theology of sexuality.

But if a new generation of clergy and religious is ready to enroll in Pooe John Paul Irs campaign on behalf of "Humanae Vitae," others say they will have their work cut out for them.

In the schools and churches and daily lives of average Catholics, ignorance of what the church teaches far outweighs active dissent, according to those in the field.

This ignorance involves not oilly the church's reasons for forbidding contraception, but also its reasons for supporting natural family planning methods.

Father Robert Batule of the diocese of Rockville Centre, N.Y., has helped prepare dozens of young couples for marriage in the three years since he has been ordained.

Only three of those couples had ever heard of "Humanae Vitae," he said.

In an effort to get the word out, Father Batule not only presents the church's position in his marriage preparation courses, but preaches on it as well, including twice last summer.

In Nance Millar's book, that makes him a real rarity.

A counselor in their archdiocesan school system in Sydney, Australia, Mrs. Millar said she cannot remember ever hearing a homily preached on the encyclical.

She said the continued theological battling over the encyclical misses the point that its teachings about the value of marriage and the meaning of sexuality are not being communicated to the laity, particularly the young.

Her contact with high school students and their parents has convinced her that "Humanae Vitae" needs a "re-presentation" of its ideas, and a "good PR job" as well.

In the words of Father Batule, "The final word on 'Humanae Vitae' from the average C,atholic may not be 'N 0,' but 'What?' "

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to work at a shelter for disturbed and abused adolescents where he is paid to talk and listen as a counselor.

Since we are both involved in picked up my plane ticket, saw the the area of psychology, we share price; and said, "Wow! You had to articles about movements and pay a lot of money for this." ' studies in our field. Recently his "I didn't have to pay," I said earlier reaction to my earning defensively, foolishly presuming money by talking came up for he was accusing me of encroaching amusement when we read about a upon his Adidas monies.

California institution called Pre"You mean they pay your plane natal University. Yes, you read it ticket'?" he asked, eyes widening. correctly.

I realized then that he didn't Run by an obi gyn specialist in understand that I was working prenatal psychology, this school when I left home. Like many oth- for pregnant women holds that ers in our society who view any seven month-old fetuses can hear . plane trip as a lark, he thought I and learn to understand what was off on vacations in'terrupted mothers say. Mothers-to-be fashion occasionally by long visits home to large paper megaphones, direct empty the hamper and fill the them toward their bulging stomrefrigerator. I decided to fill him in achs, and say, "Pat, rub, and on the nature of my work.

- squeeze" as they do the same.

The claim of the "University" is "Mike, they pay all my expenses - plane, hotel, food. And they that .its thousand after-fetus alumnae sit, walk and talk sooner than pay me for my lectures, too."

He looked at me dumbstruck as their peers who weren't patted, the real meaning of what I said rubbed or squeezed. What- this dawned on him. Then he said with portends for parents is staggering. incredulity, "You mean people pay My guess is that parents offirstto hear you talk'?" borns are delighted. But who wants "Yes," I said and couldn't resist a second or third-born to walk at adding, "and you get me for free nine months'? "Please, God, leave and you don't even listen." He ' him sedentary, just a few more didn't listen. months, please," breathes the That was many years ago and young parent as she chases an this same son, now 23, frequently active two-year-old. "I can 'only drives me to the airport on his way handle one at a time."

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I don't wish to demean the dreams of parents who link early infant development with future adult success but I agree with noted child psychologist Virginia Satir who claims that babies have a right to babyhood. Their task is to be babies, not three-year-olds.

More, they have a right to coo and explore on their own timetables, not on a "University" level.

So often young parents buy into the early-start idea only to find that their children are innately wiser than they. When parents subscribe to the popular notion of giving their children the advantage of prenatal enrichment and the infant develops normally, is that child abnormal'? Is he delegated to the category of self-willed child'? Is the parent cheated'? Can he sue the Prenatal University for malpractice'?

Children are children and parents are parents. Ever it will be.

Probably the best characteristic of prenatal conversation is that kids can't talk back.

But when they do, what then'?

I don't know whether it was because he had the good Irish name of Denny Hogan, or because he came from a solid Catholic background. Perhaps it was hisresp\,=ct for me as a friend and priest. I do know that as I watched him work I felt this plumber was not far from my turf of priestly ministry.

Of all times, this feeling hit me on a Christmas morning in Illinois, I had just finished Mass. We were enjoying a heat wave. Instead of -12 degrees with a wind chill index of -74, the temperature had risen to zero.

As I returned home from church with my parents, the phone rang.

It was my brother in the next town. A pipe had just burst in his newly decorated recreation room.

In a pleading voice he asked me to call my friend, Don Hogan, a plumber.

I assured him we would try but that he couldn't expect anyone to come out on Christmas morning.

I called my friend who in fum called his son, Denny, his assist"ant. Within a half hour Denny, the father .of two young children, was at my brother's home. .

He punched a hole through the ceiling where the water was dripping. Suddenly the entire ceiling caved in right where my 4-monthold niece ofien sits' in her swing.

Gallons of water poured down.

As Denny replaced the broken pipe I could see relief in my brother's eyes. I too felt warm gratitude for having a friend who turned a possible costly disaster, in terms of repairs and even life, into a routine repair.

Then the thought hit me: "Wait a minute, I am supposed to be the one who brings comfort in moments of crisis. What am I doing here standing helpless while a lay person who has sacrificed his Christmas morning ministers to me and my family'?"

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I have a suspicion that many priests and men and women religious have had a similar feeling at times. After all, aren't we the ones trained to be on call at all times'? .

And hasn't society come to expect this'?

The Christmas morning incident made me more aware .of all those other sacrificing persons who assist those stranded by winter's caprices.

I wonder if what we are seeing in . those persons is actual grace: God prompting another person to move as he moves. I think that everyone who has been in a desperate situation and received relief through another's help will tell you after it is over that they were touched by the moment. . In a time when the daily news is' anything but good it is easy to have the impression the world is in a very bad way. It is possible to overlook the fact that there are

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Q. Iknow thatthel'nihil obstat" and "imprimatur" are official declarations that a book or pamphlet is free of do~trinal or moral error and those who have granted them agree with the contents or statements expressed.

Since I always look for these approvals when reading a book, I was concerned when I was about to read the life of a saint which did not have this approval. I was then told that these permissions are not needed on books about saints, only for books on theology. Could you explain the church's stand on this? (Texas) A. Some significant changes have occurred in recent years in the church's understanding of an "imprimatur" although their exact nature is not yet clear.

For a long time an "imprimatur" (Latin for "it may be printed") was given, usually by a local bishop, to declare that. a book or pamphlet was free of doctrinal or moral errors.

Normally accompanying it was a "nihil obstat" (Latin for "nothing stands in the way"), a statement by someone well-versed in theology meaning basically the same thing, that the work was free of error.

Incidentally, neither then. nor now does either of these imply agreement with the content, merely that nothing in the writing contradicts Catholic doctrine.

In recent years the Vatican has changed the understanding of an "imprimatur." In 1983 and 1984, for example, in connection with removing the "imprimatur" from a

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The "imprimatur" in that particular case should be removed, the Doctrinal Congregation wrote to tht: archbishop of Newark, N.J., "since even a [theologically] corrected version would not be suitable as a catechetical text" (March 29, 1983).

Early in 1985 the Doctrinal Congregation repeated its concern for methodology in catechetical texts in granting "imprimaturs." Because they're not being presented as catechetical texts, many recent books dealing with Catholic spirituality, morals and doctrine do not carry an "imprimatur." _ I suspect only experience will remove much uncertainty over the exact n~ture of an "imprimatur" and which books mayor should have one A free brochure outlining marriage ~regulations in the Catholic' Church and explaining the promises in an interfaith marriage is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Blooming- . ton, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address.

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High court refuses review of "wrongful birth" case the statute of limitations for malWASHINGTON (NC) - The practice actions," the state court U.S. Supreme Court has barred a said.

Missouri couple whose child has The Missouri court also said Down's syndrome from suing their that in such suits the right to recdoctor for not telling them a test over damages restsonlyona woman's would have detected the defect testimony - "long after the fact prior to birth. and when it is in her financial The court, without comment, interest to do so " - that she refused to review a "wrongful would have chosen an abortion birth" claim by the par~nts, Carl had the physicia'n only informed and Barbara Wilson, who said her of the amniocentesis test. they would have chosen abortion Th~ state Supreme Court of if they had known the child had North Carolina and the legislathe disorder. tures of some other states have 路The Wilsons sued Dr. Donald Kuenzi of Gladstone, Mo., after also refused to allow "wrongful birth" suits. their son, Robert, was born with Last January, when the District Down's Syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes mental retarda- of Columbia Court of Appeals reinstated a case brought against. tion and other defects.

Mrs Wilson, who was 37 when an obstetrician, a Catholic official said "wrongful birth" and "wrongshe gave birth, and her husband cited medical evidence that the ful life" suits "classify the lives of human beings with disabilities as risk of a child having the syn'wrong,' They tend to coerce phydrome is about one in 1,000 when sicians against their better judgthe mother is in her 20s and ment to promote prenatal diagnoincreases to one in 300 when she is sis and selective abortion," 36.

The official, Richard DoerflinThe couple claimed that their ger of the National C:onference of doctor failed to inform thelp that ! Catholic Bishops' Office for Pro: an amniocentesis test can detect Life Activities,' commented the . genetic defects in fetuses. . District of Columbia court rein, The Wilsons sued Kuenzi for stated a "wrongfuL birth" suitdamages for negligence on their brought against an obstetrician by own behalf, a "wrongful life" a woman whose daughter was born claim.

