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"DCCW meets in HyannisShe told of a little boy who kept

singing the Easter alleluia. He wastoo young to understand its mean­ing but explained to his parents "Ilike the way it feels in my mouth."

She related thejoy of "laughingagain" after her husband had comesuccessfully through life-threat­ening surgery and emphasized theimportance of having family mem­bers or longtime friends who canshare memories and stories.

As a youth minister she alsostressed the importance of youngpeople in today's church: and closedwith a story affirming the signifi­cance of her audience.

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and Helen Alvare, spokeswomanfor the National Conference ofCatholic Bishops' Secretariat forPro-Life Activities. Balch and Ms.Alvare, both attorneys, attendedthe Supreme Court session.

"More than anything, it was anattempt by the ACLU to put beforethe American people their politi­cal agenda," Ms. Alvare said ofMs. Kolbert's emphasis on Roe.

"That strategy was far less alegal one than it was a politicalone," she added.

Balch saw the discussion as anattempt to cast the Pennsylvaniacase as "all or nothing," making itseem that any reduction of thelegal rights drawn from Roe wouldconstitute outlawing every abor­tion.

"If they're pulled into debatingthe specifics of the [Pennsylvania]law, they will lose," Balch said.

Pennsylvania's 1988 and 1989law mandates a 24-hour waitingperiod before an abortion may be

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Penna. abortion caseseen political issue

•THE 1992 winners of the DCCW Margaret Lahey/OurLady of Good Counsel Award, from left, Mary Ponte, FallRiver District I; Mary Vieira, Taunton District III; MaryPestana, Attleboro District IV; Joanne Baker, Cape andIslands District V. Not present: Anita Turner, New BedfordDistrict II. (Lavoie photo)

WASHINGTON (CNS) - At­torneys for two pro-life organiza­tions said oral arguments beforethe Supreme Court April 22 ref­lected efforts to make Pennsylva­nia's abortion case into a politicalissue.

The court heard arguments inPlanned Parenthood vs. Casey,which pits the family planning andabortion provider against the stateof Pennsylvania in a debate overwhether any local regulati'on ofabortion is constitutional.

Burke Balch, state legislativedirector for the National Right to

! Life Committee, said he was par­ticularly struck by the "absolut­ism" of the argument presented byKathryn Kolbert, an American Ci­vil Liberties Union attorney whorepresented Planned Parenthood.

Ms. Kolbert insisted that thecourt base its ruling on the 1973Roe decision legalizing abortion.

"She kept insisting on an all-or­nothing position," Balch said.

The argument was purely politi­,", cal strategy, according to Balch: 1\

By Pat McGowan

Last Saturday was grey andchilly but within St. Francis Xav­ier parish center in Hyannis the

discussed racial harassment they mood was sunny and spirits werehad experienced. Both. however. high as nearly 200 members. guestssaid they feel affirmed in their and chaplains of the Diocesanschool community. Council of Catholic Women gath-

Father Oliveira ered for their annual conventionFather Oliveira dates his in- with Cape and Islands District

volvement with multiculturalism members as hostesses.from his seminary days. Although Keynote speaker Roberta Par-a grandson of immigrants on both ,; adise. coordinator o~ youth mi?is­sides of his family, he said he grew ~'I try at O~r Lady of Victory pansh.up in a climate more interested in -: ~entervIlle ..drew on her own exper­assimilation of newcomers into ¥]Iences to Illustrate her theme.the American mainstream than in I, "Recognizing the Moments of Joypreservation of their cultural her- ~! throughout Life."itage. As a child. he spoke Portu- I~Iguese phonetically. but as a semi-Ili._.narian began formal study of the ~,

language. .~

Ordained in 1977. he has always Ii

served in Portuguese parishes. ii'affording him the opportunity to I.meet new immigrants and learn I:firsthand of their problems. i

Over the years, he has become ',.;1,

involved in the Portuguese Health I:;Care Committee at St. Anne's Hos- ;~

pitat. Fall River, a group now alsoreaching out to Cambodians andother ethnic minorities. Addition­ally. he is a trustee of the FallRiver public library. another insti­tution eager to serve all sectors ofthe community; and is PortugueseApostolate representative forMassachusetts and Rhode Islandto the Office of Pastoral Care ofMigrants and Refugees of the Mig­rant' and Refugee Services of theU.S. Catholic Conference.

In short. he deserves the BishopHealy Award.FATHER OLIVEIRA

church schools. Speakers includedpanelists New York AuxiliaryBishop Emerson J. Moore andDeborah Prothrow-Stith. MD. ofthe Harvard School of PublicHealth. They agreed that the churchoffers advantages in combatingracism. especially since it canapproach the problem from thereligious point of view.

Small group workshops dealtwith employment and affirmativeaction; health care and racism;racial diversity' in SoutheasternMassachusetts; and racism in edu­cation. At the latter, black andCambodian students, both fromCathedral High School, Boston,

Healy Award to Father Oliveira

STONEHILL SYMPOSIUM participants included, from left. Msgr. Henry T. Munroe,Administrator of the Fall River diocese; David Mulligan, Massachusetts Commissioner of ':Public Health; Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D., Harvard School of Public Health; Rev. RobertJ. Kruse, e.S.e., executive vice president, Stonehill College; Most Rev. Emerson Moore,Auxiliary Bishop of New York; John Ahearn, associate director, Massachusetts CommissionAgainst Discrimination; Arthur Lomba, Foreign Language Department, Eastern NazareneCollege; Sister Patricia Keaveney, S.N.D., principal, Cathedra] High School, Boston. (Baumanphoto)

By Pat McGowanAt a 'recent symposium on

Racism and the Church. held atStonehill College. North Easton.Rev. John J. Oliveira became thefirst recipient of the Bishop JamesA. Healy Award for distinguishedservice in promoting a more frat­ernal society.

Father Oliveira. parochial vicarat St. Anthony of Padua parish.Fall River. and a member of theministry team at Charlton Memor­ial Hospital. Fall River. has foryears worked with the diocesanPortuguese community and hasbeen an advocate of multicul­turalism.

The Healy Award, 'presentedjointly by Stonehill and the FallRiver diocese, memorializes thefirst bishop of Negro blood to beconsecrated in the United States.The prelate, son of an Irish immi­grant plantation owner and a blackslave, was born in Georgia in 1830.In 1875 he was named the secondbishop of Portland, Maine.

In a diocesan schools contestheld in connection with the work­shop. $75 bonds for an essay and aposter on the theme "TowardsEstablishing a More Fraternal Soc­iety" went to essayist Jessica Torresof Bishop Stang High School,North Dartmouth, and artist KellyBoiros. a fifth grader at St. MaryPrimary School. Taunton.

The Stonehill workshop partic­ipants discussed ways of eliminat­ing racism in the church and in

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Opus Deibeatification

criticizedROME (CNS) - As Opus Dei,

an international Catholic organi­zation, prepared a five-day cele­bration for the beatification of itsfounder, a U.S. journalist repeatedcriticisms of the Vatican's handlingof the case.

Ken Woodward, religion editorof Newsweek magazine, said at aRome news conference that thespeed with which the beatificationof Msgr. Josemaria Escriva deBalaguer, Opus Dei founder, wasapproved shows the group's "extra­ordinary power in the Holy See"and its influence on Pope JohnPaul II.

The pope is scheduled to beatifythe Opus Dei founder at a VaticanMass May 17.

Woodward was in Rome to pro­mote the Italian translation of hisbook, "Making Saints: How theCatholic Church Determines WhoBecomes a Saint, Who Doesn'tand Why."

Similar assertions made in Jan­uary by Woodward were deniedby Opus Dei officials.

Several days before Woodward'sApril 27 news conference, OpusDei, Latin for "God's work," issueda detailed program of May 17-21activities at the Vatican and inRome to honor Msgr. Escriva.

Opus Dei said 120,000 peoplefrom many countries are expectedto attend the ceremonies. Its pro­gram lists Masses for differentlanguage groups celebrated by 17cardinals, 12 of whom head Vati­can agencies.

The program says that duringthe five-day period there will be apublic display of the closed coffinwith the remains of Msgr. Escrivaat Rome's St. Eugene Church, runby Opus Dei priests. Ceremonieswill end with a May 21 processionto return the coffin to its perman­ent location in Rome's Holy Maryof Peace Church, said the program.

Such elaborate celebrations withwidespread participation by car­dinals and Vatican officials areunusual to mark a beatification.

Opus Dei is a tightly knit organ­ization headed by a bishop. It has75,000 lay members and 1,300priests. Its purpose is to influencesecular life through the professionalactivity of its members.

Msgr. Escriva died in 1975. In1990, the Vatican declared he liveda life of "heroic virtue" - the firststep to sainthood by which it mustbe proven that a person's lifereached a high level of spirituality.The miracle needed for beatifica­tion was approved in July 1991.

Woodward said Opus Dei pre­vented critics of Msgr. Escrivafrom presenting evidence to theVatican Congregation for Saint­hood Causes. He made the samecriticism in a Jan. 13 Newsweekarticle.

At the time, Opus Dei issued adenial, saying that the Vaticanheard 92 witnesses, II of whomwere critical of Msgr. Escriva. It,also said that the speed by whichthe case was examined is the resultof streamlined Vatican norms andthe organizational ability of OpusDei.

The next step in Msgr. Escriva'scause is proof of another miracle,needed for sainthood.

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FATHER ZABELKA

Pacifist priest diesFLINT, Mich. (CNS) - Father

George B. Zabelka, Catholic mil­itary chaplain to World War II'sHiroshima and Nagasaki bombcrews who later became a passion­ate advocate of nonviolence, diedin Flint April II at the aM of 76.

Ordained in 1941, Father Zabel­ka was an Army chaplain from1944 to 1947 and in 1945 was sta­tioned on Tinian Island in thePacific as Catholic chaplain to the509th Composite Group. He waswith the 509th in August 1945when its airmen flew the missionsthat dropped atomic bombs onHiroshima and Nagasaki.

Returning to parish work in theLansing diocese, he witnessed first­hand the effects of racial fear asmany of his white parishionersmoved out following the arrival ofblack neighbors.

He joined the Rev. Dr. MartinLuther King in his civil rightsmarch on Salem, Ala., and againwhen Dr. King formed Resurrec­tion City in Washington to protesteconomic discrimination againstblacks.

When Dr. King was murderedin 1968, "George Zabelka was theonly white wl1tJ was able to walkthe streets with the black men andwomen who were trying to preventFlint from going up in flames,"said fellow pacifist Father Em­manuel Charles McCarthy, Father McCarthy, spiritual coor­

dinator at the Melkite-rite Semi­nary of SI. Gregory the Theolo­gian in Newton, recalled meetingFather Zabelka at a retreat onnonviolence.

Father Zabelka challenged Fath­er McCarthy's nonviolent ap­proach, citing America's WorldWar. II struggle against th~ Nazisand asking, "What about all thosechildren destroyed at Auschwitz?"

Father McCarthy said he didnot know Father Zabelka's back­ground when he shot back at him:"What about all those childrendestroyed at Hiroshima and Naga­saki?"

"Unbeknown to me until severalyears later, he left that retreat cen­terfightinground one 'of what wasto be a two-year battle for hisfaith," Father McCarthy said.

In a Christmas letter to friendsin 1975 Father Zabelka wrote thathe "must do an about-face" becausehe had come to realize that Jesus

. requires nonviolent love towardfriends and enemies, Father Mc­Carthy said.

Father Zabelka made numerouspeace pilgrimages in his final years,including one in 1984 to Hiro­shima,and Nagasaki to ask for­giveness personally from survivorsof the 1945 bombs.

caust did not occur orthat the numbers of thosekilled have been exagger­ated?

• Can hate crimes happenin Greater Fall River? Ifso, what can be done toprevent them before theyoccur?

• What role should themedia play in reportinghate crimes? Can mediacoverage encourage hategroups?

• What role do political'leaders play in preventing'or containing racism, big­otry, and hate?

The program will feature a panelof community leaders and educa­tors who will explore conditionswhich contribute to religious, eth­nic, racial and other forms ofbigo­try and hatred.

Cochairmen are Citizens' Scho­larship Foundation Founder Dr.Irving Fradkin and Mike Moranof the Family Service Associationof Greater Fall River and WHTBRadio.

According to Fradkin, the pro­gram will be the first of its kind inthe area. ,

"In recent years,;' he sai'd, "h~tegroups have 'been' far more vocaithan patriotic organizations. We'veseen a dramatic increase through­out the country in racism, bigotry,domestic violence and crime andwe need to analyze the reasons forthis." , '

'Among paneJists on May 12 willbeFall River Mayor John Mit­chell, who has also contacted Pres­identBush, Governor Weld andother state politicians, requestingletters of end,?rsemen.t ffJr the pro­gralp in the hope that !!uch supportwould encourage other communi- .ties to mount sim'ilar projects. '

Also panelists are Fall River'Superintendent of Schools JohnCorreirQ; Police Chief Francis Mac~Donald; NorfolkCounty Di~trict 'Attorney William Delahunt; JamesWilCox, teacher of a Holocausfcourse at Fall River's Durfee HighSchool; Sam Rim, president oftheCambodian Community of GreaterFall River.

Also Fall River churchmen Rev.Robert S. Kaszynski, pastor ofSt.Stanislaus Church; Rev. DonaldMier, pastor of First BaptistChurch; Rabbi Norbert Weinbergof Congregation Adas Israel; andRabbi William Kaufman of Tem­ple Beth El.

Sponsoring organizations, all inFall River or Greater Fall River,include the Chamber of Commerce,the Jewish Community Council,the Council of Churches and thecity's ad hoc Human RelationsTask Force.

"We have within ourselves thefeelings that cause wars, prejudiceand hatred," pointed out FatherCosta as the group discussed theGospel story of Jesus healing awoman who had suffered with ahemorrhage for a dozen years, fol­lowing that cure with restorationto life of the little daughter of Jai­rus, a synagogue official.

Among lessons learned from thatGospel by the retreatants was thatJesus was as available to a womanconsidered unclean and an outcastfrom society as to a child of ahighly-placed family.

Bringing the comparison to thepresent, retreatants concluded thatunless society's movers and shak­ers respond to the needs of socie­ty's marginalized they will notthemselves find salvation.

