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VOL. 46, NO. 47

• Friday, December 13, 2002

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Diocesan administrator speaks out against gaDlblingproposals FALL RIVER - Even as promoters revisit bling in Atlantic City, N.J., where the crime rate new gambling casinos in the southeastern Massa- tripled, 40 restaurants closed, the number of homechusetts region, Msgr. George W. Coleman, ad- less increased by 2,000 and property values dropped. ministrator of the Diocese of Fall River, said those Because gambling victimizes the poor and the enterprises would give rise to harm. poor elderly, gambling interests look to southeast"It is my opinion that exern Massachusetts rather than to panded gambling is not the Weston, Wellesley and long-term solution to the Wayland, the bishop noted. needs of southeastern MassaBishop O'Malley also exchusetts or any other region pressed concerns for the increase of the state," Msgr. Coleman . of pathological gambling addictold members of the Massations which statistics show inchusetts Gambling Study creased with large-scale gamCommission at a December 1 bling facilities. Troubled with hearing at Bristol Community reports that young people College. gamble at a younger age when "Our southeastern region the opportunity presents itself, would be better served by conhe asserted that no fmandal bentinuing initiatives for sound efit is worth jeopardizing the economic development for future of the area's young widely available educational people. opportunities."

Msgr. Coleman said that as In his presentation Msgr. he reflected on his rare opporColeman noted that former tunity to give advice to memFall River Bishop Sean P. ;;;;.;-.-..,....--------' bers of a state commission, "I O'Malley, OFM Cap., issued MSGR. GEORGE W. Cole~·~~,c'ie_~iiIied the ~d~ice Hippoc~ates a statement about a year ago · . k- t gave to physIcIans. He adVIsed, d . . t- t in opposition to the then plans d locesan a miniS ra or, spea s 0 'As to diseases, make Ii habit of for a casino location within the memb~rs of the Mass~c~usetts two things - to help, or at least Gambling Study CommiSSion at ~ to do no harm.' Knowing that diocese.

The bishop had cited the recent hearing in Fall River. (John negative impact ofcasino gam- E. Kearns Jr. photo) ,Tum to page 13 - Hearing

. THE PURPOSE of th¢ RENEW program.in the Fall River diocese is easily seen and remembered in this nomenclature, part of a banner in Holy Name Church symbolizing that faith community's hopes for its program. Barbara Gerraughty and Donna Masterson designed the banner to create awareness among parishioners. (Photo courtesy of Lisa Gulino)

BEFORE AND AFTER - Father Paul Canuel, left photo, is shown in November of 2000 standing in front of the beginnings of St. John ~he Baptist Chapel in Rio Abajo, Honduras. At right, Maureen Makkay, center, of Our Lady of Victory Parish, Centerville, stands before the finished chapel during a recent visit there. (Photos courtesy of Father Canuel and the Makkays.) .

Couple visits Guaimacan chapel they helped' build

By DAVE JOUVET -

HYANNIS -

EDITOR

In November of 2000,

The Anchor ran as its lead story a feature

on the newly established diocesan mission in Guaimaca, Honduras. Running with the article was a picture of Father

Paul Canuel displaying the frame of what he hoped would be a new chapel for the inhabitants living relatively near the mountain village of Rio Abajo.

The extremely poor villagers raised $3,500 toward the project but more than $10,000 was still needed to make the

dream a reality.

Enter AI and Maureen Makkay, parishioners of Our Lady of Victory Parish, Centerville. Having read the feature, the Makkays contacted The Anchor asking how they could help the Guaimacan faithful attain their goal. Once steered in the

right direction, the couple donated the balance.

Two years later, S1. John the Baptist Chapel is the spiritual home for many poor villagers, and AI and Maureen Makkay recently traveled to Guaimaca to .

Tum to page 13 .,-- Chapel'

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., December 13,2002

New Bedford Deanery parishes to host Advent penance services NEW BEDFORD - Catholics preparing for the birth of Christ at Christmas are invited to receive the sacrament of reconciliation at Advent penance services slated by parishes in the New Bedford Deanel)' of the Fall River diocese.

St. Mary's on Tarklin Hill Road will host the North End celebration on December 16 at 7 p.m.

The South End celebration will be held December 17, also at 7 p.m., at St. Mary's Parish in South Dartmouth.

Each service will consist of a brief penance followed by the op-' portunity for the faithful to .receive

the sacrament of reconciliation.

Clergy from neighborhood parishes will be in attendance to hear confessions.

Penance services in Portuguese - all scheduled for 7 p.m., - will also be held in all three of New Bedford's Portuguese ethnic parishes: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church on December 18; St. John the Baptist Church on December 19; and Immaculate Conception Church on, December 20.

Our Lady of the Assumptio.. _arish on South Sixth Street will host a Portuguese Crioulo penance service on December 18 at 7 p.m.

ECUMENICAL EVENT volunteers from a variety of Chatham churches including Holy Redeemer, helped prepare dinners for more than 1'20 people at a recent ecumenical dinner on Cape Cod. Food items were donated by the churches and volunteers delivered meals to homebound people who could not attend.

Famed peace activist, ex-priest Philip Berrigan dead at 79

By NANCY FRAZIER O'BRIEN

lived in the caretaker's home at II, fighting in France, Belgium, Jonah House community he co- . Netherlands and Germany. , "I came out of that war a' good WASHINGTON - Philip founded in the early 1970s.

Benigan, a former Josephite priest Best known as the leader of the killer," he ~d with wry humor in who was a leading figure in the Catonsville Nine, a group of peace an interview with a Baltimore newsCatholic anti-war movement over activists who burned 500 dnlft files paper, The Sun, shortly before his the past 40 years, died of liver and using homemade napalm at a Selec- . death.

After the war, Benigan graduated kidney cancer December 6, at tive Service office in Catonsville, Jonah House in Baltimore. He was Md., in May 1968, Benigan esti- from Holy Cross College in Notre 79. mated that he spent more than II Dame, Ind., then entered the "I die with the conviction, held years in jail for actions against war Josephite seminary in Washington.

He was ordained a Josephite priest since 1968 and Catonsville, that and nuclear weapons~ nuclear weapons are the scourge of He had been married since 1969 in 1955. ' "From the beginning, he stood the earth; to mine for them, manu- to Elizabeth McAlister, a former facture them, deploy them, use them nun who shared his life's work of with the urban poor," his brother, is a curse against God, the human peacemaking and who also spent Jesuit Father Daniel Benigan, wrote. family and the earth itself," Benigan many years in jail for anti-war ef- "He rejected the traditional, isolat~d said in a final statement released forts. When their three children stance of the Church in black comwere growing up~ Berrigan and munities. He was also incurably through his family.

His funeral took place Monday' McAlister alternated their partici- secular; he saw the Church as one at St. Peter Claver Church in Balti- pation in nonviolent actions that resource, bringing to bear on the more, where he had once served as could bring jail terms, so that both squalid facts of racism the light of a priest. For the past decade he had parents would not be imprisoned at the Gospel, the presence of inventive courage and hope. He took Freethe same time.

In a 1976 interview, Benigan said dom Rides, did manual .work of all he and McAlister were not affected kinds, begged money and gave it Daily Readings

by Church sanctions imposed after away, struggled for scholarships for Dec 16 Nm 24:2-7,15he married without requesting a dis- . black students." . In addition to his wife and brother 17a; Ps 25:4-9; pensation from his vows ofcelibacy.

Mt 21 :23-27 "It makes no difference to either Father Daniel, he is survived by son Dec 17 Gn 49:2,8-10; of us," he said. "We're still doing Jerry Mechtenburg-Berrigan of Ps 72:3-4,7the work we did before we lost Luck, Mich.; two daughters, Frida 8,17; Mt 1:1-17 and Kate Henigan ofOberlin, Ohio; 'good standing.'''

Dec 18 Jer 23:5-8; Ps Born Oct. 5, 1923, in Two Har- and three 'other brothers: Jerome 72:1,12-13,18bors, Minn., Philip Francis Benigan Berrigan of Syracuse, N.Y.; Jim 19; Mt 1:18-25 served as an infantry platoon officer Benigan ofSalisbury, Md.; and John Dec 19 J9S 13:2-7,24in the U.S. Army during World War Benigan of Prescott, Ariz.

25a; Ps 71 :36,16-11; Lk 1:512 Dec 20 Is 7:10-14; Ps 24: 1-6; Lk 1:26Ph/ase jJray for the following 38 Dec 21 592:8-14 or priests during the coming week Zep 3:14-18a; Ps 33:2-3,11. Dec. 19 12,20-21; Lk 1988, Permanent Deacon Eugene L. Orosz 1:39-45 Dec 22 2 5m 7: 1-5,8bDec. 20-', 12,14a,16; Ps 1953, Rev. Manuel S. T~avassosi Pastor, Espirito Santo, Fall River 89:2-5,27,29; 1996, Rev: Joh ll A.. Janso~, OFM,. Missionary in Brazil Rom 16:25-27; CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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As problems increase, Cardinal Law makes unannounced trip to Vatican By

JOHN NORTON

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY - Boston Cardinal Bernard F. Law made an unannounced visit to Rome for discussions with Vatican officials amid further disclosures of cases of priestly misconduct in Boston and the specter of a potential archdiocesan bankruptcy filing.

"I can confirm the presence of Cardinal Bernard Francis Law in Rome," Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said in a statement on Monday.

"The cardinal has come to inform the Holy See about certain aspects of the situation in his diocese of Boston," Navarro- Valls said.