Down's syndrome., The case reached the Supreme The judges' said if the mother, Court after Missouri's Supreme Carolyn Haymon, could prove at Court had dismissed it. a trial that her doctor deprived her The state court said that even of her right to an abortion, the though a 1986 Missouri law bar- doctor c路ould. be held liable for ring such suits could not be appmedical and other expenses coverlied retroactively to the Wilsons' ing the care of the child.

Doerflinger said that by upholdcase; the suit conflicted with the state's policy on personal injury ing such suits courts become "tools" claims, or torts. of those who advocate abortion "A finding ... that we will not and could make. it "legally and create and will not recognize either financially impossible" for pro-life physicians to practice obstetrics. a new tort for wrongful life or for wrongful birth is in our opinion Will of Life totally compatible with the policy consideration expressed by our "The will of life is love and he legislature in attempting to limit who dwelleth not in love is dead,"

YVONNE PREVOST and Jason Vaillancourt, respectively chairman and an assistant computer specialist for the 'recent 50th anniversary celebration of S1. Jean Baptiste School, Fall River, hold appreciation gift~. The celebration began with Mass and concluded with a dinner. Over 300 alumni and friends attended. (Gaudette photo)

Norms please colleges Continued from Page One Brother Clifford is. USCC staff assistant for higher education and campus ministry.

Marianist Brother Raymond L. Fitz, president of the University of Dayton and a delegate to the April meeting, said the draft is "dramatically improved. The first draft was really a schema, an outline. It lacked the nuances. necessary for a document like this," He said the second .draft, which is almost twice as long as the first, provides those necessary iluances.

Brother Fitz also said he was impressed by "the better respect for geographic differences and cultural differences," This is important, he said, because "each institution has grown up (with) a particular legal understanding of the church-state relationship" and

路Bishop's Ball at White's of Westport The 34th annual Bishop's Charity Ball will be held at White's of Westport, on Friday Jan.. 13, from 8 p.m. to I a.m. DecoratIOn setup is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan.. 10, and presentees' rehearsal at 6:30 p.m., both at White's. All

presentees and their' escorts are asked to be present.

Mrs. James A. O'Brien Jr. of Fall River heads the presentee committee and Victor F. Rebello Jr. and Dorothy A. Curry, both of New Bedford are honorary ball

chairmen. Robert McGuirk of North Dighton is master of ceremonies.

Ball tickets may be purchased at any rectory in the diocese or from committee members.

"it's important that there's respect for the legislative norms that have grown up," According to Brother Fitz, the ,revised draft has done a good job of allowing for geographical and cultural differences by calling on the bishops' conference in each country to help resolve problems at Catholic universities in certain areas. t He sees "the seeds of a major development" in the draft's look at Catholic theology in the university setting. The draft includes what he called potentially groundbreakiilg discussion of the relationship between the theologian and the church's teaching authority..

Brother Fitz said he did not have problems, as did' Brother Clifford, with the second part of the draft that deals specifically with the norms. "I think the norms as they are point in pretty positive direction," he said.

Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh, retired president of the University of Nortre Dame, said Dec. 5 that he had time to read only the first part of the document.

He found it "quite good, a big advance over the last draft" because it is more flexible and "a lot more understanding of the ecumenical nature of Catholic colleges in the United States."

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BISHOP'S BALL committee chairmen and members' meet with Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director ofthe cha,rity event. From left, Mrs. James A. O'Brien Jr..' presentee program; Mrs. John MacDonal~ and Mrs.. Stanley ~a~ick, decorating commIttee; Mrs. : Michael J. McMahon-.cand-,Mrs. RIcha,nl. Paulson, bO,spltahty. (Gaudette photo-) _ . . .

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DETROIT (NC) - The director of the Detroit-Windsor Refugee Coalition predicts a "huge influx" of Central American immigrants into the area as the result of a new Canadian law designed to tighten the border against people seeking asylum.

The number of immigrants has already increased to the point that the coalition has had to arrange temporary housing at religious motherhouses.

Tim McCabe, coalition director, said the Canadian law, to take effect before Jan. I, would significantly lengthen the screening process before refugee claimants could enter Canada.

Currently, an applicant for refu'gee status in Canada is supposed to wait 60 days, "but it's more like , four months," said McCabe.

McCabe said that under the new law, immigrants seeking refugee status in Canada would be refused if- they came through a "safe" second country, and the United States is considered safe. He said applicants coming through the United States would probably be denied entry automatically without possibility of appeal.

Detroit borders Windsor, Ontario, a Canadian entry point. . McCabe said the coalition is rtinning out of money to care for the increased number of immigrants and has appealed to groups, churches and individuals for contributions..

He 'also said that if refused by Canada, those immigrants mostly from war.-torn ~I Salvador ,and Guatemala - face almost certain deportation by U.S. immigration .officials.

The majority of Salvadorans and many Guatemalans entered the United States after 1982, the cutoff date for legalization of applicants under the 1986 U.S. immigration reform law. Only a small percentage of Salvadorans and Guatemalans applying for U.S. refugee status have received it.

McCabe also expressed concern about.another new Canadian law that stipulates any person coming to the border without a valid visa, passport or travel documents can be detained for the time it takes to secure those documents.

He said that many times, the "coyotes" who help Central American immigrants reach the United States rob them of any money or passports that can be sold on the black market.

The Canadian law also states that a person helping an immigrant secure those necessary doc'uments could face arrest for participating in an illegal activity.

Although McCabe said he believed the provision referred to people or companies that make money "dumping" immigrants at the Canadian border, he is concerned that he and other coalition members could be prosecuted for their work.

However, McCabe vowed to continue helping the immigrants "because we have a moral obligation to do SQ."

Continued from Page One pope's not much interested in history; he's more interested in making history," Perhaps what is most impressive about "48 Hours Inside the Vatican" is what has been made available to CBS cameras. An American priest, surprised at seeing a news team in the depths of the 'archives' map collection, says it's the Vatican's own version of' "glasnost."

At 20 Weeks This kind of access would have been surprising just a' few years At four and a half months. a f ago. One reason why such access is baby's fingernails are per ectly possible today is U.S. Archbishop formed and fingerprints exist; in John Foley, president of the Pon. tifical Commission for Social other words. the fetus is a unique Communications.' dperson with a legal identiW:~,

Ukrainians asked to show faith WASHINGTON (NC) - With Catholics in the Ukraine prevented from worshiping freely, U.S. Ukrainian Catholics must show the world "that the Ukrainian nation is a God-loving, religious people," said Bishop Basil H. Losten of the Ukrainian Diocese of Stamford, Conn.

In a homily at the recent dedication of the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family in Washington, Bishop Losten said, "We must do that which our silent church in the catacombs under Russian atheistic rule is prevented" from doing.

"While our brave bishops, priests, religious and laity in Ukraine are prevented from worshiping in the churches built by the zeal of our ancestors," he said, Ukrainians outside the Soviet Union have a "sacred moral obligation" to share their faith with the world.

After World War II, when the Ukraine was incorporated into the Soviet Union, the UJuainian Catholic Church was outlawed and members forced to join the Russian Orthodox Church. It is estimated that as many as 4 million Catholics secretly practice their faith in the Ukraine.

Construction of the National Shrine of the Holy Fa~ily began in 1979. Its $4.5 million cost was donated by the 300,000 members of the four U.S. Ukrainian Catho.lie dioceses.

Dedication of the shrine coincided with a yearlong celebration of the 1,000th anniversary of Christianity in the Ukraine. Its design is 'a contemporary version of Kievan baroque, including, the characteristic three domes topped with 23-karat gold leaf.

The shrine is in Northeast Washington, near Catholic University and the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

youth ministers. Carotta compared THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Dec. 9, 1988 youth ministry to midwifery in that it provides activities which help young people give birth to their own spirituality; and he likened religious education to the function of an adoption agency in that it passes on the characteristics "1tOMI IIAlJI6 of a Catholic identity and knowl(OUIICIL MlMfl" edge of faith.

"Young people," he said, "must FOI "OIlA'1 14 Hou' S'"'("p be touched at levels of mind and Cho,I~, V~lolo. p,~, .heart, with neither aspect more important than the other."

He also noted that one's first name provides an individual identity, while one's last name connects a person to his or her family.

Youth ministry, he said, attends to the individual, while religious OfACf ., OAII GlM AVI .• fAll IMI education stresses one's connection to the larger Catholic-family.

Quoting from "Adolescent Catechesis," he, said that catechesis should be ongoing, not leading to "sacramental conclusions" as in the case of first communion and confirmation classes; it shl;>uld (HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT MEDJUGORJE?l, ' integrate evangelization, catechesis and service; it should be'ar in 933 PLEASANT ST•• FUNT VILLAGE PWA • FALL RIVER • 677-2544 mind that youth are not yet adult.

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Carotta said a youth program should have an underlying theme, RELIGIOUS CHARMS. CHAINS. RINGS. Etc. interpreted in various ways for differing age levels.

He said two basic questions should be considered in all planALL SIZES • INDOOR and OUTDOOR • MANY ning for youth: "Upon which, UNIQUE PIECES! avenues can we walk together to discover the dreams of our young people? How can we enable them to' fulfill their dreams within the WIDE ,SELECTION larger dream of the Church?"

The answers to those questions "are the stuff of God's dream for MUSIC. NOVELTIES. BOOKS. BIBLES. CRUCIFIXES our young Catholic Church," he concluded.