Looking backwards over theweekend, they saw that they hadexamined four "journeys": that ofEuropeans to the Americas; that'of each person's own cultural his­tory; that of the disciples as relatedin Mark's Gospel; and that of eachperson's "discipleship journey as aperson of faith living in a world ofoppression and inequity."

Hopefully, each person left theweekend resolved to become apart of the solution to today's mul­tifaceted problems of prejudice andinjustice.

Holocaust ProgramNot part ofthe Pax Christi week­

end but closely allied to it in spiritwill be a free public forum, "Holo­caust: Can h Happen Here?" sche­duled for 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday,May 12, at Bristol CommunityCollege Arts Center on ElsbreeStreet in Fall River.

Among questions to be disc,ussedwill be: .

• Is it possible in today'ssociety for hate to unitea group such as Hitler'sstorm troopers? Couldsuch a person becomethe leader, of a nationtoday?

• Are schools doing enoughto promote multicultu­ralism? If not, shouldyoung people be orientedtoward a wide spectrumof cultures at an earlyage?

• Why does there appearto be an increase in anti­Semitism today? Why areJews "convenient" tar­gets for hate?

• What role does the reces­sion play in contribut­ing to the atmosphere ofhatred and bigotry?

• Why are there groupswhich, even today, at­tempt to revise historyby claimingthat the Holo-

Pax Christi retreat, Holocaust forumexamine prejudice, injustice

~ _1PAX CHRISTI retreatants participate in group discussion facilitated by Father Joseph

M. Costa, at center in right-hand photo. (Mancini photos)

Recent and forthcoming eventshave and will afford participantsthe opportunity to examine theirattitudes towards violence, injus­tice, bigotry and racism.

A Pax Christi retreat weekendexamined the injustices associatedwith the colonization of the Amer­icas by Europeans; and a publicforum, "Holocaust: Can It HappenHere?" will invite Greater FallRiverites to explore anti-Semitismand other forms of racism.

The unusual Pax Christi retreattook place recently at St. James onthe Sakonnet House of Hospital­ity in Tiverton, RI. Bringing to­gether a dozen members and friendsof the Southeastern Massachusettschapter of Pax Christi, USA, ithad as its theme "The AmericanJourney, 1492-1992: Call to Con­version."

"For 500 years," explained abooklet that guided participantsthrough the weekend, "many ofthe pathways in the Americas havebeen pathways of injustice, alongwhich too many people have car­ried the burdens of conquest andexploitation.

"For 500 years, peoples indi­genous to these lands and African­American peoples brought here asslaves have resisted this violence.Now, reclaiming and proclaimingtheir proud location in the flow ofhistory, they are giving propheticvoice to their view of the quin­centenary."

The U.S. branch of Pax Christi,an international Catholic peaceorganization, for its part saw thequincentenary observance of theoften bloody and violent introduc­tion of Christianity to the NewWorld as an opportunity to empha­size justice and nonviolence and inthat spirit to express contrition forpast and present injustices done toNative Americans, African-Ameri­cans and today's immigrant arri­vals to the United States.

Over the course of the weekend,facilitate'd by Father Joseph M.Costa, executive director of St.Vincent's Home, Fall River, andmoderator of the area Pax Christichapter, the retreatants shared theirown ancestra,l heritage, describingwhat had brought their forebearsto the American shores.

They studied the discipleshipjourneys in the Gospel of Markand read some'little-known histor­ical accounts and legends detailingthe horrors of the conquest andthe reactions of the conquered totheir masters.

Why .do this? "If you name ademon, you can give it away,"explained Father Costa, illustrat­ing the concept by reminding theretreatants of the peace and senseof relief felt by someone who hasmade a good confession after whatmay have been a lapse of years.

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daughter" impressed doctors andnurses, who told the couple "howthey had seen an increase in par­ents rejecting new babies with birthdefects."

"I began to realize that perfec­tion for children was the messagesociety was sending out. Ifnot per­fect, then unwanted.

"I looked back at my own fivepregnancies and realized the pain Ihad felt when someone would askme how many children this wouldmake for Joe and me. When Iwould answer it was my third,fourth or fifth, the smile left theirfaces and the conversation wouldend. The beauty of a child was lostbecause society had decided that

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Closer to home, the parish hassponsored baby showers for Birth­right, a holy hour for life, and arosary for life, after which twounwed mothers spoke about theirstruggles.

"They shared how difficult it istoday because most people feelabortion is the only 'smart' alter­native," Mrs. Desrosiers said.

"One mother shared that hersupport and help came throughthe Catholic Charities Appeal andhow we need more support right athome in our own parishes. Wemust learn ways to be there, givematerial support. for these youngmothers if we are to win thisbattle."

For Marc and MaryFor Mrs. Desrosiers, this pro­

life work is very personal.The death of Marc, their third

child, led Joe and Marian Desro­siers to "look more closely" attheir lives and realize "what wasmost important to us - our child­ren. They were a gift fromGod ...and we were to enjoy themand count each day a blessing."

After Mary Elizabeth's stillbirth,she said, "We held her, loved her,and baptized her in a private room.... We were then able to allow Maryto leave us and be placed in thegood Lord's hands."

She said that the "dignity and ,love we showed our deceased infant

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Euthanasia, too, "is becoming asad reality in our nation," saidMrs. Desrosiers, explaining howher mother and sister's acceptanceof suffering stood in contrast tothe right-to-die movement.

"Their suffering was beyond ex­planation, but because of faiththey stayed calm and prayerful,offering it up for others. The worldseemed to stop for a while the lastfew days of their lives," she said."We showed our love for eachother and they found peace anddignity."

Outlining her parish pro-life com­mittee's activities, Mrs. Desrosiersdescribed participation in such an­nual events as the Respect LifeWalk and Assembly for Life inBoston and the March for Life inWashington, DC, the latter on theanniversary of the Supreme Court'sRoe v. Wade decision. She wasalso among nine committee mem­bers who in December made a six­day pilgrimage to Mexico City tothe shrine of Our Lady of Guada­lupe, patroness of the unborn.

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By Marcie Hickey

When Marian Desrosiers spokeat the April 22 Catholic CharitiesAppeal kickoff meeting about herwork in the diocesan Pro-Life Apos­tolate, much of her inspiration forthat work was close at hand: hus­band Joe on stage beside her andtheir four children in the front rowof the auditorium at Bishop Con­nolly High School, Fall River.

Mrs. Desro'siers, speaking onbehalf of organizations that benefitfrom the annual Appeal, also spokeof inspiration from family memberswho could not be with her: hermother and sister, both of whomdied of cancer; son Marc Edward,who died from a birth defect shortlyafter he was born; and daughterMary Elizabeth, who died in thewomb in the ninth month.

Their deaths - but more sotheir liyes - ~~re a force'that mo­tivated Mrs. Desrosiers to "speakout and claim back the dignity allchildren and people deserve, nomatter what their condition inlife."

Mrs. Desrosiers is a member ofthe Corpus Christi parish pro-life,committee in Sandwich as well asCape ,Cod deanery representativeto the diocese's gro~ing Pro-LifeApostollite.

"Our goal," she said of the par­ish committee, "is to educate andenlighten our parish to the beautyand dignity of life in all stages."

As the battle began that day in

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MARIAN AND JOE Desrosiers and their children.(Hickey photo)

chose the community becauseof their diversity of profes­sions and dedication to thepoor.

She professed final vowsJuly 15, 1942, then taughtEnglish in elementary gradesin Quebec. She was then as-­signed to Mount St. JosephSchool, Fall River, until 1962. '

Transferred to the Franco­American School in Lowell,she taught intermediate gradesand was later named librarianin 1972. In 1984 she returnedto Mount St. Joseph School,where she worked in the busi­ness office until the schoolclosed in 1986. She now worksiIi the business office at SacredHeart Home.

Among others celebratingjubilees May 16 and 17 will bethree former Sacred HeartHome sisters: Sister St. Alexis­de-Rome, 80 years; and Sis­ters Cora Asselin and CecileFortin, 60 years.

Pro-Life Apostolate isfocus at CCA kickoff

Medjugorje isshelled

ZAGREB, Croatia (CNS)The Bosnian town of Medjugorjehas been shelled by the YugoslavArmy, and many of the peoplehave been evacuated, the Zagreb­based Christian Information Ser­vice has reported.

The report said there were noworking telephones, electricity orwater, and as of last week the frontwas about two-and-one-half milesoutside the city.

Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia­Herzegovina, has been the site ofalleged Marian apparitions since1981. Bosnia-Herzegovina has de­clared its independence from Yugo­slavia.

Christian Information Servicesaid St. James Catholic Churchhad been closed "for some timenow." Easter Mass was celebratedin the basement of the parish office,the report said.

"Only men capable of carryingarms have remained here," saidIvan Dragicevic, one ofthe youthswho claims to have seen Mary."Women, children and old peoplehave been sent to relatives orfriends, to the Croat.ian coast andabroad."

In the week after Easter, he said,there were about 50 pilgrims ­most of them Italian - in the vil­lage. They brought medicine andfood by truck, he said.

Father Slavko Barbaric, whoremained in Medjugorje, toldChristian Information Serviceabout the shelling in the village.

"So far, six cluster bombs havebeen fired at the Medjugorje par­ish, but only one exploded in thearea which is not inhabited," hesaid. "Plus there have be'en morethan4,,000,.<:IifW,re'nf.slleIl.s. fite~f at·:the parish.'" - - . . ,., '"

Father Barbaric said it was "amiracle that nobody was hurt atMedjugorje after all those heavyattacks."

The report said that in Medju­gorje and the neighboring town ofCitluck, people often spent nightsin air raid shelters.

Fighting enipted in Bosnia-He~­zegovina as the European Com­munity and United States recog­nized the republic as an indepen­dent state. The republic had escapedmuch of the earlier fighting in thebreakup ofthe Yugoslav fedej-ati~n.

SISTER BIBIANE GAG­NE, seQ, of Sacred HeartNursing Home, New Bedford,will celebrate her 50th anni­versary of religious professionduringa May 16and 17 obser­vance in Quebec for sistersmarking significant anniver­saries.

A native of Framingham,she entered the Sisters of'Charity of Quebec novitiatein Quebec City in 1940. She

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"Workers should be assured theright to strike, without being sub­jected to personal san·ctions fortaking part in a strike."

"When employers are allowedto off~r permanent jobs to strike­~rt:;akers, ,str!kers lost; .~heir jobs.It'& that:simple," Bishop Frank J.Rodimer of Paterson, N.J., told aSenate subcommittee in testimonyon behalf of the USCe.

"If workers lose their jobs, whatdoes it mean to have a right tostrike? If there's no effective rightto strike, what does it inean tohave a right to organize?" he asked.

The legislation is not without itsfierce opponents. Sen. Orrin Hatch,R-Utah, in an April 9 talk to theAlliance to Keep Americans Work­ing, described the striker replace­ment bill as "one of the mostunfair, lopsided, special-interestpieces of legislation in recentmemory."

"What the unions cannot winthrough collective bargaining, theyhope to win through Congress,"Hatch said.

Sen. Paul Simon, D-Ill., a co­sponsor of the legislation, sees itdifferently. "Having permanentstriker replacements has not beenhistorically good for business andnot good for employees and in acommunity like Peoria, for exam­ple, or Aurora, it will create majortensions to the community," hesaid in the final days of the Cater­pillar strike, "I think we ought tobe avoiding that if at all possible."

Simon said he thought the Cater­pillar situation would "strengthenthe possibility" of a Senate vote onthe legislation, but he would notspeculate on when the vote mightbe scheduled or what its resultsmight be.

Prayer for Selectionof a Bishop

Lord God. you are oureternal...hepherd andguide.In your mercy grant yourChurch in the diocese ofFall River a shepherd whowill walk in your way... andwho,..e watchful care willbring us your ble.uing.Amen.

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Daily News and Pittson Coal Co.hired replacement workers duringstrikes but fired them when thestrikes ended.

Striker replacement legislationhas been languishing in the U.S.Senate since early last year;,asim­ilar bil! passed in, the Ho·use. iastJuly by a 252-174. vote. Backers ofthe Senate legIslation say there are·enough votes to approve the billbut not the 60 votes needed to pre­vent a filibuster, much less the 66needed to override a likely veto !?yPresident Bush.

There is a long history of sup­port for unions in Catholic socialteaching.

"The experience of historyteaches that organizations of thistype are an indispensable elementof social life, especially in modernindustrial society," said Pope JohnPaul II in his 1981 encyclical "Lab­orem Exercens"(On Human Work).

TWO CROATIANBOYS WHO LOST THEIR PARENTS DURING THE YUGOSLAVIAN CIVILWAR SIT FORLORNLY IN A CHURCH-SPONSORED ORPHANAGE

"My father and my mother have left me but the Lord hath taken me Up."Ps.26:10

WASHINGTON (CNS) - Asthe dispute between CaterpillarInc. and the United Auto Workerscooled down at the end of a five­month strike, supporters of a pro­posed federal law to ban the hiringof permanent replacements for strik­ers hope the issue will heat up inCongress.

Passage of the striker replace­ment ban, now pending in theSenate, has long been a priority ofthe U.S. Catholic Conference, thebishops' public policy arm, but therecently settled Caterpillar strikealso led another Catholic organi­zation to take a stand on the issue.

Caterpillar's threat to hire per­manent replacements for strikersat their Illinois plants was widelyseen as the key impetus to theunion's decision to send 12,600workers back to their jobs whilecontract negotiations continued.

In letters April 13 to union lead­ers and Caterpillar top manage­ment, Bishop Walter F. Sullivanof Richmond, Va., president ofPax Christi USA, said the nationalCatholic peace organization con­sidered support for unions a keypart of the quest for economicjustice.

"As part of the Catholic peaceand justice movement we are be­ginning to see the importance ofmaintaining strong unions in orderto ensure economic justice in theUnited States and to prevent cor­porations from exploiting workersaround the world," he said in iden­tical letters to two UAW leaders.