Vatican press officials declined to identify the Vatican offices Cardinal Law was visiting, specific issues he would be raising, or how long he was expected to remain in Rome.

The cardinal's visit came less than a week after the Boston archdiocesan finance council voted to allow him to pursue reorganizing the archdiocese under Chapter II of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, and amid weekend demonstrations by laity and some clergy asking for the cardinal to resign.

The archdiocese said the cardinal had not made a final decision on filing bankruptcy, for which he would need Vatican approval.

The Archdiocese of Boston faces some 450 lawsuits for alleged sexual abuse of minors by its priests.

The cardinal's visit also coincided with mounting anger among sex abuse victims' groups following the recent re-

lease of more than 2,000 pages of archdiocesan files on eight priests accused of sexual misconduct in the 1960s to 1990s.

The fi les discuss cases of the accused priests receiving or retaining assignments despite recommendations against moving them.

Because of the new disclosures, some 50 of the archdiocese's 900 priests began circulating a draft petition for the cardinal's resignation.

Cardinal Law's consultation in Rome was his second unannounced visit to the Vatican this year. After the first one, in April, he issued a statement saying he had raised the possibility of resignation in meetings with Pope John Paul II and other Vatican officials' but planned to continue serving the archdiocese "as long as God gives me the opportunity." \ Last week, Archdiocesan spokeswoman Donna M. Morrissey said the cardinal "is seeking to establish a global settlement with all abuse victims ... as an alternative to resolving each case by separate litigation or negotiation."

Morrissey called the newest revelations in the files of the accused priests "truly horrendous." Unlike the high-profile cases of Father Shanley and defrocked Boston priest John J. Geoghan, whose names have been constantly in the news for the past year, the newly released files mostly involve priests whose names were virtually unknown even in Boston before now.

One set of fi les covers the career of Father Thomas P. Forry, who is accused of a long

history of violent behavior including twice beating a housekeeper severely in the 1970s; allegedly molested a young girl and her brother; carrying on a 10-year secret sexual affair with a woman, molesting her young son and threatening her husband with death if the husband spoke to authorities.

After admitting the love affair with the woman in 1984, he refused a recommendation of long-term inpatient psychiatric care and was returned to ministry after a few months of outpatient therapy.

In 1993 Father Forry was suspended and he and the archdiocese reached an out-of-court settlement with the molested son of the woman he had an affair with. Two years later, however, the archdiocesan review board lifted all restrictions on his ministry.

He continued in ministry despite other complaints until early 2002, when he and several other priests were abruptly removed from ministry amid daily headlines about past archdiocesan failures to remove abusive priests.

Among the other accused priests in the files made public recently were: - Father Robert V. Meffan, 73, accused by at least three women of having recruited

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., December 13, 2002 them as teen-agers to religious life in the 1960s and '70s and then forcing sexual acts on them by saying it was a part of their spiritual formation to become "brides of Christ."

- Father Robert M. Burns, a priest from Youngstown, Ohio, who after receiving treatment for child molestation was given regular assignments in two Boston archdiocesan parishes from 1982 to 1991, despite warnings from Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone and the treatment institute that he should be kept away from children.

- Father Richard A. Buntel, removed from ministry in 1994, who in 1983 was accused of giving a 15-year-old boy cocaine in exchange for sex and was described as having a repu-

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tation in his parish for drug abuse and rumored homosexual activity.

- Father Peter J. Frost, 62, who was removed from active ministry in 1992 and has admitted that he began sexually abusing boys back in 1969, when he was a deacon preparing to be ordained a priest.

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., December 13, 2002

" the living word

themoorin~ Hospice hope A report from an organization known as Last Acts indicates that people living in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts can expect mediocre care at the end of their lives. Last Acts is chaired by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and is a coalition of more than 1,000 organizations. National groups such as the American Medical Association, the American Nurses' Association and the American Hospital Association are parts of Last Acts. In this light the report should be taken seriously.

Sad to say, Massachusetts fared very poorly considering its reputation for having some of the world's most affluent health care facilities. The state in general earned a "D" grade in five of the eight categories of concern. Only in the area of advance planning policies did Massachusetts receive a "B" rating.

What does this really mean in terms of individual persons? It really tells us that we have a long way to go in the care of those who are dying. For example, the study reported that nationally only 25 percent of deaths occur at home although more than 70 percent of Americans say that is where they prefer to die. In the area of palliative care, the management of a patient's services with a primary focus on symptom management rather than cure, current practices in the state were rated "D." This is quite a serious flaw especially when experts agree that 95 percent of severe pain can be effectively treated. Less than 60 percent of the hospitals in our state offer specialized end-of-life services.

It is evident that we need to do much more in 路helping people in their death and dying decisions. Fortunately, groups such as Hospice are beginning to become more and more involved in helping people in the process of dying with care and dignity. Hospice focuses on helping people with terminal illnesses to maintain as high a quality of life as possible. It also becomes involved with a family bereavement process and offers counseling service for adults, teens and children.

One of Hospice's greatest overall contributions. has been to highlight the fact that end-of-life care is not a mere medication option but a basic priority of our life and living. In our fast-moving world we are viewing love and care for the dying as very inconvenient and . an expensive medical elective. Such a mind-set is wrong. The commitment of the Church to the sick and dying has not ceased through the centuries. Healing the sick is a charge that the Church has received from the Lord. As Catholics, we believe that Christ is the physician of our souls and bodies. We must constantly recall his compassion toward all who suffer: "I was sick and you visited me."

Illness and suffering have always been among the most serious problems confronted in human life. In illness, each person experiences his powerlessness, limitations and finitude. Every illness can make us glimpse death. Illness can make or break a person's selfabsorption. Anguish and even despair can drive people into a hopeless loneliness. This is especially true when there is no one present to lead them from darkness to light. We should always be aware that illness could make a person mature, helping one discern in their life what is not essential so that they can tum toward that which is. In so many cases illness provokes a search for God and a return to hiln.

As our medical facilities and systems are buffeted by the harshness of our times, we must not allow our hearts to be hardened, especially with those who are dying. Constantly, we must reaffimi the outreach that is so very evident in the work of Hospice. Caring for the sick and dying is a mission that should not be relegated to the mere status of a clinical event. May the hope of Hospice be renewed in each of us.

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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER Published weekly by the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River 887 Highland Avenue P.O. BOX 7 Fall River, MA 02720 . Fall River, MA 02722-0007 FAX 508-675-7048 Telephone 508-675-7151 E-mail: TheAnchor@Anchornews.org Send address changes to P.O. Box, call or use E-mail address EXECUTIVE EDITOR Rev. Msgr. John F. Moore EDITOR David B. Jolivet

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The courage of Christmas By

FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

In these trying times, may Christmas bless you with renewed courage and its fortifying strength.

Never have our times so cried out for courage as n.ow. Today we face the threat of terrorism and the possibility of nuclear and biological warfare, which were unimaginable to preceding eras. Our ecological, economic, industrial and religious systems are being called into question with greater frequency, and no matter what our walk of life is, unrest more often than not outweighs peace and harmony.

What is this essence of the courage I speak of?

A recent visit to Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C., for a routine procedure helped me to better answer this. After the procedure, I was sent to the recovery room for recuperation.

While there, I people-watched.

As one patient after another rolled in, the care they received was awesome. Often one or two nurses attended patients at their bedsides, asking if they needed

a blanket to keep them warm, water to drink or a stronger painkiller. This concern for the patient was nonstop. "Is there anything else I can do for you?" was a repeated refrain. , Repeatedly I heard nurses say to patients, "You are doing fine, everything is going to be all right," and with that they would squeeze a hand or pat a patient on the shoulder. Not only that but my doctor, like a number of other doct,ors, came in after the procedure to comfort me.

The experience made me realize the profound depths to which spiritual care can go when nurses and doctors enter into the discomfort their patients feel, become truly present to them and exude a spirit of encouragement. It is this inspiring care more than his miraculous cures that epitomizes Christ's life and is at the heart of courage.

To cure in Latin means to care.

When we see Christ's miracles through the lens of caring, they translate into a God who cared so much for us that he, like those nurses and doctors, entered into our life to be at our side.

When we reflect on this, we realize that care is what most gives us heart - the courage and the strength - to regroup and carry on. Fear, uncertainty and loneliness lose their power over us once they are fortified with heart.

Looking back on that recovery-room experi'ence, I realize I was blessed to witness beautiful examples of caring nurses and doctors giving he:Jrt to their patients. By attending to their needs, entering into their discomfort and whispering words of encouragement, they epitomized the essence of courage which is to create heart.

May this Christmas be a time to appreciate the caring people in ,our lives who have given us heart and the strength this creates to carryon in difficult times.

May it be a time when we in turn care more dearly for others and exercise our healing powers.

May it be a time when we thank a caring God who came in swaddling cloths [0 be at our side and who forever is asking "What can I do for you?" and never ceasing to remind us to "fear not!"

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., December 13, 2002

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Letter to the Editor

I had the great fortune to be admiral he's not one I would . passes - t9 the other team. Just among the 60,000-plus fans at- confidently follow into battle. like the interception he threw tending Bledsoe Bowl II at His physical talents were always last Sunday on second-and-goal Gillette Stadium last week, and evident. He could fire lasers to from the one-yard line - or the I must say that New Englanders his receivers with dead'1y accu- three other misguided missiles did themselves proud once racy. It was his football sense, he launched into the Foxboro again. or lack thereof, which bothered sky.