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He told the East Freetown audience that 26 percent of 16 to 20-year-oldsdrop out ofthe Catholic Church due to stress-related issues and that those who return do so either because they develop a good relationship with a person within the church or have a positive experience while participating in a church activity.

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Clandestine Mass serves migrants RANCHO PENSAQUITOS, Calif. (NC) - Every Saturday in an outdoor church with a packed dirt floor, the pastor and parishioners of Our Lady of Mount , Carmel Church in Rancho Pensaquit os celebra~e Mass with hundreds of m'en from Mexico and Central America.

Up to 500 migrant agricultural workers - men and boys who are in the United States illegally -live in the brush of Black Mountain, north of San Diego.

"I consider them part of the parish, because they are Catholics who live within our boundaries," said Msgr. Henry F. Fawcett, pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

"The fact that they live in the brush is immaterial," Msgr. Fawcett told the Southern Cross, newspaper of the Diocese of San Diego.

Mass.is celebrated in both Spanish and English before a 4-foot-tall wooden cross. Nearby is a small , shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Almost 100 volunteers from the . parish are part of an organized effort to bring the men and boys food, clothing and other material goods, Msgr. Fawcett said. They also offer friendship and spiritual comfort.

MSGR. FAWCETT gives holy communion to a migrant worker at the weekly outdoor Mass. (NC photo) "These men did not come to the church for help," he said. "We became aware of their presence by chance. We'd see them in the local supermarket. In time, we realized that they needed more than material assistance."

Msgr. Fawcett and his parishioners are tight-lipped about ,the exact location of the migrants and their outdoor church. The possibility of a mass arrest and deportation by U.S. border patrol agents is a constant threat. . ',.

After Mass, the congregation shares coffee and _homemade burritos, and food for later in the week is distributed to the migrants.

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Ann Glover was an elderly Irish Catholic woman who was unjustly hanged as a witch in Boston on Nov. 16, 1688. Deported from her native Ireland to the Barbados during the religious persecutions of the 17th century, she came to Boston with her daughter after her husband had died in that English colony. She had been living in Boston for at least six years when she was brought to trial for allegedly exercising an evil influence over the four children of John . Goodwin, a Boston mason in whose household she and her daughter and been employed as servants.

Rev. Cotton Mather, who gives the details of her prosecution in his writings, had relentlessly pursued her case. As the guardian of orthodoxy in Puritan Boston, he could not allow a dissenter like Glover to live there and secretly practice her Catholic faitp. Although he claimed that Glover, who spoke Gaelic (Mather had to obtain his information through translators), had confessed to being a witch, Mather failed to act in accord with s'uch an alleged confession.

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The Order of Alhambra is an international organization of Catholic men founded in 1904. Its original purpose was to commemorate events, persons and sites significant in the history of Catholicism on the continent of North America. Since 1959, it has been devoting itself mainly to helping the handicapped and the retarded. The Pope's Memorial on Boston Common, commemorating the visit of Pope John Paul II to Boston in 1979, was erected by the Order of Alhambra.

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GUILLERMO Garcia Rodriguez and his family, outside their Tijuana home. (NC photo)

Migrants pay This article continues a series of articles on Hispanic Catholics in the United States. By bilingual National Catholic News Service reporter Laurie Hansen, they are meant to reflect the variety of the Hispanic presence. The "De Colores" logo comes from a Span, ish folksong used as a theme song during the popular Cursillo retreat, which originated in Spain. The lyrics of "De Colores" speak of uni- versality and racial harmony.

TIJUANA, Mexico (NC) - Migrants deciding to cross the U.S.Mexico border pay a very high price in terms of family unity and psychological well-being, said church workers and migrants themselves.

At the same time, they said in interviews with National Catholic News Service, hope that their children will have a better life than they have had is a primary reason for making the move.

Faith in God helps migrants cope with the isolation they face and risks they take, they said.

"Most believe when crossing the border that God is crossing with them," said Father Peter Dunn, a Missionary of Charity who works in a squatters' barrio on the outskirts of Tijuana where many migrants from southern Mexico and Central America have settled. The priest is director of aspirants at a formation house opened in June

by Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

Immigrants from south of the border who have settled in the lower Rio Grande valley are "people with a very strong faith, a lot of dependence on God and great resilience," said Father Ed Roden, pastor of La Purisima Catholic Church in Socorro, Texas, near EI Paso.

"I don't see any self-pity. They have pride in their work and who they are," said the priest, who added that illegal aliens by the thousands cross the border into EI Paso each month.

But family life is threatened because the migration of men to the United States often leaves "wives without husbands and children without fathers," said Tijuana Bishop Emilio C. Berlie Belaunzaran.

Having left their extended families and network of "compadres" or godparents and moved to a foreign country, the migrants find themselves in "an anonymous so-

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ciety" in which religion is not stressed, he said.

While many who cross the border in search of work are successful . and send a portion of their earnings home, others fail to find jobs or encounter other difficulties, sai<;l . Bishop Beriie. " "If they fail, the psychology of the refugee comes into pl.ay -if a man cannot return to his hometown triumphantly, he will not ·return. He prefers to stay on the . border where people will not tell him, 'See, you sold everything you had and now you have nothing,' " said Bishop Berlie.

Like the United States, the bishop noted, Tijuana has become a magnet for migrants. He said 58 percent of Tijuana residents were born elsewhere.

Others'go to the- United States, are successful and never return, the bishop said. "Some who don't come back make new families, and cancel their family and religious links here. The price they pay is great."

Those who move either temporarily or permanently to the United States experience "a' tremendous change" in their relationship with the church, said Enrique Mendez, di"rector of the Padre Hidalgo Center for Hispanic ministry of the Diocese of San Diego.

"Practice of religion in Mexico, for example, is traditional. The priest governs. He does everything.

He is always there for his people.

"Here the rectory office is open lrom 9 to 5 ... and the parish ,secretary screens the visitors," said Mendez. Often, he said, there is little personal contact.' with the priest.

In the United States, Catholics are sent contribution envelopes and expected to pay weekly, he said. "There everything is voluntary. People are just asked to give and give gene.rously. There are no receipts saying 'tax-free,''' said Mendez.

price Guillermo Gatcia Rodriguez, 49, a native of the Mexican state of Michoacan, said his family is the reason he has decided to stop crossing the border' in' search of work.

In the past he frequently left behind his wife and four children, including a handicapped niece for whom he and his wife care, said Garcia in an interview conducted at his Tijuana home.

"But no more," he said. "One has to think of the children."

The Garcia family recently moved from Michoacan to a hillside barrio of Tijuana called Colonia Liberal-Hombre de la Reforma.

They live as squatters in a spotless one-room shack in a dust-filled neighborhood lacking running water, paved roads or a sewer system.

Like thousands of others from poverty-stricken regions of Mexico, they left home because the wages Garcia earned in construction were "too low ... I worked long hours but they paid me like a peon. There was not enough money to buy clothing."

In Tijuana - just over the hill from the homemade cardboard shacks that dot his neighborhood - Garcia works on a construction crew building condominiums "where wealthy Mexicans and business people from Japan and the United States live," he said. Mrs. Garcia works parttime cleaning the units before people move in.

"I ask God to continue giving us work so that the children can stay in school," said Garcia. Education, he believes, is the only way out of poverty.

"It's. essential to have faith," added his wife, pointing to a painting of Our Lady of Guadalupe that brightens the bare walls of her tiny home.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Dec. 9, 1988

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MARION E. FAHEY

A bridge builder Bf Joseph Motta Marion E. Fahey brings people together.

The 86-year-old, since 1911 a member of-St. Louis parish, Fall River, is, according to her pastor, Father Ciro Iodice, OFM, "a wonderful bridge builder" between "different personalities" in her church community.

The 1982 Marian medalist, a retired educator, has a remarkable resume of church and civic involvements and colorful memories of everything on that list.

Miss Fahey lives in Fall River's South End in the house where she was born and which,her late father, MichaelJ. Fahey, designed in 1883.

A grandfather who was a stonemason helped build St. Louis church, she added.

"Thomas Murphy, a very strong, robust Irishman," she remembers with a smile, "who never lost his brogue."

Miss Fahey said when she was 'about 15, she and other parish ,youth would collect door-to-door 'to benefit the Holy Angels ("And ~~we were no angels!"), a parish soCial/ youth group.

A 10-cent donation from any indi vid ual, she said, was con'sidered a good take. ~ Back then, she helRed at "church 'coffee suppers" by setting tables and running errands. Now, she's still active at parish events and, jenjoyin g every moment of it. i,; "We have a very vibrant, active parish," Miss Fahey says. "I hardly ,:have time to come home and do the housework!"

When the weather is nice, the ouse is clean and she finds herself ith a 'free moltienf or two, she ten opts to enroy the scene from ~R_ elaxing there, r front porcÂĽ. ',mbers all the e says, she od things s' experienced rough the year.s.

"It's so beautiful. It's a gift from 'the Lord" is how she describes many of the special events in her life.

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Miss Fahey taught in Fall River's public school system for 44 years and was principal of the Coughlin elementary school from 1958 to 1968.

"I love teaching," she said, explaining how important to her was the faith students had in her.

She notes, voice serious, how a young woman, a former student, once came to her to discuss a personal problem and cried on her shoulder.

But her followup statement is delivered with twinkling eyes. It seems Miss Fahey was wearing a thin blouse that day. "I was sopping wet!"

She was commissioned a eucharistic minister in 1982. "For me to touch the host!" she says. "I never get over that!"

She has been a lector and is the senior member of the St. Louis choir. She's sung with it for 66 years.

"I don't know' why those choir stairs are steeper than they were 60 years ago!" she jokes.