The Caterpillar situation is notisolated. Ie 1989, Eastern Airlinespermanently replaced more than15,000 strikers and Greyhound re­placed 5,600. International Paperreplaced about 1,700 workers in1987. In the 1990s, the New York

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EDITORRev. John F. Moqre

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Your responses will become part of a national survey andwill also be used to guide Catholic News Service in its electioncoverage. So drop us a postcard or letter at PO Box 7, FallRiver 02722 telling us in 50 or fewer well-chosen words what'simportant to you in Election '92. The Editor

themoorin~On Being Generous. In a time of job losses, limited employment and radical

income cuts, many people in our area are having more than ahard time not just making ends meet but merely surviving.Both Fall River and New Bedford, the major cities in the FallRiver diocese, are posting what are among the highest rates ofunemployment in Massachusetts, with many manufacturingplants either already closed or announcing imminentshutdowns.

Throughout the diocese welfare caseloads are increasingand soup kitchen lines are lengthening, while St. Vincent dePaul societies are being called upon ever more frequently forassistance.

With all this, we are well aware that federal and stategovernments have moved and are moving to reduce what isactually their fair share of the cost of aiding the needy. As far asthe federal bureaucracy is concerned, it seems that it is moreimportant to continue financing defense and weaponry pro­grams than to assist citizens jobless and helpless through nofault of their own.

In this atmosphere, a very heavy burden devolves uponprivate charities. Never in recent memory has need been sowidespread and resources so limited. Thus, as we prepare forour diocesanwide Catholic Charities house-to-house appealon Sunday, it is well that we recognize the nature of thesituation facing us.

Our Appeal-funded agencies are already doing a heroic job,most notably our Department of Catholic Social Services. Itsfour offices, located in Attleboro, New Bedford, Fall Riverand Hyannis, are on the cutting edge of public need and aredoing all they can in this time of recession, more properlycalled depression.

Our agencies are not motivated by politics but by faith.Guided by Gospel values, they are instruments of the Churchas they teach out to the needy, regardless of race, creed orethnic origin. However, even in these times, .more could bedone. Most Catholic Charities funding comes from about 60percent of registered parishioners. On the average, some 40percent of our people do not contribute to the annual Appeal.This year it is vital that this group be reminded of the desperateneeds being met by our agencies and of what their contribu­tions can help accomplish.

As we try to urge our elected officials to become moresensitive to legislation meeting people's needs, we should alsobe mindful of our own responsibility as members of a faithcommunity. Good works are the manifestation offaith and goto the heart of charity.

.As committed volunteers visit diocesan homes this weekend,let each of us do her or his best to respond to the 1992 Appeal·slogan: "Be As Generous As God Has Been to You."

The Editor

director of Market Ministries, ashelter for the homeless in NewBedford, since 1988. Prior to thatshe worked for the New BedfordSchool Department and ProjectNon-English.

A graduate of St. XavierAcademy, she holds a bachelor'sdegree in elementary educationfrom Catholic Teacher's College,Providence; and a master's degreein elementary education and dramafrom Catholic University, Washing­ton.

Sister M orrison is presently pas­toral administrative assistant atSt. Patrick parish, Providence. Sheholds a bachelor's degree fromSalve Regina University and amaster's degree from the Univer-sity of Rhode Island. .

She taught at Mt. St. Mary Ac­cademy, Fall River, as well at fourschools in Rhode Island.

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There she worked in parish minis­try and was Sisters of Mercy for­mation director in the country.Presently she is involved in pas­toral ministry with Hispanics inHoly Trinity Parish, Central Falls,RI.

Sister Harrington has two sis­ters in religious life: Sisters ofMercy Patricia Harrington, chair­man of the math department atBishop Feehan High School, Attle­boro, and Kathleen Harrington,director of the 'JohnBoyd DayCare Center in Fall River; a broth­er's Father Brian J. Harrington.pastor ofSt. Patrick parish, Somer­set. A cousin, Sister Mary Cecile,of Our Lady of Lourdes Convent,Taunton. is also a Sister of Mercy.Father Kevin J. Harrington, paro­chial vicar at St. Patrick's parish.Fall River, is also a cousin.

Sister Gallogly has been a mem­ber of the leadership team for theSisters of Mercy as well as the

May 21963. Rt. Rev. Msgr. M.P. Leo­

nidas Lariviere, Pastor, St. JeanBaptiste. Fall River

May 51973, Rev. Leo M. Curry, Cha­

plain. Catholic Memorial Home1985. Rev. Albert Rowley.

SS.Ce., in residence, St. FrancisXavier,. Acushnet

May61905. Rev. Thomas P. Elliott.

Founder. St. Mary. Mansfield1980, Rev. Asdrubal Castelo

Branco, Retired Pastor. Immacu­late Conception, New Bedford

May 71958, Rev. Raymond P. Levell,

S.J., Professor. Spring Hill Col­lege. Mob:le, Alabama

Sisters of Mercyelect regional

.leadership' teamThe Sisters of Mercy of the

Regional Community of Provi­dence have elected their leadershipteam for 1992-1996: Sister Rose­mary Laliberte was reelected re­gional president; Sister BarbaraRiley was elected vice president;and Sisters Sheila Harrington,Rosellen Gallogly and Carol MaryMorrison were elected team mem­bers.

Sister Laliberte has been amember of the Mercy LeadershipTeam since 1982, six years as teammember and the last four as presi­dent. She holds a bachelor's degreein education from Salve ReginaV niversity and a master's degree in

, religious education from BostonCollege.

Sister Laliberte taught in RhodeIsland and at SS. Peter and PaulSchool, Fall River, before going toHonduras where she taught atInstituto San Vincente from 1967­1971. She has been a parish direc­tor of religious education and anoutreach worker for the CatholicAssociation of Regional Educa­tion in the Providence diocese.

Sister Riley is the daughter ofthe late James and the late Helen(Crowley) Riley of Fall River. AgraduateofMt. St. Mary Academy.she holds a bachelor's degree fromBryant College and master's degreesfrom Catholic University and Bos­ton College.

Before being elected to the lead­ership team four years ago, shewas peace and justice coordinatorfor her community for seven yearsand also spent a year in Texasworking with refugees. In the FallRiver diocese she taught at M"t St.Mary Academy, Fall River; andBishop Feehan High School, Attle­boro. She was also director of reli­gious education at ImmaculateConception Parish, North Easton,and St. Joseph Parish, Taunton.

Sister Harrington. a New Bed­ford native, is the daughter ofEvelyn (Towers) and the late Pat­rick Harrington. A graduate ofHoly Family High School. sheholds a bachelor's degree in Span­ish and French from Salve ReginaUniversity and a master's degree inpastoral care from Emmanuel Col­lege. She also has a certificate inspiritual direction from the Centerfor Religious Development in Cam­bridge.

She worked for Project Non­English in New Bedford and theNew Bedford School Departmentbefore going to Honduras in 1976.

Church influential

By FATHER ROGERKARBAN

ROME (CNS) - The CatholicChurch can positively influenceworld cultures and the way cultur­al values are translated into thepolitical and social order, said Fa­ther Richard John Neuhaus. In arecent lecture at Rome's NorthAmerican College, a V.S. semi­nary, the author of "The CatholicMoment" said there are no humanguarantees that the church willhave such influence, but withoutthe commitment of all Catholics ithas no chance at all. The firstingredient ofthe Catholic momenthe said, is the church being th~"premier voice, embodiment andexemplar of God's justifying gracein Jesus Christ."

probably is one of the earliestaccounts of Jesus' post resurrec­tion appearances. It formerly cir­culated independent of chapter 20.Else there is no way to explain whythe disciples would return to fish­ing after Jesus' commission: "Asthe Father has sent me, so I sendyou." Placing it in its present posi­tion, the author was forced to addconnecting links such as "onceagain," and "the third time Jesusappeared ..... But when we removethese additions we see that the nar­rative describes the first time thedisciples experience the risen Lord.

Jesus' followers seem to knownothing of what happened at theJerusalem tomb on Easter Sundaymorning. Despondent and with­o~t direction, these Passover pil­grIms eventually returned to theirfamilies and, on this day, to theirwork. There, in the middle ofdoing what they had done all theirlives, they discover Jesus is alive!

Notice how he calls them toshare a meal. Most Gospel resur­rection appearances happen in thecontext of eating; to stress theimportance of the Lord's Supperfor the early Christian commun­ity. There, more than anywhere

';else,)es1JS' to,lf~wers r~cogrtize his:.living presence. " . .

Yet once they start believing inhis resurrection, he immediatelybegins outlining the implicationsof such faith. In this case, he pre­pares Peter for martyrdom. Jesus'invitation to "Follow Me!" is nowa call to imitate his life by firstimitating his death.

Perhaps we modern Christiansdo not appreciate the consequen­ces of the Lord being alive. V nlikehis first followers, we rarely facepersecution and death for our be­lief. For us, Jesus' resurrectionsimply proves he's God. It has noother implications.

Our Sacred Authors, one withthe Lord through faith, believedthat once we recognize his pres­ence in our day by day living, wehave an obligation to extend thatpresence to others by the way welive.

If we always live without con­flict we probably also are livingwithout understanding the realmeaning of Jesus' resurrection.

Daily -ReadingsMay 4: Acts 6:8-15; Ps

119:23-24,26-27,29-30; Jn6:22-29

May 5: Acts 7:51-8:1; Ps31:3-4,6-8,17,21; In 6:30-35

May 6: Acts 8:1-8; Ps66:1-7; In 6:35-40

May 7: Acts 8:26-40; Ps66:8-9,16-17,20; In 6:44-51

May 8: Acts 9: 1-20; Ps117:1-2; In 6:52-59

May 9: Acts 9:31-42; Ps116:12-17; In 6:60-69

May 10: Acts 13: 14,43-52;Ps 100:1-2,3,5; Rv 7:9,14­17; In 10:27-30

Authority,faith inconflict

Acts 5:27-32,40-41Revelation 5:11-14

John 21:1-19

Sunday's first reading depictsthe conflict which inevitably occursbetween God's people and theworld's authority structures.

The latter operate best when thestatus quo faces no challenge. Theirsecurity revolves around "keepingthings the way they are." Alwaystrying to maintain the circumstan­ces existing when they came intopower, they desperately fear anyonewho "comes to make all thingsnew."

Here Luke shows that becausethe Jewish religious structure hadclashed with Jesus, it must nowclash with his followers.

This new group is unbelievablypersistent. Arrested, jailed, thenmiraculously freed, Peter and theapostles immediately return to thetemple area (instead of running fortheir lives) and resume preachingthe word! Again hearing the highpriest's threats, Peter responds inthe only way a Christian can: "Bet­ter for us to obey God than men!"They leave this latest trial happy..... that they had been judgedworthy of ill treatment for the sakeof the Name."

Their unusual determinationflows from a belief that "the Godof our fathers has raised up Jesuswhom you put to death." If deathis the worst punishment officialsca,n. j~.fl.iC!.' .....tbe. _I,.o!d~s ,~is~il'}.e~have nothmgto fear. ',Jesus ,·hasalready shown them it can beovercome.

With an authority/ faith conflictgoing on all around him, the authorof Revelation deliberately describesJesus in terms normally reservedfor high potentates of the RomanEmpire. No longer is the emperorthe one who is "to receive powerand riches, wisdom and strength,honor and glory and praise." Nowsuch compliments are reserved onlyfor "the Lamb that was slain."Loyalty to Jesus has replacedLoyalty to Jesus has replacedloyalty to the empire. Once againthe Lord's resurrection is the basisfor this action.

Both these readings make Sun­day's Gospel pericope even moresignificant.

Though found in the last chap­ter of the last Gospel, this story

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With the advice of your physi­cian, you may want to take ananti-inflammatory medication(such as aspirin) before exercising.This will help prevent irritation.

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ever, taking your pulse while exer­cising can be a nuisance. Notingthe change in your breathing ismuch easier.

Go until your breathing changes.If you are going too fast to talkwith someone, you are going toofast. Exert yourself, but not overly.Long slow distance is more benefi­cial than speed.

How often must you exercise?Five days per week for a minimumof IS minutes per day is necessary.To get the aerobic benefit, youneed 15 minutes of "heavy brea­thing" for a continuous period atleast five days per week.

What about your arthritis? Dowhat you can. You have manypossible exercises to choose from.

are walking, walk/jogging, run­ning, running in place, swimming,going up and down stairs, bicy­cling and exercycling. Other ex­amples include skipping rope, rollerskating, rowing, skiing, crosscountry skiing, and handball.

Dancing can have an aerobiceffect. In addition to aerobic danc­ing, you might try putting on a softrock or country western tape anddisco to the music. Another simpleindoor method would be to stepon and off a small one-step stool.

How do you know if you areexercising enough to obtain theaerobic benefit? A change in breath­ing pattern and an increase inpulse to about 125 beats per min­ute are the obvious measures. How-

joints, probably from arthritis. Anytips to stay with it? (Indiana)

Choose an aerobic exercise.Aerobic exercises stretch the heartand lungs. In this they differ frommusculoskeletal exercises (e.g. sit­ups, touch-your-toes, etc.) whichare designed to develop muscletone and a trim body.

The advantage of aerobic exer­cise is that it changes the way yourbody handles what you eat. If youare performing IS or more min­utes of aerobic exercise daily, yourbody will automatically keep thecalories available for immediateuse by turning them directly intomuscle, rather than storing themin fat.

Examples of aerobic exercises

The AnchorFriday, May I, 19926

MARY

By

KENNY

Homage to my patron saintBy

ANTOINETTE

BOSCO

Lately some people have com­mented on a medal I wear on agold chain.

I got it in December when I wasvisiting my son Paul, who collectscoins and commemorative medals.

As I was sitting on his couch, Iput my hand down near a litter ofpapers and books when I felt whatI thought was a large coin. I pickedit up and, to my surprise, it was a

copper medal of St. Joseph ofCupertino, the saint I have alwaysconsidered to be my patron. Hisfeast day is Sept. 18, my birthday.Paul was delighted and he gave methe medal.

What Paul didn't know was thatI had wanted all my life to have amedal of my patron saint.

My medal shows the saint in lev­itation, with the inscription "whoflew by the grace of God." Becauseof the many recountings of hisability to levitate, he has becomethe patron saint of pilots and airtravelers.

I was about 12 when I first readabout St. Joseph of Cupertino. Hewas born Joseph Desa on June 17,1603. His father, like St. Joseph ofthe holy family, was a carpenter.Joseph was born in a shed because

his father was in debt and theirhouse was up for sale. Joseph'sfather died when the boy wasyoung.