When No. 11, with the Bison me. He's like a battleship withI am glad that battleship on the either side of his Bledsoe is having a good season with Buffalo. The head, was introduced at game-time, most Patrifans up there in lake-efots faithful rose to their fect snow land are rabid, feet in recognition of just as we New Englandthe nine years he spent ers are. The USS Drew as No. II with a Flyhas sunk a few notable ing Elvis 9n either side foes this season of his head. namely the Miami DolBy Dave Jolivet I must confess that I phins - and that's good was not one of the for us. But without that classy New Englanders radar, he sometimes fires who gave Drew Bledsoe a out radar. on his own fleet and that's also standing ovation upon his return Many may scoff at my evalu- good for us. to Foxboro. I did politely ap- ation and point to the fact that So maybe I was remiss not plaud when he was introduced, Drew rescued us against the rising to my feet when Bledsoe but with gloves on my hands, I Steelers in the playoffs last sailed into port last Sunday~ For doubt my muffled tribute made January. But I still don't see it. surely I spent a lot of time standmuch of a difference.

He did toss a touchdown pass ing and cheering because of him I was never much of a fan of when he first came in to replace once the game started. There No. II for most of his stay with the injured Tom Brady, but may come a day when the Pathe Patriots, so I felt rising to my truthfully I didn't see him do triots may fall into Bledsoe's feet at that moment would have much else, except maybe hurl a crosshairs, but until then he's been hypocritical. Besides, I seeing-eye floater over his always welcome in Foxboro. was nice and warm curled up in shoulder to avoid a sack - a Dave Jolivet, editor of The Ana big puffy ball in my seat. move I wouldn't expect to see chor, is a former sports writer/ediAs I've mentioned at least a in a high school game. tor, and regularly gives one fan's thousand times, I don't know What I remember most about perspective ofthe unique world of what Bledsoe is like as an indi- Bledsoe as a Patriot were the sports. vidual, so my beef with him crucial times he was right on the Comments are welcome at isn't personal. But as a gridiron money with one of his laser davejolivet@anchornews.org.

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From the Stands

Editor: Many of us signed petitions last spring to place on the 2004' state election ballot a Protection of Marriage Amendment to the Massachusetts constitution. The amendment would constitutionally define marriage as the union of a man and a woman, the historic definition applied by the courts. But if that is to happen the amendment requires that the Legislature twice approve it, once each in 2002 and in 2003. If not approved this year, it will die. .

Although more than the 50,000 required signatures were obtained and certified, and although the amendment is backed by such groups as the Massachusetts Catholic Bishops, powerful opponents including gay and lesbian groups, the ACLU, the AFL-CIO, The Boston Globe - collaborated to deceive the public and coerce and dupe state legislators into de-

feating it. Those organizations resent and resist any attempts to invoke moral restraints on societal behavior and any organization who seeks to invoke them, especially the Catholic Church. On July 17,2002, injoint session, the Legislature voted 137-53 to adjourn rather than vote to approve the amendment.

What to do? Write or call Governor Jane Swift asking her to call the Legislature back into session before year's end to approve the amendment. Write or call your state legislators and let them know you care. The list of those who voted to kill the amendment is available at the following Website - www.marriagematters.org.

The actions of the opponents and the Legislature's shirking of its duty are a case study in democracy denied.

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Friday, December 20 7PM - "Sandpipers and Tribesmen" of Apponequet High School in concert.

- Button Event (United Church) Sunday, December 22 7PM - "Ecumenical Christmas Concert" featuring combined talents from St. Bernard Church, United Church of Assonet and East Freetown Congregational Christian Church. And special guests - Bell Choir from St. Mary's, Mansfield, MA. Refreshments to follow. Free event.

(United Church of Assonet) Tuesday, December 31 11 PM • "Ecumenical New Year's Eve Prayer Service" (United Church)

Tuesday, December 17 7PM - "Jeanne & Art Comeau" . in concert. - Button Event (United Church)

Event buttons are available at all Christmas in the Village Events and at St. Bernard Church and the United Church ofAssonet.

Admission is $5 for adults and $1 for children up to 12 years of age.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit "Our Sister's Place," aiding battered women and their children.

Directions to Assonet Village, Freetown, Massachusetts. Take Route 24 to Exit 9, follow Route 79 one half mile. The Churches are both on Main St. one quarter mile apart. Telephone 508-644-5585. Website: www.ChristmaslnTheVillage.org

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To bel:ieve or not to believe in Santa Claus

Dear Readers: Last Christmas I responded to the idea.

"Then I only wondered who put the toys in the a Florida reader whose friends did not want their children to "believe in Santa Claus." They intend stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the to tell the children the myth was made up so stores bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the. planet, and the great do more business at Christmastime. could ATTLEBORO - The annual ther Paul Kocheekaran, parish planet in the void.

The reaction to that column was remarkable.

Festival of Lights'is underway at priest, Mount Carmel Cathedral, ."Once I only thanked Santa Claus for a few dolls Dozens of readers wrote or phoned about how the La Salette Shrine, Route 118. Alleppey - 688001路, Kerala, India. and crackers, now I thank him for ,stars and street much it meant 'to their own family.

A number Each night the illuminations are faces and wine and the from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. Daily MISCELLANEOUS - Vol- wanted copies to send to their relatives. In re- r-----------....f"d::':z::::iii great sea. Once I thought Masses are held at 12: 10 and 5:30 unteers are needed to work at the it delightful and astonishsponse to requests that p.m. with a 4 p.m. Mass on Satur- Donovan House, a transitional to find a present so big ing it be repeafed this days and Sundays. Christmas con- home for women and children in that it only went halfway Christmas, the column certs with Father Pat are held daily New Bedford. Training and oninto the stocking. Now I at 3 and 7 p.m. For more infor- going support will be provided. ' is reprinted here. am delighted and astonThe reader thought mation call 508-222-5410.

For more information call 508ished every morning to her friends were missBy Father 999-5893. find a present so big that it ing something impor-.

John J. Dietzen CENTERVILLE - A Mass tant but wasn't sure 1._ takes two stockings to hold for peace will be celebrated JanuNEW BEDFORD - The it and then leaves a great how to tell them.

She ary I at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Daughters of Isabella Hyacinth is the large and preposterous present deal outside; it asked what I thought.

Victory Church, Members of the Circle No. 71 will meet Decemof myself, as to the origin of which I can offer no A. I too think her friends are missing something, Cape Cod Chapter of Pax Christi ber 17 at 7 p.m. in the parish censuggestion except that Santa Claus gave it to me in a to analyze fantasies, but very big.

It's always risky will host "Coffee and Friendship," ter of Holy Name of the Sacred fit of peculiarly fantastic good will." in the parish center following Heart of Jesus Church. A Christ- maybe it's worth trying for a moment.

Are not parents of faith blessed, countless times Fantasies, perhaps especially for children but also Mass. mas celebration will follow. For over, to have for their children (and for themselves!) for adults, are critical ways of entering a world, a more information call 508-993such a fantastic and playful bridge to infinite, unconreal world, that is closed to us in ordinary human EAST 'TAUNTON - Holy 9179. language and happenings. They are doors to wonder ditionally loving Goodness, the Goodness which Family Parish invites everyone to its annual Pre-Christmas Concert, NEW BEDFORD - Stu- and awe, a way of touching something otherwise in- dreamed up the Christmas eVf(nt in the first place?

Call Santa Claus a myth or what you will, but in '''Lessons and Carols for Advent dents of Holy Family-Holy Name comprehensible. Santa Claus, I believe, is like that.

No one has expressed this truth more movingly his name parents and all of us who give gifts at this and Christmas," December 22 at School will celebrate the Birth of 4 p.m. at the church located at 370 our Lord in song and tableau Sun- and accurately, in my opinion, than the great British special time of the year are putting each other in Middleboro Avenue. It will fea- day at 3 p.m. at St. Lawrence Catholic author G. K. Chesterton, in an essay years deeper touch with the "peculiarly fantastic good will" ture the Adult and Youth Choirs Martyr Church, 556 County ago in the London Tablet. On Ch~stmas morning, he which is the ultimate Source of it all. Plus, it's fun!

I hope your friends reconsider. of the parish along with soloists Street. Those attending either remembered, his stockings were filled with things he had not worked for, or made, or even been good A free brochure on ecumenism, including quesand instrumentalists. Admission is event are asked to bring a canned on intercommunion and other ways of shartions for. free. Refreshments will follow in good for the. needy. For more inonly explanation people had was that a being i~g worship, is available by sending a stamped, The the church hall. formation call 508-993-3547. called Santa Claus was somehow kindly disposed self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, FALL RIVER - Catholic NEW BEDFORD A toward him. "We believed," he wrote, that a certain Box 325, Peoria, IL 61651.

Questions may be sent to Father Dietzen at the Social Services seeks volunteers Christmas concert by the Saints benevolent person "did give us those toys for nothto teach English as a second lan- and Singers Group will be held ing. And ... I believe it still. I have merely extended same address, or E-mail: iidietzen@aol.com. guage, and civics in the Attleboro, tonight at 8 p.m. at Our Lady of Cape Cod, Fall River, New Mount Carmel Church. For more Bedford and Taunton areas. Prior information call 508-992-7810. teaching experience is not necesI hold a beautiful book in my Jesus, they came to a field where psychotherapist who is also a sary and training will be provided.

NEW BEDFORD - The hand, a gift of my daughter-in- a man was sowing corn. Mary spiritual mentor, has collected For more information call Areli Courage Group will meet Satur- law Sue several Christmases ago. told him that if anyone came by many of these stories for a new Hodkinson at 508-226-4780 or day at 7 p.m. in the rectory of It is visually striking" with repro- asking if they had come by, he book he calls "Sacred Encoun508-674A681.