She said her first thought upon learning that she was a 1982 Marian Medal recipient was "This is beautiful!" but her next was "I ,don't feel worthy of this!"

The Fall Riverite is vice-president of her parish Women's Guild. A member since the 40s, she wrote the group's history last year.

The Fall River Catholic Woman's Club has also been a part of her life for some time.

Her mother, Elizabeth, a char,ter member, got her daughter involved.

"I was dragged to meetings before I was old enough to give a hoot," Miss Fahey laughs, noting though, that with time she became an interested, active ,'member on her own. , The under-protest "charter" member even ended, up serving the organization as registrar for about eight years.

Miss Fahey is also ~ member of the Fall River Woman's Club, a civic/ cultural group.

Daily Mass, "unless there's a serious reason I can't go," is part of Miss Fahey's lifestyle. She describes her parish as "close-knit" ,and the people as friendly.

She has seen the inner-city church's popUlation change from mostly Irish to mostly Portuguese.

She's impressed, she adds, with how giving the latter group is in working for their parish.

The senior calls her Franciscan pastor "an orator, full of enthusiasm" and is excited about her membership in the St. Louis Fraternity ofthe Immaculate Conception Province of the Secular Franciscan Order.

She enjoyed a long stint as the group's Postulant Instructor and is happy to report that three new postulants were received this year.

Miss Fahey also belongs to the local and national units of both the American Association of Retired Persons and those of retired teachers. She actively supports the Congregation ofthe Sisters ofJesus Crucified in Newport, R.I., and is a member of that community's S1.

Paul Priory Guild.

Traveling holds special joys for Miss Fahey.

A trip with Father Paul Rotondi, OFM, a former S1. Louis pastor, brough~ her to all the most famous cathedrals of Europe.

That tour of Catholic Europe provided many happy memories.

In Austria, for example, Miss Fahey remembers looking out a hotel window at night and seeing a large group of pilgrims, each holding a lighted candle, walking down a mountain road en route to a Benediction service.

"A gift from God," she says.

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THIS PHOTOGRAPH of cloistered Dominican Sister Catherine Marie driving a tractor on the II-acre grounds of Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park, Calif., made Sister Mary of the Holy Spirit one of 100 winners in an "American Woman" photography contest by Parade magazine and Eastman Kodak Co.

Winter tips that shoveling snow puts added strain on your heart. Don't be ashamed to ask for help if you need it.

If you plan to travel, make sure your car is in good operating condition. Keep extra clothes and nonperishable foods in the trunk along with a blanket, flashlight and first aid gear.

Try not to travel alone. Plan trip routes carefully, let a friend know where you're going and keep your gas tank full.

At home, keep emergency phone â&#x20AC;˘ numbers handy. Load up on nonparishables and get a batterypowered radio.

Flashlights, candles and extra medi~ine could come in h,andy, North Attleboro seniors will visit , too.

LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro, to Without heat? Call for help. view its Christmas lights display While, you're waiting for it, let on Wednesday. Information on the trip is available from the town's your faucets drip to' prevent freezing.

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Beach season is over, folks.

It's time for hats, gloves, scarves, hot cocoa, hot apple cider and herbal tea. Snowshoes, snowplows p.nd snowmen will soon abound.

Which means it's also time for snowsmarts. So follow these basic rules and have a worry-free winter.

(More information is available from your local Council on Aging~: Wear loosely fitting wo~1 clothing in layers. Keep dry and learn how to avoid frostbite and overexposure.

Keep up with radio and TV weather reports. And remember

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Is help needed?

Do we older Catholics outnumber all other age groups in going to confession? Are children going to confession only once or twice - at first communion and confirmation?

These claims were made by American bishops last summer as they wrestled with the problem of declining use of the sacrament of penance and set limits on use of general absolution.

It took the bishops from June 24 to Aug. 1to decide the meaning of the words, "a long time," in limiting use of general absolution.

Subject to Vatican approval, they recommended that "a long time" be considered one month.

That means general absolution, the forgiveness of sins without immediate personal confession, may usually be authorized by the local bishop only when penitents would not otherwise have access to the sacrament of penance for a "long time."

"The great majority of people going to confession on Saturday afternoons are older people," Bishop Donald Montrose of Stockton, CA, told the U.S. hierarchy in opposing the one-month limit.

Religious education t~achers say children in the fifth and sixth grades are not going to confession, Bishop Montrose said. "Some have' not gone since their first communion.... That means their parents are not going either."

Supporting'one month. Bishop Austin B. Vaughan, New York auxiliary, said children are making their second confessions at 11

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or 12 - for confirmation. They "are not being educated to go to confession," he said, and adults are not setting an example.

The drop in the practice has come, Bishop Vaughan said, because many people don't believe in sin or hell. When they do go to priests for advice, he said, they get "widely divergent" views on birth control and other moral issues.

Opposition to the one-month norm came from many bishops who felt the rule would discourage all forms of penance and confuse Catholics at the time another bishops' committee is making a fulldress study of American penance practices.

The drop in confessions has contributed to the decline in religious vocations, according to Newark Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, who said in an interview that "the opportunity for spiritual counsel and direction that comes through confession has led [many] a young man or woman to hear the call of the Lord..."

One reason most people gOIng to confession are elderly may be that U.S. parishes are graying. In the typical parish, 26.7 percent of the members are over 60, according to the Third Age Center at Fordham University.

Only one parish in 10 follows the national age structure, where

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only 11.7 percent are over 65, the Center noted. But older parishioners are a rich resource, it said, "because of their faith, prayers, experience, witness and talent."

If fewer children and parents are going to confession, whom does that leave? Perhaps we Third Agers can help.

Maybe we can takea cue from the Soviet Union. "Reports from Russia indicate that the grandparent generation has kept faith in the Risen Christ alive since the 1917 Revolution," Bishop Kenneth Povish of Lansing, MI, wrote in his Catholic Weekly column.

Bishop Povish recalled that Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev had said during the millennium of Christianity celebration in Moscow that he had been raised by pious Orthodox grandparents who hacthiT baptized as a small child.

We must find a way to bring back belief in sin, hell and heaven.

Bringing back the sacrament of reconciliation will help. Maybe we older Catholics can show the way.

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By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Mary: My son', age 3, saw a large play stove and oven at the toy store and he keeps saying he wants a stove to cook on. I want to buy it for him for Christmas, but my husband doesn't want his son. playing with "girl toys." He says one of his co-workers knows someone whose little son wanted to play with such toys and now he wants to wear panty hose, etc.

I think boys who learn kitchen skills might become more considerate husbands and fathers when they grow up. Also they might be able to take care of themselves if they do not marry. - New Jersey.

I'm with you all the way. Most small children spend most of their time in a home. Homes have stoves, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and all sorts of interesting objects. What is more natural for both boys and girls than to want these interesting

objects for their own play? If a child, boy or girl, spent most of his time around a computer center or an aircraft maintenance facility, he or ~he would want to play with such equipment.

Second, why is a stove an object of feminine play? As you rightly observe, bachelors cook and married couples share cooking tasks.

Great chefs are frequently male.

Apparently the objection to the toy is your husband's fear that his son might become a sissy or worse, a homosex ual. Most researchers on homosexuality hold that samesex preference is something you are born with like hair color or eye color.

Forbidden objects often become more attractive to the person who desires them. Forbidding a little boy to play with sinks, stoves, dolls or wonderful noisy toy vacuum cleaners might make them

even more attractive. Buying the child the toy he desires provides him many hours of wholesome play. As with all things, he will eventually move on to other toys.

However, if the boy's father feels so strongly that he ridicules the child or belittles him for playing with the stove, it would be better not to buy it. No pleasure from a toy can outweigh the harm from a parent's unjust criticism.

Most probably the stove will have little lifelong effect on the child who will probably view it as neither more nor less than a nice toy. Should it foster a lifelong interest in cooking, so much the better for him and for his future wife and children.

Reader questions on family living or child care to be answered in print are invited. Address The Kennys, Box 872, St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Ind. 47978.

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"And here's a special one for you, Dad," he winked at spouse. Grandpa had probably guessed about the log truck and included some oldfashioned home remedy in Dad's cider as my husband took a sip and immediately sucked several deep, healthy breaths.

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"Yea," we all cheered in unison, except spouse who opened his mouth but nothing came out.

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Pollution affects Vatican VAT1CAN CITY (NC) - In the natural world has biological the 109-acre Vatican City, a quiet and moral limi~s that cannot be enclave on a Roman hill, envir- violated in the name of develop~ onmental issues might sometimes ment.

In speeches, the pope's language appear remote. There are no smokestacks on the skyline, clean has been even sharper. Earlier this water still arrives from papally re- year, he, told farmworkers that stored aqueducts and the lush Vat- economic exploitation of resources' , ican gardens can seem like para- was threatening to turn the earth into an "abandoned desert." He dise regained. " But today's ecological crisis has told a group of scientists last fall knocked at the Vatican's door, that he was concerned 'abolit the too: Last summer a female traffic "uncontrolled discharges" of waste officer keeled over in the square products into the earth's atmosbeneath Pope John Paul II's win- phere, land and seas. Part of this dow, a victim of carb9n monoxide "irreversible damage," he added, and other tour bus fumes. She had was caused by economic practices to be hospitalized. The giant statues "aimed only at profit." above St. Peter's, like many in But while he has spoken about Rome, are being corroded by general causes, the pope has been chemical-laden rain water. Even cautious about assigning blame the Vatican's' medieval walls needed ,for specific damage - whether for "first aid" last year to repair darp- disasters like Chernobyl or for age caused in part by chemical long-term problems like deforespollution. tation. Among Vatican agencies, For the Vatican, however, en- too, there is hesitation about makvironmental concern goes well be- ing sweeping pronouncements on yond its borders. The point being ecology because it often involves r;iised these days - by church the complicated interaction of First scholars, missionaries and the pope and Third World economies, pop- is that ~are of the earth may be ulation migration and international one of the most serious m'oral regulation. issues of our age.