Joseph's widowed mother waswhat we would call emotionallyabusive. She treated him as thoughhe were a nuisance because he wasslow and forgetful and embarrassedher. -

Young Joseph was a classic loser.He apprenticed to a shoemakerbut he couldn't make it. He enteredthe Capuchins as a lay brother butkept dropping plates and neverlearned how to light a fire. TheCapuchins had to let him go.

Eventually his uncle, a Conven­tual Franciscan, got Joseph ad­mitted .as a novice. He worked inthe stables and began to improvesomewhat. They called him the

dummy, and it seemed he'd nevermake it to ordination.

But Joseph of Cupertino hadone strong point - his devotion tothe Blessed Mother. When it cametime to be tested, he was asked totalk on the phrase "blessed is thewomb that bore thee." So elo­quent were his words that he passedand was ordained.

By this time Joseph appeared topossess special gifts. With testim­ony from numerdus witnesses. hewas credited with powers to heal.levitate and communicate withanimals. But these gifts troubledhis fellow Franciscans.

Joseph was not allowed to cele­brate Mass in public, could nottake meals with his brethren orappear at public functions.

For the last 10 years of his life he

lived in strict seclusion in a lonelyfriary, completely cut off fromthe outside world. He could noteven send or receive letters. Hedied in 1663. He was canonized in1767.

After my son gave me the medal,I decided to read again about thisextraordinary saint in Butler's"Lives of the Saints." I was in­spired at reading again Joseph'sresponse to a cardinal who wantedto kno.w what souls saw during anecstacy.

"They feel as though they weretaken into a wonderful galleryshining with never-ending beautywhere in a glass, with a singlelook, they apprehend the marve­lous vision which God is pleased toshow them," said Joseph of Cuper­tino.

Teen moms and their momsBy

DOLORES

CURRAN

Being a teen mom is tough, andso is being a teen mom's mother.When I recently addressed anOklahoma Child Abuse Confer­ence on parenting education, Ifound in my workshop manysocial workers and educators whowork solely with teen moms.

Some of these teen moms aremarried, some not. Some live withtheir parents, some close by, andsome distant. Each living situationhas its own stresses and rewards.These young mothers range in age

from 14 to 20 and most havedropped out of school.

For diverse reasons, they havechosen to keep and rear their babiesrather than abort them or putthem up for adoption.

They don't have an easy life. Atthe very time their hormonal de­velopment tells them it's time toseparate and become independent,they are forced to become moredependent upon their parents. Ata time when teens are seeking anidentity, they are suddenly moth­ers whose search for individualitymust be put aside.

At a time when most teens arelearning to relate over pizza, sodasand silliness, they are tied down,watching television between feed­ing and diapering babies. Theirresentment can become over-

whelming and often the child be­comes the victim.

An eightysomething woman whomarried at IS and had a baby at 16illustrated a lifelong grief over los­ing her young years with the com­ment, "I can't even remember -notbeing married."

Teen moms have predictablestresses: dependency, poverty, iso­lation, loneliness, stigma, envy,and hopelessness. When you're 16with a baby, it's easy to do themath - you'll be 34 before thatchild reaches maturity. And to a16-year-old, 34 is old age.

The issue, however, that profes­sionals brought up as being moststressful concerned the relation­ship between teen moms and theirmothers. It's understandable. Theyare still teenagers, after all, so theyexhibit typical teen reaction to

parental limits, advice, and au­thority.

But they are also mothers and sothey have a prior right in determin­ing how they are going to rear theirbabies and live their lives. Whenthere's a conflict, grandmotherscan pull authority and teen momscan revert to adolescent behaviors.

"It happens daily," social work­ers told me. "They disagree overthe simplest thing - whether thebaby is warm or cold - and itescalates into a fullblown adoles­cent-parent standoff. The teenmom storms off to her room withthe baby and turns on her music.Grandma reacts and everythingexplodes."

My heart goes out to both.Many mothers of teen moms whohave anticipated liberation sud-

denly find themselves locked intocaring for a baby as well as a teen.They don't deserve the flak butthey aren't going to abandon theirdaughter and grandchild. They'reas trapped as the teen mom.

What's the answer? Each has togrant the other space and respect.The teen mom has to give upbehaviors like slamming doors androlling eyes and grandma has togive up control, unsolicited adviceand criticism.

They have a lot of years aheadto share and love each other andthey can ruin future relationshipsduring these relatively brief yearsof adolescent parenthood. Lots offamilies make it work. It's toughbut love is tough at times and thisis one of those times. Say a prayerfor teen moms and their moms.

How old is the Earth?By

FATHER

JOHN J.

DIETZEN

Q. I am a sponsor fn our parishcatechuman class. A priest teach­ing one of the sessions told us thatsomeone once determined fromthe Bible that the earth was onlyabout 6,000 years old.

I find that fascinating! But hehad no further details. Have youheard of this? (Texas)

A. It is extremely fascinating,especially in light of the informa­tion we have today about the his-

tory of the earth and of the humanrace.

Your priest might have beenspeaking of at least two people.During the 17th century, Archbi­shop James Ussher of Ireland,after much careful adding up offigures from the book of Gepesis,determined that the world wascreated in 4.004 B.C.

Some time later, a Dr. JohnLightfoot of Cambridge Univer­sity, England, claimed to provethat the exact moment of the crea­tion of Adam was "October 23,4004 B.C., at 9 o'clock in themorning."

I suppose there is someone some­where who still believes that.

To my knowledge at least, eventhose who reject any evolutionaryexplanation of the creation of the

world would find it difficult toswallow those figures.

Q. For 13 years I have not beenallowed to receive communion be­cause I am a divorced Catholicmarried to a divorced Catholic.

We have tried to get an annul­ment but have not been successful.The problem seems to be thatbecause my husband was marriedto a Catholic in the Catholic Churchand the other party cannot belocated, we have been told there isno hope.

My marriage doesn't seem tomatter because I was married to aBaptist in a Baptist church. This isvery confusing to me! I hope youwill answer. (Missouri)

A. I am truly sorry that youhave had to be away from the sac­raments for so long.

You say your husband's annul­ment pr9cess has been stoppedbecause his former wife cannot befound. That sounds strange.

Always in the procedure forannulment an effort is made tocontact a previous spouse, ifnothing else to allow him or her toenter whatever comments could beuseful in the deliberations.

However, the situation you des­cribe is not at all uncommon.Normally it should not stop theprocess. It seems to me there maybe a misunderstanding somewhere.

I suggest you contact the priestagain, or another priest, or evencontact the tribunal of your dio­cese. Explain the situation and askif the process may be resumedsince in such circumstances somejudgement can usually be reached

considering only the material whichis available to the tribunal. .

I wish you luck. Obviously fromyour letter the sacraments and afull participation in the life of thechurch are extremely important toyou.

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Lyn Wolking, a senior at St.Francis Borgia Regional HighSchool in Washington, Mo., saidnursing home visits arrangedthrough the school's Christianservice course have led her to acareer choice of geriatric nursingand an awareness that "people arepeople no matter what their age orwhat their condition."

Bridget Harrison, a senior atAcademy of the Visitation HighSchool in Town and Country, Mo.,said she works in a local day carecenter because "children inspireme and give me hope." The expe­rience has also removed her fear ofa neighborhood different from herown, she said.

Christian Brother Robert M.Hoatson, director of education atMonastery parish of the SacredHeart in Yonkers, N.Y., said Cath­olic educators should return totheir original mission to ed.ucatethe poor.

The U.S. bishops more than 100years ago decided to establish an

The average per-pupil cost for aCatholic school student is $1,800compared to $5,000 for a publicschool student.

Alexander said President Bush'seducational choice proposal- nowbefore Congress - would helpelementary and secondary schoolstudents in much the same way thefederal government aids theiryounger and older siblings throughday care subsidies and collegegrants or loans.

The education secretary ac­knowledged that "some people arevery frightened by the prospect ofgiving more people more choicesin all schools." But parental choiceis "such an inevitable, reasonable,thoroughly American idea" that ifit meets resistance, then "we're notexplaining it as well as we should,"he said.

Other speakers stressed .educa­tors' unique role in the lives of thechildren they teach and the schools'responsibility to continue aidingthe poor.

Poet Maya Angelou urged Cath­olic teachers to be "rainbows" fortheir students because they can"open'the doors for the gloom ofignorance to disappear."

Ms. Angelou, who is also aneducator, actress and historian,spoke movingly of how teachersinfluenced her life, even bringingher out of a five-year period ofmuteness that began when she was7. She opened her speech with asong: "When it looked like the sunwasn't going to shine anymore,God put a rainbow in the clouds."

Jesuit Father William J. O'Mal­ley, author and theology teacher atFordham Prep in New York, saidin an interview with the St. LouisReview during the convention thatconvincing Catholic students ofthe value of their faith is akin toconvincing the grand dragon ofthe Ku Klux Klan of the value ofcivil rights.

He said students in a Catholichigh school religion class may bebaptized, but most have yet to beconverted from materialistic viewsand self-absorption.

"The only person who they be­lieve is important is themselvesand maybe a few friends," he said.

One workshop highlighted wayssome Catholic high schools are

At NCEA parley:

STUDENTS AT Incarnate Word School, Chesterfield,MO., depict French settlers at an event at the NCEA conven-tion in St. Louis. (CNS photo) .

Catholic teachers examinestate of education

ST. LOUIS (CNS) - Morethan 12,000 Catholic educatorstook time out recently for a longlook at what the leading U.S. edu­cation official called "the nationalworry in America" - education.

Sister Eugenia Brady, SJC, anassociate director of religious edu­cation at the Diocesan Depart­ment of Education, was amongseveral principals and educators in

..atWndl\(lce, {rom the .F.aU Ri.ver"'diocese; "

U.S. Secretary of EducationLamar Alexander was a mainspeaker at the 89th annual conven­tion of the National Catholic Edu­cational Association, held April20-23 in St. Louis.

He and other speakers endorsedthe concept of choice in educationas a way to improve the nation'sschools. John Chubb, senior fel­low at The Brookings Institutionin Washington, said current publicopinion supports the idea of edu­cational choice, which he describedas "the fundamental educationalreform."

Support for educational choicealso was reflected in the slogan forthe second national marketingcampaign for Catholic schools:"Choose Catholic Schools - TheGood News in Education."

The campaign, which grew outof the traditional Catholic SchoolsWeek observance, is a multifacetedeffort to promote something Cath­olics have long taken for granted,according to Mercy Sister LourdesSheehan, USCC secretary for edu­cation.

"We've known Catholic schoolsare good, but we haven't been verygood at communicating that topublic," she said.

Among evidence released dur­ing the convention was a studyshowing that eighth-graders inCatholic schools score higher inreading, mathematics, history, so­cial studies and science than theirpublic school counterparts.

Robert J. Kealey, executive di­rector of the NCEA's departmentof elementary schools, said theresults - together with a financereport on Catholic elementaryschools released at the convention- show "our students are succeed­ing very well at less than 50 percentof the cost of public education."

RightjoeusDear Editor,

My praise and admiration toyou, Father Moore, for your edi­torial, "Getting a Right Focus," inthe April3rd Anchor! I am proudthat you and other priests arebrave enough to confront the "sec­ular ideas" and stand firm on theChurch teachings on the use ofcondoms. Thank God that we stillhave priests who speak out, stand­ing up for what is right!

When there are "lectures" bycertain supposedly qualified laypersons on how to control AIDS,the mention of condoms shouldnot be made. It should be statedthat the use of condoms is gravelysinful and the only way to controlAIDS is total abstinence!

We should be able to depend onour Catholic parishes, confidentthat no one speaking against thechurch teachings will be allowedto speak their ideas!

God and Our Lady Bless You!Alice BeaulieuNew Bedford

Cancer supportDear Editor;

The article entitled "Facing theimpending death of a loved one"by Dr. James and Mary Kenny inthe April 24th issue was enlighten­ing and hopeful. The suggestionsthey make can be difficult to imple­ment, however, without supportand encouragement. There are twogroups within the Fall River dio­cese where such help can be found.

Hospice Outreach in Fall Riversponsors a support group called"Significance" for family andfriends of cancer patients. Thesupport group is facilitated by asocial worker and a registerednurse, and is a safe place to sharefeelings, to ask questions, and tobe with others who share in a sim­ilar situation. The group meets onThursday evenings from 7:00-8:30p.m. at the Bay View RetirementCommunity in Fall River. Read­ers can call Hospice Outreach at673-1589 for dates of the nextsession.

St. Luke's Hospital OncologyDept. in New Bedford sponsors asupport group for cancer patientsand their family members. Thegroup is facilitated by a socialworker, who is assisted by membersof the oncology team (dieti~ian,

nurse, chaplain) on a rotating basis.This group meets on Monday even­ings at 6 p.m. in the White HomeLounge, next to St. Luke's Hospi­tal. Readers can call St. Luke's at997-1515 and ask for the oncologydepartment for more information.

The American Cancer Societyalso sponsors support groups andtrains support group leaders. Read­ers can call 1-800-4-CANCER tovolunteer for training, or to acquireinformation about locations ofsup­port groups.

There is no charge to partici­pants of these support groups.

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Lillian Demanche, St. Luke's Hos­pital, New Bedford; Mary DeRosa,O.L. Victory, Centerville; CatherineFewore, St. Joseph, Woods Hole; PaulFitzsimmons, Sacred Heart, N. Attle­boro.

Rosalie Ghelfi, St. Patrick, Fal­mouth; Dr. and Mrs. Victor Haddad,St. Thomas More, Somerset; EileenHaggert, Immaculate Conception,Taunton; Sister Dorothy Kelley, RGS,Cranberry Pointe Nursing Home, Har­wich.

Elizabeth Kelley, St. Patrick, Fal­mouth; Diane and Pauline Kenney,Christ the King; Mashpee; Sister RachelLaFrance, SCQ, Sacred Heart Nurs­ing Home, New Bedford; Sister The­rel'e Landry, su~t",l)t,:.Ml\ry, N.Attteboro.

Therese L'Homme, Sacred Heart,N. Attleboro; Brother Camille Les­sard, Notre Dame, Fall River; Lor­raine Mahoney, St. Patrick, Falmouth;Marsha Marcell, O.L. Cape, Brewster;Bunny McKenna, St. John, Pocasset.

Peter Milner, St. John, Pocasset;Linda Nasson, O.L. Mt. Carmel, See­konk; Clotilde Oliveira, St. Elizabeth,Fall River; Diane Pereira, O. L. Fatima,New Bedford.