Holy Name of the Sacred Heart ductions of paintings by th~ old was to say, "They passed this ters With Mary" (Thomas More of Jesus Parish. Courage is a sup- masters of Mary, the mother of way. when I was sowing this Publishing, 2002), which carries FALL RIVER - Catholic port group for Catholic men and Jesus. In all the scenes, from the corn." an imprimatur by Bishop Charles Social Services will offer an edu- women who are confronting same Nativity right to the cross, never During the night, miracu- V. Grahmann of Dallas, Texas. cational series entitled "Building sex attraction issues and who are is the child or the man left alone. lously" the seed sprouted, with In most all the stories Sparrow Healthy Relationships," Decem- striving to lead chaste lives. For ,Mary is always nearby, with her plants fully grown and ears ripe, relates, those persons who enber 16 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in the more information call Msgr. Tho- Son. countered Mary were former Rose Hawthorne Home, mas Harrington at 508-992-3184.

The birth of Jesus. is struck by her incredible 1600 Bay Street. For more infor,related briefly and simbeauty. And Mary exmation call 508-674-4681.

NEW BEDFORD - Devo- ply in the Gospels, yet plains why she is beautition to Our Lady of Perpetual Help the artists portray his ful: "Because I love." She FALL RIVER - The Taubl is celebrated every Tuesday and to coming as a mystical comes most often to Family will present a concert en- Divine Mercy every Thursday at event that hinges on someone undergoing titled "Family Harmony," Decem- the noon Mass at Our Lady of Per- Mary's presence. While hardships, and' her presber 16 at 6:30 p.m. at Bishop petual Help Church, 230 Bonney the paintings of the NaBy Antoinette Bosco ence leaves them with Connolly High School. The Taubl Street. For more information call tivity and the flight into profound joy. They all family consists of John and Carol 508-992-9378.

Egypt bring Joseph into learn from her that she ?

Taubl who will perform songs with the scene, it is Mary who is the ready for the gathering. As the wants to be imitated, and to do their seven children, three of which NORTH EASON - Holy key here, seducing you by her surprised man was reaping his that means "becoming active in are featured students at the Juilliard Cross Father Joe Esparza of Holy expression to stand in awe before crop, Herod's men arrived,ask- the world in a way that uplifts School of Music in New York.

Cros,s Family Ministries will her baby. I think the artists had a ing if and when he had seen the and heals others." present "Celebrating Christmas in . vision that the centuries. have escaped family. He answered Since itis impossible to think MASHPEE - The Third Or- Our Families," Sunday from 2-5 verified: Mary, who m'ade truthfully, "Yes, when I was sow- of Christmas and the Lord Jesus der of Carmelites will meet Sun- p.m. at the Father Peyton Center, Christmas happen, is always near ing this com." With that much of without including his mother, it day at 5:30 p.m. in St. Jude's 518 Washington Street. For more her Son and always will be. a time lapse, Herod's men de- never has surprised me that Mary Chapel at Christ the King Church information call 508-238-4095.

Some of the paintings were no cided to tum back, stopping their would remain a strong force in for prayer, rosary and study. For 'doubt insl'ired by legends that pursuit of the holy family. 'helping to keep her Son and his more information .call Dottie ORLEANS --A Separated- . became embellished stories Most Catholics know of the 路message alive in this world. It Cawley at 508-477-2798.

Divorced Catholics Support Group . down the centuries. As, an ex- many times and places where was never intended by the Father , will meet December 15 at5:30p.m. ample, in some renderings of the Mary has come back to earth that Mary had just one task, to MISCELLANEOUS - Used in the parish center of St. Joan of flight into Egypt, men are seen like Lourdes and Fatima - to be give birth to his Son and then disChristmas cards, rosaries, statues, Arc Church. This gathering will be in the background sowing seeds seen and heard, bearing the good appear. Her permanent call Church articles 'and stationary is an holiday dinner and social fol- or cutting corn. news of her Son's love for us. would be to give birth continusought by Father Paul lowed by a Yankee Swap. To The story goes that when the What may be somewhat surpris- ously to her Son, bringing him Kocheekaran working in several RSVP call 508-385-2259. For more holy .family was rushing into ing is that Mary also brings her down through the ages to the mission schools and communities information call Father Richard Egypt to escape Herod's men presence to individuals in a star- places and the people who need , in India. They can be sent to: Fa- Roy at 508-255-0170. who were out to kill the baby tling way. G. Scott Sparrow, a again to hear his message.

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The pope,路 the Italian.s and the rest of us Given the Catholic Church's his- ficials in its internal affairs. And toric role in forming what we now while the Christian Democrats conknow as "Italy," you might think trolled the government until the last that relations between the Vatican decades of the 20th century, Italy's and the Italian government had al- high culturewas controlled by secuways run rather smoothly. If you larists and communists, who hated thought that, however, you'd be the Vatican's entanglement with the Italian government. very wrong.

To begin with, what we now For almost a quarter of a cenknow as "Italy" took final form in 1870 when the nascent Italian state seized what was left of the Papal States, whose French military protectors had gone home to be bludgeoned by Prussia in the FrancoBy George Weigel Prussian War. From 1870 until 1929, the Vatican acted as if the Italian state simply didn't exist the tury, Pope John Paul II has worked "Piedmontese usurpation," some hard to "widen the Tiber" - to put called it. The 1929 Lateran Treaty some distance between the Vatican created a formal thaw: the Holy See and the Quirina/e, the symbolic seat recognized the Italian state, while of the Italian government (and a Italy recognized the independence former papal palace). At the same of Vatican City and paid an indem- time, the Polish pope has expended nity to the Church for propelties lost far more effort on the re-evangeliin 1870. But when Pope Pius XI zation of Rome and of Italy than condemned fascist pretensions in any of his most recent Italian prethe 1931 encyclical Non Abbiamo decessors. That effort has had, in Bisogno, Vatican-Italian relations the broadest sense, a "political" purbecame difficult again. Nor did pose, for the pope is convinced that Mussolini much appreciate Pius the Church best shapes politics Xl's 1937 condemnation of Na- through helping shape a culture of zism, or Pius XII's work to fore- life capable of nurturing true hustall Italy's entry into World War man freedom. Still, as far as John Paul II is concerned, the machinaII. During the post-war decades, tions inside the Italian government when the Christian Democratic and the fractious Italian political Party dominated Italian politics, the parties are not something into party both sought and resented the which churchmen should meddle.

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people's palpable affection for the man they call "Papa Wojtyla," helped create a scene last month that would have been unimaginable in the not-too-distant past: a papal address to the Italian parliament that was interrupted two dozen times by applause and concluded with the deputies giving the pope a thirteen minute standing ovation.

In that November 14 speech, John Paul gave further evidence that, as Mark Twain might have put it, rumors of his demise have been greatly exaggerated. His lengthy, substantive address took on a series of hot-button issues: Europe's Christian roots (now being virtually ignored in the drafting of a pan-European constitution); democracy and moral truth; Italy's catastrophically low birthrate; parental rights in the education of children; the conditions in Italy's overcrowded prisons.

Some of the Italian press worried that the pope, by stressing that a democracy without authentic human values risks severe decay, was retreating from the Second Vatican Council's teaching on the'legitimate autonomy of governments. What, they asked, does moral truth have to do with democracy? It's a question not infrequently asked in the United States.

John Paul's answer - which is the Catholic Church's answ~r, not Karol Wojtyla's personal opinion - i~ that democracy is not a machine that can run by itself. It takes

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And they could be rights might be manipulated for moolah. For instance, it has permission to make and sell. autographed.

One's imagination can run can you imagine what the going It also plans on casting a couple price might be for replicas of the dozen 24-karat gold versions that wild.

Comments 路are路 welcome. Epopemobile? Or selling the rights wil1 hit the market at about $2 Uncle . Dan at to make plastic model kits for it? million a pop. The Vatican's "cut" mail Or licensing a company to make was not mentioned. But I'm sure cnsuncleOl @yahoo.com. limited edition bronze paper- it exists. weights of the bullet proof While $2 million is beyond iny personal Visa limit, I could cruiser? . I predict 'sales of miniature actual1y combine my Visa, Dispopemobiles would rival the cover and American Express sales of 1955 Corvettes and 1957 outer boundaries and come Thunderbirds. within striking distance of snapCatholic newspapers could ping up one of the first 100 low cash in, too, by running percent- end bronze Pieta bu.sts for only age of response advertising. $15,000 or one of the next 2,900 "Buy Your Limited Edition at a higher price. (No, I have not Popemobile Replica Now. Built the foggiest idea why the first in Exacting Detail by a Taiwan- 100 are only $15,000.) ese Firm With a Good Credit I have to admit, a Pieta bust Reference, This Bronze Keep- in my mobile home front room sake Wil1 Be a Family Treasure would be a remarkable converfor Generations." sation piece, although it might

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Military o~.cup~tion:.'Y~eaks havoc on Bethlehem'sChrIstDlas plans

By JUDITH SUDlLOVSKY

when the curfew was lifted for three Palestiniari National Authority hours one day last week.

ChairmanYasserArafat ordered the BETIILEHEM, West Bank ''We are always working on con- cancellation of Christmas celebraThe Israeli military's occupation of tingency plans, all based on differ- tioils in Bethlehem in protest of the Bethlehem was wreaking havoc on ent dates of an Israeli pullout," Israeli'presence in the city. Media Bethlehem's plans for the Christ- Malki said. . . .. reports say Arafat Will rescind his mas season. . .' : .: ".Is~li foI¢es entered Bethl~hein:·. ord~r iftheIsraelis withdraw.