"There's certainly a lot of reflecDr. Carlos Chagas, recently re- tion going on about the issue. But I tired president of the Pontifical don't think we have developed a Academy of Sciences, tol,d the theology, on this yet," said Msgr. pope bluntly in an address at the Diarmuid Martin, secretary of the end of October: "The destruction Vatican's justice and peace comdf the env'ironment is the result of mission. 'a progressive and obstinate action, Several ecology-minded churchnearly invisible in the beginning, men in Rome have high hppes f9r driven by greed, economic power a papal document on environmenand ignorance." tal resp.ect, but t~ere is no eyidence The academy's report last 'year that one is in the works. ' "Actually, if he'd put all his pre'on disappearing species - some ,35,000 are facing extinction by the vious statements under one cover, ,year :2OQO, :- raised im alarm in the : it would make' a beautiful docu-~ scientific community. Five years ment," said Capuchin Father Ber. ago, the academy issued early nard Przewozny. 'warnings about the depletion of Father Przewozny is. the mover the ozone layer and the global behind the Franciscan Center for .build-up of carbon dioxide, as well Environmental Studies in Rome, a as the environmental disaster that new institute expected to open this, would follow nuclear war. fall. He hopes within two years to . The pope has made ecology a obtain Vatican approval for the recurring sub-theme of major doc- program,and have it raised to the uments. His latest encyclical, "Sol- level of a pontifical academic ~icitudo Rei Socialis" ("On Social institute.

Concerns"), was immediately hail"Deforestation, chemical pollued as an ecological breakthrough tion, uncontrolled urbanization for its tough language on the en- these are going to be major issues vironment. In it, the pope went in the coming decades, and the back to the Bible and said the church needs people qualified to dominion granted humankind ov~r speak on them," he said.

But, he noted, there is some reluctance among church leaders to form alliances with groups that, for example, promote birth control as a solution to environmental problems.

Father Przewozny said his hope is that the "Franciscan viewpoint" will rub off on these groups. Some of the larger international organizations, such as the World Wildlife Foundation, have recently held major meetings in Assisi, Italy, the birthplace of St. Francis.

An ecological movement IS also developing among missionaries. In early November, about 100 mission workers gathered in Rome to discuss approaches to the environmental problems they encounter daily - ranging from multinational corporations that eschew safety norms to the lack of firewood in Third World countries.

Partly because of urbanization, the missionaries have seen many local cultures lose their connection to the land in a single generation.

Several of them present at the meeting said environmental studies should be part of a missionary's training program.

Kenyan Father John Mutiso Mbinda, an official of the Vatican's Secretariat for promoting Christian Unity who spoke at the meeting, called missionaries "firsthand witnesses" to environmental abuse. As p'ne example, he cited the extensive sale in Africa of fertilizers thafare banned in Western countries.

Father Mutiso Mbinda noted that the Vatican has not yet decided whether to fully participate in the 1990 World Convocation on Justice, Peace and the IntegrityM Creation, sponsored by the Worl,d Council of Churches. That is disappointing to some, but the church is helping to prepare for the ccinvocation, which is expected 'to cover environmental topics in depth.

Father Mutiso. Mbinda said that, in his experience,' government agenCies often view the church and its missionaries as environmentally guilty, as the original bearers of a Western development mentality.

It is time to convince them that "we are taking a fresh look at the question," Father Mutiso Mbinda said.

VATI CAN CITY (N C) - Pope John Paul II 'has beatified a noted 17th-century Danish scientist and bishop, calling him "a new star" in Scandinavia's constellation of saints.

Bishop Niels¡Stensen was beatified Oct. 23 in St. Peter's Basilica.

Born in 1638, he is considered the founder of modern geology who also made notable discoveries in anatomy before he converted to Catholicism and became a priest.

Known outside of Denmark as Nicolaus Steno, he formulated Steno's law, which deals with the relationship of angles on the faces of crystals.

The pope said Blessed Stensen's scientific research drew him closer to God, for he believed that "to admire the wonderful beauties of creation" led one "to rise up to the source of all beauty."

Despite his Lutheran upbringing and background, Blessed Stensen found his intellectual quest leading him to Catholicism, the pope added, "Through his acute powers of observation and his calm objectivity he gradually succeeded in breaking free from certain prejudices against the Catholic faith by which he had been influenced, unconsciously and in good faith, since his youth," the pope said.

The pope said the beatified bishop felt called to "give himself totally to Christ and to put his own energies at the exclusive service of the Gospel."

Blessed Stensen ceased his scientific research and in 1675 was ordained a priest in Florence, Italy.

Made a bishop in 1677, he was apostolic vicar for the Nordic missions.

His subsequent mission to predominantly Protestant Scandinavia provided a "luminous example of openness and dialogue," the pope said.

The pope expressed his hope that the beatified bishop will be a source of comfort and encouragement for "the believers of the diaspora."

The pope was referring to regions of Northern Europe which became almost exclusively Protestant after the Reformation. The area is still considered a mission territory, and the West German bishops' conference has a special fund for support of churches there.

In a talk to Danish pilgrims the day before the beatification, the pope said that Blessed Stensen was a "great Christian of the 17th century," whose scientific studies are a model of the proper respect one should hold for nature..

As a scientist, Stensen was the first to declare the heart a muscle.

He pioneered scientific understanding of the functions of the uterus and ovaries and also developed explanations of fos~ils, geological stratification and the developme'nt of mountains.

One-half of I percent of Danes, about 27,000, are Catholic.

Media costs of U.8. papal trip high DETROIT(NC)-Moneyspent on helping the news media do their job was a major cost during Pope John Paul II's 1987 tiip to the United States but was well worth it, said the U.S. coordinator of the trip. , "I would argue, for a variety of reasons, that any and all monies spent in assisting the media in covering the papal visit were monies spent on evangelization, on mission and on Gospel," said Father Robert N. Lynch, associate general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Father Lynch, coordinator of both the 1979 and 1987 papal visits to the United States, made the comments in a keynote address at the recent 17th ge'neral assembly of Unda-USA, an association of Catholic communicators. About 200 attended the conference held in Detroit, a stop on the pontiffs 1987 tour. John Kearns Jr., assistant in the Office of Communications, represented the Fall River dio'cese.

The priest said meqia-related cost's for the pope's'trip - "some $2 million" - were the largest expense incurred by the NCCB. Press coverage of the'pap'al trip improved since 1979, he said, as a result of: â&#x20AC;˘ - Transmission of papal addresses to a computer at. Marquette University for quicker distribution to the media.

- Increased use of laptop computers by reporters to write articles.

- A joint effort by the Catholic Telecommunications Network of America, sponsored by the U.S. bishops, and Mother Angelica's Eternal Word Television Network to broadcast the papal visit.

While national television coverage of the trip was down from 1979, full coverage by cable networks was substantially better, Father Lynch said.

He included some "failings" in his assessment of the 1987 papal visit.

"We were unable to convince the Holy Father to permit some more typically American media opportunities," such as press conferences and one-on-one interviews with media representatives, he said. . "We failed to break through certain established patterns and protocols which would have enhanced the electronic coverage," he said. ~'We did not plan sufficiently for the placement of still photographers and we placed sometimes unbearable restrictions on free access of the press~" Father'Lynch said.

A pre-visit 'catechesis program, he said, "did not have the desired impact." In addition, he said, "our structured dialogues with the Holy Father were not genuine dialogues, to be sure."

Another spe<l~er at the conference, Jesuit Father Paul Soukup, assistant professor of communications at Santa Clara 'University in Santa Clara, Calif., said it was necessary that "Jesus, himself, stands at the center of our communication." .

He warned that "we are not and cannot be an electronic church."

Father Soukup said that despite numerous attempts at religious broadcasting by a myriad of Christian faiths, he had yet to see a "serious needs assessment of the religious broadcasting audience by any church."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Dec. 9, 1988

grants program " WASHINGTON (NC) - Dioceses developing creative and innovative ways to promote and act on recommendations in the U.S. bishops' 1986 pastoral letter on the economy are eligible to apply for one-time grants from the bishops' committee overseeing implementation of the pastoral.

The $40,000 small-grants program will award selected diocesan programs $500 to $5,000, said a letter to U.S: bishops from Bishop William S. Skylstad of Yakima, Wash., chairman of the U.S. Catholic Conference Committee on Implementation. Applications are due

by Jan. 15 and awards will be announced in mid-February.

Eligible projects must be under diocesan auspices, have the approval of the bishop, "undertake a new and creative initiative in seeking to share the message" of the pastoral and act on its implications, and lend themselves to use in other dioceses. .

Robert D. Williams, director of the Office of Implementation, said no specific programs are in mind, but examples. could include adult education programs on unemployment and poverty, seminars on responsible investment practices, or community-based training programs for the unemployed or underemployed.

MICKEY SILVIA, an activities aide at Fall River's Catholic Memorial Home, prepares to experience a 5 mph crash as Massachusetts Department of Motor Vehicles Inspector John Grand explains the importance of"belting up."

The demonstration was part of a recent Employee Appreciation Day at the home.