Kathleen Peterson, Immaculate Con­ception, Taunton; Diane Pigeon, St.Francis Xavier, Acushnet; Sister CelineRainville, SUSC, St. Thomas More,Somerset; Mary A. Schruckmayr, St.Elizabeth Seton, N. Falmouth; Virgi­nia Rowland, St. Elizabeth, Edgartown.

The fifth pastoral care educa­tion course offered by the FallRiver diocese will begin Sept. 9 ofthis year and end April 20, 1993.Further information is availablefrom Sister Agnew, PO Box 600,Pocasset 02559, tel. 564-4771.

who were part of this course, ourclass wishes to thank all of you.We do not want to say good bybecause we have just started. Godbless you all."

At a eucharistic liturgy that waspart of the commissioning pro­gram, gifts presented at the offer­tory included an outline of thecourse followed by graduates, sym­bolizing both the subjects coveredand the hours of travel and classtime "given by these men andwomen to increase their under­standing of the needs of the sickand to develop skills to minister tothem"; a clown, symbolizing a pas­toral caregiver who tries to bringcompassion and hope to a patient,regardless of the caregiver's ownfeelings at the time; and a rainbowsymbol, standing for the life-givingspirit of Christ and the hope hisresurrection brings to 'the sick.

Sister Agnew, director of thepastoral care program, expressedgratitude to Father Robert Dono­v~n, pastor of St. John EvangelistChurch, Pocasset, for use of theparish hall for many class sessions.Other sessions took place at thediocesan Family Life Center inNorth Dartmouth and at varioushealth care facilities.

Names of graduates ofthe 1991­1992 program and their parishesor sponsoring agencies follow:

Sister Therese Bergeron, SCQ, Sa­cred Heart Nursing Home. New Bed­ford; Florence Boehling. Sacred Heartparish. N. Attleboro: Mary Braga,Immaculate Conception. Taunton; Eu­nice Dahlborg. St. Elizabeth Seton. N.Falmouth.

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"Soon work with the nectarinesand peaches starts." said Gon/alez.But his scant income does notcome close to meeting anticipatedcosts for heart surgery.

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Unpaid diocesan officialworks in fields to fundheart surgery for wife

WASHINGTON(CNS)- Withno salary. no health insurance anda wife in need of heart surgery. thedirector of a California diocese'sHispanic apostolate is moonlight­ing alongside the migrant workersto whom he has ministered for thelast 12 years.

Zeferino Gonzalez. 63. was hiredin 1980 by the Fresno diocese butin 1989. he and 20 other diocesanemployees were laid off or reas­signed as a result of financialtroubles experienced by the diocese.

For three years. Gonzalez hascontinued as the unpaid directorof the Hispanicapostolate becauseof his commitment to migrant farm­workers who seek work in theFresno Diocese.

"There is so much need that Ihave had to continue." Gon/aleztold Catholic News Service.

But he is discouraged. "Thereare so many bills to pay - gas,light.. .. Knowing they're not beingpaid makes my wife get sicker," hesaid.

Gonzalez said he and the otherworkers were laid off as a result ofbad television investments madeby the diocese.

The layoffs were announced bythen Bishop Joseph J. Madera ofFresno in order to avoid an antici­

. pated deficit of $1 million for thefiscal year ending June 1990.

Bishop Madera is now an auxil­iary bishop for the Archdiocesefor the Military Services. TheFresno diocese is headed by BishopJohn T. Steinbock, formerly of thediocese of Santa Rosa. Calif.

The Fresno Diocese. located inthe San Joaquin Valley. is 65 per­cent Hispanic. Some 50.000-75.000migrant workers travel throughthe valley each year.

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Dr. William Battle. a cardiolo­gist who volunteers his sen'ices tothe network. will accept the awardfrom President Bush at a luncheonin the White House's state diningroom. also to be attended by Wash­ington Cardinal James A. Hickey.

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WASHINGTON(CNS)- Fred­erick E. Hart, a Catholic artistwhose renowned sculpture of threeAmerican soldiers in Vietnamstands near the Vietnam VeteransMemorial in Washington said Cath­olicism has become "very personal"to him through his work.

His latest work, "The Cross ofthe Millennium," was unveiled atArlington National Cemetery East­er morning. Weighing 75 pounds,it is made entirely of Lucite, atranslucent acrylic. Hart has pat­ented a process of embedding Luc­ite within Lucite to achieve a dis­appearing effect, which comes intoplay with the cross.

When looking at it from thefront, one sees past the Star ofBethlehem, part of the design, to,the figure of Christ crucified.Christ's uplifted head hints at whatis to come.

As the sculpture is turned, theChrist figure seems to rise from thecross, as if resurrected.

"The beginning, the middle andthe end are"all pait~of the same'thing," Hart told Catholic NewsService. "Dying, being freed, and,in the star-burst position, newbirth."

Hart said that through theembedment technique, he is ableto depict "the actual and the trans­cendental at the same time."

His studio will issue 175 copiesof "The Cross ofthe Millennium,"one to represent each member ofthe United Nations, includingrecently admitted new nations. Thecopies will sell to the public for$37,500 each.

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Can you believe that the switchto disposable handkerchiefs beganin 1885 with what has been calledthe most effective advertising slo­gan ever? Kleenex did it with "Don'tput a cold in your pocket."

Remember "as American asmotherhood, baseball and applepie"? I've not been able to find whosaid that first, but we're going tohave to change it anyway.

A Gallup Poll has discoveredthat apple pie is no longer Ameri­ca's favorite dessert; it's ,nowcheesecake. Apple pie hasJallen tofourth place. Numbers two andthree are ice cream and chocolatecake.

Somehow cheesecake doesn'thave the same ring. "As Americanas motherhood, baseball andcheesecake"? No way. Just anotherchange that isn't right.

The Real Evidence"The proofs (for the existence of

God) are necessary, but not enough.The real evidence for God is the'living evidence provided by Chris­tians who give the witness oflove."-Cardinal Paul Poupard

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It can lead to muttered words mymother never used.

Remember fountain pens andblotters? I know that ballpointpens are more efficient, but whowould remember John Hancock'ssignat'ure on the Declaration ofIndependence if he had done itwith a ballpoint?

I still stain my fingers with greenink using my desk set pen, but Iwore out my last blotter long ago,It was a 10veJy leftover from myseafaring days with the MatsonNavigation Co. showing my ship,the S,S. Mariposa, at sea.

Doesn't anyone make blottersanymore?

Remember humility - whenreligious were not ashamed to weartheir religious garb or to t;eaddressed as "Father" or "Sister"?I'm convinced that the decline inreligious vocations is due in part tothe lack of recognizable identityby some religious. Striving to lookor act just like everybody else onlyblurs the critical distinction be­tween the ordained and unordain­ed.

Remember handkerchiefs? Arethey only a leftover from a bygoneday when they were tucked insleeves or flourished to dust offchairs or loveseats? Except forstars like Luciano Pavarotti, mostmen seem to have switched topaper tissues.

I refuse to drop my handker­chiefs. Tissues are OK on occa­sion, but they are much too fragile,

IOOTH BIRTHDAY: relatives and friends gathered onApril 7 at Sacred Heart Nursing Home, New Bedford, tohonor resident Emelia Antunes on her IOOth birthday. Thefestivities, attended by about 45 family members as well asmany Sacred Heart residents and employees, were hosted byWilliam C. Maloney, Jr., assistant home administrat9r.

Father Albert Evans, home chaplain, offered a blessing,followed by a welcome from home administrator Sister Blan­dine d'Amours, who also presented Mrs. Antunes with a papalblessing.

In attendance were New Bedford Mayor Rosemary Tierney,who presented Mrs. Antunes with a citation, and Dr. CynthiaKruger, a ward councilor, who presented a proclamation fromthe City Council.

Maloney read aloud additional citations from Sen. WilliamQ. McLean, Jr. and Rep. Joseph Mcintyre.

A presidential birthday greeting signed by President andMrs. George Bush was read by Mrs. Antunes' oldest son,Manuel Sylvia. Entertainment was provided by organist Har­vey Cook and Mrs. Antunes' great-grandson, violinist BrianBelliveau.

Mrs. Antunes, the second centenarian at Sacred HeartHome this year, has eight children.

Pictured from left: Dr. Kruger, Manuel Sylvia, Mrs.Antunes, son Louis Antunes and Mayor Rosemary Tierney.

Remember whenNothing endures but change, a

Greek philosopher said, but I claimthat doesn't always make changeright. Becoming a senior citizenmeans you have seen lots ofchanges, but you don't have toapprove them.

I'll concede that most changesare for the best, like central heat­ing, air conditioning and electricblankets. But I remember a lot ofgood stuff that has virtually dis­appeared - making our lives lessfull of grace.

Remember the Palmer Method?When you get a handwritten letterwith flowing oval letters easy toread, you can be sure your corres­pondent is eligible for the Ameri­can Association of Retired Persons.

Pupils learn to print their lettersfirst today. What's wrong with thePalmer Method?

Remember courtesy? Whenyoung people stood up or offeredtheir seats 'when older folks,priests or sisters entered a room orboarded a bus? And who tips hishat now, if he has one, to a reli­gious, saying"Good morning, Sis­ter," or "Father"?

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Some of the works arerather small, others large, suchas the 4-foot by 5-foot iconcommissioned by Sacred Heartof Jesus Church in South Am­boy, N.J., his home parish.

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Satan wishes in these turbulent days to seduce as many souls aspossible.

Therefore, I invite you to decide for God and he will protect youand show you what you should do and which path to take. I inviteall those who have said "yes" to me to renew their consecrationto my son Jesus and to his heart and to me so we can take youmore intensely as instruments of peace in this unpeaceful world.

Medjugorje is a sign to all of you, a call to live these days ofgrace that God is giving you. Therefore, dear children, accept thecall to prayer with seriousness. I am with you and your suffering isalso mine. Thank you for having responded to my call.

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L. Freitas, who told meeting par­ticipants that though "we have [inthis diocese), as they say in canoni­cal language, a vacant see, allother things will be the same" withthis Appeal.

Pointing out this year's theme,"Be As Generous As God HasBeen to You," Father Freitas said,"Each of us can come up withmany ways God has been generousto us over the years... ln his namelet us ask our brothers and sistersto be generous, and may your giftrepresent a generous sacrifice onyour part."

The parish phase of this year'sCatholic Charities Appeal beginsSunday with a house-to-house ap­peal from noon to 3 p.m. At thattime 20,500 volunteers will visit114,000 homes in all areas of thediocese. The parish phase continuesthrough May 13.

Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, whochaired the Appeal for many yearsbefore his retirement in 1990,proved that he has not lost hisenthusiasm for the charitable en­deavor as he led participants in aclosing prayer.

"There is no better thing in ourdiocese than the Catholic Chari­ties Appeal," he declared. "It is thelife-blood of our diocese!"

EXPO OPENING: Austin Two Moons, a chief of theNorthern Cheyenne tribe, prays as he blesses a waterfall thatforms the entrance to the U. S. pavilion at Expo '92 in Seville,Spain. The Vatican, with a pavilion themed on 500 years ofevangelization in the Americas, is another of the 110 countriesparticipating in the world fair. (CNS/ Reuters photo)

story about one ofthe more reward­ing moments in her pro-life minis­try.

At Mass last Mother's Day, sheoffered to watch three children,one of them a two-month-old boy,while their mother stepped outwith their grandmother, who wasnot feeling well.

When the mother returned sheseemed to know Mrs. Desrosiers,"but 1apologized because I did notrec?gnize her," said Mrs. Des­rosiers.

"She said that was because wehad never met in person, but shewas the woman I had helped twoyears ago whose little boy lived foronly one hour. This baby 1 washolding was her new son.

..... As·1 looked at his smilethrough tear-filled eyes," Mrs.

. Desrosiers concluded, "the Lord'swords rang in my ears:

" 'Amen I say to you, whateveryou did for one of these leastbrothers of mine, you did for me.' "

Parish Phase BeginningAlso speaking at the Appeal

kickoff were Msgr. Henry T. Mun­roe, diocesan administrator, whodelivered the keynote address, andlay chairman Charles Rozak. Anopening prayer was offered byMsgr. John J. Oliveira.

The speakers were introducedby Appeal director Father Daniel

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Continued from Page Three2.5 children were enough for anycouple, so all future children wouldnot be celebrated.

"I knew in my heart, " Mrs. Des­rosiers continued, "that Mary wassaying 'Speak for them, Mom, forall th.e children and people whocannot speak for themselves.' "

Mrs. Desrosiers began counsel­ing women who were dealing withproblem pregnancies or who hadlost children, either through natu­ral causes or through abortion.

"I first shared my experienceswith them and learned uncondi­tional love for all of them," saidMrs. Desrosiers.

"I encouraged them to nametheir babies, pray for them atMass, and eventually led themback to the sacrament of reconci­liation" because, she said, "no mat­ter how a mother loses her child,she always blames herself....Sheneeds God's love and merc)! totouch her through us and show herhow to forgive herself."

During her sixth pregnancy, Mrs.Desrosiers recounted, she receiveda particularly affecting phone callfrom a woman who had been toldin her fifth month of pregnancytha't she carried a severely deformedfetus who would not survive longoutside the womb. Doctors recom­mended abortion.

As Mrs. Desrosiers spoke to thewoman, "she was amazed to hearthat this was a child within her....No one had ever called this fetusher child."

Several months later the womancalled to thank Mrs. Desr~siers.She had continued her pregnancyand gave birth to a son, who livedfor just one hour.

"She talked about how in thatone hour their little boy taughtthem so much about life," and howshe became angry when hospitalpersonnel talked clinically aboutthe fetus she had lost.

"She finally told them all shehad a beautiful little boy and tostop calling him a fetus. She wantedhim treated with dignity becausehe was her son."

"This is why 1do pro-life work,"Mrs. Desrosiers emphasized -"torestore the dignity of our childrenand our families. If we do not, thevery fabric of family life will betorn away;"

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AT CATHOLIC CHARITIES kickoff. from left, Msgr. Anthony M.Gomes (center) offers closing prayer with Father John J. Steakem at left andFather Daniel L. Freitas, Appeal director, at right; Msgr. Munroe deliverskeynote address; children from St. John of God parish, Somerset - Paula

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THE POPE leaves a confessional in St. Peter's Basilicaafter hearing confessions on Good Friday. (eNS/ Reutersphoto)

Frequent confession urged

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was terminated on her weddingday after working for almost adecade at the bank, which report­edly was concerned about the highcosts of maternity leave and sub­sequent family benefits.