The Bethlehem Peace Center·· .November 22 in response ma· sui- . . In 'either case, ·a representative was to oPen·an exhibit on the life .cide bus bombing in Jerusalem that of the Franciscans who care for the of Jesus December 1; but the open- left 11 dead and 48 injured.

Holy Land's sites said the religious Palestinians reported rumors· aspects of the holiday would be ing was postponed because of an Israeli-imposed curfew. that the curfew would continue un- . observed as protected by the "status quo" agreement among ChrisThe staff members who had put . til the end of December.

An Israeli Defense Forces' tian churches. together the Christmas and 2003 . Peace Center Director Michel schedule over the past year were still spokesman said there was no truth at home after 10 days under curfew to the rumors and that the Israeli Nasser, a Catholic, said he was when they released the schedule on actions depend only on the secu- hopeful that staffers would be able to complete putting up a planned their Website late last month. rity situation. ''We invited everybody and all Christmas exhibit. ''We are hoping "At home, my family says I'm crazy - they ask me what Christ- choirs to come for Christmas, but that Santa Claus can come Decemmas I am talking about when they they are afraid. I don't blame them:' ber 19 and give out gifts to the chilsee me working on the event sched- said Malki. "But pilgrims and tour- dren." ule. I am in touch with some other ists should come. Christmas Eve is ''We just have to close our eyes staff members by phone and E- notonlyforlocals;itistheirChrist- when we see the tanks," he said. mail:.saidRaniaMalki.programmas.too.Itis not just our Nativity· ''We have lives to live and celebraChurch, it is theirs, too. This is. tions we want to celebrate. We can't officer of the Peace Center.

Malki and other members of the where Jesus Christ was born. They live just waiting until Israel leaves, staff came trickling into the center should at least pray here. Israel because they may never leave." for a few hours of intensive work would not dare attack foreigners."

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FIREWORKS EXPLODE over a traditional Christmas tree during a lighting ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, recently. .The·tree stands 269 feet tall and is decorated with 2.8 million . multicolored bulbs. (CNS photo from Reuters)

WORKERS FROM the Peace Center in Bethlehem carry frames into Manger Square as they prepare for the Christmas season. Staff from the center hoped to celebrate Christmas with an exhibit and a market in the square, if an Israeli-imposed curlew was lifted. (CNS photo by Debbie Hill)

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In 2001, the nation's new car and truck fleet averaged 20.4 miles per gallon, the lowest average since 1980.

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DETROIT - Sister Nancy Sylvester said she was encouraged by the "spirit of understanding and cooperation" from auto industry representatives during the kickoff of a national campaign seeking to persuade U.S. automakers to make more fuel-efficient cars.

Sister Sylvester, a Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary who is a member of a national coalition of religious leaders, met recently with representatives of General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers.

"I told them we realize these are difficult times for the car industry and that we are concerned about

people's jobs. But we must balance our concerns with the health of our climate," she told The Michigan Catholic, newspaper ofthe Detroit Archdiocese.

She and other members of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment met with Ford Motor Co. chairman and CEO Bill Ford and Beth Lowery, GM's vice president and chief environmental officer, about the group's new faith initiative to bring what it called the "moral issue of environmental devastation" to the attention of automakers and the religious American public.

Sister Sylvester drove to the meeting in a Toyota Prius, powered by a hybrid gasoline-electric

engine. Attached to the:car was a banner saying, "WhatWould Jesus Drive?"

In the last two years, her order has purchased three Toyota Priuses with hybrid electric-gasoline engines and one bifuel Chevrolet Cavalier in the last two years because they were r.nade with "earthfriendly materials," she said.

Before the meetings, more than 100 religious leaders nationwide signed a letter and sent it to officials at Ford, Chrysler and General Motors. The letter claimed that cars that pollute the earth are "warming the planet, contributing to causes of war, and increasing the burden on the poor." 路Sister Sylvester said the group

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WASHINGTON (CNS) - The following books for Mrs. Beakly's school, and Tacky stars as Gol,dJlocks: , But Tacky ad libs a bit, and the resulting performance . are suitable for Christmas gift-giving. ' JUST JANE: A DAUGHTER OF ENGLAND leaves the audience in stitches and Tacky's friends a CAUGHT IN THE STRUGGLE OF THEAMERI- bit confused. Lester puts an imaginative, humorous spin' CAN REVOLUTION, by William Lllvender. on an' old fairy tale, and Munsinger's humorous illustrations add to this book's charm. Ages four-eight. .

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When the orphaned teen-age daughter of a British earl comes to South Carolina to live with relatives, she Harcourt Inc, (San Diego, 2002). 266 pages..

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N.Y., 2002). 32 pp.

Each date contains a Bible This fairy tale is based ~. •.·~ r "story of three to six para:_~-.. .y'~~ on a true event: When an graphs, suitable for readold woman promises to ing aloud to nonreaders or offer up a Mass in exas a fairly easy read for adchange for a slice of vanced beginners. A bread, the baker scoffs Scriptural citation allows ana- pulls out his scale to adults to explore the story show just how worthless more in depth if interDONNIE IS swung by apes in the animated feature film a Mass would be. To his ested.

Colorful, lively il"The Wild Thornberrys Movie." (eNS photo from Paramount surprise, he discovers that lustrations frame each Pictures) the slip of paper that reads story. All ages. "one Mass" far outMY LITTLE BLUE weighs all the baked ROBOT, by Stephen T. goods in his shop.

Johnson. Silver Whistle Szegedi's full-page wa(San Diego, 2002). 13 pp. tercolors show why she In a fat cardboard book has won Hungary's 'The ~ith a clever design, Most Beautiful Johnson tells the story of Children's Book" prize. a robot. The book has reNEW YORK (CNS) - Based comes to her aid.

Ages four-l 2. movable pieces - includon the Nickelodeon cable Meanwhile, Eliza finds the CHICKENS MAY ing a cardboard screw. channel's animated TV series, captured' cubs and discovers an NOT CROSS THE driver - for children to "The Wild Thornberrys Movie" even worse plot to kill an entire ROAD AND OTHER put together a robot as (Paramount) makes a pleasant herd of elephants. What's more, CRAZY (BUT TRUE) they read. This books leap from small to big screen with the poachers snatch her sister, and LAWS, by Kathi Linz, promises hours of fun, but a tame adventure that is family the only way she can save her is small pieces mean it illustrated by. Toni friendly to all but the tiniest of to reveal her secret and lose her Griego.

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Mom and dad Thornberry As directed by Jeff McGrath TEN AMAZING Linz gathers crazy (voices of Jodi Carlisle and Tim and Cathy Malkasian, tile fullPEOPLE AND HOW laws - many of which Curry) are nature documentary length cartoon maintains a THEY CHANGED are still on the books filmmakers on Africa's Serengeti sprightly tone as spunky Eliza THE WORLD, by Maura D. Shaw, illustrated by for this funny book that includes such statutes as "PoPlain. Their 12-year-old, Eliza learns resourcefulness and the Stephen Marchesi. Skylight Paths Publishing licemen are allowed to bite a dog if they think it will (voice of Lacey Chabert), harbors importance of family ties. And her (Woodstock, Vt., 2002). 48 pp. calm the dog down" and "Riding an ugly horse is illea secret she must keep or she'll sister's character, who at first Moving beyond the premise that this book deals gal." She cites the jurisdiction where the law originated lose it: that she can converse with comes off as annoyingly self-cenwith important, influential people who might change a and even adds a few scattered pages about modem laws. animals. This especially endears tered, is gradually revealed as child's life, its bright, full-page illustrations, "fascinat- Griego's cartoon illustrations add to the silliness. This her to her pet chimp, Darwin simply sassy. Darwin's monkey ing facts" boxes, timelines and pull-out definitions make book is a delight! Ages five-nine. (voice of Tom Kane), but her im- business keeps the movie moving it so attractive graphically that children will be drawn LOOKING FOR LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE: patient teen sister, Debbie (voice briskly, and the characters are, to it immediately. Using interesting vignettes, Shaw THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INof Danielle Harris), just thinks overall, a likeable lot. weaves stories about leaders such as Mother Teresa of TELLIGENCE, by Ellen Jackson, photographs by Eliza's weird.

However, the animation selCalcutta, Oglala Lakota Sioux leader Black Elk, Catho- . Nic Bishop. Houghton Mimin Co. (Boston, 2002).

One day Eliza is off racing a dom reaches beyond standard TV lic worker Dorothy Day and Anglican Archbishop 57pp. trio of chatty cheetah cubs when quality. There are only occasional Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid activist. She chooses a Jackson focuses on astrophysicist Jill Tarter, direcnasty poachers swoop down in a brief bursts of beauty and depth diverse group of amazing people ~d sets their accom- tor ofProject Phoenix at the Search for ExtraTerrestrial helicopter and snatch one. Eliza as if the film is·trying for a·"Lion plishment,> in the perspective of the time period in which Intelligence Institute in Mountain View, Calif. She tells is nearly injured, prompting her King" feeling, but that's way out they lived. Ages six-II. what scientists are doing to search for life in space, proper British grandmother of their depth here. The sound, BRIGID'S CLOAK: AN ANCIENT IRISH gives a little background on Tarter as a child and ex(voice ofLynn Redgrave) to.take. both music and sound effect.s, is STORY, by Bryce Milligan, illustrated by Helen plains complex scientific equipment and projects in Cann. Eerdmans Books for Young Readers (Grand terms that young readers can understand. Bishop's Eliza back to England ~nd a safe quite good and the sprinkling of Rapids, Mich., 2002). 29 pp. . photography will challenge readers' imaginations as boarding school. Frisky Darwin . songs pleasing.if not memorable.