Events of the "We're the Best and We Care"-themed day included a Mass'ofthanksgiving for employees celebrated by diocesan health facilities executive director Father Edmund J. Fitzgerald, a meal and drawings for cash prizes and gift certificates.

The day was coordinated

by CMH administrator Sister M. Shawn Bernadette Flynn, O. Carm. The crash simulation was included, according to diocesan homes staff development worker Colleen McRoy, because "we really care about their personal well-being."

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Pope asks support for AIDS victims

FORMER EPISCOPAL priest Father Alan E. Rosenau stands with his wife, Jonne, his son, Tim, and Bishop Andrew J. McDonald of Little Rock, Ark., where Father Rosenau will serve. (NC photo)

Newark program is used .in parish'es worldwide

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II said AIDS victims should be considered as "brothers and sisters" who deserve special consolation and support from the . rest of society.

AIDS victims "are the object of my affection and my prayers," the pope said in a message released at the Vatican Dec. I. The message marked an international day of dialogue and communication on AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

The pope said the church has always stood by those who suffer, and he plc;:dged that church institutions would show "a particular concern for this part of suffering humanity."

AIDS victims "should be considered as brothers and sisters, whose human condition requires a particular form of solidarity and help," the pope said.

The pope's message was addressed to Hiroshi Nakajima, general director of the World Health Organization, which sponsored the international day of dialogue on AIDS. "I willingly join this initiative, and I want to express my moral support, because we are all convinced that this disease does not attack only the ?ody but the entire

human person, as well as interpersonal relationships and social life," he said.

The worldwide spread of the fatal disease, the pope said, is a serious problem that has prompted "understandable concern at all levels."

He urged health officials, when treating the victims of the disease or trying to prevent its spread, to act with the respect of the whole person in mind.

AIDS is transmitted through bodily fluids and affects primarily homosexuals, drug addicts, persons receiving tainted blood transfusions and children born of women suffering from AIDS. The day before the pope's message was made public, the Vatican aimounced it was sponsoring an international conference on AI DS in November 1989. The conference is expected to attract Nobel laureates and scientists from around the world.

WHO officials said Nov. 29 that nearly 130,000 cases of AIDS had been reported worldwide. It estimated that the real number of AIDS victims was twice that number and that 5 to 10 million people might be infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS.

NEWARK, N.J. (NC) - A the program's basic thrust but suggested several changes to program that started in the Newark strengthen its doctrinal and catearchdiocese 10 years ago now WASHINGTON (NC) - Con- paid for about 3,600 abortions a chetical content. Although the pro- gress has ended public funding of year, according to Douglas Johntouches parishes around the world. gram was not intended to be cate- abortion in the District of Colum- son, legislative director of the "We turned out to be a laborachetical, it had such a strong bia and ordered the city to exempt National Right to Life Committee. tory for the rest of the country and impact on parish life that a more religious institutions from a city On the homosexual rights issue, the world," said Msgr. Thomas comprehensive doctrinal content ban on unequal treatment of homo- Congress approved an amendment Kleissler, an originator of the was needed, the committee said. sponsored by Sen. William ArmRenew program and director of its sexual groups.

Thereafter Renew was revised national office in Newark.

Although the District is a separ- strong, R-Colo., demanding that to incorporate the doctrine com- ate political entity that raises much the city, by Dec. 30, exempt reliSince 1978, more than 100 U.S. mittee's suggestions. dioceses have taken up the twoof its own finances, its budget gious institutions from having to Msgr. Kleissler said the Newark provide homosexual organizations and-a-half-year renewal 路program. must be approved by Congress, archdiocese "never intended nor then sent to the White House. with benefits otherwise mandated It has also been used in dioceses in attempted to 'sell' the program to by non-discrimination provisions South America, Europe, Africa, President Reagan had threatened other dioceses." News of it spread to veto any D.C. budget that did ~of the city's human rights orAsia, Australia and New Zealand. by word of mouth, he said, and it not ban abortion funding. dinance.

In the Fall River diocese it is in continues to grow because it is progress at Our Lady of Mt. CarThe action to free religious instirooted in faith and responsive to a tutions from a city human rights mel parish, Seekonk, where Father need for prayer, community and law banning discrimination against Thomas C. Mayhew is pastor.

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Msgr. Kleissler was interviewed homosexuals stemmed from con- - The public affairs committee of Msgr. Kleissler said that while cern over a legal fight between the Catholic Bishops' Conference af~er a trip to Asia, where he met Renew depends on the support of Georgetown University and homo- of the Philp pines has urged Presiwith several bishops planning to bishops and the cooperation of sexual student groups. The uni- dent Corazon Aquino to authorize undertake the program. He said pastors, parish leaders and pari- versity, however, took no stand on they also wanted to know if Renew creation of "peace zones" in the shioners, "spiritual renewal is- the congressional measure and has country. They are areas in which teams could help in China and beyond even the greatest of human resolved its disagreement with the - armed hostility is forbidden and Vietnam, should those governments . efforts. Any success of Renew is students. public display of firearms, except permit it. clearly the action of God's grace."

"When I was studying for the The District of Columbia has by polic!;, is banned. priesthood I thought about being a missionary," he said. "Now I find myself being asked to visit the plaPLUMBING/HEATING AIR CONDITIONING ces I dreamt. of going to as a missionary."

Renew involves a series of five six-week programs in parishes Working with Architects, Plant aimed at deepening faith, developEngineers, and Contractors to provide: ing lay leaders and bringing inactive Catholics back to an active faith and parish life.

The program has had critics but Process piping, Steam - Hot Water, HVAC Msgr. Kleissler says these were due in part to its success "In Systems, Heating facilitie~, Plumbing, Newark," he explained, "we had Refrigeration, Labor services all kinds of supplementary programs to support what we- were doing." But in smaller dioceses fl RE PROTECTION BOILERS with limited resources, Renew was the "central activity in town," a"nd many people "wanted it to do everything."

Now-retired, Newark Archbishop Peter L. Gerety responded to the criticisms by asking the U.S. bishops' Committee on Doctrine to evaluate the program.

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Bishop Connolly High School Classes in three major academic Tournament. Lisa Squillante, Jason areas to enhance the skills of Chapurian, Glen Chretien, freshmen and sophomores are avail- Meredith Abbate and Matthew able at Bishop Connoqy High ,Carlos qualified for state finals.

Last year the team won 30 team School, Fall River.

One class provides background and individual awards. It hopes to in mathemat'ical reasoning and qualify for Catholic Forensic pre-algebra skills. Another, an League na-tional competition in intensive freshman seminar Eng- Philadelphia next May. lish class, is designed to bolster * * * * vocabulary and reading ability. In Senior Jim, Agar will be Connolthe sciences; a foundational course ly's delegate to the 42nd Massabuilds on grammar school' and chusetts Student Government Day junior ~igh science class experi- program, to be held April 7 at the' ences, introducing students, to State House in Boston. Junior laboratory techniques in prepara-, Alexandra Rodgers is alternate. tion for study of biology, chemise, Both students will attend program try' and physics. ' preparation workshops.

The fundamentals program is in - Student Government Day proits second year of operation and is vides teachers and students with under continuous review. information about this state's gov* *' * ernment, enables government offi- Advent 'prayer services, led by cials contact ,with students and peer ministry program students, allows students to voice their posiare held at 1l:10 a.m. each school tions on current issues through day in Connolly's Pius X Chapel. prepared debates, participate in the legislative process through a * * * The Connolly' Photography Club mock legislative session and exinvites new members to its Wednes- change views with their peers. day afternoon meetings.The club * * * * plans an end-of-semester 'display Senior Brad Doyle was recently of studenf prints. presented with the Holy Cross * * * Book Award. The honor is given The Connolly Speech and Debate annually to a senior with an outClub had it successful opener at standing academic record. the recent Mass. Forensic League,

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St. John Evangelist Eight students at St. John the Evangelist School, Attleboro, recently achieved high honors for academic performance.

They are Lawry Batchelder and Michael Powers, grade eight; Holly Grochmal and Mark Damiano, grade seven; Christopher Caruso, -grad'e six; Kristin O'Keefe and Nicole Turcotte, grade five; and Daniel O'Brien, grade four.

56 students earned ho'nors and 25 merited honorable mention.

* * * The school's Future Planning Committee will meet Jan. 9 at St. John the Evangelist rectory. As a result of committee work, a school logo is being designed and a parents' handbook is being prepared.

* *' * 33 grade 2 students will receive _ the sacrament of reconciliation for the first time tomorrow. They were prepared by" Laura Vergow and Diane Rusiecki.

* * * 'Kindergarten teacher Mary Ellen Joyce's students will perform a holiday play/program, "Bob Humb~g, the Christmas Grump;" at 10:15 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Dec. 20 for parents and other. relatives. . ,

Seniors receiving highest honors for the first quarter of the 1988-89 academic year at Connolly are Karen Beaulieu, Christy Carroll, Stephanie Ciosek, Alexandra DaSilva, Lori Hennebury, Derek Leahy, Monique O'Brien, Helena Pacheco, Jeffrey Pereira, Bartholomew Reid, Natalie Troya and Aimee Vezina.

20 juniors, 15 sophomores and 18 freshmen also merited highest honors. A total of 79 students earned high honors and 86 honors.

* * * A financial aid evening for parents of seniors and juniors, previously announced, will be held at 7:30 p.JIl. Monday at the school's Msgr. Prevost Auditorium.

"Form ofbetrayal" VATICAN CITY (NC) - Confronting the spread of AIDS by promoting condoms is "a form of betrayal" of young people, says Vatican official Archbishop Fiorenzo Angelini. He compared such health workers to 'Pontius Pilate.