• • * •THE WORK of nuns and

priests in Albania would be im­possible without Caritas, said aYugoslavian priest who works inthe formerly atheistic country. TheItalian Catholic aid organizationdistributes supplies and food tothe needy without regard to theirreligion, said Father Marko Sopi,who said that Albanians suffer ter­rible shortages, but also yearn for"spiritual food" such as rosaries,crucifixes, prayer books and relig­ious literature.

The last baptisms in Albaniatook place in 1966. The number ofCatholics in the country is un­known but it is estimated that theyform about 15 percent ofthecoun­try's population of approximately3 million.

LIBYA'S LEADING church­man, Bishop Giovanni Martinelliof Tripoli, has called the U.N.­sponsored embargo against theNorth African nation a Westernoverreaction that hurts the causeof peace.

He suggested that the embargo,designed to force Libya to turnover suspects in the 1988 bombingofa Pan Am flight over Lockerbie,Scotland, was being enforced for"electoral or economic reasons."President George Bush, a strongproponent of the'sarllctions, is ex­pected to be the Republican can­didate for president this year.

any wrongdoing. It said its bankwas an unwitting victim of thefraudulent schemes of Banco Am­brosiano president Roberto Calvi,who is believed to have divertedthe funds for hidden projects aimedat gaining control of the· bank'sstock. Calvi was found hangingunder'a bridge in London in 1982.A British court was unable todetermine whether his death re­sulted from suicide or murder.

The bank was liquidated by theItalian government after it wasdiscovered the financial institutionhad debts of more than $1 billion.

In 1987 prosecutors issued arrestwarrants for Archbishop Marcin­kus and the other lOR officials,who were all living inside VaticanCity. They were charged with com­plicity in fraudulent bankruptcy.

The Vatican rejected an extradi­tion request, citing its sovereignstatus.

Prosecutors continued to referto the lOR's presumed role in thebanking scandal during the trial,however. In summation arguments,the Vatican bank was accused ofgiving systematic support to Calviin his illicit operations.

In 1984, in an agreement withBanco Ambrosiano's former cred­itors, the Vatican bank made a"good-will" payment ofabout $240million.

Archbishop Marcinkus retiredas lOR president in 1989 when thebank was reorganized. The res­tructuringplaced lOR managementlargely in the hands of lay profes­sionals, and provided for closerchurch oversight of its operations.

MILAN, Italy (CNS) - AnItalian court convicted 33 people,including several leading business­men, of charges relating to the $1.2billion collapse of Italy's largestprivate bank - a case whichtouched the Vatican bank.

But Vatican bank officials, in­cluding U.S. Archbishop PaulMarcinkus, could not be tried inthe case ofthe Banco Ambrosianobecause their Vatican status gavethem immunity from prosecution.

A three-judge tribunal in Milanissued the verdict April 16 andhanded out prison sentences tothose convicted. The convictionswere immediately appealed, andno sentences will be served beforethe appeal process is over.

Among those sentenced wasCarlo De Benedetti, chairman ofthe Olivetti company and one ofItaly's top business figures. He washead of Banco Ambrosiano for 65days in 1981-82, several monthsbefore it went bankrupt.

'Prosecutors had attempted butfailed to try Archbishop Marcin­kus and two other officials of theVatican bank, known officialIy asthe Institute for the Works ofReligion, or lOR. The lOR was ashareholder in Banco Ambrosiano.

The Vatican has always denied

Court convicts in Italian bank scandal

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ican-Ukrainian diplomatic rela­tions and the prime minister's visitis "a sign of a mutual desire for aneffective and advantageous collab­oration between Ukraine and theHoly See, also for overc.ominginternal difficulties."

In March the pope named Msgr.Antonio Franco, an official in theVatican Secretariat of State, asapostolic nuncio to Ukraine.

While the pope and Fokin weremeeting, the Ukrainian foreignminister met with ArchbishopJean-Louis Tauran, who is incharge of the Vatiean SecretariatofState's section for relations withstates.

THERE SHOULD be "no con­flict between fidelity to the spiritand fidelity to the church and hermagisterium," the pope recentlytold several hundred internationalcharismatic leaders at the Vatican.He praised the charismatic move­ment for promoting a solid spirit­uallife based on the power of theHoly Spirit and asked the leadersto "seek increasingly effective ways"to show "complete communion ofmind and heart with the ApostolicSee and the college of bishops."

* • • •A WOMAN clerk at the Vati­

can bank, saying she was forced bycompany policy to resign when shemarried, is suing to get her jobback. A Vatiean spokesman saidthe case was under review, thatforced resignation for reasons of

.marriage is not a current bank pol­icy, and promised that ifthe claimis true, such dismissals ~'wilI:not.,

happen again."Stefania Graziosi, 28, said she

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THE SEATTLE archdioceserecently took up a special collec­tion to benefit parishes in threecounties of the archdiocese wherethe timber industry has fallen onhard times.

Tighter regulation of logging innational forest lands, sparked inpart by the spotted owl controv­ersy, has contributed to unemploy­ment, according to Father DavidRogerson, pastor of St. Mary Par­ish in Aberdeen, Wash. So has anationwide recession.

Several million acres in thePacific Northwest have been iden­tified as the prime habitat for theendangered Northern spotted owl.

Timber, despite the many draw­backs, is still the top industry inthe region. But "for every job lostin the timber industry, two [addi­tional] jobs are lost in supportingfields," Father Rogerson said.

Food, clothing and money weredonated to aid the parishes. Noimmediate tally was available ofthe amount collected.

Father Rogerson said some areasof the region hope to reboundsomewhat. Some towns couldbecome ports, tourism is an option,and the region is viewed as an"alternative lifestyle area" by peo­ple who don't care about "climb­ing the ladder and getting ahead,"he added.

Still, "you're replacing $14-an­hour jobs with $6-, $7-an hourjobs," Father Rogerson said.

• • • •A VISIT by Pope John Paull!

would help solidify peace in Leba­non, said Lebanese President EliasHrawi. a Maronite Catholic.

"The fighting has stopped. Butpeace should be sealed with anextraordinary event: the visit ofthe Holy Father." he said in aninterview with the Vatican news­paper, L'Osservatore Romano.

Much of the 16 years of fightingin Lebanon has pitted Christian­led militias against Muslim-ledunits.

Hrawi was interviewed in Beirutby L'Osservatore Romano repor­ter Antonio Chi la, who was inLebanon with a church delegationcarrying a statue of Our Lady ofLourdes for the Shrine of OurLady of Lebanon. The"arrival ofthe statue, blessed by the pope, ispart of the preparation for the spe­cial Synod of Bishops on Lebanon:No data or place 'has been an­nounced for synod. Organizers sayit will probably be held in 1994 atthe Vatican or in Lebanon.

Hra wi said he invited the popeduring a private meeting at theVatican last October. The specialsynod would be"a valid motiveforthe visit," the president told L'Os­servatore Romano.

Last February Joaquin Navarro­Valls, Vatican spokesman, saidthat a papal visit to Lebanon "stillis not on the program."

Previously, Vatican officials saida Lebanese trip would be possibleonly when adequate security couldbe provided for the pope, hisentourage and the people whowould attend his public events.

* • • *POPE JOHN Paul II and Prime

Minister Vitold Fokin of Ukrainediscussed Ukraine's domestic pro­blems during a recent meeting.

Msgr. Piero Pennacchini, vicedirector of the Vatiean press office,'said the short time between theestablishment in February of Vat-

quently, even when they have notcommitted a serious sin, becausethe sacrament helps one to "resistthe power of sin and to grow stead­ily in holiness of life."

"In their efforts to grow closerto God," he said, "sinners arenever alone; they are always sup­ported by the church in charity,fellowship l\n~ pra:ter."

Vatican, Mongoliaplan diplomatic

relationsVATICAN'CITY (CNS) - The

Vatican and Mongolia have agreedto establish full diplomatic rela­tions and exchange ambassadors,the Vatican announced recently.

The announcement said that withthe end of a communist monopolyon power in Mongolia in 1990 andthe passage, this February of aMongolian constitution that gua­rantees "religious liberty. and otherfundamental human rights," theway was opened for full diplo­matic relations.

The apostolic nuncio to Mongo­lia and the Mongolian ambassa­dor to the Vatican are expected tobe named within a few months.

The vast majority of Mongoli­ans are Tibetan Buddhists. Exactfigures on Buddhists, Muslims andChristians are unknown.

Information published with theVatican announcement said, "Cur­rently there is a small number ofCatholics who live in the capital,but they are not Mongolians." TheCatholic community in Ulan Bator,the capital, consists mainly of for­eigners serving in the diplomaticcorps, with international organi­zations or working in the technicalsector.

A small group of Christians areknown to have reached Mongoliain the seventh century on a missionto China. Franciscan missionariesarrived in the 13th century, aboutthe same time that Tibetan Bud­dhism became the region's major­ity religion.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - PopeJohn Paul II has urged Catholicsto go to confession often to dem­onstrate that they know sin existsand that forgiveness is not just apersonal matter between an indi­vidual and God.

At a recent general audience,the pope said receiving the sacra­ment is an important part of thelife of the priesthood of all thebaptized. .

By confessing their sins, askingpardon and trying to live a holierlife, those receiving the sacramentparticipate in the "fundamentaltask of the priesthood to eliminatethe obstacle of sin which obstructsa life-giving relationship with God,"he said.

When discussing the sacrament,he said, "one needs to recognizethat in recent times in many placesthere is a crisis" of the faithful notreceiving the sacrament.

The two main reasons Catholicsin some places are not participat­ing in the sacrament are a "weak­end" sense of sin and difficulty inunderstanding the church's role inthe relationship between God andan individual, he said.

In a climate which emphasizespersonal freedom and the totalindependence of the individual, itis difficult for people "to recognizethe reality and gravity of sin" andto understand their guilt beforeGod, he said.

Others "do not see the necessityand usefulness of turning to thesacrament," preferring to ask Goddirectly for pardon.

Although sin is first of all anoffense against God and a rejec­tion of his love, the pope said, italso hurts the church.

"Just as the Christian commun­ity is strengthened by the good wedo, so too is it wounded by ourtransgressions," the pope said."Reconciliation with God neces­sarily involves reconciliation withhis church, to which Christ en­trusted the power to forgive andretain sins."

Pope John Paul urged Cathol­ics to receive the sacrament fre-

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other parish ministries, as well asto district and diocesan activities.

For the luncheon, which fol­lowed the convention liturgy, theparish center was transformed intoan attractive dining area with thecouncil colors of blue and whiteused for napkins and tableclothesand each table centered with daffo­dils.

Afternoon WorkshopDuring the afternoon workshop

period, convention-goers over­flowed a parish center classroominto the hall for a presentation byFather Robert A. Oliveira on pray­er. Ingredients of prayer, he said,are praise, thanksgiving, petitionand gratitude; and its characteris­tics include mutuality, listening,honesty and sweat - keeping at iteven when the effort seems unre­warded.

Suzette Sears, whose topic was"The Tragedy of Romania's Child­ren." offered a special attraction:her daughter. one-year-old J uli­ana. whom her father and motheradopted last year in Romania. andwho won all hearts at the conven­tion.

Mrs. Sears described the plightof 130,000 children in Romanianorphanages in words and withslides, explaining that PresidentNicolae Ceausescu, executed in1989, had decreed that everywoman must bear at least fivechildren or be heavily taxed. Manysuch children were born into direpoverty and were abandoned, tobe taken to orphanages where theylive under unspeakable conditionswhich, when shown on U.S. televi­sion, sparked a national outcryand many aid efforts.

Marilyn Hannus of Hospice ofCape Cod described the work ofhospice in caring for terminally illpatients at home; and Dr. Gene­vieve Fitzpatrick. a faculty memberat Bridgewater State College inBridgewater. discussed her methodsof presenting facts on sexualityand on AIDS to her students.

Great and Small'"No sin is too big for God to

pardon, and none too small forhabit to magnify."-Bahya benJoseph ibn Pakuda

Continued from Page OneA father trying to read the

newspaper kept being interruptedby his young son. Finally he cut apicture of a world globe into jig­saw puzzle pieces and told the boyto put it back together. thinking itwould amuse him for a long time.In about three minutes the boybrought him the finished picture."How did you do it so quickly?"demanded the father. "Easy," saidthe boy. "There was a picture of awoman on the other side. I put hertogether and the world fell intoplace."

DCCW meets in Hyannis

CONVENTION PRINCIPALS: Very Rev. James F.Lyons, DCCW diocesan moderator; Mrs. Andrew W. Mikita,diocesan president; Msgr. Henry T. Munroe, diocesan admin­istrator. (Lavoie photo)

President's MessageDCCW president Mary Mikita

recapped the year in her messageto members. expressing the mingledsorrow and pride members felt atthe departure of Bishop Daniel A.Cronin to become archbishop ofHartford. In her formal message.included in the convention packetof materials. she stressed theimportance of the new RespiteCare program being sponsored bythe DCCW to assist family mem­bers caring for aged or infirm per­sons within the home. "Fall RiverDCCW is ready and willing totrain respite workers." she wrote.

Others welcoming the conven­tion attendants were Mrs. JamesH. Quirk. convention chairman;Miss Margaret Everard. Cape andIslands district president; and Rev.Edward C. Duffy, district modera­tor and host pastor.

Very Rev. James F. Lyons.diocesan moderator. also greetedthe women and introduced Msgr.Henry T. Munroe, diocesan admin­istrator. who spoke on Archbi­shop Cronin's continued warmregard for the DCCW and for hispart encouraged his hearers topersevere in their work and in theirspirit of love.

Msgr. Munr.oe then presentedthe Diocesan Council's annualMargaret M. Lahey/Our Lady ofGood Counsel award to a womanfrom each council district. The1992 winners are Mary Ponte.Holy Rosary parish. Fall River;Anita Turner. Our Lady of theAssumption. New Bedford; MaryVieira. S1. Joseph. Taunton; MaryPestana, Our Lady of M1. Carmel.Seekonk; Joanne Baker, S1. An-thony. East Falmouth. .