Cann's vibrant illustrations make this ancient tale well as help them realize the reality of what scientists manages to conceal himselfin the All in all, the Thomberrys are a come to life for children being read to as well as f9r are doing. This book will especially appeal to those luggage but soon causes food- nice family you wouldn't mind those who can read. Each set of facing pages has a with an interest in science. Ages nine-12. . . fight pandemonium when he tries keeping company with. fora Jittle more-than-full-page picture that illustrates the story LULLABY .OF THE VIRGIN OF ! 'to pass himsel(offas a new 5tu. overan.hour. The menace, while being told: how young Brigid of Ireland was given a GUADALUPE,

by Kelly Stuart, illustrated by dent.' . not intense, may be a bit too much special blue cloak that one night seemed to transport Carlos Caban. Bright Sky Press (Albany, Texas, Eliza realizes'sne should go for the more sensitive among the her to Bethlehem, to help a couple for whom there was 2002). 32 pp. back and try to' rescue the kid- .'. under-eight set. no room in the inn. Although it has a ChristmaS aspect, Stuart's rhyming story tells the story of St. Juan Dinapped cub. Once returned, she Despite occasional mild peril, this book will be a family favorite year-round. Ages ego and the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe, is befriended by a conservation- the U.S. Conference of Catholic four-up. ending with a lullaby Stuart wrote as a tribute to the ist couple (voices of Marisa Bishops classification is A-I ~ .. TACKYLOCKSANDTHE THREE BEARS, by Virgin. Short rhymes every two pages combined with Tomei and Rupert Everett) while general patronage: The Motion:' Helen Lester, illustrated by Lynn Munsinger. WaIter soft, colorful illustrations make this especially approher sister gets sidetracked on a Picture Association of America'.' . Lorraine Books (Boston, 2002). 32 pp. . priate as a read~aloud book for young children. Ages misadventure until a friendly na- rating is PG - parental gl,lidance . . Tacky the Penguin and friends are planning a play two-six. . tivf< (voice of Obba Babatl,mde) suggested.

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Carbajales noted that elderly It marks the first anni'{ersary of street riots that led to the res- people also are malnourished ignation of President Ferdinand and dying because of lack of de la Rua two years before the . food. About half of Argentina's the country's default on its in- cal and nation:il levels.

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE end of his term. Rioters pro- citizens live under the poverty "School and parish soup tested that the government was line of $2 per day, according to ternational debt.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina In a country where 89 percent kitchens must substitute for the unable to stop the country's eco- U.N. figures.

- As children die of malnutriof the 39 million people profess family dinner table because the nomic slide and growing unemThe economic collapse has tion, the Argentine bishops Catholicism, the Church has income of parents is not enough seen the swift devaluation of the ployment.

Argentina has had have warned of renewed out- worked to fight hunger at the 10- for daily meals," said Bishop four interim presidents since Argentine peso. It was pegged breaks of violence if Luis StockIer of then. at one to the U.S. dollar at the measures are not Quilmes. "We are end of 2001 and is now pegged Justo Carbajales, a member of taken to curb widescandalized with the the bishops' laity department that at about 3.5 to the U.S. dollar. spread hunger. death of starving chil- is organizing the unity talks, sup- This has raised the local prices "We're not lacking dren on our soil, which ported the December 20 date de- of basic food and medical supchildren who die of could easily feed the spite its association with vio- plies at a time when the unemhunger in front of their population several lence and the risk that it would ployment rate is 22 percent. It mothers," said Bishop times over." also has increased the cost of . generate more street protests.

Juan Maccarone of Archbishop The aim is to contribute to so- transporting food.

Santiago del Estero Eduardo Miras of cial peace and to make a comduring a Mass at a Rosario,president of mitment to people suffering Marian shrine in the the bishops' confer- hunger, he said. interior of the country. ence, has warned that Bibles • Books • Videos.--,f"··' I' "Aren't we rewrit"the situation of hunMusic • Gilts • Cards ~. ' 88·A Slalo Road IRI. 81. N. Oortmoulh ing the slaughter of the ger and necessity is al~pO:~ ~907~~:'59:;;~:~5D81 997.~:gO_~ I Holy Innocents?" the ways the breeding SHEET METAL bishop asked. ground of violence."

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will not be able to stop it. We can stop it now, but it depends if we get the resources," he said.

"We can respond to several thousand people leaving their homes, but when millions move, that's another story," Hackett told Catholic News Service.

CRS, the U.S. bishops' international relief and development agency, estimates that 1.3 million

The aid organizations said CATHOUC News SERVICE drought, a series of poor harvests BALTIMORE - The food crialong with a crippling AIDS pansis in Africa is so severe that an imdemic and in some cases political mediate international response is conuption and civil unrest have left needed to prevent a famine greater most African nations unable to rethan mid-1980s levels, said heads of spond to the food crisis. leading U.S. humanitarian aid orga'The countries are not prepared nizations. to deal with the health issues. Health A coalition of 15 aid organizacare professionals have either lost tions, meeting at Catholic Relief their lives or left for better jobs in Services headquarters in BalEngland or overseas," he said. timore, said some 38 million Morris said the AIDS panAfricans risk starvation unless "With all of our wealth and tech- demic has been exacerbated the intemational community nology, the fact that we haven't by the food crisis; those inmobilizes quickly. made more progress is depressing," fected by HIV are weakened "If we wait until we start and unable to provide for their seeing pictures of emaciated, Morris said. families.

"Food is the most imporstarving people, by then it will be too late," said Andrew Natsios, tons of food aid are needed through tant drug in dealing with HIV/ administrator of the U.S. Agency for March for southem Africa and up AIDS. It keeps people resistant," he Intemational Development. to two million tons through June for said.

In the Hom of Africa, more than Those speaking at last week's the Hom of Africa.

James T. Morris, executive direc- 18 million Ethiopians, Eritreans and press conference said a' famine could be declared in some areas as early tor of the World Food Program, said Sudanese are at risk ofstarvation due as late JanuaI)' and that millions of the UN. agency had half of the $1.4 to drought and decades of violence, Africans could die from starvation billion needed to adequately respond he said. Farmers in Eritrea lost 80 in the next six to eight months. to the African food crisis and called percent of their crops because of Kenneth Hackett, CRS executive on donor nations to make up the drought, exposing mostofthe country to starvation, Morris said. In director, said several pre-famine in- shortfall. dicators - severe drought, dis"We need these funds to save Ethiopia, crop production dropped by 20 percent. placed people - were already lives," he said.

In Zimbabwe, 50 percent of chilpresent.

"With all of our wealth and tech"We needed to respond yester- nology, the fact that we haven't dren have dropped out of school; in day. If we wait two more months, made more progress is depressing," Zambia, 25 percent dropped out, Monis said. there will be widespread famine. We Morris said.

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., December 13, 2002

Death penalty路 targets poor, says retired judge By

JOSHUA STOWE

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NOTRE DAME, Ind. - Capital punishment is a miscarriage of justice that unfairly targets the poor, a former Illinois disuict court judge told students recently at the University 9f Notre Dame.

"If you are poor, you are not going to get a lawyer, in most cases, who is able to represent you," said Sheila Murphy, a retired presiding judge of the 6th Municipal District Circuit COUlt of Cook County.

Murphy's speech kicked off "An American Paradox: Justice and the Death Penalty Today," a recent conference at Notre Dame and St. Mary's College.

Murphy said she learned how the death penalty discriminates against the poor when she was visiting the Sant'Egidio Community in Rome.

Members of the international lay community help the poor. Murphy, who had just started speaking against the death penalty when she visited Rome, got an earful from community members.

"We help the poor and the poor are the ones on death row," they told her.

Murphy reaffirmed their opinion in her talk. ''To tell you about the death penalty in America is to tell you that Sant'Egidio is right: the death penalty in America is a fatal lottery that you play if you're poor," she said.

In addition, she said, capital punishment targets a disproportionate number of minorities. People abroad have observed this phenomenon, she said, recalling how she talked with a busload of Italian soccer fans who criticized the United States' use of the death penalty.

Capital punishment is unconstitutional in Italy and the soccer fans Murphy talked to said that, while they wanted it for extreme crimes,

they were wary of it.

"If we did it, wouldn't we be as bad as Americans?" they asked her.

"We would execute the i.mmigrants like you execute the blacks and the Hispanics."

Because capital punishment also kills wrongfully convicted people, Murphy said, there is a growing consensus against it even in the United States. Various cities and communities within the United States have passed resolutions calling for a , moratorium.

In Murphy's own state, Illinois Gov. George Ryan imposed a statewide moratorium so that experts could study whether capital punishment was worth keeping. ''The governor is right," Murphy said. "The death penalty is broken."

The solution, she said, is for more people to speak against the death ISRAELI SOLDIERS rush past a Palestinian woman and children during clashes in the penalty and send a message to lawWest Bank city of Hebron. Israel said it plans to demolish 15 Palestinian houses in the makers that they do not want it.

"If we think something is wrong, divided West Bank city to create a secure passage for Jewish worshipp~rs going to pray at should we not have the courage to a biblical shrine. Israeli officials said the buildings were empty. Palestinian officials said they say so and to do something?" she ' were home to 30 families. (CNS photo from Reuters) asked.

In her own case, that meant leaving the bench so she would be free to speak against the death penalty.