"The authorities and doctors who should give advice are acting like the man who once washed his hands as he sent Christ to death," said the archbishop, pro-president of the Pontifical Commission for Health Care Workers.

Choral event' TraditioQal and contemporary Christmas music will be presented by a faculty-student chorus at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12 at Coyle' and Cassidy High School, Adams and Hamilton Streets, Tauriton.

The free' event will include an audience sing-along of carols and refreshments will be served.

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No Less Love "The sun does not look less upon one rose in the midst of a thousand others than if he looked down on it alone. And God does not shed _his love less upon one soul while he loves an infinity of others than if he loved it alone."

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By TOM LENNON

Q, I have a girlfriend and we get frIend free. Let her look at another along great together, but every guy. Let her talk with him. Let her time I see her talking to another go out with him. guy or even looking at one, I get But does that seem like an imposextremely jealous. Am I being too sible thing for you to do? selfish toward her? Do you have, Does the stark fear of losing her any suggestions to help me deal hold you back? with my jealousy? (South Carolina) If so, read the opening of your

A. Way back in the sixth century, St. Benedict listed as one of his 72 "instruments of good works" this simple idea, UN ot to be jealous."

Some 10 centuries later, the poet John Dryden in "Love Triumphant" wrote about "Thou tyrant, tyrant jealousy, thou tyrant of the mind!"

If you want to see what a mighty tyrant jealousy can be, read Shakespeare's harrowing and powerfUl play "Othello." Or if you don't feel up to reading Shakespeare, try to get the synopsis of it in Marchette Chute's "Stories From Shakespeare."

People of every age, it seems, have recognized the perils of this emotion and seen it as a tyrant that enslaves.

Is that so'mething like what you're feeling? Your questions sound as though you yearn to set yourself free from this dictator.

Paradoxically, the way to set yourself free is to set your girl-

question again. "I have a girlfriend and we get along great together."

Perhaps you can allay your fear and reassure yourself by calling to mind at least once a day the fact that "we get along great together."

That doesn't sound like a friendship that would break up ,easily.

You ask if you are "being too selfish toward her." That may be a big part of your problem and maybe the more serious part.

Examine yourself to see whether you want to possess this person all for yourself. If you do, then you are headed for serious trouble.

Few things can kill a friendship more quickly than possessiveness.

Reverse roles and try to imagine how you would feel if your girlfriend got edgy every time you looked at or spoke to another girl.

If your girlfriend was possessive toward you, wouldn't you'feel that your independence was threatened?

Wouldn't you get restless and wantto get away from her?

Don't you think your girlfriend' will begin to feel that way about you if you try to make her your personal, exclusive porperty?

A final word needs to be said.

Do you think you might be too young to have such an exclusive 'friendship? Perhaps you yourself should look at other girls and talk with other girls.

You may have a special place in your heart for this one, but make room for a few others too.

That may well help to lessen the sense of jealousy you feel.

Send questions and comments to Tom Lennon, 1312 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.

Dominican Academy Students in grades kindergarten through three at Dominican Academy, Fall River, recently attended a live performance of "Babes in Toyland" at Providence's Veteran's Memorial Auditorium.

Grade five and six youngsters visited LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro, to view its Christmas lights.

Advent prayer sessions will be held Dec. 12 and 19 in tIle school chapel.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the school was visited by examiners as part of its Verifying the Vision self-study process.

Eighth grade students will hold a ring ceremony at I:30 p.m. Monday in the chapel.

Seventh and eighth graders will attend a production of "A Christmas Carol" in Providence on Thursday.A Christmas party will be held Dec. 21 and a Christmas prayer service Dec. 22.

tv, movie news NOTE Please check dates and times of television 'and radio programs against local listings, which may differ from the New York network schedules supplied to The Anchor.

By Linda L. Rome · curfew, I don't go; instead I invite Symbols following film reviews Making choices is part of our them over on Saturday. freedom as human beings. It can 4. A friend suggested I try out indicate both general and Catholic for the play. Another asked if I Films Office ratings. which do not be fun, like deciding whe~her you would take roller skating lessons always coincide. want chocolate or angel food cake for dessert. with him. And my parents want . General ratings: G-suitable for me to be in the marching band and . general .viewing; PG-13-parental' But hidden beneath the frosting lurk the twi!). calches of choice- get good grades. What should J. . guidance strongly suggested for chil- . making: responsibility and conse- decide to do?: a. say yes to all the: dren- under 13: PG---,parental guid- t quences. And in every choice we ' opportunities and juggle them the ance suggested; R-restricted. un- : are "unchoosing" something else.' best I can; b. choose the one extra . suitable,for children or young teens..

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for' Why do you make 'the choices activity that interests me most so . you do? What can they tell you I'll have enough time for my school- ,children and adults: A2-approved , about yourself?· . work; c. don't decide what I want for. adults and adolescents: A3Decide what you would choose to do until t~e opportunities are approved for adults only: A4-sepain the following situations. past. rate cJassification (given films not I. I reallY,like to play bas!cetball 5. A student in phys. ed. is afraid morally offensive which. however. but my parents won't let me tryout to jump on the trampoline. Some require some analysis and explanafor the team. I decide to: a. obey, students make fun of this gerson. tion): O-moraIlY,offensive. them even though I resent their What should I do?: a. don't say ..Catholic ratings for, television decision; b. tryout for the team · anything and hope ~he teacher will movies are those of the movie house . anyway and ifI.make it, I'Uask my step in; b. try encourage the per- versions of the films. parents to re,fonsider their deci- son who's afraid by telling how . New Films sion; c.practice at home so I'll be frightened I was the first time and "Hanna's War" (Cannon) sure to make the 'team next year · how"1 got over it; c. laugh with the Based on the short; courageous . when nfy parents said I could try others because I want them to like out. ' me;. d. tell the instructor about the life of World War II inartyr Hanna Senesh, (Maruschka Detmers), a 2. I have two hours'offree time person who's scared. after I get home from school before 6. Whom do you choose to Hungarian Jew who'lived a secret RAF mission. Superficial film inI have to help make supper and set please first? a. your parents; b. the table. Usually I decide to: a. do your friends; c. your teachers; d. cludes intense prison scenes and brutal off-camera torture. A3, PG my homework so I'll be free after yourself.

13. supper; b. watch television and do 7. In making plans for summer "High Spirits'.' (Tri-Star) my homework later; c. stay busy vacation you have to choose beWhen an impoverished Irish nobleafter school with play practice or tween: a. a part-time job at the man (Peter O'Toole) attempts to soccer or football practice; d. talk swimming pool; b. summer camp save his rotting, debt-ridden anceson the phone. with friends; c. family vacation at tral castle by luring American tour3. My friends go to MacDon- Cape Cod;. d. summer school to ists with a promise of ghostly ald's and a movie every Friday learn Spanish. Which would you night. They always invite me and: choose and why? a. since I don't have the money, I 8. After I've made a difficult tell them I'm not allowed to go; b. I choice,l: a. rarely change my mind spend all my allowance to go with- or have second thoughts; b. will them because it's fun; c. I go once' change my mind if the circumstanin awhile, but I have to budget my ces change; c. worry if I've made money for other expenses too; d. the right decision; d. feel relieved, since they stay out later than my even if it's not the right choice..

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sightings, he doesn't bargain for the arrival of the real ghosts of his ancestors (Daryl Hannah and Liam Neeson) who meet and commingle with his guests. Few likable characters. Much foul language laced with sexual vulgarities, explicit sexual seduction. 0, PG 13.

"Oliver and Company"(Disney) - A colorful, toe-tapping animated musical frolic that updates and urbanizes Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist." Oliver here is an orphaned kitten. A I, G "Scrooged"(Paramount) - The· youngest and probably the nasti'est television network president (Bill Murray) is forcedto'live through his own "Christmas Carol." Lockerroom language; satiric humor laced with vulgarities and sexual innuendo, brief nudity. A4, PO 13.'

Films on TV Friday, Dec. 23, 9-11 p.m. EST (NBC) - "One Magic Christmas" (1985) - Failed Disney movie directed by Philip Borsos lets mater-. ia~istic values pre~ominate ina story starring Mary Steenburgen. and Gary Basaraba supposedly learning about "the true spirit" of Christmas. A2, G Saturday, Dec. 24, 9-1I p.m.

EST (ABC) - "Santa Claus: The Movie" (1985 - The story of Santa Claus (David Huddleton) gets off to a good start but slows' with its subplot about a disillusioned elf (Dudley Moore) and a wicked 20th-century toymaker (John Lithgow). Silly and forgettable. A2, PG Religious Radio Sunday, Dec. 11 (CBS) - "For Our Times" - Rebroadcast of the

first of two programs on the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders on Human-Surviva I held at Oxford University last April. Participants included Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama and Carl Sagan.

Religious Radio Sunday, Dec. 11 (NBC) "Guideline" -:- Marist Brother Lewis Luks, youth minister at Sacred Heart Church in Gramercy, La., discusses the techniques of teaching reiigi'pus values .to teenagers.

Integration plan BELFAST, Northern Ireland (NC) ..:.... The British government said it .is establishing a new system for integrating Catholicand Protestant students in Northern Ireland, where religion and politics have kept the Christian groups divided for centuries. The minister of state for the province, Brian Mawhinney, anriouncing the ,plan in Belfast, said Britain would'promote integrated education by offering finan'cial incentives. He said funds would be given to new schools for mixed Catholic and.