The award recognizes outstand­ing dedication and service to therecipient's parish council and to

Wrong Channel"Sin is energy in the wrong

channel."-St. Augustine of Hippo

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ARCHBISHOP LYKE

Cancer recurs inAtlanta archbishop

ATLANTA (CNS) - AtlantaArchbishop. James P. Lyke, 53,has been hospitalized for a recur­rence of cancer, which has spreadto the lining of his right lung.

The archbishop had surgery lastyear when it was discovered he hadkidney cancer.

Archbishop Lyke underwent abiopsy at St. Joseph's Hospital inAtlanta after being admitted April24 with fluid in his right lung. The

'test revealed that renal cancer hadmetastasized to the lining of thelung.

The archbishop had undergonesurgery in January 1991 to removehis right kidney. Tests at that timeshowed no spread of cancer and hewas given a good prognosis.

But at an April 28 news confer­end:,' Dr. 'Carlos Franto, "a;n oncol"ogist, said his prognosis was now"guarded" and "uncertain."

Franco said he expected thearchbishop to begin immunother­apy treatment in an attempt toenhance his body's disease-fightingsystem.

Surgery is not possible becauseof the location of the cancer andradiation and chemotherapy arenot appropriate, Franco said.

The archbishop's doctors saidhis overall health was excellentand that he was an ideal patientbecause of his responsive attitude..

Archbishop Lyke will receiveimmunotherapy for two to threemonths as an outpatient.

Travel outside the archdiocesehas been restricted by his doctorsfor the next six weeks, but he willbe able to do administrative workwithin the archdiocese.

Archbishop Lyke was installedas archbishop of Atlanta June 24,1991. He is the second black Cath­olic archbishop in U.S. history;Archbishop Marino was the first.

Fewer seminariansWASHINGTON (CNS) - For

the seventh straight year, thenumber of U.S. Catholic seminar­ians has dropped at all levels: highschool, college and post-collegetheology studies; But there aresigns of a possible reversal of thetrend at the critical post-collegelevel, according to data releasedby the Washington-based Centerfor Applied Research in the Apos­tolate. In the three academic levelscombined there were 6,441 semi­narians at the start of the currentschool year, down 562 or 8 percentfrom last year.

Pennsylvania Attorney GeneralErnest D. Preate J r., who arguedthe state's case, took issue withJustice Harry Blackmun, whowrote the majority opinion in the1973 Roe vs. Wade case. AfterPreate quoted - "virtually wordfor word," he said later - fromRoe vs. Wade, Blackmun askedPreate if he had ever read Roe vs.Wade.

He chalked up Blackmun'squestion as "part of the argument,"but Preate added "I don't thinkJustice Blackmun is correct. Roedoes not stand for the principlethat there is abortion on demandin America."

Some speakers on the steps out­side the Supreme Court said theyexpect the case to be used to over­turn Roe.

Melody Gage of AmericansUnited for Life, a law firm repres­enting abortion opponents, said,"The court made this case to over­turn Roe vs. Wade. We hope thatit will."

If it is overturned, "we favor theissue to go back to the states," sheadded. "Roe vs. Wade is bad law."

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Continued from Page Oneperformed, requires that womenseeking abortions be told abouttheir alternatives and fetal devel­opment, and provides for notifica­tion of husbands and of parents ofminors.

Key figures on both sides of theabortion cotroversy believe thecourt will soon issue a ruling thatnegates the effects of Roe. Butopinions were varied about whetherthe Pennsylvania case would bethe foundation for overturning Roealtogether.

At a press conference after the'session, Ms. Kolbert predicted"women will be returned to theback alleys or self-induced abor­tions should our arguments berejected, as may well be the case."

Several times during her half­hour argument she avoided effortsby the justices to get her to focuson specifics of the Pennsylvanialaw. She told them the centralquestion in the case was the stand­ard on which a ruli"ng would bebased and emphasized her supportfor using Roe as that basis.

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A Statement on MedjugorjeWe, the people of Medjugorje, in the long-standing, internationally-accepted

tradition of recognizing the non-col)1batant status of sites of special cultural and religioussignificance, do hereby solemnly ordain and declare Medjugorje to be an Open City.

In the past ten years, this village has become hallowed ground, a place of pilgrimagefor more than fifteen million people of all faiths from all over the world. As such, it hasbeen instrumental in changing millions of lives for the better, and those lives havetouched the lives of countless others.

From the beginning, Medjugorje has been open to all peoples,from the East and fromthe West. That tradition continues: all are welcome here; none are excluded. Ort~.odox,

Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, Jew, and any others may worship here side by side, inpeace and harmony,

Peace has always been our watchword, Visitors invariably comment on theextraordinary peace of this place. And recently, Medjugorje has been called an "oasis ofpeace" in an increasingly stormy desert. There a're no military installations here, nobarracks, no communications centers, no industrial sites. We do not even have police.

We therefore declare Medjugorje to be an Open City, a combat-free zone of 'peace,Indeed, this is what it has become: 'a place where people may set asi~e the things of theworld, to concentrate on the things of God. This is the 'message of Medjugorje, and in thatspirit, we, her people, make this declaration to our Serbian, Muslim, and Croatianbrothers and sisters, and to all the world. We ask all people of good will to honor it, and wepray that it will be a step towards what all of our hearts desire: peace for our land.

For the people of Medjugorje,

~0?~m ;j~~.v-.~~.v"1JLk J)JeArchbishop Philip M. Hannan, Rev. Slavko Soldo. OFM,

Retired Archbishop of New Orleans Pastor, SS.Cyril & Methodius, N.Y., N.Y.

"The U.N. World Summit forChildren Implementation Act of1991 is presently in the HouseCommittee on Foreign Affairs,"she added. "But nothing much hashappened."

But as a result of the postcardcampaign, she said, they'd heardfederal lawmakers from Oklahomawill co-sponsor it.

Springsteen style: straight-onrock!

"Human Touch" focuses onan all-too common experience- deeply felt loneliness. Theperson in the song seems des­perate to make a connectionwith another individual. Heasks his girl: "In a world with­out pity, do you think what I'masking is too much? I just wantsomething to hold on to and alittle of that human touch."

Most of us feel lonely fromtime to time. But some peoplehave more than their share.They seem unable to break outof its painful grip.

Perhaps this is ironic, butone of the more effective waysto overcome loneliness is byreaching out to other hurtingpeople. Everyone needs thetouch of a caring friend. Some­times the best way to receivesuch nurturing love is to give it.

To do this, one does not needto look far. Consider those inclass with you. Are there anyclassmates who are not wellaccepted or liked by their peers?Ma-ybe your stereotypes orprejudices are getting in theway of seeing these people forwho they really are - fellowhuman beings who need accep­tance.

Reach out with the humantouch of friendship. Yet do notbe surprised if your concern istreated with rejection or skepti­cism. Hurt breeds mistrust.However, be persistent. Dem­onstrate that you want to knowthem for who they really are,not for what others say aboutthem.

As Christians we turn to theexample of Jesus to learn moreabout how to respond to oth­ers.The Gospels ardilled withstories about how Jesus touchedpeople both physically and withhis caring heart.

Jesus understood how lone­liness injures the soul's well­being.

As his followers today, wetoo are called to help heal oth­ers' loneliness. Reach out gen­uinely, supportively. See mira­cles happen once more in yourown and in others' lives.

Your comments are welcomedby Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box182, Rockport, In 47635.

By Charlie Martin

The students created a script,had tryouts for the parts for thevideo, "Voices from the Next Gen­eration," and memorized their lines.

ON THE AIR: Noelle Moorad and Casey Ashmore,sixth-graders at Rosary School in Oklahoma City, co-anchortheir class video aimed at helping hungry children. LindaStraka of Cox Cable, left, operates the video camera, whileWilliam Walker of CNN films the scene for the cable network.(CNS photo)

"They're.working to keep hungry,sick kids from dying," Mrs. Keefetold The Sooner Catholic, Okla­homa City's archdiocesan news­paper. .

HUMAN TOUCHYou and me we were the ,pretendersWe let it slip awayIn the end what you don't surrenderWell the world just strips awayGirl, ain't no kindness in the face of strangersAin't going to find no miracles hereWell, you can wait on your blessings my darlin'I got a deal for you right hereI ain't coming round searching for a crushI just want someone to talk toAnd a little of that human touchJust a little of that human touchAin't no mercy on the streets of. this townAin't no bread from heavenly skiesAin't nobody drawing wine from this bloodIt's just you and me tonightTell me, in a world without pityDo you think what I'm asking is too muchI just want something10 hold on toAnd a little of that human touchJust a little of that human touchGirl, I'm feeling the safety riseWell, it comes with a hard, hard priceYou can't shut off the risk and the painWithout losing the love that remainsWe're all riders on this trainSo you've been broken and you've been hurtShow me somebody who ain'tYeah, I know I ain't nobody's bargainBut I need a little touch up and a little paintYou might need something to hold on toWhen all the answers, they don't amount to muchSomebody that you can just talk toAnd a little of that human touchBaby, in a world without pityDo you think what I'm asking's too muchI just want to feel you in my armsAnd share a little of that human touchShare a little human touchFeel a little of that human touchFeel a little of that human touchShare a little of that human touchFeel a little of that human touchGive you a little of that human touchGive me a little of that human touch

Written and Sung by Bruce Springsteen(c) 1992 by Bruce Springsteen, Columbia Records

DO YOU like the Bruce rent hit is prereleased as a cas-Springsteen sound? If so, "Hu- single off Springsteen's new disc.man Touch" is for you. His cur- The song features the classic

Students make video to help hungryOKLAHOMA CITY (CNS) ­

The concern of sixth-grade stu­dents for the world's hungry chil­dren has resulted in the productionof a video to boost ariti-hungerefforts.

The students, from RosarySchool, were seen in March onCable News Network, which cameto film a segment for its "CNNNews Room" program.

The students felt not much wasbeing done to help hungry chil­dren around the world, so theywanted to do something about it.

They contacted their legislatorsand local television and radio sta- 'tionswith hand-drawn 24-inch by30-inch "postcards," and decidedto make a video to send to othersixth grades to get more help.

Response to the postcards wasnot great. But they sent one remain­ing postcard to CNN headquartersin Atlanta. In one week CNN'sJanice McDonald indicated thatCNN would come and film a pro­gram.

In Oklahoma City, Cox Cablesaid they would make the sixth­graders' video.

Five months later Chris metDebi, and she moved in with him.Two years later she became preg­nant, and soon afterward they gotmarried.

Chris made a valiant effort toturn his life around. He quit thebooze and the drugs. He beganworking out. Then he and Debibegan searching for a church toattend.

But that day at my house, Chrisfelt his future looked bleak.

"Tom, I gotta make at least $400a week to take care of Debi and thebaby and pay all the other bills.But I don't know where the hellI'm gonna even earn that kind ofmoney. I've got no special skillsand I haven't gone beyond highschool. I'm afraid the job I havecould fold up any time. I feel like anobody."

For a moment I thought thisstrong young man was going tocry. We sat in silence for a fewminutes before he spoke again.

"Myoid man was an alcoholic.He never took any time with me,never told me all the things a guyneeded to know. He didn't evenbelieve in God, so we never went tochurch. If only I'd had parentswho guided and protected me more- lots more!"

That last sentence lingered inmy mind. That evening I thoughtabout all the young people I'veknown who griped to me abouttheir parents being overprotective;Their moms and dads are thecourageous men and women whowork hard at being good parents,trying their best to steer their chil­dren in the right paths.

Today as Chris tries to straightenout his life, he thinks about thoseloving parents- the kind of par­ents he believes he never had. Hehopes that he and Debi will be likethem.

By Tom LennonChris arrived promptly at 8:30

one Saturday morning. He neededthe work and the money badly. Atthe gym the day before, we hadtalked briefly about the leaves tobe raked, the mulch to be putaround the shrubs and the grass tobe cut. He worked hard for severalhours.

When he was done, I invitedhim in for something to eat. I hadknown him casually for about ayear, but after lunch I began toknow him much better.

"I need all the money I can getthese days," he said. "The babywill be along in about three weeks,and Debi will have to quit her jobfor a while when that happens."

"Where do you work, Chris?""Down at Crosse and Farrar. I

do custodial work. Part time."His face clouded. He seemed

tense. Then he said, "There won'tbe much money coming in whenDebi quits. Even if that's onlytemporary, it's gonna be a badtime."

Little by little he told me thestory of his life after high school.He had been able to land a jobright away, and the first thing hedid was move out of the homewhere he had grown up.

Almost immediately life seemedgood. He was living on his own,had a car, went to lots of partiesand had lots o(girls. He drank anddrugged.

In the next few years he lost sev­eral jobs because he couldn't fol­low orders. But he always seemedto land a new job.

Eventually Shelley moved inwith him, and after a year shebecame pregnant. After the babywas born she and Chris fought alot. Finally she walked out on himand took the baby. He hasn't seenShelley or his son since.

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have consequences for a great parto(the world," he said.

That may help explain why plan­ning for the 1993 rally has, for thefirst time, involved bringing a dele­gation of U.S. youths to the Vati­can for meetings and ceremonies afull year ahead of time.

"We want young people to bethe real protagonists of organizingthis event," said laity councilundersecretary Guzman Carri­quiry. He said that so far, U.S.­Vatican cooperation represented"the best beginning we've ever had"for a World Youth Day rally.

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Schnurr, an associate general sec­retary of the U.S. Catholic Con­ference.

"We're planning to break theyoung people down into smallergroups, which would increase thenumber of events the pope willparticipate in," he said. Prelimi­nary plans call for the pontiff tomeet with five language groups, aswell as a separate group of teen­agers, in addition to the larger'events.

The lower number of partici­pants will also make for moreintimate encounters and a chancefor real dialogue - which is impor­tant to U.S. Catholics, as the popehas learned on his previous trips tothe country.

Planners on both sides of theAtlantic are confident that thepope's strong character and per­sonal charisma will strike a sym­pathetic chord amon'g youngAmericans. Amid the optimism,of course, a few, sour notes arebeing sOllnded.

For example, an article in theVatican newspaper, L'OsservatoreRomano; waxed· eloquent about"the crisis of American·youths."