As a judge, Murphy said, she could not discuss the morality of capital punishment, although she could decide not to impose it.

By JOHN THAVIS "We need a: consistent ethic of and fearful dimension." Although the Vatican's thinking that terrorNEWS SERVICE CATHOLIC life, for life," she said. the brief reference was largely ism was largely an extreme exDuring a question-and-answer VATICAN CITY - In recent ignored in media coverage, pression of political powerlesssession after her talk, Murphy said speeches, Pope John Paul II has Vatican sources said it was a sig- ness by local groups - aggrathe death penalty sends people a described terrorism in new and nificant second use of the term vated in part by concrete local mixed message. She agreed with a dramatic terminology, calling it "international terrorism." conditions of injustice. questioner that it tells violence-prone an international evil capable of Even after the September 11 In September, welcoming the young people to "do as we say, not provoking a "clash of civiliza- new British ambassador to the attacks on New York and Washas we do." tions."

Vatican, the pope spoke of "the ington, the pope, and his top aides "How can we go to these gangs The pope's words represent an urgent need to combat the phe- spoke of such terrorism as almost and tell them, 'You can"t kill in re- evolution and reflect a growing nomenon of well-financed and inexplicable acts that reflect the venge' when we tell families of vic- conviction at the Vatican that the highly organized international ter- depth of ferocity sometimes tims, 'It's OK to want them to be global dimensions of terrorism , rorism, which represents a formi- found in the human heart. At that killed so you can have closure,''' she must be combated in a special dable and immediate threat to time, he called for urgent ecosaid. ' way, said informed Vatican world peace." nomic and social reforms worldsources.

On several occasions until this wide to counteract terrorism.

When the pope addressed the fall, the pope had condemned inVatican sources said the pope Italian Parliament recently, he dividual terrorist attacks but with- and his top advisers have come denounced "international terror- out speaking of an international to see the terrorist attacks of Sepism, which has taken on a new network of terror. That reflected tember 11 and others in recent cils. In addition to the normal weeks in a new light - less as a titular Church assigned to cardidirect result of social injustice and nals as a sign of their belonging more as part of an international , to the Diocese of Rome, the cardesign of violence. dinal-bishops also are given an Speaking at Urbani an Univerhonorary title to one of the six sity in Rome, the pope again condioceses on the outskirts of demned terrorism and encouraged Rome.

Catholic students to "work Cardinal Sodano, 75, was against that clash of civilizations elected vice dean, the position that sometimes seems inevitable." held by Cardinal Ratzinger until The term "clash of civilizathe November election. tions" is used frequently by U.S. The role of the dean of the political experts who see recent College of Cardinals takes on parterrorist attacks as part of an imticular importance with the death pending conflict between the of the pope.

Christian and the Muslim The dean is charged with in, worlds. forming the world's cardinals, Vatican sources said the pope heads of state and ambassadors to certainly is not convinced that the Vatican of the pope's death. such a clash is unavoidable, but RACHAMIM ALTER, center, mourns the loss of his two believes it is a dangerous possiHe calls the cardinals to Rome and presides over the funeral lit- sons, Israeli boys Noi and Dvir, who were among those killed bility that must not be ignored. urgy of the pope. in the suicide bombing attack at a resort in Kenya recently. For that reason, he encouraged a The dean is the first to enter Their funeral was held in Petah Tikva in Israel. Sixteen people, greater emphasis on interreligious the conclave to elect a new pope, inclUding the three bombers, were killed in the blast when a dialogue at Urbani an University, and he reads the conclave oath to vehicle full of explosives was driven into the lobby of the Is- where many of the Church's misthe others. sionaries are educated. raeli-owned hotel in Mombasa. (CNS photo from Reuters)

Cardinal Ratzinger elected new dean of College 'of Cardinals

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Paul II has confirmed the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as the new dean of the College of Cardinals.

Cardinal Ratzinger, 75, and the five other top-ranking cardinals in the Roman Curia met recently to elect a successor to Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, 80, who asked to be relieved of the position so he could retire to his home country, Benin.

The assent of Pope John Paul was announced at the Vatican.

Canon law stipulates that the dean of the College of Cardinals reside at the Vatican; he is considered first among equals within the college and performs mainly ceremonial tasks.

The election is carried out by the six "cardinal-bishops" who head or have' retired as heads of Vatican congregations and coun-

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Msgr. Coleman added, "At least do no harm, to which expanded gambling opportunities will give rise."

Pieta's beauty inspires U.S. man to reproduce busts of Mary's head By

CINDY WOODEN

vice he plans to sell the first 100 bronze busts for $15,000 each; anVATICAN CITY - A Califor- other 2,900 bronze copies are nia art dealer and a Florida foundry planned and will sell at a slightly are manufacturing and selling cop- higher price.

The 1,000 silver copies he plans ies of the "Madonna della Pieta," busts of the head of the Blessed Vir- will be sold at $30,000 each, he said.

He said he will ask $2 million gin Mary taken from each for the 25 copies made of 24Michelangelo's famous sculpture.

New Renaissance Art, a Califor- carat gold, but "we may not sell any nia-based company owned by David of those."

Michelangelo's original statue is Newren, purchased a sublicense granting exclusive rights to repro- on permanent display in St. Peter's duce a copy of the Pieta housed in Basilica and is under the guardianthe Treasury Museum of St. Peter's ship of the Fabbrica di San Pietro, the office responsible for the upkeep Basilica.

Newren said he was struck by the and maintenance of the world's largbeauty of Michelangelo's statue dur- est church.

Archbishop Francesco ing a visit to the Vatican. ' Although Michelangelo was Marchisano, president of the only 23 years old when he was com- Fabbrica, said, "The Pieta is such a missioned to make the sculpture for unique piece that we would never a French cardinal's tomb, it imme- authorize copies from the original."

Only two authentic copies made diately was recognized as a masterdirectly from the original exist: the piece.

Unlike most depictions of Mary one in the Treasury Museum and holding her son after he was taken another in the Vatican Museums.

The original license, which aldown from the cross, Michelangelo lowed for the copying of the copy portrayed her still as a young woman, eyes closed and head in the Treasury Museum, was bowed over the body of Jesus lying granted in 1996 by the chamberlain of the Chapter of St. Peter's, across her lap.

Newren hired American Bronze ' the group of clergy assigned fullFine Art Foundry in Sanford, Fla., time to minister in the basilica and to produce bronze, silver and gold guardians of the Treasury Museum. copies of the bust.

"Mine was probably the last li'The Pieta is being treated in a very reverential way," said Carol cense issued by the Treasury," said Mayer, vice president of sales at the Newren, who bought his sublicense in 2000 from Bangkok Crafts, foundry.

Newren told Catholic News Ser- owner of the master license.

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visit with Father Canuel, and witness life in the mountain region.

"Father Canuel and the people there had a wonderful surprise in store for us when we arrived," Maureen Makkay told The Anchor.

"On a Tuesday afternoon, in the middle of their week, the people arranged for a special Mass to be said for us."

"Aside from my wedding day and the birth of my children, this was the most emotional event of my life," said Al Makkay. "These people are the poorest of the poor, yet many traveled a great distance on foot to be with us."

While there may have been a bit of a language barrier between the villagers and the Makkays, the love and the respect each had for the other' was easily translated. "The people decorated the front of the chapel with crepe paper and plants and set up special seats for us inside the chapel," said Maureen.

"During the Mass several guitarists played beautiful music amid a colorful display of flowers and plants arranged by the villagers." Her husband added that some people expressed their gratitude and love with the clasp of an arm, a warm handshake or a hug. "The people were truly grateful," he said.

"It was humbling to be so appreciated, when compared with what the priests and the sisters have done and do it's so much less," Maureen said.

During their stay with Father Canuel the couple saw how sometimes the people there lack even the most basic of needs. "Father Paul does a wonderful job," said Maureen. "The area he and Father Joe (Father Joseph Blyskosz) minister to is very expansive. A regular Sunday Mass for all of the people there is just not possible because of the great distance between the two churches of the Diocese of Guaimaca and the chapel." .The Makkays learned of plans to build a rectory for the priests at the midpoint of the mission area, and much like two years ago, they donated $10,000 toward its con-

struction. "Once they build the rectory the travel time for the priests can be cut almost in half," said AI. "They won't have to worry about getting to and from their destinations before nightfalL" "We have been so blessed by God," he added. "We just feel the need to help these good people and the good priests and sisters of the mission."

The Makkays, owners of three Cape Cod radio stations, WCIB, WPXC and WRZE, also lent some expertise to two Guaimacan men who regularly audiotaped Fathers Canuel and Blyskosz's Masses to air on a local radio station. The station airing the Masses had recently raised the fee and ultimately pulled their airtime. The Makkays helped the men hook up to a Catholic radio station some 75 miles away, thereby keeping the liturgies on the airwaves for the Guaimacan faithful.

The care and concern for the spiritual and material needs of the Guaimacan people doesn't end with Maureen and AI. Their three children, Allison, Colleen and Albert Jr. have adopted these people as their own as well. The children wanted to buy their parents a special gift for their recent 40th wedding anniversary, but the Makkays asked that they instead donate the

money to the Guaimacan children who couldn't afford the uniforms needed to attend the public schools.

"Our children generously donated $2,500 to Sister Maria (Dominican Sister Maria Ceballos) for sewing machines the villagers could use to make uniforms," said AI. "It costs about $10 per uniform, and once made they can be in circulation for a long time."

The Makkays came away from their Guaimacan visit with some wonderful memories of a gentle, faithful people. And they also saw that the needs of these people are still great. Financial assistance is crucial as is the need for medical supplies.