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Fordham, Holy Cross and Army are to· become Colonial ~League members, joining the likes of Bucknell University, Colgate University, Davidson College, Lehigh University and Lafayette College.

Schools in' the newly aligned Metro Conference will compete in 15 championship sports. All the schools give full athletic scholarships.

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Added to the Metro Atlantic will be Canisius College, Buffalo, N.Y., and Loyola College, Baltimore, both Jesuit schools; the Vincentian Fathers' Niagara University, Niagara, N.Y.; and Siena College, .Loudonville, N. Y., operated by the Franciscans.

Remaining in the conference are two Jesuit-run schools - Fairfield' University, Fairfield, Conn., and St. Peter's; College, Jersey City, N.J. - and three Christian Brothers' institutions: LaSalle University in' Philadelphia, Man~ hattan College in New York, and Iowa College 'in New Rochelle, N.Y. .

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Catholic college sports conference soon a reality PHILADELPHIA (NC) - Half a century ago there was talk of forming an all-Catholic football conference among colleges and universities with major football programs in the East and the Midwest.

The, idea never went past the talking stage, but now, by coincidence, an all-Catholic conference will be a reality for the 1990 season when a realignment' of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and the Colonial 'League becomes effective. . ' The Metro Atlantic, formed in 1983, will lose two Catholic schools - Fordham University in' New York City and Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.,; both Jesuitrun - as well as the U.~. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., otherwise known as Army: But it will add four Catholic schools to its remaining five Catholic members.

"It wasn't intentional," said Robert Ensor, commissioner for the Metro Atlantic. "The four schools selected had similar academics and fit in well."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Dec. 9,1988路

Iteering pOint, O.L. ANGELS; FR Senior citizens' club welcomes new members; information: Mary Velozo, 672-9737. Msgr. Maurice Souza will preach an English language mission Feb. 13 to 17. Veneration of Christ Child after Christmas and New Year's Day Masses.

O.L. ASSU MPTION, OSTERVILLE Christmas concert at guild meeting I p.m. Tuesday; hats, mittens and gloves are asked for distribution to needy.

ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH Pastoral council meeting Jan. 15; Finance council meeting Feb. 12; parishioners welcome to both. Giving Tree in church; decorations list gifts that may be purchased for needy persons. Ladies' Guild meeting Dec. 14.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FR Parish school fourth graders donated to the Fall River Community Soup路 Kitchen. Advent prayer / penance service 7. p.m. Monday.

Parish school volunteers welcome; information: 672-7258.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Father Tom McElroy, SS.Ce., will speak at 9:30 a.m. Mass Dec. 18.

Ushers needed for Saturday 4 p.m.

Masses; information: rectory: 9949714.

I M MACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON Women's Guild Christmas party Dec. 13.

SACRED HEART, N.ATTLEBORO Family Life Committee meeting.

7:30 p.m. Monday, meeting room.

Liturgy committee meeting 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, rectory. Altar boy meeting and party 10 a.m. Dec. 17.

ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT Advent reconciliation service with prayer and music 7 p.m. Dec. 14; all welcome. Rectory open house 2:30 to 4~30 p.m. Dec. 18. Gifts for children may be left at the parish Giving Tree until Dec. 19.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Parish council meeting 9 a.m. tomorrow.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Ladies' Guild meeting and Christmas party 6:30 p.m. Dec. 13 with entertainment by Mid Cape Chorus. Men's Club holiday evening 7 p.m. Dec. 20, Old Sea Pines Inn, Brewster; new members welcome; information: Bob O'Brien, 385-2169.

K-4 CCD students' Christmas party 2 p.m. Sunday, lower church. Volunteers needed to clean Immaculate Conception mission, E. Brewster; information: rectory, 385-3252.

THIS GIANT Advent wreath is part of the 36th annual Christmas Festival of Lights at LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro. The largest religious display of outdoor Christmas lights in the United States will continue through Jan. 2. Illumination is from 5 to 9 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and 5 to 10 p.m. Fridays through Sundays. All are welcome. Information and directions: 222-5410.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Msgr. John J. Regan marked 10 years as pastor yesterday. Family group-sponsored children's puppet show I p.m. tomorrow, parish center; information: AI Saulino, 6744722.

HOLY GHOST. ATTLEBORO Women's Guild meeting and Christmas party 7 p.m. Dec. 19. Ken Bridges directs the parish youth ministry.

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ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Healing service and Mass 2 p.m.

Sunday, church. The parish has adopted two families for Christmas; monetary donations for clothing and toys welcome. Information: Betty Poirier, 695-3296.

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CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Altar boys' meeting I p.m. tomorrow, Father Clinton Hall. Advent penance service 7 p.m. Dec. 16.

DO MINICAN LAITY, FR Holy Rosary chapter meeting and Christmas party I:30 p.m. Dec. 13, St. Anne's rectory, Fall River.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Concert by Concordia Brass Quintet and St. Joseph's choir 2 p.m. Dec. 18, church; free admission; information: rectory, 824-5435.

Advent Vespers 4 p.m. Sunday. CCD students are donating baby food to Birthright.

DIVORCED AND SEPARATED, CAPE AND ISLANDS Meeting 7 p.m. Sunday, St. Francis Xavier parish center, Hyannis; Father Thomas E. McGlynn will speak on Annulments; information: 771-4438.

CATHOLIC WO MAN'S CLUB, NB New Bedford Catholic Woman's Club Christmas party 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Wamsutta Club; "Sounds of Christmas" presentation by the Pilgrim Handbell Ringers.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS, POCASSET St. Francis of the Cape fraternity reception and profession ceremonies 2 p.m. Sunday, St. John Evangelist Church, Pocasset; Father Jude Smith, OFM, will celebrate Mass and speak. Information and rides: Ernest Foley, 540-5392, Upper Cape; Dorothy Williams, 394-4094, Middle and Lower Cape.

SACRED HEART, OAK BLUFFS Women's Guild Christmas potluck supper 6:30 p.m. Monday, followed by gift exchange. Members will entertain at Martha's Vineyard Hospital Dec. 18.

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HOLY NAME, FR Vincentians 7 p.m. Monday, rectory. Sacred Hearts Sisters are praying for the parish this week. Rectory open house 6 to 10 p.m. Dec. 16.

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SECULAR FRANCISCANS, FR St. Clare Fraternity Mass and meeting 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home, 1600 Bay St. FA MILY LIFE CENTER, N. DARTMOUTH Dec. 14: Bishop Stang High School retreat day; pastoral care education program; Lamaze natural childbirth class; Divorced and separated support meeting.

CHRIST THEI(ING, COTUIT/MASHPEE Evenings of prayer and praise 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, temporary chapel at CCD Center. St. Jude's Chapel will be moved to the site of the new parish complex at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. A Christmas Cantata will be presented by combined parish choirs 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Queen of All Saints Chapel, Mashpee; all welcome.

ST. ANTHO~Y OF PADUA, FR The Women's Guild Christmas party at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 15 will begin with dinner at a local restaurant and continue with a gift exchange and carol singalong.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Vincentians meet 7:30 p.m. Monday. Guild meeting and lunch noon Monday. Blessing of Christmas crib 2 p.m. Dec. 18, followed by youth ministry children's Christmas party.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA CCD Advent Evening of Reconciliation 7 p.m. Dec. 19, church; all welcome. Family Advent celebration begins at .5 p.m. Mass Sunday; family-oriented activities follow, parish hall.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Advent penance service 7 p.m.

Monday with Father Pierre Lachance, OP. The parish's 1989 theme will be "Getting to Know You"; parishioners are being asked to meet a new person or family in the community; pastor Father Robert S. Kaszynski will begin home visitations td implement the theme.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT Healing service 2 p.m. Sunday, church; doors open I p.m.; wheelchair accessible; all welcome.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Youth ministry free babysitting 6 to 9 p.m. Dec. 12 through 14, parish center: Christmas party 7 p.m. Dec. 17: trip to LaSalette Shrine Dec. 19. Meeting for adult leaders 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, center.

SACRED HEART, TAUNTON The parish is organizing a youth group. Adult Advent series 7 p.m.

Wednesdays, hall stage room; all welcome. Family ministry program trip to Edaville Railroad Sunday; caroling Dec. 16; information on Young Families Group': Father Gerard A. Hebert, 823-2521. CYO basketball practice begins tonight, Taunton Catholic Middle School gym; coaches needed; information: Peter Maynard, 822-9184.

BLESSED SACRA MENT, FR Fall River's retired Sisters of the Sacred Hearts recently remembered the parish in prayer.

HOSPICE ME MORIALSERVICE, FR Hospice Outreach, Inc., of Fall River ecumenical memorial service 7 p.m. Thursday, St. Anne's Hospital Chapel; hospice families and friends welcome; reservations: office, 6731589.

D OF I, NB Daughters of Isabella Hyacinth Circle meeting 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, V.F.W. Building, Park street, New Bedford; members are asked to bring canned goods for Market Ministries.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN Advent retreat directed by Barbara Wright of St. Patrick's, Providence; today through Sunday. St. Mary's, Winchester, confirmation retreat tomorrow and Sunday.

HOLY NA ME, NB Woman's Guild meeting Dec. 12; the parish. choir will entertain; new members welcome.

ST. JAMES, NB Vincentians will conduct a nonperishable foods drive at Masses Dec. 17 and 18. Altar boys meet II a.m. tomorrow, church. CYO general meeting 2 p.m. Sunday, church hall: LaSalette Shrine trip and dinner follow. Parishioners grades 8 through 12 welcome~ ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM Junior eyO trip to LaSalette Shrine tomorrow.