"Although fhey live in a'country ,of great political ideals, they arecrushed by a narrow vision'of spir­itual life. What counts is the im­mediate" the unessential, the sureand easy profit:~ said,the article,written by an Italian Franciscan.

"Only the witness of other youthsand the pope" can offer the Amer­icans something better to believein, it said.. Less harsh - and more typical

- was German Bishop Paul Cor­des, vice president of the laitycouncil, who said a strong sense ofimportance is already being at­tached to World Youth Day inDenver, precisely because it willmove the event into a more secularsociety.

"I think the whole world is 'some­what under the cultural influenceof the United States, as far as whatis fashionable is concerned -lookat jeans, cinema and TV, forexample. So giving a Christianthrust to the tJ nited States may

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Now Fortunately, the papal visit willthat Pope John Paul II has chosen fall on a weekend.Denver as the site of World Youth It marks the first time the popeDay in 1993, people at the Vatican will celebrate the youth day rallyare wondering whether the jam- in a country that is not predomi-boree-style event of recent years nantly Catholic. But Rome is look-will transplant well to North ing beyond crowd size this timeAmerica. around, and finding some other

Many church officials predict a advantages.very different kind of rally in Vatican officials are hoping thatColorado - one with fewer nUITl- the clean air, wide-open spacesbers, more direct participation and and mountain peaks of Denvera fuller schedule of papal activities. will provide a rarefied setting for

In picking Denver to host the the pope and strike an environ-youth meeting and his own visit, mental chord with youths.the pope was taking some chances. While air fares will cut down onThe other cities considered - Buf- the number of youths able to attendfOlio, N.Y., and St. Paul-Minne- from outside the country, the Vat­apolis - both have larger Catholic ican is aware that the United Statespopulations and are within easier is largely a country of recent immi­traveling distance of other urban grants, reflecting worldwide eth­areas. nic diversity in a way other nations

Denver, the "Mile High City," do not.lies in one of the most sparsely Denver's Hispanic connectionpopulated regions of the United in particular gives youth day '93 aStates. special focus; the' archdiocese is

"It's not going. to b~ a.nother one of several that have startedCzestochowa,'" said one top Vati- . 'outre'ach program~ to 'Hispaniccan official. young people.

The comparison is bound to be Cardinal Eduardo Pironio, pres-made. Last August, 1.5 million ident of th'e Pontifical Council foryoung peo'ple swarmed at the Po- the Laity, said the pope wants thelish Marian shrine at Czestochowa U.S. visit to "crown" the' currentwhere, between papal eveMs, they fifth centenary celebrations of thesang and prayed latl'( into thenight. discovery and evangelization of

Many came ~ith backpacks and the New World.a bus ticke't, participa'nts' in a ' But along with celebrating, therecontinent-wide pilgrimage.: 'Of may be some protesting, accord-course, Poland alone - which'is ing to David' .~orral, a young.only ,slightly bigger th,an Colorado Denver Catholic who was in Rome- has more than 35 million for the pope's announcement onCatholics. Palm Sunday. He said Hispanic

The 1989 World Youth Day people and others will want torally in Santiago de Compostela, hear what the pope has to saySpain, drew about 600,000 young about the church's actions duringpeople in a siinilar display of ex- the "conquest" of native peoples.cited devotion. Youth Day meetings in the past

"The thing to remember is that, have tended to be five-day mara-Czestochowa and Santiago are thons with a papal talk or two atnatural pilgrimage sites in August. the end. For most of the youngThe pope was there at a time when people, the pope remains a distantthere would normally be many figure on an altar or platform,people anyway," said Paul Hender- with little chance for dialogue.son, who works with youth groups Things may be different in Den-for the U.S. bishops' conference. vcr. Already, U.S. planners havea

Denver and the rest of the Uni- commitment for two-and-one-halfted States have no grand pilgrim- days of the pope's time - and thatage tradition like Europe, and no may be stretched by another daymonthlong August holiday, either. or two, said Father Dennis

Developer namedWASHINGTON (CNS) - Pat­

rick W. Kenned'y, 5(l, a perman~nt.

deacon with 18 years fund-raisingexperience,' has. been named de­velopment director for. the North,American College in Rome. Forthe last II years, Kennedy was on ,the development team' at Cove- ,nant House in New York, the last,four as as.sistant to the president.Before that, he was edit<lr of Foun- ,dation News, a trade jour.nal forthe fund-raising industry. A dea-,con of the diocese of Trenton,N.J., he and his wife a~e)he par­ents of three grown children.

Salve R,egina .Among 62 students inducted into

Sigma Phi Sigma, the NationalMercy Honor Society, 'at SalveRegina University, Newport, RI,were Kathleen O'Brien of SouthEaston, Kathleen Brennan ofNorthAttleboro, Christine Piscatelli ofMansfield and Melissa Taylor ofAttleboro.

The inductees ,were selected onthe basis of scholastic achievement,fidelity and service to the university.

Funny."Comedy is simply a funny way

of being serious."-Peter Ustinov

WASHINGTON(CNS)-George­town University has revoked offi­cial recognition of a student-runclub that dealt with the abortionissue..

School officials announced theyhad denied GU Choice access touniversity benefits on the groundsthat the student groups violated anagreement to stick to open discus­sion on abortion, instead movinginto abortion-rights advocacy.

Jesuit Father Leo J. O'Dono­van, head of Jesuit-run George­town, said in a letter to the univer­sity community that enforcing theagreement with the year-old groupwas "extraordinarily difficult andultimately unmanageable."

GU Choice had been given theprivileges of any other campusgroup, such as access to fundingprovided by student fees and toother university benefits.

Father O'Donovan denied thatWashington Cardinal James A.Hickey, the Vatican or a groupthat has sought to have the Vati­can revoke Georgetown's Catholicstatus had any part in the decision.

Rumors that he had been sum­moned to Rome to discuss thecontroversy were"simply not true,"he said.

Kelli McTaggart, a graduatingsenior who stepped down in Marchas GU Choice co-chair, said thegro:Jp "no longer exists," but thata new group, Georgetown Univer­sity Students for Abortion hasbeen formed. It is not receivinguniversity benefits.

Cardinal Hickey called George­town's decision "consistent withthe commitment of GeorgetownUniversity asa Jesuit and Catholicinstitution of higher learning."

Ann Sheridan, president of theGeorgetown Ignatian Society,which filed petitions first withCardinal Hickey and later with theVatican to revoke Georgetown'sCatholic status, hailed the movebut called it a "save-face" measureby the university.

"We're grateful that they'regone," Mrs. Sheridan said of GUChoice. "It's unfortunate that therewasn't enough moral courage tosay why." .

Rights deniedto GU Choice

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THE LORD'S CHOIR, ASSONETEcumenical children's choir with

members from nine area churcheswill present a musical Easter story 2p.m. Sunday, United Church NorthMain St., Assonet. '

REV. RENE PATENAUDEMEMORIAL

Following 10 a.m. Mass Sundayat St. Anne's Church, FR, a memor­ial will be placed on the formergrounds of St. Anne's Little Leaguebaseball field on Forest St. (now St.Anne's Hospital parking lot). Refresh­ments will be served at St. Anne'sSchool following ceremonies. Allformer officials, managers and play­ers of the little league are invited.O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE

Dr. Edward Tynan, superinten­dant of Barnstable School System,will speak at Men's Club meetingMay 12.

In another talk to the confer­ence, Janine Idziak, a professor ofphilosophy and director of theBioethics Resource Center at Loras,said most health care money spenton an individual in his or her life­time comes in the last month oflife.

"Would it be better to spendmore on prenatal care for women,rather than putting so much moneyinto life-sustaining procedures atthe end of an individual's life?" sheasked.

In his new book, Daniel Calla­han of the Hastings Center in NewYork suggests that people be deniedacCess to certain types of treat­ment after about age 80.

"Around age 80, people feelthey have lived a full life," Ms.Idziak said of Callahan's position."Doesn't it make more sense for usto use our health care resources tomake sure that everybody gets achance to live a full life, ratherthan spending tremendous amountsof money for a heart transplant forsomebody who is 85 years old?"

On the issue of futile medicaltreatment, Ms. Idziak said themedical profession has been oper­ating under the principle that if apatient chooses to forgo a life­sustaining treatment that is exces­sively burdensome or futile, it ismorally permissible to forgo thetreatment.

"We are now reaching the stageof asking the question, 'if someonewants a futile medical treatment,can he/ she have access to it?''' sheadded. "Some feel that an individ­ual getting futile medical treatmenttakes away health care servicesfrom others who could benefitfrom it."

SEPARATED/DIVORCED, FRFR area support group meeting 7

p.m. second Tuesdays and fourthWednesdays, O.L. Grace ChurchWestport; spiritual director FatherGerard A. Hebert.ST. JOSEPH, NB

To serve on the prayer line, or tosubmit a petition, call Claire Mc­Cardell, 995-5095 between 9 and 10a.m. or 7 and 8 p.m. The prayer lineis available to all.ST. ANTHONY of the DESERT,FR

Crowning of statue of BlessedMother after I t a.m. liturgy Sundayfollowed by Exposition of BlessedSacrament until 6 p.m. with holyhour 5 to 6 p.m. in St. SharbelChapel.SS. PETER AND PAUL, FR

Women's Club Marian prayer ser­vice and crowning 7 p.m. May 4.

Medical technology makes dying"humanly harder," says ethicist

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DUBUQUE, Iowa(CNS) - Ourhigh-tech medical culture haschanged human dying from whatit was in our past and made it"humanly harder," with more painand suffering, according to a Chi­cago ethicist.

Jesuit Father James F. Bresna­han, co-director of the ethics andhuman values in medicine programat Northwestern University Medi­cal School in Chicago, gave thekeynote talk at a recent conferenceon "Issues in Death and Dying:Ethical, Legal and Religious Per­spectives" held at Loras College inDubuque.

"Frequently we have made hu­man dying humanly harder," hesaid. "This presents us with moraland legal challenges of utmosturgency to which we have not, asyet, effectively responded.

"We have made our dying involvemore pain and suffering than wouldhave been the case if our high­technology medical care had notachieved its unquestionable suc­cess in prolonging life and delay­ing the onset ofthe terminal phaseof illness or injury," Father Bres­nahan added.

He said we must respond to thisby making hospice-type relief ofpain and suffering just as centralto modern medicine as we havemade the search for cure or delayof dying.

"But, in fact, we do not acceptrelief of pain and personal responseto suffering as central to good doc­toring and medical caring," hesaid. "If we fail in our moral dutyto remedy this inadequacy, we willbe partially, if not mainly respon­sible for the eventual decriminaliz- .ing of active euthanasia, with allthe lamentable consequences thatwill entail."

FOLLOWING POLISH tradition, Father GeorgeTaraska, OFM Conv., blesses decorated baskets of Easterfoods at Holy Rosary Church, Taunton. (Kearns photo)

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ST. STANISLAUS, FRExposition of Blessed Sacrament

11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday con­cluding with evening prayer andBenediction.D. of I.

Alcazaba Circle 65, Attleboro,meeting 7 p.m. May7, K. ofe. Hall,Hodges St. May baskets will bemade for shut-ins.

CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEEYouth group talent show 3 p.m.

Sunday. Women's club potluck/guest night dinner meeting 6 p.m.May 13; Arnold Carr will speak on"Shipwrecks of Cape Cod." Infor­mation: Annemarie Finn, 477-5654.Eucharistic adoration today through8:30 a.m. Mass tomorrow.ST. ANTHONY, NB

St. Anthony Centennial Com­mittee will meet 2:30 p.m. May 17,church basement, Nye St. entrance.Past and present parishioners, aswell as school alumni, are welcometo attend. The parish's 100th anni­versary will be observed in 1995.

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Margaret Andersen, a New YorkCity actress, will perform the one­person drama "Rahab: the Story ofa Changed Life," based on the Scrip­ture chapter of Joshua, 6:30 p.m.tomorrow at the Shrine. Thoseattending are invited to 4:30 p.m.Mass at the Shrine.

As part of LaSalette's centennialcelebration, a dinner-concert featur­ing Father Andre Patenaude will beheld 6 p.m. May 9 in Shrine cafete­ria. The concert will be dedicated tothe Blessed Mother whose appari­tion at LaSalette, France, in 1846was the inspiration for the religiouscommunity of the Missionaries ofLaSalette, who are celebrating 100years of ministry in the United States.

For information on either pro­gram call 222-5410.SACRED HEART,N. ATTLEBORO

"An Evening with Rev. FrancisO'Brien & Company" will be pres­ented in the church at 8 p.m. May 15under auspices of the diocesan chap­ter of the National Assn. of PastoralMusicians. Area company membersinclude Joanne Mercier and Rev.David Costa. Further information:(401) 658-2122.

COPING WITH ANGERWORKSHOP

Survivors, a local chapter of theNational Coalition of Cancer Survi­vors, will sponsor the workshop"Coping With Anger" 7 p.m. May20in the Nannery Conference Room atSt. Anne's Hospital, FR. Dorothy J.Levesque, director of ministry toseparated, divorced, remarried andwidowed persons in the Providencediocese, will present the program,covering such topics as Dealing withPersonal Anger, Acceptingand Cop­ing with the Anger of Others, andFrom Anger to Peace. Survivors, asupport group for persons diagnosedwith cancer and their families, meetssecond and fourth Wednesdays atSt. Anne's. Both the workshop andsupport meetings are free and opento the public. .~T. FRANCIS of ASSISI, NB

Women's League annual mysteryride May 5; leaving church parkinglot 6 p.m.ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON

Guild living rosary 7:30 p.m. May5 followed. by business meeting andice cream social.DCCW

Taunton District living rosary 7p.m. May6, St. Ann's parish, Rayn­ham.ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET

Holy Rosary Sodality will holdpublic recitation of the rosary dur­ing the month of May at 6:30 p.m.weekdays, 4 p.m. Saturdays and 8a.m. Sundays.

ST. PATRICK, FRWomen's Guild meeting 7:30 p.m.

May 4 with calendar party, squaredancing, election of officers.

CATHEDRAL, FRA shrine honoring the Blessed

Mother will have prominent place inthe church throughout the month;rosary will be prayed prior to 9 a.m.and 12:05 p.m. weekday Masses.

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Healing service and Sunday Masswith Father William T. Babbitt 2:30p.m. Sunday.