To help support the mission financially, donations should be sent to the Diocese of Fall River Propagation of the Faith at St. Mary's Rectory, 106 Illinois Street, New Bedford, MA 02745, or call 508-995-3593. Msgr. John J. Oliveira, diocesan director of the Propagation of the Faith" asks that donations be clearly marked "For the Guaimacan Mission."

Donations of medical supplies can be sent to Sister Maria Ceballos in care of the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation, 3012 Elm Street, Dighton, MA 02715-1600, or call 508-669-5425.

FATHER PAUL Canuel, left, and Maureen and AI Makkay in the front of St. John the Baptist Chapel in Rio Abajo, Honduras.

Vatican official criticizes U.S. sk~pticism in weapons inspections VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A week into new U.N. weapons inspections in Iraq, a Vatican official criticized the U.S. government's skepticism over their success and said it appeared Washington was determined to make war regardless of the inspections' outcome.

The United States holds a "preconceived attitude that disqualifies the inspection campaign as useless and reduces it to a sort of farce," said Jesuit Father Pasquale Borgomeo, director-general ofVatican Radio, in a recent radio commentary.

"In reality, the desire to use force appears increasingly evident: to rely on military megapower to fill the holes and failures of politics," he said.

He said U.S. allies are "more justified than ever" in having reservations about being asked by America to participate "in the fight against terrorism while precipitating unilat-

erally toward military adventures with unforeseeable consequences."

Father Borgomeo said the only serious progress in the fight against international terrorism had come through painstaking inteIligence work, "carried out not only by the United States but also by its allies."

Unfortunately, he said, intelligence work before the September II, 200 I, attacks was inadequate "even though warning signals were not lacking."

But "bankrupt policies cannot be compensated by multiplying military commitment," the priest said.

He said war on Iraq would backfire as an attempt to clamp down on telTorism.

"The war on Iraq, which in U.S. public opinion is being sought with every means to be made to seem unavoidable, is in fact an incentive for terrorism itself," Father Borgomeo said.

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STUDENTS FROM Holy Trinity School, Fall River, proudly display the work of their "Sharing Loaf" project. Each student took home a smallioafof bread and a prayer card to share with families.

HOLYTRINITY students colleCted food recently for the parish's St. Vincent de Paul Society's food cupboard. It is one of many community service projects the students from the Fall River school are involved in.

FIRST-GRADERS Marissa Garcia and Emma Cabral from Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, New Bedford, make graphs during a recent lesson by thei.r\. teacher Margaret McCormick. They learned hciw to graph information and colored their work with crayons.

MEMBERS OF the Junior Honor Society at St. Mary's School, New Bedford, take a break during their school's annual Fall Food Drive. Over 2,000 pounds of food were collected and sent to Catholic Social Services and the St. Vincent de Paul Society to help those in need.

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FOURTH-GRADERS from the religious education classes at St. Mary's School, Mansfield, are all smiles as they show off Thanksgiving cards they made for residents at a local nursing home.

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, GOODBYE TO YOU Of all the things that I believe in I just want to get it over with Tears from behind my eyes But I do not cry Counting the days that passed me by I've been searching deep down in my soul Words that I'm hearing are starting to get old Looks like I'm starting all over again The last three years were just pretend, and I say Refrain: Goodbye to you Goodbye to everything I thought I knew You were the one I loved The one thing that I tried to hold on to I still get lost in your eyes And it seems like I can't live a day without you Closing my eyes till you chase my thoughts away To a place where I am blinded by the light, but it's not right (Repeat refrain.)

Oh yeah It hu'rts to want everything and nothing at the same time I want what's yours, and I want what's mine I want you but I am not giving in this time . (Repeat refrain.)

And when the stars' fallilie awake You are my shooting star Written and sung by Michelle Branch Copyright (c) 2001 by Warner Bros.

MicheIle Branch sings, writes and plays her music. She has been called a cross between Alanis

Morissette and Belinda Carlisle, although she reminds me of neither. However you describe her, she is a hit on today's pop charts.

Off her very successful "The Spirit Room" disc is her latest release "Goodbye to You." The girl in the song realizes she needs to let go of a relationship. She recognizes that "the last three years were just pretend," and now she is ready to say "goodbye to you."

This decision may cause real grief for her because, she says, "you were the one I loved... And

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The song speaks to those times when any aspect of life, not just a relationship, is "not right." For example, what if you select a college but after a semester decide it is not the right environment for jOu? How do you face saying "goodbye" to what you thought was a good choice?

When a sense of needing to say goodbye arises, the first and most important step is to test it. See

how consistent the feeling remains. Is it just a reaction to immediate circumstances or does this sense remain strong over time?

Second, consider how acting on this feeling fits into the rest of your life. For example, in the college example I used, it won't help to change colleges just because the current situation doesn't feel -ight. You also should identify what type Of learning environment would better serve your needs. And you need to consider financial costs, overall career goals and what other academic opportu~ities are out there. Before saYing goodbye, reflect on t~e consequences of your decislOn. Next, look at how your decision affects others. We all are interconnected in a web of friendships. Honoring your best connections as you leave a situation establishes a future in which these relationships can remain intact and important to you. Of course, some individuals may be disappointed or hurt by your decision.

Most likely, the guy the girl in the song is leaving does not welcome this change. She may want to apologize for how this decision hurts him. We should always try to minimize such pain, but sometimes hurt cannot be avoided.

Ultimately, we need to accept the responsibility to create our lives in ways that seem to support the person God wants us to be.

Saying goodbye can be difficult, but at times it is necessary to attaining the future we're seeking.

Your comments are always welcome. Please write to me at chmartin@swindilina.net or at 7125W 200S, Rockport, IN 47635.

Distinguishing the teaching from the teache'r

By AMY WELBORN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE As 2002 draws to a close, it may occur to you that this past year doesn't seem to have been a great one for your Church.

Even if you're not obsessed with the news, it hasn't escaped your notice: There has been a lot of bad news this year about the Catholic Church and sexual abuse.

Sure, some of it is exaggerated by those newspapers, magazines and TV news programs that believe featuring scandalous stories about Catholic priests is going to get more people to buy their papers and watch their programs.

But that doesn't mean the scandal hasn't been real and terrible.

And even though you've got the right attitude toward it - you know that most priests are doing a great job and that your Church

does an amazing job of helping people in this sad world - you might find yourself inwardly saying something like this at times: "Religious leaders have admitted they've done things that were terribly wrong. They've said they were sorry. OK. But you know, it all can make it pretty hard to take them seriously when they talk to me about right and wrong."

Or you may have heard something like that from friends who've said: "Aren't your bishops hypocrites? How can you believe anything they say now?"

You might wonder sometimes if these friends have a point. That's understandable. It's not even really a thought that should discourage you. It's a thought that should help you mature a little in how you think about faith.

Try thinking about your par-

ents. They have taught you a lot about right and wrong, and there was probably a moment in the past when you realized they didn't always practice what they preached.

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They taught you to be honest, and you caught them in a lie. They warned you about not judging, and there they were, judging your friends by their piercings or tattoos - before even having a chance to meet them!

But does your parents' failure

to be perfect mean that honesty is bad or that you should just go ahead and start judging others by appearances? No. Our failures to live up to ideals don't mean the ideals are false. It means we need to try harder.

It's the same with religious leaders. Face it, the bishops and clergy of 2002 didn't invent all those guides for living that we might be so tempted to dismiss. They didn't invent the Church's teaching against abortion (some of our earliest documents, from the second century, no less, mention abortion as a terrible sin). They didn't invent the Church's teaching on what God intended with the gift of sexuality.

Read Genesis. It's right there, revealed thousands of years before your bishop even was born.

The people who teach you about religion - from the bish-

ops to your classroom religion teacher - are all human. But they're passing on what they were taught and what, ultimately, was revealed as true by God and understood as true throughout thousands of years of Jewish and Christian tradition.

When a teacher fails, that doesn't mean the teaching is wrong.

It's still worth listening to, although, of course, that teaching is always more powerful when it's matched up with a holy, virtuous life.

Something to think about. Because, you know, all of us are teachers at one time or anotherfor our friends, in our family, at work and at school.

Are we doing our best to make sure no one who meets us thinks, as too many do these days, that another word for "Catholic" is "hypocrite"?

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Prayers, Donations Needed

Indian Mission Director Asks for Yo~r Help To Readers of The Anchor skills. Today over 200 children, most of them Native American, join in prayers for their future.

Mission staff believe education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.. , The Indian boys and girls attending St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School live with the following realities: .55% of the Navajo population, cannot read or write; • McKinley County (where the Mission is located) has the highest poverty rate (43%) in the state; • The sUicide rate among , Navajo teenagers is twice thatfor t/:leirage group in the U.S. population at large.

• McKinley County has the highestalcoholism rate in the United States.

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Many of the children have experienced failure in other schools or inability to get to school from great distances.

Will you help?

Dedicated lay volunteers teach and carry out ttie other work of the Mission. This "other work" includes maintaining the buses which travel the remote mesas to bring the children to school; preparing two nourishing meals daily for the children; and bringing food, water and emergency house repairs to aging Navajos living in poverty in remote areas of the barren Reservation.

New volunteers staff often ask, "Can this be America?"

Gifts made to St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School are tax- " deductible. The school also qualifies' for "Matching Gifts."

Yes, someone l.ives here. Please helpSt. Bonaventure Mission assist with food, water and emergency home repairs before winter arrives.. Lives literally depend on your compassionate prayers and generosity.

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